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A huge winged shape swoops toward a driver on I-95. A child watches a tailed, ape-like creature climb into the trees. A hiker hears something heavy charging toward him, but sees nothing. And at a remote cabin, terrified occupants describe something pulling at the door before landing on the roof.
Join Lon Strickler on Phantoms & Monster Radio for UNEXPLAINED MAINE, a collection of witness reports of strange woodland beings, apparent missing time, and unresolved encounters.
Tonight’s accounts include:
• Little people reported inside a bedroom and beside a creek in southeastern Maine.
• A tall, hairy, long-tailed creature observed in Limestone.
• A possible Mothman-like encounter near Kittery on April 8, 2025.
• A pale, yellow-eyed figure reportedly crab-walking across a road on Mount Desert Island.
• A Bangor witness’s recollection of tall Grey beings and several missing hours.
• A transparent, bird-like form above Bridgton, a similar observation near Freeport, and an unseen charge on Pleasant Mountain.
• A reported Sasquatch sighting near Baxter State Park and a later cabin siege near Mount Blue State Park.
These accounts are presented as witness testimony and recollections, including some relayed by others. Identifications and paranormal explanations remain unverified.
Have you experienced something unexplained in Maine? Share your account in the comments, including the approximate location and date. Which report from tonight’s presentation stayed with you?
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>> Hey folks, welcome to Phantoms and
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Monsters Radio.
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Now, a child watches something with a
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long hairy tail climb into the trees
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outside an apartment window.
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A driver near Kittery
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nearly collides with a huge wing shape
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above Bridgton.
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Something apparently transparent twists
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through the night sky revealing itself
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only by the way it distorts the stars.
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And inside a remote cabin, two
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frightened occupants listen as something
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outside begins pulling at the barricaded
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door.
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Welcome to Phantoms and Monsters Radio.
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Now, tonight
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we're exploring unexplained Maine, a
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collection of witness accounts involving
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strange creatures,
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little people, missing time, and things
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that reportedly move within sight
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without ever becoming visible.
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These are personal accounts, some
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submitted by witnesses and others passed
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along by relatives or friends.
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The descriptions reflect what those
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individuals remember
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and believe they experienced.
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And as we move through them, we'll
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consider the details without assuming
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that a familiar name necessarily solves
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an unfamiliar encounter.
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We begin with two stories about small
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figures.
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One found in a bedroom and another by
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the creek in the Maine woods.
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Now, a contributor identified as Jay
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shared the following.
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This first story is from my father.
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During one particular summer, my father,
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who had been working out in the yard,
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decided to come inside to to the heat
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and take a little break.
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He went into the bedroom and lay on his
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back on the mattress looking up at the
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ceiling.
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Now, after some time
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enjoying the silence and the warm buzz
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of the empty room,
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he heard paper rustling softly behind
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him.
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Thinking it might be a mouse, he turned
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his head very slowly,
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careful not to scare it away.
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He was startled to see a small humanoid
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figure rummaging through some newspapers
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near my parents' dresser.
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He said it was a little person dressed
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in dark brown rags.
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My father recalled watching it for a few
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seconds in disbelief. Then the figure
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stopped dead in its tracks as if it
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suddenly realized it had been noticed.
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At that moment, it turned quickly and
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walked through the wall, vanishing.
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As soon as it disappeared, he jumped off
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the bed to search the spot the figure
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had just occupied. He even felt the wall
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where it had gone through,
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but there was nothing there.
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If you've ever seen the film Cat's Eye
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based on a collection of Stephen King
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stories,
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my father claims the little person he
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saw closely resembled the creature
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living in the little girl's room.
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Now, I'm in my mid-30s and to this day,
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he still stands by what he saw.
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Now, my second story to follow on from
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the first also took place when I was a
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child.
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This is a story within a story. My
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family owns property in southeastern
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Maine that we can we mainly use for
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hunting.
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It's on the edge of the town where I
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grew up. Apart from the acre we've
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cleared to deer to feed deer, the rest
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is thick brush.
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Now, when I was little, my father bought
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the property from another family.
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Once while we were negotiating the price
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and other details, he heard a strange
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story from from other families, the
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other family's grandfather.
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The old man who had grown up in the area
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and loved talking about his boyhood
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adventures on the property.
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They were all innocent stories except
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for one strange incident that happened
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early one morning
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when he was very small.
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A large creek used to run through the
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property. Today, it's nothing more than
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a dried-out ravine.
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But when the old man was a child, it was
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full and had fish in it.
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He said that one early morning he came
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out to the property and to fish, and as
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he approached the creek, he was startled
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to hear hushed voices.
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Creeping quietly to see who might be,
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he found himself looking at two small
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people standing by the water's edge.
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The figures appeared to be no bigger
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than a foot tall and were dressed in
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dark green and brown clothing.
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The voices he had heard belonged to
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those two people.
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Although he couldn't tell
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what they were talking about, he
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remembered feeling that it was serious.
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Then one of them whistled like a bird,
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and to his astonishment, the whole group
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of these beings clambered out into a
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nearby fallen dead tree.
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The old man watched as they gathered and
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walked in a single file down the bank,
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disappearing where the creek bent
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and went into another direction.
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Now, when he got up to find them, there
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was no trace.
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He told my father that he tried
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returning several times
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hoping to see them again, but they never
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did. But he never did.
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Now, in these stories, the figures seem
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occupied with their own activities,
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sorting through paper, talking beside
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the creek,
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gathering at a signal.
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Our next witness also described watching
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something that seemed unaware it was
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being observed.
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But this figure was tall, ape-like, and
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equipped with a feature that makes the
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account especially difficult to
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classify,
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a long, thick tail.
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Now, the witness, identified as F.R.,
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wrote, "This happened about 10 years ago
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when I lived in Limestone, a small town
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in Maine.
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I was 8 years old, and our small
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apartment complex was a completely
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surrounded by forest.
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It was very quiet, and lots of wildlife
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roamed the fields and woods surrounding
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the complex.
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At night, I would lie on the top bunk of
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my bed and look out the window.
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A spider would build her web right
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outside the glass, and I always watched
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her before going to sleep. I called her
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Mrs. Spider.
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Now, my window overlooked the parking
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lot beside a field that bordered a thick
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forest.
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Now, one night, while watching Mrs.
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Spider, I built I mean, Mrs. Spider
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build her web, I saw a very tall,
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ape-like thing walking across the
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parking lot.
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It had a long, thick, hairy tail that
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tapered at the end.
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Something like how you might imagine a
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T-Rex's tail, except covered in hair.
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I kept watching as it wandered into the
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field just before the forest.
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It then positioned itself between two
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trees standing about arms length apart.
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Using its hand and feet against the
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opposite tree, it slowly shimmied
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upward.
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And as it reached the top of the trees,
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it seemed to blend in with them.
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It stopped moving, and I couldn't see it
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anymore. And to this day, I am
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completely stumped at what I saw from my
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apartment window.
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This happened when I was living in the
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Maliseet region of Maine.
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If anyone is familiar with Maliseet
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mythology,
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please comment.
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I was wide awake. I pinched myself,
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trying hard a couple times to see if I
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could snap myself out of it. But it was
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real.
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Now my original note on this account was
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simple.
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Or it was simple.
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I have no idea what this witness saw.
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Some may believe it was a devil monkey.
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If anyone has suggestion, please
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comment.
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The long tapering tail and unusual
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climbing behavior are most distinctive
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details.
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The witness described it bracing against
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two separate trees to work its way
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upward, then becoming indistinguishable
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from the surrounding canopy.
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Devil monkey offers a possible label,
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but it doesn't explain what this child
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saw.
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Years later, the memory remained an
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unanswered question from the forest's
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forest's edge.
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Now from an apartment window, that
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witness had time to watch the creature
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cross a parking lot and climb into the
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trees.
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But for the driver of our next account,
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the encounter unfolded in an instant.
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Something large swept toward the
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vehicle,
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and his immediate concern was whether he
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could avoid a collision.
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Now this account takes us to Interstate
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95 near Kittery, Maine, where a routine
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night time drive became a frightening
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encounter with something the witness
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could not identify.
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The report came from the driver's wait
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wife who who wrote,
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"Dear Mr. Stricker, my sister is a big
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fan of yours and suggested I email you.
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Last night on April 8th, 2025, my
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husband was driving on I-95 southbound
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near Kittery, Maine at about 9:00 p.m.
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He was alone in the car.
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With almost no warning, a huge dark gray
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shape came swooping toward him.
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For a panicked second, he thought he
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would collide with it.
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He said it was at least the of two
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eagles and had something like wings, but
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when I suggested it might be an owl, he
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insisted it wasn't a bird.
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He said there was an unusual loud
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whooshing sound that accompanied it.
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He also insisted it wasn't any kind of
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craft.
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The whole thing happened so fast that he
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barely had a chance to see it. And when
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he got home 10 minutes later, he was
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kind of frantic.
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He was very shaken up. He saw no eyes or
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facial features.
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Now, when my husband described this
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large winged creature, I immediately
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thought of the Mothman.
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I found a photo of something in Chicago
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that is being called the Mothman, and he
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immediately said, "That's it."
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Now, my husband's open-minded, but he
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doesn't go looking for things, and he
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believes he encountered something
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paranormal.
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I wondered if you had heard any stories
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similar to this. Thanks for your time.
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Sincerely, CG.
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Consider the circumstances of the
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encounter. A driver is driving alone
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after dark when something large suddenly
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enters his path.
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His first concern is an imminent
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collision.
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Whatever passed in front of him left him
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with only a brief impression of its
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size, its dark gray color,
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and the structures he described as
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something like wings.
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That wording deserves attention.
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Something like wings.
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According to his wife's account, he was
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certain enough to reject the bird or
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craft. Yet, he had very little time to
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examine what he saw.
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Now, we have no description of a head,
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legs, or clearly defined body. We also
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have no estimate of its wingspan in
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feet.
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The size of two eagles conveys how large
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it appeared to him, but it leaves its
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actual dimensions uncertain.
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And then there's the sound, a loud
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unusual whoosh
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accompanying its passage.
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Was that movement of powerful wings, air
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displaced as something passed close to
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the vehicle, or another sound
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interpreted in the confusion of the
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moment?
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The account gives us no way to settle
13:39
that question.
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The comparison to Mothman came later
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when his wife showed him an image linked
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to a Chicago sighting.
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His immediate recognition is an
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intriguing part of the report. Still,
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we do not know which image she showed
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him and which specific features prompted
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him to say, "That's it."
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In my original commentary, I noted that
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reports of winged beings sometimes
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describe them swooping toward
14:07
unsuspecting drivers, apparently coming
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close to cause an accident.
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I also suggested this might have been
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the first winged creature or flying
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humanoid report from Maine to reach me.
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That was a tentative assessment.
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Establishing whether it was Maine's
14:24
first such report would require further
14:25
research.
14:27
For now, we have a brief encounter
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relayed through the witness's wife and a
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driver who reportedly arrived home
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deeply shaken just 10 minutes later.
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What swept toward his car on that
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stretch of I-95? A fleeting encounter
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with wildlife under difficult viewing
14:46
conditions or something far less
14:48
familiar?
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Whatever it was, the driver believed for
14:51
one frightening instant that it was
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coming straight into his path.
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Now, another road encounter brings us to
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Mount Desert Island.
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This time, the witnesses reportedly
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reportedly had a clear view of a
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human-shaped figure.
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What frightened him was the way it moved
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toward the pavement, across the
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pavement, excuse me, and what happened
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when it stopped in the middle of the
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road.
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Now, a contributor identified as J
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shared this account.
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This is not my personal account, but
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it's a story told me by someone who
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experienced it first hand.
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K and S were a couple in college at the
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time. They attended the College of the
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Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine in Mount
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Desert Island.
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Before cell phones were common, they
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relied on directions and memory as they
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drove around looking for a turnoff that
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would lead them to a party in the woods.
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Now, around here, that kind of gathering
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is not unusual.
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Someone picks a place out of the middle
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of nowhere, builds a large bonfire,
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and people drink, smoke, and party late
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into the night. This happened during the
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summer. K and S had been driving up and
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down the same rural road trying to find
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the correct turnoff.
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They could not locate it.
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And after several passes, they they
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crested the top of a hill.
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At that moment, the full moon broke
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above the tree line and lit the road
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ahead.
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They decided to make one final pass
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along that stretch of road.
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That was when they saw something emerge
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from the trees ahead of them.
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It had a human shape, but it was moving
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upside down, crab walking across the
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road.
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K said it darted like an actual crab.
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It was pale and its movement was quick
16:44
and unnatural.
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When the thing reached the middle of the
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road, it dropped lower, closer to the
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pavement. Then it stretched out and rose
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upward.
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It stood upright in front of them for a
16:56
moment. K said it had yellow eyes and a
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body that was essentially human shaped,
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but it had no visible genitalia or
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distinct features. It was just a pale
17:06
human-like body.
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After standing there briefly, it ran the
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rest of the way across the road and
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disappeared.
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K and S immediately turned around and
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drove home.
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When Kay told me this story, I got
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chills.
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It disturbed me so badly because I had
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to drive home from work later that night
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on a rural road,
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and the whole thing stayed with me.
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Now, that account reached us through
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someone who heard it from a witness.
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The next comes from a man describing his
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own memories of an experience in Bangor.
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He remembered leaving one house for a
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short walk to another.
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Then his recollection shifted to a
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bright room, unfamiliar figures, and a
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voice repeatedly telling him that
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everything would be all right.
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Now, the witness stated, "This occurred
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in 2010. I had gone to Bangor, Maine to
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visit my brother.
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Around 2:00 a.m., I left his house and
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started walking to a long-time friend's
18:06
home in the city.
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It was only about a 10-minute walk.
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The next thing I remember, my eyes were
18:13
closed and I could hear a calm,
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relaxing, almost hypnotic female voice
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speaking to me.
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Kevin,
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Kevin, it's okay.
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We're here to help. It's okay.
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We're not going to harm you. It's It's
18:28
okay. We're going to make you feel
18:30
better.
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Then my eyes opened. At first, there was
18:33
a blinding light, but after a few
18:35
moments, it faded and I could see in the
18:37
room around me.
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There were two gray aliens present. They
18:42
were very tall.
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The room itself appeared to have two
18:46
different wall colors. The upper part of
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the wall was purple and the lower part
18:50
was blue.
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I asked them if they were going to harm
18:53
me and what they were going to do with
18:55
me. They replied they would help me and
18:58
fix me.
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I was not moving my mouth when I spoke
19:02
to them.
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It was just the communication was
19:04
happening without normal speech.
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The next thing I remember, one gray was
19:09
on each side of me. They pressed me
19:11
against the cold metal object and seemed
19:14
to move with them.
19:16
They took me into a hallway to the left
19:18
of a white room.
19:20
The hallway was dark, cloudy, and misty
19:22
as if it were filled with fog.
19:24
It must have been about 40 to 50 ft
19:27
long.
19:28
And before I reached the next room, I
19:30
could see at least seven or eight tall
19:32
grays huddled in a circle to the right
19:35
where they also had an exit leading into
19:37
another room next to them.
19:41
The walls in that room had deep
19:42
indentations that looked almost like
19:45
V-shaped grooves.
19:48
When they brought me into the room, I
19:49
noticed the chemical-like smell. It
19:52
reminded me of a mixture of bleach and
19:54
ammonia.
19:56
They took me to the center to of the
19:57
room. I remember one of the beings was
19:59
so tall that he had to bend down
20:01
slightly to look me in the eye.
20:05
At that point, I was not as frightened
20:07
as I should have been.
20:09
It was also difficult for me to clearly
20:10
see their faces at times.
20:14
I was still standing against the object
20:15
they had pressed me
20:17
on they had placed me on the white room.
20:22
One of them placed a hand on my nose and
20:25
another inserted a small black tube into
20:27
my nose.
20:30
The tube made a noise.
20:32
The grays being The gray beings had long
20:35
fingers, were very tall, and had small
20:37
mouths that moved up and down like a
20:38
fish's mouth,
20:40
though they made no sound.
20:42
And after they used the tube, I remember
20:44
screaming.
20:46
All the while, I could still hear the
20:48
calm female voice saying, "It's going to
20:50
be okay. We're here to help."
20:54
The voice was soothing and soft as if
20:56
they were trying to keep me relaxed.
20:59
But by then, I was scared.
21:02
The next thing I remember, I was lying
21:04
down. They They me toward the left side
21:06
of the room.
21:07
I became hostile. I remember cocking my
21:09
left leg back and kicking one of the
21:11
Grays near my lower left side.
21:14
He slammed against the wall and fell
21:16
down. The other Grays quickly backed up.
21:20
From that point, the next thing I
21:21
remember is being back on the side of
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the road.
21:26
I realized something had happened, but I
21:27
was shaken and confused. I was also very
21:31
tired and had a strange lost feeling.
21:35
A police officer drove slowly beside me
21:38
and I asked him where a particular
21:40
street was. He looked at me for several
21:42
seconds.
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He didn't say a word. He just pointed
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and stared at me with a nasty look.
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I later realized that I had been I had
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lost 3 to 4 hours. It was nearly 6:00
21:54
a.m. when I finally reached my friend's
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house.
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I know there are other encounters, but
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this one sticks out in my mind the most.
22:04
Now, the gaps in this witness's
22:05
recollection leave many questions about
22:07
what happened during those hours.
22:10
Now, our next contributor describes
22:12
something different. Several
22:14
uninterrupted minutes spent watching a
22:16
form
22:18
that appeared almost impossible to see.
22:20
But decades later, he said his daughter
22:22
called with a remarkable remarkably
22:25
similar description.
22:29
The witness described the first
22:30
encounter this way.
22:32
The encounter occurred on a very cold
22:34
winter night in 1993 or 1994.
22:38
I had stepped outside a house I was
22:41
visiting and was walking toward my car,
22:43
which was parked across the street.
22:46
It was approximately 8:00 p.m. in
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Bridgton, Maine.
22:50
The sky was exceptionally clear and
22:52
filled with brilliant stars.
22:54
As soon as I looked up, I noticed
22:56
movement above me.
22:59
Something was rapidly twisting and
23:01
turning through the air. It moved like a
23:03
bird or perhaps like birds flying over a
23:05
scrap of food, but its movements were
23:07
confined
23:08
to an extremely tight area.
23:11
It appeared to be approximately 60 ft
23:13
above the ground and somewhere between
23:15
50 to 10 to 100 ft northeast of me.
23:19
It repeatedly looped, twisted, and
23:21
reversed direction within the area
23:23
measuring less than 10 ft across.
23:27
The thing appeared to be approximately 5
23:29
to 10 ft across and it was transparent.
23:32
It looked as though it was made from
23:34
glass.
23:35
I could see the stars behind it,
23:38
but their light became distorted as the
23:39
object moved.
23:41
The stars streaked, shifted, and blurred
23:43
through different parts of its form.
23:47
I later purchased a glass sculpture of a
23:49
bird because it helped demonstrate what
23:51
I had seen.
23:53
When you look through different
23:54
thicknesses and curves in the glass,
23:56
whatever's behind it remains visible,
23:58
but becomes distorted.
24:02
That was how this thing appeared.
24:04
The otherwise clear stars became streaks
24:07
of light that shifted constantly as the
24:09
form spun, twisted, and swirled.
24:12
I did not believe it was a machine with
24:14
a uniform or symmetrical structure.
24:18
It reminded me more of the body of a
24:20
bird or fish, thicker in certain places
24:22
and thinner in others. Its shape seemed
24:25
to contort continuously.
24:28
The resulting lines of starlight were
24:30
much more complex than a figure eight.
24:33
In the moment turned nothing looked
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nothing like a
24:36
circ- a circular object simply rotating.
24:40
Now, I cannot say with certainty that it
24:43
had wings, but it moved like a bird.
24:46
I also had the impression that it was
24:47
angry, distressed, and extremely
24:49
agitated.
24:51
Its movements seemed frantic and
24:53
aggressive.
24:55
If a person had displayed that kind of
24:57
body language, I would have described
24:58
the individual as being completely
25:00
overwhelmed with anger.
25:02
That was the feeling I received from it.
25:05
I watched the thing for approximately 3
25:07
minutes before it disappeared behind
25:08
some trees.
25:10
Now, it's difficult to convey how
25:12
quickly it was moving. It made extremely
25:14
tight twist, turns, loops, and reversals
25:16
while the starlight behind it continued
25:19
to stretch and shift.
25:22
It seemed like a living thing with a
25:24
body that was thicker in some areas and
25:26
thinner in others.
25:28
It was It did not have a uniform
25:30
appearance I would expect from a
25:32
machine.
25:35
I wasn't frightened because I It never
25:37
moved closer to me. It simply stood
25:39
there watching it.
25:41
Now, I do not believe it would have been
25:43
I would have seen it under ordinary
25:45
conditions.
25:46
The night was unusually clear and the
25:48
stars were exceptionally bright.
25:51
The object became visible only because
25:53
the stars behind it were being distorted
25:55
by its movement.
25:57
If the sky had been cloudy, I would not
25:59
have seen it.
26:01
I only doubted I also doubt that it
26:04
would have been visible during the day
26:05
unless it passed directly in front of
26:07
something that provided a contrasting
26:10
background.
26:12
I had never heard of anything like this
26:14
and I never encountered another person
26:16
who described seeing something similar
26:18
in the sky.
26:20
Years later, I heard an account on the
26:22
Rusty West YouTube channel
26:25
involving strange things reportedly seen
26:27
by truck drivers.
26:29
Now, one truck One driver One trucker
26:31
had stopped near a large field and
26:33
claimed to have seen an enormous shadow
26:36
moving across the ground.
26:39
The shadow appeared to show the movement
26:40
of the wings of wings, but the trucker
26:42
could not see anything in the sky that
26:44
could have produced it.
26:46
That report was not identical to my
26:49
sighting, but it was the only account I
26:51
encountered had encountered that made me
26:53
wonder whether someone else
26:55
had observed something similar.
26:59
Now on July 7th, 2026, my daughter
27:02
contacted me and said she had seen
27:04
something unusual in the night sky near
27:07
Freeport, Maine.
27:09
She described it as resembling a
27:10
transparent bird that was twisting,
27:12
circling, and spinning within a small
27:15
area of the sky.
27:16
Her description was remarkably similar
27:18
to what I had witnessed in Bridgeton
27:21
more than 32 years earlier.
27:23
She did not know about my sighting.
27:27
When my children were young, I taught
27:28
them to pay attention to the sky and
27:30
recognize things such as satellites.
27:33
I had become familiar with satellites
27:35
after spending many years fishing at
27:37
night.
27:38
Like my original encounter, my
27:39
daughter's observation occurred beneath
27:42
a very clear star-filled sky.
27:45
She agreed that she probably would not
27:47
have noticed the object if it had
27:49
remained still or if the clouds had
27:51
covered the stars.
27:53
Now I have contact contacted several
27:55
people who collect accounts of strange
27:57
phenomena and unusual encounters.
28:00
So far, none of them had told me that
28:02
they had heard of anything exactly like
28:05
this.
28:06
The same contributor identified as GA
28:11
also described an encounter on Pleasant
28:13
Mountain in the Bridgton and Fryeburg
28:15
area in 1994 and 1995.
28:19
I hiked the western trail to the fire
28:21
outlook tower
28:23
lookout tower as many times before,
28:25
almost always with a dog, but not this
28:28
time.
28:30
On the way down, not far from the top, a
28:32
stretch of thick evergreens rose steeply
28:35
to my right.
28:37
To my left were widely spaced
28:39
non-evergreen trees.
28:42
The ground sloped down to the left while
28:44
light under the light undergrowth was
28:47
about 200 ft ft of visibility.
28:50
I heard something heavily heavy charging
28:53
toward me fast, very fast from the left.
28:56
When I first noticed it,
28:58
I would guess it was just beyond my 200
29:00
ft of visibility.
29:02
It got closer and closer, stopping.
29:05
I would say no more than 50 ft away.
29:07
I could not see anything.
29:10
I should have been able to see a 20 lb
29:12
dog.
29:13
I know how a moose runs and it's long
29:15
legs and distinctive gait.
29:18
I also know that a buffalo what a
29:19
buffalo sounds like with its shorter
29:21
legs and unique gait.
29:24
It sounded like a big heavy buffalo.
29:27
I have no idea what it was.
29:29
I should have been able to see it
29:31
because it was very big, heavy, and
29:32
close.
29:34
It sounded like it had hooves.
29:36
What I heard wasn't just twigs breaking,
29:39
but something like the thunder of a
29:40
stampeding animal with the ground
29:42
shaking. It scared me.
29:45
Only recently, when thinking about it,
29:47
did I consider that whatever it was
29:50
stopped when it got close because I saw
29:53
how big it was, about 300 lb at the
29:56
time.
29:58
Recently, I have heard of other people
29:59
being charged by something they couldn't
30:01
see, only for it to stop short, and of
30:05
other witnesses reporting something
30:06
close like the Predator movie.
30:09
I heard these reports in Missing 1 1
30:11
accounts.
30:13
If you ever hear of something seen to
30:15
guy like this I saw,
30:16
uh what like what I saw, I would really
30:18
like to know about it.
30:21
Now, the witness connected these
30:23
experiences to the possibility of
30:24
something transparent or concealed. That
30:27
remains his interpretation.
30:29
In the sky, he described a visible
30:31
distortion. On the mountain, he heard
30:34
the approaching sound but did not see
30:36
its source.
30:38
Those are different observations, even
30:40
though both left him wondering whether
30:42
something
30:43
had been present that he could not
30:45
clearly see.
30:48
Now, on Pleasant Mountain, the
30:49
approaching sounds reportedly stopped
30:52
before reaching the witnesses.
30:55
Now, in our final account, whatever
30:57
frightened the occupants of a remote
30:59
cabin
31:00
came right up to the building.
31:03
The contributor began with an earlier
31:05
roadside sighting near Baxter State
31:07
Park, then described a later experience
31:10
near Mount Blue State Park that
31:12
ultimately persuaded her to leave.
31:16
Now, the witness identified as Jay Root.
31:19
In 1981, my friends lived in a very
31:22
rural cabin near Baxter State Park,
31:24
Maine.
31:25
The road was only traveled by residents.
31:28
You could drive on it and not expect to
31:30
see any other cars.
31:32
Now, I was driving up there one night,
31:34
and as I rounded the last bend before
31:37
reaching the cabin, an 8-ft tall Sas-
31:40
quatch
31:41
stood on the side of the road side of
31:43
the road. It was massive.
31:45
It had to be 4-ft across the shoulders
31:48
with brownish-blonde hair.
31:50
I then noticed that it was a male.
31:53
His skin was dark. His face had a long
31:56
beard and looked like looked both
31:58
ape-like and human-like.
32:00
He stood there motionless looking at me.
32:03
I was freaked out when my headlights
32:05
were on him and we actually made
32:07
contact.
32:08
He was not 20-ft from me.
32:11
I sped past and then into my friend's
32:13
driveway. I ran into the cabin screaming
32:16
that I had seen a huge Sasquatch.
32:20
Now, a few years later, I bought a small
32:22
property near Blue uh Mount Blue State
32:24
Park, Maine.
32:26
One winter, a friend was visiting from
32:29
Utah.
32:30
My boyfriend and his friends went out on
32:32
the snowmobiles at night.
32:34
Later, we were inside the cabin when we
32:36
started hearing bizarre growls.
32:39
Like
32:40
like nothing I'd ever heard before or
32:42
since.
32:45
The growls got louder and louder.
32:47
Then whatever this was started screaming
32:50
and the cabin literally shook.
32:53
It was right outside.
32:55
I ran to the door and put a board
32:56
barricade across the opening.
32:59
As soon as I did that, something was
33:01
pulling and shaking the door on the
33:02
other side.
33:04
Each time we changed our position in the
33:06
cabin, that part of the cabin would be
33:07
attacked. We were terrified.
33:11
My boyfriend had brought a pistol, so I
33:12
grabbed it.
33:14
We climbed the ladder to the bedroom.
33:16
Whatever that thing was landed on the
33:18
roof above us.
33:20
It screamed with the scariest things you
33:22
have ever heard and
33:24
they're impossible to repeat.
33:27
Just as we thought our lives were over,
33:29
we could hear the snowmobiles coming
33:31
back.
33:32
Whatever that thing was finally ran off.
33:35
We told the guys what had happened and
33:38
they went out to look for tracks.
33:40
Now, at first they thought we were
33:42
crazy, but then they saw huge unknown
33:44
prints with long claw marks in the snow.
33:48
There were deep scratches on the window
33:50
frames and outside walls.
33:53
My boyfriend was an experienced hunter.
33:55
He couldn't explain the prints or the
33:57
deep claw marks.
33:59
Now, I soon moved out west to
34:01
California.
34:03
There's no way I was staying in that
34:04
cabin, let alone in Maine.
34:10
The witness identified the roadside
34:11
figure as a squa- Sasquatch.
34:14
She did not identify what later attacked
34:16
the cabin.
34:18
That distinction leaves us with two
34:19
separate experiences, a close sighting
34:22
in the headlights and a frightening
34:23
disturbance occup-
34:25
occup-
34:26
occupied, according to the account, by
34:28
tracks
34:29
and damage discovered afterward.
34:32
Now, tonight's reports have taken us
34:34
from a quiet bedroom to a creek bank,
34:37
from apartment overlooking the woods to
34:39
highways and remote mountain trails.
34:42
Some witnesses had only seconds to look.
34:45
Others described watching for minutes.
34:47
Some accounts reached us directly,
34:50
others traveled through family members
34:52
and friends.
34:54
Their unanswered questions are
34:55
different, too.
34:57
What did the child in Limestone watch
34:59
climbing between those trees?
35:01
What passed so close to the car near
35:03
Kittery?
35:05
What explains the transparent bird-like
35:07
form described above Bridgton and the
35:09
daughter's later observance near
35:10
Freeport?
35:12
And what was outside that cabin pulling
35:14
at the door and screaming from the roof?
35:18
We have the accounts. Identifying their
35:20
causes requires more than a name or a
35:22
resemblance to another story.
35:26
Now, if you've experienced something
35:27
unusual in Maine, I'd like to hear about
35:29
it. Details such as
35:31
location, approximate date, lighting,
35:34
distance, and duration, and whether
35:36
others witnessed
35:38
it can come help us better understand
35:40
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36:53
>> Dagnabbit.
36:55
In Maine, there is supposed to be a
36:56
giant cannibalistic humanoid monster
36:59
from
37:00
Wabanak
37:02
Wabanaki folklore, similar to the
37:05
Windigo called the Kiwakwa.
37:08
Kiwakwa Kiwakwa
37:11
Those names I'm not familiar with.
37:14
Um I have had
37:17
several Windigo-like reports in Maine.
37:21
Um
37:23
Now, I don't I don't know if it's
37:24
particular to any of the indigenous uh
37:28
people
37:29
or specific tribes, but of course
37:33
it's part of their lore
37:35
in most cases.
37:36
Uh so, if you do have anything
37:39
uh
37:40
that talks about this or explains it,
37:42
I'd appreciate you sending it to me.
37:51
Veronica Wright, how many similarities
37:53
do you find across the Windigo humanoid
37:55
proportions from state to state?
37:57
Um
37:59
most times there are some differences,
38:03
but then there are a lot of
38:03
similarities. I mean, just like my
38:05
encounter I had in South Central
38:08
Pennsylvania back in 1988
38:11
is very similar in in size, description,
38:16
uh the way it reacts to what we've
38:19
generally reported or been reporting
38:22
from the Chicagoland area.
38:25
Uh we also had some sightings
38:27
in Pasco County, Florida at around the
38:30
same time as uh when 2017-2018.
38:34
And they were very similar as well.
38:37
Also had a report but we also had
38:39
reports in Ohio,
38:41
in Texas,
38:43
and other places that were somewhat
38:45
different, more like Mothman sightings
38:47
as opposed to the bat-wing type
38:49
sightings that we have had.
38:52
And most of the sightings that we have
38:53
had in Chicagoland area. So,
38:55
it just depends. I um I I believe there
38:58
are different either races or different
39:01
types of
39:02
I don't
39:03
types of these wing beings. Do they all
39:06
come from the same place? Who knows? I
39:07
don't think they're indigenous. I think
39:09
they are extraterrestrial.
39:11
But we do get quite a few uh sighting
39:14
reports. And if you go into my archives,
39:16
you will find plenty. I wrote about one
39:18
today in Washington state.
39:21
So, um
39:23
yeah, that's that's the best I can
39:24
answer your question.
39:29
Dag Nammit, has anyone seen Cassie, the
39:31
Casco Bay sea monster lately? I haven't
39:34
heard anything about that lately.
39:37
Um
39:40
I don't know the full story behind that
39:42
because we do get a lot of um we do get
39:44
a lot of aquatic
39:46
sight-
39:50
And throughout
39:51
coastal uh New England. So,
39:55
I don't know, but I haven't received any
39:57
anything from the Casco sightings as
39:59
that could be classified as a Casco
40:01
sightings.
40:05
Alice Sterling,
40:07
Lon, could you do a show on Native
40:09
Indian encounters and folklore? Yeah, I
40:12
could.
40:13
Yeah, I put something I can probably put
40:15
something together. Um
40:18
I'm going to cover states and regions
40:21
for the most part, but I can whip up
40:24
something uh
40:27
pertaining to Native American encounters
40:28
and folklore.
40:37
Anything else, folks?
40:46
Okay. Well,
40:48
again, I want to thank you for joining
40:50
me this evening.
40:51
I'm grateful for your continued interest
40:53
and support of this channel.
40:56
Uh
40:57
so, until the next time we meet, please
40:59
remain observant, trust your instincts,
41:02
and remember that the world around us
41:04
may be far stranger than we've been led
41:06
to believe.
41:07
Now, I will be on uh tonight at 11:00
41:11
Eastern on Bill Bean's Warrior Mode
41:13
show,
41:14
talking about certain cases, as well.
41:17
I I may also mention this new case that
41:21
we discussed on Wednesday night
41:23
on the um the member show in Cropsy,
41:27
Illinois. And um
41:29
I I may talk about that. I don't know I
41:32
don't know exactly what Bill wants to
41:34
talk about, but I think he mentioned
41:35
something about other cases.
41:38
So, anyway,
41:40
uh you all have a nice evening.
41:42
Have a great weekend,
41:44
and see you next Friday. Good night.
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