#Teenager UFO Witness

[paranormal-playground-podcast]

The Roswell Before Roswell Podcast Episode

This episode explores the 1945 New Mexico UFO crash, a lesser-known incident that predates the famous Roswell crash. It recounts the experience of four teenagers who witnessed a disc-shaped object crash in a canyon and discovered small, humanoid bodies at the site. The episode delves into the alleged government cover-up and the incident’s lasting impact on UFO lore, suggesting a pattern of UFO…

[numinousmysteries]

Something to Celebrate

@eightnightsofmulder

@today-in-fic

Eight Nights of Mulder Day Three: Celebration

[on Ao3]

December 1995

The case was one dead end after another. They would’ve been back with time to spare, too, if Mulder hadn’t insisted on tracking down and interrogating the missing teenage boy’s estranged father. Unfortunately, he’d been ice fishing off the grid for days with his buddies, an airtight alibi with the walleye to prove it. Once they made it back to Detroit from Billy Graff’s father’s cabin on Lake St. Clair, Billy had been found holed up in a cheap motel with his girlfriend. It turned out his younger sister had caught him sneaking out of the house a week earlier and he’d bribed her to make up a story about witnessing him being taken by a bright light in the sky for their gullible, UFO-obsessed mother.

By the time Billy was safely returned home, the snow that had been teasing the area all week began to fall in earnest. And now they’ve missed their original flight and are stuck in the Detroit Metro Airport for the foreseeable future. 

Even with all the weather delays, the airport is mostly empty. It’s Christmas Eve and everyone is already where they need to be. Officially off the clock, he’s convinced her to have a drink with him at the airport bar. 

“If we get out tomorrow morning you’ll likely make it back for Christmas dinner,” he says, carrying two beer bottles back from the bar to their table. 

She just nods and, fortunately, he doesn’t push it. Last year was her first Christmas without her father and this would be her first without her sister. She feels guilty about leaving her mother with another empty place at the table, but she doesn’t miss facing Bill’s interrogation about her work or having to tell Maggie there are no new leads on Melissa’s murder. 

“I’m sorry I brought us out here for nothing,” he says.

“You didn’t know he made it up,” she replies, staring down at her beer bottle. She understands by now that a sibling gone missing under mysterious circumstances is enough to send them halfway across the country no matter how flimsy the evidence may be. And she knows it’s too sensitive of a point to call him out on.

“Hey,” he says, his eyes lighting up. “Why don’t we have our own little celebration right here?” 

“What are we celebrating, Mulder?”

“Billy Graff is home for the holidays with his family. We both made it through the case unscathed. And I think it’s still Hanukkah.” He gestures over the little battery-powered, flameless candle flickering on their high-top table. “Let’s get eight more of these and we can have our own little festival of lights.” 

She doesn’t have time to protest before he’s off his bar stool, gathering fake candles from the surrounding empty tables. He comes back with both hands full and moves their beer bottles around to make room to line up nine candles in a row.

“Aren’t there supposed to be eight? One for each night?” she asks.

“Oh, Scully, you forget the shamash.”

“The what?” 

“The shamash,” he repeats, acting surprised this isn’t common knowledge for his Irish Catholic partner. “The middle helper candle? The one we use to light the rest?”

“When was the last time you did this Mulder?”

“I’m pretty sure Nixon was in office,” he says. “But don’t worry. Nothing’s changed for over 2,000 years. Here, I’ll come sit next to you.”

He stands and scoots his bar stool until it’s directly next to hers. Their shoulders brush through their suit jackets, and she feels a rush of heat. 

“See, you place the candles right to left, so let’s pretend I already did that,” he sweeps a hand over their improvised menorah. “Then we light the shamash, and use it to light the other candles left to right. Of course, these candles need no oil, pure or otherwise, to keep burning but it’s the thought that counts, right?”

She smiles at him. Her Jewish, agnostic partner, who believes not in God but in astral projection, psychic visions, and chupacabras is guiding her through a bastardization of a religious ritual in the middle of the Detroit Metro Airport. It’s never a dull moment with him.

“Here, I’ll show you,” he says. 

He picks up her hand from the table and covers it with his. They pantomime lighting the middle candle, then using it to light the rest. Even without real flames, his hand feels warm over hers and she realizes this isn’t the worst way to spend Christmas Eve. 

“Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech haolam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tsivanu l’hadlik ner shel Hanukkah,” he whispers in her ear as they pretend to light the candles. “Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech haolam, she-asah nisim la’avoteinu bayamim hahem bazman hazeh.”

“What does it mean?” she asks.

“Oh, you know, the usual,” he sighs. “Bless you God, we thank you for all your wondrous deeds. Although the Yankees haven’t won a World Series in nearly 20 years, so I'm not sure exactly what we’re thanking him for.” 

They’ve mock-lit all the candles now but he’s still holding her hand. She knows she should pull away but she doesn’t want to break the spell. He’s her partner and, she’s slowly starting to realize, her best friend. They don’t do this enough—simply spend time together. That’s not entirely true. They spend nearly every waking hour during the week at each other’s sides, but they’re typically debating a theory or investigating a case, not simply enjoying one another’s company. And for all the times he frustrates, challenges, irritates, and even ditches her, she really does enjoy Mulder’s company. 

“Thank you for sharing this with me,” she says. 

He shrugs, taking his hand off hers to pick up his beer bottle. She immediately notes its absence. “That’s my first time lighting the candles since Samantha was taken. She disappeared a few weeks before Hanukkah, which kind of put a damper on that year’s festivities, and then after that, we stopped practicing.” 

“I understand,” she says, suddenly embarrassed. “I’m sorry if this triggered any bad memories.”

“No, not at all, Scully,” he chuckles. “It was my idea, anyway. Besides, we’re a lot like the Maccabees.”

She isn’t sure where he’s going with this, so she raises an eyebrow as an invitation to continue. 

“We’re the underdogs fighting for what we believe in against all odds, looking for a little light in the darkness.”

He grins at her and she returns the smile. She doesn’t underestimate the significance of him including her in his quest. For so long, he’d been chasing windmills on his own but for three years now he’s had her by his side. She’s seen things she hasn’t been able to explain through science or logic, she’s had her own body manipulated by these shadowy men, and she’s lost her sister to the cause, but she never fled. She never considered abandoning him, tossing him back into the darkness alone. That, at least, is something to celebrate. 

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

3 Teenagers' Disturbing ALIEN ENCOUNTER CASE From California In 1977

On May 20th, 1977, three 14-year-old boys witnessed a UFO and three faceless, smoky black entities near West Pittsburg, California. After seeing strange red lights and a craft demonstrating extraordinary speed, they encountered 5'6" to 6' tall beings that appeared to follow them. The case was deemed one of three credible Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the US that year, investigated by multiple UFO researchers who found the boys' separate accounts notably consistent, though no physical evidence was discovered.

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[andrejsartclub]

2023.04.06. Memories of an abandoned car acrylic/canvas,50x70 cm

Once a sleek and shiny car, now, the old abandoned car lay rusted and forgotten in a field on the edge of town. Although it had seen better days, the car had many stories to tell.

The car had been around for decades and witnessed many incredible sights during that time. It had seen a UFO in the sky whose otherworldly lights cast an eerie glow over the landscape. Auto had always been fascinated by these strange objects, wondering where they came from and what their purpose might be.

It had also seen locomotives on giant bridges, their steel wheels clattering over the rails as they rumbled across the fields. The car watched in awe as these massive machines hurtled over deep ravines and rushing rivers, their whistles blowing a haunting tune that echoed through the valley.

But perhaps the most memorable thing the car had ever seen was a pair of young lovers in a meadow. The car was parked nearby, hidden in the shadows, while the couple lay in the grass, their bodies entwined in a loving embrace. The car had watched them whisper words of love to each other, their faces glowing in the warm light of the setting sun.

Over the years, the car gradually wore out. Its once-shiny paint peeled, its wheels sunk into the ground, and its windows became cracked and cloudy. But despite its age and decay, the car remained a silent witness to the world around it, taking in every sight and sound that came its way.

And so it was that when the car was finally discovered by a group of curious teenagers, they found themselves drawn to its weathered exterior, wondering what secrets it might hold. They climbed inside, imagining all the adventures it must have had and wondering how it had held up over the years.

Because while the old abandoned car could see a lot, it had also stood the test of time, a testament to the enduring power of memory and the beauty of the world around it.

[whitepolaris]

The Surge of 1965

Perhaps it was the Cold War. Maybe it was the Space Race. It could have been America's raising counterculture, or possibly The Beatles' recent "invasion." Whatever the cause, it appears that intelligent aliens took a great interest in the United States beginning in the summer of 1965, resulting in one of the largest, if not the largest, swell of UFO sightings in history. And it began right here in Oklahoma.

On July 11, at about 4 a.m., two teenagers who probably shouldn't have been awake at that hour spotted two UFOs flying over the capital city. Possibly the same objects, though their numbers had increased to three, were seen again in the same area by other witnesses the very next day. Nine days later, separate witnesses reported unusual lights in the sky, this time for three full nights in a row. What at first seemed to be mere coincidence started to look like a full-fledged event.

Then things really started to take off. Based on reports starting in late July, Oklahomans were hard-pressed to look up and not see something strange hovering overhead. Objects were spotted both visually and on Air Force radar near Wynnewood. Witnesses in Oklahoma City saw a strange round object with wings drifting close to the ground in the 600 block of NW Sixty-third Street. A man fishing on Lake Hefner said he saw a saucer-shaped craft emerge from the water and fly away. Objects looking much like children's tops began to show up in virtually every major city.

When an officer at Tinker Air Force Base saw something unusual in the sky, he called upon another officer to verify what he had seen. Together, and with the aid of a telescope, the officers confirmed that it could not have been an ordinary celestial body. After all, the craft, which was saucer-shaped and rimmed with pulsing lights, was seen traveling speedily at a forty-five-degree angle and visibly passed in front of observable planets.

Meanwhile, that same night, witnesses all over Oklahoma, as well as many others across the Midwest, marveled at brightly lit objects of various shapes and colors dancing in the night sky. As many as eight at once appeared over Ardmore. They glowed, circled, flickered intensely, and moved in unpredictable patterns, some skipping about and disappearing in a flash, others hovering in place for as much as an hour. Such reports continued throughout the summer and, according to some, didn't really taper off until well into 1967.

Unfortunately, this unprecedented wave of sightings was, on the whole, dismissed by the Air Force, which was responsible at the time for investigating such reports, even though members of their own staff reported having seen UFOs themselves. Oklahomans, however, knew what they saw.

The Smith Photo

Out of the rash of UFO sightings that cropped up in the summer of 1965 came what many consider one of the best photographs of an unidentified object ever taken. Captured by fourteen-year-old Alan Smith, the craft was spotted hovering high above Tulsa on the evening of August 2, or perhaps past midnight on August 3.

The image (shown here) is the second known photo to be taken of an unknown aerial object above Oklahoma and is believed to be the first-ever nighttime photography of a UFO using color film. It depicts a multicolored object displaying segmented areas of red, green, and white light in an otherwise darkened sky. According to young Smith and the four other witnesses who saw the object, it appeared to them as a blob of light that shifted in color, although the photo seemed to reveal more detail. According to various reports, the object traveled from east to west, at one point apparently moving toward the witnesses and emitted a faint, high-pitched whine.

Skeptics have somewhat convincingly compared the shape of the object to a type of Christmas decoration popular at the time, which was basically a light with a rotating wheel of colored filters. They insist that it was an underexposed shot taken around the holidays. Numerous photographic experts, however, have determined the image to be authentic, and the photo, which has been published in numerous books and newspapers, as well as in Life magazine, remains one of the most intriguing UFO images ever captured.

[guitarrob]

Roswell - Animated Series

Hi everyone. :)

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“In the small town of Roswell, New Mexico, a grieving teenager, Josh, becomes consumed by the loss of his grandfather, Mac Brazel, the witness of the original 1947 UFO crash. Fueled by obsession, he begins his mission to prove the existence of aliens to his childhood best friends, Layton and Nyssa. As the trio navigate the challenges of high school, their lives become intertwined with teenage dreams and alien nightmares. Together, they pursue the truth beyond our world. Your support is the missing piece to bring this labor of love to life.”

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[marshfiend]

Mothman

Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand notes that Mothman has been widely covered in the popular press, some claiming sightings connected with UFOs, and others claiming that a military storage site was Mothman's "home". Brunvand notes that recountings of the 1966–67 Mothman reports usually state that at least 100 people saw Mothman with many more "afraid to report their sightings" but observed that written sources for such stories consisted of children's books or sensationalized or undocumented accounts that fail to quote identifiable persons. Brunvand found elements in common among many Mothman reports and much older folk tales, suggesting that something real may have triggered the scares and became woven with existing folklore. He also records anecdotal tales of Mothman supposedly attacking the roofs of parked cars occupied by teenagers.

Conversely, Joe Nickell says that a number of hoaxes followed the publicity generated by the original reports, such as a group of construction workers who tied flashlights to helium balloons. Nickell attributes the Mothman stories to sightings of barred owls, suggesting that the Mothman's "glowing eyes" were actually red-eye effect caused from the reflection of light from flashlights or other bright light sources. Benjamin Radford points out that the only report of glowing "red eyes," was secondhand, that of Shirley Hensley quoting her father.

According to University of Chicago psychologist David A. Gallo, 55 sightings of Mothman in Chicago during 2017 published on the website of self-described Fortean researcher Lon Strickler are "a selective sample". Gallo explains that "he's not sampling random people and asking if they saw the Mothman – he's just counting the number of people that voluntarily came forward to report a sighting." According to Gallo, "people more likely to visit a paranormal-centric website like Strickler's might also be more inclined to believe in, and therefore witness the existence of, a 'Mothman'."

Some pseudoscience adherents (such as ufologists, paranormal authors, and cryptozoologists) claim that Mothman was an alien, a supernatural manifestation, or a previously unknown species of animal. In his 1975 book, Keel claimed that the Point Pleasant residents experienced precognitions including premonitions of the collapse of the Silver Bridge, UFO sightings, visits from inhuman or threatening men in black, and other phenomena.

-Wikipedia

[singularfortean]

Here's an interesting UFO sighting to close out 2022.

[savedfromsalvation]

So, I was an aviation fanatic when I was a young teenager. I read everything I could find on WWI and WWII aviation. I would build my own design balsa wood airplane (biplane and monoplane) models, mount .049 engines on them and fly them, tether! One of my most exciting days was in the late 1950s, when B17s flew over our yard at treetop level dropping DDT pellets to eradicate fire ants!

A couple of years later, a buddy of mine and I would wax private small aircrafts (Cessna and Beechcraft) to earn money for flight lessons. Later my family relocated to another state because of a job promotion for my dad, and I wound up joining the Civil Air Patrol. This got me ground school training as well as the opportunity to fly once a month in one of the units two aircraft, a T34 trainer (often used as a stand-in for a Japanese Zero in WWII movies} and an older Piper Cub tail dragger. I also got to crawl around in am\n old B26 that was parked on a nearby apron.

I also was big into studying falconry due to my mom's ancient European family history. Long story, short, I was often looking up in the sky as kid.watching for planes and raptors.

One summer afternoon, I was in our backyard with a couple of my brothers. As usual, I was watching the sky, when I noticed a speck at a very high altitude, moving in a very unusual, erratic fashion:-sharp zig-zagging and 180 degree instant reversals in direction. "Guys," I yelled. "Look at that!" I knew that nothing on earth could move like this! Definitely, a UFO! Later, I had forgotten about this until one of my younger brothers reminded me of the incident.

Many years later, I was visiting my nephew and his Korean national wife, Soo. (My nephews dad was one of the witnesses of my UFO story, but had passed a few years earlier due to cancer.)

For a reason I don't remember, the conversation turned to UFOs, and I related the the above UFO story because it because it related to his dad. Soo got very excited! She exclame that she and some of her friends had seen something very similar in Korea!

[rhinestonelady]

You've got to smirk through druck's illogical decision to dissolve the strength of certain friendships in favor of showing this forced merger of the friendship groups (minus Constantin hahah). What a waste. But since this is the direction they have chosen, I can be pushed into believing that Sascha, who had shown all signs of being a loner, was welcomed and easily relaxed into Isi's circle once Constantin was pushed further back. To me the major oddity of this Friday night group is Lou. She is older and she dropped out of school after being there for about 10 short weeks - that was months ago. She was shown to be closest to Isi and constantin while at school, but it didn't seem like she formed any "deep" connections beyond those two. I don't believe Lou ,rebel without a cause, would choose to spend her Friday night in a room (mostly) full of old acquaintances? Especially since Constantin, who she implied she was having a thing with, is not there

True !

As much as I love the new gen, the writer’s decision to make everyone friends (except for constantin) will forever be cheap in my eyes. The og gen worked partly because i could actually buy into all of these people’s relationships, even when we had not witnessed the start of it. Because they had inside jokes, a particular dynamic, and because sometimes they didn’t like each other. If you’re aiming for realism while portraying teenagers (or people in general, actually), you have to understand that relationships are weird to navigate, often ambiguous and that it’s not as easy as it seems to please everyone and be integrated. Because people are not one-dimensional.

The best example of it for me is the OG boysquad. We never really met Abdi nor Carlos before season 3, yet the squad dynamic was already believable by the first clip of season 3 because they had that certain thing: jokes of their own, teasing, distinctive personalities which led to different roles and dynamics inside the friend groupe, etc… But most of all, they were shown to have standards concerning who they were willing to hang out with in the closed social circle of the school: they were mean towards girls in the way teenage boys often are, dismissive of their girlfriends’ feelings, often mean to Kiki, Leonie, Alexander or Sara. And THAT is also why it worked. Because in order to make me believe there’s friendship between a group of people, you also have to show me their unique bond and who they’re not friends with.

Hence why I don’t buy in any of the new gens relationships, apart from the couples (who have been developed one-on-one, and thus given more depth) and the Fatou-Ava relationship where you can sense a real chemistry and unique bond. So that’s why it made me tick to see Sascha being apparently super close to everyone on insta… because he’s a whole ufo there, he has not been shown to have any relationship with anyone apart from Isi, and I just can’t buy into it.

[esotericworld]

Jacques Vallée has been seriously studying UFOs longer than anyone I can think of. This article is a great read about the man. He has long advocated that UFOs are far more mysterious than physical creatures visiting our planet in space ships. He postulates that these UFO phenomena are from an entirely different ilk... that they're something truly alien to everything we think we know. “After six globe-trotting decades spent probing “the phenomenon,” the French information scientist is sure of only one thing: The truth is really, really out there.” “..when Vallée was 15 years old, he met the phenomenon on a clear, windless Sunday. He was up in the attic helping his dad with some woodworking while his mom was gardening outside. She screamed—he raced downstairs. He saw a gray disc silently parked above the town’s Gothic cathedral. Vallée’s best friend watched it from higher ground through binoculars. “We were the perfect little nerds!” he told me. “I got him to draw it. It was the same thing.” Vallée’s dad was sure the boys and his wife had seen a military prototype—an explanation his son almost swallowed... Vallée went to the Sorbonne to study math. One day, in a Paris department store, he picked up a book called Mystérieux Objets Célestes, by the philosopher Aimé Michel. In ufology at the time, the vogue was for nonfiction that borrowed from pulp’s plots about civilizations on Venus and Mars; against it, Célestes put forward the field’s first testable hypothesis. According to Michel, if you charted all those 1954 sightings on a map, you’d find that they made straight lines crisscrossing the country. He called the pattern “orthoteny.”

Vallée, thrilled to see a proper theory, sent the author a letter. The teenager questioned whether humans could communicate with these hidden intelligences, which Michel had termed “X.” In his reply, Michel said that he did not have much hope of that. He reminded Vallée that witnesses had seen craft appear out of thin air and shape-shift in split seconds. How could one make sense of visions like that? “Don’t be fooled by the idea of ‘getting to the bottom of things,’” he urged. “That’s only a mirage.” Vallée should instead cultivate his mind as if it were a flower—though he should also remember that “the poppy is a flower” and not get lost in any intoxicating notions.

The advice landed. Vallée began writing a novel called Le Sub-espace, about a team of scientists who flee a world war on Earth, get set up in a lab on the dark side of the moon, and build a machine that allows them to explore alternate realities while dodging “hallucinatory traps.” He published the book under a pseudonym and, under his own name, worked toward a master’s in astrophysics... [it later won a Jules Verne Prize]...”

[morimallow]

I think I just thought of the cutest request, Kurōo x Male reader songfic ( I can’t help falling in love with you)

where y/n isn’t the best at emotions or love and they attempt to push back their feelings. But the more they see Kurōo the more they fall in love, they just can’t help it.

They’ve been childhood friends and Kurōo has helped y/n through all of his problems, even witnessed him at his worse times.

A 1 year later they’re going to graduate and y/n is aware that they’re still in love with Kurōo, but is still not able to manage their emotions.

The day before graduation Kurōo invites y/n to go stargaze at midnight, but when the song is about to end at “I can’t help falling in love with you” Kurōo kisses y/n because he has been in love with y/n the entire time 😩

Sorry I’m gonna stop with the male readers 😅

A/N: This is absolutely cute and wonderful! I hope my writing did justice to this. This was my first time doing a song fic so I stared at the document longer than usual. 😅 I'm sorry if it was just implied stargazing. 😭

And don't stop sending them (unless if you really want to). I really enjoy writing for male readers! Feel free to come by my ask and tell me all about them. This has been fun!

Ah, one last thing. Were you the one who sent the Kuroo x male artist reader? I had fun with that too. >_<

Ahhh, this is a long author's note so I'll just go now.

Some Things Are Meant To Be

(Kuroo x Male!Reader song fic)

Wise men say only fools rush in

After an incident with your ex-boyfriend, you swore to never act according to your feelings. You experienced it once and it broke your heart to pieces. He was the typical Mr. Popular Guy you had a crush on who wanted to be with you but broke up because other people find the relationship disgusting. You don't know it would've hurt less if you just caught him with some other guy or if he just said he doesn't love you anymore. Either way, it would've hurt just as much. 

Kuroo was there for you — everytime, actually. He wouldn't leave even if you said so because he knows you need someone — someone to hold on to, someone who won't judge you for what you've done because he always understands. 

You can't repeat the same mistake again so you opted to think with your brain. Balance the possible outcomes and seek for other answers. It always ended up with one answer: to suppress your developing feelings for your childhood friend Kuroo. 

But I can't help falling in love with you

You'd think that's what is best for the both of you. How would you suppress your feelings without ignoring him? It's so hard, you fall in love even harder every time you look at him. You're that blushing teenager just because Kuroo waited for you outside your classroom, because you're the one he doesn't want to go home alone, you're the one Kuroo loves the most but you don't know that. 

The feeling inside your heart grows and it scares you so much. 

Shall I stay?

Your relationship with Kuroo didn't falter but Kuroo didn't miss a single thing with how you acted from how hesitation passed through your expression when he asked if you wanted to go out with you on Saturday for this newly released movie in the cinema to how you would flinch when he called you so many times because you were thinking whether or not you should stay away from him. 

Would it be a sin if I can't help falling in love with you?

Is it wrong to fall in love? You feel like it's wrong to feel this way. What have you done in your past lives to deserve this? For the love of all things holy, you just want to be genuinely happy. What if you find happiness in your childhood friend? What's so wrong with that? Everything, you thought. Every single memory you had together would be like poison to his whole being. He's a dork, a cheesy dork. You listed every single flaw he had but you just ended up loving every single one of them. It hurts. You didn't want to love again. 

Like a river flows surely to the sea

Like they said, everything happens for a reason and every action has a purpose. You decided to leave things be — just forget about the butterflies in your stomach just for today. You went out with Kuroo to see the movie. It's a friendly date, you thought. You've done this a thousand times, you can do it again even if you acknowledged your feelings. Just for today… let it go. 

Darling, so it goes, some things are meant to be

Kuroo thinks he's doing a good job but he doesn't know you're hurting too. He sighed. If it's meant to be, it'll be. 

Oh, cursed fate, please give me a sign we're meant to be. 

Take my hand, take my whole life too

Kuroo's hands were never cold. It felt right. Perfect, even. You didn't want to let go nor would you mind spending the rest of your life with him. 

For I can't help falling in love with you

You just had to hope he feels the same way you do. Love really is a complicated thing. There's always at least one thing you should sacrifice but the outcome is never clear and definite. 

Like a river flows surely to the sea

It was the night before graduation and Kuroo had prepared everything by the evening. He rented a small hut by the sea and made it cozy with thick blankets and some throw pillows. It was perfect — the water reflected the moon and the sky was clear of clouds so the stars are out and adorning the night sky. It's amazing how the both of you are compatible, you'd talk nonstop about useless things like what would the two of you do if a UFO suddenly lands on the beach or how you'd visit each other's colleges because your courses are different. Those talks seemed pointless but to the both of you, it was just another reason why you love each other. The moon does do weird things to people. 

Darling, so it goes, some things are meant to be

The water was freezing cold but Kuroo held you all the time so you didn't mind. You never did mind. It's always okay when it comes to Kuroo because he made you safe somehow. You just know he won't leave you no matter the situation. Were you meant to stay as friends or to become more than friends? You hoped for the latter and then you realized your feelings for him never changed. 

Take my hand, take my whole life too

You rose to the surface and looking at Kuroo made your heart stop beating. He looked beautiful, his bones were more defined because of the moonlight illuminating his sharp structures, eyes twinkling like the stars you were seeing a while ago. The night was perfect. 

For I can't help falling in love with you

You noticed how Kuroo's face softened when he averted his eyes from the bright moon to your flustered face. At that time, he knew you'd return his feelings. 

He slowly cupped your left cheek as rubbed it with his thumb. He eyed your lips and licked his own before making eye contact with you. Your breath hitched. 

Kuroo tilted his head, “May I?” he asked. 

“Yeah,” you said in a breathless voice. 

For I can't help falling in love with you

It felt nothing like fireworks or heart flutters. All you felt were safety, love, sincerity and you can't help but cry into the kiss as you pulled him closer to you. This is what loving freely felt like. It was something meant to happen and it was the time you fully accepted your feelings for Kuroo. 

“I've always been utterly and hopelessly in love with you, Y/N.” 

M. List

[astonishinglegends]

Ep 209: The Phantom Horse of Greensboro

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

– Revelation, Chapter 6, Verse 8, King James Version

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Many of us have taken an adventurous expedition to check out some local, notorious spot to see if we could witness or sense some evidence of a past famous or infamous incident.  Most of the time, one only returns with a minor anecdote or pictures of an ordinary location bereft of anything noteworthy.  The more realistic purpose is not so much to find a ghoulish memento but to imagine what it must've been like to have been there when it happened.  But what if such an outing starts with strange coincidences and ends with the adventurers enduring a paranormal event seemingly unrelated to the original incident?  This is the sort of tale we'll hear from our good friend, graphic designer, and illustrator Tommy Beaver about the time some friends went to check out the scene of a horrific crime that happened in Summerfield, North Carolina, almost 13 miles northwest of Greensboro.  On June 3, 1985, the incident in question occurred when at the end of a murder spree and police pursuit, Fritz Klenner and his first cousin, lover, and accomplice, Susie Newsome Lynch, ended their standoff detonating a bomb in their Chevrolet Blazer.  Klenner and Lynch had blown themselves up along with Lynch's already deceased two sons who were in the vehicle rather than face arrest.  The site of this shocking finale was what the friends were hoping to explore, but their souvenir was an unsettling experience they'll never forget.  Strangely, a mysterious white horse suddenly appeared to encounter the group, except that this creature may not have been a horse at all.  Many people have claimed to see a spectral white horse, and the ancient Britons believed a sacred white horse was one's ride to the afterlife.  Yet these friends may forever wonder, as will we, what was the connection of this beast to the tragedy if there is one?  And if this wasn't a horse as we know it, what sort of monster haunts the location of one of North Carolina's most ghastly crimes?

Location:

The intersection of Strader Road & North Carolina State Road 150 in Summerfield, near where Fritz Klenner and Susie Newsom Lynch blew themselves up in their Chevy Blazer after a crime spree and police pursuit on June 3, 1985, and where Tommy’s friends saw the mysterious “horse.”

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Reference Links:

Illustrator and Graphic Designer Tommy Beaver’s website, tommybeaverdesign.com

“Summerfield slaughter 30 years ago ended in deaths of couple, two sons” from the Greensboro News & Record

Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder, a novel by Jerry Bledsoe, 1988

The púca, pooka, phouka of Irish/Celtic folklore

The kelpie of Scottish folklore

“Horses in Celtic Mythology” from Transceltic.com

“Have ghost HORSES been captured on video? Teenagers believe they spotted ethereal equine scene at one of Britain's most haunted sites” from DailyMail.co.uk

“Phantom Horses” on real-british-ghosts.com

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Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook

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Really Mysterious Pennsylvania: UFOs, Bigfoot, and Other Weird Encounters, Casebook 1

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When the G0lden C0rral burned down. (Edit: By the way, I am completely serious about the town’s appreciation for G0lden C0rral, and fighting hard to install a Chil!’s, and being deliriously in love with @pplebee’s to the point of writing letters to the editor about the joy of happy hour deals. And I definitely remember one woman did explicitly mention @pplebee’s in the context of “why we need a Chil!’s.” These events took place in years before the internet eventually targeted those franchises as the punchline of jokes about the dying of quintessential Middle America iconography and “tradition.” So, looking back, it seems like an eerily-appropriate hallucinogenic vision of the decline of Americana, custom-made to service mid-2010s jokes.)

When I was in high school, the staff received news that the town’s local G0lden C0rral buffet was currently on fire and might be destroyed, and this was evidently a big deal because this town was dying, and everyone was painfully aware of the fact. And the town had obsessive, truly obsessive, nostalgia for its heyday in the 1940s, when they had become vain, intoxicated by money from coal, natural gas, the US military, and corporate monoculture growing grains for expanding 1950s cereal brands. But by the time of the fire at the restaurant, all of that was gone, over, done. A sadness hung over the town. The major events reported in the paper in the recent decades were: UFO sightings, businesses closing, more UFO sightings, racist assaults, drunk driving accidents, and gruesome murders. People got off work, drove (speeding through residential roadways) directly home, locked their door, made sure blinds were closed. (To this day, when I meet people also from that area, they will offer unsolicited comments about their relief for having escaped “the black hole.”) And so at various restaurants and business and homes across town, there often hung black-and-white photos of “the Good Days” and the polished cobblestone walkways of the still-living downtown district. (Meanwhile smoke rose from the campfires at the shantytown on the hillside, where “non-desirables” were sentenced to live. One time, at a small art museum, I saw a photo of a wealthy white couple in the 1950s, very well-dressed, taken outside of a fine restaurant, and the columns of smoke. I asked one of the museum curators about it. She said “oh, that’s where the Native people lived” because the city wouldn’t lend or rent to them.) And so the town cherished gaudy mid-20th-century Americana, and they couldn’t bear to lose a G0lden C0rral.

I biked everywhere, all day, though I did have a vehicle. They shouted slurs at me all the time, and I had full beer cans and liquor bottles thrown at me by vehicle drivers multiple times for having the audacity to ride a bike. The year after the fire, when the town was offered “free” financial assistance from the state to install bike lanes, at a public comment session, there was a line so long it extended out the door of the city council office. People had all kinds of antisemitic and strange violent things to say about how “the Californians want us to install bike lanes” and “the New World Order is trying to impose this hippie bullshit” and “it’s a plot against coal and oil and gas to diminish vehicle use.” I’m dead serious, those comments were recorded in the paper. Around that same time, the town was also deciding what to do with a nice empty lot in the only relatively successful commercial center. The options were: (1) Install a complex with a locally-owned taqueria, a bistro using produce only from local farms, and some other quaint business. Or (2) bring in a Chil!’s franchise. People were stoked about the potential for a Chil!’s. It was a Big Deal. Once again, and I am not making this up, the line at the public comment session was so long that it stretched out the door. After many angry comments (again, not making this up), the town chose to install the Chil!’s, with at least one article in the paper quoting someone who advocated for the Chil!’s because the local @pplebee’s had recently ended some deals and began closing earlier.

During the same year period as the fire at the buffet, I had been sitting at a pleasant neighborhood park when multiple cop cars showed up, suddenly. Cops swarmed a pick-up truck, with shotguns aimed directly at the head of a teenager, high school student. More than 10 cops, all guns drawn. I was sitting 3 meters away. I immediately asked one cop if I could leave, and they told me “no,” and so I got to witness the dialogue. The cops had tracked these kids, hunted them down, because they threw a plastic Peps! bottle out of their window earlier that afternoon, but they made the mistake of doing it in the wealthy neighborhood. And so a woman thought the bottle might have been made out of glass, and therefore “threatened the life of her dog” (if the dog ingested glass I guess?). She immediately called the cops, hence the military occupation of this nice little park, and that was the excuse for terrifying these kids with the shotguns. Coincidentally, the G0lden C0rral itself was only a few blocks from where a younger me had watched the draining and destruction of my favorite vernal pool and frog pond. So I had despised development, the destruction of the prairie, and the Hallmark-Card-wannabe posturing of the town for years, always disturbed by the horrible violent past (and present), etc. Had been repeatedly talked to by school district administrators and “concerned parents” of fellow students and “ex-friends” for activism and related “political stunts” from the time I was like 13 onward. And after spending years in this place, watching the town destroy all the native prairie for Chil!’s franchises and watching the townsfolk yell about the Jewish plot to install bike lanes to defeat the Beloved Gas Industry, I was ready to witness what fate had in store for this classic buffet franchise.

So when news came of the fire at G0lden C0rral, I stood up, and straight-up walked out of the room. Skipped class. Got in my vehicle. Drove directly to the burning building.

Firefighters had set up a perimiter, so I parked as close as possible. (About 50 meters or so.) I was sipping loose-leaf tea from an insulated water bottle. And the place did burn down. The firefighters had apparently determined that there was no salvaging the place, and so they let the fire take its course. It took about 30 minutes, but the fire eventually reached gas lines in the kitchen, and there was big explosion, and some glass panels blew out while part of the roof erupted into smoldering wooden shards.

It was a sunny day. Immediately afterwards, I went home and took a nap. I slept well. Moved away from that place within a year.

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Streaming on Plex: Best Movies and TV Shows You Can Watch for FREE in September

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Plex releases brand new and beloved titles to its platform monthly and we’ll be here to help you identify the cream of the crop. View Plex TV now for the best free entertainment streaming and check back each month for Den of Geek Critics’ picks!

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DEN OF GEEK CRITICS’ PICKS

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

They’re the world’s most fearsome fightin’ team. They’re heroes in a half-shell and they’re green. I mean, what more do we need to say? 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is no Citizen Kane, but comic book movie fans flock to it like the four titular turtles to pizza. The film knows exactly what it is, providing cheesy one-liners, silly action, and unpretentious fun. Throwing in Will Arnett as a sidekick for April O’Neil was an inspired choice that paid dividends in laughs and whoever tapped Tony Shaloub to voice Splinter should get a pay raise. Produced by Nickelodeon Pictures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wasn’t only the highest grossing film in the series, but also the highest grossing Nickelodeon film of all-time. This reboot of the classic ninja team helped spawn further films, new TV series, and a renewed interest in one of the most beloved comic book properties ever. Cowabunga, dude!

Noah

This isn’t your Sunday School’s Noah. Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of the story of the biblical figure Noah is an awe-inspiring epic that takes the bones of the famous story and infuses themes about environmentalism, self-doubt, and yes, faith. Pulling liberally from texts like the Book of Enoch, the film has far more action than just leading animals onto a boat and a storm. Shot by Matthew Libatique, the movie looks absolutely gorgeous and at times can be genuinely breath-taking, but it’s not just about the visuals. Russell Crowe stuns in the title role, but the entire ensemble is great, including a post-Potter Emma Watson and a ferocious Ray Winstone. No one expected Noah to be more akin to a thought-provoking art house film than a straight-forward epic, but that’s the sort of genius you get from Aronofsky, one of the most exciting and inventive filmmakers working today. 

Shine a Light

Even if we hadn’t just lost the immortal, suave Charlie Watts, the heartbeat of rock and roll’s longest institution, The Rolling Stones, we’d still be recommending Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light. Capturing the legendary band during their A Bigger Bang Tour in 2006, Scorsese spends a lot of the time rightfully focusing on Watts. With the camera fixated on Watts, you witness his unflappability; the way that he can make such raucous playing look so effortless. You also catch the man’s unique, jazz-influenced technique, like how he rarely hits the center of his snare, or how he changes his grip whenever he hits a cymbal. Even in their old age, the Stones are still one of the tightest, most electrifying live acts, and Shine a Light puts you right on stage with them as they barrel through one of the deepest catalogs in recorded music. It’s simply a masterful concert film.

The Virgin Suicides

Sofia Coppola likely has to deal with accusations about nepotism to this day, but anyone who saw her directorial debut The Virgin Suicides knows that Francis’ daughter would have made it as a filmmaker even without her famous last name. This haunting adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel of the same name taps into the melancholy of childhood, the dreamlike haze of memory, and the mystery that lurks inside suburban homes. Coppola expertly captures the pull that an ethereal group of sisters have on the imaginative group of boys that pine for them in a way that is relatable for anyone that had an unrequited crush in high school. As a coming-of-age movie, it is one of a kind. As an exploration of trauma and grief, it is crushingly effective. The original score by the band Air only adds to its hypnagogic vibe. 

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

Punk rock music and Roger Corman pictures are some of the core tenants that Den of Geek was founded on, so of course we’re going to recommend 1979’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, which features possibly the coolest band of all-time, The Ramones. Let our resident punk rock movie expert Jim Knipfel break it down for you:

“After producing so many dozens of teen rebellion films over the years, Corman finally hit the pinnacle, the ultimate teen rebellion picture, with the cartoon antics ratcheted up more than a few notches. There are so many bad jokes flying around, so many visual gags and film references packed into every scene, so many overwrought teen film clichés pushed way past absurd, it’s a film that demands multiple viewings. Even if “Riff Randall, rock ’n’ roller” (P.J. Soles) doesn’t look much like any punk chick I ever knew, I’m perfectly willing to accept it. And in historical terms, it really was this film more than the 4 albums they had out at the time that spread the word about The Ramones to mainstream America, and that’s worth something. Old as I am I still get a thrill every time the students and the Ramones blow up Vince Lombardi High, and anyone who doesn’t must be wrong in the head somehow.”

New on Plex in September:  

1000 Times Good Night 

13 

13 Assassins 

The Accidental Husband 

All Good Things 

Assassination of a High School President 

Awake 

Bent 

Bordertown 

Brain Dead 

Cold Mountain  

The Descent 

The Descent Part 2  

Even Money 

Fear City 

First Snow 

Freedom Writers  

Gray Matters  

The Jesus Rolls 

Johnny Was  

Keys to Tulsa  

The Legend of Bagger Vance  

Mad Money 

Marrowbone 

Murder on the Orient Express 

The Ninth Gate 

Nothing but the Truth  

Ordinary People 

Rememory  

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School  

Sanctuary  

Shine a Light  

Soul Survivors  

Taboo  

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  

The TV Set  

The Virgin Suicides  

What Doesn’t Kill You  

Winter Passing  

World Trade Center  

Catch before it leaves in September: 

31 

Absolution  

Accident Man  

Aeon Flux 

After.Life 

Angel of Death 

Answer Man 

The Bang Bang Club 

Battle Royale 

Blood and Bone 

The Broken 

Cashmere Mafia  

Child 44 

Cleaner 

Cold Comes the Night 

Coming Soon 

The Connection 

Conspiracy  

The Cookout  

Critical Condition  

Dark Crimes  

The Death and Life of Bobby Z 

Death Proof 

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star 

Downhill Racer 

Dragged Across Concrete  

The Dresser  

The Duel 

Dummy 

Flight of Fury 

Flirting with Disaster  

The Foreigner  

Goat  

Gutshot Straight  

Halloween III: Season of the Witch  

The Hard Corps  

Hesher  

High Right 

Honeymoon  

The Hunt 

I Saw the Devil 

In the Mix 

Jason and the Argonauts 

Jeff, Who Lives at Home 

Jiri Dreams of Sushi  

Joe 

Journey to the West  

Kill ‘Em All 

A Kind of Murder 

The Kite Runner 

Lake Placid 2 

Lake Placid 3 

Last Resort 

The Lazarus Project 

Misconduct 

Mr. Church 

Mutant Chronicles 

Mythica: The Godslayer 

Mythica: The Iron Clown  

Never Back Down: No Surrender 

News Radio  

Noah 

Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior  

Ong Bak: The Beginning  

The Order 

Out for a Kill 

The Outcasts  

Phantoms 

Pistol Whipped 

The Protector 

Pulse (2001) 

Reprisal  

Return to the Blue Lagoon 

The River Murders  

The Romantics 

Second in Command 

Shadow Man 

Shattered  

The Shepherd 

Southside with You 

Space Station 76 

Square Pegs 

Standoff 

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation  

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder 

Steel Dawn 

Substitute  

The Super  

SWAT: Under Siege 

The Terminal  

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada  

Touchy Feely  

Trollhunter 

UFO 

Universal Solider: Day of Reckoning  

Vamps  

Vicky Cristina Barcelona  

Walking Tall: Lone Justice 

Warlock 

What Planet are You From?  

World’s Fastest Indian 

World’s Greatest Dad  

The Yellow Handkerchief  

Still streaming on Plex: 

2:22 

2 Days in New York 

21 Jump Street  

22 Bullets  

24 Hours to Live  

3rd Rock from the Sun 

6 Bullets  

99 Homes 

A Little Bit of Heaven 

A Walk in the Woods 

The Air I Breathe  

Alan Partridge 

ALF  

Alone in the Dark 

Amelie 

American Pastoral  

And Soon the Darkness 

Andromeda  

Are You Here 

Arthur and the Invisibles  

Awake 

Battle in Seattle 

Bernie 

Better Watch Out 

Black Death  

Blade of the Immortal 

Blitz 

The Brass Teapot 

Bronson 

The Brothers Bloom 

The Burning Plain 

But I’m a Cheerleader 

Cake  

Candy  

Catch .44 

Cell  

The Choice 

Clerks II 

Coherence  

The Collector  

Colonia  

Congo  

Cooties 

The Core 

The Cotton Club 

Crossing Lines  

Croupier  

Cube  

Cube 2 

Cube Zero 

Cyrano de Bergerac  

Death and the Maiden 

The Deep Blue Sea 

Deep Red 

Derailed 

Detachment 

The Devil’s Rejects  

Diary of the Dead 

District B13 

DOA: Dead or Alive 

Dr. T and the Women  

Eden Lake 

The Edge of Love  

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Something I really like doing is imagining how Cryptids would fit into the Cthulhu Mythos. What would a gormless Miskatonic Alumni find when investigating a cryptid hotspot?

So I'm doing a split, top row is actual sightings of Mothman and similar creatures, bottom row are Mythos entities that might "explain" the sightings. Not all of them have to be true at once. Consider them possibilities, CoC investigation prompts or even in-universe theories by people "in the know".

Mothman

Your ordinary every day Mothman, best known for its appearance in Point Pleasant West Virginia preceding the collapse of the Silver Bridge. It was seen again fairly recently, during the Chicago flying humanoid flap of 2017. Some also claim it was present for several tragic events including a German mine collapse, the Chernobyl meltdown and even the 9/11 attacks, although I believe these are apocryphal.

Contrary to its name I don't believe I've ever read an account of a Mothman sighting that gave it any insectoid features whatsoever. It is usually described as a furry or feathered biped of approximately 6-7 feet tall, winged, headless and featureless aside from glowing red eyes. It is usually dark, although some of the early sightings in Point Pleasant reported that it was white or ash-grey.

Mothman sightings often coincide with other anomalous phenomenon; including UFOs, poltergeist activity, hairy hominids and strange inhuman men, specifically the Grinning Man Indred Cold.

Owlman

Often considered the British counterpart to the Mothman, it was sighted a few times in Cornwall in the 1970s through to the 90s before crossing the pond in time for the Chicago flying humanoid flap. The main difference between it and the Mothman is the presence of a well defined head. It also has clawed wings in some reports.

While it was never connected to any major tragedies, the British Owlman sightings supposedly coincided with severe weather and bizarre animal behavior. If the Owlman is the same kind of entity as the Mothman and they are attracted to disaster, perhaps something esoteric was going down in Cornwall at the time?

Bat Beast of Kent

Another British offering, although this one actually precedes the Mothman by three years! Four teenagers witnessed a golden "star" floating behind some trees before a black humanoid figure shambled out of the woods. They said it was a headless humanoid, about 5 feet tall with webbed feet and large batlike wings.

While both Mothman and Owlman were seen during a time of increased UFO activity, only the Bat Beast was (to my knowledge) actually witnessed at the same time as an apparent craft, although nobody actually saw it leave the UFO.

Interestingly a similar UFO was witnessed the week before in the same area but accompanied by a human figure with a red cape. If all these phenomenon are connected, perhaps the red caped person was the Bat Beast's equivalent to Indred Cold?

Spiderbat

Sighted in southern Alberta Canada, the Spiderbat was seen ducking into the witness's barn. He said it was huge and bulky and described it as "kind of like Mothman but with spider teeth and small white eyes". It perched in the barn's window even though it seemed like it should be too large to fit. As soon as he saw it, the witness turned to run for his house. He felt as though it was rushing at him as he fled, even though it never reached him. Although it hasn't been seen again thel witness claims he still hears strange noises from the barn at night and often feels watched in the area.

This is a weird one and I don't normally take this sort of sighting very seriously but I really wanted to draw it! Besides, it's way better than the Batsquatch.

Spectre

This is less an actual sighting and more personal speculation with artwork fueled by the Mothman Prophesies movie. The Mothman sometimes seems less than a physical creature and more like a haunting force, impressing supernatural terror into those that witness it and behaving in impossible ways. It flies without flapping its wings, it seemed to have an effect on nearby electronics and poltergeist activity was also reported in the area.

Perhaps the Mothman is a spiritual entity, either a warped human ghost or some elemental creature of the Astral realms?

Mothman in the Mythos

Fungi From Yuggoth

The story "Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley" implies that the Mothman are a simple misidentification of the winged sporecrab forms of the Migo and that certainly makes some sense. The Migo are connected to alien folk-lore already. Their biodrones look like the archtypical Grey alien, their gateships are certainly disk shaped and they have human allies and waxen masked Migo infiltrators to serve as the Men in Black. But I'd like to go a little further.

Perhaps they are in fact another form of the Fungi's encounter drones? A heavily armored surveillance platform, the encounter drones where deployed to Point Pleasant to investigate strange psionic energy readings in the area. As the locals were gripped in Mothman hysteria, the Migo hunted for the source of their readings. Unfortunately they were unable to find it before the bridge fell and the psionic energy dissipated. Now it's 2017, the same energy has appeared in Chicago and the Migo aren't planning to fail twice...

The Million Favoured Ones

The so-called "Grinning Men" were in West Virginia around the same time as the Mothman, often in the company of UFOs. Some theorists posit that they are the Mothmen, taking a human form in order to interact with us. Indrid Cold is the best known Grinning Man but supposedly two more named Demo Hassan and Karl Ardo where also encountered in the area.

Perhaps the Mothmen are members of the Favoured Ones, shapeshifting alien sorcerers who do Nyarlathotep's inscrutable bidding. What purpose would they serve in prophesying or orchestrating the collapse of the Silver Bridge? It's unlikely that anyone would be able to find out until long after the fact.

Living Pterosaur

You might ask, "hey, isn't this an actual theory on what Mothman could be? Why is it down here in the Mythos section?" Well hypothetical person; in the Triassic era the Yith encountered a species of sapient pterosaurs, described by a captured human mind only as "black-snouted, winged creatures".

The Yith keep hidden stasis vaults of specimens and artifacts, serving as museums or supply caches and safe-rooms for their brain-casting operatives throughout time and space. Occasionally these vaults open unpredictably, their mechanisms failing after millions of years or by sabotage from the Yith's many enemies. It has happened before, a vault released populations of Cretaceous megafauna onto the Thurian continent during the pre-Hyborian age.

Now the pterosaur-folk are just the tip of the iceberg as Mythos forces converge on Point Pleasant, searching for the secrets of the Yith and their valuable artifacts.

Byakhee

It is unlikely that most witnesses would neglect to mention the sensory impressions of searing yellow light and psychic demands for space mead but regardless, some of the smaller species of Byakhee bear a more than superficial resemblance to the Mothman phenomenon.

Tskohmoi Independent Race

The Tskohmoi are an alien species from a distant part of the galaxy. Although they are entirely composed of physical matter, they are capable of sorcery and use it in their exploration of the universe. They can wrap themselves in plasmoid shells, racing through the void of space as blazing orbs. Although they are not shapeshifters the Tskohmoi are masters of mental influence and can impress all manner of images with their magic, including making themselves appear human to an observer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mothman is one of my favourite cryptids, constantly jockeying for position against the Flatwoods Monster and high-strangeness Sasquatch sightings. Chupacabra used to be up there too but now that it's just a mangy dog it's not as interesting. I plan to make at least a few more of these but it kinda depends on what I get good ideas for.