Strange Creatures - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 8/20/24

then President Barack Obama in twenty eleven. Interested in the paranormal from a very young age, Eric has led the Eric Mantel Investigates since twenty sixteen, seeking out strange stories to tell, whether it's ghosts, UFO's Bigfoot, or even the dog Man. Fans of his music have eagerly followed him into the paranormal world as well, and on many investigations, Eric and his team have gotten groundbreaking video and captured

strange pernormal activity. Eric, welcome back. Have you been hey, George?

always in the periphery. And then of course, you know, when I was like fourteen, I found the music of Dave Brubeck, and you know, usually other fourteen year old kids were listening to heavy metal and whatnot. I'm listening to day Brewed Beck, you know, Oscar Peterson and Duke Gallington and all these great cats. And then went into the jazz career, but always loved the paranormal and that was I was something that was I was always fascinated with.

And like you said, in twenty sixteen, I was looking at a lot of paranormal shows on TV. And I had always been a filmmaker too. I was like film and editing, and I said, you know, I could do that. I could probably do something like that. And we started out as Bucks County Paranormal Investigations and quickly changed it to Eric and Tell Investigates because we're doing a lot of traveling all over the country and it's been an

incredible journey and we're only getting started. Just some of the stuff that we've encountered is so we're still you know, wrapping our heads around.

used to work on cars together. But when he came back into the mix back in twenty seventeen, he said, you know, I might be good on some of your investigations because I'm a spirit medium. And I'm like, wait minute, I never knew that. You never told me that. And

he has been great on it. It's like ninety nine percent of the time, right on the money with a lot of the stuff that like, I'll get a lot of the history from the people that are at these venues, whether it's a bed and breakfast or a restaurant or an inn, and I'll keep everything to myself as far as the paranormal activity goes. And when he comes into

the location, he goes right to those hotspots. So it's amazing to get that on camera and then we can confirm what he's sensing to what is actually going on as well. So he's kind of giving us a preview for what's going on and you know, in what we're in store for. So it's been amazing, and we work with Julie Krause, who is another psychic medium as well.

which is an architectural salvage company. And when we did this investigation of this farmhouse, the woman in there said that her, you know, that there was a spirit in the that she felt in the home and she really

couldn't put her finger on it. She knew it was coming from the bedroom upstairs in one of these rooms, and you know, so things like that, like we were on the investigation and we're in the bedroom where she's feeling this energy and she completely had a meltdown on camera because it was like she got bum rushed by the spirit that was in there. So things just and

like my show is completely unscripted. It's, you know, whatever whatever is going on, we're capturing that on video, whether it's ghosts or when we were out in Elkhorn, Wisconsin investigating the Beast of Prey Road and capturing what we captured on video there and Bigfoot in the New Jersey Pine barrens. So I captured what I did was in

the book. I kind of like reiterated and kind of recap what those like in short form, what those investigations were like, and what actually happened on the on the investigations and what we captured on video truly remarkable.

to see anything. I just thought that we were going to have, you know, great documentary. We're going to talk to some great people and get this really great documentary happening, never thinking once that we'd actually encountered this thing. And

the Night of October third. And I know I've said this before, but it's just some something that I'll never forget because my whole world changed that night when we heard this thing and that made a sound, that made a howl, that sounded like a man screaming in this field that we were in. It was this like low guttural scream, growl yell combination. And the fear factor was there of like what are we hearing? You know? It was like we were kind of stunned. And then what

really got me? And then what and again, George, we had no protection either. We had like a flashlight and a radio, that was it. But what really got me was when Dominic said, and Dominic was with us on this investigation as well, he said, shine the light over to where we just heard the hell We shined it over into the corn and there's two yellow eyes about seven feet up in the corn, darting back and forth, yeah, looking at us, And like that was when I said, Okay,

we're out of here. I said, and was basically saying, this is my territory. Get out of here. And so we hopped on the four wheelers and got back up up to Lee Hample's farm and we got back to the bar, and Lee couldn't believe we were back so soon. But so things like that, you know, it's not so much scared, it's like the the I guess you could say it's scared, but I wasn't scared, per se. I was more curious, like, you know, what is this thing?

What are we hearing? And you know, and you go to a point of like trying to figure out what it is. And when you cross that one line where you think, Okay, now we're getting into some territory. Who knows what this thing is going to do. I'm not going to go there because look again, we had nothing to protect ourselves. And I've had other people call, you know, message me and say you definitely need to get out there, and next time you do that, you have to have protection.

And so you know, it was just a crazy, crazy night. And then after that, a week later, after that Elkhorne investigation, we did the U Bigfoot in the New Jersey Pine Barns because we were getting a lot of reports of that bigfoot researcher that I know, Eric Spinner and his partner aren't Mack. They do incredible research of bigfoot in

the New Jersey Pine barons. No people will associate the Pine barrens with the Jersey Devil, But the Jersey Devil is I think is a misidentification of bigfoot because you know, there's always been inconsistent reports with the Jersey Devil. It's either a big wings type horse or you know, it could be small as small as a turkey or as you know, like a medium sized dog. So the reports

are inconsistent sometimes. But people have been seeing these creatures going in neighborhoods on two legs, getting the garbage and bringing it back out into the woods. So there had been and they range in sizes from like you know, four and a half five feet seven feet, so there's been a lot of juvenile bigfoot sighting. So we went down there and did an investigation, and again it was like, no, sooner do we get there. Of twenty minutes into it,

we're getting whoops and hollers in the woods. And if people know anything about the Pine barrens, it's thousands and thousands of acres of just dnse bars. And we were about five miles in on the into the barrens, and we got out of the truck and went about six hundred yards into where we set up base camp, into the woods in this area in the Wharton State Forest, and I mean all hell broke loose, like twenty minutes later.

It was crazy, and we got these whoops on video and not and no disrespect to any of the bigfoot researchers out there or anything like that. But when I was watching those big foot shows back in the day and I would hear these guys whooping and hollering for these creatures, I would always have a little chuckle and say,

is that what they really sound like? But my whole perspective changed that night when we heard when we heard the same thing so and then and then Eric's wife answers it back, and they're having a conversation back and forth, and you could hear it plain a day on our video on our YouTube channel, and Eric and Tell investigates it's called Pine Baron's Bigfoot. And then we did another follow up last year as well. But so many things, George, I mean, unbelievable.

clip down this one road. It's called Pine Lane in Whitecomb. So I'm going down. All of a sudden, a deer runs down in front of me. Boom, and I hit it and I was like, oh my god. So I slid with the deer. We're sliding probably about sixty feet and came to a stop and I felt terrible. I was like, oh my god, man, you know, I got out of the car. I'm looking at this port thing just hit it dead. And I'm looking at this thing.

And now I'm a piano player, you know, as as jazz musician, and I'm looking at this thing and it's dark, and the lights are on it. From the car and out of the woods. From behind me, I hear a woman's voice say, house your hands. And I turned around and here it was this one, this woman in white. It was like floating like white robes and flowing ropes like that kind of thing. And she moved in front

of the car. And when she did you know, when if you if someone was standing in front of the car and you get like a silhouette of that person, that's what she looked like, just this kind of blurred image in front of the car. But what really got me was when she bent down and took this two hundred pound deer by the ear and dragged it off the road like it was like light as a feather, and then turned around and said, you better get your car and get off the road.

Maybe somebody was in the woods and they spooked the steer out and that's why I hit it. But then I went back to that that part of the road. I was looking around. There was no houses anywhere. It was all nothing but woods. There's houses now, you know since then that have been that have been built, but but back then there was nothing there, and so it was something I consider her my guardian angel. But here's

the thing, George, this is the most incredible thing. Now, come to find out there is a lady in white that has been seen in Bucks County that I didn't even know about at that time. And I only found out about this, you know, maybe just a couple of years ago. But but my father also had this this encounter in the mid seventies and also here in Upper in uh Bucks County, in Upper Black Eddy with the same well I don't know it was the same thing,

but he you know, he uh. Let's state that my dad was a little bit of a partier in the seventies, let's just put it that way. And he'd come home late at night and it was about two in the morning. He swears he was stone sober this night. And so he's he's sitting on the front porch of our We had like a little house, little apartment type house, and there was we were on the bottom floor, there was

a family on top floor. And we lived across the street from the Delaware River, you know where Washington cross the Delaware. So we're in upper Black. Eddy he's sitting on the porch and he's cooking a steak on this little grill, this little habachi grill, and he's looking at the water, and all of a sudden he sees this white something or other on the water, and he's as he's looking at it's floating down the river and he's looking.

It's about a half a mile away, and he's looking at this thing and here it's he says, oh my god, it so it looks like a woman all in white. And then she turned her head and looked at him, and when she turned her head, her face came right up to his form, like a quarter a mile away. And then she turned back went and it went back to the water and as she's got floating down the river, she's saying, I'm going home, I'm going home. And he said,

you could hear these words echoing through the valley. Now I asked him, even on his deathbed a couple of years ago, I said, Dad, is did that story? Did that really happen? And he swears that it happened, And so he had an encounter with her too, or something of that nature. And I'm just getting goosebumps talking about it because it was just, you know, that's something that I had heard my entire life, and then they had that happen to me, which was which was really crazy.

And then also here in Bucks County there's a restaurant called the Black Bess in there is a story in there about a woman in white who was I guess she found her husband cheating Back in eighteen hundreds, she caught her husband cheating on her. She went out of killing the husband and the mistress and herself. And I'm wondering if there's a connection there, so that we've been looking into that as well.