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Legendary nineteenth-century British creature who supposedly harassed travelers and terrified women with his giant leaps, vicious behavior, and diabolical appearance. As the legend goes, he successfully eluded capture for many years, evading police and the army, and mocking them with his daring leaps and wild eerie laughter.

Reportedly, he was a large man in a black cloak, and when the cloak was thrown aside, blue and white flames shot from his mouth and his eyes appeared like balls of fire. His hands appeared to be metallic claws, with which he slashed at people or tore their clothing. He was able to leap across high walls and hedges with ease. Sometimes he even knocked or rang at front doors, using his athletic ability to escape after terrifying the occupant of the house. The first report survives from September 1837. A press account from 1838, quoted in Peter Haining's The Legend and Bizarre Crimes of Springheeled Jack (1977), notes a typical incidence: "She returned into the house and brought a candle and handed it to the person, who appeared enveloped in a large cloak, and whom she at first really believed to be a policeman. The instant she had done so, however, he threw off his outer garment, and applying the lighted candle to his breast, presented a more hideous and frightful appearance, and vomitted forth a quantity of blue and white flame from his mouth, and his eyes resembled red balls of fire.
"From the hasty glance which her fright enabled her to get at his person, she observed that he wore a large helmet, and his dress, which appeared to fit him very tight, seemed to her to resemble white oilskin. Without uttering a sentence he darted at her, and catching her partly by the dress and the back part of her neck, placed her head under one of his arms, and commenced tearing her gown with his claws, which she was certain were of some metallic substance.
"She screamed out as loud as she could for assistance, and by considerable exertion got away from him and ran towards the house to get in. Her assailant, however, followed her, and caught her on the steps leading to the hall-door, where he again used considerable violence, tore her neck and arms with his claws, as well as a quantity of hair from her head; but she was at length rescued from his grasp by one of her sisters."

Springheeled Jack is reported to have terrorized many people in London and the provinces with his appearances in 1843, 1845, and sporadically until 1877. He appeared again in 1904. He popped up again in 1953 in Houston, Texas, where his appearance was linked to a UFO sighting.
Some have suggested that the original Springheeled Jack was the eccentric Marquis of Waterford, Henry de la Poer Beresford, who was also Baron Tyrone of Haverfordwest (1811-1859). According to the Reverend Brewer in The Reader's Handbook (1899; reprinted Gale Research, 1966): "The Marquis of Waterford in the early parts of the nineteenth century used to amuse himself by springing on travellers unawares, to terrify them; and from time to time others have followed his silly example. Even so late as 1877-78, an officer in her majesty's service caused much excitement, in the garrisons stationed at Aldershot, Colchester, and elsewhere, by his 'spring-heel' pranks. In Chichester and its neighbourhood the tales told of this adventurer caused quite a little panic, and many nervous people were afraid to venture out after sunset, for fear of being 'sprung' upon. I myself investigated some of the cases reported to me."
The Marquis of Waterford was known to have been responsible for a number of somewhat sadistic pranks, particularly involving offensive behavior to women. But there is no firm evidence that he devised special boots fitted with steel springs or a phosphorescent mask with provision for emitting flames or smoke (as reported by victims and onlookers).

He was, however, reported as having protuberant eyes and also a peculiar ringing laugh. Moreover, a servant gave an account of an encounter with the sinister cloaked figure with fiery eyes and claw-like hands and spoke of an ornate crest on the cloak, with the initial "W" in gold filigree.
If the original Springheeled Jack was the Marquis of Water-ford, he outgrew this behavior when he met and married Louisa Stuart in 1842. The Marquis seems to have been benevolent towards the tenants on his Irish estates and like many noble-men of the period spent a good deal of time in sport and hunting. He died while hunting; his horse stumbled and threw him, dislocating his neck.
Springheeled Jack has been considered a supernatural or paranormal being by many people. In her book Stand and Deliver (1928), historian Elizabeth Villiers commented: "A thousand tales were afloat and all lost nothing in the telling. Plenty of people definitely swore they had seen him leap right over the roofs of large houses, the cottages and hayricks were as nothing to him, the mail coaches and post chaises and family barouches were taken in his stride. Then, rather unaccountably, public opinion veered from thinking him a new form of highwayman and declared he was an inventor experimenting with a form of flying machine, while others maintained he was not flesh and blood but a haunting spirit."

After the death of the Marquis of Waterford, reports of Springheeled Jack continued, generated either through legend or a succession of imitators, which led to him being the central character of plays, "penny-dreadful" comic books, and popular thrillers. As late as 1945, a British movie was made about Springheeled Jack titled The Curse of the Wraydons, starring actor Tod Slaughter.

The suggestion that Springheeled Jack might have been a creature from outer space was made in an article in Flying Saucer Review (May-June, 1961) by J. Vyner. It cited twentieth-century reports from the United States.
An earlier suggestion was made that Springheeled Jack might have been a kangaroo that had escaped from captivity. The numerous reports of a creature breathing flames, molesting women, and laughing eerily indicated characteristics beyond the capacity of a kangaroo.




"In a remote district of 18th century France there stalked a marauding beast so terrible that its bloody deeds have passed into legend..."
So begins one version of the tale of the "Beast of Gevaudan," a strange and horrible creature which began its rampage of terror in June of 1764, and continued its mysterious appearances and disappearances for over two years.
It started in the Mercoire forest near Langogne when a young woman was out watching her cows. She suddenly was charged by a hideous beast. Her dogs (curiously) ran away, and she would have been killed if the cows had not kept the monster at bay with their horns. The woman got away with a few scratches, torn clothing and shattered nerves. (Shattered nerves DO seem to be one of the constants in these types of cases, which may be a "connection," as we will see further on.)
She was able to describe the beast to the people of her village as being about the size of a cow with a very wide chest, a huge head and neck, short straight ears and a nose like a greyhound. Two long fangs protruded from each side of its black mouth. Its tail was long and exceptionally thin and it had a black stripe running from the top of the head to the tip of the tail. She also said it could make leaps of as much as 30 feet at a time. It was the general opinion of those hearing this description, that it was some type of gigantic wolf.
Are we dealing with a hysterical account here? I mean, who ever heard of a wolf as big as a cow? A wolf that can leap 30 feet at a time? Keep those "leaps" in mind also...
In the following months, the beast attacked women and children and solitary men who took the livestock out to pasture. Many were devoured or carried off. People also found half-ravaged dead bodies and torn-off limbs scattered about.
On October 8, 1764, two hunters saw the beast and shot at it from only 10 paces. On this occasion, the beast fell down, but got up immediately. The hunters shot once more - and again the beast fell down. But, it got back up and unsteadily ran into a nearby wood. As it ran away, the hunters shot it yet again, and each time it fell and got back up and continued to run.
People were sure it had been seriously wounded and that it would be found dead the next day. Instead, a greater than usual number of people were killed in the following days as though the Beast were seeking retribution for the attacks against it.
The next month, a Captain Duhamel took charge of the situation and organized the peasants as beaters so that he and his company of Dragoons - 40 foot soldiers and 17 mounted soldiers - could corner and kill the beast. But, the beast was not to be fooled into a trap. Every time they thought they had it surrounded and started shooting, it managed to escape.
A large reward was offered for the capture of the beast and this brought hunters from all over France. The hunt went on for months. The peasants soon got tired of all these hunters and soldiers eating their food and trampling down their crops and rumblings of discontent were heard. At the same time, the beast launched into a rampage even more terrible than before - right under the noses of the hunters and soldiers! It was as though it FED on the negative feelings and became even more daring and powerful.
King Louis XV sent a famous hunter, Msr. Denneval, to the district. Denneval was reputed to have killed 1200 wolves. He began to track the Beast with his bloodhounds in February of 1765.
In March, when Denneval had been tracking the beast for a month, the three children of a family named Denis were watching their livestock near Malzieu. Jacques, aged 16, had lit a fire under a rock outcrop and Julienne, in her 20's, had wandered away for a moment. Jeanne was close by Jacques who was tending the fire. Suddenly, she screamed. The beast was upon her and had seized her by the head. Jacques managed to save her by throwing the beast onto the fire and holding it there until it struggled away, howling.
Jeanne was left with two gaping wounds - one behind each ear - and a torn shoulder. All of the wounds healed. But Jeanne went mad and never recovered her sanity. She experienced repeated bouts of quivering terror that made her scream as though the Beast were on her again. Her sister, Julienne, who had been present at the time, but had wandered away for a moment, felt guilty for not protecting Jeanne and was heard to say: "Now it is either the beast or me." She began to "expose" herself to the beast by wandering the slopes of Malzieu.
Jacques Denis vowed to avenge his sister, Jeanne, and joined the great hunter Denneval. The tactics being used by this hunter involved allowing the beast to gain confidence to come out into the open so it could then be surrounded by the hunters and dogs rather than trying to beat it into a corner. However, this strategy didn't work either. The Beast would often be pursued by the dogs and scores of men who were soon exhausted by racing over the rough terrain, but the monster kept going with seeming superhuman endurance. And, it always left a path of slaughtered children, torn bodies, and body parts in its wake.
On April 29, 1765, a nobleman named De la Chaumette spotted the beast near his home in Saint-Chely. He saw it stalking a shepherd in a pasture and called his two brothers to get their guns and the three of them went to ambush the Beast. They shot at it. The Beast collapsed on the ground and rolled over two or three times. De la Chaumette fired again. The Beast rolled towards the wood, managed to gain shelter and fled. Great splashes of blood stained the ground and brush all around the area, so it was clear that the beast had been wounded. Everyone felt it had gone away to die.
This happened at the beginning of the Spring Fair at Malzieu in May of 1765, so it turned into a big celebration over the death of The Beast. In the midst of the festivities, a rider galloped into the square and shouted: "Marguerite is done for. The Beast has got her!"
Marguerite happened to be a friend of Jacques Denis, the young man who had sworn to kill the beast to avenge his sister, Jeanne. He rushed off to find Marguerite, and she was right at the outskirts of the village, lying in her own blood, her throat ripped open. (Seem a bit peculiar that this one family has so many "connections" to the Beast?)
On that day, the Beast killed three people, but didn't even bother to eat them as was his usual habit. Another series of "retributions" for having been shot?
In any event, these gruesome deaths caused the peasants to go crazy with rage and despair. Grabbing pitchforks, pikes, long poles, bayonets, and whatever else came to hand, they put the dogs onto the fresh scent of the Beast, and led by the outraged Jacques Denis, set off to find the beast or else!
As it happened, Jacques soon found himself confronting the beast for the second time. He attacked with a bayonet. The Beast leaped upon him and he would have been killed, but the crowd of villagers arrived at that moment and the beast fled.
The King was furious because this beast was making France look ridiculous. England was using it as a vehicle for "French bashing," and this was a state of affairs that could not be tolerated any longer. Louis sent his personal gun carrier, Antoine de Beauterne, to deal with the problem.
The great hunter, Denneval, had already given up after the debacle in June. At the same time, the Beast went on a fresh rampage. On June 16 it mangled a little girl who was saved at the last minute. On the 21st it killed a 14 year old boy, devoured a 45 year old woman, and carried off another little girl.
The Church got involved at this point, declaring that the Beast was a "messenger of evil" sent to punish the people for their sins. (How typical!) Rumors of witchcraft and dark rites and werewolves started to spread and it was increasingly clear that this was NOT your normal "giant wolf" or anything that the people had ever dealt with before!
Well, for three months, the King's "problem solver," Antoine de Beauterne, did nothing. He inspected the area, drew maps, surveyed the routes taken by the beast, and just generally analyzed the problem. Finally, on September 21, he organized a beat with 40 local hunters and 12 dogs.
Following de Beauterne's instructions, based on his "intuition," the beaters encircled a ravine in the wood of Pommier. Suddenly, the dogs began barking furiously. The Beast was, indeed, there, so de Beauterne's analysis had been correct. The dogs were unleashed and the beast was forced out into the clearing. It began turning wildly at the edge of the wood, looking for an escape. It hesitated, and then came forward into the sunlight. De Beauterne shot it and some of the buckshot struck the animal's right shoulder. One shot went through its right eye and its skull. The beast fell and the hunters sounded the horn of triumph.
Suddenly, to everyone's stupefied amazement, the Beast got up and went toward Antoine de Beauterne. One man fired at it, and the shot went through its thigh. But, seemingly possessed of supernatural energy, the beast turned, found a hole in the "net," and ran off into a pasture beyond.
Then, the beast collapsed again. Dead at last.
It measured 6 feet from nose to base of tail and weighed 143 pounds. It had a huge head with fangs about 1.5 inches long. It was stuffed and taken to the King. Later it was taken to the Museum of Natural History where it was kept until the beginning of the 20th century. Where it may be now, I have been unable to determine as most of the resources are in French.
But, that was NOT the end of the story! As it happened, for the next two months - until the end of November, 1765 - the killings went on, but were forbidden to be spoken of by order of the king! So, either the "right" beast was not killed - or there were TWO of them!
The month of December was a nightmare. People barricaded themselves in their homes in terror of the Beast who could not be named or discussed.
Julienne Denis who had vowed "it's the Beast or me," had continued to wander the countryside in a sort of half-crazed state and disappeared on the day before Christmas. Jacques Denis went out to search for his sister. She was never seen again though some unrecognizable remains were found along a narrow ravine a week later.
All that winter the carnage continued. More searches were made, but the public "outcry" and "mass hysteria" was suppressed by the king's orders. The winter of 1766/67 was calmer with only a few disappearances. But, in the spring, the rampage began again. It is not even known how many were killed because the king's suppression orders meant that many deaths from the ravages of the Beast were not recorded as such and many families, fearing the king's wrath, did not admit to the deaths. But, from March to June of 1767 it is thought that there were at least 14 victims of the Beast in one small area around Paulhac.
In May and June the peasants began to go on pilgrimages to pray for relief from the Beast. One pilgrim, Jean Chastel, obtained three blessed cartridges from his pilgrimage.
June 19, 1767, another beat was organized by a local nobleman which consisted of 300 hunters and beaters. Jean Chastel joined the fray and positioned himself on the Sogne d'Aubert in the same way Antoine de Beauterne had placed himself in the Beal ravine when the first Beast had been killed. He opened his prayer book and began to read while he waited for the Beast.
The Beast, on the run from the dogs and beaters, came out in front of Chastel. Chastel calmly finished praying, closed the book, took off his glasses and put them away in his pocket. He then raised his gun and fired. The Beast fell and Chastel reportedly said: "You will kill no more!"
According to various sources, after the second creature was gutted, the remains of a small girl was found inside its entrails. For several weeks the carcass of the gigantic creature was hauled around the countryside to celebrate its death. It is said that on the spot where the beast fell, the grass will not grow.
In our modern times, the stories of Spring-Heeled Jack are dismissed as figments of the Victorian imagination. One theory was that it was a creation of servants and the lower classes on which they cast the blame for their own negligence or pilfering. Some people think it was made up to frighten young children into behaving or "Spring-Heeled Jack will get you."
The fact is: Spring-Heeled Jack's appearances were widely reported in the local and national press (though THAT is no guarantee that he was real, for sure!)
No one is exactly sure when Jack made his first appearance and there are sources that report circulation of these stories as early as 1817. But, it was only in 1837 that Jack became a news item of widespread interest.
In September 1837 in London, Jack attacked three women in the dark of the night. One of the victims, Polly Adams, reportedly had her dress torn off which allowed Jack to scratch at her stomach with his "iron clad" fingers - apparently a reference to long claws. The victims later described Jack as a tall, thin and powerful man who wore a dark cloak, glowing red or orange eyes, and the ability to spit blue flames.
Attacks continued and London's Lord Mayor, Sir John Cowan, declared Spring-Heeled Jack a menace in January 1838. A vigilante group soon formed to capture Jack, but he was able to escape all attempts. Supposedly he was able to escape by making great leaps of up to 25 or 30 feet at a time! (Now, where have we heard THAT before?)
On Wednesday, February 18, 18 year-old Lucy Scales and her sister Margaret were returning home after visiting their brother. Lucy was slightly ahead of her sister and, when she passed the entrance to an alley, a figure leaped on her from out of the darkness, breathing fire into her face, and then bounding away in great, springing leaps. Lucy collapsed to the ground in a seizure.
Two days later, on the 20th of February, Jane Alsop responded to a violent ringing of the doorbell of her parents' home. Just outside the door was an extremely excited man who identified himself as a policeman and said "For God's sake bring me a light for we have caught Spring-heeled Jack in the lane!"
Jane brought a candle and handed it to the policeman who suddenly threw off his cloak. Under this garment, he was dressed very strangely indeed! He had on a large helmet and a skin-tight, white suit that appeared to be oilskin. His eyes were red and protruding as he glared at Jane and began to vomit blue and white flames in her face!
(Now, at this point, my question is about the candle. Was it necessary to have a source of "flame" in order to produce this strange "dragon breath?" The presence of a candle or other prior flame was not mentioned in the report of Lucy Scales, but it is a fact that modern day "fire breathers" use a flame to ignite the volatile mixtures they take into their mouths. There also seems to be no mention of any kind of strong odor as of any gaseous mixture, but that doesn't mean it wasn't present. The witnesses may have been too hysterical to accurately describe every detail.)
At any event, Jane was temporarily blinded, and Jack grabbed her with "talon like fingers" and tore her dress, raking and scratching her skin in the process.
Naturally, Jane was screaming her head off and her two sisters came running, grabbed her away from the fiend, and slammed the door in his face.
A week later Jack tried the same trick, but the intended victim must have heard about the first incident and was on guard. Jack fled and a witness said that he was wearing an ornate crest with a gold filigree "W" on his clothing. (?)
Sounds a bit like a "Superhero" of today!
Nevertheless, Jack's appearances became less frequent and spread out over a larger area for a time, until 1843, when a new wave of terror began. He appeared then in Northamptonshire, Hampshire and East Anglia.
In 1845 Jack was seen in a "low rent district" immortalized by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, where he cornered a 13 year-old prostitute and breathed fire into her face and threw her into a ditch where she drowned. Thus, Jack went beyond terrorizing people into being a murderer.
There were isolated reports of Spring-heeled Jack over the next 27 years, but most of them were iffy in terms of being poorly witnessed, but in November of 1872, London was in a state of commotion again over the "Peckham Ghost" which was commented on in the Newspapers as being "as mysterious and alarming as Spring-heeled Jack had been to the previous generation."
In 1877 Jack supposedly appeared again at Aldershot Barracks in March, and the figure was shot at on one occasion by a soldier, but seemed to be impervious to bullets.
Ten years later, in 1887, Jack supposedly frightened several young ladies in Cheshire by rushing into a room where they were assembled. He swept the knickknacks off the mantle and then ran right out. This appearance was said to be a hoax and due to a wager by the sons of several well-known men that one of them should impersonate the original Jack in a convincing way.
There were many theories about who might have been going around masquerading as this strange creature who could leap enormous distances and breathe fire and who had eyes like glowing coals, but no satisfactory explanation has ever been put forward. No one was ever caught, no one was ever positively identified, even with vigilante committees on the prowl bent on capturing Jack at various times. There were numerous sightings of the "Spring-heeled" figure leaping and bounding away, but no explanation for this has ever been given either.
One question that came up in my mind when thinking about all this was the fact that Jack the Ripper was also a "Jack," and the time frame could, conceivably, embrace HIS activities. I have a whole collection of books on The Ripper, each with a different theory as to who Jack the Ripper really was and I Do, of course, have my favorite theory which does not include any "anomalous events." But, that does not exclude such from our consideration of the Ripper phenomenon, particularly when considering the events of the Beast of Gevaudan and the rapacious appetites of that creature! It is, certainly, true that the Ripper MUST have had some amazing way to "escape" detection which COULD include "leaping over buildings" or whatever. And, supposedly, the Ripper murders started and stopped in mysterious ways for which no reasonable explanation has been offered other than the perpetrator must have either committed suicide, been committed to a mental hospital, or traveled to either America or Australia. (Those are all theories that are seriously considered.)
Back in the 1980's I read John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies. I have to say that this really strange book actually kept me up at night with the implications of the strange things that actually COULD be "out there" and about which we knew very little.
I recently read a bumper sticker that said: "if you are not outraged, you aren't paying attention." Well, I would like to amend that to "If you are not AMAZED, you aren't paying attention!" There are things going on here on the Big Blue Marble that are just perfectly astounding! Charles Fort was a great collector of these things, and there are just piles and piles of references and well-attested cases for any interested person to study. But, when you begin to go through all of it, with an open mind, in addition to amazement, your puzzlement will increase to such a level that you will no longer be able to hold onto your old views of reality.
In Strange and Unexplained Phenomena, (Clark and Pear, 1997) we find a concise discussion of Mothman, a more recent phenomenon, appearing in West Virginia in 1966. He was first reported to have been seen, apparently, by two young married couples who were driving by an abandoned dynamite factory in Point Pleasant late in the evening. What they saw first were two large eyes, (glowing red, I understand) two inches wide and six inches apart, attached to something that was sort of figured like a man, only bigger, and which had huge wings folded against its back!
The four young people panicked and sped away but saw the creature again on a hillside next to the road! It then spread its "bat like" wings, rose into the air and followed their car. It seemed to be keeping up with them quite easily even though they accelerated to 100 mph in an effort to "lose" the creature. One of the witnesses said that it was keeping up with them without even flapping its wings!
The same night, however, it seems that someone else had seen Mothman even earlier. A Mr. Newell Partridge, living outside of Salem, West Virginia (90 miles from Point Pleasant), was watching television when the screen suddenly went blank and a "fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and ... the set started a loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch, peaking and breaking off... It sounded like a generator winding up."
Mr. Partridge's dog began to howl and continued to do so even after the noisy television was turned off. Partridge went outside and saw his dog facing the barn about 150 yards away, so he shined a flashlight in that direction and saw "two red circles, or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors."
The dog took off after the creature but Partridge tried to call him back without success. Mr. Partridge went in after his gun, but was so unnerved by the "eyes" he had seen, he decided that the better part of valor was the discretion of remaining indoors! He spent the night with his gun at his side.
In the morning, the dog was still missing and it was only two days later that Partridge read the report about the two couples sighting Mothman at the dynamite factory. One of the details in that account was that one of the witnesses said that, as they entered the city limits of Point Pleasant they had seen the body of a large dog by the side of the road and, a few minutes later, as they were leaving, the dog was gone.
Mr. Partridge immediately connected this dead dog to his missing animal who was, in fact, never seen again!
Another strange anomaly was that when the Sheriff's deputy who investigated the report by the two couples went out to the dynamite plant, he experienced interference on his police radio. He said it was loud and sounded rather like a record or tape being played at high speed. It was so loud that he had to turn the radio off.
From that time until November of 1967, numerous other sightings of "Mothman" were reported. One of them described Mothman as something that rose slowly from the ground, that it was a "big gray thing, bigger than a man," and that it had no head! It DID have the two large glowing red circles at the top of its torso.
According to John Keel, at least a hundred people saw the creature and he gathered the reports to come up with a general description as follows: it stood between five and seven feet tall, was broader than a man, and walked in a clumsy and shuffling manner on humanlike legs. It made a squeaky sound and the eyes were set near the top of the shoulders. Its wings were bat like but did not flap when it flew. When it took off from the ground, it went "straight up, like a helicopter." The skin color was gray or brown, and two witnesses said that they heard a mechanical humming as it flew above them.
After 1967, the sightings died away.
Almost everyone who investigated this Mothman business agreed that it was NOT a hoax. Of course, one "expert" declared that it must have been a sand hill crane. Nevertheless, there were a great many multiple-witness sightings by individuals that the investigators and police considered to be very reliable.
Curiously, there was a sighting of a similar creature by a woman in 1961 (again, in West Virginia), and the witness told John Keel "It was much larger than a man. A big gray figure. It stood in the middle of the road. Then a pair of wings unfolded from its back, and they practically filled the whole road. It almost looked like a small airplane. then it took off straight up ... disappearing out of sight in seconds."
And there seems to have been a sighting in Kent, England in 1963. Four young people saw a "star" shoot across the night sky and disappear behind trees not far from them. They were scared and started to run but then stopped to observe a golden, oval-shaped light floating a few feet above a field about 80 yards from them. This then disappeared into a wooded area. Suddenly, the witnesses saw a dark shape shuffling toward them from across this field. It was black and human sized, headless and had wings like a bat! At this point, they panicked and ran away!
A similar UFO was seen by others during the next few nights. On November 23, two men who had come to investigate found a "vast expanse of bracken that had been flattened." They also claimed to have seen three huge footprints, two feet long and nine inches wide, impressed deeply into the soil.
Is a "flying humanoid creature" something that has only occurred since the "UFO craze" that started in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold's "flying saucers?" Nope. Seems that flying beings of "human appearance" do appear from time to time.
A "winged human form" was seen over Brooklyn, New York, on September 18, 1877 and reported in the New York Sun. Interestingly, this is about the time of some of the "Spring-Heel Jack" reports in England.
On September 12, 1880, there was a report of a "Man with bat's wings and improved frog's legs... at least a thousand feet in the air... flying toward the New Jersey coast... [with] a cruel and determined expression." Now, I don't know how a judgment about the expression could be made, but maybe it just meant that it was "frightening" to the witness and this was their subjective interpretation of that fright.
V.K. Arsenyev, a Russian writer, reported the following about an incident that occurred on July 11, 1908 in the Sikhote Mountains near Vladivostok:
The rain stopped, the temperature of the air remainded low and the mist appeared over the water. It was then that I saw the mark on the path that was very similar to a man's footprint. My dog Alpha bristled up, snarled, and then something rushed about nearby trampling among the bushes. However, it didn't go away.
Arsenyev then threw a stone "towards the unknown animal... something happened that was quite unexpected." He "heard the beating of wings. Something large and dark emerged from the fog and flew over the river. A moment later it disappeared in the dense mist."
Arsenyev later told some of the locals about his experience and they shared with him a story about a "man who could fly in the air. Hunters often saw his tracks, tracks that appeared suddenly and vanished suddenly in a way that could only result if the 'man' alighted on the ground, then took off again into the air."
In 1952 at Camp Okubo, Kyoto, Japan, U.S. Air Force Private Sinclair Taylor, on guard duty, said he heard a loud flapping noise. When he looked up he saw a huge "bird" in the moonlight. When it approached him, he became frightened and put a round of ammunition into his gun. The "bird" had stopped its flight and was hovering close by, staring at Private Taylor. He said:
The thing, which now had started to descend again, had the body of a man. It was well over seven feet from head to feet, and its wingspread was almost equal to its height. I started to fire and emptied my carbine where the thing hit the ground. But when I looked... to see if my bullets had found home, there was nothing there.
When the sergeant of the guard came to investigate the gunshots and heard the story, he told Taylor that he believed him - because a year earlier another guard had seen the same thing!
In August, 1969, Vietnam, near Da Nang, soldier Earl Morrison with the First Marine Division and two other guards were sitting on top of a bunker talking when they noticed something approaching them in the sky. Morrison said:
We saw what looked like wings, like a bat's, only it was gigantic compared to what a regular bat would be. After it got close enough so we could see what it was, it looked like a woman. A naked woman. She was black. Her skin was black, her body was black. But it glowed. It glowed in the night - kind of a greenish cast to it.
The soldiers watched the creature move about in the sky. At one point she was right above their heads, just six or seven feet up. She moved silently, without flapping her wings. Morrison said that she blocked the moon once, but despite the increased darkness, they could still see her because she glowed brightly. It was only when the creature started to fly away that the men heard a flapping sound.
Morrison thought that the covering on her skin was more like fur than feathers. He said "The skin on her wings looked like it was molded onto her hands." He also remarked that the movement of her arms suggested that they had no bones in them!
I have only selected the above reports to include here because they represent the things that we asked the Cassiopaeans about specifically. There are so many others, so many different types of creatures seen or encountered in various ways through the years, that you just have to sit back and regard our world in total awe!
Yes, such things can be frightening - especially to those who are not open to the anomalous nature of our reality - but with the proper perspective, it can be seen that, indeed, the world IS full of such a number of things...
But, moving on to the session in which we asked about these things, (and I am not going to describe the Chupacabras sightings as there are many pages on the web where one can read lengthy, detailed reports that are up-to-date) let's see what the Cassiopaeans have to say about such mysteries.


The Cassiopaeans answer:

Q: (L) I read in a book about a monster called the "Beast of Gevaudan" which appeared first in 1764 and was supposedly done away with in 1767. Who or what was this beast?

A: Other dimensional "window faller."

Q: (L) You mean it fell into our dimension from another through a dimensional window?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Well, that would explain a lot of things about it. What about the creature known as "Spring-Heel Jack" who terrorized England in the last century?

A: Same.

Q: (L) What about the Mothman in West Virginia?

A: Same.

Q: (L) So, windows to other dimensions are the explanation for a whole host of strange things?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) I would like to know what is the definition of, and would you describe for us, a dimensional curtain?

A: Self-explanatory. Think.

Q: (L) Can dimensional curtains be between dimensions at the same level of density?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Are dimensional curtains also something that occurs between levels of density?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) So, a dimensional curtain is a point at which some sort of change takes place... what causes this change?

A: Nature.

Q: (L) In specific terms of the engineering of it, what defines this change?

A: Experience.

Q: (L) Is it in any way related to atomic or quantum physics or the movement of atoms?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Okay. An atom is in 3rd density. What distinguishes it from an atom in 4th density?

A: Reality.

Q: (L) What distinguishes one realm from another?

A: Assumptions.

Q: (L) Okay, what you assume or expect is what you perceive about that atom depending upon which reality you are in, is that correct?

A: Close.

Q: (L) What determines your assumptions?

A: Experience. Every thing that exists is merely a lesson.

Q: (L) Okay, so once we have learned certain lessons, as in experience of certain things, then our assumptions change?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Okay, is this Wave that is coming our direction going to give us an experience that is going to change our assumptions?

A: Catch 22: One half is that you have to change your assumptions in order to experience the wave in a positive way.

Q: (L) And what does this wave consist of in absolute terms?

A: Realm border.

Q: (L) Is that realm border as in a cut-off point between one reality and another?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Is that realm border as in dimensional curtain?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) So the planet earth is going to pass through a dimensional curtain?

A: Or an earth. All is merely a lesson, and nothing, repeat nothing, more.

Q: (L) Well, my experience with lessons has been that they are generally painful. Is this realm border crossing, or this merging experience going to be what we, or I, in the 3rd density, would perceive as painful?

A: Wait and see.



 

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