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Huge WHITE BAT-WINGED CREATURE Observed in South Africa

South African bird watcher observed a huge unidentified white bat-winged creature flying above him in Doornpoort, Pretoria, South Africa. To this day, he still has no idea what this was.

I received the following account:

"Hi. For years now I have kept silent about a sighting I have had, but after much research, I simply cannot explain what it is I witnessed a few years ago.

A little background on myself. I am an avid Bird Watcher and I am particularly fascinated by birds of prey and have read and owned many books on birds and have gone on many bird-watching expeditions. It is safe to say that I did not mistake my sighting for any bird. I am also a qualified pilot, so I have also learned to judge the distance and size of things in my environment.

Time and place of the sighting. July 2010 around 00:00, Doornpoort, Pretoria, South Africa.

Doornpoort is on the Northern outskirts of Pretoria. My house was less than a mile from Wonderboom Airport. To the north of the suburb is open fields with farms and Platinum mines.

I had not seen my brother in a while and he and his wife came to visit me and my wife. As July is in the heart of the winter in South Africa, we spent most of the time inside. As we both smoke and don't smoke in our house my brother and I went outside every time we wanted to smoke. At about 00:00, we decided to go for a last smoke before going to bed. It was a clear cloudless night and there was sufficient moonlight so the sky was bright.

As we were sitting outside, something in the sky caught my attention. I looked up and saw a creature slowly flying overhead. The thing that most caught me off guard was how white it was. It was so white it almost looked luminescent. It definitely had bat wings and it flapped them very slowly. It was about 70 feet above ground level and it had a wingspan of at least 10ft, but I would say it was between 12 and 14ft. My brother also saw it. After it flew slowly overhead in a southerly direction my brother and I just looked at each other, extinguished our cigarettes, and went inside.

At first, I thought it was some kind of fruit bat, but the only species I could find that was somewhat on the light-colored side that is found in the area was the straw-colored fruit bat, but it is much smaller than the creature I saw and I looked at a lot of videos of them flying since and their wing beats are much faster than the beats of the creature we saw.

Over time I have researched all manner of bats and I cannot find anything that matches what I saw in color and size.

It has been over 7 years but I can still clearly recall what I saw and the fear I felt because of the sheer size of this thing.

Regards, DH"

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'DOGMAN' IN CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY? / 'MEN IN BLACK' INTIMIDATION / GLIMMER MAN - Lon Strickler (Host)

Welcome to Phantoms & Monsters 'Personal Reports' - cryptid & unexplained accounts directly from the archives of Phantoms & Monsters, and the Phantoms & Monster Fortean Research team. Narrated by Lon Strickler. Join us in the chat, discuss, and ask me questions about the accounts.
Featured in this edition:
A young woman was out in the evening selling cable and WIFI services to customers at their homes in Cape May, New Jersey. As she goes to the next house, she unexpectedly encounters a huge canine-like cryptid.
After a while witness begins to wonder if the residents of Cape May are aware of the cryptid canine, and if are they actually hiding its presence.
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RICHARD MOSCHELLA - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR & INTUITIVE - SPIRIT ART - Bernadette McDaniel (Host)
A Paranormal Life welcomes Richard Moschella, who is a paranormal investigator, intuitive, & writer. Bernadette McDaniel (Host)
Richard Moschella is a paranormal investigator, intuitive, and writer from Morris County, New Jersey. He is the owner and team leader of the New Jersey Paranormal Project an organization he founded back in 2007, his goal was to research and investigate spirit. Though the New Jersey Paranormal Project has gotten to work with some of the best experts in the paranormal field, spiritualists, and mediums. 
The New Jersey Paranormal Project can be seen on YouTube and anyone can view the case files and be a part of the investigation. Richard is also a writer, author, and lecturer. His latest book is titled 'Case Files of the Paranormal.'
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Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area / Lake Michigan region? The entity has also been referred to as the 'Chicago Mothman', 'Chicago Owlman' & 'O'Hare Mothman' or 'O'Hare Batman.' - Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map - Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com - your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated.

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US Marine Corporal Encounters UPRIGHT 'TALKING' DEER at Quantico Base!

In 2020, Leon Adler (a pseudonym), a corporal in the US Marines, then working as a security officer at US Marine Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, was doing his nightly (9:00 PM to 6:00 AM) patrol on the west side of the base.

During a break, he went into the woods to check one of the game cameras he had set up. He used them to look for trespassers and poachers that might be in the area. As he made his way to the camera, just a few feet into the woods off the road, he noticed that the woods seemed to go silent. He found it deeply unnerving. He eventually got to the creek where the camera was and he began checking the card on his laptop, sitting by a tree.

Within a few minutes of getting there, Adler began to make out the sound of bipedal footsteps coming through the forest. He assumed it was a person. As Adler scanned in the direction of the steps, he suddenly saw a whitetail deer step out of the foliage:

“That's weird. That's a really nice-looking buck. It's at least an eight-pointer. It looks to be about 180 pounds. The thing that really threw me off was how it went from sounding like a human to seeing a deer.”

There was a large oak tree adjacent to the clearing. Adler then watched as the deer slowly walked over to the tree and stood in front of it. It then exploded into a furious rage, smashing its face into the tree violently. Adler could hear the animal's bones cracking and its grunting as it repeatedly smashed its skull into the tree in a wild rage. He found it to be unbearable:

“There have been very very few times in my life that I was frozen in fear and that was one of them. When something’s in pain, it makes sounds. Deers have a dying grunt but there's no grunting. There's no sound of something trying to kill itself. The only sound is just this repeated smashing of bone over and over.”

He suspected that the deer might have been suffering from a chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological illness affecting deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer, and moose, mostly in North America. Though, what happened next, made him suspect that it was something else, something not natural:

“Most animal's retinas reflect back at you and I saw no reflection of the retinas. It was just weird. It was odd.”

Then things got even weirder:

“As this buck finishes smashing its face, it takes a step back and stands up on its hind legs. That's when in the clearest voice I have ever heard in my entire life, it says, 'I know you're there.' I felt freaked out. I was scared. This thing doesn't have a working jaw, much less a working voice box. How would it say anything? I felt like I was frozen in time like somebody put me in jello and I couldn’t react.”

Adler tried to rationalize what he was seeing.

“Every realization and explanation I tried to come up with didn't make sense. The only thing I could come up with was that it was a skinwalker. Looking at it it feels like something that's been here way before we have and will be here way after we're gone.”

The only thing he could compare the voice to was depictions of old Native Americans' deep ancestral voices-

“I felt like I had been watching it for hours but it was probably just 5 to 10 seconds. It dropped back down on all fours and walked back into the brush.”

Adler dropped his laptop and quickly ran back to his vehicle and left. A month later, he returned to the spot to grab his laptop and the camera:

“The thing that kind of threw me off about it, after being in the woods, exposed to the elements, my laptop should have been grungy and covered in leaves but it wasn’t. It was like I just left it there 20 minutes ago.”

While there, he checked the tree where the buck had been smashing its face into:

“The thing that made my stomach absolutely drop is that when I looked down, there was splinters of bone, antler. I picked one of the splinters and felt it in my hand. I was like, 'Well, that's real.' It was nice to know I wasn't insane. It was solid evidence. Whether it was supernatural or not, I don’t really want to be around it.”

He never returned to the spot again and is still on active duty as a guard at Quantico.

Source: “Mission Unexplained: Season 1, Episode 3”. Mission Unexplained. TV Show. Blue Ant Media. 26 March 2023. tv.cottagelife.com/shows/mission-unex...

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'DOGMAN' IN CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY? / 'MEN IN BLACK' INTIMIDATION / GLIMMER MAN - Lon Strickler (Host)

Welcome to Phantoms & Monsters 'Personal Reports' - cryptid & unexplained accounts directly from the archives of Phantoms & Monsters, and the Phantoms & Monster Fortean Research team. Narrated by Lon Strickler. Join us in the chat, discuss, and ask me questions about the accounts.
Featured in this edition:
A young woman was out in the evening selling cable and WIFI services to customers at their homes in Cape May, New Jersey. As she goes to the next house, she unexpectedly encounters a huge canine-like cryptid.
After a while witness begins to wonder if the residents of Cape May are aware of the cryptid canine, and if are they actually hiding its presence.
I will describe this incident and others in detail and answer all questions from the chat room.
Please join us in the chat, so that you may ask questions. Don't miss this opportunity.

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RICHARD MOSCHELLA - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR & INTUITIVE - SPIRIT ART - Bernadette McDaniel (Host)
A Paranormal Life welcomes Richard Moschella, who is a paranormal investigator, intuitive, & writer. Bernadette McDaniel (Host)
Richard Moschella is a paranormal investigator, intuitive, and writer from Morris County, New Jersey. He is the owner and team leader of the New Jersey Paranormal Project an organization he founded back in 2007, his goal was to research and investigate spirit. Though the New Jersey Paranormal Project has gotten to work with some of the best experts in the paranormal field, spiritualists, and mediums. 
The New Jersey Paranormal Project can be seen on YouTube and anyone can view the case files and be a part of the investigation. Richard is also a writer, author, and lecturer. His latest book is titled 'Case Files of the Paranormal.'
Please join us in the chat, so that you may ask questions. Don't miss this opportunity.

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We are asking the worldwide public to come forward with your sightings & encounters. Contact us by email - Thanks. Lon

Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area / Lake Michigan region? The entity has also been referred to as the 'Chicago Mothman', 'Chicago Owlman' & 'O'Hare Mothman' or 'O'Hare Batman.' - Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map - Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com - your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated.

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Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
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CATTLE MUTILATIONS Blamed on 'ALIENS' by Queensland Couple

An Australian couple believes that aliens are to blame for a series of mysterious cattle mutilations on their property. The ranch has been plagued by weird incidents for the last 18 years.

A mutilation mystery is playing out on a remote Central Queensland property after a number of cows were found dead in inexplicable circumstances.

Over 18 years, graziers Judy and Mick Cook say 20 cows have been killed in the same strange manner on their Eungella property – organs removed with surgical precision, without a trace of blood left at the scene.

The most recent death was six months ago, according to The Daily Mercury, when the couple found the carcass of a cow with its udder, cheek, and tongue cleanly removed. And, once again, there was no blood or marks of movement at the scene.

The “only explanation” they can come to for the mutilations is as strange as the crimes themselves: aliens.

“How is it happening? It must have something that lifts it up and puts it down and doesn’t leave any marks” Mrs. Cook told The Daily Mercury.

“(Aliens are) the only explanation I have got.”

The baffled cattle owners told the publication they previously never believed in the supernatural, but started to think it could be something not-human after seeing “really strange lights in the sky around our property.”

“One night there was a light in the distance, very bright, we couldn’t tell how close it was,” Mr. Cook said.

“It looked like it was just on the boundary of the property where I had found a mob of cattle out that way the next day who looked terrorized and they started running as soon as I got close to them, which was very strange.”

The couple, who run 1100 cattle on a 14,600-hectare property west of Eungella, about 80km west of Mackay, is not isolated.

Source

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'DOGMAN' IN CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY? / 'MEN IN BLACK' INTIMIDATION / GLIMMER MAN - Lon Strickler (Host)

Welcome to Phantoms & Monsters 'Personal Reports' - cryptid & unexplained accounts directly from the archives of Phantoms & Monsters, and the Phantoms & Monster Fortean Research team. Narrated by Lon Strickler. Join us in the chat, discuss, and ask me questions about the accounts.
Featured in this edition:
A young woman was out in the evening selling cable and WIFI services to customers at their homes in Cape May, New Jersey. As she goes to the next house, she unexpectedly encounters a huge canine-like cryptid.
After a while witness begins to wonder if the residents of Cape May are aware of the cryptid canine, and if are they actually hiding its presence.
I will describe this incident and others in detail and answer all questions from the chat room.
Please join us in the chat, so that you may ask questions. Don't miss this opportunity.

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, & SHARE - THANKS!
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RICHARD MOSCHELLA - PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR & INTUITIVE - SPIRIT ART - Bernadette McDaniel (Host)
A Paranormal Life welcomes Richard Moschella, who is a paranormal investigator, intuitive, & writer. Bernadette McDaniel (Host)
Richard Moschella is a paranormal investigator, intuitive, and writer from Morris County, New Jersey. He is the owner and team leader of the New Jersey Paranormal Project an organization he founded back in 2007, his goal was to research and investigate spirit. Though the New Jersey Paranormal Project has gotten to work with some of the best experts in the paranormal field, spiritualists, and mediums. 
The New Jersey Paranormal Project can be seen on YouTube and anyone can view the case files and be a part of the investigation. Richard is also a writer, author, and lecturer. His latest book is titled 'Case Files of the Paranormal.'
Please join us in the chat, so that you may ask questions. Don't miss this opportunity.

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We are asking the worldwide public to come forward with your sightings & encounters. Contact us by email - Thanks. Lon

Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area / Lake Michigan region? The entity has also been referred to as the 'Chicago Mothman', 'Chicago Owlman' & 'O'Hare Mothman' or 'O'Hare Batman.' - Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map - Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com - your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated.

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TODAY'S TOP LINKS
Repeating radio signal leads astronomers to an Earth-size exoplanet

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‘Bees are sentient’: inside the stunning brains of nature’s hardest workers

Strange Lights in the Sky Have People Wondering, "Is the Alien Mothership Already Here?"

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BERKS COUNTY, PA DOGMAN - MATT HIRYAK & TIMOTHY RENNER - P&M Fortean Research - Lon Strickler (Host)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES - Lon Strickler (Host)
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'MOTHMAN' Still Active Around Point Pleasant, WV & the Ohio River Valley

Even after the Mothman sightings and events in Point Pleasant, WV in 1966-67, incidents are still reported to this day. The following accounts are only a few that I have received over the years.

I received the following accounts:

“I actually live about 35 minutes from Point Pleasant, West Virginia in a little town called Ripley. I have friends in Point that have had some pretty messed up encounters driving through the McClintic Wildlife Preserve. That's where the area they call TNT is located. There are these old ammunition storage bunkers that look like giant igloos and some old worn down and deserted factories. Talk about one hell of a creepy ass place.

My buddy Brian said he and two friends were out there back in 2002 driving around the maze of back roads when they heard something hit the roof of the truck and when they looked out the back glass they could see what looked like a person hanging gliding behind them. It was very dark and they could only make out the outline. He said it followed them and kept hitting the roof for about a mile. They were losing their minds with fear the whole time. The thing was keeping up with them even when they were doing 70 plus in a couple spots. He said he'll never forget that night and I know he wouldn't make something like that up. He's a very devoted Christian and churchgoer." JR

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"Hi, Lon - I'll start out by saying that the small town where I grew up, and where all of my family still resides, is in Monroe County, Ohio maybe twenty minutes or so outside of Wheeling, West Virginia. I was talking to my dad on the phone the other night. He told me that last week while driving home from work, he came across something he can't explain. His voice was shaky, unlike I have ever heard him.

He works the night shift at a local coal mine and while driving home from work early one morning around 5:30 am he noticed a large creature crouched down in the road. It had bright red glowing eyes that looked directly at him. He said this creature also had very large wings which were wrapped around it as it crouched. He said he had never in his life seen anything like this. It had really upset him. He proceeded to drive by it, but when he looked behind him, it was gone! He said that he was actually scared to get out of his car when he got home in fear that perhaps it had followed him or was even in his car. After a few very tense minutes, he slowly got out of the car. There was nothing there.

I asked him if he had ever heard of the "Mothman?" He kind of paused, then said that he had never heard of it until he started talking to people about what he had seen. He said that they would say right away "It sounds like you saw the Mothman!" You hear weird stories all the time, and because you don't really know the person who witnessed it, you just shrug it off. Knowing my dad and what a logical thinker he is, I believe he encountered something supernatural. He is usually the one who tries to come up with logical answers for things that are otherwise unexplained. He's very skeptical when it comes to aliens, UFOs, ghosts, etc. For me to talk to him and hear him tell me about this Mothman-like creature was shocking. For this is not like my father.

I will say that I am concerned, for what I understand is that when a person actually witnesses a Mothman, oftentimes bad things happen afterward. There isn't a doubt in my mind that what he saw was 100% true. It has completely made a believer out of me when it comes to the Mothman. I hope for the sake of my father and my family that that isn't true and that he made a mistake of identity." CO

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“I saw the Mothman as it flew over my school bus, and I think it was winter of 1966. The school bus driver, Odel Wallace and I were the last ones on the bus, as we had already dropped off all the other kids and were headed toward the end of the school bus route on Big Sixteen Mile Creek in Mason County. I lived another mile past that, I would walk in the morning to the bus, and home from it in the evening. And it flew over the bus and was no more than 100 feet above us, and we could see that the wing span of this thing was about the length of the bus. After it flew over, I looked up into the mirror that the driver used to watch the kids as he drove, he was looking back at me and I said did you see that, he just looked at me and nodded and nothing else was said. I haven't told too many people about this for fear of ridicule and joking bull, but now I'm 65 years old and I don't care what anybody says, I know what I saw was not anything normal. I'm a hunter also, deer hunter/rabbit/squirrel/groundhog/or anything else I can eat that doesn't have antibiotics and human footprints in it, and I've never before seen anything like it, and not since, even though I'm always in the woods. So I know that the dang thing existed, or still exists.” MK

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“My family is from Gallipolis, Ohio, the town right across the river from Point Pleasant. About half of my life was spent there, and honestly, I think he's real. I have some family, who live out in the country, and a good number of them have seen Mothman or encountered him. I might have had an encounter, but I'm not 100% sure, only because it was late at night, and it was hard to see. I'd been at the movies, and something swooped in front of my windshield, something big. I heard a scraping sound on the roof of my car, in the AM, 5 scratch marks down to the primer, were in the paint, spaced like human fingernails. One of the creepiest moments of my life, I hadn't believed it before, but I did after that. There aren't any owls in Southeastern Ohio that big, it was bigger than my windshield, about 5' wide by 3.5'. Owls also don't have 5 toes that spread like fingers.” OB

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"This is kind of a long story but the creepiest thing happened to me and I really need to tell this story while the details are still fresh in my mind. Although I'm pretty certain I'll never forget it, for some reason I feel like this is important and I need to share.

Last night (May 31 - June 1, 2020) I went to Chesapeake, OH to a friend's house to play music and sing. We jammed until around 3:00 am.

When we left we headed towards Proctorville, OH to take the bridge into Huntington WV. That stretch of road runs alongside the Ohio River. It is dark and there aren't many street lights. So it was dark and last night, it was cold.

We were talking and trying to get the heat going when all of a sudden a tall black figure appeared seemingly out of nowhere on the side of the road, literally right beside my door (passenger side). We were going around 50-60 mph and this thing didn't budge.

I felt it though. No other way to explain it except that it was so close to my door that I felt it. And what I felt was 'wrong.' It was sinister and did not come from a place of good.

It looked like it was about 7-8 feet tall. We were in a pick-up truck, a Dodge Ram I believe. It was so tall that my friend, who was driving, said maybe it was a road work roadwork a black tarp draped over it. It was taller than the truck. It looked shrouded, almost like it had wings but they were wrapped around its body. It appeared out of nowhere and it seemed like it leaned toward the truck as we passed by it. So close that I felt it. Like in my soul and in my skin. So close that if my window had been down I could've touched it. It made me actually shiver as we drove by it. I am an empath and I'm telling you this thing sent me everything it had and it had nothing but darkness to send. I've never felt anything that creepy before. Like to the core. We were both shaken by it. I still am.

My friend wanted to turn around and go back to see what it was. I did not.

Fast forward a little bit. We get to the bridge and of course, it's closed. So we end up having to turn around and go back towards Chesapeake. Which meant we had to go back through that same stretch of road again. And right as we are getting ready to pass another car that thing comes out from behind the car and looked like it was floating or gliding across the road. And it crouched down almost like it was getting ready to pounce or take off. It was then I could see the top of its head which was shiny and black.

My friend said maybe it was a person on a skateboard because of the way it was gliding or floating in the middle of the road. They then proceeded to say that was some Jeepers Creepers sh*t!

All I know is this. It was not a 7 ft person dressed in all black at 3:00 in the morning. This was not human. It was evil and I hope I never experience it again.

Has anyone else seen this figure? If so please let me know. I need to discuss what happened.

Stay safe friends." JC

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'GARGOYLE' Seen in Camper While Traveling on I-95 in North Carolina

A man and his family are traveling on I-95 south toward Florida. While in North Carolina, a trailer pulls in front of them and the driver observes a large wing, horned silhouette.

I received the following account:

"We were driving home from our vacation in Florida. It was on Saturday, June 3, 2016. Just after dinner, around 8 pm, we were passing through North Carolina on I-95. I was cruising along at around 70 mph when I noticed a large camper in my rearview mirror.

I moved to the right lane and thought nothing more of the vehicle as it passed me on the left. The interior was lit up, and all the blinds were down. I saw several silhouettes of people as the camper pulled ahead of and in front of my vehicle.

As the camper began to pull away, someone stood up in the back, close to the rear door. All of a sudden, a pair of wings unfolded from the person's shoulder blade area. They were wide and membranous, with claws at a couple of points along the top edge. They reminded me of pterodactyl wings or thin bat wings. I could see enough light through them to make out the wing bones.

That's not all. At the top of the man's head were two small curved horns. My first thought was that it was a Gargoyle.

I was shocked, to say the least. My family was asleep at the time. The wings appeared to be real, pulsing and flexing as the person or humanoid moved toward the front of the camper. As I wondered what to do next, the camper pulled off an exit and disappeared. To this day, I'd swear it was a being with real wings." TT

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UNIDENTIFIED PHOTO: Mountain Lion or Something Else?

This trail cam photo was obtained in Adair County, Kentucky by a group of local hunters who set out several cameras in order to watch a location where they regularly hunt.

The image may very well be a mountain lion, but there are a few strange aspects to the image that bring that assessment into doubt. The area does have a few known mountain lion sightings.

What are your thoughts? Lon

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'SLENDER-GUMBY THING' Thrice Seen by Boca Raton, Florida Witness

A Boca Raton, Florida man describes his 3 sightings of, what he describes as, a tall, gray 'Slender-Gumby Thing' in the forest and property behind his parent's house.

I received the following account:

“During August 14, 15 & 16 2017 in Boca Raton, Florida, I saw something reminiscent of a slender man. Obviously, slender man is a creepypasta but this isn’t slender man. There’s a farm behind my house, separated by a canal. The farm stretches maybe about 1000 feet back before it hits a tree line. A couple weeks ago, I was eating dinner and was staring out at the farm. It was maybe 20 minutes until nightfall.

I saw what looked like a really tall, gray version of “Gumby” walk out of the tree line, take two really large lunges, then disappear back into the tree line. It was much too tall to be a person.

It was flat but its legs bent in a way that looked like a plank bending. Like how a piece of wood bows when weight is put on it but springs back up when the weight is taken off. Its body, from where I could see it, was rigid. It didn’t look flexible aside from the legs and the limbs were fairly wide.

The next night, at the same time, the same exact thing happened except my parents were with me. It walked on two legs but it was more like lunges or arching steps than a human walking. I asked them if they saw that and they just said “saw what?”

Then it happened AGAIN the third night. So either my body is giving me random hallucinations in sync with my body’s time clock or there’s some weird 'Slender-Gumby Thing' living on the farm behind my house. I haven’t been home much recently so I haven’t been able to look for it again but if I’m able to. I haven’t seen whatever it was since those three times and was unable to get a photo of it due to how far away it was.

Its movements and stride were consistently the same all three days and it happened at the same time each night. I’ve yet to venture to the farm to look at the area that I saw, but when I do, I’ll take photos of anything that looks interesting or out of the ordinary. This was in the middle of a very populated city so seeing something this outlandish in a human-heavy area was quite strange." HH

NOTE: I heard back from this witness about a year ago. He has not seen the 'thing' since the original sightings. Lon

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REPTILIAN-LIKE, MEMBRANE-WINGED HUMANOID 'MAN-BAT' Observed Over Sydney, Australia

Two Sydney, Australia business partners are walking home when they encounter a Reptilian-like, membrane-winged humanoid flying above the city streets. What did they witness?

I received the following account:

"One night about 3am, while walking home from work to our apartment in Century Towers, Pitt Street, Sydney we saw what we jokingly refer to as 'Man-Bat.' We lived in the then-new Century Towers on the 52nd floor when staying close to work. One of our businesses was “The Penthouse Gentlemens Club” a 24/7 day business that we normally took turns to manage, hence we kept an apartment in the busy city. My business partner Michael was an accomplished accountant, he finished 2nd in the country in tax law and has an IQ of 185. I’m a more normal bloke who had a background in security and also owned a demolition company in Adelaide, South Australia. My point is we were both business-type guys who, although drink on occasion, are not drug users and were very sober on this occasion.

Anyhow that night we were walking home casually enjoying some friendly banter about our day and work. As we crossed the side street to our building I happened to look up, and only about one level or story above us, I clearly saw this humanoid creature gliding with wings fully outstretched. The wings were of membrane-type appearance and the head was scoping left to right as it glided around the corner of the opposite building to our apartment. The head or face wasn’t human. It looked a little bit cone-shaped maybe even slightly reptilian and I didn’t see the eye colour. Quite frankly I was in shock and scared at the same time. It seemed that Michael and I quickened our stride toward our own building and I already had my pass in hand to swipe the security device to open the doors to our foyer. Meanwhile, we had both stopped talking, as we hurried into the well-lit lobby. We both acknowledged the night manager/security on the way to the elevators.

Once inside the lifts, Michael turned to me and said in a higher-than-normal excited voice, “Did you see that? What the f**k was that?" I don’t know what it was and it was many years ago now, in 2005. On occasion I’ve Google searched to see if anyone else has ever reported something similar and today is the first time I have, being your articles.

I have studied various religions, their origins, and Gnostic teachings for many years and have my own theories but it’s all guessing really.

Anyhow thought I’d tell you for your own reference. Alex"

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STRANGE IRISH TALES: The Lost Soul - The Creature of the Forest - Night of the Dead

My name is Adriano Damaceno, I'm 34 years old and I live in São José, a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil. I always liked to travel and on one of these trips, I met my wife who is Irish and has family there to this day. She lived in Joinville for a few years with her family but she always traveled to see her relatives there. They live in a house near County Clare, and I got to know this beautiful place when I traveled with them and stayed there for a week.

It is an incredible place and the landscapes are reminiscent of medieval or horror films, in the style of The Legend of the Headless Horseman. I, as a great lover of the supernatural and its macabre stories, soon wanted to know about unexplained things that should happen there and my father-in-law told me several local legends and things that he himself saw, as he was born and raised in that region and these are some of those stories which I will tell you now:

• The Lost Soul

“I remember that when I was young, there was a lot of talk about an "Alma Penada" that was seen walking on the roads of the village at night. It began with the report of a lady who said she had seen a strange woman walking barefoot on cold nights on the road where the oldest houses were.

The strangest thing about this report was that people often woke up to put more wood in the fireplaces, and thus be warmer, and seeing someone walking outside at these hours was something to draw a lot of attention. One night, early in the morning, they heard screams coming from outside the village, they were terrible screams that made some men leave the house and try to see what it was. The people of the village thought that there was someone in danger and they went to try to save whoever it was.

That's when they saw, coming out of a small forest, a strange woman, and it was she who was screaming, but she wasn't being attacked. The men who went soon saw that it was not a thing of this world and they turned off their lanterns and returned to the village, and since that night, when they heard screams, no one went out because they knew that it was that woman who the cold did not bother. They couldn't tell if it was a spirit or something else and they called it "Woman Without Cold"

• The Creature of the Forest

My father was a businessman and traveled a lot to other places, and he stayed many nights in inns, those very precarious ones, where a room has three or four beds and there are often people who have never seen each other before in their lives. Once my father was in an inn like this one, and almost at the end of the day, a couple arrived asking where a certain town was, and the owner taught them exactly how to get there, but warned that walking at night, and with fog, was not a good thing to do.

But the couple was in a hurry to go, and the owner of the place, together with his wife, who was already elderly, insisted that the couple stay, as the road was very dangerous at night and things could appear in the dark. The couple then decided to stay and the owners calmed down. My curious father went to ask why they were so nervous because he himself had already walked in the mist many times and nothing happened, so the couple replied:

"People here have seen a strange creature in these colder seasons for several years now, it comes with the cold and the mist and many have seen it walking these roads."

"What creature is that?" asked my father, and they continued talking:

"No one can say what it is, they say it's a type of monster that lives hidden in the darkest forests, but at night, and protected by the mist, it sometimes comes down and frightens the residents here. We've seen it, and believe me when we say, the roads at night are not a good place to be."

"And what does this creature look like?", my father asked, more and more curious. "It reminds me of an ogre from the old stories," said the couple. "Much stronger and much bigger than any man who lives here. We hear reports of some shepherds who live in the open fields, at night they would enter their huts and hear roaring coming from the mist, the dogs would not bark until that it was day, and in the morning, they saw the footprints of the thing on the ground. A group once went into the forest after the creature, but the forest was so dense and dark that if they stayed the night there, they feared never returning. In the darkest times hot of the year the thing is never seen, but in the cold, and with fog, it's better to stay at home."

• Night of the Dead

“There was also once, not far from here, the story of a couple who lived in a beautiful house. They never had children, and when the man's wife died it was a heavy blow to him. She was buried far away from here in a cemetery already almost in another city.

But a rumor started that the wife was coming to visit her husband every night, even after she was dead. Residents who live near the former couple's house reported that a terrible stench was felt in the early hours and they heard moans of something that was hiding in the dark and, many times, the thing was seen entering the couple's old house.

Neighbors fearing something worse would happen warned the widower that a strange thing was coming to his house every night, but the old man said that nothing visited him. The residents then began to think that it was the deceased wife and the widower who was trying to hide the macabre relationship. One night, they saw the woman walking near some houses and those who saw her described her as someone rotting but not dead, completely dirty with mud and dressed in rags and heading towards the widower's house.

When the sun rose that morning, some went there and saw mud by the door and dark footprints leading inwards but the widower denied all rumors. No one has ever really been able to prove that she was the late wife who visited her husband, but it is said that it was, for after the master passed away the strange woman was never seen again."

These were some stories I've heard from people who have lived in Ireland for years. and they know what they are talking about. Ireland has a very rich folklore with stories about gnomes, elves, leprechauns, and all these beings that many already know the stories but I want to show that there are many more strange things than we think.”

- Adriano Damaceno - São José - Santa Catarina - SC - Brazil.

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'CANADIAN SPIDER BAT' Encounter in Old Alberta Barn (SKETCH)

 

I've been going back over old reports and decided to ask if anyone has any further information on this cryptid encounter in Alberta, Canada? This occurred in November 2017.

"Hi, Lon. I've heard some good things about you. Recently I think I may have encountered a cryptid of sorts that I have dubbed the giant "Canadian Spider Bat", because of its spider-like mouth and bat-like appearance. Also because it sounds cool. I'd like to tell you about the encounter now.

This happened a week or so ago. I don't know exactly what time it was, but it was dark. I live on a farm. I was walking home after putting our farm animals to bed when I passed an old, practically fallen-down barn on our property. (It's in bad condition. It nearly collapsed on my mother once upon a time) I glanced at the barn as I neared it, and witnessed a huge, bulky, maybe winged thing duck away into the barn incredibly fast. It seemed to me like it cowered away when I looked at it like it didn't want to be caught watching me. It was huge, seemingly too big to fit through the large open window at the front of the barn where it appeared to be perched. Its eyes were tiny and glistening white.

Once I saw the thing, I ran as fast as I could for my house. I felt a sensation that made me feel like something was rushing towards me incredibly, but never reaching me. That's the only way I can explain it. I still don't like going outside on my own when it's dark, and that barn freaks me out a bit. Once in a while, I hear noises from seemingly within it. It sounds like somebody setting down a pile of wooden planks over and over. It could be an echo from elsewhere on the property, but I don't know. I also feel like it may have just been my mind playing tricks on me, but it seemed too unnaturally real. I feel like the barn is watching me whenever I pass it." JK

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