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May 5, 2020
Cryptid 'Devil Dog' Encountered Near Bray Road in Southeast Wisconsin
A group of friends encounter a cryptid canine which they swore they hit with their vehicle. The beast simply vanished without a trace. This occurred a 1/2 hour from Bray Road in Walworth County, Wisconsin
Back in 2012, my friends and I used to meet up every night to go cruise around. We all lived with our parents so we didn’t have much of an option. We worked in retail, so we’d all usually be off around 10 pm and would meet up around 11 pm and go for an evening drive.
One night was the usual, 2 friends came and picked me up in my buddy's green van and we drove a little out of town to a popular country road cruise spot. It was unusually foggy, I believe it was a late spring night.
As we were riding around, something crazy and unexplained happen. My friend was driving and out of the fog I saw something. It was a dog, but not like one I ever saw. It had long, gnarled black hair that formed into mangled dreadlocks that went down to the ground. It had long, big sharp teeth, bigger than I’ve ever seen on a dog before. And it had beady piercing red eyes. My friend, who was driving, saw it as soon as I did and yelled 'holy sh*t!' and slammed the brakes. We hit the thing and it disappeared into thin air.
We got out of the car immediately and looked around. There was nothing. No evidence of anything. No fur, no blood, it didn’t even feel like we hit anything, but we did. At this point we hadn’t discussed what we saw yet, so I asked my friend and he gave the exact same description as me. The guy in the back seat didn’t see anything and was very confused.
We called it an early night. We didn’t talk or say much the rest of the way, but we still talk about it to this day. I know that we both both saw the exact same thing.
Some have doubted my story over the years and said we were high. But this was a shared experience. We both saw the same thing. To this day, I’m legitimately curious as to what this was. Some have told me it’s a 'devil dog,' an old Irish legend.
What makes this very strange is there is a barn less than half a mile from our sighting in which 2 sisters committed suicide. This is also about half an hour away from Bray Road, the local werewolf legend." SF
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Join me as I welcome Bigfoot / cryptid investigator Eric Altman to Arcane Radio. Eric has had a lifelong interest in the strange and unusual, as well as a being a fan of horror and science fiction films and television. When he was younger, he read as much as possible about the paranormal. He became interested in the Bigfoot phenomenon and followed Stan Gordon's work very closely. Stan became his mentor and they still work closely together on local cases. In 2000, Eric was appointed the Director of the PA Bigfoot Society, a position he held until August 2014. In May 2016, he founded the Pennsylvania Cryptozoology Society, a new group of volunteers investigating strange animal and cryptid cases in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. Eric has been active in the field for almost 25 years and continues to attend and lecture at conferences and other events. Eric and Sean Forker began Beyond the Edge Radio in 2007, and where I began as a co-host in 2010. Eric website can be found at www.ericaltman.net. This should be a very informative and entertaining show! Join us this Friday, May 8th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on on ParanormalKing.com or the direct link at mixlr.com/paranormal-king - Meet us in the chat room...just click the banner or go to www.paranormal.olicentral.com
Listen to our podcast at Arcane Radio on Podbean or on my YouTube channel. You can also listen to the podcast at Arcane Radio on Stitcher - iOS, Android and the Webplayer. Please consider becoming an Arcane Radio patron. Thanks...Lon
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May 4, 2020
Upright Canine (Possible 'Rougarou') Encountered in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
A Beauregard Parish, Louisiana property owner and his young daughter encountered an utterly terrifying upright canine near their home
This past weekend, I received a telephone call from 'PB' who is an owner of 70 acres of thick west central Louisiana woodland in Beauregard Parish (near Deridder, adjacent to the Fork Polk Military Base in Vernon Parish).
About four weeks ago, PB and his 5-year-old daughter were walking along their long dirt driveway that leads to their home. When they reached the paved section of the driveway, PB noticed a dead 90 lb male Bobcat laying along the edge. There were no apparent wounds or blood, but the fresh carcass looked like it had been battered and crushed. This area has abundant wildlife and predators that include Bobcat, Black Bear and at least one very large female Panther that has been seen occasionally by PB. The sight of this dead Bobcat was concerning since there was no indication that any predator had fed on the carcass.
As PB and his daughter stood there looking at the Bobcat carcass, he noticed some movement in the thick dark woods not far from the driveway. There is a game trail the cuts through the woods and continues over the dirt driveway into the opposite woods. There is also a pond nearby. As they moved closer, PB soon observed a wolf-like head rise above the thick brush. The head was very large with grayish-black fur.
PB pulled out his phone and quickly snapped a photo of this beast. As he did, a deep growling sound emanated from the unknown creature as it 'stood' up. PB immediately saw that this canine was at least 7 foot in height and covered in sparse blackish fur. It had freakish broad human-like shoulders and a wide chest, muscular arms and legs, as well as a tapered torso. The eyes seemed to 'shine' a weird greenish hue.
PB and his daughter backed off as this beast took a long stride forward. It stopped, leered at PB with its green eyes and growled deeply. PB daughter ran away screaming for her father, which seemed to startle the upright canine. It quickly turned and fled into the woods. PB attempted to take another photo as the beast moved off into the dark woods, but there was no distinguishable form on the image. They both quickly ran for home.
Since that encounter, PB has attempted to find a reporting agency, when he finally found my contact information. He sent me the image and asked what I thought what it may be. I noticed the canine-like head and pointed ears, but was unsure since the image was difficult to discern. I asked PB what he thought this was. His immediate response was 'werewolf.' I later asked PB if he had heard of any similar sightings in the area. He responded that he hadn't, but he was aware of 'rougarou' accounts much further south from his location.
The image of the upright canine head is very distorted because of the pixelation of a typical camera phone when attempting to zoom in. The best result that I was able to manage, without manipulating the photo, is posted below. I've also included the original photo. There are also other images of the area that were taken later.
PB believes that the Bobcat may have attacked the upright canine or vice versa. It seems that the Bobcat was beat upon or slammed onto the ground by this beast. The witness is a hunter and trapper who is quite familiar with the wildlife in this part of Louisiana. PB is attempting gather further evidence and will provide it to me if available. Lon
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Multiple Pale Humanoids Seen in Auburn, California Community (Sketch)
A group of young teen boys encounter unknown pale humanoids near their home in Auburn, California. A sketch was also provided.
The following wild account was recently forwarding to me:
"This happened one evening in 2017 after the school year was out, right around the beginning of summer in Auburn, California.
So basically, my two younger brothers (M12)(M14) were with my friend (M13) in a field next to our house just hanging out while I was inside with my mom and our baby brother. Out of nowhere, the three of them burst into the door bawling their eyes out and freaking out. Keep in mind, my friend and brothers are aged 13, 12, and 14, and it took about 10 minutes to actually calm one of them down enough to talk. I’ve never seen them freak out like that, it gave me chills. For a while we didn’t talk about it because my brothers didn’t like to. For example, they got pale and super anxious every time we started talking about it, so we kind of brushed it off and forgot about it for a while. About a year or so later, something triggered my memory of that day, and I asked my oldest brother to tell me the details one night at 2 am. That’s where the picture comes from.
He said they were all on one side of the field hanging out, when he and the friend saw these 'things.' Then my younger brother looked around and saw it. (Younger brother says he only saw the small one.) If I remember correctly, he said there were 4-5 of these creatures. One was standing behind a tree, one was smaller than the rest kneeling in tall grass behind a log, and the others were standing and kneeling in the tall grass. He said they instantly felt the purest form of fear, and the things stared at them without moving a muscle (other than the one behind the tree) which was bobbing its head and shoulders back and forth in a creepy way. But out of the corner of their eyes, the things would move quickly, like fast enough to where they were blurs. From what they saw, he said they galloped almost like horses. He explained that the skin was unnaturally matte, with an almost white pale-grey color. They had almost a surprised look on their faces, the mouths were more round, the eyes were very weird and creepy (sunken in but also black and beady), and the faces were kind of flatter than the picture I drew. One other thing he said. He can’t confirm for certain, but there was a clicking noise. He guessed was coming from the nostrils instead of the mouth.
After that, I talked to my younger brother and the friend separately. Considering how unreliable human memory is, and how long ago this was, the stories matched up almost perfectly.
I actually had a small experience of my own that was very close to the place they saw them. I won’t say it was related or if it was these things, but it was truly unexplained. So we have train tracks about 15 yards from our house with some government owned forest land behind that. So it goes house, train tracks and tree line.
One day, I went behind the tracks to smoke some pot, when I hear a tree shaking violently. Now the tree line has a bunch of different types of trees, but this tree in particular was pretty bushy so I couldn’t quite see through it besides some holes in the branches. I looked to my right and it gave me chills. I saw a tree about 20 yards away shaking so unnaturally hard, that it looked like a person had to be grabbing branches and jumping up and down on them with all their weight. It was really weird to see because an animal couldn’t have done that. I can’t stress enough how violent the branches were shaking. Then while I was looking at the branches I heard LOUD cracking like sticks or branches breaking, and saw a grey-white mass of some sort bolt deep into the forest through the branches. I didn’t see any details so that’s why I’m not saying for sure what I saw, but it was very creepy nonetheless. I know it’s not necessarily important to the story, but something that has always stuck with me is the fact that I had the bowl loaded and had it up to my mouth, but I had not taken a hit yet. I was stone cold sober and I was dumbstruck that I actually saw something like that." TA
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Listen to our podcast at Arcane Radio on Podbean or on my YouTube channel. You can also listen to the podcast at Arcane Radio on Stitcher - iOS, Android and the Webplayer. Please consider becoming an Arcane Radio patron. Thanks...Lon
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Rescued by a Female Bigfoot
Hyena Sighting - Adirondack Park, NY
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident: Exposed as a Top Secret Experiment
Loneliness Is a Modern Invention. Understanding That History Can Help Us Get Through This Pandemic
A Brutal Look at Animal Markets Like Those At the Center of the Coronavirus Pandemic
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May 3, 2020
'Rake / Crawler' Humanoids Observed: Virginia, Florida, Michigan & Nova Scotia
Here are 4 accounts of encounters with pale white Rakes or Crawlers humanoids in Virginia, Florida, Michigan and Nova Scotia. What are the witnesses observing?
Please Note: Pennsylvania anomalies investigator Stan Gordon and I have a fairly lengthy discussion on these pale white gray humanoids during our recent interview - Stan Gordon - Pennsylvania UFO / Anomalies Investigator - Arcane Radio
"I work as a paramedic in rural area of Virginia. This entails a lot backwoods mountain roads late at night. This encounter happened around summer of 2016.
One night around 2 am or 3 am I was driving back from a call and was traveling up a road I have been up many times before. My partner and I were just listening to music and making the best of being at work. As I rounded an upwards slanted curve the headlight of my unit hit something that still gives me chills to this day as I’m typing. This creature was almost in a position that reminded me of a catcher in baseball, as if it was squatting beside the road maybe ten feet in a small grassy patch. It was so pale and white, I distinctly remember it’s arms and legs being so long. Just unnaturally long and slender, it’s fingers were the same. If I had to estimate it’s height I would say it was easily 6 feet tall. It’s head was facing away from me I honestly did not get a good look to see any facial features. I literally was shocked. I didn’t speak a word. I turned to my partner who was in the passenger seat and the look on his face told me I was not seeing an imaginary thing. I said to him please tell me you saw that. He did, with a number of colorful words.
It may have been 50 yards away when we agreed to turn around and look again. When we got back to the same place there was nothing. I honestly didn’t have the courage to get out of the ambulance to check. My partner did pull out a spotlight we have in our units to check the woods and again nothing. I can’t stress enough how pale, boney and slender this creature was. It was like the Pale Man from 'Pan's Labyrinth' but I could see every bone in its body. I only got a two to three second look at this creature." KK
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"I am still at a loss for words to explain how scary this is, most all because it is no doubt something NOT human or any known animal. This is taking place nightly behind a close friends home not far away and started last fall. The area is in north Florida (near Wakulla) in a very rural area and behind her house is wild bamboo that has completely overgrown the land surrounding the ruins of a old house that literally collapsed or imploded somewhere approximately 15 years ago. These things have not only taken over back there but have been seen by several of us, but never in the daylight. This started with a mound appearing that wasn't there prior to last fall that was fairly large size and built entirely of heavy debris from that house and broken bamboo, which alone is scary considering no person can break that in such a way due to the strength.
Since it first appeared, this mound has constantly expanded in width and height to an alarming size and has several cave like openings in it, now they have dug pretty large size tunnels going underneath it.
Now I'm concerned as one of them has been seen coming out of the bamboo and underneath her house, under the addition in the back where her dogs at night will not go alone and act purely terrified even though still inside the house. We now know that's because these dogs have known this thing or more than one has been under her kitchen floor nightly for who knows how long. The land around the old house alone has a very strong and bothersome vibe to it alone, now this.
What we have seen is a very thin and pale figure which doesn't appear to have normal legs and very elusive and hostile feeling. Aside from very sinister looking yellow glowing eyes I haven't seen or has anyone else any other facial features. What do we do?? I want to get documentation of this, which I do have pics of this structure they built over time but none of them as none of us will dare attempt to even go out her back door at night as the edge of the bamboo and ruins are very close by." UE
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"I live in Wyoming, Michigan about a walking distance away from Resurrection Cemetery. If you look it up on Google Maps you will see it has a treeline surrounding it. The treeline closest to the woods is where I've seen it almost all times. I have multiple stories but I'll try to share only the most haunting ones.-----
The first encounter I had was with my sister, she was going to take a walk through the cemetery. It was late at night and I had the gut instinct to go with her, so I did. We decided to play Pokemon Go because why not. I didn't like the forested area around it, especially this big pine tree visible by a maintenance path that led to the crematorium. I was scared out of my mind but we went towards the crematorium anyway to get a Pokestop and a Jigglypuff. We had to go so close that we were on the maintenance path, but the nicer cobblestone half. It was when I looked to my right that I first saw it, hunched over, it looked like a normal human being but more terrifying. It appeared to have seen me too because it stood up, I could tell it was tall, I'd estimate about 7 feet in height. I told my sister to run and we ran home where I proceeded to pray in my room for a while.
My mom had a sighting as well, she had mentioned seeing something grey hunched in the top of the pine tree I mentioned earlier watching us. When she looked back it was gone. Safe to say, we went home early that day. I consider myself slightly psychic, and when I closed my eyes (sometime around the time that she saw it) I saw two gaping holes staring back at me. My mom described the creature and I recognized it as something I'd drawn a few weeks before. I burned this image but have since redrawn it.
My most recent sighting (and the one that kept me from going back to the cemetery) happened in broad daylight with a friend. I'll keep his name hidden for privacy, but we decided to go to said cemetery after class (college program but for high school freshmen). We wandered around the cemetery for hours, until my arm started hurting and I decided that we should go home for a snack. As we walked my anxiety heightened, I had told him about the Crawler but I suspected we wouldn't have to worry as it was daytime. As we were walking along the sidewalk, about to reach the treeline, I saw a dead squirrel/dog arm in the middle of the sidewalk. I looked up and I saw the Crawler run straight into the treeline. It was grey, and ran on all fours rather than on two legs. I told my friend to run and he did. We both ran until we reached the intersection." M
I have recently been hired by my neighbor to do landscaping. When I was out in the back of his yard dumping leaves, dirt and sticks into a pile in the woods I heard something rustling by the trees to my left. I turn towards the sound and see this 6 or 7 ft tall bone white thing running away from me back into woods. It couldn't have been a bird because the pine trees it ran through were too big for any bird native to Nova Scotia to even move." FSC
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Join me as I welcome Bigfoot / cryptid investigator Eric Altman to Arcane Radio. Eric has had a lifelong interest in the strange and unusual, as well as a being a fan of horror and science fiction films and television. When he was younger, he read as much as possible about the paranormal. He became interested in the Bigfoot phenomenon and followed Stan Gordon's work very closely. Stan became his mentor and they still work closely together on local cases. In 2000, Eric was appointed the Director of the PA Bigfoot Society, a position he held until August 2014. In May 2016, he founded the Pennsylvania Cryptozoology Society, a new group of volunteers investigating strange animal and cryptid cases in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. Eric has been active in the field for almost 25 years and continues to attend and lecture at conferences and other events. Eric and Sean Forker began Beyond the Edge Radio in 2007, and where I began as a co-host in 2010. Eric website can be found at www.ericaltman.net. This should be a very informative and entertaining show! Join us this Friday, May 8th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on on ParanormalKing.com or the direct link at mixlr.com/paranormal-king - Meet us in the chat room...just click the banner or go to www.paranormal.olicentral.com
Listen to our podcast at Arcane Radio on Podbean or on my YouTube channel. You can also listen to the podcast at Arcane Radio on Stitcher - iOS, Android and the Webplayer. Please consider becoming an Arcane Radio patron. Thanks...Lon
Hey folks. I do understand that everyone is tightening their belts during the Covid-19 situation. But I ask that you may consider supporting Phantoms & Monsters through a donation. Yes, I do receive some funds through books and advertising. But it is far from enough to cover expenses, especially since Amazon.com and other affiliates have lowered royalties and CPM because of the Covid-19 lockdown.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
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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 PublishingTODAY'S TOP LINKS
The Day 'Martians' Made Contact
Presque Isle UFO / Bigfoot Connection
The Mysterious Flying Monkeys of Southeast Asia
Pterodactyls in Modern Times?
'This pandemic is nothing compared to what climate change has in store'
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May 2, 2020
Cosmic Ray’s 'Venus Files' - Part II
This is a continuation of a series written by my friend and colleague 'Cosmic Ray' Keller. Part I can be found at Cosmic Ray’s 'Venus Files' - Part I
Buck Nelson’s Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus
By Dr. Raymond A. Keller, author of the international awards-winning 'Venus Rising' book series, available on Amazon.com while supplies last.
(Note: The following article was derived from a lecture presented by Buck Nelson, a farmer from Mountain View, Missouri, before the Study Group on Interplanetary Relationships in Detroit, Michigan, on the 26th and 28th of July 1955.)
Introduction by Laura Marxer, Chairperson, Study Group on Interplanetary Relationships
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. When George Adamski, co-author of Flying Saucers Have Landed, and author of Inside the Space Ships, spoke to the Study Group on Interplanetary Relationships in May 1955, he told of an experience that had come to his attention concerning a Mr. Buck Nelson of Mountain View, Missouri. In a letter to Mr. Adamski, Mr. Nelson had told of visitors from other planets coming down over his farm in Missouri in their flying saucers, and of the eventual trip they had given him to their homes.
Shortly thereafter, a committee, me included, went to Mountain View, Missouri, to investigate Mr. Nelson, with a view to bringing him to Detroit to lecture on his experiences. We found him to be a simple man, living alone in a humble house he had built for himself, high in an isolated area of the Ozark Mountains. His dog and his horse were his only companions.
We inquired in the village of Mountain View and found that he was respected, liked by his neighbors, paid his bills, and that flying saucers had been seen by others in the vicinity. In checking into Mr. Nelson’s earlier life, we found that he had done some special police work in Los Angeles, in the nature of plant (factory) protection, for a brief period; but for the greater part of his life he has been a farmer. In checking the grounds around Mr. Nelson’s home, we feel that what he says could have happened.
Mr. Nelson had no witnesses to his visitors and the trip. Neither had Mr. Adamski; nor Mr. Daniel Fry, author of the White Sands Incident; nor Mr.Truman Bethurum, author of Aboard a Flying Saucer. We have no 100% proof to offer you. We can only make Mr. Nelson’s story available for you to evaluate for yourself. And now, may I present Mr. Buck Nelson, farmer, from Mountain View, Missouri."
-George Adamski and Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed (New York, New York: British Book Centre, 1953)
-George Adamski, Inside the Space Ships (New York, New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1955)
-Daniel Fry, White Sands Incident (Louisville, Kentucky: Best Books, 1966, original edition Franklin Thomas, 1954)
-Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer (Los Angeles, California: DeVorss and Company, 1954)
Buck Nelson Speaks
"Good evening, folks. I am happy to be with you tonight. The first part of my story started on 30 July 1954. I was listening to my radio at home at 4:00 p.m. when it began to go crazy wild. My dog, too, set up a barking and my pony outside began to raise all kinds of cane. I went outside, more to see what my animals were doing than anything. As I went out the kitchen door right over it were three huge disks. I went back to get my camera and I photographed them three times. Upon developing the pictures, however, only in one photograph did two of the disks show up. I had taken a flashlight out with me when I went to get the camera and I signaled to the disks to land, by flashing it at them. Immediately I felt a very hard jolt of some kind of current flashed back at me. It knocked me to the ground, behind a barrel and I waited there for several minutes before moving, as I have suffered from neuritis in the back and lumbago for fifteen years. I waited until the disks left and then I tried to get up. I felt no more pain at all; and regardless of the weather or how hot or cold it is, I have felt no more pain in my back. Later the visitors explained to me that they had sent the ray to help me and not to hurt me, since they knew of the condition of my back. At first, however, naturally my first thought was that it was an unfriendly gesture.Photo taken by Laura Marxer of Buck Nelson (1895-1982) with his dog Ted at the Study Group on Interplanetary Relationships Conference in July 1955 at Mountain View, Missouri
The second contact was on 1 February 1955 at twelve noon. They circled low over the house and asked in a friendly voice, as though from a public address system, if I was friendly. They said they would like to land in the back of my pasture, beyond the house where there is a spring. They wanted to know if I would allow them to land unmolested. They said they would like to land many times, if necessary. They talked for about five minutes. They did not land; but when they said goodbye they said, “We’ll see you again.”
On 5 March 1955 around midnight they entered the house. There were three men. One of them was a young Earthman named Little Buck, a trainee who was learning to operate the ship, too, they told me; another who never gave his name; and Bob Solomon from Venus, who gave this name as a means of identification; and a big dog named Bo. The dog stood as high as a dining room table, and stood higher than my head when he stood on his hind legs. They stayed with me for about one hour. They were interested in everything in the house, especially my radio. I tuned it to different stations for them and when they saw the battery on top of it they asked what that was for. And when I told them that it was for the power they smiled and said, “With all of this power around you in the air, and you’re still using that accumulator!”
The trainee never spoke; and in later visits the trainee was a different man each time. The other two spoke good English. They were interested in my clock and they pointed around the figures on our clock and shook their heads. There are seventeen numerals on their clock. They were interested in the oil stove I have. I had to light the oil stove for them. They wanted to see it burn. They held their hands over the burner to see how hot it was. They went around the house and looked everything over, the bed, furniture, etc. They went past a picture of Christ. I asked them if that meant anything to them and they said, “Yes, we understand; but you people don’t.” They said we have an entire misconception of it all. I have a small light planted outside and they wanted to see that before they left.
On 22 March 1955 at midnight, they circled low over the house and then they visited me and told me to get ready for my trip into space. They left after staying a very short time."
NOTE: To follow Buck’s trip into outer space with the Venusians and their space dog Bo in the next installment of Cosmic Ray’s Venus Files, Part III, keep checking this website. 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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Possible 'Rake' Humanoid Encounters: South Dakota, California & Indiana
3 possible pale 'Rake or Crawler' humanoid encounters described by witnesses in South Dakota, California and Indiana
"My dog typically sleeps right around my arm. His head rests on my shoulder so he is facing the window. When I sleep, the back of my head faces the window.
Anyway, it was just nearing 5:30 AM. The dog wakes me up with extremely aggressive growling at the window. This growling I’ve only heard when he fights with other dogs. I was roused and I tried to coo him back to sleep. Within a couple seconds the growling turned into howls and barks.
I looked outside the window and my heart rate shot through the roof. The property line from my house to my neighbors is 60-70 yards. I competed at South Dakota state trials for track for the 100 open, 400, and two relays so I can confirm this creatures speed was shocking. It covered the yard in no less than 3 seconds. Gray skin, long arms almost down to its knees, an elongated face, and anorexic looking legs. It ran by swinging its arms like, I don't know, like a buffoon. Not a runners form.
After collecting myself I burst into my dad's room. I startled him, but told him to get outside with me. We briskly got outside with handguns as I tried to explain what I saw.
There was no footprints, or marks (as whitetail deer are frequently in our yard)." BJ
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"I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there is a stretch of road between me and my girlfriend’s house that goes through some ranches and a wooded area. My girlfriend and I were driving back towards my house around 10 pm, and while I was rounding a corner near the beginning of the woods, I swerved as I saw what looked like a tall, skinny, pale skinned person standing by the side of the road and walking into the road. When I looked in my rear mirror to see what it was I couldn’t see anything, but after I asked my girlfriend about it, she was clearly shaken and said she saw it too.
We decided to stop talking about it for the time being, and continued to drive deeper into the woods back home. About 15 minutes down the road, we came across a fresh deer carcass on the side of the road, and while I noticed the deer carcass alone as I was focusing on the narrow road, my girlfriend swears she saw the same figure bent over the carcass.
I drove by that carcass for weeks after when I went back to her house. We’ve both seen a lot of weird stuff on that small stretch of road, including more on that specific drive, but nothing else that I’d think would have been a crawler. I’m not sure where it came from (no caves I’m aware of around) or if it was more than one out there, but I know to always be aware of what else is on that road with me late at night." IP
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"This happened a couple years ago. I'm posting this now because I only just found out that anything called a 'Crawler' exists. I am skeptical of most things, but when recounting these events I usually refer to it as my 'Bigfoot story' because it was always the closest thing that came to mind.
Anyways, this was a couple years ago in southern Indiana near Evansville. It was two in the morning and my friend and I decided to go for a joyride. This would have been in the fall, maybe near September or October. I can pin the date to that time of year because I live around a bunch of fields and the corn stalks were really high - I'd say approaching ten feet.
We were just driving around when I decided to turn on this old country road because it led to the local animal shelter. I had never seen the shelter before, and I wanted to see what it looked like. (Yes, this is the kind of stuff I like to do on joy rides - both me and my friend were completely sober.) The road ended up being much longer and roundabout than I anticipated, and we basically drove through a bunch of farm land. We were listening to music and I was driving pretty slow. We got to a long road surrounded by corn stalks when I heard my friend yell out "Holy f*cking sh*t!" I put on my breaks and asked him what was up, and he looked over to my left.
I'll describe what I saw as well as I can: hovering above the top of the stalks, was the top half of a very, very thin body. I remember it had wide shoulders and what appeared in the moonlight to be a long/swooshy haircut (like an emo haircut, I guess). It seemed very 'loose' - long arms, an odd shaped head/neck - and very pale in the moonlight. Both me and my friend were freaked out, and I knew it was not a scarecrow (the huge farms around here don't have those) or a person - the stalks were much too tall. Like I said, I always called it a Bigfoot, but I did not see any hair on this thing except a swoopy mass on its head.
I dunno if this is a good indicator of a 'crawler,' but I saw some areas near me on the map and had to post about what I saw." CL
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May 1, 2020
Pale Gray Humanoid Haunts Teens in Old Country Cemetery
A teen and her boyfriend are confronted by a 7 foot tall gray humanoid while in an old country cemetery. The couple, and other friends, have frightening dreams afterwards
"This happened about 14 years ago. My boyfriend and I went to a graveyard one night because he had told me a story about how he had seen something there. He didn't really want to take me, but I insisted. He said that he had heard stories about the place, and if you go there and sit every night, you'd eventually see "it." He said he had finally seen the thing himself on the third or fourth consecutive night he visited, and it was "man-like and gray" but he had only caught a glimpse of it and never went back afterward. I remember him saying he had car trouble when it appeared also. Well, I couldn't resist, I wanted to see it for myself.
On the third night we saw it. We were sitting in the dark with the moon being the only source of light and we both suddenly got creeped out for the first time since we had been visiting the place. We changed our minds about the whole thing and decided to leave and never come back, but lo and behold, the car (My car that has NEVER had any trouble before, and not again for years after this incident) wouldn't start. My boyfriend was driving that night and kept trying and it did eventually start up. When the headlight came on full force, we saw it standing RIGHT IN FRONT of the car. It was about 7 ft tall and it was gray. In fact it looked like a moving statue to me. It was kind of bent over just looking into the windshield at us and we were freaking the hell out. Finally it kind of shifted and the car started. The thing darted off to the left so quick, I knew that if it came to the side windows we'd both be dead within a minute. It was so, so fast. But it just stood to the side of the car watching us as we drove away.
The cemetery was laid out where the gravel road (old, country cemetery) went around the whole graveyard in a circle and looped back around so the entrance is also the exit. We were spinning tires and slinging gravel the whole way around but when we passed the place where the "thing" was, it hadn't moved. It had been standing there watching us go around the gravel circle and it let us leave, but it was looking directly at ME (the passenger side of the car was facing it) and I couldn't really make out any features because it was dark. I was overcome with the most severe depression I've ever felt in my life in that moment when I was looking back at the thing. It was like everyone and everything I cared about in my whole life was burned right before my eyes. The pain and hurt was almost tangible and it took my breath away in that moment.
That night, when I was home and finally able to somehow sleep, I had a dream that the thing was calling to me from that graveyard, begging me to come back. It was harmless and miserable, stuck in that old cemetery forever and it was alone, so alone. When I woke up I was determined to go back to find the creature but before I could even tell my boyfriend, I got calls from him and two of my best friends. All three of them had nightmares where the thing had brutally murdered and mutilated me. The two girls who called me didn't know anything about the graveyard incident the night before. It was so late when I got back home I didn't tell anyone about it, just went to bed.
My boyfriend dreamed that I had gone back to the place because I felt bad for it so he drove out there after me. When he got there he found the thing ripping me apart, tearing me open. For a long time I had dreams about it saying "I won't hurt you, please come back and help me. I am suffering." For awhile I had to fight the urge to go back even after three people told me about their nightmares where I die. The urgel isn't strong at all anymore. I guess it faded with time and kids and adult life, but I do think about it often and I do kind of get a little itch just to drive through. I don't know, it would be dumb as hell but there's always been a little nagging voice that whispers about the thing we saw that night.
It had a masculine physique, but no genitalia and it's eyes were completely black, no iris or pupil or anything, just black inky nothingness. I've been searching all these years but the only pics I've seen that look even remotely like it are Wendigo. But not the ones with fur or antlers, just a grayish humanoid sexless thing. The best way I could describe it actually is that it looked like a statue to me." DP
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Bigfoot Scare in Western Oklahoma Still Fresh Four Decades Later
A spat of Bigfoot sightings and encounters started to occur in western Oklahoma in the early 1980's. The incidents were investigated by local officials
The following story was recently forwarded to me by a colleague in Oklahoma. He says local people still talk about the 1980's sightings today:
"Since that winter day when he saw an animal he can't name, Billy Parry arms himself with a deer rifle whenever he goes across the creek to feed his hogs. Just a couple of days before the snow and ice laced western Oklahoma this winter, Billy, a 15-year-old high school freshman, was scouting for coyote tracks along Trail Creek near his home south of Vici when a growl made him stop. The noise came from an animal standing on two legs about 20 yards away, he says. Frightened, the young hunter dashed to his parked car and drove away. "It was four or five feet tall and pretty wide," says Parry, an avid outdoorsman and hunter. "It stood upright and had kind of a reddish brown hair color."
Reports of the unidentified creature in western Oklahoma by the Parry family and others in the Dewey County area aren't the first in Oklahoma. In 1977, search parties were formed after similar sightings were reported in eastern Oklahoma near Bristow and Stilwell. Nothing was found. The Parry family says the animal prowled on their property and near their house for more than a month this winter. It was an animal only Billy saw clearly, an animal they say smelled like a "sewer."
Hair samples found by Parry's house near Vici were sent to Hayden Hewes, director of Sasquatch Investigations of Mid-America. "The hair sample looked very interesting. At this point, we cannot confirm what kind of animal it came from," Hewes said. He said an investigative sample is being forwarded to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation forensic lab in hopes of analysis. "I feel it is just a matter of time before a Big Foot is captured alive," Hewes said. "When we do, in my opinion, we won't find a missing link but an intelligent creature that has been pushed back into the wilderness and forced to migrate."
Dewey County Sheriff Larry Pike, on the other hand, says he has heard only rumors about the strange animal, but nothing official "not that I can recollect." Sightings also have been reported in nearby Roger Mills County. Lorin Damron, a state game ranger in that county, says the animal was reportedly sighted within two to three miles of his house. He lives southwest of Cheyenne.
In recent interviews, the Parry family told how the strange animal disrupted their lives for more than a month after Billy came home from his initial encounter and said, "I saw a Bigfoot today." Billy's father said he originally thought his son must have been mistaken about what he saw. "Billy didn't say anything much he listened to me, and when I got through talking, he picked up his gun and went out to feed his pigs," said Lonnie Parry. "I didn't change his mind at all."
But about a week later, Billy's 2-year-old sister, Melisa, became hysterical when she was frightened after seeing a "bear in the window." Parry and his son immediately got their rifles and circled the house each going a different way. They both smelled an odor "like a sewer," but didn't see an animal.
A few days later while hunting for a coyote, Parry heard a barking noise and then saw a coyote cross toward a strange animal. But he couldn't get a clear shot at it. When the coyote arrived at the place where the animal was barking, there was a short terrible fight with growls and screams. The coyote only yipped a couple of times, he relates. "There wasn't much fight to it. The coyote didn't last long," Parry said.
The next day, Parry found the spot where something had made short work of the coyote. "There was assorted amounts of coyote hair in a spot the size of a card table," Parry said. "The animal had to be pretty quick he caught the coyote in an open place." And the visitor on Trail Creek came back again and again, the Parrys say.
Late one night, a heavy animal ran around the north corner of the house. Mrs. Parry in a north bedroom and Parry in the living room on the south end of the house watching a late movie both heard footsteps. The dogs met at the corner of the house, and they briefly tangled. Reddish brown hair with a strong odor was found there later, they said.
The following night, the animal staged a repeat performance without the dog. Again it was late and the sound of the animal running woke Mrs. Parry. "If I hadn't been here and you had told me this story, I'd have thought you were goofy," Parry said. In the meantime, Billy noticed the sewer odor around the pig pen and heard something "crunching" through the brush. "Billy claimed he could smell that sewer odor stronger than the smell of the hogs," Linda said.
The next day a Saturday Parry, Billy and several friends hunted for the animal. A repeat hunt was held Sunday. "Seven or eight men came out on Monday," Lonnie said. "I had to go to work but they hunted." The hunts didn't turn up an animal, but Parry said tracks were found along the creek.
A month and half later and little more than 40 miles southwest of Vici as the crow flies, Alex Inman of Reydon and his son-in-law, George Springer, of Roger Mills, saw an animal they say they can't explain. The two men were feeding cattle southwest of Cheyenne on land that has been largely undisturbed by human habitation and saw an animal that Inman described as "bigger and broader than a dog would be." The dark-haired animal didn't have much neck. "It's head pretty much set down on its shoulders," Inman said. "It walked on four legs." The cattlemen pulled up in the pasture and started honking their pickup horn to call the cattle in to feed before they saw the animal. They only got a glimpse of it broadside, before it headed directly away from them, he said. Springer said it didn't seem to be afraid of them and wasn't in a big hurry. They had plenty of time to get a look at it even though is was, "quite a little ways off." While moving off on all fours, "it stood up a foot taller than a coyote would and a lot wider," he said. "It didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before. It was dark brown and wide." Springer went on. "It wasn't fuzzy or furry, but slick-haired, like a pig. It was kind of smooth moving. It didn't bounce any. It was pretty heavy, had a pretty big body." The two men watched the animal until it disappeared into heavy brush.
"People won't mention seeing things for fear of being laughed at," says Jeniva Sasser of Cheyenne. But she says that about five or six years ago something was digging at the foundation of her house near Cheyenne one night. No one dared to venture out and see it, she said. Growls and angry noises came from the animal, and it went to the kitchen window where the light was on. She said she turned that light out and another one on. The animal left the dark window and came to the lighted one, she added.
The next morning, Mrs. Sasser checked for tracks. The animal had tried to dig under the foundation instead of trying to get in the window. The tracks were like dog tracks, but as big as a man's hand, she said. No claw marks showed in the tracks but claw marks did show where the animal dug against the house. Whatever it was, it finally gave up and went away. Her dogs didn't challenge the animal. "They just took off," she said. "It makes me wonder what is out there. They need to find out what is going on."
Other people, like Mrs. Sasser, say they would like to know for sure what lives in the creeks and canyons of western Oklahoma. If there is no connection between these sightings, the similarities appear to be remarkable coincidences. More than one person described the tracks to be shaped like a dog track, but very large with toes. Each account notes that the animal exhibited no fear of humans. While it showed no signs of attacking, it growled and stood its ground when confronted by one person and trotted off almost casually when it heard a pickup horn. More than once, something was attracted to a window.
Each person who recounted sighting the animal, except the 2-year-old girl, mentioned, with no prompting, that the animal was very wide-bodied. Perhaps the most common denominator of these different stories are the way they were told. Each person showed a marked reluctance about telling their story of seeing or hearing, "Something." It was as though each one weighed the chance of being laughed at and told their story in spite of it."
Source: 'The Oklahoman' - April 12, 1982
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April 30, 2020
New Orleans: Howling Man / 'Voodoo Bodies' After Hurricane Katrina
Yes, New Orleans is a very strange city. Here are 2 particularly bizarre incidents that are a bit above the norm
I recently found the following post:
"I live in New Orleans. Born and raised in Louisiana. It’s always been a hotspot for the paranormal (voodoo, witch craft, hauntings, vampire legends, bayou werewolves, etc). Anyway, due to the quarantine situation the city has been pretty much a ghost town; hardly anyone out and about. I’ve been going stir crazy being stuck inside because I battle depression and anxiety. So, we have started to go on morning walks around the city daily. We may occasionally pass someone (usually walking their dog or riding a bike, etc). Well, today felt different.
I have extremely pale skin, the fairest type you’ll ever see. So my whole life I’ve been compared to Snow White and to, of course, vampires. Well, at one point during our walk we were about to cross the street and on the other side was a man looking to cross to our side. I had the strangest feeling that he was going to think I looked like a vampire because I was wearing a black dress and my pale skin is as pale as ever. I don’t know why I felt that but I tend to have a very strong intuition. (Example: the other day I pre adopted a rescue kitten at Petsmart I bought a pink carrier and when I got in the car I strongly felt the need to keep the receipt “incase the cat isn’t really a girl”. That night I get a call from the foster mom who says she’s sorry that she told me it was a girl, and that they went to microchip her and it’s a BOY!). But back to my story.
So as I’m thinking about how I look like a vampire and about to cross paths with this man. The sun hits me as I cross the street and he lets out the largest wolf-like HOWL that I’ve ever heard coming from any creature in my entire existence. The weirdest part was, I didn’t feel afraid. And I didn’t feel like it was strange. Maybe the weirdness of New Orleans has gotten to me, or maybe it’s because I know deep down I’ve believed all along that everything is not as it seems. And that legends and stories exist for a reason. I calmly crossed the street and never looked back.
I just hope I’m safe now. I wonder if he picked up my scent. Of course, New Orleans also has a lot of homeless people, mentally ill and drug addicts as well. So it’s possible he’s just one or more of those. But maybe not..." KB
The following response to this post is interesting:
"Okay, here it goes. I have a medical background and a certification I rarely use though I keep going back and paying to renew it. Anyhow, I volunteered almost immediately thinking I would help those who have lived through Katrina. That was not the case. There were a few of us who are assigned once the water started to recede, to find houses that had dead bodies in them.
If you've ever had to do a body recovery when it has been lying around in the heat and the water for days, sometimes weeks at a time, you know how it smells. It does sort of smells like any other dead carcass but worse. I can't explain it, maybe somehow, sweeter smelling. Anyway, the key to not vomiting when you smell them is Vicks VapoRub in, under and around the bottom of your nose. It doesn't keep all the smell out but enough until you can at least tolerate the smell without vomiting.
We had to go to each house and go inside in wading boots and look for bodies. Many of them washed out to sea but some were still in the houses they had lived in prior to the hurricane. If we found a body, we spray painted a big X on the outside of the house. This other guy and I had been doing it for a while and we got assigned each other almost every day. We got along okay and he didn't vomit at the ones that had been "gotten to."
We came up to this one old shack. I say shack because it was pretty run down and in what had been a very bad neighborhood. Right away, I got chills down my spine. I knew there was something really wrong. Not like find a body kind of wrong, but chilling kind of wrong. New Orleans has certain areas that just give off these vibes and my understanding is there is a lot of voodoo practiced in certain areas.
Anyway, against everything my body was screaming at me, we went in the house. The first thing I could smell was a body, the second was something almost earthy and mold. I looked at my partner, (I will call him Jay). He was white as a sheet. I could tell he was getting that same feeling I had been getting. It was obvious from the weird bones hanging from the ceiling, (I would bet money they were cats), something odd had been going down in the house as well as strange beads and carvings in the bare wood in the walls.
We went into what was a kitchen and there chained to a beam was an old lady or what was left of her. She had chained herself by her wrists to the beam, her guts were falling out on the floor. The creepiest thing was her face still looked as though she were alive and staring at us with a wicked smile showing only partial teeth. (They were nubs). My skin started crawling as the goosebumps spread over my body and my neck hair stood up.
Suddenly, I heard the most unearthly cackling noise I have ever heard in my life and my flight or flight kicked in. Jay and I noped out of there. We quickly painted the X and literally ran to the next house.
Now I don't know if that old lady had practiced voodoo or whatever, but that scared the ever living sh*t out of me. It still gives me nightmares. The people I feel sorry for are the ones who had to take that crazy lady out of there.
Jay and I discussed it that night after we went back to the hotels north of there. He had heard the cackling too but we both said it had to be the wind or something." AF
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Red Eyed Winged Humanoid Observed Near Brandon, Florida
A Brandon, Florida resident observes a red eyed winged humanoid in a nearby tree while waiting in her car for a friend
"I was picking up a friend and saw a strange creature as I waited. There was a tree not far from where the car was parked. I noticed a gap in the upper part of the tree where it was starting to branch out. Several minutes later I felt like I was being watched oddly enough. When I looked back at the tree the area where the "gap" was had something black sitting there. I looked away but immediately looked back & noticed these red eyes glaring right at me. Of course I thought I was "just seeing things" at first. It was in a shadowy area so no light was shining in the eyes. But they were big and all red. As I stared I realized it had wings and was crouched. You could make out knees & legs that looked a little human. Almost looked like arms as well. The car was facing the tree so I finally looked away for several minutes hoping whatever it was would stop glaring at me.
I was afraid for my friend to come out so I was watching for him afraid he'd be attacked. When I looked back it was gone. I never saw it come or go.
At the time I wasn't into computers but when I finally got one I did several Google searches and almost gave up when I came across this drawing. This is exactly how I would've drawn it if I could draw. What I saw looked almost solid black but it was also in a shadowy area of the tree as I mentioned. I would guess it was probably 2 - 3 feet tall had it been standing. Still creeps me out to this day!
I didn't notice any hair on the legs like in one pic but it wasn't in a well lit area. I was prob 20-30 feet from the tree would be my guess if that. This occurred near Brandon, Florida." CS
NOTE: The southwest part of Florida, especially around Tampa, has been a hot spot for winged humanoid sightings over the years. Lon
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“In January, 1981, famed journalist and author, Geraldo Rivera, and his then wife, Sherryl Raymond, had left Miami in their boat, New Wave, to enjoy a sailing vacation. They planned to head down the Miami River, cross the Gulf Stream for a week and visit the Bahamian Islands. Eventually they ended up at the Bahama Banks.
Rivera recalls his wife had gone to bed one night between 9:00 and 10:00 PM. He was feeling very good and wanted to sail through the night. It was a perfect, tropical night, “moonless but starry.” It was just the soft hum of his boat as it sailed along. Eventually he noticed a light in the sky. “I see a very bright object right over the main mast,” he recalled. He immediately thought it was Venus. Then it moved, shifting to the left. Rivera, still thinking it was Venus, assumed that he had gotten off course, and turned his boat 90 degrees toward the light. Then the object moved again, and Rivera turned his boat again. This time the object moved directly over his boat, streaking back to its original position. This is when he realized that this was definitely not Venus and he did not know what it was. He thought briefly that it might be a helicopter but it was completely silent, so he ruled that out. This is when it hit him that he was seeing something strange...and he began to think the object might be pursuing him and he became very frightened. As he watched the light, it suddenly blinked out – vanishing. Directly after, Rivera dropped anchor. He was quite shook up by the encounter, and worried that it might come back. He went down below and went to bed without saying a word to his wife.
The next morning, he awoke and told his wife, who scoffed at his account. They pulled into Nassau the next day. Rivera checked the newspapers but there was no mention of a UFO. He also talked to some locals and none of them had seen anything. Rivera believes, in hindsight, that the object was checking him out that night, trying to figure out who he was. Although he considers himself a skeptic, he has no explanation for what he saw.”
Source: Famously Afraid aka Haunted Encounters: Episode 4 'Geraldo Rivera, Aubrey O'Day and Todd Bridges'
