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Interest in MOTHMAN May Have Triggered Dire Warning!

A Southern California reader contacted me about her interest in the Mothman phenomenon and how she felt that she was being warned to separate her interest in the subject after seeing a huge black moth.

I received the following account from a reader:

"Hi, Lon. I had started stories about Mothman for a couple years. I delved into so many stories, starting with the history of its relation to the fall of the Silver Bridge. The most fascinating story was on your site, where this woman wrote that as a child her dad had been called down to help hunt Mothman and she and her family went along. She encountered something coming out of a forest that her playmates down there had taken her to. It was very large with chicken feet and a frightening body and face. It spoke to her telepathically to not be afraid of its visage. That night the Mothman creatures attacked the house where she was staying with her family.

I read the stories you had put up about the Chicago encounters. I was reading everything about it. Then one morning I got up, sat on the couch, and noticed a large black moth on my screen door with its wings spread wide. I had never seen a black moth in Southern California before and I felt like it was a warning to stop delving into the Mothman stories. As the little girl in the story had found out it could communicate with her telepathically, I believed the moth to be a warning to lay off the investigation, so I did." NH

NOTE: It is interesting how many folks contacted me about their affinity with the Mothman phenomenon. Several of the Chicago Mothman witnesses expressed similar feelings as if they were imprinted by their encounter, and sometimes a feeling of dread and foreboding remains afterward. Lon

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BIGFOOT & HUMAN Coexistence in New Mexico

The witness lives in southeastern New Mexico. The Bigfoot or 'furry people' activity the witness describes is similar to the activity seen in the Navajo Nation reservation / Four Corners area. Even though more New Mexico residents are beginning to realize the presence of these beings. Let's hope that there can be a peaceful co-existence.

"One of the truly exquisite things about living in the high desert is the night sky. Most nights of the year, where I am, at nearly 7,000 feet, it is like black velvet, with diamonds tossed across it. The stars are bright, big, and beautiful. Immediately after moving, one of my favorite things, even in the miserable cold of winter was walking the dog, very late, after midnight. It was like the night sky was there, for a special display, just for walking the dog.

It all began during the winter of 2000, late at night, maybe 2:30AM or so. The first time I heard something strange, it was a loud huffing and puffing, like someone breathing in and out - loudly. It sounded like cows I've heard, but louder and a bit stranger. Having been on the outs with an on-again-off-again fiancé who could be a total jerk at times, I wondered if he had been prowling around. I mentioned it to him a few days later. He started making a noise that was similar, but not the same.

About a week later, about the same time, I was terrorized by the scratching of two raccoon at my bedroom window. My bedroom window is a double window, and level with the ground. Making myself go look, I peaked through the blinds. The two creatures were terrified, clawing the glass, trying to get inside, like they were trying to get away from something.

There was nothing I could do. I went back to bed, terrified. A few minutes later, they were no longer at the window. I heard them scream, horribly, then there was silence. Raccoon never again prowled around my window. We had numerous feral cats. Once in awhile, at night, there would be this blood-curdling scream, then silence.

For years, in the evenings, around dusk, I'd pull into my carport, and have this feeling of something not quite right. I was almost afraid. There were evenings when I would rush to unload my car, and get inside, before dark. It was a creepy feeling, like something was watching me.

Something or someone would prowl around my carport. I swear everyone in the neighborhood was feeding feral cats. This would lead to skunks sneaking in for dry cat food. Skunks and cats get along quite well. I learned during this time that you could rarely smell one of the skunks, unless they sprayed, which happened, rather frequently. I would leave a can of wet food outside for a family of cats I was feeding. The cat food would be put on 6 inch styrofoam plates. If I did not get them picked up, on a regular basis, I would go outside to find the plates arranged in a formation – quite often in a perfectly straight line.

It was obvious someone was prowling around the carport. At that time, I did not have a close neighbor, which was also a bit creepy. I quit taking the dog outside for evening walks, rather switching to pee pads. Night was weird. A friend set up security lights for me. They lasted about a month or so. I would see them flash on, through the peep hole in my front door. I’d go look and nothing would be outside – maybe a fleeting shadow of a person, but that was it.

This went on for years. There were times when I felt almost under siege. In 2005 my older dog died, and was replaced by an obnoxious yapping puppy. He would rush into my entry, lunge at the door, and bark, hysterically. I’d turn the outside light on, and see nothing.

That was the problem – nothing. Something was outside, prowling. By this time we knew there was a mountain lion who resided near-by. There were numerous deer. Bear would amble through on a regular bases. There would be raccoon but they were never around back, just the carport. There was something of a pecking order. The feral cats would eat, then share with the skunks. Raccoon would come in, later in the evening. By morning, nothing would be left of the cat food.

Around this time, I enlarged my front entry and added a larger peep-hole. I also had a glass storm door put in front of of my new front door. I never locked the storm door. Things continued on and off for another 5 years or so. Then, one night, late, the dog lunged at the front door. By this time he would sometimes bark, but not often. I went to check on it, not turning on the light in the entry. I could hear the storm door open, and saw the handle on my front door move. Terrified, I checked the peep hole, which was now dark. Something, the palm of a hand was over it.

The following evening, I started locking the storm door. A few nights after that, the dog lunged at the door. By the time I turned on the outside light, nothing was there. The following morning, I discovered that something had peed all over the storm door, starting at the half-way point of the door. The door was about 8 inches of the ground, with a three inch step up into my home. The bottom half of the door was at least 5 feet off the carport floor. The pee had dripped down, all over the glass.

I was told that it had to be one huge dog, to pee that high.

In 2004, there were numerous Bigfoot reports on the Mescalero reservation, several along Carrizo Canyon, which is not that far from where I live. Like everyone else, I found it fascinating. It turned out that one of the girls who was peeped is a friend of a friend’s daughter, in the same class at school with her.

No one wanted to talk about it. That seems to be a theme around Lincoln County. No one wants to talk about it. I’d read the Lincoln County report, and tried to talk to someone involved in it. Forget that.

I knew there were Bigfoot in the area, but that was it. I also had given up walking the dog, outside, at night. It was too spooky. Just the knowledge that lions and bears, oh my, were prowling, within attacking distance, was enough to keep me indoors. Adding the fact that something else might be out there, and I don’t even like opening the front door, even though the storm door is locked.

I do not want to see what’s out there….

There comes a time when a person becomes just plain old paranoid. You know something is going on outside. You can feel it. But – it doesn’t make sense. It isn’t all the time, either. Just some evenings, something doesn’t feel right. I began noticing, about 4 years ago, that my weird feelings were often accompanied by a brief whiff of Eau de Mephitis mephitis. But, unlike the normal emission from the southbound side of a northbound creature, this odor did not linger. It would come and go, fairly quickly. It was also not all encompassing, and strong. Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of having their bedroom windows anointed by such an odor knows how nauseating it can be, and how it will linger. Instead, it was more an earthy version, rather like a bit of wet dog, along with skunk odor. Even stranger is that the odor moved. I could smell it at one part of my home, then another. The odor would be in the front, the carport, then a few minutes later, it would be under the balcony doors where I sit and write. Some nights it would be outside my bedroom.

I reached the point where I was so spooked that I would stay up, working most of the night. I’m a night-owl anyway, so it wasn’t much of a sacrifice. My brain doesn’t function before noon. Unless I’m working on very annoying edits and layout, I work better after midnight. I noticed when I would go to bed, and turn off the lights, I could hear something outside. The dog would bristle a little. I started leaving the television on all night. Then I started leaving the bedroom lights on all night.

(Last week, I went to bed a little early – around 2:30. When I turned off the kitchen lights, the dogs (small) ran to the front door and growled. They then ran downstairs and growled. On the level of my guest room, they looked out the window, growling. I thought about leaving a light on in that room, but did not. I also noticed a slight skunk odor. Tired, I just left the lights on in my bedroom, along with the television.)

Not long after putting the weird feelings and the odor together, I told myself I was losing my mind. The area had experienced a major wild-fire, with the mountains surrounding me being burned nearly to a crisp. I was talking to a friend who lives elsewhere. She told me that one of her children told her about the big brown Easter bunny who stood up while their car was driving past. The person was about 5 at the time. She was forever terrified of the big brown Easter bunny. Finally, she told her mother – 30 years later – what the big brown Easter bunny really was. My friend told me to face reality.

I started watching the burned out mountain side, having seen something charcoal color blending in with the remaining pinion trees. Then it would move. It was winter – bears hibernate in the winter. I’d go to take photographs, but by then it was no longer there. I’ve since photographed the entire area, for comparison photos.

I faced the fact that we were dealing with a Bigfoot. Around that time, a friend was telling me about the hug bear which was dumpster diving. They decided to get a photo of the bear, and would leave fruit on a patio table. The bananas would be peeled, eaten, with the peel remaining on the table. The apple cores would remain. Bears don’t do that.

Finally, I asked a neighbor if she had noticed anything. She wanted to know just what. I told her. She told me she thought she was crazy, but knew what she had seen. A good 10 years earlier, while driving to Alamogordo, on Highway 70, at Apache Summit a Bigfoot ran out in front her her car. Both she and her daughter saw it.

Apache Summit has a weird feeling to it. There’s something eerie, almost unworldly when you drive through it, rather like the forest primeval. It is quiet, almost silent. I have since learned that numerous individuals have had the same Bigfoot experience there. As usual, no one will talk about it.

My friend told me, while walking her dog at night, she would feel things, notice the skunk odor. One evening, she saw our visitor walking around the equestrian states. She was less than a block away from it, with her young dog starting to go a little crazy. By the time she was back by her front door, it was half-way across the lot, walking toward her. That was her second experience seeing something in that area. She no longer walks her dogs at night.

We finally admitted what was going on, discussing other incidents. She too felt strange at night. I told her, I swore I had seen things moving in my carport. She told me she swore she had seen things moving in my carport – always just a big dark shadow that disappeared, quickly. She also limits her nighttime comings and goings.

Another friend has noticed something prowling around her home. When I told her what we thought it was her answer was “Oh, shit. I was avoiding that.” She too has noticed the specific odor, and had that creepy feeling. Her dogs do the same thing.

Last summer, my sister was driving me home. I was telling her about it. Her boyfriend likes to track, has found footprints, things like that – elsewhere. I told her, the night before, while we were outside talking, at a another location, you could tell when they were around – the feeling. She noticed it. She noticed it later in the evening after I had left. When we reached my home, she noticed it as soon as I did. The next day I told my friend about it. She said right before I drove up, our friend had been in her carport, rattling her front door, to make the dogs bark. She has a large security screen door – metal. Her front door was open, for air. She could smell him.

Somehow I ended up in a conversation about it, at a friend’s office. His secretary, who had once worked for dispatch for several municipalities told me the majority of the 911 calls in our area, at night are to report Bigfoot activity. She had worked up in Washington, in a rural county, as dispatch. Several of the calls she took about Bigfoot have been uploaded to YouTube.

Our friend is quite tall. The only time I’ve ever seen anything of him is when I was looking out my living room window. I saw a tall shadow moving. It’s all I want to see of him. He is a dark umber, which is why he blends with the charred pinion and cedar on the mountain. And, I was told people see him up there. She told me that a lighter colored mother and baby had been seen at the dumpsters near our local Walgreens. There is another, which is to roam around the ski area. The woman was telling me about a local residence, where they are constantly pelted with sticks and stones. Someone I know, who lives near the river, recently told me that one comes up and slams the side of her double-wide, periodically. I know someone who has his family property surrounded by game cams, looking for one.

At least I know I’m not out of my mind, that other people have had the same experiences. No one wants to talk about it. What I do know is that game is plentiful. This area has so many deer they are becoming a nuisance. The herds of elk are growing. There is water. There are places to hide. There is pinion. Just don’t expect me to go out looking for it." P

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BIPEDAL CRYPTID CANINE Encountered in Gillam, Manitoba

I received this sighting report over a month or more. Much of it needed to be removed to publish. The content is a bit general, though I sense that the witness really did observe something unusual.

"I saw something that put a big scare into me. I'm going describe it - not sure you'll believe it, but I'm certain about what I saw that day.

This happened in August 2009 as I was driving to my husband's place of employment. We live in Gillam, Manitoba and he is an electrician for one of the generating stations on the river. It was close to 3 PM.

I had just turned off one of the residential roads near my home heading east on PR280. About a 1/2 mile after my turn, I caught a glimpse of something tall moving through the trees to my right. Then suddenly, it jumped onto the shoulder of the road and stood there as I drove by. I looked in the mirror and saw it quickly cross to the other side of the road. I picked up speed and didn't stop until I reached the station. I had chills all over.

I got a decent look at it. It had a large wolf head, but it was standing upright on legs which looked man-like. I didn't see arms as I passed by, but I did see arms swaying back and forth when I looked in the mirror as it crossed the road. The coloring of the head and body hair was charcoal with darker patches. If it was an actual gray wolf, then it was the largest one I had ever heard of. I thought that someone was playing tricks, but that wouldn't make sense since (I think) it was during the hunting season.

I did tell my husband, who later checked the area where I saw it. He said that there were reports of a very large wolf along the river a year or two before, but he had not heard anything beyond that. I still don't know if he believes me.

I also said something to my uncle (through marriage) who is Chippewa. My uncle told me that it was not a ma'iingan (wolf) and that I must forget about it. He then recited some words under his breath and told me not to mention it again. That kind of freaked me out.

Since it was 5 years ago, I haven't thought much of it - until I read a newspaper article about the dogman and sightings people had in other locations. That's how I found you online. I have a few questions, if you'd consider emailing me. Thank you." SB

NOTE: I contacted SB by email. She wanted to know what I thought of the sightings in the newspaper and internet. I referred her to several of Linda Godfrey's books and mentioned that I would forward her information to Linda as well. SB agreed to have her experience published, though personal information was removed. She stated that the being was about 8 feet tall with a huge, wide head.

I tend to be a bit more cautious with bipedal canine reports. To be frank, there have been several narratives I've received over the years that didn't quite pass the 'smell test.' This can happen with any unexplained phenomena submission, but it seems more prevalent when the subject is a cryptid canine.

That being said, I truly think SB believes she witnessed some form of supernatural creature. Lon

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CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)

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'Has anything... odd... ever happened here?'

I received the following submission from Rachel K., a longtime reader and supporter of Phantoms & Monsters from New Mexico who details some of her odd experiences.

“Has anything... odd... ever happened here?”

I've heard that question asked before, by a neighbor just before they moved out in the middle of the night, breaking a lease which they had only recently signed. A previous neighbor had also broken a lease and left. Now, again, I'm hearing that same question. I even asked it myself when I first moved here. Those first neighbors answered in the negative but still moved to another house very quickly. Then I took a trip to the Nambé Trading Post, a mere stone's throw from where I live, to look at the merchandise and to learn what I could about my house and the area. As fate would have it, it was the owner's grandmother who built these small houses and he used to live in the one in which I have been renting. That one, short conversation would have greater impact on my life than many of the ones which I thought would be life changing. Yet somehow, it was also a validation which I desperately needed.

I had quite literally moved to New Mexico on a moment's notice. A week prior I had interviewed for a job and was told I needed to move in or near Santa Fe as soon as possible. That Friday, my Strictly Platonic Male Friend, Dennis, helped me settle in a motel as Monday I would be starting my new job and hopping on a flight to El Paso for a week of training. That weekend, Dennis and I would be looking for a place for me to live. During the week prior, since the interview, I had been on Craig's List looking at properties I could rent. As I had been recently divorced, my credit had taken a hit and I knew I would probably be limited to where I could live. I e-mailed the properties which seemed like they might work and there were some owners who seemed willing to work with me. A woman who owned a small house in Nambé was the first to respond with some charming photos of her property and didn't seem to take issue with my credit being less than stellar. In fact, she seemed more than eager for me to see this house as quickly as possible.

That Friday evening, Dennis and I drove down from Colorado to Santa Fe. The next day we had seen several properties and the landlady of the house decided to meet us so we could follow her to see it. By Sunday a check was being written for the deposit and rent on the house. The grateful landlady, in turn, was being as helpful and charming as anyone could possibly be. By Monday morning I was flying to El Paso and later in the week upon returning to Santa Fe, I was buying a few supplies and a little inflatable mattress on which to sleep as my furniture and cats would not be coming down until sometime later in the month.

Nambé, to say the least, is a lovely and rather historic area. As I was learning, the Nambé Pueblo and lands were just a tiny distance off the property I am renting. Nambé, meaning "people of the rounded earth" has existed there since the 14th Century. The village of Nambé, where I am living, was once an original Spanish Land Grant and many of its descendants still live in their ancestral homes here. Time in New Mexico and especially in Nambé seems to move a bit more slowly. This was something which, in the chaos that had been my life, I was welcoming.

My little rented house is one of four on a smallish plot of land which extends back to a river. Over 100 years old, fully renovated, mine has a high adobe wall and gate enclosing the front porch. High windows give light onto a small loft area. Old cottonwoods line the property and through them I could glimpse the mountains. There were so many reasons this was the property where I wanted to live while starting my new life in New Mexico. The hope of stability in a lovely environment was top among them.

That first night I unpacked my few supplies and inflated the mattress. I believe I was in bed about the time it started to get dark, both due to exhaustion from a hectic couple of weeks and because the only lights I had were in the bedroom closets and in another room.

Actual sleep, however, was a different matter.

I kept awakening during the night after the same recurring nightmare, I knew I was on these lands but the small houses were not here. The outline of the landscape and the views still caused me to be certain where I was. It was dusk and I was watching a young Indian man and a much older white man make camp for the night. The Indian appeared to be a recent convert to Christianity. He was holding a long wooden pole with a wooden cross fixed atop it. I remember thinking in the dream that I've always seen these with brass or otherwise golden crosses, never with wood and it struck me as being rather odd. He seemed extremely proud to be holding this cross and was completely transfixed by it. During his concentration, the older man came up from behind him and slit his throat.

It is not my nature to watch extremely violent movies. There was nothing I had seen nor read which would have put such a graphically violent image in my mind, yet there it was. The dream played out over and over again that first night - and never again. As silly as it sounds, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was watching actual events from a distant time.

The second night I was even more exhausted from not having slept and having been going full speed since that interview. I was in my little inflatable bed and must have dozed rather quickly. Sometime during the night I awoke due to what was the most ghastly smell I had ever experienced. It was hideous beyond reason - an overpowering stench of something horribly burned or burning mixed with a sickening sweet.... something. As the house was almost empty with only me, a suitcase and some clothes, water and paper goods, I kept telling myself that there is nothing which could be causing such a stench...... AND WHY THE HELL IS IT SO COLD IN HERE?

Somewhere, in the darkness of the front room, I could hear crashes and bangs - sounds which I would have blamed on the cats if they had been here and had things which could be knocked over and broken.

There was absolutely nothing, not even furniture, in the other room.

The stench was so unbelievably strong it was to the point where I thought I might actually choke from it. I had decided to turn on the closet lights and leave them on for the remainder of the night. Though the crashes and bangs diminished, I could now distinctly hear the sound of heavy footsteps running up and down the stairs leading to the loft. This was along with the sounds of movement and running in that loft, directly above my head. Didn't get much sleep that night either. Welcome to my new home.

Within the next few nights I would frequently be awakened by that same, ghastly odor mixed with the sickly sweetness. This often occurred along with the bitter coldness and the sounds of various noises and running in the other room. Other nights, though, there would be nothing unusual whatsoever. Often the stench which awoke me was nothing more than one of the many skunks which seemed to use this area as a maternity ward.

By the time Dennis and a friend had moved my furniture down from Colorado, it had been decided that my cats would stay with him until after the move as we didn't want to risk them either getting hurt or lost during this time of transition. By then, I was already starting to talk about the strange happenings at my place. On one of the first nights I was finally able to sleep in my real bed, it jolted with such a force that I was nearly knocked out of it. Again, I would have tried to blame this on the cats had they been here but realistically it was as if someone had body-slammed the bed. It was also very, very cold but the sickly stench did not occur.

It was during this time I decided to stop at the trading post. I had introduced myself to the owner and mentioned that I had just moved into a place nearby. Upon further discussion, I learned that these houses had been built by his grandmother and it is part of his family heritage - and that I was actually living in the house where he had once lived. He mentioned what a nice job the new landlady had done in renovating them. At that point, I could hold back no longer.

"Um, do you know, has anything....odd... ever happened here?"

"Oh yes, your house is haunted."

And with those six words, I had confirmation of what I truly had already known but couldn't make myself admit.

He didn't want to discuss much and had seemed cagey, though he was very nice and somewhat curious when I was discussing where I was living. However, that one question essentially ended the conversation. He did add that it was the house diagonal from me which REALLY seemed to have the issues. This is the same house which has never finished being renovated.

The house where no one lives nor has lived in quite some time.

As I was learning from books and my own research, Nambé has this reputation. I would discover that Nambé was known for the number of witches who were known to have lived here. Evil witches. In one case, cannibal witches. I would read about two men from Nambé who were executed for eating small children in order to practice their craft. Another witch was burned alive in her house. Supposedly she had evil dolls hidden throughout the house which came to life and tried to escape. There are many other alleged cases of witchcraft in the village. One book describes Nambé as "the Twilight Zone of the Southwest". Another book I had found shortly after I had moved is called More Mysteries & Miracles Of New Mexico[image error] by Jack Kutz. In it, the very first story is about a divorced woman who moved into an old adobe house in Nambé, surrounded by old cottonwoods and a high adobe wall. Shortly after moving in, she begins to have strange and frightening occurrences. Though I don't believe the description of her house too closely matches my own, one thing which caught my attention what that she described being plagued by a horrible stench "like something from the depths of hell."

I couldn't have phrased it better myself.

Shortly thereafter, Dennis finally came down with my cats and stayed to visit for a while (I suspect because he knew he would truly miss my cats and their guardian human). More than a month had passed since I had moved into the house and I had only had this conversation with the owner of the trading post a few days prior. As could be expected, he took these stories with more than a few grains of salt. He's never lived it and I do seem to be prone to ending up at places which have paranormal happenings. I have lived in ghost stories in the past. This, however, was something much more powerful and incredibly more frightening.

It was, surprisingly, one afternoon while he was visiting that the overpowering stench came again from out of nowhere. There was no sudden chill and no other odd occurrences, yet Dennis described it as being like the smell of a crematorium. As it was broad daylight, I went outside to investigate but there was absolutely no odor outside. It seemed to simply materialize inside the center of my bedroom and spread throughout the main level of the house. Even with my opened bedroom window, I walked outside to that window and there was no odor while standing next to the screen.

As Dennis would comment, it was the kind of stench which not only seemed to be something we could taste but something which also seemed to leave an almost residue inside our noses until we could not be certain it was even still in the air. Horrifying. Disgusting. But as the months would pass, less frequent. That's the thing about living here. There can be extreme activity lasting anywhere from part of a night to every night for over a month, as well as long periods of absolutely nothing. I seem to think it's like some sort of poltergeist which keeps returning and yet I sense there is more than one entity. These entities are either connected to the house or are others which are connected to the land, both inside and outside.

About 7 weeks ago my cat died. Though he was 17, to me it was still a shock when I took him to the vet and they determined there was nothing more I could do for him. In hysterical tears, I decided to put him down.

I had lost the job for which I had moved to New Mexico back in April, four days before my birthday. At this time, another job to which I had applied had been stringing me along for weeks, calling me for a second interview to occur the day after I lost my cat. I had no money, no food and nowhere to go. Being in this kind of shape and quite literally falling apart, Dennis came down to visit and help for a few days. As his car broke down shortly after he arrived, he ended up staying for three weeks.

On one of those first, sad nights, he was helping me tidy up my bedroom when he noticed that a bottle of water I had been drinking had sometime in the days prior rolled under the bed. He joked, sarcastically, if I liked storing my water under the bed and asked if I was still planning on drinking it. As the lid had been securely tightened and the water barely touched, I told him I would and he put it on my bedside table.

Later that night I had gone to bed and was trying desperately to fall asleep, only too aware that I was in pain and extremely restless. I very clearly heard an older woman's nicotine voice ask me sarcastically, "Are you still planning on drinking that water?" Dennis was asleep on the love seat. I wanted to reply but couldn't. Realistically, I couldn't swear that I wasn't half asleep and that this was, therefore, a dream. Still, I must also admit while in that state, dreamy voices are anything but clear and that I definitely seemed awake enough to be aware of my physical pain and of how badly I wanted to sleep. I wish I had a voice-activated tape recorder to know for certain if this truly occurred. This had been one of many times I wished I had one.

As is his custom, Dennis was up late one night and decided to work on his car when my neighbor, who also works until late at night, came home from his shift. He started asking Dennis some questions and Dennis thought it would be best for him to ask me.

"Has anything......odd..... ever happened here?"

"Yes, these houses are haunted."

We discussed what the owner of the trading post had said, what the books said and what happened to me. I told him about coming home at night and seeing my moonlit shadow cast into the grasses - and another shadow belonging to someone or something else appear beside it when no one and nothing was around. I told him about seeing shadowy figures along the trees bordering the property and having rested on the love seat at night with only my front door open, only to get up to close and lock the door after hearing the most ghastly sounds coming from outside. Sounds which even at the time I couldn't describe yet made the hairs on the back of my neck quite literally stand up. I told him how I could no longer sleep, even in the summer, with the door or windows open. I also told him about driving home late on a beautiful June night during the full moon, the fields and trees so clearly visible from its radiance at these altitudes, only to find that our little cemetery - the one right by our casitas - appeared pitch black in spite of the surrounding light. No rational explanation for why the fields and homes around it would simply glow while it remained absolutely black. For that matter, no rational explanation why my headlights suddenly dimmed while I was driving past. Ah, almost home. Get inside and lock the door, again.

The neighbor told me that for 45 days straight, after his baby was born, he and his family would hear the sounds of heavy footsteps right outside their house. They could clearly hear limbs breaking and heavy breathing but never saw another person. They even threw rocks at it but it was no deterrent. Dennis would admit that, on the nights he was working on his car, he also heard sounds from that area but blamed it on livestock, though those neighbors have no livestock and nothing was ever seen.

The neighbor hinted that there were other things which were occurring but were not discussed. I was left with the impression that he may have seen something up in my loft. He said he was considering breaking his lease and has been home very little since this discussion. A previous neighbor indicated that these incidents were often worse when I wasn't at home. This might have been due to my smudging and blessing the house when I was aware of activity. It might not have liked that. During one major smudging, the front door slammed shut though there was no breeze. I do know that after I had spent the night at a friend's house in Albuquerque after a long day's visit, I came home the next morning to find my cat hiding under my furniture, crying and terrified.

Was it simply that she was afraid of being home alone now that my other cat died? Did something scare her? Did something hurt her? I will never again leave her at home, alone at night, in that house.

What can be said about all of this? It took some odd experiences for me to look for a job in New Mexico. Some very bad experiences seem to be keeping me here. I'm out of money and need to move, possibly back to Colorado, if there was only some way to do it.

It's seems as though I've had such horrific luck living here but is it really due to Nambé's violent and bloody past. Is it truly a haunting or is it New Mexico being....well... New Mexico? So many people are having a dreadfully hard time now. The haunting may just be stress coupled with me needing to blame all of this on something outside of me and yet....

And yet.... So many people have been having these experiences here long before I came onto the scene. Whatever is inside the house seems angry though not, necessarily, hostile. Whatever is outside is another story. Seeing the shadow people, the feeling I had was that I was witnessing something absolutely evil - something which would hurt me if it could. The ghastly noises from outside followed by a chorus of dogs barking and growling only adds to that fear of an unknown and unnamed horror. Somehow, I suspect this land of the 100-year-old adobe and giant cottonwoods knows a secret which it won't, quite, reveal. My time here among them is at an end. It's time to move on now.

NOTE: In 1854, Luis Romero and Antonio Tafotla were charged with practicing Black Magic, abduction, murder, and cannibalism in Nambe. Both 'witches' were found guilty by a court appointed by the Nambe Governor. The guilty parties were made to drop to their knees, side by side, and each was shot in the back of the head with a shotgun. You can read more about Nambe and its supernatural history:

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Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande [image error]

The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil [image error]

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'THE MOTHMAN REVISITED' - 'UNSOLVED MYSTERIES' on NETFLIX

On July 31, 2024, Netflix will release 5 new episodes for its next season of Unsolved Mysteries. 'The Mothman Revisited' will include interviews and cameos of myself (Lon Strickler), Tobias Wayland, and several of the 160 eyewitnesses who have reported their encounters.

The Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research team has been actively investigating this phenomenon since 2011. I hope that you find this episode both informative and entertaining.

If you have had a sighting and/or encounter with the Chicago Mothman or any other winged humanoid please feel free to contact me by email or call 410-241-5974. Thanks.

The Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map references the encounters and sightings that have been reported so far.'

COMING SOON! This is it, episode 12, the season one finale!
In the summer of 2017, numerous Chicago residents were terrorized by a bizarre and nightmarish apparition, an emaciated, winged humanoid with red glowing eyes! While the otherworldly entity would in many ways mimic West Virginia's legendary Mothman, the Chicago phantom would be a Fortean powerhouse all its own!
Summer vacation is here, and Creepy Acres' resident Bigfoot, Sam Squatch, is left in charge. Hopefully, he can put out the final episode of the season without burning the studio to the ground! Join Sam Squatch and Laura Kram as they venture on their final interview of the season and discuss the Chicago Mothman/Chicago Phantom with author, researcher, publisher of the Phantoms and Monsters blog, and host of Phantoms & Monsters Radio... The one and only...  Lon Strickler!

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FEARSOME WINGED BEASTS: Batsquatch, Mothman, Gargoyles, etc.

For the most part, these terrifying creatures are described as having fur, many times dark purplish or deep blue in color, bright yellow or blood red eyes, a primate head, a wolf-like face with large bat ears & wings. Several of these flying humanoids have a very similar description though, each has a different moniker. I've included a few examples of fearsome winged beasts for comparison:

The Mount Rainer Encounter

Location. Mount Rainier Washington
Date: April 19 1993 Time: 2130

Brian Canfield was driving his truck along the foothills of Mount Rainier when suddenly he experienced total engine failure and its headlights went out. Then a 9-foot tall broad-shouldered winged creature landed about 30 feet away. The being had a large mouth with sharp teeth, yellow eyes, and a wolf-like face, and was covered with bluish fur. After a few minutes, the creature turned his head looked at the witness and started flapping its wings. The creature then took off towards Mount Rainier. The witness then was able to start his truck and drive away. A later search of the area failed to locate anything.

HC addition #1961
Source: Strange Magazine #14 / Albert S. Rosales

NOTE: most cryptozoologists consider this encounter to be the 1st reported Batsquatch.

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The LaCrosse, Wisconsin Man-Bat

Witness' drawing

Thanks to researcher Linda Godfrey's continued cryptid investigations and the submissions by the fantastic readers at 'Phantoms and Monsters'. The following accounts describe another strange creature that could be labeled as a Batsquatch:

This encounter happened on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, on Briggs Road near LaCrosse, Wisconsin around 9:30 pm to a 53-year-old resident who prefers to be known only by his Cherokee name, Wohali, and the man's 25-year-old son. The creature they encountered was 6-7 feet tall with batlike, leathery wings with a span of 10-12 feet, long claws on its feet and hands, and a snarling expression on its face. It flew towards their windshield, stared at them, and then swooped upwards into the night sky.

The creature "screamed" at them before sailing straight up into the air. Wohali stated that he did not know whether the creature had been on the road and then bounced up at them, or if it had been flying at the time it came at their car. He was sure the thing was a physical, actual creature, he said, but like nothing he had ever seen before. Their reaction? Immediate illness. In seconds, both became physically ill and the son, who was driving, swerved and then pulled the truck over into the ditch so he could vomit. The son, who wishes his identity kept private, vomited six or seven times. Wohali retched, as well, and both remained sick for an entire week. The son was so frightened by the encounter that he refused to discuss it. But Wohali told me he feels it's important for people to "know what is out there."

Wohali also described seeing "distended ribs, long sort of human legs with claws, huge bat-like wings with 'arms' sort of attached, I remember the teeth and the scream we heard was terrifying."

Wohali’s account and his sincerity convinced Godfrey that he had a “credible sighting” of something she had not heard described before. “He certainly has nothing to gain by making it up” — or talking about it, she said. “He believes the more he talks about it, the more power it gives the creature.”

Godfrey said she feels it is important that somebody record these experiences. The Man-Bat of Briggs Road ranks right up there as far as notable weird experiences.

“I do think this sighting that Wohali had is an extremely interesting and exciting sighting,” Godfrey said. “I do think it should have some serious consideration given to it.”

NOTE: since the time of these sightings some people have suggested that this creature may have been a Mothman who appeared previous to several mysterious drownings in the LaCrosse area. Lon

Sources:
lacrossetribune.com/couleenews/
Monsters of Wisconsin: Mysterious Creatures in the Badger State[image error]
Hidden Animals: A Field Guide to Batsquatch, Chupacabra, and Other Elusive Creatures

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A Reader's Submission

Hi - I recently had an encounter with a bird-like creature but I know it wasn't a bird - it looked to be a flying person. I know it sounds weird and crazy but I know what I saw. Well here's the whole story. On Feb, 5th around 11:30pm my older sister and her husband were taking me, my little sister, my mom and my two nieces to eat at Denny's in a near town (Fort Myers, FL). Well as we were driving on I75 out of nowhere through the windshield I see a person with wings fly over our car. It went over two times back and forth. I got a good look - it looked like a person with wings but then again it also looked like a pterodactyl (pterosaur). My brother-in-law also saw it and agreed with me. He says it was not a bird! Well that was my encounter with the creature.

My nephew also witnessed a person-like creature. He was walking to his girlfriend's house late at night and by her neighbor's house there are some trees. He said he saw a person / figure standing in the trees looking at him. He asked his girlfriend if she also saw it - she said that its always there. He then started to walk closer to get a better view of it when the creature jumped off the tree onto his girlfriend's neighbors fence causing it to make rattling noise. The dogs started barking and then the creature flew off in front off his eyes. It then ran into his girlfiend's house scared it would come back but it didn't. My nephew's encounter happened in Lehigh Acres, FL a couple of days before my encounter happened! We have no clue as to what it is or why it would be following us?! It is very mind boggling!

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The Butler Gargoyle

We also have a winged humanoid that was originally reported to researcher Stan Gordon. Below is the initial sighting report:

On March 21, 2011, I was contacted by a witness who reported having an encounter with a very strange creature during the early morning hours of March 18, 2011. The incident occurred on a rural road in Butler County between Chicora and East Brady. The witness, a businessman passing through the area, stated that “this was the freakiest thing I ever saw, and it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.”

The man told me that he was driving down the road when from about a ¼ mile away, he observed something on the right side in a grassy area. His first thought was that it was a deer. The driver stepped on the gas to move closer to get a better view. From about 50 yards away, he observed something that appeared to be hunched down, and then stood up. The driver then observed a very tall muscular creature.

At this point, the driver had his high beams on and watched as the creature walked in front of a yellow reflective road sign, then crossed the two lane road in three long steps and continued into a wooded area. What he saw was a humanoid figure that stood at least 8 feet tall that appeared to have smooth leather-like skin that was of either a darker tan or light brown color.

The creature never looked at the witness, and was only observed from its side. The head appeared to be flat in the front section, and then rounded out. “At the top back of skull, it was like one of those aerodynamic helmets. The top was not quite a point, but looked like a ridge on top of the head.” The face was flat, and the eyes were not clearly defined, but the man thought that they might have been pointed in the corner. The ear that was observed on the left side was long and flat, and came up and back and was pointed backwards like a flap.

The arms were muscular and a little longer than that of a human. The hands looked more like a claw, but the number of fingers was unclear. One physical trait that stood out were the extremely muscular legs. The witness stated that it was hard to explain, but the legs did not move like that of a human, and “looked like they bent backwards.” The witness also saw what appeared to be wings on its back which were tucked into its body, with the wing tips extending toward the side of its head.

No unusual sounds or smells where noticed during the observation which was estimated to have been about 7-8 seconds. As the motorist approached the location where the creature entered the woods, it could no longer be seen. The next day the witness decided to drive back to the location of the encounter to look for any evidence. The ground conditions were not suitable for tracks, and nothing was found. The witness did, however, measure the road sign that the creature had walked in front of. The sign was just over 8 feet high, and the head of the creature was estimated to have reached about 4 inches above the sign. Stan Gordon

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Large Flying Cryptid - Pickens, South Carolina

I received the following report in August 2013:

This happened almost three years ago - not sure of the actual date. One night, while coming home from my girlfriend's house, I saw something flying toward my car through the night sky at about 7:30am. It had leather-like wings and was almost as big across as the windshield. I did not get a good look because it was dark, but it had almost orange-reddish eyes and swooped up before it smashed into the windshield of the car. The whole time I was pumping the brakes afraid it was going the smash into the car. I told my parents but they tried to convince me it was a bat - but I told them "no, it was way to big." Then one year later, my Dad told me he saw the same thing flying towards the windshield of his car on the same road and same spot. My Brother also saw it in the backyard as he was taking out scraps. While walking back from the fence he saw the shadow of something on the ground - like it flew directly under the outside light almost blocking the light. He was shocked by the shadow on the ground. Then quickly heard something moving around in the trees. He informed my Dad and they quickly went back outside. They could not see anything in the dark but felt the something was watching from the trees.

None of us have seen or experienced this again. What made me decide to send this was because of the flying dinosaurs article. That might possibly be what I saw - not too sure. Any ideas are welcome. I just know it was pretty big about the size of a man. I live in South Carolina. This also happened in the winter time. RR

I contacted RR for further information and received the following:

It was in Pickens, South Carolina - on a back road called Shady Grove Road. The wings were bat-like and did not appear to be covered with feathers. I did not really get a good look at the body. It happened so fast - but the wings were so noticeable because of the size and shape. The thing was at least the length of the windshield wing tip to wing tip. It was flying at a angle toward the car. I don't know if it came over the hill on the right side of me or from the field on the left. It was still a pretty dark and it was flying a good speed, as it almost impacted with my car. It was about the size of a man with long wings. The head also had a somewhat triangular shape.RR

Encounters with Flying Humanoids: Mothman, Manbirds, Gargoyles & Other Winged Beasts

Monsters of West Virginia: Mysterious Creatures in the Mountain State

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UAP, UNKNOWN BEINGS, & LOST POWER Experienced Near Merrill, Oregon

The experiencer was driving along Highway 39 near Merrill, Oregon when he noticed a UAP with unknown beings watching him. He later lost power to his vehicle.

I received the following account:

"I was driving along Highway 39 out of Klamath Falls, Oregon. As I was entering the town of Merrill I noticed a pure bright white pointy edged kind of rectangular light emanating from an object (to me seemed too perfect of a light to be a kitchen window light) silhouetted by the houses behind it in a field about 50-60 feet away from me off the main road. Although it was dark out still I could make out a pie plate-shaped object about 20 feet in diameter with a sort of dip missing from one side.

It was on that side I noticed more than two but no more than four smaller persons around it. I got the impression they were working, but I did not pay too much attention to them as I slowed to make out what I was looking at.

Suddenly I got a stabbing feeling in me the people around the object were alarmed I had noticed them and now I was staring. I could not make them out because of the dark but I thought maybe they were a mix of children and teens or possibly women because of their height and frame, they stopped whatever it was they were doing and stood still.

I entered the town and lost sight temporarily. I was driving a U-haul truck and towing a car trailer, It was difficult but I made a U-turn to take a longer look at this weird object. when I returned after a time-lapse of maybe 3 minutes tops, most likely less. It was no longer there, only a kind of haze or fog remained.

I scanned the sky hanging my head out the window. I noticed a blinking red beacon for aircraft like the kind all over the area on mountains and towers. This beacon was about maybe 50 feet above a closed store or business. I stared at it realizing nothing was holding this "beacon" up, like it was trying to mock the other beacons all over the area. The flashing stopped then red and white lights came on all around the outside of the craft then began to go around the circumference of it in sequence, white then red then white. I knew it was definitely a disk at that point. The front (or what I assume was the front) tilted downward about 20 degrees and began to slowly fly off at a casual helicopter speed, I assume to throw me off by mocking a helicopter now. This made me laugh because it was nothing like a helicopter. I listened intently for any noise as it made no noticeable sound at all. First, it flew southeast, Then about a mile away from me it changed direction toward where I estimate Mt. Shasta is from my spot along the road where I had parked, then continuing at the same speed flew out of sight from me.

At that point I drove around a bit investigating the edge of town where the craft had landed, I noticed a couple of things I considered strange that may or may not have relevance to the sighting. Like a man in the house closest to the landing site sitting in front of a large paned window with no blinds completely oblivious to my accidentally getting a giant truck stuck on his front lawn when I attempted another U-turn, almost as if he were some kind of hypnotized or something.

I continued on my way. Once I got to the wooded area of the drive by the lava flows monument my truck lost power and slowed almost to a stop for no apparent reason at all. Most of my attempts to make calls or texts were stopped short by no signal in areas signal have never been a problem for me. I felt both watched and not alone the rest of my drive to Reno and occasionally still feel watched and not alone even as recently as this morning. Since I have felt weary to be alone outside in the early morning dark, I don't understand why when I wasn't frightened by the event. My new camera which unfortunately didn't have batteries at the time this happened does not work anymore even after I replaced the batteries a couple times. It makes me think this thing somehow broke it." M

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BIGFOOT Highway Mishaps: Pennsylvania Turnpike Witness Report

A news article from several years ago plus a submission that was sent to me. I'm actually surprised that there aren't more traffic mishaps as a result of Bigfoot road crossings.

FAIRFIELD TWP. -A 17-year-old Columbiana teen claimed he saw Bigfoot while driving on Bunker Hill Road last week.

According to the highway patrol report, Robert James Mehlen Sevenich of Metz Road was southbound on Bunker Hill Road at 2:55 a.m. Jan. 28 when he went off the south side of the road and into a rock.

The report stated that Sevenich told a trooper he went off the road to avoid a "creature" he described as at least seven feet tall with green glowing eyes, hairy and very well-built.

When asked by the trooper if what he saw was human, Sevenich replied, "No" and said he believed it to be Bigfoot.

Sevenich was cited for failure to control and the trooper searched the area for any evidence of what Sevenich described, but none was found, including any footprints of that nature.

Sevenich did not appear to be under the influence of any illicit drugs, the report said. - SalemNews

Here's a submission that details Bigfoot encroachment on a major highway at night:

"Hello, Mr. Strickler. Thank you for reading this email. Please leave my name and email address out if you decide to use the information.

I have been closely following the possible Bigfoot shooting story in Somerset County, PA since Weds. I know that Bigfoot exist and that they inhabit Somerset County, PA. In late November of 1994, my wife and I were traveling from New Jersey west on the PA. Turnpike. We were on our way to Steubenville, OH to stay with my wife's brother and his wife for Thanksgiving.

At around 9:30 PM we were near the town of Somerset, PA, so I decided pull off the highway to stop and get gas. The station was near the exit so I quickly filled the tank and headed back towards the turnpike. I was merging back onto the highway when my wife gasped - I saw it as well. My headlights had caught a glimpse of a huge hairy creature walking onto the highway on my front right (north side of westbound lane). I swerved to the left in order to avoid hitting it. There was another similar creature as well, just a few feet behind it. As I passed the creature it must have reached out and slammed it's hand on the trunk - we heard a loud thud. I looked back in the rear view mirror and noticed brake lights coming from the eastbound lane. I assume it was crossing the highway to the south side. I knew that it was definitely a Bigfoot - I had no doubt what it was.

I continued to drive without stopping. Then I thought that I had better stop and make sure the tail light was not damaged. I didn't want a trooper stopping me with a broken tail light and then try to tell him a Bigfoot did it. But then again, if it was broke what was I going to do that late at night? Anyway - I pulled onto the shoulder, grabbed my flashlight and got out of the car. I walked back to the trunk and looked around. I then noticed a slight indentation on the rear passenger side quarter panel. I looked closer and noticed that there were scratch marks on the surface. I wondered if the Bigfoot had been holding something or that its fingernails had caused the scratches. I got back in the car and resumed driving.

The Bigfoot was dark brown and had very long rough hair. I didn't get a good look at the face since the hair almost seemed to cover most of it. My wife and I both estimated that this creature was at least 8 foot tall and had massive long arms and legs. We barely caught a glimpse at the other Bigfoot, but it seemed to be much smaller in height.

I grew up on a farm near Monticello, NY. My brother and I had heard the stories about a man-beast that lived in the vicinity of a nearby lake. We never believed these tales - until my brother had an encounter with a large hairy man while camping with is friends in the Catskills. He never talked about the incident in detail, only that he was shocked by it. It's a shame because he never went into the woods again. I really didn't want to believe him but I knew deep down that something significant had happened to him.

So when I told him about our encounter he just smiled and said 'I told you so.' - MC

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REPTILIAN CAVE ENCOUNTERS: Archived Incidents Reported By Witnesses

Over the years, several posts on 'Phantoms & Monsters' have garnered the lion's share of pageviews. In particular, the Reptilian encounters are the most popular group. So, I've decided to post these incidents together. Enjoy!

'The Underground' Reptilian Encounter - Carthage, Missouri

When the following story first broke, most people just blew it off. I'll admit, I was one of the naysayers. Since then, my opinions have changed and I feel that some of these reports need to be highlighted.

Location/Date: Near Carthage, Missouri - March 7, 2004 - afternoon: The two witnesses had gone ATV riding in an area referred to as "The Underground" which is a public and private storage facility near the town. The facility is miles and miles of carved-out caves and also stores thousands of dehydrated food containers for the Navy. It is also a fallout shelter and can hold up to 40,000 to 50,000 people. They had gone about 8 miles deep into the caves when they turned into an area that was marked, "Naval Authoritative Zone." The walls had become more polished or finished, which was striking because this was supposed to be a newly blasted area. Both witnesses just kept on going, increasing their speed since the floor was paved now.

They came upon an unusual painted pattern on the floor, which they thought it was graffiti. The road then dipped down and took a 90-degree turn to the left. They were going too fast and knew they were going to hit the wall but, instead, they passed through some kind of holographic projection of the cave wall. Now they had come upon a whole new road system, this one large and much older than the one they had come from.

They began to notice a musty and damp odor that intensified as they went deeper into the area. The lighting had changed as well. It was now much darker than the other area from which they had come. They turned on their headlights and slowed down also noticing that it was starting to get cooler. They made a right turn and started to come up on what they thought was a rest area about 40 ft away. One of the witnesses then saw something that at first he thought was a pair of fountains until the objects moved. They both stopped immediately. About 30 ft away they saw two creatures, one was very tall (at least 7 ft, maybe more) and very powerfully built and reddish in color. The other was smaller (about 6 ft tall) and was a pale, almost albino color. This one was not as powerfully built as the other. Both beings resembled large reptiles. The beings said nothing but the witnesses did get a strong malevolent feeling, an evil presence of some kind from the taller one. One of the witnesses screamed and they immediately turned and started back. As they looked back they noticed the taller entity was following them. One witness had an overwhelming feeling that if it caught them, harm would come to them. They passed through the wall projection again, looked back, and saw the tall entity raise its arm holding a weapon of some sort. It fired and hit one of the ATVs, which apparently killed the engine causing it to stop. The rider ran to the other ATV and jumped on it. They drove away and looked back to see that the tall reptilian had now stopped at the graffiti area on the cave floor. It seemed that the creature would not cross the strange marked area...some type of barrier for the creature.

The witnesses now slowed down and were about 75 feet away from the creature. The two men and the reptilian stared at each other for about 15 seconds and then they left. The creature remained standing without moving. One of the witnesses called the police on his cell phone but he was told that the security at the facility would handle the matter. Indeed security waited for the men and threatened to arrest them if they did not leave.

NOTE: Above was the initial report of the incident posted on the UFO.About.com forum. Below is the statement given by one of the witnesses, Pat Garrett, on his reptilian experience as reported to Mary Sutherland, BUFO Paranormal and UFO Radio. Lon

"This past Sunday, the 7th. A friend and I were riding two ATVs in a place called, "The Underground" it is a public and private storage facility in Carthage, Mo. What makes this place such a desirable storage facility is that it is all underground...hence the name. They are constantly expanding this place and there are miles and miles of carved out caves in there...and it goes pretty deep. This facility stores thousands and thousands of food containers, all dehydrated for the Navy...I have seen them and it is public knowledge around here. It is also a fall out shelter able to hold some 40,000 to 50,000 people. I tell you this to give some sense of the vastness of the place. I worked there as a subcontractor some 9 years ago...I helped build the office spaces up on top. I started to explore then...about once a month and did so all the way until this past Sunday. However, I never went as far or as deep before either.

It was fun to take the ATVs and cruise underground...no rain or weather problems...ever. We were approx 8 miles in and I'd say maybe 500 feet deep when we took a turn down an area that was marked "Naval Authoritative Zone" I remember making a comment about the Navy getting a ship down there and said that was an easy posting. The walls became more defined, as in polished or finished and this was striking because this was supposed to be a newly blasted area...totally backward I would think...still thinking nothing was wrong we kept going, actually increasing speed because the floor was paved now and we could go faster. We came up on an unusual painted pattern on the floor and I thought, "cool graffiti...kids have been down here...we're safe...won't get into any trouble." The road dipped down and then it took a 90' turn to the left...we had no warning and we were going too fast. I knew we were going to hit the wall. BUT we DIDN'T...we passed through some kind of projection of the cave siding...although I don't know how it was done...it was real looking. We passed into a whole new road system...this one was large, and much older than where we came from. We started to smell an odor...musty,damp, growing stronger as we went deeper on smell. The lighting decreased as well probably 60% less than the other area's...we turned on our headlights. We continued on at about 5 to 7 miles an hour for about 5 min and we noticed it was getting cooler...which was to me, very strange...since once inside a cave a certain distance...the temp says the same. We made a right turn and started to come up on what I thought was a rest area on the side...about 40 feet away. I thought it looked like a pair of fountains until they moved. We both stopped immediately. We were approx. 30' feet away now and what we saw were two creatures, one was very tall at least 7' feet maybe more and very powerfully built...reddish in color and the other was smaller about 6' feet but it was not red in color but pale, like an albino and it was not as powerfully built as the other. They looked like REPTILES...living, walking, intelligent beings...not human...not warm blooded. Reptiles! I know it sounds crazy but it is true. They said nothing but I did get a strong sense from the big one. A malevolence, evil presence of some kind. My friend screamed and we turned around...a power turn. We started to go back out when my friend said, "the big one" was after us. I looked back and it was following us. I had the overwhelming feeling that if it caught us that harm would come to us. We passed through the wall projection and I looked back and saw the thing raise it's arm and it had a weapon of some sorts. It fired and hit the ATV my friend was on. The engine died and he stopped. I told him to jump on...and he did. I gunned it and then my friend said, "STOP!" I slowed down and he he said, "LOOK!". I looked back and the thing had stopped at the graffiti on the cave floor/road. The ATV was on it's side of the graffiti/symbol. It was obvious the thing would not cross the marking. I slowed more...we were now about 75' feet away. I stopped and the three of us...Me, my friend and the creature/reptile/man thing just looked at each other...for about 15 sec. And let me tell you...that is a long time. Then I started to leave...It stayed there waiting and not moving until we were out of sight. As soon as we cleared the cave I got on my cell phone and called the Sheriff's Dept. I was told that they would not come out and that "Underground Security" would handle it. Then they hung up! By law they are not to do that...We can hang up on anyone...but a government office, be it City or Federal can not hang up on you. Anyway, I was shocked and scared and we took off across the outside of the underground over to my truck and sure enough...Underground Security was waiting for us. We were told to leave, not to tell anybody about this...that if I come back...The Navy would press charges. I was also told that I had 10 min to leave or I would be taken in. What can I say...we left. It has been 3 days since this has happened and I am still shaken. I am a powerful person, 6'4" and 265 lbs and I have never in my life be afraid for my life...until this past Sunday. I lost my one of my two ATV's. Vin#5y4Ag0o1y61a071120. As far as I know...it is still down there. My friend will not talk about it and I have not heard anything from anyone about it. I did call the Sheriff's Dept. and they said they never got a call from me. Well, that is my story...I have never had anything strange happen in my life and I am very very concerned about this. I can tell you this...I had an urge to kill the things I saw down there...I don't know if that is a natural reaction as most people have a natural revulsion towards reptiles or because of my faith and the feeling of evil I had...or what. All I know is that they are real...and I wish I could do something...anything to combat or help against these things. Take care all and thank you again for letting me write this and share this experience." PG

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Missouri Caver Encounters Underground Reptilian Humanoid

I received an intriguing typed letter in the mail from Jerry (not the witness' real name) who now lives on the US West Coast. No contact information was given. A bit of personal information was removed for me to post and also preserve the witness' anonymity:

"Sir - this is the 1st time I am disclosing my experience to the public. My family has been previously informed of the details. At the time, I owned a small business which I had started after I finished a 12 year stint in the military. I was then living near Eldridge, Missouri and was raised in the general area and knew the terrain fairly well. I had spent time at the US Army Engineer School in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and some of the training included spelunking. When I left the Army I continued to explore caves as recreation.

In 1993 I helped form a local group of experienced 'cavers'. We would get together on weekends and explore some of the cavern systems throughout Missouri and Arkansas. The experience I am about to describe took place in the Summer of 1995. I was on my own that day, which was not uncommon.

I had decided to check out a cave in Camden County, Missouri which was part of a fairly large system in the area. From what I could tell, this particular cave had not been explored for a long period of time. The entrance was very narrow and well hidden. After squeezing through the opening I descended another 50 feet or so before the cave began to open up into a series of chambers. I moved through several of these chambers taking my time to examine the area for possible artifacts and formations. I finally reached, what I thought, was the end of the cave.

I started to hear a rustling sound that was echoing from a small opening near the top of the chamber. I assumed the sounds were bats and didn't pay much attention to it. But after awhile I heard motorized sounds and talking. I stood and listened for several minutes wondering what was on the other side of this chamber. The opening was about 10 feet above me. I maneuvered my way up to the opening which was flat and narrow but big enough for me to get a decent look into it.

As I positioned myself to the front of the opening I started to see light at the other end. The passageway was only a few feet long but it was just too narrow for me to move through. As I looked through the opening there was a very warm draft of air hitting my face. As well, the air had a very acrid vinegar-like odor. There was a very large and well lit 'room' with limestone walls. I noticed a small vehicle that looked like a golf cart but was very low to the ground and without wheels. I continued to observe until I started to hear voices that were getting louder and nearer. Something was making its way towards the vehicle. I had to rub my eyes because I didn't believe what I was looking at.

This 'creature', because it was not a man, stood about 7 foot and had brown scaly skin. The face and head were shaped like a human with a flat nose but there were no ears or hair. The top of the head had a slight scaly ray or ridge that extending down the back of the neck. From what I could see it had lips and regular sized eyes. The arms were very long and muscular with human-like hands. It also had a massive 4-5 foot tail that tampered to a point. It was dressed in a gold metallic outfit with long pants and shoes. It also carried an oval pack attached to its back.

I watched as this thing was looking at something on the vehicle. I had a high speed camera which I use to document my cave explorations. I was able to obtain a few distorted images of the being. For some reason while I was taking photos the creature stopped and turned, looking in my direction. I'm not sure if it heard me but it definitely knew of my presence. It then made a terrible 'hissing' sound as it continued to look in my direction. That was enough for me. I quickly started making a beeline out of the cave. When I reached the entrance I was shaking and hyperventilating. I finally reached my vehicle and drove home.

I continue to explore caves in the area. I have heard stories of people encountering strange underground beings but I have never disclosed my experience. A few years after my experience I went back to the cave but was unable to get near it since the area is now government property. I can assume that I witnessed something that I was not supposed to see. It pains me to think what secrets are being kept from us. To those who say that there are no non-humans living among us, well, think again. They are here. I do have the aforementioned evidence of the experience but I do not wish to release this at the present time. Jerry"

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Reader Submission: Austrian Cave Encounter

The original email from the witness was forwarded to me during the Christmas holidays. With honest intent and in deference to Gregor (the witness) I have debated whether to present this anecdote to the readers for a variety of reasons. I have exchanged emails with the witness but some communication difficulties needed to be ironed out since his English was a bit rusty according to him. Anyway, here is the final version of Gregor's encounter:

"Hello Lon - I am writing to you from where I live in Gmunden, Austria. Recently I came across your story about the man who had an encounter with an alien type creature in a cave in the United States. The story is similar to my encounter in an obscure cave here in Upper Austria. This area is known for salt mining and Salzkammergut, the salt mines of the former Habsburg empire. I am a trained and certified geologist - I studied at the University of Salzburg and in the United States at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I have explored and documented cave systems throughout Austria, Czech Republic and Poland since 1988.

In May 2011 I was in a narrow cave that a colleague had recently found. This was approximately 2 KM north of Obertraun on the opposite side of the descending mountain range in the foothills near the east bank of Halsatter See (lake). As I moved through the difficult passageway I started to hear voices emanating from the darkness ahead of me. I stopped to collect a few sample from the cave wall - chipping it with my pick. I moved deeper - maybe 50 meters - until I noticed the voices again. I am familiar with echos and Doppler effect sounds in caves but this was totally different. I stood quietly for several minutes until the voices stopped.

Again I moved through the cave - almost crawling at this point. After another 40 meters I ascended into a chamber that was big enough to accommodate several people. There were two wide openings on the opposite side of the chamber - each looked like it has been excavated by machine. There was also an obvious rotting odor. As I examined the chamber I noticed an odd red iridescence as I passed the light over the rock floor. When I knelt down to collect a sample I again heard voices coming from one of the passageways. At this point I was terrified and started to hurry back through the narrow cave. After I squeezed back several meters I was able to turn my head just enough to look back into the dark chamber.

A yellow light slowly made its way into the chamber from the left opening in the chamber - then there were several yellow lights following the first. As the lights moved through the opening into the chamber then back through the opening on the right I was able to see the beings. The sight sent fear throughout my body - I was actually paralyzed.

This is the image forwarded by the witness as a fair rendition of the creatures
The creatures were humanoid in stature - but these were not human. Each varied in height but all looked the same - muscular lizards that walked upright like humans. There is not a better term I can use to identify these beings. These creatures wore dark colored full-body uniforms that extended and covered the feet. I couldn't tell the exact color of the skin but each had a pronounced muzzle. The long tails were very prominent and swiftly swayed back and forth as they moved forward. The arms and legs were massive - I could detect the musculature through the uniforms. There were voices also - as if they were talking to each other. The voices actually sounded human though I could not detect the language. There were possibly 20 or more of these creatures as they walked single file through the chamber and into the other opening.

When I conceived it was safe to move I quickly withdrew from the cave. I think I may have been in shock because I barely remember anything that happened from that point until I reached my office. I decided to keep a private journal regarding my encounter - but I have not discussed it with anyone else. My colleague who originally found the cave told me that he has explored the cave since my encounter but never mentions anything about the chamber, other passageways or bizarre beings.

At this point in time, I am starting to doubt that I witnessed these creatures. Is it possible that I hallucinated this encounter - or possibly experienced something from the past or the future? I am a trained professional who deals with reality - but my beliefs have been seriously shaken. I appreciate your introspect and thoughts - as well as observation by your readers. Thank you - Gregor"

NOTE: The fact that Gregor wondered if his encounter was a scene from another time in the past or future, he may have answered his own question...Lon

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BLACK, UNMARKED HELICOPTER & UNIDENTIFIED SCREECHING SOUNDS Reported in Walworth, New York

A woman in Walworth, New York observes an unmarked black helicopter using a searchlight in a field opposite where she was jogging. An unidentified screeching sound was heard.

I received the following account:

"Hi, Lon. I hope this finds you well. I wanted to share this story with you because I would really like to see if it can be identified. Last Sunday evening I was at our school track jogging while my daughter was at cheer leading practice in the gym. Our community is very rural so the track is at the back of the school complex and surrounded by woods and fields, thus very dark at night. I was listening to a podcast through my ear buds while jogging but happened to notice a low flying unmarked black helicopter in the back field, traveling along Eddy Rd. It seemed to go back and forth a couple of times, and thats when i noticed it had search lights trained on the ground. It also landed in the field for about 10 minutes. I took the ear buds out and listened for a minute but didn’t hear or see anything that made me think I should leave the area so I continued to jog. The helicopter eventually took back off and flew away seemingly towards the city and airport. 

Soon after I started to hear this low screeching sound coming from the field across Eddy Rd, it was about a football field’s length from me to where the sound seemed to be coming from. I quickly turned off the podcast and opened the voice memo app on my iPhone to record. For some reason it only recorded 24 seconds. It was just 8pm at this point so I ran back to my car…an additional half to full football field’s length from where the sound was coming from…because the girls were getting out of practice. I got into my car to listen and make sure I had captured the sound on the recording, and I had. At this point my daughter got into the car. When she opened the door, I could still hear it even though we were surrounded by lots of teen age girls and their parents picking them up.

I have played this recording for a number of people, both wildlife experts and paranormal/cryptid investigators but so far there isn’t anyone who can identify it. What I can say, and the reason I keep talking about the distance, is that it had to be very big. I hope you can hear this recording. Some people have not been able to open it on their computers. Thanks, Syd"

I received this follow-up:

I’m in upstate NY. Walworth, in Wayne County (10 miles east of Rochester, NY). I agree it does sound bird-like, and one other person suggested the thunderbird to me. We do have many large birds of prey here, but none that make this particular cry and are that loud, indicating a larger size.

NOTE: The witness stated her distance from the animal/cryptid was approximately 100 yards. The recording was difficult to listen to and very faint. I tried to enhance but it was impossible to post. I am still attempting to get a decent audio file. Lon

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