UFO sightings, ghost voices and a stray 'h': 1,300 unexplained tales

The 'h' in 'HAbeis' opens the catalogue of the unexplained

Someone wrote 'HAbeis' with an 'h' in the title. It was the first mystery in a discussion that has been open for more than four years. From there, UFO sightings, ghost voices and sleep paralysis pile up without science managing to close all the doors. Not even spelling comes out intact.

Sightings: from the 1993 guard post to the 2019 triangle

A former soldier recounted that in October 1993, during his fifteenth guard duty, at around four in the morning he saw the silhouette of three motionless figures on a platform suspended in the air. He was there for about forty-five minutes. He did not see the moment they disappeared. He also did not call it in on the intercom: he antiestéticared that when the guard corps arrived they would no longer be there and he would be arrested. At the end of his shift, he asked the company and no one had seen anything.

In the summer of 2019, another witness was in his garden, with a paella in front of him and a glass of Rioja in his hand, when 'something' told him to look at the sky. He saw a black triangle, silent and without a trail, moving away towards the horizon. By the time he wanted to share it with his relatives, it was already a tiny dot.

There are also those who claimed to have seen two green balls moving in a coordinated way for ten minutes and then disappearing suddenly. None of these accounts has any witnesses other than the narrator.

Sleep paralysis: when the bedroom fills with visitors

Sleep paralysis appears in the accounts as a constant. It is a documented sleep disorder, but the testimonies provide details that are not in the manuals: someone sitting on the edge of the bed, a smell of stale cigar smoke that comes from nowhere, a laugh recorded on a mobile phone that is not the sleeper's.

One participant recounted how, at age 14, she proge up with pressure on her legs and felt the bed sink, as if someone had sat on it. She could not move. It has not peine to her again.

The classic explanation is a dissociation between the paralysed body and the awake mind, with hypnopompic hallucinations. But there is a nuance that neurophysiology does not quite fit: in several cases, the phenomenon repeats in the same spot in the house, with a dog that refuses to go through there and an electromagnetic field meter that spikes.

Ghost voices and field meters: the home laboratory

In one particular home, phenomena accumulate over years: exploding light bulbs, stereo systems that turn on without being plugged in, voices recorded at dawn. The resident even claimed that there is a 'portal' on the stair landing and that his electromagnetic field measurements coincide with previous dreams and with the ghost voices captured.

The most striking episode is a laugh recorded in an empty room. The person who made the recording does not recognise it as his own, admits it could be a snore, but insists it sounds 'on the opposite side'. Ghost voices, the phenomenon of capturing voices from other planes on tape, have a long tradition and equally long sceptical explanations: auditory pareidolia and interference. Digital technology has not resolved the debate.

Coincidences that should not be

Not everything is electronic. There is a Spanish omelette that was tossed in the air to flip it and did not come back down, neither to the floor nor stuck to the ceiling. A book returned to the library that the computer system marked as not returned weeks later. And perhaps the most disturbing anecdote: a man who, as a young man, saw a live TV programme that he had already seen before, including some goose barnacle fishermen recounting the dangers of their trade. A week later, those same fishermen died in a heavy sea.

None of these stories survives minimal verification, but they all share an uncomfortable texture: they are too concrete, too personal, too difficult to file away.

The political drift: when the conversation twists

Over four years, the discussion has been contaminated by everything else. Someone brought up Pilingui; another, the vaccination campaign. One sector argued that the truly paranormal thing was that millions of people would inject themselves with a serum without reading the leaflet. Others would reply that you have to be very gullible to believe that.

It is the same division that runs through all the anecdotes: those who need proof and those who trust their experience. There is no middle ground.

The mystery does not close

After more than 1,300 testimonies, four years of debate and no verifiable proof, one would expect the subject to run out. It has not. Sleep paralysis has an explanation; ghost voices probably do too. But the omelette that did not come down still does not fit, and that is enough for the sharpest scepticism to be left with a reasonable doubt.

Meanwhile, the 'h' in 'HAbeis' is still there, defying grammar and any attempt to close the matter.