The annals of extraterrestrial interactions are littered with close encounters with seemingly inexplicable entities whose forms are as myriad as massive brains, multi-limbed space specters, colossal cyclopean crustaceans and metallic asparagus stalks… but there’s a special breed of crazy cranium-ed cosmic critters that also seem to delight in dismaying simple Earth-folk; these are informally known as the blockheads… 

Research by Cole Herrold
https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2022/02/old-saybrook-blockheads.html 

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For decades, children across the globe have come forward claiming to have encounters with anomalous animalistic entities, which would seem more at home in sub-Saharan Africa, than in the kid’s bedrooms they currently occupy.

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In the mid-1950s reports began flooding out of Venezuela regarding a rash of all-too close encounters between human beings and evidently extraterrestrial entities; but these beings were nothing like the bizarre, but ultimately benign creatures that Steven Spielberg would make so famous a quarter of a century later. These things were small, hairy and unbelievably savage… and for eight months their reign of unholy terror would petrify a nation and become the stuff of legend.

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Though the origin story of this ghastly, quasi-humanoid she-beast read like a mishmash of a gore-drenched 1950’s E.C. Comic and a kid friendly 1960’s Marvel superhero introduction, the fact is that—whatever her genesis may be—the hulking carnivorous creature known to natives of the Sierra Nevada Mountains as “Penelope” leaves all who witness her feeling both petrified… and lucky to be alive.

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