UFO Abductions Through The Ages
The abduction stories form a continuum with old legends and beliefs ...They do contain a message ...given to us by the hidden parts of our being.
-- John Rimmer - (The Evidence for Alien Abductions - 1984)Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
-- Edgar Allan Poe - (The Raven)
"We stepped into the fringe of reality," Karla Turner replied
to a questioner -- after relating her incredible story to an
immense group at the 1992 Ozark UFO Conference. "Our book comes
from my journal that I kept (about these events)."
Karla [now deceased; a victim of the
insidious cancer many "abductees" mysteriously succumb to
-B:.B:.], who holds a Ph.D. in
English, hypnotized her husband Casey in the mid-1980s to
attempt to find the source of Casey's anxiety and tension.
Casey, a computer software consultant, had been seeing a
therapist at the time and was suffering with a variety of
nervous problems. What they found in the hypnosis was not what
they expected.
Casey had numerous memories of alien contact -- sexual contact.
One of his earliest memories was a white-haired, old woman
appearing in his bedroom when he was 13 years old. She had a
deeply wrinkled face and deep, piercing eyes. Unable to resist,
he had sexual intercourse with her. Casey also recalled other
times that creatures entered his bedroom and forced him to have
sex. One such experience left him with claw marks on his back,
while another incident in 1987 resulted in a painful scar on the
back of his leg.
Interaction with the abductors wasn't limited to Casey. Karla
told of walking into her home at night when a being grabbed hold
of her arm. The creature told her it was her mother, but Karla
stated that it looked like a giant grasshopper. Another time,
Karla was coming home through her back yard when she felt like
she "had hit an electric fence. I wasn't feeling right...wasn't
moving right ...there was a glow everywhere ...I stopped...and
saw four gray beings standing side by side in my backyard."
"I assumed I was having a hallucination (but) I'm awake -- why?
I felt I could see through them and they talked to me
telepathically."
"Greetings, we are your ancestors," they said. "We are a part
of you, but we are real."
"I couldn't move as I normally do," Karla continued. "Then two
females behind me came up close -- they started buzzing."
"They are giving you some instructions," they told me.
Karla and Casey have become involved with a variety of MUFON
investigators since the uncovering of their memories as well as
conducting a variety of their own investigations. They have
somewhat specialized in sexual abductions and been influenced by
the popular books Intruders, Missing Time, and others. Karla
told a story about a grandmother with her young grandson. The
grandmother had been a widow for several years when she was
forced to drink a liquid handed to her by an alien who
appeared in her bedroom late one night.
At the 1992 Ozark UFO Convention, cattle mutilation expert Linda
Moulton Howe also focused on sexual abduction stories. She told
a story about one man who had become so plagued by a particular
female alien coming to him each night that he repeatedly
masturbated before sleeping so that he would have trouble
getting an erection when the aliens appeared. This so disturbed
the female alien and her mantis-like "keepers" that they made an
agreement with the man. Howe stated that the aliens are
probably collecting genetic material from cattle and humans.
In discussing how the beings appear, Howe said that "the air
itself is like a curtain they can go behind." They come out of
"tears in the air."
Aileen Garoutte, director of the abductee support organization
UFOCCI, has interviewed and used regression hypnosis on numerous
abductees who have claimed sexual contact with the aliens. One
couple was abducted during a drive between Princeton and
Penticton in British Columbia, Canada. Two hours of missing
time occurred during their trip that was later "remembered" as a
"classic" abduction. Both were given a special drink, medical
exams, and had sexual encounters with the aliens. The woman
became pregnant as a result of the abduction though she had been
using two different types of birth control. After their
abduction she had spots on her body over her ovaries and her
husband had a ring of spots across his groin. Literally dozens
of similar stories have been uncovered by UFOCCI.
After she drank the thick fluid, she became young again. A
reptilian-like alien then attempted to have intercourse
with her but she resisted. Then the alien brought in her dead
husband who began making sexual advances to her. The grandmother
had intercourse with the creature that appeared as her husband,
but eventually saw that it was a reptilian. After finishing with
the grandmother, the reptilians had anal and oral intercourse
with her young grandson.
The "modern" aliens associated with sexual abductions now appear
to fall into three broad categories. The traditional grays are
nearly always present. Male grays seldom engage in intercourse,
but some female grays do. The grays often connect bizarre
devices to the sex organs of abductees and insert needles in an
apparent attempt to collect sperm and ovum samples. Then there
are the more sinister creatures described as reptilian,
grasshopper-like, or mantis-like. These creatures, whose sexual
organs are described as ice cold, often have intercourse with
humans. Finally, there are creatures that, except for their
dress, would be indistinguishable from humans. They are
sometimes described as Nordic in appearance -- tall blondes with
blue eyes. These abductors have, at times, had intercourse with
abductees. All of the appearances taken on by abductors appear
to be fluid and plastic; that is, they can easily change their
shape to whatever they wish.
Sexual Abduction Experiences Aren't New
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Baby Space Aliens hone their Tantric Skills from young infancy (left) by isolating a nubile young earth woman and looking up her dress. As teenagers they perform house-calls (right) in order to take turns nailing their brainwashed and subservient squeeze. "Earth women are easy," they remark. |
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Given the current intense interest in alien sexual encounters,
many people seem to feel that such reports are relatively recent.
They aren't. Sexual encounters with alien abductors are not
new to ufology. On October 15, 1957, 23-year old farmer Antonio
Boas was plowing a field at his farm near Minas Gerais in Brazil.
It was night as Boas was trying to catch up on the plowing.
Looking up into the sky, Boas saw a brightly lit red object
descending from the sky. It was his third UFO sighting that
week. This time, however, the object landed in his field. Out
of the egg-shaped object came four aliens fitted in metallic
space suits with helmets.
As the creatures glided toward him, Boas tried to escape on the
tractor, but it stalled. Boas jumped off and started running.
A few moments later he was captured and dragged into the
spaceship. There he was taken into a circular room where he was
restrained while one of the creatures took a blood and skin
sample from his chin. Then he was stripped and moved to another
room where only a white, plastic couch sat in the center of the
room. His body was sponged with a clear, oily liquid and then
the four creatures left.
A few moments later clouds of gray smoke filled the room causing
Boas to vomit. Then a hidden slit opened in the wall through
which a beautiful, naked, alien woman walked. She had blond-
white hair parted in the middle, large blue eyes, thin lips,
high, prominent cheekbones, and a pointed chin. She was under
five feet tall. Boas clearly remembered her blood-red pubic
hair and her well-separated, pointy breasts.
The female began rubbing her body against Boas and he quickly
embraced her. According to Boas they had intercourse two times
during which the alien barked and growled like an animal. After
the second time she got off the couch and walked to the hidden
door. She pointed to her stomach and then to the sky. Then she
walked out.
Moments later two of the space suited aliens returned with his
clothes. He dressed and was given a tour of the ship after
which he was released.
| Mothman-like Appearances and Witches | |
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A renaissance woodcut depicting a woman beating off the advances of a demon (left) and an interesting illustration (right) from Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus (1863). |
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According to fairy lore, fairies create a circular cluster
of small bruises as their mark. The phenomenon is known as "fairy
bruising" and is a sign of either favor or disfavor. The ring
of bruises is often found around the genitals. They did this,
according to various 17th century accounts, by pinching their
victims:
An Encyclopedia of Fairies (Briggs, 1976) gives numerous ancient
examples of fairy abductions. Almost always a special drink
was given to the abductee. This drink, usually described as a thick
liquid, was an essential part of the fairy abduction. Women are
abducted much more often than men and some fairies take special
delight, in repeatedly capturing women for amorous motives.
In short, some fairies simply liked having sexual relations with
mortals.
Fairies abduct their victims through paralysis; then they simply
carry (levitate and fly) the abductee away into "fairyland."
Fairyland is always nearby; under normal conditions we can't see
or perceive it. The paralysis induced on the victim is how
fairies get their abductee to enter fairyland. The modem word
"stroke" (meaning paralysis) is derived from the ancient terms
"elf-stroke" and "fairy-stroke." Fairies travel in circular
globes of light, sometimes called "will-o-the-wisp."
There are so many different types of fairies that going through
them would be tedious. Some of them, however, are virtually
indistinguishable from what have been described as demons. One
particular type, the "bogie," looks a lot like the traditional
bigfoot. Virtually every society has some lore of these "little
people" and myths of them forcing their sexual attentions on
human victims.
If lustie Doll, maide of the Dairie,
Chance to be blew-nipt by the fairie.
Marston's Mountebanks Masque
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Illustration depicting a devil stealing a "witch" for sex. One of numerous illustrations from Olaus Magnus' 1555 Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus |
The resemblance between modern UFO abduction reports and ancient
accounts of demonic visitations are striking, indeed. Ulrich
Molitor's De Laniis et phitonicis mulieribus (1489) shows the
first known engravings of demons who abduct and then have sexual
relations with humans. Olaus Magnus' Historia de gentibus
septentrionalibus (1555) contained engravings of the devil and
demons carrying women (witches) away for sex. The early
accounts of these are similar to UFO abductions; however, in
that era it was not seen as a good thing to happen to you (as
contrasted to many UFO abductees who view it as a positive and
special experience).
In the early days of the church, people who told of having
visitations by "demons" were tolerated. Somewhat later, they
were fined or removed from the church. It was in the 15th
century that the church was no longer content to simply throw
the "witches" and "sorcerers" out of the church. From that
point onward they sought to wring confessions out of suspected
witches and then burn or hang the accused. To have sex with
a demon meant you were a witch or a sorcerer. Witches almost
always had sexual relations with the demons or Satan himself and
they were said to have some power over elemental demons. It is
the lower orders of the demons that supposedly take on the
appearance of UFO-like beings and fairies. In fact, in many of
the witch trials in the 15th and 16th centuries, the "lower
orders" of demons were described as leprechauns, gnomes,
and other fairies.
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A renaissance wood cut of "incubi and succubi invading" a home and seducing two victims |
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Far more frequent was mention of sexual intercourse forced on
victims by demons known as incubus or succubus. "Essentially
the incubus is a lewd demon or goblin which seeks sexual
intercourse with women ...the corresponding devil which appears
to man is the succubus" (Dictionary of Witchcraft & Demonology).
Guazzo's (1608) Compendium Maleficarum stated: "(The demon) can
assume either a male or female shape; sometimes he appears as a
full-grown man, sometimes as a satyr." St. Augustine firmly
believed that demons abducted people and forced sexual relations
on them: "(Demons) have often injured women, desiring and acting
carnally with them."
Virtually no one disputed the existence of these sex-seeking
demons. Martin Del Rio (1599) wrote of the reality of incubus
in the Disquisitionum Magicarum, "...to disagree (with their
existence) is only obstinacy and foolhardiness; for it is the
universal opinion of the fathers, theologians, and writers on
philosophy, the truth of which is generally acknowledged by all
ages and peoples." Peter Binsfeld's De Confessione Maleficarum
(1589) stated, "(The incubus) is an indisputable truth which is
not only proved most certain by experience, but also is
confirmed by history.."
Ancient Crossbreeding & Genetic Experimentation
Just like modern UFO abductors do, demons have long been
collecting sperm samples from male victims. According to the
ancient reports, the succubus gathers semen from the male
victims so that the demon can fully perform the sex act and
sometimes impregnate its female victim when acting as an incubus.
In Thomas Aquinas' 13th century book Summa Theologica he wrote:
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Depiction of a "frivolous woman" and the devil who appears in a human-body form for sex. The devil shows his disrespect for her prior to the act. From Augsburg's Der Ritter vom Turn (1489). |
For several thousand years there have been reports of alien abduction for sexual purposes. Because of the number of reports coming from early church members, much attention was given the phenomenon during the 1200s and 1300s. Here are a few summaries by the church from this time period:
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Illustration from a 14th century French manuscript in the Paris Bibliotheque nationale. It depicts the devil in bed with a woman. |
Other accounts of incubus attacks leave one with the definite impression that something physical was happening rather than the experience being a purely psychological event. One impressive account had numerous witnesses. The writer Sinistrari wrote of a nun that was locked into a small, nearly barren cell after dinner. She was alone when they closed the door; shortly thereafter, however, sounds of passion (between two people) came from the cell. When the cell was immediately opened for inspection, no one but the nun was in it. Another nun then bored a small hole through the wall and was astonished to see a youth "appear" on the bed with the nun. Quietly, the nun gathered other sisters to view the scene in the cell between the locked-up nun and the "youth." When they went back into the cell, the youth again disappeared. However, the nun confessed that she had been intimate with an incubus for some time and that he appeared as the youth that they had seen. None of the nuns recognized the youth, nor was he seen again. In addition, that report indicated that there was no way that anyone could escape the cell holding the nun. He simply appeared and then vanished.
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Illustration depicting the "Devil's mark" being scratched onto the forehead of a victim. The mark was a small, straight scar inflicted with razor-sharp talons in one of several spots: on the forehead, on the back of the leg above the knee, or in another secret spot. From Guazzo's Compendium Maleficarum (1608). |
Another interesting feature of medieval witch reports that parallels modern UFO reports is the so-called Devil's mark. This is not the same thing as a witch's mark, but is rather a mark conferred upon victims by the devil himself. According to ancient beliefs, the devil marks his victims for identification. The mark is scratched on the victim with a talon. The marks are usually a straight scar in an odd spot, typically not seen without some difficulty, or some sort of a tattoo. Daneau (1564) stated in Les Sorciers that, "(Not a witch exists) upon whom (the devil or a demon) doth not set some note or token of his power and prerogative over them." Sinistrari's De Demonialitate stated that the mark of the devil..."is imprinted on the most secret parts of the body."
Were we not in "modern" times, the marks seen on many UFO
abductees would be seen as the marks of the devil. Cuts on the
back of the leg, purplish circular spots, bruises, circles of
warts and spots surrounding the abdomen and genitals, facial
holes, and nasal cavity holes all would have qualified. These
were the exact same marks and areas of the body used for the
Devil's mark. These are also similar to the "fairy bruises."
Many, many people want to believe that UFOs are crafts from
other worlds carrying advanced extraterrestrial beings. Many
want to believe that the sexual abductions represent genetic
experimentation and crossbreeding by extraterrestrials. The
simple fact is that believing that is far more comforting than
accepting the possible reality of what has been described in the
prior few pages. Most of us don't want to really believe that
there are actual beings that exist that have been called "demons"
or "fairies" or a "devil." Contemplation of such possibilities
is deeply disturbing. It touches the darkest and most remote
areas of our psyche. It energizes the most fearsome and
powerful psychological processes of our minds.
"Nuts and bolts" ufologists avoid studying or even acknowledging
abductions by stating that these aren't "true" UFO reports. I
have heard numerous urologists state over and over, 'We know
these (UFOs) are physical craft, they are spaceships. The
psychic and parapsychological stuff doesn't have anything to do
with these craft. Anything but what I'm studying is 'new age'
bunk." It's as if they stick their noses down and look at the
little piece of the gigantic puzzle before them, refusing to
open their eyes to the fact that they are ignoring the big
picture.
It is important to understand that I am not saying that UFOs are
piloted by demons. I am not saying that fairies and demons are
the rapists who force themselves on their abducted victims.
There is a real problem with terminology here -- most of us have
a preconceived idea of what a fairy or a demon is, and I really
don't want to conjure up that image.
What I am saying is that there is a process that has been
ongoing -- probably for all of humanity's history -- that
manifests itself through the appearance of archetypal creatures
and beings. John Keel was one of the first to recognize this.
Others, including Vallee, Clark, and many British ufologists
have long pointed out the resemblance between modern UFO reports
and the ancient traditions. It doesn't really matter what we
call the process underlying UFOs, abductions, and all of the
related phenomena, but it is important to see that they all tie
together. Even the dreaded and paranoia-producing "government"
has long-recognized this connection in their earliest reports
(although changes in policy precluded too much future mention of
it). John Keel's UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse cites the preface
from a 1960s publication by the U.S. Air Force Office of
Scientific Research called UFOs and Related Subjects: An
Annotated Bibliography. In that report it was stated:
In addition, Raynes conducted a survey of his UFO percipients'
medical and psychological histories. Most of his medical
findings were within normal expectations of a sample of adults
randomly drawn from the population. However, the psychological
findings appear to strongly suggest a Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) cluster of findings. Here are a few
findings from Raynes' extensive statistical list:
In recent years, PTSD has become one of the favorite diagnoses
of recovery-oriented mental health professionals. When the
symptoms are seen, childhood abuse (sexual, physical, and
emotional) are often immediately suspected. Many professionals
(myself included) view this quick diagnosis tendency as a
temporary fad; however, there is no denying the trauma that
childhood abuse inflicts upon its many victims.
Over a decade ago, Rick Rotter, a former MUFON Section Director,
suggested to me that all UFO abductees are reliving a form of
post-traumatic stress syndrome. This is not really a new idea.
But what was rather unique about Rick's idea was that he felt
abductees were experiencing the abduction because of long-
standing trauma due to childhood sexual abuse. That is, the
memory of a UFO abduction (and the sex that occurs during the
abduction) represents a reliving of a childhood memory of an
adult human who perpetrated sex abuse on the young child.
Because the memory of the person perpetrating the abuse (usually
the child's father, mother, grandparents, or other relative) is
so traumatic, their memory is twisted and adjusted so that a
"monster" or otherworldly creature is believed to have performed
the act on them. "Inner Child" theory and other pop psychology
beliefs relate to this idea.
A review of classic abduction cases can certainly lend some
support to this view. Just reading the sexual abductions in the
beginning of this chapter can support this belief. The problem
is that perhaps somewhere between 10% to 25% of the entire
population has had some form of childhood sexual abuse. (There
is great disagreement as to the reliability of childhood sex
abuse statistics -- virtually all should be seen as unreliable
guesstimates.) Thus, statistically speaking, 10% to 25% of
abductees should show childhood sexual abuse. Most abductees
are screened for childhood sexual abuse and the results seem to
show that between 10% to 25% were victims -- not the much higher
numbers expected with the sexual abuse trauma hypothesis.
I have more than a passing interest in childhood sexual abuse.
I co-authored a chapter in a medical text, Sexology (Bianco &
Serrano, 1990), on treating sexual abuse disorders and co-authored
another paper in a hypnosis journal on it. Alcoholism, drug
abuse, and various relationship and personal problems are
quite frequently seen in victims of childhood sexual abuse --
therein lies my professional interest in the issue. But are UFO
abductions related to it? Not in my experience or my colleagues'
experience. Because childhood sexual abuse is a hot topic
right now in recovery circles, it is invoked for virtually every
single problem seen in adults. Victims' groups (sometimes
called survivor's groups) believe that almost every physical and
medical problem, relationship difficulty, psychological problem,
and career problem is caused by childhood sexual abuse. When
someone is seen with any kind of problem, they say that it must
be as a result of childhood sexual abuse. What this boils down
to is this: Ufologists investigating abductees should almost
always see the symptoms of PTSD if the abduction was experienced
as traumatic by the abductee. But PTSD symptoms only indicate
that some sort of trauma occurred -- not what the trauma was.
Because an undetermined percentage of people (probably between
10% to 25%) were victims of childhood sexual abuse, that same
percentage should show in people who claim UFO abductions.
Today, most ufologists investigating abductees screen out the
abductees who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Most
professionals who have investigated ufology to any depth agree
that the childhood sexual abuse problem has next to nothing to
do with UFO abductions. I agree with most professionals on this.
Rotter's Sexual Trauma Hypothesis bears a striking resemblance
to another abduction explanation. In the early 1980s, an
English professor, Dr. Alvin Lawson, suggested that abductees
are reliving the trauma of birth. Here, "the fetus is
unwillingly taken from a place of security (the womb) to an
uncontrollably unknown world (the outside)" (Little, 1984).
Lawson explains the humanoid abductor's appearance as
symbolically representing a fetus. Of course, when you are born
you can't see your appearance (as a fetus). And all of us were
born -- so we might expect many more people to have abduction
experiences. Few people today take Lawson's hypothesis
seriously.
Before the modern era of UFOs, those who claimed contact with
non-human entities were placed in occult, spiritualistic,
apparitional, hallucinatory, psychotic, or pixilated categories.
Some ufologists -- again, those who adhere to the extraterrestrial
hypothesis -- argue that abductions aren't part of the UFO
phenomenon. They are wrong. For abductions are an integral part
of the UFO myth. Abductions are almost always cited as evidence
of alien contact, and ufologists will use cases that fit their
theory while discarding the rest as unrelated, purely psychological,
or hoaxes. This is another example of selective perception and
confirmation bias -- attending to only those facts or tidbits of
information that already confirm your beliefs. It's time that we
began fitting all of the pieces of the gigantic ufology puzzle
together. It's time we recognize that we are interacting with
something that is very real, but it's not alien extraterrestrials.
Excerpt from:
Grand Illusions: The Spectral Reality Underlying Sexual UFO
Abductions, Crashed Saucers, Afterlife Experiences, Sacred
Ancient Sites, and Other Enigmas
About the author:
Dr. Gregory L. Little holds a Master of Science Degree in
Psychology and a Doctor of Education Degree in Counseling from
Memphis State University. He works in criminal justice as a
trainer, publications editor, and researcher. He has published
and presented over 200 papers and reports in numerous professional
journals and publications on the topics of psychopharmacology,
mental health, substance abuse treatment, antisocial personality
treatments, and criminal justice. In addition, he has published
articles on archaeology, UFO abductions, and other paranormal
phenomena. He is also a licensed private pilot and part Seneca
Indian.
Musings On Abductions
For a number of reasons, most people studying UFO abductions are
deeply disturbed by the parallels between ancient and modern UFO
abduction reports. They are so disturbed that they refuse to
even see that any relationships exist. I am astonished at how
many contemporary investigators -- professionals who should know
better -- simply refuse to see the historical perspective of
this phenomenon. It is easy to be smug and say, "This is
different, we aren't superstitious anymore, these are modern
times." But in 500 years a lot of what we deeply believe will
be laughed at and ridiculed.
A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked
with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects
like mental telepathy, automatic writing, and invisible entities,
as well as phenomena like poltergeist manifestations and
possession....Many of the UFO reports now being published in the
popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly
similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena which
has long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.
Abductees and the Paranormal
In July 1990, ufologist Brent Raynes published the results
of a statistical survey he conducted on 46 people who reported
contact with or sightings of UFOs in the publication UFO
Perceptions. A little over a quarter of them were abductees,
with the rest having some close contact with UFOs. Raynes'
survey clearly showed that people who have any sort of UFO
experiences also have a variety of other "paranormal"
experiences. Here are some of the results:
Abductions: Separating Wheat From Chaff
There is no doubt that a lot of abductions have occurred. The
1992 Roper Survey suggested that at least 2% of the population
has been abducted. Thus, over 5 million Americans alone may have
had the experience. Are there really that many visitors from
other worlds here? If 2% of the world's population has been
abducted over the last 40 years (as has been suggested by
ufologists), then at least 90 million people have been abducted
in the world. This means the clever aliens are grabbing 2.25
million of us each year (assuming we each get to have only one
abduction). Over 6,000 abductions are then occurring each day
with about 257 abductions occurring each and every hour. Are
all of these abductions caused by extraterrestrial beings flying
around in craft -- or do they represent something else? Are
modern UFO abductions just a modern version of a phenomenon that
has occurred and been documented over thousands of years? I am
certain this is what they are.
-1994 by Dr. Gregory L. Little
ISBN 0-940829-10-X
White Buffalo Books, POB 9972, Memphis, TN 38190
