Somewhere in the Skies - Just Another Tin Foil Hat | The Gitchie Manitou Marauder

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Starting point is 00:00:30 Welcome to just another tinfoil hat with your host, Zilia Edgar. Join Zilia as she walks us through some of the most bizarre UFO cases and incidents of high strangeness. Today we are going to be discussing a case which I had actually never heard of, and that is the Gitchie Manitou Marauder. So the sighting that we're going to cover here occurred on July 5th of 1976 in what was then known as the Gichi Manitou State Park, now state preserve, in Lyon County, Iowa. Now, this is actually just northwest of Granite, Iowa, and just southeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. So the case was actually reported in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. It involved four brothers of the Rieg family. In age order, they were Chris, age 11, Tom, nine, Andy, eight, and Joel, six.

Starting point is 00:01:21 Now, the four brothers were in the state preserve. They actually lived very close by, around nine in the morning. The younger two were playing in a picnic shelter when they started hearing strange noises. They claimed that the noises in question were kind of grunting noise that turned into a high, shrill whistle. They looked over in that direction and claimed that they saw what they described as about a seven-foot-tall person, standing about 70 feet away, partially obscured by bushes. Now, they said that the only part that wasn't obscured in any way whatsoever was part of the leg, which was covered in a shiny blue material. Now, as they were watching this being standing behind the bushes, the noises became louder, as though they were actually approaching the two boys. So at this point, they decided to run to their older brothers, who were about a quarter mile away, excitedly explaining what they had seen.

Starting point is 00:02:11 Now, coincidentally, the spot where they met up with their older brothers was actually the exact sight of an earlier sighting of a bizarre, glowing white dome-like object with glittery lights. The woman who had seen this object said that she had actually seen it several times over the course. course of about a month. Now at this point, with all four brothers together, the older two, Chris and Tom, claimed that they can actually see a glowing object come out from behind a large tree, accompanied by a humming sound. The boys said that this object was a glowing white, which brightened and dimmed, similar to the earlier sighting by the woman, and was about the size and shape of a large haystack. The object and the tree that it was hovering over were about 50 yards away. The boys

Starting point is 00:02:54 claimed that the object hovered above the tree, paused, and then disappeared in a southerly direction. Now, the four brothers who lived near the park said that they were actually too frightened to go back and play. Now, at this point, too, there were lots of sightings in the area. One

Starting point is 00:03:10 was this woman who was awakened by the sound of neighborhood dogs going absolutely berserk, and as she went to see what the matter was, she saw, again, a dimming and brightening white light. Later in August, there was a Christmas this tree-shaped object with revolving multicolored lights. Another man claimed a sighting of something as big as four football fields, and after hearing

Starting point is 00:03:30 about the Riege boy's sighting, actually searched the area. Now, what he found directly under where they had seen the bizarre haystack white glowing object, he found a turtle pond, for one thing. However, nearby, there were small oak trees whose top leaves appeared to have been burnt. When he returned to the site later, all of the leaves which had been burned. previously appeared burnt, had fallen off. Now, Gitchie Manitou State Preserve is as beautiful as it is interesting. And there's two things of note. One is its geological importance. There are these fantastic and very old quartzite outcroppings, as well as some of the oldest exposed bedrock in the state of

Starting point is 00:04:10 Iowa. In addition to this, its archaeological importance cannot be overstated. It has a collection of conical Native American burial mounds. Now, again, this is something that the late great Linda Godfrey talked about was the proximity of different mounds of many different times, effigy mounds, burial mounds, and sightings of the strange and unusual. Now, unfortunately, this is not the preserves only claim to fame. It also was the site of the terrible 1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, which left four teens dead and one 13-year-old girl kidnapped and raped. So some people say that because of that, other people say that, you know, that has nothing to do with it. Itchy Manitou State Preserve is, you may have guessed it, haunted.

Starting point is 00:04:54 Sightings of strange apparitions, hearing bizarre noises, just your run-of-the-mill haunting type stuff. But again, it's really interesting that you have this site that known locally is to be haunted, and then you have these bizarre UFO encounters and the sighting of this strange metallic being occurring in that same location. Now, speaking of the strange metallic being, again, it's kind of, a shame because we don't really have a great description of it. Again, these are four kids. They were very young. So you have to take that into account. However, you know, I think that it's easy to discount kids being kids, but these four brothers had made a habit of playing in the state preserve. They lived right nearby. And at the time of the article being written, they said that they didn't want to go

Starting point is 00:05:41 and play there anymore without some adults around because of what had happened. They seemed to be very frightened of it. So again, really wished that they would have had a clearer look at that bizarre seven-foot-tall being whose leg was clothed in some metallic blue material. But even without that, this is a really intriguing case. Of course, it also occurred kind of in the middle of a flap. Lots of people in the area were seeing strange things in the sky. And again, this is another case where it seems like the occurrence at large really is started by a noise. Their attention was first attracted by the noise, the grunting noises, the whistling noises. and then they saw this strange entity, as well as the bizarre, glowing white haystack-like object.

Starting point is 00:06:26 So, you know, I think that, again, we kind of see this almost priming, where it's kind of a fairly nondescript noise, or there's a nondescript light, which seems to prime witnesses to see more details in the encounter. However, I think one of the most intriguing things to me personally about this case is that if you simply change the dressings and just some of the details, it reads almost exactly like a bigfoot encounter. You know, you have these two kids playing in a state park. They hear grunting noises, which then turn into a shrill whistle.

Starting point is 00:06:56 They look over and see that pretty far away, but, you know, too close for comfort, there's this seven-foot-tall bipedal entity kind of just appearing to watch them. You know, if it was simply covered in fur instead of some metallic material, again, that is, it reads exactly like so many bigfoot encounters. Again, too, this one just so happens, though, to also include the sighting of the bizarre, glowing haystack shaped and sized object. You can keep up with whatever else might possibly be doing on my free blog at patreon.com slash just another tinfoil hat. And for today, I am Zelia Edgar, signing off. This has been Just Another Tinfoil hat with Zelia Edgar.

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Somewhere in the Skies - Just Another Tin Foil Hat | The Gitchie Manitou Marauder

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