During the Vietnam War, there are accounts of U.S. helicopter gunners being equipped with experimental red tinted night vision glasses, sometimes referred to as Dicyanin glasses. Unlike standard night vision, these supposedly didn’t just enhance visibility in the dark, they revealed something else entirely.
According to these stories, when looking through the lenses, soldiers began seeing strange, hostile entities in the sky, things completely invisible to the naked eye. Some reports claim the encounters were so intense that gunners opened fire at targets no one else could see.
What makes it even more interesting is how closely this idea mirrors the 1988 movie They Live, where special glasses reveal a hidden reality layered over our own.
There are also similar claims outside of Vietnam. One story out of Russia describes a man who allegedly came into possession of a fragment of “UFO glass,” and only when looking through it could a hidden object be seen in the sky.
Filmed on location in Vietnam, this piece explores where these stories originated and how they’ve evolved over time. Whether you see it as psychological warfare, experimental tech gone wrong, or something far stranger, it’s definitely a story worth diving into.
I know this falls into the realm of conspiracy theories, and I’m not claiming any of it is 100% true. I’m just sharing a story that’s worth being retold.
There are many visitors throughout the years have claimed to have seen a very tall man lurking around. One witness said she thought he was part of their group at one point because he kind of followed them from room to room. Another said they kept seeing this super tall man out of the corner of their eye. Now there's finally a photograph of this entity lingering in the old hospital.
This image in the movie genuinely scarred me as a kid because I thought it was real. Overall fantastic movie from start to finish
Alfred Léonard Loewenstein was a Belgian financier and third richest man in the world at the time. His business interests ranged from a company providing hydro-electric power facilities to developing countries, to a purported drug deal made with American racketeer Arnold Rothstein.
The two planned to vastly increase the supply of heroin to the United States, and in so doing create an international drug ring throughout Europe and the U.S. In 1926 he founded a company called International Holdings and Investments Ltd., which raised vast amounts of money from wealthy individuals keen to invest in the business of such a successful man. However, by 1928 they had seen no return on their investments and were rapidly losing patience in Alfred.
On the evening of 4 July 1928, Alfred left from Croydon Airport to fly to Brussels on his private aircraft along with six other people. While the aircraft was crossing the English Channel, Alfred went to the rear of the aircraft to use the lavatory. In Alfred’s aircraft, a door at the rear of the main passenger cabin opened on to a short passage with two doors: the one on the right led to the lavatory, while the one on the left was the aircraft's entrance door.
When he had not reappeared after some time, Alfred's secretary went in search of him, and discovered that the lavatory was empty, and the aircraft's entrance door was open and flapping in the slipstream. The employee (along with the others on the aircraft) asserted his belief that he had fallen through the aircraft's rear door and plunged several thousand feet to his death in the English Channel.
A fishing boat spotted a decomposed corpse floating near the French coast. It was identified as the body of Alfred Loewenstein thanks to various clothing items. His widow Madeleine arranged a private autopsy to determine the cause of death. The examination found no signs that could indicate foul play or suicide. However, a small amount of alcohol was detected in his blood, which is odd considering Alfred never drank.
The strangest thing about how the whole incident was handled is that there was little effort to get to the bottom of what had happened. An official inquiry, in which no one was under oath, concluded that Loewenstein’s death was accidental. That conclusion was in great part based on the testimonies of Donald Drew (the pilot) and Robert Little (the mechanic). Both men insisted that the exit door was easy to open and that it was entirely possible for Lowenstein to open it by accident. As we will see later, the veracity of this claim will come under intense scrutiny.
So, was it just an unfortunate accident? This seems highly unlikely. As you would expect, the airplane exit door was not as easy to open as the pilot and mechanic had claimed. In fact, numerous tests to check the door’s stability were conducted in the weeks following the incident Some even involved men from Accidents Branch of the British Air Ministry throwing themselves at the entry door at an altitude of 1,000 feet! The door withstood the weight with relative ease. The conclusion was clear and simple: No one could have fallen out of the plane by accident.
Who wanted to harm Alfred Loewenstein and why?
Have you ever heard of the Fresno nightcrawlers? If you have do you think they are a unknow creature, alien or just a hoax?
The doll was originally owned by a local Key West painter and author Robert Eugene Otto. The Otto family was quite wealthy and made sure Robert had everything he ever wanted as a child. When his grandfather was on a trip to Germany in 1904, he purchased the doll as a birthday gift for young Robert. The doll was manufactured by Steif the popular German toy manufacturer that invented the teddy bear. The doll was never mass produced or meant to be sold. It was designed to be used as a window display and not as an actual toy.
Little Robert loved his birthday present. He immediately became attached to the doll and named it Robert after himself. He dressed the doll in one of his old sailor suits and the two went everywhere together. I’m sure many of you remember a toy, blanket, or a stuffed animal you did the same thing with as a child. It was you and your beloved toy against the world.
It didn’t take long before people started to notice that there was something strange about the new doll. Robert would talk about the doll as if it was a living being. Servants in the family’s home would often hear Robert in his room alone having conversations with himself in two different voices. One night, Robert’s parents woke up to the sounds of furniture being overturned and their son screaming for help. They found Robert curled up in his bed surrounded by overturned furniture with the doll sitting at the foot of the bed staring at Robert.
Not long after, strange things began happening around the Otto’s home. Items would frequently move locations and toys would be broken. Robert would proclaim that the doll did it, but his parents thought he only had an over active imagination. They assumed Robert was going through a mischievous phase that he would eventually grow out of, but he didn’t and things around the house got worse. Things began happening when Robert wasn’t home. Sometimes it appeared like the doll’s expression would change, or that they would see it move out of the corner of their eyes. They started hearing the doll giggle and sometimes running upstairs. The doll enjoyed staring out the large upstairs windows, watching what was going on outside the street below. People passing by claimed to see the doll moving from window to window when they looked up at the Otto’s house.
The incidents continued as Robert grew up. Once a plumber was working at the Otto’s home and kept hearing the laughter of a child. The plumber was working alone and each time he would hear the creepy laugh he would look up to find the doll had moved to a different a chair upstairs. Robert eventually left home without the doll to study art in New York and Paris. Robert’s parents stored the doll in the attic until Robert returned home to Key West with his new wife Annette.
Robert fixed the doll its own room on the top floor of his parents old home. He made sure it had everything it needed, because he didn’t want it to feel neglected or lonely. Robert’s wife soon grew to resent the doll. She hated being second to a doll. Local legend insists that Robert would spend his days locked in the doll room he created spending the day painting with his best friend. Eventually, his wife made him store the doll back in the attic when she threatened that it was either her or doll. The constant grief of having to choose his wife over his life long friend is what some believe ultimately led to Robert’s death in 1974. His wife died two years later and the Otto house was sold to Myrtle Reuters who owned the home for the next twenty years. The house came partially furnished, including the dolled that remained in the attic. During the time she lived in the house she would always hear odd noises coming from the attic and she would constantly find items misplaced in her home.
When she finally found the doll and learned its history, she truly believed it was haunted. She donated it to the Martello Museum where it has stayed on display perched in a glass box still wearing its sailor suit clutching a stuffed lion. Employees and visitors have claimed to have seen the doll move. His smile has been known to quickly turn into a scowl. Some employees believe the doll will get out of his display at night. Sometimes when they come into work, they find him in a different position or with a fresh layer of dust on his shoes.
Word of the haunted display quickly spread, and visitors came from all over to get a glimpse of the haunted doll. Many claim electronics act strange around the doll. They believe that you must write a letter asking permission to take pictures of Robert. You must respect the doll. If you fail to ask permission, he will put a curse on you or any naysayer who mocks those who don’t believe in him. Those cursed, have experienced broken bones, car accidents, divorces, job losses, and all kinds of misfortune.
Some believe there is a darker origin to the doll. They think Robert may have been created by one of the Otto family servants who was mistreated. She cursed the doll and gave it to their young son to torment the family for the rest of their lives. Others think the doll is the result of voodoo rituals and that it is drawn to other voodoo figures. If you are visiting Key West you can stay at the Otto’s old home where this story all began.
Jim Carrey's dramatic change in appearance has left many wondering if this really was him at his most recent appearance at an award show that he was honored at. Maybe he had to be replaced or retired after being so outspoken his interviews about the behind the scenes of Hollyweird and the occult and he was finally silenced.