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January 16, 2025
Indonesian Hunter Recalls His 'ORANG PENDEK' GROUP Sighting

"My grandpa said it looked like a hybrid between humans and chimps and it was kind of small, maybe 4 feet. He couldn't explain it well because of how weird that thing was."
I received the following account:
"Thanks for reading. I'm Indonesian, and I have a second-hand story to tell you. My grandpa was born in Sumatra, even though his dad is a Chinese immigrant, my grandpa pretty much lived there for his whole life. You see, the island of Sumatra has many thick and dense forests, and if I remember correctly there are many parts still left unexplored. My grandpa was quite adventurous when he was younger, he often went to the forest with his friends to hunt squirrels and other small wild animals.
One day, my grandpa and his friends decided to go to another region in Sumatra and hunt in a more remote and unfamiliar forest, he said he got bored hunting in the same forest all the time.
So, accompanied by his usual hunting friends, they hired a local guide and entered the forest. After hunting for squirrels all day, they realized that they were lost, their local guide said he'd never seen that part of the forest they were in, which was weird because he made sure to stay in the area he was familiar with. My grandpa said, it felt like they were hypnotized by unseen forces, and before they knew it, they ended up in an unfamiliar part of the forest.
They tried to remain calm and assess the situation, and that's when they noticed it, something was observing them from behind the bush. My grandpa said it looked like a hybrid between humans and chimps and it was kind of small, maybe 4 feet. He couldn't explain it well because of how weird that thing was.
The creature noticed my grandpa's party was aware of its presence and walked away from the scene, weirdly enough the creature wasn't running at all so out of curiosity the party decided to follow the creature. They arrived at an open area where a group of the creatures gathered. My grandpa said they were talking in some kind of unknown language, like a wildman language. The party decided it had enough curiosity and time to scram out of there because they were in an unknown situation and they could be in real danger. After walking for hours they miraculously reached the edge of the forest sometime after sunrise, and luckily enough the creatures didn't follow them at all.
It's up to you to believe me or not, but one thing I know for sure my grandpa wasn't a liar. He kept telling us this story even after he reached a very old age. This story got me into cryptozoology and of course, I did some research on Orang Pendek, and some testimonies from natives across Sumatra were similar to my grandpa's. One thing that I want to mention is the creatures speak some kind of unknown language, that's why the very first time I heard the Sierra sound recordings I shivered all over my body, to think these creatures are intelligent is very exciting." R
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RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY
POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!
LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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Australian Experiencer Details Her MULTIPLE ALIEN ABDUCTIONS

"I would 'wake up' feeling fine and find myself in a place filled with yellow that smelled like stale air and decomposition. I could feel that I was restrained but was not tied to anything."
I received the following account:
"Hello, sir. I recently read your book Alien Disclosure: Experiencers Expose Reality, and I was fascinated by several reports, especially those describing abduction.
I grew up on a farm in Victoria, Australia. I now live in the United Kingdom. What I believe to be abductions occurred from the time I was 12 to the time I was 17. There were four episodes in total. They all followed the same pattern. I would be lying in bed and about to fall asleep. I would hear a ringing in my ears. I would feel sudden and intense nausea. The ceiling above me would move and start to shake. I would try to cry out but no sound would come out of me. I would feel a sickening feeling as if I was moving very quickly and suddenly, imagine motion sickness multiplied beyond anything you can imagine.
I would eventually 'wake up' feeling fine and find myself in a place filled with yellow lights that smelled like stale air and decomposition. I could feel that I was restrained but was not tied to anything. I just could not move my limbs. My legs would feel like they were burning and a figure at the end of my body would keep putting a heavy, sticky, black liquid on them that quickly cooled them.
I was afraid to look at the figure and afraid for their face to turn towards mine. Another hand was on my forehead, holding my hair back. Then the burning sensation was on my abdomen and not my legs. I would be utterly terrified each time.
Each time I woke up in my bed, every time the next morning, I would find little pinprick-like spots on my body and would be sick in bed for days and be incredibly weak. My mother recalls that I had a strange 'chemical' odor about me. I was too afraid to tell my parents about the experiences as I felt the same thing would happen to them if I did.
The doctors guessed that I was weak due to blood loss but could not see any signs or diagnostics of viral or bacterial infections. I am not epileptic and as an adult have been tested for all kinds of disorders. I'm perfectly healthy. I firmly believe I was not abused or violated, other than what I previously described.
The abductions ended 15 years ago, I am otherwise a completely rational person, but this is something I've felt for a long time. I have never told anyone but a close friend and my husband. Your thoughts?" L
NOTE: I contacted the experiencer and we discussed the encounters in more detail. From the information that I was told, and subsequent personal information, I believe that the experiencer was a victim of abduction. Lon
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RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY
POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!
LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.
Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler
© 2005-2025 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

January 15, 2025
UNKNOWN HUMANOID Startles Student Experiencer at Gettysburg College, PA

"This has confused me to no end. As this being and I made eye contact, I felt and could see shock and fear go through him (I had the sense he was male). Like I wasn't supposed to be awake."
I received the following account:
"Hi, Lon. I thought that I would send this to you since it occurred near your location. In November 1988, during my freshman year at a local Pennsylvania college, I woke in the middle of the night because I felt myself being dragged out of bed by my feet and calves. There was a sensation of electromagnetic energy (like static electricity and when you try to put two positive or negative sides of a magnet together) around my legs.
When I opened my eyes, I realized I was halfway down my bed and the lower part of my legs had to be hanging off but something was holding them up. I was unable to move but could see the room clearly because I always kept a blue light on so I could see because weird things had been happening for months and I was afraid to sleep or be in the dark.
Suddenly an area of my room near my closet blurred or rippled - like heatwaves - and then something was standing there. It appeared to be about 5 feet tall humanoid, with a large round head, large, round, black eyes, earth-colored and was very slender. No clothes. Abruptly it rushed at me in a kind of blur, moving at a speed that wasn't possible. It stopped directly in front of me and we locked eyes.
As all this was happening, I didn't really feel afraid because I kept telling myself it couldn't possibly be happening. I must have been in between a waking and dreaming state even though I was wide awake and fully conscious.
This next part has confused me to no end. As this being and I made eye contact, I felt and could see shock and fear go through him (I had the sense he was male). Like I wasn't supposed to be awake. He quickly ducked down out of my field of vision, bending his torso in a way that human beings can't, then slowly stood back up and stared at me again. He was clearly afraid of me, which made no sense as I couldn't even move. I also felt an enormous amount of affection and familiarity from him, like we knew each other well and he cared for me deeply.
Then everything went black and I remember nothing more until I woke in bed the following morning. That was the first and last time that I encountered the humanoid." R
NOTE: I later found out from the experiencer that this occurred at Gettysburg College, which is well-known for paranormal activity. Lon
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RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY
POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!
LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.
Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler
© 2005-2025 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

California Beachcombers Observe Huge PTEROSAUR Near Monterey

"It also didn't fly like a bird, it flapped what appeared to be leathery wings very slowly. I swear my first thought was that I was seeing a dragon."
I received the following account:
"I saw a pterodactyl on the coast of northern central California. It wasn't a large seabird or any species of bird known to exist in the region. Me and my girlfriend were on a road trip without any end in mind, we were just driving up the coast and decided to sleep on the beach. I'm not sure exactly where we were exactly, but it was just south of Monterey.
As we were hanging out on the beach at night we both noticed a huge figure in the sky. Slowly as it gets nearer I realize that this thing was no bird. I have seen hawks, golden eagles, owls, vultures, condors; none of them looked like this. It also didn't fly like a bird, it flapped what appeared to be leathery wings very slowly. I swear my first thought was that I was seeing a dragon.
What's more, both of us saw it. We both stared at it awestruck for a few seconds before I caught its profile against the moon and it very strikingly looked to be a pterosaur.
In the few moments we witnessed this thing it was like reality froze and jelled around this moment, like my focus was being directly pointed to this thing. I've found that same sensation when I've had other unexplained experiences like the universe wants you to pay attention to this moment.
Later on, I even found a website for documenting pterodactyl sightings on the California coast, with several that occurred within that region. I try to remain a rational skeptic but this was simply mind-blowing and sure felt like we were looking at some sort of flying reptilian cryptid." A
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RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY
POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!
LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.
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© 2005-2025 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Pittsburgh Legend: '13 BENDS'

By Dr. Raymond A. Keller, author of The Real Resident Aliens
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Cultists, necromancers, and spiritualists are known to frequent a stretch of road in the Pittsburgh area with 13 bends where 11 children and two teachers were burnt alive when a girl’s school went up in flames in the early 1900s. Here they carry out occult rituals trying to contact the reticent ghosts and somehow help them move on to the Spirit World. Photo source: Investigating the Legend of 13 Bends - Part 2
“13 Bends”
The legend of “13 Bends” postulates that there is a road that bends thirteen times in one direction and twelve times in another direction within the Pittsburgh city limits where an unprecedented number of tragedies have taken place at sundry points along its distance. Going back to the first decade of the 20th century, some paranormal investigators say that along that uncanny road there once stood an orphanage that burned down. Meg O’Malley, a correspondent for the Positively Pittsburgh website, checked into this story, interviewing many Pennsylvanians who have encountered strange phenomena while traveling on this road. In her internet posting on the website titled, “Pittsburgh Urban Legends,” dated only 2022, O’Malley learned from one paranormal experiencer that, “If you drive down the road at night and put baby powder on your car, you will see the handprints from the children killed in the blaze.” Some paranormal experiencers report seeing the burning orphanage while simultaneously hearing the incessant screams of burning children jostling to escape the consuming flames.
There also exists a variation on this initial account stating that it wasn’t an orphanage that burned down, but a girl’s Christian school, killing 13 of its residents (two teachers and eleven students). Supposedly, each dead girl was buried at one of the bends in the road, accompanied by one teacher buried at the first bend and the other teacher at the last bend. Occasionally, drivers along the road report seeing the spirits of the girls roaming around the woods at night, with two women teachers, one at the front and the other at the rear, guiding them through the trees.
O’Malley additionally reported, “One story says that one night a group of teenagers drove out to check out the spiritual (paranormal) activity and got into a car accident, killing all of them. Their bodies remain in a mine shaft back off the road where three miners also are believed to have died. The forest beyond the road is also the alleged final resting place of three hunters.”
As gruesome as it may seem, there are reports of necromancers visiting various bends in the road in the dead of night, performing ceremonies with the intent of contacting wandering ghosts. O’Malley and other paranormal researchers feel that the road in question is either Route 48 near the Boston Bridge or Campbell’s Run Road in the unincorporated community of Marmarville on the northern side of the Alleghany River across from the southwest tip of Three Mile Island.
There don’t seem to be any extant records of an orphanage or girl’s school operating in either of these areas and having been burnt down to the ground. Nevertheless, many records from the late 1890s and early 1900s are known to have been lost, possibly through mismanagement or simply destroyed upon passing without notice of an archival date and then being accidentally destroyed.
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RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY
POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!
LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.
Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler
© 2005-2025 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

ALIEN INVASION at Military School Near Omaha, Nebraska?

A series of events at a military school near Omaha, Nebraska seems to suggest that there had been a possible 'alien incursion.' Uniformed officials question the school staff.
The following account was relayed to me:
"I'm a military school teacher near Omaha, Nebraska and one year we had a man from out of town come and take a position as a teacher. He was allegedly a Gulf War Veteran and a doctor. I'll just call him Dr. Smith. Now in a military school, in addition to many of the same classes you'd have in regular schooling, we also run drills like marching, rifle cleaning, mess cleaning, tending to the grounds, etc. Thus, making his credentials extraordinary (our school rarely gets out-of-towners to apply, and almost none with Dr. Smith's experience).
Since we're an on-facility school (meaning the students only go home for certain holidays or emergencies and the staff live on school property) many of the staff bring their significant others to live there during the school year. This man also brought (what we initially believed) to be his wife, but their relationship seemed to be more of a "professor/intern" type. Nobody really saw her much but my friends would sometimes recall strange sightings where they'd see her duck off into a nearby cornfield at weird hours of the night.
So the "extraterrestrial" part of the story kicks in now. So about a month or two into the school year, everything's normal. Dr. Smith is a competent teacher and great at leading some of the military exercises we run, and he was a nice guy if not a little odd (he was always mentioning a great war while looking slightly confused as to what he was talking about (I just chalked it up to some form of PTSD).
One day I was overseeing the pupils tending to the cornfield (one of their nontraditional school duties) when Dr. Smith's companion appeared out of nowhere from the field and came up to me and started asking very nervously "What are you doing, how far into the field are you going, have you seen Mr. Smith?" I'm a bit taken aback because before this encounter I had only ever exchanged small hello's with this woman. I explain that my students are performing their duties and she just says one word. "Caution." She then runs off. I was more baffled by the fact that she was running everywhere but I shrugged it and went back to overseeing the kids.
A week later I woke in the middle of the night to our school alarm. We have unannounced "combat drills" quite a bit but usually, the staff are pre-warned. I figured it was a troubled student performing a prank but I jumped into action nonetheless. As I met up with other teachers it's becoming clear that this might not be a drill or a prank at all. Nobody knows who pulled the alarm until Dr. Smith's companion comes running in (always running), and yells that we need to prepare the students for an invasion. Of course, we are all pissed that this crazy woman woke us all up but she points to some scarecrows coming out of the cornfield. We realize that some of the students or some local kids must be playing a prank. So our "principal" goes out and tells the "scarecrows" to immediately leave and that they were on private property. They just all shouted they wanted Dr. Smith and they wouldn't "harm us" if we handed him to them. Now Dr. Smith was with us and claimed to have no idea what these people were or wanted. His companion keeps pleading with him "We need to get you back, we need to get you back, you need to trust me!".
Then before I could hear any more of their conversation, all hell broke loose. Our principal rips off the bag from the head of the "scarecrow leader" and it's just hay. Then a little confused he grabs its arm and realizes it's all hay too and rips it off. Probably a midget hiding in the body? Nope. He takes apart the whole scarecrow THAT WE JUST WATCHED WALK OUT OF A FIELD AND SPEAK and all he could find was hay and cloth. Now everyone's starting to get confused, and one of the other teachers quietly suggests that we should assemble the students for conflict. I'm still skeptical until one of the other scarecrows walks over, puts his hand on the neck of our principal, and seriously injures him. Everyone starts freaking out, and in the chaos of us prepping for a fight, Dr. Smith and his companion sneak into the field without the scarecrows noticing.
They keep repeating to hand over Dr. Smith and we won't have any further harm done to us. Amongst all the scrambling we see a giant light in the middle of the cornfield shoot up into the sky for about 10 seconds and then disappear completely. I've tried to explain this many ways and can't. I went to the spot later on and didn't find any signs of lights or even damaged crops. The scarecrows all start to head toward the light when Dr. Smith appears from the complete other end of the cornfield. Many people will say he just ran there but there was no way he and his companion could get from where he entered to where he exited that fast, and without damaging any of the crops.
Only it wasn't quite Dr. Smith. I mean it looked like him, but something was different. He shined a small blue light (it looked like one of those key chain LED lights but I was far away), and the scarecrows all dropped. He turned to us and said that there wouldn't be any more trouble and that he was so sorry for the injury of our colleague and that he never meant to put us in any danger. He ran off into the cornfield again (always running) and none of us ever saw him again. We were still all too panicked and busy running the students into positions to truly process the sheer weirdness of what just happened.
Now in the hours that followed I was ready to believe most reasonable explanations and "aliens" weren't reasonable in my book. It wasn't until morning when soldiers in uniform arrived claiming they were from a UN task force (but not in any UN uniforms I had ever seen before) and asked us questions that I started putting the pieces together. They asked about things like "Did you see anything unusual in the sky before and following Dr. Smith's arrival?", "Were there any words he mentioned that you didn't recognize?" "What was his companion like?" "Did you ever hear anything about his past?" "Did he always look the same or did his appearance ever change?" Random questions like that. Real Men In Black type stuff. I half expected to be brainwashed. But they just relocated all of the teachers to other schools and had us sign confidentiality agreements." T
NOTE: A very interesting narrative, to the point where it seems to be fabricated. The eyewitness answered a few questions that I posed to him, and I am somewhat convinced that much of his account did occur. I haven't found much evidence on my own, but my interest is piqued. Lon
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RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY
POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!
LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify
PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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January 14, 2025
UPRIGHT 'HIDE BEHIND' DEER Seen in Eastern Iowa

"What we saw was 7-8 feet tall, bipedal, spindly legs, gaunt, with protruding rib cage. It/they would lean out from behind a tree in the forest behind our house."
I received the following account:
"My daughter and I have regularly and reliably seen a "hide behind" from my kitchen window. This eventually led to us learning the truth about this midwestern mythical creature.
What we saw was 7-8 feet tall, bipedal, spindly legs, gaunt, with protruding rib cage. It/they would lean out from behind a tree in the forest behind our house. If you moved about, it would pop back behind the tree.
We never saw more than one at a time, but there seemed to be more than one, as height varied. We sometimes saw it multiple times a day, but the behavior was always the same. It seemed wary of us, but if we stayed out of sight, it would lean out into view for a few seconds at a time.
When we sent the dog out, it would run off into the forest after it, but never chased it into view, so that told us nothing.
I viewed it through a rifle scope and got a good long look at it silhouetted against the snow behind the trees, it was really creepy, like a Slenderman or something, I could determine height by going out and measuring the trees we saw it next to. I of course did not shoot it, since you should not shoot what you cannot identify, and the only large bipeds hereabouts are people, though nothing human is that tall, or narrow.
We knew the local legends (Eastern Iowa), and this matched the description and behavior.
We dug out our trail camera but solved the mystery before we got a chance to set it up. Sorry to disappoint folks, but we solved the mystery, as I'm sure many have before us.
As winter sets in the deer like to stand on their hind legs to eat the tips of pine tree branches. They are scared of people, and will always do it behind trees. But every so often one that is sick, starving, had twins, or gave birth too late in the season, will be desperate. The desperate ones will lean out to get the untouched branches given the house, but if they sense movement, they duck away." P
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CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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ABDUCTION IS TERRIFYING! I Wish It Had Never Happened!

"My sibling and I recall seeing the Greys, those big black eyes. The eyes are always striking. We recalled the same instances during childhood."
I received the following account:
"Hello. I am an alien abductee. I had taken a polygraph because I thought my then-fiance should know what she would be getting into.
It is something I don't talk about because of the eye-roll factor. So it was terribly nerve-racking to admit this secret part of my life with her. Will she think I am nuts, crazy, delusional? Will she still marry me? Which she did!
She was owed the truth because I had a feeling she would be taken, too. An ex-girlfriend of mine had been abducted when we started living together.
I had lived with an ex that started to have these unsettling dreams. Dreams that were real. She was awake, in her bed. She felt she was not dreaming but when she saw this being at the foot of her bed, glowing, she didn't know what to make of it. Even when she was describing her experiences I knew what had happened but still kept quiet. Like I said, talking about this is not easy because of how crazy it sounds!
Later I opened up about my experiences. I could tell she still didn't know what to make of it. Then one night we were both taken.
Having these experiences happen to you when you are alone is one thing. But to have someone else see and experience what you have, well that is hard to ignore anymore.
Though she didn't think they were aliens. Her take was that they were demons or angels.
She had come from a religious background and that is how she categorized these experiences -- as seeing demons and angels. Even after remembering going up into the spacecraft. Darling, I doubt Angels need spaceships to fly.
She had not only been the only witness. A few years back I found out my sibling had the same experiences. I always thought she might of. For some reason, the ETs like to keep the abductions in the same bloodline.
When it had come out I recall my mom's mouth dropped in shock. My sibling had told my mom in confidentiality but as my mom said, she didn't know what to make of it. However, when I came out she had said she knew something happened because it came from my mouth.
My sibling and I recall seeing the Greys, those big black eyes. The eyes are always striking. We recalled the same instances during childhood. For example, she heard them in the hallway the night before In the morning she came to check on me. I remember being ultra embarrassed because I was naked. Apparently, the ETs forget to put my underwear back on.
The ETs made small mistakes like that. Forgetting to put your underwear back on, placing you in bed the opposite way, or placing you on the couch instead of your bed, all of which had happened to me.
As for my now wife, she had her first experience a couple of years after we married. She recalled seeing a bright light shine through the bedroom door, a little dot-red light she could not identify was just inside, right of the bedroom door, and a lizard-looking creature to the right of the bed. She remembers being paralyzed, floated out of her bed, and then it goes blank from there.
Being abducted is terrifying. I wish this had never happened to me. I wish I had the luxury to think those who claim they had were crazy.
I don't know why they are here or what they plan to do, but I have a feeling it's in their interest, not ours." H
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Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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911 Operator Receives Call From DEAD PATIENT!

"Apparently, the elderly female had been dead for a while and was already in full rigor mortis. They thought I was wrong on the caller but the other dispatchers played it back and confirmed that it was the female who called."
I received the following account:
"About a dozen years ago, I was working as a 911 Dispatcher in Cabell County, West Virginia.
Received a call from an elderly lady who had trouble breathing. I had taken several calls from her and her husband in the past so I recognized her voice. I dispatched an ambulance to her residence and held her on the line trying to keep her calm while the ambulance was responding. The ambulance advised that they had a 15-minute ETA (She lived in a very rural area).
I’m talking to her asking about her husband and how he was doing and just making small talk with her. The ambulance called in and advised they were on the scene and I let them know that she was in severe respiratory distress and I still had her on the line. I let her know the ambulance was coming to the door to answer the door and she said okay and hung up the phone.
Pretty normal yeah? Well here’s where it gets weird. The EMT and Paramedic on scene call back about a minute later and advise no one is answering the door. We have a Sheriff's Unit who was in the area pulling on the scene about that time. The Sheriff's Unit confirmed the address and advised he was breaching the door to gain access to the patient.
5 minutes go by and the Paramedic on scene radios in asking who the caller was. I advised it was the elderly female who lived at the residence. He tells me that he’s going to call in and needs to speak with the supervisor on shift. We get him over to the supervisor and the supervisor confirms the information that I gave him and asks what’s going on. Apparently, the elderly female had been dead for a while and was already in full rigor mortis. They thought I was wrong on the caller but the other dispatchers played it back and confirmed that it was the female who called. The ambulance was transferred to the hospital and we got the same calls and disbelief from the doctors.
So, I took a call from a ghost!" S
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Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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BLURRY-FACED 'HUMANOID' Encountered on Lake Kegonsa State Park, Wisconsin Trail

"I noticed I could not make a face out on this person, but chalked it up to nerves and being distracted. We agreed it was a strange encounter, we should not panic but take it as a sign to get off the trail."
The following account was forwarded to me:
"On the weekend of 10/11/24 my friends and I set out for a camping trip in Lake Kegonsa State Park in Stoughton, Wisconsin. While finishing up some geocaching on a hiking trail near the outhouses, we encountered something/someone strange. You can enter the trail after crossing the path of another trail that enters the forest. The trail we were on circled a prairie that was surrounded by forest in the middle of the trail.
The sun was low in the sky, it had to have been roughly 6 pm. The sun was just above the tree line as we started our hike. As we were at our last geocache of the night, the sun had just gone behind the tree line and it was beginning to get dark. But we could still see without the assistance of flashlights.
The forest went silent, no more sounds of the bugs around us or birds that had been active all day. It approached us with a whistle, a bone-chilling whistle. Our entire group went silent and no one said a word until we heard a second whistle. This second whistle was more broken up than the first, and in the slightly tipsy state I was in, I thought it had to be a human whistle as it was not perfect. I responded with a pretty stern “Hello” hoping for an explanation as to why our group got whistled at twice. “I thought you were dogs,” a voice said as it rounded the trail towards up.
As he passed our group, I noticed I could not make out this person's face, but I chalked it up to nerves and being distracted. As a group, we agreed that while it was a strange encounter, we should not panic, but we took it as a sign to get off the trail.
This is where it gets even more weird.
All 4 of us in the group kept our eyes peeled for anything as we made our way back to the car. When suddenly, this creature (calling it a creature as it surely was not human) appeared on the edge of the trail closest to the woods. Staring blankly at the field in front of it, that would have been to our right. And in the flattest, driest tone it said “Who’s that guy”. Everyone in our group kept walking as I answered “The same guy from earlier?” I assumed it was talking about my boyfriend who was behind the group. We had never been so silent on the walk back to the car. Checking behind our shoulders and our surroundings constantly.
We made it back to our campsite where we decided due to the time of the day, it would be best to wait to pack up until morning.
While we were debriefing our experience, I told my friends how in neither encounter I could not make out a face.
As a female hiker, I make a point of gathering the facial features of anyone I encounter on the trail, just in case.
No one in our group could identify a face. And in our own ways, we described how the face of this thing was not human. It seemed to almost have a blurred effect over what should have been a human face. All of us saw the same thing, you could tell where the eyes, nose, and mouth should have been. But there was none on this creature.
Because it whistled and was unidentifiable, we are convinced we have encountered a skinwalker. Skinwalkers are just not relevant in that area of Wisconsin.
It was a long night at the campsite with the impending feeling of being watched. I’m spiritually inclined and feel I took the necessary steps to protect our campsite for a secure night's sleep. But I have had strange encounters since. I’m willing to explain the encounters had since that night if asked." B
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Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon
OUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE
'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS
CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)
'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES

Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!
I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon
CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist
Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED
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