The Inhumanoids

by Barton M Nunnelly

  The appearance of the strange creature has crippled the socio-economic activities in the town, especially at night as people prefer to stay home from 4 p.m. until sunrise the next morning. The creature is believed to have appeared in different locations in Maru and is causing much anxiety and fear among residents, particularly women.

  When contacted about the issue, one of the sons of the Emir of Maru, Alhaji Isa Maru, said the rumor was strong and “we are still trying to get to the root of it.” Maru is located about 360 miles north of Lagos, the capital of Nigeria.”

  In ‘Strange Wisconsin,’ my good friend, Mrs. Linda Godfrey shared a curious story she’d received from a fellow named Eric. The story concerned a terrifying ‘man’ that he and some friends had seen on Halloween day, 2003 in Madison Wisconsin. Eric writes:

  “...Me, Dan and Molly were walking toward State Street, we had just left Johnny O’s. This guy coming toward us looked just like a normal person until “it” walked between Dan and I, and I got the worst feeling of nausea and fear. It was extremely revolting. I could tell it was unnatural. I looked back and when it reached Molly, it drained all the color out of her. It was wearing jeans and a jeans jacket and had dark brown, short hair, about mid-30s. It was about 5’5” or 5’6”. It said nothing and had no smell. I could just tell what it was. After it passed, it stopped and looked dead at me, and the eyes were dark, then for a split second there was a silver-white flash, but I’d have to say they were devoid of life.

  Molly said it left her feeling drained; it shoulder-brushed her as it was going past. That’s the only thing that has ever unnerved me, just outside walking down the street, mixing and mingling with the crowd. It didn’t touch the rest of us, only Molly. The demon thing smiled at me, too, like it knew I knew what it was.”

  A terrifying specter was encountered by a London man on the night of January 16th, 2004. The man awoke that night to strange clicking sounds in his bedroom, and to the knowledge that he wasn’t alone. Standing there looking at him from the darkness, surrounded by a purple haze, was a humanoid creature which he later described as over five-foot-tall, wearing a dark cloak with a huge head like that of a fly or praying mantis. It stared at him with its large, insect-like eyes, and the witness found himself paralyzed, completely unable to move. Then it blasted the witness with a ‘beam of light’ which seemed to fill his head with thousands of messages, before vanishing into thin air.

  In 2005, another enigma appeared in Texas where a male witness and his girlfriend were interrupted by a strange grunting, chuckling noise coming from the nearby woods. Looking out they were shocked to see that the sounds were coming from a glowing human-like figure with scythe-like hands as it jumped from tree to tree. While they watched, the glow from the creature turned from purple to white. It had glowing red eyes, they said, and ‘sticky’ skin which apparently enabled it to “stick to the trees.” The weird wonder then let out a blood-curdling scream, as if agitated by the presence of the two humans whom, it might be safely assumed, left the location in a hurry.

  And the Winner is... the Troll

  “I will always know that there are many kinds of creatures and spirits that exist in the shadows all around us,” thirty-five-year-old Richard O’Donnell told Fortean author, Brad Steiger in 2000. “Whoever they may be and whatever their names and ranks, I know that Trolls are among them.” According to Steiger, who writes of the event in his book, ‘Out of the Dark, The Complete Guide to Beings from Beyond’ (2001), O’Donnell claimed that in 1982, when he was seventeen years old, he had a very physical and frightening encounter with a Troll in a small town in northern Minnesota. Ever since he was a kid he had heard the rumor that a family of trolls lived in a cave in the woods on an old man named Ulmer Sorenson’s property just north of town. Even though the old man had posted no trespassing signs, many kids tested their bravery by throwing rocks into the mouth of the cave while noisily shouting challenges to the Trolls.

  One or two of the braver ones even took a few steps inside, trying to ignore the putrid smell of the place. Every now and again, some kid would excitedly describe how he’d seen one or more of the Trolls moving about in the darkness near the area, and it was common knowledge (among the youth at least) that these Trolls were to blame for the many raids on local henhouses that were always taking place.

  “Late one afternoon on a warm July day,” O’Donnell later wrote, “I decided to ignore the ‘no trespassing’ sign on Sorenson’s fence and cut across the woods to make a shortcut to my girlfriend’s farmhouse. I was walking a worn deer path when up ahead I could see a short, stocky guy coming toward me. As he drew nearer, I saw that he was one ugly dude. He had coarse black hair that literally jutted from his skull, deep set black eyes and an enormous honker. I could not believe the size of his nose. And when he grinned at me, I saw yellowish, jagged teeth that seemed badly in need of dentistry.”

  He wondered why he’d never seen this man before, being from such a small town. He further described this ‘man’ as standing about five-foot-four, bare-footed and dressed in a ragged, dirty shirt and bib overalls that were a couple sizes too big. His bare feet, “at least size thirteens, were covered in thick, black hair. As the two stood facing one another, it quickly dawned on O’Donnell that, judging from his frank stares, the odd little fellow really liked his new jeans and boots. And, apparently, he meant to have them. With an animalistic grunt the brutish fellow rushed at O’Donnell, tackled him by the waist and hurled him to the ground.

  O’Donnell, at the time, stood five-nine, weighed 180 pounds and just so happened to be the captain of the high-school wrestling team. “The ugly little guy was incredibly powerful and he seemed very surprised when I did a reversal, escaped from his takedown, and flipped him over onto his back. I was maneuvering his hairy arm behind him when this most incredible thing happened; I swear to all the saints that he started to grow larger.”

  According to O’Donnell, the being grew a full eight inches and gained at least fifty pounds right before his eyes. He stared in disbelief as he now faced an opponent who not only outweighed him, but towered over him at about six-foot-two. “And the smell of him became almost overpowering. He stank bad enough when he was a short little bugger, but now he could win a fall by his smell alone.” O’Donnell realized that this was no ordinary farm boy that he was up against. “Deep in the pit of my stomach,” he said, “I knew that I would now be fighting for more than my pants and my boots.”

  The huge creature stood there, bib overalls now strained to the ripping point, shirt split apart at the shoulders. As it stared at the boy a low, steady growl emanated from its chest, and its deep-set black eyes now turned red. “Then I knew for certain that the legends about the Trolls in Sorenson’s woods were true,” O’Donnell stated. “...This thing was some kind of supernatural monster. In the old Scandinavian legends, Trolls could tower over small trees if they wanted to! I turned tail and ran like hell, leaving the thing roaring and screaming behind me. Twice I glanced over my shoulder to see if it was following me, but I didn’t stop running until I got back into town.” He never took another shortcut through those woods, either.

  On the chilly evening of February 21st, 2004, Hampshire, England resident Emily Parkinson was awakened from sleep by a bright light reflecting off her bedroom mirror. The light was coming from the window which overlooked her garden. She got up and approached the window, then drew back the curtains to see what was going on out there.

  She was horrified to see a tall, headless inhumanoid figure standing in her yard. It turned toward her and she gasped in shock when she saw the single large eye set into the middle of the being's stomach. The thing emitted a piercing high-pitched noise which seemed to penetrate her mind, she later said, before it faded away and disappeared. Though many inhumanoids have allegedly appeared without their heads, this headless Cyclops seems to be a singularly peculiar entity even among this crowd of inexplicables.

  Section Two

  Part One:

 
Hairy inhumanoids

  “One rain-drop does not a storm make, but a downpour leaves little doubt.”

  -Peter Guttilla

  ‘Hairy Hominid’ sightings, without doubt, account for the vast majority of all Inhumanoid reports. Ninety percent of these, or better, concern what is popularly known as the ‘Bigfoot’ phenomenon. These creatures have been seen by citizens from all walks of life for as long as there have been people around to see such things. Nearly everyone is familiar with the Bigfoot subject. It is the one and only true heavy hitter in the field of cryptozoology; appearing almost constantly in news articles and broadcasts from around the world, books, documentaries, hoaxes and mostly blurry photographs and films.

  All of these are inspired, of course, by many thousands of actual sightings or encounters with the frightening creatures. Most sightings are fleeting, lasting no more than a few seconds, or minutes at most. The creature steps out into the high beams of some vehicle driven by a lonely traveler late at night, or is seen prowling around the outskirts of some rural town.

  And there is nothing about the majority of sighting reports which might give the impression that the subject of concern is anything more than some extremely cunning (or really lucky), unclassified primate roaming freely about the countryside.

  But there is more to the Bigfoot enigma than meets the casually interested eye. Though not as common, hundreds of other reports concerning these creatures exist which cannot be so readily explained by the ‘undiscovered primate’ hypothesis; reports which suggest that these beast-men are also a far cry from the mere flesh and blood animals which most adherents assume, due to some flaw in the human psyche, that they must be.

  It is far beyond the scope of this work to attempt even a perfunctory listing of all known Bigfoot sightings and encounters. Such a monumental task would require many books several times the length of this one, so here we shall take a glance at just a few of the Bigfoot sightings on record which might give the casual observer, as well as the seasoned researcher, a moment of pause in their considerations on the whole Bigfoot issue. Here I will endeavor to illustrate that the true nature of Bigfoot is exactly the same as every other inhumanoid mentioned in this book.

  As a Fortean investigator and Bigfoot researcher of over twenty years I have been asked many times; “Does Bigfoot have a connection with the UFO phenomenon, or vice versa?” Much to the dismay of most of the hardline believers that the creature is nothing more than an extremely lucky primate-type, my answer is always the same. If even one report mentioning both phenomena is true; and there are many as we shall see; then the answer is unequivocally ‘yes.’

  If even one report which describes these entities manifesting supernatural powers is true, and again there are many, then all Bigfoot creatures must logically be, at least, suspect by association. Certainly no one would expect a normal physical creature, regardless of how elusive or intelligent or fortunate it might be, to be able to walk through walls, float above the ground, speak telepathically and perform other feats of mind control, appear and disappear at will, traverse through muddy fields without leaving a single footprint, or be self-luminous (about the eyes or any other part of its anatomy), yet all these incredible attributes, and many more, have been associated with Bigfoot sightings for decades.

  One can see why, for the most part, reports such as these are rejected by mainstream believers (not witnesses), but having experienced some of these remarkable and frightening facets of the phenomenon first-hand, this author long ago lost the choice of whether or not to believe in the supernatural aspects of hairy inhumanoids and, in the end, it has saved me a lot of needless time and speculation regarding this matter. It’s simply true.

  Nevertheless, I do not categorically reject the notion that a purely physical unclassified primate may exist, laughing in the faces of both science and technology, and is responsible for some of what is being seen. Stranger things have happened and the notion, romantic as it might be, strikes a favorable note within me; if only to quiet the ridiculous rantings

  Sketch © 2017 by author from eyewitness descriptions

  of the hardcore skeptics. In my own experiences and those of many others, however, this is just not what is going on.

  There is often more data that can be gleaned from any situation than might readily meet the eye; if only the right questions are asked. Paranormal witnesses often raise their eyebrows in puzzlement when I request personal information regarding the history of the witnesses themselves and their families. I’ve learned quite clearly, using this approach, that as many as sixty-percent of paranormal witnesses, or more, have also had experiences with other, seemingly unrelated, unexplained phenomena.

  “Um...yes, now that you’ve asked,” says the Bigfoot witness, “I did live in a haunted house as a child. It sounds crazy, I know,” says the UFO experiencer, “but we did see a strange animal on our farm a while back, and it left weird footprints. And, another time, my wife said there was someone in the bedroom one night.”

  “How did you know?” asks the occupant of a haunted residence. “We have seen unusual lights on the property, and heard weird screams, like a panther or something, outside our home at night.” When viewed collectively with an open, unbiased, logical mind, it must quickly become apparent that all these enigmas are connected at some level.

  In any event, many modern researchers and skeptics alike seem to be under the mistaken impression that the hairy inhumanoid phenomenon is a relatively recent one, only coming to attention in the 1950s or so, or after the famous Patterson/Gimlin film was taken in 1967. Others, after reading up on the subject a bit, concede that these creatures were well-known to the Native American Indians long before the arrival of the first European settlers. But, in truth, the enigma is even older still, and can be traced back thousands of years to all parts of the world.

  The ancient Persians believed in the Al, for example; a shaggy-haired, swamp-dwelling monster with long tusks and glowing eyes that feasted on human children. The ancient Celts had their evil wood spirits as well, called the ‘Dus.’

  The Biblical character Esau, who sold his birthright for a plate of food, was described as being born covered all over with red hair, ‘like a garment.’ Even older still, was the infamous beast known as ‘Grendel,’ whom Beowulf fought and slew. In fact, this is one of the earliest known examples of human story-telling, and it is interesting to find therein accounts of a giant, hair-covered, cave-dwelling inhumanoid that feasted on men.

  Many ancient legends from various other cultures have also described these beings as monstrous cannibals. The ‘Kapre,’ for instance, was a frightful Philippine entity believed to be big, black and hairy. It lurked in the darkened forests near pathways, always on the alert for passing humans to attack and devour. Legend claims that this brutish man-beast was able to put a spell on its unfortunate victims to keep them from escaping its clutches. The Japanese have the ‘Raju,’ hairy inhumanoid cannibals with long claws that are particularly active during thunderstorms. Hindu lore tells of the ‘Rakshasas;’ similar cannibalistic beasts with sharp fangs and blazing eyes said to lurk around old cemeteries and, like the Rakshasas, many modern-day hairy inhumanoids still do; especially ancient Indian burial grounds. Throughout the course of my life I have personally lived at three different locations adjacent to these native burial grounds and my family has experienced such activity in all three locations.

  In his wonderful book, ‘Mysteries of Time and Space,’ author Brad Steiger recounts an episode in which a correspondent claimed to have discovered his grandfather’s journal and, upon reading it, found a strange story therein. Apparently, his grandfather had accompanied an Indian friend to a cave in the “Big Woods Country” of Tennessee back in 1888, where what they called a “crazy bear;” a hairy, ape-like humanoid was being fed regularly on raw meat.

  When asked what it was and where it was from, the Indian explained that this was but one of many “crazy bears” that had been left by “skymen” who trave
led in the skies and would even land from time to time in “moons.” The “skymen” appeared human, wore short hair and shining uniforms, and would always wave at them in a friendly manner from their “moons.” The Indians would take care of the “crazy bears” when needed, as they were considered “powerful medicine.”

  In 1974, a Yakima Indian Fire Guard told investigator W. J. Vogel:

  “My folks used to tell me of this legend which was passed on to them by their parents about a large man with red eyes who came to live with the tribe. Whenever any of the Indian people became sick, he would heal them.

  One day, when he knew he was dying, he asked the Indian people to take him to a particular location so that he might be there when he died. This they did. Shortly after he died, a large flying object came down from the skies, put his body aboard and flew off into the sky.”

  Incident at Ape Canyon

  The July 16th, 1918 edition of the Seattle Times ran a story about “mountain devils,” which had reportedly attacked a miner’s cabin at Mount St. Lawrence, near Kelso, Washington. The miners described the bizarre inhumanoids as hair-covered creatures which stood seven or eight feet tall; that could make themselves invisible!

  Not far away, and roughly about the same time, two brothers named Beck, who were working in a logging camp near Kelso, heard a rustling noise outside their tent one evening. Peering out they were alarmed to see a tall, upright, man-like creature watching them from the edge of the woods. After a few minutes it simply turned and walked on two legs back into the forest.