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The Disembodied Hands of the Loire w/ Zelia Edgar

Somewhere in the SkiesJul 24, 2026

On May 20, 1950, a young Frenchwoman named Micheline G. was walking along the Loire River when a blinding light appeared and two cold, coppery, disembodied hands seized her, choked her, and dragged her through a bramble thicket while an unseen being laughed in a muffled, underwater voice. Police found finger marks on her face and throat, and burned, broken brush and fencing at the scene, and initially treated it as an attempted kidnapping. Host Zelia Edgar explores why this case, featured in Jacques Vallee's work, is one of the most frightening and physical abduction accounts on record, and how it echoes Scotland's Dechmont Law incident and centuries of folklore about phantom hands.