I believe he (James Holmes) was poisoned by a natural (toxic) substance that altered his personality and caused him to lash out in a delusional rage. -Don Robbins
I met a young man in Paris France, who was attending the University of Paris. His father left him a trunk. Inside the trunk was the directions to a secret Island that he had discovered.
-I can't actually remember his name but let's just say his name is Dave.-
Dave was with the film and photography class. He volunteered to film a monastery in the French Alps. There was an effort to save the monastery from being closed. It had been there for some 500 years and people were going to try and save it. The film was to bring attention to the financial plight of the monastery and help to raise funds to save it from being sold.
Some of the other students knew some of the dance students and some of the dance students knew me because I volunteered to load the trucks and set stages for the troupe of ballet dancers out of Paris. Some of the dance students at the University traveled with the troupe. I went along to help unload the bus and equipment before and after the shows.
I wasn't a dancer then, but later passed basic dance in Chicago under Tallchief. At her studio. (That's another story.)
I was a medical student. I tested out of the classes so I had a lot of spare time. I was interested in photography so I talked to this guy named Dave about going with them to the monastery. He said OK.
I was taking an extra class in beginners photography. So I figured I could help.
He paid for everything that had to do with making the film. There were several volunteers and some crew members that were paid professionals.
We left to travel to the monastery. The filming of the monastery turned into a documentary. It can be seen on YouTube. I believe it was turned over to be publicized and some filming was added later.
I'll explain why later.
Other people who came from the University had set up a charity fund to raise money. They knew Dave and worked with him. It was sort of a joint effort.
We spent several days filming and interviewing the priests who stayed there. I guess you could call them monks. There were several who were young, like twenty or there abouts.
I went with them to go out and look at the land and their cows and farm. There was a hill they liked to slide down when it snowed. That is in the film. Them sliding down the hill in the snow.
The priest that fed the cats was funny and the guy who really hated cutting the wood -but wouldn't admit it- was also kind of funny too.
after the interviews and the filming, we were going to go back to Paris.
Then fate took a very wrong turn and we traveled with it to a place where a man lived that had known his father. The place was not far from the monastery. It was an insane asylum.
The man in the hospital was severely mentally ill. He came into a room to talk to Dave about the island. He had been on the island with Dave's father and was affected by something there. Other men who had gone to the island were also affected by something on the island and had gone mad also.
Some of the interview was filmed. Some of the parts that were filmed, after that, were in a movie. Even though it doesn't say that in the movie. I know about the parts that were filmed by Dave because I was there when the film was made.
So we started out to film a documentary at a monastery in France and the we wound up filming mad men in an insane asylum.
Whatever Dave asked the man, he convinced him that going to the island would be worth the trouble-time and expense. He convinced him that the island was real. Whether Dave's father told him not to go there; I don't know. Maybe he couldn't.
Dave planned the trip to the island and told us his plans. We went to a location by the sea and rented boats and hired captains. He had cameras mounted on the ships. I was instructed on the operation of one of the cameras in case he needed me. I learned how to operate the camera in about two hours, basically. It was mounted on a boom that swung out from the side of the ship.
There were two ships and two crews. I was on the second ship and Dave was on the first crew.
My ship was more like a tug boat. Dave's ship was like an oceanic research vessel. Pretty expensive stuff.
Most of the people who were on the monastery team, filming the documentary with Dave, were also on the boats going along with him to the secret island.
There were charts and coordinates given to the authorities. Our trip was charted. And then we took off to find the island.
Using the maps and charts his father had left to him and the mad man's instructions we found our way to the island. It was somewhere in the middle of the ocean. I now wander how we ever found it.
What I can say now, after all these years, about what I remember seeing on the island is that there has been greater civilizations than Egypt and the pyramid builders long before Egypt ever existed. The estimated age of the monumental structures on the abandoned island are over ten thousand years old. The architecture is superior to the pyramids. Far superior.
I actually saw more of the structures in the movie than I did when i was on the island.
Dave and his crew went up to the structures from the shore. We stayed behind to man the other camera and then went up to the shore and was waiting for them to come back to go to the boats.
Being away from the place as far as I was is what saved me. Some died and some went insane on the spot. They were screaming and running away from the structures, back to the shore, and waving at us to run. Yelling at us a screaming get away and run! And then I saw it.
I suppose that the man who died there, after he fell off the top of one of the walls of a building, was taken out later by the Coast Guard. A couple of men were carried by the crew to the small boats and then taken to the larger boat that Dave was on. Dave was apparently affected by what happened.
Luckily the boats were equipped with motors. As we left the shore to head out to the larger boats, this thing came up out of the structures and headed towards the water. We were almost to the boats by then. I thought I had to be dreaming but It wasn't a dream.
The creature was huge! It looked like a skull with spiders legs. Must have been a hundred feet tall.
There is film of it in the movie. I wont talk about it anymore. Hopefully the poor thing is protected and one day maybe we will get to see it. It didn't mean any harm. It was just frightening to look at!
It came toward us and walked out int the water. The deepest part of the water, there, wasn't half way up its legs. It came straight for the boat. The captain went limp and the other crew member tried to steer us away from it. The other crew in the other ship was headed out ahead of us.
It came right up to the side of the cabin and looked into the window. The crew member was screaming and fell down. I grabbed the steering wheel and kept driving the boat away from the creature. It didn't attack or anything, it seemed to just be curious.
The captain had died from a heart attack. The crew member never recovered and went to the insane asylum. I was affected but not as bad. I later sought refuge at the monastery.
Dave went insane along with most of the crew that went up to film the structures with him.
That brings us to the reason that the men were affected in that way. I say it was a fungus like a toadstool that was toxic and poisoned the area. The men came in contact with the spores from the toadstools and that led to insanity. I believe that the same type of toadstools caused the insanity of James Holmes.
I believe that the toadstool made their way from the island to the environment, here, in America and sprout up on occasion. I think Mr. Holmes was exposed to the toxins from the toadstools.
That's my theory.
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