Argentina, of course, has a long and rich history of high strangeness of all varieties and the evil diminutives are, by no means, strangers here. On October 5th, 1965, three students of the General San Martin school in Aguas Blancas, Santos Vellejos, Antonia Aparti and Adela Sanchez arrived at the school terror stricken. The children immediately ran inside and told their strange story to the headmaster. They had been attacked, they said, by small, green-skinned creatures as they walked to school. All of them had run for their lives.
The headmaster was not as surprised as you or I might have been. He later told reporters that other children had been attacked by such creatures two years previously. Legends of such beings exist in Argentina. The Pombero, or Pomberito, is said to look like an evil black dwarf which attacks people at night, rendering them unconscious and dragging them off into the bush. Fact, or merely superstitious legend? According to ‘El Norte Digital,’ a woman named Liliana Nieves is sure of the reality of the evil inhumanoids. She was attacked by a Pombero, she claimed, and then locked up in a mental ward for her troubles. On February 22nd, 2001, the newspaper reported:
Argentina: Woman nearly Battered to Death by ‘Imp:’
“Saenz Pena (Agencia). The only person who managed to see this alleged ‘Pombero’ is Liliana Nieves, 26, who was allegedly assaulted by the entity. She described it as a small man, completely black that “battered her and wanted to drag her away.” Until yesterday this woman was confined in the mental ward of the 4 de Junio Hospital. The story gains credibility because over ten witnesses agree on the events which commenced on Teusday night, repeated on Thursday and were expected to reoccur on Saturday night.”
The events began on a Tuesday night when a shower of stones fell on Neives house at 31 and 0000 Street in Santa Teresa, and the woman saw ‘something’ ripping up her tomato and mandarin plants from the yard. After the stones hit the roof a shadowy figure was seen racing from the area, which left the residents with the sense that they were the victims of a strange prank by someone.
But the next night the shower of stones returned. Nieves went to see who was throwing rocks at the house. She was found by a local man a short while later, lying on the ground, her face beaten and bruised. The black dwarf had beaten her senseless, covered her head and told her that it wanted to take her away.”
In Brazil, similar impish entities are known as the ‘Gourd Heads,’ small Inhumanoids with bald, bulbous heads, dark skin and webbed hands. According to local tradition these creatures are impervious to gunfire.
“This happened in June or July of 2001, in Barnegat Light, NJ, USA. It was a sunny day around 5-6 p.m. I was out on a bike ride with my friend, Alex. We rode north down Broadway Avenue by the Barnegat Lighthouse and then turned back going south to ride back. Alex started riding east, up 3rd Street. He saw 8-10 cats in the street a third of the way down the street and rode up to scare them. I followed and watched the cats scatter. Alex turned and started riding back west toward the beginning of the street. I rode a little further down the street then he had ridden and then turned around.
As soon as I finished the turn, something caught my attention from the corner of my eye. I casually glanced to my left. At first I thought it was just a cat. I turned my head back forward. Then I visualized it and realized it wasn’t a cat. I stopped. I looked back in the direction of this animal, completing a double take. Right there laying in the middle of the blacktop driveway was this creature.
It had cat-sized body proportions (2 1/2 - 3 feet from head to tail), but the tail was like a ferret’s (big furry pipe cleaner) The head and face was more monkey/ape-like/humanoid-like. I’m pretty sure its face was hairless. Its fur was brownish. It didn’t have hind quarters like a cat or a rabbit would have. It had humanoid-type legs.
When I did a doubletake and looked at it, it looked at me very nonchalantly, and then after a few seconds, it noticed I was staring and the expression on my face must have looked horrified. It noticed my shock. It looked at me like it knew it was doing something wrong. Its facial gestures made me think that it messed up by me seeing it. After we shared this awkward look, it stood up and turned. I noticed its tail went down at a forty-five degree angle while it hopped into the bushes on the left side of the driveway.
I then heard the sound of it getting away from me into the backyard. From the time I stopped my bike ‘til when I couldn’t hear it any more, couldn’t have been more than 25-30 seconds. I then rode back to Broadway Avenue, where Alex was riding around and I had told him what I saw, but I don’t think he believed me. I went back there over the next few days at around the same time, but I never saw it again.
One thing that is of importance to note is that this happened in Barnegat Light, New Jersey and Barnegat Light is on the northern tip of Long Beach Island 18 miles long and about 1 mile wide. Meaning that we have an isolated population of stray cats and purportedly two or three foxes. I believe that this creature is more intelligent than a fox or a cat.”
-anonymous inhumanoid witness.
An apparently vampiric diminutive was seen in Costa Rica in March 2004. A male witness of the Ajuela Province, and his son, went out to investigate the cause of the commotion they heard coming from the henhouse one evening. The beam of his flashlight exposed, much to their surprise, a black animal with a long tail that resembled a small dog but stood on two legs. The creature, surprised by the bright light, fled the area leaving behind two stunned witnesses and over twenty dead hens, which were later found to have been exsanguinated (sucked dry of their blood) via two small holes in their backs.
The Gravediggers
Another bizarre species of diminutive inhumanoid; the Gravediggers, would scarcely fall into the humanoid category at all save for the fact that they walk, squat, run and jump using their hind legs. They are mean-looking little beasts which, I’ve no doubt, have been called ‘ghouls’ by witnesses in times past due to their being seen in close proximity to local graveyards.
The Gravediggers are small, usually white-furred, owl-faced entities with small, dark eyes, razor-sharp, needle-looking yellow teeth and the ability to turn their head around nearly 360 degrees, like an owl. Their arms are short and spindly and end in long, nasty-looking claws. Such beings are said to haunt the Garden State Parkway near the Pine Barrens, home of the “Jersey Devil,” but it wasn’t until the publication of Mysterious Kentucky in 2007 that these diminutive creatures were fully described, in detail, to cryptid enthusiasts everywhere.
Occasionally, for the cryptid researcher, circumstance and blind luck combine in just the right manner to bring forth unexpected fruit. Such was the case when, in mid-March 2006, I was contacted by a Ms. Rose Sinkhorn who had heard mention of my ongoing attempts to collect reports of Kentucky’s more mysterious fauna. She had never seen anything of that sort herself, she said, but her first cousin, Terry, had seen some strange things in his life.
I was given the contact info and, after a couple attempts, finally succeeded in reaching him. Soon thereafter we were chatting on the phone like old friends. I found him to be extremely cordial and easy to speak with. A man of devout faith in God, and a damn fine guitar picker, it was easy to believe that everything he told me was in the utmost of sincerity I have absolutely no doubt that the following account which took place in Boyle County, Kentucky in 1970 is genuine. Terry writes:
“Me and a friend went fishing one morning. It was in the spring about 1970. We had to walk a few miles east on the L&N Railroad tracks from Shelby City Ky. It is now Junction City Ky. We would sneak in this pond to Bass fish. I had to be home before noon one day so I started back by myself and left my friend fishing the pond. On the way back down the tracks this creature landed on the tracks in front of me. when I say landed I mean jumped, because all I saw was a blur and then there it was. It stood about 4 feet tall and stood or squatted on two legs. It was covered with real fine fur on its fat body.
It had a little round head that moved like an owl’s head almost in circles. It had little r
ound eyes and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. Its teeth were almost transparent, kind of like a bat’s. It sort of favored a bat in the face. It had small ears and a small nose. The thing didn’t have any lips just teeth. It arms looked like they came out of its chest and they were spindly. It had long fingers and a thumb on each hand with long claws. Its arms didn’t have any hair or fur on them. They were slick and oily looking. The thing couldn’t see good in the daylight, because it squinted a lot and it never did see me when it landed in front of me.
It acted like it was watching for the trains. It would rub its tiny head on its arm every now and then. It looked right at me and couldn’t see me and I was only about 30 or 40 feet from it. I could see its fur moving. The creature never made a sound. I was dumbfounded. I’d never saw anything like it before and haven’t since.
I wasn’t scared at first, but I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I had a tackle box in one hand and a fishing rod in the other, but I did have my hunting knife with me. As I tried to switch my fishing rod over to my other hand so I could get to my hunting knife, I rattled my tackle box and that's when this thing heard me. It leaned forward and squinted its eyes and when it saw me it reared back and kind of puffed up. I thought it was going to attack me, so I jerked my knife out. When I did, this thing took off so fast it was like a blur. In one leap or jump it cleared a fence about 40 feet away and was gone. I shook my head because I couldn’t believe how fast this thing could move.
I took off running up to where it leaped the fence but I never saw it again. I never did see this things legs, because it squatted all the time, but they sure were powerful. This thing could have easily gotten me if it wanted to. I believe it only comes out at night and just by chance I got to see it. Maybe it was headed to its home or den after a night of hunting or whatever it does. I have thought about it and I believe it burrows in the ground like a groundhog. Because not far from where I saw this thing is an old family cemetery plot with slab graves and a rock wall around it. There are huge holes all in this cemetery under the graves.
My grandmother told me of a thing the old people call a ‘Graverobber’ and it moves real fast and digs in graveyards, but I don’t know. I know I saw this strange creature and it has to stay somewhere. Another man I know saw it one night run across the road in front of him and it only paused for a second to look at him and then it was gone. The way he described it, it was just like what I saw. He said he’s never seen anything move so fast in his life especially, on two legs.
This was also on the L&N Railroad tracks about 12 miles from where I saw it. It was in Parksville Ky. where he saw it. The strange thing, it was near a cemetery as a matter of fact. That’s where it came from when it ran in front of him. When I saw this creature, it was a beautiful spring morning, the sun was shining and I watched it for what seemed to be 10 minutes or more, I could have watched it longer if I hadn’t made any noise. If I’d only had a camera.”
I spoke again to Terry on March 31st, 2006, during the course of a couple hours long phone interview. He is sure of what he saw and, with further correspondence, I was able to produce the sketch of the animal, seen at right, under his close direction. Although the legs and feet rendered are purely speculative as the witness’ view of the lower portions of the creature was blocked by a length of railroad tracks, the upper portions of the body are exact. I urged him to provide all the details that he could possibly remember.
“The creature’s arms looked like they came right out of its chest,” he told me. “It didn’t have shoulders. I couldn’t see its legs because it was squatted and its feet and legs were hidden by the rail. When it landed in front of me it just crouched down. Its legs couldn’t have been very long, but they sure were powerful, to move like it did. It didn’t have a tail.
I couldn’t make out the pupils of its eyes, its eyes were very small and round and they were very dark, maybe not completely black but almost. Its face looked mean and curious. The thing blinked a lot, it would squint its eyes as if it couldn’t see very good in the daylight. Its snout or nose didn’t protrude, it had a pug nose and was dark brown, no fur on it. It did favor a bat in the face. Its teeth were razor sharp and very close together. It had perfect teeth and a bunch of them. They were almost clear. I guess they looked like that because they were so sharp and thin, like a bat’s teeth. It looked like they were all the same length, but the upper teeth almost covered the lower ones up.
It had a fat body, its head looked too small for its body and there was no neck. When it finally saw me it leaned forward quite a bit and squinted at me like it was trying to make out what I was, then it was gone like a speeding bullet. This things head turned like an owl’s head almost in a complete circle. It had long slender arms and very long fingers with long black sharp claws, actually they looked like finger nails. It had knuckles on its fingers. There were three fingers and a thumb. Its skin on its arms looked oily and real dark brown, about the color of used motor oil. Its fingers moved constantly. Its fur was real fine I could see it moving when the wind blew.
Every now and then it would raise its arm and rub the side of its head like it was scratching, but it always moved its head towards its arm, it never would move its arm very far, it always kept them straight out in front of it. Its ears were little and short. I could barely see them above the fur. Its fur was darker on the ends and the closer it got to the body the lighter it got. Some places were grayish in color.
It looked like it didn’t have any lips at all. Just mostly upper teeth in a straight line and extremely sharp. Its nose was just a small button like nose with two nose holes. It didn’t have a chin. This will be hard to describe, but its thumbs were on the bottom on both hands, it almost looked like it had two right hands, its fingers were on the top and it looked like its arms came out of its chest, and they were closer together. I guess its hands looked like they were backwards, but it had long slender fingers on top of each hand and a thumb on the bottom and both thumbs were on the same side if you know what I mean.”
His parents and grandparents knew of this thing as well, Terry told me, and I asked him to quiz them about the creatures. According to them, it was called a ‘Grave robber.’ It was common belief, among the older folks of the area, that these things traditionally made their homes in old graveyards and survived by eating the decomposed flesh of cadavers. They were also said to be nocturnal in nature, and it was an extremely rare occasion to see one. The actual length of time during Terry’s sighting and the amount of details he was able to provide concerning the creature’s appearance was unprecedented.
“I was only about 40 feet away from this thing,” he told me, “and I couldn’t see any legs at all. They must have been folded up in under it. All I saw was its body sitting on the ground and the rail wasn’t tall enough to hide much. It’s been over 30 years since I saw it. I was only about 15 years old and I was dumbfounded when I saw it. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and, after all these years, I still lie in bed at night trying to envision this thing again. I guess it put me in a daze when I saw it.”
The animal seen was apparently myopic which may suggest that it spends most of its time in low lighting conditions such as would be expected underground. Far more difficult to explain, however, is the extremely unusual way that it moved about. No animal of this size, to my knowledge, is capable of producing 40 foot jumps from a complete standstill.
Moreover, Terry later explained that when it jumped, or hopped, these great distances it accomplished the feat in such a quick manner that it appeared to him as “just a blur” of motion. It moved so fast, and quietly, that he never even saw where it came from. This unnerved him most about the encounter. He just couldn’t see how a natural animal could move like that. It seemed impossible.
At my request, in April 2006, Terry revisited the scene of the encounter to explore the nearby creeks for evidence of possible cryptid activity. He was accompanied by a longtime friend who brought along his video camera to record anything of inter
est such as possible tracks. While they were walking down the middle of a creek just across the Lincoln County line, they came across a large fish laying near the bank. It was gutted and the head had been devoured. None of the meat had been eaten.
They left the creek and walked up into an adjacent field where they discovered two strange looking tracks situated over five feet apart. The prints were measured, recorded on both video and still camera and show a four-toed, clawed impression four and a half inches long by four inches wide. It resembles that of a large dog, or wolf, with some peculiar differences; like the spacing between the toes, which is awkward, and a squared off heal. Canids are known to walk toes first and their prints often reveal indistinct heal marks.
In contrast the Lincoln Co. print looks as if the heel touched the ground first and rolled forward. A careful search of the field yielded no more prints, which suggests to some that whatever left the two tracks probably walked bipedally and was apparently capable of jumping some distance. The witness stated that he weighs approx.180 lbs. and hardly left any impression at all in the dirt.
A similar, though much taller creature was seen on Caney Hill in Dorton, Pike County, Kentucky in June of 1990. Billy (full name on file) was able to view this bizarre entity very clearly that summer afternoon.
“When I was a young teenager,” he told me, “I was walking up in the hills behind my parent’s house. Their house is nestled deep into the mountainside down in a valley in the eastern Kentucky hills. So, any way that you walk, you walk pretty much straight up into the mountains. After making the uphill climb, the ground levels out a bit and goes on for miles of very thick dense forest.
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