This is a new thread for
anything you've been remembering lately — people, places, things, moments from the past, or similar memories. The theme is
nostalgia.
Recently, I've been thinking about telephone sounds and recordings from the 1970s and early '80s. There are numerous videos of these on YouTube. Back then, recorded telephone voices and sounds were ubiquitous in the U.S. The familiar female voices behind messages like "Please hang up..." and "The number you have dialed is not in service..." were usually Jane Barbe and Pat Fleet. Hearing them again is like stepping back in time. 😂🤣
Jan Shepard was a very talented, charming, and lovely actress who guest-starred in numerous supporting roles in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Virginian, Bonanza, and Gunsmoke. She was among my favorite actresses of the era. The image below is from her role as Ellen Denning in The Virginian episode The Brothers from 1965.
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Faith Domergue was a lovely and talented actress who guest-starred in a couple of episodes of Bonanza in the early 1960s. The image below is from 1961 when she played a widow, Lee Bolden, in the Bonanza episode The Lonely House. She also appeared in many other shows in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I vividly recall reading Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by ufologist Jacques Vallée in 1988. I was 21 years old at the time and believed in UFOs. The book presents numerous stories from reported eyewitnesses and claimed abductees spanning centuries. It draws parallels between what individuals reportedly experienced during personal or mass sightings, as well as during claimed abductions.
Vallée concluded, based on all the evidence he had gathered and studied, that the beings associated with UFOs are here with us on Earth and originate from another dimension, with the ability to pass back and forth between their realm and ours. It was the most unsettling book I've ever read. The idea that these beings could be from another dimension and observe us undetected was deeply disturbing. It's a thought I had never previously considered. I remember sleeping with the lights on for a few nights as my mind processed the eerie stories and analysis Vallée presented.
Fortunately, I no longer believe in UFOs or related phenomena for many reasons, primarily because there is not one iota of evidence that they exist.
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