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Jul 2024
1h 55m

Whitley Strieber’s Communion (Aliens, UF...

JIMMY AKIN
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Whitley Strieber's 1987 book Communion told his story of alien abductions and became a bestselling book and movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine Strieber's claims about the Visitors he describes and ask what really happened.

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