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In the podcast section the full uncut audio from tonights show is available. Tonight we speak to Bruce who had two encounters near his property. We also speak to Gayle who has been researching Sasquatch in the Hudson Valley for many years and shares with us many encounter stories that she has personally researched. Members take a listen, I will be posting a version of the show as part of the free content.

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at about 5:00 PM, an off-duty, New Jersey State Police Officer reportedly encountered a huge, hair-covered, bipedal creature while taking a solitary stroll through a section of the Bass River State Forest. This officer’s claims are most intriguing as he is a seasoned state trooper who allegedly came within 100 feet of an animal for which he had absolutely no frame of reference. Though he was thoroughly unnerved by the sight, he had ample daylight with which to observe the animal’s form and physical characteristics. The officer claims that as he returned to the parking area for his vehicle, the strange animal followed him through the woods ultimately revealing itself to other witnesses.

This investigation was a unique opportunity. In fear of professional reprisal, it is quite rare for law enforcement personnel to come forward with sightings of this nature.

A comprehensive report on the Bass River Forest Encounter can be found at the following link: http://www.research.umbc.edu/~frizzell/BRSFreport.html

In 1981, while enjoying his favorite fishing spot, Mr. Lon Strickler waded into the South Branch of the Patapsco River near Sykesville and began to try his luck. As he fished, he took notice of a large, mixed-breed, stray dog walking along the opposing river bank about 50 feet away. As he watched, the dog began bark and growl at a large clump of brush near the river. As Strickler observed the dog, he was amazed to see a 7 to 8 foot tall, hair covered, human shape emerging from the brush. The dog, now highly agitated, attacked the huge creature. Mr. Strickler said the beast made an odd “ticking” sound as it struggled with the dog. Within seconds, the creature slammed the canine to the ground. The dog ran off. And as the creature turned to walk back into the woods, Strickler said he caught the strange animal’s scent and described it as heavy musk.

At this point, Mr. Strickler’s story becomes stranger still as the following excerpt reveals:
” I drove to a phone in Sykesville and called the police. I was told to return to the scene and wait. It took me about 3 minutes to get back….and a [State] police cruiser was already there. I was immediately told to leave the area. I returned an hour later and noticed several state vehicles and one federal vehicle as well as police…the area was taped off. I could see people combing the area….I was told once again to leave. I tried for several days to get answers from state officials but never got an answer. I called [Baltimore TV stations] WJZ, WBAL and WMAR about the incidents and each seemed very interested. I contacted each station [several days] later and was told that they had ‘no idea’ of an incident and did not want to talk to me.”

The specific area where Strickler had his experience (a section of the Patapsco State Park) is still very heavily wooded and unpopulated.

Alabama 2012

Witness Observed:

This is NOT a joke, I’m well known here married to a funeral home director my brother n law is a law enforcement officer. I saw it clearly crossing the road right in front of me, I’m 6’4″ so is my brother n law this creature was considerably taller than me probably 6’8″ shuffling like an orangutan but more human-like but not like a man. It was covered in long hair maybe 4-6 inches long. It was not walking but not running… quickly shuffling. The most distinguishing feature was its arms, slump shouldered and its hands were below its knees. Now here is the deal, I don’t drink I don’t do drugs, I’m 55 yrs old as of May this year, have three grandbabies and two sons. I’m a christian and have NEVER, EVER, believed in bigfoot. I don’t know what this was but i do know this…. it was NOT human, no costume but not 100 percent animal. I SAW IT CLEARLY MYSELF. Please take this seriously! I don’t care if you contact me personally or not but please check this thing out there is something out there i saw it myself. Is it “bigfoot” I’ve no idea but its something… thank you for your time

October 1979

Actual sketch from that night:

Witness observed:

“Me and three of my friends were on county line road west, between watkins dr and hanging moss road in Jackson MS. We were at a small pond just off the road,doing what you did back in 1979,drinking a few beers ,well we had the radio going pretty mellow for the day,when my friend Tim, whose car we were in said did you hear that?We turned the radio down and rolled the windows down a little,listened ,nothing, so we turned the radio back up and in a few minutes We did hear something,it was a pretty loud growl,not like anything I’d ever heard before,we were on the north side of the pond and it was on the south side,there were cattails that were at least 7 foot tall on that side of the pond,Tim turned on the headlights and across the pond there was a huge hairy ape it looked like,with huge green eyes,and it was turning its head slightly from side to side,blinking its eyes,which were green only because of the headlights of course,well that got all of our attention real good, I remember asking everyone if they saw what I did,and we all agreed that bigfoot was on the other side of this real small pond,it had to be at least 8 feet tall,and had a very cone shaped head, just like a silver-back gorilla,and was black as far as I could tell,it was making some grunting sounds every now and then,we cut the headlights off and cranked his car,which chose to take a very long time to fire up,when the animal let out the most spine tingling roar I’ve ever heard,kind of like a lions grunt but much louder and longer,the car fired up and we got out of there ,when the headlights came back on it was still there,I have to say it scared us so bad we didn’t tell many people,but it has remained in my memory all these years,I can still hear that roar,its quite distinctive,I grew up in those woods since I was 7,always felt like something was watching me,from bicycles to dirt bikes we would ride those trails. At the time of the sighting the area was being developed into a industrial park,and hwy 220 bypass was in its first stages,we really were on the edge of Jackson at the time it was good bigwoods,with streams and ponds here and there.”

Source:http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=27012

Mississippi, 2004

Witness Observed:

I had went and hung a stand on a tree the day before,for hunting deer. In an area around north sardis lake on public land.I knew I was the only person in there, because of the trails hadn’t been used for some time.I rode in about 2 miles in and then walked about 300 yards to where I had hung my climber. It was just about day break, I was 20 or so feet up a pine tree when I heard what sounded like someone beating a stick against a tree. I spotted some movement in the area the sound came from,What ever it was was brown and tall,my first thought was its a bear.I was using my binoculars,but it was about 200 yards from me and dawn.So I pulled up my rifle to look threw the scope,hoping I could see it better.It wasn’t any bear, it didn’t have ears on top of its head and its face was flat. It was at least 8 foot tall and stood like a man.and I noticed its skin was grayish/green where the hair was thin. I was so startled I stood up.It turned toward my direction and knew I was there.It leaned Its head back as if smelling the air, then took off. It move 40 or so yards in a few seconds and was gone.I was shaking badly and climbed straight down.I just could not believe what I had seen.

So I started walking in the direction I had seen it.I walked over to a hill where it had slid and left a track. It was a human looking foot track.This scared me because I was trying to tell myself, it was just a bear,then a sound came from the woods that sounded like whoop…whoop.So I hurried back got my stand and left those woods. That has been six years ago, and every time I told anyone my story. They made fun of me, so I been reserved about letting anyone know.

Spring 2014 in Washington State-

Witness observed:

I went out to get a couple empty plant pots located at the north corner of my house. I had some stacked up in a box. To the north and behind my house, the neighbors dog was barking like crazy from inside their fenced off back yard… There’s thick barrier of brush between me and the next lot facing west so I couldn’t really see the dog. I grabbed the two small pots and stood up and yelled at the dog to “shut up” just then the bushes in front of me started thrashing like crazy and deep growl/grunt/exhale emanated from behind them. It was surreal as sound seemed to penetrate right through me, whatever it was, it wasn’t happy.

Instinctively, I started to cover the distance to my shed about 35 feet and while I was on my way, I could feel/hear the ground pounding as “whatever” was moving for cover in the brush to the south. It was like “boom, boom, boom, boom then it crashed into the woods and there was loud sound of sticks/branches breaking… I ducked to the shed and just stood there, confused as to what just happened. I waited for what seemed to be a few minutes, grabbed a sledge hammer for some protection and was just about to make a break for the house, when the bushes and branches behind the shed started snapping, again; it was like a buffalo was charging through them… So, I stayed put and I was getting kind of freaked out. Then there was silence for a few minutes and I made the dash for the house. Once inside I grabbed my Mossberg 500 loaded with “00” buckshot and headed back out on my back deck. There was nothing to see and even the dog was quiet… I thought about looking for tracks but, I reasoned it out that whatever could make the ground shake like that would be best left alone. I’m a cautious person by nature.

I would have chalked this up to maybe being a bear except for the pounding foot steps that shook the ground… I’ve had bear run past me before in this yard as I’ve been here for 19 years. There was no tell tale Squatch smell as the wind was blowing from the South West… However, two days later, there was a horrible musky skunk smell coming through my bedroom window. Needless to say, I closed it… Something was still out there…

I’ve told this story to a few friends and it got me some weird looks…

After recently reading “The Hoopa Project” and the many incidences recounted with ground shaking foot falls, I say, put me down for a class “B” incident that was too close for comfort… I think twice about going out to the mail box now.

Source:http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=46520

This is a digital picture of Patty from the Patterson-Gimlin film from 1967. A forensic animator named Reuben Steindorf, from Vision Realm, used 3D digital animation to create this. What do you think?

Today’s Daily Giant continues the story of explorer Paxson Hayes and the Giants of Sonora. In this photo from the San Jose News, December 31, 1935 pg 12, the description is given,
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“Paxson Hayes, explorer, studies the head of a giant mummy discovered by him in a deep cave hitherto unexplored regions of Sonora, Mexico. The mummified remains were of a race 7 1/2 feet tall and preserved in excellent condition. Corn found with the mummies has been given to scientists.”

Yesterday I posted a picture of the ancient city in Sonora, Mexico where the giant mummies were found. Reported in the Washington Post, July 22, 1937 is “Smithsonian Amazed at Discovery of 6 1/2-Foot Mummies in Caves.” We are informed of the following about Paxson C. Hayes and G. C. Barnes from the article, “With several dozen snakes (all alive), and the burial robe of a prehistoric giant (quite dead), packed in their trailer, they stopped in Washington yesterday to promote interest in their unique fields of activity. Herpetologically speaking, their purpose in coming here from California was to present President Roosevelt with 15 Smoki snakes., 10 California and Mexican rattlers and an 8-foot baby Mexican boa constrictor, which was shedding. Marvin C. McIntyre received them at the White House, expressed gratitude and suggested the reptile house at the zoo as perhaps the best place for the snakes. Dr. Ernest P. Walker, assistant director of the Zoo, officially welcomed the snakes to their new home. That over, the visitors then dropped in at the Smithsonian Institution with the prehistoric burial robe and a four-legged stool, both of which they unearthed in a burial cave in northern Sonora, Mexico. The Californians explained that the cave, one of 18 they had discovered, contains well preserved mummies of a race which averaged over 6 1/2 feet in height (up to 8 feet tall). The caves are scattered over an area of 450 square miles. Hayes who has just returned from his fifth expedition to the caves heard about their existence from the Yaqui Indians of Mexico.”

The article also shows a photo of Hayes, Barnes and Head Keeper of the Washington Zoo, William H. Blackburn as they assist a Mexican boa constrictor. I found the following information in the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution “Smoki People,” through Paxson C. Hayes and G. C. Barnes, Prescott, Ariz., 5 Western bullsnakes, 2 red rattlesnakes, 2 Mexican rattlesnakes.” This if further verification of Hayes and Barnes meeting with Smithsonian officials. Lost city, giant mummified head, and a burial robe of a giant. All three with photographs, Another case where the Smithsonian Institution should be compelled to answer questions

The skeleton of a 22- to 24-year-old man of approximately 7 foot, 6 inches tall, center, is on display at the Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Harry Fisher, MCT)

Source:http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/08/smithsonian-amazed-at-discovery-of-6-12.html

The first ancient human fossil found in Taiwan may indicate the presence of an unknown archaic species of humans who lived in Asia during the Pleistocene era, possibly hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived.

The complete right-lower jaw and teeth, found in the deep waters of the Penghu Channel, west of Taiwan, was pulled from the seafloor by a fishing net. The surprisingly primitive specimen, dated through analysis to have originated from between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago, may prove to be from an unknown species of human.

“During the Pleistocene Epoch, which lasted from about 2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago, humans generally evolved smaller jaws and teeth, but the new fossil from Taiwan appears larger and more robust than older Homo erectus fossils from Java and northern China,” LiveScience reports on the discovery.

A study analyzing the find, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that multiple lineages of unknown, now-extinct humans may have existed side-by-side in Asia eons before the arrival of modern humans approximately 40,000 years ago.

The Penghu 1 mandible, jaw and teeth in various orientations

The jaw, dubbed Penghu 1, is similar to a fossil found relatively nearby, in Hexian, southern China, dated to 400,000 years ago. These fossils may indicate a new species of humans, but researchers are reluctant to confirm that pending further finds.

Yousuke Kaifu, paleoanthropologist at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Japan and co-author of the study told LiveScience, “We need other skeletal parts to evaluate the degree of its uniqueness. The question of species can be effectively discussed after those steps.”

As reported just this week, the skull fragments and teeth discovered in 1976 in a cave in Xujiayoa, China are raising surprising questions about the prehistoric origins of humanity. Dental remains were recovered from four different individuals, and were examined for size, shape and surface of the teeth, as well as other defining characteristics. When the teeth were compared to a database of over 5,000 teeth of known species, María Martinón-Torres of the National Research Centre on Human Evolution found that they did not match any of the accepted hominids.

BBC Earth reported on the Xujiayoa teeth, “We know there were as many as four other early humans living on Earth when modern humans were still confined to Africa. The Neanderthals lived in Europe, the Denisovans in Asia and the “hobbit” Homo floresiensis in Indonesia: plus there was a mysterious fourth group from Eurasia that interbred with the Denisovans.”

The question is now whether all these Asian fossils represent a hybrid of known prehistoric humans, or whether scientists have an entirely new human species on their hands – or several!

The Penghu 1 jaw and teeth, combined with the recent examinations of the Xujiayoa, China teeth and skull fragments, add up to discoveries challenging the established theory on the history of modern humans. These significant finds may reshape perceptions, and show that the issue of humanity’s origins is far from settled.

Kaifu told LiveScience, “This is a very different, complex and exciting story compared to what I was taught in school.”
Featured Image: Fossilized jawbone, dubbed Penghu 1, found submerged in seafloor near Taiwan. Dated between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago. Credit: Y. Kaifu, CC BY-NC-SA-4.0

Source: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/taiwan-jaw-bone-connected-origins-humanity-020183

July, 2002. Ontario Canada – “I’m not sure what I saw except it wasn’t a bear”

The area is north of the North Shore of lake Huron, north of Blind River by about twenty miles on Bear Head lake. The area is incredibly dense bush and in most places impenetrable due to low scrub and swamp. We were at a cottage, one of about 8 or 9 on the lake on the east side. The west side of the lake had no habitation just rock and thick bush. There are lots of critters, bears, wolves, moose and deer along with porcupines. I am fairly familiar with all of these animals and their noises, for the most part they are scared of humans and they bolt when they see a person. We had been at the cottage a few days perhaps 3, when whilst sitting around the kitchen table talking fishing late at night with my sons we heard a series of grunts chirps and squeals. I thought it might have been a bear with young across the lake as the cubs often can be heard squealing and playing in this area. The noises however were much more organized than bear cubs and were coming from two different locations. The distance across the lake is perhaps 500 yards. It was fairly obvious that the sounds were coming from two areas about 15 degrees apart. The noise of wood breaking and banging was quite loud and it was interspersed with a series of whooping grunts, best description. We stepped out on to the deck to listen better, it was fairly obvious that one noise was getting closer to the other. My neighbor who has lived on the lake for 40 years was out having a beer and taking the night air. His knowledge of the woods and area is way better than mine. I called him over to listen and as we all hushed and listened for a few minutes. I could tell by his head shaking that he had no idea what it was. The noises were really loud and it sounded like mayhem was breaking loose trees being smacked and banging noises shouts and whoops. Then it went quiet really quickly which was followed by a series of deep whooping noises and clicks which went on intermittently past the point I went to sleep.

The following day my lads headed out in the canoe out to where a fallen tree could be seen across the lake the day before, immediately it was obvious that the tree had gone from our perspective. I shouted to them where is the tree? They went across and then started to paddle back. I was looking at eagles overhead through the binos, when I scanned back to the lake and my lads. I drew a line on the shore behind them when I see this big black brown thing sitting on a boulder about 20 feet above the water. I thought at first it was a bear, but when a bear sits its legs just stick out in front slightly splayed. This thing had knees and it was sitting on its haunches with its knees up near its chest, I was not sure of what I was seeing so I looked away and went back to it and could see that I was not mistaken it had knees and was covered in hair with no neck, it sat on its haunches and then slapped its hands on the rock about three times both hands at the same time. I started waving and shouting to the kids who were about 300 yards away and pointing and trying to keep an eye on it through the binos. I could not tell if the kids understood so I went back to looking and waving my hand and pointing, the thing just stood up and walked into the bush behind it, the thing had no neck and looked kind of straggly and matted, it did not have a bears profile it was like the back of its head sloped down to its back, it was huge on top like the chest area but it had scrawny (by comparison) legs, the hair on its legs was thinner and lighter. When the kids got into dock I asked them if they saw what I was pointing at, they didn’t and couldn’t figure out why I was waving, I told them I seen a bear. When I asked them about where the tree had gone, they told me someone had dragged it to the beach, which in their words was weird. I did not and have not told them or anyone of what I saw, it’s sort of embarrassing and I figure they would have thought I was just kidding them.
The noises that we heard the night before continued that evening, but from a point further up the lake, we did not hear them again for two nights after that, then we heard about an hour of crazy noises, similar to (and I hate to say it to a monkey) but with great bass or chest in it. The sounds had weight. Moose make odd noises also bears but neither had the weight of this sound it was a BIG sound. I have heard owls make the most amazingly complex series of whoops and yells at ear splitting volumes but they don’t have the weight or bass these sounds had nor the organization in the way the sounds that we heard were vocalized. I am sure of what I saw and I can’t think of any creature that would match what I saw. It feels really weird even to be writing this, and I am sure on reflection what I have written above is the absolute truth as I remember it.

The episode is available now in the podcast section. You do not want to miss this encounter from a gentleman in the British military who encountered a Yeti. Here is his encounter:  In 1998 I took a sojourn in India, I lived there for a while in NW India’s Himalayan foothills, the closest airstrip would be Bhuntar. I did the usual stuff, hiking, playing hours of karrom and generally soaking up the sights. We took walks that lasted days through places like the uninhabited Sanj valley, met the strange people of Mallana (who haven’t bred outside their own village since Alexander the Great, or so the local opinion goes, indeed your not even allowed to touch them!) but it wasn’t far from a pretty busy little place called Kasol where I had my rude awakening. If you look on the map I suppose the closest place you will see is Manikuran. The country there is pretty dammed wild, you can hear boulders migrating down the river beds at night in the powerful course of the glacier melt waters! We were staying in a chai house about 2 miles from Kasol and after a trip into town for a hair cut and something to eat other than chick pea Dahl! I had to turn off the road to take care of nature. I knew I couldn’t get lost as the path ran parallel to the river so I veered iff for some privacy, it’s hard to come by in India!
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