The Inhumanoids

by Barton M Nunnelly

  “I watched it for about two minutes before it saw me,” he later said. “It stood in a fairly upright position, although it was bent over about in the middle of its back, with arms about the same length as a normal human being’s. I’d say it was about five-eight or so, and it had a very muscular structure. The head sat directly on its shoulders and the face was black, with hair that stuck out at the back of the head. It had eyes set close together, and a very short forehead. It was covered with hair except for the back of the hands and the face. The hands looked like normal hands, not claws.”

  Kaiser stood motionless as he watched but when he moved, the creature made a strange grunting sound, turned, leaped over a ditch and disappeared down the road running “at great speed.” Investigators were later able to take plaster casts of the footprints they found in the dirt by the ditch where the creature had landed. The casts showed a big toe impression and three smaller toes. Four toes, as readers may know, further complicates the ‘Bigfoot as undiscovered primate’ claim. All primates have five toes. There are no exceptions. Yet many of the footprints left by these creatures clearly show three, four, five, or even six or more toes on each print.

  In any event, the very next evening, May 20th, the Kaiser’s neighbor, Mr. Charles Rolfing claimed to have watched a glowing greenish-white object as it maneuvered through the sky in the area. He was sure it was not a conventional airplane of any type.

  On the night of December 3rd, 1970, in Vader, Washington, the Wallace Bowers family noticed that their dog was acting oddly, as if sensing the presence of an intruder. Mr. Bowers got up and looked out the windows. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, however, so the dog’s behavior was soon forgotten.

  The next morning Bowers, a logger by trade, left for work at around 5:30 a.m. It had snowed an inch the night before, he noticed, freezing solid afterwards and leaving road conditions slippery and dangerous. This was nothing unusual for Washington winters.

  A few hours later, back at the Bowers’ home, Mrs. Bower heard her children calling for her to come outside. She threw on a coat and stepped out to see what the commotion was about. Her children were looking at her and pointing to the ground. She was then mystified to see that the yard was covered in large, human-like footprints sunk deep into the snow.

  “The footprints were very large, measuring sixteen inches (long) and five to seven inches wide,” she later told an investigator. She noticed that her husband hadn’t been heavy enough to leave any prints at all in the hardened snow. Neither had his truck. That wasn’t the case, however, with whatever made the mysterious footprints. “The prints were like black on white,” she said, “as whatever made them was so heavy it took the frozen snow with each step, plus leaving one and a half-inch (deep) impressions in the frozen gravel beneath.”

  Three days later on the morning of Monday the 7th, at 7:15 a.m., her children again called excitedly for her to come see. This time they were at the window, where she found that they were watching a “bright star” as it moved across the sky. It flew closer and they were able to watch it carefully for about ten minutes. The center of the object, she said, appeared to be a dome, around which a larger circle was revolving. It was deep orange in color with a bright rim.

  It hovered above some nearby power lines, tipped slightly sideways like an airplane banking, changing from orange to a “bright, clear light.” Then it made another sweep closer, changing to orange again. Just before it sped off and vanished in the distance the children thought they saw a “gray shape” dropping down from it. During the sighting Mrs. Bowers tried to use the intercom system in the house, only to hear a weird, “sharp” sound emitting from it. “The funny thing is,” she said, “we tried to use the intercom the night before and got that same sharp sound.”

  Later in the week her husband was again at work and she and her children were alone in the house. Or so she thought. As she was putting another log in the living room fireplace she saw the curtains moving in her son’s bedroom, which was visible from where she stood. All the children were in the living room with her and panic began to set in when she realized that someone, or something, was in the house with them. “All I could think about was getting them safely out of there,” she said. “So, I loaded them into the car and we left, but I definitely saw a shape in the bedroom as we drove away.”

  They didn’t return to the house until she was sure her husband was home. “I feel sure that it was probably a prowler,” she claimed. “We’ve had trouble in our neighborhood and I don’t think it’s related to the others. But the footprints and the saucer; I don’t know...”

  After checking the house thoroughly, Mr. Bower found that the bedrooms had been rummaged through but nothing had actually been taken. As for the subsequent months at that location, according to Mrs. Bowers, “We had several months of strange noises in the night, something very heavy thudding across the yard, but we never saw anything. Our house is so well insulated it is hard for us to even hear a car coming into our driveway. So it was really strange to be awakened by this thudding jar going across our yard. Every night it was about the same time. It would wake us up between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m.”

  Three years later, in early October of 1973, another inhumanoid made an appearance in Galveston, Indiana. Jeff Martin was fishing at a lake with two companions when he noticed that they had wandered off to another part of the lake, leaving him alone. He heard something behind him, he later claimed, and turned to see an ape-like figure watching him from about twenty feet away. It was dusk and visibility was poor and he was frightened, he admitted, so he called out to the thing, which made no reply other than to slip quietly into the darkened woods.

  As Jeff was sitting there a few minutes later he felt something touch his shoulder and whirled around to see the same, sandy-colored, bipedal creature standing close to him. It then ran away with amazing speed, running in great leaps, “like a man on a rope being pulled too fast by a car.”

  Martin, running bravely in pursuit, could hear the thing’s feet slapping on the blacktop as it crossed the road. It turned around one last time, leaped over a ditch and promptly disappeared into the surrounding woods once again. A short time later, a “glowing bronze object” shot up out of the trees and like a streak, faded away into the sky. The whole series of events happened so swiftly that it seemed almost instantaneous.

  The witness returned to the scene the following day but found nothing. However, on the second day following the sighting, he decided to return to the site again, this time with his fiance, Nelly Floyd, her father, Gene and two other friends. Oddly, for nearly the entire trip the car was followed by a strange white “glowing light.” The object disappeared near a bridge close to the sighting location and, even more bizarrely, when they arrived at the site the creature was there waiting for them. They braked hard, coming to a stop and partially blocking the road.

  It was eight or nine-feet tall, they said, and was standing motionless in the tall weeds. The five men then got out of the car and trained the beams of their flashlights directly at the creature and noticed that the light seemed curiously weaker when it hit the thing, almost as if it was absorbing the light. It did not move, but stood there as if entranced, giving off a musky smell.

  It has been noted many times before that, when these creatures are near, local fauna such as birds, frogs and crickets mysteriously ‘go silent.’ Oddly, this was not the case here, the crickets and frogs continued their night songs, seemingly undisturbed by the beast’s presence.

  The group then yelled at the creature and, when they received no response, decided to throw some rocks at it, which must have seemed like a good idea at the time. By this time, the two friends had seen enough and decided it would be safer back in the car. As the others threw the rocks, they couldn’t tell if the stones were hitting the creature, bouncing off it, or passing right through it but, in any event, they failed to get the thing to move in any way.

  Another vehicle approached and they were forced to move the car from
the road. When they returned to the spot the inhumanoid was gone. Interestingly, one of the witnesses, Gene Floyd, claimed to have a history when it came to strange phenomena, having seen UFOs a dozen times previously, and, according to him, had even developed a certain degree of psychic abilities.

  On October 21st, 1973, in Western Cincinnati, a female witness awoke around 2:30 a.m. and arose from bed to get a drink of water when she noticed an intense light shining in through the bedroom window. When she opened the curtains she was shocked to see a row of six silvery-blue lights forming an arc only a few feet from the window. They were self-luminous and hanging about four feet off the ground.

  She then saw another bright light, she later told an investigator, further away over a parking lot beyond her trailer. A car parked nearby obscured her view of the bottom half of this light, but she could see enough of it to observe an ‘ape-like creature’ standing there inside the glowing orb. It was gray in color and featureless save for a downward-sloping snout.

  As the light moved toward the parked car, the witness ran into her son’s bedroom to try and rouse him. When she returned the creature had moved away from the car about thirty-five feet and was now encased in what she called a ‘shield of light’ shaped like a bubble umbrella. It was moving its arms up and down slowly and very stiffly, like a robot, its elbows never bending.

  She had the impression that it may have been manipulating invisible levers or some such but, in any event, she had seen more than enough. She picked up the phone and immediately called the police, who didn’t seem to take her report too seriously. While she was on the phone a ‘loud, deep boom’ sounded from outside, and when she and her son looked out again the creature and all the lights had vanished.

  While the inhumanoids were busy frightening people in America in 1973, others of their kind were also staging similar appearances overseas. Near Mairiuex, France in November of 1973, for example, a man and a woman sitting in a parked car on Canourge Road were surprised to notice a white, semi-circular, metallic object nearly fifty feet wide sitting in a nearby snow-covered field. The couple watched, amazed, as an opening appeared in the side of the craft, and six inhumanoids of three different types began to emerge.

  First out of the craft were three diminutive entities with large heads and long arms. They were four feet tall, one witness said, with protruding eyes, mere holes for a nose, narrow mouths and bulging cheeks. According to the witness, the dwarfish entities were dressed in tight-fitting, one-piece outfits which looked metallic, and each was carrying a small box about six inches wide with a luminous screen on top. Walking stiffly, the entities fanned out as if searching for something while two “humans” emerged from the object. These were similarly dressed, stood six and a half feet tall and had blond, shoulder-length hair and pale complexions. Then from the craft emerged a hairy, upright figure with long, dangling arms which looked like a “bear or great ape.”

  Meanwhile, the three beings in front had walked to a point quite close to the witnesses and the young woman panicked. She exited the vehicle, slamming the door and running back to her own car, which was parked a short distance behind.

  According to the man, as if noticing his friends terrified reaction, the small beings in front stood still. The ape-like creature quickly reentered the craft, followed by the two Nordic Human-types and, lastly, the trio of strange diminutives, who ran back to the waiting object with such “unexpectedly long and swift strides that they looked as if they were flying over the ground.”

  Once the creatures were all back inside the object, the door disappeared. Then the UFO took on a brilliant metallic color, rose vertically for thirty feet, and streaked off to the west, changing colors as it rapidly faded into the distance. The witnesses didn’t stick around to look for tracks but, interestingly enough, strange tracks were allegedly found later that morning about a mile away in a garden in Maubeuge.

  “If Bigfoot were real,” cries the skeptic, “the government would already have found them by now.” A more accurate statement, I submit, has never been uttered. The skeptic is exactly right on this one. It is entirely probable that the government does know exactly what these creatures are, as well as the true nature of their origins. The critical imperative with them, it would seem, is that you never find out.

  A remarkable incident occurred in mid-July of 1974 near Palmdale, California. Author/investigator Peter Guttilla illuminates the evening’s bizarre events in his highly regarded Fortean work, ‘The Bigfoot Files.’

  “On the night of the 17th at 10 p.m., three people in a trailer park observed a glowing torpedo-shaped UFO descend close to the ground in a shallow valley. As the object hovered silently numerous dark masses dropped from it to the ground.

  Interviewed separately, the witnesses agreed the blobs appeared to be animate and upon striking the ground seemed to amble off in all directions. The witnesses ascribed no definite shape to the moving masses, except that they were quite large, and situated approximately on the upper end of each figure were two evenly-spaced reddish dots that glowed like red light bulbs.

  As the blobs fled into the night, the UFO silently swiveled on its axis and shot off into the distance and disappeared. One of the witnesses theorized that the dark figures were living things and felt the glowing dots were eyes permitting the entities to see in the dark. When asked why she thought this, she said as the masses changed direction the dots appeared to grow closer together and widen respectively, just like they were looking around when they moved. All three witnesses showed symptoms of sunburn and eye irritation the next day, and all had trouble sleeping after the incident.

  The next day our group systematically searched the area for tracks and found several sets which were badly obscured and not suitable for casting. When we widened our search to encompass an area about a mile wide, we found several sets of impressive footprints. One group of tracks was especially interesting since they bore all the characteristics of the typical 5-toed Bigfoot prints, but with marked peculiarity. The foot was twisted and displayed a strange contraction of the toes in clusters, almost as if fusing together.

  On close inspection, there appeared to be an enlargement of the middle toe, a joining of the fourth and fifth, and a joining of the big toe and the second. It was very strange, and the division of the toes could be seen where the soil had pressed up between them. The tracks were 18 inches in length, 8 inches at the ball, and 7 inches at the heel with a 6-foot stride.”

  Three months later, in October of 1974, this time in Saugus, California, two teenage brothers named McBride reported to police that they had seen a strange creature running away carrying a pig under one arm. Shortly afterwards the local newspaper, the Saugus-Newhall Signal, ran a story about the sighting under the byline, ‘Does Bigfoot roam the Santa Clarita Valley?’

  Forty-four-year-old Fortean investigator; Adele Childress, after reading the article, contacted the owner of the ranch where the sighting took place. Only one of the boys had actually seen the creature on the property, she learned. The other brother had glimpsed the thing as it ran away with the pig. Surprisingly, another detail came out about the monster, one that immediately struck Childress as atypical in these situations. According to the kids, the thing had been wearing a glowing blue belt around its waist.

  Several weeks later, according to Childress, she was contacted by some people claiming to have seen a UFO near a place called Texas Canyon. They described a glowing, disc-shaped object hovering silently near the east end of the canyon, which was just north of the location of the McBride creature sighting.

  Then one night in late November, at about 11:00 p.m., Childress received a call from a group of excited teenagers who had seen something incredible while late night driving in Texas Canyon. Childress invited them to her home to tell their story in detail.

  “Minutes later,” she stated, “six of the most frightened kids I have ever seen were sitting in my living room.” Shortly after the high-school football game, they told her, they had deci
ded to take a shortcut home; the dirt road leading through Texas Canyon. They had traveled only about three miles when they noticed a cloud of dust on the road up ahead in the distance. Naturally assuming it was a motorcycle or car kicking up dust, they thought little of it; until, that is, they approached closer and saw that the cause of the dust trail was not a vehicle at all, but three of “...the weirdest looking animals we’d ever seen...”

  The animals were upright, tall and hairy, they claimed, with dog-like faces, human-like bodies and glowing eyes. As the group of terrified teens passed, the creatures threw dirt and stones at the car and screamed at them in what sounded like “monkey chatter.” Several witnesses claimed they saw “points of light” coming down off the hill, giving them the impression that more creatures were approaching.

  Impressed with the kids’ obvious sincerity while recounting their story, Childress called some friends together and, along with her husband who had been extremely dubious of the whole affair until he heard the teenager’s testimony, drove out to the canyon in the middle of the night. Once there, their investigation revealed several patches of oddly scattered dirt and stones, as well as some small six-inch holes here and there in the ground. They could find no tracks at all in the nearly frozen dirt but, oddly, the smell of rotten eggs seemed to hang in the air at the site.

  One of the members of the group yelled and pointed up at the sky. A small plane seemed to be having engine trouble directly overhead. The motor sputtered then stalled out completely. They could hear the pilot trying to restart the engine, without success.

  “Suddenly we heard a loud sound come from somewhere further down the canyon,” she later claimed. “It sounded like a helicopter but more muffled. While our attention was focused alternately on the plane above us and the sound below us, a huge, white, bright light blinked on slightly behind and above the plane. The light was silent and extremely bright.”