Phantoms and Monsters

Bigfoot Sighting - Fayette County, Georgia
The Christmas Gift That Refused To Be Ignored
Truckin' Along the Solar System
Photos: Strange Spiral Anomaly Over Norway

Bigfoot Sighting - Fayette County, Georgia

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 11:02 AM PST

thecitizen - Reports of the sightings of large primates, usually referred to as "Bigfoot," are not uncommon across the United States. But they are uncommon in Fayette County. At least until this past summer.

A blog posting changed all that with its report of a north Fayette County woman who said she encountered a large hairy creature on Lee's Mill Road in mid-July.

The unnamed woman who reported the July 17 incident, according to the Georgia Mysteries story, was rounding a curve on Lee's Mill Road as she drove home from work on a clear night at approximately 11 p.m.

The woman described the creature in her headlights as being approximately 6 feet to 7 feet in height, hairy with a medium build and with a loping gait.

"As I rounded a curve I saw something walking across the road in front of me. It was tall, not slim but not thick and covered in grayish-brownish hair. It never turned to look at me and just loped across the road and off in the dark. I was traveling about 40 mph and slowed quite a bit to ensure it would make it across without me hitting it," the website report said.

The creature did not turn towards the vehicle at all, just continued across the road to the other tree line, according to the unverified report. The sighting lasted 10-15 seconds. At the closest point the woman said she was approximately 10 feet from the creature, according to the report.

A follow-up report was done by BFRO investigator Mary Snyder. In her statement Snyder said the witness had been sincere in her report of the incident.

"I could hear in her voice that she was still very upset about the encounter," Snyder said.

The woman is reported to have said that subsequent to the event she learned that sightings had occurred a few years ago in Coweta County. There were several sightings of the "Happy Valley Horror" in 2005 in the Happy Valley Circle area of north Coweta, as reported in the local media.
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Fayette County, GA - BFRO Report

bfro - The Georgia Bigfoot, other than being the title of my next book, is also an ongoing mystery in the Peach State. With sightings dating back to the early 1800s in Georgia, and ranging from the mountains to the coast, there is much to be said for the possible existence of the elusive creature in Georgia.

According to the report, this sighting comes from Fayette County, a rapidly growing county in the southwest portion of the Atlanta metropolitan area. It is the home to Fayetteville, Peachtree City, Tyrone, and other communities that are experiencing the throngs of the urban sprawl of Atlanta. The county is still rural enough that there are a number of dark country roads. This is apparently where the sighting took place.

The person who reported this sighting said that it occurred on July 17, 2009, this past summer while she was driving home on Lee's Mill Road. The driver was rounding a curve around 11:00 p.m. that evening when she saw something crossing the road in front of her. The animal was caught in the headlights of her car. The animal walked upright on two legs, was slim, and had greyish-brown hair. The driver mentioned that the animal never stopped to look at her, but simply trotted across the highway into the Fayette County darkness. The night was clear, no rain, and the driver felt very comfortable with her description.

This area of Georgia, Fayette and Coweta County, have been rich with sightings of these animals. One may remember the Belt Road Booger or the Happy Valley Horror near Newnan. But Fayette County has a share of sightings, especially near Peters Road and other rural parts of the county.

The Christmas Gift That Refused To Be Ignored

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 08:59 AM PST

oprah - by Mark Leyner - Can an innocent Christmas present plunge a normal family into consensual madness?

Yes, it can, especially if the catalyst is a three-foot My Size Barbie, the first exceedingly popular toy that my daughter, Gaby, ever asked for insistently.

Her obsession meant I ended up in some remote Toys "R" Us in another state! one Christmas Eve about ten years ago, vying with other desperately doting dads for the last few items on well-looted shelves.

But I managed to bag my first Big Gift.

The next morning, Gaby exuberantly unwrapped the My Size Barbie, immediately and inexplicably christening the doll Jessica Lynn Cohen.

Why that oddly specific appellation, with its country-western triple cadence, we'll never know. It was Christmas, and it was her doll, and it stuck.

Gaby and Jessica Lynn Cohen became instant BFFs. Gaby lent Jessica Lynn Cohen her clothes, they played school, hosted tea parties, went to the park, sat on the stoop together, reenacted scenes from Disney movies.

But then came the inevitable cooling off. Kids tire of gifts. And they abruptly and blithely cast them into oblivion. No big deal. We put Jessica Lynn Cohen in the basement, in a spare room we use as a catchall storage space.

In the beginning, we'd each move her around just to scare one another. But then she seemed to move around on her own.

She'd appear in various rooms without anyone having touched her - or at least without anyone admitting to having touched her.

I'd go downstairs to attend to a blown fuse and there'd be Jessica Lynn Cohen in the boiler room. We'd find her in the pantry with her arms outstretched in a sort of pious Joan of Arc gesture of supplication or in the bathroom with one leg raised high over her head like a Folies Bergère dancer.

Coming upon her this way could be frightening. She had taken on the stricken phantasmal look of a ghost from a shipwreck.

She also started terrifying other people. I could always tell by the ashen face of some poor plumber or cable guy that he had accidentally stumbled upon Jessica Lynn Cohen in a dark corner of the house.

So we decided to get rid of her. But very bad things happened to us whenever we tried to throw her out.

Within hours of the first time I left her out on the street for the garbage men, my wife, Mercedes, who'd never had a single related symptom, had a severe gallstone attack and needed to be rushed to the emergency room.

I reluctantly brought Jessica Lynn Cohen back inside.

A couple of months later, I was hit by a car as I crossed a street in Culver City, California. At the moment of impact, I did not have that common experience of seeing my life passing before my eyes; I had the unmistakable feeling that Jessica Lynn Cohen was angry.

I called Mercedes and asked if anything unusual had occurred in the days preceding my accident. She admitted that she'd taken Jessica Lynn Cohen to the Salvation Army.

Get her back, I said.

We tried finding a new home for her. A friend - a single guy without kids - finally agreed to take her in. Within two weeks, he'd developed a pilonidal cyst and his brother in Florida was arrested for embezzlement.

Our friend returned her and asked that we never again discuss her in his presence.

We eventually had to reach an accommodation with Jessica Lynn Cohen and accept her as a permanent member of our family.

She is now the unrivaled centerpiece of our Christmas tradition.

On Christmas Eve we keep her in a special "secret detention room." We worry that Santa, because of his facility for seeing into the souls of all things, might discern in Jessica Lynn Cohen something irredeemably bad, and be frightened off before he has a chance to deliver our presents.

But on Christmas morning, there she stands, in her honored place of precedence, next to the tree.

Yes, I suppose you could say she's an evil zombie doll who led our family to madness.

But, damn it, she's our evil zombie doll. We adore her. And we're never, ever going to abandon her.

And so, another Christmas will come and go, under the vigilant, unflinching gaze of Our Gracious Lady of Nonrefundable Gifts, Our Jessica Lynn Cohen.

Truckin' Along the Solar System

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 05:25 PM PST

NOTE: this statement was posted last night. It's a bit unusual as opposed to conventional 'experiencer' accounts...so I figured I'd let you judge for yourself...Lon

MUFON witness report (unedited): This particular experience was with my son and is one of the most recent ones. He was shown a 'van' and he got inside as there was no feeling of fear present. All 5 beings were 'asian' in appearance. The two at the controls did not once turn to him so he did not see their actual faces. The 'van' changed form. It turned into a ship of some sort. He was taken straight up at a speed that made his stomach feel like he was on a lift. He was, in seconds, looking down at the earth from space. He was then taken to another location where they 'hovered' over the surface of a planet. He saw other beings on this planet and they were destroying what was on it. He remembers feeling confused as these beings had ships hovering over the surface also and, were visibly, technically advanced..so he could not understand why they would be using brute force..to attack in such a manner. He does not remember what they looked like only that they had a type of 'scale' and were coloured. He was not at all scared as he said he just knew that the ship he was in was more advanced and that the beings could not harm them at all! He was then taken to a much larger ship where, the one he was on, was 'docked'. He remembers asking if he could operate one of the smaller ships. He was informed that they still had 'laws' to follow as far as the ships were concerned but if he stayed in the immeadiate vicinity, he can have permission. He did. When he come back and got out, he said he just wanted to go again and they allowed him to do so. (has said, since a child, that he wanted to be a 'jedi') They were in the ship together again and he was asked if he would be an 'ambassador' to the earth for their introduction. They then did something that amazed him. They changed his form! They said that the people on earth respond better to a form that is very pleasing. He could then see himself changed. He said he was very slender (stocky in normal appearance) had on a suit, and his face was quite handsome (he is handsome normally but this face was VERY pleasing to the eye). He told me that he did not feel good about any of that and refused to take on a new form. They were compliant and told him that he is able to have only that one form, if he agreed..no other. (I said to him that if he had agreed, and then suppressed his memory, he could be standing in front of himself and would not even know it..or be reading about 'someone' visiting the government,as an ambassador, and not even know it was himself!!! That can take the mind soooo many places!)

He doesn't have anything after that. He must have been brought back. We have many experiences like that but that is one of the most recent. Thank you for your time..Sharon.

Photos: Strange Spiral Anomaly Over Norway

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 07:47 AM PST

Norwegian Swirl Anomaly 1
Norwegian Swirl Anomaly 2

NOTE: I received these video links from a reader this morning. This phenomena occurred over Norway pre-dawn today (December 9th) and was witnessed by thousands from what I can gather. I could not embed the video...only screen captures. I've seen similar anomalies in the past but not to this degree. News report below...Lon

thesun - A mysterious giant spiral of light that dominated the sky over Norway this morning has stunned experts — who believe the space spectacle is an entirely new astral phenomenon.

Thousands of awe-struck Norwegians bombarded the Meteorological Institute to ask what the incredible light — that could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles — could possibly be.

The phenomenon has been dubbed 'Star-Gate' — as the world's top scientists and the military lined up to admit they were baffled.

Theories ranging from a misfired Russian missile, meteor fireball, never-before-seen type of northern light, 'black hole' and even alien activity were all proposed.

Witnesses across Norway, who first glimpsed the space show at 8.45am, all described seeing a spinning 'Catherine wheel-style' spiral of white light, centred around a bright moon-like star.

A blue "streaming tail" appeared to anchor the spiral to earth, before the light "exploded" into a rotating ring of white fire.

The spiral spectacle — which lasted for two minutes — was seen by vast swathes of the Scandinavian country's almost five million population, with sightings as far north as Finnmark to Trondelag in the south.

Totto Eriksen, from Tromso, in northern Norway, was one of the thousands who bombarded Norwegian newspapers with sightings — after nearly crashing his car on spotting the spiral overhead.

He said: "I was driving my daughter to school when this light spun and exploded in the sky.

"We saw it from the Inner Harbour in Tromso. It looked like a rocket that spun around and around - and then went diagonally across the heavens.

"It looked like the moon was coming over the mountain - but then turned into something totally different.

"People just stopped and stared on the pier - it was like something from a Hollywood movie."

Axel Berg, from Alta, also in the north of the country, added: "It was like a giant spiral - a shooting star that spun around and around.

"I initially thought it was a projector but then the 'tail light' left and the spiral remained spinning still."

Norway's most celebrated astronomer, Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard, said he had never seen anything like the spiral before.

"This was seen over an exceptionally large area of the country - in all of north Norway and the Trondelag.

"My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor - but it lasted far too long.

"It may have been a missile from Russia - but I can't guarantee that is the answer.

"I rang the Air Traffic Control tower in Tromse. They said it was over in two minutes. To me, that is far too long for this to be an astronomical phenomenon.

"This spiral shape is unique. It is definitely not a variation of the aurora borealis - northern lights."

Chief Scientist Erik Tandberg, at the Norwegian Space Centre, said that he too was "totally amazed" by the spiral.

He agreed with many other experts that the spiral pattern could have been caused by a missile from Russia — something the Russian military have strongly denied.

Dr Tandberg said: "I agree with everyone in the science community that this light was the weirdest thing. I have never seen anything like this ever.

"It may have been anything from an exploding missile whose launch went wrong - to a comet or other celestial object that for some reason has been behaving strangely.

"If it was a missile - most likely from the launch base in Pletsevsk in Russia or one of the Russian submarines or even from the European Space Agency base in Kiruna - then we are talking about a rocket launch that has gone wrong.

"The spiral suggests the object came off course and balance and entered the spiral movement. Leaking rocket fuel could account for the blue light.

"But I know that the military have denied this explanation. So we could be looking at an entirely new natural phenomenon."

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