Bigfoot in the News…Pennsylvania Bigfoot…

If asked, Maryland schoolteacher Robert Chance will tell you about strange doings in York County and in nearby Harford County, Md. He says chickens are mysteriously slaughtered in grotesque fashion. Mauled guard dogs become more like docile puppies. long tracks are found which have left unusually deep impressions in the ground. Chance’s explanation for these is a creature called “bigfoot.” Chance gives this description of bigfoot: About 7 feet tall, the creature is a two- legged humanoid weighing roughly 350 pounds. He is covered with dark or reddish brown hair, except over his face. He has a flat nose and a pointed head and is a good swimmer. Most active at night, bigfoot

feeds on fish, poultry, roots and garbage. Chance has compiled evidence pointing to the presence of a bigfoot in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He says there have been 237 reported sightings of the beast in Pennsylvania since the One was reported in York County only last March. Chance claims he and bigfoot have had two encounters. The first was in 1972 when he was hiking an abandoned logging trail after a canoe trip on Muddy Creek in southern York County. He and his four companions were startled by several large boulders, about 50 pounds a piece, which came bouncing past them. There was no sound or a landslide, just the rocks. “I’ve never been as scared as I was on Muddy Creek,” Chance recalled. The projectiles came close but hit no one. “I think he was just trying to scare us off. He could have hit us if he wanted to,” Chance says. Chance had read of reported sightings of bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest. The incident at Muddy Creek made him think that Bigfoot also lived in the East. Inspired, Chance checked and turned up other stories of bizarre occurrences. His quest for the beast began in earnest. Two years ago in Harford County, Chance was investigating a reported sighting. “I could smell something, and my dogs were going crazy. I heard this rush through a thicket and this weird cry. I went and found broken off waist high.” It was another close call with bigfoot, Chance believes. He says more than 50 possible bigfoot encounters have come to his attention this year including several in York County. There have been sightings in the county’s Muddy and Creek areas, he says. Tracks have been found, in outlying farmland. And a truck driver says he saw a creature near the Peach Bottom power plant March 2. Scant hard evidence for bigfoot’s existence has been found, Chance says. Strands of hair picked off fences have been identified as that of a primate, but not known primate. Plaster casts have ‘been made of footprints, Chance says. A camper with a tape recorder believes he got some Bigfoot on tape. But there are no photographs of an East Coast bigfoot. The elusive quality bigfoot exhibits is a sign of intelligence, Chance says. “You can’t set a trap for it. it’s too smart.” Bigfoot perhaps has retained survival instincts humans lost thousands of years ago. Although curious and powerful, the fleeting animal afraid of humans, Chance says. That attitude, combined with thick vegetation, makes summer a slow season for bigfoot sightings. Winter when incidents abound be cause scarcer food sources more activity by Bigfoot, thin foliage makes spottings easier and snow clearly marks footprints. The best theory Chance can develop is that Bigfoot roams the traveling from northern Florida to central Pennsylvania. In the area, Chance figured there actually are three Bigfoot animals. He guessed there may be 200 the After a total of three months of camping, Chance has come no closer than the two incidents related above, He isn’t quite sure what he’d do if he did find it. “I don’t think I could capture it because I wouldn’t know what dose of tranquilizer to use. And I don’t have 20 men with a net. The thought i’d stand my ground and mimic what it’d do. Idealistically, I’d like it to communicate with me, although I admit that is a little farfetched An environmental education teacher at the local high school, he has a syndicated newspaper column in addition to being a town commissioner and environmental center director. He also works as a wilderness outfitter. “I get razzed a lot. My father can’t buy it (the bigfoot notion). The commissioners and a lot of the people I teach with can’t buy it. You lose some credibility. But eventually i’m going to regain it when one is found. “I don’t mind criticism from outdoorsmen,” he says. “But comments from a Monday morning quarterback who’s never even camped out in the backwoods? Well I get upset when they give me grief. it’s something I got to live with, Iguess.” Much remains to be learned about bigfoot. Chance points out without hesitation researchers do not know where they come from, where they sleep, why no dead ones bave been found, among other questions. But Chance stresses what is unknown may well exist. People are learning things about this world all the- time. I like to feel some things still are yet to discover…”

Reading, Berks County, PA, Aug 17 1978

Bigfoot in the News…Daily Telegraph 2005…

Forget King Kong . Consider instead a species of giant ape undiscovered by science. Between eight and 12 feet tall, the powerful, intelligent primate walks on two feet through the forests of North America. Thousands of people claim to have seen it. Such professional observers as judges, policemen and doctors all describe a similar beast. Hundreds of tracks, confirmed as primate, have been found. America’s King Kong is the sasquatch , aka Bigfoot .

More and more scientists are risking ridicule to champion the sasquatch’s existence, several devoting their lives to researching it. Even Jane Goodall, the respected primatologist, says: “I’m fascinated by the accounts from people I trust, and I have a totally open mind about Bigfoot’s existence.”

I, too, kept an open mind when I recently joined the Bigfoot Research Organisation (BFRO) in Olympic National Park, Washington State, on a sasquatch -seeking mission.

On the drive from Seattle, across beautiful Puget Sound to the forested Olympic Mountains, Kristine Walls told me about our quarry. Walls, a botanist and BFRO investigator, had not seen a sasquatch but accepted its existence wholeheartedly. The animals are placid, she said, but they have killed people and have been seen beating pigs to death with their fists. No one has found a dead Bigfoot , perhaps because its bones are quickly dispersed in woods, and perhaps because the Bigfoot buries its dead.

“Are we going to see a ‘squatch’?” I asked, aping Kristine’s lingo.

“Maybe, maybe not, but you’ll definitely know if one’s nearby.”

“How?”

“Oh, you’ll know.”

The BFRO team’s campsite headquarters, the Log Cabin Resort, was on the steep, thickly wooded shores of the famously deep Crescent Lake. Shrill children ran between camper vans, teens sunbathed and swam, parents prepared barbecues. It was as bright and peaceful as the beginning of a horror film.

The BFROers greeted me warmly. There were about 35 people in all, largely male and aged from 12 to 65. A couple were wild-haired, wacky-eyed guys, yet most were sober, middle-class people – a lawyer, a fighter pilot and a smattering of students and academics.

Matt Moneymaker, the 39-year-old charismatic founder of BFRO, was organising the evening’s activities. The atmosphere was informed, academic but excited-to-be-outdoors, as you might find at an open-air Star Trek convention.

Small groups peeled off into the woods. The idea was to see and photograph or film sasquatch , but not to disturb it. Squatches prefer women, apparently, so Moneymaker sent me off with Tracy, a young anthropology student but veteran squatch investigator, her friend, Kerry, and Kristine Walls.

We walked through boundless woods. With no moon or cloud, the stars were in full riot. It was hard to look up without seeing a shooting star. We passed by silent, silhouetted trees, and sniffed the cool air, musky with the summer aroma of cedar, pine and alder.

As the girls sang to attract squatches, I mused on how these normal, intelligent people would be considered loons by many for believing something that hegemonic Western science denies. Mainstream academia believes that Bigfoot is explainable fiction. Dr Simon Roberts, an anthropologist, says: “Myths have a function. The creation of Bigfoot might be a way of delineating between wild nature and man’s domesticated world.”

Then there’s the Jungian idea that monsters are a projection of our inner animal. Dr Christopher Bailey, a psychiatrist, says: “Aggressive impulses deemed intolerable for civilised people are disowned and attributed to something outside the self, like when people who kill wolves for sport refer to them as bloodthirsty killers (and fail to see the irony).”

Myth or not, we found no trace of the sasquatch that night. But the next day the camp was abuzz with excitement. In his tent deep in the woods, Lieutenant-Colonel Kevin Jones (retired) had had an Encounter: at about 4am, a huge sasquatch had loomed over his tent, he claimed. Moneymaker decided to take action. That night a crack team would return to the scene. Dr Leila Hadj-Chikh, a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, would set up her high-tech recording equipment. Jones would operate a PA system to broadcast what was thought to be a recorded Bigfoot call. Tracy and Kristine would make squatch noises to lure the beasts. I’d go, too, to record and objectively verify its appearance. I was to sleep exactly where Jones had the night before.

We camped in a clearing and listened as Jones recounted the couple of times he had seen squatches. I was nearly converted. Jones didn’t seem the type to lie.

I became spooked, especially after the bone-chilling Bigfoot “call” was blasted out, then even more when we distinctly heard three somethings walking around us in the brush. They would stop moving when we stopped talking. After a while, they went away and we went to sleep. I awoke in the morning disappointed they hadn’t come closer.

Back at camp, there had been another Encounter. Tattoo artist Chip Beam said he’d been loomed over just as Jones had been.

That night’s vigil, deep in the forest, was a jolly affair. A long midnight walk, with much singing to lure squatches, was followed by a great fireside chat late into the night. Soon after the call-blasts there were noises all around, as if a crowd of Bigfoot was circling.

Kristine woke us all in the morning by shouting: “I’ve just seen a squatch!” We leapt from our tents and ran to the spot. I searched for broken branches, spoor and droppings, not sure what I was doing but enjoying the moment.

Kristine was elated. It was her first “sighting” after two years in the field. She spent the entire journey back to Seattle talking about it, and was understandably defensive against my unvoiced scepticism. The figure she saw could have been a freakishly tall man dressed up as a sasquatch , a deformed bear walking on two legs, or an animal that’s bright enough to hide from humans and has endless tracts of impenetrable forest in which to do it. Which was most likely?

Out there in the woods, meeting so many kind, normal people who said they’d seen the beast, I was almost convinced. But back in cynical Britain, before the eyes of my ready-to-mock peers, my squatch confidence was soon undermined.

The idea, though, that tribes of mini Kongs roam the North American forests is certainly more appealing than believing they don’t. Like Jane Goodall, I’m keeping an open mind, and hoping that BFRO boss Matt Moneymaker is right when he says: “Universal acceptance of Bigfoot’s existence is not only absolutely inevitable, it’s going to happen soon.”

For more information, see http://www.bfro.net.

By Angus Watson

Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2005 Daily Telegraph

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My thoughts…there was something the reporter said, something I believe as well, and that is that bigfoot is so believed and accepted now, especially with all the technology out there, bigfoot is out there roaming free, he is our connection to being wild, living in and off what nature provides, being free. And we need that connection, or we our lost…

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Watson, Angus. “In the steps of Bigfoot Angus Watson has a few hairy moments on a hunt for the mysterious sasquatch – King Kong’s ‘real-life’ cousin.” Daily Telegraph [London, England], 31 Dec. 2005, p. 005. Gale In Context: World History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A140342221/WHIC?u=frk&sid=bookmark-WHIC&xid=2a7452aa. Accessed 6 Dec. 2022.

‘Sasqua: The Lost Bigfoot Film of Massachusetts’ – Upcoming Doc Unearths 1970s Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen – Bloody Disgusting

You’ve probably never heard of the Bigfoot horror movie Sasqua, made and released in the 1970s but completely lost to the sands of time. It’s a story that
— Read on bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3740968/sasqua-the-lost-bigfoot-film-of-massachusetts-upcoming-doc-unearths-1970s-horror-movie-youve-never-seen/

‘New Bigfoot footage’ shows sheer size of beast in close-up sighting

According to Bigfoot Input, the man said he first thought it was a friend playing a prank but once he saw the length of its arms and how it moved from tree to tree, he quickly grabbed his daughter and ran back inside.

He said he got his gun and dog and went back outside but the creature had gone.

— Read on www.ladbible.com/community/new-bigfoot-footage-shows-size-20221106

GUEST COLUMNIST | Could it be the Fouke Monster?

A man and wife were driving south on I-49 near Boggy Creek at around dusk. As the woman looked towards the northbound lane, she saw a “real tall, hairy human-like figure” standing at the treeline. She became terrified as she looked closer at the huge figure and exclaimed “what is that!?” Her husband was driving and could not look back fast enough to see the figure. The woman does not think it was a person.”
— Read on www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2022/oct/31/guest-columnist-could-it-be-the-fouke-monster/

Camera Catches Mysterious Creature Leaving Chicken Coop

So, I’m posting this video, which I feel is a hoax. And I’m posting it with the purpose, I want to ask a question of everyone. Do you feel this video is real or a hoax? And why? And lastly, do you feel the TikTok platform is a place to find a lot of legitimate sightings of high strangeness? With the opportunity to make so much money monetizing, is any video real? Are we capturing real mysteries unfold? Are we getting a real and honest peek into anyone’s home or life? Let me know what you think!

Camera Catches Mysterious Creature Leaving Chicken Coop
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/camera-catches-mysterious-creature-leaving-chicken-coop/ar-AA13CFzz

The Yeti Monster’s Likely Explanation Isn’t As Weird As We Thought

The Yeti monster legend is one of the most famous on Earth. But science says the explanation for the beast is simpler than you might think.
— Read on www.wideopenspaces.com/yeti-monster-explained/

Bigfoot in Leominster State Forest? One man has been on the hunt for decades – CBS Boston

Deep in the woods of central Massachusetts is a place called “Monsterland.”
— Read on www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/bigfoot-leominster-state-forest-ronny-le-blanc/

Halloween Ends…Thank F***

I’m not sure, but I think I just watched Mike Myers get bullied and then have his mask stolen from him? That’s not my Mike Myers. The monster, the shape, that’s terrified me since I was child. In fact he scared me so much that I ran from someone dressed as him in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween, and then again at Spooky World. An employee dressed as him, (and I checked there was just the one) literally tried to pull me off a haunted hay ride in the middle of the woods, he grabbed my feet and I had to kick him off me, and he kept stalking me everywhere. I had to gave him a light shove later on because he was all over me and in a young teen voice he said, “hey, you’re not supposed to touch us!” This boy was the equivalent of the Mike Myers I just watched.

From Google Common

Now, I’m not going to say every Halloween movie was good, there were two that I really didn’t watch again often. But this is different, Halloween Ends should end with an interesting plot and at least a fairly decent script and an ending even better then H20.. I even let go of some of the questions I had like, “what about the son she had in H20?” H20 by the way was a great movie, with a great glorious ending it deserved because you saw the head roll around at the end and went right into the great some “What’s This Life For” by Creed. It should have been the ending. But if you’re going to “end” it again then Halloween Ends was a horrible swan song and discredit to this franchise.

Picture from Entertainment Weekly

In this supposed last movie Jamie Lee Curtis returns again. And first off, can I just say how beautiful she is. She unlike so many other older actresses is choosing to age gracefully and should be proud to show off every wrinkle. She carried this franchise on her back for over 40 years! Jamie, I love you. But unfortunately you can actually feel her exhaustion and lack of fire for doing this movie. I think her intention was really to be done after H20. I’m sure the pay day was probably huge, and she knows the fans wants her there, but was it really worth it for her to be in these two big stinkers? (I’m including Halloween Kills here).

I feel like both these two movies from the franchise are trying to sneak in a commentary about the state of the world today, Believe me, I don’t like ALL of our behavior either, but that’s why I’m watching movies like this to escape it . And I couldn’t.

I want to see Mike slashing his way through the town of Haddenfield. I want to see the Mike that influenced movie makers and started a whole new genre. This Mike, who is probably only in the movie a total of 10 minutes , was a mess. As I referenced above, he was beat up and got HIS Halloween mask stolen. Just like little Tommy who was bullied and fell on his pumpkin and mushed it. I’m sure some of my friends will try to defend it and attribute some deeper meaning to it all that I obviously didn’t get. But this is Halloween, not 2001, A Space Odyssey, (which still makes no sense at the end)! I don’t want deeper meanings and feelings, I want the Mike I know and love to slash his way to his sister and then die in the most glorious way that we’ll be talking about it for decades to come.

So, In closing, so I don’t give away all the spoilers, I’m recommending this movie for fans of the franchise to just watch it and get it over with, so it’s not dangling in horror movie limbo somewhere in your mind, but don’t expect to be to impressed by it, and if you are please comment below, I want to know what about it you enjoyed. And don’t pay 19.99 get a Peacock premium account at 4.99 for the month instead and then at least you can watch some other good horror movies…

And to the everyone who put this movie together? Don’t come back till Mike has his inner bitch back. And is ready to slash.