Strange Things Happen...in Lamar County Weird Georgia
The marathon march to Halloween Jim Miles calls October Weird continues on the 26th day with a story that seems to echo across America, involving the familiar figure of the phantom hitchhiker. In the case of Lamar County, the story takes a different turn from most, since it has been written into the autobiography of Ruben Arnold Ware, Sr., who grew up in the mill village of Barnesville. Ware's account of the incident that led to Sarah Chapman's death is much different from phantom hitchhiker accounts from other parts of America, involving a vision of the Moon, a prophecy fulfilled, and a father's grief. Although the story of the Lamar County phantom hitchhiker began long ago, the spate of strangeness in the Peach Tree State hasn't ended, as witnessed in the accounts from Chestnut Mountain that have reached across the nation, as noted in Owners May Be Nearing Answers to Cow Mutilation Mystery. Elsewhere, Eliphas Leary's artwork accompanies his tale of Lucy, DeLaney, a larval form from the astral plane and the power of comic books in Fighting a Vampire to Help a Lady in Danger.
Bigfoot & UFOs There's Something in the Woods
Stan Gordon's new book Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook is reviewed by Nick Redfern. The new book will go into publication October 30, 2010, and includes many of the extremely strange cases from the Keystone State in which UFOs and Bigfoot, as well as other strange creatures, seem to be linked. The sudden onset of UFO sightings and Bigfoot encounters began in 1973 and continued into the following year, plenty of time for Gordon and his investigators to piece together accounts of Bigfoot and UFO being seen at the same place and at the same time, as well as the case of the vanishing Bigfoot, Bigfoot shooting incidents and other curious events surrounding the Bigfoot and UFOs phenomenon. Elsewhere, the Ontario Science Center has drummed up some valuable publicity for its new exhibit, "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, & Mermaids," as described in Unicorn Video is a Hoax, and a Genius Piece of Viral Marketing. But such efforts don't always turn out so well, as Oll Lewis demonstrates in Crypto-Cons - Anything But the Tooth. Meanwhile, there's a benefit underway today for the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, ME, that you can participate in without being present, as explained, with lots of images, in Today: Buy Ricetta's Pizza, Support Cryptozoology.