Too good to be true or not enough research?

As if anybody truly had to become a super detective to figure out the motive and or reality behind the latest claim of a bigfoot creature actually being found. I’m referring to the one reported to have been found dead in Georgia by two bigfoot hunters/researchers. Again, I approach any cryptid, paranormal, UFO etc., story with scepticism. Not just blindly beleiving everything reported…even with pictures! As I had suspected with this story, that the actual remains needed and requested by the media to show the world of this discovery, couldn’t be produced. The supporting story is below, as well as the picture of this supposed bigfoot beasts remains. And as if that wasn’t enough, these two individuals made remarks about developing a business out of this “bigfoot discovery”. I may be wrong in saying this, but doesn’t that remark smell of greed and exploitation for personal gains?

Judge for yourself by reading the story below and be sure to study the picture of this bigfoot and keep in mind what I had suggested in an earlier post about the quality of prop effects used for movies and the like. Now, on with the supporting story & picture…

Story and more pictures can be found at wired.com.

Bigfoot remains or a very good costume?

PALO ALTO, California — Georgia residents Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer say they’ve found Bigfoot — and not only that, they say they have his body. They just didn’t happen to have the creature’s corpse with them for their press conference Friday.

At the well-attended gathering, Dyer and Whitton, together with professional Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi, answered questions, handed out unconvincing photos and talked about their alleged find.

“We were not Bigfoot hunters originally,” said Whitton, who claims he and Dyer found the lifeless body of a large, hairy, bipedal animal while camping in the woods of northern Georgia. “But now we are some of the best Bigfoot hunters in the world.”

Filed under: Cryptozoology , Bigfoot, Cryptids, Cryptozoology, Strange creatures

Actual bigfoot remains or another hoax?

A supposed dead body of an dead bigfoot was found in Georgia recently. A picture of this bigfoot carcass can be found on the earthfiles.com site, on the front headlines page. One might almost be convinced at first, but remember that with todays technology and very good model makeup, movie FX style, hoaxing a dead monster carcass is doable. But, if this is authentic, then the first remains of this creature prove without a doubt that the bigfoot legends are true.

More…

DNA and photo evidence to be presented at press conference August 15, 2008,
12 Noon to 1:00 PM Pacific, Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California,
open only to credentialed members of the press, not to the public.

“I have found the body that would confirm Bigfoot exists.”
- Tom Biscardi, searchingforbigfoot.com

Alleged Bigfoot creature thawed in frost-free freezer in northern Georgia
where Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer say they recently found the dead animal.

Filed under: Cryptozoology , Bigfoot, Cryptids

A subject not talked about anymore

More than five years ago this subject was being talked about on a fairly normal basis…globsters. These giant lumps of fatty, hairy things were seen washing up on shores from Tasmania to New Zealand and other points around the planet. Now a days though, there’s no mention of these globsters in the news. If there have been any new sightings or findings, it’s not being reported, or it’s just not being taken seriously any longer.

Since I first ran across these stories years ago, these globsters held my attention for awhile, but I’ve never truly been convinced that these things were anything more than what oceanographers had said they were, after many tests…shed fat tissue from whales. But then again, I can be very wrong too. These things might be some kind of unknown sea creature that has been thriving in the deep for some time now. After all, keep in mind that new species of sea creatures continue to be found. Here’s some background information on these globsters as well as pictures of these strange creatures…

Tasmanian globster

The carcass measured 20 feet long, 18 feet wide and 4 feet thick at one end, tapering to just 6 inches at the other. The material was hard and rubbery and covered with fine hairs, “almost like sheep’s wool with a greasy feel”. Five or six gill- like hairless slits were on each side of the high end (front?) where there were four large, hanging lobes, two to a side of a smooth, gullet-like orifice. Even after being informed of the discovery the scientific community showed little interest for almost two years until the Tasmanian Museum undertook an expedition to the remote location. When they arrived they found the lump in the same place with “no smell, no sign of decomposition, and the skin was as hard as ever.” The creature, lump … thing was examined, photographed and pieces were cut off and carried back for analysis. Now the find was a world sensation. Dubbed a Globster in the press, theories ran wild about its origin and classification. Everything from a giant ray to a creature from outer space were suggested and discussed as two years passed. Finally the Australian government made the announcement that the mass of material, unlike anything ever seen before, was nothing more than a whale carcass. A hairy whale with gill slits and which didn’t decompose after two years.

St. Augustine blob

In 1896, an 18-foot long, pink, fibrous mound was found partially buried on a beach near St. Augustine. Speculations as to the lump’s origin lead to pieces being cut off and sent to various scientists and museums around the country, including the Smithsonian, then called the U.S. National Museum. Locals, and at least some members of the scientific community, declared the lump the remains of a giant octopus. Impossible, declared the majority of the scientist of the day. The argument raged long after the Blob had disappeared, probably washed back out to sea. Eventually the argument faded along with the memory.

Even though there does not appear to be any new findings of these globsters, and given the supposed facts that these things were nothing more than whale blubber, the fantastical idea that these globsters might have been some kind of unknown sea going monsters still spark the imagination and give a faint glimmer of hope to cryptozoologists that there may still be an undiscovered species of giants lurking beneath the waves of our immense ocean.

Filed under: Cryptozoology , Cryptids, globsters, unknowns

Creatures that have little or no explination

Another subject that fascinates me is cryptids…creatures or animals that are not categorized in any conventional manner. Amongst many, many of the cryptids that have been showing up all over the web and in regular news print less than recently is the subject of the Mothman. As fantastical as the Mothman may sound, one of my personal theorys is that just maybe this creature is a true alien type beaing that had either found its way here via some type of transportation (a UFO) or perhaps it had been brought here accidently by some type of rip in the fabric of the space/time continuum. Yes, I know how borderline crazy that sounds, but just maybe there is some truth to it.

All of those bizarre stories that were told about over the last 120 some odd years about people just vanishing in thin air, some right in front of other peoples faces, others where the footprints were found and those footprints just stop in the middle of nothing. Now given the fact that our universe is larger than one can perceive, and knowing that the proven fact is that we’re one amongst millions and millions of other galaxies…how could it be that we are the only inhabited planet in this vast universe? Not a chance I say! I say that on pure faith alone. So yes, the Mothman could be some kind of alien semi-sentient beaing that found its way here by accident or by purpose. A brief explanation of the Mothman is as follows…

In “1966 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, after a large number of UFO sightings, this mysterious creature was sighted.  The creature is described as 5 to 7 ft tall, gray in color, winged and headless, glowing red eyes on it’s torso.  The creature was seen flying across the sky at speeds estimated at 100 mph.  As it flies by it emits a high pitch shrieking sound.  The deaths of small animals and pets have been attributed to this creature.”

Being winged, it perhaps suggests it had came from an environment that might be anything from jungle type to maybe traditional forest setting where the winged attribute is needed for various functions as well as being an evolutionary attribute. The headless comment suggests that due to this perhaps evolutionary aspect, this more compact body type was/is needed to almost streamline its efficiency in hunting. No extra mass means better response times, or just that its particular species developed that way. The glowing red eyes almost certainly suggests an low light type of setting or nocturnal in nature. As for the high rates of speed…as with birds, the hollow bones for having efficient flight capabilities sounds fitting here. The more interesting part of this as people have witnessed this creature as having done, was to emit a high pitched shrieking sound. A form of radar, as bats do to locate their prey etc.?

The last confirmed sighting was back in 1966, and since not much of any credible reports were made about any other sightings after that year, it appears that the Mothman had just disappeared from the face of the planet. Hm, maybe the mothership picked the Mothman up from a picnic trip here to Earth? lol. No one knows.  Seriously though, perhaps this creature had died due to not having an environment to live in that was compatible? Maybe it was captured by some private collector and kept a secret? There’s no one good answer so far. But the whole idea of some exotic , other-wordly creature is fascinating. If this creature was really some semi-sentiant creature from another planet/dimension so on and so forth, than the first witnesses had truly been the first to have contact with a real alien life form and prove that what others like Micheo Kaku, physicist, who claim that life is indeed teeming throughout our universe, were right all along.

Filed under: Cryptozoology , bizarre, creatures, Cryptids, mothman