Thursday, April 30, 2009
Beyond The Edge Radio Tomorrow...
Eric will be broadcasting live from Salt Fork State Park from the Meet and Greet at the 21st-Annual Ohio Bigfoot Conference/Expo, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. Plus, Scott Hackenslash will be dropping by to give his Movie News and Reviews. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise National Geographic News
From today's offerings of maverick science: Scientists wondered about the underwater abilities of spiders. So, in an experiment reminiscent of the old parlor trick of drowning and reviving a fly, scientists drowned some spiders and watched them come back to life. Meanwhile, there's a report indicating scientists know the age of our closest star, seen in Dust Older Than the Sun Found in Earth's Atmosphere. Elsewhere, at TPOD, Stephen Smith points out some interesting characteristics presented by a Hubble Space Telescope image of The Sombrero Galaxy. Are we looking at a heavenly representation of Michael Faraday's homopolar motor?
The Fairy Thief of the Wilderness The Paranormal Pastor
Pastor Robin Swope, a former missionary himself, relates a tale told by an American missionary who served with her husband in the jungles of northern Thailand. With the caveat offered by the good pastor, "Sometimes odd things happen when you are hundreds of miles away from civilization", here is Mrs. Johnson's tale of the Naang Maai Paa, "the little fairy of the wild forest." Compare Mrs. Johnson's tale to the report Nick Redfern leads us to through his Man-Beast U.K. blog, Police Launch Hunt for 'Wolfman' Behind Mini Crimewave Who Lives on Rabbits and Berries in Woods.
It's Plainly Obvious That It Is All in Your Mind The Blogsquatcher
A review of the press releases of two books, Michael McLeod's Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the trail of Bigfoot and Buhs' Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, takes on the premise put forth by both authors that indicates the Bigfoot phenomenon is the product of something other than true observation. Meanwhile, at Cryptozoology Online, guest blogger Neil Arnold reports on a Rhode Island case in which fishermen dredged up The Block Ness Monster; and Jon Downes handles the duties in presenting the 26-minute video of the May, 2009, Centre for Fortean Zoology production of On the Track of Unknown Animals.
Exclusive: SASQUATCH ASSAULT trailer, filmmakers' new projects
FANGORIA - USA
The team over at Synthetic Cinema gave Fango the exclusive first look at the trailer for their new creature feature SASQUATCH ASSAULT; you can see it at the ...
FANGORIA - USA
The team over at Synthetic Cinema gave Fango the exclusive first look at the trailer for their new creature feature SASQUATCH ASSAULT; you can see it at the ...
Worth reading: Airlines & luggage, Bigfoot, and more
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Five Places: Walk in the shoes of Bigfoot. The Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, Calif., and four other places you could spot the Sasquatch (or just a ...
Rockin' New Video: 15 Days till the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up!!!
15 Days till the Yakima Bigfoot ...
[TRANSLATED] 15 Days till the Yakima Bigfoot Round Up
15 days (Two weeks) till the event honoring Bob Gimlin.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Leaving Tomorrow Night...
I will be getting on a bus here in Cleveland (MS) then heading for Old Washington, Ohio. I am hoping to catch a bus at 9:30 Central time and arriving in Old Washington at 10:45 A.M. Friday or thereabouts. Thanks to Don Keating, I have transportation from Old Washington to Salt Fork. I will be blogging tomorrow, but it might be spotty as far as how much blogging I will be doing during the weekend or early next week. If I can, I will do some blogging, but if not, then I will be back sometime Tuesday. So, I will see you all probably next week sometime.
2 Days till the 21st-Annual Ohio Bigfoot Conference/Expo!!!
Review: The Sasquatch Triangle/Monsterquest 4-29-09
The ST was great, with kind of an open-mic atmosphere as Don welcomed several callers, including Josh from Southwestern Ohio, Eric Altman and myself, but also got some prank callers who tried to ruin the flow of the show, but were unsuccessful. Don was essentially plugging the Conference and giving last-minute dissertations on the Conference. Dunno what Don has planned for next week (probably a recap of the Conference) but it begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
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On Monsterquest, the main focus was what is known as "water apes", Sasquatch on Vancouver Island, which examines the possibility of these creatures swimming from Vancouver Island to the mainland of British Columbia. Several well-known Sasquatch personalities are featured on this episode, such as Dr. John Bindernagel, who lives on the island who gives his assessments of the sightings and the history. Thomas Steenburg and Richard Noll team up to search for evidence on the island. A wildlife biologist talks about his skeptical bent on whether or not such creatures could survive on the island; he also shows a rather interesting video of bears swimming in the Pacific from the island to the mainland, as well as showing apes swimming such as orangutans and monkeys, which somewhat negates the old myth that apes can't swim. Bindernagel is joined by a forensic podiatrist from the U.S. who examines his track casts and is rather open-minded about the possibility of them being from an unknown primate. Noll and Steenburg use different methods to attract some Sasquatch to in front of cameras, such as using fresh clams which the Sasquatch is known to eat. There is also a sighting recounted from 1901 in which a man was going to shoot a Sasquatch which was drinking from a stream because he thought it to be a bear, but when it stood upright, he changed his mind. Several encounters are recounted and witnesses interviewed, more methods of attracting Sasquatch are employed and the results are...well, I won't spoil it for you. A really good episode, I would give it a 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. Next week is a sequel to a Season 1 episode, titled Gigantic Killer Fish II, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central on History. Check local listings for time and channel.
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On Monsterquest, the main focus was what is known as "water apes", Sasquatch on Vancouver Island, which examines the possibility of these creatures swimming from Vancouver Island to the mainland of British Columbia. Several well-known Sasquatch personalities are featured on this episode, such as Dr. John Bindernagel, who lives on the island who gives his assessments of the sightings and the history. Thomas Steenburg and Richard Noll team up to search for evidence on the island. A wildlife biologist talks about his skeptical bent on whether or not such creatures could survive on the island; he also shows a rather interesting video of bears swimming in the Pacific from the island to the mainland, as well as showing apes swimming such as orangutans and monkeys, which somewhat negates the old myth that apes can't swim. Bindernagel is joined by a forensic podiatrist from the U.S. who examines his track casts and is rather open-minded about the possibility of them being from an unknown primate. Noll and Steenburg use different methods to attract some Sasquatch to in front of cameras, such as using fresh clams which the Sasquatch is known to eat. There is also a sighting recounted from 1901 in which a man was going to shoot a Sasquatch which was drinking from a stream because he thought it to be a bear, but when it stood upright, he changed his mind. Several encounters are recounted and witnesses interviewed, more methods of attracting Sasquatch are employed and the results are...well, I won't spoil it for you. A really good episode, I would give it a 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. Next week is a sequel to a Season 1 episode, titled Gigantic Killer Fish II, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central on History. Check local listings for time and channel.
In the maverick science corner: Comparative mythologist Rens Van der Sluijs notes the similarity between the enormous "space tornadoes" detected by the five THEMIS satellites and what primitive man witnessed, often referred to as the "axis mundi," a column of twisting, morphing light connecting the Earth to the heavens. Elsewhere, Stephen Smith reports on observations made by the Cassini space probe of immense hurricanes visiting their fury through the atmosphere of an enigmatic gas giant in Saturn's Raging Storms. Are the Saturnian hurricanes an electrical phenomenon?
The Quaintness of Qatar Creatures Cryptomundo
The recent release of images purporting to be a strange creature filmed in Qatar sparked Loren Coleman's search for the truth. Here Coleman reveals the origins of those images and presents another Qatar photographic mystery from the past. With multiple images. Meanwhile, Cryptozoology Online is offering video from the Centre for Fortean Zoology Australian chapter, entitled The Radium Hill Tiger. Elsewhere, The Blogsquatcher is seeking information about about some footage in Video: Bigfoot in Colorado.
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