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Tall Robed Entity at 5th & Lincoln

I recently came across the following bizarre account:

I'm a 28 year old male. I live in Denver, Colorado. At the time, I was a front desk manager for a hotel, so it was fairly common for me to go in early most mornings. By mid November, it tended to get pretty cold, especially right before dawn. Usually, I took a city bus to work, but on this particular day, I wasn't feeling the long commute and decided to just call an Uber. There wasn't anything especially out of the ordinary that morning to speak of that I remember, apart from the city being eerily silent.

My driver arrived on time (around 4:30 am) and I got in. In most cases carpool drivers usually say, "Hello" or something to that effect, but when I met this one, there was no greeting. My driver was female, around my age (late 20's), and noticeably very pale.

"Are you Lisa?" I asked.

No answer. The car matched the description on my app, so I just shrugged it off and got in anyways. My driver was probably just introverted, no big deal. Even though it was early, it seemed strange to me how we were the only ones on the road that morning. I recall not seeing another car the entire 15 minute ride to work.

Most of the trip was quiet. Initially, neither of us had said anything to one another. About 10 minutes into the car ride, I began to feel the presence of an awful vibe within the car. I was worried I might be contributing; so to break the tension, I asked,

"I'll bet you're tired, huh? Or are you just starting your shift this early."

Still no answer from Lisa; her gaze locked dead ahead. Something was definitely off.

"...You are Lisa, right?"

Finally a little color seemed to return to her face, awoken from her daze, she stammered,

"Huh? What? Yes, I'm sorry. I've... I've just started. Actually, you were only my second ride this morning, but after I drop you off... I think I'm going to quit."

This really sparked my curiosity, because surely something must have happened. Was it me? Was it something I shouldn't poke my nose into? Regardless, I pressed her more.

"Quitting? Oh! I'm sorry, I hope it's nothing I've done."

Upon asking this, Lisa's face returned to her previous pale self.

"You wouldn't believe me." she said in a soft tone under her breath.

"Listen, I honestly don't even know you, so what difference does it make if I do or don't?" I asked.

Lisa pulled up to a stop sign and our car sat idling.

"I saw something." She turned her face to me.

"I don't know what it was. I don't take drugs. I don't even believe in this stuff. Why me. What could it have even been?"

It was clear whatever it was traumatized her pretty good.

"What did it look like?" I asked.

"Where was it?" "Are you alright?"

Lisa's voice was soft and shaken.

"Yes, I'm okay. I... I don't know what it was. I've never in my life seen a man so tall." she sighed forcefully.

"I had just dropped off my first rider and was on my way to pick you up. I pulled up to the stop sign on 5th & Lincoln. I remember exactly where I was because I was parked over the crosswalk. That's when I saw it. It was 8 feet tall and wearing a robe, standing on the edge of the crosswalk. It was larger than any man could be. When I caught sight of it; I don't know what happened. My body was frozen in a state of total fear. I wanted to shout; I wanted it to go away. I had never been so afraid; I thought I might pass out. I was totally frozen. The robed figure then began crossing the street, passing through the front of my car. HE WENT THROUGH MY CAR! When he did, all my radio's volume went up to maximum, and I was consumed with... evil?" she paused

"When the thing had passed all the way through the hood of the vehicle, the radio volume returned back to normal. When I could move my body, I drove as fast as I could get out of there. I'm not saying what I saw was a ghost, I don't even believe in them; I never have... but it... I don't know what it was."

With this, Lisa's eyebrows drooped, and her voice fell silent once again; she had revealed far too much personal information to a total stranger in an Uber. I understood.

It's been about 8 months since this happened. At the time it was only 4 blocks from my house, so I would often wake myself up before dawn to survey 5th & Lincoln. It's a forgettable block with a small building and an abandoned fenced-in yard. I know very very little of Denver's history, and I myself have yet to see anything out of the ordinary at this particular spot. I have since moved from this location, but every time I drive by this area, I can't help but think of Lisa's story. KV

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Noisy Bigfoot Around Campsite in Washington State

Kelly in North Central Washington State called to tell of his Bigfoot encounter:

“I had a few encounters with Sasquatch – a whole family of them as a matter of fact. A friend and I found ourselves smack dab in the middle of Sasquatch country. We went 45 miles to the end of the road and we hiked 6 miles up in and around, then we the hiked the 2000 feet elevation gain. By the time we got there it was totally dark. I shined my light ahead of him and I saw these red eyes right in front of him like in back. I said, 'Stop! Don't go that way!' And it was right on the end of a cliff-side. We almost got to where we were supposed to camp and we went around the other way a couple hundred yards and when we got to where we were going and set up camp in the middle of this clear cut because avalanche or a snow slide came through and took everything out. And right over there in that exact spot where I had just grabbed him, all of a sudden we heard a 300 pound boulder just, like, crashing through the brush and it was like a totally flat spot and that's when it started. They pretty much left us alone all night.

The next morning we started hearing the rock knockers around us, up on the cliff. We started hearing what sounded like 300 pound giant woodpeckers and I figured it was them, they were making this noise with their throats but really loud. And they were moving around a lot, in the woods, but we couldn’t see anything. Then we heard him, the screaming howler, the big daddy, coming up the valley, letting out this roar every minute for a half an hour straight. He would scream for 30 seconds. He sounded like the Westmoreland P.A. Howler if you ever heard that. We hiked out of there and they let us go.”

Source: Midnight In The Desert with Art Bell – December 14, 2015

The Knights Templar and the Venus Connection

A few weeks ago, I asked Dr. Raymond Keller if he had researched and/or written about the possible connection between Venus and the Knights Templar. I told him that I knew that their most sacred symbol was the 5-point star, which represents the path of Venus in the night sky used by navigators. But I wondered if there were other connections?

Ray was kind enough to write the following article:

The Knights Templar and the Venus Connection

By Dr. Raymond A. Keller, a.k.a. “Cosmic Ray,” author of the international, awards-winning Venus Rising series of books, available on amazon.com, while supplies last

Venusian scoutship hovers over Rosslyn Chapel, startling the monks. Drawing courtesy of Tri-County UFO Group, Sebring, Ohio, in Keller Venus files.
Origins and Purpose of the Rosslyn Chapel

There were nine Crusaders who established the Order of the Knights Templar. These intrepid gentlemen were continuously excavating under the ruins of the temple that once stood in the heart of Jerusalem. Jesus the Christ once prophesized its destruction; and in 70 C.E. Roman legionnaires leveled the structure to the ground, thus fulfilling the words of the Savior.
From some of the older rituals of Freemasonry, we understand that the Knights Templar, while undertaking these digs, recovered certain documents from the first and second centuries of the Common Era pertinent to the establishment of Christianity as a world religion. It is widely rumored that these papers provide key insights into the personal life of Jesus and his family, connecting his ministry to a more Gnostic gospel that defined a greater role for Mary Magdalene, and hence women generally. Perhaps they also contain information establishing Mary Magdalene as the Lord’s wife and the mother of his children.

In any case, the Knights Templar brought them back with them in 1140 C.E. and entrusted these documents to the patriarchs of the St. Clair family in Kilwinning, Scotland, who were the owners of vast estates. Three centuries and one year later, in 1441 C.E., on a small rise above Roslin Glen in the village of Roslin in Midlothian, Scotland, William Sinclair, recognized as the First Earl of Caithness in the Scoto-Norman Sinclair family, began constructing the Rosslyn Chapel, which wasn’t completed until 49 years later. Interestingly, the ground plan of the chapel matches the layout of King Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem, the one that the Romans looted and destroyed. Originally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St. Matthew, the edifice served as a center of study and illumination. It was open to all sincere seekers of the light of truth and attracted pilgrims the world over. Many of the Sinclair men in later generations went on to become hereditary Grand Master Masons.

Role of Venus in the Masonic Lodge

The Knights Templar, originally known as the Poor Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, were formally established in 1128 C.E. In less than a century and a half, they had become the wealthiest and most powerful group in the world. The political and ecclesiastical leadership of Europe became worried about the spectacular growth of the Knights and kept a watchful eye on all of their activities. Feeling threatened economically, militarily and theologically by the amassed money, power and secret knowledge acquired by the Knights, King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V in Rome joined forces in 1307 C.E. and managed to destroy most of them. They justified their actions by declaring that the Knights Templar were, “conducting strange rituals” and therefore “were not Christians.”

These “strange rituals” were intimately connected to the motion of the planet Venus, known by the Masons as the “Eastern Star,” or sometimes the “Blazing Star,” since Venus, apart from the Sun and Moon, is the brightest object in the heavens. As Venus orbits the Sun 13 times matching 8 Earth orbits, following a Fibonacci sequence, there are five close approaches to the Earth that can be traced in a near-perfect pentagram along the circle of the Zodiac on the plane of the ecliptic. To the ancient Egyptians, this pattern was recognized as the “hieroglyph of the night.” It was later adopted by King Solomon of Israel as the representation of magical wisdom. In a religious sense, it has since been carved on synagogues, churches and mosques as a protection against “un-Earthly forces.”

Pentagram of King Solomon


In the Theosophical Lodge, and among other esoteric societies, Venus is regarded as the “most powerful and occult of all worlds.”
With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, and the ascent of Freemasonry, the symbol of the pentagram had long been associated with the advancement of humankind through illumination, magic and wisdom. The rites enacted in the Masonic Lodge can best be described as a “peculiar system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.” The primary symbol of the Freemasons is the so-called “Five Points of Fellowship,” indicative of its ethical code of fraternity. The five points are illustrative of points on the human body, whence the initiate to the lodge is lifted up to illumination, standing before the pillars of Boaz and Jachin as the Blazing Star of Venus appears just before the Sun rises in the east. Here further knowledge and truth is imparted.

Since the Masonic Lodge is a society with secrets, to proceed in greater detail would not be appropriate or respective of the Craft. However, for further information on the pentagram and other Venus connections to the ancient world, please check out my Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet (Terra Alta, WV: Headline Books, 2015, 2016), available at:

Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet

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Editor's Note: Dr. Raymond Keller, a.k.a. "Cosmic Ray," will be the featured speaker at the Synergy Springs Soul Center, 333 Crossroads Plaza, Mt. Pleasant, PA 15666, on 31 August 2019, from 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon. Dr. Keller will discuss the connections between angels and Venusians that live among us. For additional information or directions, please call the center at (724) 953-9733

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Unknown Bipedal Creature in Campbell County, Kentucky

I recently found the following interesting account:

I'm from Alexandria, Kentucky and I saw something last night (August 1, 2019) that I couldn't entirely explain. Last night was 'Midnight Madness' for our school. It's basically some stupid football event during the summer but everyone goes to see people they haven't seen over summer. I went with my two friends and one of their girlfriends. We got there around 10:45. My friends and I were getting pretty bored of the event and my one friend had just bought dabs. For those who don't know dabs are like a concentrated form of weed.

We got in my buddy's car and were looking for a place to smoke. We were driving around this subdivision that had very thick forests all around it. We settled on this abandoned house and decide to smoke in the woods behind it. My friend was setting up his rig and we realized we had forgot the water for the dab rig. A dab rig is basically a bong for dabs and it needs water or else it will be very harsh to smoke. Well we had parked a little bit down the street so no one would be suspicious. Nobody wanted to go back to the car because it was a 5 minute walk back. So I decided to go back for the water.

While I was walking back I heard scratching from behind a nearby house. It kinda freaked me out but I thought it must of been a dog or an animal. I made it to the car and got the water a started heading back. As I was walking by the house where I had heard the scratching, I began to hear it again but then I heard what sounded like a footstep kicking up gravel when someone starts trying to run. I turn and see something that has kept me up all night.

Now keep in mind I am a 6'2 - 17 year old guy, so I am bigger than most things. And this thing that I saw had me easily beat in height by 2-3 feet. It was slender but with long almost stretched out limbs. I couldn't really make out anymore details because It was pretty dark. The creature was running from one backyard to another. I never saw its face only its body. It ran on 2 feet but it was faster than any person I have ever seen run. Hell it was faster than anything I've ever seen run. The creature made it from one backyard to the next (about 50-90 feet) in about 3-5 seconds. I was standing in the middle of the street about 30 feet away. I stood there for a second in complete shock. Then I ran as fast as I could to my friends. I ran through thorns and bushes to make it back to them. I ran and told them what I saw. I'm not too sure if they believed me but the panic in my voice was enough for them to know I had seen something. We all packed up our rig and went back to the car.

I have been up all night trying to find out what I saw. The two closest things I have seen on the internet is something called the 'Dover Demon' and something called the 'Wood Devil.' I never saw its face so I'm not too sure what it was. Also know that I was 100% sober when I saw the creature. PC

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'Shapeshifting Entity' in the Alaskan Wilderness

Rian in Fairbanks, Alaska called to tell her strange encounter story:

“My dad and I were hunting in one area we didn't like to frequent much because my dad had a bad experience back in the 70s that he didn't like to talk about. Short version: Something hunted him.

He never saw what it was but it hunted him. We were back in this area and I was about 13 or 14. We had been hunting for the whole day and we had stopped to take a break. So my dad went behind one tree and me being a girl, I went for the bush. I was sitting there with a 30-30 and I saw my dad walk around in front of me and go up onto the ridge we were hunting on. I go, 'Oh, well, he's done,' so I go and finish up and I climb up out of the bush and come up behind him.

So, we're hiking back in and I'm following him and my dad was one of those people who always had to look behind him to see who was behind him, if it was anyone he knew. I'm following him and I'm following him... or I think I'm following him and he's not turning back and looking at me and about a half mile hiking behind, something just set off in my head, like, "This isn't my dad." I'd hunted with the man since I was 8, so six years, seven years out in the woods with him, I knew my dad pretty well.

So I just stopped and said, "Hey, turn around!" He didn't stop and turn around. Even if he had been screwing with me, he would have turned around. Whatever this was, it didn't stop. It kept walking and it walked around a spruce tree in front of me and disappeared and I'm standing there. I cocked my gun. I'm like, I'm walking behind this person. I could hear their footsteps. I could see the light hitting their body and it just stepped around a tree and disappeared. I'm not a person that believes in things unless I see them. I've been in the woods most of my life. I'm looking dead on at where this person disappeared and something comes running at me. I can hear it but I can't see it. It was like 'Predator' (the movie creature). I can see the light being displaced by it. It was running at me and I opened fire. That's how my dad found where I was at, because he heard the gunshots. I opened fire but I don't know if I hit it. I've been trained never to shoot at something unless you saw what you are shooting at. That's gun safety 101.

Well, nothing dropped and it didn't seem like I hit anything but my dad comes running up onto the ridge. Wwe get into an argument because he thinks I'm just randomly shooting. And I'm like, "I'm not just shooting things, you know, I was following you." We finally hash it out and I tell him, "No, you walked in front of me. You walked up onto the ridge. I followed you because you were done relieving yourself and I've been hiking behind you for 20 minutes now. Someone or something walked around that tree in front of me and disappeared and something ran at me that I couldn’t see." My dad's said, "Let's get the heck out of here." So we noped out of there.

That's the area where he told me had the encounter in the 70s. He'd been hunting in that area and it was getting close to dark and he always carried a hand-cannon along with a rifle. He always carried the hand-cannon in his hand because that will stop a bear. He kept hearing something behind him and he thought it was a bear so he circled back and circled back but never got this bear. He was almost to his pickup truck and this thing was about 30 feet behind him. This is a clear trail back then so it hadn't grown up. He looked around and he can't see it. So he pulled his .44 and right when it was about ten feet behind him, he turned around and there was nothing there. But the entire trip back he said it was just like something was just standing on his neck and he couldn’t see it.

I haven’t gone back to that place. I even told my husband, I've been hunting since I was 8, I’m not scared of bears. I'm not scared of lynx. I'm not scared of coyotes. But you cannot pay me to go hunt back in this area. I believe that it was a shapeshifter.”

Source: Midnight In The Desert with Art Bell – December 14, 2015

Huge Blue-Eyed Bigfoot Near Temecula, CA

“The Bigfoot I saw in Temecula, California in June 1985 was at night as I stopped on a dirt road. I couldn’t drive any farther that night and when I got out to do my business, I heard and saw it as I was finishing up. It did have an odor of something dead, like a deteriorated body of a coyote. Anyway, it stood about fifty yards into a dry river bed with trees about 45 feet average height. I shined my flashlight in the direction of the smell and saw movement. But what may be different then most sightings is its eyes actually glowed bright blue and was about 12 twelve feet tall or maybe a little less judging by the tree height. His eyes were just above a limb that I measured at 12 feet the next day. I had a .357 with me but I had a feeling that it would not stop this creature if I was to shoot it in case it came for me.

I left in a big hurry and that Datsun truck just did not seem fast enough. That was the second time I had seen one. The first was back in March 1952 in the sage area between Hemet, California and Temecula, California. I went back the next day and measured the tree limb to his footprints which were about twenty inches long and maybe 9 inches wide. This was a huge creature. I had a .357 I carried at all times with my own hot loads, a Colt Python which I was very accurate with. But it was so big I felt it would not stop it if he/she came for me.

Do or don’t take my word. I know that (12 feet) is big but that is what I believe it to be by the footprints and the tree limb. And one difference than others sightings, except for the dead/and foul smell it omitted, is this one difference, its eyes glowed a bright blue when a light was flashed in its eyes. And me being 70 yards distance which is fairly close it is out there somewhere most likely and this area is close to the Pima Indian Reservation which goes on down towards Mount Palomar Observatory, a whole lot of forestry type land.” - RH

Tall Grey Humanoid on Martha's Vineyard

"Occurred on July 25, 2019 - After looking out a window that allowed full observation of back the porch I witnessed what is classified as a "Grey" staring right back at me. It ran. About 7'5" (I'm a very good guess of height due to being 6'5") I heard it slip naked feet on a wooden deck and disappear into the brush. I essentially had a stroke and calmly walked back downstairs. Within a short time, out back on the deck, dead of night pitch black, through the trees about 55 feet from me I saw what looked like a long, skinny, tall light that had pulsating movements resembling that of a burning cigarette ember. It had almost all the same colors as a cigarette ember- reds, amber, orange, even a slight blue hue. I tilted my head and moved my body back and forth but the light stayed perfectly still. It was completely silent." - anthromod

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Poltergeists & Hollow Man

“I saw some scary stuff working 3rd shift (night shift) at my job. I worked 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM by myself in a large production plant. Shadows would move in the opposite direction of you like a mirror, saw stuff moving out of the corner of my eye, stuff moving outside in the darkness, things flying erratically in the sky, cloaked beings walking around the production shop floor. It creeped me out so bad, at one point, I started bringing a .45 handgun to work, eventually bringing an AR-15, as well. I’m not the only one who saw some weird stuff. Other people working here have seen “Hollow Man” which is a shadow figure that mimics your movements but doesn’t do it exactly as you would expect, meaning it isn’t a shadow of yourself. There are various other weird things too. It doesn’t help that the site of the production plant is built on top of an old town that was torn down after the mines closed; and a mysterious fire burned down the Catholic Church years before the town closed. I'm just glad I stopped working 3rd shift. I was never meant to work that shift but I volunteered and was given one vacation day for about 3 months of work. It still spooked me and I refuse to go into the darkness that surrounds the building.” LBFT

If you've never read a book about that word that's popping up more frequently than ever - even in mainstream media - "disclosure", this is a fantastic beginning. Budd Hopkins and John Mack's books - well over a decade ago - broached the subject seriously for the first time. Strickler has different credentials but impressive ones nonetheless: He's heard accounts from a wide variety of people for decades. And they aren't all alike. (That may be the single most disconcerting element in the book, btw. Unlike, for example, NDEs, which follow a general pattern for the experiencer, there are almost as many kinds of encounters as there are accounts!)

Lastly, I'll say that I'm rereading it more slowly this time. That's as much as credit to the good writing as the compelling stories therein. I hope he expand on this in his next book because it's impossible to forget that these events are continuing even now." - Payaso U.
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Hey folks...there will be no blog posts today. I have a few more things to take care of before my surgery on Thursday. Thanks. Lon





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Followed in the Wilderness by a Crimson-Clad Dark Entity

I recently came across the following account:

It all began almost a month ago when I was approached with this idea. For some backstory (but not too much for privacy concerns), I am a photographer for a pretty well-known magazine. My job consists of mostly traveling to beautiful destinations, seeking out all there is to see, and snapping photos. Now of course there's more to it than that, and I take great pride in my work, but that's the gist of it. It truly is my dream job. Well, was my dream job. After all of this, I don't know if I can continue.

The subject of my latest adventure is the US Pacific Northwest. Specifically, the wild and beautiful wilderness it contains.

My first stop, the Northern Cascades. Here I would be backpacking 20 miles into the National Park with stops along the way. Loaded up with enough gear and food for 4 days out in the wilderness I began my trek. Now, I should say that my employer...well they're not the most lucrative company in terms of how they treat their photographers. They pay well, but not THAT well, and hiring me an assistant? Out of the question. But the job does have its perks, including access to many places off-limits to the general public. Including the areas I would be visiting along my journey.

Luckily, I've been doing this for a few years now, and hiking 20 miles in 60 degree weather is paradise compared to some of the things I've had to withstand in my career.

Around 10pm of the first day I pitched my tent and hunkered down, went over some photos of marmots, deer and a fox that I had captured, then put out the lantern and got some rest. I awoke around 2 am to a loud banging noise off in the distance. Not unusual, but still unsettling. The thing about camping alone so far from anything, is there's no one to talk to. No one to bounce ideas off of. No one to rationalize with. And no one to calm you down when you can't keep it together. The noise subsided though and so did my lucidity. My eyes fell heavy and I collapsed back into sleep.

The next day went just as well and I reached my destination, catching some beautiful vistas along the way. After capturing everything I had set out to do, I made camp and relaxed for the night.

Again, I awoke to loud banging. Louder banging. This was definitely closer, and also accompanied by something new and incredibly unnerving. A noise that is hard to describe. I've tried thinking of ways to describe it, but the closest I can come would be to liken it to something like an owl's hoot, but much longer and with the pitch lowered way down. Something like a bullfrog's croak but even lower, much louder, and with that weird little "coo" that owls have.

I've talked to several park rangers since then, and even played a recording that I caught of one on my phone, but no one has been able to identify it. It echoes in my mind even as I write this. It's hard to describe how bone-chilling it is, and I have no idea why. And to hear it, when you're so far out, alone, with no cell service or any way of signalling for help. I can't even describe the feeling.

Despite the enormous dread, the sound again went away after just a few moments. This time though, getting back to sleep wasn't as easy. After an hour of laying in total silence, clenching my bear spray, I finally fell back asleep. But you want to know what the worst part was? Knowing the next morning that I still had two days left out here. Except, that wasn't gonna work for me.

I packed up as fast as I could, and began hiking back at a brisk pace. I worked out that if I walked faster and with fewer breaks, I could make it back in a little over a day, meaning I would only need to stay one more day in this place, and that by then I would be much closer to the busier trails, and therefore safer.

I walked 12 hours straight, with only two slight breaks, and managed to make it even further than I expected. At this pace, I could reach the truck by 1 am if I walked straight through, and though I was exhausted as hell, that's exactly what I did. Everything went pretty well, until about 10:45pm, only a few minutes after total darkness had fallen over the forest, when again, I began hearing the noise. The sounds had an otherworldly quality to them, like a cat's purr if you reversed it, lowered the pitch and filtered it through a megaphone.

My legs were burning, but it didn't matter, I walked even faster. No matter how fast or slow I walked though, the noises always sounded the same distance away. It never got closer to me, but it was always close, seemingly just out of eyesight. After over an hour of this nightmare, I caught a glimmer of the brown trailhead sign, and beyond that the reflection of my Jeep's headlights.

I ran. Threw my supplies in the back tailgate and hightailed it out of there. But, this is where things get even weirder. As I was pulling away, in my rear-view mirror, I caught a small glimpse of what was causing the noises. At the time, I didn't know what I was even seeing. Something tall...VERY tall, with a darkness around it that seemed to repel the ambient red glow from my tail lights. Around it, a long tattered robe, seemingly crimson in color, though this could have been due to my tail lights' glow. Either way, the image was visually striking and physically jarring. As the dust trail left by my jeep grew in size, the figure slowly faded back into the surrounding forest.

Now, if this all sounds crazy, well, you damn right it is. I have been to some incredible places, and some very frightening places, but I have never seen or felt anything like this before. But it doesn't end there unfortunately.

Two days later, the next wing of my trip took me to Mt. Rainier National Park. Now, I was a little nervous still, but now I was 200 miles away. Whatever it was, was surely gone now. If you've never been, the sheer vastness and beauty of MRNP is breathtaking. So after half a day of taking in the sights, the uneasiness faded away. Even the first night went by without issue. A little hesitant at first, I quickly felt relaxed enough to drift asleep staring up at the stars through the observation window in my tent.

Waking the next morning, I found nothing out of place and nothing suspicious, confirming that whatever it was, truly was far away. Another two days of hiking went by without any issues or disturbances, aside from a few cougar sightings and a pack of wolves in the distance on my second night.

It wasn't until my last night that I experienced it again. Sleeping on my last night, less than 3 miles from my Jeep, the same noises woke me in the middle of the night. Except this time it was very, very close. I shot up, grabbed my light, and shined it outside of the tent. Immediately, the light caught a glimpse of what I could now confirm was an old tattered crimson red robe gliding behind a giant evergreen. I became frozen in fear. My still waking mind could not even comprehend what I was seeing, or what was happening. The demonic purring noises seemingly teased me from behind the tree. Now fully lucid, I began to contemplate my options.

Option 1, make a run for it, leaving all my gear behind. The least likely. Not only would I be leaving literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, but I would have no chance of sprinting the 3 miles needed to reach the Jeep. Besides that, whatever this was had to be fast to reach me so quickly, and also incredible at tracking. So option 1, was a no go.

Option 2, spray the shit out of this thing with bear spray and THEN run for it. Only slightly better then option 1. Still not viable.

And option 3, the least fun, but probably most logical option. Remain in the tent until morning, and defend myself if I have to. And so I did. I'm not sure what time I woke up, I was too nervous to even look at my phone, but I do know it was hours before sunlight. About 30 minutes after the first rays reached my tent, the noises finally went away. It was another 45 before I felt safe enough to pack up and begin the hike back.

I reached my Jeep and again broke every law in the park on my way out, leaving tire marks in the freshly paved road out. I rented a hotel and regrouped, talking to a few friends of mine who were frequent hikers in the area. None of them had ever experienced anything like this, and only one actually believed everything I was saying.

I decided to skip my next two stops, Olympics National Park and the Hoh Rainforest. Employer be damned, it doesn't take a genius to realize that would be a bad idea. So, I decided to just go straight for my last stop, a much safer option, Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Here, I would just be taking some photos of legendary Haystack Rock at different times of day, sunrise, sunset, and some astrophotography shots with the Rock as the subject. Even better, I would be staying in a seaside room with a view of the Rock, so I could take shots from my balcony without even going outside.

Again, the first day went by with no issues. Photos came out great, and it was time to get my rig setup for some time-lapse photos of the rock against the night sky. Seeing as I was on the 3rd floor, and everything was automated I decided to let the rig do it's work and get some rest. Because of the skipped stops, I would have extra days here in case they didn't come out perfect the first time.

I woke the next morning to find my entire setup on the ground outside on the balcony. The whole thing weighed close to 50lbs, so even though the gusts near the shore got pretty strong, I was doubtful that was the cause. Luckily, nothing was damaged, so I wasn't too concerned. Until I checked the SD card.

The first 2 hours of the timelapse went great, but then something odd started to emerge in the photos. In the corner of each frame, a red tint began to slowly encompass the image, until the photos were nothing but crimson red cloth.

That was last night, and I'm afraid things aren't getting better. I'm packing the Jeep and planning on leaving for the airport immediately. But something strange happened again. Today, in broad daylight, as I was catching one last look at the beach and all the tourists taking photos, atop the rock I saw a tall dark figure, in a long tattered, crimson robe.

The eyewitness followed up with a updates and notes:

UPDATE: I caught a flight back to Florida late last night, and have just been resting and trying to get back to some normalcy since. Reading comments and suggestions helps, and hopefully nothing sinister was truly at work at all. It's also possible that I had begun to go stir crazy, and I have made an appointment for Monday with my doctor to get checked over. So far, nothing too weird has happened, but I can't shake the weird feeling that I'm still being followed. Odd noises and shadows playing tricks with me. Monday can't come soon enough. I have a friend coming to stay over tomorrow night. Hopefully some beer and video games will put my mind at ease. If anything new comes up, I'll be sure to update everyone.

...then another update:

UPDATE 2: I don't know what is going on, and I'm scared. My friend never showed up last night. I've spent all morning calling him, texting him. Along with calling friends and family to see where he is and no one has any clue. I know it's only been one night but I'm considering going to the cops. But would they even do anything so soon? He wouldn't go radio silent like this. This morning, I thought I heard a noise again. Could be my mind messing with me. I haven't slept good in days. Going to try to drive to the station. PNW

The eyewitness was asked if anyone nearby had possible seen the same figure. They responded as follows:

I intentionally left that part out because it makes the whole thing even more unbelievable. No one reacted. I pointed it out to a few people nearby and no one acknowledged anything I was seeing. I'm worried I may be suffering symptoms of cabin fever or something else that is making me imagine these things, but I've spent months at a time out in the wilderness before with no ill effects.

NOTE: I suppose it's possible that the initial confrontation imprinted on the eyewitness, to a degree where their mind continued to 'experience' the encounter. Very interesting and bizarre account. I'm going to try and make contact with the eyewitness and see if there is a possible explanation. Lon

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Bizarre Encounter With 2D Creatures

“Not stickmen but I had not one but two encounters with 2D shape creatures. I was around 4 or 6 when I first encountered them. It was the middle of the night and I was asleep when suddenly something woke me up. I’m not sure what woke me but I remember after being woken up I instantly sat up in bed. Looking around I noticed that my room and everything in it, including myself was bathed in a blue light that had no source and cast no shadows. It was then that I saw them. All over the floor of my room were these strange two dimensional shape creatures. They stood about 30cm tall, only had a head with a single eye (though something told me that if I were to see the other side of their head I would see another one), a thin mouth near the left (my right) side of their face, for a body that sat on a short stick like neck that branched off into four stick like legs. There body/heads were different geometric shapes. The two that I remember the most are an octagon one and a triangle one. It could be just because it was the closest to my bed but something told me that the triangle one was the leader. The creatures here the same blue colour as the room but had a black outline that let me discern them from the colour of the room. They didn’t seem to be malicious or anything, they just seemed to be there, neutral. As I looked at them they looked back, unblinkingly with pencils smiles. After observing them for a short while, about a minute or two, a laid back down and pulled the covers over my head. The next thing I knew it was morning and the creatures were gone without a trace. It’s important to note that the blanket I was using that night was a slight warn quilt like blanket. That blanket wasn’t usually the one I used, with the one I normally used being in the wash at the time, and that the second time I encountered the shape creatures I once again found myself using the blanket.

It was years later when I was 12 or 13. By this time I had almost forgotten about the shape creatures but could still recall them if I thought about it. Once again my usual blanket was in the wash, as were all the other spare blankets so I once again found myself using the quilt like blanket. That night I once again found myself waking up up suddenly and my room bathed in the strange blue light with no source that casted no shadows, and the creatures where once again in my room. This time however they where frowning and I got the sense that they were disappointed in me for some reason. I then looked down at the end of my bed to see the triangle one was on my bed! Frightened, I quickly throw the covers over my head once again, not closing my eyes, mentally telling myself “it’s just a dream, it’s just a dream”. I could see the blue light through the blanket and went to move the blanket of my head to see if the creatures where still there only to find that it was suddenly morning. Calming down a bit a throw the blanket off my bed wanting nothing to do with it. That was the last time I ever say the strange creatures and shortly after that night my mom threw it away saying that it was getting too ratty. I still don’t fully understand the connection between the blanket and the creatures but I’ll never forget the two encounters I had with them.” Lyoko012345

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Abducted by Little People

"I know someone who claims she was abducted by little Native Americans - 1 and a half feet tall or 2 feet tall. She's an elder. No reason to lie. She said they had primitive tents and underground homes and weapons. They hunt any animals they can and one even held a really small baby in her arms. They spoke in a weird talk, keep in mind this is in 1967. Little people sightings are common where I'm from to this day.” LL