VISITATIONS
Former DARPA Manager Recounts Bedside Visit From Seven-Foot Mantis-Like Being
According to a post on r/HighStrangeness, Dr. Blitch says the visitor entered by a deck door and lectured him on the nature of the human body.
THE INTERNET — A post published to the r/HighStrangeness forum relays an account attributed to Dr. Blitch, described as a former DARPA manager, of a nocturnal encounter with a tall creature resembling a praying mantis.
According to the post, the visitor stood some seven feet tall and gave off a strong impression of maleness. It is said to have seemed upset and even to have chastised him. The episode reportedly took place in his third-floor bedroom in a split-level house. The being, the post says, entered through a sliding screen door opening onto a deck that had no stairs.
Dr. Blitch is reported to have been terrified and paralyzed throughout, though he noted the entity's direct and intense focus as it addressed him telepathically.
The post says the message was the strangest part of the account, being concerned less with aliens or abduction than with the question of what a human being is. The creature is said to have described the body as a machine, a "soul housing group," built to house the soul for a lifetime.
The being allegedly added that its kind might manipulate, adjust or even replace parts of the body, but could not take the soul or consciousness. The post offers no corroboration, and it includes no mundane explanation for the experience. Readers wishing to weigh the matter are referred to the original thread.