Quote:Creatures of a Bigfoot-like appearance are not exclusive to the United States, the Himalayas, and the wilds of South America, Russia, and China. Australia is the domain of the huge, apish Yowie.

Quote:Many of the sightings of Yowies occur in and around the vast Blue Mountains that dominate the city of Sydney and what is termed the Sydney Basin. A firsthand report, from February 1842, offers a graphic description of the beasts. It was published, as a letter, in the pages of the Australian and New Zealand Monthly Magazine:

“This being they describe as resembling a man of nearly the same height, with long white hair hanging down from the head over the features, the arms as extraordinarily long, furnished at the extremities with great talons, and the feet turned backwards, so that, on flying from man, the imprint of the foot appears as if the being had traveled in the opposite direction. Altogether, they describe it as a hideous monster of an unearthly character and ape-like appearance.”

Then, on December 9, 1882, a firsthand account surfaced from a Mr. H.J. McHooey, who told the Australian Town and Country Journal newspaper the following: “A few days ago I saw one of these strange creatures. I should think that if it were standing upright it would be nearly five feet high. It was tailless and covered with very long black hair, which was of a dirty red or snuff-color about the throat and breast. Its eyes, which were small and restless, were partly hidden by matted hair that covered its head. I threw a stone at the animal, whereupon it immediately rushed off.”

And, make no mistake, sightings of the Australian Yowie are not limited to the past. In early 1993, a man named Neil Frost, who lived in the Blue Mountains area, encountered in the shadows of his backyard an animal that Frost estimated weighed close to 300 pounds, walked on two legs, and had a thick coat of hair and bright red eyes. When the beast realized it had been spotted, it shot away at high speed and into the shadows. Despite attempts on the part of Frost and a friend, Ian Price, to track down the beast on several occasions, the Yowie skillfully eluded them – just like its American cousin, Bigfoot, so very often does, too.

Bringing matters even further up to date, midway through June 2013, Australia’s Northern Star newspaper reported on a recent encounter. Journalist Jamie Brown wrote: “The latest sighting took place recently just north of Bexhill when a Lismore resident and music videographer spied the classic creature crossing a moonlit Bangalow Road. The witness, who has asked not to be named for fear of reprisal, said he was driving back home from a night of filming at Eltham and had just turned onto the Bangalow Road heading for Lismore when he spied a creature jumping a barbed wire paddock fence before briefly pausing at the edge of the road. Suddenly the beast moved across the two lanes of bitumen, raising his arm to apparently shield its eyes from the bright high beam glare of the approaching car.”

As for the witness, who insisted on anonymity, they commented: “I would have seen it for between 20 and 30 seconds. It was really moving at the time. It leapt the fence no problem. All I can remember was seeing this large black object with a solid build, lanky legs and long lanky arms. It wasn’t clothed … it wasn’t wearing clothes like a human.” The Yowie, it seems, lives on.

Quote:MARION, N.C. -- Most identify the oncoming winter season with cold weather, the holidays and the start of a new year. But that's not the case for John and Joneric Bruner. As frost begins to coat North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, they're hoping to prove the existence of a long lived tale.

Quote:The sightings John's referring to are of the mysterious phenomenon of Bigfoot. But the creature isn't so mysterious to John...
"We had a 'Class A' sighting on August 5, 2017 in McDowell County," John said. "It's an actual sighting of the creature."
John says he experienced a moment with the creature he has passionately researched for the past 30 years while on an expedition in McDowell County at night.

"We put glow sticks in trees," John said. "I was standing on a far service road watching about six glow sticks on both sides of the road and one of the glow sticks went out of sight and I turned my head lamp on which is a 10,000 lemer headlamp and it was crossing the road."
John said he immediately took off to follow the creature, simultaneously sending a radio message to his team telling them to check the trees around the area as some theories claim it climbs.

"I scanned to the right and about 30 yards away from me it was standing beside a tree," John said. "We made eye contact for five to eight seconds and then it just turned and walked off on the hill."

After three decades of searching, John was ecstatic and immediately called his son Joneric who was off on a business trip. Joneric deems himself the "skeptic" of the group and told his father to write down everything he had experienced.

"When we measured after the fact it was about nine feet tall, it had long stringy hair and it was like matted looking but it had no hair on its face whatsoever, it looked like a piece of leather across its face," John recalled. "Its nose was totally flat on its face almost like you could see up its nostrils. Its eyes were dark and arms really long, they hung below its waist. I didn't smell any smell... a lot of people report smells but I didn't smell anything other than a musty smell."

Following the sighting, John's story went viral. He was interviewed by radio and television shows across the country as well as internationally. But for John, the attention his story gained wasn't for his benefit, but for the benefit of conveying to people that it's okay to address Bigfoot without being ridiculed. The same reason that he started Bigfoot 911.

Quote:"I never doubted myself. I knew they were real. I knew they were real and I knew that if it was meant to be, I would see one," John said.
While Joneric respects his father's passion, like many others, he needs to see the creature to believe. But his skepticism doesn't stop him from trying or from standing behind his father.

"This may seem like a bunch of rednecks in the woods but this is actually planned out and a lot more sophisticated than that," Joneric said. "It typically takes us about two months to plan an expedition. There's a lot of planning."

Joneric uses his skills from serving in the military as a fire support specialist in the group's intricate approach, design and coordinate planning in hunting Bigfoot.

Small groups go out into undisclosed locations to search for Bigfoot. They typically search in the same areas, which many Bigfoot researchers say is most productive. While they keep an eye out for the creature itself, they also notice directional signs and sounds that are unnoticeable to most.

"Trees break off about eight or nine feet above the ground, just folded over," John said. "The theory is this points to something. Other tree structures are just kind of laying in a tee-pee like pattern but they're interwoven."

The group also listens for "wood knocks," a knocking sound that John first heard over 30 years ago when he was playing in the nearby woods of his home. John believes the creatures live in a family group of up to 15 members in a general area. Wood knocks help them communicate with one another.
"The theory is that they will take sticks or rocks and knock on trees with them and it's a form of communication," John said.
As for what the creature actually is?
"A lot of people theorize that it's a descendant of Gigantopithecus, which is an extinct ape. Others think that it's a relative of the Yeti and it crossed the natural land bridge years ago and migrated," John said. "It does have human traits and ape-like traits, but I do believe it's a living, breathing, blood flowing animal. It's not paranormal. It's not connected with aliens or anything like that. It's an animal."
Like so many other wild animals, John believes the creatures do not trust humans and do everything in their power to hide and stay away from them.
"They are excellent at covering themselves in the woods and they have a lot of speed for such a large animal," John said. "If you notice a lot of the pictures that we do have are not taken by people who are researching this... they're taken by people who are on vacation and just happen to see something later when they get home and say, 'Hey, what's that?'"

When John saw Bigfoot, he says he didn't even think about pulling up his camera. He doesn't need photographic evidence to know what he saw. As for people that do? John invites them to join him.

"If they (skeptics) have the least bit of doubt, just get up and get out into the woods and see for yourself. I can't change your mind for you. But if you want to know, go see for yourself."

John knows that eventually there will be photographic and scientific proof of Bigfoot. In the meantime, all he can do is encourage others to share their stories.

"We do what we're trying to do because we want it all to be positive," John said. "If we all work together we're going to eventually get this."

(11-19-2017, 11:16 AM)gordi Wrote: Hi Mystic,
(I LOVE all things Bigfoot related!)

(11-19-2017, 11:30 AM)BIAD Wrote:

(11-19-2017, 11:16 AM)gordi Wrote: Hi Mystic,
(I LOVE all things Bigfoot related!)

Eh Big Man... if one goes-off the UK Bigfoot sightings, Scotland is riddled with these creatures!
(Link To Map): Link.

(11-19-2017, 12:34 PM)Wallfire Wrote: Interesting link, you do know that the South of Ireland is not part of GB, sort of casts doubt on the reliability of the sightings    
Anyhow an interesting post 

(11-19-2017, 11:30 AM)BIAD Wrote:

(11-19-2017, 11:16 AM)gordi Wrote: Hi Mystic,
(I LOVE all things Bigfoot related!)

Eh Big Man... if one goes-off the UK Bigfoot sightings, Scotland is riddled with these creatures!
(Link To Map): Link.

(11-19-2017, 11:16 AM)gordi Wrote: Hi Mystic,
(I LOVE all things Bigfoot related!)

(I think I might have mentioned this before, but I'm getting old and forgetful! so...)
A wee while ago, I was pondering the mysteries of our world and trying to make sense of all of the myriad of UFO's, ghostly apparitions, time-travellers, Aliens, OOParts, crypto-creatures, Nessie/Bigfoot/Yowie etc and I had one of those "moments"! (LOL - NOT of of THOSE moments!!!!)

I came up with ONE single over-arching theory that could explain..... just about everything on the list above and more!

What if our world is experiencing some sort of damage, interference or distortion within our space-time continuum?
What if there were temporal rifts? Rips in the fabric of time and space itself?

Could we (in the here and now) be witnessing these rips, tears and rifts as little "windows" into events from other times? or places? Other dimensions even?

Could some ghosts be REAL PEOPLE, but from a different time (not actually dead) made visible by a rip in time, giving us a glimpse into the past? (or future).
Could Nessie be a REAL Plesiosaur (or similar) seen on occasion through a hole in time that fleetingly takes us back a million years?
Is Bigfoot simply Gigantopithecus? Real and Alive but thousands of years ago... viewed in glimpses through these rifts in time?
Did the time portal close when you were observing your one? Giving the appearance of "cloaking"?
Are "Flying Saucers" just our own flying vehicles of the future, seen through a forward facing rip in time?
Or are they Alien craft visiting Earth in the future, but seen through a time-portal rift?
OOParts are objects out of place, but have they simply been lost or dropped through one of these rifts?
Are cryptids actually REAL creatures but from a different place or time? Viewed again through one of these windows in time/space?

My jaw fell open when I came up with this.
Pretty much every aspect of the paranormal/supernatural that I thought of could be explained by this one theory!
Ghost cars? yup.
Strange Beasts? yup.
Aliens? yup.

I just need an app that measures temporal distortion fields and I'm IN!

Thoughts?

G

(11-19-2017, 04:07 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Yes, I've even read that might be the case by several others in the past; sorry, you're not the first to come up with the idea.   :smallundecided:  However, while it might explain some sightings, it doesn't explain deceased loved ones appearing and even having conversations with family members, or people being abducted and taken to alien craft. 
I think the rip in time/space does occur in some instances where certain cryptids are seen, and sometimes even "ghosts".

(11-19-2017, 06:26 PM)gordi Wrote:

(11-19-2017, 04:07 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Yes, I've even read that might be the case by several others in the past; sorry, you're not the first to come up with the idea.   :smallundecided:  However, while it might explain some sightings, it doesn't explain deceased loved ones appearing and even having conversations with family members, or people being abducted and taken to alien craft. 
I think the rip in time/space does occur in some instances where certain cryptids are seen, and sometimes even "ghosts".

Deceased loved ones? yes, I know - that's why I said "some" ghosts!

Why do you think that the Alien abductions couldn't happen as a result of a rift?
If the alien craft (or the victim) crossed through the rift it's entirely possible, isn't it?
Who knows whether (in the future?) aliens or advanced humans could predict the rifts and actively use them to "time-travel" back to find abductees?

(11-19-2017, 06:38 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Of course, anything is possible. My mind is wide open.   Personally, I think "aliens" use worm holes to travel from one place to another quickly.  I do believe time-travel happens too, but it's not widely reported because of the ridicule.

(11-19-2017, 10:48 PM)gordi Wrote: ...I'm wondering if these rips in time-space could actually be types of "wormhole" themselves?

(11-21-2017, 10:19 AM)Ninurta Wrote: As has previously been mentioned in the thread, I've seen one...