Though the origin story of this ghastly, quasi-humanoid she-beast read like a mishmash of a gore-drenched 1950’s E.C. Comic and a kid friendly 1960’s Marvel superhero introduction, the fact is that—whatever her genesis may be—the hulking carnivorous creature known to natives of the Sierra Nevada Mountains as “Penelope” leaves all who witness her feeling both petrified… and lucky to be alive.

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Beginning when he was just 12 years-old, a young boy had the same horrific nightmare over and over again. After many years this seemingly endless odyssey of terror finally ended, but little could he have expected that decades later he would have a nerve-rattling face-to-face encounter with a beautiful, yet bizarre being who seemed to have emerged, fully formed, from the depths of his fear addled psyche.

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While epic flaps involving repeated encounters with anomalous entities like Mothman are the stuff of legend, by and large the majority of paranormal run-ins involve brief and unexpected brushes with high-strangeness that leave the experiencer both baffled and horrified… here are just a few of the bizarre brushes people have reported with these macabre mysteries.

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Sometime before 2011, the President and Founder of “Alien Research Group,” Sandy Nichols sent his friend, renowned paranormal author and researcher Brad Steiger a remarkable e-mail detailing visions he had regarding the secretive, organic, underground base and the clandestine Reptilian forces that were amassing against humanity. But he also revealed a conflict within the Reptilians ranks… one that involved a esoteric  experiment designed to hybridize their cold blood species with our own, resulting in something none of us could have anticipated.

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