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In the Spring of 2004, I spent some time traveling throughout Florida. It's interesting how many stories you hear simply by asking people about their part of the state. One of these tales was told to me by a young woman named Jackie, at a vegetable stand near Clewiston, Florida. We sat and talked while under a canvas canopy during an afternoon thunderstorm. I made as many mental notes as possible, later transferring my thoughts to words on my laptop. I uncovered this particular narrative in an older file located in a deep recess of my hard drive."I was 17 and it was during a holiday break from school. One morning I was lying in bed, watching my TV. My mother walked in and said that we were going to go canoeing on the Kissimmee River, and my aunt and cousin coming along with us. I quickly got out of bed and we all headed out. When we got there, there was hardly anyone there and it was very breezy and colder than usual. It took my aunt and cousin almost 30 minutes to arrive.We grabbed two canoes from one of the rental places. My aunt, cousin, and I got in one canoe and were pushed off the shore first. My mom, dad, and sister were behind. Once they were in the water, we all started paddling.We had been on the water for about an hour enjoying the scenery and the time together, when I spotted something moving in the water. I looked down into the water and I saw a human figure swimming beneath us. The water was extremely shallow, and the figure moved in and out of the mangroves and weeds effortlessly. I looked closely and noticed that it was a young boy in his early teens with long blonde hair.I gasped in shock and fear as my family heard me and showed concern. The boy looked at me with piercing red eyes. I sensed evil and sadness. Upon seeing me, the boy turned his head and swam away into deeper water. Once I had realized what had just happened, I noticed that my family was around me. "What's wrong? Are you OK?" I nodded my head. "I'm just fine."When I gathered my senses, I thought that maybe I saw something else in the water, but it still scared me. "It was nothing," I replied. My mom said "OK" and then we all continued with our sightseeing. But only a few minutes had passed when something else occurred.I was looking all around, enjoying the scenery, when I saw the boy again. This time, I focused my eyes through the layers of thick mangrove trees and saw the boy staring back at me with a scowling angry face. His large bright red eyes were glaring back at me. I immediately got the feeling that we had passed through his territory and that we needed to get out of there as soon as possible.We had entered an open area of the river, but I was still focused on the boy in the mangrove. The wind started to pick up quickly and the temperature started to drop. My cousin was standing, taking a video of the area with her video camera. My aunt was holding her legs from behind. As I continued staring at the boy, the wind got worse. The boat tipped slightly, and my cousin lost her balance and fell into the water. I quickly looked away from the boy, as I watched my cousin tumble into the water. I stood and reached out my arm to her. Then I remembered the boy and his evil expression. I looked back at the mangrove where I had seen him before. He wasn't there.I panicked. I needed to reach my cousin as soon as possible and pull her back on the boat. The boy was gone and I feared if he would do harm to my cousin. She was desperately trying to grab my and my aunt's hands to get back on the boat. I was screaming loudly "Get out! Get out!." She finally reached my hand and I quickly pulled her back into the boat. She was fine, but I was shaking and more upset than her.After a few minutes, I told everyone that I wanted to go back. I was worried for the remainder of our time on the water. When we finally got back to shore, I just happened to spot the boy again as he rose up in the low-hanging mangrove. He gave me a hideous wink and rolled his eyes back as he faded away. It made me shudder in horror.Suddenly I heard "Ouch, my back hurts!" My cousin was in pain and yelled out, just after the boy faded away. I lifted her shirt and to everyone's shock, her entire back was a huge black and blue bruise. Everywhere you look on her back she has dark marks. "I don't even remember getting hurt," she said. "You must have hit a stump under the water or something?" I told her. I knew full well that the boy had something to do with it. My aunt was emotionally beside herself and insisted we go to the hospital so my cousin could be treated.Several years later, I returned to the canoe rental place. It was now a bait and tackle store with docks. I asked some of the men working on a boat motor about the history of the place after telling them of my previous experience there. They told me that many years ago a boy in his teens was playing around with his friends, in the same area where my family and I were canoeing. One of his friends placed a bet with him to see who could hold their breath the longest. The boy was from a poor family and wanted the money desperately. After they competed, the friend noticed that his partner was floating face down. When he touched him to tell him that he had won, there was no reaction. He quickly pulled him out of the water, then went to go get help.The poor boy had wanted the money so badly that he drowned in an attempt to hold his breath longer than his friend. When his parents learn of their son's death, they are so distraught that both commit suicide before the boy is buried. No one knew what happened to the boy's body.I walked toward one of the docks and looked out over the thick mangroves, and there he was. I clearly saw him standing there with his long blond hair, looking at me with sorrow on his face. But this time he had light blue eyes. I smiled at him and then waved. I turned to walk away, quickly glancing back in his direction. The boy was gone, but I knew he'd be there forever."**********RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Though the legend of the Highgate ‘vampire’ continues to intrigue and be discussed, something just as wicked occurred several decades before, in the West End at Coventry Street.In 1922 a giant bat-like creature had been seen in the vicinity of West Drayton Church. An old man who claimed he had seen the giant bat twenty-five years previously, maintained that it was the spirit of a vampire who had murdered a woman to drink her blood in Harmondsworth in the 1890s. No one took the oldster's tale seriously. Then, on the 16th of April 1922 so began a series of attacks on the general public which bore all the marks of a blood-sucking assailant. Several people witnessed a tall black creature with wings (similar to Mothman) flying around a church. They say that it went into the church cemeteries and ran around the graves. Two policemen chased it and it let out an awful scream and flew away. For a short period, the bustling metropolis of London was on vampire alert.It was 6am and a local clerk was walking to work, heading down Coventry Street. Suddenly he was accosted from the shadows by an unseen form which bit him in the throat. The man collapsed unconscious to the floor and awoke in Charing Cross Hospital where he told the surgeons of his grim encounter. His tale seemed too far-fetched to the doctors, they believed he’d been stabbed in the neck. Then, just over two hours later, another attack took place. A second man was rushed to the hospital and had the same encounter to speak of as blood trickled from his throat. He’d been attacked by an invisible predator at exactly the same spot.As the hospital staff attempted to solve the mystery, during late evening another man was attacked, his throat punctured by an unseen assailant at exactly the same spot – the turning just off Coventry Street. The police could not fathom as to what had happened and the press were quick to lap up the grisly rumors that a vampire-like attacker was on the loose, with the Daily Mail reporting on the sinister encounters. A reporter boldly and yet sarcastically asked the police if a vampire could be on the loose, and the officer replied nervously, “That’s all!” and left the conference.As hysteria rose in the area. There was a rumor that the police hired a vampire hunter, who chased the being and stabbed him in the heart with a stake. The corpse was taken to Highgate Cemetery - soon after the attacks stopped.The story may sound like a piece of horror fiction, but how uncanny that a handful of decades later a bizarre, vampire-like specter would be seen to haunt and attack within the confines of the gloomy cemetery.Sources:bloodylexicon.comhttp://londonist.comStrange but True: Mysterious and Bizarre People, Who Were They and Where Did They Go- Thomas SlemenThe Encyclopedia of Vampires and Werewolves- Rosemary Ellen GuileyVampires: The Myths, Legends, and LoreVampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend**********RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

In a story which reminds us that heroes never really hang up their capes, a retired police dog in the UK saved a missing person on a walk. The 12-year-old German Shepherd named Bear received the lifesaver award from the Thin Blue Paw Foundation, a charity that helps police dogs and which had previously partially […] The post Old Retired Police Dog Snaps Back into Service and Rescues Lost Hiker appeared first on Good News Network.

News Love Me Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Have Billion-Year Romance in Love Me Trailer By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 6, 2025 Courtesy of Bleecker Street Comment 0 Share New Share Courtesy of Bleecker Street What is love? What is life, even? Those existential questions and more are explored in Love Me, the debut feature of writing-directing duo Sam Zuchero and Andy Zuchero that stars Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Love Lies Bleeding) and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, NOPE). Yeun and Stewart aren’t playing humans… but what does being human even mean? The official synopsis sets up the plot: In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy (Stewart) and a satellite (Yeun) meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love. The recently released trailer shows how this buoy and satellite transform into something more than their component parts. We also get a glimpse of the different filmmaking techniques the Zucheros use in the movie, including the usual live-action formats well as practical animatronics, classic animation, and game engines. It takes a big swing, and while reviews from its screening at Sundance last year are mixed, it’s likely to be something different than what we’ve seen before. Love Me, a Bleeker Street film, will premiere in theaters for the general public’s viewing pleasure on January 31, 2025. Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Have Billion-Year Romance in <i>Love Me</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

News Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Gets an Advanced Suit in Trailer By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 6, 2025 Screenshot: Disney+ Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Disney+ Marvel Animation’s long-anticipated Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will be here in mere weeks, and Disney+ has released a trailer giving us more details on what’s in store for this new on-screen version of Peter Parker. The tagline for the series, which merely says that we follow “Peter Parker on his way to becoming a hero, with a journey unlike we’ve ever seen and a style that celebrates the character’s early comic book roots,” doesn’t tell us much. The trailer, at least, hints at this Peter’s origin story; it also reveals that he gets a suit (courtesy of Norman Osborn) that Spidey video game fans will recognize: the Advanced Suit, aka the White Suit. In the games, this suit is the primary one for Marvel’s Spider-Man, and is also an option in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. How the suit will work out for Peter in the animated series, however, remains to be seen. What we do know is that that show features Hudson Thames as the voice of Petey/Spider-Man and Colman Domingo as Norman Osborne. Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Zeno Robinson, and Hugh Dancy also star, and Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio will be giving voice to animated versions of their Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, Daredevil and Kingpin. The head writer on the series is Jeff Trammell, and the supervising director is Mel Zwyer. The ten-episode first season of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man starts streaming on Disney+ on January 29, 2025. Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post <i>Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man</i> Gets an Advanced Suit in Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

With just two weeks until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Hamas claims to have approved a list of 34 hostages to be exchanged in a possible cease-fire deal with Israel, Reuters reports. One of the hostages on the list is 19-year-old Liri Albag. Hamas released a propaganda video Saturday of Albag, one of the youngest hostages remaining in captivity following Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that left 1,200 people dead.   “We’re starting a really dark year here,” Albag said in the video, according to The Jerusalem Post. “The world is starting to forget about us. No one cares about us. We’re living in a nightmare.”  Hamas releases video showing sign of life from hostage Liri Albaghttps://t.co/eVFnaho9jX#hamas #Israel #Gaza pic.twitter.com/PitpSxr4Yl— Agencia AJN (@AgenciaAJN) January 4, 2025 Hollywood actress Gal Gadot, an Israeli citizen who is best known for her role as Wonder Woman, issued a statement Sunday shortly before the Golden Globes in response to the hostage video.   “On a personal level, while I prepare for a festive and joyous evening, my heart is heavy, and my soul aches knowing the hostages are still there,” Gadot wrote on Instagram.   Gadot served in the Israel Defense Forces before becoming an A-list actress. Albag was also serving in the Defense Forces, as all Israeli citizens are required to do, when she was taken hostage.  There are 100 hostages still being held in Gaza, more than 30 of whom are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli government.    Where the Hostage Deal Stands  On Monday, hostage deal talks continued through mediators between Hamas and Israel following reports that Hamas approved the names of 34 hostages to be released in a prisoner exchange. The deal, however, is contingent upon an end to the war.  A Hamas official, who spoke with Reuters on condition of anonymity, said any hostage exchange deal will only be agreed to alongside a permanent cease-fire agreement in which Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s office responded to the news Monday saying that the “list of hostages that has been published in the media was not provided to Israel by Hamas but was originally given by Israel to the mediators in July 2024.”  The Israeli government added that it has not received any information from Hamas regarding whether each of the 34 hostages is even alive.   As negotiations progress, The New York Times reports that Israel has demanded Hamas provide information on the status of each hostage. Israeli officials say they cannot agree to a number of Palestinian prisoners to release in the exchange without first knowing which hostages on the list are even alive. But Hamas says it will not provide Israel with the information it seeks without receiving something in return, according to The Times.   The list of 34 hostages, according to The Times of Israel, includes 10 women, two children, and 22 men, including Israeli-American citizens Keith Siegel and Sagui Dekel-Chen. The two children: Ariel Bibas, 5 Kfir Bibas, 1 The nine women in addition to Albag: Romi Gonen, 23 Emily Damari, 27 Arbel Yehud, 29 Doron Steinbrecher, 31 Shiri Silberman Bibas, 33 Karina Ariev, 20 Agam Berger, 21 Danielle Gilboa, 20 Naama Levy, 20 The 22 men: Ohad Ben-Ami, 58 Gadi Moshe Moses, 80 Keith Siegel, 65 Ofer Calderon, 54 Eli Sharabi, 52 Itzik Elgarat, 70 Shlomo Mansour, 86 Ohad Yahalomi, 50 Youssef Hamis Ziyadne, 54 Oded Lifshitz, 84 Tsahi Idan, 50 Hisham al-Sayed, 36 Yarden Bibas, 35 Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36 Yair Horn, 46 Omer Wenkert, 23 Sasha Trufanov, 28 Eliya Cohen, 27 Or Levy, 34 Avera Mengistu, 38 Tal Shoham, 39 Omer Shem-Tov, 22 The list does not include American hostage Edan Alexander, who just marked his 21st birthday while still in captivity on Dec. 29.   The release of the list of hostages comes two weeks before Trump’s inauguration. In early December, Trump issued a clear statement on social media site Truth Social, warning that “there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity” if the hostages were not released by the time he is sworn into office on Jan. 20.    “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied history of the United States of America,” Trump wrote, adding, “RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”  Apart from the three American hostages still believed to be alive in Gaza, the dead bodies of four other American-Israeli citizens are thought to still be in Gaza.   The post With 2 Weeks Until Trump’s Inauguration, Hamas Indicates Openness to Hostage Release appeared first on The Daily Signal.