1. Are you known as Whitley Strieber?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

2. Do you intend to answer truthfully?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

3. Did you intentionally plan to be given a lie detector test on this Halloween day?
(Note: Mr. Laurendi suspected that he might be the victim of a practical joke, an understandable response in view of the coincidence of date and the nature of my experience.)

No. (Evaluated true.)

4. Do you belong to any cults?

No. (Evaluated true.)

5. Do you think that those things happened to you on October 4, 1985, that were outlined in your letter dated October 17, 1986?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

6. Did you ever fraudulently conceal any information prior to 1984?

No. (Evaluated true.)

7. Do you think those things happened to you on December 26, 1985, as outlined in your letter dated October 17, 1986?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

8. Besides when you were eight years old, did you ever hallucinate again prior to 1984? (Note: I had a hallucination during a fever when I was eight.)

No. (Evaluated true.)

9. Do you live in New York?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

10. Do you think those things happened to you on March 15, 1986, as outlined in your letter dated October 17, 1986?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

11. Did you ever lie for personal gain prior to 1984?

No. (Evaluated true.)

12. Do you think those things happened to you in late March 1986 as outlined in your letter dated October 17, 1986? (This referred to the intrusion of the needle into my nose and my visit to the doctor to have the injury examined.)

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

13. Did you ever lie to anyone in a business venture prior to 1984?

No. (Evaluated as possibly untrue. A correct response. I've been in business for twenty years and I'm not sure I haven't lied occasionally.)

14. Have you lied to those people who interviewed you with respect to the tour items we discussed?

No. (Evaluated true.)

15. Are you a free-lance writer?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

16. Did you ever lie to someone that trusted you prior to 1984?

No. (Evaluated false. Again, he was right. I lied to my parents, for example, when they asked me if I knew what could have burned the house down when I was a boy.)

17. Have you ever intentionally ingested any hallucinogenic drug?

No. (Evaluated true.)

18. Did you ever take any prescription medication without a doctor's permission?

No. (Evaluated true.)

Note: Some control questions are dated "prior to 1984" to more clearly separate my responses to them from surrounding key questions. They are not meant to imply that my responses would have been any different after 1984.

About the author

Louis WHITLEY STRIEBER (San Antonio, Texas, EE.UU. June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen, The Hunger and for Communion, a purported non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with non-human entities. He has maintained a dual career of author of fiction and advocate of paranormal concepts through his best-selling non-fiction books, his Unknown Country web site, and his Internet podcast, Dreamland.