Bristol / Wrexham Contact Case – Grey Visitations, UFO Sightings, Psychic Abilities, Paranormal Activity

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Date: 01/05/2018

Last Updated: 15/10/2025

In April 2018 I was contacted by a lady named Catherine who wanted to share with me a number of experiences she had had throughout her life since childhood. Some of these experiences are very likely to be contact related. They have been mentioned in this report in age order.

The Cuckoo

In the mid-90s when Catherine was between 4-5 years old she lived with her parents Mark and Emily in a house on Arlington Road in St Annes, Bristol. Every so often she would hear strange unexplained sounds. It would sound like a mixture of a whispering voice and a humming noise. The noise would continue for a couple of minutes, then cease before returning after a short while. She would always become anxious when she started to hear the noises, because they would always precede other experiences that would kick off in her room after she had gone to bed.

Aerial map of Arlington Road

 She would sometimes lie awake in bed on purpose to prevent what would take place. But in the end she would start to drop off. And in that semi-awake state she would then hear the sound of an ice cream van outside the house playing Popeye the Sailor Man. She would close her eyes for a short while. When she re-opened her eyes she would see a cuckoo in the room. Usually it would be sitting at the base of the bed. Very occasionally it would swoop around the room in loops above her.

Example photograph of a cuckoo

 Whenever Catherine saw the bird she would also feel another presence in the room standing alongside the bed. She felt like she had to keep staring at the bird to remain safe and prevent seeing whatever was standing there. However on occasion she would see a dark grey coloured figure standing there out of her peripheral vision. It was about 6 feet tall, slender in build with long thin arms and legs. Its fingers were long and pointy. Catherine never turned to look at it properly or see what its face looked like. Because of the long pointy fingers Catherine referred to these beings that would accompany the cuckoo as “the spikey people”.

To her knowledge Catherine never tried communicating with the cuckoo. She would just recall staring at it a while before dropping off to sleep. Whenever it appeared she would be extremely frightened of the other figure in the room. She would not dare move, put on the light or call out for her parents. She does recall telling them about it on a number of occasions. They just put it down to her imagination and did not seem particularly concerned.

The last time she saw the cuckoo was about a week before she moved house. It was acting extremely agitated and flapping around the room like it was panicking and trying to get out. Due to the behaviour of the bird, Catherine somehow knew that she was not going to see it again.

If this experience had just happened once you could easily dismiss it as an unusual dream. However this happened regularly for a number of years until Catherine changed address. There are many aspects of these experiences that fit in with them potentially being visitations.

The figure that Catherine would see alongside the bed could well have been a Grey that was there for her (Something which would be confirmed later on in her life as you will see). ETs often use screen memories to mask what is actually taking place, and can appear in a variety of forms including animals. This is more common for contact experiences that take place during childhood. Both the cuckoo and the sound of the ice cream van outside could have been part of this repeated screen memory. It was obviously not an actual ice cream van outside as these incidents took place very late evening after Catherine had gone to bed.

While visual and audial hallucinations can be side effects of sleep paralysis, and shadowy figures can sometimes be seen, Catherine does not believe that she was paralysed when her experiences took place. Therefore sleep paralysis can be dismissed as the cause of the incidents.

It is also very interesting that these experiences were preceded earlier in the day time by the strange whispering noises which Catherine heard. The fact that the two experiences were linked suggests a more unusual explanation for the noises than just a repeated medical condition. Could it have been some kind of communication from the ETs or her brain picking up on the fact that a contact experience was imminent?

Father’s UFO Sighting

Another incident took place in 1994. Catherine was only 4 years old at the time but distinctly remembers her father telling her mother that he had seen a UFO from the sky light in the bathroom.

Soon after this discussion she recalls overhearing another chat where Mark confirmed that someone else from his work place had also seen the UFO and it had been in the newspaper.

Recently Catherine asked Mark if he could remember the incident. He said that he could. She did not press him for further details because he is quite sceptical and does not really like discussing things he cannot rationally explain.

Yellow Orbs

Another UFO sighting occurred in 1996 or 1997, and this time Catherine was one of the witnesses! It was fireworks night and she and her parents had gone round to their neighbours back garden for a display. There were about five adults present and three other children.

Everyone was out in the back garden preparing to launch the fireworks. It was a really clear and still night and the stars were visible in the sky. Suddenly one of the adults exclaimed “What’s that?” Everyone looked up and saw what appeared to be two yellow orbs of light at different points in the sky. The objects had a warm yellow glow and were not flickering in brightness. They appeared to be completely silent. They were moving slowly towards one another, one seemingly slowly descending while the other slowly ascended.

Catherine wondered what was going to happen when they finally met. It took about five minutes for the two lights to reach one another as they were moving at quite a slow speed. By this time most of the others had lost interest. Catherine got everyone’s attention pointing out the fact that they were about to meet. When the lights finally touched they both immediately vanished!

There are some aspects of this sighting which could suggest the objects were Chinese lanterns. These do appear as glowing orbs of light which drift slowly across the sky, usually on a straight course, and can appear to suddenly vanish as they eventually go out. And of course it should be noted that it was bonfire night, a popular night for launching lanterns.

If they were lanterns they could have been caught on two different slow moving air currents which meant they moved slowly towards one another.  And they may have both gone out when they collided with one another. However lanterns tend to be more of an amber orange colour and can usually be seen to flicker in brightness rather than remain constantly bright, so not all aspects point towards this as the explanation.

Grey Visitation

When she was 19 years old Catherine moved into a house in Wrexham, Wales with her friend Anna. On a day not long after she moved in she once again heard the whispering humming sound that she had heard many times before through her life. She did not think anything of it.

That night she went to bed about 1am. During the night she had a strange dream. She found herself standing outside of her bedroom on the landing. Despite the fact that she was in her own house, for some reason she felt like it was situated in Flint, where she had lived previously. She turned round and saw a number of beings standing further along the landing. It immediately became apparent that these were “the spikey people” from her childhood. However this time she could at last see their faces. They had over-sized light bulb shaped heads with angular pointed chins. Their eyes were large, black and rounded almond-shaped eyes. Their noses were unpronounced, and they had small slits for mouths. They were unclothed and had smooth dark grey coloured skin.

By this point of her life Catherine had an interest in the paranormal and was aware that these beings had been reported by people before, but did not know that they are referred to as Greys. The beings suddenly began walking fast towards her. Catherine ran into her bedroom and slammed the door behind her. She then leant her arm up against the door to prevent them from entering the room.

The Greys were not forcefully trying to open the door but did continue to push against it. In the end Catherine resigned to keeping them out any longer and she lowered her arm. The beings entered the room and stood around her calmly. Two of them put their hands on her shoulders while the other two stood behind her. They then walked out of the bedroom with her. This was where the dream ended.

Catherine woke up to find herself back in her bed. It was early morning time. She immediately remembered what had happened. She was quite disturbed as it had felt far more real than a dream usually would. She thought back to her experiences as a child and felt that this was in some way connected. She did not tell her housemate about what happened as she thought she would not take her seriously.

This certainly sounds like a visitation experience, and could well have preceded an abduction which was wiped from her memory. It certainly appears that the beings were planning to take her somewhere else. The fact that their bodies looked the same as the being she had seen during her childhood when the cuckoo appeared in her room means that those experiences were also very likely linked with contact.

Premonitions

While Catherine does not pretend to be able to accurately predict events before they happen, she did inform me that there have been a number of occasions where she has seemingly been able to predict things. Sometimes she knows when the phone is about to ring and who will be on the other end when she picks it up. Or she will be singing a song and then put the radio on and it’s playing. She says that this happens more frequently than could be put down to random chance.

Catherine is also apparently able to predict when light bulbs are going to go in her house. On numerous occasions she has thought that one of the lights in the living room or bedroom is going to blow and then within a few minutes of this thought it will.

While these mild premonitions are difficult to prove they are still worth noting, as contactees regularly report possessing psychic abilities.

Paranormal Activity

Catherine has informed me both of the houses she has lived in at Wrexham have apparently been haunted.

At the first house, where she had the Grey visitation experience, lights would go on and off by themselves. She and her housemate would sometimes hear the bathroom cord light being pulled and when they checked the light would be switched on. On other occasions they would hear doors closing or opening by themselves.

At the second house the living room and front door have textured glass in them. She would frequently see the shadow of a figure walking past the front door. There were also times where she saw a face peering in through the door, but when she checked there would be no-one there. On one occasion she was out in the back garden and looked back towards the house. She saw what appeared to be a dark figure standing in the kitchen looking out at her through the window. At another time she caught a glimpse of a figure standing over her baby daughter’s Moses Basket out of the corner of her eye.

These were not the only apparitions Catherine has seen. She has also had some ghostly experiences at the old people’s home where she works. One evening she saw what she believed was one of the residents up out of bed and walking along the corridor. As she walked after the person to bring them back, they vanished around a corner. When Catherine reached the corner and walked round it she found there was no-one there. Another day she was moving things around in one of the rooms when the doors slammed shut behind her so forcefully that they knocked her over. There was no known draft at the home which could have been responsible.

It is very common for experiencers to report paranormal activity in their proximity and I wonder if some of these experiences have been down to the fact that Catherine has experienced contact and it has altered her perception in some way.

Further Contact?

While Catherine cannot consciously recall meeting with Greys again after this point, there was a morning in 2014 or 2015 when her partner asked her “Who are the spikey people?” Shocked by his question she responded “What? How do you know about the spikey people?” He then went on to say that in her sleep she had been shouting “The spikey people are coming back!”

So many years had gone on since her last experience that she had put it out of her mind. But hearing this got her thinking again about what had happened to her. This led on to her looking into the contact subject, and wondering whether she was a contactee.

Conclusions

As you can see, Catherine appears to have had a number of visitation experiences involving Greys, whom as a child she nicknamed “the spikey people”. Some of her other experiences may also be indirectly related to contact. While there is no definite sign that she has had contact in recent years, the fact that she shouted out that they were coming back could suggest other experiences she is not aware of at present.

Catherine is planning to be regressed in the coming months. If this is successful the findings will be added to this report.

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025