Cops in South Carolina have issued a cheeky warning to residents following reports of a recent Bigfoot sighting.
“If you see Bigfoot, please do not shoot at him/her,” the Greenville Police Department wrote on Facebook.
“You’ll most likely be wounding a fun-loving and well-intentioned person, sweating in a gorilla costume,” they said.
The official public safety warning came Tuesday after a local group in North Carolina, dubbed Bigfoot 911, claimed to have spotted the fabled creature in the mountains of McDowell County, NC.
The signting happened on Friday night at around 11 p.m. and was reported on Saturday.
John Bruner, leader of Bigfoot 911, wrote on the group’s Facebook page that a team of seven people had been walking in a wooded area — scattering glow sticks — when the big guy began throwing rocks at them.
“I was able to see details of the creature…like the face, and the hair was matted and stringy,” Bruner said, according to the Charlotte Observer.
“The eyes were farther apart than human eyes,” he added.
In their Facebook warning, the Greenville Police Department also posted a link to an Observer story from 2015 about a Bigfoot “sighting” in a different part of western North Carolina.
The article features camera footage showing an alleged Sasquatch running through a field in broad daylight.
“After watching this video…I think we can say with some confidence that proof of Bigfoot still eludes us,” the cops said.
Wandering shaman 'mistaken' for Bigfoot in North Carolina
A self-described shaman says a strange creature reportedly spotted in the hills of North Carolina last week was actually him dressed in animal skins.
The "Bigfoot" sighting happened last Friday in the Appalachian mountains, but the story took an even weirder twist with a mistaken identity claim.
Gawain MacGregor says it was him wandering through the forest on the night in question, 4 August.
But a local group claims the cryptid they saw could not have been him.
Bigfoot 911, a Facebook group of more than 5,700 members that investigates sightings of the mythical Bigfoot in McDowell County, western North Carolina, said photos displayed on Mr MacGregor's website look nothing like the thing they saw.
John Bruner, who runs the group, says the creature he and eight other members encountered last Friday night in Pisgah National Park stood at around 8ft (2.4m) tall, had a different facial appearance, and "moved with speed unmatched by any human".
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However, Mr MacGregor said he was participating in a "sacrament" of "wearing of hair-covered animal skins and wandering in the forest".
The 36-year-old, who was on holiday from Minnesota, writes on his blog about his personal belief in Bigfoot, or "the divine nature of sasquatch", as he calls it.
He writes that by dressing in sewn animal skins, and by reciting a "sasquatch prayer", he has had several encounters with the beast.
"It feels like it brings me closer to nature," he told the BBC after returning from holiday.
Image copyrightFACEBOOK - GREENVILLE POLICEImage captionPolice in South Carolina issued this humorous warning after watching a 2015 video from the area
After seeing the sighting reported on the news, he felt obliged as an "honest citizen" to come forward, he told the BBC.
"If someone caused you to have an experience that meant something to you, but wasn't genuine, wouldn't you want them to tell you?" he said.
Hundreds of sightings of Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, have been reported in western North Carolina and the Appalachian mountains along the East Coast.
On Tuesday, police in neighbouring South Carolina advised citizens not to shoot at Bigfoot, since "you'll most likely be wounding a fun-loving and well-intentioned person, sweating in a gorilla costume".
It is not the only mythical creature to make headlines this week in the region.
Emergency officials in South Carolina said on Wednesday they do not know whether this month's US solar eclipse will make the so-called Lizardman become more active.
But the state emergency management division advised citizens to be vigilant for any sign of the swamp thing, which was first sighted in 1998.
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So...it was a Bigfoot...or a shaman? If you go by that Face Book photo shown above I'd guess a man~sized...man. Ahem. Anyway, wearing that suit in heat...wow.
Sasquatch investigators need to do one thing: if they see one of the creatures make notes but keep quiet and look into every possibility. The second thing is to carry hi res cameras and these are far cheaper and easily available in the US. Head~cams, shoulder cams or just good video cameras you can carry.
It can all get a bit embarrassing otherwise.
the fellow in the suit? Wear something that indicates you are a man in a costume because when you are lying on a mortuary slab having been shot to prove Bigfoot exists....that is too late to think "Maybe I oughtta...."
By the 1700s the British fox was on the verge of extinction and about to follow the bear and wolf having been hunted for sport for centuries.
The answer was to import thousands of foxes per year for sport. But foxes kept dying out so jackals were tried. Some were caught, some escaped. Even wolves and coyote were released for hunting and "country folk" were very far from "happy" -some even threatening local hunts -one intending to release a wolf for a hunt- with legal and other consequences.
The summation of over 40 years research by the noted naturalist and former UK police forces exotic wildlife consultant reveals the damnable lie of "pest control" hunting but also reveals the cruelty the animals were subject to and how private menageries as well as travelling shows.Private menageries, or single exotic "pets" as well as travelling shows helped provide the British and Irish countryside with some incredible events such as the 1905 "vampiric" sheep killer of Badminton, the mystery hounds of Cavan and Coyotes of Epping Forest.
The Girt Dog of Ennerdale is also dealt with in detail -was it a tiger? A Tasmania Thylacine? This book gives the exact facts and details for the first time.Up-dated 2013 edition includes a section on sarcoptic mange in foxes and treatment plus a list of wildlife sanctuaries and rescue centres in the UK.
After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..
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Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive! ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst Introduction de occultis non judicat ecclesia The Bristol Rocking Horse The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn The Coonian Ghost The Ghosts Of All Saints Church His Luminous Chamber The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg And More Ghost Stories The Thomas B. Cumpston Case The Chupacabra The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes? Mystery Beasts Of Ireland The Creature Of The Dump The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack The Black Beast Of Darmstadt The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs Aerial Encounters Over Austria A Crashed UFO In 1790? Angel Hair Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell” Strange Aliens From Space The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations? The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.
Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.
The history of the Wild men of Europe, the UK and US: something that in the 1800s become very "pop culture" Very pop culture and totally forgotten today!Hominology. Sasquatch and Bigfoot -is there evidence for their existence? No sitting on the fence here -the Patterson-Gimlin film is looked at as well as other evidence. The Author's conclusions? You might be surprised.Giant snakes. Amazons. The Giant serpent of Carthage. The Girt Dog of Ennerdale -another big cult 'creature' amongst paranormal and cryptozoological circles. The Beast of Gevaudan -what was it and were there really descendents of the creature in the 19th century -one of which was actually brought to London? Believe it or not more than one incident of historical crocodiles cases in the UK. In fact, far more than even the Author had thought .And, after more than a century of claims by 'researchers' that it no longer exists: The Silent City of Alaska and the near legendary 'lost' photograph taken of it.
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UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans. There is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.
Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered. The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja.
Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.
Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle. Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird *******************
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By that same token, ask people who “Spring-heeled Jack” was and you would be lucky to find anyone who had ever heard of him.
Spring-heeled Jack was the subject (loosely) of a film The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) and Dominic Keating also appeared as Spring Heeled Jack in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum film company. The character has also featured in both American and British comic books and a number of books, for both children and adults.
But the fact that the Springald held the country –not just London– in a grip of terror much longer that the Ripper did is all but forgotten except for some half-truths and fanciful theories.
Now be prepared to read the full story of Spring Heeled Jack
"Hi, Terry. I wanted to invite you to join our group. We seem to think along the same lines. we are a group of skeptical but open minded people..."
At that point my nose bleeds and I bang my head against the table. You see, no one thinks like me. Every individual thinks differently. When you state "we all think along the same lines" you mean your group is full of sheep.
"Skeptical but open minded" means that you have already decided "It cannot be but let's prove it isn't anyway" (Type 1) And guess what? If Type 1 finds a case that is baffling they will meet up with the "It cannot be therefore YOU missed something" (Type 2). Of course, Type 1 is offended by Type 2 and its comments and there may be a "give us all the witness details and we will conduct an investigation" moment.
In Ufology I have seen this situation many times and in different parts of the UK (I am not even going to touch on the United States!). Good, nice people with a serious interest in UFOs investigate a case. Other Good, nice people interested in UFOs decide they are going to investigate a case. Join forces, increase manpower to make a more thorough investigation? Like hell.
Llanerchymedd, Wales, 1978, was a case in point. There were two rival (!) UFO groups and a duo of UFO investigators who looked into this "UFO landing" and all three groups were speaking to me by phone or up~dating me by mail. At the time I could not (because of where the information came from) say outright but I very strongly suggested to each team that they were "very probably" dealing with military activity and nothing UFO linked. It became a mess as they explained how their information was far more solid but that I needed to watch out as "so~and~so is adding details" or"We think they are accepting anything as UFO".....by 1981 the arguing over the incident was still going on. Whether they resolved things I do not know but it was military.
The same goes for so called paranormal activity. One group will claim something happened and another group will claim that it did not because, although they were not there at the time, they had never heard of such a happening at the location before.
You know, if you are in an old, derelict building or structure and hear something hit the floor or wall the best you can do is remember you are in an old, derelict building or structure! Plaster and stone work fall ~that is gravity not a poltergeist.
I have seen a group of "like minded" individuals in a group argue to the point of hitting each other over a piece of plaster or stone falling in the dark. "It was thrown!" "It just fell!" and the fake psychics will add "It was the dark presence. It threw the stone and wants you all to argue".
I don't have time for "psychics" but I will still investigate their claims and test them. My prejudice has no place in the work I do.
Cryptozoology. I am not even going to go into the number of conmen and outright liars involved in this subject. That is not to say that there are no serious, honest investigators/researchers.
All of these fields of investigation and research will have people or groups claiming to be "skeptical but open minded" or "Skeptical" and the arguing and name calling and dirty tricks are things the public do not really get to see. The ringmasters of the con circus make sure it all stays buried: there is money involved.
You are either on one side or the other. You cannot speak to A if B is not their friend or has some grudge against them. We see claims of individual groups (actually a person) receiving 100/150 or even 200 'new' abduction reports each month.
After over 40 years I have been there, seen it, been a target and left.
I get asked how I can listen and investigate something that sounds odd or very strange and yet not look at it as a skeptic nor as a believer? I must surely fall into one of those groups? No. Someone tells me of a sighting of ~whatever~ I will ask questions. I will look at local events, any previous similar reports and only when I have all the facts that I can muster will I decide ~to my own satisfaction~ if it is a genuine case, misidentification or something else. In some cases you can only go by known facts because I/you were not there. That is the end of it.
Unless you can prove a case, with certain animals say via trail cams where you might photograph the animal in question, or by observations made at the site in question, it is down to what you believe but even then that is not the public opinion you give. You may well say "The witness(es) appear to be sincere and honest, however, the case cannot be proven" which means it is "Open". that is how it has to be and even science adopts that stance.
For this reason, I never ever accept invitations from "skeptical open minded" groups nor from "open group of believers".
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