Goblin Problem

 

A few years ago I reported on a strange outbreak of cases from southern Africa about mysterious creatures terrorizing communities, see the background links below. Now a new spate of "goblin" encounters has broken out in the same region; and they are remarkably similar in detail. Once again a police station is targeted. Mabed Ngulani, a councillor from Bulilima in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, explained how policemen refused to enter their station because it is haunted by these creatures. Apparently the officers were followed home by succubi-like monsters which then climbed on the roofs of their houses and sexually assaulted them in their sleep. Fear of the goblins then spread throughout the local area. Source: https://cite.org.zw/police-officers-desert-station-citing-goblin-attacks/. This is apparently a regular thing and goes back a very long way in history. They call such a creature tokoloshe. There are ways and means of protecting yourself from a tokoloshe. You can get a sangoma, a medicine man, to cast a spell to banish them or you can take herbal substances that act as a repellent. One simple method is to sleep on a bed that is very high. It's quite normal to see beds in Zimbabwe that are five or six feet off the ground, resembling a bunk-bed without a lower bunk. It's easy to laugh at such antics and dismiss them as a childish superstition believed in by a primitive culture; however, there are a lot of similarities between tokoloshe encounters and those reported by white westerners experiencing sleep paralysis. This is something I get myself quite often, once a fortnight or so. I've had it my whole life so it doesn't bother me. I just wake up unable to move my body, apart from my eyes. I just wait and after a few minutes it wears off and I wake up properly. Occasionally, only about five or six times, I've seen strange things in the bedroom with me. See: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/03/sleep-paralysis-and-shadow-people.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/06/sleep-paralysis-again.html. I'm lucky; some people see these entities every night and often they are far more aggressive. They are surprisingly similar in appearance and behaviour to the tokoloshe. How come people of such different racial, geographic and cultural backgrounds see the same things? There are only two possibilities. Either every single human brain is hardwired to produce certain images and experiences under certain states of consciousness, and that requires a lot of explanation; or what we are seeing is objectively real. Which is more likely?
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/04/mermaid-attack-in-zimbabwe.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/01/goblin-in-suitcase-scares-cops.html.