Sunday, November 30, 2008
Do Bigfoot Hear Cameras?
Another interesting idea, and one that isn't far off, I think. William M. Dranginis considers that cameras and other equipment make high pitched sounds we might not hear, but a creature such as Bigfoot can. Read more about this on Cryptomundo.
Invisible DNA and Bigfoot
More good stuff on invisible Bigfoot. Read about it at Cryptomundo. Art Bell will discuss this idea with Michio Kaku on Invisibility & DNA on C2C tonight. Promises to be very interesting!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Rob McConnell's X-ZONE
This Wednesday night, November 26, I'll be on Rob McConnell's X-Zone podcast. You can find out more here.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Mothman: Poor Bandit!
This is the previous Trickster's Realm column for Tim Binnall's site Binnall of America. It isn't about Bigfoot but Mothman. This is primarily a Bigfoot blog but I do post things on other crypto type beings sometimes so here you go.
Be sure to go to BOA and read all the great articles over there, including my new one, of course :)
Poor Bandit!
I'm reading one of the classics in Fortean and UFO literature; Gray Barker's The Silver Bridge, about the Mothman sightings in Pt. Pleasant, Virginia, in 1966. (though many will tell you Mothman and other weirdness is still going strong in the area.) Until recently, The Silver Bridge has been very hard to find, and very expensive. I've seen the book listed as high as $400.00! Thanks to Mothman's Photographer II's Andrew Colvin, who has reprinted the book, it's now available for a decently affordable price. If you're at all interested in Mothman, esoterica, UFOs, etc. you have to read this book.
There are so many things about the Mothman phenomenon; so many angles to this event, that it's no wonder the Mothman continues to fascinate people after all these years. Flying saucers, MIBS, government experiments, folklore, curses, American history, politics, monsters, culture, cryptozoology. . .it's a long juicy list of Fortean goodness.
Aside from the obvious mystery of Mothman itself, there are lots of side episodes of extreme high strangeness that orbit around Mothman that keeps a Fortean, esoteric minded, flying saucer junkie like myself intrigued.
I've always been interested in animal behavior within paranormal and UFOlogical events; reactions of the family dog type stories. The Mothman event has its share of animals, usually dogs, who behaved abnormally when in the vicinity of Mothman. One such dog was Bandit. Bandit, a German Shepherd, alerted owner Newell Partridge to something weird going on in their barn. Going outside to investigate, and feeling a strange sense of fear himself, Partridge found Bandit barking furiously at something before running off into the woods. His tracks were found the next day, as if the dog was going around in circles. Bandit was never seen again.
The skeptoids like to say Mothman was nothing more than hysterical people giving in to vivid imaginations, when in reality, Mothman was only a bird of some kind. A sand hill crane, or, as uber-skeptic Joe Nickell has put forth, an owl. (As we all know, Nickell is obsessed with owls. Owls were mistaken for alien robotic entities in the case of the Flatwoods Creature, and owls were mistaken for teeny outer space critters in the Hopskinville, Kentucky case in 1955.)
(By the way, isn't the Fortean "name game" as cryptozoologist Loren Coleman often plays, an interesting bit? With all this Mothman and bird imagery and energy, we get Bandit's owner's last name: "Partridge.")
But a dog, especially one used for hunting or used to going along with the family on outings and camping trips, and usually living in a rural area, wouldn't react so negatively and bizarrely just over a bird. Even with birds not natural to the area; dogs aren't going to disappear, run away or hide, or display other wimpy un-doglike behavior when they see a bird, no matter how tall it might be. They might get wiggy, but not crazy wiggy.
Stories involving UFOs, strange creatures seemingly from beyond, and ghosts that involve the family dog or other domestic animals behaving strangely are a standard motif in esoteric literature. How many ghost stories have you heard where the cat or dog is growling, hissing, spitting, and generally acting weirdly to something humans can't see or hear?
The "rational" person will say there's nothing there, after all, the human can't see or hear it; so of course that means there's nothing there. Fluffy or Spike are just acting weird. Now, unless you do happen to have a particularly goofy pet, why would Fluffy or Spike just up and act weird for no reason? It seems irrational to respond with that explanation. There's also the matter of context; if a house or area has a reputation for being haunted, or there have been reports of flying saucers in the town, etc. the reaction of animals might be supporting the reality of those paranormal or UFOlogical events.
Read about the McMinnville UFO gossip and more!
Be sure to go to BOA and read all the great articles over there, including my new one, of course :)
Poor Bandit!
I'm reading one of the classics in Fortean and UFO literature; Gray Barker's The Silver Bridge, about the Mothman sightings in Pt. Pleasant, Virginia, in 1966. (though many will tell you Mothman and other weirdness is still going strong in the area.) Until recently, The Silver Bridge has been very hard to find, and very expensive. I've seen the book listed as high as $400.00! Thanks to Mothman's Photographer II's Andrew Colvin, who has reprinted the book, it's now available for a decently affordable price. If you're at all interested in Mothman, esoterica, UFOs, etc. you have to read this book.
There are so many things about the Mothman phenomenon; so many angles to this event, that it's no wonder the Mothman continues to fascinate people after all these years. Flying saucers, MIBS, government experiments, folklore, curses, American history, politics, monsters, culture, cryptozoology. . .it's a long juicy list of Fortean goodness.
Aside from the obvious mystery of Mothman itself, there are lots of side episodes of extreme high strangeness that orbit around Mothman that keeps a Fortean, esoteric minded, flying saucer junkie like myself intrigued.
I've always been interested in animal behavior within paranormal and UFOlogical events; reactions of the family dog type stories. The Mothman event has its share of animals, usually dogs, who behaved abnormally when in the vicinity of Mothman. One such dog was Bandit. Bandit, a German Shepherd, alerted owner Newell Partridge to something weird going on in their barn. Going outside to investigate, and feeling a strange sense of fear himself, Partridge found Bandit barking furiously at something before running off into the woods. His tracks were found the next day, as if the dog was going around in circles. Bandit was never seen again.
The skeptoids like to say Mothman was nothing more than hysterical people giving in to vivid imaginations, when in reality, Mothman was only a bird of some kind. A sand hill crane, or, as uber-skeptic Joe Nickell has put forth, an owl. (As we all know, Nickell is obsessed with owls. Owls were mistaken for alien robotic entities in the case of the Flatwoods Creature, and owls were mistaken for teeny outer space critters in the Hopskinville, Kentucky case in 1955.)
(By the way, isn't the Fortean "name game" as cryptozoologist Loren Coleman often plays, an interesting bit? With all this Mothman and bird imagery and energy, we get Bandit's owner's last name: "Partridge.")
But a dog, especially one used for hunting or used to going along with the family on outings and camping trips, and usually living in a rural area, wouldn't react so negatively and bizarrely just over a bird. Even with birds not natural to the area; dogs aren't going to disappear, run away or hide, or display other wimpy un-doglike behavior when they see a bird, no matter how tall it might be. They might get wiggy, but not crazy wiggy.
Stories involving UFOs, strange creatures seemingly from beyond, and ghosts that involve the family dog or other domestic animals behaving strangely are a standard motif in esoteric literature. How many ghost stories have you heard where the cat or dog is growling, hissing, spitting, and generally acting weirdly to something humans can't see or hear?
The "rational" person will say there's nothing there, after all, the human can't see or hear it; so of course that means there's nothing there. Fluffy or Spike are just acting weird. Now, unless you do happen to have a particularly goofy pet, why would Fluffy or Spike just up and act weird for no reason? It seems irrational to respond with that explanation. There's also the matter of context; if a house or area has a reputation for being haunted, or there have been reports of flying saucers in the town, etc. the reaction of animals might be supporting the reality of those paranormal or UFOlogical events.
Read about the McMinnville UFO gossip and more!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Bigfoot Thread Article, And An E-Mail From Randi!!!!!!
About all those bigfoot threads on the JREF; I finally wrote a little article about it on American Chronicle: We Love Bigfoot, Even Though We Hate Him.
Randi himself e-mailed me:
Gee, we’ve never claimed that Bigfoot doesn’t exist! Where’d you get that idea? We also don’t claim that Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy don’t exist, and for the same reason…
James Randi.
No doubt they're going on about this over at JREF, but I think I'll stop. After all, it'd be ironic that I'd post so much about uber skeptics posting so much, wouldn't it?
Image: calendar from Cafe Press here.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
VOTE!
Get out and VOTE! November 4th is the day! Know your rights, and vote!
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JREF BF Thread: Bigfoot Bones Are Never Found, BUT . . .
The anti-bigfoot 'bunkers at the JREF have been busy, busy, busy! This one: Bigfoot Bones Are Never Found, BUT . . . is about the idea one will never find bigfoot bones in the woods. I say, never say never, but it is unlikely. Anyway, seems the OP is a bit of a hoax, given the picture posted. See for yourself.
So now we're up to, 35, maybe, threads about Bigfoot on the JREF?
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So now we're up to, 35, maybe, threads about Bigfoot on the JREF?
Read about the McMinnville UFO gossip and more!
New BF Thread on JREF: Vanity Fair Article
Yet another Bigfoot thread at the James Randi forum; this one is on the article in Vanity Fair about the Texas Bigfoot Conference. Bigfooters covered by Vanity Fair Magazine. I haven't read the article, but from the comments in the JREF, and Loren Coleman's Cryptomundo blog, it seems to be the typical sneering hip liberal urban view of all things UFO and paranormal.
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