A reader wanted to share with me personal encounters with the paranormal, things that have haunted him since childhood, and things that still haunt me today. What are your thoughts?I received the following account from a reader:"Lon - I would like to share with you my personal encounters with the paranormal, things which have haunted me since childhood, and things which still haunt me today.When I was a little kid my parents and I moved out of our apartment and into a new large house with my aunt and uncle. My aunt and uncle lived on the upper floor, while my parents and I lived on the ground floor.The first paranormal memory that I had in that house was during one afternoon when I was around six years old. I was sitting in my room, on my bed, reading a book. I remember hearing a very distinct sneezing sound, which sounded like it was made by a little girl. Without giving it a second thought I quickly said "gesundheit", and got a courteous reply back of "thank you".My head instantly perked up, realizing what just happened. I quickly got up from my sitting position, and darted out of my room to see if it was my mom. I ended up having to travel to the other side of the house to find her, where she was sitting in the living room watching TV.Perhaps not the most paranormal incident in the world, and it's entirely possible that I had imagined someone sneezing and saying thank you, but the following was not imagined.Several months after that event a second paranormal experience occurred. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I was sitting in the living room with my Dad, watching TV. The commercial breaks came on, and my father asked me if I could get him a beer. I once again had no second thought about this, and instantly got up to retrieve him a beer. However, as soon as I stood up I realized where exactly I would have to go. You see, my father kept his beer in a mini-fridge, at the bottom of the steps of the basement. The basement, had always scared me. Besides the fact that it was unfinished, always dark, and old, there was a "feeling" down there. It's almost indescribable. Like, as if something were extremely angry at you, and wanted to pull you in, and at the same time push you away.At any rate, I couldn't turn back, I knew my Dad would be angry at me if I refused, and at the moment his wrath seemed more real. So I walked out of the living room, down the hallway, and towards the basement. I stood at the top of the steps, and for some reason, today seemed different. There was more fear as I approached the steps, the feeling that the basement carried was far more intense this time than it had ever been before. I grabbed the wooden railing, which looked as if it were already covered in blood, and slowly made my way down the steps. With each step that I took deeper into the basement, the more fear arose in me. The sensation grew stronger and stronger, to the point where I was nearly paralyzed with fear.As I reached the bottom, I felt the urge to turn my head towards the left. There was a section in the wall there, which looked like the previous owner had cut out in order to add more space to the basement. With my head facing that direction I desperately wanted to scream at whatever was down there, but all I could get out was a weak "Hello?". At that very moment I saw two red eyes appear from that hole. Fight or flight instantly kicked in, and I flew. I ran up the steps, made the turn as my father caught me halfway down the hallway, asking what was wrong.I told him what I saw, and he instantly ran down the stairs to investigate, saying to stay back, that it might be a wild animal. He came back up, saying he didn't find any thing.Shortly after that, maybe a week or so passed, we had an outdoor BBQ at my house. It was the usual people, me, my parents, and my aunt and uncle. Every one was outside, and I had decided to go in to get myself a drink. I entered through the front door, as the back door lead directly to the basement which, at this point, I desperately wanted to avoid it at all costs.As I was leaving the kitchen I decided that today I was going to be brave, that I was going to face my fears head on. I walked towards the back door, and sat at the top of the steps. As I sat down, I once again had that feeling wash over me, but I stood my ground, wanting to face whatever was inhabiting my basement. The longer I stayed, the more the fear grew, but what seemed like an instant, I saw it. It was a shadow of a person, the gender I couldn't make out, nor any distinct features. I saw the shadow instantly hit the wall to the right of the stairs, and begin to move closer to them. I once again panicked, running outside.I told my dad that I saw something down in the basement again, but this time it looked like a person's shadow. He wasn't hesitant in running into the house, trying to find out whoever was in our house. Once more though, he would return saying he didn't find anything.That's the end of the basement, or at least, what I can remember, but it isn't the end of my paranormal experiences.The hardest incident to remember, and the one that brings out my emotions and tears, happened upstairs. I really struggle with remembering the upstairs, but I know something did happen, I just can't recall what. There was something definitely up there, and I could feel something happened, but it's not coming to me. There was a sensation, fear, pain. A door closed on me, she was there, it's how I got my burn mark. That's all that is coming to me, I really don't know.When I was 10 we moved out of the house. I wish I could tell you that was the end of my experiences, but unfortunately it wasn't. They continue to haunt me today, but not in a physical manner. Instead, they return to me in the form of nightmares. The nightmares are always the same, and either take place in one of two areas of the house. The upstairs, or the basement.If I find myself in a nightmare in the basement, it acts as a progression. With each nightmare, I go deeper into the basement. Each time I begin to go down the steps, and most recently I've been able to reach the bottom. I want to scream, and yell so desperately at it but I can't, nothing comes out. I've only seen what's down there once, and even than it was a vague glimpse. I remember darkness, frantic wild hair, it floating. I've always called her a witch, but I don't know if she is or not.Finally, there is the upstairs. This one always plays out the same too, where I find myself in the upstairs kitchen. I walk towards the room where my aunt & uncle used to sleep. It was in the back of the house. Every time I enter that room, is notice a bed, but the rest of the room is empty. The bed is covered in that frilly Victorian-era stuff, and each time I move it away, to find a corpse of a woman laying in the bed. Sometimes she's in a coffin, sometimes she isn't. Her eyes are closed, but than open, and that's where it ends. Normally this nightmare comes first, followed by the one in the basement the next night.Before I end this post, I want to add one more thing that I just remembered. My Mom told me a couple off-hand times, that when I was little and living in that house, she would often find me upstairs at night. From the time we first moved in (when I was 4) to when we moved out (when I was 10). She told me one night she decided to stay up to see what was happening. Apparently, I was sleep walking, but she never told me much more than that.I know it's long, and I apologize for that. I'm writing all this mostly because I'd like your help, or perhaps your opinion on all of this. Have you ever heard of a haunting taking place in some one's nightmares after they have left the place? What do you think it could be?" TNOTE: There are times when traumatic events manifest in our dreams. Since the experiencer had trouble recalling the details of an incident upstairs there is a good chance that he was actually 'sleepwalking' or conducting activity while in a state of sleep. I witnessed the phenomenon with my daughter when she was young. After she awoke, she was never able to recall any events that took place while she was 'sleepwalking.' LonThe Unauthorized Story of Walt Disney's Haunted MansionTIME-LIFE Mysteries of the Unknown: Inside the World of the Strange and UnexplainedThe Amityville HorrorPoe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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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 want to 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 Map----------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

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Texas police confirmed that they are hunting for a suspect who may be a serial killer after DNA evidence linked otherwise unrelated murders. 'People committing really violent murders have probably committed something similar to that in the past.' The Austin Police Department said in a media briefing Wednesday that they were looking for a short Hispanic male who was caught on surveillance video near one of the crime scenes. The person of interest was seen walking with 34-year-old Alyssa Ann Rivera on June 21 before her death. Her remains were later found in an abandoned home on Metcalfe Rd.Police said that DNA evidence in that case matched with that of a prior unsolved murder case from 2018. 28-year-old Alba Jenisse Aviles left the Caribe Night Club on Felter Lane in Austin on April 14 of that year before she was found murdered, according to police. That location was only three miles away from the location where Rivera's body was found six years later. "For it to be so geographically tied is pretty coincidental," said Sgt. Nathan Sexton of the APD Homicide Department. Police also believe both victims were sexually assaulted. Sexton said there were "multiple sources" of DNA collected at both crime scenes. Police believe the man had not been arrested before because his DNA profile was not related to any in their DNA database. "Typically people people committing really violent murders have probably committed something similar to that in the past, or at least been arrested. And that does not appear to be the case in this case," said Sexton. Police are asking for help from the public in order to identify the person of interest caught on surveillance video. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Florida police said that a naked man was stabbed by a French tourist after trying to break into his rental at a resort island. The Sanibel Police Department said that officers were called to a report of a man breaking into a vacation rental unit on Buttonwood Lane on Wednesday night. 'You know it's just a bad environment, mentally.' When they arrived, they found a naked man with stab wounds. Neighbors said the naked man was taken away by an ambulance and they didn't believe he was a tourist. Police said they had to deal with a structure fire involving a tiki cottage at the residence after taking the man to a hospital. The property managers of the Seahorse Cottages arrived at the unit after hearing about the incident and spoke to WFTX-TV. "She pulls in and sees this naked guy," said property co-manager Matthew Jankauskas. "And he's just sitting there. He's getting cleaned up, he's got wounds on his body. Bleeding, and you know it's just a bad environment, mentally. You're looking at that and you're like wow, that's crazy. You don't see that a lot, you don't see that every day on Sanibel, right." They said that the French tourist stabbed the naked man because he was trying to break into their unit. Sanibel Police said they believed it was an isolated incident but the investigation was ongoing. WFTX posted video from the alleged crime scene on its news report on YouTube. A neighbor told WBBH-TV that they knew the suspect, who was identified as Robert Latta Butterfield III, but that she didn't know why he would allegedly "lose control." Police told WBBH that he had a lengthy criminal history in Florida as well as Mississippi. Sanibel is a city and an island on the eastern coast of Florida with about 6,400 residents. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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