Reptilian cryptids are a surprisingly
common phenomena. They have been reported in almost every state from New Jersey
to California, and most of their appearances are very uniform, implying they
are one in the same species. However, as with all lifeforms, there are examples
of diversity that seem to go far and beyond what the novice would consider to
be relatability. Near the city of Medford, one of the most unique variations of
this kind of cryptid was reported; the creature looked very much like the typical
reptoid with one major difference it had on its back, a pair of large leathery
wings.
While the Highway 13 workers were the last
report of what has become known as the Medford Lizard Man, the area around
Medford was not done with bizarre lizard monster reports. In La Crosse, during
the same decade as the Medford sightings, a father and son, while out looking
for their dog, would have an encounter with a creature dubbed as the La Crosse
Lizard Man. The La Crosse Lizard Man was seen as the father and son approached
a riverbank and where the creature was seen on the opposite side of the bank.
The creature's appearance was slightly different than that seen in Medford as
the creature's skin was dark brown in color, and that it was missing the
infamous wings seen in the Highway 13 cases.
Lizardman cases are while fairly common,
especially in recent years thanks to the removal of a lot of the stigma
regarding coming forward about these accounts; they are a lot harder to swallow
compared to a living relict species such as what Champ or even Bigfoot is
supposed to be. While bipedal dinosaurs did exist, they were not built in the
upright posture like a man as the lizardmen sightings are supposed to be. So,
we have nothing in the fossil record that we could pinpoint as being the
ancestor of this creature or being the obvious suspect for the sighting. Now
there was a thought experiment that did hypothesize if dinosaurs continued to
evolve how they would look, and interestingly, the model known as the
dinosauroid is, in fact, very similar to how reptilians are reported to look. The
obvious problem with this hypothesis is the model ancestor that the dinosauroid
is supposed to of originated from is the Troodon, and back then, it was not
readily accepted that dinosaurs had feathers which we now know they did so
unless it would prove advantageous to lose that feature the dinosauroid model
should have feathers which of course implies that there should be more reports
of birdmen as opposed to lizardmen.
While there are some problems with the
obvious existence of this creature, it would be unscientific to just dismiss
the accounts off-hand, instead of analyzing the possibilities of what this
creature could be is the best way to try to rationalize this creature. With
this creature, the first step is to view it biologically. It has a very biological
appearance with the scales and appearance even its behavior is very similar to
known animals. Animals will utilize highways for a variety of reasons, the big
factor being the ability to maneuver from one section of the forest to the next
easily. Another more interesting factor is that roads take in heat and the fact
that the creature if it is a true reptile it would have an ectothermic body
temperature, so a road would be very much like a giant heating rock which could
explain why both sightings occurred on Highway 13. A lot of this points to a
flesh and blood reptile. Now the obvious problems with this being a biological
creature is that one, as mentioned earlier, it does not have a known ancestor
or answer to how they came around and two, as stated with other flying
humanoids, the creature's wings double up as a second set of arms and hands
just modified for flight something that we have never seen in the known
evolutionary database.
Now the second possibility of what this
creature might be venturing off the trail of earthbound cryptozoology and into
the far off reaches of ufology. While there was no interconnected UFOs or
anomalous lights seen in the sky while the Medford sightings occurred, the
description of the Medford flying humanoid matches a race of extraterrestrial
alleged to of interacting with humans. The Alpha Draconians are a race of
reptilian extraterrestrials that have been described as both winged and
double-winged tend to be the leaders of the other reptilian extraterrestrials.
They allegedly are from Alpha Draconis and are claimed to be about 15-20 ft
tall. Now while there is a rich pre-David Icke history of reptilian encounters
with both abductees and eyewitnesses, which do add a layer of authenticity to
such reports, there is also the inescapable David Icke conspiracies and lore
which even have made their way into the works of Nick Redfern and MUFON.
The theories, while not impossible, are incredibly unlikely and are almost like
the Book of Mormon compared to the Torah and Biblical texts of classical
Ufological works. So, while not impossible are much less so than a
cryptozoological answer. A second subset to the extraterrestrial hypothesis of
the Alpha Draconians is that they are not only extraterrestrials but also
interdimensional entities.
Going further from extraterrestrial and
even interdimensional is the possibility that this creature might be something
demonic. In many supernatural oriented researchers, they feel that the
reptilians are demonic entities and a direct connection to both the serpent in
the Garden of Eden and the Red Dragon in the Book of Revelation. The fact that
the Medford Lizard Man had wings and is a reptile-like creature would fit into
this thought process. Now outside of a physical comparison to this kind of
phenomenon, there is nothing that hints that the Medford accounts are some kind
of supernatural entity. The creature did not disappear in plain sight or do
anything particular malevolent or even wielded some sort of pitchfork, so
nothing really to make this hypothesis the primary one.
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