In past centuries, meetings with humanoid beings who had horns were unambiguously perceived as meetings with Satan or his henchmen, and today these stories have been attributed to excessive religiosity and fantasy based on this religiosity. However, such creatures are seen today.
Horned "people" from Belgorod-Dnestrovsky
One of the most famous such cases occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1952 in the city of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, in the Odessa region. Many newspapers wrote about him in those years.
Until 1952, this city was an unusual place, UFOs were often seen here, and most of the local anomalies were associated with an old fortress, which, according to legend, had a deep underground with many long tunnels.
In particular, according to one of the legends, a "sky ship" once crashed here and its crew disappeared into an underground tunnel. It is possible that the horned creatures, which will be discussed below, were the very crew or its descendants.
Once one old disabled grandfather could not fall asleep late in the evening and when he accidentally walked past the window, he saw in the yard of his neighbor the dark silhouettes of unusual creatures, which had very noticeable horns on their heads. The grandfather, out of fear, did not go out into the street, but went out the next day and found that these creatures had stolen all the apples from the neighboring apple trees.
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In the following nights, these horned silhouettes again came to this or that house in the same area. They stole food supplies from barns. More details about these mysterious "devils" can be found in the article "Strange incidents with horned creatures in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky".
Beast from New Jersey
A story that happened in 1979 was published on the Weird New Jersey website. A woman named Olivia went horseback riding with her daughter in a wooded suburb of Blackwood off Lakeland, New Jersey. It was an ordinary day and around Olivia and her daughter the birds were singing in the trees. And suddenly all of them fell silent, a frightening forest silence fell.
“And then, about 100 feet ahead of us, we saw this creature standing near a tree. It was so strange that it looked like a horse standing on its hind legs, but with the head of a dog, which also had horns. The creature wandered up the hill and we automatically followed the path in the same direction, although our horses seemed very alarmed.
When it turned towards us, I could get a better look at it. His body was covered from head to toe with white hair with dark spots on his thighs, his eyes were red, his nose looked like a pig's, and his legs ended in hooves. They had long claws on their hands.
It stretched out its arms and jumped straight onto our path, behaving obviously aggressively, and drooling from its mouth began to flow down its face, however, we were both in a trance, did not scream or run away. Only a few seconds later, my daughter found the strength to shout “Turn around and leave here!”.
It ran up to us and tried to grab one of our horses by the tail, but we galloped away and managed to break away from this creature. When we got to the highway, we saw a police car there and told the officer about a strange creature in the forest.
When the officer began to write down our testimony in a notebook, this creature jumped out of the forest onto the road and now the policeman himself saw him. Having run past the police car, it disappeared into the forest again. My daughter and I hurried to our home and we still do not know if the policeman at the station spoke about this monster or if he hid it.
Some time later, a local rancher found the torn corpse of one of his horses in a field. Someone ripped open the horse's belly and tore all the insides. I am sure that all this was done by the same creature that we and the policeman saw a few days earlier. I will never forget this creepy thing."
It is possible that Olivia encountered the same Jersey Devil, in many ways the description of the creature she saw is similar to him. However, curiously, very few reported that the Jersey Devil had horns on its head. Also, the Devil had large wings, but Olivia did not see the wings of the "horned horse".
Creature from the coast
In 1997, the Gulf Coast Regional Bigfoot Organization (GCBRO) published the story of a Johnson City, Tennessee resident. In June of the same year, this man was in the local forest on a night hunt with his friend.
At some point, his friend stayed behind, and the eyewitness stepped forward a little and then he heard the crackling of branches and other noise in the bushes, as if from some large creature, he decided that a deer was coming to him. However, when he looked closely, he suddenly realized that it was something else.
“I had a loaded rifle with a night vision scope in my hands, and there were more than 150 rounds of ammunition in my bag in the car. Through the scope I saw something with a human figure, but when this creature moved again, it seemed to me much more dangerous and terrible. And when it came out from behind two walnut trees, I opened fire on it.
I quickly emptied the entire supply of ammunition in the rifle and began to retreat towards the car, and this creature continued to move between the trees and did not even roar in pain, as if I had not hit it at all.
It was over two meters in height and weighed about 450-500 pounds (200-225 kg). His entire body was covered with thick black fur and in appearance it resembled the well-known Bigfoot. However, it was quite slender and had a neck, and from the top of its head protruded straight and black horns 5-6 inches long (12-15 cm).
I grabbed my friend on the way, told him everything and then got to the car and we drove home, but the next day we returned to this area to check in the daylight if I had injured this creature. We saw many of our spent cartridges among the trees on the ground, but not a drop of blood. However, the entire ground was covered with large chaotic tracks, as if this creature was jumping, dodging my bullets.
Then my friend and I went to check our traps set earlier last night and found that they were all empty and no baits. And when we scoured in those places, we noticed an unusual hut, roughly woven from branches and covered with leaves from above. We were sure that it was not made by a man, but it was the lair of the “horned bigfoot”.
Soon we began to feel as if someone was watching us and this feeling was so terrible that we quickly went home."
Horned monster in Iowa
In 2002, a story about a meeting with a horned creature in the suburbs of Norway, Iowa, was posted on the network. Late at night, an unnamed man was walking home and heard someone following him. It was cold, the ground was covered with snow and the footprints of footsteps could be heard very well.
When the man stopped and turned around to see who was following him, out of the half-darkness suddenly came not another person, but "the devil himself."
It was a bipedal creature with the body of a human, but it had goat hooves on its feet and horns on its head. In the light of the moon, the man saw how the snow was melting under the hooves of this creature, which means it was very warm and was not a hallucination or a ghost.
Creature made of wood
In an April 2012 podcast on the paranormal site Coast to Coast, a resident of Ventura, California, spoke of an unusual incident that had occurred 10 years earlier when he was still a child.
“We were talking with my brother and suddenly something jumped out of a tree nearby. It was as tall as a man and completely black in color. In figure it looked like a very skinny man, but its head resembled the head of a dog, and on its head were terrible huge horns, as huge as those of mountain goats.
His fingers were also thin and long, and it stood on two legs, but strongly hunched over. It seemed very angry and I felt as if it was looking into my very soul. I don't know what it was, but my brother and I broke eye contact with this creature at the same time and ran around the corner of the building.
When we did, we heard a strong rumble on the roof of the building, this creature jumped up. We were so scared that we started to run as fast as we could and did not stop until we were at our house. I've never been religious, but it seems to me that then we both saw a demon."
Skinwalker Ranch Incident
On the same website "Coast to Coast" in the July 2014 podcast, an even more frightening story was told that happened on the territory of Skinwalker Ranch. This ranch is famous for its paranormal events; UFOs and strange creatures are often seen there.
Someone heard this story from adolescents living in those places, so it may just be a fictitious horror story, but the narrator assured that the adolescents assured that it really was.
“These young people were driving late at night in their car and there were several other girls with them. Suddenly, something fell from the sky and hit hard on the roof of their car. They drove another quarter of a mile before deciding to stop and see how badly their car was damaged.
Then one of the passengers decided to change places with the driver, and when they began to change, a creepy creature jumped out from somewhere and attacked the guy who had just sat in the driver's seat. The creature grabbed him and pulled him out of the car as easily as if he were a rag doll.
It bit the guy several times, scratched him, but suddenly dropped and disappeared in the dark. Somehow the guy got up from the ground and went to the car of his frightened friends. They drove on and when they met with the Indian police, they told them about the creature. They said that a lot of strange things are happening at Skinwalker Ranch and therefore they believe them.
The next day an Indian shaman was invited and he performed a cleansing ceremony on these young people. He also saw bite marks and scratches on the injured guy, and then this guy described the creature that attacked him.
It was much higher than 2 meters and had horns on its head. His body was covered with reddish hair and the body itself was similar to a human, but the head was more like the head of a wolf. They had large sharp claws on their hands, and behind them were wings like a bat."