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disorder. He is an excellent hypnotic subject, who appeared to make an honest
attempt while under hypnosis to describe what he remembered.
He has approached the dilemma of what is happening to him in a careful and
forthright way and has pursued his investigation with diligence. After an
initial period of stress, he became much more calm about his situation and
soon learned to deal with it in a psychologically healthy way. He appears to
me to have adapted very well to life at a high level of uncertainty.
DONALD F. KLEIN, MD
Director of Research
New York State Psychiatric Institute
APPENDIX II
Polygraph Results
On October 31. 1986, I was polygraphed by Ned Laurendi, president of the
Society of
Professional investigators and vice-president of the Empire State Polygraph
Society. He has been a polygraph operator for twenty-five years. He was paid
in the normal course of business before the polygraph was undertaken, and was
not familiar with me before the test.
I was aware of the controversial nature of polygraphic results, and so
determined to add a test of Mr. Laurendi's effectiveness to the process.
Without telling him, I lied in my answers to control questions thirteen and
sixteen. In both cases, he detected the lie correctly. His ability to do this
along with his leading position in his field has convinced me that,
despite the controversies surrounding lie detection in general, he is very
skilled indeed.
The letter referred to in the test results was written to Mr. Laurendi on
October 17, 1986, and outlined the part of my experiences that I remembered
before hypnosis.
The reason I carried out the polygraph was to reassure readers that I honestly
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think that I
perceived the things reported in this book. It is not fiction, and does not
contain a word of fiction. My successful completion of this test in no way
proves that my recollection of my experiences is correct, but it does confirm
that I have described what I saw to the best of my ability.
Test Results
1. Are you known as Whitley Strieber?
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
2. Do you intend to answer truthfully?
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
3. Did you intentionally plan to be given a lie detector test on this
Halloween day?
(Note: Mr. Laurendi suspected that he might be the victim of a practical joke,
an understandable response in view of the coincidence of date and the nature
of my experience.)
No. (Evaluated true.)
4. Do you belong to any cults?
No. (Evaluated true.)
5. Do you think that those things happened to you on October 4, 1985, that
were outlined in your letter dated October 17, 1986?
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
6. Did you ever fraudulently conceal any information prior to 1984?
No. (Evaluated true.)
7. Do you think those things happened to you on December 26, 1985, as
outlined in your letter dated October 17, 1986?
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
8. Besides when you were eight years old, did you ever hallucinate again
prior to 1984?
(Note: I had a hallucination during a fever when I was eight.)
No. (Evaluated true.)
9. Do you live in New York?
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
10. Do you think those things happened to you on March 15, 1986, as outlined
in your letter dated October 17, 1986?
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
11. Did you ever lie for personal gain prior to 1984?
No. (Evaluated true.)
12. Do you think those things happened to you in late March 1986 as outlined
in your letter dated October 17, 1986? (This referred to the intrusion of the
needle into my nose and my visit to the doctor to have the injury examined.)
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
13. Did you ever lie to anyone in a business venture prior to 1984?
No. (Evaluated as possibly untrue. A correct response. I've been in business
for twenty years and I'm not sure I haven't lied occasionally.)
14. Have you lied to those people who interviewed you with respect to the tour
items we discussed?
No. (Evaluated true.)
15. Are you a free-lance writer?
Yes. (Evaluated true.)
16. Did you ever lie to someone that trusted you prior to 1984?
No. (Evaluated false. Again, he was right. I lied to my parents, for example,
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