Several years ago, I wrote the following post about the 'Ghost Brides' tradition in China. I am reposting the information after receiving an explanation request from a reader. A dead woman gets married off twice In a shocking incident in China, a dead woman was found to be married off not once but twice. A family sold their daughter's corpse for about $5,000 to a man who wanted to perform a marriage ceremony between two dead bodies. It is known as 'yin' marriage in China, reports Global Times. After the wedding ceremony with a difference, the dead couple were buried in the same tomb. How ..read more

The following account was retold on 'Finding Bigfoot' back in 2011. The incident occurred in Virginia. BFRO investigator Tyler Bounds from Washington reported that he had hit a Bigfoot while driving near High Knob, VA at around 2 AM: "On the afternoon of Oct. 22, 2010, I had to go to an area 90 minutes away from our base and set up some bait stations. Due to a lack of communication, I had to return to the area later that evening and set up some more bait stations. This kept me out in a remote mountain area until 1:25am (I noted the exact time I left so the show's field coordinator would ..read more

A British experiencer details their unexplained account of high strangeness when a series of symbols or hieroglyphs appear on the ceiling of the bedroom. Was this a message? I received the following inquiry: "Hi Lon, my name is BA, age 65. I live in a small village situated on the banks of the River Humber in the east riding of Yorkshire. I had a strange experience in the early hours of this morning, which I would like to relate to you. I went to bed last night feeling very tired, I usually nod off straight away as soon as my head hits the pillow, no problem there, but last night for some rea ..read more

A Harleysville, Pennsylvania experiencer describes their UFO sighting and possible abduction. The experiencer also wonders why they weren't afraid throughout this incident. I received the following account: "Sometime in the middle of October 2010, I was up late playing computer games in my bedroom on the second story of my home here in Harleysville, Pennsylvania. I was getting tired around 12:30 am and decided to go to sleep around 1:00am. I fell asleep quite quickly in nothing but my boxers. Before I go into detail about the encounter I experienced, allow me to explain the layout of my ..read more

AATIP Claims & Discrepancies Since October 2017, The Black Vault has hunted documentation on what was first described as a “sensitive aerospace threat identification program” that investigated “unidentified aerial technologies”. Later in December 2017, this program was identified as the “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program” or “AATIP” by the NY Times, and described as the “Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program”. But controversy quickly followed when the Department of Defense (DoD), throughout 2018 and 2019, changed their story multiple times on whether or not AATIP had studied ..read more

I received the following submission from a reader. In the Spring of 1963, a family is suddenly awakened by the screams of a woman coming from Wolfe's Woods. "My family and I lived off State Rd 23, two 1/4 mile from the Edwardsburg, Michigan state line in Granger, Indiana. Our house was just down from what "we" called Dead Man's Curve. There were a lot of accidents there, usually in the Spring and Winter. In the spring of 1963, at about 3:30 AM, we all were awakened by a woman screaming "Help Me! Help Me!" My Mother, Grandparents and I all met in the living room. The woman's voice was very l ..read more

A couple are out at night in a local Pickens, West Virginia park when they are approached by 4 black-eyed kids. The couple freaks because of the bizarre situation. It has affected the couple since. I received the following account: "I encountered the black-eyed kids over a decade ago in rural Appalachia. This has always disturbed me. My boyfriend and I keep in touch to this day, but we've never brought it up again. We were at a local/state park sort of place in Pickens, West Virginia between 9 pm-10 pm. I remember we were parked alongside the woods and there were some picnic tables. It was pr ..read more

A Phoenix, Arizona man is out in the nearby desert late at night. As he sat in his truck, a tall, skinny insectoid walked up to him. Later, the incident details become more strange. The following information was referred to me: "It's 2015 and I was in the Southwest USA (outside of Phoenix, Arizona) in the desert camping. It was about 2am and I was still in the truck cab eating pistachios and tossing the shells out of the open window. Huge full moon behind me at about 2 o'clock in the sky I was watching it in the rearview mirror. The moon was so bright I could read by its light. All at once a ..read more

A LaCrosse, Wisconsin resident recalls his encounter with a black van. Soon after, he started hearing strange clicking sounds on his telephone. Were these MIBs? I received the following account: "I had a strange encounter with my cousins and some friends in 1998 while living in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. I was 20 years old at the time, and we were very much into conspiracy theories, aliens, and the like. This was before YouTube was what it would become and the internet was still growing. We’d explore the internet looking into aliens, chat rooms, forums, the whole nine. We’d try and find footage out ..read more

I was contacted by a reader who recently was participating in a Reddit thread in response to sightings of an upright cat-like cryptid that was seen in Alachua County, Florida. I decided to post the entire response thread so the readers could follow the series of sightings and the details. I recently received an email from 'Chris': "Hi Lon - I'm a big fan of your site/podcast. Please check out the Reddit link below, (https://www.reddit.com/r/Cryptozoology/comments/11zaipz/cryptids_of_florida/) where a woman reported a sighting by her husband of a bizarre cat-like creature in Gai ..read more