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A Vietnamese woman was escaping by boat, with other people, and transversing toward Thailand in the South China Sea. A huge 'fish' appears, but unknown what it is.I received the following account:"Hello there, Lon. It came to interest me how you can send in your own story about a close encounter or possibly something unusual. So I have a story my mother told me a long time ago about encountering a creature (which of course I was really skeptical about) when she was roughly 15-16 years old (Now 65). She recently told me the story again and it was still the same way she told me when I was 15-16 which then made me believe, what if it was true? And if it is true, what was it?When my mother was still living in Vietnam, she was very poor like every working Vietnamese citizen there. People worked hard to try to earn money or at the very least get enough food to survive the rough lifestyle of Vietnam. Back then, my mother told me it was a very shady place to live. People died easily because of starvation or health problems which killed many hard-working people. Another way many people died was how citizens were forced to go to different areas of Vietnam to work. My mother was soon one of the many who had to be forced to go elsewhere.That very same night when she was soon to leave, her brother managed to tell her about a boat that was to be used to escape Vietnam and head away from there. At least a dozen people (including my Mother and Uncle) got on a boat and headed out from Hà Tiên towards Thailand.That night, when the dozen escaped, they celebrated and rejoiced by drinking and eating on the boat through the first night. Through the 2nd or 3rd day, their engine broke, and were now traveling where the water took them. Through the 4th day of being on water, they barely had any supplies and soon the group began to think they would all die with little water and food.My mother doesn't know what day this was during the one week of being out at sea before reaching Thailand but this is when the encounter with the creature occurred. My mother also didn't tell me what time of day it was, but it was bright enough to be able to see the creature in the water. (during mid-day?)As the boat was still moving through the force of the water, my mother noticed a very big creature close to the boat. She described the creature to be "gray" in color and also very big. She told me that the creature must have been much bigger than the boat they were in considering it was right beside them.Also, my mother explained to me that the creature didn't move at all when my mother looked at the body of the creature, it just stayed in the shallow water. Surprisingly, I asked her if she saw a face, tail, or anything else that could define it. But she told me that her friend grabbed her and told her not to look in case something bad were to occur. Another interesting detail my mother told me was that she felt, that if the creature were to move, even its tail if it did have one, she thought the boat would definitely flip or possibly destroy the boat. I asked my Mom what you thought it could have been and the first thing that came up in her mind was "Fish."But I know in my own conscience, it couldn't have been a fish. So I also asked her if the body of the creature was smooth, and she responded, "Yes." After the next couple of days, the dozen managed to make it to Thailand and never saw that creature again.So in my own thoughts, I had to rule out that it was no fish, and if somehow in the world, it is a fish, it's definitely a unique one with a smooth gray body and no scales.Also, if my mother did see its entire body, there were definitely no top fins on the creature which almost wants me to rule out it was no shark, but it could have been a bit deeper to not reveal its top fin?I'm also not too sure what creatures lurk in the South China Sea and if they even have any big sea creatures.I wanted to come up with a possibility it was a whale or shark but to get so close to a boat, wouldn't the creatures get scared? Also, it stood still in the water for a while, I don't exactly know if sharks have the tendency to do that. Whales on the other hand, maybe? Even for a fish, there definitely, is no way it could be one.I was hoping I could get some answers on what it may of or could have been. If you guys get this, hopefully, you guys can fill me in with anything related to this.Appreciate it. - Johnny"NOTE: I think that this could have been a whale, but without more specific details, it's difficult to decide. What do you believe it was? Lon**********POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!CREEPY CAMPING ENCOUNTERS - ABOMINABLE CREATURES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)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. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube'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 CANINES----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - 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-----LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)Cryptid canine sightings and encounters have been reported by Pennsylvania's residents for centuries! Dwayyo, Werewolves, Lycans, etc. There are various monikers used by witnesses throughout the Keystone State. The physical descriptions and characteristics also vary.For several years, I have collected many of these intriguing incidents, as told to me and my colleagues by the witnesses. I look forward to your opinions, discussions, and questions about these intriguing cryptids.-----Project Threshold: Finale-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This 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

An Ohio man was driving at night near Grove City when he observed a tall and wide being along the side of the road that appeared to wrap wings around its body. What was it?I received the following account:"I was driving back to my home in Grove City, Ohio at about 9 pm on February 22, 2024, when I saw something very strange. I had just made a turn off RT104 onto Borror Rd. and was driving around a sharp turn when I saw something brown on the side of the road. I first assumed it was a deer since I have seen several on this road before but as I got closer it was too big to be a deer.The best I can describe this object is that it looked like a big piece of brown shag carpet about 6 to 7 feet tall and about 10 feet wide. As I came close to passing this object on the side of the road it folded up like the rug was being folded in half. I flinched and swerved out of the way because as it folded I thought it was lunging toward me and coming after me. I just sped up and kept driving home. It looked like a creature with wings that folded around the body as I approached.I did not tell anyone what I had seen for a few days because I was so baffled and didn't want to believe that I had seen what I had. After replaying the sighting over and over in my head I decided to tell my wife and we started looking up on the internet, things that might match what I saw. The closest thing we could come up with is the Mothman except I didn't see any glowing eyes, but if the eyes were reflective I would probably not have seen them because the creature was facing the road and not my headlights. Anyway, this was the strangest thing I have ever seen." B**********POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!CREEPY CAMPING ENCOUNTERS - ABOMINABLE CREATURES | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)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. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube'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 CANINES----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - 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-----LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)Cryptid canine sightings and encounters have been reported by Pennsylvania's residents for centuries! Dwayyo, Werewolves, Lycans, etc. There are various monikers used by witnesses throughout the Keystone State. The physical descriptions and characteristics also vary.For several years, I have collected many of these intriguing incidents, as told to me and my colleagues by the witnesses. I look forward to your opinions, discussions, and questions about these intriguing cryptids.-----Project Threshold: Finale-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This 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 North Carolina, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office received a call that a child was wandering alone on the road on July 7th. Dispatching an officer to the Waxhaw Indian Trail Road, the child was located and secured, but being autistic and non-verbal, the officer had no idea where the boy had wandered away from. […] The post K9 Officer Rescues Lost Non-Verbal Child by Following the Boy’s Scent in Reverse to Find His Home appeared first on Good News Network.

News The Wild Robot Watch (and Cry) as The Wild Robot’s Stellar Cast Voices Their Characters Oh no, emotions By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on July 25, 2024 Credit: DreamWorks Animation Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Animation’s movie adaptation of Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot continues to look amazing in the new featurette just released. The three-and-a-half minute clip delves into the feature’s unique illustration style and what attracted Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch) to the adaptation. (Spoiler: it’s in part because the main robot, Roz, is an “unrelentingly kind character.”) But perhaps what might be more interesting to viewers is seeing the behind-the-scenes glimpses we get of the stellar cast voicing their respective roles. We see Lupita Nyong’o singing as Roz; Pedro Pascal grinning as he speaks as fox Fink, Catherine O’Hara being Catherine O’Hara as an opossum; Mark Hamill chewing the scenery as a grumpy bear; and Kit Conner as the gosling Brightbill, whom Roz adopts. Here’s a synopsis, if you’re unfamiliar with the story: The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short—that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. Stock up on tissues before The Wild Robot premieres in theaters on September 27, 2024. Check out the featurette below. [end-mark] The post Watch (and Cry) as <i>The Wild Robot</i>’s Stellar Cast Voices Their Characters appeared first on Reactor.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. There are suspected, and investigated instances of Big Government-Big Tech collusion. And then there’s Google. And within Google, there’s something now called Jigsaw. But that’s a rebranding of something Eric Schmidt thought of more than a decade ago, and was originally called Google Ideas. Before the rebranding, way back when, Google Ideas was in the news for alleged ties with the US State Department (of the time). So – what’s Jigsaw up to now? Misinformation. Disinformation. Toxicity. Terrorism even. Against, obviously. “Climate change” – not cited but probably pending – is what this particular portion of Google is now involved with, working with the likes of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). Google Jigsaw was always about geopolitics, alarming as that information may be, bearing in mind the way Google reaches those billions of people around the world in the first place. Search. Videos. Fun. GIFCT, meanwhile, brings together Big Tech and the UN-backed Tech Against Terrorism initiative. And GIFCT is seen as one of those large, tech-industry-spanning entities, that use their great power for the evil – namely, censorship. But it does get worse. The Tech Against Terrorism is known for making alarming statements about matters like undefined “conspiracies,” but also content featuring “tradwives.” Well, that surely falls way clear of anything related to – terrorism. Or anything. Other than the overall question – where’s our tax money going when it’s given to the UN, the same question arises specifically in the US and the EU – when Jigsaw announces its (Project) Altitude? You might have thought Google could get embarrassed by something? Think again. Here, Google appropriates the goodwill and trust built over many decades around free and open-source software (FOSS) communities to lend verbal credibility to its own schemes. “Jigsaw coordinated global, cross-platform organizations across civil society to build Altitude. Altitude, built with Tech Against Terrorism, in partnership with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), is the only free, open-source, self-hosted tool to give online platforms a single elevated view of potential terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC) on their sites,” the reports say. So – Google’s also appropriating trust and positive image around self-hosting? But what does “Altitude” supposedly do? “Any platform can now access Altitude directly or work with Tech Against Terrorism to integrate the tool into its workflow and better understand the broader context of potential threats and evolving legislation.” Potential? Care to explain how Google and its “friends” decide on that? No, they don’t. In order to complement the EU’s censorship law, “Digital Services Act,” this here is designed to target “smaller social media platforms and file sharing sites.” Expect the expected. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Google Jigsaw, GIFCT, and Tech Against Terrorism Develop Altitude: A Controversial Tool to Monitor “Potential” Extremist Content, Raising Censorship Concerns appeared first on Reclaim The Net.