January 2007 - Page 1
Huge Flying Creature
by Nikki
My grandmother, I call her Mimi, told me something that boggled my mind. I wanted to share it on this website, because if anyone ever saw anything like what Mimi told me about then I'd really like to know, because I don't know what it could have been.
Mimi lives in a big, brick house with a fenced-in yard, and right across the street from her house is the park. To give a brief description, the park is actually a woodsy hill filled with trees, and there's a pathway leading up to swings and stuff up at the top of it, but from the bottom the trees are too tall to see up the hill. People usually just use the walking track situated beside the hill though.
It was early in the morning, around the time before dawn that looks like the twilight, and she was letting her three dogs outside. She was standing inside at the door watching the dogs, and she noticed that they were looking toward the park, so she went outside onto the patio and looked. What she saw she said terrified her.
It was some dark figure flying out from over the trees. It was huge, though. She said its wing span was about 20-25 feet and it was gliding, descending down toward the yard. As it got closer, she was shocked because she realized that it wasn't the distance that made it look big, it was really that huge, and her immediate response was to call the dogs in as fast as she could because the size of this "thing" could have easily taken one of them. When she put them inside she turned back around to see where it was, but it was gone. She quickly went back inside.
When she related this to me and my uncle (her son), we were kind of stunned, and at first I thought that it was maybe a vulture or a hawk since it was gliding, but I know that they're not that big. My uncle suggested that it was a turkey, but they're not that big either. The only animal I thought it could have been was an eagle, but we don' t have them around here, and even eagles aren't THAT big! I don't know what it was. But Mimi was very shaken up about it and when she told us I could tell that she was disturbed by it, and the fact that she couldn't say exactly what it was scared her. She can only describe it as a dark, extremely huge flying creature.
She said that she thinks it was the Mothman. As crazy as that sounds, she is not one to lie. She tells the truth, and just by the way she was so worked up over it, I know that it was definitely something strange. I'm not saying it was the Mothman for sure, but it's nothing like I've ever heard of.
