Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Prelude: The Case for Consideration-A Para-Creature Sampler: Skinwalker Ranch 9
1 Worlds Below 17
Chapter 1 Things from Way Down Under 19
Hellmouths and Other Gates to the Underworld
The Gates of Mashu
Contemporary Hellmouths
The Phantom Wolf of Wolfsegg
The Wolfsegg Hole
Chapter 2 Liminal Los Angeles 26
The Torrance Werewolf
The VIP Werewolf of Orange
LA's Leapin' Lycan
LA's Tunnel Labyrinth
The Lost Lizard People of LA
2 Neither Man Nor Beast 49
Chapter 3 They Walk Among Us 51
A Dog's Head on a Human Body
Michigan Dog at the Door
The New York Hoodie Wolf
The Checkered Shirt
Chapter 4 The Church Lady Monster 58
Where Did It Come From?
Visions and Apparitions
Fata Morgana, Sexual Repression, and Demons
Chapter 5 Ch-Ch-Changes 73
South American Werecreatures
The Animal-like Double
Spirit Bigfoot
Our Guardian Alter Egos
3 Things That Make House Calls 77
Chapter 6 Inner Space Invasions 79
The Heady Stuff of Human Consciousness
Deep Psi
Chapter 7 Unwanted Bedroom Guests 83
The Smell of Sulfur
Basement Shadow Beast
Redfern's Reality Check
Chapter 8 Speak, Rover, Speak! 90
All Greek to Me
Totally Sinus: UFO, the Dog Star, and a Dogman
Chapter 9 Shadow Wolves 95
Anubis in Addison
Anubis the Archetype
Louisiana Shadow Doggy
California Bad Dreaming
Chapter 10 Hag Riders and Other Uninvited Visitors 110
Night Spirits of the Hmong
A Few More Uninvited Overnighters
Owning Up to My Own Visitors
Chapter 11 Jeepers, Creature Peepers 118
Ontario Window Wolf
The Calgary Creature
Lights and Solar Flares
Native American Views of Prowling Creatures
Canines and Upright Posture
Michigan Stalker Wolf
The Southern Illinois Watcher
Chapter 12 Roadies 139
California Car Jumper
Indiana Car Caresser
Illinois Car Charger
The Oconto Bearwolf
The Michigan Mentalist
4 Creatures of Shadows, Mists, and Lights 157
Chapter 13 The Neillsville Nexus 157
The Neillsville Nexus
Black-Furred Humanoid in the Yard
A Light That Casts a Shadow
Kangaroos and Poltergeists
The Cinnamon Bigfoot
Bigfoot in a Multifaceted Native View
Into the Shadows
Stick Structures and Branch Assemblies
Lights and Portals
Chapter 14 The Brunswick Wolf Shadow 177
Feeling of Pure Evil
It's All Happening at the Zoo
Chapter 15 Beasts of Bong 182
Scrawny Sprinter
Marsh Marcher
Vanished into the Oaks
Honey Lake Track Creature
Black Cats and UFOs
Fire Ships and Ancient Mounds
Chapter 16 Green Mists and Sentient Atmospheres 195
The Green Haze
Michigan's Green Glow
The Aveley Mist
The Green Flash
Swamp Gas and Great Balls O'Lightning
Spook Lights of Michigan and North Carolina
Baffling Brown Mountain
Chapter 17 The Oz Factor 211
Zones of Influence
The Zone of Fear
Locked in Dread
Good Entity, Bad Entity
Chapter 18 Mist-erious Creatures 220
Willies of the Field
Paw Prints from Nowhere
Play Misty for Me
Cloaked in Suspicion: Camouflage and Virtual Invisibility
The Hartland Hairy Thing
Trail Cam Anomalies
"Make It Go Away"
The Mists of Time: Common Origins?
Topanga Canyon Sheep Mist
Pennsylvania Glow-Stick Dogman
5 Out of Thin Air-Creatures, UFOS, and Portals 255
Chapter 19 The Multiple Modes of UFOs 257
Chapter 20 Lights, Crafts, and Chickens 260
The Roachdale Chicken Rustler
The Dundee Disk
Craft over Canada
Chapter 21 Bigfoot in Chicago 273
Living with Monstrous Memories
UFOs over Chicago
The Wall of Silence
The Invisibility Question
Why No Attacks?
Winkin' and Blinkin
Twice Blessed
Chapter 22 The Invisibles 293
North Carolina's Unseen Tracker
Military Vanishing Acts
Tennessee Clumsy Bigfoot
No-See-'Em Tennessee Mountain Monster
Chapter 23 When Worlds Collide 305
Land Spirits and Fairy Paths
Chapter 24 Possibly Portals 311
Kentucky Sky Castle
Problems with Portals
Portals of the Ancients and Gateways to Heaven
Elijah's Whirlwind
Ezekiel's Creatures in the Clouds
St. Cuthbert's Vision
Chapter 25 Search for a Wisconsin Portal 320
Back to Smith's Field
The Orange Light Structure
The Black Mist and the UFO
The Natural-Born Killers
The Curious Sphere
Chapter 26 Physics and the Otherworld 342
Notes 347
