Introduction -- Prelude: The case for consideration: a para-creature sampler: Skinwalker Ranch -- Worlds below. Things from way down under ; Liminal Los Angeles -- Neither man nor beast. They walk among us ; The Church Lady monster ; Ch-ch-changes -- Things that make house calls. Inner space invasions ; Unwanted bedroom guests ; Speak, Rover, speak! ; Shadow wolves ; Hag riders and other uninvited visitors ; Jeepers, creature peepers ; Roadies -- Creatures of shadows, mists, and lights. The Neillsville nexus ; The Brunswick wolf shadow ; Beasts of Bong ; Green mists and sentient atmospheres ; The Oz factor ; Mist-erious creatures -- Out of thin air: creatures, UFOs, and portals. The multiple modes of UFOs ; Lights, crafts, and chickens ; Bigfoot in Chicago ; The invisibles ; When worlds collide ; Possibly portals ; Search for a Wisconsin portal ; Physics and the otherworld.