This list is an ongoing project, where I am compiling modern paranormal and mythical cases from various sources. The hope is that you can use it to get the basic information a subject, as well as find sources where you can get more information. This list is updated regularly, as I’m continually working on adding in new cases, and updating old ones.
Listing are alphabetical, with numeric entries at the end. Included at the end of each entry are notes about activity, location, media source, and investigators, as well as my personal notes if they apply.
WARNING: This list DOES contain SPOILERS for various Books and TV shows.
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Jaime
- Mexican reporter who has tons of UFO footage due to viewers mailing
it to him. His collection includes footage from Orizaba, Leone,
Hidalgo, and Mexico City. Professional skywatcher Arturo has sent
several of these, which appears slightly suspicious. When the
production crew sent out a group of balloons he identified it as
something strange, but not balloons. Jaime however says analyzes the
videos for himself, but has shown interest in clearly hoaxed images
taken by another photographer.
[Location:
Mexico]
[TV:
UFOs Over Earth - Episode 2: Mass Sightings in Mexico]
Jane
Adams Hull House - Stories tell of a anti-religious man telling his
catholic wife he'd rather have the son of the devil himself, and Jane
took the baby in. It didn't live long, some say it was murdered.
Activity includes; unexplained fires upstairs, and Hull's chair
rocking on it's own.
[Location:
Key West ]
[TV:
Most Terrifying Places in America 6]
Japan
Airlines Flight 1628 UFO - In 1986 a UFO follows a Japanese 747. The
captain reported seeing small craft coming and going from the UFO,
and the crew was bracing for collision. They claim to have seen it
jump in position, and felt heat on their faces from the bright
yellow-white lights, then a gigantic object appeared next to them. It
follows them for 14 minutes. The FAA tried to explain it away (as
radar phenomenon), and when the pilot went public with what he saw,
he was moved to a desk job.
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Radar video evidence, tower recordings, and interview recordings, for
this case exists.
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Jim Derry, former head of FAA Alaska Office, interviewed the crew and
believes they were telling the truth. John Callahan, Division Chief
of Accidents and Investigations, studied the radar information and
found it to sync up exactly, and believes it was a UFO. He claims the
CIA told him it never happened, but admitted it was a UfO.
[Location:
Over Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska]
[TV:
Secret Access: UFOs on the Record (Special) + The Unexplained Files -
Episode 19: Mysteries at 3,000 Feet]
Jean
Bonnet Tavern
[Location:
Bedford, Pennsylvania]
Jerome
Grand Hotel (United Fairday Hospital for miners) - For 24 years
(while it was a hospital) there was about 1 death a day. Later the
building's maintenance man was found crushed by the elevator.
Activity includes; the apparition of the maintenance man, and the
elevator comes down on it's own.
[Location:
Jerome, Arizona]
[TV:
Most Terrifying Places in America 5]
(The)
Jersey Devil - Supposedly when Mrs. Leeds (aka Mother Leeds) was
pregnant with her 13th child and put a curse upon it, saying
something along the lines of ‘the devil take it’. It became a
demonic creature with the torso of a man, the hooves of a goat,
wings, and the head of a horse. May have bright red eyes. It is said
to shriek like an eagle. Misfortunes big and small (such as hens not
laying) were blamed on the Jersey Devil in the early years of the
legend.
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Finding Bigfoot claims half the sightings are described as being
closer to Bigfoot, but that’s the first I’ve heard of it.
[Location:
Pine Barrens, New Jersey]
[TV:
The Monster Project - Episode 1: Jersey Devil + Finding Bigfoot +
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Episode 15: Batsquatch, Jersey
Devil, Flying Humanoid]
*
SEE Lone
Pine Mountain Devil
Jimani
Lounge - A haunted location, where an arson’s fire killed 32 men
(hate crime against homosexuals). Activity includes; apparitions of
charred bodies.
[Location:
French Quarter, New Orleans, Lousisian]
[TV:
Ghost Hunters - Episode 199: French Quarter Massacre]
John
Dye House - A private home turned civil war hospitals during the
Battle of Perryville, the home is currently empty. Surgeries were
preformed upstairs to avoid ticks, fleas, and lice. So much blood was
spilled here, they say it still stains the floors (confirmed with
luminol). Activity includes; a green glow seen from outside, white
photo anomalies, civil war soldier photo, EVPs, EMF hits, spirit box
hits, boot footsteps, sense of energy during a reenactment in which
the reactors experienced paranormal events (feeling of being watched,
not being adequate to help, limbs going numb)...
[Location:
Perryville Kentucky]
[TV:
Ghost Adventures - Season 8 Episode 11: Battle of Perryville: Field
Hospitals.]
John
Bell House (Bell Farm) - Kate Batts (the Bell Witch), was a former
lover of Bell, is blamed for the occurrences around the (now
demolished) Bell farmhouse. Activity includes/included; a demonic
creature, hair pulling, beatings and bruises, poisonings, dark haired
apparition, mysterious lights, and horrific sounds.
[TV:
America's Haunted Houses (Special)]
John
Hutchinson Effect - A catch all name for the suspicious effects John
Hutchinson claims to have encountered during various experiments
involving levitation, free energy, and invisibility.
[Books:
Poltergeists; Examining Mysteries of the Paranormal (Micheal
Clarkson)]
Judaculla
(aka: Tuli-cula, Juthcullah, Tsulʻkalu, Appalachian Giant) - A giant
ruler from Cherokee folklore, who is said to have leapt 8 miles and
left an hand print impact mark on a boundary stone. He was said to be
very ugly, have slant eyes, seven fingers, and claws.
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Other images carved into the stone, suggest it may have been carved.
[TV:
America Unearthed - Season 3, Episode 3: Appalachian Giant]
-K-
Kala
Bandar (Black Monkey) - Another name for
The Monkey Man of New Delhi, a monkey-like humanoid that is reported
to bite, scratch, and chase people.
*
SEE (The) Monkey Man of New Delhi
Kappa
- Japanese lake and river monsters, usually
humanoid, of a chimerical or composite nature. They have a water
storage hallow on their heads, a long body, and wide mouth. They may
have webbed hands/feet, as well as a turtle-like shell, and they may
be green or brown. Legends tell of how the kappa steal people’s
souls and drown swimmer. Some bodies of water in Japan still have no
swimming signs that warn of Kappa. It is believed that offering a
Kappa a cucumber with a person’s name carved into it will protect
them from the Kappa, as Kappa like to eat cucumber even more than
humans.
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The Kappa may have it’s basis in the Hanzaki, giant Japanese
salamanders, which are known to grow up to 6 feet long.
[Location:
Japan]
[TV:
River Monsters Unhooked - Episode 16: Cold Blooded Horror]
Kaptar
- A regional name for Almas, large ape-like cryptids.
[Location:
Caucasus Mountains]
[Web:
Unexplained Mysteries -
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewarticle.php?id=133 ]
*
SEE Almas
Kapustin
Yar Incident - A banana shaped object is seen on radar, and at test
pilot in an experimental plane is told to bring it down. The object
flashes a bright light at him, and he is blinded briefly, whilst the
plane is drained of power.
[Location:
Kapustin Yar, USSR]
[TV:
Unsealed: Alien Files - Episode 23: The Kecksburg Incident]
Kaz
II, Ghost Yacht - A small boat, the Kaz II is spotted by coast
guards, and when a rescue team went aboard, they found the three men
that were onboard had disappeared. They found a home video and GPS
info, that indicate they disappeared sometime within 25 minutes after
10:15 the morning, the same day the boat was discovered. They are
officially stated to have fallen overboard (not wearing lifejackets)
and drown, but some details don’t make sense, like the untouched
life rings. Other explanations include sharks, crocs, sea monsters,
and UFO or USO (UFO reports exist for nearby locations on that date).
[Location:
100 miles of Coast of Queensland, AU]
[TV:
The Unexplained Files - Episode 3]
*
SEE UFOs
*
SEE USOs
Kecksburg
Fireball, Kecksburg Incident - On Dec 9, 1965, reports of a fireball
seen across multiple states start to come in. Witnesses reported an
audible sizzling sound. It is said to have dropped flaming debris
which started several wildfires. It is said to have landed in the
woods of the Westmoreland Hills, just outside Kecksburg. No aircraft
were reported missing. A curious crowd the nearby road, a blue glow
was visible coming from the woods. The government comes into
investigate, and barricades the area. They claimed nothing was found
and the fireball was meteor, the newspaper headlines were changed
late morning to reflect this statement. NASA officials in hazmat
suits are said to be sighted carrying a box into the woods, as well
as a truck that picked up a large object from the woods. Afterwards,
a couple kids claimed to have found broken trees and an area of dirt
fill, and were warned by a guy in hazmat suit that the area was
radioactive. One witness even claims to have seen a seamless
car-sized bell-shaped object in the woods, and sulfuric smell.
Explanations for the object include, US Government tests, aliens, and
a mystical Nazi device called The Bell. Later a trucker delivering
glazed bricks, reports having snuck around, and seen the bell shaped
object behind a curtain, and a mostly covered lizard-man’s body on
a workbench.
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It’s been proposed that it was Cosmos 96, but it had come down
15-16 hours earlier.
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The government claims only three military personnel were involved,
but witnesses and reporters’ accounts clearly contradict this. NASA
claims to have no files on the incident.
[Location:
Kecksburg, PA]
[TV:
Alien Mysteries - Episode : Kecksburg + Unsealed: Alien Files -
Episode 23: The Kecksburg Incident + Hangar 1: The UFO Files -
Episode ?: Crashes and Cover-ups]
*
SEE UFOs
*
SEE (The) Bell
Keefer
House/Mansion - A building with a 200 year history, including a
periods as a hospital, that is believed to be haunted. Previously the
site of Keefer's log cabin (which doubled as war hospital). Activity
includes; apparitions (wet sickly person, soldiers, woman in Civil
War Era clothes, and a man smoking a cigar accompanied by a group of
deranged mental patients), self-strangulation, water from nowhere,
levitating objects (w/ a young boy talking to someone not there), out
of place scents (cigar smoke), and psychic hits.
[Location:
Near Welland Canal, Thorold, Ontario, Canada]
[TV:
Hauntings and Horrors/Creepy Canada - Season 1, Episode 13: Fan Tan
Alley Ghost; Keefer House; Pennyland]
Khon
Kaen - A village in Thailand, that is supposed to be plagued by
ghosts (apparitions, headless ghost, red orbs). The monastery
graveyard is supposed to be the most haunted area of the village,
where the local crematorium is. The village leaders even called in
professionals ghost hunters, a couple women with trap 'spirits' in
bamboo containers, covered with holy cloth. Signs said to prelude the
sightings include; howling dogs (hyena like) and noxious odors.
-
Haunting are a very popular thing in Thailand, with at least one
museum devoted to ghost photos.
-
Destination truth's EVP translated to 'Get out of here, everybody get
out of here.'
[Locations:
Khon Kaen, Thailand]
[TV:
Destination Truth - Season 1, Episode 2: Haunting and Naga]
Kikiyaon
- The name meaning owl, this creature is a gigantic humanoid owl. It
is said to have a large head with human-like eyes. There have been
several reports of the creature, during both night and day. There
appear ot be some variations on the story, and while some say it
brings misfortune and grown men run from it, other say there are
multiple species of Kikiyaon and only some are dangerous.
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In at least one village, a dance ritual is used to ward off the
creature.
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Some real owls in the area can get to be three feet tall, and some
believe these could be the fact that inspired the myth.
[Location:
Africa, specifically Gambia]
[TV:
Destination Truth - Season 2, Episode 12 Ninki Nanka; Kikiyaon]
King
Tut’s Curse (Pharaoh Tutankhamen) - Several people involved with
the discovery of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s mummy have supposedly
met untimely ends, due to disturbing his resting place, a curse is
supposedly written within the tomb. Some believe even now, visitors
to the tomb (and the Valley of the Kings in general) experience the
paranormal. Activity includes; sandstorms, illness, voices, EVPs,
apparitions, orbs, and photo anomalies.
-
Destination Truth's EVPs were suspiciously, in English.
[Location:
King Tut's Tomb, Valley of the Kings, Egypt]
[TV:
The Unexplained Files - Episode 2 + Destination Truth - Season 3,
Episode 3: King Tut's Curse; Swamp Ape]
*
SEE Iceman’s Curse
*
SEE Ice Maiden’s Curse
Klondike
Restaurant - A 100 year old building that used to be a hotel, where
legend says a man was murdered over a woman. Deaths did occur in the
hotel. Activity includes; freezes (cold spots or chills?),
whispering/calling of your name or offers to help with work,
sneezing/coughing, scratches, footsteps, shadows, wisps, dark
feelings, and Ryan of PS had the sensation of being touched. - The PS
afterward claims that activity went down after their visit, though no
blessing/cleansing was preformed.
[Location:
Old Town, Saint Helens, Oregon]
[TV:
Paranormal State - Episode 100: Paranormal Detour]
Knickerbocker
Hotel - Over 150 years old. Site of multiple séances. One of the
spirits is believed to be a maid, Katie, from the 1800, and another
evil entity that casts shadows and causes negative events. Activity
includes; chocking sensation in one of the rooms (PS claims this to
be dust), pushed down the stairwell (PS claims this to be worn out
stairs), a shadows appears to the owner at a party after which many
of the people present have major injuries/medical events, a blackout
when the owner tells the spirit to leave (however PS found this to be
a neighborhood wide blackout, which apparently happens almost
weekly).
[Location:
Linesville, PA]
[TV:
Paranormal State - Episode 29: The Knickerbocker]
*
NOTE: Not to be confused with the Knickerbooker in Hollywood
Kongamato
- Flying dinosaurs or pterodactyls said to inhabit swamps in Africa,
and harass villagers.
-
Some have suggested misidentification of shoebills, bats, and other
natives. Eats snakes, rodents, and even people.
[Location:
Zambia, Africa]
[TV:
Destination Truth - Season 2, Episode 5: Flying Dinosaur; Sloth
Monster]
-L-
Lac
La Biche Mission - A historic site in Canada, presumed to be haunted.
Activity includes; apparitions (nuns, priests, ect), hallucinations
(of others as priests and nuns), appearing objects (books), and
psychic hits.
[Location:
Lac La Biche (lake), Old Albertan Passage, Canada]
[TV:
Hauntings and Horrors/Creepy Canada - Season 1, Episode 9]
Lake
Ikeda Monster (Issie) - A two humped monster believed to live in Lake
Ikeda.
Lake
Iliamna Monster - A large grey scaly fish or alligator like monster
believed to live in lake. Some have suggested it may be a sturgeon,
but no sturgeon has ever been see or caught there.
[Location:
Lake Iliamna, Alaska]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in Alaska]
Lake
Khalyr Monster - A monster, or group of monsters, that supposedly
live in Lake Khalyr, possibly giant newts.
Lake
Michigan - Believed to have some connection with UFOs and Alien
Abductions, several ships and planes have disappeared over the lake.
[TV:
Uncovering Aliens - Episode 4: Alien Invasion]
Lake
Murray Beast, Lake Murray Monster - This name may refer to either the
Plesiosaurs-like monster of Lake Murray, South Carolina, or the
Dinosaur-like monster of Lake Murray Papua New Guinea.
*
South Carolina - Commonly seen around Dreher Island, forms and
shadows have been seen on Lake Murray. The creature has been known to
push/bump boats. Large Sturgeon are known to live in the lake and may
account for some images of the creature.
*
Papua New Guinea - This creature is a sauropod dinosaur-like reptile,
with sharp teeth and triangular back plates.
[Location:
Lake Murray, South Carolina and Lake Murray Papua New Guinea]
[TV:
Haunted Highway - Episode 10 Lake Murray Beast; The Donner Party]
[Web:
Cryptozoo-oscity:
http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-lake-murray-monsters.html
(Note: If you follow this link, you'll need to stop the download
before you're redirected by malicious ad code.)]
Lake
Pepin Monster, Pepie - A possible plesiosaur or giant serpent, living
in a lake attached to the Missouri River. Some believe it must have a
cave lair in the lake. Stories of the monster go back to pre-colonial
times, with Native Americans blaming it if people disappeared, People
who have seen it, generally react with fear, some never returning to
the lake. Eels and Giant Sturgeons have been suggested as possible
misidentifications.
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Photos of the supposed creature exist, as well as video of an
expedition diver panicking.
[Location:
Lake Pepin, Missouri River, Minnesota]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Episode 20: UFO Bigfoot, Lake
Pepin Monster, Cajun Werewolf]
Lake
Ronkonkama (spelling needs checked) - A Native American princess
drown herself in the lake, and some say she swore to take a male
swimmers life each year. There is a much higher rate of male drowning
in the lake than females. The name means 'boundary fishing place'.
[Location:
Long Island]
[TV:
Most Terrifying Places in America 6]
Lake
Worth Monster - Also called the Mudman and Goatman. Starting in the
late 1950’s vehicles near the lake start being raided for food, and
in 1969 the first couple is attacked by something that jumps on top
of their car. The man compared it to The Black Lagoon. It is a large
hybrid creature, part goat, part man, hairy, with scaly faced, and
maybe a horn or two. It is aggressive, attacks and drags cars, and
throws things. Origin stories include lake pollution morphing man or
beast into a monster. After 1969, the stories stop until 20 years
later, when it’s encountered on the mountain by a group of
teenagers.
[Location:
Lake Worth, TX]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Episode 8: Goat Man, Goat Sucker,
and Zombie Soldiers]
Laurel
Caverns - The largest commercial cave in Pennsylvania, which is
believed to be haunted. Multiple deaths have occurred at the caves,
including a bride to be being pushed off some rocks. It is also
rumored the Frank Cooley hid treasure within the cave. Outside the
cave, an airplane crashed. Activity includes; apparitions (lady in
white presumed to Paulie Williams, a man presumed to be Norman Cale,
a man presumed to be Frank Cooley, a French soldier who is said to
shoot at observers, wounded men at the crash site), temperature
anomalies, EMF readings, orb and ecto photos (hello dust), batteries
drained, and EVPs.
[Location:
Pennsylvania]
[TV:
Hauntings and Horrors (Creepy Canada) - Season 1, Episode 8]
[Investigators:
The United Paranormal Investigators]
Lechuza
(Owl) - A shape shifting undead witch who can become an owl, owls, or
half-owl. May also appear as an orange and blue fireball, or a
ghostly woman. Has dark chasms for eyes. Believed to be a medicine
woman who turned from healing to practice black magic, and was burned
at the stake. She is believed to claw people and a drain their life
force. She is especially attracted to babies. May be killed or driven
away by shooting it with a bullet that has a cross carved into it.
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May relate to Mayan myths of owls ruling the night and the dead.
[Location:
Roswell, New Mexico & Austin, Texas]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Episode 17: The Rake, Lechuza,
Sykesville Monster]
*
SEE Blue Albino Woman
Legions
- A collection of minor spirits (usually demons) or emotional
residue. If a legion takes a single form, it will likely be
disfigured.
Leprechaun
- Little people said to inhabit the fairy-world or underworld, and
have been granted reserves by the government. Traditional leprechaun
descriptions include; being 2 ft tall, having red hair and full
beards, pointed ears, weathered faces. Oral tradition says you will
not see a leprechaun, without first drinking or going into a fairy
ring, and that if you look away, they will disappear.
[Locations
of Recent Sightings: County Claire, specifically Doolin, the fairy
rings, forest, and caves.
[TV:
Destination Truth - Season 3, Episode 10: Ghosts of Masada, The
Leprechaun]
Ley
Lines - straight lines around the earth that supposedly have power,
many ancient sites lay on proposed lines.
[TV:
Unexplained Mysteries - Episode 4: This Strange Planet]
Lighting
Psychics - People who claim to have developed psychic powers after
being struck by lighting, such as the ability to communicate with
spirits, recognition, and precognition. Theories attributes this to
brain cells killed by lighting causing the brain to rewire itself,
resulting in new abilities.
-
Known lighting psychics include; Sonia Benser, and Shane Smith.
[Location:
Worldwide]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Season 3, Episode 3: Sabine
Thing, Lighting Psychic]
*
SEE Psychics
Lights
of Blue Springs - A cluster of glowing orb UFO sightings near Kansas
City, Missouri.
[Location:
Blue Springs, Kansas City, Missouri]
[TV:
Hangar 1: The UFO Files - Episode 5: American Hotspots]
Lily
Dale Assembly (aka City of Light) - Largest center for Spiritualists
and Mediums.
[TV:
America's Haunted Houses (Special)]
Linda
Cortile Incident - In 1989, Cortile wakes up, hovering over NY, being
pulled into a large UFO. Below her is a massive power outage. She
awakens again, back in her apartment. Bud Hopkins takes her case, and
Doctors find a metal object in her skull. A year later Richard and
Dan (police officers on VIP security, Cuellar) send a letter
describing the event from their perspective. Cuellar denied the
incident when contacted.
[Location:
NY]
[TV:
Hangar 1: The UFO Files - Episode ?: Crashes and Cover-ups]
Lisa
Royal Holt - Cosmic medium, claims she can put herself into a trance
to communicate with aliens, and is sometimes overtaken by a female
alien from the Pleiades, whose body exists in a different dimension,
and whose species once inhabited Mars. Also claims that Sasha’s
species ‘uplifted’ humans into their current evolutionary state.
[TV:
World’s Strangest UFO Stories - Episode 3: Did Aliens Build the
Pyramids?]
Listowel
Ripper - Listowel is the location of a young girl's murder in the
late 1800s, once though to be committed by Jack the Ripper, it was
later found to be committed by the cross-dressing hobo obsessed with
his black bag, Amede Chattel. Some areas in the town (and nearby
Stratford) are believed to be haunted by him and his victim(s),
particularly the Listowel graveyard and the Stratford Jailhouse.
Activity includes; upset dogs, apparitions (a young girl in red old
fashion clothing around the cemetery, an angry looking man with a
suitcase in the jailhouse), and a young girl's singing.
-
A prison worker saw an apparition of Chattel, and ran to tell her
coworker, and later she and he found Chattel's file and realized who
she'd seen.
[Location:
Listowl, Ontario, Canada]
[TV:
Hauntings and Horrors/Creepy Canada - Season 1, Episode 1]
Little
Green Men of Kelly (aka The Hopkinsville Incident, Kelly-Hopkinsville
Encounter, Kelly Green Men Incident) - The Sutton family claims
aliens visited their farm house in August of 1955. One of the guys
(Lucky) went out to get some water from the well, and saw lights in
the sky. When the other guys join him, the lights are gone, but there
were creatures at the edge of the woods, silver-green with large eyes
and long ears that somewhat resemble wings. They went back for their
guns and had the kids hide under the bed. They shoot the creatures
that came to the doors and windows, but they dropped, rolled, and got
back up to come again. Once the creatures leave the guys drive out to
get the police. Police could find nothing but gunshot damage and a
glowing liquid. Some accounts say the aliens returned latter that
night. Several other alien and UFO encounters followed.
-
Some blame these encounters on meteor showers and horned owls. One
police officer claims to have seen three meteors traveling that
direction just before the first incident.
-
Original sketches, police reports, and photos are now archived at the
Penny Royal Museum in Hopkinsville. No samples were taken of the
glowing liquid, which evaporated overnight. Elmer Sutton claims Lucky
Sutton took the older kids (including his sister) to see the indents
from the craft, but these no longer exist.
[Location:
Christian County, Kelly & Hopkinsville, KY]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Episode 1: Appalachia + Mysteries
at the Museum - Episode 31: Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter; Lincoln
Brass… + Hauntings and Horrors/Creepy Canada - Season 1, Episode 4]
*
SEE UFOs
(USS)
Little Rock - A decommissioned US navel ship. Activity includes;
black silhouettes, a mysterious blue light floats around the ship
(possibly just a reflection), apparition of a admiral/captain,
apparition of a sailor that follows visitors, odd sounds, lights
flashing in Morris code, reply knocks.
[Location:
Buffalo Navel and Military Park, Buffalo, NY]
[TV:
Ghost Hunters - Episode 230: Phantom Fleet]
Lizard
Man (Reptile Man) - A monster believed to roam the Scape Ore Swamps
near Bishopville. It has also been spotted in the old growth forests
of the Great Smoky Mountains. It’s supposedly a 7 foot tall,
tailless, greenish-brown scaly humanoid, with three black clawed
fingers on each hand, and red or glowing yellow eyes. In the first
known event, teenage boy (Christopher Davis) was attacked by 1988,
and several cars in the area were smashed and chewed up in the
following weeks. Christopher had stopped to change a flat tire, and
after he put the tools back in his car, the lizard man started coming
towards him, he drove off, but it jumped on his car. He swerved and
braked until it was thrown off his car. It chased him further, but he
speed off. Sightings tapered off after 1988, but encounters are still
reported every couple years.
-
There are tales of 'men with tails' living with the Native Americans,
who once they ate all the fish from the river, headed off into the
swamps.
[Location:
Bishopville, Scape Ore Swamp, Great Smoky Mountains, South Carolina]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Episode13: Skunk Ape, Pascagoula
Aliens, Lizard Man + Monsters and Mysteries in America - Season 3,
Episode 7: Carolina Reptile Man, Succubus, Napa Rebobs]
Lizzie
Borden House (Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast) - This house is the
sight of the gruesome double-murder of Mr. Borden and his wife. His
daughter, Lizzie, is commonly believed to have committed the murder
(either out of hate of her stepmother, revenge for abuse, or for
money), though she went free at the time. Many now believe the
location to be haunted by Lizzie herself, either out of guilt,
remorse, rage, insanity, or the desire to clear her name. Her
father’s spirit is also said to be present. Activity includes,
sleep paralysis (possibly unrelated, but some believe spirits can
cause it), the sensation of being hit, seemingly unusual fly activity
(though I’m doubtful this is paranormal), shadow people and shadowy
mists.
-
I’m sorry, but The Dead Files psychic is not very convincing here…
[TV:
The Dead Files - Episode 10: Lizzie Borden House]
Lobizon
- Argentina's version of the werewolf, which is said to be the
seventh son in a family with only boys, who turns into a large
ferocious wolf or dog (especially during the full-moon, Tuesdays and
Thursdays). Seventh sons are baptized in an effort to prevent this
(usually by the president), and named Benito. The curse is not
transmitted via bites, as it is in modern werewolf legends. However,
some people claim to be Lobizon, who are not Seventh sons. Lobizon
can apparently be beaten off relatively easily.
-
Similar tales say that seventh daughters will become hags or
nightmares (it's unclear if they meant the dream demons, or the
carnivorous horses).
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Some believe the sightings can be attributed to the aguará-guazú,
an indigenous canine.
-
A rope presented as evidence, by a farmer who claimed to have
captured and beaten a Lobizon, tested positive for human blood, but
not canine blood.
[Location:
Argentina]
[TV:
Destination Truth - Season 1, Episode 6: Lobizon and Pombero]
*
SEE Werewolf
*
SEE Rougarou
*
SEE Dogman
Loch
Ness Monster (aka Nessie) - A possible surviving Plesiosaur that may
inhabit a lake in Scotland, sometimes formerly described as a kelpie
or demon. The first reported sighting is that of 6th century Saint
Columba (who scared if off with a cross), on the site of fort, where
the historic Urquhart Castle would later be constructed. Much later,
Marmaduke Whethrell was hired by a local paper (The Daily Mail) to
find evidence, and he faked the prints using a hippopotamus’
taxidermied foot. Later, Robert Wilson takes a plesiosaur-like image
and sold it to the paper, but this too is revealed as a hoax
(strangely the image is said to be of a model made from plastic wood,
which had not yet been invented when the picture was taken).
-
Some scientists believe that most sightings are logs dragged up by
underwater currents, and moved along by waves.
[Location:
Scotland]
[Books:
The World of the Unexplained (Bord)]
[TV:
Strangest Weather on Earth, Castles Secrets & Legends: Episode 4:
The Tichborne; Washington Resurrection + Finding Bigfoot]
Lone
Pine Mountain Devil
- A West Coast equivalent of the Jersey Devil, derived from Native
American legend. It is a bat-like carnivore, with extra wings, venom,
and talons.
*
SEE (The) Jersey Devil
Lonergan
Farm - 1989-91, the Lonergan/Dale family is tormented by great Uncle
Will, whose house/barn is further back on the property, in disrepair.
Shadows, bad feelings, whispers in the well, holes in Will’s
basement where your hand gets grabbed, photo anomalies, chased by
spirits, baby ends up in woods in middle of night.
[Location:
Nebraska]
[TV:
Paranormal Witness]
Longfellow’s
Wayside Inn - This inn is believed to be haunted by Jeruha, who died
waiting for a lover that promised to come back. Room 9, used to be
hers and is believed to be particularly haunted. Activity includes;
being touched, banging on the window, misty apparitions, and spirit
box hits.
[Location:
Sudbury, MA]
[TV:
Ghost Adventures - Episode 94: Do Not Disturb]
Loran
Petershin - It is believed the ghost of this murdered Amish woman
seeks revenge on taxi drivers. A taxi driver fooled into picking her
up during the blue moon, will be asked, “Where is my Bible?”
after which, she will attack, and strangle them to death. She is even
said to show up at their funerals.
-
Loran was engaged to be married to a man from another amish
community, but the other community would not endorse the marriage.
Loran snuck out, with her family's Bible, and calls Donna, a taxi
driver. Donna get an urgent call from her daughter and asks Larry to
pick her up. Hesitantly Loran agrees, knowing she'll be shunned if
she stays, but the driver drives right past it. The driver started to
get verbally abusive, and when she demanded to get out, he pulled
over and let her out, but refused to give her her bible, and then
chased her down with his vehicle.
[TV:
Amish Haunting - Episode 6: Goat Baby; Evil Taxi]
Los
Angeles - The city’s proximity to a major fault line and the
resulting fluctuation in the Earth’s magnetic field is believed to
attract UFOs.
-
In March 2014, Hangar 1 suggested the increase in UFO sighting
indicated CA was due for an earthquake, and one occurred mid April
2014.
[Location:
California]
[TV:
Hangar 1: The UFO Files - Episode 5: American Hotspots]
Lotus
Cocktails - One time brothel, now nightclub and corner coffee shop
(Floyd's). Haunted.
[Location:
Portland, OR]
Louisiana
Swamp Woman - Apparition in woods, screaming, wailing. Native
American artifacts found in lake during a recent draining. Tries to
lure people into the lake/swamp to drown. Similar to the Woman in
White at Manchac Swamp, Louisiana.
[Locations:
Cotile Lake LA, Alexandria LA]
[TV:
Haunted Highways]
*
SEE Manchac Swamp
Loup-garou
- Alternate spelling of Rougarou, a were-beast or possessed person
with dog, hog, bird, and/or demon traits.
[Location:
Terrebonne and Cutoff, Louisiana]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Episode 5: The Swamps]
*SEE
Rougarou
Loveland
Frog - A giant frog that lurks on back roads in Ohio.
[Location:
Loveland, Ohio]
[Web:
All Day (click bait warning) -
http://allday.com/post/4469-creepy-regional-american-monsters-you-havent-heard-about/pages/2/
]
Lusca
- A humongous octopus rumored to live in the Bahamas. Said to have 85
foot tentacles, which may be as thick around as tree trunks. Locals
claim the creature to sink ships. Some believe it may live in the
maze of Blue Holes caves.
[Location:
Blue Holes caves, Andro's Island, Bahamas]
[TV:
Destination Truth - Season 3, Episode 2: Island of the Dolls, Lusca]
Lydia
the Hitchhiker (aka, Mary, Mary-Anne, Mary-Jane) - A young woman
(Lydia, Mary) who is one of the many that died in accidents at
Jamestown Bridge, is now said to haunt it. Legend says she and her
boyfriend were coming home from prom, when they crashed. In the first
recorded account (1924) Burke Hardison is said to have given her a
ride home, wonder if someone has beaten her, felt a sense of dread,
got out to talk to her mother who explained she was dead, and
returned to find his car empty. The story is repeated many times, and
in more recent stories she is sometimes seen as sinister, with a evil
face and unearthly shriek. Some also claim to have seen her mother's
ghost (in a house on Johnson's St. on High Point), who appears to
girls that look like her daughter Mary.
-
A similar legend is told in the song, 'Bringing Mary Home', and while
many women named Mary have died at the bridge before 1924, but the
only Lydia was elderly. It is believe their stories somehow became
intertwined.
[Location:
Jamestown Bridge, Jamestown, North Carolina]
[TV:
Monsters and Mysteries in America - Season 3, Episode 5: Vermont
Pigman; Bridge where I Died; Proje. . .]
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