Strange Encounters With Other Beings - Jason Quitt | Ep. 98

Summary

Author and experiencer Jason Quitt describes how terrifying sleep paralysis episodes in the early 2000s launched him into years of out-of-body experiences, including encounters with shadow beings, giant mantis-like entities, and a hybrid child he says he was shown in an astral nursery. He argues that many alien abduction reports follow the same step-by-step pattern as out-of-body experiences, suggesting much contact may happen in a non-physical realm. He also presents his theory, from his book The Shining Island, that Plato's Atlantis story is a coded allegory of shifting pole stars and cosmic cycles rather than a literal sunken continent.

Key takeaways

• 1Quitt's first out-of-body experience came from thrashing in anger during sleep paralysis; he saw his body below him and a tall Grim Reaper-like shadow being at the foot of his bed, which he now calls 'the initiator'.
• 2He says abduction accounts documented by journalist Bob Mitchell (paralysis, buzzing, floating, being taken through walls to a ship) match his own out-of-body sequence almost step by step, and that he has met mantids, greys, and reptilians while out of body.
• 3He claims he was shown a half-alien hybrid son in an astral 'nursery hospital', then reunited with the boy, named Michael, years later; host Chris Ramsay links this to similar accounts from Peter Curry, Debbie Jordan/Bud Hopkins, and David Jacobs' five-stage hybrid model.
• 4Quitt argues Plato's Timaeus and Critias encode Atlantis as an astronomical allegory: Vega as pole star around 12,000 BCE, the pole moving between the 'legs of Hercules' around 9,600 BC, and roughly 6,000 years without a pole star until Thuban. He cites the 5th-century Neoplatonist Proclus as an earlier celestial reading.
• 5He claims his blackened, crushed fingernail healed overnight using qigong breathing, a crystal, and an essential oil.
• 6Books mentioned: The Shining Island, Forbidden Knowledge (co-written with Bob Mitchell, later withdrawn), Astral Experiences, Gates of the Anunnaki, and Astral Genesis; also Robert Monroe's Gateway tapes (Focus 10), Jacques Vallée's control system idea, and Grant Cameron.

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Transcript excerpt

I see my body hovering above my bed. This is so real. And this is the grim reaper to take me away. So I'm like screaming and like trying to wake my body up like I'm thrashing inside my physical body. Wake up. Wake up. And that is literally how it started. A couple months will go by and then suddenly at night it'll just happen because maybe something walked into the bedroom that's not supposed to be there. There's more to this than just us wanting it. The first couple years of these experiences, I would experience manted beings, which a ton of people experience. And for me, they were like, I don't know. I didn't feel any uh bad intention. I was taken and it was like I was in this nursery hospital type of thing. This nurse walks out and it's like, I I want you to meet your child. How you doing? I don't know if this actually counts for what you do, but I'm going to tell you something quick. I was a Providence, Rhode Island police officer from 02 to09. Um, I was injured by gunfire and lost the use of my right ear. Like I'm deaf in one ear. Some years later, I developed the ability to hear spirits or I became clar audient as they call it. And I think it's because of my injury. Um, but a lot of the things I've been hearing now have been picking up since a lot of this UFO stuff has been coming out. It's been getting more intense. Not schizophrenic. I'm serious. You can check that I was a cop. This is a real thing. ...

Excerpt from AREA52 Podcast (Chris Ramsay), Aug 7, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.