We have long warned, especially in our “Special Reports,” that the strange UFOs, aliens, and creatures constantly and increasingly reported in the now infinite constellation of media (podcasts, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, blogs, ideological websites, email lists, cable television, pay-for-view, quickie books) are often and for all we know (when legitimate) always–these “cryptids”—of a spiritual rather than extraterrestrial or zoological nature.

Once in a while, it becomes particularly discernible.

Take, for example, this passage from an intriguing new book (by a Navajo cop named Stanley Milford) called The Paranormal Ranger:

“She captured something extraordinary,” he writes of one case of a woman who set up a wildlife camera near the San Juan River. “In the nighttime footage, a small Bigfopot, perhaps a juvenile, seems to suddenly appear–as if shooting up from the ground–beside an above-ground swimming pool before running off to the west, in the same direction as the creature that had been on her porch, perhaps running toward the river and the shelter there.”

As crazy as that sounds, such folks are not crazy. And as our times intensify, with Satan unloosed, the reports (and not just due to the inundation of social media) are profligate.

But deception it often is, at least in the vast majority of cases, for where are the bones? Where is just one piece of irrefragable evidence? Surely there should be at least one femur or cranium; at least a clutch of fur.

And what about the fact that it seemed to come from somewhere below (“as if shooting up from the ground”)?

Perhaps one day we’ll be surprised and the government will disclose hard evidence in the case of UFOs. Maybe there’s something at Area 51 or Wright-Patterson. It’s a big universe (and perhaps just one of infinite universes). Who are we to say? God is huge beyond description. For a particularly bizarre set of circumstances, see the current “Special Report.”

But also, who is to say the universe is what astronomers describe it as, that it isn’t more spiritual than physical (in many near-death experiences—if those are not also a deception—folks fly past planets and stars toward an incredible distant light).

One thing for certain is that right now, spiritual warfare abounds in a way that parallels such phenomena and that such things often occur (both (UFOs and so-called cryptids) near old gravesides, preferably Indian burial mounds (where curses sometimes had been levied and where always pagan ritualism was enjoined). President-elect Donald Trump has even addressed the issue of UFOs, saying he might release information.

Confounding to those who offer a spiritual explanation: the fact that footprints have been documented in certain cases, including a hotspot in Scotland where, according to the Mirror, an English tabloid,  a creature that “was white-grey in colour with a large head and dark eyes with a long, slender neck, very slim shoulders, and waist. There were either ribs or folds of skin on its body. The arms were like ours, but there were four very long fingers.”

Burning smells. Swishing sounds.

But can not spiritual beings leave physical effects?

Back to the Navajo Nation (which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado):

One man near the river, “when he looked up, there was a massive creature standing over him. It was taller than a man, perhaps seven or eight feet tall, with broad, muscular shoulders. It was covered all over in dark hair and had canine-like teeth. It smelled like a wet dog.”

Moreover, near the river also “were clear foot impressions in the muddy soil of the nearby riverbed, fourteen to eighteen inches in length and five inches wide, with clear defined toes. Whatever had made the tracks had a five-foot stride, which meant absolutely massive. For reference, the average human’s stride is only two and a half feet, and a very tall man might have a stride a bit over three feet.

“Whatever had left the tracks apparently walked through the stinging bullheads like they were mere grass, leaving no trace of blood or injury behind.”

Adds Ranger Milford, whose book somehow made it on a list of recommended ones at The New York Times (which usually shugs off such claims), when summarizing the sighting of the woman, in which the “bigfoot” simply seemed to materialize:

“Did this mean Bigfoot was not a singular creature–one unique cryptid, as the urban legends seem to suggest–but, in fact, a species of paranormal being, with several individuals running amok in the area?”

That’s our guess.

[resources: The Paranormal Ranger]