Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Jean-Louis Maurette, Hunter of... Yeti!
Interesting story via( Cryptozoologie -see blog roll)
It's not a joke. Jean-Louis Maurette, a Breton Adventurer, is preparing a new expedition to Russia. His hope: to be the first to discover the almasty, the yeti of the caucasus.
When Jean-Louis Maurette, 58, says he's looking for Bigfoot, he's having trouble being taken seriously. " people, it's fun for them, it's like aliens, it doesn't exist ", ",. But for this baroudeur writer of quimperlé (Finistère), a thousand leagues from the illuminated, it is an exciting and very thoughtful quest. He returned from a month-long expedition to Kazakhstan, after three more in Russia in recent years. He's hunting the almasty, or Sasquatch of the caucasus, which would look like a big, furry hairy primate. But, like his cousins from the Himalayas (the yeti of tintin) or North American forests (big football), he often remains a big joke in the eyes of the public. Yet, for decades, expeditions have been linked.
Explorers and seasoned scientists are trying to find a trace, producing solid work, some of which have been supported by Paléontologue Yves Coppens. Many have, in these remote mountains, collected testimonies of people who overlap. The lucky ones found fingerprints. But none of them brought back an indisputable reality: a dead or alive yeti. Result: this monkey of about 2 M, who moves like a man, is returned to the state of myth, feeding on la fantasy and videos.
Jean-Louis, he believes. " at first I was very skeptical, I had doubts. But the more I go to the field, the tighter it gets. What I'm passionate about is that there's a mystery ", ", that's the one who's also a hunter of wrecks. He's been interested in this puzzle for almost half a century.
On his travels to the east, he conducted the investigation. He questioned shepherds, hunters who saw "strange things", a natural reserve inspector, from the residents to ensure that their parents had told them to cross the beast...
On the spot, people are not always talkative. " witnesses are afraid we're gonna take them for fools. But when they talk, it's believable. They know the fauna, they're not going to confuse the almasty with a bear ", thinks this former technician of laser tank sights. He himself observed a suspicious trace of not. But he did not come to his nose with the hominidé to " Dark hair with red sheen ". " it is an animal that is probably in the process of disappearing, which has a nocturnal life in regions that is. So, inevitably, encounters with man are difficult ", he analyzes. He is not afraid of this hypothetical face-to-face with an animal at the top of the chain of intelligence and evolution. What scares me is the bears, not the yeti ", he does.
He is already preparing his next summer hunt on the caucasus ridges, in Russia, currently on the lookout for sponsors to fund his three-month immersion. This time he would like to be able to "Mount a study station", set about photo-video traps and equip himself with a thermal vision camera to try and flush out the mysterious creature.
The Yeti, " the abominable snowman " of the Himalayas, popularisé by the adventures of " Tintin in tibet ", published in 1960, is not a pure invention of hergé. The Famous Belgian Cartoonist was inspired by his compatriot and friend, the scientist Bernard Heuvelmans. The two men met as early as 1942 in the premises of the daily "evening". the zoologue, who died in 2001, is one of the founding fathers of the cryptozoologie, the study of animals whose existence does not have Été proven by science.
This is based on testimonies, fossils, hair, clichés... the doctor in zoology wrote the series of books "on the trail of ignored beasts", which sold to hundreds of thousands of Copies. This scholar provided hergé with documentation on the yeti for his 20th album. In L''s imagination, the monster of the peaks, which has been the subject of many expeditions in the th century, is not a cruel brute. He's even endowed with feelings, since he shows himself very human when he becomes the guardian angel of Chiang, who survived an air crash.
Source: Leparisien
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Beast Of Faudiere -The Investigation Continues -Un cas pour nos amis français
Frederic Remington "Moonlight Wolf", C. 1909
It is a very brief item. Almost unnoticeable if you scan through faded print too quickly:
“A Letter from Nantes, dated July 19, says,
“Yesterday evening about eight o’clock, a wild
beast devoured two girls,one about twelve, and
the other seven years of age, the daughters of a
farmer in the Commune of Chevroliere. The
animal immediately after took shelter in the fo-
rest of Faudiere. It appeared to be larger than
a wolf, had a snout about a foot long, and a very
formidable set of teeth.”
The account has no thrills or high drama. Everything is stated precisely. I have heard the line "ill educated French peasants" used too many times to explain such incidents away. Peasant or of "higher standing" -all knew what a wolf looked like and the assumption here is that we are only reading about a small part of the incident. The locals knew where the animal had taken shelter and had quite obviously seen it -they were able to state that it was bigger than a wolf and that it had a long snout with a "formidable set of teeth" -indicating that someone got close enough.
What is bigger than a wolf with a long snout and took the time to kill and (partially?) devour two young girls? Believe me, I would like to say a starving or, maybe, rabies infected wolf. I covered the history of French wolf accounts in The Red Paper (I) Canids. Again and again there are accounts of people being very familiar with wolves so to say a French person at this time would see a wolf and not be able to identify it is like saying someone sees a fox and is dumb-founded.
Having proven beyond any real doubt just what The Beast of Gevaudan and the Girt Dog of Ennerdale (read Some Things Strange And Sinister) had been, I tried long and hard to identify or even get additional information on a French case of 1800. If any existing or would-be investigator of the mysterious could come up with more than a non-French speaking / reading English idiot (me) could then I would give a big cheer.
I have now continuously searched the internet since 2008, originally once a week and then once a month but all I came up with was my account of what happened. I have scoured as many of the newspaper titles as I can from the United Kingdom at that time. However, in the early days news was received in letter form from Englishmen or travellers abroad –everything from food shortages, crime and much more.
It may well be that some other newspaper also published a piece on this but it is more than likely only one did!
However, things to consider: the news of the attack had reached Nantes and was obviously reported on if a correspondent considered it newsworthy enough to go through the rigmarole of sending a letter from France to inform the Caledonian Mercury about it. One assumes (hopes) that there is some archival record in Chevroliere or, if not, then, hopefully in Nantes?
We even have the date of the attack -18th July, 1830. So one assumes that anything in print appeared after the 18th, including news of any possible hunts or the burial of the victims.
This is where French researchers who know the newspaper / local record system can help.
So, if not a wolf, just what was The Beast Of Faudiere?
Reference.
1. The Caledonian Mercury,2nd August,1800
2. Some More Things Strange & Sinister http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/some-more-things-strange-sinister/paperback/product-18763730.html
Monday, 20 November 2017
New Book -STRANGE & MYSTERIOUS BEASTS (2018)
I began working on this one a while ago and below is the preliminary cover (or the actual cover if I cannot persuade a certain Mr. Dilworth to come up with something.
There will be up-dated chapters that look at cases dealt with before in the previous books but solutions will be offered based on quite a few years intense research.
Newer material will look at a mystery British wolf, the British Bigfoot subject as well as the Hull Werewolf. If anyone has anything to add to this or photographic evidence then I am quite willing to look at it and offer an unbiased opinion. If you are genuine and can offer any evidence or even sighting reports get in touch -blacktowercg@hotmail.com
If you believe that you have seen and/or photographed anything unusual then, obviously, get in touch. I am quite interested in finding out whether people are still seeing unusual lake or -particularly- sea "monsters" -have they really died out?
I know that I have asked repeatedly since this blog "officially" started in 2011 and the lack of any response never fails to impress! Look at how many people have viewed the AOP blog (or Face Book page) and today is typical:
There must be sightings or incidents that you are aware of that you can send me a link to or information on? I would like to spend more time posting here but there is only so much one man can do alone. You see or hear anything let me know!
This new book should be out around May, 2018 and I'll up-date as I go along.
Thanks
There will be up-dated chapters that look at cases dealt with before in the previous books but solutions will be offered based on quite a few years intense research.
Newer material will look at a mystery British wolf, the British Bigfoot subject as well as the Hull Werewolf. If anyone has anything to add to this or photographic evidence then I am quite willing to look at it and offer an unbiased opinion. If you are genuine and can offer any evidence or even sighting reports get in touch -blacktowercg@hotmail.com
If you believe that you have seen and/or photographed anything unusual then, obviously, get in touch. I am quite interested in finding out whether people are still seeing unusual lake or -particularly- sea "monsters" -have they really died out?
I know that I have asked repeatedly since this blog "officially" started in 2011 and the lack of any response never fails to impress! Look at how many people have viewed the AOP blog (or Face Book page) and today is typical:
There must be sightings or incidents that you are aware of that you can send me a link to or information on? I would like to spend more time posting here but there is only so much one man can do alone. You see or hear anything let me know!
This new book should be out around May, 2018 and I'll up-date as I go along.
Thanks
UP-dated: Strange Aliens in Jardinopolis, Brazil (2008)
I contacted the Brazilian group directly and asked whether it might be possible to get more information on this report and explained my interest.
Nothing.
So, since 2017 I have been chasing up any possible secondary reporting. Nothing.
It seems that this report may be a hoax and I was told the group in question had disbanded long before the report was made.
My conclusion: fake report
From Before It's News http://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2014/06/strange-aliens-in-the-rains-of-brazil-2470930.html
Location. Jardinopolis, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Date: December 27 2008Time: 2100
Two local youngsters, Denilson and Rafael were playing in the Sebastian’s Chapel Square when they were surprised to see bright lights moving overhead heading towards a field close to the square. The lights seemed to be rotating around an ellipse form, and were red and blue in color; they suddenly descended and disappeared from sight.
Feeling somewhat frightened the two friends ran to a nearby house where they told their two other friends, Carlos and Cristiano. The boys knew that it hadn’t been an airplane since there wasn’t any noise and the lights seemed to have performed a vertical descent into the field. The now four witnesses approached the field and could now see the lights on the grounds alternating colors from red to blue.
Three of the boys were afraid to approach the field by Cristiano drove his scooter closer and illuminated the area with its headlights, as he did this, Carlos, Denilson and Rafael followed closely behind him. The boys could now see that the lights were suspended in mid-air in a diagonal position and under the lights they could see three or more “crouching” creatures on the field. The creatures were crouching in a horseshoe or U-formation and appear to be “communicating” with each other.
The boys were extremely frightened, since they had never seen anything like that before. The boys were convinced that the creatures were not animals, since their behavior was totally different from that of typical farm animals that abounded in the area. The boys explained that the creatures were well-defined but when they changed their viewing angle they were able to see four and up to five creatures, giving some the creatures the appearance of being “invisible” and only becoming visible when the struck by the light rain that was falling at the time.
When Cristiano shone his scooter headlight directly on the creatures they disappeared. They could only see the creatures when it was dark. In the darkness they still see the contours of their bodies. The boys estimated the creatures to have been about 1.20 meters in height, with large black oval-shaped eyes, lacking noses or ears, they had a round mouth and their color was dark gray. They had hands with fingers but were unable to count how many fingers on each hand. All four youths gave identical description of the creatures.
They observed the creatures for approximately forty minutes and during the time the boys noticed that the creatures appeared to be communicating among themselves. Suddenly they saw a red “laser point” on Carlos’s shirt, Rafael pointed it out to Carlos who became afraid, and he immediately lifted his arms in a way to demonstrate that he was no threat to them and that he was unarmed. At this point the witnesses could see a red beam of light that appeared to be emanating from a cylindrical shaped object on the field, there also appeared to smoke coming from the tip of the object.
Terrified the four witnesses began leaving the area slowly concerned for their safety. The youths estimated that they had stood about 10 meters from the creatures. They arrived home afraid and nervous. Three days later the witnesses visited the site and found that the brush in the area had turned brown in color.
Source: Milton Dino Frank Junior, Presidente do Centro de Ufologia Brasileiro
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