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Friday, February 14, 2025

Deer Hunters Encounter BIGFOOT Near Marais Des Cygnes Refuge, Kansas

"It was definitely a Bigfoot and it was huge. It was around 8 feet tall and covered head to toe in matted muddy dark hair. It was reaching into the water and putting whatever it found in its mouth."

I received the following account:

"When I was in high school, my uncle and I would hunt deer and turkey in eastern Kansas. In 1999 we were near the Marais Des Cygnes Refuge bow hunting for deer in a swampy woodland area. We had been in the same location before and were familiar with the layout. Both of us had portable tree stands overlooking the bottomland.

We had been in our stands for about an hour, it was early morning but I don't remember the time. My uncle was to the right of me about 50 yards, so we could both see anything moving below. I heard splashing from his direction and noticed him waving at me. The splashing was getting louder. I first thought it might be a small herd of deer moving my way. As I looked through the thickets, I noticed something tall and bulky standing beside a tree. I then saw something similar a few feet away from the other figure. I looked over at my uncle. He was crouched down and still. The two figures started to move towards me. Then one worked its way into a clearing and I was able to get a good look. It was definitely a Bigfoot and it was huge. It was around 8 feet tall and covered head to toe in matted muddy dark hair. It was reaching into the water and putting whatever it found in its mouth. I didn't see the other Bigfoot. It must have moved off in the other direction.

I was as still as possible, though I was shaking. This Bigfoot was no more than 100 feet from me though I was 12 feet in the tree. I must have watched it for 10 minutes or so as it waded through the water eating whatever it pulled out. It eventually walked away from us towards the woods on the opposite rise. My uncle and I looked at each other but didn't make a sound. I was ready to get out of there but he remained in his stand holding his hand palm out to let me know to hang on. I wasn't even thinking about hunting deer any further that day.

About 15-20 minutes had gone by. My uncle started moving off his stand. I did the same, dropping the ladder and climbing down. We walked towards each other and agreed to come back for the stands later. In fact, I didn't go back. That afternoon, my dad and grandfather went back with my uncle to look around and retrieve the stands. Both of them believed we saw the Bigfoot. My grandfather said he believed they were eating freshwater mussels and snails.

I never went back to that area, though I still hunt. That was the only time I had ever seen anything like that. I'd be interested to know of other witness sightings in eastern Kansas and western Missouri. I've heard many stories but nothing recent." C

NOTE: I made contact with Chad the same day I received his account. His story seemed credible and he agreed to let me publish it. He no longer lives in Kansas but has gone back to hunt for deer and turkey, but not near that refuge. Lon

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CREEPY MOMENTS: Readers Offer Their Brief Encounters & Stories

Here are a few creepy encounter stories sent to me by readers. If you'd like to forward your true life experience, feel free to send it to my email at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com

"My husband worked for 30 years within the Illinois prison system.  He had to walk to another housing unit he didn’t work on. This guy was raising Cain with all the line officers, so my husband was sent to quiet him. My husband had never seen this inmate and nobody had told him my husband’s name, in the corrections world everyone goes by their last name like “Lieutenant Smith” so anyway, this inmate was doing something awful on the floor when my husband got to his cell front, he looked up at my husband and said, “Mikey, I’ve been waiting to see you.” My husband said some crap to him because it was startling. He then said, “Is grandma making you food tonight?”

So my husband would go check on his late granny after work each night, on work nights it was after 11 pm and that sweet old gal would have him fried eggs and bacon, etc. Nobody at that prison knew that. My husband will swear he was looking straight at a demon. It still bothers him and that was 1993." C

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"I grew up in eastern Massachusetts, 2 miles from the state forest. Used to go running in the woods. I came over the trail to a familiar place, a large pond, beautiful. That day though I stumbled onto about 20 people in hospital gowns just wandering around like zombies. Apparently, the psych ward in the next town left the door open, and these folks just walked on out. I was all alone, not far from a major road, but damn, that was the creepiest thing ever." D

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"My parent's friends live near Rich Mountain, West Virginia. We visited in the summer of 2002. I was 12 years old. Scott was my parent's friend. I called him Uncle Scott. He took me to a field about a mile from his house. It was warm, the sun was going down and I couldn’t shake this eerie feeling. It almost made me sick. Scott told me he always felt that way coming here. 

As we are standing out looking into a relatively normal field I feel someone tugging my shirt. Turning around nobody is there. At this point, I’m freaked. Scott tells me it was a Civil War battleground and that many people lost their lives here. It was so surreal. The beauty of it eclipsed the horrors that once happened here. I’ll never forget that feeling." S

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"When I was pregnant with my youngest, about 21 years ago, I lived with his dad at his parent's home. Our room was a build-on where the carport was. Anyway, one night I was watching TV in the front part of our room when I heard this "THUNK" sound coming from the rear where the restroom and closet (w/locked back door) are, so I got up and walked back there. To my right was the door to the bathroom with a sink, toilet, shower, and a window/window shelf almost 6 feet from the ground.

It was just starting to get dark outside, so I opened the door a little and leaned in to dial up the light (it was one of those dimmer switches) looking from the middle of the floor where there was a bottle of shampoo just standing there, by itself. I looked upwards kinda slowly, to the window, which was now open. What did I see but a skeletal face filling the height of this window, around about a foot and a half, and its eyes were glowing red. I had the feeling it was smirking at me, but I couldn't honestly tell due to it being a skull, sans skin. As soon as my gaze met its eyes, I felt my heart skip a beat, my breath caught in my throat, and my blood felt as cold as ice water from shock. Instantly, I began to back up, dial down the light, and close the door.

Running into the house, I called out for my bf and told him what I saw. He and his brother ran out the back door and to our side of the house, but there was no one and nothing over there. I was in such a weird way though, because part of me felt this urge to laugh. In fact, I fought the urge. It never happened again tho, and I wish I'd known then about Christ like I do now, but I'm so grateful I know now!

It was a strange thing to happen, but I am telling you that it absolutely did take place." M

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"We had a three-story concrete house in our district. It was called the "Gangster House" due to local folklore. The reality was it belonged to and was built by a concrete mogul in the 40s. It was long abandoned but we knew local druggies and various groups used it for their various purposes. We had calls there from time to time. I had a recovery once but was never an active victim.

But it was plenty creepy, especially at night. Pentagrams, various graffiti including satanic sayings. Ratty-stained mattresses, needles, and various other things littered the floors everywhere. And yes brass and blood stains. I definitely did not like answering runs there day or (especially) night.

Well, several years later and a couple of years before I transferred to staff, a couple bought the place and, as they often do, restored and refinished this place to the nines. A year or so after they moved in, we got a call from one of the partners and it was serious enough to transport. Now I pause to state, that this place was immaculate and beautiful; not a sign of its previous history.

The other was upfront with me and I was driving. He starts spilling all sorts of stuff about things that were happening at that house. He was convinced it was haunted and all I could do was nod while avoiding questions about what I knew of the place." K

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If you have information about the Chicago Mothman 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

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED

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The Serpent's Key • 28 Carlisle St. HANOVER, PA 17331

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YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS


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Have you had a sighting or encounter?
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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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Thursday, February 13, 2025

UPRIGHT CRYPTID CANINE Sighting Near Cook Mills, Ontario

I received the following information from an Ontario researcher. Southern Ontario has been a hotspot for upright canine sightings over the past couple of years.

"I am not sure if the following info will help you in your investigation of the dogman sightings or not. My sighting was in the latter part of the 1960s and it occurred in what was then a small village called Cooks Mills, Ontario. This is near the border between Welland and Niagara Falls, Ontario, and is close to the 3 sightings that you have gotten lately. You are right when you commented that dogmen are not afraid and will stand their ground because the dogman in my encounter stood in the road and stared us down for about 30 seconds before running off. I think it had been eating roadkill when we drove up to it.

My late husband also had an encounter with a dogman probably sometime in the eighties, he was driving home from work on the night shift at about 4 or 5 am when one ran across the QEW ahead of him. He was heading from Oakville to Welland and this happened just after the Queen Elizabeth and 403 split before he went over the Burlington Skyway. It ran from right to left across the highway so it would have been heading toward Lake Ontario. He said that after crossing the road, it jumped a chain link fence and disappeared into the tree line.

This makes 5 sightings between Lakes Erie and Ontario. I can also attest to the fact that there have been UFO sightings over Lake Erie on the Canadian side. These sightings were in an area called Lowbanks which is between Port Colborne and Port Dover, close to the Wainfleet area."

I don't know if this helps, but I thought you might like to have this information. Take care. J"

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Bigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTube

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If you have information about the Chicago Mothman 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

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED

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YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS


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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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