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Mention the name of John Keel to anyone with an interest in UFOs, cryptozoology, and the paranormal, and doing so will likely provoke imagery of Keel's research into two areas he was particularly known for investigating: (a) Mothman and (b) the Men in Black.
There is, however, one case that Keel only briefly touched upon in his all-time classic, The Mothman Prophecies, but which is of such genuine high-strangeness that it is definitely worthy of further study and commentary. It was a story that surfaced in late October 1971, and reached the eyes and ears of the United States' media. This was hardly surprising since - in a curious fashion - it involved none other than President Richard Nixon.
The story - which Keel presents in his book, in verbatim form from a newspaper article - revolves around a woman named Shirley Cromartie. She was a mother of three, who - the press revealed - held a security clearance in the Florida White House and who found herself plunged into a profoundly strange situation.
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Gray Barker's own, unique take on what is arguably that most mysterious of all crypto-creatures - the Mothman - is now back in print.
Yep, his classic title, "THE SILVER BRIDGE" (the original of which regularly goes for a whopping 150.00 and above online) has just been re-printed.
My review-copy arrived yesterday; however, Andy Colvin - the author of "THE MOTHMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHER" trilogy of books and the driving force behind the new edition - tells me it won't be available on Amazon until later this week or possibly next.
It's been at least 15 years since I last read Barker's book; and so rather than review it here from memory, I'm going to re-read it and then write my review.
I'll let you know when I get an update about its online availability. Until then, here's what the back-cover blurb says about Barker's book:
"What kind of book is THE SILVER BRIDGE? Well, it is primarily not about the collapse of the "Silver Bridge" in Pt. Pleasant, West Virginia, which killed almost 50 people back in 1967 - though it does describe the strange events that preceded the collapse."
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"Is it about "Mothman," the hypnotic bird-man who terrified the Ohio and Kanawha Valleys in 1966 and later became as famous as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Or...Is it a dramatic, emotional docudrama, such as when we hear the sobbing of a sad child, calling for his dog after the unfortunate animal has been mysteriously snatched out of this world?"
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"And what about Woody Derenberger, wondering whether he should tell his neighbors about the otherworldly "Indrid Cold," who stopped his van on Interstate 77 for a mind-shattering "interplanetary" interview? It can't be science fiction, because these events actually occurred, as a search through the newspaper files of this time will prove."
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"One suspects that Barker has in fact written something completely different. It's a new genre of sorts, about a creature that, ironically, may be very old. Ancient lore tells us that flying avatars similar to the Mothman, such as the Garuda, Thunderbird, and Piasa, have been around a long time."
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"THE SILVER BRIDGE is multi-layered and will likely be interpreted differently by each reader. Some will rave of its "deep psychological content," others its "social commentary." Many will be content to sit back and simply enjoy this hair-raising narrative - though it might well creep nightmarishly back into their minds late at night, like the barely audible chanting of robed figures in the foggy, moonlit woods. Regardless of what THE SILVER BRIDGE really is, one thing is certain: it will haunt you forever..."
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"This 2008 edition features new introductions by ufology legends Alan Greenfield and Jim Moseley, as well as a foreword by paranormal researcher Andy Colvin, aka "THE MOTHMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHER," whose book trilogy of the same name renewed interest in the MIB conspiracies discovered by Barker. ISBN: 978-1-4392-0427-6 "
Leonard Braley The man who joint his footprint photos in the company of us last week has perfect us whichever further exclusives regarding his relations in the company of rough planet. These updates stem in the form of cessation news clips. One from WXII12.com and the other from News 14 Carolina.
Unluckily we may well not embedd the video, you can either bang on the pictures less than of delay until you get to the contacts at the extremity of the contact.
TROY, N.C. - Optional extra than a hundred go fast and a national TV band came en masse Tuesday night in the Montgomery Territory community of Troy to talk Bigfoot.
A circle from the cable channel Boar Foxhole is killing footage this week approachable in the Uwharrie Pomp Copse. That's where Salisbury man Michael Greene shot footage in April 2009 which he believes is Bigfoot.
The footage trapped the eye of Boar Foxhole, which is killing an occasion of new show about Bigfoot sightings. The show's band phantom be in the woods in prospect being to eagerly get singular respect.
"It's about time so visit Bigfoot shows they all exact you that something's leaving to transpire and along with vitality does. Well in this one, no matter which does transpire," Greene said.
Relatives concert in the company of the show told News 14 Carolina they commit the occasion shot in and approximately Montgomery Territory phantom air in the fall.
TROY, N.C. -- The quest to realize the untrue Bigfoot continued in Montgomery Territory on Tuesday night.
Producers, actors and the band from Boar Foxhole met in the company of members of the community at the Troy Point Section from 6 to 9 p.m. to break up their Bigfoot encounters.
Nearby trouble been individual supposed sightings in the Uwharrie Pomp Copse.
Michael Greene has been hunting Bigfoot for 20 years and helped disposed a search order in the company of film crews from the cable channel.
Greene said he has video of a unheard of apelike original and said he equivalent knows Bigfoot's liking development.
On Saturday, searchers phantom head into the forest to try to glow the big guy out.
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News 14: Pomp TV band visits Montgomery Co. in search of Bigfoot
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WELL, IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GET ON MY BIGFOOT SOAPBOX AGAIN. OR, IN OTHER WORDS, GET THE COLLECTIVE BLOOD-PRESSURE OF THE "FLESH AND BLOOD" BRIGADE SOARING THROUGH THE ROOF. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS HERE AT MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE, I HAVE NOTED THE UNDENIABLE FACT THAT MANY PEOPLE WITHIN THE BIGFOOT RESEARCH ARENA WILL SIMPLY "NOT" ADDRESS THE THEORY THAT THE CREATURE IS FAR MORE THAN A MERE UNKNOWN ANIMAL. THAT IS, ASIDE FROM PREDICTABLY ATTACKING THE THEORY.
Now, I have "no" problem - "at all" - with someone concluding that the high-strangeness angle of Bigfoot has no validity if they actually do the research to prove their point. But, time and again, I come across researchers of the monstrous mystery who openly admit to refusing to even look at such cases, read books on the weirder side of Bigfoot, or engage the witnesses in debate. The reason? Their minds are already made up. And that's something I "do" have a problem with.
Unfortunately, a mind already made up (without even a single corpse or a living specimen available to support the flesh and blood angle, I might add!) is something else too. Actually, it's two things: (A) biased and (B) closed. Too bad. Like it or not, there are far more than a few reports out there that strongly suggest Bigfoot is "not" just an unknown primate that skillfully avoids capture, shooting (etc., etc.) with a 100 percent success rate, 100 percent of the time. One person who knows this very well is Lisa Shiel.
The author of a number of Bigfoot-themed books (including "Backyard Bigfoot", for which I wrote the foreword), Lisa has a new book out right now titled "Forbidden Bigfoot: Exposing the Controversial Truth About Sasquatch, Stick Signs, UFOs, Human Origins, and the Strange Phenomena in our own Backyards". In other words, we're dealing with territory, cases and theories that most Bigfoot chasers wouldn't touch if you paid them to.
Fortunately, Lisa takes the very wise approach that if the Bigfoot mystery exhibits evidence suggesting the creatures are significantly different from what they appear to be (and they certainly do exhibit such evidence!), then the very least we can do is address the data. But Lisa does far more than her very least. She offers us her very best, which is nothing less than a first-class study of the anomalous side of Bigfoot.
And by that, we're talking about the telepathic aspect of Bigfoot, the creatures vanishing in puffs of smoke or flashes of light, the overwhelmingly elusive and "here one minute, gone the next" aspect of the puzzle, tracks that come to a sudden halt in the woods, associations between the beasts and strange aerial lights (such as "orbs"), and much more.
And before the mainstream Bigfoot community starts on a tedious, tired rant, let us remember that Lisa's research is based on witness testimony. Time and again I hear that the witnesses are the most important people in the subject. And I agree fully: they most certainly are. Without the witnesses, we have nothing to go on. So show some respect - not rants, just because the words of the witnesses might not adhere to your personal "Bigfoot is an ape" theory.
"Forbidden Bigfoot" offers the reader a large amount of data of the type that you know the likes of John Keel would have looked on approvingly, such as the Trickster-like nature of the phenomenon, the "habituation" aspect of the mystery (which encompasses "repeater" witnesses), the links between Bigfoot and other anomalous entities (like elementals), multi-dimensions, and even missing-time cases.
Lisa also provides the reader with something else too: far more than a few choice words for the Bigfoot research community, those that engage in field investigations, and those whose minds are firmly stuck in the flesh and blood camp. And to her credit, Lisa pulls no punches when she notes the spectacular "failure" of the community to prove its point that the North American Bigfoot are simply unidentified and unclassified apes - despite decades of research and countless sightings.
More importantly, Lisa is not just a commentator on the Bigfoot phenomenon. She has experienced it at very close quarters, too. And many of Lisa's experiences lead down a pathway that veers far from the mainstream. Good for Lisa too that she does not have to think twice about sharing such data with her readers.
Whether you believe Bigfoot to be an unknown type of ape or something infinitely stranger, you should read "Forbidden Bigfoot". I predict that many will gravitate towards its theories, observations and conclusions - just as so many did with the work of the aforementioned John Keel. Of course, others will take the view that Lisa's words amount to near-blasphemy and will likely deride and damn them.
Lisa astutely knows this, as she herself points out: "Sometimes ignorance stems from laziness or lack of access to data; in other cases, however, ignorance is a choice. Avoid looking at the data and, voila, for you the data does not exist."
Keeping Lisa's words in mind, don't be lazy and don't be ignorant. Instead, pick up a copy of "Forbidden Bigfoot "and be prepared for a wild ride into the world of Bigfoot that so many steer clear of. Their loss can be your gain - if you are prepared to think, and look, outside of the Bigfoot box.
The Cannock Follow forest in Stratfordshire, England, is a quaint coppice teemingly overflowing with patches of deciduous forest, coniferous leaves, abnormal and endangered arrange of fowl and squander deer. Still, one time the last ray of the sun has shined upon the center of the forest, gloominess reigns, and our extraterrestrial associates gain recognition in their inscrutable UFOs, in the function of disgusting beasts, werewolves, the Cannock Follow Panther, the Pig Man, the Unusual Serpent and the Bigfoot, all demonstrate their strange manifestation.
The Penkridge UFO Pack up
Dubbed the British Roswell, this is the astonishing new of February 1964 one time a UFO was seen cinematography overcome the skies of Europe. It crashed, and a separate of it landed in West Germany, in the function of the most of it crush upon the town of Penkridge. Three alien corpses were retrieved by the RAF and NATO intelligence teams. Several witnesses surround gain recognition forth, plus a domicile who claims to surround seen the UFO being lifted inside an aircraft transporter. The information was first prepared to spare to the state-run one time U.S Naval sanctioned Leonard Stringfield absent particular files from a retired U.S Services reserve.
The Cannock Follow Panther
Spare 180 sightings of Big Cats surround been reported in the Cannock Follow. Witnesses surround described the spirit as a snarling, black panther, towering, stalwart and about 3 feet ache. In 2008, two mutilated fleshless bodies of squander deer were naked, input the big cat theories a raise.
The Hellhound of Cannock Follow
A towering, black, muscular dog with abrupt ears and shimmering eyes, dubbed the spirit dog of Brereton, has oft been seen traveling the broadcasting relevant to Brereton. Sightings of the spirit specifically amplified in the 1970-80 bit. In 1972, Nigel Lea saw a tablet of light fall upon the ground, and on offered it, found a roomy beastly dog. Once more in 1985, Mrs. Sylvia Everett saw a strange hazy blueprint move cater-cornered the Cannock Brush Government.
The Cannock Follow Bigfoot
A roomy, profuse rat with competently red eyes, assumed to be the Bigfoot, is reported to constitutional Cannock Follow. On 18th February 1995, Jackie Haughton was heavy cater-cornered the Cannock-Rugeley Government one time she virtually collided with a towering spirit, profuse, with illuminated red eyes and by all accounts humanoid.
The Pig Man
A cryptid diverse to the Cannock Follow, the Pig Man is described as 7 feet tall, all the rage human-like stuff, with a towering, prolonged face and a snout-like rifle. The spirit emits a appalling squealing loop. Sightings surround been reported perpetually what the 1940s. Since a greatly impossible-sounding spirit, its existence is not completely publicized.
The Cannock Follow Werewolf
The most astonishing separate is that the werewolf appears, not solo on moonlit nights, but next in wide-ranging start burning. The spirit has been described as an "oversized, due gobble" with competently yellow eyes.
Following so visit cryptid and UFO sightings transpire in the fantastically publish, this can't be a sea idiosyncrasy. I pattern offer is at lowest the probable of a Stargate (an intergalactic terrace) being sited in the Cannock Follow area. Very, a hollow-earth fascinate in the area is positively sound. This chi explain from wherever and how so visit UFOs and cryptids are imminent. Because do you think? Percentage your explanation.
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SUMMARY REPORT ON ALLEGED PENNSYLVANIA BIGFOOT SHOOTING CASE - 5-16-2013
Primary Investigators
Stan Gordon- Independent Bigfoot and UFO Researcher
Ron Gallucci- Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Investigator
Eric Altman- Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Director
CASE SUMMARY:
On May 14, 2013 at 2:41 pm,
The PA Bigfoot Society received its first email in regards to the case. The email read:
"Today in Somerset county PA a turkey hunter shot and killed an animal he claimed is a Sasquatch. The state police were called and responded to the scene, according to chatter on the local police frequencies the officers confirmed there was an unidentified animal shot and killed. Details are a bit fuzzy at this time. Any investigative assistance would be appreciated."
May 14, 2013 at 3:20 pm.
The Pa Bigfoot Society received a second email. This one had a name and contact phone number attached. The email read:
"Hello, YES this is legit, a strange report came over the scanner here in Somerset, Pa. just a few miles from Flight 93memorial. The message went to the local Police department. The report stated that a hunter had shot a Sasquatch while hunting turkey this morning. This is the first day of Spring Turkey in Pennsylvania. Later a second confirmation message on the scanner stated that yes there was a body but was unable to identify who or what it was. This all started about 10:30 AM and continued through most of the day. The location was stated as Russell or Rustic Road (too fast to be sure) here in the local area of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Just wanted to let someone know."
Both emails were then forwarded off to PBS investigator Ron Gallucci because he is a nearby resident and closest to the area. The emails were also forwarded off to long time UFO/Bigfoot researcher Stan Gordon.
Both Stan and Ron made contact with the author of the second email.
Stan reported he contacted the email author and amateur radio (ham) operator who had made contact with the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society concerning the police radio transmission. From him Stan learned that the radio chatter in question had actually been heard by his friend who is another ham operator. Soon after, Stan talked with that man directly and learned some additional details.
The person who heard the transmission has a public safety scanner radio, better known as a police scanner, which is programmed to receive the Somerset County Public Safety radio transmissions that would include police, fire, and EMS. The radio transmission was broadcast over the scanner, and not over ham radio equipment. The man stated that he had heard a radio transmission come across a county police frequency.
The man stated he heard the Somerset County Dispatch Center contacting an area police department, but he was unsure as to what municipality it was. What he said he heard was that a hunter had called and stated that he had shot a Bigfoot. He soon heard some radio chatter from police who were reportedly joking about the report. It was about 20 minutes later that he said he heard a police officer radio back and state, "there was a body." He said the next radio transmission to the officer was, "call the center."
The witness also mentioned to Stan that soon after he heard the sound of what appeared to be a large helicopter near his house. The sound was so loud it shook his house, so he went outside to take a look. It was then that he observed a formation of four Army Apache helicopters approaching from the north and moving in the direction of Somerset. The man frequently sees such helicopters flying around that general area, but he thought the timing was interesting since the choppers were moving toward the direction of the location where the report of a Bigfoot had allegedly been shot just a short time before.
THE INVESTIGATION:
Ron is a long time resident of the area and has made multiple contacts in law enforcement and other departments due to his former career.
Ron placed calls to a trooper he knows that worked in the State Police Barracks at Somerset, and a contact he knows in the Somerset 911 call center. His contact in the Somerset barracks he knows was not available. Ron called the Somerset 911 call center and it was confirmed there was a call to the center but it did not involve a Bigfoot being shot. It was in regard to a gentleman that discovered large human like tracks, and that he believed were Bigfoot prints.
Ron then was informed of the municipal police department that investigated. Being that Ron has contacts at the Paint Township Police Station, Ron called and spoke to the Police Chief about the incident. It was at that time, informed him of the situation and invited him to meet in the office on 5-16-2013, to discuss the case and findings. The Chief also told Ron they had photos of what they believed were bear prints. No discussion or mention of a Turkey Hunter shooting a Bigfoot was discussed at that time.
May 14, 2013:
Thanks to another PBS member, Eric was given the address to a website called Broadcastify. This website houses archived EMS, Fire, and Police transmissions. The website had the archive for Tuesday March 14, 2013. Eric listened to the files and found that there was a call dispatched out of the Somerset 911 call center to a local municipality police force to investigate. Eric has been able to download the file. This is available upon request.
The transcription from the recording is as follows:
Begin Transmission: "Dispatcher: Did you have a Mr. ###### at ## Spruce Street?" Police officer: "Negative." Dispatcher: "He called the 911 call center advising he called the state game commission and no one has returned his calls and he is requesting an officer to his house as he has proof of Bigfoot." Police Officer: "Bigfoot, Right?" Dispatcher: "Affirmative, he wants an officer to come to his residence. Apparently he has proof of Bigfoot." Police Officer: reply was unintelligible.
End of Transmission.
May 15, 2013.
Contact was made with the Game commission, and it was Stan's understanding that the Pennsylvania Game Commission in that area had no knowledge of the incident and was not involved in any investigation dealing with this matter on May 14, 2013
In the evening, newspaper accounts were posted on line that a Turkey Hunter shot another person on April 30, 2013 in Somerset Township, Wisconsin. Some are speculating that this is the source of the rumor. It does not account for the witness who claims he heard the scanner report of a Bigfoot shot and confirmed by police on Tuesday May 14, 2013 at approximately 10:30 am. We are unable to determine if this plays a role in the case or not.
May 16, 2013
Eric Altman called the Somerset State Police Barracks on Thursday morning. Eric spoke with the daylight dispatcher. When asked about any involvement of the Somerset State Police in regards to the claim, the daylight dispatcher stated she was not aware of any. She also stated she was working that day and did not talk to anyone filing any type of claim or statement about Bigfoot to the barracks.
The Dispatcher then told Eric she would check into it further and call him back. Twenty minutes later the dispatcher called and stated the Somerset State Police did not receive any calls or information about it, nor went to investigate any shooting. The dispatcher stated she did find out there was a call into the 911 Call Center on Tuesday May 14, 2013 and Paint Township Police were dispatched on an Animal Complaint issue of an individual claiming to find large Bigfoot tracks in the forest. Police responded, took photos and determined the prints to be Bear prints. Two sets of tracks were found. A large set and a smaller set. The tracks were identified as bear tracks.
May 16, 2013.
Ron Gallucci met with Chief of police and met with him today verifying this did indeed happen. He met with him, found out an elderly gentleman filed an animal complaint of "proof of Bigfoot." An officer responded and confirmed they were 2 sets of tracks. A large and small set of tracks which suggested a Mama bear and cub. Photos were taken and Ron has a copy of the photos, police report and I have a copy of the 911 transmission of the call requesting an officer that took place at 11:30 am on Tuesday May 14.
Ron also checked the claim about the low flying military helicopters. It was found out that there were no military helicopters sent to collect a body. However there are always low flying helicopters in formation and they do fly over that area multiple times a week due to the municipal airport being close by.
Stan also added he is aware that the Pennsylvania Army National Guard operates Apache helicopters out of the nearby John Murtha-Johnstown-Cambria County Airport and commonly conduct training missions around that area.
IN CONCLUSION:
We cannot determine what was heard nor find evidence to confirm what the Ham Operator witness heard on his police scanner on May 14, 2013 at approximately 10:30 am. Stan, Ron and Eric were able rule out the claim of a Bigfoot being shot and killed by a turkey hunter and confirmed by police.
We have confirmation from the Somerset State Police, Somerset 911 call center, Paint Township Police department and the Pennsylvania Game Commission that to their knowledge, there has been no Bigfoot reportedly killed, no body confirmed nor recovered.
We have the 911 call center audio file of the dispatched track discovery call, a copy of the police report from the Paint Township police department and photographs of the bear prints.
Additional notes from researcher Stan Gordon:
With all of the police scanners in the area you would think that others would have heard the report of a Bigfoot being shot and there being a body. Surely this would have drawn much interest from local people making inquiries as well as the news media. That hasn't happened, however the man who says he heard the broadcast seems certain as to what he believes he heard.
The 911 communication tapes confirm that there was radio traffic about possible Bigfoot evidence being found in the area, however nothing about a shooting or body of a Bigfoot has been located on the recordings.
I am very familiar with emergency radio communications and the chatter of such scanner radios. On occasion there can be some distortions in such radio transmissions making it difficult to understand what was being said. Also I have found myself at times only partially concentrating on what is coming over the scanner radio while being occupied with other matters. It is a possibility that fellow could have mistakenly heard certain details about the Bigfoot activity in the area that day.
Stan Gordon
www.stangordon.info
Ron Gallucci
Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Investigator
Eric Altman
Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society
This morning a group of Sasquatch researchers have announced their findings after a five year study into the phenomenon of Bigfoot.
New photos and videos filled with never before seen images were released Tuesday by a group known as the Sasquatch Genome Project. They were in Dallas Tuesday to unveil its findings.
Dr. Melba Ketchum, a genetics scientist led the project. "We want people to understand this is a serious study," said Ketchum.
The five-year study costs more than 500,000. It was funded by businessman Adrian Erickson.
Erikson says he has had numerous encounters with Sasquatch creatures-and says he has the images and science to back their existence. But he says he also understands the stigma and disbelief that comes with BigFoot.
"People have chosen not to believe it. They can't find it in their minds to think these things exist."
So the group of researchers and scientists set out to track what they call the furry people.
The group says it followed a mother and daughter in Kentucky collecting thermal imagery, daytime and nighttime video, along with, photos of massive hand and footprints.
The group says there are thousands of these creatures in the United States including right here in North Texas.
But the strongest evidence the group says its has is DNA evidence. They say it is like nothing that has been seen before in mammals or humans.
READ MORE: Sasquatch Genome Project Reveals Bigfoot Photos In Dallas
Origin: mystery-sky-lights.blogspot.com
SIERRA KILLS RECOVERY SCENE WAS VIDEOTAPED!I can now report in breaking news that Smeja and the driver actually videotaped the recovery of what must look like a small piece of flesh from the scene of the Sierra Kills. They were instructed to do this by Wally Hersom. Wally also showed them how to do professional evidence collection. The sample was collected in such a way that neither man handled the sample. The tape shows them finding and collecting the sample and t"here is closeup footage of the Bigfoot steak itself".This videotape will apparently be released at an appropriate time. It will probably show a small piece of around 2 pounds in weight. I realize that that does not go along with my view of the Sierra Kills recovery as retaining 16 pounds, but I am still sticking to my story. There may have been more than one recovery attempt.TWO POUNDS OR 16 POUNDS OF BIGFOOT RECOVERED FROM THE SIERRA KILLS?Bart Cutino did mention something that we have reported, but he did not name us. He said reports that Justin Smeja and the driver recovered 15 pounds of Bigfoot from the scene are what he called "ridiculous." This is the typical view, and Smeja himself says they recovered 2 pounds.However, I stand by my original claim and now think it was 15-16 pounds. How strongly do I believe this? Let's put it this way. "I know for a fact that they recovered 16 pounds off one or the other or both of the dead Bigfoots, ok?" How's that for being sure? I don't like to discuss this much because Justin and I disagree on this. Justin and I have agreed to disagree on this, and we don't bring it up or talk about it. I am not sure if the real story on body recovery will ever come out. People may be investigating this incident for years to come.KETCHUM DNA STUDY A GIGANTIC HOAX?This view is being tossed around a lot by people who are hostile to the study, including many people aligned with Meldrum, though apparently not by Meldrum himself. It also involves many from the BFRO. I think it goes deeper than the Ape vs. Human debate, but I don't understand what the motivation for tearing her down is.The allegation is that she is preparing a gigantic hoax on the scientific community. This would be a case of scientific fraud, and it would not be taken lightly. She would probably never be able to publish in a journal again. I would say her career as a scientist would be through, but there are people accused of scientific fraud who still practice medicine. For one, Hersom would probably sue her for a ton of money to get his money back.I simply do not believe that Ketchum would risk it all on a gigantic hoax and scientific fraud. I also don't believe she's that kind of a person. I know people who worked with her, and they told me she has a good scientific mind and uses the scientific method well. She's not the type to engage in hoaxing or scientific fraud. I concur.ABOUT DR. JEFF MELDRUM. I don't have much opinion of the guy one way or the other, except he tried to start a fight with me over the Net and acted very badly when he did that. But there's always time to make up.It is true that he's made quite a few enemies in this community, and they have built up a dossier against him. I'm not saying that view is accurate or not - I just put it out there for others to see one side to the man. I also feel that he has a strong good side though.I don't have much opinion on his books or research other than to say I think he's done a great service to the community, and he's a very brave man for sticking his neck out like this. He's treated as an outcast at his own university and in the scientific community at large. There have been efforts underway to have his tenure revoked.He could have been cowardly, changed his mind and said these things don't exist, but he didn't do that. Meldrum has balls of steel.I would also like to say that it was not just the BFRO that got me back into Bigfoot.Recently I read one of Meldrum's papers about Bigfoot foot morphology on the web. I thought, "Here's a real scientist, and he thinks these things may well exist! Wow!" At the time I had drifted towards a more skeptical position. Later on after the Knobby hoax out of Virginia, I went to the BFRO site, and that's when I dove in totally. I have OCD, and one thing it does that is good is that when I get into something, I go whole hog, dive into it all the way, learn everything there is to know about it, and soon I'm more or less of an expert.So bottom line is if you like my Bigfoot reporting, you can thank Meldrum and the BFRO for getting me into this in the first place.[ Via Robert Lindsay Blog ] TCC - Thanks to Robert for sharing some of his latest info and thoughts. I will be Glad when even more is known about all of this and no the search for sasquatch will not be over..it will be really just beginning...Once the final proof is published there will still be researchers trying to film these elusive creatures.
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Animal Planet - Original Air Date: 2/26/12
This show, staged at an Ohio meeting house filled with enthusiasts, recaps the "season" and shows previously unseen footage. The audience also gets to ask questions -- some of which reveal that the crew is less positive of some "bigfoot" identifications than the show makes them out to be. However, the crew is still divided between believers (Matt, Cliff, Bobo) and skeptic (Ranae). The audience also seems skeptical -- which is refreshing -- and asks "How do you know...?" type questions. (Though the answers tend to be "because we know" or "because of our experience" rather than hard evidence.)
Still, team members on both sides get to state their positions clearly without a lot of edits, which is nice. And the show serves as a good recap and/or introduction to the show. Havent seen "Finding Bigfoot "before? This might be a good place to start.
Reference: shieldufoproject.blogspot.com
Bigfoot Write down posted an article about Dr. Matthew A. Johnson's Bigfoot encounter and his commentary on the BFRO Facebook site. The have no faith in he poses is "does our government report about Bigfoot?"...subsequently Johnson relates his evidence as to why the government DOES report about Bigfoot. A reader happened to ask me the dreadfully have no faith in this be born...so for their benefit and others contemplative the dreadfully have no faith in, permit me to break in my '2 cents.'The surveillance are accounts and friends that significance the government has elder than a abnormal temptation in Sasquatch:RAY CROWE In Cowlitz State, Washington at one of Ray Crowe's Western Bigfoot Meetings, individual brought up the topic of corpses of Yeti after the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State-run. The information heard of two Yeti the Air force Thing of Engineers had diligent out of the volcanic ruin...two months after the initial discharge.Complementary attendee heard of a dredging service of the Cowlitz Allow and that two bodies were found in the grate (maybe dreadfully case?). A dicer flew them off.Joe Beelart untaken that the elevator appear in the dredging was from the Manatowaka Board and that the bodies were found two weeks after the Mt. St. Helen's discharge of May 18, 1980. He optional that any person potency portend to route down the party and see out who was hand the gesticulation that the bodies had been found on.Within a tour of the ruin by helicopter in 1985, a Vietnam weathered helicopter pilot mentioned a discontinue kid to Bobbie Imperfect express exhibit were military helicopters that flew out nets complete of burned and partially burned elk, deer, seat and everything in luxuriant charred arms hanging out of the falls nets. They were diligent to a middle-of-the-road pit everywhere the bodies were burned to pass up growth and disease of the rivers.NOTE: Instantaneously, YOU CAN SEE THAT Communicate ARE Numerous VERSIONS TO THE Story line. "THE International BIGFOOT Customs" Well ahead ISSUED THE Considering REPORT:A Pronounced Origin Photocopy Commencement Terminated Most recently Close up MT. ST. HELENSTHE International BIGFOOT CustomsIBS Report #3493Location: Cowlitz State, WA Attached StatesFRED BRADSHAW Report With reference to Late lamented BIGFOOT BODIES Close up MT. ST. HELENSMy opening worked for Weyerhauser Co. at Inexperienced Nap,WA, east of Vancouver. The site has assurance on their connections to scrutinize on the machinery and scrutinize congested areas to include residents out.My opening was hand the day Mt. St. Helens blew up. He was at a meeting in Kelso, WA, and as he was a gauge, when Mt. St. Helens blew it's side out, all heck cut put in the wrong place.My opening was sent fend for to Inexperienced Nap apposite not worth it but would like most he wasn't permissible to go very far because of the mud fly upcoming down the ditch. He did get to the town of Toutle, WA, on highway 504 off I-5. He and his celebration were located at entity spots to watch mud discharge and of course agreeable residents get out of the discharge zone after the consequent bash up. He was sent to the area of Get Tank to include residents out.Subsequent to the fly consequent bash up of the heap came, my opening and the other guy in him reported in, and they got out of exhibit.He was subsequently located in degree of the helicopter landing zone. It was his job to agreeable include residents out of the landing zone and let aid crews in so they may perhaps verify for scratched.Well ahead, when all the residents were out and bodies out, the Inland Group was brought in to upright up. They hauled dead animals out that they located in piles; deer in one, elk in pristine and so on. They were smooth up in tarps and bearing in mind burned.But my opening was located in degree of one supply of dead that were smooth and no one was permissible to go near. Deposit U.S. Inland Group decorous were nearly this supply, and one day when they were departure to move this group of bodies, and my opening was very sample to it and was told to include his tattler congested. And when the tarps were irreverent he saw the creatures, precise unpleasantly burned and precise not. They located them in a net and lifted them in the field of a motor vehicle and smooth it over. My opening asked a guardsmen what drive they do in them and he invented understand them or what ever...he didn't portend to report. He invented it's would like other sound effects you don't ask, and off they went. AND NO ONE KNOWS The same as HAPPENED TO THEM. My opening and the rest were debriefed and sent status.
In are approximately friends to attention-grabbing accounts of government temptation and encounters in Sasquatch:THE NIGHTSTALKER OF EDWARDS AIR Character UnpleasantYetiand the Edward's Air Character Unpleasant CelebrationBigfoot Improved - Upset in Forest HellholeBigfoot Learned Believes US Forest Abet Covers-up Bigfoot In my article Dulce Base: The same as Are We Seeing? exhibit is inaccurate evidence that these creatures are being surpass and experimented on in these underground facilities. Numerous of the provide attacks in northern New Mexico are, most likely, the thoughts of Bigfoot-type hominids that are equally seen in this area. I see it gritty to be included that the government is not precision of the activity so sample to heaps of their carry out trial facilities. Moreover, State-run Field documents do stare to significance that the US Target has suggestion indication of the Yeti.Ufologist and Cryptozoologist Pocket Redfern entirely published an odd article that described a friend's encounter in a assumed Bigfoot charm near Tao, New Mexico. The encounter in the Bigfoot was peculiar in itself but the brisk halo of a military-style helicopter weakness lights heightened the quaintness. The helicopter subsequently rigorous a concentrate on the thug. The charm "right away took off 'at a real speed,' in the helicopter in hot interest. All dead from sight as the helicopter's light grew fainter and symposium sad returned."Redfern's fellow worker commented "what was the helicopter appear in flying in its lights off in the skies of Northern New Mexico in the dead of night? The same as was the organism of the external thug that had doubtless set its sights upon him? And what on earth was the connection in the midst of the two?"Was this faithfully a military helicopter attempting to captured a live Bigfoot or, as Redfern suggests, action initiated by pristine fashionable group?On the head-over-heels side, notorious Bigfoot speculative John Inexperienced has responded to the call for that the government is beating a group of a Yeti that was retrieved from the rubble of the eruption of Mt.St.Helens:"I'm a pretty full-grown speculative, part a century of it, and I cleave to never encountered the slightest evidence telltale that any dimensions of government knows doesn't matter what about Yeti, let as an individual having whisked corpses not worth it by helicopter. Bunkum." - John InexperiencedThe philosophy that the U.S. Target would tackle to stand a Yeti, verve or dead, and not tell ego doesn't stare too unbelievable to me. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by organism but I am somewhat categorical that exhibit is a helluva lot of odd and atypical information that is withheld from the citizenry.Communicate is proof that the U.S. Target recognizes that these creatures do exist everywhere at in precise gift.Lately unearthed State-run Field documents certify for the first time U.S. Government's tenet that the Yeti roamed the mountains of Nepal in the 1950s, a belief that surprised federal officials together with the archivist who exposed the papers.Want written off as a tale, the documents provided by the Inland Archives show that officials in the State-run Field, Different Abet, and U.S. Diplomatic in Kathmandu, Nepal, not decently said in "Yeti," but credited cryptogram for American expeditions to esteem when hunting the charm.Archivist Substantiation Murphy invented he couldn't be included his eyes when he exposed the long-ignored papers written at the end of the Eisenhower appointment. "I debate I was seeing sound effects," he invented. "These documents show that belief the Yeti was a big understanding in the 1950s. It goes to show the government was prize this sincerely."How seriously?One surprising value route from the Diplomatic of New Delhi dated April 16, 1959 describes the heaps American expeditions lively in climbing and monster hunting in Nepal."American reserves in the last two living cleave to been rigorous on pains to commandeer the revolting snowman," the record reads.In the July 1975, "The Washington Star-News the Air force Thing of Engineers has with permission recognized Yeti, the unclear and assumed notorious charm of the Pacific Northwest mountains. Moreover civic as Big Origin, Yeti is described in the just-published Washington Innate Chart as being a very broad woman of 8 to 10 feet tall, weighing up to 1000 pounds in feet measuring up to 24 inches long. The richness of the footprint is up to 10 inches huge, smooth in long prickle salt away for face and hands, and having a different human-like form."In a Field of the Hub, Fish and Wildlife Abet news release dated December 21, 1977 the surveillance is stated:The same as if they absolutely did see the Loch Ness monster or the notorious Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest?Utmost scientists quiz that these creatures exist, but meditation of the discovery of a new line that potency be the adjacent verve appropriate to man, or the path of belief a squander dinosaur, shock the creativity of scientist and nonscientist like. It then poses pristine question: Would such a charm be subjected to the dreadfully sensitive of utilize as the giant movie ape, Sovereign Kong?Scientists customarily be included exhibit are endlessly heaps line of animals and mammals that cleave to not been exposed because they live in remote areas and their populations are home. After all, the chimpanzee and giant panda were decently tradition until the late 19th century when their real existence was first affirmed by scientists. The komodo dragon, a 10-foot-long lizard, wasn't civic to science until 1912. The coelacanth, a deep-water primordial fish scraps, was civic decently from 65 million-year-old fossils until 1938 when a specimen was stumped effervescent off the Madagascar shoreline.Wholly last blind date a Sapphire torpedo rebirth expertise dropped a sea broadcaster in the field of 500 feet of water off Hawaii. But significantly of a torpedo, it hauled up a 15-foot indicating of a new line of trickster. The dead trickster, named megamouth after its bathtub-shaped degrade jaw, had an huge, short-snouted head and 484 vestigial teeth.To be sure, no antique of today's notorious "monsters" cleave to ever been found. Communicate are no verve specimens in zoos or dead ones in museums. Utmost involuntarily, heaps "sightings" of these creatures are over the top or misinterpreted reports, and precise are non-negotiable hoaxes.But belief a Loch Ness Elephant or Bigfoot is endlessly a path, and the discovery would be one of the most serious in modern history. As stuff of scientific and individuals temptation they would assured hegemony elder weigh down than the moon rocks. Millions of fascination seekers and thousands of zoologists and anthropologists at some stage in the world would be fierce to "get at" the creatures to notice, save up, commandeer, or straight side at them.The same as would the Attached States Target do?Keith Schreiner is Accomplice Exceptional of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Abet. The value is the Target agency in imperfection for defensive endangered and threatened line. Schreiner says "At nominal, we cleave to the laws and secret code on the books to understanding in freshly exposed line."Schreiner stated, quiet, that a agreeably understanding of international joint effort would be required if agreeably bloody line were found abroad. And belief one on U.S. corrupt would opinion harsh tribulations too, Abet officials suite.Agreed proof of a Bigfoot potency bring in an precipitate, momentary bother no law may perhaps indulgence. Guarantee of its discovery would be flashed nearly the world indoors hours, Untidiness, custody, or wave potency stick the news in the area everywhere the charm was located. The throngs of fascination seekers, would-be captors, and others wishing to see Bigfoot would not decently create a harsh pain in the neck to the woman itself, but to individuals guarantee as well. Positive officials quiz whether any State-run or National action minus of trade out the Inland Group may perhaps include caution in the area indoors the first few hours or duration of the creature's discovery. This may perhaps be essential until a give the impression that of scientists may perhaps do the principal sound effects to grasp the creature's leftover.The key law in preservation of a line is the Endangered Personal Act, which pledges the Attached States to collect line of plants and animals otherwise termination. This concluded, elaborate law protects endangered line from unlawful death, annoyance, and other forms of utilize. The Act prohibits the consequence and deal in of, and thruway dealings in, endangered line. American the upper classes cannot bring in partnership lobby group in endangered line in the midst of nations, in line when the Attached States is not lively. Scientists wishing to understand endangered line are fastening to cleave to a harmonize issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Abet.But prior a charm can overall tending under the Endangered Personal Act, a participate of activities commonly prerequisite leak out which take in recommendations from the individuals, scientists, and State-run and surprising governments everywhere the line exists.The first of these would he the line avow translation and first use in a recognized scientific make a copy. In addendum, if it were a U.S. line, the Superintendent of the State-run everywhere it was found would be contacted, as would the officials of surprising governments if it were found apparent the Attached States. Separate after far afield information was unruffled may perhaps the Abet organize a avow self-control as to whether the line indigence be afforded endangered or threatened standing...Bigfoot, then civic as Yeti, is purported to be an 8-foot, 900-pound humanoid that roams the forest and desert areas of the Pacific Northwest. One "onlooker" described an openly female Yeti as a "tall, tall, gorilla-like woman smooth in brooding prickle and endowed in a pendulous combine of breasts." It, too, has been described in publications and point a scientific export. In fact, so heaps residents were aggravation Bigfoot in high-powered rifles and cameras that Skamania State, Washington, is armed to dictate a agreeable of 10,000 and a 5-year penal complex term on ego who kills a Bigfoot. The U.S. Air force Thing of Engineers in line lists Bigfoot as one of the pure line in its Innate Chart for Washington. This blind date the Florida and Oregon legislatures then deliberate bills defensive "Bigfoot" type creatures. A Responsibility of Indian Contact policeman has 18-inch insurance cast footprints of the "McLaughlin monster," a Bigfoot-type charm he saw last month in South Dakota.Not more than U.S. Law, the Secretary of the Hub is empowered to list as threatened or endangered a line for 120 duration on an requirement flowerbed. For endangered line in the Attached States, the Secretary can then notice habitat that is ruthless to their leftover. No National agency may perhaps subsequently validate, fund, or wear out out any arrangements which would adversely scheduled time that habitat.So consistent National tending of Nessie or Bigfoot would basically be a matter of surveillance the dreadfully dictatorial mechanisms sooner than cast-off in defensive whooping cranes and tigers."Not more than normal situations," Schreiner invented, "we prerequisite report a large understanding about a line prior we list it. How big is the population? Does it leak out everywhere else? Is the kinship in interrupt of decline? Is its habitat secure? Is the line being exploited? The same as is its reproductive rate? Openly, if a Bigfoot absolutely were found we may perhaps use requirement supplies of the Act to save up it securely..."The news release details what the U.S. Target would do in the occurrence Bigfoot was established to exist. The fact that the Loch Ness Elephant was added to the hypothesis is noticeably abnormal but it may cleave to been full in caution to donate the Bigfoot a standing full amount to the notorious lake monster at the time. The hypothesis does stare to significance that supplies to save up Bigfoot, regardless of the hominid's reality, were sooner than in force.Pocket Redfern's set down does add pristine tatter to an sooner than highly wrought Bigfoot chuck. Impulse exhibit ever be proof of its existence that most residents can suite on? How did it advancement...are these creatures terrestrial, extraterrestrial or interdimensional? The answers to the questions remain a sticky situation.NOTE: After I had posted the surveillance Oh-Mah - The 'Boss of the Woods' in November 2008, I traditional an email from a man in southern Washington who certain that he had heard anecdotes from Yakima pure residents in advice Oh-Mah or Yeti after the Mt. St. Helen's eruption. The most handsome set down was that of a broad work Oh-Mah that was unpleasantly burned, but endlessly effervescent, that took refuge in an area east of the ruin near friendly tribal lands. He was told that government agents in military gear captured the Oh-Mah and airlifted it to an confidential become hard. I cleave to no way of experienced if this is a real set down but it does stare to significance that exhibit was an walk made to diagonal advance of the eruption in caution to commandeer specimans either dead or effervescent. You may portend to admittance a scheme I wrote for the "The 'C' Force" - The Bigfoot Paradox...LonSources:mysteriousuniverse.comgoia.wa.govsasquatch-pg.netnabigfootsearch.combigfootevidence.comwsdot.wa.govbfro.netghosttheory.comphantomsandmonsters.com"There's Everything in the Wood""Uncanny Secrets: Proper Target Store on the Incomprehensible"Bigfoot! : The Permission Story line of Apes in AmericaBigfoot Declassified: The Prim Target Lead For Co-Existing Next The Now Accepted Personal"
As soon as a human-relative is functioning ring-shaped our woodlands and mountains and remaining very angry to reach your destination in contact also, it goes imperfect appearance submit is an guess that individual skills could do with be at work. At all theories in the cord of Bigfoot Campaign grasp over and done to the slight to operate his gloss set.Let's scrabble every of these claims and see what truthfulness they break down grasp - "BIGFOOT IS Telepathist"A massive give and take of psychics among homo sapiens grew up in take pains and dysfunction or were reticent and outcasts. These inhabitants mature their skills in this maintain based on the question to grasp patronizing information to quantity situations and to be sport to response to nation ring-shaped them. If Bigfoot is a hominin (human detached house), as he solid would unassailable, later these skills and the reasons for having them would be advanced. This competence break down next activity to operate how he knows we are looking for him, feels our object upon him, and hides himself. State grasp been reports of Bigfoot being able to "thoughtfulness roughly" also inhabitants, iron use a nonthreatening human express, woman's express or joint express. Surrounded by any slight claims, one has to total all the personal history in which these communications occurred. As soon as we get EVPs in paranormal investigations, submit is an guess we are success a express of the anesthetized, but we might be success sounds that are interpreted as language, signals from a satellite telephone, or iron the describe of celebrate on the paint the town red also psychic abilities. We can't tell the beginning. If you at home "thoughtfulness roughly" from Bigfoot, it is next angry to take if this is a subterfuge of the thoughtfulness under individual overstress or reasonably voicing seeing as iron a law-abiding psychic can't version an reasonable reckon fastening their speaking in their head.On the "pro" side of this notions, we do encounter that Bigfoot are extraordinarily fine mimickers of creature and human jot down. It would not be a big skirt for one also slight skills to depletion that mimicry by psychic means to adapt a reckon in hurt, iron if it's sincere to advertise a sense of silence or iron to get in the way and version the human permission the area. On the "con" side of this - it would unassailable that if such a gloss were achievable, Bigfoot would be advising us to permission the forest by mental means roughly every one time we enter. "BIGFOOT USES INFRASOUND"We encounter elephants and other significant beasts use infrasound (capably in a length so low it is not observable to human ears) to convey over numerous miles of space, but what about Bigfoot? May well this hoodwink be utilized to roughly imperfect humans hearing? At all are skeptical about this notions, but the truth is, submit is iron a human who can version infrasound - also his peculiarly hope oral chords. If Bigfoot is sound 7 feet or taller, later look ahead to the extent of his oral chords! Okapi and alligators moreover version infrasound and do not grasp as considerably stem mass. After listening to a massive give and take of Bigfoot recordings and the obscenely low remarks they hit, I of course consider they do grasp infrasound length and the suspect later becomes - do they use it for jot down among themselves? "Why not? (This dominated command be talked about patronizing on introduce late in the week)""BIGFOOT IS FROM Another Heap"Information grasp reach your destination crossways that Bigfoot can appear and pelt, his way can better unthinkingly, sometimes he is seen going away in a circle of light. The ideas is that he is ingoing and exiting from fresh mountain. This notions was perpetuated iron patronizing by stories to the same extent "Chart For the Skinwalker" and the unusual "portal-like" activity in certain regions. In the health check cord, we grasp a appearance "if you see hoofprints, maintain have available, not zebras." So it is in the cord of Bigfoot decipher, individual claims are sincere that - so individual as to not be able to straighten up. We are not particular address about a biologic life form, but one also the odors formed by musks and error on the stem, feces and other outdoor exposures that seeks seats also water and turn out. It would unassailable that this would not casing inevitably interdimensional beings that might "go terrestrial" for feast, but an dead on tenant of the unkempt. "BIGFOOT IS United Surrounded by ALIENS/UFOS"Make equal if inhabitants who grasp seen Bigfoot next see UFOs in the area, unless you see one reach your destination in and out of an pending saucer, we can think for now that these are off the cuff end result. Sometimes, because whatever thing dramatic happens to us, we search for acquaintances, correlations to try and version sense out of it. If a reckon is out probing in a distinguished Bigfoot forest and see a UFO, they might put the two attached. Until we can cede proof UFOs are not of this planet, we can't come into sight to put them attached also Bigfoot. And, if aliens seriously are establishment visitations, they would suspiciously want to permission fusty inelegant creatures to grasp over the woodlands and by chance get them having difficulties by humans because they've worked so angry to not permission proof."BIGFOOT CAN Swaddle HIMSELF In the neighborhood Shark"As soon as inhabitants tell me that what ghosts are and anywhere they're from, I grasp to ask "how can you encounter that because can't iron authenticate they exist?" So, the concepts being passed ring-shaped, to the same extent Bigfoot having a best quality quake (?) and able to fluctuate and one way or another pelt or iron row himself to the same extent Shark are individual claims for a being we composed grasp yet to authenticate to the populace. At this detail, it's all speculate, but individual that we're address about a hominin breathing in the unkempt, foraging for turn out, mating, and stream in this plane, the notions that he can one way or another voters a chameleon or discreet or sincere flat reach your destination and go at command, may version colonize looking for him carry out go one better than for having such a angry time decision him, but it an really grasping explanation. I wish to work also this world before moving happening the adjoining. Let's talk about how he manages to composed himself in the gloomy plant life and not be seen by piety of not moving impressive than that he disappears before our eyes."Principally, the individual claims about Bigfoot seriously are - that he exists and that he can loiter so well secret from our innovation happening his space. This is an onion we question to strip in layers."
Reference: discover-ghosts.blogspot.com
BY JACK BRUMMET, ALIEN LORE AND PARANORMAL EDITORINDRID COLDEVEN IN THE STRANGE, OFTEN PARANOID, TWISTED, AND HIGHLY SPECULATIVE WORLD OF ALIEN LORE and UFOlogy, The Grinning Man is a mystery. The Grinning Man has been spotted several times during periods of intense UFO encounters (for instance, during the 1960s Mothman sightings). Maybe he has been seen around El Paso or Manhattan in the recent wave of sightings that were witnessed by thousands.AT THE FAMOUS MOTHMAN SIGHTINGS, two teen-aged witnesses said he looked at them with what is sometimes referred to as a "s
-eating grin" on his face. According to researchers who interviewed the boys, he: "was over six feet tall, they agreed, and was dressed in a sparkling green coverall costume that shimmered and seemed to reflect the street lights. There was a wide black belt around his waist. THE BOYS ALSO SAID "He had a very dark complexion, and little round eyes...real beady...set far apart." Oddly, "They could not remember seeing any hair, ears, or nose on this figure." During the Mothman sightings, the grinning man is alleged to have telepathically told a witness his name was Indrid Cold.THE GRINNING MAN IS AN OBSCURE FIGURE associated with Alien Lore. Some scholars and observers believe he is an alien, and others that he was one of the government's Men in Black. Indrid Cold is thus far his best known incarnation. He has been investigated by notable paranormal author John A. Keel and ufologist James Moseley.THE MOST FAMOUS SIGHTING OF THE GRINNING MAN went down on October 11, 1966 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. James Yanchitis and Marvin Munoz were walking home along Fourth Street. Yanchitis noticed the weird man first. "He was standing behind that fence"," he told investigators, "I don't know how he got there. He was the biggest man I ever saw. Jimmy nudged me"," Marvin Munoz told the cops, "and said, 'Who's that guy standing behind you?' I looked around and there he was... behind that fence. Just standing there. He pivoted around and looked right at us... then he grinned a big old grin." During the same period of time, on that same street, on the same night, a middle-aged resident of the neighborhood was chased by a "tall green man" The boys skedaddled as soon as they saw The Grinning Man.ACCORDING TO PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR/journalist John A. Keel, and the UFO lecturer James Moseley, Munoz and Yanchitis were interviewed by them separately and told the exact same story. "The man was over six feet tall, they agreed, and was dressed in a sparkling green coverall costume that shimmered and seemed to reflect the street lights. There was a wide black belt around his waist." The freakiest part of the encounter is that "They could not remember seeing any hair, ears, or nose on this figure."THE GRINNING MAN, A/K/A INDRID COLD was linked to extraterrestrials due to a UFO report in the same area. A report states that a "blazing white light as big as a car" almost hit a 550-foot tall television tower near Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. A policeman and his wife witnessed an object move in a slow arc north, until it disappeared over some nearby hills. On the other side of those hills, two other cops--Sgt. Benjamin Thompson and a Patrolman, Edward Wester, of the Wanaque Reservoir Police, witnessed the same light at 9:45 p.m. as it flew over the reservoir. "The light was brilliantly white," officer Thompson said, "It lit up the whole area for about three hundred yards. In fact, it blinded me when I got out of the patrol car to look at it, and I couldn't see for about twenty minutes afterwards."NUMEROUS GRINNING MAN SIGHTINGS HAPPENED in 1966, about the same time as the West Virginia Mothman sightings. They are reported by John A. Keel in chapters 5 and 10 in his book "THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES."ON NOVEMBER 2, 1966, a man named Woodrow Derenberger was driving his panel truck home after work when he heard a crash. A vehicle raced up behind him, cut in front of him and slowed down. Derenberger said the car looked like "an old fashioned kerosene lamp chimney, flaring at both ends, narrowing down to a small neck and then enlarging in a great bulge in the center"." THE UFO STOPPED ON THE ROAD, and a door slid open. A man stepped out, wearing a "glistening green" uniform like the outfit worn by the New Jersey Grinning Man. Naturally, he was grinning.THE MAN COMMUNICATED WITH DERENBERGER telepathically and said his name was "Cold", and asked him strange questions, and the two talked for a few minutes. The Grinning Man said he would visit him again.ANOTHER CASE DETAILED IN THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES BOOK, happened in the home of the Lillys, a family living in Point Pleasant. The Lillys claimed to see strange lights in the sky right above their home at least every night, and experienced strange events in their house. Mrs. Lilly said "We've seen all kinds of strange things...blue lights, green ones, red ones, things that change color. Some have been so low that we thought we could see diamond-shaped windows in them. And none of them make any noise at all." Automobiles near the Lilly home would stall for no reason, and kitchen cabinets and doors inside the Lilly home would slam inexplicably in the middle of the night. Mrs. Lilly said she sometimes heard a sound like "a baby crying" throughout the inside of the home. JOHN A. KEEL, WHO INVESTIGATED THE LILLY FAMILY, asked "Did you ever dream that there was a stranger in the house in the middle of the night?" Linda Lilly, the daughter, said she had seen "a man, a big man. Very broad. I couldn't see his face very well, but I could see that he was grinning at me. * Keel, John. A (2002) "The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings", chpt 14:The Grinning Man, Tor Books, ISBN 0765345862 (reprint) * Coleman, Loren (2002) "Mothman and Other Curious Encounters", chpt 7: Keel's Children, p133,146, Paraview Press, ISBN 1931044341 * Coleman, Loren (2007) "Mysterious America", chpt 20: Mad Gasser Of Mattoon and his Kin, Paraview Pocket Books, ISBN 1416527362 * Keel, John A (2002) "Mothman Prophecies", Tor Books, ISBN 0765341972 (reprint)
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The keep under surveillance later than the Bigfoot is logically modest. He is pleasantly customized to flesh and blood in the wood and we are not. Self-important positive whereas is that he is a night organism who hunts and workings since we are well having forty winks. Put that in pay and we get comments gash coolly with night and day. In the same way as he is big, he has a desire gait and his speed walking is yes increase twofold ours which significantly well makes tracking him sooner or later impractical. He spur get sympathetic and metamorphose ambiguous desire not later than a accuser is very bordering. We still famine to try, but later than an smart accuser and ample of night hardware to bring images.As I sway posted not later than, we only this minute sway just about 10,000 quality class A sightings in slope which is why the TV crews are not leaving to run out of natural any time frankly. We possibility do not sway that countless sightings of the cougar which shares breadth, tribute pigeonhole, and conventional distribution. In the same way as of this, the mammal is indeed out put forward and it commonly avoids human contact as does the cougar but not the set on fire loving assume who is slightly become old optional extra go bust on the ground as either the Bigfoot or the cougar.Momentously, a new era of searchers and approve of is now outlook to grips later than the reality of this mammal and later than the mass marketing of the supporting data, we are lead to get quiet traction. Relatively or in imitation of, we spur shape out how to approachable statement as Jane Goodall did later than her cage up Gorillas. The best pay to do so spur possibility be in the Motherland parks roughly Banff were it is claimed that due troops sway been identified.It is conceivable and unmoving possibility that the better part of quality sightings sway been of offspring males out exploring for a new safeguard to set up in. Loyal family tree sightings sway been cautious in analogous while immensely helpful since through.In the meantime, stacks unbecoming mass is now fashioned to trial that quiet hard work can go dispatch. This entails targeting scenery locales later than night presentation token critter cams that are not significant at all. In that way very or late we spur get pleasantly.The unsophisticated thing is to not oversight the brute intelligence of the mammal itself. I took my group as a offspring boy attempting to reduce to nothing a sympathetic old ground hog. As soon as compound hard work to catch him, by means of compound traps and awe-inspiring hitting strategies, I gave it up in add up eliminate. The real group is that we famine to prevail on one that is offspring and dumb.Camera technology is our best bet to inhospitably prearranged the real existence of this mammal mentally. As soon as that I touch due contact is the absolutely venture that can work at all. I would come by leaving out a mountain of apples later than camera limit."BIGFOOT? HE'S NOT SO Hazy""Certain or not, Sasquatch is a inflated shape on TV. It's not so much a search for the mammal as a hunt for ratings.""Sandpaper 27, 2012 T.L. Stanley"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/27/entertainment/la-et-bigfoot-20120327""Matt Moneymaker, James "Bobo" Fay, Promontory Barackman and Ranae... (Paul Souders / Individual Globe)""Think a cumbersome, growling, 8-foot-tall wood mammal so elusive that capable trackers can't difficulty it, scientists can absolutely bet about it and believers can't sign -- definitively -- that it exists.""Thrashing resolute in the forest may be your modus operandi, Bigfoot, but Hollywood and Madison Avenue are pushing you -- all the same feebly -- at home the concentrate. A spin out of documentary, TV and film projects by means of Individual Planet's current hit "Feeling Bigfoot," and a Sasquatch film trilogy from "Blair Witch Device" point Eduardo Sanchez are convinced to get external the old sober images of yesterday and present the abundant 800-pound biped a high-def close-up.""There's been a real upswing in academic selling bring down later than this enormous hint of commonness among the conventional position," invented Jeffrey Meldrum, the Idaho Hand out anatomy and anthropology guru and primates adroit who wrote "Sasquatch: Description Meets Science" as a friend to a Observe Rigorous special of the precise arrange. "There's whatever thing about the human wits that reliable connects later than this sculpture.""Campfire stories, outsider reports and sober videos sway kept the legend conscious for decades in the U.S. and overall. (The mythology goes care much pick up if you live catacomb drawings at home describe.) And Bigfoot has been a pop high society amusement like the 1950s, popping up in movies, commercials and as a guest on '70s TV hits level "The Six Million Go against Man" and "The Bionic Woman.""Each person time there's a new development -- such as evidence of a yeti allegedly uncovered in Russia last fall or a Bigfoot institute by all accounts revealed in Georgia, both of which turned out to be fraud -- there's a rise in online searches, blog posts, news reports and, essentially, Bigfoot-centric fun.""Blair Witch's" Sanchez is full of zip on a Bigfoot-based severity movie, the first of a ordered trilogy, and a group of Bigfoot enthusiasts is putting together a documentary called "Sasquatch: The Search for." Meldrum, bring down later than launching an online academic account, is producing an Internet TV project and considering an lengthened prototype of "Description Meets Science.""We all implore to undertake that put forward are still monsters lurking in the secret corners of the planet, and that's the pull of Bigfoot," invented Marjorie Kaplan, start of Individual Globe, resident to the hit series "Feeling Bigfoot. "It's fun to be reminded that we don't report whatever thing.""Feeling Bigfoot" follows four odd district researchers who pass on to towns everyplace put forward sway been sightings, close by stories from the locals and set out on their own expeditions. The energetic font sway coined "squatch" as a term of endearment and say substance level "It's reliable squatchy out in vogue," to drag remote areas they touch are harboring Bigfoots.""The series, which concerned 1.6 million viewers for its flare hint premiere, spur baptism ceremony its third hint this summer. "If anybody's leaving to difficulty him, it's leaving to be us," Kaplan declared, adding together later than a chortle, "excitedly after 100 episodes.""In outlook months, cable TV spur be overwhelm later than Sasquatch system. Syfy mystery "Bigfoot" promises a "big and sarcastic, teeth and claws" star nestled in a loud popcorn epitome, according to Thomas Vitale, the network's executive sin start of system. Aeration this summer, the Saturday night movie lowest point long forgotten youngster stars Barry Williams and Danny Bonaduce vs. each other in a search for the inflated biped at a pure music festival. It fits valuably later than the network's myths of lush preliminary action movies level "Sharktopus" and "Piranhaconda."
