The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings - Galaksija

October 1925, Edale, Derbyshire, England. Herds of sheep were being destroyed by a huge black
animal that ripped its prey to shreds. This one was not a bloodsucker. The usual armed bands
launched a search. The killer was never caught or identified.
On August 1, 1966, the Associated Press reported that a frightening animal was loose in Jessore,
East Pakistan. It killed a baby girl, mauled a rickshaw driver and a woman, and destroyed a number
of cattle. The town lived in terror for several days while police and soldiers conducted a fruitless
search. According to the police the creature appeared only at night and ”vanished” immediately
after attacking people. Apparently it was not a tiger or any other known animal.
Packs of ferocious wild dogs still inhabit the deep bush in India, although their numbers have been
thinning in modern times. They have reddish brown hair and look exactly like what they are: mean
dogs. They have been known to attack cattle and even human beings. Generally speaking, however,
they regard man as their natural enemy, as do most wild animals, and try to steer clear of them. It is
unlikely that a pack of these dogs could have traversed the almost impassable Himalaya Mountains
into Russia in 1893, and then could have swum to England to feast upon the king's sheep.
No. Something else is abroad here. Something that kills by making almost surgical-like incisions
and then drains off the blood. Once the deed is done, the perpetrators vanish into thin air.
For over twenty-five years there has been a continuous wave of these vampiric attacks throughout
the world, particularly in the thinly populated states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Texas. Thousands
of animals have met sudden death in inexplicable ways, perplexing the authorities and keeping
assorted cultists in constant turmoil. This mystery will be discussed further in Chapter 13.
In West Virginia and Ohio, where UFOs and monsters have also been active, cattle and dogs have
met a sudden and enigmatic end. One cow was sliced neatly in half, as if by a giant pair of scissors,
in Ohio in December 1967. Numerous dogs have been found with their blood gone and no trace of
injury on their corpses.
Probably events of this sort have been occurring regularly throughout history, but only those which
inspire large panics have received any notoriety and been recorded in the newspapers and history
books. We can assume that for each published incident there may have been scores of others that
have passed unnoticed and are now totally forgotten. The history and folklore of almost every
country in the world, extending back to ancient times, are filled with stories of monstrous hairy
creatures who attacked and slaughtered domestic animals and human beings and then managed to
elude armies of pursuers. These incidents undoubtedly contributed to the massive, unscientific
literature on werewolves – animals which were actually evil human beings in magical disguises.
There have been so many cases of this sort of thing that we even have a word for it: lycanthropy.
Most languages have a definitive term for werewolf. In France they are loup-garou; in Spanish, lob
ambre; in Portugese, lob omem. Wolves are nasties in any language. Fortunately, they are now
extinct, or almost extinct. Fearsome packs of the marauding beasts are now quite rare, except for
remote regions of northern Canada and obscure sections of Russia. But occasionally a wolf still
turns up in the United States. Mr. Marvin Meade shot one in March 1967, near Gorham, Illinois.
His kill was so unusual that it was discussed in the local newspapers and he was paid a fifteendollar
bounty by the government of Jackson County.
The werewolf, on the other hand, can presumably pop up anywhere and skillfully elude hunters,
since it possesses human rather than animal cunning, being, according to folklore, a black magician
in league with the devil.
Could some men somehow transform themselves into fiendish hairy monsters which prowl when
the moon is full? If this were even remotely possible we might have a bizarre explanation for the
horrifying animals which seem to appear and disappear so easily. It is ridiculous, of course, but
remember that we are attempting to deal with the ridiculous and the unbelievable. Werewolves
might properly belong in the ranks of the milk and hoop snakes. Then again....
Controversial religious texts dating back two thousand years tell how Christ ordered his followers to
stone a pitiful beggar. They were taken aback but obeyed, and as their stones fell upon the wretch he
slowly changed into a loathsome hairy beast with fiery red eyes, having been the devil in disguise.
For twenty-five years a gentleman named Peter Stubb allegedly terrorized the countryside of