WEIRD CREATURE OF RIVERSIDE

Riverside, California

This account, if true, is certainly eerie.  Way back in 1958, one C. Wetzel was driving near Riverside, California.  He noticed static on his radio.  Then she saw ahead of him a creature, with a head reminiscent of a scarecrow's.  It lacked ears or a nose, but had a protruberant mouth.  The eyes were fluorescent.  The legs were joined to the torso at the sides, not underneath.  It had leaflike scales on its skin.

To Wetzel's undoubted horror, it jumped on the hood of the car at clawed at the windshield.  Nor was it silent - it gurgled and screamed.  It fell to the ground and the car ran over it.  Wetzel contacted the police, but when they turned up, no vestige of the creature remained.

On the following night, something black frightened a motorist in the same area.