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Does Pennsylvania’s Lake Monster ‘RAYSTOWN RAY’ Actually Exist?
About a dozen years ago sightings of ‘Raystown Ray’ had been known throughout the cryptid world. Since that time, there have been very few, if any, reports. Is ‘Raystown Ray’ real?
“I was referred to you by a friend. Can you advise or direct me to someone who can explain what I witnessed?
On August 29, 2009, I was fishing from a boat with my son on Raystown Lake, Pa. It was around 6:45 pm and we were making our way back to the landing. We were near the Snydertown portion of the lake where there is a point of land.
As we were heading south, I looked toward the west shore after my son started to point at something. I really have NO idea what this thing was but it looked like a large, thick black snake with a huge head that bobbed in and out of the water. I moved a little bit closer but my son was getting scared, so I cut the motor and looked through my binoculars. The body was moving in coils or humps up and down in the water. The creature had no fins like a fish and the head was diamond-shaped. The weirdest feature was that the eyes (which were dark, somewhat small, and slanted) were not set on the side of the head, but placed forward. I got an excellent look through the binoculars (I’d say it was about 50 yards from us) when it raised up, its head moved side to side. It made no sound. I’d say it was at least 20 feet long.
I have lived in Altoona, Pa for only a few years and this is only the second time I have fished this lake. I’m from Wisconsin and have fished many large lakes and rivers but I have never seen anything this big.
We watched for about 2-3 minutes until it slipped under the surface. My son’s description was very similar to mine but he said he noticed lighter-colored ‘whiskers’ or rays on the chin and face while looking through the binoculars. I had tried to take a photo with my cell phone but it just blended in with the water and was not discernible.
This is nuts! My friends think we saw a large fish or mammal, but there is no way it’s either. Please give me some guidance or resources to help identify this. I am skeptical of monsters, ghosts, UFOs, etc., and don’t buy into much of what people describe on TV. But, now that I have seen something that I can’t explain. let’s say I’m confused and frustrated.” Thanks, Bill
NOTE: I had fished this very lake years ago (excellent striped bass fishing!). I knew that there were some reports of a ‘monster’ sighted there a while back but have not heard anything lately.
Raystown Lake is a very deep water man-made lake located in Huntingdon County, Pa., east of Altoona, Pa., and south of State College, Pa. I emailed back to the witness ‘Bill.’ He seems to be very sincere about this sighting. He stated that he reported it to another paranormal site but didn’t get a response. I had a few questions for ‘Bill’ so I sent him an email asking him to attach the photos he took with his cellphone. I wanted to see for myself what he meant by ‘but it just blended in with the water and was not discernible.’
He forwarded 2 photos that I examined. Since he and his son were on the same level as the creature there was a dark background of the trees as well as some glare coming off the water. I tried to enhance the photos, but there was just nothing with any definition though I could make out some disturbance on the surface of the water. There wasn’t much more information that he could offer, but I certainly believe he and his son witnessed something unusual. Lon
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Joggers Encounter HIDEOUS 4-FOOT TALL ‘TROLL’ at Lake Carasaljo, NJ
Two girlfriends were jogging at Lake Carasaljo, New Jersey when they encounter a 4-foot tall creeping-looking ‘Troll’ that was sitting on a small wooden chest along the pathway.
I received the following account:
“This is an encounter my girlfriend and her friend had a few years ago, not mine personally. I’ve heard her tell this story a few times before, but after recently hearing them together describe what they saw, I thought maybe you would enjoy it. Maybe someone has seen something similar.
This encounter happened in Lakewood, New Jersey a few years back. It was mid-day sometime in September. My girlfriend and her friend used to jog together regularly at local parks. The park they were at this particular day is called Lake Carasaljo, which butts up to a housing development. The trail they were on loops around the lake and 3/4’s of trail is basically just a normal paved sidewalk that follows a road but eventually turns to dirt and through a small wooded area on the far side of the lake, the other 1/4 of the trail. Mind you, this place is far from being remote, it is New Jersey after all.
While jogging through the wooded part of the trail they came upon a creepy humanoid-looking figure on the edge of the trail that stopped them both in their tracks. They both keep referring to this thing as ‘troll-like.’ It was short, maybe 4 ft tall at most. It was dressed in a long black-hooded cloak hunched over sitting on a wooden chest, yes, a wooden chest! Exactly the kind you’d imagine a troll to be sitting on. They said they could not see any face at all because its head was directed at the ground and the hood was too long. But what they did notice was the cloak was short enough to see part of its legs and was wearing what looked like regular flesh-colored stockings and had very small clubbed feet. Its legs had large protruding boils or tumor-like lumps on the exposed area. It was wearing blue gloves too.
Terrified, they eventually made their way past this thing coming only a few feet from it, hoping it wouldn’t jump out at them. They got the hell out of there faster than they’d ever run before. It didn’t say anything or try to cause them any harm. It just sat there hunched over. They thought at first that maybe it was just a mannequin or something someone put there as a joke but they noticed hand movement right before they passed it. Needless to say, they have never gone back to this lake ever again.
Every time my girlfriend talks about this encounter I can hear the fear in her trembling voice and was obviously somewhat traumatized by the encounter. Even though I geek out about these types of stories all the time, she has absolutely zero interest in any of these types of things. She will roll her eyes or shake her head and tell me I’m crazy when I tell her about a cool story of Bigfoot or aliens or whatever that I read about, trying to pique some interest in her on these types of subjects. However, she continues to want nothing of it.
I’m a very open-minded person when it comes to this stuff. I can’t say I believe in anything cause I’ve never had a convincing encounter aside from hearing a few strange sounds in the woods I couldn’t explain. I always ask myself, is it possible creatures/aliens/Bigfoot exist? The answer is usually, yes. But then again, someone just playing a prank to mess with people is extremely more logical sometimes, especially in a place like New Jersey.” KF
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Human remains unveiled in Lake Mead’s low water levels last year have finally been identified as a Las Vegas man who went missing years ago, local authorities said this week.
Utah’s Record Snowfall ‘Buys Us Time’ for Drying Great Salt Lake
Now, after an incredible winter full of rain and snow, there is a glimmer of hope on North America’s largest terminal lake, where water levels had fallen to a record-low last fall amid a historic, climate change-fueled drought across the West. As of Thursday, the snowpack in the Great Salt Lake basin was more than double the average for this time of year. All of this winter’s rain and snow that fell directly into the Great Salt Lake increased the water level there by three feet…
In reality, the precipitation only made up for what was lost to last year’s drought and evaporation… To reverse the decline, the Great Salt Lake needs an additional 1 million acre-feet of water — roughly 326 billion gallons — per year, according to the January assessment. Bonnie Baxter, the director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College and one of the authors of the January report, said the state would “need another five years like this in order to get the system healthy again.”
“If I do the math, we got about three feet of direct precipitation that fell into the lake this year, that is fantastic,” Baxter told CNN. “But the last two years, we also lost 2.8 feet in the summer, and we expect to lose that three feet in the desiccating summer. So now, we’re pretty much even, and that’s not a good place to be.”
Baxter says the rainfall “buys us some time” to work on long-term issues like water rights and metering the water used in agriculture — maybe a year or two — but “We’re not going to be bailed out by excess snow.”
There’s hope melting snow could add more water, but Baxter warns that it might not. “If it melts really quickly, which is probably going to happen because we have these late snows and now we’re right up against warm temperatures, then you get the water just rushing over the land and not taking time to charge the aquifers and just evaporating off the surface.”
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Couple Experiences BIZARRE INCIDENTS & ENTITIES at Lake Storey, Illinois
On 7/2/2020 at 22:20 local time in Galesburg, Illinois. The unidentified object fell onto the trail, then entities were seen. Some bizarre things have been happening to the couple.
I recently received this report:
“Lake Storey is located here in Galesburg. We like to go on walks at night out there and never had any problems other than raccoons pestering us. So on the night of July 2, 2020, we get to this really dark part of the trail that’s kind of deeper in the woods. And we heard something very large falling like it was going to land on our heads. I yanked her out of the way and look back and see something almost hit the ground (but don’t.) I don’t know how else to explain it but then it was gone. I chalked it up as shadows playing tricks on me or something. She thought it was weird and she doesn’t believe in anything paranormal, UFO, or spiritually related.
Then a few days after that we are walking again in the same area and something very similar happens. We could hear something dripping through the trees kind of violently. Every time we just kind of brush it off but we’re really freaked out.
So then just a few days later we go out walking again and get to the same exact spot on the trail. We look and there is something about 4 feet tall standing about 30 feet in front of us. At first, I thought it might have possibly been a deer but she saw it too. I told her to give me her flashlight really fast. She gave it to me I shined it, but there was no deer. Before I could even get a flashlight on it this thing it was ripping through the woods at a very fast pace.
I don’t know who to call. The police would all think I’m a crazy person and I don’t want to jeopardize my family. Unless there is a methed-out naked midget in the woods throwing stuff and stalking us I don’t know what else to say. We are really freaked out. We have encountered something in the same spot three different times.
This location is the deep spot of the woods at Lake Storey on the far end like you were heading out towards the country. I know whoever is reading this probably thinks I’m a nut and I would too. I’ve talked to a few people and one person told me to contact you.” M
NOTE: I contacted the eyewitness today. He and his girlfriend are still a couple. They no longer go to the location. Both have experienced vivid dreams and out-of-body incidents during the past 2 1/2 years. At this point, it is hard to determine what they had actually experienced. He did tell me that he contacted other reporting agencies and sites but to no avail. Lon
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Ramblers stoned on magic mushrooms led to safety by rescue team in Lake District
WALKERS stoned on magic mushrooms had to be led to safety by a mountain rescue team.
The group of young men was spotted looking ill and struggling by passers-by who raised the alarm.
When they checked on them it became clear they had eaten the hallucinogenic fungi and two in particular were struggling.
Eleven members of Keswick Mountain Rescue Team scrambled to Newlands Valley in the Lake District.
They reached the group at 2.15pm on Sunday and spent two hours walking them to safety.
They then gave advice on how long the hallucinogenic effects would take to wear off.
A rescue team spokesman said: “Two were feeling unwell, including the driver in the party.
“The casualties were walked down and given advice by the team medic regarding the timing of their onward travel.”
The possession, cultivation and sale of magic mushrooms is illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and can carry a seven-year jail term.
The mushrooms have a similar effect to LSD and the hallucinogenic ingredient, psilocybin, is a Class A substance.
But campaigners, including Tory MP Crispin Blunt, want the law changed owing to their “exciting potential” for the treatment of mental health conditions.
Mr Blunt has urged the government to classify them the same as medical cannabis, which was legalised in 2018.