Oregon coast, in Seaside (where my mother was born) this story of a mama bear and her cub causing a school shut down. All were safe however.

Puck's Passing and The Golden Funnel

 Years ago I had a beautiful and quirky long haired Siamese cat. I named him Puck. He came to us as a stray; he had been neutered, still had the stitches. No collar, no one reported him missing. He hung around our place, did not leave. So, he was ours.

He was very much attached to me, but aloof to others, including my husband. Puck would ride on my shoulders, just calmly remain perched there as I went about the day. Funny old cat. Puck preferred to be outside. He only stayed on the porch, often on a railing, Didn't stray at all. He was inside at night however.

When we moved to another house in town, Puck came with us of course. After a good long life (we figured he was about eighteen) he was clearly getting close to crossing the Rainbow Bridge. Poor Puck. 

I held Puck for hours, sitting outside on the porch. He did not want to move, and absolutely did not want to go inside. Finally, at night, I left him on the porch and I went to bed.

I was fast asleep. And had an abrupt vision/dream of a golden funnel shaped light, that was swirling upwards. I heard a tremendous yowl and saw Puck spin upwards inside the funnel of golden light. That morning, I found Puck dead on our porch. He had passed on. He wasn't ill; just old and time for him to pass on. 

About the Golden Funnel: at the time I was doing a lot of crystal and stone work. I was having a lot of psychic episodes. One night I had a dream where a child in my class, who had moved out of state, appeared to me in a tie-dyed dress, swirling around and around in the Golden Funnel. She said "Ms. Regan, I'm going to see you tomorrow!" 

The next day, there she was in her tie-dyed dress. Her and her mother had come down from Washington for a visit.

The Golden Funnel seems to be a psychic cord or opening; a doorway or portal. Not necessarily death, as with Puck, but a strong psychic connection.

Kitty Visitors

 

This happened several years ago. I had to put my cat Chelsea down. It was devastating. I cried all the way to the vet, at the vets, all the way home. I was an emotional mess.

As I was walking up the path to our porch (it was night, around 8pm) two little kittens appeared. I don't know where they came from. They were just there, on the path, sort of dancing around my ankles. One was completely black, the other completely white. They appeared to be very clean and well cared for. No collars. They didn't make a sound..

They followed me up to the steps of the porch, and then suddenly, they were gone. I didn't see them leave; I looked and didn't see them anywhere. Not in the yard, or path, or sidewalk. Just gone.

At the time, our block was a real cat street. We all knew each other's pets, who had what cat, what dog, etc. I had never seen those kittens before. Or after. The next day I asked neighbors about the kittens. No one knew anything about them. 

I always felt that those two kittens were spirits of some kind, related to Chelsea. 

Lon Strickler Interviews Ronny Le Blanc

Lon Strickler interviews Bigfoot researcher Ronny Le Blanc, of Expedition Bigfoot. Season four, episode one aired the other night.  Le Blanc believes, (as I do) that there is more to Bigfoot than just flesh and blood. Interdimensional, etc. 

Le Blanc also mentioned all the footage of interesting and weird stuff that somehow got edited out. Would love to see what has been cut from the show.

Ronny Le Blanc has had a lot of paranormal experiences, which are a treat to hear about.

Expedition Bigfoot: Season 4

 I've been watching this show since season one. I think the team has found some interesting evidence on camera. One thing that I always wonder at with research teams; why not stay for a long time in one area? (although Ron Morehead and his fellow researchers to go back to the same area in Northern California, and have gained a lot of experiences there.)  The team thinks of Bigfoot as just an animal, though Ron Le Blanc does seem to accept paranormal explanations. 

Season 4, episode 1 brought the team to Prince Wales island in Alaska. It's said the Bigfoot creatures there are more aggressive, more violent.  

Stumbling around in the dark in unfamiliar places seems dangerous, which is something the team does a lot, especially Russel Acord, who goes off on his own. (along with at least one camera man of course.) And why didn't he pick up the skin and fur sample right away instead of chasing a creature that surely was aware of him and, if it were Bigfoot, was aware of him long before Acord was cognizant of Bigfoot. Sure enough, when he returned to the spot, the fur was gone. 

Overall though Expedition Bigfoot is a good program.

Bigfoot Mapping Project

 A Facebook friend alerted me to this link: Bigfoot Mapping Project.   Fall Creek area in Lane County has a lot of Bigfoot activity. A very nice resource! Oregon, including the Eugene area, lots of sightings!

Paul Sincair's 'Wolf Lands'

 Just watched paranormal researcher Paul Sinclair's new documentary Wolf Lands on Amazon Prime.  The documentary is about the unexplained encounters with a werewolf/dog man/sasquatch (?) type being in the forests of Yorkshire.  Excellent documentary. Sinclair interviews witnesses but he also goes into the history of Yorkshire. Place names, for example. Many translate to words like wolf, or hound. It seems hundreds of years ago shamanic activity took place in the woods. Does a place hold energy? Of course it does. Whatever it is these people are seeing it's something. Something weird and huge and at a loss for a reasonable explanation. 

Other paranormal activity as well: UFOs, orbs, etc.

One thing that resonated with me: one witness described the sudden fear he felt while in the woods. He felt he was being watched, and like a switch had been turned on, as he explained it, a deep fear arose within him. Terror. Had to get out of there! As soon as he left, the fear left. Again, like someone threw a switch.

I had a similar experience, which I blogged about here in the past. A beautiful sunny day. I was taking a drive in the country, just because. I stopped at the top of a hill, pulled over to look at the view. I got out of my car. Below me, on my right, was the valley. Gorgeous view! Behind me, steep embankment, thickly wooded. Suddenly, a terrible fear entered me. It came from behind, came roiling down the hills, through the trees. It was horrible. More horrible because it was so damn weird. I was really very very scared. The message was clear: GET OUT! LEAVE! So I did. The whole thing only lasted about ten, fifteen seconds, but it was enough. For a split second I thought of staying; I'm not crazy after all, I'm not listening to some imagined thing, I'm being silly. Then I realized it was foolish to stay. This wasn't coming from me at all. It was definitely an energy, an intelligent energy, sent my way. So I got out of there fast. The fear left me completely after about a quarter mile. Everything back to normal as if nothing strange had happened at all.

Random Weird Animal Tales

Piranhas attack! (boing boing) 

Not so weird, the animal, but one stupid human. (boing boing.)

Travel the metaphysical astral great beyond with fish. (boing boing)

A list of odd (to us) animal behaviors. I especially like the octopus creating a bioluminescence ring around itself. (sport driver.)

Monkeys use sex toys. (Insider)

Mad Scientists: Bird Drones

 Real birds. Dead birds. Now repurposed as drones.   Not clear where they're getting the dead birds from; road kill, taxidermists, or what.

Magical Mermaid Eyeball

Two men arrested for selling a mermaid's magical eyeball | Boing Boing

Have to appreciate the specifics of the scam. A "magical eyeball" from a mermaid. Naturally a mermaid's eyeball would be magical.

Mad Scientists

In another round of what if cross this animal with that animal game; catfish genes  with alligators genes.

Catfish injected with alligator genes found to be more disease resistant than wild catfish | Boing Boing

I like the part where they say they're 'still working out the kinks.'

Then there's the Dodo. Some scientists want to bring back the dodo. Because, they can. They think. 

“We’re clearly in the middle of an extinction crisis. And it’s our responsibility to bring stories and to bring excitement to people in way that motivates them to think about the extinction crisis that’s going on right now,” said Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (CNN)

 

A bit more on bringing back extinct animals on  Discover. 

From UFOs to Lost Civilizations: The 150 Most Fascinating Stories of 2022 - The Daily Grail

The Daily Grail has an item on the 'Most 150 Fascinating Stories of 2022' including links to articles 

on animal behavior. Bees like to play, spiders dream, monkeys have sex in space, and more:

From UFOs to Lost Civilizations: The 150 Most Fascinating Stories of 2022 - The Daily Grail

Rare snowy owl in California draws crowds to Cypress neighborhood | Boing Boing

Snowy Owl appears in city south of L.A. Maybe the owl's appearance has something to do with the crazy storms down there. 

Rare snowy owl in California draws crowds to Cypress neighborhood | Boing Boing

Did you know? Millersburg had its own Bigfoot-style monster (maybe)

A few months ago I was interviewed for the following article by Kyle Odegard about the Conser Lake Monster in Millersburg, Oregon: Did you know? Millersburg had its own Bigfoot-style monster (maybe)

Regan Lee, a paranormal researcher from Eugene, had hoped to write a book on the creature and said she has letters in her files from residents who remember the incident.

I still hope to write the thing. Inspiration. I'll put it up as a Kindle e-book or some such. 

Why So Coy? Missing 411: The Hunted

 I watched the David Paulides  2019 documentary last night: Missing 411: The Hunted. (You can stream it on Hulu.) It started off with the expected cases of  individual hunters who went missing; their disappearances remain unsolved.  Paulides then camps out with Bigfoot researchers Ron Morehead and Scott  Nelson. Morehead and Nelson describe their experiences over the years in the area; strange noises, orbs, lights and more. The audio is eerily familiar to other recordings of Bigfoot. As are the descriptions of strange lights. These have been reported by many a seeker of Bigfoot. But not once during the Paulides interview does Morehead or Nelson say the words Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Not once. I had the distinct feeling that Paulides instructed them to not say those words.

Paulides has been coy over the years as to any connection with Bigfoot and the missing. I have no idea if the two are connected, but it seems there does seem to be some kind of relationship at times. . Paulides consistently skirts around the idea, but never comes out and suggests it as a possibility. True, it is all speculation but nothing wrong with speculation as long as it’s made clear that it’s speculation.

The documentary also includes an interview with Bruce Mcabbee’s wife, who saw a strange transparent being moving through the trees while she was sitting up in a deer blind.  She describes it as looking something like the being in Predator. Around the same time, witnesses in the town saw a UFO. A very curious encounter for sure.   

These two items concerning strange lights, UFOS, Bigfoot type voices and transparent beings don’t seem to have anything to do with the missing. They could have; it’s absolutely possible. But in the documentary it wasn’t made clear the two had anything to do with the missing hunters. And at no point did Paulides say “This is why I’m including these incidents.”  In fact, David Paulides has been downright cranky when asked about any Bigfoot connection; he’s been downright cranky if he even thinks someone thinks he did when they didn’t. Yet there are highly interesting clues that suggest a Bigfoot type connection, or something appearing as Bigfoot. An energy that is non-human and manifesting as a being that is clearly intelligent. The following are from children who went missing and were later found alive:

Three year old boy found safe after being lost in the woods for two days. The boy says he was kept safe by "a bear."

The 3-year-old boy who spent two days lost in the woods of eastern North Carolina tells his family he “hung out with a bear” for companionship while hundreds of people searched frantically in cold and rainy weather to find him. 

Lost Boy in Woods Found Safe; Hung Out with Bear

David Paulides, of the Missing 411 books, has written that missing people, including children, often happen when it rains, or has been raining. I remember a couple of survivors Paulides writes about that mention a bear or ape like creature who helped them. Bigfoot? Paulides is coy about that, but it's possible. Or, angel, spirit, who knows. Bears are hibernating this time of year. Not to mention a bear might well attack, rather than protect. But, again, who knows?

https://paranormalbigfoot.blogspot.com/2019/01/lost-boy-in-woods-found-safe-hung-out.html

PARA-NEWS - RichardThomasBlog.com: Zoological Journalist - Richard Freeman, Considers the Question: Is Bigfoot A Man, Another Ape, An Unknown species of Bear, or All of the Above?

An excellent article by Richard Thomas on the Yeti, Bigfoot, etc. Some things were new to me; for example, the Yeti, depicted as a white haired creature and often referred to as 'the Abominable Snowman." 

The confusion comes from a mistranslation of one of the beast's many names, Metoh-kangmi, Sino-Tibetan for 'abominable man of the rocks'. It was mistranslated as 'abominable man of the snows. This is where we get the western term ‘Abominable Snowman’ from. (Richard Thomas, Para-News)

PARA-NEWS - RichardThomasBlog.com: Zoological Journalist - Richard Freeman, Considers the Question: Is Bigfoot A Man, Another Ape, An Unknown species of Bear, or All of the Above?

Nobody knows what killed dozens of crows along a Vancouver trail | Boing Boing

From boingboing.net: Nobody knows what killed dozens of crows along a Vancouver trail | Boing Boing

Crows alive in the trees above were silent, which is very unusual for crows, especially when seeing one of theirs dead below. 

LA Animal Control issues first ever license for pet unicorn ownership | Boing Boing

This item on BoingBoing.com about a child receiving a license for a pet unicorn:

LA Animal Control issues first ever license for pet unicorn ownership | Boing Boing: 

Last month, a young girl named Madeline write a letter to the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control requesting formal government permission to keep a unicorn in her backyard. Presumably, Madeline had already asked her parents if she could have a unicorn, and rather than disappoint their child by letting her know how impossible it would be to actually capture and domesticate a unicorn, they passed the buck to the bureaucrats instead — 

Bigfoot Video: Canada

Tim Binnall at Coast to Coast shares a video of Bigfoot  in Canada that is pretty compelling. Unless it's fake, of course. I'm always a bit suspicious when the photographer just happens to be at the one clear spot at the exact moment a Sasquatch happens to walk through. On the. other hand, it is a very realistic looking Sasquatch, color, movement, body shape, etc. 

Carry On Pets

 First it was a cat that got itself cozy inside a suitcase and was discovered by TSA, now a poor doggo  found its way into a backpack. 

Odd coincidence.

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And here's an item about a Great Pyrenees who killed eight coyotes while defending his sheep.