The following is a report taken by the late Bobbie Short. I've had this report for several years now and decided to share it here. The original write-up and report is the work of Bobbie Short. The report is significant to me because it is in my area. In fact, it is only about 25-30 minutes away from me and is in the jointing county where I live.
I've had this report for a few years now, but have never posted it here on the website. I had posted it up on our facebook page but not here. This report is also called "The Dewey Lambert report". I met Dewey on facebook and he told me about a possible Bigfoot encounter he and his wife had in Alabama while fishing. Dewey had filed the report with the BFRO, so he just send me over the report. So what follows is the initial report that Dewey file with the BFRO, So full credit to them.
- Start BFRO Report -
Husband and wife hear scream while fishing
Dewey Lambert Report:
YEAR: 1994
SEASON: Fall
MONTH: September
STATE: Alabama
COUNTY: Cleburne County
LOCATION
DETAILS: From I 20 you get off at the Heflin exit and go through Heflin
and get on hwy 78. You will see signs directing you to Pine Glen, a
camping area, and Coleman Lake soon after this point. The roads are dirt
roads, but follow the signs to Pine Glen and about 3 miles up the road
on the left you will see a sign for Sweetwater Lake. This road will go
down about 1/2 mile to the lake.
NEAREST TOWN: Heflin
NEAREST ROAD: I 20
OBSERVED:
About 7 years ago my wife and I were at a lake in the middle of the
Talladega National Forest in Alabama. The lake was sweet water lake. We
were fishing in a small boat at the end of a slew early in the morning,
we were the only ones at the lake, I think it was on a Wednesday and we
were all alone. We heard something scream, it started out as a howl and
turned into a long high pitched scream and it was so loud it echoed
through the mountains. It made the hair stand up on the back of our
necks. But that is not all. About a year before that My stepfather and I
were hiking around the same lake, we liked to fish at a spillway way on
the backside of the lake, and about 1/2 mile into the hike we crossed a
fire brake about 20 feet wide, now keep in mind that we are a pretty
good way back in the woods, we have crossed rocks thorns and briers and
all kinds of rough ground. And right there across the dried mud in the
fire brake is a set of foot prints dried into the mud. They were not
huge they were about the size of a full grown man but they did look
human, I just couldn't understand why a man would be this far back in
the woods without shoes on. And over the years there is one thing I have
thought about a Bigfoot would have to grow up, so maybe it was a young
Bigfoot.
OTHER WITNESSES: Myself and my wife
OTHER
STORIES: I once worked with a man in Alabama that after we became
friends, told me he and his whole family were picking huckleberries at
Sweetwater Lake, the huckleberries grow wild all over the area.He and
his wife and two children were picking away when they all heard
something in the trees. They all turned around to see a harry man
standing there. He said it was a little taller than a man and as soon as
it saw them it ran off into the woods. It scared them so bad that they
left.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: the scream was in the early morning and I saw the foot prints at about 10:00 or 11:00 in the day
ENVIRONMENT:
It is a lake in the middle of the Talladega National Forest. With pine
and hard wood forest around, with miles and miles of forest between
the lake and the nearest town. The name of the lake is Sweetwater Lake
near Coleman Lake.
ANOTHER STORY: My stepfather and a
friend were doing some primitive camping and hiking near Sweetwater Lake
and in the middle of the night my stepfather thought he saw his friend
stoke the fire and put wood on the fire. He thanked his friend the next
morning for doing that in the middle of the night to keep the fire going
and his friend said that he slept like a rock all night and never got
up. My step father can’t see that well without his glasses on but he
said he could see good enough to tell that someone did stoke the fire
that night. He could see someone or something standing moving and
stoking or playing in the fire .This was around 2001.
Follow-up investigation report: BFRO Investigator: Tommy McElyea
- End BFRO Report -
Here is some additional information about the area.
Facts & Info
Talladege National Forrest - TNF is 392,567 acres - that's 613.39 square miles!
This is a very large area and could easily contain Bigfoot as there are lots of area, food and water.
Fact - The Alabama Bigfoot Research Team recently had an outing in TNF. It lasted from Oct. 15-20 of 2010.
More info can be found at Alabamabigfoot.com (Website is now gone)
Sweetwater Lake - This is a 58 Acre Lake located along the Pinhoti Trail between Coleman Lake and Pine Glen Recreation Area.
Sweetwater Lake Photo
Fact
- There has been several reports of Bigfoot and/or tracks and/or
screams from TNF. Some of the hiking Site/Tours for trails in TNF past this
along the information about Bigfoot sightings.
So in the end it seems very possible that what Dewey and his wife could have heard the screams of a Bigfoot. The tracks that Dewey found about 1 yer before may have also been made by a Bigfoot. Anyone taking a vacation in Talladege National Forrest might just have one of those unforgettable vacations.
Thanks Once again to Dewey for sharing this with me.
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A few days ago, I was in my research area and found an old tree twist, pictured above. The tree twist was 10 feet off the ground. The area I research in has gone through some changes in the last 3 or 4 months. One of the stick formations that I had been documenting for almost 3 years, suddenly was torn down a couple months ago. What tore it down, I do not know. Could have been wind or rain. The activity in the lower-lying areas has been very minimal or none at all. While in the area a few days ago, I went farther back into the woods. This is where I seemed to find a few signs, like the twist, that Bigfoot was still in the area.
Still, I wonder what tore down the stick formation and why they moved out of the lower-lying area. Could it be because of the weather? Someone suggested that the stick formation could have been torn down due to a larger more dominant male moving into the area. I guess that could be possible.
Why did the Bigfoot move out of the lower areas? Could it be that the leaves on the trees are all off and they wanted to go deeper in the forest to avoid detection? Could it have been because of some heavy rains and the swelling creek near by? I'm not really sure on what caused this movement, maybe it was just a natural movement for wintertime. A movement to be closer to a den. Maybe it is some combination of the above.
Another thing that might have played a part was that a mountain within about a mile of the main activity area, slid off. If that played a part, then that would mean that the Bigfoot had prior knowledge of the coming slide. I have always heard that animals know when bad weather is coming and even earthquakes, so I think it could be possible.
Not knowing answers to questions like this, is one of the things that keeps me going back and researching. Also, while in the area, you could hear the dump trucks hauling dirt and dumping it. The tail gates of the dump trucks would slam into the back of the truck beds. This created a very large banging sound. It was annoying to me, so I can only imagine how Bigfoot might react to this loud banging.
Speaking of tree twist, I have found a lot of tree breaks but very few where the limb had the twist to it. Some people of course dismiss all tree breaks and twist but I have found Bigfoot tracks right next to fresh tree breaks. So it is pretty clear what did them. The twisting of tree limbs seems to happen in other Bigfoot areas more than it does in my area. One researcher I follow a lot is Randy Brisson. He has posted and shared tree-twist pictures over the years. It has been my experience that in real areas of Bigfoot activity, you will find broken and twisted tree limbs.
There are still many unanswered questions about Bigfoot and Bigfoot behavior. Sometimes, at least for me, the not knowing the answer is what gives me a drive to research and look for Bigfoot. It's a puzzle and I just want to fill in a few of the pieces.
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~Tom~
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in the middle of an aisle in a part of the store where she doesn't
belong. And even one day manage to fall (jump) off the shelf in the
middle of the day. Which is a pretty big thing being that our shelves
are 18" deep and she leans up against the wall. The last two times
happened one day apart just a few days back. My wife and I arrived to
open the store in the morning, there the doll was again, laying on the
floor in the doorway. We got into an all day long discussion of how
often one of us finds her on the floor to return her back on her shelf.
Did not realize the other finds her out of place just as much. So that
night we decided to bury her under a pile of other dolls so there would
be no mistaking where she should be come morning. The next morning I
arrived alone and walking past the doll shelf I noticed one of the dolls
we placed on top was almost falling off the shelf. To my amazement "The
Doll " wasn't on the shelf. It almost looked like she pushed her way
out. At this point I'm totally freaked out and start looking for her. It
didn't take me long to find her, I found her laying on the cash
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~Tom~
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This is kind of like an end of the year type post where I will fill you in on some of our research efforts that are currently going on. This is not our last post for this year, but I know at this time of year people get very busy with Christmas and family time, so I wanted to get it in.
So here we go.
Oregon Area
Lets start with our researchers out in beautiful Oregon, Bobby and Corinna Long. This past year has been a bit slower for Bobby and Corinna due to the fact that they moved and were busy with various life events. This move, which is in prime Bigfoot territory, resulted in them being without internet service for several months. They did manage to keep in contact with me and have been doing some research.
Recently, the discovery of 8 possible Bigfoot tracks have got their pulse racing. These tracks were found near a creek. The creek is filled with salmon that are getting ready to spawn. The salmon are an excellent food source and are loaded with protein. Protein is an essential part of the diet,(human or otherwise) as it helps fight off disease and keeps the body functioning properly. The tracks were over 15 inches long and 6 inches wide. The tracks were washed away due to the heavy rain.
We also have set up a facebook page dedicated to our Oregon research,The Crypto Crew HQ of Oregon - Give it a LIKE.
New Hampshire Area
Jason Morse takes care of New Hampshire and surrounding areas for TCC. Jason recently won Bigfoot picture of the year in the 2015 Paranormal Award contest. This past year Jason has had very limited time for researching due to his heavy real world work load. He has managed to still put in some time in the field and attended a couple of events.
As this year is coming to a close, Jason has had a recent influx of Bigfoot sighting reports. He is currently working 3 cases in the New Hampshire area. One of the cases includes some tree knock interactions and another with some tree breaks. More information will be coming soon.
Super zoomed
Another case I have already covered some in a couple post and a youtube video. It involves a sighting of a large Bigfoot. The posts on this case can be found Here and Here. Some falsely reported this case as being in Kentucky but it is in the New Hampshire region. We do not want to disclose the exact location as the investigation is not complete. The pictures show a large figure moving off to the right. The pictures are not the best as they were taken at a long distance.
Jason hopes to have some witness interviews for these cases in the future along with some field research.
Dazed Bigfoot Crossed California Highway 101 During Fires.
The
Willits News reported there was a Bigfoot sighting on Highway 101 north
of Willits near Shimmins Ridge Road during the Mendocino Lightning
Complex fires last summer. Willits is a small town in Northern
California between the San Francisco Bay Area and Eureka.
According
to reporter Linda Williams, Chris LoPinto of Laytonville and at least
one other driver saw the creature step into the southbound lane near a
guardrail. It ran into the path of a small truck and caused LoPinto to
brake hard. The truck, which was trying to pass LoPinto’s car, managed
to avoid hitting the Bigfoot and continued on without stopping.
LoPinto
said the Bigfoot ran upright on its legs until it got to the middle of
the highway which was four lanes at that point. Then it leaned over and
ran with its arms down the rest of the way, to safety. Bigfoot
investigator Tom Yamarone told the reporter that the fact the Bigfoot
used its arms to cross the second half of the freeway was highly
unusual.
At that point some might think the creature was a
bear, but LoPinto got a good look at the face – the Bigfoot was only 25
feet away.
The description:
Estimated at seven feet tall.
It was covered with hair.
The face was completely flat, without a protruding nose.
When it turned to look at LoPinto its neck was stiff so it turned its entire body.
Its face was yellow or gold like a ripe banana.
It had a smooth, shiny forehead with ridges and no eyebrows.
The eyes glowed red, possibly as a reflection from the car’s headlights.
It had thin lips.
It had a simian face.
It appeared to be suffering from heat and heavy smoke from the fire.
LoPinto
filed reports with the Department of Fish and Game and with the
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department. At first he didn’t realize it was
a Bigfoot. Eventually he got hold of Tom Yamarone to investigate.
(published on October 29, 2008)
(Not sure where some of this comes from, I've had it a long time, so I can't list any sources or give proper credit. Sorry)
Thanks
~Tom~
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First
let me start by saying that I know that some, if not most crop
circles are made by humans, but there remain some formations that have
some unexplainable facts, and one question is how can a big crop circle
be made over nite with just a couple guys with a rope and a plank?
Crop circles - Some Facts -
More
than 10,000 Crop Circle formations (Agriglyphs) have been found or cataloged worldwide. More than 6,000 crop circles have been
investigated and documented since 1980.
Crop circles are usually
not round, but slightly elliptical. In a real crop circle the plant's
shafts/stalks (mostly wheat, but also grass, barley, canola, buckwheat,
linseed, rice paddies, corn, sunflowers, blueberry bushes, trees, etc.)
are bent around an inch above soil (corn stalks are bent a couple of
inches above the soil) and the plants are laid in precise geometric
swirl patterns with little signs of physical damage. There may be light
burn marks at the base of stems, altered cellular structure and soil
chemistry, increased magnetic particle deposits, discrepancies in
background radiation, alteration of the local electromagnetic field,
depletion of the local watershed, along with long-lasting energy
patterns. Some analyzed crop circles have shown higher radiation levels.
Crop circles range in size from a few inches to hundreds of feet across
and have been as large as 200,000 sq. ft.
In real crop
circle formations the stems are not broken but bent at 90° angles about
an inch off the ground, at the plant's first node. The plants are
subjected to a short and intense burst of heat or energy that softens
the stems or stalks allowing them to be folded over onto the ground at a
90° angle. When the stems or stalks reharden into their new position,
the plants and crop are not damaged and continue to grow. This is the
method used to identify a real crop circle formation (agriglyph). The
canola oil plant has a structure like celery. If the stalk is bent more
than about 45°, the stalk will break. When crop circles are found in
canola fields, the stalks are bent 90°. Research and laboratory tests
suggest that microwave or ultrasound may be the only method capable of
producing this effect, but plant biologists are still baffled by this
phenomenon.
Stems
Crop circles are not a modern phenomenon and may have been occurring
for hundreds to thousands of years or longer. They exist in the
centuries-old folklore of South Africa and China, and are in Native
American Indian legends.
The first written account of a crop circle is from August 8, 1590 and is found in "The Natural History of Stafford-Shire",
published in 1686. There are also other references from England's 15th
century that suggest crop circle formations. In John Aubrey's "Natural History",
a 1633 school teacher seen green circles made by the spirits in the
grass. Another early historical record of a crop circle from 1678, is
the "Mowing Devil" case, where a farmer's field was believed to have
been visited by a devilish entity that trampled the crops down in a
circle. There is a wood engraving of this event. In 1686, a book
entitled "A Natural History of Staffordshire", made reference to rings, circles and other shapes found in grassy fields. The scientific journal, Nature,
decided to include in one of its issues a reference and a picture of
the June 17, 1996 DNA double helix field of barley crop formation, with
spiraling spheres of different sizes, found in Alton Barnes, England,
which was 648 feet long.
Double helix crop formation.
Man made circles -
When a man-made crop circle
is found, the grain stalks are broken, the formations are usually
jagged and the formations do not have any symmetry. Because of the
disinformation spread by the media, most people think that all crop
circles have been produced by pranksters with a plank, a garden roller,
ladders, ropes and measuring tools. The disinformation and non-media
coverage of crop circle formations actually protects the farmers and
their harvest from damage caused by researchers and the curious from
trampling their crop circle grains, harvest and lands.
Circle makers - can they make huge designs overnite?
Crop Circle Formation Designs -
the past 25
years, more than 10,000 crop circle formations have been found in more
than 29 countries: England, United States, Canada, Germany, Australia,
The Netherlands, Hungary, Japan, Wales, France, Scotland, Switzerland,
Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Finland, Israel,
Poland, Brazil, Mexico, India, Sweden, Ireland, Yugoslavia, China,
Argentina, Croatia, Denmark, Peru, Romania, Siberia, Slovakia, Spain,
Turkey, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Chile, Egypt, Isle-of-Man, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Sardinia, Tasmania, Ukraine,
Uruguay, etc. Most of the elaborate crop circles found, are found around
England's ancient and sacred site areas (Stonehenge, the earth mound of
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Cheesefoot Head, etc.). Southern England is
where around 90% of the elaborate crop circle formations and designs are
found. A majority of the world's crop circles are within a 40 mile
radius of Stonehenge. The dimensions of most of the early single crop
circles would fit inside the inner horseshoe at Stonehenge. Most crop
circles with single and double rings would fit within the inner and
outer edges of the first ring of stones at Stonehenge.
Crop circle
formations are no longer just circles, they now come in different
shapes, designs and pictograms. All real crop circle formations have
bent unbroken crop stems and interwoven stalks. The most common crop
circle is the single circle, but they also come in sets of two
(doublets), three (triplets) or four (quadruplets) and may be surrounded
by an outer ring or more circles. The stalks in a crop circle are bent
into a swirl pattern, and the swirl patterns spin clockwise or
counterclockwise or may contain two or more layers spinning in different
directions. When there is more than one circle, one circle may spin
clockwise and the other may spin counterclockwise. When looking at a
crop circle from the air, it may appear to spin clockwise, but when
looking at it on the ground the stalks will spin counterclockwise.In the
1980's and 1990's, the circles became more elaborate, producing crop
design patterns called pictograms. In the 1990s, crop circles formations
became complex patterns using intricate geometric designs and developed
exponentially in complexity. Some of the more sophisticated patterns
are based on mathematical equations.
Stonehenge circles
Crop Circle Researcher Colin Andrews -
Crop Circle Researcher Colin Andrews author of the book: "CROP CIRCLES - Signs of Contact" and co-author of the book: "Circular Evidence",
has been researching crop circles for than 20 years and has compiled
the largest database on crop circles. Colin has catalogued hundreds of
authentic and man-made crop circles in his crop research career. The
late philanthropist Laurence Rockefeller began funding Colin Andrews'
research into fake crop circles, back in 1999.
Crop Circle Plant Analysis and Research -
In
the field of Crop Circle Plant Analysis and Research (radioactivity
measurements, spectrographic analysis, magnetometer readings,
microscopic inspection, cellular plant experiments, weighing,
photographing, etc.): High-pressure infrasound is capable of boiling
water inside plant stems in one nanosecond, causing the water to steam,
and leaving tiny blowholes in the plants’ nodes. Research and laboratory
tests prove that infrasound (less than 20 Hz) is capable of producing
such an effect. This process creates surface charring along the stems.
Microwave radiation (high frequency electromagnetic waves) is also
believed to be how the stalks are bent and the plant's nodes are
swollen.
Farmers have reported that when they find a new
crop circle, they have seen steam rising into the air from within the
design. Crop circles also show the possible existence of ultrasound
also. Several people have reported hearing a trilling sound prior to
witnessing crop circles forming. They also report a total stillness in
the air (no wind) and total quiet. This trilling sound was captured on
magnetic tape and analyzed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab as being
mechanical in nature with a frequency of 5.2kHz.
Biophysical
evidence shows the plant's nodes and stems are drastically extended,
seed embryos are altered, and their is the existence of expulsion
cavities, as if they have been heated from the inside. There is also a
reorganization of the plant’s crystalline structure. A malt fragrance
can also be smelled after cutting open a stem from a freshly made crop
circle, which means that the plant has been cooked from the inside, but
the crop remains unharmed.
Exhaustive lab analysis into hundreds
of 1991-1995 crop circles shows physical and biophysical changes to the
plants inside a crop circle. There are also alterations in the
germination, development of seed embryos, and alterations in the plant's
stem node length and circumference (up to 200% increase in one case).
The grains from crop circle plants can grow 40%-50% larger have a
stronger and larger root system with larger grains, than the grains from
the crop surrounding the crop circle. Alternatively, some crop circle
plants produce seeds that are smaller than normal plants. The reason for
the differences in the plants may be water supply available when the
formation was made, the age of the plant when the event occurs or the
type of plant. The internal structure of the plants is altered at the
cellular level. The cell pit walls of the plants are fractured and
expanded. In grain crops, there are nodes close to the ground that help
the plant grow vertically. Crop circle plants have expanded, elongated
or "blown nodes" nodes. The plants with the largest node expansion are
found in the center of a crop circle.
Crop Circle Soil Research -
Researchers
have found distinct changes in crop circle soil temperature,
composition, and crystalline structure in the soil and within the crops
inside the formations. It has been scientifically documented that soil
samples taken from within crop circles, show changes to the soil's
crystalline structure and mineral composition and the soil appears to
have been baked. Analysis concluded that a heat of 1,500°C would be
required to create such a change. Four non-naturally occurring,
short-life radioactive isotopes (vanadium, europium, tellurium and
ytterbium), that dissipate in 3-4 hours, have also been found in the
soil. Soil tests have also shown that alpha emissions are around 200%
above normal, beta emissions are around 50% above normal and the soil is
2 to 3 times as radioactive as the soil outside the crop circle.
Large
quantities of surface and subsurface water (up to millions of gallons
water) in and around a crop circle disappear. Aerial photography, using
infrared film, shows the groundwater under a crop circle is depleted for
several days to a week or more before the water table returns to
normal. The soil within a crop circle formation is generally dry,
cracked and dehydrated, even after heavy rain.
Crop Circle magnetic Fields -
The
Earth's magnetic field (energy grid) is a multi-poled magnet and the
magnetic fields connecting each pole run along what is called ley lines.
The north and south poles are the strongest poles of our multi-poled
planet. There are also secondary poles located all over our planet. The
area around Stonehenge is one of these secondary pole locations. Like
all of our planets ancient sacred sites, crop circles mostly appear at
the intersecting points of the Earth’s magnetic pathways of energy (ley
lines). The size and shape of a crop circle formation depends on the
proximity to the ley lines, magnetic node points and the water available
at that site. Measurements of the earth's magnetic field inside crop
circles, have been recorded with increases up to 120%.
Crop Circle Electromagnetic Effects -
Crop
circles alter the surrounding electromagnetic field. Electromagnetic
measurements (EM) have registered 40 to 50 nano Teslas in the middle of
some crop circles (10 times the normal radiation level). Compasses spin
erratically and can’t locate north, battery powered devices like
watches, cameras and cellular phones malfunction, brand new batteries
are drained in minutes, car batteries have been drained, overhead
helicopter and aircraft equipment are affected, radio frequencies are
different inside the crop formation, farm animals and birds are agitated
and stay away from the crop formation, and with really large crop
circle formations, entire towns have lost power.
Crop Circle Effects on Humans -
The
electromagnetic energy inside a crop circle can also interact with
human and animal brainwave patterns. Because the human and animal body
is electromagnetic in nature, being inside or near a crop circle has
been known to affect people’s biophysical rhythms. Women will also
experience menstruation cycles early. Some people experience heightened
states of awareness and healings in crop circles commonly associated
with sacred sites and holy places. Other people complain about of
headaches and unusual pleasant or unpleasant physical or mental
symptoms. People also experience dizziness, disorientation and nausea.
Prolonged exposure to infra-sound or microwaves (which interact with the
water in the body) produce the same symptoms.
Crop Circle Witnesses -
More
than 80 people have witnessed and reported seeing crop circles forming
in 15-20 seconds. They all describe seeing incandescent or brightly
colored balls of light (orbs) before and after the crop circle is
formed, proving that the orbs of light are involved in crop circle
formations. In some reports, people have seen shafts of light in a field
where the crop is swirled into a geometric shape. When farmers find new
crop circle formations, they usually see steam rising into the air from
within the design.
Conclusion -
It is easy to dismiss all
crop circles as man made and it is my guess that most circles are man
made but there remain some crop circles that appear to be different and
as of yet can not be explained. We should keep an open
mind about crop circles, maybe some day we will be able to explain what
is really making these circles...be it man, something in nature, natural
phenomena, Aliens, Angels or something as of yet to be discovered. So let just
keep on researching this until we find the final answer.
(Not sure where some of this comes from, I've had it a long time, so I can't list any sources or give proper credit. Sorry. If by chance anyone knows the original source please let me know, I would be glad to give proper credit)
Please note that some of this data may be slightly outdated.
Thanks
~Tom~
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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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I was alerted by a friend of a possible track find in London, KY. The above photo shows what appears to be a very large track. There also appears to be toes if you look closer. This along with more tracks were found only a couple days ago on 12/03/15.
Here is what the poster (Darlene) of the photo had to say:
"I just had to share this with u. Yesterday I found Bigfoot footprints in my driveway yesterday and freaked us out. Here is a picture of one of them. U can see there left and right all down my driveway and if u zoom in on this picture, U can see the toes . The prints are over 4 feet apart all the way down my driveway, plus my grass in the backyard has been wollered on and my clothes line has been torn down. Also heard grunting a few days ago. Josh is 6 foot 4 and he tried making the same steps and couldn't."
I was able to talk with Darlene via messaging and she told me her son's shoe size is a 14 wide and that it was no comparison to the foot tracks.
Darlene also posted the following picture, which I have added some red arrow to, of what appears to be multiple tracks.
I hope to have a little more information about this in the near future. Kentucky is an idea place for Bigfoot with it's abundant resources and mild winters.
A thanks goes to Darlene for messaging with me and for sharing her photos and a thanks to our friend John, who alerted us to this very recent finding.
Thanks
~Tom~
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Indian tribes across North America have a total of more than sixty different terms for the Sasquatch.
"Bigfoot"
was a journalistic term generated in the middle of the last century
during a rash of sightings in Northern California. The word has come to
be recognized widely.
Many different terms have been used
by pioneers and later non-native inhabitants of North America, including
"skookums" and "mountain devils".
The description given
here is derived from a compilation of thousands of eye witness reports
from the entire continent, some of astounding length, detail, and
corroborative evidence; the Patterson movie, taken in 1967, and a recent
computer-based image analysis of it; and statistical analysis of a
large database accumulated over the last fifty years, primarily by John
Green.
W. H. Fahrenbach
(Source: W.H. Fahrenback)
I personally prefer the term Bigfoot...I really don't know why.
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The Jersey Devil, sometimes called the Leeds Devil, is a legendary
creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New
Jersey. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves,
but there are many variations. The Jersey Devil has worked its way into
the pop culture of the area, even lending its name to New Jersey's team
in the National Hockey League.
Most accounts of the Jersey
Devil legend attribute the creature to a "Mother Leeds", a supposed
witch, although the tale has many variations. According to one version,
she invoked the devil while giving birth to her 13th child, and when the
baby was born, it either immediately or soon afterwards transformed
into a devil like creature and flew off into the surrounding pines.
According
to legend, while visiting the Hanover Mill Works to inspect his
cannonballs being forged, Commodore Stephen Decatur sighted a flying
creature flapping its wings and fired a cannonball directly upon it to
no effect. Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Emperor Napoleon, is also
said to have witnessed the Jersey Devil while hunting on his
Bordentown, New Jersey estate around 1820. Throughout the 1800s, the
Jersey Devil was blamed for livestock killings, strange tracks, and
reported sounds. In the early 1900s, a number of people in New Jersey
and neighboring states claimed to witness the Jersey Devil or see its
tracks. Claims of a corpse matching the Jersey Devil's description arose
in 1957. In 1960, the merchants around Camden offered a $10,000 reward
for the capture of the Jersey Devil, even offering to build a private
zoo to house the creature if captured.
MORE DETAIL ABOUT THE JERSEY DEVIL
THE JERSEY DEVIL Without a doubt, New Jersey’s oldest, most enduring,
and important pieces of folklore is the tale of the infamous Jersey
Devil. For close to three hundred years now, Jerseyans have told tales
of this mythical beast which stalks the Pine Barrens and terrorizes
local residents. The recurring nature of this story begs a few of
questions: Why have New Jerseyans embraced this legend so steadfastly,
and above all others? Is there actually some sort of creature roaming
the Pine Barrens of Southern NJ? And if so, what in God’s name is it?
Legend
has it that in 1735, a Pines resident known as Mother Leeds found
herself pregnant for the thirteenth time. (Leeds is the name of one of
New Jersey’s earliest settlers, and many descendants of the Leeds family
can still be found throughout NJ to this day.) Mother Leeds was not
living a wealthy lifestyle by any means. Her husband was a drunkard who
made few efforts to provide for his wife and twelve children. Reaching
the point of absolute exasperation upon learning of her thirteenth
child’s forthcoming, she raised her hands to the heavens and proclaimed
“Let this one be a devil!”
She went into labor a few
months later, on a tumultuously stormy night, no longer mindful of the
curse she had utter previously regarding her unborn child. Her children
and husband huddled together in one room of their Leeds’ Point home
while local midwives gathered to deliver the baby in another. By all
accounts the birth went routinely, and the thirteenth Leeds child was a
seemingly normal baby boy.
Within minutes however, Mother
Leeds’ unholy wish of months before began to come to fruition. The baby
started to change, and metamorphosed right before her very eyes. Within
moments it transformed from a beautiful newborn baby into a hideous
creature unlike anything the world had ever seen.
The
wailing infant began growing at an incredible rate. It sprouted horns
from the top of its head and talon-like claws tore through the tips of
its fingers. Leathery bat-like wings unfurled from its back, and hair
and feathers sprouted all over the child’s body. Its eyes began glowing
bright red as they grew larger in the monster’s gnarled and snarling
face. The creature savagely attacked its own mother, killing her, then
turned its attention to the rest of the horrified onlookers who
witnessed its tempestuous transformation. It flew at them, clawing and
biting, voicing unearthly shrieks the entire time. It tore the midwives
limb from limb, maiming some and killing others.
The
monster then knocked down the door to the next room where its own father
and siblings cowered in fear and attacked them all, killing as many as
it could. Those who survived to tell the tale then watched in horror as
the rotten beast sprinted to the chimney and flew up it, destroying it
on the way and leaving a pile of rubble in its wake. The creature then
made good its escape into the darkness and desolation of the Pines,
where it has lived ever since. To this day the creature, known varyingly
as the Leeds Devil and the Jersey Devil, claims the Pines as its own,
and terrorizes any who are unfortunate enough to encounter it.
In
18th and 19th centuries the Jersey Devil was spotted sporadically
throughout the Pine Barrens region, frightening local residents and any
of those brave enough to traverse the vast undeveloped expanses of New
Jersey’s southern reaches. Unearthly wails were often reported emanating
from the dark forests and swampy bogs, and the slaughter of
domesticated animals would invariably be attributed to the Phantom of
the Pines. Over the years the legend of the Leeds Devil grew,
occasionally even overstepping the boundaries of its rural Pine Barrens
haunt to terrorized local towns and cities.
The most
infamous of these incidents occurred during the week of January 16 thru
23, 1909. Early in the week reports starting emerging from all across
the Delaware Valley that strange tracks were being found in the snow.
The mysterious footprints went over and under fences, through fields and
backyards, and across the rooftops of houses. They were even reported
in the large cities of Camden and Philadelphia. Panic immediately began
to spread, and posses formed in more than one town. Fear and intrigue
grew even greater when it was reported that bloodhounds refused to
follow the unidentified creature’s trail in Hammonton. Schools closed or
suffered low attendance throughout lower NJ and in Philadelphia. Mills
in the Pine Barrens were forced to close when workers refused to leave
their homes and travel through the woods to get to their jobs.
Eyewitnesses
spotted the beast in Camden and in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and in both
cities police fired on it but did not manage to bring it down. A few
days later it reappeared in Camden, attacking a late night meeting of a
social club and then flying away. Earlier that day it had appeared in
Haddon Heights, setting its sights upon a trolley car before flying
away. Witnesses claimed that it looked like a large flying kangaroo.
Another trolley car full of people saw it in Burlington when it scurried
across the tracks in front of their car. In West Collingswood it
appeared on the roof of a house and was described as an ostrich-like
creature. Firemen turned their hose upon it, but it attacked them and
then flew away. The entire week people reported that their livestock,
particularly their chickens, were being slaughtered. This was most
widespread in the towns of Bridgeton and Millville.
The
marauding misanthrope reappeared later in the week in Camden, where a
local woman found the beast attempting to eat her dog. She hit it with a
broomstick and it flew away.
While there has not since
been been another week to match the frequency, fervor, and intensity of
the January 1909 rampage, numerous sightings of the Jersey Devil have
continued to be reported to this day. The tale of the Devil has spread
beyond the Pine Barrens and has been embraced by all of New Jersey, even
to the point where it has been largely commercialized. The Devil is
portrayed in toys, on t-shirts, and is even the subject of his own comic
book. Most famously, the Devil has lent its name to New Jersey’s NHL
hockey team.
There are still many, however, who believe
that the Jersey Devil is a very real, very dangerous creature. There has
been a constant stream of reports over the years of Devil encounters.
Most often, people report finding strange, unidentifiable tracks in the
sandy soil in desolate areas of the Pine Barrens. Some reports claim
that they are the footprints of a strange bird. Others say that they
closely resemble hoofprints, although whatever it is walks on just two
legs. There have even been a substantial amount of reports which
describe the tracks as being cloven, a well cited description of the
feet/hooves of a more famous Devil, Satan. While less frequent, there
are still occasional reports of people who see more than just tracks and
manage to catch a glimpse of Ol’ JD himself. He is most commonly
described as having the body of a kangaroo, the head of a dog, the face
of a horse, large leathery wings, antlers similar to those of a deer, a
forked reptilian tail, and prominent, intimidating claws.
While
some Jerseyans embrace their Devil as nothing more than a quaint
figment of our collective imagination, a source of unification and
pride, and a unique and important piece of NJ folk culture, others see
it as a very real creature and a threat upon their safety. Still others
who have sworn they did not believe in the existence of the Jersey Devil
have had their minds changed after spending just one moonlit night in
the Pine Barrens. There, where a ghostly mist drifts across the cedar
swamps and the unearthly cry of some unseen creature can be heard
piercing the stillness of the dark forest, few disbelievers can be
found. Whether its deep in the Pine Barrens or deep in our collective
unconscious, one thing is certain; the Devil still lurks in New Jersey,
and most likely always will.
(Not sure where some of this comes from, I've had it a long time, so I can't list any sources or give proper credit. Sorry)
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The first sighting of the supposed Mothman occurred on November 12,
1966. A group of gravediggers working in a cemetery in Clendenin, West
Virginia saw the figure fly through the air, right over their heads.
Other people began seeing the same creature, which they described as
looking like a man with wings.
On November 15 two
different couples in Point Pleasant had their own firsthand encounters
with the Mothman. They claimed it was at least six foot tall, and closer
to seven feet tall. They also described its bright eyes, and the huge
wings on its back. The four saw the creature fly through the air after
first unfolding its large wings. They also claimed the creature flew at
speeds of at least 100 miles per hour.
Police began
receiving reports from all over. People kept calling with reports of a
strange bird seen in the area. One man in the area, Newell Partridge saw
his television screen turn fuzzy with colors he had never seen before.
At the same time his dog began howling loudly, and a loud screeching
sound came from outside. When he walked outside, he saw two glowing red
eyes just before whatever it was flew off into the night. Almost
immediately his dog raced after it, and didn't return.
The
popularity of the creature continued to grow, as news stations and
papers around the world caught on. Dozens of locals continued to tell
the stories of what they saw, and everyone clamored for even the
smallest piece of information. In the end the press dubbed the creature
the Mothman, partly based on the hit television show Batman running at
the time.
Many of the stories of the Mothman centered on a
former TNT plant that sat empty and abandoned on the edge of town. The
building sat in the middle of a wooded area, where few people tended to
venture. Nearby was ananimal preserve, and some believed the Mothman
could find food there and blend in with the other animals in the area.
There were also stories that the creature had hid there for years before
finally being seen.
On November 16 a new report of the
Mothman surfaced, only this one came from a home near the TNT plant.
Ralph Thomas and his family spotted a strange red light in the area. At
first they thought it might be some kind of plane, but the small light
continued to circle the plant before dipping closer to the roof of the
building.
A friend stopped by for a visit, and claimed to
see the Mothman next to her car. The creature slowly climbed to its
feet, giving her a clear look into its glowing red eyes. The woman and
her daughter ran inside, where they watched the Mothman walk onto the
porch and look in the windows before flying away.
For
some, the sightings of the Mothman coincided with reports of other
strange things in the area. There were reports of UFO's in the area, and
stories of strange men in black stopping locals on the road. One
weekend over 500 reports came in regarding strange lights and things
spotted in the skies above Point Pleasant. The Mothman was the real
story though, with over 100 reports occurring in a single year.
One
thing the people thought might be connected to the Mothman was an odd
man who visited a local reporter. The man had strange eyes and an odd
voice. The reporter claimed to feel extremely uncomfortable in his
presence, and found herself wishing he would just leave. The man acted
oddly, and seemed amazed by ordinary things in her office. She saw him
once again, but when he noticed her staring at him, he climbed into a
black car and ran off.
The real story of the Mothman came
on December 15, 1967. Cars were passing over the 700 foot bridge that
connected Point Pleasant and Ohio when the bridge suddenly and
unexpectedly collapsed. The rush hour traffic crossing the bridge was
caught in the middle. Cars were sent into the icy river, and 46 people
were killed. Only 44 of those bodies were found, and they were all
buried in the same cemetery in Gallipolis, Ohio.
The night
the bridge collapsed, people in the area spotted strange lights above
Point Pleasant. Others in the area saw a man who appeared on their
doorstep, asking questions about the mysteriouslights they saw in the
sky over previous months. He seemed nice, though most people reported
that he made them feel uneasy or uncomfortable. By all indications, that
was the last time the Mothman was seen.
The story of the
Mothman has fascinated people for decades now. What was that creature
that people spotted in the sky? Was it related to the UFO sightings, or
was it foretelling the tragedy about to come? Those questions are things
that we may never have an answer to.
(Not sure where some of this comes from, I've had it a long time, so I can't list any sources. Sorry)
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There
seems to be renewed interests in the 'wildmen' of Asia...probably the
best known is the Yeti. But there have been expeditions into the more
tropical areas of south central Asia as well. In this post, I want to
concentrate on mountainous central Asia, specifically those hominids or
'snowmen' that are said to exist in the Pamir Range of Tajikistan,
Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. These hominids go by
several monikers...the Barmanu, the Tajik Yeti, the Almysty, the
Golub-Yavan or simply the Gul.
In August 2001, the Russian
magazine Karavan + I, published an article about the killing of a wild
man on the old Soviet-Afghanistan border. According to the author,
border guards of the Kevran unit in the Pamir Mountains saw a "Snowman"
during the winter of 1967/68. They reported their observation to their
superior, Kuzkov, the officer in charge of the unit. He did not, at
first, pay any attention to it.
The soldiers of the next
watch again saw a creature and reported the fact. Subsequently, the duty
officer accompanied the soldiers to the spot and personally observed
the creature. Kuskov informed his superior officer, a colonel in Khorog –
a settlement on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border. News about this
reached the Central Asia Command where, in February 1968, a high-ranking
officer gave the order, ‘Catch him or, if that isn’t possible,
eliminate him!’. Thereupon, the border guards shot the creature and took
it to the border post. The body was stored in a woodshed. A subsequent
article 3) in Karavan + I in September 2001 on the happening disclosed
that the body was taken to Moscow in great secrecy.
The
magazine questioned two scientists to establish what had happened to the
remains of the "Snowman". One of these was Georgy Skvorzov, director of
the programme Animals in inhabited settlements and, according to
Karavan, for many years a collector of information about the ‘Snowmen’.
[Karavan:] Georgy, do you believe in the existence of the Snowmen?
[Skvorzov:]
Of course. The Snowman has not only just been seen once in the
mountains of Tibet, in the Pamir Mountains, Siberia and the northern
Caucasus. In recent time these sightings have been fewer. Probably these
very cautious creatures are hiding from the advancing human
civilisation.
[Karavan:] Do you know about the affair at
the end of Winter 1968 when our border guards killed a Snowman in the
Pamir Mountains and brought his body to the capital? Did scientists get
their hands on this specimen?
[Skvorzov:] We have slightly
different information if we are talking about the same event. According
to my information the body of a Snowman was found by a shepherd in the
Pamir Mountains in autumn 1968. But at that time our scientists only
received pieces of the fur and the eye-teeth.
The magazine
confided that their editor had been visited by an ex-border guard
called Andrej. He had served in the Pamir Mountains during the 1960s and
had confirmed the killing of a "Snowman" at the place mentioned.
Further information about what happened to the body or about the fur and
eye-teeth was not given.
In the Russian Newspaper Simbirskij Kur'er (Simbirsk Courier), Arsenij
Korolev reported in 2002 among others about a 1982 expedition of the
Tajik Academy of Science in the Hissar Mountains in the western Pamirs.
The academy was equally involved in the 'snowman' problem. According to
Korolev, in the 1980s, many adventure lovers came to Tajikistan in
search of snowmen. During their holidays, media workers organized
themselves into groups and came to the Hissar Mountains. A great number
of publications followed as a result and the local press was full of
stories concerning the Gul' He writes: “Only few, however, knew that
this puzzle would be solved by the scientists of the Tajik Academy of
Science." Tatjana Vasileva, at that time a scientist at the academy, is
quoted as following: “Despite all that, the scientists were not
inactive. Of course we were inquisitive to follow the traces of the
snowman, particularly so when this legends was just close to us. But the
leading stuff of the Academy was against an official expedition. The
only thing that we could do was to organize an expedition that was
dealing with soil profiles. At the same time, we could also search for
traces of the snowman."
Cryptozoologist George M. Eberhart's description of the 'Wildman'
At
the beginning of May 1982, a ten member expedition left for the Hissar
Mountains. Flora and fauna related materials were collected and examined
to find possible eyewitnesses of the snowman. The expedition team noted
that the locals themselves would reluctantly talk about the Gul. Often,
they changed the subject quite abruptly. In most cases, no personal
experiences would be reported except for encounters through another
person. The expedition found no traces of "Snowmen".
Furthermore,
Korolev reported about an encounter with a police chief of Tadshikabad
who spent the weekend with friends in the mountains: “After lunch, the
friends went to the river for a bath. The policeman was tired and fell
asleep. He only woke up because someone was shaking his car. He looked
back and saw a Gul beside his Shiguli. The Gul was pushing the Shiguli
forward. Then, the creature placed its hands at the rear windscreen of
his car. Full of fear, the policeman shot up and the Gul ran away. But
the prints of his hands at the rear windscreen of his car have remained.
A Tajik detective has taken these prints and has forwarded them to the
police department of criminal investigation."
A guide Surob stakes his honor on the wild man's existence. “I saw his footprints, bigger than the man’s, in snow.”
The
road slides upwards from Dushanbe and starts to disintegrate. Surob
gestures towards a sad-looking town to our right. “That’s town where I
was born, after collapse Soviet Union, people started banging, stealing,
breaking everything, proving they themselves are the Yetis.” He
bristles when I suggest the Yeti may be a peasant mirage. “They swear on
the Koran. Why should they lie? They know nothing, they have nothing,
they swear by Allah they have seen it.” I back down.
We
pull up at a shack for a pit stop. This is where the valley begins. I am
peckish. Soviet-style sweets are displayed in plastic bags. “What’s the
best one?” I ask in Russian. The proprietor dashes to a side room and
brings me a Snickers bar. My guide wants to hurry, but an old man with
an unwashed beard and one strikingly yellow tooth asks for a ride up
towards his village. Surob asks him if he is from here. “He from here.
Now I will gather the information.”
The peasant knows
about the Yeti. “Ten years ago, I saw him. I was climbing a hill to
gather firewood and I saw somebody. I go hey, hey, but then he started
running towards me. It was the Yeti, covered in black wool, with breasts
like the woman’s…”
I ask him to swear on the Koran that
he saw the Yeti. Raising his hand to heaven the old man insists and
gives me his Islamic word. “I don’t know about other people, but I saw
it. It was shouting with anger, rarghh, I was shouting with fear, eeee,
and I run.” The countryside changes dramatically as we talk. The road
has become a dirt track. The car is swerving and sidling as it climbs up
the barren gullies. The old man insists he saw the Yeti. Everyone knows
somebody who has in the nearby villages. “When I got back to the
village, my father started reading the Koran to me, as protection.”
Nature
is starting to blossom in rich abundance. Cherry blossom hangs off the
crags. Shoots of wild onions sprout out of the dark earth. “Look,” says
Surob. “Look at the herbals, the Yeti is eating the herbals, this is why
he lives here.” Coloured tips of wild flowers, blues, reds, purples,
grow among the jagged browns, reds and greys of the mountains. Another
curve. A stark, barren river valley. “Hey, they saw him too.” Surob
stops the car and gives traditional greetings to two middle-aged men
driving the traditional clapped-out Lada.
“Yeah, I had
fight with him,” says the hunter. “He has wool, black wool, and these
breasts…” And he wolf-whistles. His companion, a chubby man in a sizable skullcap, butts in. “Oh yes, I was up in the glade, and he
attacked my donkey. It was very frightening. He looked like a wild man —
or a clever monkey.” The sightings occur in the same places. Regularly.
In the winter of 2002, Pakistan newspapers reported that the 'Russian UFO Digest' (Rossiskij Ufologicheskij Daidjest)
reported a new wildmen event in Pakistan. A 20 year-old citizen of the
Pakistan village of Kharipur, Radschu, left his house and heard strange
sounds from the bushes in front of it. Suddenly an apelike male creature,
about 1,20m high, covered with thick black coat, came out of the bushes
and attacked and scratched him. Radschu cried and run back into his
house. The 'wildmen' fled from the apple garden when other men using
torches began to search around Radschu´s house. Eyewitnesses reported
about the high shrill cries of the creature. Old villagers remembered
they has seen such "strangers from the mountains" many times in the
past, particulary in winter, when they came into the villages in search
for food.
A another 'wild man' hominid is thought to live
in portions of eastern Afghanistan as well as the Shishi Kuh Valley in
the Chitral region of North Pakistan. The Barmanu, which translates as
“The Hairy One”, is often thought to be related to early hominids and
descriptions generally resemble the Neanderthal. As is the case with
other sightings of man like hairy hominids, accounts of this creature
are often accompanied by tales of a horrible stench, a trait which is
attributed to the creature’s wilderness lifestyle and hair covered body.
Legends of this creature have been told by the locals for centuries,
but it was not until the early 1990’s that the legend would receive
international attention.
During the early 1900’s several
Spanish expeditions into the Shishi Kih Valley region of North Pakistan
learned of the Barmanu through retelling of the legend by local people.
The tales of the Barmanu eventually caught the ear of zoologist Jordi
Magraner who traveled to the region with medical doctor Anne Mallasse
and another team member. Between 1992 and 1994 Magraner and his team
detailed not only eyewitness reports but personal experiences including
grunting noise thought to have been made by a primitive voice box as
well as discovering ape like foot prints. Magraner was killed by one of
his Pakistani guides on August 2, 2002.
(Apologizes to Lon for not giving proper credit. This was something I had saved on my PC almost 5 years ago and I assumed the sources listed below covered all credits.)
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~Tom~
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
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January, 2003 Gurov, Boris - "Snowman Against the
USSR" - Karavan + I - August 19, 2001 Gurov, Boris -
"On the Tracks of Snowman" - Karavan + I - October 10,
2001 Khakhlov, Vitaly - "On the "Wild Men" in Central
Asia" - The Commission for the Study of the "Snowman" Question -
1959 Eberhart, George M. - "Mysterious Creatures: A
Guide to Cryptozoology, Volume 1" - 2002 standpointmag.co.ukwww.andras-nagy.com Smeljanskij, Vladimir - "Mountain Spirit" - Rabochaja Gazeta - May 24, 2006 www.tajinfo.ru Makarov, Vadim - "Atlas of the Snowman" - 2002)
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