I recently had a friend send me a CIA document she ran across during her many document searches.
The old document was in reference to a story I knew a little about but had never dug up the full tale.
So of course, I had to do some research and find out more about the tale of the S.S. Ourang Medan.
Here is the story in a nutshell - "In June of 1947, two American vessels sailing the Strait of Malaca in
Indonesian waters received a distress call from a Dutch merchant ship,
Ourang Medan. Message read, “All officers including captain are dead
lying in chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead,” followed by a
final transmission “I die.” One of the American ship, SS Silver Star
attempted to hail the ship, but to no avail. When they boarded the ship,
they found the deck littered with corpses. The entire crew was dead,
including a dog aboard the ship. The bodies of the crew all showed signs
of being frozen in terror at the moment of death. Their facial
expressions horrified, teeth bared, eyes pointing at the sky. They had
no visible signs of trauma. The ship finally exploded and sank."
I've asked a few people to
do this and the answers are different. Some people see a pair of
headlights shining in the dark. Others see a pair of female breasts.
So, now, while you're
rolling on the floor laughing, it DOES actually bring up a very valid
point that applies to the world of the paranormal and the
unexplained. Not to mention everything around us. Our team artist,
Greg Champy, was not intending for this kind of perception of these
two beacons that were meant to be headlights. He was just trying to
keep our Facebook page fresh. But different people see artwork in
slightly different ways.
Now, check out the photo
below that's been circulating for years
What do you see? Do you see
a rabbit...or a duck. What you see at first depends on how your mind
works. Psychiatrists have been using ink blot pictures in this way to
interpret the patients' state of mind for years. It's a great way to
spot a person's obsessions and perceptions. It tells immediately
what their mind is focused on.
Because that thing we focus
on is what we create. It becomes our reality. And that's how we'll
actually see it.
And you may have noticed
this in the past with a hundred other visuals and didn't give it much
thought. But this is really a big deal. It impacts how we view
reality, so it impacts everything.
Why? Because this means
there cannot possibly be an absolute reality. There is only our
personal perception of it. So everything we see is determined by our
minds interpretation. And we all have a slightly different
interpretation, because we've all lived a different life and
experienced things differently. So, in the rabbit/duck picture, what
are we really seeing? The answer it's a rabbit...and it's also a
duck, basically depending on what you, from past experiences, EXPECT
to see.
I.E. If your experience of
seeing a dog for the first time is seeing it lunging toward you,
growling and snapping, that has a certain impact on your brain. It
records in your mind that dogs are evil, growling, biting monsters
you should always avoid. And the next time you see a dog, you react
with fear because of that early experience. But if you grew up in a
house full of cuddly puppies, of course, you'll have a completely
different view. And the kicker is, you'll have a really hard time
understanding a person's fear of them. You won't have had that
experience, so you're reality is different.
Our brain is wired to try to
associate everything we see with something familiar. And what that
vision or event will mean to us is based on experiences we've had of
it before.. Whenever we see or experience something, our brain is
recording it for future reference. If it's something new that we've
never seen or experienced before, you can bet our brain is busy
taking notes, trying to process it all and save it for future
reference. But this is why we often become dumbfounded and time seems
to move slower when we see something we can't process. Our brain
actually has to slow it down in order to get a grasp on it.
The worlds of forensics and
criminal justice have become increasingly more wary of eye witness
accounts and will, in addition, search for other more tangible
evidence to back them up. Why? Because we're learning that what we
see is very much controlled by what we think and how we think about
it. So eye witness testimony is becoming less and less reliable.
Now, I've brought this
subject up before in paranormal circles, only to receive messages and
emails from people asking me why I don't believe they saw what they
saw. But it's not that I don't believe these stories. In fact, I
believe beyond a shadow of a doubt (cautiously, of course) that these
witnesses saw what they say they saw. But there's a lot more to
“seeing” than just your eyes.
First of all, we don't
really see things with our eyes. Our eyes are merely a lens, like a
camera lens. We actually see with the part of our brain known as the
visual cortex. And whenever we see anything, the visual cortex is
making its interpretation based on past experiences. So nothing is
quite as “real” as it may seem to us.
But this revelation about
reality should have thrown the world on it's ear. Yet, it hasn't so
far. Why not? Because we're not quite grasping the implications. It
could go as far as to mean the line between what's real and what
isn't, aren't as clearly defined. They're all open to the
interpretation of the viewer. We've all been taught to think one
person is right and one person is wrong. But if we're all seeing the
“reality” based on our personal view, then what is REALLY real?
Who's right and who's wrong?
Sure, you'll agree with the
person who sees it the same way you do. But knowing all this, does
that method of decision hold water?
How on earth do we decide
what is real??!!
Now, I'll say again that
this doesn't mean I don't believe in anything. Quite the contrary.
But we have to be very aware of how our brains process information
and we need to take that into account when we decide what we're
seeing in front of us. How many different ways could this be
interpreted? Think it through. Always strive to be logical.
So, in relating this to
bigfoot research, I would say this. When we're doing research, or
just trying to decide what's real. We need to be aware that we can't
really rely on our eyes to tell us some absolute truth. But that
being said, that doesn't mean our eyes are always lying either. It
may just mean the world isn't as concrete and solid as we'd like to
believe it is. There's a lot of mystery left there, and the more we
know, the more mysterious it becomes.
My personal advice is this:
If we're all creating reality by the way we perceive things, we have
the power to make the choice to create it in a positive way and
believe in possibilities rather than waste time focusing on the
negatives. Just my two cents.
But you don't have to take
my word for it. If you're curious to know more about perception and
reality, watch parts 1 and 2 of Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes. Tell
us what you think.
Here is a couple more popular images for you to study over.
Don't get excited ....it's just a lamp.
Face illusion - forward or side view?
*******DF
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I recently got in this report from Terry. He also does some Bigfoot research and has gather some other witness testimony to help confirm one of his two sightings. These are really interesting and I hope you enjoy them.
Here is Terry's reports.
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Name: Terry ***** Email Address: On file State: West Virginia and Texas County: Monongalia Date of Sighting: 10/86/84 and 2008 Time of Day: West Virginia sighting around 5:00 pm Nearest Town: BOOTH WEST VIRGINIA and Ben Wheeler Texas. Length of Sighting: About 3 Minutes How many Witnesses: I have three witness that have seen the same BF at different times. Any Photos/Videos: Describe sighting in detail:
(note: BF = Bigfoot)
I was walking up a logging trail behind my my house heading up to the top of the hill. Where there is a field. I was going up to check for deer. If I saw some I was going to go back home and get my bow. In any case, as I near the top of hill and could just start to see the edge of the field, I noticed off to my left something moving. So I turned that way to see a very tall BF walking away from me. With the wind blowing my way it didn't realize I was observing it. Now since I'm looking up hill at it all I could see was it's head and neck and shoulder area. With the sky as the back drop. I saw it very well. It's head was massive. It had brownish to grayish hair. Groomed really nice. I could not see any ears. My guess is it was 8ft to 10ft tall. By the way, I was super scared as I knew it was a BF. I was so scared I remember thinking that if it turned to look at me..that I would crap my pants and pass out from fear, Lol. In any case, it took all I had to turn my back to it. Once I did I ran like hell back down the hill to the house which was only a couple hundred yards away.
Now with that said. Back in 1984 in that house...a trailer we lived in...one night we were in the house my brother and I. And all of a sudden we heard what sounded like a woman screaming right outside not far into the thickets behind the house. I went out onto the porch to listen better. And this scream was very loud from a very deep tone to very high pitched scream. And it did this over and over for at least 15 minutes. During all this screaming I went back into the house and loaded some guns. I now very much believe that scream was coming from the BF that I witnessed 2 years later.
OK with that...over the years for my own therapy doing my own BF research I come across a girl that lived on that same hill she witnessed that same BF up behind our house one day while she was picking blackberries. She told me she was picking and just looked up to see this BF standing there looking straight at her. A fear overcome her and she told me tears were just flowing from her eyes. Her mother was there too but she was just down the hill a bit and did not see the BF. In any case this girl said she was looking right at it's face. She described in pretty good detail, it matches the many other sightings people have, at least ones that have a face to face. In any case, I believe she turned to check for her mother's where about and when she turned back to where the BF was it had silently strolled off.
Now, she knowing that I had an interest in this BF, I just got a message from this woman now, today that her cousin who still lives on that same hill saw a BF the other night while he was standing outside at night. He stated it ran up hill right between where our house use to be and the house next door to him. She stated he said it scared the hell out of him.
So with that I feel confident that BF or perhaps a family of BFs still live on that hill. I can say this much I know that hill very well. And it fits as a perfect habitat...here's why....it's high up...very few houses....plenty of game including deer. The ridgeline is full of thickets no man wants to traverse. And if BF actually prefer caves, there's some of them on the backside. Also there is a creek on one side of the hill and full river on the other. There are also transmission lines running through there as well. Leaving cuts mile after mile.
With that I also had a encounter in Van Zandt county Texas ...I live in Texas now. In any case this was at night while I was out hog hunting. This thing tore down a tree near me and then skirted all around my stand as well as crawling in on its belly right up behind me. I use a starlight night scope for hog hunting but as luck would have it since it was behind me I could hardly get turned enough around in my stand to view it. But what I could see is that it was on its belly and had reached up far enough to grab a branch on the tree that was grown up tall enough that it was in front of my face. And this BF was moving that branch enough that it swaying right in front of my face. Now I'm just trying to rationalize what in the heck is going on. This went on for about 5 minutes. Being alarmed I sat back down in my stand hoping it would step out in front of me. An area I had control over since I was armed with a pistol and two rifles. But I heard it back back out the same way it came.
OK, with that the following week I shot a bore hog and placed it front of my game cam to see what all would come in on this hog.On my cam days later, I saw a coyote, buzzards, and a skinny dog. Well later at night on the cam I got pictures of the hog being rolled away from the cam and then pulled out away from the IR lights. I tried everything I could to lighten those pictures to see what might be able to do that. But didn't have much success with it. But my suspicion is that perhaps a BF on its belly was just far enough back on the ground to use its long arm to pull that hog it's way. Can't prove it. But I'm pretty positive it was not a coyote because a coyote was to small to pull it away.
Best Regards.
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Thanks goes to Terry for sharing his reports with us. In some reports, I like to search from additional sightings in particular areas. I searched for reports in the same area as Terry's reports. Here is what I found.
In Monongalia county, WV, which is the county in which the town of Booth is located, there has been one other report of Bigfoot activity. It seems a man has had several run ins with Bigfoot in this area while hunting. He tells of the unseen creature following him on a few occasions. His reports span from 1988 to 2003.
As for Terry's other report from Texas, there was one Bigfoot report from Van Zandt county. It was back in 1975. Two boys playing next to a creek seen a human looking figure covered in hair.
The additional reports can be found on the BFRO's website .
We hope to have a follow up to this post in the near future.
Thanks
~Tom~
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A few days ago, I got in the following report. I was able to email back and forth and Mark provided the picture and some zooms he had done of the object.
Here is the report.
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Name: Mark ******** Email Address: On file State Province: Ontario County: Canada Date of Sighting: 10/07/2015 (7/10/15) Time of Day: 9:16 pm Nearest Town: Sudbury Length of Sighting: 5 min then I left the area How many Witnesses: 1 Any Photos/Videos: 1 Describe sighting in detail:
Observation made from a parking lot East end of the city of Sudbury, On, Canada. Clear sky, sun was setting. I viewed an object that appeared to hover in the distance silently.
It caught my eye as it looked out of place. I watched it for 5 min as it made no movement. I asked an individual in the parking lot to verify what I saw. They thought it was weird and had no idea what it could be. Before I left the area I snapped one pic with my Samsung s4 cell phone.
When I arrived at home, I uploaded the picture to my PC. I was surprised when I viewed the pic zoomed in. It had the appearance of a concession of possible lights along what looks like an elongated body. I'm not sure what to make of it. Take a look for your self ...is it an illusion, trick of light or something more?
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The very top photo was provided by Mark. I just added the circle and the TCC tag. Here is a couple of the zoom mark did of the photo.
This is a zoom in done by Mark of the object.
Here is another zoom done my Mark. There does seem to be some type of object sitting in the sky.
I also did a zoom myself and zoomed in even closer to the object. Here is that photo.
As you can see there is something there, just kind of hanging in mid air.
So just what is this object?
Thanks to Mark for sending in his sighting and the photos. If anyone else seen or took picture of this object that day, feel free to contact us.
Thanks
~Tom~
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I got this report in a few days ago. The sighting took place in Canada and the submitter thinks it might have been a Thunderbird. Here is the report.
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Name: Claudio ****** Email Address: On file State: Canada
County: Date of Sighting: Between June and August 2010 Time of Day: Morning Nearest Town: Ottawa Length of Sighting: 2 minutes How many Witnesses: 1 Any Photos/Videos: no Describe sighting in detail:
I remember waking up one morning and looking out the balcony and seeing this giant black bird flying at a very high altitude.
I have a good trained eye for birds and can recognize most of them on the spots. It was definitely much bigger than any vulture or eagle, I would say approximately between 4 to 6 meters (approx. 20 foot) in length. It was heading South, flying steady. I had a camera near me but was so shocked that I didn't think of picking it up.
I later looked up online and found out what I saw matched exactly other reports of the Thunderbird.
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Thanks goes to Claudio for sending in the report. If anyone else has seen a possible Thunderbird then please sent it in to us.
Thanks
~Tom~
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The Ocean State ParaCon is an annual event that brings
the paranormal and metaphysical communities together in supporting a
selected charitable cause.
This year, they are honored to announce that all monies raised will be donated to Wounded Warrior Project.
I'm happy to say that our very own Jason Morse will be at this event representing The Crypto Crew.
Make sure to stop by his table and get the latest scoops.
There is an impressive line up for this years event. Check out some of the guest.
Everyone who can, go out and support this event, it is for a good cause and you can meet some really awesome people.
Thanks
~Tom~
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I'm going to tell you
something you may not want to hear. Will you change the way you think
based on what I say? The odds are against it for lots of scientific
reasons, but you know I'm going to say it all anyway.
I no longer debate the
existence of bigfoot...or anything else for that matter. And people
often ask me why. Citing that debate is healthy thing. But I
strenuously disagree for reasons about which I've spent a lot of time
thinking.
When I was still new to
bigfoot research, I was easily pulled into debate after debate with
skeptics. I knew what I knew and no one was going to try and tell me
otherwise. But I've since learned that ANY debate about Bigfoot with
ANYONE is pointless. And I'll tell you why. But this story can't be
told without delving into basic human nature. Yes, here I go again
First of all, what is a
debate? It's basically an argument, right? Perhaps it takes place in
a controlled environment and both sides are given a chance to speak.
But it's still an argument nonetheless. And an argument is a conflict
of sorts, or a fight...without guns or fists. But still a fight at
its core.
And in the event of a
conflict, we, as humans, are hard-wired to try and accomplish one
objective: winning. We can't help ourselves, really. Instinct is a
powerful thing. And when instinct takes over, logic and reasoning
inadvertently go right out the window. It's not about finding the
truth. It's about winning the argument. And just like any
competition, you'll basically do whatever you can get away with in
order to achieve that goal.
But why is that? Don't the
“facts” speak for themselves?
They do, but only if others
are really listening to what's being said.
The facts can get lost in
the midst of all the preconceived ideas of the debaters. But what
preconceived ideas could these debaters possibly have, you ask? The
same preconceived ideas that all humans (yes, everyone) are guilty of
harboring. And that is the idea that the other side of the argument
has some hidden agenda. The belief that everything coming out of
their mouth is a blatant lie. You see this in social-political arenas
all the time. Even the soundest reason won't change the view of the
opposing side, because you are the enemy. You have to be wrong.
If we believe they're lying
about everything, the facts won't matter. All the work and
frustration it took to collect all those facts is moot...because
they're hard-wired to NOT believe them anyway. The opposing side is
the enemy. And the enemy is ALWAYS wrong. Right? That's what we all
think.
And, of course, you may
agree with a lot of what I've said here, but you'll feel sure it
doesn't apply to you. Right?
Sorry. Everyone is guilty of
all this. No one is exempt. We ALL have this entrenched, burning need
to be right and will fight literally to the death to prove it. Why?
Because being right is the most important thing in the world. The
person who's right gets all the perks; sometimes even gets to be king
or queen. Being right is everything. No one wants to hang out with
the person who lost the fight. And fear of isolation in a social
species like humans is a pretty powerful thing. We don't want to be
alone. So in order to be elevated in stature, we need to be right.
Or, at the very least, we need to make the other side look wrong.
Very, very wrong.
You see, science has this
thing called the argumentative theory of reasoning. And the idea behind
it is that we humans didn't take up debate about a subject in order
to discover some universal truth. We did it to try and exert
authority over others. It theorizes that humans didn't evolve the
ability to reason so they could find the truth or make better
decisions. We evolved reasoning skills in order to convince others or
to be cautious of what they try to convince us.
In a nutshell, we're
suspicious by nature. It was a very important survival mechanism. And
as much as we'd all like to think we've evolved as a species, we're
still animals after all. Maybe it was designed to help us be wary of
strangers and to preserve our own lives. So, it's at least easy to
say it's not really our fault. We're flawed human beings.
But that, my friends, is why
I don't debate Bigfoot or anything else any more. How often do you
see someone's opinion being changed by a solid point that was raised?
They don't really hear that point or comprehend because maybe their
basic human instincts of suspicion have kicked in. It's mostly about
winning. And they're in safety mode. Maybe that skill has outlived
its usefulness in the modern world, but it's still there nonetheless.
Not to mention again that humans are naturally competitive and have
to win the argument at all costs.
So how much do you really
think sound reasoning and truth really matter?
And you can tell yourself
Dorraine is crazy and she can't possibly be talking about me. But
you're guilty. We all are. We're hopelessly human. And it's a hard
pill to swallow that we may have advanced ourselves, survived, and
even thrived as a species by actually ignoring facts and truth in
favor of winning an argument.
So the next time you feel
this burning need to build your case and put all kinds of facts
together to support your argument, remember I said to not waste your
time and energy. It won't get you anywhere but the land of
frustration. ******DF
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Area where creature was seen. (photo provided by Corey and Tye)
Over the weekend, I got in this report of a possible sighting of a Shunka Warakin. For those who may not know, the Shunka Warakin is a wolf/hyena type creature mostly reported out west.
Here is the report.
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Name: Corey ****** Email Address: On file State: Iowa County: Van Buren Date of Sighting: July 2,2015 Time of Day: 10 pm Nearest Town: Bentonsport Length of Sighting: 15-30 minutes How many Witnesses: myself and Tye Any Photos/Videos: none Describe sighting in detail:
It was around 10 pm, Tye and I saw what we thought was a coyote coming out of the brush across from us along the edge of the field and raised its head high as it watched us before going back in.
Then it reappeared in the lower part of the field and we thought it was a coyote by the way it was trotting. It kept coming towards us and didn't seem to have any fear of us. We hurried down along the edge of the field to have a closer look of it. We got at least a couple of hundred yards with our spotlights on it the whole way and we could see it was a very large canine. It sometimes raised its head high to look at us which was 3 or 4 times. It had pointed ears and was grayish tan. I'm guessing it stood at least 4 feet or so high at the head, Tye thought it stood on its hind legs but I think it just raised its head.
Dr. Ian Stevenson, (1918 to 2007) head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at The University of Virginia.
Reincarnation Proof?
By Dorraine Fisher
If you believe we've lived past lives, or are just curious, you might want to try following the
career of the late Ian Stevenson, the Canadian born psychiatrist and head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia for nearly 40 years. He was studying and documenting thousands of cases of past life accounts. And in that span of time, managed to build a pretty strong case for the phenomenon.
But what has been even more astounding is that subjects often physically resembled some of
those individuals from a past life. And it came to be recognized as a possible clue of a past life, even
though the resemblances didn't consistently occur in all subjects. But when they did, the resemblances were often uncanny; almost eerie. And sometimes family and other associations could be found to support some of these cases. And it soon became part of the framework in which
Dr. Stevenson did his work.
You can find out more about Dr. Stevenson's studies here: Reincarnation Physical Resemblance
But it's also interesting to note that these resemblances are still being found on a regular basis
around the world. And some of them are being considered and studied by child psychiatrist, Dr. JimTucker, who is continuing Dr. Stevenson's work.
But check out some compelling photos of known people from the present time and their
possible past-life counterparts. Are these just coincidences or is there a correlation? You decide.
Ellen DeGeneres and Henry David Thoreau
Bruce Willis and Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Justin Timberlake and Unknown
Hugh Grant and Oscar Wilde
Nicolas Cage and Unknown
Jack Galifianakis and Louis Vuitton
*****DF
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Sometimes, when we start working a claim or case, we get to a dead end for various reasons.
This does not necessarily mean the person was untruthful or trying to pull a fast one. We have had people attempt to hoax us and I guess that is just part of the field.
Often times, we get sent photos or someone will send in a report and they are looking or asking for help with their mystery. In some cases we are able to help. Take for instants some recent photos sent to us by Nancy. Nancy, has some large birds on her property and they are causing some damage and attacking some of the critters. Of course, knowing Iowa has some history of Thunderbird sightings and that these birds on Nancy's property were large, we had hopes that maybe, just maybe it was Thunderbirds.
Here is one of Nancy's Photos
One of a few photos that Nancy sent us.
Team member Leon Drew, talked with Nancy on the phone and got more details about the birds and property. We were then thinking these birds could be vultures, and even Nancy thought they could be, but vultures normally do not attack living critters. But buzzard on the other hand, also called chicken hawks, do attack critters, and they are pretty large, so these large birds on Nancy's property could be buzzards. There was also a fairly recent report of a condor being seen in Iowa. Plus the picture quality was not that great due to how it was taken, which couldn't be helped, and we really can't identify the birds for sure until a better photo is taken.
Nancy's neighbor also had a mystery. He had this odd looking round things with a hole in them, laying on the ground. This photo was sent in.
I will admit, it is a weird looking thing. I didn't know what it was ....but I did find out.
I did some searching on the internet and found out this is the fruit of a Osage orange tree. The fruit is edible but it has a unpleasant taste. It is also called a horse apple. It is said that the fruit is a natural insect repellant. I found some good information and my info at 2 dope sistahs blog.
Of course this is only a couple of examples but other times we run down leads and they just don't pan out or the evidence is just not there to support the claim. Then on other cases we reach an end and just need to wait for another clue to keep going.
I have had several cases where someone would send me photos and claimed Bigfoot was standing in the background but it was nothing more than a shadow or just cases of pareidolia. We still have to check this stuff out and understand it is just part of the field. Often times, these types of reports are not posted.
Not too long ago, we had someone trying to pull a fast one on us. It was a story about a Gorilla photo from the United Kingdom. We were able to filter out this story and expose it as a fake. The person who sent it in may have been taken in as well. I do wish other websites would attempt to filter some of their stories, as some of them will publish anything to get a few clicks. Oh well, what can you do.
I just thought I'd share a few of the cases, where it just didn't pan out. The cases are fun to work, even if they don't pan out sometimes or we get stuck and have to wait on the next clue. Thanks goes to Nancy for sharing her photos and stories with us. Thanks also goes to Leon Drew for his help.
Thanks
~Tom~
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Over the many years of doing Bigfoot and UFO research, I have met some good people, who when they run into something that might be of interest, send it to me.
That is the case with these old documents. This friend is normally doing various research of some kind very often. Well, in their searching they ran across these now declassified documents from the CIA. These documents deal with UFOs. Not UFOs from another planet, but UFOs that were made here.
What I find interesting is that this was back in the 50's. If the documents are in deed honest and not a forgery by the CIA or propaganda, then it could be safe to assume that many, if not all, of the UFOs being seen are not from another planet but are OURS.
Lets look at some of the details in the documents.
I got this report in a couple days ago. This possible sighting is only a little over a month old, so it is pretty fresh. In the map picture above I have used the available information from the report to attempt to find the location. I'm not sure if this is the exact spot or not.
Here is the report.
- Start Report -
Name: Donna ****** Email Address: On File
State: Tennessee
County: Shelby (I think)
Date of Sighting: June 1, 2015
Time of Day: early or middle afternoon Nearest Town: Bolton
Length of Sighting: a few seconds
How many Witnesses: 1
Any Photos/Videos: photo of possible footprint a couple of days later
Describe sighting in detail:
I'm a 63 yr. old perfectly sane and normal grandmother of two. I live in a small southern town near Memphis, TN.
On June 1, 2015 myself, my daughter and granddaughter were on our way to Memphis on a shopping trip. We were in my Ford Edge and my daughter was driving. My granddaughter was in the front passenger seat and I was in the back seat behind the driver's seat. We turned off highway 14 onto I think it's Brunswick Rd. (it's just a kind of a shortcut to the Wolfchase mall in Germantown). It goes through the small communities of Bolton and Brunswick. I was just looking out the window as we talked. When we turned off the highway to Brunswick Rd. (I think that's the name of the rd.) we pass a field.
The boundaries around the field are grown up with trees and shrubs and grass and you can't see the field from the car except at a small entry driveway the farmer uses to get in. As we passed the driveway that day I saw in the middle of this open field something tall and black. It looked unnatural to me. I just saw it for a couple of seconds but I knew it was something I couldn't identify. I whispered to myself "What the heck was that!" I now could kick myself for not telling my daughter to stop and back up so I could look again. I finally decided it was a burned tree trunk but honestly I really didn't believe that. I saw this in broad daylight (about early or middle afternoon). It was something tall and black and it was in the middle of the open field. It was stationary. I could see the small plants of Milo or corn (hard to tell the difference when it's just inches tall) around the bottom of it. It was black from top to bottom.
It was dark by the time we headed home and we took a different route but I had a doctor's appointment the next day in Memphis so I drove by the field again to see if there was a burned tree trunk in the field. The tall black thing was gone. I knew then I had seen something unusual. Because I could not get this off my mind I ask my husband to go with me to the field to see if we could find footprints.
We walked around the field and I believe I found a large bare footprint. At least to me it looks like a footprint with toe impressions. I just felt the need to tell this to someone. I took a picture of the impression with my cell phone. I also saw other impressions I believe to be footprints but were not quite as clear. There were a lot of deer tracks in the field and there are thick woods that surround it except on the road side. There is a good size creek near the field and down the road going the opposite direction.
I walked to the back of the field and walked down the tree line. Just saw deer tracks and a few dog or coyote tracks. No feeling about the tree line until I got to a certain point and I suddenly got a creepy feeling. I looked up and didn't see my husband because he had gone over the hill and out of sight. I walked back to the middle of the field where I could see my husband again. I wanted to stay and look longer and asked my husband to walk to the woods where I got the creepy feeling to see if he got the same feeling but he wouldn't because it was a little distance and he was ready to go. We left but I know I'm going back to that field again.
I don't know when I'll get back there and I have no idea who that land belongs to but I just feel like I have to go back and look more........Well that's my story and don't know what good it does to tell it but I just felt the need to do so. Thanks for listening.
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I have attempted contact with Donna, in an effort to get the possible track photo. I have not got a reply yet, if I can obtain the photo I will update this post with it.
Thanks goes to Donna for sharing her possible sighting. If anyone else in that area has seen a possible Bigfoot, then please feel free to contact us.
Thanks
~Tom~
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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.
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