Category Archives: folkore

From Beachcombing’s Bizarre History Blog: ‘Baby-eating eagles’

Beachcombing discusses the legend of giant birds, eagles, Thunderbirds, and so on, and their baby snatching ways. He begins thusly: When Beachcombing first came to Italy, many years ago, he spent a summer in a room with an enormous wardrobe … Continue reading

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Why Was Mothman Watchman Sent To The Crazy House?

I wondered that myself while watching that movie. An excellent movie, in my opinion by the way… Question asked on Yahoo Answers: Why was the Mothman Watcher sent to the asylym? Beware; for some reason the link doesn’t work, or … Continue reading

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Mechanical Voices, Aliens and Mothman: Shared Source?

From the blog Strange Planet, a fascinating post about the author’s experiences involving mechanical voices, where he describes hearing at 3:00 a.m. (a time noted for being a kind of UFO/paranormal, magical time, as he notes) a very strange sound … Continue reading

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Taken Up By An Eagle

As I’ve commented in the previous post, I’ve been working on exploring memories and dreams, trying to get closer to what “really” happened with these experiences. Missing time, UFOs, and other high strangeness; what is behind these events? For example: … Continue reading

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Demons, lambs, and batsquatch in Oregon

I’ve recently received several e-mails from someone in my area (Lane County, western Oregon) whose friend saw a “batsquatch” on his rural property about ten miles from where I live. However, my intuition tells me the story isn’t reliable. And, … Continue reading

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Carny on the Sci-Fi Channel

Not Mothman, but a winged creature or “monster” — this one being The Jersey Devil. Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, the movie had a ripping good monster. That, and Phillips, only two reasons to see the movie. I was disappointed; seemed … Continue reading

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Paratopia

The fifth episode of Paratopia is now available. Hosts Jeremy Vaeni and Jeff Ritzmann interview me here. I spent an hour or more babbling, fresh home from a long day at work, and right to the phone. That’s my excuse, … Continue reading

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Mothman, Puppet Wolves and the Nunahee

Inspired by a childhood experience Andrew Colvin comments on in Mothman Photographer III, I wrote this: Mothman, Puppet Wolves and the Nunahee, for UFO Digest.

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Thunderbird Disney Drawing

I found this image in a couple of places on-line, including the Coast to Coast site, where a listener had sent in this info about the illustration: Cleveland Press (a now defunct newspaper) printed back in late 1950′s. This was … Continue reading

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e-book world

I’ve been having fun, and just seeing where this takes me, playing in e-book world. You can download, for free, an e-book of UFO-Mary. Also available is McMinnville, Oregon UFO: Festivals and Hoaxes. Visit my e-book storefront on Lulu.com for … Continue reading

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