I've been asked about the one conscious abduction attempt several times so I decided to write it up and upload it. This was around the end of July 1995. My husband was out of town for a few days and my oldest two boys were visiting their father in another state for the summer. My two youngest boys, then 5 and 3 1/2, were sleeping on pallets behind me in my upstairs office where I kept my computers. I'm an insomniac so I spend a lot of time reading and working at my computer late into the night. I was online talking to a friend, I'll call them AL, when I felt and saw, out of the corner of my eye, something or someone standing right up next to me. As I turned my head and faced it, it vanished. It felt like a male, was about 5' 9" or so, the head was just slightly larger than a humans, face was very human-like, but not exactly. It's palor was greyish / brownish, but I wouldn't call it a grey. The second it vanished ticking/tapping noises started throughout the entire house and in the attic and on the roof. I quickly told Al what had happened. I was frightened, yet not panicked. At that moment an aquaintance of Al's, I'll call him Bob, came online. Al knew that Bob had dealt with this kind of situation before and grouped us together. We quickly gave Bob a rundown of what had happened. He explained to me that he knew of some techniques that might calm things down around the house. He asked me if I truly wanted to stop whatever was happening. I told him yes. Throughout this entire episode that lasted around an hour, my kids never moved behind me. Bob then explained a ritual that the Catholic church and Native Americans use for keeping unwanted spirits and entities away. It was quite basic and it utilized whatever faith I was comfortable with. This involved going from room to room basically praying, but it's more involved than that. As I went to leave this office to go to the first room the ticking/tapping noise began really loudly over my kids and I felt I couldn't leave them there alone. Bob and Al assured me that they would pray over the kids and keep them safe. I then went from room to room doing this ritual. Oddly enough, as I got to the end of each prayer the noise would stop in that particular room. Eventually we got it to stop everywhere. I still heard that high pitched frequency in my ear that tells me 'they' are near, but they weren't in the house anymore. 5 minutes after doing the whole house, which took almost an hour, my kids started to move about like they do in their sleep. At the same time. So, there it is. Odd, but true. Comments are welcome. Tracy/SL 6