Karla Turner
| Karla Turner | |
|---|---|
| Karla Turner (c. 1990s) | |
| Born | 1947 |
| Died | January 10, 1996(1996-01-10) (aged 49) |
| Cause of death | Breast cancer |
| Alma mater | California State University, Sacramento (BA);University of Nottingham (MA);PhD in Old English studies |
| Occupations | alien abduction researcher; author; former college instructor |
| Known for | Into the Fringe (1992); Taken (1994); Masquerade of Angels (1994) |
| Spouse | Casey Turner |
| Children | 1 |
| Experience date(s) | Beginning 1988[1] |
| Experience type(s) | Abduction (family)[1] |
| Beings encountered | Abducting entities Turner described as deceptive and reportedly able to assume any form[2] |
| Events claimed | Overlapping abduction-related memories and anomalous encounters shared with her husband Casey Turner and their adult son from 1988, forming the basis of Into the Fringe[1] |
| Disclosure | |
| Disclosure type | Public disclosure (author) |
| Research involvement | Collaborated with Tulsa-based hypnotherapist Barbara Bartholic; documented her own family's case alongside other abductees'[3] |
| Recognition | |
| Notable works | Into the Fringe (1992); Taken (1994); Masquerade of Angels (1994) |
| Notes | |
| Turner's aggressive breast cancer death in 1996 has been raised by associates including Eve Lorgen as possibly non-coincidental to her abduction research.[1] | |
Karla Turner (1947 – January 10, 1996) was an American alien abduction researcher and author who documented her own family's abduction experiences beginning in 1988, argued that the abducting entities were deceptive, manipulative, and self-serving rather than benevolent, and died of aggressive breast cancer at age 48 in circumstances that some researchers, including close associate Eve Lorgen, have raised as potentially non-coincidental. She held a Ph.D. in Old English studies and taught at the university level in Texas before dedicating herself full-time to abduction research.
Background and education
Turner was born in 1947. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from California State University, Sacramento, a master's degree in American Studies from the University of Nottingham, England, and a PhD in Old English studies. She taught at the college level for twelve years in Texas before leaving academia in 1991 to devote herself full-time to abduction research. She had a son (who later earned a master's degree in physics) from her first marriage and remarried in the late 1970s, eventually settling on a mountainside in rural Arkansas.
Family abduction experiences
In 1988, Turner, her husband (Casey Turner), and their adult son began experiencing overlapping abduction-related memories and anomalous encounters. This collective experience formed the core of her first book: Into the Fringe (Berkley Books, 1992).
Research and books
Turner worked closely with Tulsa-based hypnotherapist Barbara Bartholic, who had begun her career assisting Jacques Vallee in cattle mutilation investigations and went on to document over a thousand abductee cases. Her published works include:
- Into the Fringe (Berkley Books, 1992) — documented Turner family abduction experiences
- Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda (Kelt Works, 1994) — eight women's accounts including MILAB intrusions
- Masquerade of Angels (Kelt Works, 1994, co-written with Ted Rice) — Rice's lifelong encounters with entities, including a multi-species cloning event aboard a craft
Per Eve Lorgen, who saw Turner lecture in San Diego in 1995, Turner's work was deeply controversial because it "suggested a malevolent presence of aliens and what they were doing. And that didn't really bode well for people who wanted to take a positive spiritual perspective of the ETs."
Research findings
Turner's research from 1988 through her 1995 lecture and final books distilled into a small set of conclusions she stated as demonstrably certain. They covered the unknown ontological nature of abducting entities, entity deception, human perceptual control through screen memories, the non-omnipotence of the entities, their reported ability to assume any form, the human-military involvement in the broader abduction agenda, physical aims extending beyond hybridization into multi-site implants, energy extraction, and human cloning, and the entities' reported "mysterious interest in the human soul." Her clone-display testimony forms part of the record on cloning, and she contributed to the entity-deception position alongside Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs.
Death
Turner was diagnosed with breast cancer in spring 1995 and died January 10, 1996, aged 48. The speed and aggressiveness of the cancer, combined with its onset during her most productive research period, has led researchers including Eve Lorgen to suggest a possible causal relationship with her ET research activity. Following Turner's death, Lorgen's support group observed at least four or five members experiencing what appeared to be "alien engineered love obsessions" — a phenomenon that became the core of Lorgen's subsequent alien love bite research.