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The Trail at Hocking Hills

I received the following account many years ago:

I am a 29 year old male from Pennsylvania. I thought I would share with you one of the many strange things I have personally experienced, and like other people I would like to know if they too had this type to experience; in September 2008 my best friend Ciera (pronounced Sierra) and I went to a park named Hocking Hills in Ohio for a day retreat from our busy lives. She and I had decided on this at random when we first got together early in the morning just after sunrise; it was a nice warm late summer day and we'd just decided to make a full day drive and hike out of it. Hocking Hills is well known for it's several walking trails, a cave or two, and several waterfalls and running water / creek areas. The day was very warm, sunny, hardly a cloud over head, and very nice.

We started a walk at random and found that one of the trails had been washed out so we had to take another path which forced us to cross a road; on the other side was a tall fire look out ranger's station which doubled as a Fire Tower. We had seen a lot of people out walking with us that day and a few hiker/backpackers had passed us by on their treks up until that point. We played with our phones a bit on the way to show each other some pictures we took a few days before on a different outing and noted it was roughly after 12-noon when we came out of the woods and walked across the road; it was then that we noticed there was caution tape all over the fire tower, there was a pungent smell in the air which we could not identify, the windows on top of the tower appeared to be taped up, grimy, and there were flies all over the area. We walked past it, commenting how odd it was, and continued down a seemingly new trail we hadn't seen on a previous walk in the area. The trail took us past the fire tower and then cut into the woodlands; as we walked into the forest we took notice that no one seemed to be around. In fact not only did we feel isolated from others but we felt very chilled without explanation. That day had been very warm as we both wore very cool clothing and when we entered the forest it began to feel very cool, much cooler than we expected and we both were shivering as we felt the temperature drop.

As we continued down the way my friend pointed out that it was getting darker than either of us should have expected or seemed to be - we looked around and there were nothing but trees on all sides, there should have been a forest edge somewhere as the area wasn't really that big but aside from some hills and tall pine trees there wasn't a real 'ending' to the woods like we expected as the area tends to be narrow and normally you can see the edges. She took out her phone to use her GPS because she instinctively felt lost but her battery was nearly gone, I took mine out and it had no signal, the battery was also near dead, and showed "EE:EE" for the time (meaning it couldn't update as it was a older style flip-phone with camera and when set to auto-adjust would contact the mobile phone network every 15 min).

It was only then as the light grew dimmer as we continued on our way that I noticed it was very silent suddenly. Our foot steps echoed, the leaves, grass, twigs, and our breathing just echoed. Ciera got spooked and I did too, she mentioned it was very out of ordinary. I agreed but I couldn't shake this sense of foreboding that something was amiss. I tried to rationalize it but I really, honestly, couldn't figure any of it out at all.

We continued forwards going down a small hill on trail and back up when it got darker. The world seemed to have gone from shadowy to near twilight darkness. My friend grabbed my arm and started freaking out about how weird it got - then the air grew chillier, and had a feeling of something wrong. We both took off running looking for an exit, for some odd reason we never thought to turn around at all as we ran we could hear our steps echo off the area as things just felt like they grew more gloomy.

Then ahead of us down a small hill and back up the other side we could see two large bushes on either side of the trail like a gate. We made a mad dash for the bushes and just as we pushed through the plants something odd happened - we were nearly blinded by light as sound and warmth returned all at once. It was like stepping outside of a cold, empty, and dark building to a warm busy street. We stood at the edge of a place known as Old Man's Cave which has a large waterfall and a u-shaped cliff where you can look down into where the water and people gather. We turned around and the bushes were the same but the area was different, brighter, not silent for sure, and warm. In fact our skin was cold to touch which just reinforced the facts. We took out our phones and the time had finally updated, it was now 4pm. The normal trail would only have taken an hour to walk fully so it was a loss of three full hours!

Logic attempted to set in and we decided the trail we came up must have just appeared creepy because there may have been clouds over head or a storm blew by but when we went back between the bushes there was no trail. Nothing looked like it had a few seconds ago. Ciera walked around the bushes twice and it was the same bright sunny day with no darkness and no trail. We waited, it was blue sky over head and we could see the edges of the forest and other people. The trail had simply vanished as it we had never walked it.

On returning past the trail where the fire tower was located, we noticed it was normal looking and there was a blond haired young lady with her hair in a pony tail climbing the steps, the windows were not taped and very clean, and no pungent smell. We don't know what it was, but it certainly was creepy. Of course I jokingly told her later that day over dinner we had entered the faerie realms by mistake and were lucky to get away, she didn't find that funny of course but either way we felt we should share this with you and if anyone out there has had a similar experience perhaps they can provide insight.

Thanks again, Danny

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Daily 2 Cents: Shelter Island 'Werewolf' -- Mysterious 'Creature' in Hearne, TX -- Oranges Lights & Piles of Frogs

Shelter Island 'Werewolf'

Starting with a bit of backstory, I’m a born and raised Long Islander. So are my parents. They met out east, which in Islander talk means the east end of the Island. To any NYC rich kids, that means the Hampton’s. But for the rest of us who are coincidentally NOT millionaires, it means the North Fork.

Not to get to geographically confusing, but Long Island is a (accurately named) long island that forks off about a 3/4 of the way down the 90 miles it stretches. It kind of looks like a fish with its mouth open, with the North Fork being where the eyes are and the Hampton’s being the jaw. (Do fish even have jaws?) Shelter Island is somewhere in the middle. Like, a smaller fish about to be eaten.

Honestly, just save yourself a lot of contemplating and Google it.

My mom’s family had a summer house on the North Fork. My dad’s had a house on Shelter Island. My parents met working at a summer job, and the rest is (clearly) history. But SUPER long explanation short, I grew up getting to pretend to be bougie, because I had not one, but TWO summer houses. I know, right?

Shelter Island is my favorite place. In a lot of ways, just the island itself feels magical. The only access is by ferry, and while traveling there you feel like your being transported into a different world. But the picture of Shelter Island in the summer is very different than the winter. In the summer, the population rises to around 20,000 people. But in the winter? Not more than 2,000. There are something like 14 students in a graduating class. The people there literally DRESS UP LIKE EACH OTHER for Halloween. This doesn’t necessarily pertain to my encounter, but its for real creepy, and makes me wonder just how involved my encounter could be with the locals.

So I was around 12 or 13. I had invited my best friend Lauren to come out with my family that weekend. I was so excited, as it was one of the first time’s Lauren was able to. I remember our bathroom was being renovated, and so the only other bathroom we could use was in the dank, dark basement, that's only connection to the house was by going outside and down the stairs and then down another set of stairs into the basement. So it had to have been around 10 o'clock, and we went together to the bathroom to brush our teeth. The moon was almost full, so bright it provided some lights on an island that street lamps were few and far between. If it wasn’t for the light of the moon, we probably would have passed the creature all together without realizing, because out there you can hardly see two feet in front of you when it’s dark. As we were coming back up the stairs, laughing about something menial, was when we saw it.

It was about 10 feet away, with it’s back to us, lurking near my shed. We both froze. and did that thing where you take a quick breath and hold it, involuntarily. That made the creature notice us. It’s head whipped around, and his eyes were glowing, a kind of blood red. It didn’t look angry per say, but rather like a feral dog, not knowing how to react to these two little girls observing it. Almost as if not to scare us, he slowly rose up to full size, which I would guess was around 7 feet. The whole time, it never broke eye contact. I felt I could fall into the pits of blood that it’s eyes were. It was covered in long shaggy black hair and had the legs like that of a beast. After standing there, frozen in horror, for at least a full minute, all the while still in this staring contest, we both regained control of our feet and ran up the stairs screaming for my parents. “We saw a werewolf, we saw a werewolf!” My dad went out first, and we followed. My dad quickly dismissed it and went back inside, a bit disgruntled. I could have sworn I saw a bush where it was near move.

Over the years, I’ve had many theories. One of which is that the Natives who lived on the Island before the white man are responsible, as shapeshifting legends are prevalent in Indigenous peoples cultures. However, skinwalkers in Native legend usually choose to be so, very unlike the werewolf curse we so know and love. Maybe, it’s the descendants of the people who stole this land, cursed to turn under the full moon, choosing isolation to protect their secret. For nine months out of the twelve, anyway. - https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidenco... - thegoblinuniverse

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Mysterious 'Creature' in Hearne, TX

Published in the Greenwood, South Carolina 'Index-Journal' on October 24, 1985:

Hearne, Texas (AP) A tall, mysterious creature appears appears to have begun trick-or-treating a week early, say police who have been getting reports about something leaping from rooftop to rooftop and gnawing on front porches. The creature also has reportedly reportedly torn screen windows and scared a dog, police Chief James Bundren said Wednesday.

"It's Halloween time and there might be a lot of creatures out there. Every now and then someone calls and says they they think they heard the creature." One resident told authorities last week that something about six feet tall chewed up his porch, screen and railing, Bundren said. The resident beard a noise at the front door during the night and went to investigate. When be opened the door, Bundren said, he saw the "image of a man, but it had a head that was chewing and slapping at the door."

The resident told police he quickly slammed the door. He looked out the window and saw his frightened dog running down the street. Bundren said the pet still has not returned.

Another resident told police she heard something large land on one side of her roof, walk to the other side and leap off the carport, be said. But police found no tracks around the house.

"It raised all kinds of commotion around here after that happened," he said, adding that calls are still coming in from people saying they have heard the creature. Bundren said police have no suspects, but that the first homeowner may have seen a man holding a large dog in front of him.

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Oranges Lights & Piles of Frogs

Pigeon Falls, WI - 2012-05-27 - 9:05PM: My boyfriend and I were on our way to his mom's to watch the town fireworks. We were about half way there when my boyfriend said WTF is that?! I looked over to my right and saw about 12 or so big orange balls flying across the field towards up. I stopped the car right there in the road grabbed my phone and started taking pictures. These things were really fast and made absolutely no noise whatsoever. We saw that a truck was coming so we got back in the car and drove down the road about 5 feet and parked in some farmers driveway and that's when I got the 4 second video of the lights and him saying holy f***ing wow dude! Then they just disappeared. We got back in the car again and about maybe 3 feet down the road there was a little bridge over a trout creek that we had to cross. On this bridge must have been ever single frog that was in the water on that bridge. They covered the entire bridge and were 2 inches thick. All I know is that that night changed my life forever! I was truly blown away w/the fact that UFOs are real! I was, and still am, honored to be able to witness something as amazing as I did! I was enlightened that night and now I've become almost obsessed w/watching the night sky. I even have 3 telescopes now! I know what we saw and I know that what we saw was real and I also know that we are not alone! - MUFON

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The Crash That Didn't Happen

“I wouldn't normally tell this story as most people would shrug it off, but here it goes. I was staying in El Paso, TX for a few months, and had to smoke my cigarettes outside in the backyard. The backyard of this house was the typical Texas style, with stone walls around the border. Beyond the wall was an open natural desert for a few miles as it overlooked the Mexican border, etc. (Awesome view). I had been there for four months at this point, and was very aware of the border patrol helicopters, the stars, and pretty much all sky related happenings, considering the guy I was with was really into UFOs like I was, so we watched satellites a lot, etc. With that said, I know in the four months I was there, no planes flew over the residential area. Just helicopters over the desert pretty much. Planes stuck to the northern part of where we were.

As I was outside by myself one night around midnight, I saw strange lights coming in low, as if getting ready to land. It was startling enough that I knocked on the sliding glass door and motioned for him to come out to ask him what it was. By the time he got to the door I realized oh, it's definitely a plane, and told him, 'Nevermind, I thought I saw something. It's just a plane lol'. It was clearly a commercial airline, had the blinking lights and everything. He went back inside. I watched as it came closer and closer, getting quite low within a minute or two. Now it's over the houses, about 20 houses away. I'm kinda sh*tting myself, it looks so low it's about to hit these houses! As it flies directly above me in the backyard, I brace for the noise that's about to hit me as I have never been this close to a moving plane before. It passes above me, and it's so low that I can see the landing gear and the seams of welded metal and detail of the plane. Mind you, I wasn't wearing my glasses and could still make out the distinct details. Couldn't be more than 300 feet above me.

I am ready to put my hands up to my ears since there's NO WAY this isn't going to be crazy loud. I stand there waiting and watch it pass, it's so low that the small tree patch in the next yard block it from my sight almost immediately..... NO NOISE. I mean, not a whisper. Not a breeze. Nothing. I waited a few more seconds thinking ok its soooo close that the sonic boom must be lagging. Nope... nothing. At first I wasn't as concerned about the missing noise thing as I was about the fact that the plane was clearly crashing. The engine must have gone out and I'm about to witness a very loud plane crash a few houses down and start to panic. There's no airport or runway in that direction for miles, if not hundreds of miles. The El Paso airport was in the opposite direction. Absolutely no plane crash, no plane gaining altitude, nothing. Just vanished.

I would have just put this out of my mind and figured it to be my imagination or something but 2 nights later the EXACT thing happened again. This time everyone was asleep inside. I watched as it came in from the horizon and slowly followed the same path. Lowering until it was directly above the houses a few hundred feet up. Same path as the last one. Not a damn whisper of noise. I can hear planes 1,000 feet up every day as they pass. These planes did not make noise. I simply can not explain it. There's no way the noise bounced off the small desert hill out in the distance or somehow echoed off and directed the sound to a different place. It was so unbelievably close that again, even though I knew it was the same thing, I again braced for impact. Thinking that this is gonna be so loud 'oh my God.' Nope. Never made noise. I then realized it's not a crashing plane at all. Two planes can't crash in the same ridiculous path. And nothing was in the news following both instances. Believe me, I checked. It's as if I was the only one that saw this giant unmistakable commercial 747 plane fly over my freakin' head. Twice. And didn't cause even a quiver around me. I will never ever forget the eerie silence. It's just not physically possible.”

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Daily 2 Cents: Extraordinary Being Poking Me -- Buried Union Army Gold in Pennsylvania? -- Strange Object 'Floating' Through Milwaukee

Extraordinary Being Poking Me

Mount Bethel, PA - 2014-12-12 - 11:20PM: Over the past 30 years there have been incidences with viewings of cylinder-like multiple (5-6) objects overhead with Air Force jets then following them upward until they vanished in the NJ area, along with known experiences of being raised off the bed during sleep at various times. These experiences continued when I moved to Pennsylvania, but occurred more often and I became more aware, attempting to remain awake. The encounters always happened at night, especially while the TV was off. My dog would wake me barking frantically, then overhearing what sounded like a train or huge jet overhead. When I calmed her down and returned to sleep, the encounters continued

The most extraordinary and memorable encounter (which I will never forget) occurred late 2014 when I fell asleep on the couch around 11:10 pm (having glanced at the wall clock prior to falling asleep) with the TV off. I awoke or tried to awake when I heard my dog barking frantically, pacing back and forth. I opened my eyes, but my vision appeared as though something placed gel over my eyes b/c even though I could make out what was in front of me, it was not entirely a clear image. I also felt something poking at my face and making noises (medium to high-pitch sounds). It was as if this being was making fun of me somehow...just poking its long brown/grey finger and touching my face..cheeks..forehead. I tried to reach out and touch it, but felt paralyzed...couldn't move at all. I could make out its face, long 4 fingers that were in front of me, eyes, skin texture, and size. I managed to glance upward and could make out the room..the clock on the wall, (then 11:20), the chairs, and table. The dog was quiet then. I had been laying on my left side and this extraordinary being was right next to me...only a couple of inches away. Since I found that I couldn't speak nor move, I attempted to relate mentally to leave me alone and that I needed rest. I felt my eyes close and woke up...then looking at the clock it was 11:30 pm. Before going into such a transient state where you can't move or speak, I have felt the same sensations of diminished hearing, small cylinders or pistols going off within the brain, and hearing a loud jet-like or train-like roar prior to the encounter. This being was amazing! These encounters have also left sores and small indentations on my body over the years...with the latest one on my arms and lower right leg with present scars. - MUFON

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Strange Object 'Floating' Through Milwaukee

The sighting occurred in February 2010 at about 6:30 PM on a side street in an industrial neighborhood, a few blocks from the intersection of Capital and Palmer in Milwaukee, WI. A friend was in a meeting with a local community organization and I decided to stay in the car to make some work related phone calls. I had just finished up with the phone calls when I decided to step out of the car for a cigarette. I leaned up against the driver-side door of the car facing the South as I smoked. I noticed movement some movement to my right, and looked in that direction. An object anywhere from 4 to 5.5 feet long oriented perpendicular to the ground like so: | was floating about 15 feet off the ground. The object was moving from the West to the East at about 6 - 8 miles per hour with a very shallow guide slope, about 1 degree.

At first I thought that the object might be a kite cut loose from its string with how smoothly and quietly it was gliding along, until it passed underneath some power lines and a few feet later it ascended vertically by about 5 feet to clear the top of a building that it was headed for. It then moved parallel to the top of the building for about 300 feet until my view of the object became obstructed by another taller building to my left. The object was an imperfect cylindrical shape with a few small protrusions here and there.

When I realized that the object was not a wayward kite, I thought about reports of flying humanoids. However, the protrusions didn't seem to fit with what was described in those accounts - additionally there was a brief metallic flash as light from a lamp post reflected off of the object - this does not seem to fit with the description of flying humanoids either. Other than the brief metallic flash the object was entirely black. The closest the object's path took it to me was about 120 feet and I was able to observe the object for about 2 minutes, so I had ample opportunity to try to identify the object and for the life of me I cannot think of anything that this object could have been. Even after going home and doing a Google image search for UAVs nothing I have ever seen can match up with the description of this object. My reaction to this object was initially one of pure curiosity until after I had dropped my friend off at his place, then I became extremely nervous and scared.

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My family and I wish to thank all those who expressed their condolences and sentiments in regards to my father's passing. Lon
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Weekend 2 Cents: Bat-Shaped Object Over Atlanta -- Loud Screeching from the Sky -- 3-Book Giveaway

Bat-Shaped Object Over Atlanta

Atlanta, GA - 2018-03-16 - 8:06PM: I was driving home and noticed there was a lovely sunset over Atlanta so I grabbed my phone to take a picture. After snapping a couple photos I noticed there was something strange in the sky so I zoomed in. Then I noticed it was moving. So I took a video to get a better idea of what it was. It was strangely bat-shaped, bigger than an airplane, dark and almost amorphous. It was moving at a weird speed, it seemed to be floating almost bobbing up and down, and it flew behind a building. - MUFON

Video - Bat-shaped object over Atlanta


NOTE: Not sure what this is...video seems a bit 'jumpy' IMO. Klingon 'Man of War' anyone? Lon

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Loud Screeching from the Sky

Sweet Home, OR - 2018-03-16 - 8:13PM: Me and my friends were walking home from a walk then something just drew us to look up so we all looked up at the same time a few seconds before the event then out of nowhere a green circular shape appeared the hovered for a few seconds the disappeared I am pretty sure the light of ufo went out of orbit then we ran to my house and talked to my parents about the event then me and my friends stayed outside of my house to see if anything else would happen then a loud screech came from the sky and we ran inside - MUFON

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House of Horrors

A gruesome scene unfolded Friday night as Bexar County Sheriff's deputies discovered dead and dismembered animals in a West Bexar County home after receiving calls that animals were being sacrificed.

Deputies responded to an animal cruelty call in the 11400 block of Bronze Sand Road about 7 p.m.

When deputies arrived, they saw more than a dozen people inside the garage of a residence where a woman was cutting up "animal parts," while another person was draining the blood of a chicken into a container, according to Sgt. Elizabeth Gonzalez.

"It appears that they were having some sort of unknown ritual," Gonzalez said. "They were speaking a different language the officer did not recognize." Gonzalez explained the responding deputy is fluent in English and Spanish. Read more at Multiple arrests made Friday in possible animal ritual sacrifice in West Bexar County

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Daily 2 Cents: Huge Disc Blocked Out the Stars -- Grandpa Shot a UFO -- 'I don't know what's going on anymore'

Huge Disc Blocked Out the Stars

Liverpool, England - 1978-04-14: I've waited 40 years to reveal this sighting because I thought people would think I was nuts. This event happened the week before two police officers chased a UFO down the M53 motorway on the Wirral, Merseyside. At this particular time I was working at Lucas Girling in Bromborough. I was a CNC machinist. We made braking systems for the french SNCF high speed train amongst others.

That afternoon I was working a 3pm to 11pm shift. I finished work at 11pm and left the factory at approx 11:15pm. I was giving a colleague of mine a lift home because he lived in the same street as me. I was driving down Allport Road, Bromborough at approx 11:20pm. It was a dark night but cloud free, I could see the stars in the sky. As we travelled down Allport Road I noticed that there seemed to be a huge blackness in the sky blocking out surrounding stars. I stopped the car and both my colleague and I got out to observe this. Basically it was a huge black disc blocking out the starlight but the edge of the disc was edged with lights. It wasn't a plane coming into land at Liverpool Airport because this thing was almost stationary but it just seemed to be creeping along. I felt the hair rise on the back of my neck. Rod and I jumped back in my car and sped off home ASAP. We both knew what we had seen but I think it was also a case of denial. Who would believe us? People would think we are a pair of idiots. We didn't even discuss it between ourselves. But as the years have passed I firmly believe we are not alone. I think we are being observed, studied. worst case scenario is that in the scheme of things we could be like a small amount of bacteria in a petri dish. - MUFON

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Grandpa Shot a UFO

“This is my grandpa's story. Ok so in El Salvador we own land and one night, when he was younger, my grandpa and his 2 brothers were riding their horses at night around the property and they were carrying guns. He told me that he got off to relieve himself and looked up and saw something landing in the hills. So they go back on there horses and raced to it. When they made it, the ship he said was leaving and they didn't know what it was. So they began opening fire on it and next thing he told me was that there was a flash and him and his brothers woke up in the middle of the forest not remembering falling asleep or anything. That's a story he told me along with other ones. Just wanted to share it.”

Source: Youtube comments, William Padilla

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'I don't know what's going on anymore'

It has been five days since I saw that alien. I really did thought it left me alone and decided to play with someone else. But, I was wrong. My parents haven't been able to help me either, only thinking that I need some help while my siblings are a bit on edge too. I don't know what it wants from me or why it keeps appearing, but I am getting sick of it.

I've been searching everywhere for answers and all I get is people having difficulties to find answers too. However, this time, the experience got even worser. For being sick of my last encounter with the creature, I wasn't able to get much things done. I'm way behind with my projects and my boss has been nagging that I need to come to work, only for her to send me back. I think it is the flu that has made me sick, which I shouldn't give the alien the fault.

After I returned home, I decided to take a shower. Since I wear contacts, I had to take them out to prevent for them to stick on my eyeballs. This would mean for me that I can't see much and everything is blurry. Still in the shower, I could hear a few noises and some objects falling on the floor. Immediately, I thought it was my family. They are always searching for some things. Once the noise got closer to the bathroom. I immediately could feel myself tensing up. Panicing, I quickly shut the water and wrapped my bathrobe around me. Carefully getting out of the shower, my eyes immediately moved to the door. Just as I thought it was finally over. There stood the alien. The same one I had seen from the night before. This time, I was able to see it much brighter then first. It was very tall and those scary eyes made me almost want to scream for help.

When I did try to do that. It seemed like my voice was gone. The fear had me freeze, being unable to move or talk. We stared at each other what felt like hours, only for the alien to get closer to me. This time, I did force myself to calm down and think of something to do. I asked it what it wanted from me. This made the alien stop walking, staring at me once again as it lightly moved his head. It reached his hand out towards me, only for me to flinch and back up as much as possible. This didn't made the alien stop at all. I closed my eyes, forcing myself to tell this was some kind of nightmare. I did feel something on top of my head and I guess it had placed it's hand on me. But, I didn't dare to open my eyes. A sudden voice filled my head, telling me to calm down and that it won't hurt me. What made me even more freaked out was that I heard my own voice.

I have no clue what happened after that. Apparently, my mother had found me on the floor. I think I fainted, but I am not so sure. My hair was still wet, including my face when my mother found me. Whatever that thing wants from me. It can keep it. jinnxxeedd - Reddit - Humanoid Encounters

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The Truth That Was Out There -- Part III

The Truth That Was Out There: Long John Nebel’s Fight Against the Censorship of Flying Saucer Reports, Part III

By Raymond Keller, a.k.a. “Cosmic Ray,” the author of the international awards-winning 'Venus Rising' trilogy of books

Jesus between a rock and a hard place: A revolution carried out with love or sword, it’s all the same to the powers-that-be. They simply resist any change. Radio broadcaster Long John Nebel and the flying saucer contactees also discovered this same sad fact. The Establishment moved to take Nebel’s program, Party Line, off the air, and to have the contactees legally declared to be “insane persons” and to have each one hauled away to the nearest loony bin. See https://giphy.com/explore/the-last-te....
Message of the Contactees

There is a scene in Martin Scorcese’s Last Temptation of Christ (Universal Pictures, 1988) where Jesus, played by Willem Dafoe, stands before the Roman Procurator in Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate, who is wonderfully portrayed by David Bowie. This is the second time that Jesus appears before Pilate, having been sent back to him by the spineless Herod, who failed to take any action in Jesus’ case for fear of any repercussions from either side. Jesus is exhausted from a lack of sleep, and beaten down to a bloody pulp. A group of the Jewish religious leaders have followed the Roman guards escorting Jesus to Pilate’s hall. They standby, tucked away in the corner while awaiting the decision of Caesar’s representative in Judea.

PILATE
You're back.
(pause)
Hello.
(pause)
So now you're a king. Is that right?

Jesus stares at the sky.

PILATE
Don't look in the air. Look at me. Answer me. I can crucify you. You know that? Now... are you a king?

JESUS
Some say so.

PILATE
Ah yes. Well last time you took that line with me, you fooled me. I don't like to be fooled. What you did in the temple makes it very clear. You're just another of these religious revolutionaries making difficulties. You take the people into the desert, you talk about God, love, mercy and the new kingdom, but you're just the same as the Zealots. You all promise glory and bring death. There's a new Messiah every week and a new one dies every week and Rome continues.

JESUS
Remember the statue. And the stone. And the clay feet.

PILATE
How could I forget. Still think your kingdom will replace Rome?

JESUS
No. My kingdom is not on Earth.

PILATE
No, it wouldn't be. You're a little smarter than the others. After all, what's a revolution on earth compared to a revolution in people's hearts?

JESUS
It's a revolution that will come with love, not by the sword.

PILATE
Either way it's dangerous. It's against Rome. It's against the way the world is. And either way, I don't care. Sword or love, it's all the same. I don't care how you want to change things. We don't want them changed. So you know what has to happen. We have a small space for you up on Golgotha. Right next to the bones of your predecessors. Three thousand skulls there, very likely more by now. Maybe you people should go out and count them sometime. Maybe then you'd learn your lesson. But probably not.

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Now we advance the hands of time to the last decade of the 1950s, where a new set of revolutionaries arrive on the planet. They are also noted for preaching a gospel of peace. Based upon the messages delivered by the contactees on the early broadcasts of Long John Nebel’s Party Line program, the following information about our brothers and sisters of neighboring planets had been garnered:

1. People, similar in appearance to ourselves, from other worlds in our solar system and beyond, are visiting our planet in great numbers.

2. These space people are in contact with certain political and scientific circles in both the East and West, principally in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, as well as in the United States and the nations forming the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

3. People of Earth, from all walks of life, official and unofficial, have been contacted by brothers and sisters from other planets. Such contacts, however, have been kept secret, at least so far.

4. The philosophy brought to Earth by the contactees can be utilized as an aid in helping us to uncover the truth of our origins and our future destiny among the stars.

Long John Nebel noticed that there was a definite uniformity in the messages being delivered by the contactees over the airwaves on his Party Line broadcast. And, as we have taken note of in Parts I and II, his Mutual Broadcasting listening audience, and even Nebel himself, were actually starting to act upon these messages, as they are detailed above. Nebel’s fans were becoming politically conscious individuals and pressuring the politicians to tell us the truth about the alien presence on our planet and what we can do to prepare our society for its transition into a glorious future in outer space with our brothers and sisters from other nearby planets, even in our own solar system. These planets were most notably Mars and Venus. The contactees on the Party Line program were introducing such concepts as free energy, longevity of life into the hundreds of years, freedom from the false religious quackery of the world, and much more. One of the contactees, Dr. Gabriel Green of Los Angeles, California, had even declared his candidacy for president of the United States in the upcoming 1960 election. He would be running on the Flying Saucer Party’s ticket. How long could the program continue before the Establishment lowered the curtain on it all?

The successful campaign to get Nebel’s Party Line broadcast into national syndication provided the effectiveness of the people in organizing from the grass-roots. This was essentially a one-woman endeavor led by Mrs. John, the editor of the Washington, D.C. Little Listening Post newsletter that was sent out to a list of active ufologists scattered throughout the United States. Even as I sit here composing this article, I wonder what power each and every one of you, even as a reader, has in restoring this promising message of hope and love to the American people and the world at large. You see, this is exactly what the powers-that-be are fearful of. The presence of friendly extraterrestrials on Earth, lending us their expertise and technology, and once fully known and realized by the masses, will render irrelevant and obsolete all the social structures of command and control implemented by the established order of business, church and state. So thanks to the contactees, if you ever wondered why the last words in the New Testament are “Jesus, come back quickly!” you now have a better perspective.

The Empire Strikes Back: The Opposition Knows No Bounds in Trying to Squash the Truth

As I ponder the efforts of the evil ones to squash the truth that is still out there, my mind races back to this scene from Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Columbia, 1939). Here the young people rally in support of the beleaguered senator Jeff Smith, who manages to run afoul of the political machine of corruption and graft. While it presumes to rule this country, the people finally start to wake up to the sad reality of the Empire’s control matrix and start to think about strategies to take in down, once and for all. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXta_Xr6gl4.

Whether you are coming from the left or the right, you know that this is the case of the situation. This is what the Venusian Clarion Moon Base commander, Captain Aura Rhanes believed; and she said so to her primary contact, the Nevada highways road worker Truman Bethurum, as well as to Long John Nebel or anyone else who would listen and act upon what she was saying: that drastic times required revolutionary measures.

Two Venusian emissaries and revolutionaries sent from Queen Orda of Abejar, Lady Columba (L) and Lady Aurora (R), recently showed up in support of one of Dr. Keller’s Venus presentations in a woodlands area in Pennsylvania. Lady Columba was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1902; and Lady Aurora was born in 1880, in Northern India, during the time of the British Raj. Both met in Northern India during the 1930s, and became involved in the struggle of the people of India for independence from Great Britain. Lady Columba returned to the United States before the outbreak of World War II, where she became active with workers’ rights organizations in the last years of the Great Depression. Following the war, she moved to Southern California where continued her career as an artist and became a friend and associate of some of the contactees, most notably Truman Bethurum and Buck Nelson. Lady Aurora returned to the mountains above Rishikesh, in Northern India, where she further studied the mystic arts with Ascended Masters and other exalted beings from Venus and other planets.
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Opposition to Nebel Intensifies

Once Nebel’s program attained national syndication status with the Mutual Broadcasting Corporation, in the summer of 1957, it wasn’t long before the opposition mounted. It all began when an Indiana physician and psychologist declared to the Federal Communications Commission that, in his opinion, the Party Line talk program should be removed from the air because it was a “strain on mental health.”

The 2 August 1957 edition of the New York Daily News identifies this complainant as Dr. J. E. Schmidt of Charlestown, Indiana. Schmidt accuses the Mutual Broadcasting Corporation with presenting a program that was essentially “rubbish,” and “catering to those who want to believe in the impossible and the abnormal.”

The doctor was a guest on John Wingate’s Nightbeat radio program, where he took the opportunity to denigrate Nebel and the Party Line audience even more. Schmidt said that, “Nebel’s audience is composed of 95% neurotics.” He also added that, “I will be seeking the help of New York radio and TV writers in my attempt to eliminate this menace from the airwaves.”

Some Media Not Co-opted

Ben Gross was the media reporter who wrote this referenced newspaper article, “Should Long John Be Removed from the Air?” While many others in the industry were jumping aboard Dr. Schmidt’s anti-Nebel bandwagon, others were still hesitant or outright opposed to the idea of any kind of media censorship. Gross opined that, “The doctor hasn’t approached me as yet; but if he does, this is one quarter in which he will find no aid.” The reporter explained that Long John’s Party Line is something that is just too unique in radio, so much so that Gross wrote that, “it was one of the most interesting and novel post-midnight items ever heard in New York and in the other states reached by the program.”

While the show was considered somewhat “off-beat” for the times in which it aired, it offered a panel discussion nightly covering a wide range of topics, with such esoteric themes as astrology, haunted houses, hypnotism, flying saucers, numerology, reincarnation, stage and black magic, and even witchcraft, in addition to the more traditional subjects like advertising practices, archaeology, bullfighting, medicine, modern art and music, the stock market fluctuations, and travel.

It was apparent that Gross and others were not going to buy into Schmidt’s campaign to knock Nebel’s informative program off the air. It was very important for the listeners to keep the Party Line on the air, if for no other reason than that it served to bring to the public’s attention many topics seldom, if ever, talked about on the airwaves. Reporter Gross summed it up nicely: “Party Line is a forum on which hours are devoted to ‘kicking around’ many little discussed topics. It is the nearest thing to the collegiate bull sessions of recent memory, a veritable Hyde Park of the radio, in that it gives expounders of odd philosophies a chance to be heard.”

Perhaps this is what the Establishment mostly fears, some “odd” idea or philosophy catching on with the masses. This would particularly be so in the case where such a concept would prove to run counter to the ruling elite’s image of what society should look like or even how it should be managed.

Besides the wide variety of topics the listener encounters on the program, there is always to be found a bevy of experts to discuss them and even answer audience questions that are called in. Naturally, there were no laws, as yet enacted, prohibiting anyone from tuning in to the program. After midnight, in the latter half of the 1950s, one could hear various disc jockeys airing music, from the new fangled rock and roll to symphonies. And then there were other news programs, like Barry Gray’s business interviews or Big Joe’s charity endeavors. But Long John Nebel offered the real alternative for that “something different” in the morning hours. Gross lamented, therefore, that “To deprive the public of this program would be a flagrant abuse of censorship.”

And as to Dr. Schmidt’s contention that an “off-beat” radio program could, in and of itself, affect the mental health of a listener, wouldn’t it be logical to assume that any adult who would be adversely affected by such program is just already “too far gone,” so to speak; and that he or she might really require the services of a psychiatrist well before listening to any kind of broadcast.

Contactee George Adamski explains power sources and maneuvering capabilities of Venusian scout ships and motherships to WOR-Radio New York pioneer talk show host, Long John Nebel. Photo is from archives of Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
Assessment of the Situation

As contactees of the New Age are emerging, there is much we can glean from Long Nebel and the guests of his program like George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry, Howard Menger and others in the field of ufology that have come and gone before us. All of these cited contactees and many others who graced the Party Line show, merely desired that Nebel’s audience have the opportunity of knowing what was going on in every aspect of extraterrestrial and UFO research. Hopefully, we of the present age will discover the truth about the contactee messages and turn to face the times to come with a greater bearing and confidence.

Freedom of speech and expression is essential to guarding and maintaining a democratic society. This applies equally to ufology as well as any other topic. While Nebel did not personally believe all of the contactee reports that were disseminated over the airwaves via his Party Line program, it is significant that he did use his platform to either belittle or fight anyone, and all of this in spite of all the pressure on him to do so by Mutual executives and others of the elite beyond the halls of the broadcasting network. Nebel realized that no matter what the truth that was out there was, it would eventually be revealed in the full light of day for the whole world to see and stand in awe at. But in the meantime, it was up to each and every individual to decide what he or she could or could not accept in the contactee claims. Taking this to heart, these individuals could then march on to new and exciting experiences in the fantastic UFO universe and the wondrous worlds of tomorrow which they surely will encounter. So let the economic, military, political and religious powers of the Earth quake in their boots, for their time is numbered and the final countdown has begun.

(Note: At a recent Gift of Light Expo in Ohio, Dr. Keller received a mysterious printed ticket from the 1950s, issued by Captain Aura Rhanes herself, good for a free, but one-way trip to outer space, along with a personal letter in Truman Bethurum’s own cursive handwriting, explaining about the situation on the “Dark Side of the Moon.” The doctor believes it was delivered by an “emissary of the light,” which is all he could say in the time being, but added that, “Perhaps I will redeem it up on the slopes of Mt. Shasta, when I meet up there with Frank Chille, George Filer, Shari Lynn, Omnec Onec, Lady Jenn and others at the From Venus with Love Conference, 27-29 July 2018, sponsored by Rob Potter’s thepromiserevealed.com)

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The Truth That Was Out There -- Part II

The Truth That Was Out There: Long John Nebel’s Fight Against the Censorship of Flying Saucer Reports, Part II

By Raymond Keller, a.k.a. “Cosmic Ray,” the author of the international awards-winning 'Venus Rising' trilogy of books

Highbridge, New Jersey, contactee Howard Menger (1922-2009), a frequent and most popular guest on Long John Nebel’s Party Line radio broadcast, generated a storm of controversy over his claims of meeting Venusians that landed their flying saucer in his backyard apple orchard. Photo is from Keller Venus files.
The sign painter and the Venusians

The subject of flying saucers is what kept listeners’ ears glued to Long John Nebel’s Party Line program, broadcast over WOR-Radio out of New York, seven times a week, from 1 to 5:30 a.m. And of all the experts on this extraordinary subject that ever took a turn in addressing Nebel’s ever-growing audience, it was the New Jersey sign painter Howard Menger who proved the most attractive, yet controversial. Ben Gross, a radio and television reviewer for the New York Daily News, took note in the 10 February 1957 edition of that newspaper, that the Party Line was the perfect venue for the increasing number of “off-beat connoisseurs” in the radio market.

In an article entitled, “Venus Flying Saucer Gave Him a Lift,” media correspondent Gross wrote that, “There’s a fellow out in Highbridge, New Jersey, who says he has regular contacts with men from Venus. They land in his apple orchard via flying saucers. But that’s not all. By means of some mystic mumbo-jumbo, known as teleportation, he vows he can transport his body or any object from one place to another. Air lines, railroads and bus companies, please take notice!”

Gross insisted that he wasn’t making this story up and neither had he been imbibing of any alcoholic substances. “No such thing,” he insisted; and he added that, “I could pass the drunk test in traffic court anytime.

“The truth is I’ve been listening these many nights to the Party Line conducted by Long John over WOR-Radio; and I’ve tuned in so assiduously that no matter how fantastic a story you might tell me, I’m eager to listen.”

Of course, while the renowned journalist Frank Edwards covered the “nuts and bolts” technical aspects of the UFO phenomenon over Mutual Broadcasting’s day-time programming, it was up to Long John Nebel to provide the night owls with all of the esoteric information coming from the contactees, psychics and others tuned into the more metaphysical planes of existence. In this regard, the Daily News reporter dubbed Long John Nebel, the “Chef of the Imaginative Bouillabaisse.”

Nebel Intrigued

Nebel was particularly intrigued by the contactees and their alleged adventures with extraterrestrials. However, Nebel would be the first to emphatically tell you that he does not necessarily “buy into” all of these contact tales. The pioneer radio talk show personality was definitely a hospitable fellow; and he did manage to keep an open mind about all the paranormal subjects that would come forth on his program, which first aired on 17 August 1956. The guests have proven quite eclectic. Besides the contactees, there have also appeared on the program spiritualists, believers in reincarnation, mental telepaths, practicing astrologers, individuals who can teleport themselves, authorities on cancer and fluoridation, hypnotists, mind readers, escape artists, science fiction writers, magicians, debunkers of bunko schemes, and many more. Often Nebel would bring cynics and doubters on the Party Line to hotly engage in arguments with his more flavorful guests as described above.

Over a Steak Dinner at the Pen and Pencil Restaurant

Both being journalists in the Greater New York area, Gross and Nebel agreed to meet over a steak dinner at the famous Pen and Pencil Restaurant, a well-noted hangout for people in the media. Of their meeting, Gross wrote in the Daily News that, “John is a 6’4”, 170-pounder, with smiling blue eyes and crew-cut brown hair. A former ‘mind reader,’ carnival and street corner pitchman, band leader, ‘super-salesman,’ and manager of the world’s largest photographic supply store, he glows with boyish enthusiasm.”

Gross went on to further describe Nebel. “His youthful zest causes one to doubt the accuracy of his birth certificate, as this formal document says he was born in Chicago, 11 June 1911.”

At the restaurant interview, Gross asked Nebel, “Which topic discussed on your show has drawn the most mail?”

“Flying saucers,” said Long John Nebel, adding that, “The majority of the 50,000 letters we’ve received are concerned with these UFOs. Other big mail drawers are teleportation, cancer and fluoridation.” Teleportation would be considered the transportation of a material object via mental or spiritual means, through time and space.

Long John Nebel pontificates on flying saucer contactees. Photo is from Keller Venus files by August C. Roberts to Otto Binder for unpublished book.
The Flying Saucer from Venus

The interview continued.

Gross: “What is the story told on your program which you regard as the most interesting?”

Nebel: “That of Howard Menger, a sign painter, of Highbridge, New Jersey.”

Gross: “Tell me about it.”

Nebel: “Well, Howard is a nice, gentle and average appearing a person as you’d want to meet. He seems to be utterly honest and sincere. He lives in his small home and, according to him, within recent months flying saucers from the planet Venus have landed in his apple orchard three times.

“As he tells the story, which his wife, Rose, says is absolutely true, he has not only talked to outer space visitors who have arrived in a saucer, but actually taken a 17-minute trip with them in their wondrous craft. Furthermore, says Howard, he has 25 witnesses to these incidents. And, of course, he claims he is also regularly in contact with these spacemen via mental telepathy.

“But this isn’t the most remarkable part of Menger’s many unusual experiences. He says that one night, just a few weeks ago, in response a telepathic message from spacemen, he drove in his station wagon toward Pennsylvania. While driving, he suddenly received another message to turn off a dirt road into a wooded area. He was sitting alone there, but nothing happened.

“Then, apparently with the power he has acquired, Howard teleported himself to his home in Highbridge, some 70 miles away. Or so he claims.”

Howard Explained Teleportation

Gross: “How did he do this?”

Nebel: “Howard says he concentrated on appearing at his house. He visualized himself standing before his front door. He saw his sister-in0-law answering his knock and Howard took a pipe from his pocket and handed it to her. Then at 8:40, back in the station wagon again, Howard drove to a nearby diner and called his sister-in0-law at Highbridge. She told him that she had just seen him standing in front of the door…. That he had handed her his pipe…. and then had vanished into air.

“And later that night, after Howard had returned home, there it was. His pipe was on a table…. The one he had delivered by teleportation!”

Gross: “What do you think of this story?”

Nebel: “A psychiatrist, Dr. Nodor Fodor, says it’s possible, because it’s a matter of split personality and involves such things as time, space and another dimension.”

Gross: “But, do you believe this?”

Nebel: “Well, you have to admit that it’s interesting.”

The ‘Cosmic Ray’ Opines

There is little doubt in my mind that Howard Menger was telling the truth; for I have teleported myself on several occasions. In the introduction to my second book in the Venus trilogy, Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus, an account is provided by a witnessing paranormal investigator where I teleported from a youth center in Parkersburg, West Virginia, back to a campsite some ten miles away, in the presence of four witnesses. Attached to this article is a video from my office where I demonstrate how teleportation is accomplished with the aid of a nimbus, a Venusian device which augments quantum gravitational compression fields with the aid of an embedded Cytherium/Californium crystal.

Watch Raymond’s Video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QiEociRIBQ

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.” – Fred Gailey in Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century Fox, 1947)

The program on the night following Menger’s appearance included the channeling of a 50,000 year old spirit from the lost continent of Atlantis. Remember, this was a time when the Congress was considering, at the behest of wayward psychologists, a ban on comic book heroes like Batman, Superman, and Captain Marvel and libraries were routinely being forced to ban books like L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz or (1900) or the more contemporary J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye (1951). Not surprisingly, a noted Indiana psychologist would launch a campaign to take Long John Nebel’s Party Line off the air for good, citing it as “rubbish” and declaring that it only served to “cater to those who want to believe in the impossible and the abnormal.”

To find out the details of this absurd campaign and the efforts of the government minions complying with the wishes of a dastardly Silence Group to black out Nebel from his expanding radio audience, don’t miss the next amazing article in this series, “The Truth that Was Out There,” right here on this website.

Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet [image error]

Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus [image error]

Cosmic Ray's Excellent Venus Adventure [image error]

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Daily 2 Cents: Severed Heads...and Aliens Eating People -- Grandfather's Missing Time -- Creepy Message Freaks School Kids

Severed Heads...and Aliens Eating People

The following document was referred to me...from The Black Vault:

Marie Derobertis
Regional FOIA/Privacy Act Coordinator
Forest Service
Southwestern Region
p: 505-842-3172
mderobertis@fs.fed.us
333 Broadway Blvd. SE
Albuquerque, NM 871 02
www.fs.fed.us

From: Rockett, Paige D -FS
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 1 :33 PM
To: FS-pdl r3 tonto group-and-rangers
Cc: FS-pdl r3 all paos

Subject: Secret govt installation being built in the Salt River Canyon area on the TNF: call-in report today at front desk.

All -

David received a call this morning at the front desk from a male caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek (upstream from Roosevelt Lake). Aliens and at least one detached head are involved.

Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people. He found a severed head and claims to have pictures of some of this stuff.

Caller reported that he is 60, not crazy, and doesn't do drugs. He said he had already called the "office at the lake," but he didn't know if those people were turning the other cheek or maybe those people have been paid off.

David had him leave a message with Bray.

Please let me know if there are any Talking Points to be developed. I'm sure the Phoenix media will be all over this.

Thanks

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Grandfather's Missing Time

“My Dad's side of the family has had some cases of what could be considered missing time. I don't think any of them would believe in much of this, but it is interesting. My Grandfather had bad knees and back before some surgeries and there were multiple times he fell going down the steps into the backyard. He was too frail to be able to get back up and would have to wait for someone to find him, which was usually the couple he rented out the upstairs to. He didn't have a cellphone or life-alert type device. Anyway, I remember two separate times that he fell while they were away for the weekend. He once had to wait a day and the other a full two days for them to get home to actually find him. He's adamant that he was only on the ground for a couple hours and didn't fall asleep or anything of the sort that would explain the time discrepancies. Hunger, thirst, need to use the bathroom, nothing like that matched up with being out there for the extended periods of time. He was in no way mentally gone, so I imagine he'd know if he fell asleep. Also, with the combination of pain and knowing/seeking out the need for help kept him vigilantly awake, while he tried to get anyone's attention to his predicament.”

Source: Youtube comments, Zack Benedict

Beyond Creepy

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Creepy Message Freaks School Kids

WOODLAND, Wash. -- A strange message that went out over the loudspeakers at Woodland Primary School Tuesday scared kids and confused parents.

As 6-year-old Paisley tells it, the school day wasn't a typical one.

“It was really scary and I thought like something would happen and I thought it was real,” she said.

She's talking about a bizarre message sent over the intercom that had her and her friends freaked out and hiding under their desks.

“I was crying,” she recalled.

“Picked my daughter up from school and she comes running up to me from the bus. Dad, dad, dad, there's an octopus that's gonna smash my eyes with a hammer,” said Scott Summers, Paisley’s dad.

It was definitely not what he expected to hear from his little girl.

“Some dark creepy voice came over the loud speaker and scared them all,” said Summers. Read more at Bizarre alert over school intercom prompts lockdown in Woodland

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