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Title: Monsters among us : an exploration of otherworldly bigfoots, wolfmen, portals, phantoms, and odd phenomena / by Linda S. Godfrey. Description: New York, New York : TarcherPerigee, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2016023527 (print) | LCCN 2016031632 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399176241 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781101992425 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Monsters. | Occultism. Classification: LCC GR825.G5645 2016 (print) | LCC GR825 (ebook) | DDC 001.944—dc23 While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers, Internet addresses, and other contact information at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party Web sites or their content. Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. Cover Design: Ervin Serrano Cover Images: (Texture) Dip/Shutterstock; (Tear) Focal Point/Shutterstock; (Eye) Dangdumrong/Shutterstock; (Claw) Dirk Wegman/Shutterstock Version_1 For the amazing women of the “Starting Chemo January 2007” group, who are still a godsend and my mainstay. Acknowledgments As always, my gratitude for the team effort required to create this book. First and foremost on my “to thank” list are the people who have experienced daunting encounters and then bravely shared them. There would be nothing to examine and investigate without their reports. Next are my dynamic agent, Jim McCarthy; my amazing editor, Andrew Yackira; and a raft of knowledgeable colleagues: Rob Riggs, Tom Burnette, Lon Strickler, Mary Sutherland, Jim Sherman, Christian Page, Nick Redfern, Dave Scott, Noah Voss, Bart Nunnelly, M.K. Davis, Preston Dennett, and all the others whose quotes support and enrich this work. Extra thanks to friend and fellow field investigator Sanjay R. Singhal and special kudos to my husband, Steve, for all the things he does that make it possible for me to do what I do. I’d like to also thank the unknown creatures, but I’m afraid to. Instead I’ll just leave a big, juicy apple next time I’m in a Bigfoot woods. First come, first served. Disclaimer WARNING! This book contains eyewitness accounts and historic examples of creatures and entities not yet proven to exist, doing things that should be impossible for any earthly animal. It also discusses phenomena, theories, and ideas that may have some basis in science but are most likely untestable. It includes reports from many intelligent, sober, and credible people who say they’ve observed or experienced creatures that change form, communicate, appear and disappear, cloak themselves in mists and more. The word “portal” may surface now and again. This book takes the view that such accounts, especially when they display a repetitive pattern over time and widespread locations, deserve to be examined for whatever they may tell us about our own world and about the creatures that seem to come from elsewhere. If you do not believe such topics should be spoken of out loud or even privately considered, much less written down and discussed in print, THIS IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU! If you choose to read it anyway, please remember that you entered this portal of your own free will. Return passage is not guaranteed. Contents Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Disclaimer Introduction Prelude: The Case for Consideration—A Para-Creature Sampler: Skinwalker Ranch 1 WORLDS BELOW : Things from Way Down Under CHAPTER ONE Hellmouths and Other Gates to the Underworld—The Gates of Mashu —Contemporary Hellmouths—The Phantom Wolf of Wolfsegg—The Wolfsegg Hole : Liminal Los Angeles CHAPTER TWO The Torrance Werewolf—The VIP Werewolf of Orange—LA’s Leapin’ Lycan—LA’s Tunnel Labyrinth—The Lost Lizard People of LA 2 NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST : They Walk Among Us CHAPTER THREE A Dog’s Head on a Human Body—Michigan Dog at the Door—The New York Hoodie Wolf—The Checkered Shirt : The Church Lady Monster CHAPTER FOUR Where Did It Come From?—Visions and Apparitions—Fata Morgana, Sexual Repression, and Demons : Ch-Ch-Changes CHAPTER FIVE South American Werecreatures—The Animal-like Double—Spirit Bigfoot —Our Guardian Alter Egos 3 THINGS THAT MAKE HOUSE CALLS : Inner Space Invasions CHAPTER SIX The Heady Stuff of Human Consciousness—Deep Psi : Unwanted Bedroom Guests CHAPTER SEVEN The Smell of Sulfur—Basement Shadow Beast—Redfern’s Reality Check : Speak, Rover, Speak! CHAPTER EIGHT All Greek to Me—Totally Sirius: UFO, the Dog Star, and a Dogman : Shadow Wolves CHAPTER NINE Anubis in Addison—Anubis the Archetype—Louisiana Shadow Doggy —California Bad Dreaming : Hag Riders and Other Uninvited Visitors CHAPTER TEN Night Spirits of the Hmong—A Few More Uninvited Overnighters—Owning Up to My Own Visitors : Jeepers, Creature Peepers CHAPTER ELEVEN Ontario Window Wolf—The Calgary Creature—Lights and Solar Flares —Native American Views of Prowling Creatures—Canines and Upright Posture—Michigan Stalker Wolf—The Southern Illinois Watcher : Roadies CHAPTER TWELVE California Car Jumper—Indiana Car Caresser—Illinois Car Charger—The Oconto Bearwolf—The Michigan Mentalist 4 CREATURES OF SHADOWS, MISTS, AND LIGHTS : The Neillsville Nexus CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Neillsville Nexus—Black-Furred Humanoid in the Yard—A Light That Casts a Shadow—Kangaroos and Poltergeists—The Cinnamon Bigfoot —Bigfoot in a Multifaceted Native View—Into the Shadows—Stick Structures and Branch Assemblies—Lights and Portals : The Brunswick Wolf Shadow CHAPTER FOURTEEN Feeling of Pure Evil—It’s All Happening at the Zoo : Beasts of Bong CHAPTER FIFTEEN Scrawny Sprinter—Marsh Marcher—Vanished into the Oaks—Honey Lake Track Creature—Black Cats and UFOs—Fire Ships and Ancient Mounds : Green Mists and Sentient Atmospheres CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Green Haze—Michigan’s Green Glow—The Aveley Mist—The Green Flash—Swamp Gas and Great Balls O’Lightning—Spook Lights of Michigan and North Carolina—Baffling Brown Mountain : The Oz Factor CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Zones of Influence—The Zone of Fear—Locked in Dread—Good Entity, Bad Entity : Mist-erious Creatures CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Willies of the Field—Paw Prints from Nowhere—Play Misty for Me —Cloaked in Suspicion: Camouflage and Virtual Invisibility—The Hartland Hairy Thing—Trail Cam Anomalies—“Make It Go Away”—The Mists of Time: Common Origin?—Topanga Canyon Sheep Mist—Pennsylvania Glow-Stick Dogman 5 OUT OF THIN AIR—CREATURES, UFOS, AND PORTALS : The Multiple Modes of UFOs CHAPTER NINETEEN : Lights, Crafts, and Chickens CHAPTER TWENTY The Roachdale Chicken Rustler—The Dundee Disk—Craft over Canada - : Bigfoot in Chicago CHAPTER TWENTY ONE Living with Monstrous Memories—UFOs over Chicago—The Wall of Silence—The Invisibility Question—Why No Attacks?—Winkin’ and Blinkin’—Twice Blessed - : The Invisibles CHAPTER TWENTY TWO North Carolina’s Unseen Tracker—Military Vanishing Acts—Tennessee Clumsy Bigfoot—No-See-’Em Tennessee Mountain Monster - : When Worlds Collide CHAPTER TWENTY THREE Land Spirits and Fairy Paths - : Possibly Portals CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR Kentucky Sky Castle—Problems with Portals—Portals of the Ancients and Gateways to Heaven—Elijah’s Whirlwind—Ezekiel’s Creatures in the Cloud —St. Cuthbert’s Vision - : Search for a Wisconsin Portal CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE Back to Smith’s Field—The Orange Light Structure—The Black Mist and the UFO—The Natural-Born Killers—The Curious Sphere - : Physics and the Otherworld CHAPTER TWENTY SIX Notes
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