Indeed, one might see such diverse inhumanoid activity as is illuminated in this work to be a re-emergence, of sorts, of the “old gods” once worshiped by the numerous ancient middle-eastern peoples to whom they first appeared. Curiously, the earliest known forms of writing are accounts in which these incredible entities play some role, either as benefactors or cannibalistic adversaries and they have, to some unknown degree, even shaped the course of human existence on Earth.
They can appear at any time to anyone anywhere in the world, from the lowliest peasant to the kings of nations. Though we will never know exactly to whom or how many, historic accounts exist which suggest that inhumanoid figures have appeared, in one form or another, to important individuals who would one day help in shaping the destiny of mankind, either for good or ill.
Joan of Arc, for instance, had her “angels” which gave her the counsel and guidance that eventually led to her being burned at the stake as a ‘witch.’ She is pictured above in a fifteenth-century miniature, the angels at the top right-hand side.
So did George Washington. In the year 1777, while a disparaged Washington sat in his crude, cold hut at Valley Forge, a movement in the corner of the room caught his eye. He turned and, to his amazement, saw a rising, curling vapor and in its midst stood a long-robed, long-haired figure with a reddish face which he first took to be a native tribesman. When the meeting was over he was of the opinion that the “man” was not an Indian at all, but an angel. He later told a close friend named Anthony Sherman that the red-faced “angel” had shown him a vision of the birth, progress and destiny of the American colonies; and given him the courage to continue his now legendary struggle for independence which would eventually birth a new nation unlike any before it.
Another red-skinned entity was said to have first visited Napoleon Bonaparte during his ill- fated campaign for French sovereignty in Egypt. According to numerous accounts, the “Red Man” had apparently materialized
in the military genius’s bedchamber one evening after the bloody ‘Battle of the Pyramids,’ claiming that he had given sage advice and counsel to the rulers of France for many years and had come now to warn him of certain erroneous mistakes in his plans.
“You have become far too ambitious,” the Red Man admonished. “The French people are growing wary of your overwhelming lust for power.”
“I have only ever done that which was in the best interest of France and not my own, sir,” Napoleon must have replied. “And how is it that you know so much of my plans?”
The mysterious, oddly-hued visitor merely smiled and shook his head. “I have been at your side since you were a boy,” he said. “I know you better than you know yourself.”
The enigmatic reply greatly puzzled Napoleon, who listened in amazement as the ‘Red Man’ told him that his orders to the French fleet had not been obeyed and that his ambitious campaign in Egypt would fail. Furthermore, the entity claimed that Napoleon would return to France to find her surrounded by an allied Europe and he would be confronted by angry mobs in the streets of Paris. The would-be dictator found all this hard to believe but, sure enough, the Egyptian campaign failed just as the Red Man had predicted it would.
This nocturnal ‘advisor’ appeared again one midnight after the Battle of Wagram in 1809 while Napoleon was headquartered at Schonbrunn, and made his third and final visit to the ‘Little Emperor’ on the morning of January 1st, 1814, shortly before his forced abdication. On this occasion the entity was also observed by another witness; appearing first before the Counselor of State and demanding to be allowed to speak with the Emperor on matters of great importance.
The Counselor had been given strict orders that the Emperor was not to be disturbed, but when informed of his arrival, the peculiar visitor was granted immediate entrance. The Emperor allegedly begged the entity for more time to complete his plans, but the being explained that he was neither deity nor prophet, and had no power to change the course of things. “I am but a messenger,” he had said to Napoleon, “I am to inform you that you have three months to achieve a general peace or it will be all over for you.” In an ill-conceived effort to gain more time, the arrogant Emperor launched a new eastern campaign, but this left France vulnerable and she soon fell into the hands of the enemies that were allied against her. On April 1st, exactly three months later, the Senate called for Napoleon’s abdication.
Other seemingly supernatural red-skinned inhumanoids have made countless appearances throughout the world, it seems, and are well known in many cultures and usually described as diminutive in stature. The Far Darrig of Irish lore, for example, was believed to be a small Leprechaun-like figure who caused human nightmares. The Far Darrig dressed all in red, it was said, and was also known as the ‘Red Man.’
King Charles XII of Sweden, also known as the ‘Alexander of the North,’ allegedly sought council in the woods one winter from a ‘Little Gray Man’ with a ruddy complexion. The being had given Charles a magic ring which would not vanish until the day of the King’s death. Charles went on to cut a mighty, blood-spattered swath across Europe, Russia and Turkey and his victories became legendary. But, just as Napoleon would do nearly a century later, Charles resisted the Little Gray Man’s entreaties for him to make peace with his enemies.
In 1718, as he was fighting against the Swedish army at the siege of Fredrikshald, one of the ruler’s men noticed that his ‘magic ring’ was no longer on his finger. Moments later King Charles XII fell to the ground dead from a grievous head wound.
Inhumanoid entities may have indirectly played a role in causing the deaths of millions of people during World War II. History shows us that Adolf Hitler and his sadistic Third Reich were actually blood-thirsty radicals who were obsessed with the occult and occult theories, one of which was the notion that the Earth is hollow and contains an ‘inner world’ ruled by a race of super-powered inhumanoids; most likely the surviving remnants of the lost continent of Atlantis (see Subterraneans). Many have argued that Hitler’s plans of world conquest and genocide were carried out in the attempt to cleanse the homeland of the ‘impure’ races and prove the German people worthy of intermixing with these super-human subterraneans, thus producing a ‘new world order’ capable of subjugating the entire planet.
The Fuhrer even claimed to have met one of these inhumanoids. “The New Man is living amongst us now!” Hitler said to one of his confidantes, a man named Hermann Rauschning. “He is here! Isn’t that enough for you? I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He was intrepid and cruel. I was afraid of him.” The meeting had apparently left even this genocidal madman shaken and afraid. It is said that Hitler often awoke during the middle of the night in convulsive fits, screaming that he was here. He had come for him. He had emerged from his underground kingdom to take him away.
That these beings have appeared to many people throughout history is beyond debate. What they are and where they come from, however, is not. Are they an unknown condition of the human psyche? All things considered, the answer must be ‘no.’ Whether they fly, swim, walk, crawl or leap, the inhumanoids are real enough to hypnotize you, kidnap you, assault you or even try to kill you; for they have done all these things to human beings, if testimony is to be believed, and much worse.
With that in mind, let us take a look at some of the most remarkable, fantastic and utterly dreadful inhumanoids that have ever been observed by people just like you and me.
Section One
Part One:
The Amphibians
“One measures a circle beginning from anywhere.”
-Charles Fort
Mermen, Mermaids and Sirens
Everyone in the temple was laughing at the big, blind man. All the mighty lords of the Philistines were there, and from the roof nearly three-thousand men and women looked down. For amusement, some spat at him. Others threw food, garbage or stones, mocking and jeering all the while at the unfortunate soul that was being paraded before them.
The man was tall
and heavily-muscled with wide shoulders and short-cropped hair. Perhaps he had once been very handsome; but not now. Now there were two gaping, bloody wounds beneath the filthy bandage where his eyes used to be. On his back and shoulders, he wore the bright scarlet marks of the merciless lash.
It was hard for the onlookers to believe that, only a few days before, this pitiful, helpless, silent creature was the most feared man in the country. The same man who for twenty years had terrorized them, killing over a thousand of their number and, because of his unmatchable strength, could not be bested in combat or captured. Yet here he was before them now. Beaten. Bound. Betrayed. Their god, in whose immense, ornate temple they were now gathered, had delivered him into their hands at last, weak and harmless as a lamb.
The young attendant who was charged with holding the prisoner’s chain and leading him about for the amusement of the raucous crowd, tried to step back suddenly to avoid being hit by a hastily-thrown piece of meat, but moved too slowly.
They had just made a great sacrifice to their god and everyone was eating and drinking in merriment, rejoicing at this wonderful and timely reversal of fortune. The attendant, a young slave from some neighboring province, looked upon his charge with a mixture of disdain and incredulity. Surely this was a mistake. Surely this wasn’t the same man who had once ripped a lion apart with his bare hands. The same man who had torn loose the huge doors of the city gates in Gaza and carried them on his shoulders, with the gateposts still attached, all the way to Hebron before dropping them. How could such a man be defeated like this? He looked at the blind man’s massive shoulders and wondered.
“I am weary,” the man said in a voice so low that only his fellow slave could hear. “Put me where I might touch the columns that support the temple, so that I might rest against them.”
Carefully the boy led the blind man back through the crowd of jeering tormentors and up the steps to the two immense columns of polished stone. The man reached out and touched them, one with each hand.
“Leave this place,” he said. The attendant stared up at him as if unsure that he understood the command. “Leave this place. Run away, now!” the man said harshly, below the sound of the taunting laughter. There was something in his voice, a sense of immediate urgency which made the boy drop the end of the chain which led to the iron collar around the blind man’s neck and run. As the boy disappeared into the crowd the man looked up sightlessly,
“Oh Lord God,” he cried out, “remember me!” and then pushed hard against the polished stone. At this the crowd went wild with laughter and fresh insults.
“Where is your god now, slave?!” they yelled.
“Grant me strength this one last time,” the huge, blind man grunted, muscles straining, veins standing out boldly on his neck, shoulders and forearms, “that I might avenge myself on my enemies!”
The Philistines were still laughing when, with a mighty cry, the blind man heaved his broad, bloody shoulders with all his might; and the columns buckled. With a thunderous crash and plume of thick, curling smoke, the temple fell to the ground, crushing the lords and all the people who were in it, including the blind man who, at the moment of his own death, managed to kill three times the number of his enemies that he had slain during his lifetime.
Many may recognize the preceding narrative as a freely adapted version of the story of the death of Samson, as told in the Book of Judges (chapters 13-16) from the Old Testament. As it relates to the topic at hand, the Philistine temple Samson destroyed was dedicated to the old god they called Dagon. Dagon was originally a Mesopotamian deity whom the Philistines, a mysterious race of people in their own right, came to worship as their own, and was depicted in ancient art as a “classic” merman, with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish.
Years later, when the Philistines had defeated Israel in battle and captured the Ark of the Covenant, they took it to the city of Ashdod and placed it in that city’s temple of Dagon next to a huge statue of their fish-god. The next morning the statue was found lying prone before the ark. They righted the fallen idol, setting it back in its place. The very next morning, however, it was again found lying on the ground before the ark, this time the statue’s head and hands were neatly broken off and lying on the threshold of the temple. The Philistines removed the ark.
The Merfolk have been fodder for the myth mill since mankind first gazed in awe at the oceans and its denizens, and the legends of these fantastic aquatic entities have been whispered in every sea-faring culture since the beginning of recorded history.
Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Babylonians believed that the foundations of civilization were bequeathed to mankind by strange, highly advanced inhumanoids, half-human, half-fish, who came from the Red Sea. Everything mankind knew of mathematics, writing and agriculture, according to the Babylonians, was taught to him by these entities. Effigies of the Babylonian fish-god, Oannes, pictured above, have been unearthed in present-day Iraq and show a being with a fish’s body, with a human head and human feet sticking out from beneath the tail. These ‘merbeings’ were not considered myths or fables by any of the ancient cultures, but real creatures who interacted with mankind, who in turn, deified them, adorning their artifacts with images of these ancient “gods.”
Similar beliefs in aquatic, or semi-aquatic, deities appeared throughout the middle east, long recognized as “the cradle of human civilization.” The Ancient Egyptians were also one of these cultures and their aquatic “gods” bore a remarkable resemblance to the Babylonian “gods” before them, with the only difference being a pair of complete, muscular human legs with webbed feet beneath their fishy tails. The ancient Sumerians held similar beliefs in beings they called the Abgal. They are known as the Nykkjen in Nordic lore.
In Maori legends, they were called the Horomatangi and were thought to be evil cannibals with a taste for human flesh. Also considered evil were the mythical Japanese Kappa, who had the body of a tortoise, an ape-like head, scaly limbs with webbed hands and feet and smelled like fish. Japanese legends also mention the Samebito, or “shark men,” said to be fearsome black and green-skinned aquatic inhumanoids with glowing eyes. Similarly, the Zulus of South Africa are terrified of the Mbulus, frightening lizard-men who are humanoid in shape with scaly skin, sharp teeth and claws and a long tail.
The aquatic inhumanoids slowly lost their status as divinities after the fast-spreading concept of Christianity took hold, quickly devolving into objects of fear and dread. When someone mentions the word ‘mermaid’ today, images of beautiful long-tressed women sitting on rocks, singing and combing their hair by the sea immediately spring to mind.
Far from today’s modernized notions of benevolent, attractive, even seductive, entities, however, the ancient mariners considered these creatures to be harbingers of ill luck, or worse. To see one was a bad omen, indeed, as they were commonly held to be evil killers and blamed for countless ship-wrecks, drownings and storms at sea. These entities delighted in luring sailors to their briny deaths before feasting on their dead flesh, according to some beliefs, completely devouring the unfortunate victims much as a modern human would devour a helping of sushi.
Scotland and Ireland have ample legends of mer-beings. The Ceasg of Scottish folklore, for example, was an evil mermaid which appeared to seamen as a beautiful, buxom woman with the lower half of a salmon, ever eager to lure sailors to their watery graves. On the other hand, not all mermaids were said to be of evil temperament, and most were as helpless as a baby once they were caught in the nets of fishermen and taken out of their natural element.
What could ancient half-human deities have to do with creatures being seen now? you might ask. A fish-like female, with a pair of human legs below her tail, was reportedly captured near Yemen, Africa in 1973. Though no record of her eventual fate was made known, the description sounds remarkably like the entities once worshipped by the Egyptians. But that’s not all. As outlandish as this may sound in today’s modern civilized world, there i
s much evidence to suggest that such entities might still exist and interact with the people of today.
Though no longer enjoying their one-time status as deities, it seems that the “old gods” are still around, only now they seem to have radically changed not only their appearances, but also their intentions towards man, surfacing from their murky depths not to enlighten; but to frighten, mystify or kill the humans whose ancient ancestors once worshiped them. Carnivorous merfolk are still believed to inhabit Lake Tanganyika in Africa. The Mamba Mutu are said to raid nearby villages and drink the blood of their human victims. These half-man, half-fish inhumanoids are also believed to relish the taste of human brains and the evil amphibians are greatly feared by the local Burundi villagers.
When examining reports of this nature one thing becomes clear: either these aquatic inhumanoid entities, like many (if not all) of their land-locked cousins, are capable of shape-shifting into other forms, or there must be an amazing variety of human-like creatures that live in the waters of the world, and not all of them, by any means, look like fish. The Blue Beings of Samoa, for example, seen numerous times near the village of Pagai, are described as strange, humanoid creatures with glowing green eyes. They have webbed hands and feet, it is said, and are a bluish-green in color.
Similar blue-skinned aquatic creatures are believed to inhabit a stretch of water in Scotland called the ‘Minch.’ These bearded mermen are much feared throughout the region and known to cause ship wrecks. This hearkens back to the mystery of the Sirens, beautiful women who were said to live in the sea and whose songs could not be resisted by mortals. Many a sailor, it is believed, has been led to his death by the beautiful music of these evil seductresses of the sea, who do not have fish-like tails, but are completely humanoid in appearance.
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