Antônio Vilas-Boas was abducted from his family farm in 1952 by 5-foot-tall humanoids dressed in "...tight-fitting siren-suit, made of soft, thick, unevenly striped, gray material." He was stripped of his clothes, covered in clear gel, and used as a, "...good stallion to improve their own stock". The alleged aliens then gave him a tour of their UFO before placing him back at his home.

This story contributed to the argument of what extraterrestrials wanted from earthlings... could it possibly be that they were investigating human reproduction and genetics?

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The alien abduction of Brazilian farmer Antônio Vilas-Boas, near São Francisco de Sales, 1957

9 Alien Abduction Stories That Seem Disturbingly True

Antônio Vilas-Boas - Wikipedia

Antonio Villas Boas Abduction (1957) – Unidentified Phenomena

The Antônio Villas-Boas case | Gnosis Online - Your portal to esotericism

Antonio Villas-Boas elrablása – TUDOMÁNYOS UFO

Architects of the Underworld: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and ... - Bruce Rux - Google Books

Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious - Barna William Donovan - Google Books

Ed Keffel | The UFO Database

João Martins | The UFO Database

The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the ... - Brenda Denzler - Google Books

Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

The Surprising Origin of Alien Abduction Stories | Live Science

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H. H. Holmes was known for robbing graves, stealing horses, insurance fraud, and... murder. The United States' first serial killer allegedly had up to 200 victims fall prey to the soundproof rooms, secret passages, trapdoors, acid vats, pits of quicklime, gas chambers, and crematorium in his 'Murder Castle'.

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Did Serial Killer H.H. Holmes Really Build a ‘Murder Castle’? | HISTORY

The Enduring Mystery of H.H. Holmes, America's 'First' Serial Killer | Smithsonian

Exhumation confirms gravesite of notorious Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes - Chicago Tribune

H.H. Holmes: Biography, Serial Killer, Murderer

H.H. Holmes - Crime Museum

H. H. Holmes - Wikipedia

Mass murderer Dr H H Holmes: The story of the Chicago Murder Castle, plus Benjamin Pitezel & his other victims - Click Americana

Michigan Today » A double dose of the macabre

Murder Castle ‑ H.H. Holmes, Chicago World's Fair & Layout | HISTORY

New Master List of HH Holmes Victims – Mysterious Chicago

St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Holmes selling Mortgaged Goods - Newspapers.com™

The Trial of Herman W. Mudgett Alias H.H. Holmes for the Murder of Benjamin ... - Herman W. Mudgett - Google Books

Richard "Beebo" Russell was dubbed the 'Sky King' after he made an unauthorized takeoff from the Seattle-Tacoma airport in a 76- seat passenger Bombardier Q400. He was followed by fighter jets as he flew to Mount Rainier and did an impressive barrel roll... all without his pilot's license.

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2018 Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 incident - Wikipedia

Airline worker who stole plane told air traffic control 'I don't wa.. - ABC13 Houston

Commercial Vs Airline Pilot: Comparison List of Differences | SkyTough

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How to Become an Airline Pilot – Steps, Eligibility, & Requirements / ATP Flight School

Richard Russell, "Rich": 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

The Sky Thief: Beebo Russell's Last Flight

The Tragic Story of 'Sky King' Richard Russell | HowStuffWorks

Who Was Richard Russell? Man Steals Airplane and Crashes | TIME

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Is 'The Rake' a creepypasta or a cryptid come to life? If it isn't real... then old, naked, no nipple men have been breaking into homes far more often than we thought.

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The Rake - Creepypasta

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The Story of The Rake | Paranormal Authority

The Rake - Mythical Encyclopedia

The Rake

#PrescottAZHistory: 9 Cryptid Monsters of Arizona (UPDATE: Bigfoot near Prescott?)

"Monsters Underground" Rake (TV Episode) - IMDb

The Rakshasa in the Puranas: The Demonic Beings of Hindu Mythology - Mythology WorldWide

Rakshasa | Demonic Spirits, Demons & Monsters | Britannica

What is Puranas & How Many Puranas are There? HindUtsav

Act of Rakshasa: Significance and symbolism

Where Tulpas Come From - JSTOR Daily

Tulpa - Wikipedia

Creature Feature: The Power Of Belief: The Rake | World of Magick⛥ Amino

Welcome to Wild and Wonderful West Virginia, where we have cryptids called The White Thing and Sheepsquatch!

One is a large, dog-like creature with filthy white, wooly fur and saber-like fangs, while the other is an 8-foot, hairy bipedal creature with a long head that holds a single-point set of horns not dissimilar to those found on a young goat.

What's not to love? 

Join us as we discuss whether or not everyone is seeing the same entity or if there are two monstrous creatures stalking the Appalachian Mountains.

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Ruth Ann Musick - Wikipedia

Sheepsquatch | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom

Tale of West Virginia monster may have first been documented in 1950s - West Virginia Explorer (wvexplorer.com)

Ted Fauster: Meet the top five monsters from the West Virginia hills - West Virginia Explorer (wvexplorer.com)

Telltale Lilac Bush - Wikipedia

The Legend Of The White Things Of West Virginia (onlyinyourstate.com)

The Sheepsquatch: A Cryptid In American Folklore - Mother Farmland

The Sheepsquatch - Is West Virginia's White Thing Real? (cryptidophilia.com)

The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales : Ruth Ann Musick : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The WV Presents "The Telltale Lilac Bush" Webisode #1 - PILOT (Series Premiere) (youtube.com)

West Virginia Monsters – White Thing – Upper Monongahela River Association (uppermonriver.org)

White Thing/Sheepsquatch Sighting - Clio (theclio.com)

On May 13th, 1998, Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner went hiking through Furnace State Park. Unbeknownst to the couple, they were being stalked by Stephen Carr who would ultimately attack the two women unprompted. 

Join us as we discuss the unfortunate events that unfolded, the "gay and trans panic" defense used in court, and statistics surrounding crimes against the LGBTQ+ community. 

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12 Crimes That Changed the LGBT World (advocate.com)

Appalachian Trail Histories | Rebecca and Claudia · LGBTQ Hate Crime (Student Exhibit) (appalachiantrailhistory.org)

CDE (cjis.gov)

Fact Sheet on Injustice in the LGBTQ community | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)

Gay panic defense - Wikipedia

Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Killed For Being Gay: The Murder of Rebecca Wight | by Verity Partington | Medium

LGBT people nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to be victims of violent crime - Williams Institute (ucla.edu)

Michaux State Forest (pa.gov)

Murder of Rebecca Wight - Wikipedia

Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner - Newspapers.com™

The Gay/Trans Panic Defense: What It is, and How to End It (americanbar.org)

Victimization rates and traits of sexual and gender minorities in the United States: Results from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017 | Science Advances

Wayback Machine (archive.org)

Are ghost chickens and vampires wreaking havoc on Highgate, London? Can we take raccoons to court? Does this podcast support cannibalism?

...Tune in to find out!

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A Scientific Spirit: Sir Francis Bacon and the Ghost Chicken of Highgate | Mental Floss

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Highgate Cemetery - Wikipedia

Highgate Cemetery: A City of the Dead That Inspires the Living - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Highgate Cemetery, London, England (historic-uk.com)

Highgate Chicken Ghost (real-british-ghosts.com)

Pond Square Chicken, Highgate – Mysterious Britain & Ireland

The ghosts of Hampstead and Highgate | Ham & High (hamhigh.co.uk)

The Highgate Vampire: Horror of the Dead | The Unredacted

Visit Highgate | A visitor's guide

What Is the Highgate Vampire and Has it Ever Been Spotted? (vice.com)

To celebrate Women's History Month, we are dedicating this episode to the infamous serial killer known as The Soap Maker of Correggio. Leonarda Cianciulli's horrific crimes will make you rethink where your soap comes from... and how many people have forced you to commit cannibalism without your knowledge. 

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Leonarda Cianciulli - Wikipedia

LEONARDA CIANCIULLI: SHE CREATED SOAPS WITH HUMANS – HORRORS REVEALED (wordpress.com)

Meet Leonarda Cianciulli, Italy's Infamous Female Serial Killer (allthatsinteresting.com)

The Correggio soap-maker - Mucri - Criminology Museum (archive.org)

TIME.com: A Copper Ladle -- Jun. 24, 1946 -- Page 1 (archive.org)

Sodium: Getting rid of dirt - and murder victims - BBC News

All hail the Otter King this St. Patrick's Day! The Irish legend of the Dobhar-chú warns of its appetite for human flesh... so let's maybe not go chase it down for the protective properties of its fur. 

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Dobhar-chú - Wikipedia

Dobhar Chu, Ireland's Vicious Supernatural Crocodile Otter Monster | Spooky Isles

Dobhar-chú: The Otter King of Irish Folklore - Historic Mysteries

Giant otter - Wikipedia

Irish Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures of Folklore and Legend - IrishWishes

The Dobhar-Chú Tombstones of Glenade, Co. Leitrim (Cemetries of Congbháil and Cill-Rúisc) on JSTOR

The myths and legends of Ireland's hound of deep, the Dobhar Chu (irishcentral.com)

The tale of Leitrim's own Loch Ness Monster - the Dobhar-Chú - Leitrim Live (leitrimobserver.ie)

We yearn for the tunnels... so do ghosts in Switzerland! They especially like to hitch rides through the Belchen Tunnel.

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Belchen Tunnel: Key Route in Swiss Transport Network - Vignetteswitzerland.com

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Hörbuch «Sage uf d Ohre» erzählt Unheimliches aus dem Baselbiet (bzbasel.ch)

Microsoft PowerPoint - 2014 03 Vortrag Belchentunnel ETH_druck handout.pptx (ethz.ch)

Road Trip of Terror: Exploring the World's Most Haunted Highways - Nightmare on Film Street (nofspodcast.com)

Shrove Tuesday - Wikipedia

The spookiest places in Switzerland (thelocal.ch)