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"I heard my friend gasp so I looked over at him and he was looking forward into the trail. Something was crouched down on the edge of the trail."The following account was forwarded to me:“Two friends and I were walking on a trail in the woods near Lake Camelot, Illinois at 10 pm on October 25, 2017. We usually walk on the trail all of the time so it isn’t something new or different to us. It isn’t like a paved out trail more like a trail we made ourselves because we walk the same path every time. I had a flashlight on and my two other friends did not.I was pointing my flashlight to the left of me into the woods not really paying attention to what was in front of me because we usually don’t see anything odd. But I heard my friend gasp so I looked over at him and he was looking forward into the trail. I pointed the flashlight where he was looking and something was crouched down on the edge of the trail.It was on the left side of the trail facing our direction. It looked very alert and frozen when we saw it and it saw us. I didn’t see it move and my friends didn’t either but we decided to run back the way we came from after we ran around 20 feet back we looked back and didn’t see anything.My description of what we saw is a gray, small to medium-sized creature. I’d say around 4-5 feet tall but it was crouched down. The arms were not very skinny like some online pictures of aliens the arms were very defined and a little bit muscular. The arms looked human-like with 5 fingers. The legs on the other hand looked less human-like. I couldn’t see the feet but the shape and direction of the legs reminded me of frog legs. I couldn’t see the torso very well either.The head was around the same proportion as a human head but the shape of the head was square with one point on each side of the head. I couldn’t identify if those were ears or something else. The creature was gray and either had no hair or very short hair. My two friends said it didn’t have hair but I thought it had short hair.From what I saw the eyes were fully black. I didn’t see many features in the face.It didn’t move and it didn’t make any sounds when we saw it although we heard squeaking noises earlier while walking. We thought it was a baby great horned owl but looking back at it they don’t sound like what we heard.It just stared straight at us and we left and then turned around and didn’t see it again. I plan on going out there again with my two friends to see if we can find any more information.” JNOTE: The incident report was forwarded to me by a local investigator. Lon**********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© 2005-2025 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

A man in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania has a strange encounter with deer-like being in his backyard. The eyes change colors and it responds to his commands.The following account was forwarded to me:I live in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. For a while, there have been strange occurrences around, but recently was the most real and convincing occurrence that there is a cryptid. Basically my girlfriend vacationed at a place where there was known to be Seneca tribes, so I didn't if she brought something back. Anyway, she’s over tonight and I live with another friend FYI. Anyway, we take our dog out and our motion lights aren’t triggered when all of a sudden there’s a hissing sound right next to us and the bushes shake. We rush the dog in as we have no idea what it could be. This area is prone to raccoons and deer and some coyotes.My friend and I go outside with weapons and flashlights, as our dog is partially blind and has a bad leg so we can’t risk him being attacked. Along with that there is a guy in our rather wooded community that has a brain issue and tends to wonder at night. So, with that in mind, we go outside and we hear a bird call (remind you it’s 1 am). We hear this bird call non-stop. In my mind I’m thinking I’m being lured by the crazy dude, so we go inside. We look out our patio window only to see a deer at our fence line. The deer's back legs look mangled. I kid you not. It actually looks like it’s walking with it’s back legs turned backwards. (There is a deer that roams back there that has a broken leg, but only one and he’s always with the family). Anyway, we see this deer, but when it first looks at us with the flashlight on its eyes are green. It puts its head down and stares as us and we shine the light around and back on it and its eyes are now red, when they go back to green.It turns and is walking around. It isn’t listening to me screaming to leave, so I call it a witch. But I kid you not, it turned its head around and stuck its neck up so freakishly long and stared at me I actually got spooked (I’m a pretty religious dude who often ghost hunts and goes to creepy abandoned spots but I kid you not I kind of heart dropped). So. at this point. I go and get my silver cross and shine the flashlight on the cross so it can see the cross shining and It immediately looks away and I tell it that if it can’t cross the fence line because I don’t give it permission. It straightens up and walked away and didn’t look back. I come back inside.My friend goes to sleep and I go into my bedroom where my girlfriend is asleep. I lay down next to her. She starts make weird moaning sounds. I wake her up and it turns out she was having a sleep paralysis episode and she had 2 other sleep paralysis episodes during the entire time me and my friend were outside/ I wonder if there is a connection with the deer being?" P**********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© 2005-2025 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Like an old friend you haven’t seen in twenty years, longtime Pure Prairie League bassist Michael Reilly has brought the band back front and center with the group’s first new album in twenty years entitled Back on Track. The album released on December 6th under Pure Prairie League Records, revitalizes the band’s iconic sound with newfound energy. Spanning twelve tracks, the album masterfully merges the timeless appeal of Pure Prairie League’s signature style with a modern edge, offering a vibrant mix of nostalgia and innovation. It’s both a tribute to their storied history and a bold step forward. The current The post An Interview With Michael Reilly Of Pure Prairie League appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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In a special second hour of his show Wednesday night, NewsNation host Chris Cuomo divulged to viewers that the growing, independent network had been dropped by the predominant cable and internet provider in the greater New York City area, Altice (formerly known as Cablevision), and called it a “suspicious” “situation” and episode in a trend of “censorship.” Cuomo first indirectly alluded to this during a segment with Alan Dershowitz about TikTok’s possible shuttering in the United States (as its Chinese Communist Party-linked parent company ByteDance has refused to sell it). He said he’s broadly “worried about censorship” and he’s “seeing it more and more.”     “[T]here’s a situation right now, okay, that is really suspicious to me. Alright, We, right now NewsNation is in a battle to stay on a cable system that is French-owned, okay? And I have no idea what good reason they would have for coming after NewsNation, which they did on their own accord, unprovoked, except one, there’s something about what NewsNation does,” he added. Cuomo wondered if they might “have a political disposition that they feel we’re balancing” in its sadly novel concept of respecting the views of all Americans. He then speculated about ratings: [F]or whatever reason, right now, they’re saying that NewsNation, nobody cares about it, we’re not going to run it and it reeks of having some type of bias and this type of ability to control what the American people can have access to is really worrying to me. I don’t speak for NewsNation. I don’t speak for the bosses. I’m speaking for Chris Cuomo, and I’m saying professor. It is very suspicious to me, why NewsNation, all the other outlets? Why don’t you want us? I think it’s happening more and more. As a cable provider, Altice has almost certainly struggled to maintain subscribers as more and more Americans cut the cord. That said, their moves have been rake-steppers by axing NewsNation, the New York City TV market’s CW affiliate, PIX-11, and MSG Networks, the homes of the New York Islanders, Knicks, Liberty, Rangers, and the Buffalo Sabers and New Jersey Devils. Later going to break, Cuomo invited viewers to search out information about what he was alluding to, adding:     I want to preserve my sus — my — my disbelief, okay? I want to wait and see because I’m telling you, I think more and more moneyed interests are playing with what you get to see and that’s what NewsNation was created to counter, okay? That’s all I’ll say right now. A caller named Charlie at the end of the show shared he was “a fellow cable executive” in Atlanta, Georgia and said Cuomo has “to tell all your viewers, you need to burn up the phones and tell them, this is a great show, this is a great network to have on” as support for NewsNation executives in the negotiating process. The caller disagreed with the notion of censorship, so Cuomo countered with a simple question: “But why go after NewsNation?”     Charlie later doubled down on his advice as well as giving a strong testimony of support to the network’s mission (click “expand”): CHARLIE IN ATLANTA: Chris, what I can tell you is this, I stopped watching cable news years ago, and I found you, and I found NewsNation, and I was a Wall Street-only guy, and I got to tell you, Wall Street reader, and you have brought me back to the network. You brought me back to watching cable news again, so they need to wake up, and people need to really get active about this. You’re a great voice. I appreciate what you do, and it’s fantastic to see you take a stand on this, and I really support it and people need to burn up the phones. It matters to them when you tie up their phones, when you’re calling them and saying, “keep this network on and do it.” So I’m going to reiterate your call. I love what you’re saying, and it’s really important.  CUOMO: Well — CHARLIE IN ATLANTA: You know, here’s a guy who has Bill O’Reilly on with Stephen A. Smith. CUOMO: — right? CHARLIE IN ATLANTA: Stephen A. Smith, I don’t watch in sports because he’s the mad guy. But you know what? Tonight, your deal with — with Bill O’Reilly and Stephen A Smith? Brilliant. Before kicking to Banfield, Cuomo concurred and said everyone must do more “to bring people together” and “have the conversation because, when we stay apart, it — it’s all animus, all the time.” Back on January 24, 2023, DirecTV dropped our friends at Newsmax and, thanks to months of loud, public pressure, DirecTV reached a new agreement on March 22, 2023. Hopefully Altice comes to its senses and brings back NewsNation as they, along with Fox Business, Fox News Channel, and Newsmax, are the only news networks with widespread cable distribution that don’t hue to the tiresome corporate, leftist worldview. To see the relevant NewsNation transcript from January 15, click here.

The six-person jury for the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN heard closing arguments on Thursday and started their deliberations. Both parties urged the jury to use their “common sense” to see them through deliberations and secure them the legal victory. But it was the argument of Vel Freedman, the lead counsel for Navy veteran and Plaintiff Zachary Young, who called on the jury, “Your verdict will stand in history” and to use the opportunity to “Stand up against fake news.” Before the parties made their final pitch to the jury, they needed to be read the jury instructions. Noting that they should be viewing the evidence as an average person, Judge William Henry of the 14 Circuit Court in Bay County, Florida listed the issues the jury had the responsibility to determine: If CNN had published what was being viewed. If said material was "of and concerning" Young. If the materials published were false. If the material was defamatory. If CNN was negligent at the very least. If Young sustained damages from the material With that out of the way, Freedman argued that in the opening statement from CNN’s lead counsel David Axelrod he told them that every word in CNN's report was "true” and now they were able to see for themselves. He called out how every CNN witness used the same false definition for "black market," claiming the definition was an “unregulated market.” He call that evidence of a “conspiracy” at CNN to get them on the same page, pointing to the fact that CNN did not produce dictionaries with that definition (a CNN employee also testified that they did not have a preferred dictionary).     Further he pointed out that no witness from CNN testified that they were sorry; worse yet, each one testified that they didn’t like the apology CNN aired and seemed resentful of their legal department. In fact, CNN’s VP for newsgathering Adam Levine testified that the apology was only issued as an attempt to head off the lawsuit. That comment prompted a juror question that called it a “disingenuous apology.” Freedman told the jury that, "Your verdict will stand in history” and called on them to “Stand up against fake news.” “Make the phone ring in Georgia. Send a message [to CNN]," he concluded. For his argument, Axelrod made “use your common sense” his catchphrase for the duration but there wasn’t much of it in his argument. He argued that Young could have called on any of his former contacts to testify that they don’t want to associate with him because of the CNN report. But why would they help him if they don’t want to associate with him? Axelrod argued that they could have subpoenaed them. Freedman countered with the fact CNN didn’t subpoena them either. It was the same back and forth argument for why each didn’t bring in Young’s psychologist from Austria. That was part of Axelrod’s dismissal of Young's mental health woes and claim that Young was "malingering." Freedman countered by noting that CNN didn’t product their own mental health expert, only their lawyer. Probably the most telling part of the closing argument that may have betrayed a concern for the ruling, Axelrod apologized to the jury for being annoying or rubbing them the wrong way, and asked them not to "take it out" on CNN. As off the positing of this piece, the jury is almost 4 hours into deliberation.

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