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Welcome to Phantoms & Monsters Radio — Your Gateway to Real Cryptid Encounters, Paranormal Investigations, and Unexplained PhenomenaHosted by Lon Strickler, renowned Fortean researcher and publisher of the Phantoms & Monsters blog, this channel explores true cryptid sightings, alien encounters, supernatural phenomena, hauntings, and other strange anomalies reported by real witnesses.As the official media platform for Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research, Lon’s investigations have been featured on The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, Syfy’s Paranormal Witness, Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries.

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    UNEXPLAINED MINNESOTA: Dogman, Walking Trees, Owlman, Bigfoot & Winged Humanoids

    Minnesota is known for its lakes, forests, wetlands, and remote northern wilderness. But behind that familiar image lies a darker, stranger reality.In this episode of UNEXPLAINED MINNESOTA, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of eyewitness accounts from across the state, including a 12-foot living tree seen walking through a Saint Louis County wetland, multigenerational Dogman and Lycan activity on a northern Minnesota property, a Bigfoot allegedly breaching a reinforced grow shed near the Kettle River, a Hollow Man / cloaked entity seen in Maplewood, an antlered humanoid in a remote church window in Itasca County, a possible alien abduction near Land O’ Lakes State Forest, an Owlman encounter in Winnebago followed by a green fire orb and missing time, and a massive winged humanoid descending over I-35 near Moose Lake.These reports cross the boundaries of cryptid encounters, spirit traditions, UFO contact, high strangeness, and winged humanoid phenomena.What is happening in Minnesota’s deep woods and lonely roads?Are these ancient land spirits, hidden cryptids, interdimensional entities, alien visitors, or something even stranger?Join Lon Strickler and Phantoms & Monsters Radio as we explore the strange and unexplained in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED LOUISIANA: Swamp Monsters, Loup Garou, UFOs & 'BIG EASY' Horror!

    Louisiana is a land of bayous, swamps, old roads, deep folklore, spiritual traditions, and unexplained encounters. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of Louisiana reports involving swamp creatures, Loup Garou/Rougarou legends, reptilian humanoids, UFO abduction, time-slip anomalies, haunted New Orleans, and disturbing high-strangeness accounts from the Bayou State.Reports include a recent bipedal swamp creature near Westlake, a terrifying canal encounter in South Louisiana, an Oil City Loup Garou story, a lizard man sighting on I-55 in Tangipahoa Parish, a New Iberia UFO abduction report, the mysterious vanishing 1940 automobile between Abbeville and Lafayette, and eerie New Orleans accounts involving howls, ritual atmosphere, and post-Katrina recovery work.These cases suggest that Louisiana’s old stories may not be mere folklore. Something strange moves through the swamps, roads, canals, and shadows of the Bayou State.If you have had an unexplained encounter in Louisiana or elsewhere, contact Lon Strickler at Phantoms & Monsters.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED LOUISIANA: Swamp Monsters, Loup Garou, UFOs & 'BIG EASY' Horror!

    <div><div><div>Louisiana is a land of bayous, swamps, old roads, deep folklore, spiritual traditions, and unexplained encounters. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of Louisiana reports involving swamp creatures, Loup Garou/Rougarou legends, reptilian humanoids, UFO abduction, time-slip anomalies, haunted New Orleans, and disturbing high-strangeness accounts from the Bayou State.</div><div><br /></div><div>Reports include a recent bipedal swamp creature near Westlake, a terrifying canal encounter in South Louisiana, an Oil City Loup Garou story, a lizard man sighting on I-55 in Tangipahoa Parish, a New Iberia UFO abduction report, the mysterious vanishing 1940 automobile between Abbeville and Lafayette, and eerie New Orleans accounts involving howls, ritual atmosphere, and post-Katrina recovery work.</div><div><br /></div><div>These cases suggest that Louisiana’s old stories may not be mere folklore. Something strange moves through the swamps, roads, canals, and shadows of the Bayou State.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you have had an unexplained encounter in Louisiana or elsewhere, contact Lon Strickler at Phantoms & Monsters.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.</div></div><div>

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    UNEXPLAINED WASHINGTON: UFOs, Sasquatch, Cloaked Beings & A Mysterious Disappearance

    <div><div>Washington State is known for its volcanic mountains, isolated coastlines, ancient evergreen forests, deep river valleys, military facilities, and immense stretches of wilderness. It is also the setting for some of the most disturbing unexplained encounters ever reported.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this presentation of UNEXPLAINED WASHINGTON, Lon Strickler examines eight extraordinary cases involving UFO activity, missing time, transparent flying creatures, cloaked humanoids, upright canines, Sasquatch, military secrecy, and an unsolved disappearance that continues to haunt him personally.</div><div><br /></div><div>A ten-year-old boy camping near Beacon Rock awakens after hours of missing time with his boots on the wrong feet, wet socks, unexplained puncture marks, and no memory of what happened after his dogs began reacting to something in the darkness.</div><div><br /></div><div>A married couple in Bremerton watches two enormous, transparent creatures with prehistoric features glide silently above their heads. Their reflective bodies appear almost invisible in the moonlight.</div><div><br /></div><div>Campers near Table Mountain hear footsteps, faint drumming, and movement around their tents before one witness sees a long-limbed gray humanoid crouching between the trees.</div><div><br /></div><div>A man guarding a rural property encounters a partially cloaked humanoid suspended near an ancient cedar tree. The figure resembles rippling air and produces an immediate, overwhelming wave of dread.</div><div><br /></div><div>At a gas station in Grayland, a nearly seven-foot-tall employee confronts an enormous canine creature standing upright behind the building.</div><div><br /></div><div>Near Kirkland, a hiker claims to witness a violent confrontation between a Sasquatch and a translucent reptilian creature capable of producing a mysterious burning substance.</div><div><br /></div><div>A former United States Air Force serviceman describes a secret assignment following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Armed guards were ordered to protect heavily concealed figures whose unusual height and proportions led him to question whether they were human disaster victims.</div><div><br /></div><div>The presentation concludes with the deeply emotional case of Mandy, a young Washington schoolteacher who contacted Lon after strange red-and-white lights appeared near her isolated farmhouse. Telephone failures, electrical blackouts, scratching on the roof, movement in the attic, and terrifying aerial activity followed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Days after Mandy asked, “Why is this happening to us?” she vanished from her bedroom without a trace.</div><div><br /></div><div>Her car, clothing, and personal belongings remained behind. There was no apparent forced entry and no known explanation for how she disappeared.</div><div><br /></div><div>These cases raise difficult questions about what may inhabit Washington’s forests, mountains, waterways, and skies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Are these encounters evidence of undiscovered biological creatures, dimensional intrusions, spiritual entities, extraterrestrial activity, classified military operations, or phenomena that exist beyond our current understanding?</div><div><br /></div><div>Join Lon Strickler as he investigates the witnesses, patterns, and disturbing mysteries of UNEXPLAINED WASHINGTON.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio, activate notifications, and share this presentation with others interested in cryptids, UFOs, paranormal phenomena, mysterious disappearances, and the unexplained.</div><div><br /></div><div>Visit Phantoms & Monsters for additional eyewitness reports, investigations, commentary, and Fortean research.</div></div><div>

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    UNEXPLAINED WASHINGTON: UFOs, Sasquatch, Cloaked Beings & A Mysterious Disappearance

    <div><div>Washington State is known for its volcanic mountains, isolated coastlines, ancient evergreen forests, deep river valleys, military facilities, and immense stretches of wilderness. It is also the setting for some of the most disturbing unexplained encounters ever reported.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this presentation of UNEXPLAINED WASHINGTON, Lon Strickler examines eight extraordinary cases involving UFO activity, missing time, transparent flying creatures, cloaked humanoids, upright canines, Sasquatch, military secrecy, and an unsolved disappearance that continues to haunt him personally.</div><div><br /></div><div>A ten-year-old boy camping near Beacon Rock awakens after hours of missing time with his boots on the wrong feet, wet socks, unexplained puncture marks, and no memory of what happened after his dogs began reacting to something in the darkness.</div><div><br /></div><div>A married couple in Bremerton watches two enormous, transparent creatures with prehistoric features glide silently above their heads. Their reflective bodies appear almost invisible in the moonlight.</div><div><br /></div><div>Campers near Table Mountain hear footsteps, faint drumming, and movement around their tents before one witness sees a long-limbed gray humanoid crouching between the trees.</div><div><br /></div><div>A man guarding a rural property encounters a partially cloaked humanoid suspended near an ancient cedar tree. The figure resembles rippling air and produces an immediate, overwhelming wave of dread.</div><div><br /></div><div>At a gas station in Grayland, a nearly seven-foot-tall employee confronts an enormous canine creature standing upright behind the building.</div><div><br /></div><div>Near Kirkland, a hiker claims to witness a violent confrontation between a Sasquatch and a translucent reptilian creature capable of producing a mysterious burning substance.</div><div><br /></div><div>A former United States Air Force serviceman describes a secret assignment following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Armed guards were ordered to protect heavily concealed figures whose unusual height and proportions led him to question whether they were human disaster victims.</div><div><br /></div><div>The presentation concludes with the deeply emotional case of Mandy, a young Washington schoolteacher who contacted Lon after strange red-and-white lights appeared near her isolated farmhouse. Telephone failures, electrical blackouts, scratching on the roof, movement in the attic, and terrifying aerial activity followed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Days after Mandy asked, “Why is this happening to us?” she vanished from her bedroom without a trace.</div><div><br /></div><div>Her car, clothing, and personal belongings remained behind. There was no apparent forced entry and no known explanation for how she disappeared.</div><div><br /></div><div>These cases raise difficult questions about what may inhabit Washington’s forests, mountains, waterways, and skies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Are these encounters evidence of undiscovered biological creatures, dimensional intrusions, spiritual entities, extraterrestrial activity, classified military operations, or phenomena that exist beyond our current understanding?</div><div><br /></div><div>Join Lon Strickler as he investigates the witnesses, patterns, and disturbing mysteries of UNEXPLAINED WASHINGTON.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio, activate notifications, and share this presentation with others interested in cryptids, UFOs, paranormal phenomena, mysterious disappearances, and the unexplained.</div><div><br /></div><div>Visit Phantoms & Monsters for additional eyewitness reports, investigations, commentary, and Fortean research.</div></div><div>

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    UNEXPLAINED NEW MEXICO: The Strange & the Unusual in the Land of Enchantment

    <div><div>New Mexico is a land of ancient mysteries, isolated deserts, volcanic landscapes, secretive military installations, indigenous traditions, and persistent reports of unexplained phenomena.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents nine extraordinary witness accounts from across New Mexico involving winged humanoids, UFOs, transparent entities, mysterious portals, reptilian beings, unknown forest creatures, and a terrifying insectoid encounter.</div><div><br /></div><div>A motorist near Hobbs observes an eight-to-nine-foot winged humanoid clinging near the top of an electrical pole. The massive figure has black feathered wings, a bare or membranous body, a visible bony spine, and a small featureless head.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Tortugas Mountain, a hiker discovers a modern green doorway standing alone across a familiar trail. After stepping through it, the witness experiences intense déjà vu, distorted colors, visual flickering, an out-of-body sensation, and overwhelming dread. When the witness later returns, the doorway is gone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Near Cloudcroft in the Lincoln National Forest, teenage campers hear two enormous bipedal creatures screaming and communicating through deep clicking sounds. The entities approach the tent from different directions, with one stopping only a foot away.</div><div><br /></div><div>Two New Mexico patrol officers investigate mysterious whistling near an abandoned school. Something crawls through waist-high grass before standing upright and revealing a childlike humanoid form with illuminated blue eyes.</div><div><br /></div><div>At Holloman Air Force Base, a woman witnesses large transparent humanoids moving through the desert and appearing outside her home. The entities distort the background around them like wrinkled plastic or optical camouflage.</div><div><br /></div><div>During a childhood visit to Capulin Volcano, a witness experiences an apparent separation of consciousness and descends into an underground tunnel. There, she encounters a small robed reptilian being holding a tablet-like device.</div><div><br /></div><div>In Rio Arriba County, witnesses observe a bizarre creature with huge bat-like wings, yellow eyes, long fangs, hocked legs, and a white V-shaped marking across its chest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Outside Roswell, members of a touring band encounter a 15-foot luminous sphere that follows their van at approximately 75 miles per hour before stopping instantly above the roadside.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, near Valles Caldera, a stranded mail carrier encounters a six-foot insectoid with a grasshopper-like head, large antennae, and multiple pincers.</div><div><br /></div><div>What is occurring throughout New Mexico?</div><div><br /></div><div>Are these encounters connected to unknown animals, indigenous traditions, extraterrestrial intelligence, secret military technology, interdimensional phenomena, or something even stranger?</div><div><br /></div><div>Join Lon Strickler as he examines these chilling eyewitness reports from one of the most mysterious regions in North America.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you have experienced a cryptid, humanoid, UFO, alien encounter, paranormal manifestation, or other unexplained phenomenon, contact Phantoms & Monsters. Witness confidentiality and anonymity are always respected when requested.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio, activate notifications, comment, and share this episode.</div><div><br /></div><div>Your support allows us to continue documenting witness testimony, investigating unusual incidents, and preserving these important accounts.</div><div>

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    UNEXPLAINED NEW MEXICO: The Strange & the Unusual in the Land of Enchantment

    <div><div>New Mexico is a land of ancient mysteries, isolated deserts, volcanic landscapes, secretive military installations, indigenous traditions, and persistent reports of unexplained phenomena.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents nine extraordinary witness accounts from across New Mexico involving winged humanoids, UFOs, transparent entities, mysterious portals, reptilian beings, unknown forest creatures, and a terrifying insectoid encounter.</div><div><br /></div><div>A motorist near Hobbs observes an eight-to-nine-foot winged humanoid clinging near the top of an electrical pole. The massive figure has black feathered wings, a bare or membranous body, a visible bony spine, and a small featureless head.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Tortugas Mountain, a hiker discovers a modern green doorway standing alone across a familiar trail. After stepping through it, the witness experiences intense déjà vu, distorted colors, visual flickering, an out-of-body sensation, and overwhelming dread. When the witness later returns, the doorway is gone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Near Cloudcroft in the Lincoln National Forest, teenage campers hear two enormous bipedal creatures screaming and communicating through deep clicking sounds. The entities approach the tent from different directions, with one stopping only a foot away.</div><div><br /></div><div>Two New Mexico patrol officers investigate mysterious whistling near an abandoned school. Something crawls through waist-high grass before standing upright and revealing a childlike humanoid form with illuminated blue eyes.</div><div><br /></div><div>At Holloman Air Force Base, a woman witnesses large transparent humanoids moving through the desert and appearing outside her home. The entities distort the background around them like wrinkled plastic or optical camouflage.</div><div><br /></div><div>During a childhood visit to Capulin Volcano, a witness experiences an apparent separation of consciousness and descends into an underground tunnel. There, she encounters a small robed reptilian being holding a tablet-like device.</div><div><br /></div><div>In Rio Arriba County, witnesses observe a bizarre creature with huge bat-like wings, yellow eyes, long fangs, hocked legs, and a white V-shaped marking across its chest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Outside Roswell, members of a touring band encounter a 15-foot luminous sphere that follows their van at approximately 75 miles per hour before stopping instantly above the roadside.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, near Valles Caldera, a stranded mail carrier encounters a six-foot insectoid with a grasshopper-like head, large antennae, and multiple pincers.</div><div><br /></div><div>What is occurring throughout New Mexico?</div><div><br /></div><div>Are these encounters connected to unknown animals, indigenous traditions, extraterrestrial intelligence, secret military technology, interdimensional phenomena, or something even stranger?</div><div><br /></div><div>Join Lon Strickler as he examines these chilling eyewitness reports from one of the most mysterious regions in North America.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you have experienced a cryptid, humanoid, UFO, alien encounter, paranormal manifestation, or other unexplained phenomenon, contact Phantoms & Monsters. Witness confidentiality and anonymity are always respected when requested.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio, activate notifications, comment, and share this episode.</div><div><br /></div><div>Your support allows us to continue documenting witness testimony, investigating unusual incidents, and preserving these important accounts.</div><div><br />

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    UNEXPLAINED WEST VIRGINIA: Mothman Lore, Mountain Monsters, & Appalachian High Strangeness

    <div><div>West Virginia has long been known as Mothman country, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond Point Pleasant. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of strange reports from the mountains, forests, mining communities, and backroads of West Virginia and the greater Appalachian region.</div><div><br /></div><div>These accounts include the infamous Vegetable Man of Grant Town, a possible winged omen connected to the 1934 McDunn mine-train disaster, a tall skeletal “Stickman” seen near Harpers Ferry, a bizarre upright deer encounter, Bigfoot-like activity in the Seneca Creek and Spruce Knob backcountry, a terrifying mountain giant with glowing golden eyes, a massive wolf-like creature in the Appalachian borderland, a tiny cloaked Glimmer Man-type figure in Beaver, West Virginia, and a disturbing Black-Eyed Kids encounter in Glade Springs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Are these reports examples of cryptid activity, interdimensional contact, ancient Appalachian folklore, spiritual warnings, or something even stranger?</div><div><br /></div><div>Join Lon as he examines these unsettling cases and explores why West Virginia remains one of the most mysterious and high-strangeness regions in America.</div><div><br /></div><div>Featured cases include:</div><div><br /></div><div>• The Vegetable Man of Grant Town</div><div>• The Powellton winged omen and the McDunn mine-train explosion</div><div>• The Stickman near Harpers Ferry</div><div>• The upright deer or “Deer God” encounter</div><div>• The Seneca Creek / Spruce Knob backcountry presence</div><div>• The 10-foot figure with golden eyes</div><div>• The full moon howl and black wolf-like creature</div><div>• The tiny cloaked figure of Beaver, West Virginia</div><div>• The Black-Eyed Kids of Glade Springs</div><div><br /></div><div>Visit Phantoms & Monsters for more eyewitness reports, investigations, and Fortean research.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please like, comment, subscribe, and share your own unexplained encounter.</div><div><br /></div><div>👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.</div></div>

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    UNEXPLAINED WEST VIRGINIA: Mothman Lore, Mountain Monsters, & Appalachian High Strangeness

    West Virginia has long been known as Mothman country, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond Point Pleasant. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of strange reports from the mountains, forests, mining communities, and backroads of West Virginia and the greater Appalachian region.These accounts include the infamous Vegetable Man of Grant Town, a possible winged omen connected to the 1934 McDunn mine-train disaster, a tall skeletal “Stickman” seen near Harpers Ferry, a bizarre upright deer encounter, Bigfoot-like activity in the Seneca Creek and Spruce Knob backcountry, a terrifying mountain giant with glowing golden eyes, a massive wolf-like creature in the Appalachian borderland, a tiny cloaked Glimmer Man-type figure in Beaver, West Virginia, and a disturbing Black-Eyed Kids encounter in Glade Springs.Are these reports examples of cryptid activity, interdimensional contact, ancient Appalachian folklore, spiritual warnings, or something even stranger?Join Lon as he examines these unsettling cases and explores why West Virginia remains one of the most mysterious and high-strangeness regions in America.Featured cases include:• The Vegetable Man of Grant Town• The Powellton winged omen and the McDunn mine-train explosion• The Stickman near Harpers Ferry• The upright deer or “Deer God” encounter• The Seneca Creek / Spruce Knob backcountry presence• The 10-foot figure with golden eyes• The full moon howl and black wolf-like creature• The tiny cloaked figure of Beaver, West Virginia• The Black-Eyed Kids of Glade SpringsVisit Phantoms & Monsters for more eyewitness reports, investigations, and Fortean research.Please like, comment, subscribe, and share your own unexplained encounter.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN: Dogman, Winged Entities, Sasquatch, & Creepy Humanoids

    Michigan has a long history of strange encounters, and tonight’s episode of UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN brings together some of the most disturbing reports from the Great Lakes State.In this episode, Lon Strickler examines eyewitness accounts involving Michigan Dogman encounters, a terrifying shoreline incident in the Upper Peninsula, a Sasquatch-like scream near Big Rapids, a strange mimicking voice near South Haven, black-clad operatives near the Lake Michigan shoreline, triangular UFO sightings between Oxford and Lapeer, a possible Mothman-type winged humanoid in Oakland County, a bizarre creature reported near Merrill, and a mysterious suburban Detroit encounter involving two women who may not have been human.These reports come from hunters, outdoorsmen, families, truck drivers, and ordinary witnesses who experienced something they still cannot explain.From dark forests and lonely highways to the Lake Michigan shoreline, this is a deep dive into the unexplained side of Michigan.Please like, share, comment, and subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio for more eyewitness accounts, investigations, and unexplained case files.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN: Dogman, Winged Entities, Sasquatch, & Creepy Humanoids

    Michigan has a long history of strange encounters, and tonight’s episode of UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN brings together some of the most disturbing reports from the Great Lakes State.In this episode, Lon Strickler examines eyewitness accounts involving Michigan Dogman encounters, a terrifying shoreline incident in the Upper Peninsula, a Sasquatch-like scream near Big Rapids, a strange mimicking voice near South Haven, black-clad operatives near the Lake Michigan shoreline, triangular UFO sightings between Oxford and Lapeer, a possible Mothman-type winged humanoid in Oakland County, a bizarre creature reported near Merrill, and a mysterious suburban Detroit encounter involving two women who may not have been human.These reports come from hunters, outdoorsmen, families, truck drivers, and ordinary witnesses who experienced something they still cannot explain.From dark forests and lonely highways to the Lake Michigan shoreline, this is a deep dive into the unexplained side of Michigan.Please like, share, comment, and subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio for more eyewitness accounts, investigations, and unexplained case files.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED WISCONSIN: Winged Anomalies, Strange Humanoids & Cryptid Beasts

    <div><div>Wisconsin is known for its forests, lakes, farmland, old mining towns, rural highways, and quiet communities. But beneath that familiar landscape are reports of terrifying encounters with winged anomalies, strange humanoids, invisible entities, black-eyed children, cryptid beasts, and other unexplained phenomena.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a series of disturbing Wisconsin cases, including a terrifying road encounter near Lake Geneva, the legendary Mineral Point Vampire, a winged humanoid seen at the Wisconsin State Fair, a possible angelic intervention in Madison, a Glimmer Man encounter near Sturgeon Bay, a demon-like animal south of Barron, the Man-Bat of Briggs Road near La Crosse, black-eyed children near Milwaukee, a massive figure in Kettle Moraine, and a flying witch-like being near Darien.</div><div><br /></div><div>These reports suggest that Wisconsin may be a corridor of roadside high-strangeness, where witnesses encounter something at the edge of headlights, tree lines, bridges, cemeteries, fairgrounds, and lonely roads.</div><div><br /></div><div>Are these misidentified animals, folklore brought into the modern age, unknown cryptids, interdimensional intrusions, or something even stranger?</div><div><br /></div><div>Join us as we investigate UNEXPLAINED WISCONSIN.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please like, share, comment, and subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio for more eyewitness accounts, investigations, and unexplained case files.</div><div><br /></div><div>👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.</div></div

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    UNEXPLAINED WISCONSIN: Winged Anomalies, Strange Humanoids & Cryptid Beasts

    Wisconsin is known for its forests, lakes, farmland, old mining towns, rural highways, and quiet communities. But beneath that familiar landscape are reports of terrifying encounters with winged anomalies, strange humanoids, invisible entities, black-eyed children, cryptid beasts, and other unexplained phenomena.In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a series of disturbing Wisconsin cases, including a terrifying road encounter near Lake Geneva, the legendary Mineral Point Vampire, a winged humanoid seen at the Wisconsin State Fair, a possible angelic intervention in Madison, a Glimmer Man encounter near Sturgeon Bay, a demon-like animal south of Barron, the Man-Bat of Briggs Road near La Crosse, black-eyed children near Milwaukee, a massive figure in Kettle Moraine, and a flying witch-like being near Darien.These reports suggest that Wisconsin may be a corridor of roadside high-strangeness, where witnesses encounter something at the edge of headlights, tree lines, bridges, cemeteries, fairgrounds, and lonely roads.Are these misidentified animals, folklore brought into the modern age, unknown cryptids, interdimensional intrusions, or something even stranger?Join us as we investigate UNEXPLAINED WISCONSIN.Please like, share, comment, and subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio for more eyewitness accounts, investigations, and unexplained case files.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED NEW JERSEY: Pine Barrens Monsters, Mantis Men, & Garden State Nightmares

    Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we return to the Garden State for a rebuilt and expanded presentation: UNEXPLAINED NEW JERSEY.New Jersey is famous for the Jersey Devil and the Pine Barrens, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond one legendary creature. In this episode, we examine reports of a Dogman or Wolfman-like creature near Manchester, UFO and orb activity in Cumberland County, the controversial Fort Dix/McGuire AFB alien body retrieval claim, a winged humanoid at the Old Essex County Jail in Newark, possible Bigfoot activity in Belleplain State Forest, a terrifying Black-Eyed Kids encounter in Atlantic City, a Fairview UFO abduction account, and the bizarre Musconetcong River Mantis Man.These reports suggest that New Jersey may be a concentrated zone of overlapping phenomena, including cryptids, UFOs, humanoids, dimensional anomalies, and high-strangeness encounters.Please like, share, comment, and subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio for more eyewitness accounts, investigations, and unexplained case files.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED NEW JERSEY: Pine Barrens Monsters, Mantis Men, & Garden State Nightmares

    Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we return to the Garden State for a rebuilt and expanded presentation: UNEXPLAINED NEW JERSEY.New Jersey is famous for the Jersey Devil and the Pine Barrens, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond one legendary creature. In this episode, we examine reports of a Dogman or Wolfman-like creature near Manchester, UFO and orb activity in Cumberland County, the controversial Fort Dix/McGuire AFB alien body retrieval claim, a winged humanoid at the Old Essex County Jail in Newark, possible Bigfoot activity in Belleplain State Forest, a terrifying Black-Eyed Kids encounter in Atlantic City, a Fairview UFO abduction account, and the bizarre Musconetcong River Mantis Man.These reports suggest that New Jersey may be a concentrated zone of overlapping phenomena, including cryptids, UFOs, humanoids, dimensional anomalies, and high-strangeness encounters.Please like, share, comment, and subscribe to Phantoms & Monsters Radio for more eyewitness accounts, investigations, and unexplained case files.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED TEXAS: Humanoids, Giant Snakes, Man-Wolves, & Dinosaurs!

    Texas has produced some of the most unsettling unexplained reports in the Phantoms & Monsters archive.In this episode, Lon Strickler examines a disturbing collection of Texas encounters involving a strange humanoid photographed at a gas plant near Kenedy, a missing-time UFO case near Beeville, a possible military-connected childhood encounter near Chase Naval Air Station, a predator-like ranch creature in Zapata County, owl-woman transformation reports from El Paso, a giant unidentified snake at Lytle Lake near Abilene, an alternate-life experience triggered by lightning, an invisible humanoid encounter in Mission, the Man-Wolf legend of Marshall, and the strange Hebbronville anomaly cluster.These cases do not have a single simple explanation. Instead, they suggest a wide field of Texas high strangeness involving cryptids, humanoids, UFO phenomena, missing time, folklore, and witness trauma.If you have had an unexplained encounter, contact Phantoms & Monsters.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED TEXAS: Humanoids, Giant Snakes, Man-Wolves, & Dinosaurs!

    Texas has produced some of the most unsettling unexplained reports in the Phantoms & Monsters archive.In this episode, Lon Strickler examines a disturbing collection of Texas encounters involving a strange humanoid photographed at a gas plant near Kenedy, a missing-time UFO case near Beeville, a possible military-connected childhood encounter near Chase Naval Air Station, a predator-like ranch creature in Zapata County, owl-woman transformation reports from El Paso, a giant unidentified snake at Lytle Lake near Abilene, an alternate-life experience triggered by lightning, an invisible humanoid encounter in Mission, the Man-Wolf legend of Marshall, and the strange Hebbronville anomaly cluster.These cases do not have a single simple explanation. Instead, they suggest a wide field of Texas high strangeness involving cryptids, humanoids, UFO phenomena, missing time, folklore, and witness trauma.If you have had an unexplained encounter, contact Phantoms & Monsters.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNEXPLAINED OHIO: Frogman Returns, Dogman Stalks, & Mothman Watches

    <div><div>Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a disturbing collection of unexplained Ohio encounters, including the return of the Loveland Frogman, the 1972 Defiance werewolf panic, humanoid sightings in Mount Vernon, a shiny black white-eyed quadrupedal creature near Hillsboro, multiple winged humanoid reports from Toledo and Chesterland, a strange Men in Black style incident in Medina County, upright canine beings near Lake Erie, and a possible cloaked or invisible Bigfoot encounter in southeast Ohio.</div><div><br /></div><div>These reports span decades and regions, yet they share recurring elements: fear, shock, intelligent behavior, unusual movement, glowing eyes, physical dread, and the lasting psychological impact left on eyewitnesses. If you are interested in cryptids, Fortean phenomena, winged humanoids, Dogman reports, Men in Black, and high strangeness in the Buckeye State, this presentation is for you.</div><div><br /></div><div>👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.</div></div>

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    CURSED & HAUNTED OBJECTS: Attachments From Hell!

    Some objects are said to carry more than age, memory, or history. In tonight’s Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio presentation, we examine disturbing accounts involving allegedly possessed, cursed, and haunted objects, including dolls, a Ouija board, an antique chair, a haunted vehicle, and the infamous painting known as The Anguished Man.These cases raise a deeper question. Can an object become a vessel, trigger, or focal point for paranormal activity, or are fear and suggestion enough to create the appearance of a haunting?• Haunted clown wall decoration linked to nightmares, animal fixation, and a missing-time style blackout• Ouija board cases involving obsession, attachment, household collapse, and long-term oppression• The Anguished Man painting chronology, based on reports initially sent directly to Lon by Sean Robinson👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.</div

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    UNEXPLAINED INDIANA: Winged Humanoids, Dark Entities, and Buried Horrors

    &lt;div&gt;Indiana has long been a crossroads of strange and terrifying encounters, but some reports go far beyond the familiar haunted house or ghost story. In this episode, I present a chilling collection of Indiana cases involving winged humanoids, dark sentinels, bizarre roadside creatures, possible reptilian entities, graveyard horrors, and other unexplained beings that have left witnesses shaken for decades.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From Wanatah to Rolling Prairie, from Shelbyville to Harrison County, these reports reveal a landscape marked by recurring high strangeness, where fear, mystery, and the unknown seem deeply rooted in the land itself. Some witnesses describe towering flying beings and horned entities. Others recount men in black coveralls, glowing child-like figures, and things seen in the woods and caves that simply do not fit accepted reality.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you have had a similar experience in Indiana or elsewhere, please leave a comment and share your account.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp;amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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    UNEXPLAINED FLORIDA: Witnesses Describe Cryptids, Humanoids & Monstrous Predators

    Florida has long been known as a land of extremes. Swamps and pine barrens, remote prairie, coastline, farmland, and dense suburban development all exist side by side, creating a landscape where the natural and the unnatural often seem to overlap. Over the years, witnesses from across the state have described things that do not fit any accepted category. Some reports involve winged humanoids, others monstrous canines, bizarre upright predators, or strange entities glimpsed only for a moment, yet remembered for a lifetime. Tonight, we are going to examine nine such accounts, each one different in appearance and circumstance, but all carrying that same unmistakable mark of the unexplained.What makes these cases so compelling is that they do not point to one simple answer. Instead, they suggest a broader pattern of anomaly that runs through Florida itself. These are not stories from a single town or a brief wave of sightings. They come from the Panhandle, Central Florida, the Gulf Coast, South Florida, the Keys, and beyond. Some witnesses were children at the time. Others were hardened adults who believed only in logic and ordinary explanations. But each of them came away with the same conclusion. They saw, heard, or felt something they could not explain, and in many cases, something they have never forgotten.Florida has always occupied a peculiar place in the American paranormal map. It is famous for Skunk Ape lore, ghost stories, phantom cats, and unexplained lights, but beneath those more familiar legends lies another layer of testimony that is far harder to classify. These are reports that blur the lines between cryptid, supernatural manifestation, and something perhaps even stranger. A flying gargoyle near Zephyrhills. A giant feline thing that rises upright in broad daylight. A dark entity in the water that seems to move with intent. An owl-headed being stood calmly at the edge of the woods. Each report sounds different, yet together they form a body of evidence that deserves serious attention.So tonight, we are not looking at folklore in the abstract. We are looking at firsthand testimony from people who insist that, for a few moments, the world stopped behaving the way it should. These are not polished legends. They are fragments of lived experience, strange, personal, and deeply unsettling. As we move through each account, one after another, a bigger question emerges. Are these isolated anomalies, or glimpses of a hidden reality that has been surfacing in Florida for far longer than most people realize?👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    THE GHOUL FILES: Islamic Tradition, Cemetery Creatures, and Witness Terror

    Tonight on Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio, we explore the ancient ghoul tradition of the Middle East and compare it to a disturbing series of modern witness reports involving pale humanoids, cemetery crawlers, battlefield scavengers, mountain screams, and deceptive entities that seem to imitate human behavior. From Iraqi Kurdistan and Kuwait to Illinois, Montana, and Gettysburg, these accounts reveal a striking continuity between Islamic folklore and contemporary high strangeness.In this presentation, I examine how classic ghoul traits, graveyard association, corpse predation, mimicry, liminal settings, caves, ruins, and psychological aftermath, continue to surface in modern encounters. Whether these reports reflect folklore carried forward, misunderstood cryptids, ultraterrestrial manifestations, or something else entirely, the similarities are too strong to ignore.Please like, subscribe, share your thoughts in the comments, and let me know if you have had a similar experience.If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit &amp; share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    UNKNOWN PREDATORS: Real Cases of Attack and Pursuit

    &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Something dangerous is moving through remote forests, deserts, quarries, lakeshores, and mountain roads, and witnesses say it was no ordinary animal. In this episode of Phantoms &amp;amp; Monsters Radio, I present a chilling series of firsthand encounters involving aggressive unknown predators, including hairy humanoids, reptilian beings, avian anomalies, cloaked entities, and other violent presences that defy easy explanation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Featured in this episode:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;• A terrifying night in Sequoia National Forest marked by screaming cattle, impossible howls, and humanlike tracks&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;• A hostile, unknown beast in New Mexico linked to an earlier unexplained child attack&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;• A bizarre desert predator near Joshua Tree that shrugged off close-range birdshot&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;• A roaring Illinois creature followed by a silent craft sighting&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;• A former ranger’s violent Sequoia encounter with a charging hairy giant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;• Additional cases involving rock-throwing attackers, reptilian kidnappers, skinwalker-related terror, and a cloaked being that may have followed a witness home&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These are the cases that remain unresolved, the encounters that stay with the witnesses for life, and the reports that continue to challenge everything we think we know about predators in the wild.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Please like, subscribe, share your thoughts in the comments, and let me know if you have had a similar experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit &amp;amp; share your story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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    EXPERIENCER ENCOUNTERS: Aliens, Ultraterrestrials, & the Unknown

    What happens when the unknown stops being a distant mystery and becomes a direct personal encounter? In this presentation, I examine a chilling series of experiencer reports involving aliens, reptilian entities, mantis beings, transparent humanoids, Men in Black, subterranean creatures, and other unexplained intelligences that witnesses say entered their lives in unforgettable ways.Tonight’s cases span bedrooms, military bases, levees, farms, tents, hotel rooms, and remote landscapes, each one offering a different face of the same underlying mystery. These are not just UFO sightings. These are deeply personal testimonies of contact, fear, warning, paralysis, missing memory, and lasting psychological impact.Witness reports include mantis entities, greys, reptilian humanoids, transparent beings, and shadow-like manifestationsSeveral cases involve military proximity, altered states, shared witness confirmation, or recurring visitation patternsThe deeper question remains whether these encounters point to extraterrestrial contact, ultraterrestrial intelligence, psychic intrusion, or something even strangerIf you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit &amp; share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 7: Encounters Beyond Explanation

    Something moved through parking lots, forests, open water, and even hospital wards. Ten witnesses describe encounters that refuse easy explanation.From quadrupedal sprinting figures to translucent humanoids, from Bigfoot in a public park to a vanished Victorian-era stranger, these cases raise a difficult question: are these isolated events, or connected patterns?If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit &amp; share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    FLYING MANTA RAYS: Swimming Through America's Skies

    For over 15 years, I have investigated reports of enormous manta-ray-shaped entities flying across American skies. Witnesses across the country describe massive, translucent rays silently swimming through the air.Are these biological UFO craft, ultraterrestrial beings, or interdimensional entities connected to our waterways?In this episode of Phantoms and Monsters Radio, I present the full case series and my working theories.• Multiple independent eyewitness accounts• Repeated water corridor correlations• Biological craft and ultraterrestrial hypothesesIf you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit &amp; share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    ARE ALL WINGED HUMANOIDS THE SAME? Chicagoland vs Everywhere Else

    For years, I’ve been asked the same question. Are the Chicago winged humanoids the same beings reported near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966 and 1967? And if so, what exactly are they?In this episode, I examine multiple non-Chicagoland winged humanoid encounters, including cases from Missouri, Florida, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio River corridor. Each case is directly compared with structurally similar sightings from the 2017 Chicago wave.We analyze height variation, red-eyed manifestations, wing concealment, highway corridor crossings, tree-perch behavior, and ground-to-air transitions. Are we looking at a single distributed species with regional differences, multiple related morphotypes, or a phenomenon that transcends conventional biological explanation?The larger question remains. Are these beings Earth-dwelling creatures navigating hidden terrain corridors, or are they ultraterrestrial entities sharing our environment in ways we barely understand?This is not speculation. This is a pattern comparison across decades.If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit &amp; share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    JC JOHNSON'S LEGACY: Cryptid Mysteries in the Four Corners

    For years, investigator JC Johnson documented cases in the American Southwest that defied conventional wildlife encounters. Livestock are killed without being fed. Massive 'Furry Ones.' Upright predators are seen pacing vehicles. Winged humanoids returning night after night. And families targeted in ways that left lasting fear.In this episode of Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio, I present a focused selection of JC's most disturbing Four Corners investigations. These are not legends. These are documented cases with recurring patterns that continue to surface across the region.What emerges is not a single explanation, but a convergence. Cryptids. Predators. Cultural memory. And a landscape that does not let go of what moves through it.More cases remain. This is only the beginning.JC Johnson was a Southwest-based investigator and lead researcher for Crypto Four Corners, known for documenting cryptid encounters, livestock mutilations, and unexplained predation across the Four Corners region. His work emphasized field investigation, witness testimony, and indigenous knowledge, particularly on Navajo lands. Rather than offering simple explanations, Johnson focused on recurring patterns involving upright predators, winged humanoids, Sasquatch activity, and bloodless animal deaths. His investigations and collaborations with researchers &amp; investigators continue to be referenced in ongoing discussions of anomalous activity in the American Southwest.As always, these accounts are presented without exaggeration, without conclusions forced upon the listener, and with respect for the witnesses who came forward.If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit &amp; share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    SUPERNATURAL PROTECTORS Who Appear When You Are Most Vulnerable

    Some protectors do not announce themselves. They appear when fear is highest, when danger is unseen, and when witnesses are at their most vulnerable.In this episode of Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio, we examine a disturbing and deeply personal collection of eyewitness accounts involving supernatural protectors, guardians, and sentinels. These are not vague feelings or symbolic visions. These are encounters with intelligent presences that arrive at critical moments, intervene without explanation, and often vanish just as suddenly as they appear.The cases presented include silent bedside guardians during moments of isolation, towering antlered sentinels guarding forest boundaries, unknown forces that escort hikers out of danger, and ancient watcher entities connected to regional land intelligence. Some witnesses describe overwhelming compassion and reassurance. Others report firm warnings, time distortions, and enforced boundaries that were not meant to be crossed.Across cultures, locations, and belief systems, the pattern remains consistent. These entities do not behave like ghosts, cryptids, or folklore figures. They act with intent. They appear to monitor, protect, guide, and sometimes remove individuals from harm without ever revealing who or what they truly are.This episode explores the unsettling possibility that humanity is not as unobserved as we believe, and that certain forces intervene only when absolutely necessary.Featured in this episode• Guardian figures appearing in bedrooms during illness and isolation• Antlered forest sentinels issuing warnings and enforcing territory• Witnesses escorted out of danger by unknown humanlike figures• Ancient land-based intelligences tied to specific regions• Patterns linking protection, vulnerability, and sudden disappearanceAs always, these accounts are presented without exaggeration, without conclusions forced upon the listener, and with respect for the witnesses who came forward.If you have experienced an unexplained protector, guardian, or presence that intervened during a moment of danger or vulnerability, you are not alone. Visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com and share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

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    SKINWALKER RANCH: The True Stories That Few People Know!

    Skinwalker Ranch did not become famous overnight, and the phenomena did not begin with investigators or cameras. This is the documented history of what happened there before the world was watching, and why the activity never truly stopped.*Pre-Sherman era activity and early Basin anomalies*NIDS investigations and the camera sabotage mystery*Modern encounters beyond the ranch boundaryThis presentation examines Skinwalker Ranch as a patterned anomaly zone, not a television set piece. This episode is for listeners who value critical thinking, investigative discipline, and honest uncertainty.If you have experienced something similar, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com and share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#SkinwalkerRanch #ParanormalInvestigation #Ultraterrestrial #UFOHistory #PhantomsAndMonsters

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    THEY KEPT COMING BACK: Repeated Encounters With Unseen Watchers

    Tonight’s reports span more than a century, involving recurring encounters, regional waves, and long-term aftereffects. Rather than offering conclusions, this broadcast challenges the assumption that repetition equals intent and asks what these patterns actually tell us about perception, memory, and the limits of investigation.In this live investigative episode, I present seven carefully selected reports involving repeated encounters, pattern recognition across time, and experiences that did not resolve cleanly after a single event.The cases include:• Multiple personal encounters separated by years or decades• Family and community clusters• Historical reports recorded before modern paranormal language existed• Cloaked or distorted humanoid figures• Large bipedal entities and regional encounter waves• A modern incident involving injury, memory disruption, and long-term consequencesRather than framing these experiences as evidence of intent or intelligence, this discussion focuses on restraint, context, and the danger of assuming meaning where evidence remains incomplete.This episode is for listeners who value critical thinking, investigative discipline, and honest uncertainty.If you have experienced something similar, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com and share your story.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#ParanormalInvestigation#RecurringEncounters #UnexplainedPhenomena #CryptidReports #PhantomsAndMonsters

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    UNINVITED OBSERVERS: Something Was Watching Long Before Anyone Noticed!

    Something is watching from the trees, and the people who notice it will never be the same. Across rural America, Australia, and deep forest regions, witnesses describe the same chilling realization that something unseen had already been observing them long before they ever looked back.These encounters are often described as cloaked humanoids, shadow figures, or unseen entities silently observing people from wooded areas and tree lines.In this episode, Phantoms and Monsters Radio presents a chilling collection of true first-person encounters with cloaked figures, tree line watchers, and silent forest entities that remain just beyond clear visibility.• Nine immersive firsthand accounts of forest and treeline observers• Cloaked humanoids, pale beings, and shadow figures• The moment witnesses realize they are no longer aloneIf you have experienced something similar, visit Phantoms and Monsters ⁠https://phantomsandmonsters.com⁠ and share your story.👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#UninvitedObservers #ForestEncounters #CloakedHumanoids #ParanormalWitness #PhantomsAndMonsters

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    DANGER! ULTRATERRESTRIALS Are Closer Than We Think!

    What if the danger doesn’t arrive… but is already there?In this episode, we investigate some of the most disturbing ultraterrestrial encounters ever reported. These are not simple sightings. These are moments when witnesses felt an overwhelming certainty of danger before they could explain why.Across ten deeply investigated cases, we explore encounters involving unseen intelligences, territorial entities, deceptive human-like figures, bedroom intrusions, pale crawlers, organized retrieval events, portal-associated humanoids, and direct military confrontations.These cases share a chilling pattern:• The warning comes before the explanation• The entities observe before they act• Boundaries matter• Escalation follows awareness• Survival depends on listening to instinctWitnesses describe a moment when curiosity collapses, and survival instinct takes over. A pressure in the chest. A tightening behind the eyes. A certainty that something is wrong.This episode is not about belief. It is about recognition.Several of these cases connect to ongoing investigations involving recurring entities, psychological aftereffects, and repeat contact. Visit Phantoms and Monsters for more reports and investigations.If you have ever felt that sudden knowing that something was wrong without understanding why, this investigation may resonate more than you expect.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening. Phantoms &amp; Monsters is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#Ultraterrestrial #ParanormalEncounters #Interdimensional #UnseenEntities #PhantomsAndMonsters

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    'DANGER!' CRYPTID CANINES: Encounters That Nearly Turned Deadly

    Something is stalking closer than ever. This episode documents real encounters with cryptid canine creatures that nearly turned deadly.- Physical attacks, pursuits, and home intrusions.- Law enforcement and multi-witness cases.- Children present during active threat events.Several of these cases connect to ongoing investigations involving recurring entities, psychological aftereffects, and repeat contact. Visit Phantoms and Monsters for more reports and investigations.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#cryptidcanine #dogman #paranormalencounters #truehorror #phantomsandmonsters

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    'DANGER!' WINGED HUMANOID Encounters That Nearly Turned Deadly

    Some winged humanoid encounters remain distant and strange. Others collapse the margin of safety and place witnesses seconds from injury or worse. In this episode, we examine winged humanoid encounters where proximity, behavior, and timing created real danger.From roadways near O’Hare to fairgrounds, hotel corridors, and isolated campsites, these are not just sightings. They are risk events.Several of these cases connect to ongoing investigations involving recurring entities, psychological aftereffects, and repeat contact.• Near misses on active highways• Public crowd proximity and freeze responses• Vehicle strikes and repeated pursuit behaviorIf you have experienced a similar encounter near a road, bridge, airport, or populated area, your report matters.Visit Phantoms and Monsters for more reports and investigations.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#wingedhumanoid #mothman #cryptidencounters #paranormal #phantomsandmonsters

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    INTERDIMENSIONAL CRYPTIDS: Creatures That Appear, Then Disappear

    For decades, researchers have searched forests, fields, cities, and forgotten places for creatures that should not exist. Enormous beings without remains. Winged entities without nests. Small humanoids without provenance. They appear suddenly, interact briefly, and then vanish, leaving witnesses shaken and evidence nonexistent.Tonight’s reports suggest something unsettling. These are not creatures hiding behind trees or retreating into caves. They are beings that arrive, observe, and depart through mechanisms we do not yet understand. Not ghosts. Not folklore. Not animals as we define them. These encounters hint at a reality that overlaps our own, where cryptids and ultraterrestrials do not live here permanently but move through here, briefly visible before slipping away.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening. Phantoms &amp; Monsters is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#InterdimensionalCryptids #Ultraterrestrials #ParanormalEncounters #CryptidSightings#PhantomsAndMonsters

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    SECRETS: What The Government & Military Don't Want You To Know

    Tonight, we expose a series of encounters tied together by military secrecy, shadow operations, and human contact with nonhuman intelligence. Each story reveals another piece of a hidden system working relentlessly to control what the public knows.• Covert experiments involving citizens• Crash retrievals predating Roswell• Military pursuit after alien contact👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#paranormalencounters #ufosighting #governmentcoverup #meninblack #militarysecrets

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    HIKING NIGHTMARES! Crossing Into a Reality You Were Never Meant to See

    Something is happening on the trails that does not fit inside park brochures. Skeletal things standing by tents, faceless hikers whistling from the trees, portals on ridges, and cryptid creatures that stare into you like they already know you.There is a moment on the trail when the silence feels wrong. The air is the same, the trees are the same, but something in the background has shifted out of place, as if the world is holding its breath and watching you.If you have ever had a strange or terrifying experience while hiking, camping, or backpacking, I want to hear it. Tell me where it happened, what year it was, and what you saw, heard, or felt that still does not make sense. Drop your story in the comments, upvote the ones that resonate with you, and let me know which of tonight’s cases hit you hardest. The more we compare these encounters, the more precise the pattern becomes.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening. Phantoms &amp; Monsters is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#paranormalencounters #hikerstories #nationalparkmysteries #cryptidresearch #phantomsandmonsters

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    BIGFOOT! The Beasts We're Not Supposed To See

    Some encounters are so vivid and so unexpected that they shake the witness long after the moment has passed. Tonight, we are crossing into that territory, traveling through a series of cases that share one unsettling thread. Every witness knew they had seen something alive, intelligent, and powerful, and that whatever it was, it did not belong within the boundaries of ordinary nature. These are the moments that redefine a person’s understanding of the woods, the world, and themselves.As you will hear, the forests, farms, and forgotten corners of America form a hidden network that these beings navigate with ease. From storm drains beneath Kansas City to frozen valleys in Colorado, and from Maryland’s river sanctuaries to the deep rural wilderness of Minnesota, each report offers another piece of a larger puzzle. The question is not whether these creatures exist, but why they appear where they do, why they remain unseen for so long, and why the people who encounter them are changed forever.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#cryptidreports #bigfootencounters #sasquatchstories #mysteriouscreatures #paranormalwitness

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    ABANDONED BUILDINGS & FORGOTTEN SPACES: Horror Lurks in the Shadows!

    Tonight’s presentation explores the horrifying encounters reported inside abandoned buildings and forgotten spaces where the past refuses to stay silent. From deserted psychiatric hospitals to decaying jails, military warehouses, collapsed railroad tunnels, and hidden forest structures, these witnesses came face to face with entities that defy explanation. Massive winged creatures, invisible predators, mirrored men, skeletal figures, and demon-like humanoids all emerged from the shadows when the explorers least expected it. Each report reveals how the abandoned and overlooked places around us often conceal forces far more terrifying than ghosts or urban legends. These chilling accounts challenge our understanding of what moves through the derelict structures of America and beyond.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening. Phantoms &amp; Monsters is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#AbandonedHorror #UrbanExplorationGoneWrong #ParanormalEncounters #HauntedRuins #DarkEntitySightings

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    CHICAGO MOTHMAN: The Most Curious & Disturbing Encounters!

    For nearly fourteen years, Chicago has stood at the epicenter of one of America’s most perplexing modern mysteries, the rise of the winged humanoid phenomenon. From frightened residents throughout Chicagoland to police officers, pilots, and air traffic controllers at O’Hare International Airport, credible witnesses have described a massive, dark entity with glowing eyes and bat-like wings stalking the skies over the city and its suburbs. In this episode, I revisit the most disturbing and best-documented encounters ever recorded, stories that suggest this being is more than legend… and may still be watching from above.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, Unsolved Mysteries, and radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening. Phantoms &amp; Monsters is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#ChicagoMothman #PhantomsAndMonsters #O’HareEncounters #WingedHumanoid #LonStrickler #CryptidFiles #ParanormalRadio

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    TAKEN! THE DARK SIDE OF ALIEN ABDUCTION | Experiencers Expose Reality

    From mysterious lights and missing time to hybrid children and robotic entities, these nine chilling encounters reveal the complex and dark nature of the alien abduction phenomenon. Spanning over three decades, from Wyoming’s farmlands to the woods of Pennsylvania, each case carries its own terrifying signature: paralysis, telepathic voices, medical manipulation, and emotional trauma. Some experiencers were shown infants that weren’t quite human, while others returned with scars, missing organs, or unexplainable physical changes. Many describe being studied for their psychic sensitivity, as if they are being targeted by forces seeking to harness human consciousness itself. Whether these visitors are extraterrestrial, interdimensional, or something far stranger, their presence leaves behind only fear, silence, and questions that no one can answer.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, Unsolved Mysteries, and radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening. Phantoms &amp; Monsters is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#AlienAbduction #ExtraterrestrialEncounters #UFOPhenomenon #ParanormalResearch #MissingTime #HybridProgram

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    INCREDIBLE CRYPTIDS & HUMANOIDS! Beyond Belief Witness Testimonies

    Across continents and over decades, ordinary people have reported extraordinary encounters with creatures that defy logic and challenge their beliefs. From glowing red eyes watching in a South African field to an enormous batlike entity shaking an SUV in Florida, these accounts remind us that the world may still hold secrets science cannot explain. Witnesses describe beings that shift between human and animal forms, entities that vanish into the wilderness without a trace, and encounters so vivid that they leave behind physical evidence and lifelong unease.In tonight’s presentation, we’ll dive into nine chilling reports about cryptids &amp; humanoids that are referred to by unusual monikers. A werewolf-like figure prowling the suburbs, a colossal bat terrorizing Orlando, a winged humanoid in Pennsylvania, devilish hybrids in Virginia and Ohio, the historic hunt for a Hodag, a Jackalope sighting in Turkey, a mysterious woman in the frozen Swiss Alps, and a violent attack by a shapeless force on a sugarcane farm. Each testimony is raw, unfiltered, and unforgettable, leaving us to ask what is truly sharing this world with us, and how close they have already come to our lives.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on numerous radio shows, including Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#CryptidEncounters #ParanormalReports #TrueMysteries #WingedHumanoids #CryptidPodcast #UnexplainedPhenomena

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    SHAPESHIFTERS AMONG US! Horrible Transitions in Modern Encounters

    Shapeshifters have haunted human imagination for centuries, beings who wear more than one face, who walk as men by day and monsters by night. From the deserts of the Southwest to the waters of the Caribbean, from the backroads of California to the outback of Australia, witnesses tell us these entities are not confined to folklore; they are real and watching.Tonight on Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio, we dive into chilling encounters that blur the line between man and beast, spirit and flesh. Skinwalkers, evil mermaids, spectral bird-creatures, ghostly children, and reptilian imitators. Are they demons, interdimensional beings, or echoes of something even older? Stay with us, because each story you’ll hear is stranger than the last and may leave you questioning the shape of reality itself.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on numerous radio shows, including Coast to Coast AM.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#Shapeshifters #Skinwalker #ParanormalRadio #CryptidEncounters #PhantomsAndMonsters #TrueParanormal

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    BEWARE THE STALKERS! Non-Human Hunters & Watchers Will Not Hide!

    From deep woods in Mississippi to the shadowed slopes of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, people continue to report encounters with strange beings that stalk, watch, and sometimes even follow them home. These are not fleeting campfire tales but detailed experiences from credible witnesses, ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances. From pale, crawler-like creatures crouched over carcasses, to towering shadow figures that leave behind only stench and fear, the accounts echo a disturbing pattern: something unknown is out there, and it’s aware of us. Tonight, we’ll explore these chilling testimonies and consider the question: What happens when the unknown takes an interest in you?👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous radio appearances on Coast to Coast AM and more.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter, whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other, I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#CrawlerCryptidEncounters #StalkedByTheUnknown #BigfootOrSomethingElse #HauntedWoodsExperiences #BlackEyedBeings #ParanormalWitnessReports

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    SPECTERS, HYBRIDS, & HIDDEN BEINGS | New Reports From Across America

    We’re diving into a series of fresh reports that stretch across America—from phantom legions marching through the San Luis Valley to spectral horses that appear from nowhere in Illinois. These are encounters that defy history, biology, and even the rules of reality itself. Were these witnesses seeing ghosts, cryptids, or something interdimensional that moves through our world unseen? Stay with me, because what you’re about to hear may change the way you think about the strange forces walking among us.(NOTE: THE CAMERA GLITCHED OUT FOR MOST OF THE SHOW, BUT THE AUDIO WAS GREAT. YOU DIDN&#39;T NEED TO SEE MY LOVELY FACE ANYWAY)👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous radio appearances on Coast to Coast AM and more.🔍 Featured Topics: Mothman, Glimmer Man, Bigfoot, Dogman, dimensional entities, alien abductions, and more.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter—whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other—I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening — P&amp;M is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#PhantomsAndMonsters #HighStrangeness #CryptidSightings #UFOEncounters #ParanormalRadio

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    LIVING GARGOYLES! Worldwide Encounters With Winged Humanoids

    For decades, witnesses worldwide have described terrifying winged humanoids, creatures so strange that many refer to them as “living gargoyles.” From the Chicagoland sightings of dark, bat-winged figures to chilling encounters in Chile, Florida, West Virginia, and beyond, these reports reveal a phenomenon that refuses to be confined to legend. Are we glimpsing a hidden species, interdimensional travelers, or something far older haunting the night skies?👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous radio appearances on Coast to Coast AM and more.🔍 Featured Topics: Mothman, Glimmer Man, Bigfoot, Dogman, dimensional entities, alien abductions, and more.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter—whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other—I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#LivingGargoyles #WingedHumanoids #ChicagoMothman #CryptidSightings

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    STRANGE HIGHWAYS | When The Roads Fight Back!

    Long stretches of highway have always carried a strange allure. It includes freedom, isolation, and sometimes, something far more unsettling. From phantom hitchhikers that vanish without a trace to sudden lost hours and roads that seem to change beneath your tires, countless drivers have reported bizarre encounters that defy explanation. Tonight, we’ll explore the chilling mysteries of strange road trips, and ask: What really waits for us in the dark beyond the headlights?👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous radio appearances on Coast to Coast AM and more.🔍 Featured Topics: Mothman, Glimmer Man, Bigfoot, Dogman, dimensional entities, alien abductions, and more.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter—whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other—I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening — P&amp;M is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#StrangeRoadTrips #PhantomHitchhiker #ParanormalEncounters #HauntedHighways #TimeSlips

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    NATIONAL PARKS ‘DARK SECRETS’ | Encounters That Rangers & Staff Rarely Discuss!

    A park ranger wakes up in Brujas Canyon after sharing the same dream as his roommate, both of whom are chased by a black bull that local lore says is a witch. Another ranger’s friend steps from her tent along a desert river and meets a “woman” whose attack ends with cougar tracks and a warning whispered by tradition: some predators wear borrowed skins. Far away beneath redwoods, a hiker meets a toddler who speaks an unfamiliar word, then loses eleven minutes he can’t account for, along with any trace of the boy or the man he thought was his father. What threads tie a witch-bull, skinwalkers, and missing time together in America’s most protected wildlands?Night in the Smokies turns the forest mute, no wind, no insects, until a crouched, black form with burning red eyes appears on a boulder, and a heat-shimmer “something” paces hikers down the trail. In Yellowstone, a woman in 19th-century dress walks a snowed-in road at midnight, dry hair, no face. Near Gatlinburg, a man watches as a human-sized shadow collapses into a coyote shape and hops onto a log. These aren’t stray campfire tales; they’re consistent motifs: red-eyed sentinels, liminal crossings (bridges, bends, boulder gates), and entities that compress distance and time.Go west, and the pattern persists. A Half Dome hiker stares up at a white, pant-leg shape tucked in a cliff alcove, immobile in high wind, echoing California’s “Nightcrawler” archetype. On Mount Lassen, a volcanic slope answers a teenager’s call with a throat-deep roar a ranger will later name flatly: “Bigfoot.” At Crater Lake, pale eyes and a gray, low-slung humanoid glide from the dark; at Cuyahoga, a winged figure with ten-foot spread and red eyes drops from a tree as a missing camper crawls from the brush. Why the red eyes? Why the silence before the approach? Why so often at water, switchbacks, bridges, and towers?Keep reading as we map these accounts against known hot-zones, Brujas Canyon to Arches, Muir Woods to Yosemite, the Smokies to Yellowstone, Crater Lake to Cuyahoga, and test them against three working models: (1) shapeshifter lore tracking real predatory intelligences along waterways, (2) guardian/sentinel phenomena clustering at geologic and energetic thresholds, and (3) “glimmer” entities whose interference fields produce memory gaps and light suppression. The witnesses didn’t just see things; they crossed into places where the land itself seemed to watch back at them.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous radio appearances on Coast to Coast AM and more.🔍 Featured Topics: Mothman, Glimmer Man, Bigfoot, Dogman, dimensional entities, alien abductions, and more.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter—whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other—I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:🌐 https://phantomsandmonsters.com - You can also submit your sighting or encounter report at the website.✨ Join Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio – Only $2.99/Month!Unlock Insider perks:💬 Members-only live chat with Lon🎥 Exclusive videos &amp; early case drops💬 Priority comment replies🏅 Member badge &amp; recognition📚 From Lon’s Library giveaways — including out-of-print, rare, &amp; signed paranormal books from Lon’s personal collection👉 JOIN NOW: Click on the &#39;MEMBERSHIP&#39; tab on the Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio homepage.Do you have perks suggestions? We’re listening — P&amp;M is built by the community, for the community.Credits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#NationalParkMysteries #SkinwalkerEncounters #MissingTime #HauntedCanyons #ForestSpirits #ParanormalRangers #CryptidEncounters #FacelessGhost #Shapeshifters #BigfootStories #GlimmerMan #StrangeButTrue #ParanormalEvidence #MysteriousEncounters

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    GLIMMER MAN: CLOAKED BEINGS THAT MOVE AMONG US | Chilling New Encounters Revealed!

    For decades, people across the globe have whispered about shadowy, semi-invisible entities—beings that shimmer like heatwaves, bend light around their bodies, and move silently through our world. Known to many as the “Glimmer Man,” these mysterious figures evoke the cloaking technology of the Predator films, yet witnesses insist their experiences are all too real.In this episode, we’ll explore terrifying new reports from Queensland, Australia, to the forests of Illinois, from the Catskill Mountains to the suburbs of Chicago. Eyewitnesses describe force-field-like sensations, clicking noises in the night, glowing eyes, and the eerie dread that often precedes these encounters. Some claim these beings walk among us in malls, backyards, and hunting grounds—leaving physical effects and lifelong impressions.Are these entities extraterrestrial visitors, interdimensional watchers, or cryptid cousins of Bigfoot and other shapeshifters? Or are they something far stranger—beings that blend physical and non-physical existence, appearing only when they choose? We’ll break down the testimonies, compare patterns across decades, and ask the critical question: what do these cloaked beings want with us?Join us as we uncover the most compelling new Glimmer Man sightings ever documented—cases that may forever alter the way we think about reality itself.👤 I&#39;m Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms &amp; Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous radio appearances on Coast to Coast AM and more.🔍 Featured Topics: Mothman, Glimmer Man, Bigfoot, Dogman, dimensional entities, alien abductions, and more.🔍 If you&#39;ve had an unexplained encounter—whether cryptid, alien, supernatural, or other—I want to hear from you. Submit your experience and evidence via:👽 Submit a report: [email protected]📞 Call: 410-241-5974🌐 Blog: https://phantomsandmonsters.com🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube🛡️ Become a Phantoms &amp; Monsters Radio Member — Only $2.99/Month!Join the Insiders tier to unlock powerful community perks:✅ Members-only live chat with Lon✅ Access to exclusive video content✅ Priority responses to your comments✅ First look at new investigations and case drops✅ Member badge &amp; recognition in the community✅ FREE Original Content PDF DownloadsDo you have perks suggestions? We’re listening — P&amp;M is built by the community, for the community.👉 Click &quot;Join&quot; on our channel homepage to become a Phantoms &amp; Monsters Insider today!☕ Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee - https://bit.ly/3TRBrGM💸 Donate via PayPal: https://bit.ly/4bXQgP8📚 My Books: View on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Imf4XuCredits: All content licensed and/or used with permission.#GlimmerMan #ParanormalEncounters #CryptidSightings #InvisibleBeings #PredatorLike #CloakedHumanoids #PhantomsAndMonsters #LonStrickler #UFOsAndCryptids #SupernaturalMysteries #CreepyEncounters #InterdimensionalBeing

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to Phantoms & Monsters Radio — Your Gateway to Real Cryptid Encounters, Paranormal Investigations, and Unexplained PhenomenaHosted by Lon Strickler, renowned Fortean researcher and publisher of the Phantoms & Monsters blog, this channel explores true cryptid sightings, alien encounters, supernatural phenomena, hauntings, and other strange anomalies reported by real witnesses.As the official media platform for Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research, Lon’s investigations have been featured on The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, Syfy’s Paranormal Witness, Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries.

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