THE TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS
tells the true stories of five young women “abductees” who lived in and
near Tujunga Canyon, northeast of Los Angeles, and who were all linked
by more or less intimate personal relationships. The abductions and
related events, which took place over a period of more than two
decades, were first investigated by UFO researcher Ann Druffel for five
full years, and later by Druffel and parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo
together. Many of the abduction details first revealed in the Tujunga
Canyon case have been confirmed in the hundreds of cases that followed
it.
First published during the peak of the 20th century’s UFO abduction
epidemic, THE TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS was only the second book written
about so-called “alien abductions.” This edition of the classic work
contains the two new chapters prepared for the updated version of the
book. During this updating of the story, Druffel first realized that
abduction scenarios can be fended off by strongwilled, confident
experiencers, since three of the five young women intuitively
discovered, and used, various “resistance techniques” to fend off, and
eventually end, the harrowing attacks.
CONTENTS
Introductory
Note
vii
Preface
ix
Part 1: The Report
The
Beginning
3
1. Sara's
Story
6
Part II: The Investigation
2. The First
Regression
15
3. Aftermath to an
Abduction
33
4. The Second
Regression
42
5. The Ridge Route
Mystery
65
6. The First
Contagion
79
7. Experiments with Jan
Whitley
98
8. The Mystery of the "Cancer
Cure"
118
9. Further Experiments with Jan
Whitley 135
10. The Tujunga UFO
Milieu
148
Part III: A Further Contagion
11. A Surprise
Witness
165
12. Lori's
Abduction
176
13. More Pieces of the
Puzzle
195
Epilogue
208
Part IV: Conclusions
The Tujunga Milieu: Some Tentative
Conclusions by Ann
Druffel
213
An Interpretation of the Shaw-Whitley
Case by D. Scott
Rogo
233
Some Personal Conclusions by Sara
Shaw 254
Part V: Update 1988
The Tujunga Canyon Witnesses:
1980--1988 by Ann Druffel
259
Current Research on UFO Abductions:
1978-1988 by D. Scott Rogo
291
Appendix: A Comparison Between the
Sara Shaw and the Betty Andreasson
Cases
322
Picture
Section
327
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What they're saying...
"Whatever your attitude towards the alien abduction scenario (literal truth or hypnosis hooey?), The Tujunga Canyon Contacts is
a seminal must-read for anyone interested in the subject...The
particular value of this book is that alien abductions were still new
on the scene when [Ann Druffel and Scott Rogo] carried out their
research, which means the experiencers would not have been contaminated
by all the abduction scenarios that have since become so familiar..." –
Paranormal Magazine
"Looking
back over the early reports of alien abduction from time to time also
allows us to glimpse elements of the phenomenon with a degree of
clarity and un-obfuscated detail. Such is the case with Ann Druffel and
D. Scott Rogo’s modern classic, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts...
[in which] the reader is taken along on a wild, probing encounter with
what is arguably one of the earliest reported abduction encounters with
the 'gray aliens' of popular lore...Altogether, the surreal,
lucid-dreamlike quality that these encounters bring to the study of
alien abduction make for an intense, sometimes frightening read, but
not at all in a conventional way. If anything, the precedent set by
Druffel and Rogo in this modern classic among abduction reports makes
other literature regarding the phenomenon pale in comparison. Even
three decades after its publication, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts
raises the bar as to where and how proper scientific study of alien
abduction can—and no doubt should—continue, and it stands alone as one
of the finest texts to ever delve into the subject at length." –
Micah A. Hanks, The Gralien Report
About the authors...
Ann
Druffel’s interest in the UFO phenomenon dates back to
1945, when, as a schoolgirl, she viewed a bright yellowish object over
Long Beach, California. In 1957 she became one of the first
investigators for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena and remained with that organization until its demise in 1973.
Since then she has been an investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and
other scientifically minded organizations. She has written more than
200 articles in UFO journals and is the author of six books on UFOs and
other paranormal subjects, including How To Defend Yourself Against
Alien Abduction, and Firestorm!
Dr. James E. McDonald’s Fight For UFO
Science.
D.
Scott Rogo was one of the most widely respected
writer-journalists covering the field of parapsychology, as well as an
active scientific investigator. He published papers in refereed
parapsychological journals and was active in field investigations of
hauntings and poltergeist activity. Rogo was also a leading authority
on the history of psychical research. In the course of more than
twodozen published books, including The Haunted Universe,
Rogo sought
to broaden the range of topics worthy of paranormal research.
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