Phantoms & Monsters Radio

New Mexico is a land of ancient mysteries, isolated deserts, volcanic landscapes, secretive military installations, indigenous traditions, and persistent reports of unexplained phenomena.

In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents nine extraordinary witness accounts from across New Mexico involving winged humanoids, UFOs, transparent entities, mysterious portals, reptilian beings, unknown forest creatures, and a terrifying insectoid encounter.

A motorist near Hobbs observes an eight-to-nine-foot winged humanoid clinging near the top of an electrical pole. The massive figure has black feathered wings, a bare or membranous body, a visible bony spine, and a small...

West Virginia has long been known as Mothman country, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond Point Pleasant. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of strange reports from the mountains, forests, mining communities, and backroads of West Virginia and the greater Appalachian region.

These accounts include the infamous Vegetable Man of Grant Town, a possible winged omen connected to the 1934 McDunn mine-train disaster, a tall skeletal “Stickman” seen near Harpers Ferry, a bizarre upright deer encounter, Bigfoot-like activity in the Seneca Creek and Spruce Knob backcountry, a terr...

Michigan has a long history of strange encounters, and tonight’s episode of UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN brings together some of the most disturbing reports from the Great Lakes State.

In this episode, Lon Strickler examines eyewitness accounts involving Michigan Dogman encounters, a terrifying shoreline incident in the Upper Peninsula, a Sasquatch-like scream near Big Rapids, a strange mimicking voice near South Haven, black-clad operatives near the Lake Michigan shoreline, triangular UFO sightings between Oxford and Lapeer, a possible Mothman-type winged humanoid in Oakland County, a bizarre creature reported near Merrill, and a mysterious suburban Detroit encounter involving two wo...

Wisconsin is known for its forests, lakes, farmland, old mining towns, rural highways, and quiet communities. But beneath that familiar landscape are reports of terrifying encounters with winged anomalies, strange humanoids, invisible entities, black-eyed children, cryptid beasts, and other unexplained phenomena.

In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a series of disturbing Wisconsin cases, including a terrifying road encounter near Lake Geneva, the legendary Mineral Point Vampire, a winged humanoid seen at the Wisconsin State Fair, a possible angelic intervention in Madison, a Glimmer Man encounter near Sturgeon Bay, a demon-like animal south of Barron...

Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we return to the Garden State for a rebuilt and expanded presentation: UNEXPLAINED NEW JERSEY.

New Jersey is famous for the Jersey Devil and the Pine Barrens, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond one legendary creature. In this episode, we examine reports of a Dogman or Wolfman-like creature near Manchester, UFO and orb activity in Cumberland County, the controversial Fort Dix/McGuire AFB alien body retrieval claim, a winged humanoid at the Old Essex County Jail in Newark, possible Bigfoot activity in Belleplain State Forest, a terrifying Black-Eyed Kids en...

Texas has produced some of the most unsettling unexplained reports in the Phantoms & Monsters archive.

In this episode, Lon Strickler examines a disturbing collection of Texas encounters involving a strange humanoid photographed at a gas plant near Kenedy, a missing-time UFO case near Beeville, a possible military-connected childhood encounter near Chase Naval Air Station, a predator-like ranch creature in Zapata County, owl-woman transformation reports from El Paso, a giant unidentified snake at Lytle Lake near Abilene, an alternate-life experience triggered by lightning, an invisible humanoid encounter in Mission, the Man-Wolf legend of Marshall, and the...

Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a disturbing collection of unexplained Ohio encounters, including the return of the Loveland Frogman, the 1972 Defiance werewolf panic, humanoid sightings in Mount Vernon, a shiny black white-eyed quadrupedal creature near Hillsboro, multiple winged humanoid reports from Toledo and Chesterland, a strange Men in Black style incident in Medina County, upright canine beings near Lake Erie, and a possible cloaked or invisible Bigfoot encounter in southeast Ohio.

These reports span decades and regions, yet they share recurring elements: fear, shock, intelligent behavior, unusual movement, glowing eyes, physical dread, and the lasting...

Some objects are said to carry more than age, memory, or history. In tonight’s Phantoms & Monsters Radio presentation, we examine disturbing accounts involving allegedly possessed, cursed, and haunted objects, including dolls, a Ouija board, an antique chair, a haunted vehicle, and the infamous painting known as The Anguished Man.

These cases raise a deeper question. Can an object become a vessel, trigger, or focal point for paranormal activity, or are fear and suggestion enough to create the appearance of a haunting?

• Haunted clown wall decoration linked to nightmares, animal fixation, and a missing-time style blac...

Indiana has long been a crossroads of strange and terrifying encounters, but some reports go far beyond the familiar haunted house or ghost story. In this episode, I present a chilling collection of Indiana cases involving winged humanoids, dark sentinels, bizarre roadside creatures, possible reptilian entities, graveyard horrors, and other unexplained beings that have left witnesses shaken for decades.

From Wanatah to Rolling Prairie, from Shelbyville to Harrison County, these reports reveal a landscape marked by recurring high strangeness, where fear, mystery, and the unknown seem deeply rooted in the land itself. Some witnesses describe towering flying...

Florida has long been known as a land of extremes. Swamps and pine barrens, remote prairie, coastline, farmland, and dense suburban development all exist side by side, creating a landscape where the natural and the unnatural often seem to overlap. Over the years, witnesses from across the state have described things that do not fit any accepted category. Some reports involve winged humanoids, others monstrous canines, bizarre upright predators, or strange entities glimpsed only for a moment, yet remembered for a lifetime. Tonight, we are going to examine nine such accounts, each one different in appearance and circumstance, but...

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...

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 biza...

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, an...

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...

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

For years, I’ve been asked the same question. Are the Chicago winged humanoids the same beings reported near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966 and 1967? And if so, what exactly are they?

In this episode, I examine multiple non-Chicagoland winged humanoid encounters, including cases from Missouri, Florida, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio River corridor. Each case is directly compared with structurally similar sightings from the 2017 Chicago wave.

We analyze height variation, red-eyed manifestations, wing concealment, highway corridor crossings, tree-perch behavior, and ground-to-air transitions. Are we looking at a single distributed species with regional differences, multiple re...

For years, investigator JC Johnson documented cases in the American Southwest that defied conventional wildlife encounters. Livestock are killed without being fed. Massive 'Furry Ones.' Upright predators are seen pacing vehicles. Winged humanoids returning night after night. And families targeted in ways that left lasting fear.

In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, I present a focused selection of JC's most disturbing Four Corners investigations. These are not legends. These are documented cases with recurring patterns that continue to surface across the region.

What emerges is not a single explanation, but a convergence. Cryptids...

Some protectors do not announce themselves. They appear when fear is highest, when danger is unseen, and when witnesses are at their most vulnerable.

In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a disturbing and deeply personal collection of eyewitness accounts involving supernatural protectors, guardians, and sentinels. These are not vague feelings or symbolic visions. These are encounters with intelligent presences that arrive at critical moments, intervene without explanation, and often vanish just as suddenly as they appear.

The cases presented include silent bedside guardians during moments of isolation, towering antlered sentinels guarding forest...

Tonight’s reports span more than a century, involving recurring encounters, regional waves, and long-term aftereffects. Rather than offering conclusions, this broadcast challenges the assumption that repetition equals intent and asks what these patterns actually tell us about perception, memory, and the limits of investigation.

In this live investigative episode, I present seven carefully selected reports involving repeated encounters, pattern recognition across time, and experiences that did not resolve cleanly after a single event.

The cases include:

• Multiple personal encounters separated by years or decades

• Family and community clusters

• Historic...

Something is watching from the trees, and the people who notice it will never be the same. Across rural America, Australia, and deep forest regions, witnesses describe the same chilling realization that something unseen had already been observing them long before they ever looked back. These encounters are often described as cloaked humanoids, shadow figures, or unseen entities silently observing people from wooded areas and tree lines. In this episode, Phantoms and Monsters Radio presents a chilling collection of true first-person encounters with cloaked figures, tree line watchers, and silent forest entities that remain just beyond clear visibility.

What if the danger doesn’t arrive… but is already there?

In this episode, we investigate some of the most disturbing ultraterrestrial encounters ever reported. These are not simple sightings. These are moments when witnesses felt an overwhelming certainty of danger before they could explain why.

Across 10 thoroughly investigated cases, we explore encounters with unseen intelligences, territorial entities, deceptive human-like figures, bedroom intrusions, pale crawlers, organized retrieval events, portal-associated humanoids, and direct military confrontations.

These cases share a chilling pattern:

• The warning comes before...

Over the years, many witnesses have described encounters with upright canines that do not behave like animals and do not fit folklore explanations. Several cases suggest territorial awareness, intelligence, and repeated activity in specific locations.

If you have experienced or investigated something similar, especially repeated sightings in the same area, share what you are comfortable sharing below. Patterns only emerge when people speak up.

- Physical attacks, pursuits, and home intrusions.

- Law enforcement and multi-witness cases.

- Children present during active threat events.

Several of these cases connect...

Some winged humanoid encounters remain distant and strange. Others collapse the margin of safety and place witnesses seconds from injury or worse. In this episode, we examine winged humanoid encounters where proximity, behavior, and timing created real danger.

From roadways near O’Hare to fairgrounds, hotel corridors, and isolated campsites, these are not just sightings. They are risk events.

Several of these cases connect to ongoing investigations involving recurring entities, psychological aftereffects, and repeat contact.

• Near misses on active highways

• Public crowd proximity and freeze responses

• Vehicle strikes and repeated...

For decades, researchers have searched forests, fields, cities, and forgotten places for creatures that should not exist. Enormous beings without remains. Winged entities without nests. Small humanoids without provenance. They appear suddenly, interact briefly, and then vanish, leaving witnesses shaken and evidence nonexistent.

Tonight’s reports suggest something unsettling. These are not creatures hiding behind trees or retreating into caves. They are beings that arrive, observe, and depart through mechanisms we do not yet understand. Not ghosts. Not folklore. Not animals as we define them. These encounters hint at a reality that overlaps our own, where cryptids an...

Tonight, we expose a series of encounters tied together by military secrecy, shadow operations, and human contact with nonhuman intelligence. Each story reveals another piece of a hidden system working relentlessly to control what the public knows.

Something is happening on the trails that does not fit inside park brochures. Skeletal things standing by tents, faceless hikers whistling from the trees, portals on ridges, and cryptid creatures that stare into you like they already know you.

There is a moment on the trail when the silence feels wrong. The air is the same, the trees are the same, but something in the background has shifted out of place, as if the world is holding its breath and watching you.

If you have ever had a strange or terrifying experience while hiking, camping...

A series of chilling encounters from around the country suggests something far more complex is moving through our forests and forgotten places. These witnesses saw creatures they could not explain, and their stories reveal patterns that point to a more profound mystery. Tonight’s encounters are some of the most unusual I’ve ever collected, directly from the witnesses!

Tonight’s presentation explores the horrifying encounters reported inside abandoned buildings and forgotten spaces where the past refuses to stay silent. From deserted psychiatric hospitals to decaying jails, military warehouses, collapsed railroad tunnels, and hidden forest structures, these witnesses came face to face with entities that defy explanation. Massive winged creatures, invisible predators, mirrored men, skeletal figures, and demon-like humanoids all emerged from the shadows when the explorers least expected it. Each report reveals how the abandoned and overlooked places around us often conceal forces far more terrifying than ghosts or urban legends. These chilling accounts challenge our understanding of...

For nearly fourteen years, Chicago has stood at the epicenter of one of America’s most perplexing modern mysteries, the rise of the winged humanoid phenomenon. From frightened residents throughout Chicagoland to police officers, pilots, and air traffic controllers at O’Hare International Airport, credible witnesses have described a massive, dark entity with glowing eyes and bat-like wings stalking the skies over the city and its suburbs. In this episode, I revisit the most disturbing and best-documented encounters ever recorded, stories that suggest this being is more than legend… and may still be watching from above.

From mysterious lights and missing time to hybrid children and robotic entities, these nine chilling encounters reveal the complex and dark nature of the alien abduction phenomenon. Spanning over three decades, from Wyoming’s farmlands to the woods of Pennsylvania, each case carries its own terrifying signature: paralysis, telepathic voices, medical manipulation, and emotional trauma. Some experiencers were shown infants that weren’t quite human, while others returned with scars, missing organs, or unexplainable physical changes. Many describe being studied for their psychic sensitivity, as if they are being targeted by forces seeking to harness human consciousness itself. Whether thes...

Across continents and over decades, ordinary people have reported extraordinary encounters with creatures that defy logic and challenge their beliefs. From glowing red eyes watching in a South African field to an enormous batlike entity shaking an SUV in Florida, these accounts remind us that the world may still hold secrets science cannot explain. Witnesses describe beings that shift between human and animal forms, entities that vanish into the wilderness without a trace, and encounters so vivid that they leave behind physical evidence and lifelong unease.

In tonight’s presentation, we’ll dive into nine chilling reports abou...

Shapeshifters have haunted human imagination for centuries, beings who wear more than one face, who walk as men by day and monsters by night. From the deserts of the Southwest to the waters of the Caribbean, from the backroads of California to the outback of Australia, witnesses tell us that these entities are not confined to folklore; they are real, and they are watching.

Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we dive into chilling encounters that blur the line between man and beast, spirit and flesh. Skinwalkers, evil mermaids, spectral bird-creatures, ghostly children, and reptilian imitators. Are they...

From deep woods in Mississippi to the shadowed slopes of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, people continue to report encounters with strange beings that stalk, watch, and sometimes even follow them home. These are not fleeting campfire tales but detailed experiences from credible witnesses, ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances. From pale, crawler-like creatures crouched over carcasses, to towering shadow figures that leave behind only stench and fear, the accounts echo a disturbing pattern: something unknown is out there, and it’s aware of us. Tonight, we’ll explore these chilling testimonies and consider the question: What happens when t...

We’re diving into a series of fresh reports that stretch across America—from phantom legions marching through the San Luis Valley to spectral horses that appear from nowhere in Illinois. These are encounters that defy history, biology, and even the rules of reality itself. Were these witnesses seeing ghosts, cryptids, or something interdimensional that moves through our world unseen? Stay with me, because what you’re about to hear may change the way you think about the strange forces walking among us.

For decades, witnesses worldwide have described terrifying winged humanoids, creatures so strange that many refer to them as “living gargoyles.” From the Chicagoland sightings of dark, bat-winged figures to chilling encounters in Chile, Florida, West Virginia, and beyond, these reports reveal a phenomenon that refuses to be confined to legend. Are we glimpsing a hidden species, interdimensional travelers, or something far older haunting the night skies? #LivingGargoyles #WingedHumanoids #ChicagoMothman #CryptidSightings

Long stretches of highway have always carried a strange allure. It includes freedom, isolation, and sometimes, something far more unsettling. From phantom hitchhikers that vanish without a trace to sudden lost hours and roads that seem to change beneath your tires, countless drivers have reported bizarre encounters that defy explanation. Tonight, we’ll explore the chilling mysteries of strange road trips, and ask: What really waits for us in the dark beyond the headlights?

A park ranger wakes up in Brujas Canyon after sharing the same dream as his roommate, both of whom are chased by a black bull that local lore says is a witch. Another ranger’s friend steps from her tent along a desert river and meets a “woman” whose attack ends with cougar tracks and a warning whispered by tradition: some predators wear borrowed skins. Far away beneath redwoods, a hiker meets a toddler who speaks an unfamiliar word, then loses eleven minutes he can’t account for, along with any trace of the boy or the man he thought...

For decades, people across the globe have whispered about shadowy, semi-invisible entities—beings that shimmer like heatwaves, bend light around their bodies, and move silently through our world. Known to many as the “Glimmer Man,” these mysterious figures evoke the cloaking technology of the Predator films, yet witnesses insist their experiences are all too real.

In this episode, we’ll explore terrifying new reports from Queensland, Australia, to the forests of Illinois, from the Catskill Mountains to the suburbs of Chicago. Eyewitnesses describe force-field-like sensations, clicking noises in the night, glowing eyes, and the eerie dread th...

For years, I’ve collected extraordinary eyewitness reports from across the globe, but few accounts compare to the chilling, underground encounters you’ll hear tonight. From the jungles of Vietnam to the caverns of Missouri, from the deserts of Arizona to the mountains of Austria, these stories reveal a hidden world beneath our feet—one inhabited by beings and phenomena that defy explanation. These are not isolated tales; they are threads in a larger tapestry of mystery, secrecy, and fear.

What you’re about to hear are testimonies from veterans, geologists, explorers, and everyday people who stumbled into sit...

What if the fabric of our world isn’t a sealed container, but a fragile web—pocked with rips, folds, and doorways into somewhere… else? Across the globe, witnesses have described stepping into spaces where the air thickens, time bends, and impossible entities appear without warning. These moments, fleeting yet unforgettable, hint at the existence of portals—dimensional gateways linking our reality to hidden realms.

In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we’ll delve into chilling, first-hand encounters that challenge the boundaries of belief: a California farm stalked by a colossal biped, a Montana experiencer targeted by robotic...