愈合与追猎 | MrBallen的篝火故事

今晚，我要分享一个迄今为止最可信的外星人绑架事件。

Tonight, I'm gonna share one of the most credible alien abduction stories ever.

但在进入这个故事之前，如果你喜欢那种以叙事方式呈现的诡异、黑暗与神秘内容，那你可来对地方了——我们只做这一类东西。

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you come to the right campfire because that's all we do.

我们每周都会上传两到三次，有时候甚至四次。

We upload two, three, even four times every week.

如果你感兴趣，下次露营时，记得点关注。等他们快睡着的时候，悄悄把一大包痒痒粉倒进他们唯一的睡袋里。

So if that's of interest to you, the next time you go camping with the follow button, wait until they're about to go to sleep and then just go ahead and pour a ton of itching powder into their only sleeping bag.

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Also, please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads.

好了，咱们开始今晚的故事。

Okay, let's get into tonight's story.

大约凌晨三点三十分，

Around 03:30 p.

早上。

M.

1974年10月25日，一名41岁的男子卡尔·希格登，开着公司的卡车，行驶在怀俄明州南部的梅迪辛布国家森林的一条铺装路上。这片森林是个巨大的自然保护区。

On 10/25/1974, a 41 year old man named Carl Higdon drove his work truck along a paved road in the Medicine Bow National Forest, which is this huge nature preserve in Southern Wyoming.

卡尔那天早早离开了石油钻井平台的工作，来这片森林猎麋鹿。他正朝森林里一个叫麦克马蒂峡谷的地方赶去，听说那里是猎麋鹿的绝佳地点。

Carl had taken off early from his job on an oil rig to go elk hunting in this preserve, and now he was heading towards this very specific area in the National Forest called McMarty Canyon, that he had heard was really good for elk hunting.

开车的时候，卡尔望着四周的常青树和远处积雪的山峰，心里突然涌上一股前所未有的宁静。

As Carl drove, he found himself looking around at the evergreen trees and snow capped mountains in the distance, and he just felt this total sense of calm come over him.

他是个地道的户外老手，再没什么比独自一人待在大自然里更让他开心的了。

He was a very rugged outdoorsman, and there was really nothing he loved more than spending time out in nature all alone.

于是他一路开车，悠然自得，直到前方的柏油路突然结束，变成了一条又长又崎岖的碎石小径。

And so for a little while, was just enjoying himself, driving along, until eventually the paved road he was on gave way to this this long rocky trail.

卡尔不想弄坏这辆卡车，毕竟车是公司的东西。

And Carl, he didn't wanna damage the truck he was driving since it actually belonged to the company he worked for.

所以他干脆把车停在路边，下车后把所有装备扛上，改用步行继续沿着小径走。

So he wound up pulling over and getting out, and then he just grabbed all his stuff and continued walking on the trail by foot.

这条小径不仅满是碎石、颠簸难行，而且大部分路段都是上坡。

The hike along this trail was not only pretty rocky and rough, but it was also predominantly uphill.

没过多久，卡尔就开始觉得喘不上气。

And so it didn't take long before Carl was having trouble breathing.

这不只是因为体力消耗大，还因为他年轻时得过肺结核，肺里留下了很多疤痕，平时呼吸就吃力，一运动就更困难。

And not just because it was physically taxing, but also because when he was younger, he had tuberculosis, which had left his lungs really riddled with scar tissue that did make it harder to breathe, especially when he was exerting himself.

但卡尔还是继续往前走，每隔几分钟就停下来，弯着腰喘口气。

But, you know, Karl continued on, and every few minutes he would just stop and bend over and catch his breath.

大约三十分钟后，他走到一片树木逐渐稀疏的地方，发现自己站在了一个像大碗一样的洼地里。

But after about thirty minutes or so, he had hiked to the point where the trees had begun to thin out, and then he found himself standing inside what looked like a big bowl in the earth.

这里就是麦卡蒂峡谷，他本来就是冲着这儿来打猎的。

So this was McMarty Canyon where he was, you know, intending to go for this elk hunt.

之所以感觉像碗，是因为地面基本平坦，长着些灌木和草，几棵树，四周是高高的山丘，围出了一个碗状的地形。

And the reason it sort of felt like a bull is because it was mostly just flat with some shrubs and grass, a few trees, and these tall hills out on the sides, sort of giving this impression of a bull.

卡尔于是停下脚步，仔细打量了一下四周。

And so Carl, he sort of just stopped and took stock of the area.

你猜怎么着？他正对着峡谷的另一头，看见五只麋鹿正在远处吃草。

And wouldn't you know it, when he looked straight across the canyon, the bowl, he saw a group of just five elk grazing in the distance.

这运气也太好了吧。

Like, this was unbelievably lucky.

它们居然一来就出现了。

Here they are right away.

于是卡尔慢慢朝它们走去，尽量不发出一点声音。

And so Carl slowly began walking towards them, doing his best not to make any noise.

等他走到可以开枪的距离时，他停下脚步，举起步枪，透过瞄准镜对准了第一头麋鹿，然后扣动了扳机。

And then when he was within shooting distance, he just stopped, raised his rifle, and he looked through his sights to aim at the first elk he saw, and then he pulled the trigger.

但不知为什么，他扣下扳机后，枪却没响。

But for some reason, when he pulled the trigger, the gun didn't go off.

没发射，至少看起来是这样。

It didn't fire, or at least it didn't appear to.

而且根本没有任何后坐力。

And certainly, there wasn't any kickback.

就好像什么都没发生一样。

It just was like nothing happened.

但接着他看到了一件完全说不通的事。

But then he saw something that just didn't make any logical sense.

与此同时，他还经历着一种极其诡异的现象。

And at the same time, he's experiencing this just insane phenomenon.

他感到一阵强烈的眩晕，接着整个人像是在下坠，然后就失去了意识。

He felt this massive wave of vertigo, and then he just sort of felt himself falling, and then he blacked out.

再醒来时，他发现自己被人来回摇晃着。

The next thing knew, he felt himself being shaken back and forth.

他慢慢睁开眼睛，整个人昏昏沉沉，完全搞不清状况。

And he sort of slowly began to blink his eyes, feeling very confused and disoriented.

他的头疼得厉害。

His head was pounding.

外面显然已经黑了。

It was clearly dark outside.

然后他惊恐地意识到，自己不知怎么又回到了工作车里。

And then he realized sort of with horror that somehow he was back inside of his work truck.

但车外的环境明显不一样了，好像这辆车停的地方跟他之前离开时完全不是同一个地方。

But the surroundings outside of the truck definitely looked different, like the truck was parked in a different spot than where he'd left it.

他突然又感觉被人猛烈摇晃，接着听见有人叫了他的名字。

He suddenly felt himself getting shaken again, and then he heard someone say his name.

他抬起头，在黑暗中看到两个陌生男人正使劲摇他，想引起他的注意。

And he looked up, and in the darkness, he saw there were two men that he didn't recognize who were clearly shaking him, trying to get his attention.

他们试着问他到底发生了什么事。

And they tried to ask him, like, what was going on?

但卡尔的嘴巴感觉麻麻的，完全不听使唤。

But Carl's mouth sort of felt numb.

他一开口，话却说得含糊不清，完全听不懂在说什么。

And when he tried to speak, it's like the the words came out garbled and nonsensical.

最后，那两个男人放弃跟他说话了，直接把他从车里抬出来，架着走向他们的车。

And so at some point, these two men sort of gave up trying to talk to Carl, and they just lifted him up, pulled him out of the truck, and they they carried him over to their vehicle.

卡尔听见他们提到医院的事。

And, you know, Carl heard them say something about a hospital.

没过多久，那辆车就开走了，卡尔又失去了意识。

And then before long, their car was driving off, and then Carl blacked out again.

大约三十分钟后，也就是10月26日午夜，距离卡尔第一次昏迷已经八个小时，他的妻子玛乔丽冲进了怀俄明州劳林市的碳郡纪念医院。

About thirty minutes later, around midnight on October 26, so this is eight hours after Carl first blacked out, his wife, Marjorie, rushed into hospital room at the Carbon County Memorial Hospital in Rawlins, Wyoming.

她进去时，看见卡尔躺在病床上，身上连着输液管，周围摆着好几台监测仪，一名护士站在旁边。

And inside, she saw Carl lying on the bed hooked up to an IV, and there were a bunch of monitors with a nurse standing beside him.

她注意到，丈夫的眼睛是睁着的，但眼神明显涣散。

And she saw, you know, her husband's eyes were open but clearly unfocused.

就在玛乔丽还愣在原地，震惊地看着眼前这一幕时，护士突然指着她，问卡尔知不知道这个女人是谁，是不是他妻子。

And then as Marjorie is just standing there taking in the initial shock of what she's seeing, the nurse actually pointed at her, at Marjorie, and then asked Carl if he knew who she, his wife, who she was.

卡尔转过头，盯着玛乔丽看了好一会儿，却只是呆呆地望着，然后摇了摇头，说：‘不认识。’

But Carl, he turned and he he looked at Marjorie, but he just kind of stared blankly and then shook his head and said no.

当天傍晚早些时候，玛乔丽还在家里等卡尔打猎回来。

So earlier that evening, Marjorie had been at home waiting for Carl to come back from his hunting trip.

但卡尔迟迟没到家，她最后只好报警，让警局去麦克马蒂峡谷看看他情况如何。

But when he hadn't shown up on time, she ultimately had called the sheriff's department and asked them to go to McMarty Canyon just to check on him.

于是两名警员赶到了现场，找到了他，发现他昏倒在卡车里。

And so two deputies had gone out there, and they found him, and he was unconscious in his truck.

这两位警员显然摇醒了他，然后把他送到了医院。

So those two deputies were the ones who obviously shook him awake and took him to the hospital.

但有趣的是，除了不知道他到底发生了什么，警员们还报告说，他的卡车停在离主路三英里外的一片泥泞沼泽里。

But interestingly, you know, beyond the fact that the deputies had no idea what happened to him, they reported that his truck had been parked three miles away from the main road in this muddy bog.

更奇怪的是，周围根本没有车轮驶过的痕迹。

And strangely, there were no tire tracks leading to it.

就好像这辆车是凭空掉进沼泽里，Carl还坐在里面一样。

It was almost like it was just dropped in the bog with Carl inside of it.

尽管情况这么诡异，警员们，还有Marjorie，都没太在意卡车的异常。

But despite this weirdness, the deputies, and Marjorie for that matter, were not concerned about the weirdness around the truck.

他们只担心Carl，他正躺在那儿，毫无知觉。

They were worried about Carl, who's just laying here unconscious.

于是他们赶紧把他送去医院，Marjorie也拼命开车赶了过去。

And so they had rushed him to the hospital, and Marjorie had driven there as fast as she could.

医生已经告诉玛乔丽，她丈夫明显神志混乱，似乎患有失忆症。

A doctor had already explained to Marjorie that her husband was clearly very disoriented and seemed to be suffering from a case of amnesia.

他甚至连自己的名字都想不起来，更别提在警员找到他、发现他昏倒在车里之前，他在峡谷里到底经历了什么。

He couldn't even remember his own name, let alone what had happened to him while he was out in that canyon before the deputies showed up and found him passed out in his truck.

医生给卡尔做了X光、脑部扫描，还进行了各种检查，但不仅没发现任何可能导致失忆的头部损伤，根本就没查出他身体有任何异常。

Doctors had given Carl X rays and brain scans and run all kinds of tests on him, but not only did they not find any evidence of some sort of head injury that likely would have caused his amnesia, but they actually didn't find anything wrong with him at all.

除了突然出现、昏迷且神志不清之外，他看起来一切正常。

He seemed perfectly fine beyond him just showing up basically unconscious and disoriented.

所以，医护人员如实告诉玛乔丽，既然查不出问题，他们也不知道该怎么治疗。

And so realistically, the staff told Marjorie that because they couldn't really find anything wrong with him, they didn't really know how to treat him.

因此，目前卡尔只能留在医院，接受持续观察。

And so for now, Carl was just being kept in the hospital under constant observation.

玛乔丽于是坐在丈夫病床旁的沙发上，对这一切简直不知所措。

And so Marjorie just took a seat on the couch next to her husband's bed, sort of not even sure what to think of this whole situation.

她正准备向护士问几个问题。

And she was about to ask the nurse a couple of questions.

但突然间，卡尔身体一紧，开始慌张地环顾四周，好像在找什么重要的东西。

But then suddenly, Carl sort of tensed up and began frantically looking around the room like he really had something in mind that he was looking for.

接着他喃喃问道：‘我的药呢？’

And then he began saying, like, where are my pills?

玛乔丽完全不知道丈夫说的是什么药。

Marjorie had no idea what pills her husband was talking about.

护士显然也听懵了，完全不明白他在说什么。

And it was clear the nurse also didn't know what he was talking about.

于是玛乔丽伸手想去握住丈夫的手，想让他冷静下来。

And so Marjorie, she reached out and just tried to grab her husband's hand to try to calm him down.

可她刚一碰他，卡尔立刻停住动作，猛地抽回手，像看陌生人一样盯着她。

But the moment she did that, Carl sort of stopped what he was doing, and he yanked his hand away and stared at her like she was a total stranger.

两天后，卡尔依然想不起去打猎时到底发生了什么。

Two days later, Carl still could not remember what had happened to him when he had gone hunting.

但他记起了一些基本的事，比如自己的名字，还有妻子是谁。

But he had recovered some basic memories like his own name and also who his wife was.

加上卡尔确实没有明显的外伤，医院最终决定让他出院，直接送他回家，交给玛乔丽照顾，并告诉她他大概没什么大碍，只要待在熟悉的环境里，记忆应该会慢慢恢复，也能恢复正常。

And so between that and the fact that realistically Carl did not have any signs of any physical injury, They ultimately, the hospital, discharged him and just sent him home with Marjorie and basically told her that he was probably fine and that he probably just needed to be in a familiar place to sort of recover all of his memories and get back to normal.

然而，这对夫妇一回到家，玛乔丽就立刻意识到卡尔情况不对，根本没有好转的迹象。

However, when the couple got back home, it very quickly became clear to Marjorie that Carl was not okay and he was not getting better.

平时在家，卡尔异常沉默，这种安静完全不像他平时的样子。

For the most part, Carl was just unusually quiet at home, like uncharacteristically quiet.

一旦他开口说话，往往又像在医院里找药时那样，语无伦次、急躁慌乱。

And then when he would speak, it often was in that that frantic sort of nonsensical way that he had spoken in the hospital when he was looking for his pills.

事实上，回到家后，他还是会突然开始到处找他的药。

And in fact, when he was home, he did continue to suddenly start looking for his pills.

他还跟玛乔丽说，有人偷了他的麋鹿。

And then also he began telling Marjorie that somebody had stolen his elk.

玛乔丽试着问他：你这话是什么意思？

Marjorie would try to ask him, like, what do you mean?

你到底指的是什么药？

Like, what do you mean your pills?

你说有人偷了你的麋鹿，这是什么意思？

What do you mean somebody took your elk?

你到底在说什么啊？

Like, what are you talking about?

但卡尔自己似乎也说不清楚。

But Carl didn't even seem to know.

有时候他能意识到自己说的话太荒唐了，可就是想不起完整的记忆。

Like, he would have moments of recognizing that it's so crazy what he's saying, but he just didn't have the memories to be filled in.

卡尔对自己模糊的记忆感到困惑，跟他妻子一样一头雾水。

It was like Carl was just as confused by his own vague memories as his wife was.

不过，他们从医院回家几天后，卡尔突然告诉妻子，他想起了一件关于打猎时发生的事，一个全新的记忆冒了出来。

However, a few days after they got home from the hospital, Carl suddenly told his wife that he'd actually remembered something really specific about what had happened when he was hunting, like a new memory had popped up in his mind.

他说，当时在麦卡蒂峡谷，他看到那群麋鹿，举起猎枪、扣下扳机，却一点声音都没有，也没有后坐力，好像什么都没发生过。

He told her that when he was in McMarty Canyon and he saw those elk and he raised his rifle and he pulled the trigger, he said there was no sound, there was no kickback, it was like nothing had happened.

但接着他说，后来发生了一件事，完全不合常理。

But then he said something happened that like truly just didn't make logical sense.

他说他意识到枪响了，但世界好像突然慢了下来，他能清清楚楚地看见子弹从枪口飞出去，就像慢动作一样。

He said he realized the gun had fired, but it was like the world had slowed down and he could actually literally see the bullet leaving the rifle, but like in slow motion.

子弹像是从枪里缓缓淌出来，慢慢地穿过峡谷，他就那么盯着那颗子弹。

Like this bullet is trickling out of the gun and slowly making its way, you know, across the canyon, and he's just staring at this bullet.

接着，子弹撞上了一堵看不见的墙，突然停住，像是翻了个身，扁平化，然后掉到了地上。

And then the bullet seemed to strike like an invisible wall of sorts, at which point the bullet actually stopped and almost like flipped inside out and sort of flattened and then fell to the ground.

就在那颗扁平的子弹掉到地上时，卡尔也跟着倒了下去，当场失去了意识。

And then also as the the flattened inside out bullet fell to the ground, Carl said he too fell to the ground, and he blacked out.

玛乔丽听到这些，第一反应就是：这太荒谬了。

Now when Marjorie heard this, you know, her first thought was like, this is nonsense.

这不可能是真的。

This is not real.

这可能是卡尔的大脑为了填补记忆空白而编出来的，毕竟他脑子里全是零碎片段，拼不起来，肯定特别煎熬。

This is something maybe Carl's mind has created to fill in the gaps of his memory because it's gotta be really frustrating for him that he's got all these fragments that he can't put together.

所以，也许这只是他大脑用这种具体又古怪的画面，来填补那些缺失的部分。

And so maybe this is just his mind filling in the gaps with this really specific and weird imagery.

但没过多久，玛乔丽在洗衣服时，终于开始洗丈夫那天在峡谷出事时穿的衣服。

But not long after hearing this story, Marjorie was doing the laundry, and she was finally washing the clothes her husband had on when this whole thing happened out in the canyon.

她伸手进夹克口袋，确认里面没东西再下水洗，却摸到一样金属物件。

And when she reached into the pockets of his jacket to make sure they were empty before, you know, washing the jacket, she felt something metallic.

她掏出来一个圆圆的、扁平的金属片。

And she pulled out this this round like flat disc, this metal disc.

一开始，她完全不知道这是什么。

And at first, she just had no idea what it was.

但随后她想起了丈夫说过的话——那颗从步枪里射出的子弹，翻了个个儿，压扁了，然后掉在地上。

But then she thought about what her husband had said about the the bullet from his rifle, you know, flipping inside out and flattening and falling to the ground.

她忍不住觉得，自己手里拿着的这个金属片，跟丈夫描述的那颗翻转压扁的子弹简直一模一样，简直不敢相信。

She couldn't help but feel like this metallic disc that she's holding in her hand that was in her husband's jacket looks an awful lot like a bullet that has been flipped inside out and flattened, like she couldn't believe it.

就在发现这个疑似子弹后不久，玛乔丽和丈夫并肩坐在威斯康星大学一间办公室的沙发上。

Not long after this discovery of the alleged bullet, Marjorie sat next to her husband on a couch inside of an office at the University of Wisconsin.

他们正对面坐着一位名叫道格拉斯的心理学教授。

They were both sitting across from a psychology professor named Doctor.

利奥·斯普林克尔。

Leo Sprinkle.

马乔丽知道这次会面希望渺茫，但她还是抱着一线希望，觉得也许能发现些什么重要的线索。

Now, Marjorie knew this meeting was sort of a long shot, but she was hopeful that, you know, maybe they would learn something valuable.

到这个时候，卡尔还没能回忆起打猎时的其他事情。

So by this point, Carl had not recovered any other memories from his hunting trip.

但在从丈夫夹克口袋里找到那个看似被压扁的子弹后，马乔丽坚信他一定经历了什么不寻常的事。

But after, you know, recovering the the supposed flattened bullet in her husband's jacket, Marjorie became convinced that something truly strange had happened to her husband.

我的意思是，她当然知道峡谷里出了事，但现在她连个像样的猜测都提不出来，可她就是觉得，肯定发生了什么特别怪异的事。

I mean, she obviously knew something happened out in the canyon, but now it just seemed like I don't even have any theories for what could have happened, but something really weird must have happened.

于是，她和卡尔都下定决心，一定要弄清楚到底发生了什么。

And so she and Carl were both very determined to try to figure out what happened.

所以他们这才来到了斯普林克尔博士的办公室。

And so that's how they ended up in Doctor.

斯普林克尔博士的办公室。

Sprinkle's office.

教授。

Doctor.

斯普林克尔博士可不是普通的心理学家。

Sprinkle was not your average psychologist.

他非常相信催眠的作用。

He was a really big believer in hypnosis.

他一直用催眠来做治疗。

He practiced hypnosis.

尤其是他认为，催眠有可能帮助人们触及被压抑的记忆，而这正是玛乔丽和斯普林克尔博士——

And specifically, he believed that hypnosis could potentially allow people to access repressed memories, which is exactly what Marjorie and Doctor.

还有卡尔本人，都相信正在卡尔身上发生的事：他经历了什么，但那些记忆被压抑了。

Sprinkle and Karl for that matter believed was going on with Karl, that he had experienced something that was being repressed.

但那些记忆还在那儿，只是你得找到办法把它挖出来。

But it was in there, you just need to find a way to access it.

所以那天在教授的办公室里，玛乔丽一直安静地坐着，默默观察着，而斯普林克尔博士——

So that day in the professor's office, Marjorie stayed very quiet and just observed while Doctor.

斯普里克尔让卡尔闭上眼睛，把头低向胸口，只专注于呼吸，一呼一吸，反复进行。

Sprinkle told Karl to close his eyes, to relax his head down towards his chest, and just focus on his breathing, in and out, in and out.

经过几分钟的引导后，斯普里克尔医生

And after several minutes of this, Doctor.

让卡尔慢慢抬起头来。

Sprinkle told Karl to slowly lift his head back up.

卡尔照做了，但他抬起头时，眼睛其实还是闭着的。

And Karl did, but when he looked up, his eyes were actually still closed.

到了这个时候，斯普里克尔医生

And at this point, Doctor.

让卡尔告诉他，10月25日他在麦克马蒂峡谷猎麋鹿时到底发生了什么。

Sprinkle asked Carl to tell him what happened on October 25 when he went elk hunting in McMarty Canyon.

卡尔双眼紧闭，开始非常流利地讲述。

And Carl, with his eyes still shut, began to speak really fluently.

他讲的故事简直离谱到了极点，无论是玛乔丽还是斯普里克尔医生

And he began telling just the most insane story Marjorie, or Doctor.

Sprinkle之前也从来没听过这样的事。

Sprinkle for that matter, had ever heard.

卡尔在催眠状态下又说，他看到子弹从枪口缓缓飞出，撞上一堵看不见的墙，翻了个身，然后掉到地上；他说自己也跟着以同样的速度摔在地上，直接昏了过去。

Carl said, again, under hypnosis here, that after he had watched that bullet leave his rifle in slow motion and hit this invisible wall and flip inside out and fall to the ground, He said that he too had fallen basically at the same speed as this bullet onto the ground, and basically he passed out.

但他只昏了一秒钟左右。

But he only blacked out for like a second.

等他睁开眼睛，发现自己还躺在峡谷中央的草地上。

And when he opened his eyes, he said he was still lying on the grass in the middle of this canyon.

可这时，一个高大的黑影正站在他上方，穿着一身紧贴身体的服装，就像潜水员穿的那种。

Except now standing over him was this this tall, dark figure that was wearing almost like a a very tight fitting bodysuit, almost like, what a scuba diver would wear.

卡尔说，这个身影大致有人形，但皮肤泛黄，眼睛很小，没有耳朵，也没有嘴唇。

And Carl said this figure was vaguely, you know, human shaped, but it had very yellowish skin and very small eyes and no ears and no lips.

它额头上长着两根天线，一只手臂变成了一截扁平的残肢，另一只手臂末端却像装了个类似电钻的假肢。

And there were two antennas sticking out of, you know, its its forehead, and one of its arms extended into this this flat stump, but the other arm seemed to have almost like a prosthetic attachment at the end of it that almost looked like a power drill.

然后，这个身影用一口标准的英语低头对卡尔说：‘你还好吗？’

And then in perfect English, this figure sort of looked down at Karl and just said, how are you?

卡尔说，这东西居然用一口流利的英语跟他说话，他当场就愣住了，脱口而出：‘还不错。’

And Karl said he was so stunned by this thing speaking to him in perfect English that Karl just sort of blurted out, pretty good.

还不错。

Pretty good.

那个身影似乎对这个回答很满意，接着迅速解释说，它叫Ozo One，来自距离地球十六万三千光年外的一颗行星。

And the figure seemed satisfied with this answer, and it went on to quickly explain that its name was Ozo one, and it came from a planet a 163,000 light years away from Earth.

它说，它根本没有伤害卡尔的意图。

And it said it had no intention of hurting Karl.

事实上，它表示想帮助卡尔。

In fact, it said it wanted to help Carl.

接着，它用那只像电钻一样的手，伸进身体服上一个看起来像口袋的地方，掏出一个小包装，里面装着四粒药丸。

Then with the the hand that sort of resembled a power drill, it reached into what looked like a pocket on its body suit, and it pulled out the small packet containing four pills.

它告诉卡尔，这些药丸能治好他。

And it told Karl that these pills would heal him.

然后，它递给卡尔一粒这样的药丸。

And then this thing offered Karl one of these pills.

卡尔呢，他自己也说不清为什么，马上就把药片拿起来吞了下去。

And Karl, you know, for reasons he couldn't explain, just immediately took the pill and swallowed it.

之后，卡尔说，Ozo One问他要不要出去兜个风。

And then after that, Karl said that Oso One asked him if he wanted to go for a ride.

卡尔就回答说：好啊。

And Karl just said, sure.

于是，Ozo One扶着卡尔从地上站了起来。

So Oso One helped Karl off the ground.

卡尔刚一站稳，就看见不远处停着一个立方体形状的飞行器。

And then as soon as Karl was standing back up again, he saw there was this cube shaped vehicle not far away.

下一秒，卡尔说，他莫名其妙地已经和Ozo One、另外两个 vaguely humanoid 的身影，还有他之前在这儿打猎的五头麋鹿，一起待在了这艘飞行器里。

And a split second later, Carl said he was somehow inside of this vehicle along with also one and also two other vaguely humanoid figures and the five elk that he'd been out here hunting.

那五头麋鹿被关在飞行器内的一道透明隔墙后面，像是个围栏。

They were behind this clear wall like a containment pen within the vehicle.

卡尔坐在一把椅子上，Ozo One和另外两个类似人类的生物也坐在各自的椅子上。

And Karl was seated in a chair as was also one and the two other humanoids.

他们全都只是坐在那里。

They were all just sort of sitting there.

然后卡尔说，他感觉到一股强大的力量推着他的身体，就像飞船加速得特别快，把他死死压在座椅上。

Then Karl said he felt this powerful force push against his body like the vehicle was moving so fast that it basically pushed him back into his seat.

但不到一分钟，飞船就停了下来，One说：‘到家了。’

But less than a minute later, the vehicle just stopped, and also one said, we're home.

这时候，卡尔突然发现自己已经站在飞船外面，他说周围冷得刺骨，天空黑得像墨一样。

At this point, Carl was just suddenly standing outside of the vehicle, and he said it felt very cold and the sky was jet black.

而卡尔四周的景色，跟地球上的完全不一样。

And then around Carl, the landscape was very different from planet Earth.

到处都是岩石和荒地，连一棵树、一株草，或者任何看起来像活物的东西都看不到。

It was very rocky and desolate without any trees or grass or really any organic looking life anywhere.

就在卡尔面前，他看见一座巨大的金属塔，样子有点像西雅图的太空针塔，塔顶还亮着一盏灯，亮得惊人——卡尔说，他一看那光，眼睛都疼。

And then in front of Carl, he said he saw this massive metallic looking tower that sort of reminded him of the Seattle Space Needle, And there was this light on the top of it that was actually so bright that Karl said when he looked at it, it sort of hurt his eyes.

于是Ozzo One带着卡尔、另外两个类人生物，还有那五头麋鹿，走向塔楼外的一扇门。

And so Ozzo one led Karl, the two other humanoid figures, and the elk to a door on the outside of this tower.

他们站到外面后，卡尔说门滑开了，但并没有通向塔内，反而像是进入了一个大型电梯的内部。

Once they were standing outside of it, Carl said the door slid open, but instead of it sort of leading into the tower, it just led to what reminded Carl of the inside of a large elevator.

整个团队一齐上了电梯，开始向上移动。

The whole group just got on board and began riding up.

当这个类似电梯的东西停下、门再次打开时，卡尔看到一个狭小的房间，四壁都是金属，地上有几个看起来像平台的东西。

And then when this elevator of sorts came to a stop and the door opened again, Carl saw this small room with metal walls and a handful of what looked like platforms on the floor.

奥佐一带着那只麋鹿走上其中一个平台，然后让卡尔也上去一个。

Ozzo I led the elk onto one of those platforms and told Karl to get on one too.

于是卡尔照做了，站到了其中一个平台上。

And so Karl just did as he was told and stood on one of these platforms.

突然间，从金属墙壁里冒出一种高科技设备，开始绕着卡尔缓缓转动。

And then out of nowhere, some kind of high-tech device emerged from these metallic walls and began sort of circling around Karl.

它从他的头顶一直扫描到脚底，就像在对他做全身扫描。

It went from his head all the way to his toes, basically like scanning him.

卡尔隐约感觉到，那只麋鹿也在经历同样的过程。

Karl was vaguely aware of the same process taking place to the elk as well.

扫描一结束，就发出了一阵哔哔声。

And then when this scanner was done, it made a beeping sound.

接着，奥佐一转头对卡尔说：‘我们需要的是麋鹿，不是你。’

And then Ozzo One looked over at Karl and told him, well, the elk are what we needed, but you're not.

所以我们现在送你回地球。

So we're going to take you back to Earth now.

卡尔说，下一刻他发现自己莫名其妙地回到了自己的工作卡车里，好像瞬间被传送了一样，而且正被那两名警长摇醒。

And then Karl said the next thing he knew, he was just magically back inside of his work truck, like he had somehow been transported there instantaneously, and he was being shaken awake by those two sheriff's deputies.

然后回到了斯普林克医生的办公室。

And so back in Doctor.

在斯普林克医生的办公室里，玛乔丽听着丈夫的讲述，完全惊呆了，根本不知道该作何反应。

Sprinkle's office, Marjorie is listening, just completely shocked by what her husband is saying, not even sure what to make of it.

然后斯普林克医生。

And then Doctor.

斯普林克医生在卡尔讲到被警长摇醒那段时。

Sprinkle, at the end of Carl's story when he got to the point where he's being shaken awake by the deputies, Doctor.

斯普林克尔打了个响指，卡尔这才回过神来，睁开眼睛，重新聚焦，明显是从催眠状态中醒来了。

Sprinkle snapped his finger and Carl kind of came to, he opened his eyes and sort of refocused, clearly out of hypnosis.

接下来，所有人都沉默地坐着，谁也不知道该说些什么。

And then they all just kind of sat there, like in total silence, really unsure what to say to each other.

尽管卡尔的故事听起来荒诞不经，但他的案子中确实有几个一直无法解释的奇怪细节。

But as crazy as Karl's story sounded, there were several very strange facts about Karl's case that up to this point nobody had been able to explain.

而卡尔在催眠状态下讲出的故事，恰好能解释所有这些疑点。

And the story that Carl told while under hypnosis technically accounted for all of them.

第一个能被这个故事解释的细节是：当卡尔在货车里醒来时，他并不是仅仅离主路三英里远。

The first fact that this story explained was that when Carl woke up in his work truck, like magically just appeared in his work truck, it was not just three miles away from the main road.

而是离他当初停车的地方整整三英里。

It was actually three miles away from where he had originally parked it.

那辆货车就停在一片泥泞的沼泽地里，周围连一条轮胎印都没有。

And this truck was just sitting in a muddy bog with no tire tracks leading up to it.

所以根本没人说得清，它到底是怎么跑到那里的。

So it was just totally unclear how it got there.

所以如果你顺着卡尔的说法想，也许当他被送回地球时，那个外星生物和其他 humanoid 把他所在的卡车 maneuver 进了这片泥沼里。

And so if you follow along with Carl's story, you know, perhaps when he was transported back to Earth, they, you know, this other creature and the other humanoids, maneuvered the truck with Carl in it into this bog.

第二个奇怪的地方是，当玛乔丽请弹道专家分析她在卡尔夹克里找到的那枚压扁的‘子弹’时，专家们也和她一样一头雾水。

The second strange fact is that when Marjorie had ballistics experts analyze that flattened presumed bullet that she had found in Carl's jacket, they were just as baffled as she was.

他们完全想不出，地球上有什么办法能让一颗子弹被压扁还翻个面。

Like, they could not come up with any earthly explanation for how a bullet could be flattened and turned inside out.

这根本是不可能的事。

Like, this was not possible.

所以，如果你接着卡尔的说法来想，也许就是那个生物把子弹给翻了个面。

And so, again, if you follow Carl's story, perhaps this this being is the one that flipped the bullet inside out.

第三个，也是最诡异的一点是，医院给卡尔做X光检查时，发现了一件医学上根本不可能发生的事。

And the third and perhaps strangest fact is that when hospital doctors gave Carl x rays, they found something that should have been medically impossible.

卡尔肺部几十年来一直存在的肺结核疤痕组织，那些让他连走路都吃力的病灶，竟然全都不见了。

All of the tuberculosis scar tissue in Carl's lungs that had plagued him for decades, that had made it so hard to to be physical and exercise, they had somehow disappeared.

就好像有人，或者有什么东西，把他给治好了。

It was as if someone or something had healed him.

尽管卡尔的故事听起来难以置信，而且几十年来有数百人试图推翻它，但至今没人能给出比这更好的解释，来说明那辆移动的卡车、那颗不可能的子弹，还有卡尔身上消失的疤痕组织。

Despite how unbelievable Carl's story sounded, and despite the fact that hundreds of people have spent decades trying to disprove it, no one has ever found a better explanation for the moving truck, the impossible bullet, and Carl's disappearing scar tissue.

正因如此，一些研究人员认为，卡尔·希格登的遭遇可能是有史以来最可信的外星人绑架事件之一。

Because of that, some researchers believe that Carl Higdon's account could be one of the most credible alien abduction stories ever recorded.

顺便说一下，我们讲的这些故事都基于真实事件。

A quick note about our stories: They are all based on true events.

不过为了保护当事人，我们有时会使用化名，部分细节也会为了戏剧效果做适当改编。

But, we sometimes use pseudonyms to protect the people involved, and some details are fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

《MrBallen》播客，讲述离奇、黑暗与神秘的故事，由我本人MrBallen主持并担任执行制作人。

The MrBallen podcast, strange, dark, and mysterious stories, is hosted and executive produced by me, MrBallen.

我们的主笔是埃文·艾伦，制作人是杰里米·博恩和科尔·洛卡西奥。

Our head of writing is Evan Allen, produced by Jeremy Bone and Cole Locascio.

本集脚本由卡里斯·帕什·库珀撰写。

This episode was written by Caris Pash Cooper.

研究与事实核查由谢莉·苏、萨曼莎·范休斯、埃文·比默、阿比盖尔·舒姆韦、卡米尔·卡拉汉、亚历克斯·保罗、本·法西亚诺共同完成。

Research and fact checking by Shelley Hsu, Samantha Van Hoos, Evan Beamer, Abigail Shumway, Camille Callahan, Alex Paul, Ben Fasciano.

研究与事实核查监督：斯蒂芬·艾尔

Research and fact checking supervision by Stephen Eir.

音频剪辑与后期制作：惠特·拉卡斯奇奥和乔丹·斯蒂德汉

Audio editing and post produced by Whit Lacascio and Jordan Stidham.

制作支持：安东尼奥·莫纳塔和德莱娜·科利

Production support by Antonio Monata and Delayna Corley.

封面设计：杰西卡·克罗格斯顿·基纳

Artwork by Jessica Clogston Kiner.

主题曲：《Something Wicked》由罗斯·巴格登创作

Theme song, Something Wicked by Ross Bugden.

感谢收听MrBallen播客

Thank you for listening to the MrBallen podcast.

另外提醒一下，我们每期新推出的独家内容，当天就能在MrBallen的YouTube频道上同步观看

And just a reminder, every new and exclusive episode we put out on the MrBallen Podcast, you can also now watch on the MrBallen YouTube channel that very same day.

相信我，有些故事你非得亲眼看了才会相信

And trust me, some of these stories you truly have to see to believe.

我的YouTube频道就叫MrBallen。

Again, my YouTube channel is just called MrBallen.

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今天就到这里了。

So that's gonna do it.

非常感谢你的支持。

I really appreciate your support.

我们下次再见。

Until next time.

回头见。

See you.