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MIB Grabs Sample of Snow

“I've had a sort of MIB experience. I was somewhere around 9 and it was probably February, so small bits of snow came down. I live in Arizona, so at the time, I hadn't seen snow since I was hardly 4. This snow was so few that it usually melted before it hit the ground, but it was crazy that it was snowing. Because of this, I was shocked to see a huge clump of it sitting in a pile perfectly on the patio wall of my neighbor. I then saw a group of maybe 6 or 7 MIB sorta people come from around the corner. They all almost looked exactly the same, but maybe only a few had hats. The ones who didn't were bald. Everyone had sunglasses, and one of them was super tall and blond. He could have easily been 7 feet tall. He wore no hat either. They talked to my neighbor for a little bit and the conversation seemed normal. Nothing weird happened. When she went back in the house, one of the men took a handful of the snow and maybe put it in a pocket. They then disappeared around the corner. What the hell were they gonna do with a glob of snow?” SC

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Bright Beam of Light

“Once when I was younger, my mother and sister encountered something weird... I wasn't present at the scene, so obviously I cannot vouch for the 100% credibility of the story, but this is how my mother related it to me, and I think that, though it happened kinda long ago, she didn't look as if she was making fun of me. My sister, however, was probably too young back then to remember that event. My mother was sleeping with my sister on her bed when a sudden beam of intense light woke her up. She claims the light was covering the entire space of the window and it's quite large to be honest. The light soon disappeared like as if nothing happened, but I just know that this thing was not of earthly origin. Sure, I wasn't there, but from the way my mother related it to me, I can say for sure that this light was not, how you like to call, "natural" and that every "rational" explanation of my father (neons, planes, helicopters etc) are NOT any kind of explanation to what she had seen. She recalled seeing great intensity of bright light - not any sort of machine or vessel that could be a direct source of it. And as we lived on 11th floor in a block of flats, the "neon" explanation that my father gave can simply logically go screw itself, as there are no places with neon decorations that high above the ground for anyone to see them that clearly, not to mention straight from bed. I saw him trying to believe what he was saying but I personally wouldn't be so sure about it. I am not saying that I believe it was an UFO in the sense of, you know, aliens and spacecrafts, but giving the unquestionable width of the definition of "Unidentified Flying Object" it could be anything really. For me it could pretty much be supernatural in origin. But it's my interpretation only. I live in Warsaw, Poland.” IA

Possible Wendigo in Red River Gorge, Kentucky

I recently found the following account:

I have no idea what we saw exactly that night. I have searched everywhere for sightings or even myths around the area we saw it and have found nothing. My husband and I think it could be a wendigo? But I don’t know. I haven’t heard anyone else say they’ve seen anything like it in Red River Gorge, Kentucky. I guess I want help figuring out what we saw and what to do. After the night I’m about to describe but I think we’ve had some close encounters with it since.

My friends and I go camping a lot. And my favorite place is in Red River Gorge, Kentucky. We go there often, and I’ve been ever since I was an infant. I’m 28 now married with a kid and still go. It is the closest place to where I live where you can see the Milky Way pretty much every night. It’s perfect for stargazing and I’ve seen a shooting star every clear night I’ve been there. When we go without our kid we will night hike to a good look out point and stargaze for hours.

Our first experiences night hiking we would go to trails we knew well and were used frequently during the day. Ones with log fences and gazebo resting places. The most used trial is a trail in Natural Bridge State Park that leads up to the ‘natural bridge’. This trail is around two miles uphill depending on your starting point. I’ve done this trail every summer of my life and could do it blindfolded. It has wooden steps, carved rock steps, log hand rails, multiple sitting points under a roof, trash cans, but after reaching the main trail head it has no lights at all. It’s used often and while it is uphill the difficulty is low. As long as you have good grip on your shoes and water you’ll be fine. My friends have done it with me multiple times and are confident in it as well. Hiking this trail at night is not allowed. But it’s the woods and I’ve never really been one to care about closing times for the literal outside.

When we used this main trail to hike to the top we would park in a lot designated for the pool and hoedown island. You walk across the road that leads to the pool and your at the first trail marker. You go up gravel for awhile and pass the Natural Bridge State Park lodge. There’s a waterfall and some lights so it was best to go fast and watch out for rangers that would tell us to leave. Then you walk across another road and there’s a mini shelter to sit in or a small rock wall to rest your legs. Then it’s the beginning of the trail to the top.

The night was weird to begin with. As soon as we started the hike the clouds took over and it appeared we’d be walking for nothing to even stargaze at. But we went anyways just in case it cleared out by the time we got up there. In the beginning it was just normal paranoia that was keeping us stressed and quiet it seemed.

You know you’ve reached the bottom of the bridge when you see a giant wall of limestone. During this time there was a gazebo that set to the right of this wall and the trail continued and followed next to the wall. Where you come from is a fairly steep part of the trail and the gazebo is welcomed. My husband, my best friend at the time, and I all sit on the gazebo steps (the bench is under a roof and even darker than the rest of outside so we just stayed on the steps) facing to where we are looking down the trail that follows the limestone wall. We each have a bright LED headlamp and a handheld flashlight. We don’t usually look at each other when we night hike because the lights are so bright. We sit in a line like the Lord's Supper and walk in a line or staggered so we don’t blind ourselves.

It is after hours at this point. No ski lift rides had gone on for hours and the rangers had already done there sweep and left right before we got out of the car and headed up. We left no time between them making sure the trail and top were clear and us starting our hike up. The ski lift takes you up the top but there are workers that stay and do counts and only leave after it’s clear. I guess I have to make these points because that’s what I was thinking when what seemed out of nowhere a girl with a headlamp begins to walk down the trail we are looking out at. She is in a sundress and flip flops. This hike is uphill and while it is a fairly easy hike it is not easy with no water or real shoes. She’d have to have hiked up and down to this point with no food or water. Her light was bright and when she reached where the trail turns from in front of the gazebo to down where we came from she stopped. She just stood there straight on like how a human is presented in an anatomical drawing. She was looking directly at us all sitting there and her light made me bring my hand up to shield my eyes. She didn’t turn away from our lights at all, or even seem bothered she had 6 LED lights aimed directly at her face. I said, “hello” She said kind of with a pause between every word something like, hello how are you. I said something like good how are you and she took even longer pauses and said, “Oh... I’m fine.” She then just stood there still with her hands to her side and facing and staring at us. Her light made it impossible to really see her face and it was so bright I had my hand up the entire time until she just turned and walked slowly down the trail part we had just came up. She got to a part where the trail turned and we saw her light just stay in that one spot for a minute until she turned and the light faded out of sight.

We wait for a while before continuing up. I kept making comments about how weird that was and everyone else just made it out to be me always being afraid. But no one ever came after her. She had done this hike alone. At night? And somehow without being found by any ranger?

We got up after a bit and started back up to the top. It felt like it took much longer than it ever had in the past. But we made it to the top. There’s stone steps named ‘fat man squeeze’ that get you to the top of the bridge and you can walk across it and whatever. Going up and being on the top we could hear twigs snapping, almost alternating from the left then the right. We lay down and try to stargaze but the clouds are even thicker now. It was miserably hot. We could hear voices at times and my husband kept checking for people we heard. He never saw anyone. We saw a light flash. Never saw anyone attached to it. And then we heard a bird call? But it wasn’t like a real bird noise at all. It sounded like a person making bird calls. Like rhythmic and not really natural? I was convinced we weren’t alone and hadn’t been alone but also I am the most easily spooked. I asked to leave as soon as they were ready to and they were ready right then and there. And that scared me, that they were just as afraid as me at this point.

We began going down the way we came and it felt like it was taking so long. We were going steady and quick and it was downhill but we were not making any ground it seemed. It’s hard to explain but it was so weird that at one point I even said it out loud. I said, “this feels much longer.” And they agreed with me. I kept looking behind me with the flashlight. And my husband kept looking out to the sides and my friend kept hers mostly forward.

I kept feeling watched and couldn’t figure out what footsteps were ours or if they were all ours that I heard. I would turn in the direction of any noise but not see anything. When my husband was walking he kept saying he was catching eyes in his flashlight, usually you can catch raccoon eyes spying on you or some animal like that. He was afraid maybe a bear or big dog or something. And he never got his lights on whatever eyes they were long enough to see an animal size or shape.

Now we’re hiking down semi flatish area, compared to the downhill hike we’ve been doing at least. The log fence or hand rail or whatever it’s called is on our right side. We are in a row walking within reaching distance of this barrier. And my husband just stops walking altogether and says, “what’s that,” but the question is more of like an alert and I move my hand lamp in that direction and don’t see anything at first. Then both of his lights catch a shape, and then my head lamp catches it and I move my hand lamp to center and catch it while my friend simultaneously finds it in her lights as well. All six lights shine onto and kind of reflect off of a light grey creature. It is bent in a crouching position kneeling on its right leg and starts turning towards us. It starts to slowly stand and mind is racing still. It looks human but it is too big. People mistake human shapes for what’s actually bears in the woods often but this is skinny. It is thin and big and almost white it’s so light grey and it’s skin resembles dolphin skin. There’s a shine to it and our lights get reflected a little when they’re on it. It gradually comes to a full standing position in front of us. It’s head is long and its eyes are in a human position on the face in front and not on the side like animals but I could not see any other facial features. Just big almost empty holes or pits that were it’s eyes. It looked directly at us and our lights. The way it stood was intimidating, almost like when a snake raises up and flex their necks all crazy to show prey that they’re stronger and smarter. It was like it was stepping up to a fight. From crouching then turning then standing front on in front of us, the arms hung down low and the hands seemed long too. It’s hands had to be by its knees? I’d guess it stood 9 feet or so and not that far in front of us. No hair at all and it’s head was large as well. I couldn’t process what I saw and was frozen.

Then I just feel my husband hitting me on the back and yelling, “run run run.”

I start to understand we have to get away from this thing and it pivots and runs to the right. Going backwards on the trail so it could get around the barrier and onto the trail behind us. We take off running the rest of the way down the trail. Knowing that this thing just took off much faster than us and after it had crossed from behind the barrier it would be gaining on us quick. We didn’t talk at all, because when we tried it felt almost like we would get caught. We keep running as we can but some areas are so steep. It never felt like we were out of sight from this creature. As we made it to the trail beginning with the gravel we could hear something to the side crashing down through the forest. We ran until we got to the car and then we drove as fast as we could and as soon as we got to the main road the any cleared up, and the Stars were out.

When that thing looked at us I knew it was smarter and faster than us. I knew that if we hadn’t have seen it that it could have easily taken one of us and gotten away. I think the only reason it hesitated was because so many of us saw it at once and we stayed together.

When we made it back to where we were staying all of us took out our phones and wrote a note for what we saw happen. We hadn’t spoken about it until after we looked at each other’s phones and the stories were the same. Without a doubt we had all seen something real. KK

NOTE: Very bizarre account. Here is a link to another weird encounter in the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Lon




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Photo: Phantom at Rialto Bridge in Venice

I recently received the following account:

Hi, I came across your blog whilst searching blogs who may be interested in publishing my story about an encounter with a Venetian ghost. I hope you may be interested in my story which is 100% true.

I am a photographer and filmmaker and several years ago I was staying in Venice. It was late in the evening and I decided to take a night stroll with my partner. As we explored the now deserted streets in Venice we made our way to the Rialto Bridge. Most people by now were in their hotels asleep apart from the odd couple walking and exploring Venice. Once on the other side of the Rialto Bridge I took a few photographs. The perfect Venetian scene with steps in the foreground, leading up to the famous bridge and a moon appearing between the clouds.

Several weeks later I was developing the 35mm film in my darkroom and I notice a shape on one of the wet negatives which really caught my eye. Holding the negative up to the light I could see a figure on the steps of the Rialto Bridge. A figure that was 100% not there when I took the photograph. I quickly dried the negative and then proceeded to make a print in the darkroom. I shall never forget how my heart was beating when the image started to appear in the developer as it slowly came into view. As clear as anything a large cloaked figure appeared to be slightly hovering over the first two steps of the Rialto Bridge. I really tried to think if anyone had passed me that night and I had just not seen them. The more I thought about it and the more I looked at it I realised I photographed a ghost. Having not done anything with it for a few years I decided to make it into a short film which I have called 'Negative29a'. (The film is available to watch on Youtube) Mark

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Ghostly Glove in the Dustcart

I recently received the following bizarre account from investigator Ken Pfeifer:

When I was just a boy I was totally unaware of the unexplained weird encounters that I would face growing up and face throughout my life. It all started one normal week day. It was lunch break at school and I always went home for dinner break. My mother would always meet me at the school gates to walk me home for lunch break. There were other mothers who had gone to meet their children as well and my mother had started to talk to one of them. Her name was Jill if I remember correctly. I got tired of waiting for my mother to finish her conversation with Jill so I walked up the path that lead to the road. As I went around the corner there was a white dustcart (garbage truck) parked at the side of the road. The dustcart was filled with filth and rust but one thing caught my eyes as I gazed into the back of the dustcart.

There was a blue glove that was hanging out of the dustcart crusher and as I looked at the glove I heard a strange slurping sound and watched as the glove slowly filled up like it was being inflated by air. Once fully inflated the glove looked like somebody's hand was in the glove. I looked on with amazement as there was no way that someone could be in that crusher. The glove then started to wave and slowly moved its fingers one by one in a forward motion which I found to be very odd. Then to my surprise there was a voice that came from the dustcart and it said "alright mate". The voice sounded normal like a British English man's voice. I quickly turned around to see if my mother was waking up the road so I could tell her what was going on but she was still busy talking so I turned back around looking towards the back of the dustcart and watched as the glove flopped down to how it had been hanging before it had moved and inflated. I was really gobsmacked by what had just happened... I was in shock and I stood there for a minute staring at the limp hanging glove before I walked around to the front of the dustcart to see if there was anyone in the cab mucking around. I could clearly see there there was no one in the cab of the dustcart it was empty. I walked around to the back of the dustcart again and looked at the glove there was no sign of movement.

I stood there for about ten minutes waiting for my mother and when she finally walked over to me I told her what had happened and what I had seen and how the glove had come to life in the back of the dustcart. She said 'John you must have imagined it. How could that glove possibly move? Don't worry John. It's just a smelly old dustcart.' I responded by saying 'I know what I saw and it was real. There was even a man's voice...that came from the dustcart.' She just looked at me bemused. I don't think she believed me but I definitely knew what I had witnessed was 100% real.

We then walked along the road and headed towards my grandparents house where we would always have lunch during school dinner break. Once I had arrived at my grandparents house I sat down on the sofa to watch the television with them and the BBC One O'clock News came on. I remember seeing Margaret Thatcher talking on the international news before the local south Devon news came on. I sat through the local news and to my surprise at the end of the news there was a story of a man who had accidentally fallen into the back of a dustcart and had been crushed to death by the powerful crushing mechanism before his colleagues had realised what had happened and shut off the machine.

The news story also went on to say that the dustcart had not been taken out of service but instead had just been cleaned out over night and put back into service the next day. I was horrified by the story and I wondered if this was the same dustcart that I had encounter earlier on that day. Was this the ghost of the dead crushed man. What the hell did I encounter that day what the hell was going on? Little did I know how much more strange my life would become and how all the strange encounters I endured would become even more bizarre over time. This incident took place at Newton Abbot, Devon, England a long time ago.

Now a lot of people are probably going to be asking what this article has to do with UFOs. Eell I strongly believe that ufology and the paranormal are closely linked and that all the ghosts and strange poltergeist activity are manifestations of these alien creatures which I believe are using advance quantum technology that we are yet to fully understand. I even believe that cryptid creatures like bigfoot are also manifested by these alien beings for a purpose currently unknown to us. Whatever these alien beings are whether they are Extraterrestrial or Extra-dimensional in nature I truly believe that they are behind all the strange paranormal activity and bizarre events that are occurring all over the world. John

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Wendigo Encounter at Pine Basin, Idaho

I recently came across the following account:

I've lived in Idaho all my life and spent a lot of time outside or in the wilderness as a kid. My grandparents would take me camping and my older brother and I would always hike up whatever trail we could find to get a view of the sunset. On one of these occasions, something terrifying happened.

We were up at a campsite I only know as "Warm River" (the river there never freezes over) and my brother and I were on a regular evening hike. There was an old tunnel bored through the mountain at one part of the trail, probably an old train tunnel, and we were walking through it when the I heard something I'll never forget. After walking through probably 2/3 of the way through the tunnel, I heard a terrible screech at the end we entered through. The screech wasn't like anything I've heard before. I've heard the screams of animals on dark and windy nights. I even think I've heard Bigfoot calls a few times, but never the metallic, grinding screech I heard that day. The point is, whatever the sound was it did not sound natural in any capacity. I probably jumped 5 feet in the air when I heard it, and my brother shouted a few choice curses before shooing me quickly to the exit of the tunnel.

At this point, my brother decided we should just continue walking and head back after whatever made the noise hopefully cleared out. We didn't have any firearms on us, so I was pretty upset. My brother reassured me we would be fine, and we made the walk back without incident. However, I didn't get any sleep that night. Whether it was the thing that screeched at us or just my imagination, I heard things moving around the campsite the whole night, as well as whispers echoing through the darkness outside the trailer. I woke my brother up a few times to check out what it was, but he refused each time, telling me that it was probably just other campers staying up late and enjoying themselves. The rest of the trip was pretty normal. We packed up the following day and my life continued as normal. I was disconcerted but chalked what happened up as a harmless event that I must've been exaggerating in retrospect.

A few weeks later I went up to Pine Basin, an old ski lodge my family rented each year for family reunions. Here I would mess around with my cousins, our favorite activities being "night games". We would play hide and seek, a game called "ghosts in the graveyard", and other games like that. On one instance, I was chosen to be the seeker for a hide and seek game. Because I was one of the younger cousin, I got a flashlight as an advantage. Normally, all the younger cousins hid close to the lodge and the older cousins hid in the trees or at the base of the nearby mountain. As I was searching near the bottom of the mountain, I heard a familiar whistle up the mountain a bit (we would always whistle as a hint at our locations). It sounded like someone was hiding way up near a tree known as the "underwear tree" (you can guess why) so I began trekking up toward the the whistle.

As I climbed closer, I got an uneasy feeling in my stomach. I continued on warily, and convinced myself that I would be fine. I hated walking in the night alone, but figured whoever I find would walk me back to the lodge. As I neared the tree, I noticed that it was deathly silent. This alerted me that something was very wrong, because you could always hear the adults having fun back at the lodge. I was anxious to hurry back, so I called out "I found you Scott (I thought the whistle was my older cousin's), come back down with me". I got no reply, but I wasn't planning on waiting. As I began walking back down the path, I heard a voice call "you almost had me", so I ran back up to investigate. I flashed my light in the branches of the tree, and saw a monstrosity that was not my cousin. It looked like a poorly drawn stick-figure made into a human with its emaciated figure and lifeless eyes. I remember it's face looked like the skin on its head was being pulled from behind: it had torn and stretched features. As soon as I saw the creature I screamed, dropped the flashlight, and ran back to the lodge.

The entire time I ran I was overcome by an overpowering smell and I could hear the thing running after me. As I approached the camp I saw a few people (my cousins) at the bottom of the mountain waiting for me. I was crying and shaking and they took me inside. I told my dad what happened, but my cousins all said they didn't see anything following me. The adults kept us inside for the night, and I kept hearing sounds drifting in from the mountains. I never played night games after that happened, and was always terrified that my cousins wouldn't listen to my warnings.

Ever since that night I have always felt uneasy up in those mountains. I used to be really religious and figured it was a demon of some kind trying to kill me or something like that, but those mountains have never felt the same after that incident. A few years ago the game “Until Dawn” became really popular and I watched a walkthrough of it on YouTube. When the Wendigo first appeared in game, I got chills down my spine. It was exactly what I saw, and I did a ton of research on them. I figure someone must've gotten snowed in at that old lodge and resorted to cannibalism, but that doesn't explain what happened at Warm River. I still hear that screech from time to time (it never occured to me until watching 'Until Dawn' that they might be from the same thing) and it scares the hell out of me every time. I heard it earlier tonight, and that's why I decided to finally write my story down. MV

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Shapeshifting Reptilian Recorded by David Eckhart

Recent digital capture of a portal opening at David Eckhart's residence (above)
For many years, you may have read about my work with David Eckhart and the ordeal he has endured during that time. I have written David's story in my book Alien Disclosure: Experiencers Expose Reality. I have also interviewed David on Arcane Radio - David Eckhart - Part I and David Eckhart - Part II

As I have written recently, David has been 'visited' fairly regularly since the latter part of 2018. This time, most of the 'visitors' are evolved & hybrid humans, as well as a few Reptilian beings among them.

I realize that many people are going to be skeptical. I understand that. The fact that David records using a reflective surface or through another medium (water) seems odd, but it is a phenomena my team has seen with other experiencers over the years. Many times, direct recording with digital equipment / cellphones results is destruction of the device and video.

In recent weeks, the activity has once again increased at David's residence. Other alien presences have made themselves known, including a particular Reptilian that has attempted to shapeshift into a form that mimicked David's physical appearance. David was able to capture the morphed figure on his digital equipment (below). This Reptilian has also been changing into the physical form of other beings, though David has been unsuccessful in capturing these forms.


If additional information / evidence becomes available, I will post on the blog. Lon


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Unknown Georgia Bigfoot Inquiries

I recently found some old notes from a series of Bigfoot encounters in Georgia that may have been submitted to the BFRO at some point. I'm not positive where these came from, but thought someone may be interested:

BIGFOOT 1

In 2000 a family purchased 30 acres of land in rural Elbert County and took up residence. Since then they and neighbors have had many sightings of a Bigfoot creature. They have found anomalous footprints, smelled the creature, and heard grunts, screams, and whoops, the later a “low to high bass sound lasting several seconds,” wrote Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) investigator MC. Also reported were “feelings of being watched, feelings that the family should leave a particular area, and at least one stalking incident involving the witness being separated from her mother, father and the family dog becoming very frightened.” The dog has acted intimidated both inside and outside the house. In one instance a teenager and an adult riding a 4-wheeler on the property sighted the creature.

Encounters often occur when only women are present, a peculiarity noted in other cases. Sightings have happened in all seasons and at every time of day for a decade.

The property contains pine forest, river bottom, a pond, and a large swamp. Access to much of it is barred by thick undergrowth and swamp. The area abounds in fish and game-deer, hogs, and smaller mammals are plentiful. In other words, it is perfect Bigfoot country.

MC and three other investigators interviewed the family and explored the property in August 2009. They concluded “that the family probably has a Bigfoot either moving through the area on a regular basis or may have one or two living in the immediate area.”

The lady who wrote BFRO, a registered nurse, emphasized: “I DO NOT WANT THIS ANIMAL TO BE HARMED IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE OR REMOVED FROM ITS HABITAT. IT IS NOT A THREAT TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING!” She feared that it would be “hunted down just for the money and fame.”

BIGFOOT 2

It was 11:30 p.m. on the night of October 7, 2009, as a couple returned to Florida from North Carolina. They were midway between Homerville and Edith in Clinch County on U.S. 441, an isolated area near the Okefenokee Swamp.

The wife had just switched on an overhead light to consult a map and missed the sighting, but she could not avoid the stench that suddenly filled the car, described by her husband as “very powerful combination of sewer-like and a strong musky animal odor.”

The husband saw the creature, described as seven feet in height and weighing up to 300 pounds. He said the creature was a “tall, lanky, humanoid creature,”not as apelike as he would have thought. The hair was a very dark brown or black, long and stringy on the head but only two to three inches long on the body. The arms reached nearly to its knees. KJ

NOTE: if anyone has any follow-up to these reports, I'd appreciate you letting me know. Lon

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Weird Creature Comments by Witnesses

“This story matched the thing I saw about 15 years ago, a man-sized creature with blondish-brown hair covering it's entire body, running very fast down a street near my house. It was around 1 in the morning, I believe. It was leaning forward as it ran, hunched over, on it's very long arms and shorter back legs. It ran too fast and was too far away to see it's face, but I believe it may have had longish ears that stuck up above it's head a few inches. I saw no tail. It could have been a person in a costume I suppose. But I don't think it was, as the way it ran and it's speed reminded me of films I had seen of chimpanzees running at full speed. But the hair was the wrong color for a chimp. The thing freaked me out so much I went back inside the house. But I remained outside just long enough to get the feeling it may have doubled back and was somewhere nearby, in the bushes of a neighbor's yard or behind a fence in the alley, watching me standing there wondering what it was I had just witnessed.” AJ

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Yes...I saw the Easter Bunny

“I saw the Easter Bunny when I was 6 or 7 years old. It was early on Easter morning and I got up to use the washroom. As I crossed the hallway I could see into the kitchen where the Easter baskets sat on the table. He was standing in front of the kitchen table and looking right at me. He was white in colour, about 4 feet tall, maybe 5 feet including the ears. He looked kind of Hello Kitty-ish... like a cartoon bunny, if that makes sense. Not scary or creepy, but not how I would have pictured him. I would’ve pictured a more Beatrix Potter-looking Easter bunny. I didn’t look into the kitchen on the way back from the washroom because I was afraid that he wouldn’t leave any treats. Neither I nor my sister received any bunny stuffed toys as part of our Easter loot that year. I thought it was really cool at the time, and then in later years I assumed it must’ve been a dream. After hearing these stories though... I don’t know.” LM

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Seeing Large Animals?

“I saw a yellow snake that was as wide as a watermelon wrapped around a tree. I was 8 years old and that was the first oversized animal I saw. It felt like a dream and I remember being horrified. I lost time and the next memory I had was of sitting at the table for dinner. I think I blacked out what I was seeing because to this day it's all I can remember. I also encountered a frog the side of a car tire. Which at first I thought it was fake but it jumped into the lake, about 15 feet away. Both times I felt scared and was alone in the wilderness.” KK

Cryptid Canine Encounters

The following recent encounter accounts were found or received during the past few weeks:

I saw a sort of wolf-like creature on the side of the road. I live in a small border town in southwestern Arizona and there's not a lot to do around here. My girlfriend and I were out on a date 3 days ago and by the end of it we just cruised around talking and listening to music until about 1 am. We decide to call it a night and as I'm driving her back home we both see this giant 4-legged creature on the side of the road with its back to us. Its fur was rough looking and it had this whitish greyish color to it. I immediately thought it was a messed up giant mountain lion since they're not uncommon around here.

I slowed down a bit so we could take a better look and that's when it turned around and faced us and that's when I knew we were dealing with a whole new different thing here. It had the most ferocious and terrifying face I've ever seen. It had a long snout, just like a wolf. It had its mouth open and we could see some big and sharp looking teeth. It was hunched over making its back seem like a mountain and its fur was standing up just like a cat does when it's scared. With the lights of the car, its eyes seemed to glow red as well. After seeing this, I stepped on the gas and got the hell outta there. My girlfriend and I were in shock for a while until I asked her if she saw that thing or if I was just going crazy. She confirmed and gave the same exact description of the creature.

After a bit of digging around, I found out that the only type of wolf that was once found here is the Mexican Gray Wolf but they are critically endangered now and they were extirpated from around here a long time ago. That type of wolf can only be found now in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The sheer size and appearance of this thing rules out coyotes and dogs entirely. I am amazed and a bit worried as to what we witnessed that night. DRS

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Some backstory. For the biggest part of my life I lived in Greece and I recently moved to Canada. In Greece we don't have tales of skinwalkers or any other sinister being so if I say something incorrect, it's probably because I lack information and knowledge.

I started riding my motorcycle to Ontario at around 10pm (a 7 hour trip from where I lived). Roughly half way through the trip (I guess at around 1am), the fuel tank was empty. Now I need to note that I was sure I had a full tank before leaving, so this was very weird. I called 911 since I didn't know who to call at that point and the dispatcher said that although I shouldn't call for this kind of issue, she'd send someone to help me. I apologized and thanked her. The place I was stopped was a straight road with trees on each side. A forest.

When the conversation ended, I noticed something extremely weird. Silence. Extreme silence, as if everything around me had died. The crickets that were previously getting on my nerves, had stopped. The owls where nowhere to be heard.

Then I heard dog crying from inside the woods. It was extremely distinct since it was the only thing I could hear. Since I love dogs, I slowly and hesitantly started making my way inside the woods to see if that dog was hurt.

I was approaching. I could hear the crying louder with each step. Then I stopped. The crying was now taking place in front of me. But then it stopped and instead of crying, the sound that I could hear now was an aggressive growl behind me.

I turned around and saw it. It was not a dog, not a wolf, not a bear, in fact it wasn't anything animal like. It was a 7 something foot tall thing with a dog face and extremely sharp teeth. I literally crapped my pants. My survival instinct kicked in and I immediately started running back to my motorcycle. I was crying.

I finally made my way back to the road and saw a firetruck and 2 firefighters. They asked me if I was ok but I couldn't say a word. I was shivering. When I was finally able to talk I told them everything. They said that this was a common thing there and that rangers were looking for that thing for more than a decade.

They checked my bike and when they looked at the tank they say claw marks all over it and spilled fuel. They took me with them and helped me with my motorcycle.

I am completely traumatized and I still can't explain what I saw. That's the reason I share this story here. To see if anyone else had any similar experiences. N

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So it was about 2:30 or 3 in the morning and I’m trying to go to sleep when every dog down my road starts going mad and barking. At first I thought nothing of it and just wanted them to shut up so I could get some sleep. I then hear the roofing tiles on the house opposite me being walked on and due to it being so late it was silent so I could also hear heavy breathing coming from my neighbours roof. I was fairly scared for lack of better word so I’ve grabbed a knife I keep in my bedside cabinet and drew the curtain back slightly to see what was there. I saw a dark figure that looked like a K-9 but larger. It then slightly turned it’s head towards me and I could see a glimmer in its eye. Then it suddenly disappeared (it happened 4 days ago). I haven’t been able to sleep properly since. DS

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'Dogman' By My Bed

“When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I was lying in my bed and I remember clearly, a very large dogman I guess you would call it walking into my room. It was standing over me, beside my bed and picking up my arm and putting it in it's mouth - and then nothing. This never seemed like a dream, I remember it so clearly. I remember my mom and her boyfriend were still awake (we lived in a trailer and their room was at the end of the hall and mine was the last door on the right) so I could hear them talking and I could see the light from their bedside lamp glowing off the hallway wall right outside my bedroom door. When I got older I assumed it had to have been a dream, until I heard of dogmen and saw drawings that looked just like what I saw that night. It was like an abnormally tall, large man with a dogs head.

The closest thing I've ever found - and the picture that made me believe this is a memory, not a dream - is a painting of dogmen wearing long robes and satchels, carrying large baskets with a castle in the background. Every other depiction looks like a werewolf, but it looked nothing like a wolf. It looked like a man with a domesticated dogs head - like a cross between a Beagle and a Weimaraner. I remember clearly trying to scream but nothing coming out and then him lifting my arm to his mouth and putting my forearm in his teeth - but no pain. It's like that is when I blacked out. I'd love to go under hypnosis and see if I can remember more.” CJ

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Giant Owls in the Woods

“For some reason in New Mexico where I live people have these sightings of 4 feet tall owls. My dad is from the Gila National Forest and he was a lumberjack. He would have to venture far into the forest and on like three occasions he said he seen 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall owls and they freaked him out bad. He said they always come at night and they make strange noises. I've even heard stories from the old timers that they can imitate voices and call out to other animals like cats so they can eat them. No BS. Real talk. We call them lechusas.” FL