The Weird and Strange Thread of the Mysterious and Unknown!

Was watching a "Unsolved Mysteries" episode where people encountered a bird-like creature whom many call the "Mothman".....sure enough some "men in black" showed up after it became a media sensation......tell what you think about this.....it is the second segment.....the first segment is sad.....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUoPLqBfFOE

For example, have you ever seen a Hawk up close? I have. We have a few of them that fly around here in my area now and then and let me tell you, they are pretty good-sized birds. And they look very impressive and intimidating as hell and like they could rip your head off easily if they wanted to. Some of the Crows around here can get pretty big too. Now imagine if you saw one late at night, If you were scared out of your wits, and maybe even a little high or drunk, that thing could look even more larger and scarier to you than it actually is. Now, I am not saying that this is the case with the Mothman sightings. For all I know it could very well be a 7 foot tall bird-type humanoid creature that people saw just as they claimed. But sometimes a person's mind can play tricks on them, especially at night.

For instance, a friend and I used to go to a local state park late at night on weekends just to walk around and shoot the shit. One night as we were walking through the woods we started trying to freak each other out by telling scary stories, and saying things like "What would you do right now if Leatherface jumped from out behind that tree right now?" or, "What if a zombie came shambling through the brush right now... What would you do?". Now, this might sound humorous, but let me tell you, when you are walking through the woods late at night in the dark, thinking about this kind of stuff tends to spook you more than you think it would. Well, as we were trying to outdo each other with scary scenarios we happened to be walking by a small pond when all of a sudden this large noise and commotion came from the water. It turned out that it was just some ducks that we had managed to spook and got scared off by our presence as we walked by, but in my minds eye for just a split second or two in the moonlight I could have swore that I was seeing a large swamp creature rising up from that pond when it happened. My heart was racing like crazy and then when we both realized what it really was and then we both started laughing. I asked my friend if he had imagined some kind of a big creature coming out of the pond like I did and he said yeah, it happened to him as well. So, people's minds can play tricks on them when they are startled or scared by something unexpected, especially when out in the dark at night.



As I have mentioned in previous posts, my parents & I lived on a dead end street that had a field behind it when I was a kid.....I am so glad I didn't know about the Mothman then....I never would have gotten any sleep....I remember me & some of the neighborhood kids would sometimes camp out on this trampoline we had in the back yard....that trampoline made me friends when we moved there in 1979.........it would be about 5 or 6 of us......& they would tell ghost stories all the while we would be looking at the field with traffic headlights in the distance from a nearby interstate, those lights shining through those trees were always creepy to look at.....imagine if the Mothman had shown up........there was another time when me & two friends camped out in a tent.....I remember there was this thing taunting us from outside.......I am sure it was one of the neighbors having fun with us.....but at 9 years old I wasn't about to find out who it was.......when I think back on it now....it still creeps me out.....whoever it was sure acted like some creature.....at least I hope it was someone acting like a creature......we never found out who or what it was.

No, but I have heard stories over the years from people who claim they have. One eyewitness was from a lady who was driving by a store one late night when she noticed what looked to be a huge dog eating something by a dumpster. As she got closer to it, it suddenly stood up straight and tall on it's hind legs just like a man and looked in her direction before running off into the woods. She said that it looked just like a werewolf from the movies.

One time years ago as a kid I was playing in the woods by myself at my grandma's house in the upper peninsula. There was an old train caboose on the property and I was just fooling around on it when off in the distance I saw something heading towards me through the brush. It was black and hairy and growling fiercely. It scared me so bad that I immediately ran towards the house as fast as I could as I heard it chasing behind me. As I got closer to the house it just stopped and stayed hidden within the woods. I thought that maybe it was a bear, but sometimes I think back on it and wonder if it could have possibly been a Dogman?

I would have ran like hell too.......I don't know of any TN legends like that, there is a Bell Witch legend, but I am not sure I buy into it........there is this one town about 40 miles south of Nashville called Rockvale where me & the ex-wife got married, it is like Mayberry almost.....there is this train track where according to some of the residents that live there is haunted at night by the spirit of a man who was decapitated there during World War II.....they say he roams the area with a night lamp looking for his head.......I have never bothered to find out.