Brief
Andrew Strieber
The claims the writer was given for Andrew Strieber, in the order they were given.
1
Whitley Strieber, Anne Strieber and their son Andrew Strieber, then about eight or nine years old, experienced missing time while driving from their cabin to a dinner reservation, arriving late despite having left with plenty of time.
“the three of us, Andrew was probably about eight, nine, maybe. And we're going to dinner. We go down into the garage in the cabin, get in the car, and backing out. And we're going up the road, and suddenly I realized we're late. ... In other words, we'd had missing time.”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 01:39:58.0-01:40:22.3 testimony first hand
2
After the missing-time episode on the drive to dinner, Whitley Strieber, Anne Strieber and Andrew Strieber were all talking about a baby, and both Whitley Strieber and Anne Strieber had a vague memory of holding a baby.
“And I found that we were all talking about babies, a baby. And I have a vague memory, and so did Dan, we never brought this up, of course, with our little boy, of holding a baby.”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 01:40:23.9-01:40:33.9 testimony first hand
3
Anne Strieber declined to go out into the woods herself because she had to care for their young son in the bedroom.
“I've got a little boy in the bedroom who I have to take care of, so you go out there by yourself.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:06:33.7-00:06:37.5 testimony second hand
4
Whitley Strieber turned back from the January 1987 clearing encounter because he feared he might not return and could not disappear on his wife and son.
“You better think about going home, back to the house, because you've got wife and son in there. You can't just disappear on them.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:15:12.3-00:15:18.0 testimony first hand
5
Ross Coulthart characterises what the non-human beings did to Whitley Strieber - coming to his home, planting implants, attempting to abduct his son, taking his sperm, inflicting wounds and severe trauma - as unfriendly by any definition.
“I find the whole idea of a non-human being coming to somebody's home, planting implants in them, as we'll get into abducting your son, doing, I think, terrible invasive things to you, you know, when you're in a cart, stealing your sperm, you've suffered wounds, you've suffered, I think, mental injuries as a result, trauma, severe trauma. By any definition, this is bloody unfriendly.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:30:29.9-00:30:57.8 opinion first hand
6
At the upstate New York cabin, Whitley Strieber spent much of most nights sitting outside his son Andrew Strieber's room with a shotgun on his lap.
“i was hanging out outside his room with a gun shotgun on my lap a lot of the night most nights when we were up there”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:55:50.5-00:55:58.0 testimony first hand
7
Whitley Strieber was not sure his son Andrew Strieber was being visited by the beings, but did not want it to happen.
“Ross Coulthart: and then that's presumably because he was being visited by the beings you said? Whitley Strieber: i wasn't sure but i didn't want that to happen”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:55:59.8-00:56:06.5 testimony first hand
8
One night Whitley Strieber went into his son Andrew Strieber's room and found him gone, and searched the whole house without finding him.
“one night i went in there and he was gone And I, I, I went running through the whole house. He wasn't in the house.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:56:07.8-00:56:15.0 observation first hand
9
Andrew Strieber had a small clubhouse cabin in the copse at the end of the front yard of the upstate New York cabin.
“He had a little cabin a little clubhouse up in the, up in the little copes at the end of the front yard.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:56:17.6-00:56:23.9 observation first hand
10
Andrew Strieber was seven years old at the time of the night he went missing from the upstate New York cabin.
“I can't imagine that a seven year old is going to go out there in the middle of the night”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:56:27.4-00:56:30.8 testimony first hand
11
Whitley Strieber described the night his son Andrew Strieber was missing as unbelievably terrifying, likening it to being in hell as a desperate parent.
“And I went through if if if hell is desparate parent I was in hell. It was unbelievably terrifying.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:57:07.3-00:57:17.4 testimony first hand
12
The three men in blue uniforms got Whitley Strieber back into the upstate New York cabin, where he found his son Andrew Strieber in bed.
“They got me back into the house and there he was in the bed.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:57:45.6-00:57:50.3 observation first hand
13
Anne Strieber proposed saying nothing to their son Andrew Strieber about the night and seeing what he said of his own accord.
“And she said, well, let's, let's not say anything to him and see what he says.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:58:11.0-00:58:13.7 testimony second hand
14
The morning after the encounter, Andrew Strieber was very quiet at breakfast, then wrote something in his room and silently gave it to his mother Anne Strieber after breakfast.
“He was very quiet at breakfast. He wrote something in his room, sat down and wrote it, and silently gave it to his mother after breakfast.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:58:37.4-00:58:46.4 observation first hand
15
Andrew Strieber's note written the morning after his encounter reads: "O thy colossus, thy stand before me with a twinkling of a beam against the thin pane to see the world along the edge of the earth to see the golden beam in their eyes".
“"O thy colossus, thy stand before me with a twinkling of a beam against the thin pane to see the world along the edge of the earth to see the golden beam in their eyes".”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:59:07.2-00:59:24.9 testimony second hand
16
Whitley Strieber regards Andrew Strieber's note as a seven-year-old mind reaching as far as it can to express an incredible wonder.
“that is what that is, is a seven-year-old mind reaching as far as it can into anything it can manage to say to express an incredible wonder.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:59:37.8-00:59:53.6 opinion first hand
17
Andrew Strieber is no longer having encounter experiences and does not remember anything about that aspect of his childhood.
“No, they're not. And he doesn't remember anything about his childhood of this stuff.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 01:00:05.4-01:00:10.1 testimony first hand
18
Whitley Strieber read Andrew Strieber's note back to him; Andrew Strieber does not remember writing it, though it is in his handwriting and there is no question he wrote it.
“I read this to him. He doesn't remember writing it, but it's in his handwriting. There's no question that he did write it.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 01:00:11.1-01:00:16.5 testimony first hand
19
Whitley Strieber believes Andrew Strieber could probably retrieve his lost childhood memories with a skilled professional knowledgeable in neurology, psychiatry and the scientific basis of hypnosis.
“I suppose that if he wanted to, he could probably retrieve those memories with assuming we could find a skilled professional. who really knew what they were doing with the brain. And you have to have someone who is knowledgeable about neurology, psychology, I mean psychiatry, and understands hypnosis on a scientific level.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 01:01:51.5-01:02:14.4 opinion first hand