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In the early 1970s, a pair sharing a hotel room had a bizarre and terrifying encounter with a trio of inhuman entities, which some believe to be of diabolical origin and others insist are alien. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

For decades unsuspecting individuals—from experienced hunters to frolicking youths—claimed to have come face-to-hideous-face with what seems to be members of an unknown, cabal of ebony entities that are evidently lurking in the forests along the United State’s east coast. Here are two terrifying tales of just such encounters. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday!  HOUSE OF THE FACELESS PEOPLE:In the swampy wilds outside a small New England town lurks a horrifying legend regarding an elderly caretaker and a group of humanoid entities whose most defining facial features are their utter lack of them.  THE MOUNT WASHINGTON INCIDENT:After a professional mountaineer—who was sent to assess the winter damage done to a popular climbing cottage—failed to radio into base camp, a rescue operation was swiftly mounted. The search party found the once brave man a quivering shell of himself who later regaled the crew with a tale that is considered by some to be New Hampshire’s scariest paranormal encounter. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

Like Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch, Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest is a seeming supernova of often alarming and always perplexing paranormal phenomena and in the early 1970s, a group of campers would have a series of increasingly terrifying encounters with a trio enigmatic entities and a pack of monsters that held them hostage in a nightlong siege of unrelenting horror. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

Whether they be found in L. Frank Baum's “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” or J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastical Middle-earth, the idea of sentient, mobile, tree-like beings have ignited imaginations across the globe, but what if entities like Marvel Comics eponymous “Groot” were not merely works of fiction but based on something ancient, alarming and all-too real. Axy Alvarado: https://www.instagram.com/ax_eeeeeeee/  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

Fantastic reports of documented encounters between the living and the dead! Ghosts In Print: An Assemblage Of Spirits, Spooks, & Specters From Newspapers Of Old:https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Print-Assemblage-Specters-Newspapers/dp/B08KYJTTT9/  The Pine Barrens Institute: https://pinebarrensinstitute.com  RiskyBismuthStudio: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RiskyBismuthStudio  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

In the late 70s an experienced French rider mounted her favorite horse, had the foresight to take a spare and called her dog to accompany her on a tour of her family’s vast rural estate; never once suspecting that her scenic excursion into the swampy wilds would become a week long odyssey of terror from which—some say—she never fully recovered. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

During the first half of the 20th Century, in a the span of less than two months, multiple families hailing from Botetourt, Virginia fell prey to a series of bizarre and terrifying series of attacks by a group of enigmatic individuals who—for reasons that remain unknown—filled their homes with noxious and (in at least one case) potentially lethal gas. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

For two young men—one American; one Irish—a pair of mundane activities would swiftly spiral out of control plummeting each of them into a nightmarish paranormal vortex resulting in violent confrontations with two utterly inexplicable, quasi-humanoid, animalistic entities that seemed to be hellbent on assaulting their human prey. ARandomShoppe: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ARandomShoppe  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

The Count Von Count follow up! #152: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 10 https://cryptonautpodcast.com/podcast/152-e-s-m-b-listener-stories-part-10/  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

This pair of ostensibly cryptozoological encounters represents two of the most terrifying and bizarre unknown creature cases on record and forces one to wonder what other unmitigated genetic horrors mother nature may have concocted the primordial cauldron of evolution. New World Explorers Society:http://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

In 2010, a government worker accidentally stumbled into an unnerving encounter with entities of unknown origin; instantaneously ripping him from the workaday world of his everyday existence and thrusting him headlong into a perfidious and peculiar parallel universe that made him not only question his sanity... but fear for his very life. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

In a scenario culled equally from a mid-50s, sci-fi drive-in epic and a 1980s animated TV classic, a young Florida couple had a terrifying run-in with a transforming, mechanical creature—an encounter that would leave them in a state of shock and forever shatter their preconceived notions of reality. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

In the1930s—over a decade before Kenneth Arnold’s infamous flying saucer sightings would usher in the modern UFO era—a teenager flying his kite near one of Puerto Rico’s stunning coastal vistas had an unsettling encounter with a UFO and its humanoid occupants, which resulted in one of the most extraordinary exchanges ever to have occurred between an ostensibly extraterrestrial entity and a human being... the ramifications of which, some claim, are still being felt to this day. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

Shadow People!  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

In the first decade of the 20th Century the north-eastern portion of the United States was in the grips of one of the most intense para-natural flaps on the books, but while most citizens claimed to have had a run-in with one of North America’s most celebrated cryptids, there was one man who had a decidedly more surreal supernatural scrap with a creature that literally defied comprehension. New World Explorers Society:https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com  https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2021/04/millville-insanity-bird.html  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

In 1986—in a psychedelic twist on “The Most Dangerous Game”—a New England couple entered the lush forests of Maine for a few fun-filled days of hiking and camping; never once imagining that their relaxing getaway would transform into a nightmarish, life or death ordeal filled with phantom figures, mutilated carcasses, colossal critters and an armed man clad in outlandishly floppy bunny ears who seemed hellbent on hunting—and perhaps even killing—the terrified twosome. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

Following an endless cycle of abductions, examinations and hypnotic interrogations, 27 year-old sentry, Fortunato Zanfretta, found that the orb which the Dargos had given him was part of a triptych... two of which were in the possession of a clandestine cabal of American scientists who were desperate to link the objects in order to usher in a new era of free energy. But, as optimistic as these intentions were, there are others who remain convinced that this proposed nexus of alien tech could spell certain doom for the human race. The Zanfretta Case: Chronicle of an Incredible True Story:https://www.amazon.com/Zanfretta-Case-Chronicle-Incredible-Story-ebook/dp/B00R9TTCPO  Help Cancer Tiger ( Dave Storrs ) Kick Out Cancerhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/cancertiger  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

By the dawn of 1979, nightwatchman Fortunato Zanfretta had already been twice abducted by a sinister cabal of gargantuan, green aliens; but as ominous as this ordeal was; the frightened family man’s world would become even more chilling as he learned of the aliens’ alarming agenda and was given an odd, orbicular object which—some have surmised—held within it the key to humanity’s downfall. The Zanfretta Case: Chronicle of an Incredible True Story:https://www.amazon.com/Zanfretta-Case-Chronicle-Incredible-Story-ebook/dp/B00R9TTCPO  Help Cancer Tiger ( Dave Storrs ) Kick Out Cancerhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/cancertiger  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram 

In the frigid winter of 1978, an unsuspecting security guard was ripped from the normalcy of his heretofore comfortable life as a father, husband and breadwinner when he had a series of all too close encounters with a race of bulky green behemoths in what’s become Italy’s most infamous alien abduction and what some claim may be the best documented extraterrestrial events in European history. The Zanfretta Case: Chronicle of an Incredible True Story:https://www.amazon.com/Zanfretta-Case-Chronicle-Incredible-Story-ebook/dp/B00R9TTCPO  Help Cancer Tiger ( Dave Storrs ) Kick Out Cancerhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/cancertiger  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store:Hellorspace.com Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram