Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about Massachusetts Monsterland.
That's correct, Massachusetts Monsterland.
Now, this article comes from dailymail.co.uk.
It's one I just couldn't resist. The title says Mystery of
Massachusetts Monsterland. A5 mile stretch of uncharted
woods where locals claim they've seen flying saucers, glowing
orange orbs and Bigfoot. The woods that line the small
city of Leominster near Boston and central Massachusetts, are a
supernatural hotbed. For decades there have been
rumored sightings of UFO's, strange glowing orbs, and even
Bigfoot earning the area its ominous nickname.
Others claim cars mysteriously breakdown and residents have
been abducted. This articles written by Alex
Hammer for thedailymail.com dated February 25th, 2024.
He says deep in the heart of Massachusetts is a spooky place
known as Monsterland A5 Mile Stretch fame for its paranormal
activity. For centuries, the Erie woods
that line the small city of Lehman Street near Boston have
been a hotbed for rumored sightings of UFOs, strange
glowing orbs, and even Bigfoot himself.
Some say these mysterious tales first began surfacing in the New
England town in the 1800s with local sharing stories about a
Berry eating based. But suspicions really took off
in the 1950s after a man claimed in a local bar that he had
encountered a monster before vanishing when he left to track
it down. Since then there have been
reported supernatural sightings and they've only increased,
earning the area it's ominous nickname and attracting Bigfoot
hunters from all over the country.
I love the fact how these things show up.
These UFOs, these orbs in these Bigfoot sightings all seem to
intersect here. Since then there have been
reported supernatural sightings and they've only increased
during the area. It's ominous nickname and
attracting Bigfoot hunters from all over the country.
It's got a map here showing the area where this stuff is kind of
headquartered at. They're just northwest of
Boston. It says the area known as
Monsterland A5 Mile stretch of force surrounded Lena Munster
fame for paranormal activity. The scene here, Yeah, a lot of
heavily timbered area you can see that looks like a little
Creek or river actually going through here, it says.
For decades there have been rumored UFO sightings, strange
glowing orbs and even Bigfoot a part of the area around the
surrounding Leominster State Park.
And you see this really heavily forested area claiming of ape
like creatures. Glowing orange orbs and car
engines suddenly going out in the area are now rife pictured
with a cast of a humanoid print found in the forest in 2010.
Now that's weird. OK, so I guess what this is is
just actually a this this is the cast and it's it's not showing
the inverse, it's showing they've got the cast upside down
for whatever reason. So you can't really tell that
it's a foot. But yeah, it's looks like looks
to be about 11 inches long. I don't know if that's really
big enough to be a Bigfoot footprint cast or not.
I thought when I first looked at this thing that it was just a
some sort of, you know, animal excrement leftover, and they
thought they'd tracked Bigfoot down through that.
But they're saying this is a cast, it's upside down,
footprint, shape thing. It goes on here.
It says Ronnie LeBlanc, 66, grew up a few 100 yards from
Lehmanster around the time the sightings first started, after
his first supernatural experience there when he was 11
years old. He has since made it his mission
to go to the bottom of the unexplained activity.
I think because these things that happened to me personally,
it's created this obsession where I need to find out more,
the author of 2016's Monsterland told CBS Boston of his
experiences in the out infamous area.
The reason it gets its name is there were sightings of Bigfoot
creatures going back to the late 1800s, he explained, before
producing a cast of a footprint he claims came from the fabled
Sasquatch. He further claimed.
What I started noticing is that there was a lot of activity and
stories in and around Leominster State Forest, which connects to
Monsterland through the power lines.
After that bit of geography, he joked that a lot of locals like
himself used to call it Monsterland, donning a trademark
trademark Boston accent to do so.
It goes back to the 1950s, he continued.
There was a gentleman that supposedly disappeared after
seeing a strange creature by Old Mill Rd.
The legend surrounds an unnamed man who entered Elena Monstra
Bar 1 summer night, visibly agitated.
When the barkeep asked him what was wrong, the man reportedly
responded, but he'd just seen a terrifying monster on the now
notorious Old Mill Rd. that bleeds into Leominster State
Forest and the surrounding areas.
He asked the proprietor to call the police, but instead of
waiting, he declared he was going to go kill the monster
himself and bring back the creature's body as proof.
But he was never seen again. When the cops arrived, the bar
manager told them what had happened, spurring them to drive
down to Old Mill Rd., his car parked by the side of the street
with his lights on and no one inside.
Balking at the concept of venturing into a largely
uncharted 4300 acre forest at night, the officers decided to
wait until morning, but the man never returned, and the case
remains a mystery to this day, with the legend helping to earn
the street and surrounding area it's Monsterland nickname.
Well, that's kind of neat. And then it has some more
pictures down here talking about this whole Monsterland area and
a little video. It says today the road still
stands and according to the walk and countless others it is still
a high of unnatural activity. Claims of ape like creatures,
humanoid footprints and car engines suddenly giving out are
now rife with several including labonic spotting, strange orbs
floating overhead. He believes the latter and the
at large beast are indelibly linked, citing other reports
that people actually spotting the monsters holding these
orange spheres. We've heard of this before.
We've heard of these these alien entities holding the spheres,
transmuting into spheres. There's some definite connection
between these paranormal slash supernatural entities that we
see and these spheres. That's my opinion.
Different objects described as flying saucers have also been
reported, with some caught on camera.
LeBlanc suspects that they are all related and claims to have
witnessed the floating orbs at least nine times over the years.
Several other sightings have been reported since, including
one on July 3rd of 2012 and almost another 10 years later on
August 13th, 2022. Both occurrences were caught on
camera and the orbs in each are eerily identical.
All the more alarming is that the strange orange objects
reminisces even from afar. Fireballs fit the description of
countless Leo, Mr. residence over the decades, including
several of whom have spoken to LeBlanc.
Now I have to I have seen these things at least once up close.
Maybe it was up in the air 40 feet or something.
Rising up. Looked to be like maybe a little
smaller than a basketball, Very like a bright orange,
translucent shape, almost like I guess you would call fireball
and can't explain it. Have no idea what the thing was.
People have seen Bigfoot holding an orb, he told the outlet
during a tour through the area in 2022.
They look like a basketball with plasma swirling around and
they're silent. I've just seen them hovering
over the sky and just blink out and disappear.
Yes, that's exactly what I would say.
And then he has some pictures here of these orbs that people
have spotted some video. We talked about these things all
the time. It it certainly fits fits the
description. It says descriptions offered by
others are strikingly similar, with the citizen who spotted 3
unidentified orbits between 8:30 and 8:45 PM in 2022 saying there
was no sound as they kept coming from a northwest mountain area
traveling SE they would all change the direction and head W
southwest as if they were programmed to all do it at the
same time. Some were faster than others and
some flew lower than others. He went on after recording the
video or after recording the UFOs over his home in South
Leominster, near so-called Monsterland.
My estimation is they were about 100 feet above treetop level, he
recalled. They would pause in formation
for a while and then break off and head West, and the others
came over the mountain area. After several minutes of
hovering in his footage, the objects disappear, the resident,
52 year old Corey Tornji added. I called over to a local police
officer that lived next door to see what these things could
possibly be, but he had no explanation either.
At least a dozen others who have alleged encounters with the orbs
also had a similar lack in deciphering their significance.
Yeah, I don't know if they're just trying to communicate with
this or if they're just like there and we're just it just
happens to be incidental to them that we're in the same area.
Definitely strange LeBlanc. However, it has a few ideas
referencing the case of late Leo Mr. resident Betty Anderson, who
claimed that on January 25th, 1967, she was abducted by
extraterrestrial aliens from her S Ashburnet home, about a dozen
miles from Monsterland. She also claims to have had a
close encounter in 1944 and Liam Minster, as did several others.
Around the time of her second sighting, which somewhat
coincides with the clips captured on film, There was a
huge UFO wave in 1967 in central mass in 2020.
Said people were seeing UFOs over ponds and lakes and there
was a lady in Fitchburg saying there are UFOs coming out of the
reservoir and we have heard that before.
When I started researching, I found out that Betty Anderson,
it's a NDREASSON, had this thing happened down on Howard Street
and Lena Minster, he added. During this time this area was
also getting a wave of Bigfoot sightings and reports from the
state police. One case, one such case,
surrounds a couple who saw a UFO over Saint Leo's Cemetery in
Leominster, a few miles north of Monsterland, in March of 1967,
and another in the 1970s, when another pair spotted a
rectangular UFO with lights by a hillside in Ashburnham.
They're looking at the saying, and they're just dumbfounded how
something so large could just be hovering silently there, Lebank
said of the Ashburnham incident. The flash of light and all of a
sudden the UFO is gone and they look at each other and the wife
notices that they have missing time about 20 minutes.
But the other thing now their car is on the opposite side of
the road. They were put back in the wrong
place. This kind of reminds me of Betty
and Barney Hill, this ball of light, this middle telepathy and
these great aliens stuff happening in the forest in
Westminster and South Ashburnham.
Well, he has more pictures here of this graveyard and also of
this area where this UFO was spotted at.
In terms of an explanation, he said there are a lot of
different theories, but the reality is something is that
something is happening. People are seeing the UFOs and
Bigfoot. They're leaving tracks.
Some people claim that they have encountered massive humanoid
footprints on the footpath at the center of Monsterland Old
Mill Rd. Near the Lancaster border where
Walmart and other businesses sit, one set of prints were
found by Bill Penning and his wife, Julie during an in during
an innocent hike in a nearby forest in July 2010.
LeBlanc helped the couple cast their prints 2 years later in
what may be the only physical evidence of the encounters,
countless others are reporting that tells me these must have
been pretty sizable prints if they were still there two years
later for these guys to be able to cast.
People who have claimed to have a Bigfoot in their sights of the
guns said they can't pull the trigger because they look too
human, he said after the pittings told him they found the
Prince. After investigating sounds and
movement coming from the forest, he continued.
I always found that fascinating and I feel like for something to
be this elusive and so evasive this long, it has to be a more
human than animal for it to do that.
LeBlanc added that the nature of the Prince and the other
sightings, this is something more alien, something more
interdimensional. 99% of these could all be made-up, but if you
have that one that is legit, this whole thing is real, then
it's a game changer and it's a paradigm shift on how we see the
world and how we fit in it in this universe, really, he
concluded. Well, that's kind of the one,
the one white crow rule I've heard said.
You know, you can say that there are no white crows, but once you
spot one of them, that disproves that.
The Pittings, meanwhile, recalled a distinctively eerie
feeling about coming across the tracks that made them flee the
area. The sensation was described by
the couple in a 2010 interview with Leominster Champion, where
it was early spring. There was a lot of brush and
berries around us, but not a sound could be heard by
anything. No birds or other animals, just
a weird feeling. Julie told the local paper of
how she was overcome. Bill, meanwhile, recall feeling
disoriented, remembering how he and his wife felt the desperate
urge to get out of the woods instead of investigating
further. I was kind of scared.
He can see it. Their count is remarkably
similar to 1 described by by LeBlanc after a strange
encounter behind a local elementary school that still
haunts him to this day. While age 12, he heard a strange
sound in the forest of Fallbrook Elementary School near a bridge
on Old Mill Rd. that still stands today.
Before they put Samoset Middle School there, there was a bunch
of tracks that would connect to Monsterland that would go to the
sand dunes where people would go partying, he said at the site,
adding that people had reported seeing strange things such as
UFOs, shadow people and balls of light.
There was one particular track I always used to avoid, he
continued. It always had a very dark,
ominous feeling to it. It would be a beautiful day and
you look down this thing and it looked dark.
One day, while biking along the trail, LeBlanc was astounded by
the stark silence. I started going down this trail
with my bike and I just could hear the bike squeaking, he
said. I noticed there are no other
sounds in the forest, Nothing at this point.
LeBlanc recalled coming to a stop.
Stuck with an uneasy feeling. He stayed silent, looked around.
At that moment, something crashed through the woods right
in front of me, he continued. I could feel it reverberating in
the soles of my feet. It was pushing.
Trees and shrubs. Went across the trail and on the
other side, but I couldn't see anything.
That's what was disturbing. Now, this is another description
of these Bigfoot moving fast through the timber.
You know, in these missing purchase cases, sometimes we
hear about these poor victims when they're found, sometimes
dead, of course, they're totally scratched up and gouged and beat
up as if they've been running through the timber, you know,
through the forest at, you know, at 2530 miles an hour or
something. And that's what it seems like
with these Bigfoot. It seems like when they move
through the forest, they just move through very fast, like the
pinnings. He fled the area, and more than
four decades later, he's still looking for answers.
He maintains that the Bigfoot sightings are linked to the UFO
sightings and other sightings across the country that coincide
with the unnatural orbs and sounds people are countering in
a forest. The forest, meanwhile, has a
history of dating back to the Native Americans, and much of it
to this day is officially uncharted.
And that seems a little strange that the small section in
Massachusetts would be unmapped. He told the Telegram of his
suspicions that the sightings here and across the country are
connected. As you dig deeper into Bigfoot,
you start talking about cloaking and the fact that they can
vanish before people's eyes, he said.
These stories go back hundreds of years where all of a sudden a
posse has this creature cornered and the tracks just disappear in
open field, Like something just came and picked it up and took
it away. Or maybe it just phased into
another dimension. You know, all these stories
start to intertwine. A lot of these people are
talking about these similar encounters that I had.
It sounds crazy, like something in science fiction, he added.
He went on Liam Minster. People know what's going on.
People talk, but they also keep their mouth shut and don't say
expletive either. So for me to write Monsterland
to actually come forward was a little bit of a risk and gamble
in the sense that people are going to think I'm crazy, he
said in his 2016 tone. Whatever Bigfoot believers with
similar experiences can contact Labac anonymously on his website
www.ronnielabac.com where he is hunting evidence to support
residence mysterious claims. Yeah, really.
A pretty cool article. I really enjoy that.
Now I want to look at one more here.
We'll finish up with this short article here from cbsnews.com.
It stated October 31st, 2022 by Jacob Wyckoff.
It says Bigfoot and Leominster State Forest question mark.
One man has been on the hunt for decades.
Deep in the woods of central Massachusetts is a place called
Monsterland. Parts of Leominster, including
the state forest, are home to sightings of Bigfoot and other
unusual activity. One man has been on the hunt for
decades. His name is Ronnie LeBlanc.
His supernatural experiences started when he was just 11
years old. I would go with friends to ride
bikes, said LeBlanc. There's a particular trail that
I would go down. LeBlanc described the terror he
felt when the forest went quiet until it wasn't within seconds
the forest. He wrecked it in front of me.
Trees, shrubs were moving. I started to feel these
reverberations in the soles of my feet of something walking.
And before he knew it, whatever startled him was gone.
Years later, LeBlanc has dedicated his life to tracking
the Sasquatch all over the country and in Leominster State
Forest. I think because these things
have happened to me personally, it's created this obsession
where I need to find out more. LeBlanc is currently featured on
the Travel Channel's Expedition Bigfoot, and he has written two
books on the subject, Monsterland.
The reason it gets its name is there were sightings of Bigfoot
creatures going back to the late 1800s.
LeBlanc has even helped cast footprints around a decade ago
on Leominster. The experience of seeing that
impression in the ground. Six footprints, something I've
seen in a lot of books of the Pacific Northwest, and here we
are in Massachusetts, he said. And Labanc now believes Bigfoot
could be linked to UFOs. This is something more alien,
something more interdimensional, said Labanc. 99% of these could
all be made-up. But if you have that one that is
legit, this whole thing is real, then it's really a game changer.
And it's a paradigm shift on how we see the world and how we fit
in this universe. Really.
Yeah. And I agree with that.
I do think these things are interdimensional.
I think it's strange how they are attracted to certain
hotspots. And it's fun to look at these
Bigfoot cases and then kind of overlay that with the UFO
reports and the orb reports and the other kind of paranormal
stuff that comes in. It all seems connected somehow
to me, maybe in ways that are far more complicated than we can
understand right now. Until next time, this is UFO
warning. Over and out.