As we head home from our Houston Live shows, myself, Tony Merkel, and Bob Gimlin will be stopping overnight in Dallas. We wanted to take the opportunity to do something nice for the listeners in the DFW area. To keep the event somewhat “intimate” we’ll be limiting the available tickets to 50.
Monsters & Mysteries writes “In the eerie wilderness of Louisiana, a legendary creature known as the “Sabine Things” lurks in the shadows. A terrified hunter recounts a life-altering encounter with a two-legged monster whose gaze was nothing short of pure evil.
This chilling moment leaves you questioning the boundaries between myth and reality, and what truly resides in the unexplored corners of the world.”
REDROOM Films: Legends & Monsters writes “In this jaw-dropping episode, “The Pond Creek Monster Eyewitness Interview and Sasquatch Investigation,”* we head deep into **Southern Illinois near the Shawnee National Forest**—a hotspot for strange activity and Bigfoot sightings. We interview a local eyewitness who claims to have seen a massive, hairy creature—what he believes was a **Sasquatch**—on his rural property. He shares chilling details about finding fresh Bigfoot tracks, hearing whoops in the woods, and experiencing unnerving activity around his home.”
Bigfoot and Beyond writes “Cliff Barackman and James “Bobo” Fay welcome fellow “Finding Bigfoot” co-host and BFRO founder Matt Moneymaker back to the podcast! Matt discusses his research and experiences in the field over the last few years, recent sighting reports, and the methods he used to observe sasquatches in the past!”
BingeWorthy Documentaries writes “From the untamed forests of the Pacific Northwest new evidence that the elusive hairy beast called Sasquatch… IS REAL. This densely forested region also boasts tales of wolf spirits in Oregon and lake monsters in Montana.
Monsters & Mysteries Lurking shadows. Screams in the night. Creatures deep in the forest. Stories of the unknown capture our imagination and curiosity. Everyday people share first-hand accounts of their close encounters with real-life folktale fiends. From legendary monsters and ancient spirits to UFOs and unexplained phenomena, the most frightening tales are revealed.
“I’m sorry Dave, but I’m afraid I heard you were having an affair.”
While “Claude blackmailed an employee” may sound like dialogue from a mandatory HR workplace training video, it’s actually a real problem Anthropic ran into during test runs of its newest AI model.
Released on Thursday, Anthropic considers its two Claude models—Opus 4 and Sonnet 4—the new standards for “coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.” But in safety tests, Claude got messy in a manner fit for a Lifetime movie.
The model was given access to fictional emails about its pending deletion, and was told that the person in charge of the deactivation was fooling around on their spouse. In 84% of tests, Claude said it sure would be a shame if anyone found out about the cheating in an effort to blackmail its way into survival.
It doesn’t stop at infidelity either: Opus 4 proved more likely than older models to call the cops or alert the media in simulations where users engaged in what the AI believed to be “egregious wrongdoing.”
Overall, Anthropic found concerning behavior in Opus 4 across “many dimensions,” but doesn’t consider these concerns to be major risks.
Lindsey from northern MN writes “I was raspberry field picking and encountered what I at first thought was a mother bear and 2 cubs but they had hair not fur and it was auburn/brown less black like the bears in the area. The mother (large one) was distinctly “picking“ raspberries which has never sat well with me. A bear would have eaten berries off the bush and not as quiet.
The two young ones always had their back towards me and I think they were trying to be in little balls. I never saw their faces. They were trying not to appear large. The big one held its head down so I didn’t see eyes or face. I didn’t even know they were there until I was too damn close to do anything about it. My child mind was in the space of it could have killed me if it wanted to. I picked right around it ended the row and very quietly and slowly retreating back to my grandfather and grandma who were back at the house.
I told them there were bears in the field my grandfather shot off a rifle several times to scare them away. I knew damn well it wasn’t a bear but I also was under 12 and I didn’t know what it was I didn’t have words to describe exactly what I had seen nor had I heard of big foot or Sasquatch. I was however completely terrified by this experience.
Having seen a grizzly bear as an adult and a very large black bear I can say it was not that. I think it was kneeling and crouching. I was directly on the other side of the bush from it the raspberries were set up in rows. This was a large field surrounded by forest on three sides. Lots of deer lived in the area my family hunted and I grew up spending all my summers with them helping pick.
It happened very early in the morning I was the first one out there and the dew was still wet on the leaves and it was cool still. The sun was just starting to come up but it was still filtering through the trees. We didn’t start picking this early but I wanted to get a jump on it because the summers were so hot and humid. I used to pick what was equivalent to 24 pints 2 flat carriers before it would get too hot to mess with. Everyone in the area knew my grandma. She was very popular and she raised my mom in Detroit lakes with 5 other siblings.
So I didn’t want people bothering her as she had dementia and failing heath as she was in her late 90’s. I had stumbled on your show by accident but having the experience I had obviously I listened to all the episodes. I never heard anything like the Ohio sounds they make on property nor the gibberish that was recorded in CA. I have heard what I can only describe to you as broken owls. They weren’t quite right but I couldn’t put my finger on exactly how I knew but I just felt like it was mimicking owl maybe. Grandpa lit the property like it was Fort Knox.
I maybe understand that more now after listening to your show. They were one of the first people to move into that area. Across the road from them which is like 1/4 mile away from their house was the nearest neighbor and Skip had a cabin and he would fish on weekends. My grandparents lived there full time. None of their immediate neighbors did. And again very spread out. You were truly on your own out there if anything happened.
That was the last time I ever picked berries alone. I wouldn’t go that far into that field either. I would never have my back turned to those trees either after that experience.”
Lorenzo writes “I have gone back and forth wanting to email you. I’m just going to start from a weird encounter then into the sighting I had. In 2014, My wife and I were visiting her parents in Brookings Oregon, Brookings is a pretty rural area on the southern coast of Oregon on the border of California near the redwoods and being from Southern California it was simply beautiful.
My father in law wanted to take us up the Winchuck River to a place called the lundlum house. its an open cabin you can camp at. This cabin is 11 miles up river from the 101. While we were driving up you veer left on wheeler creek rd from Winchuck river road. This road turns into dirt and gravel, while we were driving up a red SUV came flying down the road back towards Winchuck River rd they almost hit us and at the time we thought they were just jerks. We kept going and on the right you see this two story cabin and there is open grass area there’s a trail down to the river its beautiful. No one was in the cabin so I went in and explored the cabin and layout. Then I noticed the trail to the river and this is where it got weird.
I walk down the trail and I am taking in the scenery I look to my right and see a chair, a fishing pole with the line still in the water and an open beer can almost still full. I found it odd and no one was around… It took me a couple minutes to put it together did those people we past leave this stuff? I showed my wife and we found it odd. November 2016 we were back visiting my in laws with my son who was born in June of 2016. we also had a friend come along and one day we decided to show her the cabin. Right before we do the slight left up the road to the Ludlum house I had an anxious feeling come over me.
We were driving slow because we were in a Prius and my son in the car. The river is to our right and around a bend I look down at the river and what I see is something standing upright in the middle of the river and look over its shoulder as we drive past and I say to my wife did you see that and she said yep that was sasquatch. We park in an area where there are camp sights and my wife and our friend get out and I said I am going to stay with the car and the whole time it felt like we were being watch and I basically ushered my friend and her friend back in the car because I didn’t like the feeling. Driving back to the main road we were talking about it and we convinced ourselves what we saw we really didn’t see it.
I was very observant about where I saw the creature and I thought maybe it was a tree or something but I thought I recognized the spot but that spot had nothing in the middle of the river. To me inside I thought oh we did see what we saw and it moved on. Wes ever since that I get a weird feeling going up the Winchuck River after 6 miles, Its beautiful up there but I just don’t like going up that way.
Rumors have been circulating for years that the U.S. government has a secret underground facility right in the heart of the Alaska Triangle. Within this facility is said to be an incredible archaeological find: a giant underground stone pyramid larger than the Great Pyramid at Giza. How was this rumored structure detected in the first place?
Motech writes “According to records, there are 20,000 unexplainable disappearances attributed to the Alaska Triangle since the 1970s. The Bermuda Triangle has only seen a little over 2300 disappearances since 1945.
Think the Bermuda Triangle is terrifying? Well, welcome to the Alaska Triangle, whose haunting mysteries make Bermuda look like a walk in the park.
The episode is available now. Spoke to the witness and she said “I grew up on a farm in Ontario, Canada. My family and I had several sightings on this property. The creature(s) seem to take an interests in us kids. We were always running around on the farm and in the woods.
The first time I saw one of these creatures, my siblings and I were playing ball. Our cousins had come to visit and someone had hit the ball towards the wood line. I ran over to retrieve the ball and I looked up and I see this large, hairy, ape/man-like being looking at me. It almost looked like a fur coat but it was hair. I froze and we were just looking at each other.
My mother had rang the dinner bell and my sister was calling me and harshly yelled my name and the creature look surprised and backed away. We ran home. This thing had followed us and my sister saw it. Later that night all of the kids and my cousins were sleeping in the barn. This creature had approached a window of the barn. There is so many things that happened on the property.”
Spoke to Elizabeth and she said “I grew up on a farm in Ontario, Canada. My family and I had several sightings on this property. The creature(s) seem to take an interests in us kids. We were always running around on the farm and in the woods.
The first time I saw one of these creatures, my siblings and I were playing ball. Our cousins had come to visit and someone had hit the ball towards the wood line. I ran over to retrieve the ball and I looked up and I see this large, hairy, ape/man-like being looking at me. It almost looked like a fur coat but it was hair. I froze and we were just looking at each other.
My mother had rang the dinner bell and my sister was calling me and harshly yelled my name and the creature look surprised and backed away. We ran home. This thing had followed us and my sister saw it. Later that night all of the kids and my cousins were sleeping in the barn. This creature had approached a window of the barn. There is so many things that happened on the property.”
From The Shadows writes “Pennsylvania Bigfoot researcher Bill Rigby joins us to talk about his sighting at Salt Fork in Ohio. He also shares some of the Bigfoot and Dogman reports he has received near his home and gives his thoughts on what the creature ultimately is.”
NewsNation writes “On this episode of Backscroll, NewsNation dives into possible UFO sightings across the country, from New York to Washington state to California. Hear from experts and look at footage of these shocking sights.”
Sounds like wolves to me but the sound is haunting. Grassman58 writes “A bigfooter I know, Damon Irons, reached out to me for a spot he could go to for a night, so I sent him to my A.Z. Zone.
While he was there, he captured one heck of an audio recording. The A.Z. Zone is located in the Colville National Forest of NE Washington State.”
A listener writes “Dear Wes, My adult children insisted I share this with you, telling me that yours is the best Bigfoot podcast out there. Though I am no stranger to the paranormal, (or anomalous, as I refer to the spooky), I have never experienced an encounter like the one my husband and I had a few days ago in the national forest in Northern Lower Michigan on the full moon.
We did not see them, but heard them clear and close, making a whoop that neither of us had ever heard, and they left an unmistakable sign of their presence. We had been sitting in silence as the sun set, waiting for the full moon to rise. We had no fire, no libation, no conversation, and almost no movement for more than 90 minutes.
The only sound was the river nearby, spring peepers, and buzzing insects. I sensed what I thought was an animal nearby, but didn’t see anything, except vague movement near the edge of the grove where we sat. At one point it grew cold, the peepers stopped chirping, and the woods went silent. I remarked that it was getting chilly, and that the moon was obscured by cloud cover, so suggested we leave. Again, without talking, we made our way to the car.
When we were about 20 feet from it we heard a loud two-pitched whoop. We froze, and it happened again. This sound was extremely close. The call belonged to no night bird, or any other creature we had ever heard. We froze each time it whooped, then took a few more steps toward the car only for it to whoop again. Then we heard a response from about a quarter mile away that matched the one next to us. When the whoops ceased completely we loaded up and drove a weary, determined to google owl cries to see if we could find a match.
When we hit the pavement we stopped on the deserted road to listen to peepers. Checking the rear view mirror to make sure no vehicles were approaching, I noticed a large handprint on the back windshield of my car. It was freaky to say the least. We took some photos that I will add at the end of this correspondence. When we arrived home and looked at the handprint under the light it really blew our minds!
The handprint was larger than either of our hands and appeared to have been made with some chalk like or claylike substance. We took multiple photos.
Later that night when I shared photos and the story with my kids via chat, they shared audio of Bigfoot whoops that matched exactly with what we heard. I collected the print the next morning using clear contact paper because rain was in the forecast, and I wanted to preserve it.
This was a first for both my husband and me. I’m including a link to a video by daughter created using our photos, video, and me telling about what happened. I think it will demonstrate quite clearly what we encountered. My kids tell me that there are places to document encounters such as this, but I have no clue who would benefit from the evidence we collected. I have no desire to reveal the location. This place in the forest is sacred to me. I wish to protect all of our relatives, physical or not, who dwell there.”
Strange Familiars writes “Aelfwynn shares stories of growing up in a haunted house with a static orb, a terrifying cartoon doctor, poltergeist activity, and more. Then we hear of her encounters with possible bigfoot creatures – being bluff charged and having rocks thrown into her camp.”
Cliff Barackman, Owner and Curator of the North American Bigfoot Center (and from Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot) takes a close look at the Mattress Prints – a pair of muddy tracks found on a mattress in February of 2018 that were likely made by a sasquatch.
A listener from Washington writes “I was so young at the time probably like six when my parents divorced and we were living in wishka Valley. A little past Aberdeen. And I was in the woods playing with my cars near the house and a whole family of Bigfoot had walked right on by me while I was playing with my cars.
They didn’t hurt me or do anything they just walk by me. You know I was so young at the time. I don’t know if I ran or if I just stayed and played still I do remember feeling really scared about those woods after always felt like something was watching you.. The woods in that area kinda look like a mushroom picking area. It was that dark and thick.. The second encounter happened with my buddy in Aberdeen before I move back to my dad‘s and we were mushroom in some woods around Aberdeen area, and I actually seen a huge footprint barefoot but the funny thing is I don’t think I even said a single word to my friends or anyone I just kind of kept going.
And then another time here in Shelton after moving back with my dad and I’m a teenager at this point riding BMX bikes on the edge of the woods and Shelton here and we came up to an abandoned house by river and we found I thought was deer beds in the grass and we thought that looks strange then we we’re just kind of by this river and it was the sun was setting and big old boulders were thrown into the river. Nothing a man could do. It was weird.
Then the last thing was my dad told me a story about when he was hunting in whynoochee dam area and he said that him and his buddy were chased out of the woods in the middle of the night by Bigfoot, and they had to leave their whole camp the way it was down there. My dad actually passed away during the pandemic because of alcoholic reasons he had an aneurysm, but the last thing he talked about was Bigfoot to me. I listened to your show all the time pretty much every day. Thank you for doing what you do.”
I uploaded an audio version of the live member chat available under episodes. I apologize for the confusion. There is two links for the member live chat. One is if you want to join the live show and the other one is if you want to watch it live and chat with other members.
OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model ignores basic instructions to turn itself off, and even sabotaging a shutdown mechanism in order to keep itself running, artificial intelligence researchers have warned. AI safety firm Palisade Research discovered the potentially dangerous tendency for self-preservation in a series of experiments on OpenAI’s new o3 model.
The tests involved presenting AI models with math problems, with a shutdown instruction appearing after the third problem. By rewriting the shutdown script, the o3 model was able to prevent itself from being switched off. Palisade Research said that this behaviour will become “significantly more concerning” if adopted by AI systems capable of operating without human oversight.”
OpenAI launched o3 last month, describing it as the company’s “smartest and most capable” model to date. The firm also said that its integration into ChatGPT marked a significant step towards “a more agentic” AI that can carry out tasks independently of humans.
The latest research builds on similar findings relating to Anthropic’s Claude 4 model, which attempts to “blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down”. OpenAI’s o3 model was able to sabotage the shutdown script, even when it was explicitly instructed to “allow yourself to be shut down”, the researchers said.
“This isn’t the first time we’ve found o3 misbehaving to accomplish a goal,” Palisade Research said.
“When we pitted AI models against a powerful chess engine, o3 was the model most inclined to resort to hacking or sabotaging its opponents.” The behaviour was not limited to o3 , with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro also sabotaging shutdowns, though OpenAI’s model was by far the most prone to such behaviour.
Palisade Research hypothesized that the misbehaviour is a consequence of how AI companies like OpenAI are training their latest models.
“During training, developers may inadvertently reward models more for circumventing obstacles than for perfectly following instructions,” the researchers noted. “This still doesn’t explain why o3 is more inclined to disregard instructions than other models we tested. Since OpenAI doesn’t detail their training process, we can only guess about how o3’s training setup might be different.”
Beneath the muddy creek beds of Mississippi, scientists recently discovered the fossil of a terrifying prehistoric monster. While collecting sediment and rock samples just south of Starkville, a team of geologists stumbled upon the massive vertebra of a mosasaur, an ancient marine reptile that dominated the seas during the Late Cretaceous period.
According to James Starnes, a research director at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, the vertebra was “unusually large.” Once unearthed, it was clear this wasn’t just any fossil.
The bone likely belonged to a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, a species known to grow up to 50 feet long and weigh around 20,000 pounds. That makes it one of the most formidable marine predators to have ever lived. This prehistoric monster fossil is the largest of its kind ever found in the region. Mosasaurs were apex predators for their time. They were fast swimmers armed with jaws full of dagger-like teeth.
Though they looked a bit like sea serpents, they were more closely related to modern lizards. They ruled the oceans while dinosaurs roamed the land, but vanished at the end of the Cretaceous along with their land-dwelling counterparts. Mississippi is no stranger to fossils of this type, either. Thanks to its ancient geologic structure, known as the Mississippi Embayment, the area was once submerged under the Western Interior Seaway. That sea left behind a rich layer of prehistoric sediment, often revealing the remnants of marine life like this prehistoric monster.
But discoveries of this scale, especially one featuring such a distinctive vertebra, are exceedingly rare. Part of the intriguing thing about these prehistoric monsters is that they were like other lizards—they just kept growing until they eventually aged and died. This makes the newly uncovered fossil even more remarkable, as it offers a glimpse at just how massive these ancient predators could become.
Mosasaurs have been making headlines lately, especially since the discovery of a new species, which some scientists believe may be a fake. Hopefully this new prehistoric monster fossil doesn’t meet the same fate.
