Across the United States, there have been a plethora of reports of strange, winged creatures flying around scaring regular folks, and Kansas has certainly not been excluded. There have been sightings and reports of all manner of critters with wings, from bat-like creatures to more humanoid type flying cryptids. It seems they are known to have over 48 different names from around the world, such as the Mothman, Manticore, Batsquatch, Orang-Bati, and Boobrie; and they come in all sizes, colors and manner of flight, but the one thing they all have in common is that they scare the bajeebers out of those who have been lucky, or unlucky enough to have seen them.

One of the more famous winged creatures in Kansas is in Kansas City, a creature with the horrible name of the Kansas City Winged Demon. Crypto Wikki relays a story of one of the four recent sightings of this creature in the Kansas City area. It is apparently the size of a man with a 12-foot, leathery wingspan, and the face of an “ugly man”. They state that, “When on land, it moves in a ‘wobbly’ way. It is strong enough to shake a house.” A reader of this article also gave his accounting of the Demon, as well. He said that in 2018, he was sitting on his front porch in KC when he began to hear some loud “clicking” sounds. As he tried to locate the source, he saw a large, white, winged creature in a tree. It silently flew to another tree, and he was horrified to later heard it on his roof. There isn’t any mention of why either of these stories should make this a demon, other than the “ugly man” face.

Another Bat-like creature was sighted by a man in a rural area near Kansas City, May 14, 2020. Around 10:30 pm a man sighted a huge creature with a 3-foot wingspan that flew towards his window and then flew away. The swooping creature was dark with bat-like wings.

An article in Phantoms and Monsters also tells of another story in Kansas. It was summer in a very small town in Kansas in 2019, when a young man who was visiting his family, was walking his dogs with his aunt around midnight, when a dark form glided over them. He said that it had a wingspan of 8-10 feet, and they could almost see through the wings. The body between the wings was very thin but nothing distinct. It was gliding just over the power lines without moving the wings or making any noise at all, but his dogs became very excited and began barking at it, as would I. He said that later, in an empty lot not far away, there were many feathers and rabbit fur was found, apparently having been prey of something. He felt that it was “nocturnal and may be only around when it is warm, and food is plentiful”. His parents have continued to look for it, but no further sightings have been made, although he feels that he may have seen it before when he was younger, but put if off as just an unexplained event. How often have we done this?

These are just a couple stories about flying cryptids here in Kansas, but they are seen all over the world, in their various forms. If there are so many sightings, especially by large numbers of witnesses in one area, could they not be real? Keep your eyes to the skies…. Here are a couple books where you can get you Winged Creature fix: Ken Gerhard’s book, “Encounters with Flying Humanoids: Mothman, Gargoyles and Other Winged Beasts”, and Lon Strickler’s (of Phantoms and Monsters.com) new book, “Winged Cryptids: Humanoids, Monsters & Anomalous Creatures Casebook.” Both are excellent reads…especially on dark and stormy nights.

Margie Kay is a Kansas City resident with a long resume of paranormal activities including guest speaking on numerous radio shows; hosting her own paranormal radio show, Un-X News Radio Show; is the Assistant Director of MUFON in Missouri; being an investigator with Quest Paranormal; and author of several books to name just a few of her efforts in the paranormal. She has been collecting winged creature sightings from all of the world and has put them in her most recent book, "Winged Aliens". I will mention her many times as I discuss various sightings in Kansas of very strange huge birds and other winged humanoids.

Source: https://flinthillsparanormal.com/cryptozoology/kansas-cryptids/cryptids-kansas-other-kansas-winged-creatures/