Phantoms and Monsters

The following anecdotes were selected from emails I have received recently. Please send your experiences to Phantoms and Monsters.
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Several years ago, I used to walk to the Fashion Valley Shopping Center during my break from the Union Tribune newspaper. One morning, while walking in the shopping center, I noticed a short man, maybe no more than 4'11" walking with 2 men, maybe 6' tall or more. The short man was walking between the two tall men. The 3 were wearing very neatly pressed blue work clothes with caps. The short one had a big head, and odd development around the upper eye bones. Each man on either side 'escorting' the short man was a very clean cut, healthy, attractive black and white man. For some weird reason, I mentally told him welcome. I don't understand why I didn't walk up closer to the 3 men but did walk by them and they were no more than 6' away. I always remembered this experience though everyone thinks I'm nuts. I got the impression that the 2 men were showing the short man some of human civilization in a relatively safe environment.

Lai Quon-Oyama
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I've always believed in and been interested in the paranormal. I live in Southwestern Pennsylvania and have been a firefighter for over five years.

We have a ghost in our fire department. It's an old member who died many years ago and many of our members, myself included, have had experiences with "Uncle Al" as we call him. There have been many times where someone has experienced sounds, noises and just odd feelings while being in the fire department. We have had a game room added onto our department after our member had already died, so he cannot pass into the new room, but you can feel his presence in the doorway.

One of the most memorable experiences I have had with Uncle Al was one day when I was in the engine bay office with 2 members, Ken and myself (this has occurred before when I was alone). We could hear chairs being knocked off of the tables in our social hall. We went upstairs to investigate, and all the chairs looked like they were pushed off the tables.

Ken and I went back downstairs and left everything as is and not long later (maybe 10 mins) we hear the chairs moving again. We went back upstairs and all the chairs were set back up onto the tables. I am not making this up.

Another experience with Uncle Al occurred when I was standing in the bathroom, which is in the social hall (the part where Al can roam around). It was about midnight and I looked out the window at least 5 mins previous and noticed no members cars except mine were in the lot. Soon, I heard someone calling my name. The sounds were coming from the doorway to the stairwell. I can also hear people walking around in the bays again and people stepping on the grates on the floor. I went downstairs to investigate, looking out the window again...no cars in the lot. I go to the door to the engine bays and see that the lights were off. There is always the sense of being watched by Uncle Al, be it one person, or 10 people in the fire house...you can always feel a presence of someone or something watching you.
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Back in 1966, over Lake Michigan, Michigan City, Indiana, I witnessed a UFO. Clear sunny afternoon, near the shore, 1/2 mile away from me, about 100 feet high, dimensions of about 3 football fields wide by 60-80 ft. No noise, just stationary in mid air.

I watched for about 20 minutes, then it disappeared. I was also visited by 2 strange men after that. Since I was almost 13 years old, that is all I can remember

Gloria Douglas
Lebanon, MO

NOTE: you can read our posting on The Lake Michigan Triangle...Lon
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For the record, I wish to report that in the summer of 1950, I had a close encounter with a UFO, which lasted for at least 20 minutes. After a short time, I mentally asked to go for a ride. I would have been about 4 and a half years old at the time, so I had not yet learned to be afraid of such an object. When I got a mental reply, "No. Not now. Not yet." I got angry, and proceeded to shoot, with my single shot cap gun, 3 rolls of caps at it!!! Well, a few minutes later it, after moving silently, to the West, then moved East behind the trees again, I lost sight of it.

Over twenty years later, as a young adult, I saw both a photo and on television a short film of the UFO in which the late George Adamski claimed he had met a visitor from Venus. This I thought was interesting, because as I am a Libran sun sign, and am ruled by the planet Venus, that was a strange coincidence. All I can say, with certainly, is I had this strange, but fascinating experience. Sincerely, Fred E Schollars, Kansas City, MO.

NOTE: you can read about George Adamski here...Lon
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Hello my name is Chris Bledsoe I had an experience In Fayetteville N.C. on the Cape Fear River.

There was a show on the Discovery Channel called UFOs Over Earth: The Fayetteville Incident. The spiked craft looks very much like what I saw hovering just 10 feet over the ground in front of my truck less than 300 feet away. It was laying on its side the spikes were vertical and it was glowing very bright white and the spikes were also rotating.
The spikes are not new...I have seen them and up close. "There is nothing impossible with UFOs".
I think this video is real.
Thank You
Chris

NOTE: this was sent in response to our posting about Chris' and his father's claim at Videos: MUFON Investigation - UFOs / Lost Time - Cape Fear River, NC ...Lon
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