Well, the current pop guesses are demon, angel or Mothman or a Nephilim, some say that it is just a palm tree or well, fill in the blank _____________.
A certain Richard Christianson claims to have taken the photo—full stop here for first skeptical observation: why a photo and not a video? On most devices the option of photo or video is a merely one virtual button push away. A video would take quite a bit more work to fake whilst a photo can just be photo-shopped since it is one image, one frame, one angle, etc.
But okay, we can give him this one since perhaps his device is defaulted to photo and at the time he was too busy attempting to keep himself from soiling his knickers.
He posted the photo on Facebook with the statement, “What the hell do you see in this picture for reals ??? Anybody.” I do not know if he deleted that post or what but it no longer appears on his page.
Judging by his posts he is not into this sort of thing at all. I wanted to see the original post to see if anyone asked and/or he told under what circumstances the photo was taken or otherwise explained any other related factoid.
There are some news websites “reporting” on it which just means click bating as they are just saying hey look and asking people to comment, share, etc.—oh, oh: fake news alert!
Well, to me it seems as if someone faked the form of a being based on merely pop-misconceptions of what a demon looks like.
Speaking from a Judeo-Christian perspective: Biblically, there is no indication whatsoever that demon have wings or horns.
This brings us to the issue of what are demons?
Generally there are two popular answers: 1) they are fallen angels and 2) they are not fallen angels.
If 1) then this is a fake as Biblically, angels do not have wings (nor halos). There is also no indication that if demons are angels they somehow changed forms.
If 2) then some argue, largely based on the apocryphal Book of Enoch that demons are the spirits of dead Nephilim who drowned in the flood. Nephilim are the offspring of the “sons of God” and “daughters of men” as per the Genesis 6 affair and while some people think that they were “giants” (whatever that means) there is no indication that they looked anything unlike a human (even if larger by however much height).
But perhaps it is ol’ Satan himself. Well, Biblically, Satan is not a demon and is not an angel but is a Cherub: thus, he has four wings and four faces.
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Angels
Cherubim
Demons
Nephilim – Giants
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