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otherkinnewsTrigger warnings: Paranormal phenomena.
This month, paranormal investigator and cryptozoology blogger Lon Strickler1 posted a witness report (purportedly collected in 2009) from a correspondent named only as Dee, regarding her sighting in 1990 of short, elf-like humanoids who emerged from a portal in New York. The portal was an area of open air that shimmered like water, accompanied by a humming sound.2
Paranormal investigator Robert Goerman, of the Nonhuman Research Agency, noticed that Dee’s report closely resembled another report. As Goerman pointed out in Fate Magazine,3 the similar report was published in Philip Imbrogno’s and Marianne Horrigan’s Celtic Mysteries in New England (2000), in which an anonymous team of paranormal investigators saw bearded, dwarf-like humanoids emerge from a buzzing, shimmering portal in New York in 1992. As with the other story, the portal appeared near a group of boulders.4
As always with witness reports of paranormal phenomena, both reports could be fabrications. The many similarities between the two reports suggest that one may have been based on the other. If they are merely tall tales, it's still interesting to track elf and dwarf folklore in modern New York.
- O. Scribner
Sources
1. “Phantoms and Monsters: An interview with Lon Strickler.” 2008-12-03. In Pure Spirit. http://words.inpurespirit.com/439/phantoms-and-monsters-an-interview-with-lon-strickler
2. Lon Strickler. “Beings from the rock.” 2012-11-07. Phantoms & Monsters. http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2012/11/beings-from-rock.html
3. Robert Goerman. “Otherworld portals in New York?” 2012-11-12. Fate Magazine. http://www.fatemag.com/bloggers/otherworld-portals-in-new-york
4. Philip Imbrogno and Marianne Horrigan. Celtic Mysteries in New England. (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2000), p. 119.
This month, paranormal investigator and cryptozoology blogger Lon Strickler1 posted a witness report (purportedly collected in 2009) from a correspondent named only as Dee, regarding her sighting in 1990 of short, elf-like humanoids who emerged from a portal in New York. The portal was an area of open air that shimmered like water, accompanied by a humming sound.2
Paranormal investigator Robert Goerman, of the Nonhuman Research Agency, noticed that Dee’s report closely resembled another report. As Goerman pointed out in Fate Magazine,3 the similar report was published in Philip Imbrogno’s and Marianne Horrigan’s Celtic Mysteries in New England (2000), in which an anonymous team of paranormal investigators saw bearded, dwarf-like humanoids emerge from a buzzing, shimmering portal in New York in 1992. As with the other story, the portal appeared near a group of boulders.4
As always with witness reports of paranormal phenomena, both reports could be fabrications. The many similarities between the two reports suggest that one may have been based on the other. If they are merely tall tales, it's still interesting to track elf and dwarf folklore in modern New York.
- O. Scribner
1. “Phantoms and Monsters: An interview with Lon Strickler.” 2008-12-03. In Pure Spirit. http://words.inpurespirit.com/439/phantoms-and-monsters-an-interview-with-lon-strickler
2. Lon Strickler. “Beings from the rock.” 2012-11-07. Phantoms & Monsters. http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2012/11/beings-from-rock.html
3. Robert Goerman. “Otherworld portals in New York?” 2012-11-12. Fate Magazine. http://www.fatemag.com/bloggers/otherworld-portals-in-new-york
4. Philip Imbrogno and Marianne Horrigan. Celtic Mysteries in New England. (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2000), p. 119.
