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January 15, 2019
Paranormal Encounters / Weird Experiences
“I wanted to tell one of a few ghost encounters I've had. In October 2014 my wife, oldest daughter and I were living in an apartment in Monterey, California while I was stationed at the Presidio learning Russian. My wife constantly talks about how she "feels" and "senses" things. At the time she was pregnant with our youngest daughter. She has a few health issues and as such developed a severe outbreak of kidney stones and had to be hospitalized for them due to the pregnancy. We decided it was better for me to return home with our oldest daughter (18 months old at the time). The apartment complex was a bit older and for months my wife kept talking about feeling ghosts and seeing a little boy at the foot of our bed at night (and one time he apparently tickled the sole of her foot waking her up). Anyway that night I decided it was better for our daughter to sleep in our room with me rather than in her room (I was notoriously bad at not hearing the baby monitor). I stayed up late that night texting my wife and around 1 AM, the bedroom door that was latched closed swing open and the entire room went cold. I damn near sh-t myself right then watching the door swing open. We had lived there for about a year and never once did any door or cabinet just swing open so the apartment wasn't un-level or anything.
I called my wife immediately to tell her what happened and her answer scared some too. She simply said, "I thought this would happen tonight. Tell him DJ is safe with her dad". Then she hung up on me. I was scared but tried it her way. No sooner had I finished the mantra when the cold vanished and the door closed. I sat in bed frozen in fear until the sun came up. I was gonna head straight to the hospital but as I entered the living room the front door was wide open. The day before I had locked it and latched it with a deadbolt just for added security (it was my first night ever by myself with our daughter and any other dad will tell you how security conscious you become when the mother isn't there). I would have just chalked the whole thing up to wind or the warping of wood due to the sea salt air, but I saw the door handle turn.” - Aaron Proctor
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Thomas in Minneapolis wrote to tell of his experience:
“This is just a little bit strange. When I joined the Navy, I went to bootcamp in Florida and I met a good buddy of mine in bootcamp there. When we were done, we both went to different... I went to the west coast, he went to the east coast for our schooling before we could get to the ships. So it was about two years later, I hadn't heard anything from him and when I went home one night my telephone rang I looked at my roommate and I said, 'That's Eddy Stacks.' And sure enough, it was. He was calling from Virginia where he was stationed. And he had called because he got my name out of a phonebook. The fact that I knew it was him when the phone rang after two years of not hearing anything from him was very strange. My roommate flipped out.”
Source: Darkness Radio – January 4, 2017
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Dallas in Minnesota wrote to tell of a weird experience he had:
“This story takes place when I was 15 years old. All day had been just terrible. I got into a really bad argument with my mother. I had done something that was very wrong and to this day I feel very bad about it but at the time I ran away and I went to an abandoned house that was near my house. I decided to shack up there for the night. Now I had heard rumours that this place was haunted but being a naive skeptic teenage ne'er-do-well I really didn't believe in ghosts at the time so I really felt no qualms with this building. Boy was I wrong. I got there about 9:00 PM. It was dark and the house had no electricity being abandoned. I wasn't even there for a half an hour, I heard something get thrown in another area of the house which I found out was the kitchen. I go to investigate and all the cupboards are open which they previously could have been. I couldn't figure out the source of the noise so I decided to check out the basement. I walk down and I faintly see through the darkness, I see a giant hole in the wall with spray painted near the wall that reads, that's pointing towards the wall: 'Monsters Inside'. I go to enter the hole and I hear the cupboards slam. I run upstairs to check it out and all the cupboards now are closed and a doll is sitting on the counter. All of a sudden, I get shoved. I stand up and haul ass out of there. I was terrified. I go home and plead with my mother to let me in. I get in and tell her of my experience. Afterwards I go to take a shower and as I remove my shirt, I noticed three scratches on my back in a row. I'll never enter that house again.”
Source: Darkness Radio - January 11, 2016
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January 14, 2019
A 'Mimic' in the Woods
I recently found the following account:
This incident occurred sometime in the fall of 2006. I grew up in a rural part of Ohio. My house had fairly dense woods located directly behind it. As a child, I had a passion for exploring. I especially loved exploring those woods. It was my favorite place to be.
Prior to the incident, I had wandered through those woods many times, always with my mother's permission. There was one tree in particular that I frequently enjoyed to climb, usually about to the halfway mark so I could perch myself on one of the heavier branches and just relax as I listened to the peaceful sounds of nature. Climbing that tree for the very first time was quite an accomplishment. From that position, I could partially see the back of my house.
On that day, after a fair amount of exploring, I carefully scaled my favorite tree. I seated myself on a sturdy branch and took in the view. Naturally, being late in October, the sun inevitably began to set within a few minutes. I always felt a little saddened to see the darkness approaching. The woods were like my own little sanctuary. I could entertain myself out there for hours. When darkness began to fall, however, my mother would stand at the edge of the woods and call my name until I obediently returned home so not to be stranded out there after dark.
After watching the sunset until I could no longer see it, I began my descent down the tree. I was nearly at the bottom when I heard my mother's familiar voice, calling my name. I thought nothing of it at first, as this routine had occurred plenty of times before. Then I realized something strange as my feet touched the ground. My mother's voice was coming from behind me, deeper in the woods, rather than towards the entrance where she always stood when she called me home.
My mom had never entered those woods before. At least not with me. I was eager to find her and show her all of my favorite spots before it grew too dark. That's when I realized something was off. How could she have gone into the woods ahead of me? Certainly I could have missed her, but as I said, she never entered those woods. She continued calling my name, but there was something strange about it. She sounded absolutely frantic, almost angry. Fearing that I was in trouble for reasons currently unknown, I froze in place. As her voice drew closer, I squinted my eyes to see if I could locate her and determine exactly how angry or upset she appeared to be. However, I didn't see anyone or anything unusual.
Suddenly I heard her voice calling my name from the direction of my house, sounding much calmer. Seconds later, from somewhere within the woods yet again. It wasn't an echo. I wasn't imagining things. I was literally hearing her beckoning me from the edge of our backyard, as well as ahead of me. My legs suddenly turned to jelly. I couldn't quite comprehend what was going on. "Come here, right now!" the voice that I originally believed to be her screamed from just ahead. I realized that whoever or whatever was mimicking my mother was drawing closer.
I didn't question which voice was actually my mother's, as there was something about the way it sounded that unnerved me. Terrified of what I would see if I stood there much longer, I turned around and ran towards the exit of the woods as quickly as my legs could possibly carry me. It was amazing that I didn't trip over anything in my haste. Even though my house wasn't very far away from where I had been standing, those woods had never seemed larger to me than they did in that moment. From behind me, my 'mother's' voice continued to call my name, now sounding desperate. Panic set in as my actual mother finally came into view, waiting patiently as she usually did until I returned home. In my frightened state, I absolutely refused to look back.
As soon as I was out of the woods and in the backyard next to my mother, the other voice was suddenly gone. Rather than fading away, it seemed to stop the very moment I stepped foot into my backyard. I must have looked as frightened as I felt because my mother asked me what was wrong. Slowly but surely, my panic subsided. I didn't say anything until we were safely inside of the house with our doors locked. I asked my mother if she had entered the woods. Appearing confused by the question, she told me that of course she hadn't.
With that confirmation, I hesitantly asked her if she had heard anyone else calling my name and yelling. The answer to that question was also no. Although I was still very much shaken up, I managed to explain everything that happened as clearly and rationally as possible. My mother was surprisingly nonchalant about the whole situation, explaining that I must have imagined it. That I was spending too much time out there by myself.
The incident in those woods have stayed with me to this day. I can still hear that voice as clear as a bell. Whoever or whatever it was calling my name sounded exactly like my mother, but I know it wasn't her. Not only was she waiting for me outside, but the voice also sounded strange in a way that I still can't fully explain. I didn't go back into the woods until I was seventeen years old and even then, I never hung out for very long.
I've carefully gone over every possible explanation, but none of them seem entirely plausible. It certainly wasn't my mother playing a prank. There was no way she could have pulled it off. Not to mention the fact that she's never been one to play pranks. I also highly doubt that it was anyone else because as I stated before, we lived in a rural area. The closet neighbor was at least a mile away and I wasn't personally acquainted with any of them. How could they have known my name and where to find me?
We've since moved out of that house, but my mother and I occasionally discuss the incident. She still claims that she never heard or saw anything unusual out there. I know it probably shouldn't, but what happened in those woods continues to bother me. I spent many hours out there prior to that day and never had anything out of the ordinary occur. The best explanation I have at this point is a doppelganger or possibly a demon, but I'm unsure. If anyone has a possible explanation as to what might have happened, I'd love to hear it. Thank you for reading. AW
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UFO Report Round-Up
The following accounts were recently received:
“Years ago, approximately 2006, in the summer in Maine, I saw a UFO. I've studied and read about UFOs for many decades as a sort of hobby. The odd thing is that even though I know you need to document and report sightings accurately, I never even wrote the experience down until months later, and now don't even know for sure what year it occurred in. I remember the sighting like it's a photograph, and have made some drawings which I sent in to a website. I used the year 2006 in my report later, but that year is just a guess. I really feel a bit embarrassed that I don't know the year, date, time, etc. very accurately. Before the Maine sighting, back in the early 1960s, I had one unusual sighting of a neon green object which looked like a "green fireball" - like a natural shape rather than man-made, but very huge, totally silent. This was seen while camping out in Connecticut, at night around 10 pm. The visual size looked to be about 1/3 the size of the full moon, spherical with large chunks breaking off behind it as it flew along - completely silent - apparently in the very high atmosphere. Those are the only two sightings in my entire life. I'm now 65 (in 2018). The "2006" sighting looked like a horizontal cylinder in the sky, at the level of high cirrus clouds. It had cone shaped ends. The entire thing looked highly engineered and it had the appearance of transparent glass. I estimated the size to be a few hundred yards long, maybe 30 yards wide, but thinking back on it, I realize the size estimate could be way off - most likely the object was quite a bit larger than that. I saw this thing while wearing "Eagle Eyes" sunglasses, which are my favorite sunglasses ever - they really help my eyes a lot and seem to improve clarity and focus at long distance. This sighting occurred during the early afternoon, full daylight, partly cloudy. The object's attitude was at a right angle, transverse to its direction of travel. Rock solid flight, no bobbing or alterations in flight path. I rubbed my eyes quickly and took off my sunglasses, and it was still there. When it reached a spot just about directly over my head, it seemingly blinked out of existence.” - Jay Dillon
Beyond Creepy
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“People can say whatever they want, but I know for a fact that UFOs exist. I've seen a lot of lights in the sky, but one time I actually saw a huge craft that was the size of five or six 747s combined, maybe bigger, and didn't make a sound. It was maybe 200 or 300 feet up, so I got a good look at it. There's no way it was something of this world. If anyone is honest with themselves and has a decent education they will admit that, just based on the sheer size of the universe and how many billions of solar systems are out there, it would be impossible for earth to be the only planet inhabited by intelligent life. It would take an enormous amount of ignorance and arrogance to believe earth is the only planet inhabited by intelligent lifeforms.” - The Fireblaster5
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Sedona, Arizona, USA “I lived in Sedona, Arizona between 1996 and 2010 (14 years) in the Village Of Oak Creek. In the fall of 1997, my brother who is an avid pilot, was visiting. He and I stepped out into the backyard to look at the stars. We looked up and noticed a triangular shaped object with 3 lights located near the tips. The craft was traveling from west to east, had no visible means of power, and made no sound. My brother said, 'those lights are not regulation'. At first I thought, 'It's someone playing a prank, possibly with an ultralight, this is Sedona after all'. But no propeller could be heard. It was not effected by air currents and maintained a perfect altitude with no pitch or yaw. The lights glowed, pulsed white to beige. I kept yelling for my wife who was indoors to come out as I wanted as many people as possible to see it. My brother and I watched it for about one minute. My wife finally came out and saw it just before it disappeared over the horizon. She missed out on an experience of a lifetime. The next morning, my brother and I were still in dis-belief. We said nervously, 'It had to be a military black project'. He does not like to discuss it as I believe he is in fear of losing his pilot's license and of course the ridicule. I have never seen anything like it before or since. Your a skeptic, until you see one. Then you understand that something is going on.” - cplusplusism
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January 27, 2014 – Naples, Florida, USA “January 27, 2014. 8:30 PM. Naples, Florida. Approximately, no more than 100 meters high, flying from west to the east, was a dome shaped craft which had a bright light the color of a lit cigarette at the bottom of it which gave the rest of the craft a slight glow. It's like it glided through the sky with no effort. And no sound at all except the faintest whistling/humming sound. It passed by over my head so fast, by the time I ran around the house, it was miles away from me. All I could see was the orange reddish light from the craft as it glided through the sky miles from where I was. I see planes and everything else fly in the sky daily. It was no plane or any other type of aerial craft that any county in the world has. It glided through the sky like the Starship Enterprise off of Star Trek. I'll never forget it as long as I live. I was skeptic at first on whether the government was hiding information or not. Now, without a doubt of my mind, I know the government knows. We get visited constantly by craft from other worlds.” - Clay J
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Join me as I welcome journalist, author & anomalist Jason Offutt to Arcane Radio. Jason grew up on a farm near the little town of Orrick, Missouri. In his life he’s been a farm hand, journalist, photographer, bartender, and the mayor of that same small town. Jason now teaches journalism at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. He has written many books including “Darkness Walks: The Shadow People among us”, “Haunted Missouri: A ghostly guide to the Show-me State’s Most Spirited Spots” and “Paranormal Missouri: Show me your monsters”. You can find his website at jasonoffutt.com. This should be a very informative and entertaining show! Join us this Friday, January 18th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on ParanormalKing.com - 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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DO YOU ENJOY 'PHANTOMS & MONSTERS' and 'ARCANE RADIO?''Phantoms & Monsters' has always been a free access blog and newsletter. It is one of the very few paranormal / cryptozoology sites that offers first-hand information on breaking incidents and investigations. Arcane Radio offers informative and entertaining guests and commentary, either live or by podcast. Both survive solely on donations.
If you would like to support the newsletter, blog, radio and my work, you can use one of the donation buttons on the blog or newsletter, or go to Paypal.com and use my email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com as the payee. Thanks again. Lon
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January 12, 2019
Black-Eyed 'Grunge' Girl
I recently came across the following account:
I’m still not exactly sure what happened - all I know was that it was very unsettling and I still get the creeps thinking about it.
This was years ago I think around 2013-2014. It was early fall, late afternoon but it was a bit dark and gloomy as it was an overcast day. I was driving home from shopping. I was by myself. So I came around a corner and on my right was a fire station (it was empty though). I had to slam on my brakes because the couple cars in front of me had stopped and I figured someone was turning. Then I noticed 2-3 cars in the other lane coming towards me were also stopped. The guy in the first car then stuck his head out the window and I was like 'wtf.' so I was trying to see what was going on.
Then I saw her. She was just slowly walking down the center line - no care that the road was busy. Just walking straight down the yellow lines. The guys in front of me were yelling, trying to get her attention, but she stayed facing forward. She had her head down a bit, but her eyes were facing up....reminded me of a 'grunge girl.' She was maybe 14 or 15 years old.
I started to get the creeps because this looked creepy in itself with all these cars stopped and this random person just walking down the middle of the road - oblivious to all traffic. As she neared my car I actually rolled up my window because I was starting to feel panicked. Right as she was passing I decided to knock loudly on the window. Much to my surprise, she turned and looked right into my car. I can’t explain her face...but her eyes were totally black. Something was seriously wrong with her. But when I saw her eyes my heart rate sped up and I didn’t know what to do, but she had stopped and was just looking into my car. I cracked the window a bit and was going to ask her if she was ok. She said,
“I’m going to die...”
Honestly I freaked out. The cars in front of me had left so I sped off up the hill. But I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach so I turned around at an elementary school up ahead and called the police. They told me they were actually already on their way so I stayed parked and watched her in my rear view until I saw the cops show up. Cops came with their lights on and I saw her try and jump in front of the officer. They didn’t hit her but once they got her I just drove home. It creeped me out for weeks.
I’ll forget about it and then remember it when I’m out driving or when it’s a gloomy day and I get a chill right up my spine. JK
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January 11, 2019
Eyewitnesses Recall Cryptid Incidents
My encounter was on October 22, 2005 on a stretch of back road in the Mojave desert in the vicinity of Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley, CA. It was the 3rd or so day of quail season and I was all tagged up and ready to go hunting. I had a little Jack Russell Terrier named Gus that a friend let me borrow for the day since I can't own dogs or cats (allergic as all hell). I drove out and parked my Jeep on a turnout at a dirt road intersection. There are a zillion dirt roads out there, and some of the bigger ones actually have stop signs at the intersections.
It was a good day, and getting a little late but I hadn't hit my bag limit yet. I decided that I would stay out a bit past sundown to try and bag the last few birds on my permit. I was dressed pretty warmly, and Gus didn't seem to mind so away we went. By the time I hit my bag limit the sun had been over the horizon for about an hour. Getting back to the road was easy enough, and following it back to the Jeep was as well. Around the time full twilight set in I came to an intersection with stop signs in both directions, and was getting my bearings when Gus froze mid trot and immediately starting growling with his hackles up. He was a pretty chill dog so watching him go from happy little derp to DEFCON 1 so fast was alarming on it's own. I scanned the area to see what he might be upset about, because my first guess was javelina (wild pigs) and all I had was a shotgun loaded with bird rounds.
As I said, these were dirt roads. Each road is roughly the same width as an average 2 lane city street. On the corner opposite the one we were on, I spotted a creature moving with the same general gait as a rooster, but without bobbing it's head. What clued me in initially that it wasn't a chicken was the simple fact that from head to foot it must have been close to 3 feet tall. Based on body mass, I'd estimate that it weighed about 40-50lbs. I tied Gus' leash to my belt so he wouldn't bolt after it and waited for it to wander off. It loitered on the corner for a minute, then without making so much as a flutter, it made a roughly 9 foot standing leap from the ground to perch atop the stop sign. Definitely not a chicken. At this point I decided it was prudent to be armed, so I popped 2 fresh shells in my shotgun and held it at the ready. When I looked back up, I saw it's eyes. The 2 things that immediately sprang to mind (this is where the biology geek comes in) were that 1) They were forward facing, meaning this animal was likely predatory, and 2) They were proportionally ENORMOUS, meaning it was likely fully nocturnal.
I realized that a 3 foot tall, predatory, nocturnal, 40 lb animal that can make a 9 foot standing leap was now regarding me from a high perch, albeit from roughly 40 feet away, and that I was in a bad position. I leveled my shotgun and unloaded both barrels at it. After the echoes died down, it was still perched at the top of the stop sign, but making odd "chirrup" noises that sounded a lot like sneezing. I was reloading when it jumped down from the stop sign and ran away from us through the brush on the adjacent corner. I finished reloading, waited until Gus calmed down and jogged back to the Jeep. On the way back through I hit my trail lights at the intersection this had happened at and saw that the stop sign had definitely been peppered well with shot, and that the majority of it had been centered on the animal. This animal had taken a 9 foot standing leap soundlessly, perched perfectly on a 2" square area and taken 2 12 gauge loads of bird shot center mass, and SNEEZED at me. On the way out of town I told the story to the Spanish-speaking clerk at a local gas station who laughed and told his coworker "You hear that? This guero just ran into El Chupacabra!" OJ
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I live in Chattanooga, TN just a few minutes away from Harrison Bay. This year I started with 4 cats and would let them roam around outside and they would always come back in when it got dark. One of them didn't come back one day and we didn't think much other than they must of wanted to stay out longer and would let them in first thing in the morning. After a week of no sign of them we gave up hope and thought maybe a stray dog or wild animal or something got her. We kept a closer eye on the cats from then on but didn't have any problems until a couple months later when another one disappeared. We now only let a single cat out who is older and meaner and can protect himself and even then he comes back in before it gets dark at all.
Now the beginning of my encounter is from last night (12/28/2018). I was driving home from work and the closer I got to my house the thicker this strange misty fog became. I came inside after feeling a little uneasy and went to bed after making sure both cats were inside and accounted for. I woke up at 3am to the sounds of a cat making an awful wailing noise outside my front door. It sounded almost like a siren from how it rose and fell in pitch. I looked to make sure my cats were ok and they were huddled up under my tv stand looking terrified at the front door where the wailing was coming from and I listened closer and the wail sounded...off. It sounded like a wail on the surface but had a guttural growl undertone and I felt a strong urge to open the door but then I had a feeling tell me NOT TO OPEN it. I smacked the door instead and the thing made a loud garbled wailing growl sound as it scampered away. I then went to lay back down around 3:30 at this point and it started back up outside my bedroom window at this point. This time however it would wail and then make a sound like it was fighting another cat but there was only creature making noise and it went back on a loop of wailing. Around 4am it came to a stop. When I came outside this morning to go to work there was this white fluff all over the ground. LH
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I was driving home in the summer of '97 midday, no clouds, turning a corner at the bottom of the hill to my street. It's a hard left turn and opposing traffic frequently miscalculates how much they have to slow down to stay in their lane especially if they don’t look ahead to see if anyone is coming.
So I was turning left, looking far left up the hill when out of peripheral vision to my right there was what could only be described as a large, and by large I mean the size of an SUV, creature wrapped around the base of an old tree. It was gripping the trunk about five feet off the ground like a squirrel, covered in long brown hair except for it’s head where it was darker and short like a horse. The head was anteater like, but no where near as long or thin in proportion.
My abrupt turn spooked it. The dense mane on it’s back inflated as it sprinted up the tree like a bear. I could see incredible muscle mass ripple under the thick coat, and it shook the entire four story tree. The whole sighting happened in about a second while I was focused on taking the turn, so movement is what made me notice it. When I looked in it’s direction for a brief flash I saw massive hind legs blast thru bark and propel it’s torso straight up the trunk and then nothing. The sheer size and force of it did scare me but the WTF element made me stop.
I backed up about 20ft to get a better look at the area which was the front yard of a house set back in the woods. Things were completely normal. I didn’t think it was something that was actually there then, or in retrospect. Did I see the ghost of a giant sloth? PS
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Sesame Street 'Count' in the Closet
“Well I never thought I would hear another story about The Count from Sesame Street in my entire life. I had a similar experience when I was five though he wasn't telling me nice things as far as I remember. This was in the 80s and to this day is still the scariest moment of my life. I have literally never told a single person about this. When people bring up Sesame Street I always tell them I never watched it because I thought it was stupid, but the real reason was because of this incident when I was about five with the count. He came out of my closet and I don't remember too many details except for screaming and crying and the sheer terror of it. I did not own any Sesame Street toys or any toys that even remotely looked like that.” - Steven Anita Smith
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I Saw 'Big Bird'
“This really scares me because I had an experience just like this, when I was around 3 or 4 years old I was at my great grandma’s nursing home. I still remember certain details of the home like the white doors and metallic gold trim. I was in the hall and there was a door that was clear that lead to a big field (I think it was for the people to take their dog out) but I seen Big Bird. His eyes were normal but I remember feeling calm and invited and it had its arms stretched like it was ready for a hug. I started to the door but my mom had realized I wasn’t in the room and seem I was running towards the door and came and grabbed me in a hurry. I remember pointing at the door and yelling about it but I’m pretty sure she couldn’t see it because she barely remembered when I brought it up. She thinks it was the spirit of a molester who had died there, but I have no clue what it was. I don’t care who believes me. I know what I seen, I know it was real, and I know it wasn’t friendly.” - Saige Kerlin
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Alice in Wonderland
“I had several very similar experiences when I was a child. But one in particular was that of being accompanied by "Alice" from the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. I never thought about it being any other entity at that time, it was my friend and we played, ate and basically hung out all the time. When I ate I needed a reserved spot for her, and when we traveled by car I needed a reserved seat for her. In the beginning my parents saw it as 'standard child phases', but when this went on for months I can remember them being angry with me for pretending. And as so many others I turned away from whichever entity manifested as her. I have never seen 'her' manifest again in my life, although I remember her very vividly. She taught me things, we spoke about life, we painted pictures and played games. Another clear memory of mine is playing with a knight that was named (or called himself) 'Macy'. He did not originate from any movie or series, he just appeared. He told me many things, that he was a Mason among other things. I had no clue what that was back then, as I was 7 or 8. I believe he just called himself that, his name, because it is pronounced 'May-see', and knowing Masons, they love play on words. He taught me many things and told me that my future would be very different than that of my siblings, something that turned out very true. He also made some predictions for me, which also turned out true. I can vividly remember him, he appeared quite often when I played with my younger brother. My brother could not see him, so he just assumed it was my imagination taking over in the play, and I was speaking as one of the characters in the play. Similar things have happened throughout my life, although in my teenage years I scuffed it all off as childhood imagination. But then early twenties, things started manifesting again. As of now I have frequent interaction with entities in both my dreams and wake state. I do not disbelieve any of the people coming forward.” - Drink Water
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January 10, 2019
Upright Canine in Finland
I recently came across the following account:
So about 2 years ago, I had an encounter with something I can't explain and the reason I'm writing this is because I saw some strange footprints yesterday where I encountered it 2 years ago. (I live in Finland, near the coast)
Two years ago, I was out hunting and it was getting late and dark so I decided to head back home. I had about 2-3 km walk through the forest to get to my car. It had gotten pitch black outside at this point so I had an LED headlamp for light as I walked.
As I walked I kept hearing unusually loud sounds. I knew something big was moving. I was 100% sure it was a moose as I've encountered lots of them in the forest and they do make lots of noise/vibrations when they walk.
I couldn't see anything though and it was getting closer to me. All of a sudden this super awful smell hits me, it smells like feces and something really rotten. My hair stands up and I raise my shotgun, as my whole body instinctively tells me to run.
I just stand still and listen. As the sounds get closer I see what looks like a humanoid figure standing on two feet, really tall, had to be easily over 2 meters, but slender and muscular at the same time and kind of crouched down posture. It looked almost like a werewolf from movies, but at the same time not. It was quite far away, so my light barely went so far, but I could see it. Its eyes shined red from my LED headlamp as well.
It looked at me for about 3 seconds, made no sounds, it was breathing weirdly. (I think it could smell the two ducks I had in my backpack) It slowly walked away. I even filmed a bit as it started walking with my phone, but it's poor quality as my phone at the time was old (Samsung S2) and it was dark, so you can't really see it, just hear lots of noise.
Anyway, I told some friends and fellow hunters. A couple have heard or seen strange things as well, but nothing like this. Bos
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Pale 'Armadillo-Faced' Humanoid
Pale 'Armadillo-Faced' Humanoid
I work as a hospice chaplain and had a patient for about a year, that had no mental issues associated with her illness, that told me a tale a few times without wavering. In Grassy, Alabama when she was a young mother she was gathering laundry from the line and got a peculiar feeling before seeing this 3ft tall creature lumbering from behind the wood pile. It was white, had long stringy hair that dragged the ground and walked on all 4s. It had a long face like an armadillo with no fur on face that was smooth like bone. It had kind eyes like a human and never broke eye contact. She froze as it approached. It got within hands reach and then went "flat like a bottom sheet" looking up at her. She quickly walked backwards to the door. She also said that same night her baby was crying so she woke to tend to her and noticed the front yard was like daytime with sun shine and blue sky while the backyard was normal night time. This lady was a good honest Christian woman who has since passed. SB
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A Glitch in the Matrix
“This just happened three days ago. Me and my seventeen year old nephew were driving home when we both experienced a glitch in the matrix. We had just got to the top of a hill that had a roundabout at the top. I drove to the first street and took the exit. As we came out of the roundabout there was a man on a 10 speed bicycle. The bike was a brown/burgundy color. He had a yellow 'Dollar General' bag in his right hand and was wearing an old coat from the 80's to early 90's. It was blue with a large downward pointed red chevron and most of a white chevron at the waist band. He had a dirty white helmet on and was probably about 70 years old. It is a 2 lane road and he was riding his bike in my lane. I followed him for about a minute, waiting for a clear chance to pass him, so I really got a good look at him. At the bottom of the hill, about 3/4 mile away, I had to stop at a light. The light wasn't any longer than normal. I then made a left turn and an immediate right. I have gone about 1/8 of a mile on this new street when my nephew said "Another bike? " At that moment we both realized that this man on the bicycle ahead of us was the same man we passed less than 10 minutes earlier!! Everything was exactly the same. Same dirty helmet, same old coat, same 'Dollar General' bag, same bike. There is no possible way that this man came all the way down the hill, went through two stoplights, and was that far ahead of us! We never saw him ride past us while we were stopped either. By this time we are both kinda freaking out! My nephew said he never wants to talk about that again. He said that it scares him to think something like that can actually happen!!” - Linda Thompson
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January 9, 2019
Sudden Sasquatch Confrontations
I recently came across two rather interesting Sasquatch encounters:
My 2 brothers and I were hunting near Kanosh, UT. Our younger horse and dog were with us. We were just hunting small game, basically wasting time hunting squirrels, and getting the colt used to hunting so we could use him in the future when we needed a pack horse. We had been walking off the trail for at least 2 miles, maybe 3. It was quite light outside still, but getting close to sunset.
We were hiking uphill and our dog suddenly began acting very squirrelly. His hair stood up along his back, shoulders, and neck. He began huffing/snorting and getting very anxious. He was growling and woofing, but repeatedly looking in several different directions. At the same time, the colt began acting very spooky. His eyes widened, head thrown up high, nostrils flared, and he began to dance around nervously. He was letting out snorts and breathing loud and heavily.
Shortly after the animals began acting up, we came up over a part of the hill where it flattened out for a couple hundred yards before it curved up steeply again. As we came up over the hill, there were trees 30-40 yards ahead and I did a double take. There was a huge black, hairy creature with bright yellow eyes standing slightly behind a tree, but peering out at us, as if it was making a very poor and careless effort to conceal itself. It was just massive. It's thighs were the size of tree trunks. And it's chest was easily 4' wide, if not larger. One arm was hanging loose at his side and one was holding onto the tree next to it. The creature was swaying back and forth.
It stared at us for only a few seconds, and we stared back, and then we heard a very low, chest shaking rumble like the sound an elephant makes. As it made that sound, it turned and sprinted up the hill ahead of us, and into the line of trees that covered the rest of the mountain ahead, as far as we could see. As soon as it began running, our barking dog bolted and disappeared into the trees after it, as we yelled for the stupid mutt to come back. We could hear the dog barking further and further away and then silence for several seconds. Suddenly we heard a very faint yelp off in the distance and the yelping continued and slowly got louder and louder until we saw the dog emerge from the tree line and come barreling back to us. The dog had many small cuts, and was very dirty and scared sh*tless but was otherwise in one piece.
We busted our asses back down the mountain. After walking for what seemed like forever, we found an old empty cabin that was actually in quite good shape. We went inside and unlocked the garage man door and led the spooky colt through it. Then locked that door and covered the little window at the top of the door with some newspaper and masking tape. We went inside the little cabin and made sure every window and door was locked.
All night long, we could hear something circling that cabin...branches and sticks snapping, loud rustling, hisses, etc.
We didn't leave that cabin until daylight and we practically ran our asses back to the truck. HS
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Wysteria in New Jersey wrote to tell of her Bigfoot sighting:
“I have a supposed Bigfoot living in the Pine Barrens area of New Jersey and I was with someone as a witness so we saw the very same thing. It was very real. Although experiencing much paranormal activity in that area as it was once described as one of the creepiest places on Earth. I'm still not sure whether it was a hoax or not but the one thing I do know for sure, the thing we saw was very real. Giving not a total assurance but giving a feeling that I'm almost certain to this day, I'm leaning toward the reality that it was a Bigfoot and I'm 100% positive, it was not the Jersey Devil. We were driving home through the Pine Barrens' thicket of pine trees one night, on a solitary road going through these pine trees when we saw a very tall, hairy, huge (as in build, not heavy as in weight) male looking creature on the side of the road coming out of the heavily treed wooded area which was on both sides of the road, crossing to the other side. Almost stopping, I thought we better keep going but we did slow. That's when I hollered, 'Look at that thing!'
While slowing, we looked as hard as we could to see the thing running into the woods after it crossed but it was impossible for the denseness of the trees and the very late night darkness, we couldn't see past a few feet as it ran. We were both startled. We could hardly speak for a short while after that. Now why did that creature run out in front of us that time? I feel it was done on purpose but why us, I thought? Maybe I will never know. But I keep on searching for the reasons. Hopefully someday we who have experienced such things as the paranormal will find out the reason."
Source: Beyond The Darkness – December 29, 2018
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Wood Knocks Volume 2: A Journal of Sasquatch Research[image error] and Leprechan Press
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Shadow Person...Eating a Sandwich / Joplin 'Spook Lights'
Shadow Person...Eating a Sandwich
Chris Petty wrote to tell of his shadow man encounter:
“I wanted to tell you about the only time I saw a ghost / shadow person. This was around 2010. I was visiting my father while he was working in Fresno, California. And I would stay on an air mattress in the living room. While I was there one night, I woke up and had an overwhelming feeling I was not alone and that I needed to look behind me. So I looked behind me and up against the wall was a computer desk and sitting in the chair of the computer desk was a black mass in the shape of a person. There was a light on the backside of the computer tower so I was able to see its shape very clearly. The weird thing is, it looked like it was just sitting there eating. I could see a square object in its hand and every so often it would bring it up to its head and back down to its lap as if it were eating a sandwich. Now I’ve always heard that when you look away or blink they disappear so I forced myself not to blink. I just stared at it until the black mass got more transparent. I started to be able to see through the head of this thing and I could see the wall behind it that was dimly lit by the computer light. It was very odd but the only paranormal thing that has ever happened.“
Source: Beyond The Darkness – December 29, 2018
Beyond Creepy
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Joplin 'Spook Lights'
A reader's response to a recent post:
Lon...I grew up in Iowa but had relatives in Kansas. Twice while visiting we took a trip out near Joplin, Missouri to see what they referred to as a "spook light." The first article struck a chord with me because it was almost exactly what I (we) experienced. It happened down a long stretch of a straight road set back in the rural area. There is a highway to the left, but I know what people see is not car lights or reflections because the road itself is set down well below the highway and the highway is still a mile or two distant (there were studies done at one point testing the car headlights theory and it was debunked or at least a pretty thin excuse).
Both times I went there, we would park the car, get out and watch down the road (both times there were also other people who had stopped to see the same thing). I think we usually tried to get there about 9-10pm and both times it was in the summer. The light would appear and seem to bounce back and forth across the road, sometimes getting closer, then moving farther away. I remember my mom and an aunt walking down the road toward it and it seemed to keep pace with them, keeping itself from getting to close.
There was never any sound associated with it, just a single light in the darkness. The secludedness of the road creeped me out more than the actual spook light, but I distinctly remember seeing it.
I do remember my grandmother telling me that one summer they were down visiting and had an odd encounter. She and grandpa and my great and and her husband went out there to see it and the light came up the road at them and actually lit up the entire area over their car. Then it shot away. They always attributed it to the spook light, but I often wonder if it was related or something different entirely. I never got the chance to ask more detailed questions about that encounter when I became an adult. - Craig
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