Man-Bat Sightings In Mexico
Credit Inexplicata/ www.analuisacid.com and El Heraldo
We should all check Scott Corrales’ Inexplicata site often.
Last week, Scott posted an article on sightings of a Mothman-like creature in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders New Mexico and Texas:
The witness was driving a Liberty back to his home after his studies, when he saw a bulk on the roadway asphalt resembling a hunched-over man who seemed to be covered in a blanket. The figure suddenly stood up, taking two leaps forward and displaying a set of wings similar to those of a bat. The young man floored the accelerator in an attempt to flee, but the strange creature flew with great power, keeping abreast of the vehicle and looking in through the passenger window.
Are there other paranormal events in the area, like UFOs, poltergeist events, etc? As many readers know, this often occurs with strange humanoid sightings. There may also be a relationship with violent human activites in the area (i.e. a heightened emotional state in the residents) We may have to ask Corrales. We may have to ask him on Radio Misterioso.
On April 16th, Corrales posted an essay entitled Oddities: Reflections on Winged Humanoids, which discusses the recent sightings in Mexico with a history of others throughout Latin America.
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Apr 19 2009 
April 19th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Could this be Mothman’s smarter cousin? At least this Mexican version has a head. I seem to recall the first Mothman sighting in W. VA featured the creature flying alongside a car for quite a distance. What’s w/ the second set of wings? has anyone evr heard of any other winged humanoid sightings with a second set of wings?
April 19th, 2009 at 9:57 am
There may also be a relationship with violent human activites in the area (i.e. a heightened emotional state in the residents) We may have to ask Corrales. We may have to ask him on Radio Misterioso.
Well… maybe it’s not related at all, but it is a known fact that there has been an increase in violence in Chihuahua and other northern border states of Mexico, on account of the war between the government and the drug cartels.
One thing I can tell you, as a Mexican citizen (living in the country’s capital city) is that this particular news has not received any coverage from the Mexican mainstream media, nor the Mexican TV networks.
Needlees to say, if I hear or read of any new updates concerning this case, I will keep you informed.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:08 am
The border regions of Texas have long been a hotbed for sightings of supersized birds but this is the first I’ve heard of a man-bat. The Texas-Mexico border region is basically the size of California with about 3 million folks concentrated within a few miles of the Rio Grande. The rest of the area is sparsely populated brush and desert country that is one of the hottest regions in the world. Local folk legends have been poorly documented by the West and most of the native languages that were spoken there are now extinct. We lost a huge amount of oral history of the region that has been continously occupied since the last ice age. The man-bat maybe new to rest of us but there’s no way of knowing how far back locals had been seeing it prior to early 1700’s at the earliest.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:03 am
“Local folk legends have been poorly documented by the West and most of the native languages that were spoken there are now extinct.”
That’s not entirely true, crgintx. The indigenous people of the Tarahumaras—also known as the Rarámuri—are still there, inhabiting the ‘Cupper Canyon’ (which seems to be relatively close to the place where this being was seen).
The Tarahumara still have a very active culture, and they try to defend their traditions and religion, which include the ingestion of Peyote.
Who knows… maybe this Man-Bat was an evil Tarahumara shaman
April 20th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I’m a Garza, from both the Spanish and Native American kind. There are no Comecrudan speakers left from the extreme Lower Rio Grande Valley. Their languages had been wiped out by the early 1800’s. Many of our older other tribes like the Karanakawa and Anahuac from the region are also extinct. Although it’s said by some that some of the reports of the ‘Wildman of the the Navidad’ or Bigfoot along the Upper Texas coast are in fact the Karankawas still hiding from European settlers. European Mexico’s 500 year policy of cultural cleansing is still on going but the numerous Native peoples of Mexico(like those in the US) are now fighting hard to recapture their language and ethnic identity. At the risk of dragging modern politics into the conversation, the whole Aztlan Empire myth is a historical joke. Spanish missionaries rarely left their presidios or mission-forts without fearing for their lives from hostile Native Americans who had long histories of dealing with the Aztecas very harshly since the Aztecas usually ventured north only to capture sacrificial victims for their altars. But I’ve digressed enough from the original subject matter. Both sides of the river have vast unsettled areas still today with thousands of square miles of poorly accessible wilderness in which strange and mystical occurances are still happening.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:42 am
“At the risk of dragging modern politics into the conversation, the whole Aztlan Empire myth is a historical joke. Spanish missionaries rarely left their presidios or mission-forts without fearing for their lives from hostile Native Americans who had long histories of dealing with the Aztecas very harshly since the Aztecas usually ventured north only to capture sacrificial victims for their altars.”
Moving from the subject for a sec, we have to keep in mind that the Aztlan myth was part of the Aztecs cultural tradition. Aztlan was probably located near Michoacán, but no one is really sure. The Aztecs—although the accurate term is Mexicas— were the last Nahua people who settle in Mexico’s central valley. There rarely ventured north of Mexico and had a higher grip on the central part and south.
If the missionaries had fear of going away from their missions was probably not because of the Aztecs—who, like I said, lived in the Anáhuac valley— but probably more because of the Yaqui indians, who live in the state of Sonora—the Yaquis were always held as a very violent people even by other indigenous groups, and it can be considered that they were never fully conquered neither by the Spaniards, nor by the Mexican government.
I can’t help to take issue with the concept of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Mexico. While I certainly do not dispute that the indigenous people have never received full recognition of their rights, and have been left to the most atrocious of poverty, there has never been a direct attempt to eradicate or isolate them as it is the case in the US. There are no such things as ‘reservations’ in Mexico. The indigenous people have—in theory— a right to vote, and in some cases they have a Constitutional recognition to maintain their traditions and laws—which is not so great IMO, because some of those laws are retrograde and misogynistic.
Which treatment is worse (legal isolation or economic exploitation & oblivion) I shall let them to determine.
The Tarahumaras I wrote before are related to the North American Apache tribes. They are a very interesting group in the sense that they are the last remaining ‘cave people’ in the continent. They inhabit caves in the Tarahumara Sierra. The movie ‘Altered States’ (1980) with William Hurt, showed a few Tarahumara indians—although the movie fictionalized the ritual, because like I said the Tarahumaras do not employ mushrooms, they use Peyote, which enables them to run for days kicking a wooden ball through the hills—at night they set the ball on fire by dampening it on oil, that way they can see it in the darkness.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I remember that NBC used to do investigative special on the paranormal in the mid ’70’s and the Tarahumuras were featured on the show. They could run for hours and on the show they would test their heart rate just after finishing and again within 10 minutes and the Tarahumuras heart rate would have fallen back to normal resting rate within 10 minutes. The show also featured remote viewing, bio-feedback and was hosted by Raymond Burr.
The Spanish colonists in Mexico didn’t codify their ethnic and cultural cleansing like the Anglos did but they enabled the Roman Catholic Church to virtually enslave millions of Native Americans for over 300 years in order to save their ’souls’. The RCC was only interested in the utter destruction of its competion usually by usurping Native religious holidays like the solar and lunar holidays. Halloween/Dia de Los Muertos and Christmas are the two of just many to name of few. Neither gov’t has yet truly recognized Native Americans spiritual relationship to the land.
Most of the tribes along the border were nomadic like the Comanche, Lipan or Tiguas which had no permanent home. They followed seasonal food sources. Imagine their abject horror the first time they saw their native wild food resources being destroyed to make room for cattle and other European farm products. Much of the Southwest was more scrub prairie than desert prior to the arrival the Spanish who brought sheep,cattle and goats which quickly denuded native grasses over the thin soil which had taken 12K thousand years to build up. Erosion happened quickly and the only plants hardy enough to resist the European invaders were the desert plants like cacti. It’s now thought that as many as a thousand species of Native American plants may have gone extinct within 100 years of the arrival of the Europeans to the Southwest US and Northern Mexico.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Chris,
Some species of moth do have two sets of wings, so maybe this one deserves the “Mothman” moniker more than the original.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
RPJ,
Keep us posted!
RPJ and CRG,
Thanks for the info on the native tribes of Mexico. A lot of you may not know that I am interested in the history the Southwestern US and Mexico.