April 18, 2007 Some Colorado campuses are raising security measures in the wake of Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech and on the eve of the eighth anniversary of bloodshed at Columbine High School. The University of Colorado, the University of Northern Colorado and Boulder High School were investigating incidents Tuesday related to threats and potential disturbances. CU campus police arrested a student for investigation of interfering with staff members and students after he engaged in a heated discussion with classmates over the Virginia Tech rampage and said that he “would be capable of killing 32 people,” Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said. [...]
New Rash of Mothman-Linked Deaths
I am sorry to report that details are just beginning to trickle in of a new wave of deaths and near-misses tied to the Mothman researchers, museum staff and festival people in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. (Click here for a historical overview of other similar deaths. For more on the logic behind making an openminded focus of this kind of data, see my extended comment below in response to some early critics of this specific blog.) Many of these people impacted have become friends in the last five years, so these incidents are becoming more difficult to note. However, it [...]
Are Cell Phones Wiping Out Bees?
The mysterious vanishings of honeybees through Eurasia and America is beginning to worry people. Across the country, beekeepers are grappling with the bizarre disappearance of hundreds of thousands of honeybees that leave their hives and are never seen again. In many cases, all that is left is an empty hive, a handful of sick bees and a swarm of unanswered questions.Gary Campbell, “The great honeybee mystery,” Fort Collins Weekly, April 14, 2007 Could it be cell phones? Read Campbell’s complete article here. How fragile is the genetic basis of the bees? The current bee population in the United States is [...]
1977: Year Of The Creature
After I posted this morning’s blog “Flashback: Thirty Year Ago – South Dakota Bigfoot,”” about a Bigfoot flap taking place in 1977, Scott Maruna at The Anomalist commented: “Come to think of it, there were a lot of flaps going on that year.” Indeed, there were. The anniversary of the Dover Demon sightings (April 21-22, 1977) is rapidly approaching. On April 21, 2007, I’ll be a guest on the “Dover Demon” 30th Anniversary Special (“Dover Demon” is a chapter in Mysterious America), from 10 pm to Midnight, on the Eastern Spooky Southeast broadcast, on WBSM-AM, 1420 AM, New Bedford, Massachusetts. [...]
Homophobus mysognistis xenophobus ignoramus
Why would someone use the above sign to throw homophobia my way? See below. Some rather stupid people haunt the world. Do not fool yourself into thinking that you can ignore what is happening all over the news these days, regarding the discussion of Don Imus’s outrageous remarks. Insensitive people even exist in Bigfoot studies. Perhaps they should be classified with the Latin name, Homophobus mysognistis xenophobus ignoramus for the homophobic, demeaning sexist, racist stupidity they give forth as if they know what they are talking about. The women of the Rutgers basketball team are the focus in this latest [...]
Oglala Sioux Police Talk: Bigfoot Update
The Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation was the site last year and at the beginning of this one of several close encounters with what appeared to be a large Bigfoot (often called “Big Man”). Various individuals have contacted me, via backchannels, from the southern South Dakota area, with news of their Bigfoot. All wish to keep their identities guarded, due to their various positions within the community and their links to the law enforcement units operating there. Nevertheless, the time seems appropriate to share the new notes that are being sent, as they appear to have overlapping tidbits of confriming [...]
Fed Nominee Has Bigfoot Links
Midtarsal Break, Photo Credit: Lyle Laverty, 1967. You’ve seen the photograph. It is one of the more famous single Bigfoot tracks, a print with a distinctive midtarsal break, as Jeff Meldrum terms it. A simple “photo by Lyle Laverty” is usually placed casually underneath it, acknowledging the credit line of this semi-public official who snapped the picture. Now, Laverty is in the news again, as an up-and-coming Bush political appointee to the Department of Interior. First some background on Laverty’s Bigfoot connections: In October 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin claimed to have captured on film a female Bigfoot retreating [...]
Brooding About Bigfooters
Sometimes I allow my thoughts to drift to trying to understand the “people” part of the Bigfoot quest. In my Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket – Simon and Schuster, 2003), I wrote Chapter 15, “The Bigfooters” to detail my thoughts on the matter of the why and the what of the searchers. I added historical and people-specific notes to this matter in my more casual analysis of the folks “looking” for Bigfoot in The Field Guide of Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates and Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology. In Bigfoot!, I decided [...]
Bigfoot Academic
Is this cell phone picture proof that celebrated ape-man scholar Bigfoot has tampered with the archaeological record? Find or Fake? Scandal has enveloped Bigfoot’s most spectacular finds, including this unique pot, found by Bigfoot during his massive pedestrian survey of New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon. Bigfoot Shocker!! April Fool’s Day 2007 Giant ape-man academic exposed!! American archaeologists were stunned as news broke today that a high-school student with a cameraphone caught Bigfoot in the act of planting artifacts at Burns Mound. An important Mississippian period (A.D. 900-1100) site outside of Memphis, Tennessee, Burns Mound’s discovery during a joint Bigfoot-University of North [...]
Proto-Nazi Hoax: The “Ape” in Green Hell
If this was such an extraordinary image, why did the alleged photographer not show the back end of the primate and why did he keep it stored away for almost ten years? The photograph (above) of an alleged “Ameranthropoid ape” supposedly was taken in South America by François de Loys. It has a checkered history, and was used for proto-Nazi racist promotion in the late 1920s and early 1930s, despite the fact it is most certainly a spider monkey (below). Basically, two schools exist about this photo. 1) There are those that believe the François de Loys story and thus [...]
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