You don’t need me, a newspaper reporter, to tell you that we’re living in strange times. I think we always knew deep down that if the Cubs won the World Series there would be some irreparable shift in the universe, but then we were so caught up in the excitement of flying the W flag and watching baseball in November that it all kind of got away from us. And then less than a week later, Donald Trump was elected president. Ever since it’s been one damned thing after another, including a giant fireball in the sky.
Anyway, based on the reports coming in from Chicago, Strickler thinks that there have been three separate humanoids flying around. The earlier sightings were of a tall, feathered being with wings and glowing red eyes. The second wave were possibly lechuzas, Mexican witches that transform into owls or eagles. But the most recent sightings have most closely resembled large black bats between six and eight feet tall with a wingspan of about 12 feet.
“There’s been a stigma attached to these flying humanoids, that they’re a harbinger of something bad to come,” he says. “Then people use it as an excuse for something that happens. I don’t really want to predict anything that’s going to happen in Chicago.”
