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Thanks for the kind words everybody!
Dave H – I will check those out! I have a whole file of “other stuff” (i.e. not bigfoot, but still strange/weird) – a lot of that ends up in the Strange Familiars Presents… short episodes.
Thanks for sharing! StrangeFamiliars.com too – and the usual places like itunes etc.
There’s some other bigfoot shows we did throughout. A lot of stuff is a combo of weird things – like the Site 7 shows where we recorded weird audio on site, people are reporting bigfoot-like things, other strange animals, lights in the woods, drones following them etc etc. In PA we so often get bigfoot reports in combination with these other strange things. Very curious and very interesting to me.
Anyway, as I told Wes off air, I haven’t promoted Strange Familiars in the forums here as I didn’t want to take advantage or anything. I love SC and I’m just super happy and excited every time Wes brings me on – so I never want to push things.
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My first try at posting an image here – hopefully it works… anyway, this is my favorite illustration I’ve done for the upcoming book. It might end up being the cover.
Oh, I was on SC back in… September 2016 I think? Talking about my first book ‘Beyond the Seventh Gate’ with Wes… and then again a few weeks later on a ‘little people’ show talking about albatwitches (also in my first book)…
My second book should be ready this summer – it’s called ‘Bigfoot in Pennsylvania’ – it’s more of a historical survey/compilation of old reports (1830s-1920s). I started out with the intention of doing a book on the entire US/Canada of similar reports but then very quickly found I had too many and I would have to break it down regionally – I then found that I had too many, at least for PA! So, the first book will be all PA reports. I will probably make a series of it – and do other states/regions as well – but I live in PA so I started here. I found some really interesting stuff I think – lots of inconclusive but still interesting “wild man” reports – and also what seems to be killings by bf creatures, missing 411 type cases, bf attacks, etc.
Regardless of whether that video is a hoax or not – and I’m not sure either way .. but as I was saying, video hoax or not white bigfoot creatures have been reported in PA for a long, long time.
My next book has a white bf account in PA going back to the early 1900s – and they do indeed call the creature a ghost. Several other of these old accounts make reference to the creatures as apparitions, spectres, spooks, etc. I have a couple other accounts in the book which speak of hauntings and then just happen to mention that a “wild man” was seen in the area as well.
So, I think bigfoot get confused for ghosts sometimes. Especially if people go somewhere that is said to be haunted and then experience something strange – I tell stories about this in my first book – they go to an area that is supposed to be haunted and hear screams or get rocks thrown at them – or in the case of one witness I talked to recently: get the back end of their car lifted up(!) – and since they have been told the area is haunted, they will immediately think “ghosts”.
Gabriel: I think you took things further than I (and probably more concisely explained), and I am on board with all of it – though it can get a bit headache-inducing when considering the absolute scale of it all… I would say “implications” but that would imply having some grasp of implications and I’m not sure that I do.
I am going to go look up that book NOW. Thanks for the recommendation!
I emailed Wes about this but here goes…
Regarding “demons”… I think our understanding of demons or things we call demons is very childlike. I think using the term “demons” is potentially misleading, really, but maybe there isn’t a better name at this time? “Trickster” may be more appropriate but that seems too benign really.
This is going to get tricky because I don’t want to offend anyone’s religion. Please do not take this as an assault on your beliefs. I absolutely respect everyone’s right to their own beliefs.
Let’s take “alien abduction” cases. Which, by the way, I don’t believe are space aliens… but that’s another topic. At some point some researchers started to connect these cases with reported demon encounters going back to the Middle Ages and probably before. I think rightly so. They then found that abduction victims were having great success warding off the phenomenon with religious symbols and prayer.
O, that proves it. DEMONS…right? Maybe, but hold on, there’s more… here’s the rub: Let’s say a Christian put crosses up around their bed. A Jewish person put the Star of David around theirs. A Wiccan put up a pentagram. A Buddhist might put up something meaningful to their religion (it would depend on if Tibetan Buddhism or Theraveda, etc – but you get where I’m going here)… All were met with equal success.
So, what does this mean? I do not know. Perhaps there is a spiritual component, but not a specific religious component? Perhaps it is a matter of belief in general?
I do know that if someone has success warding off creatures/demons/whatever with a prayer from their particular religion, this will absolutely confirm to them that their religion is “right”. This is completely understandable and it probably IS right… at least for them. The problem is, what about the people with other religions who are having their own successes? They are “right” as well…
When we get into the weird/paranormal aspects of this stuff, there seems to come the element of the Trickster. You can quickly stumble into Mothman Prophecies type strangeness. I have done so myself … but that’s another topic.
For my part, I separate the paranormal from the supernatural – or rather I consider the supernatural a subset of the paranormal. I think bigfoot creatures are paranormal – meaning they are outside of what is normal – but not necessarily supernatural. They are superhuman – having abilities beyond ours (night vision, strength, speed, etc) … but are they supernatural as well? I don’t know. I suspect they have access to something we don’t – but is it intellectual or instinctual or both? Remember, quantum physics seems really spooky if you look at it through the lens of traditional Newtonian physics. Quantum physics can get really weird….but it is science, not magic.
Perhaps these creatures have access to quantum physics or something like it we just don’t yet understand? Perhaps it’s infrasound? – though I feel like infrasound couldn’t be responsible for ALL of the weirdness…but maybe?
No matter what “We Need Help” was one of my favorite SC shows and the update was equally weird and wonderful. Creepy stuff.
