Thursday, May 13, 2021
Is the Mad Gasser Striking Again?
In the beginning of September 1944 a series of strange attacks occurred in Mattoon Illinois. Reports of an a prowler gassing people through the open windows of their house. The first account occurred on August 31st 1944. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Kearney of 1408 Marshall Avenue reported a tall, thin man dressed in dark clothing and wearing a tight-fitting cap using an agricultural tool for spraying pesticide, which he purportedly used to expel the gas into the open window of their bedroom during the early morning hours. The couple reported a sweet smelling odor which paralyzed them in their beds.
Over the next two weeks several more reports to police occurred with similar details. One account described a couple returning home and finding a white cloth on their porch near the front door. Upon picking it up and briefly smelling it the wife became violently ill with burning lips and mouth and feelings of paralysis. While the husband search around the property he discovered a man in dark clothing hiding in the bushes near the bedroom window. A chase ensued but the assailant was able to get away.
Fast forwarding to present day reports of these strange occurrences are now popping up in and around Mattoon once more. The details seem to be the same of a man in dark clothing using a sprayer to gas people in their home through open windows. The police don't know what to think of these reports as anyone that was an adult during 1944 would either be dead or over 100 years old.
Is the Mad Gasser of Mattoon back?
Sunday, May 3, 2020
“The Black Death” Recovered
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
"The Forge" Found
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Saturday, August 27, 2016
The "Demon Bell" Resurfaces
It has only been a tale of legends until last year when Chinese excavators working in secret from Chinese manuscripts were said to have located the bell more than 4oo feet below the Earth's surface in India exactly as the legend stated. Using the same type of tunnel boring machines used to carve out the tunnel under the English channel that connects England and France, the Chinese hit the purported tomb of the "Demon Bell."
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Axe Murder Of Five Hikers Blamed on The Goatman
When a PR spokesman for the Maryland State Police, at a police news conference, finally released information, it was stated that five hikers were found murdered along the infamous Fletchertown Road and surrounding woods. When pursued for information further, he did say that the murders appeared to be from an axe wielding assailant. When the subject of the Goatman was brought up, he looked distressed and acknowledged that the only tracks found in the area were of some animal hooves similar to a goat. When tracking dogs were brought in to the scene, accounts by the K9 officer, the dogs handler, were that the dogs seemed to be terrified and were completely useless, and almost had to be dragged around the scene.
The spokesman also was quoted as saying, "Were still in our initial investigation of the crime but you can be sure, no matter who the assailant is, they will be brought to justice." He went on to say, its possible that the Maryland State National Guard would be brought in soon to canvas the whole area and that all residents should stay in their homes for now.
Further investigations on "The Goatman of Maryland" shows a few different variations of the legend. Barry Pearson of the University of Maryland, when interviewed, said that the lore surrounding the Goatman is very old and includes everything from a hermit that walks the desolate Fletchertown Road area, to DNA experiments by the government that went very bad, and are attributed by locals, to at least 4 different unsolved murders since 1963. Mr. Pearson also acknowledged that the reports are very similar to reports from Kentucky of a Goatman that is known to roam the area around the Pope Lick Trestle instigating the nickname "The Pope Lick Monster" which is said to be responsible for the hacking death of a woman who was investigating recent sightings in the area, and other events that date back decades.
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