The Abduction of Jack Davey

 The Abduction of Jack Davey

By Cole Herrold

The city of the "Ultra-Beings" That Jack Davey was taken to sketch by Rex Gilroy. 

In June of 1970 Geology student Jack Davey who was in his mid-20s was riding his motorcycle out to Jenolan Caves. It was about 10:00 am and the sky began to darken when he decided to continue on to the Kanangra Walls and drove along the gum-lined road as he reached the turnoff near Oberon he was suddenly overcome by a silvery glow which lit up the road in front of him and unable to stop he drove straight into the glow. This bright yet not blinding glow due to the recently darkened sky illuminated the surrounding forest and seemed to of originated from above. Once Jack had entered the glow he found that he was suddenly lifted up and began floating rather quickly up toward a large circular object. Once he arrived inside the object the floor which was open for him to enter the craft closed up beneath him. He found himself standing inside a glowing light-blue room. The room he was now in was flat, yet hexagonal shaped with a domed ceiling and was about 50ft across and 12ft high. Jack was terrified but then “felt” a voice telling him all is well and upon hearing this he began to relax. Suddenly a section of one of the walls slid open and three entities about 6ft tall, grayish blue in color and “alien in appearance” approached him. 

These beings while “alien” looking had similar features to us namely they had similar-looking teeth inside a small mouth, and noses like ours, and as all the entities were naked and male Jack noticed that their sex organs were also similar to ours. Their eyes however were like that of a doe’s. the beings led him into another large room where everything was of a light blue color. The room had several strange equipment and apparatuses as well as a large metallic oblong block in the room's center which had a body-shaped groove or depression in it. The entities proceeded to poke and prod at Jack initially with his clothes on but eventually, his clothes were removed, and the entities telepathically asked him to lie in the body-shaped depression in the block in the middle of the room. Jack proceeded to do so and upon lying there he suddenly felt magnetized and glued to the metal. The entities then proceeded to leave him alone and as time went on Jack passed out. Jack was unconscious for an undiscernible amount of time but when he did come to he found that he was surrounded by multiple blue beings. Two of these entities held his clothes, shoes, and personal belongings. Jack was now able to get up from the metallic block and then began to dress himself as all the beings watched.

 Upon being fully clothed the entities led him through an open wall which led to a brightly lit passageway that came to a large tube-shaped walkway that was 20ft wide. Somehow it would seem that Jack and the entities had left the craft as they had entered a great hall through seemingly the roof of a colossal building. As he looked around he saw countless other entities both male and female talking telepathically to each other. The females he noticed were more slender and reached up to 5ft tall. He then entered a great open, stone-paved plaza. In this plaza, there were various buildings seemingly made of glass-like metal and formed in a variety of shapes such as domes, pyramids, and squares. There were metallic roads that were traveled on by hovercrafts and also some of the beings had a backpack-like rocket apparatus that the beings manipulated with buttons that were found on their chests. He was led through this plaza by two of the crewmen from the ship and was watched by hundreds of these beings. One thing however Jack noticed is that not all the beings were blue like those on the ship but that many were of other colors. The crewmen led Jack to a house-sized green-colored building that was domed-shaped and told him that this would be his temporary residence for now. Upon looking around Jack noticed that the building was filled with oddly shaped furniture and a peculiar soft yet rubbery squared substance that appeared to be a bed. The building also came with a toilet similar to ours yet there were some differences for one it seemed to of been made of a kind of crystal metallic substance and that to empty the bowl one would need to press a button which would evaporate the waste. The two crewmen proceeded then to show him various food and drinks that were in the home. The food consisted mainly of various fruits and vegetables many of which were large and round while others were in various shapes. The drinks were of a multitude of colors and held in plastic jars and bottle-type containers. The crewman proceeded telepathically to tell Jack how to eat and drink these foods before they left him to his new home. In his time on the entity's dimension or planet, he never saw them eat anything resembling meat. Jack had been awake since his first day and asked the beings audibly “Where am I? Where have you taken me?” as well as who they were yet the beings gave him no response. However, he soon learned that he could think about the questions and then receive answers. Yet the exact answers he wanted would not be given to him till later. 

Jack at one point during his stay was flown in an oval-shaped hovercraft vehicle along a metallic road and was shown what to him seemed to be a vast museum-like building whose exhibits were limitless and could only be visited by hovercraft as each display was 500 meters from each other. In another instance, he was on a hovercraft and had entered what his guide told him was another world located in another “time period” and on a higher vibration than that from which he had come. This area he was shown had narrow waterways and a few wide rivers that wound into a countryside of both green and other colored grass-like plants. He saw this area was forested with trees some reaching about 400ft tall. There along the road were colossal blooming yellow flowers and flowers of other varieties and these stretched into the hills. This world had a sun much larger than ours, and Jack would claim that the atmosphere was a greenish-blue pale color. The sky was clear, and the temperature was neither very cold nor hot. Jack had stopped on top of a hill and looked out at a vast ocean. This ocean was filled with all sorts of watercraft, and it was in that moment that his two guides told him that this water unlike our own ocean’s was drinkable. He then was returned home, and his guides promised that he would be picked up again tomorrow. Darkness soon fell over his new home, and he soon fell asleep and Jack slightly perplexed and troubled by his abduction knew he could do nothing but follow their orders. Jack did not know how long he had slept but he was soon awoken by these two entities he had been escorted by. Jack began to beg them to let him go home but was told that they had no advice on this as yet. So instead, the beings led Jack into the city center and into a glass building and there was brought before a male and female being. He sat down on a comfortable rubbery couch and was told by the entities that he had been taken randomly for study and that he had been studied even when he was alone in his new “home” and when he was asleep. Yet just how was not stated. He was then told a little bit about his captors. He was told that all the beings in this world had names and that they were ruled by leadership and that theirs was not the only race on their gigantic planet which was four times the size of his but that there were 6 different similar races. Jack tried to ask these two beings their names as well as other questions but was instead led to a kind of elevator which led to a wide round room of metal at least 150ft in width and about 20ft high which had a door-sized metal frame. Jack was told to pass through this and upon doing so he entered a whole new dimension. As he went through this dimension he entered a kind of living movie where he saw scenes of the environment, the inhabitants, and strange animals. As he stepped back through this dimensional door the scene vanished. Jack had spent what he felt was several months to years on this strange new world and soon he would learn more from his extraterrestrial captors. Some of the female beings told him many things about the advanced cultures on the planet which he would learn was named Rixicron. During his time he learned that his memory bank had been studied and that his brain had been “tapped”. The beings from this knew all about his life he was told by a male entity that humans were still a very low stage of evolution compared with their own. He was then put into a trance-like state and certain information about his planet and other worlds in space was implanted in his mind. Before he lost consciousness he was informed that the inhabitants of this planet were called “ultra-beings” at the very peak of evolution and that when he came to he would possess “higher knowledge”. 

Jack woke up after this final message lying in the middle of the road beside his motorcycle. Dazed Jack took a moment to get up and reeled in the experience he would encounter. He looked at his watch and the time was 9:30 AM and realized that he had woken up half an hour BEFORE his abduction. He was alone and no other vehicles were around and so got up started his motorcycle and returned home. He proceeded to tell his family about his encounter, but none believed him. One thing he realized about his encounter however was that he could only remember the information implanted in his mind while in the trance state. Jack would eventually get a hold of Fortean researcher Rex Gilroy in August of 1973 and would tell his encounter. After this, however, Jack left the country with his family after suffering a breakdown because of his experience.

Quick Facts:

Species/Potential Species: Extraterrestrials/ interdimensional beings

Location: Oberon, New South Wales, Australia

Sighted: June 1970

Works Cited:

Australian UFO’s: Through the Windows of Time by Rex and Heather Gilroy

Humanoid Encounters 1970-1974 By Albert Rosales

 Rex and Heather’s Australian UFO’s. Mysterious Australia. https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/rexufo/australian-ufos-mainpage.html.

Hook Island Sea Serpent

 Hook Island Sea Serpent

By Cole Herrold

There are very few pieces of Cryptozoological evidence out there that have lasted the test of time. Often many of them are debunked, proved to be misidentified, or are examples of pareidolia. While we cannot expect clear photos for every cryptid encounter like the Sandra Mansi Champ photo or the Patterson Gimlin Film, there are some photos that just seem to be too good, and this leads into controversy. One of perhaps the most famous and controversial pieces of evidence of all time was a series of photos that were taken off Hook Island by Robert Le Serrec. These photos are stone-cold classics in the world of cryptozoology and are a toss-up as while many researchers feel the photos are hoaxes; others continue to think that there is something real and tangible just below the surface.

On December 12, 1964, Breton Photographer Robert Le Serrec might have captured one of the best pieces of evidence for the existence of an aquatic cryptid we would call a sea serpent. Le Serrec, his family, and his Australian friend Henk De Jong were shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef and decided that during this time that, they would purchase a motorboat and spend about three months on Hook Island. While out one day near Stonehaven Bay, Le Serrec’s wife noticed a dark form seemingly resting on the bay floor and proceeded to bring the figure to the attention of the rest of the party. The group, upon coming close to the object which at the time they thought was a mere 30ft but as they came withing shocking closeness they noticed in utter horror that it was a strange unknown creature. The group having more courage than arguably they should, proceeded to take a series of photos, each more interesting than the last. They were shocked at what was below the waters for the creature they photographed in the waters of Stonehaven Bay around Hook Island in Queensland, Australia, had an appearance similar to a black tadpole or American eel. The creature had eyes located either on the top or near the sides of the head with slit-like pupils and had an incredibly long smooth serpentine body that was black in color with brown transverse stripes. The most incredible aspect of this is that the creature, however, is not arguably its appearance, but instead of its initial 30ft length, the creature turned out to be an astounding 70-80ft long. One member of the party or another individual had managed to take a boat out towards the tail of the creature, and this gave a sense of just how colossal the creature was. It was in this position that they noticed a large pale region which they thought was a wound that was visible on the right side of the tail. Le Serrec and Henk De Jong were completely perplexed by this creature and, thinking that the creature was dead, decided that they would film it underwater. The two had just started to film the creature when the creature, in a sudden change of pace, began to move. The two watched in utter horror as the creature opened its mouth, revealing a white mouth and throat, and proceeded to move towards them; half expecting that they would be consumed by the colossal monstrosity, they began to swim back to the assumed safety of the boat and began to clamor ashore, and as they turned to look back into the water to see if the creature was hot on their heels they were surprised and relieved that the creature had disappeared. As the group was rationalizing their thoughts, they felt that the creature was resting in the bay because of the wound to its tail, which they felt might have been caused by a ship's propeller.

In March of 1965, Le Serrec, in Australia's Everyone magazine, came forward with the photographs of the serpent and proceeded to tell the tale of how he caught it on camera. It was around this time that the claimed photos and story caught the attention of Cryptozoologists Ivan T. Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans. Ivan T. Sanderson heard about the case in February of that year as Le Serrec had initially attempted to sell the photos to several media outlets, yet these outlets would not give him the price he had wanted. Sanderson, however, would later write about the photos in an article for True Magazine. After this, the case was written about by both researchers as well as other cryptozoologists years later, such as Loren Coleman and Karl Shuker. The general consensus is that the photos are more than likely a hoax; however, some researchers to this day do think that there might be something more to the footage.

Now there is some controversy over this footage, as with just about any cryptozoological evidence, and this deals much less with the photos themselves and more around Robert Le Serrec. As time went on, when researchers Loren Coleman and Bernard Heuvelmans investigated Le Serrec and the Hook Island Photos, they had found some issues with Le Serrec’s character and the possibility of talks of creating a hoax. In their books In the Wake of the Sea Serpent and Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, the two-state Le Serrec was in great debt. In fact, during the time the photos were taken, Le Serrec had left France to go and avoid his creditors and that Le Serrec was even wanted by Interpol, and Heuvelmans, in general, felt that he was not very trustworthy. Heuvelmans would later discover as well that Le Serrec, in 1959, had allegedly told several friends in France that he was about to go away on an expedition and “another thing in reserve which will bring in a lot of money… it’s to do with the sea serpent”. Adding to these seemingly damning character traits and backstory, Heuvelmans, upon looking at the photos, felt that there were problems in regard to the anatomy of the creature since the eyes of the creature appear from what we can tell near the top of the head and not near the side or closer to the snout. Yet there are species out there with eye placements similar to the creature.

Ivan Sanderson felt that the photos were most likely hoaxed and felt that “the object was either a plastic bag used by the US Navy “for experiments in towing petrol” or a deflated skyhook balloon which had become covered in weed, or a roll of cloth which had been tied together in places." Heuvelmans had his own idea as to just what was the answer to the photos Heuvelmans thought that the creature in the photo was a carefully shaped expanse of plastic sheeting weighed down with sand into the form of a colossal serpent. When one looks at the close-up photos of the head, researchers like Darren Naish point out that one can see covering four certain portions of it as though someone had “placed handfuls of sand on top of the edge of the creature: exactly what you would do if trying to weight down a monster-shaped sheet of plastic." Yet Le Serrec would claim that this was because the creature had slightly buried itself in the sand. Other researchers later had pointed to a possible shoal of fish, yet there are several problems with this since there were close-up photos, as well as the fact that while fish shoals can form basic shapes, they do not stay in these shapes for long periods of time, and in such a complex shape, all of this tends to point to one of two possibilities either some sort of material shaped and placed as a hoax or a biological creature.

While Sanderson and Heuvelmans were very certain that the creature was a hoax, they both entertained as well the possibility that the creature may have been real. Sanderson, for example, later on, felt that "the creature might be a giant synbranchid or swamp eel. Synbranchids are long-bodied acanthomorph teleosts, mostly of freshwater and estuarine habitats, well known for their ability to breathe air and undertake terrestrial excursions”. Synbranchids, however, are exceptionally small, however, usually being about 60 cm long, so if the Hook Island photos are an example of this, it would be the largest example known. Heuvelmans, however, was arguably more certain than Sanderson that the creature was a hoax and said should this creature be authentic, it could be "some kind of gigantic eel-like selachian." Paleontologist and Cryptid Enthusiast Darren Naish felt the reason he chose this possibility is due to a possible connection to sightings of an incredibly long-bodied shark. Another possibility often pointed to for another answer to the Hook Island Serpent is mastodonsauroid temnospondyls, a Triassic and Jurassic amphibian, yet the problem with this hypothesis would be the creature's lack of limbs.

One cannot help but mention that Heuvelmans created nine different categories in which different sea serpent and lake monster sightings could be categorized as. Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe would also utilize and update this for their own book, fixing some of the discrepancies and problems with Heuvelmans original model. Of the original 9, however, there was one category of a sea serpent which curiously is very similar in shape to the Hook Island Sea Serpent but is described as the Yellow Belly. Essentially it is, as the name suggests, a yellow-bellied tadpole-shaped creature with brown stripes along the back and a tannish-green colored body. Some researchers feel that Le Serrec, if he hoaxed the serpent chose the design of the creature from this entry, yet this is not possible, seeing as how the publication of Heuvelmans book was four years after Le Serrec took the photos. Other researchers felt that Heuvelmans included this entry solely because of the Le Serrec photos, but obviously, this was not to be the case since the appearance does not match really. Heuvelmans based the Yellow-Bellied type of Sea Serpent on a sighting aboard the ship Nestor in 1876, which took place in-between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Now I must say I have problems with the hoax aspect of the Hook Island Sea Serpent case. For one thing, to pull off a hoax of a creature this size, it would take a great deal of time and energy. With a hoax of this caliber, one would think that someone would have seen them creating it. Now granted, Hook Island is basically uninhabited with some exceptions and is a national park, so perhaps if this was a hoax, it was done in a much more secluded area to avoid notice, but by creating a creature in the water as large as the sea serpent, it would stand to reason that someone would have seen them stretching out the balloon or bag and packing it in the sand. Also, as with other famous pieces of footage like the Patterson Gimlin Film, there are always people who come from the woodwork to claim that they were involved or that they caused the footage, and with this set of photos, nobody, as far as I’m aware came forward, and Le Serrec continued to state the film and footage’s authenticity. We can add this even to Le Serrec’s family, who was with him during the filming; when infamous hoaxer Ray Wallace passed away, his family immediately released a statement saying that they hoaxed countless footprints and videos, yet in Le Serrec’s case, if he has passed away there’s been none of that adding to the overall strangeness of the story. Now again, Coleman and Heuvelmans stated that Le Serrec was a rather untrustworthy individual, and there are two ways to interpret this one can look at his claims and automatically dismiss them or that everything he experienced did, in fact, happen. The point of it truly is the following is that if a phenomenon is real, people of all sorts of merit can still encounter the unknown it just makes it more difficult to accept their claims.

In 2003 Le Serrec was said to still be living and currently residing in Asia. Once this was revealed, there was a sudden rush in attempting to interview him about the sea serpent, yet no interview currently has been conducted. I would love to hear his thoughts now since it's some 60 years later if he is still alive. Or if any of the others who were around with him during the photographing of the creature. While there’s currently no further investigation into this case, and for most researchers, the case seems to be closed, I think that there's enough ambiguity that would warrant a follow-up. Yet as with most older cases, chances are this will not be the case, but until then, we are left to ponder just whether or not this series of photos is authentic or not and it's a mystery that will last for countless years until an example is either captured or that other members of Serrec’s family finally come forward and claim either that it really is a hoax or that it’s the real deal.

Quick Facts:

Species/Potential Species:

Location: Pacific Ocean, Stonehaven Bay, Hook Island, Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia

Sighted: December 12, 1964

Works Cited:

Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology By Michael Newton

Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep By Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe By Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe

Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths By Darren Naish

In the Wake of the Sea Serpent By Bernard Heuvelmans

Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology Volume 2 By George Eberhart

Darren Naish "The amazing Hook Island sea monster photos, revisited" Scientific American November 23, 2013. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-amazing-hook-island-sea-monster-photos-revisited/. Accessed June 26, 2022.

Laura Rowton "5 Lake and Sea Monsters Supposedly Caught on Camera" The Paranormal Scholar. February 9, 2018. https://www.paranormalscholar.com/5-lake-sea-monsters/. Accessed July 8, 2022.