Here’s a rather bizarre little website called Aliens and Children. It supposedly features drawings by kids who have been abducted by aliens of the aliens which abducted them. This part is weird:

“The pictures were drawn by children who successfully resisted the aliens by using a ‘thought screen helmet’ which blocks the telepathic control aliens have over humans. The helmet is a leather hat lined with eight sheets of Velostat, an electrically conductive plastic used to prevent static electricity damage to electronic components. The girl in this photo has two other cloth hats lined with Velostat which she wears to school.”

Apparently there’s some other website connected to this which will help you put together one of these “thought-screen helmets” for your own private use.

Yeah, I don’t know. If you gave me an afternoon, I could take this same basic idea for a website and make one that’s a lot scarier and more convincing. I mean, I don’t really care one way or another, but this just has that air or fakeness. But who knows…

Here’s another person’s blog post about it. And somebody else’s. Neither of them really sheds any additional light on it though, unfortunately.

POINT OF CLARIFICATION:

I received an email from Michael Menkin, who owns and operates this site. He was concerned with some of my above comments about the website seeming fake. Here is the letter he sent me as well as my response to him.

All of the drawings on aliens and children are authentic. If you want to contact the mother and the children and you are a boni fide investigator I can have you meet them and talk with them. I will also show you the drawings. For more information on aliens abducting children see Dave Jacobs website, ufoabduction.com and read his book, The Threat. I also recommend Bud Hopkins book, Site Unseen. If you are a real investigator call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX. I will be happy to talk to you and provide more information.

UFOs are not occult, alien abductions are real. The thought screen helmet demonstrates that it is a real phenomenon, not occult. You must investigat something to call yourself an investigator. Making statements doesn’t mean you’ve checked anything out. Please do so.

And my reply:

michael, thanks for your note. i appreciate what you’re saying, although i think you were taking too hardline of a stance interpreting my comments. i was not necessarily decided one way or another if i thought the whole thing was fake. im certainly open to these experiences being real, and i trust your research on the matter. i do not currently have the time to delve into it on my own, although it does sound like a very interesting opportunity. perhaps i’ll be able to take you up on it in the future. i was more commenting on the general presentation of the information itself. i feel like there are certain things which you could do to lend a greater air of “authenticity” or even perhaps “spookiness” to your site from a graphic design and information-delivery type of standpoint. its something im interested in, since i spent several years working on interface design for various companies. if you’d like, i’d be happy to post this elaborated explanation to my web post about your work, so that people who find your site through mine will not be unduly influenced one way or another.

Mr. Menkin agreed that he’d like me to post this more extended explanation on to this post. This seemed like a reasonable request so here it is. In any event, this certainly seems like a topic which is worthy of further investigation.