On the night of July 26, 1895, in the Delaware County resort town of Margaretville, Peter Thomas was driving a team of horses on a lone road when a “wild-eyed man or ape” stood in the road ahead. Thomas said the creature had “long and hairy arms” and was “uttering a raucous, inarticulate cry.” He said the creature twisted the neck of one of his horses before dragging it into the darkness. The creature was “seven feet high, of human shape, covered with hair.”
The next day, local farmer John Cook said he shot “a ferocious ape-like being,” before it grabbed him and threw him to the ground. The wild man stood “about seven feet tall, entirely nude, covered with black hair, with a long beard and with teeth which project from its mouth like fangs” .
Newburg Daily Express 1895; New York Daily Herald 1895.
I just saw the craziest thing! It had like this beak and like, web feet! And that tail!
If the description was changed to tall and hairy we’d all be thinking bigfoot. But, that was probably close to what a person said about this creature around the 1700s. The platypus was once a cryptid itself, witnesses described this creature but no one had a body until 1799 when English zoologist George Shaw was delivered one. His first thought was it must be a hoax, and was quoted with “It naturally excites the idea of some deceptive preparation by artificial means,”
Reading what he wrote more than 200 years ago, it’s easy to see why Shaw was initially skeptical about the creature he’d examined: “ Of all the Mammalia yet known it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation; exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a Duck engrafted on the head of a quadruped.”
Sounds similar, sounds like one of us describing the Jersey Devil. The head of this, body of that. The platypus has been around for millions of years in one form or size or another, yet only two centuries have passed since we examined the first body. I thought since so much is being written about current cryptids I thought I’d focus on some former cryptids. The weird creatures described by settlers and later of our now known animals.
The platypus, whose home is in Australia, must have been a sight to see. They have a beak like a duck, feet like an otter and a tail like a beaver. That species was really adapting well with what it may need to survive out there. They also have a few odd surprises up their sleeve. The platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs, it has no stomach so their food go directly from esophagus to colons. But the biggest surprises are that it’s venomous! A male has venom in his back claw also if you catch it swimming under uv lights you’ll see it glows in the dark and finally its beak have special sensors on it to detect its meal going by and doesn’t need to see or hear under the water. They can hold their breath for approximately 30 seconds under water.
They are still just the oddest looking animals and they really do look seen all together from different species but, I suppose he was in a way, god decided to give him a little bit of everything and sent them on their way…
My family and I had an encounter in 1997 just south of Utica NY in a rural town of Sauquoit. My grandparents were visiting China at the time and my mother, uncle and I were house sitting for them. I was 16 at the time and had already racked up countless hours of hunting, camping, hiking and fishing experience in upstate NY. So I was very outdoorsy young fellow. As I said above I spent most of my time outside exploring the wilderness and there wasn’t much to do at grandmas house except for this kind of impressive geological feature they had towards the back of their property. There was a small creek that flowed over a small waterfall, maybe 8 ft high, and down into a stone gorge. The gorge is maybe 150 wide and 20 feet deep and the edges were composed of large rectangularish rocks that were crumbling to below. When visiting I would often visit here to flip rocks over to catch crawfish or salamanders or whatever I could find. I never felt uncomfortable there. There is what appears to be a cave created by some of the larger rocks that I don’t recall ever exploring but was definitely big enough for a person to crawl into. (I didn’t get into spelunking until I was in my late teens). Whenever I was in the gorge or on the edge I would yell init because it would return a wonderful echo, unlike any echo I’ve heard before or since so that was always fun. Onto the incident, I believe it was the 3rd night of house sitting around 2:30-3am. The house is set about 250 yards from this creek and we were all sound asleep when I was awakened by the most ungodly thunder scream imaginable. I sat straight up in my bed and listened, I was horrified!!! Within seconds I ran out of my room and met my mother and uncle in the hallway who were also equally shocked as I was. I remember I said(I didn’t normally cus) “WTF is that?!?” And as I said this the thing was STILL screaming. It felt like forever but it must have went on for at least 15 seconds. It was the loudest and meanest sound. We grabbed a flashlight and a couple shotguns then went outside to investigate. We checked the horses. They were visibly shaken but ok. We knew the creature was in the gorge because of the echo so we walked through the horse field and approached the wood line. We heard nothing else and we saw nothing. None of us had the balls to enter the forest where the gorge was. At daylight the next day I went to the gorge to look around. I felt extremely uneasy and remember looking into the cave from idk maybe 10 yards away and I just got a bad feeling so I split. I never went back to that creek to enjoy the wildlife ever again. I wanted to ask my grandfather about it when he returned but unfortunately he died weeks later and I never had the opportunity. After my grandmother recovered from that I asked her about it. She said that grandpa and her had heard the scream 3 times since 1980. My grandfather actively worked on classified projects for 3 branches of military at the same time and he was an avid Hunter in his recreational time. One time he took his repeating rifle and a flashlight to investigate in the middle of night and found nothing. The next morning, this is all according to grandma, he went to take a better look while it was light out. Grandpa told her not to worry because he found some human excrement and figured it was some kids Messing around. I know he told her that because he didn’t want to sell the house he built. He wanted to soothe her fears. There’s no way a person could make this noise and there was certainly no kids hanging out in this remote forest at 3am. I forgot to mention that each time they heard this thing it was mid-late summer and about 3am. Each instance was separated by approximately 5-6 years.
None of us saw anything but that sound was not forgettable. It’s certainly impacted my life as I now consider things that I would not have otherwise. There are things that go bump in the night. 100%
I found an almost identical recording of the sound that you can listen to here :
@2:53 the sound begins and carries on through the narrators voice. Take a listen and let me know what you think. Honestly I don’t know what it is but these people say it’s Sasquatch. I have no other answers. I wanna say it was louder than a lions roar but had a deep gutteral pitch to it at the same time. My theory is that whatever it was , was using the echo from the gorge to amplify its message. If these things exist then I doubt they would give away its position if it didn’t have a good reason to do so. Grandma sold the house that year so I couldn’t investigate further. Im tempted to ask the current owners if they’ve heard anything strange but I don’t wanna come across as a nut or spook them. I suspect they have heard it because every 5-6 years it was doing this like clockwork.
One Upstate hunter is claiming deer weren’t the only creatures in the woods over the weekend in Steuben, New York.
— Read on hudsonvalleycountry.com/hunter-encounters-mysterious-creature-resembling-bigfoot-during-deer-hunt-near-steuben-ny/
According to New England Folklore blog and the book Humanoid Encounters, on December 16, 2008, four students in Pawtucket, Rhode Island decided to take a walk in the woods after finishing their exams. They followed an old waterway deeper and deeper into the woods. As they walked it became increasingly quiet. Noticeably quiet. No birds. No squirrels. No breeze.
Scarily quiet.
The students suddenly became aware that they were not alone. Someone – or rather something – was in the woods with them. The creature was about six feet tall. It stood upright like a man, but had the head of a wolf. The students stood still in terror, petrified that the creature would approach them.
The wolf creature looked around, sensing it was not alone, but did not see the students. Finally it ran off further into the trees and was lost to sight. After waiting to make sure it was really gone the students left the woods. One of the witnesses was convinced the creature was a werewolf…
‘Did me and my friend see the Warminster Thing in 1977 at Cley Hill? Some friends of mine were having a conversation about UFOs in 1977 and we decided to visit Cley Hill one night for a vigil. We arrived around 11pm but I can’t remember what the date was.
We managed to climb to the top in virtual darkness. It was a clear night and from the top we could see for miles and saw all the lights from nearby villages and towns, saw helicopter activity from nearby army bases and watched satellites for an hour or so. Other than that, there was nothing out of the ordinary flying or moving about.
We bought a tent so we decided to scale back down the hill and find somewhere to pitch the tent. Heading back to the car we drove around some local lanes but it’s hard to find somewhere when you are in the country in darkness with no streetlights. I found a gated field entrance which I pulled up to and my friends got out the tent and stuff from the boot, including a couple of torches. I admit I was starting to feel a bit vulnerable being in the middle of nowhere near the bottom of Cley Hill in UFO country.
I stayed near the car while my friends tried to stake out the tent in the field. They were saying the ground was too stoney and hard as I noticed a light coming towards us up the lane, like a swinging latern. There was a house 300 yards or so away so I wondered if it was someone from there. I was trying to figure out what it was when the light disappeared from view going down and leaving a light showing then popping up again at a low level a little closer to her. I shouted to my mates to look, ‘what is it?’ We watched and saw a very bright ‘arc-light’ perfectly formed and round like an orange corona around its circumference. It was now a lot bigger than a lantern size.
It approached us steadily before bouncing up and down, disappearing as it dipped and reappearing again. This must have been some time well after midnight. I was getting pretty scared but one of my braver mates tried to attract this light thing with his torch. It was already coming towards us, growing larger in size by the second, and noiseless I may add. I remember saying something to my friends like ‘If you want to stay here, you stay. But I am getting out of here.’
With that we picked up our gear, threw it in the back of the car and jumped in. We wheel span out of the gated field like a bat out of hell and sped away from the area and whatever that ‘thing’ was. It was definitely coming our way and we did not want to wait around and find out more.
After a short while we pulled over to compose ourselves, found a track between farm fields and decided to stake out the tent there and brew a cuppa. Surprisingly we did manage to sleep for a couple of hours until the sun came up. It was in the daylight we decided to head back to the field entrance where we witnessed the ‘thing’. In the light of day and using the landscape, we managed to figure out the light was around the size of a house and the reason it appeared to bounce as it moved was because it was following the contours of the land, fields and trees very tightly, disappearing behind copses of trees and popping up over them again.
I know this was not a helicopter. I am an amateur aviation photographer so I am familiar with all types of aircraft and their lights. Plus, it was silent! No noise whatsoever and no flashing lights, just a huge extremely light, pure white and orange-tinged object.
We went back up the top of Cley Hill and could see the field where we had witnessed the ‘thing’. It allowed us to figure out how the light had been disappearing and reappearing as we could see the tree boundaries around the fields. We could also see it would have been quite some distance away at first before moving towards us.
I ask myself if I would have like to see something similar again and I will admit I am a bit of a wuss in the dark. The whole experience terrified all of us. However, I have lived back in Wiltshire for the last eight years and I do still look up in the sky and check, just in case I catch another glimpse of the Warminster Thing
Could there be giant dragonflies still in existence?
“Me and my younger brother saw a huge dragonfly spanning well over a foot and half long in Bolton, England in 2002. It must have been over an inch in diameter as well at the centre. I would have questioned myself but as it was witnessed by someone else too. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just me seeing things. Sometimes I think was it an RC [radio/remote-controlled] helicopter? But no way could it move with such swiftness, agility and silence especially with 2002 technology. I went to the Manchester museum and checked with the insect experts and they said it sounds like you’ve seen something from the prehistoric and that no species of dragonfly that exist today are that large. It’s not a giant bird but has anyone ever seen these massive dragonflies? I would love some confirmation some more witnesses across the world.”
According to the article people have seen them. When the world was younger, all creatures insects all the way to dinosaurs stomping around. was oversized due to the high concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere. But now it’s thought not possible. Read the rest of the article and let me know what you think. Do you know anyone who has seen a rather large one flapping about?
A few years back I was visited by a dragonfly. Mind you just a normal sized one, so I looked up what they may represent. Hers what I found from Parade Magazine;
“Dragonflies have often been considered messengers from the spiritual, non-physical realms. If you’ve been seeing a lot of dragonflies lately, it could be your spirit guides or ancestors offering you guidance or protection.
With their short life span and need-for-speed, seeing dragonflies is a reminder to enjoy the present moment. So often, we are worried about the next task on our to-do list or how we need to serve others around us. It takes away from enjoying the current moment we’re experiencing. Let the dragonfly’s presence remind you to stay fully present and engage with who you’re with and what you’re doing right now.”
Who knows maybe we need to see even bigger ones around this planet because humanity isn’t slowing down to enjoy the little moments. ..
“I’m an Indian and I had relatives living in Arizona, I used to visit them every summer when I was a kid, and it always used to be fun playing and exploring there with my cousin.
They lived near the woods.
This happened in 2016 when I was 10 years old and my cousin was 16. my family and I visited my relatives to see their new cabin which was built in the woods, not too far in the woods but at the edge, it would take us
5-10 minutes to reach there, initially, we planned to stay in the cabin and explore woods but we cancelled it at the last time as it was heavily raining, as plans changed, my cousin and I decided to just go out ourselves to stay overnight there, we seek our parent’s permission and packed our stuff and headed towards in the direction of the cabin. “
Submitted by witness Jeff Stanlev of Lester Prairie on Saturdav. October 7 2023
Multi-witness daylight sighting 3.5 miles SE of Simile Lake (Leech Lake Reservation)
YEAR: 2023
SEASON: Fall
MONTEROctober
DATE: 10/06/2023
STATE: Minnesota
COUNTY: Cass County
LOCATION DETAILS: Location of figure: 47.2715028, -94.0594516
NEAREST TOWN: Bena Federal Dam
NEAREST ROAD: Trail 2127 and 2266
While my mother and I were grouse hunting up by Bena on Sixmile Like Road in the Mud Goose Management Area we both witnessed a bigfoot.
We were traveling down 2127 from East to West and my mom said woah back up. Down trail 2266 near the bend we seen a bigfoot off the trail in the grassy ditch and it slowly moved off the trail west to east. My mom asked me if it felt like it moved in super slow motion. I concurred.
The ditch at the site was 3ft down and the grass at the side of the trail was 3ft tall and the upper torso was 3-4ft showing above the grass leaving the bigfoot to be approximately 8-10ft tall.
We drove to the spot and both noticed a strong sulfur or rotting vegetation. When I got out of the car and immediately felt all my hair stand up on my body. I checked for any sign of footprints on the road. I could not see any due to the gravel being very packed down. There was a small bit of gravel disturbed in one spot near the west side of the road shoulder.
We later got stopped by the local CO [Conservation Officer, aka Game Warden – checks on hunters]. When we mentioned what we had seen and where it was, he remarked that’s where people have been reported seeing a bigfoot. My mother and I have no doubt that we saw one.
OTHER WITNESSES: 2 myself and mother while grouse hunting
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 9:30am Temp 50 degrees and wind 10-15mph Overcast.
ENVIRONMENT: forest and lowland swamp
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Ontario Richardson:
I spoke at length with Jeff Stanley and separately with his mother, Suzy, about their encounter in early October. They were grouse hunting, driving slowly along Six Mile Lake Road near Mud Goose Trail.
They might not have spotted the figure down the side road if they had not been driving slowly and looking around for grouse. Suzy, the mother, spotted it first and shouted “What the Hell was that?!” Jeff hit the brakes and backed up.
Suzy had seen the giant back of what looked like a massive body. When they backed up, Jeff shouted “It’s moving”!
What they saw was the figure turn to a side profile, showing the head to the waist of what appeared to be a giant, black, creature walking into the timber on two feet.
Jeff yelled for his mom to get her camera out in case they saw it again.
They described it as hulking, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson figure with a rounded head sitting low on the shoulders. It appeared to be looking down. Its head was almost “swallowed up by the huge shoulders” from their view angle. It had solid, dark hair with a uniform pattern over its body. The arms were long and slowly swung as it walked into the woods.
Based on the depth of the ditch and height of the grass it walked through they estimated it at around 8’ tall. Although it walked upright she described it as more ape-like than human.
After it disappeared into the woods and they drove back to the spot where it was seen. They had a moment to unpack what happened before they got out and walked towards where the figure had stood. They noticed a pungent smell which they described as rotting compost mixed with musty rags. They saw small mounds of dirt pushed up on the ground, similarly to what a toe would create.
Jeff brought up to their dad that they should take some pictures of what they were seeing. His dad said he wasn’t comfortable sticking around any longer, so they returned to the car.
Later that day they ran into the Game Warden. While he was checking their birds, Jeff blurted out what they had seen. The Game Warden responded with “That is where people report seeing those”. This caught the family off guard as they were expecting him to refute what they saw.
Jeff and Suzy are both very certain that the huge figure with long arms was not a bear….
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