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For more than 300 years, Detroit has been haunted by the legend of the Nain Rouge, a grotesque little red creature whose appearances are said to foretell disaster. From bloody battles and devastating fires to mysterious sightings in modern times, the so-called Demon of the Strait has become one of Michigan's most chilling supernatural legends. But what is this mysterious being, and why has it remained connected to Detroit's darkest moments for centuries?

CREDITS:

Historical References and Sources

1. Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, Legends of Le Détroit (1883). One of the foundational published collections of Detroit folklore, containing the fortune teller's warning to Cadillac, the black cat, the 1707 encounter, the creature's physical appearance, and its associations with disasters. Additional background: Model D — Beware the Nain Rouge.

2. Charles Montgomery Skinner, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (1896). Preserves another nineteenth-century version of the legend, including its association with the Stone God and David Fisher's extraordinary wheelbarrow crossing of the Detroit River. Read the historical text.

3. University of Detroit Mercy, Folklore Archive (July 8, 1964). An archived account associated with William Gorman of Dearborn, Michigan, describing Le Gnomme Rouge, a helpful Red Gnome who supposedly appeared walking through Detroit and crying during the 1943 racial violence. University folklore archive.

4. Detroit Historical Society, Founding of Detroit. Historical information concerning Cadillac's 1701 expedition, Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, early colonial settlement, and the development of the city. Detroit Historical Society.

5. National Weather Service, Detroit/Pontiac Weather Forecast Office. Historical records concerning Michigan's severe ice storm of March 2–3, 1976, which later became associated with the reported sighting involving two Detroit Edison utility workers. Detroit weather history.

6. A Bewitching Guide to Halloween — Nain Rouge. The alternative 1996 nightclub-patrons story, attributed to The Michigan Believer. Read the article.

7. Project Unredacted — The Red Dwarf of Detroit. The 1996 wall-climbing report and its uncertain witness provenance. Read the article.

8. Model D — March 23, 2010. Contemporary coverage establishing what happened at the first modern parade, including its costumed Nain Rouge. Read the article.

9. The Horror Collection — Nain Rouge Sightings. A later compilation containing the alleged 2010 parade encounter and February 2020 riverfront sighting. Neither has an independently identified original witness report. Read the article.

10. The Seigneurs of Acadie — History and Genealogy. Marie Thérèse's parents, marriage, and family genealogy. Read the historical document.

11. The French Commandant's Woman — Historical Study. Her upbringing, family wealth, education, and reported aristocratic ancestry. Read the historical study.

12. Detroit Historical Society — Founding of Detroit. The establishment of French Detroit and its transfer to British control. Detroit Historical Society.

13. National Archives — Louisiana Purchase Treaty. Napoleon's 1803 sale of Louisiana to the United States. Read the historical documents.

14. Library of Congress — A Question of Boundaries. The uncertain territorial boundaries of French Louisiana. Read the article.

15. Additional Sources — The Stone God, Snake God, and Detroit Folklore. Historical and modern discussions of the Nain Rouge's supernatural origins, French folklore, and Charles Montgomery Skinner's stories.

• Charles Montgomery Skinner — Original 1896 Text (Project Gutenberg)

• The Expert Witness: Detroit's Le Nain Rouge Redux (2013)

• American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales — Nain Rouge

• University of Detroit Mercy — Le Gnomme Rouge

•  Detroit Historical Society — Father Gabriel Richard

  
  

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In folklore, a hag is a terrifying supernatural entity often appearing as a grotesque elderly woman associated with witchcraft, nightmares, and malevolent spirits. Some are said to torment people in their sleep, while others manifest as horrifying apparitions.

In 1962, a Detroit family reported encountering a hideously disfigured, hissing woman inside their home at 5508 Martin Street. The encounters became so terrifying that the family abandoned the house in the middle of the night, leaving behind one of Detroit's most chilling paranormal mysteries.

In August 1977, an ordinary family home at 284 Green Street in Enfield, North London, became the center of one of the most terrifying and extensively documented alleged poltergeist hauntings in paranormal history.

For nearly 18 months, single mother Peggy Hodgson and her four children experienced a series of unexplained disturbances, including furniture moving on its own, violent knocking, objects flying across rooms, alleged levitations, and physical attacks by an unseen force. At the center of the activity was 11-year-old Janet Hodgson, who began speaking in a disturbing, deep male voice claiming to belong to a deceased former resident named Bill Wilkins.

What began as strange noises in the night soon attracted police officers, journalists, paranormal investigators, and researchers from the Society for Psychical Research. Investigators Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair spent hundreds of hours documenting the events, collecting eyewitness testimony, photographs, and chilling audio recordings that continue to fascinate paranormal researchers decades later.

In this episode of HUSH, we revisit the true story of the Enfield Poltergeist through historical accounts, original interviews, archival recordings, and the extraordinary testimony of those who witnessed the haunting firsthand. From Janet Hodgson's alleged levitations to the mysterious voice of Bill Wilkins, we examine the events that inspired The Conjuring 2 and made the Enfield haunting one of the most famous paranormal investigations of all time.

Was 284 Green Street home to a violent poltergeist, the restless spirit of a former resident, or something even more mysterious?

Step inside the Hodgson family's home and experience the investigation that captivated Britain and continues to haunt paranormal history.

Topics covered: Enfield Poltergeist 1977, Janet Hodgson, Peggy Hodgson, Maurice Grosse, Guy Lyon Playfair, Bill Wilkins, the Hodgson family haunting, paranormal investigations, alleged demonic activity, poltergeist phenomena, ghost encounters, unexplained mysteries, historical hauntings, eyewitness accounts, and the true story behind The Conjuring 2.

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1. Introduction to the Hopi Prophecy

2. Creation, Taiowa, Sótuknang, and Spider Woman

3. The First World: Tokpela

4. The Ant People and the Underground Refuge

5. The Second World: Tokpa

6. The Third World: Kuskurza

7. The Flying Shields, Vimanas, and Ancient Technology

8. The Great Flood and Journey to the Fourth World

9. The Fourth World: Túwaqachi and Másaw

10. The Sacred Stone Tablets and the Hopi Clans

11. Prophecy Rock and the Two Paths

12. The Oraibi Split and Traditionalist Elders

13. The Nine Signs of the Hopi Prophecy

14. The Blue Star Kachina

15. The Gourd of Ashes and Nuclear Destruction

16. Admiral Byrd, Operation Highjump, and Roswell

17. The Great Purification and the Fifth World

There are tales for everything else, but we never hear the tales of the Pyramids of Giza - tonight, we do.

How do 50,000 men just up and disappear? Leave it to the Sahara... but did they actually vanish? Hm.

What is clear is that the Sahara is not as fully known as it may appear on modern maps. Its vastness, combined with its shifting geography and history of environmental change, has allowed entire regions to remain concealed for centuries. There are tales of cities of jinns and tales of cities of ... other things... concealed, lost, hidden within the desert sands of the Sahara.

Every heard about the military encounter with Kandahar Giant in Afghanistan? The locals tell stories...

Credits:

• L.A. Marzulli YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLamarzulli 
• Kandahar Giant L.A. Marzulli Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8nFgEKZbo 

• ⁃ Modern Day Nephilim (the Kandahar Giant, Abductions, & Grays) w/Tim Alberino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvGritNlMUw 

Removed from Youtube, BUT I still had my research so I re-recorded it :) Don't worry, this was during the days I did not backup my episodes, computer completely crashed back then, and I'm much better about that now.

Credits:

Story 1 & 2

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/an779m/freetown_forest_bridgewater_triangle/ 

Story 3

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/jrzdsw/bridgewater_triangle/ 

They are said to be the oldest mythical creature in the whole of North America.

Credits:

1. https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/pukwudgie/

2. http://spookysouthcoast.com/pukwudgies-myth-or-monster/

3. DarkHour Paranormal YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DarkHourParanormal/videos 

1. Interview DarkHour Paranormal with Bill Russo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXEinBzWgc

STORY 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/4tefuk/pukwudgie/

STORY 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1jigcs2/my_sister_and_i_saw_a_pukwudgie_as_kids/ 

STORY 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1qyrkkg/pukwudgie_in_the_delaware_water_gap/