Author and paranormal researcher Kevin Paul has spent decades documenting high strangeness in Greene County, Pennsylvania, widely considered one of the most haunted counties in the United States. Kevin recounts his 1974 close encounter with a cigar-shaped UFO on Temple Ridge Road, a follow-up sighting of a massive, shapeshifting owl-like craft, and a second UFO encounter with a giant black rectangle that left him hospitalized with radiation-like symptoms. The conversation moves through Greene County's stranger local history: an 1890s newspaper obituary describing a lizard man, a dragon that carried off a hunter before vanishing into a cave, a Predator-like cloaked entity, a possible werewolf or skinwalker encounter on a rural road, and years of visitations from an Iron Age Irish deity known as the Morgan. Kevin is the author of Haunted Hills and Hollows: What Lurks in Greene County, Pennsylvania, its sequel Haunted Hills and Hollows: Still Lurking in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and Politics and the Paranormal in Greene County, PA, with a fourth book, Haunts and Hoaxes in Greene County, PA, currently in progress. In This Episode Kevin Paul grew up on a farm in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and has spent decades documenting what his neighbors kept seeing there. Three books in, he makes the case that Greene County is the most haunted county in the country, and he opens up about the personal encounters that got him started. Kevin's first close encounter happened on the summer solstice of 1974, the same year he graduated high school. Driving a tractor up a hill on his family's dairy farm after dark, he spotted what he first assumed were a parked car's tail lights on Temple Ridge Road, a known local lover's lane. As he got closer, the shape and color were wrong for any vehicle he recognized: a cigar-shaped object, pointed on both ends, sitting motionless in an adjacent field with strange black lines running along its body. The following night, driving the same stretch of road, Kevin was followed by what he first believed was a very large owl. It swooped down from behind his car, centered itself in his headlights, and paced him for several tenths of a mile before veering off. Decades later, under hypnotic regression, that memory shifted: what he'd logged as an owl actually looked more like a tube with wings, roughly six feet long with a wingspan as wide as the road, colored a dull battleship gray. During that same regression session, Kevin recalled something he'd never consciously remembered: after shutting down the tractor, his consciousness was pulled from his body and taken aboard the craft, where two humanoid beings in robes, with bulbous heads and large eyes, communicated with him telepathically. They were not happy he'd seen them, scolded him for being somewhere he wasn't supposed to be, and returned him to his body before he fled the field. Decades later, commuting to a job in neighboring Fayette County, Kevin spotted three lights over the river that he initially mistook for an incoming jet. As he watched, the lights resolved into a massive black rectangle, three-dimensional and apparently hovering, with an edge that looked like a giant flying domino. Badly shaken and nauseated for the rest of the day, he went on to work anyway. Within months of the black rectangle sighting, Kevin became so anemic he was hospitalized, and a doctor told him bluntly that his condition was incompatible with human life. His iron levels took years to return to normal, and blood work he later researched on his own lined up with patterns consistent with radiation exposure, a connection doctors were unwilling to explore with him directly. Digging into Greene County's local history, Kevin found an 1890s newspaper obituary describing an encounter with a bipedal lizard man on a farm outside Waynesburg, tied to a nearby Native American burial ground. He later found independent corroboration when a woman he met by chance described seeing a similar humanoid frog creature, complete with a mouthful of pointed teeth, on that same property decades earlier. An old newspaper account Kevin uncovered describes two armed squirrel hunters attacked by a low, long, Chinese dragon-like creature that grabbed one man and dragged him toward a cave. His companion managed to free him, and a posse later smoked the creature out of its den with a fire at the cave mouth, only for most of the group to scatter when it finally emerged. While staking out a reportedly active location with paranormal researcher Rosemary, Kevin and his group watched electronics repeatedly fail before spotting a two-legged, cloaked figure that shimmered and was easiest to see using peripheral vision, closely resembling the creature from the movie Predator. Kevin recounts a report from a man on a bicycle who was paralleled by a large, bipedal, canine-like creature running through the brush alongside a rural road, later getting a clear look at it standing near a streetlight. Kevin's working theory leans toward a time slip involving a Native American shaman rather than a true skinwalker, pointing to a documented shamanic training site in the western part of the county. Kevin describes a years-long series of encounters with what he came to identify as the Morgan, an Iron Age Irish deity associated with sovereignty and warfare. First appearing in recurring dreams as a disheveled figure and later as an auburn-haired woman in old-style clothing, she eventually manifested in person on a remote work site, and again on his own front porch shortly before a freighter struck a bridge in Baltimore, delivering a warning message just before the event. Kevin confirms a fourth book is underway, tentatively titled Haunts and Hoaxes in Greene County, PA, continuing to focus on the county because, as he puts it, the stories are still there and nobody else is telling them. Best Line of the Night "What you're doing right now is incompatible with human life." The hospitalist's words to Kevin, after his blood work came back consistent with radiation exposure following his black rectangle UFO sighting. Kevin books are available on Amazon and select booksellers including Barnes & Noble. 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