Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain

 


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 finding the creature. Although when he got back to town he described his encounter to the local newspapers. 


A few days later Mr Smith’s story was corroborated by Roger Ramsbaugh and his wife. The couple were driving home at night through the Bald Mountain region when they too encountered the creature. Mr Ramsbaugh described the conditions that night as foggy. He saw a glow along the side of the road, “like a neon sign in the fog”. Mr Ramsbaugh stopped the car to get a better look at the source of the light. It was then that the glowing beast crossed the road in front of them. While the encounter was short Mr Ramsbaugh got a good enough look at the beast and described it almost identically to Mr Smith’s encounter. 


After the second encounter regional newspapers picked up the story and spread it to a much larger audience. This was also when the people of Chehalis would start putting the creature encounters together with the fireball seen days earlier and speculating if the sighting were of an extraterrestrial sort. 


With the rising popularity of the creature Sheriff William H Wiester started to hunt for the creature. He found an unexplainable burned spot out in the forest which lined up with the location of the fireball’s impact. There was no impact crater or associated meteorite.  


Sheriff Wiester’s search for the creature was cut short by some military individual claiming to work for NASA. The two individuals who spoke to the Sheriff were black suited agents. They in turn were guarded by heavily armed soldiers, who bore unrecognizable insignias on their uniforms. These men went around town quieting up any speculation about the sightings. 


After the agents intervene there are no more sightings of the creature and the information trail runs dry. 


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