NICK REDFERN: Flying Humanoids: The Dark Side

For my first article of this week, I thought I would do something a bit different: namely a review of a lecture I attended just this past weekend. It was given by good friend and fell0w seeker of strange creatures, Ken Gerhard. Ken drove up to the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area early Sunday morning – from his San Antonio home – to speak at the monthly meeting of a local group, EPIC, the Extraordinary Phenomena Investigations Council.

The subject of Ken’s lecture was his latest book, Encounters with Flying Humanoids, which, as its title suggests, is an in-depth study of a wide and varied range of bizarre, winged, human-like creatures – with Mothman being, without any doubt, the most famous example. I reviewed Ken’s book here a couple of months ago, but there’s another reason I want to highlight it today. And that is – and as Ken spelled out time and again in his illustrated presentation on Sunday - the many and disturbing occasions upon which encounters with winged humanoids have seemingly provoked immediate (and sometimes lasting) bouts of ill-health or disaster. Or even both at the same time.

Indeed, it’s almost as if these nightmarish entities have the literal ability to “infect” us in some weird and unsettling manner, not just with disease and illness but als0, rather disturbingly, with what might be called near-endless bad luck. But how, precisely, they do that and why, are very different matters. As Ken’s lecture made abundantly clear, however, crossing paths with the weird winged things of our world can be profoundly dangerous.

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