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This abduction which involved the victim being lifted through the ceiling of his home took place on April 16, 2019

“I normally woke up about 8:00 AM. This day I awoke at 5:55 AM covered in sweat and gasping for air. My wife woke and saw I was in distress. I was having trouble getting enough oxygen. I had no chest pain, but the sweating, shortness of breath and cardiac disease history justified a call to 911. My wife called and then took my blood pressure and pulse before the ambulance crew arrived about 10 minutes later. My pulse was tachycardic, 150+ beats per minute. Fast enough that it was difficult for my wife to count with 100% certainty. The blood pressure cuff read 220 over 110. My normal pressure was in the 120/80 range. Thankfully, my blood pressure dropped quickly as did my pulse rate.

By the time we arrived at the hospital it was 160 over 90 and steadily headed back to my normal range. My oxygen saturation was 94% measured by the paramedic’s oximeter when they picked me up. I was given oxygen during the 15-minute ride to the hospital. My pulse rate dropped to 90, and thanks to the oxygen my saturation bounced back to 99%. I was no longer starved for air and had stopped sweating.

I had a heart attack in 2005 and had a triple bypass. I had a second in 2011 requiring a stent. I knew the drill: a chest X-ray, EKG and cardiac enzymes. I was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Dallas for observation and hooked to a heart monitor.

An hour later the cardiologist paid me a visit. My vital signs had returned to normal; my chest X-ray was clear. She said the EKG was “unremarkable” when compared to my most recent test at the VA Hospital a year earlier.

She said she had no idea what caused this event. She said they would keep me until 3:00 PM and discharge me if my heart monitor showed a normal rhythm and my vital signs remained stable. I was to speak with my cardiologist at the VA Hospital and be fitted with a halter monitor to check for irregular heartbeats. They found none. I might mention, I do not suffer from atrial fibrillation.

We were home by 4:00 PM and I felt fine. We had dinner that evening and as was my habit, I went for a walk after dinner. I would usually walk a brisk mile and return home. As my feet hit the sidewalk, I pulled out my iPhone 6 and glanced at my health app. As I expected I had walked under 100 steps for the day. But then I saw the “flights of stairs climbed” recorded below the distance walked. I was shocked to see it said I had climbed six flights of stairs that morning.

This is where an explanation is necessary. I sleep with my iPhone in the breast pocket of a tee shirt every night. I put on my earbuds and listen to meditative apps at night. This has been my habit all the way back to the 1990s and my Sony Walkman with headphones.

If you look at the screenshot of my iPhone app, you will see the x-y graph moves from left to right to correspond with the passage of time. The vertical plane indicates height, a flight of stairs is in increments of 10 feet up.

I live in a Texas ranch home with a single stair; it is the threshold at my front door. Note that the “flights climbed” are indicated by a single vertical bar to 60 feet at 5:24 AM. That is 31 minutes before I woke up at 5:55 AM. At 5:24 AM I was in my bed and next to my wife asleep.

Normally, if I climbed a few flights of stairs, say to reach the fourth floor of a parking garage, the iPhone’s app screen would display a stairstep configuration, with bars going up to indicate the first 10 feet, then the second, third, and finally the fourth. This is because of the passage of time as I reach each landing and begin the next flight. Each flight of stairs represents a journey of 10 feet up.

The single bar on the April 16, 2019 screenshot, according to Apple, indicates that my phone traveled 60 feet “up” between 5:23 and 5:24 AM. If I had stairs in my house, it would have to be a six-story building. There is no way I could climb six flights of stairs in under a minute.

A note about how height is measured in the Apple health app. I assumed it was by change in GPS coordinates in space above ground level. That is not correct. Apple explained that each 10-foot flight of stairs is measured by change in barometric pressure.

Apple ran a diagnostic on my phone to rule out a malfunction. Everything on the phone and the health app was fully functional.

I asked the Apple Store technician what this readout meant. He said, “It indicates your iPhone traveled 60 feet above your location at 5:23 AM on the morning of April 16, 2019. I can’t say more than that.”

Aside from an abduction, the only possible explanation is that somehow my telephone traveled by itself, say attached to a drone, sixty feet straight up as the screenshot shows. I do not own a drone and would never perpetrate such a ridiculous hoax.

I include medical bills from the Garland Fire Department Ambulance Services and Methodist Hospital. If this were a hoax perpetrated by me, it is an expensive exercise.”

-Terry Lovelace from his book Devil’s Den The Reckoning (Devil’s Den is the name of the park where his most traumatic abduction occurred)