A truck driver in northern Ohio is on his route early in the morning when he encounters and hits a bat-winged humanoid. The creature eventually gets up, unfurls its wings, and takes off.I received the following account:“I had an encounter with the winged creature myself and even posted the story of what happened to a group on Facebook that talks about things. I’m 32 years old and had never seen anything supernatural or alien in my life until last summer. I had always been and still am very much a skeptic, and to this day I try to convince myself that what I saw was actually a really big hawk or something, but I know I'm lying to myself.It was around 3:45 AM, I'm driving west on 322 […]

This photograph was shared to the government of Atizapán de Zaragoza Facebook page on March 19th. (Gobierno de Atizapán de Zaragoza / Facebook) Earlier this month, a photograph featuring an unidentified object in the Madín Dam reservoir of Atizapán de Zaragoza in Mexico was shared to the municipality’s Facebook page.The photo was shared on March 19th, along with the following caption:Neighbors from the area surrounding the [Madín Dam] reported the sighting of a large silhouette in the depths of the aquatic body. This fact adds to comments from [Atizapenses] who claim that a dinosaur dedicated to protecting […]

"We were sent a purported Bigfoot video from the woods near Bartlett, New Hampshire. I'll play the video and read the email.Justin writes RMSO:"Hi my name is Justin and I live in New Hampshire. I have a video of what I believe to be a Bigfoot. The video is not mine but belongs to a friend of mine who caught the creature while taking her dog out for a walk in the woods behind her house in the Bartlett area. She said while walking her dog, which is a Mastiff mixed dog, he started to act very out of character as if he was almost afraid and refused to go any further. It was at this point that my friend said she started to smell something foul, almost like a dead and decaying body. That is when […]

A Fairbanks, Alaska teen describes an encounter with a tall, lanky humanoid while hanging out with a friend in his neighborhood. A similar encounter was described by a co-worker."I grew up in a poor neighborhood in Fairbanks, Alaska. My friends and I used to play outside together quite a bit. In the summer, we'd stay up way too late. One such summer night, when I was about 16, a friend and I were bumming around the neighborhood and chatting. My friend claimed that a person could see further in the night if they lay in a prone position. I called BS, so naturally, we had to test it out.Before I continue, some context will help. We had lived in this neighborhood our whole lives. When we went […]

A group of ranchers was moving cattle in the Bighorn National Forest when they notice a huge Bigfoot watching them from the woods. One of the ranchers shot at it and apparently hit it.The following was recently forwarded to me:"I and 2 other guys were moving cattle from the eastern side of Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming. We got up early one morning and started working just as dawn was breaking. At one point, 3 of us saw this tall, thick creature standing along the forest edge watching us. One guy took 3 shots at it about 50 yards away with a 30/30,. It screamed and we heard others crashing in the bush.We got our things together quickly as I wanted to lead our horses away from the wood […]

A reader swears that they observed a small monkey with large wings flying away after passing it on a suburban street near Jacksonville, Florida. What did he and his passenger see?Received in May 2017 from a reader near Jacksonville, Florida:“This is going to sound totally unbelievable but I swear I saw something like a flying monkey last night. I was driving on a neighborhood street and this strange animal was on the roadway. I could see its head and it looked like a monkey to me but it was small like the size of a prairie dog or gopher. I kept saying "what is that?" I drove around it as it would not move (possibly dazed by my headlights). My friend thought it was a possum until we passed […]

 Is this a bilby I see before me – in Peru?? (public domain)In my previous ShukerNature blog article (click hereto access it), I documented two unexpected creatures depicted in a magnificent mural-format pictorial encyclopaedia entitled Quadro de Historia Natural, Civil y Geografica del Reyno del Peru('Painting of the Natural, Civil and Geographical History of the Kingdom of Peru'), or QHNCGRP for convenience hereafter in this present article. Consisting of numerous miniature oil paintings and accompanying text on a wood panel, it measures a very impressive 128 x 45.25 inches (325 x 115 cm). Completed in Madrid, Spain, in 1799 and now on display at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias […]

 Publicity posters for Fire Serpent, Sand Serpents, and Basilisk: The Serpent King (© John Terlesky/CineTel Films/Kandu Entertainment/Outrage Productions/Premiere Bobine/S.V. Scary Films/Sci-Fi Channel/Lionsgate Home Entertainment // Jeff Renfroe/Media Pro Pictures/Muse Entertainment/SyFy/RHI Entertainment // Stephen Furst/BUFO/Curmudgeon Films/Sci Fi Pictures – all three posters reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis for educational/review purposes only) It's always a pleasure to watch creature features in which the monsters in question are far removed from the usual cinematic stereotypes (e.g. ferocious man-beasts, werewolves, sea monsters, gargantuan insects, […]

 The very curious but captivating painting spied and photographed in a Nottingham pub by Facebook friend Kristian Lander (© Kristian Lander) Today's ShukerNature Picture of the Day dates back to 15 January 2013. That was when longstanding Facebook friend Kristian Lander from Nottingham, England, posted on my Facebook wall the above photograph snapped by him of a very unusual painting that he had recently encountered inside a local public house, because he was particularly intrigued by the mauve but mysterious winged beast lurking in its bottom left-hand corner, and wondered if I knew anything about it. Sadly, I didn't, but it certainly elicited my curiosity, and when Kristian's post […]