Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we explore the ancient ghoul tradition of the Middle East and compare it to a disturbing series of modern witness reports involving pale humanoids, cemetery crawlers, battlefield scavengers, mountain screams, and deceptive entities that seem to imitate human behavior. From Iraqi Kurdistan and Kuwait to Illinois, Montana, and Gettysburg, these accounts reveal a striking continuity between Islamic folklore and contemporary high strangeness.
In this presentation, I examine how classic ghoul traits, graveyard association, corpse predation, mimicry, liminal settings, caves, ruins, and psychological aftermath, continue to surface in modern encounters. Whether these reports reflect folklore carried forward, misunderstood cryptids, ultraterrestrial manifestations, or something else entirely, the similarities are too strong to ignore.
Please like, subscribe, share your thoughts in the comments, and let me know if you have had a similar experience.
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we explore the ancient ghoul tradition of the Middle East and compare it to a disturbing series of modern witness reports involving pale humanoids, cemetery crawlers, battlefield scavengers, mountain screams, and deceptive entities that seem to imitate human behavior. From Iraqi Kurdistan and Kuwait to Illinois, Montana, and Gettysburg, these accounts reveal a striking continuity between Islamic folklore and contemporary high strangeness.
In this presentation, I examine how classic ghoul traits, graveyard association, corpse predation, mimicry, liminal settings, caves, ruins, and psychological aftermath, continue to surface in modern encounters. Whether these reports reflect folklore carried forward, misunderstood cryptids, ultraterrestrial manifestations, or something else entirely, the similarities are too strong to ignore.
Please like, subscribe, share your thoughts in the comments, and let me know if you have had a similar experience.
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

Something dangerous is moving through remote forests, deserts, quarries, lakeshores, and mountain roads, and witnesses say it was no ordinary animal. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, I present a chilling series of firsthand encounters involving aggressive unknown predators, including hairy humanoids, reptilian beings, avian anomalies, cloaked entities, and other violent presences that defy easy explanation.
Featured in this episode:
• A terrifying night in Sequoia National Forest marked by screaming cattle, impossible howls, and humanlike tracks• A hostile, unknown beast in New Mexico linked to an earlier unexplained child attack• A bizarre desert predator near Joshua Tree that shrugged off close-range birdshot• A roaring Illinois creature followed by a silent craft sighting• A former ranger’s violent Sequoia encounter with a charging hairy giant• Additional cases involving rock-throwing attackers, reptilian kidnappers, skinwalker-related terror, and a cloaked being that may have followed a witness home
These are the cases that remain unresolved, the encounters that stay with the witnesses for life, and the reports that continue to challenge everything we think we know about predators in the wild.
Please like, subscribe, share your thoughts in the comments, and let me know if you have had a similar experience.
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.

Something dangerous is moving through remote forests, deserts, quarries, lakeshores, and mountain roads, and witnesses say it was no ordinary animal. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, I present a chilling series of firsthand encounters involving aggressive unknown predators, including hairy humanoids, reptilian beings, avian anomalies, cloaked entities, and other violent presences that defy easy explanation.
Featured in this episode:
• A terrifying night in Sequoia National Forest marked by screaming cattle, impossible howls, and humanlike tracks• A hostile, unknown beast in New Mexico linked to an earlier unexplained child attack• A bizarre desert predator near Joshua Tree that shrugged off close-range birdshot• A roaring Illinois creature followed by a silent craft sighting• A former ranger’s violent Sequoia encounter with a charging hairy giant• Additional cases involving rock-throwing attackers, reptilian kidnappers, skinwalker-related terror, and a cloaked being that may have followed a witness home
These are the cases that remain unresolved, the encounters that stay with the witnesses for life, and the reports that continue to challenge everything we think we know about predators in the wild.
Please like, subscribe, share your thoughts in the comments, and let me know if you have had a similar experience.
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.

What happens when the unknown stops being a distant mystery and becomes a direct personal encounter? In this presentation, I examine a chilling series of experiencer reports involving aliens, reptilian entities, mantis beings, transparent humanoids, Men in Black, subterranean creatures, and other unexplained intelligences that witnesses say entered their lives in unforgettable ways.
Tonight’s cases span bedrooms, military bases, levees, farms, tents, hotel rooms, and remote landscapes, each one offering a different face of the same underlying mystery. These are not just UFO sightings. These are deeply personal testimonies of contact, fear, warning, paralysis, missing memory, and lasting psychological impact.
Witness reports include mantis entities, greys, reptilian humanoids, transparent beings, and shadow-like manifestations
Several cases involve military proximity, altered states, shared witness confirmation, or recurring visitation patterns
The deeper question remains whether these encounters point to extraterrestrial contact, ultraterrestrial intelligence, psychic intrusion, or something even stranger
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

What happens when the unknown stops being a distant mystery and becomes a direct personal encounter? In this presentation, I examine a chilling series of experiencer reports involving aliens, reptilian entities, mantis beings, transparent humanoids, Men in Black, subterranean creatures, and other unexplained intelligences that witnesses say entered their lives in unforgettable ways.
Tonight’s cases span bedrooms, military bases, levees, farms, tents, hotel rooms, and remote landscapes, each one offering a different face of the same underlying mystery. These are not just UFO sightings. These are deeply personal testimonies of contact, fear, warning, paralysis, missing memory, and lasting psychological impact.
Witness reports include mantis entities, greys, reptilian humanoids, transparent beings, and shadow-like manifestations
Several cases involve military proximity, altered states, shared witness confirmation, or recurring visitation patterns
The deeper question remains whether these encounters point to extraterrestrial contact, ultraterrestrial intelligence, psychic intrusion, or something even stranger
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

Something moved through parking lots, forests, open water, and even hospital wards. Ten witnesses describe encounters that refuse easy explanation.
From quadrupedal sprinting figures to translucent humanoids, from Bigfoot in a public park to a vanished Victorian-era stranger, these cases raise a difficult question: are these isolated events, or connected patterns?
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

Something moved through parking lots, forests, open water, and even hospital wards. Ten witnesses describe encounters that refuse easy explanation.
From quadrupedal sprinting figures to translucent humanoids, from Bigfoot in a public park to a vanished Victorian-era stranger, these cases raise a difficult question: are these isolated events, or connected patterns?
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

For over 15 years, I have investigated reports of enormous manta-ray-shaped entities flying across American skies. Witnesses across the country describe massive, translucent rays silently swimming through the air.
Are these biological UFO craft, ultraterrestrial beings, or interdimensional entities connected to our waterways?
In this episode of Phantoms and Monsters Radio, I present the full case series and my working theories.
• Multiple independent eyewitness accounts• Repeated water corridor correlations• Biological craft and ultraterrestrial hypotheses
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.

For over 15 years, I have investigated reports of enormous manta-ray-shaped entities flying across American skies. Witnesses across the country describe massive, translucent rays silently swimming through the air.
Are these biological UFO craft, ultraterrestrial beings, or interdimensional entities connected to our waterways?
In this episode of Phantoms and Monsters Radio, I present the full case series and my working theories.
• Multiple independent eyewitness accounts• Repeated water corridor correlations• Biological craft and ultraterrestrial hypotheses
If you have experienced an unexplained encounter or sighting, visit Phantoms and Monsters https://phantomsandmonsters.com to submit & share your story.
👤 I'm Lon Strickler, creator of Phantoms & Monsters, and I’ve been a paranormal researcher and intuitive investigator for over 45 years. My work has been featured on numerous television shows, including Ancient Aliens, Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM.