Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

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• Dead Workman's Apparition
• Daily 2 Cents: 9/11 15th Anniversary -- 1000's of Witches Imprisoned -- Blast From The Past...NASA Beauty Pageants
• 'Hat Man' on the Elevator

Dead Workman's Apparition Posted: 09 Sep 2016 09:20 AM PDT The following article was published in the Wilkes-Barre News on August 26, 1902: Laborer at Baldwin's Fainted on Beholding Apparition of Workman Who Had Been Killed Philadelphia, Aug. 25-- In the glare of a furnace at the Baldwin Locomotive works, James McGlone, a laborer, declares he saw a ghost at 3 o'clock this morning. According to McGlone, the apparition was that of a man who had been killed at the works several days ago. McGlone and a score of other men were busy in the machine shop this morning when the spirit is said to have appeared. The men had been working all night and were eager to finish up their tasks before the day shift came to work. No one worked harder than McGlone, who is noted for his strength and endurance. "Where's the big monkey wrench?'' It was the foreman of a gang of men who spoke, and McGlone went behind some big engine boilers to get the tool. Back of the boilers were the furnaces, their tongues of fire leaping out over the iron bars and plates that were lying upon the floor. Above the roar of the furnaces the workmen suddenly heard a loud cry. Thinking that McGlone had met with some terrible accident, they ran behind the boilers. Stretched at full length upon the floor was the man who had only a few moments before had been the personification of strength and activity. As the workmen bent over McGlone he half raised himself and, pointing towards one of the furnaces yelled out: "Oh, Tom! Tom!" With a gasp he fell into a dead faint. Not knowing what to make of McGlone's strange behavior, the other employees summoned a patrol wagon and sent him to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital. At the hospital it required a half-hour's hard work to restore the man to consciousness. When McGlone opened his eyes he told a strange story to Dr. Widmeyer and the other physicians. He says that when he went behind the boilers to get the wrench he felt a strange sensation come over him-- a sensation that he could never find words to explain. It seemed as if someone was standing near him. In the search for the monkey wrench McGlone suddenly turned towards one of the furnaces, only to behold a sight that he says froze the blood in his veins. In the glare that came from the half open door stood a man who had been instantly killed some time ago. "He just stood there at looked at me with an awful, sad faraway look in his eyes," the iron worker declared to the physicians. McGlone says that the spectacle was too much for him, and that he fell to the floor and his his face in his hands. "I feel ten years older today than I did yesterday," the man continued. The doctors at the hospital do not know what to make of McGlone's story. The man was not drinking and is sincere in his belief that he saw a ghost. When he recovers from the shock that he received he will be taken to his home at Cleveland and Susquehanna avenues. As to what was actually witnessed, I leave to you for your own conclusions. Lon 50 Real American Ghost Stories: A journey into the haunted history of the United States - 1800 to 1899 The Big Book of Ghost Stories Pennsylvania Ghost Towns: Uncovering the Hidden Past Supernatural Lore of Pennsylvania:: Ghosts, Monsters and Miracles (American Legends) SUPPORT 'PHANTOMS & MONSTERS' - DONATIONS ARE APPRECIATED

Daily 2 Cents: 9/11 15th Anniversary -- 1000's of Witches Imprisoned -- Blast From The Past...NASA Beauty Pageants Posted: 09 Sep 2016 08:47 AM PDT NEVER FORGET ********** 1976: The Shuttle Enterprise, about to embark on a continuing mission to test in-atmosphere flight, and never quite get into space. The Shuttle Enterprise's rollout ceremony with most of the main cast from Star Trek was neither the first or last collaboration between NASA and Star Trek. The Shuttle Enterprise earned its name partly due to a fan write-in campaign, an impressive feat in the dates before the internet made coordination simpler. The prototype shuttle served as a full-scale flight-test vehicle on how to use winged craft for spaceflight. Built without functional engines or a heat shield, the Shuttle Enterprise never went into orbit. Instead, it was the first craft in the Approach and Landing Test program, and was essential for development of the reusable shuttle program. The Shuttle Enterprise was carried high into the atmosphere by a modified Boeing 747 (the creatively-named Shuttle Carrier Aircraft). Once the Shuttle Enterprise was released, the vehicles would drift apart, taking about 1.5 seconds for the shuttle to lift and the 747 to descend. This is when the real test portion of the flights began, checking out the shuttle's aerodynamic flight control systems and subsonic handling characteristic during the free flight (without main engines, it was more of a controlled free-fall) back to Earth. ********** Blast From The Past...NASA Beauty Pageants From the 1950s to the 1970s, several NASA installations started the tradition of hosting beauty pageants and crowning space queens. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Lewis Space Center (later known as the Glenn Research Center), and the Johnson Space Center each respectively held “Miss Guided Missile” (later “Queen of Outer Space”), “Miss NASA,” and “Lunar Landing Festival Queen.” The contestants were female employees of NASA. Although the winners of these contests were smiling and posing in photographs, many women did not approve of the pageants. In fact, their disapproval was so strong that during the Lunar Landing Festival Queen contest, a group of feminists swapped the ordinary ballot with a mock ballot, which listed 45 male NASA workers who could be voted as the “King of the court” or the “Boy of the court.” The men were shocked, security was called, and all the ballots were collected. However, mock ballot results, which portrayed caricatures of the male winners, were distributed by the zealous feminists overnight, deeply upsetting all but one male NASA worker. Other NASA installations had already ended these space beauty pageants, and shortly after this incident, the Johnson Space Center also put an end to their annual Lunar Landing Festival Queen celebration. ********** 1000's of Witches Imprisoned Hundreds of women are living in poor conditions in the five camps in the north of the country after being accused of dabbling in the occult by superstitious neighbours and even their own families. Now the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, is calling for the camps to be closed. He told a meeting in Ghana last month, “Personally, I believe in the 21st Century, it’s time to say there is no such thing as a witch and to decry the practice of using such a term to dehumanise vulnerable women.” He added that the witch camps — each one holding around 800 women and up to 500 children — were “a form of human right abuse and must be kicked against by all and sundry so as to create a safe environment for development”. One camp was closed down in 2014 with the help of a British charity, ActionAid, but there is resistance to closing the rest from both villagers who still fear the “witches” in their midst will harm them and the authorities who worry that women sent back to their communities will suffer violence or even death. Read more at THOUSANDS of ‘witches’ imprisoned for years in huge witchcraft prison camps in Ghana ********** TODAY'S TOP LINKS The Sandy Hook Hoax - Lenny Pozner used to believe in conspiracy theories...until his son’s death became one Black Magic: Desperate Venezuelans turn to ritual slaughter to save sick relatives as failing economy leaves hospitals with empty shelves and no medicine Pondering Miracles, Medical and Religious Phantom Clowns: The Politics of Trump Apocalypse Meow: How a Cult That Believes Cats Are Divine Beings Ended Up in Tennessee Wood Knocks Volume 1: A Journal of Sasquatch Research and Leprechan Press Astonishing Encounters: Pennsylvania's Unknown Creatures, Casebook 3 Encounters with Flying Humanoids: Mothman, Manbirds, Gargoyles & Other Winged Beasts Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah SUPPORT 'PHANTOMS & MONSTERS' - DONATIONS ARE APPRECIATED

'Hat Man' on the Elevator Posted: 09 Sep 2016 07:45 AM PDT Erik in Robbinsdale, Minnesota called in to tell of his 'Hat Man' experience: “I had a 'Hat Man' experience in downtown Minneapolis. It's probably early June, maybe the end of May of this year. I leave work in the evening, usually around 7:30. You know, full daylight. There was a... I can say it, it was the Leamington Parking ramp, you know, 3rd and 10th. I went into the lobby. I got on the elevator. I was the only person in the lobby at that hour and the elevator doors closed and then it was like they were interrupted like somebody was trying to get in with me. I stopped it and I looked around there was absolutely nobody there. I had a perfect view of the buttons and nobody is around. And all of a sudden this head and shoulders leans in around the corner, with a hat – just shadow – it looked at me and it was like perfectly eye-level. And then it leaned back out and then it was gone. Then the doors closed and I was standing there thinking, what just happened. (Dave asked if he made a sound.) None. (He then asked about details). Nothing. It was just a shadow. And I started looking into it. I read a few of these stories to see if this happens during the daylight in downtown Minneapolis and I happened upon Lon Strickler's site, Phantoms and Monsters and there was a... He had like a... it was just a graphic but it was like an image of a shadow person with a hat that looked exactly like the one that I saw.” Source: Darkness Radio - August 22, 2016 Transcribed by Jamie Brian The Hat Men: Shadow People & Men in Black Shadow People Shadow People: A Journal of the Paranormal Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us Click the 'Listen Live' link...then click the chat balloon icon Follow 'Arcane Radio' on Facebook This newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Hotlinking of P&M Network images and copyrighted material is strictly forbidden unless permission is obtained. 'Phantoms and Monsters' and 'phantomsandmonsters.com' is protected under the Lanham (Trademark) Act (Title 15, Chapter 22 of the United States Code) 'Phantoms and Monsters' was establish in September 2005 as part of the Phantoms and Monsters Network © 2005-2016 Phantoms and Monsters / PM Network - All Rights Reserved SUPPORT 'PHANTOMS & MONSTERS' - DONATIONS ARE APPRECIATED