By: cythrawl

cythrawl — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:08:46 +0000

markpitzner is right. Mr. soso didn’t kill 35 people. My client’s Alien hand did it.

By: ron6deathorgy

ron6deathorgy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:08:19 +0000

O.O

Woah.

By: colfaxgurl

colfaxgurl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:03:29 +0000

I am a woman, aged 54. I am speaking of something that happened a few times when I was pre-teen and into early teen years. First just a little background. I come from a old deep south family, and my mother and father were closely related…the families had been related for over a hundred and fifty years in one way or another. Second, my family was violent and my mother was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic by the same doctor who treated the woman in the true story ‘Three Faces of Eve’.
Although he had a different name in the movie, his real name was Dr. Thigpen. Third, we were the black sheep tribe in that family–my father set steel on bridges, so we moved plenty and often. I was very socially outcast when we finally settled down enough for me to go to high school, and for my mother to recover from shock treatment. I did not fit in in high school. I would not have fit in during a more normal time, but it was the time that the high school was integrated. I got beaten up often by both black and white kids. Once a big girl, wearing her boyfriend’s initial ring, hit me so hard that the impression of a ‘D’ remained on my cheek until the bruises faded. My father hit us often and not just spankings, but really hit us.
Okay, background over.
I began to wake up, thinking myself under attack. A hand would be grabbing at me…grabbing my hair and tearing my clothes, and grasping to catch hold of my throat and choke me. I never immediately knew that it was my hand. I was busy fighting with my other hand to pull it off me. It was my left hand that attacked. I am right handed. I would be rolled out of bed on the floor and fighting for my life I thought. Eventually, I would be holding on to the wrist of that hand, and I would view it and realize, and say to myself…’that’s my hand.’ And the attack would stop. The hand would stop trying to hurt me. My mother and father never saw these attacks. They heard me screaming and fighting, but I always had the door locked and barricaded. I was afraid of both my violently insane father and my crazy as a loon mother, who slept with a shotgun under her mattress, no lie. I didn’t want to come in when I was asleep. So they thought it was a nightmare. Eventually, they took me to a shrink. I was crazy like a fox. I knew that a psychiatrist had put my mother in an institution. I didn’t want to go there too. I told that doctor I had trouble with boys and zits. I didn’t even mention being a punching bag at school. I certainly didn’t mention that I was choking myself.
To myself there seemed to be 2 explanations. I thought maybe I could be possessed by Satan, but even back then it didn’t seem too likely. The explanation that I gave myself and believed is more sad than that: I decided that I was so miserable that I wanted to kill myself, and because I was too chicken to do myself harm while awake, I was trying to kill myself while asleep.
I do not remember how many times this happened. Not over 10, and maybe not as many as 5. But definitely more than once or twice–and enough to make my extremely negligent parents concerned enough to get me to the doctor about those ‘bad dreams’. My mother also blamed the daytime soap opera ‘Dark Shadows’ which featured a vampire called Barnabas Collins.

Needless to say, I married very early, by the end of my 16th year. By then it had stopped happening, but until I was 20 I had periodic episodes of sleep paralysis, the last time being when I was pregnant with my first child at 20, and never again after that. Except for physical abuse I was a healthy child and not sick or hurt, except for a near death experience after a timber-rattler bite.

I told my story through out my life to different people, but never knew about Alien Hand Syndrome until I was watching a episode of 20/20 back in the mid nineties. Then I realized what had happened to me all those years ago, and how fortunate that it was a passing thing. But I have some curiosity left…could it have been caused by all the knocks in the head I got? Could the rattlesnake bite have caused it? Could it have to do with the fact that my grandparents were double first cousins and my parents second cousins? Could I pass this along to my daughter and grand kids? And can it return.
I am now diabetic and some times see things when I wake up at night, but these things are benign, not scary, but I have a niece who thinks she is possessed and often has to be restrained to keep from doing physical damage to herself. Basically, I am okay now, and am a lucky woman really. I just would like some answers, and almost all the websites about AHS are filled with medical jargon that eludes me.

By: norZwn

norZwn — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:05:29 +0000

On amputating an AHS limb:
I’ve heard that some people have been able to kill a lot of the flesh on the limb by holding it in a vat of dry ice or something similar, forcing doctors to amputate. It’s a bit drastic, but at least it gets the professionals involved in the whole thing. I don’t think that many American insurance companies would want to cover that, though.

By: quite interested

quite interested — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:48:44 +0000

I feel so bad for people with this illness. If i was unfortunate enough to have this, i can imagine myself talking to my hand T.T

By: ndc123

ndc123 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:25:24 +0000

@glamupgunsdown

“The symptoms are brought on by an injury to the brain, such as head trauma, stroke, tumor, or infection”

I think you should probably get to a doctor.

By: glamupgunsdown

glamupgunsdown — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:13:26 +0000

I am 17 years old and ive been suffering from alien hand syndrome for about a year. The problem is ive never had any type of surgery before so i don’t know what its from

By: Gunerjimbo

Gunerjimbo — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:16:53 +0000

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, you need to get over yourself. You have complete control over your own body and if you try to tell anyone otherwise, you are ignorant. This means you Cereal or Cyril or wat ever your name is

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