Omens & Harbingers of Doom

Welcome to the Shadow Signal, the Frequency of the Unknown. I'm Josh Rutledge. And I'm Stephan Gearhart. Together we dive deep into high strangeness, UFOs, cryptids, the paranormal psychic phenomenon, and the hidden truths that echo just beneath the surface. Somewhere between reality and myth lies The Signal. Can you

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it's it's Halloween month, man. This is my favorite time of year, like not not for the weather, because I don't like it when it starts getting cold. But I love spooky season. I love horror movies. I love haunted houses, I love the paranormal all that stuff. And the veil is thin.

It is thin. I mean there's some there's some stuff happening. I mean, I don't know. I like for me, it seems like it happens all year rounds. I don't know that the veil being thin makes any difference, but it's just really interesting. I was doing a lot of research the other day about why why the veil thinning in

this time of year is probably a thing, and I have I was thinking about how like when you think about even let's say in June, let's say the middle of summer, if it's dark, you see movement in your periphery, right, you see movement in the corner of your vision. And so because we're starting the time of year where it

gets dark earlier, you know, is there something about our eyes where the phenomenon is more apparent when you know you're not looking straight at it. I don't know, And so you know, it's kind of like, what's that. There's like a Vin Diesel movie where he lands on an alien planet and there's always yeah, and like you know,

the Three moons, like you know, creative, you know, ongoing, eclipsed situation and all these as come out. Yeah, you know there be truth to that. Yep. Trying to think what the sequels called, I can't remember. Oh there was the Chronicles are Ritic? Yeah, Ritic. I think there's actually one more.

No, I think it's just three because Pitch Black's the first one. Yeah, they're all pretty good. Yeah, they are pretty good. AnyWho, So, yeah, you had you had some interesting things happening this past weekend. If you wanted to share a.

Little bit about that, I presented at Phoenix moufon here in uh Phoenix, Arizona, and I presented on my theories around kind of how the phenomena is related, which you know, if you if you, if you've been a listener for a while, you may recall that we went through a short period of time where the podcast was called The

Convergence Enigma, and that was kind of the intention behind that rebrand. We but we did I didn't. I don't think we really quite figured out how to present it in podcast form, right, it made for a much better presentation form. So the title of the presentation is actually the convergence to Enigma, and I laid some stuff out.

It was a really good presentation. I got nervous and I ran through my slides really fast, like it only took me about an hour or maybe fifty minutes to go through all of my slides. But it worked out because we had almost sixty minutes of Q and A and it was like it was like an oh, Captain,

my captain moment, where like people were shouting out questions and I was walking to people and it was just it was a fantastic interaction, exchange of energy. We we actually did like fifteen minutes of questions, broke for an intermission, and ninety percent of the audience came back. Wow, continue the Q and A session for like another forty minutes

or so. Cool. Any any particular questions stand out to you that were interesting, because that's either yeah, was that s Since I wasn't able to be. Well, I mean, so my my family was able to come, you know, wife and kids were able to come and

support me during the first half before the intermission, and my daughter Leila asked a question, what is a humanoid? Because I had mentioned humanoids. I got to explain that question, which you know, it means that she was listening. Yeah, which is you know, I guess all I can ask from an eleven year old, So right, there was some

questions around. One person asked if I thought that people who meditate all the time could become like beacons for the phenomena, and I said yes, and I used the White Debs. Our good friend Deb Shockti. The way she describes it as like, you know, it's always happening all the time all around you, You're just not tuned in

to see it. But like putting the attention towards like your meditation practice and growing your your spiritual side, your mental side, can actually cause you to tune in to see the phenomena. So it's not so much that the experiences increase, it's more that you're more tuned in to be able to see more of it. So there was

a lot of good discussion because in my theory I do incorporate lay lines and a lot of the presentation, and there was a lot of great discussion around you know, the origin of lay lines, why the people who created the lay lines picked, you know, the starting points that they did. So, for example, one of the star points

is Stonehenge in the UK, and it's really just because these kind of sacred geometry type sites exist around the world, we don't really understand, I think, why our ancestors built these sites in these specific locations. And so the origin of lay lines assumes that there is some you know, significance to the location they picked that we're just not

aware of. And so based on that, that's the starting point then for all these lay lines that kind of stretch around the planet. So cool. Yeah, And I talked briefly about my idea that lay lines I think extend, you know, throughout the universe, and that.

Sometimes Star Trek episode, Yeah, and sometimes our planet just intersects or interacts with one of those lay lines at different parts of the year, and so activity increases or decreases depending on that we're intersecting. So maybe you know, in October when the veil is thin, it's because we're intersecting with a universal lay line during that time.

I wonder, because yeah, you wonder, is the is the veil only thin in the Northern hemisphere or also the Southern hemisphere? You know, like, is that because since it's summer down there or spring? I guess, yeah, I don't. I don't know that it's necessarily uh yeah, maybe, I don't know. I mean, doesn't matter based on the tilt

of the earth, the rotation of the earth like all that stuff. And like I said, you know what, what you typically associate with the veil being thin is an increase in uh, you know, spiritual or paranormal or you know type activity right in, an increase in spirits or ghosts, an increase in poultry, gianst activity, bigfoot, whatever the case

may be. But for me, for me at least, my activity does not fall off and it doesn't necessarily increase during this time of the year. Yeah, it'd be it'd be interesting to research and see if that changes, like for those that live on the equator, you know.

Well, and what I was going to say is for me, like I said, for me, it doesn't fall off, it doesn't increase. And I live about a mile from a lay line. Mm hmm. So again makes me wonder if like it's really just a matter of proximity to these lay lines or things. So I don't know, it's very

interesting speaking. The only the only thing that I have really for you know, uh, interrupted transmissions is not enough to do the whole segment. So I'll just don't have anything, so I'll just mention it here. Uh, last night, I was working in my office right here at this computer, you know, working on some stuff, and I had my

feet kind of crossed in front of me underneath my desk and a bread twist tie like I felt something fall against my toes and I looked down and there was like a bread a straightened out bread twist tie laying on the rug that's underneath my feet. And why that's significant is our cat that recently passed. That was

his favorite toy was bread twist ties. He would bat them around and chase them around the house. And so it's like he was bringing me, you know, his bread twist tie for me to for me to have. I mean it was like I, I, you know, the investigator, and me looked all around to see if I can figure

out where this may have come from or how would have you know of all? Like I said, here, probably ten hours a day because my work computer is right here to my left, and so you know how all this and then that in that exact moment it decided to appear and I couldn't really come up with anything,

so It's the only thing I'm left with is my cat, Kitty Kitty Whiskers brought it to me. So yeah, I totally believe that. So so cool man, Yeah, I think that's pretty neat. Well, let's get moving on and let's get into our psychic word of the week, the psychic wo oh all right, So psychic word of

the Week is brought to you by the Oh boy I've almost forgotten Almosch. It's like a dictionary written by June D. Bletzer PhD rest in peace, Tony Bear. I love you even though I never knew you. So instead of flipping through like we used to in those I kind of look around until I find something interesting. And

I found, uh, some terminology here that says confused soul minds confused soul minds, And I thought this would be interesting given the veil being thin and Halloween and things like that. So here's what It has a very long definition. For the first definition, it says a deceased human being who is earthbound, floating aimlessly among earthlings and needing understanding

and help responsible for some hauntings can be perceived claire voyantly or claire audiently as an apparition and a nuisance confused because A their Earth beliefs emphasized one life only, which I think that's very interesting. B Their earthly teachings presented a different appearing etheric world. C. They do not realize that they are dead. D They are so embedded

by materialistic desires that they cannot let them go and hover close to earthlings to recapture the memory of those desires. E. They can see earth activities and do not realize Earthlings cannot see them. That's why they're confused. F. They are absorbed with a traumatic experience of death that causes them to search for answers to its cause, or the desires

to let Earthlings know more about this event. Or g Mourners in Earth keep them bound by constant thoughts about them and will not release their image or emotional memories. The second definition is earth bound entities can be release east by psychics so that they can begin the learning process in the etheric world and be happy. And then

the third just simply says one form of a ghost. So it's very very interesting that you pick that particular selection. So first of all, I think there is a h in that you know they may not be in the book. But there's an H there, uh, And the H is and and I'm gonna give you an explanation as to

why I think there's an H. But the h is is that it's a traumatic death and in the clarity of the release from the body, there is a want to make up for you know, life transgressions. And I'll give you a direct example. So my my barber, who does great work, you know, if you know, does great work,

he his he was telling me that his wife believes that she's being visited by her dad that died just a couple of years ago. Well, her dad was a lifetime addict and actually oh deed uh and that's how he died. And but like right before he he died, he was attempting to reconnect with his daughter as well

as his other kids that he had, you know, kind of neglected for a long time. And so you know, she's got stuff going on now that is, you know, like lights in the house flickering. They've got a Halloween tree, which I absolutely love and I. Love Halloween trees.

And we had we had planned on doing one this year, but we just couldn't get it together. But and her favorite color is purple. So she was in her kitchen one day and she was talking to her aunt about her dad ad, and they were talking about how their favorite color is purple. And the Halloween tree lights came

on and they can only come on from a switch, like there's no other they're not smart lights or anything. They come on from the flicking of a switch. And then they've had a few other things that have happened. So I really think, and this is the impression I got. I told my barber that I think that her dad

is trying to reconnect with her because because he was, he was tormented in life, being stuck in a body that that could not overcome the crippling disease of you know, of abuse, of of you know of substance abuse. But now in release, he's got the clarity that he needs to be able to to close, you know, doors that

he left open and as far as the second piece around the suckings can release them. I have released spirits that have been trapped here. I do like a Kundalini type meditation, and I feel the energy come up through my body, up through my spine and out the crown of my head. And when I do I feel spirits release,

I can interact with them like on dowsing rods and stuff. And when I release them, when they come back and communicate with me, the energy is completely different than what it was before. So it's just really you know, timely that I was just talking about Barber about all of this like four days ago.

So yeah, for real, that's interesting, that's really cool. So yeah, I mean, you know, and I think you know that a lot of you know, I feel like a confused soul mind has to be an intelligent spirit or it wouldn't be confused. Wouldn't be confused, right, I know that.

Yeah, it's not an echo, and I think, you know, I think a lot of what that talked about, definitely is how we get a lot of hauntings of these confused soul minds not knowing what's going on or whatnot. You know. Not not to spend not to spend too much time talking about the psychic word of the week,

But we did an episode a few uh probably like a hundred back or something about the haunting or poultry guyst that the sec. That the group was able to create, and yeah, the Philip Experiment. Yeah, the Philip Experiment, Well, One of the theories that

I have is that that was a legitimate haunting and it was just a confused soul that saw an opportunity to interact with people and try to get them to you know, give it attention and help it or at lease and move on. And so you know, it took on the mantle, if you will, of being Philip and

hopes that they would actually do something to help it out. Yeah. Yeah, so yep. So most ghosts, if you're out there, you just need a therapist, Yeah, what. You need maybe maybe that's maybe that's you're calling stuff and maybe maybe a ghost therapist you're let's mean, that's

basically what whoope Goldberg was doing in ghosts, right, So yeah, it was not just for the living. Yep, that's right. So all right, well let's get moving on. Let's head toward the shadows edge and move to our main topic, the main story. All right, Josh, so what are we taking a look at for spooky season this month?

Yeah, so I have for you twenty eight cases of harbingers of or omens of you know, kind of disastrous or or whatever. What everyone into Harpers of doom, harbingers of doom and I've got them like they're they're broken up, a couple across a couple of different you know, categories, and yeah, we'll just talk through you know, at least

twenty eight talk about it. I know, I know at least one already off the bat, you do. But that's not the first one we're gonna come. I know. That's well, I'm not mentioning it. Uh, We're actually gonna start with the Hopkinsville Gobins Goblins.

As Harbinger is interesting. Yeah, man, so Hopkinsville Goblins, if you're not familiar with The case was in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in nineteen fifty five. Yeah, it's where the term the little Green Men come from. It's right. The case was is that the family was basically terrorized in their house over you know, an evening

into the night by these small green goblins for lack of a better word, that were can like continually just messing with them, trying to like I don't know, I feel like the story always goes that they were trying to get in the house, but I feel like if they wanted in the house, they could have gotten got in.

So I think they were just messing with the They were just messing with the people. Well, it kind of reminds me of hell here, which they referenced the Hopkinsville Goblins for sure, that David whatever his name was, that they had that little goblin, that little alien that kept messing with them outside that window,

which is very reminiscent of the Hopkinsville Goblins. So, you know, they were three to four foot tall, they had glowing eyes. They some of the accounts of like they, you know, the family, the men in the house would shoot their you know, shotguns at them and the bullets or the spray would just ricochet off of

them kind of making like a ting kind of noise whenever it did. So yeah, I mean, it's it's you know, just it's an it's an absolutely amazing case of you know, whether you want to call it extraterrestrial or you know, cryptid or humanoid or whatever, it's just an amazing case. And if you recall, one of the very earliest episodes

we did was on The Clawed Beast of the Ohio yep, which we yea and I made the connection yep that they actually occurred on the same day yep. So anyways, so the reason why this is a harbinger is it began what has been an ongoing, uh situation of high strangeness from nineteen fifty five to present in the general

area of you know, Hopkinsville, Kerry Kelly, Kentucky. So that's why it's included in the list, is because it was like a kicking off point. Okay, I see what you did there. Yep. Yeah, it is not related to a specific event, you know, like some of the other ones that we'll get too are.

But I guess because it is a you know, because it is a jumping off point for a lot of high strangeness, it's included in the list. And of course I have to mention if you're interested in learning more, go back and find our Fearscape episode on the Hopkins Bill Goblins.

Yep. And if you're watching this on YouTube, I'll actually add a link in the video right about here and you can click and get into it that way as well. Yep. All right, So next up we have the I'm going to say this wrong hes Hessdalen Lights.

Uh nineteen you did pretty good, since I have no idea what it's supposed to sound like, Yeah, you did pretty good. It's at H G S S D A L E. N but it's in Norway, so I'm probably pronouncing it way wrong. So the Hessdalen lights in nineteen eighties and Norway,

they seem to occur there. They're so they're floating orbs of light that maneuver intelligently of like plasma like entities, and they seem to predict earthquakes some some kind of like I guess prosaic theories is that there's like an increase in static electricity because of the earthquake and that causes ball lightning or atmospheric plasma. But I don't know.

It would seem like if that were the case, that everywhere that there is a pending earthquake would also experience the phenomena. Right, Yeah, but yeah, it's there's there's actually apparently hundreds of photos and video out there available if you search the Hesdalen Norway lights. There's actually something called the Hesdalen Project that has a lot of research papers

in it. It's all in Norwegian, so good luck with that, hey man, The. Google will translate if you're on Yeah, I mean it. Works, Okay, It's enough for you to get the important parts, I think, so yep, all right, Next up we have the flat Woods Monster.

Yeah, I love the Flats Monster. Now this one is similar to the Hopkinsville Goblins and that it doesn't equate to one specific event. But the flat Woods Monster, again for anybody who's not aware, was kind of like an extraterrestrial humanoid maybe romot maybe robot type thing that appeared in flat Woods, West Virginia in

nineteen fifty two. And it was very It was very weird and like as far as everything that had been reported that was potentially extraterrestrial up until that point, this broke the mold. You know. It had like a metal like skirt if you will. I had like a big red hood, yellow glowing eyes, kind of like a space

type head at the top. It was about ten foot tall and it seemed to float instead of walk right. And the reason this is a harbinger is because everyone who encountered or came close to the flat Woods Monster got sick. Yeah, and we got to go to Braxton County and

go to the flat Woods we do, and all that stuff. My my TV is a fire TV and so I've got it linked to my Amazon photos and those pictures come up all the time. Of they have they have like a big like like an oversized chair of the flat Woods Monster as the backing and you can sit

in it and get your picture taken. I've got one of Santosh sitting there eating an ice cream cone. But yeah, that was a great trip. And if any course, we covered that on well yep. A lot of the things I'll tell you a lot of the things that are on the list we've covered.

On fear Escape yep, which is great. So flat Woods, West Virginia. If you're in the area, like I would say that if you're anywhere like probably east of the Mississippi in this in any way, shape or form interests you, you should definitely take the time to go and you know, spend a weekend and go

to flat Woods and go to you know, Point Pleasant and all those places that are steeped. In just for Hillbilly hot dog alone. Yeah exactly. And then like a biscuit place too, oh biscuit world. Man. That's all through West Virginia. Yeah good, Yeah, all right.

Next to abund the list, we have the west Fall Encounter I'm sorry, Westall Encounter. This is in nineteen sixty six and Melbourne, Australia and two hundred plus school children saw a hovering craft. Oh yeah, metallic craft descended near the school and it actually caused a school wide slash community wide panic in nineteen sixty six.

Yep, that reminds me. I still haven't watched that documentary yet on that the phenomenon. I need to get on that. So it's there's all kinds of stuff in like the Australian TV archives, seven news interviews, there's and like you said, there's a documentary that covers it too. It's one of, if not the largest kind of school based you know,

as far as the number of students saw it. It's very cool. All right. Moving on and down the list, we have the the banshee Irash Irish and Scottish tradition. Yep, not the x men. Okay, gotcha, No. Nope, unfortunately not. But it is often described as a

wailing female with long hair, sometimes combing or washing blooded garments. Uh. And it is said to tell the imminent death of a family member. It is often heard by relatives before death. Right, which is. No specific no specific you know case here, but just

uh you know a lot of old Irish and yeah, uh you know what's this is not on the list. This is just anecdotal information. I get deja vu a lot. In fact, my deja vu lately has gotten like intense. But when I get it, it's usually meaning something like I'm on the right track, or you know, something that

is coming up for me that's going to be good, or something I need to pay attention to because it's some you know, important message for me my path. When my wife gets it, it always means someone's going to die. She's all of her life, she's gotten deja vu right before either a filming member or like she she got

it a couple of days before our cat died, like it always. Whenever she gets deja vu, it's you know, four or five, six days before someone we know dies. Weird, that's scary. That would cause me to have so much anxiety. Well yeah, it actually, I mean I think it affects

her quite a bit because she's gotten deja vu sometimes like a day or two before she's traveling for work. So that adds to the anxietiety of like, you know, traveling and everything. So yeah, all right, next up we have La La Na. I don't think did we cover. I think we might have as part of something else.

Yeah, I don't think we gave it a dedicated episode. But yeah, so again kind of like the banshee weeping female apparition, often near water, typically associated with like Latin American cultures pre colonial, but also to present. Wasn't there like a uh No, that was like the near near my house when I lived at Kentucky before we moved,

there was a bridge that went over a creek and you told me about some way. Yeah, but I mean it's similar to Lolarna. Yeah. Yeah, that's cry Baby Bridge on Sleepy Hollow Drive or road or whatever. Yeah, so it's it's often you know, she is seen

before drownings or floods. Yeah, and usually involves drownings, child deaths, or local tragedies. Yeah, it is definitely a spooky one. Yeah. There have been a number of different movies made featuring her, and they're all pretty creepy. So yeah, the one that's part of the Conjuring universe

is the last one I think that I watched. Ye. Next up, we have the the Blackoued Children. We did do an episode on this. I remember they. Definitely covered black eyed children who they still creep me out, dude. Although you know, I haven't heard a lot of more recent like, I haven't heard of recent encounter interaction that

that's at least been shared online. Yeah, I might have to hit up Reddit and search blackout children and see if there's people out there that are still encountering them. By the way, Reddit is by far the best source of just weird crap that's happening, like, because I mean, it's almost like what Facebook used to be. You just

got to be careful because sometimes you find yourself in a subreddit that is fiction, and so what is being written is intended to be fiction. So yep. But anyway, there's in uh sorry, I just looked up. There's a reddit under the paranormal r slash paranormal this is what happened to black eyed kids.

So I'm not the only one that noticed that they're missing. Yep, you know, maybe they're maybe they're uh, maybe they're hibernating. Yeah, because he says I noticed that. Ever since doorbell cameras became a thing, I haven't heard anyone have any encounters with black eyed kids. Are they cautious about getting recorded? Yeah? Very interesting.

Well, I wonder if black eyed children are just a more physical manifestation of hat Man maybe, and so hat Man is still a thing. So yeah, which hat Man is not on the list, but because I don't think it's any related to Herbinger's romans. But that's an interesting one too. I don't know if we even if we

covered hat Man or not, but. I know we've talked about hat Man, but. But only we covered it as like a topic. I mean, we might have who knows, not as who knows, like two hundred episodes, y'all. Yeah, we I went back and saw. Yeah, we hit over two hundred episodes a

couple episodes ago if you count all fear Escape. Yeah, so we've been going now for a total five and a half years. A long time time, A long time yeap. So anyways, back to the Blackout Kids, not the black at Peace in case you're on Nope. So the Black

Aunted children are generally kind of pale. They speak in a monotone kind of voice. But what sets them apart is that their entire eye area, including you know, what is the white of the eye, is just completely solid black. And generally that you know, they kind of first popped up or appeared in the in the culture, the lore

in nineteen nineties. They would knock on doors asking to enter and then if you let them in. Some we actually had accounts of people like had a flat tire and they'd be changing their tire and they would just look up and there will be these there's always like they're always in pairs too, and there's one that talks

and one that doesn't. But yeah, if if you if you interact with them in any way, bad luck tends to follow. And so you know the the the Harbinger pieces that personal misfortune or illness follows with interacting with them. So well, if you see black at kids, you know, if they if they make their if they do their

comeback tour, and you have been to encounter one, just uh, just don't just don't talk to them. Yeah, get out, get out of the wherever you are. Yeah, g t FO. All right, next step on the list, we have the pale crawler. I like that, an emaciated gray humanoid moving

on all fours. Came came to be around the two thousands to present, mostly in like the Appalachia Midwest area. Hunters campers report sidings before deaths or missing persons. Interesting. Oh, they're creepy looking at artists renderings on it. Yeah, it's like they're they're like, well, I mean the description is very good. Emaciated humanoid moving on all forwards.

I mean it is. I mean I've seen some of the creepy stuff on Reddit. It's pretty scary looking. I'm surprised they haven't done a movie about that yet, right, I mean, not a documentary, I mean, like full horror movie. Let me see here they're kind of is there's a British horror movie called Xtro from nineteen eighty two that

said to possibly be a pale crawler or skin walker. So so that is possible because it features a pale, contorted humanoid creature standing on the side of the road. Yeah, okay, so all right, next to the list. I know we've done. I know we talked about this one. It was one of our best episodes back in the day.

But slender Man. Tall Man, Yeah, good old slender Man. So this came around in two thousand and nine to present. It's pretty much an online thing, and the original kind of story or case was, you know, two girls that attempted to kill another girl because they said slender Man

told him to do it. But it is also considered a modern tulpa. So you know the fact that they that they that they attempted to take that action kind of invoking his name and visage brought him into being. Yeah the o G creepy PASTA. Pause, all right, so yeah, just the you know, the

the omen Arbinger pieces that it typically is associated with suicides and child disappearances. But you know, the the I think there was like a movie that was created as well, uh, typically described as a faceless, tall figure in a suit with elongated limbs. Yeah, super creepy.

Yeah, maybe a cousin of the pale crawler, I don't know, all right, on his mother's side. Next step, we have the thunderbird, not the car. This is a mythic being a giant bird with thunderous wings. This actually comes from mainly from North America and also pre Columbian to present. Is you know, more of a Native American uh type

right being as well, although there have been supposed you know, sightings of non Native American individuals of the thunderbird, and it is typically uh you know, it appears when there's a storm or changes in weather and it it predicts or rather as an omen for a natural disasters or upheaval. Right, yep, good old, good old thunderbird. There's a but

I like, I like it. There's like an internet picture of supposedly someone who like capt Yeah, I. Think that's been I think that's been debunked a long time ago. Yeah, it's a good picture though, Yeah it is. It's a fantastic picture. I mean, you know before AI too,

I mean it's you know, somebody, somebody put a lot of work into that, right, all right, we've got the uh, the Van Meter visitor. This is nineteen oh three and Van Meter Iowa. Uh. It was a bat like humanoid with a glowing horn. It caused local panic and it actually caused the mind to close that was in the area.

Oh the mind. I thought you said the mind at first, but I'm like, no, the mine mine. And you know, like multiple towns people saw it. It left tracks and basically just general kind of mass hysteria within that local community. Yeah. Interesting.

So it's like a bat like creature, yeah, bat like, not batman, right, not like. But but the next one on the list is the Houston Batman, a human sized batman figure with leathery wings, nineteen fifty three, Houston, Texas. Three to four witness reports there was a series of suicides and tragedies.

The kind of six and a half feet tall, so that's you know, basically as tall as me. Yeah, maybe it was you maybe. Uh, there's some local newspaper clippings out there if you can find them in Houston, Texas. A lot of the consensusus is that was probably either a giant bird or

a prank. But you know, you never know, you never know. And what what did it? What was it a harbinger of there was a series of suicides and tragedies in the area near the time that it was cited. Mm hmm. But I mean, and I'm not trying to be insensitive to suicides, but it

seems like there are suicides happening or that could happen, you know, at any time, any day anywhere. So you know, just the fact that there were suicide it's in close time relationship to this thing occurring. I don't know that's strong enough to call it a harbinger, but I don't know. Yeah, unless it's another type of convergence enigma, it could

be something to add to the list added the list suicides. You know, I got to take just a quick moment and say, Kristen has been slowly coming around to all of the stuff that we talk about and have talked about for a long time. Yeah, after you know, like I said, she came to my presentation on Saturday, and

after she was done, someone approached her and said, you two ship print, you two ship present together next time. And then when I got home, she said, I need access to your data. I need to help this out. So like some random person you know, is the one who was able to get her to want to be

in now. But I'm okay. As long as she wants to be involved, that's all I care about. Yeah, all right. Next on the list we have the. Awl Man of mal nan Ol, Maine and Monan. This is nineteen seventy six to present in Cornwall, England.

It is an owl headed creature near a church tower. It has been seen by children, couples. It often has talked about as having glowing eyes. Very similar I would say to Mothman. We'll get to We'll get to moth manon a little bit, but just a little teaser, but very similar to you know, kind of the description of

Mothman if you actually you know, as you know Stephan, if you read the books, the description of Mothman is not that of a moth but. More like a bird. And so yeah, you know, maybe maybe these two are somehow related.

Yeah that just happened to be well because of the media. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So but it is a harbinger for drownings and local tragedies, which if you think again about Mothman, I'm just gonna jump to Mothman. Now we'll jump to Mothman and then we'll come back to al Man. So mothmane a point

pleasant one, everybody's favorite, everybody's favorite, six to seven foot tall humanoid with a ten foot wingspan and glowing red eyes, silent flight. Some accounts report glowing skin as well, and it showed up before the Silver Bridge collapse, which occurred December fifteenth, nineteen sixty Seven's. E man isn't there? Then they say, people said they

saw it on the bridge right before it collapsed. Yeah, well yeah, people say they saw it like perched on the top of the bridge before it collapsed. So now that I've talked about Mothman, I can go back to the Alman and say, if the Alman is a harbinger for drownings, maybe the Mothman is a harbinger for

drownings too. It just happened to be caused by the Silver Bridge collapse. Maybe, Yeah, And what if they are one and the same? Ye? Yeah, you know, especially with now all the Mothman sightings in the Great Lakes region and around the world and things like that.

Yep. Yeah, really makes you wonder if you if you if you step like I, I haven't had a chance to talk to Uh, was it Lawns Strickler that does the phantoms and monsters? Yep, But you know, he's a he's a big Mothman guy, and he's done a lot of investigation into the sho Chicago Mothman. But it really

makes me wonder if he's actually considered considered taking the book or the original witnesses description of Mothman and using that to cross reference other large bird type sightings instead of looking at it from strictly Mothman. Yeah, it'd be be a good question to ask him next time we talk to him.

Yep. Anyways, so we've talked about al Man and we've now talked about Mothman, and this one I find incredibly interesting because of a related abduction case that we're not going to well, I might touch on it. So we've got the Pasca Goula River ghost lights. Yep.

This earliest representation of this is from the eighteen hundreds to river travelers and sailors report sightings of glowing orbs moving over the river, and it is typically associated with hurricanes and shipwrecks and so anyone who's not familiar. This is also interesting because the Pasca Goula abduction case for the same name involved two men who were fishing at

the mouth of where the river connects to the Gulf of Mexico and they had an abduction experience. All right, my apologies, Josh, I got kicked out, so if you could start over talking about I think we were just talking about the fishermen and the Pasca Goula experience. Yep. So yeah, the Pasca Goula abduction experience, which was two

men that were fishing at the mouth of where the river interacts intersects with the Gulf of Mexico. They had they I think they saw lights kind of out over the the gulf. Uh. They approached them and then they had you know, they

were they were contacted by just some really odd and strange beings that had like claw hands and like proturbances from the side of their heads. And yeah, it was just really like you know, crab people or something. Is this really but but still so it's it's interesting. I think the Pasca Googla River ghost lights probably gets passed

over by a lot of UFO investigators because they don't because of the name, they don't they don't include it. But yeah, you know, in all actuality, it may be a similar a similar aspect of the same phenomenon occurring in the same area and adds a lot of I think history and prominence to that. The Pasca Gula area

may be significant in some way. Well, you know, the Pasca Goola incident was part of a huge UFO flap in Louisiana and Mississippi in nineteen seventy three, so that was already something big going on. And maybe the lights that they saw were what say they saw in terms of the Pasca Gula River lights.

And back to back to our my statement and you know, towards the front where I was talking about laylines and stuff, Pasca Goula sits like almost directly on a lay line. Interesting, So yep, we're just finding these connections left and right. Man, yep, I'm telling you. I'm telling you that people need to catch on and stop investigating just one thing. Yeah missing,

you're missing all the other stuff that is important to see. Yep. Uh. Anyways, this next one is I know I'm gonna butcher this, the horror Verde Village disappearance. It's h o e R whoor I mean hower, I don't know it's pure here,

it's in it's in Brazil. Some more than likely. It's you know, not pronounced the way I'm pronouncing it. But in nineteen twenty three, there were no eyewitnesses to this, but an entire village vanished. Yeah, and just a chalkboard message that said there is no salvation. Man, that's creepy. That's that's a lot better than crow

a toWin. Yeah, I mean, well that that's an interesting one too. But yeah, you know that it's like a whole you know, it was a whole town abducted. Did they just all pack up and leave? Like it's just that just. Says it was about six hundred people. Man, Yeah, eaten

meals on the table's personal belongings untouched. It's like they were raptured, Like they were raptured. Yeah, no, it can't be because they said there is no salvation. Yeah, but yeah, very I mean very just bizarre. M all right.

Next to Tip on the list, we have the Crying Boy paintings, so a nineteen eighties the UK painting of a Crying child survives a fire, but then every home it goes into ultimately catches fire. That's messed up. It's a cursed object, so share with house fires and

firefighters report uncanny survivals. M hm. That's creepy, So do not buy, Yeah, this painting or a replica. You know, you know, it's really funny. We were at a like a what you call it thrift store antique store in Cottonwood, Arizona, and Kristen came across this really

awesome like mother of pearl art piece that was looked like it was really old and she wanted to get it because the grandmother always had one like it. So we got it and as soon as we got it home, I like, reik, eat it and I and I put some you know, uh sage all around it. It's like

I was like, I want to get rid of anything that might be attached to this thing. And I bet majority of people who buy things in antique stories, don't even think to do that, and they bring it home. Weird stuff starts happening in the house and they don't know why.

Mm hmm. Yep. Creepy all right. Next up here we have the encoup bless you, I thank you. It runds me of the men and tights. You know, you go bless you. So this is in.

Brittany, France, uh, in kind of the old world, so to speak. It is a spirit, it is It often appears before deaths, and it is a skeleton cart driver that collects souls. Uh. It comes when it when it comes kind of barreling along. It has creaking cart sounds uh, and is associated with deaths and plagues.

How do you spell on coup A n k o U. I'm gonna look that up myself. That's interesting. It says it's a part of the Breton folklore. So okay, I see that as a servant of death in Breton, Cornish and Welsh. Very cool. Oh okay.

So he even wields a scythe and all that blah blah blah, so very very. You know, death type. Yeah, yeah, oh, listen to this. According to one legend, he was the first child of Adam and Eve. Ah interesting yep, and so he was very interesting. I

heard it. Not to get too far off topic here, but I heard an interesting theory that that. And I hope we don't if I don't offend anybody here. But the god in the Bible, uh is Loki is Loki. I think I've heard that theory before. Yeah, something about Loki used to get the like the

fruit of Eden I d Dean or something like that kept the Norse gods alive, and one time she withheld her fruit and they all started to wither and fade away. Uh. And so that's equated to, you know, potentially the fruit of Eden Garden of Eden. So it's just, you know,

it is looking at all the similarities between all these different religions of the old it is really is really interesting. Yeah, it is is. It's and said that Zacharias Stitching apparently admitted to making a lot of his detail up. I don't know. I haven't been able to find specific cases where that's been stated,

but I've heard it from other people. But even if he did, there's still something about a lot of these religions of the world that seem to have similarities enough to support potentially a much older religion narrative origin narrative that came first. Yeah.

So anyways, moving on, we have the fetch doppel Ganger and it comes from Norse and Germanic Europe. It is a spirit double of the person who's alive and it is seen before death. Does that you follow what I said? Yeah? Okay, so and then it it is the you know

kind of projection if you will. Maybe it's an astral travel maybe. Yeah. I feel like there's movies about this too, where you see yourself before you die, like as an omen Yeah, you're doppelganger. That's I think that that's an old War two is if you see your doppelganger, you're going to die.

But it is also said that people report seeing their double right before they die, and it is, you know, potentially a psychological symbol or astral projection. I mean, it would make sense to be potentially an astral projection that that would probably be a great conversation for astral stew if it ever gets finds its way out of the

kitchen again mm hmm. Yeah, Like because this even says here Doppelganger is often portrayed as a paranormal phenomenon usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. Yep, Yeah, I saw a doppelganger of my sister, but she didn't see it, so I don't think it mean

dang bad for her. Yeah, I've seen a dappelganger of myself, not in person, but Weekly World News. There was this everybody. I came into class in college and everybody was cracking up, laughing, and they're all around looking at something and I come in and they start laughing even harder, and they're like, Stefan,

you're in Weekly World News. And there was this fat dude that looked exactly like me. I mean even I had to admit it looked exactly like me. And it says man, something about man and his hair rum. And he's got all these beautiful women around him on this large bend and it's this white du dude that looked

exactly like me, but surrounded by all these beautiful women, and they were cracking It was in Weekly World News. You're gonna have to find that picture. Now. I know, I wish I could. I've looked. I don't even know where to look. You know, you. Also, I think we're in that movie Roger Rabbit. You're

the guy trying to kill all the cartoons. I'm not the judge. You're the cartoon version of the judge. You look just like the cartoon version of the judge. I'm the one that killed job brother. All right. We've got six left, all right, so we've got phantom

funerals kind of in similar tone to the doppelganger above. This comes from Wales, Appalachia and Scandinavia, and it is a ghostly funeral possession seen before a real one. That's an old thing I haven't thought about in a long time. Procession, Yeah, written residents witness silent processions at night.

Mm hmm. Usually you know, like I said, the approaching death of someone in the community. Interesting. The next up is the black shuck slash bar a guest not it's b A R G h E s

t uh. This is from England, especially in the Norfolk and Yorkshire area. It's a large dog with glowing eyes. Sometimes it leaves burns on the on on on things. Sightings before death also linked to lightning, but yeah, death, disaster and storms are associated. It's kind of a spectral black dog, if you will. Yeah, almost like the hounds

of Baskerville. All right. Next up we have the death bird slash Awl harbinger. This is a Native American tribe, specifically the Cherokee, Lakota and Hope tribal Shamans report al cries as warnings, an alcry or shadow scene right before death associated with death

and sickness. Okay, a lot of owl stuff, just just owls are always owls have always been harbingers. Yeah, well, what's really I don't know if you've paid attention to any of the stuff from Chris. I can't think of his last name, but I'll have to look it up. He and I'll add subtext in the video. He has

had a lot of UFO experiences and they're all of his experienperiences. Almost all of those experiences are involved owls showing up before the experience. Yeah. So, next up we have the black Bird of Chernobyl blackbird who I've heard.

Of this one? Yep. In nineteen eighty six in Chernobyl, Ukraine, plant workers reported sightings weeks before the disaster. Victims later claimed to have received silent phone calls or nightmares involving the figure, and post event creature never seen again. It was described as a large, black human like creature with a ten

to fifteen foot wingspan, glowing red eyes, sometimes described as headless with eyes and chest region. This is exactly almost the description of mouthman, birdman whatever in West Virginia. Yeah, yep. Again, are they correlated? Yep? And for those that don't know, Chernobyl was a significant nuclear disaster April twenty sixth, nineteen, nineteen eighty six.

Basically the plant had to melt down and most of the area is basically uninhabitable for the next like thousand years or something. So it is one of the nuclear disasters that, you know, really I think made any talk of nuclear energy scary for a lot of the population. Yep. That in Three Mile Island, Yeah.

Yeah, all right. Next to one is the free Bird Streaker, the free bird Streaker, yep, free bird Streaker. In nineteen seventy eight, Freeburg, Germany miners claimed to see and hear shrieks they fled saving their lives from a mine collapse. Mm again a bat like humanoid emitting shrieks near a mine entrance. Interesting so again kind of you know mouth

bannye yep, yep, yep, Yes, sure either j Bird I got three three left? Okay, Cornstock bird another bird yep, twenty eleven. Uh, this is actually the I think what is often Tom's also called the Chicago Mothman. So airport security, truck drivers and park visitors report sightings of a dark winged humanoid with glowing eyes and close to and it

was seen there was various accidents and missing persons. So again it seems rather similar, rather similar, rather rather. Dan Rody and rather. Oh my goodness, all right, two I got left are not necessarily harbingers, but I left them on the list because they're interesting. Nonetheless, Phoenix lights.

Okay, hey, if the the River lights can be, so can the Phoenix lights. Yeah. So Phoenix lights for those that don't know, nineteen ninety seven, Phoenix, Arizona. Thousands of people witnessed these lights moving pretty much across the entire state of Arizona. They started up with the north part near almost like Henderson, Nevada area, moved down

you know, through the southern like from the north to the south of the state, and it ultimately kind of disappeared once they got passed Tucson. So the reason it's on the list is because of kind of just the social unrest that was caused after the event just from the number of people who saw it. And I think

a lot of that social unrest really was from a perspective of not knowing what it was and not being able to get clear answers from anybody on what it was. But still it's a kind of a psychological impact. And I mean, you and I know some people who had experiences, and I would say, and I think they would too,

that they're changed from having. The experience, right, So agreed. And the last item on the list is the Men in Black. Men in Black, not to be confused with the movie The Men in Black, originated in nineteen forties and basically witnesses after UFO sightings or contact or experiences

would often receive visits from these quote unquote Men in Black. The way they're described in a lot of John Keell's books are just incredible. Like they would ask for water, they would take weird pills, they would have weird colors to their skin. After they would drink some water, their skin would turn from like being bright red to being

more like. A pale color. But you know, there's kind of robotic men. They wear suits, they drive cars that don't have plates, or if they do have plates and you try to track the plate, it doesn't go anywhere. It's not actually an issued plate. I don't know how they get an unissued.

Plate takes yeah water. But the reason it's on the list is because they're always associated with UFO events and in some cases have been associated with investigator deaths. Yeah, yep, I totally agree with adding that one to the list. All right, So that was.

Twenty seven twenty seven harbingers or omens for the month of October. Nice, even though I thought you said there were twenty eight. I was counting the header bar with my I'm an ss sorry, that's I mean, I can we can make one up real quick if you want to.

Nope, Nope, I don't. I tried to get thirty one one for every day. Yeah, but you know it was a stretch towards the end. Well, I appreciate all your work on that. That was a lot of fun, a lot of cool, a lot of man. That gives a lot of people a lot

of stuff to look up. Yeah, so a lot of couple of you can listen to our old episodes on so. A lot of bird a lot of birdmen, a lot of birdmen. Yeah, I mean some some that's waiting for somebody, that's waiting for somebody to look at every single possible birdman, like don't don't go off of the name, just go

off of the description involving like wings or any type of bird like. Or hell does that does that bring in angel sightings potentially? Yeah? You know what's actually seen with wings? Yeah. What is always interesting to me about the description

of mothman in the in the original account is that he didn't, you know, he it didn't flap its wings to take off. It just it just went up, yeah, like, which is also very you know, biblically angelic related as well. Yeah. So yeah, maybe maybe the true winged angels of of

our culture past are birdmen. Maybe that's really interesting. Indeed, so that is the month of October the Spooky the spooky episode. Hopefully, like you said, it gives a lot of people stuff to go look up and investigate learn more about if you would like us to do,

because some of the items that are on this list could easily be a full episode. We could dive deep into the story and the experience and the encounter, and so if you would like us to do that. For any of the items in the list, drop a comment below and let us know, or if you think we

missed one, let us know. Yeah, definitely. If you know of any other harbingers, please let us know. I'm anxious to hear more so that sounds good. Man again, appreciate your research on that. I appreciate you to everybody tuning in and listening, and if you're ready, we can rock and roll and get out

of here. Manya give everybody a good spooky Halloween. So thank you all so much for tuning into the Shadow Signal podcast. I've been Stephan with a reminder to stay in the shadows and look for the. Signal, and this has been Josh. The truth is now. I feel like I need a new tagline, but I

don't have one yet, So the truth is now. The truth is now. Thank you guys so much for listening, and we'll catch you on the flip side later