Please excuse me if this is in the wrong forum. This is my first thread and I wasn't sure whether to put it here or in the 'paranormal' forum. I chose this one after reading the 'dog-headed man' headline.

I have a very weird memory that's puzzled me my whole life, and I'm curious as to whether anyone else has seen/experienced something similar. I'm not here to debate whether what I remember is real or fantasy (it may very well be fantasy, for all I know...you know how memories are), I'm just curious to see whether anyone else ever experienced something similar since I've never had the guts to mention it to anyone IRL.

Here's the story, such as it is. Till I was about 30 years old I lived in the middle of nowhere, 30 miles from the nearest blink-and-you-miss it small town, at the edge of the forest in the hills of southwest Missouri. To get to our place you had to drive over miles of twisty, hilly highway and dirt roads, most of it forested nearly up to the road. My entire life I've had a very clear memory of being in the car one night with my parents, coming home from town, and looking out the window and seeing men with wings in the trees beside the road. Not "angels" or anything like that, just plain old men, with wings. Tall, slim men, naked, and winged. They weren't doing anything, just standing in the trees, watching us go by.

Yes I know that sounds crazy, and it may very well be that I fell asleep and dreamed it or somesuch (though why I would dream of naked men with wings I can't imagine.) I think, from the particular car we were riding in, that I was probably 5 or 6. and the memory is so incredibly crystal-clear that it's always bothered me. So I decided, if there's any place on the planet that I can safely bring this subject up and not get locked away, it's probably ATS.

So has anyone else out there ever seen winged men?

I can' say that I've ever seen any winged people out in the real world, but I am curious - since you said the memory is crystal clear, can you remember their faces? Is there anyone in particular (famous) that you might associate their facial features with? Also were they just standing on branches, crouched, sitting, etc? And were their wings open or tucked away? Were they bird wings, bat wings, hang glider wings, attached to their arms or sprouting from their back? Just trying to get a better mental picture of what it was that you saw.

This is a little off topic but your thread reminded me of the book series "The Lost Years of Merlin." In the last book, "The Wings of Merlin," it discusses humans who had the ability to fly but later lost their wings. Anyway, Merlin gets his wings back (they grow out of the space between his shoulder blades, where he always felt something was missing).

Interesting memory though. I'm not sure what to make of it--maybe an angel in human form (but with wings)?

That's very strange. I dont ever remember seeing anything like that nor have I ever heard of anyone else seeing such things either. Do you remember anything else about this? Did it happen more than once or did you just see this on one particular car ride?

Creepy sort of got a Lost Boys Wampyr feel to your story.Wheres Buffy when you need her.

Originally posted by catwhoknows


Never ignore what you remember as a child, because that is closer to the truth than you well ever come to in this lying world.

The memories of a child are as close to the truth as we ever get.

Well said!!

Originally posted by crkking
You can't leave out the most famous of them all...The Mothman. I hope that you find some info that resembles what you saw.

I think the Mothman is a likely candidate for your winged men in the trees, just watching you go by.

As John Keel, the Mothman aficionado, observed, these things are neither devils nor angels, although I'm sure they've been mistaken for such over the millennia.

The Mothmen are, I guess you could say, interdimensional creatures, higher than Man, but not necessarily more noble. When I say "higher than Man," I mean that they have an OVERVIEW of the events that befall Mankind — they can see our future, specifically.

According to Keel, these things might even enjoy watching Mankind suffer, which may explain why they're usually seen in the vicinity of disasters both natural and Manmade, flying around, you know, getting their jollies for weeks prior to the event, watching the build up to disaster.

Do you remember, as a child in Missouri, there being any natural or manmade disaster in your area at about the same time?

— Doc Velocity





[edit on 7/30/2010 by Doc Velocity]

Did you experience death in your young age?

Did you lose any members of your family or have to deal with anything similar?

This reminds me of an experience I had when i was about six or seven years old. my sister, my grand mother and I were visiting my Grandfathers grave. While my Grandma was cleaning up around his grave my sister and I went about 50 feet away to a masoleum where there was a stone angel praying looking down. My sister and I went up to her for a closer look and when we did she "winked" at us. The experience scared us enough to run as fast as we could to my grandmothers car and we refused to come out. To this day i remember it like yesterday as well as my sister. it was an experience we both will never forget. To this day my Grand ma thinks we're both nuts but we bot know what we saw and theres no one that will tell us other wise.