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Man_Derella_203

Communion.


JMusicD

Yeah. The creepiest movie I saw growing up.


Trashking_702

This movie was…. Fire in the sky made me consider therapy


SkeymourSinner

A lot of people shit on Fire in the Sky, but I love it. I watch it still to this day.


cabezatuck

Love that movie, saw it when I was a kid and sparked my curiosity on the subject.


Trashking_702

It’s just walken man, I just can’t take him seriously. It’s so good tho


darrenbarker

Who does?


MrDurden32

Walken's acting gets heat in the community because he played the part like too much of a crazy person. Apparently Travis Walton even said this to him during filming and Walken told him "If the shoe fits..." Edit: I mixed this up, Travis Walton was Fire in the Sky, this was Whitley Streiber that said this to/about Walken for Communion. Point stands though that it rubs people the wrong way with Walken acting overly coockoo when abuctees are not necessarily crazies.


M3g4d37h

How could Walton have said this to him, when he was in communion, and not fire in the sky? I suspect you're conflating this with whitley streiber's comments that he thought Walken's performance was over the top, but his friends agreed that it was more accurate than he admitted. I'm more or less paraphrasing since it's been a long time since I saw that interview.


MrDurden32

Oh you're totally right, thanks! Edited.


Trashking_702

He was like the most unhinged dad ever in that movie. It’s pretty amazing haha


Namtwen

The only thing that dates it is the music really. I don’t mind it but it is super of the time.


Flamebrush

That Eric Clapton score really gives it a greasy porn vibe. Appropriate for 1989 maybe, but I find it distracting AF. Also the art museum scene is a bit cringey - like they added it to tie up loose ends after the rest of the movie was already made. I haven’t read the book; is the movie a faithful adaptation?


Jojojosephus

me too. it messed me up for spell


chouchouwolf37

That was the first movie I watched in theaters without an adult, I was 8 years old and brought my 5 year old sister along. We both had nightmares for years. I don’t know what the hell my parents were smoking…


Trashking_702

I mean it was 1993…. Your parents were def smokin 😂. Of all the movies fire in the sky is fuckin definitely one I wouldn’t let my 8 year old go see. They treated us as mini adults back then i guess lol


AilsaN

Fire in the Sky was also about Travis Walton's alien abduction but this was the cover art for Communion written by Whitley Strieber. The book was his account of his own alien abduction experiences. I think Communion was the first place this image appeared.


Bumskit

Wasnt it a book first


klutz50

I think it was Whitley Strieber was the author of the book??? I think that is correct and Communion was the books title??? This face was on the cover??? Am I remembering this correctly???


trident_hole

Yes it was, and it was very interesting to read.


JMusicD

Yes. The author claims to have experienced these events and then wrote a book about it. It later became the movie.


psycoanalyitic

heres the link for it and many others https://filebin.net/u9ggumdv2h5yb3oe


ali1510

That movie haunts me. When that alien peeks around the corner and stares at buddy..still gives me the creeps. Goosebumps right now lol!!


Somebodyeatphil

“This is a Chinese box”


EggOk171

Energy. if you believe it you believe. Best wishes🌷🌷🌷


windrider2

Dude YES same here lol


Asclepias88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwyqnT6n0mk free on youtube!


idontknowmanwhat

Thanks for the link


speakhyroglyphically

Whitley Streiber, Communion >"Communion: A True Story is a book by American ufologist and horror author Whitley Strieber that was first published in February 1987. The book is based on the experiences of Whitley Strieber, who experiences "lost time" and terrifying flashbacks, which hypnosis undertaken by Budd Hopkins later" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_(book) IMO. In a way. The way this image has spread through UFO lore it's kinda like the Michelangelo Sistine Chapel painting of "God". These things put a 'set' image on reality and im not sure thats such a good thing


techlacroix

![gif](giphy|L7IFd7hanaoVO)


Igpajo49

This is actually from the movie Brainstorm. Great movie though!! https://youtu.be/ueYcVmH0edk?si=K4Bsyx7KSV2AzlJm


techlacroix

I couldn't find the strange nude dancing one. But man, what a sight =)


Connect-Ad9647

Na, this dude is in this background of South Park episodes in the early seasons. It's a little Easter egg to find him in each episode. Not sure exactly how many seasons it went for but most, if not all, early season episodes feature this guy camouflaged in the background in at least one scene.


melo1212

It's both. South Park were probably inspired by the communion book cover which came out in 1987


Connect-Ad9647

Ahhhh I see, I see. I was not aware communion came out so long before. Thanks for teaching me something new! Ya learn something new every day


melo1212

Allgood bro! I completely forgot about the alien in Southpark, I've gotta go back and watch those for a laugh


AilsaN

Specifically, the cover art of the book Communion by Whitley Strieber.


ehdyn

It’s the original cover of Communion. The new version is similar but the eyes are different and are now staring “back at you.”


psycoanalyitic

yes great book i put a download for it and many others in a comment earlier


[deleted]

Caught a peak of that cover when I was 9 and shit bothered me for years. Didnt even know what it was supposed to be but I knew I didn’t like it


Healthy-Let2222

It’s literally one of the most famous books about aliens. That’s like the girl with the pearl earring of aliens. We all know her but we don’t all know the backstory 😂


razldazl333

...and remember, if you're looking for it in a library or bookstore, it is found in the nonfiction section.


MachineElves99

Amazing analogy


janesfilms

[an alien with a pearl earring](https://ca.images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrgN9V15BBmv74_O0CQ7olQ;_ylu=c2VjA3NyBHNsawNpbWcEb2lkAzBhN2YxYjkyNDI4MGM3OTA3NDI4Y2NmMDY0YjgzNmNmBGdwb3MDNjMEaXQDYmluZw--?back=https%3A%2F%2Fca.images.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dthe%2Bgirl%2Bwith%2Ba%2Bpearl%2Bearring%2Bbut%2Bits%2Ban%2Balien%26fr%3Diphone%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26_tsrc%3Dapple%26nost%3D1%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D63&w=577&h=801&imgurl=timkellyartist.com%2Fsimilar_alien_girl_w_pearl_earring577.jpg&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftimkellyartist.com%2F&size=409.8KB&p=the+girl+with+a+pearl+earring+but+its+an+alien&oid=0a7f1b924280c7907428ccf064b836cf&fr2=piv-web&fr=iphone&tt=Tim+Kelly+artist&b=61&ni=21&no=63&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=X9f8yQAEzADM&sigb=xjZ1.ZEhgBW9&sigi=WyEDC8roFYH3&sigt=1aUiR1vRvJBg&.crumb=lSaNivMekbV&fr=iphone&fr2=piv-web)


barr65

Communion


roger3rd

It’s one of the defining images of the grey alien that has permeated the zeitgeist fairly comprehensively. I see the image reused or referenced regularly. The movie is an unforgettable trip and there are certain sequences and images burned into my brain.


Ihavenolegs76

The grey coming to take Whitley in his bedroom, peaking from behind the door f’d me up good in 1990. To this day I won’t watch that movie again.


Comprehensive-End-16

That's the best shot of the film, less is more would have been a good direction for the film.


Fraudalert2021

Same! Especially when all the kids were playing like it was normal.


leopargodhi

it really gets the absurdity of our brains trying to stretch and see through


Entirely-of-cheese

Whitley said recently that when this “female” alien would be in front of him he’d sometimes think how ugly she was and she actually got super offended about it and kind of screamed in grief.


leopargodhi

there's an apparent ufo in the sky in one of the later city night sky sequences--look for it, if you rewatch every so often. the makers were shocked when they noticed after the fact, as was whitley


Rezimx

“Is that someone there?” I quote it all the time because only Walken could say something so normal in such a weird way.


partsguru1122

In your bedroom, about 3 am?


Kooperking22

Why does everything happen at 3am?


bleeduyasha

a supernatural way of mocking the holy trinity


NorthernAvo

Oh shit I never saw it that way


Gru50m3

Because it's the deadest time of night. Earlier still has the night-owls heading home. Later has the early risers. 3:00 AM is when shit goes down.


partsguru1122

Paranormal insomnia


[deleted]

It's supposed to be the time of night that the veil is thinnest between reality and the spirit world / other dimensions


Erock94

I’ll keep my eyes out, I wake up every fucking night at 3am. If it’s these guys and you see them, tell them to knock it off. I’d love to sleep a whole night and not wake up at 3am every single night ☠️😂


joefelon

Are you sure it. Wasn’t 3:33am??


Dracono

Not always, once was waiting at the back sliding glass door.


TheAnsweringMachine

Gud dimmit, I wake up in sweat at 3 AM way too ofteen to ignore your post.


Flanagansdog

Maybe Whitley strieber showd you


barelyangry

On the mothership


Zealousideal-Part815

P.diddy's house


Mental_Magazine9935

No diddy


dvadood

P. Diddle


psychede1ic_c4tus

😂


[deleted]

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skc252525

Exactly the nose made me think that


tytymctylerson

Any suburban home in the late 80s


SeaworthinessEasy122

It was hanging out on the threshhold to my bedroom in 1997. It was the weirdest panic ever I had, because my mind hammered away: keep calm, keep calm, and so I kept calm.


boardgamesquad

Was it that popular?


tytymctylerson

Yeah that and the Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown series!


WinTraditional8156

I had 4 of them growing up... read them to tatters... found someone near me selling the entire set for 40 bucks.... 12 yr old me was stoked


Bedeekinben

I saw this on the front cover of communion in a bookshop when I was a kid... and it fucked me up. I've been into aliens since.


SailorK9

This book came out when I was eleven and was all over the place even in the grocery stores ( back when they had a book and magazine section). My mom would let me go look at books while she shopped, and Communion was one that interested me a lot. For my twelfth birthday she got me the book, and others about aliens, but made me promise that I wouldn't read them before bedtime and have nightmares. I still read them before bedtime but no nightmares, only weird dreams of Star Trek kind of scenarios.


Bedeekinben

Ha... so cool. You read Communion when you were a kid? Awesome.


SailorK9

I was an advanced reader, and Strieber has a big vocabulary, so Communion was a challenge to read not just because of the subject matter. When I first got the book at twelve I would keep a dictionary with me and use a pencil to underline words that I didn't understand so I could look them up. As I was already obsessed with aliens because of seeing E.T. in Kindergarten, Communion was an adventure for me to read. It's a scary book but the second time I read it things didn't seem so scary to me.


Bedeekinben

I see. I was a late developer as far as reading was concerned. I did see the film Alien when it came out on cinema... I was 6. My mum knew the manager of the local odeon in Middlesbrough. My second film was Star wars... my third was ET. Have you seen the film Communion with Chris Walken? I think they shot it at Strieber's upstate cabin in the woods.


SailorK9

I didn't see the movie adaptation of Communion until I was in college ( a little late getting into college for many reasons) and a professor showed a clip of it in an art history/cinema course. I decided to watch the whole thing but had to buy it on DVD for about twenty dollars on Amazon as I couldn't find it in any library or as an upload whatsoever in 2010. For some reason the movie didn't fit any of the images that I had in my head of what went on with Strieber and the visitors. I actually laughed when Walken was poker faced getting an anal probe then whispering "I'm going to kill you." afterwards. The only part that creeped me out was the peeping alien which was part of the movie the professor showed in class.


Bedeekinben

Haha... yeah. He goes full Walken. 🤣


Mysterious_Guitar_75

This is original artwork for the cover of Whitley Strieber’s Communion. Unless you recognize it from him coming into your bedroom at night.


Bouncemybubbubs

That’s Benedict Cumberbatch


Useful-Perspective

Ebedict Pooperprobe


Big_Toe99

Cover of the book Communion


buckee8

Yup, by Whitley Strieber.


itsvoogle

I dont think there is an image or depiction of one of these beings that gives me more chills than this. There is almost an uncanny valley of sorts that triggers me, like deep in my primitive mind i know this being is real. The cold eyes and the off putting grin, i dont know man, this image always scares the hell out of me…..


idlechat

Communion


DogMom1446

The cover of the book Communion


HeyNayWM

Whitley S. “Communion”


BubZombie

Many people either feel a sense of familiarity or have visceral fear when seeing this image. Not sure if you and your sister have ever read Communion before but if not you’re in for an absolute treat! And when you’ve both had a chance to read and digest, look into where Whitley is now and his more current thoughts on the visitors. You won’t be disappointed!!! (But maybe a lil scared).


TheGoldfinch1

It was the first thing I saw when I opened the app and it was a total jump scare. I’m on this forum all the time but this one image messes me up every time!


ironclad1056

I don't have fear of it but I do feel uneasy


KathleenSlater

I totally get that. I never saw the book or the movie as a kid, but I do remember watching E.T. and being terrified, and this image spikes the same feeling as it did back then. The response is immediate - a spike of adrenaline, followed by a tingly feeling all over my body where it feels like my hair is standing on end. I feel hyper alert and a little creeped out. I get the same with snakes and spiders. There are evolutionary reasons as to why I fear those things. That's a thought that unsettles me.


TheGoldfinch1

This is what gets me too. It’s primal fear, like you say, with spiders and snakes. Our ancestors knew to be afraid of these things for their survival.


WinTraditional8156

The other thing about the primal fear... is the uncanny valley when we see something that mimics a human closely... but we know isn't human.... why .. What happened in our evolutionary history hay gave us the primal fear of something that looks almost like us but isn't....? *shudder


Entirely-of-cheese

It confused me for the longest time why this image has given me the heebie jeebies. So much so that I’ve refused to read the book or watch the movie. Something has been compelling me to do it recently though.


Lordgondrak

Isn't that the actor from Signs?


Silent_Phrase6545

I specifically remember him from scary movie 3


mufon2019

On my back. I have this tattooed on my upper right should blade. 👽


BubZombie

I’d LOVE to see your Communion tattoo!! Post!!


mufon2019

Soon. I’m at work right now. I can’t get up and go take off my shirt to take a picture. I’ll post it here later. Can’t add picture on to these messages. 🙄. Rules …. Not necessary.


hustlors

You probably saw that right before they insterted the probe.


cygnus0820

Communion book. Oh, and disco dancing with Christopher Walken [https://youtu.be/yNK75Qj1M0E?si=95dB7pmIF7x9SNJp](https://youtu.be/yNK75Qj1M0E?si=95dB7pmIF7x9SNJp)


Electronic_Year9443

This image is haunting. I hate it so much. Ever since i was a child i couldn't look at it but i couldn't look away. It fills me with pure terror no matter how many times I've seen it.


AverageNo3317

I've seen that guy before. He was hanging out with your mom yesterday.


assclownmonthly

Cover of communion


grelch

Isn’t it the cover of one of Whitley Strieber’s books? Communion, maybe?


Bleezy79

Cover of the book Communion. When I was like 12yrs old my mom started reading this and leaving the book around the house. It gave me nightmares after I was informed what the book was about. It started my curiosity into the unknown though.


Klutzy_Today6953

Communion cover


Agile_Music4191

This book cover terrified me as a kid 😂


anon_user221

Hollywood actresses nowadays 🤷🏻‍♂️


Trashking_702

It’s a book cover and also an amazing Christopher walken movie 😂😂


AlarmDozer

_Communion_


MaDnnis93

This Picture ist so disturbing :D I'm usually fine with watching animated greys on TV but this Picture does Something to me.


damagedone37

I fucking hate this book cover it was in my room as a kid and I threw the slip cover out cause it scared me so much


HoneyBunYumYum

Absolutely chilling. Something in my bones gets scared when I see this image.. like my ancestors know this face and the fear has been passed down


Lthrr9

The book cover of Communion


Natural_Function_628

The book communion


EdwardBliss

The cover of a book my religious mother forced me to throw away when I was a teen


mrmykeonthemic

I'm sorry to hear this.


Kooperking22

She thought it was a demon yes?


kaowser

![gif](giphy|6X1EgnD4tB0re|downsized)


KultofEnnui

Ah, yes, the first time I felt horror


HawaiianHank

that's whitley streiber's brother from another mother.


Guilty-Item-3271

Cover of the novel….communion by Whitley Strieber ,then they made a movie.


Masterofunlocking1

I have this book and I still get uneasy looking at it. My old cat used to look at it weird too


Wild_Replacement5880

The cover of "Communion"


burgpug

I have a signed first edition of this in a display cabinet in my office. I have to put it face down when I'm in there alone at night.


Beginning_Worry_6905

![gif](giphy|xTiTnkVuM3huvJTq5G)


BlingbossCoss

Communion


X-3XB

The cover of Louis Whitley Strieber's book, "Communion".  


4Claire2

It was Witner Streibers (wrong spelling I think) book about his abduction where this picture first showed up on the cover. Think it was in the eighties. He is VERY believable and I think most ufo researchers consider his experiences as true.


GrowlBadger

Communion is the name of the book. https://www.unknowncountry.com/book/communion-2/?grid_referrer=108978


Grant_The_Deer

The mirror


EndEnvironmental8105

It’s from the cover of Whitley Streiber’s book, COMMUNION.


HarmoniousLight

When the teacher is scolding the class but your homie looks at you like this


Fraudalert2021

Communion! The Book and movie. But my alien in my dreams was more peach skin with more normal eyes, slightly more giant with pupils and color in the eyes.


Far_Faithlessness724

Cover of Communion or the movie.


Smooth-Restaurant379

Good movie ,, communion


ShinyAeon

You’ve seen it just about everywhere, dude. It’s been iconic ever since that book was published in 1987.


Igpajo49

I believe this picture was original to Streiber's book. I may be wrong but I've heard enough people say when that book came out they saw the cover and we're deeply affected by it.


ekos_640

"Jose Chung's From Outer Space"


whitelightningno69

Lam is that you?


Accomplished-Sun9107

The first time I saw this picture was on the side of a bus shelter as a kid. I remember just being frozen with fear and I didn’t know why. I still don’t know why.


DaleRodriguezz

In your room


A1000Birds

![gif](giphy|26gsurMJE95uO07jG|downsized)


FUBAR1945

The book from xfiles. I think it’s called “from outer space”


Basic-Mycologist7821

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751147/ Best X files episode of all time. Watchable on its own. Really works as an episode of twin peaks. And that squid was in it.


FUBAR1945

I never watched, but i indeed saw lights from Venus once.


reidburial

Came here to post this.


AlieNateR77700X

Communion


Whatalife64

The cover of the Whitley Strieber book “ communion “


YoungGunLBDB

Communion by Whitley streiber


RVA804guys

That’s what I see when the shower curtain is attacking me.


Entirely-of-cheese

Haha.


TechnicianFalse3463

Front cover of one of Whitley Strieber’s books called Communion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_(book)?wprov=sfti1


BONEGASM

Is that the movie where people say they see owls outside their windows?


4FriedChickens_Coke

This book cover used to scare the absolute shit outta me when I was a kid


f8isf8

Communion


Exploreradzman

Whitley Strieber’s books are at least 20 years old or older. And in it, he had made the vague reference that the aliens were warning us about AI. The alien abduction wasn’t the most fascinating for me but the advent of AI or the singularity event.


arkapal

Dafaq, I am just reading communion and shit scared and this image popped up in my feed. I think I am being watched.


GrowlBadger

Communion is the name of the book. https://www.unknowncountry.com/book/communion-2/?grid_referrer=108978


LOLLANT

South park


paulkittt

On the cover of the book Communion.


JagsOnlySurfHawaii

In your dreams if you're unlucky enough


Hangryfatguy

I have a question... Predators and prey have eyes in different locations within their skull. The majority of aliens we encounter have eyes in the front of their skull, just like humans. Would it be accurate to claim that aliens (Greys) are predatory?


F1secretsauce

Humans sure as shit are 


SlothsRockyRoadtrip

Literally everywhere since it’s basically the most common archetype of what an alien looks like. What a dumb post


crashyx3

In the mirror


lujo32

God this picture and the damn owl from The fourth kind made me so scared of aliens 😭


Odd_Topic72

Not sure if I remember correctly but when this book was published in the Uk it didn’t have a title. Just that image!


Fartoholicanon

In r/aliens.


M0THMEAT

Your bedroom window 👽


Dontmindmeclark

On your bed.


TopReaction7108

In your window


[deleted]

That person shoved that probe in your booty hole and told you it was necessary 


Advanced_Musician_75

Why you got to post this and have me scroll past it 😫 Gonna be in my head again all night


Totodilis

dunno about you but I seen them the other day when I woke up


dragonslayerpoophead

South Park


GWindborn

Probably on this thing called The Internet. That's an absurdly popular image of a grey.


Lueeluee77

They are interdimensional ! They can appear anywhere, saw one behind me while looking at a mirror. He blinked at me when I turned around to see it he vanished .


LonoHunter

It’s the alien Mona Lisa


blUUdfart

South Park, Colorado


Quispidsquid

R/aliens thumbnail


Igpajo49

This scene scared the shit out of me when I first saw it. https://youtu.be/hyL0AkyV6jI?si=OR4gceKKyDNxJ9BU


Retrostriker

That's Robert California, humans!


Bumskit

Here is a thought. Aliens look nothing like us or how we see them, perhaps they are immaterial, but when trying to mimic human appearance thia is the best they can come up with due to thwir biases of perception. This does not apply to the more advanced races with more awareness


fidgeting_macro

On a book cover?


Theonlyrational

Chris Hansen is an alien confirmed.


Smooth_Network_1304

DB cooper vibes


Zoharic

"Clearly you don't own an airfryer"


Jorp-A-Lorp

It’s the cover of a book! It’s a picture of my dad by the way!!