Let me be clear: I'm not diagnosing anyone as mentally ill, but it's really a better explanation for Dion's experiences than the ones unflinchingly accepted by the narrator.

But, at the same time, I tend to see claims of gangstalking as evidence of mental illness. I've read a few accounts of gangstalking, and Dion's claims (as suspect as they are, even by the narrator's own admission) fits in with that schema. There were parts of the book where he neglected the obvious explanation for things (that the subject of the book, the narrator's friend Dion, is, in fact, mentally ill) in favor of what he considered the only 'logical' explanation: that his friend was actually being stalked by midgets in invisibility suits, hounded at every turn and driven to the brink of insanity by hundreds (thousands?) of government agents assigned to pester him 24/7. However, I really wanted the narrator here to be more skeptical. I'm no stranger to the kinds of stories told in this book. I've read Charles Fort, John Keel, Phil Dick, any number of conspiracy books, UFO studies, bigfoot, ghosts, goblins, on and on and on. I'm ok with strange or outlandish claims. More shocking still, Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its newest technologies on a number of American citizens.Ī condensed version of this story was the cover feature of Fortean Times Magazine (September 2013).įirst, let me say that I've read some weird stuff in my life. Department of Defense and deployed on American soil. Hallucination? Perhaps - except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dion’s friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed “Chameleo,” experimental technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense government scrutiny - and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving “cloaking”- electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters - by the Department of Homeland Security. He was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style interrogation. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military equipment, or Camp Pendleton didn’t seem to bother the military. Marine Corps base.ĭion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment out of Camp Pendleton. Navy sailor who’d stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby U.S. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S.

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