Indeed, while these questions could (and almost certainly will do so in the near future) form the basis for an article in their own right, what we will concentrate on here is just some of the many reported encounters with reptilian entities from across the decades and around the world.

Before we explore just some of the many encounters on record with apparent reptilian entities, it is worth our time to examine the 1982 thought experiments of paleontologist Dale Russell from the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. Russell theorized what might happen if one or more of the dinosaurs had managed to survive the extinction event and then developed in a similar way that mammals had, eventually evolving into an upright-walking humanoid being – essentially, a reptilian humanoid.

Russell and his team looked at dinosaurs that would have had the best chance of surviving the event and then evolving in such a way. They named their speculative evolved being a Troodon, and speculated just how it would have developed. They suggested, for example, that it would have semi-manipulative fingers that would have evolved over time into hands – with fully-working thumbs – similar to human beings that would allow them to grasp and manipulate. The creature would have a larger than usual head to contain its increased-sized brain, and would, ultimately, be highly intelligent. It wouldn’t, however, have mammary glands, and, as such, would likely have nourished its offspring through the regurgitation of food, similar to how birds feed their young. Perhaps the most interesting detail of all, though, was Russell’s theories as to just how these creatures would sound, suggesting that they would have voices or speech with a bird-like quality to it, similar to a bird’s song. It is interesting to note that many people who have claimed to have encountered these strange entities state that their speech – even though they couldn’t understand the language – sounded bird-like.    

Arguably one of the earliest accounts that hints at what we would recognize as a reptilian being dates back to 1770 in Staffordshire, England, and can be found in the book The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries by Hargrave Jennings. According to the account, while digging in a field, a laborer uncovered a bizarre, stone staircase heading deep into the ground. Immediately curious, the man began down the steps, venturing several hundred feet below the ground until he found himself inside a “large underground chamber!” He looked around him, noting that the room was full of “strange objects and large machines!” Even stranger, the room was lit up by a “strange, ever-luminous sphere!” (we might imagine this ever-luminous sphere is some kind of electric light!).

It was at this point that the man suddenly became aware of a figure wearing a hooded robe and sitting in a throne-like chair at the other side of the chamber, watching him. As trivial as this detail might sound, there are many accounts from the modern era of people finding themselves in underground locations with reptilian entities wearing hooded robes. Was this the case here?

Suddenly, without warning, this robed figure stood from the chair and swung a bat-like object that was in one of his hands at the glowing sphere, smashing it to pieces and casting the entire chamber into thick, black darkness. The laborer immediately turned and ran the way he had come, clambering up the stone steps as quickly as he could. After what felt like an eternity, he emerged from the secret tunnel and out into the field. Incidentally, it didn’t take long for word to get around the village of the man’s discovery, and rumors began to swirl that what had been found was a hideout of high-ranking Rosicrucians who “hoarded their scientific secrets” and other advanced technology in such underground lairs. Of course, whether this was the case or whether the figure the laborer happened upon was a reptilian entity remains open to debate.

There are also many accounts of reptilian entities from the modern era. At just after midnight on March 3rd, 1972, in Loveland, Ohio, for example, police officer Ray Shockey was on patrol when he noticed what he thought was a stray dog at the side of the road. He pulled his car to the roadside and went to get out. However, before he could do so, the creature in front of his vehicle jumped to its feet and leaped over a barrier at the side of the road. When the ground where the creature had been seen was investigated a short time later, there were clear signs of “scrape marks” on the embankment. Officer Mark Matthews reported seeing what is presumed to be the same creature – referred to as the Loveman Frogman – two weeks later on the evening of March 17th in almost identical circumstances.

According to an account in the book Unknown Creatures by Robert Benjamin, a decade and a half later, in 1988 in Bishopville, South Carolina, Christopher Davis was driving along a road alongside the Scape Ore Swamp when he realized he had a flat tire and so pulled his vehicle to the side of the road to change it. As he was doing so, he noticed a monstrous reptile-like creature suddenly emerge out of the nearby woodland. He later described this creature as being around seven feet in height with green, scaly skin and hands that were like sharp claws. Davis immediately forgot about changing the tire, got back in the car, and sped away as quickly as he could.

One of the most (relatively speaking) recent encounters surfaced in January 2015 in the San Doong Cave in Vietnam. The cave system in question was first discovered in 1995 and has taken decades to explore, with some regions still largely unexplored by the time it was opened to the public in 2013. These unexplored regions remain off-limits to all but those with specific permission, but a little under two years after the opening, these unexplored regions were thrust into the spotlight. A video appeared on YouTube that appeared to show a reptilian-looking creature lurking in the darkness of the cave. The person who took the video footage claimed that the bizarre-looking entity appeared like a “devil creature” and had a human stance but the face of a “dragon or lizard!”

Even more interesting, around a month after the video appeared, another report appeared online, this time from a former United States soldier who had served in the same region of the country during the Vietnam War. He claimed that at some time in 1970, near the same cave system as shown in the recently released video showing the reptilian entity, he and several members of his unit witnessed an almost identical creature. He described the figure as an “upright lizard humanoid” that stood at least seven feet high. They all opened fire on the menacing creature, but it seemed to disappear into thin air. They made an immediate report to their superiors, but it was, essentially, swept under the carpet, and none of them heard anything more of the incident.  

A particularly intriguing encounter unfolded sometime in late 1999 in Connecticut in the United States. According to an article in the November 7th, 1999 edition of The Hartford Courant-Connecticut News by Christine Dempsey, on the night in question, five young men - 19-year-old Jeremy Sander, 18-year-old Shaun Cyr, 18-year-old Paul Poniatowski, 18-year-old Joseph Robinson, and 23-year-old Todd Silber – were practicing martial arts at Devil’s Hopyard State Park after having just finished a martial arts class in nearby Tolland. The location presented them with clear “open spaces” that allowed them to practice complicated moves away from other people. The evening progressed without incident, to begin with. Then, Poniatowski claimed to have suddenly heard someone “whispering” his name. Of more concern, this strange voice also stated that they should “leave now or join us forever!”

Several moments later, another of the group heard the whispered warnings, and a short time after that, the group decided to leave. As they did so, much to their concern, they heard an ominous, disturbing laughter. The strangest recollection of all, though, was that of Robinson, who claimed that he witnessed a “beast-like demon” sitting on a fence close to where they had been practicing only moments earlier. Poniatowski seemingly backed this up somewhat, claiming that saw a “shadow with a jagged edge!” Then, things turned even stranger. Silber suddenly rose into the air as if he was picked up by a pair of powerful arms before he was thrown through the air as if he were nothing but a rag doll. Only a tree broke his momentum, causing him to crash to the ground. A moment later, he got to his feet, four claw marks clearly visible through his (now) slashed jeans.

The group ran as fast as they could to their car. Once they were on the road, Cyr urged Sander, who was driving, to head to the nearby town of Manchester so that they could visit Reverend David Bowser in light of what they had just seen. He did so, and they arrived at Bowser’s home a little after 2 am. Cyr and Silber immediately got out of the vehicle and raced to the front door of the property. Unfortunately, the evening was about to take an even stranger turn.

Unaware of who was knocking at his door, and why, at such a late hour, Bowser called the police. Officer Scott Ventura arrived a short time later and, understandably, questioned the group as to what they were doing at the reverend’s house so late at night. Unfortunately for them, when the police searched their vehicle, they discovered several of the items they used for their training – items such as a samurai sword, baseball bats, and several knives, all of which could also be viewed as weapons. Ultimately, in part due to the obvious discomfort of Bowser, not to mention the late hour, as well as their unlikely story and Cyr’s increasingly agitated state, Ventura arrested all five of the men. During the exchange, Cyr had even lost consciousness, which his friends attributed to diabetic shock. However, he would later state that Ventura, albeit briefly, appeared identical to the shadowy figure he had seen earlier. They were eventually charged with carrying weapons and disturbing the peace. Just what they had witnessed in the park that night remains a complete mystery.

More recently, in an ancient cave system in northern Austria in 2011, a witness referred to only as “Gregor” was investigating a salt mine when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a surreal situation. He was at a depth of around 150 feet below the ground and was removing chippings from one of the walls for later study when he heard the sound of strange voices close by. He stopped the chipping for a moment and listened in an attempt to locate where the voices were coming from. After several moments, the voices seemed to stop, and Gregor decided to move on to a small chamber in the mine a short distance from where he was standing.

As soon as he stepped inside the chamber, a pungent smell of “something rotting” confronted him. A moment later, the voices began once more. This time, though, they appeared much closer. He instinctively turned to leave the chamber. Before he did, though, he took one last glance toward the other entrance, noticing a light coming from it, as if someone was approaching the room. He quickly made sure he was out of sight but was able to peer around the corner undetected. He was more than shocked to see several “lizard-like creatures” standing upright, exactly as a human would. Even stranger, each of these figures wore the same uniform, from which a large lizard-like tail protruded and trailed behind them. He further recalled that although the language these creatures spoke was “human-like,” it was a language unknown to him. Ultimately, he backed out of the chamber as quickly and quietly as he could, and then left the salt mine.

Another fascinating encounter with underground reptilian entities comes to us from the personal research files of author Cherry Hinkle, whose son, Marc Brooks, 13 years old at the time, found himself in a bizarre and surreal situation in the cave systems around Black Mountain just outside of Henderson in Nevada in 1977. On the day in question, Marc and a friend – “Harry” – were hiking near the cave systems around Black Mountain – and we should remember that this was when the land in the region had no highways or businesses, and was nothing but desert land. As they ventured into one of these caves, though, they suddenly found themselves in a strange, circular chamber. As they examined this chamber, they stumbled upon another opening, one that led somewhere that was so dark the lights from their flashlights could barely penetrate the blackness. Moreover, upon closer examination, although there was a branch ladder on the side of this entrance, it was essentially a shaft that led to an almost vertical drop. Despite all of this, curiosity got the better of the two boys, and they decided to explore further.  

They descended the shaft and began down a deep tunnel. It wasn’t long before they could hear the sound of voices, as well as what sounded like the “distant humming of machines!” Each believing they had stumbled onto some kind of secret mining operation, they continued on, eventually coming to a large, rusty, metal door. Of more immediate concern to the boys was a strange, metallic rod that they found next to the door. It was around a foot in length and had a cap on one end with a strange symbol carved into it. Marc picked up the rod. He expected it to be heavy, but much to his surprise, he found it was very lightweight. He turned the rod over in his hands, intrigued with it, and then placed it through his belt buckle.

At this point, Marc and Harry turned their attention back to the large door. Marc reached for the doorknob, twisting and rattling it several times in an attempt to open it, but it remained steadfastly in place. Moments later, the two boys heard the sound of approaching footsteps as well as bizarre animalistic voices coming from the other side of the door, causing a surge of fear to rise up in each of them. They turned and ran as fast as they could, the sound of the metal door opening coming from behind them. They clambered up the shaft and back into the circular chamber. At this point, both of the boys ran toward the entrance as fast as they could, eventually breaking out of the darkness and into the light of the afternoon. They weren’t sure how far they ran before they stopped to rest and look back. When they did, though, they realized that Marc still had the strange rod they had found near the metal door. It was as they were examining it in awe that a sudden growl-like roar reached their ears.

They quickly spun round to face the way they had just run from. There in the cave entrance was a “large greenish humanoid” – and what’s more, it was heading in their direction. The two boys turned and ran as fast as they could once more. Eventually, Marc’s backyard came into view, and they slowed slightly. However, when they turned around, the humanoid creature was still in pursuit – and was getting closer.  The two boys sped up once more and didn’t slow down until they burst through the door of Marc’s house. As soon as they were inside, Marc turned and locked the door, calling out as he did so, “He’s going to get us – don’t open the door!”

At this point, Marc’s mother, Cherry, ran into the room, gasping when she saw the state of terror both boys were clearly in. As she was taking in the scene before her, Harry suddenly blurted out that the creature outside was “big and looked mean,” also imploring Marc’s mother not to open the door. Still thinking the boys had been spooked by something – or someone – perfectly rational, Cherry told the two boys to get a drink of water while she went to “speak with the man” outside. Each of them insisted that “he’s not a man” and that he would kill them all if she opened the door. Cherry was about to protest once more before Marc stated that the figure outside “looks like a man but his face looks like a snake – like a lizardman!” He also stated that this creature was “naked except for a wide belt with stuff on it!” This last detail of a strange belt is worth highlighting. Not only does it come up a lot in apparent encounters with reptilians, but there are legends of a similar belt (often referred to as a wolfstrap) that can be found in accounts of alleged werewolves. Might we consider if these two creatures – if indeed they do exist in reality – are the same if different manifestations of the same supernatural source? It is certainly something worth keeping on the mental backburner.

Although Cherry now halted her advance to the door, she continued to insist that the creature the two boys had seen was likely someone – perhaps an older boy – wearing a costume as part of a joke or prank. It was only when the two boys admitted they had been in the cave systems of Black Mountain – a location, incidentally, that Cherry had forbidden the boys from visiting – that Cherry ceased her protests, and instead went to the window and peered out. As she did so, Marc continued that the creature had emerged from one of the caves and was so large that it could barely squeeze out of the entrance. Cherry could see no one outside and turned around to speak to the boys once more. When she did, she immediately caught sight of the strange rod the boys had found earlier. She asked the boys what it was, which seemingly reminded Marc that it was attached to his belt. He immediately reached for it and threw it down in fear.

Cherry moved forward to pick up the rod, causing Harry to warn her that it might be dangerous. She reasoned with the boys that they had carried it from the cave to the house and come to no harm, so it was unlikely to be dangerous, before reaching for it and picking it up. She examined it closely, particularly the strange symbols engraved in it. They were seemingly random combinations of circles, triangles, and spirals, although their meaning was beyond any of their comprehension. The metal cap on the top of the rod was rigid and didn’t move, and there was no other obvious “on” switch. Cherry later wrote that she “knew it was not a toy, but (it was) nothing I recognized!”

By this time, it was beginning to get dark outside, and Cherry decided that she and Marc would walk Harry home to ensure he arrived there safely. They did so, and by the time they returned, it was almost midnight. Marc, Cherry noted, was still clearly anxious, repeatedly returning to the window and peering outside. Eventually, the pair retired to bed for the night. The bizarre events, however, were far from over.

At just after 2 am, Marc entered his mother’s bedroom and woke her up, claiming that there was someone – or something – trying to get into his room through his window. At this point, Cherry suddenly felt scared and vulnerable, and the realization that she was alone with Marc and three other children in the house suddenly grew clearer. As quietly and calmly as she could, she reached for a flashlight and made her way to Marc’s bedroom. She crept to the window and reached for the curtain. When she drew it back, she was confronted with a sight she was not prepared for.

There, on the other side of the glass, was a monstrous figure with “a large head with ridges on the top” and “other ridges on his cheekbones!” Moreover, the creature’s eyes were glowing a sickly golden-yellow color. She realized Marc was standing beside her, and each of them stared at the beastly figure as it stared directly back at them. They noticed that one of its large hands was on the glass, noting that it appeared “large, with webbed, rough, gnarly-looking fingers with powerful claws!”

Cherry realized that she was shining the beam of the flashlight directly at the creature’s face. She began to feel even more fright run through her and began looking around the room in an attempt to locate something she could use as a weapon. Although she didn’t know how she knew, she got the impression that the creature realized what her intentions were. It suddenly “turned its head a little as if asking a question!” As it did so, Cherry could clearly see “four pointed teeth” protruding from its mouth. Just as she thought the creature would attempt to crash through the window and launch an attack, it turned and ran from the house, disappearing into the night.

After gathering their thoughts, Cherry and Marc made their way from room to room, checking every window and door as they did so. Cherry noted that the windows in Marc’s bedroom (where they had seen the creature) were particularly high from the ground, telling her that the creature must have been at least seven feet in height.  

They agreed that the creature had likely returned to the house in an attempt to retrieve the metal rod Marc and Harry had brought from the cave. As soon as it was light outside, they drove to the cave in question, and Marc left the rod near the entrance, fearing that if they didn’t return the device, the creature would likely return. Although it isn’t known if the creature retrieved the rod from the entrance, neither Marc nor Cherry had any further encounters with this particular lizard-like humanoid again. Unfortunately, Marc passed away in 1999, but Cherry still lives close to Black Mountain. Although she hasn’t had any further encounters with the apparent reptilian entity, there have been persistent claims from local residents of a strange and bizarre rumbling noise coming from under the ground in the area around Black Mountain.    

Without a doubt, one of the most thought-provoking accounts of apparent reptilian entities can be found in the book A Look Through The Secret Doors by John Macklin. In it, an account is relayed that unfolded in Manila in the Philippines in May 1951 and was a series of incidents that were witnessed by multiple people. On the evening in question, as there had been for several weeks, there was an increased police presence in the city of Manila due to the expectation of “trouble” and general public disturbances. Because of this increased police presence, when Clarita Villanueva experienced one of the most terrifying events of her life, several on-duty police officers were there to witness it after receiving a call to their respective patrol cars about some kind of disturbance in the city.

Several officers made their way to the location and quickly noticed a crowd had gathered on the street. The officers exited their vehicles and made their way to the crowd, fully expecting to find a street brawl underway. However, upon arrival, they could see the events were altogether stranger. As they pushed their way through the crowd, they could see that they were gathered around a young girl who was writhing around in pain on the ground, and making motions as if she were being attacked by an invisible entity. As the officers looked on, they all heard the terrified girl exclaim, “Keep it away from me,” quickly followed by, “Someone help me!” The officers looked on at the bizarre scene in front of them in complete shock as the girl then screamed that her attacker was “biting me to death!”

Then, as if to underscore just how bizarre the events they were witnessing were, claw and bite marks began appearing on the young woman’s arms and neck right before their eyes. After several moments, two of the officers came to their senses, stepped toward the young woman, and reached out to her. They swiftly pulled her from the ground and, uncertain of what to do, they handcuffed her and placed her in their police car. They set off immediately for their police station. Only moments later, the woman once more began to move in a way that suggested, at least to her, an invisible attacker was unleashing another assault. Once they reached the station, they requested that the police doctor examine the young lady, convinced that she must be under the influence of some kind of mind-altering, hallucination-inducing drug.

Dr. Marianna Lara carried out this medical assessment, with her initial conclusion being that Clarita had likely suffered an “epileptic fit!” She advised that they hold the young woman in custody overnight for her own protection, and so she could continue to assess her. The officers took Clarita to a cell and locked the door, leaving her alone inside. To begin with, she sobbed miserably, almost in an attempt to comfort herself. After several moments, however, she suddenly began to scream out loud: “The thing is coming at me. It’s coming through the cell door as if it weren’t there!” She continued that this “thing” looked like a man but had “big, bulging eyes” and appeared to “float in midair!”

Officers rushed to the cell. However, when they opened the cell door, all they found was Clarita alone. They attempted to calm her and then watched in shock as the claw and bite marks appeared on the young woman’s skin as if being made by some kind of invisible beast. Realizing that these already strange events were getting even stranger, the officers requested that Dr. Lara return to the cell, which she duly did. Perhaps as a testament to how strange the officers found the events they were confronted with, they also requested the chief of police, as well as the city’s mayor, Arsenio Lascon, attend the police station. After examining these newly appeared claw and bite marks, Dr. Lara noted that many of them were in places on Clarita’s body that she simply couldn’t have inflicted on herself. All those in attendance agreed that they were witnessing something completely out of the ordinary.  

By this time, Clarita had calmed somewhat, even falling asleep for a short time. Despite the truly surreal nature of the events, and perhaps bizarrely, the police decided to take Clarita to the courthouse the following morning, where she would be charged with vagrancy (a charge of being homeless or of traveling without means of financially supporting oneself – essentially, hitchhiking and sleeping rough). It was during the journey to the courthouse that the bizarre events began once more.

Suddenly, from the back of the police car, Clarita screamed that “the thing” was back. From the front of the vehicle, the officers could see new bite and claw marks appearing on the young woman’s arms and neck; in fact, on any part of her body that was exposed. These unsettling events continued once Clarita was in the courthouse, with several newspaper reporters witnessing them. As this apparent attack reached a climax, Clarita lost consciousness and collapsed to the courthouse floor. She was immediately examined by a doctor, who concluded without doubt that the wounds were authentic and genuine and were not self-inflicted.

It was at this point, with several newspaper reporters already preparing to run a story on these bizarre events in their next respective editions, that the police decided to take Clarita to the hospital so she could be examined more extensively. Dr. Lara and Mayor Lascon, who had been at the courthouse and had seen the events in their entirety, insisted on riding in the same ambulance as Clarita – and during the journey, the disturbing events continued. Now, however, instead of claiming there was one attacker, Clarita stated that a second identical attacker was in the ambulance with the first one. And as if to back up what she was saying, the now familiar claw and bite marks continued to appear on the young girl’s body in front of all those present. Incidentally, both Dr. Lara and Mayor Lascon publicly swore on oath as to what they had seen, with Dr. Lara stating that the events were a “complete mystery” and “something which defies explanation!” She further stated that she was “scared stiff” while witnessing the unnerving events.

Bizarrely, at the very moment Clarita entered the hospital, the attacks suddenly stopped. Despite this, the police remained on guard outside her hospital room in case the strange activity began again. It never did. Clarita remained in the hospital for around six weeks while her wounds were treated and she made a full recovery. Her experience, though, remains largely unexplained.

That said, there is still a lot to contemplate regarding these bizarre and disturbing events. Perhaps the most obvious would be whether Clarita could have somehow caused the wounds to appear on her body herself, perhaps through the power of her subconscious mind, like a bizarre and extreme form of stigmata. Might we consider, for example, that Clarita did indeed hallucinate a monstrous creature attacking her in the street, but her mind believed the hallucination to such a degree that it resulted in genuine wounds? Might this have been why the attacks suddenly ceased once she reached the hospital, simply because she believed she was safe? While that is possible, it is perhaps unlikely.

If not some form of hallucination and consequential stigmata, then, might we consider that Clarita was genuinely attacked by some kind of bizarre, unseen entity, perhaps one that was invisible or even one that attacked from another realm or dimension and, as such, remained unseen by all but its victim. We might also consider that the fear Clarita undoubtedly felt during the episodes helped to feed and strengthen this mysterious entity’s presence, perhaps even resulting in the second creature's appearance.

Perhaps above all else, just what might this brutal and unseen creature have been? The claw and bite marks suggest something beast-like, with many descriptions of reptilians suggesting clawed hands and sharp teeth. It is also interesting to note that many researchers suggest that reptilian creatures – whether through some kind of ability (altering their vibratory rate or frequency) or advanced technology – have the ability to render themselves invisible. Was that the case here? Was Clarita attacked by an invisible reptilian entity in full view of police officers, medical staff, and reporters? It is certainly something we have to consider.

Undoubtedly, one of the most controversial and interesting claims of encounters with reptilian entities is those of Jim Sparks, whose encounters were seemingly connected to an alien abduction he had suffered several years previously. During the early hours one morning in 1988, at around 3:30 am, Sparks suddenly found himself wide awake even though he had no idea what had awoken him. He suddenly became aware of a strange, low-pitched sound – a sound that seemed to be coming from inside his head. It was then that he realized that he couldn’t move and was completely paralyzed. Before he could contemplate this inability to move his arms or legs, he felt a sudden sensation of being pulled downward. Then, he lost consciousness.

He did his best to put the encounter out of his mind – that was, until several years later, in May 1995, when he found himself in the middle of the same kind of encounter. Once more, he blacked out. This time, however, when he awoke, he found himself seemingly floating around 1000 feet above the ground, looking down on what looked to be an abandoned amusement park. He realized he was slowly descending, and when he finally touched down on the ground, he could see several reptilian humanoids standing around him. Each was at least seven feet in height with red, shining diamond-shaped eyes and heads that were between a lizard and a snake.  The creature closest to him, though, sported a grotesque hologram-like human face that had clearly been superimposed.

The next thing Sparks knew, voices began appearing in his head, seemingly from the creature with the hologram-like face. He later recalled that this voice told him that they were a reptilian civilization and that they had been on Earth for a very long time. Moreover, certain government leaders from around the world were aware of their presence and remained in constant contact with their leaders, even reaching agreements regarding their presence on the planet and the decision to keep this presence secret. This communication continued, telling Sparks that part of this agreement was that the reptilian race would hand over advanced technology to world leaders so that they could use it to improve the environment, something they had failed to do on several occasions. There were, though, further revelations.

Sparks claimed that he was informed that much of the planet’s water was contaminated to such a level that plants and wildlife had already been significantly affected. Of more concern, several “significant breaks” had appeared in the human food chain because of “nuclear and biological contamination!” These events, combined with an eventual overpopulation of Earth, would lead to the “end of humanity!” Despite these grim predictions and warnings, this reptilian entity went on to offer details that could lead humanity down a different, more beneficial path. They further stated that certain government leaders were aware of this technology and how it could be used for the betterment of humanity. They also said, however, that most of these government leaders believed that “abundant food” and “clean energy” would be a “security threat” to humanity – make of that what you will.     

Perhaps a last encounter to explore is one that was investigated by David Hodrien of the Birmingham UFO Group in England, which featured a young girl named “Julie” who encountered something truly chilling and strange in 2000. According to the report, at around 9 pm on the night in question, Julie – then only 12 years old – was at home in her bedroom reading a book. As she was doing so, she noticed a sudden movement out of the corner of her eye at the bottom of the bed. She instinctively looked up from her book and was shocked to find herself looking at a black, scaly arm with claws with white talons where the hand should have been. Although she couldn’t see the creature the arm belonged to, she knew that something was at the bottom of the bed, and she knew she wasn’t imagining it. The monstrous arm continued to move across the bed. Then, to her absolute shock, it disappeared into thin air as she was looking at it.

She remained where she was for several moments, not daring to move. Then, when she was certain she was indeed alone, she let out a long breath of air in relief. Despite the truly bizarre nature of the events that had just unfolded, she didn’t feel any fear and simply went back to reading her book. In the days that followed, however, Julie began to increasingly feel a strange presence seemingly waiting outside her room, so much so, that she repositioned her bed so that it faced the door.

Hodrien immediately noticed several interesting details. As soon as he spoke to her, for example, he immediately got the impression that she had definitely seen “something” as opposed to having imagined the encounter – after all, she had stared at the arm for several seconds. Perhaps of more interest was the bizarre positioning of the creature, something which resonates nicely with many other reptilian encounters. The creature was seemingly kneeling at the bottom of Julie’s bed, reaching up with its arm. There are many reports of these strange creatures crouching or lying in an “unusual way” and reaching up towards the respective witness.

We might also consider the notion that there could have been more to the encounter than Julie can remember. Was this a case of alien abduction, for example, one that she could only recall the last several seconds of (when the strange arm was visible at the bottom of the bed)? Might this explain why she was so unnaturally calm despite the surreal nature of the events? Whatever the truth of the strange events that evening, it would be only the first of several that Julie would experience over the coming years.

In 2001, for example, Julie began experiencing many strange, paranormal-like encounters. She began hearing strange footsteps around the house, even though there was no one there. She also regularly heard strange clattering noises that came from nowhere, and doors would often open of their own accord. More unsettling, she often saw strange shadowy figures out of the corner of her eye – figures that always disappeared by the time she turned in their direction. She noticed that these dark figures appeared to be extremely tall, a characteristic often attributed to reptilian entities.

What is further interesting is that Julie was far from the only witness to these bizarre events. Moreover, rather than being confined to the family home, these events could seemingly happen anywhere Julie or her family happened to be. One particular evening, for example, with her mother unable to find replacement childcare, Julie and her brother, Steve, were at the nursing home where she worked. As this was a night shift, Julie’s mother made a bed for the pair on the settee in one of the back rooms and then left them to go about her duties. During the night, Julie woke up to hear her mother comforting Steve, who was crying profusely. When Julie asked what had happened, her mother told her that she had heard Steve screaming in fright, stating that the hoover was moving by itself. When she entered the room, she too had seen the appliance moving even though it wasn’t plugged in. When she nudged it with her foot, it simply stopped. This wasn’t the only strange event connected to the nursing home that Julie experienced.

Several weeks later, a resident of the nursing home that both Julie and Steve were friendly with – Dorothy – passed away. One afternoon in the days that followed, Steve was making his way to the bathroom when he claimed to have seen Dorothy sitting clear as day at their dining room table in the kitchen. Although Julie didn’t see Dorothy, in the days that followed Steve’s sighting of her, she began seeing disturbing shadowy figures in the room, figures that caused her to feel such fear that she didn’t enter the room unless she absolutely had to. As it turned out, as part of Hodrien’s investigation, Julie passed a long recent (2022) text exchange between herself and Steve, during which it became clear that paranormal incidents were rife and they were not limited to just Julie.

He recalled, for example, that he often saw their grandfather in the house, even though he had been dead for many years, as well as, like Julie, hearing strange footsteps coming from rooms in the house that he knew were empty. Of more concern to him, though, and of particular interest to us here, he recalled often seeing a “large, shadowy creature” that wore some kind of “hat or hood!” On one occasion, he even claimed to have seen an unsettling, black, clawed arm, almost identical to the arm that Julie witnessed that evening in 2000.

Another particularly ominous encounter came to light during this text exchange, one that Julie had previously been unaware of. Steve recalled that he had woken early one morning, and could immediately hear their father speaking to someone downstairs. He continued to listen for around 10 minutes when the conversation came to a sudden stop. At this point, Steve got out of bed and made his way downstairs. When he walked into the room where his father was sitting, he could see the look of confusion on his face. He asked Steve why he was back in the room, claiming he had just been speaking to him for the last 20 minutes. Was this “other Steve” the reptilian entity, and had it assumed his form? There are many accounts that state reptilians can do exactly that. Taking this further, could this explain the sightings of Dorothy, as well as Steve and Julie’s grandfather?

On another occasion, Steve was at home watching television while their father was sitting at the family computer. Suddenly, random items started landing near where he was sitting on the settee, and he began hearing his name being whispered. He thought it was his father playing a prank on him and told him to stop. It was immediately clear to him, though, that his father didn’t know what he was talking about, and had not thrown items at him, or whispered his name. Then, the sound of his name being called came again, and this time, his father heard it also, causing him to “turn white” with fear.  

Although several strange events occurred in other locations, as the years went on, Julie began to question if the family home was somehow crucial in understanding the strange events, not least when she learned that other people had had strange encounters on the property before she or her family had lived there. Several years after the incidents began, with Julie now a young woman and working as a barmaid in a local pub, she learned of such a person. Moreover, this person told Julie that all the while they lived there, they witnessed “strange goings-on!”

She also had another friend named Timothy, and by chance, discovered that his mother had also lived in the house years previously. Timothy recalled that she also experienced many strange events and happenings while living there, including seeing a strange, shadowy figure standing in her bedroom one evening. All she could recall of the incident was feeling sheer terror and that the figure watched her for a significant amount of time.

A mutual friend of Julie and Steve’s – Rob, who had recently passed away at the time the report was made – also became intertwined in the strange activity at the house, seemingly from beyond the grave. In the weeks following their friend’s passing, Julie began to experience strange, intense dreams. They were always the same and featured Rob walking into her bedroom and sitting on the bed. Julie had these dreams so often that she began to consider if they were not dreams at all but some kind of visitation. Once more, we might consider if this apparent reptilian entity had assumed the form of Rob following his death. One evening, she asked Steve to stay awake and sit in her room while she slept to see if a ghostly apparition did indeed walk in. In another bizarre twist, during the night, Steve was amazed when Rob did indeed walk into the bedroom and sit on the bed before disappearing. In a similar way to Julie’s first encounter, rather than being scared, Steve simply turned his attention back to the computer following the sighting.

In the summer of 2002, however, things took a much more ominous turn. She began to have a different recurring dream, even more intense than those involving Rob. This time, she could see two young girls who appeared to be in a warehouse, tied to a radiator. On some occasions, she even dreamt that the girls were on fire. She eventually spoke to her mother about the disturbing dreams. Between them, and it is important to note that this is pure speculation on Julie and her mother’s part, they contemplated whether the dreams were connected to the (then) missing Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman (who were eventually discovered murdered). It is claimed that following their murders, their bodies were partially burned in an effort to destroy evidence. Whether this connection is accurate or not (both Julie and her mother were fully aware of the missing girls at the time) remains open to debate.

By 2016, with Julie now in her 20s and working at a local hospital, the bizarre events would follow her there. One particular evening, Julie was on shift when one of the patients in her ward passed away. It was around 2 am by the time family members who had been at the recently deceased patient’s bedside had left. Julie and another member of staff began wrapping the body, ready for collection, so it could be taken to the morgue. As they were doing so, Julie happened to glance at the mirror on the wall. She almost physically recoiled in horror when she saw her reflection with a tall, shadowy figure behind her, moving from one side to the other. Moreover, she could hear a “shuffling sound” coming from the floor behind her, suggesting that something was physically moving.  

Julie instinctively moved back away from the movement. As she did, she caught the look on the other nurse’s face – a look that told her she could also see the shadowy figure. A moment later, both of them stopped what they were doing and ran out of the room. They stood in the corridor for around 15 minutes, not daring to go back into the room. When they eventually plucked up the courage to do so, the figure, whatever it was, was no longer there. They quickly finished preparing the patient’s body as quickly as they could, and then rushed out of the room to fill out the necessary paperwork. However, they soon discovered that one of the forms they required had been left in the room with the deceased. Julie returned to the room to retrieve it and was more than shocked to find that the wrapping had been torn away from the dead patient’s body, leaving his head fully exposed. Although no further incidents occurred that evening, both Julie and her fellow nurse were left unsettled by the events.

Several years later, in 2021, yet another bizarre encounter occurred, once more at the hospital where Julie worked. It was around 1 am on the night in question, and Julie was transferring a patient from one ward to another when she suddenly noticed a strange, shadowy form of a young woman with startling blond hair moving towards the sink in the room. At first, Julie believed it was one of the patients currently on the ward who had a similar appearance. When she turned around to face the figure fully, however, it was no longer there. She turned to face the other nurses in the room – each of them had seen the mysterious apparition also. What’s more, all agreed that the figure looked like the patient on their ward. Was this another case of this reptilian entity assuming the form of a person Julie would recognize? And if so, for what purpose? Perhaps one thing to consider is whether this reptilian entity – if that is what it was – was somehow using the fear it caused in Julie to nourish or feed itself. While that might sound bizarre to some, many researchers have suggested that reptilians, like poltergeists and other spirits, require fear and other negative emotions to build strength and manifest. Whatever the truth, the events have continued for over two decades.

As we can see, then, while the subject of reptilian entities is problematic for many people – even those inside conspiracy and UFO circles – the fact is there are so many documented encounters from people around the world and across the decades that it would be bordering on irresponsible to dismiss such claims without further research and investigation. While it might be a leap too far to imagine V-like beings walking among us, considerations of a subterranean indigenous reptilian species sharing the planet discreetly are perhaps more realistic, if, ultimately, unlikely. As long as reports of these reptilian creatures continue to surface – whether contemporary reports or ones made public retrospectively – we should continue to document, research, and investigate them in the hope that one day we will gain a collective understanding of just what lies at the heart of such fascinating, if bizarre, incidents and reports

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In May of 1950, Architect Enrico Carotenuto Bossa, 46, was driving home from a business trip in the region of Epu Pel La Pampa when his attention was captured by a silvery metallic object on the ground ahead. As he approached it, he noticed strange details, such as portholes and a translucent cupola, and when he got nearer he decided to stop his car and examine the thing. He got out of the car and as he approached on foot he could see that the object was saucer-shaped and that it had an open portal on its side. Now most people would have backed out of there at this point, but not Bossa. He instead made the brash decision to climb in through the doorway, and it was a decision he would probably live to regret. 

Within the saucer-like craft, he was immediately hit with a strong odor like ozone and garlic pervading the gloom. As he inched his way into the dim interior he realized that he was in a circular room lined with a row of portholes, very thick, glazed with some transparent material resembling Plexiglas. At the center of the cabin, which was about 3.5m in diameter, was a strange kind of chair occupied by a man around 1.2 to 1.4 m tall, dressed in a lead-gray coverall; his round head, with sparse light-colored hair resting on his chest. Bossa warily approached and could now see that the being’s well-formed hands were “a light tobacco-brown color,” and were tightly gripping two handles that emerged from a black box in front of it. The body looked human, but the eyes were very large and glassy-looking, with dilated pupils that took up almost the whole eye. 

Further proving that he just didn’t know when to get out of there, Bossa reached out and poked the thing’s arm, finding it to be cold and rigid, and he also ran his hand along the being’s suit, which seemed to be made of a material akin to leather. It was only after examining the consoles in front of this dead creature that Bossa noticed there were two others slumped against the walls, both dead as well. He also noticed that there were four chairs in the room, so he began to wonder where the fourth alien was, assuming that it had probably survived and left via the open portal doorway. It was at this point that he was seized by an ill-defined sense of dread, and he backed back out of the craft to the ground below.

Once on the ground, Bossa felt dizzy from breathing normal air again, realizing how difficult to breathe and how heavy the air had been inside the object. Back at his car, he found that the motor wouldn’t start and that the car’s battery had inexplicably been drained dry. With much effort, he was able to finally get it started and went back to tell his friends what he had seen. Interestingly, rather than telling him to lay off the grappa, they went back to the site with him but the craft was no longer there, in its place a pile of smoking silver-red ashes. At that moment the men looked up to see a saucer identical to the one Bossa had encountered, flying over them at an estimated height of 600 meters, with a second identical object hovering above it. Both of these UFOs then headed towards a larger cigar-shaped ship not far away, which they entered and which then made its way out of sight. Bossa claimed to have taken a photo of this, although it is not clear what happened to this picture. Was there any truth to any of this?

In that same year, we have the case of a respected doctor by the name of Enrique Caretenuto Botta. As a seemingly reliable witness, Dr. Enrique Caretenuto Botta has impeccable credentials. A decorated ex-war pilot with a sterling educational history and research record in aeronautical engineering, he was highly sought after by many firms in his native land of Venezuela. In 1950, the then 40-year-old Botta was working at an architectural engineering firm based in Caracas, which had sent him on a business trip to Argentina to work on an ambitious construction project out in the countryside of Buenos Aires. To get to and from the project, he commuted through the sparse rural landscape outside of what at the time was the fairly small city of Bahía Blanca, and it was during one of these drives that he would have a bizarre experience that would change his life forever.

The drive was typically mundane, the area only sparsely inhabited and not much to see out past the windshield and the hypnotizing repetitive landscape flashing by, making it easy to get lost in one’s thoughts. Yet on this evening, his thoughts would be intruded upon by something very anomalous out on a field along the empty road ahead. It appeared to be some sort of metallic, disc-shaped object sitting right on the grass of the field, and it was such an unexpected enough site that Botta slowed down and then stopped his vehicle to get a closer look. His first thought was that it was somehow an aircraft that had come down to land out in that remote expanse, but as he drew closer he could see that it was no ordinary helicopter or plane. When curiosity compelled him to get out of the car and walk closer, he could see that the object was made of a very strange material that appeared metallic but was somewhat spongey and “rubbery” to the touch. After circling the bizarre thing for a few minutes and gliding his hand along this weird surface, Botta claims that he then came to an opening. At this point, he was more curious than scared and decided to go inside.

Once within the mysterious craft, he allegedly saw just a plain metal corridor with a lone blinking red light at the top of the domed top above. As he continued, that flickering red light illuminated a room that had control panels adorned with various blinking lights, knobs, meters, buttons, and switches, the whole of it hovering over a transparent sphere, but this dancing light also outlined what appeared to be a curved divan with four seats. Botta warily approached until the blinking lights revealed to him the outlines of what appeared to be three small, almost child-sized figures only about four feet tall sitting there in the seats motionless. At this point Botta could not see them clearly because of the wavering lighting and the fact that he was behind them, so he crept closer to the figures, wondering who they could possibly be, and as he did he could see that whoever they were they were dressed in some sort of tight-fitting grey coveralls. Botta called out to them but got no response, so he gave into the overwhelming urge to reach out and touch the shoulder of one of them. When he did, he claims that he could feel that the body was rigid and that their skin had a “charred texture.” It seemed that these individuals, whoever or whatever they were, were dead. This was enough to strike Botta with a jolt of fear that sent him scurrying back outside to get into his car and speed off.

When Botta got back to the hotel that he had been staying at, he excitedly told two of his associates about what had happened, and they decided to head back out there the next morning to check it out. When they arrived, the strange craft was gone, and in its place was a large pile of what appeared to be ash. When one of Botta’s companions touched this ash, his hand supposedly turned promptly purple much to the man’s alarm, and that’s when they saw a strange display in the sky above. According to Botta, there were three unidentified objects up there, two discs and a larger cigar-shaped object. These strange objects hovered above them for a few minutes, before suddenly seeming to merge into one, after which this single object emanated a red light and sped off at breathtaking speed to leave them standing there dumbfounded. Botta would claim that for several days after this bizarre incident, his friend’s hand would remain purple where he had touched the pile of ash, and that he himself was plagued by fever and unexplainable blisters and what was like a sunburn on his skin. Doctors were allegedly unable to find any rational cause for these physical symptoms. Dr. Botta would keep the bizarre incident to himself for years before telling it to a man named Horacio Gonzales G., who in turn passed it along to UFO researcher Leon Stringfield, and the report would feature in Stringfield’s book Situation Red.

It is frustrating that this is where the case stands. Only one witness, no matter how seemingly reliable, just doesn't seem to cut it in this day and age. We are left to ask, just what happened to him out there? What were those creatures he saw, and were they really dead? Did their friends perhaps come to retrieve them, and perhaps that is what Botta and his friends saw? How did they end up dead to begin with? What was the pile of ash left behind? Did any of this happen in any sense at all? It is a rather eerie and spooky account, and as with many others like it, there are no real answers.

In 1962 there were several odd reports of alien encounters in quick succession. On May 26, 1962, a woman in the sparsely populated rural province of la Pampa, claimed to have seen a strange bright disc land, out of which lumbered a hulking “robot-like apparition.” The robot seemed to be collecting samples of soil, and when it realized it was being watched it stared at the woman with an inscrutable gaze for some time before entering its craft and shooting off into the sky. The woman’s husband witnessed the disc depart as well, and the woman was supposedly so traumatized by the incident that she was taken to a mental institution for treatment. 

In July of that same year, a 17-year-old youth by the name of Ricardo Limeres was riding his motorcycle along a lonely rural dirt road at night in the vicinity of Parana, Argentina, when out of the gloom a strange-looking figure appeared in the glow of his headlight. Ricardo was startled and tried to swerve and ride away, but apparently, his motorcycle would not obey him, instead being drawn towards the mysterious stranger. The vehicle stopped right in front of the enigmatic being, which the witness could now see stood over six feet tall and had a head “in the shape of a melon” with three eyes. This bizarre entity reportedly tried to grab Ricardo, before ambling off in a robotic manner that was “scarcely human” towards a bright white light in the distance, leaving deep tracks in its wake. The following month there was another strange encounter from the same area, when on August 21 a medical doctor saw a disc with a halo in the sky as he was driving towards the city of Parana with his wife. Right after he saw this UFO he noticed two beings over six feet tall, with light hair and huge eyes, which were carrying “luminous objects” on their foreheads, with which they made signals for the car to halt. The doctor did not halt, instead tearing off into the night in a panic, as most people in their right minds probably would. What exactly was going on here? In October of that year, there was yet another weird alien encounter reported from Argentina, this time from an area between a place called Isla Verde and Monte Maiz. The report was given to police by truck driver Ernesto Donles, who would say of what happened:

“I was driving my truck to Isla Verde when a luminous object – apparently a spaceship – surrounded by light of blinding brilliance, came down near me. Three very tall beings, dressed in strange clothes and carrying unknown kinds of weapons, came down out of it towards me. I lost control of my vehicle and drove into a ditch, but I finally got back onto the road and kept on driving at high speed. The three creatures kept coming after me. A blinding red light came out of their craft. The creatures followed me for about a mile and a half. When I finally arrived in the outskirts of the town of Monte Maiz, they suddenly stopped the persecution. They then got back into their craft, which disappeared into the distance.”

The report was corroborated by several residents of the area, who also claimed to have seen a flying object that had let off a blinding bright light that had dazzled them. Argentina certainly isn’t the only place where such encounters were going on in the 1960s. On December 12, 1962, a peace officer in Milan, Italy by the name of Francesco Piania was doing his rounds of inspection when he suddenly heard a whistling sound behind him. He would say of what happened next:

“At first I thought it was my ears, but the noise grew louder. As I was going to leave the courtyard I saw a silver-aluminum disc, shining under the moon’s rays, landing. I turned abruptly and stood paralyzed with emotion. I saw a strange being about one meter (3’3″) tall coming out of the disc. His space suit looked silver- fluorescent and emitted a bluish light. He was wearing a black helmet and made a gesture toward the dome or turret rising above the disc. Another person appeared at a porthole. The first man looked at me and then signaled for me to come toward him. At that moment the other being signaled him, and he reboarded the disc and the engine flew off.”

Strange, indeed. We also have the tale of Orlando Jorge Ferraudi, who a few years later in 1965 was out fishing on the northern coast of Argentina when he had an experience he would never forget. He claims that he suddenly felt as if he were being watched, and when he turned around he saw a very tall humanoid entity, standing 7 feet tall, with pale skin, light-colored eyes, and wearing some sort of shiny, yellowish one-piece outfit. The being seemed to know that Farraudi was scared, and tried to ease him through telepathic messages. Farraudi would say:

“It was a very dark night. This being was telling me mentally ‘Take it easy. Don’t be afraid. You mustn’t be scared.’ Then he turned around, taking my arm, and placed some kind of powder box on top of the wall. When opened, this box gave off a phosphorescent luminosity which enabled me to see more details. The entity’s garb was of a yellow-mustard color, had no wrinkles, zippers, or buttons, and it had a hood at the back of the head. He was repeating ‘Don’t be afraid, you will come with me, we will take a long trip..”

The being then fiddled with his box for a moment and a large craft like “an inverted saucer” approached from the water, coming closer until it was hovering right in front of them. A door then opened and a ramp distended to them, upon which the tall entity gestured towards the opening. He found himself almost in a trance as he obediently entered the craft to find a young human woman about 18 years of age within, who also told him not to be afraid and that the alien was their friend. She told him that her name was Elena and that she too had been whisked away aboard this ship not long before. The being then had them change clothes into a type of jumpsuit, and they were told that they would be going underwater to travel across the ocean to Africa.

Farraudi claims that along the way they stopped off at an immense underwater dome, which housed some sort of base, which he was told was for “reconditioning the ships,” and he was also told that there were various experiments carried out here. According to the alien, Earth was a sort of zoo, and most life on Earth had come from them doing genetic experiments. They were fed some sort of tasteless red, yellow, brown and green eggs, after which they were placed on some kind of stretchers and both fell into a profoundly deep sleep. When they woke up, they were told that the “results of the test” were good. They were informed that their pineal glands had been “reactivated,” and that this would enable them to receive mental messages from the aliens. They were then given loads of information on the alien home planet and how the ship worked, as well as various philosophical musings, and then Farraudi woke up back on the beach where he had started, at first without any memory of what had happened.

On October 28, 1973, a truck driver by the name of Dionisio Llanca was driving in the vicinity of  Bahia Blanca along with a load of construction equipment to be delivered to Rio Gallegos, a two-day trip. At some point on his drive, one of his tires ran out of air along a cold, windswept road in remote territory and Llanca grudgingly climbed out into the frigid night to change it. This is where things would get weird, and he would later explain what happened next as follows:

“I braked the truck on the shoulder, got down, took out the jack and the tools, and began to change the tire. The road was completely deserted. All at once, the road was illuminated with an intense yellow light that seemed to be about 2,000 meters distant. Because of the color, I thought that they might be the headlights of a Peugeot and continued with my work. A few seconds passed and I had my shoulder to the light but it became so bright that it lighted the whole area.

Now the light had changed to a bluish color similar to an electric arc welder. I tried to get up but could not rise; I had no strength, and a strange thing – – my legs would not respond. I was on my knees. I wanted to get up and look towards the woods that grew along one side of the road. Then I saw a great thing in the form of a plate suspended in the air at some seven meters altitude, and three persons at my shoulders looking at me. I tried once more to get up but could not. The paralysis became total and I could not even talk. The three beings stood looking at me for a long time, perhaps five minutes. They were two men and a woman. The woman was between the two men. I believed it was a woman because of the form of the breast and the long hair, blonde, reaching to the middle of her shoulders.

The men were also blond with shorter hair in the back. The three were about the same height, one meter and 70 or 75 centimeters, and dressed in the same manner: single piece smoky gray coverall suits well fitted to the figure, % yellow boots and long gloves reaching to the middle of the arm of the same color. They had no belts, nor weapons, nor helmets nor anything else. Their faces were like ours except for high foreheads and elongated eyes, like the Japanese and a little tilted.

They talked among themselves in a language impossible for me to understand. They had no vocal inflections but sounded like a…… like a radio badly tuned with chirps and buzzes. One of them grabbed me by the neck of my sweater and lifted me firmly but without violence. I tried to talk but my voice would not come out. While the one held me up another put an apparatus in the base of my index finger on the left hand. They looked closely at the apparatus. It was like a razor but had a small tube. They applied it to me for several seconds. It did not hurt. When they left I had two drops of blood on my finger. I believe I then passed out because I can remember anything else.”

When he snapped awake he was unsure of how long he had been unconscious. When he looked around was was surprised to see that he was now among the rail cars in the yard of the Sociedad Rural de Bahia Blanca, exactly 9 kilometers 600 meters from the point where the bizarre encounter had taken place. He could remember nothing, not even his name, nor the episode, nor the truck, nor his home. He stumbled along towards the road and a Doctor Ricardo Smirnoff would recall:

“I am a forensic surgeon. I had rotating duty on Sunday the 28th. About 9:30 Dr. Altaperro at the Spanish Hospital called me and said that he had a curious case. I arrived at the hospital about 10:15 and saw a young man of about 25 or 26 years of age in a state of total amnesia. He could remember nothing of his past. He did not know who he was, where he was born, who his parents were or anything about his past. He cried continually and asked what town he was in. The doctor told me that a man had left him at the hospital after encountering him wandering in the center of the city, like a robot, and asking everyone he met where a police box was. At first, he thought that he had had an automobile accident on the road. He changed this as he had no injuries. When I touched his head or came near his hand he drew back instinctively as though it would produce pain. He had a bad headache in the right parietal temporal area. I notified the police and had him admitted to the Municipal Hospital.”

There he would wake the next morning with a full memory of his identity and what had happened to him. He quickly realized that some odd items were missing from his pockets, such as his watch, cigarette lighter, and cigarettes, which the medical staff denied taking. When he asked about his truck he was told that the police had found it parked on a shoulder in Villa Bordeu, some 18 kilometers from Bahia Blanca, with the jack still in place and one tire ready to change as if nothing had happened. It is still unknown what happened to Llanca during his bout of missing time, and after this, he was mostly reticent to give interviews about his experience, so it will likely always remain a mystery.

On January 4, 1975, a man by the name of Carlos Alberto Diaz was walking home from work in Bahia Blanca on a route that took him through a large and desolate railroad yard. As he walked he was suddenly blinded by a brilliant light shooting down from the overcast sky, which was enough to disorient him and render him unable to see anything. Scared, he stumbled towards his nearby home but found his movements getting slower and slower, as if he were moving through water until he was completely paralyzed and unable to move at all. At that point, Mr. Diaz heard a humming sound which he compared to the sound of rushing air or wind, and his strange experience continued.

He would claim that he had been lifted off the ground by an unseen force, and as he rose higher he lost consciousness. When he came to, he was inside a smooth, bright sphere that appeared to be semi-transparent plastic. There was no furniture or devices and the illumination seemed to come from the walls. As he sat there trying to process what was happening, a procession of three completely outlandish creatures entered the room. They appeared to be 1.75-1.80 meters in height (approximately 5 feet, 10 inches), their heads half the size of a human head and completely devoid of features – no ears, nose, mouth, or eyes. The head was mossy green in color and the body which was rather thin, was covered with something Diaz defined as rubber – light cream colored and very soft, and the creatures were completely hairless. The arms were almost straight and very flexible and ended in “stumps” with suckers attached rather than hands and fingers.

These entities gathered around him and began pulling clumps of hair from his head, which seemed to make them so happy that they were practically jumping up and down in joy. Oddly, the hair-pulling seemed to cause no pain. Diaz continually tried to fight back against these outlandish creatures but was completely helpless and unable to move at all. When the beings were done pulling his hair, Diaz began to feel dizzy and once again lost consciousness. 

When he woke, he was lying on the grass near a highway with his bag and his belongings lying beside him. Diaz looked at his watch which had stopped at 3:50, the time he last noted before his experience began. A concerned driver soon pulled over to ask him if he needed any help, and after hearing Diaz’s surreal story, he was taken to the Ferroviaro Hospital in Buenos Aires. For the next four days, Diaz was questioned and purportedly examined again and again by 46 different doctors, which turned up no evidence of physiological or psychological problems in Diaz, except the illness described as dizziness, upset stomach, lack of appetite, and the missing hair. Considering that he would talk very little about his strange experience, it is hard to know just what is going on here, although it has been suggested that this was likely a hoax. Whatever the case may be, it is damn strange all the same.

Moving along to 1978, we have the case of Mrs. Leonor Beatriz, of La Dulce, Argentina. On August 31 of that year, Leonor was taking a shower when there was a sudden blackout. After getting dressed the blackness was then intruded upon by a bright light coming from outside, which was so intense that she would explain it as “going right through my body.” The phenomenon was like a compact beam of light, iridescent white that poured through the window blinding her. She would even describe the light as actually phasing through the walls of the house. When she was able to regain some of her vision she looked outside to see a large dark object suspended, oscillating, over a group of 6 silos located some 30 meters away from the house. 

Leonor decided to wake up her husband, who also saw the spectacle and the two noticed that the object was moving away from the silos to pause over a grove of trees. They could see that the object was around 8 meters in diameter, with a row of 10 luminous rectangular windows that surrounded the object’s central section, each of them emitting brilliant light. As they looked on, two objects resembling lightbulbs broke away from the larger ship and moved towards the two astonished witnesses. They could see that these were some sort of amorphous entities that came down to hover just over the ground. Their movements were continuous but rigid. When they reached the barbed wire fence, the beings avoided it by rising in the air and descending on the other side, continuing their march. The entities came close to a shed that contained machinery and vehicles. They made a 90-degree turn and entered a space between the shed and wire fencing. They disappeared for a few moments and then reappeared, dodging other obstacles such as the eucalyptus tree stand and a timber chute with a brick floor, measuring 2 meters wide and 13 meters long.

The creatures proceeded to circle the same route several times, seemingly focusing mostly on the shed. The entities then ascended into the air to rejoin the craft before speeding away into the night. An examination of the area turned up no footprints or physical traces of the strange intruders. Interestingly, this encounter would coincide with several other UFO sightings in the same area on the same day. What was going on here?

Also from 1978 is a case that started in a rural ranching area of Venado, Tuerto, where on the morning of September 6th, 1978, 12-year-old Juan Pérez went out to gather up some of their grazing horses that were wandering out in the fields. The boy dutifully rode his horse out into the nearby field where the horses were, passing some uncommonly thick fog along the way, and as he rode he would claim that he saw several silver, disc-shaped craft suddenly fly overhead. Not only this, by the strange objects then began illuminating the fog with beams of multicolored light and an eerie glow, which caused Juan’s horse to panic and buck, threatening to throw him off. This was all weird enough that the frightened boy returned home, but his father was angry with him for not fulfilling his duty and so sent him out again into that mist, and here is where things would get even weirder still.

Juan managed to get out to the field again without incident, but it was here that he would come across quite a strange sight, in the form of a large flying saucer sitting right there in the field as if it had every business in the world being there. The large disc was described as being domed, with round portholes lining its side, and although Juan was scared, he could not take his eyes off the otherworldly sight before him. As he stood there dumbfounded and gawking at the alien object, a door slid open to extend a ladder and then disgorge a huge, 7-foot-tall entity from within. This entity was wearing a metallic suit, oversized gloves, and a cylindrical helmet, with a tube extending from it to the craft behind it, possibly some sort of breathing apparatus, and it raised an arm to gesture for Juan to approach.

Amazingly, Juan did not run away, but rather got off his horse and approached the strange humanoid figure, with which he ascended into the bowels of the craft itself. The first thing the boy noticed was that everywhere he looked was covered with blinking and flashing instrument panels, and while this didn’t scare him at first that would change as he went deeper into the ship. He came across a room in which there seemed to be a dead animal lying sprawled out upon a table, either a cow or a horse, Juan couldn’t be sure which, half gutted, and hunched over this macabre carcass there was some sort of mechanized being, seemingly hard at work dissecting it. This was shocking enough that Juan ran back outside, where he was once again confronted with that tall humanoid figure. The being then offered one of his gloves as proof of the encounter, taking it off to reveal a clawed, reptilian hand, and as Juan took the glove it pricked his arm to draw blood.

This seemingly aggressive action by the creature and the revelation that its hand was so freakishly inhuman caused Juan to freak out, hopping on his horse and riding back home as fast as he could. As he did so, the ship reportedly detached some sort of metallic orb, which chased the boy, hovered over him, and sucked the glove up into itself, after which it flew off. When Juan returned home, he did so without that physical evidence, but he nevertheless told his family all about what had happened. The mention of the dead animal was very odd, as the father had found a dead and mutilated cow on the property not even a week before, and making it even more mysterious was that the horse Juan had been riding would inexplicably fall ill and die just a few days later.

No one ever would really believe Juan’s story, and he would become the object of ridicule, ending up a recluse living out on his farm alone and with only some dogs to keep him company. However, it made the rounds in the news enough that it caught the attention of famed UFO researcher Jacques Vallee, who would investigate it all, interview the witness, and write of the case in his 1990 book Confrontations – A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact. It would also become the main subject for a documentary by Argentinian filmmaker Alan Stivelman, entitled Witness of Another World (Testigo de Otro Mundo ), which has been widely touted as one of the best UFO documentaries out there. Stivelman would say of his film:

“In the beginning, I proposed to make this film in order to decode the mystery behind the UFO phenomenon. This mission was overshadowed by the acute sadness that Juan brought with him and the desire to understand why he had to have lived through that supernatural experience that marked him for the rest of his life. It was there, as a filmmaker, that I had to make a crucial decision for the rest of the shooting. To continue with the investigation of the UFO phenomenon, to stay only in the phenomenological aspect, or to attend to Juan, to his suffering, and to look for a way to help him.”

The case of Juan Pérez is especially interesting not only in its bizarre elements but also in who it happened to. This was a simple rancher out in Argentina, who was mostly illiterate and who just wanted to work hard in his own little world away from the big cities of civilization. He was far removed from the world of UFOs and all of that strangeness had no reason to make up such an absurd tale, and indeed it caused him a great amount of trouble and ridicule, which made him pretty much a hermit for life. Why would he do this? It must be noted that despite the hardships it caused him, Juan has never deviated from his story and insists it is all true, and Vallee notably proclaimed that he found Juan to be a very sincere and reliable witness who at least truly believed what he was saying of his otherworldly experience. What happened to Juan Pérez on that strange evening? We may never know for sure, but it remains a remarkable case in the realm of alien abduction cases.

In later years we come to the year 2007, with a report from the town of Irene, in the Coronel Dorrego district of Argentina. On November 7, 2007, two police officers, Luis Bracamonte, a first lieutenant, and Osvaldo Orellano, a sub-lieutenant from the same police station were on patrol in a rural area outside of town at one and a half hours past midnight. At some point, they stopped and Orellano got out of the police pickup truck to take a look around when an odd series of events unfolded. Bracamonte would say of what happened:

“At that time I was loading a telephone calling card into my cellphone, and for that reason, I remained in the vehicle. While I stared at the phone in my hand, I saw a small light, like that of a pickup truck approaching, but when I saw that it was closing in quickly, the light became larger as though from a large gray pickup truck. I wasn’t disturbed by the scene, but at a distance of 10 meters I saw a shape moving and my first thought was that it was a dog. Then I saw that it was a silhouette, like that of a little man, standing approximately 80 centimeters tall, with a large head, large prominent gray eyes, and a greenish cast. I then tried to dial my fellow officer’s cell phone, but when I pressed the 1 and the 5, my hand remained sort of static. I could see that three more creatures came out of that vehicle or craft, two similar to the first and a fourth with a slightly more robust appearance. At that time, my partner was seeing the same thing I was seeing and shouted, “what’s going on?!” In a flash, the four little men boarded that craft again and it took off swiftly toward the north, scattering a white light that extinguished itself, leaving behind a green halo and a strong odor of sulfur or gunpowder, making a sound like a thunderclap.”

Several residents would confirm the police officers' testimony, claiming having seen a strange glow that surrounded the towns of Irene and Aparicio at the time in question. Considering this account was given by police officers, considered to be traditionally reliable witnesses, could there be anything to this?

In 2009, there was a report from an unnamed young woman, 23, who lives in a house in Florencio Varela along with her husband and child. The woman claims that one evening they went to bed as usual only for her to wake up to the sight of 14 aliens surrounding their bed staring at them silently. These aliens were described by the witness:

“They were practically alike. The only difference was the height of one of their number. They were skinny, with long necks and small heads. Their eyes were black, like almonds, slanted, and their mouths were also small. They had little wrinkles on their face and the head was oval. They had shoulders; their fingers were long and had no nails. The tall one was looking at my husband all the time. His head was slightly smaller than the others because the small ones had rather larger heads. It felt like touching a baby’s skin – they had little wrinkles, but I couldn’t feel them when I touched one of them. The skin was cold and the color was odd, neither white nor gray. They had a skin tone that doesn’t exist here.”

The woman would describe what happened next as follows:

“I never had an experience of this sort. It happened two and a half months ago. We were in bed – my husband, my baby and me. They were asleep and I was trying to fall asleep. Suddenly I felt lights, and when I opened my eyes there was nothing there. I closed my eyes again, and the same thing happened. Like a flash of light. I opened my eyes, but all I could see was the [pilot light] on the stove. The fourth time that this happened, I felt it closer. I opened my eyes and saw the beings standing beside me. I was lying between my husband and my daughter. I uncovered myself and sat up. They were around the bed, fourteen of them, all of them short except for one: this last one was beside my husband, staring at him fixedly. The small ones were all around and measured 1.30 meters or so. They were slightly taller than my bed’s sommier, which is rather tall.

I tried to wake my husband up. I even dug my nails into him, but nothing. The baby was on the other side, on her stomach, but neither of them reacted. At that time, one of the beings told me not to wake up my husband, because he was not ready. I  realize that they spoke to me telepathically, and I could answer them in the same way.”

These aliens then proceeded to telepathically tell her, among other revelations, that the aliens visit our planet on six-month rotations, and are replaced by a new group, that the circles and shapes that appear on the fields are signals they employ among themselves, and finally they explained that there are dozens of civilizations from other planets that come down and interact on Earth to study it. The witness continues:

“Five of them were on the left, four facing me and five on the right side of the bed. I was the only one who wasn’t paralyzed. We communicated for some 40 minutes, mouths closed. That is to say, I spoke by my mouth didn’t move. I managed to touch one of the little ones, and he touched my face. I just felt the need to touch him, and in fact, I felt peaceful in their company. I never had the impression that they could harm my daughter or anyone of us. Suddenly he made a movement. He touched me with two fingers, and finally brushed a finger along my forehead. They told me they had come to give me answers about a black book (the Bible) and that what I was thinking was in fact true. When I asked them a question, they told me everything, with details.”

What are we to make of reports like this? Are these cases really alien encounters? Are they perhaps interdimensional interlopers? Or are they merely figments of the imagination? We will probably never know for sure, but they certainly add to the strange files of one of the world's big UFO hotspots. 

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It seems like sea serpents and various monsters of the deep have been spotted for centuries. Reports of such things go way back, and in addition to sightings, there were even news stories at the time that described sea monsters and mermaids being subdued and killed as well. Here we will go back through the ages to look at early accounts of sea monster sightings, and some that go even further. 

Reports of sea monsters go pretty far back into history. One such report is recorded in the thirty-eight volume Natural History, which was published around 77 AD by the Roman author Pliny the Elder. In addition to chronicling Roman culture and the cultures of faraway lands, there are also some odd accounts buried away within its pages. In one such account, Pliny recorded that in the ancient town of Carteia, which was once located near the Strait of Gibraltar in Spain, there was a problem with someone stealing fish from the pickling tubs fishermen were processing their catches in. The fishermen took measures to prevent this, but the thefts continued unabated. They then decided to use guard dogs, and this is where things would get weird.

Apparently one day the dogs started going nuts, and when the fishermen ran to see what was happening rather than a human thief they spotted quite the unusual sight. There coiled around a fish tub was a giant octopus-like monster covered in dried brine and exhaling a hideous and rank stench. The dogs would not go near the thing, so the fishermen approached only for the creature to whip around its tentacles and lash out at them. They were only able subdue the beast after employing the use of long, three-pronged spears, with which they killed it. A report of the aftermath reads:

“The 'head' of this creature alone was said to be equivalent in size to a cask of fifteen aphorae (equivalent to 135 gallons of fluid), and could hardly be encircled by a man with both arms. The tentacles were upwards of thirty feet long, covered with knots -- "like those upon a club" -- and the suckers were said to be as large as an urn with equally large teeth (which implies a squid, as they have a tooth in each sucker). The body was carefully preserved as a curiosity, and weighed seven hundred pounds. Pliny noted that the author of this account stated that other squids and octopai of an equal size were known to occasionally wash ashore, and that these animals did not live beyond two years.”

What in the world was this thing? The Bahamian island known as Isabela is also home to a rather curious historical oddity. It seems that during his journey to the New World, Christopher Columbus himself killed a mysterious serpent here. Columbus's diary entry for October 21, 1492 described how the explorer killed and later skinned a 5 foot long creature described as a "serpent," that he had seen in a lake on the island.  The next day, a similar serpent was reportedly killed in another lake on the island by Martin Alonso Pinzon, who was captain of one of the ships under Columbus's command.

Sadly, both specimens were never properly preserved so it is impossible to know just what kind of animals were killed. Further complicating matters is the rather loose definition of the word "serpent" in the vernacular of the era. In Columbus's day, the term "serpent" could be applied not only to large snakes, but to practically anything large and reptilian. Crocodilians, lizards, and even mythical dragons were all equally known to be referred to as serpents. This muddies the waters a bit when searching for an answer to the mysterious diary entry because Columbus could have killed an actual serpent by our understanding of the word, which is to say a giant snake, or it could have been a large type of lizard, a crocodile or alligator, or who knows what else. Considering that the entry offers frustratingly few details, it is impossible to say.

An expedition led by Florida State Museum's assistant curator, Bill Keegan, in 1987 uncovered the remains of an alligator in the ruins of a village on Isleta believed to have been visited by Columbus. It was suggested that the serpent described by Columbus may have been an alligator, which were previously unknown to have ever inhabited the Bahamas and so making it a rather interesting find in its own right. If alligators existed at one time n the Bahamas, it could mean that they were merely imported from elsewhere, but could also represent an unknown population of the animal's historical range or even a new species. However, the presence of alligator bones in a village that Columbus just happened to have visited is far from concrete evidence to link the alligator remains to the diary entry, and so what exactly was killed on that day long ago remains a mystery.

Columbus would later go on to log yet another mysterious sighting in the Caribbean when in September 1494, while sailing along the east coast of the Dominican Republic, he and his crew apparently sighted what was described as a gigantic turtle the size of a whale, with a long tail and fins on its sides. The enormous creature was keeping its head out of the water. Is there any truth to these historical accounts?

Another case takes us to 1639, when a large serpentine beast was said to have been seen gliding through the waters off the coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, with witness accounts of the Beast of Cape Ann recording that the animal was not only seen swimming out at sea, but soon also approaching land, where it was said to have slithered onto the shore and coiled itself like a snake. The creature would allegedly be seen by hundreds of people and was all over the news at the time, with headlines like “A Monstrous Sea Serpent, The largest ever seen in America,” and other similarly spectacular titles. The creature was typically described as being an enormous serpent around 100 feet in length, which carried its head about 8 feet above the surface. Was any off this real or was it just ab hoax or a slow news day?

Moving up in years to 1830 we have a report of an actual mermaid that was supposedly killed on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. An account of the incident reads:

“Some seventy years ago, people were cutting seaweed at Sgeir na Duchadh, Grimnis, Benbecula. Before putting on her stockings, one of the women went to the lower end of the reef to wash her feet. While doing so she heard a splash in the calm sea, and looking up she saw a creature in the form of a woman in miniature, some few feet away. Alarmed, the woman called to her friends, and all the people present rushed to the place. The creature made somersaults and turned about in various directions. Some men waded into the water to seize her, but she moved beyond their reach. Some boys threw stones at her, one of which struck her in the back. A few days afterwards, this strange creature was found dead at Cuile, Nunton, nearly two miles away.

“The upper portion of the creature was about the size of a well-fed child of three or four years of age, with an abnormally developed breast. The hair was long, dark, and glossy, while the skin was white, soft, and tender. The lower part of the body was like a salmon, but without scales. Crowds of people, some from long distances, came to see this strange animal, and all were unanimous in the opinion that they had gazed on the mermaid at last. Mr Duncan Shaw, factor for Clanranald, baron-bailie and sheriff of the district, ordered a coffin and shroud to be made for the mermaid. This was done, and the body was buried in the presence of many people, a short distance above the shore where it was found. There are persons still living who saw and touched this curious creature, and who give graphic descriptions of its appearance.”

It is unclear what happened to the body, or if any of this even happened at all. In 1852, a letter stated to be from a Captain Jason Seabury of the ship “Monongahela” outlined a very peculiar encounter at sea. In the letter Captain Seabury stated that on the morning of January 13, 1852, the man on look out reported 'white water', a sign of sea-life activity. Thinking that it might be a sperm whale, the Captain took a closer look through his telescope but could not determine if it was a whale or a pod of porpoises. He then saw a patch of black skin, and at that moment the man on the lookout tower proclaimed that whatever it was was no whale, as it was too large. Seabury ordered his men to be prepared to launch, then waited to see if the creature would surface again. They would not be disappointed.

After around an hour of carefully watching the waves, the Captain could see a body that moved slowly with a motion 'like the waving of a rope when shaken and held in the hand.'Silently the crew watched in amazement as more of the body surfaced, exposing its enormous length, and then the tail began to “vibrate,” agitating the water, and the head of the strange beast rose and lifted above the surface. Captain Seabury, realizing they were looking at a legendary sea-serpent, ordered his men to the boats, which they grudgingly did, afraid of pursuing the mystery beast. The chase was on, and continued until the creature slowed down and eventually came to a stop. At this point they managed to harpoon it, but it put up such a fierce fight that two additional harpoons were sunk into it. All of this was being done as bad weather threatened them, but they continued with their task. The monster continued its fight, diving deep down into the water, but the lines held onto it until the lines suddenly went slack.

Just when they thought they had lost it, one of the crewmen shouted that the beast had surfaced and appeared to be in its thrashing death throes before lying still. The crew warily pulled the creature in, and they were finally able to get a closer look at it. It was apparently 103 feet 7 inches long, 19 feet 1 inch around the neck, 24 feet 6 inches around the 'shoulders', and 49 feet and 4 inches around at the fullest part of the body. The head was long and flat with ridges, and the tongue "had its end like the head of a heart.” The tail ran almost down to a point, terminating instead in a flat, firm cartilage. The serpent's back was black, fading to brown on the sides, then yellow; along two-thirds of its belly was a white streak. In addition, there were random dark spots scattered all across its skin. Upon examining the head closer it was found the jaws contained 94 teeth, very sharp and with an exposed section as large as a man's thumb above the gum line. The teeth pointed backward into the mouth. In addition, the serpent had two spiracles -- breathing holes on top of its head much as whales' possess -- so the beast had to surface to breath. The serpent also had four 'swimming paws' which were like lumps of hard loose flesh. The joints in the serpent's back were very loose, and it seemed as if it could move each vertebrae separately from the others, allowing for smooth motion when it swam. The creature was dismantled, with its head preserved and its heart and one of its eyes preserved in large jars of liquor. Nobody knows what happened to these pieces of evidence after that, and it is certainly a wild ride. 

On January 18, 1875, the Pauline was sailing roughly twenty miles off Cape São Roque, on the northeastern side of Brazil, when, at around 11:00 a.m., something bizarre happened that the crew would never forget. Captain George Drevar would write a report on what happened as follows:

“The weather fine and clear, the wind and sea moderate. Observed some black spots on the water, and a whitish pillar, about thirty-five feet high, above them At the first glance I took all to be breakers, as the sea was splashing up fountain-like about them, and the pillar, a pinnacle rock bleached with the sun; but the pillar fell with a splash, and a similar one rose. They rose and fell alternately in quick succession, and good glasses showed me it was a monster sea-serpent coiled twice round a large sperm whale.

The head and tail parts, each about thirty feet long, were acting as levers, twisting itself and victim around with great velocity. They sank out of sight about every two minutes, coming to the surface still revolving, and the struggles of the whale and two other whales that were near, frantic with excitement, made the sea in this vicinity like a boiling cauldron; and a loud and confused noise was distinctly heard.

This strange occurrence lasted some fifteen minutes, and finished with the tail portion of the whale being elevated straight in the air, then waving backwards and forwards, and lashing the water furiously in the last death-struggle, when the whole body disappeared from our view, going down head-foremost towards the bottom, where, no doubt, it was gorged at the serpent’s leisure; and that monster of monsters may have been many months in a state of coma, digesting the huge mouthful.

Then two of the largest sperm whales that I have ever seen moved slowly thence towards the vessel, their bodies more than usually elevated out of the water, and not spouting or making the least noise, but seeming quite paralyzed with fear; indeed, a cold shiver went through my own frame on beholding the last agonizing struggle of the poor whale that had seemed as helpless in the coils of the vicious monster as a small bird in the talons of a hawk. Allowing for two coils round the whale, I think the serpent was about one hundred and sixty or one hundred and seventy feet long, and seven or eight in girth. It was in color much like a conger eel, and the head, from the mouth being always open, appeared the largest part of the body. I think Cape San Roque is a landmark for whales leaving the south for the North Atlantic.”

Amazingly, Driver would see something similarly strange not long after, of which he would write:

“I wrote thus far, little thinking I would ever see the serpent again; but at 7 A.M., July 13th, in the same latitude, and some eighty miles east of San Roque, I was astonished to see the same or a similar monster. It was throwing its head and about forty feet of its body in a horizontal position out of the water as it passed onwards by the stern of our vessel. I began musing why we were so much favored with such a strange visitor, and concluded that the band of white paint, two feet wide above the copper, might have looked like a fellow-serpent to it, and, no doubt, attracted its attention.

While thus thinking, I was startled by the cry of 'There it is again,' and a short distance to leeward, elevated some sixty feet in the air, was the great leviathan, grimly looking towards the vessel. As I was not sure it was only our free board it was viewing, we had all our axes ready, and were fully determined, should the brute embrace the Pauline, to chop away for its backbone with all our might, and the wretch might have found for once in its life that it had caught a Tartar. This statement is strictly true, and the occurrence was witnessed by my officers, half the crew, and myself; and we are ready, at any time, to testify on oath that it is so, and that we are not in the least mistaken. A vessel, about three years ago, was dragged over by some sea-monster in the Indian Ocean.”

In 1883, a man known only as “Mr. Hoad” was taking a stroll along a rural place called Brungle Creek, in New South Wales, Australia, when right after a flood he stumbled cross something very bizarre, indeed. According to the witness, he found there on the shore a weird creature measuring around 30 feet in length, with a lobster-like curved tail and in the place of where a head should be merely what looked like an elephant’s trunk. At the time, newspaper reports were making it out to be the body of a creature from Australian lore called a “Bunyip,” and the author Charles Fort would say of the discovery in his book Lo!:

Remains of a strange animal, teleported to this earth from Mars or the moon -- very likely, or not so likely -- found on a bank of a stream in Australia. See the Adelaide Observer, Sept. 15, 1883 -- that Mr. Hoad, of Adelaide, had found on a bank of Brungle Creek, a headless trunk of a pig-like animal, with an appendage that curved inward, like the tail of a lobster.

Another descriptions reads:

“The body was a headless trunk of a strange animal covered with short, strong hair and an overall pig-like appearance. The terminal appendage curls inward, and resembles the tail of a huge lobster. There was damage on the corpse where it was felt the head and feet should be, and it was assumed these had been eaten away by animals. The flesh in these damaged spots was described as looking like dried ling fish, and the body overall was in a similar state of preservation and shows no sign of decay.”

Making matters even more confusing is that there are also reports that another man by the name of Henry Wilkinson, who also reportedly came across the “headless trunk of a strange animal,” with a pig-like appearance and a “terminal appendage that curls inward, and resembles the tail of a huge lobster,” also along the shore of Brungle Creek. What is sometimes called “Hoad’s Monster” was claimed by the newspapers to be sent to the Sydney Museum for further scientific analysis, but there is no further word on it after that, and no known physical evidence remaining. This was likely just a sensationalized newspaper account with nothing behind it, and making it even murkier is that subsequent retellings of the story over the years have added details such as hair covering the body or flippers, but we will probably never know for sure.

Another report from the 19th century comes from the crew of the British steamer the Emu, which made a stop at the south Pacific atoll known as Suwarrow Island on their way to Sydney, Australia. While they were there, natives excitedly told them of a type of large and mysterious creature they had seen off the coast, which they called the “Devil Fish,” and they even claimed that one had washed ashore. They were led to the carcass and saw that it was 60-feet long, covered with brownish hair, and had the head of a horse, with two formidable tusks jutting from its lower jaw. It was massive, weighing about 70 tons, so they were unable to move it, but the Emu crew secured as many of the remains as they could, including the beast’s skull. It is unknown what became of these remains, but the most common explanation was that they had misidentified a beaked whale. What did they really find out there at that island? Who knows?

As we can see, reports of strange things in the sea go way back, and some of these are even more spectacular in that there was actual physical evidence gained, making it frustrating that these alleged specimens have disappeared into the mists of time to fall into the cracks of history. Indeed, all of these reports have sort of been forgotten to time, and it is good to every once in a while dig them back up and look at them with fresh eyes.