By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines.


  

Denial And The Other Things I DID See

By Dorraine Fisher

Thinking back on some hikes I’ve made in the past in some less-than-wilderness areas, and the things I saw there, I could just kick myself now for not documenting them. I never carried a camera; I didn’t want to be bothered with that. And even if I had carried one, I was too stupid to know what I should be taking pictures of.

That’s just ignorance. Something I can forgive myself for. It happened before I knew better and knew what to do. But what do you call it when you see or hear something in the woods now and you have the knowledge to process it, but you don’t?

I’ve never actually seen a bigfoot. If I did, I think I’d never go into the woods again. But something happened to me last fall that I didn’t talk about for the simple fact that I was in denial. Now that some time has passed, I’m asking the question if I had a real bigfoot encounter or not.

It was a no big, dramatic thing. I was just walking along a tree line in an area that I frequent. The fall leaves had fallen and were laying thick on the ground in the woods off to my right. But I was just walking along when I suddenly heard footsteps off in those thick woods making clear crunching sounds in the dry leaves. And in a forest full of deer and other critters, I wouldn’t have thought much about that, but it sounded like someone walking on two feet. Not four.

As soon as I stopped so I could hear better, they stopped too. And when I started moving again, I heard the footsteps again. Now, other animals do this, like deer. But like I said, this sounded like two feet. It sounded like a human sneaking around in the woods.

It’s possible it was a human following me. Very possible...but not very likely.

Could it have been what I think it might have been? I thought about it a lot after that; the creepy feeling I got when it happened. I don’t get a creepy feeling when I hear animals in the woods. That’s more like an adrenaline rush, or fight-or-flight response to tell me to stay alert. So what was it?

This brings me to a story of my former ignorance and my not carrying a camera.

Two years ago, I was walking down an open hiking trail in the same area, when I came across a huge dried blood pool in my path. It was probably about 9 feet or more in diameter stretching across the trail and beyond into the grass. Luckily, I did have the presence of mind to look for drag marks in the grass and brush, but saw none. It was interesting. That’s all I thought about it. I felt sure it was a deer that had been killed there, and I wondered what was big enough around here to bring down a deer.

Coyotes, or maybe even a bear or cougar? But there would be drag marks, wouldn’t there? Some remains? A blood trail?

But since I hadn’t been carrying a camera, there is no picture of this, and I can’t prove a thing. I had told myself that day that I’d bring my camera back and take a picture, but it rained after that (of course) for several days, and when I finally made it back, the pool was gone.

And about all this, I never said a word. Why? Denial is a funny thing. Why is it that we can convince ourselves so easily that we might be crazy and we’re just imagining the whole thing. Maybe society and all it’s know-it-all attitude messes with our head a little bit... perhaps. But the fact is that when our brain attempts to process something, it tries to associate something we see with the familiar; something we’ve seen before.

So if we’ve never had a bigfoot encounter before, our brain can easily tell us that what we’re seeing is just like something we’ve seen before. Something we know. But that doesn’t mean that it is. That doesn’t mean that it’s not something different.

So now I’m looking back and wondering if I had my own little encounters. And with what I now believe about bigfoot and reality, it’s very possible that I did. But I never leave home without a camera these days. **********DF



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By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines.




There’s an interesting paradox in what people believe exists. And in the Bigfoot community, it’s a great case study of beliefs in general. Some believe bigfoot exists because they’ve actually seen one. Others believe because they’ve actually looked at all the evidence and made a determination. Some people just enjoy believing.

But what’s most interesting to me is all the people who actually have to see something in order to believe it. Now, I do admit that it IS easier to believe what we actually see, but understand that it’s not the only way we determine things to be real. And you don’t have to believe a word I say, but here are some things to think about when we decide something’s real.

First of all, what is a belief exactly? It’s an idea we aspire to for certain reasons. And those reasons are solidified in our minds because of things we’ve seen, heard, experienced, or been told by people we trust. And all those reasons are very personal and significant to us. In a sense, they are a big part of what makes us who we are. So it’s no wonder we guard our beliefs so fiercely!

But this is the very reason why there is so much conflict over belief. We’ve all had different experiences of life, seen and done different things. We all have different perceptions of the world around us because no two human lives are the same. We’ve all experienced life a little bit differently. Therefore we can’t possibly have the exact same beliefs.

But we have a tendency to live in our own heads and we expect everyone to understand our personal experiences...which they CANNOT. So what does this mean for believers in bigfoot and all things labeled "paranormal?"

The reason it’s so hard for those who believe in these things because they’ve actually seen them or experienced them, is that others, who’ve not had those experiences, simply don’t believe. And they only live inside their own heads with their own set of perceptions and beliefs. And the problem with this is that they, in the realm of their personal perceptions that have neither seen or experienced anything unusual, can’t possibly comprehend someone who has. So they turn to calling the believer crazy, delusional, etc. And this is not constructive, and really fails to understand and cherish the differences in all humans. And it makes life unnecessarily difficult for those who’ve seen unusual things like bigfoot. It creates in them an obsessive need to prove what they’ve seen.

But there are some good things about it. It’s driving cryptozoologists harder all over the world to find the necessary proof. And they’re learning a lot and producing lots of new evidence. But that’s not even the most important thing. They’re making us understand that belief and reality have many different sides.

The element of oxygen is something we all believe in. We can’t see it. But science tells us it’s there and we trust science to know. And we believe it’s there for our own reasons. The wind on our face, the breath in our lungs. In essence, we know it’s real because we can feel it. So if an element is invisible, does that make it less real than one that’s visible.

Pain is another one. We can’t actually see it, but it makes itself known by how it makes us feel. So are feelings that something’s real any less valid than actually seeing something? Those who’ve experienced extreme pain can tell you how real it is.

But then there’s time. The mother of all crazy beliefs. Some scientists theorize that linear time as we know it doesn’t really exist at all. Sure, the sun comes up and goes down every day like "clockwork" but what does that really mean? Nothing. It just means that we measure time in our own terms, but it doesn’t prove time actually exists. Science is still working on that one.

The search for creatures like bigfoot is helping the human race understand something new. And that is that anything is possible, and we have a lot left to learn. And that refusing to believe in something just because we haven’t seen it with our own two eyes doesn’t really tell the whole story. We really are crazy if we think there’s nothing left on the planet to discover. New things pop up every day. *****DF

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Stan Romanek - Alien contactee. You may remember him from being on CNN's Larry King show a few years back, Stan was the man who, among many other alien encounters, filmed the alien peaking in a window. Many say that Stan is the real deal while others say he is nothing more than a hoaxer but his UFO photos look pretty good to me. According to what I have read there have been well over 100 individually unique experiences that Stan, his family and friends have encountered since December of 2000 many with photos and videos.



Stan on Larry King

The video below is worth watching because of the many UFO photos and videos.


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Tomorrow (4/9/2013) The Crypto Crew's very own Jason Morse will be on W-W-P-N !
Jason will be talking about Bigfoot with hosts Cami and Kimm.

To view/listen to the show please Click Here! Make sure to bookmark the site.
Show starts at  7:30 MST !
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Close up of tiny 6 inch alien

An upcoming documentary will show an alleged, alien body that was found a few years ago in Chile's Atacama Desert. The total length of the alien is said to be only 6 inches.

The upcoming film is called Sirius and it also shows alternative energy theories about how aliens are coming to earth and beyond.

This film seems to have some promise to it, if you are interesting in UFOs, Aliens and Alternative energy. Sirius will be available online and in theaters April 22, 2013 and reportedly has graphic footage of a dead alien along with DNA testing of said alien.

Steven Greer is said to be the driving force for the film. Mr. Greer  is a former emergency room doctor.



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Unknown skeleton?

I personally think this is a frilled shark , sometimes call a frill shark, but what do you think?
eel? dragon? hoax? sea snake?

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This is a post by TCC Team Member Dale Drinnon.
Dale has a degree in Anthropology with a background in Zoology and Paleontology.
Visit his Blog - Frontiers of Zoology


















Two peculiarities are associated with the American Almas males: the first is that the crown of the head can have thinning hair, or be partly to wholly bald on top; the second is that they can have beards and moustaches ranging from just noticeable to full-beard-hanging-to-the-waist.


Whether or not these photographs represent real creatures, they DO represent what the witnesses are reporting. These reports do continue more rarely out to the West Coast, and then there are areas both in Northwest Canada and then again in Mexico and points South where they are counted as specific regular types reported in those areas. In Northwest Canada they are the BushMen and in South America they are the Didis and Maricoxis.


Blogger Jay from the companion blog Bizzare Zoology sent in this illustration tpo my Facebook wall. He said the "Wild Woman" illustrated on the house pole could be meant for one of my American Almases and he pasted the skull alongside for comparison. It looks like a good match to me.




There was some variation overall in the kind of apes they were said to look like, chimpanzees were alleged almost as commonly as orangutans. And yet the striking similarity to orangutans insited on  in all of the best reports and shown in photographs is very hard to discount or to overlook.

Myakka Florida Skunk Ape on Left Compared to Orangutan on Right

 

El Reno Oklahoma "Ape Hand" print on Henhouse

                  

Footprint cast for the Skunk Ape: in this example, the two smallest toes seem to have run together in casting. These tracks characteristically show an opposed big toe: more recently they are often said to resemble the Orang Pendek tracks from Sumatra and lately publicised. Below is a comparison of the-is kind of "Bigfoot" with the typical (Smaller) Yeti from the Himalayas. A close match in proportions and stance.This type of Yeti is ordinarily said to be the size of a teenager or a young man for the males, females much smaller.These Yetis typically live at lower altitudes in the jungles (where they are known under different names) and only rarely go over the mountains when they need to get from one valley to another, and that most likely because of feeding patterns and population pressures.

Ivan Sandersons' comparisons for the "REGULAR AND LARGE YETIS", the latter also being the same as the Sasquatch

Big Footprints, attributed to Sasquatch. From California, Huffington Post

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