Bat Beast of Kent

The **Bat Beast of Kent** was a bat-like creature bizarre in extraterrestrial party along Sandling Road in Kent, England. This observation when they suddenly noticed how the bushes nearby were shaking under the onslaught of the approaching creature. Everyone later swore that an exceedingly strange creature then came out of the thickets, which although stood on two legs like a humanoid, but the most distinctive feature were large folded wings similar to bats. The creature was about 1.5 meters tall, of course, this image caused horror in the teenagers, so they quickly ran away from the place. When they reached the police, they told the whole story to several officers, who were obviously surprised and skeptical.

## Sighting

On 16 November 1963, 17-year-old John Flaxton, 18-year-old Mervin Hutchinson and their two friends were walking along Sandling Road as they were returning from a visit. The area has long been known for various supernatural phenomena, which were not rare there.

Suddenly, the group noticed a glowing, oval-shaped object that rose from the sky and hovered over a nearby field. The object was said to be only a few meters in diameter, and after a while it drifted behind the trees into the dense vegetation of Sandling Park.

The astonished teenagers did not even have time to recover from this observation when they suddenly noticed how the bushes nearby were shaking under the onslaught of the approaching creature. Everyone later swore that an exceedingly strange creature then came out of the thickets, which although stood on two legs like a humanoid, but the most distinctive feature were large folded wings similar to bats. The creature was about 1.5 meters tall, of course, this image caused horror in the teenagers, so they quickly ran away from the place. When they reached the police, they told the whole story to several officers, who were obviously surprised and skeptical.

However, their story was confirmed less than a week later by a man named Keith Croucher, when he saw a similar glowing object hovering over the football field near where the group encountered the bat-like creature. On November 23rd, local resident John McGoldrick decided not to let these highly bizarre claims go, so he set out with one of his intrepid friends to the locations of the unusual encounters.

This pair subsequently found at least three strange footprints at the place of the first meeting, which measured over 60 centimeters in length. The growth in this place was also trampled under the weight of something very heavy. These reports eventually caught the attention of local reporters, who also went to the forest in the hope of finding new evidence. However, the only thing they mentioned was that the weeds at the site continued to glow with a mysterious light for several days after the meeting, which then disappeared.

Articles about this encounter appeared sporadically even during the 70s, where several skeptics pointed out that the youth probably saw only a large crow illuminated by the headlights of a car or train, or just an ordinary scarecrow. However, no one has explained why a crow would be fifty meters tall and have no head.

It is appropriate to mention that the creature strongly resembled several other beings that have already appeared throughout the history of cryptozoology and ufology. His close relative could be the Owl Man, which appeared near the village of Mawnan Smith, the famous Mothman from West Virginia , or even the Black Bird , which was seen during the Chernobyl disaster. However, these beings are more often associated with tragic events, while many consider them more like "messengers of doom and death", which is not the case with the monster from Kent. The bat-like creature was seen immediately after the UFO landed, so it is more likely to belong to extraterrestrial beings. However, this raises an interesting question: Are alien species behind the sightings of other winged headless creatures, or is this case an exception?