cryptid-quest: Cryptid of the Day: Lone Pine Mountain Devil (Longer)Description: According to legend
cryptid-quest: Cryptid of the Day: Lone Pine Mountain Devil (Longer)Description: According to legend, in 1873, Father Justus Martinez & a wagon group of 37 settlers disappeared in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Two weeks later, the bodies of the settlers were found, yet miraculously, Father Martinez survived, and was found in a mission near San Diego. He told what happened; that one night, as they celebrated the honor of St. Roderick, a swarm of winged demons came from the trees and attacked the settlers. The Father was safe in his tent, and wrote about the event in his journal. “My God. My God. They are all gone. The winged demons have risen! What sin have they committed against each other and thy sacred earth. May the forgiving Lord not abandon their souls, which were taken from them into the depths of hell! And through the earthly fires of man, a sole tree remained on the mountain’s peak. And the Devils that spared me, returned to the refuge of the Lone Pine of the Mountain”. -- source link