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My husband just can’t accept that dogs don’t reason exactly like humans nor do they follow the exact same rules of behavior. When he starts one of his “they should know better” rants, I get the dogs to look at me as I knock on the wall or table. As the pack then runs to bark at the door, I remind Hubby that dogs have their own way of thinking. ?
There was also mention of females on the Dogman Encounters episode about the rancher who raised a dogman (A Dogman Named Stripes or something like that). I think I remember another episode in which a couple of dogman investigators came upon what seemed to be a female and pup off a hiking trail in Maine (?), and it scared them so badly they ran all the way back to their vehicle, arriving just as a game warden pulled
up.@Gumshoguy, yes, it would be repression of a sort. I mean that if she were abused by someone she loves and should have been able to trust, who should have protected her, who may be a normal family member in every other way, it might still be too traumatic for her to accuse her abuser, so perhaps she’s transferred the role of abuser to a nameless Bigfoot.
That she said she was forbidden to go to the window when the Bigfoot tapped on it and that she was told not to go with them, as if it were her choice to be kidnapped, suggests that the guilt for the abuse was shifted to her. If she feels she shares in the guilt for the abuse, it could certainly make it even more difficult for her accuse her abuser.
@Knobby, I’m in agreement with you about this account. I don’t doubt Bigfoots sometimes snatch people, and there are accounts of their paying particular attention to teenaged human girls, but I’m not convinced that’s what’s going on here.
What really struck me about her account was her description of her family’s dynamics and how the problem was handled. This seems to be the classic description of a family where a child is being sexually abused and no one is stepping up to help. (For example, the mother who knows but won’t directly help or confront her husband for fear of her family being destroyed.) Could blaming Bigfoots be a way to keep holding the trauma at arm’s length? Sure, it might really be about Bigfoots, but does it sound like the people around her are reacting in a realistic manner to Bigfoots repeatedly kidnapping a young girl? I think the real monster in this woman’s past was someone closer to her.
Things that caught my attention: She paints a picture of a father who can’t effectively protect her and sometimes even won’t protect her; a mother who despite knowing what’s going on won’t directly help her daughter for fear her family will be destroyed; the mother does try to get others to fix the problem by asking them to pray over the girl or by asking her other daughters to convince their father to fix the problem (why can’t her mom confront her dad? what, exactly, were they praying? did they know about the Bigfoots?); the woman says she was lucky to have brothers to protect her, but they couldn’t, and she urged them to run (while hiding in the house?) lest they get hurt, too; she clearly hated what was happening, but she seems to take an ambiguous position on her own role in the kidnappings (the creature was tapping at the window, but she was forbidden to go to the window; she keeps saying her parents and church members would tell her not to go, as if she had a choice); when she relaxed and quit protesting being kidnapped, the Bigfoots all smiled and laughed.
Finally, regarding the video host’s comments about Morgan county, Alabama, having a huge system of interconnected cave tunnels running under it and Bigfoots inhabiting those caves. I’ve done a lot of caving in that area. In fact, it’s in one of the most popular caving areas in the country and is well explored. There are a lot of caves and a lot of Bigfoots in the area, but there isn’t a big tunnel system and there’s no evidence of Bigfoots inhabiting the caves. It’s possible they shelter occasionally in the entrance zone of caves, but there’s no signs they go deeper into the caves.
Alan, that’s disappointing about Vic. I need to go listen to those two episodes again. I’m glad to hear he took Khat’s down.
Alan, I’ll have to listen to those two Dogman episodes again. I’ve heard that mentioned but didn’t know which episodes they were. If they are the same guy, I guess it’s always possible Vic didn’t know, though that seems unlikely. I don’t know how well he vets his guests or how trusting he is. He seems to give everyone the benefit of a doubt. He’s had other unbelievable guests, but he’s had good ones, too.
Alan T, the 6-year-old boy you mentioned was probably Dennis Martin. He disappeared in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park in 1969. The park service asked for help from a self-contained Green Beret unit and the National Guard. They pretty much asked for help from anyone and everyone. The search was one of, if not the, largest search ever, and the park had nightmarish logistical problems handling it. It’s since become an oft-studied case study and training tool for SAR organizations. You can probably find one of the case studies on the internet (maybe try the references under the Wikipedia entry for Dennis Martin). It’s worth a read.
As suspicious as the military participation sounded to me when I first read about the Dennis Martin case, the play-by-play of the search in the case studies I’ve read suggest the search was a poorly organized three-ring circus, and the Park was throwing everything they could think of at it. If any park rangers thought a Squatch grabbed the boy, they don’t appear to have been the ones calling the shots for the rescue. It was this search that triggered a nationwide rethinking of how SAR operations should be organized and carried out.
Thanks to everyone who posted links to videos about military involvement in cover-ups. I had missed a couple of those. I find the accounts about this to be extremely interesting, but I also think they warrant extra caution on our part. There are too many guys out there who lie about military experience for attention (maybe not so much to other guys as to women they want to impress!). I’m not buying Brandon’s Dogman Encounter stories, either, though I love how he described the soldiers as being part of “a private branch of the government.” (Ah ha! I knew the Federal Reserve was behind it all! Lol!) I do think some of the other accounts might be true.
Thanks, Scott O. I appreciate the prayers.
It’s amazing the perspective cancer gives you. If someone does something stupid that annoys the crap out of me, I think, “Oh, well. Looking at the big picture, it’s really not important. Then again, this might be my last chance to smack some sense into that fool!” Dumbsh*t is annoying whether you have cancer or you’re healthy, so please feel free to complain about it.
Thanks, Chris. Oil refineries have always been a hard sell. Too many competing interests on the coasts: tourism, fishing, expensive real estate, environmentalists…
Every time I see an eyeshine video with those startlingly huge eyes, I think of H. erectus skulls and the Pintubi-1 skull. Look at the eye sockets on that skull!
Scott O, I have lymphoma, a cancer that occurs in the cells of the immune system. It sucks when the very cells that are supposed to protect you from cancer are the murderous little mutants that are trying to kill you! Over 90% of the people who get it are completely cured after their first treatment regimen. Unfortunately, I’m not in that group. My cancer returned almost immediately, and it’s a much harder cancer to fight if it fails to respond to the first line treatment.
My tumors this time are tucked under my sternum and aortic arch and lined up alongside my heart and lung. This type of lymphoma tends to form massive fibrous tumors filled with cellular debris and causing a lot of inflammation and fibrous scar tissue… not something you want wrapped around your heart!
The second line treatment for it is an autologous stem cell transplant. Basically, you kill off your immune system before it kills you, then grow a new one from immature cells. I’m having one very soon, and I’ve already gone through two 5-day, 24/7, intensive chemo treatments in preparation for it. I find out this week if the cancer has been beaten back far enough for me to have healthy stem cells harvested. I’m toxic, nauseaous, headachey, having trouble walking, have a revolting chemical taste in my mouth, my brain’s fuzzy, fatigued, and, well, just general yuckiness… and I’ve got months of this horrid stuff ahead of me… ugh!
This forum has become my hidey-hole to take a break from it all and think about something else for a while!
Scott O, that we produce oil here isn’t going to show a noticeable benefit to the American consumer unless we increase the amount of oil we can refine in the US. By law, when oil refineries in the US are running at maximum production capacity, oil companies can then sell the excess oil they drilled here (that we aren’t able to refine here) into the world market for the oil company’s profit. We Americans then buy it back from the world market at world market prices. We do not share directly in the profits of the sale into the world market.
We’re not seeing a big difference in prices at gas pumps because our refineries have been running near or at capacity for a long time. If the amount of oil drilled in the US doubled next year, most of that oil would be sold directly into the world market with the sales profits going to the oil companies. More availability of oil in the world market lowers oil prices, of course, so consumers worldwide would benefit from the increased world market supply, but we wouldn’t benefit more than consumers anywhere else.
For the American consumer to see a significant benefit from oil drilled in the US, we need more refineries here (something few voters want in their backyard!), and we need to watchdog the oil industry and politicians more closely than we’ve ever seemed able to do to ensure the American consumer benefits and continues to benefit fairly when public land and resources are used in oil production.
Disclaimer: It’s been a few years since I looked into all this. It’s possible things have changed. Ordinarily I’d fact-check before posting, but I’m too sick to do that these days. I’d welcome anyone else checking it out and updating. I remember the law allowing the sale of excess oil to the world market for the sole profit of the oil companies was introduced and pushed through by a senator or representative from California. I’m sorry I don’t remember which one.
