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Monday, May 20, 2024

Reader Recalls MERMAN & MERMAID Tales From The Philippines

I have read a few of the mermaid stories you have written about on your website. A teacher once told our class about similar tales from the Philippines. Are they real?

"The year was 2000 and I was 17 years old taking an extra-curricular class in my senior year. The class was regarding world history and specifically about the Philippines. The woman teaching the class was a historian/anthropologist who had spent her last ten years living and studying in the Philippines. After telling us the important stuff the last five minutes of the class convo drifted off-topic to her daily life there.

Being curious kids that we were we kept prodding for more personal info and eventually started getting stories of scary encounters with "creatures" native to that area. She told us that mermaids were very real. Mermen and merwomen were not fairy tales but real inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. She said the mermen would come out on certain nights and pull themselves up the shore and inland! Some mermen even brought their 3 pronged trident with them as a weapon and they would pull themselves into the city in search of people out too late unprotected at night.

The merwomen would sing and lure fishermen and children to be drowned. She started telling us of the wild ghost dogs but a parent listening in jumped in and told her this was inappropriate to be told in a school. The lady actually got in trouble for sharing these stories and we had a brief "apology" lecture where we were assured that those were just crazy stories and none of it was true and she was out of line for saying otherwise.

As you can imagine they've been burned in my mind and mermaids have fascinated me since. Do you think that these creatures are real? I've read a few on your blog and I'm fascinated with the stories." H

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CREEPY HUMANOIDS - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW! | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS)

Reports of various humanoids have been increasing. The sightings & encounters vary from alien-like beings to creepy otherworldly manifestations. The high number of reports currently rivals many other paranormal and cryptid phenomena.

During the current flap of winged humanoid sightings around the Chicagoland and Lake Michigan region, there have also been reports of other unknown humanoids, seemingly connected to the Chicago Mothman.

I ask you, what are people observing, not only in Chicago, but worldwide? Are they Earthbound, extraterrestrial, or a continuing enigma that we fail to understand?

I believe that I have put together an interesting group of humanoid reports that defy most rational explanations. Listen to the accounts and form your opinions.

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(PHOTOS): CRYPTID CANINE Follows Turkey Hunters Near Knoxville, Tennessee

Today, I received the following report & photographs from Harley Owens, who is a member of the Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research team.

"On April 28, 2024, my stepdaughter's dad and I decided to go turkey hunting on WMA (Wildlife Management Area) land on the outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee called Forks of the River. We get out in the area early morning around 4:30 or 5:00 to get a game plan on where we can find turkeys.

We get out a little before dawn and we start walking the trail. The woods were eerily quiet. We stopped, hit an owl call, and had 2 turkeys gobble off in the distance. So we decided to head in that direction. After daylight, we called and called, but nothing would respond. We keep walking along and we find the big fields along the river. We sat down and called again, but nothing.

Around 7 am we decide to work our way back to the vehicle. We were on the back side of this property along an equipment shed and we decided to cut off through the woods to get back on the trail we were originally on.  As soon as we got off into the woods I noticed there was something keeping pace with us. I researched Bigfoot and Dogman. I wasn’t going to say something until he heard it. We walked up and out of the creek bed and this thing has been following us for around 20 minutes now.


My companion says there’s something following us and I said it has been for about 20 minutes. So I decided to take pictures 180 degrees behind us.

We finally got out of the area. This thing seemed to have stopped following us. Upon getting back home and looking through the pictures one of them struck me to the core. In the center of one of the pictures was a creature. We walked right through this area and there was a small laydown tree but there was no stump in that location. What is in this picture is a canine-like creature that almost looks like a huge pit bull. This is my 2nd encounter with a Dogman-like creature although we never saw this creature, we both heard it following us distinctly and could tell it was bipedal keeping pace with us." Harley Owens

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CREEPY HUMANOIDS - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW! | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS)

Reports of various humanoids have been increasing. The sightings & encounters vary from alien-like beings to creepy otherworldly manifestations. The high number of reports currently rivals many other paranormal and cryptid phenomena.

During the current flap of winged humanoid sightings around the Chicagoland and Lake Michigan region, there have also been reports of other unknown humanoids, seemingly connected to the Chicago Mothman.

I ask you, what are people observing, not only in Chicago, but worldwide? Are they Earthbound, extraterrestrial, or a continuing enigma that we fail to understand?

I believe that I have put together an interesting group of humanoid reports that defy most rational explanations. Listen to the accounts and form your opinions.

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Have you had a sighting or encounter?
Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974
Thanks. Lon






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TALL, PALE HORNED BIPEDAL HUMANOID Encountered in St. Lawrence County, New York

A St. Lawrence County, New York resident is driving through a gated community when he encounters a tall, pale horned bipedal humanoid that lets out a terrifying scream!

I received the following account:

"Hi, Lon. I have listened to several of your interviews, especially on Spaced Out Radio. I feel confident disclosing my encounter with you. This took place on a rural back road in St. Lawrence County, New York on Christmas Day in December 2007.

The day was very nice. We opened presents early in the morning with my sisters, great breakfast, and delicious smells from preparing a feast, and the extended family brought pies and cakes for dessert. Around 2 PM we all sat down to eat and then enjoyed the rest of the afternoon into the evening.

At about 8 pm, after everyone had left and the food was all put away, I decided to head over to visit my friend in the next town. The drive would be about 10 minutes if I took back roads to get there. He lived in a gated community surrounding a private lake. Since the community was built around a lake, the roads surrounding it went in a spiral shape. The houses were sparsely positioned on the outermost part of the road. As you drove in further, there were a lot more houses positioned closer together nearer the lake.

My friend lived on the outer edge of this development, so once I reached the entry point, it would only take me another few minutes until I reached his house. His house, along with all the others, were far enough apart that you couldn’t see them from the road as you drove by. There were either woods all around with long driveways or open fields with long driveways. You could see porch lights on in the distance but that was about it.

As I entered into the development, the speed limit dropped from 30 mph down to 20. There were no streetlights in the development and for some reason, I never put my high beams on. I couldn’t go any faster than the speed limit because there were speed bumps in place every 30 feet or so for several stretches.

It was a mild night. I remember having my driver's side window open slightly taking in some fresh air. I remember driving in silence which was unusual for me (I normally always listened to music when driving). I was enjoying the quietness after the commotion of the day.

I reached a section of road that had barren fields on either side and woods set back. Houses were probably nestled back into the trees. As I drove, I noticed what looked like someone walking up ahead on the opposite side of the road, coming in my direction. Mind you, I was still going about 20 mph the whole time, so it was probably less than a minute by the time the “walker” came into clear view. I got a quick scan of it from my windshield before my car and it was exactly parallel.

It was not a person. It stood on two long legs, with long arms hanging from its shoulders. It was strong-looking. Lean, muscular, but not beefy in stature. It looked thin at the same time. It stood at least 7 feet tall. It was light colored, not sure whether it was white, tan, yellow, or greyish. It didn’t appear to have fur but there was some texture to the skin. It wasn’t smooth. There appeared to be something coming down off its back. I don’t know what this was. All I can recall about its face is the small features it had but the mouth and jaw were notably large. And it had pointed horns atop its head. That’s what I got from a quick scan and from my observation of it as it neared my car.

As my car became parallel to it within a split second, I went from looking out my windshield to looking at it from my driver's side window. At that moment, its face quickly peered down at me and all I remember was the mouth opened wide. Out came a terrifying scream that I’ll never forget. Gives me the chills just thinking about it. It consisted of a high-pitched shrill/shriek, enveloped by a deep guttural growl. Both sounds happened simultaneously in that scream.

I kept driving all the while. This was all happening so fast that I didn’t even have a chance to be scared or shocked or anything.

I continued driving, went past my friend's house, and drove home. I called him to tell him what happened and that I just needed to get back. I was probably running on adrenaline to get back home. Later on, I was in total shock after it sunk in. Had my driver's side window been opened fully, it would have touched me, or worse, taken me. I’m certain of it.

To this day, I still haven’t worked out what this was." D

NOTE: Some people would say that this may have been a Wendigo, though I'm doubtful of that. It seems to me that this may have been closer to what is described as a Deer Man or similar anomaly. What are your thoughts? Lon

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CREEPY HUMANOIDS - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW! | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS)

Reports of various humanoids have been increasing. The sightings & encounters vary from alien-like beings to creepy otherworldly manifestations. The high number of reports currently rivals many other paranormal and cryptid phenomena.

During the current flap of winged humanoid sightings around the Chicagoland and Lake Michigan region, there have also been reports of other unknown humanoids, seemingly connected to the Chicago Mothman.

I ask you, what are people observing, not only in Chicago, but worldwide? Are they Earthbound, extraterrestrial, or a continuing enigma that we fail to understand?

I believe that I have put together an interesting group of humanoid reports that defy most rational explanations. Listen to the accounts and form your opinions.

-----


Have you had a sighting or encounter?
Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974
Thanks. Lon






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