Gavin S presumably had no idea that he was about to witness an entirely unique winged humanoid entity as he was walking past his local supermarket. He would encounter a being unheard-of before in the field of cryptozoology and ufology, to which the closest alleged creature would be the ancient phoenix.
The Incident[]
The website ‘True Horror Stories of Texas’ received a bizarre tale from the city of Donna in September of 2017. The witness (identifying himself only as Gavin S) was apparently walking in front of his local H-E-B store. He had been walking for about half an hour and it was roughly one o’clock in the morning when he spied an anomalous avian. He described it as being half man and half bird. The creature spread its wings, which the witness said were about as long as a van, and its eyes glowed red while it did this. It took off after struggling for a bit, and burst into flames as it flew. That is all the detail the witness gave of the account, which makes me curious as to where the creature went. Did it just fly off into the night sky or did it literally burn up? You can clearly see the parallels between this entity and the ancient Greek phoenix, and although the phoenix was a bird as opposed to a humanoid, the description of a flying creature which bursts into flames sounds familiar.
Overall, I am not inclined to believe this account on the grounds that such a spectacular thing would have probably been seen by more than one person if the witness was walking in a public area, as it seems they were. However, as always I am willing to be proven wrong.
Source[]
https://truehorrorstoriesoftexas.com/man-sees-bird-like-humanoid-burst-into-flames-donna-tx/