The Face Peelers

It’s getting weirder out there. And we’re serving up the high strangeness.

Shout out to my Twitter mutual @DJSchreffler for showing me this one.

Let’s get into it.

NB: The “Maussan” name dropped in the tweet above is Jaime Maussan, a serious Mexican journalist whose reporting on UFOs in the early 90s made his name in ufology circles.

From what I understand, Maussan used to co-host the Mexican version of 60 Minutes, so imagine John Stossel launching a spinoff career investigating Bigfoot.

Speaking of which, if you’re not familiar with the Kelly-Hopkinsville incident, the always informative Bob Gymlan has a handy video primer.

You can watch it all here:

I don’t know, though.

The more I look into the current Peruvian flap, the less it resembles KH.

Here’s the relevant part of the Spanish-language video that accompanied the original tweet above:

The KH creatures harassed one family in an isolated house. And they came off as more mischievous than menacing.

This new Peruvian variety are much more brazen, attacking a whole village and sending one person to the hospital with a slash wound.

Another difference arises from the people being subjected to these attacks. Unlike their North American counterparts, Latin Americans always have some legendary bogeyman to identify cryptids and aliens with.

It’s almost like they’ve retained folkloric knowledge that there’s a common source for all these phenomena.

And check out which mythic label they’ve slapped on this one …

Terrified villagers in a rural Peruvian district have claimed they have come under attack by 7ft-tall aliens they have dubbed Los Pelacaras, or The Face Peelers.

Members of the Ikitu tribe from the San Antonio native community have reported mysterious figures in dark-coloured hoods attacking the villagers, who live in the rural district of Alto Nanay, north east of Lima, Peru.

After one such ‘attack’, a 15-year-old girl had to be taken to [the] hospital.

According to the community leader, Jairo Reátegui Dávila, the teenager narrowly escaped but ‘as a result of the struggle they cut part of her neck.’

Now, according to local media, members of the community are conducting night patrols to protect women, children and the more vulnerable villagers, and have called on the authorities to send in the military.

What if – bear with me, now … the military was already there?

Food for thought.

Locals described the ‘extraterrestrials’ as having large heads and yellowish eyes, and said the mysterious figures are immune to their hunting weapons.

They claim they have attacked them every night for nearly a month since July 11.

Latina Noticias, a Peruvian news outlet, quoted Dávila as saying he had come face-to-face with one of the so-called aliens.

‘We have met almost face to face. His face is hardly visible. I have seen his whole body floating at a height of one meter,’ he said, suggesting the being was hovering.

Nor is this the first viral report of a hovering alien south of the border.

In 2018, a video shot in Mexico captured this:

The humanoid-shaped object was filmed hovering above the city of Mexicali in the state of Baja California in Mexico. Self-described UFO expert Pedro Ramirez noted that it was “first sighting of 2018” and said it may be the result of mankind’s space activity in recent years.

Some say it was a balloon. I’ve heard other reports claiming the “vertical UFO” waved to witnesses.

But who knows?

Interesting commonality with the Peru case, though.

These demons working with the Rules-Based International Order to psyop the world into joining a fake UFO religion have a recognizable M.O.

It’s pretty obvious they’re planning to shock and awe people away from Jesus Christ with an Ozymandias style fear campaign.

God saw it coming. That’s why the one command given more than any other in Scripture is “Be not afraid.”

That doesn’t rule out some licit chills and thrills from a good horror-adventure story based on Christian traditions.

So read my award-worthy first novel now: