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Continuation of this Blog

Hmm nobody really cares about this random bit of admin, but I would just like to say that I have moved my paranormal storytelling prowess to a new blog called ‘Campfire Creeps’. If y’all want more Fortean Entities as well as just random ramblings and retellings of freaky stories I find in my explorations of the Internet, look no further than the ‘Virtual Campfire’!

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A new exposé published by Medium based on previously unpublished recordings of Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist who ran the study, and interviews with his participants, offers convincing evidence that the guards in the experiment were coached to be cruel. It also shows that the experiment’s most memorable moment — of a prisoner descending into a screaming fit, proclaiming, “I’m burning up inside!” — was the result of the prisoner acting. “I took it as a kind of an improv exercise,” one of the guards told reporter Ben Blum. “I believed that I was doing what the researchers wanted me to do.”

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Werewolf (January 2005, La Playosa, Cordoba, Argentina)

Since early January numerous residents of this community in Cordoba have reported the presence of a bizarre creature they call a “lobizon” (wolfman). The intruder has attempted to enter local residents while at the same time emitting blood curling howls. It generally targets homes where there are no men around; it attempts to enter the home through the rear open patio area. Thankfully so far he has no been able to gain access to any of the residences where women and children have been alone there to confront him. Several women have described the entity as very tall, hairy, thin, and very agile, with blood shot eyes and wearing all black clothing. Police has failed to locate the mysterious intruder.

"Generally speaking, it attacks dwellings in which no men are known to live, or happen to be away for various causes. It tries to break in through back yards and alleyways, knowing that only women or children happen to be present. Fortunately it has been unable to break into homes because the doors were locked” - Ana, one of the women attacked by the Lobizon to the Cordoba newspaper La Mañana.

Source: http://www.ufoinfo.com/news/lobizon2.shtml

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Phantom Wolf (July 2017*, Norwich, England)

A driver on the way back from the cinema in Norwich encountered a large black wolf eating a carcass along the A1067. The creature was described as standing around a metre at the withers, with yellow eyes and black matted hair. The driver slowed and the wolf briefly looked up before continuing to eat. The witness continued home, shaken. Later, according to a document made on a dogman investigation website, a paranormal investigator and a friend (who was a lifelong alien contactee and associated with Rendlesham Forest) investigated the area using various psychic 'sensing' techniques, and ended up seeing something resembling a North American coyote with a disproportionately large head. The animal was between 4-5ft tall and apparently walked upright for the entire encounter. Seeing as these people have very little credible evidence to support their bizarre claims, I give more validity to the previous encounter - which has been documented in other places rather than just the comments of a forum.

*This story was assembled from information found in two different sources, and one of them stated that the event took place in 2006, but the other seemed to imply that it was 2017.

Sources:

http://www.northamericandogmanproject.com/uk-dogman-.html

http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/vampdata.php

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Phantom Stranger (October 1, 1999, Manhattan, New York)

A sinister entity was seen in the subways of Manhattan, New York on October 1, 1999. The witness was ascending the escalator at Penn Station and had reached street level when she noticed standing about 20 feet away, what seemed to be a male figure about 6 feet, 7 inches tall. He stood near the mouth of the entranceway to the station. His face was light gray (almost white), with thick brows and menacing eyes. He stood in a peculiar way, standing with his back arched, shoulders broad, his elbows pointing towards his back, and his head was tilted back as if he was looking at the tops of the passersby’s heads - it was like he was trying to choose one of them. The witness caught a glimpse of his face but she turned away immediately, and walked away down the sidewalk without turning back, feeling that if she would turn around for another look something would happen to her. For an unknown reason she felt tremendous fear.

Quick note from the editor here - This story seems to be a stretch at best, and barely paranormal at worst. This person could have easily been a mentally ill individual or simply someone with a strange posture. Also, the fact that the witness provides no personal information makes the story extremely difficult to pinpoint, especially seeing as this tale is only mentioned in the source below - which is a wiki, so take it with a grain of salt. Or iron. Both are helpful when taking down demons.

Source: http://obscurban-legend.wikia.com/wiki/Subway_Man

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Ufonaut (1990, Near Kiev, Ukraine)

A local woman was gathering mushrooms in a field when she was approached by a strange figure more than 2 meters in height. The figure was dressed in a shiny dark diving suit and a helmet. The stranger shone a beam of yellow light at the woman and disappeared, having literally evaporated into thin air. The witness reported a strange aftereffect; according to doctors she completely ceased to attend to the toilet, even after eating and drinking regularly. Apparently the doctors removed the waste manually. Suddenly in 1993 the normal functions of the witness were unexpectedly restored. This account should be traced back through its source and the hospital that analysed the witness should be found. If this can be done, then the story can be either debunked or validated.

Source: “Flying basins in the steppes of the Ukraine” by Max Zhibinov

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Dancing Spirits (1973, Nympsfield, Gloucestershire)

A teenager standing on this hill looked down into a clearing in the woodland to see women in period costume. They appeared to be wearing very tall cone hats and dancing. The women vanished without warning. 

The lack of information given on this report doesn’t necessarily that it is a fakery, but it also makes it incredibly difficult to trace back to its original source and properly research. This article is acting as a sort of placemarker, so that I can come back to it later when I (or maybe an intrepid reader of this blog) finds the source, or at the very least another reference to the story outside of paranormaldatabase.

Source: http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/index.php

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Boneless (1950s September, Longdendale Valley, Derbyshire)

There are many British folktales telling of encounters with an eerie amorphous entity, animate and sinister, variously nicknamed ‘Boneless’ or simply ‘It’. One moonlit September night during the 1950s, however, railwayman John Davies was riding his motorbike back home to his cottage in Derbyshire’s Longdendale Valley when he saw what appears to have been a bona fide Boneless crossing the road not far ahead. Moments earlier, he had felt an uncanny, seemingly reasonless compulsion to brake, and as he did so he spied what looked like a huge black slug sliding across the road and up the moor, making a scraping noise as its massive but near-shapeless form moved along. Up closer, it looked a little like a massive whale, and even possessed an eye-like structure, and Davies later learnt that it had been seen by others. One such observer was a friend of Davies, who had seen it sliding across the valley below Ogden Clough, where it was also observed on a separate occasion by another of his friends. Both of them were convinced that whatever it was, it was definitely evil, and both had fled in panic after spying it.

Source: http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk 

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Vampire Caterpillar (23 November 1904, Edinburgh, Scotland)

Godfrey H. Anderson claimed to have spied a bizarre aberration while walking along a street in Edinburgh, Scotland. Suddenly, he saw a grotesque 'something' rise out of the gutter and spring up at the throat of a horse. According to Anderson's description, cited in 'Creatures of the Outer Edge', the horse's weird attacker was a "vague black shape about four feet long and two and a half feet high... like an hourglass and moved like a huge caterpillar." The horse reared up in terror, and as it did so its assailant vanished.

Source: Creatures of the Outer Edge by Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman

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Big-Eyes (1950s, Goudhurst, Kent)

During the mid-1950s, writer Joan Forman had spent time teaching at the school in the Kentish village of Goodhurst (possibly a misspelling of Goudhurst). One early morning during the summer holidays, when few others were there, she had awoken from sleep in her room, alone within the school building’s oldest section, and was shocked to see a grotesque creature crouching on the floor to the left of her bed, glowing slightly in the darkness and gazing at her with what she considered to be an unblinking stare of outright evil and obscenity. It was about the size of a large cat or corgi dog, but its most striking feature were its huge eyes, which she likened to those of a nocturnal lemur. She lay there, rendered immobile by its seemingly mocking, revolting stare for some time, before, with the onset of dawn, it slowly faded away, and the intense coldness that until then had filled the room vanished with it. Years later, she learned that her successor at the school also witnessed this entity, but in a different bedroom. This entity's manifestation could have been a result of sleep paralysis, but doubt is cast on this theory by the fact that another witness had seen the creature. The bizarre animal bears some slight resemblance to the North American legend of Tailypo. And yes, I know that the victim in the picture is a dude - and no, there isn’t a picture of a female victim of Tailypo.

Source: http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk

Image Credit: Katherine Coville

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Deva (June 1922, Lake District, Cumbria)

While visiting the Lake District, Cumbria, in June 1922, theosophist Geoffrey Hodson claimed to have witnessed an astonishing being that he believed to have been a deva or nature spirit. According to his description of what he had seen, it was an enormous bat-like entity, brilliant crimson in colour with a human face and burning piercing eyes that fixed themselves upon him as its wings stretched out over the mountainside, before sinking into the hillside and disappearing. It later reappeared before him, but now in much smaller form, this time standing a ‘mere’ 3-4 m high.

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

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Ufonaut (Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France, 840)

Agobard of Lyons, a bishop during the Carolingian Era in France, wrote about the various 'superstitions' he encountered among the peasantry. One such tale was that beings ('sylphs' or air elementals) travelling in sky-sailing ships were stealing farmers’ crops and abducting people. Many people claimed that anchors of these sky 'ships' had become lodged in the rooves of buildings and showed them to the clergy. Agobard heard the rumour that four of these sylphs had been captured, and that they claimed to be from 'Magonia', a land high up in the clouds. These four beings were apparently stoned to death by an angry mob. Agobard dismissed the rumours because they contradict the Bible, which has no mention of such an aerial kingdom.

Source: Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée

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Insectoid (August 16, 1945, San Antonio, New Mexico)

Jose Padilla described the crash as sounding like a sonic boom and thought it could have been an atomic bomb test. The crashed object, he said, was around 35 ft. in diameter, and 15 ft. high. Reme Baca said they witnessed thin-bodied creatures inside the craft, resembling “praying mantises,” while Padilla characterized them as three little men who were rushing back and forth like they were injured. The boys returned to the crash site two days later with adults, and the creatures were gone, but the craft was still there. Source: Coast to Coast AM

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Kappa (November 1978, Yokosuka, Japan)

Two construction workers by the names of Makoto Ito and Toshio Hashimoto were fishing off a stone seawall near the US Navy Base in the Japanese port city of Yokosuka when they saw something they would never forget. Ito recalls that ‘It just popped up from beneath the surface and stood there. It was not a fish, an animal or a man. It was about 3 meters in height and was covered in thick, scaly skin like a reptile. It had a face and two large yellow eyes that seemed to be focused on us.’ The witnesses described this entity as a Kappa, which is a mythological creature from Japan that resembles a hybrid of a monkey and a turtle. They effectively act as water goblins that are prone to stealing livestock and attacking swimmers. I’m not sure if the description of this entity as being 3 meters tall is correct, or if the witness meant to say it was 3 feet tall. If the former is correct, it sounds more like a lizardman sighting.

Source & Image Credit:  The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates by Loren Coleman, Patrick Huyghe & Harry Trumbore 

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Man-Tiger (1702-1714, England)

A curious creature was exhibited in England during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). It was referred to as a ‘Man-Tiger’ by those that saw it. From below the head it was described as manlike, implying that the head itself was like that of a tiger. Its hinder parts were hairy, and it would drink ale from a glass as well as sometimes engaging in bouts with a quarterstaff. Could this have been a man with Hypertrichosis? Source: 'The Mystery and Lore of Monsters' by CJS Thompson.

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Aquatic Giant (1992, Kavgolov, Leningrad, Russia)

A man named D. Povaliyayev was hang-gliding one day in the early 1990s above the town of Kavgolov in the Leningrad area. The region has many lakes, and in one of these lakes he observed what seemed to be "three gigantic fish". He descended in order to get a closer view, and was able to observe "swimmers in silvery garb". He mentioned this episode in a book written by him.

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Aquatic Giant (1982, Northern Tian Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan)

In the summer (or autumn - sources unclear) of 1982, Mark Shteynberg, along with Lt. Colonel Gennady Zverev, were conducting periodic training of the reconnaissance divers ("frogmen") of the Turkestan and Central Asian military regions. The training exercises had been taking place at the Issyk-Kul Lake, a deep water lake in the Transiliysk Ala Tau area. Quite unexpectedly the officers were paid a visit by a very important official, Major-General V. Demyanko, commander of the Military Diver Service of the Engineer Forces of the Ministry of Defense, USSR. He arrived to inform the local officers of an extraordinary event the had occurred during similar training exercises in the Trans-Baikal and West Siberian military regions. There, during their military training dives, the frogmen had encountered mysterious underwater swimmers, very human-like, but huge in size (almost three meters in height!) The swimmers were clad in tight-fitting silvery suits, despite icy-cold water temperatures. At the depth of fifty meters, these "swimmers" had neither scuba diving equipment ("aqualungs"), nor any other equipment, only sphere-like helmets concealing their heads. Well, the local military commander (quite alarmed by such encounters) decided to capture one of the creatures. With that purpose in mind, a special group of seven divers, under the command of an officer, had been dispatched. As the frogman tried to cover the creature with a net, the entire group was thrown out of the deep waters to the surface by some powerful force. Now, because autonomous equipment of the frogmen does not allow surfacing from such depths without strict adherence to the process of decompression stops, all of the members of the ill-gated expedition were stricken by aeroembolism, of the Caisson disease. The only remedial treatment available consisted of an immediate confinement under decompression conditions in a pressure chamber. They had several such pressure chambers in the military region, but only one in working condition. It could contain no more than two persons. Hence, local CO had forced four frogmen into the chamber. As a result, three of them (including the leader of the group) perished, and the rest became invalids - terrible consequences caused by the usual Soviet military bungling. The major-general rushed to the Issik Kul to warn the local military against similar "devil-may-care" actions. Although the Issik Kul Lake is more shallow than the Baikal Lake, the depth of the former was sufficient to contain similar mysterious creatures. Did the major-general know something that Officer Shteynberg did not? A short time later, the staff headquarters of the Turkmenistan military region had received an order from the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces. The order consisted of detailed analysis of the Baikal Lake events and reprimands. It was supplemented by an information bulletin from the headquarters of the Engineer Forces of the Ministry of Defense, USSR. the bulletin listed numerous deepwater lakes where there had been registered sightings of anomalous phenomena: appearances of underwater creatures analogous to the Baikal type, descent and surfacing of giant discs and spheres, powerful luminescence emanating from the deep, etc.

Sources: http://www.ufoinfo.com/news/ruc.shtml and http://ufoupdateslist.com/2003/oct/m26-008.shtml