#kinderhookblob

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KINDERHOOK BLOB #KINDERHOOKBLOB During the 1960’s, no less six eyewitnesses claimed to have had encounters with a floating,  ghostly, blob-like creature that was so intimidating two armed men fled from it in mortal terror. The strange tale of this unique apparition begins in the forests surrounding Kinderhook, New York — a small town whose name literally translates to “Children’s Corner,” in the language of the original Dutch settlers — not far from the lake of the same name. Accounts I’ve come across regarding this anomalous animal (for lack of a better appellation) are at times contradictory — and some of the dates are frankly difficult to confirm — nevertheless, what we do know for sure is that the initial event to involve this undulating “being” occurred in 1962. The first report of this creature comes to us from author and New York State Library genealogist, Bruce Hallenbeck. When Hallenbeck was a 10-year old boy,  he and his cousin were frolicking in the woods behind his parent’s house when they both saw something they would never forget. Hallenbeck would record this bizarre event years later in 1992, in a book he wrote with Paul Bartholomew, Robert Bartholomew and William Brann titled: “Monsters of the Northwoods.”According to Hallenbeck: “WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD (1962) I WAS UP IN THE WOODS BEHIND OUR HOUSE WITH MY COUSIN CHARI, WHO WAS THEN AGE SEVEN.  WE BOTH HEARD THIS REALLY HIGH-PITCHED WHISTLE NOISE.”