The Inhumanoids

by Barton M Nunnelly

  “...over 100 residents of the Texan Palomeque commissariat of the municipality of Hanucuma, backed by 10 police officers of said entity, went after an alleged ‘paranormal being’ dubbed ‘the wolf woman,’ whose escapades have caused fear among residents of this and other Yucatan communities. Armed with rifles, shotguns, pistols and equipped with lanterns, the locals organized themselves by groups and plunged into the wilderness in order to put an end to this ‘being,’ described by eyewitnesses as hairy, standing approximately a meter and a half, walking on two legs and with glowing red eyes.”

  Evidently the armed posse had no luck tracking down the avian-killer, as no further mention of the expeditious undertaking was made. But our South American monster hunters have no cause for embarrassment. Such has been the outcome of every such endeavor on every continent throughout the history of mankind. Another member of the Hairy Inhumanoid Society, this one also apparently female, appeared in Crimea, Ukraine that same year to a man and his six-year-old daughter as they were camping on a rocky hill north of Mishor, along the coast of the Black Sea. It was two meters tall, they said, densely-furred and completely white. It moved at a great pace, like it was trying to hide from view among the rocks, before disappearing completely in an area where there seemed to be no place at all to hide as if it had vanished into thin air.

  Engraving of ‘Am Fear Liath Mor,’ also known as the ‘Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui,’ a fearsome, hair-covered inhumanoid said to haunt the summit and lonely mountain passes of Ben Macdhui, the highest peak in the Caingorm Mountians in the eastern highlands of Scotland.

  In all fairness, it must be said that, despite these numerous examples to the contrary which I’ve cited, the overwhelming bulk of the testimony presented thus far on the subject of Bigfoot, perhaps as much as ninety percent, supports the notion that it is merely another yet-undiscovered species of hominid. But ‘Occam’s Razor’ serves as a double-edged sword here, as the simplest answer is actually the most complicated one when we are asked to believe that these creatures have been with us since the dawn of our own species; and yet not even a single authenticated bone from one of them has ever been procured by man.

  Evidently, they do not sicken and die in the wild, they do not fall from cliffs, they do not drown or get struck by lightning. They do not die when they are struck by cars, or at least their bodies are never found. Even their young are apparently unaffected by any of the calamities which might befall every other creature of the physical world, including youthful errors in judgement which might lead to or end in tragedy. Where are these stories? Where are their bones? Though admittedly in the minority, reports of atypical hairy hominids do exist and, scientifically, we cannot ignore one and admit another.

  The point is, just as with all inhumanoids, we know absolutely nothing about the these creatures. They refuse to be understood. Scientifically speaking, we know just as little today, in the era of modern knowledge, as we did when our ancestors first threw stones for protection. In fact, everything we think we know about these beings is actually nothing more than individual assumption.

  For all we actually know, these Bigfoot beings could be amphibious, or even aquatic. Sound ridiculous? It isn’t. There have been many reports which describe these creatures as either being witnessed in the water or running into it to make their escape. This has been going on for centuries and impressive documentation does exist which indicates that at least some of the reported aquatic inhumanoid activity (mermaids/mermen) may, in fact, be attributed to aquatic varieties of these Bigfoot creatures.

  Take, for example, the following report. In the year 1161, English fisherman plying their trade off the coast of Orford, Suffolk, apparently caught what they called a “wild man” in their nets and hauled it aboard ship. According to one early 13th century clerical historian, Ralph of Coggeshall, “All the parts of his body resembled those of a man; he had Hair on his Head; a long-peaked Beard, and about ye brest was exceeding hairy and rough.” The seamen took the creature to Bartholemew de Glanvill, of Orford Castle, who held the wild man captive for some time, allowing his soldiers to torture him in an effort to make him speak; efforts which, apparently, were unsuccessful.

  He was fed on raw meat and fish, which he “pressed with his hands” before eating. Glanvill eventually took pity on the wild man, even allowing him brief visits to the water. One day, however, as he was taken out on the sea “to disport himself therein,” he broke through a triple barrier of nets and escaped his captors. Incredibly, not long afterwards he returned to the castle, voluntarily re-entering captivity.

  After a time, and “being wearied of living alone,” the story goes, the wild man went back to the sea and was heard of no more. If our friends, the hairy inhumanoids, are land animals as has always been automatically supposed, it seems a bit strange that this English variety chose to twice escape to the sea where it was caught, instead of heading for the nearest forest. Coggeshall’s description of the creature leaves little doubt as to its appearance and should sound very familiar to even those with only the most passing interest in the Bigfoot phenomenon.

  And then there was the Bigfoot-type entity encountered in Mansfield, Ohio in March of 1959. Following multiple reports of a large, hairy Inhumanoid described as being seven feet tall with glowing green eyes, one investigator reportedly found large tracks shaped like swim fins. Other tracks such as these, some with only three or four toes, were found at various locations throughout America during the 1960s and ‘70s.

  Other Hairy Inhumanoids

  But what about the other ten percent of hairy inhumanoid sightings? Sightings of hirsute anomalies which do not match the classical description of the common garden-variety Bigfoot? As mentioned earlier, Bigfoot is definitely not the only giant, hairy monster that seems to be roaming about our mysterious world.

  If witness testimony is to be believed, there are many others, and they’ve been around an awfully long time as well. The Gray King, to cite just one example among hundreds, is said to be a huge bear-like, inhumanoid, also called the ‘Brenin Llwyd,’ which has allegedly roamed the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales for centuries. This ‘bear-man’ is said to walk on two legs, stand ten feet tall and have glowing eyes. inhumanoids with bear-like heads have been seen in numerous locations worldwide, including America. And that’s not all.

  A very curious inhumanoid creature was seen in North Carolina over two hundred years ago, according to the Boston Gazette, in July of 1793:

  “A Gentleman on the South Fork of the Saluda river in a letter of the 23rd sends his correspondent in this city the following description on the Bald Mountains in the Western Territories. This animal is between twelve and fifteen feet high, and in shape resembling a human being, except the head, which is in equal proportion to its body and drawn in somewhat like a tarapin; its feet are like those of a negro, and about two feet long, and hairy, which is of a dark dun color; its eyes are exceedingly large, and open and shut up and down its face; the hair of its head is about six inches long, stands straight like a negro’s; its nose is what is called Roman.

  These animals are bold, and have lately attempted to kill several persons; in which attempt some of them have been shot. Their principal resort is on Bald Mountain, where they lay in wait for travelers; but some have been seen in this part of the country. The inhabitants call it ‘Yahoo;’ the Indians, however, give it the name of ‘Chickly Cudly.’

  That’s what wilderness explore and hero Daniel Boone called it as well. According to one biographer Boone claimed to have a killed a ‘Yahoo’ while exploring Kentucky in the mid-1700s. He also described it as a ten foot tall hair-covered inhumanoid. “Yahoos” of course were tall, hairy creatures that appeared in Jonathan Swift’s literary classic, ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ and Boone, who was known to have owned and read Swift’s book and to possess a well-developed sense of humor, more than likely told the story in jest.

  In 1831, in Jessamine County, Kentucky, a man named Patrick Flournoy reported that, while
descending a cliff on the east side of the Kentucky River, he came upon a most unusual inhumanoid creature in seeming repose on a ledge below him. According to an article in Saga magazine, Flournoy stated, “Whilst descending the cliff on the north side of the Kentucky River I encountered a being whose visage was most horrible. He was lying upon the ground, his tail tied to the limb of a tree. The tramping of my horse frightened him and he bounded up the tree, climbing by his tail. Nearing the tree I surveyed his appearance. His hair was long and flowing, and he had but one eye, in the center of his forehead, which was white and near the size of a silver dollar.”

  In July, 1901, three ‘coon hunters encountered an inhumanoid in Chester County, Pennsylvania, at a place called Stewart’s woods in Pensbury township. Milton Brint, his brother Taylor, and Tom Lukens were making their way through the woods that rainy night, following the dogs which barked furiously as they ran through the underbrush. They’d caught a scent, the hunters knew, and it wouldn’t be long before they tree’d a ‘coon.

  As the three men scurried on in anticipation, the dogs suddenly quit barking. Perplexed, the hunters stopped and raised the only lights they had, a couple of dimly glowing bulls-eye lanterns, just in time to see the dogs come running from the trees, whining in terror. They cowered at their masters feet and refused to go back in the woods. “I never saw dogs so scared in all my life,” Brint later said, “and I been “coon hunting now for nearly forty years. It appeared to me as if the critters had just escaped from a catamount (mountain lion).

  Presently they led us forward in the direction of a cedar tree. We turned the bulls-eye into the limbs time and time again, but it availed us nothing. We were at a loss to discover what had frightened the dogs so badly. While we were yet standing there trying to discover the cause of their fright, a low dismal sound came from the tree top. We were startled. By and by the top of the tree began to shake as if some living, moving object were descending.

  It had not gone far when it let go its hold. Straight as an arrow it came tumbling down to the ground. It all happened so sudden and unexpectedly that it was impossible to tell precisely just what it was, for strange to say, every bulls-eye was instantly extinguished by the impact of the fall. We were left in total darkness. I got a faint glimpse of the thing before it struck the ground, however, and while its head and neck bore every semblance to a man, it had the body and legs of a wild beast. I am not naturally a timid man, but I was scared that night. I looked about me for Taylor and Lukens. They were nowhere to be found. They fled the moment the weird object began its unexpected descent.

  The dogs ran like craven curs and I was shortly seized with the same fear. I struck out as fast as I could, not knowing which way my steps were carrying me. I became so badly bewildered that instead of going toward home I ran in an entirely different direction. I brought up in the neighborhood of Kennett Square so badly exhausted that I could not go any further.”

  Brint didn’t see Lukens for several days. Taylor had come to his house the next morning to see if he’d made it out of the woods alive. He would not speak of the incident of the previous evening, however, and left without mentioning it or the strange creature at all. It was nearly a week before the dogs appeared again, ragged and half-starved. “We tried several times to continue hunting in Stewart’s woods,” said Brint, “but it’s of no use. The dogs won’t hunt in the woods. The place is haunted and we will give it a wide berth in the future.”

  Not long after the incident two more men, Lewis Brooks and Jack Murphy, were riding in a wagon along a path in the same woods when a similar creature, if not the same one, crossed the road directly in front of them. They described the beast as having a man-like head and an animal-like body, walking on four feet. It crossed the road, passed directly through a fence, and disappeared into the forest as Brooks stood and emptied his revolver into the thing with no effect whatever. Murphy later described the beast as “spectral-like.”

  A hairy creature with a human and “very angular” face was seen in 1913, as it emerged from the brush in Haverigg, Cumbria, Britain. The witness, a thirteen-year-old boy visiting the dunes to meet one of his friends, described the monster as a thick-furred entity with long, silvery talons and some sort of silver plate on its chest.

  Another hirsute inhumanoid was encountered in Jefferson County, Illinois in the summer of 1941. The Rev. Lepton Harpole, while squirrel hunting in the Gum Creek bottoms near Mt. Vernon, was shocked when “a large animal that looked something like a baboon” jumped down out of a tree and started walking, upright, toward him. Harpole struck the being with the barrel of his gun and fired a couple of shots into the air, scaring it away.

  In the ensuing months, just as in so many other similar locations across the U.S., rural residents would often hear terrifying screams in the night coming from the bottomlands, or find mysterious footprints in the mud. The following spring a farm dog was killed near Bonnie, Illinois, prompting scores of volunteers with shotguns, rifles, ropes and nets to scour the bottoms in search of the animal, which was reputed to be able to leap from twenty to forty feet in a single bound. As is always the case, as we have seen, the creature easily eluded its would be captors, suddenly appearing up to fifty miles away in Jackson and Okaw Counties. Feeling a bit confounded, I’m sure, the posse eventually gave up and returned to their homes.

  Three young witnesses encountered an exceedingly strange human-like animal while investigating a series of old abandoned mine shafts in Sonoma, California one day in 1950. In the middle of their explorations the trio of brave adventurers smelled smoke wafting down the tunnel and set off to investigate the possible cause of the underground fire. They soon found it; and much more.

  There, standing beside the small fire it had made to lure the boys closer, was a large, foul-looking, boar-like beast with human features and hands. As the boys stood looking on in shock, transfixed by what they were seeing, the creature charged the youths without warning, leaving one with a deep wound in his side.

  As you might imagine, there’s nothing like being charged at by an evil-looking, unknown creature to galvanize one into immediate action, and the three undoubtably set new land speed records as they fled those mines. What it was, exactly, that the youths encountered that day as yet remains a mystery. Interestingly, the legends of certain tribes in Brazil speak of a giant, hair-covered inhumanoid cannibal with the tusks and face of a boar called the ‘Aunyaina,’ who rips apart and eats any unfortunate traveler who happens by, bones and all. Actual reported sightings of the Aunyaina, one might assume, must be exceedingly rare.

  In 1954 an outbreak of sightings and attacks of the “Fang Men” occurred near Perak in Malaysia. On one occasion, one such entity even attacked and attempted to abduct a Chinese girl named Wong Yi Moi. The unfortunate witness claimed that she was chased by a dark-colored, heavily-furred inhumanoid with powerful arms, huge fangs and wearing a yellow skirt!

  As she struggled with the horror, which she naturally assumed to be female due to the skirt, she saw three other such beasts, all heavily-built but without skirts, approaching. Luckily, Moi managed to escape. Other encounters also took place near the Trolak River, one of which involved a corporal of the Malaysian police who had spotted three such creatures and was about to fire on them when they jumped into the river and made their escape.

  A large, hairy humanoid was seen multiple times in French Lick, Indiana back in 1965. Unlike the many other Bigfoot reports which come from Indiana each year, ‘French Lick Freddy’ was described as having a luminous glow about him and glowing red eyes.

  Three Marshall, Michigan crop workers were attacked one day in 1966 by a huge beast which might have sprung straight from someone’s nightmares. Phillip and Herman Williams and Otto Collins described the creature as ‘a huge, hairy, green eyed man-beast.’ One local farmer went on record expressing his firm belief that the monster was dropped off by a UFO.

  Another inexplicable hirsute oddity appeared on the night of February 3rd, 1966 in Mal
ag, Trinidad, Spain. Mrs. Gomez Sanchez allegedly came face to face with the hairy entity that was standing on her patio when she looked out her window overlooking the garden. The thing was gaunt-looking, she said, and covered in long hair, but its head was hairless and looked like a newborn baby.

  In Morristown, New Jersey, haunt of the famous ‘Jersey Devil,’ a different creature was seen by several witnesses in 1966. Raymond Todd and three of his friends were parked in the Morristown National Historical Park at dusk on the evening of May 21st when they saw the frightening entity ambling across the grass.

  They described it as faceless, covered with long black hair with scaly skin. It had huge shoulders, they said, and walked erect with a stiff, rocking gait. They were so frightened that they immediately drove to the entrance of the park and began stopping cars, warning the occupants that there was a “monster” on the loose. Todd then reported the encounter to the local police, who stated that his fear was genuine. One year earlier a similar huge, dark figure allegedly approached a car in the same area.

  In 1967, in Elfers, Florida a chimp-like beast with green fur and green glowing eyes allegedly attacked a car full of sober witnesses. They had startled the thing when they’d started the engine, they claimed. The emerald ape then charged the car before running off into the woods. Further investigation revealed a mysterious sticky green substance left behind by the beast on the hood of the car and ground where it was seen standing.

  Another similarly described creature was seen by three motorists in Maryland in 1971, as they traveled down a lonely road near a graveyard. It was said to have been an eerie, glowing monster with blazing red eyes.

  Long Island, New York played host to another hirsute anomaly in 1969, which was even photographed by Jaye P. Paro, a reporter, radio broadcaster and Fortean investigator from Mount Misery. She’d been studying unexplained phenomena in the area which involved both UFO and creature sightings. Her own encounter occurred in January while in the company of two friends at a secluded, wooded area on top of the Mount. One of the friends signed the following statement: