It is feeling like the New Jersey drone story all over again..
The media is suddenly paying attention to missing or dead scientists.. the President of the United States is commenting on it and saying UFO files will be released.. that they are interesting.. Will the media keep focus or will this just vanish after a few more news cycles?
While en route to Las Vegas, President Donald Trump told reporters on the White House Lawn that the executive branch was investigating the mysterious disappearances of ten scientists.
Trump emphasized it was “pretty serious stuff and he “ just left a meeting on that subject.
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“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half,” Trump said.
One of the scientists who went missing was retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland from his home in February of this year in Albuquerque, according to local officials. Local officials said he had “mental fog” and were medically concerned for him..
The 59-second 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, seen by billions of people over the decades, is often cited by proponents as proof that the giant, hairy creature exists
A new documentary — Capturing Bigfoot — uses recently unearthed footage to prove that the 1967 film was an “incredible hoax,” says director Marq Evans
“I think for a lot of people who have so much history and belief tied up in this story, it’s going to be really hard to accept,” says filmmaker Evans
Tonight is one of those rare astronomical events. The blood moon.
The moon will be eclipsed at the 33rd minute of the hour 6:33 a.m. eastern daylight time and 3:33 a.m. Western daylight time.. It will take place of course on March 3rd, 3 3 at the 33. It begins at 3:44 a.m. eastern Daylight Time..
There is no path of totality it could be seen widespread across the planet. At least when darkness prevails during the eclipse time.
This world war rages in the Middle East and expands, the president has a strange rash on his neck, and everyone just feels more and more like the off-kilter world is going upside down. Life during wartime. Life during the blood moon..
The real life Slenderman.. Maybe.. or a really tall pale hitchhiker? Either way you don’t pick them up..
British media is reporting about a real life ‘slenderman’ that was spotted along a highway.. Of course paranormal socials have picked it up and ran with it with their skinny legs..
Lauren Amour recorded the strange sighting on her dashcam as it loomed out of the darkness. Her post has now been shared around the world hundreds of thousands of times..
It happened in the early hours of Saturday on the A69 while Lauren was driving from Barnard Castle, County Durham to Newcastle upon Tyne, as reported by What’s The Jam.
So everyone has been talking lately about Stranger Things Season 5 and the idea that Mr. What’s It is based on a true story from 1962, a supposed incident where a group of children all saw and drew the same mysterious man wearing a hat.
Here’s the scoop. There probably is no true story from 1962.
What seems to be happening is that the same urban legend keeps getting repeated over and over across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, with no facts to back it up. There is no documented mass sighting of a Hat Man in 1962. There is no verified location. There is no teacher testimony. There are no archived newspaper articles. And there is no evidence anywhere that the Duffer Brothers ever said Henry’s Mr. What’s It character was based on an incident like this.
In fact, if anything, the character feels closer to something like A Wrinkle in Time than it does to a real world event. That doesn’t mean there isn’t something familiar about him, though. Because while the 1962 story appears to be made up, the Hat Man himself is not new.
The Hat Man has existed in human stories for a very long time, just under different names. In past cultures, shadow figures wearing cloaks or wide brimmed hats show up in folklore tied to night terrors, death omens, or spiritual visitations. Medieval Europe had depictions of dark watchers who stood at the edge of the bed. Victorian ghost stories often described tall men in hats appearing in doorways or hallways. Even older traditions talk about night spirits or watchers who observe silently rather than interact.
What’s interesting is how consistent the imagery is across time. A tall figure. A long coat or cloak. A hat. No clear facial features. No speech. Just presence.
In modern times, most Hat Man encounters are tied to sleep paralysis or intense fever dreams. People who experience it often describe being awake but unable to move, with a crushing sense of dread. And there he is, standing in the corner of the room, in the doorway, or at the foot of the bed… watching.
That idea was explored directly in the 2015 documentary The Nightmare, which focuses entirely on sleep paralysis experiences. The film features multiple people who had never met each other, all describing nearly identical encounters. In that documentary, the Hat Man is essentially the final boss of sleep paralysis. He doesn’t scream. He doesn’t chase. He just looms, silent and terrifying, while the person trapped in that half awake state cannot escape.
So while it may not be true that the creators of Stranger Things based Mr. What’s It on a specific mass sighting from 1962, it is very possible that the Hat Man mythology itself influenced what they created. The idea of a shadow figure that exists between worlds, between sleep and wakefulness, between childhood fear and cosmic horror, fits perfectly into that universe.
But here’s where we have to pump the brakes.
There is no real story that connects a 1962 Hat Man incident to the show. The posts making these claims all recycle the same language. They use AI generated images. They never give an exact location. They never cite a real source. And they never link to an actual quote from the Duffer Brothers.
If anyone out there can find a legitimate source, a real interview, a verified quote, or documented evidence that such an incident occurred and that it inspired the character, send it our way. We will research it. We will correct ourselves. We will say we were wrong.
But until then, this is an urban legend built on top of another urban legend.
We’ve been studying paranormal history for decades. We know about mass UFO sightings. We know about documented cases of mass hysteria in schools in Africa. But when it comes to the Hat Man and California in 1962, there is nothing. Not a single credible mention.
So for now, we’re sticking with this. The Duffer Brothers did not base Mr. What’s It on a 1962 incident because there is no evidence that incident ever happened.
And if the Duffer Brothers ever want to reach out and say otherwise, we’d absolutely love to talk.
Today isn’t just St. Nicholas Day, it’s also Krampus Day. And while most people grew up with the warm and fuzzy version of the season, the Alpine regions of Europe made sure kids understood that December wasn’t just cookies and love. There was always a dark and frightening shadow walking beside the saint.
Ole Kramps has long been one of our favorites..
The figure of Krampus goes back centuries.. older, in many ways, than St. Nicholas himself.
While St. Nicholas became part of Christian tradition around the 3rd–4th century, Krampus’ roots run deeper into old pagan winter folklore. These Alpine communities lived through long, brutal winters with darkness stretching hours longer than daylight. They told stories of horned, goat-like creatures roaming the solstice nights.. Imagine living in this darkness …Krampus became sort of a living symbol of winter’s terror.
When Christianity took hold, instead of eliminating those beliefs, it absorbed them. The gentle bishop St. Nicholas became the rewarder of good children, and Krampus became the punisher of the bad ones. A yin and yang. A cosmic seasonal checks-and-balances system.
Some historians even argue the Krampus figure predates St. Nicholas entirely and that he comes from a time when people feared the dark more than anything and needed a creature to explain the shadows that stretched across snow-covered villages. In other words, Krampus wasn’t invented to balance St. Nicholas… St. Nicholas was assigned to balance him.
Growing up in Catholic school, I always loved this day. I thought the old tradition was fun, and honestly, a little weird in the best way. December 5th was when we’d leave our shoes in a hallway, wondering whether St. Nicholas left candy… or if we’d get coal. Bells would ring. Of course we didn’t realize it was school staff. But we got candy. Phew. Crisis averted another year..
Never once did a nun warn us about Krampus dragging us away in a basket, but knowing the folklore now, I appreciate just how bizarre and brilliant these old traditions really were. Kids today think Elf on the Shelf is stressful. Imagine a horned goat-man showing up if you talk back to your parents.
Coke vs. Pepsi… but Make It Krampus
And here’s the fun part: if Santa Claus became the wholesome mascot for Coca-Cola, then Krampus absolutely deserves his own Pepsi campaign. Just imagine it: “Pepsi Krampus: The Choice of a New Generation… of Naughty Kids.”
He’s on a billboard, horns shining, holding a Pepsi can. He’s not leaving the North Pole; he’s leaving bite marks in your gingerbread men. Santa gets the cookies.. Krampus gets the coal-powered energy drink. Fair is fair after all..
We need that balance.. 🙂
People think Halloween is where the spooky season ends.
No. Halloween is merely the kickoff. Ancient folks believed the veil thinned as winter approached, not just on October 31st. November and December were long, dark, terrifying months with barely any light and no modern comforts. Every shadow in the corner of a one-room cabin was a threat. Every gust of wind sounded like something just outside the door.
Krampus isn’t out of place this time of year, he’s exactly what these months used to feel like.
And then comes December 25th it is the “rebirth of the sun.” Or son. The literal lengthening of the days. The symbolic birth of hope in both pagan and Christian traditions. Two belief systems pointing toward the same reality: The darkness finally stops winning.
Krampus ends his reign, St. Nicholas reigns supreme, Jesus is born, and the sun finally begins its slow return.
Imagine one day you go to the mailbox and there’s an envelope in there with no return address. Just your name. No explanation. Inside is an old VHS tape. No label. No handwriting. Nothing. Just a blank tape. So you dig out that old VCR from the closet or the basement, because of course you kept it, right? You pop the tape in, press play, and what comes on the screen is a dimly lit room with a group of people sitting around a table. Regular people. Nobody looks dramatic or haunted. They’re just… there. Talking to someone who isn’t visible. And then the table begins to move.
That idea sticks with me. Because the thing we’re talking about here is the Philip Experiment, and most of us only ever see fragments of it. Little clips that show up on YouTube or TikTok every so often. Grainy, eerie, just long enough to make you wonder if you’re seeing something you’re not supposed to see. The full uncut video isn’t floating around. It’s not archived publicly. Parts of it exist — but never the whole. Which adds to the legend, if you ask me.
Back in the early 1970s in Toronto, a group of people got together to see if they could create a ghost purely through imagination. They didn’t believe Philip was real historically. He wasn’t. They made him up. They gave him a life story, motivations, a tragic arc. They shaped him the way writers shape a character — except instead of writing a book, they sat around a table and tried to call him into existence.
This is where belief becomes interesting. Because these people weren’t actors, they weren’t psychics, and they weren’t trying to deceive anyone — including themselves. They knew Philip was fictional, and yet they set out to see whether their collective attention could make something happen.
And eventually, something did.
Knocking sounds. Rhythmic responses. The table moving. Slight at first, then more confidently. If you’ve ever sat around a Ouija board and felt that moment when the room shifts from joking to dead silent — you’ll understand the sensation. It’s not just about the movement. It’s the way the air changes. The moment your body reacts before your brain does.
I imagine that’s what happened in that Toronto room. Everyone knew Philip wasn’t real — until they felt something that made them question that certainty. And once one person believes, the belief becomes contagious. Group energy is real. Human minds sync. A spark in the room becomes a fire in the room, and suddenly everyone feels like something is there, whether they can define it or not.
Now, depending on what you believe, there are two paths this story can take.
Some say this was purely psychological. The human brain moving the table subconsciously. The ideomotor effect. A shared feedback loop of expectation and excitement.
Others say that when you call out to the void — something answers. But not always the thing you think you’re calling. And that it might have worn Philip’s face for the fun of it.
Either version is unsettling in its own way.
What stands out to me personally are those video clips. Watching the table move with no visible hands lifting it. Not proof — because the paranormal never seems to allow itself proof — but enough to make you sit still for a second. Enough to make you inhale differently. Enough to make you wonder if reality is a thinner membrane than we pretend it is.
Some of the people involved in the experiment did speak about it years later. None of them claimed it was hoaxed. None of them said they summoned an actual spirit either. What most of them said was something closer to this:
“We knew Philip wasn’t real. But the things that happened felt real.”
And that is the part that lingers.
Not the ghost. Not the séance. Not the story they invented.
But the moment where imagination and experience touch. Where the room feels different. Where the mind opens a door it didn’t know it could open.
And once a door is opened — even for a moment — who’s to say it ever really closes?
So here’s my question.
If you tried to recreate the Philip Experiment today — would you be daring enough to go through with it? And if you did, what would you name the entity you were trying to call into existence? Would you choose a new name? Or would you try Philip again?
And what if — just what if — when they created Philip all those years ago, they didn’t create something pretend… but they connected to something that has been drifting ever since. Not gone. Not dead. Just waiting in the quiet spaces between worlds to be acknowledged again.
So, let’s set the scene: Imagine you’re driving your Tesla through a quiet cemetery. It’s Halloween season, the perfect time for a little eerie tale.
Suddenly, your car’s sensor pings and shows a person detected right ahead. You look around—no one there. But the screen’s got this little figure moving, like someone’s walking among the gravestones. Creepy, right?
Is your Tesla a paranormal investigator on wheels?
In reality, what’s most likely happening on a purely logical level is that the car’s sensors are picking up on gravestones or other objects and mistaking them for people. Tesla’s not exactly out here confirming ghost sightings, but it’s a known quirky glitch—especially in places with a lot of oddly shaped stationary objects.
Right, that sounds logical, doesn’t it?
But…. let’s watch some videos and decide.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/povPhDTpEdc
Technology can be spooky.
Are these Teslas just giving us a scare around Halloween?
Well if not, then you don’t need a Ouija board just go buy a Tesla. Just remember, it’s all explainable…or is it?
It appears from what we found, this story actually dates back to the mid-summer of 2025, but it is just becoming a bit viral on social media now as opposed to then. And when you listen to the audio of a 911 call that has been released, you can see why..
You can hear it here, with someone calling 911 to say he thought he saw someone on the side of the road bleeding..
The 911 operator asks several more questions about the whereabouts of them man, there is a loud noise and suddenly the caller begins screaming frantically that something ‘not human’ is in the bed of his truck..
So the first reaction.. what in the world was this call about and is it even real.
This video can assist with some background on the story, with interviews with the Sheriff and more details about the town, and the call that occurred to 911:
The sheriff said the caller said the creature was beating on the top of the truck, and was eventually able to identify the object in the truck. The caller slammed on his breaks and the inertia threw the entity onto the highway, it stood up, and then entered the woods and disappeared..
The Carolina Case Files account interviewed the man who called 911, but did not share his name or face.. But the witness said he was coming up from Florida to visit his family.. When he was driving through North Carolina .. the witness said that a man was standing in a ditch wearing what appeared to be a torn Civil War uniform–odd to see after midnight on a highway.. The caller called 911 because he thought the man needed emergency assistance .. The caller said he suddenly heard a massive bang on the truck, and it bounced down from the rear end of the vehicle… The 911 call becomes what the caller said is now the audio evidence..
The caller said he saw a “snow white face” that was looking into his truck, it had sunken eyes and no nose.. He said think if you took skin and put it on a human skull and stretched it.. that description sounds horrifying and you can tell, if this is what he saw, why he screamed ‘this is not human’ to the 911 operator..
He said he was doing 80mph, slammed his breaks with all of his might, and he saw the “super scrawny long body” fly out of his car.. He said it stood up and it was taller than his 6″ truck, he said the creature was easily 7 feet.. It bolted to the left into the woods, not to be seen again..
The Youtube video from Carolina Case Files shows that the channel did its homework, interviewing both the sheriff and the 911 caller.. No one seems to want attention or fame, and it does not appear anyone is monetizing the ‘entity’ call at this point. It has the earmarks, to us at least, or being real enough to be … real. And real enough to be possible…
The testimony from the truck owner seems legitimate .. But there is only one hole in the story at this point–no pictures of the truck. The caller describes scratch marks but we have not been shown them in this video or any other sources that are able to be found ..
That said, minus the missing photos, it seems that the caller was one of distress and the police investigated the serious nature of the situation…
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return in the newest Conjuring film, set to release September 5th. This time, the movie dives into the Warrens’ reported run-ins with the paranormal activity at the infamous Smurl household in Pennsylvania — one of the state’s most debated haunting cases from the 1970s and 80s.
Fan reaction to her comments has been divided. Some think it’s a clever marketing push, adding “extra spice” to the movie’s promotion. Others defend her, pointing out that the Conjuring films have a history of eerie stories connected to their productions. (In fact, on previous sets, crew members have reported strange occurrences, and Patrick Wilson himself has admitted to experiencing unsettling dreams while filming.)
Whether you believe Farmiga’s claims or chalk them up to PR, you can’t deny it’s the perfect kind of buzz for a movie centered around the Smurl haunting — a case already drenched in skepticism, controversy, and supernatural lore.
