Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal 5/2016
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- BEK: The Girl in the Center
- Daily 2 Cents: Yellow-Eyed Upright Dog-Like Being -- Landed Cigar-Shaped Craft -- Humorous...Yet, Myopic Quotations
- The 'Pope Lick Monster' Gains New Victim
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Posted: 26 Apr 2016 02:07 PM PDT
 Raymond in Fresno called in to C2C AM to tell of his black eyed girl encounter: I was invited to sit in with this band. I've been doing this for years and I always check my audience. I like to see who I'm gonna work with...who I'm gonna deal with. On my left side there was a group of people. On the right side there was another group and there was nobody in the center. I turn around to tell the band to see what key we were on and when I turn back, there's this girl sitting in the middle of the grass. She just appeared there. I mean, she wasn't there before because I know this audience and how I'm gonna work with my audience. Source: Coast To Coast AM - April 20, 2016 Transcribed by Jamie Brian The Black Eyed Children  Black Eyed Kids. My Three Months of Hell, a True Story.  BEK (Black Eyed Kids Phenomenon): The Boy At The Door  The Black Eyed Kids   | ||
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Posted: 26 Apr 2016 12:53 PM PDT
 Yellow-Eyed Upright Dog-Like Being Bailey in Pennsylvania called in to tell of his sighting a black yellow eyed upright dog-like thing in Pennsylvania: “This occurred probably about six years ago. I was with my grandmother and my aunt and we were driving back from Brockway one night at about 8PM and we were driving... Oh, we were driving from Punxsy (Punxsutawney), sorry. And we were driving down this little hill and it was pretty dark. And so you could barely see anything. So we came down this hill, the headlights were flashing on the road and this strange, solid black figure took about two steps and crossed a fifteen foot road. Two long strides and just completely across the road. At first we thought that maybe it was just a shadow or something, and this thing was like 7 feet tall, probably higher than that. This thing took long strides and we said there's no way that thing could have been a shadow. I mean this thing, honestly, touched the road two times and was just across it. And it had like these yellow, dark yellow eyes. Like very bright too. It was like a half Bigfoot, almost like a half-dog kind of. I mean this thing was fast, big. Definitely bigger than a Bigfoot probably and faster than any animal or human that I've seen. I just that was, you know, really creepy because I never believed alot of these... this kind of stuff. But after I saw that I kind of have a lot of belief in these types of things.” Source: Darkness Radio – July 21, 2015 Transcribed by Jamie Brian ********** Landed Cigar-Shaped Craft Richards-Gebaur AFB, MO - 3/29/2003: On or about April 29 2003 I was driving from Dallas to Mankato, MN. Staying off the toll roads and ended up on a road going around the south of Richard-Gebaur AFB, W Markly Rd. driving down an incline I saw a lake that was white capping in front of me due to hurricane in the south. I made a left turn on the road and crossed a small 1 lane bridge and looked to my left and saw a landed cigar shaped craft about 25’ tall and unknown length since it was sitting in a canyon, I could only see three rows of 4 portals. I tried to stop because my video camera was in the back seat. A flock of turkeys were in front of me and 2 hit my windshield, not breaking it, I was going so slow. There were 2 farm houses with gates right up to road and couldn’t turn Around. Got a couple of miles down the road and shrugged it of. It’s been my head every day until now so I went to Google Earth and found it, and it was exactly how I remembered it, book marked it. And went back 2 days later to look at it again and now the lake is gone, the farm houses and it has been totally changed. Living in S.F. I can’t go back there to check it myself but it’s weird Google Earth changed. - MUFON CMS **********
********** Humorous...yet, myopic quotations From newsgroup alt.humor: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 "But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind." "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads. "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." --1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work. "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus. "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duel "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". --Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. (Of course, this one is the best...) "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 ********** My goal has been to present current alternative news, interesting paranormal events and descriptions of the anomalous world that surrounds us all. I also strive to provide astral and intuitive insight for those seeking help. I hope I've achieved this...and I would appreciate your kind consideration. 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Posted: 26 Apr 2016 11:41 AM PDT
 Looks like the Pope Lick Monster has gained a new victim, as reported by WAVE3 News: Coroner: Woman killed by train while investigating 'goatman' myth Here is a bit of background that involves the Pope Lick Monster. About 2 years ago, I received several questions from a reader in reference to the 'goatman' phenomenon...in particular, the Pope Link Monster. So I decided to pull up the story from the archive and update it a bit. Enjoy!: The Pope Lick Monster is/was, according to legend, a half-man, half-goat creature that lives under the Norfolk Southern Railroad trestle across Pope Lick Creek and South Pope Lick Rd. near Fisherville in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky. The stories have been used as a 'dare' that required an unfortunate sap to climb onto the trestle. These individuals were most likely under the influence of alcohol or drugs.  Other legends explain the creature’s origins, including that it is a human goat hybrid, and that it was a circus freak who vowed revenge after being mistreated. In one version, the creature escaped after a train derailed on the trestle. Another version claims that the monster is really the twisted reincarnated form of a farmer who sacrificed goats in exchange for Satanic powers. The December 30th, 1988 Louisville Courier-Journal ran a front page article entitled Trestle of Death, in which it records two tragedies. Jack “J.C.” Charles Bahm II, a 17-year old Spalding University student, was struck and killed by a train February 18, 1987 while crossing the trestle. He has since been eulogized at the site of his death. “JC we love and miss you” is spray painted on the trestle’s base. In May 1987, 19-year-old David Wayne Bryant died of injuries obtained in 1986 when he jumped from the trestle to dodge an oncoming locomotive. -----  Steve Rush The New Voice - October 31,1990 Nobody knows when the quiet, rural area beyond Jeffersontown first became home to the community’s strangest, and definitely scariest, resident – the Pope Lick Monster. But tales of the creature, also known as the Sheepman, have circulated for decades in eastern Jefferson County, and as Halloween night approaches, rumors of the beast again seem to be common. “It’s always been around J-town,” said Michael Zettler, a 1985 graduate of J-town High School. “It was always talked about, especially around Halloween.” “I first heard of it in the early 1960’s,” said Mary Ruckriegel, the wife of J-town Mayor Daniel Ruckriegel. “When I started dating Dan, the kids were always talking about it, especially during Halloween. I don’t know if it was a figment of someone’s imagination or what.” “I can remember hearing stories of the thing when I was 4 or 5 years old,” said Rod Whitenack, a J-town native now in his early 20’s. “Every time Halloween would roll around, discussion about the monster would start up.” There are probably as many residents of J-town as there are descriptions of the "thing" that supposedly lives below the rusty train trestle that passes over Pope Lick Road and Pope Lick Creek out Taylorsville Road near Fisherville. Most describe the monster as a scary half-man, half-sheep, who terrorizes anyone who dares enter his domain. They say he has the features of both man and sheep, with horns, an ugly snout and a hairy brown body. He walks upright, has hooves for feet and can run at high speeds, enabling him to catch anyone in his territory. Some say it is Jefferson County’s version of Ichabod Crane’s nightmare – a headless horseman-type monster who rides the tracks and kills anyone who crosses his path. Others say it’s not a monster at all; it’s an old chemist who became a recluse after a chemical explosion in his lab terribly disfigured his face. Others say it’s just a hermit who lived in a nearby shack and would scare away anyone who came near the trestle. Still others say the figure that purportedly wanders the area is the deformed son of a local farmer, so hideous he won’t show his face until nighttime. But whatever the description, the J-town monster has several similarities with other world-famous beasts. Like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, actual sightings of the Pope Lick Monster have been few and far between, if at all. “There was always some guy who said he saw something out there.” Said Whitenack, who said he made many trips to the trestle. “But I never did.” And like the Swamp Thing and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the J-town monster has even been the focus of his own local flick, titles “The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster,” which premiered in Louisville in the fall of 1988. The 16-minute, black-and-white movie has been shown at the Vogue, The Uptown and, most recently, at the Water Tower, and been well received by area fans. “I was looking for a Story indigenous to the area,” said the film’s director and producer local independent filmmaker Ron Schildknecht. “And the Sheepman is something only told around here; it’s been around at least three generations.” Before he began filming, Schildknecht put in nearly a year of research o the subject. “I talked to 50 people formally and probably 100 more informally getting as much information as I could,” he said. “Was he half-man, half-sheep?” Did he walk on all fours or on two legs? Did he murder people or was he tame? I found a lot of interpretations; it was all real scattered out.” Half the apparent appeal has been the imposing train trestle, which has stood overlooking the area since 1929. The trestle, which is still used regularly today, spans nearly 800 feet and is about 100 feet tall. Over the years, teen-agers have been known to frequent the location in search of a remote spot where they could party without being bothered by police or parents.  “The trestles were a real popular place to go and drink and get rowdy,” Schildknecht said. “The talk of the a monster makes it much more attractive to go out there.” “It was part of a senior tradition,” Ruckriegel said. “They would go out there to see if they could see it; it was a sign of bravery.” “The boys would take the girls out there to try to scare them,” she added. “It was something really scary.” While the site may have provided fun for some, tragedy has also come to many who have walked the tracks. In recent years, several youths have been killed, whether from falling from the trestle or after being caught on the tracks and hit by a train. “It’s unfortunate,” Schildknecht said. “The story of the monster seems so harmless and innocent, except for the real danger of the railroad.” About a year ago train officials put up a chain link fence with barbed wire to keep thrill-seekers from climbing to the tracks. But that hasn’t stopped the rumors about the monster. When the 32-year-old Schildknecht went there to film the movie, he didn’t see the beast but admitted even he found the place a little frightening. “It’s kinda eerie,” he said, “knowing the history and that people have been killed out there.” “I didn’t feel anything supernatural,” he said. “I was just more intrigued with the ambiance of the trestle. And it’s pretty intense when a train goes by.” Also finding the area spooky was Zettler, one of the high schoolers who with a couple of friends made the trek to the monster’s purported stomping ground. “It was real scary.” He said. “Even though you know the legend is silly, you still think about it.” As long as the legend has been told, no one knows for sure how it started. “I’ve often wondered if it was a Halloween prank,” Ruckriegel said, “and then got blown out of proportion.” “It probably started as a man walking his goat,” Zettler said. “It’s just a bunch of stories. It’s something you hear through the years.” And the legend still exists in the East-End community today, but only to a degree. “I think a lot of the kids today are too smart to believe all that stuff,” Ruckriegel said. “But I guess it’s still going around.” “The story is still being told,” Schildknecht said. As long as there’s a trestle out there and long as there are kids in high school, it’s still alive.” The Pope Lick Monster exist in the collective imaginations of hundreds of people,” he added, “which for me says he does exists.” What do you think? -----  Pope Lick Monster: Louisville’s Goat Man The scene is picturesque underneath an old but very active railroad trestle in the Fisherville area of Louisville, Kentucky. “This is the old trestle for the Northern Suffolk Railway,” explained author and historian David Domine. Legends of the paranormal have turned this site into the center of fear and the home of a renowned creature. Domine said, “The goat man of Pope Lick as he’s known. They say he’s part man, part goat maybe even part sheep.” Numerous urban legends exist about the creature’s origins. One tale Domine explained said, “The goat man arose as a tale of a local farmer back in the day. Tortured a herd of goats for Satan and signed a contract with him and forfeited his soul. In the process he was converted into this terrible creature that was sent to live under the trestle seeking revenge on people!” Another popular legend Domine shared claims, “A circus train was crossing the trestle one day and it derailed and in one of the cars there was a kind of circus freak.” Whether it is a farmer who made a deal with the devil or a so-called circus freak seeking revenge, there is one thing everyone agrees on when sharing tales about The Goat Man, and that is what he looks like. Domine slowly describes the beast, “The legs are muscular and covered with course dark hair. He’s got the same dark hair on the parts of his body. His face is alabaster they say and he has horns as well.” The legends don’t just stop at his gruesome features but also focus on the methods he employs to claim his victims. Narratives claim he also has powers to draw you to your death by either hypnosis or voice mimicry. “The goat man supposedly is a very sly creature and he does all kinds of things to try and trick you into going up onto the trestle. He’s been known to mimic the voice of children who are calling for help,” stressed Domine. Once you climb on the tracks, there’s no way to escape death from an oncoming train. Domine removed the smirk from his face and gets serious as he explained, “It’s a very dangerous location. Many people think that this trestle is not used, but trains cross here every day.” There have been a number of deaths and accidents at the trestle since its construction all though signs tell thrill seekers to keep out! Domine continued, “In the late 80′s a movie was made by local film maker Rod Schildknecht. Other people have come out here and done documentaries. He’s appeared on several national networks in documentaries and programs about strange creatures and hauntings across the United States.” The legend of the Kentucky Bigfoot is alive and strong today but Domine stressed about this creature, “Kentucky Sasquatch that’s a whole other thing from the description from people who have seen him. It doesn’t sound like the same thing at all. The strange accounts still pour in to this day.” - Wave3 Haunted Kentucky: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Bluegrass State (Haunted Series)  Trucker Ghost Stories: And Other True Tales of Haunted Highways, Weird Encounters, and Legends of the Road  Goatman: Flesh or Folklore?  Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets   Click the 'Listen Live' link or go to Arcane Radio 'Listen & Chat' Follow 'Arcane Radio' on Facebook        |
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