Butler County Gargoyle

 


Butler county Gargoyle was a winged cryptid seen by several witnesses in Butler County, Pennsylvania during 2011. First witness was a businessman known only as RK. He saw the monster several different occasions. Rk described the monster has being overall humanoid in shape. It had brown or tan leathery skin. The face was small and punched in, with almond shaped eyes that were pointed at the ends. The head was swept back and came to a point at the back, similar to a performance bicycle helmet. The creature also had ears that were long and swept back to points which pointed to the back of the head. The body was very muscular. The arms were longer than a human’s and ended in hands with four fingers and sharp claws. It had very muscular legs, with knees that pointed back in the opposite direction from normal. Most notably were a set of large wings on the creature’s back. These were bat like, with their ends pointing back towards the creature’s head.


The first known report of the ‘Butler Gargoyle Flap’ was reported to Stan Gordon by RK on the 21st of March. RK said a few days earlier on the 18th, he was driving between Chicora and East Brady in the early morning. While passing an open area RK saw something out in the grass. At first he assumed it was a deer, so he slowed his car to get a good look. This is when the indistinct figure stood up on it’s hind legs and revealed what it was. The monster walked out of the field and crossed the road. It passed by a road sign while doing so and managed to cross the road in only three large strides. RK said its backwards legs gave the gargoyle a distinct gate. The monster never looked towards RK or acknowledged his presence. It just walked off into the forest on the other side of the road. The sighting only lasted 7 to 8 seconds, but was enough to leave RK shook by the experience. He submitted a sketch of the creature to Stan Gordon, which unfortunately doesn’t show most of the details he described.



RK's Sketch


The day after the sighing RK returned to the location and looked for evidence, but he found nothing. The ground was too hard to leave footprints. RK measured the sign the monster passed by. It was 8 feet tall, and the creature stood another 4 inches above it.


The next sighting RK had of the monster happened two weeks later, at which point he told Lon Strickler of Phantoms And Monsters, and Daniel Hageman of BORU (Butler Organization of Research of the Unexplained). During the second sighting RK was driving back along the same road in the evening this time. This time the monster was perched on top a hay bail in a stereotypical gargoyle pose, to the point where RK thought it was a bit cliche. The monster didn’t move, but stared directly at RK as he drove passed.


RK had his third and final encounter with the monster about a month later. He would see the cryptid again a little further up the same road while he was driving through a wooded hollow. This time the creature was walking through the forest, following along the road. It was difficult to see through the cover of the trees, but RK could tell it was the same monster.


During this time a handful of sightings by other people were also reported to either Stan Gordon, Lon Strickler or BORU.


A motorcyclist was driving near Brady one night when he too saw the gargoyle. As he was riding out of town the he noticed an unusually large animal hunch over at the side of the road. It appeared to be eating something. As he drove by the monster stood up, revealing that was bipedal and extremely tall. He described a being almost identical to RK’s sightings. The motorcyclist was very disturbed by this encounter and said the creature belonged in the depths of hell and it looked angry.


Another encounter happened in Kepple’s Corners, near Chicora. There two witnesses saw the gargoyle crossing the road in front of their car. The monster then walked off into the forest at the side of the road. The two witnesses were so shocked by the encounter they sat in their car in silence and didn’t continue driving until they noticed another car approaching. The driving witness said they were absolutely sure of what they saw and were willing to take a lie detector test to prove it.


The final encounter of the gargoyle flap took place in Rimmersburg, 20 miles away from Chicora. The two witnesses where driving back to Rimmersburg after leaving an ice cream stand when they saw the creature cross the road in front of them. They described the creature in the most detail of all the witnesses. In addition to the other details stated before they also noted that the mouth was small and slit like, and the wings looked like they were made of a see through mesh. Both witnesses were quite disturbed by the encounter and said the creature was infernal and had come from hell itself.


Lon Strickler, Stan Gordon and The New World Explorer Society blog all point out that there are many more sightings of bat winged humanoids in Pennsylvania beyond the 2011 Butler encounters. BORU, and another similar organization, the Center for Unexplained Events, have collected at least 23 reports from southern Pennsylvania. Even Lon Strickler personally saw a flying humanoid in the area while on a camping trip as a child, although his encounter was more similar to mothman than this creature.


A similar creature has been seen in Greene County, that is very similar to the Butler County Gargoyle. It’s described as having a similar pointed head and slanted eyes. Although the Green County creature was described as having no other facial features besides eyes.


It’s worth noting that the south west portion of Pennsylvania is a known hot spot of paranormal activity. Pittsburgh has had its own mothman sightings. Just south of there is Fayette county where the Fayette dragon was seen. Chestnut ridge is just to the east, which is a well known hot spot for all manner of paranormal activity, from bigfoot sightings to UFO crashes.


Sources


https://cryptonautpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/226-straight-from-hell-the-winged-things-of-butler-county/

https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2021/05/butler-county-gargoyle.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMKfB1XpeKU

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/02/the-butler-gargoyle.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDmb6hL0v5Y


Greene County Demon

https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-greene-county-winged-humanoid.html


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