Flying Humanoid Spotted: The Witch of Monterrey

It's three am, and all of a sudden, there's this witch that's approaching your car and you're freaking out calling the police, even though you are a police officer and try being a woman's every single day. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the Internet. I'm Edwin and I'm Michelle. So Michelle, it's three in the morning, it's two thousand and four, and it's January fourteenth, just the start of the year. Oh yeah, I just graduated high school. Everything's new. The whole wide world is there yours for the taking. I guess I was in film school. It was hard to do anything fun, so I've used them out for Michelle graduating from high school. Take that image from her bedroom when and now move it down south all the way to Mexico to Jadalupe. Wait, the story isn't about me, not this time. There's a police officer in his car making his rounds and this dark, dark area of Guadaloupe. It's in the city Monterey, in the state of New Orleons in Mexico. During the day, this place is completely different, right. It's this recreational area where people go hike and climb rocks and walk around with their dogs or whatever. It says, this mountainous region type of thing. It's called Serro de la Siga. So this police officer, his name is Leonardo San Manego. He is running around. Remember this is nighttime, three am. There's nothing there, it's dark, and it's Mexico. It's scary. Right. As he's driving a he sees this thing in front of him and above him, and he was only able to spot it because it kind of tumbles down, falls straight to the ground. But even though it was falling and never hit the ground, instead, it just kind of hovered right above the paved road, and he's looking at it like what is that and it starts approaching. He starts just getting closer and closer to the windshield, and as it's getting closer, he's able to see its face. And it's not some animal or some bird because it's not flapping its wings or anything. It's a woman. He looks into her eyes and that's when he sees that this thing is not there to be either out of curiosity like ooh, let me see this police officer, or what's this about? What's this machine? No, it's trying to attack. It just kind of flies straight towards the windshield, starts scratching with like these big claws at the glass, flies above the car, starts shaking it back and forth. Now wants to just get this car out, like it just wants to get in there. Wants to either attack the officer or just attack the car. The police officer is freaking out. He doesn't know what to do. He's like in tears. He's stressing out. He's calling dispatch, he says he needs help. He stresses out so much he passes out. Troubling because cops are like trained to not do that. Well, if you see a flying woman animal clothing, they're like specifically trained to like have to deal with stuff. And you're witch training, you're gonna be submitted to a witch simulator, get tested on all paranormal things as a cop. Before you get your shield. Two police officers Arrife. I get in two patrol cars and an ambulance Rife and they find him. He's just kind of unconscious in the car. They open the car, he starts kind of regaining consciousness. He gets taken to the University hospital, which is kind of around there. He undergoes a psychological and a medical evaluation just to see if maybe he was drunk hi something happened. He's hallucinating, he's seeing this thing. And as this is happening, the news is spreading around town already, right, news outlets are like, oh my god, they just saw the witch. Because citizens of Buila Lupe had already said that they had been seeing creatures like this creature standing on the rooftops, so they were already well aware that something was there. But now this is kind of confirming it. The tests come back and they say, yeah, this guy's cool, like he has nothing on him, He is totally clean. What he saw was real. The thing is, it wasn't just you know, the medical people there or the test to back him up. The mayor of the city and the director of that hospital said the exact same thing, like, yeah, you know what he saw, Like, you guys gotta stop bull him or don't make fun of him, because what he saw it we have all the reasons to believe that it was real. He had an interview with one of the news outlets and that account they were the first interview he gave, and his account of that night has not changed Now in almost ten years, has not changed. I used to think that police officers were all like, if they were to say this is true, I saw it like, oh my god, a police officer said it. Now my opinion's kind of changed a little bit where I'm just like, well, they're people, you know, they make mistakes. Yeah, But this guy, I feel like, why would he lie like that. He doesn't benefit from being a cop that passed out and saw which you know what I mean, That doesn't do anything for his cred you know in the police force. Good thing is that people did believe him, and they actually started coming out with some of their encounters with the Flying Witch in Wada, Loupe and in that area of Cerro de la Siga. As news was spreading of all this stuff, it came to the ears of this guy who's really famous for making these outrageous claims on UFOs. He's actually the one that said that he found an actual specimen, like an actual alien. Oh that guy, Himen mouse Soon. He's like this guy with a white beard. If anyone out there is like a fan of UFOs, ufology, Mexico International Paranormal News, this guy is like your guy, like He's like the you know that guy, what's his name, the one that says I'm not saying was the Aliens, but it was Aliens. He's that guy with the funny hair, Giorgio socals so callus Suckalus soup callus anyway, He's like the Mexican equivalent, except this guy he comes off as more professional. He kind of has that like doctor vibe, like, oh, what I say is the truth? Anyway? He heard about it right, and he was like, this reminds me a lot of a case that happened in nineteen fifty two. And obviously I won't like just say whatever Hian mouth Son is saying to be true because he's been debunked dozens and dozens of times. But I look this one up. Hii MoU Song came with his drawing, this render of this entity he had heard about already and the case two brothers, Edward and fred May, along with another friend named Tommy Hyer. They saw this strange, bright object in the sky and they started landing and it landed on one of the neighbor's private properties. So they were like, I'm gonna go get my mom. So they ran to Kathleen, which is the mother of the two brothers, the May brothers, and she comes out as well. She's like, oh, let's go check it out, and so she goes. And then they start walking like climbing up this hill and they're expecting not to see anything, but the mom is curious too, right, like what could this be? And as they're going up there, they see this light like it's this red light that's turning on and off. It's kind of like pulsating. They had flashlights and they're pointing toward it, and they got to see this thing that they've described to be a tall manlike figure with a round red face surrounded by a pointed hood like shape, had a dark black body, about ten feet tall. It hissed, oh, I do not like it. They started gliding towards them. Right one of them drops a flashlight. It went completely dark, so they were like ah ah, and they just ran away. This thing became known as the flat Woods Monster, and it became the largest humanoid story of the nineteen fifties. Like it's still popular today. Actually, they made a character in Legend of Zelda, one of the games. It's been on the history on Project Blue Book, like it's a popular thing because it was so like it just shook everybody. It was like, check this out. This thing's going to come and get you. Anyway, fast forward back again to two thousand and four, Hima Mouthstown has this image and it shows the image to the officer Salmon Diego and says, hey, look, this is what I think you saw, and the officer was like, yeah, that's exactly what it looked like. Of course, all those accounts then started this debate. Was it a witch? Was it some type of alien? Who knows? So the good thing that came out of this was that there were a lot of investigators around the area, filming the skies and filming all these other things. In two thousand and six, there's investigator Deanna Perla Chappa, which is the founder of the obniqu Globe Neboleon, which is the UFO Club. Proud member of their club. I'm pretty sure your state has one as well or your city. Yeah. The chapter the group was able to capture the footage that we have all seen, which is the flying witch thing across the sky in Monterey. When I see it now, I'm lighting that they really make a like is it really on a broom? Because it does look kind of like it's on a broom. It looks like it's on a broom, or it could be an owl on a hobby horse. That's where we had mentioned it before. Yeah, we hadn't done an episode on it, but I did post that photo of the owl carrying the hobby horse for some reason, and it looks just like the Witch of Monterey, which is troubling. Were there drones into two thousand and four, I don't think so, and if there were, it was like no one had them like everybody does now. I remember seeing it. It's just kind of this gliding thing. Maybe you just look it up the Witch of Monterey, like you can see and we have a picture of it. No, wait, it's not the real Witch of man Ray. It is the owl on the hobby horse. It's the same thing. I'm just kidding. Its gliding right like when you see them footage. It's just kind of like this gliding Like it doesn't look like it's flapping its wings. It's not doing it's just gliding. So obviously there's a lot of theories there that say this is fake, this is a kite, or this is something just gliding down owl in a hobby horse. It's an owl. Yeah, it's a I don't know whatever. The thing is that the footage itself was not made up. It wasn't cgi because there was a second angle of that same thing caught on a separate camera some other place, So there was definitely something floating there. So the question is what was it? Nobody knows. The date stamp says May seventeen, two thousand and six, at eight twelve pm, so this near evening time. I don't know. I think a lot like our vision gets worse as you know, the day goes by, Like we start, cameras don't capture that much light later in the day. There's a lot of factors in there. But the thing that makes me laugh is a broom. It does look like it has a broom, and I think that's such a stereotypical witch. And I'm just like, this is a hoax, hy use the broom. But anyway, well, you know, like branding purposes, like what we've been talking about, you gotta make it easy, you know, for people, no confusion, this is a witch. Yeah, you got to like staple the broom too. Those balloons so they hover in a questionable way, MythBusters. I wonder if they tried a thing about that footage, because it seems something science could disprove, And in my mind, I'm kind of like imagining it as one of those you know, car inflatable Ah yeah, things that just dance as it floats across the I mean, nowadays, have you seen the snoopy flying on top of his doghouse? Yeah, they made a plane out of it. I mean there's lots of alternatives now, it's just that we're those alternatives available. Then you can make a thing now out of a drone probably, But what are the odds that that was happening in Mexico at that moment? You know, I don't know. Also, it turns from a dark black to a pink reddish color as it's flying weird, which goes along with the reddish face from the Flatwood's monster. That's pretty freaky. Other theories around what happened to Officer San Manego, As I said, like this could have been just another submission like this are submitting a video of a UFO that they caught or which or whatever. But like I said, there was a second camera that caught the same thing, So it really just validated the idea that the hey, there's something flying around here. The locals, they wouldn't go out at night. They thought this is a real thing because they had claim to see creatures on the rooftops. And this reminded me a lot of this thing that my family actually went through. Personal story time. Here, my aunt lives in the northern part of Mexico in the state of Sonora, which is very desert y. Now she lives in this place where it's housing that was subsidized. That area actually used to be like a place where they go and they would dump bodies. It's terrible situation. People would disappear and they would go and search for them there in the middle of nowhere in the desert, and they would find their bodies there. All these houses were built there, and one night they were out in the yard just kind of talking with the neighbors and everything, and they spot this thing up on the trees. Now it wasn't just my aunt that saw it. It was a lot of the family, right, my cousins. This thing that they're like, is it a bird? Like? What is that? Because it's huge, it's like this big imagine like a vulture, but it's just kind of sitting like a vulture, but you can tell it's not like an animal. All of a sudden, it starts moving, glides up and goes away. The neighbors there were like we've seen this before, Like it's not a bird, it's not an animal, Like this is a witch and she comes out during you know, certain times of the night or whatever. We've seen her. Now. There were other situations where like my aunt was talking with a neighbor when all of a sudden, she's looking at this empty house that's kind of there. They could see into one of the hallways because there was nobody that lived in that house, and she could see a creature kind of crouch down ew yeah, with red eyes kind of staring at where my aunt was. Now the neighbor was right next to my aunt. She stops talking. She just kind of looks and starts shaking her head like no, no, She's just start saying no. They couldn't get a word out of her. My aunt is freaking out. She calls one of the other name Papers, one of the guys that lives across the street, is like, hey, come here, like something's going on. Other people start kind of crowding around and they look across the street and they can kind of see a thing crouching there. But apparently it was just a neighbor that could see this thing clearly, like the red eyes and everything, because everyone else is just like, what is that? What's going on? And it ended people say it was that same witch that was in there, the same one that was up on the trees. Nobody knows all this Stuff's really creeped me out because you know, Michelle, you have a solid fear of witches. To them, it's super common. It's don't get anybody's interested in looking it up. But it was very interesting that they already know about witches. They grew up with witches, so them is nothing new for me. It's new. So that's why I'm freaking out about it, because I don't they're creepy, like there are things that could be real. There are these creatures that people have spotted. And imagine hearing your uncles who are very serious, like straightforward, credible people talk about the existence of witches and how they they don't care if nobody believes them. They say that they saw them and that's it. When you hear that, you can't even question them. Like some people might get so scared that they start crying. You've never seen them cry before. They saw something that you know, it's considered this thing that doesn't exist, but they saw it, and now they're traumatized about it, and like when they think back on it, they start reacting. Your serious uncles don't benefit from telling a lie, you know what I mean, Like they're not here to entertain. They like that, Like they're not trying to be silly or known liars or anything like that. So yeah, they gain nothing from telling that story. And in fact, it almost detracts from their image, you know, like so why wouldn't it be true? They end up saying things like like warnings to little kids too, like don't go out, there's gonna get you. And it's like and sometimes they're serious, like don't go don't do it because you're gonna see what I saw or whatever. But to this witch in Monterrey, is it a witch? Is it a UFO? Is it balloons? Is it an owl with a hobby horse? Is it some type of hobbyist the airplane flyer r seaplane guy. Maybe someone made a jet pack that would have been something, right, that would be cool, But I think we'd be able to tell. I think we would see like fumes or something. I don't know. Nobody knows. It's up to us to decide what we want to believe in. For me, I guess in order to be afraid of witches means that I believe in witches. Uh. Also because witches are real? So yeah, so I believe is a witch? Do you guys think they're real? Or are you team UFO on this one or neither? Let me know, we're team ol Hobby Horse. Okay, let's add that one. And I guess, but I do believe in witches. But I don't know how I feel about this evidence. I just imagine somebody making some really cool meme out of it, where like they just zoom in, zoom and zoom in, and it's just like this person, I can fly fuck off? Oh, I hate it. What are we gonna talk about next week, Edwin? I don't know? Thinking of your Surprise? Scary Mystery Surprise is hosted by Michelle Newman and Edwin Komarubies. 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