Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the Lake MI Mothman.
That's correct, the Lake MI Mothman.
Now the article that we're looking at comes to us from
cingular14.com. cingular14.com Title says Tall, dark human like
winged being reportedly seen in downtown Chicago building.
This is written by Tobias and Emily Weiland, dated April 12th,
2024. I find these cryptic stories
very interesting, that in part because they seem to just be on
that border between the UFO phenomena and the paranormal.
Now are these things purely paranormal?
Are they things purely ETI don't know.
Maybe there's some sort of entities that are expressing
themselves to us and folklore that we might understand they're
coming across that void, perhaps presenting themselves as Bigfoot
or Mothman or or, you know, any number of these other crypted
animals in some way trying to communicate with us or maybe
even influence us. But I think they're worth
looking at now. The article begins here.
It says LON Strickler of Phantoms and Monsters recently
received the following report from a man claiming to be a
former security guard at a building in downtown Chicago.
Starts off, it, says hello Sir. In the spring of 2021, I was
working as a security employee in downtown Chicago, IL.
On this specific night at around 1:30, AMI had completed my usual
rounds and then settled into the monitor room to check the
footage. So I'm imagining this guy in
this big building, a tall building, perhaps downtown in
Chicago area, somewhere near Lake MI, and he's making his
rounds. He's checking the doors, making
sure nobody's where they're not supposed to be.
At kind of a lonely job. He settles back into the control
room to watch the monitors, just like he does every night, he
says. After about an hour, I took a
walk to start my next round. Sitting all mine can get
tiresome, and I needed to stretch my legs.
Occasionally. I would start at the ground
floor, then walk up the stairwells, checking all the
crucial points. I checked the entrances and
exits, check to see if all the offices were locked, and then I
would head back down to the ground floor.
Maybe he's just killing a little time there, just making sure
everything is the way that it should be.
When I got back to the third floor, the elevator stopped.
When the doors opened, no one was there.
I noticed the corridor lights flickering and it felt a little
creepy. When that happened, I got back
into the elevator and went to the ground floor.
When I reached the ground floor and after the elevator doors
opened, I made my way to the security room to watch the
monitors. So he's coming down from the
upper levels of this building, and it should just go straight
to the third floor or to the ground floor here.
But it doesn't. It opens up.
You could imagine being this building by yourself.
You're thinking, who in the world could be getting on this
elevator? Why is this thing opening?
But the door's open. Nobody's there but notices the
lights flickering. I have to wonder if whatever
this entity is, if it's not just kind of drawing energy out of
this building, he says. As soon as I sat down, I caught
a fleeting glimpse of something unusual passing by on one of the
surveillance monitors that was situated outside the security
room. I could have sworn that it had
wings, but it went too quickly. I got up, open the door, and
peeked out of the room. My stomach started to churn.
I could feel that something was aware that I was there.
Don't ask me why, I just had that immediate sense of
nervousness. Spidey senses kicking in.
So it's almost like this thing followed him to the control room
he says he saw on the security camera outside the control room.
That would that would really, I guess I would be in a heightened
state of awareness at that point, he says.
I returned to the monitor room. I started to review the CCTV
footage and pull up the feed from a camera.
As I watched, I saw the familiar scene of the empty hallway.
Then I observed A hazy figure materialize on the screen.
It resembled a human form, but its edges shimmered and blurred,
making it seem dreamlike. The figure floated down the
hallway. It cast no shadow and seemed
entirely devoid of substance. I continued to monitor the
ghostly figure as its movements became more erratic.
So he's watching this thing out there, bouncing around this
hallway. Very weird.
Then as it moved toward the Front Street, it began to gain a
more defined form, So we see this shape shifting, happening.
I immediately got to my feet and rushed to the door.
I walked into the hallway and quickly moved toward the front.
As I turned the corner I saw a six to seven foot tall winged
being that looked human like. It was very thin and dark in
color. The wings were huge, I'd say 15
feet in total width. When unfurled, I was in shock.
I accidentally dropped my flashlight on the floor and the
being turned and looked in my direction.
That is when I noticed his eyes illuminated with a bright orange
red collar. Then in a flash of blue light,
it vanished. It was totally gone.
It's almost like there was some kind of electrical flash maybe
where this thing is changing shape, changing from 1 dimension
to the other. We hear about this a lot in our
world. When an airplane travels past
the speed of sound, you have that Sonic boom and it's almost
like this thing is having some sort of a a visual optical boom
as it goes for maybe one dimension into the next.
I don't know. I live alone so there was no one
at home to relay my incident to. About two weeks later, I quit my
security job after finding another line of work.
More recently, I was at a friend's home for dinner.
He had other acquaintances there as well.
As we sat in his living room after dinner, a discussion
started about the Chicago Mothman sightings.
I had never heard of the phenomena, but I was intrigued
by what I heard. That is when I decided to search
online about the sightings, and that is how I found you.
I don't know what I witnessed that night, but deep down I
believe that it may be related. I'm hesitant to reveal the
location on my side and because I don't want any trouble for my
ex employer at this point. I'm debating with myself how
much information that I want to disclose.
So you you actually wonder how much of this that he's seen is
he telling us about? Strickler was unable to speak
with the witness directly, but they did exchange messages via
encrypted text. I was able to contact and
message the witness, Strickler said.
There was no telephone communication and the text was
devoid of ID and stated secured only my.
He eventually told me where his sighting occurred, but insisted
that I not release the information.
All that I will discuss is that it occurred in a building
located at the intersection of West Washington Street and N
State St. For now, the specific location
and other information will remain confidential and only
known by the Phantom and Monsters 14 research team.
This encounter suggests that these winged humanoids may be
supernatural, an aspect of this investigation that the team has
believed to be true, he said. Additional details were provided
to Singler 14 Society Investigator Tobias Whelan by
Strickler, including the Witness's first name and address
of the sighting location. Those details will remain
unpublished to protect the witness's privacy.
The sudden disappearance described above is currently
consistent with other reports, including a report from 1999 in
which a trio of witnesses said that they saw a red eyed flying
gargoyle fly between 2 pine trees and vanish.
Another from April of 2017 in which the witnesses said that he
saw a 7 foot tall winged bat reptile hybrid humanoid briefly
become a blur before vanishing, and one from April of 2018 in
which two women said they were mysteriously paralyzed by A dark
winged being prior to it vanishing into thin air.
This also contains a trend of winged humanoids reportedly
being seen in or near people's homes or other buildings.
In 2020, a woman from Cicero, IL said that she saw something huge
with demonic wings and a brief flash of bright red color when
walking past her son's room 1 summer evening.
In early 2002, a woman in Madison, WI said she saw a large
bat like creature with glowing red eyes while driving near the
Seminole Highway exit off of the Beltline.
Soon after, the woman believed she saw that same creature in a
basement storage unit, almost like this thing is stalking her.
That series of encounters also included a number of other
concurrent paranormal phenomena, including phantom baby cries and
anomalous fire, and the sound of dishes being thrown from covers,
only to be found unharmed immediately after this kind of
poltergeist activity. Also in 2002, a young woman in
Babcock, Wisconsin, reportedly witnessed a gargoyle with
feathered wings perched on the roof of her family's home.
That sighting out of Babcock is one of several wherein people
have claimed to see a winged humanoid on the roof of
someone's home. Because of its proximity to
other sighting locations, the creature described in the above
report could be related to the larger Lake MI Mothman
phenomena. Those sightings are commonly
reported within a few 100 mile radius surrounding Lake MI,
including every state bordering the Great Lakes.
The sightings substantially began in the spring of 2017, but
more historical accounts are being reported as more people
become aware of the phenomena. They generally take place in the
evening or at night, often in or near a park or natural area, and
around water. Witnesses consistently describe
a large Gray, brown or black bat or bird like creature, sometimes
with glowing or reflective. Red, yellow, or orange eyes and
humanoid features such as an upright bipedal posture are
often reported. Some witnesses have reported
feeling intense fear and an aura of evil emanating from the
creatures they encountered. Many of the sightings are also
of something seen only briefly, or are described only as a
flying creature with few details, which leaves open the
possibility that a misidentified large bird such as a Heron or
crane, or some type of anonymous avian species could explain
some, although certainly not all, of the encounters, a number
of associated high strands. This incidents have also
occurred alongside the creature sightings.
These include reports of UFOs, other anonymous flying creatures
and mysterious humanoids, parapsychological phenomena, and
bizarre events experienced by those investigating the
sightings. Wow, yeah, really strange.
Like I said, they kind of get into this paranormal area
because not only are people seeing these, but they're
associating them with other strange paranormal events that
some people think that these are harbinger of bad things to come.
Kind of almost like a a warning. Or maybe they're just putting it
out there in your face because they're not really offering any
solutions. This leads me back to this whole
this whole idea of people having contact with these UFO entities.
That some people think that they're alien ETS, some people
think they're interdimensional, but often times they have
conversations with people. They talk to people, they make
vague comments about saving the planet, but rarely do they ever
resolve anything for us. Whether this thing is some sort
of paranormal entity or whether this thing is connected somehow
with UFOs, I don't know, but I think that's definitely worth
studying. Until next time, this is UFO
Warning Over now.