Rare Monsters

  On November 14th 1974, a fireball fell from the sky near Bald Mountain in Lewis County, Washington. The impact site stayed inexplicably lit even after the fireball hit the ground, not usual behavior for an ordinary meteorite. It was seen by several people in the nearby town of Chehalis. Things would go from unusual but explainable to outright strange three days later. On November 17, Ernest Smith saw a strange alien creature while he was out deer hunting on the slopes of bald mountain. He said it was the size and shape of a horse. It had a football shaped head with insect like eyes and a beak like mouth. The creature was covered in scales. It had four tentacle-like legs that even had suckers on the underside of them. The whole beast glowed green.  While researching this beast I found conflicting descriptions on whether it had one or two antenna like protrusions from its head. I drew one here, but two are also valid. Mr Smith doesn’t elaborate on what his reaction was on find...

  The case of the Fayette Dragon was reported to Fortean researcher, Stan Gordon. It happened in Fayette County Pennsylvania on March 18, 2012.  At 11:45 a man took his dog out to the front yard to relieve the animal. The night was cold and silent, without any other animals moving about. That silence was then broken by the sound of flapping wings coming from a large creature. The man saw a shadow pass over his house, about 50 feet up. It was 22 feet long, with an 18 foot wingspan. As the beast flew over the man’s house it triggered the motion lights, illuminating it entirely. It was then that the man got a look at the strange creature.  He reported that it looked like a dragon. It had a reptilian head, with a row of spikes under its jaw. There was a cone-like fin sprouting from the back of its head and over the neck. Its arms were attached to its wings, and ended in four clawed fingers. The wing membrane was thick and muscular, unlike that of a bat. The hind legs trai...

  This is an odd one, not only because the creature is so bizarre, but because the place it was alleged to take place doesn’t exist either. It supposedly takes place on Henderson Island in the Puget Sound. But there’s no Henderson Island there. It’s possible the men relating this story meant Anderson Island, which does exist. Regardless, the location has led to one of the creature’s names, the Henderson Island Monster. It’s alternatively known as the Tacoma Electric Serpent, not to be confused with the Tacoma Sea Serpent, that’s a different monster.  This story first appeared on July 3rd, 1893, in the Tacoma Daily Ledger, with the events happening only days earlier. Seven men were on a fishing trip to the so-called Henderson Island. Two of them remained unnamed, while the other five men were William Fitzhenry, H. L. Beal, W. L. McDonald, J. K. Bell and Henry Blackwood.  The first day of their fishing trip went without incident.That night they camped near the shore. The me...