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S20 Ep18: Galaxy black entities, strange animals and a disembodied hand (Sn. 20 Ep. 18)

Monsters Among Us

Thu Dec 11 2025

Summary

Monsters Among Us – Season 20, Episode 18: Galaxy Black Entities, Strange Animals and a Disembodied Hand

Published: December 11, 2025
Host: Derek Hayes

Episode Overview

This bone-chilling episode of Monsters Among Us features an array of true, first-hand accounts relayed by their original witnesses. Host Derek Hayes guides listeners through tales of grief-stricken shadow masses, haunted hotels, elusive cryptids, faceless entities, bizarre animal sightings, and truly inexplicable phenomena like a disembodied, crawling hand. The show maintains its trademark blend of respectful storytelling, skepticism, curiosity, and spooky nostalgia, covering paranormal experiences from North America and beyond.

Key Discussion Points & Notable Stories

1. The Grieving Shadow Mass — An Ontario Encounter

[02:57 - 06:55]

Anonymous caller from Ontario, Canada shares a story from the night her mother passed away at home. While heading to the kitchen at night, she glimpses a “black mat, blacker than black…just this kind of a blob in the living room, right where she had passed. This dark, dark mass.”
- Quote: “It was just like this…blob just there in the living room, right where she had passed, this dark, dark mass.” (Anonymous, 04:23)
Later, her brother (sleeping in the basement below the living room) wakes her, unable to sleep due to “a black mass seeping down into my room, coming from above”—the same area.
- Brother describes it with “like sparkling, like a stardust swirling within that dark mass.”
Both experience strong feelings of dread and unease. The brother theorizes it may have been a “portal.”
Derek’s reflection: Wonders if it was a shadow entity, a manifestation of their mother, or something else entirely. The “glittery effect” particularly intrigues him.
- Quote: “Despite the explanation and the details about the glittery effect the Shadow had, that really had me intrigued.” (Derek, 07:18)

2. The Glen Tavern Inn – Haunting and the Disembodied Arm

[09:39 - 13:53]

Bird from Los Angeles recounts a stay at the historic—and notoriously haunted—Glen Tavern Inn in Santa Paula, CA.
Room 207 (below room 307, famously haunted by the beheaded prostitute “Rose”) is the setting. Bird’s husband awakens to find what seems like her arm “sticking straight up in the air under the covers.” Swats at it—only to find it’s a pillow, unnaturally propped.
- Quote: “He claims he woke up to something and what he believed was my arm sticking straight up in the air under the covers…only to find it was my king size pillow propped up perfectly straight under the COVID [sic] stiff and kept a blanket up like a tent.” (Bird, 13:08)
After using the restroom, he returns: the pillow is again upright, this time with the old, soft pillow impossibly stiff.
Derek: Adds a local investigator’s lore update—phantom laughter, footsteps, objects moving, and the legend of “Rose” haunt the inn. Suggests visiting for firsthand experiences.
- Quote: “Guest and paranormal investigators have reported ghostly children laughing in the halls, phantom footsteps, objects flying off dressers, and eerie voices caught in recordings.” (Investigator Sammy Ruiz, 14:32)

3. The Pennsylvania Presence – Olfactory Bigfoot?

[17:06 - 23:18]

John from Pennsylvania tells of a 2017 hunting morning—strange silence, overpowering “wet animal” odor, hair-raising fear and the intense sensation of being watched.
- Quote: “Then I got hit in the face with this odor…it kind of smelled like a wet animal, wet dog, something of that nature…the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.” (John, 17:54)
He refuses to look; after the feeling passes with daylight, he leaves immediately—giving up his hunt.
Derek’s theory: Classic Bigfoot—sightings often accompanied by foul odor and a sense of being stalked. Adds regional context—Pennsylvania is 12th in reported Bigfoot sightings in the U.S.
- Quote: “After all, the creature is said to have an intense stare and even emit a low frequency that can stun prey and predators alike. And everyone knows that personal hygiene is not high on their list.” (Derek, 20:06)
Related BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization) case: Only three miles away, same week, hunter and family experience unthreatened deer and spot a “seven to eight foot tall, reddish brown” Sasquatch trailing deer. Chicken and duck mutilation also reported.

4. Disembodied Voices in Tennessee – The Name Called

[25:28 - 27:40]

Seven from Tennessee (gas station worker, 2003) hears his own name “whispered loudly—like right in my ear” while restocking at night. “Jumped up” and searched the store, but found no one and the doors never chimed.
- Quote: “This is so loud, I actually jumped up…looked around, thought, okay, somebody just snuck up on me…no one.” (Seven, 26:05)
Seven mentions having audio pareidolia, but never such a direct and clear call of his name.
Derek: Emphasizes how disturbing proximity is in “disembodied voice” phenomena.

5. Hexagon UFOs Over Massachusetts

[29:04 - 33:36]

Mary from Virginia (event in Massachusetts, 1990s): While riding in a car with her dad and stepmom at dusk, both witness a large, low-flying, hexagon-shaped craft “with lights blinking,” a rear vent with “pulsing magma-like glow,” and a complete absence of sound. Mary’s scientifically minded dad refuses to ever discuss it.
- Quote: “It was hexagon shaped and it was very big…vent on the back of it that had this pulsing glow that was coming from it, like it was magma.” (Mary, 30:24)
Years later, learns of another local man who’d seen a similar “hexagon” UFO in the same area repeatedly.
Derek’s research: Finds another official UFO report (Haverhill, MA, 2009), again describing a “thin hexagon, two times the size of an airplane, with flashing, color changing lights,” validating Mary’s story.

6. Underwater Cigar UFO in 1950s Nicaragua

[35:40 - 40:05]

Maria (from Central Florida, father’s experience, 1956 Nicaragua): On farmland at the mouth of a volcano’s crater lake, Maria’s father and a farmhand see a cigar-shaped, metallic craft quietly surface from the lagoon, hover “making absolutely no sound,” then submerge again.
- Quote: “It kind of came out of the water, hovered above…almost at the top of the crater a little bit, and then just went right back down and went back in the water.” (Maria, 38:12)
Years later, Nicaraguan military personnel confirm other local sightings. Maria speculates it could have been a secret craft, but nothing matches the shape or behavior.
Derek: Places it in context with USO (unidentified submerged object) phenomena—bringing in other worldwide underwater UFO hotspots.

7. V-Shaped, Illuminated, Flapping “Wings” Over Quebec

[43:21 - 46:59]

Jessica from Quebec: While outside at night for a smoke, she and her husband witness two V-shaped, illuminated “wings” moving with a “mechanical, flapping motion,” high but not airplane-high, then a second identical shape appears in tandem. Neither saw a body; movements appeared both biological and unnatural.
- Quote: “They were both flapping and moving away from us. And we just watched them in total awe, having zero clue what it could be…didn’t look like a drone…looked like an animal, but illuminated, mechanical, jerking motion.” (Jessica, 45:06)
Derek suggests possible candidates like a large bird, paraglider, ornithopter—none fit. Invites audience help.

8. Faceless Woman – Michigan Doppelgänger

[48:05 - 51:46]

Eli from Michigan: Regularly sees, both in dreams and waking, a benign but unnerving “faceless woman” in a red dress and white apron sitting at his bedside, glowing in the darkness and patting the bed as if to comfort him. At a sleepover, a friend describes an identical apparition.
- Quote: “She had long black hair, like a red dress with a white apron…when she turned to me, she had no face, like no facial features at all. It was just like a blank slate.” (Eli, 49:01)
Derek: Notes these “faceless entity” reports are more common than some think. Wonders if it’s a failure to manifest or an inherent attribute of the entity.

9. Idaho’s Moose-Goat Hybrid Creature

[53:14 - 55:20]

Anonymous from Arizona (event: Idaho): While hunting with his father, both spot an animal with “the body of a Himalayan tahr, very furry, like a muskox, but the head of a moose.” Caller is familiar with local wildlife and is certain it was none of the endemic species.
- Quote: “They had the body…like a Himalayan tar…but it had, like, the head of almost a moose…This was something I had never seen.” (Anonymous, 53:16)
References similar feral animals in New Mexico, but none in Idaho or brown like the creature seen.
Derek and Editor Connor recall a season 19 call: witness in Alaska describes a moose-bodied beast with a “distorted, almost burned” human-like face, antlers of a caribou.
Derek links the stories, finding no zoological answer but noting the recurring, regionally consistent descriptions.

10. Secret Story: Disembodied Hand Crosses Kansas Road

[64:16 - 66:19]

Caden from Kansas: Driving siblings home at night, the trio see, illuminated by headlights, a crawling disembodied human hand, which moves across the exit ramp and into the ditch. All were shaken, and never discussed it with family.
- Quote: “We literally have to wait for this thing to cross as it just walks in front of us across the exit ramp and into the ditch…we were just completely freaked out.” (Caden, 65:31)
Derek: Jokingly offers tarantula as an “explanation”—otherwise, “nothing else out there” fits the sighting. Calls it “something straight out of Netflix.”

Memorable Quotes & Moments

“What do you suppose this was? One of those shadow entities, a portal, as our caller's brother suggested? Or could it possibly have been mom back for one last visit in the only form that she could muster?” (Derek, 06:55)
“This is so loud, I actually jumped up … it actually made me physically jump up.” (Seven, 26:05)
“It couldn't have been a plane. It was hexagon shaped and it was very big.” (Mary, 30:24)
“He claims he woke up … to what he believed was my arm sticking straight up in the air under the covers.” (Bird, 13:08)
“I saw what looked like a V-shaped big pair of wings moving in this like kind of mechanical way…almost like it was an animal. But also this illuminated mechanical jerking motion.” (Jessica, 45:06)
“She had long black hair, like a red dress with a white apron…and she had no face, like no facial features at all.” (Eli, 49:01)
“I slow down and we literally have to wait for this thing to cross as it just walks in front of us…[it] was a disembodied hand.” (Caden, 65:27)

Notable Segment Timestamps

[02:57] — Ontario Black Mass / Shadow Entity
[09:39] — Glen Tavern Inn haunting (Bird’s call)
[17:06] — Pennsylvania cryptid/Bigfoot encounter and follow-up
[25:28] — The gas station disembodied voice (Seven)
[29:04] — Hexagon UFO, Massachusetts (Mary)
[35:40] — USO sighting in Nicaragua (Maria)
[43:21] — Mechanical flapping V-shaped lights (Jessica, Quebec)
[48:05] — Faceless woman apparition (Eli, Michigan)
[53:14] — Idaho strange animal/Moose-tahr hybrid (Anonymous); followed by Alaska doppelgänger call [57:11]
[64:16] — Secret Story: Disembodied hand in Kansas (Caden)

Closing Thoughts & How To Share Your Story

Derek wraps up with gratitude for listeners and encouragement for others to share their true, firsthand paranormal stories. He also teases the aftershow (“in the Beyond”) and promotes official podcast merchandise.

Tone & Language

Genuine, curious, ever-respectful of experiencers, with moments of wry humor and gentle skepticism as is Derek’s style. Stories are delivered in the callers’ own words wherever possible, lending authenticity and emotional weight.

Summary Takeaway

Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, episode 18 of Monsters Among Us Season 20 offers an engrossing journey through unexplained phenomena—across grief, fear, awe, and the boundaries of our collective understanding. From shadowy corners of the afterlife to the elusive denizens of woods and sky, listeners are reminded: the world is far stranger than most dare imagine.

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Maria (1:51)

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Derek Hayes (2:24)

Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us. I am your guide, Derek Hayes.

Derek Hayes (2:32)

Hello friends. It's great to have you with us for another intriguing installment. We have a real barn burner lined up for you tonight. Plenty of the weird, the strange and the unusual. And that's exactly where we're gonna start here this evening with a peculiar call from an anonymous source north of the border.

Callers (Ontario, Bird, Jessica, Amanda, Mary) (2:57)

Hi, I'm calling from Ontario, Canada. I'll stay anonymous. My story has to do with the passing of my mom. She passed away in our home. She had cancer and she fought bravely for many months. But eventually she passed away on a hospital bed that we had downstairs in our living room. The night that she passed they ended up taking her to a type of morgue. But she had passed away and she stayed in the house for a little while. We had family come and pay their respects and so that night I ended up sleeping upstairs in her bed. I just wanted to, I guess, feel close to her. So I went to sleep in her bed. Sometime there during the night, I got up and I went to the kitchen. And so to get to my kitchen, you had to go down some stairs and then to the left. When you finally got to the main floor, if you looked to the left, that was the living room. Straight ahead was the kitchen. And as I was passing the living room, I glanced over to the left and I saw what.

Mary (29:04)

Hello, Derek. My name is Mary and I'm calling from Virginia. However, even though I'm calling from Virginia, my story actually takes place in Massachusetts. This is Outshore. That's the area between Boston and the Cape. And this took place in the 90s. I was a teenager at the time, like an older teenager. I was in a car with my dad and my stepmother, and it was about dusk and we were driving to my mom's place where my dad was going to drop me off. Suddenly my dad's like, what's that? I see something in the sky. I look out the window and I think it's like a low flying aircraft. At first, however, my dad's kind of spooked. And the thing is, my dad is not an easy to spook type of guy. He has, like a background in science, so he is very skeptical about these things. But it scared him enough that he pulled over, he got out of the car, and my stepmother can see it because she's like sitting next to him. And I'm in the back. I can't quite see it. She's like, tommy, please don't go. Don't go out there and look. My dad was just like, I want to know what that is. So we got out of the car and he starts staring up at the sky. I can't get a really good look at it. So I get out. My stepmother is protesting, but I want to see what my dad's looking at. As I get out, I see. At first, like I said, I thought it was an aircraft, but it was not a plane. It couldn't have been a plane. It was hexagon shaped and it was very big. And I could see kind of some lights blinking, which is why I thought it was a plane at first. But I knew it definitely wasn't a plane because of how low it was flying and how big it was. And also there was this like vent on the back of it that had this pulsing glow that was coming from it, like it was magma or something like that. Something just slowly glowing, like switching from glowing red to glowing orange and back again. That really frightened me. But I couldn't stop staring at it because I really wanted to figure out what it was. And my dad was just kind of frozen in disbelief himself. And we just watched it and it kind of hovered over us for a little bit before it headed on. We couldn't hear anything. Then we saw it just kind of disappear below the tree line. So we got in and my dad didn't mention it. He didn't talk about it. He never mentioned it again. And my stepmother started to, but my dad cut her off and we just kind of drove on. I always still think about that UFO to this day. I could never tell you what it is, and I still think about it. My dad never mentioned it. My dad passed in 2016 and I kind of wish I asked him about it, if he ever figured out what it was. But I think since he couldn't explain it and figure it out, he preferred just to kind of ignore it. But I'm kind of the opposite. I kind of wanted to know more about it. There is a redux to this story. Like a part two. I was just visiting with my brother over the weekend and I was telling him about this because I never told him about this UFO story before. And he grew white when I told it to him. And he said, that's very strange that you tell this story. And I was like, why? And he's like a friend of mine, this older guy. He owned like an independently owned store down the harbor. And apparently this older guy said that he believed in UFOs. He had seen three UFOs in the same area from the time he was a child until he was an adult. And he saw it three times and it was always near the beach. Where we were was kind of near the beach. It wasn't quite on the beach, but it was near the beach. And he had said that it was hexagon shaped.

Maria (35:40)

Hi, my name is Maria, and I'm calling from central Florida. But this story actually belongs to my father, and it takes place in the country of Nicaragua. My father was about 12 years old, so this would have been around 1956. So it was a very long time ago. This occurred on a farm in Nicaragua that belonged to his family. So a lot of what would happen is when school would get out and they would go on vacation, a lot of, you know, my father's cousins, their parents would send them to his aunt's farm to go work and kind of spend vacation. And they would go and they'd do a lot of stuff on the farm. And on this one such day, he went out with a wagon and A mule. And one of the workers on the farm, who was an older gentleman, probably in his late 40s, and my father was 12 at the time. And they went out to the property. His aunt actually happened to own quite a large amount of land. And right next to the farm is a large inactive volcano that has a lagoon inside in the middle. It's actually called Apoyeke. And they actually happen to own half of that volcano. And so they used that very fertile land to plant things, and they also used it for their cattle to graze, which is one of the main things that they had on the farm. And on this day they took the wagon, they had to go up the side of the mountain up to the very top. I've actually visited it myself. Once you get to the very top, you can kind of look down and you see a large lagoon in the middle, just like a lake, you know, very beautiful. So my father on that day, I would say was around the afternoon, early afternoon, there was still plenty of light, and they were cutting plantains up there at the very top. And my father says that him and his companion saw a craft emerge from the water and kind of hover very quietly. It made absolutely no sound from what my father says. He said it was kind of cigar shaped and it kind of came out of the water, kind of hovered above, you know, almost at the top of the crater a little bit, and then just went right back down and went back in the water. And I think at the time, I don't Even know if UFOs were even a thing that people talked about, especially in a Latin American country in the 50s, they would have had a very limited amount of, you know, technology news. So my father is actually a very educated man. He's very well read, and he says to this day he's not found any kind of aircraft and books that would resemble what he saw. He says the closest thing in terms of behavior would be like a stealth aircraft. It kind of hovers quietly, doesn't really make a lot of sound. He says that's the closest thing in terms of behavior. But in terms of look, cigar shaped, all metal, no real markings, nothing to really identify where it was from. Several years later, I would say around the 70s, he did have a conversation with some military people from Nicaragua who he shared the story with. And they happened to mention that they had several other military people, you know, witness that sort of thing in and around the area in some parts of Nicaragua. So they're not exactly sure. I'm not sure if it's some kind of like advanced aircraft that existed at the time, maybe belonging to the United States. Maybe they were concealing it, maybe looking for some rural areas to conceal it. I'm not sure that's entirely possible. I just know that him and his companion both witnessed that. And to this day, my father is not really sure what kind of craft that was. Thank you and keep up the good work. I really love your podcast and I'm glad I have a place to share all these crazy stories. Bye.

Callers (Ontario, Bird, Jessica, Amanda, Mary) (43:21)

Hi Derek, it's Jessica. I live in Canada, in Quebec, kind of in a rural area in the Gatineau park area of Quebec. I'm calling today because I heard a story where someone had reported seeing something like a translucent bat. And it was the first time I was kind of excited about what me and my husband had seen four or five years ago. So I thought I would tell my story and see if it was at all close to the same sighting. So my husband and I were visiting my parents in Ottawa, Ontario and they live in a, you know, not a suburban area. It's like quite city esque and an older neighborhood. And we were both smokers at the time. So we went outside after dinner with our drinks and we went out in the backyard, a tiny backyard, you know, close to all the other backyards. We sat out and had a cigarette and chatted. It was around probably 10:30pm, really nice night, not cloudy, fairly clear. I didn't notice it was windy or anything, although it's been a while now so I can't remember too many details. And as we were chatting about God knows what, I look up to my left above the horizon like beside my parents neighbor's house and I see this, what looks like a V shaped big pair of wings moving in this like kind of mechanical way. Like they're flapping but they're like illuminated. I couldn't see really a body, just the wing, like the way you would like draw arches for a seagull. And I saw them and I told my husband, hey, do you see that? Like what is that? Is it a drone? And we look and he's dumbfounded and so am I. And we're just to going kind of looking at it. It's kind of shaky, flapping, mechanical, very high up in the sky, but not high enough where it would be like plane height, I can't gauge, maybe, you know, 100ft, 150ft, I don't know. And it was moving away from us and then all of a sudden another one appeared right beside it, kind of in tandem. And they were both flapping and moving away from us. And we just watched them in total awe, having zero clue what it could be. Didn't look like a drone. It didn't look fully mechanical. It looked like it was, I don't know, almost like it was an animal. But also this illuminated, mechanical jerking motion. I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen anything like it again. And we both looked at each other and thought, hmm, this is definitely a ufo. I'm kind. So I did tons of research to try and find any, like Google description that might be the same. And I couldn't find anything at all that looked UFO wise like anything we had seen. And it was only when I heard that story about the translucent bat sighting that I thought, oh, that's kind of really similar to, at least visually what we see. I don't know if the motions were the same, but certainly visually sounded really similar. And when I saw the picture, I thought, okay, from far away, that's probably really similar to what we were looking at. So that's my story. I hope it's useful. Thanks again for everything. Have a great day. Bye.

Callers or Contributors (supporting Bird's story and others) (48:05)

Hi, my name is Eli. I've been a long term listener of the show, like literally since I think season one. But I have been recently catching back up. So I'm in season 19 and there's been a couple of stories about faceless entities and I wanted to call in my own story. So I'm from Michigan and I Live downriver. The house that I lived in had, I could not even count how many odd happenings, ghost sightings of everyone who visited. But the one that I'm going to talk about today is the faceless woman. I would see both in dreams and when I was awake. It was always a very benign kind of experience, but it was very odd. The most notable time that I ever had anything happen, I woke up at night and I slept in the basement of my parents house. So it was always very dark and pretty cold as it was. But I woke up from a dead sleep for whatever reason and sat up and looked around trying to see if maybe the dog was making a sound or somebody had done something in the house and they didn't see anything. But when I turned to the other side of my bed, there was a woman sitting there. She had long black hair, like a red dress with a white apron. And even in the moment, I thought it was very odd that I could make out all these details because it was so dark. But when she turned to me, she had no face, like no facial features at all. It was just like a blank slate of where a face should be. And her whole appearance, all of it seems to glow. Like I could make out all these details despite it being very dark. And she just kind of turned and looked at me and then patted the end of the bed as if like to tell me, go back to sleep like you know you would do for a kid. Like you just pat the pillow. For whatever reason I did, I just laid back down and went back to sleep. And I would have never thought to tell this story except for a couple years later at a sleepover, all of us were telling scary stories. You know, we were watching the horror movies and telling scary stories that we had experienced or whatever. And one of my friends told the exact same story. They said they woke up one night and there was just a woman sitting on the bed. Explained her the exact same same way. Long black hair, red dress, with a white apron and no face. And I thought that was so weird. So I had to tell them that. And then hearing these stories be told Both in season 18, I think episode 47 and season 19, I don't remember what episode. I just thought it was very interesting that this was something that occurred to a lot of people. So I just wanted to go ahead and share my story. Keep up the awesome work. I hope to continue listening to your podcast for many years to come. Thanks.