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This Week On 'Beyond The Edge Radio': Bigfoot Filmography Author David Coleman →
Eric & Lon are thrilled to again welcomeDavid Coleman, author of The Bigfoot Filmography: Fictional and Documentary Appearances in Film and Television
Dave Coleman has written screenplays for such studios as Universal, Sony, and DEG, and Hollywood talent such as Michael Douglas, Phil Noyce, Dan Curtis, Dino De Laurentiis, Irv Kirschner, and many others. He has also previously worked as a story analyst for New World, London Films, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and The New Twilight Zone TV series.
Prior to the start of his professional career, Coleman attended the University of Southern California, where he received a BFA in Filmic Writing. His instructors and mentors included T.C. Boyle, André de Toth, Stewart Stern, and Abraham Polonsky. He also interned on the feature film At Close Range during this time with director James Foley.
As an early internet enthusiast, Coleman created Kudzu New Media, a website design firm, designing and hosting some of the earliest internet-supported studio movies such as Adrian Lyne’sLolita, Tim Roth’s The War Room, Samuel Goldwyn’s Desert Blue, and many others. He also created BijouCafe.com, one of the first independent videostreaming websites, and wrote a majority of the site’s in-depth cult film reviews. The critical success cited by WIRED, ABC World News, RedFilter, US News & World Report, and many others led to the successful creation of BijouFlix Releasing, which has released independent and classic cult movies worldwide since 1998.
Coleman’s latest non-fiction work, The Bigfoot Filmography, was published in January 2012 by McFarland. An in-depth survey of Cine du Sasquatch, the book includes reviews of every Bigfoot TV and movie, rare photos and poster reproductions, and interviews with key filmmakers in the genre.
About the book:
The “Sasquatch” film genre, devoted to the legendary and notoriously elusive creature also known as Bigfoot, and its Himalayan counterpart, the Yeti, is the focus of this illustrated reference guide. Here is a fascinatingly detailed look at the cinematic history of Sasquatch, from the earliest trick films of Georges Melies to the most up-to-date CGI efforts. Critical insights regarding the genre’s development are offered, along with an exhaustively researched filmography that includes every known film or television appearance of Sasquatch, Bigfoot and Yeti in both fictitious and documentary formats.
Included are in-depth interviews with such filmmakers as Kevin Tenney, Adam Muto, Ryan Schifrin, Tim Skousen and Michael Worth, as well as reproductions of rare movie stills, posters, lobby cards and behind-the-scenes production photos. Renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman provides an insightful foreword to the text.
The Bigfoot Filmography: Fictional and Documentary Appearances in Film and Television
10.4 x 8.4 in. 1.8 lbs. Over 200 rare photos, posters and other collectible images. Superior, high-quality photographic reproductions on premium paper stock. Softbound.
Reviews:
“[The Bigfoot Filmography] is what we might get for some of our Dread Central staffers for Christmas 2012… pretty cool, right? We say it’s about damn time the Yeti got his due!” ~ Dread Central, “McFarland Unleashes The Bigfoot Filmography”
“It becomes clear the author has left no stone unturned. The detailed, meticulous nature of the author… has produced a winner with an original reference work… the serious student of the subject should eventually aquire this important contribution to Bigfooting, as it is presently peerless… The films in this work is so exhaustively researched in The Bigfoot Filmography, the detail so insightful, one can only give this book two thumbs up.” ~ Daniel Perez, editor of The Bigfoot Times and author of Bigfoot At Bluff Creek.
“This must clearly be regarded now as the most significant book ever authored on the genre of Bigfoot/Sasquatch and Abominable Snowmen/Yeti films! This takes us far beyond Snowbeast and Harry and the Hendersons into the great archives of motion pictures and documentaries known and nearly unknown on hairy hominoids.” ~ Loren Coleman, Cryptomundo.com
To learn more about the author or book visit these websites:
http://thebigfootfilmography.wordpress.com/
http://authordavecoleman.wordpress.com/
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The Babies In Kansas →
I received the following anecdote from a young woman a few weeks ago. The witness assures me that the incident actually occurred but I have some lingering doubts. I contacted the local news and left inquiries with the local authorities…so far, none answered. Nevertheless, here is the email:
Hello - something happened last summer that has left me with many questions and few answers. I was employed at an applianceand furniture rental & sales business in Great Bend, Kansas. One morning a co-worker and I opened the store. When we arrived we noticed that the backdoor was open and when we entered the backroom all the lights in the store had been turned on. I didn’t look like a break-in because the security latch was intact. The security system had been disabled - there was no power indicator on the code box. We immediately called the police and the store manager to report the situation. We were told not to open the store and to remain in the back office until someone arrived.
A few minutes later, after hanging up the phone with the store manager, a police officer was knocking on the back door. I left him in and told him what we had found when we arrived. The officer started to walk through the back room and into the showroom when we started to hear a baby cry. I thought that a customermay have somehow entered the store and that they had a baby with them. My co-worker and I followed the officer in the direction of the crying - well, I didn’t believe what I saw. There were 2 babies lying on a twin size bed display. The officer told us to stay there while he checked the rest of the store. He had also radioed for another police officer to come to the location.
I looked down at the babies who were both tightly wrapped in dark green cloth. Both babies were quiet, very still and looking at me and my co-worker. I was taken aback by their odd eyes - both babies had large pupils that were black. There were no irises and neither of the babies blinked. The police officer was soon back with us - he commented on the babies’ eyes as well. In fact, he was totally freaked out - so much so that he looked scared.
The store manager soon arrived as well as a senior police officer. We all stood around the bed looking at these strange babies who laid there quietly watching us. The store manager pulled my co-worker and I to the side and told us to go ahead and leave. He was not opening the store until he found out what was going on. We quickly headed toward the back door and left.
I wasn’t scheduled to work until a couple days later but I had talked to a few co-workers who said that the atmosphere in the store was very strange. They had been receiving weird telephone calls and that the security system alarm would trip on several times during the day.
I got to work a little early for my next scheduled shift. When I arrived the store manager was sitting in the office so I asked him what had happened after we had left. He said that 2 young women, who said they were from the municipal court, eventually showed up and took the babies. The senior police officer told him later that he had no idea who the women were but that he was told by his superior not to impede. He thought they were probably from McConnell AFB in Wichita. He also said that the babies were very quiet and seemed relaxed the entire period that they were there.
I stopped working there not long after. Things were just never the same and it got tougher each day - especially when odd-looking people would come into the store and just walk around. I didn’t feel comfortable being there.
I read an article not long ago about black-eyed kids and the theories on their existence. Have you heard of similar incidents? I’d appreciate your feedback. SH
NOTE: These black-eyed kid reports are not common. I have posted a few links below to reliable reference by those who understand this phenomena better than me. In retrospect, the thought of two babies left unattended in an empty store, possible overnight, seems somewhat far-fetched…let alone, how did they get there. Lon
Nick Redfern had an interesting review of David Weatherly’s bookThe Black Eyed Children
David Weatherly’s blog - Black Eyed Omen and Black Eyed Kid in Florida
Rob Morphy’s article is very interesting - Black Eyed Kids: Insidious Threat or Myth in the Making?
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Humanoid Reports: 'Stump-Like' Head -- Vieques Island Creature -- Beings Emerge From Portal →
Albert Rosales of Humanoid Sighting Reports & Journal of Humanoid Studies forwarded a few more interesting encounter reports:
TALL HUMANOID WITH ‘STUMP-LIKE’ HEAD
Vitebsk, Belarus - 2000 - night
The witness, Nadezhda G. was walking home alone from work when she was surprised to see a very tall human-like figure approaching in the other direction. She thought at first that it was just a very tall man but when it got closer she realized that it was something completely strange and different. The humanoid figure was at least 3 meters in height, with very broad shoulders and for such a giant of a figure, an unusually small head, devoid of eyes; it resembled a sort of ‘stump’. Its arms were extremely long and seemingly without joints. In the chest area there was a strange glow in the form of spheres and squares. Terrified she watched the bizarre figure disappear into the distance.
Source: http://www.ufo-com.net/
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VIEQUES ISLAND CREATURE
Cerro Ventana, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico - January 2000 - late evening
Two days after security guards stationed at a local radar site spotted a large luminous disc shaped object with a dome on top descend into the woods; another security guard performing his rounds heard sounds coming from the nearby brush. He also heard what appeared to be a low mumbling sound. Then out of the brush a strange creature appeared. It was about 4 ft tall, thin, with long arms, with a head slightly larger than normal and large black oval shaped eyes. The figure appeared to be encased in a soft greenish glow. The figure walked toward the radar site and walked under some high-tension wires then disappeared into the brush again.
Source: Jorge Martin, Vieques Poligono
Type: D - When an entity or humanoid is seen in the same area where UFOs or unknown objects have been reported
High Strangeness Index: 7
Reliability of Source: 8
Comments: Location was a highly controversial and political hotpoint because of the US Navy maneuvers conducted in the area for years. The US Navy left the island in the middle of 2003.
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BEINGS EMERGE FROM PORTAL
Lujan, Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 2000 - 23:00
The main witness, 11-year old Jonatan accompanied by his two cousins of about the same age were heading to a local house that was the scene of a birthday celebration. All three boys were carrying backpacks and on their way to the house they had to cross a wooded field. The night was clear and there didn’t seem to be anybody else around. The whole area seemed to be strangely quiet which caught their attention. For some reason Jonatan felt unexplained fear and almost did not want to go on.
As they walked on the field they suddenly noticed a bright white light similar to a lantern on one side of the field. Curious and not yet afraid the boys decided to approach the light and see what it was. To their surprise as they approached the light they noticed that it seemed to become bigger, and confused they continued watching the light. Suddenly the boys panicked when they see what appeared to be a ‘door’ become visible within the light and from the door they see four small creatures emerge, which they described as the size of small children. Due to the intense white light they were unable to describe the features or any other details on the creatures or figures. The witnesses could not tell for sure how far away the creatures were, but estimated that they were about 80 to 100 meters away. Terrified and unsure of what to do the boys then notice that the small creatures were walking in their direction. As they watched they noticed that the figures had heads larger than humans. At this point both Jonatan and his cousins decided to run from the area, leaving their backpacks behind.
Terrified the boys did not tell anyone what they had seen. The next day they returned to the spot and found the backpacks opened and their contents in disarray, but nothing was missing. At the location where the light was seen they found the grass flattened forming a circle of about 8 to meters in diameter, the grass was not broken but bent facing the same direction.
Source: http://www.codigoovni.com.ar/testigo.html / translated by Albert Rosales
Type: B - When an entity or humanoid is seen entering or exiting a UFO
There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA (Earth Chronicles)
Grey Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls: The Conspiracy to Genetically Tamper with Humanity
Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace
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The Demon Cat →
The US government has been keeping a secret for the last few hundred years…a demon lives in the sublevels of the US Capitol Building and in the basement of the White House. This demon has spooked security, baffled witnesses, and said to be an omen of terrible tragedy for the United States or a change in office.
The demon comes in the form of a black cat. When sighted, the animal appears to be a normal stray cat but when it approaches, it’s said to have glowing eyes and grows larger to the size of a lion or bear. The caterwauling of the demon cat, said to walk the hallways in the basement near the Catafalque Storage Room, can sometimes be hear echoing through the damp corridors. In 1862 and again in 1898, guards shot a black cat that had swollen to the size of an elephant.
The story of the demon cat, nicknamed “DC” by Capitol employees, begins shortly after the capitol building was completed. Washington DC had something of a rat problem and cats were brought into the building to get rid of them. As the rat problem was taken care of, the cats either wandered off or were adopted by people who worked there. It seems that one cat was left behind in order to roam the recesses of the capitol building for a longer period.
“One guard who saw it wants to remain anonymous. It happened on a January night in the 1970s. As he was walking through a passage way, he saw the black cat approach. The phantom appeared to get larger as it walked toward him. Its eyes had a reddish glow. The guard was afraid to move. Finally, the phantom reached the size of a tiger and its meowings changed to roars. It crouched and sprang and all the guard could do was to pray and close his eyes. Nothing happened. When the guard opened his eyes, the cat had vanished.”
The San Diego Union-Tribune of 11/1/1992 stated: “The demon cat would usually meet someone alone in a dark corridor. It had large yellow eyes that seemed to hypnotize, and it would snarl. It would seem to grow larger and larger until it would make a final lunge toward its victim and then either explode or disappear over the victim’s head. Historians recorded stories of guards firing guns toward the hissing cat as it disappeared only to find they were shooting into an empty hall. It was said to appear only on the eve of a national tragedy or the change of administrations.”
DC has been seen periodically throughout the last 200 years. Reportedly, he was spotted before the assassination of Lincoln and Garfield, before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the death of Roosevelt, the assassination of Kennedy, the attempted assassination of Reagan, and there was even an account of the cat being spotted the night of September 10th, 2001. At the White House, it is usually seen during times when the presidency is moving to a new person.
DC’s predicting ability isn’t the only thing it is known for. It’s said to live in a room originally intended to house the body of George Washington after death, a place that would remain empty as Washington was buried at his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia. This empty room is one of the many places witnesses have spotted the mysterious creature.
When the subject of ghosts and the paranormal on Capitol Hill is approached, a few incidents are brought to light. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is a firm believer. “In my old hideaway we had ghosts,” Leahy said. “We had a 300-pound table that we’d come in and find in different parts of the room that we hadn’t left it in…it had moved around by itself about every two or three months.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she hadn’t seen any ghosts in her more than 20 years in Congress, but added that“sometimes it feels haunted.”
Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y.) agreed, saying that when he presided over the House floor, he sometimes felt another presence in the room. “When I sat in the [House] chair at times, I knew that there were members around me that were not just not in the chamber to vote on something,” he said.
Anthony Wallis, a research analyst with the House historian’s officestates, “One soldier is known to have undergone excruciating pain one night during surgery and he died on the operating table. So Capitol Police swear that they hear moaning and see figures walking across the Capitol Rotunda, because it was used as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War.”
Whether real or the result of years of paranoia I cannot say, but if you ever find yourself in the Capitol Rotunda during a tour, take a look at the floor near the old entrance to the Senate Hall. One thing that you cannot deny is the set of cat prints across the stone floor said to be made by the US Capitol’s demon cat.
NOTE: Personally, I don’t care for the word ‘demon’…malevolent is a more suitable description for an evil being or entity in my opinion. Similar to the Mothman, these supposed ‘harbingers of death’ or ‘omens’ usually have the ‘demon’ tag attached to it, even though there doesn’t seem to be any malevolent intent. The Capitol Building, built by slaves and with a nucleus of strife and bloodshed over its more than 200-year history, has a rich history of ghosts and mystical folklore. But while some lawmakers embrace, and almost relish, this eerie presence, others deny the existence of ghosts…or, at the very least, have serious doubts of the stories people tell…Lon
“Ghosts: Washington Revisited” (The Ghostlore of the Nation’s Capital)
Washington, D.C., Ghosts, Legends, and Lore
The Ghost in the White House
Sources:
rollcall.com
abcnews.go.com
unexplainable.net
thehill.com
slightlywarped.com
unsolved-mysteries.com
paranormala.com
Alexander, John - ‘Washington’s Most Famous Ghost Stories’ - 1988
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Ancient Anomalies vs Accepted Awareness →
Enigmatic artifacts have been found all over the world that simply do not fit the accepted geologic or historical timeline. These ancient anomalies, also referred to as ooparts (out-of-place artifacts), are objects that by scientific measure are very old, but in form or construction appear to be quite modern. If our current history of the world is correct, they just should not exist. And there are many examples…many more than geologists, archaeologists, and other scientists care to admit.
Unlike ghosts, cryptids and other phenomena these unexplained artifacts have been seen, touched, and examined. The fact that these objects do exist and do not fit the standard scientific timeline, geologic record and anthropologic chronology, suggests that either the current standard dating techniques are wrong, geology does not progress the way we suppose it does, or there is far more to the history of life on this planet than we currently know about. In my opinion these enigmatic artifacts are indications that the ancient alien theory is probable.
May I suggest that you go to the Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race website and read about the various human remains, advanced technology, maps/drawings and other artifacts that have been have been documented.
Scientists attempt to explain such enigmas by suggesting that human remains and stone tools found at deep levels are the result of intrusive burials. All this means is that holes are dug in which bodies and artifacts are placed. When found they can therefore be misinterpreted as stemming from a much earlier age than they are in reality. Perhaps this is a solution in some cases. However, in one particular case a human skeleton, anatomically similar to modern man, was found beneath a solid layer of slate. The rock strata in question was 300 million years’ old!
Then there are discoveries that just seem to defy logic and science.
It is a known fact that coal is formed over thousands of years from fallen timber that has been charred and undergone immense pressure for many years beneath many tons of earth. A lump of coal therefore, by the simple nature of its own creation, is very ancient stuff. There is quite literally, no such thing as ‘new coal’. Yet one morning in June of 1891, a Mrs. S. W. Culp, of Morrisonville, Illinois was fragmenting coal into smaller pieces for her kitchen stove when she noticed that one of the lumps she had broken apart had a chain necklace of elaborate workmanship stuck in it. The chain measured about 10 inches long and was later found to be made of eight carat gold. Unfortunately no photograph exists of the necklace and its whereabouts is presently unknown, however, the actual event is quite well documented.
The Morrisonville Times of June 11, 1891 published that investigators concluded that the chain, which was described as being “of antique and quaint workmanship” had not simply been accidentally dropped in with the coal by a worker, since an examination of the item clearly displayed some hard fragments of the coal that still clung on to the links of the chain, while the part of the coal that had broken apart also still bore the distinct impression of where the chain had been encased in it. The reporter of the day described it in this way:
“Mrs. Culp thought the chain had been dropped accidentally in the coal, but as she undertook to lift the chain up, the idea of its having been recently dropped was shown to be fallacious, for as the lump of coal broke, it separated almost in the middle, and the circular position of the chain placed the two ends near to each other; and as the lumps separated, the middle of the chain became loosened while each end remained fastened to the coal…..”
How did a finely manufactured gold chain come to be encased in a lump of coal, an object that’s very existence requires it to be many thousands of years old?
Strangely enough, the Morrisonville incident is not the only one of its kind. In 1844 an unidentified gold artifact was discovered in a quarry in England.
Workmen blasting granite, came across the discovery of an item of gold thread about eight feet below the surface. It was embedded in rock thought to be over 60 million years old. Experts sent at the behest of the Times newspaper concluded that the object had been artificially manufactured, but ventured no opinion as to how it could have found itself embedded in rock so unimaginably old.
Obviously these artifacts weren’t lost in recent history. Is it possible that the emergence of humanity has taken place on various occasions during the earth’s long history? Could it be a cyclic process, whereby the current human race is destroyed and reborn time and time again? If this is the case, then each cycle is dependent on how long it is allowed to evolve before its inevitable destruction, most probably through planetary catastrophes. Its obvious that the world isn’t quite what the majority of people think it is.
NOTE: The following link - Ancient Metallurgy - is an interesting reference. Below are a few links to Michael Cremo’s books on the hidden history of the human race…Lon
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
Forbidden Archeology’s Impact: How a Controversial New Book Shocked the Scientific Community and Became an Underground Classic
Forbidden Archeologist: The Atlantis Rising Magazine Columns of Michael A. Cremo
The Mysterious Origins of Man (UFO TV Special Edition)
Sources:
Maxwell Igan - ‘Earths Forbidden History’ - (thecrowhouse.com)
space-2001.net
nasca.org.uk
andrewcollins.com
ancient-hebrew.org
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Reader Submission: The Dark Walker →
I received the following correspondence a few days ago. It was forwarded by ‘John’ a retired Federal employee who lives in northern Nevada and who wishes to remain anonymous. The story centers around an experience John had while livingwith his Grandfather. John later stated to me that the property was in a rural area of Aleppo Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He did not want to pinpoint the location but did say that he wanted the anecdote dedicated to his Grandfather - Samuel Hill, who he considers the most remarkable man he has ever known.
John seemed quite sincere in my opinion. He decided to come forth with the account after he had a rather strange encounter a few months ago (which he did not want to discuss). John did mention in his most recent email that he was 81 years old and a veteran of the Korean War. He also stated that he truly felt his Grandfather’s actions were taken in defense of his family:
When I was a boy my mother and I lived with my grandfather who had a farmhouse in a rural location in southwestern Pennsylvania. My grandfather was a handyman who also worked a small blacksmith shop in his old barn. My grandmother had died before I was born and my father had also passed away while serving overseas in the U.S. Army.
Beginning in the summer of 1946 we notice strange howling sounds coming from the woods that surrounded the property. The activity came at night and was very frightening when the howling came close. The sounds didn’t seem to bother my grandfather though my mother and I were shaken when it would begin. The sounds continued off and on for about a year but we never noticed any animals. My grandfather and I would hunt for deer and squirrel in the woods during the colder months but we never saw signs of unusual animal activity.
One late afternoon in the spring of 1947 I was helping my grandfather in his shop when I noticed something moving around the edge of the woods near an area where by grandfather had a few junk cars and other items. It was about 200 feet from our location but I clearly noticed someone or something moving around. I told my grandfather to look. He walked to the door, lit his pipe and said nothing. After a minute or two he turned around and got back to work. About that time this thing moved into the woods and disappeared. I couldn’t judge how big it was but it sort of reminded me of a magazine picture I had seen of a large ape that was said to inhabit in the Asian jungles.
Later that evening I told my mother what I had seen. She was shocked because she knew I wouldn’t lie to her and that the howling sounds had been closer lately. I also told her of my grandfather’s response when I pointed the creature out to him. She immediately stood up and walked into the sitting room in order to ask my grandfather what it was. He started to shake his head slowly and said that he was hoping that we wouldn’t ‘see it’because he was worried we would be scared and leave him.
After assuring him that we’d never leave him my mother again insisted that he tell us what this creature was. He looked away, took a deep breath and said ‘it’s a Dark Walker’ and said that it had lived in the woods for many years. He said the native Indians called it ‘Stone Spirit’ and they thought that it was an evil spirit who would appear when someone was about to die. The last times he had seen the ‘Dark Walker’ was the night before my grandmother died. My mother was skeptical of the ‘harbinger of death’ angle but she sensed that there was something unnatural nearby.
The howling continued each night though we hadn’t seen any signs of the ‘Dark Walker’. One warm evening we were sitting on the back porch. There were a few howls but it seemed like the sounds were further away. We were listening to the radio when all at once my grandfather stood up and looked out towards the barn. He turned to me and said ‘John, go get my pistol and ammo - hurry now’. I ran into the sitting room and grabbed the .455 Webley revolver and a handful of bullets from the old steamer trunk. I handed it to him and watched him load the gun. He then picked up a hatchet and slid it in his pants belt. ‘Now both of you get into the house – now!’ We were in the kitchen looking through the screen door and watched my grandfather grab a hand axe and walk slowly towards the barn. We saw him turn and walk out of sight into the dark. I decided to grab my shotgun and keep it nearby. After a minute or so we heard three gunshots and a blood curdling scream emanate from the woods near the barn. Then it suddenly stopped and there was complete quiet. We were frozen and wondering if we should go look for my grandfather. A few seconds later we heard him scream ‘stay in the house until I come back.’
I heard the pickup truck start up. I looked out the storage room window and saw my grandfather drive to the back of the barn and park. Several minutes later he backed up and drove by the side of the house out onto the road. I could see that there was something in the back covered up with a tarp. It was getting late so my mother told me to go to bed.
The next morning I came downstairs and sat beside my grandfather who was reading the newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee. My mother was sitting at the other end of the table staring at my grandfather. Not long later she said ‘well dad, tell him’. My grandfather put the paper down and looked at me. ‘I killed the Dark Walker’. That was all he said. My mother told me not to tell anyone and that the matter was closed.
We never talked about it again. My grandfather lived another 15 years and my mother stayed with him until his dying day. When I grew older I moved away and raised a family. I would return home to visit each summer – and never heard another howl. John
NOTE: I asked John if he thought the ‘Dark Walker’ was a Bigfoot or hominid. He responded by stating that he didn’t think it was a hairy man or human-like creature. He thought it seemed more animal-like than human and that it moved lower to the ground…at least during the brief time he observed it. John mentioned that there were Shawnee legends of similar creatures but he never found a reference to a ‘Stone Spirit’. If anyone can offer information in reference to this mystery, please feel free to forward it to me atlonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com…Lon
Monsters of Pennsylvania: Mysterious Creatures in the Keystone State
Strange Pennsylvania Monsters
Really Mysterious Pennsylvania: UFOs, Bigfoot & Other Weird Encounters Casebook One
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'....tell me what that was!' →
I received this interesting email on Monday:
Good Evening,
The following events occurred late in summer of 1999 in suburban southern New Hampshire. As an adult I work at management level in the international disaster management field and have experienced some horrific tragedies. None of those can be compared to what I witnessed that evening.
I had tried to discuss what I saw with friends and family at the time, but was chuckled at and dismissed. The other witness denied that it happened. We have lost touch over the years so I can’t be sure of his view of the incident as an adult. I only write this after reading some of your posts on humanoids and wondering if I really may have seen something unique.
I was driving my boyfriend home after a night out, and we were trying to extend the evening by loitering in his driveway. He lived in a very typical, late 60’s suburb filled with ranches and split levels. The neighborhood was higher end middle class and very well lit. He and I were doing typical teen things when we noticed someone walking down the street; 3 or 4 blocks away. This caught our attention as this was not the town or neighborhood where being out after 10 was common. As he got closer we noticed something abnormal. Although his gait was slow and normal, there was something stomach turning about his shoulders. They were pivoting in a manner that humans shouldn’t be able to move in swinging in circles and swinging over his head like there was no bone. The well lit streets allowed us to see his face, which was calm and unassuming. Just a man enjoying a late summer evening walk, with his arms out of their sockets. My boyfriend looked at me with tears in his eyes and asked if I could tell him what that was. I said that it was probably just some druggie….but that we should probably turn in. He ran inside and quickly bolted the door…I locked my car door and sped off in the opposite direction…when I had made it several blocks I glanced in my rearview mirror and he was gone.
My family home was 10 - 15 miles away on the other side of town. When I got home it was close to midnight. It was also in the days before it was common for 18 year olds to have cell phones so I had no way of calling home prior to my arrival. Despite the fact that it was only a 25 foot dash from my car to the front door I was so shaken that I laid on the horn until my parents came outside, thinking there was a major emergency. They were livid when I told them what had transpired.
To this day I can remember the experience as if it were yesterday. I can also recall how unnatural his movements were, and how chilling it was to watch him move.
I’ll never be certain what I saw. I’m sure that it could have just been a drunk that somehow ended up in suburbia but I’ve never seen any intoxicated person move with such fluidity (his legs and torso) and with such jerky contortioned upper body movements. It simply doesn’t compute.
I would love a second opinion on this and would be interested to hear if there have been any similar situations.
Thank you.
Regards,
K.T. - New Hampshire
NOTE: Can you relate a similar encounter? Feel free to forward to me atlonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com…Lon
60 YEARS OF NEGLECTED EVIDENCE: ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL HUMANOID ENCOUNTER REPORTS: 1946 - 2006
The Cryptoterrestrials: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us
Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters: Science and Soul in Science Fiction Films
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Angels in the Classroom: The Cokeville Incident →
Some places and dates are branded by disaster, by the stories of one horrible day that no one can forget: 9/11, Oklahoma City, Columbine. What sets this horrible day apart from others is about what didn’t happened. The small town of Cokeville, Wyoming was the sight of a parent’s worst nightmare on May 16th, 1986 when a mentally disturbed man and his wife entered an elementary school with guns and a homemade gasoline bomb.
The man’s name was David Young, a former town marshal. He had been the tiny’s towns only police officer in six months during 1979 and when he was fired for misconduct, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. He and his wife returned to Cokeville in 1986 and carried out their insidious plan. Young had a manifesto called “Zero-Infiniti” and proclaimed “this is a revolution!” as he and his wife took an entire generation - over 160 children and teachers - hostage and wouldn’t release them until he was given 300 million dollars and a personal phone call from Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States.
Keeping all the children in a single room and standing in the middle of it, the Youngs began a standoff that would last 2 1/2 hours. David left the room leaving his wife alone and it was then that the bomb went off instantly killing Doris. The bomb had been on the shopping cart and, though it was homemade, it was powerful enough to destroy a section of the school. Moments before the explosion, Young handed the shoelace and clothespin to his wife and went across the hall to the bathroom. Doris Young apparently didn’t realize how sensitive the trigger mechanism was and accidently caused it to go off.
The blast knocked Williams off her feet. The room erupted in chaos as children ran screaming in the dark, smoke-filled room. While many kids, including her friends Amber Kemp and BranDee Prows, escaped through the window, Williams crawled toward a light at the doorway. She crossed paths with David Young at the door, and he tried to grab her shirt, but the tide of running children prevented him. She escaped but saw flames on her shirt and felt an odd, tickling sensation on her shoulder. She started rolling to try to put it out, but the burning sensation only intensified. She was saved from further burns when some teachers found her and slapped out the flames. Then they told her to run.
Running toward the blast Young started to randomly spray the area with gunfire. Some kids were grazed by whizzing bullets, but none were hit. Through the chaos, everyone was eventually accounted for except for the Youngs. Upon finding his burning wife, Young had shot her and then returned to the bathroom and shot himself.
The miraculous thing is that despite the shooting and the detonation of the bomb, the Youngs were the only casualties. Some children and teachers suffered severe flash burns from the explosion and minor bullet wounds, but all were alive. In the last 20 years, this event has become known as The Miracle of Cokesville.
The story runs deeper. Bomb experts called out to the scene were stunned. They couldn’t figure out why the school was still intact when a bomb that size should have obliterated the entire side of the building leaving everyone - the hostage-takers and the hostages - all dead. How was this possible? To this day no one has provided an explanation. The children and teachers were alive and that was all that apparently mattered.
Then the children began to tell stories of angels who appeared to them and instructed them to move to a corner of the classroom because the bomb was about to explode. Some reported seeing beautiful figures in white while others said that they saw long-dead relatives telling them not to be afraid. Many said later that there was an angel in the room for every child and that each was protecting their charge. Some children said that they didn’t see anything, but rather heard disembodied voices telling them that the disaster was about to happen and that they would be spared.
Glenna Walker’s children saw a “beautiful lady” who told them to go near the window right before the explosion. When looking at a picture in a locket later, one of the children identified the lady as Walker’s deceased mother.
Amy Bagaso Williams was a fifth-grader at the time of the incident. Recently she said, “You come to realize there are no coincidences. Too many things happened to the point that all of us survived that day. It was not an accident. It was a loving Heavenly Father who had a plan for all these children. He prevented it from turning into a horrible tragedy.”
Williams had third-degree burns on her face, neck and back. Because there were more than 75 injured, ambulances were dispatched to Montpelier, Idaho; Kemmerer, Wyo.; Evanston, Wyo.; and to Utah. Her parents drove her to Montpelier, where the hospital had not received word of the bombing. “Get prepared for a long night,” Williams’ father told them.
Williams was lying in a hospital bed when she learned two Melchizedek priesthood holders were going room to room giving blessings. She asked for a blessing.
“The blessing said Heavenly Father was there and watched over us, that he loves us, and although this terrible thing happened and my body was burned horribly, that I would heal and have no scars,” Williams said with emotion. “The scars I would have to overcome would be scars of forgiveness and trust.”
Her pediatrician, didn’t think such a promise was realistic, but Williams, feeling the same peaceful feeling she had felt earlier, believed the blessing. New skin grew in, and to this day she has no scarring, despite severe burns.
“It was a miracle. I healed completely. Nobody has any idea I was in the Cokeville bombing,” she said.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary in 2006, a group called the Cokeville Miracle Foundation compiled a 500-page book of accounts by many people who lived through the fateful day and titled itWITNESS TO MIRACLES, Remembering the Cokeville Elementary School Bombing
To Save the Children
Where Angels Tread: Real Stories of Miracles and Angelic Intervention
Bridge Between Worlds: Extraordinary Experiences That Changed Lives
Sources:
time.com
beliefnet.com
slightlywarped.com
deseretnews.com
ksl.com
’Bridge Between Worlds: Extraordinary Experiences That Changed Lives’ - Dan Millman and Doug Childers - 2009
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Black Visions →
I received the following email on Sunday May 20th:
I just had a strange encounter and immediately jumped on mycomputer to try to learn more about it and I found your site.
I walked into the kitchen to get breakfast and when I looked out the window I saw a large black bird running/flying (sort of like a chicken or how a duck/goose runs on water before it takes flight) towards the house, directly toward the window. It ran/flapped straight toward the house and out of my view when it got too close to the house to see. I’ve never seen a bird like this anywhere. It sort of reminded me of a turkey vulture, but it was NOT one of those. It was about the size of a medium sized dog, with huge wings. It scared the shit out of me, but I needed to know what I had seen. I’ve had sightings of weird things in the past few months, but I’ve always just thought I was making things up and had an active imagination. This was much more real and was NOT something I had just imagined. So despite being scared, I ran to the kitchen door to look outside towards the area under the window where I last saw the bird. As soon as I opened the inside door I saw, through the storm-door window, a hummingbird flit up from the area below the kitchen window, towards the window of the door I was standing at, not necessarily towards me, but near me, and then off around the side of the house. After the hummingbird flew away, I opened the storm-door and looked under the kitchen window. I didn’t see anything there. I don’t know where this large bird could have escaped so quickly, if it had not simply disappeared or shape-shifted into the hummingbird. Thespeed at which it was running/flying toward the house was also odd, b/c it didn’t slow down (in fact it seemed to go faster) upon approaching the house, but it didn’t hit the house.
Regarding the other occurrences I’ve had over the past few months, if they have any bearing to this (which I think they might), have been VERY brief sightings of large black animals or “people” dressed in black. Every time I have seen these creatures, I have been in my car, stopped at a light or stop sign. I’ll scan my surroundings (as you normally do when driving) and I’ll see something in my periphery, but when I look again, it’s gone. I’ve tried to attribute it to an active imagination, but the idea that these sightings might be real is still in my head. One time I started to pull out to turn left and saw something large and black approaching the front right of the car that I hadn’t seen a few moments ago. I slammed on my breaks b/c I thought I was going to hit it, but when I looked again there was nothing there. I swear something was there and it just disappeared, as if looking at it directly had some bearing on whether or not it could be seen. Like I can only view these things in the periphery of my vision. My husband was in the car with me at the time and he thought I was crazy. He didn’t see anything. The fact that I’ve been in my car every time gives me the feeling like I am being followed, since it hasn’t happened just near my house. Although they have all been within ~5 miles of my house.
I read that hummingbirds can be a messenger between the worlds/dimensions. But I read nothing about an animal shape-shifting into a hummingbird. Could the large bird and the hummingbird have been two separate entities? Possibly the hummingbird warning me of this other creature? I’ve read that hummingbirds can be a “power animal” that can signal that one needs “to cleanse yourself spiritually from the parasites that are trying to steal your energy.” Could this other being(s) be something that is trying to harm me/steal my energy?
Almost all of my searches have also pointed to webpages that talk about a creature called a Pooka. Could this be what I saw earlier? What I occasionally have seen when in my car? People say they are one of the most feared creatures. I don’t want to fear this thing, but I wonder if I need to be more cautious than I have. I’m also a little worried since I opened the house door to try to find this bird, in case that may have signaled some sort of invitation to enter.
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide.
A - (From Ohio)
NOTE: OK folks…what are your thoughts on these sightings? Lon
The Pooka and the Paranormal
The Real Men In Black: Evidence, Famous Cases, and True Stories of These Mysterious Men and their Connection to UFO Phenomena
Casebook on the Men In Black
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Roswell Incident RV Project Scheduled →
During the past 2 1/2 years, and since my involvement with Spirit Rescue International, I have wondered if a series of remote viewing sessions could offer relevant information on the supposed 1947 Roswell, NM UFO Crash Incident. I have researched this subject and most of what I have found were minor references to theStargate Project (possible government RV training target?) but nothing substantial. It is most likely a few remote viewers have attempted to perceive the location and circumstances, but details are scarce.
The term remote viewing emerged as shorthand to describe a more structured approach to clairvoyance. It was said that Stargateonly received a mission after all other intelligence attempts, methods, or approaches had already been exhausted. This may be a true statement officially, though I doubt that was the full extent of use.
The remote view protocol that we use at Spirit Rescue International is defined as ‘scientific’ and/or ‘coordinate’ remote viewing. In order to apply it to the Roswell Incident there would need to be more monitor control, protocol modification, use of the correct data type and extended sessions. The sessions would be conducted by remote viewers who have minimal knowledge of the Roswell Incident. We believe these objectives can be achieved.
The project has now been scheduled and will begin shortly. Several targets will need to be set and each target will need to be perceived by a minimum of two remote viewers. For those readers who are familiar with how SRI conducts our investigations it will become apparent that the project will require a significant amount of time to complete. The information collected will be examined by researchers intimately familiar with the Roswell Incident. All of the data will then be compiled and condensed into a final report which will then be released at the discretion of Spirit Rescue International.
Spirit Rescue International will continue to accept and investigate client cases during the duration of this project. If you have questions or suggestions about the project or SRI please forward to my email…Lon
Roswell : Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe
Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the Government’s Biggest Cover-up (Revised and Expanded Edition)
The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site
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