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The Buried Giant of St. Bees

St. Bees is a small village on the Northwest coast of England. It is situated in the Copeland district of Cumberland county - and according to the snappily-titled book '*The History and Antiquities of Allerdale Ward, Above Derwent, in the County of Cumberland*' by Samuel Jefferson (1809-1846), there were once some truly enormous human remains buried deep beneath its grassy ground.

## The Cumberland Titan

Jefferson takes his intriguing report from the pages of a manuscript found in the library of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. According to the manuscript, one Hugh Hodson of Thorneway, Cumberland wrote to Sr. Robert Cewell (Sewell?) about the discovery of a buried giant beneath a corn field in St. Bees. This giant had apparently been buried 4 yards (12ft) under the ground. Now is the point when I think you'll probably jump to the conclusion that what we're dealing with here is the discovery of dinosaur bones, or those of some other prehistoric behemoth, before we had sufficient scientific knowledge to understand the meaning of such finds. However, it seems to me that it is *science* that needs updating to explain this find - not the other way around.

The remains of the giant were 4.5 yards (13.5ft) in height, and appeared to be wearing *complete armour*. A sword and battle-axe lay close to the body. This sword was two spans wide (1.5ft) and over two yards (6ft) long. The head of the axe was a yard (3ft) long, while the shaft '*all of iron*' was as thick as a man's thigh and was also over two yards long. The teeth of the monstrous skeleton were 6 inches long and 2 inches wide, and its forehead alone was two and a half spans (1.875ft) broad. Its chin bone could 'containe 3 pecks of oatmeale'. In modern-speak, that's approximately 27 litres of oatmeal, apparently!

The armour and weapons of the dearly departed giant were being kept at the residences of Mr Sand of '*Redington*' (Rottington) and Mr. Wyber of St. Bees when Hugh Hodson wrote his report. It is not known what happened to them from that point onwards. Perhaps they were ferreted away by the Smithsonian, who knows?

## Out of Place Giants?

Well. you'd assume that *any* giant at all would be an out-of-place giant, on the grounds that giants aren't supposed to exist. But what I mean by this peculiar subtitle is that discoveries such as this one are infamous for having allegedly taken place across North America in the 19th and 20th centuries. I have never actually heard a vaguely non-folkloric report of giant humanoid remains being discovered in England, or even Europe as a whole for that matter. '*Giants and Dwarfs*' by Edward J. Wood is full of surprises.
Creepy Cultists of Cádiz

It was Autumn of 1990, and the wind was rushing past Angel de Cara and his girlfriend as they thundered along an isolated road on Angel's motorbike. They were approaching the entrance to a secluded local cemetery in the city of Algeciras in the Spanish province of Cádiz, and they were about to be confronted by what they initially took to be a Satanic cult. This would prove to be an incorrect assumption, and the truth would end up being even more frightening.

## Angel and the Demons

As they approached the entrance to the graveyard in question, the two young lovers became aware of the presence of roughly a dozen humanoids sat on the side of the road. The witnesses assumed that they were looking at some kind of a Satanic cult as the figures looked up at the stunned couple as they drove past. The figures were described as wearing dark clothing, capes of some kind, and black '*top hats*'.

Ten days later, Angel was passing through the same location alone - and was about 400 meters away from the entrance to the cemetery when he suddenly noticed a single individual of the same odd sort as those that had been seen over a week earlier by him and his girlfriend. The figure was stood less than a meter away from Angel, and repeated a similar movement to that which had been performed by the entities earlier when it lifted its head to look at the shocked witness. When it did this, it revealed - much to Angel's horror - that its face was stark white and lacked any features save for a pair of dark, black eyes.

## window area

cadiz was the place where many other encounters happened, mostly importantly the conil de la frontera incident of 1989

most were investigated by spanish ufologist juan jose bennitez

## Source

I found this case in the *Humanoid Encounters* series by Albert Rosales, and he found it on this website - but the latter source is now basically non-functional and so you will either have to dig into Albert's research yourself or just take my word for the existence of this report.
Flight of the Frighteners

Like any young lover, the unnamed individual who would soon count himself among the witnesses of bizarre events was determined to see his fiancée against all odds - trekking across whatever adversity the world may place in his way. On this particular night in 1970, he was venturing across some empty fields and abandoned roads towards the nearby village, in which his one true love dwelt. It was peaceful night, and he strolled through the darkness in contented silence. However, the darkness clearly had other ideas - for the man started to hear strange music drifting through the air. What he saw next would stay with him forever...

## Spectral Song of the Skies

At first he thought that there must've been a celebration of some kind. Among the musical cacophany, he could make out drums and an oboe - which are traditional instruments played at Turkish weddings, and so this was what he assumed he was hearing. The chorus seemed to be close to him, but there was no-one else around throughout the deserted nighttime fields. The realisation that something might be seriously wrong in the situation started to dawn on him as he noticed that the unearthly tune seemed to be getting closer. Presumably trying his best to follow the source of the music, he glanced up at the sky and was instantly frozen in terror.

Floating a few meters above the ground was a group of bizarre creatures resembling hybrids of humans and goats or horses. They were holding nondescript instruments and appeared to be getting closer to the ground. Breaking out of his state of stunned paralysis, he darted behind some nearby bushes and waited there, just praying that the creatures wouldn't see him. He waited there in a state of abject terror until the creatures finally vanished from sight.

He would often tell this story to his family, and they were certain that he wasn't intoxicated or under the influence of any substance due to his Muslim faith. To this day, he is convinced that he saw the Djinn celebrating one of their festivals. His grandson seemingly reported his story to paranormal author RS Russo, and said that the fear that appears in his grandfather's eyes when he tells the story is genuinely frightening for him to see. Whatever his grandfather saw that night, it left an indelible mark on his psyche.

## Source

'Odd and Chilling Encounters' by RS Russo
The Calama Critter

The date was September 15th, 1999 - and Enrique Fowler had just pulled his truck into his house on Yerbas Buenas street in Calama, Chile. His grandson was resting in the back of the vehicle - but this peace would soon be shattered when a bizarre monstrosity appeared in the beams of their headlights. The harrowing stand-off that ensued would seemingly lead to Enrique dying of a sudden heart-attack just over a year later.

## The Fowlers and the Fiend

It was eleven o'clock at night, and Enrique was presumably just about to get out of the truck and lead his thirteen-year-old grandson Jean into the house (apparently in Villa San Rafael) in order to put him to bed before he suddenly noticed an ape-like shape stood just 4 meters away from them in the headlight beams of the truck. It was a dirty-grey hairy critter stood on its hind legs, and had its back to them. It was only about 1 meter tall.

The surreal situation promptly took a turn for the downright nightmarish as the monster before them suddenly swivelled the top half of its body 180 degrees to look at the witnesses. Utterly terrified, they could now see that the monster's grey face was adorned with large, almond-shaped eyes which shone in the darkness, and a small mouth which constantly opened and closed '*as if very exhausted*'. Its torso was long and rounded, and its neck was noticeably short. Haphazard tufts of hair clung to its head, and a scraggly beard hung lengthily from its chin. It kept its short arms held very close to its body in a kangaroo-like manner, and its three-fingered hands were tipped with sharp grey claws. Interestingly enough, the claws on the toes of the monster seemed to be constantly retracting and then protruding back out again in '*some type of rhythic sequence*'.

Seemingly satisfied with its observation of the horrified witnesses, the monster twisted its body back to its natural position and took off with a 3 meter leap - swiftly vanishing among the nearby trees. Enrique was so stunned and paralysed with the fear that he didn't leave the safety of the car for almost another 15 minutes. Both he and his grandson would soon be stricken with severe skin allergies after their run-in with the unknown, and Enrique (only 60 years old) would pass away from a massive heart attack on October 31st, 2000.

## Speculation

Could this creature have been a Chupacabra-type entity? The Puerto Rican Chupacabra was sometimes described as having a kangaroo-like body, and as being able to cover incredible distances in single bounds. The large glowing eyes also fit this theory, as do the three claws. I wonder if there were any odd animal deaths in the nearby area? Also it is interesting to note that the tragic passing of Enrique Fowler might actually be the first death caused by 'radiation' effects commonly attributed to UFO activity linked to the Chupacabra phenomenon.
Dancing Dolls from the Dark

Imagine if you couldn't go out during the daytime. Imagine all that you would miss and all the friends you would lack. One boy in Wichita, Kansas knows exactly what this is like, and if his sister is to be believed - he came up with a very novel and uncanny way of dealing with his loneliness.

## The Incident

A witness simply going by the initials ‘MW’ told her bizarre story on Lon Strickler’s Phantoms and Monsters website. Between 1961 and 1966, she and her little brother were growing up with their grandmother in Wichita, Kansas. Her little brother was albino, and had contracted scarlet fever at birth - leaving him severly mentally handicapped. MW and her brother shared a room with two beds, and his crib was in the middle of the two beds. She presumably slept in one of them, while the other was empty.

MW’s brother was legally blind during the day due to his albinism, and could see much better at night, meaning that he tended to stay awake. There was a walk-in closet in their room, and it was from here that anomalous entities emerged at night. They were described as ‘*human sized toys, a toy soldier with a drum, a Raggedy Ann doll, and a teddy bear*’, and would come out of the closet and dance around her brother’s crib.

Their house had flowered wallpaper at that time, and MW remembers ‘*counting the flowers on the wallaper*’ when she turned away from the dolls in an attempt to go to sleep. They never made any noise, but ‘*it was just their presence*’ that kept her awake. This surreal and uncanny event would occur every night ‘for about two years’ until her brother became ‘*too hard to handle*’ and was checked into an institution.

This series of anomalies is what prompted MW to have been interested in the paranormal since she was a child, and she is 57 now. She believes that ‘*he manifested the dolls to keep him company*’. MW has apparently witnessed some other paranormal phenomena during her life, and it seems to run in her family. She hasn’t seen anything that ‘*really scared*’ her, and she has never heard any other stories of ‘*human size dolls*’.

## Source

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/12/unknown-howling-beast.html
The Red Sun

This is a personal story of mine - yes, me, the moderator of this wiki. Hi. This is what I would call my weirdest Fortean experience, even though I have encountered some strange stuff in my time I would say that this one takes the cake just because of how spectacular it was. I'd always thought that it was nothing more than a sleep paralysis episode, but when my dad told me that he had seen the same thing I realised that I was a UFO witness.

## Let's Get Started!

This was around 2008. I was staying on a cottage farm in England (I can’t remember the exact location) for a night with one of my closest friends at the time. I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and had difficulty breathing. I tried to scream and failed, so knocked over a lamp to get the attention of my friend’s mum. My parents decided to take me to hospital, but they needed to get changed first, and so they left me in the car under a blanket. While I was in the car I saw a massive ball of red light come up from the horizon and then go down again promptly, like a semicircle movement. When I got to the hospital my memories are a little blurry, but I think that they pretty much said that there was nothing wrong with me. It didn’t feel like nothing. I could hardly speak. I thought that this was sleep paralysis (or some similar hypnagogic state in which movement is possible) because it all seemed to fit. Until I asked my dad if he’d had any UFO experiences and he said that when we were staying on that farm, he saw a big ball of red light ‘like the sun’. He said that he saw it from the window of the cottage, seeing as he had to stay there to look after my younger brother. He saw something large and red on the horizon, and specifically remembers thinking it was ‘weird’.

## The Squiggleman

Later that night (or the night after) I had a weird nightmare of a spindly brown hand – all sinewy almost like it was made out of silly string or something – reaching out from underneath my friend’s bed. It wasn’t really a nightmare, I was half awake and was aware of my surroundings, but I had little floaters of light in my field of vision. Sorta like what you see if you screw your eyes shut really tight. I have previously attempted to reconstruct what I saw using Photoshop, but I couldn’t get the sinews or the ‘floaters’ to look right.
The Sheep Want You To Come Back

Near Edale in the Peak District, Gregory Pauline was camping with some friends in the Summer of 1990. It was about eleven-thirty at night and totally ‘*pitch black*’ outside, but Gregory and three friends decided to go for a walk up some nearby footpaths anyway, sharing two torches between the three of them to light up the path ahead. They had been wandering around for about thirty minutes, and they took a path over some farm fields in order to get back to their campsite. Soon into their journey across this footpath, they came to a ditch ‘*with a small passage through and high bushes on either side*’. They had previously been trying to scare each-other, and so they were already feeling a bit uneasy.

## The Incident

As they set about deciding who would have to cross the ditch first, they heard ‘*a noise that sounded like a sheep on the other side of the ditch hidden by the bushes*’. This wouldn’t have been unusual, but there was ‘*something about the noise*’ that gave the group pause. They thought that the sheep had made a noise sounding like a word, but they couldn’t make out exactly what it had said.

In what would probably be the course of action for any group of friends at this point, they started whispering between themselves, thinking that ‘*it might be some people trying to play a joke*’. However, this didn’t seem very likely as there was no more sound after the initial bleat - a complete absence of the sniggering and giggling that would be expected after a successful prank. ‘*The atmosphere just felt wrong*’. After a few minutes of tension, they started to walk backwards away from the ditch while keeping their eyes on the gap in the bushes from whence they had heard the noise. They walked slowly, trying not to fall in the many holes in the uneven ground - but all that built-up tension was promptly released when they heard another noise.

It sounded like a sheep telling them to come back. ‘*The tone felt mocking, like a challenge to us, we turned and ran back to camp*’. According to an addition given by someone else on the same forum who claimed to be one of the other friends in the group of three - the call for them to come back repeated itself as they sprinted away. There were apparently ‘*no humans around apart from us*’ and there were sheep dotted around the field.

The next day, they went back to where they thought the ditch was, but ‘*could find nothing unusual*’.

## A Plea for Help?

As an interesting little footnote, and possibly a plot twist to this already bizarre story, a fellow forum user by the name of ‘*mrpoultice*’ offered a rational explanation which surprisingly doesn’t involve a group of three friends getting higher than the Burj Khalifa. *Mrpoultice* suggested that a walker or rambler could have tripped over and may have been lying in the bushes between the witnesses and the sheep, calling out for help. Apparently this has happened to him personally while he was out walking, and he eventually had to crawl back to the nearest civilisation while surrounded by nonplussed sheep.

## Source

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/talking-sheep.9854/
A Prophet in the White House

Ollie Burgadine lived in Mariposa, Illinois - but had been spending time with her sister in Baltimore for some time before she would apparently suddenly be stricken with a bizarre vision - ostensibly from an angelic source. The 56-year-old German woman would eventually be driven to attempt to gain entry to the White House on August 1st, 1904 - trying whatever she could to warn the President of the United States about his allegedly-upcoming assassination.

## Roosevelt's Guardian Angel

It is very difficult to map out what was happening in Mrs. Burgadine's life leading up to her being arrested outside the White House while desperately trying to relay a dire prophecy to President Theodore Roosevelt. She was the mother of 14 children (wow) and was carrying a photograph of massive family with her when she was arrested. She had apparently tried to contact the President one year previously - sending him a telegram warning him not to go on his then-upcoming trip to Chicago out of fear that he might be killed. She claimed that she had received a vision from an angel warning her of this.

The angel had returned to her life in 1904, and was apparently '*more angry than ever*' and told her that it was now utterly imperative that she warn the President of the fast-approaching danger. Presumably after she was arrested, she told a White House official about her visions - in which the angel had appeared to her and told her that the President '*would be killed*'. The circumstances which would lead to his death were unclear, but she apparently knew that '*he is not going to be shot*'. The angel had implied that the President might end up being killed in an explosion, though the prophet Burgadine wasn't sure about this.

Interestingly enough, Burgadine was informed by this same White House official that the President had an office in the Treasury solely for the purpose of receiving such prophetic warnings. The official escorted her to the Treasury's Secret Service office in which she was 'gratified to know' that her prophecies had been heard by governmental officials who had the power to relay the information to the President. Evidently, her prophecies did not come true - Theodore Roosevelt wasn't blown up, and instead died in the early hours of January 6th, 1919 of a pulmonary embolism. Was this angel a liar? Or was Mrs. Burgadine simply a victim of the lack of mental health care at the time?

## Sources

The primary source for this story is a great newspaper clipping from the August 5th, 1904 edition of *The Miami News* - which can be read here. As is the case with quite a few of my recent articles on angel encounters, I managed to scrounge extra information on the odd circumstances from this wonderful website.
Horse-Men of the British Isles

Judging from reports published on Dr. Karl Shuker's blog, there are (at least) two recorded sightings of bizarre, centaur-like creatures resembling horses with the heads of humans manifesting on the rural backroads of the British Isles, usually blocking the road ahead of terrified witnesses. Shuker has linked these entities to the legendary fairy creatures known as 'Phooka', which are mischievous shapeshifters which are sometimes known to assume the forms of horses. I would be inclined to agree that the entities being witnessed in these cases might be fae in origin.

## Centauric Spectre of County Louth

It was sometime in Spring of 1966, and Margaret Johnson and her boyfriend John Farrell were driving past Lord Dillon's estate in County Louth, Ireland when an enigmatic equine entity suddenly appeared in the road and blocked their path for a full two minutes. It was described as a horse with the face of a man, and seemed to emanate an aura of malevolence before swiftly vanishing.

## King's Lynn Centaur

Nicky Knott corresponded with the ITV television show 'This Morning' to discuss a bizarre ordeal allegedly endured by her husband as he was driving home through King’s Lynn, Norfolk one late evening in 1994. He was making his way down a dark and secluded rural backroad when he was suddenly confronted by a large creature in a field to his right. The thing moved closer to him, and although it had appeared to be a horse at first glance - complete with the legs and body of an equine - it was soon revealed to have the face of a man instead of the usual snout. Horrified, Knott slammed his foot on the accelerator and didn't look back until he had arrived at the safety of his house. He was convinced that the alarming equine anomaly had been chasing him the entire way back.

## Speculation

There are (of course) several cases of horses with vaguely human-like heads being born to perfectly normal mares, cursed with their hideous appearance as the product of birth defects. Tales of these so-called hybrid beings are found throughout history, and their presence is often reacted to with a likely disproportionate sense of terror, oft leading to the premature demise of the creatures at human hands. If I look at these cases from a skeptical angle, I could conclude that the animals witnessed were just that: animals, albeit animals with highly abnormal birth defects which had somehow survived into adulthood.

However, I would instead be driven to classify these reports as tales of the supernatural due to the sudden materialisation of the creatures in question and the air of malevolence that they seemed to exude. Animals matching the description of the perhaps-deformed equines were never found nearby, also seemingly suggesting that the entities in these cases had the ability to appear and disappear at will.

## Source

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-top-ten-paranormal-beasts-in.html

'Monster! An A-Z of Zooform Phenomena' by Neil Arnold
Shadow at the Elizaville

Rather than a physical, flesh-and-blood organism, the Elizaville Monster is usually depicted as a hulking shadowy figure standing at least seven or eight feet in height. Said to wandering the open fields and cemeteries in the Boone County area, the creature is reportedly aggressive and, according to many, carnivorous. Legends say that if one parks their car in one of these rural areas between the early morning hours of 1 and 3 AM and scream loudly into the night, the beast will pursue and consume them.

## The Shadows

I went to this town with three friends. We were able to get directions from the internet, which had been posted by a previous visitor, and eventually we discovered a simple green road sign which said "Elizaville". We drove along the roads for a while, some of which were paved with gravel, making us have to drive along slowly. We saw no creature stalking among the fields, no bones, and no abandoned cars, but there were some things we saw that were rather creepy: part of a cornfield had been smashed through, as if by a car; a relatively nice-looking house with its windows busted out; tire marks on the road which swerved in weird directions.

Then we came into an area that smelled of decaying meat. Also, it was uncharacteristically cold for a summer night. It seemed that we were not only pervaded by the stench of death, but by the very feel of it. Also, my friend who was sitting next to me in the back of the car, KJ, complained of serious stomach cramps, which he always seems to get when something bad is about to happen. This never seems to occur under different circumstances than when there’s trouble in the future.

Our journey soon ended after I looked out of the window beside me and saw, sitting a few feet from the edge of the road, a human head laying sideways on a tree stump. The blood was still shiny and wet, and its eyes were wide open and staring straight in my direction. I went for the switch that closed the window, but the damn thing had been locked, and I told the driver to close the fucking thing. When I described what I had seen, we immediately left Elizaville and went back to Indianapolis. When we were on familiar grounds, I told them we should probably report this.

They said it would be pointless, seeing that outside law enforcement never found enough evidence to convict anyone. By the time we called the cops and had them out there, the head would have likely been gone. There could still be traces of blood on the stump or on the grass around it, but this would be virtually meaningless. And Elizaville itself does not have its own law enforcement, so it would take a while for any patrol cars to arrive there. I was greatly shaken by the whole thing, and my fingers are trembling even now that I’m typing this out. It was the first time I had seen fresh death.
The Real Smokey Bear

It was the morning of July 6th, 1985, and a pair of campers contacted the Pierce County Sheriff’s department to complain that they had been forced out of their campsite. This was relatively normal, but the fact that it was a talking bear that evicted them is far from par for the course!

## The Incident

This bizarre incident took place just before dawn on the day in question, and Stephanie McKay (one of the campers) told the Seattle Times about the anomalously eloquent ursine attack. ‘*We were camping and a bear attacked the tent. We were in the tent at the time. You may think this sounds crazy, but the bear talked to us  It asked us what our names were and whether we had permission to use the campsite. We said we had gotten permission, but the bear told us to get off the property immediately. We ran like anything*’. The bear apparently ‘*must have weighed almost a ton. It was big and hairy. It didn’t sound human. It had a very high-pitched voice*’.

In what was probably a frenzy of shock and confusion, the couple madly packed their belongings as the 8ft-tall brown bear stood up on its hind legs and hurled rocks at them. Rock throwing is, interestingly, a behaviour often observed in reports of aggressive Bigfoots or other hairy humanoids, and so perhaps this so-called bear was actually another large hairy mammal of a cryptozoological sort.

Officers from the Greenwater Fire Department (probably reluctantly) investigated the site of the encounter. Apparently they found ‘*no signs of a struggle*’, and said that the only visible tracks were those of ‘*a large dog*’. While the fire department was chasing Smokey (how ironic), the Deputy Sheriff Bob Hoffman was interviewing local residents. He told the press that on Friday night that week ‘*there were some people of the Greenwater community who told the couple their campsite was on private property and the fire danger was high. The wording the community people used is almost identical to the wording the couple says the bear used*’. He added that it could be possible that the couple did indeed see a bear sometime that night, but there is no evidence of this due to the lack of prints. The bears up there are apparently not 7 or 8ft tall, and Hoffman said that they have ‘*never spoken to me and have never thrown rocks at me*’.

‘*My conclusion is that the report is unfounded. It’s probably the result of an overactive imagination coupled with the request that they leave the area. The couple was on private property, and they did have a fire. If we have any more sightings of talking bears or bears that throw rocks, I’m not sure I’m going to let anyone know. I’m tired of getting media calls from all over, anywhere from Boston to Hawaii!*’

Hoffman promptly declared the case well and truly closed.

## Source

https://the-cosmic-jokers.000webhostapp.com/talkingbear.html
The Errington Woods Golden Men

While walking her dog in the Errington Woods of North Yorkshire in the chilly air of the very first day in 2018, an English woman would suddenly come across something highly unusual. There were two diminutive hairy figures stood by a nearby fallen tree, and they seemed to be chattering amongst themselves in an '*almost ape-like*' fashion. She apparently spoke to researcher Deborah Hatswell about the incident.

## Hairy Faerie Forest Folk

Errington Woods is near to the Yorkshire village of New Marske, and was the site of a bizarre happening on New Year's Day 2018. The witness in question was walking her dog through the forest on this crisp day when she became aware of some strange '*chattering noises*'. Apparently this sounded like two men muttering between themselves, and was compared to ape vocalisations by the witness. Intrigued, she looked out into the wooded area from which the noises seemed to emanating. To her surprise, she saw two humanoid entities standing near a fallen tree.

These creatures were each about 3ft tall, and were coated in '*tawny coloured*' hair - which seemed to be somewhat concentrated down their necks to form golden manes. One was wearing what appeared to be a loincloth, while the other was nude - allowing the witness to confirm that the creatures were indeed both males. Overall, they were described as looking like '*small primitive humans*', and the witness was fairly sure that she was seeing adult individuals of their species due to their pronounced musculature and other anatomical features. The creatures stared at her for a few seconds while she fumbled around for her mobile phone.

Her dog went beserk, barking at the creatures as she loaded up her camera to try and capture photographic evidence of the weird dwarves stood in front of her. However, before she was able to garner any conclusive proof that she had really seen what she claims, the creatures '*shot off into the bushes*'. The entities had completely escaped her sight, and it can only be presumed that she likely left the scene swiftly after this.

## Source

'Little Golden Maned Men' by Deborah Hatswell for *Bigfoot Sightings and Strange Creature Reports*
Microft

Microft Corporation is an American tech and Linux OS company founded on April 8, 1981 in San Antonio. It was founded by Anthony Sullivan (founder) and Paul Black. In November 1992, it moved to Las Vegas, NV.

## History

Microft was developed in 1979 and founded by Anthony Sullivan and Paul Black on April 8, 1981 in San Antonio, TX. It moved to Las Vegas in 1992 and acquired by Universal Companies. The first computer released in November 20, 1991 as Harkins 1.0. The first gaming system was released on October 26, 2007 as Igame. The Las Vegas headquarters remodel beguned in February 2016 and completed in May 2018 and reopened on August 1, 2018.
A Phantom Monk and a Flying Saucer

Brian Whitehead and three of his friends - who went unnamed in the initial report - were playing behind a school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan one night when they caught sight of an oval-shaped object circling overhead. As the anomalous aircraft came down closer to the ground, the children would go to investigate, and would be confronted by something truly unexpected. Instead of seeing a spaceman, they would bear witness to what appeared to be the ghost of an ancient monk...

## Space Ghost

It was September 19, 1963 - and UFOs were presumably the furthest thing from the minds of the four children who would eventually become embroiled in this bizarre case. They were playing behind a local school in the aforementioned Canadian locale before suddenly becoming aware of a glowing object descending to the ground after having circled the area for a while. As it got closer to landing, a '*box*' fell out from it and came down to hover a few feet away from the befuddled children. The kids cautiously approached the bizarre object, and were shocked when a man-shaped figure suddenly stood up.

The box seemed to have disappeared after that, according to the testimony given by the eleven-year-old Brian to investigators after the anomalous incident. The children estimated that the humanoid was about 10ft tall, and said that it seemed to be wearing monk-like robes which were '*white like a crayon*'. Brian said that he could sometimes '*see right through*' the weird figure. Making a moaning sound, the entity held out its arms and floated towards the terrified youngsters.

Rendered utterly hysterical by this sight, the youngsters all ran from the figure as quickly as possible. Apparently, one girl of the group was so traumatised by the event that she had to be hospitalised. The parents of the group and the local police were quite stunned by the seemingly-genuine fright of the children, and so took their story much more seriously than one might expect. Apparently, further sightings of UFO lights were reported around the area at the time.

## Analysis

There are plenty of reports of apparition-like entities associated with UFOs (The Giant at Talavera le Real, for example) and even beings resembling monks with long cloaks - but I've never heard of a case involving a creature appearing as a classic medieval-type ghost. I would've expected to hear this story come out of an old castle or something as opposed to being associated with a UFO landing.

## Source

The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings by John Keel
The Macon Monstrosity

The veneer of nighttime peace was instantly slashed as a horrendous bellowing noise rung out through the air. Three sleeping bodies blearily roused themselves, eyes wide in terror as steady thumping sounds issued from the wilderness outside. They were about to encounter a monster unlike anything they, or anyone else for that matter, had ever seen before...

## The Devil Went Down to Georgia

It was April of 2002, and three friends were woken by the aforementioned appalling cacophany issuing from outside their house near Macon, Georgia at 11 o'clock in the evening. One of the men of the group, presumably either the bravest or the most stupid, ran to the bathroom to see what was causing the commotion. He briefly caught sight of a figure running by the window and then squatting in the nearby bushes. From his safe vantage point, he was able to describe the enigmatic entity before him. It was roughly 3ft tall and covered in hair, but also seemingly had horns on its head and hands. I don't quite know what horned hands would look like. The man couldn't see a face on the creature, but if this means that it didn't have one or if it was simply obscured by darkness is unknown.

Although nobody else saw the creature, others in the neighbourhood apparently heard the terrifying banging noises. No other details were provided by the source, but I thought that this was a pretty interesting-sounding entity description anyway.

## Source

The 'Humanoid Encounters' series by Albert Rosales, quoting a witness on Cryptozoology.com who also had direct correspondence with Rosales.
Lumbering Leviathan of Lake Campbell

Unfortunately, the great opportunity that came in the form of that amazing title might end up being wasted on this article, seeing as the details on this event are very scant. It was 1934, and a farmer local to the area around Lake Campbell in eastern South Dakota was plagued with a spate of missing livestock. Whatever he thought might've been to blame for these disappearances, I can't imagine that he thought it very likely that it was the work of a creature seemingly ripped from the frames of *Jurassic Park* - and yet that is exactly what presented itself to him on one fateful occasion.

## South Dakota Saurian

The farmer's tractor gently chugged along a road near to Lake Campbell, and I can imagine that the farmer driving it might've been whistling a peaceful tune. However, this would all change when an enormous, four-legged reptile suddenly strolled onto the road, leading the panicked farmer to swerve his vehicle off the road and into a nearby ditch in an effort to avoid the colossal critter. Just as quickly as it had arrived, the monster vanished off towards the lake in question.

Bewildered, the farmer brought some help with him when he next returned to the scene of the reptilian manifestation. This group of makeshift monster-hunters discovered a trail of unidentifiable footprints that seemingly came from a large, four-legged animal. The footprints moved through a nearby muddy field and then toward Lake Campbell. Sadly, this where the story ends in all the sources I have been able to find.

## Is This Story Extinct?

So this is a tiny nugget of an interesting story, but it is reported on both Mysterious Universe and in 'Visitors from the Twilight Zone' by David Pratt - and there are more details in the MU article than there are in Pratt's brief reference to the case, implying that there must've been some other source from which the writers of Mysterious Universe found their information, which I haven't yet been able to locate. A cryptozoology buff that I briefly talked to online pointed out that there is a possibility that this story was actually a publicity stunt for the nearby Wall Drug - which has a famous mechanical Tyrannosaurus head as part of its decoration. I am not certain about this specific theory, but I'm leaning on the side of thinking that this story was likely naught more than a newspaper hoax. An interesting one, yes, but a newspaper hoax nonetheless.
The Wazooey Man

It was 1973, and two boys were playing in an arroyo (gulch or dry creek) in the Pueblo area of Colorado when they had an experience that they would never forget. They came across a creature that they would later nickname the ‘*Wazooey Man*’.

## The Incident

They were playing with their air pistols when they noticed that they were being watched by ‘*two huge red eyes*’. Presumably shocked by the bizarre sight, one of the boys started firing BB pellets into the eyes - seemingly prompting them both to be picked up by an invisible force and thrown down into a ravine. A large wooden post came out of the ground and hit one of the boys on the head. Utterly terrified at this point, the boys took off towards their truck only to realise that they had somehow lost the ignition key.

With this new hindrance, the panicked youngsters ran to the road and started trying to hitchhike - but they noticed that ‘*some form*’ resembling ‘*a mobile haystack with two huge red eyes*’ would manifest every time they tried to go west, and force them to retreat back the other way. There is little information on how they escaped the situation, which they presumably did because they must’ve lived to tell the tale.

## Source

‘*The Hard-To-Believe-But-True!: Book of Colorado History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore & More*’ by Carole Marsh
Redditor Catches Slender-Man on Camera

The menacing figure of the Slender-Man was first injected into popular culture in 2009 when its image was generated on a forum website called 'Something Awful' as a part of a competition to create fake paranormal photographs. From there, the faceless fiend in the black suit grew rapidly across the internet until people were pondering if they had somehow managed to bring the entity to life with their belief and focus on the idea - creating a tulpa or thought-form of some kind. On May 31, 2014, two schoolgirls nearly-fatally stabbed their friend with the intention of sacrificing her to Slender-Man, and this atrocity somewhat killed the online culture around the enigmatic entity. However, that doesn't mean that people are going to forget the experiences that they allegedly had with the figure, come to life from an internet urban legend.

One of these anomalous incidents was actually caught on camera, if a Redditor named u/immortalHD1 is to be believed...

## The Incident

It was 7:45pm on January 29th 2017 and the Redditor had just finished eating, and decided to walk his dog down his long hill driveway. He had walked for about fifteen minutes when he caught sight of a pale, spindly figure '*just standing far off*'. The dog just stood there and growled while staring at the entity. From where he was standing, he couldn't make out the face of the creature, but could see that it was about 6ft tall through the oppressive darkness of that night. The thing's skin was '*white as paper*' and it appeared to be wearing a dark suit. After about 15 seconds of standing there in shock while the being seemingly stared him down without eyes, the Redditor turned and ran back up the driveway and into his house. He would post about his story one day later, along with a photograph that he apparently took of the enigmatic entity.

## You've Been Pranked?

Other Redditors helpfully suggested that this sighting could have been the result of a real person dressing up as Slender-Man with the intention of scaring people as a prank. Also, the Redditor did actually post a picture that he had taken of the entity, and so we have photographic evidence. Some have suggested that this sight could've been generated from the misperception of an oddly-shaped tree - but the Redditor certainly disagrees.

## Source

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/5qzso5/slenderman\_type\_figure\_while\_walking\_my\_dog/
Bloodthirsty Beast of Bowland Forest

Although she now runs a paranormal investigation team out of Bolton, Lancashire to investigate inexplicable events in the Northwest of England - the witness is still haunted by something she saw in the Trough of Bowland Forest when she was a child. She seems to have had an encounter with the monstrous entity known as the Dogman...

## 'I Immediately Thought Werewolf'

Her dad always used to take her and her siblings out into the nearby forests to '*run riot*'. The Bowland Forest was apparently so thick that even on an abnormally hot day (like the one in question) the sun would fail to penetrate the canopy, meaning that it was much darker and cooler inside the woods. She had wandered off on her own, and was not aware of quite how far she had gone into the wilderness. However - the sense that she was most certainly not in Kansas anymore would kick in when she noticed something crouching down behind a nearby tree.

'*It was hard to make out at first*' - but she could see that its massive arms were wrapped around the tree-trunk and that it was tilting its head to look at her. It was clearly watching her '*every move*', and she nervously moved closer to check that her eyes weren't deceiving her. As she approached it, it became clear that it was coated in long, matted hair of a black and brown colouration - and that it seemed to have a snout and pointed ears. Her dad apparently used to let her watch *Strange But True*, and so she '*immediately*' came to the conclusion that she was seeing a contemporary werewolf. It never moved from its position, and just watched her as she walked around.

Fear swelled up inside her, and in a sudden panic she turned back the way she came and ran towards the light at the end of the forest. As she was sprinting as fast as her legs could carry her, she briefly turned around to check if the lycanthropic menace was following her - but as soon as she turned back to face the way she was moving she was suddenly struck in the face by something hard. Blood was now pouring down her cheek, and I can't imagine the thoughts that must've whirled around her brain before she realised that she had ran head-first into a tree. She carried on through the forest in a dazed state until she found her dad, and apparently the wounds on her head '*took weeks to heal*'.

There wasn't '*another soul*' in the area, and so she is still utterly stumped as to what exactly it was that frightened her so badly that she ran face-first into the local flora. According to a researcher by the name of Deborah Hatswell, there are other Bigfoot and Dogman-type reports in the area, as well as some gruesome animal mutilations - pictures of which can be found in the source linked below.

## Source

http://britishbigfootsightingreports.com/a-young-girl-come-face-to-face-with-a-snouted-creature-werewolf-of-bowland/
The Railbach Burning Man

Near Railbach in Germany’s Freienstein, numerous witnesses including a man named Georg Miltenburger claimed that they saw a creature that they called a ‘burning man’ or a ‘man of fire’ running throughout the hills in 1125, as it spat fire from its nose and mouth. Some even attested that they could see its burning ribs, and it apparently wandered around the mountainous area for quite some time.

## Analysis

Ufologist and humanoid expert Albert S. Rosales suggested that this could have been an alien entity wearing luminous clothes and using beams of light which could have been interpreted in a very poor and superstitious fashion, but I would beg to differ on the basis that there have been plenty of reports of flaming humanoids in both ufology and other paranormal fields. These include the Felixstowe Fire Demon of 1965 and the Žiburinis of Lithuanian folklore. The above picture is by dailycryptodrawings on Tumblr, and is meant to show the Felixstowe Fire Demon but I’ve decided to use it to represent the Railbach Burning Man.

## Source

http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1125-railbach-freienstein-germany/