Sasquatch City

If you were a monster hunter and you wanted to hunt a monster, where would you go? To the darkest forest or the deepest lake, the snow-swept peaks or the vine-choked jungle. Legendary creatures like to hang out in remote, hard-to-reach places; otherwise, they wouldn’t be so mysterious, right?

Ben writes to tell me about his encounter with a strange creature. Although his story is similar to dozens of other mysterious sightings, it differs in one critical way: Ben saw a monster in the heart of a major American city, and he believes the creature is still there.

Ben lived in San Francisco during the go-go days of the 90s tech boom. His work demanded long hours and ate up nearly all of his free time. 

Bigfoot in the big city!

This week on Scary True: Do cryptids like Bigfoot only live in remote forests? One witness has seen them in the most amazing place! Visit “Sasquatch City.” And check out this week’s ghost story, “Phantoms Fill the Skies!”

Phantoms Fill the Skies

In the spring of 1988 I was invited by a good friend to attend a séance at a genuine haunted house. I had always been fascinated by the macabre and mysterious, but had yet to witness the supernatural first-hand. After my experience at the séance, I found I could never turn my back on the paranormal again.

As president of the Jefferson County Extra-Historical Society, my friend, Harvey J. Rearick, was familiar with occult practices and the dark and dangerous forces that permeate the hidden world. Before I accepted the invitation, Harvey recounted the home’s troubled history.

The little house on Hernandez Street had been built in the early 1800s and was the last survivor of a row of cottages that faced the sea. After being a home for a succession of families, the house was used to board sailors, and even served briefly as a hostel for soldiers in the Civil War.

The dead speak!

This week on Scary True: What happens when a séance goes horribly wrong? Find out in “Phantoms Fill the Skies!” And check out this week’s monster story, "The Ghoul."

The Ghoul

Ray had spent most of his life in a cemetery. For thirty-seven years, he had been the groundskeeper for a cemetery in western Maine. It was a quiet life, but it suited Ray just fine.

Among cemetery groundskeepers there’s an unspoken code that what happens in one’s lot is one’s own business, but after his retirement in 2007, Ray contacted me to relate a few terrifying experiences.

In the early 1970s (Ray wasn’t sure of the exact year), Ray had to deal with a wave of vandalism at his cemetery just as he was settling into the job. “There was graffiti,” Ray recalls, “and a few headstones was knocked over.”

Eat the dead!

Next week on Scary True: In a cemetery at night, a terrifying encounter brings one man to face a terrifying truth! “The Ghoul” is coming! And check out this week’s UFO story, “The Kettle Creek Incident.”

The Kettle Creek Incident

Vicky couldn’t wait for summer to start. Her boyfriend, John, had just bought a brand-new, fully-equipped Winnebago Chieftain, and Vicky and her friends had big plans for it. It was June 1977 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Summer was coming fast, but so was something else, something that was traveling from far, far away.

Vicky writes to tell me about the summer of ‘77 and the terrible night she endured in Pennsylvania's Kettle Creek State Park. Vicky got off work early one June Friday and John picked her up in his new Winnebago. “He loved that machine,” Vicky tells me. “And I did, too.”

Vicky and John swung by the old Piper factory and picked up another couple, Marcy and Barry. The foursome headed up the old road out of the town of Lock Haven and into the thick forests that blanket central Pennsylvania.

Watch the skies!

Next week on Scary True: It came from far, far away to chase girls through the woods! The true story of "The Kettle Creek Incident." Start your summer with a scare! And check out this week’s Mother Meade monster story, "Tracks of the Beast!"