New Mexico UFO & Paranormal Forum

Thanks to the great people at the New Mexico UFO/Paranormal Forum for hosting me as their special guest speaker at their September meeting.

The room was full and the audience was outstanding with lots of good questions!  It's always a pleasure to interact with other people who have such a deep interest in all things strange!

If you're in the Albuquerque area, be sure to check this group out, meetings each month with a special guest.

https://www.facebook.com/newmexicoufoparanormal/?fref=ts

http://nmupf.org/

September 2016 BEK Update

This month's black eyed children update has some interesting items.  Another report of a phone going dead in their presence and a list of purported locations that the creepy little kids may be lurking about.

First up, a report from a woman who had two black eyed children show up at her door late one night purportedly, because they wanted to use the bathroom.  They must have needed it pretty badly because she says that after she denied them entrance, they continued to knock for two hours. Curiously, she tried her phone several times and found that it was dead.  There are a fair number of reports of BEKs having a strange affect on phones, electronics and automobiles so we can add this one to the list:

http://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2016/08/06/persistent-knocking-door-alarming-black-eyed-kids-encounter-odessa/

Over at the Ghost Hunting Theories blog, Sharon Day weighs in on the BEKs with a basic "who are they, what are they" article.  Always good to hear different input on the phenomena so check it out for a quick read.  Scroll to the bottom and you'll find that Sharon is also offering a creepy BEK themed wall hanging in case you just can't get enough of the kids:

http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2016/08/black-eyed-kids-who-are-they-what-are.html

This month's most unusual report comes from hiduth.com where we find the story of someone who let some of the creepy children come inside.  The writer claims that, due to the close encounter, she's now "slowly dying."  Judge the tale for yourself here:

https://hiduth.com/let-black-eyed-children-home-now-im-slowly-dying/


People often ask where they can find BEKs, well, website "Backpackerverse" may have an answer, at least for the state of Texas.  Their recent report details ten locations in the lone star state where encounters with black eyed children have reportedly taken place. Enter at your own risk:

http://backpackerverse.com/abandoned-buildings-texas-haunted-black-eyed-children/

Finally, be sure to tune in to the premier of the Tracie Austin show later this month to catch myself and Nick Redfern discussing the BEKs and some of the various theories on what exactly they may be.  More information at Tracie's website below:

http://thetracieaustinshow.com/

BEKs on the Tracie Austin Show

Next week!  Be sure to tune in as Nick Redfern and I discuss the black eyed children on the debut of the Tracie Austin show.

Thetracieaustinshow.com

SOS Georgetown Hotel Part 2

Here's part two of our investigation of the historic and haunted Georgetown Hotel in the hills of northern California.

We're in gold rush territory and there's lots of activity in this place.  If you missed part one, check it out here:

http://twocrowsparanormal.blogspot.com/2016/09/sos-georgetown-hotel.html

In part two, Dave Spinks makes his way to room nine, check out the video for another glimpse at what we uncovered during our investigation of this classic location:

As always, there's much more coming from Society of the Supernatural!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTI2U7-yWbyHAS7XeRVzJ8w

Blackburn & Weatherly on the Paracast

This week I'm back on the Paracast along with my friend and fellow Wood Knocks author Lyle

Blackburn.  We're discussing all things Sasquatch!

The two hour show covers a wide range of questions about Bigfoot from various sightings around the country, to possible explanations of the strange creature's origins.

Thanks to hosts Gene Steinberg and Chris O'Brien for having us on for a great discussion.
The Paracast is one of the most dynamic shows airing and these guys have a strong following of loyal listeners who often jump in with intelligent questions.

"Gene and Chris bring back two noted Bigfoot researchers — David Weatherly and Lyle Blackburn. Both are contributing authors in Wood Knocks, a new yearly journal covering Bigfoot research and investigations, which is being published by Weatherly’s publishing company. Both have been on the show before and are considered two of our top cryptozoological researchers. David is also considered a leading “Black-eyed Kids” researcher and Lyle (on his Paracast appearance in 2014) spoke about “Lizard Men” sightings. This episode is designed to bring you up to date on cutting-edge work in these fields."

http://www.theparacast.com/podcast/now-playing-september-11-2016-david-weatherly-and-lyle-blackburn/

SOS Haunted Cabin Virginia City

Society of the Supernatural has spent a lot of time in Virginia City, Nevada.  It's an old west town with a ton of history and hauntings.  It's amazing how many buildings in town have ghostly stories associated with them from gunfighters to lawmen, miners to soiled doves, the legends go on an on.  Even the streets of Virginia City are rife with sightings and ghostly encounters.

We did come investigative work in a location connected to the historic Gold Hill Hotel.  This cabin has some crazy stories associated with it.  Check out the short video for a glimpse of what we experienced.

As always, there's more coming from SOS so be sure to subscribe for updates and thanks for watching!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTI2U7-yWbyHAS7XeRVzJ8w

Faceless Entities and a Creepy Silence in Nashville

In the past couple of years, I've received a number of reports of "faceless" entities.  These range from roadside encounters to manifestations of spirits with no facial features.  While such reports aren't completely new, there does seem to be a slight increase in them.

Researcher Albert S. Rosales is constantly digging up interesting accounts and recently posted his report on a creepy incident involving two faceless beings.  The report was sent directly to Rosales and the witness names are withheld by request.

Nashville, Tennessee
A summer night in 2013:

"The main witness and a friend decided to walk around the block in a pretty quiet suburban neighborhood.  Once they started walking down the middle of the street everything became strangely quiet.  No crickets, frogs, wind, nothing.  It seemed like the breeze stopped as well.  They kept walking, and about halfway down the street they saw a minivan in a driveway with the hood up, and there were these two "things" peering into the engine like they were studying it.  They were white and they had no faces.  There was a soft glow coming off them like if they were reflecting a black light, but it seemed like there wasn't really a source for it.  The white flowers in the yard had the same glow.  The strange figures looked about normal height, two arms, and two legs.  They sort of jumped when the witnesses came into view, like they were surprised.  Then they half-hid behind the van and both witnesses immediately had this feeling like they 'could not look at them, no matter what.'
That was probably the most scared the main witness has ever been.  
They both kept walking forward and watched out of the corner of their eyes, and the entities watched them, while also trying to position themselves behind the van.  
The main witness got the impression that 'they' weren't used to hiding much because they would look at them, then look at the van, then at themselves, then crouch behind the van a little more.

The witnesses kept walking, looking ahead until they got to the end of the street.  At this point, all the normal sounds returned and they could feel the breeze again, everything again felt normal.  The main witness wasn't really sure if he was going to say something to his friend but suddenly and at the same time they both stopped and exhaled really hard.  He asked his friend if he had seen those 'white figures,' but for most of the walk they wouldn't talk about it and his friend just told him to shut up. Strangely, the witnesses had the feeling that they shouldn't talk about what they had seen.  

Three years later the main witness finally spoke to his friend about what they had seen, his friend looked pretty freaked out and asked the main witness if he remembered them crossing the street in front of them, which the main witness did not.  He told him it was right after he fell or laid down, and all of the sudden the main witness remembered right before he saw them, he looked over and his friend was laying down on the side of the road, stiff as a board and not responding to anything the witness was saying, he was just blinking really hard.
Eventually he got up and they just kept walking.  Around the time that his friend fell to the ground is when everything became quiet and eerie.  The witness doesn't know how he could have forgotten that part."

The aura of silence created in the presence of the two figures is a curious aspect that I've heard in a small handful of cases before.  It's somewhat reminiscent of the creepy "gentlemen" in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Ghoulish figures who come floating in and create dead silence in their presence.

Of course, there's something inherently disturbing about a figure without a face.  Humans relate through their facial expressions and features and to be confronted with a blank nothingness is most unsettling.

The Gentleman from Buffy TV series