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Monday, March 18, 2024

Huge HORNED, HOWLING MOUNTAIN MONSTER Reported in Madison County, NC

The mountains of Madison County, North Carolina may have been home to an unknown howling beast, as reported in the Fairfield (S.C.) Herald on March 12, 1873:

"A gentleman recently from the Shelton, Laurel district of North Carolina, some forty miles from this place, informs us that the people in that "densely thicketed" county are greatly excited in regard to the appearance, upon several different places, of a huge mountain monster, the species of which is unknown. Mr. George Anderson, one of the gentlemen residing in the Laurel country, being one of the persons who saw the monster, also furnishes us with the following description of it.

"I was out in the bush hunting up some lost hogs, when all of a sudden there came into my path a beast, the appearance of which, I must confess, caused me to quake for the first time in many years. Aside from its strange and unusual appearance, the unearthly yell it uttered on perceiving me, which reverberated and reverberated through the forest, was enough to shake the senses of the most daring adventurer.

"The animal was some hundred yards distant from me and appeared to be a huge black bear with mane and head like a lion, but had horns like an elk upon it. Its tail was long and bushy, with dark and light rings around it to its extremity. Its eyes gleamed like a panther's and its size was that of an ordinary ox but somewhat longer.

"Just previous to making its appearance I had shot off my gun at a squirrel, and felt little prepared to meet such a ferocious beast without any weapon of defense. I immediately set about reloading my rifle, but had scarcely begun when it darted toward me. I retreated in as good order as possible, and must say I did some good running- not looking back until I found the animal had disappeared in the Laurel thicket.

"This is no story, Mr. Editor, gotten up to scare naughty children. I am not the only one who has seen the monster- several have seen it since I did; and, as sheep and calves are lately missing, it is presumed to be a carnivorous brute. Many have fortified their house to prevent a night attack from the strange monster, the like of which was never seen in these mountains before. Some think it has escaped from some rambling menagerie, while others superstitiously think it is sent to warn people of some great approaching danger."

Cryptid U.S.: Tales of Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, and More from Across America

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The Mythical Creatures Bible: The Definitive Guide to Legendary Beings

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'ARE THEY LOOKING FOR ME?' Possible ALIEN PILOT Avoids Capture by U.S. Army Troops

A reader (T-Bear) recalls the description of a very unusual incident witnessed by his mother and several of her family members. I was unable to recover additional information regarding the episode. If anyone has knowledge of this alleged UFO crash, please feel free to forward:

"My mother and her family were working in Naples, Florida in the late 1950s. One day-worker saw something crash nearby. A plane? All the workers ran to the site to search for survivors. The aircraft was sticking out of the sea near the beach. When the rescue got there, they realized it wasn't a plane, but some type of spacecraft.

The "ship" had no doors or windows that could be seen. Beside the ship was one of the pilots. The pilot was still in its bizarre space suit. It was tall and very skinny. But had a very large helmet. The helmet didn't have a shield but a robotic-looking face plate. Two of the workers picked it up and said it had little weight. It appeared to be dead. Others found a second suit. The suit was empty. It was lying in the nearby grass. Still, others tried to get into the ship to look for any more survivors.

Then suddenly, an Army helicopter appeared. The Army came in great numbers to secure the location. Troops surrounded the workers' camp and forced them to stay. They were there for two days afterward. The military told the workers that no one would believe them if they told what transpired. "Who would believe hobos, drunks, and uneducated Mexicans?" The foreman told the workers to do what the military said and no one would get hurt.

While trapped there, my mother observed the whole situation. On one of the two days trapped there, she met an unusual person. While sitting waiting for the occupation to be over, a person wearing a large blanket approached her from behind. In a bizarre mechanical voice, the strange individual asked her ”Are they looking for me?” She turned to see a mechanical face under the blanket. There appeared to be lips moving but there was a delay of sound coming from them. She realized it was not human and told it “Yes!” She told it to keep away from the military and look for a chance to escape.

There is a happy ending to this story. When the Army was still there cleaning up, the hobos found the surviving crew member. They put a hooded coat on it and other clothes to totally cover it up. They poured booze over it to make it smell like a drunk and helped it since it had trouble walking. When the bus came to pick up a batch of workers, the workers carried it onto the bus. It suddenly spoke with its mechanical voice, "Are they still looking for me?" They told it to shut up and get on the bus. The family left the next day. Those who took the alien were never seen again." T-Bear

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Did Detroit Witnesses Encounter LEPRECHAUNS or LE NAIN ROUGE?

Two friends were hanging out at Perrian Park in Detroit, Michigan when they heard childlike laughter. Then two 'small people' dressed as Leprechauns suddenly appear.

I received the following account:

"I would like to tell you about an experience that I and my friend went through in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, August 3, 2013. It was a typical Saturday night, my friend and I were hanging out around the neighborhood and not really doing much at all. We decided to walk over to Perrien Park, smoke some weed, and just hang out, this was at about 9:30 pm.

We walked over and found a bench that was a bit out of the way and would provide us some privacy to let us smoke in peace. At about 11:00 p.m. we decided to leave the park when we heard some rustling in the trees behind us, followed by what sounded like laughter, tiny high pitched almost childlike laughter. We thought at first it was someone messing with us and stood up and yelled out “Cut it out jackasses, we’re not falling for it!” This was met with more laughter and more rustling from the trees.

Suddenly two small people jumped out of the tree and almost floated down to the ground in front of us. We jumped back when we saw these two small people, almost yelling from the sudden surprise that their sudden appearance had given us. These two small people, both male, could not have been any more than 4 feet tall, stocky, and looked like they were wearing green three-piece suits. They looked almost like they were wearing leprechaun costumes and carrying what looked like walking sticks. My friend later told me that they looked almost like Hornswoggle from the WWE, which I had to agree that they really did. They looked at us for about 5 seconds, with no sound, and no movement. We were totally and completely freaked out and decided to get out of there as quickly as possible.

The moment we moved to start backing away, these two things jumped at us, covering the 6-7 feet between us in a single instant. They were on top of us, screaming loudly as they bit, scratched, and hit us with the sticks that they were carrying. They were screaming in such an inhuman way, that it sounded like an animal in distress crossed with a feral human. They were ripping at our clothes, swinging at our heads with these sticks that they were carrying, all the while laughing and screaming at the top of their lungs. My friend and I were overpowered and all we could do was try to get away from these creatures and protect our heads from these sticks that they were swinging.

Almost as quickly as it started, it ended and they leaped off of us, bolted toward the trees, and disappeared with nothing more than maniacal laughter. We got up and sprinted home as fast as we could go. We got home to my house and quickly shut the door and bolted it shut before we bothered to try to breathe easy and figure out what just happened to us.

Both my friend and I were busted up pretty bad with a collection of scratches, scrapes, and welts to show for our encounter. We stayed in the rest of the night; we were hurting so much the next day that we couldn't move without groaning in pain. We had never seen anything like these two creatures before and could not come up with an explanation as to what it was that attacked us that night. I decided to write in after researching people reporting sightings of dwarfs, gnomes, and whatnot. I didn't think we would be seeing something like this in the middle of Detroit, Michigan, but we did and we know what we saw.

We know that this sounds incredible and you might try to dismiss it as a fantasy made up by two crazy men but we know that what we saw was real and what happened to us was definitely real. We have never spoken about it except amongst ourselves and I decided to write to you and share my story in hopes of finding an answer to what it was that happened to us." Name Withheld

NOTE: Well, maybe it was just very good weed? I recall a story about a leprechaun sighting in a suburb of the Motor City. Anyway, Detroit does have a history of a 'malevolent dwarf' or Le Nain Rouge (The Red Dwarf):

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