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Just outside El Paso, Texas, a Bigfoot-like creature with red eyes has been prowling the area since the 1970’s. He was first seen in 1975 by three teenagers near the Horizon City golf course, and when the Sheriff’s Department investigated, only a footprint was found. They believed that the print had been manually dug, so felt that the whole encounter was a hoax or they had misidentified a long-haired hermit living in the mountains nearby. In 2001 and 2002, he was seen again by the same witness where she described it as 7 – 8 feet tall, with broad shoulders, an elongated head and a mouth that resembled a bull dog. It also had short faded brownish-maroon hair with glowing red eyes and small, pointy ears.

Most recently, in July 2021, a screaming howl was heard in McKelligon Canyon for several minutes by multiple people. It was something very different, very loud, almost like a thundering roar. It was quiet before the howls came back: one long one, followed by a few short ones. Then it was quiet again. Many believe that the Horizon City Monster had once again made his presence known.

Join us on episode 130 to hear more about this mysterious desert Bigfoot creature!

Sources:elpasotimes.com/story/news/history/blogs/tales-from-the-morgue/2010/01/13/horizon-citys-monster/31518771/, 943thepoint.com/horizon-city-monster/, paranormal-world.fandom.com/wiki/Hidden_Folk_in_Horizon_City, dailyadvent.com/news/4ca581a13c21fd9308aea33e48ab996c-El-Pasos-Bigfoot-Better-Look-Out-Its-Legal-To-Shoot-One-In-TX, sunstar-solutions.com/desertapes.htm, mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/08/mysterious-howls-in-el-paso-county-texas-blamed-on-the-horizon-city-monster/

The RMS Queen Mary was a large luxury British ocean liner that operated from 1936 to 1967, when she was retired and is now docked at Long Beach, California. Because of her size and speed, she served as a troop transport ship during World War II where she could transport an entire army division in one voyage. In 1942, she tragically sliced through an escort warship during an Atlantic crossing killing over 330 men, and was also responsible for prisoner of war transports. With the amount of trans-Atlantic crossings as this ship has done, and apparently the 49 recorded deaths here, including a crewman who was crushed by a watertight door, there may be as many as 150 spirits still lingering here.

This ship can be a drain on cell phone or camera batteries and people often feel dizzy, nauseous or have hot/cold flashes on board. There are drastic temp changes, slamming of doors and people have heard screaming or crying in many of the rooms. In stateroom B340, many guests have been woken from sleep by their bed sheets being ripped off the bed or by someone knocking on the door but no one is there. Many apparitions have been seen throughout the ship as well as one little girl spirit named Jackie who is often seen and heard in the pool area. 

Join us on episode 129 to hear about the hauntings of the RMS Queen Mary! 

Sources: Wikipedia, thetravel.com/visiting-the-haunted-queen-mary-ship-in-california/, travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/queen-mary, travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/festive-london-hotels-christmas-season, marineinsight.com/maritime-history/is-the-queen-mary-ship-really-haunted/, forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2018/04/14/the-queen-mary-opens-up-its-haunted-hotel-suite-for-an-overnight-ghostly-experience/?sh=2efe96f0575b, thewrap.com/jack-and-kelly-osbourne-queen-mary-video/queenmarycruises.net/queen-mary-ship-haunted/, queenmary.com/, mentalfloss.com/article/544591/facts-about-rms-queen-mary 

Just south of Mexico City you will find a small island, Isla de las Muñecas (also known as the Island of Dolls), where a young girl met her fate in mysterious circumstances and it is now the home to hundreds of terrifying dolls hanging from trees, many decomposing and missing limbs or even heads.  Don Julián Santana Barrera found a young girl who drowned on the shores of this island and hung up her doll as a sign of respect and to show her spirit support in the afterlife. He soon found that he was being haunted by her spirit so to protect himself he began to collect dolls that he could hang up all over the island. Fifty year later, and many dolls later, Don Julián was found dead by drowning in the same spot as that little girl so long ago. 

Today, the island is a tourist spot with heaps of spiders, feral cats, and thousands of dolls. Some swear that the dolls blink, move and turn their heads to watch visitors as they walk around the island, and some claim that they come alive at night and whisper to each other.  The current caretaker of the island, Don Julián’s nephew, says that at night you can hear girl spirits crying as well as hear his uncles’ cane thumping on the ground. And many believe that they have felt lured to come to the island to possibly get possessed by the spirits trapped on the island. 

Join us on episode 128 to hear more about this creepy and haunted island! 

Sources: isladelasmunecas.com, wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Dolls, nypost.com/2021/10/30/real-story-behind-haunted-island-of-the-dolls-in-mexico/, atlasobscura.com/places/la-isla-de-las-munecas, allthatsinteresting.com/island-of-the-dolls, thetravel.com/what-is-the-story-of-the-island-of-the-dolls/, theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/mexicos-nightmare-island-of-mutilated-dolls/ 

The town of Skagway, Alaska served as the “Gateway to the Klondike” and located within this town was the Red Onion Saloon, an exclusive brothel established in 1898 that served the 30,000 prospectors that came through the area seeking their fortune during the Klondike Gold Rush. Uniquely, dolls representing each of the workers would be placed at the bar, and customers would then choose by selecting a doll. It was only a brothel for two years before the gold rush waned there and a new rush popped up in Nome, Alaska. Throughout the years, the saloon housed various businesses including a dance hall, a pharmacy, a telegraph station, and army barracks during World War II. In 1980, the building was reopened as a saloon and restaurant, and the owner decorated with pictures of the girls who used to work there when it was a brothel as well as a brothel museum that operates upstairs.

One of the most recognizable and famous spirits at the Red Onion Saloon is that of Lydia, one of the former prostitutes of the brothel. People will encounter a strong smell of perfume that lingers in the air as well as extreme cold spots where the smell of perfume had originated, and many believe that it is her. She has been seen many times in full apparition wearing a long dark dress gliding down the staircase after dark. Another active ghost is thought to be the spirit of Diamond Lil, where she will make herself known to male guests by gently running her hands along their legs and whispering in their ears. There is also a malevolent male spirit here who doesn’t seem to be friendly towards anyone and some have seen the face of a male spirit in a mirror that is hanging in the Madam’s bedroom.

Join us on episode 127 to hear more about the Red Onion Saloon and the spirits that are still lingering here! 

Sources:redonion1898.com, atlasobscura.com, skagwayshoretours.com, pizzatoday.com/2012-october-conversation/, hauntedrooms.com/alaska/haunted-places/red-onion-saloon-skagway, hauntedjourneys.com/haunted-eateries/1281-red-onion-saloon, hauntedhouses.com/alaska/red-onion-saloon-and-brothel-museum/

The Lincoln Park Zoo is a 35-acre zoo located in Chicago, IL that was founded in 1868 on the same spot as where a cemetery had been located. This cemetery once held the remains of 35,000 people and when the cemetery closed, they moved most of the bodies to another location, but experts believe that there could be around 12,000 bodies that remain there. Throughout the years, several bodies have been exhumed during different construction projects, with some getting put back in the ground where they were found. Because bodies have been left here and buildings built over top of them, the zoo has become a haunted hot spot.

People have witnessed flickering lights and had doors slam on them. Various EVP’s have been captured here, including the voice of the zoo director even though he is still very much alive. There is a floating pocket of negative energy that makes people physically sick that moves throughout the park, and several full body apparitions have been seen in Victorian period clothing. There are some that believe that the paranormal activity in the park isn’t just related to dead bodies still in the ground under the zoo. There used to be a bridge going across the lagoon right next to the zoo that was dubbed the “suicide bridge” due to hundreds of people killing themselves there.

Join us on episode 126 to hear about the very haunted Lincoln Park Zoo!

Sources: wikipedia, illinoishauntedhouses.com, lpzoo.org, wgntv.com, 1035kissfm.iheart.com, wbez.org, karlasullivandotcom.wordpress.com, theresashauntedhistoryofthetri-state.blogspot.com/, mysteriousuniverse.org, terrordaves.com

We talk with John Olsen about his new book Beyond Stranger US. Beyond Stranger U.S is book 5 in the Stranger Bridgerland book series. Beyond Stranger U.S continues the journey into the realm of the paranormal with true first-hand accounts of Ghosts, Cryptids, UFO.s, Bigfoot, Glitches in the Matrix and more. Author John Olsen has interviewed people from across the United States, Mexico, and Canada to bring you these tales of the unknown.

The book:
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Stranger-U-S-Paranormal-Bridgerland/dp/B09CRNHSD8

More about John Olsen:
https://www.strangerbridgerland.com

Followers of the Black Knight Theory believe that there is a spacecraft or satellite of extraterrestrial origin that has been in orbit near Earth for 13,000 years and that NASA and several governments are covering it up. The theory itself has been taken from several different unrelated events and compiled into one idea. In 1899, Nikola Tesla received electrical signals which he interpreted as a series of numeric codes that were sent from Mars, and in 1927, Norwegian engineer Jorgen Hals also encountered a weird sound anomaly which led many theorists to believe that aliens were trying to get our attention. Coupled with the sound oddities, there was the belief that the government was trying to conceal the truth about aliens and their existence.

Then in 1973, science fiction writer Duncan Lunan came up with a theory that took all these events and merged them into what is the current Black Knight Satellite Theory. He claimed that there is a 13,000 year old UFO orbiting the Earth and that he has decoded the signals from it in which it is from an alien race on a double star named Epsilon Bootis. The theory has found new life with the discovery of a photo taken during a mission to the International Space Station in 1998 of a black object floating in space.

Is there an extraterrestrial space probe in our orbit? Join us on episode 125 to hear more!

Sources: Wikipedia, space.com, allthatsinteresting.com, express.co.uk, iflscience.com, dailymail.com.uk

The House of Death has a very beautiful and charming exterior, but on the inside of this brownstone home in Greenwich Village, it is riddled with spirits that apparently will not leave. Since its construction in the 1850s, twenty-two people have reportedly died in this home. There have been several notable residents that have lived here, including Mark Twain who evidently is one of the spirits seen here in a white suit near the staircase. When Jan Bryant Bartell lived here in 1957, she witnessed and felt some of the psychic phenomenon, and invited a medium and paranormal investigator into the home to find out what was still residing there. The medium felt that there was something or many things dead under the floorboards and became possessed by the spirit of one of the entities that told them they were never going to leave. 

The paranormal experiences of the House of Death have apparently spread to neighboring houses on the street. Many have seen flickering lights and witnessed a woman in a long gown roaming down hallways as well as a disappearing gray cat. But ever since a grisly murder of a young girl occurred in the house in 1987, the paranormal activity has quieted down leading many to believe that perhaps the horrible act was just too much for the spirits to handle.

Join us on episode 124 to hear more about the House of Death!

Sources: 6sqft.com, nyghosts.com, boroughsofthedead.com, themorbidlibrary.com, portablenycblog.com, nypost.com 

The Devil’s Tramping Grounds, one of the most haunted spots in North Carolina, is a spot of barren land in a forty foot perfect circle located in a forest near Harper’s Crossroads. Local legend alleges that the Devil “tramps” and haunts this circle of ground in which nothing is supposed to grow. If someone places sticks or other obstacles in the path at dusk, it will be found outside the circle in the morning, regardless of the weight of the object. Animals won’t cross this area, and people have witnessed red glowing eyes in the circle as well as the area outside it. 

The Devil’s pacing in the circle is the most notable explanation, but others have suggested that a UFO landed there, that it is an ancient meeting place for Native Americans, as well as a possible link to Croatoan and the Lost Colonists. Soil studies have been done to see if there is a more scientific reason for nothing growing there, but the results showed that plants could actually survive there. 

Why does nothing grow in this forty foot path? Join us on episode 123 to hear more about this unexplainable piece of land!

Sources: Wikipedia.com, ncpedia.org, atlasobscura.com, northcarolinaghosts.com/, science.unctv.org, wral.com, onlyinyourstate.com, Greensboro.com, amusingplanet.com 

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, located near Princeton, West Virginia, is an old run-down amusement park that was plagued with violent deaths, freak accidents and happened to be built on an ancient Native American burial ground. In the late 1700s, the Clay family settled the area but had a turf war with a local tribe which resulted in the deaths of three of his children and many tribesmen. Over 100 years later the land was purchased and turned into an amusement park by Conley Snidow where he hoped the families of nearby coal miners could enjoy the outdoors. He built a Ferris wheel, a swing ride, a pond and swimming hole, but after six deaths he had to close the park. In the 1980s, Gaylord White tried to bring the park back to its former glory, but after his construction crews began digging, they found a mass grave and Native American artifacts. Any hopes of rebuilding it was shut down.

Many feel a strange energy there and report a feeling of being watched or followed. Some have heard children laughing as well as seen full-body apparitions of children running through the park. Mysterious chanting and drum beats have been heard, and many have seen the apparitions of Native Americans in the darkness. Some have smelled concession food and seen glowing orbs throughout the grounds. The swings, the most haunted spot in the park, tend to move on their own and many have witnessed a little girl in a bloody dress who died there many years before in a horrific accident.

Joins us on episode 122 to hear more about this haunted amusement park!

Sources: visitmercercounty.com, nydailynews.com, atlasobscura.com, roadunraveled.com, theculturetrip.com, visitwv.com, theconstantrambler.com, medium.com, ranker.com, mysteriousuniverse.org