All that we see or seem - Is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allen Poe, Poetry Foundation.

Picnic at Hanging Rock is more than just a book/film/story. I've experienced several paranormal anomalies in conjunction with my discovery of this content that make me extremely curious to find out more.

It wasn't enough to see the recently updated series. I ordered the book and then added the posthumously published follow-up publication of the 18th chapter, The Secret of Hanging Rock, Amazon. (Still on the way, the Biography of the author, Joan Lindsay.)

In the previous segment I talked about a perfectly timed Valentine - delivered via misdirected text. Valentine's Day was Joan's favorite holiday.

Not only have the time related anomalies continued, I witnessed something I had never seen as I was uploading audio to a site. The time was out of sync. A glitch, no doubt - but a glitch I saw happen in real time.

The other issue? An amazing find in the commentary included with The Secret of Hanging Rock. One of the contributors offers an Indigenous perspective. That was what I needed to see - and a truly wonderful surprise.

The commenter is Mudrooroo, Colin Johnson. Deceased, 2019. Obit. “He was the premier Indigenous poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and academic of the generation that created Aboriginal literature and an Aboriginal rights movement in Australia.

He suggests the missing girls and their teacher had a UFO encounter...a topic that might have been too fringe for mass distribution at the time the story was published or even in the chapter reveal.

Certainly a more relevant topic now with increased interest and greater acceptance of experiencers who have shared personal accounts indicating - missing time - is a common element related to UFO encounters. Even better, Mudrooroo offers the case of Kelly Cahill as an example.

Reference: Youtube. Kelly Cahill talks about her alien abduction experience in the Dandenong Ranges near Belgrave, Victoria in Australia on August 8, 1993.

Wendy's Coffeehouse blog. Link.

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