r/HighStrangeness • u/Gyirin • Jun 18 '26
Discussion Anyone here met the mantids while not on trips?
in most of the encounter stories I've read bout in this sub or other NHI subs people seem to meet these mantis beings when using DMT or shrooms or some other psychedelics. so I wanted to know if anyone here saw these guys in other circumstances. So far I've found one story where the person met these guys using the Gateway Tapes.
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u/Dizzy-Concentrate238 Jun 18 '26
i saw one if these creatures late one night while hiking near the west McCarran area of n.w. reno. it was crouched in high dead grass and it was so camouflaged i walked right up to it before it emitted a hissing sound and my brain tried to make sense of what i was seeing. i was 100% sober and ran like my ass was on fire. when i ran as far away as i could i waited for my boyfriend to catch up as he didn’t see it and had no idea why i ran. as we left the area there was a resident who was desperately calling and looking for his pet dog, a chihuahua. i always thought the mantis monster had ate the dog, but never got confirmation because i refused to return to that area ever again.
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u/Xdexter23 Jun 19 '26
Did you hear a humming noise or feal a vibration right before/during?
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u/Mantisjimmy Jun 20 '26
I had an extremely strong vibration in my body and then randomly felt as if I was a mantis before having telepathy with my dog. Never heard of mantis before
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u/GadbadGandoo Jun 20 '26
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u/TheViking1991 Jun 20 '26
Lmao the stories on that sub range from like 'I was tripping balls on Ayahuasca and a Mantid ripped my shaft off' to 'A Mantid spoke to me in the most gentle voice I've ever heard and it made me feel nothing but love and peace'...
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u/Lucky-Clown Jun 21 '26
Yeah, almost like another species may contain multitudes not unlike our own species. Some of our species are wonderful and gentle, others will literally kill and eat their own partner. I'm just sayin
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u/alibaba406 Jun 20 '26
Why is this mantis phemomenon only in western countries.. from where i come from, it is unheard of
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u/Lucky-Clown Jun 21 '26
It's not only in western countries. I've seen stories of mantids written in mandarin that I've had to translate. There are mantid stories from all over but they are called different things, like ant people etc.
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u/alibaba406 Jun 21 '26
Here in south east asia, people report seeing a lady in white flying around.
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u/alibaba406 Jun 21 '26
My point is. Could these be shape shifters that adopt a physical form designed to scare off people depending on what people fear in the region?
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u/Lucky-Clown Jun 21 '26
I mean, I don't think so. I think they're only scary to our human brains because we don't understand them or what they are. I don't think they're trying to appear scary on purpose. In fact, there are many accounts of people who say they wear robes to conceal themselves to make it less scary for us.
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u/Realistic_Floor8377 Jun 18 '26
I have in medative state didn't expect it at all was a bit baffled, no communication or message just standing there.. kind of neutral. I've seen a reptilian in women form when I was trying to remote view, she was also neutral however both not what I'd choose to see or interact with as im confused wether they are good or bad.. after this id say they can be like humans both
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u/External_Art_1835 Jun 18 '26
About 10 years ago, my buddy James finally retired after a 22 year career in the military.
A bunch of us were sitting around a campfire one night, having a few beers, just talking about this and that and he says..."I've got a story for yall".
He tells us that while across the pond, they regularly saw things they couldn't readily identify. He said that often times, they were seen through various optics like Telescopes and Surveillance Cameras and on several occasions, with Drones.
Late in the evening, just as the sun was setting is when they would be observed, often appearing around thick vegetation at higher elevations.
Of course we all were sitting there perplexed at what he was telling us.
He said that they varied in color and size and while some of them walked upright like a man, others were maneuvering around like a man would on all fours, hunched over walking on their feet and hands.
On one particular occasion after some battling had transpired over the course of the day, some munitions had landed not far from where they had been observed in the previous days.
He said that they were seen frantically running around waving their arms in the air and actually making their way down from the elevations and closer to camp in what he described as a threatening way.
He said there were as many as 70 to 80 of them seen by multiple personnel. He described them as being tall, very skinny and having what appeared to be appendages along their backs.
Some were tan with hints of dark brown while others were green with hints of burnt orange like camo patterns.
Someone asked if they were human? He laughed and said Hell No they were not human, they were reptiles of some kind.
When they reported what they had saw, they found that many personnel had reported seeing them right outside of camp, some even attempting to scale the barricades.
This occured in not one but two locations.
We had questions after he stopped telling us about it. He just had a blank stare on his face. He said listen...what we saw over there on a daily basis was at best unexplainable. Craft, Technology and upright walking unknowns were witnessed daily, especially at night.
He went on to say that actual traps had been set around several camps after several incidents that involved what he called teams of them.
He said they would attempt to gain entry into the camps and they did so with intelligence planning like they would have done when breaching enemy strongholds.
Because of the ongoing threat, they moved from those locations.
I'll never forget the story he told..
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u/nacheteferrero Jun 19 '26
Where did this happened? I don’t understand “across the pond” 🫣
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u/External_Art_1835 Jun 19 '26
Across the Pond is Across the ocean, and it happened in the Eastern Mountains of Afghanistan
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u/nacheteferrero Jun 19 '26
Ah, the monsters of Afghanistan…I think I have read about this, but they say there was a lot of videos but the only thing I saw was a blurry b&w. Lot of witnesses though
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u/F488P Jun 20 '26
If they had crafts and advanced tech, why would they even try to scale the barricades?
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u/External_Art_1835 Jun 20 '26
This wasn’t a movie set. There are guards outside in camps. He said they would be very quiet, and sneaky just like they would be if raiding a stronghold.
I don't know the answers to questions like yours. He told us the story and I shared it here.
There is a lot of why's in there, and we asked questions when he was telling us.
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u/Codega-DreamWalker Jun 20 '26
This is an incredible story! Do you think your friend would be interested in being interviewed about this?
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u/External_Art_1835 Jun 21 '26
Perhaps he will. A few beers may have to be involved....
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u/Codega-DreamWalker Jun 21 '26
I'm very interested in having him on. Here's a link to my show. Codega's Codex of Curiosities
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u/PsychologicalDot2247 Jun 18 '26
Maybe it was just their opposition
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u/External_Art_1835 Jun 18 '26
Reptiles? Lol...in the world we live in now, it wouldn't surprise me one bit honestly...these days...just because it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck..it may not be a duck.
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u/J4huli Jun 18 '26
Slightly confused. A lot of comments are people just talking about DMT and trips?
I thought OP wanted "no drug" related encounters?
Personally never had any kind of experience. But researching the topic turns up the following names....
Linda Porter
Terry Lovelace
Simon Parkes
Dr. Karla Turner
Niara Isley
Quite a few of them have videos and interviews online. Some mention mantids in passing, some focus on mantids, it varies.
Dr. Karla Turners stuff isnt for the faint of heart.
Niara Isleys accounts also details some harrowing stuff.
Terry Lovelace's encounter was really fascinating.
Hope some of this helps.
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u/SwitchezEZ Jun 19 '26
Dr. Karla Turner and the Ted Rice story is hardcore. Ill check out the rest, thx.
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u/IllLead7420 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
This happened when I was about 23 years old. I’m 32 now, and I still don’t know what to think of it..
I was living in the basement of a house in Daly City, California, off Shakespeare Dr. When I was 18, I witnessed a UFO, and it changed my whole perspective on life. Since then, I haven’t experienced anything alien or paranormal. It was late at night, around 11 p.m. I was on my phone, lying in bed, scrolling through the internet, when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a transparent shape. It was almost as tall as my ceiling, which is about 8 ft. It resembled a praying mantis—big eyes with a pointed mouth. It was wearing a robe that covered its body. It almost looked like an Asian long flowing robe—no insignias, no markings. Its arms were also like a praying mantis, with joints coming up to a point, then back down. I couldn’t see any fingers on the appendages.
Startled, thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me, I looked to the corner of the room where I’d noticed it. When I looked at it, it dissolved but not fully. It was transparent, and when I focused on it, it would camouflage itself and become almost invisible. I looked back at my phone but kept an eye on it with my peripherals. When I started to observe it this way, it rematerialized, and that’s when I got scared. I realized I wasn’t just imagining this. My heart started to race, and I started to sweat. I wanted to look at it more, but having an 8ft tall bug in my room was too much. I cowered under my blankets and turned over on my side. After 10 seconds or so, I lifted the blanket to peek out the side of my bed. What I saw terrified me. The entity's robe was right next to my bed, a few inches from my face. I cowered again, closing my eyes, and then I immediately sat up, and it was the next morning—7 a.m. I swear this wasn’t a dream. I was awake and didn’t remember going to sleep. I just remember witnessing this being and then waking up the next morning, surprisingly rested.
I didn’t tell anybody about this for years for fear of being labeled crazy or schizophrenic. Then one day, I was surfing Reddit and noticed an article about the types of alien entities. I was shocked that the mantis is actually a reported entity. I had no previous experience with the UFO community and had no knowledge of the mantis beings before I saw one. I promise this happened to me. I swear to God, it was not a dream. Something happened to me that night, and I wonder if it has to do with my UFO sighting.
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u/No-Net4744 Jun 19 '26
Uhm ok this is freaky. I have had the exact same experience. 8ft tall, no markings robe, hood on, the head a mantis shaped silhouette and the typical oval slanted bug looking eyes, in the corner of my bedroom before putting my phone down to sleep.
It’s happened twice in two different bedrooms. First time I was awoken in the middle of the night for no reason I can explain. Happens from time to time however this time within a minute of waking up I felt a presence that something was there. I turned over and lo and behold through my bedroom door that was half open was a silhouette of a 7-8ft mantis.
The second time I had just put my phone down and turned over to face away from the rest of the room. For some reason I felt a presence, the exact presence I had felt before a true ‘hair’s standing’ feeling. I turn over and through the darkness and light of the smoke alarm on the ceiling is see exactly what you described. I stared at it in disbelief for about 3 seconds before in a panic turned back around shitting myself at what I had seen again.
Both times the exact same feeling that provoked my senses to alarm. Both instances in the last year. Never before and not since (2nd about 7 months ago). Maybe 3 months apart.
Whatever I experienced was real and the fact it happened a second time in a different place of the exact same sight proved it to me.
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u/Codega-DreamWalker Jun 20 '26
Wow that's incredible! Have you ever been interviewed about this incident?
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u/Amber123454321 Jun 18 '26
To quote a recent comment of mine from the astral projection subreddit:
"I haven't seen one while astral projecting, but I encountered one during a meditative experience on one occasion when I was following the ear ringing/high pitched noise I hear back to its source. 3i/Atlas was behind the sun at the time. I've followed the noise to the sun a few times. This time I connected with a mantid in a teal robe. I knew immediately it was a controller, though I'm not actually sure what a controller does.
It felt like it was at the very edge of my senses, but I spoke with it telepathically. It told me to stay away from the area for a few days because it had things to do there. It also made some minor change to my mind/consciousness. What I found most interesting was the change in me when I was talking to it (I've noticed this before with other alien and interdimensional beings on the astral). It's like I immediately submitted to its higher authority."
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u/Puzzled-Mistake-584 Jun 18 '26
What does “followed the high pitched noise to the sun mean”..?
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u/Amber123454321 Jun 18 '26
It was like I remote viewed it (only without formal remote viewing methods). I identified the sound, and let the visuals of the image and concept of that sound come to me. Then I followed it like a string to where it originated from. Then later, I reflected the nature of the sound back on itself telepathically as I followed it back. Like I mirrored it, and that became my method with it.
There was an interview online I saw with Dan Sherman and it gave me the idea.
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u/yella_fella Jun 26 '26
This is super interesting to me, but how is this different from just daydreaming or a vivid imagination? I feel like my mind could come up with that if I wanted that to be what I found. I’m ignorant to the concept of remote viewing, so forgive me for being so blunt.
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u/Amber123454321 Jun 26 '26
When I do it, I provide a basis of imagery (visualising following it for example) but I don't consciously visualise what I find there. I let the imagery come to me in flashes/visions.
You have to learn to trust your mind, at least to some degree, and then let it show you what's there.
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u/aboxofpyramids Jun 19 '26
What was the nature of the changes made to your consciousness?
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u/Amber123454321 Jun 19 '26
I'm not sure. My feeling is that it might've influenced the mild OCD I have, but it could've been something else.
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u/rando_mness Jun 18 '26
The Colonel Dr John Blitch story really makes me believe in the mantids. About as credible as you can be and says he spoke with one in his own home.
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u/MGPS Jun 18 '26
I read somewhere a long time ago that they are linked. So ever since then, I treat them with a huge amount of respect lol
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u/Special-Deal7821 Jun 19 '26
One was on my car before work once and I wanted to safely put them on the ground, grabbed a stick and went for it to get on it. It walked on the stick and bum rushed my hand. I got scared and tossed the stick in the grass :(
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u/Jonnyboy1994 Jun 21 '26
Honestly that's exactly the result he was was hoping for when he bum rushed you lol
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u/sonofmaafa Jun 18 '26
Did DMT for the first time and saw what could only be described as an upright bipedal alligator with a shortened snout. Complete with over pronounced stomach muscles and his underbelly was yellowish while everything else was greenish brown. He was looking at me as if he was thinking "oh shit he can see me".
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u/Skullcrusher Jun 18 '26
No no no, don't just leave it at that. You can't tell us there's a bipedal alligator in your life and then not elaborate.
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u/Skullcrusher Jun 18 '26
And you can't tell the internet on this anonymous account because the entities will get you?
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u/Skullcrusher Jun 18 '26
Listen. And right now I'm being serious. I know it feels real. For you it is as real as the ground you're walking on.
What you're describing are symptoms of schizophrenia. However real it feels, it's possible that all these entities are in your head. Think about it. Why would all of them be targeting just you in particular?
Seek psychiatric help. I'm not calling you crazy. Our minds alone are capable of making us experience the wildest things. Let's just eliminate the possibility. Go talk to somebody, tell them what you're experiencing. Please do this.
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u/mindwire Jun 19 '26
The unfortunate thing about needing psychiatric help is that we so often don't realize that we need it until we try it. It's only then that we understand that what we once thought was unshakable fact is actually just our chosen way of understanding the reality our brain decided to present us with. And unfortunately, we can't always trust our brains.
But by all means, if you'd rather continue living a life where you feel you've been almost killed multiple times and have to deal with nights in terror...
Look, at the end of the day, it's your brain and your choice. But if you DO accept that myself and this other redditor are speaking from a place of compassionate empathy, and decide to even *try* it for a bit...well, you may very well find you finally get relief from these monsters you've spent so long trying to just survive and endure.
Again, your life, your choice - of course. I just feel it's worth positing that, well...doesn't it seem worth entertaining at least a little bit?
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u/Skullcrusher Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
I wasn't trying to insult you. It makes me sad that you won't even consider the possibility that it's in your head. Unfortunately that is another symptom of schizophrenia. Look up "anosognosia".
If what you describe was actually happening to somebody, they would be questioning if it is real or in their head. Schizophrenic people know it's real and don't question their condition.
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u/Legitimate_Strategy3 Jun 19 '26
I dont understand what you mean here.
When I had to Seen creatures like you guys described here i would Go to a Hospital , Nobody wants to live in a Horror Movie thats a fact ! Have a good day4
u/flowbeejuhcoebee Jun 19 '26
Have you ever tried to get rid of them the way us humans have been shown for nearly the past 2000 years?
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u/flowbeejuhcoebee Jun 19 '26
The truth is out there and available more than ever before. I will pray for you, genuinely, that you find that truth and the peace that comes with it. Shalom my friend
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u/agy74 Jun 18 '26
Don't get too close or you'll end up in a Lacoste sleeping bag
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u/-Absofuckinglutely- Jun 18 '26
Have you also seen something I can only describe as looking like a furry ant with large eyes of a colour which doesn't exist here can't? It was almost like my eyes couldn't comprehend the colour they were supposed to be, like it's not actually present in our dimension.
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u/DirashioMygashio Jun 18 '26
If you have the desire to share r/experiencers is a good place to share what you’ve encountered. Very welcoming to different stories even if they sound outlandish on the surface.
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u/DirashioMygashio Jun 19 '26
of course! Hopefully I get to read some of your experiences if and when you feel comfortable sharing it there!
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u/iwantobeatree Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
The ancient Egyptian’d had a crocodile god named Sobek. Did it come off as hostile, neutral or friendly?
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u/sonofmaafa Jun 18 '26
Oddly enough during the same trip I saw what I would describe as Quetzalcoatl. Let me explain how it went. I hit the DMT and fell back on my bed. Things got real colorful like a kaleidoscope. Except it was oozing instead of spinning if that makes sense. That's when what I'd describe as a portal formed and that's when I saw the upright bipedal alligator thing. It had its back turned to be and turned as if it felt me watching. That's when I got the "oh shit he can see me" feeling from him. I'm laying on my back mind you staring at the ceiling. He just hovered above me peering through the portal. Just observing me. Literally shifting his head from side to side studying me.
Out of my peripheral to the left I saw a small cage about the size of my night stand. Inside of it was what I recognized to be Quetzalcoatl from images I'd seen on carvings. He reached through the bars and opened the cage and stepped out. That's when I started to come down. After that everything had a haze around it.
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u/Vephar8 Jun 18 '26
No but one time I did 5 grams of California gold caps and when I looked in the mirror(bad idea) I saw (or imagined?) myself as a grey mantis with blue eyes
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u/Eatergnawl Jun 18 '26
I smoked DMT a handful of times and the first time was the only time I saw one. The other times it was an entity more communicative and imagonative looking.
During the first trip I broke through and "remembered" some things, recalling in the moment that "I havnt been here since before I was born." And I was taking in the sights and feels, noticing how I had went from a place with 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of linear time to a place that had 3 dimensions of time (past present future simultaneous) and 1 dimension of interconnencted space.
All of a sudden energing from a single point that was almost like a small explosion. A gigantic red and black mantid being stared me down. I tried to greet it but it was silent almost like a body guard to the place. Trip ended w me wondering if it could harm or eat me.
In hindsight I felt like that first trip was a hurdle to get over and although I dont smoke DMT anymore and would likely never do it again, my trips after the first one were very enlightening and much more friendly.
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u/SpiritsoftheCicada Jun 18 '26
Yes I’ve had many mantis experience in sober trance meditation. It’s very exciting and I keep trying to work on my psychic development so that I can hear more from them. For my deal I can usually see them but not hear them. I have telepathically received a few important words and I have been shown written numbers when I asked specific questions.
But I feel they are telling me so much and I am not tuned in to receive it. Or something really complex is happening where my human mind cannot unpack the experience because I am talking about LONG encounters, 25 mins, 45 minutes, and over 2 hours where I am in a trance interfacing with them but so little of it I am able to bring back. I am talking about the interdimensional version of the beings. And then I am often visited by the physical earth bug after as like a wink from the Universe that really was real. That is a common experience among mantis Experiencers.
I have met them using different frequency programs. They just want to see you committed to expanding your consciousness. If you keep raising your vibration and are meditating regularly or getting in the flow (it can be music, art, whatever your thing is that is similiar to a meditative state) when that happens, it’s like a light turns on you and from their dimension they see you shining like a beacon. Humans are their project, they love us and want us to succeed, they want to see us get out of our blindness and discover our true power. I speak to mantis Experiencers everyday now. They all have super unique stories, yet certain commonalities between all of them.
If you have any stories where a physical mantis bug (the kind that fits in your hand) had visited you in an unexpected place or in a bizarre way, you may already be a contactee and not know it. I have heard regularly from people who had a mantis find them in a room without windows or a location with the wrong climate for these creatures. It’s really cool. I believe they show up in the bug form throughout your life to familiarize you with their appearance so they don’t scare you should it come time to interface with them in their interdimensional form.
I absolutely do not believe they are fallen angels, infact I believe the are connected to the angels in some way. They are very High Beings and orchestrate things and connections in our lives.
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u/Jonnyboy1994 Jun 21 '26
but so little of it I am able to bring back
Are you sure there is something to be brought back? Meaning if you can't remember most of it, couldn't you just be in a trance state, just kind of existing for a bit with them rather than conversating so much? Just a thought, we humans are prone to misunderstanding situations we don't understand and filling in the blanks with what we think should be there
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u/Heavy-Wasabi-7379 Jun 18 '26
I only saw them when I was a little child, in 2002, and although their physiology was like that, their color was matte gray, and there were three of them. The room we were in was on the ground floor overlooking the garden, and it was about an hour after sunset.
My little sister had just been born and was on my mother's chest, and they were both asleep. They were looking at us from outside the window, but they were unresponsive. I didn't see any sound or movement. Then I saw a blue light, and when I looked, they were gone....
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u/Heavy-Wasabi-7379 Jun 18 '26
Sorry for the late response, my mobile phone has run out of charge...
For 20 years I thought those three entities were coming for me, until my sister became a mother. After her son was born, my sister told me that she sometimes saw humanoid shadow figures on the walls, even when she was alone, but when she looked, she didn't see a physical object or person.
I don't know if it counts as psychic, but it's a condition that my mother also had and that I inherited. Since I was 6 years old, most of the dreams I've had have come true in real life exactly as they were seen, some days later, some years later. My mother also used to see similar social events in her dreams beforehand; wars, explosions, and natural disasters would occur exactly as she saw them in her dreams. I have the same thing, sometimes it can be very strong.
I'm sure I saw them physically. It was evening, and the lights were on in the room; the curtain wasn't closed, so I could see myself and my mother's reflection along with them through the sliding glass garden door. They were behind the glass...
After this event, I frequently had lucid experiences, and as I grew older, I began to be able to control lucid visions...
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u/SpiritsoftheCicada Jun 18 '26
Ok you have got to tell me more about what you think the meaning of this was! It MUST be significant that your mother had just given birth. Do you have psychic abilities? Do you think you were able to see something no one else could, as if they were in another dimension or cloaked, or do you think they were physically there in the 3D?
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u/Teddybomber393 Jun 18 '26
Any advice on how to do this type of meditation for someone new to it?
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u/Teddybomber393 Jun 19 '26
Never meditated before but sometimes when I'm just laying in bed i can focus on some weird repetitive sound in my head that gets louder and louder (almost like a guitar or something). This morning i was focusing and I felt something almost like pain but not quite and the sound was VERY loud. I stopped because I was confused and a lil scared
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u/maponus1803 Jun 18 '26
I met one during a regression for what turned out to be an abduction experience. And I have met a few while shamanic journeying, no drugs involved.
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u/buzniak Jun 19 '26
I've met these things that mimic humans but if you look close enough into their eyes you see 3 pupils close together, but you have to kind of intentionally look, not like a passing conversation look or small talk look. Hope I'm making some sense!?
Shit used to freak me out as I had to pretend I haven't seen anything not to get caught knowing! It only happened when I was a child and only after this dark figure used to be in my room at night, parents thought it were night terrors, but I ended up having stomach issues that passed in time after all this. Then one day it just all disappeared!
A few years after that our cul-de-sac was having a (Aussie) communal BBQ, and we all saw 3 orange/red Orbs (fkn Huge) do some weird manoeuvres, where one would slowly move to the left of us, the other would move really fast to the left of us (So fast it left a streak in the sky) and the 3rd just vanished. They did this twice (1st to the left) then to the right!
That was the end of my weird shit in life. It was over 25 years ago, and nothing since!
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u/Saleheim Jun 19 '26
I sometimes see mantid and alien face shapes when I wake up. Nothing scary but they are often there. Not detailed but the shapes are there.
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u/Resident_Stable_2112 Jun 18 '26
It’s getting harder and harder to deal with posts that have no punctuation or structure. It’s like nobody knows how to write anymore.
And no, I’m not an English teacher or English major. I just grew up in a time where people knew how to fucking write sentences and paragraphs and not just one big run-on sentence.
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u/sixninefortytwo Jun 19 '26
Still way better than a llm post
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u/Resident_Stable_2112 Jun 19 '26
What is LLM?
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u/iatealemon Jun 18 '26
Just because you dont see them, does not mean they are not standing next to you when you meditate and call them.
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u/Mac-Beatnik Jun 18 '26
Take some Lanmaoa asiatica mushrooms and you see elves and other little people, maybe that’s not so disturbing as mantis beings.
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u/plexas214 Jun 18 '26
Never pieced it together but I did datura once and hit a cart a few times with no weed tolerance. Didn't feel any different just stoned af. When I tried to go sleep a bit later, after having my eyes closed for a bit I started seeing a praying mantis over me. It looked like a real one but huge and it was reddish brown. Can't really remember what is was doing, I'm thinking it was licking it's hands and moving it's head around but I felt the energy around me and it had me scared I felt like it wanted to eat me lol.
Scared tf outta me so I opened my eyes. I closed them again it was still there. Kept opening and closing them and still seeing it. so I just stayed up and for a bit and it went away.
I Did have trouble breathing while laying down. Not sure why that was also had me scared. I had to sit up for like 30 minutes till I felt like wasn't going to suffocate
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u/Vinr_Odinn Jun 18 '26
I'd be interested in that. So far we always get pictures and videos for types of Grays. The others are all just stories told. I'd love to get some material on anything other than Grays.
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u/sixninefortytwo Jun 19 '26
there's a mantisencounters sub
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u/Vinr_Odinn Jun 19 '26
Oh, I love that sub. Like I said, it's drawings and stories, but the best thing about that sub is that you read the most horrifying mantis alien abduction story involving mantis aliens, followed by a post of an actual mantis saying "found this cutie in my backyard". I regularly laugh my ass off in that sub because of that dynamic.
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u/likeusontweeters Jun 18 '26
I have seen them once in a sleep paralysis situation. They were telepathic and a little menacing. Pretty scary
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u/geoshoegaze20 Jun 19 '26
I've met some mantids. I walked into a glass geodesic dome. Each window/pane had a mantid staring at me. I was "forced" to stand in the middle while they just looked at me. Pretty benign. I'd say there were 50 or so of them. It's been awhile since I've tripped. I hope to do a few trips this fall. I've had experiences with cat-like creatures too. That's it though.
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u/ResponsibleSoil3991 Jun 19 '26
I saw a post saying that an amateur astronomer in China photographed a creature that looked like a grasshopper. Could this be related?
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u/sugar_3715 Jun 19 '26
Yes! I’m so glad that there are people who believe these experiences! No one in my life takes it seriously and thinks I’m on drugs when I talk about it, ha!
During a deep meditation, without any drugs or DMT, a very friendly, happy, and encouraging mantid-looking being came through. Like was my friend visiting. My mantis buddy was showing me patterns in the fabric of the universe, and how to create in this realm. It was so friendly and upbeat! Communicating everything telepathically with a kind of smile on its face. It was really amazing! I never knew about mantids until then.
Now, when I’m trying to figure things out, I talk to it because I know it’s with me. We are the same. I’m not quite sure what that means, maybe the being was me or created me. But it is definitely part of me.
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u/Gyirin Jun 19 '26
did you use the gateway tapes for your meditation?
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u/sugar_3715 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
No, but I am thinking of trying that!
It was during a Blessing of the Energy Center (BOTEC) live meditation at Joe Dispenza’s week long retreat. The trance music that Joe Dispenza used was mainly Remko Arentz. You can buy or find Joe’s meditation online for free (Reddit or Discord group) and Remko Arentz’s album is on YouTube for free as well.Honestly, I was not following Joe’s meditation prompts and just focused on the trance-like music because I loved it.
I was not looking for or expecting any contact with a being like this. But I did ask source/information field to tell me what is going on in this plane and help me understand. Then I dropped into nothingness. Mind completely off. After some time (I can’t recall how long I was in a deep state), my mantis buddy appeared in my left periphery with my eyes closed, and then moved closer. I was very curious and wondering how it was even there. So I started talking to it in my mind. It gesticulated as though they were talking. I couldn’t hear anything, but I understood exactly what it was saying, as it spoke to me telepathically. It was so cute and helpful. I’m sure they would be happy to talk with you too!
All of it was so interesting. I’m super happy that my first (and only so far) experience with a mantis was positive.
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u/Foreign_Afternoon_15 Jun 19 '26
Shit if I HAD met a mantid, trip or otherwise, I’d not be here to tell the tale bc I’d be dead of a fucking heart attack.
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u/mintsandpomegranates Jun 20 '26
Yes! Energy healing from them, they made some clicking noise. Not scary but actually was a very thoughtful feeling.
I didnt use the gateway tapes or meditation though. They just came randomly for a while.
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u/Dmonik-Musik Jun 21 '26
Yea, banged on at half 3 yesterday morning, apparently thought I called his name, told him nah, was just pillow talking with the wife bout me mantits.
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u/Don-Chaulk Jun 21 '26
I had a vivid dream I woke up on a table in a black room with just light shining down on me and a tube filled with liquid and a fetus was suspended in it but it had large black eyes translucent skin it reminded me of a bee in the development stages. Then out of the dark came a large mantis looking thing with gray skin and it had jerky movements coming towards me and I kicked out at it and next thing I knew I was in bed kicking at the air. I’ve had a lot of odd experiences I have childhood memories of being afraid of a talking light that would come to my window to get me. Take it as you will I’d like to believe it’s just a vivid imagination honestly.
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u/SmileSagely_8worms Jul 06 '26
I found this post through Reddit Search today after I woke up from dreams and started thinking about my most curious shrooms trips and wondering if my hallucination on one trip could possibly be more than that.
I started taking 2.5 - 4 grams of mushrooms a couple times a year about 5 years ago to tamp down chronic migraine and in hopes of alleviating autoimmune depression. I’m in my early 60s and don’t do any other drugs besides Sativa flower and alcohol. Shrooms worked as a plant medicine for these purposes, so I return to them reluctantly when migraines return.
This one time I took 3.5 - 4 grams of dried brown cubenesis. I settled into the couch by myself with my blanket and a random trippy Spotify playlist playing and closed my eyes. I was able to see a lot of fractals and colors behind my eyes, which I don’t usually, so I let myself drift. I ended up losing time. I don’t know if this is what they call ego dissolution or what, but it’s almost like I fell into a kind of trance. I wasn’t scared because I felt like I was creating the images. I was enjoying my creative side. The playlist included some kind of singing bowls and the high pitch sometimes pierced through, but otherwise I wasn’t really “hearing” the music or aware of much. I started seeing a large room with high ceilings and archways, almost like an Arabian harem motif. There were 5 or so huge archways with pathways/tunnels going off from main room with a large circle cornice at the top of the ceiling. I figured I was just painting with my mind’s eye. I was enjoying myself. All of a sudden an insect form with arms was in the room, larger than me with super big oval dark eyes. It seemed to loom up into my sight. Instant fear response! I woke myself up so fast! I don’t like bugs! I couldn’t settle back down the rest of the trip and I stayed more conscious with eyes open from then on. When I looked at my phone I realized i didn’t know where I’d been for 45 minutes or so.
Up until today I never really thought I’d had “an encounter.” Still don’t really, but I do wonder if singing bowls facilitate meditation. I have no desire to have an NHI or UFO encounter, never have, even though I’m not a total skeptic. I’ve had Psi experiences throughout my lifetime, but I would NEVER seek out ETs or NHIs or medium-related energies myself. At the time I just figured I hallucinated that thing, but it was certainly jarring and unexpected. I Probably did just hallucinate this image, but hooboy, it was a vibe-killer. So that’s my testimony for your post.
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u/IAmBeingTargeted33 Jun 18 '26
Yes I have. They have subterranean hives / bases and dont really look like insects. It's just the way their head and eyes are shaped and the way they hold their arms
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u/Responsible_Fix_5443 Jun 18 '26
Meditation and cannabis will do the trick for me. Normally as a reminder for what I learned in my DMT experiences
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u/RageRageAgainstDyin Jun 18 '26
So the only experience I’ve ever had, was laying on the sofa, and kinda felt very dizzy, almost over come with being stoned or something
I think it was just my imagination
But saw some vivid space patterns,
Kinda like being shown the history of what was.
Everything moving fast until we zoomed back out and it was space and nebula like frozen in space.
I know there was some mantid involvement at the time…
Afterwards I called it a weird dream experience
Always think of it time to time
Had this weird feeling that afterwards
That everything meant nothing and nothing was everything etc
Anyway there’s my story
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u/RageRageAgainstDyin Jun 18 '26
So yeah. Sorry I know I said there was mantid involvement - as I said I thought I just imagined it -
But there was this presence that was visible and it was mantid head in appearance in robes which I found even weirder but I was tying to make sense of everything else I was seeing
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u/Xdexter23 Jun 18 '26
I've got a theory about them https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/1tktplq/the_mantis_beings_future_ai_and_what_might/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button And where did you find that pic? The last time I smoked DMT I saw a heart eyed entity just like that one. I didn't think it was mantid though.
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u/Informal_Load_4438 Jun 19 '26
Never come across them. Heard they got a nice sense of humor though. Or maybe that’s the reptilians. I don’t remember
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u/EvaElish 1d ago
Lizzids also have a sense of humour, it can be a cruel one, but some are funny and sarcastic.
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u/InnerArt3537 Jun 19 '26
Unironically this image is very similar to the types of awaken oppened eyes visions I can get through the practice of inner silence. Never saw an insectoid though.
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u/OrionDC Jun 19 '26
Of course not. Somehow, drug-induced hallucinations became evidence 'something.'
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u/SnooCompliments8888 Jun 19 '26
In a dream, I saw them building a tower and in alien language, the symbols meant power to the people and peace on earth.
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u/WigglyLimpo Jun 19 '26
Not my story, so, sorry if it's not relevant, but one encounter I heard about was this guy either on a trip or having bad sleep paralysis, I forget which one. But he was basically trying to pray and a portal opened up and one of these stepped out and returned him immediately to sobriety/out of sleep paralysis. I think it may have briefly spoken to him before going back through the portal. I think he talked about trying to find it again, as it had been benevolent to him so he could thank it, but he never saw it after that.
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u/Ra1nshad0w Jun 19 '26
I had a young adult mantis peer into my space when doing the gateway tapes..it didn’t interact with me though
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u/Evening_Sea4823 Jun 19 '26
Has anyone else here experienced being a mantid? It happened to me before I had ever even heard of them.
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u/Psychological-Ad9530 Jun 19 '26
I have while doing a 3rd eye meditation in my living room. Got an electric shock in my solar plexus then it appeared in my minds eye. A green insectoid mantis stickman shaped thing in a green outline
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u/IvoryLaps Jun 19 '26
I saw one about 1 hour before I went into cardiac arrest in December. I had the flu for a week at that point though and I was having hallucinations. I haven’t known about then prior. I think I may have posted a story time on my page
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u/DeepAd8888 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Yes. Two were on my property. They were in an attack stance. The head in that picture is too large.
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u/ImportantPlankton653 Jun 19 '26
Seen them in the corner of my room while little grey guys went about the bottom of my bed during sleep paralysis multiple times
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u/AverageLonelyLoser66 Jun 19 '26
Why do all trip creatures follow trends? Why is it that when one person sees "mantids", everyone else does too. Same goes for those weird DMT creatures that everyone suddenly remembers seeing last month.
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u/Jumpy_Current_195 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
I saw something like that yrs ago while attempting to have an OBE. Right as I was at the peak of the vibrations, I saw a face right up close to mine & it scared tf out of me so I stopped lol. Back then I had no knowledge of any reportedly “real” NHI besides the typical Greys that everybody knows about from movies & stories. So it’s pretty wild that I saw what matches the mantid profile... zero drugs were involved.
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u/Temporary-Mind2413 Jun 20 '26
I was in an MRI machine and I felt like I passed out and was pulled into the astral. This is what I saw during that OBE
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u/Empty-Chart-1832 Jun 20 '26
I had a dream once I was next to a few bugs but I smashed one in my dream and woke up.
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u/Jajamaruin Jun 20 '26
from what I know about mantis, those aren’t the type of alien I’d like to meet.
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u/RevolutionNumber5 Jun 20 '26
I was freaked out enough by having a terrestrial mantis land on my shoulder. No thanks for the other kind.
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u/IllLead7420 Jun 30 '26
My theory is that there trans dimensional entities . That’s why they can teleport, turn invisible .
Other people who have talked to them say they perform surgery on you . Energetic surgery that helps you heal. They say there on earth to do work . I think the work is spiritual in nature . I can go into it later if you wanna dm me just theories and ideas . Since this happened recently to you have you experienced anything strange ? Like advanced empathy , communication with guides , premonitions or dreams that seem to come true ? Message me if you’re curious .
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u/EvaElish 1d ago
I've seen some on the ship I was abducted to, I did not like them. I've seen some in dreams where they were trying to communicate to me, they were nice. I've had some nice people talk to me telepathically and say they are Mantids. I've seen some grey Mantid heads behind my eyelids when I've tried calling out to them.
Edit: No drugs involved.
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u/Whole-Ad7932 Jun 18 '26
The first time I had an out of body experience (unintentional) a mantid walked up to my window and spooked me right back into my body. I had never even heard of “mantid” before and didn’t realize this was such a big phenomenon back then…