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Chapter 9
Invasion of the para-apes By Donald Lewis.
ED: I can well imagine that some readers will find the following article ridiculous, absurd, and somewhat disturbing. I have published this however because Donald is sincere, rational, and perceptive. He has researched and reported such phenomena and experiences for for nearly years, during which he worked closely with Gordon Creighton of the Flying Saucer Review. As we know the world reveals itself constantly to be a far stranger place than we would ever believe, therefore we must read Donald's report with an open mind. We must also remember that such thoughts as Donald has do not at least create the oiled sea-birds made by loftier thoughts and minds full of "facts." The animals described by Donald are truly liminal forms: they do not leave a food swathe, or droppings, they do not have nests or lairs, family structures, and most appear not to have genitals. No fights, mating, sleeping habits, nesting, corpses or injuries have been observed. We cannot get a DNA sample through samples of blood, body fluids exposed through natural cuts and abrasions. Though food has been seen to have been consumed, bullets appear to effect them only partially. These animals are thus like cartoons: they only belong partially to the Cartesian frame, and are thus like the half-forms known to antiquity, but denied even a half-existence by modern sceptics. But now let Donald to tell us more. Let me make it clear at the outset , I do not intend to ridicule the legions of Sasquatch/Big Foot investigators. I appreciate all their efforts, data, and I even like their cellars full of plaster foot-casts, but I differ from many of them in my opinion. I believe that para-apes are the controlled creations of alien intelligence. Para-apes are not new manifestations. Like UFOs, they are reported throughout history, and on a global scale, virtuall the same phenomenon goes by the names Dhzutheh,Gulivavan, Almasty,Mapinguany,Yowee,Sasquatch, Big Foot, Mighty Mo, Old Slue Foot and other names. These I call para-apes. I have listed their widespread geographical dispersal because I want to point out that despite hundreds of thousands of incidents since the 1800s, not one hairy being has ever been delivered to a laboratory for scientific surgical confirmation. This is just one valid indication that we are dealing with something that may be a flesh and blood thing only in part. In my analysis delivered at Dr. Hynek's 1976 International Conference in Evanston IL, I gave a summary of my study of 234 reports drawn from the observations of 602 witnesses who observed 266 para-apes. The members of a large religious group in the Western Canadian Provinces and Northern Europe are quite familiar with them. They call them the "In Betweeners" because of their ability to appear and vanish at will. In a sighting by no less than 14 tourists in Florida's Holliday Park, a para-ape walked a 40 ft. half circle around them and disappeared over a dyke. WHAT IS THEIR PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL NATURE? On my list I have many fantastic descriptions, including 11 cases of para-apes shaking caravans and cars. In one case a para-ape ran off carrying a pig, in another case one lifted calf overhead. In other cases one pulled loose power wires, and another tore Florida security guards shirt, but I have no record of a human being hurt by a para-ape. At Roachdale Indiana some three dozen persons encountered a huge red-eyed beast over a period of 7 weeks. It all started after a luminous light came down and silently blew up over a cornfield next to Lou Rodgers home. This being could run over mud and not leave a track . Sometimes it appeared to be transparent. It ripped apart 170 chickens and on one occasion several gunners poured a volley of shots at it with no effect. In Galveston Indiana a fisherman had an entity put its hand on his shoulder in the twilight. When he jumped up at seeing the tall spectre, it leaped away and ran . He ran after it keeping a safe distance and heard its feet slap the blacktop of the bridge. It ran into high weeds and an orange glowing light mounted into the sky from there. There are four episodes in which our strange ape lifted a person. One was engineer Charles Buchanan, of Hurst TX. He was hoisted aloft, sleeping bag and all. Then the para-ape dropped him to pick up a bag of barbecued chicken, wolfed it down, and lumbered off. The fact that the para-apes have been hit by so much hot lead with no effect is important in our understanding of the transitory state of their presence on the earthly plane. I record 26 such instances. When hit, the being may swat as if at a fly and some have screamed and run off. At Uniontown PA. a woman fired from six feet away at one being that had its hands up, but was approaching. The blast into its midsection from a 16-gauge shotgun caused it to vanish in a flash of light. The following case is an epic when it comes to gunfire. Four glowing oil tank-sized UFOs were part of this incident. As they hovered over the distant tree line, they projected light beams and the para-apes appeared on the ground in the beams. By June the intrusion of the giant black forms with glowing red eyes had become menacing. The desperate farmer and his brother strung barbed wire around the house and took refuge on the roof. From this vantage point they began to fire at the beings with a rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun. In one week they used more than $120 worth of shells and had only bruised shoulders to show for it. One night two para-apes moved nearer by the barn. Ray Davis, the farmer, tried to talk to them and gave them five minutes to come out in the open. (ED: reminds us of the celebrated Kelly/Hopkinsville case) The time passed in silence and the men opened up close range. Davis used a 12-gauge Mossburg with pumpkin ball shells, and was sure he didn't miss. The fusillade sent the creatures in screaming retreat. In the morning nothing but bullet holes were found. Newsmen and Lawmen had been called but when they were there nothing happened, so they went away disbelieving. But during the summer a number of outside investigators did experience the phenomena. In the end the sheer terror it all caused the couple involved to divorce and move away. THE UFO LINK The UFO-link percentage was the highest in my research data except in the three west coast states of southern California. Often black furred types with normal eyes and no known UFO linkage are reported. I think of these as a more settled form of the para-apes, but still having the same alien masters. In some UFO-link cases there are reports of the sound of turbine-like machinery running underground. Fire Control Officer Bill Vogel , in the Yakima Indian Reservation of Washington State, reported intense UFO activity and such sounds in the isolated back canyons. Ken Hunt , an ex-California law officer, was another who reported such things in his area situated south towards the Columbia River. Here too were UFOs and the underground mining sounds. In this area, after 10 years of para-apes and UFOs the ranch horses finally ceased to panic. In the New Jersey counties of Morrison, Warren, Huntston, and Sussex , at least 60 persons saw the ape entities along with ruby-red UFOs and triangular craft. The sounds were there too. In Sangus, CA. on the Santa Clarita ranch UFOs were active and several para-apes were seen wearing glowing blue belts. There are abductee cases in which the para-apes are seen inside the UFO or in facilities that look like an underground base. One of my Louisiana abductees described the types of aliens she had seen in what she called an under-river base. She casually mentioned that a friend of the aliens, a red eyed ape, was there also. This information from her was spontaneous for I had not mentioned anything about any apes. The UFO-linked para-ape manifestation is undeniable in the following classic case. Joe Butler and Elmer Grant were fishing on Moqdor Reservoir near Kent OH. when a large orange sphere began to send a yellow beam to the ground. Joe flashed his light at it and much to his chagrin it soon arrive overhead, and it paralysed him with its beam. In less than a minute he had the impression that it released him and he dived in the door of his tent. He then watched in amazement as his companion was transfixed in the beam. Then he himself was released. The two then cowered in the tent as an orange glow flooded the area. The thing overhead emitted a " whoo whoo" sound then departed. The men were no longer acting normally for they went back to the lake to fish for catfish and only joked as if nothing really strange had happened. However, when a big hunched long-armed beast rushed at them through the woods their previous terror came back, Joe fired six pistol shots at the thing and they rushed to the tent. There they were like trapped animals in an orange glow and it sounded as if the para-ape was beating sticks together. Frantic, they ran off and reached home in a distraught state, and they were in for a shock. Their faces were red and swollen. They became nauseated, had runny bowls, syrupy-yellow urine, and suffered from dehydration, exhaustion and depression. But the most surprising thing was their dreams. There they again met para-apes. But this time they were quite intelligent. In the dream, each of them spent time in a padded captain's chair opposite a para-ape who questioned them in detail on some aspects of para-ape/ human relations. Waking, the men had the impression of having lost some time whilst the orange beam was upon them. There are many such cases that indicate that the entities and the UFOs are connected. In West Jefferson OH there is large triangular area encompassing Big Darby Creek where giant red-eyed apes began to appear. It all started when a curious and nervy woman named Pat Evans found a footprint near her slashed trash bags, and decided to put out greasy bacon just to see what happened. Thus began the amazing saga of "The lady who fed bigfoot." One Big Foot became three, and they began to venture beyond their usual haunts in the creek valley. Pat's friends from Columbus and West Jefferson would come at night and watch from her darkened home. Pat said. " Them suckers was big! Tall enough they would burn the tops of my redbud trees. My whole front yard was burned up by these things. Anything they touched, it died. You couldn't believe it. They ruined my beautiful yard." As might be guessed, Pat's curiosity and boldness had gotten her into deep trouble. Other strange things appeared in the triangle. The red glowing "something out of mythology," was as half-horse half-man figure. It had a pointed head and ears, fiery slanted eyes, a beard, and skinny wings. The horrifying apparition moved across the yard on long cloven feet, leaving hoof prints in the snow. Even more mind-boggling was the brilliant orange balloon that swooped down by the back door of the house one nice summer morning. It seemed to deliberately go slowly, so slowly that Pat and her husband ended up within touching distance of it. The basket of the balloon had three man-like figures in it. One had on a black suit and the other two wore heavy black jackets with fur on them. The gent in the suit said with a very English accent (I'd love to know which one -Brit Editor) "And a good morning to you, too." Then the basket rose rapidly up and out of sight. After 18 months , the previously rather silent triangle again became alive with normal night creature sounds and the para-apes did not return. This was right after the night that a giant UFO settled down into the creek valley only to disappeared by morning. THE DIMENSIONAL TELEPATHIC FACTOR Some persons have reported dimensional awareness and telepathic contact with the para-apes. David Parker (BA and MS degrees), had spent 32 years in Sasquatch research when I came in contact with him. His exploration treks had taken him to mountainous areas on three continents. Parker had read some of my articles telling of the para-ape UFO interdimensional link and he held me in angry contempt. He believed I was writing sensationalized fiction to make money. It was on a trek into the wilderness of a Wisconsin Indian Reservation that he got the shock of his life. His months alone in the wilderness had finally paid off, but it disturbed him for it refuted much of the traditional science in which he believed. On the reservation, both those he called the ET and the para-apes that he had sought zeroed in on him via and impression of mental telepathy. In the years that followed he counted at least 300 Big Foot episodes and 100 ET experiences. In these there have been important physical experiences too. I have his letter of apology here beside me regarding his former attitude towards me. Parker's benevolent ETs have told him that our past lives are all one life. We weave in and out of dimensions, a single soul dictating. Our free will directs to the positive or negative ideas of each sub-life which is only a small part of the whole. The experience of Sue Jones, a rural Indiana woman is illustrative of this. She claims she has often been abducted, and has had a special relationship through the years with a Gray she calls Zanna. As a child on a craft she was told there were some special friends who wanted to meet her. Thus began intimate contact between Sue and the para-apes she calls Teluke and Teleel. Her friends could shift into her dimension and she could sense them in their dimension. This wondrous ability acquired from the aliens permitted her to even perceive deceased humans in the other dimension. Also on one occasion when she played her flute she saw "Wood Sprites " down in the forest, and a little "Brownie" figure came and sat on the cross piece of her yard swing. It is Sue's adventures with her Sasquatch friends on her father-in-law’s farm that I find fascinating. Sue would spend a lot of time away from the farmhouse out in the pasture and woods supposedly playing with imaginary friends. Teluke had expressed the desire to ride her horse, but the horse didn't want any part of this. However one day Sue mangled to accomplish this feat. It took patience and restraint, plus a blindfold, and the nose of her nose had to be smeared liberally with Vick salve in order stop the horses scenting the presence of Teluke. Sue's para-ape friends told her that they were here aeons before humanity appeared. They told her that our own very destructive life form developed and has now overspread Earth and is now rapidly despoiling this beautiful blue and green planet which is also the abode of the para-apes .
Book Reviews Politics of the Imagination (Head Press 2002) by Colin Bennett Review by Brian Allan This review appeared originally on Philip Mantle's Beyond site Anyone expecting a quick and easy canter through the quirks and oddities unearthed by Charles Hoy Fort is due for a shock. This is no easy-access cross between Disneyland and Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’, rather, this excellent new work by Colin Bennett, the author of the recent biography of George Adamski, ‘Looking for Orthon,’ delves deep into the step-changes that racked society in the dying days of the 19th century. While mention of the quirks and foibles of the ‘cosmic joker’ is made they, are not the meat of this book; rather they are used as the thinnest of skeletons for the author to hang his image of Fort as an anarchist flying in the face of scientific convention upon. The work is concise, well written and scholarly although one senses a tendency to over-intellectualise the social changes surrounding Fort. Although the approach makes this a complex book to read, as with works of this kind, the effort is repaid tenfold. Some of the insights almost literally leap from the page and lodge in the readers’ brain. Statements that bring seemingly unrelated facts and events together and present them in a manner so obvious that we wonder how we could possibly overlooked them. The author juxtaposes the anomalies and chaos unearthed by Fort with the rapidly approaching dawn of invincible ‘new science,’ the universal technical placebo that late 19th century convention insisted would provide the answer to all mans woes. In a sense, Fort moves from a perceived crank, a lone voice railing insistently against the thunder of modernity and its certainties, to a prophet of the then non-existent ‘new age’. The image presented by Bennett portrays Fort as man who isolated a ‘chaos wave’, climbed aboard it and rode against the tide of rationality. The public was confronted by ‘facts’ that simply did not sit comfortably in any conventional rational. This did not endear either Fort or his discoveries among the dusty and largely ignored sources of his uncomfortable ‘truths’ to the buying public and his books remained largely ignored and marginalised until re-discovered in the 1960’s by proponents of alternative paths to enlightenment. The word picture of Fort as an impoverished researcher, squirreling away his facts and notes written in cipher of his own devising, an estimated 40,000 stored in boxes in an attic room, is certainly evocative the dreamy yet driven romantic. Perhaps it was this marginalised and rejected outsider image that endeared him to later generations, creating a bond of kinship with this iconoclast. Beginning with ‘The Book of the Damned’, followed by ‘New Lands, ‘Wild Talents’ and finally culminating in ‘Lo’, Fort slowly chipped away of the cornerstones of convention, and although now best known for his books on the bizarre and arguably ‘true’ but unconventional accounts of happenings surrounding humankind, he also wrote humorous short stories. As Bennett points out, he was also the inspiration behind the fictitious character Geoffrey Sonnabend, a creation of the author Lawrence Weschler in his novel based of Fort’s life and entitled ‘Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders’. Apparently without realising it, Fort was introducing an early perception of chaos theory, the concept that suggests that when a butterfly flaps its wings in Inverness, there is a typhoon in London. To quote Fort from the book, ‘If a red-hot stove should drop from a cloud in Brooklyn, someone would find that at the time if the occurrence, a moving van had passed and the moving men had tired of the stove, or something – that it had not really been red-hot, but had been rouged instead of blacked, by some absent minded housekeeper. Compared with the scientific explanations that we have encountered, there’s considerable restraint, I think, in that one’. Given the era in which it as made, this remark seems oddly prescient and certainly in line with quantum physics, now seems entirely feasible. This once again seems to be an example of art pre-empting science a phenomenon that occurs more than one might think; the pages of science fiction books are littered with examples. One interesting analogy drawn by Bennett serves to illustrate the irrationality of the human psyche. Using the analogy of George Adamski, he points out that Fort like Adamski became enshrined in popular mythology as a figure grown out of all proportion to their input. He shows that characters like Adamski can, even now, generate feels of anger and derision among certain segments of society. His harmless contribution to the Ufology of the 1950’s can still raise all sorts of inappropriate emotions, yet the Korean War from the same period that killed thousands of human beings does not raise an eyebrow or a flicker of emotion. So it was with Charles Hoy Fort, this man started a quiet, almost magical revolution that even now shows no sign of abating, quite the reverse. The final sentence in the book encapsulates this perfectly, ‘Provision of magic is a holy thing, a sacred act, for without magic and poetry we all enter the infernos of the utterly damned’. Buy the book!
Letters to the Editor Colin, I hadn't taken the time to follow the thread on UFOUpdates you've included in "Diary 10" until this afternoon, and its just wonderful. You are indeed a gifted man. What's more, I'm heartened. I may return to battle with my own interpretation of my fleeting memories of the paranormal versus the 4,000 cases of fact-pounded Jacobs/Hopkins anomalies with my confidence renewed. My favorite all-time TV series was a British show called Faulty Towers. John Cleese, former member of Monty Python wrote and stared in it along with his wife. In a taped interview they asked him what he thought was "funny" and Cleese responded that he thought it was funny when people got mad...and not simply angry...but furious. There is nothing more laugh-out-loud funny than Richard Hall's responses to your posts on updates. I laughed all afternoon -- until my sides hurt. I'd been reading Hall's shriveled, dried up old posts for years before you joined Updates -- and what a perfect mismatch in personalities (you versus nearly everyone on the list)...I don't know...simply wonderful. And that bites it...I'm ordering your Adamski book this evening. Best, Bill Weber
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