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Saturday, July 31, 2021

ATVers Encounter Rotting Human Head in Rural Randolph County, West Virginia

A West Virginia witness recalls ATV riding with his father as a youngster. One day, they encounter an unimaginable sight...a rotting human head mounted on top of a post.

I recently came across the following account:

"As a child, my father would take me four-wheeling out in the Mill Creek area (Randolph County, West Virginia). Once, I recall we were miles out on this mountain. We drove past this weird little shed. It struck me as odd because there weren't any buildings for miles in any direction, but here stood this weathered white shed. There was a chain wrapped all the way around it and secured with several padlocks in addition to what looked like a deadbolt on the door. I felt instantly nervous, like we were somewhere that we shouldn't be.

The trees gave way to tall grass and a large circular clearing where the shed sat. On one side of the clearing was a gentle hill that sloped back up toward the tree line. The grass was SO long and green that I put my hands out the side and let it tickle my palms as we rode. The ground beneath that tall grass was soft mud under about two inches of water and as soon as we hit it we had to slow down to avoid getting stuck up in the mud. A spider fell into my leg, then got stuck in the hem of my pant leg, so naturally I freaked out and went to brush it off. 

When I sat up I glanced by my father's line of sight up that hill to our right where there stood a wooden post. On the post was a head. I remember immediately guessing that it was an animal head because some hunter had probably dressed an animal out there. I was only 12 or 13. As we rode closer the face looked grotesquely human and I became upset. My dad looked straight ahead the rest of the way, and where my hands braced his shoulders I could feel him tense. My eyes were glued to this thing, trying to find my way to a rational conclusion all the while as we got closer and rode past (around 50 or fewer yards away, I'd guess but I'm terrible at estimating distances).

To this day, I don't think I'll ever forget that head. The slack in the jaw and the dark gorey bits that hung from the neck. The skin was browning from decay and exposure...and birds and insects had done a bit of work already. The creepiest part was the hair. Long, straight, and pitch black. It was tangled into the tall grass around it, knotted into itself with matted protrusions poking out.

My dad later insisted that I not tell my mother, then assured me that it was a Halloween mask and someone playing a sick joke. And maybe it was. The rowdier country people around there were no strangers to partying out in the woods. But usually that meant tires thrown around, beer bottles, cans, and cases left about and a lot of spent brass. This would have been a really shitty location for hanging out, and so far out of the way that it seems unlikely someone would place it there as a prank. It's just that something felt so wrong while I was there.

We never went back to that place, but more than a decade later I can still see that weird little shed and that awful head on that hill." TR

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(PHOTO) Possible 'Cloaked Bigfoot' or 'Glimmer Man' - Salt Fork State Park, Ohio

This image was submitted to Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research investigator Luis Castillo on 7/30/2021, and included the following information:

"It was last August 2020. Honestly, I have no idea why I took the photo. I happened to be looking through old digital images when it jumped out at me! I posted to a forum once and the comments were that it was a 'cloaking Bigfoot.'

I believe that the image was taken at a location named 'Bigfoot Ridge' according to the Salt Fork State Park (Ohio) trail map."

Team investigator Amy Bue, who is intimately familiar with the location, commented, "Bigfoot Ridge is the name of the primitive campground. The White Loop is the trail that runs off of it. He might not have taken the whole loop."

So, what are your thoughts? Could this be a 'cloaked Bigfoot', possibly a 'Glimmer Man?' If there is further information, I will poste here. Lon




NOTE: Salt Fork State Park is a public recreation area located six miles north of Lore City in Guernsey County, Ohio. It is the largest state park in Ohio, encompassing 17,229 acres of land and 2,952 acres of water. Salt Fork State Park has a long and well-known reputation for credible Bigfoot sightings and reports. Lon

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Friday, July 30, 2021

Two Hikers Black Out & Experience Lost Time in Jefferson National Forest, VA

Two hikers in the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia experience a strange sensation, along with a loud 'metal on metal' sound. They black out, then awake 2 hours later in their vehicle.

The following account was recently forwarded to me:

"My partner and I are avid hikers. One July we went on a trip and decided to camp at this spot we love just west of the Shenandoah National Forest. It's quiet, off the beaten path, and offers absolutely spectacular views of both Shenandoah and portions of George Washington National Forest to the west.

The first day and evening of trip itself were nice and uneventful, though we didn't sleep super well because of the humidity. The next morning we decided to go for a hike in a portion of Jefferson National Forest we'd never been to before. It's comprised of ATV trails and about a dozen campsites, but has a trail that leads to an old fire tower we'd always wanted to check out. It was about a 45 minute drive from our campsite, mostly on backroads.

When we got there the first thing that stuck out to us was how empty the campsites were. We actually didn't camp there the night before because we'd heard that the site is usually packed and we knew we wouldn't arrive early enough in the weekend to get a spot. There were only two spots taken. In one was a desiccated tent and a bunch of garbage, it looked like someone had been there for a while, but it was deserted when we arrived. In the other, there was a young woman, I'm guessing in her late teens, setting up a small backpacking tent. There was a truck and one other smaller car in the parking area.

We parked and started getting our gear together, and the woman approached us to ask if we knew where the trailhead was. I told her that we'd read that it branched off about 100 yards into one of the ATV tracks but we weren't 100% sure which. Since I was getting such weird vibes from the place, I kind of hoped she'd stick around and go with us to find it, but she just thanked us and took off in the general direction of the trail.

We set off and walked up and down a few of the ATV trails until we found the walking path. We saw two ATVs shoot by us at one point but otherwise didn't encounter anyone else, including the woman from earlier. It took us about an hour to get to the top of the mountain where the fire tower was. It's an old metal structure and you have to climb a narrow set of stairs to get to the top of it. We got up, looked around, took some pictures and started heading down (honestly the view was kind of a let-down).

About halfway down, very suddenly, everything stopped, the birds and the bugs, it was dead silent. And I don't know quite how to put this into words, but it felt like the ancientness of the forest was contorting and crushing us. I felt trapped and cornered in spite of the expanse around us. My partner and I looked at each other and wordlessly started to book it out of there.

We started running back to the car but the feeling only followed us. As we were rounding one of the switchbacks we heard this unearthly shriek, like a cross between metal on metal and a choir screaming off-key. And we saw something. I just got a glimpse of it before we blacked out. I don't know how to describe it other than it looked huge despite clearly not taking up much physical space and moved in writhes and flashes. It didn't have a color, it just felt like evil and emptiness. I probably only perceived it for half a second before my memory just completely gave way.

When we came to we were sitting in the car and two hours had passed, double the length of time it took us to get up there. I don't know if I we lost consciousness or just somehow blocked those hours out (I learned later the exact same thing had happened to my partner). Both of the cars were next to us in the parking lot, and there were still just the two tents at the campsite. The woman wasn't in hers, and it looked exactly the same as she'd left it. I think about her all the time, and have spent a ton of time trying to figure out if someone went missing around the time of our trip.

It took a few months for my partner and I to talk about that day. We still love to hike but honestly haven't been able to in Appalachian forests since this happened. I'm curious if others have had other experiences like this." CM

NOTE: Once again, these National Forests and Parks along the Appalachian Mountains produce a lot of anomalous activity reports.

This particular account sounds very similar to a few reports that I have received over the years near the Brown Mountains in North Carolina. Besides the continuous light anomalies, there have also been loud otherworldly bellowing sounds that seem to emanate from the sky. Several experiencers have expressed lost time, but nothing more than that. Lon 


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Harrowing 'Not Deer' Encounter Near Charlottesville, Virginia

A college student describes his harrowing experience with a huge 'Not Deer' in an area outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. Is this a manifestation of a 'forest spirit?'

The following account was recently forwarded to me:

"This took place in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, if you are familiar with Charlottesville, it's outside city limits in the county near Old Lynchburg Road before all those student apartments were completed. At the time I lived in Fry Springs on Sunset in a townhouse. My roommate was using my vehicle and I was at my friend's in the county’s house.

So I decided to walk to the corner store to get some smokes. If you follow the trail in the backyard, it’s a beautiful walk and a little quicker than driving around the windy roads. It wasn’t dark yet but the sun was going down and it was cooling off into a beautiful evening. So I ask my friend J if they want anything and head off to the trail that brings you out behind the country store.

At first my walk down the trail was just like any other. There were birds chirping and animal noises a nice breeze. When I got to the split in the trail, for some reason I began to feel really uneasy. My hair was standing on end, I felt like I was being watched and I felt that heavy feeling in my stomach; but I walked this trail many of times and it wasn’t that much further. 

That’s when I started to hear crunching leaves and snapping twigs near me. I quickly scanned the area and was relieved when I spotted a large buck standing off the trail partly behind the Sycamore tree. First thing that struck me was the rack on this deer, the antlers were super thick and burley, more like moose antlers, but not quite moose antlers. It looked just off. I decided to keep walking and noticed when I started walking so did the “deer,” so I walked a little faster and so did the “deer.” I stopped and this deer took off in a full blown sprint. 

Something about the way this thing moved was just so unnatural! It moved almost like a rocking horse and its hind legs were in reverse of how they were supposed to be. It was very unsettling and prompted me to bust out in a full blown run to the end of the trail. I am hauling ass down this trail being fueled by some form of primal fear. I come around the bend and there in the middle of the trail is the 'not deer.' I started trying to back pedal and fell straight on my ass!

On the ground I am just looking at the thing and it hits me, 'THIS THING IS A PREDATOR!' Its got front facing eyes! Deer don’t have front facing eyes! But that’s not all that’s wrong with it! Its face is not right! It’s too round and it’s got huge jowls and it’s mouth is far too rounded to be a deer. The snout is far too short, so much is wrong! I scramble to get to my feet, but whatever this thing was decided to stand on its hind legs when I stood up. I don't know if though I was challenging it because it too stood up on its hind legs and it was huge! It towered over me. It had to be over 8 feet tall!

I turned around and started running as fast as I could, but I could hear the sounds of a bipedal stride close behind me. I never turned around. I was sure if I turned around it would get me. When I reached the fork in the trail I could no longer hear it behind me. When I got out of the woods I started screaming like a maniac, so much so my friend J came out the back door with the shotgun. I should mention my friend J is a backwoods mountain boy from Cripple Creek and he has native blood in his family.

When I finally calmed down enough to explain what happened, J told me that wasn’t a deer. He said in the woods there are a lot of things regular people don’t know about and what I encountered was one of those other things. He said it was up to something and I disturbed it. The jest of what I got is it’s some sort of manifestation of a forest spirit." JS

NOTE: I am familiar with the areas around Charlottesville, Virginia, especially several years ago before the development. The area is known for cryptid sightings, especially Bigfoot. Lon

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Carter Buschardt has been an investigator with BFRO for the last 12 years. Originally from Texas and currently lives in Missouri. He has had over 95 reports published to the BFRO web site and has interviewed over 200 witnesses and counting. He is an experienced outdoorsman and trained as an investigator for MUFON. He studied herpetology in college. Longtime special interest in Sasquatch long term habituation sites, burial research, infrasound, language and stick structures. Carter's two recent books are titled 'Sasquatch: Evidence of an Enigma I & II.'

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