Seanor / New York / Woodsboro Contact Case – Grey Visitations, UFO Sighting, Paranormal Activity
- Chairman Dave
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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 24/01/2026
Last Updated: 26/01/2026
Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses
In November 2025 I was contacted by a 62-year-old lady named Kelly from Maryland who provided some brief details on a number of previous contact-related experiences she has had. Through further E-Mail correspondence I was able to delve into these experiences in more depth and gain a complete picture of what took place.
Out Of The Crib
In the early 1970s Kelly lived with her parents “Steven” and “Margaret”, older brother “Paul” and younger sister “Beverley” in a house on Seanor Road (known as Route 601 at the time) which lies between Windber and Seanor, Western Pennsylvania.
Back then Kelly shared a bedroom with Beverley. One day when Beverley was only 2 years old Margaret put her in the crib for a nap.
Later on she went to check up on her. When she entered the bedroom she found that it was in disarray. The crib had been pulled out from the wall on an angle and the heavy carpet next to it was bulged up, like it had gathered up as the crib was moved. When Margaret checked the crib she found that it was empty.
Panicking, she started to look around the room. She then found Beverley under the bulge in the carpet fast asleep. It was a complete mystery as to how she had managed to get out of the crib.
In recent years Kelly has looked into contact experiences and wonders if her sister had been taken and then put back down at floor level instead of back where she had previously been.
While this cannot be ruled out, it is of course possible that her sister somehow managed to clamber out, push the crib around trying to get back in, before crawling under the gathered up carpet and dropping back off to sleep.
When I asked Kelly about this possibility she said “The carpet was a large piece of stiff carpet. It was not a traditional rug. It seems unlikely that it would have bulged easily. My sister was a hearty child and it is possible that she was able to escape the crib and push it away from the wall, but what a strange thing to then crawl under the stiff carpet and fall asleep. The way it bunched it formed a tunnel so maybe she crawled into it.”
Ouija Board Conversation
In March of 1972, when she was 9 years old, Kelly’s grandmother sadly passed away. Several months later her grandfather was planning to move in. He began bringing his wife’s old belongings over to the house in boxes. On a particularly rainy day Kelly and Paul were bored. Margaret suggested they take a look through their grandmother’s old things to see if they found anything interesting.
They decided to take her up on this. Looking through the boxes they came across a Ouija Board. Asking Margaret about it, she informed them that it would answer questions when they touched the planchette, and that it operated through an energy circuit made by their bodies. Viewing it as nothing more than a board game, Kelly and Paul decided to try it out in the living room.
Initially nothing happened, but soon the planchette started moving around and seemingly answering questions, beginning with yes or no, but then spelling out words. Kelly asked it who she was going to marry. It spelt out a couple of unfamiliar first names.
They then asked whether their mother would have more children. Over numerous questions posed to the board they were told that she would have triplets, one would die at birth, but their mother would name the remaining children Neil and Prudence. It then went into various details of things they would do in their lives.
It was nearly dinner time so they decided to stop. But just before they did they asked for the surname of a family friend who they only knew the first name of. The name it gave sounded incorrect. They knew that the lady was German-Irish, yet the surname it gave sounded Italian.
Later on they informed their parents of what had taken place. Margaret was surprised when she was told what the board had stated, as in her childhood she had apparently picked out those names as potential names for her future children.
When they asked Steven about the surname they had been given he confirmed it was correct, as the lady had married an Italian and changed her maiden name. Steven was concerned by what had taken place, and soon afterwards hid the board away so they could not use it again. Kelly says that years later after he had died they found it stashed in the back of a wardrobe.
Your thoughts on what took place here depends on your personal views regarding Ouija Boards. It has been proven that it is possible to subconsciously make boards spell out words without realising that the planchette is being directly pushed. The board appeared to be incorrect regarding some of the information it provided. Kelly has never gotten married (though later on did know two people with the same names as the board had spelled out). Nor did Margaret have any more children.
However, the surname of the family friend was apparently accurate even though she was certain her or her brother did not previously possess this knowledge. There is of course no way to prove that they had not heard it somewhere before, but it is certainly intriguing.
Greys Visitation
Several weeks after playing with the Ouija Board Kelly woke up during the night for an unknown reason. She immediately realised it was quiet which means her parents and brother must have gone up to bed. She opened her eyes and looked around. It was quite dark in the room but light enough to still make out furnishings. She realised that her eyesight was fuzzy, something which would not normally happen. She reached up and rubbed her eyes but the blurriness remained. The whole room seemed enveloped in a golden brown haze of light particles.
She tried to focus her eyes on the dresser three feet away from the foot of the bed. As she was focusing she began to notice movement in the space between the dresser and the bed. She saw what appeared to be long skinny arms making gestures.
She then realised these arms were attached to a number of beings standing near the base of the bed. There was a group of them on the left, and an individual one on the right. They had large oval-shaped heads with what she initially assumed was huge dark and hollow eye sockets. They appeared to be unclothed. The beings looked alike but were various sizes, with one noticeably larger than the others, and the individual one on the right particularly short.
The beings reminded her of very large ants. She did not know it at the time but they were what we now call Greys. She only made this association many years later when she looked into the contact phenomenon. They did not appear to be fully solid, but instead seemed to be almost ethereal like they were made up of TV static.
Kelly thought to herself “What is this?” She closed her eyes, expecting them to be gone when she re-opened them, but when she did she found that they were still present. She tried this a number of times to no effect. Disturbed by the continued presence of the beings she called out to her parents, but they did not come to her aid.
Kelly had a religious upbringing. When she was younger a man at her church said to her that if she was ever afraid she could call on Jesus for help. She recalled this advice so said in her mind “Ok Jesus! I have no idea what is going on but I am afraid! So, whatever you are going to do, please do it!” However, the beings still remained present. She temporarily pulled the blanket up over her head but this also had no effect.
At this point the short being on its own walked around the right side of the bed and approached her. It then leaned towards her as if making the gesture of kissing her. At this point she realised it’s eyes were not hollow sockets, but were extremely black in colour.
The being then began moving its arms like it was tucking in the blankets of her bed (It was not physically doing this, it just appeared to be imitating these movements). She associated this with her dead grandmother. She wondered if this being was in fact her grandmother, and this is how people looked after they had died.
The short being stepped away and returned to the group near the foot of the bed. Then they all faded away, leaving nothing but the darkness of the room. After a short while Kelly felt safe again and dropped back off to sleep.
The following evening when she was helping to set the dinner table she remembered the incident. She said to her parents “I had a strange thing happen last night, I think grandma visited me.”
Margaret responded saying “Oh! Is that why you called us? We heard you but we had just gone to bed and were hoping that you were just having a bad dream and would go back to bed. I would not put it past your grandmother if she did visit.” This meant that the incident must have happened around 11.30pm, as this is the time her parents would generally go to bed.
Kelly was a bit bewildered by her response so asked “What do you mean?” Margaret said that her grandmother was into some ‘strange things’. She mentioned numerous books that she had found with her belongings. Kelly inquired further about the books. Her mother said she could read them when she was older. But Kelly was intrigued and wanted to find out more, which sparked a new found interest.
After this incident Kelly says that she found it hard to sleep for a good while. She would regularly get up and go to the doorway of her parent’s room for comfort, something her mother still recollects. Unbeknown to her parents she would also walk to the doors of the property and ensure that they were locked.
In summer, the next time she visited the local library with her family, she found a section covering topics such as the paranormal and cryptozoology. However, when approached the librarian to take them out, she told her they were unsuitable for her and steered her towards the children’s section instead.
Looking back at the incident, Kelly associated the visit by the beings with the fact she had done the Ouija board a number of weeks previously. However, other than their timing proximity there is nothing inherently linking these two events.
Recognisable Odours
A number of years later Kelly’s grandfather “William” passed away. From that point onwards both her and Margaret would occasionally smell an odour, not always at the same place in the house. Kelly says that one time she even smelt it when she was away from the house and visiting New York City.
The smell was earthy, though not unpleasant. It reminded them of William after he had been working outside all day.
On numerous occasions Margaret informed her about smelling the odour, but Kelly never told her that she had smelt it too at other times. She does not really know why.
Kelly says that on other occasions she would also smell moth balls and lilac, a smell she associated with her grandparent’s linen closet. She would usually smell this in the spare bedroom of the house, but occasionally elsewhere too.
Another Visitation?
Recently while talking with her mother about unusual things that went on at the house during her childhood, her mother informed her of another experience which may be contact related.
She said that one night she woke up to the sound of movement coming from the living room. She heard footsteps walking towards her bedroom. Then a group of what looked like elderly Amish people came into the room. Some of them were fully visible, others she could only make out their heads. They stood there silently staring at her. Despite this un-nerving situation, she was not afraid of them.
While it may be easy to interpret this as ghostly apparitions, there is also the possibility that this was what is known as a screen memory, and that these were in fact ETs masking their true appearance and visiting her in this form for an unknown reason.
Oval of Light
In the late 1980s Kelly was a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
One night between late spring-early summer 1986 she was walking back to the student Halls of Residence from Cogswell Hall at 2am (Kelly is sure of the time of year because she remembers not wearing a coat at the time).
She began walking with her ex-boyfriend “Martin”, who she had only recently separated from. The Halls of Residence are situated South East of Cogswell Hall.
It was a slightly hazy night, but relatively clear. However, because of the number of streetlights in the area it was hard to see the stars. They began walking South along South 11th Street. As they reached the brow of the hill overlooking the Halls Of Residence, Kelly suddenly noticed that Martin was looking up at something in the sky as they walked.
She looked up and saw what looked like a stationary oval-shaped glowing light. She thought to herself that a broken beam of light could possibly explain this shape, so looked down to see if there were a new business opening below them that may have been shining a search light up into the sky. There was no sign of this being the cause of the light.
After staring at it for a number of seconds she had a strong feeling that the light was a glowing object which was aware that she could see it. At this moment it appeared to flip over 180 degrees and then instantly vanished!
Martin asked “Did you see that?” She confirmed that she had. Then he asked “Did it feel like it knew you saw it?” Kelly confirmed that she had too had felt this way about it. Thinking about what had just taken place they walked the rest of the route to the Halls of Residence in silence.
Looking back at the experience, Kelly is still fascinated by what occurred. She says that while a search light cannot be entirely ruled out there are numerous aspects pointing away from that explanation. The light was quite bright and clear, yet there was no visible beam. She believes it was a clear night, so there would have been no clouds for it to bounce off. It was 2am in a small college town, and there were no night clubs or other lively venues in the vicinity which would have been shining search lights.
Kelly has remained friends with Martin and says that he has always insisted there was a mundane explanation for it. She also says that he would not be interested in speaking with me about it, as he does not believe in UFOs or the paranormal.
Vanishing Board
Kelly had another incident involving Ouija Boards in the summer of 1987. She and another friend “Simon” were on their way to a party. As they walked Kelly talked about her experiences. Simon was interested and wanted to see something with his own eyes. He suggested “Maybe if we buy a Ouija Board and it works it would help me understand these things that happen to you?” Despite feeling a little concerned that Ouija Boards were evil and not to be messed with she agreed to this idea.
When they arrived at the party Simon suddenly exclaimed “Look! A Ouija Board! We do not have to buy one!” Kelly looked to where he was staring. She was amazed to see a Ouija Board leaning up against the wall of the hallway outside of the apartment where the party was taking place! They picked it up and took it in with them.
After socialising at the party for a while Simon suggested trying out the board. They set it up and tried asking the board some questions, but unlike what had happened with her brother nothing took place. Kelly wonders if it was because of her feelings towards using Ouija Boards, feelings that had only developed in more recent years.
When it was time to leave the party, Simon asked the host of the party “Hey! Where do you want us to put the Ouija Board?” They responded saying “That’s not mine. You brought it!” Simon explained “It was leaning up against the wall in the hallway when we got here!” The host said “You should probably put it back where you found it!”
Following this proposal, they exited the apartment, placed the board back against the hallway wall, then briefly headed back inside to say goodbye. When they stepped back out into the hallway a moment later the Ouija Board had vanished! It was quiet and there was nobody else around outside. They were both confused as to how it could have disappeared in such a short space of time.
While this disappearance may have seemed bizarre at the time, it cannot be entirely ruled out that someone had quickly walked along the hallway (maybe the owner of the board), noticed it and taken it with them, but due to its links with previous experiences I have decided to still include it in the report.
Haunted Apartment
By 2019 Kelly had moved to an apartment block on Overlook Terrace, Inwood, New York.
She believes this apartment block is haunted. She would sometimes hear unusual sounds through the walls coming from elsewhere in the block.
When she spoke with her neighbours about these sounds they informed her that they were consistent with people who had previously died there rather than current residents. However, they were never specific regarding what they meant by this.
A Grey Returns
One night she settled down in bed to drop off to sleep. She closed her eyes, but then something in her mind told her to re-open them. When she did she saw a Grey leaning over her. It looked the same as those she had seen in her bedroom as a child, but this time it was opaque and appeared to be solid. It had smooth white coloured skin.
It appeared to be silently conversing with something else out of sight behind her at the head of the bed. From its gestures Kelly felt that this unseen presence was enticing the Grey to touch her on her forehead, a request it seemed to follow up on. It reached its skinny arm out towards her. As its fingers reached her forehead it immediately exploded into particles and disappeared, leaving her alone in darkness.
Kelly has no idea why this Grey returned to her on that night, and she has not encountered it since, at least to her knowledge.
Smoke Detectors
In early 2025 Kelly decided that her apartment in New York was not working out so well and she wanted to move to a new place. In the interim Beverley offered her the chance to move in with her and her eight-month old daughter at their house on S Main Street, Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland.
Because of her previous experiences Kelly wondered if anything unusual would also happen there. Sure enough, in February, soon after she moved in, something took place. Beverley owned a number of smoke detectors but had not had a chance to install them, and they were lined up on a desk at the top of the stairs. Kelly was walking by the desk when suddenly they made a chirp sound one at a time in order.
Her brother-in-law came home for lunch and asked her things were going. She informed him about what had happened. He nodded, saying “I know there is something wacky about that. They all have new batteries and three of the devices are brand new!”
While it is not possible to completely rule out an electrical fault or that Kelly's brother-in-law was mistaken about them containing new batteries, it should be noted that experiencers of contact often report electrical disturbances in their proximity.
The Tall Man
One night she had gone to bed but the door of the adjoining bathroom was open and some light was coming in through the window.
Suddenly a tall thin man appeared over by the doorway near the foot of the bed. He had dark dishevelled hair, a receding hairline, beard and moustache. He had pale white skin and appeared to be in his mid-30s. He was wearing a dark blue T-shirt and even darker blue coloured trousers. The man was almost opaque but a little transparent.
The man began walking across the bedroom. He did not look towards her or make any indication that he was aware of her presence. After several seconds he faded away completely.
Although Kelly cannot entirely dismiss the idea that she imagined it, this does not seem likely due to the amount of time she observed the man for, and the fact she had experienced similar things before.
Machine-Like Being
On another night in June/July she was lying on her back in bed. It was about 10:30pm and she had not yet dropped off to sleep. She lay there praying and contemplating her future.
Suddenly off to her left she noticed something crawl up onto the bed. This was just visual, there was no sense of anything of any weight physically pushing down on the mattress. Whatever it was then crouched over her.
The being had a machine-like appearance, almost like its face and body had been put together out of joined pieces of metal. It reminded her of artwork by the famous Swiss artist H.R. Giger.
It was about the same size as an adult human, and appeared to have a muscular body frame. The entity looked down at her. Kelly felt that it expected her to be frightened, but she was not.
As with previous occasions she called on Jesus for help and immediately the being vanished, leaving her lying in the darkness.
Woodsboro is believed by many of its residents to be haunted. Kelly’s neighbours have asked her how the ghost materialises in her house. This has got her wondering whether this strange being she observed was actually a spirit manifesting in an unusual way.
Feline Spirit
Kelly still lives at the property, but Beverley has since moved out and only uses it during the day to run her business from the front room. Kelly shares the house with her sister’s three pet cats. One has bushy tan-coloured fur. The other two are its siblings - a female calico and a male grey tiger.
One day in 2025 Kelly was in one of the upstairs rooms with the tan-coloured cat. Kelly decided to head downstairs. As she did she suddenly heard movement coming from the room she had just left. The staircase descends through a rectangular opening with a railing.
Looking back up through the gaps in the railing she saw the tan-coloured cat dart very quickly along the landing. She then saw the hind legs and tail of another cat backing away and hissing! This cat appeared to have short black-and-white fur. She was confused as it looked different to the other two cats, and she also thought they were downstairs at the time.
Despite this she dismissed it, assuming that she must be mistaken. She looked away and continued walking downstairs. When she entered the living room she found other two cats sitting there staring at her with wide eyes! There was no way they could have somehow ran past without her seeing.
Soon afterwards Kelly informed Beverley about the other cat she had seen. Her sister confirmed that she used to own a black-and-white cat, but it had since passed away. Kelly was convinced that what she had seen was an apparition of this previous pet.
Since this incident there have been numerous times when the cats have run past her as if being chased by something unseen. While this could just be down to animal behaviour, Kelly wonders if they are observing the black-and-white cat. On two occasions the cats have looked like they have been staring at something invisible walk to the foot of the staircase. She has then heard the stairs creaking like something walking up them.
At night Kelly closes her bedroom door to keep the cats out as otherwise they all climb up onto the bed and keep her awake. However, there have been a number of times when she has felt pressure similar to a cat sitting on her, or felt the pillow/mattress get depressed like there is a cat in the room. On one occasion she felt something jump onto her pillow from the window sill, and then jump down onto the floor. She even heard a thump when it hit the floor, but she was certain there were no cats in the room.
On 18th January 2026 she was taking a light nap. On this occasion one of the other cats was also curled up on the bed. Suddenly she felt a second cat climb up onto the side of the bed. She opened her eyes expecting to see one of the other two cats but there was nothing there. She then sensed what felt like a cat walk across the bed and jump off the other side.
Conclusions
Kelly has had an impressive amount of varied experiences. The visitations by Grey beings which Kelly has encountered on numerous occasions, including at a point in her life where she had not looked into the subject, confirm that she is has experienced contact. If the sighting of the glowing light which she observed with her ex-boyfriend was indeed a craft, it does not appear to have interacted directly with her in any way.
It is unknown whether the many paranormal incidents she has also witnessed at various locations are in some ways related or not, however the majority of experiencers do also report incidents of a paranormal nature.
It is interesting seeing how Kelly’s religious upbringing has reflected on her views about what has taken place throughout her life. While you may not personally agree that contact has any links at all with religion or the afterlife, there are still so many unanswered questions, so this remains a possibility.
I would like to thank Kelly for sharing the details and drawings of what has taken place. It is good to get her experiences down on official record, and I hope that she keeps in touch moving forward from this point.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026
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