Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal
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- '...it was the fiercest face I ever saw'
- Daily 2 Cents: Transparent 'Black Creature' Observed -- Are These Yeti Prints? -- Declassified FBI Memo....Flying Saucers Found With 9 Aliens Inside?
- The Thunderbird Legend
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Posted: 01 Feb 2016 02:04 PM PST
 The following newspaper account was placed in the San Francisco Callon July 18, 1909: SEA MONSTER MAKES GOO GOO EYES AT ASTONISHED MARINER  NOTE: Less than one year later, the Dakotah and it's Captain Ross ran into a bit trouble on its way to Japan: TYPHOON DAMAGES STEAMER DAKOTAH Monsterology: The Complete Book of Monstrous Beasts  Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizensof the Dee  Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In  The Odyssey   |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2016 10:30 AM PST
 Transparent 'Black Creature' Observed Nick from the Midwest called in to tell of a strange creature sighting he had: “I was driving and I had a girl I was dating. I was picking her up from her house. It was night-time. This was way out in New Mexico so there's like a hotbed of creatures and stuff there as well. So we're driving down the road and you know how sometimes, a deer will jump out in front of your car. I saw a what I thought was deer or something coming from the side of the road. I would never ever ever think this would happen but it jumped in front of the car and I hit the brakes. And it's night-time, so I have the headlights on. So we both leaned forward to look at it because at first I said, “Oh, that's a deer.' Then I thought it was a dog. It gets within five feet of the headlights and I'm almost stopped. The thing was a black, transparent – the headlights went through it – and it looked like the size of a large dog or a small bear, and the back-end of it was higher than the front. The lights went through it so it was kind of in this realm and kind of not. You could see the road and you could tell where the car was like it knew we was there. I think it purposely jumped in front of the headlights but, I don't know... We both saw this thing. I looked at the girl and, the girl said, 'Did you just see that?' And I said, 'Yeah, I don't know, I’ve never seen anything like that.' And, later on, I watched Constantine with Keanu Reeves. It looked exactly like what they have in that movie what they called Soldier. They had smaller front legs, but the back legs, when they walked on four legs like a dog. In the movie, they had skin but this thing that I saw, it was totally black but it had that shape to it to it. Like it had a small head, like a little head and like a larger body than it's head but back a bit. Like exactly like that movie. That thing in that movie wasn't just someone's imagination, those things exist... What was it doing? I mean, it was out in the middle of nowhere. There were houses and people around but I don't know...” Source: Rigged Reality Radio -December 11, 2014 Transcribed by Jamie Brian ********** Declassified FBI Memo: Flying Saucers Found With 9 Aliens Inside? The FBI opened “The Vault“—a library of documents released to the public through the Freedom of Information Act—in 2011. In the following two years, a particular document now known as the “Hottel Memo” received nearly a million views. It was written on March 22, 1950, by Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI field office in Washington, D.C. It states: “An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.” Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall. In 2013, the FBI made a public statement on the memo, since it had received widespread attention. Some people had connected the memo to the alleged conspiracy to cover up a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. The FBI stated, “The Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after the infamous events in Roswell in July 1947. There is no reason to believe the two are connected.” The FBI said it did not further investigate the saucers reported by Hottel: “The Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated.” - Declassified FBI Memo: Flying Saucers Found With 9 Aliens Inside? **********  Are These Yeti Prints? Steve Berry encountered a mysterious set of single-file tracks on a steep mountain slope in Bhutan. The 66-year-old had been trekking along a remote pass in the Himalayan Mountains when he came across the trail which was situated only yards away from an impassable chasm. "The local people said we were the first to ever set foot on that pass," he said. "I had always thought that stories about the yeti were a bit of old bunkum. But there is no denying these tracks existed." "The prints were clearly visible with the naked eye from where we were standing on a pass at 17,800ft. There was a vertical drop in front of us, not to mention a very serious mountainside to cross, so we could not get to them." Not everyone is convinced however that the prints represent evidence of the Abominable Snowman. Cryptozoologist Jon Downes, director of the Center for Fortean Zoology, believes that the tracks in the picture are more likely to be those of a mountain goat than a large hominid. "I think that the chances of these prints being from anything more interesting are negligible and it is certainly not a bipedal higher primate," he said. "The center of gravity for such an animal would mean it just wouldn’t be able to venture up a mountain like that." Read more at Are these the footprints of the yeti? Trekker believes mystery trail spotted in remote area of the Himalayas could come from the legendary beast ********** NASA's New Planetary Defense Office Gets to Work Protecting Earth A new NASA organization dedicated to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids has hit the ground running. In early January, NASA announced the establishment of a Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), which will synchronize U.S. efforts to deal with threatening near-Earth objects (NEOs) and will supervise all NASA-funded projects to find and characterize asteroids and comets that visit Earth's neighborhood. "There is no identified threat that we know of right now," said Lindley Johnson, NASA's new planetary defense officer. "Our job is to look for that and identify a NEO as far in advance as we can," Johnson told Space.com in an exclusive interview. "Doing so means we have the maximum amount of time to appropriately deal with the object, be it a small impactor or something that's larger, calling for a kinetic impactor mission, or whatever needs to be done." Read more at NASA's New Planetary Defense Office Gets to Work Protecting Earth ********** TODAY'S TOP LINKS Unsolved Mysteries - (Reddit) - The Mysterious Case of Todd Sees - I thought the readers may want to look at a recent thread on this case, including some of my comments (cryptid) Witness Report: “I Let the Black Eyed Children Into My Home, and Now I’m Slowly Dying” 48 Hours: Did a paranormal vision point police to a killer? Exposing the Hidden History of Giants of the Americas America’s Longest-Standing Protester Passes Away after Spending 35 Years Outside the White House Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions  The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community  Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind: Suspicious Deaths, Mysterious Murders, and Bizarre Disappearances in UFO History  The UFO Repeaters - Seeing Is Believing - The Camera Doesn't Lie   |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2016 09:06 AM PST
 I decided to unearth a classic post, taken from a 2007 interview with Dave Zander and Ken Gerhard...describing the legend of the Thunderbird: Myths and legends about creatures from the Chupacabra to the Jersey Devil to Bigfoot are everywhere, but in southern New Mexico and parts of Texas people say they've seen birds so big they seem prehistoric. One man claims the rugged landscape near Las Cruces hides a mystery that's haunted him for several years. Dave Zander has lived near the Doña Ana Mountains for more than 30 years spending almost all his spare time hiking, exploring and fossil hunting in the range between the Robledo and Organ mountains. He saw something that he's unable to explain and many people find hard to believe. He recalls the day eleven years ago when he spotted something extraordinary: two creatures perched on a mountain less than a mile away. "These creatures were so huge they looked like the size of small planes," Dave Zander said. "All of the sudden one of them jumped off dropped off the top of the mountain, came down the front of the mountain and all the sudden these huge wings just spread out. "I would say the wings were at least a 20-foot wingspan." Definitely something out of the ordinary. "Not a normal bird, definitely of a giant variety," Zander continued. "It makes you feel like it could come over and carry you off if it wanted to." Zander witness a real-life scene out of the movie Jurassic Park? One ancient bird in the vicinity is an Andean condor living at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque. But it's wingspan of 12 feet pales to what Zander described: birds with an unprecedented twenty-foot wingspan, with pink bald heads and all-black bodies, and feathers on their enormous wings.  There is nothing on modern record like it. "In comparison a 20 foot wingspan would truly be a monster and something undocumented by science," cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard said. "I believe what Dave Zander may have seen are surviving teratorns." Gerhard has made a career studying prehistoric birds. "What's interesting the reports of these giant raptor-like birds to continue into modern times," he said. "We seem to have a large concentration of them here in the Southwest particularly in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as well as New Mexico and parts of Arizona." Gerhard documented many of these strange reports from all over the globe in the book BIG BIRD! - MODERN SIGHTINGS OF FLYING MONSTERS  The book includes sightings in different clusters over the past 30 years. In 1972 in Maxwell in northeastern New Mexico, Ronald Monteleone of Trinidad, Colo., reported what he thought was a pterodactyl flying out of an arroyo. In Lordsburg in the 1800s locals talked constantly about the sightings of pterosaurs. And a picture circulated the country in 1890 out of Tombstone, Ariz., but it's never been considered totally legitimate.  "Other eyewitnesses are describing specifically giant feathered dark birds with an enormous wing span," Gerhard said. Gerhard said his research falls into two different descriptions from witnesses. Some said the birds look like the prehistoric pterodactyl while others, like the creatures described by Zander, resemble the ancient thunderbird from Native American mythology. You can find thunderbird images atop many totem poles and also carved into the lava rocks of the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque. Similar images are found in petroglyphs all over North America. According to legend, the thunderbird is said to have a wingspan the length of two canoes with the ability to deafen people with the sound of its flapping wings. "It is definitely a real animal, according to the native peoples that lived here," Gerhard said. "It's not necessarily a legendary animal."  (Andean Condor)However a word of caution comes from folks like Ben Radford, managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer magazine, which applies scientific reason and evidence to extraordinary claims. "There is a desire to link modern sightings with these Native American stories but the problem is they're not necessarily the same thing," Radford said. Radford said believes the eyewitnesses saw something: "Ultimately a lot of these sightings, whether it's these monsters, these creatures, Chupacabras, what have you, these come down to eyewitness testimony," Radford said. "They're stories, there's nothing wrong with stories, but they're just not good evidence." Radford has debunked numerous stories about the Loch Ness monster, crop circles and Bigfoot. He said he relies on evidence. "You don't have bones, teeth," he continued. "You don't have any hard evidence, so you look to these stories, you look to these myths. "We know from many scientific experiments people are notoriously unreliable about estimating things." And in this case, Radford said he thinks Zander and the other witnesses in Texas overestimated the birds' size. What makes the reports intriguing is that most experts agree scientists have yet to discover every species on the planet and really have no idea what is out there: "I believe there's a good chance that a number of large prehistoric animals remain undiscovered by modern science." Gerhard said. Radford readily concedes there are species yet to be discovered, but... "Do I think there are giant animals and birds and creatures out there?" he said. "No." For his part, Zander continues to keep his eyes on the skies but hasn't had a repeat visit from the creatures. The one experience has stayed with him. "I feel honored to have seen the one sighting," he said. "I had if they're still up there still living up there and thriving, I say awesome, more power to them."  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