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Those of you who have read the new supernatural thriller Clowders (released March 2018) will have heard of Mixor the cat. In this creepy book about an isolated European town where each time a cat dies nine human lives are taken as a punishment, Mixor plays the local sheriff’s pet. In the story, Mixor is [...]
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Many people are intrigued by the concept of residual hauntings, a type of haunting where events from the past seem to replay themselves.
After almost 2 decades, an experiencer comes forward to describe her frightening Reptilian encounter. She felt mentally and spiritually controlled in the presence of this being. "Hi. Upon reading online about reptilian beings visiting people I summoned up my courage to speak out about my experience 19 years ago. In 2005 I lived in Colchester, England with my long-term partner and was working at a local cafe where I met and worked with people who first introduced me to the beliefs surrounding the Illuminati. When I fell pregnant we decided to move to Australia where strange things started to happen in my sleep. The first one I remember is waking up and not being able to move or talk. It was extremely frightening and although it happened on several occasions I was hesitant to tell my partner in case he thought I was crazy. On the contrary, I felt mentally and spiritually strong which helped me fight to overcome the forces that were controlling me every time. I also used to see tiny green lights in the corners of my room during the night. One night I was woken to find what I can only describe as a reptile-like creature/being standing over me on two legs. It had a frill around its neck that was in a threatened-like extension, very muscular, and a tail. He was making a hissing noise I felt that was certainly not friendly looking almost through me when our eyes met and as in previous experiences I was not able to move or speak and felt paralyzed yet wide awake. In absolute terror, I shut my eyes and opened them and it was gone. I was beside myself and was in fear of his return. It wasn't the last time I awoke to him, he also came to me in a dream. In my dream, I was sitting at my friend's square table talking with her and I knew he was there. In my dream I remember as my friend was talking I was being coaxed away and taken by him, It felt like an out-of-body experience as I could see myself in my dream at the table with her, I knew I had been taken. I managed with all of my spirit to fight the strength he had on me and I remember feeling like I wasn't ready to go and that he'd be back when I was because after that it didn't return and hasn't. After I had my baby I remember seeing lights the same green ones I saw in my room in her cot at night when she woke for feeding. I don't know why this happened to me or why I got a frill neck but I know I'm not alone and I know I'm not crazy! Take care," S ***** ***** PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries! UNDERWATER HUMANOIDS - AQUATIC ANOMALIES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (AMAZING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHARE PHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon JOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming & FREE 2-Day Shipping Register a SNAP EBT Card Try Audible Plus Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE 'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST? 'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information! I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon. If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map Hey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. Lon EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED ----- ----- Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support! -Members-only live chats -Exclusive members-only videos -Priority reply to members' comments Have perks suggestions? LMK ----- YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS ----- HORRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! UNFORSEEN DIRE CONSEQUENCES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS) Each person has their fear of an unexpected encounter with a specific creature or monstrosity at some point in their life. Perhaps it's a beast that terrorizes with dangerous resolve. Maybe it's an aberration so hideous that no one could stand to look at it. Horror is defined by perception. In this presentation, I'm going to offer several eyewitness reports describing implausible and mind-numbing encounters with unspeakable dread. Please comment on the accounts and let me know your opinions. ----- Project Threshold: Finale ----- Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon Also available with audiobook narration by Terry Springs, CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate. This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License. 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Have you ever entered a building, or perhaps driven through a town, where you felt inexplicably weird? Maybe you suddenly felt a sense of oppressiveness, or just really uncomfortable, like you couldn’t wait to leave. Perhaps you had a negative feeling sweep through you from out of nowhere. I have had that happen on many […]
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On the heels of the Slender Man legend comes the story of pale, crawler humanoids, a creepy tale of an unknown being that originally started on a few alternative boards. The narrative eventually reached a larger audience and transformed into a full-blown urban legend. Does this allegory have tulpa potential? Well, that remains to be seen, but there have been reports that this creature does exist. The following is the original publication: The Genesis During the summer of 2003, events in the northeastern United States involving a strange, human-like creature sparked brief local media interest before an apparent blackout was enacted. Little or no information was left intact, as most online and written accounts of the creature were mysteriously destroyed. Primarily focused in rural New York state, self-proclaimed witnesses told stories of their encounters with a creature of unknown origin. Emotions ranged from extremely traumatic levels of fright and discomfort to an almost childlike sense of playfulness and curiosity. While their published versions are no longer on record, the memories remained powerful. Several of the involved parties began looking for answers that year. In early 2006, the collaboration had accumulated nearly two dozen documents dating between the 12th century and the present day, spanning 4 continents. In almost all cases, the stories were identical. I've been in contact with a member of this group and was able to get some excerpts. A Suicide Note: 1964 "As I prepare to take my life, I feel it necessary to assuage any guilt or pain I have introduced through this act. It is not the fault of anyone other than him. For once I awoke and felt his presence. And once I awoke and saw his form. Once again I awoke and heard his voice, and looked into his eyes. I cannot sleep without fear of what I might next awake to experience. I cannot ever wake. Goodbye." Found in the same wooden box were two empty envelopes addressed to William and Rose, and one loose personal letter with no envelope. 'Dearest Linnie, I have prayed for you. He spoke your name.' A Journal Entry 1880 (translated from Spanish): I have experience the greatest terror. I have experienced the greatest terror. I have experienced the greatest terror. I see his eyes when I close mine. They are hollow. Black. They saw me and pierced me. His wet hand. I will not sleep. His voice (unintelligible text). A Mariner's Log: 1691 He came to me in my sleep. From the foot of my bed I felt a sensation. He took everything. We must return to England. We shall not return here again at the request of the Rake. Witness Account: 2006 "Three years ago, I had just returned from a trip from Niagara Falls with my family for the 4th of July. We were all very exhausted after a long day of driving, so my husband and I put the kids right to bed and called it a night. At about 4am, I woke up thinking my husband had gotten up to use the restroom. I used the moment to steal back the sheets, only to wake him in the process. I appologized and told him I though he got out of bed. When he turned to face me, he gasped and pulled his feet up from the end of the bed so quickly his knee almost knocked me out of the bed. He then grabbed me and said nothing. After adjusting to the dark for a half second, I was able to see what caused the strange reaction. At the foot of the bed, sitting and facing away from us, there was what appeared to be a naked man, or a large hairless dog of some sort. It's body position was disturbing and unnatural, as if it had been hit by a car or something. For some reason, I was not instantly frightened by it, but more concerned as to its condition. At this point I was somewhat under the assumption that we were supposed to help him. My husband was peering over his arm and knee, tucked into the fetal position, occasionally glancing at me before returning to the creature. In a flurry of motion, the creature scrambled around the side of the bed, and then crawled quickly in a flailing sort of motion right along the bed until it was less than a foot from my husband's face. The creature was completely silent for about 30 seconds (or probably closer to 5, it just seemed like a while) just looking at my husband. The creature then placed its hand on his knee and ran into the hallway, leading to the kids' rooms. I screamed and ran for the lightswitch, planning to stop him before he hurt my children. When I got to the hallway, the light from the bedroom was enough to see it crouching and hunched over about 20 feet away. He turned around and looked directly at me, covered in blood. I flipped the switch on the wall and saw my daughter Clara. The creature ran down the stairs while my husband and I rushed to help our daughter. She was very badly injured and spoke only once more in her short life. She said "he is the Rake". My husband drove his car into a lake that night, while rushing our daughter to the hospital. He did not survive. Being a small town, news got around pretty quickly. The police were helpful at first, and the local newspaper took a lot of interest as well. However, the story was never published and the local television news never followed up either. For several months, my son Justin and I stayed in a hotel near my parent's house. After we decided to return home, I began looking for answers myself. I eventually located a man in the next town over who had a similar story. We got in contact and began talking about our experiences. He knew of two other people in New York who had seen the creature we now referred to as the Rake. It took the four of us about two solid years of hunting on the internet and writing letters to come up with a small collection of what we believe to be accounts of the Rake. None of them gave any details, history or follow up. One journal had an entry involving the creature in its first 3 pages, and never mentioned it again. A ship's log explained nothing of the encounter, saying only that they were told to leave by the Rake. That was the last entry in the log. There were, however, many instances where the creature's visit was one of a series of visits with the same person. Multiple people also mentioned being spoken to, my daughter included. This led us to wonder if the Rake had visited any of us before our last encounter. I set up a digital recorder near my bed and left it running all night, every night, for two weeks. I would tediously scan through the sounds of me rolling around in my bed each day when I woke up. By the end of the second week, I was quite used to the occasional sound of sleep while blurring through the recording at 8 times the normal speed. (This still took almost an hour every day) On the first day of the third week, I thought I heard something different. What I found was a shrill voice. It was the Rake. I can't listen to it long enough to even begin to transcribe it. I haven't let anyone listen to it yet. All I know is that I've heard it before, and I now believe that it spoke when it was sitting in front of my husband. I don't remember hearing anything at the time, but for some reason, the voice on the recorder immediately brings me back to that moment. The thoughts that must have gone through my daughter's head make me very upset. I have not seen the Rake since he ruined my life, but I know that he has been in my room while I slept. I know and fear that one night I'll wake up to see him staring at me." J NOTE: Could this be a real entity? There are descriptions of similar creatures throughout the ages. For example, in Stephen King's novel It, an entity's various manifestations are given form and power by the belief of the townspeople. The Mothman Prophecies where John A. Keel alludes to several ghosts and UFO sightings as likely being tulpas. I personally feel that thought-form manifestations may clarify and possibly explain certain phenomena. Lon Slenderman: From Fiction to Fact The Slender Man Magical Use of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment ***** ***** PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries! UNDERWATER HUMANOIDS - AQUATIC ANOMALIES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (AMAZING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHARE PHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon JOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming & FREE 2-Day Shipping Register a SNAP EBT Card Try Audible Plus Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE 'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST? 'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information! I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon. If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map Hey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. Lon EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED ----- ----- Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support! -Members-only live chats -Exclusive members-only videos -Priority reply to members' comments Have perks suggestions? LMK ----- YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS ----- HORRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! UNFORSEEN DIRE CONSEQUENCES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS) Each person has their fear of an unexpected encounter with a specific creature or monstrosity at some point in their life. Perhaps it's a beast that terrorizes with dangerous resolve. Maybe it's an aberration so hideous that no one could stand to look at it. Horror is defined by perception. In this presentation, I'm going to offer several eyewitness reports describing implausible and mind-numbing encounters with unspeakable dread. Please comment on the accounts and let me know your opinions. ----- Project Threshold: Finale ----- Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon Also available with audiobook narration by Terry Springs, CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate. This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License. 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Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. Disney and other film production companies have sanitized these stories for a modern audience that is deemed unable to cope with something other than a happy ending. This list looks at some of the common endings we are familiar with and explains the original gruesome origins. The Pied Piper - Robert Browning In the tale of the Pied Piper, we have a village overrun with rats. A man arrives dressed in clothes of pied (a patchwork of colors) and offers to rid the town of the vermin. The villagers agree to pay a vast sum of money if the piper can do it - and he does. He plays music on his pipe which draws all the rats out of the town. When he returns for payment - the villagers won’t cough up so the Pied Piper decides to rid the town of children too! In most modern variants, the piper draws the children to a cave out of the town and when the townsfolk finally agree to pay up, he sends them back. In the darker original, the piper leads the children to a river where they all drown (except a lame boy who couldn’t keep up). Some modern scholars say that there are connotations of pedophilia in this fairy tale. The Pied Piper of Hamelin Little Red Riding Hood - Brothers Grimm The version of this tale that most of us are familiar with ends with Riding Hood being saved by the woodsman who kills the wicked wolf. But in fact, the original French version (by Charles Perrault) of the tale was not quite so nice. In this version, the little girl is a well-bred young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the way to her grandmothers. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no woodsman - no grandmother - just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood. The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers. Little Red Riding Hood The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen The 1989 version of The Little Mermaid might be better known as “The Big Whopper!” In the Disney version, the film ends with Ariel the mermaid being changed into a human so she can marry Eric. They marry in a wonderful wedding attended by humans and merpeople. But, in the very first version by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid sees the Prince marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to stab the prince to death, but rather than do that she jumps into the sea and dies by turning to froth. Hans Christian Andersen modified the ending slightly to make it more pleasant. In his new ending, instead of dying when turned to froth, she becomes a “daughter of the air” waiting to go to heaven - so, frankly, she is still dead for all intents and purposes. The Little Mermaid Snow White - Brothers Grimm In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead, the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of a boar. Now, fortunately, Disney hasn’t done too much damage to this tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs - which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle - not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination. Oh - in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes! Snow White Sleeping Beauty - Brothers Grimm In the original Sleeping Beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids. Sleeping Beauty Rumpelstiltskin - Brothers Grimm This fairy tale is a little different from the others because rather than sanitizing the original, it was modified by the original author to make it more gruesome. In the original tale, Rumpelstiltskin spins straw into gold for a young girl who faces death unless she can perform the feat. In return, he asks for her firstborn child. She agrees - but when the day comes to hand over the kid, she can’t do it. Rumpelstiltskin tells her that he will let her off the bargain if she can guess his name. She overhears him singing his name by a fire and so she guesses it correctly. Rumpelstiltskin, furious, runs away, never to be seen again. But in the updated version, things are a little messier. Rumpelstiltskin is so angry that he drives his right foot deep into the ground. He then grabs his left leg and rips himself in half. Needless to say this kills him. - Rumpelstiltskin Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Robert Southey In this heartwarming tale, we hear of pretty little Goldilocks who finds the house of the three bears. She sneaks inside and eats their food, sits in their chairs, and finally falls asleep on the bed of the littlest bear. When the bears return home they find her asleep - she awakens and escapes out the window in terror. The original tale (which actually only dates to 1837) has two possible variations. In the first, the bears find Goldilocks, rip her apart, and eat her. In the second, Goldilocks is actually an old hag who (like the sanitized version) jumps out of a window when the bears wake her up. The story ends by telling us that she either broke her neck in the fall or was arrested for vagrancy and sent to the “House of Correction”. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Hansel and Gretel - Brothers Grimm In the widely known version of Hansel and Gretel, we hear of two little children who become lost in the forest, eventually finding their way to a gingerbread house that belongs to a wicked witch. The children end up enslaved for a time as the witch prepares them for eating. They figure their way out, throw the witch in a fire, and escape. In an earlier French version of this tale (called The Lost Children), instead of a witch, we have a devil. Now the wicked old devil is tricked by the children (in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel) but he works it out and puts together a sawhorse to put one of the children on to bleed (that isn’t an error - he really does). The children pretend not to know how to get on the sawhorse so the devil’s wife demonstrates. While she is lying down the kids slash her throat and escape. Hansel and Gretel The Girl Without Hands - Brothers Grimm Frankly, the revised version of this fairy tale is not a great deal better than the original, but there are sufficient differences to include it here. In the new version, a poor man is offered wealth by the devil if he gives him whatever is standing behind his mill. The poor man thinks it is an apple tree and agrees - but it is actually his daughter. The devil tries to take the daughter but can’t - because she is pure, so he threatens to take the father unless the daughter allows her father to chop off her hands. She agrees and the father does the deed. Now - that is not particularly nice, but it is slightly worse in some of the earlier variants in which the young girl chops off her own arms to make herself ugly to her brother who is trying to rape her. In another variant, the father chops off the daughter’s hands because she refuses to let him have sex with her. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales Cinderella - Charles Perrault / Brothers Grimm In the modern Cinderella fairy tale, we have the beautiful Cinderella swept off her feet by the prince and her wicked step sisters marrying two lords - with everyone living happily ever after. The fairy tale has its origins way back in the 1st century BC when Strabo’s heroine was actually called Rhodopis, not Cinderella. The story was very similar to the modern one except for the glass slippers and pumpkin coach. But, lurking behind the pretty tale is a more sinister variation by the Grimm brothers: in this version, the nasty step-sisters cut off parts of their own feet to fit them into the glass slipper - hoping to fool the prince. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two pigeons who peck out the step-sister’s eyes. They end up spending the rest of their lives as blind beggars while Cinderella gets to lounge about in luxury at the prince’s castle. The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics) NOTE: A brief bit about the Brothers Grimm - Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. If you've ever read "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and felt they were a little dark for kids, you have German culture during the early 1800s to thank. After the book was published it attracted criticism for its sexual content, so the brothers edited these themes out of subsequent editions. But because the violence of the stories wasn't frowned upon in the same way, it was retained and in some cases even increased. The brothers' academic careers were upset in 1837, though, by some political upheaval. When King Ernest Augustus I demanded oaths of allegiance from university professors and other civil servants, Jacob and Wilhelm refused. They were fired from their posts, along with five other professors, and three of the group, including Jacob, were deported. He moved back to Germany and was joined by Wilhelm, but found themselves impoverished, and had to rely on the financial support of friends. In 1840 their fortunes changed when both Jacob and Wilhelm received job offers from the University of Berlin. There, they continued their research; and further polished their folk tale collection, now in its third edition. The two brothers continued working together for the rest of their lives. When Wilhelm died in 1859, the Grimms' collection of folk tales had reached its 7th edition and had grown to 200 tales. In the film, The Brothers Grimm the pair were depicted as con artists pretending to remove evil spirits and malevolent entities as they traveled from town to town in 19th Century Germany. There is no basis for these characterizations and should be considered as fiction. The Grimm's collection of folklore had already been popular during their lifetimes, but it went on to become one of the most celebrated works of German literature and the basis for countless books and movies during the next two centuries. On the list of the best-selling authors of all time, some figures place the Grimms in third place...preceded only by Shakespeare and the Bible. Lon ***** ***** PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries! UNDERWATER HUMANOIDS - AQUATIC ANOMALIES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (AMAZING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHARE PHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon JOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming & FREE 2-Day Shipping Register a SNAP EBT Card Try Audible Plus Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE 'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST? 'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information! I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon. If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map Hey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. Lon EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED ----- ----- Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support! -Members-only live chats -Exclusive members-only videos -Priority reply to members' comments Have perks suggestions? LMK ----- YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS ----- HORRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! UNFORSEEN DIRE CONSEQUENCES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS) Each person has their fear of an unexpected encounter with a specific creature or monstrosity at some point in their life. Perhaps it's a beast that terrorizes with dangerous resolve. Maybe it's an aberration so hideous that no one could stand to look at it. Horror is defined by perception. In this presentation, I'm going to offer several eyewitness reports describing implausible and mind-numbing encounters with unspeakable dread. Please comment on the accounts and let me know your opinions. ----- Project Threshold: Finale ----- Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon Also available with audiobook narration by Terry Springs, CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate. This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License. Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler © 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved
**PDF Version Only*** Investigators, ready yourselves. Candela Obscura needs you! The Candela Obscura Core Rulebook is a fully detailed guide on playing and gamemastering the collaborative investigative horror tabletop roleplaying game. As an investigator of the paranormal secret society Candela Obscura, you and your circle are charged with exploring, fighting, and protecting the people of Newfaire from supernatural dangers lurking in the folds of a bustling world unaware of the occult magick simmering beneath. Candela Obscura is the very first game to use the Illuminated Worlds System as well as the first full RPG from Darrington Press, as featured in the ongoing anthology series on Critical Role. Inside of the Candela Obscura Core Rulebook you’ll discover: 204 detailed pages replete with art, lore, and much more. The core rules to play and create your Candela Obscura investigators and their circles. Over 90 pages detailing the turn of the century-inspired setting of the Fairelands, and in detail the city of Newfaire and the ancient ruins beneath known as Oldfaire. 4 full example assignments for gamemasters to dive in with their players. Over 30 example assignments to explore far-flung corners of the Fairelands and the organizations and people operating within it. An extensive guide to preparing for and gamemastering Candela Obscura. Immersive, in-world ephemera and notes strewn throughout the chapters—illustrations, sketches, research notes, correspondences, advertisements, maps, and more to bring the Fairelands to life. Now is your time to accept the call of Candela Obscura! Ready your dice and accessories and get ready to play! For more information on the game and links to videos of gameplay and resources, visit darringtonpress.com/candela. Full Credits: Lead Game Design: Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall Written By: Rowan Hall and Spenser Starke Editor: Karen Twelves Managing Editor: Matthew Key Production: Ivan Van Norman and Alex Uboldi Proofreading: Jacky Leung Additional Game Design: Christopher Grey, Tracey Harrison, and Taliesin Jaffe Layout: De La Rosa Design Cultural Consultants: Basheer Ghouse, Pam Punzalan, Erin Roberts, Christine Sandquist, Liam Stevens Military & Political Consultant: Anthony Joyce-Rivera Game Development Consultant: Mike Underwood Additional Editing: Jared Deiro, Darcy Ross Additional Writing: Carlos Cisco, Tracey Harrison, Anthony Joyce-Rivera, Sam Maggs, Mike Underwood Graphic Design: Aaron Monroy, Bryan Weiss Artists: Shaun Ellis, Jamie Harrison, Allie Irwin, Amelia Leonards, Lily McDonnell, Justin O’Neal, Sunga Park, Gustavo Rodrigues Pelissari, Doug Telford Map Design: Marc Moureau Cover Artist: De La Rosa Design Artist / Ancient Languages / Spell Design: Stevie Morley Original Concept Created By: Taliesin Jaffe and Chris Lockey
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I was watching a TV show when the subject of flesh-eating plants was brought up. They mentioned the Venus Flytrap, even Audrey II from 'Little Shop of Horrors.' Anyway, this is what I found out: In 1881 German explorer Carl Liche told the tale of a horrid tree that would feast upon the Mdoko tribe of Madagascar. In a terrible ceremony, He watched as the tribe's people would sacrifice one of their own to a man-eating tree. Prodded by javelins a young girl was forced to climb the giant plant which resembled a giant pineapple. The top was fringed with long hairy green tendrils and a set of tentacles surrounding a pool of honey-sweet fluid. As she reluctantly drank from the pool, in Liche's words: “...slender delicate palpi, with the fury of starved serpents, quivered a moment over her head, then as if instinct with demoniac intelligence fastened upon her in sudden coils round and round her neck and arms; then while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wildly to be instantly strangled down again into a gurgling moan, the tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, retracted themselves, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey.” In the book Madagascar: Land of the Man-Eating Tree author Chase Osborn claimed that both the tribes and missionaries on Madagascar knew about the hideous tree, and also repeated the Liche account. Some researchers claim that Liche's recitation was completely fabricated. In fact, Willy Ley, the author of Salamanders and Other Wonders: Still More Adventures of a Romantic Naturalist stated that no killer tree grew in Madagascar, no Mkodo tribe, and apparently Carl Liche himself never really existed. In the book Under The Punkah Phil Robinson recalls the tales of his uncle, who traveled throughout the world. He described a "man-eating tree" that was to be found in the northern Sudan along the Nile Valley. In the account, Robinson's uncle describes the tree: This awful plant, that rears its splendid death-shade in the central solitude of a Nubian fern forest, sickens by its unwholesome humours all vegetation from its immediate vicinity, and feeds upon the wild beasts that, in the terror of the chase, or the heat of noon, seek the thick shelter of its boughs ; upon the birds that, flitting across the open space, come within the charmed circle of its power, or innocently refresh themselves from the cups of its great waxen flowers ; upon even man himself when, an infrequent prey, the savage seeks its asylum in the storm, or turns from the harsh foot-wounding sword-grass of the glade, to pluck the wondrous fruit that hang plumb down among the wondrous foliage. And such fruit ! Glorious golden ovals, great honey drops, swelling by their own weight into pear-shaped translucencies. The foliage glistens with a strange dew, that all day long drips on to the ground below, nurturing a rank growth of grasses, which shoot up in places so high that their spikes of fierce blood-fed green show far up among the deep-tinted foliage of the terrible tree, and, like a jealous body-guard, keep concealed the fearful secret of the charnel-house within, and draw round the black roots of the murderous plant a decent screen of living green. J.W. Buel wrote in Sea and Land that the Ya-te-veo ("I-see-you") plant is native to Africa and Central America, and has stems that resemble "many huge serpents in an angry discussion, occasionally darting from side to side as if striking at an imaginary foe," while attempting to consume humans. It is further described as having a short, thick trunk topped with spine-like shoots with dagger-like thorns along their edges. These barbed shoots hang down to the ground and become suddenly animated when an unsuspecting animal walks between them. The victim is then impaled and crushed against the trunk until it is drained of blood which is then absorbed by the plant. This description is similar to the 'Devil's Snare' or 'Vampire Vine' which is said to live in the dark recesses of the Nicaraguan jungle. In a short story in Lucifer Magazine, the following was quoted: Mr. Dunstan, naturalist, who has recently returned from Central America, where he spent nearly two years in the study of the flora and the fauna of the country, relates the finding of a singular growth in one of the swamps which surround the great lakes of Nicaragua. He was engaged in hunting for botanical and entomological specimens, when he heard his dog cry out, as if in agony, from a distance, Running to the spot whence the animal's cries came. Mr. Dunstan found him enveloped in a perfect network of what seemed to be a fine rope-like tissue of roots and fibres... The native servants who accompanied Mr. Dunstan manifested the greatest horror of the vine, which they call "the devil's snare," and were full of stories of its death-dealing powers. He was able to discover very little about the nature of the plant, owing to the difficulty of handling it, for its grasp can only be torn away with the loss of skin and even of flesh; but, as near as Mr. Dunstan could ascertain, its power cf suction is contained in a number of infinitesimal mouths or little suckers, which, ordinarily closed, open for the reception of food. If the substance is animal, the blood is drawn off and the carcass or refuse then dropped. NOTE: Now, the big question. Are any of these plants real? There are certainly plants in the world that eat meat. Charles Darwin was fascinated by them and spent fifteen years of his life studying them, ex. the Corpse Flower, Venus Flytrap, and other various 'pitcher' plants that consume small mammals and insects that fall into their clutches. As far as man-eating plants that grab and ingest humans or large animals, maybe we should just save it for horror movies. Lon ***** ***** PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries! UNDERWATER HUMANOIDS - AQUATIC ANOMALIES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (AMAZING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHARE PHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on Spotify PHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LIST CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon JOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming & FREE 2-Day Shipping Register a SNAP EBT Card Try Audible Plus Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE 'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!) WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST? 'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES Hey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information! I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon. If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map Hey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. Lon EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED ----- ----- Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support! -Members-only live chats -Exclusive members-only videos -Priority reply to members' comments Have perks suggestions? LMK ----- YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS ----- HORRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! UNFORSEEN DIRE CONSEQUENCES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS) Each person has their fear of an unexpected encounter with a specific creature or monstrosity at some point in their life. Perhaps it's a beast that terrorizes with dangerous resolve. Maybe it's an aberration so hideous that no one could stand to look at it. Horror is defined by perception. In this presentation, I'm going to offer several eyewitness reports describing implausible and mind-numbing encounters with unspeakable dread. Please comment on the accounts and let me know your opinions. ----- Project Threshold: Finale ----- Have you had a sighting or encounter? Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974 Thanks. Lon Also available with audiobook narration by Terry Springs, CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate. This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License. Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler © 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved
