The Inhumanoids

by Barton M Nunnelly

  I spotted what I thought was a very large white dog from behind about 20 yards from where I was standing. It was just a quick glimpse and I didn’t know at the time that what I had just seen was much, much bigger than a dog. It was broad daylight and summer so the brush and trees were very over-grown, and I would occasionally see glimpses of it again making its way through the forest. I began to call out to it; “here puppy,” and follow it up into the hillside.

  It must have been moving pretty fast because I then lost sight of it for about five minutes and continued to walk in the same direction. It was then that I came to a very, very large bush. The bush was directly in my path, so I had to go around it. When I did, I was in for the surprise of my life.

  When I peered around the corner my heart stopped. There in front of me, less than five feet away, was a creature I had never before seen or imagined. This was not a dog. It was white and covered with hair. It was standing up on two legs hunched over with small arms very high on its body. It didn’t really have shoulders. The arms were much like that of a kangaroo. It was at eye level with me but in quite a hunch which puts it at about 7 feet tall if it were standing fully erect.

  We stood face to face and made full eye contact for what felt like hours, neither one of us moving a muscle. The encounter probably only lasted 5 - 10 seconds before I turned and ran as fast as I could down the mountain. I was terrified. Its eyes were fire red and the way they stared into mine felt as though it was taking something from me. The terror took my breath away.

  I kept this story to myself for quite some time until I met another guy who began to tell me of his experience with a similar creature. Over the past 16 years I have gradually heard several other stories here in the hills. Right now, I am actually aware of 8 or 9 other people who have had personal experiences with this creature or one like it in the surrounding area where I live. It still doesn’t make me less freaked out by what I saw. As far as I know, I have had the closest encounter with it.”

  According to Billy, several men had seen this creature on a railroad track near Penny Road in Virgie.

  “A friend of mine used to tease me about my experience until he saw it perched in a tree at Dark Holler up near Penny road off of US-23 (he then apologized!) Another friend saw it from behind, running down the creek. A friend’s mother and sister saw a white creature on two legs jump off a ledge in the cut-through and bound across the 4-lane right in front of them. (this was on US-23 at Esco). It turned and looked at them before it headed down into the ditch and out of sight.

  As I am writing this, I’m aware at how crazy this all sounds! And how surreal. It’s not something we talk about much around here, but these stories come out from time to time. And then you hear other people who have had, or know people who have had encounters with a mysterious white beast. Another thing to note is that all of these sightings took place within 5 -10 miles of each other. They were all near railroad tracks and/or coal mines.

  I was remembering this experience tonight when a friend of mine decided to look up online any stories about a white creature in the hills. Needless to say, we happened upon this site. When I saw the story about the “Gravedigger” I nearly lost it. I never had a thought about the graveyard at all. But, (its giving me chills to type this right now and to realize this tonight) my sighting was between 50 -100 yards from a very old family graveyard up in the hills. I know what I saw was real. Before I had heard the other stories, I wanted to keep it to myself, and still not many people know my story.”

  Billy stated that the animal was human-like and animal-like at the same time. It was about seven feet tall, he said, with a long oval-shaped, canine-like torso covered in thick, white hair much like the hair of a long-haired dog. It had a “human-looking” expression on its face. The head was shaped much like a human head, with Long white hair longer than on the rest of the body. It had a pug-like snout similar to the snout of a bat. There was less hair in facial region than on the rest of body. The skin on its face was a bit darker in color and rough looking. and its eyes were “pure bright red eyes like fire.”

  The ears were very human like and small on the sides of the head. The witness couldn’t see any lips, just a closed mouth under a snout like protrusion. The arms were short and very thin; “kangaroo like.” It had thin, bony, human-like hands also covered in thin tufts of white hair. “The palms were curled under so I didn’t get to see the fingers, but from first glance they were more human-like than animal-like.” Billy described the creature’s legs as thin with less hair than in the rest of its body, a “softer more fine hair than on the back.”

  As for the thing’s feet, “I got a look right before I turned to run. They were long and human like with fine, thin fur much like on the legs. It didn’t make a sound or any movement at all once we were face to face. When I think of its deep breathing I get chills. It was not panting, and it was not afraid. It was curious and seemed as shocked as I was.”

  Aside from obvious differences in height and length of hair, this creature sounds much like a Gravedigger. On the other hand, the description of the eyes, “pure bright red eyes like fire” may well place it into another category altogether. Since this encounter happened in broad daylight one would expect no ‘eye shine’ of any sort to be mentioned in this instance. Yet Billy was very adamant when I spoke with him that he had described the appearance of the eyes accurately. They were very frightening and, after looking into them, all he could think about was getting away from them.

  Glowing red eyes is an inhumanoid feature that grows increasingly more common during sightings of this nature, although it is usually the first aspect of a description that is discounted. What this ‘self-illuminating eyes’ characteristic means, of course, is a matter of conjecture, but this trait is historically, and most typically, reported in association with manifestations of entities regarded as being supernatural or even demonic in nature.

  Part Three:

  Aerial Inhumanoids

  “Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, “Raise your eyes and see what this is that comes forth.” “What is it?” I asked. And he answered, “This is a bushel container coming. This is their guilt in all the land.” Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the bushel. “This is wickedness,” he said; and he thrust her inside the bushel, pushing the leaden cover into the opening.

  Then I raised my eyes and saw two women coming with a wind ruffling their wings, for they had wings like the wings of a stork. As they lifted the bushel into the air, I said to the angel who spoke with me, where are they taking the bushel?” He replied, "To build a temple for it in the land of Shinar (Babylonia); when the temple is ready, they will deposit it there in its place.”

  -The Book of Zechariah (5: 5-10)

  Ancient Sumerian carving depicting winged entity interacting with mortals.

  Sightings of Unidentified Flying Inhumanoids, or UFI’s, have consistently been reported from all over the world for thousands of years. Some are described with impressive looking wings of one type or another. Others are not. Some are seen to fly with the aid of mystifying mechanical contrivances. Some seem to need nothing at all in order to achieve this wondrous feat. But what exactly are these creatures? Are they visitors from some other world? Some alternate dimension?

  Are they aliens? Witches? Angels…Demons? And what exactly is their purpose here? Are they meant to trigger religious fervor? Certainly, many reports fall into either the ‘angelic’ or the ‘demonic’ categories, but these entities often seem reluctant to actually interact with the startled witnesses who claim to see them, and when they do, it seldom seems to be with divine intentions. In total defiance of the skeptic’s argument that such sightings have nearly always been the product of either singular or mass ‘hallucinations,’ several videos have surfaced in the last few years which clearly shows aerial inhumanoid activity. But, even in the light of mounting evidence in support of the flying humanoid phenomenon, we are still left with
only questions concerning the nature and purpose of these astounding aerial anomalies; questions which we may never know the answers to. Meanwhile, the sightings continue to proliferate.

  Mad Pilots and Phantom Flyers

  The first known report of this type of peculiar phenomenon comes from the Bluegrass State. Between 6 and 7 p.m., on July 28, 1880, many citizens in Louisville, Kentucky, were treated to a very peculiar sight in the form of a strange looking object as it flew above the treetops of that fair city. As it drew near they were shocked and amazed that it looked to be a man sitting within and completely surrounded by some type of strange machinery.

  Witnesses reported that this man was frantically working said machinery with both his hands and feet, pushing and tugging at the many gears and levers that surrounded him and, all the while, peddling with his feet like a cyclist. The faster this figure peddled, witnesses noted, the more altitude the object gained. The slower he peddled the lower it flew and it was obvious to the onlookers present that the man was controlling the object with his movements.

  The entire apparatus continued on its way, disappearing into the sky as darkness fell. Dispatches from Madisonville, Ky. soon followed describing an airborne object seen there as well. It was allegedly circular, sometimes changing shape to oval, with balls at either end. It passed out of sight heading south, leaving the citizenry quite alarmed and wondering what in the world the object could’ve been. Much was the same in Louisville, but the locals there hadn’t long to wait for another visit. Nine days later, on Aug.6, the phantom pilot was again observed over the city as he made his return voyage to whatever place these ‘mad inventor’ types called home. But others of their kind, it seems, waited to take their place.

  In June of 1905, as many as 240 witnesses (a remarkable number!) claimed to see a female ‘angel’ as she flew through the air above Voltana, Spain. The woman was dressed in white, they said, and made multiple appearances over the course of several days, sometimes flying against the wind; even though she had no visible wings. One woman even said that she thought she heard singing as the ‘angel’ passed overhead. This event, no doubt, must have truly inspired all those who witnessed it.

  Another inspiring inhumanoid put in an appearance in Cabeco, Portugal in 1915. Four young girls spotted the entity floating above the trees one day and stated that it appeared to be made of snow. The semi-transparent entity reportedly resembled a person wearing a white sheet, although no hands or facial features could be seen. Other witnesses, on different occasions, claimed that the being seemed to be made of crystal and felt the figure was angelic.

  In the winter of 1936, in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan, (then a member state of the U.S.S.R)., fifteen-year-old E. Loznaya was walking to school one morning down a quiet country road when her attention was drawn to the sky above her by a strange rumbling noise. Upon looking up she saw a man-like figure dressed in black flying rapidly through the sky.

  Despite the quickness of the objects trajectory, she was able to see it clearly and described the airborne fellow as being of “medium height and his black clothes covered him completely, like overalls.” She also claimed the figure was wearing a helmet of some type, as she had seen only a black surface where the thing’s face should’ve been. A ‘rucksack’ on its back seemed to be the source of the rumbling sound.

  In Chehalis Washington, 1948, a woman named Bernice Zaikowski observed a man with a pair of silver wings strapped to his back hover, accompanied by a loud ‘whizzing’ noise, in an upright position just 200 feet above her barn. He was apparently working some type of mechanical controls which were attached to his chest in order to maneuver himself. Ms. Zaikowski was soon joined by several schoolchildren who asked to be allowed into her garden for a better view of the winged mystery man. Unlike many, she reported the sighting, and a write-up appeared in the Jan. 21 edition of the Walla Walla Union Bulletin:

  Chehalis Woman Sees ‘Birdman,’ Hears Whizzing:

  Chehalis, (UP)—They are seeing things in the skies in these parts again—this time a “whosit-whatzit.”

  “Mrs. Bernice Zaikowski, 61, reported a “birdman” flipping around the roof of her barn earlier this month, could hear a “sizzing and whizzing” and added; “there he was, just 200 feet above.”

  She said the man had silver wings and appeared to manipulate controls strapped to his chest but there appeared to be no motive power. The wings didn’t flap and there was no propeller, she said.

  Chief of Police Thomas Murry has refused to investigate and McChord field army authorities, thinking of the flying saucers reports, are skeptical. Only Mrs. Zaikowski is positive.”

  Here is another slightly more detailed account of the incident from the Jan 21 edition of the Waterloo Daily Courier:

  Saucer District now Reporting Wings on Men:

  “Chehalis, Wash.—(U.P.)—The state of Washington, where the first flying saucers were reported, outdid itself Wednesday. A woman reported that she had sighted a “flying man.” Mrs. Bernice Zaikowski of Chehalis said she saw a man with wings attached to his back fly over her barn at an altitude of 200 feet and disappear to the south.

  Mrs. Zaikowski said the upright birdman made a “sizzing and whizzing” noise as he climbed and banked in flight, but that his wings neither flapped nor rotated. She said she could see no motive power such as a propeller either above or in front of him. Authorities greeted the report with an oblique “Huh?” But the Polish-born Mrs. Zaikowski insisted she had a good view of the aerialist as he skimmed her barn on Jan. 6. She said that some school children were with her at the time and ran to the back yard “for a better view.” Chehalis is not far from where the original “flying saucers” were reported about a year ago.”

  In April of that same year two witnesses in the city of Longview, Washington, claimed to see three helmeted ‘men’ as they flew about in a similar manner. No motors or propellers of any type were seen but, yet again, the sound of some mechanical motor was noted in both cases. The following report was published in the April 11th edition of the Fresno Bee Republican:

  Reports of Birdmen Have Washington Folks Up In Air:

  “LONGVIEW (Wash.), April 10. Reports of three motorized birdmen soaring over Longview had the lower Columbia River area agog today.

  Two laundry employees said they saw the human airplanes or animated comic strip characters fly over the city without the help of parachutes. In January a similar birdman, singular then, had been reported at Chehalis, Wash. The Longview apparition was reported by Mrs. Viola Johnson and James Pittman. They said they saw it at the same time. Mrs. Johnson, a 56-year-old widow, said:

  “As far as I can judge they were about 250 feet high, in dark, drab flying suits. I’m not very good at judging distance though.” Pittman could not be reached. Mrs. Johnson went on:

  “They had some kind of apparatus on their sides that looked like guns but I know it couldn’t have been guns. They were going about as fast as a freight train. I couldn’t see any propellers or any motors tied on them but I could hear motors which sounded about like airplane motors but not so loud.”

  The Chehalis report was made by Mrs. Bernice Zaikowski, 61, who said she saw a flying man go “sizzing and whizzing” about 200 feet above her barn.

  Mrs. Zaikowski’s flying man had big, silver wings and seemed to be working controls on his chest. Neither woman saw a propeller.”

  Longview is 40 miles south of Chehalis. It is interesting to note that this particular region of Cascadia was, only a year earlier in 1947, the scene of what is considered to be the first, and arguably the most famous, modern UFO report which came from a pilot named Kenneth Arnold who claimed to see nine saucer-shaped ‘discs’ flying above Mt. Rainier.

  Eight years later in the autumn of 1956, a man named John Hanks witnessed an eerily similar, if not more terrifying, phantom flyer as it went about its mystifying business in Falls City, Nebraska. It was described as being a man with shiny metal wings attached to his back by means of a shoulder
harness. It also had a control panel of some type affixed to its chest, the dials and buttons of which the figure manipulated as it flew just fifteen feet above the ground.

  The wings had a span of about fifteen feet, Hanks claimed, and looked like polished aluminum with multi-colored lights running the length of the undersides. The most frightening aspect of the encounter was the physical description of the humanoid itself; which terrified the witness to such an extent that he became completely paralyzed as the creature flew over. It had leathery looking, very wrinkled skin, large, watery, blue eyes and a “very frightening, almost demonic” looking face.

  Another anomalous aerialist was seen by multiple witnesses one afternoon in Scott, Mississippi. About 2:00 pm on Thursday, September 1st, 1966 Mrs. James Ikart was astonished to see a “flying man” above Pine Land Plantation. She then telephoned the Delta Democrat Times of Greenville, who rushed a reporter right out. He found several people staring up at the sky, all of them claiming that they had seen a man-shaped object maneuvering overhead. “It got down pretty low and then would go up,” Mrs Ikart said. “I have never seen anything like this before.”

  Another flying man, this of a different sort, was seen on Saturday night, December 3rd 1966, by California Police Officer Vern Morse and his wife. As the two were driving down Bayshore Highway returning from San Francisco, they spotted a curious glowing object in the night sky. “At first it looked like a parachute flair,” Morse said. “I thought that it would land in those buildings east of the Southern Pacific Depot and start a fire. When it crossed the highway directly in front of me, it stopped descending at an altitude of about two hundred feet and began climbing. My wife said; “Somebody’s guiding it.”