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Men in Black

United States; foundational lore tied particularly to Albert Bender in Connecticut and Gray Barker in West Virginia

Decades before the comedy films, UFO witnesses told stories of unnervingly formal strangers who appeared after sightings and warned people to stop asking questions.

Cryptids

Mothman

The Red-Eyed Figure of Point Pleasant

Ohio River Valley

In 1966, reports of a winged figure with glowing red eyes turned a small West Virginia town into the home of one of America's strangest modern legends.

Alien Types & Beings

Nordic Aliens / Space Brothers

Not place-specific; particularly associated with American and European contactee accounts beginning in the 1950s

Long before sinister abduction stories dominated UFO lore, contactees described friendly, almost completely human visitors commonly remembered as Nordics or Space Brothers.

Aliens

Pascagoula Abduction

Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi

Two Mississippi shipyard workers said a glowing craft and three strange beings interrupted a fishing trip and carried them aboard for an examination in 1973.

Alien Types & Beings

Pascagoula Entities

Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi

Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker described three stiff, wrinkled beings with unusual head features and pincerlike hands during their reported 1973 encounter.

Aliens

Phoenix Lights

Arizona, especially the corridor from northern Arizona through Phoenix toward Tucson

Thousands of Arizonans reported unusual lights on March 13, 1997, but the famous "Phoenix Lights" actually combine two different events with different explanations.

Alien Types & Beings

Pleiadians

Not place-specific; formative modern accounts strongly associated with Switzerland

Pleiadians are humanlike extraterrestrials said to come from the Pleiades, a modern contactee tradition shaped heavily by the controversial claims of Billy Meier.

Alien Types & Beings

Reptilians

Not place-specific

Reptilians evolved from scattered serpent-like science fiction and occult imagery into one of modern conspiracy culture's most recognizable supposed alien races.

Cursed & Haunted Objects

Robert the Doll

Key West's Notorious Doll

Key West, Florida

Robert is a century-old doll with a sailor suit, a permanent stare and a reputation for moving on his own, breaking electronics and punishing disrespectful visitors.

Aliens

Roswell Incident

The Crash That Became an Alien Legend

Southeastern New Mexico

A pile of strange debris recovered in New Mexico in 1947 grew into the most famous alleged UFO crash in history and a permanent argument over what the…

Ghosts & Spirits

Shadow People

Figures in the Dark

Worldwide

Featureless human shapes glimpsed in bedrooms, hallways and peripheral vision have become a category of their own in modern paranormal lore.

Ape-Men & Hairy Humanoids

Skunk Ape

Florida, especially the Everglades and Big Cypress region; reports also extend through parts of the Southeast

Florida's Skunk Ape is described as a large, foul-smelling, hair-covered biped roaming swamps and forests, a humid southern counterpart to the Bigfoot legend.