Easter Bunny ghosts

 

While Easter is a not a spooky time, there have been many strange encounters with spirits and other paranormal events during the season. There's also been a number of people coming forward telling their stories about ghosts during Easter, especially a certain entity that is a rabbit shape. It's believed to be the actual Easter Bunny. Here are some of these stories I've found:

Elaina Maria of Michigan had such a weird experience with the Easter Bunny. She wasn't sure of the exact time but she was either 5 or 6 years old, and had woken up in the dark at 4 a.m., and saw a giant rabbit similar to the Easter Bunny. It was just there in the darkness and she was afraid so went into her mother's room. Later she went out to use the bathroom, and noticed the giant rabbit was gone. This story was from yourghoststories.com and it was followed up by other users saying they had similar experiences. Another poster called Spockie remembers being a child and seeing a shadow figure in the form of a rabbit disappearing in their living room wall. Others have posted online to say they too saw mysterious shadow rabbits. 

Many people on another site called Reddit have memories of seeing large rabbits appearing in their homes. These ghost rabbits look more like people in rabbit costumes than like actual little animals. These "rabbit people" are often silent and eerie, because they terrify the children and it happens at night when everyone else is sleeping. Source: Here.   

I've posted similar stories before on this blog about people who've seen ghosts of Santa, and more and more people are talking about this, as well as mentioning their ghostly Easter Bunny memories. This brings me to mention the Tulpa (from Tibetan "magical creation") which is a thoughtform, or manifestation from ones own beliefs. It could be a type of imaginary friend or a magical creature that shows itself. Tibetan Buddhists believe it's a person's intense thoughts bringing fantasy to life. Is this why so many people have seen Santa and the Easter Bunny?

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Mary Toft

While Easter is around the corner, I found a curious story about rabbits. In 1726 lived a woman named Mary Toft who gave birth to litters of rabbits. This was witnessed by a multitude of people in authority and Mary was often shown in labour and bringing rabbits into the world. This sounds completely rubbish, although such an event happened and it was taken seriously. Let us go into it more.

The whole country was talking about her. Scientists, doctors and the king were all amazed! Not only did Mary deliver baby rabbits once or twice but 17 times! The woman was born Mary Denyer in Godalming, Surrey in 1703. When she was 17 years old, she married 18 year old Joshua Toft, who worked in textiles. While heavily pregnant Mary had to work in the fields and this was the norm for peasant women. It was here that her crazy nightmares began. She'd suffered a miscarriage, and a doctor arrived to help her. He described this as a "non human birth", and then made a few whopping descriptions about the foetus looking like an animal. This doctor was obstetrician John Howard and he would play a big part in Mary's story. 

He contacted many officials as Mary kept "giving birth to dead rabbits". This followed up with investigations by scientists and doctors, including a Swiss surgeon Nathaniel St. André who worked for the royals, and Samuel Molyneux, a secretary for the Prince of Wales. Mary had even left her home village to be close to the doctor in Guildford where she was often giving birth to rabbits. Its now believed that she was miscarrying and those babies were kept in pickled jars by the Doctor Howard for studying. One of those jars of Mary's dead babies was taken by an official and shown to George I the king of Great Britain and Ireland. 

But it's here that Mary became frightened, when she was sent to London and exposed to a multitude of officials and noblemen who wanted to see her giving birth to rabbits. There was suggestion that she should be cut open so they can find out about her internal organs. To avoid further misery, Mary confessed that it was a hoax, and the rabbits were dead animals that she carried with her. It seemed someone had been using her, and the finger pointed at her husband and other people. She was then arrested and put in prison for a while, as she became subject of public national ridicule. Even the doctors and many other top people involved were a laughing stock to believe this. After Mary was released from prison, she went on to live her life freely. Then after she died in 1763, the church wrote of her as "Impostress Rabbit". 

Source: Woman who gave birth to rabbits article at Atlas Obscura

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Bat Beast of kent

 In Maidstone, Kent, there are are many places rich in folklore and legends, but among the most bizarre case is the one about the Bat Beast. 

On a chilly night of 16th November 1963, a group of teenaged boys were returning home from a party. John Flaxton was 17 years old, and Mervyn Hutchinson was 18, and there were also two other boys with them. They were walking along Sandling Road, when something caught their attention. A glowing egg shaped object flew quietly across the sky above a field before landing in the nearby woods of Sandling Park. They described the eerie object as a few metres in diameter. 

Moments afterwards, the shrubbery was shaking and then a strange entity emerged. It waddled on two webbed feet and looked like a hairy creature with large batlike wings. It stood 5 foot tall and seemed to have no head. It approached the terrified boys and spread out its wings, then flapped. The boys fled at once and they ran away to the nearest police station where they told officers what happened. Although the police were sceptical, they could tell that something scared the boys. 

But it wasn't only the boys who experienced the Bat Beast or the strange flying object. Another eye witness, a man named Keith Croucher, came forward to say he witnessed the glowing light in the sky over the football pitch. Also on 23rd November 1963, John McGoldrick and a friend noticed a glowing light coming from the woods of the park, and later he discovered unusual footprints in the area where the boys saw the Bat Beast. While there was something weird going on at the time in that place, it all mysteriously stopped. 

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Phantom ghost towns

 

While there are many abandoned ghost towns known as tourists attractions, there's also actual phantom towns that are impossible to visit because they come and go. I plan to discuss just a few individual towns that are simply ghosts. I shall mention 3 of them here.

1. Ong's Hat = This is a weird place. It's located in Pemberton Township, Burlington County, on Magnolia Road, off from New Jersey's motorway, Route 72, that crosses with Route 70, with only shadows of what was a busy town. The town itself was where a farmer, Jacob Ong, used to journey there while travelling from Little Egg Harbour to Burlington. Ong's Hat was a town where he stopped while transporting goods. He spent his time in a hut that he made there so he could spend the night there. The town Ong's Hat appears on maps even one dating back to 1778. It consisted of a dancehall, houses and shops, but there's no trace of the population. What remains are some signposts and a few empty rotten old buildings. A married couple moved into Ong's Hat a long time ago but vanished without trace. An unidentified human skeleton was discovered in the bushes there. 

2. Urkhammer = There are many creepy stories about this town that behaves like an apparition. Described by many who claimed to remember it, Urkhammer was a bustling lively town that thrived but now it simply isn't there. Located in Iowa, along Route 41, the town of Urkhammer appeared on a census carried out on it in 1920 with a population of 300 people. In 1929, newspaper Clarion-Sun Telegraph, mentioned Urkhammer as a site of two strange events. The first being that a plane flew over Urkhammer and took aerial photos of it, showing the place empty and overgrown. The second was about a motorist who stopped at an Esso petrol station in Urkhammer, to find after leaving the town a couple of miles he ran out of fuel. He wanted to walk back into Urkhammer to get a refund from the petrol station, but he could never reach the town, even though he saw it. Another motorist helped him but the experience was unsettling. A mysterious woman named Miss Fatima Morgana wrote to the same newspaper weeks later, claiming to be a resident of Urkhammer and said it wasn't a ghost town. In 1932 a group of families camped near Urkhammer, while a couple of the men decided to enter the town to purchase food and drink. They reached the convenient store but found their feet passed through the steps. Frightened, they returned to their campsite and insisted that they leave. Iowa State Police wanted to clear the rumour up of Urkhammer, but once they reached the town's sheriff office, they found it was not really there. A farmer from the 1930's remembered the town of Urkhammer from his childhood,  who wanted to visit the place again, only to find nothing except fields, rotting wooden fences and a rusty bath tub. 

3. Langville = A town named Langville in Montana was a place that turned out to be a complete mystery. Many believe Langville was a true town, that lots of people claimed it was an actual place where visited or even lived. Google Maps had an entry for the town with Google Street View images revealing streets and houses of Langville. Then during the 2000's the town disappeared without trace. Some claim this was simply an urban legend and never existed at all. The pictures of the Langville streets on Google show a place that can't even be identified! Many sceptics argue it's all a marketing ploy and just an urban legend. Others bring up the Mandela Effect and it's explanation for the town disappearing. 

Links and sources:

Ranker's Vanishing Towns

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Irish werewolves

 

This is March and almost St Patrick's Day, so I want to bring up the subject of the Irish werewolf legends that I briefly mentioned a couple of times in the past on She Wolf Night. Werewolves of Ossory, a folklore stemming from Medieval times, believes that these are descendants of a mythical king, who became shapeshifting warriors. They thrived until one day Saint Patrick arrived to spread Christianity, and the Ossory werewolves refused. Their punishment was to roam the woods as starving wolves, and fail to return in human form, after some time had lapsed. They hunted on human prey. There are different versions told about the Ossory werewolves HERE at Wikipedia.  

Faoladh and Conroicht are Irish words that basically mean werewolf. It's believed that these werewolves are benign guardian spirits who protect children, the wounded, and the lost.  

Tipperary werewolves, attached to this location in Ireland is the story from Coir Anmann, about a man called Laignach Faelad who could turn into a wolf. His descendants also were wolf shapeshifters who enjoyed the taste of human flesh. They were warriors who behaved like berserkers or Ulfhednar. They were prominent during the reign of Tigernmas, an era found in the mists of legend. More about this HERE at Medium.

It must be mentioned that in 1999 there was a reported sighting of a mysterious wolf seen at the road between Newpoint and Rearcross in Tipperary. The eyewitnesses said this creature had glowing red eyes and appeared to be where a man once stood. Also in 1913 in a quiet lane in Ballymacward, two boys heard growling coming from behind a wall, and they found a strange man with an animal's head. Wolves became extinct in Ireland during the 18th century.

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Cryptid news March

 

This subject has enabled me to post anything new that I come across about cryptids, so each month I will begin discussing as many stories as I can find that have been happening. 

It's believed that a mysterious large animal was filmed in Kerriemuir, Angus, in Scotland. The video clip was made by a woman who filmed an unknown beast prowling through the grass near her home. She described it later on as resembling a huge cat, "I felt it was bigger than any cat I have seen" she told the Daily Mirror. To watch the clip from the original article at The Daily Mirror site: HERE

Now another clip from Massachusetts, where the region is nicknamed "Monsterland". This is a very old nickname that stems from a legend of Bigfoot creatures living there and reportedly seen since the 19th century. A certain place called Leominster State Forest is featured in a video clip about Bigfoot investigating. To look at it, go to Mail Online article HERE.

In Oklahoma are strange stories of a "Thundercow" mysterious creature, often seen but never captured or tracked down. The sightings sparked the legend as many claimed to have seen a cow wandering around Lake Thunderbird, while many didn't believe it. This video clip shows a cow near the lake, while many believe it's just an ordinary cow, some like to think this is more mysterious as the cow is only active at night, and disappears. Here is a report made on Yahoo! Finance showing a short clip of the subject HERE.  

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