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Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
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Published on December 29, 2024 10:50

Recent Unexplained CATTLE MUTILATION Reported in Grant County, Oregon

In Grant County, Oregon, an adult bull was found dead with its entire snout cleanly removed, the tongue removed, the eyelids cut away with precision, and its genitalia removed.

According to the Elkhorn Media Group, a recent case of cattle mutilation is being investigated. Residents in the Ritter, Oregon area recently contacted our newsroom regarding an incident that was believed to have occurred on November 26th on private property, off Ritter Road in Grant County. An adult bull was found dead with its entire snout cleanly removed, the tongue removed, the eyelids cut away with precision, and its genitalia removed.

Elkhorn Media Group conducted an interview with the bull’s owner who wished to remain anonymous. According to the rancher, peculiar things about the scene include no spilled blood around the very grisly site; no tracks, footprints, or other signs of human activity were detected; and no scavengers like ravens, buzzards, or coyotes would touch the carcass. Also, they couldn’t determine the cause of death, although, it did appear the animal had struggled from where it lay before its death. It was first reported to the rancher by a local delivery driver who spotted the dead animal on the road.

The rancher said two deputies from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office went out to look at the scene. Our newsroom has reached out to the Sheriff’s Office and is awaiting a response regarding their findings.

Multiple cases of cattle mutilation have been reported over the past few years in Eastern Oregon. The same rancher in the aforementioned interview noted that another animal of theirs had been killed and mutilated “a couple of years ago.”

There are similarities between the recent mutilation and those of cases in the past. Our newsroom reported on bull mutilation in Wheeler County back in 2021:

On August 14th, 2021, the Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a possible mutilation of a bull in the Mitchell area. The Sheriff’s Office responded and confirmed a bull, owned by Michiel Brown of Greenbar Ranch, had been killed and mutilated on his private property. The incident occurred approximately August 11th or 12th. The bull’s nose, tongue, left cheek, ear and eye, reproductive tract, and part of his tail were all removed. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office.

Source: elkhornmediagroup.com

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Published on December 29, 2024 10:09

HAUNTED 'LONDON UNDERGROUND': The Woman With the Red Scarf (VIDEO)

A London Underground station is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who appears each Christmas after suffering a horrific death and waves at passengers before suddenly disappearing.

The ghost of a woman wearing a red scarf who carries a tragic tale is said to haunt a station on the London Underground each Christmas.

The ghost of Christmas past is supposed to only be a fictitious character in Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'. But there is a Tube Station in West London that is believed to be haunted every Christmas by the same specter.

Stories of ghosts on the London Underground are of course not a new story with rumors of the spirits of those who have passed on haunting many a carriage on the Tube network.

But specifically at Christmas, a ghost shows up at Ickenham Station every year, reappearing at a place of significance for them. Ickenham Tube station is a quiet station itself. It serves the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, and last year it saw 850,000 entries and exits to the station annually - which is what Waterloo Station gets in a week.

The ghost is supposed to be a woman who is dressed in a red scarf and who died a horrifying death. The legend goes that she can be seen on the platform near where she's said to have fallen and was electrocuted, reported MyLondon.

Passengers have told at how she has waved at commuters before vanishing before their very eyes. The first sighting of the woman was back in 1952 according to the Mystical Time Blog. They say: "An engineer was working in the sub-station at the end of the platform when he looked up and saw a middle-aged woman, wearing a red scarf, who was looking at him.

"She beckoned him to the huge switchboard, where she indicated he should follow her down the adjoining staircase. He felt compelled to follow her and as he saw her take the last but one step, she completely vanished!" Since then, numerous members of staff have said they have seen the festive phantom and share the same story.

There are many more eerie tales from the London Underground of ghosts who haunt all year round too. On the Kennington Loop, there is apparently a ghost that slams the doors when all the passengers leave the train. This ghost is also someone who was electrocuted on the tracks in the 1950s while he worked there.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk & www.mylondon.news

NOTE: I have documented several hauntings in the London Underground over the years. Lon

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December 28, 2024

Did Teen Girl's Father SELL HIS SOUL to Save His Daughter's Life?

"It was deep blue, like water at night. It was rounded like a tick body, and I'd estimate 12 inches across, a foot high, and attached to his back like a leech."

I received the following account:

"I don't know what we saw. What I'm about to tell you actually happened, and I'm still freaked out about it 30 years later.

Every Friday a group of us teen friends would get together to play board games at "Fay's" house (I'm changing the names of my friends). Fay lived with her parents and her older brother who was never home. There were nine of us present and playing 'Pictionary.' We were having fun when Fay's Dad came storming in. He was typically the coolest guy I knew, kind and soft-spoken with a heart like no one else. The last two months he'd been changing though. His whole demeanor towards us, his friends, his kids, his work, all of it had become a source of anger for him. I hadn't heard the whole story yet, so I was simply trying to avoid him as much as I could and still have fun at his house.

Fay's Dad was super upset about the noise we were making and told us to quiet it down. His wife was playing the game with us, and when she spoke back to him about his unreasonable approach he slapped her right in front of all of us. She fell on the floor and we were all dumbstruck. Fay's Dad was not a hitter. I'd been to their house so often, mostly to hang with Fay, and I'd never witnessed ANY domestic violence or seen a single bruise from someone getting slapped or hit.

Fay's Dad turned to Fay's best girlfriend and when he spun to face her we all saw it. It was deep blue, like water at night. It was rounded like a tick body, and I'd estimate 12 inches across, a foot high, and attached to his back like a leech. I can't describe its body more than that. It was attached to his back along his spine, over his shirt, and directly between his shoulder blades. Fay reached out her hand, she was standing by him now and asked her Dad what was on his back. Despite all the noise happening with his tirade he stopped. He stood up, looked at her and she walked towards him. In retelling this story she said she was trying to touch it. This thing, whatever it was, "detached" from his back and I swear it just floated there for a moment. Fay's Dad was dumbfounded, he stood like he was comatose. Fay put her hand out towards it again and her mom grabbed her. We all stared at it for a second, watching this watery, tick-like body floating in the middle of the living room. It was only a few seconds to be clear.

We've all talked about what happened next, and it's still the scariest thing I've ever experienced, but I'll try and describe it best I can.

The deep blue spot didn't make a sound, it seemed to rob the room of sound, meaning it got quiet but quiet with white noise if that makes sense. It got smaller and farther away at the same time without moving from where it was. Does that make sense? It diminished. There was no popping sound or anything when it left, but the air felt less heavy. Fay's Dad collapsed.

Two days later Fay's Dad got a blood clot in his brain and died. Fay to this day thinks it was some sort of supernatural force. Fay had a severe medical problem that had self-corrected some months back. When they were cleaning out her Dad's stuff they found a bunch of crazy stuff dealing with the occult. She wouldn't go into much detail about it, and they threw it all away, burnt all they found. She thinks her Dad traded his soul for her health. I don't know what happened, and after seeing that I'm open to many interpretations of what it could have been. I really hope it wasn't what Fay seems to think it was. Her Dad was too cool of a guy to go like he did, so suddenly. So maybe he did. I don't know.

I've never heard of anyone other than our circle seeing anything like this before, and part of me really hopes it's just our imagination playing up an event like people seeing a weather balloon and convincing each other it was an alien spaceship, but I can't un-see that thing. It was there, and then it was gone and my friend's Dad died two days later.

While I was typing this out on my phone my friend Fay's mom just hit me up on Messenger. I haven't spoken with her in at least ten years. Ok. I'm going to send this to you before I lose my nerve." H

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Published on December 28, 2024 10:54

WHITE BIGFOOT Seen Near Family Cabin in Appalachia Kentucky!

"He walked to the crest of the hill and saw an enormous white creature standing on two feet, taking large logs, and throwing them over its head to bang it off of tree trunks to make the loud noise."

I received the following account:

" Hello. When I was little my family owned a cabin on a lake in rural Appalachian Kentucky. It was pretty remote at the time though it's been more heavily developed over the past 10 years.

Anyways, when we would go to the cabin we would often go for picnics in a huge field at the edge of a farmer's field. One day we set up our picnic spot at the edge of a very steep hill. At the bottom of the hill, the field met the tree line of a very large forest. I was too young to remember everything that happened but this is what I was told by my sister and my parents.

We were sitting on the field eating when my dad heard a really loud banging coming from the bottom of the hill where the tree line met the field. He walked to the crest of the hill and saw an enormous white creature standing on two feet, taking large logs, and throwing them over its head to bang it off of tree trunks to make the loud noise. He showed my mom, she saw it, and we decided to pack up and leave. They were creeped out.

Now my parents are very sane and rational people so they never really talked about it out of fear of sounding insane. No one really wants to claim they saw a Bigfoot.

Well, about four years ago we were having Christmas with my aunt and her family who would also frequent a cabin on the same lake. We ended up talking about the cabin and were sharing memories when my aunt said she had an absolutely unbelievable story that she had never shared with anyone besides my uncle. She would always make wild blackberry jam in the fall so she would often go picking for blackberries. One day she said she thought she saw a bear in the distance eating blackberries and that it scared the hell out of her but she continued to pick and watched it in the distance for a while. Well, eventually the thing she thought was a bear stood up, revealed its white coat of hair, and walked away on two feet into the woods.

Obviously, we immediately shared our story and everyone was in awe that we had seen the same thing at approximately the same time, in the late 1980s.

I decided to do a little research and it turns out there were a ton of sightings of this thing in the late 80s and someone was actually so convinced that what he saw was Bigfoot that he dedicated the rest of his life to finding it again. You can look it up. There are numerous reports of people seeing this thing around the time my family saw it.

I am not sure I really believe that this guy found the Bigfoot again, but he claims he found three of them together, two big and brown and one with thick white fur, an exact description of what my parents and aunt independently confirmed.

I don't really know what to think. The rational part of me knows it probably wasn't Bigfoot, but I respect everyone in my family's sanity and intellect and everyone was convinced that what they saw was not a bear and was covered in thick white fur and walked on two legs. I don't know how you can explain that away." W

NOTE: The submitter refused to give the exact location or the county of the cabin since other members of the family still frequent it. Lon

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Published on December 28, 2024 10:15

Hunters Encounter BURNT ELK CARCASS & BRIGHT LIGHT in the Bitterroot Range, Idaho

"We began to smell something terrible, like burning bone and hair. It was the worst stench I've ever experienced. The smell got worse as we kept hiking."

I received the following account:

"Hi. Lon. I really enjoy reading your blog! Maybe you can use my story.

My dad and I were hunting in the Bitterroot Range north of Idaho City, Idaho. It was about twilight and we were hiking back to the car. We began to smell something terrible, like burning bone and hair. It was the worst stench I've ever experienced. The smell got worse as we kept hiking.

We could hear what we thought was someone or something running at a great rate of speed from behind us. My dad grabbed me, held my face to his chest, and dropped to the ground. I held close to him as the running got louder. Dad readied his rifle. I heard him say, "Oh no. Son, stand up. Walk with me. Look at the ground." Terrified I stood. Stupid me turned around and looked. There was the remains of an elk. The head looked like it had been put in a blast furnace. The hair on the body was all singed. The hooves looked melted. The running sound was gone.

We moved closer to the car. It was now nearly dark. About 100 yards from the car, we heard the running again and we froze. All of a sudden the forest lit up like noonday. We heard a very loud whoosh, and it was gone. The forest was dark. It was quiet. Dead still. We booked it to the car, threw our gear in the back seat, and drove. I kept my head down and just cried. Dad was stoic and silent. Halfway out of the woods, we saw the light again. Bright as ever. But just for a second. And then it was gone again.

We made it back to Idaho City and stopped at the Gold Mine Grill to regroup. We went inside and there was another hunter in there who was excited and loud. He looked at us and said, "Y'all see that bright light?" Then he became quiet, stared, and drank.

Ever since that incident (about 10 years ago) my dad and I have wondered about the experience." I

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Published on December 28, 2024 09:36

'MEN IN BLACK' Encounter! LUCID DREAM Develops Into REALITY?

"Outside the gate, was a grey sedan with two men and one woman dressed in black clothing. They were white-skinned and tall. They were not cops. They were not human."

The following account was forwarded to me:

“I’ve heard so much discussion about what kind of entities these “Men in Black” actually are, so I will share a personal experience from around 20 years ago. During this period, I experienced missing time lapses, had a distinct feeling of being watched, had paranormal-type occurrences happening in my house, and witnessed a flying UFO in broad sunlight. Hope this puts it in perspective for you. For the record, I have always been a skeptic.

During one very lucid dream experience, I time-traveled to 1964, years BEFORE I was even born, and met my parents and siblings. I came to their house dressed as a vacuum cleaner saleswoman (I won’t say which brand). The house in question, I was never there in person during my lifetime, nor did I remember any photos of it. My father, a younger-looking man, opened the door and invited me inside. My young mother was in the kitchen and came out to meet me. After a few minutes, my older brother, a baby at the time, was crying, so Mum took off to see him. My older sister, a toddler then, wanted to play outside. It was a sunny day outside.

I sat talking to my own father as an adult. He seemed to know me from somewhere but didn’t recognize me (My father passed away when I was a child). This was a very intense, emotional, learning experience for me. My father discussed many things about wanting to move the family interstate and take a different career path. He mentioned how living in a small town with limited opportunities was holding him back. He wanted a better life for the family. He was trying to convince my Mum. I told him to go ahead and do it, and that his wife would come around. For the record, we traveled a lot when I was growing up. My Mum came out and decided to buy the cleaner I was selling. On another note, she loved this brand so much, she kept buying these cleaners for years.

I looked out the lounge room window. Outside the gate, was a grey sedan with two men and one woman dressed in black clothing. They were white-skinned and tall. They seemed annoyed that they could not enter the property for some reason, almost like an invisible barrier was between them. They were not cops. They were not human. They wanted me to come out because apparently traveling backward on your own timeline is forbidden by this construct we live in. That’s what my higher self received. All I knew, was to avoid them getting to me.

I managed to get away and awoke from the lucid dream with the memory intact. They still try to keep tabs on me today. One attacked me during my sleep, and as I woke up, kicking at him, he was standing in my bedroom and slowly faded from view. I still remember him as a tall, thin, black silhouette with red eyes. My bed covers were on the other side of my room. I could clearly see him with my eyes wide open. I don’t believe that they are aliens from another planet. I believe they are inter-dimensional programs. They play some kind of role keeping us trapped in the construct. Think of them like Agent Smith from the Matrix movies. Their appearance is a hologram, an illusion. They keep us trapped to feed on our life energy. They don’t like us waking up and seeing the truth. If we wake up, others can too. That will destroy their power structure on Earth. So when a person awakens, they try to drive them into depression, suicide, insanity, prison, substance abuse, or discredit them publicly, so that nobody will listen to them, and they cannot awaken others. Sometimes, mysteriously, these poor people disappear or turn up dead, usually “suicided”, “overdosed”, “tragic accident”, “unexplained homicide”, etc.

There is something unique about my family bloodline because they have been tracking us for centuries, forcing us to keep moving to new places. It has something to do with an awakening on a mass scale, and they fear this more than anything else, and they are terrified of humans who see through the illusions. They are some type of controllers, sentient AI programs, and they have downloaded themselves into the grid of our planet and atmosphere. These are the creatures that the elites serve. This is what CERN is opening the portals for. Once they succeed in dominating us, they will stop at nothing. It will literally become Hell on Earth. I do know my family bloodline was sworn to fight them. Other than that, most has come from my direct experience. I have always seen them and called them the “shadow people.”

I know many people won’t agree or will think I’m crazy. I don’t care. There are many people, like me, who are finding themselves caught up in a battle with these creatures, unaware. Hope this sheds some light to the knowledge that is already out there." N

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December 26, 2024

SS OURANG MEDAN: Ghost Ship Mystery or Urban Legend?

The SS Ourang Medan was a reported ghost ship from 1948 near Indonesia. The vessel was supposedly discovered adrift after briefly broadcasting an SOS.

In February 1948, macabre distress calls were picked up by numerous ships near Indonesia. The chilling message was, "All officers including the captain are dead lying in the chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead." This message was followed by indecipherable Morse code then one final grisly message... "I die."

Through triangulation, the ships identified the vessel as the Dutch freighter SS Ourang Medan and located its approximate position within the straits of Malacca. Of the two American merchant ships that heard the Ourang Medan’s grim message, the 6,507tn Silver Star was the nearest and she raced to the aid of the stricken vessel.

When the rescue vessel arrived on the scene a few hours later, they tried to hail the Ourang Medan but there was no response to their hand and whistle signals. A boarding party was sent to the ship and what they found was a frightening sight that has made the Ourang Medan one of the strangest and scariest ghost ship stories of all time. All the crew and officers of the Ourang Medan were dead. As a May 1952 report of the Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council put it: “Their frozen faces were upturned to the sun, the mouths were gaping open and the eyes staring…” Even the ship's dog was dead, found snarling at some unseen enemy. A trip to the communications room revealed the author of the SOS messages, also dead, his hand still on the Morse sending key, eyes wide open and teeth bared. When nearing the bodies in the boiler room, the rescue crew felt a chill though the temperature was near 110°F. Strangely, there was no sign of wounds or injuries on any of the bodies.

The decision was made to tow the ship back to port but before they could get underway, smoke began rolling up from the hull. The rescue crew left the ship and barely had time to cut the tow lines before the Ourang Medan exploded with such force that she "lifted herself from the water and swiftly sank”.

To this day, the exact fate of the Ourang Medan and her crew remains a mystery. Some say that pirates killed the crew and sabotaged the ship, others claim that she was transporting an illicit cargo of chemicals such as potassium cyanide and nitroglycerine (both of which become dangerous when combined with sea water). The condition of the bodies found aboard and the haunting distress call, however, has led to more rampant speculation...ranging from the inhalation of carbon monoxide to some kind of nefarious UFO intervention. In the end, nobody really knows what happened.

Then again, did the Ourang Medan ever concretely exist? The first mention of the Ourang Medan was in a publication put out by the US National Coast Guard. One would think that meant sources were well documented. But perhaps this isn’t the case.

Several authors note their inability to find any mention of the case in Lloyd’s Shipping Register. Furthermore, no registration records for a ship by the name of Ourang Medan could be located in various countries, including the Netherlands. While some investigators of this case state that the identity of the Silver Star, which was reported to have been involved in the failed rescue attempt, has been established with some certainty, the lack of information on the sunken ship itself has given rise to suspicion about the origins and credibility of the account. Other researchers have put forward the possibility that accounts of, among others, the date, location, names of the ships involved, and circumstances of the accident might have been inaccurate or exaggerated, or that the story might be completely fictitious.

What really happened to the Ourang Medan? Did the ship ever exist? No record of it anywhere would certainly seem to indicate that it didn’t. Was there a cover-up because of top-secret cargo? Until a specialized scuba crew can reach the supposed wreckage the only ones who know for sure rest at the dark bottom of the sea.

Sources:
unexplained-mysteries.com
mysteriousuniverse.org
ghosts.monstrous.com
unexplainable.net
encyclo.co.uk
Ghost Ships: True Stories of Nautical Nightmares, Hauntings, and Disasters[image error]
The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena[image error]
Short Sea Sagas[image error]
Sunken Ships in the World's Waters, Vol. 7: Shipwrecks off the Coasts of Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands[image error]

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Published on December 26, 2024 11:45

UFO ENCOUNTER in Northern Wisconsin SCARES FAMILY!

A Wisconsin resident details an unexplained sighting and a few other oddities associated with a fishing cabin that his family owned when he was younger.

I received the following account:

"Hello. Thanks for reading this. When I was 12 years old my family bought a fishing cabin in Chippewa County, Wisconsin about 70 miles from our home. On our first visit to stay in this cabin, it was kind of a work vacation, meaning we were painting and fixing stuff as well as fishing. One of the people who lived near this cabin came over to say hi and introduce herself. During her visit, she told us, "Don't be afraid of the purple glowing mist you will see. It's just from the UFOs and it won't hurt you." All of us kids snickered at this while elbowing each other so my mom chased us off and apologized to the woman. She later yelled at us for being rude.

Two nights later we were out night fishing with our dad. The stars were amazing-looking without the urban light pollution and we were all pointing at different constellations and challenging each other to name them. My youngest brother pointed to a perfect circle of about 8 bright stars and asked, "What are those called?" We all kind of froze and stared because, well, there is no such constellation, yet here it was. While we were looking at it all the 'stars' took off silently in different directions and vanished over all the surrounding horizons.

We ran. Looking back it was stupid to run. I mean the things were already gone. But we were spooked and we ran as fast as we could back to the cabin where mom was sleeping. About half the way there our dad overtook us and ran straight into the cabin ahead of us, slamming the door. When we got in the cabin he told us, "Just shut up and go to bed." He sounded angry so we did just that. The next morning at breakfast when we tried to talk about it Dad angrily said that 'he didn't remember any of that and to stop with the stupid stories.' My sister asked, "Why did you run then?" He said that he was 'tired' and wanted to get to bed was all.

He was 'tired' so he ran? My dad could be a real naive sometimes. This wasn't the only time we 'saw things' in the sky while staying there, but it was the most interesting. We tried on a few occasions to get pictures, but it was the early 60s, and camera's sucked half the time back then. At least the cheap kid cameras we had did. We were afraid to ask to use Dad's good camera for that. We only had that cabin for a few years when my dad suddenly sold it. We never could get him to talk about that night. He would firmly deny it every time we tried. Never did see the 'purple glowing mist' though we looked for it." H

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Published on December 26, 2024 11:16

ALIEN ABDUCTION? TIME SLIP? Ethiopian Boy Missing for 6 Months Suddenly Reappears!

The son of an important Ethiopian official suddenly disappears. Exactly 6 months later the boy manifests at the exact location and looks the same. His account is quite interesting.

I received the following account:

"Hi, Lon. This is the craziest phenomenon true story, and it came from my Dad. 1960s in Ethiopia, my Dad is just a child (10 years old) at the time playing with his best friend Gabriel after school. They were playing in the fenced backyard of my dad's house. My dad turns his back for a second then turns to look back at his friend and Gabriel is gone. It's important to note that my dad and Gabriel were from the top 1% of Ethiopia's ruling elite, my dad's father was the Minister of the Interior of Ethiopia, and Gabriel's father was a 4-star General of Ethiopia. The backyard Gabriel disappeared from had 10-foot bricked walls with armed guards patrolling on the outside.

A couple of hours pass, and his parents, my dad's parents, and guards are searching but no Gabriel. 48 hours pass, and now there is a nationwide search for this important General's kid, it's on the news, and police are searching door to door describing him and what he was wearing when he disappeared (he was wearing his private school uniform, white shirt, brown pants). Helicopters even searched the countryside looking for him, but still nothing. A month passes, then 2 then 4, and people start losing hope that he would ever be found and think the worst.

EXACTLY 6 MONTHS to the day he disappeared, Gabriel appeared back in my dad's backyard. He was wearing the same white shirt private school uniform and it was still clean, he looked exactly the same as when he disappeared. This is where it starts to get weird, once they confirmed he was okay they started asking where he had been. He said a couple of nice men took him on a trip, he was in a white room that glowed and other children were there from different countries, he said he was surprised that the nice men who looked like white guys could speak Ethiopian and he could understand what the other children were saying even though they were not Ethiopian.

The white glowing room had no windows and the doors disappeared into the walls, there were buttons on the walls and if a kid pushed them a bed would come out of the wall. He said he was then all of a sudden in a city, that was glowing, clean, and cars were flying around him. He said there were people there but they looked strange, like us but different. One nice man was still with him and took him to a tall building, where he said he had to stay there for a while, but showed him a room that he could use for entertainment. Gabriel said, he could push a button and the room itself goes places, an open field, the beach, the room itself even flies. He said after a couple of hours he was taken back to Ethiopia and appeared in the backyard, he thought he was only gone a couple hours total. No one believed him, and Ethiopia being a super religious country, most adults around him thought he got possessed by the devil. Gabriel even was forced to see a priest to get the evil spirits out of him. My dad still kept in contact with him throughout their lives, Gabriel got a doctorate in Physics and I believe works in Holland." R

NOTE: The witness told me that he had posted this account on various forums and sent it to other researchers. What do you think? Was it an alien abduction, time slip, etc? Lon

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