Entries from LAist tagged with 'creature'
August 23, 2008
During the UFO waves of the 1940s and '50s a new type of peculiar, possibly extraterrestrial or covert machine was mentioned, and often sighted in the murky oceans of the world. The USO, or Unidentified Submarine Object, just like the flying saucers and mystery airships of before, had begun to cause panic. Were alien life forms monitoring our shores with their advanced technology and preparing for possible attack, or was the government conducting clandestine operations......
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: Weirdness In The Waters"January 31, 2008
Reports of Bigfoot were sweeping across America by the late '50s, but what Charles Wetzel encountered on Saturday, November 1st, 1958 was unlike anything reported in the press. He was cruising in his 1952 Buick Super near Riverside, lending an ear to KFI Radio of Los Angeles, when he had to slow his car further to avoid water that had spilled across the road from the Santa Ana River. Suddenly, the radio began to crackle......
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: Riverside's Reptile Man"January 29, 2008
Something strange is decreasing the abundant and once bold populations of coyote's in Southern California, and it's not from this planet! On February 18th 1996 two men travelling on the 101 West Freeway encountered a peculiar 'animal' which was running alongside the vehicle. The weird beast caused such a distraction that the driver veered the motor into a ditch, causing other drivers to stop as they passed. Suddenly, all witnesses involved, saw two odd, goat-like......
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: The Goatsucker!"January 26, 2008
During 1985 in Riverside, huge and unusual footprints were found. The Press-Enterprise newspaper at the time ran an article on the findings claiming that the prints were made by Bigfoot. Five years later near Palm Springs campers were alarmed by a series of terriyfing screams, heavy breathing and the movement of something large outside their tent. In the morning large footprints were discovered leading away from the camp area and into the thicket. Legend......
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: More Bigfoot!"January 24, 2008
Welcome to the bizarre world of 'Weird Los Angeles', where shaggy-haired man-beasts roam the back roads, eerie phantoms drift through the night and peculiar objects move silently across the zenith. We'll be taking you on a weekly tour of the cities anomalies, beginning with sightings of Bigfoot, where it seems reports date back to the 1970s. Two witnesses out hunting in the San Gabriel mountains observed an eight-feet tall hairy humanoid through their rifle......
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: Strange Things Afoot!"