Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Big Bird,

Hello day twenty-nine! It's going to be day thirty in about ten minutes. :)

I remember reading about this story of "Big Bird" when I was younger in a book that my great uncle had. I decided to look it up, and here is the odd story of "Big Bird":

The term Big Bird in this particular instance does not refer to the lovable 6 foot tall, yellow feathered bird from the hit children’s show Sesame Street but rather a mysterious creature that was sighted several times in the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas during the mid 1970’s. Big Bird, as the creature was dubbed, was described by witnesses as being five feet tall, having a huge wingspan of up to 12 feet and possessing two large red eyes on a gorilla like face.

On January 7, 1976, policemen Arturo Padilla of San Benito, Texas, spotted something unusual in the headlights of his cruiser. Padilla described the creature as looking like a big bird, a really big bird. A few minutes later Padilla’s fellow officer, Homer Galvan, also reported seeing the creature in the form of a black silhouette that glided through the air.

The evening of January 7, 1976 a man by the name of Alverico Guajardo of Brownsville, Texas, encountered the creature, describing it as a giant bat.

On January 14, 1976 a man named Armando Grimaldo, at Raymondville, heard a sound like the flapping of bat like wings and a funny kind of whistling, as he pondered the source of the sound large claws gripped his back and ripped his shirt. He described his assailant as a flying creature with leather skin and a monkey like face.


You can't tell me that doesn't sound a little freaky to you! What would you say to yourself if you saw that!? I would die.

Well Queen is sleeping over tonight. She has a headache right now though, so she's taking a nap. I'm going to wake her up in 5 minutes. I just wanted to share this story with you all.

No comments: