The Inhumanoids

by Barton M Nunnelly

  “We sort of thought it might be a gorilla,” Mrs. Rogers explained. “It would stand like a man but it would run on all fours. Even on all fours it was as tall as my husband, who is five feet nine. It was real broad.” The huge, ape-like creature left no tracks, Rogers claimed, even when it ran on all fours through the mud. “What was weird,” she said, “was that we could never find tracks, even when it ran over mud. It would run and jump but it was like somehow it wasn’t touching anything. When it ran through weeds you couldn’t hear anything. And sometimes when you looked at it, it looked like you could see through it.”

  Nearly fifty people saw the thing before it finally disappeared for good, including the Berdine family, who claimed they lost 170 chickens to the creature, which ripped them apart but did not eat them. They also claimed to have fired on the monster to no apparent affect.

  The Roachdale reports subsided by late August, but three weeks later in Parke County sheriff Gary Cooper broadcast a bizarre warning to authorities in surrounding counties. “Attention all counties surrounding Parke County. Be on the lookout for a ten-foot tall monster. It is covered in fur and its feet are 21 inches long.” Cooper explained that he’d received several calls from the Lodi, Tangier, Howard and Sylvania areas. Two coon dogs and a pig had been killed by something that slashed open their stomachs. No mention is made as to the condition of the animal’s entrails, or if they were taken as in the Spottsville, Kentucky case. In any event, protestant members of the Roachdale community felt sure that the appearance of the ‘monster’ heralded the end of the world and Judgement Day for mankind.

  Uniontown, Pennsylvania is the location of our next curious hairy inhumanoid encounter. In the winter of 1973, while out jogging, a man and his dog were confronted by what he later described as a hairy, ape-like creature with glowing eyes. The jogger pulled out a handgun when the inhumanoid began to approach and fired on the entity, which immediately started to scream before it “evaporated into thin air.” One might wonder just what joggers were expecting to encounter on the back roads of Uniontown in 1973, but citizens arming themselves made perfect sense when you consider the UFO/monster flap that swept through the region earlier that year.

  At about 9:00 pm. on October 25th at least sixteen witnesses observed a “red ball of light” as it hovered high above a field just outside of town. Twenty-two-year-old Stephen Pulaski (not his real name) grabbed his 30.06 and drove to the scene accompanied by two ten-year-old twin brothers. When they arrived they saw the UFO slowly descending toward the field and noticed that the car’s headlights mysteriously dimmed as they neared.

  Pulaski pulled over and he and the two boys got out and walked up to the crest of a nearby hill. Looking down into the field, they saw the UFO, which had now changed to bright white in color, resting on or just above the ground. Pulaski later recalled that the object was dome-shaped, and about a hundred feet in diameter. It sat there making a sound “like a lawn mower.” In addition, the three could clearly hear “screaming sounds” emanating from somewhere near the object, perhaps even from inside it.

  Just then the air was filled with a smell like burning rubber and, from the light thrown off by the craft, the two boys spotted two large, ape-like creatures with glowing green eyes walking along a fence-row. Pulaski, who was not wearing his prescription glasses, thought they might be bears, so he fired off a warning shot above the creatures’ heads. This did not slow them or affect them in any noticeable way however and, as they got closer, Pulaski knew that they were not bears at all.

  Both the creatures had long, dark gray hair and arms that nearly reached the ground. The taller one, which stood at least eight feet tall, was running its left hand along the fence as it walked. The other one, which stood nearly a foot shorter, seemed to be hurrying along, trying to keep pace with its companion. Both the creatures were making a weird whining sound, “like a baby crying,” and seemed to be communicating to each other using this strange noise.

  One of the boys then fled the scene, heading for the car, but his brother and Pulaski stood their ground. Again raising his hunting rifle, Pulaski fired three times directly into the larger creature, which merely let out a whine and reached its right hand out toward the other inhumanoid. Suddenly, the UFO vanished into thin air, taking the peculiar lawn mower and screaming sounds with it and leaving in its place a large area that glowed so brightly the witnesses felt sure they could have read a newspaper by it. The two hirsute creatures then turned around and unhurriedly made their way into the nearby woods. A few minutes later while on their way to the nearest phone to notify the police, both Pulaski and the boy noticed a peculiar burning sensation in their eyes.

  At 9:45 p.m. Pulaski accompanied a local State Trooper back to the field, which was still glowing, though not as brightly as before. The luminous area was 150 feet in diameter and none of the farm animals housed in the field, mostly horses and cattle, would go near it. When they approached the area where the creatures had disappeared they heard crashing sounds in the woods, as if something was following them. When they stopped the sounds stopped. When they continued so did the noises. Whatever was making the noise had to be huge, big enough to knock down trees in its path. When the sounds quieted, the trooper decided to go examine the luminous area more closely, but Pulaski, now nearly hysterical, would have none of it.

  As the two men made their way back to the patrol car the sounds started up again, following them from the darkened tree line. Pulaski swore that he saw a “brown object” coming toward them and fired off his last bullet. Suddenly he screamed that something was coming out of the woods toward them and both he and the officer, who was becoming more alarmed by the minute by both the weird events and Pulaski’s hysterical manner, jumped into the patrol car and drove about fifty yards before turning around and shining the headlights into the trees. From the safety of the cruiser they saw nothing. Even the luminous area had disappeared.

  But the story didn’t end there, and things would only get stranger as the evening wore on. The officer then phoned a local UFO study group which had helped the department previously in similar ‘creature sighting’ cases. Stan Gordon, head of the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group, along with four other members of his group, arrived on scene with the all the principal witnesses, as well as Pulaski’s father, at 1:30 a.m.

  While the twins stayed behind in Pulaski’s truck, Pulaski, his father and the Gordon crew searched the area for evidence. The luminous ring had long since disappeared and no other markings could be found on the ground. Radiation levels appeared normal. At 1:45, while they were standing by their truck, the Pulaski’s observed that a nearby farmhouse area had suddenly lit up with a glow. The group searched the area but found nothing unusual. Later, a noted psychiatrist and UFO investigator; Dr. Schwarz, described the bizarre events which followed in an article for Flying Saucer Review:

  “The team and the two Pulaskis walked up from the truck towards the area where the creatures were observed. It was about 2:00 a.m. Suddenly the bull (in the field) was scared by something. Stephen’s dog also became alarmed and started tracking something. The dog kept looking at a certain spot by the edge of the woods, but the groups didn’t see anything. George Lutz was asking Stephen some questions when all of a sudden Stephen began rubbing his head and face. George Lutz asked him if he was OK, and Stephen began shaking back and forth as if he were going to faint. George Lutz and Mr. Pulaski, Sr., grabbed Stephen. Stephen is over 6’2” tall and weighs around 250 pounds. He then began breathing very heavily and started growling like an animal. He flailed his arms and threw his father and George Lutz to the ground.

  His dog then ran toward him as if to attack, and Stephen went after the dog. The dog started crying. George Lutz and Mr. Pulaski were calling to Stephen to come back, that it was alright, and that they were returning to the car. Then Dennis Smeltzer suddenly said, “Hey, Stan, I’m starting to feel lightheaded.” Dennis became very weak and felt faint. His face was pale. Dave Baker and Dave Smith went ov
er to help Dennis. Then Dave Baker began to complain about having trouble breathing.

  During all this, Stephen was running around, swinging his arms and loudly growling like an animal. Suddenly he collapsed on his face into a heavily manured area. Shortly afterwards he started to come out of it and said, “Get away from me. It’s here. Get back.” Just then Stephen and Stan, as well as the others, smelled a very strong sulfur or chemical-like odor. George Lutz said, “Let’s get out of here.” Then he and Mr. Pulaski, Sr., were helping Stephen along when, suddenly on the way down the hill, Stephen pointed and yelled; “Keep away from the corner! It’s in the corner!”

  Stephen kept mumbling that he would protect the group. He also mumbled that he saw a man “in a black hat and cloak, carrying a sickle.” He told Stan; “If Man doesn’t straighten up, the end will come soon.” He also said, there is a man here now who can save the world. Stephen also said that he could hear his name; “Stephen… Stephen;” being called from inside the woods. When he collapsed, Stephen’s glasses fell off. On the way down, as Stephen was coming out of his confused state, his father handed him the glasses and Stephen asked whose they were. Stan asked if he could see OK and he said, “Just fine.”

  Stephen had been miraculously cured of his myopia. In subsequent sessions Dr. Schwarz found that Pulaski had no past record of such dissociative behavior. During one session Pulaski drifted in and out of trance states and when asked about his vision of the ‘man in black,’ he said; “...I heard a crying noise. I could see a man in a black robe, carrying a scythe. Behind this man was fire and in front of him was a force, and in this force were the creatures. They were calling, “Stephen! Stephen!” One was laughing. It was a tantalizing laugh, and making me mad. My hands were clenched tight.

  Behind us was a big light. In this light something was telling me to go forward. “Go forward. Come on!” It was edging me. As I walked to the edge of the woods, the creatures kept wailing. I looked at them and all I could think of was death and the faceless form in the black robe who was commanding these things to kill me; it was hate; a hatred for everything.”

  At this point Pulaski had passed out, but his unconscious mind went on to reveal an apocalyptic prediction that, if man didn’t straighten up and stop destroying the earth, the world would end sometime in the year 1976. Thankfully, that prediction would prove wholly inaccurate. As of this writing in 2009, no part of the world has yet ended.

  One interesting thing which actually did happen in 1976, was the vision that California psychic Joyce Partise had when she was handed a sealed envelope containing a picture of a bigfoot track. According to late author B. Ann Slate, Partise took the envelope and exclaimed; “This envelope is like a death certificate. I foresee an impending disaster. I keep getting the name ‘John.’ What could that mean? I see people gathered together, frightened and praying. Some think it’s spiritual, those craft in the sky. Some think it’s the so-called Second Coming, but God help them!”

  Partise felt that the Bigfoot creatures were subterraneans who were somehow connected to the UFOs, and that the UFOs were somehow connected to the impending doom of the human race. The apostle, John, of course, was the author of the Book of Revelation in the Bible, the only book in the Bible that delves deeply into the subject of ‘End Time’ events. In, ‘The Unidentified,’ authors Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman discussed the case of an Arizona man, Paul Solem, who could, amazingly, produce UFOs on command, a talent which he proved before the startled eyes of many skeptical witnesses.

  One such witness was Joe Krauss, editor of the Prescott (Arizona) Courier. As Kraus watched, Solem went into a trance and began channeling messages he was receiving from a ‘Venusian’ space-traveler aboard a flying saucer. “Great sorrow and fear will be coming to this planet very soon,” the ‘Venusian’ Solem said, “and few will escape it. Our leader, as spoken of in Hopi prophecy, is already here on Earth in mortality and is known as the Apostle John, the same as in the New Testament. The white brother shall be introduced by a huge fire and the Earth shall quake at his arrival.”

  While many awaited the Apostle John’s appearance with some trepidation, the inhumanoids went right on with their tricky games. Other creature reports were made in western Pennsylvania during the years of 1973 and ‘74, some even seen in the presence of other UFOs. In one instance, three women driving through a wooded area one evening claimed to have seen a landed rectangular object. As they watched, a door opened up in the side of the craft and a ramp was lowered.

  To their complete astonishment, three ape-like creatures emerged from the craft, ambled down the ramp and disappeared into some trees. Two teenaged girls reportedly observed a similar creature, this one with white hair and glowing red eyes and “carrying a luminescent sphere in its hand.” And yet another witness claimed to have fired on one of the creatures, which then vanished in a flash of light.

  This frightening creature, dubbed “The Whortlechort” by locals, was seen by two brothers in a cow field in Nelson County, KY. in 1965. They described it to the local media as being 8 ft. tall, covered with brown hair and having glowing red eyes. From the Nov.2nd, 1978 edition of the “Kentucky Standard.”

  “I live over at the cutoff,” said Steven Unzelman of Snohomish, Washington, in 1980. Three years earlier he’d had a deeply disturbing encounter with a UFO, inhumanoids and a Sasquatch creature which had left him with partial amnesia.

  “I’d been doing a lot of land clearing and spending a lot of time in the woods. I wanted to clear a boundary line through there, and I was putting in a trail back behind my house. It was about 4 p.m. in the afternoon on the day before Easter, 1977. I’d left a shovel in the back about a quarter-mile on the other side of the swampy area.

  So, I took my bulldozer part way back and walked the rest of the way, past the swamp to where the shovel was. It was a little dark from big evergreen trees and brush. On the way out I looked over and saw this guy; there were these vine-maples between us, but you could see through them; it seemed like the guy didn’t want me to think he saw me. He looked to be about fifty years old and, of course, I wasn’t looking for any of this. I didn’t believe in any of this then. It was probably the furthest thing from my mind.

  “All of a sudden, this buzzing sound started up and the guy got blurry, and it looked like he was doing the jitterbug; he just vibrated and it looked like he was yelling at me, and all I could hear was the buzzing. I really think I startled him because he looked like he was yelling. The buzzing sound was going and there he was. Then down through the trees another buzzing sound came; it reminded me of the sound of bees, and a second guy came down, and there he was with a blue outfit on and turbulence all around him.

  Well, he just floated down with the turbulence around him and touched grass a little bit in front of the other guy. You know, this turbulence; it was like when you see a bee with its wings moving fast; they seem to be gone but you can see motion; what I think is, the first guy stepped back into the thing; there were two of the things, one for the first guy and another for the second guy.

  “...Well, the second guy touched the ground and then blades appeared and the whole thing (formed by the blades) was shaped like an egg with a stem on top...these blades came to a stop and these guys stood clear. The first guy must’ve stepped back into this because there were two of these egg-shaped things. That’s all I can figure. When the second guy hit the ground, both of these guys stepped clear; then it was like an airstream was hitting them, and the objects shot straight up through the tree tops. They made a sound; if you’ve ever been duck hunting and heard a flock of ducks take off, it was like that sound but much faster

  “...These two guys were standing there. The first guy was completely bald-headed. I don’t think he had any eyebrows either, and his face was flat without much of a nose. I’d say he had light-brown skin, and he was lean, in shape I’d say. The second guy looked black, and he had hair on his head, and; they had on metallic-looking blue uniforms, and I think there were tanks
on their backs. Both of them were short, maybe less than five feet, and their heads were slightly larger than a normal person’s.

  “...There was this sound like a helicopter coming, and these guys stood there and I didn’t move a muscle at this point. I told myself maybe they wouldn’t take action if I didn’t move. Suddenly the helicopter noise cut out like if a plane is overhead and the motor cuts out, and I looked up and there’s this thing that looked like a flying saucer. It was dropping like a ton of lead and more of it was over my head than over theirs. The way it was dropping made me fear that it was going to break through the trees and crush me; but it got to the tops of the trees and let out a heaving jet sound, and the trees started to whip back and forth.

  My hair was blowing from the wind, too. So after it made the jet sound, I heard a clickity-click, clickity-click, and I don’t know how long the thing was there, maybe 5 minutes. I don’t know if anything happened to me then or not, and I’ll probably never know if I don’t know now. But that thing was there, and a real deep fear came over me, and I don’t know if it was fear that made me forget or what.

  “...Anyhow, there was that clickity-click and those guys looking at me, and all of a sudden the clickity-click turned to a howl and the flying saucer shot straight up, and then it made a sound like a tuba; then it got higher and higher in seconds until all I could hear was a sound like a siren. I’d say that the howl was so loud I thought it was going to break my eardrums.”