Masks of Mesingw

Mysteries of Pennsylvania & Maryland

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Back again, after a long time...

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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...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Mystery Animals of Pennsylvania - Out Now!

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It's actually been out for a few weeks (I originally wrote years. Yeah, OK), but Mystery Animals of Pennsylvania is now out. It'...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

The Field & Stream trail cam photo

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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...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Berwick bug was an ankle-biter

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From the Frederick (Maryland) News (August 24, 1901), comes this little tidbit: The "ankle bug" has taken the place of the ...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Return of the 'Monk'

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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...
Friday, November 11, 2011

The Red Devil-Bat of Chester

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From the New Castle News (August 24, 1928): A strange creature termed a "devil" caused a sensation in the rooming house of Mrs. M...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

A precursor to the Yardley Yeti?

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A few days ago, I received a message from Johnathan Lackey describing a sighting, which took place in Bucks County, of something that seems ...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

The devil went down to Maryland (1909)

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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...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Clarion County whatzit (1940)

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Several representatives of a Pittsburgh zoo have joined residents in the Leeper and Snydersburg area in search for a strange animal said to ...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The summer of exotic animals (1987)

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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...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Update: Adamstown UFOs (1869)

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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...

Berks County Birdman

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After the reports of the New Oxford winged humanoid were posted, Phantoms and Monsters also received a report of an eerily similar being in ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The dragon-man of New Oxford

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Lon over on Phantoms and Monsters has some interesting posts on the sightings of a winged humanoid near New Oxford, Adams county. The creat...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

One for the doctors: the Stone Child (1880)

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From the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (January 10, 1880): The petrified child in the family of J.A. Kinsley, of New Philadelphia, continue...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

An armadillo found in New Castle (1927)

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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 ...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

The 'Monk' of Wildcat Hollow (1945)

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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...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Cloak Man of Clifton Heights

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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 ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

The Cloak Man of Clifton Heights, Jack the Terror, and a giant snake

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From the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger (Sept. 26, 1916): A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, man or woman, wearing a long black cloak and black hoo...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Coy-dogs in Blair County, early 1900s

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From the Tyrone Herald (undated, but presumably early 1900s): The final chapter of the historic Walter L. Main's circus wreck on May 30...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Monkey found in Chambersburg (1955)

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From the Racine (WI) Journal-Times (March 30, 1955): Chambersburg, Pa. (AP) - Twelve-year-old Dennis Summers was puzzled when he found a d...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Mystery asphyxiations in Coatesville (1944)

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

Book update...

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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...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Unidentified flying objects in Adamstown?

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From the Reading Eagle , August 14, 1869: SINGULAR PHENOMENON. - A most singular phenomenon occurred at mid-day on Saturday last, near the v...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

The Cloak Woman...and the Cloak Man

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A bizarre figure known as the Cloak Woman haunted the town of Schuylkill Haven, in Schuylkill County, back in 1911. The Call of Allentown ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Whisper down the lane: dismantling a legend

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