Mothman on the Telephone: Collected bloggings of beeping

creatures and electronic high strangeness

by Regan Lee

Introduction

This is a sampling of various blog postings and articles I’ve written about

Mothman and Bigfoot -- specifically, the beeping, electronic sounds sometimes

reported to emanate from these creatures. It’s a “high strangeness” feature of

Fortean and crypto phenomena that I find fascinating.

I have not personally encountered Sasquatch or Mothman, but find myself

particularly drawn to them. I know several people personally who have seen Bigfoot,

and have no reason to disbelieve them. I choose to believe them, why not? I know

them, I trust them. Many of the witnesses I’ve spoken to have years of experience

camping, hunting, or living in rural areas. They know the wildlife, they know what

they’re talking about. I doubt very much they mistook a bear or an elk for a Bigfoot.

Seeing such a creature had a profound effect on them. I also think the evidence is

strong, supporting the idea Sasquatch exists. So, those two things combined: eye

witness accounts and physical evidence, gives me enough information to accept its

existence. And if it’s somehow proven to not exist? Really, “oh well.” Seriously. “Oh

well.” No harm done. Yet of course, how can we discount all those reports, all those

encounters, all those casts and other evidence, all that lore? You can’t, as they say,

prove a negative. Something has been experienced by witnesses, something defying

explanation. Unless, of course, the explanation is: people have seen exactly what they

say they saw.

As to Mothman, that’s a slightly different situation. I’ve never encountered a

Mothman, or even been to West Virginia. (Although my grandfather, stunt man, actor,

carny, con man, shooter, cowboy, and hoofer, was born in West Virginia. A Fortean

trickster legacy for sure.) Yet something tugs at me regarding Mothman, and I’m not

sure why or what that is. I’ve been intrigued by the Mothman story since the 1970s,

when I first read John A. Keel’s book The Mothman Prophecies. I’ve watched

countless television programs about Mothman and its witnesses, and, after reading

the works of researchers such as Andrew Colvin, I am convinced something truly

strange has occurred in Pt. Pleasant. And, being a conspiracy fan, following that path

to the rabbit hole before tumbling down into its crazy twisting depths, has left no doubt

in my mind that the Mothman exists.

For the most part, these blog posts and articles appear here as they originally

appeared. Minor edits here and there have been made. Images are not included due

to Kindle’s limitations, but I’ve included links where those can be found.

Regan LeeWillamette ValleyJanuary 2012

It’s 3:00 a.m. - Time for Mechanical Sounds

From the blog Strange Planet, (dead link) 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.

“Approximately two months ago, I awoke in the middle of the night, roughly

within the magical 3 am hour (That in itself is worthy of more study, as it always

seems to be at that particular hour. But I won’t veer off course here). What I

began to hear, was in fact, as best I can describe, the sound of a LARGE

‘mechanical and metallic’ bird(?) outside of my window. I was stunned by this

sound, but not afraid. I didn’t even feel the urge to look, to be honest. I just paid

attention to the sound itself. It was fascinating. For the better part of ten

minutes, it would ‘squawk’ several times, take a break for about 30 seconds,

then resume the vocalization. I heard it that one night, and never again. If I were

to match the scope and size of this ‘bird’ with the size of the sound, this thing

would’ve been 8 ft. tall. Better I not look after all. “

He goes on to write about synchronicity; contacts with others experiencing

similar things, and some of what he’s discovered via research, past experiences, and

the movie The Fourth Kind.

What struck me as interesting was the immediate “mothy” vibe I got from

reading this account. Even though there is no mention of Mothman or indication of any

Mothman phenomena, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Mothman. There is the bird

like imagery of this encounter of course, but I thought of the electronic voices Keel

described in The Mothman Prophecies.

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Ed Walters, author of The Gulf Breeze Sightings, described hearing weird electronic

or metallic voices outside his bedroom windows at night in connection with his UFO

experiences.

I was also reminded of Greg Taylor’s article Her Sweet Murmur, in DarkLore

volume 1, which explores the rushing, roaring, bell clanging/chiming sounds many

(including myself) experience during esoteric events. These episodes appear diverse

and often unconnected from each other; UFOs, BVM (Blessed Virgin Mary)

appearances, Mothman, Bigfoot or other crypto sightings, aliens, OOBEs, etc. but,

Taylor asks, is there a common source from where these entities emerge? These

strange sounds of clicking, clacking, singing, bells and the like are shared by fringe

phenomena; possibly pointing to the idea they are related. UFOs, aliens, abductions,

contactees, Bigfoot weirdness, BVM sightings, MIBS, fairies, maybe they are

kaleidoscopic manifestations of the same thing.

As far as Mothman goes, Mothman wasn’t, or isn’t, an isolated and specific

event. There’s a whole high strangeness context enveloping Mothman: UFOs, MIBS,

telepathic messages, OOBEs, electronic voices, premonitions, heavy dreams laden

with messages and communications, curses and legends, synchronicities and a

thread of violence that trails Mothman. This is not to say Mothman itself is violent, or

responsible for the aura of violence connected with the phenomena, but a response

to it.

~ dec 7, 2009

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D r e a m : C a l l i n g f o r M o t h m a n

F u n n y o d d s n i p p e t o f a d r e a m l a s t n i g h t i n v o l v i n g t e l e p h o n e s ,

b r o a d c a s t s a n d M o t h m a n . N o t m u c h a t a l l t o r e l a t e . D r e a m t t h e p h o n e k e

p t r i n g i n g , w h i c h i r r i t a t e d m e . A n d e a c h t i m e I g o t u p t o a n s w e r i t , I c o u l d

n t h e a r m u c h m o r e t h a n s t a t i c , w h i t e n o i s e . T h r o u g h t h e b u z z i n g , c r a c k l i

n g n o i s e I h e a r d , f a i n t l y a n d b r e a k i n g u p , h u m a n v o i c e s . S o m e t i m e s a w

o m a n s v o i c e , s o m e t i m e s a m a n s . T h e y w e r e t r y i n g t o l e a v e m e a m e s s

a g e , b u t t h e n u m b e r s a p p e a r i n g o n t h e c a l l e r I D s c r e e n w e r e n t a n y t h a t I

r e c o g n i z e d . I k e p t t r y i n g t o t e l l t h e m t h e y h a d t h e w r o n g n u m b e r , I w a s n t

w h o t h e y w e r e l o o k i n g f o r . T h e y , o r I , w o u l d h a n g u p , o n l y t o h a v e t h e m c

a l l a g a i n .

W h a t c a m e t h r o u g h f r o m m a i n l y t h e w o m a n s v o i c e , w a s t h a t t h e y w

e r e l o o k i n g f o r s o m e o n e n a m e d C h a r n i e o r C h a r n y ( c h a r - k n e e ) a n d t h

a t I w a s h e r , o r , i t , o r , h i m . N o t s u r e . A n d , t h i s a l l h a d s o m e t h i n g t o d o w i t

h M o t h m a n . T h e y s e e m e d t o t h i n k I k n e w t h i n g s a b o u t Mothman and that I was

k e e p i n g i t f r o m t h e m a n d , t h a t I w a s t h i s C h a r n i e p e r s o n .

A t t h a t p o i n t I g e t v e r y a n n o y e d . I t e l l them I a m n o t C h a r n i e ,

w h o e v e r t h e h e l l t h a t i s , a n d t h a t , e v e n i f I d i d k n o w t h i n g s a b o u t Mothman

w h y s h o u l d I t e l l t h e m -- w h o a r e t h e y a n y w a y ?

T h e y c o n t i n u e t o d e m a n d I g i v e u p m y s u p p o s e d i n s i d e r

i n f o r m a t i o n o n M o t h m a n , a n d I c o n t i n u e t o t e l l t h e m t o l e a v e m e a l o n e .

B i t s o f m u s i c , s t a t i c a n d b r o k e n , i n t i m i d a t i n g v o i c e s c o m e t h r o u g h t h e

p h o n e l i n e . . .

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F r o m Greg Bishop at UFO Mystic: M o t h m a n P h o n e Home:

...t h e r e w a s a n u m b e r p r i n t e d w h i c h t h e w r i t e r s a i d h a d b e e n

a r o u n d s i n c e t h e l a t e 1 9 6 0 s a n d c o n n e c t e d t h e c a l l e r t o t h e

M o t h m a n h i hisself e l f . I c a l l e d t h e n u m b e r a n d g o t a V o i c e . I t

w a s e e r i e a n d m e c h a n i c a l . W h a t I h e a r d w a s a l o n g

f a x - m a c h i n e - l i k e t o n e f o l l o w e d b y T I M E 0 3 4 6 0 0 & E N T E R

C O M M A N D . W i t h n o o t h e r i d e a s , I p u n c h e d a c o u p l e o f d i g i t s

a n d w a s t r e a t e d t o a n o t h e r s e e m i n g l y m e a n i n g l e s s s t r i n g o f

i n t e g e r s f o l l o w e d b y t h e E N T E R C O M M A N D c o m m a n d . T h e

n u m b e r s d i d n t s e e m t o a d v a n c e w i t h t i m e , t h e y j u s t s e e m e d

r a n d o m .

( T h e c o m m e n t s t h a t f o l l o w t h e p o s t a r e w o r t h

r e a d i n g a s w e l l : www.ufomystic.com/2006/12/29/mothman-phone-home)

G o o g l i n g C h a r n i e / C h a r n y

O u t o f F o r t e a n c u r i o s i t y , I s e a r c h e d C h a r n y ; t h e f i r s t t h i n g t h a t c a m e

u p w a s a W i k i p e d i a e n t r y o n t h e C a n a d i a n t o w n o f C h a r n y , w h i c h I ‘ v e

n e v e r h e a r d o f . A s t r a n g e b i t o f t o w n i n f o r m a t i o n :

C h a r n y h a s r e a c h e d r e g i o n a l e x p o s u r e m a n y t i m e s o v e r t h e l a s t

t w e n t y y e a r s s t r u g g l i n g w i t h A l e x C o u t u r e I n c . , a p l a n t w h i c h b u y s

d e a d a n i m a l c o r p s e s i n o r d e r t o r e c y c l e t h e m , p r o d u c i n g s a l a b l e

b y - p r o d u c t s . T h e p l a n t g e n e r a t e d b a d s m e l l s a n d o d o u r s

t h r o u g h o u t t h e c i t y . T h e p l a n t h a s i n s t a l l e d f i l t e r s t o s c r e e n o u t

a n y o d o u r s .

S a d c r e e p y e c h o e s o f d e a t h a n d a n i m a l s , a n d a t o w n h i s t o r y o f

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i n s i d i o u s c o m p a n i e s i n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h t h e P t . P l e a s a n t a n d O h i o a r e a

s t h a t C o l v i n , a m o n g o t h e r s , t a l k a b o u t i n t h e i r

r e s e a r c h .

A n d y C o l v i n, author of t he Mothman ‘s Photographer series and Mothman Speaks! left the

following comment::

J a n u a r y 2 9 , 2 0 1 1 a t 1 0 : 4 6 p m

“C h a r n e y , o r C h a r n e e , m i g h t a l s o b e a r e f e r e n c e t o S h a w n e e

i f a B r i t i s h p e r s o n w e r e s a y i n g i t . T h e S h a w n e e w e r e t h e I n d i a n

t r i b e t h a t o c c u p i e d t h e l a n d a l o n g t h e K a n a w h a R i v e r b e t w e e n

P t . P l e a s a n t a n d M o u n d , W V t h e l a n d g i v e n t o G e o r g e

W a s h i n g t o n b y t h e B r i t i s h . T h i s i s w h e r e a l l o f t h e

v a r i o u s c h e m i c a l p l a n t s a r e l o c a t e d , a s w e l l a s t h e

m a n y b u r i a l m o u n d s . T h e a t t a c k o n C h i e f C o r n s t a l k

w a s m o u n t e d f r o m t h e S h a w n e e s t r o n g h o l d n e a r

H o m e t o w n , W V . T h i s w o u l d b e t h e a r e a f r o m w h e r e

a n y e x - N a z i U F O s w o u l d h a v e e m a n a t e d , w e r e t h e y

t o h a v e b e e n t r a n s f e r r e d f r o m t h e I . G . F a r b e n

p l a n t i n G e r m a n y t o t h e S t a n d a r d - C a r b i d e p l a n t i n

I n s t i t u t e , W V ( n e x t t o H o m e t o w n ) . “

~ Jan 29 2011, Mothman Flutterings

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Intrepid Synchronicity: Mom, Military Manipulations and Chip Coffey

I had just finished a blog post about an e-mail from Nick Redfern on my

Mothman Calling post (which I cross posted at UFO Mystic) when I clicked over to The

Daily Grail and found this link to Intrepid’s free pdf. Self-described as “‘an eclectic

focus on science, politics, supernatural, unexplained phenomenon and pop culture”

— I knew this was the magazine for me. I download it and find Chip Coffey on the

cover!

Now that is interesting, because last night I was discussing Mothman with my

eighty-four year old mother, who wasn’t very familiar with Mothman. (I had brought my

copy of Andrew Colvin’s new book Mothman Speaks! to show her; she found the book

interesting and wanted to borrow it!) I told her about an incident I had when watching

an episode of Paranormal State about Mothman, which included psychic Chip Coffey.

(I had anticipated what Coffey was going to say and felt a strong electrical buzzing

sensation… more on that will soon appear on Tim Binnall's site.) Our conversation

included interesting thoughts from mom on the military and paranormal events;

including Mothman.

~ February 1, 2011 , Mothman Flutterings

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Mom on Mothman

It's late at night, I hear the ocean rumbling outside the bedroom window. I'm

visiting my eighty-four year old mother who lives on the coast. We just had an

interesting conversation about Mothman.

I brought along Andrew Colvin's new book Mothman Speaks! to show mom;

(hey mom, I'm quoted on the back of the book and inside!) and she asks me a series

of questions about Mothman: just who is he, or what is it, isn't it a series on TV, -- "no

mom" -- "Oh, that must have been something else."

I tell her what I can about Mothman, including Colvin's relationship with

Mothman and his research, his spiritual or philosophical views on Buddhism and

Eastern beliefs, which my mother shares in some ways. I tell her of my own interest in

Mothman, even though I've never had a Mothman sighting of my own.

I share with her the story of my psychic -electrical episode while watching

psychic Chip Coffey on Paranormal State; (I had predicted out loud to others in the

room what Coffey was going to say before he said it, and that the Mothman entity was

present in the room with them. I felt a strong surge of electrical energy go through my

body during that time; what was interesting was that what I was watching on TV that

night had already been filmed and yet, the "Mothy vibe" was distinct and present in real

time.) Mom, by the way, accepted all that as perfectly normal.

After thinking over what I've told her, she asks me, referring to the overall

supernatural and strange history of Mothman territory in the Point Pleasant, West

Virginia area as well as Ohio, if it's possible Mothman is a creation or expression of

those energies "embodied within a humanoid or angelic form?"

She found the connections of corporations and the overall military -industrial

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complex presence in the area interesting, and agreed with me that the military is

aware of the energies in the area (as they are elsewhere, Utah's "Skinwalker ranch,"

being one example) and "manipulates such energies for their own nefarious ends" I

said.

Mom: "Well, first of all, 'military intelligence' is an oxymoron. They'll never

succeed in capturing or controlling such things like this Mothman, because it's much

smarter than they are. They'll keep trying though, they're arrogant and stubborn

enough, but they'll never get anywhere. They think they've gotten somewhere, these

things [meaning Mothman, UFOs and other high strangeness things in general] throw

them crumbs now and then, but they'll never catch anything."

Later, I found her reading the book. She said to me, as I was walking through

the living room, "A very interesting book."

Definitely that.

~ Tim Binnall’s Binnall of America; Trickster’s Realm column, 2/8/2011

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Strange Frequency: Bird Visitations, Beeping, Radio Noise

(The following experience I had the night of Japan’s earthquake (2011) isn’t

directly related to Mothman. Nor am I suggesting it was part of the Mothman energy;

and yet, there is a bit of a Mothy vibe to this, and so I’m posting it here. I want to make

it clear this winged visitor was not “evil,” or a negative energy in any way. My fearful

response to it was due to my own anxieties and fears, not the intent of this bird like

entity.)

I had an extremely unusual experience the night of Japan’s earthquake which

involved a large, swooping-in-on-me bird-like figure, beeping sounds from deep

within my head getting louder and louder, and a synchronicity the next day concerning

tsunamis and Thunderbirds.

As I posted on both The Orange Orb and Animal Forteana, (my blogs) this is

what happened:

I had a very strange experience last night. I spent much of the night

sleeping little; listening mainly to Coast to Coast and the news coming in on the

earthquake in Japan, and soon after, the tsunami warnings. Earliest reports

were warnings for Hawaii and the Washington and Oregon coasts; later,

California and Alaska.

I was compelled to listen through the night because of the sheer tragedy

and immensity of another overwhelming earth disaster, and also, because we

had planned to drive to the coast that day (approximately fifty miles from our

home) and spend the weekend there. I was also concerned about my mother

and friends on the Oregon coast, as well as family living up and down the

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Pacific coast. I tried to sleep, managed to doze off for a while but kept waking

up, turning the little transistor on again. Throughout Coast to Coast local

tsunami warnings came through, announcing beach and school closures for

the Oregon coast.

At one point, a deep beeping sound woke me up. This beeping was deep

within me; not from an external source, not an acoustic anomaly. It was inside of me.

It became louder, and with it, I saw a large dark bird come flying towards me. All I

could see was the shape, no details. Slowly flapping its huge wings as it came

towards me, as the beeping got louder and louder. A glowing whitish-blue light or

“halo” surrounded this bird. This bird vision was inside my head, not external, but it

was definitely connected to the beeping sound. At first I thought the bird was an owl;

and it might had been, but it seemed to be something else as well. What, I’m not

sure. I had conflicting responses to this bird; one, that all this was pretty damn

interesting but as the owl, or bird-creature, came closer, along with the light, I became

a little scared and tried to shut it out. It sort of exploded when I did that, and I had the

feeling this bird-like creature was both frustrated with me and disappointed that I

chose to ignore it.

Then, I heard, again from that same, deep-within place inside me, the sounds of

voices talking on the radio. So I told myself it was the radio; I still had it on, the ear

buds in my ears. But the radio and ear -buds were both on the night table, and the

radio was off.

I cannot describe how this was not a dream. It was not a dream that I awoke from, it

was not a hypnogognic dream, it was not a dream then I awake to find I’m really still

dreaming, … none of that. None of that. I was completely awake. The radio talk within

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continued; I tried very hard to listen to make sense out of it but the voices were

indistinct.

Thunderbird Synchronicity

After I wrote this, I visited The Anomalist to find this link to a post from Loren

Coleman at Cryptomundo: Tsunamis and Thunderbirds, which explores the stories of

Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest and earthquakes:

It is amazing what Thunderbird folklore may tell us about past tsunamis, says

Ruth Ludwin, a University of Washington scientist. Her research has found that

Thunderbird and other cryptid stories and traditions “could relate to a large

Seattle fault earthquake around A.D. 900 and specific eyewitness accounts

linked to a mammoth 1700 earthquake and tsunami in the Cascadia

subduction zone.”

“Along the way, I picked up a lot of stories about landslides,” she said.

But she couldn’t find anything that seemed to match the 1700 event, until

she took a closer look at the story of Thunderbird and Whale.

“It’s a story of the underworld versus the over-world,” Ludwin said.

The Whale was a monster, killing other whales and depriving the people of

meat and oil. The Thunderbird, a benevolent supernatural being, saw from its

home high in the mountains that the people were starving. The great bird

soared out over the coastal waters, then plunged into the ocean and seized the

Whale.

A struggle ensued first in the water, the tribal tale says. “The waters receded

and rose again. Many canoes came down in trees and were destroyed and

numerous lives were lost.”

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The Thunderbird eventually succeeds in lifting the evil Whale out of the ocean,

carrying it “high into the air (and then) dropping it to the land surface at Beaver

prairie. Then at this place there was another great battle.”

On the Coast

After phone calls back and forth and following news reports we decided to drive

to the coast, which turned out to be a beautiful drive. The tsunami warnings for this

area have been lifted. As I’m typing this I’m looking out at the shore, listening to the

ocean.

I described the bird like visitor as possibly an owl, because that was the closet

thing I could think of at the time. But it this “bird” or more appropriately, winged

creature, had an intelligence about it, an awareness, that transcended mundane

animals. (Including us humans.) It was a messenger from another realm, it was

spirit.

~ March 12, 2011, The Orange Orb

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Micah Hanks: Conspiracy Calls…

New article from Micah Hanks for Mysterious Universe: Conspiracy Calls:

Paranoid Telephone Bugs and MIB Surveillance. Micah begins his article, which is

about Keel, MIB and the electronic telephone interference we’re used to hearing about

when it comes to UFOs, Mothman and more, with his own eerie synchronicity. Hanks

writes:

In fact, we might as well get things off to a good start by adding a

heaping dose of synchronicity: just as I was sitting down to write this

piece, my phone inexplicably lit up, then shut itself off completely, and

restarted. I usually ignore this kind of thing… but for some, it’s enough to

keep one’s paranoid fantasies close to the edge for days at a time. With

regard to my own situation, this isn’t the only time my phone has

appeared to come to life on its own, and activate or deactivate itself

arbitrarily. For several months now, I’ve been experiencing a

remarkable amount of Keelian weirdness regarding my cellular phone…

and in truth, I might as well admit it: I’ve kind of got a history with this sort

of thing.

It gets even better, and much weirder! Perfect “Keelian” and Fortean reading!

Micah Hank’s Grayalien: gralienreport.com

Micha Hanks at Mysterious Universe: mysteriousuniverse.org

~ December 11, 2011

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BEEPING CREATURES

An interesting characteristic of Bigfoot, UFO and alien encounters is the

electronic, beeping sound many witnesses report hearing during these incidents.

(My personal experience with beeping sounds: I’ve occasionally have been

abruptly awakened late at night, and yes, around 3:00 am, because of a loud beeping

sound in my head. The sound is very distinct, very mechanical, and all I can say is, as

loony as it sounds, it’s from inside my head, not an exterior source, like from a truck

outside or someone’s alarm clock. This has happened several times.)

In Peter Guittilla’s Bigfoot Files, he writes about a 1979 report of Bigfoot activity

in the area where the witnesses lived -hearing screams, etc. -- as well as beeping

sounds:

“One night in April at 2:30 am my husband woke me to listen to odd

beeping sounds coming from the woods. These have not been identified

and continued on and off for about a year.” ~ p136

Guittilla recounts other Bigfoot stories, where witnesses say they hear all kinds

of unusual sounds coming from areas reported to have Bigfoot activity, including

coming from underground:

The sounds which often occur in combinations, are described variously

as buzzing, beeping, whirling, humming ...” [p 197 Bigfoot Files]

In The Hunt for The Skinwalker, a “hairy humanoid” was seen racing across

the property (the ranch in Utah, home of the skinwalker phenomena) The rancher shot

at the creature, being sure he hit it:

”. . .but the creature barely flinched. . . . When he chased after it, he heard

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a weird sound that resembled a soft whine combined with an electronic

beeping noise.~ p179, Hunt for the Skinwalker

The following is from an interesting report on “skinwalker ranch” type

phenomena that occurred in the 1970s on a ranch in Elvert County, Colorado:

On another evening, very annoyed at the repeated blows, Jim hurried

outside with his rifle and fired at the fleeing bigfoot. Jim is a good shot

and the creature was hit although without seeming to be too

inconvenienced by the fact. It must have been wearing a bulletproof

vest! Subsequently the people at the ranch heard a hoarse crying sound

mixed with a kind of beep-beep. ~ From Prologue: US Air Force, UFOs

and Bigfoot, the Great Deception.

UFOs and Aliens

Some think alien abductions are the work of aliens from space, the military

(MILABS) or both. Bonnie Meyer, author of Alien Contact: The Messages They Bring

writes, in a section titled “Scanning:”

”If you are Healings a lot of beeping sounds, it is probably a small

scanning instrument. this scanning if kind of like a mind probe. I doubt

you could tell the difference where or who it’s coming from.”

Barney and Betty Hill experienced hearing beeping sounds on the night of their

sighting. In Captured! the beeping they heard is described as being “code like,” with

several beeps, a pause, then more beeps. Were the beeps some kind of alien Morse

code?

Researcher, author and experiencer Raymond E. Fowler has experienced this

beeping sound while in asleep (similar to my experiences) and dreams about aliens,

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making two entries in his journal:

January 27, 1995: I awoke twice to a electronic beeping sound. the

second time I thought it was my watch alarm sounding and actually

reached to shut if off before the beeping stopped. My right nostril is still

sore.”

The next day, January 28, Fowler experienced it again:

I woke up again to a electronic beeping sound and again reached for

my watch alarm, but it was not the watch. My right nostril is still sore. ~

Synchrofile: Amazing Personal Encounters with Synchronicity and Other

~ Page 188<

In UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, author Curt Sutherly recounts

the story of Harold Butcher . In 1965 Butcher, was working on his parents farm in New

York state. Butcher noticed that the animals were panicking over something, at the

same time, the milking machine Butcher was working abruptly stopped:

”Looking out a window, Harold saw a large elliptical object land about a

quarter-mile away. The object emitted a smell of burned gasoline and a

red vapor clouded its rim. A strange beeping sound was heard. the

object departed by ascending straight up into the clouds.

What is the cause of this beeping sound? Why does a consistent characteristic

-- beeping -- occur with diverse phenomena such as UFOs, various alien beings,

robots and Bigfoot?

Maybe it’s a mistake to assume that these things are not connected; they may

share a relationship with each other in ways we don’t readily see. Some see

Mothman, some Bigfoot, others weird aliens or craft, but if they are manifestations of

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the same kind of phenomena, it isn’t so strange. If they come from the same source ,

as John A. Keel, Andrew Colvin, and so many others have suggested, it makes some

sense. (Keel calls it the “superspectrum.”

If this source, that throws out all kinds of weird things at us, lulls us into a

hypnotic, trance like state, beeping would be a way to induce that state. In his

<u>Mothman Prophecies, </u>Keel suggests beeping sounds have something to do

with lulling us into a passive, amnesiac state:

”There is a kind of posthypnotic suggestion involved in many UFO and

psychic incidents. The witness is driving along a road late at night. He

hears a beeping sound and lapses into a trance. . . as if he had been

preconditioned to lose consciousness at the sound of the beep. Later, he

awakes to the sound of another series of beeps.”

The witness wakes up hours later to find he or she is now a victim of missing

time.

In some cases, it may be a combination of human involvement, possibly

working with some paranormal or alien agencies, to manipulate other UFO,

cryptozoological and or alien phenomena. This theory has been suggested to explain

cases like Mothman, the Flatwoods creature, UFOs and aliens, as well as Bigfoot.

A seeming glitch in this idea is in the fact that in many of these areas: the area

in Utah, location of the Skinwalker ranch, or Pt. Pleasant, West Virginia, home of

Mothman, have had a history of paranormal and UFO activity going back hundreds of

years. But if we consider that there are human agencies working with this energy in

some way, manipulating both it and us, we find that there isn’t a contradiction.

Now the question isn’t if these things are happening, but why are covert human

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elements so interested?

Notes:

Prologue: US Air Force, UFOs and Bigfoot, the Great Deception

www.ovnis.atfreeweb.com/prologue_ufos_book.htm

Synchrofile: Amazing Personal Encounters with Synchronicity,Raymond Fowler.

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's

First Documented Alien Abduction, Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden.

Bigfoot Files,Peter Guittilla

The Mothman Prophecies, John A. Keel

Alien Contact: The Messages They Bring, Bonnie Meyer

UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth: Curt Sutherly

~ UFO Digest, April 7, 2008

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High Strangeness on the Ranch

Ranches, like deserts, seem to be the perfect setting for high strangeness

encounters. The isolated, wide open areas of both ranches and deserts are ideal for

all kinds of paranormal, UFO and Fortean phenomena to occur virtually undetected.

The Skinwalker ranch in Utah

The Skinwalker ranch in Utah is a classic in the paranormal realm. The

unexplained events at the Utah ranch were documented in the book ’, by George

Knapp and Colm Kelleher. Shape shifting creatures, UFOs, Bigfoot like beings,

shimmering vortexes or portals appearing and disappearing, and lots of other

weirdness occurred over many years, with no explanation. Some suggest that the

owner of the ranch made it up to get publicity and money. There's a lot wrong with that

assertion, that I won't dignify with a response, except to say, that in the Utah case, that

area has been known for all kinds of high strangeness occurrences going back

hundreds of years. The UFO sightings alone are enough to keep a researcher busy

for a long time. (In fact, In 1975 Frank B. Salisbury wrote a book about UFOs in the

area: The Utah UFO display: A biologist's report.)

Another ranch, this one in Colorado, was also the site for weird events. Alien

Intrusions At Colorado Ranch, by Don Worley in 1992 for UFO Magazine, discusses

some of the strange things that went on at the Evans family ranch. This case was

investigated by solid researchers in the field like Dr. Leo Sprinkle and Dr. John Derr.

(This was the same area where cattle mutilations began around 1975.)

UFOs were seen frequently at the Evans ranch. Their cattle were victims of

cattle mutilations. They heard voices, but no source for the voices were seen. Bigfoot

or Bigfoot like beings seemed to be on the ranch. One night, non stop pounding on

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the house by something frightened the children. Later,

. . .a big, hairy being also joined the parade of oddities on the ranch. It

became apparent that Big Foot was just one more facet of the cunning

intelligence harassing the Evans. No less than 20 person would see Big Foot. ~

Worley, UFO Magazine, 1992

Remember, as with the Utah ranch and similar cases, (including the

Contactees out in the deserts) there were many witnesses to these events. Multiple

witnesses to events like this make it harder to dismiss them as delusions or lies.

In all these cases, a possible clue about the source of these strange events

can be found in the fact that the ranches (and deserts, as with Contactees) are close

to military bases. And in the Evans case, one part of the ranch was on top of old coal

mines. Sali Sheppard-Wolford in her book Valley of the Skookum, mentions that

orange orbs and strange sounds and cries, linked to Bigfoot sightings, took place at

the site of abandoned mines.

Some researchers believe Bigfoot (and other beings) travel by way of

underground tunnels and byways, possibly living underground. That's why these

beings are elusive; they go underground. The proximity of military bases supports the

idea that testing of not only UFOs, but paranormal phenomena were going on, as well

as mind control.

These cases include hearing beeping or other kinds of electronic sounds.

Remember the voices, often mechanical sounding? Residents and witnesses

sometimes felt paralyzed, and smelled strong, unpleasant odors, as if they were

being drugged in some way.

Both the Skinwalker ranch and the Evans ranch in Colorado had experiences

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with strange black boxes found on their property. These boxes emitted strange

sounds that often increased in intensity as the witnesses came closer.

And on both ranches, the residents came across humanoids or possibly

humans that told them they could stay; as if the owners of the ranch didn't own their

own property! With assurances the owners could stay on their own property, came

warnings not to interfere with the strange occurrences going on night after night.

In reading about these events, I suspect that there was active military

involvement surrounding the activity. Military installations close by is not a

coincidence. I don't think the Bigfoot creatures, the UFOs, and other anomalous

occurrences were made up or created by the military; but I think they knew about it,

and had something to do with manipulating events for their own purposes. One of the

purposes being mind control experimentation. (The same scenario can be said of the

Mothman phenomena.)

There are a lot of similarities between the Evans ranch in Colorado and the

Skinwalker ranch in Utah. Were both some kind of psy ops project of the government?

We may not like to go there -- that dark place in esoteric history where covert

government programs were responsible for a lot of unpleasant things. But it is a fact

the government has had its share of illegal, immoral and covert doings, then and now.

It's not so crazy to think that these very strange occurrences had some help by a

human agency.

~ April 6, 2008

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Mini Report From McMinnville: Chirps,Trills and Wasps

I attended the McMinnville, Oregon UFO conference this weekend; ( May 2010)

very good, as usual. All the speakers were interesting, at the very least, and I’ll write

more on that in the days to come. James Clarkson, Travis Walton, and Colin Andrews

were the speakers. . .

Two odd things happened during Colin Andrew’s presentation. (Of which I will

be commenting a lot about; it’s so much to process and I’m not there yet.)

As usual, Peter Davenport, the MC, and conference coordinator Tim Hills both

asked the audience at every presentation to turn off their cell phones. And as usual,

there were a few people who didn’t seem to hear that request, or, care. Those people

were sitting right behind us.

So Colin Andrews is giving a fantastic and deeply moving presentation; and

these bozos behind us are talking, fooling around with their camera equipment, and

having their cell phones going off. At one point, Interstellar Housewife’s Deirdre

O’Lavery turns around and says in a succinct, quiet and to the point voice: “Will you

shut the fuck up, we’re trying to listen to this.” They did, in fact, they looked like deer

caught in the headlights and were pretty quiet after that.

Aside from the very few cell phones that went off periodically throughout the

presentation it was pretty quiet. Then when Colin Andrews arrived at the point in his

talk about government military intelligence type forces involved in crop circle research,

(including the matter of fact statement uttered a few times by Andrews that there were

agents in the room) along with the intelligence of the crop circles/makers themselves,

several cell phones went off at the same time. It was a cacophony of cell phone tunes.

Very eerie.

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Earlier in the presentation, Andrews played recordings taken in crop circles,

and one taken in a tree. I had an immediate physical feeling while hearing one sound;

it was under the skin, as if I were vibrating. During one of these recordings I literally

could feel myself vibrating. I felt as if I were about to leave my body, I was having the

same feeling I have when I have an OOBE. Jim didn’t have that same physical feeling,

but he did have a strong emotional response:

“The sound gave me the impression there’s something underlying, primordial

— some sound like something you’ve heard all the time, something that’s

been there sublimely all along.”

Finally, the wasp. Right before leaving for Colin’s presentation, a yellow jacket

got into our hotel room. It was crawling around on the inside of the window which was

open a bit. The wasp was big and scary, at least to me, since all bugs are big and

scary, no matter what their size. Jim killed it. (The windows in the Hotel Oregon don’t

open very far, just a few inches, and he would have preferred to have removed the

insect alive, but it wasn’t possible.) Then we left for Colin’s presentation.

A couple of minutes into the presentation, Andrews puts up a strange image;

one magnified 3,000 times. It turns out it was the eye of a yellow jacket. Point being,

how the yellow jacket remembers you; it knows you, when it singes you, it remembers

you. “It knows you,” he said.

Other great things about the conference: the Rooftop Bar atop Hotel Oregon,

meeting Contact’s Erik Stitt and Interstellar Housewife’s Deirdre O'Lavery, talking with

MUFON researcher James Clarkson and his wife Joanne — both very neat people —

the new UFO Fest designs. ~ May 16th, 2010

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Gray Barker's Chasing the Flying Saucers: A Pre-Mothman UFO Encounter

Deciding to stop procrastinating, I've decided to just go into the Room of Doom,

-- also known quaintly as "the study" but in reality, it's a nightmare of books in jumbles

amidst other piles and jumbles -- and organize my UFO and paranormal books and

files over the summer. I've discovered a lot of surprising things, like, I have a lot of

books on these subjects, so far, around 400 books. That's not counting the file boxes I

have of FATES, Strange, Fortean Times, Omnis, and other magazines as well as file

drawers full of clippings. So, while diving into my summer project, I found an issue of

Ray Palmer's Flying Saucers magazine from July, 1962.

Inside is an article by Gray Barker, who wrote the classic They Knew Too Much

About Flying Saucers. Chasing the Flying Saucers recounts several UFO sightings

from the U.S. as well as one from the UK, including a strange event that occurred in

1959 in West Virginia on the Elk River. The witness who spoke (via "beeper phone" -- I

love that), was referred to Barker by Hugh McPherson at WCHS, and referred to as

"Toney." Toney and three friends were camping on Elk River where, around 9:00 p.m.,

the area was filled with a brilliant white light. They looked up to see "...a huge dish

shaped object...estimated ...about 800-900 ft high" above them, and 50 to 70 ft. in

diameter."

The object stayed above them for about two minutes; it left abruptly and rapidly

when a plane approached. As the UFO left, "...a tremendous force wave or gust of

wind hit their cabin, tearing off the loose boards..."

Toney reported his sighting to the airport in Charleston, and it was soon after

the Air Force showed up, asking numerous questions of all the witnesses. Barker

asked Toney if the Air Force "hushed him up" but Toney said the story was already in

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the papers so he didn't think it mattered if he talked about the sighting. He did add that

"they told us it was better not to mention it." Barker ends this story with the comment

that Toney said he'd send more information on the sighting, but he never heard from

him again.

Aside from the articles general coolness as a neat-o vintage find, this story is

interesting in the context of Mothman history. Here we have an account of a

spectacular UFO sighting in the area where seven years later, Mothman appeared.

But as many people know, that area has a long history of UFO and supernatural

events that precedes Mothman. Strange activity didn't stop when Mothman supposedly

disappeared; accounts continue to come in of all kinds of anomalous experiences,

from UFO sightings to cryptids.

There are many people who've experienced these things; witnesses who live in

the area, researchers who've investigated West Virginia for themselves. Some are ex-

residents, researchers, and witnesses all in one, like author like Andy Colvin.

(Mothman's Photographer series) I, unfortunately, have not been to West Virginia or

have never had a Mothman experience. But even my west coast armchair explorations

into Mothman have shown that the area is rich with a very strange history. ~ Trickster’s

Realm, 2011

• References

• Gray Barker, Chasing the Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers magazine, July 1962

• Andy Colvin:

• The Mothman's Photographer III: Meetings with Remarkable West Coast

Witnesses Touched by Interdimensional Entities, Archetypal Avatars, and the

Phenomenon Known Infamously as "Mothman" , 2008, Booksurge Publishing

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• The Mothman's Photographer II: Meetings With Remarkable Witnesses Touched

by Paranormal Phenomena, UFOs, and the Prophecies of West Virginia's

Infamous Mothman, 2007, Booksurge Publishing,

• The Mothman Speaks: Candid Conversations Concerning Cosmic Conundrums

- Cryptic Creatures, Chimeras, Contactees, and the Cleverly Coded

Coincidences of the Collective Unconscious (Volume 1), 2011, CreateSpace

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Conspiracy Park

At both ends of the Greenway Bridge at Skinner's Butte Park in Eugene, a

message is spray painted on the ground: <strong>You Google It! NWO Order Plan.

I wrote in a previous post that not far from the bridge, on the outside of a

wooden fence surrounding a house, there was a large banner with a similar

message, but it's long gone.

Also found in the same area, this sticker on a light pole not far from the bridge;

kind of between the fence and the bridge. (visit Oregon L.O.W.F.I. for pics.)

It's the best I could do, the sticker was pretty high up on the pole. The verbiage

on the sticker talks about electronic harassment from microwaves, mind control, ELF

waves, etc. and how this mind control and electronic harassment is all around us.

About a week later, I was walking in my neighborhood, which is about a mile

from the above mentioned park and bridge. Just around the corner from my house

this image of a warning for the NWO was posted on a pole.

Last Sunday I was walking past the Greenway Bridge again. About a mile,

maybe less, from the Greenway Bridge was this sign stuck to a support under the

bridge further down (lots of bridges in the area! They cross the Willamette River.):

I've been noticing these signs in the area for over a year. A couple of nights ago,

the local news had a short segment on these signs. Some neighbors in the area are

"upset" because the signs are offensive. Apparently someone, and I suspect

someone else not the original sign maker, sprayed swastikas on some of these

signs. I haven't come across any with swastikas. The news said the signs were

publicity for "a movie." I'm not so sure about that, it seems like a strange explanation,

especially when no title was given or reason why they came to that conclusion. Hand

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lettered signs on cheap paper stuck to bridge supports, telephone and light poles;

hand painted banners on flimsy paper stuck to wooden fences -- doesn't seem like

much of publicity campaign.

I couldn't find anything on-line about this from any of the local news outlets. I'm

not sure which local news it was either, since they're all the same and I switch back

and forth. The short segment ended with the warning that it is illegal to affix any kind of

flyer or poster, etc. to city property such as telephone and light poles.

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