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Black Humanoid: The Warning on the Door

A new owner of an old house discovered a small locked door under the basement steps with a warning not to open. Regardless, she opens the door and soon realizes that it may have been a mistake.

This incident occurred in the Autumn of 2014 and was forwarded to me by a third party:

"Last month, my husband and I finally bought our dream house. It's on the edge of a large forest and I love it. It's a little paradise hidden by the large pine trees that grow on the premises. I honestly don't know where my backyard ends and the forest starts. When I lie in bed and let the sounds of the forest sing me to sleep. I feel truly at peace. That house is everything I ever dreamed of.

I'm a musician and usually I work from home, so for me the transition out of New York City and into the country wasn't too big. My husband, however, had to quit his job. He gave notice last week and still has one week to go. We had to leave our old apartment a few days ago, so for the time he stays with a friend, while I have already moved to our new house. This week, it would just be me and our two dogs.

Now, this situation by itself is not for the faint-hearted, the woods can be scary, especially at night and it gets pretty lonely out there. But as fate will have it, this week some strange things have started to happen.

It all started on Sunday. I was unpacking boxes of our books and CDs when, by accident, I opened a box of Christmas decorations. My husband and I had decided for our unused stuff to be stored the basement, as it was just a cement hole anyway. A cold, windowless room not much bigger than a walk-in closet. I walked down the wooden stairs and dropped the box in a corner when I noticed there was a small hatch on the wall under the staircase. Initially I got really excited, as I thought it was a safe or something. But then I noticed there was only a latch on it to lock it from the outside. I wondered if it could be a door, but the opening was quite narrow. A small person, such as myself, would maybe fit, but say, my husband, would have trouble fitting through.

Stepping closer, I noticed a small plaque, that said: "KEEP SHUT AT ALL TIMES." I opened it anyway. There really wasn't anything to see, though. It was really dark inside and the light from the basement was way too dim to light it at all. From inside came a clicking or snapping kind of noise. Not quite rhythmic but frequent enough that I thought it maybe was some type of machine. I didn't dare sticking my head or limbs in for fear of getting electrocuted or cut in half, so I shut the hatch and resolved to take a look when I'd unpacked my flashlight.

The following days, things got pretty weird.

On Monday the dogs were going nuts. As soon as the first one stopped barking the other would start again. They were just barking into nothing, dark corners or the ceilings in rooms that weren't lit.

Tuesday the dogs fortunately had quieted down. However, that night, while making dinner in the kitchen, I heard the same clicking that came from the space behind the hatch. It originated from the corner of the living room, that was only barely illuminated by the light from the kitchen. I approached quietly, but when I was about to flip the switch, one of the dogs flew past me and barked at whatever it was that made the noise and the noise stopped. I turned on the light, but nothing was there. When I called my husband that night I told him I thought we had an infestation of some sort.

Then, at night, things got really weird. I was in bed, sleeping soundly, when I woke up from one of the dogs scratching the door from outside the bedroom. I cringed as I heard its nails drag across the fresh paint, but I didn't let it in. Almost immediately I drifted back to sleep.

That morning, one of the dogs decided to pull me out of my slumber by aggressively licking my face. I groggily pushed it off and pulled the sheets over my face when I remembered the scratching. I cursed and hastily got up to check if he'd ruined the door, but then I noticed both the dogs were in my bedroom. Whatever had scratched the door last night was not one of my dogs (oh and it ruined the door by the way, nice). Also, when I went down for breakfast I noticed the bowl of dog food was completely empty, even though I'd just refilled it the night before. When I called my husband that evening I told him I thought we had an infestation of something big.

You might think that I would have been scared at this point, but I hadn't quite connected the dots and we live in an old house, so I figured anything was possible.

After calling my husband I sat down with a book and a glass of wine out on the porch. Despite it being November, the weather this week was quite pleasant and I love feeling the cold breeze across my cheeks as I'm tucked under a warm blanket. I hadn’t really noticed how exhausting this week had been, but not ten minutes into reading I fell asleep.

It must have been past midnight when I woke up from the motion activated lights in the backyard switching on. Half asleep I turned to look and what I saw shocked me wide awake. About thirty feet away stood a tall, slender humanoid figure. It was hunched over as it drank from the bird bath we had just put in the garden a few days ago. For a few seconds I just sat there, frozen in fear, watching it drink. The creature had long, thin limbs and its skin was pitch black. Like a shadow that just rose from the pavement and became a person. It seemed emaciated, the bones were sticking out so far under it's dry skin it looked as if they were gonna pop out. And when it rose up, it's face... God, that face will haunt me forever. Its clouded grey eyes lay way too deep in its skull. The worst part though, was the mouth. It was so big and it had so many teeth and it was somehow contorted in what almost seemed to be a smile.

And it was looking right at me. For a second I thought that was the end of me, but then it just backed away into the darkness. As it sunk into the shadows it become immediately invisible. I heard the leaves rustle further into the woods and it was gone.

I locked myself and the dogs in the bathroom and quietly cried until sunrise. I eventually gathered up the courage to get out. That was this morning. I called my husband and told him everything. He said he'd come over ASAP. He should be here before dinner.

I decided to unpack some more boxes today, to take my mind off of it all. But while putting more boxes in the basement, to my horror I discovered the hatch was all the way open. I definitely closed it Sunday. I'm a hundred percent sure. I must not have lock it. Whatever was in there, it's out." SO

NOTE: I was given a contact email, but I have not received any response...even though the third party says that they received my request for more information. All I know is that the couple recently move out of the house, but no reason was given as to why. Lon


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Join me as I welcome paranormal researcher / authors Timothy Renner and Joshua Cutchins to Arcane Radio. Tim and Josh recently published 'Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, Volume I: Folklore.' In this book, they carefully examine not only the intersection of hairy ape men with global folklore — of poltergeists, faeries, extraterrestrials, magic, witches, ghosts, and archetypal women-in-white — but also question the fundamental assumptions underlying contemporary cryptozoological beliefs surrounding bigfoot. This will be a very informative and entertaining show! Join us this Friday, July 17th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on ParanormalKing.com. Direct links can be found at mixlr.com/paranormal-king or at LiveRadio/Paranormal King Radio Network - Meet us in the chat room...just click the banner or go to www.paranormal.olicentral.com
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Would your paranormal / cryptids group like to become an affiliate of Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research? By becoming an affiliate investigative group, we can forward reports to you from your area in which none of our team can physically investigate. If interested, send me an email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com. The member / affiliate list can be found at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Team / Affiliate Groups. Thanks. Lon

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MIB Supposedly Following Roswell Crash Researcher

An individual, who claims to have knowledge of the Roswell crash and recovery, states that he has been followed by 'Men in Black' entities who are trying to retrieve his 'journal.' Is this account credible?

The following account was recently forwarded to me by a third party:

"I believe the "Men in Black" or what we would call them are following me. They are tall with the stereotypical black suits, glasses and hats...but in some cases they even wear what looks like cowls or even black bandannas over their mouths. They have pale skin. They haven't approached me yet as I think they are trying to get a journal from me somehow without having to confront me although haven't had an opportunity. How they discovered I was creating a journal of my knowledge I am unaware although I believe it to directly coincide with some of our work in the past. They are very subtle, and never directly looking at me, sometimes walking within a crowd or surprising me of how close they might be standing without me knowing unless I am actively looking out for them. No matter how aloof or involved they may seem in anything, they are too frequent around me to be coincidental. I'm not sure who or what they are, but they seem "alien" from what a human's natural interactions or emotions would be. Here is what I know and believe to be absolutely true. It may be very soon that they confront me directly asking about it and I feel this to be true. If this happens I fear they will forcefully take it or something may happen to me.

Those that opt not to believe me, great. Those that share my knowledge or can provide any helpful info please contact me. Here is what I would like to tell the public after all these years. When I was hired to do what I did, I had no idea the direction or scope it would go, as did many of the people I worked for back then. It started as a research and development on understanding UFO activity for the government. It ended up all bought and paid for by huge multi-million dollar cabals and military engineers and corps that I can only begin to try and understand now.

We think the aliens have always been here. Only through one scientists study were we actually able to create something that interfered with the vehicles stability in the air. And even this was by accident. The Roswell Incident was a craft and it was brought down by a scientist testing a new kind of energy device. At the time it had nothing to do with Military, except for when they found out what had happened.

The scientist was testing a kind of energy operating on a higher frequency on an unknown vibration scale at the time. The technology is still hidden from the the public and is very complex for anyone without training to understand (including me). It was brought to Arizona as a weather test to bring rain to the area. The energy was made to reverberate outwards in a line to the sky and began to show that more rain would come into the area. Eventually it was found that "stars" would begin to blip in and out or even wobble when the device shot the energy at it. These weren't stars, they were "UFO." The scientist became obsessed now with these new UFO's and more sightings began to be reported. Eventually he determined his device was able to somehow interfere with these lights in the sky (then coined "fast walkers") flight just by pointing in their direction...eventually bringing one down in Roswell.

The craft operated on an energy we barely understood and still don't. The scientists and Military soon deducted the crafts actually operated on a resource that we were unaware of, and that this might actually be reason a desert is in fact a desert void of water, plants and animal species. Whether purposely, accidental or simply lack of concern, the alien crafts as well as perhaps the alien themselves consume this resource that we are slowly perhaps affected by, ignorant of it's very existence until recently.

So in some ways the beings are parasitic to our planet...even though they may have been here longer than we have. But it's hard form me to say they are good or bad when I don't even understand the resource they are taking from us. Some believe though. that the earth at one point must have had a lot more of whatever this energy resource is. causing longer life and even more variations in animal species.

They do have the craft somewhere and have been making money off its technology ever since. There WAS a balloon crash in Roswell apparently, but it was a direct malfunction of a balloon to detect Soviet nuclear activity from high altitudes in a different area for reasons unknown. How does a balloon crash?

The Beings at Roswell

There were six of them recovered in Roswell, and back in the 80's it wasn't as big of a secret as it was now. If you remember or lived in the 80's it wasn't uncommon to see UFO's on mainstream news investigating nuclear facilities. Of course in the 80's there were no living beings, they had all been preserved in special kind of plastics after the crash. One of them had been alive but soon just kind of stopped.

When I saw one, I wasn't thinking as people do today about them, having the fears and stories of abductions already pre programmed into my understanding. Think about a very small extreme version of a human with Asian descent and you would be closer than a lot of the fiction on TV. We were biologists working with what we thought were animals, and went about everything in a pretty fascinated yet professional kind of engagement. The beings were small, a lot smaller than the beings now portrayed many times. They were actually only half our size. When you see them in such an atmosphere, your mind treats them more as perhaps mutated humans than an "alien." Their eyes were larger than human, but not so dramatically slanted like the common understanding of a "grey" and much rounder. Grey is also misleading as there skin is more brown than grey but I also can't prove that grey colors don't exist. Their anatomy was unlike a human as the insides were very odd yet clean. Back then robots weren't common, but some of the materials inside could have been seen as robotic by today's standards. No wires or anything recognizable...just too clean inside to be discerned as entirely organic, and materials unlike growing tissues inside that were neatly and sparsely oriented.

In any case, the crafts quickly seemed to adapt to the old devices so they haven't been able to bring one down on their own terms since. As for the MIB, I have no idea." VM

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Grinning, Black Eyed Man Encountered at Kitsilano Beach, BC

A young woman has a terrifying encounter with a grinning black eyed man on Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was so frightened that she called her boyfriend to come get her.

I recently came across the following account:

"It was the summer of 1986, and I had just graduated from high school. I was living in Vancouver BC, and a girlfriend and I spent the afternoon at Kitsilano Beach, suntanning. She had to leave early for work, so I stayed on at the beach alone. It was around 4:00 pm, and I was hungry. I walked up the beach over to an area called 'Spanish Banks.' There is a concession stand there. It had a long line up (it was Expo86, so we had a ton of tourists that summer, and the beach was packed). I placed my order, but was told that it would be a 15 or 20 minute wait for my food.

I perched myself on a bench and proceeded to wait. For some reason, I looked across the street (the concession stand is adjacent to the road - a narrow two lane road, not the best for beach traffic, and the other side of the road is forest-called 'the UBC Endowment lands, attached to the University). There was a guy walking down through the forest - which was also a steep hill. There is no sidewalk below, and it was a really dangerous place to try to cross the street. Not only that, it was an odd place to come out of - imagine a steep hill with lots of bushes and trees going straight down to a curb, and then a busy street!). The second that I saw this guy (and I was far away at the concession stand), I had that gut wrenching fear that everyone describes when encountering something bizarre. Even though he was far away, I could tell that he was grinning maliciously, and that he was fixated on me!

He crossed the street, grinning. At that moment, there were no cars, so he got across easily. He made a beeline straight to where I was, and went and sat on a bench across from me (I am not good at distances, but let's say 10 or 15 feet away). He was First Nations. A little bit older than I was-maybe 19 or 20. He had medium length hair, and was wearing a white t-shirt and a red flannel shirt over it, unbuttoned. He was wearing jeans, I can't remember his shoes - runners of some kind. He was fairly attractive, but utterly evil. Malicious was the word that kept going through my mind.

Now, his eyes. They were black. No whites could be seen. But they were not shiny. His were dull. The way that I described it to my boyfriend later, was that they looked like 'scratched black plastic.' They also gave me that feeling of when you look into a microscope or binoculars and you can kind of see your own eyelashes squished against the lens, and it's almost spider like. His eyes, and his everything frightened me like nothing else ever has.

He sat there grinning at me. He knew that I was terrified, and I knew that I had to pretend that I wasn't. I felt totally alone, even though there were tons of people around. No one else seemed to notice anything amiss. I felt as though knowing that this person existed made me hate being alive. This world would never be safe if things like him existed. I sat there acting totally normal on the outside, trying to keep it together because it seemed instrumental to my survival (I had no idea what this thing would do, but I felt as if my life was in danger).

My food was ready for pick up. I got it, and then proceeded to go over to a pay phone, and I kept my back to him and phoned my boyfriend. I told him to get the f*ck over to Spanish Banks because there was a really scary guy here and I didn't know how to get away. After my boyfriend hung up, I stayed in the phone booth, pretending to talk to someone. At some point, I had to get off - maybe someone wanted the phone. I then sat back on my bench, and he stayed, grinning. A minute or two before my boyfriend got there, he got up and sauntered away, down the beach. When my boyfriend got there, he wanted to go after him. I grabbed his arm hard and told him that we had to get out of there NOW!! I could not explain properly to my boyfriend just how terrifying that experience was. I still can never explain it properly. It was scarier than a murderer. It felt as though if this thing could do something to you, it wouldn't just end your life. It would do something that would destroy or torment your soul forever." FH


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If you are interested in helping out, you can use the PayPal donation buttons on the blog and newsletter or go directly to PayPal.com and use my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com as the recipient. You can also make a donation through Facebook Messenger. Thanks for your continued support. Lon

The launch of our newest project has begun! 'Beyond Explanation' is a collection of first-person encounters, directly from the pages of Phantoms & Monsters. Please subscribe & feel free to distribute to your friends and other paranormal enthusiasts. The Facebook page can be found at Beyond Explanation on Facebook - Thanks for your help. I hope you enjoy! Your comments are welcomed. Lon

PLEASE NOTE: The Arcane Radio YouTube uploads are being moved to the 'Beyond Explanation' channel. You may want to subscribe to 'Beyond Explanation' so that you don't miss an episode. Thanks.


Would your paranormal / cryptids group like to become an affiliate of Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research? By becoming an affiliate investigative group, we can forward reports to you from your area in which none of our team can physically investigate. If interested, send me an email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com. The member / affiliate list can be found at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Team / Affiliate Groups. Thanks. Lon

Click Here For Lon's Suggested Reading List - Books & Films / DVDs

'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' is now available on Amazon.com and from our new publisher Singular Fortean Publishing
A review of 'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' by Linda Godfrey

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Two Black Eyed Kids (BEK) Terrorize Glade Springs, West Virginia Resident

A young man is awaken by his doorbell at 2:30 am, wondering who it could be since he lived in a gated community. He is met at the door by 2 black-eyed kids. That's when the terror begins!

I recently came across the following account:

"I had never heard of the black eyed kids until I encountered them. Still not knowing who or what the hell they were I did what any modern young man would do, I Googled them. I shocked that I wasn't the only one. Had I not seen them for myself I would've just thought it to be another modern urban legend gone viral. Besides my girlfriend I've only told my brother who is into everything creepy and horror. I'm an accountant.

My girlfriend and I live in a small gated community in southern West Virginia called Glade Springs. The community has about 150 houses, a country club, and a steakhouse/bar called Bunkers. Now anyone can come through the gate during the business hours but after they close, the front security gate stops all traffic and makes sure you are a resident. If your a visitor they call the house that you're going to, to verify that you are actually expecting them. Sometimes it's a hassle but hey, don't have to worry about a robbery.

So imagine my surprise when my doorbell chimed at 2:30 am. I was jarred awake and wasn't sure if it wasn't just a dream considering I had just went to bed shortly before. I rolled over and looked at the clock noticing the time and when my doorbell chimed again I felt a cold chill run through my body. Not reading to much into it, it could be one of my neighbors has an emergency, right? I nonchalantly made my way to the door (now I see how foolish I really was) and opened it. Luckily the wrought iron storm door was still locked because who or what stood before me was NOT a resident of the community.

Two young boys stood at my doorstep (one looking about 17 and another looking about 10) wearing dark hooded sweatshirts and jeans. The young on had shaggy dirty blonde hair and would only look down at the stone steps and the older one had his hood pulled and his head tipped to where I could only see from half his nose down. My voice caught in my throat and before I could even ask what they wanted the older one spoke. His voice sounded forced and dry, there was no emotion or sincerity of what he said, "I'm sorry to bother you and your girlfriend but we need to come in and use your phone, we've been in an accident." I felt the familiar chill return to my whole body, how did he know my girlfriend was here? (I wrote it off as my Tahoe and her VW was in the driveway and I figured they just assumed) I tripped over my words, something about these kids wasn't right, wasn't normal... wasn't human. "Uh, um I can bring you my cell phone and you can call. I don't get service inside here so you have to stand on the sidewalk to call." I finally said nervously. Of course I was lying through my clenched teeth, I did NOT want these kids in my house.

"Well my brother really needs to use your bathroom Chuck, we have to come in?" the older one said. And that's when I went into complete a panic, he knew my name! "I'm sorry, are you from here, how did you know my name." The words practically shook out of my mouth. That's when he became slightly hostile and demanded to be let inside, and I told them I was sorry but I couldn't help them and just as I was about close the main door is when it happened. The both of them snapped their heads upwards and looked me straight in the eyes. Black. No iris, no pupil, no retina, just pure deep black. I was paralyzed with fear. For a second I thought those kids were just playing a really cruel joke and had snuck in the community somehow and had bought some of those freaky Supernatural demon sclera contacts. That was until I heard ringing (it was like a ringing sound that you hear when you have a hearing test done that digital high pitched shrill ringing) and then the flashbacks started. That's when everything went black.

The next thing I knew I was shaken awake lying in the mud room floor, my girlfriend standing over me with a worried look "what the hell Chucky?" She asked. I had no idea how to answer her, my head had taken a good whack against the slate floor and a bit of dried blood was stuck in my hair but other than that I was fine physically. I slowly remembered everything that had happened and looked at the door, daylight, I've never been so happy to see morning in all my life. I told my girlfriend everything that had happened and I honestly think she thought I had brain damage from hitting the floor, but she insisted she believed me. And then we Googled it and I believe that's when she really started to believe me was then.

I don't know who or what they are, or where they come from but they're not of this world. I know that for a fact. For some reason I had a lingering thought (I'm still not sure if they put the thought in my head or not) that they wanted me to know that even my memories aren't safe. They are very strong and seem to be growing in numbers. For some reason they seem to not be able to hurt you physically unless you invite them in, which I don't know since either no one has ever let them or the ones that have aren't around to tell they're story anymore. But they can get your mind, since that night I feel as though I'm being watched I see them out of the corner of my eye occasionally, I'll look at my girlfriend while we're at the movies or diner and her eyes will be solid black for a split second and worst of all they took one of my most precious and most often reminisced memories and turned it into something sinister, something that's now a constant reminder of the Black Eyed Kids." C

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Origins of the Public UFO Controversy in the USSR

Origins of the Public UFO Controversy in the USSR

By Raymond A. Keller, PhD, a.k.a. “Cosmic Ray,” author of the international awards-winning Venus Rising Trilogy, published by Headline Books and available on Amazon.com, while supplies last

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The public UFO controversy and debate in Russia actually began back in the mid-1960s. Whatever Vladimir Putin and the Russians know about the true nature of UFOs today is due to the pioneering efforts of Soviet researchers in the mid-1960s. Photo credit: History Channel.
Lively Discussion on UFOs
In the l March 1968 edition of the Aftenposten newspaper (Oslo, Norway), correspondent Johnny Flodman writes about a recent trip he made to the Soviet Union with the purpose of investigating the status of the UFO controversy in that immense nation. Flodman spoke with numerous scientists throughout the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, most notably in the Moscow area, to ascertain their respective opinions on the existence of flying saucers as interplanetary spaceships. Most of those interviewed admitted that this was certainly within the realm of possibility; but none wanted their name to be published in any forthcoming article out of fear for any recriminations from the Soviet authorities. It was pointed out to the Norwegian journalist that the official Communist Party line regarding UFOs, as echoed in the pronouncements of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, was that, “All reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are just anti-scientific sensations and speculation. The observed objects are all of well-known origin.”

Flodman arrived in the Soviet Union during a time when the communist government there was cracking down on the proliferation of UFO information from all sectors. The 27 February 1968 issue of the Pravda newspaper (Moscow) bluntly castigated those in the Soviet media who, in the past, referenced any individuals who claim to have observed UFOs or anyone acting in some official or scientific capacity making statements to the effect that some UFOs might possibly be alien spacecraft. This Pravda piece did note that the question of UFOs as being extraterrestrial vehicles of some sort was taken up in a special meeting of the Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Department of Physics. However, the panel of convening scientists had established that, “The UFO reports were nothing other than propaganda of an anti-scientific, sensational character. The speculations have absolutely no scientific basis...”

The Norwegian reporter wondered if there was any one particular UFO incident or outspoken personality that might have sparked this barrage of censorship from the Soviet authorities. He quickly learned that the prominent astronomer, Dr. Felix Yurievich Ziegel of the Institute of Aviation in Moscow, was the prime suspect, for he had recently revealed that about 200 mysterious objects had been observed, not just with the naked eye, but also on radar-screens, all across the nation in 1968. Ziegel announced that a special commission had been set up to collect UFO reports and thoroughly investigate them. But most importantly, he urged Soviet authorities to establish a closer collaboration with Western researchers of the UFO enigma in the hopes of arriving at answers much sooner.

Kalyazin, Russia, 64-m radio telescope dish. Photo credit: European Space Agency.
Signals Received

On Monday, 12 April 1965, the Soviet Union’s official Tass News Agency reported that mysterious radio signals from outer space were regularly being received by a network of radio astronomers scattered throughout the various socialist republics. The prominent American space science writer and ufologist, Otto Binder of New Jersey, strongly felt that this was a key event in the history of the Soviet Union, and the entire planet Earth, because the Tass report indicated that the radio signals “suggested to Russian astronomers that we are not alone in the universe.” Binder also believed that the release of the Tass report on the fourth anniversary of the first manned space flight by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin gave added weight to the subject of discovering intelligent life on other planets.

Empowered by a belief that outer space is populated by other intelligent beings, some of which developed the ability to transmit radio signals across the void, and perhaps even explore other worlds in spaceships, Mstislav Keldysh, the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, announced that, “It is now beyond doubt that man can work in space and eventually make interplanetary flights.” If humankind’s destiny was to join with an intergalactic community, it was clear that someone within the political hierarchy of the Kremlin had made the decision that the Soviet Union should be leading the way in such a noble endeavor.

The Tass report pointed out that Soviet radio astronomers took note that the signals from outer space consisted of radio waves of varying strength, repeated regularly every 100 days, without fail. The Tass journalist wrote that, “Such signals have been detected by scientists before; but the Soviet conviction that they have been created not by nature, but by reasonable beings, stems from the evidence that they are repeated at regular 100-day cycles.”

Strange Aerial Encounter

It was now becoming clear that once the genie was out of the bottle, it was going to be a difficult, if not an impossible task, of putting him back. Insofar as the possible extraterrestrial radio signals, as well as Ziegel being forthcoming about the wider extent of UFO sightings across the Soviet Union, more and more citizens from all walks of life, including fellow scientists and persons in authority, were coming out publicly with declarations about their own encounters with the phenomenon.

The chief navigator of Soviet polar aviation, Valentin Akkuratov, once described his encounter with an elusive flying disc in the skies over northern climes to Felix Ziegel, Doctor of Science and Technology and Assistant Professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, in the course of an informal meeting on the subject of UFOs in May 1967, held at this same academic establishment:

“In 1956, while engaged in strategic ice reconnaissance in a TU-4 plane in the area of Cape Jesup, Greenland, we dropped down from the clouds to fair weather and suddenly noticed an unknown flying craft moving on our portside parallel to our course. It looked very much like a large, pearl-colored lens with wavy, pulsating edges. At first we thought it was an American aircraft of unknown design; and since we did not want to encounter it, we went into the clouds again. After we had flown for 40 minutes toward Bear Island, the cloud cover ended abruptly. It cleared ahead and on our portside we saw, once again, that same unknown craft. Making up our minds to see it at close quarters, we changed our course abruptly and began the approach movement, informing our base at Amderma of the maneuver. When we changed our course, the unknown flying machine followed suit and moved parallel at our speed.

“After 15 to 18 minutes of flight, the unknown craft sharply altered its course, sped ahead of us and rose quickly until it disappeared in the blue sky. We spotted no aerials, superstructure, wings or portholes on that disc. Nor did we see any exhaust gases or condensation trail. It flew at what seemed to us an impossible speed.”

Dr. Felix Y. Ziegel (1920-1988) with drawing by witness of “light-bulb” UFO sighted at Sharapova Ohota on the outskirts of Moscow in 1977. Photo credit: Wikipedia.org.
Radical Reassessment

Writing in the June 1968 issue of Denmark’s UFO Contact magazine, Ziegel proposed that the unusual characteristics exhibited in the worldwide appearance of UFOs merited a “radical reassessment” of their nature and purpose on the part of the global scientific community. As to the question of whether UFOs were transporting guests from other worlds, Ziegel opined: “The recorded observations will serve to check hypotheses. These hypotheses would not, in my opinion, attempt to explain the nature of UFOs in terms of familiar phenomena. Judging by other surprises, nature has some in store for us here too, and we must be ready for perhaps a radical reassessment of values.”

The Soviet scientist clarified that, “The hypothesis that UFOs originate in other worlds, that they are flying craft from other planets other than Earth, merits the most serious examination. Observations show that UFOs behave ‘sensibly.’ In a group formation flight they maintain a pattern. They are most often spotted over airfields, atomic stations and other very new engineering installations. On encountering aircraft, they always maneuver so as to avoid direct contact. A considerable list of these seemingly intelligent actions gives the impression that UFOs are investigating, perhaps even reconnoitering.”

Ziegel wondered if it were more than mere coincidence that as the planet Mars was in closest proximity to the Earth, UFO reports substantially increased everywhere?

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Editor’s Note: If you would like to ask the Cosmic Ray any questions about Venus or life on other planets, do not hesitate to send him an e-mail at rkeller1@mix.wvu.edu. The doctor will be appearing with Omnec Onec, the Ambassador from Venus, along with premier ufologist Laura Eisenhower, at the Promise Revealed Meet the Venusians Mt. Shasta Summer Conference, to be held Wednesday, 26 August 2020 through Sunday 30 August 2020 at the Siskiyou Masonic Lodge, Mount Shasta, California. For event information or to purchase tickets, please call Rob Potter at (530) 925-3502. Until then, in the profound words of Venusian Moon Base Clarion Commander Aura Rhanes, “Work, study, and meditate on all good things!”


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Katzo-Wan: My Friend From Beyond The Stars

A young small town girl from Quebec states that she had a friend from the Pleiades star cluster. She told her mother and grandmother, and showed them the location of the star. Many years later, she believes that these close encounters affected her life.

I recently received the following account:

“When I was young, I had this 'imaginary' friend that yet I never saw and couldn’t describe her physical appearance. I said she lived in space.

One night, my grandma and mother asked me to show them where she lived. I then walked to the bathroom and pointed at the window to then show them Pleiades and said the word. I was four years old at the time. I pointed, I believe, to one of the brightest star and approximately said “That’s where she lives! She said her home orbited one of the visible suns.” Not something you expect from the mouth of a four year old. Of course, my mother later on told me that her and my grandma checked if that constellation was real and wondered where I got that from. I watched educational programming, but nothing at the time was very scientific.

So, a few months later, they asked me to show them again. I wasn’t in the bathroom, but another window and showed them. At that point, it alarmed my mother and my grandma because it meant I was aware that the Earth rotating around the sun had the “star change places” when looking at the sky. They asked for her name, I approximately said, “The closest to our language would be Katzo-Wan. She said her language is hard to translate to ours.” Some said I had a fertile imagination. I believed them.

When I reached the age of seven or eight, the visiting of this entity stopped. Everyone confirmed it was a fluke and all was just in my head. I grew up, it was around the age of eighteen that I witnessed in the sky along with many other people, a large white (almost blending with the clouds) spacecraft that made no noise and yet could move in many different directions. Drones weren’t accessible back then. So, it was an aircraft of some sort.

A few years later, I am walking with my great-aunt, many trees on each side, all we saw was a triangular shaped aircraft making this heavy and rumbling sound. It was very low in the sky and then, in less than a second, it vanished.

A few years later, I’m thirty years old walking with my husband and twice over our house we saw strange aircrafts hovering above our heads. This time high in the sky, I used my MapSky App that would have indicated any known aircrafts, but those remained unidentifiable.

For the record, I live in the province of Quebec, Canada in a very remote town. I always have. Except for the first incident of seeing a UFO. I don’t know if the things I’ve seen were in any way related to my experience as a child. I don’t know if my obsession with space comes from this “imaginary friend” I had. However, now I’m studying ufology to help me get answers to my questions. I feel quite alone and crazy at times because I feel like no one believes me. However, it happened to me and I hope to one day understand why.” AW

Strange Encounters: 'Glimmer Man in the Hallway / Glowing White Dog

2 strange incidents recently reported to me. One was a 'glimmer man' entity in the upstairs hallway, and the other was an encounter with a glowing white dog.

"In early March of 2020, I was sitting upright in my upstairs master bedroom feeding my 3 month old daughter a bottle. The TV was off, it was dark outside and approximately 6:30 p.m. For purposes of the story the layout of the room is important. From my seated position, to my immediate right was my bathroom, then a little up from the bathroom was a dresser with a mirror on it, and then up from that was an open door to the hallway. The bathroom light was on, my bedside table light was on, and I could see a little bit into the hallway.

Anyway, I'm feeding my daughter, and quietly enjoying a moment to myself while my wife and three year old were downstairs watching TV. As I'm feeding her, I catch movement in the hallway, outside of the bedroom. I saw it out of the corner of my eye and then pivoted my face to look at the movement. What I saw, I can't really explain, but the feeling in my chest was an immediate rush of anxiety. I saw a darkened but transparent torso shape with no legs and no head, and it was moving toward or into the bedroom. It looked like a shadow through a screen door. It didn't float, but shuffled as if walking, and the torso would have been about my height, around 5'10''. The shadow or glimmer crossed into the bedroom, and then in front of the mirror, but it cast no shadow and did not reflect in the mirror. I watched it as it crossed into the light of the bathroom and then disappeared. My daughter's eyes flashed open, which was strange because she was sleep-eating, and I noped the hell right out of the room as fast as I could. If I hadn't been holding her, I would have left her on the bed.

The being was not a shadow. I repeat, not a shadow. No cars past in front of the house, and my other child and wife were below me in the TV room. It could not have been something moving in front of the house because the shape or shadow would have changed as it crossed the dividing wall between hallway and bedroom. I grabbed my baseball bat and went back through every room in the house and found nothing. Like, my Louisville Slugger would have been able to do anything about it, but I had to try.

I'm not a believer, but I'm not against the idea of other things beyond my scope of understanding being out in the world.

What the hell was that?" CA

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"This story takes place around 2015 plus minus a few years. It was early autumn at my home in Michigan City, Indiana. We have a large backyard with woods beyond the yard. It was twilight and I was taking my dog Brutus, a shepherd, for his walk. Brutus wanted to go up a small hill. When we crested the hill I spotted another dog a few yards in front of us. My dog defiantly noticed the other dog too, but unusual for him he did not pull towards or bark at this dog. Its fur was a beautiful, fluffy, white but more than that it was glowing! Not shiny or reflective but glowing. The dog was facing away from us, turned its head to look at us, then continued walking slowly away from us and disappeared into the woods. Another strange thing about this dog is that it felt as if it was emanating a feeling of peace." JW


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Black-Eyed Kids Encounters in the American Southwest

3 creepy black-eyed kids (BEK) accounts from different eyewitnesses. It seems that these incidents have waned in recent years, but they do still occur.

Here are a few BEK accounts that I've been gathering, as well as a few older incidents:

"When my dad and his girlfriend told me this story, they had a look of pure terror. They said it happened one late night. They often stay up and watch television shows that they record during the day. So they were watching television when they heard a stern knocking at the door. It is nearly 1:30 a.m., so they were a little apprehensive.

They opened the door to find a Latina girl who looked pretty normal, and considering that we live in a predominantly Hispanic city, they weren't taken aback by her. They were a bit surprised by her eyes. They were black. This part of the story did not strike me as odd until a week or two later when I saw these stories of BEKs. Now I am not saying this because is a fabricated story (I assure you, it is real) but the dialogue is not 100% what happened because my Dad was a bit dodgy when I asked him about the subject. It went a lot like this.

"Hello" (my dad) "Hello." (creepy BEK Girl) "Umm, what do you want?" (my dad) "I have nowhere to stay, can I please stay the night?" (creepy girl) "Um, no. We don't even know you and we have a baby daughter in our house." (my dad who obviously was being cautious for my sister's sake) At this time my Dad's girlfriend said that girl appeared agitated by this statement. "I'm not going to hurt your child just please let me in." (creepy girl) My Dad's girlfriend said that she felt very fearful because she thought that someone could jump out from the corner and invade their home. "Sorry, no" My dad said this and then closed the door. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. Our front door opens up to the outside world and a staircase. Our apartment shares this building with only one other apartment room (the neighbors). My dad would have heard if she asked the neighbors for a place to sleep and he did not hear it. Out of fright my dad moved the couch in front of the door. They checked and they saw her standing in the parking lot next to the dentist office right across from their apartment. This story was eerie enough, but when I heard of BEKs I was really scared for my dad and his girlfriend." IO

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"It was an October evening, not too far off from Halloween. In live in Santa Fe, NM. The evening was slowly creeping by so I decided to go to the corner store. It was only 3 blocks, shouldn’t be much trouble, right?

During my walk I see the occasional person putting up Halloween decorations and kids playing in their yards, but this story is about something far more sinister. I remember seeing two teens about age 14, knocking on a door asking to use the phone, which of course I thought was weird because most teens these days have phones. As I kept walking, they stopped and stared at me for a short moment. I felt the blood in veins chill. I felt so creeped out I hurried to the next block. The next block seemed fine, until I looked behind me and saw the two teens were following me. I took off sprinting to the store at this point.

I saw the sign for the store, and relief washed over me. I opened the door, and I told the cashier about what happened on the way here. He looked at me slightly creeped out, and told me a story about this happening to him in his hometown and how they found him the day he left, and asked for his help, in an emotionless voice, and he told me to never agree to help.

He told me another story, but at that point I was no longer paying attention because they were standing at the door asking to be let in. The cashier freaked out, and locked the door.

The teens never seem to waver or leave. They wouldn’t step away from the door. It had been an hour. The cashier and I were ready to fight our way out, but instead he took me out the back. The one teen came around the back just as the door shut behind us.

He said 'Can you help me?' He was closing in on us, and his eyes. They were black as a starless night. They were peering right into my soul. I couldn’t help but gaze into his eyes. The terror, I can’t remember too much of what happened next, but I do recall the sounds of struggle.

When I came too, the cashier was struggling with both teens. He was calling out to me for help. I ran towards them, grabbed him by his collar and pulled him between the two, and knocking them over in the process. I didn’t look back until I was near my house, the cashier was gone but the teens were still following behind. I ran into my house, closed all the blinds, and turned the music up.

I tried to find and thank the cashier for saving my life that day, but he didn’t show up to work after that. I asked his boss, and he told me he called over the phone and quit. He said he was moving.

To this very day I sometimes feel the fear of those eyes watching me as I drive to work. I sometimes will look out my window and swear I see them watching my house from a couple blocks away. Waiting for their next chance." BB

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"This incident took place about 22 years ago. I had just moved to a new city with my wife. We were small town newlyweds from the Midwest. We moved cross country to Phoenix, AZ so I could attend graduate school. Being naive and new to city living, I habitually answered the door without a second thought. Never again after this.

The first thing that should have tipped me off to the peculiarity of this situation was the fact that someone was knocking at 6:00 in the morning. The second thing that should have dawned on me is this kid had to reach over a rather tall patio gate to unlatch and open it.

The knock at the door was startling. My wife and I were getting ready for work, a pretty normal routine. The moment I opened the door, I was overtaken with an inexplicable sense of fear. To this day, I can picture him. Teenager, average height, average build, knee length black leather coat, short black hair and sunglasses. The sunglasses at 6:00 a.m. struck me as odd and even more odd, he was eating an apple. He was very polite and asked if he could come in and warm up. I said, "No", closed the door and slid the security chain in to place. A moment later, another knock. I opened the now chained door, and before I could speak he asked again if he could come in and warm up. "NO!" I reply and attempted to close the door. Before the door could shut, he put his hand out stopping the door on its hinges. He looked directly into my eyes, still wearing his sunglasses, and said, "Can I at least get some ketchup for my apple?". "F*ck that!" I reply, albeit a little confused. "Get the hell outta here! My wife is calling the police!". He takes a moment to let this information sink in, lowers his glasses, revealing eyes as black as obsidian and says, "No. You won't be calling anybody." At that moment I force the door closed, lock it, and call out to my wife.

By this time, she is scared sh*tless hiding in the bedroom. All jacked up on adrenalin, I rip the curtains back to look out the window next to the door. He's gone. Absolutely no trace of him. I go out on the patio and check the gate, it's still latched from the inside. I turn to enter the house I notice a half eaten apple lying on the ground." HH


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Would your paranormal / cryptids group like to become an affiliate of Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research? By becoming an affiliate investigative group, we can forward reports to you from your area in which none of our team can physically investigate. If interested, send me an email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com. The member / affiliate list can be found at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Team / Affiliate Groups. Thanks. Lon

Click Here For Lon's Suggested Reading List - Books & Films / DVDs

'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' is now available on Amazon.com and from our new publisher Singular Fortean Publishing
A review of 'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' by Linda Godfrey

SUGGESTED LINKS
I Went Missing From Our Bed

Menacing Bigfoot in Kentucky

Screams on the Mountain

An Interview on the Mysterious “British Bigfoot”

Aliens, Insects and Arachnids: A Menagerie of Strange Creatures

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Bat-Winged Humanoid Encountered Near Hamilton, Montana

2 friends encounter a bat-winged humanoid on the outskirts of Hamilton, Montana. Both witnesses described seeing the same being. Where had it come from?

This is a third-person account forwarded to me several years ago:

"This account took place in 2010. I was living in Hamilton, Montana with my current girlfriend. It was late at night and my friend and I would always go for a drive. We parked at an empty parking lot outside of a gym that was on the outskirts of town. My friend had his medical marijuana card and he would smoke while we talked about random stuff (we worked together, workplace drama was usually the discussion). After we were done hanging out I started my car to head back into town. We started heading towards the outlet to take a right onto the main street. I was about 50 feet away from the outlet when I decided the mood called for some loud music. To give you an idea as to what our field of view was, the outlet had two white fences on each side that spanned the property. It was one of those fences that had two logs with spaces in between them so vision was partially blocked on the right and left side (granted it was pretty damn dark).

That is when sh*t hit the fan. Out of the corner of my eye I see what appeared to be a dusty brown ball of plastic or garbage that rolled into view from the other side of the right fence. We were driving closer as this was happening but as soon as I got a better look, I knew this was not a piece of garbage blowing in the wind. I immediately realized it was a winged flesh-like creature that appeared to have crash landed during flight. I thought my eyes were deceiving me and I immediately turned to my friend who let out one of the most blood curdling screams I have heard in my entire life. I kept looking at him and looking back at this "thing." My friend was so scared he flew his legs into the air (up against the passenger window and windshield) as if that would shield him from this creature we were approaching. I kept repeating, "WHAT IS THAT, WHAT IS THAT?" As soon as the creature came to its senses it planted its feet and took off flying in the opposite direction of my car. At this point I stopped the car and all I remember is heavy breathing from both my friend and I (from the adrenaline) as we watched the silhouette of this thing fly away. The wing-span on this creature was at LEAST 6-8 feet wide. It seemed to have webbing like a bat (no feathers). We watched it until it was not visible which took a good while (Montana still has a decent amount of light pollution and we could see the contrast of this creature in the sky for 2-3 minutes before it disappeared).

I remember my friend told me, "Please just take me home." We took off and headed back into town. I just kept asking, "What was that, what was that?" I don't think there were more than a few words spoken between us at that point. I just kept asking, "What was that, what was that?" He would respond with, "I don't f*cking know man."

I dropped him off. I went home and told my girlfriend who was laughing at how animated and serious I was when telling her what happened. The next day, I woke up and immediately called him. I asked him, "What did you see?" I wanted him to tell me first so that what I had to say did not influence him in his recollection of this creature. He told me, "It was a flesh-like creature. It was not a bird, there were no feathers." I asked him, "What color was it?" He told me, "Brown-ish and...." I said, "sort of grey?" He said, "OMG, yes."

I no longer talk to this friend as he slipped into a unfortunate issue with prescription pills. I wish we still had a friendship as I have wanted to talk to him about this event since it has happened. We both saw the exact same thing. I am the type of person to laugh in the face of ghost/paranormal stuff. If I don't see it, I don't believe it. I still to this day cannot explain what I saw, I still get chills when thinking about my friends scream. The way I describe this thing is a gigantic bat/humanoid with wings. There was not one feather on this flying creature (I mention this because anyone I tell this story to tells me I probably saw a bird of some sort). I remember this creature being slightly hairy.

My theory as to why it was rolling around on the ground as if it crash landed out of the sky? I think my subwoofer/sound system might have messed with its navigation and that is another reason I feel it might have been a gigantic bat. Can you help explain what I might have seen? Has anyone had similar experience with gigantic bat-like creatures?

It might be worth mentioning Rocky Mountain Labs is in Hamilton, MT. This is one of the highest security laboratories in the world. My ex-boss's ex-husband works there and the only thing she knew about this job was that he took care of the animals. The deadliest diseases are held in this lab and there are monkeys and other animals that are used for testing." SC

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Unknown Humanoid (Skinwalker?) Runs Parallel to Vehicle at High Speed

A Mexican man was driving, along with his wife, late at night on a desert road when he encounters an unknown humanoid that literally runs parallel to his vehicle at high speed.

The following account was recent forwarded to me:

"About 15 years ago I heard about a weird account from a friend. This was in a small town in Oklahoma with a decent sized Native population. Anyway, this guy is actually Mexican. Nicest dude you would ever want to meet. Was about 35 at the time. Had a family. Honest good-natured guy that I could never see making something up for no reason.

It was late one night and we were talking about an abandoned building at the campus of a small community college that used to be housing. Supposedly it was haunted. A friend and I wanted to sneak in and check it out. He advised us not to and mentioned that he once lived in an apartment on campus there and some strange stuff happened. Stuff like hearing footsteps upstairs in a different apartment and a fridge opening and closing. Then someone mentioned the upstairs was empty. He figured someone was squatting there. So at around 1:00 am he heard it and grabbed a bat. There was a staircase that led up there, so no way someone could have gotten out by the time he started up. He opened the door, but there was nothing other than an old non-working fridge on the opposite end. He didn't stay long after his doors began to open and shut on their own.

But he claimed that wasn't nearly as freaky as the last time he was in Mexico. He was driving back to the US after visiting family. His wife was in the passenger seat asleep. He wasn't too far from the border, so he decided to keep driving a little after midnight instead of stopping somewhere for the night. It was sort of a desert type road. He says he was going about 65 mph when he noticed something in his peripheral vision in the darkness out the passenger window. Something was out there, and it was keeping up with him.

Obviously this shook him up. He hit the gas, 70 mph, 75, 80, 85. It was still keeping up! At this point, it was almost too absurd that he thought it was just his tiredness playing tricks on his eyes. Until it changed directions. Instead of moving parallel with his car, it began to angle back toward the road, in a manner to intercept the vehicle. As it got closer, more light hit it and he said in no uncertain terms, it looked like a human. It was still slightly shadowed from the darkness, but he was certain it was a humanoid form. He accelerated to 90 mph and a few seconds later, it angled back into the darkness and was gone.

As he finished the story, I could tell his eyes were welled up and his hands were trembling. And this was a tough, no BS dude. It physically struck him to the core just to recall it. Not surprisingly, he said he is never going back to Mexico.

This is very similar to skinwalker accounts I have heard from friends and family on the reservation." S


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If you are interested in helping out, you can use the PayPal donation buttons on the blog and newsletter or go directly to PayPal.com and use my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com as the recipient. You can also make a donation through Facebook Messenger. Thanks for your continued support. Lon

The launch of our newest project has begun! 'Beyond Explanation' is a collection of first-person encounters, directly from the pages of Phantoms & Monsters. Please subscribe & feel free to distribute to your friends and other paranormal enthusiasts. The Facebook page can be found at Beyond Explanation on Facebook - Thanks for your help. I hope you enjoy! Your comments are welcomed. Lon

PLEASE NOTE: The Arcane Radio YouTube uploads are being moved to the 'Beyond Explanation' channel. You may want to subscribe to 'Beyond Explanation' so that you don't miss an episode. Thanks.


Would your paranormal / cryptids group like to become an affiliate of Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research? By becoming an affiliate investigative group, we can forward reports to you from your area in which none of our team can physically investigate. If interested, send me an email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com. The member / affiliate list can be found at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Team / Affiliate Groups. Thanks. Lon

Click Here For Lon's Suggested Reading List - Books & Films / DVDs

'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' is now available on Amazon.com and from our new publisher Singular Fortean Publishing
A review of 'Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook' by Linda Godfrey

SUGGESTED LINKS
Tall Humanoids at Echo Lake, NY

Three Hooded Figures on the Road

'Hissing' Humanoid

Watch: Giant Bird Snags Shark-Like Fish

The snow on the Italian Alps is turning pink

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