A totally out-of-place man walked into a Tempe, Arizona hotel asking to use a payphone. Later, a police officer inquired about the man, who presumably 'vanished' into thin air according to witnesses.
I received the following account from a reader:
“Hi, Lon. I decided to send this odd weird report to you for your thoughts. I've read your blog for a few years and decided I should share this with you.
One afternoon in Tempe, Arizona, a man walked into a hotel where I worked. He had a coat on (a pea green military type coat) and butcher paper (Yes, he had butcher paper around himself like some kind of tube top!) under his coat like a shirt. In addition, one of his legs was twice as big as the other. He asked to use the pay phone in the lobby. I told him, 'Sure' not yet realizing how weird he looked (he was obscured by the desk and the entry door). We started out with a weird vibe the moment he crossed the lobby to the phone. When we finally got a chance to look at him, he walked a bit slow. However, this made sense as his leg appeared swollen. He then made a call and turned slightly to keep me and my coworker in his attention, sort of out of his peripheral vision.
Very soon we could tell he wasn’t listening to anyone and the phone made noises like it was off the hook. I decided that was enough and demanded he leave which he did abruptly by our side door.
Now the really weird part. My coworker took a picture of him on that payphone with an old flip phone. In the digital pixelation, he was moving, which rendered him blurrier than the rest of the picture. He looked like his face was an oversized toothy grinning skull! Black eyes and a hole where his nose should be! It was so bizarre! It reminds me of the story about the man made of parts in the mirrored sunglasses (a story from Victoria England in which a man encountered a man he thought was made of 'parts').
Later that day, a police officer came to the hotel asking if we had seen a man fitting the same description. I acknowledged that we had and told the police officer what occurred. I then inquired why he was asking about this bizarre man. The police officer stated that the man was seen in a nearby park by a couple who later reported that the man had suddenly vanished into thin air just a few yards away from them.
This occurred in late 2019 before the Covid lockdown. I haven't heard anything further about the unknown man, or whatever he was.” SB
NOTE: Mmm. I'm not sure what or who this unknown man or humanoid was, but it is indeed very strange. The odd photo manifestation does mirror a few other accounts that I received in the past. But, as with those other accounts, it's difficult to determine what this actually was. Interesting incident. Lon
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