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Wolf Moon on Monday…

The Wolf Moon, the first full moon of January which shined down on us last night, carries with it a mystique that’s been woven into folklore and legends across cultures.

In Native American traditions, it is named after the hungry howls of wolves heard during the frigid winter months. These howls were thought to signify the wolves’ yearning for the sustenance and warmth that the cold, barren landscape lacked. This moon marked a period of hardship and endurance for both the wolves and the people who lived alongside them.

In other cultures, the Wolf Moon is associated with transformation and inner strength. Legends speak of mythical creatures that were said to roam under this luminous moon, including werewolves, who would shift from human to wolf under its silvery light. The eerie glow of the Wolf Moon was thought to awaken a primal instinct within, urging individuals to connect with their wild, untamed nature.

There are also tales of spiritual awakenings and mystical encounters happening beneath the Wolf Moon. It’s a time believed to be ripe for introspection, releasing old habits, and setting intentions for the year ahead. Some legends even suggest that the Wolf Moon opens a portal to the realm of spirits, allowing for communication between the earthly and the otherworldly.

It’s fascinating how a single celestial event can inspire such a rich tapestry of stories and beliefs!

And sadly, I apologize that I wasn’t able to publish this last night due to a teeny hiking injury, but, better late than never! 🌕🐺✨

Odd Things you may Find in Nature… Hair Ice

This is hair ice, it’s a rare type of ice formation where the presence of a type of fungus in rotting wood produces thin strands of ice which can resemble hair or cotton candy.

One of the first records of this ice was recorded by Alfred Wegener (who also discovered the continental drift) in 1918. He observed a strange ice forming only on wet dead wood and a theorized that a specific fungi must be the catalyst for the smooth, silky hairs of ice.

Hair ice forms on humid winter nights when the temperature is just below freezing. It’s most likely to form on dead alder branches.

Hair ice resembles hair or cotton candy. Hair ice is also known as frost flowers, frost beard, or ice wool. A fungus called Exidiopsis effusa is responsible for hair ice. The fungus produces thin threads of mycelium on branches, and hair ice grows on those branches.

Hair ice is not poisonous to touch, but it is also not edible. It’s a very rare occurrence, so if you’re lucky enough to see some on your morning walks too, please take some nice photos, and if you have time send one along to me, I’d love see and share them!

Sheriff the Dog…

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

I thought I’d participate in a few of these January prompts for fun. So when I was little my dad won three stuffed animals at a carnival for me and both my sisters. I think he won the seal for me. Don’t quote me on that though.

My sister was given this dog with a cowboy hat on, a vest, and a sheriff’s badge. I really wanted that one and since I was the baby she gave it to me. I carried it everywhere, and slept with it every night. I named him sheriff and he was my bestie.

As I was getting older, and he was wearing out and losing stuffing, my mother kept attempting to throw him away and I kept pulling him out of the trash. At some point she won this game. I can picture her and my dad driving to the next town to bury him somewhere as I was always looking for him.

I never forgot about him. He got me through some hard times as I was a child who had health issues and needing many surgeries.

After talking about sheriff one night with my sisters over dinner, my sister went on a quest! As sheriff was a carnival stuffed animal it wasn’t an easy quest but she did it, she found him!

My sister called me up and told me a package was arriving one day and to call her back on FaceTime to open it. I literally couldn’t believe it, my sheriff was back home! My family is crazy I admit we do things like this all the time, but she went above and beyond to find him. And he sits on my bed yet again keeping me safe from all my monsters…

Hunter building deer stand reports Bigfoot sighting in Richland

“Baum, who was in the woods late in the afternoon with his stepfather to build the tree stand for future hunting use, said he immediately knew what he was seeing. Though it was late afternoon, it had been a bright, sunny day, he said.

In other words, the visibility was excellent in the area near Hanley and Woodville Roads, just east of I-71, especially with no leaves on the trees.”

You can read more about this encounter here;

https://www.richlandsource.com/2025/01/07/deer-hunting-treestand-reveals-alleged-bigfoot-sighting-in-richland-county/

Have you had a bigfoot, cryptid or paranormal experience you’d like to share?

Email me at sasysquatchgirl@gmail.com

Investigating the Bigfoot phenomenon by marrying traditional knowledge with science

This story starts down an abandoned forest service road deep in central Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations territory on Vancouver Island. It was fall, two o…
— Read on www.victorianow.com/watercooler/news/news/Provincial/Investigating_the_Bigfoot_phenomenon_by_marrying_traditional_knowledge_with_science/

‘Bigfoot heard screaming and whooping’ in fifth sighting in the US

A witness visiting Connecticut from California reported that they heard what could have been Bigfoot, as they said the scream of the creature had ‘quite a bit of power behind it’.
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/bigfoot-heard-screaming-and-whooping-in-fifth-sighting-in-the-us/ar-AA1tXyuG

Men Searching for Sasquatch Found Dead: What We Know – Newsweek

Both deaths appear to be due to “exposure, based on weather conditions and ill-preparedness,” the local sheriff’s office said.
— Read on www.newsweek.com/men-searching-sasquatch-found-dead-what-we-know-2007106

Bigfoot Discovery Museum Closing…

The iconic museum, located alongside Highway 9 in Felton, has embodied Santa Cruz’s quirkiness for twenty years.

As Ruggs retires, the museum will retire alongside him.

“Well, anywhere from 30 to 70 people come in the door and, they’ll check everything out, and, I show them our local sighting map, and, they’re usually amazed to see how many sightings there have been in this area. I was amazed, too, because when I opened it, I didn’t expect that to happen,” Ruggs said.

Ruggs says he first saw Bigfoot when he was a kid.

“I looked upstream, and then when I look back towards the woods. Whoa, here’s this big hairy guy standing there looking at me. And we had eye contact for about the count of three. Then I heard my mother screaming. Mikey, where are you? So I thought, oh, jeez, I better get back,” Ruggs recalled.

https://www.ksbw.com/article/bigfoot-discovery-museum-california-santa-cruz-mountains-close/63045200

A big piece of bigfoot history closing its door here. I wish I had a chance to visit it, it was definitely a bucket list stop for me…

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

An ancient cat was found almost perfectly preserved in Siberia’s permafrost.

Researchers found the mummy of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub in what is now Russia’s northeastern Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, in 2020

The kitten still had its whiskers and claws attached when it was pulled out of the permafrost, and was covered in a coat of “short, thick, soft, dark brown fur.” Its hair was about 20 to 30 millimeters long, according to researchers.

You can read rest of article from NPR here…

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/nx-s1-5193845/35000-year-old-kitten-siberia-frozen

Sadly, we will probably hear they are going to attempt to bring them back from extinction as well, along with the wooly mammoth and thylacine tiger. We can’t even stop the current extinctions of today’s animals we are causing and they want to add to the crisis. We’ll have to wait and see what comes of it down the road…

Election Hate 2024

At the end of the election, however many days that takes. Some of us will have the president we want and some of us will not.

But this is not just an election between one man and one woman. This is also a check point for ourselves, the voters.

How do we want to live the next few years out? Do we want to live in hate? Fight with everyone online? Spew hate at each other? Or do we want to go back to the way it was when maybe we didn’t like everyone’s opinions, but we did respect them. We could have a civil conversation.

Maybe going forward we need to go back to how it was with my parents generation. You kept your religion and your politics to yourself. I don’t want to know who you vote for or who you pray to. That’s none of my business. I’m judging you only by how you treat me, what I see and hear myself. Your actions in this world. And that’s all I want to be judged by.

I don’t want to feel this overwhelming anxiety anymore.

Look at how we are all acting right now. We are teaching the next generation that this behavior is normal. It’s fucking not. It’s immature, it’s beneath us.

And the whole world is watching us tear each other down and apart. And some countries are laughing at the great America falling apart from within. Enough is enough.

As one person I can’t make a change in the world’s social climate but together we ALL can. Just agree to wake up tomorrow let this anger go. Don’t make nasty online comments. Keep our conversations and differences civil. Be adults.

Go forward with kindness, positivity and empathy….

I want better for our futures and the next generations futures. And it has to start here with us.

I hope everyone has a safe positive experience getting out there to vote. And the tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our positive lives…