Friday, 30 September 2016
WHAT IS THIS?
I'm not sure what this is, but I'm showing you its picture in case it drops in for Hallowe'en.
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, September 30...
1969: While driving through Fife Heights, near Tacoma,
Washington, witnesses Dick Hancock and Gary Johnson claim they saw a Sasquatch
run across the road in front of their vehicle, colliding with a metal road sign
and leaving it bent.
Thursday, 29 September 2016
REALLY STRANGE CREATURES
The existence of these animals is not in doubt - but some of them seem hardly believable.
now read on....
now read on....
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, September 29...
1977: The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader describes an
ongoing search for Bigfoot around Little Eagle, South Dakota, on the Standing
Rock Indian Reservation. Mounted hunters and parties on foot stalk a foul-smelling
creature seven to eight feet tall, that has left numerous humanoid footprints 16
to 18 inches long and eight inches wide, appearing to walk with a stride of six
to eight feet. As usual, the intruder eludes all trackers.
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, September 28...
1977: A Sasquatch "flap" begins in South Dakota,
with Native American witnesses Nancy Chasing Hawk, Esther Thundershield, and Myron
Fast Horse roused from home by howling in the night, east of Little Eagle on the
Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Turning on lights, they see a tall, hairy
bipedal creature with green eyes run into the nearby brush.
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
NEW SHUKER COMPENDIUM
Just published by CFZ Press: Here's Nessie, a compendium of the writings on the Loch Ness Monster by Dr Karl Shuker, the eminent cryptozoologist. Its available on Amazon at $19.99.
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, September 27...
1870: Oakland, California's Daily Transcript newspaper
reports that hunters Samuel de Groot and F. J. Hildreth have seen
"gorillas" along Orestimba Creek, a tributary of the San Joaquin
River draining eastern slopes of the Diablo Range in Stanislaus County, within
the San Joaquin Valley of California.
Orestimba Creek today
Monday, 26 September 2016
YIN-SHU: A MAMMOTH MISTAKE
On
finding the remains of mammoths in the ice, a myth grew up that they were a gigantic sort of mole.
now read on....
finding the remains of mammoths in the ice, a myth grew up that they were a gigantic sort of mole.
now read on....
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, September 26...
1968: The Arkansas Gazette newspaper (now the Democrat-Gazette, published in Little Rock)
reports that multiple witnesses have sighted "a thing that looks like a
man but has a gorilla head" around the city of Hamburg, seat of Ashley
County, near the state's border with Oklahoma.
Sunday, 25 September 2016
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, September 25...
1978: While investigating a disturbance among chickens
and horses at her rural home in southern Curry County, Oregon, witness Barbara Megli reportedly sees a Sasquatch standing in a
nearby forest clearing.
Saturday, 24 September 2016
CREATURE OF TERMON
Ah, back to my native country, where the shamrocks are spouting even as I speak. This deals with a very strange creature. A woman, entering her barn in the vicinity of Termon, encountered this beastie. She described it as being dark, with a long nose, four humps and a tail. It has a juvenile creature with it. Earlier, in the same area, a dark creature was reported blocking the road in 2005. It had a large head and plunged through a roadside fence.
This animal sounds rather like an elephant, but I can assure the reader that elephants do not wander the Irish wilderness. However, what it might have been was a sea-elephant or elephant seal. I cannot guess what else it might be.
This animal sounds rather like an elephant, but I can assure the reader that elephants do not wander the Irish wilderness. However, what it might have been was a sea-elephant or elephant seal. I cannot guess what else it might be.
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| Elephant Seal |
THE PROBLEM OF ISOLATES
The problem of isolates continues to exercise what is left of my brain. By isolates I mean cryptids that have been reported once, but they are never seen again. As creatures such as Bigfoot and Champ have been reported on sundry occasions, we know that, if they exist, there is probably a population of them. The same can not be said of the isolated cryptid which is seen once and seen no more.
The following is a list of possible explanations of such creatures.
[1] The witness is mistaken (or even mendacious) in reporting the animal. He has either misinterpreted the data or has not seen anything at all.
[2] The animal is a freak of nature, a mutant, and is the only one of its kind. It has nous enough to, as Joel Chandler Harris might have said, lie low and say nuffin.
[3] The animal exists in another dimension or universe and has somehow strayed into ours. This may seem beyond the bounds of possibility to some, but multiple universes are now receiving some interest from physicists and cannot be ruled out.
[4] The animal is an escapee from a laboratory and is the result of genetic experimentation. It may not survive or it may be recaptured.
[5] The animal may be hallucinatory. I suspect an hallucination caused by the temporal lobe of the brain might be responsible. The temporal lobe can produce two types of hallucination. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy has to be engendered by a blow to the head. Temporal Lobe Lability soes not require any such blow. Both can cause hallucinations. The animal may also be some kind of projection from the witness' brain.
[6] One must always leave the door open for other explanations that haven't occurred to me yet.
The following is a list of possible explanations of such creatures.
[1] The witness is mistaken (or even mendacious) in reporting the animal. He has either misinterpreted the data or has not seen anything at all.
[2] The animal is a freak of nature, a mutant, and is the only one of its kind. It has nous enough to, as Joel Chandler Harris might have said, lie low and say nuffin.
[3] The animal exists in another dimension or universe and has somehow strayed into ours. This may seem beyond the bounds of possibility to some, but multiple universes are now receiving some interest from physicists and cannot be ruled out.
[4] The animal is an escapee from a laboratory and is the result of genetic experimentation. It may not survive or it may be recaptured.
[5] The animal may be hallucinatory. I suspect an hallucination caused by the temporal lobe of the brain might be responsible. The temporal lobe can produce two types of hallucination. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy has to be engendered by a blow to the head. Temporal Lobe Lability soes not require any such blow. Both can cause hallucinations. The animal may also be some kind of projection from the witness' brain.
[6] One must always leave the door open for other explanations that haven't occurred to me yet.
ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
On This Day in Weird, September 24...
1959: Tennessee's Knoxville Journal reports that witnesses
John Rosenbaum and Earl Taylor fired shots at a Sasquatch approaching their
home on Clapps Chapel Road, in Corryton.
Clapps Chapel Road
Friday, 23 September 2016
RENDLESHAM - WHAT DID HAPPEN?
An ex-policeman isn't satisfied that the whole truth has come out.
now read on....
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| Rendlesham reconstruction |
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