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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Delaware Valley: GHOST CENTRAL!

By Dr. Raymond A. Keller, author of The Real Resident Aliens is available on Amazon.com while supplies last.

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Known as Pennsylvania’s “Mistress of the Macabre” and “Hostess with the Mostest Ghosts,” for two decades (1970-1990), Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey, supernatural investigator, and best-selling author, was considered the Keystone State’s preeminent authority on spectral phenomena.

In the early 1970s, Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey (1916-1990), then a resident of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for over twenty years, was considered one of the nation’s premier paranormal investigators.  She first attained notoriety when she wrote a series of articles on the “Dark Side of the Delaware,” which appeared regularly in the pages of the Sunday Magazine of the Philadelphia Bulletin.  The notoriety that she gained from her writings on the paranormal in the Philadelphia press, led her onto the lecture circuit, presenting programs on such controversial topics as parapsychology and extra-sensory perception (ESP) to large and ever-expanding audiences across the United States.   She also conducted ghost tours throughout Pennsylvania and wrote several books on sundry mysterious phenomena one might encounter in the contemporary world, with her most famous and best-selling being The Bermuda Triangle (New York, New York:  Warner Books, 1975).   Her fascination with and research activities in various areas of the paranormal garnered her the title of Pennsylvania’s “Mistress of the Macabre.”

For investigating hundreds of ghost reports in the Delaware Valley over the decades, Adi-Kent came to the realization that ghosts tended to haunt people, rather than the places where they lived.  This profound insight came upon her after she met a hospitable lady by the name of Hilda Chance.  It seems that in nearly every home where Hilda ever resided, specters have consistently been sighted.  While Hilda did not encounter any ghosts herself while growing up in the small town of Harrington, Delaware, she did report that her mother frequently reported seeing a spectral apparition walking through the rooms of their home in the early hours before sunrise.  Once Hilda was on her own, however, she got married and moved with her husband Joseph into a home that he had rented across the Delaware River in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, in the Delaware Valley.  After a few years, Joseph and Hilda had several children.  But there was also one uninvited guest.  “We had one visitor there,” related Hilda to Adi-Kent, adding, “a little boy.”  

This young boy would just appear to the Chance children at such times that they were sick.  Whenever the Chance family members were in good health, the little boy would never materialize.  “Then the moment one of them would feel ill,” noted Adi-Kent, “she (Hilda) would report a visit from this strange little boy.”  In her report to Adi-Kent, Hilda remarked, “He (the little boy) would talk to my children at such times and the message was always the same: ‘Leave this house with me!  Come on!  Run away!  Follow me, and I will show you a nice place, a much nicer place than this!’”  Hilda didn’t believe that the appearance of the little boy was frightening to her children, although it did serve to arouse their curiosity.  Hilda said that her children became preoccupied with questions about who the boy was, in addition to wondering where this “nicer place” was that the ghost was prodding them to seek refuge in.  

At first, Hilda thought that maybe the young visitor was a spirit who once had lived and died in their very house.  The little visitor did seem to revel in being in the company of her children, as the young boy appeared to be about the same age as her children.  But why did the ghost boy only show up when her children were sick, and moreover, why was he trying to persuade them to leave with him and go into the spirit world?  Once Hilda provided all of the details she could remember to Adi-Kent, the paranormal investigator went right to work on the case.  After a brief week or so, she looked into the past of the Boothwyn home and discovered that some years back a young boy had died on the property from meningitis.  The physical description of the ghost boy provided in the documents uncovered showed a match with the descriptions of the apparition provided by the children.  Joseph was concerned about this phenomenon and how it was impacting his family.  Therefore, he decided to buy a home of his own to move his wife and kids out of the growing controversy surrounding the haunted property in Boothwyn.  

The new home was a large, old-stone mansion surrounded by beautifully planted grounds, located in nearby Upper Chichester Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.  The manse was once owned by a locally prominent family, one that also owned most of the real estate (residential, commercial, and undeveloped) in the environs.  Hilda Chance recalled that “When I would be alone in that house, working or reading or writing downstairs, I would hear what sounded like footsteps of a little old lady padding about on the second floor.  I would hear much opening and closing of doors and closets and the creaking and slamming of dresser drawers as though they were being opened and closed one after another.  I would stop and listen attentively.  It was always easy to picture the little old lady cleaning the house and putting things away.  I could hear the hustling of hr busy feet for hours at a time.  One day I decided to try to meet this friendly spirit whom I felt undoubtedly was the former mistress of that house.  I went to the foot of the stairs (Oh, those beautiful, old curved banisters!); and called up, ‘Welcome to my home now!  Come on down and let’s have a friendly visit!’  Abruptly, the sounds ceased and I never heard them again.”

Hilda does note, however, that after this incident her family was “badgered with other strange occurrences.”  There were loud knocks that banged incessantly on different doors when no one was close to them.  Some thumps would trounce against the window panes, but these were always close to where Chance's family members were sitting.  Every time that Joseph and Hilda tried to check out the situation, nobody could be seen and no apparent cause was detected for these unusual events.  “But oddest of all such annoying manifestations,” reported Hilda, “was the disappearance of various articles.  Things actually vanished from sight, right alongside where we would be sitting!  Just there one minute and gone the next!  Sometimes, never to be found again.”  Having put up with these haunting experiences for many years, the Chances packed it all in and moved out of Upper Chichester.  Joseph purchased an old farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania, where he was thinking that he, Hilda, and the children could enjoy some peace and quiet in his retirement.  Boy, did he get that wrong!

“One night,” Hilda informed Adi-Kent, “I was sitting alone in the kitchen of the farmhouse, quietly writing letters when there came the sound of contented humming from one corner of the kitchen.  I looked up, startled, and listened.  Soon I could detect interspersed with the humming, the creaking of a rocking chair.  I realized that someone was sitting and rocking in a chair by a far corner window.  But it is interesting to note that the kitchen had been redesigned by the former occupants, and there was now no room for a chair in that spot.  The window was blocked out by modern cabinets.  The next day, I set out to discover if what I suspected had been true.  I talked to a neighbor who had known the residents of previous years in that house.  Sure enough, I heard that at one time before the cabinets had been put in, the farmwife had kept a rocker by that window and used to sit there frequently.  

“Not long after, I heard the sounds again.  This time I put down my pen and listened carefully.  I was able to pick out the tune.  It was an old lullaby.  I have heard it from that corner many times now.  I just sit quietly and enjoy it.  It is so ‘homey’ and charming.  It makes me smile to myself with contentment as I sit listening.  One time I got up and walked as near to the spot as I could get.  The tune stopped abruptly and an old air swept around me like an icy draught from a door opened suddenly.  I realized with some remorse what I had done.  She didn’t care to be interrupted or spied upon.  ‘Whoopie!’ I said; ‘I’m sorry!  Carry on!’  I returned to my chair and the humming started sweetly up again.”  Hilda’s account above attests to the many manifestations that have taken place while she was in the house, albeit it does not recount all of them.  

There is one particular haunting that really stood out in Hilda’s mind.  She declared to Adi-Kent, “We found after buying the farmhouse that we needed more spare bedroom space as we have children and grandchildren with us often.  So, we transformed a storage room on the second floor into a finished and lovely guest room.  My husband built a closet in one corner as the room utterly lacked any cabinet space.  In that corner, a bed had formerly stood, but to make room for the closet, we turned the bed and backed it against the other wall.  The night my son arrived we were all sitting in the kitchen having coffee when suddenly we heard the bed above being pushed over the bare floor!  My son looked at me, wonder in his face.  Without thinking, I said, ‘She doesn’t like the way we placed the bed!’  ‘What are you talking about?’ he asked.  I explained what I meant and told him all about the humming and rocking of the former farmwife.”

Hilda wrapped up her story: “Quickly he arose and we followed him up to the room.  The bed had been turned.  My son moved it back again against the far wall.  I found myself looking upwards and carefully explaining, ‘Now you see; it must stay this way.  There’s a closet in the corner now and there is no room for the bed there!  It must stay here.  Do you understand?’  The bed stayed there.  It has never moved since.”  Hilda then testified to Adi-Kent that other things still move around in the farmhouse, and most likely always would, as long as she was living there.  Hilda even opined that no matter where she moved to, the ghosts would follow her there.  Fortunately for Hilda, she has managed to adjust, adapting herself to the hauntings.  In writing about Hilda’s accommodations with the unknown, Adi-Kent notes that “She (Hilda) enjoys these ‘spirit visits;’ and so why shouldn’t supernatural guests continue coming to that lady who is probably the ‘Hostess with the Mostest Ghosts’ in all the Delaware Valley?”

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Hey, 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! Lon

CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist

Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map

Hey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN.
I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. Lon

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The most famous American vampire is that of nineteen-year-old Mercy Brown, who died in Exeter, Rhode Island in 1892. Her father, assisted by the family physician, removed her from her tomb two months after her death, cut out her heart, and burned it to ashes. Her community blamed her for the deaths of many family members who died from tuberculosis in the late 1800s.

Like many myths and legends, Vampirism is based partly on fact. A blood disorder called porphyria, which has been with us for millennia, became prevalent among the nobility and royalty of Eastern Europe. It is an inherited blood disorder that causes the body to produce less protein in red blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Some of the symptoms include pigment changes in the skin. Thus, the skin becomes highly sensitive to sunlight, causing blistering, erosions, and ulcerations.

Over several centuries, there have been reports and allegories of encounters with certain humans that exhibited supernatural abilities akin to the vampire legend. I will present several of these accounts, both historical and contemporary.

Please comment on the accounts and let me know your opinions.

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Have you had a sighting or encounter?
Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974
Thanks. 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.com
San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention





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PALE-SKINNED, BLACK-EYED MAN Encountered on Walk Home

A Lincolnshire witness describes a strange encounter with two individuals as he was walking home. The pale-skinned man had long greasy hair and black eyes. The witness was freaked out!

I received the following account:

"Back in the summer of 1997 I had a terrifying experience with what I now know to be the phenomenon known as the black eyed people. At the time I had never heard of these beings and have been bothered by the experience for many years. It’s only just occurred to me to scour the internet to see if anyone else has ever witnessed anything like it as I knew that I couldn’t possibly be the only one that this has happened to.

My encounter differs from any that I have now discovered so far as they were not trying to communicate with me but was rather trying to keep away from me! Which believe me I now know that that is a good thing. Also it differs in the fact that my experience happened in broad daylight rather than late at night like the others I have read.

It was a hot sunny summer day in 1997. I was about 15 at the time and was out with my friends. I live in a small town called Grantham in Lincolnshire in the UK. While out with my friends I was not far from my home and decided to go home to grab a quick drink and my two friends accompanied me down to my house and waited outside whilst I went in to have a drink of water. I was quite thirsty so quickly drank 2 pints of water then went back outside. My friends had gone so I decided I would walk back to my friends house which was round the other side of of the block.

As I walked up the path to the street I happened to look about 5 houses down where my mum's friend lived. At the front of her garden she had a wooden fence at the time and a driveway on the furthest side of the garden there was also a wooden fence and just behind it there were two very large conifer trees that overhung the fence.

So looking down the street I saw two people backed up to the fence and the top of them was pushed back into the overhanging conifers so I only saw the 2 pairs of legs. Thinking that these were my friends messing around with me I started walking down towards them.
 
As I got closer to them I shouted out “come on you two, I can see you hiding there”. Thinking that they would come out laughing, I smiled to myself. But instead of coming out they managed to jump up into the conifers, over the fence and come out in my mum's friends garden! (at this point I was thinking how they could of done this because the foliage on the trees was pretty thick).

They didn’t stop there. They turned around towards the next garden and managed to climb over the 5 foot fence panel. As I watched them weirdly go over the panel I shouted again to stop messing around. I said that it was weird the way they got over the fence because it wasn’t a hop or a jump. I can only describe it as lizard like! That’s the only way that comes to my mind to describe it.

So I kept walking down the road and watched as they went over a 6ft gate into the next door's back garden. So I thought to myself I know what to do. I would carry on walking and catch them when they come out of the next garden. I picked up my pace carried on and caught sight of them in the next garden and stopped dead in my tracks as I looked in horror at what I’d been chasing!

They stood a few feet away from each other. One looked like a teenager. He was wearing the fashion of the time which was a blue puffa jacket which was zipped up. He was wearing the jogging bottoms that had studs up the legs which were called poppers. Trainers. And a baseball cap. I didn’t look at his face as the other one caught my attention nearly straight away.

This one was much older. Very pale skin. The top of his head was completely bald but around the side of his head he had long greasy black hair down to the middle of his back. He was wearing a long trench coat which went down to his ankles. He was wearing boots. His hands had long fingers that ended with sharp looking dirty nails. He had a big hooked nose and his eyes were pure black. It looked so evil. As my eyes met his it felt like time had stood still. Nothing was moving. Not a leaf. No breeze. Nobody else in the street. Silence. I couldn’t move as I was paralyzed with fear and terror. I knew it was staring at me into my eyes - maybe into my soul. I stood rooted to the spot for what felt like hours but must of been maybe 5 minutes. I broke the eye contact turned and ran for what felt like my life back to my house.

When I got indoors I sat down and cried like a big baby. I couldn’t console myself. It took me a while to compose myself and tell my parents what had happened. They didn’t know what to do. I sat down and drew what I had seen. I still have the drawing today. Not that I need it. That image is well and truly etched into my mind and I would probably draw the exact same one in another 30 years time.

I don’t know what this thing is. It definitely was not human. Over the years it has played on my mind bringing many questions and no answers. I’ve thought it was either alien or demon or any monster in-between.

Some of the questions it’s brought me apart from what is it. How did they climb the fence like they did? Why were they wearing large coats on a boiling hot day? After reading other accounts of them why were they out in the middle of the day on a normal street in a small town? Why did they run from me?

I hope no one ever has the experience of these black eyed beings and if you see one run for it.

P.S. It turned out that my friends went straight back home when they left me. I was quite angry with them for a while and told them what had happened for them to laugh at me and think I was joking.

I’ve never been more serious about anything. This is no laughing matter and I dread to think what could of happened if I hadn’t run off. Please be aware of them and take care of yourself." DC

NOTE: The witness did not send the image he drew, fearing the undesirable feelings that may surface again. Lon

The Black Eyed Children

The Black Eyed Kids

The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim: The Untold Story of Fallen Angels, Giants on the Earth, and Their Extraterrestrial Origins

Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us

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PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARY

POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!





Have you had a sighting or encounter?
Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974
Thanks. Lon

Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube

LYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE

'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDS

CRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)

WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?

'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINES


Hey, 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! Lon

CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist

Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map

Hey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN.
I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. Lon

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED

-----


-----

-Members-only live chats
-Exclusive members-only videos
-Priority reply to members' comments
Have perks suggestions? LMK

-----

YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

-----



The most famous American vampire is that of nineteen-year-old Mercy Brown, who died in Exeter, Rhode Island in 1892. Her father, assisted by the family physician, removed her from her tomb two months after her death, cut out her heart, and burned it to ashes. Her community blamed her for the deaths of many family members who died from tuberculosis in the late 1800s.

Like many myths and legends, Vampirism is based partly on fact. A blood disorder called porphyria, which has been with us for millennia, became prevalent among the nobility and royalty of Eastern Europe. It is an inherited blood disorder that causes the body to produce less protein in red blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Some of the symptoms include pigment changes in the skin. Thus, the skin becomes highly sensitive to sunlight, causing blistering, erosions, and ulcerations.

Over several centuries, there have been reports and allegories of encounters with certain humans that exhibited supernatural abilities akin to the vampire legend. I will present several of these accounts, both historical and contemporary.

Please comment on the accounts and let me know your opinions.

-----


Have you had a sighting or encounter?
Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974
Thanks. 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.com
San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention





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