Throughout history, there have been plenty of bizarre encounters with strange, ominous, and unexplained creatures. Perhaps less common, however, are encounters that last over a prolonged period of time that feature these strange figures terrorizing not only individuals, but entire communities. Here, for reasons of space and time, we will concentrate on three specific spates of encounters, not least, as speculative as it might be, there are tentative reasons to believe that these figures might be somehow connected.