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The Glimmer Man

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  What would you do if you saw something that wasn't there. Something moving through the forest that you can't quite focus on something you know is there but all you see is a faint outline and sometimes a pair of glowing yellow eyes. It sounds like the script for a 1980s jungle based action/sci-fi movie but talk to those who have seen these predator type entities as they are sometimes referred to and they will tell you that what they saw was all too real and all too terrifying.  These strange entities have been reported all over the world but there seems to been a large amount of reports throughout the U.S. Most are in rural areas or areas where there are large forests and wildernesses. It is remarkable how similar the reports are to each other and how closely they resemble that ailen hunter of the silver screen. Some witnesses have reported seeing it multiple times sometimes traversing through their dwellings on the hunt for something also out of the sight of the witness. Alth

Madam Pigott

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  Shropshire and Newport in particular are no strangers to tales of the weird and paranormal. One of those stories that are told is that of Madam Piggott the white lady of Newport.  The story of poor lady Pigott is told thus. The young Lady met and married squire Pigott of Chetwynd Park. However from the start things were not happy for the newlywed Lady Pigott her husband only wanted a son from her so whenever he could he would dissappear to London for days or weeks at a time to find fun elsewhere with others. Over time Lady Pigott became angry, bitter and resentful of her husband and by the time she became pregnant she was very ill and weak. She had a very difficult pregnancy during which she heard a matter of fact conversation between the physician and the husband where the husband was told that he would only be able to save one of them not both. Without a second thought the husband chose his unborn child. Hearing the callousness with which her husband made this decision with her dyi

Old Stinker

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  Stories of man like wolves are nothing new in European folklore but this particular tale spans three centuries and takes part in the UK Yorkshire to be exact and what's more may still be going on today. The legend may well have started as far back as the 1100s and culminated sone time in the 1800s when a stagecoach was viciously attacked where upon the creature was shot at and disappeared in to the night. For sone time all was quiet and stories of this creature died out and the creature itself nearly forgotten.  Then only 6 years ago the story started to resurface. The sightings although reported over multiple areas centered around the city of Hull. This is why the creature is sometimes called the Hull Werewolf. However it is far more well known by it's other name that of 'Old Stinker'. It is said to stand approximately 8 feet tall and have glowing red eyes and a foul breath giving rise to its less than affectionate name. Said by locals to inhabit areas of the UK that

Phantom Phone Calls

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  What would you do if you received a phone call from someone that couldn't possibly have made it? What would you do if they sounded like them, knew things about you and talked to you like they always used to? The only problem being they are dead. Would you hang up? Talk to them one last time? Or just listen? Some people have had to answer these questions. Join us as we look at the strange and unusual phenomena of ghostly phone calls. The phenomena itself has a fairly straightforward pattern usually a person will receive a phone call from a loved one (family member, husband, wife, significant other or close friend) the conversation may appear quite ordinary but after the person hangs up they find out that the person they were talking to had died. Other versions of this phenomena have the person receiving the call well aware that the person who is on the other line died weeks, months or years earlier. They are often a loving message or a final farewell or a message of support during

Haunted in the Darkness - Episode 01: Plagues and Smugglers

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This year, Road To Innsmouth journey to different locations within the UK to investigate High Strangeness. This ongoing series will delve into various strange reports at different locations. In this episode, Mat, Gareth and Jamie travel to a local church to investigate sightings of a mysterious man in a suit and the sounds of disembodied knocking on the Church doors.

The Pentagon's UFO Program

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  UFOs, Aliens do they exist? If they do are they visiting us? If they are what do they want? These are some of the questions that both armchair investigators and the top levels of the government and military have been racking their brains to answer for decades.  On the 25th June 2021 the pentagon released a preliminary analysis on 144 Unidentified Aireal Phenomena (UAP). Of these 144 cases studied it was quite shocking that 143 still remain unexplained and the 1 that was closed was said to be a deflating balloon. The report can be found here . This beggs the question what was going on with these other sightings and who was investigating them. Something that the pentagon was not very forthcoming with. However,  nearly a year after the initial release a man named Travis Taylor who some of you may have heard of came forward as the chief scientist responsible for the report on behalf of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Although it is true that Mr Taylor did have

The Enfield Monster

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  A cryptid sight that has gone down as one of the most discussed and argued over encounter of the last 50 years. Read on to find out more. Enfield, Illinois the 25th of April 1973, a seemingly ordinary day would end up as one of the strangest and bizarre cryptid sightings of recent decades. It all started about 10pm in the evening when Henry McDaniel was disturbed from his sofa after a hard day at work by a scratching sound coming from his front door. Thinking it might be a bear Henry grabbed his gun and a torch and went out to confront the creature. It was a windy night and between two shrubs Henry saw something that confused and shocked him. What he saw he later described as having three legs, two short arms a short body and large pink eyes, grey coloured skin and stood appropriately 4 - 5 feet tall. Henry wasted no time in taking aim and firing 4 shots at it one shot hitting the creature. Upon being shot the creature let out a loud hiss and disappeared over a railway embankment cov