NOTE: This section is a tie-in that goes along with my book, Chasing Phantoms. I wasn’t able to include color photos in the book, so instead it’s a page on my website. Enjoy….
Updated: May 6, 2009. New strange “surgery” looking bruise on kneecap photo added, in “Miscellaneous” section.
[Important note: Just to clarify – I don’t think that all weird markings on people’s bodies automatically mean that they’re being abducted, and that if they are, then it’s the infamous Grays. You’ll notice I don’t discuss the Grays on my site because they’re just so played out, and there are other non-human intelligences out there. However I recently realized (from an email) that people who read this may be assuming that I’m referring to Grays when I speak either of abductions or the so-called aliens, only because that’s pretty much what every other abductions researcher talks about. Everybody has to research their own situation in depth in order to determine the nature of what their markings mean for them, and who/what the source may be. I just provide my own story as one example possibility, but even then I still don’t have definitive answers. I just know from diligently logging and photographing the markings mentioned here, and in looking over the events in my life that surrounded them, that they’re not natural……..for me. But, things may be different for you.]
Strange bruising and assorted marks on the body are common occurrences for those being taken, whether by human black ops military intelligence operatives, or “aliens.” A bruise or anomalous marking can be ruled out as being natural and “normal” when it appears suddenly out of nowhere in a very short time span, has no logical source (such as bumping or injuring the body) and especially when the mark forms a neat and tidy shape or geometric design, or worse, a puncture, scoop mark or burn.
In my own situation, I’ve only experienced the bruising, geometric designs, and small round blue/purple circles, which I’ve taken photos of over the years and will include in this section as illustrative examples. Thankfully, I’ve never had the scoop marks, punctures or burns, which in my opinion are all signs of abduction encounters of a highly negative nature.
For me, my focus has been on the bruising since that’s what I experience the most. I’ve gone to sleep at night when I lived in Portland, Oregon, and woken up with knees that were so sore that I couldn’t touch them together, only to find them rimmed in bruises that somehow appeared in the five hours between when I went to bed and when I woke up. (I did get a pic of this, although I haven’t scanned or posted it here yet.) During those five hours I also had no dreams, and woke up wide awake, with a mind that was abnormally clear and alert. It’s in my opinion that I wasn’t really sleeping in my bed during those five hours.
When I showed the bruises to my brother, he just smiled at me with those glassy eyes he’d get and calmly said, “Oh, you fought back.” Smirk.
Feeling like “!!” I asked him what he meant. He elaborated, explaining that they strap people down, at the ankles, knees, and thighs for the lower body. The bruises rimming my knees indicated that I kicked around – I fought back. Later on I would get bruises on the tops of my ankles and my thighs, possibly validating what he said.
Then around April of 2002, shortly after moving to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I woke to find two, near-identical bruises on the top front part of each upper thigh. Each one was like long skinny rectangle, with a short vertical mark in the center. I didn’t take pictures of this the way I should have. In fact, you could almost say it was like there was programming happening to get me to have a “lalala!” oblivious mindset. Another repeating pattern within abductees. Programming to get you to ignore/disregard your ear tones, ignore your anomalous markings, to forget about things within seconds of them happening, the mind just…deleting things like it never happened, etc. and so on, as I’ve experienced. So I noticed it…but then drifted off to other things. This was back before I became diligent about documenting. I really wish I’d gotten a shot of these two bruises.
[UPDATE: Today, Wednesday 11/7/07 I discovered a bruise on my outer right thigh that is near identical to the bruise from April of 2002 just mentioned:

This one was longer, about three inches as you can see from the ruler. But it was the same deal with the long “rectangle” and something in the middle. Very unnatural bruise, looks like an object made an imprint. I think it may be several days old, and there is blotchy bruising on other parts of my legs which I’d dismissed as random clutziness….until finding this one on my thigh. And like my recent October 25th big cheek scratch, this body marking was also surrounded by minor weirdness. Small synchronicities, an ear muting/tone, and weird deja vu stuff going back to this past weekend or so.]
In 2002 I noticed one day in the shower that I had a perfect round, nickel sized bruise on one of my legs. I realized that I had seen these before on my legs, but hadn’t paid any attention to them. So subconsciously I’d seen them, but had just dismissed them as being natural. Now I took notice, and was like, hmmm…something just doesn’t seem right about this. Possibly the near perfect roundness and neatness of it, and the deep indigo coloring. It seemed unusual, and so I took a picture after I got out of the shower. And so launched my attempt at being more disciplined with documenting the assortment of strange bruising that would periodically appear on my body for the next few years. The most interesting aspect of these bruises was the fact most of the time, they were always strategically situated on areas of my legs where they wouldn’t be seen from my vantage point as I looked down at myself. I would have to twist and turn my leg around to find them on the sides and back of my knees, calves and thighs. Always so perfect and round, a dark blue purple color, with clean lines and no blotchiness, and so well hidden, showing that there was definitely an “other worldly” source behind them.
For the longest time I had no explanation for what these bruises were all about, I just knew I wasn’t doing anything to cause them, and that I needed to take pics of them when they appeared. Finally I encountered a mention of it in the book “MILABS” by Dr. Helmut Lammer and Marion Lemmer. In the book, Dr. Lammer mentions the perfectly round, nickel sized bruises that many MILAB targets report. Bingo! We had confirmation. It was definitely a start. Later on I would find mention of this in the work of Fritz Springmeier as well. So we had another source confirming things.
I would later have an experience with a very large, near perfect oval shaped bruise on the back of my lower left calf, above my ankle, which appeared out of nowhere and within hours, with no logical explanation for it……and while I was wide awake. So it obviously couldn’t be abduction-related, while I slept. This threw a wrench in the works, and opened up a whole new can of worms as to what can be going on with these bruises. When I discovered the bruise, I was up in the middle of the night reading the book “God’s Gladiators” by Stuart Wilde, and being highly affected in a positive way by the book. I felt like I was lifting up out of this reality as I read what he had to say. His take on things was enough to make you feel like you could float right out of the illusion! Coincidentally, it was in the writings of Stuart Wilde himself that I encountered the mention of round, quarter size bruises that would appear usually on females, and whose source stemmed from the “mirror world,” as he called it. The etheric. According to Stuart, these bruises occur when somebody has taken a hit in the mirror world/ethetic by what he calls “ethetic sludge balls,” thrown by the negs.
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So now we had at least three sources confirming the mysterious round bruises. But now I had to go back and re-examine everything I thought I understood about the nature of these bruises. Were they physical after-effects of a physical abduction?? Or was the source etheric, appearing on my body from something that was occurring in another realm?? I was confused, because on one hand I had the “God’s Gladiators bruise” as I’ve come to call it, which was definitely not from a physical abduction. I was awake in my bed reading when it seemed to appear. But on the other hand, there was one particular afternoon following an abduction where I realized….if I was abducted, then I should have one of those bruises on me. And without even thinking, I already knew exactly which leg to look at. I grabbed for my left leg, twisted it around, and my eyes went right for the back calf, (see photo below, dated March 22, 2003). And there it was, dark and prominent. I had no conscious recollection of getting it…but apparently my subconscious did, and knew EXACTLY where to look, without even thinking.
So…..were they coming from abductions?? Or were they coming from the etheric??
I now think it can be both. It just depends on what’s happening. I used to think that all abductions were physical in nature, where they literally take your entire body to another realm. Over time I came to learn that there are soul abductions, and that they are far more common because they’re a whole lot easier. So bruises may tie into whatever is being done during a soul abduction, manifesting in the form of a bruise mark on the physical body. And the strategic hidden nature of these bruises may have a double symbolic meaning, indicating the secretive hidden nature of what’s occurring to the victim. Another closely related theory that I’ve encountered in my research is that the mysterious bruising may also represent points on the body where there are “attachments” from non-physical entities.
Or they could also be etheric “hits” from those “etheric sludge balls” that Stuie mentions. You never know.
Now, if some of these round, nickel-sized, indigo colored bruises originate from physical abductions, then what is the cause? Author Fritz Springmeier mentions that the electroshock prods used to wipe out memories will leave behind round bruises. So this is one possibility. One particular bruise I had on my calf on December 22, 2003, (see photo below) was surrounded by very coarse hair stubble that stuck straight out, and which was painful to the touch. The other leg hair stubble was perfectly fine, with no pain. So whatever caused the bruise seems to have affected the hair stubble in the area around it. I haven’t done the research into electroshock prods to verify whether coarse, painful stubble is one of the physical after effects of being zapped, but I’d be curious to find out.
So there are at least four major possibilities going on here regarding the source of these mysterious bruises. To determine what may be going on for you, you have to photo document and closely monitor and analyze your own situation. Everybody’s going to be different. What may be happening to me may not be the case for you or the next person. Yet, there are things in common, and stuff that matches up, which is why reading others’ experiences and stories such as this can be so beneficial.
In this section I include a sampling of the various bruising and assortment of marks that I’ve received over the years to better illustrate what they look like. I have all kinds of pics of crazy bruising and strangeness, pages and pages in my log book album, but I only include a sampling here to give readers the general idea. Don’t want to be too redundant. ;) But an important thing to note are the dates on many of these pics. Around April of 2003 I was sitting in my apartment one afternoon surrounded by photographs and log book stuff, randomly flipping through pictures I’d been taking for months of the various bruises and strange marks that were appearing on my body. It was a mix of feeling spacey, lost, and perplexed, as I flip flip flipped through all the photos. Turning the pics over and looking at the dates I’d written on the backs something finally clicked. I finally noticed for the first time what the dates were on each photo. Over and over again I saw that the photos were dated between the 1st – 3rd of the month, or the 20-23rd. There was a pattern here. This wasn’t random chaos. And so another puzzle piece fell into place. Whoever was taking me was doing so on a schedule. So if you’re a MILAB/military abductee and you’re taking photos of your markings, try looking at the dates to see if there’s a pattern. If you’re being taken by humans, there should be.
What’s also interesting is that in later log book photos, after I began persistently dodging abductions, staying up all night or even leaving my apartment altogether, the bruise marking dates rarely matched up to the 1-3, 20-23 pattern anymore. They no longer could take me on their regularly scheduled times, because I was wide awake…or not even in my apartment. So, even more personal confirmation to me that I was right that there was a pattern to it, and I was right that you can dodge the human orchestrated military/intelligence operations abductions. I’ve heard abductees on the ‘net say you can’t, so don’t even bother, but that’s complete bunk. You have to at least try. Never just go belly up. These are not gods we’re dealing with. They are often times just people. So find their patterns, and starting throwing wrenches in the works.
The round, nickel sized bruises
These are usually placed so that they’re not visible when looking down at the legs. (or arm, as is the case in one situation.)

December 22, 2002. This particular (hidden) round bruise was accompanied by painful stubble in the same area. The other leg was fine.

February 1-2, 2003

March 22, 2003

April 2-3, 2003.

April 27, 2003. Manifested between 5:15 and 7:00 a.m. I’d stayed up all night trying to avoid an abduction, but finally went to sleep at 5:15, despite my gut telling me it was too soon. Lo and behold, this is the result within two hours.

First appeared 4/21/04, photo taken 4/25. First appeared on 4/21, and I have a picture of it from that date, when it was slightly lighter. A few days later it really darkened, and so I took another pic. Located on left calf, right side, towards back, have to turn leg to see.

Taken August 3, 2008. Appeared around August 1st, so it seems we’re back to the original “schedule” of the 1st-3rd, 20th-23rd of the month. Located on right calf, on the left side towards the back. So again, can’t see it just by looking down at leg, have to turn leg. Also had two prominent ear tones this weekend (Friday August 1st, right ear, while at work in the middle of talking to somebody (!) and then Saturday August 2nd, 11:33 p.m. exactly (!) right ear, with pronounced muting beforehand) and a spate of synchronicities going on for about the past week.)

Taken 8/26/08. On the back of my upper right arm. The first time that I know of where one of these roundish, indigo colored bruises have appeared on an arm and not one of my legs. Not sure when it actually appeared, but I would never have even seen it at all (which is the point, I guess) except Tom noticed it. Very surprising. Same deal as the legs though, using a very fleshy but hidden area. Not a natural bruise at all, in my opinion.
Geometric Shapes

December 3, 2002. Diamond shaped red mark with a small dot above and below, located on lower left arm. Note: The following night, December 4, I was almost or should have been killed in what would have been a very nasty car accident. I was approaching an intersection with a long green light on Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, and a truck blew his VERY red light on the other side of the intersection going probably 40-50 mph at least, as if the light wasn’t even there. He would have plowed into the driver’s side of my car and it would have been a very bad situation. But I just happened to be going slightly slower than I normally would have…in fact it felt like something was holding me back. I’d had extreme and inexplicable anxiety before going out that night, and wound up leaving my apartment to get away from it, not realizing that the cause of my anxiety was outside. In my opinion the abduction with this strange mark, and my near-hit car accident only a day apart was no coincidence.

Triangle shaped bruise on outer side of thigh.

Bruise on my boyfriend’s leg, week of June 23rd, 2008. (posted with permission from him.) Picture taken Saturday June 28th, but had apparently been there for several days. Located on Tom’s right leg, on the outside of his calf below his knee…………hidden from view so he wouldn’t be able to see it when looking down at himself. On Wednesday the 25th, when he estimates this bruise probably appeared, both he and I woke up that morning with either abnormal anxiety or amped up energy. I had gut wrenching anxiety, so much so that I was pushing in on my stomach/solar plexus area while curled up in bed trying to alleviate it. Didn’t work though. I got up and puttered about for five minutes or so, still to no avail until finally I just called out from work like, forget it, I’m not leaving the house!! The anxiety only disappeared once I went back to bed, at 8:58 a.m…. once the decision to stay home was fully in place. And Tom had the amped up energy that morning, to where he finally got up at 10 a.m. because he couldn’t sleep any more. (He goes to bed around 5:30 a.m., and doesn’t normally get up until about 2 p.m.) And his energy has been seemingly artificially amped up ever since, preventing a decent night’s sleep. Also worth noting is that morning, and the following few mornings he had antagonistic dreams and dreams involving negative alien themes. The dotted “cross” design of this bruise is very intriguing, and Tom noted that there was a lump underneath it. That, coupled with the hidden location and the amped up energy indicates it’s anything but natural. (on a side note, I found another one of those perfectly round purple bruises on the back of one of my calves, hidden, on June 23 . Back to the whole 20-23rd of the month thing I guess. ;) We took a pic. And we’ve both been getting a lot of number sightings this past week, synchronicities and ear tones.)
Small Purple Circles
Always on the left arm, never the right, which is interesting. These would usually occur either after having a run in with an entity of some sort, or after something tried to pull me out of my body. In one particular instance, after something repeatedly tried to pull me out of my body when I laid down for a nap, the circle was also accompanied by a tingly, electrical sensation in my arms, indicating an otherworldly source behind it all.




Cheek/chin scratches
Small, thin parallel scratches on the chin and cheek area, usually occurring as a pair:

Scratch on the right side of my chin. Noticed it on September 5th, 2007, but may have appeared several days before. There’s a smaller one above it that’s barely detectable in this photo, following the pattern of how they seem to appear in pairs.

Mysterious small thin scratch on my boyfriend’s lower cheek. (posted with permission from him.) He knows he didn’t do anything to cause this.

Big cheek scratch. Discovered morning of October 25, 2007 in the bathroom mirror at work around 9 a.m. or so. I can officially rule out the facial scrub abrasion theory since I didn’t use face scrub on this particular morning, and I know that I didn’t do anything to cause this. Worth noting is that in the three days leading up to this, 10/21 and on, I’d experienced a lot of synchronicities and number sightings, as did my boyfriend. So something was up in general, and this was one more bit of weirdness to add to the bunch. Also you can see that this scratch is the same identical sort of scratch as my boyfriend’s in terms of how they look. Not deep, just this surface level abrasion, thin, and light pink in color.
Miscellaneous

May 6, 2009. “Line” bruise with “dot” in the middle, on the right kneecap. I’m positive I didn’t do anything to cause it, and it’s the first time I’ve had a bruise that looks like this on my knee. There’s no pain associated with it. Just a perfectly straight, dark line on the knee, with the dot in the middle, which is the same repeating pattern as those lines with dots in the middle that I’ve previously gotten on my thighs. When looking down at it from my own vantage point the first thing I thought was that it looks like a surgical scar, like I’d had some sort of knee surgery done, and my boyfriend noted the same exact thing when I first showed him. Yet again, there’s no pain, and nothing funny going on with that knee in general. Makes no sense. The pic was taken tonight, 5/6, yet had probably took several days to fully come out. There’s another bruise, small and round, under my left knee, that I’d noticed about three or four days ago. So if they were from the same source then once again, we’re looking at the same old repeating pattern of 1st-3rd of the month. ;) I actually consider this one to be one of the more anomalous markings I’ve received, right up there with the geometric diamond imprint on my arm.

July 22, 2003. Double bruise, concealed on the back of calf.

Large oval bruise – on the back of the calf/ankle area where it’s not noticeable from my normal vantage point. This one appeared out of nowhere when I was reading Stuart Wilde’s “God’s Gladiators” and being highly affected by it in a positive way. ;) Kinda cool, whatever it means…

Approximately February 13, 2004. Nasty bruise on right thigh, with a lump in the middle, lasted for over four months. I left this one out of the original versions of this write up only because for the longest time I couldn’t be sure it was what it seemed to be. When this bruise originally appeared, I was in the middle of doing a project at my then temp job which involved me moving all these boxes full of files around. So at first glance it seems that I must have bumped myself while moving things around. However, I have no recollection of bumping myself during that time, at all, and certainly nothing that would have caused such a nasty looking bruise like this. If I’d bumped myself hard enough to generate this rare looking bruise, then you’d think I’d remember it. !!! Also, having lumps in the middle of bruises is not something that normally happens for me. This is the only time it’s happened as far as I remember. It felt like there might have been something embedded in there, something that my boyfriend described as having the shape of a Tic Tac candy when he pressed in on my skin, and I agree. And this thing was STILL visible into July of that year. It just would not go away. I don’t think I’ve ever had a bruise that lasted that long, no matter how severe. So, after my boyfriend’s recent unnatural geometric cross shaped bruise with a lump in the middle, I finally decided to include it here since this one also had a lump in the middle, and because I have no recollection of injuring myself, and because it lasted for so long and has this strange, smaller round bruise going on right next to it. So maybe it’s something unnatural, or maybe it isn’t. I’ll never fully know.

Taken August 5, 2004, probably happened the 4th or so. Bruise with mysterious “line” cutting through it. Have never seen something like this before or after. Even after the bruise had finally faded, the line was still visible. It wasn’t raised or painful, almost looked like an incision scar, yet it wasn’t perfectly straight. Very weird indeed. Also accompanied by a dark round bruise on the top of my left ankle, of all places.
Same bruise/line, closeup.

Corresponding bruise on top of ankle. Have never had a bruise on my ankle before or since. This is the first and only. Coupled with the fact that it happened at the same time as the mysterious line/bruise makes it suspect, in my opinion. It also has that stereotypical neat, rounded shape to it.
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Carissa Conti