WASHINGTON, DC — Over a half century ago, on a particularly hot August night in Springfield, Massachusetts, a woman gave birth to the son that would cause her no end of problems...

"I’m tellin’ you, that youngin’ just wasn’t normal! As far back as I can recollect, that Tommy would spend all his free time just a-drawin’ them pictures with his crayons. The way he was scribblin’ all the time, I knew even then that somethin’ alien had taken over that boy’s mind!" recalls Charlotte Shultz, a native of Clarksburg, West Virginia. “Some people think it was the telephone Tommy pulled down on his head when he was a baby that caused him to be so strange, but I swear it must of been the work of some of them aliens!’

Mrs. Shultz explains, “You know, I married an Air Force man named Shultz, and so we was living on an air base at the time I was pregnant with Tommy. It must have made it easy for visitors from outer space to pick him for one of their weird experiments. Maybe to see if a human being could stand the test of raising an alien child or some other mean joke?’

Shaking her head she remembers, “Hell, before he was two years old he used a broom handle to unhook the chain lock on the front door and ran off down the street in his pajamas! The day Tommy escaped his playpen I just sat down and cried, ’cause I knew I’d never get another minute’s rest!” ts/ca