Prologue
July 18th, 1932
On July 18th, 1932, a farmer by the name of Leonadis Slidell awoke in middle of the night. Reporters would later say that he had seen strange, flashing lights, in the dark sky. Getting out of his bed, he went outside with a look of confusion on his face. The dogs in the pen were barking like crazy, but he would later say that at that moment his full attention was on the swirling lights in the dark, Georgian night.
The man was said to have broken down in tears when he spoke of the next events. He said that he had heard a rustling in the bushes not far from him. This light rustling mysteriously broke him from the spell of the lights. A dark figure was seen in the bushes, but he could not see who it was. Yelling out at the person, he began to walk towards the bushes. He was not ten feet away when a flash of light broke across the sky. That brief flash gave him a look of the figure before him; he would never forget the sight.
The creature was taller than the average human, from what Leonadis could see, it was around seven feet tall. The first distinction was its eyes. The cornea was pitch black, though a different sort of black. It seemed as if one's soul was lost when staring in to those eyes. Leonadis would later claim that he felt like his brain was somehow being searched, his thoughts invaded. The figure itself was not much unlike a normal human. It had no visible muscles, just long, slender limbs. The shape of the head was rather strange, it seemed to curve upward to a point at the top of the head. The purpose of the shape was lost on the simple farmer, but he did think that there must have been one. The last thing that he noticed was a very small mouth, about half the size of a normal human's. There were no lips, and the mouth never opened during the brief encounter.
While Leonadis would try and tell people that he was out there for hours, in reality it was only five minutes, so says his wife. She told reporters that she had been exhausted that night when Leonadis woke up, so she had stayed in her bed. She never saw the strange lights that Leonadis talked of, but again that could have been because she was still in her bed trying to get back to sleep.
This incident spread like wild fire throughout the United States. The vivid descriptions brought others to speak out of their own experiences with creatures like, and some times unlike, the one that Leonadis had seen. However, the lack of proof and sightings from other people in the region soon caused the incident to blow over and is labeled as a fake. After a mental breakdown many months later, Leonadis was sent to a mental institution.
Based on Leonadis' description of the creature, an artist drew up this picture.
July 18th, 1932
On July 18th, 1932, a farmer by the name of Leonadis Slidell awoke in middle of the night. Reporters would later say that he had seen strange, flashing lights, in the dark sky. Getting out of his bed, he went outside with a look of confusion on his face. The dogs in the pen were barking like crazy, but he would later say that at that moment his full attention was on the swirling lights in the dark, Georgian night.
The man was said to have broken down in tears when he spoke of the next events. He said that he had heard a rustling in the bushes not far from him. This light rustling mysteriously broke him from the spell of the lights. A dark figure was seen in the bushes, but he could not see who it was. Yelling out at the person, he began to walk towards the bushes. He was not ten feet away when a flash of light broke across the sky. That brief flash gave him a look of the figure before him; he would never forget the sight.
The creature was taller than the average human, from what Leonadis could see, it was around seven feet tall. The first distinction was its eyes. The cornea was pitch black, though a different sort of black. It seemed as if one's soul was lost when staring in to those eyes. Leonadis would later claim that he felt like his brain was somehow being searched, his thoughts invaded. The figure itself was not much unlike a normal human. It had no visible muscles, just long, slender limbs. The shape of the head was rather strange, it seemed to curve upward to a point at the top of the head. The purpose of the shape was lost on the simple farmer, but he did think that there must have been one. The last thing that he noticed was a very small mouth, about half the size of a normal human's. There were no lips, and the mouth never opened during the brief encounter.
While Leonadis would try and tell people that he was out there for hours, in reality it was only five minutes, so says his wife. She told reporters that she had been exhausted that night when Leonadis woke up, so she had stayed in her bed. She never saw the strange lights that Leonadis talked of, but again that could have been because she was still in her bed trying to get back to sleep.
This incident spread like wild fire throughout the United States. The vivid descriptions brought others to speak out of their own experiences with creatures like, and some times unlike, the one that Leonadis had seen. However, the lack of proof and sightings from other people in the region soon caused the incident to blow over and is labeled as a fake. After a mental breakdown many months later, Leonadis was sent to a mental institution.
Based on Leonadis' description of the creature, an artist drew up this picture.
