Illustrated Monstrous Creatures
It is rumored that the creatures half human, half monster existed since the appearance of ancient Egyptian sphinxes and griffins legendary Babylonian. Recent stories tell of golems, vampires, werewolves and things even worse. In January 1909, residents of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, USA, reported seeing a horrible apparition, half-human, semimurcielago, known as the "Jersey Devil". On 17 January, Postmaster of Bristol, Pennsylvania, EW Minster, saw it flying over the river Delaware, "glowed like a firefly ... His head looked like a ram with twisted horns, and his long, thick neck stretched while flying forward. He had big wings and short legs ... emitted a mournful and horrible noise, between quacking and whistling. " Almost 60 years later, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, was given the name "Mothman" to a similar monster, like a bat with red eyes and bright. Appeared near Point Pleasant, We...