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May 3, 2024

PHANTOMS & MONSTERS NEWS: UFOs Recorded at SKINWALKER RANCH - BIGFOOT 'Close Encounter' - 'BIGFOOT SIGHTING' Prompts School Lockdown

UFOs Recorded at SKINWALKER RANCH

A high-speed camera has captured the chilling moment four UFOs were spotted above the 'cursed' Skinwalker Ranch in northeastern Utah.

Never-before-seen footage has exposed a possible 'portal' on the haunted ranch, where the team has witnessed a mutilated cow who died under mysterious circumstances.

The video, released by The History Channel in a new episode of 'The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch,' features a team of scientists investigating the 512-acre ranch, long known for its paranormal and UFO-related activities.

Among the eerie sightings, the team observed what appeared to be a possible portal on the ranch.

During the investigation, Erik and Travis, two scientists on the team, were amazed as they observed four UFOs on the high-speed camera. Read more at Chilling moment four UFOs are captured on high speed camera as scientists investigate possible portal on Utah's Skinwalker

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BIGFOOT 'Close Encounter'

It comes as little surprise that states in America that have the most forests are also among the most common places where people have run-ins with Bigfoot.

According to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), which has recorded hundreds of sightings of the elusive creature, the states of Washington, Ohio, California, Florida, Illinois, and Oregon are the biggest hot spots in the United States for Bigfoot sightings.

One such report, the latest to have been recorded by the BFRO, involves two witnesses who were staying in an off-the-grid cabin on a lake in a wooded area north of Coos Bay in the state of Oregon.

“We had a kitchen light on and one other lamp on in the front room. At about 10 PM at night, on October 3, 2019, we heard a noticeable bang on our cabin,” one of the witnesses explained. Read more at Two Witnesses Recall Encountering Bigfoot At Close Range In An Oregon Forest

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'BIGFOOT SIGHTING' Prompts School Lockdown

A school district in Lorain County went into lockdown on Wednesday when school officials said an “unannounced visitor came to the campus dressed in costume.”

Based on videos posted to social media, the “unannounced visitor” appeared to be a person dressed as Bigfoot.

School officials later confirmed to FOX 8 News that it was a person dressed as a “menacing-looking Bigfoot.”

According to a Wednesday letter to parents from the Firelands Local Schools superintendent, the unknown person parked in a school parking lot and crossed the campus while in costume but never entered any of the buildings.

“During this time, some students at FES were outside and had to move quickly inside to safety. The school day was negatively impacted and although lockdown drills are practiced regularly, the situation caused understandable concern and disruption,” read the letter to parents. “While some people may make light of the situation, the fact remains that we cannot waiver from the side of safety.” Read more at Person dressed as ‘Bigfoot’ lurks outside local school, prompting lockdown

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WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST? | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Questions & Answers #Werewolves #Shapeshifters

What is a Werewolf? In European folklore, it is a human who turns into a wolf at night and devours animals, people, or corpses but returns to human form by day. It is said that some werewolves change shape at will; others, in whom the condition is hereditary or acquired by having been bitten by a werewolf, change shape involuntarily, and under the influence of a full moon.
In French folklore, the werewolf is called Loup-Garou. France was particularly afflicted with reports of them in the 16th century, and there were many notable convictions and executions of Loups-Garous.
The werewolf phenomenon may have a medical explanation. Take Peter the Wild Boy, for instance. In 1725, he was found wandering naked on all fours through a German forest. Many thought he was a werewolf or at least raised by wolves. Research has shown Peter likely had Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a condition discovered in 1978 that causes a lack of speech, seizures, distinct facial features, difficulty breathing, and intellectual challenges.
Lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric condition that causes people to believe they’re changing into a wolf or another animal.
Throughout the centuries, people have used werewolves and other mythic beasts to explain the unexplained. In modern times, however, most believe werewolves are nothing more than pop culture horror icons, made famous thanks to Hollywood’s versions of the Wolf Man, portrayed by my namesake Lon Chaney, Jr. Still, werewolves have a cult following. Sightings are reported each year, as evidence of what I am presenting to you.
So, is the Werewolf more than just a legend? What are people reporting? Listen to these accounts and form your opinion.
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Published on May 03, 2024 06:30

May 2, 2024

Unusual 'HUMAN' Encounter at Food Truck Outside of Government Facility in New Mexico

A food truck worker is near a government facility during the lunch hour tending to his regular customers. An average, though weird, man approaches and acts totally out of character.

The following account was forwarded to me:

"I wanted to report the strange guy I encountered while working the register on a food truck in New Mexico. This occurred about 4 years ago. I was working a typical shift running the register on a fairly busy food truck near a government facility. We would average 50+ customers for lunch and most were regulars, but we had a lot of new faces every day.

One day I got this very average-looking white guy, non-descript, who I wouldn't be able to pick out in a lineup. He comes to the window and asks, "What is this?" Unamused I tell him "Food truck, what do you want?" He looks confused and says something along the lines of "What do you serve on this food truck?" I point to the sandwich board beside the window and wait. He glances at the board and then asks, "What is on a hamburger?" It was like he'd never heard of it before.

I list off the regular ingredients quickly, "Burger, bun, choice of cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle, and side of fries." He considers it for a moment then asks, "What's a quesadilla?" Some people don't know so I tell him what's in it.

He goes through each of the 8 or 9 items we had asking the same questions about everything. He decides on a cheeseburger and I give him the total, I think it was $12. He stares at me then hands me a $20 bill and walks away. I send the ticket to my grill and put the change aside for when he comes back for his food. I never assume a tip unless it was mentioned as such.

He comes back for the food, opens the container, and kind of stares at it in wonder. I offer him his change and he looks at me like he's never seen me before and walks away without his change.

His tone was very deliberate like he was trying to not sound weird. The accent wasn't foreign but I couldn't pinpoint what region it was from. I've spoken to people from all over the world and can usually pinpoint a dialect but this guy was just off." R

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Published on May 02, 2024 10:10

Mrs. Jones' Annual BIGFOOT Contact in Northern Wisconsin

The following account has lingered in my old notes for several years. I came across it last night and decided to post it. It' s quite an interesting story.

In the summer of 1977, an elderly woman sat quietly reading a book on the porch of her cottage in a densely wooded area in northern Wisconsin. Suddenly, an invisible force sent the book out of her hands onto the porch floor. Bewildered, the woman looked about for the source of this mysterious happening. She heard someone laughing. At the edge of the forest stood the form of a huge apelike creature with dark auburn hair all over its body.

“I have been standing here for some time. I did not mean to frighten you; just wanted to get your attention,” the creature politely said, as it pleasantly laughed again.

In three separate interviews, this elderly woman explained to me that for four consecutive summers, she had telepathic conversations with a giant man-creature she came to know as Bigfoot-Sasquatch! The woman also spoke of seeing UFOs hovering above the trees, as well as hearing an eerie generator noise in the night!

Mrs. Jones’ New Friend: Overview

An elderly, gray-haired woman, whom I shall call Mrs. Jones, spent her summers in the northernmost region of Wisconsin in the family cottage. Mr. Jones was not an outdoors person, but he would make the seven-hour drive from Milwaukee each summer, leave his wife at their summer place, and return in five or six weeks. Mrs. Jones enjoyed the quietude of the country and eagerly looked forward to being alone. The cottage was located at the end of an old dirt road at the edge of a wild, forested region. The following story was related to me by Mrs. Jones after much reluctance on her part to discuss the matter. She was fearful of being ridiculed or becoming a public spectacle. She swears her story is absolutely true.

“It all started in 1977 and was something that I did not understand, that was very confusing, something that I have to keep very secret, even from my husband. He’s afraid of stuff like that. This has been difficult for me, as I have not been able to share the details with my husband. I hid it from everyone except my best friend.

“As I told you, the first incident occurred while I was reading a book on the front porch of the cottage. Evidently, these Bigfoot creatures have the power to levitate objects, as they did with my book, which flew out of my hands. It was scary, very startling at first, but a kind, warm voice spoke to me in my head. You say it is telepathy, but I don’t understand these things. I only have a fifth-grade education. But I do know that he talked to me inside of my head and that was a great revelation. He apologized for startling me and laughed frequently. This relaxed me and I came to realize that he meant me no harm. He became my friend.

“He stood at a distance of about 50 feet so that I could only see his head and down to about his waist. From what I could judge, he was at least ten feet tall, maybe nine. He was huge. I could see that his hair covered his entire body except his face. His head and shoulders were a dark auburn color with the hair becoming a darker shade of brown on the lower part of his body. His face was similar to that of a man, not quite an ape, more like a man. The things he spoke of were inquisitive and very intelligent, so I knew there was no question that he was a man. His lips of course did not move, as he spoke to me in my mind, and he kept reminding me to think at him. I would think within myself and he would start to answer. Then I knew that, with each thought, he knew what I was thinking. And, in such a way then, we began to communicate. It was a whole new experience for me. The creature smiled frequently but I was not sure who or what he was, so it took some time for me to put into perspective that I was actually speaking to a creature that many would call Sasquatch or Bigfoot.

“I know that the average person would not understand this, and I’m sure our government would want to know of these things. But I’m more afraid of them than I am of this man you call Bigfoot. In fact, he was a friend. He told me that he watched me many times over the previous summers and that he enjoyed listening to my thoughts. Thus I came to trust him and know him some, though there were many things that he would not tell me and hid from me.

“At our very first meeting, out on the porch, I had my pet cat in a small cage on the table beside me. The previous summers I had let my cat loose, but there are many wild animals in the area. Last summer I turned her loose and she did not return for several days. It worried me sick. She kept me company during the time I lived there alone. My cat had the run of the house inside, but when she was outside with me I would place her in this small cage. She understood because she purred and seemed content. The cage was used to transport her up from Milwaukee. So there she was in the cage beside me, keeping me company on the porch, when my friend, the Bigfoot man, began to speak about my cat.”

BIGFOOT (BF): What is the animal that you have in that cage?

MRS. JONES (MJ): It is my pet cat.

BF: What is a pet.

MJ: It is an animal that keeps people company. It is something to love and take care of.

BF: If you love it, why is it in that cage?

MJ: I fear it will get lost in the forest or that it will be eaten by a fox or some other wild animal – I only want to protect it.

BF: But your pet must be unhappy in that cage.

MJ: No, she is on her back purring, and to me, that means she is very content. She is happy because I am here beside her.

BF: Oh, that pleases me. I did not know that. It is good to be happy.

(Mrs. Jones stands up on her porch to get a better view of her new friend. She walks to the side of the porch and stares while she begins speaking again.)

MJ: Will you please step out from behind those pine trees so I can see you better?

BF: No, I won’t.

MJ: Won’t you step out? I won’t hurt you. I merely want a better look at you so I know with whom I am speaking.

BF: No, I will not step out.

MJ: Why not? You can see me. Here I am – short, fat, and wrinkled up – you can see me in plain sight. You can see my whole body. Won’t you show yourself too?

(Mrs. Jones hears a hearty laugh inside her head, not verbally.)

BF: That’s a good one. (More laughter.) You said that well about yourself. That’s a good one. I must go now, but I will be back another time.

MJ: You will be back?

BF: Yes, I am here frequently but you cannot see me. I am around and always will be around, especially if you need me. I have been watching you for many years. I am always around and know what you are doing. I will talk with you another time.

“It came to pass that a neighbor woman from a few miles away stopped to ask if I needed anything because I had no car. She would stop to check on me periodically. I told her I needed some fresh milk and several other items, plus the local newspaper. Later she returned and brought me the items I had requested. In the newspaper, it told of several remote houses and cottages in the area being broken into. I didn’t think much of it until a few nights later. I couldn’t sleep, so I got up and went out and sat down on the steps outside by the back door. I sat, smoking a cigarette and looking at the stars, when I noticed what looked like the glow of a cigarette behind the woodshed a short distance away. Then I saw the silhouette of a man, and then the silhouette of a second man pulling the first man back behind the woodshed. Now this was late at night, about 2:00 as I recall, and I was very frightened. I quickly got up, ran inside, locked the door, and shut off the lights. I went into the bedroom and lifted up a floorboard where my husband kept a loaded .22 pistol and a small baseball bat for protection. I grabbed these and walked through the darkness to the living room. By that time, the two men were already on the front porch. One was looking in the window and the other was trying to open the door. I was panicky but kept my cool. I went over and got down behind the couch in the corner and crouched there, pistol in one hand, baseball bat in the other. I just didn’t know what to do, but I wasn’t going to let anyone hurt me. I could hear the men talking and trying desperately to get in the front door.

“All of a sudden there was a scream. ‘God, what is that? Let’s get out of here!’ At this time the two men fled the porch. One moved so quickly that he fell down the porch steps. I stood and walked to the front door. Through the window, I could see the two men running across the field toward an old wood road, where perhaps they had hidden their vehicle.

“I unlocked the front door and poked my head out. There was a terrible stench that was a cross somewhere between rotten eggs and a skunk. The smell was overpowering. When I looked to my left, I got a glimpse of a giant figure walking into the forest.

“The next morning I was sitting on the front porch reading the Bible when Bigfoot arrived and began talking to me.”

BF: I was here last night. I told you I would be here whenever you needed me. I could feel fear at a distance. I came immediately. Those men were bad. As I said, I am always here, always around. I always know your thoughts. God bless you.

MJ: Thank you, I am grateful. I was very frightened of those men.

“The following year I began hearing strange noises in the forest. Something like a generator sound. It was really strange. It was like a generator winding up and then immediately winding down again, as if it had a broken part in it. I would sit out on the porch and listen to it winding through the night. Then some nights I would see strange lights above the trees, perhaps what other people would call UFOs. It lit up the entire woods. I had seen them go back and forth over the trees and then leave.

“Later I asked a neighbor friend who hiked up to see me (she had a cottage not far from mine) if she had seen the lights over the trees. She gave me a horrified look, saying that she and her husband observed the lights and heard a frightening howl, so he decided to take a flashlight and investigate. His wife waited on the porch. Minutes later he came running back with a look of terror on his face. When I asked her what he saw, she immediately withdrew and refused to discuss it further. She did not come back to visit me for the rest of the summer.

“A few days later I was again sitting on the front porch when my big friend came to visit me. The creature stood in his usual place where I could see only his torso with his usual wide grin.”

MJ: Hello, I have not seen you for a while.

BF: Yes, I know.

MJ: Where have you been?

BF: I cannot tell you.

MJ: What were the lights I saw over the trees the other night?

BF: It is none of your business. (He said this in a kindly tone.)

MJ: I won’t tell anyone about the lights, but I am really curious. Was it a spaceship? And what was the strange howling when it came over? Was that you?

BF: It is none of your business. It is not for you to know.

“We spoke of many things that day, but he would not tell me about the eerie generator noise, nor about the strange lights in the woods.

“We spoke several other times over the summer. He came two days before my husband was to pick me up, and I told him that I would be going back to the city soon.”

MJ: I will miss you, dear friend, for I will have to go soon. My husband will be picking me up in a couple of days.

BF: What is a husband?

MJ: He is the man who brought me here. He’s the one I’m married to who cares for me.

BF: Oh, you mean your mate. Yes, that man. I know of him.

MJ: I will be back again, perhaps in the spring.

BF: What is spring? I do not know that word.

MJ: Spring is the season right after winter.

BF: I do not understand your words.

MJ: It is the season right after the snow melts.

BF: What is the word snow?

MJ: It is when the ground becomes white all over and is cold.

BF: Yes, I understand. But what is spring?

MJ: Spring is when the water can flow again. When the water is free to move and the weather gets warm.

BF: Oh, now I understand spring. Now I understand (gives a hearty laugh). That is a good one. I like how you explain that. Yes, that is a good one.

“Later, when my husband picked me up, I told him I must say goodbye to my friend in the forest. I told him I was going to walk down a small trail not far from the lake. My husband understood but he did not want to discuss it. These things frightened him. He couldn’t discuss it. He sat quietly in the car reading a newspaper while I walked into the woods to look for Bigfoot. I walked some distance and then sat down under a tree for a short spell. In my mind I began telling him I was leaving now and wanted to say goodbye, hoping that we would talk again next year. He answered me immediately, though I could not see him. He said he had enjoyed talking with me and would indeed see me the following year. I was so happy. There was something beautiful about his words that gave me a warm feeling about this man. There was a true sense of love. I really did not want to go back to Milwaukee, to the city, to all the people.

“I turned to walk back toward the cottage but, after only a few steps, I heard a noise behind me. When I turned around Bigfoot was just 10 or 12 feet from me, walking back into the forest. Now I don’t know why, but I didn’t see him there all the time I was sitting and talking to him. I don’t know where he came from. He was just there very suddenly. I don’t understand why I didn’t see him before then. He just appeared out of nowhere.

“It came to pass that these summers meant a lot to me. I always looked forward to going back to speak with my friend again. In 1980, when I returned, we arrived late at the cottage and it was dark. While getting out of the car, I saw a huge shadowy figure standing in the trees. My husband and I went into the house in order not to disturb the creature. We were busy arranging our groceries and clothing.

Suddenly, we heard a heavy thump against the side of the building. I was not frightened because I knew it was my friend letting us know that he was there. However, my husband became quite upset. I told him not to worry, that Bigfoot was a friend, and, as usual, my husband said: ‘I don’t want to talk about it.’ I spoke to Bigfoot only one time that summer and I was very disappointed. In fact, that was the last time we talked. He said they were leaving and would go to a different area now. He said there were too many people and too much activity in the area, and he had to leave, as it was no longer safe for him. My friend promised that, if he was in the area again, he would visit me.

“I have not told others of this experience because I feared people would not believe me. I don’t want anyone making fun of me. This was an experience that I’ll never forget and in many ways has changed my life.”

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Published on May 02, 2024 09:31

UNKNOWN AQUATIC CREATURES Recorded Along Lake Namor, Papua New Guinea (VIDEO/IMAGES)

On April 2, 2024, TikTok influencer, Nightmare Fuel, uploaded a strange 1-minute video they had received from an unnamed fan. In the comments, they wrote:

“A camera was set up facing the river in Namor Ong after many people said they saw spirits in the river, a river where many people have lost their lives over time. The camera captured this, an unbelievable sight.”

I believe that the publisher was referring to Lake Namor, on Lolobau Island in Papua, New Guinea. No date is given though it’s thought to have been fairly recent. It is unclear what exactly the creatures in the lake are but they do appear to have large eyes that, upon surfacing, reflect the light. They swim about, submerge, emerge, and occasionally look at the camera. The activity seems fairly harmless, all things considered.

Youtuber Maximum Fear featured the footage on his channel in a video titled “NEWEST Disturbing Creatures Caught on Trail Cam 2024” released on April 30, 2024. He wrote:

“...at some points, we can even see the eyes on the creatures reflect. They just slowly swim around with their long straggly hair covering most of their face and head and their pale white skin is slightly seen beneath. What could these beings possibly be most hypothesized since the river has a dark past that these are paranormal manifestations of the lives lost or a scarier thought, these creatures could actually be responsible for all of the disappearances and deaths. Perhaps the land is cursed and these are skinwalkers or possibly even other evil entities.”

It should be noted that the date of the upload is April 2, which is, of course, one day after April Fool’s Day. So is this nothing more than a practical joke, or were some strange creatures actually filmed? We’ll probably never know.

Transcribed Source - https://www.tiktok.com/@nightmarefuel__/video/7353273791570660641 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz5n24S0vhM

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Published on May 02, 2024 08:56

Remarkable DEATH CONNECTION: A Mother & Her Daughter

I heard the following account from Hospice Nurse Julie recently that I felt that I needed to share. Tell me what you think. Thanks.

"My mother was dying of ovarian cancer 4 years ago. She went into Hospice Care at home for the last 7 months of her life. The last month she became nonverbal and mostly bedridden. My father, brother and I knew the time was close.

I was a police officer at the time and I worked the afternoon shift so I would go in the morning to see my mother and father, help out as much as I could with the caregiver, and then go to work.

The day she died I met with a friend who was a caterer and we discussed catering her funeral at my parent's church. We sat at a coffee shop for about an hour planning the menu. I went home hung up my gun belt, stripped off my uniform, and drew a warm bath. I laid back and closed my eyes for a few minutes when I heard my mother's voice telling me that she had just died and I needed to get over to the house. I sat up in the bathtub and I saw her standing in the doorway of my bathroom. She looked about 20 years old, the age she was when she married my father. I said, "Are you okay?" She smiled and said, "I'm fine. Go take care of your father and brother."

I got out of the tub, dried off, and put on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. Then my phone rang. Now it's midnight. no one calls me at midnight. I answered the phone and my brother said my name and didn't say anything else. I said, "I know. I'm on my way." I jumped in the car, drove two miles to my parent's house, and walked inside. My brother standing in the kitchen holding the phone in his hand. He asked me how I knew and I said, "She told me." I walked into the room and the hospice caregiver was sitting in the chair, as she had just called her supervisor to come declare my mom dead.

We had not awakened my father yet. We were going to do it when they arrived, but I said, "Wait, I'll do it when I'm ready. But right now I wanted to hold my little mother, my tiny little sunken mother in my arms one last time. I crawled into bed with her, held her in my arms, and told her everything was going to be okay and that we would be okay. We woke my father up and, of course, he was devastated. They had been married for 58 years.\

About an hour later my brother asked me how I knew and I told my brother and father what had happened in the bathtub. My father looked at me and said, "I know why that happened. I know you, your mother, and your grandmother are connected to the universe in a way that no one can explain."

11 months later my father had a massive heart attack in his easy chair watching the afternoon news. It was my birthday and I had gone out with some friends that night. About 3:00 in the morning my mother woke me up and told me I needed to go take care of my father now. She told me to go to the house and take care of him. I did what she said and I found my father dead in his easy chair with the television still on.

My father was right. My mother, my grandmother, and I have a unique connection."

NOTE: Julie mentions that she goes on to say this was not the first or the last time things like this happened to me. It's been happening to me forever since I was 3 years old and I'm 68 now. I had a very similar event happen to me when my Aunt passed away in 1977. Lon

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Published on May 02, 2024 08:09

PHANTOMS & MONSTERS NEWS: ALIEN LIFE...Serious & Scientific - PENTAGON & UFOs - 'BIGFOOT' Defense Didn't Work

ALIEN LIFE...Serious & Scientific

Suddenly, everyone is talking about aliens. After decades on the cultural margins, the question of life in the Universe beyond Earth is having its day in the sun. The next big multibillion-dollar space telescope (the successor to the James Webb) will be tuned to search for signatures of alien life on alien planets and NASA has a robust, well-funded program in astrobiology. Meanwhile, from breathless newspaper articles about unexplained navy pilot sightings to United States congressional testimony with wild claims of government programs hiding crashed saucers, UFOs and UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) seem to be making their own journey from the fringes.

What are we to make of these twin movements, the scientific search for life on one hand, and the endlessly murky waters of UFO/UAP claims on the other? Looking at history shows that these two very different approaches to the question of extraterrestrial life are, in fact, linked, but not in a good way. For decades, scientists wanting to think seriously about life in the Universe faced what’s been called the ‘giggle factor’, which was directly related to UFOs and their culture. More than once, the giggle factor came close to killing off the field known as SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence). Now, with new discoveries and new technologies making astrobiology a mainstream frontier of astrophysics, understanding this history has become important for anyone trying to understand what comes next. But for me, as a researcher in the field of technosignatures (signs of advanced alien tech) – the new face of SETI – getting past the giggle factor poses an existential challenge. Read more at Alien life is no joke

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PENTAGON & UFOs

Congress held a historic hearing on UFOs last July. The hearing, which featured testimony from two former Navy fighter pilots and a former senior intelligence officer, garnered a notable amount of attention and interest not seen on Capitol Hill in years.

In one remarkable exchange, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) described how his office received a “protected disclosure” from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, regarding a January 2023 UFO incident over the Gulf of Mexico. After being stonewalled by the Air Force, he delivered a tense, on-base reminder to the military about “how authorities flow in the United States of America.” The Air Force relented, permitting Gaetz to review sensor data gathered during the encounter.

According to Gaetz, fighter pilots tracked four unknown objects flying in a “clear diamond formation.” Notably, the incident occurred on a training range typically conspicuously free of any airborne clutter.

Still, imagery indicated that one of the objects demonstrated capabilities that Gaetz, who has served on the House Armed Services Committee for nearly a decade, was “not able to attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries.” Read more at The Pentagon is lying about UFOs

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'BIGFOOT' Defense Didn't Work

A man who claimed he killed his friend because he believed the victim was summoning Bigfoot was convicted of murder.

Larry Doil Sanders was found guilty by an Oklahoma judge on April 17, according to reports from The Oklahoman, The Ada News, and KXII.

Jimmy Knighten was strangled to death in July 2022 while out fishing with Sanders, the outlets reported. After waiving a right to a jury trial, Sanders’ attorney reportedly claimed that his client had acted in self-defense.

The Oklahoman reported that Sanders claimed during testimony that while out noodling with Knighten, he had seen three sasquatch-looking figures by the river.

Witnesses for the prosecution testified that Sanders had said he believed Knighten was trying to kill him and send his body down the river as a sacrifice to Bigfoot, reported The Oklahoman. Read more at Okla. Fisherman Who Thought Friend Was Trying to Feed Him to Bigfoot Convicted of Murder

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May 1, 2024

Archive: U.S. Special Forces Hunt 'KILLER BIGFOOT GROUP' in Western North Carolina

I have received several requests to post the following archived report.

Dave Schrader received a letter from an anonymous man, claiming to be a former U.S. Special Forces operative, regarding a mission he was a part of back in the early 1990s:

“In the early 90s, I was with the 'Teams' in the Navy. We were sanctioned by an alphabet government agency to put a stop to several aggressive Sasquatch in the high country in western North Carolina. We all thought it was a joke at the mission briefing but it was no joke. My partner (in our team of twelve) was my swim buddy. He was Native American. This man wasn't scared of anything. Before we were ordered to go out, during the briefing, all of these agents were showing us slides of what these creatures did to people; adults and children alike, as well as the damage done to vehicles and homes. Anyway, my buddy turned white with sheer fear. He told me, 'This is bad. Really bad.'

When we arrived in the little mountain village town, the sheriff met us. He told us that he'd never been so happy to see the cavalry since he'd been in Korea. He showed us the actual places where, as he put it, 'this is where those f**kers, those big hairy demons, destroyed this', or killed him, her or them, there. My buddy was taking everything in like I never saw him before. After talking with the sheriff, our lieutenant told us to fire up because we're going hunting. As we were getting our gear ready, my buddy said to me, 'You know, I always thought my grandfather was just telling me scary stories about he and his brothers when they fought the wild men.'

We started in around 1400. By 1600, we found lots and lots of tracks. We started tracking them. We made out at least seven different individuals. We made first contact at around 1930 and it was almost dark. The point man stopped dead in his tracks and spoke into his headset, 'I see one, it's f**king huge!' The lieutenant said, 'If you have the shot, take it.' He shot this massive hairy beast with a 7.62 millimetre round and it acted like a mosquito bit him. This creature turned around and let out with a God-awful roar. Our point man quickly switched to full auto. This time the creature dropped like a rock after ten 7.62 millimeter rounds cut up his chest.

After first contact, the agents radioed in and said they wanted one alive. Our lieutenant told them to go screw themselves. It took three days and nights with almost no sleep but we dropped seven hairy bastards. We found the missing people, or rather what was left of them. We had one casualty when a team member was snatched straight up into a tree. There was nothing anyone could have done for him. To this day, thinking of those three days sends chills down my spine. You wont find those three days in any military record or mission log.

Going into our mission debriefing where normally we are asked a thousand and one questions about every shot fired, every angle we fired from, every angle we fired on etc., we were simply told that the past three days we were doing rigorous mountain training and during that training period we lost a man. And, with that, the debriefing team stood up and walked out. Now normally we have individual debriefing for the whole team but this was the one and only time it was just team.

So to answer your next question, after three days government agents came in and removed all seven corpses and flew them out.”

Transcribed Source: Beyond The Darkness – April 10, 2017

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In French folklore, the werewolf is called Loup-Garou. France was particularly afflicted with reports of them in the 16th century, and there were many notable convictions and executions of Loups-Garous.
The werewolf phenomenon may have a medical explanation. Take Peter the Wild Boy, for instance. In 1725, he was found wandering naked on all fours through a German forest. Many thought he was a werewolf or at least raised by wolves. Research has shown Peter likely had Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a condition discovered in 1978 that causes a lack of speech, seizures, distinct facial features, difficulty breathing, and intellectual challenges.
The rare psychiatric condition that causes people to believe they’re changing into a wolf or another animal is called Lycanthropy.
Throughout the centuries, people have used werewolves and other mythic beasts to explain the unexplained. In modern times, however, most believe werewolves are nothing more than pop culture horror icons, made famous thanks to Hollywood’s versions of the Wolf Man, who was portrayed by my namesake Lon Chaney, Jr. Still, werewolves have a cult following. There are sightings reported each year, as evidence of what I am presenting to you.
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New Yorker's Reflections: SPIRITS OF 9/11

The following account was provided to me by my late friend and colleague Chris Holly. Her insights on the paranormal were quite compelling. This is a statement concerning 9/11.

"I rarely discuss 9/11. I have never written about it before in any fashion. I am a New Yorker and my feelings are very strong and very personal on this subject. I lived in New York City as did my family during the 9/11 attack on this country and my view is not a long-distance viewpoint mine is from the horror of watching it happen to the people in my town.

I do not respond to the theories that float about freely on this subject. It sickens and hurts my heart like no other to listen to those who were nowhere near this horrible act of hate give long-winded opinions of who and what happened that morning on September 11, 2001.

I do know what it was to watch two planes fly into a no-fly zone; I do know what it is like to watch those planes fly into two buildings big enough to fill the space of an average town in America. I do know what happens when towers as big as towns fall down upon the surrounding area hitting and destroying everything in the way on the way down.

I also know what it is like to hear my son say to me “Why are they throwing laundry out of the windows“. I also know what it is like to hear that same son say to me once he places his eyeglasses on to look again “ Oh god Mom it is people jumping, Oh god- no, so many are jumping” I will never forget his voice at that moment. All I could do was tell him to look away and run. That is what I know about 9/11.

I know what 9/11 smelled like and what people in terror looked like covered in the gray ash of the combined fallen towers and the dead. I also learned how brave, strong, and kind my fellow New Yorkers proved to be.

So you will have to excuse me if I walk away from or twist in sickness and quickly retreat from those who spend hours in the debate about something they did not see, live through, and in my opinion, have any idea at all what they are talking about.

It was a time when things became surreal while things unimaginable were happening all around us and an average morning caught New Yorkers dealing without warning into a total survival mode.

Quickly the extreme conditions around you become crystal clear and you are aware of everything happening. It is how you live through these types of events. Your senses become acute and you become very clear about what is going on. I cannot and will not forget that day. I also cannot and will not forgive those who entertain themselves with theories and ideas that just do not apply to what happened. That is all I have to say on that area of this subject.

What I want to share is an event that happened at dusk on the day the Towers fell. All of New York was focused on the horror going on in our city. The city was locked down. New Yorkers were trying to deal with the ordeal of searching for survivors. The world watched as we faced the nightmare of being crushed by buildings as big as most small towns in America.

About 8 miles outside the city on the south shore coast of Long Island looking at the city my cousin, her husband, and her friends and family were gathered at a dock where they kept a large boat on the Atlantic Ocean side of New York. They heard from other people who had boats docked that you could watch what was left of the towers burn and also see the spirits rise if you went out in the water and anchored adjacent to the city skyline.

My cousin and her family and friends decided to take the boat out to see if they could have one last look at what was left of the towers which were a landmark on the skyline of New York City along the coast.

My cousin told me it was a silent ride out with heavy broken hearts for those lost and the realization terror was now a word that would stay with us forever. They made their way to the group of other boats anchored in the area that proved to be the best last look at the mighty World Trade Center Complex.

She told me the boats all floated silently in the water as they watched the smoldering building pieces that remained and broken buildings in the area smoke in a slow sad last gasp of what they once had been. She said the fires were out but a glow surrounded the ground zero site in a strange eerie fashion.

My cousin told me they sat there for a very long time without talking and openly wept at the horror before their eyes. Most people knew people who worked in or near the towers. No one was sure who was alive or who was dead. It was a day like no other for New York City and its adjoining communities.

As they sat on the boat watching they all started to notice at once something very odd going on at the ground zero site. Over the buildings, above the city, they realized they were seeing flashes of what looked like light rising from the top of what was left of the tower complex rising up into the darkening sky.

The group of people sitting on the boats watched in silence as this strange activity increased until they witnessed hundreds of ghost-like white wisps rise from the ground and lift into the night sky. The people watching started to cry as they all were sure of what they were watching.

My cousin talked to me a few days later and told me that she knew people would think she was crazy but she was sure of what she had seen.

She told me it was not smoke, it was not spotlights it was hundreds and hundreds of individual souls rising above the site until you could no longer see them. Straight up until they were simply gone.

She told me they looked like a white glowing shape about body size and that the entire thing lasted for only an hour or so and then it slowed and stopped. She told me she knew it was the confusion of the day that kept the souls earthbound until they realized it was over and that they needed to move on.

This event has forever changed her life. I cannot prove or disprove what the people saw on those boats. I do know it was profound and stayed with them all.

My cousin was a serious skeptic and extremely set in her beliefs until this event occurred. She returned from this event a very different person. The entire group who were on that boat that day have been changed and insist they were witness to the spirits of those who were taken that day rise and leave ground zero.

I did not see this take place and can only report what I was told. I do know firsthand that for days following the World Trade Towers Attack New Yorkers for miles around the city spent days washing the gray thick dust that hovered drop from the sky covering cars, patio furniture, and flower pots. Our decks and windows all were covered.

I recall the odd still feel of the days after and the attack as well as the strange cry of the wind that would arrive and hum in a sad sorrowful way as we hosed off our vehicles, houses, and belongings from the gray coat of dust covering everything.

I clearly recall hearing my neighbors and family members praying aloud as we hosed off our world knowing we were not only washing away the remains of the towers but those who perished in them. I recall the taste of the ash and forever will remember the smell. The smell of disaster and death covered the area for miles and miles. We all cried as the dust-covered our hands and faces as we hosed off the gray ash covering everything. I remember spitting out dust as I washed down my car sick at heart knowing I may be spitting out someone's father or mother, son or daughter. It was a time like no other in modern American history and one that must never be forgotten.

I believe my cousin, her family, and friends. Looking at their faces as they tell you what they saw leaves no question in my mind that they did watch the spirits of 9/11 rise to a better place.

That is all I have to say about 9/11 and the souls of those who were lost that terrible day."

Thanks to Chris Holly at Chris Holly's Paranormal World
Copyright © 2008-2010 Chris Holly all Rights Reserved

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In French folklore, the werewolf is called Loup-Garou. France was particularly afflicted with reports of them in the 16th century, and there were many notable convictions and executions of Loups-Garous.
The werewolf phenomenon may have a medical explanation. Take Peter the Wild Boy, for instance. In 1725, he was found wandering naked on all fours through a German forest. Many thought he was a werewolf or at least raised by wolves. Research has shown Peter likely had Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a condition discovered in 1978 that causes a lack of speech, seizures, distinct facial features, difficulty breathing, and intellectual challenges.
The rare psychiatric condition that causes people to believe they’re changing into a wolf or another animal is called Lycanthropy.
Throughout the centuries, people have used werewolves and other mythic beasts to explain the unexplained. In modern times, however, most believe werewolves are nothing more than pop culture horror icons, made famous thanks to Hollywood’s versions of the Wolf Man, who was portrayed by my namesake Lon Chaney, Jr. Still, werewolves have a cult following. There are sightings reported each year, as evidence of what I am presenting to you.
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Young Man Encounters GLIMMER MAN In His Bedroom!

A young man is lying on his bed about to fall asleep when he notices a translucent, wavy entity standing by his bed. The witness is suddenly alarmed and checks his sleeping family.

The following account was forwarded to me:

'Hello, sir. This occurred about 9 years ago. I still remember this freak encounter like it was yesterday though. I lived in a two-story house. I slept on the second floor along with my parents and two sisters. I had my own room and had dozed off around bedtime like any normal night. I was lying facing towards my open bedroom door. The bathroom light was still on so it shone in the hallways some and in my room just a tad.

I was almost asleep when something woke me up suddenly. I’ll never forget how my eyes shot open, so quickly and suddenly. My body sensed something. It was right. Standing straight up, looking at me, directly beside my bed was a translucent humanoid. (At the time I described this being as looking like heat waves or even water.) My heart rate shot up and I was scared to my core. I was so scared I just lay there and stared at it in complete shock. I was wide awake. My heart was pounding.

I shoot up out of my bed, halfway expecting the being to just poof away, but no. I stand up and we are 'face-to-face.' I have no way of explaining how I know we were face to face. It did not have a face, but just like how I knew it was looking at me. I knew we were face-to-face. It had to be around 5’11-6’0 because that was about my height at the time. It didn’t move at all, other than the waves in its body. It looked almost exactly like the Predator when it was invisible.

I stood there nose-to-nose with it for a couple seconds (it felt like forever). I know I wasn’t just sleepy seeing things. My body was in a mode of fear I hadn’t really felt ever. My blood was rushing and my eyes were wide. I’ll never forget that image of it. I darted out of my room. Scared to my core. I look in my sister’s room. I look in my parent's room. Everyone else is sound asleep. I paced for around an hour in the hall before having the courage to run into my room to grab my phone and the Bible. It was no longer in there and I didn’t see it walk down the hallway, down the stairs to leave.

It’s probably the most bizarre experience of my life. I haven’t seen or felt anything like it since. I would like to say though looking back on it I don’t believe it was there to hurt me. It could have if it wanted to. I also wonder about it because most of these encounters have happened in the woods, but mine happened on a second level in a house. I wish there were answers." H

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In French folklore, the werewolf is called Loup-Garou. France was particularly afflicted with reports of them in the 16th century, and there were many notable convictions and executions of Loups-Garous.
The werewolf phenomenon may have a medical explanation. Take Peter the Wild Boy, for instance. In 1725, he was found wandering naked on all fours through a German forest. Many thought he was a werewolf or at least raised by wolves. Research has shown Peter likely had Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a condition discovered in 1978 that causes a lack of speech, seizures, distinct facial features, difficulty breathing, and intellectual challenges.
The rare psychiatric condition that causes people to believe they’re changing into a wolf or another animal is called Lycanthropy.
Throughout the centuries, people have used werewolves and other mythic beasts to explain the unexplained. In modern times, however, most believe werewolves are nothing more than pop culture horror icons, made famous thanks to Hollywood’s versions of the Wolf Man, who was portrayed by my namesake Lon Chaney, Jr. Still, werewolves have a cult following. There are sightings reported each year, as evidence of what I am presenting to you.
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OCTO-MAN: Mysterious Bipedal Cryptid Observed in Ohio River

In the winter of 1959, at least five eyewitnesses claimed to have observed a large, bipedal creature resembling an octopus in various locations along the Ohio River.

A reader forwarded the following information:

"In the winter of 1959, the Ohio River and its tributaries became the stage for a series of bizarre sightings. Five terrified witnesses reported encountering a large, gray, octopus-like creature, which quickly gained infamy as the 'Indescribable Octo-Man'.

The creature first made headlines on January 29th, 1959, when a local Cincinnati newspaper ran a captivating headline: "What Is It? ‘Monster’ Churns Up the Ohio”. The article sparked a whirlwind of speculation, leading to numerous sightings of the Octo-Man, many of which were reported to the local police.

The creature was first sighted near the town of New Richmond by an anonymous man who described the creature as “indescribable”. His report was initially met with skepticism by the police until a second caller, a truck driver, phoned in with a similar sighting.

Despite some officers dismissing the reports as a prank, several dispatchers, including one Frank B. Heisler, stated that those making the reports sounded legitimately frightened and sober. In a strange twist of events, as the creature reports began to flood in, all the streetlights along a specific avenue, from Lunken Airport to Coney Island, Ohio, were suddenly extinguished.

While the sightings initially caused a flurry of panic, by Saturday the police announced that the calls had ceased and that the creature had seemingly disappeared. However, subsequent sightings of a similar creature were reported near Covington, Kentucky in February, suggesting the Octo-Man was still around.

In 1978, Dennis Pilchis, an investigator of UFOs and Bigfoot from Rome, Ohio, released a booklet called "Bigfoot: Tales of Unexplained Creatures". As a local, Pilchis might have had a chance to hear more details from witnesses who were not covered in the press.

Pilchis noted that a woman from Covington reported seeing the creature in a bent-over position. She described it as a bizarre, gray being with an uneven chest, 'frightening' tentacles and layers of fat layered across a hairless head. According to her, the creature, with bulges of fat on its bald head, was an enormous, slimy figure that moved awkwardly. It was such a shocking sight that it deeply affected those who saw it.

This state of fear, particularly among the children in the area, was evidenced by a report in the Cincinnati Post & Times-Star. It recounted a phone call from an 11-year-old boy asking if "green men are emerging from the river in groups of twelve as his teacher claimed."

By the following Saturday, local police announced that they received no more calls about the monster, implying that it had left the town. However, it may have been too early to make such a declaration.

In their 1982 book "The Bigfoot Casebook," Janet and Colin Bord mention a report from a driver named George Wagner. He claimed to have seen a large, two-legged creature on a bridge over the Ohio River near Covington, Kentucky, in February 1959. We can assume this happened early in the month. Following Wagner's report, it seemed like the bizarre, hairless, tentacled, two-legged creature had disappeared from our world. Or, it might have just returned to the murky depths of the Ohio River or one of its many tributaries, awaiting a time to re-emerge and cause chaos once more.

The Octo-Man, with its unusual, hybrid-like features, became the subject of many theories. Some speculated it was a new amphibious species, unknown to science. Others suggested it was a lost alien, an unlikely human-animal-plant hybrid, or even related to other local cryptids like the Loveland Frogmen or the Green-Clawed Beast.

Amid the chaos sparked by claims of a monster sighting, a dispatcher from Clermont County, Heisler, suggested the witnesses may have mistaken a tree bobbing in the water for a creature. Local dam worker, William Sprague, agreed with Heisler's theory. "I've been on duty since midnight. I've been keeping a close eye on the river and I haven't seen anything unusual," said Sprague. "There were strong winds all night, causing waves up to eight feet high. This could easily trick someone. The winds also caused a lot of driftwood to break loose. When you're out on the river at night, these floating trees can look quite eerie under the dim light."

Sprague's driftwood theory doesn't account for certain details reported by the witnesses. It doesn't explain how something resembling a tree or wave could have feet or resemble an octopus. It also fails to address the claim of a witness who said they saw the creature jump onto a bridge."

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In French folklore, the werewolf is called Loup-Garou. France was particularly afflicted with reports of them in the 16th century, and there were many notable convictions and executions of Loups-Garous.
The werewolf phenomenon may have a medical explanation. Take Peter the Wild Boy, for instance. In 1725, he was found wandering naked on all fours through a German forest. Many thought he was a werewolf or at least raised by wolves. Research has shown Peter likely had Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a condition discovered in 1978 that causes a lack of speech, seizures, distinct facial features, difficulty breathing, and intellectual challenges.
The rare psychiatric condition that causes people to believe they’re changing into a wolf or another animal is called Lycanthropy.
Throughout the centuries, people have used werewolves and other mythic beasts to explain the unexplained. In modern times, however, most believe werewolves are nothing more than pop culture horror icons, made famous thanks to Hollywood’s versions of the Wolf Man, who was portrayed by my namesake Lon Chaney, Jr. Still, werewolves have a cult following. There are sightings reported each year, as evidence of what I am presenting to you.
So, is the Werewolf more than just a legend? What are people reporting? Listen to these accounts and form your opinion.
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