; Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

lundi, mars 31, 2025

'GARGOYLE' KILLED CHICAGO BRIDE-TO-BE!

In September 2014, a Chicago, Illinois mother of two was headed to lunch with her fiance in the city's South Loop when pieces of a gargoyle fell from a church's facade and struck her in the head, killing her.

I recently ran across this bizarre account:

"I saw that crack on her head and thought, 'She's definitely dead,'" a witness who ran to help told the Chicago Tribune.

Sarah Bean's fiance, Lance Johnson, started screaming, the witness says, as he fell to the ground and held his hands to his head. Family members told NBC Chicago the couple was due to marry soon; Johnson is the father of Bean's two children, ages 10 and 14.

A piece of decorative metal several stories up came loose at the Second Presbyterian Church on South Michigan Avenue and then knocked off a piece of stone from the gargoyle, which hit Bean. Officials say she was killed almost instantly; she was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

The church, which was built in 1874 and is a national historic landmark, had failed a number of inspections between 2007 and 2011 but passed inspections in 2012 and 2013.

"She was finally going to get married," muses Bean's brother, noting that she used to live right down the street and had passed the church "millions of times."

NOTE: I just thought it was an interesting comparison to the Chicago Mothman sightings, which many witnesses described as gargoyle-like. Here's the link. Sad story. Lon

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If you have information about the Chicago Mothman or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon

CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist

Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED

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The Serpent's Key • 28 Carlisle St. HANOVER, PA 17331

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Have you had a sighting or encounter?
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Thanks. Lon

 
Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.
Available on Amazon.com
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RESIDENT ENTITY Has Caused Havoc For Decades!

When I moved into the house in 2011, they jokingly warned me about Linda the ghost, but I never experienced anything I would call paranormal. That soon changed.

I received the following account:

"Hi. A bit of backstory is required. My wife and I have each lived in our current home once before: my wife with her family several years ago, and me since March 2011.

While her family lived there, they experienced odd happenings that they jokingly attributed to a ghost. They eventually named this ghost Linda, and to this day still discuss Linda as if she were a real person. When I moved into the house in 2011 they jokingly warned me about Linda, but I never experienced anything I would call paranormal.

As fate would have it, the wife and I ended up back in the house together when we exchanged vows. I moved in first, and she followed suit a few weeks later. After I had been in the house for about a month, electrical appliances all over the house started dying. Naturally, I called in an electrician, but he said that there were no issues with any wiring or the like. Just bad luck, I thought. It was around that time the wife started having bad insomnia and nightmares when she could actually fall asleep, though she could never remember what they were about. She also started joking about Linda more often since she is paranoid at night and likes to try and lighten the mood for herself, going so far as to actually talk to Linda for minutes at a time.

Everything eventually returned to some semblance of normality, but that changed 3 years later when the dryer died (September 2014). The wife's nightmares and insomnia returned, and so did the talking with Linda. I finally asked where the name came from, and she said that she had arbitrarily named the ghost Linda. Then, she shared a story that I hadn't heard before. Sometime after naming Linda while she was living in the house with her family, they received a letter addressed to Linda [their last name]. Now, that's a huge coincidence, isn't it? Mail ends up at the wrong addresses all the time, and companies will sometimes misname recipients, but to receive a letter at the correct address for a person matching the name of an arbitrarily named imaginary ghost is too much.

It doesn't end there, though. I sat down recently and listed all the appliances that have suddenly died and was startled to realize that they were all mine, and that electrical Armageddon had begun the week my wife moved in. It continues to this day, 10 years later. What the Hell is going on?" T

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If you have information about the Chicago Mothman or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon

CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist

Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED

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The Serpent's Key • 28 Carlisle St. HANOVER, PA 17331

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YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS


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Have you had a sighting or encounter?
Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974
Thanks. Lon

 
Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.
Available on Amazon.com
San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention





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LARGE 'PTEROSAUR' Recently Observed in San Antonio, Texas Church Parking Lot!


"It was a very large dark bird in the middle of an empty parking lot! I couldn't make up much of its characteristics, just that it was very large and dark."

I received the following:

"Hi, Lon. I guess I'll just begin with the sighting because I don't know how else to begin. Last night, my dad and mom were outside working on our car. It was dark, and they had been using a lamp. I was inside while this happened. We live near San Antonio, Texas

Suddenly, my mom came into my room and told me to come outside. I asked her why, but she was talking in such a low voice that I couldn't hear her. When I did, I found my dad looking through our fence to a nearby church; when I asked what was going on, they just told me to be quiet. So I went to where my dad was and he pointed to the direction he was looking in and told me if I was seeing what he was.

It was a very large dark bird in the middle of an empty parking lot! I couldn't make up much of its characteristics just that it was very large and dark. So the next morning, I decided to look up local stories in San Antonio and Texas to see if anyone else had seen anything like this. Sure enough it turns out Texas has its own little myth of large birds. The Pterosaur? I saw pictures and read all the stories, and when my parents came how without mentioning any of this, I asked if they could describe how it looked. They were able to match the description!! 

Finally, I showed them a picture and they both agreed that's how it looked. My story isn't exaggerated. There's definitely something going on around here." K

NOTE: South Texas, particularly between San Antonio and Laredo, has been a hotspot for various cryptid sightings for many decades. Lon

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Thanks. Lon



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If you have information about the Chicago Mothman or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! Lon

CHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist

Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED

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The Serpent's Key • 28 Carlisle St. HANOVER, PA 17331

-----


-----


-----

YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS


-----


Have you had a sighting or encounter?
Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974
Thanks. Lon

 
Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.
Available on Amazon.com
San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention





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This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.

Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler

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