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Monsters are monsters are monsters. Big, small, hairy, slimy, finned, clawed, two legs, four legs, or none; unknown to the world, except to those who encounter them. Or are they unknown? Some common animals were once myths. The giant panda was considered a folk story told by locals but dismissed by Western science until German zoologist Hugo Weigold saw one in 1916. Zoology considered the North American wood bison extinct until a population of two hundred was stumbled upon in Alberta, Canada, in 1957. Tribesmen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo claimed a giant ape that killed lions and howled at the moon lived in the Bas-Uele District. This fanciful story of a creature dubbed the ...
It all started when I was very young. For some reason, I was sure there was a land in the Atlantic Ocean called Atlantis. I can remember my mother telling me I was wrong and finally showing me on a map that there was no such place. From that experience I learned to stop talking about it, but I didn't forget it. When I had time, I focused on prehistory and soon became convinced that devastating floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, Ice Ages, comets, and asteroids destroyed advanced civilizations in the past. Archaeologists today are beginning to recognize that in prehistory, brave people sailed across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Between 50,000 and 10,000 BC, when an immense amount ...
In my book Stalking Shadows, I talk about some of my most interesting and creepy experiences both as a psychic medium and as a ghost hunter. That got me thinking: why is it that certain things and places spook a lot of people? Places such as basements, attics, abandoned buildings; dolls; clowns—the list is endless. One of the most obvious answers to this question is that we've been so conditioned by TV and movies to be afraid of these places. You know the scenes—the unsuspecting person is inching up or down the stairs, candle or flashlight in hand, looking for whatever is making those suspicious noises. Now, if these TV shows or movies run true to form, something is going to ...
For centuries, mythologies all over the world have portrayed flying humanoid creatures, greatly feared because their appearance seems to spell out death and destruction for those who are unfortunate enough to cross their path. Surprisingly though, encounters with these unnatural entities continue into modern times. Here, then, is my top ten list of the winged creatures that have most captured the public's imagination in recent years. MothmanUndoubtedly the king of all flying humanoids is West Virginia's Mothman—not only because there have been over a hundred reported sightings, but also due to the vast cocoon of strangeness from which it has emerged. The descriptions remain ...
