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Wednesday 31 October 2018

HALLOWE'EN - STRANGE BEINGS ARE ABOUT






THREE IDENTICAL MEN

What were they?

Image courtesy Lon Strickler


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PENNSYLVANIA DOGMAN

Incident in Centre County.




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NEW SPECIES OF CROCODILE DESCRIBED

Found in Central Africa.



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HIPPOS FOR DINNER

There was once a plan to import hippos to America for food.



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VERDIGRIS RIVER MONSTER

A river monster of Kansas.



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THE WISBECH GIANT

Hickathrift was a legendary English giant.




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This phototour accompanies the story of Hickathrift.

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THE EYES OF BIGFOOT

Were these eyes Bigfoot with smaller Bigfoots or were they something else?



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WAS THIS A HUGE BIGFOOT?

Incident in Michigan.



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DEERMAN TALKS TO EYE WITNESS

Incident in Virginia.



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BIGFOOT STICK FORMATIONS IN KENTUCKY?

What do you think?



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Tuesday 30 October 2018

HALLOWE'EN

If you scroll back to our previous Hallowe'en entries, starting a year ago, you'll find details of Hallowe'en.  However, we would like to remind readers that, despite what they may have read, it was never the feast of a death-god named Samhain.  This piece of fiction first appears in a book by Charles Vallency (1731-1812).



Samhain is the word for a Celtic feast held on the first of November.  Its possible meaning is "end of summer".  The night before, 31st October, was called Oiche Shamhna (Irish)/Oidhche Shamhna (Scottish Gaelic), meaning the Night of Samhain.  At this season the doors between this world and the Otherworld, including the realm of the dead, were believed to be open.  Ghosts and fairies were about.  In other Celtic regions it was called Calan Gaeaf (Wales), Kalan Gwav (Cornwall) and Kalan Goañv (Brittany).  In England it was largely unknown until introduced from America in modern times.



The Latin rite of the Catholic Church, doubtless to lessen the feeling of change when Christianity arrived, held All Saints' Day (All Hallows) on November 1st, while Oiche Shamhna was called the All Hallows' Eve (Hallowe'en).



In Mexico there was a feast called the Day of the Dead, which was inherited from the Native Americans, but moved from its original date by the Catholic Church to coincide with Hallowe'en, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (November 2nd). 

DEMON FISH OF DEEPDALE

What was this huge piscid?


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WAS THIS A PTEROSAUR?

Sighting in Panama.



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MAN PURSUED BY DRAGON

Incident reported in 1905.

BIGFOOT VERSUS HUMANS

They are sometimes dangerous.



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GUGWE ATTACK

The Gugwe is a kind of ape or monkey in the lore of the Micmac Indians.



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ORBS SPOTTED IN BIGFOOT AREA

Orbs are reported from time to time, but not necessarily in conjunction with Bigfoot.



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HORRIFYING REPORT OF CREATURE

Just what it was and why it was wearing skulls remains a mystery.
It had scaly skin and was wearing skins.

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STRANGE THINGS IN ILLINOIS

Including what looked like a black head.

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DUMBO OCTOPUS FILMED

A rare sight!  Video included.

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Monday 29 October 2018

MONSTROUS FISH IN CHINA

A report from 2011 of a gigantic piscid.  Decaying stopped all hope of identification.

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BLACK ANNIS

Deadly being of English folklore.



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ARE HUMANS APE-E.T. HYBRIDS?

An interesting theory.



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IS THIS BIGFOOT?

Giant ape reported from US wood.




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TALL WHITE EXTRATERRESTRIALS

A detailed account.



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CHUPACABRA IN MEXICO AND US

Nick Redfern writes on this topic.

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MOTHMEN IN THE U.K.

Account by Nick Redfern.



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BIGFOOT AND THE DOGS

An unusual experience.



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ANCIENT FOOTPRINTS IN GRAND CANYON

What left them there?



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Saturday 27 October 2018

WAS THIS A YOWIE?

The hairy man of Kowmung River.



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UFO AND BIGFOOT

Is it a coincidence they were reported near each other?



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GIANT INSECT IN TEXAS

Report of large creepy crawly.



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BIGFOOT AND THE SHERIFF

He saves elderly woman.



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BLUE DOG CHUPACABRA

Do not confuse with the original kind of chupacabra reported from Puerto Rico.

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JOHNNY APPLESEED WAS REAL

He's not just a figure of folklore.



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BIGFOOT IN SOUTH CAROLINA

He's known in the Upstate.




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PUCKWUDGIE ENCOUNTER

One of the beings of Native American folklore.

Image courtesy Lon Strickler


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Friday 26 October 2018

LITTLE PEOPLE OF ALASKA

Includes modern incidents involving the Alaskan Wee Folk.

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17th CENTURY UFO

Described by one of the Pilgrim Fathers.



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TOOL USING CROWS

These corvids are not thick.



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BIGFOOT AND INFRASOUND

Does he use it?



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INDIANA CRYPTIDS

Wild men, mud monsters, meshekenabek.

IS THIS A BONOBO?

Mystery simian seen in Britain.



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TWO BIGFOOT SEEN

A couple of the Hairy Folk.



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THE BREATHING EARTH

Video from Canadian forest.

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MISTY HUMANOID

It crosses the road.

Image courtesy Lon Strickler


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