The Untold Story of the Houston Batman Cryptozoology Online

Andrew Gable picks up the story of a man "with wings like a bat" spotted in a tree in Houston, TX, in 1953. Three claimed to have made the sighting, and it was mentioned in a book co-authored by Nick Redfern and Ken Gerhard, as well as a book by Loren Coleman. It's Coleman's association with the famed British phantom attacker known as Spring-heel'd Jack that grabs Gable's attention, leading to compare the bat-winged man in the tree with Houston news reports at the time reporting Spring-heel'd Jack attacks in the Houston vicinity. Were the criminal attacks related to the cryptozoological appearance of a man with wings like a bat? Elsewhere, Dale Drinnon shows with images and text why he thinks a cryptid African mollusc is actually a non-cryptid melanistic snake in Mulilo, Supposedly an Unsightly Slugly Snake and tries to show a giant freshwater turtle reported in parts of the Congo River is not a cryptid with more text and images in Titanic Turtles of Tele.