Mike's Little Man

A man named Isaac called into a paranormal-themed podcast called Monsters Among Us, and wanted to detail an experience that one of his childhood friends had. He identified his friend under the pseudonym of ‘Mike’ because he felt that his friend would be reluctant to have his story personally attached to him. Mike lived in a rural area of Central Florida in a single-wide trailer on the side of a country road. His front yard was well maintained seeing as that was where his family would park their cars, but his backyard was less well kept - consisting of mowed grass that eventually gave way to woods. Mike’s room faced out into the back yard, and he could see a light pole a little bit off his back porch, which illuminated the garden and the big palmetto bush directly under it. He could also see a clothes line from the vantage point of his bed.

## The Incident

An 8 or 9-year-old Mike was lying in bed trying to get to sleep on a school night, but as would be expected of a bored child, he decided to pull open the blinds on the window and take a peek outside into the garden. He was shocked to see a diminutive ‘little man’ standing there. It was around 3-4ft tall, and appeared to be wearing some kind of suit that squared off its shoulders. It had a bald, oversized head of a pale colour. It was standing in such a way that allowed Mike to see its profile from the back, and he said that its hands were ‘fidgeting’ around in the bushes, as if it was working on something with its hands.

Enraptured, Mike stared at the creature for a few minutes before it suddenly seemed to sense that it was being looked at, turning its head around slowly to look at him. Noping out before he saw its face, he let the blinds go and got back into bed. Mike lay in bed for a bit, considering what he should do in this situation. Eventually he decided to open the blinds again - and the creature was still there, doing what it was doing. However, this time it noticed it was being watched earlier, and once again started to turn to look at its observer. Mike was terrified, and let go of the blinds immediately.

Now he was afraid that if he opened the blinds again, the being would be stood directly in front of them, looking at him. When Mike was telling this story, Isaac said that he believed him because of the genuine emotions in his eyes, which were apparently even welling up with tears.

When young Mike finally got the courage to look again, the entity was not staring directly at him as he had originally feared, and was still stood where it had been originally. However, this time it quickly turned its head before Mike could close the blinds. Its face was very smooth, and lacked a nose or a mouth. Where its eyes should have been instead sat two black and hollow sockets. The creature had a large, white, bulbous head with hollow eyes - so it is no surprise that Mike is ‘totally freaking out’ at this point. He jumped off the bed and ran for his parents, rocketing down the hallway before he realised that the back door to the mobile home would have had a window, and that he would have to pass it. The entity would have been right there behind that door, and so Mike dove onto the ground and army crawled across the living room so that he wouldn’t have to look through the window.

He eventually made a run for his parents and hammered on their door, after which they let him in and he desperately told them to turn on the lights. After he tells them his story, his stepdad goes outside and inevitably doesn’t see anything, meaning that his parents don’t believe him. Later, Mike went outside to see if he could have misidentified anything natural, but he still couldn’t explain it.

## Analysis

Derek Hayes on the Monsters Among Us podcast talked about how this account reminded him of the Dover Demon, but I think that the only real similarity is in the facial features of the entities. To me, this sounds a lot like a hybrid of a classic Grey (big head and black eyes) and a fairy or little person - like the Irish Pooka that was suggested as an explanation for the aforementioned Dover Demon on the Cryptonaut Podcast.

## Source

http://monstersamonguspodcast.libsyn.com/sn-6-ep-7-cloaked-figures-a-up-bigfoot-and-a-new-dover-demon-sighting