UFOs & Disclosure

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.