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The best-known published account of a phantom hitch-hiker on Sheppey comes from a 2016 experience near Harty, shared later by a local resident known as CB from Minster. It was summer. The witness, then an art student, had spent the afternoon sketching at Harty Church. As the sun began to set they drove the short distance home toward Minster, alone in the car. A few minutes into the journey the radio began to malfunction. A low, strange voice speaking in an unrecognisable language came through the speakers. Assuming it was interference, they switched the radio off. The voice continued anyway. When they glanced in the rear-view mirror a face was staring back from the back seat. The figure was white-skinned with very dark hair, neatly slicked over. He was grinning with an unnaturally wide smile and mouthed words that produced no sound. The driver screamed, slammed on the brakes, flung the door open and ran. They were hysterical and in tears, and immediately called their father. They refused to return to the car and started walking home in the gathering dark. The father arrived soon afterwards. He initially thought someone must have hidden in the vehicle while it was parked at the church, but the witness insisted they had been careful. When they returned together the car stood empty. They drove along the road looking for anyone who might have been the man. They found no one. The witness later said they had never been a believer in ghosts and had previously dismissed similar stories. After that evening their view changed. The episode follows the classic vanishing-hitchhiker pattern in some respects (an unexplained passenger who disappears) but differs in others: the figure was already in the back seat rather than standing at the roadside asking for a lift, and the encounter began with the distorted radio voice. Harty is a remote, marshy part of the island, and the church and surrounding lanes have long had a lonely reputation after dark. No other detailed, independently published sightings of the same figure have circulated widely, so the story remains a single, vivid first-hand report rather than a long-running local legend with many variants.

Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go to the family of 3 year Noah. Words cannot describe this awful loss.

We ran a background check on this and these are the details we got back: It matches a very common style of alleged night/IR trail-camera Bigfoot photos: a large, dark, hairy biped standing among thin conifers with some hanging branches, monochrome or low-color night-vision look, and faint eye reflection. Similar images circulate constantly in Bigfoot communities, YouTube compilations, and AI-image sites, often labeled as coming from Pacific Northwest forests (Washington, Oregon, British Columbia) or other northern wooded areas. No widely cited report I can match ties this exact composition (the particular tree arrangement, the pose, and the framing) to a named photographer, date, and GPS point the way photos like the Jacobs Allegheny series or the Vermont trail-cam shot are documented. A few possibilities: •An unpublished or lightly circulated private trail-cam shot. •A still pulled from video and shared without location details. •An AI-generated or composited image made to look like a game-camera capture (many recent “clearest Bigfoot of 20XX” images fall into this category). Without original metadata, a source post, or distinctive landmarks, the location can’t be identified with any reliability.

Seeing a lot of reports lately across socials about dogman sightings. These were sent in earlier as well but again no details. Is the legend of Dogman real or just a myth at this point?

This was spotted over Nottinghamshire UK 2 days ago. Now as you can see from the original picture this has been zoomed in, however, i get the feeling that this may have been cleaned up by an AI program which would indeed add extra features. Either way, reports of UFO activity have increased lately.

Thing is, we get a lot of pictures sent in, most now are unfortunately AI. These two were also sent in, no details, no location, just nothing. Anyway, the reason we’ve posted these is for a different reason. Would you say that this is an accurate representation of what they could look like?

This is Nakima. We went to visit a local animal sanctuary today, a place where I have been many times before, but Nakima always stands out. She has a comfort thing with blankets as you see. All the animals are rescued from appalling conditions, and Nakima has been here for many years. The sad thing is, this sanctuary was hit hard with the pandemic, and lost a lot of their funding, so today, we announce our commitment to help this sanctuary. Next week, we’ll be giving Nakima some new blankets to help comfort her. We will be donating food for the other animals as well as offering our services to help improve the sanctuary.

This footage was captured by a trail camera in Southern Georgia. The creature looks massive and has sparked intense speculation. Some believe it could be a Dogman based on its size and overall shape.

So this one was pulled from google maps. Two figures which some claim to be Bigfoot however in this, as you can see, there are in fact two figures. Thank you Gareth for sending this in. An interesting pull to say the least.

Here’s a trail cam photo captured about a year ago. Mysterious? Absolutely. According to the story, this was taken by a trail camera set deep in a remote part of Ohio during the winter. Ohio seems to be busy with all these sightings, but does it amount to anything? Are people really seeing mysterious creatures?

Captured in Oregon on the opposite side of the Eagle Cap Mountains directly across from Joseph, Oregon. This picture was taken across the valley on the opposite Ridgeline about a mile away. This is an Intriguing picture of a massive creature however, could it be a case of an added image or a genuine capture?

Only info we received with this is that it was taken somewhere in Ohio. What do you think, is it a Bigfoot 🤔 On a closer look, it does kind of look that this has been added in, but could be wrong.

The “theory behind portals” in physics is almost always wormholes—hypothetical tunnels through spacetime that connect two distant points (or even two universes) with a much shorter path than the long way around through ordinary space. Origins in general relativity Einstein’s field equations allow many possible geometries for spacetime. In 1916 Ludwig Flamm noticed one of them looked like a “bridge.” Einstein and Nathan Rosen made it explicit in 1935: the Einstein–Rosen bridge. It is a mathematical extension of the Schwarzschild black-hole solution that glues two regions of spacetime together through a narrow throat. Those original bridges are not traversable. The throat pinches off so quickly that nothing, not even light, can get through before it collapses into a singularity. You would fall in one side and never come out the other. What would make a portal actually work To keep the throat open long enough for something to pass through, you need a source of negative energy density (or “exotic matter”). Ordinary matter and energy curve spacetime so that it attracts; exotic matter would produce a repulsive gravitational effect that holds the tunnel open. This violates the null energy condition that normal matter obeys. The classic traversable-wormhole metric (Morris–Thorne, 1988) is designed so that an observer can travel through in finite proper time without being crushed by tidal forces. Sci-fi “portals” (flat circular doorways you simply step through) are an extreme idealization of this: a wormhole whose throat length is effectively zero. Even then, several problems remain: •Stability is extremely fragile; a single photon falling in can collapse the throat. •The amount of exotic matter required is enormous (often Jupiter-mass or more for a human-sized portal). •If the two mouths can be moved relative to each other, closed timelike curves become possible, raising causality issues. Newer theoretical work Some recent solutions try to avoid explicit exotic matter. One 2021 paper constructed traversable wormholes in Einstein–Dirac–Maxwell theory using two massive fermions; the fermionic fields themselves supply the necessary stress-energy. Other approaches use modified gravity, extra fields from string theory, or holographic dualities. None of these have been observed, and most still require some form of energy-condition violation or new physics. Quantum gravity adds another layer. The ER = EPR conjecture proposes that quantum entanglement between two particles is equivalent to a (non-traversable) Einstein–Rosen bridge connecting them. In holographic models this idea has been used to think about information escaping black holes via “quantum wormholes.” Bottom line Portals as instantaneous doorways are a convenient science-fiction shorthand for a very specific, highly constrained solution of general relativity that has never been seen in nature. The mathematics is allowed; the engineering requirements (exotic matter, stability, energy scales) currently look prohibitive. They remain one of the most interesting “what if” questions that general relativity still permits.

Minster Abbey on the Isle of Sheppey is one of the oldest continuously used Christian sites in England. Queen Seaxburh, widow of King Eorcenberht of Kent, founded a Benedictine nunnery here around 664–670. It suffered Viking raids, was rebuilt in the 12th century as two adjacent churches sharing a wall (one for the nuns, one for the parish), and was dissolved under Henry VIII. The church itself survived; the imposing 12th-century gatehouse nearby later became a private house, a church hall, a wartime lookout, and eventually the Minster Gatehouse Museum. The hauntings most often attached to the place centre on that gatehouse. The gatehouse has a long-standing reputation for a Grey Lady and for spectral monks. Accounts describe a female figure in grey (sometimes said to be white) seen moving through the building. Some identify her as a nun from the old convent. Others link her to a later period when the site served hospital or nursing purposes and call her a phantom nurse. The figure is typically described as silent and floating rather than walking. Ghostly monks are also reported in and around the gatehouse and the remaining abbey precinct. These stories sit against a backdrop of real violence and disruption: Danish attacks that scattered or killed the community, later medieval bloodshed that required the church and cemetery to be reconsecrated in 1322, and the sudden end of monastic life at the Dissolution. Inside the church itself is the 14th-century effigy of Sir Robert de Shurland, with a carved horse’s head at his feet. Local legend says he killed a monk or priest, rode his horse Grey Dolphin into the sea to beg pardon from the king aboard a ship, then killed the horse after a witch prophesied it would cause his death. A year later a shard of the horse’s bone pierced his foot and he died of the resulting infection. The tale is almost certainly folklore rather than history, but it keeps the memory of monastic conflict alive on the same hill. The gatehouse museum still occupies the medieval building. Visitors today usually encounter local history rather than apparitions, but the Grey Lady and the monks remain the best-known ghost stories attached to Minster Abbey on Sheppey.

The story most people mean when they talk about a “banshee” on Blue Bell Hill is the well-known road ghost of the A229 between Maidstone and the Medway towns. Locals sometimes call her a banshee because several witnesses have described a young woman in white who wails or screams as she appears in the road. On the night of 19 November 1965, four young women were travelling in a Ford Cortina on the old Chatham Road stretch of Blue Bell Hill. One of them, 22-year-old Suzanne (sometimes given as Susan) Browne, was due to be married the next day. The car lost control, collided with an oncoming Jaguar, and three of the four women later died. Judith Lingham died at the scene; Browne and Patricia Ferguson died in hospital in the days that followed. Within a couple of years, stories began circulating of a young woman standing near the Lower Bell pub at the foot of the hill, hitching a lift. Drivers who stopped and took her aboard later looked in the rear-view mirror or turned around and found the back seat empty. In other accounts she simply vanishes after giving an address in Maidstone or Chatham. A second, equally persistent version has the figure suddenly stepping or running into the path of an oncoming car. Drivers brake hard, certain they have hit her, only to find no body, no blood and no damage to the vehicle. One of the most publicised of these incidents happened in the early hours of 13 July 1974, when a Rochester bricklayer reported striking a young girl, wrapping her in a blanket and going for help; police found only the blanket. Sightings have continued for decades, sometimes clustering around the anniversary of the crash. Witnesses usually describe a woman in her early twenties, often in a pale or white dress. Some reports mention two figures who appear and then disappear, or an older woman in a shawl, but the young woman in white remains the central figure. The hill itself is an ancient place—Neolithic tombs, a Roman temple site and old battle ground—so folklore had already attached itself to the landscape long before the 1965 accident. The modern legend simply grafted the tragedy onto an already eerie stretch of road, turning it into one of Britain’s best-known phantom-hitchhiker stories.

An interesting suspected sighting of Nessie was reported on the 5th February 2009 in the Highland News. Ian Monckton and his fiance, Tracy Gordon were celebrating her 30th birthday by staying in a cottage in Invermoriston when, driving back to their digs at 11pm, Ian pulled into a lay-by and turned off the engine. Immediately both became aware of a commotion emanating from the dark waters below. By the light from the cars headlights Ian managed to take a photograph of a shape in the water roughly a few metres from the rocky shoreline. Had the couple disturbed Nessie resting on the rocks causing it to flee back into the water?

The Mysterious Ape Canyon Attack – 1924 Check out this eerie newspaper clipping from the infamous Ape Canyon incident near Mount St. Helens! In July 1924, a group of miners reported a terrifying encounter with what they described as "mountain devils"—large, hairy, ape-like creatures. According to their account, the creatures bombarded their cabin with rocks and even tried to break in. The two men in this photo, Fred Beck and Roy Smith, are seen reenacting how they stood guard inside the cabin that night. The attack was so intense that the miners fled at first light, leaving their breakfast uncooked! Reports of "Bigfoot" sightings in the Pacific Northwest have circulated for centuries, but was this one of the first documented encounters? What do you think—legend, hoax, or real encounter? Let’s hear your thoughts in the comments! 👣👣👣

👀 The Lake Worth Monster 👀 Back in 1969, something strange was reported along Greer Island near Lake Worth, Texas. Witnesses described a tall, hairy creature with glowing eyes—part man, part beast. Some said it was aggressive. Others said it vanished into the darkness before anyone could get close enough to explain it. What makes this case especially interesting is the Allen Plaster photo, one of the few images ever connected to the legend. Skeptics argue it was a hoax. Believers say it’s evidence of something we still don’t understand. Was it a prank, a misidentified animal, or Texas’ own cryptid hiding in plain sight? 🤔

Spotted: The Beast of the Quantock Hills? Something strange has been caught on camera near the Quantock Hills again… Could it be the legendary beast that locals have whispered about for decades? Eyewitnesses describe a large, dark, muscular creature—too big for a dog, too silent for a cow, and vanishing just as fast as it appears. The photo above has reignited debate: is it a big cat? A wild boar? Or something else?

A stunned wildlife cameraman now swears he didn’t just glimpse something in the trees—he captured, in unmistakable detail, a towering, 12-foot-tall Bigfoot striding through the wilderness and locking it forever on camera.