Little Green Men

Isadore Osolinski Homestead near Cudworth, Saskatchewan
This is the location where my mother had an encounter with “little green men” around the summer of 1933.

This is an incident that happened to my mother when she was about six years old. This places the date around 1933 and the incident occurred in the summer.

At the time, my mother’s family was living on a farm that was a few miles north of Cudworth, Saskatchewan. My mother told us this story, many times over the years. Initially, I did not believe it, but over time, I began to believe that something must have happened because my mother always told the same story. She never embellished it or changed any details.

All she said was that one day, she was out by a slough (prairie pond), when she saw “little green men” across the slough from her. She told us they were small, about four feet high and dressed in silvery suits. They also had a sort of balaclava or “helmet” on their heads. She never said anything about what they did or anything about a spaceship. A few years ago, I tried to get more information from my mother. I tried to get her to remember more details about when it happened. I then tried to get her to remember what happened after she saw the little green men. She paused for a moment and then just sort of gasped “I don’t know. Maybe I was abducted!”

I’m not sure about this, but I think that this was maybe the first time she had ever been asked the question and this was certainly the first time that I ever heard my mother mention the possibility that she had been abducted by aliens on this or any other occasion.

A Prairie Slough
This one is on the farm near Crystal Springs, Saskatchewan where my grandma Polly Osolinski and her sons Roy and Maurice lived when we visited them in 1961 and 1963.

Certainly it is possible that my mother was just influenced by contemporary accounts of alien abduction as these accounts are now quite commonplace. But I also think it is possible, in the context of other information I have encountered in my investigations, that my mother may have been abducted on that occasion.

In 2003, I was talking with my mother on the phone and I tried to get more precise information on the location of her encounter. She told me that it was just off the highway that runs between Wakaw and Cudworth. She said it was across the road from Victor Osolinsky’s farm (Victor is her cousin). She also mentioned that the slough is no longer there.

In August 2004, I attended a family reunion in Wakaw to celebrate 100 years of Osolinski/Osolinsky family settlement in Canada. While there, Melvin Osolinsky (another of my mother’s cousins), took us on a guided tour of family gravesites and homesteads. On this tour, we stopped at an important crossroads. On the northwest was the original homestead of John and Gertrude Osolinski. On the northeast is Victor Osolinsky’s farm, I guess inherited from his father, Frank Osolinsky. Victor told me that Isadore Osolinski’s homestead was off to the southeast area. I asked him if there had been any sloughs in the area, and he pointed out to me many places where there had previously been sloughs that had been drained and ploughed into farmland.

Osolinski Castle

My mother and father were both people who liked to tell stories about incidents from their past. Some were funny, some sad but most were quite believable. I remember one story which my mother told which I found hard to believe. My mother told me she had met some women and when she had told this woman her name was "Osolinski", the woman had told her she might be related to some Osolinskis who lived in a big castle in Poland. My mother told us that this castle was huge and had 52 rooms, one for every week in the year, and 365 windows, one for every day in the year plus 4 ballrooms, one for every season.

I found the story sounded like something out of a fairy tale. For me, it was impossible to believe that my mother's family could possibly be related to anyone who had ever lived in a castle, since I knew my mother had grown up in a poor farm family.

It was only through my searching for information on the Osolinski family, many years later on the Internet that I found out that the fabled castle really did exist in Poland and that it had indeed been built and occupied by someone in the Ossolinski family. The castle is called "Krzyztopor" located near Ujazd in southern Poland. At the time it was built, the castle was the largest palace in Europe. The name comes from "Krzyz" meaning "Christ" and "Topor" meaning "Axe". The battle axe comes from the family coat of arms for the Ossolinski family.

Palace Krzyztopor near Ujazd, Poland
Built and occupied by Ossolinski Family

What this research showed me, is that some of the stories that seem most unbelievable to the listener, might possibly be true.

 

Over the years, I have found other accounts that are possibly linked to my mother’s experience in some way.