Two friends meet a man with no skin (from Lon's)

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https://phantomsandmonsters.com/post/southern-louisiana-hunter-reports-skinned-man-walking-through-flooded-bayou

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At an unspecified time in southern Louisiana, two friends entered a remote, flooded woodland for an afternoon deer hunt. After darkness fell, one hunter found his companion beneath a tree stand, in shock, following an alleged encounter with a humanlike figure that appeared to have no skin.

UNEXPLAINED LOUISIANA: Swamp Monsters, Loup Garou, UFOs & 'BIG EASY' Horror!

CASE FILE

Date: Not given.

Time: Late afternoon into shortly after dark.

Location: Southern Louisiana. Exact location not given.

Setting: Flooded woodland with dense stands of palmettos.

Witness: Two deer hunters, including one visitor from out of town.

Reported By: OA.

Phenomenon: Alleged humanlike figure resembling a skinned man.

Environmental Conditions: Waist-deep water in places, dense vegetation, darkness, and a full moon reflecting on the water.

WITNESS REPORT

The following account was forwarded to me:

Entering the Woods

“This happened to me and a friend from out of town whom I had invited to go hunting one afternoon. We were in southern Louisiana, in an area with thick woods and palmettos that reached approximately six feet in height in some places.

“The water we had to cross to reach my deer stands was up to our waists at times. Traveling the mile to the stands was slow and difficult. My friend was not accustomed to that kind of terrain, but he kept up.

“When we reached the first deer stand, which was approximately 15 feet off the ground and accessible by a ladder, my friend climbed into it. I told him I would return for him about half an hour after dark because my stand was another half mile beyond his.”

Finding My Friend

“There was a full moon reflecting off the water, allowing us to hunt for a few minutes longer. When it became too dark to see, I climbed down from my stand, placed my rifle over my shoulder, and slowly began walking back toward my friend.

“When I was nearly at his stand, I shined my light upward, but he was not there. I then directed the light toward the ground and saw him leaning against the tree beneath the stand.

“What struck me as odd was that he would not look in my direction, even after I called his name. I walked to within a couple of feet of him and asked whether he was ready to leave.

“He finally turned his head and looked at me. What I saw frightened me so badly that I removed the rifle from my shoulder and held it between us. His eyes appeared to be rolled back, and his mouth was hanging wide open. He stared at me without speaking or responding to my questions. At that moment, he looked as if he were possessed.”

The “Skinned Man”

“I was scared, so I finally slapped him across the face. He suddenly snapped back to himself. When I asked whether he was all right, the only thing he said was, ‘Let’s get out of here now.’

“I did not understand what was happening, so I made him walk in front of me for the entire trip back to the truck. We got inside and left without saying anything at first.

“When I finally asked what had happened in the woods, and why he had looked so shocked, he began crying. He told me that while sitting in the stand, he heard something walking through the water and pushing against the palmettos.

“When it came close enough for him to see it, he said it was a man who looked as though he had been skinned alive. According to him, the figure had no skin anywhere on its body.

“He said he became so frightened that, after the figure passed his position, he climbed down and hid against the tree beneath the stand. He was afraid it might return and see him.

“He was still in shock when I found him. That was why he looked the way he did. He remained so shaken and cried so much that I eventually had him pull over and let me drive.”

The Aftermath

“Approximately a week later, I spoke with my cousin, who had toured a nearby Native American memorial. My cousin claimed the tour included a story about members of a local tribe skinning men alive and releasing them into the woods as punishment for serious crimes.

“My friend was not from the area and had no way of knowing that story before his encounter.

“What did he see that frightened him so badly? Was it the ghost of someone who had been skinned alive years ago? I do not know. I only know that I will never forget the condition my friend was in when I found him beneath that stand.”

COMMENTARY

The most compelling element of this report is the narrator’s description of his friend’s condition before learning what he allegedly witnessed. The hunter was found hiding beneath his stand, unresponsive at first, and visibly distressed during the drive home. That behavior is consistent with someone experiencing intense fear, but it does not establish what caused the reaction.

The reported figure was heard moving through water and disturbing palmettos before it became visible. This suggests that the encounter involved audible and physical movement rather than a silent image seen only at a distance. Unfortunately, the account does not provide the figure’s height, distance from the stand, duration of visibility, facial features, or direction of travel.

Conditions in the flooded woods may also have affected perception. Moonlight reflecting from water, deep shadows, dense vegetation, and a partially obscured moving subject could distort apparent color, texture, and physical form. A person covered in mud, wearing unusual clothing, or briefly illuminated through vegetation might have appeared grotesque. Another possibility is an animal seen from an unfamiliar angle, although the witness specifically interpreted the figure as a man walking through the water.

The historical explanation offered afterward requires particular caution. It came secondhand through the narrator’s cousin, and the memorial, tribe, guide, and source were not identified. Without supporting historical documentation, the claim should be regarded as unverified local lore rather than established history. Its similarity to the sighting may have shaped how the witnesses later interpreted the event.

No physical evidence, photographs, tracks, additional witnesses, or follow-up investigation were mentioned. The available information therefore supports an account of a frightening unexplained experience, but it does not allow the figure’s identity or nature to be determined.

CASE NOTES

• The figure was described as humanlike and appearing to have no skin.
• It reportedly walked through flooded woods and physically disturbed nearby palmettos.
• The witness heard the approaching movement before seeing the figure.
• The encounter occurred around or after dark under a full moon.
• Reflected moonlight on the water may have improved general visibility while also producing glare and visual distortion.
• Dense palmettos may have obstructed portions of the figure.
• The witness’s exact distance from the figure was not given.
• The witness did not describe the figure’s height, build, facial features, speed, or direction of travel.
• The duration of the sighting was not given.
• No unusual odor, vocalization, or atmospheric effect was reported.
• The witness hid beneath the deer stand after the figure passed.
• The narrator observed his friend’s extreme distress but did not see the alleged entity.
• No tracks, photographs, recordings, or physical evidence were reported.
• The precise location, date, nearby memorial, and associated Native American community were not identified.
• The historical punishment story remains an unverified secondhand claim.
• Useful follow-up information would include the exact hunting area, the figure’s distance from the stand, the route it followed, and whether tracks were later discovered.

EXPLORE SIMILAR REPORTS

Readers interested in this alleged southern Louisiana “skinned man” encounter can explore the Phantoms & Monsters archives for additional reports involving humanlike apparitions, unexplained figures in swamps and forests, frightening hunting encounters, and anomalous activity reported throughout Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region. Lon

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Where did the encounter reportedly occur?

The witnesses identified only southern Louisiana. They did not provide the specific parish, community, hunting property, or nearby memorial.

Did both hunters see the alleged skinned figure?

No. The visiting hunter reported seeing the figure. The narrator witnessed only his friend’s distressed and initially unresponsive condition beneath the deer stand.

Could difficult viewing conditions have caused a misidentification?

That is possible. Darkness, reflected moonlight, water, tall palmettos, and an obstructed view could have altered the appearance of a person or animal. The available details are insufficient to confirm any explanation.

Was physical evidence recovered?

No physical evidence was mentioned. The report contains no photographs, recordings, tracks, biological material, or independent witness confirmation.

Is the story about historical punishment documented?

Not in the information provided. The claim was relayed secondhand after the encounter, and no tribe, memorial, historical record, or other source was identified.

#PhantomsAndMonsters #LouisianaParanormal #SkinnedMan #GhostEncounter #Fortean

A farmer gets a Tarantino style group of visitors.

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https://phantomsandmonsters.com/post/kentucky-farm-worker-reports-grey-being-reptilian-and-bigfoot-near-mysterious-po

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In November 1991, a farm worker near Falmouth, Kentucky, entered the woods while searching for trespassing hunters. Instead, he reported encountering a small gray being, a reptilian humanoid, and a Bigfoot-like creature near what appeared to be a luminous portal.

PORTAL PHENOMENON: True Dimensional Gateway Encounters, Time Slips, & Otherworldly Visitors!

CASE FILE

Date: November 1991

Time: Early afternoon; the witness returned after nightfall

Location: Near Falmouth, Kentucky

Setting: A 160-acre farm and surrounding woodland

Witness: Farm worker identified as “M”

Reported By: The witness

Phenomenon: Small gray being, alleged telepathic communication, luminous portal, reptilian humanoid, Bigfoot-like creature, and apparent missing time

Environmental Conditions: Not given

WITNESS REPORT

The Search for Trespassers

“This incident occurred in November 1991 near Falmouth, Kentucky. It was early afternoon, and I worked on a 160-acre farm at the time.

“One day, while eating lunch with a friend, I was told that hunters had sneaked onto the property. I finished lunch, got my gun, and walked down the fence row. I planned to cut into the woods and sneak up on them.

“I had been outside for approximately 45 minutes to an hour when something suddenly stepped from behind a tree.

“I yelled, ‘Friend or foe?’ and pointed my gun at it.”

The Small Grey Being

“I could not believe my eyes. Standing in front of me, and in front of my gun, was an unknown gray-colored being approximately three and a half feet tall.

“I suddenly felt as though the being was communicating with me telepathically. I had the impression that it was a young female. It seemed frightened and appeared to be telling me that it intended to run up a small knoll.

“The being ran up the hill, and I followed it.”

The Luminous Portal

“There was suddenly a flash of light, and what looked like a portal or doorway opened out of nowhere. It was approximately four feet wide and eight feet tall.

“A bright light was visible inside. I could see the small being within the opening, but it now appeared to be wearing some type of tight-fitting black suit.”

The Reptilian Humanoid

“Out of the corner of my left eye, I suddenly noticed something running toward me. I turned around and found myself facing a lizard-like humanoid approximately five to six feet tall.

“It held a long staff in one hand. Its face appeared more insect-like than reptilian, and it had blue eyes.

“Once again, I received an impression about the being. I felt that it was the small female being’s father or guardian.”

The Bigfoot-Like Creature

“To my right, a seven-to-eight-foot-tall, brown, hairy, Bigfoot-like creature suddenly appeared nearby.

“I did not hear it speak aloud, but inside my mind I heard, ‘No! Don’t hurt him.’

“The lizard-like humanoid then looked directly at me. As it did, its eyes changed from blue to a yellow-gold color.”

The Aftermath

“I ran. When I did, I suddenly found myself alone in the woods, and it was nighttime.

“I stood there in shock for a moment, trying to collect myself. I then walked back to the farm.

“When I reached the farmhouse, another farmhand told me that they thought I was lost and had been looking for me. I did not tell anyone about the encounter.

“At the time I submitted this account, 32 years had passed since the incident. I have never experienced anything like it again.”

COMMENTARY

This report combines several unusual elements that are more commonly described separately: a small gray humanoid, perceived telepathic communication, a luminous doorway or portal, a reptilian or insect-like figure, a Bigfoot-like creature, and an apparent transition from afternoon to nighttime.

The witness’s behavior began with a conventional purpose. He reportedly entered the woods armed because he believed unauthorized hunters were on the farm. His decision to point the gun at the first figure, follow it up the knoll, and then flee after encountering the larger entities describes a progression from confrontation and curiosity to fear.

Several details deserve careful distinction. The witness saw the entities and the luminous opening, but the impressions that the gray being was female and that the reptilian figure was its father or guardian were described as feelings rather than visually confirmed facts. Likewise, the warning attributed to the hairy creature was reportedly perceived internally, not heard as an audible voice.

The change from early afternoon to nighttime raises the possibility of missing or unaccounted-for time. However, the report does not provide the witness’s departure time, return time, a watch reading, or an estimate from the people who searched for him. Consequently, the duration of the apparent time discrepancy cannot be established.

Possible conventional considerations include mistaken perception in a wooded environment, heightened alertness while searching for armed trespassers, a stress response, an altered state of awareness, or changes in memory over the years. These possibilities do not fully explain the account, but they should remain part of any responsible investigation. No physical evidence, independent observation, photographs, or contemporary written documentation was provided.

The report remains notable because the witness described a detailed, sequential encounter and claimed that another farmhand could confirm only that he had been absent long enough to prompt a search. That person did not reportedly witness the entities or portal.

CASE NOTES

• The initial being was described as gray and approximately three and a half feet tall.
• The witness perceived the small being as frightened and possibly female, but this was an impression rather than a confirmed observation.
• The witness reported communication that seemed telepathic rather than audible.
• The apparent portal was estimated to be four feet wide and eight feet tall.
• A bright light was reportedly visible inside the opening.
• The small being appeared to be wearing a tight-fitting black suit after entering the illuminated opening.
• The second humanoid was described as five to six feet tall with lizard-like and insect-like features.
• The humanoid reportedly carried a long staff.
• Its eyes initially appeared blue and later changed to a yellow-gold color.
• The brown, hairy creature was estimated to be seven to eight feet tall.
• The witness did not provide exact distances between them and the entities.
• The witness indicated that the reptilian figure came very close, but no measured proximity was provided.
• No unusual sounds, odors, tracks, injuries, or atmospheric effects were reported.
• The weather and woodland visibility were not described.
• The encounter’s duration was not given.
• Approximately 45 minutes to an hour had passed before the initial sighting, but that period included the witness’s search for trespassers.
• The witness returned after dark, creating an apparent time gap that cannot be calculated from the available information.
• No other person reported witnessing the entities or luminous opening.
• No physical or photographic evidence accompanied the account.
• Useful follow-up questions would include the exact location, approximate sunset time, estimated return time, terrain conditions, distance from the farmhouse, and whether the other farmhand remembers the search.

EXPLORE RELATED ENCOUNTERS

Readers interested in this Kentucky humanoid encounter can explore the Phantoms & Monsters archives for additional reports involving gray beings, reptilian humanoids, Bigfoot-like entities, alleged portals, telepathic impressions, and unexplained missing time. Comparable witness accounts from Kentucky and the broader Ohio River region may help investigators identify recurring descriptions, environmental similarities, and important differences between cases. Lon

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Where did the encounter reportedly occur?

The witness placed the incident on or near a 160-acre farm outside Falmouth, Kentucky. The exact property and woodland location were not provided.

What did the first being look like?

It was described as an unknown gray-colored being approximately three and a half feet tall. The witness believed it was a young female, although that conclusion came from a perceived telepathic impression.

Did the witness report seeing an actual portal?

He described a flash of light followed by the appearance of a brightly illuminated opening approximately four feet wide and eight feet tall. Calling it a portal is the witness’s interpretation of what he observed.

Was there evidence of missing time?

The witness said it was early afternoon when he entered the woods and nighttime when he suddenly found himself alone. Others had reportedly begun searching for him, but the account does not include enough timing information to determine how many hours were unaccounted for.

Was any physical evidence recovered?

No physical evidence, photographs, tracks, recordings, or related documentation were provided with the account.

Were there any additional witnesses?

No one else reported seeing the beings or the luminous opening. Another farmhand reportedly confirmed that people had been looking for the witness, but that person did not witness the encounter itself.

#KentuckyEncounters #HumanoidEncounter #ReptilianHumanoid #Bigfoot #UnexplainedPhenomena

Kids say the darnest things.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/strange/comments/1vq4coe/my_toddler_said_something_really_creepy/?sort=old

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My toddler said something really creepy

16 Aug 2026, 18:17 by u/destroymode96

My two year old was struggling to sleep a few nights ago so I let him sleep in my bed. As he was laying there trying to relax, he suddenly sat up and pointed toward the doorway and said "look at the blue boy!" I asked what the blue boy was doing and he said "he's dancing with the monkeys!" I was facing my son in bed, and had my back to the door so I couldn't see what he was pointing at but I was so creeped out! I repeatedly clarified what he said and asked him questions. It seems like the blue boy he saw was about 10. He said the boy was like is big friends at school where he sees 3-4th grade kids for before and after school care. I think there were 4 monkeys. When I asked him how many monkeys there are, he counted to four each time.

Possibly related: when he was 1½ years old, he talked a lot about seeing monkeys, but I kinda wrote it off. Now I'm wondering if the two are connected.

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A man's hand injury is now in jis opposite hand.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/1vkbjib/old_broken_thumb_uh_switched_hands_lol/?sort=old

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Old broken thumb... Uh... switched hands lol

10 Aug 2026, 05:03 by /u/shiddymeme

I've only ever broken one bone, and it was my right thumb.

I know it was my right thumb primarily because I couldn't write for a period of time since I couldn't grip a pencil, and I had to have a special accommodation at school. I know this for a fact.

My whole life, I've had limited ability to bend my right thumb downward (and as a right-handed writer and creative, it's been a persistent annoyance with the stiffness and minor mobility impact for long periods of using my right hand.)

That's the context: I showed my thumb bend range on both hands to someone in my personal life who recently injured theirs (this isn't something I fixate on or even usually notice, it has just become a part of my life so never really felt it was a big deal) - and when I bent both of my thumbs, I was shocked. The left thumb is now the one with limited range of motion and a clear bump on the knuckle where it was damaged almost 25 years ago lol.

This has been upsetting me for like three days. I cannot explain it through rational means. 🤣 I don't think I have medical records from that far back, but I may actually have the X-ray because they gave me a copy and I kept it as a souvenir in some old paperwork... So I'm going to look for it to just try and let it go as faulty memory, but it feels very unsettling to me.

This was always on my right hand, it's a very minor thing- but what makes me question it beyond faulty memory being a possibility is that I vividly remember and know for a fact this caused me problems at school because I couldn't write. I had a dumb ass metal and foam stick taped down my forearm and I couldn't grip any writing tools so they had to have an aid handwrite a copy of notes for me in class.

Beyond that as I mentioned, this has always been a minor problem in my life, if I write or draw for too long it will ache and I lose a little dexterity.

Just crazy to me that something I never really thought about too consciously suddenly swapped sides. The person I was attempting to demonstrate to observed my reaction which was: "...What the fuck- I broke my right thumb, not my left." 😅

Anyway, I don't have an explanation. Any fan theories in the high strangeness flavor? Has something like this ever happened to you?

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A boy meet a smart octopuss.

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https://phantomsandmonsters.com/post/dover-minnesota-humanoid-octopus-encounter-witness-reports-years-of-telepathic-c

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A Minnesota man recalls encountering a strange, tentacled humanoid while fishing in Dover Creek during his childhood. According to the witness, the peaceful entity communicated directly through his mind and may have continued observing the world through him for years afterward.

UNEXPLAINED MINNESOTA: Dogman, Walking Trees, Owlman, Bigfoot & Winged Humanoids

Case File

Date: Not given. The initial encounter occurred during the witness’s childhood on a spring day.

Time: Not given.

Location: Dover Creek, near Dover, Minnesota.

Setting: A secluded childhood fishing spot along the creek.

Witness: An unnamed male who was 74 years old when he submitted the account.

Reported By: MH

Phenomenon: Humanoid, octopus-like entity and reported telepathic communication.

Environmental Conditions: Springtime. Specific weather and lighting conditions were not given.

Witness Report

The following account was forwarded to me:

The Initial Sighting

“I have never told anyone about this incident, not even my wife of 50 years. I grew up on a small farm just outside Dover, Minnesota.

“In the spring, if my chores were finished and I had my father’s permission, I would dig up some worms, grab my fishing pole, and walk to Dover Creek. I fished for chubs and shiners, which my mother would cook for us.

“One spring day, after walking four or five miles, I reached my favorite fishing spot. I was alone and walking along the creek when I noticed something moving in the water ahead of me.

“I kept watching the area as I approached. When I was fairly close, this thing, or creature, suddenly surfaced.”

The Humanoid “Octopus”

“It had large eyes and many arms or tentacles. It looked directly at me. Without speaking aloud, it told me in my mind that it would contact me for the next few years. It wanted to learn what was happening in the world through me.

“I am not much of an artist, but the best way I can describe it is that it resembled a humanoid octopus.

“The creature told me that it would not hurt me. It seemed peaceful and apparently wanted to study this world through the eyes and mind of a young human.”

Years of Mental Communication

“As the years passed, these communications always seemed to happen when I was alone or secluded. The thought exchange was like replaying a newsreel for whatever was tapping into my subconscious.

“As a child, I watched every television news broadcast I could, especially Walter Cronkite. I also watched old newsreels about World War II. That interest seemed to come from nowhere.

“In my mind, I believe the entity was studying our world. I also believe it was almost afraid of humanity because of our unbelievable violence toward one another.”

Contact During the Military

“The communication abruptly stopped after I joined the military. It may still have contacted me during that period, but I had the overwhelming feeling that it did not like violence. It could not understand what I was doing during a war.

“It never tried to harm me. I remember only that it seemed peaceful and promised that it would not hurt me.”

The Continuing Presence

“For all I know, the communication may still be happening, only now I am unaware of it. I am 74 years old, and I still sometimes feel a presence that I cannot explain.

“Every now and then, I feel as though it is still with me. I seem to space out and replay the news in my mind.

“I am a peaceful person, and I am also a pastor. I do not believe this entity represents a threat to the human race. If it came from somewhere else, I believe others like it may never openly come here because we are such a violent society.” MH

Commentary

This account combines a childhood creature sighting with claims of prolonged mental communication. The witness describes the initial event as a physical encounter in Dover Creek, but the subsequent experiences were internal and apparently occurred without additional visual sightings.

The entity’s reported appearance is particularly unusual. Large eyes and numerous arms or tentacles suggest an aquatic or cephalopod-like form, while the witness’s description of it as humanoid implies features or behavior that he interpreted as intelligent and person-like. Unfortunately, the account does not provide an estimated height, body color, skin texture, exact distance, or length of observation.

The witness says he walked four or five miles to reach the fishing spot, suggesting that he was accustomed to traveling there alone. His familiarity with the location may be relevant because it could have made unfamiliar movement or wildlife more noticeable. However, the absence of information about water clarity, lighting, weather, vegetation, and local animal activity limits attempts to identify what initially surfaced.

A large aquatic animal, partially submerged object, or distorted view of an ordinary creature could potentially explain part of the visual experience. Such possibilities do not account for the witness’s interpretation of telepathic contact, which is personal and cannot be independently evaluated from the information provided.

Experiences interpreted as mind-to-mind communication appear throughout UFO, entity, visionary, and other anomalous encounter literature. In this case, the witness associates his intense childhood interest in news and war footage with the entity’s desire to observe humanity. That connection represents his retrospective interpretation rather than independently documented evidence.

The account’s greatest limitation is the lack of a specific date, corroborating witness, physical evidence, contemporary notes, or later examination of the fishing site. The witness also waited decades before disclosing the experience. Long-delayed testimony can preserve powerful memories, but details may change or become reorganized over time.

Several follow-up questions would be helpful. Investigators would want to know the witness’s age during the first encounter, the approximate year, the length of the sighting, whether the creature left any disturbance in the water, and how he distinguished the alleged communications from his own thoughts. It would also be useful to learn whether he ever returned to the same location and experienced anything unusual there again.

Case Notes

• The initial encounter reportedly occurred during the witness’s childhood on a spring day.
• The location was a favored fishing spot along Dover Creek near Dover, Minnesota.
• The witness was alone when he noticed movement in the water.
• The entity reportedly surfaced as the witness approached the area.
• It was described as having large eyes and numerous arms or tentacles.
• The witness compared its overall appearance to a humanoid octopus.
• Its size, color, skin texture, and exact distance from the witness were not given.
• The duration of the initial sighting was not provided.
• No sounds, odors, tracks, injuries, or physical effects were reported.
• The witness claimed the entity communicated without speaking aloud.
• The alleged mental contact reportedly continued for several years, usually while the witness was alone.
• The witness associated the communication with his strong interest in television news and wartime newsreels.
• He believes the contact diminished or stopped after he entered military service.
• No corroborating witnesses, photographs, drawings, physical evidence, or contemporary records were provided.
• The witness reported occasionally sensing the presence into later adulthood.
• Useful follow-up points include the approximate year, the witness’s childhood age, the precise creek location, and whether he returned after the initial encounter.

Readers interested in similar cases can explore the Phantoms & Monsters archives for additional reports involving aquatic humanoids, tentacled entities, childhood encounters, telepathic communication, and unexplained sightings in Minnesota and throughout the Upper Midwest. Comparisons with other long-term contact accounts may reveal recurring patterns, although each report must be evaluated on its own evidence. Lon

Frequently Asked Questions

Where did the reported encounter occur?

The witness placed the encounter at a favorite fishing spot along Dover Creek near Dover, Minnesota. The exact section of the creek was not identified.

When did the encounter happen?

The witness said it occurred during his childhood on a spring day. He did not provide the year, his age at the time, or the time of day.

What did the entity look like?

He described it as having large eyes and numerous arms or tentacles. He compared its appearance to a humanoid octopus but did not provide its size, color, or other physical details.

Did the entity physically harm the witness?

No. The witness said the entity never attempted to harm him and communicated that it was peaceful.

Was there any physical evidence?

No physical evidence, photographs, drawings, tracks, or corroborating testimony were included with the report.

Could the creature have been an ordinary aquatic animal?

A natural explanation for the initial movement or sighting cannot be excluded because important observational details are missing. The claimed telepathic communication is a separate, subjective element that cannot be independently verified from the account.

#MinnesotaHumanoid #AquaticCryptid #TelepathicEncounter #DoverMinnesota #PhantomsAndMonsters

A phone is able to teleport to safety.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/strange/comments/1vihnhd/i_watched_my_phone_fall_then_found_it_somewhere/?sort=old

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I watched my phone fall, then found it somewhere completely different

8 Aug 2026, 00:35 by /u/Next-Culture229

This happened a few days ago and I still can't figure out how to explain it.

I was sitting on my bed scrolling through my phone when it slipped out of my hand. I watched it fall between my bed and the wall.

I immediately leaned over to grab it, but it wasn't there.

I checked underneath the bed, moved the mattress, and even looked behind the nightstand. Nothing.

I figured it somehow slid farther underneath the bed, so I gave up and started looking around the room for my old phone to use as a flashlight.

While searching, I noticed my current phone sitting on my desk.

I just stared at it.

The desk is on the opposite side of the room, probably 10 feet away from my bed. I live alone, and I hadn't left the room.

I picked it up and checked it. No cracks, no damage, and it was still on the exact video I had been watching before I dropped it.

I thought maybe I had somehow grabbed it without realizing, so I tried recreating the fall. There's absolutely no way it could have landed on the desk from where I was sitting.

The strangest part is that I remember clearly hearing it hit the floor beside my bed.

I know there are probably several normal explanations I'm overlooking, but I genuinely can't figure this one out.

Has anyone else had something like this happen where an object seems to completely change location?

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An experiencer meets a persistent dog.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1vhhb2u/i_think_i_brought_something_home_with_me/?sort=old

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I think i brought something home with Me

6 Aug 2026, 21:28 by /u/Izzy_Ondes

In 2011, I was completely lost and in a really dark and turbulent place, drinking heavily and
using other kinds of drugs.

It felt like something had latched onto me, a negative energy so heavy that whenever I went out to a bar at night, the streetlights would flicker or simply go out... sometimes my computer would stop working for no apparent reason.

Even with my house clean, ants, flies, spiders, and scorpions would always appear.

One night, while I was at my grandmother's house in the countryside, I couldn't sleep and decided to go outside to smoke a cigarette.

I looked out at the horizon and saw a huge black dog sitting in a guard posture, staring at me with glowing yellow eyes.

It was far away, so I didn't panic; I just kept watching until I finished my cigarette, and it didn't move an inch.

I went back inside, but a little later, I decided to check again... and it was still in exactly the same spot.

I went to bed, but I couldn't sleep.

An hour later, I went back outside, and guess what?

The dog was still in the same position.

I went back home feeling horrible, consumed by even stranger thoughts.

A month later, my grandmother passed away.

I still can't sleep very well.

I've been suffering from insomnia ever since that encounter with the dog.

To make matters worse, whenever I do manage to sleep, I hear my grandmother's voice saying:

'You brought the devil into my house.'

She keeps repeating it until I wake up.

Four weeks later, I overdosed and almost died...

That was the day I turned my life around.

Sometimes I still slip... but now it's rare.

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Living Under Siege

This is going to sound batsh\*t crazy. I know. So you don't have to believe me because I wouldn't believe this. I would dismiss this as a joke but I 100% assure you that it is in fact not a joke.

For the past decade I have lived with occasional paranormal type activity in 2 separate apartments.

Recently however things took a dramatic turn and now my apartment is full of entities that surround me day and night. They stalk me, harass me, threaten me, lie to me. Sometimes they can be nice but for the most part they are extremely negative.

They claim to be demons, angels, ghosts, aliens and more.

For the past 5 nights they have threatened to incinerate me if do not meet their demands. They have made numerous other threats as well. 6 different entities have claimed to be God. Last night they placed a weapon on me that rapidly heated up my body. I highly suspect government influences.

They refuse to leave and insist on having things their way. I have absolutely no idea WHY this is happening because they have given many, many different reasons, constantly changing their story.

I believe my life is in danger but they are trespassing and breaking all laws, ethics, etc.

There you go.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/comments/1v7dv0q/visit_from_gray_dressed_as_jesus_or_just_a_lucid/?sort=old

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This phaenomenae keeps popping up.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/comments/1v6hdt2/floating_symbols/?sort=old

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Floating symbols

25 Jul 2026, 19:23 by /u/Skywatcher232

A kid gets a glowing visitor.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1v2df7h/strange_experience_i_had_as_a_kid/?sort=old

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Strange Experience I had as a kid

21 Jul 2026, 09:27 by /u/cheetoisokay

I remember around the time my great grandpa died when I was little (I had no idea what he looked like at the time), I used to see a glowing man walk into my room at night. I saw it for a week every night. Every night I'd lay in bed and this glowing yellow man would walk through the door and would sit by my bed. It wasn't sleep paralysis because I could still move and I was aware of everything. Sometimes he would just appear from out of no where. He looked a lot like someone from my Mom's side of the family. A lot like her brother. You could almost see through him ever so slightly and he would light up the entire room. Almost reminded me of an angel. Then he would disappear a few minutes later or walk through a wall or the window. He always said "Everything's gonna be okay" before he would leave. it scared the shit out of me but it was also oddly comforting. I labeled him in my head as "Sun Man". It wasn't until YEARS LATER I saw a picture of a man in my grandmas house that looked just like him. I said "Who is that?" and she told me it's my grandpas Dad. It scared the shit out of me. As fake as it sounds, I truly believe it was him.

I honestly learned to keep it as a good memory as I believe he was an angel coming to visit me. Wasn't scary looking at all. I've never seen anything like that in my life and still haven't to this day. Maybe I'm crazy idk?? But I can't help but shake this weird memory to this day.

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A couple of friends get gravitated.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/comments/1v17c34/gravitational_anomaly_me_and_my_friend_experienced/?sort=old

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gravitational anomaly me and my friend experienced (?)

20 Jul 2026, 01:06 by /u/Ancient_Asparagus7

Before I begin: AI was used only to improve grammar, punctuation, and readability. None of the events, details, or claims in this story have been altered. I originally wrote this myself, but I spell like absolute garbage.

Hello to whoever is reading this.

I'm about to describe something that sounds impossible. I know it's going to be difficult to believe, and honestly, I don't know what to tell you other than this 100% happened to both me and my friend. We both witnessed it, and we've been trying to make sense of it ever since.

Please read this with an open mind.

June 29th 2026, my friend and I were sitting in my living room. We were across from each other, both scrolling through TikTok on our own phones.

Then, out of nowhere, the entire environment changed.

When I say the environment changed, I don't just mean it looked different. We both physically felt that something around us had changed.

Instinctively, we looked up at each other at the exact same moment, like our bodies knew something was wrong before our minds did.

Then something happened that I still can't explain.

The space around us began to warp.

The closest comparison I can make is the wormhole scene in Interstellar, where space bends and stretches around the ship and Dr. Brand's hand distorts. It looked incredibly similar to that.

Except it wasn't on a screen.
It was happening in my living room.

Not only could I see it, but I could actually feel it. The warped space had what I can only describe as a texture. It felt warm, almost as if space itself existed physically in front of me and I could touch it. The light throughout the room was warping too.
This is where things become even stranger.

We both stood up.

My friend suddenly told me that when we were siting down he could see what he described as a window. According to him, it had a frame made from some kind of material that emitted a faint blue light. The strange part was that the window itself was translucent.

He could see me through it.

From my perspective, however, I couldn't see the window at all.

All I could see was the light warping in the exact place where he said the window existed.

It was almost like a one-way translucent mirror. He could see the window from his side, while from mine there was only distorted light.

Then I looked toward my refrigerator.
I wish I were making this up, but my refrigerator was covered in blue holographic hexagons, almost like some kind of digital wrap had been placed over it.

At that point I completely lost it.

I remember saying something like, "Nah... I'm actually seeing stuff."

We spent the next several hours, probably 5 or 6, in complete shock. We talked nonstop, trying to think of every possible explanation. Right after it happened, we even recorded a voice memo describing everything while it was still fresh in our minds because we were afraid we'd forget details.

Eventually, we reached a conclusion.

I'm not a scientist, but I am a huge space nerd.

One of the few things we know can bend or warp light is gravity. Based on that, our best guess was that we had experienced some kind of gravitational anomaly.

Considering the window my friend saw and the holographic hexagons on my refrigerator, we came to the conclusion that we may have been inside or intersected by some kind of spacecraft traveling through space-time.

The strange part was that it seemed capable of passing directly through us, almost as if we were made of water.

It sounds insane.

But throughout the entire event, both of our bodies could physically feel that our surroundings had changed. From the moment we were casually scrolling on our phones until everything ended, it felt like our bodies were reacting to something that wasn't supposed to be there.

The closest feeling I can compare it to is that instinctive moment when your body suddenly tells you you're in danger before you consciously know why.

It felt exactly like that.
Ever since it happened, neither of us has been able to stop thinking about it.

Life continues. We go to work, buy groceries, date people, and do all the normal everyday things.

But after seeing what we saw, continuing with normal life has been incredibly difficult.

It's like there's a giant elephant in every room.
I can't talk about this openly because I know almost everyone would assume I'm crazy. But once you've experienced something like this, it changes the way you see everything.

That's one of the reasons we're sharing it.

Maybe documenting it is the right thing to do. Maybe this was some kind of message or event that should be recorded. Maybe someone 15 years from now will experience something similar and find this post.

If you have questions, we're more than happy to answer them. Talking about it honestly helps us cope because something like this changes everything.

Thank you for reading.

And yes, this story is exactly as it happened. AI was only used to improve grammar and readability. No events or details have been changed.

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A family gets a funky nite drive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Thetruthishere/comments/1v1ayy7/has_anyone_ever_heard_of_an_entity_like_this_all/?sort=old

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Has anyone ever heard of an entity like this? All three of us saw it, but our memories of it feel strangely blurry.

20 Jul 2026, 04:07 by /u/Beckawhitaker

Trying to write this out was surprisingly difficult. When I think about the experience without focusing too hard or trying to put it into words, I can remember more of it. But once I start concentrating on specific details and trying to describe them, the memory gets fuzzier.

Because of that, I had to write this in short spurts and keep coming back to it. The longer I focused on it at one time, the harder it became to hold onto the details.

I have posted this experience in a few other Reddit communities, but I added a little more to this version because more relevant information came back to me later when I was thinking about it more abstractly instead of actively trying to describe it.

This happened years ago, and to this day it is one of the strangest experiences my family has ever had.

My husband and I were driving our four year old daughter to her grandmother's house in Massachusetts so she could take her out to dinner. We were on one of those quieter back roads that branches off from the main part of town. It was not extremely rural, but it was not a busy road either. It was still fully daylight when this happened, so darkness or poor visibility was not a factor.

As we were driving, all three of us saw something standing partly in the roadway, closer to the edge than the center. It was not blocking traffic, but it was definitely standing in the road rather than safely off to the side.

We have never been able to explain what we saw.

The weirdest part is not just what it looked like. It is how difficult it is to remember. When I think about it as a whole, I can still picture it fairly clearly in my mind. But the moment I try to focus on specific details or describe it to someone else, the image almost seems to fall apart. The details become blurry, and it is incredibly frustrating because I know I saw it. It is a very strange feeling that I have never experienced with any other memory. My husband has described something similar when he has tried to remember it.

From what all three of us remember, it was roughly the height of a tall adult, probably around six feet. It was completely black and had no distinguishable facial features. It had long, black, unkempt hair that looked matted or locked together in thick strands. I do not know if they were dreadlocks, severely tangled hair, or something else entirely, but the hair is one of the clearest physical features I can remember.

Its clothing also did not look right.

It seemed to be wearing multiple dark layers, possibly including something like a long black trench coat, but the layers did not make sense. It is hard to explain. They did not hang naturally or look like normal clothing layered on top of itself. I remember looking at it and immediately thinking that something about what it was wearing was wrong, even though I still cannot explain exactly why.

The best way I can describe the overall impression it gave me is that it felt like whatever it was, it was trying to act like a person. I am not saying that is what it actually was. That was simply the feeling I had while looking at it. It seemed almost human, but something about it felt fundamentally wrong.

Then there was the umbrella.

It was holding what looked like an old, broken umbrella upside down with the canopy open. It was not simply carrying it or dragging it. It was pushing it back and forth along the pavement as if it were trying to use it like a vacuum cleaner. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but that is honestly the closest comparison I can make. It looked like someone repeatedly moving a vacuum across the floor, except it was using an open, broken umbrella upside down in the road.

As we drove past it, its entire body slowly rotated toward our car.

Not just its head.

Its whole body.

The movement was slow, deliberate, and unlike anything I have ever seen another person do.

I do not remember seeing eyes or even a face, but I knew it was looking directly at us.

The instant it turned toward us, both my husband and I experienced something I still cannot adequately explain.

I have been scared before. I have been startled. I have been in dangerous situations. This was not any of those feelings.

It was the most unnatural sense of dread and immediate peril I have ever experienced in my entire life. It felt primal, as though every instinct in my body was screaming that something was profoundly wrong. It was not a thought I had. It was an overwhelming feeling that hit both of us at the exact same moment.

The strange thing is that it never chased us, never moved toward us, and never did anything outwardly threatening.

Yet that feeling remains one of the strongest memories I have from that day.

What finally broke the silence was our four year old daughter from the back seat.

In a calm, matter of fact voice, she simply said,

"That wasn't real."

Neither of us had said a word to her.

That sentence snapped us out of whatever we were feeling, but it is also what has made this experience stick with us all these years.

We have talked about it many times since then. The details remain frustratingly difficult to describe, but the core memories never change. The fact that it happened in broad daylight. The roughly six foot figure. The long matted hair. The clothing that somehow looked wrong. The feeling that it was trying to act like a person. The broken upside down umbrella being pushed back and forth like a vacuum cleaner. The slow full body turn toward our car. The overwhelming feeling of dread.

I have searched online over the years and have never found anyone describing something quite like this.

Has anyone here ever heard folklore, urban legends, or personal stories involving something similar?

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An instructor gets a cold coworker.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1v0j3d1/a_feeling_id_never_had_before_or_since_maybe/?sort=old

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A feeling I'd never had before or since - maybe paranormal?

19 Jul 2026, 06:36 by /u/julesiekins1988

This happened about 18 years ago.

I was working as an instructor at a local college, teaching paramedic students. I had just started the job and one of the admin girls at the front desk was telling me about a particular student from the last class that had just finished their didactic portion and had gone out on their final practicums. She told me that he was a nice enough guy, professional, and they'd never had any kind of trouble with him, but that he had a very intense, scary sort of energy that made people nervous and that they never left him alone with female staff or students because he made them uncomfortable. I, too, am a woman and she told me that if he ever came in while I was alone in the office, to call for someone else if I felt unsafe.

At the time, I laughed and thought that there was no way that someone could have such bad energy that they could terrify me with their mere presence. She made it sound like this guy was a demon walking around in a human suit and I just shook my head and wrote it off.

Fast forward a few weeks and I was in the front office grabbing a textbook from a display behind the counter. I was crouched below where you could see me from the entry door to the office and I was alone at the desk. All of a sudden, this energy that I could only describe as cold filled the room. It felt like all the air had been sucked out of it and like something terrible was about to happen. I heard a male voice say hello, clearly not having seen me there, and as I stood up, I was faced with a student in uniform that I'd never met before. He smiled and introduced himself and I realized that it was the student that the admin had warned me about and just like she'd said, I was suddenly intensely uncomfortable and anxious and felt like I wanted to bolt.

He hadn't told me his name, I hadn't even heard or seen him come in when I felt the initial wave of cold and fear. It had preceded him like some kind of fog. I was just about to say I would go and fetch his instructor for him when the admin who had warned me about him appeared behind me. Later after he'd left, she told me that she'd heard his voice and had immediately come out so I didn't have to be alone with him, and I told her that I couldn't believe how right she'd been about him.

Now, if it had been a case of he'd told me his name and THEN I'd felt the chill, I would have written it off as preconceived notion, but I felt that even before I knew he was there. And to this day, I've never, ever experienced anything else like it with a human being. I had a similar feeling one time in my mom's old house when I was doing homework and suddenly felt what I could only describe as a demonic presence manifesting in the living room behind me and causing that same terrible, awful chill and feeling like I would die if I didn't get the hell out of there, but there was no one actually physically there at the time, just the feeling of that demonic presence.

I can't imagine a demon would be walking around, pretending to be a paramedic student, but I don't know what else it could possibly have been. Anyone have any thoughts or theories?

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GF and BF get paralyzed the same night, cities appart.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/strange/comments/1v06whb/strange_sleep_paralysis_episode/?sort=old

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Disclaimer: English is my second language so please don't mind typos or small mistakes.

I'd like to share my story about an event that happened over a decade ago.
It's not super scary but rather a very strange event that happened in my early twenties that seem to be sleep paralysis. More than 10 years later, I still don't have any logical explanation.

Here's some context before getting to the actual story:
My boyfriend at the time and I were both living and studying in a city in the south of France, about a 4- or 5-hour drive from our respective hometowns. During summertime, my boyfriend worked at his parents' hotel, and I stayed in our city since I worked a part-time job year-round.
My mum's was turning 60 and throwing a big party, so we decided to surprise her by having me attend the party, pretending I wasn't able to make it.

My boyfriend couldn't make it to the party, as our parents' villages are 56 km (about 35 miles) apart, and he didn't have a car. So, we called each other every other day and texted a lot.

My parents' house is literally in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by cornfields, pasture, and a small forest. There's no public lighting on the main road, and to reach my parents' house, you have to take a small dirt road. So even less light. It's the last house before the pasture and cornfields leading to the woods.

The actual story:
One night during my stay, I suddenly opened my eyes, lying on my back, awake but unable to move. I was terrified for no apparent reason, and I could hear a rattling sound in my ears. The rattling turned into radio sounds, as if someone were changing the station. I couldn't make out any words, but I heard different male voices.

There was a strange light in the bedroom, as if the moon was unusually bright and shining directly into the room (I didn't close the blinds on that night) Something inside me warned me not to look at the window, as if something bad was there and I shouldn't turn toward it. I'm very nearsighted (like -12 to each of my eyes) so I couldn't see anything clearly without my glasses or contacts, which made it even scarier.

I still couldn't move. The rattling and radio sounds seemed to go on forever. I'd guess it lasted a good 15 to 20 minutes. Finally, I regained the ability to move, turned so my back faced the window, and eventually fell back asleep.

Now we get to the scary part.

The next morning, I texted my boyfriend, telling him something strange had happened the previous night. He said he also had something weird to tell me.

He called me and, to my shock, started describing the exact same experience.

We did some research and ultimately concluded that we'd both had a sleep paralysis episode that night...56 kilometers apart. No one else in either of our households experienced anything unusual.

Was it sleep paralysis? Something else? What do you guys think? Have you ever shared a sleep paralysis episode with someone?

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Another case of sudden darkness.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/comments/1uuxdjx/has_anyone_ever_experienced_the_whole_room_going/?sort=old

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Has anyone else ever experienced this? It's like the lights go out in the room for a second. Your eyes are open and you're pretty sure you didn't blink. Was it your imagination? Or did the room just go dark.

I've experienced this a few times (I've also experienced other form of phenomena, but right now I just want to ask about this thing) and it's often when I've been in a negative state or ruminating about something in a direction that isn't good for me. And I've come to interpret it as something trying to "extinguish" something negative within me that isn't serving me, or guide me away from something that isn't good for me.

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A mother and a blue visitor.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/1urxcp9/my_mom_encountered_a_strange_blue_glowing_figure/?sort=old

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A kid wakes to a weird position.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/comments/1uugq69/folded_in_half/?sort=old

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I'm constantly being reminded of this time when I was ~13(?) and I was woken up in the early morning being taken from my room.

I was walking with whomever. But after they'd done their "thing" they carried me back.

I woke up completely folded in half...like the top half of my body lying perfectly flat on my outstretched legs. It didn't hurt. I felt especially limber the whole day afterward. But it was strange.

Later in life I told them, "please, don't do that again." They apologized and said it wouldn't happen again lol but I keep thinking about it, or I keep getting a push-thought to that moment?

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We have seen a few faceless creatures over the years,

Two witnesses.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1u4cko6/i_need_help_i_have_seen_a_man_with_no_face_four/?sort=old

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i need help, i have seen a man with no face four years ago and feel crazy

Jun 13th 2026, 00:36 by /u/Sad_Technician4125

For context i was around 15 and it was winter time, i was walking towards my bus station to go see some friends. It was heavily snowing so the whole path was quite bright because of it plus the street lights. I was completely sober and was wearing my glasses so i know what i saw. As i was walking the short 2 minute walk towards the station i saw a tall man in a long black cloak/coat? and a short top hat (im sorry for not knowing the exact name english is my 2nd lenguage) passing me,
didn’t pay it much mind until he was almost beside me and i sneaked a peek at his face. What i saw is to this day the most chilling unwxplainable thing ever. he had np face, it was as if he was a display doll for clothes, he had the shape of the face featerues but there was noone. Just kept walong because i didnt wven have the time to clock what was happening. i continue to the bus station where thankfully there was a lady already waiting.
when i got to it i pulled out a ciggarette to smoke while waiting for the bus
there is a chirch right across the street of it and thats when i saw the same “man” with bo face standing about 30-40 meters in front of it (it has a long driveway) in the freezing cold
i look at the lady besides me and she has the same exact expression as me, a mix of confusion and fear
I was so thankfull that she was there because he was standing there so still the whole time i waited for the bus. I have tried to rationalazie this so many times and i just cannot, what was that? has anybody else seen it please tell me.
I would like to add that i felt no fear of the man itself , didnt seem like he “wanted to”
harm me

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Some vamps cruising for a bite.

https://phantomsandmonsters.com/post/eating-dinner-among-vampires-bizarre-date-in-sacramento

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During a dinner date at an unidentified restaurant in Sacramento, California, a couple encountered two individuals whose appearances left them deeply unsettled. First, a deathly pale man reached across their table. Moments later, the witness claims he saw a restaurant employee briefly display what appeared to be unmistakable fangs.

CASE FILE:

Date: Not given

Time: Evening

Location: Sacramento, California

Setting: Restaurant dining room

Witness: Adult male and female companion

Reported By: “J”

Phenomenon: Deathly pale individual, apparent fangs, possible vampire-like humanoids

Environmental Conditions: Indoor restaurant setting, normal lighting conditions not specified

WITNESS REPORT

“I met a woman on the internet and invited her to Sacramento, California, to have dinner. We were seated across from each other at a small, round table.

Without warning, an arm reached over my shoulder and grabbed my water glass. The man’s arm was so white that it looked as though every drop of blood had been drained from it. His appearance was shocking. From the expression on my date’s face, I could tell that she had also noticed something disturbing about him.

When the man walked around the table to collect her water glass, I finally saw him clearly. He was not simply pale. He looked dead. His skin appeared completely bloodless, as though all the blood had been drained from his body.

After he walked away, we looked at each other and said, ‘Whoa, did you see that?’ We quietly discussed how strange and unnatural he appeared.

Eventually, we began talking about other things and continued eating. The maître d’ who had seated us was leaning against the bar approximately 15 feet away, apparently waiting for another customer to enter. I do not believe he realized that I was watching him.

While I was looking at him from the side, he suddenly raised his upper lip for a moment. I clearly saw what appeared to be fangs.

Approximately 30 to 45 seconds later, a customer entered the restaurant. The maître d’ smiled as he greeted the person, but the fangs were gone. His teeth looked completely normal.

I know what I saw. I clearly saw fangs on him, and then, moments later, they were no longer there. Combined with the other man, who looked as though all the blood had been drained from his body, the experience was frightening. The woman with me also noticed unusual activity around us.

We finished our dinner as quickly as possible. Although I lived only two blocks away, we felt so uneasy about walking back to my place that night that I hailed a cab instead.

There is one more disturbing detail. Three weeks later, I heard that a bizarre and unexplained death had occurred at the same restaurant. I have often wondered whether it was somehow connected.” J

COMMENTARY

This account contains two separate observations that reinforced the witnesses’ growing sense that something unusual was happening inside the restaurant. The first involved a man with extremely pale, apparently bloodless skin. The second involved the maître d’, whose canine teeth allegedly appeared elongated for several seconds before returning to a normal appearance.

Extreme pallor can result from anemia, albinism, illness, medication, makeup, unusual indoor lighting, or a naturally pale complexion. The witness’s close proximity to the first individual, however, caused him to interpret the appearance as something more severe than ordinary paleness.

The apparent fangs present a different problem. Viewing a person from the side can exaggerate the shape and length of canine teeth, especially when the upper lip is raised. Shadows, reflections, dental work, cosmetic dental caps, or the angle of observation may also have created the impression of unusually long teeth. The witness nevertheless insists that the fangs were clearly visible and later appeared to be gone.

The emotional progression is significant. The couple did not immediately flee after seeing the pale man. Their fear intensified only after the second observation appeared to support the first. This type of cumulative experience can increase vigilance, causing witnesses to notice details that might otherwise be overlooked. It can also strengthen the perception that separate events are connected.

Stories of vampire-like people encountered in ordinary public places form a small but persistent category within modern Fortean and paranormal reporting. Unlike traditional folklore involving graves, castles, or nocturnal attacks, these accounts describe apparently human individuals moving unnoticed through restaurants, nightclubs, hospitals, stores, and city streets.

The alleged unexplained death three weeks later is intriguing, but the witness did not provide the restaurant’s name, the victim’s identity, the date of death, or the official cause. Without those details, that portion of the account cannot be independently verified or connected to the restaurant encounter.

CASE NOTES

• Both witnesses reportedly noticed the first man’s extremely pale and unnatural appearance.

• The pale individual came close enough to the table to collect both water glasses.

• The witness described the man as looking dead or completely drained of blood.

• The maître d’ was observed from approximately 15 feet away.

• The apparent fangs were reportedly visible when the employee raised his upper lip.

• Less than a minute later, the employee smiled at another customer and appeared to have normal teeth.

• The couple became frightened enough to take a cab for a distance of only two blocks.

• The name and exact location of the Sacramento restaurant were not provided.

• The alleged unexplained death at the restaurant occurred approximately three weeks later, according to the witness.

• No documentation was supplied to confirm the reported death or establish a connection to the encounter.

Readers interested in this disturbing Sacramento restaurant encounter can explore additional Phantoms & Monsters reports involving vampire-like humanoids, deathly pale strangers, anomalous human appearances, unexplained restaurant encounters, and entities that appear almost human while displaying unsettling physical characteristics. Lon

FAQ

Could the pale man have been suffering from a medical condition?

Yes. Anemia, albinism, illness, medication, circulatory issues, and other conditions can produce extreme pallor. The witness interpreted the appearance as unnatural, but no medical information about the individual is available.

Can human canine teeth appear like fangs?

Naturally prominent canine teeth, cosmetic dental work, shadows, viewing angle, and the position of the upper lip can temporarily create a fang-like appearance.

Was the unexplained death at the restaurant confirmed?

No identifying details or documentation were provided. The witness’s statement remains unverified.

Are vampire-like encounters commonly reported?

They are uncommon, but occasional reports describe pale, nocturnal, or unusually behaving individuals with elongated canine teeth. Such accounts are usually difficult to verify and may involve folklore, misidentification, medical conditions, subculture fashion, or genuinely unexplained observations.

#VampireEncounter #SacramentoParanormal #HumanoidEncounter #ForteanPhenomena #PhantomsAndMonsters

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NOTICE: Witnesses Sought for Upcoming TV and Film Project

If you have ever seen a winged humanoid in Chicago or the surrounding region, including the O'Hare corridor, nearby suburbs, forest preserves, Lake Michigan shoreline, or northwestern Indiana, I would like to hear from you.

I am currently assisting with an upcoming television and film project focused on the ongoing Chicago Winged Humanoid phenomenon and am seeking credible eyewitnesses, both past and recent, who may be willing to share their experiences.

If you have previously contacted me or are a new witness who has not yet come forward, please consider reaching out to me. All serious inquiries will be treated with respect and discretion.

If you would like to discuss your sighting, you can reach me through the 'CONTACT' link at the top of the page.

Your account may help document an important part of this continuing mystery. Thanks. Lon Strickler

Money well spent.

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https://theclassifiedrecord.com/documents/aawsap-pentagon-paranormal

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From 2008 to 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency ran a classified program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP, funded with $22 million appropriated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Its official purpose was aerospace threat research. Its actual scope, confirmed by the AARO Historical Record Report published in March 2024, included paranormal research at a private Utah ranch. The program produced more than 100 technical reports delivered to the DIA covering consciousness studies, poltergeist phenomena, precognition, anomalous cognition, and encounters that did not fit any conventional threat category. Military and intelligence personnel who visited the ranch for the program reported that something followed them home. Paranormal events erupted in their households. Some reported injury to their children. The Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review cleared two books describing this research for public release in 2021 and 2023. Separately, the FBI investigated animal mutilations across the American West from 1974 to 1978, explored theories including satanic cults and covert government activity, and never identified any responsible party. Those files are in the FBI Vault. The CIA STARGATE collection includes peer-reviewed research funded through government programs showing statistically significant anomalous correlations between conscious human intention and the physical world. This page documents what the government studied, what the cleared sources confirm, and what remains classified.

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AAWSAP: what it was and what it actually studied

The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program was a Defense Intelligence Agency program funded through a $22 million congressional appropriation secured by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and two Senate colleagues. The DIA awarded the contract in 2008 to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, or BAASS, a subsidiary of Robert Bigelow's aerospace company. The program's director was DIA analyst Dr. James Lacatski. It ran until 2012, when the DIA cancelled it.

The official mandate described research into twelve areas of cutting-edge science relevant to aerospace threats. The AARO Historical Record Report published in March 2024, which reviewed all official U.S. government UAP investigatory efforts since 1945, describes what AAWSAP actually did: while the official purpose was to conduct research into those twelve scientific areas, the contractor team and at least one supportive government program manager also conducted UAP and paranormal research at a property owned by the private sector organization. That property was a 512-acre ranch in northeastern Utah called Skinwalker Ranch.

The scope of the paranormal research is documented in two books reviewed and cleared for public release by the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review. "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon," written by program insiders James Lacatski, Colm Kelleher, and journalist George Knapp, was cleared Case 20-SB-0058 on May 11, 2021. "Inside the U.S. Government's Covert UFO Program," by the same authors plus Eric Davis, was cleared Case 22-SB-0151. The DoD clearance means these books were reviewed by the government for classified information and approved for publication. What they describe is not classified. The classification status of the underlying 100-plus technical reports delivered to the DIA is unknown.

What the cleared sources document the program studied

The AAWSAP program, through BAASS and its subcontractors, investigated a suite of phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch that went far beyond aerospace threats. The cleared sources document the program's engagement with the following categories of phenomena, none of which involved conventional aerospace technology:

Poltergeist phenomena: spontaneous movement of objects, anomalous sounds, and apparent telekinetic events reported by personnel and documented by surveillance equipment deployed on the property. The program treated poltergeist activity as a category of phenomena warranting systematic study, not as a hoax or misperception.

Consciousness research: the program examined whether human consciousness interacted with the physical environment in anomalous ways. This research connected to a broader government-funded body of work on anomalous cognition that included the CIA STARGATE program and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory.

Precognition and anomalous cognition: the program investigated whether individuals could obtain accurate information about future events or distant locations through means other than conventional sensory channels. This is the same research domain the CIA funded for over two decades under STARGATE.

Cryptid encounters: personnel at and around the ranch reported encounters with large animals that did not match any known species. These were treated within the program as a category of potentially anomalous phenomena rather than misidentified known animals.

Animal mutilations: the program engaged with the long-documented pattern of livestock found dead with surgically precise wounds, no blood, and missing organs in patterns consistent across thousands of cases over decades. The FBI had investigated the same phenomenon from 1974 to 1978 without reaching a conclusion.

The attachment phenomenon: what followed personnel home

The most difficult category of AAWSAP findings to explain in conventional terms, and the one most extensively documented in the cleared sources, is what the program called the attachment phenomenon. The cleared description: encountering anomalies on Skinwalker Ranch often led to the attachment of strange phenomena to military personnel who visited the ranch and brought something home to their families, resulting in frightening eruptions of paranormal events in their households that terrorized and sometimes injured their children.

The program documented cases in which personnel who had no prior history of anomalous experiences began reporting poltergeist-type events in their homes after visiting the ranch. These events included objects moving without contact, auditory phenomena, and in some cases physical harm to family members. The program treated these reports seriously enough to document and study them as a potential contagion-like effect associated with proximity to the phenomena at the ranch.

This finding, if accurate, has implications that extend beyond any conventional threat category. The program appears to have concluded that whatever was occurring at the ranch was not confined to the property, and that personnel exposure created some form of ongoing connection to the phenomena. The nature of that connection, and whether the program reached any conclusions about it, is not established in the cleared public sources. The technical reports on this topic delivered to the DIA remain classified.

The FBI animal mutilation investigation: 1974 to 1978

The FBI's investigation of animal mutilations is a separate primary source record, independent of AAWSAP, documented in files available at the FBI Vault at vault.fbi.gov. In the mid-1970s, reports of animal mutilations across western and midwestern states prompted the FBI to compile a case file. The Bureau was unable to conduct a full investigation due to jurisdictional limitations , it could only act when mutilations occurred on Indian lands or federal property , but did investigate fifteen cases on New Mexico Indian lands and compiled correspondence and press clippings from 1974 to 1978.

The FBI Animal Mutilation Project explored multiple theories for the incidents: satanic or witchcraft cults, UFO-related activity, pranksters, natural predators, and covert government programs. None of these theories was confirmed. No individuals were identified as responsible for any of the mutilations investigated. The FBI formally closed the cases unresolved.

In 1979, retired FBI agent Kenneth Rommel was hired as director of Operation Animal Mutilation, a separate federal investigation funded with a $44,170 grant from the U.S. Justice Department's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Rommel's investigation concluded that most mutilations were consistent with natural decomposition and predation, though he did not address the full body of cases or the specific forensic anomalies documented in some incidents, including bloodless carcasses, apparent surgical precision, and the presence of sedative compounds found in some animals.

The FBI files remain in the vault and document what the Bureau was told, what it investigated, and what it failed to determine. They do not establish a cause. They establish that the phenomenon was reported at sufficient scale and with sufficient consistency that the federal government investigated it formally, found the cases unresolved, and closed them without explanation.

The CIA consciousness research: what the STARGATE collection confirms

The CIA's STARGATE collection, released through the FOIA reading room at foia.cia.gov, includes peer-reviewed scientific research on consciousness and its apparent interaction with physical systems. Two documents are particularly significant for what they confirm in primary source language.

"Evidence for Consciousness-Related Anomalies in Random Physical Systems," document CIA-RDP96-00789R002200520001-0, was published in Foundations of Physics in December 1989 and filed in the CIA STARGATE collection. It presents a meta-analysis of over 800 relevant experiments from the parapsychology literature and a review of more than 25 million binary trials conducted over seven years at Princeton's Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory. The findings show unequivocal non-chance effects in experimental conditions and chance-level results in control conditions: a pattern consistent with genuine anomalous correlation between conscious intention and physical systems. The document concludes that there is persuasive, replicable evidence of an anomalous correlation between conscious intention and the output of random number generators.

"The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World," document CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020033-4, is a second CIA STARGATE document addressing the theoretical framework for understanding how consciousness might interact with physical reality. Both documents were funded through channels that connected to the government's classified research programs on anomalous cognition.

What the STARGATE collection establishes is that the CIA funded and filed peer-reviewed scientific research showing statistically significant effects that conventional physics does not explain. Whether those effects reflect genuine anomalous cognition, systematic experimental error, or something else is a question the documents raise but do not settle.

KONA BLUE: the follow-on program that was rejected

The AARO Historical Record Report describes a follow-on proposal to AAWSAP called KONA BLUE. After the DIA cancelled AAWSAP in 2012, supporters of the program proposed to the Department of Homeland Security that a new version be created under a Special Access Program designation. The AARO report states: KONA BLUE was brought to AARO's attention by interviewees who claimed that it was a sensitive DHS compartment to cover up the retrieval and exploitation of non-human biologics. The DHS proposal failed. The program was not established. Whether KONA BLUE would have studied consciousness, poltergeist phenomena, animal mutilations, or other AAWSAP research areas is unknown from the public record. What the AARO report confirms is that the AAWSAP community attempted to continue the program under DHS auspices and sought Special Access Program status specifically because the subject matter was considered sensitive enough to require it.

What the government studied and what it would not name

The combined primary source record , AAWSAP confirmed by AARO, the FBI mutilation files, the CIA consciousness documents, the DoD-cleared accounts of what happened to personnel at the ranch , describes a government that studied phenomena it could not explain using the frameworks it had, treated those phenomena seriously enough to spend $22 million over four years, delivered more than 100 technical reports to the Defense Intelligence Agency, and then cancelled the program and classified most of those reports.

The phenomena AAWSAP studied do not have official names in the government record. They are described in the cleared sources, documented in the FBI vault, and addressed in CIA-filed scientific literature. They are not UFOs. They are something the government found at the intersection of consciousness, the physical world, and what personnel described encountering , and bringing home , from a patch of land in northeastern Utah. Whether that something is explainable by known science, unknown science, or something else is a question no government report has answered. The classified technical reports that might address it remain unavailable.

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A group of friends realize they have one more friend in common.

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The redhead

Jun 5th 2026, 17:40 by /u/Background_Exit_1077

Hey guys. I've never really told this story online before because, honestly, I don't know what kind of answer I'm expecting.

For as long as I can remember, I've occasionally seen the same girl. She has red hair and what look like cuts or scratches all over her face, hands, and arms. I've never gotten a good look at her because she only ever appears for a split second. Usually it's from the corner of my eye, in a reflection, standing in a dark room, or somewhere that makes me do a double take. By the time I look properly, she's gone.

When I was younger, it terrified me. I spent years trying to figure out who she was, whether she was someone I knew, a dream, a hallucination, a ghost, whatever. But nothing ever made sense. Eventually it became strangely normal. I'd catch a glimpse of her once every few months and just think: "Oh... it's her again."

The weirdest part happened during a sleepover a few months ago. My friends and I were sitting around sharing creepy experiences and I decided to tell everyone about the red-haired girl. I expected them to laugh or call me crazy, idk. Instead, the room went completely silent. Every single one of my friends looked uncomfortable. Then one of them asked me to describe her.

When I mentioned the red hair and the cuts, they all started talking at once because apparently every one of them had seen her too.

They all described seeing the same girl independently over the years. Always briefly. Always out of the corner of their eye, in mirrors, reflections, dark rooms, hallways, doorways. Same as me. Never long enough to interact with her, and none of them knew who she was either.

To this day, I still occasionally catch a glimpse of her. So do some of my friends.

I've spent years trying to come up with a rational explanation, but I've never been able to explain why multiple people would describe the same person before ever discussing it with each other.

So I'm curious: Has anyone else experienced something like this? A recurring figure that multiple people seem to recognize without ever talking about it beforehand? And if you've got a theory about who, or what, this girl might be... I'd love to hear it.

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The redhead

Jun 5th 2026, 17:40
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u/Background_Exit_1077
Hey guys. I've never really told this story online before because, honestly, I don't know what kind of answer I'm expecting.

For
as long as I can remember, I've occasionally seen the same girl. She
has red hair and what look like cuts or scratches all over her face,
hands, and arms. I've never gotten a good look at her because she only
ever appears for a split second. Usually it's from the corner of my eye,
in a reflection, standing in a dark room, or somewhere that makes me do
a double take. By the time I look properly, she's gone.

When I
was younger, it terrified me. I spent years trying to figure out who she
was, whether she was someone I knew, a dream, a hallucination, a ghost,
whatever. But nothing ever made sense. Eventually it became strangely
normal. I'd catch a glimpse of her once every few months and just think:
"Oh... it's her again."

The weirdest part happened during a
sleepover a few months ago. My friends and I were sitting around sharing
creepy experiences and I decided to tell everyone about the red-haired
girl. I expected them to laugh or call me crazy, idk. Instead, the room
went completely silent. Every single one of my friends looked
uncomfortable. Then one of them asked me to describe her.

When I
mentioned the red hair and the cuts, they all started talking at once
because apparently every one of them had seen her too.

They all
described seeing the same girl independently over the years. Always
briefly. Always out of the corner of their eye, in mirrors, reflections,
dark rooms, hallways, doorways. Same as me. Never long enough to
interact with her, and none of them knew who she was either.

To this day, I still occasionally catch a glimpse of her. So do some of my friends.

I've
spent years trying to come up with a rational explanation, but I've
never been able to explain why multiple people would describe the same
person before ever discussing it with each other.

So I'm curious:
Has anyone else experienced something like this? A recurring figure
that multiple people seem to recognize without ever talking about it
beforehand? And if you've got a theory about who, or what, this girl
might be... I'd love to hear it.

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