593: Earth's Mantis Overlords | They've Been Here all Along (STRIPPED)

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Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if you felt eyes watching you, turned around, and saw a seven-foot insect-like creature? Since 2006, people fishing along the Musconetcong River in New Jersey have reported encounters with exactly that – a being that looks like a humanoid praying mantis.

These aren't just sightings – witnesses report telepathic contact and the sensation of having their memories extracted. The encounters follow a consistent pattern: electronics malfunction, forests go silent, and witnesses experience a strange humming vibration.

What's even more compelling is that mantis beings appear in ancient artwork worldwide, from 8,000-year-old cave paintings to Egyptian texts. Are these interdimensional entities that have been watching humanity since the beginning of civilization?

We examine the theories – from evolved Earth insects to extraterrestrial visitors – and the strange possibility that these beings might be using the fault lines along the Musconetcong River as a doorway between worlds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve-XooFp9-A&t=1296s

Sources:
Devil’s Den UFO Encounter, Terry Lovelace:
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The UFO Incident That Shocked Ariel School:
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Shadow People and The Hat Man:
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Liminal Spaces: The Reality In-between:
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0:00.0	Fishing in the Miscanakanan River, Brian Richter stopped mid-cast.
0:11.6	Something was wrong. The birds stopped singing. Insects stopped buzzing. The forest was suddenly
0:18.1	quiet. Too quiet.
0:24.6	Then he felt it. Eyes on his back.
0:25.6	Someone or something was watching him.
0:28.6	Brian turned slowly.
0:30.6	At first he saw nothing.
0:32.6	Then movement caught his eye.
0:34.6	Between the trees stood something impossible. Seven feet tall, at least, long,
0:40.1	thin lens, a triangular head with large black eyes. Brian thought it looked like an insect,
0:46.4	but it would be the biggest insect he'd ever seen, and it was staring right at him. Brian froze.
0:53.5	Then something strange happened. He felt the creature in his mind,
0:58.1	reading his thoughts. Somehow he knew this creature was intelligent. Then the being became transparent
1:04.7	and faded away. It didn't move. It just vanished. The forest remained silent.
1:11.9	Brian quickly packed his gear.
1:13.4	It was time to go.
1:14.8	He couldn't see it, but he knew the creature was still there somewhere.
1:19.1	And there were more of them.
1:20.9	A lot more.
1:21.5	A lot more.
1:37.3	The The Miskonikon River begins at Lake Hopicon in northern New Jersey. It winds 45 miles through the Appalachian Mountains until it empties into the Delaware.
1:42.3	The river looks ordinary, but locals know better.
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