Winged Cryptids

Obviously from the title the book deals with cryptids that have some form of wings. There's more of them that I thought before I read the book. I think it would have been interesting if the author would have added cryptids of mythology, though.

The author does one really good thing to do and that is to define the term. I picked up something in college that said when two people want to discuss something (esp. like cryptids) then it's really necessary for them to be working with the same definition of the term. Otherwise, there is no real communication that will happen.

The entries in the book are eye-witness accounts of people seeing different very odd winged beings and how they reacted to them. There is, of course, the Mothman. Others including things that are humanoid and things that are slightly humanoid but not fully.

Their size often seems to be around the size of a tall human. The wings often resemble those of bats. The manner of their flight is very odd, though, as the author goes into how many of them flap their wings only sometimes, seeming to propel themselves at times without any wing movement on their part.

The book also gives examples of times when the cryptid suddenly vanishes. This brings up the question of whether or not they are fully of this dimension/reality or whether they may exist primarily in another reality and only at times 'bleed through' into our reality.

Some very interesting ones are those that seem to be dinosaur holdovers such as the Pterosaurs and ones like that. There is also the Thunderbird of Native American (First People) history.

There are some, though, that really are very, very hard to believe and those tend to occur late in the book.

One thing: the review is based on the Kindle version. As is often done, books in the Kindle version lack illustrations found in the printed version which I think is unfortunate.

Overall a very interesting book. As with any book like this, either the stories are all made up or the stories are real. If they are real then the topic needs a lot more study.