Rodwell's First Client Cases

Two people came to the researcher Rodwell and described encounters with non-human beings. One was a man of about forty who looked younger than his years. He reported physical marks on his body, an area of leg where the hair had been removed, and a red swollen scar on his earlobe that he compared to microsurgery, noticed after a meditation experience. His partner photographed the marks. His partner and his five-year-old daughter reported experiences of their own. The other was a woman in her twenties who said contact had been part of her life since she was four.

What is on the record

This is a thin file and it should be read as one. The archive resolves four claimants, and all four reach us through a single channel and a single video. No document of any class is attached. Neither client is named, and no place inside Australia is recorded, so the location resolves only to the country. The dating is loose as well: the archive brackets it across the 1990s, with the woman's experiences said to begin at age four.

The woman's account is the one that passed through an outside institution, though not one that corroborates a sighting. She reported fear, insomnia, depression and repeated suicide attempts. She told a psychiatrist she was being abducted, and a panel diagnosed her as schizophrenic and medicated her for years. After contacting Rodwell and attending the support group she affirmed her own sanity. That sequence is documented nowhere in this file beyond her telling of it, and the archive holds no clinical paperwork.

The photographs described in the man's account are likewise absent. They are mentioned; they are not held.

Why it sits where it does

The entry carries the L3 label for independent claimants, and that label sits awkwardly here. The four claimants are not witnesses to one connected event. They are two unconnected client accounts, plus a partner and a child inside one of them, all reaching the archive through one source. What the record holds is two reported experiences and a researcher's account of them. What happened to either client is not resolved here.