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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

George Edwards

This Post By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher. Dorraine is a Professional Writer, a nature, wildlife and Bigfoot enthusiast who has written for many magazines. Dorraine conducts research, special interviews and more for The Crypto Crew. Get Dorraine's book The Book Of Blackthorne! 



Hoaxing, Loch Ness, And Money
The Debunking of George Edwards’ Famous Nessie Photo
By Dorraine Fisher

 
We don’t like to talk about it much, but monster mysteries are moneymakers. As long as the mystery of the monster exists, there is a whole world of marketable goods and services that surround it. Take the mystery away and we’re not so sure the money would keep flowing in so well. And one of these industries is tourism. Millions of dollars every year come from Bigfoot curiosity seekers in the Pacific Northwest, United States. But what if all the so-called evidence of a monster is hoaxed? And to what lengths will people go to keep a legend alive?

Hoaxing is rampant everywhere there are monster legends and the Loch Ness Monster is no different. A man named George Edwards waited some 26 years of watching the loch to get the perfect photo of Nessie. Or did he?

Nessie?


As he presented his photo (above) in 2012 to the press of a very clear hump protruding out of the water, he insisted it was the real deal. And many believed it…or at least wanted to believe it. But when rumors of hoaxing began to swirl, Edwards told the press he had already confessed it was a fake just a few days after he’d presented it. But strangely, no record of this confession was ever found.

"People come here for a holiday and a bit of fun," Edwards said. "I’m one of the people who has brought thousands of people to the Highlands over the years, and I can tell you they don’t come here for the science."

Edwards had been involved in the 2011 National Geographic documentary Truth Behind The Loch Ness Monster and had access to the carbon fiber fake hump they used in the film.

Edwards said he had spent most of his life on the loch. He said he’d spend 60 hours a week taking Nessie enthusiasts out on the loch on his boat every week, and had led many Nessie hunts over the years. And he claimed he still really believes there’s a monster lurking out there.

But Nessie sightings have been few and very far between over the years. And this is not exactly the best news for tourism around the loch. Was it his intention to stage a sighting to drum up business? Well, whatever his motivation for the hoax might have been, he managed to keep the public focused on the monster for a while longer. Maybe that’s all Nessie lovers needed for now.
******DF

[Also Read:Does Loch Ness Monster Exist ]



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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Werewolf causing panic
Werewolf?


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.


 
Werewolf in Brazil?
This report comes out of Brazil. It seems a man, known as Pingo, had a close encounter with what he described as a werewolf. Pingo described it as a black monster standing about 5 foot tall. Pingo at first became the target of jokes around the town, until others told about hearing and seeing something strange.

The incident is being taken seriously and the city of Sao Goncalo dos Campos, in the Metropolitan Region of Feira de Santana how issued a curfew of 9pm for the city. The curfew was enacted about 2 weeks ago. This is being covered by major newspapers in the region.

A local resident of the area released a home security video of the possible werewolf. What do you make of it? Hoax or misidentification?


Thanks
~Tom~

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Bigfoot X-ray Vision
Does Bigfoot have X-ray vision?
 
This Post By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher. Dorraine is a Professional Writer, a nature, wildlife and Bigfoot enthusiast who has written for many magazines. Dorraine conducts research, special interviews and more for The Crypto Crew. Get Dorraine's book The Book Of Blackthorne! 



Do Sasquatches Have X-Ray Vision?
The Answer Is Probably Yes, But There’s More…
By Dorraine Fisher

 

We do a lot of guessing about Sasquatch. And so many super powers have been assigned to them, that it’s hard to determine what might be fact and what might be fiction. But according to new findings in science, these creatures as we understand them likely have X-ray vision. But guess what. So do you.

Animals that have eyes on the sides of their head like rabbits, horses, snakes, fish, etc. have adapted a panoramic view of their environment; the ability to scan a vast expanse for food and for danger. They can even see behind themselves. But what about those creatures that have forward facing eyes like humans, tigers, monkeys, and sasquatches as we understand them? What purpose could they serve?

Since we don’t have the visual capabilities of other animals, we might think that our forward facing eyes are a handicap. But they’ve actually evolved for a very good reason: to cut through the clutter of our world…or the world we once inhabited. As we were once mostly dense forest and jungle dwellers in the beginning, our eyes evolved accordingly to compensate for this terrain.

But you say you don’t believe you have this ability? Take this test:

Take your index finger and lay it vertically on the bridge of your nose and look straight ahead. When you do this, do you notice you can see right through you finger? If you close one eye, the finger blocks your view and your field of vision is greatly narrowed. But with both eyes open, you can see right through it. This is more correctly called binocular vision, and you’ve evolved this way because it was important for your ancestors’ existence.

This ability is only adapted by certain animals that live in leafy environments with many obstacles. It gives them the ability to visually "see through" some of that vegetation so they can navigate through it faster and more easily chase food and run away from danger.

Binocular vision works like a very bright light shining on the objects right in front of us that would block our view, allowing us a deeper view of the world ahead of us. And it works really well as long as the distance between your eyes is wider than the objects in your way. The forward facing eyes help us to see a denser area around ourselves. This is an advantage that animals with sideways facing eyes don’t have. For them, it was necessary to see things that were very far away in a wide area. But for us and Bigfoot there was no such need. So we developed this very different visual skill that’s just as amazing.

You may have noticed this trait in yourself before but thought it was some kind of optical illusion. We’ve always been told that, as humans, our eyes are flawed and substandard in the animal world. So if you’ve been feeling a little jealous of Bigfoot and all their purported amazing abilities, you can claim this one also for yourself. *******DF

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Bigfoot in Pawtuckaway


This post from TCC Team Member Jason Morse.  Jason is a lifelong outdoor enthusiast, trained in wilderness survival tactics, a 26 year martial artist, DJ, EMT and amateur writer. Jason conducts bigfoot field research, witness interviews and more for The Crypto Crew.


[ Note: This follow up field work on a recent sighting, report can be seen Here ] 

Field Work in NH 
 
When I got to Pawtuckaway State Park in Nottingham, NH, there was a large amount of snowmobile, skier, and foot traffic, so I assumed immediately that this would be an evidence collecting expedition.

After travelling down Round Pond Trail and up towards Mountain trail towards the fire tower, I noticed tons of tracks from coyote, deer, fox, and a possible bobcat. Food sources in the park wouldn't be an issue. After walking about a mile and a half, I noticed off to the left of the trail, a ledge outcropping and two trees in an "X" formation.

I came upon a series of tracks that looked like snowshoes, but the path they went wasn't conducive to a person being able to easily go. I had lots of trouble getting to where the trackline was on foot, and couldn't get up to what looked like a moderate sized cave.

Possible track on left and a possible small cave on right
The more I looked, the more small things I noticed, such as tree twists, possible structures, and multiple blow downs. I couldn't tell if the blow downs were a natural occurrence or done on purpose, but the few tree twists I saw, one about 6 feet high, one closer to 12-14 feet off the ground, couldn't have been done naturally in my opinion.


The entire area is definitely a prime area for a Sasquatch to call home, tons of dense, thick forest, lots of water sources (some with exposed, running water) and plenty of food sources. I'm very anxious to meet up with the person who filed the report and go to exactly where the sighting occurred.
Jason Morse~  





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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Bigfoot or Bear?
Bear or Bigfoot?

This investigation/research/report by TCC Team Members Bobby & Corinna Long
Both are avid outdoors people and good researchers. They research in the state of Oregon. They conduct field research, tape sighting reports, and conduct witness interviews.


Bigfoot Research in Oregon


The weather was cold and there was snow beginning to fall as you can see in the video.
Oregon
Douglas County
02/03/2014
Time 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Near Riddle
I only a glimpse of a black or dark brown figure from the corner of my eye. It was large in size. Only I saw it. Corinna looked at the prints but did not see the figure.
I took a video of the tracks and a tree break but never got to see what made the tracks/impressions. My wife and I were traveling along Middle Creek rd to BLM Road 31-6-17.0 to Council Creek Rd. This is a loop we drive occasionally to keep our spotting skills up to par. We also exercise our dog there.
We were at Gps 42.88308 N, 123,47319 W. Approx. When a large dark figure was moving up a hill to the left of my pick up. I stopped, got out, and got my camera going. I filmed some tracks up the hillside and then pursued them into the brush to find a tree break just in about 30 yards and the break was about 7 feet high. In the video, you will hear me conclude it may have been a black bear but I am not fully convinced it was not a Bigfoot after seeing no claw marks in the toes of the tracks. They are very hard to see anyway (toes).
Here is the video
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Bigfoot and Firefighter
Firefighter and Bigfoot


This post by TCC Team Member Bill Hamilton. Bill is a full time wild land firefighter. As part of his job duties he gets to travel to remote locations. Bill is a trained observer thanks to his fire aviation background.



Wildland Firefighter Vs. Possible Bigfoot

A number of years ago I was on a fire in Oregon, it was very remote, six miles from the trail head into the incident. I was on a fire medical team out of Oregon at the time and took the night shift as the medic with 60 fire fighters to look after. I am the last one in and last out. A burn out operation was to be conducted that night and the division supervisor said "hey, Bill I'm gonna leave you on this ridge to watch us, so no fire gets underneath us. And if we have a injury you can hustle it over to us". OK, I said, sounds like a plan.

Now the evening prior to this while walking out, the day shift supervisor walked into a stand off with  a cougar after a few tense moments they simply walked off . So with this in the back of my mine I wedged myself into a rock outcropping and built a small fire in front of me. As the night wore on I heard walking but paid it no mind, as I was busy with radio traffic. As every thing settled down in the wee hours I started to hear music like wind chimes, and I mean loud.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Ghost rips up hotel room
Ghost at the Hotel?

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


Wingate Hotel Poltergeist – Real or Hoax?
By Dorraine Fisher

Here is a video of a supposed poltergeist at a Wingate Hotel in Illinois. Guests at the hotel reported hearing screaming coming from this room on September 4, 2003, and security went in to investigate only to find the room disheveled, the carpet torn to shreds, and the shower turned on. If you listen closely, you can hear the screaming before the officer enters the room. And while the security officer is inside the room, watch carefully as the hallway lights flicker while a transparent apparition is caught on tape leaving the room.

This is pretty creepy stuff, but is it real or a hoax?






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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Ghost in the Cemetery
Ghost?

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



Ghost Standing Behind Crying Man At The Grave???

By Dorraine Fisher

I found this video at Realghostvideos.net. I wasn’t able to find any history on it but they claim it’s a real ghost. It appears to show a transparent figure standing behind the grieving man at the grave. What do you think it is?"

Here is the video
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Unknown Creature?

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.


Thanks to our "Report a Sighting" link, we often get in reports about bigfoot sightings and UFO sighting but sometimes we get in sighting of unknown creatures. Here is the latest report of an unknown creature in Utah.

-Start Report-

Name: Josh E*********

Email Address: Withheld

State: UT

County: Salt Lake County

Date of Sighting: 6/29/11

Time of Day: Around Noon

Nearest Town: Rural Helena

Length of Sighting: About two minutes

How many Witnesses: Two

Any Photos/Videos: No

Describe sighting in detail:

Our family traveled up to Montana for vacation. At a gas station stop, My brother got out to stretch. Suddenly, a literal freak of nature appeared from nearby bushes. A snake-like creature with long extra sets of tails around its torso. A forked tongue with three barbs in place of two. Back legs and a huge mouth. It appeared out, hissed, and scurried back to the brush. His friend saw a similar creature a few months later a few miles down south.

-End Report-

Has anyone else seen or heard of anything like this? If so let us know.

Thanks
~Tom~



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Monday, February 3, 2014

Hiker Sees a Bigfoot
Bigfoot in NH - 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.


Got a very fresh possible bigfoot sighting report in over the weekend. We do have a team member in the area and we are following up on the report. Hope to have more soon.

-Start Report-
Name: Chris G*******
Email Address: Withheld
State: NH
County: Rockingham
Date of Sighting: Feb 2 2014
Time of Day: 1330
Nearest Town: Nottingham
Length of Sighting: 5 seconds
How many Witnesses: just me and my dogs
Any Photos/Videos: no
Describe sighting in detail:
I was hiking in Pawtuckaway Park this am with my 2 Bernese Mountain dogs.  On the descent, very close to the bottom on the mountain we were at a slight jog on snow and ice covered trails, when something about 30 yards ahead moved from my left to my right cutting perpendicular to the trail.
I had a clear line of sight to the incident just 30 yards ahead.  My dogs stopped dead in their tracks and I said, "its just a hiker guys".  But whatever it was was bipedal and much bigger than me and moving at what must have been a very fast pace.
We arrived at the spot and saw nothing ahead, nothing behind and nothing down and to my right.  No sounds.  Whatever that was had come from my left, thru the woods on no trail, moved right across our trail and down to my right into more woods.  I ran ahead thinking it must have been a runner but saw no one and had over 100 yards of clear sight.  I ran back and saw nothing.
I am a marathon runner and an athlete myself and no human could have moved that fast over that terrain so as to elude my sight.  That was either a ghost, a super human athlete, or a BF.  I can't rationalize what I saw.

Map of Area:
Bigfoot sighting in NH
Bigfoot in NH















-End Report-


Look for a follow up post in the future.

Here is the follow up to this report - Click Here

Thanks
~Tom~




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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Make-up and more
Bandersnatch Studios

This post by TCC Team Member Jennifer Caywood. Jennifer is a bigfoot enthusiast and has conducted witness interviews and been on bigfoot expeditions. Jennifer is also a big Seattle Seahawks Fan.

 
©The Crypto Crew 
Interview with Shawn Shelton
Still seeking expert opinions about the dead bigfoot, I turn to Shawn Shelton of Bandersnatch Studios. Shawn is co-owner of Bandersnatch Studios and he gives his opinions about the dead bigfoot. You can find them on Facebook by Clicking Here.

Here is the video

Friday, January 31, 2014

Monster in Enfield


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



Illinois: Home of The Strangest Cryptid of All?
The Tale of the Enfield Horror
By Dorraine Fisher

When we’re searching for monsters, we’ll tend to skip right over Illinois for anything interesting. But amazingly, it was the location of sightings of one of the strangest cryptids ever recorded. Enfield, Illinois is a tiny town of a little over 600 people in Southeastern Illinois and the scene of some very strange happenings in 1973.

The townspeople probably thought their fellow Enfield citizen, Henry McDaniel, was crazy when he first started telling everyone about the weird events that he claimed took place at his home on April 25 of that year. Enough that the sheriff threatened to lock him up. But McDaniel kept on warning people and some frightening events followed.

According to McDaniel, something started beating on his door that evening. And he probably thought he was seeing things we he opened it only to find the weirdest creature anyone could imagine. He described it as grey in color, with three legs, two little short arms coming out of its chest, and short body. He claimed it stood some 4 to 5 feet tall and was trying to get into the house.

He opened the door again and opened fire at the creature with his pistol and felt sure that he hit it as he claims it hissed at him. But it ran away, McDaniel said, covering 75 feet in three jumps. And it disappeared in some brush near his house.

When the police investigated, they found tracks something like a dog’s, but they had 6 toe pads on each foot. And two of the footprints were four inches wide while the width of the third foot was slightly smaller.

Not long after, they learned a young boy named Greg Garrett who lived just behind McDaniel, was also attacked in his yard shortly before McDaniel’s incident. He claimed a deformed looking creature appeared out of nowhere and jumped up and down on his feet with it large, sharp, curled claws, and shredded the boy’s tennis shoes. But he somehow managed to escape into the house, obviously terrified.

Some two weeks later, McDaniel woke up in the middle of the night to the neighborhood dogs howling strangely. And when he looked outside, he saw the creature again. This time standing by the railroad tracks near his house. He said the creature just walked slowly down the tracks, not seeming to be in much of a hurry.

And then, five hunters were arrested on May 8 for violating hunting regulations. It seems they had been shooting at some "gray, hairy thing" they’d seen in the brush. They said they thought they hit it, but it ran off before they could know for sure.

The town was subsequently flooded with reporters and thrill seekers from everywhere. A reporter, Rick Rainbow, the news director from an Indiana radio station, along with some others, spotted the monster near an abandoned house not far from McDaniel’s house. They didn’t see it very clearly, but they described it as being about five feet tall and hunched over. Rainbow did manage to record the strange hissing/crying sounds it made. And those cries were heard for several days afterward near the same railroad tracks close to Henry McDaniel’s home.

But then, the sightings ended abruptly. No one knows what happened, though many have speculated wildly about things like UFO sightings in the area at that time. Or did it simply succumb to gunshot wounds and die? It’s likely the mystery of the Enfield Horror will never be solved. ******DF

[*Special thanks to Troy Taylor and his book Weird Illinois.]


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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Paul While's Graphic Delusions
Paul While's Graphic Delusions

This post by TCC Team Member Jennifer Caywood. Jennifer is a bigfoot enthusiast and has conducted witness interviews and been on bigfoot expeditions. Jennifer is also a big Seattle Seahawks Fan.


©The Crypto Crew
Q & A with Paul While
Who is Paul While: Paul is a professional special effects artist from London. He specializes in character make-up and prosthetics. Paul is an artist driven by his passion for horror and fantasy, and one who continues to push boundaries in taste and decency, creating one of a kind pieces specially catered to the specific needs of a diverse clientele. Paul is currently finishing up a short film entitled  SHE. Visit his facebook page at Graphic Delusions.

JC: Still seeking more clarity on the purported taxidermied bigfoot, I turn to effects artist Paul While for some answers.


JC: Paul, I have sent you pictures of what is said to be a dead bigfoot. Could you give us your opinion of the photos.

PW: Hello Jennifer, thank you for messaging me. Short answer - yes it's clearly a fake.

JC:  Can you explain in more detail?
PW:  The pictures are not the best of quality but the sculpture of the face gives it away. The paint job isn't very good and the lips should not be the same colour as the face. Also the eyelids don't look real. I understand Bigfoot is mythical creature and has never been seen to what it truly looks like but the facial proportions don't look right. The hair around the face doesn't look genuine either. I'd like to have seen the hands and feet because I will be able to tell if there any seam lines from where it was made from the potential molds.

JC: Have you heard much about this claim?
PW: I've just searched for it and seen a news article on this bigfoot. The guy is clearly seeking media attention. Watch the video, you can see the lies in his body language. Also watch the clip of the kid who views the body, another staged reaction.
I'm in no way a taxidermist so I can't comment on that part, but I'm very sure this is a hoax.

JC:  Here's the feet (Shows Paul the feet photo)
PW: Yeah that picture isn't very clear so I can't really see proof. What I have noticed is the colours are very vivid and over saturated - a clear indication of paint applied to something like a latex material. Also going back to the face, both eye sockets are different sizes. Good effort but poorly executed.

JC: Thanks Paul for providing your professional insight to this ongoing story
PW: No problem at all.

UPDATE
It seems some have not seen the feet of the dead bigfoot so here it is with a new reply from Paul While.

PW:  It's a poor quality photo but it does indeed look like an air bubble that got trapped in the casting process inside the mold. I couldn't be 100 percent certain without seeing a better photograph or seeing the bigfoot in person.

©The Crypto Crew


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