This was the photo that stunned me. The side of the house and the porch. Note the curious, single, "lonely" window on the second floor that I had remembered.

By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines. Get Dorraine's book The Book Of Blackthorne!

©The Crypto Crew


I never believed in reincarnation. Such an idea seemed ridiculous. Not to mention illogical. But there was a time about five years ago that things happened to make me change my mind.

I was going through a very trying period in my life, and, with all the emotional stress, my dreams seemed to come alive at night. They were so lucid most of the time that I decided to start writing them down. And I was so curious about their meanings that I decided to buy a dream dictionary so I could try to make sense of them.

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Bigfoot Bounty

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.



Well, tonight was the second episode of Spike TV's Bigfoot Bounty, so once again I thought I'd offer up my opinion about this episode. Again, this is not meant to put down anyone on the show, many of these folks are acquaintances of mine.

So tonight the remaining 8 teams continued the search for bigfoot. The pace of tonight's show was much less chaotic than the first episode but still kept it's competitiveness.

One thing I think is being over emphasized is the masking of a person scent when bigfooting, we seen everything from rubbing poop on your body to eating it, and it continues a little in this episode.

Now on to some of the high and low points of this episode.

Dax and Rictor have a few interesting moments, one is when they find what could be a very large X structure. This of course is not explored on the show as the judges have no idea of what could be bigfoot evidence, they are just looking for DNA and a photo. Any true bigfoot researcher has somewhat of an understanding that bigfoot do indeed make various stick formations.
A potentially dangerous event happens when Rictor takes a pretty nasty fall into a creek. There where some very large rocks and luckily he didn't hit his head.

Tonight's first challenge was to take a clear picture of any kind of animal in the massive forest.  It is at this point some game cams are deployed by the teams. Ro and Justin manage to chase down a squirrel and take a picture of it. It was somewhat comical to watch them run this squirrel.

One part I found frustrating was when the judges review some of the photos captured by the game cams. Dr. Disotell makes some references to needing something for scale on deer photos? I think we all pretty much understand the size of deer but I understand needing something for scale.

The second challenge was to collect some bigfoot DNA samples. Most of the teams turned in various samples of scat and some possible hair samples. Here's where the show is really lacking, they seem to think you can't just walk out in the forest and find bigfoot DNA samples. Sorry it's just not that easy.

Some of the teams were fighting amongst themselves in tonight's show. The all girl team of Kirsten and Shaney were at each other pretty good for most of the show. It makes one wonder... If 2 girls are arguing in the forest and no one cares, does bigfoot still hear them? In the end they work things out.

The show took more of a turn towards "Survivor" tonight as several teams attempt to make alliances.  Now I don't know how this might work out as most seem to say they don't trust each other.

The Host and the two judges rip into the contestants for being "unprofessional" but it's just not feasible to ask the contestants to go into an area they know very little about and bring back Bigfoot DNA samples. Proving real proof of bigfoot is something that will take lots of evidence, not just a DNA sample. If by chance a contestant brought back a real Bigfoot DNA sample how would you know it was Bigfoot DNA? Do we have it in the data banks? Do we even know we can differentiate between human and Bigfoot DNA? I guess the people in the white coats know, I sure don't.

I can say that I did enjoy the slower pace of tonight's show but it appears from the previews of next weeks show that the fighting between teams heats up. In the end there just seems to be a lack of knowledge and experience  about bigfoot research from the judges and some of the teams.

Also I must mention Mike Merchant, He becomes an ant eater tonight and has a little fun out of his teammate. There is just something about a big pile of poop that he loves.

I guess I could go on but will wrap it up for now. I didn't think I'd be watching Bigfoot Bounty but have found it fairly entertaining and enjoy writing the reviews. I hope you enjoy reading them.

Thanks
~Tom~





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Sea Monster?

By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines. Get Dorraine's book The Book Of Blackthorne!



It’s not widely known, but over the years, there have been a few isolated reports of a sea serpent type creature spotted in Lake Michigan.

It seems that between 1867 and 1890, local newspapers reported sightings of a visibly scaled serpent some 40-50 feet in length, very dark blue, with a grayish-white belly. In 1867, a fisherman named Joseph Muhlke gave a very detailed description of the creature, claiming it came within some 20 feet of his boat. It was swimming about a mile and a half off the shore of the south side of Chicago.

Others claimed to have heard it making roaring sounds in the distance that were said to have sounded something like a bull. But sightings have been fleeting and few and far between since then. That is until this security camera footage of something interesting in the water at a Lake Michigan dock surfaced in 2012.

Could this be footage of the creature in question? You decide.


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Mock up of actual UFO sighting

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


Here is another one of the recent reports that I got of a UFO sighting.

-Start Report-
Name: James H*****
Email Address: Withheld
State: Mississippi
County: Lafayette
Date of Sighting: Spring 1979
Time of Day: about 6pm
Nearest Town: Paris
Length of Sighting: 45 to 60 min
How many Witnesses: 3
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:
My father called me to our back yard where 2 objects were floating in the sky, one stationary, the other moving towards the other. 
They came together into one craft and flashed red, green, blue and yellow lights, at some point, it looked as something dripped out of the bottom of one towards the ground.
Then they split into 3 craft, one went towards the north, another west and another southwest.
The first two moved away at a constant speed while the first shot away at a great speed and was gone. 
I can't remember the order of the colors but each one was a different color after the split, one red, one green and one blue.  There was no sound whatsoever.  Nothing human made could have done what these things did.

General Map Of Area:


-End Report-

Thanks goes to James for sharing his sighting.
~Tom~


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Mock up of sighting

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.



I have got in a few reports of  UFO sightings, I don't know for sure if these have ever been reported or not. They will be added to our Bigfoot & UFO Sightings Map. Here is one of the sightings that was sent to me.

-Start Report-
Name: James H*****
Email Address: Withheld
State: Mississippi
County: Calhoun
County Map:

Date of Sighting: Fall 1976
Time of Day: 8pm to 11 pm
Nearest Town: Banner
Nearest Town Map:

Length of Sighting: about 2 hours
How many Witnesses: 12
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:

I was about age 14 when this event occurred.   My parents would have bonfires with friends in on a dirt back road behind Providence Church.  This evening it was myself, my parents, the Huckabys, and the Mosleys.  In total there were twelve of us out that night for a weenie roast, at least that is what our parents always called it.  It was really more like something to keep us kids entertained and the parents to get drunk.

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Mock up photo of sighting

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


I got in the follow report of a UFO sighting. The report is old but still needs to be shared and documented.


-Start Report-
Name: Withheld
Email Address: withheld
State: KY
County: Madison
Date of Sighting: 1973
Time of Day: late evening
Nearest Town: Berea
Length of Sighting: 10-20 seconds
How many Witnesses: 4
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:

This UFO sighting happened when I was a child but I can remember it very vividly. When I try to talk to my siblings, (a younger brother & two older sisters), they either don't want to talk about it or have very little to say.

In the early 70's, we lived in a four room house on Menelaus Road in Berea KY. There was a large field with a pond behind the house. There was an old table near our garden spot & we would gather there & play cards. On this particular evening, we were at this table playing cards when I looked up to the west & through the tree tops, I saw what I thought was a large bird.
I can remember saying "hey, look at that bird". As soon as I said "bird", this thing was hovering over our heads.
My oldest sister looked up at it & said "run!", so we ran into the house. I can remember it being triangular shaped & jet black.
I have over the years tried to figure out how it made that 90 degree turn in order to be over our heads so quickly. It moved a good distance to be where we were because when I first saw it, & it looked like the side view of a gliding bird moving from right to left through the tree tops on the other side of the large field behind our house.
I remember that night, the house & chicken coop was lit up with red & blue lights. Strange flashing of lights, not like the flashing of police car or fire truck lights. I remember this because our Dad opened the back door (I guess to see where these lights were coming from) & I was behind him trying to see more than the lights flashing on the chicken coop. I can remember him telling me to go back into the room. Not much has been said about this over the years between my siblings & myself. It's like they just want to forget about it ever happening. Strange but true.

Area Map:


-End Report-

Thanks for sharing the report. I know this report is from many years ago but it is still important to document as many of these sightings as possible. If anyone seen this object during this time feel free to contact us.

Thanks
~Tom~



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Reportedly taken in Shelby, ky in 2013

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


-Start Reports -

State: Ky
County: Madison
Date of Sighting: Between 1996 & 2004
Time of Day: some were daytime & some were at night.
Nearest Town: Berea
Length of Sighting: as much as 20 seconds
How many Witnesses: 1
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:

My first sighting was in 96 when I was driving north on Menelaus Rd. in Berea to visit my in-laws. I had just passed the PPG factory when I noticed a cat in the crotch of a tree on the PPG property. It was all black & about the size of a medium size dog. This was no dog. I stopped in the road & got a really good look at it. I'll never forget those piercing yellow eyes.

Another sighting I had was around the Ellipse Street/Rash Road intersection. I saw a very large black cat crossing the cut corn field about 75 yards from the road. This happened around the fall of 2003.

Another encounter I had was on Jefferson Street in Berea. It was 2001, around 3-3:30 a.m. & I was headed back to work. As I was going thru the stop light, I noticed what appeared to be a full grown bobcat coming down the hill to my right. It noticed me & did a U-turn, going back up the hill.

Another sighting occurred (August 2004) when I was going thru a spell of not sleeping very well. I would go out on our deck to listen to nature, read with a small flashlight or play with one of the Boxers we raised at the time. It was about 4 a.m. & I noticed something between my house & our neighbor's house. There right before me was a mother mountain lion with two cubs. Freaked me out. These were all tan in color except for the tuft of darker brown at the end of their tails. I watched them go out of sight due to the fact there was enough light from the street light on the other end of the property.

I remember the closest sighting to date. It was Thanksgiving about the first or second year we lived at Peachtree Drive here in Berea. After dinner, I was too full to take the garbage out like I should have, so I set it on the deck. The deck is 12 feet off the ground but it has steps to the ground. At the same time, we had this bat-crap crazy bird dog named COCO. She was a lunatic, plain & simple. Anyway, that night, she was barking like she never had before. I looked out & noticed she was looking toward the deck. I got up & grabbed my .45 to go see what was going on. I looked out onto the deck & lo & behold there's a large bobcat in the garbage having a good time in our scraps. I watched it for a few & went back to bed. heck on it, right? These sightings at Peachtree Drive here in Berea KY.
Thank you for your interest.
-End Reports -

Thanks for sharing your sightings. If anyone else has seen these large cats in an area where they are said not to be, contact us.

Thanks
~Tom~




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Was it a meteor?(October 2012, by Aaron Turner.)

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


I have got and seen a few reports of some strange, low in the sky, slow moving objects last night.
The first was from Jay in Iowa at about 10:30pm. Here is what he posted.

"Don't know what I saw in the sky just now, low, slow and bright, with a short tail it was headed east to Illinois, A meteor or something, it was way to low for a falling star."

I also found a report of the object being seen in Connecticut. The report there were more that one object.

Then I was sent a report from Patrick Thomas and here is what he told me.

"I had a wired sighting tonight. My girl friend texted me at work about 8:30 pm Sunday night asking me if I had seen the "streaks" in the sky. I replied that I had not and she insisted I go outside and look. She was at our house in central Pennsylvania about 12 miles from my work place. I went out and looked and saw what appeared to be 5 contrails overhead. 3 going one direction, all spaced evenly apart and 2 going the other direction spaced the same criss crossing with the other 3. All 5 were perfectly straight. The weird thing is they were very low. I mean very low. I've seen military fly that low but not right around here but I didn't hear any sound. Not sure what it could of been. I tried to take a picture but turned out poorly."

Here is Patrick's photo and you can see where the two objects crossed by the trail they left. Look below the moon.


From what I have gathered the American Meteor Society is investigating and many think it could have been fragments of comet Isom. It had been stated that Comet Isom could hit on Sunday, so looks like it might have.

Special thanks to those who reported this event. If anyone has more information or photos please contact me.

Thanks
~Tom~


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Bigfoot looking for food?

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


Just got this report in this weekend - it is very fresh with a date of 1/10/14

-Start Report-

Name: Nick (Last name withheld)
State: Massachusetts
County: Worcester
County Map:


Date of Sighting: 1/10/14
Time of Day: 11:30pm
Nearest Town: Dudley
Nearest Town Map:

Length of Sighting: 3-5 minutes
How many Witnesses: 1
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:

I was on my way home from meeting up with a few friends at the local gas station. I was going by where the power line trails are and I always keep an eye out for deer at night seeing as my father hit one last year and I don't want the same damage to my truck.
I saw what I thought was a black bear which is becoming more common in our area but its winter. I'm not sure if they do hibernate but I guessed they do and thought it was odd, so I pulled over and shut the truck off. (I was thinking it was a bear because the local temps went from negatives to 50 degrees it was about 35 at the time of the sighting, I wasn't sure if maybe the bears get confused when there's warmer weather and come out).
However I realized it was more brown in color and was hunched over like a person would be if they were tying their shoe. As I studied the thing further I realized it was doing something and I wanted to get closer so I started the truck and that's when it stood up and looked over at me and then took a few steps, went back to all fours like an ape would do and scurried off.
At this point my heart was racing like the time I was chased by a fisher cat, yet I was still in the safety of my truck. Today (the next day 1/11/14). I went to go find out what the heck it was doing on the ground and I found a garbage bag with some left over food and other items, also around it were some raccoon prints and maybe a few other small animals prints.
To my knowledge there hasn't been any other sightings around here. But I have heard a story about it back in the 70s (same area) that a few locals were fishing at night on the local pond and heard what they thought was a deep voiced man yelling for help and sounded in pain. So they got a few neighbors together and went to search for what they thought was a mans cries for help but didn't find anything and no one was reported missing and nothing had happened to anyone. (they'd know because the town was even smaller back then)
Other people over the years have told me stories of strange yelling both high and low pitch but who knows what it was seeing that there are a lot of new homes in the area and the town isn't a know everyone kinda town anymore. Could just be some crazy neighbors or even as simple as a fisher cat.
-End Report

Thanks goes to Nick for sending in the report. If there are any updates I will post them.

Thanks
~Tom~



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This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.

[©The Crypto Crew]

Tonight Spike TV's Bigfoot Bounty debuted and I wanted to take a little time to write a small review.
Please understand this review is not to put down or throw off on anyone on the show, I know and associate with several people that are on the show. I understand how editing works and how drama is built up for TV programs. With that said I feel some of the editing was purposely slanted to make some of the contestants look bad.

As the show started I thought I would write down my first few reactions about it. My very first over all reaction was how the use of profanity at the start gave the show a very unprofessional start. Then one has to remember this without a doubt was used in a effort to grab the target audience.

The second thing that really stood out to me is that several of the teams are non bigfoot believers and non researchers. It makes one question why they are even on the show, yeah they are hunters but that is a far cry from a bigfoot researcher. This became very obvious when one of the hunter teams had no idea what or how to look for bigfoot evidence.

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Large Bigfoot Seen Crossing the road (Not Actual Photo, for reference only)

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


A little while back I posted a couple bigfoot sightings report (Found Here & Here) and the person mention they had some other sightings. Here is a follow up post of his other sightings.
- Start Report -
Name: Withheld
State: Ky
County: Madison
Date of Sighting: Fall 2002
How many Witnesses: 1
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:
My sighting was in the fall of 2002 in the city limits of Berea, KY. I was working 3rd shift at a local factory & I always left for lunch around 3:30 a.m.
I would drive by the house, go by my parents house; just get away from the factory for a while.
On this particular night, I came down the hill on U.S. 25 headed north & I turned onto Ellipse Street to head back to work. There's a short left hand turn on this road and just before I got into that turn, I saw something on the left side of the road. At first I thought it was a huge dog but dogs don't get that big. Then I thought maybe it was someone's calf. Then it stood up!! Right there before me in my headlights was a Bigfoot.
It was Reddish-brown with some gray in it's hair. I stopped in the road & it turned & looked at me, turned back & crossed the road in three easy steps. I went back to work & kept my mouth shut.

Map of area

- End Report -

Here is the other report.

- Start Report -
Name: Withheld
State: Ky
County: Madison
Date of Sighting: between 2002 - 2011
How many Witnesses: 1
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:
The rest of my sightings happened at our house on Peachtree Drive in Berea, Ky. There were 4 times I saw a large black Bigfoot either under our neighbor's apple trees eating apples or in one of the many gardens that were on the back side of that neighborhood. These happened between 2002 & 2011, mainly spring thru summer time.
Our lot backs up to Silver Creek & there was one time I was taking brush down there to burn. When I got out of my truck, I caught that smell. I remembered it from the smell that I sensed when I saw the Bigfoot in Tyner in 1999. I had raked the stuff out of my truck & I went to the drivers side door. I looked around & I saw a large black Bigfoot standing next to the walnut tree on the bank of the creek.

It looked over at me & then did something I had not expected. It then looked up into the large cherry tree that is further downstream. There was a reddish-brown Bigfoot in that tree. I went back to the house without wasting time. That almost scared the mud out of me. I wasn't expecting to see one, let alone two.

The last sighting I had before we moved was in 2011 when I was out on our deck. Our neighbor three doors downstream has three Alpaca's. I noticed one morning that these Alpacas were intently staring toward the back of their lot but I couldn't see what had their attention. I went in & got my binoculars & I saw that they were looking at what appeared to be two juvenile Bigfoot. One was brown & one was black. They looked to be about the size of a teenage boy. I wish I had known then what I know now. I know now why our Boxers would huddle under our deck. I might have had a family of these things living in the area. Who knows, there may still be things happening there.

Map of Peachtree Drive area


-End Report-

Anyone else from this area who has possibly seen a bigfoot, feel free to contact me.

Thanks
~Tom~



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White Station Road

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.

A little while back I posted a bigfoot sightings report (Found Here) and the person mention they had some other sightings. Here is a follow up post logging one of the other sightings.

-Start Report-

Name: Withheld
State: Ky
County: Madison
Date of Sighting: Fall 1987
How many Witnesses: 4
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:

Most of my sightings were very brief but I know what I saw. The first time I can definitely say I saw a Bigfoot was in the fall of 87. I had just purchased a new firearm and I got my brother and a couple friends to go with me to try it out.
We parked on White Station Road just north of Berea KY. We parked at the home of a relative of the guys that were with us. We walked about 1 mile north along the railroad tracks until we got to the trestle.


Believed to be the Actual Trestle

I saw it first & made mention of it to my brother & the other two guys that were there. If it hadn't moved, we wouldn't have seen it. It was on the bank of the trestle across from us, (about 75 feet).
It was gray in color much bigger than any of us. We didn't think much about it, (there were 4 of us & we were armed.) Anyway, we went on shooting but later there was a disturbance to our right. Something was shaking a medium size tree. Quite violently. I fired 6 rounds over & above in that direction & the tree stopped shaking. After we were through shooting, I made it a point to leave in the direction I had fired but I didn't hit anything.
-End Report-

I hope to post more of this person's bigfoot sightings soon. If anyone else in the Berea, Ky area has had a bigfoot sighting, please use the link at the top of the page or contact me via email to report it. Email is thecryptocrew@kih.net

Thanks
~Tom~



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