by Cole Herrold
Winged humanoid accounts seem to be a variety of creatures. There are large birdmen accounts, as seen with the Freeport Owlman, Owlman of Mawnan, and the Mothman. Accounts of hairy flying hominids and angelic-type beings are a not-so-common occurrence but have been reported. The most common variety aside from the birdmen are the humanoid bat-winged creatures. While this phenomenon is as ancient as our ability to record such accounts, it appears that there has been a surge of flying humanoid reports with a crescendo occurring in the Great Lakes area of the United States in recent years. These flying humanoids, known collectively as the Chicago Mothman or Lake Michigan Mothman, have been seen en masse during the span of 2016-2020 with reports still coming in. Flying humanoids are because of this flap of sightings and several other accounts reported in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska believed to be an entirely midwestern phenomenon. However, reports of similar creatures are seen throughout the United States with some frequency in Pennsylvania. There are scads of reports mostly chronicled by Lon Strickler and Stan Gordon of a variety of bizarre flying humanoids, most of which are from the southern border of the state.
Greene County in Pennsylvania is so predominant in
strange occurrences and cryptid sightings that Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Kevin
Paul recently released a book called Haunted Hills and Hollows. It is an
extremely useful tome for research on Fortean topics in a specific segment of
Pa. In it are tons of bizarre encounters from lizardmen, frogmen, dogmen,
bigfoot, black spectral mole-like figures, ghosts, and UFOs. Yet of all these
topics, there was one of an extra bizarre and more esoteric nature that would
add to the already growing list of encounters with creatures known collectively
as Flying Humanoids.
