Posted in Big Foot
Staff writer Wes Helbling hatched the idea as an April Fool’s Day prank. I went out to the Bonne Idee to find a suitable setting for a photograph we’d use as a background to superimpose an image of an alleged bigfoot.
By the time I got back, he’d finished the story. I took a look at it, and though it was well written, I exercised my editorial license. I changed a reference Wes used that the couple involved in the story had just returned from vacationing in Roswell, New Mexico. For the uninitiated, Roswell is the site of the most famous (or infamous) UFO sighting in U.S. history. We put up spending some time at Poverty Point.
Apparently, the story was a bit too believable for a few too many folks.
Here is the original story. As far as fake photos go, they did a good job with this one. According to the sheriff, people all over that town buzzed about this “sighting”. When a reporter called to do a story about bigfoot Wednesday morning, the staff writer, the sheriff, and the captain of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries had no choice but to admit this was a prank in the spirit of April Fool’s.
Posted in Big Foot, Ghosts, Supernatural Myths, Vampires, cryptozoology
Vera H-C Chan from Yahoo Search compiled a list of the top 15 searches for the supernatural yesterday. I have to admit that I was a bit surprised to find that UFOs didn’t make the list, given all the sightings reported this year as well as France’s launch of their infamous UFO case report website. I figured that the term would have made it to the top 5, at the very least. Who knew.
As a fan and writer of ghost stories, I was pleased to see that the term “ghost” made it to the top this year. Thanks to shows like “Ghost Hunter” and “Ghost Whisperer,” I anticipate that this term will remain in the top 10 until the end of 2008.
Source: Yahoo! Search
Posted in Big Foot
The team of nine producers from “Destination Truth,” armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of the Manju River at an elevation of 9,350 feet (2,850 meters).
One of the three footprints found on Wednesday is about 1 foot (30 centimeters) long, with an appearance similar to those shown in sketches of the purported apelike creature, the team said.
Source: msnbc.com
Cryptomundo has written a series of posts regarding this discovery. See the pics of this strange footprint by reading his first article.
Posted in Big Foot, cryptozoology
Researchers from The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are heading to Guyana in search of the didi, the South American version of Bigfoot. The CFZ believes the didi is a surviving species of ground sloth that was extinct for more than 10,000 years. Metro reporter Oliver Stallwood will follow the team when they set off for their expedition in November.
Most likely, they will find a nest of giant anacondas.
