Encounters: The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed!/Encounters - The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed (1995).iso/misc2/misc114.txt

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                    PARANORMAL MANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICA

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                             by Scott Corrales

While Latin America has always a steady source of information on UFOs and
encounters with nonhuman creatures. Creatures tentatively classified as
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, and a host of other denominations are usually
associated with the planet's temperate zones and even the Arctic regions.

However, more and more reports of such creatures are emerging from the
lands comprised between Cancer and Capricorn, providing even more
eyewitness accounts concerning such entities.

Puerto Rico and Mexico have reported an increase in reports about the
Sasquatch's tropical cousin, which has not yet been given a name of its
own, aside from comical monickers created by the press (such as the
untranslatable "cangodrilo," which conveys the same humorous ring as
"jackalope"). The tropical manimals are described as human-sized, covered
in abundant brown or black hair, and with glowing eyes. Their habits are
largely nocturnal, as in the case of their North American counterparts, and
they have also shown a propensity toward appearing in places where UFO or
paranormal events are taking place.

In 1992, as word spread of the miraculous apparition of the Blessed Virgin
at Monta F1a Santa, a hilltop located near San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, a
number of unidentified artifacts were reported in the hill's vicinity and
even captured on film, while other witnesses reported brilliant, disk-like
objects flying overhead. One of these witnesses, Delia Flores, told the
following to UFO investigator Jorge Mart: during a daytime trip to the
religious sanctuary located on the hill, she and other worshippers were
surprised to see a beige van (resembling those used by SWAT teams) parked
in the area. Its occupants wore orange fatigues with NASA insignia, and the
vehicle's Spanish-speaking driver had no qualms about telling the religious
pilgrims that the van contained a most unusual cargo--a simian creature
captured in Carite State Forest. According to Ms. Flores, she and the
others were able to see a covered cage that contained something which was
"struggling to get out."

The driver added that the creature was being taken to a secret primate
research lab located somewhere on the island, where investigation on this
sort of being was being conducted. Two primate research centers exist on
the island: one of them on Cayo Santiago, an islet of Puerto Rico's eastern
shore, and the other in the Sabana Seca Naval Base. The heavy tarpaulin
covering the cage was never removed, and the witnesses were distracted from
showing further interest in the van and its contents by the insistent
ringing of the sanctuary's bell, announcing the beginning of the morning's
services. Mart, Jorge. "Encuentros con Ovnis y Yetis en Monta F1a Santa San
Lorenzo, P.R." (Ovnis Confidencial, WSKN, San Juan, 1994.)

Ms. Flores' testimony is hardly unique. An area farmer discovered one
morning that a number of plantain trees in his property had been destroyed
by an unknown creature that left a number of deep footprints, attesting to
its massive size and weight. According to his neighbors, all the dogs in
the vicinity had either barked furiously or stayed home, huddled in corners
as if frightened by something. When the farmer had gone down to gather some
plantains, he discovered his crops had been torn to shreds as if by
powerful claws. The sad scene of destruction affected him so deeply that he
refused to leave his house again for the rest of the day. An agronomer from
the Caguas office of the Puerto Rico department of Agriculture declared
that he had never seen such a sight, nor could he speculate as to the kind
of beast that could cause such damage. Other residents indicated that they
had seen a "hairy figure" run away from the area in the darkness, but could
not describe it in detail.

Gerardo Rosario, another resident of the Maracal sector, was weeding his
property at dusk when he had a startling encounter. "It was getting dark
and I was almost done with the weeding when I heard a noise over to the
side, and I moved toward it. I looked up and noticed that it was a hairy
creature climbing up the hillside. It was some 5 feet tall, hairy...and it
was accompanied by a smaller hairy creature just like it. I couldn't make
out its face, because it was climbing sideways, but I noticed that there
was hair covering its features, except around the eyes and cheeks."

There were other witnesses, including a 12 year old boy on his way to
school. As he walked down the road by his house, his attention was
distracted by odd sounds, which he described as "a mute trying to speak."

When he went over to the roadside to take a closer look, he discovered two
creatures sitting on a large boulder in a mountain stream at the bottom of
a ravine. The larger creature walked around the top of the boulder, as if
keeping watch, while the smaller figure remained seated. The larger
creature emitted the moan that had drawn his attention in the first place,
causing the frightened schoolboy to flee.

Not far from the San Juan metropolitan area, the apparitions of the Blessed
Virgin at Monte Santo, in the suburban location of Lomas Verdes, also
involved UFOs and manimals. One night, while worshippers fervently prayed
in the heavily wooded area, a muscular figure, some 5 feet tall and covered
in brownish hair, raced between the trees in a zig-zag pattern. While the
religious apparitions were in full swing, sightings of large-headed "Greys"
were also reported.

El Yunque, one of the peaks located in the Luquillo Experimental
Rainforest, has been a focal point of UFO and paranormal rainforest since
the days of the Taino indians, who considered the cloud-enshrouded mountain
the dwelling place of their deities. Since the late 1800's, reports of
strange lights flying over El Yunque have suggested that some sort of
non-human activity has been taking place. Persistent rumors of an
extraterrestrial base beneath the rainforest have been compounded by a
number of cases which have been at the forefront of UFO research on the
island.

In December 1993, a group of National Guard reservists camping at the
summit of Mt. La Mina, on the rainforest's southern end, had an encounter
with an frightening creature: man-sized,hairy and with glowing eyes. The
reservists abandoned their camp and descended the mountain in pitch
darkness, terrified by the encounter. Their superiors allegedly told them
not to discuss the matter with anyone, but the bemused guards had already
told their story to local residents, who in turn discussed the matter with
local researchers. (Martin, Jorge. "Encuentros con seres extra F1os en El
Yunque," Ovnis Confidencial, WSKN, San Juan, 1994.)

In all the above cases, the common element appears to be either Marian
apparitions, of which there have been many over the past decade, or bona
fide UFO sightings involving both craft and occupants. That a link between
manimals and the latter can be established is without question--case
histories from all over the Americas have often involved hairy ape-like
creatures standing outside landed vehicles, being led by ufonauts, and in
one case, seen drifting across the skies in a bright orange ball. The
connection to religious phenomena is more tenuous. During the spectacular
Puerto Rican UFO wave of the early Seventies, manimal sightings coincided
with bleeding and weeping statues of the Virgin, Christ images seen in
churches, and "Men-in-Black" activity. One of the more memorable cases
involved an elderly woman who ventured into her backyard attracted by the
frantic barking of her watchdogs: to her astonishment, she saw the dogs
were barking at a simian figure with glowing red eyes which had climbed to
the top of a palm tree in her yard. The manimal turned into a ball of
orange fire and rose upward into the skies, disappearing from sight.

Many authors on paranormal matters have suggested that apparitions create
an "instability" of sorts which attracts other phenomena that may not be so
benign, or of an entirely different nature. Mutilations play a role in this
scenario, particularly the mysterious deaths of household animals such as
cats and dogs, followed by a sudden rise in manimal sightings. The is
exemplified by the incidents surrounding the Bray Road Beast (Strange
Magazine 10, 11), a werewolf-like entity reported in Wisconsin, have
included similar canine slayings. In 1991, a man going for a walk stumbled
upon the mutilated corpses of twelve dogs and seven cats, less than two
miles from the crossroads where the "Beast" was being sighted. Could these
sacrifices have been part of a black magic ceremony designed to "summon"
these parahuman entities into our reality? Some authors think so: John A.
Keel suggested the possibility in his classic The Mothman Prophecies. A
string of local pet disappearances could have supplied the blood needed by
a "local sorcerer" to bring a parahuman creature--the infamous "Mothman" in
this case--into existence. An epidemic of domestic animal disappearances is
currently taking place in Vancouver, B.C.. It will be interesting to see if
manimal sightings and encounters will follow.

Dr. Rafael Lara Palmeros, research director for Mexico's CEFP (Centro de
Estudios de Fenomenos Paranormales) is currently heading his organization's
investigation into that country's own manimal, the creature known as
"Hombre Oso" ("Bearman"), who has gone largely unnoticed, living in
wilderness areas all over Mexico, ranging from the arid, desertic state of
Chihuahua to Veracruz on the Gulf Coast.

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