In 2011, a 37-year-old man identified only as Derek submitted a brief but haunting account to Think About It describing an experience from approximately 1980 — when he was six or seven years old — that had stayed with him as a persistent, recurring “dream” for three decades. The experience was not a conventional abduction narrative: there were no lights in the sky, no spacecraft descending from above. Instead, Derek describes being taken underground through a cave entrance by a group of alien beings, with his conscious memory ending almost completely at the moment he entered the cave. What makes Derek’s account significant within the broader research context is his own adult realization, stated plainly, that what he had always categorized as a childhood dream involving “outer space” visitors was actually a subterranean encounter — beings who came not from the stars but from beneath the surface of the Earth.

This account is published as a user-submitted story and has not been independently verified. No location, date, or corroborating witnesses are provided beyond Derek’s first name and the approximate decade. However, the narrative pattern — childhood encounter, subterranean rather than aerial entry point, near-total memory erasure at the threshold of the underground facility, and decades of unresolved “dream” persistence — aligns with a documented subset of abduction cases cataloged in the subterraneanbases.com archive and in Missing 411 literature. The account is presented here in Derek’s own words as part of this site’s commitment to documenting the full range of user-reported experiences, including those that remain unverified.

1980’s Alien Encounter

I had an experience with these aliens when I was about 6 or 7.

I always thought aliens were just from outer space but now I realize a group of them took me underground through a cave entrance and my memory of the whole thing pretty much ends right there.

I’m 37 now and that one particular what I thought dream has been with me ever since.

Derek

Mon 3/28/2011 4:17 PM

Executive Summary:

The 1980s Cave Entrance Encounter — Subterranean Abduction and Three Decades of Suppressed Memory

Derek’s account consists of a single core claim: at approximately age six or seven (circa 1980), he was taken underground by alien beings through a cave entrance, and his memory of the experience ends at the moment of entering the cave. He carried this experience as a recurring “dream” for roughly thirty years before reassessing it as a potential real event. The account provides no geographical location, no physical description of the beings, and no details of what occurred underground — only the realization that the encounter involved subterranean rather than aerial entry.

The editorial framing on the site connects Derek’s account to the broader subterranean encounter literature: underground alien bases, the Missing 411 phenomenon involving disappearances near cave systems, and the hypothesis of advanced neurological suppression technology deployed at cave-entry thresholds. While these connections are speculative in the context of a single unverified three-sentence testimony, the pattern of childhood subterranean encounters with near-total memory suppression does appear across multiple independent accounts in the archive. Readers should evaluate this account on its own very limited merits.

“I always thought aliens were just from outer space but now I realize a group of them took me underground through a cave entrance and my memory of the whole thing pretty much ends right there.”
— Derek (submitted March 28, 2011)