Barney and Betty Hill

The Truly Haunting Story of The Man in Black - Area52 Special

AREA52 Podcast (Chris Ramsay)Oct 30, 2026

In 1976, Maine physician Dr. Herbert Hopkins was visited by a bizarre, doll-like Man in Black after he hypnotically regressed David Stevens, a teenager who claimed he was abducted by grays near Oxford, Maine in October 1975. The pale, hairless visitor made a penny vanish from Hopkins' palm and claimed Barney Hill died because he 'had no heart, just as you no longer have a coin.' Terrified, Hopkins destroyed all his tapes and UFO records, and the episode includes his own recorded account of the encounter, told with Betty Hill sitting beside him.