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March 26, 2024

TALL UNKNOWN BEING Stares Back at Michigan Eyewitness

A Michigan man is in the backyard of his girlfriend's house one evening. As he goes to collect firewood for the fire pit he encounters a tall unknown being staring back at him from the dark woods.

The following account was forwarded to me:

"About 8 months ago, on a Saturday, I was at my girlfriend's house. She has a fairly decent-sized backyard, partially open, and surrounded by dense woods. Keep in mind, that Michigan (the state I live in) has some pretty large forests. There are two fire pits in her backyard, one not in the woods, and the other in a little clearing in the woods.

I went to get some more firewood from the clearing in the woods to bring up to the second fire pit, and as I was collecting I looked up and saw two eyes staring down at me. I stand up straight and this thing is literally eye to eye with me (I’m 6’7) and is just standing completely still. For the few seconds I look, I can only see a thin form of a “body.”

I haul ass back to the fire pit and my girlfriend can tell I'm clearly panicked. She asks me what’s wrong and I tell her concisely what just occurred. She seems iffy (doesn’t believe in paranormal occurrences) but is inclined to believe me. She convinces me to sit with her by the fire and that it was probably just a large animal.

About 25 minutes later the fire is dying down and suddenly an adult male scream pierces through the air, and it sounds like it came from the forest. We once again haul ass, leaving the fire smoldering. We stay inside for the rest of the night, and nothing else occurs. Her dad hypothesized it was most likely a deer (he was out of town at the time). The image attached is a crude drawing of what I saw." B

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Dragons & Wyverns have been a part of historical legend & heroic stories for centuries. These creatures have been a part of our modern lexicon since the advent of media entertainment. They are seen as destroyers, as well as instruments used to battle evil.
When we hear or read of modern sightings our imaginations go back to the prehistoric Far East or the Medieval period when these behemoths were said to exist throughout antiquity.
Then we hear of flying monsters of the New World, particularly in the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Piedmont. Dragon-like cryptids that the German settlers referred to as the Snallygaster. Are these the descendants of the legendary winged serpents of earlier times?
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Published on March 26, 2024 12:52

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE COLLAPSE: Winged Beings, Humanoids, & High Strangeness in BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

In light of the recent events surrounding the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on the Patapsco River south of Baltimore, Maryland, I've been inundated with requests for winged humanoid (Mothman) sightings or unexplained encounters in the general area.

These accounts are not related, but any bridge collapse immediately sparks interest concerning the high number of Mothman sightings and the Silver Bridge collapse on the Ohio River near Point Pleasant, West Virginia on December 15, 1967, where 46 people met their ultimate fate. The Mothman was supposedly seen above the bridge that same night, even though there has never been any tangible proof. Thus, the legend of the phenomenon was sealed, giving the Mothman its harbinger status.

Anyway, here are a few unexplained accounts from Baltimore, Maryland, and the surrounding region:

The witness describes an anomaly that has been reported before, which I'll explain later:

“I was in Baltimore in the hood so I was paying attention to my mirrors and I was looking behind me stood a crowd of people in the corner. I saw this really really tall thing walk out from behind the crowd wearing a bright red robe with the hood over its head and using a cane. The arms of the robe covered the hands and the hood covered all of the faces, but the weirdest part was how no one paid a bit of attention to this bizarre figure walking by them like it was a normal everyday occurrence or they didn't see it at all.

As soon as I saw it I thought oh no, they are going to mess with this dude terribly and Baltimore isn't known as a warm and fuzzy type of place. It's not somewhere you really want to draw a whole bunch of attention to yourself, but it just lurched on by without anyone even looking at it, nevertheless messing with it.

It happened at least 10-15 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday. It was wearing a bright red robe and had to be close to 7 feet tall even though it wasn’t standing straight up and it was daylight out. I remember because for a second I thought the robe was to keep the sun off. They definitely should've seen it but no one even looked twice. It walked straight through a group of six or eight people. You could tell it was hunched over like the robe was covering some serious birth defect and the cane kind have strengthened that thought but like I said a BRIGHT RED robe if you wanted to cover a defect up is a really strange fashion choice.

I've always wondered what that robe was hiding but I think I'm lucky I don’t know. From the second I saw it I got a weird vibe that quickly turned to concern for it and then right back to weird/creepy as I got to noticing more details yet it seemed like no one closer to it noticed a thing.” RP

NOTE: I lived in the Baltimore metro area for almost 40 years. I have heard of this 'phantom' in the Park Circle neighborhood (near Druid Hill Park) in the 1980s, though, I don't know where in Baltimore this witness made the observation. Each sighting I received was from a vehicle and the unknown entity wore a bright red hooded cloak. At the time, I checked into the sightings but was unable to gather any tangible information. I was a bit surprised to once again see that the 'phantom' was still active years later. Lon

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This is a case that I originally investigated in the mid-1980s:

Not long ago, I was thumbing through old investigation files when I came across notations I had made regarding an unknown bird-like creature. The sightings were reported in 1985 and continued into 1987. It was an odd situation because I knew a few of the witnesses and I was also employed nearby at the time of the sightings. Cryptid investigation was new for me since my main focus was researching spiritual hauntings, but I had studied local Bigfoot encounters and wanted to expand my paranormal focus.

During the afternoon of May 5, 1985, I received a telephone call from Alfred M., the initial witness. He and 2 other men had seen a large bird-like creature perched in a hickory tree while driving south on Thistle Rd. toward River Rd. adjacent to the Patapsco State Park in SW Baltimore Co. Maryland. Alfred stopped the vehicle and watched the creature for several minutes. It eventually flew out of the tree and landed approximately 50 ft. from the road where the witnesses were able to get a keen observation of the creature. Albert stated that it stood 4-5 ft. high and was greenish-blue in color except for the head which was bright red. The wing span was enormous...he estimated it at 15 ft. or more tip-to-tip. The legs were thick and long with distinguishable talons. The eyes were also noticeable...slanted and large with a bright yellow hue. It also made 'clucking and cackle' sounds. After a minute or so, it unfurled its wings and took flight towards the east. Alfred said it reminded him of a hybrid 'dragon and peacock', which he thought was crazy but he stuck with the description.

At the time, I thought that the creature was either a large turkey buzzard or maybe a peacock someone may have had as a pet. In fact, a peacock farm did exist in the area back in the 1950's according to people I interviewed. I went to the location but found no evidence supporting the sighting.

Later that year, I heard a rumor of a large bird being seen near the Hilton Area of the Patapsco State Park on Hilltop Rd. After several inquiries, I was able to locate the witness, Darlene M., who confirmed the sighting. She and her daughter lived nearby and had been walking along Hilltop Rd. when they observed a huge bird flying towards them. Darlene stated that the creature got within 20 ft. of them then suddenly changed direction and flew into the woods. She said that they were terrified...she was sure it was going to hit them. She had gone to the library to see if she could find a picture of the creature. She found an old illustration of a Fung Hwang, or Chinese Phoenix, and said it looked very similar to what they observed. She described the head as vibrant red with fierce eyes. The wings were leathery and tipped with large green feathers. It flew by so quickly that she was unable to get a better description.

Once again I was stumped by the sighting. I talked to two ornithologists who basically thought I was delusional. I also contacted the state park service and asked if they had heard of any strange reports. Nothing...though they were amused by the questions.

On the morning of April 29, 1986, several employees at the local paper mill observed a large bird standing in the loading area. According to the witnesses, this creature fit the description of a very large peacock, but there were some oddities. The head was red in color and it didn't have the long plumes. Other than those anomalies the overall description pointed towards a peacock. Could there be a breeding population in the state park?

In January 1987 a truck driver (Robert S.) was heading south on Thistle Rd. and was startled by a huge bird that flew across the road in front of his vehicle. I was able to interview him by telephone a few days later (he lived in Edison, NJ). His impression was that it 'looked like a dragon'. There was snow on the ground and the creature silhouetted well enough to get a quick but detailed look. Robert stated that it was 'as long as his truck was wide' and 'was powerfully built'. He also confirmed it had a red-colored head and greenish-blue body and wings.

At this point, I had nothing more than anecdotal evidence. There was no natural explanation for the existence of this creature. Even today I have little to go on because I simply have not come across another cryptid that matches the description.

The final sighting, as far as I know, took place on June 30, 1987. The witness, David, was a Baltimore Gas and Electric employee who, along with his partner, was working along the power line that runs north to south through the state park. At a point north of Hilltop Rd. near the old mill village is an abandoned church graveyard. The former church was razed in the 1930s but the graveyard was left on its own...thus, it was severely overgrown by the woods. (I do think that the graves have been relocated since). David observed a large bird-like creature that he described as a 'griffin,' though he admits that he didn't get a very good look at it. He only noticed the creature after hearing a rustling sound which he thought was probably deer moving through the woods. He said the creature rose up from a rock, spread its wings, and vanished. David admitted that the sight of this beast was a shock and that he did not want to go back to the location.

I really wish I had more to offer. I kept the notes and vowed to go back and investigate the encounters if more sightings were reported. The witness Darlene may have been on to something, maybe this was a mythical firebird with the ability to be reborn from its own ashes. Unfortunately, I have not heard of other incidents. Lon

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"This happened in Baltimore, MD. More specifically, Jones Falls Express Tunnel/Conduit. I don't know what this thing was. It appeared to be maybe 4 feet tall (maybe?) Was about 15 yards from it, maybe more. Things are kind of hard to explain being it was basically pitched black except for a sewer light from above and this "creature" looked a blueish gray. I saw the back of its head as it passed into a different tunnel. It looked like there was a dorsal fin on its head and the body looked scaly. It had a long alligator-like tail and had legs like a monkey, but hairless. It made no sound (as far as I can remember) but the sound its feet made while running was heavy and had a slapping sound with each step. It was very fast, not a human. I thought it was a human at first. I heard somebody running up from behind me and only had my cellphone flashlight when I turned I only saw the back half of its body as it was already running off into a different tunnel. I climbed the next sewer ladder out of there and have never seen anything like this.

Any ideas as to what this could have been and/or any known cryptids in this area or region? I'm kind of taken back on words currently as I'm still slightly processing this craziness." RR

NOTE: Here is a link to my winged humanoid encounter as well, just for good measure. This is one of several winged humanoid sightings and encounters that occurred within 50 miles distance north of Baltimore, Maryland. Lon

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Published on March 26, 2024 12:11

Can Someone Literally Be SCARED TO DEATH?

The following account was forwarded to me several years ago. Since then, I have talked to the writer to ease the guilt and worry that she still retains.

Hello Sir - your email was forwarded to me by a relative who thought you or your colleagues could help answer some questions regarding an incident I witnessed a few years ago. You have my permission to use this story but I do ask that my name be left out. Since I no longer live in the area where this occurred you may use those details. I would ask that you call me first. (NOTE: I did call and talk to the writer and was given permission to add other facts to her account...Lon).

It was the summer of 2004. At the time I was selling real estate in Warren County, Virginia but mostly in the Front Royal, Virginia area. The vicinity is known more for the Shenandoah Valley as well as its history during the American Civil War. It seems that most of the older property has a story behind it and it's usually tied to the Civil War.

I moved there in 2000, not long after I graduated from college. Real estate sales was not my first choice for a career but I was doing well, so I decided to see how far I could go.

In March 2004 a house with many acres of farm property was listed for sale. The former resident had recently passed away and the family was selling it. From what I gathered, none of the relatives wanted to take over the property and it was decided that it be sold as soon as possible.

On the day I first toured the old place it was obvious that the previous owner took very good care of it. It was quite a nice house with a barn, a smokehouse, and a large greenhouse. A nephew of the former owner accompanied me during the inspection. He assured me that there would be no attempts by any family member to impede a sale and that everything in the house was to be sold 'as is.' All furniture, appliances, tools, etc. were to be included in the sale. I explained to him that they would most likely realize more profit if the items were removed for sale in an auction but he insisted it must be sold 'as is' and that the buyer would be responsible for the contents. I thought this was quite odd, but I promised that I would do as the sellers wanted.

To my surprise, the property was listed for only 3 weeks. The overall housing market was starting to get very tight and large properties were difficult to sell. But, in fact, I made the sale to a couple from Washington D.C. who was the second party that showed interest. They made a counter-offer which was quickly accepted by the sellers. Everything went quite smoothly though the day of settlement was a bit strange. The nephew and his sister were representing the sellers. Their demeanor was very distant and cold during the entire procedure. At one point, the buyers asked the nephew if there was any property in the house that he would like to keep. The nephew gave them a glaring look and told them that he 'didn't care if they burned it all.'

Several weeks later the new owners invited me for dinner in their new home. They were quite proud and wanted to tell me about the history of the place. It was once owned by a former British officer who had defected and fought with the colonists during the Revolutionary War. Later it became a working farm and remained so until the 1950s when it was purchased by a Baptist preacher and his wife. The couple was considered quite eccentric and the preacher never had a large congregation. The new owners were told by an attorney who lived nearby that the preacher held worship services in the barn because there was never a church. There were many rumors of strange rituals being performed during these services.

It was a very enjoyable evening and we agreed to get together again. I really did like this couple. They were very intelligent and quite polite. The husband worked for the Federal government and the wife was a pharmaceutical representative. They had grown tired of the urban lifestyle in Washington D.C. and wanted a home where they could relax. One thing I did notice was that much of the furniture and appliances left in the house remained and were being used by the new owners.

On the July 4th weekend, the couple invited me to join their cookout. My boyfriend was staying with me for the week so he decided to come along. I hadn’t seen the couple in over a month and was very interested to know how life in their new home was going. When we arrived, instantly I knew something was wrong.

We started walking towards the back of the house and noticed that no one other than the couple was there. I asked if we were the first to arrive and was told that none of their friends accepted the invitation. We sat down in the lawn chairs and started to talk. They both looked worried though I didn’t understand what was going on. I’m a very direct person so I asked if there was anything wrong. The wife looked at me and explained that none of their friends would come to the house anymore and that they had all had bad experiences when visiting. She started to get more specific and said that they thought the property was haunted. I tried not to laugh but the smile quickly came to my face. I looked back at both of them. They were deadly serious and not smiling.

They said that something tried to push people down the stairs and that a bad odor would permeate the living room for a few minutes and then fade away. They also heard screaming sounds outside at night and thought it may have been coming from the barn. As well, they were both having dreams about dead bodies buried in the greenhouse and barn. I had never experienced anything paranormal while on the property so I simply dismissed it.

The day went by without an incident and, in fact, it was quite enjoyable. It was starting to get late and I needed to get up early the next morning so we thanked them for their hospitality and drove home. I really didn’t think much about what I was told and quickly went to sleep that night.

The next morning I woke early and got myself together because I had several homes scheduled to show that day. I needed to first stop by the office so I could pick up the newest listings. When I arrived at the office, I noticed a police car in the parking lot. I walked into the office and was immediately approached by the office manager and told that the authorities wanted to talk to me.

I introduced myself to the police officers and asked what was going on. One of them handed me a photograph of the couple. They were lying on the ground, side-by-side, and obviously dead. They were both very pale like all the blood had been drained. I acknowledged that I had sold them the property and that we had socialized the previous day. He explained that their bodies had been found by a police officer the previous night after a 911 call was placed for a disturbance and that they were found lying in the barn as seen in the photo. The only information I could provide was what they told me and that they thought the property was haunted.

The next day I was told that they both died from natural causes and that there would be no further investigation. That’s all I was ever told and that’s all I would ever find out. I asked a physician if it was possible that two people could be scared to death at the same time. The look he shot back at me was of utter bewilderment, which was followed by laughter. He said that it was practically impossible to scare a person to death, let alone two people at the same time.

Since that incident, I moved to the West Coast and no longer sell real estate. I know their deaths will haunt me for the rest of my life. I wouldn’t feel so bad if I hadn’t dismissed what they said so quickly and so out of hand. I feel that something on that property frightened them so bad that it resulted in their deaths. J.L.

NOTE: I had an associate check the circumstances described in the story. I told the writer that I was going to do this and she agreed just so her name was left out of the post. There was a death of a couple in the area at the time described. Since there was no investigation and the deaths were determined to be of natural causes the only information available is on the death certificate. Lon

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Published on March 26, 2024 11:03

"I Was Contacted by the PLEIADIANS & They Have a Message For the World"

An experiencer contacts me, pleading for help. He states that he was contacted by the Pleiadians and was shown the Tree of Life and that a message will arrive this year.

I received the following account:

"It was the night of March 26, 2016. I was in my room in Cleveland, Ohio. There was an electrical storm outside. Out of nowhere, this intense energy permeated my room. I was standing at the time watching television, and I heard and felt this low humming sound. I was literally knocked onto my rear end, everything in my room was alive with light and overwhelming energy. Suddenly the television screen changed, and there I was on TV. Then words started forming. "You are a dragon!" Again, out of nowhere like watching a movie superimposed over my own reality.

I was literally shown the creation of life on our planet. A fish crawling out of the water and all the offshoots of the species, the Tree of Life. I have never felt such fear in my life! I can only explain this next scenario as thought transference. Words started coming into my brain like a computer being downloaded with information.

'They' said to me, "Do not fear little one. You are God, we live in you as you!" They have revealed themselves as tall human-like beings with dark hair, with the power and knowledge of Angels, but extraterrestrial.

Since that day, I have been in a lucid state of awareness, being shown the secrets of the cosmos. After that, my battle for life had begun. I had lost all my hair and had scars like burns all over my body. They told me they were testing something on me they called nanomolecular technology. They are here waking us up one by one!

They say that the collective event will occur on December 12, 2024, when all knowledge of the Tree of Life will be revealed. What is really crazy is that I was raised Catholic. You have no idea how difficult this has been for me. This goes against everything I was taught. I suffer silently. Who will help me? I know there is something inside of me. I feel like molten metal, I can literally see the light inside of me.

I have so much information. Please help me, I am on the edge. I am willing to undergo any testing so the truth can be told. I have seen amazing things, so much more than I can state here. Please help me, so I can help others with this new paradigm. I am on the edge" N

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March 25, 2024

A Brief History of PIG PEOPLE & PHANTOMS

There has been an interest in 'pig people' stories recently, so I decided to get into the fray with a few interesting accounts and historical anecdotes.

"The incident concerned a gentleman who was staying at Markham Square, Chelsea to visit his two sons. On the first night of his stay in a dingy room, only escaping the grip of full darkness by the hue of a lamp, the man awoke with a sudden nightmarish jerk and found himself face to face with a ghastly creature.

He commented, “It was a dwarfed tubby figure, with a face like a pig, perfectly naked, in a strong light. The whole figure resembled in appearance the scalded body of a pig, but the legs and arms were those of a human being brutalized; male or female, I could not say.”

Within fifteen seconds the awful beast vanished, leaving the witness huddled and shaking under his sheets, hypnotized by fear as the sweat dripped profusely from his brow. The occasional bout of slumber provided no respite from the memory of the presence, and only the morning light erased what the witness believed was no nightmare.

Only a picture that had fallen from a connecting door provided any answer. Maybe after hitting the floor in the night, it had awoken the sleeping man, but no explanation was forthcoming on the pig-faced humanoid that had mortified the man. No other such haunting was ever reported from the area, and the tale of the pig-faced specter was long forgotten...until now." - Haunted Britain[image error]

There have been stories of pig-faced women (and occasionally men) that originated in Holland, England and France in the 15th century. The majority of these tales told of a wealthy woman whose body was of normal human appearance, but who had the face of a pig.

In the earliest forms of the story, the woman's pig-like appearance was the result of witchcraft. Following her wedding day, the pig-faced woman's new husband was granted the choice of having her appear beautiful to him but pig-like to others, or pig-like to him and beautiful to others. When her husband told her that the choice was hers, the enchantment was broken and her pig-like appearance vanished. These stories became particularly popular in England, and later in Ireland.

The magical elements gradually vanished from the story, and the existence of pig-faced women began to be treated as fact. The story became particularly widespread in Dublin in the early 19th century, where it became widely believed that reclusive 18th-century philanthropist Griselda Steevens had kept herself hidden from view because she had the face of a pig. In late 1814 and early 1815, rumour swept London that a pig-faced woman was living in Marylebone. Her existence was widely reported as fact, and numerous alleged portraits of her were published. With belief in pig-faced women commonplace, unscrupulous showmen exhibited living "pig-faced women" at fairs. These were not genuine women, but shaven bears dressed in women's clothing. - The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square: And Other London Medical Marvels[image error]

Dr. Jan Bondeson wrote at least four books on the bizarre, and The Pig-faced Lady is a tour de force and highly researched.

Was the early-nineteenth-century pig-faced lady in the title real or just a hoax? The author's meticulous research cannot find the answer. Her predecessor Tannakin Skinker from Holland, who made her first appearance in London in 1639 when she was hoping to find a husband, was much featured in ballads and songs but she too may have been more legend than fact.

Tannakin Skinker was born to Joachim and Parnel Skinker in 1618 in "Wirkham, a neuter Towne between the Emperour and the Hollander, situated on the river Rhyne". Joachim Skinker is described as "a man of good revenue, but of a great estate in money and cattle." During Parnel's pregnancy, an elderly woman begs her for money. Parnel was busy and refused to pay, and the old woman had left, "muttering to her selfe the Divells pater noster, and was heard to say 'As the Mother is Hoggish, so Swinish shall be the Child shee goeth withall'". At Tannakin's birth, her body and limbs were correctly proportioned, but her face had a pig's snout, "not only a stain and blemish, but a deformed ugliness, making all the rest loathsome, contemptible and odious to all that lookt upon her in her infancy." The midwife who had delivered the baby was sworn to secrecy, and the Skinkers raised her in a private room. She ate from a silver trough, "to which she stooped and ate, just like a Swine doth in his swilling tub".

Tannakin's deformity was soon discovered, and many locals came to hear her pig-like speech or to watch her feed from the trough. The old woman was located, tried, and convicted for witchcraft, but even at the stake refused or was unable to reverse the enchantment.

When Tannakin was between 16 and 17 years old, her father consulted Vandermast, "a famous Artist, who was both a Mathematician and an Astrologian a man who was suspected to have been well versed in black and hidden Arts", as to how the curse might be undone. Vandermast concluded that as long as Tannakin remained a virgin she would retain her pig's face, but were she married, and not to "a Clowne, Bore or Pesant", she might be cured.

The Skinker family announced that any gentleman who "would take her to his bed after loyall Matrimony" would receive a dowry of £40,000. The dowry, a huge sum for the time, prompted a large number of would-be husbands. A Scottish captain arrived, having spent the greater part of a month's pay on a new suit, and was taken by Tannakin's figure and deportment. On lifting the veil to view her face, however, "he would stay no other conference, but ran away without a further answer, saying; they must pardon him, for he could endure no Porke." An English sow-man (pig farmer) assured the family that his familiarity with pigs meant he would accept Tannakin's appearance, but after meeting her he left the building, saying that "so long as I have known Rumford, I never saw such a Hogsnout".

Several further would-be suitors visited the Skinkers, but all were repulsed by Tannakin's face and she remained unmarried. Despairing of finding a suitable husband in Wirkham, the Skinker family moved to London, and took up residence in either Blackfriars or Covent Garden. Many who met her were taken by her elegant dress and excellent demeanour.

Eventually, the Skinkers found a man in London willing to marry Tannakin. On the day of the wedding, and despite all efforts to improve her appearance, her face was as pig-like as ever. With the wedding service concluded, the newlywed couple retired to the bedroom. When they lay in bed together for the first time, Tannakin reached for her husband's arm, saying that she would release him from his vows provided that he would look at her in the face. He turned to look at her, and saw "a sweet young Lady of incomparable beauty and feature, the like to whom to his imagination he never had in his whole lifetime beheld". He reached to kiss her, but she refused, saying:

Sir, I am indeed no other than I now seem unto you; and of these two things I give you free choice, whether I shall appear to you thus as you now see me, young, fair, and lovely in your bed, and all the daytime, and abroad, of my former deformity: or thus beautiful in the day, to the sight of your friends, but in your arms every night of my former Age and Uglinesse: of these two things I give you free choice of, which till you have resolv'd me, there can be no other familiarity betwixt in: therefore without pause give me a speedy answer.

A man bows before an elegantly dressed woman with a pig's head. The man says "God save you sweet mistress"; the woman replies "Ough".

Torn between the choice of a wife who would appear beautiful to him but hideous to all his friends, or hideous to him but beautiful to all his friends, he could not reach a decision but instead said to her "Into your own hands and choose I give the full power and sovereignty to make election of which you best please." On hearing this, Tannakin turned to him and said:

Now, Sir, you have given me that which all women most desire, my Will, Sovereignty; and know I, was by a wicked and sorcerous step-dame inchanted, never to return to my pristine shape, till I was first married, and after had received such power from my Husband · And now from henceforth I shall be the same to you night and day, of that youth and lively-hood which you now see mee; till Time and Age breed new alteration, even to the last period of my life. - A Certaine Relation

This account of Tannakin Skinker is no doubt a fable, but the next tale may be more truth than fiction:

Steevens Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Griselda Steevens (1653–1746), sometimes written as "Grizel Steevens", was the twin sister of Dr. Richard Steevens (1653–1710), a Dublin physician. Dr Steevens died in 1710, bequeathing an estate with an income of £606 per year to Griselda. A clause in Dr Steevens' will stipulated that on Griselda's death, the income was to be used to provide a hospital for the poor of Dublin.

Although the terms of Dr Steevens' will were that work on the hospital would not begin until after Griselda Steevens' death, she decided to begin work on the hospital in 1720. Reserving only £120 per year for her own use, she used the remaining funds to buy a plot of land near Kilmainham and to build the new hospital, with the sole condition being that she be granted a suite of apartments in the building.

As a youth Griselda had suffered a disorder of the eyes, and since then had worn a veil while in sunlight. Shy and reclusive, while conducting her charitable works in the Dublin slums she would remain in her carriage while servants gave out alms to the poor. By 1723 a sufficient portion of the new Dr Steevens' Hospital was completed to accommodate 40 patients, in addition to Griselda's apartments. The remainder of the hospital, with space for 200 patients, opened in 1733. Griselda lived in the hospital from 1723 until her death.

At some point, it became a common belief in Dublin that Griselda Steevens had a pig's face. It is unclear when the rumour arose. Robert Chambers and Irish Georgian Society founder Desmond Guinness claim that the rumour was current in her lifetime, but Thomas Kirkpatrick, the author of History of Dr. Steevens' Hospital Dublin, says that "There is absolutely no evidence of this story in contemporary records, nor indeed does it appear to have been connected with the good lady until the nineteenth century. It is not quite certain when this story first gained circulation. Croker-King, who wrote a history of the hospital in 1785, makes no mention of it, nor is there any suggestion of it in the newspaper accounts of the death of Madam Steevens, or the published account of the hospital in the eighteenth century."

The rumour was that Griselda Steevens' reclusiveness and always being veiled were owing to her having been born with a pig's head. Chambers speculates that her unusual name may have contributed to the legend, and notes the common belief that she was named "Grisly" on account of her appearance when born. It was claimed that while pregnant with Richard and Griselda, Steevens' mother had said "Take away your litter of pigs!" to a woman beggar asking for money to feed her children, and Griselda had then been born with the head and face of a pig. Dismayed by the popular belief that she had a pig's head, Griselda took to sitting on an open balcony to allow the public to see her face. This failed to stem the spread of the rumour, and she commissioned a portrait of herself to be hung in the main hall of the hospital. The portrait failed to have the desired effect; many of the public chose instead to believe a portrait in a pub neighbouring the hospital, which showed Steevens with a pig's head; the pub also displayed a silver trough alleged to have belonged to her. She eventually withdrew from public view completely before her death on 18 March 1746.

Surgeon and historian William Wilde recollected that as a medical student at Dr Steevens' Hospital in 1832 he was shown a silver trough, alleged to have belonged to Griselda Steevens, and accounts suggest that in the early 19th century a plaster cast of a human face with a pig's snout was on display at the hospital. Although the hospital authorities later forbade the display of alleged Steevens memorabilia on pain of dismissal, in the later half of the 19th century the belief that Steevens had a pig's face remained common. In the 1860s, a Dublin woman recollected that in her youth a large silver punchbowl, embossed with a family crest of a boar's head, was shown to visitors and was claimed to have been the Pig-faced Lady's trough. - The History of Mercer's Charitable Hospital in Dublin[image error]

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The Real Horrors of the PONTIANAK Legend

A few archived Pontianak reports that I have accumulated over the years. In Indonesian and Malayan folklore, the 'Pontianak' are women who died during childbirth and became 'undead', seeking revenge and terrorizing the living.

"Towards the end of my national (Singapore) service, my service support group was sent into the new SyangKong Camp to prepare stores for the incoming battalion for their service.

I was in charge of 20-odd of them. They were on unfamiliar grounds as most of them did not have full basic military training because of their medical condition.

SyangKong Camp is in the middle of reclaimed Tekong. It sits on a sandy/rocky terrain, flanked by rubber plantations. The camp was made up of a series of single-level barracks spread across the field surrounding a center square. It's big enough to house one full infantry battalion. So our first impression when we reached there was, that it was a big and empty camp.

That 20-odd storeman got down doing their stuff, equipping each barrack with the necessities. Foldable beds, pillows, blankets...the list goes on.

Soon after, once everything was in place, they all got back to their barrack. It was a long barrack with windows on the longer sides and entry at both ends. There was a double door and a steel gate on the outside.

It was around 8pm and it was already dark. They were all resting. Listening to their MP3s, squinting their eyes on their PSPs. Some rowdies were playing outside. Taking photos on top of a stationary bulldozer, basically just enjoying the time in the middle of the jungle with no officer to scream at them and with only a sergeant who couldn’t care even if they kill each other.

I was too tired to entertain them. After giving them the last instruction for the day, I dozed off on my bed. Strangely, I dreamed of the exact same barrack that I was in. In my dream, I was lying on the exact same bed looking on as my men ran around the bunk from end to end in total chaos. They were all terrified. The door was opened but the gate was closed. Soon amidst the chaos, I saw a woman in a white cloak with long hair. The face was horrible but I can never remember how to describe it.

She was a Pontianak, a classic blood-sucking bitch who is apparently dead and alive again to strike sheer fear in every Malay's life. (I personally think she’s overrated, but she got her credentials.)

So that explains why the guys are running around in chaos. ‘She’ was flying above our barrack, circling the rooftop, jumping from one end to the other trying to gain entry into the barrack. Only the gate was in her way.

So that was the dream I had. It sounds stupid, doesn’t it? But it was scary as it was in the middle of Tekong, and having your brain corrupted by the constant stories of Pontianak since you were young. I woke up in a sweat. It was barely an hour since I dozed off.

The barrack was still lighted. The guys who were on their PSP and MP3 had already dozed off. Those from outside had come in. There was an unusual silence amongst them. The doors were shut. I could sense something was wrong. I turned to my man beside me and told him my dream. He kept quiet and went on to sleep. That night, I tried to put myself to sleep. I managed to after a while. Unexpectedly, it was a sound sleep.

The next day, the man whom I told the story, told me that while I was sleeping earlier last night, they sighted a Pontianak on top of the bulldozer.

As the battalion came in the next day and continued their training for the week, there were a few other happenings and sightings which were more disturbing."

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"This story may sound a bit silly, a bit lame even, but I swear it is true!

My friends and I had decided to watch a movie at the Mall. The movie was “Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam”. It's quite a new movie, maybe you’ve heard of it?

Anyway, the Mall (yes, that’s the name of the shopping complex. Imaginative huh?) is built right in the middle of the busy commercial district, the town center you might call it. It's brand new, completed just this year, and as far as I know, no supernatural going-on has happened in the area.

Anyway, as I was saying, we were watching the “Pontianak” movie, the late-night showing. I happened to be at the end furthest from the aisle. The few seats from mine to the wall were all empty.

In the middle of watching the movie, my neck felt stiff. Do you know how that feels right after staring up at the movie for quite a while? So I stretched out, turning my neck from side to side to get rid of the stiffness.

To my shock, the empty seat beside me was no longer empty! There was a lady in a white dress with long black hair sitting there, seemingly absorbed in the movie! I turned back to the movie, frozen in terror.

I couldn’t stand it anymore and was about to go crying to my friend (who was sitting right beside me but didn’t seem to have seen something strange). I glanced back at the extra person, but she was gone! I went crying to my friend anyway. She didn’t believe me but didn’t mind switching seats with me. Needless to say, I wasn’t very much interested in watching the movie after that. I mean, who needs a movie when you’ve seen the real thing?"

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"This happened when I was on the way back home from work. Then, I was working at Boat Quay as a chat operator. So usually we knock off at 3am. My in-law was staying at Tiong Bahru. Sometimes my hubby would fetch me from work and we would walk all the way to my in-law's place. As our normal routine just like when we were still dating, we like to travel by foot (considering it's not that tiring to walk to the destination) and talk about lots of things.

Narrow things down, we reach this 4-block area where it's just 4 stories high or 5. Can’t clearly remember. Rumors said that the HDB wants to pull it down but now I see that it's being made as a rental place.

So before we reach Tiong Bahru Plaza, we will pass by this place. A few meters before we reached this block, (this happened before the HDB carried out the renovation to upgrade this vacant 4-story block. So it's really run down, and has been years since nobody actually lived there) I popped a question to my hubby, "Isn’t it scary to look at this building? It's been vacant like years and I’m sure there’s like 'those things' in there..a lot!". While talking, my hubby's eyes were fixed to the 3rd story of this building. I tap him gently and ask him what is he looking at.

He turned to me and asked me to look straight. "Sorry sayang", he suddenly said. "Why are you apologizing to me"? I ask. He then answered "Thanks to me, now that thing is already in the bushes across the road. Just don’t look now. Just now, that Pontianak was at the 3rd story looking at us. Thanks to me looking at her back, she knows that I spotted her and now she is walking the same line as us just that she’s across the road".

I turn my head slowly and fix my eyes right at the bushes. True enough, there is no wind and nothing across the road (it's just meters away, so near) the bushes are rustling and moving. It seems like someone or something is walking behind or in the bushes parallel to us, following us from the other side. I calm myself down and just walk straight.

I was praying hard that we would reach home quickly but thanks to the shoes that I was wearing, I had to go slow (it's a new shoe, so yeah). All of a sudden, my hubby grabbed my bag and hand, he pulled me and we both ran. I was clueless at that time but in my mind, I did have this thought, "is that thing behind me? Chasing us and wanting to kill us?"

We finally reached a bus stop and sat down. Hubby said it was safe. I really needed to sit down after that dash. Being impatient, I ask my hubby to explain why the sudden dash. Hubby insisted that we reach home and talk about it. Back at my in-laws, he explains.

"I saw that thing from the 3rd story while you were talking. At first, it didn’t see me looking at it. Then the Pontianak spotted me looking at her. So it was like too late for me to pretend that I never saw her at all. I thought that the Pontianak would just stand and look but she suddenly came down and followed us from the other side. The reason I pulled you as she was about to show herself was because I saw the Pontianak emerging from the bushes. I saw her white dress and black hair already so I rather we ran than have you see her that close up".

Since then, whenever I pass the building then and now, I never want to look at it. It just reminds me of the incident. Even now, since the renovation, trying to walk past the building at night, I walk at the back of the building. Who knows what you may see or even meet."

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This guy named Ismail was returning home from his cousin's house as it was during the Hari Raya. I think it was 2 years ago. His cousin's house was in Yishun and he was heading to Pasir Ris where he lived. While riding along Punggol, he was feeling strange all of a sudden. He continued to ride until there was a Malaysian-plated motorcycle. When they were side by side, this old Malaysian guy turned to him and then sped faster. Ismail didn't care and just kept on riding until he was again riding side by side with an old man. He was riding a Vespa motorcycle. The old man turned to look at Ismail and again the old man sped faster. Ismail thought that he wanted to race.

After a few minutes, he looked at his side mirror as he felt as if someone was riding behind him. He looked in the mirror and saw a white dress. He again looked at the mirror and saw a woman with long black hair and then it struck him that there was evil riding behind him. Ismail says “I did not disturb you and you please...do not disturb me”. He was in total fear!

When he reached a junction at Pasir Ris, he was getting ready to stop at a red light. This 'thing' pulled near and began to laugh. Ismail didn't care whether it was a red or green light, he just sped off until he reached home. Without even taking the key and parking at the correct spot, he rushed to his house. Reaching his house, he tells his elder brother what happened. His brother said he was lying.

They both get on their motorcycles together...Ismail rode behind his elder brother. When they see the motorcycle, the Pontianak was sitting and smiling at them. Ismail scolded his elder brother for not believing him. His brother quickly shouted prayers and the 'thing' was gone. Ismail rushed back home leaving his brother alone.

When the brother reached his way home, he scolded Ismail for leaving him alone, "What if the thing attacked me>" Beware of riding your motorcycle alone at night."

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"One Friday night, all of my friends and I are chatting at a nearby coffee shop. It was a boring night, one of my friends suggested we go clubbing at Boat Quay but we ignored his suggestion. I suggested having some fun with the spirits as it was the HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL.

We planned the things that we needed, e.g. joss sticks, candles, apples, and a comb. We proceeded to the destination planned. Upon reaching, we set up all the things we bought. The candles were used to make a pentagram and we put the joss stick around us. Together there were 6 of us including one girl. We were supposed to sit at every end of the pentagram and one person in the middle. The girl sat in the middle and she was supposed to comb her hair while chanting some spell.

It`s almost midnight and we started to chant the spell my friend taught us. After a few minutes, nothing happened. I started to feel that it was a waste of our time. I got up kicked all the candles and joss sticks, and walked away. Suddenly it happened. The girl who was combing her hair started to scream. She ran towards me and started to bite me. At first, I thought she playing around but she wasn’t. My friends tried to pull her away from me but to no avail. Then she released me and started to say words that we could not understand. My friend who is a religious type, started to chant some prayers and the possessed girl started to scream again. The screams then began to fade and she fainted. All of us then witnessed a white object flying above the bushes behind us. We became alarmed, picked up the fainted girl, and ran away to the nearest HDB block. From there we went back to our home.

I told my mother about the incident...she was so mad that she slapped me in the face. She said that I had disturbed the resting place of a PONTIANAK. I swear to myself not to play with spirits again. As for the girl, she knew nothing about what had happened to her.

This really happened at Serangoon Park Connector.

NOTE: there are lots of Pontianak tales and legends. The following are a few of my personal favorites:

‘Pontianaks’ or vampires are basically the most notorious group of paranormal entities and their popularity is evident through their portrayals in horror films and fiction movies. In this story, Ahmad, a man in his mid-twenties, claims to have encountered these strange entities while driving home from Tutong Town. This unfortunate incident triggered months of restlessness and paranoia yet here, he recalls the sequence of events leading up to that fateful night as he faced his worst nightmare.

Driving down the highway, Ahmad tried to adjust his focus and eyes on the road as fatigue and lethargy took control of his body. The long working hours at his new job had taken its toll and left him practically exhausted. After several failed attempts to keep himself awake, Ahmad finally gave in and decided to stop at the side of the road to get some shuteye before continuing his journey. As he turned to make a stop, his eyes caught sight of a strange-looking ‘object’ in the middle of the road that seemed to resemble a log but simply shrugged it off as nothing out of the ordinary. However, as Ahmad peered closer at the weird object, he could make up some facial features but it was too dark to tell whether his imagination was beginning to run wild. Despite the warning which echoed in his mind to ‘run away’, he simply refused to steer clear of whatever was on that road.

Curiosity got the better of him and he took out a torchlight out of the glove compartment to investigate what it really was. As Ahmad approached the ‘object’, it lay so disturbingly still as if waiting to strike. He suddenly stood frozen in his tracks as the ‘mysterious object’ lifted its head slowly in his direction and let out an ear-piercing cry. Fear overtook the very core of Ahmad’s mind and he knew instantly what the ’strange’ object was. He struggled to summon his inner strength to face the terror staring him right in the eye. “This was something that you could only see in horror films,” Ahmad said. He watched the terror unfold as the paranormal entity, commonly known as ‘Pontianak’ to the locals, crawled to the side of the road and began creeping toward a lamppost. Within split seconds, it swiftly moved towards him and all he could do was recite prayers to ward off the spirit. The ‘pontianak’ stared at him intently before disappearing into thin air. The memory of such a disturbing image, to this day, seems difficult to erase and has changed his philosophy on the existence of paranormal entities.

“I think it’s a good idea to share my experience with fellow readers on this issue. Whether they choose to believe it or not, is of course up to them. However, this is not something you simply make up. It took me quite a while to try and forget this horrifying incident but I decided to instead use it as a lesson in life,” he said before concluding his story.

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Legends of old have it that an individual who possesses a fragile spirit will most likely encounter supernatural entities and although no evidence of such a claim exists, some have unfortunately experienced it firsthand for reasons they cannot phantom. This story revolves around an American expatriate who was kind enough to share his ordeal before leaving the country for good.

David loved Brunei and considered it as his second home. He even planned to settle down with his then fiancé living in Kuala Belait and thus, frequently traveled back and forth to visit his better half. Working in a highly demanding field, which required every ounce of his expertise, commuting from the capital to the Belait District daily was painstaking and inconvenient but he longed to put a balance between his work and fiancé. Days and sometimes, even months at a time, the pressuring demands of his career began to take its toll on their relationship.

One fateful night, they got into a heated argument and his fiancé threatened to commit suicide. After several attempts to call her handphone, which went unanswered, he grabbed his car keys and drove hastily to Kuala Belait. “Please answer the phone, please,” David pleaded. He then began blaming himself should anything unforeseen happen to his fiancé and could not imagine life without her.

He then approached the one-lane road and focused on the dark, eerie highway, where no street lamps were erected. Suddenly, the radio reception started to deteriorate and David simply thought it was due to the location. A few minutes later, the car engine began to quiver and decelerate from 120 to 80km/h. “What in heaven’s name could possibly go wrong now?” he exclaimed as it was a brand new car. “Do not break down here please, of all places!” David said while glancing around at the pitch-black darkness without a single soul in sight.

He pulled himself together and tried to dismiss all negative thoughts coming to mind. As he attempted to lean on the armrest, David caught sight of what seemed to be a ’shadow’, in the corner of his eye. Without thinking, he turned to confirm his worst fear and indeed, there was a weird ‘figure’ sitting beside him in the front passenger seat. The entity’s long black strands of hair covered its face as ’she’ repeatedly let out a blood-curdling laugh. Shivers ran down his spine and a thousand thoughts raced through the businessman’s mind. Given the fact that he is a free-thinker, no religion or prayers could save him then as he knew none. David thought of calling someone, practically anyone but his phone was in the middle of the dashboard. Terrified that the ‘entity’ would grab his hands, he continued driving, hoping, praying that a street lamp would appear with some visible ’signs’ of life.

A few minutes on, David’s instincts sent a warning jolt through his body. He could sense that the ’spirit’ was staring at him and his heart raced with sheer trepidation. Straight ahead, visible strokes of light could be seen and he stepped on the gas pedals hoping to reach the area before something happened to him. That seemed to only make things worse.

With the streetlights, he could clearly see his ‘uninvited passenger’. The events that followed would remain embossed in his memories forever. The ’spirit’ extended its arms to grab his shoulders. He immediately stepped on the brakes and ran out of the car. David refused to turn around for fear that ‘it’ was nearby but decided to fight his fear after remembering his fiance.

“After I saw it was gone, I went back into my car and drove off like never before,” David said. After reconciling with his fiance, he retold his frightful story and later discovered that the entity was in fact, a Pontianak. “This has altered my complete outlook in life and I now refuse to travel anywhere alone if it’s 3 in the morning,” he said while giggling but behind the laughter, the impact of that encounter could be visibly seen through his eyes.

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SEARCHING FOR THE PONTIANAK - SINGAPORE PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS

The following information was forwarded to me by an investigator of the team:

The Malays' belief in ghosts is perhaps the most interesting. They seem to have categorized the ghosts into different types and each was given a special name. The most violent and fierce ghost in the Malay version is perhaps the 'Pontianak', otherwise known as 'Hantu Kontilanak' among Indonesians. Pontianaks are actually the Malay version of a vampire. They kill and tear their victim's body up to suck their blood. They use long nails to shred open the abdomen and feed on the intestines inside the body. Very disgusting. Another version of the attack is swiftly digging out the victim's sex organ when he leans near to her.

Over the past years, SPI had collected a wonderful batch of stories (some with witness accounts) regarding this mythical beast namely Pontianak. Most of them are quite drastically incredible like those you read from those bedtime ghost story books. Some archetypes are however summarized as follows for your reference:

1. A lady figure in white was seen near the trees
2. Flower fragrance was smelled in cemeteries
3. A white figurine flew past from tree to tree
4. A lady ghost was seen singing on a tree branch
5. Pontianak hiding inside a banana tree, etc.

Nevertheless, there are some good stories obtained as first-hand information from the witnesses who dare to stand up and testify the stories. The accounts are somewhat more credible than those hearsay you got from elsewhere.

For example:

(1) We have a SPI fan who is an ex-police cadet. During his training in the Mt Pleasant camp, his supervisor told him that there were cases of Pontianak encounters in the forests near the police academy. They are of course classified cases and the supervisor seriously warned the fellows not to walk near the forest at night.

(2) A SPI member, before joining, had witnessed the existence of Pontianak at Mt Pleasant cemetery with his other friends.

(3) A young girl called Lina, who claimed to be the daughter of a bomoh, insisted that Pontianak did exist according to what her father told her. When she was about 9 years old, she saw a Pontianak during her father's summoning ritual.

With an open mind, SPI decided to find the truth behind such a myth. We vowed to research, to explore, and to investigate to the bottom of this legend. Since we started up SPI we have been collecting dozens of accounts about Pontianak. By saying we keep an 'open mind' that means we first do not believe or dismiss its truthfulness. We take our best efforts as usual to try to verify whether Pontianak exists or not. If necessary, we are happy to debunk the myth by proving no such thing exists. Otherwise, we will testify to its real existence. There is only one aim in this investigation - to solve the mysteries clouded around the legend of Pontianak. This is why SPI exists, and this is what we do.

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LARGE CIGAR-SHAPED UFO Reported by Soldiers in Northern Afghanistan

A defense contractor deployed in Northern Afghanistan recalls a report that he read describing a large 'red hot,' cigar-shaped craft hovering in the mountains.

I received the following account:

"Hi, Lon. Long-time reader and first-time writer to you. I have prior service in the military and I served in the US Army for five years. During those times, I never saw, heard, or experienced anything out of the ordinary or unexplained during my time in service except for one incident which I will describe.

After I was honorably discharged in early 2009, I worked as a defense contractor for a small company out in Virginia, my job entailed deploying overseas for several months at a time. After being hired I deployed to Northern Afghanistan to one of the Forward Operating Bases there. Ironically I ran across the story on your site about the alleged haunted outpost the Marines took over in December of 2009, a few days before the incident.

This was close to New Year's in December of 2009. I was in the office and monitoring message traffic when I noticed a peculiar email and attached report. One of the Forward Operating Bases reported seeing lights near a valley adjacent to a nearby mountaintop. One of the soldiers had reported seeing a series of lights during the evening hours as the sun was setting. According to him he thought they were possibly Coalition Aircraft and didn't pay too much attention to it. What caught his attention was that they were perfectly stationary and unmoving for several minutes as darkness approached. According to him, the lights had a steady clear white glow to them.

Helicopters can be ruled out as the lights were near a mountain peak, and the strong wind currents as well as altitude would have made it pretty hard to keep that sort of vehicle stationary let alone hovering safely. The terrain itself is very rugged and rough and the weather can be especially brutal at higher altitudes during the Afghan winter.

It was not an airplane either as the soldier could not make any distinguishing characteristics or markings. After a few more minutes, according to the soldier as the sun had finished setting, the lights dimmed a bit and could not be made out as well so the soldier grabbed his night vision goggles to get a better look. (He didn't say specifically which ones he took, but most NVG gear will pick up near-infrared light/heat sources if they are strong enough) He stated that the object was glowing almost "red hot" through his night vision goggles, and had an elongated cigar shape to it. Size was difficult to estimate but at least 200 feet in length.

There was no more description or detail of the incident as the report itself was spartan and the preceding emails to it were almost poking fun at the story (I honestly thought it was a prank at first, but the report had indeed gone through all the appropriate channels and was disseminated throughout the email chain). I have heard similar incidents from other soldiers before, but this is the first time I actually came across a real report that documented this. Please feel free to email me back with any questions you might have but this is the gist of it. Thanks." P

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Published on March 25, 2024 09:33

MASSIVE RED-HAIRED SASQUATCH Surprises Man & His Dog

A woman named CeeCee wrote to tell of a Sasquatch experience she and her husband had while driving through Washington State in the early 2000s.

“We have a Sasquatch story. I wanted my hubby to write to you about it but he wouldn't so I will. I was there too. We were driving along the Pacific Ocean in Washington State back in the early 2000s.

Our dog, Goldie, threw up in the back of the vehicle, so he pulled off the highway to let her out for a walk. He and the dog walked up a dirt road through the woods for a few yards. He was taking a leak and noticed the dog cowering. Goldie didn't cower at anything, so he looked up and, as he described it, saw a “wall of reddish brown hair” between the trees. He also smelled the smell. He also felt the fear.

So he zipped up and walked quickly back to the vehicle where I was cleaning up the back seat. I remember I had the creeps. As I was cleaning the mess up, I felt very uncomfortable, so I started singing a little song. My hubby approached the vehicle and said sternly, "Get in!" He was not his usual self. I quickly wiped the rest of the mess and we got in and drove off.

He then told me of his experience. I guess it wasn't spectacular. Maybe if he'd accidentally peed on the big guy or girl it would have turned out different.”

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March 24, 2024

Two Separate REPTILIAN ENCOUNTERS in Starke County, Indiana During November 1988

Two separate Reptilian encounters occurred within 10 miles of each other (Starke County, IN) in November 1988. It seems like more than a coincidence. What are your thoughts?

"I had a weird encounter in November 1988. My ex-wife and I were near Bass Lake, Indiana at night and saw some type of craft with many colored lights land nearby. We moved towards it where it was close enough to get a decent look. It was shaped like a triangle with a pointed end at the bottom. It hovered just above the ground flashing and glowing different colors.

Not long later a door opened on the side and a ramp came out. We started to get out of there when we noticed a weird-looking thing coming down the ramp. It was shaped like a man but looked like a lizard with huge feet. It stopped moving and looked over in our direction. We got out of there. I returned to the spot two days later and didn't notice anything. I did experience very bad headaches and body aches for a few days though. What do you think we encountered?"

NOTE: There was no name or contact information. I replied by email but never received a confirmation. I was looking at UFO sightings in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana and came across a report from 11/8/1988 that was eerily similar to the email I received. The link was from the Albert Rosales' database:

Location. Knox, Indiana

Date: November 8, 1988

Time: late night

The 12-year-old witness had gotten up to get a drink of water when a flash of multicolored light attracted his attention to the yard. He turned the lights on and walked over to the large picture window in the living room. Looking out he saw a large diamond-shaped object resting on the lawn. It had flashing multi-colored lights around its edge and appeared to be made out of a copper-like metal.

An escalator-like device now appeared from the object's left rear edge and slid down to the ground. A small humanoid now appeared and walked down the escalator and disappeared behind the object. Moments later the being re-appeared and began walking towards the house. The humanoid was described as 5-foot 3 inches tall with normal arms with what appeared to be claws and strange "double feet." The being wore a belt and a buckle and appeared to have some type of symbol across its chest. It had a large nose, a large square mouth, and huge dark brown eyes. The skin was lizard-like green with scales and wrinkled.

The witness became frightened as the being approached, suddenly the neighbor's dog began barking, and the being stopped turned its head around and looked directly at the witness. The next thing the witness remembered was seeing the object lift off silently and disappear into the sky. Ground traces were reportedly found the next day.

NOTE: Both sightings were in November 1988 and approximately 10 miles apart. As well, the descriptions of the craft and beings were similar. I'd say that this is more than a coincidence. Lon

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WEREWOLF Encounter at the Abandoned Brooksbrae Brick Factory, Pine Barrens, NJ

A South New Jersey man recalls his experience, while with friends, at the abandoned Brooksbrae Brick Factory. The witness swears that he encountered a werewolf!

I received the following account:

"Hi, my name is Jorge. I had a bizarre encounter close to the abandoned Brooksbrae Brick Factory in Manchester, New Jersey. To start off, my brother has taken me to this place before. I thought it was pretty cool, so I decided to go back there with a group of friends one night, and to my horror, we encountered something that I never thought would be real.

So as I stated above, my friends and I came back to the Brooksbrae Brick Factory to explore it shortly after my brother took me with his friend Harold. He warned us never to come back there at night, but we didn’t heed Harold’s warning seriously to never come there at night. He told me it was because he’s had some other experiences there that haunted him for a long time thinking that he was joking around about that. But to fast forward to the story, my group of friends and I decided to go to the abandoned brick factory. When we arrived we decided to go towards the path that leads to the factory, and as soon as we got there we felt an eerie presence and we felt like we were being watched.

My friends and I were a little spooked, and as our eyes darted all along the wood line I spotted something. In the wood line up ahead I saw something that shouldn’t be possible or that shouldn’t exist. To my horror, there was what looked like a werewolf. Its piercing yellow eyes were staring into my soul, and it gave me the creeps when I was looking at it. To describe it, It was very tall, abnormally tall, and I would say about 9-10 feet tall at the head, with large wolf life or dog-like perked ears and a long snout. Its body was similar to the build of an Olympic bodybuilder, with large muscles that were visible through the mass of fur that was standing there. But its head was similar to a German Shepard or a Wolf, and its hands ended in claw-like digits. I blinked to make sure that this wasn’t in my imagination, and to my horror, my friends reacted to it as well.

My friends also saw this eerie presence, and they were all startled. To me, it felt like it was beckoning me to come closer, and its stare was so quiet and soul-piercing, which both weirded me out and gave me the same sensation a deer would have when seeing headlights. It felt like it was waiting for the perfect time to strike, and I felt a primal sense of fear when looking at this creature. It kind of also reminded me of an Egyptian Jackal, except this shouldn’t be real.

The creature didn’t do anything but stare at us and make us feel intimidated, and once we felt like it was gone we ran out of that area. To this day, I’m still not exactly sure of what I saw, but when my brother showed me an illustration of a dogman it made me shudder with fear. Whatever I saw that night looked just like the illustration my brother showed me, and to this day I’m still in disbelief with what I saw. I will never go back to that location. I felt like I was in danger the entire time and I felt like this creature was trying to intimidate us and warn us to never come back to its territory. In conclusion, I don’t know what I saw that night, but I hope I never meet it again, and things really do go bump in the night. Be careful out exploring in the Pine Barrens, and never go to the Brooksbrae Brick Factory at night.

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