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50 Brown’s Martians
were still in his pockets, including a hundred
dollars in bills. Though to his awareness only
a day had passed, he soon learned that it was
two years later.
Brodie said that ever since he could not eat
meat. The very scent of it nearly made him ill.
Robinson had observed that Brodie was
not a reader, and he was certain that he had
not concocted a tale from reading the Shaver
series.
Not long afterward, business concerns
forced Robinson to move from his Jersey City
apartment. He fell out of contact with Brodie
for six months. When he came back for a
visit, Brodie was gone. Robinson talked with a
mutual acquaintance who had his own strange
story. He said he had seen Brodie on a train in
Arizona. When he had spoken to Brodie, he
had not responded or even acknowledged his
presence. He seemed to be in a “stupor,” the
man thought, though Robinson knew Brodie
was not a drinker. The train stopped at a small
town, and when the train resumed its journey,
Brodie was no longer on it. Robinson saw this
as evidence that the deros had reclaimed their
victim.
After relating this anecdote on Long John
Nebel’s popular radio talk show on New
York’s WOR one night in March 1957,
Robinson went to work the next day and was
surprised when a business associate confided
his own experience. He said that maybe
Brodie’s experience explained something that
had happened to him in 1942, when he was
seventeen years old. He had been visiting his
friend Fred when they decided to go to a
“haunted mine” nearby. Supposedly, it had a
long history of accidents, disasters, and unexplained
disappearances of miners. Undeterred,
the two climbed over a pile of debris to get to
one side of the entrance. There they were
shocked to observe a grotesque entity, four
and a half feet tall, with a bulky body. It let
out a soul-chilling scream and chased the boys
back to town. They took refuge in a movie
theater. Even so, they swore they could see
dark forms moving up and down the aisles as
if looking for them. That night they thought
they saw the figure sitting in a tree near the
house.
Later, Fred vanished without a trace.
Searchers came upon his bicycle near the
haunted mine, and nothing further was
learned of his fate. “To this day,” the man told
Robinson, “I am afraid that whoever or whatever
it was that got Fred will find me.”
See Also: Shaver mystery
Further Reading
Steiger, Brad, and Joan Whritenour, 1968. New
UFO Breakthrough. New York: Award Books.
Brown’s Martians
C l a i rvoyant Courtney Brown re p o rts that his
p s ychic probing of Mars has uncove red the
s t a rtling truth that Mars was, and is, inhabited.
Brown came to this conclusion while
using psychic talents to explore the Cyd o n i a
region of the planet’s surface, where some have
felt that enigmatic artifacts, including the socalled
Ma rtian Face—an alleged stru c t u re said
to depict human feature s — a re situated.
The Ma rtians now live underground. Mi llions
of years ago, they lived on the surf a c e
but we re nearly driven to extinction when an
immense asteroid passed through the atmosp
h e re and seve rely damaged it. The atmosp
h e re continued to deteriorate until what little
was left of it was sucked into space. Ma n y
Ma rtians died, but their race was pre s e rve d
when Grays—the gray-skinned humanoid
re p o rted in UFO abduction cases—intervened.
They collected the Ma rtian DNA and
s t o red it and genetically altered the surv i v i n g
inhabitants of the Red Planet. They put
them into underground cities, where they
l i ve now.
The Martians’ problems are far from over,
however. The genetic alterations have not entirely
worked, and their own technology has
not been able to overcome the existing shortcomings.
More and more Martians are looking
to Earth as their potential home. According
to Brown, the Martians are much like
human beings in appearance but different
enough so that humans and Martians would