- My mysterious story begins with an armed black intruder
who entered my property a few weeks ago. From what I can gather, nobody
has ever written about this strange gasing phenomenon before - and it was
completely unknown to me, until someone told me of what happened to him.
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- I am also writing this, hoping that people will spread
it around, because often one gets valuable feedback and answers.
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- My story begins on the evening of 18th October 2004.
I like to think that I am pretty security conscious, and I have various
measures to protect my family, including having a 6 foot wall around my
property (which is pretty much the norm in South Africa these days). Although
I am security conscious, I virtually never carry a firearm on me. I believe
in being careful and in preventing problems. So although I have a handgun,
it is locked away in my safe, and I have not used it in quite a long time.
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- I live in a small, quiet Johannesburg suburb. It has
probably been one of the quietest and most crime free suburbs in the city...
until recently. Just after 11pm, one of my home-made security devices went
off, indicating that something was in my property. I went to the window
of my study and opened the curtain. A black man was clearly visible as
one of my security lights shone right on to him. He was no more than 30
foot away from me, and I could clearly see he was holding a sizeable handgun
in his right hand. It looked like a normal 9mm type of pistol. I was totally
shocked, and the best thing I could think of doing was to shout at him:
"What the hell are you doing here?" I caught him off-guard and
he ran towards my house and hid around the corner, out of view. I couldn't
remember where the key was to my safe where my own handgun was. So I tried
to find the telephone number for the Police. I phoned them to report a
"burglary in progress"... During this time... with my armed intruder
out of sight, I wasn't sure where he was hiding... around the house, or
behind a building, or behind a wall. I was wary of walking outside in case
he ambushed me. After some minutes... I reckoned the South African Police
won't be responding in a decent time span... so I phoned an armed response
company saying: "I don't belong to you now... but if you send someone
right away... I promise I'll join in the morning!!!!"
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- The Police are only a few miles from where I live...
but in the end it took them all of 30 minutes to respond to a "burglary
in progress." When I had phoned them, I had told them that I had an
armed man on my property! The private security company responded much quicker...
When the Police finally arrived and I told them that I had an intruder
and he was armed... they were aghast... and didn't seem all that keen on
looking around. Meanwhile, the private security company's people were much
more prepared. They had bullet-proof vests on and were leading the way
for the Police to follow. We searched around... but the armed black intruder
had disappeared. The security company's people showed me where he had probably
escaped, back over the 6 foot wall into the neighbour's yard behind me.
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- My neighbours woke, and discovered that the armed intruder
had obviously been walking around their property and had stolen some small
items they had left outside. We presume that the intruder entered their
property over their 7 foot wall. That he had then jumped over the wall
between us and moved into my property when I had been alerted to his presence.
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- Again... the private security company's people were the
first to try to find the intruder. They dashed to the neighbour behind
me. Later I had a phone call from the private security company saying they
were busy chasing someone near the river. But it appears they never caught
him. As for the Police... I never heard from them again. In the future
I now know not to waste my time phoning the Police.
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- The private security company then told me that just two
weeks prior to my call, they had been called to a house nearby where three
armed black men had entered a property.
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- Crime in my neighbourhood is definitely on the rise.
It comes from blacks who have no jobs, and who have taken to squatting
by a river which runs near our neighbourhood. The government propaganda
is of course that life in South Africa is so great for everyone now...
well... more and more out of work blacks have taken to living by the river,
and then of course they start stealing from the houses nearby. Apparently,
they are cleared out by the Police regularly, but more come in, and its
bringing with it a crime wave to neighbourhoods in the area.
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- Armed blacks are to be taken seriously. Two years ago,
a cousin of mine was shot dead in Germiston when he came home and opened
his garage. Armed blacks were skulking in his property. They shot him dead,
and then ran away - stealing nothing. A few years ago, one of my neighbours
came home to find a black man putting his TV and video out on the lawn.
My neighbour accosted the black man, who then attacked him with a screw
driver.
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- After my incident... I discovered that in September 2003,
the neighbours who live diagonally behind me, had a violent incident. In
the afternoon... people saw three young black men sitting under a tree
across the road. They were just sitting around all afternoon. We now know
they were staking out the house. That evening, the three black men climbed
over their 6 foot wall and entered the house. The white family living in
that house had a retarded 16 year old daughter. One of the blacks had a
handgun, another had a piece of wood. The three walked into the house and
the first thing they did was grab the retarded white girl, and started
dragging her into the bedroom to gang rape her. The father jumped up out
of his chair and charged at them. They shot at him and missed. But in the
ensuing struggle another shot went off, and he was severely wounded. The
blacks fled. The father ended up in ICU for a month. Later, he was fortunate
to recover fully.
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- After my incident, I happened to be talking to an Indian
friend of mine. He then started relating to me, his own crime experiences,
one of which is so bizarre it is the main subject of this article.
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- The Indian told me that he lived in a neighbourhood which
was quiet, until black squatters started putting up shacks next to it.
Then they were hit with a crime wave. One day he even dared to chase one
of the black intruders. As he caught up to the black man, and put his hand
on the black guy's shoulder, the black guy turned around and placed a gun
to the Indian's forehead and pulled the trigger. The Indian guy heard it
go "click".... but lucky for him... the gun misfired...
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- Then one night an extremely strange incident occurred.
They had a young baby which, as babies go, could not sleep through the
night. They went to bed that night... and nobody... not even the baby...
woke until the next morning. When they woke in the morning, they realised
they had been robbed. As they walked through their home they could see
robbers had been all over the place. But the biggest shock of all was to
see that their door had been literally torn out of its hinges. This was
where the robbers had entered. But what they could not understand was how
someone could tear a door off its hinges, and then walk everywhere through
the house, stealing items, and nobody woke up.
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- The Indian told me that when the Police came to investigate,
they sent a special unit to investigate this bizarre crime. The Police
were walking around through the house with various devices looking for
signs of chemicals - especially a gas. The Police told them that there
was a special unit which investigated crimes where criminals robbed a house
which they know has people inside it. Apparently, these kinds of criminals
do not hesitate to kill the people inside.
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- The Police told them that the reason they never woke
up was because they were either gassed or someone sedated them. The Police
told them that sometimes if one has servants who cook for you, these servants
may collude with criminals. The criminals will give the servants sleeping
tablets which they put in the food they cook for you. Then the criminals
will rob you that night.
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- But the other potential scenario, the Police told him,
is that the criminals actually gas you. They come up to the house, and
they put a gas into your house through the ventilation holes in the house.
The gas then disipates and in the morning, when the Police come... there
are no traces of it. The Police themselves did not seem to know what this
gas was.
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- This story was so unbelievable, and I had never heard
anything like it, so I started telling my friends about it. And that only
deepened the mystery... because many could relate similar sounding stories...
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- One friend I told it to was Kenda. She told me that she
had heard of this for many years. She said there were people in her family
who were robbed like this. They awoke in the morning to find that even
the duvets they were sleeping under, were stolen off of them without them
waking up!!!
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- She said it was definitely true and that this gassing
theory has even been discussed on a talk show on national TV. She said
on the TV program she heard people saying that the gasing is done by people
who get something from the Sangomas (Witch Doctors). The criminals take
this "stuff" and burn it outside your house at night, and the
gas produced by this goes into your house through the ventilation holes
and puts you in a deep sleep. Then the criminals break into your house.
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- I am rather skeptical of the idea that Witch Doctors
are involved in this. I also think the whole thing is doubly difficult...
if someone is making a fire outside one's house... that draws attention
by itself... I can't imagine criminals making a fire at night... and getting
away with it. My suspicion falls on the gas theory because of the lack
of physical evidence (e.g. the Indian never said that the criminals made
a fire outside his house...)
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- I told other friends of mine. And the reaction among
them was that yes, most of them had heard of this gassing story too, and
they could also relate stories of people they knew that it had happened
to. Some of them confirmed the details Kenda described - that you will
be in such a deep sleep that they will steal the blankets off of you as
you sleep. And they will walk all through your house and take anything
they want. When you wake in the morning they are gone.
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- I am writing this in the hope that maybe more people
know more facts about this extremely bizarre situation. I am stunned at
how many people have heard of this story - though it is only recently that
I heard of it for the first time.
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- I have wondered if in South Africa, we have some kinds
of, for lack of a better phrase, "Super Criminals"... people
who have access to really advanced trickery, and who get up to more than
we are aware of. I wonder, for example, if there is some kind of gas, which
certain criminals can lay their hands on? But what is it? How does it work?
How do they dispense it?
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- Interestingly... nobody ever told me of any side-effects
caused by this gas.
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- Do you remember the gas the Russians pumped into that
Moscow theatre in recent years... which was intended to put people to sleep...
in order to deal with a terrorist hostage situation... but then many ended
up dying? Could it be that such a gas is somehow available to certain criminals
in South Africa? Is it easy to get hold of? What is it? Surely this is
not stuff you can just buy over the counter?
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- From the stories related to me, it appears as if even
the Police have never actually discovered what this stuff is... and the
gas and criminals alike... just disappear into thin air...
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- Let me tell you another strange story which might be
related.
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- Recently, the biggest talk radio station in Johannesburg,
Radio 702, put out a story that there are secret codes you can type into
your cell phone and then you can listen into other people's conversations.
This was widely reported in newspapers. The way it came out was that it
was claimed that teenagers had a "game" where they used certain
codes to listen in on other people's conversations. Nobody could prove
this... until someone actually passed the codes on to Radio 702. 702 then
conducted experiments and taped the results, and confirmed that indeed,
you could use these codes to listen in on anyone's cell phone calls.
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- There are only three major cell phone companies in South
Africa. The one where this was happening denied it was possible.
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- I have a friend who used to work for one of these cell
phone companies, and who did programming on their networks. He told me...
that he... personally... was involved in programming where cell phones
used by certain extremely important people in the Government and ANC, were
not monitored. He said he was given a list of certain cell phone numbers,
which could make and receive phone calls which were not traced. The way
they did it was they programmed the system to destroy all the billing records
for these "secret" cell phones. In effect, these important people
had cell phones which were free (because there were no billing records)...
and they could make and receive calls without any trace of it being kept
in archives anywhere.
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- He told me that it is possible to build codes into a
cell phone system. Indeed, cell phone engineers put such codes into the
system to test and debug it.
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- Now what is interesting is how a "code" was
created whereby you could tell the system you wanted to listen in on the
conversations of a particular person. And how did teenagers get this? Or
do these codes have a particular purpose? Were they built for certain government
or political people to use? Did criminals also know these codes? Did an
adult then show off and show his kids how to do this... and did it then
spread like wildfire among the kids?
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- My friend who worked for the cell phone company also
told me that in about 1998, the South African Government went to the cell
phone companies, and informed them that they would have to install the
necessary technology so that cell phone conversations could be tapped.
He said that when he worked for the cell phone company... each week, someone
from the Secret Service would come to collect tapes of conversations of
certain monitored cell phones.
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- I can't help wondering whether criminals in South Africa
have access to various technology that gives them some stunning powers
which no criminal in any other country would have access to? I even wonder
if there are "Super Criminals" who are never caught...
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- If anyone has any information on the gassing/sedating
theory... they are welcome to drop me a line on the contact page of my
website at: WWW.AfricanCrisis.org.
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- If I get more information I will pass it on, as this
is one of the most mysterious and least-talked-about stories I have ever
come across.
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- As for my armed intruder... this was the third black
male who has entered my property illegally in the 9 years that I have lived
there, and the first one who was armed. I am lucky it was only one guy.
Some people have suggested to me that he may have been the first of a gang,
since they normally operate in groups of 2-5.
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- My neighbour... the one who had been attacked by a screw-driver-weilding
black man... told me that 3 weeks earlier he was going for his daily walk,
when he saw a white Opel containing 4 young black males, come screaming
out of the drive-way of someone further down the road in our neighbourhood.
He later learned that the four young armed black men had waited for someone
to enter the house and then they dashed into the drive-way while the gate
was open and robbed the whites who lived there. He had spotted them racing
out of the drive way.
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- One evening, about 2-3 weeks after my armed intruder
incident, I walked to my neighbour to talk to him. We stood by his gate
overlooking the small park in front of our houses. There, parked at a strange
angle, was a white Opel with two black men in it.... a rather uncommon
sight in our neighbourhood as there are mostly whites who live there. It
was dusk... and the two black men just sat in the car... nobody came to
see them... they never got out... it was as if they were watching other
houses across the road from ours. As I walked back into my house to call
the security company... the blacks switched on their car and drove away...
just as I was calling the security company. The white Opel was gone before
the security company could get someone there to accost them...
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- My handgun no longer just lies in the safe... Its ready
for immediate use...
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