Betty and Barney Hill | Alien Abduction or Hoax

[@GuitarPlayerNoah]

If your name is Barney and you meet someone named Betty you have to get married. Those are the rules.

[@aileenburke4667]

🤣🤣🤣🤣Yabba Dabba true!!!

[@lance-pc1qz]

😁😁😅😅

[@Cristobels-Green-Boots]

Meet the Flintstones! Why didn’t I think of that? 🙏🏻👽🙏🏽

[@jennifersilves4195]

Facts.

[@chynnadoll3277]

🤣😂☺️😆🤪😜👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍

[@Flamboyant8]

Just clicked so not sure if you mentioned it, but Barney Hill's granddaughter is current UFC fighter Angela Hill. She fought last night. Also video idea - Ken McElroy, the "town bully" whose bullying was so severe that he was murdered by the townspeople who then kept quiet about it for decades.

[@rayross997]

2nd that suggestion.

[@onewheelatatime2905]

I’d like to see the Ken McElroy case too.

[@makepeace234]

Excellent suggestion 👌

[@maureeningleston1501]

That sounds fascinating, great suggestion.

[@XPROTOTYPE88X]

UFO ==== UFC 🤔😦😨

[@rullmourn1142]

I've studied this case several times. I don't believe that they were lying, I think that they really believed something happened. There's really no reason or point for them to make this story up, especially at a time when the last thing an interracial couple in America would want is attention.

[@zenawarrior7442]

There's always a motive available...usually attn or fame. Lack of motive doesn't mean it's the truth. Look at the millions of criminals that have no specific motive but still kill etc. These 2 just sound goofy as hell.

[@tracylynn1461]

I think maybe these folks and many more were Mkultrad and truly believe they were abducted and probably were and lord knows what done to them not by aliens but by scientists:/

[@samlsd9711]

I highly doubt that.🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😂🤣😆 They said they saw pink powder, that's some recreationalDrug they took I'm 100% sure. People in those days loved their drugsAnd alcohol. And the alien talks were big

[@zenawarrior7442]

@@tracylynn1461 Not sure & I don't go down the conspiracy road but they sound like they wanted attn and got it. Think everyone's overthinking this as listen to what Dr G says...their story is silly & not provable. Not one credible person, story, or photo on ufo's yet.

[@tracylynn1461]

@@zenawarrior7442 about this same time my mother had a very strange flying saucer experience ..she stayed in her car which totally died when this object approached.... so something for sure was going on.... I've watched countless archieves of experiments with LSD and other drugs from this era... and feel like it is very possible.... they cant all have made it up..

[@Scorch1028]

"I was abducted by space aliens, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." 😆

[@williamrunner6718]

😂

[@tjames9698]

Well, the drawings done by BH led scientists to discover a previously unknown star system perfectly, so I don’t think it was a hoax. Also, at the time, it would have been bad for a interracial couple to bring such attention to themselves and their jobs.

[@marlastar100]

Thank you James.....if we are to listen to everything Dr. G says- every mystery and magical thing that has ever happened would be dismissed. My father had a UFO encounter., as me I believe.

[@tjames9698]

@@marlastar100 There we’re also too many things that someone couldn’t make up. Odd details. Like the aliens not knowing what dentures were, or the color yellow, etc. Also, BH’s niece said she distinctly remembers her aunt calling her mom terribly upset when Betty and her husband returned home.

[@robertsmith3672]

I was wandering how they would get around the book being given to them. The aliens took it back ? Oh I see . That was unfortunate.

[@tjames9698]

@@robertsmith3672 But how do you explain that BH (with the help of Marjorie Fish) discovered an entirely new star system right down to the last detail that we didn’t know existed until decades afterwards by using the details that came out in BH’s hypnosis? Also, these two wouldn’t know details like the aliens not knowing what dentures are, or the color yellow, or that the aliens wrote horizontally instead of vertically.

[@robertsmith3672]

@@tjames9698 If you choose to follow that BS that's your business.

[@adamgardiner5869]

I used to come for the psychological breakdowns, but now I stay for the INCREDIBLY dry humour. Pineapple grenades, lol!!

[@akitalady]

I predict the birth of a new drink - "Pineapple Grande Grenades"

[@bjh7924]

I was just thinking the exact same thing 😆

[@laszlozoltan5021]

I dont think the jokes are appropriate here, he is making fun of people which ultimately is harmful to individuals- he should set up a separate channel for harmless stand-up comedy routines

[@bjh7924]

@@laszlozoltan5021 It's not harmful to anyone, you snowflake. Maybe you should unsubscribe if your delicate little feelings are bruised & be offended on behalf of others elsewhere 🙄

[@damianvillela7341]

Dr.Grande got the best zingers

[@wandaburns8075]

I met Betty once, she was a sweet and awesome lady. She fully believed everything she said about their experiences.

[@leslie3933]

Sweet and awesome people can still be nuts.

[@lanceanthony198]

To me it seems like she initially fabricated the story/ or it was some psychotic delusion or belief, and then over time she intentionally or unintentionally gaslight her husband into believing it happened too

[@MsSwitchblade13]

Well that doesn't really mean much because plenty ppl are sweet, awesome and nice but still aren't 100% ok mentally 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@CAPTEINRIGGS]

Oh god I hate people who use these 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ emoji's so much. So so much. Condescending disgusting people.

[@MsSwitchblade13]

@@CAPTEINRIGGS 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@BigZebraCom]

"Aliens suffer obnoxious guests who overstay their welcome."

[@anonymousstrangeness7348]

That happens every time, when you examine their genitals and give them an anal probe 😌

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

@@anonymousstrangeness7348 the aliens wanted to check out the BBC

[@anonymousstrangeness7348]

Lol !!! 😀 😂 😂 😂 😆

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

The abductions continued as they kept coming back for more

[@anonymousstrangeness7348]

Pretty soon the abductees were paying the aliens to abduct them every Friday night, so they wouldn't be sitting home alone

[@sparhawk5515]

I met a Dr Leo Sprinkle who was a psychologist that was well associated with the case. He was convinced that they were not fabricating the story and discussed several pieces of evidence that they presented. Betty and Barney were not particularly knowledgeable or imaginative people who would create such a story; according to the doctor.

[@DrSebby]

... but of course you fail to mention what these supposed "pieces of evidence" were?

[@sparhawk5515]

@@DrSebby I didn’t feel it necessary. The good doctor referenced them in his discussion. For instance the analysis of the curious chemicals warranted an hour long documentary. The “star map” was the most impressive example and was well beyond their capabilities or anyone else’s at that time since it referenced two stars that weren’t even charted until about 8 years after the map was produced. These people were pretty simple folk. If you read the book she couldn’t even describe how a year was determined let alone the properties of the twin stars Zeta reticula A and B. If they were hoaxers they were very impressive. BTW it wasn’t mentioned that the incident gave Barney PTSD symptoms that eventually led to his death. Thanks for your query!

[@sparhawk5515]

@@markmike7933 thanks for the critique! It’s obvious that Dr Grande doesn’t believe that such things have any merit. I can’t say for sure what the truth is but I believe all of the evidence has to be considered. Ridicule or ignoring it doesn’t make the events less valid. Yet I understand that it’s going to be the most common response

[@sparhawk5515]

@@markmike7933 I agree that there was a lot of ridicule. However s couple of decades later it was confirmed with a stellar plotting computer. As far as I know those findings were not disputed.

[@Stanwis]

@@sparhawk5515 star map was debunked years ago

[@bbramer1]

I actually read the book and still have it. I never thought they lied.

[@christopherlehnert7071]

the book depicts them as not-smart-enough to invent such an event.

[@tmo4330]

@@christopherlehnert7071 I like your comment!

[@macavitymacavity]

Not only was interracial marriage uncommon at that time, but also illegal in many States. I remember seeing the TV movie (starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons) when I was a kid. It scared the crap out of me!

[@JohnGalt916]

Yeah he could have gotten in big trouble taking his wife over state lines. The love case changed a lot of laws.sad this country is moving backwards in many ways. My wife was told she's racist for marrying me. Apparently she's fetishist my black skin. Apparently she couldn't just love me weird self. Also interracial relationships are still uncommon

[@jessepitt]

@@nucleum5026 I don’t like your implication!

[@nucleum5026]

@@jessepitt I don't care.

[@garyjones7044]

@@nucleum5026 bet I could guess who you voted for.

[@nucleum5026]

@@garyjones7044 you're already wrong. I don't believe there is a political solution, I'm not a republican think the most extreme.

[@phillipphilington8212]

It seems like you've got a predisposition to disregard these stories. The Travis Walton story you commented on was labelled an obvious hoax even though the craft was witnessed by several of his fellow forestry workers. Now this Betty & Barney Hill story gets a similar review. I find it frustrating that these compelling tales get ignored by the general public as mostly hoaxes. Not discounting hoaxes exist in the field but doubting that even the strongest stories tend to be almost ridiculed by you. I wonder what it would take to really sway you to consider a story true. What strikes me about your outlook is how I feel you lack the comprehension that these events could be happening. It's really an insult to these traumatized people that were bold enough to go public with these highly sensitive tales. Maybe investigate the topic as a whole and perhaps you would encounter a wider view of the subject and not be so quick to focus on the possible fraudulent theories. Again not to say there are not fabrications on the subject but just feel you are incapable of considering the chance that some of these stories could be true and the implications of this.

[@oldbatwit5102]

It seems like you've got a predisposition to want to believe some of these stories. You forgot to mention that that Elvis may still be alive. The pyramids might be starships. The moon might be a huge living organism, similar to a toad. It's not impossible and there is a lot of evidence to back it up.

[@JWBruh-qi1yx]

He actually did say in the video that anything is possible. Just that it was highly unlikely. And statistically speaking, given the amount of alien reports (just pretend every single one reported was real) it's still very unlikely.

[@phillipphilington8212]

@@oldbatwit5102Maybe i'm believing in fairy tales.. maybe the general public can't decide what to make of these wacky stories.. All I know is there's a bunch of compelling evidence.. Don't know about the Elvis/Pyramid theories though.. they sound flakey as fuck.

[@phillipphilington8212]

@@JWBruh-qi1yx Yeah he gave the story that much credit so that's better than not entertaining the idea. It's a frustrating topic to make sense of for sure. Maybe one day we will encounter something to really sway the general public.. Some piece of evidence that is unquestionable.

[@oldbatwit5102]

@@phillipphilington8212 If a spaceship lands today, the best evidence you could have of aliens visiting this planet, that is not evidence and certainly not compelling evidence that it has ever happened before. Why do you want 'the general public swayed'?

[@jamesk7256]

Dr. Grande, as skeptical as you may be about these abduction stories, you have to admit that Unsolved Mysteries had one of the greatest theme songs of all time.

[@thejkyle]

Indeed. And Robert Stack was great.

[@ren17x50]

Stack was stacking money off that song, voice and brown coat

[@daviedood2503]

Stacks voice creeped me out as a kid. 😂 My ex played some old reruns a few months ago.

[@laurielynne2006]

That song was the basis of all my fears as an 8 year old!! My sister always locked the door before that show came on😂😂

[@daviedood2503]

@@laurielynne2006 that and tales from the crypt. 😂

[@beverlydevry6985]

I would LOVE Dr. Grande to do a special evaluation of the entire “Skin Walker Ranch” that is currently being studied by legitimate Scientists & other Professionals. I always respect and appreciate Dr. Grande’s no nonsense honest approach. And LOVE his sense of humor.

[@laszlozoltan5021]

"legitimate"? "scientists"? really? name one

[@donnavaughn9409]

I believe those folks involved are just regular people, one a astro physicist seems normal. The owner of the Ranch is a good guy, I know part of the family as I live in SLC, UT.

[@aubreyshelton3217]

Not me...he's way too narrow minded..thinks he's got it all figured out ..and very full of himself.selfrightousness gets ya nowhere

[@GG-hu9dn]

Dr. Grande thinks from a very one dimemsional perspective - as do a few of the deniers on here?? Who seem to of the rarher arrogant assumption that they know we are all there is in this universe? Pure stupidity and arrogance!

[@mickmccrory8534]

If I was investigating at Skinwalker Ranch, & there was something underground, & we aren't allowed to dig for it.... I would shoot off rockets & look for UFO's in the sky.

[@flaps_rickenbacker247]

Listened to Betty speak at the Portsmouth NH library in the Mid 70's. After relating her abduction story she went on to talk about her most recent sightings (plural) and her ability to communicate with space craft. The more she talked the less plausible her stories became. The audience began to shuffle their feet and some snickered. It was very difficult to take this apparently delusional lady seriously.

[@someguy7629]

And now tell me if ti was fake, how did she, very accuratly drew a star map wich was found decades later?

[@flaps_rickenbacker247]

@@someguy7629 I don't know whether the Hill's experienced an abduction or not. Nor was I commenting on the abduction itself. My comment was concerning a personal experience I had with Mrs Hill. Yes I found her comments odd ( among other things, she mentioned signaling space craft over Portsmouth harbor with a flashlight and they signaled back.) Make of that what you want but it certainly made her abduction story suspect in my mind. As to the Star Map, Advances in Astronomy have proved that Marjorie Fish ( whose theory validated the star Map ) was wrong. Marjorie's work was scientifically based but unfortunately the 1960's astronomical data she used was flawed.. Ms. Fish would later admit that her theory was incorrect and had no correlation to star alignment as we know it today. Nor have I found any astronomer that validates the map.

[@anonymike8280]

My impression is that Betty Hill went off the deep end only after her husband died. Barney died at the age of 46 in 1969. Betty died 35 years later. Consensus is, something happened, that it was not a fabricated story.

[@valerieteti1755]

@@anonymike8280 I agree with you. Betty was a college educated social worker at the time of the 1961 incident and both she and Barney were very involved with the NAACP and racial equality. Barney received an award from Sargent Shriver for his work. They didn’t need publicity about their experience and did not seek it. They were exposed by a Boston reporter in 1964. Betty became delusional in the years after Barney’s death which caused great damage to her reputation. She was even warned to keep quiet by John Fuller the author of the book “The Interrupted Journey” detailing their abduction but unfortunately she didn’t listen to him.

[@anonymike8280]

​@@valerieteti1755 It's a sad story. They were a credible middle class couple. Even though interracial marriages were rare in the era, in Upper New England I doubt that they experienced much racially motivated abuse. There are always idiots who shout things or even throw things at people because they're idiots with nothing useful to do. Barney Hill was a subdued guy. Anyone around him would quickly realize that even if they didn't talk to him. People in the area where they lived undoubtedly knew who they were. Very seriously, I doubt any mentally stable adult ever harassed them.

[@christinekeefe9004]

Why do the people in UFO abduction stories always get out of the car to get a closer look? If I ever see a UFO, I'm just gonna stay in the car and keep driving!! I'm not that curious. How do I know it's not Predator up in there?!

[@BeattapeFactory]

I think most people would get out of the car. I would too. Its normal curiosity

[@floraposteschild4184]

Because they're lying -- and their "getting out to have a closer look" makes a better story than "I saw some lights in a field, and kept driving."

[@minato4203]

Because if it was predator it would be invisible!

[@ivabroski4603]

Some people have claimed to feel compelled to approach, and some not quite even realizing it. Same with people with abduction stories who claim they couldn't really resist whatever orders they're given - they just felt compelled to obey.

[@LeeDee5]

Well because according to Barney they were talking right into his mind to come closer and he couldn't stop himself.

[@v.britton4445]

Doctor Grande , I have seen two UFOs in my life I am not saying this because I want attention, in fact it has been a terrible pain due to people who are afraid to believe it could be possible...out of fear comes ridicule... it is extremely depressing to tell the truth and not be believed. Betty and Barney Hill suffered from the human treatment..and were very brave.

[@plane_guy6051]

Don't worry man, LOT'S of people have seen them and when this all becomes undeniable fact, people like this Dr. Grande are going to shit their pants and lose their minds.

[@myfirstnamemylastname2994]

Yes. I do think there's very good chance that they believed the story whether or not it was actually true. And to draw attention to themselves let them open even just as an interracial couple in the news Nationwide. They put themselves at risk of public ridicule at the very least and perhaps ostracization from some people that they had known and liked. They must have had sudden personality changes in midlife to suddenly want that much attention without any obvious expectation of secondary gain. I believe that no matter what happened they believed at least most of their story. In fact some of the details that don't make sense are so obvious they have to either be red flags or the sort of thing that would make me believe. The camera strap that was torn during a run through the woods makes no sense. Those were made of woven canvas nylon or probably in those days leather but sturdy leather. I used to actually have an antique camera from those days and it had a very sturdy leather case and strap. And why the top of your shoes would be damaged instead of the shoes missing all together or I don't know the bottoms melted or something. That too is an odd detail and so the red flag is where are the shoes and what inclines me to question a lie is that it would make much more sense to say something else that sounded more believable. Likewise the pink powder could easily be from her powder compact if her purse was filled during a struggle of some kind with someone even with Barney. If she didn't think of that as an obvious trigger for someone to dismiss her story then maybe she's not that smart and that doesn't make sense. But again it is a red flag that she didn't produce the Garment in question in case there might be traces of pink powder or describing her book where that garment went if that's not in the book.

[@myfirstnamemylastname2994]

I also do know one person that is the last person I would ever suspect of being interested in UFOs or likely to concoct a story of any kind and who is not gullible to that sort of thing he just doesn't have that much imagination. He reported seeing a cigar shaped UFO that was very large. I don't remember what he said but at the time it seemed to me comparable to the stories of football length. He reported that he saw it as he was coming over and overpass over a dry River bed and that other people had stopped to watch it. He pulled over and they watched it for over an hour before he had to leave. He admitted he had never told me or anyone else in our family because he didn't think we would believe it and he didn't want the story to get out because he was certain that others for example at his workplace would simply laugh at him from then on. He said it was still hovering Motionless In The Evening Sun when he left and apparently the other people didn't tell the story either probably for the same reasons or it was only reported locally and was dismissed like all the others are as a weather balloon or a blimp. He was a retired Air Force plane mechanic so he had a very good idea what they are capable of doing and what they look like and even if he wasn't privy to the latest secret defense aircraft which is entirely possible he would still recognize a blimp versus weather balloon versus actual craft doing something unknown at the time. He was not one to embellish a story and even when he got along in years and tended to occasionally repeat an anecdote about something it was pretty much the same every time and he was not fanciful or gullible or suggestible even as much as the average person would be. He was actually considered to be possibly mild autism spectrum for that reason. And when he told me the story there was no high emotion or colorful details or embellishment and he certainly didn't sound as though he wanted people to be excited about what he said. He said it in a brief matter of fact way and said that due to this experience he knew that UFOs were absolutely real and he didn't know what to make of them but was surprised that even after all this time nothing had ever been clarified or explained about them. The fact that this person, my stepfather, told me this story about 5 years before he died and 30 years after the fact is reason enough to believe that there is something. Yes it could be a secret government defense craft from any of the advanced technology organizations around the world but doesn't sound as though it would be within their capabilities now let alone 45 years ago.

[@dextermorgan1]

@@myfirstnamemylastname2994 I like this channel but he got this one wrong. This happened to these people just like it's happened to many others. "Regular" people don't keep up with this kind of thing and always look for the logical answer, swamp gas, weather balloons, sleep hypnosis etc. Sometimes things just can't be explained by normal means.

[@angelatheriault8855]

I don’ think they were lying, I think something happened that they misinterpreted and Betty went off the deep-end into a delusion which got bigger and more detailed over time. Initially, Barney was confused and unsure about what had actually happened but later became convinced his wife was right and began to share in her delusion.

[@jdr9419]

LSD

[@rayross997]

A journalist took Betty out for a drive at night and she identified a street light as a ufo and also lights on a radio tower as a ufo. Kind of speaks for itself.

[@daviedood2503]

She a dayummm NARCISSIST living in fantasy land. She thinks lightning bugs are tiny ufo ships they invading her ugly @ss kitchen with them 1950s drapes.. 😂

[@infinidominion]

They were interviewed separately and described things accurately

[@MissBliss818]

You just summarized this perfectly

[@sarahwatterson5706]

I’m 35 years old and I still giggled every time he said the word _genitals_ so I’m going to go ahead and diagnose myself as immature. 😂

[@kayladugger7042]

He chuckled a bit when he started talking about Barney examining his genitals, so I don't think you're alone in your amusement.

[@williamsherman1089]

Hey baby!..............naw I'm not even gonna go there.🤣

[@harrychest4303]

I think their story is compelling. Their stories would always collaborate. I believe their story.

[@rayross997]

Please cover Steve Jobs? Dr. Grande, you hands down win the 2021 Dry Humor Award.

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

Steve Jobs is covered. By Earth, as it should be. He was just a lemonade stand hawking punk and puke. Good riddance.

[@trace9657]

Sadly, I think the alien abduction story is more believable than the statement that an interracial couple in the 1960s did not suffer because of their relationship. Life is not easy on interracial couples even now.

[@dimplesd8931]

Preach!

[@MrRaulstrnad]

you might think so but the hills never reported any large scale ostracism due to their interracial romance they were living in fairly liberal minded new england not the deep south i know that is is unusual for that time but yes the hills were quite lucky in picking where they lived

[@JustDr.S]

@@MrRaulstrnad Didn't they live in pennsylvania?

[@zimzob]

@@JustDr.S they met in Philadelphia, then moved to New Hampshire

[@lewisdoherty7621]

Their interracial situation drove the UFO story. It is possible mental disorders and a agenda melded together: Understated was how their political and social interests and agenda tied into the alien abduction story. They they were able to tie their interests in with a subject matter in which others had an interest, so that it was possible to promote their view. The Hills were involved in the civil rights movement and Barney had been appointed to some state civil rights position in New Hampshire. Having an external threat bringing mankind together has always been a theme for science fiction writers. This concept was distilled down by President Reagan in his 6 September 1987 speech in front of the U.N.: “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?” Grey aliens - mix White and Black and what color does one get - an integrated, multi-racial creature. If they would have cooked up this story in modern times, they would have realized space traveling beings would’t be using books, but store and view data like done in modern times.

[@sideshowratt]

Betty was an avowed UFO enthusiast before the incident. She literally wished that she would be abducted. It's not unreasonable to think she would interpret something benign as an alien encounter. I think Barney dozed off and had a dream and she jumped at the chance to turn it into a UFO story, although knowing that he died young of a cerebral hemorrhage does make me wonder if he had some kind of neurological issue that caused hallucinations. I do think they truly believed their own story.

[@moqi32]

i grew up in new hampshire for 25 years, we aint got ufos sorry bettey

[@TGouse1]

@@moqi32 or grammar apparently.

[@rayross997]

A journalist interviewed Betty a few years before she died and she claimed that she was seeing ufos on a regular basis. He went to visit her and took her out for a drive at night. They did not go far when Betty pointed to a light in the distance and said it was a ufo. It turned out to be a street light. She also identified lights on a radio tower as a ufo.

[@prospectorpete3738]

Half correct Betty and Barney were gang raped by white supremacists for their relationship. Their minds protected them by making a UFO story.

[@infinidominion]

Being familiar with Procyon system was not known to regular ass civilians back then tho

[@thesilverpen]

somewhere, one some planet far far away, --a creature is relating how he encountered "humanoids". And his fellow whatevers are shaking their heads in disbelief..

[@Ramrod152001]

I remember trying to listen to a sampling of the hypnosis session tapes that are out there. I thought it would be interesting, but had to immediately turn it off. Barney Hill's screams were of real terror. The vocal cords make a certain sound when in real terror. It sounds completely different compared to a fake scream while acting in a movie. Also the person who hypnotized them didn't believe their story, it's unlikely any false memories were implanted.

[@roseclark6057]

I thoroughly believe them. Her dress is still being studied today. It's foolish to believe that we are the only ones in all of space. These two are heroes, not liars!

[@playerstation5624]

@@roseclark6057 but some skeptical named robert sheaffer say that betty once went to a ufo conference and show the photos of ufo which ended up being just some blips and blurs in a black background and ended up being with her being kicked out of the conference and some ufologys prensence say that she had no creadibility in her claims and that she even wrote a book about UFO's which according to robert was full of delusional stories

[@dr.jenniferma3914]

I also believe they were abducted.

[@luskstudios6755]

EXACTLY.

[@langerd6711]

That’s it? His scream sounded real? 😂😂😂 cmon bruh

[@abc456f]

Read the book when I was around ten years old, sometime around 1967. Scared the living crap out of me. If you ever listen to the recordings of their hypnosis sessions, the sheer terror in their voices is very real. I have no idea if their story is true or not but it definitely is compelling. I think to dismiss it out of hand is being a bit close minded.

[@bthomson]

Close encounters of the third kind? "Closed?"

[@mainlyfine]

Don't bother Dr Grande with the facts - his mind is already made up.

[@bunnygirl893]

@@mainlyfine yikes

[@brucegelman5582]

@@mainlyfine what someone claims happened to them isnt a fact.

[@toddparke8535]

@@mainlyfine "You see what you want to see and you hear what you want to hear." (Harry Nilsson's Rockman from his tv cartoon 'The Point.')

[@beverlydevry6985]

Did anyone else find it odd that the United States Government recently made a statement, that really didn’t say much, about the numerous experiences of our Military Planes and UAP’s? Why make a statement at all to say they cannot explain them…

[@oldbatwit5102]

Probably because the shape-shifting alien lizards, that control the World's governments, told them to.

[@beverlydevry6985]

@@oldbatwit5102 That would make more sense than making a BIG DEAL about their “ANNOUNCEMENT” and then basically say absolutely nothing!!! “Yes our Pilots have encountered these flying discs, but we don’t know what they are”…. End of announcement 🤣

[@oldbatwit5102]

@@beverlydevry6985 So..... we are agreed. It was The Reptoids.

[@beverlydevry6985]

@@oldbatwit5102 I’m still considering the NWO & The Watchers also… Hmmm But I like the way you think!

[@oldbatwit5102]

@@beverlydevry6985 Careful.... they are watching.

[@phenomena3491]

When you have a strong bias against believing a story from the start, the analysis given cannot be considered to be complete and objective with attention given to all the details.

[@CREA9TURE]

Like "Dr." Todd

[@MadeByChinkee]

Sadly, I have to agree.

[@justanopinionsincerelynoof3860]

I don’t know what to think about UFO’s but you are absolutely right. Even before he started, I knew he was only going to ridicule and not analyze and be objective, smh.

[@phenomena3491]

@@justanopinionsincerelynoof3860 When sincere people who have an experience of an unusual nature that cannot be reasonably refuted, then an open minded curious person should treat this as a case deserving of objective analysis. This would be especially of interest to a true man of science. Ridicule is an indication of an inherent bias that is not compatible with the methods of science.

[@dextermorgan1]

@@justanopinionsincerelynoof3860 What's not to know? People used to say they didn't exist at all. Now, we know that's not true. Even the Government has released video of UFO's recently(Tic Tac, Gimbal, Go Fast videos) We also have KZbin, which is full of footage of crafts. Sure, some are fake, but a lot aren't. They've been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. The only real question is, are they interstellar, interdimensional or both, and why are they here? A quick Google search will net you TONS of legitimate footage.

[@larrydirtybird]

One thing that you left out was that the aliens were perplexed that Barney’s teeth could be extracted and put back in, while Betty’s couldn’t be. As a kid I thought that made the story more believable. But now I think, these aliens are smart enough to traverse the universe, but they’re perplexed by the concept of dentures?!

[@edgardeguzman2809]

That was the key that they were making all this up...

[@yourenviousenemy]

Maybe the aliens don't have teeth 🤷‍♂️

[@codeblue2532]

Leader spoke perfect English but the Examiner’s was distorted ? Is it possible a ReCon Unit could be ethnically mixed.? What language did it resemble to Betty distorted as it was ?

[@southlondon86]

Humans are smart enough to conquer the planet and establish societies but we are continually perplexed by the animal, insect & fish kingdoms.

[@blackbulaklak]

@@southlondon86 exactly

[@maddieb5787]

There's a movie called "Dark Skies" that is about aliens and it's so freaking scary bc the way the aliens infiltrated this family was so secretive and slow until the couple weeks before they were ready to abduct the youngest son. Their tactics were beyond anything we're capable of but yet it still felt realistic. Anyways Barney and Betty's story is obviously limited by their own personal knowledge of science and the available technology back then. It's actually pretty absurd when you picture aliens capable of intergalactic travel arguing amongst themselves about whether or not an abducted housewife can keep a copy of one of your books as a souvenir when you let her go home...

[@LowenKM]

Yep, and it seems 'curious' that telepathic aliens would even use 'books' anymore, or that Barney had previously suffered a grenade explosion powerful enough to blow his teeth out, yet didn't affect his brain, which also likely contributed to his later premature death from a brain hemorrhage. BTW, after Barney passed, Betty was interviewed again by other UFO researchers, who reported that she literally couldn't tell the difference between a UFO and a street lamp.

[@nawhteven3830]

@@LowenKM so explain the star map then. The only other explanation is she was abuducted by scientists and giving information that wasn’t known to her to make the black and white lady and interracial marriage bad? I mean it’s not out of the question but that’s the only two possible scenarios bc of the star map. Stop thinking of all the other bullshit, and start at the map, how it turns out it’s a real place. I’m not saying aliens I’m saying idk, but what I do know is the map part seals the seal that something DID happen.

[@kangtheconqueror8359]

All abductee stories that are credible and share common threads is they are taken against their will and their minds are invaded- it's curios Barney heard a voice say " Keep watching" because Greys mind control you have to keep eye contact apparently and it adds up. The instrument they use to the naval is about harvesting eggs from women and it's common in abduction stories. The truth is there is an alien agenda- they are interested in sex and reproduction, taking samples of eggs and sperm. They are making hybrids to fit into human society for some reason that is beyond us. This has been going on for a loooong timee. They may not be from another planet, but another dimension the more I study quantum physics. I have a feeling it's good for them, but may be not good for us.

[@gregoryross9770]

My thing is they say it happened in 61 they sat on the story for 2 years until 63 went back to the site and conjured up a story and went public.

[@reuterromain1054]

@@gregoryross9770 Why would they have done such a thing?

[@marianapgar4409]

I enjoyed this very much. On a similar topic, I would be very interested in your analysis of Whitley Strieber, who also claims he has been abducted by aliens. It's quite an involved saga.

[@justsayupyours]

Anyone who has had regressive hypnotherapy should know it leaves behind false memories. Whitley Strieber is another BS story.

[@pygiana16]

Whitley Streiber’s “abductions” always seemed to conveniently take place when he was in bed and ended with him back in bed, his wife undisturbed. Almost as if the whole thing had been a dream, you might say.

[@TheRrxing]

Doesn’t W. Streiber live next door to Bob Lazar? (tongue in cheek)

[@vikramgupta2326]

The alien abduction story that I might one day believe is when someone actually describes something otherwise inconceivable to our human experience....not simply a techno extension of our own morphology and artifacts.

[@justsayupyours]

@@vikramgupta2326 do you mean like Billy Meier’s coronavirus information that was released in February 2020? It’s so accurate it puts our scientists and virologists to shame. Wouldn’t you like to know everything about coronavirus and what it holds for our future generations? You can because it’s freely available.

[@OomaGooma]

Are you sure their last name isn’t Rubble?

[@egon2012]

Haha!!!!

[@alice_rabbit8345]

That’s what I was thinking!!

[@JustDr.S]

Haha!!!!

[@randyg.7940]

Funnier then all the docs jokes

[@genievemcdonald9744]

my father was a scientist with NASA minuteman, apollo, and shuttle. he told me he was sure there was intelligent life beyond earth. he did not doubt they had visited. but, humans may not comprehend the actions of any visitors beyond humans.

[@erikparent8176]

I do not doubt there are Aliens. The universe is designed to produce sentient life. There are an unfathomable amount of stars/suns with suitable planets to sustain life. Its likely there are 1000's of planets with life on them!

[@justsayupyours]

The Billy Meier contacts have been ongoing for almost 80 years. He has over 1,200 mostly clear daytime photos, a few 8 mm videos, all before photoshop existed. He has irreproducible sound recordings and a metal sample that was analyzed by IBM’s Marcel Vogel. He’s the only one with all the evidence but is the most suppressed. I wonder why?

[@justsayupyours]

@@ClickClack_Bam a cursory glance or listening to debunkers will always make you think that. If you’re incapable of doing your own investigation, just say so. His unprecedented coronavirus information released in February 2020 is so accurate that it’s never had to be corrected. How did he know before everyone else?

[@justsayupyours]

@@ClickClack_Bam the claim that he used a trash can lid to make models…before the lid was even manufactured? If you don’t understand physics there are others who do and they’ve spelled it out in detail. Don’t forget what Gordon Cooper said in an interview August 26, 1995: “Gordon Cooper: Let’s look at the case of the Swiss. The man in Switzerland who was contacted by extraterrestrials and made many, many contacts. Interviewer: Meyer? Gordon Cooper: Meier. Meier. I saw the pictures the day after the investigative team went to Switzerland. I know the investigative team very well. They came to my home to show me all their pictures. Very fine, very fine, they were absolutely authentic. Yet the whole world is trying their best to make them out as fake.”

[@justsayupyours]

@@ClickClack_Bam his ex-wife has said a lot of things, divorces aren’t always civil but she has never denied that the case is real. Apparently you don’t understand that films were sent away to be developed in that era. You might want to talk to Greg Garrison about how his photo ended up in with Billy’s photos. If you’re incapable of investigating it yourself, just say so. Don’t waste my time on your inability to think for yourself and just repeating others garbage.

[@jerrymitchell77]

My only question is why would they make up a story like this? Where would the idea come from? Something happened to them. This was 1961. In New Hampshire. Today's media is cynical but they were not back then. When I first heard this story the first thing I thought of was The Flintstones. But the more I found out the more I believe it was true

[@lindaeasley5606]

Because of a grandiose need for attention , mental illness ....

[@jerrymitchell77]

@@lindaeasley5606 Mental Illness is possible since we don't know what Betty was like before the incident. Alcohol and other drugs could have been involved too. I discount wanting attention because they didn't go to the press. It was two years before they told anyone about what happened

[@hollydecker9581]

Sir, I had an experience where I saw "something". Nothing was done to me and I didn't have other experiences that I recall. It happened in the early 60's when I was about 12. I do believe their account but thankfully my experience was never repeated. I think they were extremely brave to even report it. Thank you for your frank review.

[@asaniwasabi]

What did you see?

[@PoeLemic]

@Holly ... Don't leave us hanging. @Asani has the right question. So, I'll also ask, "Please, tell us more."

[@Anne_Onymous]

I had an alien encounter years ago while lying in my bed. Even though I knew it was just sleep paralysis so not real, I was terrified while waiting for the hallucinations to fade away and to regain voluntary movement. The seconds felt like HOURS!

[@Wajiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

Sleep paralysis is scary! I have experienced it a few times and seen shadowy figures with glowing red eyes just watching me. It feels too real.

[@ttmpelko_creations2445]

I have more or less regular sleep paralysis parasomnia episodes, sometimes with hallusinations (I kinda think of them as vivid dreams). The aliens are yet to manifest themselves, sadly. My most annoying this far was feeling how my flat was on fire around me and the firemen rushing in and pulling me out (while I was naked - and I never sleep naked because my flat is coffin cold, btw, but there you go). The only cool one was feeling myself turn into a werewolf (I'm a horror fan) but even that wasn't that cool because I was still thinking how I'd handle going to work the next morning if I was hairy all over and had the urge to eat everyone's liver. I'm too rational even in my dreams to be fooled too long and I know about my condition, the first time I had it I recognised it immediately. Education really helps. If I had had no idea what it's about, I understand very well how even I might be tempted to look for alternate explanations. And, parasomnias such as sleep paralysis episodes tend to happen more often when dozing off during the day or when having had too little sleep for any reason, even if you then sleep in the "regular" time. It's very much possible to have an episode while driving, for example. That would be really, really scary for the place alone.

[@justintime753]

That was a demon

[@666ydney]

@@ttmpelko_creations2445 this was SO interesting to read, it's wild how it manifests itself in so many creepy forms! the human mind is an incredible thing, like there are so many plausible reasons why people see certain things and others don't.

[@laszlozoltan5021]

@@Wajiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii me too with the paralysis and extreme terror- the only thing I have some control over is my breathing it seems- I try to hyperventilate to rouse myself when that happens

[@Big_Tex]

Thumbs up if you saw the TV movie when it aired in the 1970s.

[@somethingyousaid5059]

I saw it, but I barely remember it. I can't remember who played Betty and Barney. Seems like James Earl Jones may have played Barney. Don't laugh at me if I'm wrong about that. I gave a thumbs up though.

[@rayross997]

I think it was Mr. Jones.

[@Big_Tex]

@@somethingyousaid5059 hey it WAS James Earl Jones. Of course back then I didn’t know who James Earl Jones was.

[@brianpratt3224]

You need analyze the Wilma and Fred alien abduction next.

[@C.Noble13]

Land of the Lost. Enoch & Will vs The Sleestak ; an extra-dimensional reptilian bipedal humanoid species indigenous to the ...

[@peterolbrisch1653]

Scoff all you want but the Great Gazoo would take umbrage at that.

[@Shutityou]

There is a couple living near me who are both involved in the same delusion. It’s amazing to speak to them.

[@arturobolanos2680]

These people went through something traumatic and you say things like, "it was probably and alien survey, asking them to rate there abduction experience." I just think this story deserves alittle more respect than that. I understand being humorous but in this case it seems to be at the Hills expense.

[@brendaeaster8874]

I agree with you, Arturo, please read my response.

[@thewokjohnson7295]

Watch project blue book them.

[@marshallallensmith]

I'm not a KZbin expert but I am fairly certain that watching a particular video is optional and voluntary. If you simply click the pause button it will give you time to navigate away from the channel.

[@Tan_Z]

I'm so glad I found your channel. Absolutely love your sense of humor and calming voice!

[@DebNKY]

He's calming and funny both, that's just rare

[@sjtdxitditsitdurzirxur5926]

I'd highly recommend his podcast, Bella Grande Media. Started listening to it today, really high quality content

[@lysawoolley9008]

Totally agree. I fell on this channel late March 2020. I would fall asleep to Dr Grande voice. Just what I needed. I treated myself to a Patron year level for Xmas. I can often listen to 2 dr Grande a day. Yes he is that productive. Now I stay awake for them thou so you know probably retaining more 🤣

[@lysawoolley9008]

@@DebNKY it is very British. For me anyways not rare but do enjoy dry humour ❤️

[@justanopinionsincerelynoof3860]

You women swooning over Dr. Grande is very cringey. He is married. Have some self respect...

[@jsteiner8548]

The strangest experience that I ever had involved a UFO. The second strangest experience I ever had doesn't even come close to it. For me that's saying a lot.

[@bthomson]

Ok nosey! What was the second most experience?

[@jsteiner8548]

@@bthomson Telling you that could only serve to undermine the credibility that I have. (Not that I have any credibility.) 😁

[@abeycee7427]

@kat ci healer oh yeah?

[@SH-ib5nn]

@Kat's crazy life wasn't this the reason that trump bloke was building a wall .... " ima gunna build a really really really big wall ( by the way peoples, I invented the word "wall', it's not fake news ) to help save our once grate nation from all the illegalz aliensz. And im gunna makes demz pay for it.... etc.. blah blah "

[@Soulkatyoga8]

I have studied this case for many years. I am much older than most of you here - IMO something did happen. Betty knew information that no one knew and was able to create star maps of a place undiscovered at the time. The interracial situation has nothing to do with the situation in regards to the "abduction".

[@erikparent8176]

I believe their story! If it turns out to be false, it's just 🍳 on my face! 🤷‍♂️ It's good for pimples!

[@oldbatwit5102]

She didn't create any credible 'star maps', just a bunch of dots. She did not know 'information that no one knew'.

[@LeeDee5]

I personally do think they being in an interracial relationship had almost all to do with it.

[@cl5470]

Betty wasn't the brightest and Barney went along with it because life would have gone poorly for him if he was a black man who dumped his white wife in the 60's.

[@JustDr.S]

Maybe Betty got her inspiration from one of many alien or abduction movies of the 50's. They were most popular, back then. They couldn't crank them out fast enough.

[@wm.h.9123]

@Dr. Todd Grande can you look into the 94 or 95 (can’t recall) Ariel School encounter in Ruwa, Zimbabwe? I’m a sceptic, but I can’t for the life of me figure this one out.

[@Mike_Davidson]

There's nothing to figure out. It happened exactly as they say it did.

[@wm.h.9123]

@@Mike_Davidson Yep,… no reason to ask questions, ever!

[@Mike_Davidson]

@@wm.h.9123 They were answered by nearly 3 dozen witness's 30 years ago. 🤷‍♂😂😂

[@Mike_Davidson]

@@wm.h.9123 I can say they saw what they said they saw because I was as close to a UFO in a hover in 2013 as they were to one the one that landed at their school. Neither craft was made or operated by humans. Not then, in 2013 or by 3013. It's just technologically impossible for us, from what I saw, with the known elements found on our planet to use as a power source.

[@wm.h.9123]

@@Mike_Davidson 3 dozen CHILD witnesses. Not the same.

[@tjames9698]

Btw, for everyone that mentions “Close Encounters”, you might wanna ask Steven Spielberg about the time when Ronald Reagan was sitting next to him at a premiere of “CE” and, at the end, turned to SS and said “You got this right more than you’ll ever know.”

[@thebigdentist251]

@T James You're thinking of ET. It was after a White House screening, Reagan was addressing everyone there, and Spielberg considers his comment ("There are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.") to have been a joke.

[@DrSebby]

@@thebigdentist251 .... your version sounds a while lot more believable. Funny to witness the birth of a b.s. version though, prior to your clarification, huh. 😆

[@raider7829]

I saw Aliens. One up close. 100% TRUTH. I believe Betty and Barnie. Its so scary but if they were going to harm us We would know.

[@k.c.r.5974]

"Last days of the big lie" says all you need to know about senior Spielbergo

[@davidvasey5065]

Could've been a joke. Known as a very funny man Reagan

[@jalowery1246]

The aliens actually did in fact put something into Barney's genitalia. Said substance layed dormant for one generation only to express itself in the form of superhuman athletic abilities in their grand daughter the UFC fighter Angela Hill.

[@evelynwaugh4053]

What if she's the product of alien loving? Maybe the alien plan was to infiltrate the UFC.

[@michaelmoore7975]

I just knew you were going to say Darth Vader.

[@simonbelmont5801]

@@evelynwaugh4053 Unidentified Flying Championship?

[@fmills1583]

FACT!

[@anonymousstrangeness7348]

Sounds legit to me !! ☺ 👍

[@joko09010]

Just started watching. Hoping for a Flintstone’s “Betty and Barney Rubble” So far the pineapple grenade incident has not disappointed . 😆👍🏻💯

[@mercedes_420]

i was thinking the same thing about the Rubbles😂

[@sunnyjozani8421]

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if their neighbors are Fred and Wilma "Hillstone" lol

[@mikelobrien]

i thought the same thing, as well. Betty and Barney Rubble MUST have been named after these people! :-)

[@Katerina9256]

Could not help but think about the Rubbles 😁

[@mtpam]

My son said that too.

[@Wildewhitley]

It surprised me when you said planted hypnotic memories... I'm in hypno and a hypnotherapist can not plant a false memory, nor would they. What they will do is reframe a memory, usually traumatic to encourage healing. I do reframing work all the time. While my memory is changed in a way, I know the real story and always will! A hypnotherapist is not a magical thing, they are a mental health tool that is way under valued and completely misunderstood.

[@JustDr.S]

Unfortunately, some people still think of hypnosis as the type of on stage performances of years ago. You know, where the hypnotist makes a group of people think they're chickens? That could not happen. Some believe it, though.

[@Wildewhitley]

@@JustDr.S So true! When a hypnotherapist is performing they have a system. Which starts by asking the whole audience to imagine bitting into a lemon or something like that, and then they watch to see who is more responsive to that suggestion. Through a quick series of these exercises they can see who is most receptive to their suggestions. Making it look like magic when people start acting like chickens.🐔

[@bellasmom2597]

But at the time we are talking about this was not regulated.

[@dudeorduuude5211]

Ok, you clearly aren't a trained hypnotherapist as you would have learned how easily suggestions can become "memories". Even conscious people recalling a vague story, or recount what someone looked like, their brain will fill in the blanks. You explanation is based upon the theory that all hypnotherapists are moral or that they are even all good at what they do. Illogical.

[@11Christys11]

@@dudeorduuude5211 - Thank you! Exactly!!

[@LouisianaAstroRambler]

This guys dry humor is hilarious lmao, "back then, hand grenades did look like pineapples, after all" lmao..

[@MrEdWeirdoShow]

For Barney and Betty fans: The Hill case took place in 1961, less than a year after The Flinstones debut, and they were of course also married before that animated show. Meanwhile, Roswell had happened only 14 years before the Hill case, so the US gov UFO coverup was in its fullest effect. And although this was such an early case, the Hills provided researchers with literally hundreds of detail tropes that would become quite common in most other UFO cases for many decades to come.

[@cynic2all]

If there is such a big coverup, why was THIS incident not covered up?

[@zetapi826]

I became familiar with that story back in the 1970s after I had become obsessed with the UFO phenomenon. I was 12 or 13 probably. I grew out of it though. I had accumulated a hell of a lot of UFO themed magazines back then. For purely nostalgic reasons I wish that I had kept them. Those magazines were made of something called paper.

[@bthomson]

As opposed to light rays? Hey👽

[@lysawoolley9008]

Paper 🤷‍♀️ don’t know of it 😂🤣

[@anonymousstrangeness7348]

What is this "PAPER" you speak of ?

[@oneoflokis]

🙂

[@poetcomic1]

I got a $100+ on ebay for a small box of UFO mags from that period.

[@billhildebrand5053]

Cool, Dr Grande, the hoax was your dark plaid shirt (same shirt on the “**exposing the elites**” video) turning into a white meshed shirt. We’re sure you were abducted after your shirt changed “ brighter” as if coming into proximity to an UFO sighting. No kidding ??🛋🎊🎊🎊🎊🛋

[@bthomson]

Bill - your comments always win the internet!🏆

[@billhildebrand5053]

@@bthomson i try to base my comments on a non-UFO rational basis, non shirt biased, and speculative, non diagnostic. 🗿😄🗿

[@jennifercole281]

What an interesting & obscure little blast from the past selected for this episode ...and I love your sense of humor!😂

[@tubeitmark]

Doc, always love your videos. There is a video out there about this same case and apparently Betty was able to ask the alien abductor where he was from. So he drew or put up a map of his star system so she could see it. When she was asked to duplicate the picture she was told by experts that the star system was Zeta reticula, but he corrected her because she drew two extra small stars at the bottom of her drawing. Years later I guess when telescopes improved, it turns out Betty was right. There is in a video out there about this. How could she know that?

[@Nikes62]

Lucky guess?

[@tubeitmark]

@@Nikes62 You should join the military and make it to an unbelievably high rank, and the only words that should be ever come out of your mouth are weather balloons and swamp gas. You would be so successful.

[@Johnfarrar-sz9gf]

She. As really abducted Dr. Granded. Is. Full of. It

[@alexandria2112]

She wasn't right, though. Marjorie Fish's map is only one interpretation of what Betty originally drew, and if you remove the connecting lines she added there's really no resemblance (Carl Sagan wrote a piece about this and covered it in his series Cosmos), not to mention the fact Betty's original map had 26 stars and Marjorie's only had 15. Also, if you use recent astronomical data that's much more accurate than the data Marjorie used back in the 60s, it excludes 6 of the 15 "matching" stars. Idky so many ppl still use her map as proof when it's been thoroughly debunked.

[@chicagomike4587]

It's horseshit - Betty called many of the "stars" planets and her map sucks anyways. It's not proof of anything. I feel bad for them as I think they were troubled. Poor Barney had to deal with Betty who was a kook and clamied to see UFO for years and even would mistake helicopters as aliens. It's a classic story in the UFO world...but it's fucking nonsense.

[@vortex1Mango]

Oddly enough my parents described a very similar sighting they had themselves. They were in Germany during Vietnam. Short and sweet it was a fiery craft that flew off in an instant.

[@angelacollison]

Your jokes while straight faced have cracked me up 😂😂😂

[@thelocalmaladroit8873]

Maybe aliens are obsessed with genitalia cause they don’t have any. Great analysis Dr Grande!

[@justsayupyours]

Everyone knows the secret military groups sell these parts on the black market.

[@thelocalmaladroit8873]

@@justsayupyours hahah 😅

[@justsayupyours]

@@thelocalmaladroit8873 I’ve actually investigated 2 horse mutilations and 1 cow and 1 bull mutilation and I can honestly tell you they’ve been testing out their laser weaponry for decades now. It was no surprise that last year the Pentagon’s Mark Esper stated the USA has DEW which are microwave, laser and particle beam weapons. Laugh while you still can.

[@thelocalmaladroit8873]

@@justsayupyours That’s very scary!

[@mujika.]

I have that book! It’s called “The Interrupted Journey”. 📖

[@rowanbowyer6560]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lanceanthony198]

@@rowanbowyer6560 What’s funny about this comment?

[@MrJx4000]

I didn't know about that book the aliens supposedly offered to them and then reneged on. It's good to know that wordsmithing is in use on other planets ;-) ;-) ;-)

[@laszlozoltan5021]

as an IR couple in such closed-minded times deserve respect for their bravery and commitment to each other

[@bwendy2]

I remember my grandmother talking about this case when I was young, about 10 or so. She wholeheartedly believed it. She was not a conspiracy theory believer or radically religious, not that those are required, just often prhgesent. She just felt that we couldn't be the only form of higher intelligence in the universe. There must be others out there.

[@plane_guy6051]

Well, no matter what Grande says, it definitely DID happen and a ton of other UFO sightings and encounters were happening around the same time and were seen by very educated and well-trained people like a B-17 crew in 1968 who CLEARLY saw a UFO on radar as well as visually -- they stared right at it! That was the case where the UFO was hanging around the nuclear missile sites which happened on numerous occasions btw (do a KZbin search for: 1968-10-24: Minot AFB UFO Encounter). As for the Hill case, there's a video on KZbin of 4 police men talking about a UFO they all saw in Sharon, Massachusetts in 1966 and the police chief, Bernard Coffey, is one of the men interviewed and he said after they saw it, he was working the night shift and read a story about the Barney and Betty Hill case and was shocked because what they saw was exactly what the Hills had described. To watch the interview with the police, search KZbin for: "The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis" - EXCLUSIVE Video: FOUR Police Officers' Dramatic UFO Encounter

[@steec6713]

@@plane_guy6051 yeah this dudes a hack

[@lisamcdonald2877]

To reasonably conclude that there are other intelligent beings in the universe is one thing. To believe that we are so important to them that they keep visiting, abducting and probing us is quite another. I suspect that some sightings are of classified military aircraft. Some are unexplained.

[@albertangeloro5832]

Inter-Galactic Proctologists from Uranus?

[@dortesandal4303]

😂😂😂 my thought exactly!!

[@MrJruta]

Throughout all the decades I’ve heard their story, yours is my favorite explanation.

[@ashley-bd5ik]

When you stop watching a Dr. Grande to watch a new Dr. Grande video 😂

[@marv5078]

Alien:"People love the lights while we take off. You should stay and watch." 😂

[@tomtalker2000]

Quite frankly i think it's FAR FAR easier for people to "chastise" and disbelieve these other worldly encounters. Then it is for them to think "outside the box" of what they are comfortable in accepting as TRUTH. Fear of the unknown will do this 9 out of 10 times to what our brains are programmed to accept.

[@stevecrompton9910]

It was great to hear your take on this couple. It sounds like Betty was the source of this fantasy and Barney followed her lead...

[@Timzart7]

After their story, it was hard to tell of one's close encounter with aliens, unless it included a good anal probe, at least if you wanted to be believed. Few people know this but in the first draft of Star Trek, the purpose of the Starship Enterprise was to "seek out alien civilizations and probe their anuses," before it was changed to go "where no man has gone before."

[@anonymousstrangeness7348]

That explains a lot.. ..but it also raises new questions.

[@reaper7264]

that finger thing Spock did was not always a salute.

[@Buster_Piles]

I was bum-graped by space aliens. There was a bunch of them.

[@williamsherman1089]

Trekkie here.............uh-uh, no way, your just makin' that up!

[@Buster_Piles]

@@williamsherman1089 dude it was Mr Sulus primary Misson.

[@ddg410]

Bwahahahahaa...I love Dr. Grande's humor! Right up my alley! Lol

[@Amran771]

Interesting review, however you didn't mention that the star system shown to Betty was discounted but in later years was actually found to exist as a real star system that does exist. How about that ?

[@kaysigsworth1222]

Also the craft that took them was picked up by radar...so there were other accounts of that craft being real. Also since then a school in Africa and aswell as a school in Australia have had UFO sightings and hundreds of classmates all witnessed together a craft with beings very similar to the ones Betty saw and drew.. who told them telepathically we are destroying our planet with harmful technology. Maybe its time to listen, dah! It'll be very funny when we nuke ourselves to fuck... yes! really funny that will be, cannot wait 🤨

[@jeffandersen7397]

Fred and Wilma always said Betty and Barney were crazy but we didn't listen

[@gailvargas6416]

Your mind is awesome. You can make yourself believe anything. When I was between 9 or 10 years old, I hated going down in the basement. The freezer was down there. I was convinced that a witch would come out and chase me, I would run so fast up the stairs. You couldn't tell me there wasn't a witch. There was know witch, it was my fear that product and witch in my mind.

[@bthomson]

I would be more afraid of the "don't know" witch! But I was always afraid of the dark too!

[@vaslle7038]

I used to be scared of ghosts, thought they lived in the house. I woke up screaming one night asking for them to leave but nobody came to check on me. That’s when I realized I must have been dreaming ... that my screaming was part of the dream. These dreams seemed so real to me back then, they were terrifying to me. When you think anything’s possible, it’s easy to lose yourself in your imagination.

[@justintime753]

There definitely could of been a witch

[@gailvargas6416]

True

[@angelahartman3272]

My brother and I, when we were kids, were convinced that the devil lived in my grandma's unfinished basement. She kept a red pitch fork down there for some reason, what else would a couple of bored kids think? It entertained us for years. 👺

[@RizztrainingOrder]

True or not, it’s depressing to see a Dr. who is supposed to be interested in the unknown and curious about science be dismissive and closed minded to the possibility……

[@RizztrainingOrder]

@Luna Pel personally I’m not a believer, however if it were true, I’d beg to differ, if real then the study of their anatomical makeup in order to survive in space and other environments, and the study of their vehicles that can perform feats humans can’t would surely be considered science….no?

[@CREA9TURE]

That's because Todd is a guy who think he's superior with his explanations because he has the word Dr. in front of his name. The guy needs to get laid more I guess.

[@gavinmccormick6734]

It is awesome that once you receive an advanced degree you now have the right to deam someone a liar if you dont like their story

[@swrose66marchangel]

He completely left out the fact that Betty’s map, recreated from her memory of her conversation with the leader, was actually discovered decades later to be the location of the Zeta Reticuli star system.

[@steveswangler6373]

He left it out because itms not a fact. Research showed that her “star map” did not match up to any star system. Even Marjorie Fish, the researcher who originally made that conclusion has stated she was wrong. ALWAYS, ALWAYS look into claims, don’t just swallow things because they support your wishes for conclusion

[@larrys9879]

The good doctor acknowledges that he is speculating and I appreciate his honesty. Anyone that has not had a personal encounter with a UFO or an unidentifiable life form that doesn’t appear to be human, should be skeptical. Any encounter with a UFO and or life form that doesn’t appear to be human must be backed up with some form of evidence to be taken seriously. On the evidence side. Sightings of these UFO’s go back not just hundreds of years but thousands of years. Modern technology no longer requires eyewitness testimony, because most people have cell phones and cameras. A large volume of pictures and video recordings exist as proof these objects exist. There is also a lengthy list of creditable eyewitness testimonies from military and civilian pilots, passengers on planes, police officers, etc. Additionally, and probably the strongest evidence so far is the fact the U.S. government has acknowledged their existence and admitted that they don’t know what they are, where they come from, or how they are powered. Any reasonable person can examine the evidence that exists and these UFO’s exist and some kind of technology or nonhuman life form is controlling them. I believe the shear volume of creditable evidence conclusively confirms their existence. Anyone that has not had a personal encounter with one of these objects or hasn’t examined the evidence has a right to be skeptical. My wife and I encountered a large circular object, with lights that appeared to be rotating around the object, around midnight on a rural road in NW Indiana in 1968. No big story, it was hovering at tree top level when we saw it. It hovered for a few seconds and then accelerated straight up and out of sight. The entire encounter lasted maybe 15-30 seconds. I’ve been hooked on studying and researching UFO sightings and abductions since then. Like I noted previously, the evidence is so strong for their existence that even the government acknowledges they are real. I choose to believe the couple in this video were telling the truth. Since then there have been a number of reported abductions. Some reports are more creditable than others, but I believe most of these incidents are legitimate.

[@tthomas184]

The Hill encounter has been pretty definitively debunked. Yours sounds interesting.

[@vortex1Mango]

My parents tell a similar story during Vietnam in Germany.

[@00bankz24]

@@tthomas184 lmao debunked? How so? Oh because someone said it was debunked? Really? Why is their a historical marker where this happened if it’s so made up? Even with the government holding hearings on the subject you people still doubt…

[@tthomas184]

@@00bankz24 do enough of your so called research. ,you're bound to find it.

[@00bankz24]

@@tthomas184 my so called research? I don’t recall ever referring to any research…and what exactly is it that I’ll find? I know how convenient it is to be so incredibly vague. Also I love how insulting you clowns get when you have no educated rebuttal.

[@marlama1982]

This is more real than we can imagine!

[@bwktlcn]

I have always wondered if something all too human happened - a stop to check a tire and it ends up with Betty assaulted by humans and Barney unable to save her due to being overpowered - and this was their mental bandaid to deal with the trauma. They share the story with close friends and family to explain bruises, wanting to get home before dark, PTSD symptoms, etc., and then become a prisoner of their own story.

[@FUNNYMANERICWHITE]

That’s a big leap to alien abductions. They could be telling the truth. How about that

[@elinorregina]

One telling comment he made under hypnosis was that he did not want Betty to sense that he was afraid. Being black in those days, I can only imagine how many times he had to face down his own fears and seem brave and strong. I remember his comment about the "Irishman" and how the Irish are typically hostile towards black people but this one was nice to him. That just resonated with me. The abject fear in his voice is heartbreaking.

[@marcusjackson1887]

I wondered about that too

[@MurderWeSolved]

Under hypnosis they would’ve said that. That’s what hypnosis is for to have you relive the event. How do you explain Betty knowing about the star that hadn’t been discovered, she drew the pictures and years later another woman found it.the stuff on her dress etc?

[@marcusjackson1887]

@@MurderWeSolved She may not have been describing a real star, Wikipedia on the topic of Hill's star map: "In 1968 Marjorie Fish of Oak Harbor, Ohio, read Fuller's book, Interrupted Journey. Fish was an elementary school teacher and amateur astronomer. Intrigued by the "star map," Fish wondered if it might be "deciphered" to determine which star system the UFO came from. Assuming that one of the fifteen stars on the map must represent Earth's Sun, Fish constructed a three-dimensional model of nearby Sun-like stars (i.e., stars deemed to have characteristics that could support life such as that found on Earth) using thread and beads, basing stellar distances on those published in the 1969 Gliese Star Catalogue. Studying thousands of vantage points over several years, the only one that seemed to match the Hill map was from the viewpoint of the double star system of Zeta Reticuli (about 39 light-years from Earth).[citation needed] Fish sent her analysis to Webb. Agreeing with her conclusions, Webb sent the map to Terence Dickinson, editor of the magazine Astronomy. Dickinson did not endorse Fish and Webb's conclusions, but for the first time in the journal's history, Astronomy invited comments and debate on a UFO report, starting with an opening article in the December 1974 issue. [35] For about a year afterward, the opinions page of Astronomy carried arguments for and against Fish's star map. Notable was an argument made by Carl Sagan and Steven Soter,[36] arguing that the "star map" was little more than a random alignment of chance points. In an episode of Cosmos in 1980, Sagan demonstrated that without the lines drawn in the maps, the Hill map bore no resemblance to the real-life map. In contrast, those more favorable to the map, such as David Saunders, a statistician who had been on the Condon UFO study, disagreed. Saunders claimed that a match among sixteen stars of the specific spectral type among the thousand stars nearest the Sun is “at least 1,000 to 1 against."[37][38] In the early 1990s the European Hipparcos ("high precision parallax collecting satellite") mission, which measured the distances to more than a hundred thousand stars around the Sun more accurately than ever before, showed that some of the stars in Fish's interpretation of the map were in fact much farther away than previously thought. Other research revealed that some stars counted by Fish as likely to host life would have had to be excluded by her own criteria, while some other stars which had been discounted by Fish have been recognised as potential abodes for life. Results such as these led Fish herself to reject her hypothesis in a public statement."

[@m.f.richardson1602]

Always my favorite way to send a little while. I think I keep coming back for the incredible humor. Love you, Man

[@reuterromain1054]

The Betty and Barnie Hill case is not a hoax!

[@strife9878]

I'm not saying that it's a hoax , obviously something happened to her that left her deeply traumatized to the point she saw supernatural stuff on everything. There's also the fact that MK Ultra was active during that time on Canada and the US

[@mikelobrien]

Alleged alien abduction accounts in New Hampshire were plentiful in the early 1970s. I have an ex-brother-in-law who swore he was abducted in 1972 while on vacation in New Hampshire. He's a very "straight shirt" type, so I always wondered whether there was any truth in his story.

[@lucasoheyze4597]

I can answer that for you- No, it's not true

[@dextermorgan1]

@@lucasoheyze4597 And I can tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about. Not that I expect you to believe me...

[@xRuralJuroRx]

Isn't hypnosis pseudocience? On par with the polygraph, mediums and fortune tellers?

[@ReesieandLee]

I’m a brand new subscriber, I love the way you tell a story! And the dead pan jokes are great

[@davidhoffmann4114]

I think it’s a shared delusion. The description of the aliens and the craft (has little windows, little men wearing uniforms) seems to be a perfect 1960,s type conceptualization of what aliens would look like

[@winnycate5014]

They saw something....whether you believe it or not..

[@dslkjvoxicuyhgl4554]

These two had one of the few publicly known alien abduction cases that is almost certainly authentic. They either were abducted, or experienced something very intense, that they mistook for abduction, amd I can't imagine what that could possibly be. But I'm convinced they are not lying. Why they would lie about something that would label you insane, and risk everything, for zero profit, is beyond me. But that has been half of the public opinion since it happened.

[@reaper7264]

Maybe they didn't expect the skepticism. They wouldn't have been able to know until they told the story. People say and do things all the time that they think will bring them notoriety or fame that backfire on them. They could not know the future or what would happen. That's pretty ridiculous.

[@dudeorduuude5211]

There's profit, but probably only for being hired for conferences or interviews. Doubt people could live off of that. I think you should also know better because of how social media is... the things people will lie about, so strangers will think a certain way about them. At the same time, I believe something happened to this couple, and I don't completely discount the alien abduction possibility.

[@valerieteti1755]

@@reaper7264 They weren’t seeking publicity or notoriety. Barney was a post office employee and won an award from Sargent Shriver for his work with the NAACP and Betty was a social worker for the state of New Hampshire. They were exposed by a Boston reporter in 1964. Read “The Interrupted Journey” and “Captured” for the factual background

[@reaper7264]

@@valerieteti1755 That doesn't make it true.

[@valerieteti1755]

@@reaper7264 Unless the Hills had an obvious agenda for making up a story like this then there is a very good chance they were being truthful. They had solid reputations to lose at a time when alien abductions were not taken seriously by the public as well as drawing attention to their interracial marriage. Doubting them doesn’t make them liars either.

[@lilymarchan4028]

finally a day off to be on time for an upload! thanks Dr. i really appreciate you and your channel! thanks for being an inspiration and parasocial mentor:)

[@sarabrant723]

A doc who works 7 days a week??? You are such a hard worker! Thanks for all the hard work you put in for content for us!!

[@carolynstine3465]

You work too much Dr Grande! Maybe you were imagining what you thought happened to these two people! Do you believe that all alien abductions are lies?

[@DirtySanchez943]

I work with him and yes, he is!!!⛑️⛑️⛑️

[@DeadPixel1105]

"After that hand grenade accident, his career really exploded." Omg, Dr. Grande. You're killing me over here 😂😂

[@Revelator2025]

All I can say is Marjorie Fish’s corroboration of Betty Hill’s drawing of the star map. Quite compelling. That’s one facet of MANY that will serve to hold this up as an exemplary example of off-worlder interaction with our world and humanity.

[@svnsetsomnia8280]

She recanted the Star map later in life

[@alexandria2112]

It might be "compelling" if you use the same outdated astronomical data Marjorie Fish used in the 60s, but if you use current, much more accurate data you'll see it bears no real resemblance as 6 of the stars must be excluded. Then there's the issue of Betty admitting she didn't know if the 8 background stars she added were even in the right position. It's absolutely astonishing that ppl still misrepresent this long debunked map as "compelling evidence" when it quite literally proves nothing.

[@possumaintdead]

I feel a little sorry for Betty. If this was her defining moment, the one thing that happened or she thought happened, it must have been upsetting for her to be booed and jeered at by a bunch of fringe dwellers like UFOologists. Poor thing.

[@mrs.reluctant4095]

I had the same thought. What a devastating experience.

[@someguy7629]

Betty : draws a star map wich they found a long while later, and was VERY accurate. People : still think it's fake.

[@Junkinsally]

@@someguy7629 -The map she drew was of visible stars so any person who enjoys star gazing could draw an accurate map.

[@fmills1583]

Dr. Grande's deadpan standup jokes are on an ethereal level.

[@michaelmoore7975]

This was one of the best and creepiest movies I've ever seen. And it was made for TV! Watching James Earl Jones you quickly realize this guy is a genius, especially when he is recalling the abduction while under hypnosis.......a gray hand slowly entering the passenger (Betty) side window.... and Jones _really_ delivers the horrors.

[@GiftSparks]

I remember that TV movie very well. I think Estelle Parsons played Betty. Great film!

[@michaelmoore7975]

@@GiftSparks Yep. Estelle Parsons. Both were awesome. You really didn't need any scenes with aliens, just their hypnosis recollections scared the bejesus out of me. Really _really_ great acting.

[@vixxxenfoxxx3660]

@@michaelmoore7975 Estelle Parsons? Did she play in Bonnie & Clyde, I believe she was Clyde's sister in law?

[@michaelmoore7975]

@@vixxxenfoxxx3660 Yep. That was her. She really grabs a scene doesn't she? Great movie.

[@vixxxenfoxxx3660]

@@michaelmoore7975 i started watching it, just to get a bit of a feel and I was instantly hooked. I watched the whole thing. Both performances were just wow. I mean, I felt her fear, especially when describing the needle in the bellybutton. I even got a weird tingle in my own. So intense What happened to such talent, no one today can give half that delivery?

[@yesitsme8539]

I have no reason to disbelieve their story. Bring on the proof they were lying, then I will believe it. They're telling of their encounter, with no history of either telling lies or making up stories in their past, tells me there is no reasonable doubt to attatch to there story of their abduction.

[@pamelamorgan7354]

Watch “Fire in the Sky.” It scared me! Seemed to be a legitimate abduction. But I’ve always said if UFOs existed I’m pretty they would have found me by now. It’s just called “My Life!” 😂

[@jacksquat8677]

I want to hear your take on Skeletor. He looks like the scariest supervillain ever but is in fact the least scariest. What's up with that, Dr. Grande? Thanks

[@Vonononie]

And why does He-Man use the power of Greyskull when Skeletor lives there? We need speculation on a situation like this

[@CreativeCreatorCreates]

This comment is brilliant.

[@andydfist]

@@Vonononie Btw: Skeletor lives in Snake Mountain.

[@Vonononie]

@@andydfist so skeletor didn’t live in the Dark evil looking skull?? My life is a lie

[@andydfist]

@@Vonononie Apologies for bursting your bubble. No, he wanted to get the power of Grayskull for himself. Lol, it was a bit narcissistic wanting to live in a building shaped like his face, though.

[@SanskritBlue]

I would REALLY love to hear your professional opinion of Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy and his conspiracy theories about Trump’s return to office, Doc.

[@KonjikiKonjiki]

Me too! I hope you get your wish. :). I've got one of his truther pillows because they're one of the few styles that help me sleep, but I have internal conflict due to the owner of the company.

[@larrywakeman4371]

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS OUR TRUE PRESIDENT AND THE ONLY PRESIDENT in which there was NO WAR while he was in office- he CARES FOR US TRUE CITIZENS AND HE WILL WIN IN 2024, not crooked lib dems they are disgusting!

[@larrywakeman4371]

@@KonjikiKonjiki oh please-PRESIDENT TRUMP IS OUR TRUE PRESIDENT AND THE ONLY PRESIDENT in which there was NO WAR while he was in office- he CARES FOR US TRUE CITIZENS AND HE WILL WIN IN 2024, not crooked lib dems they are disgusting!

[@hannannah1uk]

Omg this is an anti Trump channel. I'm gone!

[@JFish-df2ep]

I remember watching them when I was a kid. It may be my earliest “WTF?” memory.

[@rowanbowyer6560]

What were you doing knowing rude words at that young age😂😂😂

[@JFish-df2ep]

@@rowanbowyer6560 Developing a skill set LOL

[@rowanbowyer6560]

@@JFish-df2ep 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@mikeplacentra9342]

He killed me with the “not for human consumption warning on hand grenades,” and the quip about the alien survey…

[@arturosufoanalysis2304]

Sir, I've studied this story for many years. This couple is telling the truth. Both went through regression hypnosis. After researching ariel phenomenal events, I've come to the realization that there is advanced ET's visiting our planet. They probably study us the way we look at lower life forms. Try your best to develop an open mind. Leave a little space in your mind for the unknown. Nurse Arty

[@roxannespahr2804]

There's too much out there to discount that there is something going on. My uncle, who use to be strictly religious, turned to believing and went far with it. He does this flashing thing with a laser light and a torn light beam reciprocated, many times, many places but over a cemetery near us I seen it with my own eyes. After a few flashes by my uncle, a very large bright light appeared, grew bigger and then smaller again til it was gone. It's funny how even seeing that I try to rationalize it in my head as something else. There's too much that has been seen by so many for so long that it's actually starting to flip the other way. I think alot of people believe there's something out there but it's so unknown as to what it is that people try to not think about it.

[@edgardeguzman2809]

Why are the aliens perflexed so much about dentures when they are so much advanced ???