Chris Bader writes in Strange Northwest of a Washington resident named Virginia Staples who claimed to see an extraordinarily odd creature back in 1948, while doing her laundry in the basement of her creepy old home. As she was pinning clothing to the clothesline, she suddenly had the strange and uncomfortable sensation that she was being watched.
She turned around and standing there in front of her was a frightening creature she later described as being about five feet tall, orange in color, with spindly legs and an antennae on its head. She screamed and fled as the thing started to approach her. She didn’t stop at the front door either, and immediately moved out of the house.
Another oddity put in an appearance in 1965 at the heavily forested area atop Visually Hill, in Nisqually, Washington. It was described as a ‘bald’ creature, slender, standing around seven feet-tall with ‘stumpy’ legs. Its head was egg-shaped and also hairless, the witness stated, with glowing pink eyes. Another witness later claimed to see ‘The Thing,’ as the locals soon dubbed the monster, and was even able to get off a shot at it; to no affect. It simply ran off into the woods.
A peculiar glowing inhumanoid with “blazing red eyes” was seen in Maryland in 1971 by a passing motorist and two friends. On October 18th, 1973 two boys were reportedly chased down White Oak Mountain near Chatham, Virginia by a very strange creature indeed. They described the thing as around four-foot-tall and whitish with no eyes. It “seemed to shimmer,” they said, as it ran ‘sideways’ down the mountain after them. Even more bizarrely, the entity seemed to shift into a hazy, green, cloud-like shape before the two were able to escape the scene.
A group of armed soldiers allegedly encountered several hostile inhumanoids north of the DMZ in Vietnam on December 17th, 1974. They had ventured into the forest that day on a search and destroy mission, not knowing that their ultimate destination was; the twilight zone. The further in they went, the stranger and more eerie the atmosphere, even the scenery, seemed to become.
They came across some unusual scat and not long afterward they heard the sounds of footsteps approaching. The soldiers melted into the trees and bushes, quietly hiding from sight as the figures came into view. Well-trained as they were, nothing could have prepared them for what they saw next. A group of yellow-colored, eight-foot-tall ‘monsters’ with three-digit fingers and long claws.
The men hid in the underbrush until the inhumanoids had passed, then moved on. But they weren’t as clever as they thought they were, and it wasn’t long before the crashing in the brush in front of them indicated their dire predicament. They abandoned all discretion and fled at top speed into the jungle with the yellow monsters in hot pursuit. As they fled, the soldiers turned and fired ‘many rounds’ into the chests of the manbeasts; which had no visible effect on the beasts whatsoever. The group only barely escaped the scene by river after happening upon an abandoned boat.
In Quebec, Canada, inhumanoid witnesses Christian Talbot and Susan Mondor were driving down a lonely stretch of road near Saint-Dominique-de-Bagot on the evening of November 3rd, 1975 when suddenly a weird noise filled their ears and the car engine stalled. As the vehicle coasted to a stop, the two were horrified by the appearance, out of nowhere, of a tall, inhumanoid figure. The grotesque entity had “...demonic facial features and pointy ears,” they said, and was green on the top half of its body, and a paler color on the lower half.
On May 8, 1977, two witnesses walking in an area known as Cabin Hill in Hainault Forest in London, claimed to see a bizarre, dark blue humanoid that stood over eight-feet tall, was four feet wide and gave off an eerie glow. On being seen the entity ran off into the woods, leaving the startled men standing alone in shocked silence. The area reportedly has a history of other weirdness, including UFO and inhumanoid activity.
Another truly inexplicable entity was seen riding a cloud in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in the summer of 1980. While returning home one day the witness observed a strange cloud hanging low above the ground with a tall humanoid creature silhouetted atop it. The thing was white as snow, the witness claimed, with two beady, black eyes and a long tail. It seemed to jump on the cloud, which caused a fog-like vapor to erupt, then sprang from the cloud-like object to the ground and began to approach the witness.
Horribly frightened by the appearance of the apparition, the man fell to the ground and cowered in fear beneath his coat. After several seconds had transpired and nothing happened, he looked up and was relieved to see the frightful figure once again perched atop the cloud and floating away.
Stick Man
In 1982, when I was a student nurse at Warley Hospital, Brentwood in Essex, England, I encountered a ‘stick person’ in the grounds of the Hospital as I was walking home one night. It lopped across the roadway having been, seemingly, pressed up against a wall. It stopped when it saw me and raised its arms in fright and quickly walked off into the undergrowth. It was very tall with very thin, extremely long arms and legs and a very small oval head. Totally black and no obvious clothing. I saw no face even though it emerged very near a street lamp and so was well illuminated. I was terrified and to this day, no-one believes me.”
-Simon Howes.
A male witness, while driving through Chaffee, Missouri one evening in December of 2003, was shocked to see a humanoid figure running alongside his car, easily keeping pace with the vehicle; which was traveling 50 mph! He couldn’t make out many details of the creature while traveling so fast in the darkness, he later said, but was able to see that it was “gangly” looking, ran in a “hunched over” fashion, and was the color of aluminum. The entity, after pacing the car for a short distance, reportedly began to “fade away” as it ran, until it disappeared to the witness completely. A gangly, or skinny appearance has been reported before in humanoid encounters and is reminiscent of a creature commonly called “Stickman” in the mid-west and southern portions of the U.S.
The very next month, January of 2004, another inhumanoid of similar description was seen in Manchester, Indiana (Dearborn County) some ten miles north of the city of Aurora.
At seven-thirty p.m. on the evening of the 24th, while traveling southbound on North Hogan Rd., the witness spied the creature crouching beside a puddle of water near the roadside. When the headlights hit it the creature stood up and headed for the woods. The witness described it as a tall, pencil thin, bizarre looking figure with “pointed joints” that buckled as it walked. It stood on two legs, he claimed, and was about seven-foot tall.
Another stick-man was seen near Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil on the night of January 31st, 2004. Inhumanoid witness Alan Flavio described the thing he saw standing in a field as slim and strong-legged with skin the color and texture of graphite. Strangely, Flavios also claimed that the creature reappeared to him later that same night in a dream and paralyzed him.
At eleven p.m. on February 14th of that same year a female witness observed a similar creature, described as weird-looking and pencil thin, as it ran near her home in in Elkader, Iowa. It had stared at her briefly before taking off, she claimed. The encounter had left her so shaken that she had cried for two hours.
“Yesterday (March 1st, 2011) at 20:30 hrs. just when I was about to leave the office I heard a very strange sharp buzz that came from the outside that made me look to the outside to see what it was about. When I looked in the direction the sound came from I saw a long and very thin shadow with a copper color that after a while of not moving it started walking towards the light. It was in that moment that I got very scared because I could see clearly that it was not a normal person. It had no face and its body looked like a stick made of one piece.
I went looking for my cell phone camera to take a picture of it and to my surprise, when I came back, that thing was higher than the wall of the building and it kept growing and stretching until it reached the second-floor windows of the neighboring building. It suddenly jumped up the walls and began to climb up to the roof where I lost sight of it. I kept hearing the buzz for some more seconds until it
disappeared completely. I was able to take pictures of it. I have spent the whole night thinking about it but I have no idea what could that be.” -Simon Howes.
Centaurs
Yes, believe it or not. Even centaurs, those bizarre anthropomorphic mixtures of man and horse, still seem to make an occasional appearance, although they do not always look like the Centaurs first described by the Greeks of Homeric times. An interesting story is carved into the surface of the famous Parthenon concerning the Centaurs who, some said, were born of the union between Centaurus and the mares of Magnesium. The story tells of a ‘Centauromachy,’ a war between them and the Lapiths. It was caused when the Centaurs appeared at a marriage celebration and drank too much wine, which was unknown to them.
Amidst the celebration one Centaur insulted the bride and overturned the tables. The skirmish didn’t go well for them, however. Defeated by the Lapiths, they were banished from Thessaly. It is said that the mighty hero Hercules later all but annihilated the race of biforms with his arrows. He obviously missed a few of them.
In May of 1963, a Mr. James McKinney of Centerville, Illinois made a frantic phone call to the local police claiming that he’d just witnessed a strange creature “...half-man, half-horse,” just like the centaurs out of classic Greek mythology. He was, understandably, quite dismayed by the bizarre sight and painfully aware of how crazy it sounded. But the police were entirely sympathetic to his encounter and took the report very seriously. They had, after all, already received nearly fifty calls from other concerned Centerville citizens describing the exact same thing and were at a total loss to explain just what it was, exactly, that was galloping around the town that year; there were no circuses in town from which such an equestrian enigma might have escaped.
Years later a group of ten-year-olds would claim to see another such half-man/half-horse, in Melbourne, Florida as it stood near the highway on the outskirts of their town. They described it as a six feet-tall, reddish, horse-like beast that scared them so badly they fled from the scene never to return.
Another bizarre biform anomaly was witnessed by a young couple, John and Margaret Johnson, as they drove down a country lane near the Lord Dillon Estate in County Louth, England in 1966. Margaret Johnson described the bizarre entity as “...a huge horse with a man’s face and horrible bulging eyes. I could see by John’s face that he saw it too. I think I screamed, but both of us were so frightened that we were paralyzed. The thing had a horse’s body. But it was the face, leering and hairy and huge, which shocked.”
The strange figure, or another exactly like it, was seen again during the early 1990s at King’s Lynn on the Norfolk-Lincolnshire border. It was also described as having the body of a horse with the face of a man.
A security guard stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, Britain allegedly saw an equine anomaly one night in 1996. He had heard the sound of hooves running in the darkness, but when the beast ran from out of the shadows he saw that it had human feet! I could find no further description of the creature, nor an explanation as to where the sound of hooves striking the ground might have come from.
A large pond in Clogheen, Munster, Ireland is also said to be the home of ‘Petticoat Loose,’ a half-horse/half-woman chimeric beast with a very strange name, even for an inhumanoid. She haunts the pond’s watery depths, it is said, lying in wait for possible human victims.
Half a world away another tall, hair-covered, centaur-like entity with glowing red eyes and a “glowing head” was seen in Baku, Azerbaijan in December of 1989, as it pranced across the rooftops of the town. It reportedly made guttural sounds and even blasted some people with beams of light” before melting away into the darkness. A similar zooform appeared in Chile in 2000.
On the evening of May 31st, in the village of Quillota, a villager heard a loud commotion coming from his roof. He went outside to investigate the noise and was confronted by a bizarre beast that stood nearly eight feet tall. It had the upper body of a man with no nose, he said, and the lower body of what appeared to be a horse. The creature then sprang from the roof and bounded away in the direction of a nearby ravine. The next day the body of a dead dog was found in the area.
As is so often the case, these next inexplicable inhumanoids chose to show themselves to a group of youths, this time at Conil de la Frontera, near the city of Madrid, Spain where two glowing human-like entities were seen to emerge from the sea in 1990. Once ashore the luminous curiosities reportedly fell to the sand, then ‘flipped’ back onto their feet and appeared dressed as normal human beings. Of course the children fled. Were these beings actually sea-dwellers, or was there a “flying saucer” waiting beneath the waves just offshore?
Our next inhumanoid oddball made its appearance in Petropavlovsk, Russia in 1991. The Ivanitzky family had been awakened from their sleep one night by what sounded like the chirping of many crickets. They could find no evidence of crickets inside their home, even after nine consecutive nights of being aroused from sleep by the racket.
Then, on the tenth night, they discovered a small, hair-covered ‘animal’ beneath their bed. They were unsure if it was a dog or some type of giant mouse. In fact, the creature seemed to change form overnight. The next day the thing had sprouted a long trunk from its face, which then seemed to transform into a human-like mask. The family attempted to expunge their peculiar unwanted guest from its hiding place by throwing various objects at it; to no effect.
At one point they sprayed the thing with every household chemical they could find. In response it simply rolled further into the corner. They could see it more clearly now. It had a bluish tint to its fur, they noted, three-fingered paws and strong-looking, bat-like wings. Soon afterwards the bizarre anomaly apparently expired and Mr. Ivanitzky eventually threw the form into a roadside ditch fearing that he’d killed a rare animal which was most likely protected under Russian State Law.
Another bizarre inhumanoid was seen by two persons in a fruit grove in Italy in 1993. This one had glowing eyes and metallic-looking skin. Also from 1993, this time in Dundonald, Scotland, another inexplicable appeared to frighten and harass local citizens including one woman, who had walked outdoors to see why her dogs had suddenly started barking furiously, only to see a muscular figure that was charcoal-gray in color, had two red ‘slits’ for eyes, and stood over ten feet tall.
Another witness soon came forward and claimed to see a similar specter, only this one was accompanied by two smaller, dwarf-sized creatures with ‘no discernible features’ that followed the giant up the hill. One of the creatures seemed to grow in size as it walked, the man claimed. Thoroughly unsettled, the witness fled the area.
2002 finds us back in Argentina, site of much inhumanoid activity, where a truly terrifying attack took place by an entity apparently made of animate shadows which left the victim scraped and bruised but, luckily, alive. ‘El Petizo,’ the ‘shadow,’ was just one of many supposed specters which haunted the countryside of the El Duraznito in the northern Salta Province. The Shadow was said to be a black, human-like form that attacked people in the middle of the night and was immune to physical retaliation of any kind.
But it had attacked a boy riding a bicycle in broad daylight nine miles southeast of Rosario de la Frontera. The boy, who had been going to visit friends for a day of hunting, carried with him a knife and a shotgun. During his journey he was suddenly thrown from his bike, and shocked to see a huge shadowy form approaching him from the road. Stunned, the young witness drew his gun and blasted the being; to no effect whatever. He scrambled for his knife as the figure reached him, only to find his savage thrusts simply passed through the entity and did not harm it.
The witness tried to reach his feet, but the sinister apparition knocked him down once again, grabbed him by the hair and began dragging him off to the side of the road. Terrified, the boy began to shout, sure that the thing intended to kill him. Luckily, his screams were heard by a passerby who rushed to the scene and found the boy still in the grip of a large, black, human-
like shadow, being dragged down the road. As the Good Samaritan bravely approached, the shadow vanished before their eyes leaving the boy in shock and suffering from minor injuries.
El Duraznito is said to have been a favored location for numerous occult group activities for over a thousand years. This fact may have had nothing at all to do with the appearance of ‘the shadow,’ of course.
A similar shadowy figure had terrorized the residents of Pine Bush, New York; which is not known for its tradition of occult activities at all; during the early 1990s. It was a tall, entirely black figure which delighted in knocking on doors and terrifying the female residents of the area. One woman claimed that she saw the black figure squatting in her driveway in 1993.
From a News agency of Nigeria; report dated May 18, 2003.
Strange Creature Forces Maru Women Indoors:
“Women in Maru, a large town near the Zamfara River in northern Nigeria, have been found to remain inside in the evening for fear of a strange creature which chases them.
The News Agency of Nigeria has learned that a mysterious creature, said to be half-man and half-horse, usually appears in the early hours of the morning or the evening. The creature fits the description of a centaur of Greek mythology, the most famous ones being Centaurus, Chiron and Sagittarius. However, the Nigerian version is distinctly African. It was described as having close-cropped hair, a goatee, horse-like ears, with a man's torso sprouting from a horse’s body where the horse’s neck usually is. The creature had two human arms and four equine legs, and, from the human neck down, it had the black-and-white striped coloration of an African zebra.
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