Yes, that could have been the case when regulations protecting such people were introduced.

It could have been similar to the case of the so-called Alien Big Cats in Great Britain when regulations banning the ownership of pumas and other exotic large cats came into effect. One could speculate that once the aliens were protected, circuses began to get rid of them. Of course, I should emphasize that I don't know enough about circus history to say that this was actually the case. However, the question remains: who or what was the persona?

Excuse me, but let's return for a moment, let's dwell on the topic of the circus of misfits, although it's a terrible topic that simply infuriates me. Do you think that among those, let's say, unfortunate people who were shown off back then and made into cheap sensation, a vile sensation, suddenly someone appeared who somehow reproduced and mastered the ability to communicate non-verbally? How? That doesn't add up. We're still stuck on the question of who they were, because for me they weren't animals, for me they weren't creatures, for me they were people, because they displayed—at least he, as I felt he was the leader of the pack—he displayed too many human traits and behaviors. There was too much of it to be an animal. It's like human races interbreeding, but it's hard to talk about human-ape interbreeding, isn't it?

"There was once a similar cross between a human and a chimpanzee. It was called a koolookamba. There was something like that. But that was a single case, and it was well over 100 years ago. There are graphics [of a koolookamba].

Someone posted graphics there, and the influence of the monkey part was clearly visible. But here, there was definitely less of that. And we're constantly coming full circle around the fact that communication defies classification.

- Well, the method of communication and what happened during that communication. I've never heard of a being that could, as it were, silence the entire environment while communication was taking place.No, it's not like that. He didn't literally silence it so completely that there was dead silence. It was as if my mind was focusing on what he was saying and stopped paying attention. It was in the very distant background. It wasn't as if there was dead silence around me. And please also remember that this contact, our communication, only lasted, or only occurred, when we had eye contact. Only when that contact was broken, because he, for example, bent down or turned his head for a moment, did it stop. It was just like, "Look into my eyes, and you will talk to me ." It was like, I don't know, a fiber optic cable between minds. I can't categorize it.

"It reminded me of how a radio works. When we turn the antenna, the radio seems to lose contact with the transmitter and malfunctions occur."

Yes, exactly. And then the audibility of radio messages decreases.

Millennium Falcon-shaped UFO in the Lublin area

Sometimes the most extraordinary events occur in the most ordinary circumstances. Such was the case with an observation shared by a listener—a man from southeastern Poland who agreed to share his story on the condition of anonymity.

An attempt to reconstruct the appearance of an object observed in the Lublin area in May 2024. AI (Nano Banana Pro) was used.

The incident occurred in May 2024, in a small town near Lublin (the witness requested that the exact name not be disclosed), during a family backyard barbecue. The weather was cloudless, the sky clear—as our interlocutor reported, "perfectly clear, without a single cloud." At one point, he sat down in a garden chair, tilted his head back, and looked straight up.

What he saw lasted literally a few seconds.

"A disk flew by. Literally a short distance across the sky," he described. "It was shaped like a disk, and its surface was very detailed. It reminded me of the Millennium Falcon."

An object that partially "merged" with the sky

The most intriguing element of the report is the description of the object's visual properties. The witness claims that the disk—which appeared to be the size of the full Moon in the sky—was not entirely visible. A portion of its surface, estimated at 60-70%, appeared to "blend" with the blue sky, while the remaining 30% remained clearly visible, with rich texture and technical details.

"It looked like it had some sort of partial sky-blue camouflage activated, which didn't cover the entire surface of the ship," he explained. "It's hard for me to describe the details, as I only saw it briefly, but they were definitely technological elements."

After streaking across a short section of the sky, the object, according to the report, shot vertically upward at a speed the witness described as unattainable for any known man-made structure. The entire incident, from the disk's appearance to its disappearance, took, he estimates, no more than 3-4 seconds.

Although the sighting occurred among a group of friends, no one else noticed the phenomenon – their attention was focused, as is often the case at a barbecue, on completely different matters. The observer also noted that he was completely sober at the time of the incident, and that no sounds accompanied the phenomenon.

Importantly, it was his first and only such observation in his life, although - as he himself admits - he has been interested in the UFO topic for a long time and is a regular listener of Radio Paranormalium.

Although the event itself lasted only a moment, the witness emphasizes that he remembered the details of the image very clearly and that they will remain with him for a long time. He decided to report the incident to Radio Paranormalium, and the material—after appropriately securing personal information and location, as he requested—will also be forwarded to UFO researchers cooperating with the editorial office.

Meeting with mysterious hooded figures near Poznań

In 2001, a mysterious incident occurred on a secluded road near Poznań that forever changed the life of a driver. Driving home at night, the man encountered several hooded figures hovering above the ground, reminiscent of ghostly riders from fantasy films. The event, which he recounted in an anonymous interview with Radio Paranormalium, had a profound impact on his life, leading to further extraordinary experiences involving ghosts. Today, the man continues to search for answers to the nature of these beings.

An attempt to reconstruct the circumstances of the 2001 incident using AI

In 2001, on a secluded road near Poznań, a mysterious and still unexplained event occurred that forever changed the life of the witness. He shared his story with Radio Paranormalium by phone, requesting that his voice not be broadcast, but that only a summary of the event be provided.

The man, then young, was returning home from his girlfriend's house at night. It was around 3:00 a.m., and the road he was traveling ran through a typically rural, undeveloped area—a few houses, a long, straight road, bordered on both sides by fields.

On the first night, quite unexpectedly, he saw several dark figures crossing the road in the distance. Their presence at such a late hour and in such a desolate place seemed strange to him, but since they were quite a distance away, he did not try to follow them or find out who they were.

The next night, at almost the same time and in the same place, the incident repeated itself – but this time the figures were much closer. About 30–40 meters in front of the car he was driving, five or six hooded figures crossed the road. They looked like the ghostly riders from "The Lord of the Rings" – fully clothed in flowing black robes, with deeply pulled hoods, and no visible faces.

Most disturbing was that these figures weren't walking—they hovered above the ground. According to a witness, their cloaks "floated" about 20 centimeters above the road, and the car's headlights passed underneath, confirming their lack of contact with the ground. No legs or walking movements were visible—they moved silently and silently.Four of these beings sped across the road, but the fifth stopped, turned toward the driver, and—despite its lack of mouth—appeared to speak to him without words. The witness was absolutely convinced he had received a message: "Don't be afraid, everything will be alright. You have the power within you—use it well."

Despite the unusual nature of the situation, the man felt no fear. He opened the car door and watched the scene with surprising calm. Only after returning home did he realize he had witnessed something utterly extraordinary.

From that moment on, his life changed dramatically. The witness reports that he began to feel the presence of spirits and "something" that accompanied him in various situations – both in Poland and after moving to the UK. Objects moved without his intervention, lights turned on by themselves (even those that required the physical pulling of a string), and in his presence, temperatures dropped and electronic devices malfunctioned.

There were also instances where alarms would go off at his workplace (where he worked as an engineer), equipment would malfunction, and surveillance footage would capture mysterious objects moving in unnatural ways, changing direction by 190 degrees. His colleagues eventually began joking that "strange things have been happening ever since he started working here."

To commemorate his encounter with the mysterious beings, the man tattooed the image of a "monk" on his arm—as he himself called them, though to this day he doesn't know exactly what he was dealing with. In his account, he admits to having tried to use the supposed "power," for example, to move objects by willpower—but to no avail. He has a hunch, however, that with proper guidance and training, he could develop this ability.Over the years, the intensity of the phenomena has diminished somewhat, though they haven't completely disappeared. Interestingly, according to reports, he still wakes up in the middle of the night every night—always after 3:00 a.m., which he himself attributed to the so-called "ghost hour."

The mysterious figures that appeared on a dirt road near Poznań in 2001 remain a mystery to the witness. Although he tried to find similar cases—both on the Polish and English-language internet (e.g., under searches for "hooded figures" and "shadow people")—he came across nothing that could definitively explain his experience.

Do it so I don't remember...

The author of this account, presented in episode 21 of the "Witnesses Speak" podcast, has experienced unusual phenomena since childhood, which she attributes to encounters with UFOs and extraterrestrials. In this extensive account, she shares her experiences, visions, and hypnosis, which have sparked both fear and curiosity in her over the years. Are these encounters the result of alien activity, spiritual manifestations, or merely dream visions? The author attempts to answer this question by sharing with readers and listeners the extraordinary events from her life.

Do it so I don't remember

I've been listening to your radio for some time now, and some of the programs have touched on topics and situations similar to those I've experienced. Since the gallery where I work is closed now, during the coronavirus crisis (I'm writing this report in March 2020), and I have a lot of free time, I decided to share my experiences. Maybe it will help someone, just as I found answers to my own questions in the testimonies of some witnesses.

I'm 43 years old and live in the capital, between a representative military unit and a small military airport near Okęcie Airport. I've been interested in paranormal phenomena since I was a child. I'll emphasize that the topic of UFOs isn't my specialty. Sure, I understand the nature of things and what they entail, but it's not like I crave every bit of information and would kill for all my memories. If I had to choose, I'd prioritize cryptozoology, life between lives, the planet's ancient mysteries, time-related phenomena, and aliens somewhere further down the line. Which doesn't mean that over the years I haven't noticed that these phenomena are somehow connected.

To the point. From my youth, I retained the belief that I participated in so-called "abductions," and it even cost me a lot of stress in my teens. However, as I got older, certain events faded, and I attributed it to emotional instability in childhood. It was just my head making things up. For a while. A few years ago, I participated in four past-life hypnotic regression sessions with three different hypnotherapists, aimed at finding the cause of depressive moods, problems finding a partner, and forming a relationship. [At the author's request, the names of the session leaders are omitted.]In the sessions I attended, while recalling childhood events, the topic of UFO abductions suddenly emerged, out of the blue. This surprised both me and the hypnotherapists.

My intention, the purpose I brought to my first session, was to uncover the cause of my breakup with my boyfriend and heal my broken heart, and then to discover why I was having trouble finding the right partner. And I found confirmation that what I thought were imaginary situations—dreams that had accompanied me my entire life—were actually happening. Just so you don't think I only believe in spiritual therapies and solutions, a year ago I underwent a year and a half of psychotherapy with a certified psychologist from the Kobiece Serca Foundation, who has nothing to do with spiritual development in the broadest sense. This was also to check if I was imagining things.

Even though paranormal phenomena are my hobby, that's how I treat them – as a pleasant escape from everyday life, not a way of life. I have my feet firmly planted on the ground to believe in something; I need hard facts; I don't drift away, and I don't believe everything. I have rather limited trust in other users of the paranormal world. I don't move in spiritual circles, and I don't have friends interested in the same topics. I've shared my knowledge from sessions on Facebook spiritual forums a few times, mostly foreign ones. But every time I encounter stories from witnesses of such encounters, I sometimes see significant similarities.

Before I share the various events that took place, I wanted to write that I divide my experiences into those that happened 100% (facts), those that I cannot classify – whether they are memories, dreams, strange phenomena (memories) – and what I said during the session (hypnosis).

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I've been familiar with the UFO phenomenon since childhood. My father was passionate about the subject. He collected all the press clippings about alien and UFO encounters. At one point in his life, he even said he woke up in the middle of the night to find a large saucer with colored lights in the yard. But then, over the years, he started claiming he'd had a dream, then that he'd imagined something, and eventually he'd become drunk. Now he refuses to talk about it at all, won't say whether it's true or not, but won't say anything—he sits silently and gets very upset. He's over 70 years old now, and I can't get anything out of him. He only promised to look for that folder of clippings. I asked my mother about strange phenomena, if she remembers anything. But she claims nothing paranormal. Yes, she has dreams and they do come true (my grandmother, her mother, was a well-known fortune teller in several villages and used cards), but strange lights and UFOs – not.

Anyway, around the age of 6 or 7, I stole that folder of clippings and stared at the pictures, and when I learned to read, I was able to familiarize myself with the contents. My father didn't talk about it; he kept the folder hidden high on the loft; he didn't show it to me. He only told me about his experiences later. The folder mostly contained clippings about encounters of the First and Second Kind, but there was also a typical drawing of an alien, which didn't frighten or surprise me, because I'd seen such things before. I accepted it as normal. Just like tigers and elephants exist in the world. Nothing to wonder about.

My first memory is from the age of 2-3 (1978-79) when I was being taken from my crib by a figure who appeared next to it through a tunnel in the wall. He would take me somewhere that way and then put me back. But every child has an imaginary companion 😉The next incident occurred when I was perhaps 4 or 5 years old (1980-81). I woke up in the night, sat up in bed, and saw flashing lights through the glass in the closed door to the next room. I was sleeping in bed with my head toward the door, which was separated by a meter-long hallway from the next door to the next room. The glare was coming through the window of the second room. The light must have been so intense that it passed through both thick, frosted panes of glass in both doors. It was a pulsating blue-reddish-whitish light. I thought it must have been an ambulance or the police, because it reminded me of beacons on cars, but I couldn't hear any sirens. I don't remember anything else; I think I went to sleep.

Recently, I've been wondering if it really was an ambulance parked near the window, except... we lived on the third floor. If the car had been parked on the street, the light wouldn't have reached so high and refracted at an angle into the other room. Something must have been shining from the same level.

Later, a series of more public encounters (memory) followed. It began on Christmas Eve (I remember this very well), also around that same time in my life. I woke up in the night to lights appearing in the sky at high speed outside my window, approaching. There were two of them, maneuvering rapidly. I went to the window and saw, higher up, between my building and the other one, a flying "bus and tram" (as I called it then), both with glowing, changing lights all around them. I was very surprised that Santa Claus had flown to me, but a little disappointed that he hadn't flown in a sleigh with reindeer, but in a tram and a bus. I had no doubt it had to be him. I opened the door and stepped out onto the balcony. I was a little afraid because it was winter, and my mother didn't let me go without slippers or go out on the balcony alone. But I felt this inner urge to break the ban.

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I noticed out of the corner of my eye that both my parents were asleep and nothing had woken them. We lived with my parents in one room, my grandparents and uncle in the other. I wasn't cold at all, and I didn't feel the cold concrete under my feet. Something told me (in my mind) to go up and stand on the balcony railing, but it was very high, about my height. I don't remember how I got there. Something told me again not to be afraid, to stand firmly with both feet and take a step forward. I was very scared at this point, because it was the third floor, and how could I place my foot "in space—in the air"? But after a moment's hesitation, I gave in, and it turned out I hadn't fallen, I had simply suspended in space. It was a bit like being suspended in water, but the feeling was warm and pleasant, like stepping on a slightly flexing surface. A feeling similar to stepping on a trampoline. Then I found myself inside the "tram." I was a bit surprised that it was quite empty. There were four beings there, besides me, but I can't remember what they looked like, or their faces. They weren't adults or children, though. They seemed to be dolls or teddy bears, as they weren't much taller than me.

I was taken for a ride. Very fast and with many twists and turns. I remember enjoying it immensely and feeling a sinking feeling in my stomach, like flying. At the back, close behind us, was Santa's "bus." It was the same size as the one I was in, but slightly different. They weren't identical. Later, "Santa" showed me my apartment building as it looked from above, and I remember approaching it so quickly that I felt a knot of fear in my stomach. As we approached, I noticed the building was illuminated by a pale blue light from the "tram." I don't remember how I got to my room.I remember that these visits later became quite regular. I don't remember them negatively. I rather looked forward to these meetings. However, I do recall a few years later flying in a small plane, a Wilga I think, with three other children over the airport, as part of my parents' work at LOT Polish Airlines. I was terrified because the plane seemed very unstable, and even more so when I saw my house from above. Exactly as I had seen it during that ride with Nicholas. I wanted to get off as quickly as possible.

I also took a similar helicopter ride from the airport in Dajtki. The helicopter had a glass front, all the way to the legs. Then I remembered that while I was on the "tram," I could see everything outside through its deck. It was transparent. I was terrified because I was already older. I didn't board another plane until I was 37. I developed a complete fear of flying.

I don't remember much else from that period. Besides the constant feeling that someone was behind the curtain, and the fear of going to the bathroom at night, especially when passing the kitchen. Another thing – during this period, I suffered constantly from ear infections, and sometimes my knees would ache for no apparent reason. Doctors couldn't find the cause of this pain.

The next, perhaps conscious, "encounter" occurred when I was finishing primary school (1991). The first (actual) experience took place during a vacation at my grandmother's. One afternoon, something "commanded" me to go to the forest, about 1 km away. Something drew me there, and even though I didn't want to go, as if urged by an inner voice (my own or someone else's), I went. When it comes to describing the feeling of "compulsion" in such situations, I most associate it with sexual arousal. It builds and builds, until finally, you're forced to do other things because you have to satisfy your desire.