Monsters Among Us by Brad Steiger

Author:Brad Steiger [Steiger, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Body; Mind & Spirit, General
ISBN: 9781931942331
Google: 2yxOAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1931942331
Publisher: Galde Press
Published: 1989-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

UFO investigator John J. Robinson gave a certain amount of credence to the plausibility of the Shaver Mystery because of the two personal narratives that were related to him. There is, of course, no way that Robinson could “swear” that these two tales are true; but the researcher knew each of the narrators for some time and is convinced that they told him what they believed to be the truth.

In September 1944, Robinson rented a small furnished room on the third floor of a house on Wayne Street in Jersey City, New Jersey. In a larger room directly beneath his own lived a man named Steve Brodie, who professed to be an artist. Brodie was virtually a recluse. He was powerfully built and dressed in garage-mechanic’s coveralls in place of the traditional artist’s smock.

As Robinson became better acquainted with the artist, he began to notice certain peculiarities of behavior to which Brodie gave frequent expression.

“First,” recalls Robinson, “he never ate meat; second, he seemed to be afraid that someone might be attempting to sneak up behind him. He had a habit of glancing back over his shoulder, as if he feared he was being followed. Third, he never spoke of his previous life. Fourth, if anyone passed his door, he would stop and glance at the door in what seemed to be almost fear until the footsteps passed. Fifth, it was not the law he was afraid of. He seemed to be almost happy to be near a member of the police force. He always walked in the middle of the street, so that he could avoid any unexpected contact from a side alley or doorway. Sixth, he never smoked or drank any alcoholic beverages, nor would he take any kind of drugs—even aspirin when he had a slight cold.”

On a number of occasions, Robinson watched his friend prime canvas and begin to paint in what seemed to be a hypnotic state. Whenever Brodie was in one of these “trances,” he would produce weird, eerie landscapes—work completely foreign to his usual style of painting.

One night when Robinson stopped by the artist’s studio, he had a copy of the April 1945, issue of Amazing Stories with him. Brodie had just finished one of his strange paintings, and the two men stood for a time in front of an easel that supported a painting of a blue-white sun and a bizarre landscape.

“Where do you get your ideas for pictures like this?” Jack asked.

“I don’t know,” Brodie shrugged. “I feel as if I paint these pictures from memory. It’s like I can close my eyes and see it.”

Then the artist, who never read books and seldom read newspapers, noticed the colorful magazine against the black of Robinson’s overcoat. “What’s that in your pocket?” Brodie asked, attracted by the bright colors of the cover.

Robinson, an inveterate science-fiction fan, began an account of the Shaver Mystery and the alleged underground culture with which it dealt. “This is the second of the stories about the subterranean world….

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