God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

    Jesus calling to Peter to leave the boat It has been a while since I completed my original Blogspot series on Ted Rice’s story of life-long abductions, as written by Karla Turner in  Masquerade of Angels  (1994). I wrote 5 blog posts from Karla’s book, but I was left wondering what happened to Ted, was he a real person, was Ted Rice his actual name or was it changed to protect his privacy? For many years following the publication of the book others had the same questions, usually posted on UFO forums. In February 2021, Ted’s goddaughter, Bonnie Pate, contacted me by email because she found something I wrote about him and liked it. She shared family tidbits and verified that Ted was real, that she hadn’t seen him for about 20 years, that he had genuine psychic abilities, and that he was a very kind person. Excited about this new information, I re-read the book by Karla Turner, and that inspired me in March to whip out the 5-part series. I felt that Ted’s story was important, but it