CREATURES GREY AND GREEN
I visited Puerto Rico in 1990, 1991 and thrice in 1997, to investigate personally what to me seems a unique situation on this, the aptly named ‘Enchanted Isle’. I have never seen anything really peculiar. On one occasion, though, events reportedly occurred in precisely the same area that I visited with Jorge Martin
but 12 hours later. In the small hours of 31 August 1990, a number of witnesses saw five weird creatures, similar in some respects to those reported in Kirgiszkaya, USSR, three months earlier, walking down a road in the Laguna Cartagena area. Their height varied from three to five feet. When one witness, Miguel Figueroa, tried to follow the creatures in his car, they turned around, emitting a brilliant light, like a welding torch, from their eyes. ‘I was blinded and scared,’ he said. ‘I felt, or heard something telling me not to get any closer.’
But he followed and managed to get a closer look. As he told Jorge Martin: They were skinny, with large pear-shaped heads, long pointy ears, big slanted eyes and almost no nose . . . Their mouths were almost like a slit. They all had long arms with three fingers on each hand and three toes on their feet. At their elbows and knees they had something that looked like joints . I don’t know if that was part of some clothing they had on, but to me they seemed to be naked. They were greyish . . .
Eventually the creatures jumped over a bridge one by one and headed along a creek in the direction of the lagoon.
The next day, Figueroa received a threatening phone call (at his unlisted number) from a man with an American accent. ‘He told me not to talk or say anything to anyone about what I had seen and where the little men had gone into,’ he told Jorge. ‘What is happening here is real, and these beings must have a base or something underground in this area.’
Other, similar species of creature appear to be based elsewhere on the island, including the Caribbean National Forest, the only tropical forest in the US Department of Agriculture’s national forest system, generally referred to as El Yunque after the mountain peak near the recreation area. Many witnesses claim to have encountered beings with very large black eyes, though lacking pointed ears and usually with four, rather than three, fingers or claws.
One night in February 1991, former police officer Luis Torres and his wife, together with two of his police colleagues and their wives, were astonished by the sight of two strange little men coming down the road on Route 191, near the El Yunque tourist office. They were speaking a ‘weird gibberish’. ‘It was like when you listen to a tape-recording that’s very fast,’ Torres told investigator Magdalena Del Amo-Freixedo.
They were maybe around four feet high, thin, dressed from head to foot in clothing [that fitted] the body very closely . . . between green and grey. It came right up to the tops of their heads, covering the skull . . . Their little arms were right down to about the knees, and their heads too were elongated, though we couldn’t see them very well.
Their heads were large, sort of slanted, big at the top and small down below, looking more like the shape of an egg. And a bit flattened at the top, and their faces flattened too. I saw no eyebrows on them. They had big dark eyes, blackish, protruding a bit from the face . . . Their little necks were very thin; almost no nose to be seen, and nor the mouth neither. Their skin looked to me grey or greyish-green. The creatures walked straight past the six witnesses. ‘They must have seen us,’
Torres continued. ‘They carried on down the road, and when they had gone about 100 feet or so past us, they turned around and started off up the road again, passing right by us once more. We tried to follow them.’
I got out my revolver — not to harm them, but just so that they would see that we were armed, in case they should by chance try to do anything. But when I got out the revolver, it seems as though they knew it. They didn’t look directly at us at any time, but they quickened their pace and, a bit further up the road, they crossed over to the left-hand side of the road and entered the thickets on the hillside.
Charmed by the creatures, Margarita Torres said she would have liked to have brought them home. ‘They really were weird, and at the same time lovely,’ she explained, ‘because in shape they looked just like two little twins.’
In the small hours of 13 August 1991, Sra Marisol Camacho encountered two similar creatures, examining a plant on her balcony with their four long, skinny fingers, in the Maguayo community next to the Laguna Cartagena. ‘I don’t know why, but I couldn’t move,’ she told Jorge Martin. ‘They took leaves from the plant and left, talking among themselves in that fast mumbling gibberish.’ She added that the creatures made a return visit two weeks later, but when she tried to communicate with them they made a hasty retreat, running in the direction of the lagoon. ‘They didn’t harm me,’ she said. ‘One thing is for sure: they are already here, living among us. We should prepare to face thatfact . . .’
Also in 1991, Ulises Perez came across a similar creature in an irrigation canal which leads to the Laguna Cartagena. The creature appeared to have a pale, whitish skin with pinkish-red spots. When Pérez started to get away on his motorbike, the creature disappeared under the water in the canal.
This and other cases seem to suggest that a habitat has been established under the lagoon and perhaps other bodies of water. The webbing observed between the fingers or claws of these entities might mean that they are amphibious.
A variation on these species was encountered in July 1968. Freddie Anderson and a group of friends were visiting the El Yunque mountain when they encountered a tall creature standing in the middle of a river next to Route 191, only 12 feet away. Its height was some six feet, and it was very slim, Anderson told Martin. The hands reached almost to the knees.
It didn’t have clothes on. It was all green, and it had a large head that was wider on the bottom, on the chin, and it ended in a [conical] top. It had large, round, bulging eyes, intense green in colour, and two small holes for a nose . . . Its hands had, I think, only four fingers with some small round things on their ends, something like tree-frogs have, and some small claws that came out of those small round things on the ends.
Anderson and his friends are certain they experienced ‘missing time‘. ‘Suddenly it’s as if we came out of something,’ he continued. ‘We don’t know what happened, but it was already night time . . . and that thing was gone.