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Supposed alien abductions are inherently bizarre and come in all shapes and sizes. Some are scary and involve malevolent or indifferent entities that treat us like little more than cattle. Others seem to be more benevolent in nature, with these beings bringing messages of peace or a warning to help us along. Still others are hard to fully categorize, and go off the rails into the truly bonkers, including romantic liaisons with the alien captors. Yes, you heard that right. One deeply odd subspecies of alien encounter reports is that of people who have not only encountered aliens, but also had sex with them. Here are some of the strangest. 
Some of these alien abduction cases are even more out on the fringe than others, and one of these must certainly be the time a Brazilian farmer was taken aboard a spaceship to father an intergalactic love child. In October of 1957, a strange series of events began to unfold in a rural area near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil. Here lived a humble farmer by the name of Antônio Villas Boas and his brother, Joao, and their family, and on the night of October 14, they would have an odd experience while out ploughing a field. Because of the sweltering heat during the daytime and the fact that the work was typically grueling, it was common for them to do their work at night, but this evening would be different from most. As they toiled away in the field, their attention was captured by what they described as a ball of red light in the sky that was so bright they could not look directly at it. Antônio crept forward to investigate while his terrified brother stayed behind, but whenever he tried to approach it would speed away from him, almost as if it were playing a game. The two men could only watch as it emitted some beams of light in all directions and then sped off into the night. However, the weirdness would not end there. Indeed, it was only the beginning for Antônio.
On October 16, 1957, Antônio was out working the field again, this time alone, and he looked up to the starry sky above to notice a red star amongst the twinkling lights. Thinking this was odd, it got even stranger when it began to grow in size and brightness, and he realized that it was the same light he and his brother had seen before. This time, rather than retreating, the light seemed to be approaching him rapidly, getting close enough that the scared farmer could see that it was an egg-shaped craft of some sort with a rotating dome and a bright red light on its top. The bizarre craft then gently landed upon the field upon three metal legs that extended from beneath it to come to a rest not far from Boas, after which a hatch opened to disgorge a 5-foot-tall humanoid being dressed in a helmet and grey coveralls. This was frightening enough that Boas turned his tractor around and tried to get out of there, but the machine soon stalled, forcing him to continue fleeing on foot. He wouldn’t get far.

Whatever the creature was managed to catch him, joined by three other similar beings that communicated through a series of yelps and barks. Boas would claim that he was unable to effectively fight back against them and that these beings proceeded to physically drag him up into their otherworldly craft. There he was forced into a brightly lit room where the creatures took off all of his clothes and covered him with a slick gelatinous substance, before then taking him to another room adorned with strange red symbols. Here in this new room, the beings supposedly cut his chin to extract blood, and then he was led into yet another room and left alone for a while. As he sat there, terrified and unsure of what was coming next, a gas was piped into the room that was so foul-smelling that Boas vomited. He was still recovering from being violently ill when an hour later the door opened and he was confronted with another of the beings, this one an attractive female, with long platinum hair, large blue eyes, and, by Boas’ description, hot. According to Boas, he had sexual relations with this creature, after which she rubbed her belly, implying that she would bear his child, and he was then dropped off back at his tractor to find that 4 hours had passed and that he had strange burns on his body that he could not remember having gotten.
Over the next few days, Boas suffered from various health issues, such as intense headaches, nausea, and unusual lesions that popped up on his body for no discernible reason, and the burns also remained. Not knowing what to do, he sought out medical attention and was finally examined by Dr. Olavo Fontes, of the National School of Medicine of Brazil. According to the doctor, Boas was in pretty bad shape and suffering from radiation poisoning, and he would say of the farmer’s symptoms:

“Among [Boas’s] symptoms were pains throughout the body, nausea, headaches, loss of appetite, ceaselessly burning sensations in the eyes, cutaneous lesions at the slightest of light bruising…which went on appearing for months, looking like small reddish nodules, harder than the skin around them and protuberant, painful when touched, each with a small central orifice yielding a yellowish thin waterish discharge. The skin surrounding the wounds presented a hyperchromatic violet-tinged area.”

The story was soon picked up by UFOlogists when Boas approached journalist Jose Martins about the experience, and by 1958, the whole bizarre tale was becoming increasingly mentioned in the mainstream media as it received worldwide fame, as well as more than its fair share of raised eyebrows. After all, the whole thing is so outlandish as to be almost absurd. At the time, tales of alien abduction were practically nonexistent, as it was; indeed, Boas’ account is one of the earliest to ever get any major attention, and many people didn’t know what to make of it all. Even UFOlogists were skeptical of it all, and it was pointed out that he most likely made it all up after reading a similar obscure account in a popular magazine called O Cruzeiro, and that he was probably heavily influenced by the incredibly bizarre reports of alien contactees written about by the Ufologist Georges Adamski. It is even suggested that he came up with the idea in 1958 and then predated his story to make it more believable, and the fact that he was able to produce the entire story from memory without the need for hypnosis has also seemed suspicious to some.
In the end, tales of such sexual encounters and alien hybrids have continued to flutter out on the fringe of even hardcore UFOlogists. It is all so completely off the rails and also scientifically implausible, as how would an alien have DNA compatible with us to the point that they could bear one of our children? Because of this, the case has mostly been labelled a hoax and a tall tale that has been largely shunned. However, Boas himself was no loon, going on in later years to become a respected lawyer, and he always stuck by his outlandish tale up to his death in 1992. Was this the ramblings of a troubled individual, a hoax, or was there something more to it all? Whatever the case may be, it is one of the earliest widely publicized UFO abduction accounts and continues to generate discussion to this day.

Another strange tale begins on the evening of April 13, 1979, on the outskirts of the city of Maringa in the state of Parana in southern Brazil, when a 21-year-old local man named Jocelino de Mattos and his 13-year-old brother Roberto Carlos were walking home after visiting their sister. It was a quiet, clear evening, and as they walked through an area of the suburb of Jardim Alvorada at around 11:30 p.m., they saw up in the sky what at first appeared to be an unusually bright star that they soon realized seemed to be following them. After some time, they were convinced that this was not their imagination and that the light was no star, and this is where things would get very strange, indeed. Jocelino would say of what happened next:

“When we arrived at the corner where we normally turn right to go home, we felt a strange sensation. My heartbeat started to accelerate, rapidly. I felt my body chilling, something bad. It was the same with my legs, in all my body, a bad sensation. My blood started to run wildly in my veins and I began to walk towards a tree in the middle of a plowed field. I didn’t want to go in that direction but something compelled me and my brother to walk towards it. It was difficult for us to walk because it was plowed and already prepared for planting. Suddenly, we started to walk, and walk… It seems as if we were walking very slowly and then we were walking very fast. We fought against it, but couldn’t. We continued walking. It seemed that it was impossible for us to think of anything else. The only objective was to reach the place where the star was. When we were immediately below the big tree, we both fell down to the ground. The strange object was about 10 to 15 meters away from us and about two or three meters above the ground. It was floating silently, and that’s all I can remember except that I heard a kind of voice that said something like, “The job is not ended, we will be back.” I do not know how I heard that voice but I remember it as in a dream.”

After this, they both lost consciousness, and sometime later woke up in a dazed state, unsure of where they were and with difficulty standing up and walking. They managed to stumble along with each other’s help, but their limbs were slow to respond to their commands, their balance unsteady. What would have normally been an easy walk that they had taken many times before became and major task, their house seeming to be so far away as they shuffled along, and on top of this, they were trembling uncontrollably and overcome with a “strange and sudden hunger.” It was only after great effort and falling many times that they managed to make it to their home, where the two muddied, dazed men collapsed in front of their shocked family. Jocelino would explain:

“My mother and brothers were waiting for us. They ran towards us and helped us up. We explained to them what had happened. At first, they doubted us but later they went outside with me and I pointed out the star, which was still there. As we stood looking at the star, silently hovering almost over the trees, about 300 to 350 meters away from us, I began to tell my family what had happened to me and my brother. When I started telling them this, the object seemed to observe us from that distance and suddenly my brother and I received some kind of a shock, so strong it hurled us to the ground. My mother, another brother and my sister were not touched. My mother told me later that when they touched me or Roberto, we felt electrified, or something like that. We did not feel electrified, but we couldn’t move even a finger.”

After this, the mysterious object flew off, and they found themselves in control of their bodies again. The two brothers tried to put the strange event behind them, but were haunted by nightmares and the creeping sense that they were missing something, that pieces of their memories of the evening had been plucked away. In the meantime, their story was starting to do the rounds, and Jocelino was eventually convinced to undergo hypnotic regression to see if there was any trace of those missing memories somewhere in his head. The regression sessions were carried out by Dr. Oswaldo Alves, and it was found that indeed there was something lurking under the surface of what Jocelino consciously remembered. He would say under hypnosis that after collapsing in that field, they had floated into the air and towards a door of some sort that had opened in the side of the object, and he would explain what happened:

“Then there were two men in the doorway. One of them came in front of me and looked at me very attentively. He took up an object which I didn’t recognize, touched the object to my left arm, and gestured to me to get inside. From that point, we walked a little bit and we arrived in another room full of computers and there was some kind of command display on a table. It had different lights that I did not recognize and cannot explain. After that, they took me to another room full of motors, things I had never seen before. They were not hot and there was no noise. The motors were conic or something like that. “Then they took me to another room where there were some photographs similar to those of earth. I could see that the photographs were fixed on the wall in a kind of videotape, a TV screen or something like that. I could not distinguish it very well. Then we arrived in another room full of equipment like hospital equipment. It was a medical room. They asked me to lie down and as I did so, they examined me. Then, after this examination, they collected sperm, a small amount. Then they made me sit down on a kind of table. They put some instruments on my head and they spoke among themselves in a language that I did not understand. It scares me so much…”

Now I know what you are thinking at this point, and that is “where is all of the naughty stuff?” Don’t worry, I’m getting to it. At this point, Jocelino became very upset and had to be calmed down by Dr. Alves, but this session would continue, and when he was ready to talk again, the story would get even more bizarre still. He would say:

“After some minutes a woman arrived in the room. She touched me. She caressed me and it excited me. Then we started to make love. After the relations, she stopped and told me: “Perhaps the seed will come alive.” I did not understand anything. She went out of the room and they spoke between themselves and they told me in thought that they were for peace and that their objective was to study, to understand, the earth. They spoke to me about life, the fights and the wars and I really thought they were for peace, that they were peaceful people, friends. Then they told me: ‘We think it’s time to leave you.’ They took me by my arm and we went the same way we had walked to go to that place until we arrived at the door. I jumped to the ground together with them and they went floating ahead to where they could catch me. I felt myself paralyzed, totally unable to move. They made me lie down on the ground, exactly the way I was before they caught me. Then I came to my senses.”

It was from that moment on that he had remembered before the regression. The two brothers would withdraw from all of the attention they were getting, and they stopped talking about it altogether. The case would go on to be covered in the books UFO Abduction From Maringa, The Agripo Experiments by Wendelle Stevens, and UFO Abductions: The Measure Of A Mystery, by Thomas E Bullard. Just what was going on here? There is no real way to be sure, and such cases are relegated to the shadows.
Among these naughty close encounters, another one of these must be the time a Chinese lumberjack was sexually accosted by a 10-foot-tall space alien that is due to have his child in a few decades. In a country where the UFO phenomenon is still mostly nascent, it is a truly spectacular account that really puts China up there with other countries with similarly far-out encounter reports. Let’s take a look.
The setting of this bizarre tale takes place against the backdrop of the mist-shrouded Dragon Mountains, in the northwest portion of Wuchang, in the part of China historically known as Manchuria. Nestled amongst the sprawling forests of the area is a place called the Red Flag Logging Commune, a modest settlement populated by loggers and lumberjacks, mostly migrant workers and drifters trying to escape something. It is a Spartan existence; life here is simple, the days filled with backbreaking work, and there are few luxuries in this remote community, with only a single road running through it and no cell phone reception. One of these lumberjacks was a man named Meng Zhaoguo, who lived in a basic two-room timber frame house that he built himself, and he had a simple but contented life. Here at the commune, every day was pretty much the same, and not much ever happened out of the routine, but one evening Meng would allegedly have a truly bizarre experience that would change his life forever.
In June of 1994, Meng was out at around dusk, taking a walk, when he noticed something glimmering in the distance over the trees, as if a metallic object were reflecting the dying light of the day. As he drew closer, he claimed that he could see a white glowing orb descend into the darkened forest, and at first, he thought that a helicopter or weather balloon had come down and possibly crashed. He went to investigate and managed to reach what appeared to be something glinting through the trees, but he was unable to get a glimpse of what it was because something suddenly hit him in the forehead and knocked him out. When he awoke several hours later, he says that he was back in his home, with no memory of how he had gotten there, and he felt confused, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. It would only get weirder from there.
That very same evening, he was startled to wake up to find a bizarre alien being floating over his bed. He describes it as female, about 10 feet tall, and mostly human-looking except for having 6 fingers and legs strangely covered with braided hair. Meng claims that he tried to cry out, but found that he couldn’t, and that’s when he realized he was floating up off his bed towards the entity, screaming in silence the entire way. According to Meng, the female alien raped him, forcing him to have intercourse with her as they levitated in the air, after which she floated up to phase through the ceiling and he dropped back down onto his bed, where his wife had slept through the whole thing. In shock, Meng would also find that he now had a zig-zag-shaped scar on his upper thigh as well, presumably inflicted by the randy alien.

For the next month, Meng was plagued by potent nightmares about what had happened, as well as a curious aversion to anything made of iron, and it seems as if his ordeal was not even over yet. On this occasion, he again woke up in his bed to find himself levitating up towards the ceiling, but this time, there was no alien there. He simply kept going up, and as he cringed in anticipation of smashing into the ceiling, he instead phased right through it to be ejected into the night sky above. Eventually, he reached a spaceship, where several of the same species of giant aliens as the woman he had met were waiting for him. When Meng spoke to them to ask where the one he had met was, he claims they responded in heavily accented Chinese that she was far away, back on their home world. They then explained some more things to the lumberjack, and Meng says:

“They said in Chinese, but with a heavy accent so it was hard for me to understand at first, that they were refugees. Like me, they wanted to escape their former lives, so they left their dying home. The aliens showed me a piece of crystal, through which I saw forests, icebergs and fossil fuels on the Earth. They told me about the current situation facing Earth’s resources and warned me about the importance of environmental protection. They also said that 60 years from then, there will be an alien born with the genes of an earthling farmer, and I can meet him or her.”

This child, of course, would be the one supposedly conceived by him and the alien woman on that night, and the 60 years were explained to him as the length of their pregnancy and gestation period. When Meng’s story came out, it hit the news all over, and generated a chaotic mix of ridicule, support, skepticism, and belief, generating a fair bit of notoriety for him. The case was looked into by several organizations in the still relatively underdeveloped Chinese UFO field, such as the China UFO Research Center, the UFO Enthusiasts Club at Wuhan University, the Beijing UFO Research Organization (BURO), and the state-sponsored UFO Research Society, with varying results. Mostly, this is seen as a fantasy, perhaps the result of him hitting his head and having hallucinations. Others think it was a way to reinvent himself and get the attention he needed to get out of the logging commune and have a better life for his family, in which case it worked because after appearing in the news and on TV shows, he was offered another job in the city. Still others believe he really did experience something strange, but has perhaps exaggerated it and added certain elements. For his part, Meng has subjected himself to lie detector tests, which he has passed, and still insists it is all true. He has said:

“Once, humans believed that the earth was flat. Even a decade ago, people would not believe that a cell phone could work. Humans, if we have never seen something with our own eyes, naturally doubt that it exists, or that life could be that way. I was the first to be brave enough to say: ‘I saw that.’ I didn’t believe in aliens before I actually met them. Seeing is believing. We cannot explain UFOs and aliens because our technology isn’t advanced enough. But that doesn’t mean such things don’t exist.”

Was this man crazy, delusional, or looking to play a scam? Was there anything to this incredibly odd tale at all? It adds to a growing list of cases involving sexual relations with aliens, and seems to be too absurd to be true. Yet, Meng has stood by his tale, and with no evidence whatsoever except his scar, which could have been caused by a lot of things, we can only sit back with raised eyebrows and wonder. We can maybe wait for his star child to make itself known, but that may take some time. Is this real? Unlikely. Is it delusions or a hoax? Probably. Is it entertaining? Most definitely. In the end, it is just more weirdness to throw on the pile, another of the surprisingly large number of alien sex reports, and I leave it for you to decide what to make of it all.

Another strange case is the time a jazz singer came forward with stories of Grey aliens, alien hybrid children, and lurid tales of mindblowing sex with a reptilian humanoid. Pamela Stonebrooke is an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and recording artist, as well as an urban journalist who has had quite a colorful career. She has performed in nightclubs from New York to Tokyo, appeared as background vocals for numerous high-profile musicians, performed as an opening act for such big names as Kenny G, The Pointer Sisters, and the Neville Brothers, and performed solo numbers on the same bill as such stars as Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as performing for the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s birthday on four occasions. Currently performing mainly on the Los Angeles jazz circuit, in clubs and private gigs, she is certainly a talented and experienced musician, but she is probably more well-known for a series of incredibly bizarre and sexual alien encounters that have earned her the nickname of the Intergalactic Diva.
Pamela claims that she has had strange experiences of an extraterrestrial nature from a young age. She says that when she was just 8 or 9 years old, she would sometimes find strange scars on her skin that looked like someone had scooped up tiny bits of flesh from her. At the time, she had no conscious awareness of how these scars had appeared, and they bothered her throughout her life. This was odd enough, but it would get stranger still when she was an adult. One evening in 1994, Pamela woke up to find herself in the fetal position in a dimly-lit room with smooth metal walls and “shaped like a truncated pyramid.” Disoriented by this strange place and the fact that she was not in her bed anymore, she at first thought she must be dreaming. As it dawned on her that this was no dream and it was happening, she concluded that she was somehow on a spaceship, and she sat up and soon noticed that she was not alone in that room. 
Standing in the corner was a group of small and thin otherworldly grey-skinned beings with large heads and eyes, that stared at her for a few moments before one of them stepped forward and gestured for her to follow it. Pamela felt compelled to do so, and the two of them walked to the wall, where a door suddenly appeared from nowhere. They walked through to another room and the door vanished as if it had never been there at all. This was all pretty weird, but when she looked around the room, it graduated to full-on bizarre when she noticed three diminutive female aliens with thin wisps of hair on their mostly bald heads that were sitting on a metal table and seemed very excited to see her. She would explain:

“On this short metallic table were these four little girls. They were very frail like the Greys, but they had wispy hair, almost like chemotherapy hair. They ran over to me and grabbed my arms and started calling me ‘Mommy’. I lost it.”

She claims that she was suddenly overcome with a crushing sense of terror and flew into an uncontrollable panic, after which she blacked out and woke up back in her own bed. She sat up and then noticed that there was a series of small bruises on her arm, which jolted within her a fuzzy memory of being grabbed and dragged along by the Greys she had seen. At the time, her memory of the events of that evening was fuzzy, but she felt that she had been experimented on and vaguely remembered the aliens showing her a vision of an apocalyptic future and telling her that Earth is “just one big, terraformed experiment.” She was also now convinced that they had taken samples of her flesh, those strange scars, and had used them to create alien hybrids, those little girls she had seen on the ship. Pamela would be plagued by nightmares featuring those aliens and those freaky little girls for the next year as she tried to put it behind her and focus on her music career. That would be when things would get even more bizarre still. One evening, she woke up to find a gorgeous blonde man making love to her, and she says that she was enjoying it immensely. She says of this encounter in something that sounds like it was pulled out of some ufologist’s perverted fan fiction:

“I had no idea who it was since I don’t bring people home like that. But the sex was incredible, and I felt safe enough to just put my head back, close my eyes, and enjoy it. All of a sudden the energy felt totally different. It felt aggressive, and the entity felt bigger — bigger than the person who was inside me. The telepathic communication was so intense and sensual and emotional — it was everything you would want to feel to be able to surrender in a sexual experience. It was almost like every cell in your body was having an orgasm. It had a kind of playful, kind of bad-boy attitude. It was kind of a sly, slick… It’s really hard to explain, but he was definitely in control!”

The strange blonde man and amazing lover then morphed right before her eyes into a huge reptilian humanoid of some sort, but she was in such ecstasy that she didn’t even care. The creature then whispered into her ear, “We’ve always been together, we love each other.” She claims that she had several such rendezvous with this shapeshifting reptilian alien, and although it is unclear what connection it has to the Grey aliens and her alleged hybrid alien children, it is all a pretty wild tale for sure. She would appear on the hit paranormal radio show Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell to talk about it all, and even write a book about it all titled Experiencer: A Jazz Singer’s True Account of Extraterrestrial Contact, of which one reviewer has written:

“Far from being a “victim” in a hideous sexual encounter, Pamela Stonebrook conquered her fear and carried the sexual action to the reptilians. She recounts this act of interspecies intercourse in a graphic, no-holds-barred, tour de force description, unique in UFO literature, replete with precise physical and emotional detail, sensational without being sensationalistic.”

It all sounds fairly absurd, the obvious ramblings of a delusional mind, but not only does Pamela insist that it all happened, but she has received an outpouring of support from other women who claim to have gone through the same thing. Nevertheless, she has received quite a bit of ridicule from both the mainstream public and from within the UFO community, in which the subject of shapeshifting reptilian aliens is considered to be firmly in the fringe. Pamela has remained defiant in the face of such scathing criticism, ridicule, and skepticism, and wrote in an open letter to the UFO community:

“Reptilian encounters is a subject that very few women are prepared to go public with or speak openly about. I praise the courage of the few that already have – and endured public ridicule as a result. I’ve heard from women whose families are trying to put them into institutions, and women in the Bible Belt whose ministers think they are possessed by demons. I’m not the only one who’s had this happen, I’m just the only one who would talk about it. Reptilians are not a politically correct species in the UFO community, and to admit to having sex with one – much less enjoying it – is beyond the pale as far as the more conservative members of that community are concerned. But I know from my extensive reading and research, and from talking personally to dozens of other women (and men) that I am not unique in reporting this kind of experience. I am the first to admit that this is a vastly complex subject, a kind of hall of mirrors, where dimensional realities are constantly shifting and changing. Certainly, the reptilians use sex to control people in various ways. They have the ability to shape-shift and to control the mind of the experiencer, as well as to give tremendous pleasure through their mental powers. 
I have wrestled with all of these implications and the various levels of meaning and possibilities represented by my encounter experiences. I will say, however, as I have said before, that I feel a deep respect for the reptilian entity with whom I interacted, and a profound connection with this being. In a past life regression I did recently, I went to a very remote period in earth’s history (perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago), and saw myself as one of a brotherhood of reptilian warriors facing a catastrophic event in which we perished together (it was possibly nuclear in nature, since I saw a red cloud and felt tremendous heat). I believe that on one level, I may be meeting these entities again, perhaps fellow warriors from the past warning us of an impending, self-inflicted doom – or perhaps they are different aspects of myself. I don’t really know; I’m just trying to unravel this puzzle like everyone else.”

She also believes that her book can help others who have experienced the same thing and give them some sort of support and the courage to talk about what they have gone through. She says she has received hundreds of letters from others like her, and that these reptilian encounters and alien abductions by the Greys are something that seriously needs to be addressed. In her opinion, if more people come forward with their abduction experiences and the area is researched more, it will become more of a part of not only UFO research, but also an accepted fact in the mainstream public. She has said of this:

“Following my initial Art Bell interview, I received hundreds of letters and e-mails, many from people describing similar encounters to mine. I know that there are people out there who are suffering in isolation and silence, thinking they are going crazy. I have been able to give some of these people strength and courage, so that they can move through their fear and come out the other side, empowered and still able to celebrate life as the incredible adventure that it truly is. I know that when I was processing my Grey experiences, if it had not been for people like John Mack, Budd Hopkins, Kim Carlsberg, Whitley Strieber, John Carpenter, and other researchers and experiencers who have been courageous enough to come forward, putting their lives and reputations on the line, I would have stayed in fear a lot longer, cowering in a corner, my self-esteem and identity shattered. Thanks to them and to the wonderful members of my support group, I am still standing, intact and whole.
I believe that the alien abduction experience is profoundly linked to the momentous shift in consciousness that is occurring as we enter the new millennium. We are witnesses to and participants in the most fantastic era in human history. And contrary to the mood of pessimism from some individuals regarding the way mainstream media treats the UFO phenomenon, and the trepidation that is felt regarding its ultimate impact on the human race, I am unashamedly a “Positive.” Everywhere I turn, I find much greater public acceptance of the alien abduction/UFO phenomenon, and active curiosity from enormous numbers of people. I am also encouraged by the fact that many more experiencers are coming forward, no longer hiding behind the cloak of anonymity. I believe that within ten years the reality of alien abduction will be accepted as a fact by the majority of people on this planet, and ridicule of the subject by the media or anyone else will be regarded as naive and irresponsible.”

It is all a pretty wild tale, and we are left to wonder just what to make of it all. Is there anything to this? What happened to this woman and what connection is there between the Grey aliens and that reptilian stud? Did any of this really happen, or is it just a lurid, sensational sex story made up by a delusional person wanting attention? Whatever the case may be, it certainly is a unique tale and stands out as just about one of the strangest alien abduction cases out there. In the end, all of these cases are like that, and whether you believe any of them or not, you are forced to contend with the fact that cases of people claiming to have had sex with aliens are a thing. 

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
In his new documentary, ‘Project: Alien Earth’, filmmaker and UFO researcher Mark Christopher Lee says that the Tic Tac-shaped UFOs tormenting US Navy personnel and pilots have been around since 1561, which means they’re not modern aircraft designed by humans: “We’ve been seeing these ‘Tic Tac’ shaped craft for centuries, and I believe it’s time to face the truth. The idea that they are man-made simply doesn’t hold up”; the 1561 incident he refers to occurred in Nuremberg, Germany, when hundreds of people were said to have seen a ‘battle’ in the sky between spherical, cross-shaped “Tic Tac”-shaped objects; Lee also refers to an incident in the US in the 1890s when it was reported that thousands of people saw a metallic capsule-shaped object in the sky’; Lee calls this “continuity over centuries” which suggests “an intelligent, non-human presence operating outside the boundaries of our understanding”. If only we had a time machine to go back and see these incidents for ourselves – unless the Tic Tacs ARE time machines.
Shane Frakes is a U.S. Air Force veteran and self-proclaimed “extrasensory metaphysical investigator”, clairvoyant, psionic asset, and philosopher who has claimed that he participated in ultra-secret military programs focused on psychic abilities and anomalous phenomena, and that he knows of projects to use directed energy weapons (DEW) against humans to beam large language models (LLMs) or super artificial intelligences directly into brains; in a recent social media post, he updates this by claiming that this project was successful and the world’s first transhuman has been created – he compared the process to torture and says the person nearly died, but is now alive and recovering from the mental trauma caused by an AI which tortured this combat veteran with fear, pain, and emotional confusion. If there was one, there are probably more – are they already on the battlefield, hiding among us or playing football?
Actress Wynona Ryder has appeared in ‘Beetlejuice’, ‘Edward Scissorhands’, ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ and the 2009 Star Trek movie reboot, so it should come as no surprise she has had paranormal and UFO experiences; one occurred “when I was about seven or eight, me, my brothers and my sister were sleeping on the roof and we think we saw a UFO. “There was a boomerang going back and forth, but it could have really been anything. It could have been a light, but we were convinced it was a UFO”; the second occurred the day before Samantha Smith, a young girl who became famous for letters she wrote to Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev asking for world peace, died in a plane crash – Ryder says, “The night before she died, I had a dream that I was on a plane sitting next to her – and something was wrong. I woke up and I went into the kitchen and told my parents, but I guess it had just come on the news because my mom dropped her coffee cup’; Ryder then believed that ”I was psychic and that every dream meant something, but it never happened again”. That’s the kind of experience that would make you shake, señora.
A strange UFO encounter was reported by commercial pilots on two flights for the Brazilian airline Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras near the cities of Itapipoca and Aracati in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil; flight AZU 2527 was traveling from Campina Grande to Fortaleza and flight AZU 2906 was enroute from Fortaleza to Belém around 8:40 pm on July 7, 2025, when the pilots reported strange lights which resembled “aircraft headlights”; nothing was detected by the TCAS anti-collision system on the planes, nor by their radar; the FAB (Brazilian Air Force) said there were no other aircraft in their immediate airspace; the lights were at the same altitude as the planes, ruling out drones; the audio from the plane of the pilots talking to military air traffic controllers was uploaded but no video, and no updates since. Brazil is more open with its reports on UFO encounters but this hasn’t helped identify any of them – it’s too bad we can’t join forces and create a worldwide database.
The notorious haunted doll Annabelle has been dominating the news with the unexpected death of one of the people on its tour around the U.S with other members of the New England Society for Psychic Research, but a new possessed doll story has edged it out with the report from paranormal investigator Lee Steer that a haunted bridal doll he owns is possessed by a ghost named Elizabeth and has fallen in love with him and is so jealous of his human girlfriend, Sarah Carter, that it is making scratch marks on her neck and back gave her red, blotchy skin; Lee claims Elizabeth also scratched his neck at The Haunted Objects Museum in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, where she’s on display and visitation records show that guests reported scratch marks after visiting her display; Lee claims 15 men say they’ve received scratch marks from the man-hating doll; finally, Lee says Elizabeth is jealous of another haunted doll and allegedly broke her leg even though she was in a locked room. Maybe she just wants a dream house and a pink Corvette like Barbie – you never see Ken with scratches
Paul Hynek, the youngest son of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer, UFO researcher, head of Project Blue Book and consultant on ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, revealed in a recent podcast details about his own close encounter with a German woman who claimed she was “a nanny on a spaceship for human-alien hybrid babies”, working 9-to-5, five days a week, and described it as a good but mundane job, even though she had no medical insurance – instead, the aliens “sort of healed” her when she was sick; Hynek said the German nanny’s calm demeaner when describing her alien babysitting job made her that much more believable.  Steven Spielberg – this sounds like a plot for a sequel.
Calling all UFO callers – Malcolm Robinson of Strange Phenomena Investigations is organizing a team of paranormal investigators to meet in Scotland at the site of the Dechmont Woods UFO incident  where in 1979 forestry worker Bob Taylor claimed he saw mysterious dome-shaped objects land in a clearing, then extend metal spikes which ripped his pants before he passed out; investigators were unable to resolve the torn trousers or the unusual marks left on the ground, so Robinson wants to bring experienced summoners to the site in an attempt to call the UFOs to return and answer some questions; Robinson claims a test run brought “flashing lights” to the site. If it works, maybe they can ask the aliens about crop circles and the Loch Ness monster too.

Can we tone it down a bit?

David Crete, a former Air Force Sergeant who worked at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), the home of Area 51, in the 1980s, has come forward to reveal that over 490 people he worked with at NTTR have since died and he himself developed more than 20 lipomas (non-cancerous tumors) on his body, ranging from his forehead to his arms to his torso, including one the size of a grapefruit that was removed from his back; he noted that one veteran who didn’t develop any tumors nonetheless had a son who was born with one; NTTR was known for nuclear testing since the 1950s, both above and below ground, for highly classified military operations, but the illnesses and deaths of the personnel have never been recognized as being caused by it until Crete and others came forward to testify. Are you still thinking about storming Area 51?
In a recent podcast, U.S. Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a member of the Armed Services and  Intelligence Committees, was asked if he has talked to any whistleblowers who’ve claimed to see recovered UFOs and he responded that “I’ve talked to individuals who have seen materials that they were analyzing, but they did not know what it was from”; when pressed for his opinion, he said: “A lot of it, I suspect, is part of stealth materials that have been developed by different organizations within the federal government”; when asked if it was from Lockheed Martin, he replied: “Well, they have stealth technology, just like some others do. Look, I just simply don’t know.” They should have asked him who DOES know and interviewed them next.
Germany joins the ranks of countries promoting UFO data collection and disclosure with the announcement that the University of Würzburg will be home to an official office to collect reports of unidentified aerial phenomena observed by commercial and military pilots Professor Hakan Kayal, an aerospace technology expert and Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Extraterrestrial Studies (IFEX), will head the project which has the support of the German regulatory body, the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt; Kayal says it’s time to end Cold War secrecy about UFOs and “it’s time to look at the sky with scientific eyes and an open mind”; he wants pilots to feel comfortable in reporting any anomalies they see, like the pilots at the national airline Lufthansa who reported luminous phenomena and maneuvers impossible for any known aeronautical technology. They want to end Cold War secrecy – have we ended the Cold War yet?
Gary Heseltine, a well-known British UFO researcher, especially on the Rendlesham Forest incident, and publisher of UFO-related magazines, thinks it is time for President Trump to be “the ‘disclosure’ President and acknowledge visits by extraterrestrials, stating that “such a revelation might galvanize nations away from the polarization we see currently” because it would be “the most profound moment in human history”; in fact, he reveals in an interview that “We know from fast developing events in the US that it (disclosure) is seemingly just around the corner” and urge President Trump to reveal the existence of non-human intelligence (NHI) soon or “risk causing major public panic with a ‘Catastrophic Disclosure’ event.” We saw Catastrophic Disclosure open for Black Sabbath (RIP Ozzy Osbourne).
The Newall Boulder at Stonehenge has mystified researchers ever since it was excavated at the site in 1924 as archaeologists argued for nearly 100 years about whether it was brought to the Salisbury Plain by neolithic humans or carried there by prehistoric glacial ice; the argument ended recently after the study, “The enigmatic ‘Newall boulder’ excavated at Stonehenge in 1924: New data and correcting the record” was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports; the study determined that the Newell Boulder originated at the Craig Rhos-y-felin rocky outcrop on the north side of the Preseli Mountains in Wales and was moved more than more than 125 miles (200km) by Neolithic people – how they did this is still a topic for debate. Think about that the next time you can’t find any friends to help move your apartment.

Next time, let’s bring it unassembled.

A new survey of 4,000 Britons found that nearly four out of ten believe in ghosts, while 20% believe in witches, 12% think the Loch Ness monster is real, and 5 percent each believe in vampires and werewolves; a different survey by the same organization found that 60% believe that hypnosis probably works, far outpolling beliefs in karma (38%), astrology (23%) communicating with the dead (20%) and magic (19%). Do the ghosts of people who drown while searching Loch Ness believe in the monster or is it just karma?
Space scientist Catharine Conley was NASA’s 6th Planetary Protection Officer from 2006 through 2018 has now revealed in an interview her belief that she was fired for criticizing the way the Mars 2020 rover was cleaned before being sent to the Red Planet to collect samples and determined that it had a 0.1% chance of contaminating any individual sample, which meant that the 40 samples to be collected would have “a 4 per cent chance of having Earth contamination”; Conley says, “That was not something that the people at headquarters management wanted to hear and they took the steps that they thought were appropriate” in firing her; Conley also warns that these and other contaminated samples from future missions will make it difficult to determine what astronauts will encounter when they step on Mars and wonders, “if astronauts get sick after contacting Mars and we can’t figure out why, should they be allowed to return?”; finally, she criticizes Elon Musk’s plans to send humans to Mars because “SpaceX doesn’t seem to be developing long-term life support systems along with their rockets” and warns that “I have serious doubts about whether anyone would be alive when the spacecraft gets there”. This sounds like someone who should get a promotion, not a pink slip.
Abbey Clancy, the British model, TV personality and spouse of footballer Peter Crouch, revealed she was driving home on the A3 when she saw “rectangle lights” moving across the sky; she noted that “It wasn’t a sunny day, and it hadn’t been raining. It couldn’t have been some sort of reflection. Seconds later, they all zipped off in a different direction”; unfortunately, Clancy didn’t take any photos or videos, just like British actor Michael Sheen, who also reported recently about an experience he had at age 12 after being dropped off by the school bus – he claimed “I saw something come around the edge of the mountain off in the distance – a light coming round” which had “two lights behind it and then three lights behind it and then I saw a phalanx of light coming from behind the mountain and floating out over the sea”; Sheen didn’t have a camera (this was pre-cell phones) and didn’t tell anyone to come out and see the UFOs, even though this was in Port Talbot, Wales. Which is known for numerous alien sightings. When it comes to UFOs, if you see something, yell something and grab something that takes photos.
Bigfoot continues its quest for normalization this week with the announcement by the Unicode Consortium that the Unicode 17 collection of officially approved emojis will include a Bigfoot emoji; while it looks like Bigfoot, the Unicode Consortium refers to the cryptid emoji as a “Hairy Creature” so as not to offend other hairy cryptids such as the yowie, yeti, nuk-luk, hibagon, orang pendekor and almas; Unicode 17.0 will be released on September 9, 2025, so there is still time to lobby for the “Hairy Creature” to be called “Bigfoot”. We’ll know Bigfoot really exists when they release a Bigfoot poop emoji.
Most ghost sightings are of the misty, wispy, shadowy type, but British actor, comedian and television host Matt Lucas claims he was once confronted by a green ectoplasmic ghost resembling Slimer of the Ghostbusters movies; Lucas revealed recently the story of a trip to Paris with his local synagogue when he was 13; he explains he was staying in a room in a run-down hotel when he woke up and “sat upright” because there was a “greeny white, glowing ectoplasm, suspended in front of my face”; he remembers that he “wasn’t remotely scared. It wasn’t like a scary ghost. I was just like, ‘Yeah, okay, I guess this must be kind of a ghost, I suppose”; when he turned on a light, the apparition disappeared, but he was still “100 percent sure” what he saw was a ghost, not a dream or hallucination. When there’s something strange in your Parisian neighborhood, you call Le Ghostbusters.
Brazilian psychic Athos Salomé calls himself the Living Nostradamus but he’s acting more like a Baba Vanga wannabe recently with a prediction that eerily matches one by the blind Bulgarian mystic – namely, that 2025 will be the year that aliens make contact with Earth; Vanga’s description of the event is more interesting – her prediction is that first contact will occur at a “major sporting event”, so believes are scoping out prime ET-watching seats at the Women’s Euro final, the Women’s Rugby World Cup and major Formula 1 races; meanwhile, Salomé’s predictions sound more like press releases on NASA activities or conspiracy theories, saying that “Thanks to the James Webb telescope, humanity might finally get the answer to the existence of alien life, while governments like the US may declassify UFO files.” Sorry, Salomé – ‘May’ is a month, not a strong prediction; we’ll stick with the real Baba Vanga and Nostradamus.
In a story involving the unlikely combination of Catholic seminarians, a Yeti and an exorcism, the Archdiocese of Denver is dealing with a controversial “blood oath” ceremony involving a vice rector and seminarians studying at Denver’s St. John Vianney Theological Seminary while on a ski trip in 2024; according to The Pillar, the seminarians were woken up in the middle of the night and invited to swear a “blood oath” in a ceremony involving a dagger and a man in a yeti costume – a ceremony that was recorded so the world could see the yeti and these seminarians screaming, holding a bloody cloth wrapped around their hands and their mouths taped shut; the diocese investigated the strange event and claims it was a “prank” perpetrated by  then-vice rector of the seminary Fr. John Nepil, who took responsibility for it; however, it was also reported that the exorcist of the archdiocese was brought in and “All the seminarians [involved] were to meet with the exorcist, who prayed over them, and they made a formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made.” Just when Pope Leo XIV thought things had settled down in his home country, he becomes the first pope to have to deal with a yeti cover-up.

Don’t try that pea soup trick on me.

Bigfoot is almost without fail always perceived as a shy, gentle giant that would rather run and hide than ever confront witnesses. Yet, like any large, potentially dangerous animal, Bigfoot has also been known to act in threatening ways, and here we will go over some that are worth knowing about the next time you are out hiking in the wilderness.
One of the most basic and quite possibly most common forms of apparent Bigfoot aggression is “wood knocking.” It entails the alleged beast banging sticks together or against trees to create loud bangs and knocks that reverberate far and wide. These knocks can be alarmingly loud, echoing throughout the wilderness, and are not something one would want to hear while alone in the woods. While there are far too many cases to discuss here, the purpose of wood knocking is not yet fully understood. At times, there seems to be more than one Sasquatch knocking back and forth, suggesting that it could serve as a sort of communication tool. However, on other occasions, reports have indicated that the wood knocking was very close and menacing, which could mean that it is a bluffing gesture or a way to scare off enemies. Whatever the case may be, it is definitely a part of perceived Bigfoot aggression tactics, and a fascinating peek into their possible behaviors.
Getting into more overtly threatening behavior, we have cases of Bigfoot throwing stones, boulders, or even logs in what seems to be without a doubt an unmistakable warning to stay away. The rock throwing is often accompanied by menacing vocalizations such as howls, grunts, or growls, and it can encompass anything from small pebbles to rocks to boulders too heavy for a human to lift, and sometimes logs or tree trunks that have been torn right from the ground.

There are numerous cases of rock-throwing behavior in Bigfoot eyewitness accounts. In one report from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), a witness going by “Ron” claims that in November of 2018, he was out on a three-day getaway with his girlfriend in the wilderness of Green Lake, in the Inyo National Forest of the Eastern Sierra Mountains of California to do some camping and fly fishing. Ron would say of what happened:

“We hiked up to Green Lake only to find it was totally frozen over. We decided to hike back down towards another lake in the area. At one point in our hike we stopped to rest and eat some snacks. While we were there I had a very eerie feeling. It caused me to feel cold and shaky and nervous. As we were sitting there, we suddenly heard a noise of something flying through the air. I looked up and saw a huge rock, which probably weighed at least 45 pounds, coming from above us. The rock landed on the trail about 25 yards away from us. It wasn’t rolling down the hillside. It’s trajectory indicated to me it had been thrown down the hillside.
At about that same instant we heard a very distinct animal-like grunting noise, but it was far louder than any animal grunt I’ve ever heard. We also detected a really foul smell. I particularly remember the foul smell because one moment we were breathing really fresh mountain air and the next moment there was this awful smell. About that time, we could hear heavy footsteps coming down the hillside towards us. The terrain in this area is steep with many tall pine trees. We couldn’t see very far above us, but we could hear something was coming towards us.
I’ve encountered many bears in that area in the past and I immediately grew concerned a bear was approaching us. I yelled something like, “It’s a (expletive) bear!” The whole thing was so frightening and unexpected that we both started running! We left my girlfriend’s jacket, my sunglasses, and our food there and just started running down the switchbacked trail. (The jacket and sunglasses each cost over $100. We never went back to get them.)
As we kept running down the switchbacks we could hear the heavy footsteps following us. Whatever it was, it didn’t stay on the trail and follow the switchbacks like we did. Instead, it cut straight down the hillside, and its movements were loud enough for us to hear it. We ran for about five minutes before realizing the thing was no longer following us. We went back to the trailhead, got in our car, and left. This was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. I’m confused and puzzled by the whole thing. I’m not the kind of guy who believes in things like ghosts or bigfoots. But, I can’t explain what happened to us.”

In another BFRO report, a witness called only “RW” says of his own frightening rock-throwing encounter:

“It was Thursday 11/25/11 at approximately 8:20 just outside of Albion Oklahoma. I have 50-acres of mountain hunting land on K-trail mountain road. It was lightly raining and around 50 deg. I was by myself setting up a second feeder for the morning hunt. I walked approximately 30 yards off the road to move some brush and I heard a very strange howl/growl. It was just on the other side of the road by my truck. I started heading back to my truck and it howled again. I had never heard anything like this before. I yelled back at it, and it responded with a more aggressive howl. Shortly after that a large rock came up through the brush and landed in the road. This exchange of howls/growls went on for 20-minutes. I never saw anything but I can tell you it wasn’t a bear or deer. I guess there is something to the sign I saw on Indian highway “Indian HWY Home of Bigfoot”.”

Even more spectacular is when Bigfoot hurls logs at people. In 2014, Bigfoot researcher and host of the Sasquatch Chronicles podcast, Wes Germer, went on an excursion to the Sam Houston National Forest, in Texas, with guide Bob Garrett and his crew into an area of the park called Piney Woods, which is particularly known for its intense Bigfoot activity. It was not a particularly eventful expedition until one evening when they were sitting around quietly in their camp. Without warning, they were assailed by a cacophony of crashing brush out in the darkness. At first, Germer thought it was one of the crew messing around out in the forest, but he soon realized that this was something else altogether. He says the sounds were from something far larger and more powerful than a human being, and that shortly after it all started, something very big and fast charged the camp. Germer would recount this:

“My heart was just pounding in my throat. We hear this thing crash through the brush. And then we hear this thing start crashing, just crash! Crash! Crash! Crash. And you can hear it walking and you can hear it breaking branches as it’s going. This thing moved so fast, it probably covered 100, 150 yards like nothing.”

The mystery creature then allegedly bolted back into the trees, the noise then abruptly stopping, and the woods still and silent again, but this was not the end of the scary ordeal. Germer claims that he and Garrett picked up flashlights to go investigate, which was perhaps not the best of ideas. They estimated that the beast was still there, perhaps 30 or 40 feet off, beyond the tree line of the campsite and watching them. Garrett, who was armed with a rifle, claimed that he caught a glimpse of something very big lurking out there, but Germer didn’t see it, merely sensing that it was looming there in the gloom. They crept towards what they believed to be the location of the creature, but whatever it was did not seem to have appreciated this, as the two men heard a sound like “the beating of helicopter blades.” Germer says of what happened next:

“And I knew what it was. It was a log coming, and it was a big log, and you could hear it being thrown. And I ducked down because I thought for sure it was going to hit one of us in the head. But it hit a tree right in front of us, and I just couldn’t believe that was happening. I knew what just threw that log at us. I knew what just paced us in.”

Germer claims that this wasn’t even his first experience with a log-throwing Bigfoot in the park. He says that on a previous expedition to the same spot, a log had come sailing from the woods to smash into a spot where his girlfriend had just been sitting just moments before, and on another occasion, he had cowered in his truck as it was bombarded by rocks, sticks and logs by the angry creatures. When they had finally left, he returned to his campsite to find it totally destroyed, as if a very large animal had ransacked it. That night, the aggressive displays would continue, of which he would say, “We could hear them run back and forth and the tree limbs and broken trees flew into camp, nonstop.” They also heard noises that sounded like “a monkey trying to be an owl,” or, as Germer describes it, “a freakin’ werewolf.” This was also in the same general vicinity as the other incidents, so whatever is there obviously does not seem to like company.

The BFRO has several similarly harrowing cases from the region. In the summer of 2009, a witness by the name of Stan Williams was on assignment as a photographer for Texas Highways Magazine and The Texas State Travel Guide to photograph the Sam Houston National Forest. In the late afternoon, he was west of Coldspring, hiking out with his camera looking for shots. He claims he came to a clearing about a mile to two miles into the forest, where he waited for a few minutes in the hopes of getting a shot of some wildlife. As he sat there waiting, he apparently heard some crashing noises from beyond the tree line, and a strange sequence of events would play out. The witness says:

“After a few minutes there was a loud crashing noise on the other side of the clearing that startled me, as deer make almost no noise. Before I could react, a small juvenile black bear came out of the trees, stopped in the clearing edge and put its nose up in the air sniffing. It then abruptly turned around and ran back into the woods. I started to go after it for a photo, but thought better of it as its mother would undoubtedly be nearby. I decided to go back the way I had come to give them space. I had barely turned when I saw a huge dark humanoid shape about ten to twelve feet away through some very thick yaupon brush. I’m 6’3” and I was looking up at a twenty to thirty-degree angle to its head and huge shoulders. Texas bears don’t get anywhere close to this size, more like an Alaskan Kodiak Bear in size. I froze. All of a sudden its hand moved and a 2-3” diameter tree trunk about fifteen feet long came flying toward me. I ran like a werewolf was after me, and it might have been. I was back at the car in just a few minutes, clothes torn and bleeding from cat’s claw and briars trying to stop me. I jumped in the car and peeled out, not stopping til I reached Coldspring.”

The witness would only later process what had happened and come to the conclusion that he had had a very close and dangerous encounter with a Sasquatch. Unfortunately, he was not able to get a picture of it. It might seem odd that this professional photographer, specifically waiting there in the clearing for wildlife to appear, wouldn’t have been able to get a picture of the creature, but one of the BFRO researchers who followed up on the case has said of this:

“This is a classic example why we get no close photos and few distant blobsquatch photos. Here you have a trained professional photographer with professional equipment in a wooded environment. Presented with a potentially life-threatening situation, he was stricken with fear. Fearing that he might be attacked by something so close to him, there was no thought to raise the camera to get a money shot. We spoke about that. He kicks himself to this day about not raising his camera. He was all about getting the heck out of there. He reacted like virtually anyone would, especially if they had no idea what they were encountering or what to expect from it. That’s what happens when someone is in self-preservation mode, even a professional photographer. Those who wonder aloud why we have no good close-range photos need only imagine his exact scenario and honestly consider what you would do.”

In many cases such as these, the rock throwing or log throwing is joined by another Bigfoot threat tactic, in which they will shake brush or trees violently. Another BFRO report gives a good example of this. In 2016, two hunters were out at the Black Stone Gap area, North West of Nordegg, Alberta, Canada, to do some bowhunting. It would be a trip they would not forget anytime soon. BFRO researcher Beckie B would say of the incident:

“At approximately 9:30pm on September 9, 2016, the witness and a trusted hunting partner arrived in the Black Stone Gap area near Nordegg, Alberta. Shortly after arriving at the site, the witness and hunting partner started a fire to prepare supper. Almost immediately, both hunters began to hear leaves crunching and ‘something big’ moving through the bush approximately 25 yards away at a nearby tree line. As experienced outdoorsmen, the witness and the hunting partner both assumed that the noises were being caused by a bear. The hunters retrieved their shot guns as a precaution. The sounds of movement, crackling leaves, and breaking of branches continued from the same location for approximately a half hour. In an attempt to scare off the presumed bear, the hunters fired off a round from the shot gun into the air.
Immediately following the shot, a spruce tree in the tree line where the noises had been coming from began to shake violently, followed closely by a soccer ball sized rock being thrown from the same area seconds later, landing close to the hunters. The tree shaking as well as the rock throwing continued for a full 20 minutes with a total of 17 rocks being thrown towards the hunters. Throughout this entire time, no vocalizations of any type, growling, huffing, or screaming, were heard.
The witness and hunting partner packed up their camp within the 20 minutes while the tree shaking and rock throwing were continuing and vacated the area. In the rush to leave the area, the witness left a cell phone on a stump in camp. Although witness is a lifetime hunter and has been into the area frequently over the past 25 years, there was extreme hesitation to return to the location to retrieve the phone. Prior to this encounter, the witness had felt the feeling of being watched in this area, but had never felt threatened like on this occasion.
A variety of alternatives and scenarios were considered by the witness such as other campers/ hunters shaking the tree and throwing rocks, however this was ruled out due to the remoteness of the location and the high level of danger to other humans still remaining concealed after a shotgun was fired into the sky approximately 25 yards away. The possibility of a bear or cougar shaking the tree was also considered and rejected due to the occurrence of prolonged rock throwing that accompanied the tree shaking.
After a number of emails and phone call with the witness, I determined that witness was credible and very familiar with the area. The witness was a lifelong hunter who was camped in a fairly remote area which he had visited frequently over a 25 year period. The hunting partner refuses to discuss the experience.”

One thing that is interesting to note about these cases and others like them is that the rocks or other objects thrown almost always miss their marks. Sure, maybe they just have incredibly bad aim, but it is almost as if the creatures do not actually want to hit their targets, but are rather just trying to scare people away so that they can be left in peace. If this is the case, it further cements the idea that Bigfoot is largely a peaceful creature that often just resorts to these threats to make people leave it alone rather than out of any malicious desire to hurt them.
Scariest of all Bigfoot threat displays is a behavior that seems very similar to gorillas, and that is what is mostly called a “bluff charge.” In the wild, adult silverback gorillas do this by rushing forward while thrashing brush and beating their chests, and this is not too different from what is reported with angry Bigfoot. In Bigfoot bluff charges, the creatures will rush loudly through the trees and brush towards the intruder, seemingly trying to make as much of a ruckus as they possibly can and often coming so close that the witness fears for their life. This may or may not be accompanied by rock throwing, tree shaking, wood knocking, or even attacking a witness’s vehicle, although it is worth noting that the person is almost never harmed.
There are many cases of Bigfoot bluff charges going way back. In as early as 1952, a man saw a Bigfoot on a dirt road north of Orleans that emerged from a spot near Bear Creek and went off into the Bear Valley. The witness kept driving but later saw the same creature and stopped his car. At this moment, Bigfoot ran forward in a very menacing manner, veered off to walk down the road, and then charged again, this time grabbing the car and refusing to let go until the man had driven a few hundred yards.
1968 has two such reports. First was when a man named Mike Gordon was camping in his Dodge truck at a place called Gray’s Falls Campground in March of that year. He woke in the middle of the night to see a Bigfoot rush towards the truck, which it proceeded to pound on and shake for around 2 hours (!) before stalking back into the trees. There is also a case from April of that same year, a man named Larry Browning sighted a female Bigfoot wading at the South Fork of the Salmon River. This Bigfoot would apparently follow him for an hour and a half before charging him and then running off. In a more recent report from the BFRO, the witness claims that in 1983 he was on a retreat in Bradenton, Florida, when he had a life-changing experience. He says of what happened:

“I woke Saturday morning while my parents and uncle were still asleep. I decided to dress and go sit on the pipe over looking the Manatee River as I have done in the past. It was about 6:30 am, I wore my Dad’s Deputy Sheriff coat because it was cold out. After sitting on the pipe for about 20 minutes, I got up and started walking towards my Uncles apartment, which was about 200 yards away through the woods.
After getting only 20 yards from the pipe I heard something walking up the river bank to my left making a lot of noise while it walked. I stopped in my tracks looking and listening, when all of the sudden out stepped in front of me this incredibly large creature which was about 30 yards away. While it was walking it was looking around and briefly looked my way. Then all the sudden it realized it had seen something and turned to look again in my direction. It stared a few seconds and then started running towards me.
I ran towards the 8 foot barred wire fence behind me, which was about 20 yards away, next to the pipe. I grabbed the top of the fence and climbed over quickly. The barbs tore my pants as I climbed over. As soon as my feet hit the ground the creature was standing face to face with me about 6 feet away with only the fence between us. The creature was at least 7 ½ feet tall, dark brown hair head to toe, dark eyes, approximately 400 to 500 lbs. and very long arms. We stood there about 3 seconds looking at each other until the creature reached over the fence toward me. That is when I took off running for my life down the fence line, with the creature running along aside of me on the other side of the fence.
To this day all I remember is the snorting and grunting sounds it made while running along side of me. As I was running up the dirt road the creature ran into a thicket and could not continue the chase. I continued running towards my Dad’s old workshop on the camp grounds until I was able to jump back over the fence. After crossing the fence I made my way back to my Uncle’s apartment very cautiously watching for the creature.
Upon arriving at my Uncle’s apartment I told my parents and uncle what had happen. All of us went over to the pipe where I had encountered the creature. We could not find the creature anywhere. I have never forgotten that day or had been so scared in my life. I really felt like the creature was attacking me for reasons unknown. I didn’t know what I had seen and I didn’t know about Big Foot/Sasquatch until years later. I never told a soul outside my parents and uncle on the day of what I had seen in fear of being laughed at, until I came across the BFRO where others had come forward with their stories. This prompted me to tell mine.”

Again, as with the rock throwing, the creatures never actually seem to lay a hand on the victims, and don’t seem to be trying to cause any harm, which they could very well easily do if they wanted. So while being charged by an 8-foot-tall, 600-pound ape-like beast might be jaw-droppingly terrifying, it doesn’t seem that any of these are actual attacks, but rather bluff displays designed to warn off intruders. In the end, despite all of these threatening gestures, is Bigfoot a real gentle giant after all? We may never know, but in the meantime, it might be better not to piss one off.

While there are many UFO sightings from the United States, and Mexico is a known UFO hotspot with many well-documented encounters on record, by comparison, Canada, despite being the largest country (in terms of land area) on the North American continent, is often overlooked when it comes to encounters with strange aerial objects and equally strange otherworldly entities. The fact is, though, Canada has a long history of such things, with incidents going back to long before the start of the Modern UFO Era. So, with the usual caveat in mind of not having time nor space to explore every one of these sightings (entire volumes would be required), we will delve into some of the most interesting and detailed.
Arguably one of the earliest recorded UFO sightings over Canada unfolded at around 10 am on the morning of October 27th, 1910, over Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and was detailed in the book From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946) by Richard Hall. According to the report, multiple residents of the town reported seeing a cigar-shaped object with red and green lights at each end. Moreover, a bright searchlight came from the object and moved over the town below, with the object passing overhead at an altitude of no more than 600 feet.
Around eight months later, according to an article in the July 3rd, 1911 edition of the Windsor Record, on the evening of July 2nd, 1911, a strange object had been witnessed by the residents of Chatham Township near Windsor, Ontario, hovering overhead before it calmly descended and hovered a short distance above the ground for several moments. Then, without warning, a strange “whirring sound” came from the object, and it began to glow brightly. A moment after that, it shot into the air and disappeared.
Although the exact date isn’t known, around six months later in early 1912, six-year-old Abram Penner claimed to have seen a strange object land in the field of a farm where he was playing in Vancouver, British Columbia. He later stated to his father that several moments after the craft came to a stop, several strange men emerged from it and headed in his direction. He continued that they examined his body, with a particular interest in his hands because, as the young boy explained, “they have different hands than we do!” They also had “round feet, short legs” and “no knees or elbows!” Even more remarkable in terms of details that would show up regularly in alien encounters, including abductions, of the later decades of the twentieth century, Abram claimed that these men “operate on mind power,” meaning that he could understand everything they told him. According to Abram, who spoke of the incident years later, his father ordered him not to speak of the incident.

An equally strange encounter unfolded two years later in early 1914 in Georgian Bay off the coast of Ontario. On the night in question, no less than eight witnesses saw a strange object that was floating on the water. On top of this bizarre vessel were several strange figures who appeared to be working some kind of strange hose into the water. The witnesses watched the scene in front of them for several moments before the figures noticed they were being watched. They immediately scarpered inside the object, which then rose from the surface of the water and took off, disappearing into the distance.
Another intriguing and thought-provoking encounter occurred in June 1929 in Quebec. On the night in question, at around 11 pm, 20-year-old Levis Brosseay was riding on horseback towards the town of Ferme Neuve when he became aware of a “dark object with a yellow light” on it a short distance ahead of him. At the same time, his horse suddenly became agitated and nervous. Levis dismounted and secured the horse at the roadside before setting out towards the strange object on foot. By the time he was around 150 feet from the bizarre craft, he became aware of several strange men moving close to the object, their focus seemingly on the vegetation on the ground below. He remained where he was and watched the mysterious figures until they climbed back into the craft after several moments. Almost immediately, the object rose into the air and sped off into the distance. Levis later estimated that the object was moving around 50 miles per hour. He further recalled that the object was around 50 feet in width and that it had windows out of which shone a bright light.
Without a doubt, though, some of the most intriguing of Canada’s historic UFO encounters occurred three years earlier during a wave of UFO sightings over Maitland in the summer of 1926. The first report of this wave was documented in the July 7th, 1926, edition of the Courier and Freeman newspaper, which reported on several sightings that had unfolded during the previous week. The first of these sightings occurred in the small villages on the outskirts of the city, with some of the witnesses not only reporting seeing strange lights or glowing objects overhead, but also seeing “searchlights” coming from the underside of these objects and sweeping across the ground below. One witness stated that these objects “moved rapidly” and even seemed to be “attached to a flying machine of some description!” Similar descriptions were offered by another, anonymous farmer from the nearby town of Prescott. He claimed that he had witnessed the strange objects moving overhead from his farm, offering that “the head one” had some kind of “powerful searchlight” that was “turned down!” He elaborated that he had the impression that this searchlight was being utilized by the craft’s occupants to look for something on the ground, and was so bright that his horses began to become agitated. Another detail that surfaced in almost all of the witness reports was that these strange lights were completely silent and made no noise whatsoever as they traveled.
One particular encounter, however, stood out from the others and unfolded in the Brockville region of the city. According to the report, the anonymous woman claimed to have seen the strange lights on two separate occasions, each time hovering approximately several hundred feet above her house. Strangest of all, though, she could see a strange figure that appeared to be encased within the light (or the object). This figure, the anonymous woman claimed, was holding something that appeared to be a rifle, a detail that led some people to contemplate whether the strange lights were airships being used by smugglers to take alcohol into the United States (which was still under the Prohibition Act at the time). This is certainly possible – some would say likely. However, it doesn’t fully explain the speed with which the lights moved. Whatever the truth, the strange lights of 1926 over Maitland remain a complete mystery.
According to an article in the June 1976 edition of Flying Saucer Review by John Brent Musgrave, at some point in 1933, in Nipawin near Tobin Lake in Saskatchewan, several local residents witnessed a strange object land nearby. Not only that, they soon saw several of the occupants of the otherworldly craft carrying out some kind of repairs to the object. It is important to note that, at the time, this part of Canada – particularly so Nipawin – was yet to enjoy modern amenities such as telephones and electricity, although work was underway to do so. Also during this time, many forest rangers and workers reported seeing bizarre, glowing lights hovering over the region, with some insisting that these glowing lights often came down to the ground. If there was no electricity in the region, which there wasn’t – we might ask just what these strange glowing lights were. While many of the witnesses that evening in 1933 were happy to dismiss the lights as nothing of interest, two men and a woman (none of whom, unfortunately, are named) decided to jump in their small pick-up truck and head out into the woodland where the lights had been reported to investigate further.
They made their way along the quiet dirt road, soon witnessing a strange glow up ahead, and it didn’t take them long to realize that this glow was getting larger, as if it was heading in their direction. Regardless, they continued heading towards it, only stopping their vehicle when the vegetation made it impossible for them to pass. After bringing the pick-up truck to a stop, they ventured out on foot. Only moments later, they could see the source of the light. There in front of them, a short distance away on a clearing, was a “large, oval-shaped object” with a dome on the top and a “slightly rounded” underside.
Just under half a decade later, one afternoon in 1937 off the coast of Vancouver Island, a fisherman referred to as “George” witnessed a “whitish-bluish” sphere hovering just above the surface of the water several hundred feet from his vessel. George immediately put the boat in motion to put some distance between himself and this strange, glowing object. However, to his disbelief, it seemed to follow him, although it maintained its distance as opposed to pursuing. It was because of this that George remained calm while moving away from the object, and as such, managed to take in a considerable amount of detail. He later recalled, for example, that the edges of the object were made up of a “variety of blue tones” and that when it eventually disappeared from his sight, it seemed to “dissipate” instead of moving away from him. Many people who learned of the sighting believed that George had likely seen something similar to St. Elmo’s Fire – or at least some kind of natural phenomenon- and while George himself leaned heavily towards this explanation, he also stated that he had the distinct feeling that the sphere had some kind of intelligence behind it.
If we fast forward just short of 60 years to the evening of December 11th, 1996, another wave of UFO encounters unfolded over Canada’s Yukon region, sightings that were documented by researcher Martin Jasek. The first of these involved a witness that Jasek labeled as “FOX1”, who was driving alongside the waters of Fox Lake when he noticed a strange light that appeared to be floating on the surface of the water. He continued toward the light, and the closer he got, the more he could tell that the light was a solid object. As he continued onward, he momentarily took his eyes from the road as another vehicle headed in his direction. By the time he returned his focus to it, the glowing object was no longer there. He quickly scanned his surroundings and noticed a “group of lights” that were seemingly in the distance and heading towards a nearby hill.
At this point, he pressed down on the gas pedal and headed in the direction of the lights. Eventually, when he spotted a clear view of the lake and the valley – and the hill – he brought his car to a stop. However, by the time he had exited the vehicle, the lights had disappeared once more. He immediately got back in his vehicle and set out for Braeburn Lodge, which was close by. Upon arriving, he jumped out of his car and rushed inside, telling the owner, Steve Watson, what he had just seen while scribbling down rough sketches of the object. Over the next few hours, several other people entered Braeburn Lodge, each claiming they too had seen a strange, baffling object, with Steve taking note of each account.
Another sighting unfolded a short time later, when cousins, referred to as FOX2 and FOX3, were driving along a road that ran alongside Fox Lake. It was a little after 8:30 pm, and the two cousins, who were traveling in separate vehicles, were making their way along the Klondike Highway when they suddenly became aware of a “huge UFO” hovering over the frozen water of the lake. As soon as they did so, both of them pressed down on their respective brakes and brought their cars to a stop. FOX3 remained inside his car and viewed the object through the window. FOX2, on the other hand, got out of his vehicle and headed towards the water’s edge in an attempt to get a better look. As soon as he did, the object began to move in his direction, and within seconds it was hovering directly over the top of him, allowing him to see that it was a “smooth and solid object” with several lights on its underside. It remained there for several moments before retreating and disappearing over a nearby hill.

It would later come to light that only moments before, another couple (referred to as FOX4 and FOX5 in the report) were driving along the same road and were approaching the southern tip of the lake. They reported seeing a “row of lights” that were surrounded by random flashing lights that appeared to be moving close to the surface of the frozen lake. To begin with, they thought they were seeing a small aircraft about to crash into the lake. However, they soon rationalized that the lights were moving much too slowly and controlled to be an aircraft about to crash. Their only conclusion was that they were witnessing a vehicle of “unknown origin” which eventually disappeared over the hill.
By chance, FOX5 happened to look at the clock on the car’s dashboard, noting that it was 8:23 pm. Several minutes later, FOX5 and FOX4 were approaching the two cousins (FOX2 and FOX3) who were both standing outside of their respective cars. FOX5 brought his vehicle to a stop and leaned out of the window, asking them, “What the heck was that?” They spoke for several moments before FOX5 and FOX4 returned to their car and went on their way. Several moments later, they arrived at the Braeburn Lodge, where FOX1 was just leaving. Several moments later, FOX2 and FOX3 also arrived at the lodge.
Amazingly, a sixth witness – FOX6 – also came forward to report their sighting. The anonymous woman was driving along Fox Lake somewhere between 8 pm and 8:40 pm. As she was driving, a glow came out of nowhere and lit up the inside of her car. A moment later, she looked out of the front window of the car and could see a “large arrangement of multicolored lights” making their way across the sky. Then, her car came to a sudden stop, and all of the electronics failed.
Martin Jasek’s investigations further revealed another sighting that occurred between 8:30 pm and 9 pm, a short distance away in the small town of Pelly Crossing. The witness, referred to as PEL1, was checking his game traps when he suddenly noticed a strange row of lights moving over the hill in the distance. To begin with, and much like other witnesses that evening, he first thought the lights belonged to a small aircraft that was about to crash. However, he too realized the lights were moving much too slowly to have been a crashing aircraft.
Now, completely intrigued with the possibility that he was witnessing some kind of otherworldly craft, he turned on his flashlight and headed toward the object. As he walked, he inadvertently caught the row of lights in the beam of the flashlight – and as soon as he did so, the lights began to move in his direction. Seconds later, the object was only 300 yards away, hovering silently. Then, a light suddenly appeared on the underside of the craft and began making sweeping motions over the ground below, much like a searchlight. He remained where he was and watched the object, and the searchlight-like beam continued to sweep over the ground. Moments later, several other beams of light were visible; these were a neon green color. At this point, feeling slightly unnerved, PEL1 began to move away from the object, looking away momentarily as he did so. When he looked back only moments later, the object was no longer there.
At around the same time, another couple – PEL2 and PEL3 – were traveling north of PEL1’s location. They too reported seeing a “huge row of lights” moving slowly across the sky. PEL2 was so intrigued by what he was seeing that he pulled his car to the side of the road, later stating that the object was approximately the same size as the Big Dipper constellation as viewed from the ground, which was also visible in the sky that evening. As this was happening, at an evening class at Pelly Crossing Community College, four local women – referred to as PEL4, PEL5, PEL6, and PEL7 – also witnessed the strange and mystifying row of lights as they were standing outside the college during a break in their class. They were certain that the lights were part of a large, solid object that moved silently across the sky. This wouldn’t, though, be the end of the night’s activity.
Around an hour and a half later – between 11 pm and 11:30 pm – a further nine witnesses from two different locations would report sightings of almost identical lights over the village of Carmacks. Four of those witnesses – four men who were driving in their pick-up truck, referred to as CRM1, CRM2, CRM3, and CRM4 – when they noticed the strange lights moving overhead in front of them. After bringing their vehicle to a stop, the men watched the lights, realizing they were part of a solid object, for several minutes. Each recalled how purposely the object moved, as well as the fact that it remained completely silent throughout. At roughly the same time, from their home, a husband and wife, and their three young children (CRM5, CRM6, CRM7, CRM8, and CRM9) witnessed the bizarre lights moving over the trees nearby. Although they told their children the lights were “Santa Claus getting ready for Christmas”, the two parents knew they were seeing something truly out of the ordinary. Interestingly, the family also witnessed the lights disappearing. However, rather than disappearing over a mountain or hill (there is none near their home), the lights just vanished “one by one” as if they had gone “behind an invisible wall!”
The sightings would become a topic of conversation on many local radio shows and stations over the days that followed. Just what the object might have been, however, remains a complete mystery. It is worth mentioning, though, the similarities to the Phoenix Light episode only several months later, in March 1997, south of the border in Phoenix, Arizona, in the United States. Although there were, admittedly, differences in the apparent shape of the respective crafts, both events featured an object taking a very purposeful and public journey, at relatively low altitude over a public area, and both events were witnessed by multiple people from different locations.
Several years after these events, at a UFO conference on July 8th, 2000, in St. Paul, Alberta, Martin Jasek was approached after a lecture he had given by a man called Kevin who claimed he had undergone a bizarre encounter in the Yukon region in September 1987. Jasek spent a considerable amount of time with Kevin, and between them, they managed to piece together a full timeline of events on the night in question. The account was detailed in the book Encounters with UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life by Michael Pye and Kirsten Dalley, and is one that is widely regarded as very credible, with Kevin being described as “not at all the type looking for attention!”
According to the account, on the morning of September 2nd, 1987, with the grey Yukon sky over Ross River somehow complementing the damp, wet conditions, Kevin prepared to set off on his motorbike to embark on a three-day hunting trip to the rural areas between Macpass and Sheldon Lake. He had arranged for several friends to join him at a private trailer he had rented at Dewhurst Creek so they could spend a day fishing. However, as soon as he put his bike in motion and set off to his lodgings, the grey weather suddenly cashed in on its threat to turn nasty. Not only did a drizzle quickly turn into a heavy downpour, but the temperature dropped considerably. It wasn’t long before he was completely soaked, and realizing he had a friend who had a cabin near Gravel Creek, he decided to take a quick detour there in order to change his clothes to ones more suitable for the wet conditions. By the time he eventually arrived at the isolated trailer, it was sunset, with the nighttime conditions rushing toward him. With this in mind, he quickly prepared a fire, made something to eat, and then headed to bed, aiming to get an early start the following day. The last thing he could remember before falling to sleep was the sound of the rain tapping on the roof of the trailer.
By the time he awoke the following morning, the rain had stopped, and while the roads were still wet, the weather was much better. He gathered his hunting equipment, loaded his bike, and set off along the North Canal Road on the way to Macpass, keeping his speed around 10 miles per hour due to the slickness of the road. As he made his way down the road, with the Yukon Mountains perfectly visible in the distance, he suddenly began to feel “uneasy and anxious!” He looked around the area in front of him, but couldn’t locate any signs of a threat. He then brought the bike to a stop at the side of the road, got down, and left it leaning upright. He then made his way to the side of the road into some long grass so that he could relieve himself. It was as he was doing so that he noticed some kind of movement ahead of him. He turned his head in the direction of this movement, noticing some kind of strange aerial vehicle ahead of him. To begin with, he thought he was looking at a helicopter or a low-flying aircraft. However, when he realized that he could see no wings or propellers, as well as the fact that the object didn’t make a sound, he realized he was looking at something much more extraordinary.

At this point, he went to obtain his camera from his jacket pocket. However, strangely, he suddenly decided to put it back and not take a picture – we might assume that this course of action is a sign of some kind of mental control exerted on him by whatever intelligence was behind the strange craft. He returned his attention to the object, noticing that it was a cigar shape, with a green exterior and several portholes along the side. As he continued to watch, the object appeared to fade out of existence, and even disappeared for a second or two. When it reappeared, it was somehow much more solid than it had been previously. As he watched in complete awe, he also thought to himself that he didn’t “think I should be seeing this,” and he crouched as low as he could into the long grass at the side of the road, the strange craft continuing to descend before it disappeared behind a hill close by. He waited several moments before deciding it was safe to make a run for his bike and to leave the area. Then, a strange metallic thud came from behind him.
He thought another road user had just pulled up a short distance away, and he immediately made his way towards the area from which the metallic sound came, around a slight bend in the road. However, moments after going around the bend, he was “face to face with two grey creatures” that were “insect-looking” and had “pointy faces!” Both figures were wearing the same style of tight-fitting blue suits, and it was clear that both had extremely thin arms and legs by comparison to their bodies. Bizarrely, as he was viewing these strange figures, he heard his voice in his mind telling him, “They’re grasshopper people!”
The next thing Kevin realized, one of the figures placed its hand to its waist, and onto what appeared to be a flashlight. Immediately, a beam emerged from the flashlight and hit Kevin square on, something that he later stated “pulled him from reality!” Immediately after this strange beam made contact with him, “there was absolute quiet, (and) nothing existed but me!” He also realized that he was completely paralyzed, and that when he tried to call out, he was unable to do so, or even form any words in his mouth. Then, everything went completely black, and he felt a sensation of “rocketing skywards!”
His next memory was of standing on the other side of the road, opposite his bike, which he was now staring at. The two creatures were no longer there, and he could tell from the length of the trees’ shadows that a considerable amount of time had passed. He staggered over the road to his bike, realizing that something truly profound had taken place. He mounted the bike and reached for the keys that he always left in the ignition. They weren’t there. It took him several moments to realize that he was grasping them tightly in his clenched hand. He did his best to shake himself to his senses before starting the bike, setting off back to the trailer. By the time he arrived back, it was completely dark. He made himself a pot of coffee and did his best to recall the day’s events, convinced that he must have blacked out for several hours. Then, an already bizarre and disturbing day got even more so when he heard a strange, “soft humming” sound coming from above the trailer. At the same time, he sensed a slight “vibration in everything” around him. This lasted for around 10 minutes before suddenly ceasing. Although he didn’t know why, he knew that the two creatures he had witnessed earlier were now almost certainly outside his trailer. He quickly checked the locks and decided to remain inside until daylight. As he sat in the trailer – never really sleeping but instead deep in thought about the day’s events – he began to have several flashbacks of memory.
He had sudden memories of being in a trance-like state, and even more remarkably, of looking down on the trees below, “as if I was flying!” His next flashback, though, was more disturbing. He recalled suddenly opening his eyes and seeing nothing but absolute blackness. This blackness then moved away from him, and he could see the face of one of the strange insect-like creatures staring right back at him, the blackness seemingly the creature’s eye pressed directly against his. At the same time, he heard a voice enter his mind, telling him there was “nothing to worry about!” He looked around him and could see he was in a large room. Moreover, there were several strange creatures around him, although these were different from the two creatures at the roadside, and resembled something more akin to a typical grey alien. He was finally able to speak and asked if they were going to do experiments on him. Amazingly, the creatures responded, once more into his mind, that these experiments had “already been done!”
He could recall being asked by these creatures if he wished to see the Earth from where he currently was; however, he was more preoccupied with a “strange sensation” in his hands. Still rubbing his hands together, he followed one of these grey alien creatures to what appeared to be a window in the room. He could see the vast distance of space beyond this window, as well as a small, bright dot that the creature pointed to, telling him, “That bright white star is your home!” For the first time, Kevin realized he was, if he was understanding things correctly, in deep space.
At this point, his memories became slightly hazy. He remembered, for example, that these creatures were talking about start systems in space, but he simply “couldn’t remember any of it!” This is the first of several interesting and seemingly trivial details that show up in many alien abduction cases. It was Jasek’s opinion – and he is almost certainly correct – that Kevin was shown some kind of star map, perhaps of his hosts’ home planet, perhaps of a region in space that is of importance, information that, while he couldn’t recall it, is most likely locked within his subconscious mind. Furthermore, after declining “taking a trip” with these strange figures, he was told that he would “have to forget” what had happened, and they gave him a “clear glass with a yellow liquid” inside to drink to do so. Once more, this detail of a pale or clear liquid being given so that a person will forget their respective encounters shows up much more than people might think. Kevein, though, had enough presence of mind to realize that he wanted to remember this bizarre event. He took three quick sips of the drink and then discreetly placed the glass on a surface close by. This might be why he began to have flashbacks of memory, unaided no less, only hours later.
His next memory after taking the three sips of the strange liquid was of waking up at the roadside, on the opposite side of the road to his bike, and then of making his way back to the trailer. The following day, a little after daylight broke, his friends arrived at the trailer. Keving remained quiet about the incident, certain that they would not believe him. It was only when he attended the UFO conference in the summer of 2000 that he decided to speak of the incident to Jasek. It is also worth mentioning that, although he didn’t speak to anyone about the incident until he spoke with Jasek in 2000, in 1997 – ten years after the incident – he sent a letter to one of his friends who arrived at the trailer the following day – Doug – in which he detailed the encounter. During his investigation, Jasek managed to track Doug down. Doug admitted he hadn’t spoken to Kevin since receiving the letter, but he vouched for Kevin’s honesty and credibility. Moreover, the details in the letter matched entirely with the verbal account Keving had given to Jasek. We might also recall the strange sensation in Kevin’s hand – something that Jasek determined could have been Dupuytren’s Contracture, where the fingers lock into a bent position. We might recall that Kevin discovered his keys in his tightly clenched hand. Could the truly surreal nature of the events have caused his hand to lock tight around his keys for the duration of the incident?
Without a doubt, one of the most remarkable – and credible – UFO encounters to have unfolded in the Canadian skies occurred in Montreal over the Place Bonaventure Hotel. At around 7:20 pm on November 7th, 1990, a guest at the hotel was in the swimming pool on the roof of the building when she suddenly became aware of several strange, glowing lights overhead. The lights were an otherworldly mix of green, yellow, and amber, and they appeared to be part of a large, solid object. The woman quickly realized that this object was coming towards them, and several moments later, it was directly overhead, hovering in absolute silence.

It didn’t take long for more and more people to venture onto the roof to view the lights, including several members of the hotel’s staff. By the time another hotel guest, Marcel Laroche, arrived at the hotel just after 9 pm, not only was the object still overhead, but over 30 people had made their way onto the roof to view it. Laroche managed to capture several photographs that were later widely circulated, and they do appear to show a solid object. At one point during the sighting, the lights on the object suddenly began to glow much brighter, causing the hotel staff to contemplate if they were in any danger, so much so, they decided to call the local police. Officer Francois Lippe arrived at the hotel a short time later, and after viewing the aerial anomaly for himself, he immediately contacted his superiors, requesting they attend the location.
Robert Masson was the chief police officer in attendance that evening. He recalled years later on a Canadian television show in 2005 exploring the case that he was “convinced that I saw something that wasn’t made by any inhabitants of this planet. There’s no doubt in my mind it came from somewhere else (other) than Earth!” As part of his initial site investigations – and before the arrival of the RCMP – Masson ordered that spotlights from a nearby construction site be turned off to rule out that they were causing the lights overhead. After they were turned off, the lights remained in the sky. Masson also contacted the local airport and a military radar facility that was situated close by to see if either could confirm an anomalous object on their radars. Both responded that they had no such radar anomaly. Interestingly or not, Masson later stated that he had the feeling the person he spoke with at the military radar facility was “hiding something from him!” After a cargo plane passed over the hotel directly below the object at an altitude of 6000 feet, it allowed Masson to accurately estimate the object’s altitude to be somewhere between 8000 and 10,000 feet. This, in turn, led him to conclude that the object was likely the size of “five football fields!”
As the night went on, the cloud overhead began to thicken considerably, and by 10 pm, the object was almost completely covered. It isn’t known just how long the object remained hovering overhead that evening, although it was clear that something truly out of the ordinary had taken place. The fact that all records of the encounter, including police records, were classified within the 24 hours after the sighting would perhaps confirm this. Just what was hovering over the Place Bonaventure Hotel that evening in 1990 remains a mystery. However, it is worth highlighting the conclusions of NASA scientist, Dr. Richard Haines, who stated in his 1992 report of the incident that “evidence for the existence of a highly unusual, hovering, silent, large object (over Montreal that night) is indisputable!”
Around two decades previously, in the opening hours of New Year’s Day 1970, another thought-provoking and well-documented encounter unfolded, this time in British Columbia. The initial witness, nurse Doreen Kendall, began her shift that evening at the Cowichan District Hospital at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1969. As 1970 began, Doreen went about her usual duties, with nothing to indicate the night would be anything other than a normal eight-hour night shift. This particular night, however, would soon prove to be anything but normal.
By 5 am, when she was going about her rounds of the patients with fellow nurse, Frieda Wilson, she noticed that one of them appeared somewhat agitated. She went over to check on them, deciding to pull back the heavy curtains to allow some fresh air into the room. As soon as she did so, however, a bright light from outside illuminated the entire room. After her eyes adjusted to the brightness of the light, she could make out a “Saturn-shaped disc” that was hovering around 60 feet from the window. She recalled that the object had a silvery, metal exterior and was bowl-shaped with a clear divide between the top and bottom. She also estimated that it was around 50 feet in length, with the top section “made of something like glass!” She soon realized that the intense light was coming from this upper section. Moreover, she could see two “masked figures” standing in this top section. She stated these figures were humanoid and around six feet in height, and each appeared engaged in some kind of activity on what she presumed was the control room of the vehicle.
At this point, the object tipped forward slightly, allowing her to see more of this upper section. Behind the two figures, for example, were what appeared to be two stools, as well as some kind of metallic “instrument panel” containing multiple lights and symbols that covered the back wall. She could see that one of the figures was concentrating on this instrument panel, and she had the feeling that “something very important was going on!” She had the feeling that the vehicle was experiencing some kind of malfunction. Then, one of the figures turned to face her, and she got the immediate feeling that he was looking straight at her. She maintained her focus on the figure, who then seemingly went back to the instrument panel. A moment later, the craft began to turn in an anti-clockwise rotation.
Doreen suddenly realized that Frieda was standing behind her. Not wanting to move and cause the figures to look at her, she discreetly motioned for her to come to the window. She did so, getting to the window in time to see the object begin to move away, heading off into the distance. She later stated the object was like a “big, green circular light” and was “quite a bit larger than a car!” The two women suddenly called out to other members of staff on duty, with two nurses arriving in time to see the craft in the distance. All four nurses then witnessed the object begin to rotate before disappearing “like a streak!” Kendal recorded the sighting in the hospital’s official work records book. It read:

“At 5 a.m. I saw a flying saucer as low as the third floor of the hospital when I pulled the curtains. There were two men or figures in the dome flying towards Victoria. The bottom of the saucer was brilliantly lit, and also the dome — New Year’s morning.”

The following week, a report of the sighting appeared in the Cowichan Herald, and in the days that followed, several people came forward to state that they too had witnessed the strange object that day. A husband and wife, for example, who were driving home from a New Year’s Eve party at a little after 5 am, witnessed a bright, glowing light that was “as big as a house” hovering overhead. There was, though, a much more detailed encounter that unfolded later that evening.
At around 7 pm, Bea Drummond was preparing a New Year’s Day dinner at her home, which overlooked the Mill Bay coast, when she went to the front door to call her adult son, Jim, who was in the family boat off the shore with his wife, Dianna. Upon looking out, however, she noticed a “yellow-orangey” glow moving slowly across the sky. She alerted Jim’s attention to it, who worked as a ship’s pilot, and he immediately reached for his telescope. He estimated the object was at an altitude of around 900 feet, and was “egg-shaped” with a “transparent top!” In this top section, he could see “a set of lights”. We might note how this description is almost identical to the craft described by Doreen Kendall earlier that morning.
At this point, Bea began to fear for Jim and Dianna’s safety, and she called for them to get off the boat and come into the house. She then turned on the floodlights over the back porch to better light their way. However, as soon as she did so, the object moved suddenly, dropping to around 300 feet above the ground and now in a position between the house and the boat. Then, things turned even stranger.
Suddenly, a “ray of light” that was described by Jim as looking like a “very thin neon tube” emerged from the object. Even stranger, within the light, were “dots and dashes” that the witnesses described as being similar to Morse code, while the light itself appeared to swirl and curve. Then, a moment later, there was a bright flash and the neon tube vanished. A moment after that, the object shot directly upwards and shot off into the distance.  
As well as the Drummonds, their neighbors – the Hallets – also witnessed the object from their property, which was behind and above the Drummonds’ house. They recalled seeing a “large orange light” just as they were about to eat their evening meal, which then moved over the water. George Hallet further recalled that he was certain “this was no ordinary aircraft” and that the object remained completely silent. Further witnesses were later found at the Deer Lodge on Mill Bay, where several of the diners witnessed a “large ball of light” near the water, with one witness offering that, given their location in relation to the water, “it must have been very bright!”
Just what the object might have been and what its reason for being was remains a mystery. However, that something truly out of the ordinary was above the Vancouver Islands in the first 24 hours of 1970 is surely not in question.
As we can see, Canada has a rich and varied history of UFO sightings, many of which predate the Modern UFO Era by several decades. And, while some regions are undoubtedly more active than others, these sightings occur all over the country. And we need to remember that the cases we explored here represent only a tiny portion of the many, many such cases on record. Just what might attract these strange objects and their occupants to this region of the planet is perhaps as much of a mystery as the objects and their occupants themselves. Perhaps it is vast water networks locked within the Canadian borders, or perhaps the vast open terrain serves as a launching point to wherever they need to go? One thing is certain: these reports continue in Canada today and look set to continue for the foreseeable future.

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
The latest celebrity to come forward with UFO experiences is country music singer, songwriter and son of Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson, who revealed on a recent podcast that in 2006 he and other witnesses asw and orange orb floating less than 200 yards over Maui it what looked like an exercise in observing them; Nelson recalled that “Then I swear it seemed like as soon as enough people saw it, it went whoosh. And then it went whoosh. And it moved like nothing else I thought possible at the time. It went out of the atmosphere. And it was crazy. Faster than any drone”; Nelson said he and another group were on the island of Lanai when they observed a pulsing and multi-colored orb travel across the sky”; unfortunately, the son of the music legend didn’t have photos of either event but said he hoped aliens would visit and oversee Earth “to the point where we hopefully we can survive to a point of having an interstellar civilization”. The first thing they’d probably do is order Nelson to “Take us to your father”.
In a sad coincidental link to Annabelle, the allegedly haunted doll of “The Conjuring” series that was in Pennsylvania as part of the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) museum, founded by paranormal researchers Ed and Lorraine Warren, national tour, paranormal investigator Dan Rivera was found dead in his Gettysburg hotel room; local police and the Adams County Coroner’s office said his death “did not appear suspicious” and “nothing unusual or suspicious was observed at the scene”; the tour will continue and this will undoubted stoke interest among believers in the alleged powers oof the Annabelle doll which the museum normally keeps under lock and key. Condolences to Dan’s family.
Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization reports on the experience of Amber Webster, who was searching for a missing girl in a wooded area of Yavapai Country, Arizona, near Sedona when she reported hearing “heard from a distance 2 hard tree knocks” followed two hours later by a sighting with her husband and cousin of a creature that was “probably about 7 foot tall, at least 400 lbs. and really wide body and shoulders. He was hairy with matted white and brown hair around his flat hairless leathery face. His eyes reflected a golden color. He just stared at us. After a few minutes we got scared and left as fast as we could.”; Webster told BFRO that the missing hiker was found a day later, and she claimed to have seen “something glowing like glowing lights or something. It moved towards her and that’s what scared her. She ran from it and that led to her falling down the canyon”; no photos or other evidence were obtained. Bigfoot in Arizona in the summer sounds improbable unless that full-body hair suit is air-conditioned or made like a Yeti cooler.

Don’t give that human line about it being a ‘dry heat’. 

Canada’s new Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer has pushed that country ahead of the United States and others when it comes for UFO disclosure by releasing the Sky Canada Project, a report on unidentified aerial phenomena in Canada airspace, much of it collected by the Canadian Space Agency which it refers to as a “trusted” scientific organization; it notes that there are “several gaps and areas for potential improvements” in the process, primarily because there is no centralized body responsible for reviewing incidents and they are rarely investigated “unless they are deemed to pose safety or security risks”; however, the report says that “the project was not meant to prove or disprove the existence of extraterrestrial life or extraterrestrial visitors” but pushes for more “pilots, cabin crews and air traffic controllers to report UAP sightings without fear of stigmatization” in the hopes that the question might someday be answered. Take us to your leader, eh! And bring some poutine!
In a recent podcast, UFO investigator and journalist Ross Coulthart discussed the so-called Tic Tac sighting in 2004 by US Navy pilots near the USS Nimitz off the coast of California and made the shocking statement that “I now know categorically that the Tic Tac is Lockheed Martin”, referring to the global security and aerospace company; Coulthart also said: “I’m increasingly convinced that the United States has made advancements in electro-gravity . . . developments were made, breakthroughs did happen (in the 1960s). “And I think a lot of that has been done in the black, and what I suspect is going on is there are a number of people in the National Security establishment who argue ‘noble cause’ (when stealing tech)”. As always, he could convince us with some evidence.
While archeologists in Egypt continue to use ground-penetrating radar to pursue the theory that there are tunnels and even an entire city under the pyramids, researchers in Poland have announced the discovery of megalithic pyramid-shaped earthworks tombs built 5,500 years ago by the Funnelbeaker culture in the General Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park that predate the pyramids; the Polish pyramids were discovered by researchers from the Wielkopolska Region Landscape Parks Complex (ZPKWW) and excavated by a team from the Faculty of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University; these Polish pyramids are also referred to as “giants’ beds” and reach up to 200 meters (656 feet) in length, several meters wide and 4 meters (13 feet) high; it is speculated that they were built to resemble long, trapezoidal houses built by earlier Neolithic cultures and have boulders in front of their openings weighing up to several tons. All they need now is a leader in one of the tombs named King Tutsky.
There are researchers who theorize that alien encounters may be the result of people taking the psychedelic drug DMT having hallucinations so real that they believe they have met extraterrestrials or even been abducted, but Dr Andrew Gallimore, a PhD in biological chemistry who has taken DMT, has taken this theory one step further and says he also these alien intelligences in a hyper-dimensional world and it convinced him that they were not drug hallucinations but real beings that humans can only encounter by taking DMT; Gallimore is also a neuroscientist and believes drugs like DMT cause the brain to construct an alternate world or unseen dimension; for proof, he DMT users in interviewed consistently saw non-human, non-animal creatures like “giggling machine elf type beings” and insectoid beings that often seem to perform ‘psychic surgery’ on some DMT users; he plans to continue this research because “We don’t know the relationship between our universe and this place, whether it’s parallel in some way, whether we are kind of a lower dimensional slice of some higher dimensional structure”. If this is true, ET didn’t phone home – he ‘stoned’ home.

Do you really want to visit this place?

If you’re not interested in seeing aliens but are looking for a reason to try psychedlics, researchers are finding that those who ingest psychedelic psylocibin mushrooms may live longer than the average person; in a new study, older mice and human cells (from fetal lungs and adult skin) were given medium doses of psilocybin and it was found that telomeres, which shorten as organisms grow older and are viewed as a hallmark of aging, shortened more slowly, while the mice lived longer, showed increased survival skills and had “improvements in overall fur quality”;  in a press release, Louise Hecker, a Baylor medical and cardiovascular researcher and the senior author of the paper, said psylocibin research usually focused on how the drug affected the brain and this was the first direct study of its effect on aging, concluding that “Psilocybin may represent a disruptive agent that promotes healthy aging”. Clean out your medicine cabinet and make room for shrooms!
In one of the stranger statements on biblical archeology and history, Timothy W. Hogan claimed on a podcast that he is Grand Master of the Order of the Temple of Secret Initiates, a modern Templar order  which believes the remains of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist and some descendants were discovered by members of his order in the Middle Ages in the so-called Talpiot Tomb in East Jerusalem and brought to America in six ossuaries, one bearing the inscription Yeshua bar Yehosef (Jesus, son of Joseph), centuries before Columbus arrived; he further claimed that the order is working to compare bone fragments recently found in Talpiot with historical records in order to look for a “genetic match” that would prove their authenticity; the Talpiot Tomb was discovered in 1980 and contained six ossuaries inscribed with the name “Yeshua bar Yehosef” – scholars are debating the authenticity of the tombs, inscriptions and remains; meanwhile, Hogan claimed the Church has attempted to locate and confiscate the ossuaries allegedly in the possession of his Templar order. Is having an American pope the key to a real study of these alleged remains in America?
The Hangar 18 conspiracy theory – claims that Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio contains a crashed UFO and/or alien bodies, possibly from the Roswell incident – was back in the news with a records release from the Air Force confirming that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base experienced multiple drone incursions on two nights beginning December 13, 2024, which temporarily shut down the base and triggered a large-scale security response; The Black Vault made the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the incident reports, sworn witness statements, law enforcement documentation, and supporting video footage, and notes that the Air Force deployed thermal imaging assets and full perimeter sweeps but the scale, persistence, and unknown origin of the aerial objects over Wright-Patterson remain unresolved; this is the first time the extent of the response to the mysterious drones has been confirmed. Kudos once again to The Black Vault for its persistence in getting these and other UFO-related documents out in the open where the public can be as puzzled as they and the Air Force are.
Harvard professor, theoretical physicist, cosmologist and UFO researcher Avi Loeb now says 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object discovered, which is scheduled to pass by later this year, is, at a length of 12 miles (20km), too big to be a natural comet or a solid asteroid because it is 200 times larger than the 100-meter-long ‘Oumuamua interstellar object, and is too fast at 60 kilometers per second (37 miles per second) to be natural; that means, according to Loeb, that “the object targets the inner solar system by some technological design” but we won’t know until it gets close to the Sun and we see how it reacts. Better yet, if it is indeed a technological ship, let’s see how WE react.
Unicorn fans will be excited to learn that tourists from Canada visiting Tintagel, the village in Cornwall, England that is home to Tintagel Castle, found an animal with a single horn in the middle of its head at St Nectan’s Glen; they hoped it could be a unicorn’s skull – perhaps even the one Merlin allegedly rode during the Battle of Badon as the family’s grandmother suggested; they took the skull to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle where an employee informed them it was most likely a “freak animal”; the bartender at the Stonehenge Inn pub in Salisbury offered them unlimited ale in return for it so they took the offer rather than trying to get the ‘unicorn’ skull through customs. Wait a minute – isn’t a unicorn a freak animal?

You’re not a freak – now get going!

It is crop circle season in the UK and the latest sighting (as of this writing) is a spider-like circle in a field in Cerne Abbas, North Dorset, home of the Cerne Abbas Giant, the famous hill figure depicting a bald man with a very large erection; while the Giant and the crop circle are not related, the Dorset Rural Crime is concerned about bout and calls it an “act of criminal damage” which they would appreciate any help from the public in solving; Thorlak Gudrod Hallett made a drone recoding of the circle while flying his drone over the Cerne Abbas Giant and told the local media it looked to him like “an alien spider” which appeared to have been there for a while and had “a very cool woven section on the body, I’ve not seen that before”. If we’re about to be invaded by spider aliens, we’re going to need a bigger rolled-up magazine.
Longtime UFO and alien enthusiasts know that ‘Skinny Bob’ refers to a series of leaked video copies of old movies which were allegedly made in Russia between 1942 and 1969 by the KGB and show a skinny gray alien being interviewed and examined as part of diplomatic negotiations between high-ranking Russian officials and beings from the Zeta Reticuli star system on “matters of mutual interest”;  in a recent podcast interview, Edward Abbott, an alleged Army whistleblower, claimed the Skinny Bob films are real and he knows this because he viewed the collection inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in 2008; Abbott claimed the films showed “a being — a pilot — inside the craft. The footage was in color, and he moved, blinked, rotated. He was alive. We saw two craft flying in a staggered formation. Parts of that video are now missing online. What they showed us that day changed everything”. How about some evidence, like an ‘after’ video showing how Skinny Bob is now Obese Robert due to a diet of Earth junk food?
Filmmaker and UFO researcher Mark Christopher Lee says he met recently with a whistleblower who claimed “we’ve got at least three downed craft that have been recovered”; according to Lee, the crashed UFOs are from the Pentyrch UFO incident which occurred in Wales on February 26, 2016, where witnesses reported seeing a huge pyramid of light, a crash in Scotland and another from 1969 when a UFO reportedly to have crashed off the coast of Blackpool; Lee implies that the UK government has reverse-engineered these crashed UFOs to make “more advanced technology that’s been tested out’, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says it “has no opinion on the existence of extraterrestrial life” and no longer investigates reports of UFO sightings. Time for another documentary, Lee.
The new Ohio Museum of Horror in Galion (west of Mansfield) features human skulls, true-crime artifacts, ‘haunted’ objects, Ouija boards, horror movie memorabilia and a unique menu item in its restaurant called ‘The Last Meal’ where visitors can order the last meals notorious serial killers on death row ate before their executions; the dinners are served on a “prison-style platter” include fried chicken and shrimp, strawberries, and French fries – the last meal of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. It’s surprising a clown like Gacy didn’t order popcorn, cotton candy and circus peanuts.
The Trojan War and its famous Trojan Horse is detailed in Homer’s Iliad but the mythical war has never been proven, which has inspired archeologists to continue to look for evidence; recently, researchers digging at Hisarlık Hill in Turkey’s Çanakkale province found several artifacts from the Late Bronze Age when the Trojan War would probably have occurred, and some 3,500-year-old sling stones discovered in front of a palace structure appear to be evidence of a massive battle around the 13th century BCE; Professor Rustem Aslan of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University led the excavation and noted that the layers where the artifacts were found “contain war tools and disturbed human remains that could indicate conflict”; also, “The fact that so many sling stones were uncovered in such a small area in front of the palace points to an activity related to defense or assault”. Now we need plans for the horse, or at least a note passed among soldiers saying, “Are you sure they will fall for this?”
Just when you thought it was safe to go to Build-a-Bear, the stuffed doll chain has unveiled the Giant Mothman doll – this “extra cuddly and extra huggable” is inspired by the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and is a follow-up to the store’s hot-selling regular-sized Mothman doll. The huge soft cryptid sells for $128, and the website notes that “this paranormal plush has soft black fur with bright red eyes. Experience huge amounts of fun with your own Giant Mothman plush!” If your child is asking for this, stop by Build-an-Exorcist first and don’t bring it out while playing ‘bridge’.
China’s Shennongjia National Park is offering $89 a day for people who will act like its legendary Yeren “wild men” by living in the forest, wearing wild men clothes, making only “woo woo woo” sounds and accepting and eating food from tourists – especially raw meat; sightings of the Yeren date back to the Warring States Period around 340 BCE and the legendary creatures are described as savage, strong, fast cave-dwellers who raid villages for food or women – an activity not recreated at the park. If this catches on, there are plenty of unemployed actors in the U.S. who would love to act like Bigfoot for lousy pay, free food and a chance to be in a Planet of the Apes movie.

One outlandish feature of the world of the paranormal is the idea of portals popping up in various places. These portals are said to lead to other locations or nowhere at all, and sometimes are even said to act as doorways to other worlds that sometimes allow things from the other side to come in. Portals seem like something one would be more likely to find out in the wilderness or remote areas, but it seems that sometimes these phenomena can happen right in the safety of our own homes. 
One strange report comes from Reddit user “GilgameshvsHumbaba,” who says this happened as he was living in a small apartment several years before telling his story. One evening, he woke up to feel someone touching his head, even though no one else was there, and when he stepped whatever it was away and looked around, he saw a square or rectangular “hole” in the air. Out of this hole shone a light, and there was a man’s arm and hand protruding from it and waving around in the air. The witness says of what happened next:

“The hole” started drifting to the right and revolving toward me and I saw two young men in some other room. One was sitting and working or typing or something, and the other guy was looking at what he was doing and looking at me and looking around at my bedroom. I sat up on one arm watching them, and then I noticed that the light from their room was lighting up my room. I could see the ironing board to the left, my bookcase to the right, the floor, ceiling, and my door, which was closed. That was when I knew was really awake, and I sat up more. I think they were talking to each other, but I don’t remember hearing them. I thought about getting out of bed and grabbing my clothes and just stepping through the hole into their room, but I chickened out because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to come back or not.
The “hole” started to revolve the other way until it was “sideways” to me again, and then all of a sudden it disappeared and the light was gone and it was dark again. Since I have “night blindness”, it was pitch-dark to me. Finally I decided that it had just been a weird dream, so I picked up the covers and lay down and turned on my side to go back to sleep, and that’s when I realized I had been sitting up the whole time, so it had to have been real.
Well. that’s it. The “hole” had smooth sides and sharp corners, no glow or fog or anything. Looking back on it now, I think the two guys were panicking because they had been seen and were trying to “close the window”, or however you want to say it. I’ve tried to tell people what happened and they just laugh at me. I know it happened!!!! Now I want to know if it happened to other people, and if anyone reported it. I’m sure the two I saw repeated their little “experiment”, so there must be more witnesses somewhere.”

Pretty weird stuff, indeed. From Reddit user “FlashyConsequence111” we have a similarly odd tale that supposedly happened back in 2004. This supposedly happened as she and her husband were sitting out enjoying a quiet evening on their veranda, and the witness says;

“There was a fence about 5meters/15 feet away from us. All of a sudden the side of this big tree next to the fence started moving, there was no wind and the other trees were not moving, nor was the otherside of the tree. My husband and I thought an animal was going to come out of it. After about 1 minute a black hole appeared and a man, carrying some box or bag in both hands, came out of the hole, ran accross the fence for 3meters/9feet another hole appeared in front of him and he went through that hole and disappeared. The trees near the second hole were moving and shaking before it appeared and he ran into it and were shaking for about 30seconds after it closed. The man was white, dark short hair, wearing a black and red flannel shirt and black pants and looked like he was running from something, he was in a panic.
I was in shock and amazed. I turned to my husband, he was looking at the fence eyes wide open. I said ‘Oh my God! Did you see that?!!’ He turned to me and said ‘What?’ I said ‘That man came out of a wormhole and ran along the fence and went into another wormhole!, that’s why the tree was shaking!’ He said ‘when was the tree shaking?’ ‘Nothing happened, we have just been sitting here’. I was shocked! I was like ‘what are you saying? You don’t remember?’ We had just been discussing how the tree was shaking and what animal we thought was going to come out. To clarify, we had never before or since had different recollections of what we had seen together. I have only told that story to my sister and children. This is the first time publicly, there are definitely technologies we do not know about, I believe in wormholes and portholes.”

What was going on here? Many stories of portals revolve around closets, which makes sense since there has long been the spooky lore gif things in the closet that have haunted children since time unremembered. One account comes from True Ghost Tales and concerns a witness who claims that when she was just a girl, she had been watching TV in the living room with her mother when they heard her father start frantically screaming for help from elsewhere in the house. They tracked the source of the mysterious screaming to the witnesses’ bedroom and found that the door was locked, which was odd considering it was just a plain old doorknob with no lock to begin with. They stood there struggling with the anomalously jammed doorknob while the father shrieked and shouted in terror from within. At the time, they thought he was having some sort of mental breakdown, as he was an alcoholic and had been drinking heavily earlier that night; however, when they finally forced the door open, they were to find it was something altogether more bizarre. The witness says of what they saw in that room:

“My mom struggled for a few minutes trying to open the door. Finally she managed to open the door and we saw my father up in the air like if he was hanging from something then a few seconds later fell feel down. He was so scared that he sounded sober, he told us to get away from there and he ran as far away from my room, when we saw my dad he seemed almost pale looking, he had scratches on his chest as if he got into a fight or something. My mom asked him “What happened to you”? Are you Ok? The only thing that came out of my father’s mouth was, “THE DEVIL, the devil was trying to take me away with him.” At first I thought my dad was only saying that to scare me but he was serious about it, he said that the devil wanted him and was trying to bite his neck. I thought to my self, it sounds more like a vampire than the devil to me, why would the devil want to bite his neck anyways?”

The scared family retreated to the living room, where they eventually fell asleep, and the next day the father explained that when he had been in the girl’s room he had seen the closet door open by itself and heard a man’s voice issue forth from the darkness beyond before the incident, after which something dark had emerged and he blacked out. He took them to the room so that they could take a look at the closet, and this is where things get even stranger still. The witness says:

“We all went to my room then my dad opened my closet door and we saw this figure of a man standing inside my closet as if it was asleep, its arms were on his chest and he was all black, with long finger nails and he had wings. The weird thing about all this is that a few day later I saw it in my room. I was watching TV in the living room. We had the hall light on so that way it could reflect light into my room, but that night the light only reflected half way. I saw a dark shadow standing in the middle of my room, then he took his hand out and started moving his index finger asking me to come to him with his reddish yellow eyes. I was so scared that I couldn’t move at all. I was screaming for my parents but they couldn’t hear me at all, how could this be they were ten feet away from me? Anyway when I turned my head back to see him he was already next to me. All he did to me was he had lifted me up and he kissed my forehead and my neck, then he left, just like that. We never say IT again, but sometimes when I’m in the dark I feel like someone is there with me.”

It is interesting that the whole family seems to have witnessed it, so it seems beyond just a hallucination or overactive imagination. On the site “Phantoms and Monsters,” there is another account from 2009 of some sort of menacing beast in a closet. The witness claims that he woke up one night suddenly at around 3 AM, and found that he was covered in sweat and overcome with an inexplicable cold fear that was overwhelming in its intensity, although his brother was still sleeping soundly. There also seemed to be a heavy sense of someone there looming near the bedroom’s rather large walk-in closet, and the witness would say of what happened next:

“I looked around in my room hoping to see my mom watching over us from the door way of the closet (I don’t know why I thought it would be her but I did). Since our nightlight was on I could see things pretty clearly. I looked to my left to see a tall figure in our closet, it had an oval like head with small eyes and appendages hanging from it’s face almost like a scruffy beard but it made more sense that it would be some type of structure. It looked over the both of us up and down. At first I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me, since I could be very imaginative but what snapped me out of this is when it pushed some of the clothes hangers out the way and the fact that the window was open. It’s skin looked rough and pasty almost like it was in a sauna for two years. It caught a whiff of me being awake and almost immediately I lost consciousness and control over my body. All accounts that were had from that night had not been fully remembered the following morning. Besides the fact that my sheets were in my closet instead of on my bed.”

Again, we are left here with a case that seems to be so bonkers that it is beyond an easy explanation. Just what was this thing and why would it be in that closet? Was the closet acting as some sort of a doorway to another realm? Who knows? Outdoing even these outlandish encounters is another one reported on Phantoms and Monsters, this time by a witness who had just about the strangest thing you could imagine come out of his closet when he was a boy, in around the year 1980. The witness, who claims he is now a paranormal researcher, says that when he was very young, he had been trying to get to sleep in the room he shared with his brother, and again, this was a room with a big walk-in closet. As he was lying there, the closet door began to open by itself, and the witness claims:

“One night as I was trying to get to sleep (my brother was already asleep), the door opened and I know this sounds crazy, but out came Big Bird (of the children’s show Sesame Street). I remember being frightened at first, but others came out too and they were very friendly and led me into the closet with them. All I remember at this point is that Big Bird gave me a flavored chap stick (most likely to ease my fear because I loved chap stick), and they brought me back to my bed. I went to sleep very happy over the whole experience and was not afraid anymore. I put the chap stick under my pillow after taking a tiny nibble leaving my teeth marks just to see if it was still there in the morning. The next morning, I checked and low and behold the chap stick WAS there, JUST like I remembered, and at that moment I knew for a fact it was not a dream. If it were not for that chap stick the experience probably would not have stayed with me all these years. I tried to tell my brother, but he laughed it off, as anyone would, it sounds totally crazy. Now, after reading the other accounts of similar experiences, I am wondering if it was an abduction disguised as a friendly interaction.”

What in the world? How do we come to terms with the sheer surreality of this? The witness gives an interesting observation, in that he believes it might have been an alien abduction, with the entities taking a form that would seem nonthreatening to a child. This is a feature of some alien abduction cases, with the beings allegedly able to either shape shift or manipulate perceptions in order to take the form of whatever will best serve their purposes in the eyes of the abductee, for reasons beyond us. Is that what was going on here? How else could we explain an actual character from a children’s TV show emerging from the darkened gloom of a closet? It could have been just the imagination of a child, but the fact that the witness remembers it so vividly all of these years later is notable.
From Your Ghost Stories comes a report of just such an experience, from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The witness claims that as soon as she moved out of her grandmother’s house, where she had lived for some time, she began having extremely vivid dreams of a “spirit or demon” in the closet of the room in which she had stayed. She says that she had never had these menacing dreams while she had lived there, and that they had only started after she left, as well as growing steadily in intensity. She claims that the house had always been haunted, and says of what happened next:

“We just recently moved back in October. Now, I’ve always known this house was haunted. Everyone has. I have had so many different experiences. (For another story I assure you.) Everything seemed fine and normal. The house is old, it creeks all night long. You hear someone calling your name. For me, it is “Belle…” Nothing unusual. I walked passed the room I used to sleep in, now my uncle’s room, the other day, and I instantly felt watched. Chills ran down my spine. I felt in so much danger. I quickly scurried down the stairs and forgot about it not to long after.
 I would walk by all the time (it’s en route to my room). Every time I walk by, the door creeks open. Even if it is shut the whole ways, it takes force to open that door. I was carrying my cat from my room to the living room with me one morning last week. As we walked passed my uncle’s room, a deep, low, frightening growl came from my cat, then she hissed the meanest hiss, as she kept her eyes locked on the room (the door was wide open, nobody was inside). Recently, my mom has been feeling it too. The door opens slowly when she walks by, and she feels cold eyes watching her.”

Another report from the same site is similar in nature and just as eerie. This particular report comes from the state of Virginia, from a witness who believes an actual demon inhabited the closet of their master bedroom and would use the closet to pass back and forth between worlds. The witness claims that odd activity gravitating around the closet, including loud bangs and murmuring voices at night, was so intense that he put a crucifix up by the closet to try and keep whatever it was away. There was even an incident when he said the entity pushed over his young daughter, and it would later lash out at his wife. The witness says of his experiences with the terrifying demonic force in the closet:

“It did not take long to figure out that the presence was in a large closet area which adjoined the bathroom and faced directly towards the bed in the master bedroom. The closet area never got natural sunlight and was extremely dark at night. I could feel that something was watching. The crucifix seemed to keep it out of the room but it still stared from the closet. So I did the usual “get out, this is my house,” “I command you to leave.” I felt that this thing was not going anywhere, that it was not scared at all, it was not moving. Not long after that we found a picture of our children on the floor and it had been smashed in the middle of the frame like something was thrown at it. One night while watching TV my wife left for work and I saw a rather large shadow fly out of the bedroom and out towards the car as she was leaving, almost as if it was chasing her. Not long after that she suffered a stroke and a major car accident, both of which left no lasting injuries.”

Was this a demon or just a very powerful spirit? Was it, like other cases we have looked at here, using the closet as some sort of portal between dimensions? In another account from the site Queenies Paranormal Playhouse, there is a report from 2005 from a frightened single mother who had just moved into a duplex in the United States with her young son and niece. Almost immediately, on the very first night, they began experiencing paranormal phenomena, such as the bedroom door opening on its own and the children complaining that “something” had touched their legs as they slept. The witness explains:

“The second night of our stay, my son and I were lying down shootin’ the breeze in my room. The bedroom door that was cracked half way open had closed, then re-opened. This happened a couple of times, until we finally worked up the nerve to get up and turn on the light. The next night, my son blacked out after having (what seemed to be) a nervous break down about the ghost living in his room and closet. Now, the thing about it, is my son is a big 15 year old, and he does not scare easily! After 20 minutes, he went back to his normal self and cannot remember the incident.That same night, he went to sleep with me, and I woke up to something pulling back and forth on the door knob of my closet.  I screamed, but my son never woke up!
 Relatives have said that this place gives them bad vibes, and that sometimes, they can hear people talking. Now it is day 28, and last night, my young nephew and I were sleeping, when suddenly, he woke up screaming. He had jumped off the bed, and the bedroom closet swung open in front of him! But this morning, he can only remember standing in front of the open closet… hearing the high pitched scream of a female. I talked to the people who lived in this duplex before me, and they also lived with this ghost. Even after saying prayers and using holy water, the ghost will not leave! I’m a single mother and it took my savings to move into this place. Unfortunately, it seems we’re stuck here for a long time…but this ghost is going to drive us insane!”

The United States is not the only place where such encounters have allegedly occurred, and a scary report on Phantoms and Monsters comes to us from Newfoundland, where the witness claims he lived in the late 1960s at an apartment along a place called Blackmarsh Road. He says that he was 9 or 10 years old at the time, and that he had been living there with his mother, grandparents, and three sisters at the time, and that the road had been rather well known in the area as a place pervaded by ghostly phenomena. He says that although he never actually saw anything ghostly, he sure did hear it, and it seemed to originate from a coat closet in the living room. He says:

“Sometimes, due to limited space, I slept on the sofa in the living room. In the living room was a small stove and coat closet. I remember the chimney ran next to the closet. I remember so vividly being woken up between 3-4 a.m. every morning to the sounds of a group of people conversing in the closet. To the best of my knowledge, there were six or seven people. I could not pick out what they were saying, though at the moment I could hear them very clearly. This went on until we moved. I told my mother about this at the time it was happening but, of course, it was dismissed as a child’s imagination until many years later.”

He says that after he had moved away and grown up, he heard that his grandmother had also had weird experiences with the voices from the closet, and that she had finally managed to banish them by reciting the Lord’s Prayer aloud. What are we to make of reports such as this? Are these just tall tales or something more? Are these just delusions or the effects of sleep paralysis? Are they aliens, ghosts, demons, or something else? Are these really portals allowing these things to pass through some thin spot between realities? If so, it seems that portals like this can pop up in the most unexpected of places, and it might be something to think about at night when your closet is open just a crack. 

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
It turns out that even aliens are keeping up with the Kardashians – or at least one of them – according to Khloé Kardashian, who revealed on her podcast that she and her best friend Malika were driving “ages ago” when Khloé saw a UFO and screamed, “Oh my gosh, Malika!” but her BFF didn’t look in time and the “the thing just disappeared”; while she’s never seen one, she believes aliens exist; however, Khloé claims she has paranormal incidents “all the time”, including hearing a man’s voice when she was alone; her daughter True has also seen the ghost of a “little girl” and the spirit of a lady with a “funny voice,” whom they believed was ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson’s mother. Do the aliens know that the ‘reality’ in ‘reality show’ doesn’t necessarily mean it’s real?
Proving once again which cryptid in #1 in sales and social media, the photo gifting store MyFUJIFILM named Loch Ness as the ‘Best Selfie Spot’ in Scotland and ranked the place where tourists hope for a photobomb from the Loch Ness monster at #15 in the entire UK; in honor of its prominence, MyFUJIFILM is offering £500 ($676) and a new Instax mini 41™ instant camera for the best Instagram-worthy selfie from across the region with the entrants being judged on creativity and originality. If it’s a waterproof camera, this sounds like a contest made for Nessie taking selfies with tourists.

If they win, shouldn’t the prize be divided three ways?

The U.S. mainstream media is focused on the lost Jeffrey Epstein files but fine folks at The Black Vault are focusing on UFO files instead with unfortunately the same end results – John Greenwald revealed that his organization has been requesting from the CIA original copies of two Soviet-era newspaper articles discussing unidentified flying objects; the CIA released a redacted version back in 1978, but redacting in those days was done with correction fluid; The Black Vault requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) but the CIA has finally admitted that the original documents were lost, including the article about the two Soviet writers, V. Rubanov and V. Chernobrov, covered the UFOs from different ideological angles, along with the CIA’s commentary, analysis, and intelligence insights that once accompanied these translations; Greenwald correctly concludes that we’re losing the history of UFO research and “with each new “lost” or white-out-redacted file or black-out-redacted file, that understanding becomes harder to reconstruct.” Let’s hope that this does not lead to one of our most sacred institutions becoming a ‘lie-brary’.
The race to be the first extinct animal de-extincted centers around the US biotech firm Colossal Biosciences where efforts are underway to bring back the wooly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, dodo and dire wolf, but a new species may have just flightlessly jumped into the lead as film-maker Sir Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies) has given his financial support to New Zealand’s giant moa (Dinornis robustus), the huge ((11.8 feet tall, 500 pounds) flightless birds that were wiped out 150 years after humans first landed on Aotearoa (New Zealand); Colossal Biosciences plans to extract DNA from preserved moa remains and genetically engineer the species back to life where it can roam in New Zealand habitats similar to those it once lived in, but many outside the project say the technology is not yet developed and the anxious fans of the moa will be disappointed. Maybe Jackson should focus on bringing back J. R. R. Tolkien instead.
California usually leads the U.S. states in most UFO sightings, but NUFOC (National UFO Reporting Center) reports that New York is having a veritable UFO-palooza this year with 66 unexplained aerial phenomena sightings across the state from January 1 to June 30, 2025; the sightings were in big cities like the Big Apple and small towns like hot spots in urban centers like New York City as well as multiple reports from smaller towns such as Chester, Ridge and Evans Mills, where a large number of orb sightings led witnesses to suspect they were coming from a local military base; the most common shapes reported were orbs, spheres and triangles, and many were reportedly traveling at high speeds and making physics-defying maneuvers; one unusual sighting occurred on June 24, 2025, when a passengers in the front of a commercial flight approaching New York City reported seeing a metallic orb flying in the opposite direction beneath the aircraft; the pilots told the witness they saw nothing. Start spreading the news – If you can make a UFO sighting in New York, you can make one anywhere – it’s up to you.
If you’re wondering why so many UFO sightings occur near airports and air bases, it may not be just cases of mistaken airplane identity but real visitors from other solar systems who, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Manchester, are picking up the radar signals from commercial airports and military air bases which they claim can be detected up to 200 light-years away; the report says radar from commercial airports can be seen at that distance with a telescope comparable to the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, while military radar, which is more focused and directional, creates patterns which would appear as anomalies to extraterrestrials scanning the galaxy. The good news is that this tells the aliens we have basic aircraft technology that can’t even take off on time.
If you are a professional paranormal investigator or just a curious weekend ghost hunter, Spotted Ghosts thinks you should try its SpecTracer, which is billed as “a real ghost radar that uses LiDAR to scan and map your environment in real time” to “detect anomalies, track movement, and reveal what the eye can’t see” on a built-in screen; the SpecTracer performs a full 180° LiDAR sweep of the environment and displays a map in red; it then maps follow-up scans in yellow to show changes or movements, which helps the user to “detect movement, presence shifts, or energy disturbances that may suggest paranormal activity”; for doubters, Spotted Ghosts says the “SpecTracer offers measurable, repeatable data — the core of any credible investigation”; a recent paranormal review calls SpecTracer “one of the more structured and data-focused tools out there” because it pinpoints environmental changes without obvious causes. If LiDAR can do for paranormal investigators what it has done for archeologists, this might be a worthwhile investment.

Turn that thing off – it’s driving my ghost cat crazy.

Farmers and ranchers in Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez and surrounding areas in the state of Puebla in south-eastern Mexico are whispering “Chupacabra” after a number of chickens, sheep and other livestock have been found dead and dismembered with deep bites made by a mysterious animal they are not familiar with; gruesome videos were uploaded to social media and the owners said their land was “perfectly fenced” but that didn’t stop the mystery creature from entering an enclosed patio where the owner found 20 of his sheep dead and mutilated; while the attacks have been limited to sheep and chickens, owners fear for their cows, turkeys and especially goats if the creature is a goat-sucking Chupacabra; local officials are investigating but warn residents not to take matters into their own hands and poison dogs after two were found dead and suspected to have been killed by frustrated livestock owners. Even when the evidence points to other animals, the Chupacabra is still a popular scapegoat-sucker.
A video of a “footless ghost” that local media claimed was taken outside the La Ermita del Carmen in Barcelona, Venezuela, is spooking locals who saw the video on social media; the report claims the video was taken by two witnesses who thought it looked like a priest in his robes until the noticed that “he’s walking, but he doesn’t have legs”; comments rage from believers to skeptics, with one offering a possible explanation: “The alleged “ghost” is a Lady in a street situation, during the day she always visits the church and sits on a side with a notebook, enters the temple listens to the mass.. then goes to the cathedral (stay close) and does the same, the video was recorded a block away and as the lady is brown skin so it does not manage to visualize well with the contrast of the door a block away and as the lady is brown skin so it does not manage to visualize well with the contrast of the door.” Next time, they need to download a LiDAR app on their phone (see above).
In paranormal sports news, the Changchun Xidu FC of China’s League Two was fined $4,100 for placing “a number of feudal superstitious items in the away team’s dressing room” before a recent match against Shanxi Chongde Ronghai in violation of Article 115 and Article 116. In the Chinese Professional  Football League Discipline and Ethics Code; the paper talismans are known as ‘fu’ and the Taoist practice can bring good fortune or bad luck depending on the writing on them; Changchun won the match anyway by a score of 2-0, but football fans say this isn’t the first time they’ve attempted to change the outcome of a game with charms and paper talismans – they have been accused by two other visiting teams, Taian Tiankuang and Wuxi Wugou. If a player falls to the ground at the sight of one of these talismans, how does the referee know if it is real or a paranormal flop?
Argentina’s version of Bigfoot is the Ucumar and 2025 is shaping up as a good year for spotting one after a man told local media he was walking on Cerro San Bernardo (Saint Bernard’s Hill) at 5 am in Salta when “Suddenly, we saw something big, hairy, hunched over. It wasn’t a person. We got scared and ran down quickly” but not before he took a blurry photo and noted that ” it didn’t move like a person, I’m sure; he showed the photo to his grandmother who confirmed, “That’s an Ucumar”; another Ucumar was reported in June 2025 in Salta and the witness managed to record it and upload the video to social media; local media says other people in the Cerro San Bernardo area have reported strange noises, large footsteps, and disturbing figures in the wooded areas of the hill, especially early on cold mornings. Sounds like the best way to climb Saint Bernard’s Hill these days is with a real Saint Bernard.

My hill … my rules. 

A video said to have been recorded in Mazamitla in the Mexican state of Jalisco shows a strange figure crouched behind a parked car that seems to be aware it is being watched because its head disappears and reappears; while some commenters say it’s a ghost, other point out that Mazamitla has a history of strange activity, myths and creatures, with one saying: “I’ve heard stories of wendigos, ghosts, and even a flying horse” and another explaining that “the truth is, Mazamitla has too much paranormal activity because it was a war zone, and there are also a lot of goblins around”; those who don’t believe in wendigos or skinwalkers think it’s just a clever hoax. Can we stop adding ‘clever’ to hoaxes – ‘annoying’ would be more appropriate.
Followers of Loch Ness monster sightings will be interested in a new study by Dr. Charles Paxton of the University of St Andrews and Adrian Shine from the Loch Ness Centre which found that contrary to the classic image of a multi-humped creature with a long neck sticking out of the water at one end and a tail doing the same at the other, that form has only been described in 1.5 percent of sightings, even though it is the form preferred by 30 percent of the postcards and photos sold in Loch Ness souvenir shops and hotels; Paxton notes that the classic multi-humped, long-necked form is physically impossible and “In this case it really seems witnesses do not generally report the impossible, even though the hooped monster is a common portrayal of Nessie”. Who are you going to believe: your lying eyes or a lying postcard?
Three isn’t a crowd when it comes to rare interstellar objects as Harvard professor and physicist Avi Loeb comments on the discovery of 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system (after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov); 3I/ATLAS is currently located between the orbits of the asteroid belt and Jupiter and traveling at a very high speed of 130,000 miles per hour with an estimated closest proximity to the Sun occurring in October 2025; that speed makes it too fast to have originated within the solar system and it will also keep it from looping around the Sun and heading back in the direction it came from; Loeb says 3I/ATLAS is small (around 10 km in diameter) and if it is a comet, it will show us by getting brighter as it comes closer to the Sun;  the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to observe it test the first possibility mentioned above. In case the first possibility is ruled out and 3I/ATLAS is a solid object with a physical radius of an estimated 15 km, but that could change as it gets closer; we’re  in no danger as 3I/ATLAS will reach approximately 167 million miles (270 million km) from Earth on Dec. 19, within 18 million miles (30 million km) of Mars on Oct.2 and within 130 million miles (210 million km) of the sun on Oct. 29 when it will be traveling at 42 miles (68 km) per second/second or 152,000 miles (245,000 km) per hour. No one is saying it’s a spaceship … yet.
In a news item that could be a plot for an X-Files revival, Rual Lee, the captain of the Blue Heron, a research vessel monitoring harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, began having mechanical issues so he pulled into a dry dock at Great Lakes Shipyard on the Cuyahoga River; when he pulled out the jammed propeller shaft, a mysterious black goo oozed out; a sample was sent to the University of Minnesota Duluth where a researcher found 20 DNA sequences or genomes in the goo; most of the sequences matched known genomes, some took a little while to identify, and one was unlike any known genome;  the researcher named it ShipGoo001 and thinks it is a single cell organism, but its shape is unknown; it could be carbon-based and derived from debris floating in the water, or it could be a new order of organism. Clevelanders are hoping the next set of tests will rule out the Black Oil from The X-Files or the black goo of the Xenomorph in the Alien series.
It’s worrisome enough that people all over the UK are seeing alien big cats that no one can prove exist, but it’s worse in the English town of Wirral near Liverpool where residents report seeing a mysterious being dressed in a large black cat costume prowling near Wallasey beach; Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell has seen the photos and heard the testimonies of witnesses like the one walking her dog when she “heard a man making cat noises, shone a torch he was waving his arms at me before crawling up the hill. Never been so scared”; another witness said he thinks he knows who is in the costume and it’s just a harmless prank. What they need is a guy in a Bigfoot costume to teach him a lesson.
As a painter, Leonardo da Vinci is famous for the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, but his most mysterious work is the Vitruvian Man – not because it depicts what da Vinci considered to be the perfect man (although he’d probably make Mona Lisa smile a little longer) but the naked man is perfectly placed inside both a circle and a square; the secret formula da Vinci used to accomplish this has finally been determined by Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney, a dentist with a degree in genetics, who found that the ‘equilateral triangle’ between the man’s legs corresponds to the Bonwill triangle, an imaginary equilateral triangle in dental anatomy that governs the optimal performance of the human jaw and has a ratio of 1.64 which is a rounding of the ‘special blueprint number’ of 1.6333 found in nature in the strongest and most efficient structures; Sweeney’s study shows da Vinci was 300 years ahead of William G. A. Bonwill in using this magic ratio. The long list of discoveries, innovations and artworks of Leonardo should be called ‘The Da Vinci Load’.

And you thought the mystery was why I have four arms and legs.

UFO hunter Scott Waring posted a video taken in early July of a UFO streaking across a stormy sky in Kingsville, Maryland, and points out that “UFOs often are attracted to storms, the power from the lightning” and “clearly they are syphoning the energy from the lightning to use for themselves…to recharge”; he notes that he’s seen many videos of this alleged phenomena and thinks “these things get a high from the energy output of the storms and they love to boost so much so they will shoot around in excitement after charging”; comments range from aliens to ball lightning, which is a rare and unusual weather phenomena worth studying as well, but this is a first for describing the “high” UFOs get from a lightning charge. Cue John Denver singing “Rocky Mountain High, Extraterrestrial”.

There are some people who believe that the  President of the United States is privy to all that is going-on and, ultimately, calls the shots, while others insist they are nothing more than a face for the respective government of the time who is on a need-to-know leash, and this is very much the case with UFOs and potential alien encounters. However, it would seem that some Presidents of the United States – certainly when it comes to such matters as UFOs – know more than others.
One researcher who has perhaps done more research than most on the Presidents of the United States and what they might have known about UFOs and aliens is author Paul Blake Smith, who spoke recently to myself and Steve Mera during an episode of The Anomaly Project. Smith has written several books on the subject, including President Eisenhower’s Close Encounters: An Investigation into Eisenhower’s Secret Agreement with Extraterrestrials and The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter: An Investigation into Nixon’s Secret Airbase Meetings to View Extraterrestrials, both of which we will return to very shortly.
If we go back to the start of the Modern UFO Era (essentially, the summer of 1947 with such encounters as the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the Roswell crash) we can find President Harry Truman in charge, who, almost certainly, knew much of what was going on in the skies across America at the time.
In fact, to explore both Truman and the person who followed him into the White House, President Eisenhower, we should turn our attention to an alleged UFO crash, once more in the deserts of New Mexico, only this time in the Aztec Desert a little over six months after the more famous and well-known Roswell crash. According to the account, which first entered the public arena courtesy of an alleged leaked document in the late 1980s, on the evening of March 25th, 1948, a disc-shaped metallic object came screeching out of the night sky and crashed into the ground. Although several locals were on the scene a short time later, it didn’t take the United States military long to swoop in and retrieve the remains, whisking them away to, according to the report, White Sands Air Force Base.
Perhaps even more remarkable than the craft itself, though, was the discovery of 16 crew members, 15 of whom were dead, but one, unbelievably, was alive. And it is here, where the story morphs into the involvement of another eventual President of the United States.  

Indeed there is little doubt, one of the most interesting and thought-provoking American Presidents in terms of what they might have known about UFOs and their subsequent actions off the back of that, would be President Eisenhower, who, it would seem, was at the center of several UFO and alien encounters that potentially had far-reaching consequences, and is one that Paul Blake Smith detailed in the previously mentioned President Eisenhower’s Close Encounters. It also unfolded in the wake of the Aztec UFO crash (under President Truman’s watch), when Eisenhower was a high-ranking military commander during Truman’s presidency.
Smith highlighted how an apparent leaked briefing document came to light on a 2017 podcast by Heather Wade. This document detailed how the surviving alien was discreetly transported to a secret facility within the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Even more remarkable, this alien was able to communicate – in English, no less – with its new host, and offered that its name was Setimus. According to descriptions, although he was (by comparison) relatively short, he otherwise had the appearance of an “adult, Earth-like humanoid male!” There were, though, following examinations, some internal differences (although these were not documented, or certainly not leaked). This apparent alien entity had a very specific diet and was “less able to process the wide range of foods” that a human being typically would. Moreover, although he could physically speak, he also appeared to have “telepathic and psychic skills!” Even more remarkable, Setimus was “versed in homo sapien behavior, modern geopolitics, and the planet Earth’s troubled environment!”
This leaked document detailed that Setimus was granted “diplomatic status” and was very happy to answer all scientists’ questions. Perhaps most interesting of all, though, it stated that, “Setimus and his advanced ET species had ‘decided on a long-term program of carefully calculated’ contact with certain humans, including those in the highest levels of American government – like President Dwight D. Eisenhower!”
Of course, we will return to Eisenhower and more of his “contact” with alien representatives shortly. In New Mexico, however, around a year after being recovered from the wreckage, in early 1949, a decision was made to transfer Setimus to a “safe house”, thought to have been somewhere in rural Vermont, and a property that was under the control of the United States intelligence agencies. Smith highlights how this decision, at least on the surface, is a strange one, not least as no one appeared to be even slightly aware of Setimus’ presence in New Mexico, as well as the fact he was more than comfortable at the facility, and not least the obvious risks of transporting a live alien entity across the country that would surely present themselves. However, Smith also points out that Dwight Eisenhower had spent considerable time in rural Vermont, officially on fly fishing trips.
Whatever the truth of the matter, it is said that Setimus spent at least six months of 1949 at this location. And given the connection Eisenhower had to this part of the country, as well as the naming of him specifically in the leaked document, we might consider if he spent a large bulk of that time at the safe house with Setimus. If so, we can only imagine what information might have been given to Eisenhower during this time, and how much, if anything, he shared with anyone else. Then, in early August 1949, Setimus was discreetly transported back to New Mexico, this time to Albuquerque, and specifically, to Kirtland Air Force Base. Even more remarkable, on the evening of August 21st, 1949, an alien craft landed in the remote desert close by, where Setimus boarded the otherworldly vessel and left Earth for a destination unknown.
While it might be tempting, even by some in the UFO community, to dismiss such claims unreservedly, the fact is that Paul Blake Smith not only makes a compelling argument in favor of such claims’ authenticity but also offers documented circumstantial evidence to back them up. For example, regarding the transfer of Setimus from Vermont back to New Mexico and his potential extraction from the planet, he writes:

“Harry Truman’s White House appointment logs for Monday, August 1, 1949, reveal that the Republican Governor of Vermont, of all people, had called Vermont’s Republican Senator George David Aiken the previous week and asked Aiken to set up an appointment with the president for 12:15 pm that day in the Oval Office. It had to have been about something pretty darn important, considering these circumstances!”

Indeed, the important reason could very well have been the transfer of Setimus back to New Mexico, as well as the planned arrival of more visitors from another world. Smith highlights further interesting movements during this time, as he details that “conservative Governor Ernest William Gibson Jr. – a former decorated Army infantryman from rural, small-town Vermont – traveled a long way to chat in private” and off the record with Harry Truman. This conversation was said to have only been 15 minutes long, but Smith writes that “something big was up, it is logical to assume!” Smith also highlighted another secret meeting between a Vermont congressman and President Truman in late July 1949, as well as a meeting in the Oval Office on the afternoon of August 4th, 1949, between President Truman and his Secretary of State and his Defense Secretary. After this meeting, all three men traveled together somewhere to an undocumented location. Even more suspicious, there are no recorded movements of any of the men until five days later. Might we contemplate that they traveled to, and stayed at, the safe house in Vermont?
Of course, around four and a half years later, with Eisenhower a little over a year into his first term as United States President, he is claimed to have been at another meeting with alien representatives. The claims surfaced through another set of leaked documents in 1984, the same documents that contained information on MJ12. According to these documents, on the evening of February 20th, 1954, President Eisenhower was whisked away to a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where he is claimed to have met with representatives from two different alien races. What is interesting is that on that date, the official record shows that President Eisenhower disappeared from public view due to requiring emergency dental treatment, something which some people believe is nothing more than a cover story to allow him to move freely behind the scenes away from any kind of public scrutiny. We perhaps need to remember that official press photographers accompanied the President everywhere, and so an excuse such as dental treatment would have been more than sufficient to have them “stand down” while the President recovered, or perhaps, went about his secretive duties.
According to the account, the first of these meetings was with humanoid entities who were very similar in appearance to Setimus. Moreover, they offered ideas of advanced, clean technologies, energies, and medical procedures, although the requirement for humanity accessing this technology was a commitment to move away from fossil fuels. Ultimately, Eisenhower declined to make a deal. Then, only moments later, according to some accounts, the second race of aliens arrived.
Now, here is where we perhaps have to take the report with a certain pinch of salt. The representatives of this alien race were said to be what we would recognize as grey aliens. They also offered Eisenhower a deal for advanced technology that would give the United States exclusive access to do with what they pleased. In return, it is claimed, these extraterrestrials wanted non-resistant (on the part of the military) access to certain members of the population on which they could perform examinations and non-invasive procedures for their own research, after which said members of the population would be returned unharmed and with no knowledge of the experience. Ultimately, and something else we should take with a pinch of salt, these grey alien representatives also stated that should Eisenhower decline the deal, they would make the same exclusive offer to the Soviet Union, which would, as we know, tip the balance of power on the world stage.

We might recall that Setimus was said to have been well-versed in the politics of our planet. We perhaps should not be so surprised that another alien race would also be so, especially if they were, it would seem, much more ruthless and single-minded in their goals. Whatever the truth, it is said that Eisenhower agreed to the deal, or at least some form of it, and advanced technology was indeed given to the United States military, who then, it is claimed, farmed and gifted it out to American companies to develop as their results of human ingenuity. And, of course, one advantage to the military using private companies and corporations is that they are protected from Freedom of Information requests, which very well could have been, in fact, almost certainly was, a part of the thought process in siphoning out this advanced technology.
It is interesting to note that around this time, the United States began to surge ahead in terms of technological advancement compared to most of the rest of the world. Moreover, less than a decade later, people began to experience apparent cases of alien abduction at the hands of strange, grey aliens. Of course, whether this was a coincidence or not remains a part of the mystery. That Eisenhower, and Truman before him, knew more than most United States presidents about UFOs and the intelligence behind them, both before and after, is surely highly likely, if not certain.
Of course, in a similar way to how Eisenhower might have learned much of what he knew working under Truman during his presidency, much the same could be said for Richard Nixon, a President who is an intriguing character in his own right before we even mention UFOs. However, he is also the person around whom one of the most startling UFO and alien claims swirls. Although there have been several various dates put forward for this alleged remarkable event, according to the solid research of the previously mentioned Paul Blake Smith in his book The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter, during mid-February 1973, President Nixon would take his good showbiz friend, and paranormal enthusiast, actor and television personality, Jackie Gleason, to a secret military facility and show him proof of extraterrestrial life.
Gleason’s (then) wife – Beverly McKittrick – would speak of the encounter in two separate articles in the National Enquirer – the first in its September 8th, 1974, edition, and the second time – and in much more detail – in the August 16th, 1983, edition. While the first article was much shorter and seemingly inaccurate in some of the details, the second article had much more detail, and between them both, and Smith’s subsequent research since, we have a relatively accurate timeline of events in mid-February 1973.
Following a very public round of golf at the Inverrary Golf and Country Club just outside of Miami in South Florida, on the evening of February 19th, 1973, a knock came at Gleason’s door. Upon answering, the Gleasons were more than shocked to see none other than President Nixon standing there. The two men were friends, but it was most unusual (for obvious reasons) for the President to be out in public with no security whatsoever. It is claimed that Nixon told Gleason that he had “something to show him,” and with that, Jackie Gleason left.
Once more, we have a differing version of events based on the source, with some accounts stating that the pair drove to Homestead Air Force Base a short distance away, with Nixon himself driving. Smith, however, suggests that the pair likely made their way to the military facility on a military helicopter.
Smith wrote that during the interview with the National Enquirer, “Beverly never said that Jackie was driven there. She only wrote that she had heard his key unlocking the front door but said nothing about hearing a car’s motor, voices outside, or a car door!” Moreover, Smith suggested that a helicopter could have landed at the “same nearby helipad on the Inverrary course that Nixon had utilized in his official Marine One chopper (earlier) that day!” Smith continued that “all Jackie had to do was walk or perhaps drive an electric golf cart from his house to the helipad”, and he would have been on his way.
While this might sound outlandish that the President of the United States would venture into an urban area, at night, alone and with no security, it is worth noting the research of Mack Maloney, who offered that, “Nixon was famous for giving his Secret Service detail the slip!” Might he have done this on the evening in question in February 1973? It is certainly a possibility.
However, the pair did travel to the air base. Once they arrived, after Nixon showed his identification, the clearly shocked security stepped back and allowed them entry into the facility. At this point, Gleason, as enthusiastic as he was, was a little apprehensive as he followed Nixon, who himself remained tight-lipped as they negotiated their way through the corridors of the facility. Eventually, Gleason was led into a room where “the wreckage from a flying saucer” was seemingly stored, “enclosed in several large cases!” Then, the television personality was led by the President into another room, in which were several “freezer-like containers!”
As they stepped into the room, Nixon guided Gleason’s attention to what was inside these containers. Cautiously, the actor peered over the top of one of them, and, to begin with, he thought he was looking at the bodies of young children. Then, though, within a matter of seconds, he could see that these bodies – whatever they were – were not human.
He eventually returned home at around 11:30 pm, with Beverly later recalling that he simply “slumped white-faced in an armchair!” He then told his wife what he had seen in the large containers, telling her that he had “seen the bodies of some aliens from outer space!” He described these aliens as having grey skin with large heads, large, dark eyes, and large ears. He further described them as appearing “quite old” and “terribly mangled!” To begin with, she thought her husband was joking with her. However, when she took note of his unusual “pasty skin tone” and his “subdued demeanor,” she realized he was being deadly serious.  He also told her that this was “top secret, (and) only a few people know!”
Interestingly, according to Smith’s book, Gleason was far from pleased with his (then) wife speaking of the encounter to the press in 1974. In fact, Paul Blake Smith writes in The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter that when the article came out in the September 1974 edition of the National Enquirer, “Jackie Gleason saw it and exploded. He’d been squealed on, in a sense. His most precious secret was now out, albeit undetailed!” Smith also details how Gleason was still a “Special Agent Contact” of the FBI during this time, and that he felt it was “embarrassing for him to have the White House and the Justice Department find out he leaked one of the biggest sworn secrets in American history right after he had been let in on it!” For his part, Gleason refused to comment publicly on the claims, a move which many people found “puzzling” to say the least. Whatever the truth of the matter, the incident remains one of the most detailed in history involving a United States President and claims of UFOs and alien life.

Jackie Gleason (public domain photo)

Ultimately, as outlandish as such a claim might sound to some, the records from the Nixon Library show that he was in Florida on the date of the alleged meeting, and, of course, he was seen publicly at the golf event earlier that day.
Smith also offers a potential reason that Nixon chose to show Gleason these alien entities in the first place. Gleason had been asking the American public for proof of alien life for years, and was willing to pay good money to anyone who could do so, a sum, incidentally, that continued to rise with each request. Around the same time as the alleged incident, the Watergate Scandal that would eventually result in Nixon’s resignation was unfolding. Speaking on The Anomaly Project, Paul Blake Smith offered that following the breaking of the Watergate scandal, “the burglars were threatening to talk to investigators and to the media, and it was going to ruin Nixon’s great image and his popularity, and even get him sent to jail!”
Smith continued that Nixon had to suddenly come up with “hush money” to stop these burglars from talking publicly of what they knew, and, in Smith’s opinion, he likely got this money from offering his good friend, Jackie Gleason, who had publicly stated he would pay a large amount of money to see proof of alien life, a tour of the top-secret facility and the proof which he so desperately sought. Smith highlighted how, according to the tape recordings from the White House (that Nixon himself recorded), that Nixon was “really upset in January 1973”, with him being heard saying on the White House tapes, “This damn hush money, where are we going to get this?” Then, only weeks later – and after the alleged Nixon-Gleason encounter – he was suddenly “all calm about the hush money”, being heard saying on the recordings that, “Oh, we’ve got that. I know where we can get our hands on that. It’s not a problem!”
Smith went on to highlight just how wealthy Jackie Gleason was – said to have been worth around 14 million dollars at the time – and that he had literally offered “a million dollars to anyone who can show me hard proof!” of alien life. Ultimately, Smith stated that he believed “Nixon took him up on this” and, for a price, offered to show him the alien bodies at Homestead Air Force Base.
Interestingly, Smith also pointed out that the creatures Jackie Gleason later described, while having some similarities to a typical grey alien, appeared more like the entities in the infamous Hopkinsville or Kentucky Goblins case, with Smith describing them as “an exact match” to the creatures of that particularly harrowing encounter. We know that authorities did attend the property that evening. Is it possible they obtained more than the families involved realized? Or, at the very least, does it suggest that there is a persistent presence of these large-eared aliens on our planet? While we won’t go into them in detail here, there are more encounters with such creatures in connection with UFO events than many people might think.
It is worth pointing out that following his viewing of the alien entities – if indeed that is what they were – Gleason was taken to a “an air base hangar that you can see from the highway” and, once inside, he was shown a “silver, round spaceship that was kind of what I call alive, it was up in the air being held down by tethers…and Jackie got a good look at this silver disc!” As Smith says, if there is any truth to the claims – and it appears to very well could be – Jackie Gleason certainly “got his money’s worth!”
Of course, one of the most interesting presidents of modern times is undoubtedly Ronald Reagan, who not only had a great interest in UFOs but even claimed to have had two sightings of his own. Although the date isn’t certain, the first of these is thought to have happened somewhere between 1967 and 1975, while Reagan was the Governor of California, although he still enjoyed the company of many of his Hollywood contacts and friends. On this particular evening, he, along with his wife, Nancy, and two of their friends, Lucille Ball and William Holden, were on their way to just such a Hollywood party. On their way, though, they noticed a strange light that appeared to be flying at the same level as their car as they made their way along the quiet highway before landing in a nearby field.
According to the story, Reagan stopped the car moments later in order to try to get a better look at this strange object. He did so for several moments before getting back in the car and setting off to their destination. However, when they arrived at the party, they were over an hour late, and Reagan was eager to speak of what they had seen during their journey. Of course, the implication of missing time, at least to some, is perhaps suggestive of an alien abduction scenario.
Reagan’s second UFO encounter occurred in late 1974, while he was being flown back to Bakersfield, California, by pilot Bill Paynter. Suddenly, out of nowhere, both men saw a bizarre “bright object” appear a short distance from their aircraft, which then followed their aircraft for a considerable time, bobbing and weaving around it as it did so. After several moments, it shot off into the distance with alarming speed and disappeared. Paynter would later state that, “This really did happen. We saw it, I saw it, (and) Reagan told me to follow it!” Although Paynter did attempt to keep up with the object, it had vanished within seconds.
The previously mentioned Paul Blake Smith detailed how Reagan was extremely excited by the sighting, even speaking about it at a press conference several weeks later. However, when he was asked outright by a reporter if he “believed in UFOs,” he suddenly began to back away slightly and become much more hesitant to speak of the incident.
Reagan also made some intriguing comments while in the White House, perhaps not least to the famous film director, Steven Spielberg, who Reagan seemingly had an interesting interaction with during a special, private screening of the movie ET: The Extraterrestrial in the White House in 1982. According to legend, Reagan is alleged to have turned to Spielberg during the screening and commented on “how surprised” people would be if they “realized how true this is!” For years, most people dismissed the comments as either taken out of context or as being outright untrue. However, in 2008, following the release of his film Super 8, Spielberg addressed the claims during a promotional interview. He stated that not only was the comment true, but that Reagan had actually said to him that “there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true!” Perhaps as a caveat to the whole affair, Spielberg claimed to have taken the comment as nothing but a joke from Reagan, although he also noted that the former President said it with a very straight face.

Whatever the truth, it is known that Reagan maintained an active interest in the subject of UFOs, as well as the possibilities of alien life, and even the ancient astronaut theory, with him even making some remarkable commentary in his diaries about connections between extraterrestrials and ancient Egypt. It is one particular entry in his diaries in April 1985 – released in 2009 in the book The Reagan Diaries – that made a lot of people sit up a little. It read:

“Lunch with five top space scientists. It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people!”

We might ask just what Reagan was alluding to in this entry. At the time, for example, NASA could – officially at least – only accommodate eight astronauts at most. Did Reagan know a secret spacecraft that could orbit hundreds of people? Or was he briefed on a theoretical NASA spacecraft not yet developed and simply took it as fact? Although there is perhaps some credibility to the notion that Reagan’s grasp of the situation deteriorated during his presidency, we might imagine he was mentally competent enough to know the difference between a proposed spacecraft still to be developed and an active spacecraft (then) currently in orbit.
Some researchers have also highlighted some of the wording Reagan used in several of his speeches during his time as President. In one speech, for example, given to the United Nations in 1987, he made several references to an “alien threat” which, although it has been explained away as meaning alien to American and the West’s interests, has caused some people to question just what Reagan was speaking of. The following year, in 1988, during another speech he made with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan stated – completely matter-of-factly, incidentally – that he “occasionally thinks how quickly our differences, worldwide, would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world!”
With all of this in mind, arguably one of the most intriguing UFO stories connected to President Reagan is one not directly connected to him, but his one-time Chief Military Advisor of the White House, Major General Robert Schweitzer. According to the account, in September of 1981, less than a year into Reagan’s first term as President, a letter arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from a former United States military veteran, Colman VonKeviczky. VonKeviczky, who had turned to UFO research after leaving the military, had written and sent almost identical letters to various Presidents of the United States in the years previously, as well as several UN Secretaries General. In it, he stated that there was a “substantial alien threat” facing humanity, and that governments of the world must unite to resist it (very similar, incidentally, to the strange speech by Reagan we highlighted earlier).
As we might imagine, VonKeviczky received no replies to any of these letters – that is, until this one. Several weeks later, a reply came from Major General Schweitzer, who claimed that, “The President is well aware of the threat that you document so clearly and is doing all in his power to restore the national defense margin of safety as quickly and prudently as possible!” There have been many interpretations of this response, including that it was nothing but a polite, tongue-in-cheek reply. What is certain, however, is that Schweitzer was discreetly dismissed by the White House only weeks later on October 26th – we should perhaps make of that what we will.
It is also worth our time briefly exploring UFO connections to Reagan’s predecessor, President Jimmy Carter, who not only witnessed a UFO in 1969 while campaigning to be Governor of Georgia, but would also make an official report of the incident. Moreover, several years later, in 1976 when campaigning to become President, he promised, and seemingly tried, to have many of the government’s UFO files released to the public (it is worth noting, that while he did release many UFO documents during his presidency, the anticipated “disclosure” of information was not forthcoming). It is said that Carter, even just for himself, did attempt to have the UFO files released, contacting the FBI, NASA, and even the CIA. While the CIA and NASA (under the CIA’s orders) outright refused, the FBI simply stated that they had no UFO files to release. In a further twist to the claims, according to the files of UFO researcher Richard Dolan, during the summer of 1977, not long after issuing his requests for information, Carter was part of a briefing session on UFOs. There is no information on what he was told, but it is said that following this briefing session, President Carter sat at his desk with his head in his hands, weeping.
With Carter’s apparent experience in the White House in mind, it is worth examining the thoughts of UFO researcher, Grant Cameron, who suggested in the television documentary UFOs: The White House Files, that all United States Presidents are told standard information regarding UFOs, perhaps the very reason why they need to remain secret. Perhaps this information is not only sobering and clarifying, but seemingly disturbing. Indeed, we might contemplate not only what might be so disturbing that it needs to be kept from the general public, seemingly at all costs, but so disturbing that it could bring the President of the United States to tears. We might ask, if Cameron is correct, and all Presidents of the United States receive such a briefing, how others in the White House might have reacted to such information.
It isn’t just United States Presidents of the modern world who have seemingly had encounters with strange flying objects. In 1800, for example, future President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, described a UFO in a telegram that had been witnessed by a local man (William Dunbar) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He stated that the strange object was “the color of the sun near the horizon” and was approximately the size of a house. Moreover, it was so bright that it caused a bright glow on the ground directly below it. Jefferson continued that a “violent rushing noise” accompanied the strange aerial vehicle, as well as an occasional “tremendous crash” (which we might assume to be a description of something breaking the sound barrier).
Almost a quarter of a century earlier, during the bitterly cold winter of 1777, and with his men on the verge of physical, mental, and emotional collapse due to the conflict with the British, George Washington was seemingly visited by strange, otherworldly entities. The account was relayed by Anthony Sherman, who claimed he was at Valley Forge (where the incident took place) with Washington. His account appeared in several newspapers, the first in an article written by Wesley Bradshaw in the National Tribune in 1859, and was even placed in the Library of Congress. According to the article, Washington received several visits from strange “green-skinned warriors” who offered him advice on British troop positions, even offering specific locations where Washington’s attacks would be most effectively launched from. They also, it would seem, showed him visions of the future. Washington was quoted in the article as saying, “I cast my eyes upon America and beheld villages and towns and cities springing up one after another until the whole land from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dotted with them!” Indeed, if this is an accurate account, it would appear these “green-skinned warriors” had a vested interest in America maintaining its independence from the British and for it to succeed in becoming, arguably, the superpower of the planet.

As we might imagine, there have been many explanations put forward to explain who these strange figures were, with most mainstream historians insisting they were nothing more than Native Americans who wore green war paint. One researcher who dismisses such explanations is author Quentin Burde, who has extensively researched what he believes are specific points of extraterrestrial intervention in human history. He offers that if the “green-skinned warriors” were Native American tribes, Washington would have said so, and he also made reference to “green globes in the sky” at the same time in his diaries, which would also appear to speak of an otherworldly encounter. Burde believes the figures were almost certainly alien entities, likely with green or glowing skin, or perhaps even glowing attire.
Of course, it will sound preposterous to some that alien entities should visit Earth, much less take an active interest in human affairs. However, before we move on, it is worth exploring another bizarre incident that took place during America’s conflicts with the British, this time in 1814 during the War of 1812. On the day in question – a hot, sunny day – American forces were once more on the verge of defeat, with British troops advancing with alacrity on Washington, DC. As soon as they arrived, they set about burning the city to the ground, with American soldiers unable to do more than look on helplessly. The sheer heat of the weather, which presented particularly dry conditions, meant that the flames took hold and spread with ease. Even the White House was eventually engulfed. Then, in what many believe was merely a bizarre coincidental twist of fate, the skies suddenly turned grey, then almost black, while heavy rain poured over the burning city, extinguishing the flames. To some, this was something close to divine intervention, and we might add that in the modern era, some have looked back on the incident being one that was orchestrated by an intelligent force.
It might be easy to dismiss such claims as nothing but nonsense – that is, if it weren’t for what happened next. Almost as soon as the flames were smothered, a sudden tornado formed (and we should remember, this is not an area of the United States that typically experiences tornadoes). Then, with strangely precise accuracy, it headed straight for the British troops who were on Capitol Hill. Many were killed in the onslaught, and those who survived fled. Of course, whether this was some kind of alien intervention or simply a freak weather event is perhaps open to interpretation. It certainly gives us something to think about, however.
We might ask, then, is it simply a numbers game, and does the law of averages suggest that a certain number of United States presidents would have had some kind of encounter or knowledge of UFOs? Or is it their position on the world stage that marks them as requiring such knowledge, even if that knowledge comes from the intelligence behind the UFOs themselves (such people who had encounters long before they were President, such as Reagan or Carter)? It has to be said, the most likely of those possibilities is the former, and we could highlight a president who we have not explored here, but who likely is one of the most powerful men, not just presidents, in United States history, and certainly someone who very likely knew more than most about UFOs and alien secrecy, not least due to his strong connections to the inner workings of the CIA, George HW Bush, who served in the White House between 1989 to 1993, while also being President Reagan’s Vice President for the entirety of his two terms (with some researchers convinced that Bush most likely “pulled the strings” of the Reagan administration). Indeed, given his close connections to Bill Clinton, who served two terms in the White House after Bush Sr., as well as his own son’s two terms following the elections of 2000 and 2004, a compelling argument could be made that George Bush Sr. was close to the heart of power in American politics and intelligence (at the very least) for close to three decades, even longer when we consider his high-ranking status in the intelligence community before that. Despite this apparent high-ranking status in terms of UFO knowledge, Bush himself, at least to the best of anyone’s knowledge, never had a UFO encounter (at least outside of what he might have witnessed behind closed government doors).
Of course, he has made some cryptic comments about his alleged knowledge of UFOs, some of which Paul Blake Smith discussed on The Anomaly Project. He stated that during his son, Jeb’s, unsuccessful campaign to be President of the United States, George Bush was asked a question by a journalist about UFOs, ultimately, “Are we being visited?” Bush, instead of remaining calm, snapped back that he “knows plenty, but I’m not saying. You know I know about the UFOs!” Bush Sr. was ushered out of the press conference shortly afterwards. Smith also highlights another occasion where Bush Sr. seemingly let his guard slip regarding what he might know about UFOs and aliens. On the same show, he relayed the comments of a filmmaker who was on a flight with Bush. He claimed that Bush, who had downed several drinks during the flight, suddenly offered that he had not believed anything about UFOs and alien life, until he was “shown footage of an extraterrestrial that we had captured!” Of course, as Smith points out, there is, unfortunately, no one who has come forward to corroborate that particular account. It is, though, thought-provoking, at the very least.
Indeed, there is another famous quote of Bush saying about UFOs and aliens that he “knows some” of what was going on in a moment of candidness. We just might find that he knows a lot more than just “some” of the story. A lot more.

Alien abductions are inherently odd. The very notion that these alien intelligences are whisking people away for reasons unknown is to a lot of people absurd. Yet some accounts are even weirder than others. Recently, I covered some of these bizarre abductions, but there are so many of them I decided to bring some more to the table, so sit back, get your tinfoil hats on, and enjoy. 
A very strange series of events began to unfold on one January morning in 1954. On this dark early morning, at around 2 AM, a man by the name of Armando Zurbaran was in his car along dim winding roads on his way from Mexico City to Acapulco, in Mexico, in order to meet up with a business partner the following morning. At the time, this was a somewhat perilous journey, with rugged roads twisting and meandering through switchbacks and winding mountain passes, and Armando needed to give his full attention to the treacherous road ahead. He was completely on alert, watching that remote lane flash out of the night to pass him in the beams of his headlights, but despite his completely awake state, he claims that he was suddenly overcome by an intense tiredness, a “hypnotic state of lethargy,” as he would call it. And so would begin one of the odder, yet mostly forgotten, alien abduction reports on record.
Realizing that this was a dangerous state to be driving on while trying to navigate the harrowing terrain, Armando pulled his vehicle over to the side of the road in order to relax for a minute, and this is when he noticed a strange sight ahead. There, hovering right over the middle of this remote mountain road before him was what looked to be a luminous, brightly lit metallic disk of some sort, and as he tried to peer into the nearly blinding light, he could notice that he was no longer alone out on that road. Standing there on each side of the strange object were two very tall figures, who seemed to be dressed in some sort of one-piece suit cinched with very wide belts in the middle. They appeared to have long, flowing hair, and for a moment, they just lurked there, mostly obscured in the glare of that disk. As he sat there trying to figure out what to do, he claims that he suddenly felt himself compelled to get out of his car and begin walking towards these strangers, as if he wasn’t in control of his limbs, and things would only get weirder from there.
He could see as he drew closer that the figures appeared to be male, although they were rather androgynous in appearance, and that they were very human and Nordic-looking, with blonde hair and blue eyes. These two beings were quick to approach Armando to help him steady himself, and then they escorted him closer to what was now clear to be their craft, all as a buzzing sensation filled the man’s skull. When Armando was aboard the glowing ship, he looked around and asked why he had been brought there, to which one of these strange blonde entities replied in fluent Spanish:

“You are neither the first nor last earthman to be chosen for testing. Our task, slow though it may seem, is designed to persuade. We choose the likeliest, most malleable persons for contact, so that they might better transmit our messages.”

Armando was not sure what to make of this cryptic statement, but before he was even able to begin processing it all, the two entities began showing him a series of images from his own life, like a dream being played out over the wall of the ship. Some of the scenes he saw playing out before him were from his most intimate moments and half-forgotten corners of his memories, and he began to get the feeling that these creatures could either read his mind or had been watching him for a very long time. The images then stopped, and Armando was shown around the ship, which he was informed was no longer on the ground and not even on Earth, but rather far out into the solar system. This was startling, as the man had not felt any sense of movement or acceleration, and when he asked about this, he was allegedly told that they used a “gravity repulsion system,” without further elaboration. They also said that they were able to neutralize any debris in their path, and let Armando look out a portal, although he was unable to see anything other than a grey mist and a sea of darkness.

Armando then asked whether they were going to the aliens’ home planet, and they responded in the negative, then they proceeded to just sort of cruise about over several days. During this time, he became acclimated to the way their ship worked and spent much time with his mysterious captors. He would claim to have been perplexed by some of the technology aboard their ship, and he was especially intrigued by the bathroom facilities, of which he would say:

“I shall never be able to forget it. That bathroom was a new and unimaginable experience for me. Standing upright, facing an angle of the wall filled with tiny holes, I was covered in warm air, and as it grew stronger, it became transformed into damp air, impregnating my skin like a warm, wet breeze. When I was completely drenched, I was offered a sort of liquid soap, which I rubbed all over myself, from head to toe. Standing once more before the warm air sprinklers, I felt the soap begin to evaporate and my skin become completely clean. The air then ceased to be damp, turning dry and warm instead of becoming colder until agreeably cool.”

Armando also claimed that he ate with the beings, describing their food as being very much like what one would eat on Earth, including meat, vegetables, cheese, and even butter, although none of it anything he had seen on his own planet, and usually accompanied by a milky liquid that he was told was made from materials from their home world and was a chief form of sustenance. They claimed that they also utilized some vegetables and fruits grown on Earth, such as mangoes, which featured heavily in their diet and which they couldn’t seem to get enough of. The food, they claimed, was sort of beamed aboard the ship from an outside source via “telepathy” whenever they needed it. During his discussions with the entities, he would also learn that their average lifespan was 250 years, that they had a society in which everyone was treated completely equally, and that their whole way of life was heavily based on a sort of religion. They believed that a being known as “The Master” or also “The Beloved Number Nine,” had governed them for thousands of years, and kept harmony in their society.
After their time together was over, the aliens then whisked the man back to Earth, where he was dropped off right at the car, which was sitting there as he had left it. Armando bid them farewell and continued on his journey towards Acapulco, and he soon realized that only 90 minutes had passed since he had left his vehicle, despite his assertion that he had been on that ship for a few days traveling who knows where. Indeed, he wouldn’t even miss his meeting with his business associate. Making it all even odder still was that 15 years later, in 1969, Armando would be driving outside of Mexico City and stop to pick up a hitchhiker who was a tall, thin man with blonde hair and blue eyes. This hitchhiker would then admit that he was one of the crew members of that spacecraft all of those years before, but as to his purpose or what they talked about after this, Armando would never say.
Throughout the 1950s, there would be numerous other reports of what have come to be called the “Nordic” aliens, which, like in Armando’s report, appear as tall, blonde, angelic-looking beings, and it is hard not to wonder whether they were all connected somehow. This report would be written about by such esteemed UFO researchers as Albert Rosales, Scott Corrales, Ed Komarek, and Marcus Lowth, and it has remained an obscure yet intriguing report ever since. What were these entities that he encountered along that lonely road? Where did they come from, and why were they so human in appearance? Were they aliens, interdimensional beings, or even, as some have suggested, literal angels? Or is this just a tall tale and the ramblings of a delusional individual, perhaps fueled by the tiredness brought about by the road and his stress to make it on time for his appointment, and if so, how did this simple rural farmer come up with all of this fantastical technology? There are no answers to any of these questions, and it is a case that we can only add to the pile of truly outlandish alien abduction reports.
Moving along, one of the weirdest alien abduction accounts there is began in the early morning hours of April 6, 1974, in the remote farming town of Kitami, in Hokkaido, Japan. On this dark morning, a farmer by the name of Yoshihiro Fujiwara was sound asleep in his bed when he was pulled from his dreams by the sudden pounding of someone at his door and his dog barking and howling outside. Considering his was a fairly isolated farmstead in the middle of nowhere, it was odd indeed to get visitors at 3 in the morning, and the rather annoyed Fujiwara at first thought it was merely some kids messing around. There would have been no reason in this safe little hamlet to think it was anything else, and he trudged to the door to fling it open to a sight that would change him forevermore. And so would begin one of the most flat-out bizarre and controversial alien encounter reports that Japan has ever seen.

There standing in the chilly early morning darkness was a diminutive, 3-foot-tall being dressed in a clear one-piece suit that seemed to be made of transparent vinyl, and the thing itself was only passingly humanoid, resembling what the witness would later call a combination of “starfish and human,” with four tentacle-like appendages, a bulbous head reminiscent of an octopus clad in a blue helmet, slanted eyes, and a strange V-shaped set of nostrils, the whole of it covered with mottled brown and slimy, bumpy toad-like skin and rested on two of its stalk-like limbs and rounded nubs for feet. It was completely silent and motionless, except that its weird conical helmet had an antenna jutting from it, which generated a visible electrical humming charge that ominously rippled through the air.
The startled farmer and this anomalous being stood there for several moments merely staring at each other, perhaps each as surprised as the other, before that strange frozen moment in time was shattered by a sudden movement from the creature as it flicked one of its tendrils to point up towards the sky. This was followed by a ray of blinding light that washed over everything, generating a profound heat that sent the frightened farmer reeling back into his house to slam the door shut. A quick look outside showed that the brilliant orange colored light was emanating from an illuminated disc-like craft that measured around 26 feet across and was shooting off beams of orange light.
If Fujiwara thought he was safe merely gawking from his window at this outlandish sight, he was wrong, as he suddenly felt his feet being pulled forward by some inexplicable force. At first, he was merely dragged across the floor, much to his amazement, but then he allegedly began to hover, before finally being levitated fully off the ground to go flying out of the window and towards the inscrutable floating disc with its scintillating beams of light. He was drawn faster and faster towards the object, seemingly on a collision course, but rather than smack against its metallic side, he found himself being drawn through its walls to be dumped upon the floor of the craft.
The interior of the craft was described as being bright blue, with some sort of writing on the walls that the farmer could not fathom, and the whole of it all overlaid with a repulsive stink that made him feel lightheaded. It was then that two creatures identical to the one who had freaked him out at his doorstep approached him to tell him telepathically, “No danger. We promise to release you at your home.” As peaceful as this sounded, the two entities nevertheless made to grab him and forcefully hold him down, upon which Fujiwara felt the fear left him and his survival instinct take over, tearing away and dashing through an open hatchway to go careening through air to the ground below, which luckily for him was only around 10 feet down.
Fujiwara vaguely recognized that he was around 2 miles from where he had left, and went running wildly towards the house of a person he knew in the area, who let him in. It was at their house that he would realize that a full hour had passed, even though to him it seemed that it had been mere moments since he had been taken aboard the strange craft by its odd octopoid inhabitants. Although the experience had been baffling and not a little terrifying, Fujiwara was at least relieved that it was over, and he quietly went back to his home to try and find some way to get over what had just occurred. Little did he know at the time that it was not quite over just yet.
The very next evening, Fujiwara was sitting alone in his house, his thoughts no doubt wandering back to those strange tentacled dwarves and their otherworldly craft, when he was suddenly overcome with a sharp pain worming its way through his ears and fingertips. He felt himself slipping into a daze, and for some reason, his hands took on a life of their own and began to scrawl strange letters onto a piece of paper of their own volition. This was all followed by a voice that reverberated through his skull, which commanded him, “When the disc lands on the mountain, you will come and board by yourself,” which was accompanied by a potent vision of the area they wished him to come to, left blazing into his mind. After that, the pain abruptly left, leaving Fujiwara there shaken and with bizarre hieroglyphics etched onto paper by his hand, but the meanings of which he did not know.
The farmer took the voice’s command as being the nearby Nikoro Mountain, and although he was still frightened by his ordeal, he felt a compulsion to go there to see what would happen. To this end, he gathered up some supplies and two companions to join him, and they set out, unsure of what awaited them up on that lonely peak. Fujiwara then made his way alone to the area he had seen in his vision, where there awaited that same luminous disc-shaped craft, and he boarded it without a fight. Once aboard, the aliens then supposedly took him on a flight into space, flying around the moon and around the earth twice, all within about the space of an hour. When they returned from their dizzying journey, the farmer then lost consciousness, after which he was apparently just left lying there on the mountainside for his friends to find.
This wasn’t even the end of it all, as Fujiwara would claim that the last trip had left him with strange telekinetic powers that allowed him to move objects and bend spoons, and he was telepathically invited on yet another excursion on April 13, 1974. This time, the bizarre beings took him on a journey that went around the planet Jupiter, as well as the moon of Saturn, Titan, where one of the creatures would allegedly go out to retrieve a rock from the surface as a souvenir for him to keep.
This mysterious rock would go on to prove to be rather controversial, indeed. It was sent to scientists for analysis, but came back as just one of the many common rocks from a Kitami cave, which brought a fair amount of ridicule down on Fujiwara and his astounding tale. In the meantime, the farmer would begin to address himself as the earthly representative of the “Summon Call Space Union,” and he claimed that his telepathic powers increased exponentially, allowing him to levitate objects, predict catastrophes, and even teleport across vast distances, of which he would say:

“I can teleport to a star 250 million light years away in 6 minutes. My role is delaying natural disasters such as earthquakes and eruptions.”

He would also claim that he could actually travel within the Earth to stop volcanic eruptions, and pull together tectonic plates to prevent earthquakes. It is all bizarre to say the least, but one Japanese UFO researcher named Ninichi Arai has offered evidence that there was something to this when he found that several other locals who did not know Fujiwara also reported seeing strange lights in the skies during the same time frame, and there were others who claimed to have been first hand witnesses to the farmer’s mental powers, somewhat corroborating his weird tales. Was this all the doing of entities from another world or merely the tripping of balls? Is there anything to this account, or is Fujiwara a disturbed individual and unreliable witness? It is hard to know for sure, but it is a wild ride all the same, and goes to show that some alien abduction accounts can be truly surreal affairs to be sure.

From the 1970s, we have another outlandish account. 50-year-old school teacher Elsie Oakensen was in most ways unremarkable. She had a contented life in Church Stowe in Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom with her husband, John, and her life was more or less uneventful. However, on the night of November 22, 1978, this was all about to change. On that evening at just a little past 5 p.m., she was driving on her way home from work on her way out of Daventry on the A45 and on to the busy A5 road. It was a mundane routine, a drive she took every day and which only took 15 minutes, so as she stared out at the lane lines flickering by, she would not have expected the strange events that were about to transpire. 
As she approached her home village of Church Stowe, just 2 miles out, she noticed something weird in the sky. She at first could make out what she called “two very bright lights, one red and one green” about 100 to 150 feet over the road, and her first assumption was that it was an extremely low plane, but as she drew closer, she could see that it was no normal aircraft. She could now see that it was a “dumbbell-shaped object” made of what appeared to be a smooth plastic material the “color of old pewter,” and that it was hovering there completely motionless. At this time, she would later say that she had felt a strange sensation, as if time had slowed down or that she was in slow-motion or underwater. Her first reaction was to stop the car, but the road at the time was full of traffic and she could not find a place to easily and safely pull over, so she continued along, driving directly under it and noticing that it was completely silent and had no windows, portals, or any discernible propulsion system.
As she drove along, she could not get her mind off what she had seen, and she wondered if any of the many cars on the road had seen it as well. She could not resist looking back to see if it was still there, and it was, so curiosity got the better of her and she risked an accident to pull the vehicle over on a side road. As she stood there gaping at it, just hanging there like some inscrutable monolith, the green light, which had until then been a solid illumination, began blinking. This snapped her out of her wonderment, and she warily got back into the car to continue her way home, but almost immediately her car started to lose power until the power cut off completely, and it stalled. She tried several times to start it, but it wouldn’t turn over. It was strange because she had just had the car serviced earlier that very same day, but as she puzzled over this new predicament, things would get even odder still. She would say:

“A green light started to flash. I decided to restart the engine but when I turned into the village something strange happened – the car, which had just been serviced that day, completely cut out. Eventually it restarted but I had only travelled about 100 yards when it stopped again. The natural light disappeared and everything was in absolute blackness. Then suddenly a brilliant white circle of light about a yard in diameter shone on the road. The very next moment, as if someone had flicked a switch, natural light returned and I was driving my car normally.”

She didn’t get far before a bright light appeared very near the front of her car, followed by one at the rear and one on each side of her. These lights were almost blinding in their intensity and started to alternately switch on and off in some sort of pattern or sequence. As she tried to process this eerie situation, the lights all suddenly simultaneously blinked out, and Ellie was amazed to find that she had travelled a considerable distance down the road and that 15 minutes had passed that she could not account for. She would tell her husband about what had happened, and the next day she would notice a strange scar on the back of her knee that she had never seen before, and have a series of intense headaches so excruciating that she almost passed out from them. Now realizing that something truly outlandish had happened to her, she decided to report her experience.
When the report of what had happened to Ellie hit the news, it captured the attention of UFO researchers, and the British UFO Research Organization (BUFORA) reached out to her to find out more about what had happened. Ellie herself was a bit taken aback because she would claim she had never really even heard of UFOs before and had no interest in the topic, but she was finally convinced to undergo hypnotic regression to possibly glean some memories of what had happened after those strobing lights had surrounded her car. It would be a rather frightening session, to say the least, and during it Ellie would say to the researchers:

“My car engine has stalled, I feel hot. A band has tightened around my head as it did at lunchtime. I am getting hotter and beginning to sweat. The pressure hurts. It hurts my head. A brilliant white light is shining in my eyes, a pure white light, very bright. Circles of very bright light radiate from it as it comes closer until I can only see the top of the circles. My body gets hotter. The pain in my head is intense. I feel as if I am sitting. I can’t feel my legs. My arms are shaking. I am very frightened. The radiating circles of light seem to change to a small brilliant circle, obviously going away from me. It’s still light, but hazy and through this haze materialize two shapes. The first is a long, thin shape that appears to the left and then disappears. The second is more rectangular and appears to the right – disappears – then both appear together. They shine through the haze, a silver glow outlines both grey-coloured shapes which are smooth and rounded, rather ghostlike. The bright light now shines as a small circle in the distance. I get hotter, my arms shake more, my head hurts dreadfully. I am terrified.”

Ellie then began screaming and having some kind of panic attack or seizure, so the session was cut short. After that, Ellie tried to go about getting her life back to normal, and would write two books on her experience called One Step Beyond (1996) and Into The Unknown (1999). UFO researchers have long wondered just what happened to her and there have been all sorts of ideas tossed around, including that she somehow hallucinated the whole episode or that it was a hoax, but she has been described as a quiet teacher with a career, a reliable witness who would be unlikely to just fabricate a story about aliens and UFOs. Indeed, she and her husband faced much ridicule from the community in the wake of the incident, so why would she risk her career and peaceful life for some made-up event? BUFORA also vouched for her honesty and sincerity, calling her an ideal witness. Another idea is that this really was an alien craft and that it had somehow chosen her, a notion Ellie herself believed. She also entertained the thought that perhaps only she could see the object, and that it was a sign of some sort of psychic power manifesting within her. She would say of it:

“I feel that consideration could be given to the possibility that it may have been my first experience of clairvoyance. I wonder? But perhaps not, because there were physical effects also.”

There are certainly some interesting details to this case. One is that the witness is considered to be so reliable, and another is that during that very same month, there was an intense wave of UFO encounter reports coming in from all over the southwest region of England, where Ellie’s incident happened, and indeed the area has long been considered a UFO hotspot. Also of interest is the fact that there were no corroborating reports of the object she had seen, which is rather odd considering the A5 is a very busy road and by her own admission there had been a lot of traffic, as well as the fact that the object was claimed to be hovering directly over the road. This could be because no one wanted to report it, but it could also be because only Ellie could see it, either through psychic powers, hallucination, or hoax; we’ll probably never know because she has already passed away to take any secrets to the grave with her. We will probably never know what really happened out there, and it remains just another very bizarre tale of inexplicable alien abduction among many others. 
Moving into the 80s, in October of 1989, Steve and Dawn Hess headed out for a weekend of camping and hunting on the Mojave Reserve, in the Mojave Desert of the southwest United States. It was supposed to be a relaxing getaway for the young, happy couple, a chance to get away from their two small children for the weekend and have some time alone together. As they drove out towards the Midhills camping ground, just inside the Nevada border, they did so in very good spirits, having had a bit of luck gambling at a casino earlier in the day and looking forward to their trip. They had been planning it for a long time, and to be out there in the remote, scenic locale was like a dream come true, but the dream was about to become a nightmare, and they were about to become the center of a series of harrowing, otherworldly events that have never been explained.
It would turn out that the campground was uncommonly full, and so they decided to drive out into the wilds in their camper to go camping off the beaten path in a secluded valley between the Tabletop and Woods Mountains. That evening, the sky was full of a multitude of stars, like millions of tiny diamonds spread out over an expanse of black felt, and they decided to start a fire and have a romantic dinner there under that sprawling vista of twinkling lights. It was as Steve was cooking up a steak that things began to get odd. He noticed a pinpoint of light moving about over the nearby Tabletop Mountain that, for some reason, instilled a great sense of unease in him. He found himself perplexed and mesmerized by the gliding light, which looked like another star moving about in the sea of stars, and it wasn’t until Dawn called out to him that he snapped out of it. He tried to direct her attention to what he had just seen, but the light was gone.
Steve tried to put the weird episode out of his mind, and the two poured some wine, had their romantic dinner there under the dazzling night sky, and then settled down to do a bit of stargazing. As they sat there pointing out star constellations, they noticed a particularly bright star that wasn’t supposed to be there, and they soon realized that it was not a star at all when it started moving. It was then joined by several other lights, around nine in total, after which they created a sort of ‘M’ formation. Their first impression was that it had to be aircraft from the nearby Nulles Air Base out on nighttime maneuvers, but then, as they looked on, small red lights descended from the larger white ones and began silently gliding towards the desert below, blinking and pulsating as they did so. It was about then that they noticed that the night sounds of the desert had ceased, as if a veil of silence had descended upon them, and through that eerie clinging quiet, the red lights approached them. These bizarre lights then circled above them and configured and reconfigured into different formations as their flashing intensified, to the point that Dawn was beginning to panic. 

These lights began to flash and pulse faster and faster until they suddenly went out together. Shortly after this, there were sounds out in the brush, like something scampering about out there in the wilds, and there seemed to be more than one of whatever it was. The frightened couple hurried into their camper, and Steve grabbed his hunting rifle, thinking they were about to be attacked by wild animals. They could see out in the darkness what looked like glowing red eyes circling them, and at one point, something jumped onto the hood of the camper and scurried across to jump back down on the other side. Steve was about to take a shot at one of the red-eyed shapes, but Dawn stopped him, telling him that she had a very bad feeling that it would not be a good idea to fire on them, which she felt was oddly being projected into her head. As they peered into the murky night, the creatures got bolder and close enough that they could see that these were no wild animals, but rather what they would later describe as “small red-eyed gremlins.” 
The couple at this point were paralyzed with terror, and the entities roaming about outside seemed to sense this, becoming bolder and running right up to the camper to leap onto its roof and bang on the sides, the whole time jabbering with each other in some alien language. As this happened, nine tall, thin, translucent beings with large, deep, featureless black eyes, much different than the “gremlins,” bloomed out of the darkness and surrounded the camper, peering in at the terrified couple. As these beings loomed outside, Steve and Dawn would later claim that their minds had been filled with thoughts and visions that seemed to be telepathically forced into their heads, and as this happened a large, bright object descended nearby, almost right over them, after which their camper began to buck and shake wildly as a fog or mist filled the vehicle. The light got brighter and brighter, and then Steve and Dawn lost consciousness.
When they woke up, they were still in their camper, which was now filled not with the light of that bizarre craft but rather that of the coming morning. There was no sign of the creatures they had encountered the previous evening, and indeed, a look around the area showed no evidence that they had ever been there at all. There were no footprints, no sign of damage to the brush, nothing. The only thing they could find were two red pin pricks in Dawn’s neck that had not been there before. They could not remember anything about what had happened to them after that large light had appeared, they had no idea where the creatures had gone, but they did know that it had not been a dream or a figment of their imagination, and that they had experienced something truly outlandish out there in the desert. They quickly packed up and got out of there as fast as they could, driving home mostly in silence and trying to process what they had been through.
In the coming days, they mostly didn’t talk about what had happened, but it would seem that their ordeal was not over. They experienced intense, vivid nightmares, physical symptoms such as headaches and nausea, and then there was the really spooky stuff. They experienced seeing lights in the sky that seemed to be following them, intense feelings of being watched, strange sounds inside and outside of the house, and their children began to tell of seeing little “red-eyed monsters” prowling about their bedroom at night. On one particularly terrifying occasion, Steve and Dawn were woken by the panicked screams of their son and rushed to his room to find him suspended in the air, “spinning like a top.” Dawn would even tell of being accosted by unseen hands. 
At their wits’ end, they decided to undergo hypnosis with Dr. William Anixter, who, through a series of sessions, was able to uncover what had happened during their lost time. According to Steve and Dawn, they had been brought aboard a massive craft of some kind and subjected to a battery of medical experiments and tests, many of which were quite painful and one of which had left those red marks on Dawn’s neck. At several points during the hypnosis sessions, Dawn was seen to speak in a voice that was not her own, as if she were channeling an outside force, and on one of these occasions, she allegedly eerily and cryptically said, “I know where the Universe ends. Our Universe ends when its matter stops mattering to us, and starts mattering to them.”

Dawn and Steve Hess would keep mostly quiet about their bizarre experience for years, but author Ron Felber would find out about it and approach the couple about possibly writing a book about it. Interestingly, Felber was known as a true crime author, and had never had any real interest in UFOs or paranormal phenomena, but after talking to the Hess’s, he changed his tune. He would say of this in an interview with Shadows Of Your Mind magazine:

“I met them through a man called Paul Moran, an employee who was working as a sales rep for the company I ran. He lived in Southern California and confided in me that he had a best friend (Steve) who he’d played varsity football with while a student at the University of Redlands. Paul told me that his friend had had an alien experience in the Mojave Desert that had “changed his life forever” and though he’d promised not to tell anyone about Steve’s experience, he thought that as a writer I’d be interested in hearing about it and that telling his story to someone like me would be “cathartic”.

My first impression before meeting the Hess’ was that I wasn’t interested in writing about “alien abductions”. The subject was not one that fell into the genres of writing I’d done before, and I wanted to focus on true crime stories or fiction. However, after meeting them, that all changed. I found Steve and Dawn to be exceptionally stable, upwardly mobile, well-educated, and rational. They were solidly middle class with two children, a mortgage, and hopes of a successful career as a project manager for the construction of shopping malls for Steve, and ardent in her ambitions to raise a stable family for Dawn.
More than intriguing, I found their story to be absolutely mind-blowing. The detail, the emotional manner in which they told the story, and the sweeping nature of their experience told me that this was a one-of-a-kind experience, unlike anything I had ever personally heard or heard about. It was, to me, as if a curtain had been lifted and an entire realm of existence heretofore unknown to humankind suddenly exposed. The authenticity of the Hess’s themselves told me that this was undoubtedly true and that their story needed to be shared with the world. As a writer, I know a heart-stopping true story when I hear one, and this was definitely one. What the Hess’s story did do was convince me that there exists another realm of existence. Humans, albeit rarely, can sometimes catch glimpses of something that is perhaps more real than the existence we live now, or believe we are living.”
Felber would go on to write a book on their experiences called “The Mojave Incident,” which is a harrowing and detailed account of the ordeal of that fateful evening and the traumatic series of events that unfolded. He has also kept in touch with Steve and Dawn Hess, who now have six children, and claims that they have continued to experience strange phenomena right up to the present, although it would seem no further abductions. 
We are left to wonder what is going on here. Is this a case of a genuine abduction, and if so, where did these entities come from and what did they want? We will never know for sure, and these all remain rather odd and spooky cases of the alien abduction phenomenon. 

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
No less of a mainstream media source than The New York Times has weighed in on the latest popular theory that UFOs are either deliberate “deep state” psychological operations aimed at covering up top secret technologies, bureaucratic pranks that made some personnel into UFO believers, top secret experiments that the government allowed its own personnel to interpret as possible close encounters, or similar deceits from the Russian version of our own UFO disinformation; opinion columnist Russ Douthat writes that default psy-op coverup does not explain every weird U.F.O.-related phenomena, and concludes with the obvious question: “If many stories of insider U.F.O. knowledge originate in deliberate disinformation projects and we have been living through a veritable golden age of strange leaks and tales of insider knowledge, then what, exactly, might this era’s particular psy-op be intended to conceal?” That’s nice, but if The New York Times can’t give us all the news that’s fit to print about UFOs, how about digging up some of the stuff that’s NOT fit to print?
A famous image from 2016 shows an unidentified metallic orb recorded flying over Mosul, Iraq, in April 2016 by an MC-12 twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft; the image was published by investigative reporter George Knapp and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell in 2023 and now The UAP Register, in response to a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in March 2024, has received and published a video of the same sphere, referred to as the ‘Mosul Orb’; the publication notes that the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) confirms these metallic orbs are the most widespread types of UAP reported by servicemembers and show no visible means of propulsion; the metallic orb UFOs have been reported by military witnesses since at least 1944 but the AARO has no comment on the video as of this writing and The UAP Register has filed another Freedom of Information Act request for more information. Would it be too much to ask for the makers of actual balloons to put identification marks on them so they don’t get confused with UFOs – or is that the idea?
UFO researcher and lawyer Danny Sheehan is someone who believes the Pentagon and the CIA have worked together since the Roswell incident of 1947 to cover-up the “truth” about aliens and he now suggests that the war in Vietnam was fought to prevent other nations or entities from obtaining alien technology that could give them a military edge; he further suggests that chemical engineer and whistleblower Karen Silkwood, who was investigating her employer, the Kerr-McGee Corporation, over health and safety at the nuclear facility where she worked when she mysteriously died in a car accident, was an example of the actions the US government will take to silence whistleblowers in UFO cases. If you don’t believe these threats are real, you haven’t been reading the news.
If you are wondering what the government could be covering up, US Congressman Eric Burlison revealed on social media that whistleblower and former intelligence officer David Grusch told him that “there are half-breed aliens — hybrids — living in the world” and that President Donald Trump was given a “sensitive” briefing about their existence which “was an existential event that completely changed his (Trump’s) perspective on reality; Burlison also said that Grusch identified two types of aliens – the “Nordics” who resemble humans and have a technological level a few hundred years more advanced, and the “Grays” who are much more developed and capable of operating their ships with their minds; he says Grusch told him the Nordics were developing hybrids and “Some of them are alien-human hybrids living on this planet” but he wouldn’t say if the hybrids were aware of their origin. Trump does not appear to be the kind of person who keeps secrets well, so his inclusion in the story casts a shadow on the rest of Grusch’s revelations.
The Bigfoot Field Research Organization shares the report from an unnamed witness who was driving from Deadwood to Rapid City, South Dakota, at around 10 p.m. recently when she saw “a large animal was on two feet, easily clearing the top of my vehicle (greater than 6.5ft.)” while looking out her passenger side window; she said “It came up out of nowhere” so it must have hopped over guard rails; she described the creature as being “Very dark brown, more red in undertone than gray so could not be mistaken as a large elk or deer”; it was too dark to see where it went and she didn’t go back to investigate; BFRO noted that the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks releases mountain goats around this time each year ahead of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to give tourists a chance at seeing a mountain goat and that could explain the creature, but the nearby Black Hills National Forest has had many Bigfoot sightings and “is perfect for hosting a resident population of sasquatches”. What kind of biker would rather see a mountain goat than a Sasquatch?

This is what you missed while looking for mountain goats.

Paranormal researcher Philip Kinsella claims he and his twin brother, Ronald, and fellow investigator Paul Sinclair were in a densely wooded nature reserve called Danes Dyke in Bridlington, England, when he saw and managed to photograph an 8-foot tall, shadowy, bipedal figure that many who look at the picture believe is a werewolf; Philips doesn’t rule it out, saying “The figure’s huge “ and something is “not right” about it, but “We’re not saying it’s a werewolf. We’re saying something is there”; when it appeared, “This figure manifested like a ghost, but with physical presence. I don’t know what it is but I know it’s weird”, which fits with his paranormalist’s description of Danes Dyke – “’a strange area… There’s just something weird about it” and he wouldn’t want to visit it after dark; the one thing most people notice is a strange glow around the being’s head. A costume is easy to rent, but the height and that glowing head make one wonder what kind of steroidal magic mushrooms this werewolf might be eating.
From the “You can do a study on anything “ file comes a study on what would happen if a person snorted Moon dust – whether it be in a lab at NASA or through a lunar straw on the Moon’s surface; Michaela Smith, a graduate student (go figure) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and lead author of the study, was inspired by stories of the Apollo moon walkers who found that when they re-entered their landing module, “fine dust that had clung to their spacesuits became airborne in the confined cabin and was subsequently inhaled, leading to respiratory issues, sneezing, and eye irritation”; the researchers on her team used state-of-the-art simulations of lunar dust and found that it is indeed irritating to the nose and lungs, but will not put any future lunar astronauts at risk of long-term oxidative stress or inflammation; further, “it does not appear to pose a risk for chronic, long-term diseases like silicosis, which is caused by materials like silica dust”; for the curious astronauts who might be looking for a lunar high, the study warns them that “you’ll sneeze, cough, and have some physical irritation” and wonders why they would even consider it. Spoken like someone too young to have listened to Eric Clapton.

It seemed like a good idea back on Earth.

Instead of snorting moon dust (see above), lunar astronauts may be getting their buzz from drinking Moon tea after University of Kent researcher Anna-Marie Wirth planted tea plant seedlings provided by Dartmoor Estate Tea in soil similar to lunar and Martian dirt in simulated outer space conditions; the soil is not as fertile as on Earth and the conditions are harsher, but the plants are growing and a lunar cuppa could be ready for astronaut taste-testing soon. Coffee lovers may want to put lunar dust in hot water and pretend it’s just really strong.
In a recent podcast, Dr. Gregory Rogers, former Chief of Aerospace Medicine at NASA, claimed he once saw a video of a hangar and “what was in the middle of the hanger was an actual flying saucer” and an unnamed major told him “we got it from them”; as he watched, the vehicle, which “was sort of a modified egg” in shape, began to move without an visible means of propulsion and “it lifted off just like a feather. It rose about three feet in the air and then just hung there”; then it at it rotated 360 degrees clockwise so he could see writing on its side that said “U.S. Air Force” and an American flight insignia above it; Rogers said it was in 1992 and “only three years after Bob Lazar had come out with his information about reverse engineering spacecraft from non-human intelligence” and he thought the flying saucer resembled “what Bob Lazar called his “sports model”; he also said it could have been an early version of what he (and the rest of us) saw in “the tic-tac video” but he believes this vehicle was not reverse engineered but “was probably owned by a contractor” who was demonstrating it for the Air Force. How many hangars have to be stormed before this gets found?
Jessica Ortiz of Compton, California, was looking at her doorbell camera footage on June 6, 2025, when she saw what appeared her as a 3 to 4 foot tall blue-grey alien-like creature walking past the camera; the audio reveals some loud banging noises which she says are from her back gate, but motion-sensor cameras in that area were not triggered; she says her aunt lives next door and she claims she heard 3 loud bangs on the roof of her house at 12:45 am and scratching sounds after the second bang; while the figure looks like a classic alien, doubters say it could be a puppet or a small person in disguise or an animal which is unidentifiable in the low light; they have no explanation for why only the front camera caught but not the back one. Are we ready to give up our security to install cameras everywhere and finally get a clear picture of an alien, Bigfoot or a ghost?
Many things which were once part of the U.S. government are now being turned over to the states, but not UFO research – at least, that’s the case in New Hampshire, where a bill (HB 436) filed by Rep. Aidan Ankarberg to set up a state commission to review testimonies and reports from witnesses of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) within the “skies and territory” of New Hampshire did not pass; it was supported by Rep. John Cloutier, who said that “Long ago, I had a questionable sighting that with physics, I cannot explain” and “Now we have citizens, be it one or a thousand, who have come before us with things in the sky”, not to mention “mystery drones flying around but “there’s no one right now who can take testimony or evidence, whatever it may be”; on the opposing side was Rep. Michael Harrington, who said, “Just because someone comes up with an idea doesn’t mean we should even be considering it as a bill”. Rep. Harrington, did you know that New Hampshire has laws banning carrying seaweed at night, tapping your feet in a tavern, and eating more than three sandwiches at a wake?
A new article released by former Intelligence Officer Geoffrey P. Cruickshank, Caren Gallaudet and retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet alleges that a UFO was shot down during the Bluegill Triple Prime nuclear weapons test on  October 26th, 1962, and the USS Princeton and other ships were ordered by the Pacific Fleet Salvage Officer, Commander Willard F. Searle, to recover the object; the article claims crewmembers of the USS Abnaki and USS Tuscumbia received excessive radiation exposures far beyond levels for their official assigned duties; further, they claim “the event may have caused severe psychosocial injury to one of the divers involved that had negative effects for the rest of his life.; the authors call for an AARO investigation, saying they will “provide the name, rank and serial numbers of US Navy personnel (now deceased) that may have had direct involvement in this incident to properly credentialed and cleared investigators if required”; a Royal Navy diver who claimed to have located and activated the wreckage said he couldn’t believe the size of “this thing” and “he said that he put his hand out – he put his hand out to touch it and his hand went inside of it! As soon as his hand went inside of it, he thought that it was going to suck him in”. Don’t get distracted by trying to link this to the 1963 Kennedy assassination – focus on finding the records that these whistleblowers claim exist.
Many people say they love Bigfoot or would love seeing a Bigfoot, but Christy Chaffin and Ron Howes are not only both, they expressed their love of the big hairy one by getting married in his own backyard at this year’s West Virginia Bigfoot Festival in Sutton; Christy is a resin artist who focuses on cryptids and Ron is a Bigfoot speaker and they met each other at a Bigfoot event, got engaged at a Bigfoot event, and finally got married at a Bigfoot festival; Christy said, “It’s a community, and getting married at a Bigfoot festival, it was what we wanted to do because we’re a part of the community”; the ceremony was officiated by Bigfoot himself – a costumed impersonator who officiates weddings in the Morgantown area. Who handles the divorces – Mothman?

After she caught the bouquet, we figured … why not?

The gravesite of Vlad III, best known as Vlad the Impaler, has been a mystery since his death in either late December 1476 or early January 1477 – and not just because people fear the inspiration for Count Dracula rising from the ground as a vampire; while most accounts and legends say Vlad died in battle against the Ottomans, but researcher and Professor Giuseppe Reale, the director of the Santa Maria la Nova monumental complex, has spent 10 years studying a mysterious inscription on a tombstone in the historic center of Naples, Italy, and now believes it is an epitaph in praise of Vlad III and confirms that the remains of Vlad the Impaler are located in the monastery complex of Santa Maria la Nova in the ancient heart of the city; according to Reale, Vlad III was not killed in battle against the Ottomans but was instead captured by them and later freed by his daughter, Maria Balsa, who had been adopted by a noble family in Naples to escape persecution; after Vlad III’s death, it appears she buried him in the tomb of her father-in-law, Matteo Ferrillo, inside the Turbolo chapel at Santa Maria la Nova. How could Vlad Dracula have survived in Italy, home of garlic-laden pizza and spaghetti sauce?  
From the “’Don’t believe everything you read on a note from a ghost’ file comes a story from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where Jason Cooper, an employee of the Grand Strand Visuals sign company, was working in the attic of the Build-A-Bear Workshop at Broadway at the Beach on the wiring of its malfunctioning sign when he discovered a pair of old boots nailed to a beam and a note reading: “These here boots were worn by the famous truss man of ‘Broadway at the Beach,’ Dave English, his ghost will roam until they are returned” and dated February 24, 1995; Cooper assumed English was a construction worker who died and was memorialized by his co-workers building the Build-a-Bear workshop; even scarier, he assumed the ghost of English might be haunting the attic and posted his fear on social media; sure enough, the ghost DID contact him – but it was the still-living David English, who admitted the boots were a prank he pulled in 1995 with a friend who signed the note ‘Dave’ English – a sign that it wasn’t the real English who always, and still does, went by David. Sounds like an opportunity for Build-a-Bear to expand into Build-a-Haunted-Boot.