Over at the website of the Texas Observer, you can find a new review of the recent conference at Tyler, Texas of the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy. And if you scroll down the page, you can see a video-link that includes interviews with me, Craig Woolheater and several other attendees.
Here's the link.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Blogsquatcher Latest
The Blogsquatcher has a good, new and thought-provoking post, which is summarized below by The Anomalist:
Reliability in Old Reports The Blogsquatcher. A researcher into the Bigfoot phenomenon, and the oft-reported case where UFOs and Bigfoot appeared almost simultaneously, gives several examples of reports that meet the critical parameters that make him believe the story, as well as those that don't. In each case the researcher, the Blogsquatcher himself, goes to great lengths to point out what makes these tales believable...or unbelievable. Meanwhile, a very useful sidebar provides a chronological series of articles from the files at this cryptozoological website that often digresses to consider other cases of high strangeness.
Reliability in Old Reports The Blogsquatcher. A researcher into the Bigfoot phenomenon, and the oft-reported case where UFOs and Bigfoot appeared almost simultaneously, gives several examples of reports that meet the critical parameters that make him believe the story, as well as those that don't. In each case the researcher, the Blogsquatcher himself, goes to great lengths to point out what makes these tales believable...or unbelievable. Meanwhile, a very useful sidebar provides a chronological series of articles from the files at this cryptozoological website that often digresses to consider other cases of high strangeness.
Bigfoot News
This just in from Eric Altman:
Hello friends,
I will be interviewed about Bigfoot in PA today at 530 on KDKA TV 2news along with Stan Gordon and one of the witnesses who had a sighting in September. Watch for it this weekend to be aired. www.kdka.com, and go to the video section. Also I will be down in Farmington PA for the Unity, Paranormal Fundraiser today and tomorrow. Tickets are still available and they have a stellar paranormal line up. I'll be there not speaking.
www.unityajourneyofhope.eventbrite.com. hope to see some of you there!
Eric Altman Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Director
www.pabigfootsociety.com
Beyond The Edge Radio Host/Producer
live Sundays 9:30 et/8:30 cst on
www.ztalkradio.com
www.jackaloperadio.com
www.planetparanormal.com
Official website at www.beyondtheedgeradio.com
Call in 1-724-824-1494
Hello friends,
I will be interviewed about Bigfoot in PA today at 530 on KDKA TV 2news along with Stan Gordon and one of the witnesses who had a sighting in September. Watch for it this weekend to be aired. www.kdka.com, and go to the video section. Also I will be down in Farmington PA for the Unity, Paranormal Fundraiser today and tomorrow. Tickets are still available and they have a stellar paranormal line up. I'll be there not speaking.
www.unityajourneyofhope.eventbrite.com. hope to see some of you there!
Eric Altman Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Director
www.pabigfootsociety.com
Beyond The Edge Radio Host/Producer
live Sundays 9:30 et/8:30 cst on
www.ztalkradio.com
www.jackaloperadio.com
www.planetparanormal.com
Official website at www.beyondtheedgeradio.com
Call in 1-724-824-1494
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Dance of the Chupacabras!
Today is turning into something of a Chupacabras special! While prowling around the Net earlier, I came across this new book: Dance of the Chupacabras, written by Lori Lopez. I have to confess that I haven't read it; however, the write-up looks like it will be an entertaining read:A dark Wonderlandish "Odyssey" that merges and contrasts elements of humor and horror; fantasy, reality, and literary nonsense; legends, myths, and history; Pop, Mexican, and American Culture; wordplay and swordplay. It is a modern legend, a rumpus of revelrous rompery about being lost and choosing the road least traveled . . . the path unknown. In Tome One of the whimsical epic adventure, a Mexican-American brother duo of folklore dancers and a desert farmer - along with a diverse band of mortals, angels, and ghosts - battle supernatural forces to protect an oracle-princess as well as past, present, and future times from an Aztec serpent god's wrath. (Read sample chapters at the author's website: www.trilllogicinnoventions.com!)
WARNING: Contains big words and inventive language. What is an Author's Draft? This edition represents the author's pure and untampered vision!
About the Author
Lori Lopez is the mad scientist of writing. She delights in taking Literary (as well as Poetic) License to conduct bizarre experiments with the fundamental nuts and bolts and D.N.A.A.A. (Do Not Alter, Amend, or Ameliorate) conventions of Literature. This author's abnormal brain is constantly sawing and splicing and sewing oddball inconsistencies, while brewing tubes of syllabillic bubbly broths, formulating preposterous plots, mixing batches of garbly mumbled metaphors, conjuring jars of frothsome notiony potions, and zapping to life a lurching legion of eclecticly antic eccentrically assembled characters. Tome One began in 1996 as a rather simple idea for a screenplay based on and written for Lori's sons. The concept has evolved into not only one trilogy of intricate tales, but a trilogy of trilogies. Further details about her oddness and strange otherworldly projects can be gleaned by visiting her website:
www.trilllogicinnoventions.com - but beware the consequences . . .
Chupacabras News
Over at the CFZ blog, you can find a two-part article on Puerto Rico's most famous mystery animal: the Chupacabras, courtesy of Dale Drinnon.
Here's part one;
and here's part two.
Here's part one;
and here's part two.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Bigfoot Quest - Tonight
This just in from Bob and Mike at Bigfoot Quest:
Hello Everyone:
Please join your hosts Bob Coyne and Mike Killen as we welcome Sasquatch sighting eyewitness Ted to the show. Ted has been an avid outdoorsman his whole life and lived in upstate NY for more than 30 years. He was a New York State licenced fishing and hiking guide for 10 years and has had encounters with a number of different animals, including Sasquatch, in the many years he's spent exploring the forests. If you can, please join us in our live show chat. It's always a lot of fun and we love to interact live with our listeners.
Where: www.blogtalkradio.com/Bigfoot_Quest
When: Tonight, Tuesday November 17, 2009
Time: 9:00 P.M. Eastern
Duration: 90 Minutes
Bob Coyne
Mike Killen
Hello Everyone:
Please join your hosts Bob Coyne and Mike Killen as we welcome Sasquatch sighting eyewitness Ted to the show. Ted has been an avid outdoorsman his whole life and lived in upstate NY for more than 30 years. He was a New York State licenced fishing and hiking guide for 10 years and has had encounters with a number of different animals, including Sasquatch, in the many years he's spent exploring the forests. If you can, please join us in our live show chat. It's always a lot of fun and we love to interact live with our listeners.
Where: www.blogtalkradio.com/Bigfoot_Quest
When: Tonight, Tuesday November 17, 2009
Time: 9:00 P.M. Eastern
Duration: 90 Minutes
Bob Coyne
Mike Killen
Monday, November 16, 2009
Mothman News...
This just in from Andy Colvin, author of The Mothman's Photographer series of books:
Dear Paranormal Pardners:
Due to some skillful prodding by Vyz, I have done three new interviews on Think or Be Eaten, which delve into my 2nd recent return trip to Ohio and West Virginia. These are some of the more wide-ranging of the shows we have done. The first show (Think or Be Eaten #47) looks at, among other things, my own family history and how it seems to tie directly into the Egyptians via the Pharaoic Montauk Indians (whom the Colvins married into). In the second show, we go into Masonic symbolisms - how they evolved from the Moors/Egyptians, and how they undergird the history of America and Europe. Go here and scroll down:
http://thinkorbeeaten.com/theknoll/radio.html
In the third show, which turns out to be Vyz's all-time longest interview, we go further into the evolving 11:11 mystery which, in addition to tying into key symbolisms of ancient Egypt, now includes a synchronistic Mothman sighting in early October, only a week before I left for Ohio. This sighting was only a mile or two away from our 1111 Independence Ave. address!
If you don't have time to listen to the entire two hour show, make sure you skip to the end so you can hear our new song, "Flying High With the Mothman." The song, which is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, tells the story of Indrid Cold and Apol, the famous MIBs of the Mothman story.
For details of that recent Mothman sighting, go here:
http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/10/tall-dark-mothman-type-entity-reported.html
To read more about these events, check out my recent blog on the subject:
http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/washingtonlowfi/
Best,
Andy
Dear Paranormal Pardners:
Due to some skillful prodding by Vyz, I have done three new interviews on Think or Be Eaten, which delve into my 2nd recent return trip to Ohio and West Virginia. These are some of the more wide-ranging of the shows we have done. The first show (Think or Be Eaten #47) looks at, among other things, my own family history and how it seems to tie directly into the Egyptians via the Pharaoic Montauk Indians (whom the Colvins married into). In the second show, we go into Masonic symbolisms - how they evolved from the Moors/Egyptians, and how they undergird the history of America and Europe. Go here and scroll down:
http://thinkorbeeaten.com/theknoll/radio.html
In the third show, which turns out to be Vyz's all-time longest interview, we go further into the evolving 11:11 mystery which, in addition to tying into key symbolisms of ancient Egypt, now includes a synchronistic Mothman sighting in early October, only a week before I left for Ohio. This sighting was only a mile or two away from our 1111 Independence Ave. address!
If you don't have time to listen to the entire two hour show, make sure you skip to the end so you can hear our new song, "Flying High With the Mothman." The song, which is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, tells the story of Indrid Cold and Apol, the famous MIBs of the Mothman story.
For details of that recent Mothman sighting, go here:
http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/10/tall-dark-mothman-type-entity-reported.html
To read more about these events, check out my recent blog on the subject:
http://forteanswest.com/wordpress-mu/washingtonlowfi/
Best,
Andy
Yowie News
Lawrie Williams with a good, new post on the Australian equivalent of Bigfoot: the Yowie...
Two Monsters
Today's Anomalist highlights two distinctly different (but no less fascinating!) monsters:
Special Assignment: Wisconsin Werewolf NBC15. Television reporter Chris Papst interviews several Wisconsin residents who claim to have seen a towering creature, all covered with hair and sporting a wolflike visage. Among those Papst interviewed is Linda Godfrey, author of The Beast of Bray Road, who has been researching the reports of the creature or similar creatures for over 17 years. Video of an interview with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources worker Steve Krueger, who had an encounter in November of 2006, is linked. Elsewhere, a different creature from a different state is the subject of Mothman's Legend Lives On.
Special Assignment: Wisconsin Werewolf NBC15. Television reporter Chris Papst interviews several Wisconsin residents who claim to have seen a towering creature, all covered with hair and sporting a wolflike visage. Among those Papst interviewed is Linda Godfrey, author of The Beast of Bray Road, who has been researching the reports of the creature or similar creatures for over 17 years. Video of an interview with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources worker Steve Krueger, who had an encounter in November of 2006, is linked. Elsewhere, a different creature from a different state is the subject of Mothman's Legend Lives On.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Neil Arnold at the Weird Weekend 09
At this year's Weird Weekend gig in August, mate Neil Arnold gave an excellent lecture on the subject of the truly Fortean and Zooform-type creatures that inhabit the world of Cryptozoology.
Jon Downes has now posted the lecture to YouTube, and which can be found below. Check it out - it's a good one!
Jon Downes has now posted the lecture to YouTube, and which can be found below. Check it out - it's a good one!
Raven & Fort
Over at her Mysterious Haven blog, good friend Raven has a good post on Charles Fort - without who none of us would probably be doing the sort of work we're doing right now!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Crypto Round-Up
As always, I take a few days off, and all crypto-hell breaks loose! But, that's a good thing as it means there's much to report on.
From The Anomalist: "Cryptids in Suburbia – Part 1 The Paranomalist. The idea of a Garden State Sasquatch, living in the highly populated northeastern part of the NJ, only a few miles outside of New York City, seems preposterous. But reports of the creature do occur here."
And, coincidentally, on the subject of cryptids and NYC, there's this new post from me at my Lair of the Beasts column at Mania.com.
From The Anomalist: "Cryptids in Suburbia – Part 1 The Paranomalist. The idea of a Garden State Sasquatch, living in the highly populated northeastern part of the NJ, only a few miles outside of New York City, seems preposterous. But reports of the creature do occur here."
And, coincidentally, on the subject of cryptids and NYC, there's this new post from me at my Lair of the Beasts column at Mania.com.
And then there's this (also from The Anomalist) on all-things hairy and man-like: "Does Dauphin County Man Have Bigfoot Footage? WHTM. A man from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, who wishes to remain anonymous, says he may have caught images of Bigfoot with his flip-cam while hiking the Appalachian Trail last month." Meanwhile, a giant-eel is apparently on the loose in Australia; and Neil Arnold gives us the latest on Chinese monsters. And, then there's this one on...wait for it...Bigfoot and breasts!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
GOING OFFLINE
I'm going offline now, as I'll be speaking at Ryan Wood's annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference this coming weekend, but will be back to normal service Tuesday. See you then!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Entities of the Temporal Kind
Here's a new posting over at today's edition of The Anomalist, which I believe could have a major bearing on the overwhelming elusive and seemingly near-spectral nature of Bigfoot:
"Gnomes - A Sustainable Population? The Heavy Stuff. Are gnomes temporal beings? In an article comparing the evidence, and lack thereof, of gnome populations to that of possible Bigfoot populations, the theory that both these beings are temporal entities, visible here for only a short time to the witness, is a compelling one. There is no solid evidence of the existence of either gnomes or Bigfoot. Years of research into the Bigfoot phenomenon have never yielded solid proof, say like a captured specimen, or remains of a deceased creature, and as the argument of the theory goes, it never will be found due to the beings ability to shift in and out of our realm, either due to multidimensional manipulation or another factor of their abilities not even comprehensible to us. "
"Gnomes - A Sustainable Population? The Heavy Stuff. Are gnomes temporal beings? In an article comparing the evidence, and lack thereof, of gnome populations to that of possible Bigfoot populations, the theory that both these beings are temporal entities, visible here for only a short time to the witness, is a compelling one. There is no solid evidence of the existence of either gnomes or Bigfoot. Years of research into the Bigfoot phenomenon have never yielded solid proof, say like a captured specimen, or remains of a deceased creature, and as the argument of the theory goes, it never will be found due to the beings ability to shift in and out of our realm, either due to multidimensional manipulation or another factor of their abilities not even comprehensible to us. "
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Robert Rines RIP
Sad news: Robert Rines, one of the most well-known and legendary characters in the search for the Loch Ness Monster, has died, as Loren Coleman reveals.
Bigfoot Quest Radio Tonight
I'll be on Bigfoot Quest radio tonight (at 8PM Central) with hosts Bob Coyne & Mike Killen. Here's the link if you want to listen in. I'm sure we'll cover a lot of ground of a crypto nature!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Crypto Anomalies
Good stuff at The Anomalist - as always:
Fowler's Bog Ghostwoods. The dark forests of Maine hold many secrets. Natives to any of the smaller towns in its vast wilderness know the land well and its creatures. Fowler's Bog in Albion, Maine, may indeed hold a secret of its own and a young boy playing hooky with some friends may have stumbled upon it years ago. During their walk home, as darkness descended, an enormous black creature emerged from the tree line and into the bog with a terrifying sound that has haunted the witnesses to this very day. Upon returning the next day with parents and sheriff in hand, clear evidence of the sighting was obvious. Suspiciously, however, the sheriff was quick to determine it was a pair of bears and told them to forget the incident but their parents knew well it must have been something else.
Bigfoot: Legend or ... Petoskey News. After encountering "the thickest wall of live human body odor that you could ever imagine" and later hearing "three faint taps like two pieces of wood being hit together, then a slight pause, then one more" while in Wilderness State Park in Michigan last July, Ron Kostrubiec believes he may have encountered Bigfoot. Later he discovered a set of footprints including one of "a right foot print about 16 inches long and really wide... with a little rise of dirt between the little and next toe." Kostrubiec spoke to the local police as well as the state police, both of whom said they had not had Bigfoot reports in the area. Elsewhere, Man hopes to prove Bigfoot exists in W.Va. and in Pennsylvania, they're asking, is there a Sasquatch in our woods?. And the first day of the newly opened International Cryptozoology Museum was quite a success as reported in If We Build It, They Will Come.
Fowler's Bog Ghostwoods. The dark forests of Maine hold many secrets. Natives to any of the smaller towns in its vast wilderness know the land well and its creatures. Fowler's Bog in Albion, Maine, may indeed hold a secret of its own and a young boy playing hooky with some friends may have stumbled upon it years ago. During their walk home, as darkness descended, an enormous black creature emerged from the tree line and into the bog with a terrifying sound that has haunted the witnesses to this very day. Upon returning the next day with parents and sheriff in hand, clear evidence of the sighting was obvious. Suspiciously, however, the sheriff was quick to determine it was a pair of bears and told them to forget the incident but their parents knew well it must have been something else.
Bigfoot: Legend or ... Petoskey News. After encountering "the thickest wall of live human body odor that you could ever imagine" and later hearing "three faint taps like two pieces of wood being hit together, then a slight pause, then one more" while in Wilderness State Park in Michigan last July, Ron Kostrubiec believes he may have encountered Bigfoot. Later he discovered a set of footprints including one of "a right foot print about 16 inches long and really wide... with a little rise of dirt between the little and next toe." Kostrubiec spoke to the local police as well as the state police, both of whom said they had not had Bigfoot reports in the area. Elsewhere, Man hopes to prove Bigfoot exists in W.Va. and in Pennsylvania, they're asking, is there a Sasquatch in our woods?. And the first day of the newly opened International Cryptozoology Museum was quite a success as reported in If We Build It, They Will Come.
More Mothman
And, while we're on the subject of Mothman today, here's another post on the Mothy one - this time from Micah Hanks.
The Texas Blue Dog
Here's an excellent new video that details the great work that Richie and Naomi West are doing with respect to the Texas "Blue Dog" controversy. I'm very pleased to say that Naomi and Richie have become major figures in the CFZ and are doing excellent work to build up the group in the US. Many thanks, guys!
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