"Attractive" does, after all, mean that the person attracts you, so "unattractive" means that the person repels you, and it's difficult to like somebody who repels you.
Physical attraction and personal attraction are different things, sometimes very different and separate things. Sometimes opposite. Respectfully, I can't really go along with you here.
You could be right re Woodard-- it could also be that he just couldn't accept on a gut level that something that bizarre and supernatural was really happening, and needed face-to-face confirmation before crossing that boundary, in his head, and as far as going to authorities. He might have brought "backup", if he had had any available.