The Gurning Man For Monday Mystery...!

It's been a while since we had a good mystery on here, so let's change that this morning.

When something like this happens to one person, it can be passed off to dreaming or seeing things oreven ma vivid imagination. However, if more than a single sighting of something like the Gurning Man is noted, there must be more to the story.

The Gurning Man

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In the 1970s, several women in Glasgow, Scotland, reported a strange and terrifying phenomenon. A man who appeared to be in his fifties had started harassing them in a weird way.

One woman reported seeing the man sitting at the end of her bed when she woke up around midnight one evening. The man, later dubbed the “Gurning Man,” grinned at her while rubbing his hands up and down his chest. Yelling for her husband to wake up, the woman was astonished to find the man had disappeared without a trace.

Two teen girls also had a run-in with the Gurning Man one night as they were walking home. They both reported seeing an extremely skinny, bald man dressed in what looked like a leotard standing underneath a streetlight. As the girls passed him, he gave them a weird grin but didn’t speak. When they looked back, he was gone.

Seventeen complaints were filed between 1976 and 1979, six of which stated that the Gurning Man was inside the complainant’s home. Most of the reports also stated that the man seemed to be extremely agitated. To this day, no one knows who he was or why he behaved so strangely.

I picked up this story from the folks at Listverse, so any inaccuracies can be reported to them...OK?

Coffee out on the patio this morning, before it gets too warm.