Neighborhood Under Seize From Fart Gas Attack Alien 1944

Encounter with the gasser, Mattoon, Illinois, 1944

Location. Mattoon Illinois
Date: August 31 1944 Time: early morning
A Mattoon resident had awakened feeling very ill. He got out of bed and shakily made his way into the bathroom where he was sick. Then he roused his wife and asked her if she’d left the gas on. “I don’t think so.” She said, “But I’ll check.” To her complete bewilderment, when she tried to get up out of bed she found that she was paralyzed. Shortly afterwards a housewife in another part of town had a similar experience. She had awoken to the sound of her young daughter coughing and when she got up she found that, strangely, she could barely walk,
The next evening at about 11:00 p.m. Mrs. Ben Kearney, while sleeping in the bedroom she shared with her three-year-old daughter Dorothy, was stirred from slumber by a peculiar smell. “I first noticed a sickening sweet odor in the bedroom,” she later told a local reporter, “but at the time I thought it might be from flowers outside the window. But the odor grew stronger and I began to feel a paralysis of my legs and lower body. I got frightened and screamed.”
Aroused neighbors then came to Mrs. Kearney’s aid. They searched the yards of the entire neighborhood but found no one and the strange smell had, by now, drifted away. The police were also called, and they undertook a similarly fruitless search of the area. They took a statement then left the woman and her daughter alone. At about 00:30 a.m. that morning, as Mr. Kearney was returning home from work, he caught a fleeting glimpse of a man standing at one of the windows. “He was tall,” Kearney said, “dressed in dark clothing and wearing a tight-fitting cap.” By September 5th Mattoon police had received four more reports of “gas attacks” with all the victims claiming to have noticed a “sickly sweet” odor before becoming nauseated and partially paralyzed for thirty to ninety minutes. According to news accounts, on the afternoon of the 5th September police ‘checked what they thought might be a hideout for the anesthetic prowler but found nothing to bear out the theory.’ However, alter that same evening Beulah Cordes presented to the police the first concrete physical evidence of the gasser’s existence. When she and her husband Carl had returned home that evening at about 22:30 she had discovered a white cloth on the front porch. She picked it up, noticing that it was wet. Curious as to what the cloth had been soaked in, she brought it up to her nose and smelled it.
“When I inhaled the fumes from the cloth I had a sensation similar to coming into contact with a strong electric current. The feeling raced down my body to my feet and then seemed to settle in my knees. It was a feeling of paralysis.” She suddenly felt sick and vomited. Minutes later her lips and face swelled and burned; her mouth began to bleed and she became unable to speak. The condition lasted for two hours and then was gone. Police later found a skeleton key and an empty lipstick tube on the porch where Mrs. Cordes had found the cloth. That same night another housewife heard someone at her bedroom window but before she could act gas had seeped into the room and rendered her partially paralyzed for several minutes.
 

Humcat 1944-2
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia also B. M. Nunnelly ‘The Inhumanoids, encounters with beings that can’t exist’ pp. 139-141