Cryptid Creatures in Jackson County, Missouri

 

By Margie Kay

 
Most Cryptid sightings occur in the woods or countryside, but apparently, these creatures have invaded Independence and East Jackson County, Missouri in recent years. I’ve received reports from several people, and even had my own encounters in this area, including a sighting just four weeks ago. The questions are where are these creatures living, what is their food source, and why aren’t more people seeing or reporting them?

CHUPACABRA

A woman who wishes to remain anonymous sent the following to me via email: “My BFF saw a cryptid cross over Little Blue Parkway not far from Centerpoint Hospital. This is what she wrote about it: "It walked on both - two and four legs. Some people call it a chupacabra.”

She goes on to say, “My son and his friend saw one in Odessa, Missouri over by the lake near our old house. They said it crawled on all fours and then stood up on two legs and jumped over the fence. It had spikes along the back and large fangs.They both thought they saw a demon. Scared them terribly. My son doesn't like to talk about it." There was an article about this sighting in Missouri Conservationist, which explained that the creature must have been a coyote with mange, but the witness said, “Coyotes don’t stand up on two hind legs.”

WRAITH

Four weeks ago, I had my own sighting of a strange creature while driving south on Crysler just past Truman Road in Independence after dark. A creepy-looking thin man wearing a hoodie crouched down on all fours and crawled across the road, then suddenly, he flew backward through the air to the middle of the road in a second and crawled once again to the other side.

This happened a third time, and finally, as I was driving past, he stood up. I could not see his face, but his arms were unusually long. I kept driving as I knew that this was not a normal human being. It was as if a movie played back three times. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and still don't today. 

GIANT DOG

In the fall of 2012, my daughter and her husband were driving westbound on 23^rd Street near Spot Not car wash in Independence when they saw something running towards them in the other lane. It looked like a white cloud shaped like a dog as tall as the roof of their car and as long as the car. It ran like a dog on all fours and ran past their vehicle. The couple looked in the mirrors and turned around to look out the back window, but the creature was no longer visible. My daughter said that the creature looked like a monstrous Borzoi, a large Russian Sighthound. She still can't believe what she saw. 

LARGE BLACK CATS

From 2009 to 2023 I received several reports of a very large panther-sized black cat in Raytown, Missouri, which is just south of Independence. One witness said she was sitting on her front porch and noticed that the neighbor's across the street had a new large black cat ornament in their yard - until it walked away. She got up and went back in the house and won't sit outside any longer. 

Other people witnessed a large black cat that they saw walking, then dissolve into thin air. 

A man who lives near 63rd Street said he saw a huge black cat running across the busy street late at night. He called the Missouri Department of Conservation, and they told him that there couldn't be any panthers in that area. As far as he knows, they did not investigate. 

Is it possible that a real black panther is living in Raytown or is this a supernatural creature? 

These sightings, combined with the large cryptid winged creatures, Sasquatch, and pterodactyls that have been seen in the area are concerning. (See my previous posts) Does East Jackson County have a portal to another dimension that is allowing these types of creatures to come and go at will?  This needs further investigation. 

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Margie Kay is an investigator and writer. Her website is www.margiekay.com 

 

Is there a Mothman in Kansas City Again?

I have a question mark after the title of this article title because I honestly don't know what the heck I saw last night. I was meditating while sitting in my hot tub last night at 10:30 pm August 9, 2021 some very strange things occurred. There are two streetlights which sit diagonally from the corners of my house about 75 feet away. I had my eyes closed, but heard a noise which made me open my eyes. I sensed that something was nearby. Then I saw a shadow on my deck, and a very clear outline of a wing, which then closed. I immediately looked in the direction of the streetlight but there was nothing there. The shadow was about 3.5' in height so whatever made it was big, but I did not get a look at it. 

Next, I heard a car move into my gravel driveway, except there was no engine sound. I

assumed it must have been an electric vehicle. Then a car door shut. At that point, I jumped up and went to the end of my deck to see who the heck was in my driveway at that time of night - only to see nothing there. No car, no person, nothing. Since we have the only gravel driveway nearby, it had to be my driveway and no one else's.  I wondered several things then - was this a car in another dimension? And were was the person who got out of the vehicle? 

I then went inside the house and texted Jean Walker (another investigator) about this and she and I were discussing it when something flew by the second streetlight, blocking it out completely. Whatever it was had to be big. I opened the front door and looked around and saw nothing, but again, sensed that something was there. And it "felt" like a Mothman. Whatever that means. Its difficult to describe but that is what I got. 

Then Jean told me that she saw a huge winged shadow on the road in front of her as she was driving from North Kansas City to Raytown earlier the same day. At first she thought it was a plane, but she could seen no plane and nothing else. She wonders if it was a Mothman.

Its very odd but since Jean and I have been working together on UFO and cryptid cases, the same things seem to happen to both of us at or around the same time - even when we are not together. 

I've taken over 100 case reports of winged creatures to date, and placed them on Google Maps under Winged Cryptid Sightings, and many are in my book Winged Aliens. Most of the Mothman reports are from the Greater Kansas City area. 

So is there a Mothman once again flying around the Kansas City area?  Only time will tell. Keep your eyes peeled and your camera ready!

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Margie Kay is a veteran UFO and paranormal investigator. She is the publisher of UnX News Magazine, and editor at UnX Media. She hosts UnX News Podcast. www.unxmedia.com

Strange Happenings Near Swope Park

A lot is going on around Swope Park in Kansas City and its not about the Kansas City Zoo, the golf course, or Starlight Theater.  Something very strange has been going on in this area because people keep seeing things that defy explanation. Most people don't talk about what they are seeing for fear of ridicule, but a few brave souls have come forward to file reports with Quest Investigation Group, MUFON, and others over the past few years.

QIG compiled a list of events which occurred in the area between 63rd Street and 97th, and 71 hwy and 435 hwy between 2005 and 2020. There is an odd mix of reports which include four sightings of winged humanoid creatures, a Bigfoot, 125 glowing balls of light, and at least two UFOs.  The area heavily wooded, has two lakes, and a river running north to south on the west side. This is a perfect place for cryptid creatures and UFOs to hide, and a central hub in Kansas City. In April of 2012 Kansas City had a rash of UFO sightings which included a non-human entity witnessed by an ex-police officer in Raytown, which is a suburb located east of Kansas City, and a very large craft over Lee's Summit, Missouri in the early morning hours right after the balls of light were seen near 435 Hwy. Investigators believe that the Lee's Summit craft and the balls of light incident may be related.

Balls of Light:

May 14, 2012. An insurance salesman was traveling south on I-435 Hwy when he noticed orange balls of light shooting at high speed horizontally out of the tree line to his east. The sight was so strange that he pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway to get a better look at what was going on. Another vehicle did the same and both men got out of their cars. This is not something one would normally do at this location due to the heavy traffic, but they just had to get a better look. The first witness spoke to me about the incident, and he said that the second man called a friend of his who lived on 63rd street and asked him to go out side to see if he could see the lights. The man did so, and took several photos of the objects. The three men watched as 125 balls of light shot out of the tree line, split into three lights each, then moved up into the clouds at a specific location. They also saw a large ball of light split in to five, then move up in the same spot. If these had been sky lanterns or fireworks they would not have moved as they did. They could see no further into the clouds and don't know what may have been in the cloud. None of the witnesses could see what the balls of light were coming from inside the trees.

Diamond Shaped Craft: Also in April of 2012 a husband and wife had just finished shooting a video for a corporate client and were headed home at 10:00 pm. They were traveling north on 435 highway when they noticed a diamond-shaped craft traveling on the east side of the road next to the wooded area. The craft mimicked their speed and slowed down or sped up as they did. The two witnesses were dumbfounded, as the craft they were observing made no sound and appeared to have no propulsion system, and no wings. The craft then sped up slightly, and crossed the highway in front of them as they approached I-70. The craft headed due west towards downtown Kansas City.

UFO Chased by Helicopters: In August of 2015 two men and a woman were sitting in the pavilion at Swope Park at approximately 10:30 pm when they noticed a saucer-shaped silver UFO come over a hillside approximately 1/2 mile from their position. It hovered and moved around the area very slowly for several minutes. As they stood looking at this in awe, they noticed several helicopters move into the area. The UFO moved up and back and forth, with the helicopters in pursuit, but they were no match for the speed of the UFO. The craft then took off at rapid speed, leaving the helicopters behind. After a few minutes, the helicopters left the area. The witnesses thought the incident was over, when the UFO returned and went about its previous activity, apparently scanning the ground. It finally left, and the witnesses went home. The next morning, one of the witnesses passed the area on his way to work and noticed that the hillside where the UFO had been located was on fire and there were several fire trucks on the scene putting the fire out.

August 2005: Kansas City, MO. As reported by Ken Gerhard in his book "Encounters With Flying Humanoids," Investigator Lon Strickler reported that two sisters in the Swope Park area of Kansas City heard a loud noise and looked up to see a gigantic bird with a 12' -18' wingspan hopping from tree branch to tree branch. It had leathery skin and bat-like wings, a curved beak, with dark eyes. The two women ran inside the house and one of them fainted. KC MO near Swope Park

(continued from the above report from the year 2000) The same creature returned in the evening and made a sound like a dog being choked, then cavorted among the street lights. 2011: KC MO near Swope Park. (continued from the above report) A cousin saw the same creature when he left their house one evening. It hopped behind the taillights of his car. It had gigantic wings and a fat body.

June, 2020: A man noticed a shadow on the ground as he stood outside in the backyard of a friend's house and looked up to see a humanoid shaped creature the size of a man with huge bat-like wings just above them at tree level and glide off into the distance. He saw no features, but said that the creature appeared to have legs and arms.

Bigfoot:
6-20-2020: A man saw a Bigfoot near his house on 79th St. and 71 Highway in KC MO. It threw rocks, growled, and snorted.  It was after dark but the witness could see the creature standing behind a tree, and it kept peeking around the tree. The back yard is wooded but this is in a suburban area.The witness was outside in his back yard when a rock came flying by, almost hitting him but it hit the side of the house instead. He turned to see where the rock had come from and he heard a snort coming from a wooded area behind his house. He was astonished to see an eight foot tall Bigfoot standing next to and partially behind a large tree. The creature growled and threw another rock. The witness said that the creature had large shoulders and a large conical shaped head. The witness immediately went back inside his house and did not go back outside until the next morning.

Why Swope Park? At 1,805 acres, it is the 51st-largest municipal park in the United States, and the largest park in Kansas City. It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896. (Editor's note: Oddly, the Swope family are my relatives- my great-grandmother was Minnie Swope).

It seems as though the Swope Park area is the perfect habitat for cryptids and UFOs. After investigating both for many years, I am now of the opinion that perhaps these are not two separate subjects, and that the cryptid creatures may be related to UFOs, if not aliens themselves. There are just two many instances where cryptid creatures and UFOs are seen at the same time or in the same location.

There are not many areas near this site that would be a good site to conceal anything as it is mostly suburban with houses, roads, and highways. Swope Park is unique in that it offers plenty of areas to hide.

The northern most part of the park is located at exactly 39 degrees latitude, which is the major "Paranormal Highway" in this area, along with 49/71 Hwy south. It seems that an inordinate amount of strange unexplained events occur along these two lines. The 39 degree line remains stationary, while the 49/71 paranormal highway literally follows the highway as it twists and turns all the way into Arkansas to the south. Many of the UFO and paranormal investigations we do are along these lines. What that means is anyone's guess.

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Margie Kay is the director of Quest Investigation Group and is the Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON. Reach her at www.margiekay.com.

Cryptid Sightings in the KC area

Quest Paranormal Investigation Group has received a number of cryptid reports from the greater Kansas City area and beyond in recent years. We are at a loss as to why there are so many strange unidentified creatures in this area, or as to why there is so much paranormal activity in general. 

In reviewing our files, we have three reports of a short 2' tall kangaroo type creature which was seen in Sugar Creek, Independence, and Blue Springs from 2015-2017 by different individuals. All three were driving at night and saw this unknown animal near or in a roadway. In one case, people had to drive around the creature who was standing in the middle of the road near a Missouri River park. All witnesses reported that the creature was a tan color, had short hair, ears that stood straight up, and it sat back on its haunches. The top part of the body was smaller than the bottom half, and its front legs were short. Unless a small kangaroo escaped from a nearby zoo, or unless this is a baby chupacabra, we have no other explanation. 

Four witnesses describe seeing a very large wolf-size or larger creature with short grey mottled hair and short front legs, large body muscular back end, and a long snout. These sightings were near Lake Jacomo and Blue Springs Lake, off of 40-Hwy in Blue Springs, and near Nevada, Missouri from 2009 to 2019. In all cases, the creature made no sound and moved very fast across or beside the roadway. All sightings were at night after dark. Suggestions have been made that this is a Chupacabra, however, most Chupacabra reports are of a hairless creature that is much smaller. A call to the Missouri Department of Conservation yielded no explanation for the description of this animal. 

One cryptid sighting stands out among the others - and this happened on 23rd Street in Independence in 2015. A woman and her husband left the Hy-Vee grocery store at approximately 8:30 pm and traveled west. Suddenly, a very large wolf-like white animal appeared to their right and ran along the street on the far right side of the road. The creature's back was a tall as the top of the car door. The legs were shorter in front than in back. The husband slowed the vehicle down and came to a complete stop, and as he did so the animal turned in front of the car and then faded out and disappeared right in front of them, leaving the couple to believe that it was some type of inter-dimensional creature. 

There have been a number of Sasquatch sightings in Sugar Creek, Monkey Mountain, Independence, Lee's Summit, Burr Oak Woods, and Grandview in the past six years, but Sasquatch sightings in these areas date back at least to the 1970's. 

In the Sugar Creek case, which is ongoing, witnesses report hearing Sasquatch calls/screams from wooded areas around their houses. The primary witness lived on a farm as a child and does not recognize the calls as any known animal. At a location nearby at the Sugar Creek Conservation area, three men were fishing in a stream in 2014 when a large black Sasquatch walked out of the woods, stared into the stream while looking back and forth, then turned and walked back into the woods. The three men didn't say a word, but dropped their gear and ran to their vehicle. They haven't been back since. 

In Lee's Summit, a witness' dog acted very afraid of something, then she heard a loud grunt/growl that she did not recognize as coming from any known animal. The sound came from the woods behind her house. She no longer walks her dog at night by herself. 

Gigantic bird or Mothman sightings top the list, however, with 22 reports received by Quest in the past few years. Most reports were few and far between, but so far in 2019 we took at least 17 reports from witnesses who saw bird-like creatures with wing-spans of 10' to 36'. One man was able to capture a photo of one of these Mothman type beings in flight in 2014. It had the body of a man and gigantic black wings. We've seen the photo, but don't have permission to release it to the public yet. To me, it looks authentic. (See my other articles on this subject for more details). 

Most of these giant bird reports come from the east Jackson county area near bodies of water, but one was in Overland Park, Kansas on a busy street. Some of the witnesses who filed reports are known to me, so I know they are credible, however, as an investigator, I need proof, and to date, we have little evidence that these cryptid creatures exist. 

If you've seen any type of cryptid please contact us at margiekay06@yahoo.com. 

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Margie Kay is a paranormal researcher living in Independence, Missouri. She is the author of Gateway to the Dead, The Kansas City UFO Flap, Haunted Independence, and other books. www.margiekay.com.