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The Legend of the NASA Gargoyle

“Frank Shaw was the engineer who had the experience,” she told us. “He saw, a few times at least, I believe, a gargoyle figure at the NASA Johnson parking lot area on the roof. It was hunched over and demonic-looking.”

In the late ‘00s, Redfern interviewed Desiree Shaw, Frank’s daughter. According to Desiree, her father (who was an archivist, not an engineer), saw the gargoyle in 1986. Redfern described the encounter in his book based on Desiree’s recollections of her deceased father’s tale.

While walking to his car that night, he had seen, to his complete and utter horror; perched on a nearby building, a large man-like figure that was utterly black in color, and that seemed to have a large cape draped across its shoulders and back, with two huge wing-like appendages sticking out of the cape. Looking more bat-like than bird-like, the wings made a cracking noise as they slowly flapped in the strong howling wind. The creature . . . had clearly realized it had been seen. Not only that, Shaw gained the very distinct impression that the beast was actually relishing that it had been noticed, and was even seemingly deriving pleasure from the fact that it had struck terror into the heart of Shaw.

In Redfern’s book, Desiree says her father reported the sighting to management and was told he wasn’t the first to see the gargoyle.

“Apparently, [Frank] talked to the NASA history office at Johnson, and they had said they had also heard stories, but later they said they had no idea what he was talking about,” said Constantinou.

Was there a gargoyle that haunted living around Johnson Space Center in the latter days of the Cold War? Could it be part of a race of winged beings that have been seen in Houston since the 1950s, or related to the strange flying cryptids that have been spotted across the state for decades? No one can say, but if you’re out by NASA, keep your eyes on the skies for more than just rockets and satellites.

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