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Mothman Returns to Point Pleasant?

The date is November 20th, 2016, and a man was driving down State Route 2 in Point Pleasant when he spotted something jumping between trees. Quickly snapping some photographs of the aerial anomaly, he unwittingly captured evidence of a legend returning to West Virginia that November evening...

## The Incident and Subsequent Evidence

After he saw a strange figure jumping from tree to tree as he was driving down the highway, he pulled his car over, aimed his camera at the entity and clicked. The pictures depict a winged creature with two human-like legs which seem to point inwards at an awkward angle. The wings have pointed tips and appear to be too small to support the mass of the creature, which would be consistent with the bizarre biology reported in the initial sightings of the Mothman.

## Mothman or Bird Brain?

*Eyewitness News* (the source from which I found this story) interviewed various people living in Point Pleasant about their opinions of the photos. They talked to a woman called Carolin Harris, who says that she believes that the pictures could be genuine due to how many other sightings of the creature there have been. Other residents of the town also agreed that the photos could be the real deal, and so of course Eyewitness News took their curiosity to Jeff Wamsley, who owns the local Mothman Museum and is considered to be something of an expert on the winged weirdie. Much to my agreement, he pointed out that it is impossible to know if the evidence here is genuine due to the prevalence of modern technology such as Photoshop.

Personally, I do not believe that these photographs are genuine. I think that if Mothman had returned there would be more sightings, and photographic evidence would be unlikely due to the ostensibly-paranormal paranormal nature of the red-eyed disaster bringer. This picture looks far too perfect and is too much of a perfectly-clear shot, when other possibly genuine paranormal photos are usually shot on 'potato cam'.

I found an interesting argument on the website '*inquisitr*', suggesting that the thing in the photo is not a straight-up deliberate hoax, but is actually a case of honest mistaken identity. The bird known as the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher is a good fit for this, seeing as the lopsided legs in the photo seem to closely resemble the 'scissor tail' in question.

## Source

https://wchstv.com/news/local/man-photographs-creature-that-resembles-legendary-mothman-of-point-pleasant
An Ape in the Bedroom

Okay, so here’s a case which I’m sure no-one will have heard of unless you listen to the Monsters Among Us podcast by Derek Hayes. It is the tale of a man named Scott (at least that was probably his name, Monsters Among Us is a call-in show and the name was unclear) who had an encounter with something truly unforgettable and uncanny. The episode of the show on which this story was heard was broadcast in 2017, and Scott said that the event happened about 40 years prior, meaning it took place in roughly 1977.

## The Incident

Scott was 10 years old at the time and was asleep in his bedroom in his family’s house in Southern California when he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. His parents used to leave the light in the corridor outside dimmed, in case he or his fellow children got up in the night for any reason. The witness was lying on his right side facing towards the door, trying to get back to sleep - when he was horrified to observe what appeared to be a chimpanzee clad in denim coveralls rounded the corner and made a beeline for him.

It was looking directly at him and seemed to be intent on coming towards him, and so he turned over and squeezed his eyes shut in desperate hope that the thing would go away; but of course that isn’t how these sorts of stories go. If you were expecting the bizarre entity to do something terrifying at this point you would be wrong, and instead it dug its fingers into his ribs and begun tickling him. He says that he was a very ticklish child. This tickling went on for roughly 10 seconds, and he was squirming and laughing all the way through despite how afraid he was of the apish aberration standing before him. After the sudden bout of physical contact had stopped, the witness simply stayed in bed and tried to get back to sleep, but was frozen in terror and so could not. It is not clear what happened to the simian spectre, but it can presumably be assumed that the furry phantom vanished.

## Source

Monsters Among Us Podcast - Season 4, Episode 4
The Devil and Mrs. Strichter

It was the early morning of August 23rd, 1928, and a creature that can only be described as a winged demon was about to come hurtling into the room of a previously-sleeping tenant in a pleasant little Pennsylvania rooming house belonging to one Mrs. Mary Strichter. Once the hideous critter had been expelled from the property, rumours slowly started to spread that the house was haunted by a previously-imprisoned spirit...

## Buzzed by Beelzebub

One Mrs. Andrew Turk was sleeping in her room in her mother's rooming house (likely 719 Mill Street in Chester, Pennsylvania) when something instantly woke her from her rest. This something was a creature that she later described as being '*about three feet broad*' and as having a '*bright scarlet body*' and '*two protruding horns on its head*'. The little creature also apparently made '*a continuous buzzing sound*', leading me to tentatively suggest that it might've been some kind of giant insect.

Likely utterly terrified at the sight of the hellish critter, she screamed and promptly roused her husband - who quickly noticed the entity hiding behind a curtain. As any good action hero would when confronted by a denizen of hell, he grabbed a chair and promptly knocked the diminutive devil to the ground, whereupon he was able to bundle it up in a rug with the help of several other tenants of the rooming house and throw it out of a window. Consider the demon exorcised by defenestration. That is a sentence that I never knew I always wanted to say.

## Spirits Unleashed?

When Strichter's neighbours learned of the disconcerting happening they sagely nodded their heads and announced that they knew that the house was '*haunted*'. Apparently the previous occupant of the house had been an old lady who had felt it necessary to keep a number of the rooms in the building locked and barred. Perhaps she was just paranoid - but that didn't stop rumours from spreading after this incident was reported that one of the doors in question had perhaps been unlocked...

## Sources

https://newspaperarchive.com/new-castle-news-aug-24-1928-p-6/

http://masksofmesingw.blogspot.com/2011/11/red-devil-bat-of-chester.html
The Borderline-Bogus Bubblegum Bagodemon

An Unexplained Mysteries Forum-user going by the name ‘Shadow Sentinel’ described a bizarre encounter that they and their girlfriend experienced during a camping trip in the South East part of Texas. Apparently the people in this region have a local legend about a being called the ‘*Bagodemon*’, which is supposedly a purple-whitish humanoid with glowing red eyes. It can stretch its body, and moves around by sticking its body to trees ‘*like gum*’.

## An Arboreal Aberration

Shadow Sentinel posted this story on the 1st of January 2006, and said that they had this experience roughly four months previously. They were out hiking with their girlfriend at around 23:00, and they kept hearing noises which sounded like ‘*a mix of a pig/weeping dog a few yards away*’. However, it would soon become apparent that the source of the noise was far closer than this optimistic estimate. They continued walking for a few feet before ‘*a crud load*’ of leaves fell down from the trees above them, and Shadow Sentinel shone their flashlight upwards to see what was causing the ruckus. They initially thought it was a bird or a squirrel or something, but as soon as the light hit it they instead came to the conclusion that it was the legendary Bagodemon. The monster screeched so loud that Shadow Sentinel almost fell to their knees, and their girlfriend fainted a few seconds later. They say that they’ll never get that noise out of their head. ‘*It sounded like so many animals at once screaming in fear or anger*’.

After screeching for what Shadow Sentinel took to be 15 seconds, the Bagodemon ‘*made a noise as if it was chuckling*’ at the witnesses beneath it before propelling one of its arms to a nearby tree and leaving. Shadow Sentinel describes the creature that they saw as having a body-shape akin to a human male, totally devoid of hair with a ‘*pulsating red glow*’ on its forehead instead of any sort of discernible face. Bizarrely, it also had scythe-like structures instead of hands.

## Analysis

I am not certain if this account should be taken seriously. Weirder things have been reported in the paranormal field, but the so-called local legend of the Bagodemon is not documented anywhere else except Shadow Sentinel’s own forum post. They also seem to think that this description matches pretty well with that of a Skin-Walker, but to be honest the Bagodemon is the least Skin-Walkery creature I’ve ever heard of…

## Source

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/58361-bagodemon/
Curse of the Human Balloon

The life of a paranormal investigator is certainly an interesting one. You would be amazed just how many random people have astounding stories to tell about weird events which have either happened to them or happened to someone they know. Just a few days ago I was investigating a demonic possession case that allegedly took place in Yuquan Monastery in China's Hubei Province (article on that event shortly forthcoming) in which the victim's body inflated to a grotesque size. My luck proved to be in no short supply when I started talking to a taxi driver on the morning of the day on which I am writing this now. He used to live in Gweru, Zanzibar - and we got talking about witchcraft customs in that area. He started telling a story about an unfortunate barkeeper who wronged a witch-doctor and was thus cursed. The outcome of this curse was that he would inflate like a balloon before popping in much the same way as such a rubber inflatable. This was enough of a synchronicity - and just a highly intriguing story - for me to be persuaded to immediately write up the case to my blog.

## The Witchcraft Death of Andrew Chisanga

Andrew Chisanga is the central figure of the upsetting story I am about to tell you. He was a barman at a local pub in the city of Gweru, Zimbabwe (which was known as Gwelo up until 1982). From the telling of the tale that I received from the taxi driver, it seemed as if Mr. Chisanga was a fairly respectable man. This driver was certainly not afraid to speak his mind about the people from his hometown, and he didn't have a lot to say about Andrew, but this might've been due to the tale having been told to him by one of his relatives as opposed to the events contained wherein having been witnessed by him himself. The events apparently took place some time between 1980 and 1982.

Chisanga's fatal mistake came when he entered a financial dealing with an acquaintance. This dealing didn't involve a particularly large sum of money, but it was evidently enough of a sizeable sum for the acquaintance in question to take it very seriously. Eventually Andrew reneged on the payment he was due to make to the man - who was perhaps something of an aspiring loan shark - and he was highly displeased with this. It turned out that the acquaintance had some connections to the shadowy underbelly of witchcraft practitioners in the community - and so he was able to contact a witch-doctor to place a curse on the hapless Andrew. The curse stated that Andrew's stomach would inflate like a balloon before popping, finally killing him after what would presumably be an agonising process. The taxi driver put it up to a psychosomatic illness - but the witch-doctor's curse took hold of Chisanga immediately. His stomach started to fill with gas and his body became grotesquely bloated. He was quickly taken to a local Western hospital - and tubes were affixed to his stomach in order to hopefully allow the gas to drain out of his body in order to save his life. However, the gas somehow refused to leave Chisanga - and his stomach became wider and wider until it finally burst, killing him instantly.
Mystery Man on the Subway

A true ‘phantom stranger’ was seen in the subways of Manhattan, New York on October 1st, 1999. The witness was ascending the escalator at Penn Station and had reached street level when she noticed standing about 20 feet away, what seemed to be a male figure about 6 feet, 7 inches tall. He stood near the mouth of the entranceway to the station. His face was light gray (almost white), with thick brows and menacing eyes. He stood in a peculiar way, standing with his back arched, shoulders broad, his elbows pointing towards his back, and his head was tilted back as if he was looking at the tops of the passersby’s heads – it was like he was trying to choose one of them. The witness caught a glimpse of his face but she turned away immediately, and walked away down the sidewalk without turning back, feeling that if she would turn around for another look something would happen to her. For an unknown reason she felt tremendous fear.

## Analysis

This story seems to be a stretch at best, and barely paranormal at worst. This person could have easily been a mentally ill individual or simply someone with a strange posture. Also, the fact that the witness provides no personal information makes the story extremely difficult to pinpoint, especially seeing as this tale is only mentioned in the source below – which is another wiki which doesn't provide sources, so take it with a grain of salt. Or iron. Both are helpful when taking down demons.

## Source

http://obscurban-legend.wikia.com/wiki/Subway\_Man
Centaur Stampede in the Wilderness

Violet Tweedale, a famous writer, spiritualist and alleged psychic published a book in 1919 called '*Ghosts I Have Seen: And Other Psychic Experiences*' in which she recounted an amazing tale that had been told to her by '*a foreign Grand Duchess*'. The Duchess claimed that she and her husband had been travelling in Greece when they were startled by a stampeding herd of creatures that could only be described as mythological centaurs...

## Chiron's Charge

The Grand Duchess and her husband spent most of their time in England, but on this fateful night the affluent couple were wandering in the wilds of Greece. The moon hung bright in the sky, and they were trekking across a bare mountainside when they decided to sit down to rest and take in '*the beauty and utter loneliness of the moonlit scene*'. They had not been sitting down for very long when they became aware of a sound that they initially took to be the '*galloping of many horses’ hoofs approaching them*'. This surprised them, because they were in such a secluded and unexplored part of the country, and there were no roads anywhere nearby. Apparently it was highly unusual to hear horses galloping at such a speed on rough terrain at night.

Fearing that they would soon be trampled, the well-bred pair stood up to make certain that the horses saw them - for it sounded very much like a '*headlong rush*' was soon to come. Whatever they were expecting at that moment, I highly doubt that it was what actually came to pass. They didn't need to wait long before '*a troop of creatures, half-men, half-horses, tore past them, helter-skelter*'. Instead of the sense of utter terror that one would expect from such an event, the centaur stampede actually inflicted a sense of '*joy and exhilaration*' upon the witnesses. Both husband and wife were enraptured by a sense of '*wild elation*' and apparently both felt a strong desire to join the mythological legion around them.

Almost as quickly as they had arrived, the centaurs disappeared, the '*thundering of their hoofs*' spreading out across the hills before dying down and vanishing completely. Upon their return to their encampment, they found that their Greek servants in a state of hysteria, '*shivering with terror, and struggling with equally terrified horses to prevent a stampede*'. All that could be gleaned from the terrified servants was that they had heard something that they knew of, and that they knew to fear...

## Many Years Ago...

This story was first published in a book in 1919, and the only indication of the date of the occurrence is that it took place '*many years ago*'. The author also ponders if Algernon Blackwood was inspired by this account to write his 1911 book 'The Centaur', seeing as there is a scene in that which is very similar to this alleged happening. Whether 'The Centaur' was inspired by this incident or this incident was actually a hoax inspired by said book is up for the reader to decide, methinks.

## Source

http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/creature-feature-the-centaur-1/
The Medford Lizard Man Flap

A warden for Wisconsin’s Department for Natural Resources (DNS) was driving up State Highway 13 just south of Medford one day in the mid-1990s when he caught sight of something that he wasn’t taught how to deal with. Standing in the middle of the road was a figure the size of a man, resembling a reptilian humanoid covered in green scales.

In a moment of either bravery or stupidity, the warden kept driving towards the entity - and got close enough to nearly hit it before it unfurled a pair of wings that had previously been folded up, hidden on its back. It swiftly shot upwards and over the warden’s car. However, it wasn’t done playing with the witness yet - as it then landed on the road behind the car. This time the warden didn’t wait to see what would happen next.

Obviously this encounter could be chalked up to a hallucination by a tired and road-weary warden - if only a truck full of highway employees didn’t see the same creature near the exact same spot on the road, not long after the first sighting. Once again, the anomalous reptilian spread its leathery wings and took flight as the men approached, this time vanishing into a nearby copse of trees.

## Source

‘*Monsters of Wisconsin: Mysterious Creatures in the Badger State*’ by Linda S. Godfrey
Abducted by the Cave Dwarves!

If anyone manages to live to their late nineties, they will certainly have some stories to tell, but for one woman in Australia's New South Wales, one particularly strange story stands out. She was dragged below the ground by dwarfish monstrosities, and her terrified family had to play a sick game of tug-of-war with the monsters to retrieve her...

## The Incident

A young girl was stolen away by dwarfish creatures with leathery skin in 1900. As she slept soundly between her sisters beside a billabong in western New South Wales, the girl was grabbed by the diminutive monsters, which apparently took her underground and covered her in animal fat. Her eyes were covered by the foul substance, and so she couldn’t see her captors, but she could hear the nightmarish guttural noises that they were making. She remained their subterranean prisoner for a few hours, all the while she could hear people on the surface calling out her name. In desperation, she started clawing at the tree roots above her, and finally managed to break through the ground. She thrust her arm out of the underground chamber, but the person who had been looking for her ran away in terror because he apparently thought the arm was from ‘something evil’. Luckily, he came back with the young girl’s family, and they engaged in a 'tug-of-war’ to rescue her from her dwarfish captors. After they had pulled her out from underneath the ground, they decided to build a large bonfire on the spot.

The person who originally told this story - a Reddit user - apparently met with the girl in the late nineties, but she was very deaf by the time and the conversation was hardly audible. The Redditor had a look at the area in which the incident took place, but apparently they didn’t see or feel anything weird.

## Source

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/324zve/im\_wondering\_if\_anyone\_here\_has\_any\_storiesinfo/?st=jg6ud2dh&sh=451cca66
A Psychic, a Contactee and a Dogman Walk into a Bar

There certainly seems to be something strange going on in the forests and backroads of Norwich, England. That is, if a small collection of bizarre stories regarding upright coyotes and hellhound-like figures lurking in the darkness are to be believed...

## The Incident

A driver on the way back from the cinema in Norwich encountered a large black wolf eating a carcass along the A1067. The creature was described as standing around a metre at the withers, with yellow eyes and black matted hair. The driver slowed and the wolf briefly looked up before continuing to eat. The witness continued home, shaken. Later, according to a document made on a dogman investigation website, a paranormal investigator and a friend (who was a lifelong alien contactee and associated with Rendlesham Forest) investigated the area using various psychic ‘sensing’ techniques, and ended up seeing something resembling a North American coyote with a disproportionately large head. The animal was between 4-5ft tall and apparently walked upright for the entire encounter.

Seeing as these people have very little credible evidence to support their bizarre claims, I give more validity to the previous encounter - which has been documented in other places rather than just the comments of a forum. This story was assembled from information found in two different sources, and one of them stated that the event took place in 2006, but the other seemed to imply that it was 2017.

## Sources

https://www.northamericandogmanproject.com/uk-dogman-.html http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/vampdata.php
Joker in the Closet

Corinne lived with her parents and two sisters in a small house in La Puente, California in the early 2000s. She shared a room with her two sisters, and in the room was a closet with folding doors that could be slid out to open them. Usually these doors were closed, but on this fateful night they were partially open.

## The Incident

‘*One night I woke up. I don’t know what time it was but it must have been late because everyone else was asleep in the house. All in bed. All nestled in for the night. My bed was situated to where it was facing the closet doors. As I glanced over at them, an orange glowing man peeked around the door of the closet and looked right at me. He was smiling.*’

She says that this wasn’t an even remotely comforting smile, and that she was horrified to see it.

‘*His fingers wrapped around the frame of the door first and then he poked his head out. Now from what I can remember, he kind of looked like the Joker from the original Batman series and glowed from within. I was so scared, I couldn’t make a sound.*’

Utterly terrified by the bizarre, illuminated apparition before her, she immediately buried her face in the pillow and did not let herself move until the next morning. When she told her parents what had happened, they inevitably concluded that it was a dream and told her such. However, she says that she knows it wasn’t a dream. In that same house, she had witnessed a pair of shoes take a step with no-one in them, and had watched her Barbie doll fall over and sit itself back up.

## Speculation

Perhaps she was experiencing sleep paralysis? Or maybe whatever was haunting her house (the poltergeist activity seems to suggest that something was) manifested itself into the form of a glowing clown? There are apparently a large number of cases in which witnesses say they have seen anomalous clowns, the most famous of which are perhaps the Phantom Clowns seen across Boston in 1981. In the book ‘Ultraterrestrial Contact’ by Philip J. Imbrogno, a case of a clown-like entity sighted in close conjunction with a UFO encounter is discussed.

## Source

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/09/daily-2-cents-joker-in-closetand-shoes.html
Sơn Đoòng Serpentfolk

Found near the Laos-Vietnam border, the Sơn Đoòng Cave is possibly the largest cave in the entire world, and might also be home to reptilian aliens.

## The Incident - and Subsequent Photographic Evidence

According to a video uploaded to YouTube on January 26th of 2015, visitors started to report encounters with reptile-like humanoids after the cave opened for tours in 2013. At least one individual was abducted by the beings and never seen again.
Although it was only officially opened in 2013, people had been spelunking in the deep cave system for years beforehand. A man named Hồ Khanh discovered the stupendous subterranean structure in 1991, and is said to have had an encounter with its native reptilians in 1992. He encountered a being that he described as a ‘devil creature’, and said that its body was that of a human but that its skin and face looked more like what would be expected of a ‘dragon’ or lizard.
Hồ Khanh took a single photograph inside the cave, and unknowingly captured one of the reptilian beings within the darkened crevices of the cavern. According to the video, he had never shared his story or his strange photograph until January of 2015.

The photograph above is a slightly zoomed-in version of his original photo, with the red circle added in customary paranormal fashion, and the one to the right is an enhanced and further zoomed version of that same picture, showing what is alleged to be a reptilian for all to see. What does it actually show? Alien or pareidolia-warped rock? You be the judge.

## Source

https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2015/02/07/reptilian-alien-spotted-inside-worlds-largest-cave-vietnam/?utm\_source=feedburner&utm\_medium=feed&utm\_campaign=Feed%3A+StrangerDimensions+%28Stranger+Dimensions%29
Abducted by the Ant People

It was Halloween night 1975, and a Staten Island six-year-old was about to become an alien abductee. He was perhaps-naïvely nonplussed throughout the experience, having no idea of the magnitude of what was happening to him - but the life-altering effects of the event started to kick in when he reached adulthood and learned that others share his experience.

## The Smiling Ants

They arrived in the middle of the night and swiftly abducted him. He was a very curious kid, and so he felt no fear of the entities - instead choosing to willingly cooperate with them. He had never heard of UFOs or aliens '*as described in today's pop culture*', and so simply named his nocturnal captors 'a*nt people*' because of their resemblance to said insects. They were apparently roughly the same height as he was - that is, child-like in stature. As researchers of the phenomenon have come to expect from reports such as this, the aliens performed medical examinations on the child. Although they didn't speak to him at all throughout the ordeal, they did apparently smile at him. He wasn't even remotely frightened of them or of the tests they were running - and said that the only uncomfortable moment in the experience was when he was '*made to sit in a fetal position, at one point, without moving*'. This was very uncomfortable.

When he told his parents about the Ant People, they just laughed. It seems that he moved on afterwards, and says that he didn't feel harmed in any way by the beings and simply grew up to be '*a very happy normal guy*'.

## Moving On

Apparently the witness '*was never into the UFO thing*', but when he was 18 he visited one of his friends who had a paperback book about ufology, which contained some drawings of alleged extraterrestrials. He was suddenly taken aback when he recognised one of the drawings as the insectoid beings which had stolen him away as a child. The drawing looked exactly as he remembered the aliens.

Nowadays (well, as of 2015 when the source was published) the witness is an Ivy League-educated lawyer and is 39 years of age. He describes himself as a '*pretty serious guy*' but still believes in aliens. He has not forgotten what happened to him when he was six.

## Source

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2015/03/daily-2-cents-abducted-by-ant-people.html
A Humanoid from the Deep

One late evening in 1970, a patrolman had an encounter with a seemingly telepathic humanoid wearing what appeared to be a spacesuit. It seemed to be very curious as to why humans engage in warfare, which is a question we should all ponder, to be honest.

## The Incident

The witness, named Jerry Meiers, was a police patrolman for a little city in Florida, and had just finished his shift. He was driving home on a late evening in 1970, and although his apartment was on the beach, there was a spot on the inland waterway ‘*where I liked to stop and unwind, a relief from a day of drinking coffee, and donuts*’. As he walked to the water’s edge, he thought he could hear a ‘*low humming sound*’, which slowly became louder as he stood on the shoreline.

As the sound became clearer and clearer, he noticed a ‘*flicker of light which began to develop into a form*’ resembling a man in what looked to be a type of scape suit floating a few feet above the water. The humming sound became a voice, but Jerry did not hear it through his ears, and instead said that he heard it in his brain somehow - ‘*kind of like when you listen to a good set of headphones. But clearly not sounds like we hear normally*’. The suit was a lead-like colour, but slightly more reflective than the aforementioned metal. The helmet had a face shield made of a glass-like material, which was also somewhat reflective. Jerry was able to see ‘*a vague outline of the head and face. It was for the most part human*’. The voice in his head asked him why ’*you*’ have wars, and he said that he didn’t know. Jerry is a Vietnam veteran, and this was the truth. He added that he suspected that it was because of greed or natural resources.

It continued to question Jerry, asking about killing and the functions of different types of weapons. It wanted to know who was picked to fight wars, and how and why. He explained the drafting process as best he could - but as he spoke, it occurred to him that *‘there seemed to be more communications than what was clearly going on. Rather like more of an exchange of information within my brain, like little thumbnails of facts and images of things I had seen and knew, being plucked from here and there*’. After this, the images stopped coming and the voice inside Jerry’s head silenced. The humanoid told him that it would return and visit him again sometime, before fading out of sight.

It seemed as though some length of time had passed while Jerry was communicating with the entity, seeing as his legs begun to tire shortly after it disappeared. He walked back to the car and drove home. ‘*Although it seemed like only a half hour or so had passed*’, the clock on the dashboard of the car said that two-and-a-half hours had passed. Jerry went home and showered before going to bed. He played the event over and over in his head and dreams that night, eventually passing into sleep. Jerry feels that ‘*this was an event of time travel rather than a UFO abduction or suchlike. But how does one ever know?*’

## Source

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/humanoid-from-the-deep.329/
Flying Monstrosity in Falls City

Falls City is situated in Richardson County, Nebraska - and it was the site of a bizarre encounter with what was described as a '*demonic*' creature. This alleged demon appeared to be clad in some kind of a mechanical harness allowing it to fly through the air - which is a feature that we have seen in some other reports, including Kazakhstan's Jetpack Monstrosity - but this horrific entity was seen from much closer up. This was going to be a close encounter of the terrifying kind.

## A Fallen Angel in Falls City?

John Hanks (pseudonym) was out late one night in the latter months of 1956 when he came face-to-hideous-face with a 9ft-tall creature unlike anything he had ever seen before. His case was investigated by Ken Gerhard - an expert on flying humanoid encounters - who said that what Hanks claimed to have seen was like something straight out of the works of HP Lovecraft.

Multicoloured lights spanned the undersides of the monster's 15ft wings, illuminating the fact that they appeared to be made from a shiny metal like aluminium. These wings seemed to be strapped to the entity's body, and some kind of panel sat in the middle of the creature's chest. Hanks speculated that this contained a control mechanism of sorts, which could be used to manage the critter's flight. The creature emitted a haunting hiss which sent chills scuttling up and down the spine of the terrified witness.

The most frightening aspect of this happening was the appearance of the monster's face. It was described as having large and '*watery*' eyes which stared at Hanks with unadulterated malevolence. Its skin was brown and battered, being compared to leather. These horrific features were what prompted Hanks to speculate that the critter before him must've been something from the depths of hell.

Luckily, this bona-fide hellspawn didn't stick around at the scene for long. Instead, it took flight within mere moments of catching sight of the horrified witness, and completely vanished into the sky just seconds after that. The monster would never again return to Falls City, and one can only imagine how relieved John Hanks is about this fact...

## Source

'The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts and Fiends of Nature' by Nick Redfern
Chariot of the Skies

Shamim M. was about 14 when she saw it. It was a clear, bright Summer’s day and her parents were gardening, which was apparently their ‘*pride and joy*’. Shamim was looking up at the airplanes overhead, which was her hobby at the time since she had never flown before, and so was presumably curious as to what it would be like.

## A Majestic Sight

Her feelings of wonder towards the flying vehicle were quickly dwarfed by the sudden appearance of another, far less expected, flying object. Flying from the west in an easterly direction was ‘*what can only be described as a magnificent, brown, wooden-looking*’ chariot.

There was ‘*something*’ driving the chariot but it was described as being almost featureless. She was able to see that the chariot had high sides with ‘*almost wheel-like round definition*’ - and was clearly very large, being taller than the size of a jumbo jet now that she looks back on it. The anomalous object (a UFO in the literal sense of the word) was ‘*gliding ever so smoothly*’ about 2,000 meters above the houses. Although she could not see the contents of the chariot, she was still struck by how awesome this sight was.

She shouted to her parents in the instant that she saw it - refusing to take her eyes off it all the time. All three of them watched it glide about for ‘*about half a minute*’ before her mother grabbed hold of her and rushed her into the house while her father remained outside to watch it a little longer. Her mother then went back outside to watch, but the anomaly was over within minutes. When Shamim rushed to the front side of the house, she could no logner see it - and the only information that she got about it after ‘*persistent pestering*’ of her parents was that it had vanished into thin air after a few minutes.

## Source

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924054858/http://paranormal.about.com/library/blstory\_january04\_08.htm
Burning Man of the Black Forest

Throughout history, there appear to be relatively consistent reports of humanoid entities that seem to be swathed in flames and not suffering from any adverse affects. I am referring to these creatures as 'Burning Men', and good examples of these sorts of cases would be the Felixstowe Fire Demon of 1965 and the Railbach Burning Man of 1125. Today I am going to present to you an unfortunately-undated account that I found on a list of flying humanoid encounters, and it depicts a bizarre being resembling the Marvel Comics hero known as the Human Torch.

## Legend of the Fire Spirit

Frustratingly vague about the date of this event, the source simply says that this happened in the Medieval Period. The potentially-supernatural siege was said to have taken place in the Black Forest, which - thanks to my own research - I have found is local to the German state of Baden-Württemberg. A flying, flaming humanoid was said to have flown around the village before finally coming to rest on a church steeple. Presumably in a mad panic at the sight of what they would've taken to be a demonic apparition, the townsfolk amassed around the church and started throwing rocks at the aerial elemental. After what could be taken to be quite a while judging by indications given in the source - the flying fiend finally departed, never to be seen again.

## Germany Plagued by Flaming Phantoms?

When I discovered that the Black Forest was in Germany, I immediately drew an even closer link between this case and the Railbach Burning Man. Albert Rosales, an expert in the field of anomalous humanoids, suggested that this creature might've been a traditional alien humanoid dressed in luminescent clothing - but I would beg to differ due to the consistency with which fiery fiends are reported. I would instead wager that these creatures are more likely to be elemental in origin.

## Source

'HPI Case Files Book 3' by Paul Dale Roberts
Maria Got Used to Witches Flying Overhead

I wasn't kidding when I said that reports of flying witches seem to be increasingly common in Mexico and Texas.

## The Incident

Maria has lived in Donna, Texas since she was small. Since she was about 8 or 10 years old, she would see witches flying around her house. ‘*It was not a creepy thing at all, I got so used to it because it was every full moon or every other day*’. Over the years, she began to see less and less of them - until she was 14. There used to be a big tree in front of where she lived, and her neighbours would always be waiting just there at around 4am, waiting for the exceptionally early schoolbus. This was all normal until she heard them all screaming and running back home - due to them having seen ‘*something flying out of the tree*’ which they described like something out of a movie. ‘*For a while no one would wait outside anymore*’. Another witch sighting occurred when she was 16. Her mother had asked her to bring in the clothes that were hanging outside - before the lights suddenly flickered on and off and Maria became aware of ‘*a witch flying on top of me*’. It was looking down at her. She was terrified, and prayed to God. Maria still lives in the witch-infested house, and apparently the bizarre entities have recently been making their presence known again - but no more information about this recent development was forthcoming.

## Source

https://truehorrorstoriesoftexas.com/donna-woman-grows-accustomed-witches-flying-overhead/
Giant at Talavera le Real

UFOs have always allegedly been the fascination of air forces and militaries all around the world, and some conspiracy theorist groups speculate that they are hiding a vast plan on how to protect us from the imminent alien invasion. However, despite claims of superior knowledge on these matters, the air force appeared to be completely terrified and bewildered when an unearthly entity apparated at a Spanish air force base, late at night on November 12th, 1976.

## The Incident

It was 1:45am when a pair of sentries on guard at Talavera la Real air force base (Badajoz, Spain) heard a high pitched whistling noise before running outside to investigate. They were rewarded with the sight of a bright light hovering overhead, and a third soldier joined them as they searched the fuel stockpiles for signs of sabotage. Despite finding no evidence of a break-in, they felt what they described as a sudden ‘whirlwind’ and heard twigs breaking in a clump of eucalyptus bushes. In an attempt to flush out anyone who might have been hiding there, they sent their Alsatian into the bushes. It staggered back after a few seconds, whimpering and covering its ears – before a glowing green mass suddenly materialised.

It formed itself into a 9ft-tall figure that appeared to be wearing a spacesuit and had a human face, but also seemed to be lacking the lower half of its arms and legs. As one of the guards raised their machine gun to fire at the phantasmal invader, he instantly dropped to the ground yelling ‘Down! They will kill us!’ before seemingly becoming paralysed. The other two witnesses managed to fire several rounds into the being, which then promptly vanished in a flash of light.

Because of the obviously anomalous events that had happened during the night, the area was examined thoroughly the next morning. They were unable to find any spent bullet casings at the scene, despite some of the base personnel having heard gunfire at the time of the incident. There was no sign of damage to the wall in front of which the entity had appeared. The authorities at the base concluded that shots had indeed been fired that night but refused to speculate to any further degree about what the soldiers had been firing at.

The witnesses in this case have apparently been identified as José Maria Trejo, Juan Carrizosa Luján & José Hidalgo, though it is currently unclear who did what in the bizarre narrative.

## Source

‘*Encyclopedia of Alien Encounters*’by Alan Baker
Bizarre Pennsylvania Blobsquatch

Rumours of weird hairy creatures lurking in the snow-frosted forests of Pennsylvania have long spread in the dark corners of local folklore, but as of February 2013 one woman claims to have captured one such enigmatic entity on camera. Although some commenters on the picture have said that they '*couldn’t take a worse photo if they tried*', the creature in the image certainly seems to be something out of the ordinary.

## Getting Trolled

Taking to the ever-trustworthy tool for the distribution of undeniably important information, a woman named Polly shared a bizarre photograph that one of her friends had apparently taken in the early months of 2013. This friend lives on a rural property in Pennsylvania, and allegedly caught sight of the hirsute horror as she was calling her two black chow dogs in from outside. She was frightened when the creature didn't run away from her, as one would expect a wild animal to do when confronted with noisy dogs and their owner.

She described the horrendous humanoid as looking '*like a little gorilla*', and apparently both she and Polly believe that what she was a juvenile sasquatch. The denizens of the internet have since decided to call this creature a troll, on the grounds that it doesn't quite fit the description of an average hairy humanoid. The friend confirmed that she knows exactly what a bear looks like, and this was most certainly not one of those. The photo also seems to confirm this, seeing as it quite blatantly depicts a gangly, crouched humanoid creature with a four-legged posture similar to that of a gorilla. However, that is the only thing which the photo depicts...

## 100% Genuine Blobsquatch

The photo itself, like any good paranormal picture, shows little more than a vaguely monster-shaped blob. This is obviously due to the zoom having been cranked up to max in order to take the picture, but it renders the image incredibly difficult to analyse. I have no idea as to the identity of the entity in the shot, but I would suggeset that it might be someone wearing a costume with stilts on the arms. I think it's a fairly good fit. Perhaps this could've been a prank?

## Source

http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2013/02/snapshot-of-weird-pennsylvania-creature.html
Devil-Dwarf of Remedios

One is advised not to work on Holy Days in plenty of Christian superstitions. According to such religious sources, this is so that people can worship God to the best of their ability without having to undertake any activities which may hinder this. If this specific story is to be believed, then perhaps it is best not to insist on working on such venerated dates for one's personal safety - for the Devil himself is reputed to use these times to get some work of his own done!

## The Friday Devil

Jose Espinoza got up early on All Saints' Day - which apparently fell on April 14th in 1948 despite Wikipedia's insistence that it only occurs on the 1st of November in the West and on the Sunday after Pentecost in the East. He lived in Remedios, Cuba, which used to be part of the Las Villas Province, and was planning to arrange some cane carts in the fields outside his house so that he could work on them later. His mother gave him a grave warning not to leave home on the Holy Day, seeing as the '*Devil himself was out doing his work on this day*', but Jose unwisely chose to ignore her pleas.

He headed out towards the four carts in the field, and clambered atop the first cart to begin his labours. Shortly after starting work, his attention was suddenly drawn to a diminutive humanoid stood on the fourth cart. The miniature monstrosity was only about 1.5ft in height, and was fiery red in colour. Sparks flew from '*horn like protrusions and a tail*' on the creature's body. The devilish dwarf soon noticed the stunned worker, and swiftly somehow produced a ball of fire which it then proceeded to hurl at Jose. It did this several times, each time rolling a larger fireball towards its appalled victim. He only just managed to dodge the unique projectiles, and was apparently so stunned that he found that he could not react any further to the situation. After overcoming what was presumably paralysing fear, Jose screamed '*this is the devil!*' at the top of his lungs before leaping off the cart and running back towards his house. He didn't stop until he was back in the safety of his home.

## A Superstition Come to Life?

Albert Rosales reported on this case after being emailed the details by a trusted correspondent, and he posited that the witness might've unintentionally misremembered the description of the undeniably-bizarre humanoid due to his belief that it was associated with the Devil. I am not so sure of this verdict, seeing as there are plenty of reports that I have come across depicting little red humanoids and things that can only be described as bona fide devils and demons. I do not personally subscribe to a religious interpretation of these events, but who am I to question what people honestly report?

## Source

'Mitología Cubana' by Samuel Feijóo and Albert Rosales' description of the events described therein.