It's difficult to believe they don't exist. Certainly it would seem they are in outer space yet are able to reach life on Earth and torment it on a whim. Jealousy may be the motive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR-3TW5EKWghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYWOzRF1yA
Evil seems to communicate through these people and the sticks and their hats are aids to pick up the deity's messages travelling through space.
The space consciousness demanded this and stupidly people on Earth agreed to it. See also the Ayatollahs and Benjamin Netanyahus and Graham Linehans and Janice Turners and Hadley Freemans. Tar like dark ooze, essentially.