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Hello, I am Joshua P. Warren, and this is Joshua P. Warren Daily. It is the first official day of fall, of autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere. So it's the uh the official beginning of the spooky season, which is always fun. And you know the month of September is historically a very weird month. I wonder if your September has been exceptionally odd and weird. I know if you were near any of the hurricane activity, it certainly was a September you'll never forget. So was last September for those folks in Puerto Rico who got clobbered. And so um you may recall that I am always saying that the weirdest month of the year is April. And it's usually weird in an unfortunate way. Uh you have a lot of disasters and tragedies, and you know, every year I go down the list historically of all of the um very uh dramatic world events, whether it's stuff like you know, sinking of the Titanic or the beginning of a major war or you know, whatever, an assassination. I mean, all this kind of stuff happens frequently in April. But the other month of the year that has a legacy of strange and weird things, but more paranormal is the month of September. Now you might expect it to be October, but I think it's because that September is more of a time of transition when energy is shifting. By the time October kicks in, the energy is pretty much where it's going to be for a while. But it's those transitional periods. I mean, for example, I'm sure it's no coincidence that April is right around the beginning of spring, and then September is, you know, right there at the beginning of the fall. So those are critical points in the cycles of life. Um But yeah, September has this um, well, you know, there are obviously plenty of unfortunate things that happen in September, but uh also many more things of a paranormal nature. People having UFO encounters, people seeing um a lot of you know ghostly stuff, cryptids running around. And I want to um refer to a couple of examples of this. Because uh one of my favorite writers, who I'm also proud to say is a friend, is Lauren Coleman. Now Lauren Coleman is best known as a cryptozoological writer, and most people know him for his writings regarding Bigfoot and the idea of North American apes and all that, but he has written about all kinds of bizarro stuff. Um in fact, one of his books, Mysterious America, is just really a masterpiece. It covers all kinds of bizarre stuff. That book was published in the early 80s, I guess, and that book was the first time I came across the story about the kangaroo that just appeared in downtown Asheville, North Carolina one day, and well, not downtown, actually it was in Biltmore Village in uh in Asheville, North Carolina, and went just sort of hopping around, freaking people out, and then disappeared. And to this day, nobody can explain where this kangaroo came from. But um, you know, when I was uh very young, I was reading books by Lauren Coleman and articles he was writing in Fate magazine, and uh I ended up hiring him to come and speak at a couple of my uh events, like my Grove Park End conferences, and then he and I ended up speaking together at a cryptozoological conference in South Carolina. So, you know, I've I've like I say I've I've known him fairly well for quite a while now. And but of all the things he's written, I I think um well, my favorite possibly, just because it's just such a spot-on, quick, fascinating read, is a book that was published in 2002 called Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. Now, of course, if you are interested in the realm of the paranormal and you've never actually sat down with a copy of John Keel's classic book, The Mothman Prophecies, you have not yet completed your education, young Padawan. Okay, you have to sit down with a copy of The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel and read this. And there will always be debate about how literally or figuratively to take the information in that book. Because John Keel was such a fantastic storyteller. It's a shame I never got to meet him in person, but such a fantastic storyteller that some people have said, well, you know, he he was one of those guys who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. So I don't know. I don't I don't know. But I do know he was a very intelligent guy who was able to take many complex concepts and sort of um uh sew them or fit them together in a way that uh created this nice sort of textured, I guess, uh a myriad or a cornucopia of of different sort of ideas that all just sort of fit together and created a whole patchwork of different kind of lenses you could look at reality through. I mean, I don't know. It's hard, it's hard to put it into words off the top of your head. But anyway, that's a really good book. However, Lauren Coleman's book, Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, is almost like it's still got you know great storytelling uh charm, but it also has more of a journalistic sort of touch to it, really. You know, like here are more of the facts, and you know, here let's look at alternative explanations for this and that. It's very analytical. So, but it's uh I highly recommend that you read it. So I want to read you a little portion here from Lauren Coleman's book called Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. And I'm not going to try to recap for you who Mothman is. I'm assuming if you listen to this podcast, you know who Mothman is or was. And um so let's see here. Uh he writes toward the beginning of this book The impact and timing of Mothman related events continues to amaze. Take, for example, David Gribias' plans to interview John Kill in Point Pleasant for his two thousand two documentary on Mothman. They were to fly Kill from his Manhattan home to West Virginia to do the taping. But Kill never made it. His flight was canceled. The date he was to fly to Mothman Country september eleventh, two thousand one. Um so you see an interesting little September connection there. If you keep reading this, he goes on to say um at what seems like the edge of the fringe with the most bizarre of the strange, one such illustrates or excuse me, one such story illustrates a couple of points. In April, now we're back to April of 1966, sixteen-year-old Kathy Reeves of Newport, Oregon, now let me pause for a moment. Her name is Kathy Reeves R E E V E S. Kathy Reeves of Newport, Oregon saw three tiny tree stumps walking across a meadow near her home. Yeah. Three tiny tree stumps. Well now that would seem unusual in and of itself, and she noted that these quote walking stumps were orange, blue, white, yellow, and watermelon colored. Soon a torrent of oddities broke loose around her hometown. UFOs were sighted. Newport residents started talking about how nearby Pioneer Mountain had always been weird. A local couple told officials they had seen a group of staring cyclops. The Reeves family, who actually lived on the side of Pioneer Mountain, started experiencing waves of poltergeist activity. Objects in their home danced about and globes of bluish light bounced along their roof. Finally, the Reeves family did what most sane people have done in such situations. They moved. He says the the this organ case fits the Fortian Milu and somewhat also the UFO world for a number of reasons. The series of events are called the flap, which is an old Air Force term that has been applied to flying saucer and related accounts where there is a defined series of incidents and a limited period of time. But anyway, as he goes on here talking about this, he goes, Furthermore, the witness's name, Reeves, is among those special family titles that have been pinpointed as playing a magnetic role in the quote name game. John Kill once told me that people named Reeve or Reeves have a lot of strange experiences. Many monster witnesses have been named Reeves. A glance at the indexes of Fortian Times will show a sprinkling of Reeves and Reeve as witnesses and contributors. A man named Reeves was the primary witness in a now famous Brooksville, Florida UFO case. As Jerome Clark has written, a man so obscure as to be barely known to most other residents of the rural area where he lived, John F. Reeves, aged sixty six, became the focus of international attention in nineteen sixty five when he reported an encounter with a UFO and its occupant. Much has been written of the tragic coincidences whirling around the lives of the actors George Reeves and Christopher Reeve, who played the television and movie Superman, which of course is a fictional character who was an alien come to Earth to assist humans, and another version of a type of Superman, Keanu Reeves, in The Matrix. There is a reason it's called the name game. So I'm going to stop right there. You see, what he's talking about is the idea that when you have some kind of a strange event, a strange incident, like Mothman showing up, it's not just necessarily some kind of a situation where, oh, we have a monster who has appeared and he's freaking people out and now he's gone. It seems like that when these things happen, there are other weird connections occurring simultaneously, and that maybe you can look at one aspect and see the monster, or you look at another aspect and there's a UFO over here, and you look at another facet, and here is poltergeist activity, and then you start realizing there are patterns with times and names and dates, and it really leads you to have a sense that sometimes when these things are happening, we're not talking about just some monster who shows up or some weird creature that shows up and then flies away. What we're talking about is this sort of synchronicity that is often unpleasant that indicates there may be some kind of a bending or shift in the experience of reality itself that is occurring. And that no matter how unpredictable and sporadic and random and crazy it may seem from your little particular singular point of view, there is a larger organization behind the entire situation. So so there there is it's easy to say some method in the madness, but but what I'm saying is that uh reality is is shaping as part of a a more uniform force, and you get to see your one little weird part of it, but when you start looking at all the weird parts, they all sort of connect and they lead you back toward a source. And that's what what what you know we struggle with so much. It's like imagine that you're an ant, and the only perspective that you get on the entire world is the perspective you get from being an ant. Okay, you're you're on the ground and you look up and there's a blade of grass, and okay, maybe you can climb up that blade of grass. You know, maybe you can climb up a wall. But you're always getting the perspective of the world from your little point of view. And that's a very different perspective than say an eagle gets, as the eagle is flying over and is able to look down and see things the ant could never imagine. But the eagle might be able to see when there's a thunderstorm rolling in. And the ant may have a sense that there's a thunderstorm rolling in because the ant is able to see one of those blades of grass start to quiver and feel the temperature change a little bit. But the eagle can actually see the bigger picture of what's coming in, and so sometimes I think we humans are like the ants that we we get to see little bits and pieces, but there are bigger perspectives than humans, certainly bigger forces than than humans, and and it and it requires that perspective to see those forces that we are trying to to sort of fit into our very limited and egocentric worldview. So a lot of these things happen to certain types of people with certain names during certain points in the year, certain places. I tell you what, West Virginia is a weird one. Uh in this book, Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, Lauren Coleman talks a lot about uh just one odd part of West Virginia history after another. I mean, some really freaky stuff. I won't get into it on this podcast, but I recommend you read the book. But here's here's one thing that I want to point out that I don't know, it's just sort of every September I start thinking about the weird things that have happened in September. And um I'm reminded of the Flatwoods monster incident that happened in West Virginia. Now I know that when you hear monster, probably the first thing that comes to your mind, in most cases, is something like a Bigfoot. But no, this is not anything like that. This is not like a skunk ape or a Bigfoot or dog man. No, this is something something different that's closer to an alien, perhaps. Now, first off, let me point out that uh Flatwoods, West Virginia is less than two hours drive from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where all the Mothman stuff was happening. So as the crow flies and all that, not not a big deal. I mean it's a fairly close proximity. Uh it's over in the direction toward Virginia. So it's east of Point Pleasant. And the Flatwoods Monster incident happened on September the twelfth of nineteen fifty-two. So obviously September eleventh is a is a date that will live an infamy for the world, but September twelfth of nineteen fifty-two is when this took place. And uh I'm just gonna read you some bits from the Wikipedia article because it's pretty accurate. Let's see here. Uh the Flatwoods in West Virginia folklore, the Flatwoods monster is an entity reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia on September the twelfth, nineteen fifty-two, following the appearance of a bright red object crossing the sky. Um here is the story as it sort of unfolded. This all began about 7 15 PM on September the twelfth of nineteen fifty-two. Two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hire, said they saw a bright object cross the sky and then land on the property of a local farmer named G. Bailey Fisher. The boys went to the home of a woman named Kathleen May, where they told their story. May accompanied by the three boys, and then local children Neil Nunley and Ronnie Shaver, and a West Virginia National Guardsman named Eugene Lemon, so there's a nice little group of them here, they went to the Fisher Farm in an effort to locate whatever it was the boys said they had seen. So again, these these two guys, these two boys, they see some type of a glowing object that appears to crash on a nearby hill. They go and tell a woman about it, and she says, Oh, well, let's go check it out, and rounds up a little group and they go up to the hill. The group reached the top of the hill where Nunley said they saw a pulsing red light. So supposedly they're looking up at the top of the hill and they see a pulsing red light on top of the hill. Um Lemon, now this is the National Guardsman, Lemon said he aimed a flashlight in that direction and momentarily saw a tall, quote, man like figure with a round red face surrounded by a pointed hoodlike shape. End quote. Um in a tape recorded interview, let's see here, uh UFO writer Gray Barker described the figure based upon uh his research and interviews as approximately ten feet tall, with a round, blood red face, a large pointed hood like shape around the face, eye like shapes which emitted greenish orange light and a dark black or green body. Kathleen May described the figure as having quote small, claw like hands, clothing like folds, and a quote head that resembled the ace of spades. According to the story, when the figure made a hissing sound and glided toward the group, Lyon. Lemon screamed and dropped his flashlight, causing the group to run away. Yes, that's right, the National Guardsman screamed. The group said they had smelled a pungent mist, and some later said they were nauseated. The local sheriff and the deputy had been investigating reports of a crashed aircraft in the area, and they uh searched the site and reported that they saw, heard, and smelled nothing. A reporter went out the next day and he said he discovered skid marks in the field and an old gummy deposit of some some kind. Nobody to this day knows what the hell the uh Flatwoods monster was. And if that description is hard for you to envision, then you should just go to the Wikipedia article and look up the Flatwoods Monster for yourself and see some illustrations. Now, of course, they have a section about the uh the conventional explanations where the skeptics come in and say, Let us give this a shot. And uh basically what they came up with was all right, well, the light that they saw coming through the sky was just a meteor, and the creature they saw was a barn owl. Mm-hmm. You know, uh they also say that Mothman, these skeptics, so these quote unquote skeptics, they say that they're really debunkers. They say that Mothman was just an owl. Let me tell you something. If Mothman and the Flatwoods monster were just owls, they got some pretty fucked up owls in West Virginia. That's kind of a big story in and of itself, isn't it? We have ten foot tall owls. They can fly without flapping their wings. They rise up into the sky, their eyes glow. People get radiation burns. I mean, it it really is kind of offensive at a certain point. It's insulting to those witnesses throughout history who have seen these amazing things to just so blatantly disregard what they're telling you they saw. Uh and to say, oh no, you you're telling me you saw a ten foot tall creature, you know, with with a ace of spades-shaped hood and you know, glowing face, and I no, I was just an owl. Just an owl. But you know, what what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? You either have to say, well, these people are lying, and they can't do that, apparently, because there are too many people who have seen these kinds of things throughout history, and they're being sincere about what they saw, you know, what they believe they saw. And I understand why it's important to come in and look at all possible explanations, but sometimes I just feel like you cannot take these stories that come from so many eyewitnesses and just explain that away with an owl. Whether it's Mothman or it's the Flat Flatwoods monster. I mean, you you just that's too much of a gap to bridge with that explanation. But anyway, I could give you more and more examples about these weird synchronicities and these times and names, these times of day and night. I mean, I I think I read one time somewhere it's like you have the highest chances of seeing a UFO on a Wednesday night at 10 PM in some part of Texas if you're a school teacher and your first name is John, you know. You know, this has been broken down quite a bit by ufologists, especially in the 1960s and seventies. Maybe there is something to it. Maybe there was a batch of individuals who got picked at some point to just be a part of uh the close encounters, or at least most of them, or many of them, and that uh they all have that in common, and we don't know how you experience the bits and pieces of that when when they come back around your way, but there's something in common there with time, date, names, the way these things manifest. It's very, very strange. But it does help you to envision life in a different way on a larger scale, and sometimes um it's hard for you to describe it, to talk about it. It's hard to put into words. It's hard for me to put it into words just right now during this podcast. So if you have experienced something like this, I can see how intimidating it might be for you to try to come forth and and explain something about it. But listen, if there's anybody that you can try to explain it to, it's me. So if you've had some really just like some stuff happen to you this month that is just so weird you don't know how to make sense of it, feel free to to email me through my website. Now, let me tell you, I may have no way of distinguishing between you experiencing something truly incredible and you just being a crazy person. I have no way of distinguishing that. But I'm also not necessarily trying to decide that. You know, I'm not here to diagnose you. I just want to see how rational you sound when you tell me about what you experienced. So you tell me what you experience and let me just look at it and see if it makes any kind of sense to me. And if it doesn't, okay, it doesn't. But maybe there will be something in there that I can recognize. 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