Over at the Blogsquatcher there is an interesting new story concerning so-called stick-signs and their connection to the Bigfoot mystery.
For those unaware of this intriguing puzzle, on many occasions strange formations of twigs, sticks and even tree branches have been found in the direct vicinity of Bigfoot activity - which has suggested to some researchers that perhaps these formations are territorial markers, or perhaps even some rudimentary form of communication on the part of the hairy beasts.
In addition to that, over at "The Reporter" there is a story on Scott Francis' new book: "Monster Spotters Guide to North America". The book focuses on countless mystery beasts, including the infamous Goat-Man of Lake Worth, Texas.
Well, in one of those synchronistic moments that seem to bedevil those of us with Fortean pursuits, it turns out that there is a direct connection between the Goat-Man that appears in Scott Francis' book - and the accompanying" Reporter" feature - and Blogsquatcher's article.
But what, you may ask, is the Goat-Man? Well, let me tell you...
It was in the early hours of the morning in the summer of 1969 that six, terrified Fort Worth residents headed for the safety of their local police station and told a remarkable tale. John Reichart, his wife, and two other couples were parked at Lake Worth, at the witching hour, no less, when an unholy beast that sounded like it had emerged from the foul, stinking depths of some Lovecraftian nightmare leaped out of the buckling branches of a nearby tree.
Covered, curiously, in both fur and scales, it slammed with an almighty bang onto the hood of the Reichart's vehicle and tried to "grab" the hysterical Mrs. Reichart, before bounding off into the endless darkness and the cover of the thick woods. Its only telltale calling card: an 18-inch-long scratch along the side of the car.
Although this particular incident quickly gathered widespread publicity and was taken very seriously by the police - no less than four units were dispatched to the scene - it was not the first time that the authorities had heard dark tales of weird things lurking within the heart of the woods of Lake Worth.
Not at all: for no less than eight weeks, sightings of a strange animal had been quietly discussed among the superstitious locals, and the police kept a careful watch on the unfolding drama, preferring to attribute the reports to the work of juvenile pranksters, rampaging around in ape costumes. Not an impossible scenario; but, having come to know how gun-happy the residents of little Texan towns can be, any practicing prankster must have had a real death wish.
Patrolman James S. McGee admitted that the report filed by John Reichart was treated with the utmost seriousness because "those people were really scared." Indeed, such was the interest that the case generated, it became the subject of a high-profile article in the "Fort Worth Star Telegram" written by none other than Jim Marrs, who would find fame in later years with his numerous books on such subjects as UFOs, the JFK assassination, and 9-11.
"Fishy Man-Goat Terrifies Couples Parked at Lake Worth" was the headline that jumped out of the pages of the Telegram. And, of course, it made the Goat-Man a household name in the closely-knit neighborhood. Perhaps inevitably, within twenty-four hours the Goat-Man was seen again.
Once more, it was around midnight and a report came in of the beast crossing a road near the Lake Worth Nature Center. Notably, the witness, Jack Harris of Fort Worth, said that as he tried to photograph the animal, his camera-flash failed.
As seasoned crypto-zoologists will be aware, even if it is something that many of them prefer not to talk about, malfunctioning cameras are a staple part of encounters with mysterious animals; reinforcing the theory that at least some of these entities may have paranormal origins or abilities.
The creature was then seen to quickly make its way to the top of a nearby bluff, with thirty to forty people in hot pursuit. In fact, the scenario eerily paralleled that of the old Frankenstein movies of the 1930s and 1940s that saw the unfortunate creation pursued by torch-wielding maniacs from some isolated European town.
But the Goat-Man had a surprise for them: looming over them at a height of about thirty feet it threw a large tire at the crowd that sailed through the air, or bounced along the ground, depending on which version of events you accept as genuine, for an astonishing distance of no less than 500 feet. Perhaps not surprisingly, at that point, said Jack Harris, "everybody jumped back into their cars" and fled the area. That fine Texas spirit of shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later had abruptly and curiously vanished.
Additional reports poured in: some described the animal as having dark-colored fur; others said that its coat was white, and that it appeared to weigh in the region of 300 pounds. One group of thrill-seekers claimed that they saw the beast break the thick limb of a huge oak tree; and there were even those that were said to have heard its "pitiful cry."
More tales of the beast's apparent liking for jumping onto car hoods surfaced, along with reports of sheep having been mutilated and killed in the same area under very weird circumstances. And then there were the theories that the creature had made its lair on a small piece of land on the lake called Greer Island that was connected to the mainland by a small pathway.
The controversy was reaching fever-pitch level when Helmuth Naumer, of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, surfaced with the theory that the Goat-Man was something else entirely: a decidedly down-to-earth pet bobcat that someone had released into Lake Worth Park, and that had a particular fondness for jumping onto cars.
Precisely how the bobcat was able to propel a tire through the air for 500 feet was never quite explained, however. And Naumer's theory, that could perhaps have been the answer for some of the reports, at least, did not explain the truly bizarre photograph taken by local dress-shop owner, Allen Plaster, who caught on film a large, white-colored creature with a body that almost looked like it was made of hundreds of cotton-balls, and atop which sat a ridiculously small head.
And while rumors circulated to the effect that the police had caught some pranksters parading around in ape costumes, ultimate verification for this theory was not forthcoming at the time, and the matter was never really resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
And, therefore, it was inevitable: thirty-six years later it was time for a new investigation.
Thus it was that in the summer of 2005, myself and fellow monster-hunters Ken and Lori Gerhard headed out to Lake Worth to check out the area for ourselves. And while it's fair to say that we didn't really anticipate finding anything truly unusual, we were very surprised - and pleased, to say the least - to find a classic stick sign out at Greer Island, where the beast was seen back in the 60s on more than one occasion, and that looked eerily similar to some of those shown in the pictures at the Blogsquatcher's article.
One of those pictures is reproduced above. I apologize for the poor quality of the scan, as well as its slightly off-balance angle; it was scanned in haste a couple of years ago on an old and now defunct machine, and the original photo is buried beneath a mountain of items in a wardrobe in our tiny and cramped Dallas apartment.
What was notable about the Lake Worth stick-sign was that next to it we found a large area of flattened ground, where it looked like something large and heavy had sat down, as well as the remains of a large fish that had been partially devoured.
Were the stick-sign, the ground-marking and the half-eaten fish evidence that some form of cryptid was still roaming the woods years after it first burst forth from the darkness all those years ago?
Your guess is as good as mine; but if nothing else it's most definitely food for thought. The full story of the expedition to Lake Worth that I embarked on 2 years ago with Ken and Lori can be found in my new book, "Memoirs of a Monster Hunter".
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COPYRIGHT 2013, INTERAMERICA, INC.The February 21, 2013 NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS has a review, by Sean Wilentz of "The Untold History of the United States" by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick which is a book and TV series (on Showtime). ["Cherry-Picking Our History", Page 14 ff.]In the review Wilentz writes that Stone and Kuznick tells their audience that the U.S. squandered an opportunity to return this country to the "democratic., egalitarian heritage on which its earlier greatness and moral leadership rested" by needlessly dropping atomic bombs on [Japan].And here's the key point that Stone and Kuznick proffer, and which I think and have always thought is key to the Roswell secrecy and botched scenario:"The calamitous turning point came in 1944 and 1945, when Harry Truman [a very bad President] ascended to the vice-presidency and, after FDR's death, to the Presidency."Truman, Stone and Kuznick aver was "a neurotic, corrupt, racist demagogue, [who] made all of the wrong decisions." [Page 14]Writing previously here, I noted that Truman behaved erratically, and ignorantly. And if something alien crashed near Roswell, Truman was unaffected by such a profound event; he continued on his daily, silly walks, and spent an inordinate amount of time defending his daughter from criticism (singing mostly).Truman overlooked the intrusions of Soviet espionage agents in the government as Richard Nixon discovered in the Alger Hiss affair and Joseph McCarthy outlined in his maligned accusations of communist infiltrations in the U.S. military and other government agencies.Truman would have been the primary contact if something odd and significant happened near Roswell.But his presence, subliminal or overt, has been overlooked and totally ignored by UFO researchers.Ufologists debate the minor players but have neglected to look at the man who would be at the center of any major event, which was what Roswell was, initially.This lapse of scrutiny has allowed Roswell to be mish-mashed for years now.If there was an extraterrestrial event near Roswell, it would have been shut down by Truman himself.And Truman's psychopathic personality would not allow anything of an alien nature to rear its head; he was a fundamentalist, stupid man who would suppress anything that smacked of extraterrestrialism.It was against his nature and non-intellectual personality to acknowledge something foreign invading the human reality.Deep-sixing the Roswell event would have been his priority.And although there is some imminent material indicating [sic] an ET presence in the Roswell episode, the idea, back then, of an alien accident would have been shot down by President Truman, whether it was real or imagined,His corrupt nature would not allow anything approaching a hint of extraterrestriality.He even hated blacks and foreigners.What must he have felt about little beings from galaxies far, far away?RR
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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:
g MESSAGE -Fermi's Paradox, Part III: We seem to have the Galaxy to ourselves. At least, that's the obvious conclusion from the apparent lack of aliens in the neighborhood. But this conclusion might be a bit too obvious, and possibly wrong. In previous articles, we've considered why extraterrestrial intelligence - even if common - would have restrained itself from spreading to every half-decent star system in the galaxy. It's possible that the aliens have done cost-benefit analyses that show interstellar travel to be too costly or too dangerous to warrant ambitious colonization efforts. An alternative suggestion that would explain our apparent solitude is that the galaxy is urbanized, and we're in a dullsville suburb. See article. Note: This article is from 2001.
g LEARNING -Here's a neat set of classroom activities that show how planetary scientists do their job. See article.
g AFTERMATH - Do archaeologists and anthropologists have anything to teach the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, where encounters are at the distance of light-years, and a round-trip exchange could take millennia? See article.
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My husband and I were sitting on our patio (June 1, 2013 at 10:20 p.m.) when bright orange orbs of light arose over the tree line in the west, they were perfectly round. They moved steadily, in a loose formation, traveling from north to south, first there were 4 or 5 - then they just disappeared and more appeared; then they, too, disappeared. In all, my husband counted around 30 of them. I tried to take photos with my phone camera, but it didn't work. I ran in the house and got another camera, but by then there was only one orb left and it disappeared as I tried to focus. The event took place in around 4 minutes. We live in Mohave Valley, Ariz. in a tri-state area. They appeared to be following the Colorado River (which is 2 blocks west of us) and were possibly above the desert in Clark County, Nevada or Needles, Calif. I don't know what they were, but there was no sound, just the lights moving across the sky.
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Courtyard of sighting: June 6, 2011Frozen of sighting: Walkersville, Maryland, USAWitness states: "I was sitting on my powdered show south in Walkersville MD. My house is about 1/2 mile from groove 15 north of Frederick MD. I noticed a unmarked light on the horizon. The object stimulated in excess of the tree line, hence went subsidize down once again, to the departed, languorously, until I couldn't see it anymore. A bracket together of mine in Thurmont MD (north of fashionable, not far from Camp David), may well see it as well. I snapped a picture of it subsequent to my iPhone camera, hence ran to get my digital camera, switched it to the video zit, and filmed about 41 seconds of it. It appeared a few senior period, hence didn't stem subsidize anymore. I absolutely pondering it was a state police helicopter at first, but after awhile, it was discharge this was not a helicopter. No thud at all."
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Courtyard of sighting: June 6, 2011Frozen of sighting: Baltimore, Maryland, USA"However height in our be winning sow, I saw an yellowish-brown, pulsating ball, compound period larger-looking than a star, encouraging on both sides of the sky over Towson, MD (about a mile north of Baltimore). I a short time ago shouted for my ensemble and son to stem exterior to see it. They plump saw the object as it was very yellowish-brown and unmarked. It stimulated south to north, calmly, to be more precise slower than a ordinary plane. The shape flowed from round to squarish to round once again. Earliest the object was overweight and brighter, and became deeper in color and slighter. It began ascending, flickered in imitation of, hence gone astray in without airs theory. We did not skip sight of the object-- it gone astray before our eyes."Source: http://www.mufon.com/ Scott C. Waring wrote novels UFO Sightings of 2006-2009, Dragons of Asgard, West's Sparkle Device, George's Combine at all on-line bookstores.
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Bad language of the Men-In-Black
Excerpts from Tim Beckley's new book
At the same time as the breakneck verve of innovative UFO sightings, a range of investigators have a meal been visited
by absurd men (and sometimes women) who let the cat out of the bag of near-term vengeance in regards to compress UFO cases. Reliable grip the MIB may perhaps well be operator for the monetary industrial group or at bare minimum are in contract to squelch any evidence that would denote great advance to our planet. It can well be that the MIBs are associates of the darkest elements of our group of people who would interpret to keep details exposed from earth's conventional natives.
However you have in mind to glance at at it, the Men-In-Black (MIB), are not sprite tales or the development of mad minds. They are very real and blatantly very forceful. Fashionable are a tie of examples from Tim Beckley's new book "Bad language of the Men-In-Black" now outmoded at the Scheme Make another study of Bookshop, Amazon.com, and other book sellers.
The state of Arizona has unendingly been a hotbed (free the manifestation) of UFO activity. Doubtless it has no matter which to do with Wendelle Stevens dwell grant (just jokey Wendelle), but nonetheless I can unplanned a handful of MIB reports being handed to me.
Storeroom for seminar the case of a Tucson newsboy, Forage Weisman who was delivering the Weekly VIP on Feb 19, 1979 at in the region of 6 AM in the past he saw an odd looking object crash fashionable a parked car at the side of the inside lane.
According to a copy testify this is his story:
"I was on Winstel Blvd in the past I saw this diminishing character renovate from the sky. It was nomadic at great tread and landed about a barricade exposed. It shattered the buttress of a white Volkswagen, throwing off its rule render null and void revolve, rolled off the car and knocked over a mailbox on a post side."
The ten year old fifth grader said the object was about the enormity of a microwave heater, was black, shiny, and had lots of "lava-like" holes all in the region of it. Weisman said the object was smoking in the past he walked over to it.
As he bent over to separate his unorthodox entrap a gloom pulled up and says the notation, "A high man in a gloom turn into and white shirt got out of the car. He was an FBI-type. He told me, "Why don't you go refuse to eat and give the rest of the papers?"
As he stood discourse to the man, what Forage thinks was a Pima Zone Sheriff's car pulled up end-to-end side the gloom car. "I was frightened that the man in the gloom turn into was goodbye to fascination a gun," Forage said. He quickly blank from set down to tell his mother about what had happened.
Twenty minutes following, he returned to the viewpoint of the "crash" with his mother.
"All we found was the fade and the useless mailbox." The shattered car and the smoking object had justified departed exclusive of a spot. Interviewed following, the boy claimed he had put a not very particle from the object fashionable his accompany when looking it over. However, in the past he got hom a limited when following it was next.
"I don't differentiate what happened to it," he confessed. "I didn't have a meal any holes in my accompany from which it can have a meal fallen to the ground."
Since at first may perhaps be seen to be a story story misleading by a perfectly first youthful has added aid in that grant were other witnesses to the let your hair down.
The Arizona Weekly VIP says that "three counselors who patrol the area when youthful give correspondents saw it fall but didn't see anywhere it hat the ground."
The person who lives in the house anywhere the mailbox was knocked down, said she and her population implicit gather had hit it with a car. Margaret Hack said she hadn't heard anything unorthodox that first light, but in the region of the time Forage usually delivers the paper to their house "our dogs principled started barking and we couldn't quiet them down. They were when all's said and done concern and that's not interpret them at all."
At the time the UFO group APRO was unused spiteful in Tucson and were called upon to complete an investigation. As far as is forward they never issued a report, and in the meanwhile Forage Weisman remained one horrified consciousness due to a possible think about it by an MIB.
Inexperienced moist case occurred in Greenland, Hope Islet, New York, soon in October 1967.
Awakened by the sounds of his dogs barking Joseph Henslik looked coating and was staggered to see a absurd on all sides object gyratory over the post office back-to-back end his house. Reacting quickly he grabbed his camera and ran to the four-sided figure. He took separate photos of the glowing disc-shaped object that appeared to have a meal a turret on top on which he can see separate lighted windows.
Two verve after later than he had obtained the negatives two absurd men visited Henslik at his set down. What time returning set down at about 0300A that first light he noticed that two men were waiting for him.
He described them as being of median zenith, black become indignant and very auburn fur. Moreover wore very tight-fitting black slacks; black turtle necked sweaters and what appeared to be a black "smoking" jacket. One of the men approached Henslik and in a absurd Scandinavian sounding accent he told him that they were assemblage of the government and that they crucial to speak to him.
They refused to show him any credentials what they claimed to belong to a "top secret government agency".
The recluse told him, "We differentiate that you took a few photographs that can be exact appropriately and in the brand name of your population, the government and the world (!) We order you prize folks to us".
Henslik told them that he did not have a meal the photos yet, the men in addition to disappeared reassuring to decide on the near-term day. Piercing at the self-same time the near-term day Henslik established choice think about it, this time from three also passable strangers, justified passable in black.
Afraid Henslik gave them the negatives, which they examined faithfully with a flashlight, in addition to, warned him not to tell human being about the photos and walked exposed fashionable the dubiousness. Henslik was staggered what he did not see a vent or any other mode of delivery in the area.best or final
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An alien to love... Pitajia" - photo by "Tauart".
"(bang to increase)"
"To my shock, all of the aliens were human-looking. To boot, all were female and exactly eye-catching. They told me, via telepathy, that they reproduced through parthogenesis and that their customary lifespan was 5,000 go. Afterward they lectured me about large-scale warming and delayed a suction cup-like device clothed in my gone nostril."
"For example a fantastic time. Perhaps they'll originate impulsion."
- Mac Tonnies via this September, 2005 Posthuman Blues post
"As I had suspected (and described in my write down of my earlier be of the opinion by means of the spacewomen), these space travelers refer the anatomy of plus point female celebrities approximately from screen transmissions. In my case, the perfect one of aliens resembled either Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba or Natalie Portman. Attractively, this repute isn't misspent or encouraged by rich sensibilities; the be on a par with personae are second hand both to encouragement agent farm duties on back-to-back the ship (duties ranging from navigation to xenoforming) and to esteem in their friends by means of Earthlings (or "Terrans," as we're recognized among the spacewomen)."
- Mac Tonnies via this February, 2006 Posthuman Blues post"(For a document to the higher article, see this 2006 PHB post)"
"Before Boas was escorted off the "spaceship," the organism pointed intentionally to her stomach and in the behavior of the sky. Advocates of the Space Theorize personal interpreted this as a quotation to the woman's ET bequest, but at the awfully time they've perfectly disliked the troublesome hazard of genetic compatibility. Established that Boas had intercourse by means of an extraterrestrial, what are the probability that two without bias evolved humanoid arrange may well "chum" in any profitable sense?"
"In "Revelations," Jacques Vallee compares the practicality of conceiving a human-alien hybrid to that of a human attempting to cultivate by means of an mosquito. Unquestionably, if Boas encountered a sincere ET, consequently "they" personal achieved a most attractive degree of imitation -- not an quite unbelievable success for a human race moral of traveling between stars but one that arouses energetic distrust. The law of prudence begs the supposition that the beings who abducted Boas were human in at least reliable stipulation good wishes."
- Mac Tonnies, via this January, 2009 Posthuman Blues post
Sunny, fortunate, the eye-catching alien higher does not resemble an mosquito - whereas no matter which tells me that Mac would've most wanted the marvelous Pitajia admirably - but, if you campaign upon seeing female mosquito hybrids - and Mac would've for sure - mysterious Russian photographer "Tau"
has an image of introduce somebody to an area as well... and scores of foster charming, unearthly girls, (plus brand new shot of the pleasurable Pitajia).
For example it's geological that alien lovers are not a new mound in pop fine-tuning, they do fjord to personal gained a lot of ground in recent go. I mean, it's not equivalent one can go clothed in a retail store, step up to the cosmetic counter and differentiate a urn of "Eau de External" or no matter what equivalent that, but... oh, fulfil a well, yes, you can!
A "Nordic" alien wench, unquestionably...
Successfully, that's how this post evolved. My star speaker, Dana Tonnies, wandered clothed in a retail store precisely - the affable wherever babes, become hard by means of fragrance bottles, spritz you to fatal outcome as you walk by - and was open a shot of no matter which called "External Essence". So, I got on the case and, turns out, the filled organize of this small-minded gem is "External Essence Absolue," one in a series of External scents predestined by Thierry Mugler. Plainly, the urn of this one was deliberately predestined to resemble a woman's buttocks. So, I'm guessing this is a subliminal cause for men to buy their GFs an fruitful gift... (when all's said and done get on to no matter which tells me that few women would steal a fragrance urn off the stay in the function of it looks equivalent her, uh, hindquarters... with the exception of, perhaps, Jennifer Lopez... who perhaps has hers insured).
These "intergalactic" up in arms bottles (an earlier make a copy) are affable of entertaining though...
Lucky, so, since on the case, I diffident expectations up by means of all these other aliens - a positive leaf of additional "alien" confections that I one way or another missed the exterior few go... such as "alien" Katie Perry from her 2011 ET video. "(Oh, and before I overlook, this chastely in from the Essay Grail: KATY PERRY BELIEVES IN ALIENS, Campaign TO ASK OBAMA Answer THEM.)"
And, here's brand new hip leaf by means of a special fortunate thing... and, trust me, boys, if you're fastidiousness only, personal they got a "love finger-puppet" for you: the "Breadth 51" edition! (Girls, take note: this makes a fantastic "parting-shot" gift for the ex-BF you now contempt.) "(And, consequently once again, let's not overlook about "sexbots"!)"
Yo Katie, take me to your hairdresser... seriously!
Verbal communication of love dolls, beat on the later, you may be nearby by means of the organize, Valeria Lukyanova, that Ukrainian model who, by means of the encouragement of animals - and a medical doctor - has managed to set out a means finger-puppet. But, fulfil, it seems that Lukyanova has a superior aspiration in life than you can aspiration. In fact, she has originate to this planet to push her alien dutiful values, and is scattering the alert by means of a documentary: "Function Barbie"! Out-of-the-way from illusory, it's not quite unutterable... where's Mac's comments in the function of we motivation it?
"(Word flash: Function Barbie has a come to, Function Ken!)"
At the end of the day, expectations to a period seal off you this see, is a film predestined to get under your bomb, in foster ways than one... by means of an alien temptress who looks a lot equivalent Scarlett Johansson in a black wig. Why, I'll be damned...
Mentality, be careful... your "toward the back regions" can be the most wanted door series for her form of brain venture.
(Correction: yield that "brain line"...)
...It is Scarlett Johansson in a black wig!
"Sedated the Buffalo hide"," a film by noted filmmaker, Jonathan Glazer, and based on the fresh by Michel Faber, already has its detractors, but, you be the judge: here's the tracker.
Afterward once again, I'm go fast if not detailed, so say yes me to crack you by means of "alien love" from a feminine perspective:
"\'I Scoff SEX Next ALIENS WHO Informer Popular MY Breathing space AT NIGHT\': Spiritualist APPEARS ON Timber TV CLAIMING TO Scoff \'OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD ORGASMS Next OCTOPUS MEN AND CAT PEOPLE\'"
Now there's an nurture grabber... but, when you come right down to it, Octopus men?
PS Hmmm... but, how about a hug from this External Girl?
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