What Lurks Beyond, volume 9
The first story is rather rare as it deals with gargoyles. The person reported beings 2 feet tall and overweight. They had very small wings and reptile traits. It's also an unusual story in that there were twenty of the creatures seen at one time.
The second story I can't figure out what cryptid is involved. The third story could be an evil angel or maybe aliens. The fourth story is also unusual as it's about a Bigfoot that breaks into a big cat retreat. The next story might and might not be a Bigfoot.
Story six is again something I'm not sure of. Then we go with a Dogman story and then the Mothman and bridge collapse story. Another Bigfoot story is next and then a skinwalker story.
One trait of the skinwalker sightings seems to involve their limbs bending in the wrong way. Then there's some form of a bat humanoid with the typical sulfur smell. This brings up the question of smell.
Bigfoot have a bad smell but that's not surprising since they have very long hair, have never been seen to bath and things stick to their hair. They seem to just plain smell but the sulfur smell is also present in various cryptids and the question there is why sulfur smell?
Does this indicate some kind of demonic origin? I haven't read where anyone has tried to figure out the cause of that smell.
Then we have five more Bigfoot stories in a row with the usual whooping sound and another lesson about not leaving edible things unprotected.
Two of the next three stories are hard to figure out. The other one is a Bigfoot and child story and something that is also often encountered in stories and that is backpacks being torn open and the contents taken or destroyed.
I think this is all part of the difficulty of the Bigfoot finding enough food so it has become a hunter and a scavenger, both.
The mother and child one is also significant in that it establishes a degree of normality for the Bigfoot. It seems the vast majority sighted are males (howling, growling, chest thumping, anger) but for the species to continue there has to be female forms and this is the rare sighting that involves one with a child.
Some unidentifiable cryptids in this book, an oddity and some typical cryptids. A good mix.v
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