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Monsters and entities

27 pages, grouped by the case they belong to.

Radford, Virginia

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Andrew's alien dad Andrew's alien dad is a gaunt, shirtless figure in aviator sunglasses who appears in Andrew Howard's recurring dreams and warns him, "Don't take it," just before the task force's rabies treatment.
Crash survivor The crash survivor is the bisected, hairless non-human recovered from the triangular craft that crashed into a Russian farmhouse; he tells President Boris Yeltsin that his people are "not aliens" but "the opposite of...
Emporium intruder The Emporium intruder is a small, non-human shadow seen on diner security footage moving inside the Douglas Pinball Emporium window before a gray van crew bagged it and carried it away.
Hanging figures The hanging figures are emaciated naked men with distended, rippling bellies, seen suspended from tree limbs by their punctured hands in the snowy Radford woods in the cold open of Radford Horrors 01.
Rabid mouse The rabid mouse is a foaming, stiff-legged rodent from the bat-infested Pay n' Stay motel in Radford, Virginia, which bit Special Agent Daniel Webster and was speared by Kurt before being sent to Roanoke for testing.
The Radford Moth The Radford Moth is a car-sized, telepathic blue morpho-like moth that the task force first meets as a silent, light-blotting "UFO" over Radford, Virginia, and which takes dogs and young women, enthralls Wilbur...
Radford woods predators The Radford woods predators are the unidentified killers glimpsed in the cold open of Radford Horrors 01, which hunt the missing FBI team through the snowy woods: a shape that drains a man to a skeleton, a swooping...
Servitors Servitors are beings named by the crash survivor in Russia as the people who "need resources," the "opposite of aliens"; a fragment of a burned document in Radford uses the same word.
The Spaceman The Spaceman is the helmeted figure in white seen above the Lucky house on the night Amanda Lucky vanished, who turns out to be the Whateley twins' homemade Apollo 11 spacesuit, worn first by Abelforth Whateley in a...

The Summer Service

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The angel thing The angel thing is the fire-hot, humming, light-covered entity that lives in the sea off Marblehead and is the final enemy of The Summer Service.
Puddles Puddles is the worm-infected Doberman of Arnold Weathers, the first fully transformed host the task force fights in The Summer Service.
Worm bags Worm bags are the late-stage human and animal hosts of the Marblehead worm parasite: bloated, hairless, translucent bodies that shrug off bullets and burst into worms.
The worms The worms are the microscopic parasites spread through Marblehead's communion wine and food, which first give their hosts vigor and a youthful glow and then hollow them out into the bloated worm bags of The Summer...

The Things in Appalachia

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Ape-Men The Ape-Men are pale, fast-maturing, ketamine-addicted hominids bred by Jan Martense to mine gold under Dahlonega, Georgia; the escapees are the "Bigfoot" and "Yeti" that terrorized the town in The Things in Appalachia.
Big Bob Big Bob is a huge, fast ape-man that hunts the task force through the tunnels beneath Dahlonega, Georgia, until Andrew Howard's pepper spray severs its arm.
Half-faced Bear The Half-faced Bear is a bear "with, like, half a face" that chased the Circle Chasers from the spot where they found a pool of bloody vomit holding a blinking tracking device; Kurt insists it is not a bear at all.
Thing That Attacked the Spud Hut Truck The Thing That Attacked the Spud Hut Truck is the unidentified creature that climbed into the cab of a Spud Hut delivery truck near Dahlonega, Georgia, killed the driver, and carried off what was left of him.

The Walkers in Skin

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Black triangular craft The black triangular craft are silent, plain black triangles that appear over the Roosevelt community center at the climax of The Walkers in Skin, alongside crews in hazmat suits.
Dead grub-angel power core The dead grub-angel power core is the corpse of a giant, glowing grub-like being, built into the portal machine in the cavern beneath the community center at the end of The Walkers in Skin.
Plastic-wrapped bodies The plastic-wrapped bodies are human-shaped bundles wrapped in plastic that recur through The Walkers in Skin: moving figures in two cold opens, putrefied corpses packed in white powder in the ceiling of the Ballard...
Skinwalker Huell Skinwalker Huell is the replica of Huell Kendrick grown by the skinwalker faction of Ballard and Roosevelt, Utah.
Skinwalkers The Skinwalkers are brain-like organisms that pilot engineered, childlike copies of human bodies, replacing the leaders, police and townspeople of Ballard and Roosevelt, Utah, in the arc The Walkers in Skin.
Upright coyotes The upright coyotes are unnaturally clean coyotes in the Ballard, Utah area that rise onto two legs, appear in the cold opens of The Walkers in Skin, and turn up as a stalking pack at Ballard High School.
Upright horses The upright horses are horses in Ballard, Utah that stand on their hind legs, gesture politely with their hooves and fight on behalf of the faction that replaced Andrew Howard in the Ballard High School gym.

The Roulet Estate

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The Greys The Greys (also Grays, gray aliens, or beings from Zeta Reticuli) are the classic big-eyed gray aliens blamed for the "visitations" at the Roulet house, and the subject of Andrew Howard's firm and sometimes...
Lights and Eyes in the Woods Lights and Eyes in the Woods are an unexplained low streak of light and a pair of blinking eyes that Andrew Howard sees around the Roulet house, never accounted for by the episodes.
The Roulet Intruder The Roulet Intruder is the naked, spindly figure who snipes at the task force from the woods around the Roulet house, lives in a hidden chimney attic, steals the agents' car and is finally unmasked at the Brooks...

Minor entries

Smaller subjects are collected on list pages, one per case.