Billiwhack Monster
The half-goat hominid of an abandoned dairy.
- Region
- Aliso Canyon near Santa Paula, Ventura County, California
- Documented sightings
- 2 on map →
Overview
The Billiwhack Monster is a regional cryptid associated with the abandoned Billiwhack Dairy in Aliso Canyon near Santa Paula, California. The 1955 attack on a nine-year-old boy and the 1964 wave of sightings — which made the Los Angeles Times — comprise the bulk of the documented record.
Identification
Approximately 6 feet tall, muscular, covered in gray-black fur, with ram-like horns rising from the skull and an elongated muzzle. The creature is reported to throw rocks weighing 50 pounds or more, dent vehicles with its fists, and produce inarticulate roars. Encounters cluster along Aliso Canyon Road and Wheeler Canyon Road in the immediate vicinity of the dairy ruins.
Lore & Origin
Local rumor connects the creature to alleged secret experiments conducted at the dairy during World War II by its German-born founder August Rubel, an OSS operative who died in North Africa in 1943. The 1964 wave of teenage monster-hunting expeditions — including one boy "carrying a sword off to slay the beast" — prompted a landowner to hold off 43 youths with a shotgun and was covered in the local and national press.