As children, both my sister and I became obsessed with aliens when we starting seeing them on TV. My mom called us crazy and my dad just smiled and ignored it. And I was oddly obsessed with the show 'Greatest American Hero' when I was very young, and dreamed about aliens delivering me a special power.

I'm 37 now, and this past summer the topic came up again with my father about the occurances I had with sleep walking and waking up in the back yard or in the kitchen looking out the window. When my mother, wife & kids where out of the room, he admitted to me about knowing that we were not crazy and then pointed to a matching scar on both of our shoulders (on the back where its hard to reach). His health is starting to fail him, and I got the impression that he wanted to clear the air about it, then asked me 'are you still afraid of the closet?' and I told him that I sleep with the closet open all the time just like when I was a kid, and the closet is jammed stuffed.

He then admitted to believing I was abducted as a child just as he and his brothers were abducted and sometimes left clueless in their yard. He didn't want to admit it and scare the crap out of us as kids. He also admitted that he and his older brother used to tease their kid brother about 'the lizard in the closest will get you if you don't do certain things'. This particular uncle of mine can't stay out of jail and is a bit wacko.

Oddly enough, my oldest son cannot sleep with the closet door open even the slightest, and requested when we had security cameras installed that we put one in his room so we can watch him while he sleeps.

There was alot more information that we shared that night about and incident while camping, reactions of our pet cat back then, the sharing circle, and our roles in life. A day doesn't go by that I don't think about that converstation