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BIG BIRDS (THUNDERBIRDS)
*** BIG BIRDS ***
Many people have reported seeing strange big birds of outrageous size throughout the years. Many explanations have been offered for these sightings, including mistaken identity, misjudging the size of the bird and even that the sightings might be of huge prehistoric birds long thought extinct. Some have suggested that abnormally large eagles could be responsible for some reports.
Eagles have occasionally been reported to carry off children in their talons, though even the largest normal sized eagle can only lift a few pounds. The most often cited cases were in Valais, Switzerland, in 1838 when five-year-old Marie Delex was carried off and eaten by a Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos); and in the fall of 1868 in Tippah County, Mississippi, when eight-year-old Jemmie Kenney was grabbed and dropped from a height sufficient to kill him. Another incident may have occurred in January 1895 near Bergoo, West Virginia, when ten-year-old Landy Junkins disappeared in the woods and locals began reporting a huge eagle that was nesting on nearby Snaggle Tooth Knob.
Numerous reports of a bird the size of a Piper Cub airplane came from St. Louis, Missouri, and adjoining areas of Illinois in April 1948. On April 26, St. Louis chiropractor Kristine Dolezal saw it nearly collide with a plane, but the animal flapped its grayish-black wings and flew off into the clouds. She could discern ridges across the wings when they were outspread.
On February 27, 1954, Gladie M. Bills and her daughter saw what she at first thought were six jets moving in circles, diving, and playing around at a high altitude near Hillsboro, Oregon. She looked at them through a telescope and saw they were birds with glossy white wings. David St. Albans saw a large, black bird flying over a cornfield in Keeneyville, Illinois, in July 1968. It had a tuft of white feathers at the base of its neck, but the head and neck were bare. On January 1, 1976, a black bird more than 5 feet long, with dark-red eyes and a thick, 6-inch beak, was seen standing in a plowed field 100 yards away by two children near Harlingen, Texas. Sightings continued in the Rio Grande Valley for two months. On January 7, Alverico Guajardo went out to see what had collided with his mobile home near Brownsville and saw a 4-foot-tall, winged creature with a long beak and covered in black feathers; it shrieked as Guajardo ran next door. On February 24, three schoolteachers driving to work near San Antonio saw a bird with a 15 to 20 foot wingspan gliding above their cars. They said it looked like a pteranodon, an extinct flying reptile. Further reports took place in December 1976.
On July 25, 1977, in Lawndale, Illinois, ten-year-old Marlon Lowe was picked up by his shirt by one of two large birds that came soaring in from the south. He screamed and punched at the bird until it dropped him after carrying him 30 to 40 feet. His parents and two other friends ran outside and saw the birds as they flew away. Marlon later picked out photos of California condors as the bird that attacked him. Over the next two weeks, there were at least eight other reports of similar birds in central Illinois. Paramedic James Thompson saw a pterodactyl-like bird, with a 5 to 6 foot wingspan, gliding through the air early in the morning of September 14, 1982, east of Los Fresnos, Texas. It had a hump on its back and a pouch on its neck.
Reynaldo Ortega saw a giant bird standing on the roof of his house in Naranjito, Puerto Rico, on April 23, 1995. It was black and eagle-like, 3 to 4 feet tall, with a thick neck and piercing eyes. He thought it had a wolf-like muzzle instead of a beak.
THE DOVER DEMON

The scare began at 10:30 on the evening of April 21, 1977, as three 17
year old boys were driving north through Dover, Massachusetts, Boston's most
affluent suburb. One of them, Bill Bartlett, thought he spotted something
creeping along a low wall of loose stones on the left side of the road.
As the figure turned its head and stared into the headlights of the car, Bartlett
said he saw two large, round, glassy, lidless eyes shining brightly "like
orange marbles." Its head, resting atop a thin neck, was big and watermelon
shaped and fully as large as the rest of the body. Except for its oversized
head, the creature was thin, with long spindly arms and legs and large hands
and feet. The skin was hairless and peach-colored and appeared to have a rough,
sandpaperlike texture. No more than four feet tall, it had been making its way
uncertainly along the wall, its long fingers curled around the rocks, when the
car lights surprised it.
Neither of Bartlett's companions, whose attention was elsewhere, noticed the
creature, which was visible for only a few seconds. They testified later,
however, that their friend had seemed genuinely upset. When Bartlett arrived
at his home, his father noticed his distraught state and heard the story from
his son, who drew a sketch of what he had seen.
Around 12:30 a.m. 15 year old John Baxter, walking home from his girlfriend's
house, reportedly saw a short figure approaching him. Thinking it was a small-
statured friend, he called out his name but got no response. When the figure
got closer, it stopped, causing Baxter to do the same. Trying to get a better
look, Baxter took one step forward, and the figure scurried off to the left,
running down a shallow wooded gully and up the opposite bank.
Baxter followed it down the slope, then stopped and looked across the gully.
The figure - which looked like nothing he had ever seen or heard of - stood
in silhouette about 30 feet away, its feet "molded" around the top off a rock
a few feet from a tree. It was leaning toward the tree with the long fingers
of both hands entwined around the trunk. Though he would claim not to have
heard of Bartlett's report at that point, his description of it would be
exactly the same. Baxter backed carefully up the slope and walked quickly
away from the scene.
The next day Bartlett told his close friend Will Taintor, 18, about his
experience. That night, while Taintor was driving Abby Brabham, 15, home,
Brabhab said she spotted something in the car's headlights. On the left side
of the road was a hairless creature crouched on all fours, facing the car.
Its body was thin and monkeylike, its head large, oblong, and devoid of nose,
ears, and mouth. The facial area around the eyes was lighter, and the eyes
glowed green. Brabhab insisted on this last detail even after investigators
informed her that Bartlett had said the eyes were orange. Taintor said he
caught only a brief glimpse.
Anomalist Loren Coleman, then living in the area, learned of Bartlett's report
through an acquaintance who knew the teenager. Subsequently he, along with
ufologists Walter N. Webb and Ed Fogg, interviewed Bartlett and the other
witnesses, along with their parents, school officials and teachers, and police
officers. They uncovered no evidence of a hoax; to the contrary, those who
knew the teenagers described them as credible. A local newspaper dubbed the
creature the "Dover demon."
FLATWOODS MONSTER
On September 12, 1952, three boys in the tiny West Virginia town of
Flatwoods (pop. 300) saw a slow-moving, reddish sphere sail around a hill, hover
briefly, and drop behind the crest of another hill. From the other side a
bright glow shone, as if from a landed object. On their way to investigate,
the boys were joined by beautician Kathleen May, her two young sons, their
friend Tommy Hyer, 17 year old Eugene Lemon, and Lemon's dog.
The dog ran ahead of the group and was briefly out of sight. Suddenly it was
heard barking furiously and, moments later, seen fleeing with its tail tucked
between its legs. A foul-smelling mist covered the ground and caused the
searchers' eyes to water. The two leading the group, Lemon and Neil Nunley,
who got to the top first, looked down and observed a "big ball of fire" 50 feet
to their right. Another of the witnesses reported it was the size of a house.
To the group's left, on the hilltop and just under the branch of an oak tree,
were two small lights. At Mrs. May's suggestion, Lemon turned his flashlight
on them. To everyone's considerable astonishment, the beam highlighted a
grotesque-looking creature with a head shaped like the "ace of spades," as
several of the observers independently described it. Inside the head was a
circular "window," dark except for the two lights from which pale blue beams
extended straight ahead. In their short observation of the creature, the group
saw nothing that looked like arms or legs.
The creature, which appeared to be over six feet tall, moved toward the
witnesses; it seemed to be gliding rather than walking. Seconds later it
changed direction, turning toward the glowing ball down the hill.
All of this allegedly took place in a matter of seconds, during which Lemon
fainted. The others dragged him away as they ran from the scene.
When interviewed half an hour later by A. Lee Stewart, Jr., of The Braxton
Democrat, most of the witnesses were barely able to speak. Some sought
first aid. Stewart thought there was no question they had seen something
that badly frightened them. Soon afterwards, he was able to get Lemon to
accompany him to the hillside, where Stewart noticed an unusual odor in the
grass that irritated his nose and throat. Returning to the site alone at
seven o'clock the following morning, he found "skid marks" going down the hill
and toward an area of matted grass, indicating the recent presence of a large
object.
The encounter with what the press would quickly dub the "Flatwoods monster"
took place during a flurry of sightings of unusual flying objects in the area.
One man, Bailey Frame of nearby Birch River, told of seeing a bright ball
circling over the area where the monster was reported. The object was visible
for 15 minutes before shooting toward the airport at Sutton, where it was also
seen.
According to one account, a week before the Flatwoods event and 11 miles away,
a Weston woman and her mother encountered the same or a similar creature as
they were driving to church. Both reported it emitted a foul odor, and the
younger woman was so frightened that she required hospitalization. This report
never made the newspapers. It was uncovered by two investigators associated
with the Los Angeles-based Civilian Saucer Investigation.
Skeptics theorized that May and her companions had seen a meteor and an owl,
and only hysteria had caused them to think they had observed anything else.
Nonetheless, when interviewed separately shortly after the incident, the
witnesses told a story investigators found strikingly consistent.
A Joliette, Quebec, woman reported seeing a similar creature as it gazed
through a window of her home in the early morning hours of November 22, 1973.
She roused her husband, who went outside to investigate, finding only a dog,
which acted as if "scared to death." The local police said they thought they
woman was sincere.
MOMO (Missouri Monster)
During the early 1970's in the state of Missouri in the USA, people were terrified with the appearance of the Missouri Monster or "Momo" as it was called for short. Newspapers all across the country reported the frightening occurrences.
It all started happening in and around the small town of Louisiana in northeastern Missouri. Two women were picnicking in July of 1971 in a wooded area north of town when they claimed they started smelling a "hideous stench." Suddenly a large creature they described as "half-man and half-ape" stepped out from a thicket and started walking toward the women. The two women were frightened out of their minds and jumped up when the creature got nearer and started making a "gurgling" sound. The ladies locked themselves in their car and watched as the creature ate a left over peanut butter sandwich and then sauntered back into the woods where it had emerged. The ladies were terrified and reported the occurrence to the Missouri State Police, however they did not reveal the incident publicly until about a year later when many other people had reported sighting the creature.
On July 11, 1972 three children were horrified when they spotted the creature sprinkled with blood and carrying a dead dog under it's arm. The children described the thing as "black and hairy and around 7 feet tall." A farmer reported that his new dog had gone missing on that same day and the talk went wild.
A few nights after the children saw the beast, their father and some friends were in the yard of their home when they saw what they described as a "fireball" fly over a nearby hill and appear to land behind an old deserted schoolhouse. They reported that another "fireball" appeared about 5 minutes later and also apparently went down behind the old school. A little while after this loud growling was heard and seemed to come closer and closer. Nothing could be seen and the police were called, came and were not able to find anything.
After the police left the father and his friends decided to investigate themselves and went up on the hilltop and found an old building which was reeking with a terrible odor. This same odor was noticed by most of the witnesses who reported a Momo sighting. Many of the witnesses claimed to have seen a small light that exploded and left behind the rotten smell.
The Momo scare went on for a couple of more weeks with many other reports claiming to have seen a "hairy beast" which looked like a cross between a human and an ape. The fright in the area grew when witnesses started reporting hearing voices, footprints were discovered several times, more lights were seen in the sky. One report stated that a UFO landed on a hilltop and remained there for hours with windows plainly lighted. And in one bizarre report, a family said they witnessed a "gold cross" which lit up the road "as bright as day."
Beast of Busco: The Giant Turtle of Indiana (U.S.A.)
According to many eye-witnesses, a giant turtle
or turtles were once living in Indiana and may
still be there. The beast or beasts were said to be as big
as a dining room table and weighing up to 500
pounds.
Sometimes called Oscar, the Phantom
Churubusco turtle or the Beast of Busco, this
creature caused a sensation whenever it was
spotted.
Oscar Fulk saw a huge turtle in Fulks Lake near
Churubusco, Indiana in 1898. It was seen again
in 1914. In July 1948 Ora Blue and Charley Wilson
were terrified when they saw it while fishing.
Gail Harris, on whose farm the turtle was spotted,
launched a major effort to catch the animal
in March 1949, employing scuba divers, deepsea
gear, a female sea turtle, a sump pump, and
a dredging crane to drain the lake. The Fort
Wayne newspapers played up the story, and
thousands of people trampled across the farm
looking for the turtle.
On October 13, about 200 people got their wish
as the turtle leaped from the water to try to catch
a duck used as a lure. But by December, the
draining efforts were failing, and Harris fell ill with
appendicitis and called the search off. In 1994,
a documentary film about the event, called The
Hunt for Oscar, was made by Terry Doran.
When a swamp was drained near Black Oak,
Indiana, in July 1950, a huge turtle with a head
as big as a human's was seen swimming around
a drain leading into the Little Calumet River.
Indianapolis News
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