Whether they be found in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," or J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastical Middle-earth, the idea of sentient, mobile, tree-like beings have ignited imaginations across the globe, but what if entities like Marvel Comics eponymous "Groot" were not merely works of fiction but based on something ancient, alarming and all-too real.

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Fantastic reports of documented encounters between the living and the dead!

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In the late 70s an experienced French rider mounted her favorite horse, had the foresight to take a spare and called her dog to accompany her on a tour of her family's vast rural estate; never once suspecting that her scenic excursion into the swampy wilds would become a week long odyssey of terror from which—some say—she never fully recovered.

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During the first half of the 20th Century, in a the span of less than two months, multiple families hailing from Botetourt, Virginia fell prey to a series of bizarre and terrifying series of attacks by a group of enigmatic individuals who—for reasons that remain unknown—filled their homes with noxious and (in at least one case) potentially lethal gas.

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For two young men—one American; one Irish—a pair of mundane activities would swiftly spiral out of control plummeting each of them into a nightmarish paranormal vortex resulting in violent confrontations with two utterly inexplicable, quasi-humanoid, animalistic entities that seemed to be hellbent on assaulting their human prey.

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This pair of ostensibly cryptozoological encounters represents two of the most terrifying and bizarre unknown creature cases on record and forces one to wonder what other unmitigated genetic horrors mother nature may have concocted the primordial cauldron of evolution.

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In 2010, a government worker accidentally stumbled into an unnerving encounter with entities of unknown origin; instantaneously ripping him from the workaday world of his everyday existence and thrusting him headlong into a perfidious and peculiar parallel universe that made him not only question his sanity... but fear for his very life.

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In a scenario culled equally from a mid-50s, sci-fi drive-in epic and a 1980s animated TV classic, a young Florida couple had a terrifying run-in with a transforming, mechanical creature—an encounter that would leave them in a state of shock and forever shatter their preconceived notions of reality.

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In the1930s—over a decade before Kenneth Arnold's infamous flying saucer sightings would usher in the modern UFO era—a teenager flying his kite near one of Puerto Rico's stunning coastal vistas had an unsettling encounter with a UFO and its humanoid occupants, which resulted in one of the most extraordinary exchanges ever to have occurred between an ostensibly extraterrestrial entity and a human being... the ramifications of which, some claim, are still being felt to this day.

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