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Thoughts of people flying aren’t so strange today. We’ve seen video of big bulky jet packs carrying people all sorts of places through the air – like from a prison on Arrested Development. As we understand it, that show was a documentary, and everything we saw there really happened.
What’s stranger, though, is that multiple people swear up and down they saw people fly without the aid of a device. That’s probably because human/bird hybrids don’t need mechanics to soar through the air.
Ah Brazil – the sleeping giant. It’s a huge land packed full of natural resources and crooked politicians that take public road-money and turn it into a personal in-house jacuzzi for their expensive girlfriends to steam in.
It’s also home to some crazy paranormal incidents – video footage of an alien at the side of a road with its head on fire, for instance. We’re not talking about that today though – no.
Today we’re talking about a strange sighting that took place in the fifties. A Brazilian couple was out for a walk who-knows-where, when they saw the shadow of some gigantic birds pass by over head. We’ll let Paranormal.About.com tell you the rest:
“In the early 1950s, a couple was taking an evening stroll near their home by the sea at Pelotas, Brazil. When two fast-moving shadows crossed their path, they looked up to see what they at first thought were two enormous birds flying about 30 feet above the ground. It was soon evident to the couple that these were not birds at all when the two flying creatures descended vertically and landed not far away. It was then clear that they looked like men, standing about six feet tall. Discovering they were being watched by the couple, the two “birdmen” squatted close to the ground, as if trying to hide. The female half of the couple convinced her husband to leave – and quickly.”
Obviously, there’s really not a lot of detail in there. We scoured the internet for more, but none seemed available – at least for that sighting. Here’s a similar one though – it happened in England. According to Shadowlands.net:
“In the 1970’s a silvery feathered birdman was observed by people in the Mawnan in Cornwall, England. The birdman was said to have pincers as feet, reddish eyes and a large mouth. Two sisters watched it fly over a church in 1976. In July of the same year there were more sightings of the creature both on the ground and in the sky. In June through August of 1978 there were additional sightings in the area of the church in Mawnan.”
See that? That one was in England – and England is a first world country. You can’t deny a first world country, can you?
Well maybe you can. But for the sake of this article we don’t want to.
Andrew says
Dugg purely for the use of harvey birdman!
Les says
I’ve read a flying human report from Houston too. I don’t remember the source but I think it happened in the ’70s (?). Some people were sitting on their porch and claimed to see a winged man fly up into some trees. Of course, some parts of Houston are about like Brazil.
Cpt Daniel Dawson says
I was intruged by this story, and others like it, back when i was a child, and i researched them whenever i cold. When i joined the army, in 1978, i hoped to go to south america, to search in Brazil, in the mountains, for these birdmen. When the Falklands war broke out, i dod go to south america, though not brazil. However, after the war was won, and we got home leave, i had enough money to go there, with two friends from the regiment.
When we arrived there, we went straight to the mountains where they were spotted, coincidently, near the amazon, where new species are discovered every week, though none as magnificent as this. Anyway, after talking to locals, we discxovered they believed rthese men to be angels… specifically, Uriel and Gabriel? Nevertheless, three men took us to a point where they were often seen. we camped out. The men told s the birdmen were a lot more cautious, for ever since the 50s, they had been seen in daylight, tens of times. now they were never seen at day. When Jhonny, one of my friends, asked where they lived, the youngest mn answered us by saying, Deep in the Amazon, where no man has gone’.
That night, when Johnny and Andy were sleeping, along with one of the brazilians, three three of us awake, just sat, in silence, watching over the hill, across the very edge of the amazon. according to johnny, who spoke portugeuse, that was where they were said to come ad go from. Though i could not speak the language, the two brazilians, the eldest tw, also sat in silence. tey had each seen these things once, and it was aroud this time, three years previous, in this spot. It shocked me how such eerie things could happen here, while back in england, we were none the wiser, and would think of this as idiocy.
Near 06:00, we sat, sun was rising, not one of us were tired, too excited. then, it happened. coming from the trees, two apeared. they looked just like brds, and when they were pointed out, i thought they WERE birds. they were far away, but the brazilians were quitly extatic. then, as they flew across the trees, i saw, one one of then, the clear sign of a head. i then saw it turn to his partner, as if tey were talking. i never saw the head of the other one, but of the one i did see, i clearly saw hair, long and flowing. then, the two grabbed each others arms! a sign of comradery. they flew closer towaes us, on an angle to our right. they were very clear, or rather the one nearest to us was. he was about 7 foot, long black hair. then, on flat land nearly directly below us, about fifty meters to our right, they landed, with naked feet, hairless. they then walked, arms still locked, under us, into what must have been some sort of cave. the three of us then ran down, leaving the rest, following them, we soon found the point where we saw them.
After the event, when we were jst out side the cave, i learned just across the way, across the trees, was the point where the first modern sighting was made, bck in the 50s.
Back to te day at hand, when we entered the cave, we knew we were not alone. We ten heard rustling, ad i swore i heard footsteps. we must have terrorfied them. did they think we wanted to hurt them? or was it for our own good we remained seperate? either way, there must have een some sort of secret escape, because the cave was bare, ad we had to leave, eventually.
When we returned, my friends did not believe me, but the young brazillian did. The towns people were excited too, and the two brazillians who accompanied us, became very popular. an old couple of men claimed their experience was similar when they were younger.
well, we made our parting with the twon, and the next two weeks were ones of partying, drinking, etc. i never mentioned the incident again…i did not want to make my friends jealous, and no one else would believe me.
i wonder what they are doing now… i revel in te fact that two of them saw ME, know I exist. i wonder how many their are, hoe long they have lived for. i wonder so much, but what i saw, it was the greatest thing i ever witnessed, and ever will…
The Dread Pirate Sausage! says
Sorry. Will you repeat that, please?