Case file · Abduction
Whitley Strieber
Horror novelist (b. 1945) whose best-seller 'Communion' (1987) described his alleged abduction from a cabin in upstate New York on 26 December 1985.
1985 CE · 42.00, -74.30 · status: account
The account
Already known for 'The Wolfen' and 'The Hunger', Strieber made the big-eyed 'visitor' face a cultural icon through 'Communion' and its 1989 film. He hosts the Dreamland podcast and the Unknown Country site, and co-wrote 'The Super Natural' (2016) with Jeffrey Kripal.
The sceptical view
Neurologist Steven Novella linked his experience to hypnagogic sleep paralysis; Philip Klass argued he dismissed temporal-lobe explanations too quickly, and inconsistencies in his earlier accounts were noted.
Connections in the atlas
- Communion: A True Story (summary)
- Whitley Strieber
- Jeffrey Kripal
- Communion
- John E. Mack
- Budd Hopkins
- Philip J. Klass