The Entity

Of all the supernatural things which could happen, probably the creepiest is the "night visitor." Late at night you wake up, knowing something's in the room with you, and then it makes physical contact. Doesn't have to be a lot of contact to be scary -- anything will do. This isn't an experience to which most people respond well.

While many people would consider The Entity -- the story of Doris Bithers -- to be creepy entertainment, those of us who've had the experience see it much differently. This isn't an uncommon event and could be as much a part of the UFO abduction experience as any contact with aliens. People make contact with lots of things in this way, including other people. Talk to people "in the industry" and you'll hear all sorts of stories no one wants to put into print. Few of them have been told as often or as well as the Doris Bithers story, which I'll not go into in detail.

While the movie may over-dramatize certain things in the story, it's pretty hard to over-dramatize something this unusual. Even if the real thing doesn't include all the special effects in the movie, the real thing is enough to make you decide never to close your eyes again at night. Of course that solution only lasts until you fall asleep. People who actually deal with these intrusions or visitations find other ways to work them out. It's very possible that this sort of phenomenon inspired such wonderful things in human history as The Spanish Inquisition -- which some say responded to sexual predation upon humans by supernatural beings called incubi or succubi.

The Entity Movie

My own experience of similar things caused me to do what I do when unusual things happen, and start talking to other people about them. It's probably not cool to do this a lot and I've stopped now, since professionals who don't have the experience tend to think you're crazy. Along the way I did meet many people with the same sort of experience, some who were petrified of it and wanted it to end, some who had come to terms with it and found it sexually exciting and even humorous, and some who considered themselves responsible for the experiences others had.

When these visitations first happened to me, I considered them all hostile. After enough contact with anything it gets to be kind of familiar and you stop panicking. I realized that whatever it was, it wasn't actually doing me any harm. I decided that instead of fighting off whatever was happening, I'd let it progress and find out what it was about, if it was possible to do that.

As it turned out, some of the things that visited me were hostile and violent and might even be considered demonic. They certainly had the marks of that. Other things weren't like that -- once I got past the fear it was easy to see they were friendly, but in disturbingly sexual ways. After a brief struggle with moral concerns I realized I was complaining that sexually ravenous women were visiting me in bed at night, and to me that seemed silly to argue about.

Such things don't happen to me any longer, possibly because I explored the possibilities thoroughly and decided that physical relationships were more important to me than astral ones. I do believe in the reality of both, and there's no clear border between them. Everyone feels these things on some scale; some people become vastly more sensitive, like Doris Bithers.

If you want to get a glimpse of what it's like when you do understand that reality is illusion and illusion is reality, this is a great movie to study. In a world where walls aren't physical barriers, you draw quite a bit of attention from unusual things.

The Doris Bithers story didn't end with the movie, and even the intervention by the paranormal investigators didn't stop what happened. For a look at what happened later in the story visit the following link:

Ghost Theory: The Entity – Interview with Doris Bither’s son