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Abductions of Children by What?
From Our Haunted Planet, by John Keel, pp. 202-208:
"Children vanish more frequently than any other group.
We're not talking about ordinary runaways. In August, 1869, thirteen children
vanished in Cork, Ireland. No sign of kidnapping or foul play. The same month
there was a wave of disappearing children in Brussels, Belgium. Another group of
youngsters melted away in Belfast in August, 1895. And again in August, 1920,
eight girls (all under twelve years of age) disappeared forever in Belfast...
"Actually, children have been disappearing in large
numbers for centuries all over the world, and most of these cases have remained
unsolved. In the Middle Ages it was popularly believed that fairies and
leprechauns frequently stole children away. The Indians of North and South
America also have many myths and stories about children being kidnapped by
little people. The notion that parahumans kidnap children is deeply entrenched
in every culture...
"The celebrated Pied Piper of Hameln, Germany, is more
than just a charming children's story. A stranger actually did appear in Hameln
in the Middle Ages, and he lured away 150 children never to be seen again. The
event is still commemorated with an annual festival in Hameln (one of the old
accounts says that the children were taken to a subterranean cavern - Branton).
"In A.D. 1212 a teenage boy in France, Stephen of Cloyes,
BEGAN TO HEAR VOICES which inspired him to collect together fifty thousand
children for the pathetic Children's Crusade. They marched off to do battle with
the infidels and disappeared EN MASSE. The popular explanation is that they were
all seized by slavers."
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