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02. 11/12/2017 Writeup

## Session Summary

The party takes the rescued kids into Lanketi and bring them to a guard’s station and talk to the guard on duty that really doesn’t care much about his job, leaving the cart, children, and children’s backstories with him.  Temaz follows Veronica and the rest of them back to the inn to get a drink.

At the inn, Britni is approached by a half-orc who asks for a progress update. Britni persuades him to come back tomorrow. The rest of the team, intrigued, goes up to Zoia’s room after her set to talk.

They find
out that the reason why Britni was in town was that she was sent here to gather one pound of kala nemak (Himalayan black salt) and a paladin’s burial weapon to
give to another, more powerful, warlock in order to summon Britni’s aunt, a powerful devil.  The trick is that the wording or the request means that Britni only has to deliver the items - the team could try to sabatoge the ritual and keep it from happening once the goods are delivered. After some discussion jogs her memory, Taer remembers that a few hundred years ago, there was a rebellion lead by a slave named Grigol, who was working with a god known
as the small god or the slave’s god.  This rebellion ended up freeing the entire region from Sarantine control for a generation or two. Grigol was buried
nearby, in a cave filled with other slave’s remains.

After a little more research, the god is revealed to be called many things, including Zanj-ai, Cleai, the small god, the smallfolk god, the slave’s god, our ladyofsomethingorotherinvolvingchains  There was the general idea that
most of these names are euphemisms, and there may be more. Her sigil was ~~2 chainz~~ a broken chain with flames
shooting through the middle.  Veronica also found out that one of the kids she looks after, Abrim, had actually been to the ruins recently and had one of the sigils for this god in their possession.

The next
morning, the group runs back into the warlock, who gave Britni three days to
get back to him.  He also takes a bag of sand to make sure he could track
her down later, if need be. After a trip to the general store and interrogating Badri about his bookkeeping practices, the party sets down to talk to the salt
merchant they had heard was in town, meeting Dorji, a dwarf that took a liking to Lu.  She was willing to sell the salt to Lu at a discounted rate, but
requires her to sign a sheet of paper holding her responsible for any damages
that might happen due to a devilish or demonic summoning perpetuated using the salt. Lu and Zoia also stopped by the apothecary to get their items identified.

The party
set off a half day’s journey to the northeast of town, further into the mountains.  After finding themselves tracked by some hungry wolves and ravens working together, they finally make it to Grigol's Tomb.  Peeking inside, they find a large cavern whose floor is covered in bones and bone dust.
Spacemen in Saint-Cyrille

It was quarter-past-one in the morning on June 25th, 1974 - and Mr. and Mrs. L had just returned from a vacation. While his wife was sleeping, Mr. L became aware of an odd noise outside their Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover mobile home, and looked outside to try and locate the source of the thumping sound. He was presumably utterly gobsmacked to see a reddish object hovering just above the ground nearby. Just as he went to wake his wife to come look at the astonishing sight, a sudden buzzing noise signalled the arrival of some truly otherworldly entities.

## Robots in Quebec

The initial noise was described as being a '*bum-bum-bum*' sound - and it was this auditory anomaly that initially alerted Mr. L to the presence of the crimson UFO. This anomalous airship was described as domed, with red and white lights on the top and oval-shaped white lights encircling the orange-glowing base. It cast yellow beams of light down onto the ground. Mr. L woke his wife, and they both heard a buzzing sound before spotting a humanoid creature just 15ft from the window of their mobile home. Presumably frightened by the highly unusual sight, the couple retreated into their living room, whereupon they saw three more similar beings, 6ft-tall and '*stiff moving*', outside the window. The '*robots*' were apparently studying a nearby unoccupied trailer - and the dumbstruck couple would eventually see as many as 15 of the bizarre beings at one point within the next three hours.

During this specific moment, the creatures were all lined up parallel to an adjacent creek. They held this position for over five minutes before all moving away at once. This odd formation allowed the couple a much better view at the entities' appearance - and they were able to describe them as having brightly-glowing red bars comparable to toaster elements across their chests, and as displaying no discernible facial features. The creatures were not walking, so to speak, but instead appeared to '*float*' above the ground. This is all very well and good, but there is oddly no indication of how the UFO and its associated entities left the scene.

Instead, all the sources that I've been able to find simply cut straight to the later investigation of the scene. However, that doesn't mean that the investigation didn't turn up some very interesting results. No footprints were left by the entities - seeing as they were said to float - but investigators did discover (and apparently even photograph) tripod-like imprints on the far side of the creek, which had seemingly been left by the UFO. The grass in these areas had been swept down into three ring-shaped nests, which were 2ft wide and had diameters of 19ft. After this grass was mowed, it would allegedly grow to be twice as tall as grass present in other areas. There were also flat pieces of a '*strange substance of white color*' comparable to plastic where the robots had been observed.

## Sources

'Humanoid Encounters' by Albert Rosales as well as the information provided about this case on thecid.com.
The Wyoming Zombie Walkers

The witness, going by the name of ‘NG’, is a truck driver in North America, and says that ‘*see some of the most beautiful things this great country has to offer*’, but has also seen some of the most gruesome and horrific things in the country, like the mangled bodies of roadkill animals and ‘*cars and people equally unrecognizable*’. Even when faced with all this, NG will never forget what they saw one night, as they were drivingat 0300 MDT\* along the ‘*desolate*’ I-80 in Wyoming.

## Meeting the Horde

A thick fog suddenly rolled up out of nowehere, ‘*and the air was almost electrified*’. NG didn’t pay much attention to it, and at that point they just slowed down, put on their 4-ways and carried on driving. However, that’s when they saw a figure staggering away from what appeared to be a broken-down vehicle on the shoulder of the road. They were about to stop and call 911 when they saw a chunk of flesh fall from the humanoid’s face before it ‘*turned and just stared with these bright red eyes*’. NG was driving at about 5mph at this time, but quickly accelerated up to 45mph when they saw ‘*another 20 or 30 walking along the interstate all with these bright red eyes and rotten flesh*’. They didn’t stop until they reached Ft. Brdiger, and it was then that the fog cleared. When they got there, they saw an Army convoy, which had previously been breaking at the truck-stop, head off in the direction of the undead horde.

\*I don’t know what this means and I can’t find any other references to it as a unit of speed measurement.

## Searching For Another Victim

Apparently a few of their fellow truckers have told NG that the entities they saw were called the ‘*Wyoming Zombie Walkers*’, and that they will wander around any given stretch of highway or back-road in their namesake state in search of ‘*their next human victim*’. NG ends their story by saying that there are ‘*a lot of weird things out on these roads*’, and warns any other truckers reading their story to stay home if they possibly can because they can’t ever ‘*know what’s around that next corner or waiting just beyond the reach of your lights*’.

## Source

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/12/wyoming-zombie-walkers.html
The Crimean Slug

According to a report made from Dalekoye, Crimea, four boys from a local elementary school had a bizarre encounter with an ostensibly alien entity on November 18th of 1998.

## The Incident

Eldar Islamov, Anton Kireichev, Server Devlyatov, and Alyesha Alyabyev had left their school building to use the toilet, and were walking back to class when they heard a guttural noise coming from behind them. Looking back, the boys discovered that the noise was coming from a horrifying humanoid clambering over a fence.

The entity began approaching them, the boys froze in terror. It was described as being roughly 1.7m in height, and had a disproportionately large head with big red eyes. Its semi-transparent body was apparently square and flat, and was the colour of smoke. Its arms were long enough to touch the ground, and ended in three black, clawed fingers - and its legs were described as being black and straight. It seemed to lack hair, a mouth, nose or ears.

The entity - which the boys had nicknamed ‘the slug’ - approached one of the boys and laid its hand on his shoulder. Apparently the boy felt neither weight nor pain, but still tried to push the being away from him. The boys then noticed that it seemed to have some kind of a device with a button attached to its elbow, and it then pressed the button with one of its claws. The 'slug’ was instantly 'sucked’ through the wall of the school building, but somehow left its red eyes still visible on the wall.

Although he felt no pain or burning sensation (oddly specific detail in the source), the boy’s skin in the area around where the entity had touched him turned red. The 'slug’ finally vanished, presumably taking its oddly-detachable arms with it, and the terrified boys ran straight back to their classroom. The boys were apparently deeply affected by the incident, with their teacher being unable to calm them and one of them allegedly stuttering uncontrollably. As seems sort of reasonable, they were afraid to go to the toilet alone after the incident.

## Alien or Earthly Aberration?

You may be wondering what all this has to do with aliens, and so am I. According to my source, there were a number of UFO observations in the area around 1998. That’s as good a connection as any for this otherwise bizarre and random entity encounter.

## Source

http://itsmth.wikia.com/wiki/Crimean\_Slug
Grinning Goatman of White Rock Lake

White Rock Lake is a nice little suburban lake on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas. The northern part of the lake is considered to be a state park, while the southern section has been allowed to be converted into lakefront estates. This sense of urban tranquility, however, is apparently quite often shattered by the malevolent hairy presence of the legendary Goatman. Stories abound about picnicking couples on the shores of the lake being hectored by the terrifying humanoid, which is apparently known to throw large tires at those it doesn't like.

## Panic at White Rock

Sandy Grace spoke to Nick Redfern to recount her harrowing encounter with the White Rock Lake Goatman, which took place in August of 2001. She was jogging along a nine-mile-long trail around the aforementioned lake at roughly 2pm. Under a minute before she would come face-to-face with the horned humanoid creature, she suddenly found herself overwhelmed by an intense sense of dread, which seemed to result from no particular stimulus. She claimed that she had never experienced a panic attack before, but she guessed that this was probably the best approximation of her state of mind at the time.

The creature suddenly started purposefully walking towards Grace from the thick nearby forest. She described it as being a large humanoid covered in thin, coarse brown hair. Two large horn-like protrusions emerged from its forehead, and it bore an evil grin on its face as it swiftly advanced on the horror-stricken witness. However, once it got to within roughly 15ft of the hysterical walker - the creature immediately crouched down on all fours and proceeded to literally vanish in a flash of light.

Utterly boggled by the bizarre event, Grace clarified to Redfern that she was totally certain that the vision had not been hallucinatory in nature - but also confessed that she had no idea that anything like what she had seen could possibly exist on the face of the planet. Redfern also noticed that the sudden induction of hysteria in the witness sounded a lot like the so-called 'Panic in the Woods' which would be triggered by the presence of the ancient Greek god Pan, according to the traditional mythology in which his existence is discussed.

## Source

'The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts and Fiends of Nature' by Nick Redfern

'Goatman of White Rock Lake' on *weirdus.com*
Little Green Men and Three Blind Mice

The term 'Little Green Men' is often used to make light of flying saucer experiences, and is automatically associated with pulpy 1950s sci-fi magazines and cartoon characters from the Flintstones and Looney Tunes. However, what the casual paranormal buff might not know is that there have been several cases in which the outlandish diminutive entities have been reported completely seriously. The most famous case would certainly be the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins encounter, but I am going to cover a different story today - one much less known to the wider public.

## Tiny Terrors of Tasmania

The bizarre event kicked off at roughly midnight one February night in 1948, when two witnesses in the Tasmanian town of Berriedale became aware of a bright object hovering above them, fairly low in the sky, as they stood in their back garden. Perched on the edge of the saucer-shaped object were several diminutive green humanoids. They seemed to be making an odd '*singing sound*' - which some sources have apparently indicated was to the tune of the children's song 'Three Blind Mice'. After the childlike entities had finished seemingly mocking the witnesses, the aerial enigma slowly drifted out of sight to the west, apparently never to be seen again.

## Source

Albert Rosales was informed of this case by the Tasmanian UFO researcher Keith Roberts, who was/is working with the Tasmanian UFO research organisation 'TUFOIC'. Albert then published a description of this enigmatic event on his website, but that website has since been taken down and his files have been transferred into book format. I cannot recommend these books enough!

Upon further research prompted by the intriguing tidbit published in Rosales's book, I found another source which slightly expanded on the information presented here (https://issuu.com/downunder/docs/orig\_webpage\_1), but this case seems to be generally quite obscure.
The Angel over Greensburg

The residents of the Kansas city of city Greensburg were presumably taking their time to recuperate after enduring a recent snowstorm, when a '*dazzling white*' image appeared in the sky above them. They were said to be '*not a little disturbed*' by this luminescent apparition, but eventually they would come to the conclusion that what they were seeing was actually a heavenly angel. One intrepid man decided to do what people who didn't wish they did in these sorts of situations - he reached for his camera and took a photograph of the sky.

## Miracle Caught on Camera

Dark clouds blotted out the sun from the sky above Greensburg, but another source of illumination would soon make itself known. It was described in the *Foulton County News* as having been brighter than even the brightest of calcium lights, and to have resembled the large image of a classical angel. According to the aforementioned newspaper, however, not everyone agreed that this was an angel - with at least one young man whose mother had died just before the storm broke interpreting the event as representing his mother's spirit hovering above the city.

The newspaper article in question - which is the primary source for my writeup of this case, if you hadn't guessed - then went on to claim that an '*enterprising photographer*' raised his camera to the sky and took a snapshot of the bizarre apparition to serve as indelible proof of the city's heavenly visitation. A man by the name of J. Frank Martin later sent this photograph to a Mr. and Mrs. PP Shives, who were responsible for getting the anomalous image printed in the local paper soon after.

## Heavenly Light and Journalistic Murk

Whether or not Martin was the original photographer is unclear - as is the newspaper in which the picture initially appeared. The article in the *Foulton County News* confirms that the photo exists, but doesn't show it. However - as you can obviously tell, I have a scan of the photograph itself. I imagine that there might be a more detailed retelling of the event published alongside this photograph, and so I will update this article if I find said retelling.

## Sources

I tracked this story down to a scanned copy of the *Foulton County News* issue that was initially published on the 11th of January 1917 (which can be read here), but I found the first reference to the event - and the copy of the odd picture shown here - on this website.
When Pokémon Attack

Pokemon Go was, and still is, wildly popular. It enables people to hunt for virtual monsters throughout the real world, using GPS functions to create a map of the world around players. It was downloaded roughly 15 million times in its first week of release. Because it encourages people to explore the world around them, numerous bizarre stories have come to light involving the game - some of which are of the paranormal variety. For example, the Loveland Frogman was allegedly encountered in 2016, long after the first wave of sightings had finished in 1972. In another report, some players supposedly broke into Area 51 after discovering a wild Mewtwo in the government base.

## The Incident

However, nothing can top what apparently happened to a woman in Moscow. Bizarre circumstances led to a formal police complaint being lodged against a Pokemon character. The married woman had been playing the game before she fell asleep, and was then woken up to find a giant Pokemon lying on top of her body while it sexually assaulted her. Not surprisingly, she jumped out of the bed immediately, causing the bizarre apparition to vanish - but the virtual reality game could allegedly still detect the presence of the monster on her bed. She woke her husband and told him what had happened, but it became clear that he didn’t believe her when later speaking to the police. Both the police and her husband said that she should seek psychiatric help, and a later visit to a psychic turned up nothing. According to Ivan Makarov, a friend of the woman who’s name has not been release to the press, she says that there are ‘too many Pokemon at her place and even the dog can sense them. She says the dog barks whenever she plays Pokemon Go’.

## Analysis

The attack that jumpstarted this series of events reminds me of a sleep paralysis episode. Sufferers of this condition normally tell of being sexually assaulted or lied on by supernatural or demonic beings, and so perhaps this woman saw a Pokemon because she had been playing the game before bed. The rest of the story - the details about the dog being able to sense the Pokemon - could be explained by paranoia.

The woman eventually accepted psychiatric help for what she had been through, bringing an end to the truly bizarre anomalous incident. As far as I know, nothing like this has ever happened since.

## Source

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3734361/amp/Woman-tells-police-RAPED-Pokemon-character-felt-assault-virtual-reality-game-detected-creature-bedroom.html
Banshee in the Blackrock

It is interesting how tales of ghosts and spirits differ across cultures. Every country seems to have its own version of ghouls and wraiths that seem to be embedded within their own unique psyche and lore, but which are claimed to be seen by numerous witnesses and which are taken to be as quite real by the people who embrace these tales. One very rich vein of spooky lore that has entwined itself with very real accounts is the tale of the Irish spirit called the banshee. It is a shrieking, horrific entity that one would not want to meet, and by all accounts it seems to be far from confined to mere myth and legend.

## Blackrock Banshee

My mother, when a young girl, was standing looking out of the window in their house at Blackrock, near Cork. She suddenly saw a white figure standing on a bridge which was easily visible from the house. The figure waved her arms towards the house, and my mother heard the bitter wailing of the Banshee. It lasted some seconds, and then the figure disappeared. Next morning my grandfather was walking as usual into the city of Cork. He accidentally fell, hit his head against the curbstone, and never recovered consciousness.

In March 1900, my mother was very ill, and one evening the nurse and I were with her arranging her bed. We suddenly heard the most extraordinary wailing, which seemed to come in waves round and under her bed. We naturally looked everywhere to try and find the cause, but in vain. The nurse and I looked at one another, but made no remark, as my mother did not seem to hear it. My sister was downstairs sitting with my father. She heard it, and thought some terrible thing had happened to her little boy, who was in bed upstairs. She rushed up, and found him sleeping quietly. My father did not hear it. In the house next door they heard it, and ran downstairs, thinking something had happened to the servant; but the latter at once said to them, ‘Did you hear the Banshee? Mrs. P—must be dying.’

A few years ago a curious incident occurred in a public school in connection with the belief in the Banshee. One of the boys, happening to become ill, was at once placed in a room by himself, where he used to sit all day. On one occasion, as he was being visited by the doctor, he suddenly started up from his seat, and affirmed that he heard somebody crying. The doctor, of course, who could hear or see nothing, came to the conclusion that the illness had slightly affected his brain. However, the boy, who appeared quite sensible, still persisted that he heard someone crying, and furthermore said, “It is the Banshee, as I have heard it before.” The following morning the head-master received a telegram saying that the boy’s brother had been accidentally shot dead.
Paranormal World Wiki

## Welcome to the Other Side!

Welcome to the Paranormal World Wiki. I am also the creator of the Tumblr blog 'Campfire Creeps' and the WordPress site 'Bridge to Magonia'. This site has a much broader scope - literally anything unexplained will be discussed and documented here. If you are also serious about studying the unexplained and Fortean, please feel free to do some editing and addition to this passion project of mine.

## My Passion

Ever since I was a young child, I have been fascinated by the things that science cannot explain - be this UFOs and aliens, cryptozoology, ghosts and life after death, or even religious miracles. I have attempted to make several different websites chronicling my ongoing research into the paranormal, and the most recent one was Tumblr. Obviously, Tumblr has since collapsed thanks to 'female presenting nipples'. So my paranormal research and case files have been relocated here!

## Latest activity

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Hypnotised by the Kaaiman Merbeing

The Kaaiman are mermaid-like creatures known from the folklore of some regions of South Africa, in which they are said to be malevolent beings resembling half-human and half-fish humanoids with glowing red eyes. They attempt to drown their victims. Obviously this is all just mermaid mythology, right? A report from 2008 suggests that there may be more than meets the eye to the Kaaiman story.

## The Incident

It was January 10th, 2008 in the Suurbraak area of the South African Western Cape, and a group of friends enjoying a ‘*braai*’ (barbeque) on the banks of the Buffelsjags River reported spotting a legendary mermaid-like creature, known locally as the Kaaiman. Local resident Daniel Cupido said he and a group of friends were relaxing next to the river when he heard something which sounded like someone ‘*bashing on a wall*’. Cupido walked toward the sound. At a nearby low water bridge, he said he saw a figure, ‘*like that of a white woman with long black hair thrashing about in the water*’. Thinking to save her, he waded toward her, but said he stopped in his tracks when he noticed a reddish shine in her eyes. The sight sent '*shivers*’ down his spine, yet he was pulled forward as if hypnotized. He called for his child, Deidrian, 13, and his nephew, Werner Plaatjies, 11, to help him, breaking his trance. He then shouted to his friends to take a look as well. Martin Olckers said he saw a female figure swimming, first on one side of the low water bridge, then on the other, and then standing on the bridge before diving back into the black water. He said the figure made the 'strangest sound’ like a woman crying. His mother, Dina, said the figure sounded so sorrowful, '*my heart could take it no more*’. Her husband Martinus said their parents had warned them about the Kaaiman but they never believed it existed. Some people believe that the Kaaiman is responsible for drownings.

## Source

https://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/kaaiman/

This source because the same website has previously redirected me to a virus link, which is weird because I always used to use it with no trouble. Copy and paste it into your browser at your own risk, I guess.
Acrid Critter of Winterfold

On the cold night of December 16th, 1967, a car came to a stop on the side of the road outside a deserted old mansion in Winterfold, Surrey. Presumably irritated at having to go out into the cold, a young man left the vehicle and wandered over to the windshield in order to clean the glass so that he and his girlfriend could continue on their journey. However, this man would soon come face-to-luminous-face with a dwarfish humanoid seemingly ripped directly from the frames of a sci-fi B-movie.

## The Creep with the Glowing Cranium

The man's girlfriend sat in the car and waited for him, but the events of the night would soon take a turn for the weird when he became aware of a pungent, acrid odour in the air as he cleaned the windshield. Repulsed by the miasma, he got back into his vehicle - and only then did he notice what was presumably the source of the stench. There was a bizarre humanoid creature watching them from nearby. It was described as being 4ft 6 inches in height, and as having a luminous, oblong-shaped head. The foul fumes seemed to be emanating from its diminutive body.

Approaching the car, the ghastly glowing ghoul put one of its arms on the roof of the vehicle. Terrified at this close encounter, the man hit the gas and drove away from the scene as quickly as possible. His story would later be told in the 10th issue of the now-famous *Fortean Times* magazine.

## second version

there is also a second version of this story with more details, floating around, apparently it came from the flying saucer review magazine:

Location. Cranleigh, Surrey England
Date: December 16 1967 Time: 00:30 a.m.

Carpenter Phillip Freeman (22) and his girlfriend Angela Carter (20) were returning to Woking from Phillip’s brother’s house in Cranleigh, when at a spot in the Winterfold Forest, about 3km from Cranleigh they stopped to de-mist the windscreen. As Phillip opened the car door, they noticed an extremely unpleasant odor like that of a stink-bomb. When Phillip re-entered the car, he was alarmed to see a kind of face 25 cm long, 20 cm wide close to the window. It was blank, white, with no features at all and may have been faintly luminous. There was also a sort of arm which reached up to the car roof and a dark bell-shaped body which was illuminated by their rear lights. Having moved towards the rear as Phillip fumbled to start the engine. It appeared to be the same size as their Triumph Vitesse car (1.35m). When they had driven from the scene the foul smell vanished. Angela would not agree to return to the site. Phillip’s parents confirmed his agitated state when he arrived home.

HC addendum
Source: Charles Bowen in FSR 14, 1, p. 16, citing his own investigation Type: C

## Source

As I said above, I found this tale in *Fortean Times* #10 - which doesn't seem to be available online. Thusly, I found the details for this story on this website instead.

the second version was sent to us by researcher albert s. rosales
Evidence an Indonesian Shrouded Ghost?

In everyday life, someone must have experienced a scary incident. Usually these scary events in Indonesia at Pocong occur accidentally and even unexpectedly. Because of this, people who experience scary events are usually immediately shocked and have difficulty controlling themselves. The pocong form has a scorched face with bright red eyes. Another version states, pocong has a "flat" face and has hollow or cotton-covered eye holes with a pale white face. Those who believe in the existence of this ghost assume, pocong is a form of "protest" from the dead who forgot to open his shroud before the grave was closed. Although in movies pocong is often depicted as moving around, the myth about pocong instead states that pocong moves around. This is understandable, because in the movies the pocong actor cannot move his legs so that he has to jump up and down to walk. This situation also gives rise to a statement that is commonly used to distinguish genuine pocong and fake pocong in society:

Belief in the existence of pocong ghosts only develops in Indonesia, especially in Java and Sumatra. Even though its depiction follows Muslim tradition, people of other religions can actually acknowledge the existence of this ghost.

## At unsually Pocong ghost?

in April 2023 believe it or not, there are indeed events Ramadan that often occur beyond reason. Many often associate it with mystical things or invisible creatures. You must have heard of mystical stories or those that are beyond reason? Just hearing the story can scare you, especially if you experience it first hand.

It doesn't only happen in horror films, sometimes scary mystical stories are also experienced by many people in the real world. Even the incident could have occurred in a place of worship. As recently, a video of an alleged sighting similar to a floating pocong appears in a mosque window uploaded by the TikTok account @beban.partyan\_.

In the 36-second video, you can see two men beating the drum to wake up the dawn. When the camera records around, a white shadow like a pocong floating from outside looks real. Here's the full story, reported by Liputan6.com from TikTok @beban.partyan\_, Monday (3/4/2023). Each region has different traditions when waking up the dawn. There are those who go around the complex or patrol the dawn by playing musical instruments to the accompaniment while chanting 'sahur' loudly. But there are also those who wake up the dawn.

Like playing the rhythmic drum of dawn. However, two men experienced a spooky incident when they woke up the dawn at the mosque. Initially the two men were recorded on video playing the drum. But suddenly in the middle of the video a white shadow appears floating. At first they didn't notice, but the white shadow got closer and startled them. The two men immediately stood up and took the cellphone used to record. The sighting made him shudder. Both of them immediately ran scared to see the appearance of a shadow like the pocong.
Flying Fiend of Finksburg

Driving alone at 3am next to an empty cornfield is never a good idea - and if the central figure of a bizarre story told in the February 1993 issue of *Fate Magazine* didn't already know this, she would come to very soon. A monstrous, winged reptilian entity was waiting for her - perhaps to punish her for learning nothing from horror movies.

## On Leathery Wings

It was Spring of 1980, and an unnamed lone motorist was driving along a high bank near a secluded cornfield in Finksburg, Maryland when she spotted a grey-coloured figure stood in the road. She initially took it to be a man, but as she neared the entity she realised that it was something much weirder. It was a '*very tall*' reptilian humanoid with wings and a notably-pointed chin. Perhaps noticing that it was being watched, the creature started flapping its wings and rose up above the car into the air. These wingbeats were apparently so strong that they caused enough wind displacement to make the car literally shake. After this terrifying sight, the monster quickly vanished from sight.

The entity involved in this case reminds me of the monster sighted twice during the Medford Lizard Man Flap, and it also resembles the aliens supposedly known as 'Alpha Draconians' as linked to the highly controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Collier. I don't personally buy into what Collier says about the Draconians (which were probably just inspired by the ramblings of David Icke), but it is certainly interesting to see winged reptilian entities seemingly appearing in real life.

## Source

Well, I first heard about this incident from *Monster! An A-Z of Zooform Phenomena* by Neil Arnold, in which it was named the 'Finksburg Phantom' and amusingly referred to as a '*leathery-winged nuisance*', which was the turn of phrase that encouraged me to write a brief article about it. I later found more information in the *Humanoid Encounters* books by Albert Rosales.
The Ashdod Apparition

Israel was still reeling from relentless Palestinian rocket attacks when a man named Ilan would have a bizarre encounter with an aerial apparition bearing a close resemblance to something one would only expect to see in the depths of the world's oceans. Could this anomalous event have had something to do with the bombings? Was it a hitherto-unknown military weapon? Or was it some kind of undiscovered animal disturbed by the explosions?

## The Balloon Man

It was at 22:45 on September 6th, 2006. The sky was clear and illuminated with the gentle light of the full moon. Looking out of the window of his his 17th-floor apartment in Ashdod, Israel, Ilan noticed what he initially thought to be a child's balloon floating in the air about 20 metres away from his position. Ignoring it at first due to its seemingly-obvious identity as a balloon - he eventually decided to pay it closer attention. Upon doing this, he realised that it was a humanoid entity. It was brown in colour and seemed to be hovering without moving at all, which is something that balloons are obviously not known to do. The entity's body appeared to be made of a jelly-like substance, and it was staring directly at him with two beady little eyes.

The enigmatic entity then seemingly engaged in a staring contest with the witness, seeing as it floated there for 15 minutes and there is no description of what it was doing during this time. After this, small blue and white lights suddenly became visible on its so-called feet, and it swiftly moved upwards in the sky whereupon it promptly disappeared.

## Source

Monster! An A-Z of Zooform Phenomena by Neil Arnold

 https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/2006-september-ufo-alien-sightings/
White Horse of the Winds

A strange article appeared in the *New York Times* on July 8, 1878 after the information contained wherein had previously been featured in the *Cincinnati Commercial Tribune* thanks to a story relayed by an anonymous telegram message coming from the small West Virginia town of Parkersburg. The story in question details a mass sighting of an entity previously thought confined to mythology. '*Three or four*' farmers had apparently witnessed a flying horse...

## What a West Virginia Farmer Saw

The primary witness in the case was ploughing one of his fields, accompanied by several of his fellow farmers, at 7:00pm on one afternoon in early July of 1878 when he happened to glance up at the sky - presumably taking a break from his intensive manual labour. The sky that evening was cloudless, but it was by no means bare. There was an '*opaque substance*' roughly half a mile away from the witnesses in a westerly direction. As he stared at this odd object, he slowly came to the realisation that what he was looking at was something truly surreal. It appeared to be a white horse, with all aspects of its anatomy '*clearly defined*'. It seemed to be moving as if it were swimming through the clear skies, kicking its legs and moving its neck from side to side while it continually ascended at a 45° angle.

Baffled, the farmer rubbed his eyes to prove to himself that he was not dreaming - and when the horse was still very much present in the atmosphere after this, he called to his fellow farmers, who were working about 100 yards (300ft) away from him. He told them to look up and tell him what they could see as a way of checking that he wasn't just misinterpreting something mundane. The men became '*badly frightened*' - confirming that they could indeed see a white horse swimming through the sky. However, the man who had first seen the animal wasn't quite as terrified, and was able to sit himself down and watch the creature move through the air until it vanished. It moved off in the same direction in the same swimming manner before disappearing from sight, concluding the bizarre incident.

Xavier Ortega of *ghosttheory.com* speculated that perhaps the men had witnessed a horse being beamed up to a UFO hidden in the atmosphere, but I am instead of the mind that this is just another example of an exceedingly rare phenomenon of which I have only ever heard one other example. There was a thunderstorm over Mecca in Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2014 - and a dark shape was seen moving through the turbulent clouds. It had four limbs which seemed to be pounding against the air, and cries of religious devotion and terror seemed to surround its every move thanks to the crowd gathered below. Some truly atmospheric footage of this bizarre happening was captured by one of the witnesses on the ground - there was a flying horse above Mecca.
Blue Thing on the Ice Age Trail

Bizarre paranormal entities were presumably the furthest thing from Michelle's mind as she hiked along the remote Ice Age Trail in Lodi, Wisconsin with one of her friends - and yet she would become the sole witness a truly unique apparitional being when she decided to separate from her friend and wander on ahead.

## The Cerulean Spectre

It was the 22nd of August in 1999, and Michelle had just decided to walk on ahead of the friend with whom she was enjoying a hike around the secluded path known as the Ice Age Trail. Soon after she decided to go on alone (does no-one ever learn anything from horror movies?) she caught sight of a flash of motion some 50ft ahead of her. As she focused on the anomaly, she realised that it was a blue-grey figure which was moving along the trail towards her.

She initially took it to be a cyclist dressed in a blue jacket, but she soon realised that there was no bicycle visible. Instead, it was simply gliding along the path with a smooth motion. It appeared to have some kind of long blue plume coming out of the back of its head, which waved around as it moved. Almost as suddenly as it had appeared, it abruptly changed directions and glided off to her right before swiftly disappearing into the trees. It was then that the aforementioned plume was noted by the witness.

Presumably confused and shaken, Michelle quickly explained what she had seen to her companion - who had since come up behind her. Both walkers decided to go and investigate the path taken by the 'Blue Thing' before it had disappeared into the woods, but nothing unusual was noted.

## Why So Blue?

I am not certain what to make of this case, in all honesty. It strikes me as a completely unique entity, but if I am wrong about that I would love to hear any more reports of beings like it. I wonder what sort of plume it was that was coming out the entity's head - was it smoke-like or perhaps feathered?

## Source

'A Dictionary of Cryptozoology' by Ronan Coghlan and Albert Rosales quoting the website Weird Wisconsin - which has sadly since shut down for 'extensive renovations'. I guess one may need to use the Wayback Machine to access my most extensive source for this case.
Angel of Hertford

When you think of angels nowadays, you probably think of a lovely-looking blond-haired dude dressed in white, with fluffy wings and maybe a harp. In reality, angels are described as amazing and imposing beings, certainly giving them a reason to say 'do not fear'. Here we have an amazing story of an encounter with a winged humanoid resembling what an angel would've likely originally been envisaged to look like.

## The Incident

*“We have an account of a surprising phenomenon that was seen near Hertford during a violent storm of thunder and lightning, on Thursday the 18th*(May 18, 1749)*by one John Mitchell, as he was traveling on the road: He was met by a man of a gigantic stature, his face shone like the sun, on his head something resembling a crown with stars, with wings on his shoulders; his body seemed of transparent fire; but suddenly it disappeared like several balls of light, attended with an explosion like that of a number of cannons.”*

Here we seem to have a report of what can only be described as a classic angel, complete with the wings and larger-than-human stature. The crown could be interpreted as being the same as the halo described as adorning the heads of the heavenly host. When angels appear in the Bible, their manifestation is often heralded by enormous noises like explosions or ‘cannons’.

## Sources

‘Humanoid Encounters’ by Albert Rosales

 The Newcastle Courant (Tyne and Wear, England) May 27, 1749.
Dark Dumbo

When you read about this incident, you will understand perfectly why I have chosen to name the entity involved as I have...

## The Incident

A Reddit user named ’mutually\_awkward’ detailed a story that their father’s girlfriend had told them about a terrifying and possibly demonic entity that she had encountered. She was living alone in her apartment at the time, and once fell asleep in the living room with the lights still on.
She slept peacefully until she suddenly woke up ‘super late into the night’ and saw a humanoid creature staring at her. It was apparently childlike in stature, but had a large head with huge ears which it flapped up and down in order to float in the air. It had a 'grotesque grin’, and the witness was left frozen in terror. After a few moments, however, this 'Dark Dumbo’ vanished into thin air.
The same witness apparently has other stories of waking up at night while being choked by an invisible entity.
This case can likely be chalked up to sleep paralysis, but the Redditor recounting the story claims that they have experienced it and knows that this was a different thing. The next best explanation would be Hypnagogia.

## Source

https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/9wmv6z/has\_anyone\_ever\_heard\_of\_this\_creature/
Hellhounds from a UFO

Well this is going to be a short but sweet case due to the lack of information given about the event by the witnesses, but it raises a tantalising connection between two paranormal phenomena that I had previously thought were completely unrelated. Black Dogs/Hellhounds, and UFOs.

## The Incident

It was September 9th of 1973 (the dreaded ‘Year of the Humanoids’), and several youths were in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. It is unknown what exactly they were doing there, but I’m just going to assume that they were simply loitering as youths are stereotypically wont to do. They were presumably just minding their own business when a UFO suddenly landed and turned off its lights before ten entities described as ‘*big, black hairy dogs*’ emerged from the craft and ran through the cemetery.

No more information was provided, but this is truly fascinating - don’t you think? There are cases of UFOs being associated with other phenomena that are usually ascribed to demonic activity, such as the chanting mentioned in the ‘Man of Smoke’ case discussed in an earlier post - and so it seems that we can add Hellhounds to the long list of paranormal phenomena that seem to converge in the melting-pot of ufology.

## Source

‘1973 - Year of the Humanoids’ by David Webb
Abnormally-Large Avians in Patagonia & Peru

Sightings of enormous birds and legends detailing their existence are known all across the world. Today I am taking a look at two specific cases from Patagonia and Peru, respectively.

## Kélenken - What's in a Name?

The Aónikenk people of Argentina and Chile have a legend that talks about an evil spirit of the cold by the name of 'Kélenken', which is described as a giant black bird of prey. This entity is said to appear during painful childbirths to feed on the tears of the mothers and to bewitch the children using its supernatural cackling. This malevolent being is described as a flying bird, whereas the creature commonly recognised under its name nowadays is a prehistoric flightless predatory bird. The sightings we will be discussing today deal with the spirit's flightless namesake as opposed to the actual demon.

A Chilean Jesuit priest known as Alonso de Ovalle produced a map that has been dated to 1641 - and it depicts animals such as llamas and rheas with an accurate scale, but also shows something resembling an enormous raptor standing on a steppe. This bizarre image (pictured) resembles an extinct bird of the higher classification Phorusrhacoidea - of which Kelenken is a genus. These animals were flightless predators that could reach 9.8ft tall in some cases. Interestingly, a Professor F. B. Loomis released an article in the New York Times in 1922 discussing cryptozoological occurences in Patagonia - mostly living plesiosaurs - but also noted that several local cowboys 'sometimes talk of great wingless birds'. He attributed this to their drunken hallucinations, but how could these mainly illiterate men have known about the history of terror birds in the region if not from personal experience?

If these bizarre events are the sum of something more than coincidence, then they could serve to provide evidence that the terror birds may have still roamed Patagonia until roughly 100 years ago.

## Ghastly Griffins of Peru

In the 15th century, there were reports of a gigantic creature described as a 'condor-griffin'. Pedro Cieza de León, a Spanish conquistador and chronicler, noted that in Perú during the 1540s there were 'some very big condors that almost look like griffins some attack lambs and small guanaco in the fields'. The Andean Condor has been known to steal children and guanacos (llamas), and the local Tehuelche culture has a myth in which a demigod plucks the feathers from the condor's head as punishment for stealing children. The general Patagonia area was also home to Argentavis Magnificens, the largest condor ever known to science - which would have had a 7 meter wingspan. If one of these extinct giants had survived into the 15th century then it could easily account for Cieza de León's report.

## Sources

http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/flying-creatures-strange-birds-part-3.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1922/03/11/archives/seeing-things-in-patagonia.html

La Crónica del Perú by Pedro Cieza de León