I AM BARLOWE CROSS.
My name is Andrew Barlowe Cross but everyone just calls me Barlowe.
Back in the late 1980’s I was a radio personality and the star of the BARLOWE IN THE MORNING SHOW, broadcast out of Oneida, NY.
I now reside in Anaheim, CA and I make my living as an audio engineer. I install audio visual systems all across the country inside studios, stadiums, cruise ships and more.
When I’m not traveling for work, I am researching the macabre and unexplained phenomenon of a very ancient, strange area of New York called the Mohawk Valley. Just an hour west of Albany and an hour east of Syracuse, this is the place where I grew up in the seventies and eighties and nineties. While living in the Herkimer County, I personally witnessed many bizarre things, people and places that still resonate with me to this day.
I am a seeker, collecting, documenting and connecting the strange stories of my homeland, so that this history, mythology and strange events and people can be seen, heard and shared. People NEED TO KNOW.
WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE - I NEVER SAUSAGE A PLACE:
The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains.
It is a unique, beautiful place, filled with an energy that is rich with the origins of American history. The Mohawk Valley was very strategic to a number of armies throughout American History, specifically during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. It is also home to exquisite wonders of nature such as Herkimer Diamonds, a unique type of quartz crystal. Even the name of the valley has historic resonance being named after the Native Americans from the Iroquois Nation–the Mohawk.
Through my own personal research, spanning almost 30 years, I have gathered massive amounts of items, documents and detailed accounts of the unexplained and truly bizarre happenings that have taken place in this area. Many of these accounts are either ignored both consciously and subconsciously or are hidden in plain sight.
On this website, I am going to share with you the things I have learned over the years from my own investigations and outreach to the people I know in the Herkimer County + Mohawk Valley area. My research is an attempt to document the events that have taken place that people seldom discuss out of fear or the dread of becoming a target of ridicule. I will do this using a creative approach for your viewing pleasure in terms of design, video, art and other presentations that are made by my design and development team, here in Southern California.
WHAT HAVE I FOUND?
I’ve listened. I’ve unearthed relics. I’ve trekked into caves. Dug up artifacts and gems. I’ve camped out at abandoned houses, castles and ancient Native American burial grounds. I’ve heard stories of ghosts in barns, nonhuman beings running across the street at night, monsters in the backyard, and other peculiar phenomenon and conspiracies that run deep within the foundations of our history all the way back to the beginnings of the earliest settlements in American History.
Through my research, spanning almost 30 years I have discovered all types of unknown phenomenon including but not limited to: ancient alien artifacts, UFO’s, experimental aircraft, chemtrails, the occult, government conspiracies, cannibalism, macabre murders, human sacrifice, animal mutilations, crop circles, inter dimensional beings, Satanic cults, black eyed kids, ghosts, goblins, trolls, flying orbs, psychosis, mutant people, out of body experiences, changelings, unidentifiable creatures, angels, demons, witches, curses, voodoo, horrific scientific experiments, and so much more.
The Valley is a place shrouded in the magnetic energy of the impressions of its past, present and future.
I present this evidence to you for you to decide what you think it is.
Why did I call this website, I NEVER SAUSAGE A PLACE?
Well that’s a pretty funny story. Since we lived in a Hamlet, there really wasn’t a grocery store within miles of us–except the Mohawk Village Market. This market boasted a ridiculous sign on the outside using a corny pun on the word Sausage, reflecting the meat inside that it sold. However, looking back on the sign is very ironic because in all honesty, I have never seen or lived in a place that had such strange energy and was filled with bizarre occurrences It’s a fitting sign for the town of Mohawk, and the entire Mohawk Valley. So it has become my war cry as I collect these stories of the macabre. To me this sign sums up the oddities that have always been in Herkimer county and the greater Mohawk Valley.
IMAGE BELOW: This is from an old sign on the Mohawk Village Market, located in Mohawk, NY.
CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
I AM COLLECTING, CURATING AND CATALOGING STORIES TO CREATE A DIGITAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE STRANGE, MACABRE AND INEXPLAINABLE STORIES OF HERKIMER COUNTY AND THE GREATE MOHAWK VALLEY.
THE MOST DIFFICULT THING WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING AS BIZARRE AS SEEING A UFO IS THE FEELING OF ALIENATION. I’M HERE TO HELP OTHERS WHO MAY HAVE FELT MY PAIN. I AM HERE TO HELP PEOPLE AND COLLECT DATA.
SOME OF THE STORIES COLLECTED HERE MAY BE CONTROVERSIAL OR MAY SHED A POOR LIGHT ON A PLACE, TOWN OR PERSON.