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Podcast: Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast
Episode: The Manhattan Alien Abduction
Description: The Manhattan Alien AbductionIn a 1989 case known as the Manhattan Alien Abduction, Linda Napolitano claimed she was lifted through her apartment window in a blue-white beam of light and taken aboard a UFO, with 23 witnesses reportedly observing the incident from various locations including the Brooklyn Bridge.UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, known for his regression therapy work and theories about alien-human hybrids, investigated the case and documented additional claims from Linda about subsequent alien encounters involving her son Johnny, who suffered persistent nosebleeds afterward.The case took an even stranger turn when two mysterious men named Richard...