Masks of Mesingw

It's been a long time since I've posted here. A little updating for you. It's been a few years since Mystery Animals of Penn...

It's actually been out for a few weeks (I originally wrote years. Yeah, OK), but Mystery Animals of Pennsylvania is now out. It'...

The photograph on the right is making its rounds on the Bigfoot websites around the internet. Now, while we don't know that this pic...

From the Frederick (Maryland) News (August 24, 1901), comes this little tidbit: The "ankle bug" has taken the place of the ...

Some months ago, I posted about the wild animal which terrorized the Latrobe area in the late summer and autumn of 1945. Although it was us...

From the New Castle News (August 24, 1928): A strange creature termed a "devil" caused a sensation in the rooming house of Mrs. M...

A few days ago, I received a message from Johnathan Lackey describing a sighting, which took place in Bucks County, of something that seems ...

From the Denton (Md.) Journal , January 30, 1909: The “what-is-it” that made its first appearance in Greensboro on or about January 16th ha...

Several representatives of a Pittsburgh zoo have joined residents in the Leeper and Snydersburg area in search for a strange animal said to ...

The summer of 1987 saw several tales of 'alien animals' in Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia. A monkey was seen on July 15 in...

I've since found that, though it's not mentioned in the original article , on the day of the sighting there was also a solar eclipse...

After the reports of the New Oxford winged humanoid were posted, Phantoms and Monsters also received a report of an eerily similar being in ...

Lon over on Phantoms and Monsters has some interesting posts on the sightings of a winged humanoid near New Oxford, Adams county. The creat...

From the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (January 10, 1880): The petrified child in the family of J.A. Kinsley, of New Philadelphia, continue...

From the New Castle News (Oct. 11, 1927): Throngs of people were busy all morning at the window of the C. Ed. Smith Hardware company store ...

This has to take the prize for most misleading name in the annals of Forteana. While it gives the impression of a clerical, cassock-wearing...

Since I turned up the first reference to the Cloak Man (from the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger ) a few days ago, I've been looking ...

From the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger (Sept. 26, 1916): A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, man or woman, wearing a long black cloak and black hoo...

From the Tyrone Herald (undated, but presumably early 1900s): The final chapter of the historic Walter L. Main's circus wreck on May 30...

From the Racine (WI) Journal-Times (March 30, 1955): Chambersburg, Pa. (AP) - Twelve-year-old Dennis Summers was puzzled when he found a d...

From the Huntingdon Daily News (February 1, 1944): Coatesville, Pa., Feb. 1 - Police were joined by chemists today in an effort to determin...

Mysterious Pennsylvania has been finished, finalized, and sent in to the publisher as of a few hours ago. So it's not my problem anymo...

From the Reading Eagle , August 14, 1869: SINGULAR PHENOMENON. - A most singular phenomenon occurred at mid-day on Saturday last, near the v...

A bizarre figure known as the Cloak Woman haunted the town of Schuylkill Haven, in Schuylkill County, back in 1911. The Call of Allentown ...

In his seminal work Wild Talents (1932), pioneering anomalist Charles Fort tells the story of how "a man and his wife, named Kring, ha...