We all love spooky tales which defy explanation – which is clear from the popularity of our many unsolved mysteries lists. Therefore, we have dug around the vast body of literature on anomalous phenomena to present you with yet another list of mysteries of the unexplained. Because we have so many “unsolved mysteries” lists, it seems sensible to list them here so you can look over them before asking why we have not included your favorite in this list!
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The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is a humanoid cryptid which is said to inhabit areas of swampland in and around Lee County, South Carolina. He is described as being seven feet tall (over 2m), bipedal, and well built, with green scaly skin and glowing orange eyes. It is said to have three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand which end in a circular pad on them that stick to walls. The first reported sighting of the creature was made by Christopher Davis, a 17 year old local, who said he encountered the creature while driving home from work at 2 AM on June 29, 1988. According to his account, Davis stopped on a road bordering Scape Ore Swamp in order to change a tire which had blown out. When he was finishing up he reported having heard a thumping noise from behind him and having turned around to see the creature running towards him. Davis said the creature tried to grab at the car and then jumped on its roof as he tried to escape, clinging on to it as Davis swerved from side to side in an effort to throw it off. After he returned home, Davis’ side-view-mirror was found to be badly damaged, and scratch marks were found on the car’s roof–though there was no other physical evidence of his encounter.
In the month that followed the Davis sighting there were several further reports of a large lizard like creature, and of unusual scratches and bite marks found on cars parked close to the swamp. Most of these are said to have occurred within a three-mile (5 km) radius of the swamps of Bishopville. Two weeks after the Davis sighting the sheriff’s department made several plaster casts of what appeared to be three-toed footprints – measuring some 14 inches (360 mm) in length – but decided against sending them on to the FBI for further analysis after biologists advised them that they were unclassifiable.
The Hopkinsville Goblins case, is a well-known and well-documented alleged Close Encounter event in the history of UFO incidents. The event occurred near the towns of Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky beginning on the evening of August 21, 1955 and continuing through the next morning. UFO researcher Allan Hendry wrote “[t]his case is distinguished by its duration and also by the number of witnesses involved.” Multiple eyewitnesses would claim that, for several hours stretching over a late evening and early morning, they repeatedly saw five glowing, silvery creatures, each three feet tall and seeming to float above the ground. The witnesses additionally claimed to have used firearms to shoot at the creatures, with little or no effect.
On the evening of August 21, 1955, Billy Ray Taylor was visiting friends for dinner when he observed strange lights in the sky to the west. He called the others outside. The group saw a luminous, three-and-a-half-foot-tall being with an oversized head, big, floppy, pointed ears, glowing eyes, and hands with talons at their ends. The figure, either made of or simply dressed in silvery metal, had its hands raised. When the creature approached to within about 20 feet of the Taylor home, the men began shooting at it, one using a shotgun, the other man using a .22 rifle. The creature, they said, then flipped over and fled into the darkness. As the men stepped from the porch to look for the body, a taloned hand reached from the roof and touched them. For the next few hours, all members of the household witnessed the creatures repeatedly moving toward the house. This is such an odd story that I strongly recommend you read the full article at Cogitz.
Summerwind Mansion, formerly known as Lamont Mansion, is a now derelict cellar hole on the shores of West Bay Lake in Vilas County, North East Wisconsin. It is reputed to be one of the most haunted locations in Wisconsin. Due to abandonment, the elements and fire, little of the mansion currently remains standing. Summerwind was originally constructed during the early 20th century as a fishing lodge. In 1916 it was purchased by Robert P. Lamont, who employed Chicago architects Tallmadge and Watson to substantially remodel the property and convert it into a mansion. Lamont remained in Summerwind for approximately 15 years, during which time the maids told Lamont that the mansion was haunted, but he did not believe them. However, he is then reported to have abandoned the property suddenly in the mid 1930s after witnessing an apparition in the mansion’s kitchen.
After remaining vacant for some time, the house became the residence of Arnold and Ginger Hinshaw and their four children, who moved in during the early 1970s. It is from this time onwards that most of the haunting reports originate. After taking up residence, the Hinshaws reported a number of strange occurrences, ranging from flickering shadows that appeared to move down the hallways and soft voices that stopped when they entered rooms, to unexplained electrical/mechanical problems and sash windows that raised themselves. They also reported seeing the ghost of an unidentified woman who appeared several times in the vicinity of the house’s dining room. Within six months of moving into Summerwind, Arnold suffered a breakdown and Ginger attempted suicide. Arnold was sent for treatment and Ginger moved in with her parents in Granton, Wisconsin.
In June 1988 Summerwind was struck by lightning several times, resulting in a fire that destroyed much of the mansion. Oddly, lightning struck the house, not the taller trees around it. Today, only the house’s chimney stacks, foundations, and stone steps remain.
The Clapham Wood Mystery is the name given to a collection of unusual events which are associated with the Clapham Wood, West Sussex, England, resulting in the area developing its own lore in popular culture. Events have included reports of people making unusual sights or experiencing unusual phenomena, and of family pets disappearing or sickening. There have also been several human deaths associated with the location. Since the 1960s the area has experienced a rash of UFO sighting, reports of people, experiencing nausea or the sensation of being pushed by unseen forces, or of witnessing patches of strange grey mist developing suddenly on pathways through the woods. Some people have also reported a strong sense of being followed. Studies with a gieger counter have revealed slightly elevated levels of background radiation in the area, which is surprising since the area is situated on chalk which is normally low in radiation. Early photographs of the wood appear to show a large crater or depression somewhere in the wood, though now the area is highly wooded and difficult to search.
Four deaths have occurred either in or close to the woods and have since become part of the lore surrounding it. The first death was in June 1972 when police officer Peter Goldsmith disappeared while hiking in the region. His body was discovered 6 months later. The second death was that of Leon Foster whose body was discovered in August 1975. He had been missing for 3 weeks. The third death was of Reverend Harry Neil Snelling, the former vicar of Clapham. He disappeared in October 1978 and his body was not found until 3 years later. English coroners ruled open verdicts in all three cases.
The Bridgewater Triangle is an area of about 200 square miles (520 km2) within southeastern Massachusetts in the United States. Since colonial times the area has been a site of alleged paranormal phenomena, ranging from UFO and “black helicopter” sightings (including many with multiple points of corroboration including police and a local news team), to poltergeists and orbs, balls of fire and other spectral phenomena, various “bigfoot” sightings, giant snakes and ‘thunderbirds’, as well as the mutilation of cattle and other livestock. Central to the area is the mysterious and largely untouched Hockomock Swamp, which means “the place where spirits dwell”, and which was called “The Devil’s Swamp” by early settlers. The Triangle also has been known to house several Indian burial grounds.
One of the most common phenomena reportedly observed in the area is “spooklights” or what otherwise matches the description of will-o’-the-wisp, sometimes known as ghost lights which are typically seen in boggy or swampy areas. The behavior of this phenomenon is consistent with mysterious lights allegedly observed within the Bridgewater Triangle, including those which are said to appear along train tracks every January.
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon was the name given to the person or persons believed to be behind a series of apparent gas attacks that occurred in Botetourt County, Virginia, during the early 1930s, and in Mattoon, Illinois, during the mid-1940s. The first reported gasser incident occurred at the home of Cal Huffman, in Haymakertown, Botetourt County, where there were three reported attacks over the course of a single night.
At about 10:00 pm on December 22, 1933, Mrs. Huffman reported smelling an unusual odor, and was overcome by a feeling of nausea. The odor and the nausea returned again at about 10:30pm, at which time Cal Huffman contacted the police. A third attack occurred around 1:00 a.m., this time affecting the entire house; in total, eight members of the Huffman family were affected by the gas, along with Ashby Henderson, a guest staying at the house.
The next recorded incident occurred in Cloverdale on December 24. Clarence Hall, his wife, and their two children returned from a church service at about 9:00 p.m. They detected a strong, sweet odor and immediately began to feel weak and nauseated. Police investigating the case discovered that a nail had been pulled from a rear window, near where the gas appeared to be the most concentrated, and presumed that the nail hole had been used to inject it into the house. A third incident occurred on December 27, in which Troutville resident A. Kelly and his mother reported similar signs and symptoms to the Huffman and Hall cases. A fourth and fifth incident occurred on January 10, when Mrs. Moore, a guest in home of Haymakertown resident Homer Hylton, reported hearing voices outside before gas was injected into the room through a damaged window. The second attack that night was reported in Troutville, at the home of G. Kinzie.
At least 10 other cases were reported in Botetourt, and 10 years later, over 20 new cases were reported in Mattoon. One witness claimed to have seen the gasser and described “him” as a tall thin woman dressed as a man and footprints belonging to a woman were discovered at some of the scenes.
In the mid-eighteenth century, hunters in the Ochamchir region of Georgia (a Province of Russia on the edge of the Black sea) captured a ‘wild woman’ who had ape-like features, a massive bosom, thick arms, legs, and fingers, and was covered with hair. This ‘wild woman’, named Zana by her captors, was so violent at first that she had to spend many years in a cage with food being tossed to her. Eventually, she was domesticated and would perform simple tasks, like grinding corn. She had an incredible endurance against cold, and couldn’t stand to be in a heated room. She enjoyed gorging herself on grapes from the vine, and also had a weakness for wines, often drinking so heavily she would sleep for hours. As Colin Wilson points out in The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries, this is likely how she became the mother of many children to different fathers. These children usually died when she tried to wash them in the freezing river. The villagers started to take her children away from her and raise them as their own; unlike their mother, the children developed the ability to communicate as well as any other villager. Zana died in the village about 1890; the youngest of her children died in 1954. Her story was researched by Professor Porchnev who interviewed many old people (one as old as a hundred and five) who remembered Zana, as well as two of her grandchildren. The grandchildren had dark skin, and the grandson, named Shalikula, had jaws so powerful that he could lift a chair with a man sitting in it. It is believed that Zana may have somehow been a surviving member a previous evolutionary state of man. [Source]
The Devil’s Footprints was the name given to a peculiar phenomenon that occurred in Devon, England on 8 February 1855. After a light snowfall, during the night, a series of hoof-like marks appeared in the snow. These footprints, measuring 1.5 to 2.5 inches wide and eight inches apart, continued throughout the countryside for a total of over 100 miles, and, although veering at various points, for the greater part of their course followed straight lines. Houses, rivers, haystacks and other obstacles were travelled straight over, and footprints appeared on the tops of snow-covered roofs and high walls which lay in the footprints’ path, as well as leading up to and exiting various drain pipes of as small as a four inch diameter. Reports of similar anomalous, obstacle-unheeded footprints exist from other parts of the world, although none is of such a scale as that of the case of the Devil’s Footprints.
Mary Reeser, born in 1881, was found almost completely consumed by fire in her Florida home in 1951. The odd thing about the discovery of her body was that part of her left foot was left completely unscathed, and the extremely high temperature required to cremate a human body did not cause damage to the room or objects around the pile of ash which remained. The FBI investigators called in Professor Krogman from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, in the hopes that he might explain the mystery. He said: “I find it hard to believe that a human body, once ignited, will literally consume itself — burn itself out, as does a candle wick, guttering in the last residual pool of melted wax [...] Just what did happen on the night of July 1, 1951, in St. Petersburg, Florida? We may never know, though this case still haunts me. [...] I cannot conceive of such complete cremation without more burning of the apartment itself. In fact the apartment and everything in it should have been consumed. [...] I regard it as the most amazing thing I have ever seen. As I review it, the short hairs on my neck bristle with vague fear. Were I living in the Middle Ages, I’d mutter something about black magic.” The mystery has never been solved.
There won’t be many people reading this list who have not heard of the Amityville horror movie – and the majority will no doubt have watched it. What you may not know is that it is based on true events. The authors of the original book (George and Kathy Lutz) were convinced right up to their deaths that the story was true. In 1975, the couple moved in to a home in Amityville, New York. Unbeknownst to them, 13 months earlier, the son of the previous owners shot and killed all six members of his family – claiming to have been directed by voices in his head. The killer (Ronald DeFeo) is still in prison in New York and will remain there until his death. Most strangely, all six of the victims were found lying face down in their beds with no signs of a struggle or sedatives having been administered.
Within 28 days of moving in to the house, George and Kathy Lutz fled – claiming a series of horrific experiences forced them to leave. The family experienced foul smells, loud voices, physical attacks, and unexplained noises. All members of the family, at one time or another, witnessed glowing red eyes in the house. Kathy discovered a small hidden room that was painted red and the family dog refused to go near it. A priest was called in to bless the house and he also witnessed some of the phenomena which he later testified to on camera. The current owners, and those after the Lutzes claim to have had no unusual experiences in the house. The distinctive Dutch style windows have been remodeled to keep curiosity seekers away.
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Contributor: JFrater
Too bad if indeed the said aliens had come to visit us for non-imperial purposes… they probably think we’re a horrible, destructive species (and we are)… and will probably never come back. At least not for peaceful reasons.
111. Davo- I wouldn’t call it bull***** though. It’s the stories like that that have always made life more interesting. We wouldn’t have even a tenth of the folklore today if it weren’t for “bull*****” beliefs like these by our “gullible” ancestors.
Wow to the Grandson in no.4 Thats some strong teggies! ha
Very interesting list though, I love lists like this!
Poppycock! All of it!
Ehm, Georgia hasn’t been a “province” of Russia since the USSR. That was almost 20 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)
I live near Clapham woods and remember it well as it is the only place it has taken me hours to find my way out of…
having said that I didn`t find anything else odd about it untill I read this list!
jFrater, what are you doing? number one is a hoax, why i say this is because like any other haunting of such infamy (McKenzie Poltergeist, Roman Soldiers of York, The Tower of London, etc) there have been several paranormal investigators, senstitives and psychics who have visited the house.
But unlike most other famous haunted places ALL the investigators, Sensitives and Psychics turned up nothing. The idea of the haunting being a hoax is also supported by the fact that neither previous or future owners of the house (apart from the man who killed his family because of voices, although there is a very good chance that he was simply schizophrenic) have experianced ANY sort of mysterious happenings. The fact that the hauntings came and went with absolutely no trace of evidence left behind (paranormal or physical)should almost confirm that its a hoax
I remember one time that…nothing actually happened…Sorry to be the skeptic among the masses, but these stories of spook and fright, when weighed against reality, do not hold weight. Every claim, despite the amazed and truly shocked viewers of this list, can be explained : Amityville, thanks Snopes. Hopkinsville Goblins, 1955 pulp drawing of what aliens looked like at the time? Give me a break.
(Don’t get angry list viewers). In my mind, these stories are the modern equivalent of Myths or Fables. Things to keep people awake at night to talk about–true or not.
MNHEFT7681nxnh: What is that, a code? What does that MEAN! It must be something wild because it is different, If it were in the woods and carved on a tree people would wonder forever about it. It’s a mystery.
I’m ready for the onslaught of true believers. Yes.
Hopkinsville Goblin
Shade – like yourself I am naturally skeptical about any supposedly paranormal events. Personally I do not believe in ghosts, spirits, goblins, aliens etc etc
The reason why I find lists like this one so interesting is the lack of a sound and logical explanation for the events described. I’m sure that a logical explanation does exist, but for whatever reason such an explanation remains unknown.
As such, I treat these lists as pure entertainment only
For those of you who, like me, are complete skeptics yet love to read of the strange and unusual, I have the perfect book:
The Complete Works of Charles Fort.
You can probably find a second-hand copy on Amazon or Abe for under $1.
Google his name, and be prepared to laugh. He spent his life with newspapers from around the world, a pair of scissors, a pot of paste and a weird logic.
Number 3 is just Santa Clause. Close to Satan in spelling but not the same. I guess Santa uses one reindeer at a time and his sled floats. Sounds just as plausible as the invisible factory in the north pole.
The death of Mary Reeser looks like a case of spontaneous combustion which is known to happen and is a scientific phenomenon. I have actually read one a case, maybe on this sight where a man witnessed his wife suddenly burst into flame. There was no other evidence of burning around her and she made no noise as she burned.
Awesome List! These kind are always my favorite!
132. PastTime491: That sounds like something directly out of The Fortian Times.
Human bodies are mostly water, aren’t they? Does water burn?
Sure, I know there is some fat in all of us, but enough fat to combust? What would cause the combustion? There has to be a cause, without a cause, there can be no combustion.
People are not oily rags left in a can in the garage next to the water heater.
I need proof, not tales twice told by somebodies fourth cousin’s best friend’s next door neighbor’s aunt.
The only mystery here is the complete lack of critical thinking.
“The only mystery here is the complete lack of critical thinking.” – 135. Sarah
Haha…so true.
I should have had popcorn while reading this list! It’s like a mystery thriller movie.
The only mystery here is the complete lack of critical thinking.
~Yeseree. I’m really skeptic about these things. So, as I said, this list is like a movie.
Anyway, that quote can be a good shirt slogan.
#6, the Bridgewater Triangle, is more of a local myth used to scare little children nowadays. I grew up in the next town over, and attended high school in Bridgewater (It’s a regional school district).
The first I ever heard of the Bridgewater Triangle was when, about four years ago, I went on a Scouting survival hike into the swamp. Nothing spookie happened, and in my experience most of the tales are just told with mild amusement.
Though it is fun to pretend bigfoot and the terodactyl man or whatever lives in my town.
Sorry for a double post, but supposedly in sections of triangle compasses are useless, as the needle just spins around. This mainly spooks out people, but there is a large deposit of some kind of iron or other magnetic material that throws off compasses.
Uh, what the *****? Great list, but this is more like top 10 horror stories. *****s. I enjoyed the MYSTERIES, don’t delete it, but like rename it Top 10 Mysterious Horror Stories or something cmon man.
For number nine “Look at the head of the “creature” then look at the head of the owl. Now, get really, really drunk. We’re talking “mid-1950s rural Kentucky” drunk.
Ufologist Renaud Leclet admitted, “It could be a misidentification of a pair of Great horned owls, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and aggressively defend their nests.”
Oh, and that sound of metal clanging and ricochets during the shooting? Get drunk and shoot towards a target in front of your tin chicken coup.
So it’s either that, or there may still be an interstellar invasion force on the way to retaliate.”
Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html
I lived in Botetourt County, Virginia USA for over 12 years. In Troutville to be more precise, and this is the very first time I’ve ever heard of the Mad Gasser. If my grandparents were still alive, I would have had to ask them about this, since they were in their early teens when the gassings happened in Virginia. Maybe my father knows something about it. Thanks!!
ohhh man what should i say….i always wanted to know to know abt stuff like this but what i just read is totaly so dammm
awesome..though there are possibilities that what all written above could be fake..but still worth reading
i cracked your code shade. thought you could trick me by pretending it was a fake code.
nah seriously i love this site, it’s changed my life actually.i love reading the comments.
the zana story was the most interesting. i bet she was a good laugh.
Nº4, Zana, the LV sweetheart pin-up, appears to offer most immediate, practical scientific value here, as she is apparently pretty well-documented, unlike most of the others. In other words she’s an unarguably *real-life* phenomenon.
Apart from her physique, the most intriguing aspect I noticed was the ability of Zana to withstand low water and air temperatures that would kill others, did even kill her own offspring. Now we all have variable individual genetic and acclimatised resistance and vulnerability to heat and cold. Tibetan monks are renowned for being able to train themselves to remain naked throughout freezing Himalayan nights and dry out numbers of wet sheets with their own body heat. But that’s training, not innate capacity.
There is only one group of ethnic peoples known to have possessed this capacity, the three tribes of Indians who inhabited Tierra del Fuego and the extreme south of Patagonia. It was their fires that gave Tierra del Fuego its name, and they are also the Patagonians (*Bigfootians*, nothing new under the sun!) who were responsible for the name of the mainland. Although in no way actually resembling Zara or her surviving offspring, the onas, one of the tribes, were exceptionally tall and corpulent. The others were the yaghans and alaclufs. It was from these that Fitzroy took back a famous handful to England, the survivors being returned to their homeland in the voyage of the Beagle. These are the only people recorded as being able to spend almost indefinite periods naked or near-naked in freezing water (gathering shellfish and hunting food and fur). Even the northern hemisphere inuit lack this genetic resource. All three southern tribes are now extinct, and it has been noted that with them passed this unique genetic trait from the human race.
Those South American Indians were, of course, the farthest-travelled of all those who crossed the land-bridge from Asia to America. Trace a hypothetical line of migration back, and you might arrive at Georgia as one possible source. Could there be a connection? This resistance to cold was not passed on by Zara to her offspring, although other characteristics were. Might it be a primitive ancestral recessive gene which is common to her and the Fuegians? Could she also have been the last of her pure line, as per the photos of the last of the Yaghans? Could humans have interbred with other hominids to introduce such characteristics. I’ve read somewhere that some anthropologists consider red hair is a neanderthal inheritance. Well, good job we can’t see one another on LV then, but see the red hair topic!
They may claim that the events that took place in Amityville truly happened, but I highly doubt it.
The DeFeos lived in the house for nine years before Ron DeFeo killed his family; yet the Lutzes lasted less than a month? The DeFeo’s never told anyone that strange things were happening in their house while they were alive, however it is known than Ron was a drug user, and a paranoid. In one account of what happened that night, he got stoned while watching tv, and he could hear his family talking about him [supposedly, this was probably just imagined]. He looked over at a black coat hanging over a chair, and imagined it to be a grim reaper type creature, and he says it told him to kill his family.
Further evidence the Lutzes lied:
-They say hoof tracks were left in the snow one morning, yet no weather reports say snow fell on the day it reportedly happened.
-The priest was interviewed more than once, and on his earlier accounts he claimed that he had limited contact with the Lutzes, and that he was not aware of any paranormal activity. Later on though, in the television interview stated in the article, he claimed that there WAS paranormal activity.
-Ronald’s lawyer admitted years after the publishing of the Amityville book that he had collaborated with he Lutzes on the story “over many bottles of wine.”
-The book was written around the time of The Exorcist popularity and many scholars claim that much of the book follows it’s style.
-Finally, as stated above, the current residents have also never claimed that any paranormal activity takes place in their home.
The only truths in the Amityville tale are that Ron DeFeo killed his family, and the Lutzes moved out after 28 days.
I like the story myself, but I hate when people describe it as “A true story” or in this case “A mystery”, because put simply; there is no mystery.
JFrater:
I appreciate your dedication to the Amityville horror theme. It is an intriguing book and movie. I loved the book and the original movie,however I now believe that both are based on money. I wish I could be as creative to come up with these themes and make $$$$$$$$ off them.
I’d have to agree with you that it is a very intriguing, yet money-based story. My chief interest in the story is actually the DeFeo part of it. While a lot of the details have been fabricated for the movies, I am fascinated with Ron’s slow descent into evil; being controlled by the house and all.
147. shadow:…I wish I could be as creative to come up with these themes and make $$$$$$$$ off them.
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It wouldn’t be all that hard, really, depending on where you live.
If you live in New England, or any part of the country where major Revolutionary or Civil War battles were fought, you’re halfway home; you live in an area where the susceptible would expect souls to be “trapped” or wandering, reliving the horrors of their demise.
Start small. Rig an end table to be slightly off-balance, keep it level with a tiny wedge attached to a piece of fishing line which runs under the sofa, have a fragile piece of doodad on the edge of the table.
Have a guest over, talk about strange occurrences you and the family have witnessed in the house. If the guest becomes slightly interested or concerned, pull surreptitiously on the line (or have someone else positioned to do so). The doodad will fall and break, hopefully eliciting a gasp or a squeal from the guest. Make apologies for having exposed her/him to the haunting.
Make small comments in town. Your guest will certainly be making comments all over the place.
Be sure to have a priest or minister over to bless the house. The night before he’s due, mix water and rust and pour it down the walls from the attic. Rig doodads to fly across the room (not hard with fishing line, rubber bands and a helper).
When the local newspaper comes calling for a story, be humble at first. Be scared. Waffle on a decision, while they sit in your living room looking at the (blood)stained walls. Have some small item fall from a height (one good way to do this is to bore a tiny, hair-thin, hole through the wall at the mantle place. Put something lightweight in front of it. Run a very thin wire through the hole, just touching the object. At the appropriate time, a gentle shove does the trick…this work best if the wall is papered). Finally agree to the interview, but attempt to underplay what’s been going on. When asked direct questions, however, acknowledge that yes, these things *have* happened. You are going to immediately send your teen-aged child to stay with relatives out of state, as poltergeists often attach themselves to a teenager in a particular spot.
Several things should now occur:
1 – 60 Minutes might ask for an interview
2 – a publisher might ask for a book deal
3 – a tabloid might ask for exclusive rights to your story
Items 2 and 3 are the money items.
Good luck
Great list but scarred because amityville is bassed on real stuff
I had only heard of Amityville and had a lot of fun reading this. Very creepy stuff and I love it!
As to item #9, the “aliens,” who were probably Great Horned Owls…. I have a great story regarding owls. My friend’s very alcoholic uncle was in the prairie lands of eastern Colorado, driving and drinking and shooting at prairie dogs. All of a sudden he saw one of the prairie dogs fly away! Well, it scared the Hell out of him, and he swore off drinking… (which lasted about a week…) What he didn’t know was that we have a small owl that often hunts in the daytime, called the Burrowing Owl, which nests in abandoned prairie dog holes. You often see them in the same field with prairie dogs, and they are close to the same size…
Another mystery involving drunkards shooting at alien objects that turn out to be owls – you gotta love it!
The Amityville house isn’t actually haunted. The Lutzes just made that story up because they couldn’t afford the mortgage and wanted to move. The only reason people believe the hoax is because of the Amityville book and movie series that claims to be “based on a true story.”
More proof: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp
To Seque, Similar to you, I was a sceptic. However, it was in about 1975 or 76, I had the opportunity to go to Paris, France for 10 days to attend a school. I and a number of fellow travellers to this school stayed in an old hotel located on the left bank. It was called something like Lutetia or Lucretia Concorde. My room was located directly above the hotel lobby, and had a very wide hallway with a staircase leading to the lobby at each end of the hall. I had been there about a week, when alone in my room about noon one day I heard the definate and loud cadance of what sounded like flanks of marchers passing outside the door to my room. Curious, I listened and waited inside my door until it sounded as if the last rank of marchers had passed by about 10 feet. I then opened the door to peer out. There was no one there. The hall was absolutely empty. But the sound of marching continued down the hall, gradually moving away from me. I was feeling no fear, but was now really curious. I decided that this odd phenomena must be being caused by the sound echoing backwards either from around the corner or from up the lobby stairs. After walking to the end of the hall, and seeing there were no marchers around the corner and with the sound now having become so faint it was hardly audible, I hurried back to my room and locked up to meet up with friends in the lobby for an afternoon of sight seeing. When I joined the others downstairs, still curious I asked the approximate seven people there if they had seen a band or something come down the stairs a few minutes before me. They all said no, no one had come down the stairs. I then put the entire incident out of my mind and likely to never think of it again except for what came later. Seated next to me on the plane coming home, I met a new acquaintance. Another woman returning home from a visit to Paris. We enjoyed each others company so we exchanged phone numbers as we left the airport to return to our homes. Several months and a few phone calls later, we decided to meet at a restaurant for dinner. During dinner, she happened to mention that she had been borrowing library books and reading up on the history of France. She related a few historical facts to me and then mentioned the name of the hotel in which I had been staying, mentioning that it was very old and had apparently been occupied by German soldiers during WW11. So, I asked if it said anything else about my hotel,,, and she said with some embarrassment ” Oh nothing really- just some nonsense about it being haunted. Some people apparently claim that they can hear the ghosts of the German soldiers marching through the halls.” I suddenly realized what it was that I had heard and followed down the hall. I was completely and eerily shocked and continue to be every time I think about the incident. Although I was more curious than afraid at the time of the incident, I was afraid after hearing what she said, and even more astonished at the coincidence of sitting next to her on the plane,,, or her taking out that particular library book, and of her innocently providing me with an explanation for something she had no prior knowledge of.. all the way back in Canada, months after it occurred. It just seems like the odds of this happening, or too coincidental. Like for some reason, I was supposed to hear this. But why??? Perhaps it is because, had I not heard what she said, I would have never thought or questioned what I had heard at all ever again. I simply would have rationalized the odd and unexplained situation out of my mind. I suspect that that is what we all do about things we do not understand. Anyway this is a true story of an experience I had from 30+ years ago, but your story reminded me of it because I think of how you have tried to rationalize it away.
154. claire: Your story is interesting, and yes, I do try to rationalize things like this away even though I have had experiences of my own. I’ve studied so much science, even though I was an Art major, that accepting the supernatural, even though I have experienced it myself, is blasphemy.
Still, I accept that you heard what you heard. That the entire thing played out exactly as you claim.
Odd, wot? A skeptic who leaves room for doubt?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…just leaving room for some of those things.
you missed the baghdad battery
The story of Zana is interesting because A. the resistance to cold and neanderthal hypothesis and B. She lived in captivity for 140 years!!! Why is that point so overlooked. People have been known to live for more than 120 on a few occasions, but Zana was in captivity from the 1750s until 1890 and no one comments on it?!? She would have been at least 150 when she died.
(This article is about the Amityville Horror, taken from Cracked.com, probably explains why the next family that moved in didn’t see anything strange)
For starters, in the book the priest they had come and bless the house allegedly heard a voice say “Get out!”, felt a slap on the face and suffered stigmata-like blisters. In real life, Father Pecoraro (who was apparently not in on the scam) denied anything happened. He even claimed in an affidavit that he never went to the house, but only spoke to the Lutzes by phone.
A possible reason given for this massive infestation of malignant spirits was that the Shinne*****(seriously?) Indian tribe used the local area as a place to ditch their insane, decrepit and dying tribe members. Which would be totally awesome except for the fact that they didn’t. Ever.
Remember Butch Defeo, the guy who committed all of those murders in the house that caused the haunting? Well William Weber, Butch’s defense lawyer, came forward and claimed he and the Lutzes made the whole thing up over “several bottles of wine.” Many lawsuits were filed, and the Lutz family continues to insist the story was “mostly true.”
And really, why would they lie? Hey, did we mention that in addition to all of the book sales, NINE films have been made based on the story? And why not? It’s totally true, you guys.
About Zana – In the mid-eighteenth century = 1750.
i would sooooooooo love to live at now called 108 ocean ave, the amityville house. its all facinating everything whats gone off in the house. but that dunt bother me at all……. but what an AMAZING house and boat house. everything about the true stories and everything i cant simply get enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lmao, isn’t it funny how almost all these things originate in the USA. If thats not evidence that they’re all nutters I dunno what is…
161. phil:…all these things originate in the USA. If thats not evidence that they’re all nutters I dunno what is…
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Uh, Phil, you do know from whom we are all descended, don’t you?
The clue would be…YOU!
There has been wonder expressed about the lack of rational thinking that leads people to believe this nonsense.
The implication is that the writer of these kind of posts is somehow above most of us mortals. He/she understands life and therefore knows what is real and what isn’t.
If we take a step back and look from some distance, we see that this kind of attitude has been present at all times. Around 1900 the president of the US was advised to close the office that decided on patents, because ‘everything important has been invented’. Religious scholars 500 years ago would state with the same kind of mental superiority that the soul is smaller than the tip of a pin. Etc.
Now let’s look at the question ‘can any of this be true’ from another angle: if the answer is no, and this seems to be the position of the ones that pride themselves on their skeptical mind, the implication is this: all of the tens of millions of people – a cross section of humaniity, and so including idiots, crooks and liers as well as sincere and intelligent people and even saints – that have reported as true experiences:
- precognition
- telepathy
- mental contact with beings other than living humans
- out of body experiences
- near death experiences
- memories not of this life
- unexplainable sightings of beings/creatures/objects
- etc
were either deceiving or deceived. All of them. Including the millions of nice intelligent and in fact often skeptical people like you and me.
Well, how likely is that ?
Furthermore, let’snot forget that it takes only one instance of a certain kind to prove that the potential exists.
If we read Nostradamus’ quatrains, who can doubt that the man actually forsaw events that later transpired ? Personally I see little or no value in predictions as such, but reading what he wrote, including names of people and paces, how can I deny the human capacity for precognition ? (Unless he was not human of course)
Once we have accepted that there is a realm outside of time/matter (or within it but not limited to it), where information is available and that we can on occasion be in contact with, many stories that the so rational (and therefore very limited) mind dismisses, become credible.
That doesn’t mean we can understand all of them. Nor does it mean that for some of these stories there isn’t a simple and ordinary explanation. But we might have the humility to concede that life is much more complex and deep and varied than we like to believe.
If we stipulate that the high level skeptics are really just nice people that like to live in a secure world and we ask ourselves what is more likely
164. Peter: Nostradamus? Really? Whom did he name? Don’t give me the “Hitler” one. He wrote “Hister”. Wrong on several counts. What other names did he name?
You said he named paces, I think you meant places. Which places, which he did not know, did he name?
The events he “foresaw” have been changing as events have changed over the course of history. Read a book of Nostradamus prophecies translated in 1909, then read one translated in 2009. Two completely different books.
The prophecies are written so vaguely that they can be read to mean almost anything, and are translated to mean almost anything. Before the 9/11 attacks there was no mention of them in the book, but afterward, the next translation had the attacks in there! How handy!
Post cognition. Very, very post cognition, as in after you’re dead post cognition.
The Amityville Horror was a hoax, completely made up by the authors and a lawyer friend over drinks one evening. Sheesh. Between this and a huge EVP error in another article, what kind of research do posters actually do around here?
166. V: I am curious where you got your sources? There is too much for this being real so I was just wondering. Thanks.
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That is so typical. I come up with a coherent argument, and you cherry pick a name. As you no doubt know, Nostradamus wrote in a hodge podge of languages and anagrams, so to then bring to my attention that Hister is not the same as Hitler, well, brilliant. To quote Muhammed Ali: is that all you’ve got ? (BTW, ‘Rennes’ OK ?)
I can see what is in it for skeptics like you to try to explain away Nostradamus and everythings and everybody else that doesn’t fit the theory. What was in it for him, by all accounts an intelligent, courageous and compassionate man, must be unsolved mystery # 1 on the next list.
About your dream: the explanation you give raises issues that you seem unaware of. Like this one: you stipulate the existence of a part of you that functions under the radar of your conscious mind. Yet you feel comfortable assessing that this part of you has definite borders and does not overlap with the under the radar parts of others.
Obviously the basis of this assessement is your desire that this is so. Since there is no way you can possibly know this, you are like the religious posters that make all sorts of claims based on their belief. Only to be severely criticised by you.
168. Peter: Coherent? Really?
Okay. There you go, you can have coherent and I’ll be the Queen of All the Faeries.
You’re giving me Rennes? Come on! A place he visited as a boy? A young man? So naturally he names it in his quatrains. Anyway, I’m not going to change your mind nor are you going to change mine. Big deal. No one is the worse for wear.
Re: my dream. Dreams are the unconscious working away, working things out that haven’t been worked out in life. My explanation was a guess, I believe I stated it was a guess…I just checked, I said “I expect I heard the story…” .
You can accuse me of anything, Peter. I know, my friends know, what my true beliefs are. You have the power of none, because I have the friends I do.
Seque,
Hey, take it easy. I just pointed out that your explanation, that it was a guessed one is immaterial, raises issues. Your new explanation about dreams does the same. How do you know what the unconscious mind does and knows and how far it stretches and whether it has in fact boundaries . You don’t.
Your assurance that I will not change your mind basically confirms my siggestion that you are yourself a believer, chiding others for believing. You can convince me, if you come up with convincing arguments. Why not ? I am only interested in truth, not in being right.
I just react to what you post here and as I understand it that is what these boards are for. I have not gone into your personal life or who your friends are and what they know, so I don’t understand why you bring that up.
I have nothing against you and wish you all the best. My business is with the presumption I encounter on these discussion boards that people that ‘don’t believe in these things’ are somehow more rational or better or more responsable people than the ones that are open to the possibility of a spiritual reality. I object to that presumption, because in my understanding emperical and scientific evidence suggests that matter is a manifestation of consciousness and that the limits of the material world do not apply to all of life.
I wouldn’t want anyone to miss the undreamed of beauty and love that lie beyond the mind, and so I suggest the notion here that it is in fact possible to be rational and spiritual at the same time. Most people seem to think one has to be one or the other.
Peter, yes, I overreacted to your fairly innocent post. I apologize for that.
There are things going on which have nothing to do with you, but which have me in a tizzy. Because of some outside influences, I don’t always handle stress as well as I ought.
Your arguments are interesting, and I wish I were more in the mood to delve into and respond properly. Alas, I’m not.
Give me a week and try me again. I’d really like to have this discussion.
OK?
Great list! Love reading stuff like this.
I live in SC and remember when that Lizardman stuff got real popular. Remember going to Lizard’s Thicket to eat and them selling Lizardman merchandise. I actually had a lizardman t-shirt lol.
Good times, good times.
i think if you will see closely at #7 you will see a mansion
jeremiah_ablaza I think you’ve been dipping into the stash of today’s list (hemp, with the THC intact).
My husband interduced me to this site and I love it. First time posting here. I used to live in Wisconsin and have been to Summerwind on several occassions before it was completely destroyed by fire. It was an amazing place. I used to dream of by the place and restoring it. I have lots of pictures. I was always saddened by the graffity and distruction of the place by punk teens. Never saw any ghost or heard any noises other then our own screams when someone would sneek up and scare the crap out of you LOL. I was really amazed to see it posted here. Brought back alot of memories. I guess the story has been streached by locals, because it was always told the the husband went insane and killed his children, then locked his wife in the celler where she died and then took his own life.
That is typical behavior if you live in Wisconsin.
OMG
:S 
That scared me senseless!
Ugg I’m going to have nightmares tonight
even though I don’t believe any of this!
no. p was just funny!
OMG
On no. 7 there’s pink stuff that I didn’t see before!
AAAAAAAAAH!
They have come out of the computer to reality!
AAAAAAAAAH!
Save me someone!!!!! :S :S :S
AAAAAAAAAH!
I meant no. 9 was just funny!
lol
soz
AAAAAAAAAAH!
8 is a great horned owl and 5 is just bad air.
meant 9 is an owl.
Its pretty freakin weird when your reading lists of bizarre mysteries, and as your scrolling down, the name of your own town pops up. Out of all the places to name! lol. Well ive lived in bridgewater for 19 years and i have seen no such things. Then again i havent ventured into the hockomock swamp, yet.