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Tuesday, 31 May 2016
WILL THEY KILL BIGFOOT?
Alabama family feel they may have to resort to Magnipedicide. I like that word - I've just made it up.
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GNOMES IN SPAIN
An interesting encounter from 1953. [This site is in Spanish, but has a good translation engine].
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BIZARRE ENCOUNTER IN PUERTO RICO
To read this, you'll need to scroll down the page we're linked to. The incident involves a creature allegedly hit by military gunfire, while possible green blood was left behind.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 31...
1965: Mrs. Seraphine Jasper reports a daylight sighting of
Sasquatch from Nicomen Island, near Mission, British Columbia. She describes
the creature as tall and black, crossing a farmer's field while cows stare at
it curiously.
Nicomen Island
Monday, 30 May 2016
IRISH MYSTERY BIRD
Not alone is it mysterious, it seems to be something of a shapeshifter. The article hints that the date of its sighting is uncertain, but was perhaps in 1897.
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BIGFOOT: 1955 TEXAS SIGHTING
A sighting from the early mists of time. Just a minute, I remember 1955, it wasn't that long ago.
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WHITE RABBIT OF ETRURIA
The Etruria concerned is not the ancient home of the Etruscans (modern Tuscany, Italy), but a village in Staffordshire, England. It came into existence when celebrated potter Josiah Wedgwood founded his factory there in 1769.
Nearby legend speaks of a phantasmal White Rabbit seen in the woods there. It was supposed to be a beautiful creature, the color of milk. The story runs that a man once tried to catch it. He saw it and grabbed it, or so he thought, but his arms closed on nothing. The White Rabbit had vanished.
Nearby legend speaks of a phantasmal White Rabbit seen in the woods there. It was supposed to be a beautiful creature, the color of milk. The story runs that a man once tried to catch it. He saw it and grabbed it, or so he thought, but his arms closed on nothing. The White Rabbit had vanished.
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 30...
1979: Truck driver Bill Iffttiger claims to have seen an
eight-foot-tall Sasquatch run across U.S. Route 395 in front of his vehicle, near
Bridgeport, California, near the Nevada border.
Sunday, 29 May 2016
SCHRÖDINGER's HALF-CATS
A new experiment argues that Schrödinger's cat would be both dead and alive even if you sawed it in half. I regret I have been unable to provide a picture of a cat sawn in half.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 29...
1973: Residents of Sykesville, Maryland, report a UFO
dropping some unidentified object into Liberty Reservoir on Oakland Road. Soon afterward,
witness Anthony Dorsey reports seeing a Sasquatch with luminous eyes.
Subsequently, other residents claim encounters with a hairy biped roughly eight
feet tall, covered with black hair.
Saturday, 28 May 2016
ARE STEGOSAURS STILL AROUND?
In 1971 J. Ellis observed a strange animal in the Congo. It was a reptilian, 30' in length. It had plates on its back. Initially in the river, it left it and entered the forest. Ellis reported that it seemed a familiar animal to the locals.
This animal sounds surprisingly like a member of the stegosaur tribe. As far as we know, stegosaurs lived around 150 million years ago. There is no indication in the fossil record that a population survived, but we must always bear the limitations of the fossil record in mind. The stegosaur had a tiny brain. The idea that they harbored a second brain in their tails has now been shown to be false. They had plates on their backs and spikes on their tails. It is possible that, at least sometimes, the plates were in two rows. They could not be used as weapons due to their fragility. It is thought, on the other hand, that their tail-spikes could land a serious blow. They were herbivores and lived in North America, Africa and Asia (where they possibly originated).
This animal sounds surprisingly like a member of the stegosaur tribe. As far as we know, stegosaurs lived around 150 million years ago. There is no indication in the fossil record that a population survived, but we must always bear the limitations of the fossil record in mind. The stegosaur had a tiny brain. The idea that they harbored a second brain in their tails has now been shown to be false. They had plates on their backs and spikes on their tails. It is possible that, at least sometimes, the plates were in two rows. They could not be used as weapons due to their fragility. It is thought, on the other hand, that their tail-spikes could land a serious blow. They were herbivores and lived in North America, Africa and Asia (where they possibly originated).
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THE YOWIE OF AUSTRALIA
A skeptical look at the Australian man-beast.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 28...
2012: While setting turtle traps in a lake near DeBary,
Florida, at 11:00 a.m., a father and his two teenage sons find footprints
"larger than normal" in mud. Soon afterward, they glimpse "some
movement" and "didn't think much of it," until one of the boys
spoke to his father and "described exactly what I saw even though I never
described what I saw." The father—an elementary schoolteacher—subsequently
says he saw "a tall red-colored bipedal figure about ¼ mile away. It was standing
near the road, and it moved into the woods."
Friday, 27 May 2016
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 27...
2013: Passing through Twin Hills Park in Crestview, Florida,
an unnamed witness glimpses a bizarre entity around 3:00 p.m. She describes it
as a "completely black, slim, man-shaped shadow" that rises from the
ground, gripping a tree trunk with its hands and the soles of its feet. She
estimates the thing's height at around five feet tall, vanishing into shrubbery
before she gets a better look. It leaves her with "the eeriest
feeling" that it was watching nearby children "as if they were
prey."
Thursday, 26 May 2016
PTEROSAURS OVER GEORGIA?
Let us go back to 1910. In July of that year a couple named Schroder were sitting outside. They saw "birds" that did not appear to have feathers flying overhead. These birds were of very great size. They had long heads. In fact, they sound awfully like Pterosaurs. Although Pterosaurs are supposedly extinct, a surprising number of creatures resembling them have been reported in modern times, both in the United States and elsewhere. The fossil record, of course, tells us they died out a long time ago; but what must be borne in mind is that the fossil record is incomplete. Maybe nobody told the Pterosaurs they were extinct!
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 2...
1897: Witnesses Bob Forner and Charles Luskins allegedly
came to grips with a curly-haired Sasquatch near Rome, Ohio, but failed in
their barehanded effort to capture it. Cleveland's Plain Dealer newspaper
reported their exploit the following day. Skeptics regard the story as an
example of 19th-century "silly season" journalistic hoaxing.
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
ACTION TO TAKE IF BIGFOOT IS ENCOUNTERED
What action should you take if you run into the Hairy One?
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A QUICK WORD
We have noticed to our great delight that a great many of the hits on this site come from Eastern Europe.
We would be very pleased to receive reports and articles from this part of the world. If you would like to contribute, please get in touch. We also are pleased to enrol members from any country in the world. The CFZ currently has hundreds of members in many countries.
Contact information:
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address: Centre for Fortean Zoology, Myrtle Cottage, Woolfardisworthy, Bideford, EX39 5QR
We would be very pleased to receive reports and articles from this part of the world. If you would like to contribute, please get in touch. We also are pleased to enrol members from any country in the world. The CFZ currently has hundreds of members in many countries.
Contact information:
e-mail: coghlanronan@gmail.com
telephone: 0441237431413
address: Centre for Fortean Zoology, Myrtle Cottage, Woolfardisworthy, Bideford, EX39 5QR
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM TOPSELL
A selection of illustrations from the writings of the 17th Century natural historian Topsell.
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 25...
1972: Police in Tazewell County, Illinois, receive more than
200 phone calls reporting encounters with "Cohomo"—the "Cole
Hollow Road Monster"—said to be a shaggy creature covered
with white hair, suspected of living beneath an abandoned house on the road in
question. Hysteria continues through July, and is later repeated in 2006, but
patrols by law enforcement and armed vigilantes find nothing. In at least one
sighting from 1972, a UFO was also reported nearby.
Cole Hollow Road in
1972
Tazewell County,
Illinois
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
TRENTI - ELVES OF SPAIN
These elves are part of the folklore of Cantabria. [Site is in Spanish with good translation engine].
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ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, May 24...
2015: Father-and-son Bigfoot hunters visit Ohio's Cuyahoga
Valley National Park (Summit County) at 1:00 a.m., "doing calls" to
attract the creature when they suddenly hear a "very long whoop." The
youth describes it as a scream and "the most scariest sound I have ever
heard." They record the sound for comparison to alleged Sasquatch calls
found online and report it being very similar. An identical incident reportedly
occurs on June 6, near the same location.
Monday, 23 May 2016
BOOJUM - CREATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA
The name of this hominid/humanoid was taken from Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark. This is the story of the legendary creature and his bride, Hootin' Annie. This name sounds suspiciously like the word hootenanny for a musical session. This word in this sense is not recorded before 1940. However, it was used earlier to mean a tool, an implement or something of the sort.
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