Amphibian or alien? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. In California in 1996, two witnesses spotted “strange creatures” on February 18th that they had never seen before and could not readily identify running alongside their vehicle as they traveled down 101 West Road. The driver, a man named Marcel, lost control of the vehicle and ended up in a roadside ditch.
Two other cars in the area stopped to offer assistance and the witness feels sure that they had to have seen the things, described as gray colored with bright red tear-drop shaped eyes and ‘spikes’ running down their scaly backs, as they made their way to a mysterious glowing orb of light hovering in a nearby field. In spite of all this, the witnesses claimed the figures resembled goats more than anything else; but they ran on two legs like men.
Also during the mid-90s, this time in La Crosse, Wisconsin, a “lizard man” was encountered by a man and his son while out looking for a lost dog in a thicket of trees next to the river. It was tall, covered in brownish scales and very reptilian looking. The frightened witnesses chose to end the encounter and backed slowly away from the creature. Well known researcher, artist and author, Linda Godfrey was able to speak to the witnesses and produced an excellent detailed sketch seen of the entity sighted.
Sometime during the pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1998, seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis was driving down a deserted road near the Scape Ore Swamp in Bishopsville, South Carolina when one of his tires blew out. He pulled over to the side of the road and shut off the engine.
As he exited the vehicle and walked to the rear to retrieve the spare tire he heard a noise coming from the darkness near the woods a short distance away and turning, was terrified to see a scaly, nightmarish, lizard-like creature running bipedally towards him with clearly aggressive intentions.
© 2017, Linda Godfrey
Horrified, the teenager leapt back into the vehicle, slammed the door and locked it just as the thing reached for the door handle. Local papers ran the story but Davis never wavered from his claims that what he saw was a true monster and not a bear or something. He was quoted as saying;
“I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me. It was about twenty-five yards away and I saw the red eyes glowing. I ran back into the car and as I locked it, the thing grabbed the door handle. I could see him from the neck down; the three big fingers, long black nails and green rough skin. It was strong and angry. I looked in my mirror and saw a blur of green running. I could see his toes and then he jumped on the roof of my car. I thought I heard a grunt and then I could see his fingers through the front windshield, where they curled around the roof.”
Also in South Carolina and only one month later on July 24th, two couples on a late-night pleasure cruise were terrified to see a seven foot-tall, dark figure with glowing eyes run across the road in front of the car, heading towards a nearby swamp. The four witnesses drove straight to the authorities and told their story.
Investigating officers, Lee County deputy Wayne Atkinson and state trooper Mike Hodge, returned to the sighting location the next morning and, amazingly, even troubled themselves to investigate the swampy area into which the group said the creature was heading. Hoaxers, after all, almost never rush into a sheriff’s office acting terrified and spouting outlandish lies. Even so, the two officials were amazed to find forty-gallon barrels of old trash thrown around like children’s toys, broken tree branches eight-feet above the ground and bizarre, three-toed tracks over fourteen inches long in the mud.
Wildlife officials later claimed the tracks were a hoax, but offered no explanation for any of the other aspects of the case. Perhaps they had forgotten that, only ten years earlier in Browntown, South Carolina, two witnesses, Tom and Mary Waye, also claimed to have experienced a similar attack by a scaly lizard man and, shortly thereafter, two more witnesses; local hunters, also came forward to tell of their encounter in broad daylight with a strange, scaly, human-like creature which chased them from the swamp after they startled it while drinking water from a spring.
Another South Carolina report from the 1980s comes from the Lake Murray area. Three people; Buddy Browning, his wife, Shirley and friend Kord Brazell, were fishing on the lake when they claimed they were attacked by a ‘lizard-man with gills.’ On May 14th, 2000, witness Mary Shealy, who lives on the shore of Lake Murray, reported to the Lexington News that she had seen a ‘lake monster.’
Although the Loveland cases remain the most notable, our friends, the inhumanoid Frogmen have been around for many years but they are not always so shy and retiring, or meek. In Estonia in 1938, to cite another example, two fear-stricken men claimed to have been chased by two bizarre creatures resembling aggressive bipedal frogs. The things were about three feet-tall, they said, brownish-green in color, with frog-like faces and slits for mouths and eyes.
This wasn’t the first attack by these entities; nor the last. Amphibious inhumanoids attacking humans. Preposterous, you say? Ask Mrs. Darwin Johnson, the unfortunate victim in this next account which took place only a short distance from the Evansville, Indiana twin bridges.
On Aug. 21st, 1955 Miss Johnson, of Evansville, Indiana and a friend were swimming in the Ohio River at a place called ‘Dog Town;’ just across the river from Henderson, Ky. when one of these unseen aquatic mysteries reached up from the depths, grabbing her firmly by the leg, and proceeded to drag her down beneath the murky waves, presumably to her death. It was only by kicking and beating her arms frantically beneath the water that she was able to break free and reach the surface for air, only to be grabbed again and pulled back under once more! Again, she managed to kick free and reach the surface, frantically swimming for a nearby inner tube and screaming to her friends. Once again, she was grabbed by the leg and pulled under.
Miraculously, she escaped the clutches of her would be killer for the third and final time and, with the help of her friend, one Mrs. Lamble, somehow managed to make it screaming, crying and in shock, to the shore and safety where they found that her attacker had left ‘green palm stains,’ as well as various abrasions and bruises, where it had repeatedly grabbed her by the knee. Understandably, the incident left Johnson hysterical and her husband was called from work and who then summoned a doctor. Sedatives were administered to calm the poor woman’s nerves.
When a local newspaper ran the story the following day several witnesses came forward and revealed that, at about the same time of the reported encounter, they had observed a “shiny oval” object flying a few hundred feet above the river. It was later reported that an Air Force Colonel had contacted the Johnsons and urged them not to speak further of the incident to anyone. In any event, Mrs. Johnson found that the palm stain wouldn’t wash off and remained with her for several days afterwards. She later said of her experience:
“...Whatever this thing was, it had a strong grip and it was very furry. All I know is that I will never go swimming in the river again.” And she didn’t. No one has since been able to offer a satisfactory explanation as to the possible identification of the creature involved in this terrifying encounter and over 50 years later the case still remains as baffling and unsolved as it did back then.
Interestingly, only a few miles from where the attack took place, the Green River empties into the Ohio and could be a possible source from which many of these aquatic animals and inhumanoids originate. Both the Green and Ohio rivers have long histories of aquatic anomaly sightings. The Green River is considered one of the deepest rivers in the world. Considered bottomless in many places, the Green River is also the only North flowing river in the United States.
On the evening of November 6th, 2003, two Tucson, Arizona women claimed they were attacked by a man-sized beast, ape-like with a spiny back and glowing eyes, as they were walking towards their vehicle. The victims, a local woman and her mother, said the creature crouched on the ground like a frog, then began springing at them and emitting a terrible hissing sound from its mouth.
Thoroughly horrified, the two could only s
tand there clutching one another, eyes closed in sheer terror, as the hissing sound continued. Then, just as the helpless women were in the monster’s grasp; the creature fled.
Another entity which fits into our reptilian, or amphibian, category was seen in Huntsville, Utah on the evening of June 13th, 2005. At approximately 1:30 am, a couple enjoying a discreet interlude at a place called Cemetery Point were startled by the sudden appearance of a strange creature walking on its hind legs. It was tall and hairy, they later said, very reptilian looking with a hunched back. They watched as it walked on two legs, made a curious ‘gagging’ sound, then dropped down to all fours, and scampered like a deer into the darkness.
Sumerian ‘Reptoid’ figurines, male and female, circa 4,000 B.C.E
Part Two:
Giants and Diminutives
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bear children to them, the same became mighty heroes which were of old, men of renown.”
-Genesis 6:4
Giants
That fitting verse from the Book of Genesis, like other parts of that book, was derived from the apocryphal, “The Book of The Secrets of Enoch,” a second-century manuscript still accepted as doctrine by some cultures including the Ethiopians. Enoch claimed that he was given a tour of the universe by angels and ordered to write down all that he saw. In the “fifth heaven” Enoch saw giant inhumanoids with “their faces withered, and the silence of their mouths perpetual.” These were the Grigori, the fallen angels who, according to Enoch,
“...broke through their vows (to God) on the shoulder of the hill Ermon and saw the daughters of men how good they are, and took to themselves wives, and befouled the earth with their deeds, who in all times of their age made lawlessness and mixing and giants were born, and marvelous big men and great enmity.”
These creatures, according to Enoch, were half human, half demon, and all evil; causing great carnage on the Earth. Although the book of Enoch, for whatever reason, was not deemed fit to include in the King James version of the Bible, many scholars agree on its authenticity. In any case, other references to giants exist in scripture, including one of a race so large that human beings “appeared as grasshoppers in their sight.”
It is hard to imagine a time when giant, evil inhumanoids ruled the Earth, raping and killing at will whomever they chose; corrupting the entire world with their fearsome offspring; who also thought of only evil continually. The situation had eventually become so dire, according to Enoch, that it was one of the main reasons that God had judged the entire earth and brought about the Great Flood, destroying all the Grigori and their followers and ending the age of the giants.
But, according to eye-witness accounts and archeological excavations, giants still exist-or at least they did up until very recently- and the belief in these oversized creatures has never left us. Members of the Muslim communities, even today, fear the ‘Afrit,’ gigantic inhumanoids with cloven hoofs and horns said to raid villages at night and drag away children to their dark lairs. These giants are thought to be aquatic, living in quagmires, mud pools and rivers where they lie in wait for unsuspecting victims. Moroccan folklore mentions the giant inhumanoid man-eater, ‘Aicha Kandida’ which is similar in appearance to the Afrit, but female.
Many Native American tribes also include Giant inhumanoids in their legends. The Delaware Indians, for example. The ‘Alligewi,’ who were said to have six fingers on each hand, six toes on each foot and a double row of sharp teeth, were evil, ten-foot tall, white-skinned giants who made weapons of metal and lived in stone houses. All the lands east of the Mississippi river belonged to them, it was said. They were a fierce, war-like race but were eventually wiped out by the migrating Delaware.
The survivors fled west down the Ohio River and up the Mississippi into Minnesota. The Sioux Indians of Minnesota, likewise, have tales of evil giants suddenly appearing to make war on them. After many fierce battles the giants were exterminated and the bodies buried in mounds. The Allegheny mountains still bear the name of this mysterious race of evil warriors.
Years later, thousands of these enigmatic earthen mounds throughout the mid-west were opened by amateur archeologists and treasure hunters and the giant bones were discovered. Yet, curiously, not a single one has been preserved, nor a single serious study was ever carried out by a qualified member of academia while the remains were yet available. Many have accused the Smithsonian of collecting and destroying most of the evidence pertaining to the existence of these entities; and there are many accounts which support this claim. Giants were, according to them, simply not possible and the existence of such beings would topple too many highly held zoological “facts.” However, they could not collect and destroy all the written accounts of the anomalous skeletal remains and this is pretty much all that is left to go on. Nevertheless, there is a startling number of these accounts which have survived and they paint a picture of a race of beings of extraordinary size that has existed alongside man for countless ages; yet apart from him.
England is a land especially rich in legends about giants. It is, after all, home to monumental, enigmatic earthworks such as Stonehenge, to name but one. One old book, ‘History and Antiquities of Allerdale,’ includes this account of giant remains being unearthed in Cumberland, England sometime during the Middle Ages:
A True Report of Hugh Hodson, of Thorneway.
“…The said giant was buried four yards deep in the ground, which is now a corn field. He was four yards and a half long, and was in complete armour: his sword and battle-axe lying by him. His sword was two spans broad, and more than two yards long. The head of his battle-axe a yard long, and the shaft of it all of iron, as thick as a man’s thigh, and more than two yards long.
His teeth were six inches long, and two inches broad; his forehead was more than two spans and a half broad. His chin bone could contain three pecks of. His armour, sword, and battle-axe are at Mr. Sand’s of Redington, and oatmeal at Mr. Wyber’s, at St. Bees.”
As usual, no one seems to know what eventually became of the remains of the fifteen-foot tall warrior and his artifacts. Were they re-interred, or scattered among the many curiosity collectors of the world where some might presumably remain today? Or did they end up in the hands of the Smithsonian?
As soon as European explorers reached the distant shores of South America they encountered giants. When Magellan discovered the southernmost parts of Argentina and Chile, he named the lands Patagonia because the giant people there wore leather moccasins and pata is Spanish for “hoof.” When Magellan’s fleet anchored off the coast of Port San Julian in 1520, a giant appeared on the beach. One of Magellan’s men later wrote that the fellow was so tall “...that our heads scarcely came up to his waist, and his voice was like that of a bull.” They were able to capture two of these giants, but they died en route back to Europe and their remains, presumably, disposed of at sea.
The British were the next to land there in 1578. Drake, the famous explorer, reportedly had a skirmish with “men of large stature” who stood nearly eight-feet tall. The fight had cost two of his men their lives. The same number taken by Magellan fifty-eight years earlier. Other explorers arrived in 1592 and 1598 and also reported sightings of giants that stood from ten to twelve-feet tall.
The Patagonian’s seem to have either shrank down to normal size through interbreeding with local peoples or disappeared into the jungles entirely by the nineteenth century, but their presence has been recorded in other parts of South America as well. The Incas, just like the story from the Book of Genesis, had legends of giants descending from the sky and having sexual intercourse with Inca women. The Spanish conqueror, Cortez, reportedly shipped the thigh bone of one of these giants back to the king of Spain.
When asked about the giant humans, they said that their ancestors had told them that, “in times past there had lived among them men and women of giant size with huge bones. And because
they were a very bad people with evil manners they fought with them and killed and those which remained had died off. So that we could see how high and tall these people were, they brought us the leg bone of one which was very thick and the height of a man of ordinary stature and that was the bone from hip to knee.
We were all amazed at seeing these bones and felt sure that there must have been giants in this country. Our captain Cortez said to us it might be well to send the bone to Castile so that his Majesty might see it, so he sent it with the first of our agents who went there.”
The Giant Boneyard
The following is the merest sampling of the many accounts of the discoveries of larger-than-normal human skeletal remains which have been recorded all across America and the world.:
California:
In 1883 the remains of a twelve-foot-tall man was unearthed by a group of soldiers at Lompock Rancho, California. Buried with him were his giant weapons and carved sea-shells. The skull reportedly contained a double row of teeth. Another giant, this one quite small at only seven feet four inches tall, was discovered on one of the islands off the Santa Barbara Channel in June of 1912.
Nevada:
According to a local newspaper account, the bones of a gigantic foot and foreleg were discovered by prospectors in Eureka, Nevada in July 1877. From knee to ankle the leg measured thirty-nine inches, putting the one-time owner of the leg at just over 12 feet tall. The remains, which also included the foot in its entirety, were examined by several medical doctors who stated their opinions that the bones had, indeed, once belonged to a human being.
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