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.

The Judy Kendall Abduction

The Judy Kendall Abduction

By Cole Herrold

On November 26, 1972 28 year old legal secretary Judy Kendall and her younger sisters Danon and Becky were driving home to Zamora from their mother’s house in Bodega Bay. The sisters had left at and were planning to get home by 10:00 pm as the trip should have taken about 2 ½ hours but they had allowed themselves at the most three hours to get home and left their grandmother’s house at 5:30 pm for the trip home as they got near Zamora there was a certain section of road that crossed Interstate 505 and upon taking this road they reached an area that had a flashing yellow light and a sign that read “road narrows”. From there they had to take Cache Creek bridge which crossed Cache creek. It was when the sisters had crossed the bridge and headed for the turnoff to their home yet curiously they noticed that they were not getting to the turn off. They had no idea as to why, but they just were not getting to the turn off and in this drive the sisters began to get tired. At this point Judy and one of her sisters said almost in unison “I wonder why were not getting off the turn off”. It was in that moment that they suddenly noticed that they had somehow got turned around as they saw the same flashing yellow light and sign and upon recrossing the Cache Creek Bridge they could barely keep their eyes open.

They eventually managed to get home but upon entering and expecting to be home by 10:00-10:30 they instead discovered they got home at midnight. This means that the group had lost 4 ½ hours from when they should have been home. Their parents concerned at the fact that they had not gotten home by the time they intended were surprised by their lateness asked what had kept her and she was not sure just what had happened. Their father thought that they had been drinking or partying and made up the story of them recrossing the bridge and the missing 4 ½ hours.  Danon and Becky backed up their sister as they too remembered the second trip over the bridge and insisted that they left straight from their grandmothers house and did not stop at all. Their father then proceeded to get a map out to see if there was some way the girls could have made a big circle. Judy proceeded to tell her father that this was ridiculous as she was familiar with the area especially since she had lived there her entire life and no way that she could have ended up in a circle. This was added to the fact that she was going in a straight line on a familiar road. Her father upon checking the map found that she was right as there was no road that would have led back to the yellow light and sign let alone the bridge. The strangeness of the night was also added to the fact that Judy’s car did not have enough gas put in it to allow for a 6 hour trip and yet she was still able to make it home with the intended amount of gas remaining. Her family decided to just let it go then with the exception of calling the girls grandmother to see if they did leave at 5:30 pm which the woman confirmed, and they forgot about it that is until three years later when Danon and Judy were watching television when an inkling of what happened to them that night seemed to permeate in their minds.

 They were watching the film Escape to Witch Mountain specifically a scene where an RV was being lifted up off the ground and upon watching the scene both Judy and Danon began to feel uneasy as if there was some sense of Déjà vu at the scene. This was the start of her coming to the realization that something strange happened to her. Some time after this Judy had seen a UFO in Yolo, California which is 10 miles north of Woodland where Judy was visiting friends at the time. It was 11:30 pm and she was on her way back to town when she saw a strange object that was changing colors. The object was originally a deep white light that was incredibly bright. It then proceeded to change to a deep orange color. The object hovered over some powerlines near a gravel pit and her first reaction was “Gee, they must have gotten new lights at the gravel pit”. She watched as the object changed in color from white to orange and back to white again three times and upon it doing it the third time the object rose up and shot straight into the sky and disappeared from sight. She was shocked by this and upon returning home instantly called her girlfriend who she had just left from and told her about her UFO sighting. Her friend responded after the tale saying, “Oh I believe it, Did you and your sisters ever figure out what happened to you when you lost your 4 ½ hours of time?” Judy replied “No” and thought it odd that her friend brought it up but then realized that it was because of her friend’s interest in UFOs. Her friend during this conversation then suggested that her and her sisters had gone through a “time warp” but Judy had no idea what she meant and so her friend told her to get a hold of J. Allen Hynek.

Judy took her friends advice and told him about her experience and asked what he thought and inquired about “time warps”. Hynek replied to Judy and explained that the proper term for a time warp was a time lapse and that he did not think this is what she had experienced and said hed like to send some investigators to come talk to her. Hynek then proceeded to get Paul Cerny of the Northern California Branch of MUFON to come investigate. Cerny first proceeded to talk to her boss Joe to get an idea about her character and specifically to see if she was a “flake” which her boss replied that she was not. From this and from talking to her he told her that he would need to get a hypnotist to come help investigate as there was a chance that she was abducted. Cerny said “one way we can find out for sure is to regress you and find out what happened at the time”. Judy said that upon hearing that her heart jumped into her throat and that she thought “oh no he’s got to be kidding no way!”. Cerny contacted Dr. Alvin Lawson an English professor at Cal State, Long Beach and after talking with Cerny, Lawson got a hold of hypnotist Dr. W.C. McCall who joined him as they flew up to Woodland to visit Judy at her apartment. Carol Judy’s girlfriend was there along with some other people who were there to make sure that things were on the level with the investigation and soon Judy discovered that things were and that all the researchers involved were polite and professional in their conduct.

It was here that they then proceeded to regress her. When they regressed her she remembered the trip down the road and upon doing so she noticed that there was a sudden coldness and void around the car. Then she remembered that the car suddenly was lifted straight up off the road and into a UFO. Once the car was in the craft she seemed to pass out and she had the feeling of being floated out of the car and placed in a room. Upon waking up she found herself lying on a hard seemingly stainless steel table and covered with a sheet in a round room with a ring of windows through which she could see stars. The feeling of cold even with the covering of the sheet was intense for her. Her sisters were gone seemingly placed in other rooms. As she attempted to move she soon discovered that there was something that was restraining her head which stopped her from moving around. From her surroundings she was able to see two bucket seats with three lights overtop each seat facing a console with a panel that had a gear like shift and that to her left was a table with instruments like probes similar to those seen in hospitals as well as a black box with speaker holes. As she looked around she saw her captors at the end of the table there were three short beings which wore grey colored suits that completely covered them. On their faces they wore masks which to Judy were similar to the ones worn by pilots during World War II yet from them she was able to see the beings eyes which were big and round and orange or yellow in color. To her left she was surprised to see a being that looked very much like a human girl. The girl was 5ft 4”- 5ft 6” and had shoulder length black hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and a medium build.

To her right she saw a long hallway and as she stared in that direction she saw the most terrifying part of her abduction an entity which slowly approached. This being she would call the Witch Doctor. This being to Judy was hideous and terrifying it was about 6-7ft tall and its head was bulbous and larger compared to the rest of the body. It was shaped similarly to a light bulb albeit broader and rounder at the top. It had eyes that to Judy were insect like specifically like those of a grasshoppers they were long and took up a good portion of the face specifically from where the eyebrows of a person should have been to where the cheeks of a person should have been. These eyes were also transparent, and Judy could see that the creature had long red pupils like slits and could see various red veins scattered in the jelly filled ocular sockets. The creature had two large and long holes for nostrils. Where the creatures mouth and chin were was a kind of mask that covered the creature. The creature had five fingered hand and this being wore a turtleneck type outfit that covered its full albeit human like form except a portion of the neck. The creature was hairless and the skin of the creature was pale white and translucent, and Judy could see all of the creatures veins and arteries. Judy at this point was not afraid during her abduction but once this entity began to approach her she began to cry and become hysterical.

During the hypnotic regression the researchers had brought her through this moment several times to glean more information, but it created so much terror for her that she finally said “I don’t want to see that guy anymore!” and refused to say anything further about the encounter until they let her go past that point. During her abduction the witch doctor however could not have been skipped over and while she began to cry out in fear the human looking girl to her left began to say “Its Ok, Its Ok”. The Witchdoctor at this point also began to communicate to Judy and he did this through telepathy. He told Judy no harm will come to her and as he spoke the voice sounded machine like and like it came from a megaphone. The Witch Doctor approached Judy and put its hand on her head repeating the phrase “Its Ok, Its Ok”. As the Witch Doctor continued to talk to Judy the female entity continued to say “Its ok Judy, Its Ok”. Judy in that moment thought “How did she know my name? I didn’t tell her my name. I Couldn’t understand why they knew my name.” She then thought “well shoot, if they know how to pick me up off the ground or take my car off the ground, they certainly probably know our names or knew a way of finding out”. She was then examined by the entities in which the entities looked in Judy’s ears, intently studied her feet, and removed urine from her through a catheter. Judy had one arm or hand bound so that she could not move it and at times the restrictions from her head were gone. At one point the female being passed the Witch Doctor a container filled with a colorless liquid that she couldn’t see through. At another point during the examination the beings placed a heavy metal machine over her eyes so she could not see and upon doing this she was able to hear a quiet motor running inside she had thought that this device might have been a brain reading machine. The feeling of extreme cold which she felt at times was alleviated but while being poked and prodded she felt shaky and also experienced pain in her side and had incredible headaches as well as difficulty in breathing. During the examination the three entities in WWII masks never left the foot of the table and that during the examination she had the feeling that someone was behind her that she couldn’t see. The Witch Doctor was noticeably the entity in charge and seemed to lead the examination Judy would notice that the beings would look up at each other as if they were talking but she could hear nothing it was from this that she felt that they were communicating telepathically to each other. Judy would describe this experience thusly “It was like I was a guinea pig. They just wanted to see what was going on with our bodies or something. I thought that it was maybe a scientific physical examination type of thing. They treated me like I was… like we have the apes, we have mice and rats and such that we use for experiments. I felt like I was being treated as a lower level or lower class or lower form of life than they were. It was like I was the dog and they were the master type of thing”.

It was during this examination that suddenly she thought she heard one of her sisters calling out in distress from another room on the ship. She was incredibly concerned but not certain that both of her siblings were in rooms but could do nothing to find out. Once the entities were done examining Judy she was lifted up by four of the WWII masked beings which were much smaller than her. They grabbed her one for each arm and leg and proceeded to carry her back to her car. Upon reaching her car the beings proceeded to throw Judy back into the car in a way that was so perfect she ended up completely upright behind the steering wheel. When she was left in the car she noticed that her sisters were not there and so she proceeded to sit there for a long time and began to get worried. Soon she looked over into the passenger seat and there sat her sister who seemed to of materialized from nowhere. Her other sister in the back seat was also there seemingly materialized. They did not enter the car through the door nor did she see them coming. The next thing Judy knew she was back at the sign with the flashing yellow light.

Judy’s encounter was kept quiet for some time known only to a few select and eventually Budd Hopkins later heard about the encounter through Ted Bloecher and found similarities to the Witch Doctor to the entity reported in Steven Kilburn’s encounter. Judy would also be apart of a panel of abductees at the 1979 MUFON UFO Proceedings where she discussed her abduction.  In her written account of the events in The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens, and High Strangeness Judy describes a deep desire to be re-hypnotized and to find out more about what occurred that night. She now has mixed feelings about the event as sometimes she’s glad she went through it and at other times not. She since the encounter has developed the feeling of somebody watching her as well as that she has since become “jittery” because of it. She also wonders if she has had any other encounters since that time. Her sisters however want nothing further to do with the event and are terrified to the current day.

Quick Facts:

Species/Potential Species: Extraterrestrials

Location: Zamora, California

Sighted: November 26, 1972

Works Cited:

APRO Bulletin Vol. 28, #10

Canadian UFO Report Volume 4 #4

Humanoid Encounters 1970-1974 By Albert Rosales

Missing Time By Budd Hopkins

The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens, and High Strangeness By Michael Brein and Rosemary Ellen Guiley

UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game By Philip J. Klass

UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence By Robert Schaeffer

UFOS and Alien Contact: Two Centuries of Mystery By Robert Bartholomew and George S. Haven

UFO Report, December 1979

Bee, Fresno, California- November 3, 1979

Daily Collegian, Fresno, California- November 6, 1979

The Villa Santina Little Green Men

 Villa Santina Little Green Men

By Cole Herrold

The history of UFOs and extraterrestrial encounters is a bizarre one that diverges at the point of interpretation. There are certainly those of the Ancient Aliens persuasion who will state that UFOs and extraterrestrials have been amongst us from the beginning, but the "official" acknowledgment of the existence of extraterrestrials or UFOs can be pointed to the original report by Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947. After Arnold's sighting, Brazilian Jose Higgins would have the second official UFO sighting on July 23^rd, 1947, a mere 29 days after Arnold's, yet the third official UFO sighting, which happened some 50 days after Arnold's, was perhaps the most interesting and profound for unlike the previous cases which simply involved craft this sighting can possibly be marked as the first official case of a Close Encounter of the Third Kind and its occupants were anything far from the traditional extraterrestrial even though they clearly was the original Little Green Men.

At 9:00 am on August 14, 1947, Professor Rapuzzi Johannis, both an avid artist, writer, and geologist, was out near Villa Santina in Italy. While out searching and studying strange and unusual rock formations and searching for fossils in the Friuli region of Villa Santina in the North of Italy. He was ascending the short valley of the mountain stream known as the chiarso and traversing on a path along the left bank of the stream. When traversing this hill, he was surrounded by various fir trees and large deposits of alluvial rubble and detritus. As he emerged into a clearing from one of these clumps of fir, he noticed a large red lens-shaped object with a low central cupola and a telescoping antenna that was similar to those found on motor cars. The object was about approximately 30 ft wide and about 18ft high near a rocky riverbank that was some 50 yards away. The professor, short-sighted, proceeded to take out his glasses and stare at the object and felt that the craft was made seemingly of some sort of varnished metal, not unlike a child’s toy. The object was not exactly hovering but seemed to be embedded about a quarter of its length in a great transverse cleft in the mountainside and was anchored about 6 meters above the bed of the stream. The professor, completely amazed at what he was seeing and totally unaware of the phenomenon of UFOs, decided to head up and investigate the object but had decided to try and see before the trek towards the mysterious object if there was anyone around that could come help him investigate the strange object.

 The professor began to approach the object reaching about 25 meters, and as he came closer, he noticed two figures which at first he thought were "two boys," near the grove of trees that he had just recently entered from. As he stared at the boys, he began to yell and point toward the object as they seemed completely oblivious to the bizarre object nearby and realized as he looked and approached them that these were certainly not earthbound boys. The beings began to approach him in a slow robotic fashion and kept their hands down at their sides. The beings were about 3ft tall and wore dark blue translucent coveralls with strange red-colored collars and cuffs. They also had a wide red belt. The clothing, however, was not the only strange thing about these beings as they had large heads noticeably larger than a human's, and that a top, these colossal craniums that seemed reminiscent of a cartoon caricature with a brown tight-fitting cap similar to an alpinist’s bonnet a topped them. They appeared to be hairless not only on their heads but also on the rest of their bodies, and that they had green skin similar to the plasticine used by sculptors or a clay dipped in water with long straight noses with fish like mouths that much like a fish was opening and clothing as if this is how it breathed. Their eyes were yellow-green in color and were large hemispherical, and seemed to protrude from the face much like once again a fish. Yet the fish adulation ended there as the pupils of the entities were more akin to a reptile's as they appeared as a kind of slit. These beings also had no eyebrows or eyelashes but strange ring-like lids around the lids of the eyes. Johannis was seemingly paralyzed by the fright of these creatures as they slowly approached him with steady strides, and Johannis watched the beings in horror for some 2-3 minutes. Realizing these were not humans, Johannis eventually was able to overcome the fear of seeing the unknown and began to yell at the creatures to get their attention and to ask them who they were and where they came from. As he did this, he raised his pick that he used for his geological excursions (other sources say his paintbrush/easel, but Johannis would fix this with his follow up in the Humanoids edited by Charles Bowen). As Johannis did this, he raised his hand holding the pickaxe, which he felt, later on, was probably interpreted as a threatening gesture. Upon doing this, the beings wheeled around very quickly. As he watched, one of the two entities proceeded to put their right hand onto their belt, which emitted a thin puff of smoke which he later felt was some sort of ray. During this, Johannis felt that the pickaxe in his hand suddenly was being pulled away and as he watched, the ax flew away; and as this happened, he suddenly found himself crumpled on the ground and that he was paralyzed and felt an electric shock throughout his body, but he could still watch the beings approach the ax. They reached within 6ft of Johannis, and as they got to that point, he was able to roll over on his side and watch as one of the creatures lifted up the pickaxe, examining it; as Johannis stared at the beings, he noted that their hands while having human-like digits had hands that appeared to be clamped almost like claws. In other words, these entities had some 8 digits that were hinged at a certain point; in other words, 4 digits on one side and 4 digits on the other side. These 8 digits seemed jointless but were still noticeable as fingers. The beings observing the pickaxe breathed heavily, and Johannis compared this breathing to a dog's after a long run. Johannis struggled to sit up but was able to eventually do so but needed to firmly plant his arms to the ground to avoid falling over again. As he watched the creatures return to their craft and as he watched he climbed into the object, which rose vertically 15ft above the ground much like the appearance of a gong, and watched as the object attempted to fly away. As the object dislodged from the cliff, several stones fell down to the riverbed. Johannis noted that the object seemed to have problems flying as the object hovered a bit. Johannis, during this time, tried to get up but could not and fell back again, and he watched as the disc-shaped object tipped and unleashed a gust of wind. Johannis was still immobile and was moved when the blast of wind from the craft moved him into a stony riverbed. Then the craft began to do something altogether curious the object began to shrink in size and continued to do this until it eventually and finally disappeared.

Johannis's Original Eyewitness Sketch of the Green Men

Johannis would wait some 2hrs before he finally was able to get ahold of his faculties, and even then, he was exhausted as he during that time slept and upon moving his limbs felt extreme pain as if every bone was broken. Upon being able to move, he noted that all the aluminum objects in his objects were missing; he found that his flask of coffee was shattered but that the metal casing that surrounded it was gone as well as his fork and canister that held his lunch. He found that all of his sketches were stained with coffee and that his lunch was left scattered in the bag as well, which left him having only coffee-infused bread as a meal as he had to throw away the salami and the rest of his intended lunch. Johannis then began, after eating and being able to move to search for his pickaxe but was not able to find it; he was certain that the beings had taken it with them then and later, after learning more about the UFO phenomenon, felt that it was in some extraterrestrial museum being carefully analyzed as the aliens attempted to decipher his name, his mountaineering motto, a pair of alpine flowers and an eagle which were cut into the handle of the ax and he hoped that the beings "rack their brains to a standstill trying to make it out ."This irritated him even further on the return trip as he had used the pickaxe as a kind of walking stick to help traverse the terrain. It was about 2pm by the time he had made it to his room at the inn in Raveo; upon entering the door, the proprietress of the inn, who he had known since he was a boy, saw the banged-up visage of the professor and instantly asked what happened. He responded by saying he fell from a rock, and upon hearing this, the woman said in a rather condescending tone that it served him right and that it was about time that he stopped going around collecting stones. He shrugged her off, went up to his room, and then proceeded in sheer exhaustion to crawl into bed and fall into a deep sleep.

The following day Johannis armed himself with another pick as well as a revolver and went back to the spot. He searched the area and the cleft from where the craft was moored but found nothing, but he was more focused on some hope that the beings did not take his pick and that they left it near where the object was, but of course, he found nothing. Johannis asked later on if others in the area had seen some strange airplane and found that two people, an old man and a little boy from a nearby village had, had told him separately that they had seen a red object that flew up into the sky both at 8:30 and 10 during the day of his sighting. The old man was sitting down in the village square enjoying the day when he noticed a large red globe being 'carried aloft on the wind' behind the mountain on the slope of which the village lies. The boy was with his mother and other people working in a field on the edge of the village when he noticed a red ball “like the ones they have at fairs," which was rising at great speed and proceeded to disappear into the sky.

Attempting to rationalize what he had seen had changed several times since, in the beginning, he nor anyone else in Italy was aware or had any context of UFOs. At first, he thought the craft was some experimental machine of the allied forces, which were during that time occupying the Campoformido aerodrome in the Friuli area. His next thought was that perhaps this was some Russian device. He then wondered about whether this device and the beings were some unknown civilization that remained hidden away in the unexplored regions of our world, such as he felt the Matto Grosso of Brazil. Yet he was not happy with any of these possibilities as the men he encountered were so unusual that they could not have been human. Two months later, he sailed to New York, and during the crossing, he heard about Kenneth Arnold's sighting, and only then did he make the connection to flying saucers and Ufonauts. During the five years while in the USA, he followed the ongoing wave of flying saucer sightings, and in 1950, he decided to come forward with his account, which led to it being initially published in the journal of the Centro Studi Clipeologici, Via San Secondo 15 Torino, May 1964^th edition of the Clypeus issue No. 2-5. As time progressed, Johannis would have some doubts about the beings he encountered; he became unsure as to the position of the vertical pupils or even as to whether they had pupils at all and even then started to question whether the beings were flesh and blood at all and even began to think that chances are that they were more likely to be robots. All of this and a final follow-up would be chronicled for Gordon Creighton for the mandatory Fortean book The Humanoids, edited by Charles Bowen.

Now, this case is extremely fascinating. I have been fascinated with this encounter since I first read about it; for me, the most important thing about this is this is the first official Close Encounter of the Third Kind during a time when not only were extraterrestrials not even thought of but that the UFO phenomenon in general from how we perceive it today was literally just gaining traction. While some out there will point to the ancient aliens' aspect of beings like Quetzalcoatl or other gods being alien races, I must stress that this is an interpretation of data and not the data straight-faced. When looking at the history of UFOs, this is one of the earliest and, therefore, one of the most important. One could argue that this case is revolutionary as it puts the term little green men, not into a context of sarcasm or discredit but as possibly the original origin of the phrase (the same can be said about the Hopkinsville Goblins). So, a quick refresh of the importance of the case, 3^rd documented case of a UFO, 1^st case of a Close Encounter of the Third Kind, 1^st case of a Little Green Men type extraterrestrial which just having those merits surprises me that this case is not more famous than what it is.

Now, of course, breaking down this case, there are actually a few ways to look at this case, yet the element that determines the interpretation is the Green Men themselves. Obviously, there's the extraterrestrial angle; this is perhaps the most popular identity of these beings as they had many features we would associate with a living creature, such as pupils, skin, the use of clothing and tools, as well as a fish-like opening and closing of the mouth. Much of this would indicate a biological creature, and the same would also involve the creature's curiosity and even interpretation of Johannis's waving arm and ax and shouting as a kind of threat. If these creatures were mechanical or something along those lines, unless they were being piloted or controlled, one would not think that they would behave in such a way that seems to be more defensive.

Now while these entities do appear biological, there is always the chance that they are androids or robots. The main indication of this is that the creatures moved in a robot-like fashion and even Johannis, later on, felt that the creatures were something along those lines. There are tons of reasons for why this would be a plausible answer for these entities since if an advanced civilization wanted to learn more about our culture or planet in general, they would send drones to search and investigate the planet. They could serve as data collectors collecting pieces of our culture or tools; the various soil collecting cases could be to see the general makeup of our world or if the atmosphere would be breathable, or if there were some hazardous diseases or microbes that could hinder further contact or conquest.

While there are a lot of indications that these entities are extraterrestrial in origin, and that has since been where most researchers firmly plant them. There are other options that could indicate that what these beings are is something much older and more at home on earth. These creatures could very much have been members of the Faerie kingdom. Now many researchers have drawn comparisons to alien encounters and the fae, but one thing that I've come across in my research is that faerie encounters still to this day occur and that they come in countless forms. One particular variety that pops up across cultures is green-skinned beings, whether it be elemental figures like the Green Man, a figure associated with the changing seasons and the woods, or beings of a more aggressive nature like Jenny Greenteeth, an aquatic faerie hag that drowns those that come too close to her watery lair. Now the Villa Santina Little Green Men behave in many ways like the fae they stole seemingly mundane and shiny objects, something that has been repeated in faerie lore for centuries. They had odd brightly colored clothing with cuffs, something that is also reported in faerie encounters and differs from most extraterrestrial encounters, who mostly are reported wearing robes or skintight diving suit style outfits even though other bizarre fashion choices exist. Another element is that the craft that the beings left in behaved rather strangely as opposed to flying or taking off in a traditional way or simply disappearing as in other UFO cases; this craft began to shrink before ultimately disappearing as though it winked out of existence. This winking out of existence, as well as the shrinking to nothing, is something that has been reported with faerie encounters before. Just how or why the fae do this is clearly anyone’s guess, but I did find it an interesting similarity, to say the least.

Another possibility, of course, venturing off this world and once again into another is the possibility that these beings were interdimensional entities. This is sort of a catch-all possibility, but if these entities have technology and can travel through dimensions, it could explain the overall strange behavior of the craft and that the shrinking could be the manner in which these organisms come in and out of another dimension. Also, needless to say, in another dimension, there are countless evolutionary lines or possibilities as to just how a being like this could exist, but again, there's clearly no definitive answer.

This is perhaps one of the most important cases out there and also one of the most interesting. It amazes me that this case has not been focused on or reached mainstream interest in the same way as, say, the Flatwoods Monster or the Hopkinsville Goblins has. There are so many interesting elements, and I find that it's also one of the most ambiguous in regard to the origin of these beings. I would argue that this is just one of several cases that seem to cross over into faerie encounters, but at the same time, there is that strong extraterrestrial origin for these beings. It's interesting too that these beings, while similar in overall shape to Grays, are clearly not since they have almost reptile-like eyes and a much greener complexion as well as their bizarre 8 digited claw-like hands, so that in itself is just refreshing since greys are so overbearing. Just what these entities are much like in almost any case, we will never come to a conclusion, but that's one of the appeals as well since this is just one of the countless one-off cases out there. These entities, be they from space or earth or another dimension, are fascinating, and who knows what the future might hold perhaps some other alpinist, while out might have a run-in again with these visitors and the only thing I can suggest is to hold onto your pick with your life.

Quick Facts:

Species/Potential Species: Extraterrestrials, Robots, Faeries

Location: Villa Santina, near Raveo, Carnic Alps, Italy

Sighted: 9:00 am, August 14, 1947

Works Cited:

The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials By Patrick Huyghe

Humanoid Encounters 1930-1949 By Albert S. Rosales

The Humanoids By Charles Bowen

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters: The Definitive Illustrated A - Z Guide To All Things Alien By Ronald Story

The Derry Township Fog Humanoid

 The Derry Township Fog Humanoid

By Cole Herrold

The Chestnut Ridge is a place that is littered with UFOs, Ghosts, Cryptids, Bizarre Sounds, and anomalous phenomena that seem to be honed to this bizarre stretch of land. Just what is the reason for this concentrated area of high strangeness is anyone's guess, but it is an area where just when you think you've seen the weirdest thing imaginable, something else will come a short time later to top it. This is just the case when in 2018, a motorist had a brief encounter with a shambling humanoid that seemed to have the same ability as Rachel from Nightbreed or Johann Krauss from Hellboy, in other words, could turn itself into or is made up of fog or mist like structure.

An unnamed man was driving down a stretch of road late at night on September 10, 2018, in Derry Township. It was raining, and the man, due to the dim visibility, had to turn on his high beams, and as he traveled along the road, he noticed that there was something moving in the road some 75 ft down the road. Due to the potentially hazardous conditions, the driver was watching the road and his surroundings very carefully and did not seem to notice any movement come from the side of the road, implicating that whatever was in the road seemed to just appear out of nowhere. The object, however, while he was unsure as to just how it came to the center of the road, was moving. The figure seemed to move from left to right. The man thought that at first, just what he was seeing was a cloud of fog, but as he looked out into the darkness, he could tell that there was no other fog in the surrounding area and so that whatever he was seeing it could not have been that. As he stared at the object, he could soon tell that whatever it was, it appeared to be almost in the shape of a human figure but did seem to be made up of either white mist or fog. The man as he approached the figure in his car, he noticed that this moving fog humanoid was about 6 ½ to 7ft tall, and he noticed that as this ethereal entity moved across the street, it seemed to be slouched over as it moved, and he was able to notice notable arms and legs. While the figure had less defined arms and legs, the being did not seem to have feet and seemed to move in a walking fashion above the ground as if it was walking on air. The most noticeable features, however, were that the figure had massive muscular shoulders and an incredibly small waist. The figure did have a head, but unlike the well-defined body, the head was wispy, and he was unable to see it clearly. The creature moved across the road in a matter of seconds, and as he watched the ambling anomalous being walk into a nearby field where just as quickly as it came, it seemed to disappear. A short time later, the witness got a hold of paranormal Pennsylvania researcher Stan Gordon who would go and write an article about the bizarre sighting.

This encounter is exceptionally brief, and there's not a lot to go on, but the bizarre nature of the being seen is, I feel, enough to at least warrant some attention. This figure is truly an anomaly, and with such, one must look at the case a little bit differently than one would with a bigfoot in regard to a skeptical answer as well as a Fortean answer. From a skeptics viewpoint, this being could just be a pocket of fog that drifted across the road, and the man misinterpreted it or wildly imagined that it was a figure moving. Fog forms when cold air moves over warm water, so perhaps what was seen was a quick cold snap that created just enough fog to make a form and was then carried off where it evaporated. The form of a human being could be an example of Pareidolia, such as when one sees shapes in clouds or Jesus on a loaf of bread. The fact that it was raining could easily have attributed to all of this; however, I will say that while not impossible, it would be unlikely as when fog occurs, there are usually areas that would be hit first with the formation of it such as fields, and the fact that this phenomenon occurred exclusively in the center of the road and not in any of the other areas around makes it slightly unlikely that traditional fog or normal weather conditions could cause this phenomenon let alone create the motion of a figure ambling along especially since it did this by walking on air.

Unlike other cases which venture off into categories like Cryptids or Aliens, there are not too many things this being could be. There's nothing biological in nature to this creature, and instead, it would have to get into some of the more ethereal categories of entities. The first possibility is that perhaps this being is a ghost. Spectral apparitions are often described as misty or fog-like, and that on occasion, they seem to be missing portions of their body, usually feet. Now while ghosts are anecdotally reported everywhere, a quick peruse through what resources I have and those I checked online, I was unable to find any written or documented cases of ghosts in Derry Township outside of one which has no association with any road in the area. However, a quick search into the history of Derry Township in regards to vehicular deaths and deaths on the roads does show that there were several in recent years of people of various ages that could attribute to this entity appearing; however, this is entirely speculation. Now I will say there is a problem with the ghost identity for this being as the fact that this entity was 6 1/2 to 7ft tall which while not exactly out of the ballpark of normal human height it is still less likely, and when one points to how this entity seemed to be without clothes and having less defined features like the head, arms, and legs it almost seems that the ghost angle is much less likely.

Another possibility is that perhaps this entity is solely supernatural, being either a demonic figure as such entities are also described as misty figures much like ghosts or a supernatural entity like a Djinn, which also has occasionally been described as being mist-like in form. While these figures are often tied to Abrahamic religions like Christianity and Islam, it is interesting to note that they do bear strong similarities with some minor differences from each other, and while the existence of the religions themselves is an altogether different topic, I've always felt that the entities described therein could be representations of a phenomenon that is misaligned.

A final possibility as I seemingly grasp onto whatever possible paranormal outlet I can is the idea that perhaps this entity is an elemental. Elementals are spirits that represent different forces of nature; some of these are often included in the Fae, but in many ways, elementals are their entirely own categories. In folklore and myth, there is an entity known as sylphs or sylphids, which are described as invisible entities that live in the air. The sylphs brethren of elementals are the salamanders for fire, the gnomes for earth, and the Undines for water. These beings have a variety of abilities depending on their element and often have shape-changing abilities or the power to disappear. Perhaps the entity seen in Derry Township was one of these beings that might have for a very brief second was able to be seen either accidentally or because of the weather condition and that it could also explain if this being is a Sylph, especially why it suddenly disappeared as these entities tend to almost always be invisible. However, as with all of these possibilities, it's just speculation.

Cases like this I'm perplexed by because if this is an authentic case and the being seen was not some misidentification or wishful thinking, it just opens a whole ethereal box that does not match what we currently know about how the world is. This entity is more than likely not a ghost which is a little more acceptable in terms of "traditional" science as there have been countless cases of photographs, recordings, videos, temperature changes, and the like that can be attributed to ghost activity and knowing that our body is essentially an electrical machine with gases and liquids to make it function it's not too far out of the way to think that once someone dies that energy and chemical makeup simply transfer out of the body, yet with something like this and part of this also goes to the briefness of the encounter as we are left entirely to speculate as to the origin and nature of this being, it just is impossible to decipher how and why it exists. If it's an elemental, there's nothing for us to understand how or why that would come about, and the same goes for demons or djinn as unlike with a ghost where there's a transfer of energy and chemistry, these entities just seem to exist with no discernible origin unless the religious routes are to be believed. As a researcher, I'm open to all kinds of cases even though my preference is with Cryptid and Aliens, and I'm a firm supporter that the Fae are a viable phenomenon for research, yet in cases like this, I scratch my head and do put me out of my normal comfort zone. However, it's because of this that I think cases like this need to be studied further as this could mean that there are potential aspects to the universe that still need to be realized and with such whole new plateaus of science for us to climb which, to say the least, is not only exciting but also important for us collectively as a species.

Quick Facts:

Species/Potential Species: Paranormal Entity

Location: Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Sighted: September 10, 2018

Works Cited:

Gordon, Stan “Misty Humanoid Creature Observed Moving Across Road in Derry Township Pennsylvania” Stan Gordon’s UFO Anomaly Zone. October 24, 2018. http://www.stangordon.info/wp/2018/10/24/2625/. Accessed February 12, 2022. 

Farmersville Green Man

 Farmersville Green Man

By Cole Herrold

Our planet, over the course of countless years, has been home to tons of bizarre anomalous beings. Many of these entities tend to fall in one category or another, but as one delves headfirst into the mire of monster encounters, we find that there are so many different creatures that are completely unique or heavily inspired or pulled straight from the works of horror and science fiction. One such creature that appeared on a Texas farm in 1913 seemed to be a cross between Kermit the Frog and Galwyn the wizard/mushroom from the 1986 Horror Fantasy film Troll. While this creature sounds adorable, it, unfortunately, suffered terribly due to its chance sighting. It, unfortunately, did not make it.

In Farmersville, Texas, three boys were chopping cotton on a farm in May 1913. The boys were alerted by the sound of barking coming from the family dogs and, after listening to the ruckus for some time, proceeded to investigate just what was upsetting the dogs. The boys saw the canine companions encircled near a section of the property continuing to bark at a structure on the property. The boys, curious just what about the structure was upsetting the animals, peered beyond the animals, and as they looked, they saw a bizarre green figure. The figure appeared to be like a little person, but the being turned out to be something so different from what would traditionally be associated with a person. The being was only about 18 inches tall and was dark green in color with rubbery skin. The creature was completely nude; however, attached to the top of its fleshy body was a kind of hat-like structure that was reminiscent of a sombrero that seemingly grew from the skull. The boys watched in both awe and horror as the creature further caught the attention of the dogs and watched as the carnivorous canines began to run towards the strange creature tearing into the rubber skin with their fangs and as the horrified boys watched as human-looking organs and red blood came pulled out of the now-deceased creature. Afterward, the animals backed away, and the dogs avoided the spot where the remains continued to lay rotting in the sun. The dogs behaved this way the rest of the day and seemed to be frightened by these strange remains. The next day when the boys returned to the spot again to see what was left of the creature found that the remains were gone, and at the spot where the creature died, there was not even a bloodstain. It was as if someone had come and cleaned up the location.

This encounter was held up as a kind of family secret as well as a tradition that would be passed down from generation to generation that is until, in 1978, one of the grandsons wrote to CUFOs about the encounter. Silbie Latham was one of the main witnesses to the being and the attack on it, and it was specifically his grandson who wrote about the encounter. The grandson wrote, "My grandfather has a most solid reputation for truth and honesty but has never told of this because of fear of ridicule…He has agreed to tell this only after much prompting and encouragement from me, his history-oriented grandson. He would take a polygraph or be hypnotized or whatever you need. There is no question in my mind that he is telling the truth.” following the letter, Latham was later interviewed by Larry Sessions of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History who would describe the grandfather as "a remarkable man" and commented on his story thusly "There's no doubt he believes it happened, but that doesn’t mean it did happen. Maybe he has an overactive imagination. Or maybe his brothers played a trick on him, and he’s sort of unconsciously embellished the story over the years”. One of the things Mr. Lesson asked Mr. Latham was that could the creature have been some sort of frog, but Mr. Latham vigorously rejected this hypothesis and stuck to his guns about the description of the creature.

Now while bizarre green-skinned beings are frequently common in Fortean encounters, be it Cryptozoology, Ufology, or in Faerie encounters, this kind of entity seemingly has never been reported again. Yet that does not imply that there are no answers as to the identity of the enigmatic entity. When one starts off skeptically, there are several ideas as to just what they could have witnessed. Obviously, the one that was most embraced by Mr. Lesson was that what the boys saw that day could have just been a very large bullfrog or something similar. I personally think that this is a little bit of a stretch since Frogs do not have any sort of head structure that one would compare to a sombrero. Now it would be more plausible for a kind of reptile if one was to take this route for species of reptiles like Iguanas or Basilisk Lizards, for if the crest slants over it might give the appearance of a hat like structure, but even still, these structures are extremely flat and fold-like, so if one was to point to them as a possibility there is still that problem of blowing the description way out of proportion as a folded over crest just does not give off the appearance of a sombrero.

Cryptozoologically speaking, there's never been an exact match to the Farmersville Green Man. My first thought would be to compare it to one of the known semiaquatic cryptids reported as these entities are humanoid in form and bright green in color. Yet the most obvious suspects such as The Loveland Frogmen, The Mill Race Monster, Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, Breckinridge Fishman, Charles Mill Lake Monster, but none exactly match. There is one which could, with a stretch of the imagination, be the same or similar, and that is the New Kensington Green Thing. The New Kensington Case describes a bipedal creature green in color with a human-like form, but the reason I mention it as a possibility is that the New Kensington Case involves both a head crest and two large floppy ear-like structures that one could describe as sombrero-like. Now the problem, of course, with this is that again, if we take a literal look at the description, it still does not match up. The New Kensington Green Thing has a tail, and also, the ears and crest are not the same as a sombrero-like structure growing from the skull of the creature. This, however, does not discredit the Cryptid hypothesis as this species is clearly biological in nature since it has internal organs and blood. Perhaps this organism is an incredibly rare species that only was chronicled at least once, and chances are now it is probably extinct. Yet all of this is speculation, and on the counter side of the coin, there's a chance this is not a cryptid since with cryptids, there is a history of sightings such as with lake monsters, Bigfoot, Thunderbirds, etc. even though that could just mean these species have a higher population number or that they exist in more accessible areas to humans allowing sightings to be reported, but if this isn't the case then this is a completely one-off encounter and therefore something else instead of a cryptid.

The next most plausible explanation is that perhaps this is an extraterrestrial of some kind. This could explain the biological aspects of the creature and could also explain why such a creature could have been reported only once. There are several reports of small, diminutive green-skinned or suited beings such as the Hopkinsville Goblins, Space Penguins of Tuscumbia, and the six to eight fingered green men reported at several different cases but most famously in the 1947 Villa Santina encounter. So, perhaps this entity was a species similar to it but with some particular growth or tech that could explain the sombrero shape feature. However, the main problem with this encounter being an extraterrestrial one is that there is no craft seen in connection to the account. While there is the possibility that a UFO could have landed, and this was its occupant, one would think that there should have been others seen in the vicinity or in a more morbid thought that the craft would still be lying in some field waiting to be discovered as its driver no longer lived.

A note that I feel should be included deals with the possibility that this entity could be connected to a group of creatures occasionally reported in both the annals of Cryptozoology and Ufology. The shape of the sombrero like head is not too far off from a mushroom shape which could imply that while this creature's internal structure is fleshy and something akin to a human's, the fact that this being is green and relatively mushroom-like could indicate either some super camouflage or that it is some kind of animal-plant. In the pages of Ufology and Cryptozoology, there are many examples of creatures that blur the line from animal and plant. The most famous of which is the infamous Vegetable Man. The Vegetable Man was a creature assumed to be an extraterrestrial from West Virginia that drained the blood of a man through its long needle-like fingers after communicating with him in a high-pitched record-like voice. Another case also hailing from West Virginia, which was called the Veggie Man as a way to distinguish it from the Vegetable Man, was a semi-tall figure that was green stalk-like with a big round head and arms that extended into two curling tendril-like appendages. These beings, especially the Veggie Man, is not too far off from the Farmersville Green Man and raises the question that perhaps there are organisms either from our own planet or another that intentionally or due to the course of evolution evolved either some super camouflage that they developed as a way to capture prey or that they are the next step in plant evolution organisms that possibly gained both sentience and mobility. While all this is possible, there currently is no specific species of this variety known to science, so again it makes this possibility just speculation.

Another possibility that one can offer up is that this entity is a member of the Fae. This same idea can be pointed to for other plant humanoids and bipedal plant organisms such as the veggie Man, Vegetable Man, and Moss Man. In the domain of the Fae, there are several plant-like organisms that have been cataloged over the years. The most famous example of the plant Fae is the Green Man. The Green Man is a forest spirit that often appears as a humanoid made up of or covered in leaves and acts in many ways as a kind of guardian of the forests and the seasons, specifically that of Spring and Summer. These beings are reported and inducted into many cultures around the world, some of which have had no discernible communication or connection to each other. Another example of a plant-like fae is the Stray Sod. Stray Sod is a lump term for two kinds of phenomenon that behave identically; the first is plain old grass that becomes enchanted by the Fae and causes those who step on it to lose their way. The second variety is a kind of entity that camouflages itself with grass and hides on the ground waiting for someone to step on it so that person loses their way. These beings frequently are reported in Ireland, France, and the United Kingdom. Yet again, as with aliens and cryptids, there's no matching variety of Fae to the Farmersville encounter reported, at least that I am aware of. It is important to note, however, that mushrooms are very important to the Fae as circular patches of mushrooms are believed to be gateways to the Faerie Realm. These circles known as Fairy Rings are constantly reported or claimed to be major areas of Faerie encounters and other anomalous phenomena. Perhaps there might have been a fairy ring on the farm that nobody seemed to take note of, and then on this day, the gate was open, or the veil was dropped, and this being was able to enter our world or be physically seen by humans.

The final possibility is that this entity is an interdimensional being. Much like that of an extraterrestrial or a Faerie, there is this idea that this creature could have come from some other place as currently there is no known creature that evolved on our planet in the same way the Farmersville Green Man did. Now with that said, there is the possibility that this creature could have popped in from whatever original dimension it came from and, unfortunately, either intentionally or unintentionally picked the wrong place and time. Perhaps this could also explain what happened to the body. I had not mentioned the mystery of the body's disappearance as that could be rationalized by being taken away by predators or scavengers or that if it was an alien or a fae, they picked up the remains and took them home or if it was a more earth oriented fae it could have simply returned to the earth that bore it. However, in the same vein, if this creature was an interdimensional being, perhaps this popping in and out is of dimension deals with the structure of the cells, and so if something is even torn apart or spilled out, it will when whatever controls this ability or force take every piece back to where it came from. Of course, all of this is speculation.

Just what this creature is, I'm sure we will never get an answer to it. This being, however, is interesting as it raises the question of whether other creatures of the unknown potentially were killed, and due to an unthinking mind or the body not being found, evidence for their existence goes completely unaccounted. I think it's important that we stay vigilant not just to check the skies for UFOs, thunderbirds, and Mothmen and the surfaces of the lakes and rivers for aquatic humanoids and monsters but also the ground around us for who knows what might be buried below us or on the ground rotting around us.

Quick Facts:

Species/Potential Species: Reptile, Amphibian, Mammal, /Faerie/Extraterrestrial/ Paranormal Entity/

Location: Farmersville, Texas

Sighted: May 1913

Works Cited:

Fairies: Real Life Encounters with the Little People By Janet Bord

The World's Strangest True Stories By The Editors of Fate

Alex Evans “Encounters with Little Men” FATE Magazine November 1978, pp. 83-85

“Farmersville Green Man” Obscurban Legends Wiki. https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Farmersville_Green_Man. Accessed February 13, 2022. 

The Blackwood Centaur

 The Blackwood Centaur

By Cole Herrold

Blackwood, New Jersey, seemingly is an unsung Greek Monster breeding ground as, over the years, at least two creatures from the Myths of the Mediterranean Sea seemed to of appeared in the small community. The earliest account was a strange pigman/minotaur hybrid reported in 1976 known as the Blackwood Pigtaur (see its entry for more info). Sometime later, however, in the winter of 2000, another Homeric beast was claimed to dwell in the nearby community. This account I had originally come across several years ago on About.com's paranormal archive “Your True Tales," and unfortunately, at the time, I was not able to acquire a copy as I had some naïve notion that the account would be there forever. This was not the case and it, along with several other bizarre cases, seemed lost to time, that is until I was doing research on another New Jersey native and found the entry in the Messiah of Fortean filing Albert Rosales’s mandatory-to-own book series Humanoid Encounters which has managed to save most of the cases. So, a personal thank you to Albert Rosales for his incredible resources and hard work. Now on to the encounter.

One night an unnamed witness was driving home from a nightclub in a heavy snowstorm. It was about 2:00 in the morning, and the witness was returning home from a late night of partying at a nightclub that was not from his home. He was in his Ford Explorer and was about to turn onto Erial Road, where his house is, when a strange figure began to run out in front of his truck. The creature was only about 20 yards from his vehicle, and he could see that it was dark gray and seemingly four-legged, which at first made him think that it was a deer. Yet as he looked out into the darkness and up from the lower portion of the creature, he noticed that the quadrupedal body grew into the trunk of a man’s upper torso. He stared in absolute shock and with a twinge of terror at the man-like appendages and took note that not only was the creature's equestrian or cervine lower quarters graying from assumedly age, but so too did the creature's man-like face. The witness watched as the elderly creature stared at him with eerily human eyes before it began to run once more into a nearby wooded lot that was adjacent to his backyard. The witness proceeded to return home completely terrified, dripping with sweat and trembling. He then, after running to the assumed safety of his home, proceeded to lock the patio doors and watched the woods from the backyard just in case the creature decided to make a comeback. As he waited and watched, however, the creature never did return, and as far as being reported, it was never seen again.

Humanoids and specifically creatures known as Manimals have always interested me cryptids like Mothman, Owlman, and of course, Bigfoot, for example, are some of my personal favorites, but these entities, while bearing some human-like qualities, do tend to be more reminiscent of animals very few have features that one could point to as truly human. With creatures like the Centaurs or Flying humanoids such as the Butler County Gargoyle or Butler County Faerie (See entries for more info), they seem to be eerily human and not something such as a bipedal ape, reptile, or bird that is man-sized. So, it raises the question, especially in this case, just what could this creature be as it does not seem to match the known realms of Zoology or Paleontology.

Skeptically speaking, this creature evolutionarily should not exist. When looking at chimeral beasts and creatures such as flying humanoids, some merfolk accounts, and of course my personal favorite, the Jersey Devil, the main problem with their existence is that their bone structure defies our current understanding of how species evolve. Wings, for example, are essentially highly modified hands that are adapted for flight as opposed to walking or grasping. Currently, in nature, no vertebrates have multiple appendages that one would associate with this feature; insects, arthropods, and the like do, but their bodies are built extremely different compared to how we currently understand bilateral symmetry and in general skeletal development in vertebrates. So with cases such as classic Chupacabras or the Jersey Devil, for example, which are described as having both wings and small front legs, this is currently an impossibility as we have no evidence of multi-winged organisms in the fossil record. This same argument also includes Centaurs as basically what is described is a similar skeletal structure of a human's but fused to that of a horses; this would have to imply that there would be three sets of appendages, two that developed much like a horse's and one that continued to function or evolved to be like a set of human arms. This evolutionarily is impossible at our current understanding of how organisms develop, even though such features would be advantageous.

From a not so skeptical standpoint, horse-humanoids that are seemingly fused at weird angles or in almost perfectly cut ways are actually surprisingly common, while one can easily point to the Centaur from Greek Myth as a reference, sightings of similar creatures have been reported elsewhere and in modern times. In Scotland, there is a rather nasty creature that is a variation of centaur-like creature known as the Nuckelavee; this abhorrent abomination is described as having the full form of a horse head, hoof, and tail but also having a humanoid figures upper torso including arms and head growing out of the middle of the back like some sort of macabre tree. All this is even more disturbing when one also mentions that the creature has no skin and that the horse head has a single cycloptic eye peering out of its skull. This creature, unlike centaurs in the Greek myths, which were a mixture of both savage and wise, is completely nefarious; it would ruin crops and genuinely cause unspeakable horrors to any who would run in with it. Reports of centaurs or centaur-like creatures have appeared from time to time in other countries and states as well such as Mexico, Ireland, Virginia, Arizona, Michigan, and another sighting of a similar creature in the Sourland Mountain also of New Jersey. So perhaps these reports are extremely small populations of a kind of cryptid. Perhaps there was some early hominid population or something like that that either through some genetic mutation or altered homeotic hox gene developed an additional set of legs or even arms and that over the several millions of years perfected this feature into enabling it to move faster while still being able to utilize its hands for toolmaking or foraging granted this is a serious long shot, but perhaps it could have happened. Fossils are notoriously unreliable in the sense that while they are factual in the existence of creatures that lived on our planet, they do not sum up all the life that existed on our planet. For an organism to become a fossil, it needs to be in an ideal location at an ideal time, or else it'll just decompose to nothing. For example, most of our early hominid fossils are incomplete are partial skeletons, and for most fossil species, partial specimens are all we really know of them. There are most certainly entire fields of partial remains or entire small populations of organisms that never became fossils or even more probable when one looks at the early methods of paleontology either destroyed, lost, or placed in the vaults of the Smithsonian until some scientist just happens to stumble upon it. The amount of data they have that has not been gone through is staggering hence why some of the most groundbreaking finds in recent history were discovered under their very noses. Perhaps some bizarre evolutionary offshoot of multiple jointed organisms is still buried somewhere, be it in the vault of the Smithsonian or in some desert or under some building, and if or when it's discovered could prove that such creatures did exist or are at least possible.

While the cryptid route anecdotally seems to be the only possibility for these beings, it's by far not the only one. It is unlikely that these beings are ghosts or Extraterrestrials, but I will say that for the extraterrestrial route, there is always the chance that in these cases, there could be some craft hidden in the nearby woods or underground. One popular possibility that was written about in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Inferno as part of his Divine Comedy features centaurs as a kind of denizen from hell. In Dante's hell, many mythological creatures are claimed, such as Charon, Cerberus, Geryon, the triple bodied creature featured in the 12 labors of Hercules, Medusa, the Furies, the Harpies, the minotaur; of all these classic monsters, however, Dante also encountered three specific centaurs Chiron, Nessus, and Pholus. It's from works as Dante and the general demonization of pagan figures that many views such creatures solely as demonic, but to play devil's advocate, what if they are correct. Perhaps these entities are, in fact, infernal beings who had over the course of centuries in those ancient times convinced people to hold them as gods are in reverence for some malicious purpose and that these beings are authentic demons. Now while one cannot take such a possibility off the table, I do not feel that this is the case. Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are relatively new religions, and it's from these Abrahamic religions that most of our perceptions of demons come from and for me to view any phenomenon from this lens which would place almost any phenomena as godly or demonic is frankly just too biased and simplistic for how the world and every other aspect of life is. Plus, those religions, while important, make up only one portion of a wide web of beliefs that ALL need to be taken into consideration; this includes native beliefs, Shinto, Hinduism, paganism in all forms, etc. In this case, this being, even from a considerable demonic identity, did not behave aggressively or do anything that one would associate with the infernal kingdom.

There are two other major possibilities that stick out in my mind as to where this being comes from and, in doing so, just what it might be. The first is, of course, this being could be some interdimensional entity that comes from some dimension where such forms of evolution are common, and for some reason, either intentionally or unintentionally, it ended up here. This would explain the countless sightings over the years and why there's never been official physical evidence of their existence as well as how such a creature could come about.

The other possibility, which depending on your interpretation, could be just an extension of the interdimensional aspect, is that Centaurs are a kind of fae. The fae or faeries, in general, are several species and races of countless types of supernatural beings that are linked to nature. The fae are often linked entirely to Europe, especially in Ireland and the United Kingdom, but almost every culture has some version of them. In Japan, the fae exist in the Yokai as these beings are a colloquial term for bizarre entities that seem to exist for specific purposes, usually for no clear reason, and many bear many similarities in behavior to their European brethren. Native cultures in North, Central, and South America also have tales of diminutive humanoids and bizarre beasts associated with nature; these entities range in shape, size, and purpose but all have almost identical features and abilities to those seen in Europe and Asia. The creatures from Greece are often linked as their own kind, but there are many parallels to the fae, namely with entities such as the dryads, naiads, nereids, and the like, and when one looks at the satyrs, fauns, and centaurs, they too are a kind of being of the woods and interconnected with nature beings that are separate from the divine and the human world. It's from this that perhaps Centaurs are a member of the fae as well. The more I research Fortean cases, the more I think there might be something to the fae or the Fae hypothesis and that it is perhaps it is a much wider and deeper phenomenon than we currently are aware of. However, as with all cases that I mention, the hypothesis is mere speculation.

Centaurs are a bizarre mystery as one does not expect to see one running around in modern times and in a location so far removed from the islands around the Mediterranean Sea. I have several theories as to just what these creatures are, but none are conclusive, as with almost all the creatures that exist in the realms of Fortean studies. I have hopes that eventually, these mysteries will be answered and that these entities, whatever they are and wherever they come from, are part of our knowledge of our world, yet I have doubts that I will see it in my lifetime. Its cases like this that not only pique my interest but also show that once was old is new again and that our monsters and gods are not dead but still living amongst us, hiding in the shadows of the night just out of our sight but on those rare chances just maybe we’ll see them and the legends will continue for generations to come.

Quick Facts:

Species/Potential Species: Mammal

Location: Blackwood, Gloucester Township, New Jersey

Sighted: Winter of 2000

Works Cited:

Humanoid Encounters: 2000-2009 By Albert S. Rosales