Gentle creatures threaten bishop at home

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Gentle creatures threaten bishop at home

Bishop Donald Pelotte of Gallup, New Mexico, called emergency services to report that strange invaders were in his home during the night. This is the second such strange occurence at his home this year.

Bishop Donald Pelotte of the Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico made an erratic emergency call from his home to local police early Thursday morning. An incident report from the McKinley Metropolitan Dispatch Authority reported that Bishop Pelotte, aged 62, told operators “…gentle little people, about 3 to 4 feet tall, and wearing Halloween masks” were in the hall. Bishop Pelotte is reported to have said that he hid in a closet while the people were in his home.
Three officers were dispatched to the bishop’s residence at 6 a.m., where they searched inside and outside his home. They reportedly found no intruders, but twenty minutes later the bishop requested they search again. Again, the officers discovered no intruders.
The bishop reported four individuals were in his house but gave contradictory information about them. He said one of the individuals had come to visit while the others came inside. He claimed they had been at his home for three hours and would not leave despite his requests.
Bishop Pelotte suffered severe injuries on July 23 sometime before his chancellor Deacon Timoteo Lujan discovered him locked in his bedroom. The bishop told Deacon Lujan that he had fallen down a staircase, but an emergency room physician at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital contacted police, suspecting Bishop Pelotte may have been assaulted. The bishop was then airlifted to a trauma center at a Phoenix hospital.
Following the incident, Bishop Pelotte insisted that he fell down a set of stairs after having felt sick for the previous day or two. Chancery officials at the Diocese of Gallup have said that Bishop Pelotte suffered traumatic head injury in the July incident.
Matt Doyle, interim communications director for the Diocese of Gallup, said that clergy consulting Bishop Pelotte and other officials will be contacted to make a decision for the diocese. Nonetheless, the final decision on what to do will fall to the Vatican.
 
The whole story has been quite interesting to follow. I’m in NM and it seems like there is something going on… but no one really knows what.

I hadn’t seen the latest article about the “gentle” creatures. Last I’d read/heard that they hadn’t found anyone in the home.
 
I think the good bishop needs to see the doctor again, ASAP, poor man.
 
Whether this is some form of madness, demons or whatever, clearly this bishop is in great need of our prayers.

Pray for him, whatever state he is in, whatever faults and weaknesses he may have, whatever it is he is suffering from, pray that God will bring him grace, healing and consolation.

:gopray2:
 
He needs our prayers and an MRI of the head ASAP. This could be an aftermath of his traumatic brain injury. :byzsoc:
 
What I don’t understand is why the dear Bishop lives by himself. The article reported that in July he had fallen down the staircase, had suffered severe injuries and was taken to the trauma center.

You would think, especially after he first reported the incident of the strange happenings at his home, someone would have been assigned to stay with him for his safety and observation.

Now that he reported the second strange happenings, it would be interested to see if he will have someone come and live with him for awhile.
 
Let’s say the head trauma made the Bishop Pelotte see things. Does a scenario of what the bishop reported be a spontaneous imagination of the mind, and how does the mind conjures up things it never thought of?

Just my musings, but if someone could somewhat explain how these things work, it would be interesting to know.

In the meantime I already sent up a prayer for Bishop Pelotte that he soon be completely well again.
 
Theodora said:
Just my musings, but if someone could somewhat explain how these things work, it would be interesting to know.
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If the visual center of the brain has been injured, the person can have a “disconnect” between what they are actually seeing and their perception of what it is. They can become confused and/or hallucinate, they can see an item and think it is something else, etc. This link has a section on visual effects of traumatic brain injury, if you want to know more: tbihelp.org/FAQs.htm

Peace,
CarrieH, RN, BSN, CCRN
former trauma-ICU nurse
 
He may be hallucinating. On the other hand, a doctor did suspect that he had been assaulted - so maybe someone (or something) really did break into his home.

It’s difficult to tell what’s going on because the Bishop himself doesn’t seem too sure of what’s going on.

Reports of “little people” who seem to vanish into thin air have been going on for centuries. Other than the fact that a doctor thought he had been assaulted, I would think that he had been hallucinating - but hallucinations typically don’t assault people. 🤷
 
Bishop Pelotte confirmed me. He is a good and decent man and deserves far better than he’s gotten from the press and “Uncle Diogenes” over at Catholic World News. It sounds like he’s undergoing a real trial.
 
JKirkLVNV said:
Bishop Pelotte confirmed me. He is a good and decent man and deserves far better than he’s gotten from the press and “Uncle Diogenes” over at Catholic World News. It sounds like he’s undergoing a real trial.
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I was also quite suprised at the negative tone at CWN–especially for the first incident when he was so seriously injured. I don’t know anything about the Bishop, but I would think a respectful, concerned tone would be more appropriate then the insinuations he did use.

I will be praying for Bishop Pelotte. :signofcross:
 
CarrieH said:
If the visual center of the brain has been injured, the person can have a “disconnect” between what they are actually seeing and their perception of what it is. They can become confused and/or hallucinate, they can see an item and think it is something else, etc. This link has a section on visual effects of traumatic brain injury, if you want to know more: tbihelp.org/FAQs.htm

Peace,
CarrieH, RN, BSN, CCRN
former trauma-ICU nurse
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Thank you very much for the link. It has plenty of information that I find interesting. Coincidentally, I friend of mine recently cracked her skull when she hit her head while she had stroke. She has been placed under an induced coma. The website discusses what happened while a person is in a coma.
 
Theodora said:
Thank you very much for the link. It has plenty of information that I find interesting. Coincidentally, I friend of mine recently cracked her skull when she hit her head while she had stroke. She has been placed under an induced coma. The website discusses what happened while a person is in a coma.
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Oh my, I’m so sorry to hear this! Glad the link was helpful to you. I just said a prayer for your friend. :crossrc:
 
CarrieH said:
He needs our prayers and an MRI of the head ASAP. This could be an aftermath of his traumatic brain injury. :byzsoc:
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Very true. I live in NM as well. I know that the Archbishop is working to determine if Bishop Pelotte is too ill in whatever way to continue as Bishop. Only time will tell.

I also know that he ended up in Phoenix because all the Alb. trauma centers were too full! There is a lot of unexplained happenings here and we have to wonder if the Bishop was protecting someone by saying he fell down the stairs (he was found in his bedroom by the paramedics) and his wounds were not indicative of a fall but he wouldn’t say anything else.
JKirkLVNV said:
Bishop Pelotte confirmed me. He is a good and decent man and deserves far better than he’s gotten from the press and “Uncle Diogenes” over at Catholic World News. It sounds like he’s undergoing a real trial.
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Where did you live when he confirmed you? I know he has been Bishop of Gallup for some time and was the first Native American to be ordained as a Bishop but I don’t remember the timing. Oh, and the Diocese of Gallup covers part of NM and Arizona and I believe Utah and Colo. Basically the Four Corners area.

Prayers for Bishop Pelotte and those who have to make a decision about his ability to continue as Bishop!

Brenda V.
 
This is a matter to be carefully investigated. Is this purely a psychological matter on the bishop’s part? Is someone actually intruding? Are they demons? One thing to do is to have someone stay there with him to see what can be observed by someone else. I hope too that he has a good spiritual director who can help him look into this matter. It definitely is not a matter for the press, and I hope we hear no more of it there, and that it was dealt with quietly, however this might be.
When determining whether the nature of such experiences, a basic thing to do is to investigate medical or psychological explanations to see whether or not they have such a cause. And so for example, before the Church says that there was a cure at Lourdes, the doctors investigate to make sure that there could be no medical explanation. But sometimes there actually is another explanation besides a medical one.
 
Sounds like the fall he had may have harmed him worse than was feared. He deserves our sympathy and prayers.

That having been said, some posters on another board opined that the good bishop may have been seeing a demonic visitation. I disagree.

What do we have here? Midgets, in disguises, who show up univited, then call in all their friends, and once there, they refuse to leave—and you finally have to hide to get away from them.

Those aren’t demons. Those are liberals.
 
The bishop must be in the middle of a storm of criticism now, and this matter definitely was not a matter for the press. I recall what happened to Saint Teresa of Avila when her autobiography was circulated without her consent, and people read about her visions and other experences. What she faced then was terrible. I expect the same thing is happening to this bishop, when perhaps he is innocent in this matter. There are a variety of possibilites involved–he is having hallicunations, there was an actual intrustion, or he is being assailed by demons. This matter is something to be checked out carefully with the assistance of a good spiritual director to see what is going on, and I hope he has one. Hopefully this matter will be deal with and we will not hear about it again in the press.
 
Wolseley said:
What do we have here? Midgets, in disguises, who show up univited, then call in all their friends, and once there, they refuse to leave—and you finally have to hide to get away from them.

Those aren’t demons. Those are liberals.
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There’s a difference?
 
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