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August 1, 2024

A CLURICHAUN'S TALE From Colonial Philadelphia

A reader asked: "I was wondering if you had ever heard of a leprechaun or fairy experience in America? I wanted to share this with you. Thanks for your daily posts, Susan"

I received an email inquiry from a reader:

"Well, I have written about and reported a few fairy-like being encounters over the years, including a leprechaun or two. There are also legends of the 'Tommyknockers' in mining areas worked by Irish immigrants throughout North America. After I received the inquiry I looked back through my files, including a few journals I had kept from the 1970's. I did manage to find an odd anecdote that was told to me by a friend-of-a-friend in 1976 while in Philadelphia.

From what I gathered an ancestor by the name of Finn, who lived in Colonel Philadelphia, had a bit of trouble keeping port wine on hand. It seemed that each morning he noticed that the level of a barrel he kept in the cellar got lower. In fact, it had gotten to a point where he thought his wife was taking a dipper full each night while he slept...though he had never known her to have a taste for the stuff.

One day while working at the dock he asked his friend Donal what he thought about the situation. Donal looked back at Finn and laughed..."His Nibs is sampling your stock." Finn had no idea what Donal was referring to. "His Nibs...a clurichaun is stealing your spirits."

Honestly, when I heard the story I had no idea what a clurichaun was. Apparently, it is an Irish fairy that resembles the leprechaun. Some describe the clurichaun as a night 'form' of the leprechaun, who goes out to drink after finishing his daily chores. Clurichauns are said to favor drunkenness more than not. However, unlike their cousins, they are surly. If you treat them well they will protect your wine cellar, however, if mistreated, they will wreak havoc on a home and spoil the wine stock. Occasionally he can be heard singing Irish folk songs in the wine cellars. The clurichaun is great to have around the house because he also protects your home from vandals and thieves. They are also referred to as 'clobhairs' and 'His Nibs.'

According to Donal, if Finn wanted to see the clurichaun, and leave a cup of wine on the nightstand, it can't resist an offer of a drink. Donal warned, "Don't scare it away. There will be dire consequences if you do."

That night, Finn left a full cup of wine on his nightstand hoping to catch a glimpse of the imp. A little bit after midnight Finn heard the floorboards creaking. As he slowly opened his eyes, he gazed upon a small 3 ft. man wearing a red hat made of plant leaves and a red wool vest. It resembled leprechauns in all its physical characteristics. As he watched the clurichaun reach for the cup a horrific scream shot from behind him. His wife also caught a glimpse of the small being and reacted instinctively. The clurichaun dropped the cup on the floor and dashed out of the room. Flinn thought, "What now?"

Flinn tried to lure the clurichaun back and to its good graces with several offers of wine but was never successful. It is said that Flinn could never keep fresh wine again. It always turned to vinegar as soon as it was brought into the house." Susan

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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 want to sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.
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Published on August 01, 2024 11:28

The WALTER CRONKITE UFO ENCOUNTER Story - Fact or Fiction?

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the U.S. networks' golden age reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America."

Cronkite was the face of CBS News from 1962 to 1981 when stories ranged from the John F. Kennedy assassination to the Iranian hostage crisis.

According to UFO researcher Bill Knell (more on him below), in the 1950s Cronkite was part of a pool of news reporters brought out to a small South Pacific island to watch the test of a new Air Force missile...a large disc-type UFO appeared on the scene. Cronkite guessed that the object was about 50-60 feet in diameter, a dull grey color, and had no visible means of propulsion. As Air Force guards ran toward the UFO with their dogs, the disc hovered about 30 feet off of the ground.

Bill Knell's claim: In the 1950s Cronkite was part of a pool of News Reporters brought out to a small South Pacific island to watch the test of a new Air Force missile. After a short inspection of the new system by the reporters, they were led to an area that was a safe distance from the launch site. The missile was mounted on a specially built launcher that was attached to a cement base. It was obvious that the area had been quickly built just for the test. The details about the missile were going to be given to the reporters in the form of hand-out sheets and press releases after the test.

Cronkite mentioned that he and the other reporters had been warned that photography of the missile test and any audio transmissions or recordings by the press were forbidden. They would have to give a written account of the event. Just as the test was ready to proceed, everyone was writing as fast as they could. As Air Force Security personnel walked around the perimeter of the test area with guard dogs and the news reporters watched, the missile was fired up and about to be released. Just then, a large disc-type UFO appeared on the scene.

Cronkite guessed that the object was about 50-60 feet in diameter, a dull grey color, and had no visible means of propulsion. Because the noise of activity around him and the missile engine was so loud, he couldn't tell whether the disc made any noise. He did not notice any coming directly from the object.

As Air Force guards ran toward the UFO with their dogs, the disc hovered about 30 feet off of the ground. It suddenly sent out a blue beam of light which struck the missile, a guard, and a dog all at the same time. The missile was frozen in mid-air about 70 feet from the launcher as it had taken off. A guard was frozen in mid-step and a dog was frozen in mid-air as it had jumped at the disc. Cronkite reminded me that this all happened within the space of about five minutes or less.

Suddenly, the missile exploded! After that, the disc vanished. The guard and dog looked alright but were quickly taken away by medical personnel always present at tests in case anyone became injured. At the same time, guards rapidly ushered the reporters into a concrete observation bunker. After about thirty minutes of sitting in that hot box, they were brought out into the air again and addressed by an Air Force Colonel.

The officer told them, "It was all part of the test." Obviously making it up as he went along, the Colonel said that the event was "staged" to test media reaction to UFOs. He reinforced the usual line to the reporters that Flying Saucers were probably not extra-terrestrial, but what people were actually seeing was secret planes being tested by the Air Force. This test was designed to show the media how "shocking" it could be to suddenly view a new technology. Well, Cronkite was certain that what he viewed was a new technology, but he was also sure it was not an Earthly one! He didn't believe the Air Force explanation then, and he still didn't believe it at the time when he told me the story.

After the event, reporters were told that since it was a test of media reaction to new technology, they could not report on it! But, they would be compensated later with exclusive stories on new Air Force projects (a promise that was never kept). Being as private as he was, Cronkite never did share with me his own beliefs about UFOs beyond the story he told me. I was so happy to have heard the story that I was afraid to ask anything further!

The CBS UFO Special was filmed shortly after I met with Cronkite and I was included in it for just a few minutes. During the filming, I became aware that Cronkite had not shared his story with most of the other UFO investigators or witnesses. After the special aired I called one of Cronkite's staff members and asked him if he had ever heard the UFO story. He told me he had. Cronkite had only shared it with a few key people and it was NOT covered or even mentioned in the Special.

I wondered why Cronkite had chosen to tell me the story without telling everyone? The staff members told me that most of the others were so busy telling him about themselves that he just never bothered. I guess that the greatest lesson the legendary newsman taught me that day was the art of conversation, knowing when to talk and when to listen! - Bill Knell - 4/6/2006

FOLLOW-UP to Walter Cronkite's UFO Encounter

I originally wrote the Cronkite article in 1998 for my website, but I thought readers at Paranormal News might enjoy it as well. I met Cronkite in 1973 (as the article indicates) and that's when he told me the story.

I have repeated the story ever since during many of my seminars and found that a few others had heard the story too. Most of them had heard it secondhand or said that they had read it somewhere. At the time it happened, some of his staff knew about it, so I assumed it wasn't really a big secret. He didn't tell it to me in confidence, so I felt no obligation to keep it a secret. Since publications come and go and people have short memories for news, Cronkite may have once shared it in some long-forgotten interview. But I have never seen it in print.

I feel that Cronkite's account of what happened is very credible. He seemed to be telling me the story from an honest memory of the event. When we conversed, he was very interested in the Air Force cover-up. I suspect that if he had more control over the 1973 documentary, he would have angled it in that direction. Instead, it was pretty much a neutral piece designed for ratings (from my memory). Although I have contacted CBS many times, they finally told me that any tape or film the UFO Special was on no longer exists and was probably lost in the shuffle of the news craziness surrounding Watergate (which broke big around that time).

Like many important stories, this one has been around a while, but I think a lot of people in the UFO and Paranormal research community probably were too busy chasing false starts created by government disinformation to cover it. I recall that when everyone was running to Gulf Breeze in the late 80's and early 90's, I revealed a story regarding a trip by former general Doolittle (the leader of the famous bombing raid on Japan during the early part of WWII) to Spitzbergen and his possible connection to the recovery of a UFO. He was there in 1946 and may have obtained a UFO that crashed on the island during the war. I had met some sailors from the USS Alabama in the late 80's who said the object was brought back to the USA on the battleship Alabama. I started telling this story in my seminars as early as 1990, but noticed that the ABOUT.com UFO page attributes it to some 1950s or 60s article by someone I had never heard of?

I also noticed that some of the MUFON people credited my original recording of the first radio interview given by Kenneth Arnold less than 12 hours after his 1947 sighting to some guy named Mike. I received that recording from a radio guy who had the original interview in the '70s and has been playing it in my seminars ever since. I assume that Mike lifted it off one of my audio or video sets and sent it to whoever at MUFON. No problem, just an illustration of how stuff is out there if you take some time to look at some of us little guys who aren't Richard, Budd, or Whitley.

Here's one more. In 1987 I met a guy who had worked with Jesse Marcel. He told me that some of the material shown in Texas that was supposed to be from the weather balloon wreckage was actually from the real object. It was some of the lighter-colored, small pieces laying on top of the balloon wreckage at the bottom of the press conference photos. I told that story to Friedman and others who laughed at it. Now I see that photo examination has revealed it to be true. But that didn't surprise me. I was amused to find out that most people in the UFO community didn't know that when THE ROSWELL INCIDENT was first published, Bill Moore still had never actually visited or set foot in Roswell! He wrote the book from all of Friedman's notes and by witness interviews over the phone. Moore finally went to the place later.

Finally, I doubt that Cronkite kept the story a secret. Some of his staff knew about it and a few others I've met through the years. When he told it to me, he did it as calmly as someone reporting the weather. I think he just likes being in the driver's seat when it comes to his own life and experiences and might have even been a bit embarrassed by it all. Maybe he was just caught up in the moment and felt like getting it off his chest.

Actually, I was the only UFO researcher there who didn't have anything to promote. I was a teen with a mimeographed UFO newsletter who got invited to speak at local libraries and Kiwanis Clubs. I think he might have told the story to the others as well, but most of them were very busy blowing their own horns and promoting their stuff. Look at the depths to which I've sunk since then. Now I'm blowing MY own horn!

In case you're wondering about it, I tried getting a few more details out of Cronkite regarding the actual location of the test, but he told me that the reporters were brought to the location without being told exactly where it was. Secrecy regarding the actual location was a part of the conditions for being able to witness the test. I decided not to push the point or question him further. - Bill Knell - UFO Researcher

NOTE: I don't know what to think about Bill Knell's assertions, though there has been quite a bit of inquiry about him recently. Go to UFO NEWS | Criminal Actions of Bill Knell (AGAIN) and make your own determination.

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Published on August 01, 2024 11:01

'OLE RED EYE': My 'CONEWAGO PHANTOM' Encounter

(Illustration by Timothy Renner)

The following article was printed in The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA) on October 31, 2011:

Some people might consider this marker, off of Dicks Dam Road north of Cross Keys, a simple scarecrow. But others think it could be a totem for the Mothman creature they say is skulking around the Adams County woods

The stream gurgle fades with the waning afternoon light, as you press deeper into the woods. A muddy shore gives way to thick grass heavy with rain. The path narrows, branches grasp and pull.

Something moves and you turn with a start -- a squirrel bounds away through the brush.

If it's March, or April, we're not having this conversation. You're not wide-eyed and alone and half-lost in a maze of trees and undergrowth.

But this is the season for ghouls and for legends. It's the time of year editors send reporters out to the wild, in search of fleeting phantoms. Thus, the mothman creature that reportedly lives in the rural Adams County woods.

And thus a soaked pair of shoes, and pants legs abloom with sharp briars. Leaves whispering, dusk falling as the trail leads you deeper, farther from home.

So how did it come to this?

Here's the story.

It's 1988, and a man living in the Baltimore area is set to meet an old friend from Adams County at a Boy Scout conference. The old friend mentions to the man, Lon Strickler, that Scout troops on overnight trips at Camp Conewago have recently been packing up their tents early, leaving the grounds in a rush of spinning tires. They've been waking in the night, the man said, to the sound of shrill crying.

Screaming sounds, out among the trees.

Strickler -- who had some experience in paranormal research -- was intrigued. He agreed to accompany his friend, and another man, to investigate for a night.

The group met at the Boy Scout camp off Dicks Dam Road north of Cross Keys, on a Friday night, around 7 p.m. They walked from the empty cabins about 500 yards into the woods, and then, following the Conewago Creek another 300 yards upstream, pitched their tents there along the shore. The talk was of sports and childhood camping trips, and night passed without incident.

There was little mention of the something they thought could be out in the woods. But still, Strickler would say later, it felt as if he were being watched.

Saturday dawned clear and cool, the sun warming a winding creek. The three men explored the area for most of the day, arriving back at camp again in the early evening. Conversation again covered football and food, the hours blurring and fading with a crackling campfire. Then, from somewhere in the shadows, a scream.

Maybe an owl, one man said. A bobcat, or a bird? But the three knew the local woods, and the animals. And this wasn't close, they said. This was something different. The wail of a child.

So the group grabbed stowed gear and crept away from the dying fire, out into the night. They searched for signs of tracks or disturbance, squinting to pick up movement among the trees, scanning the shadows under slivered moon.

Water murmured in the creek bed. Leaves split like eggshells underfoot. Breath streamed out in bursts of silence, white against the night. Strickler stopped.

There it is, he whispered.

Standing in the creek was a large, dark figure. It was tall as a man, and stood upright; its red eyes burned. In an eye blink the creature leapt from the creek with a dizzying burst of wind and water, melting away into the sky.

Its scream echoed over barren branches.

That was more than 20 years ago, Lon Strickler said recently, and he can still see it -- those eyes. And others have seen it in those woods, too, he said. Stories of sightings have come in from people he's never met. He's tracked them, and they still trickle in today.

Its become known, Strickler said, as the Conewago Phantom.

For all the build-up, though, and the obvious ghost-story selling points, few around the area had ever heard of the beast. Knocks on doors brought little more than puzzled, pitying looks. Trips down forgotten stone lanes yielded only empty stares.

Several people, at least, got a good laugh.

So as the late-day sun melts to twilight, there's little left to do but find that deserted Boy Scout camp.

Behind an iron gate lays a wide, empty field, with a slow hill running to a line of wooden cabins. The cabins, huddled close and backed by dense woods, are dark and boarded, with no signs of life save for a dent here, a long scratch in a split board there. Then, movement.

At the top of the stone drive a blue pickup rolls into view, slows, and rumbles to rest beside you with a diesel growl. Inside, a man with a hat pulled low and a wide, dark mustache. He kills the engine but the woods are somehow louder now, birdsong dripping down from the trees.

He jerks his head, beckoning.

"I hear you're looking for 'Ole Red Eye,'" the man says as you struggle your way across the loose stone. Kids at this camp been talking about him for years, he says, fresh dirt on his shirt sleeve, gravel in his voice. Some claim they've seen him.

There's something they're afraid of, he says, out in those woods.

He stares off into the shadows, and while you can't see up into the pickup, you notice the gun rack behind his head. You notice it's empty. And your eye goes to the black tarp behind him. It flaps loose in the wind, slick and wet.

He turns back, catches you looking. And a hungry smile forms under that mustache, as he reaches down with his right hand -- slowly -- his little eyes on yours.

The gray sky seems to sag in on itself, and your skin goes cold. The birds squawk and scream, trees pressing in as your voice fails.

"I imagine that's all just kid stories, though," the man says. And he takes a drink of the soda in his hand. The truck rumbles and lurches to life again, tires grinding into the stone. Be careful, he advises then, out here all alone.

But you're already right behind him. The swishing and sloshing of your soaked shoes forgotten, as you fumble with your keys, as you jump in your car. As you press down the automatic lock.

So silly, of course. But even those who don't believe -- those tree-branch fingers clawing at your window, that cold breath of wind creeping through the door -- this month we look twice over our shoulder.

Did you just hear something? - The Evening Sun - October 31, 2011

Have you had a sighting of a flying humanoid or huge bat-like creature? Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com - your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated. You can call me directly at 410-241-5974 as well. Thanks...Lon Strickler

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Published on August 01, 2024 09:39

July 31, 2024

CHICAGO MOTHMAN: Reddit User's Thoughts on the Phenomenon

A Reddit user posted their thoughts on the Chicago Mothman phenomenon. What do you believe? Have you watched the recent Unsolved Mysteries episode 'The Mothman Revisited on Netflix?'

"Apparently, Chicago has a Mothman.

This first came to my attention a few years ago, when it was in the news that two O'Hare airport employees had reported seeing a man-sized flying creature with red eyes cruising around the runway. I guess if you're going to cruise around in the air, an airport's as good a place to do it as any.

Then, I found this - Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map

Somebody has plotted on a map 170 alleged sightings of a Mothman-like creature in the Chicago area, some of which have multiple witnesses, all of which have happened in the past 15 years.

It might be a really well-perpetrated hoax or ARG, but it's convincing.

The sightings started back in the early 2010s when the first several were reported on a blog called Phantoms and Monsters. Fair enough. A cryptid blog that perhaps has a vested interest in creating a belief in the supernatural in the Chicago area.

Then it gets weird.

The latter sightings are very detailed and convincing narratives claiming to be from people like airport employees, security guards, and union representatives who were staying in downtown Chicago for a unionized workers' conference.

Some of these accounts are written by narrators who sound so RELIEVED to have found the index of Mothman sightings because they thought they were losing their minds before finding out other people had seen the same kind of thing.

It's to the point that I'd be wondering if someone was flying a particularly well-put-together Mothman drone around the city, except that one of the most recent reporters was a security guard who claimed to have encountered the thing inside a building he was patrolling and said he saw it just dematerialize when it saw him looking at it.

The most recent sighting was just two weeks ago and is from a guy in a small town outside of Chicago." OO

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Real-Life Experiencer Discusses the BIGFOOT CONSPIRACY

I received the following submission from my friend, author Scott Harper. You can find one of his Sasquatch encounters at Growing Up With Sasquatch:

"As most of you probably know, I grew up in Ohio. While there, I had three sightings of a sasquatch, along with other interactions/encounters with them. So, sasquatch has long been an interest of mine. I've spent a lot of time reading books on the subject, as well as watching televised documentaries, films, YouTube videos of sightings reports, etc. I've also talked to a lot of people regarding the subject of sasquatch. My most recently published book—which was co-authored with my wonderful wife Desirée Lee—is titled "Hidden Tribe". It deals with the topic of sasquatch, too. I'm also working on a series of historical articles for the Bigtruth sasquatch blog that focus on encounters with sasquatch prior to the Patterson/Gimlin footage that was shot in 1967.

Given my own personal experiences, and the sheer amount of time I've spent learning more about the topic, I feel that I am fairly knowledgeable about sasquatch. Over time, and many reports of sightings, and encounters others have had with them, too, I've also noticed a disturbing pattern. I don't want to come off sounding like a conspiracy theory nut, but I say with all honesty, and seriousness that I firmly believe that there is a cover-up going on where sasquatch is concerned. I believe that the United States government, military, logging industry, and probably the oil industry as well given the Alaskan pipeline, all know, and accept that sasquatch is a real, living species. What do they do with this knowledge? Cover it up. Why? Money.

Remember the spotted owl fiasco from several years ago? Remember how it affected the logging industry? Imagine what will happen when sasquatch is finally, publicly, acknowledged to be real? They'll almost certainly be considered an endangered species. Where do most sasquatch seem to live? In the forest. Where are most of the sightings recorded? In the Pacific Northwest. Logging is big, big business here. Just imagine what having an endangered species such as the sasquatch acknowledged as living in the forests where logging is so huge would do to that industry. The logging industry would be basically shut down—at least for a while. That will have a devastating effect on all industries that use wood. Everything from construction, to furniture manufacturing, to the paper industry. Which means the entire publishing industry would have to make sweeping changes, too. Along with that would come change to the transport, and delivery services that move the cut-down trees, construction materials, paper, published books, furniture, etc. The Alaskan oil pipeline would, I'm sure, be affected by the acceptance of sasquatch as a living species, too. Everything is connected. Everything would be affected.

Looking closer at the impact to the construction industry, not having wood to frame buildings, or build walls, alternatives would need to be found. One very good one would be hempcrete. This is an excellent building material. It mixes hemp with lime, or sand, to form blocks. Hempcrete is naturally insulting, fire retardant, if not flat-out fire proof, and doesn't rot, or attract insects like wood does. It would be a logical alternative to wood for construction. However, turning to hempcrete would open the door to other hemp products, such as paper, fuel, health food, medication, clothing, and many other industries for which it is currently illegal. Why is it illegal? Because it would do to these industries about what publically accepting sasquatch as a species would do to the logging industry. It's in the best financial interest of the people involved with those industries that hemp remain illegal. Hemp grows faster than trees. It takes less water. It gives more product yield per acre. No one financially invested in any industry it would affect wants it to be legalized. Again, everything is connected. Everything would be affected.

Those changes would, I'm sure, result in a lot of people losing their jobs. Business people who have millions of dollars invested in these industries would be hit hard right in the wallets. They'd likely lose millions, if not billions, of dollars due to shut-downs, and changes that would need to be made. Of course, they don't want that to happen. They don't want to suffer the loss of that money, or the power, and prestige that come with it. These people know that sasquatch are real. Given encounters I've heard over the years, it seems that logging trucks hit, and kill sasquatch sometimes as they're moving along dark forested roads. Most sasquatch sightings actually occur when one of the creatures cross the road in front of a vehicle, by the way. Whether these are young, inexperienced sasquatch making a mistake, underestimating how fast the trucks are moving, or what, I don't know. But it seems that, sometimes, sasquatch are struck down by logging trucks. Going on details on this topic I've come across in reports over the years, what happens after accidents like these are that the driver involved is told not to speak of what happened to anyone if he values his job. The body of the sasquatch is then moved somewhere else, or even burned on the spot to get rid of it. The powers that be in the United States government, and these industries do not want a sasquatch body to fall into the hands of someone who can use it to prove beyond doubt to the public at large that sasquatch are real.

Given the financial stakes for the people in charge, they'll go to great lengths to make sure that sasquatch remains unaccepted as a living species. They throw out misinformation. They try to suppress sightings, and other information on the topic where, and when they can. Employees are told not to talk about the subject, or else lose their jobs. Most reports that point to a cover-up conspiracy on this matter are made many years after the encounter took place because the person making it waited until they retired before coming forward. This way they don't run the risk of losing their job by doing so.

The lengths that those in charge will go to in order to keep sasquatch relegated to the realm of folklore go well beyond threats of job loss, or covering up a road accident, though. According to a couple of reports I've read over the years, there have been times when military units have been deployed with orders to kill every sasquatch they can find in a given area. It seems to me that the powers that be in the United States government, and big business—and those two are often intertwined—would rather see sasquatch eradicated as a species, than acknowledge it. They would rather commit genocide than lose the money, and power, that having sasquatch accepted as a real, living species would ultimately cause.

That angers me greatly. I want the conspiracy to end. I want sasquatch publicly accepted as a real, living, endangered species. Yes, when this finally happens it's going to cause a huge upheaval in a lot of ways, in a lot of areas. A lot will change. I think, though, that when things settle back down, the changes that will have been made will be for the better. I may be wrong; I try to be optimistic. Still, regardless of what ultimately happens, I want sasquatch acknowledged as a real species. Whether they are non-human animals, or some ancestor of ours, I don't know. Personally, I think they're closer to apes than humans. Regardless, though, I want them publicly accepted as a species. I've seen them. I've had encounters with them where I didn't see the creature, but I know it was there. I know for a fact that these creatures are real. It's way past time for them to be accepted as such by the scientific community, the United States government, the general public, and everyone else. It's past time for the conspiracy, lies, and cover-ups to end." Scott Harper

NOTE: Scott Harper is also a member of the Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research team. Lon

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Published on July 31, 2024 07:12

MOTHMAN in The Philippines: A Family's Encounter With the Unknown

In the early sixties, the small suburb of San Juan outside the city of Manila was visited by several UFO sightings, and later what is now referred to as Mothman.

I received the following submission:

"I now live in southeastern PA which was the hotspot of a UFO flap in 2008. Just a few miles away from my current residence, we had one of the greatest UFO encounters. However, I will leave that for another day.

In the early sixties, the small suburb of San Juan outside the city of Manila was visited by several UFO sightings, and later what is now referred to as Mothman. I was born and raised in that little suburban town about three miles from where these series of “sightings” took place.

When I was about a year and half old, my parents moved to a townhouse apartment in the small hamlet of Little Baguio near San Juan. It’s a picturesque Spanish-type suburb with stucco houses with red tile roofs inhabited by the well-to-do, with tended gardens. In between these homes ranch-style and townhouse type apartments were randomly scattered. It was in one of these apartments where the haunting of my father started.

As my mother and uncle faithfully recounted, my father would retire to his study as a writer of books and poems to sit at his typewriter in the fading twilight after dinner. Outside his den, a creek could be seen running the length of the house through a huge jalousied window. One evening, according to their recollection, a distinct hum could be heard. As my father paused from his typing, he glanced out the fading light of the twilight to behold a nine-foot being standing with a black cape in the shadow of a large tree perched at the edge of the creek. The creature was jet black, with the cape glinting in the starlight like leather. As my father backed away from his desk to observe the creature, he noticed a face take form with red eyes in a mask of menace. The creature had horns like a goat and long face that exuded deep horror.

My uncles who were close to my father recalls the night my father had ran from the room in fear - he had believed he was hallucinating the events, only to find the creature hanging one night like a bat from the breadth of the expansive den window. It was looking down at him in menace. As they ran to the room, they were overcome by a sense of foreboding and sadness. Upon arrival, the creature had already disappeared, to be replaced by a full moon and the sound the water in the creek.

One night, several months later, my father refused to sleep, fearful the creature would enter his dreams. My mother set up vigil with a live-in servant, a young woman who believed the creature was a demon. As my father finally slept with my mother sipping tea in the next room, a yell ensued from the maid who had entered my father’s den to check on a scratching noise. As my mother rushed into the room, she finally sighted the creature. It hung, bat wings spread, the breath of the window which was about 10-12 feet in length, glaring pointedly at my mother as she approached.

Fearful but determined to confront the creature which haunted her husband, she reached for a cross on the opposite wall and charged the window with it, praying the “Our Father” as she approached.

In the darkness, the creature folded into itself, cloak and all into the ground under the window and disappeared.

The local priest was consulted and blessings were attempted on the apartment and on my father. However, oppressed by the continuous haunting, my father finally committed suicide as a means of escape.

That same night, my mother tucked my belongings with me and fled, never returning to the apartment. The creature followed us to my grandmother’s house where a priest held mass and blessed the house and all of us. At some point, the sightings of the creature finally stopped (it was only my mother and the maid who saw it.) but other ghosts continued to haunt the town – a scene of much bloodshed in WWII when the Japanese invaded the town.

That was my first encounter with the unknown."

The author, Anna, is a high school counselor at a suburb outside Philadelphia. She writes screenplays, is an abstract and figurative artist, and has traveled to over 26 countries in search of paranormal events.

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July 30, 2024

GOLLUM Encounter in the Desert & Lost Time!

My girlfriend and I had an encounter out in the New Mexico desert off-roading late one night with two strange 3 1/2 feet tall beings that looked like Gollum from 'Lord of the Rings.'

"My girlfriend was the one that noticed them first as she was shining a flashlight around and saw two sets of yellow eyes 30 feet from us up on the hillside peeking around a rock at us. She told me to stop and look and that’s when I saw them as well. We sat there for about twenty seconds looking at them, and then one stepped out and started slowly making steps toward us. My girlfriend motioned for me to leave the area and as we did she said they started moving quickly towards us. After whipping a quick U-turn and punching it back down the trail, my girlfriend suddenly said, 'WTF is that?' and I looked in the rearview mirror and saw a bright flash of light come from behind her. I asked my girlfriend what was because she was looking behind us the whole time and said a bright ball of light just shot up into the sky from their direction and disappeared behind the clouds. We were both freaked out and even though I had my gun on me I was still scared. I still think about it from time to time overthink the situation and scare myself just thinking about it.

Second weird story: Three months ago I woke up around 2:30 AM. I went to the kitchen to get a drink and as I turned the corner to the kitchen, a bright flash of light hit me then all of a sudden I felt confused and proceeded to get a drink and went back to my room. As I lay down, I looked at my phone and noticed it was 4:05 AM in the morning. I sat there trying to figure out what just happened and how two hours had just been lost. I still feel lost for was happened that morning.” A

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UNKNOWN 'STALKER' Unnerves Campton, New Hampshire Witness!

A resident of the White Mountains, NH described their experience with an unknown 'stalker' who was in the shadows outside of their home. Was it a Bigfoot, or something more sinister?

I received the following account:

"I just came across your website while I was doing research for a new book that I'm planning on writing, however, what I read on this website (that brought me to this email), perfectly describes a creature I had encountered in my backyard at my last residence in Campton NH, which happened last spring. However, I had moved since then and just settled in just 2 miles down the road, and I'm now experiencing the eerie feelings etc. I had then, yet I haven't physically seen "it" yet. But it has an odor, really nasty too. Please read this thru, it is not for attention whatsoever, nor a wild imagination gone wild :) just a little humor, but in all reality, this is a true account that you or someone you know just might really be interested in if you are serious about unknown creatures.

Recounts of that night; it was around midnight and I had just got home from visiting family, and I was talking with a friend to let him know I was ok when I had seen something large, and wasn't sure what it was, however I ran into my house cause I had this sick feeling among other emotions I can't really describe. My friend (a Marine) was concerned, so he stayed on the phone with me trying to calm my panic down. However, it only escalated, it seemed to be outside my door, then when I went into another room, there too it was outside my window as if it were stalking me. This went on for a few hours. I tried to stay very quiet as possible and whispered when I talked to my friend. Whatever it was, it had made an abode on the steep hillside behind my house deep in the woods, (It used pine trees and appeared almost tepee-like yet very sturdy, when I checked it out days after the event), and there was a stench that's worse than a wet dog. Whatever this thing was, it most definitely was not my imagination (my friend could hear strange noises, grunts, sharp high pitch sounds that he or I could not explain, nor have ever experienced before). I still don't know what it was, it stays to the shadows.

My friend had advised me to leave a peace offering of salt, so I had taken his advice and put out a bowl of salt filled (completely to rim), just to try it out after dinner the next day. Thing is though, the next night, I smelt it first (there was a space under main entrance door, at the rear of the house, cause it was an old farmhouse which in the winter I used to cover it to keep out drafts), then heard the cracking of wood on porch, and I was so frightened that I had hid in the most middle of rooms and stayed low and as still as possible, but whatever it was, it didn't stay long and in the morning, the whole bowl was gone. Not knocked over, nothing, just gone. No salt trails, nothing. I had checked my security cameras and all I could see was blurred interruptions as if my system was having technical issues which never happens, but it was a newer camera that I had put in earlier that day, but I have been slowly going thru two years of 24/7 footage on my older, yet best IR-night vision system I had ever had, but had ran out of recording space since I was on the road much at that time that it was tough to keep up and save important recordings. Also, I had moved down south of Boston, MA in June and system was in storage, but since I just recently moved 3 weeks ago down the road, and yet into deeper wooded area by the river, from where this incident occurred, I plan on finishing going through all footage with my time and saving anything abnormal that I find for evidence to share in the scientific community. The only description I can give despite it remaining in the shadows it's at least 8-9 feet tall, lean build, stands tall without hunching much, fur all over that is dark, seems to be intelligent, and it stinks.

Since I have had this strange experience/encounter with some type of the unknown, I haven't spoken to anyone except my friend (who thinks its Bigfoot) about this out of fear of ridicule etc. I don't have psychological issues, yet I have talked to psychiatrist and psychologist, whom have all said I am of sound mind, and had all sorts of testing along with PET scans to rule out illness, yet I swear I'm going crazy, but the specialist all said that is normal. I do believe in the unknown, because life as you know, has much of the unknown still out there hiding or just hasn't been truly documented. Also, I do help others out when they claim they are being haunted, just to help them so they are not afraid to live wherever they are, etc. But that's another talk if you ever wish to discuss that further.

Now, back to this unknown creature or "it", since I have moved in my place, I have been here for several weeks, but the past few days, I have noticed that I am being stalked thru the woods. My family had come up for the holiday weekend, and they had noticed the foul sickening stench which I had to dismiss it as a mouse that could have passed, and they took that as a logical answer, but the smell would linger and be constant if that were true and not at night when it keeps coming back. So, whatever "it" is, it seems to have taken a liking to me, and knows I am back again which leads me to believe that it has an excellent sense of smell or it travels much, or both I don't really know. However if you wish to investigate, please feel free to contact me anytime since whatever this is is now out there again watching closely, so I would make perfect bait for any investigation. I really do wish that somehow, someone who knows how to document well, would contact me so that this could be properly documented and brought forth to communities that the truth of "unknowns" really do exist in our lifetime.

Thank you so much, and you already have my return email, so please don't hesitate to contact me should you feel you would like to investigate, or know someone who would love too. Also, please don't take this as false, it really is true and I had mentioned everything as accurate as possible. I don't have proper gear nor manpower to actually document, so I am sharing my story since this really needs attention from someone like you, or others you know in the scientific community. I only know and have colleagues in space engineering or weather, etc., none whom are really into cryptozoology or this type of "unknown" creature. So please give this some serious thought on contacting me, and I beg you to not just discard this "possible best credible finding" as rubbish. Also, should you choose to investigate this, please, I don't want to be ridiculed, but I will be the best at helping to document and lure out this thing with your help. Thank you again for your very valuable time in reading this. The truth is really here. Sincerely, AA - The White Mountains of NH"

NOTE: I contacted the witness and found her to be very credible, well-educated, and professional. The witness currently and previously lived near the White Mountain National Forest, which had a well-documented history of unusual activity. We are in the process of contacting a reliable investigator in the area. Lon

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Bizarre & Frightening ELEVATOR RIDE Remains Unexplained

A field trip to a museum is highlighted by a bizarre experience on an elevator. An odd man dressed in all black entered the elevator. The ascent was like a neverending climb to nowhere!

I received the following account:

"Hi, Lon. After hearing story after story of strange encounters with strange men dressed in black suits, I wanted to tell a story from my childhood that to this day I have been unable to explain. This took place in 2001 when I was 8 years old.

It was summer and I was on a field trip with my town's community center's daycare program. We were at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY. I was in a group with maybe 2 or 3 other kids and one of the daycare workers for a chaperone. We got there in the morning and were told we could roam around the museum with our group until either 12 or 1 when we had to meet back up with everyone for lunch on the 3rd floor.

Our group walked around, looking at all the exhibits and after a while, we realized we had lost track of time. We only had a few minutes to get up to the 3rd floor for lunch and attendance and we were on the other side of the museum from where the elevators are. We hurried quickly to the lobby and hopped into an elevator. Out of breath from the near sprint we had done to the lobby, our group piled into the elevator, we hit the 3rd-floor button, and my chaperone said we had made it in time and that we still had a minute or so to spare. Then as the doors were closing, an extremely well-dressed man walked into the elevator. He was wearing black shoes, a black suit with a white dress shirt, black tie, black leather gloves, and a black fedora, and was carrying a black leather briefcase. At the time I thought nothing of it, but I've always looked back at this and thought this was very odd as it was summer and he was dressed for the dead of winter.

As the man got on, I noticed that he kept his head down, almost as though he didn't want us to see his face. He quickly turned around, only then lifting his head. He just stood there with his back to us, and I don't remember ever seeing him select a floor. The elevator doors closed and this eerie feeling seemed to be emanating from the man in black. We had left the lobby on the first floor and were going up the third floor, so the ride should have been maybe 10 or 20 seconds at most. The elevator's display showed we had arrived at the third floor, but the elevator didn't stop. the numbers just kept climbing, and we were definitely still moving. (I want to preface this by saying those elevators in the lobby only have access to 4 floors, and to my knowledge, the museum only has 4 above-ground floors. I'll talk more about that at the end.) At this point, it had been well over a minute since the elevator started moving and the numbers on the display continued to climb; as did the elevator. That eerie feeling that had been seemingly emanating from this man was getting more intense and the air in the elevator was beginning to get extremely heavy, this seemed to get more and more noticeable as we continued to go up. The higher the elevator climbed, the feeling turned from eerie to foreboding. I remember getting the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you know something bad is going to happen. Something definitely wasn't right, the display was saying we had passed the 50th floor and we were still climbing.

At this point, it had been around 5 minutes in the elevator. The atmosphere in the elevator had gotten almost unbearable. This heavy, ominous feeling was something I've never experienced since. The closest thing I can compare it to is that feeling you get when you walk down a dark hallway after watching a horror movie, and even that doesn't begin to describe this. Suddenly, the elevator stops. There's a sudden shift in the atmosphere of the elevator. It went from this foreboding feeling to a feeling of impending doom. Then I remember almost panicking when I thought about what was on the other side of those doors. I was telling myself over and over again that the buttons on the elevator don't go past the 4th floor, so there aren't any floors beyond that, so whatever on the other side of those doors can't possibly exist. This whole experience can't possibly have happened, and when the doors open I'll see all my friends from the other groups eating lunch and everything will be okay. But that's not what happened.

And this is where things have always gotten fuzzy for me. I remember getting on the elevator with my group, the man walking in, and the elevator going up. But I can't remember my group being in the elevator after a certain point. I know it was at least five minutes from the time we entered the elevator before it stopped, and yet I can't tell you how much time passed between when the elevator stopped and when the doors opened. I can remember looking at the display to see what floor we were on, but can't remember what it said. I remember being frozen there, with no sound or movement whatsoever. I remember feeling like if those doors opened, something bad was going to happen, to the point where I remember panicking inside my head, pretending that none of this wasn't happening. But every time I opened my eyes that sinister man was still standing there, as still as a statue.

And then all of a sudden, the man who was responsible for all of this, who had not moved a single muscle since the elevator doors closed, drops his briefcase. Not even a second after the briefcase hit the ground, the doors of the elevator opened. And yet I can't remember what was beyond those doors. I have tried to remember it and have never been able to see it. I just remember it being white and bright. The man then calmly picked up his briefcase, tipped his fedora, almost as to bid us goodbye, and walked off the elevator. I then remember the doors closing and that ominous feeling is gone, and in an instant, we were on the 3rd floor and the doors popped open.

Only then do I remember seeing the rest of my group on the elevator? All of them looked as terrified as I did, especially our chaperone. Looking out, I saw the rest of the kids and chaperones from the other groups. We walked out of the elevator and had been expecting to be extremely late for lunch, but we had made it on time. This is impossible, because we had initially made it to the elevator a minute or so before lunch started, and that encounter on the elevator had lasted at least five or ten minutes. I remember our chaperone pulling the other adults aside and I assume told them what had happened to us on that elevator. I remember sitting at the table with my friends eating a pizza Lunchable and the kids from my group and I sharing the story of what had just happened, no one believing us. I remember the chaperone I had avoided the subject for the rest of the day, and the other kids in my group seemed to have dropped it as well.

I remember that I told my mom what had happened and I've always felt as though she didn't believe me. But before writing this, I wanted to make sure that really did happen since I was so young and it had been well over a decade since this happened, and that it wasn't something my mind made up over the years or maybe just a very vivid dream. So I asked my mom if she remembered me telling her about this, and she said she did. She remembers picking me up from the community center and the second we got into the car I had told her all about the man in black and the elevator going up all these floors and even that he had dropped his briefcase. She said she also remembers me telling her that he had said something to me, though she doesn't remember what, and I don't have any memory of him saying anything.

All these years later, I still have absolutely no clue who that man was, where the elevator took us, what was beyond the doors where the man walked off, or anything that happened in that elevator. I just know that it happened. I have no idea how long we were in that elevator, it could have been minutes or even hours, but what I do know is that time seems to have been separate from our reality since no time had actually passed when we got to the third floor. Hopefully, you have heard something similar or at least have an idea of what happened. I've gone through every explanation I can think of and none of them make sense. From not remembering correctly what elevator we got on, and perhaps getting in one somewhere else, but that's impossible for reasons I've listed in the paragraph below this. I've thought maybe it was a really vivid dream, but my mom remembers me telling her right after picking me up from daycare, the day of the field trip. I've even considered a gas leak in the elevator causing us to hallucinate. The one thought that's always been in the back of my mind has been that we got onto the elevator and took a ride through another dimension.

Just a little side note, I had a job with a catering company in the Albany area last Summer and one of the most common venues we catered at was the New York State Museum. Over that summer, I rode probably every public elevator in that building, and even a cargo elevator they have, and not a single one I rode on had any buttons beyond the 4th floor. Sincerely, ES"

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'Punisher' Actor Thomas Jane Recalls His BIGFOOT Experience at Prettyboy Reservoir, Maryland

Film actor Thomas Jane recalls an experience that he and his father had while fishing at Prettyboy Reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland. Was it Bigfoot?

“I've had a couple of experiences and one of them I was about 8 years old (around 1977) and my dad, I used to love to go fishing. We’d wake up at 4:00 in the morning and fish all day at some river or some lake. We were at Prettyboy Reservoir which is in Baltimore County, Maryland.

We were fishing and it had gotten dark or, no, it was just starting to get dark, and across the lake, you know, sort of on the side of the lake but way down, maybe a hundred yards from us, we heard this incredible roaring sound. I don't even know how to describe it but it was loud! It was an animal and it was like nothing anyone had ever heard. There are no bears around in that part of the world, at least no bears that would or that could sound like this.

Then the trees started to break, you know, and literally, like, trees would start cracking and falling over, and then that sound started getting closer to us. Something was trying to scare us away. It was a sound that I'll never forget and my dad who's a Vietnam veteran, 6'3", I saw the color drain out of his face, and I thought, if he's scared we're in trouble, and he grabbed our fishing gear and then grabbed me, like an eight or nine-year-old kid, put me under his arm and we ran out of that place with this incredible half human half/ape, you know, sounding really pissed off angry, breaking trees and marching in our direction. I'll never forget that. We still tell that story around the dinner table sometimes.” Thomas Jane

Source: “The Punisher On His Encounter with Bigfoot”. Monsters, Madness, and Magic. Podcast. Young, Justin. Host. Jul 12, 2024

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