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April 17, 2024

PHANTOMS & MONSTERS NEWS: NASA Confirms ISS Debris Crashed Into Home - PANTHER Recorded in Worcester, UK? - TAROT READING Predicted $500,000 Lottery Prize

NASA Confirms ISS Debris Crashed Into Home

An object that crashed from the sky into an American man's home was a hunk of debris ejected from the International Space Station, NASA confirmed Monday.

The strange tale came to light last month when Alejandro Otero of Naples, Florida posted on X that a metallic item "tore through the roof and went (through) 2 floors" of his house, almost striking his son, on March 8.

It occurred at a time and location that closely matched official predictions for the atmospheric burn-up of a cargo pallet fragment carrying old batteries that were jettisoned from the orbital outpost in 2021, making it a likely match, according to space watchers. Continue reading at NASA confirms space station debris hit Florida man's home

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PANTHER Recorded in Worcester, UK?

Video footage shows a motorist’s alleged sighting of a ‘panther-like’ big cat in the UK.

Geoff Thompson, 37, had pulled over in a layby on a country lane to take photographs of his beloved classic car, a Renault 10 when he noticed something in the distance.

Geoff says he saw a large feline shape lurking in a field behind the car on April 14 and then found its prints. Geoff, of Worcester, said: “I just went out for a sunny drive - I noticed it as I started photographing my car. I think it was a panther.” Continue reading at Mysterious feline caught on camera roaming through field - could it be a panther in England?

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TAROT READING Predicted $500,000 Lottery Prize

A Michigan woman said a tarot card reading correctly predicted she would win a $500,000 lottery prize later that same day.

The 59-year-old Genesee County woman told Michigan Lottery officials she was on her way to the tarot card reading when she stopped at the BP gas station on West Thompson Road in Fenton to buy some scratch-off tickets.

"During my tarot reading, I was told money would be coming into my life very soon. I tried to think of ways this might happen, but I didn't even think about the lottery tickets in my purse," the player recalled. Continue reading at Tarot card reading predicts Michigan woman's $500,000 lottery win

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The wendigo has been misappropriated from its original context in Algonquin folklore. The word "Wendigo" roughly means “The Evil Spirit Who Devours Mankind.” Originally it was depicted as a cannibal ice giant and cautionary tale relevant to the realities of Algonquin life. Euro-American popular culture mutilated it into what may only be described as a "zombie-were-deer."
First, the Algonquin monster has relevance to their traditional way of life. Their culture was reliant on teamwork, so selfishness is a deadly sin to them, and the wendigo is the ultimate embodiment of that.
Secondly, wendigo psychosis is a real mental illness and was historically used as a justification to destroy the Algonquin culture. There are written accounts in the last two centuries of people suffering from this illness being murdered by their peers.
So then, how was the Wendigo tale altered? This goes back over a century to Algernon Blackwood's story "The Wendigo." The story does not depict a Wendigo but seems to get it confused with the Inuit (not Algonquin) creature Ijiraq and possibly the Tariaksuq. In the story, the monster burns away a victim's feet with friction, while in myth the Ijiraq is sometimes described as stripping the flesh off its victim's shins and if it survives then it becomes a faster runner. The Ijiraq is otherwise described as a trickster who kidnaps children or lures hunters by pretending to be caribou. So, it is easy to assume Blackwood read about the Ijiraq and then twisted the details for his own story.
Now Euro-American popular culture takes the name of an Algonquin cannibal ice giant and applies it to a zombie-were-deer; it has been utterly stripped of its original context and symbolism. I doubt there will ever be much push-back against the zombie-wear-deer version since it has been burned into popular culture at this point.
Now, that being stated, I'm going to present several modern-day accounts that some of the witnesses described as the ‘Wendigo.' Then you can determine what the creature in the report is. Is it an original folktale of the cannibal ice giant or something a bit more contemporary?
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April 16, 2024

BLACK-EYED GIRL Transforms Into PALE MANTID HUMANOID!

A guy and his buddy are moving into a new place. They later notice a girl standing in the yard next door, but soon realize that she has black eyes. Then something occurs that totally freaks them out!

I received the following account:

“My story is from 1988. I was just moving out of the house for the first time. I moved to Crestline, California with a couple buddies. This story involves my buddy Nate and myself. He was helping me move into my room and, by then, we moved most of my things and it was the end of the night, probably around 10 PM. My room was facing the back of a slope of the hill. Right above the hill, was another house and there were no fences, so neighbors and the kids, I noticed, throughout the day, were playing and just going through the yard. You know, no big deal.

When my buddy and I were in the room, we looked out the window and we saw a couple kids. And it was pretty late at that time and very dark. The kids were just playing around, having a good time. I go and get another beer for Nate and when I come back, he says, "The kids went away." And there was just one girl left and it's kind of weird. We're looking, trying to see if she was okay because she was just standing there, kind of just facing, I guess, east.

When she started moving, she started moving slowly, and we noticed that, I don't know if it was the moonlight or what, but her skin started becoming more pale. Yeah, it was really weird. She was dressed in normal clothes. Just at that time, she started to put her head up and started looking around. We didn't say anything because we were already freaked out, but then when she looked at us, her eyes were all black. Then maybe a couple seconds later, it was almost a reddish-black. Really weird.

That freaked us out and we slammed the window shut and put the blinds over it. And as we just peeked through the window, to see what was there, it was almost like it was a, I don't want to say skinwalker, but it was almost like a creature, something out of Men In Black (the movie). It was all quiet, but it wasn't a girl anymore. It was almost like a human-like body but the arms and the legs were almost double-jointed and it was walking and, very, almost crab-like. It was very weird, you know. At that point, it was just screaming like crazy. So, at that point, we just ran down the stairs and we were trying to contemplate whether we should just get in the car.

We stayed inside for about an hour and my buddy Nate and I were having anxiety through the roof. And, at one point, Nate decided to just say screw it and let's just get out of here. We ran down through the deck, got in the car and luckily the car was an automatic, you know, the button, you can just press it and it opens.

Well, when we were backing up you have to go slow on the very tip where it gets onto the main street from your driveway or else it'll scratch the back of the car. But, at that point, we were going too fast. He went backward too fast and when it hit the bottom of the tow hitch, it was so fast that the truck went back on it, that the front end went up and we were vertical basically for, maybe, 30 seconds, freaking out. I kid you not.

At that point, I was able to use my body weight to push the car forward, and when it went down forward, we looked down and there was the creature right in front of us. We were just cold. It was humanoid, almost a human body, with no hair, but it was just a pale creature almost like an insect, but its arms and legs were both disjointed. It was the craziest thing. It was exactly what a praying mantis looks like, the arms and legs.” A

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Published on April 16, 2024 12:29

Woman Experiences Unexplained TIME GLITCH or VORTEX While Driving Home!

A woman was driving home at night after visiting her father in rehab. She then experienced a possible time glitch or possibly entered into a vortex. What happened to her?

I received the following weird account:

“My father was in a rehabilitation center for physical therapy, following triple bypass heart surgery. The rehab was 2 towns away from my house. One night when I was leaving the rehab, I took the longer route home because it was more brightly lit. The shorter route was dark with no street lights, and I didn't like traveling that route after dark. So, I was driving the longer, brightly lit route, when a car in front of me pulled to the side of the road and let me pass by. But strangely, as soon as I passed the car, it immediately pulled out and began following me – closely - with high beams!

Just then, I crossed the border into the next town. There are many stores, restaurants and a hotel in that area so the lights are even brighter there. But suddenly, everything on the road went black, and I heard a sound like an overhead garage door closing. BANG! I found myself driving on a pitch-black, narrow road with no lights and no car following me. I was not on the same road that I had been traveling. I began talking out loud to myself. “What the hell? Where the hell am I? What the hell has happened?”

It was then that I realized that my headlights were shining on a street sign up ahead. It said Gale Rd. Gale Rd. was the dark, short-cut route that I absolutely did not take when I left the rehab center. I found myself almost all the way back to the rehab, though I had already reached the next town while driving home.

Now, I had to repeat the drive. But this time, I had to take the other pitch-black route home, the route that I didn't want to drive at night in the first place. My father always called me when I got home. He knew the trip back home took me about 40 minutes. But, I began thinking that this time he was going to wonder what was taking me so long to get home. I never looked at the time, but I assumed that whatever happened to put me almost all the way back where I started, would have added at least a half hour to my trip home. Maybe longer.

When I finally got home, the phone rang. It was my father, and before I told him what had happened, I apologized for taking so long to get home. I asked him how many times he had tried to call me. First, silence on the other end, and then my father said, "This is my first time calling. It's only been about a half hour; you're not late." It was then that I explained to him what had happened to me. But, in reality, I have no clue what actually happened. A vortex in the road? Did the car that pulled over in front of me, and then proceeded to follow me have something to do with what happened to me? Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this?” S

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Published on April 16, 2024 11:51

SAI LANG: The Legend of Killer, Evil Canines in Vietnam

I received the following information from a Vietnamese reader describing his country's Sai Lang canine legends and the possible historical relevance of the tales. Please excuse the broken English.

"Hi, Lon. I would like to tell you about the Sai Lang species of deadly canines in Vietnam.

Nghe An is known as a land of extinct human beings but it seems that there are many talented people but devils, and epic ghosts are not less. I have never been here, and all the stories I heard are of relatives. They go out to play, and they tell again. Even my grandmother was born there didn't know because he had to go to the North since he was a child.

"Sai Lang", or people in the northern-north central region call Sai for short. Its name is a combination of 2 Chinese words, "Sai" meaning "wood in the forest" and "lang" meaning wolf dog. I don't know what this name is, but they say that it comes from a name in the legend of the species "Sai Kiu" - a freak dog breed that specializes in eating ethnic people, trained to transform into humans and capable of catching imitating the human voice. This species has been operating on the northern border of Vietnam and related provinces of China since the early 10th century. The predator kings had to send many officers, hire hunters, and even send dynasty wizards to destroy this monstrous species. Later, it can also be explained that it is a big wild dog breed, especially ferocious, or attacks people (because there are no wolves in Vietnam) so the people of that time imagined such a strange legend.

Back to Sai Lang, the scenario of its appearance is completely different from Sai Kiu. Sai Lang appeared in the middle of the modern era when advanced technology was slowly dominating the world. The stories surrounding it, whether embroidered or recorded, cannot be denied to have extremely attractive appeal and persuasion. However, in the end, no one has given evidence of their existence.

In 1945, our country fell into the most terrible famine in history. 2 million people starved to death, mostly in the northern provinces. Nghe An is not the center, but it is also heavily affected and many people have been in the same situation. Myself, my grandparents' family, if it wasn't for the landlord having food, to store, I probably wouldn't be here to tell stories to you.

In the old days, raising dogs wasn't popular because people thought that they looked like thieves, but only rich people were afraid of thieves. the main purpose is to watch out for wild animals to catch chickens and ducks. People also say that dogs see the devil's soul, so keep it to drive away ghosts, and avoid accidents, and diseases. But until 1945, people could not eat. The corpses are all over the road, next to the tracks, garbage on the fields. Not to mention families with many children, seeing children starving or losing their mothers, losing their fathers to beg for food but feel pity. So the dogs are starting to get evicted from the house or sold to ease the burden. Many children are starving, more miserable than being slaughtered because of malnutrition in the same extreme. The number of dead people is increasing day by day, so the number of stray dogs is getting more and more numerous ....

At that time, those who died on the side of the road usually left in the same place or gathered in a pile, then waited for people to dig big holes to bury at the same time. Simply because they are mostly people from other provinces who come here for free, no relatives like them. If I don't go anymore, I'll die of hunger. The people here worry about their own family that has suffered, why worry about the strange dead bodies out there? They lost their strength, suffering to provide rest for others is already very humanitarian.

Strangely, after the famine, the phenomenon of disappearing corpses begins to appear. Just after one night, the pile of corpses was thrown to the ground, then wandering around, someone lost legs, someone lost hands. Those who just die on the side of the road also have the same fate. Their bodies are bitten apart, eaten up so many parts. Worse, mass graves were also dug up to hang the corpses. Around those places, there are a lot of dog footprints, both big and small. People are starting to panic. They quickly figured out the cause of the hungry stray dogs. In the past, this region has many stories. Elephants, ponds, and bears caused death. But the dogs, eating human meat story is really horrible and has never had precedent.

And then its climax came. That day was the full moon of January in 1945. The 5-year-old daughter of a blessed family was climbed by a big dog over the roof, jumped into the window, and stole away. The maid looked and heard the noise, turned around, and saw a big black dog like a tiger, eyes bright red like fire, mouth tightened the throat of the baby. When the sister lost her mind, the dog ran out behind the garden, jumped over the fence wall higher than the human head, and died in the night. The family ran out, lit the torch, and searched for it all night but didn't find any remains...

The next day, a night watchman came to the district office to report about the odd thing that happened last night that he was guarding. Specifically, when I was beating the 3rd alarm, I heard a lot of noise outside the rice field. I saw from the forest, the herd of stray dogs compete in the village. In the middle of the night, we screamed people's scary noises and Phi went to look for dead bodies, then stole chickens and pigs from the people to go back to the forest. The soldier was so scared that he didn't dare to leave the guard, sitting there all night.

The attacks are getting more intense. After the end of the hunger strike, the dead bodies are no more, and the dogs attack people even more crazily. They started calling them Sai Lang, meaning fierce as a wolf but not a wolf. They claim that these are the dogs that eat too many human carcasses, then start to get used to the smell and attack the desert village, grabbing children to eat meat. Others are supposed to be the soul of the starving dead entering the dog's corpse to go on a rampage. Nobody dares to stand against them anyway. For they are willing to turn around to kill and savage you if you resist.

According to some old people, Sai Lang has different characteristics than normal dogs. They are usually thin with ribs showing (a symptom of hunger). Their teeth and mouths are longer and sharper to pull meat from dead bodies. Sai Lang's eyes are the easiest to recognize. Dog's eyes usually turn blue when you put the light on it, right? Sai Lang's eyes don't need to project anything, they shine brightly in the night. The blue eyes are normal. They usually only eat flesh and steal chicken and ducks. Yellow amber eyes are the heads. They love to attack and eat alive people, especially children. The last species is the Red Eye Ghost. These are the ones who have become devils, and have a great hatred towards humans. Her eyes are red like fire and her body is a terrifying size. They don't follow the pack, they hunt alone like a tiger. It actively attacks humans, kills, and tears the flesh instead of eating. If they haunt the house, it's not good.

There are so many unbelievable elements in the myth of the Sai Lang species that one thinks it only exists in fantasy. Whether it exists or not, it also represents the horrific and painful picture of the 1945 historical period of our nation." TB

I later came across the following information:

"I'm originally from Vietnam and this is a folklore that was told to me by my late grandparents.

This happened during the Vietnam's Great Famine in 1945. According to government statistics, the famine caused 2 million deaths in northern Vietnam, while international documents estimate the death toll at around 1 million, or approximately 8 percent of the population. Families started to eat their house pets which included dogs. A lot of dogs escaped to the woodland causing the increase in the wild dogs' population. Those dogs also have to deal with hunger and start to scavenge and dig out graves to feed on corpses.

One day, one little girl was snatched and killed by an extremely large dog with black fur and red shining eyes. People started to notice the change in the wild dogs with the attacks growing in numbers. There were three types of wild dogs:

Blue Eyes: The normal one, stick with scavenging.

Yellow eyes: The Alpha of a pack, very aggressive, will attack and kill people if needed.

Red Eyes: The Sai Lang, the name can be translated as "Evil Dog". Sharing traits with the American Dogmen. They are very intelligent, walking on 2 legs occasionally, and extremely aggressive. People believed that they were the house dogs who held a grudge against humans for eating dogs, also they ate way too much human meat and somehow got "evolved" in a bizarre way. Some even believe they have supernatural abilities and if they pick a house or a family to be the target, they will go all the way to harass and attack until the last person of that family is dead.

And that's the folklore/urban legend, I can't say how many percentage of truth is in it but we did have a slang in Vietnamese coming from this folklore, "Ac nhu Sai Lang" which can be translated to "You are such an Evil Dog" to describe an extremely evil person." TT

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Published on April 16, 2024 11:12

RESPONSIVE, PALE 'MONKEY' FACE Encountered at Fishing Creek Nature Preserve, Drumore, Pennsylvania

The following investigation report was provided by researcher/author/podcaster and Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research team member Timothy Renner:

"I, along with two friends, Octavian and Ian, arrived at Fishing Creek Nature Preserve in Drumore, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County) at 11:55 PM Saturday, April 13, 2024.

We were there for a night hike. I did take my audio recorder with me because I always do, just in case something interesting happens for the podcast.

We walked perhaps a mile or so, just enjoying the evening. At some point, we decided to turn around and start heading back to the car. Ian found two sticks that looked to be intentionally placed in an 'X' formation on a bank. I don't know if the X is related, but the strangeness started thereafter.

We began hearing sounds we could not identify. This is not meant to be offensive, but the best comparison I can give is to that of a deaf person speaking. These were very low in volume – barely audible. We also heard lower kinds of grunting sounds both from across the creek and on the ridge above us.

Whatever we were hearing seemed to be very responsive. In other words, after we heard something we would say out loud, "We heard that, make another sound" and whatever this was would repeat the sound or make another.

Nothing was terribly loud at this point, but it was loud enough for us to hear. I have not had a chance to listen to the recorder audio so I do not know if it picked up anything.

This continued, on and off, for most of our walk back to the car.

At some point, Ian tried some tree knocks which seemed to be answered and we POSSIBLY had something thrown at us – it was difficult to tell because it was dark. We heard something hit next to us but it could have been something like a stick dropping from a tree.

There was a very audible sound we heard which we thought at first was a motorcycle, then it didn't sound like a motorcycle but like some kind of cry, then it sounded like a motorcycle again, but at the end of the sound it sounded, once more like some kind of cry. All three of us noted this.

If this was indeed a motorcycle, the sound seemed to emanate from the same area and repeat perhaps 5 times. So, were it a motorcycle, or more than one, it seemed to be going back to the same place and starting again – without the associated sounds of it looping back to the first location. It's hard to explain and hopefully, these sounds are on the recorder.

As we approached the car we heard a kind of wheezing cough sound. Yes, like a fox. It could have been a fox, but this, too was responsive. When we asked it to repeat, it repeated. A large crash was heard in the woods from the same direction which sounded far too large for a fox.

I am not eliminating the possibility that this sound was a fox, but some associated weirdness makes me wonder.

When we got back to the vehicle, Octavian started up the car and turned the headlights on. I needed to relieve myself so I was at the right front of the vehicle. Not in the headlights, but there was plenty of light to see by.

While I was doing this I saw a face pop out from behind a tree – about 10 feet away from me and down a slight bank. It looked a bit like a monkey face – it was very pale but not white. I think it would have been about 3 feet tall, give or take a few inches. I saw NO body and no head surrounding the face. Just the pale face against blackness, but it moved like it was connected to a head/body. It had small, black, beady eyes. We definitely locked eyes.

I said "No" several times – first out of disbelief and then because I didn't really want it to come any closer. I didn't get a menacing or scary feeling from it – I just didn't want it to get any closer.

It didn't react to my voice at all.

It seemed to perhaps duck back behind the tree – or maybe just turn its head so I couldn't see the face anymore...I'm not sure which...and then it was gone. I didn't hear or see anything else. Octavian heard me say "no" and exited the vehicle. I was already down at the bank looking for any evidence (tracks, etc) and found none. We both noticed a smell of wet dog/excrement though.

Ian, at this time, said he thought he observed movement across the creek, but couldn't be 100% sure.

The tree it was behind was maybe 10-12" in diameter. It couldn't have hidden much. But again, I couldn't see its body or head...perhaps it was so black it blended in with the darkness. I do not know.

The time of the sighting would have been approximately 1:13 am 4/14." Timothy Renner

This is a photo of the 'X' Ian found

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Published on April 16, 2024 09:43

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UFO/UAP Sightings Reported in SE Pennsylvania

From Researcher Stan Gordon:

Two similar and detailed UFO/UAP observations have been reported within days of each other and about twenty miles apart in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

April 8, 2024-Daylight UFO Over Route 30, Irwin/North Huntingdon PA area

I received an email report on 04/09/24, that two people riding on Route 30 in the Irwin/North Huntingdon area observed something unusual in the sky at 11:30 AM. They were traveling on Route 30 westbound and entering the right ramp to enter the turnpike to head toward Ohio to view the eclipse. The driver happened to look up and noticed something unusual through the upper left side of the windshield. Continue Reading at Two Daylight, Low Level UFO/UAP Sightings Reported Above Populated Communities in Southwest Pennsylvania-April 2024

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Make Your Personal DIGITAL CLONE

Holistic health advocate Deepak Chopra, 77, is one of several people who have digitally “cloned” themselves to do their work for them. Chopra’s lifelike-AI fills in on Zoom calls, the Daily Mail reports.

Delphi, touted as the world’s first digital cloning platform, uses data from podcasts, videos, PDFs and other content to develop a clone that can mimic the user’s thoughts and speech — and it can take as little as one hour.

“The clone will learn how they think about the world,” Delphi co-founder and CEO Dara Ladjevardian told the Daily Mail this week. “We have a readiness score to show how ‘ready’ a clone is in representing that person. They can also upload their voice, so the clone learns how they speak as well.” Continue reading at People are making ‘digital clones’ of themselves — to do their work for them

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USOs Are U.S. Maritime Security Concerns

A retired rear admiral has expressed concerns over UFOs that can transition from air to water.

In a new report, retired rear admiral Tim Gallaudet of the US Navy has outlined his concerns that UFOs shown to be capable of seamlessly transitioning from air to water represent a clear and urgent threat to maritime security.

One example of such an object, which was originally filmed by a serviceman aboard the USS Omaha in 2019 after it buzzed a US Navy fleet off the coast of San Diego, was made public by UFO researcher Jeremy Corbell two years ago before being confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon.

In the footage, the object seemed to enter the water without even making a splash.

"The fact that unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering US water space and the DOD is not raising a giant red flag is a sign that the government is not sharing all it knows about all-domain anomalous phenomena," Galludet wrote. Continue reading at Ex-Navy officer: 'Underwater UFOs jeopardize US maritime security'

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April 15, 2024

SHADOW MAN That Resembled 'PYRAMID HEAD' From SILENT HILL Film

Anthony from Pittsburgh called into Darkness Radio describing his bizarre shadow man experience. He references the entity to a character in the 'Silent Hill' film.

“I have a quick story about a shadow person. About 10 years ago, I was coming home late. Me, my ex-girlfriend, and her younger brother. Essentially, you come into the house, go through my living room, and get to the kitchen. Steps are going down to the basement. At the same time, I and her younger brother noticed a person, or what we thought was a person at the time, peeking around the corner.

So I instantly ran downstairs and checked everything. You know, there was no one there. The backdoor was locked from the inside. It was a little synchronicity because when I first tuned in to you guys that night, you had someone calling about a similar shadow man. When we were looking at this guy – I just recently got in contact with her younger brother just to confirm it because two people saw it.

Have you seen the 'Silent Hill' movie? Okay, do you remember the guy with the giant pointed head? Okay, this shadow figure looked exactly like that. (Editor's Note: He's most likely talking about Pyramid Head) And I'm starting to think it might be one of them like Heidi Hollis talks about? Basically, that's my story. I just never heard of two people seeing a shadow person at the same time.”

Transcribed source: Darkness Radio - October 6, 2015

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GEORGIA & NORTH CAROLINA BIGFOOT Notes & Inquiries

I found some of my old notes from a series of Bigfoot encounters in Georgia & North Carolina that may have been submitted to the BFRO at some point:

BIGFOOT 1

"In 2000 a family purchased 30 acres of land in rural Elbert County and took up residence. Since then they and neighbors have had many sightings of a Bigfoot creature. They have found anomalous footprints, smelled the creature, and heard grunts, screams, and whoops, the later a “low to high bass sound lasting several seconds,” wrote Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) investigator MC. Also reported were “feelings of being watched, feelings that the family should leave a particular area, and at least one stalking incident involving the witness being separated from her mother, father, and the family dog becoming very frightened.” The dog has acted intimidated both inside and outside the house. In one instance a teenager and an adult riding a 4-wheeler on the property sighted the creature.

Encounters often occur when only women are present, a peculiarity noted in other cases. Sightings have happened in all seasons and at every time of day for a decade.

The property contains a pine forest, a river bottom, a pond, and a large swamp. Access to much of it is barred by thick undergrowth and swamp. The area abounds in fish and game deer, hogs, and smaller mammals are plentiful. In other words, it is the perfect Bigfoot country.

MC and three other investigators interviewed the family and explored the property in August 2009. They concluded, “that the family probably has a Bigfoot either moving through the area regularly or may have one or two living in the immediate area.”

The lady who wrote BFRO, a registered nurse, emphasized: “I DO NOT WANT THIS ANIMAL TO BE HARMED IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE OR REMOVED FROM ITS HABITAT. IT IS NOT A THREAT TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING!” She feared that it would be “hunted down just for the money and fame.”

BIGFOOT 2

"It was 11:30 p.m. on the night of October 7, 2009, as a couple returned to Florida from North Carolina. They were midway between Homerville and Edith in Clinch County on U.S. 441, an isolated area near the Okefenokee Swamp.

The wife had just switched on an overhead light to consult a map and missed the sighting, but she could not avoid the stench that suddenly filled the car, described by her husband as a “very powerful combination of sewer-like and a strong musky animal odor.”

The husband saw the creature, described as seven feet in height and weighing up to 300 pounds. He said the creature was a “tall, lanky, humanoid creature,” not as apelike as he would have thought. The hair was a very dark brown or black, long and stringy on the head but only two to three inches long on the body. The arms reached nearly to its knees."

NOTE: If anyone has any follow-up to these reports, I'd appreciate you letting me know. Lon

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TIME SLIP 'MIRAGES': Amazing Experience on the Siege of Leningrad Battlefield

The following is an amazing account of interaction with WW2 'time slip mirage' troops during an excavation on the Leningrad, Russia battlefield:

“We have actually seen many such episodes while excavating WW2 battlefields...Time mirages. Once I had seen, with four of my friends, a German advancing tank division in the Ropsha outskirts [Soviet Union...during the Siege of Leningrad. Lon]. We stood stoned and observed all of the battle between the German and Soviet anti-tank platoon which was eliminated by the majority of tanks, but some tanks also caught on fire and their crews were then shot by remaining infantry and we noticed each gun remaining on the battlefield. When it was over, we excavated 14 guns exactly the same that were shown to us and even their disposition and direction were the same...like we had witnessed! Some were missing (actually 90 percent of them) but those that remained untouched were pointed in the same direction they were pointed in our mirage!

A lot more of such events are barely visible, like shadows, but sometimes they become even touchable and react to the people! As once we were questioned by two horsemen about why our guns, which we brought with us, were in such conditions (we repaired many of the excavated ones and registered and took some for our own defense) – and, thank God, that one of our guys which likes to wear his German uniform when excavating, because these horsemen were like real! Even when they suddenly came to us, the first thing that one of them did was extinguish our campfire and tell us that we were fools because Germans would see us and kill us, like the partisans which he thought we were. And they also questioned us about our clothes and our vehicle! Also, thank God, they seemed to be hurrying somewhere, so they after 5 minutes wished us luck and left. But when I realized that one of them was also willing to exchange my gun for his because I had a sniper SVT40 (which was mint why he even took me as an example just 'Look, how the guns which you have to take from the enemy you kill should look like!"), but I was really shocked, so much so that I only nodded.

After all, having proof that you are not mad will be more sufficient than the loss of the cool rifle. And still, I will keep the 5-round stripper clip [probably a Mosin Nagant modified 1891 Russian carbine. Lon] with AP ammo which one of them tossed to me because by his thoughts I needed them more because I am a sniper! So anyway no one will probably believe that the simple Mosin stripper clip with AP rounds came through 70 years by the time warp instead of being excavated but I still know that it had! And that makes it priceless for me!”

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Frantic Mother Describes SCREAMING CRYPTID CANINE Encounter in Rocks State Park, Maryland

A Maryland mother vividly describes her harrowing encounter with a cryptid canine in Rocks State Park in Harford County while visiting with her young sons.

"On Monday, October 18, 2021, at mid-day, I took my 7 and 2 1/2-year-old sons to Rocks State Park which is 1.5 miles up the road from my house. We were in the Hidden Valley Area. The park is small. 4 parking spots and a 1/2 mile trail that follows a creek. The trail ends at a fork in the creek with a beachhead about 20 feet long. 6 people would be a crowd.

Both of my sons are familiar with this park as it is in a rotation of 3 parks we choose from to go on a little hike once a week. The trail is moderate with some inclines, natural obstacles, and occasional narrowing due to lack of maintenance. My eldest son is comfortable being 30-50 feet ahead of me while I pace my youngest. Nothing is out of the ordinary. Just a normal hike

My eldest reaches the beach head 15-20 seconds before us. We approach the creek beach and my youngest is on my left starting to mess with rocks and throwing them in the creek. My oldest is 10-15 feet to my right messing around throwing rocks in the water. I bend down to cuff my pant leg and hear a blood-curdling scream from my oldest. I look up at him and he is screaming falling backwards feverishly kicking his legs. I follow his line of sight across the creek. Perched on a large flat rock is an animal I could not understand. It was no more than 20-25 feet away and its dimensions seemed so large It looked as if it could leap the creek in one stride. A barrel chest with clearly defined pectoral muscles shoulders and biceps is no different than a man just a lot larger. Bulging eyes and a stubby snout like a hyena. It looked as if It was in a sprinters starting position not an animal on all fours. Its thighs and hind end were noticeably large. The mass of this animal was unnatural. The ears faced foreword with hair tufts on the side and tops of the head. The face was looked as if it was on high alert. Similar to when your dog has quick head movements because you're getting ready to throw a ball.

It kept switching between my son screaming falling backward into the trail running away and me screaming and picking up my other son. As I am frantically trying to get between it and my 1st son. It almost looks as if it was in the lunging position. That or backing up. My perspective was head-on before turning into the trail. I get to him and we are out of direct sight. I yell at son #1 to run. The weirdest thing would happen. The 7-year-old would start sprinting and crying and after 30 feet he would turn around almost in a complete daze not understanding what was happening, then I would have to yell at him again to run. He would run, cry stop, dazed. This happened 3 times. I still don’t understand how shock or fear could do that. The animal did not follow us down the trail.

The thoughts going through my head I wouldn’t wish on my enemies. It was the only time in my life when I knew I could not protect my children. The buck knife on my hip was no better than a pillow. The moment I told my 7-year-old he might have to take his younger brother's hand and get back to the car as fast as you could. This has left a scar deeper in my mind than this unexplainable animal.

Even though there was no mistaking what I witnessed, it doesn’t matter. Trying to explain this to anyone is pointless. I like to think I am considerably self-aware. I cannot understand why my mind is forcing itself to debunk what I saw. I was undoubtedly afraid but my focus was crystal clear. Kids, safe, at all costs. I was laser-focused on my surroundings and what was in it. None of my emotions distorted my vision or made me misinterpret my surroundings." A

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