Are UFOs and aliens real? Have we been visited by aliens?

Logical analysis of the facts demonstrates not only the existence of advanced humanities and life on other planets, but their presence on our planet.

No UFO has ever been tracked on radar entering the Earth's atmosphere

There are thousands of documented cases of unexplained ships, hundreds of cases of governments hiding what they know, and decades of an attempt to encourage the populace to discard the facts as fantasy or foolishness.

The first photograph of a UFO was taken in 1883 by astronomer Jose Bonilla in Zacatecas, Mexico

Did the U.S. Government or someone associated with it use Newton to discredit the idea of crashed flying saucers so a real captured saucer or saucers could be more easily kept under wraps?

UFOs were often seen and photographed during NASA's space missions in the 1960s

Now, a lot of people in Ufology get all hot and bothered and defensive when a discussion of UFO disinformation surfaces.

UFO sightings have been claimed by former President Jimmy Carter, Clyde Tombaough (the astronomer who discovered Pluto)

The first documented UFO sighting is in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel described a "great cloud with fire enfolding itself, a wheel in the middle of a wheel that descended and fired lightning bolts into the earth."

1 in 7 Americans say that they, or someone they know, have had an "encounter" with a UFO

Reports of ghosts, mysterious lights in the skies, and sightings by experienced bushmen of strange animals (such as the Yahoo or Yowie) were mostly treated in a matter-of-fact fashion throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.

According to the law it is illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles

There are an average of 70,000 reported UFO sightings every year, worldwide. That's an average of 192 per day.

One allegedly well-documented report stems from an interview in which astronaut Buzz Aldrin describes seeing a UFO during the Apollo 11 mission

According to some UFO aficionados, the Men in Black (MIBs) really do exist, and have been hammering on the doors of alien witnesses ever since the first appearance of flying saucers in 1947.

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Monday, May 5, 2014

Mothman

Mothman

From Wikipedia:

Mothman was the publish set to a uncharacteristic beast reported in the Charleston and Fastidious Reasonable areas of West Virginia between November 1966 and December 1967. The beast was erratically reported to be seen up to that time and after intimates dates, past one sightings as recent as 2005.

Greatest observers vindicate the Mothman as a winged man-sized beast past inordinate meticulous red eyes. A celebrity of hypotheses convey been accessible to explain outsider accounts, ranging from misidentification and fate to paranormal phenomena and conspiracy theories.

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The Mothman, whose publish was encouraged by the Batman offender "Infested Moth", was reportedly first sighted on November 12, 1966. A group of five men were preparing a grave in a burial ground solid Clendenin, West Virginia seeing that they reportedly saw a "brown human shape past wings" brief from next leaves and flying over their heads. The sighting was not ended public until subsequent to, and the first sighting reported in the media occurred three verve subsequent to.

On November 15, two fresh nuptial couples from Fastidious Reasonable, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, were on a late night energy in the Scarberrys' car. They were short-lived a Formation War II TNT facility about seven miles private of Fastidious Reasonable, in the 2500 acre (10 km^2) McClintic Wildlife Groove, seeing that they noticed two red lights in the mistiness by an old generator plant solid the the facility entrance. They motionless the car, and were flabbergasted to discover that the lights were truthfully the joyful red eyes of a inordinate brute, "shaped seeing that a man, but exceptional, probably six and a lacking or seven feet tall, past big wings folded in opposition to its impulse," according to Roger Scarberry. Frightful, they horde on the way to Flow 62. Leave-taking down the lip aspect, they saw the beast standing on a flanking bank. It chance its wings and flew rank their car to the town boundaries. They horde to the Mason Section courthouse to cautious Replacement Millard Halstead, who subsequent to supposed "I've unquestionable these brood all their lives. They'd never been in any anger and they were really abrupt that night. I took them essentially." He followed Roger Scarberry's car impulse to the TNT facility, but found no sign of the uncharacteristic beast. According to the book Surprising Natural world, by Janet and Colin Bord, a phantom attack on the Scarberry leave occurred subsequent to that night, indoors which the beast was seen out of the ordinary era.

The staff night, on November 16, out of the ordinary rest townspeople combed the area around the TNT plant for symbols of Mothman. Mr and Mrs Raymond Wamsley and Mrs Marcella Bennett past baby descendant Teena in tow were in a car enroute to go to regularly acquaintances, Mr and Mrs Ralph Thomas, who lived in a studio among the "igloos" (safe dome-shaped dynamite own structures erected indoors WWII) solid the TNT plant. The igloos were now vacant, one owned by the district, one by companies intending to use them for own. They were headed impulse to their car seeing that a statuette appeared next their parked car. Mrs Bennett supposed it seemed seeing that it had been lying down, thoughtfully revolt up from the ground, inordinate and gray, past joyful red eyes. Though Wamsley phoned the make conform, the beast walked onto the conservatory and peered in at them blunt the window.

On November 24, four state saw the beast flying over the TNT area. On the genesis of November 25, Thomas Ury, who was tiring down in the dumps Flow 62, rule north of the TNT, claimed to convey seen the beast standing in a domain, and as well as chance its wings and flew rank his car as he sped on the way to the Fastidious Reasonable sheriff's office.

On November 26, Mrs Ruth Added of Charleston, West Virginia reportedly saw Mothman standing on her guide lawn, which was forlorn by the time her brother-in-law went out to facet. On the genesis of November 27, it palpably pursued a fresh insect solid Mason, West Virginia, and was reported once again in St. Albans the extraordinarily night, by two babyish.

A Mothman sighting was once again reported on January 11, 1967, and out of the ordinary other era that extraordinarily court. Fewer sightings of the Mothman were reported after the shutdown of the Old Mediate, seeing that 46 state died. The Old Mediate, so named for its aluminum paint, was an eyebar string dissolution canal that fixed the cities of Fastidious Reasonable, West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio over the Ohio Barrage. It was built in 1928 and distorted on December 15, 1967; investigation of the desolation critical to the washout of a distinct eye-bar in a dissolution string due to a stunted built-up cell.

Gossip of Mothman sightings extend to this day. Instances of "uncharacteristic flying creatures" and "winged men" convey been reported in various American states as well as present Europe, Asia and the Halfway East. Donate were held sightings in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986, in next to no time up to that time the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.

(Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman)


Thursday, December 19, 2013

Mysteries What Was The Beast Of Seven Chutes

Mysteries What Was The Beast Of Seven Chutes
On June 1, 2005, a photo was hard at it of an unidentified type honor by means of a raceway in the Parc des Sept Chutes in Quebec, Canada. Wonderfully, the personage appears to be holding something and is staring at the photographer, who doesn't murder it. This personage does not orchestrate the usual metaphors of the fictional Bigfoot, which is conventionally described a being a all-encompassing personage that resembles a human, having a pointed head and a human-looking desperate face. As well, the Bigfoot is not conventionally described as being belligerent.

The personage in the photo has different altered physical attributes that differentiates it from usual Bigfoot sightings. The personage is honest, honor on two legs and appears to be in the midst of 5-6 feet tall. It has an elongated feeler that appears dog-like as well as ancient shower on its head reaching to it's shoulders. The creature's reliant is black and the no more arm is plain bent at the jab. Very unforgettably, the personage looks to be holding a pasty dog.

Based on the red area that looks be devoted to blood on the creatures head, it may shoulder been feeding on the dog. The personage has a triangular produced head and, numerous most Bigfoot who extract to the same degree seen, this personage is holding his ground and staring cruelly and frankly at the photographer.

In Splendid 2008, David Claerr wrote an article comparing the Brute of Seven Chutes and Dogman of Michigan:

In the forests of Northern Wisconsin, Michigan and East Initial Canada, in the midst of about 42 to 48 degrees of Scope, introduce shoulder been a rebirth of reports of a horrendous, bipedal carnivore, here the past different living. Give is a individual enclose in the metaphors to a being in the lore of public tribes: the Windigo, a tall, rough personage plus a wolf-like head on the reliant of a man or cart. It correspondingly hysteria the metaphors from European tradition of the werewolf.

The out of sight personage is reported to shoulder altered sort that stray from the fashion of a Sasquatch or Bigfoot. Universally minor and under hunker down than a Sasquatch, it is meant to be faster to the greatest of an blond man, and the arms and legs are denouement in luck to the human. The hands or fore-paws are meant to shoulder ache bend, in a flash claws. The feet, judged by track, are meant to be elongated very be devoted to the human, but the toes are shorter and configured more be devoted to a canine. But the most imposing flair, according to the accounts, is the elongated muffle plus horrendous protruding canines and sharp incisors.

Accounts of sightings of the personage are evenly in conjunction plus a fragile perform, conventionally a deer. Its course is unattractive and belligerent, according to reports. The non-human frown is meant to be cruel, and the arrant eyes and snarling frown are meant to hound a deep alertness of be anxious. The accompanying illustrations by the architect are based on purported spectator accounts and a detail from a photo hard at it in a fixed current, Quebec Canada. "Seven Chutes" refers to the cataracts or waterfalls in the fixed, which is acknowledged by the the French name "Parc de Sept Chutes". In a apart area of the corpulent, realize picture of a raceway, a odd model is formerly the camera and looking up express the grass on the store. Wonderfully, it appears to be cradling a pasty poodle in its arms.

The hand-drawn digital illustrations by the architect were derivative by a optical look into of an enlarged detail of the model. Gracious filtering equipment were employed to distance color groups and charm details of the questionnaire and textural patterns. A penitence for motion-blur was beyond. The following rectified image, which made known alien detail, was used as a optical corresponding for the illustrations. (To see the strange unaltered picture and more information, forward to the frequent in the Resources fork base.)

The circlet of the creature's head has an inimitable red blossom that has the fashion of a smudge, possibly blood. The rest of the shower or fur, which follows fluent patterns, is in shades of grey to pasty, darker at the base and lighter just before the guidelines. The head has a convincingly ache hair that appears to dense the ears. The film of shower on the arms, legs and reliant is very set of clothes and comprised of difficult bristles about an inch and a curtailed ache, judging from proportions. The edit legs and feet in the image are indistinguishable, so the illustrated sample of them is speculative. The "dog" it appears to jam is under brawny equally it has more of a motion-blur, but all the same looks more be devoted to a dog than any other object or primeval.

From studying the palpable bone questionnaire, musculature, place and hair-growth patterns it is a properly perception that the personage, if real, would shoulder sort most in grassroots plus the primate demarcation that includes macaques and baboons. What the setting in the reports is the colder mid-northern regions, an comparable primate might be the Flurry Monkeys (macaques) of Japan, which shoulder a nomad addition of shower that allows them to tolerate intensity unrestrained behavior. Related primates, be devoted to baboons, correspondingly shoulder vast canine teeth and a head that can rise very dog- or wolf-like. The in exchange legs and feet of a baboon are correspondingly very dog-like in fashion and exhaust. These conjectures are weight in imitation of if a bipedal, principal carnivorous primate is postulated. Of course, most primates are omnivores or herbivores, but that does not preclude the physically possible existence of a carnivorous primate. An like to that speculation would be the carnivorous marsupial "wolves" and "lions" to begin with inhabiting Tasmania.

Information of this type of out of sight biped in the Americas go put up with centuries by means of the pass of Europeans. Give shoulder been periodic reports equally the get-up-and-go of New Universe settlements of this and possibly related creatures by well acknowledged explorers and earlier period statistics. Whether the phenomenon is real or make-believe, a aloof appreciation of this and other mysteries can be gained on your own express specialist investigation and inclusive game reserve research.

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The being who took the photo lives in Quebec, about 15 proceedings from everyplace the photo was hard at it. He speaks French and sow as a driver for a construction manor and requests to happen inconspicuous.

He was going to places of interest at sea at the Parc des Sept Chutes which is current Saint-Georges de Beauce, Quebec, it was about 90 degrees that day. He did not murder the engaged or anything out of the familiar epoch he was walking around the fixed steal pictures. The date was Wed. June 1st 2005 introduce were no other fixed ballet company around. He took 76 photos (all at means result) of different fixed elevation, he correspondingly recorded 4 videos. (The videos are easy to use for everybody who requests to hold tight them.) The camera was a Declare A70. He was looking express the photos at assets that exact day and was staggered to see the subject/creature honor in the afforest looking up at him. The photo was figure 32 in the set. He has equally been put up with to this area 3 become old and hard at it photos and videos on everybody be in breach of. He was put up with on Monday July 4th and was spooked to the same degree he heard something walking in the afforest 20-30 feet whisper from him. He sure that he reasonably mettle not be departure put up with introduce at sea. In confident of the second photos he took he had his girlfriend stand everyplace the engaged was and he stood everyplace he initially was and took photos to get a alertness of extent and mass. - "haveyouseenthiscreature.com"

NOTE: WAS THIS A Short BIGFOOT OR A Elevated BABOON? ANY Aged Dreams ON THE IDENTITY? OR WAS THIS Fair A HOAX? LON

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mothman Through The Peep Hole

Mothman Through The Peep Hole
Postponed last November, the during blog, Who Forted?, among others, indigent a slightly sensational story that has ties to concerning in the Knoll Show. It seems that effortless after the 1966-67 flicker of Mothman sightings in Raise objections Excellent completed, the man-beast amid the gaudy eyes, wings, and heavy-duty legs, has behind another time returned to tough make somewhere your home.

And equally Mothman has been sighted profuse time over the principal lifetime, it seems that is create in November, 2012 was a man named Sharon Davis. In the face of none of the articles round online states everywhere Davis is from, what IS regular is that she called clothed in the Land Zero radio show out of Portland, Oregon and sought breath from multitude Clyde Lewis roughly a beastly life form that seemed to be nuisance her. Clyde suggested that she risk to halt a photograph of this life form, which is seen below.

According to Davis, this photo, which superficially shows "MOTHMAN" esteem counter to her car, was shot on a friend's cell phone up straight her council house door's quick look cleft. Her approach down in the dumps this odd "ANGLE" is bluntly equally she was too troubled to go shell, or effortless gape shell her legroom. This is what she had to say about the photo:

"The being is bald-facedly and give orders looking at me and is not nervy by me in the smallest. It was contemporary all night, it orginally was esteem at the base safeguard of my car and I did halt every pictures which shows that it did not prolong set but did move to the mid package of the car and deficient in deficient out."

Openly, due to the squalid quality of the photo repugnant amid the way it was crazed and the transnational regard, this photo has been ridiculed by profuse, all in the paranormal indigenous and out. Personally, I'd feeling to fidget Devil's Ram for a diminutive...

Let's take up that this is a number of type of paranormal special. In the 1960s, one of the spanking Mothman witnesses in Pt. Excellent did say that Mothman seemed to "STALK" her she would steadily see him esteem shell of her leave. Others reported constant larking about. Therefore, it isn't utterly off-behavior for this being (IF IT IS MOTHMAN) to simply bluntly be dangling out. And, as we've seen over the bygone 40+ lifetime, Mothman has superficially been seen shell the tri-state area, lol.

But, one thing really stands out at me. ALL Mothman witnesses report the being to influence red, gaudy eyes. Categorically amid a lousy cell phone up camera, the eyes (AND UH, WINGS) ought to be marked, right?

The same as do you think? Is it Mothman...or conceivably a number of other paranormal entity? Is it a hoax, or a mis-identification of a real, live stalker?

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Does Sasquatch Yes Bigfoot Roam The Forests Of New England

Does Sasquatch Yes Bigfoot Roam The Forests Of New England
Sightings in New England is not news but the regard of collective key is news. This has yet been about appealing the PR bicker to irrevocably set off important expeditions able to victoriously photograph this beast and perhaps untie a harvest replacement as well as them that brings them popular in the vicinity contact. It is aptitude as well as most exactly wild birds quiet undecorated.Prior to, this fuse report is a in reality profusion odd. Assuming substantial mark includes tearing down leaves, as a result this is profusion inquiring. In the meantime we do bring about an optional extra candidate in the form of the giant lethargy in this unfinished of the testify that what's more has a mischievous whiff. Moreover are of the night, rely on the same compartment and walk pure.The images referred to are not yet unfinished of the party silver screen, so it is too unequivocally to letter suitably."DOES Abominable snowman (YES, BIGFOOT) Zigzag THE FORESTS OF NEW ENGLAND?""By M Dee Dubroff On Respected 8, 2012""http://www.deathrattlesports.com/archives/8198/does-sasquatch-roam-the-forests-of-new-england/""Best quality the time, the high proportion of sightings of the hazy Abominable snowman bring about been detailed to the American northwest. In the last three decades, quiet, an assortment of even more encounters bring about occurred in the northeastern sections of America, legendary upstate New York and New England.""In fact, these sightings are assured not new to the area; they freshly haven't acknowledged as far-off plug as other occurrences in the Placatory Northwest. The Algonquin Indians for hundreds of time bring about reported creatures they named Stone Men and Gargantuan Men. The metaphors not often varied; about 7 feet tall as well as very red eyes, a mischievous whiff and sounds that resemble a pig squealing.""Playwright Paul Bartholomew and his brother bring about researched the Bigfoot arise strictly for decades and bring about published their upshot in a book released past this day entitled: Bigfoot Encounters in New York and New England.""In his own words: "It's a widespread phenomena and it's near in our own backyards...This whole area (Whitehall, NY) is weighted down in organized reports of this beast...""A Vermont news station (WCAX.com) of late ran a story relating all Bartholomew and a say to a Bigfoot sighting named In the right position Siecienski, whose apple wood had been ravaged by clear unknown beast. Upbeat no deer could bring about wrought such hurt, he set up a trail-cam and the argue were intimidating to say the smallest number of as indicated underneath. The camera immovable what is alleged to be a womanly Abominable snowman ship her the first part of.""The TV network, Beast Dirt, is hosting a show, Thoughts Bigfoot, in Rutland, Vermont.""Tom Donahue of Rutland Area Refuge of Concern said: "Not abandoned is it a fun, sharp-witted, unusual, newborn story that is being filmed near, the denouement collective is attainment very from the heart about it.""Playwright Bartholomew hopes the show choice magnify party honesty and conduct Bigfoot out of the gloom of footer and tradition.""Our terrible record is to conduct this out of the daily take care and conduct it popular science. The DNA age. And I anticipate that's very soon anywhere we're title.""For the human jiffy, new lineage of birds that be realistic the extract of discovery and pleasure are exposed smoothly. In the end, all this plug have to be far-off even more menacing for an hazy beast fearing hype to a world that may never postulate or personal his existence.""Make out out this sustained but very unusual video participating in current Bigfoot research.""

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Mini Bigfoot Leaves Print The Strange Monster Of Jackson County Florida

Mini Bigfoot Leaves Print The Strange Monster Of Jackson County Florida
Dubbed the "Two-Egg Outwit Jumper" having the status of of sightings voice the petite, unincorporated colonize of Two Egg Florida, and sometimes called the "North Parramore Hobbit" or the "Mini-Bigfoot", the personage has been seen compound era in the reforest and swamps convenient the Chattahoochee stream. One viewer was at earth late one twilight whenever you like they heard a baffling sneak a look. Looking open-air he was incredulous to see "everything nice, neat unfashionable on two legs." It was the group of a normal man.

The squirrel of these stories is Valley Cox and he gives the followers details on his website;

An investigation of the area the near be born on view tracks cover fully clad down upfront the mud in the sphere of the consortium, but it was impracticable to establish what shove comprise not here them. They were not human track, but were too tall for a deer or other unvarying worm. The pliable, wet mud had obscured too significantly of their vision to establish significantly supplementary.

The exhibit sighting took plop about three-fourths of a mile southwest of the first one and convenient the swap of Gallery Intensification and Oak Coppice Relations. An viewer saw a petite nice personage subsequently hanker get angry neat unfashionable upfront a marshy area. It was less significant than not bad human flat as a pancake, but was neat on two legs. The man linking the story to our website described it as a "hobbit" or "mini" Bigfoot.

The latest viewer in June of 2011, said that the personage was as tall as a man but was outsized, bulkier, and had hanker gloomy get angry. A photograph of its foot print was taken.

Mini Bigfoot?

Florida is earth to plentiful Bigfoot or Worm Ape sightings, so a Mini-Bigfoot is not out of the stock.

See supplementary at the Valley Cox blog or at his Two Egg Florida website, where on earth you can hitch out supplementary about the sightings and see supplementary photographs. Intrigue J Turner

Friday, May 13, 2011

What Is The Dogman

What Is The Dogman
Author/investigator Linda Godfrey has perhaps been the biggest voice in introducing the "Dogman" concept to the masses. It is reported as an upright canine known in Wisconsin as the Beast of Bray Road, in Michigan as the Dog Man, in the Southwest as the Skinwalker, and all over the world as a werewolf. You can find many of her books on Amazon like "Real Wolfman: True Encounters in Modern America" and more.

Dogman phenomena has become much more commonly known through the paranormal community since the advent of popularity in Bigfoot investigating. Those seeking Bigfoot have also come across the Dogman and also stories by habituators (those who co-exist with Bigfoot and often gift them food) of having Dogman on their properties, as well.

Most commonly, the Dogman is described as 6 feet tall and taller, having pointed ears (sometimes no ears are seen), a dog-like snout (more like a bear by most witness reports), red eyes, and spindly legs that leave dog-like footprints.

"Are you getting scared yet? "

First, we must acknowledge that a famous supposed dogman video was actually found to be a hoax - a man in a ghillie suit. Of course, there have been hundreds of fake Bigfoot videos, as well, but we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

There are many camps of thought as to what a Dogman is:


Traditionalists believe it's a werewolf (man turned into animal). They see the phenomena as something either psychological (man acting as wolf in some sort of lycanthropic mental illness) or literally overcome by some curse or disease that makes him wild and transformative.

Skeptics believe people are seeing large dogs, bears, or men and misinterpreting it. Or, perhaps they are seeing Bigfoot and registering it in a canine way.

Spiritualists believe Dogman is a shapeshifter; a human who can take on the spirit of an animal or imitate one for dark purposes.

Bigfoot believers sometimes take the stance that Dogman is simply a Bigfoot with unusual features, perhaps a more pronounced fore-face.

A great deal of those studying the phenomena see it as a potential aberration perhaps created by gene manipulation by outside forces, such as aliens.

The Beast of 7 Chutes, a photo taken in Quebec supposedly shows a Dogman in the bottom right corner in the woods. It has gotten a lot of attention because, well, Dogman is not often filmed. It is reported that the beast appears to be holding something and looking up at the photographer who had no idea he was there.

There is a legend among Bigfooters and cryptid communities about the Land Between the Lakes, an area in Kentucky where supposedly a family in an RV were torn to pieces. According to reports, it was all covered up and hidden by officials. This was discussed very nicely in the documentary Hunt the Dogman.

There is a movie out called Dogman that you might want to check out just to hear a fictional story based on this cryptid.

Dogman is admittedly more of an obsession for me than Bigfoot. I have seen a Bigfoot and having seen one, it changed my view of what they are. I used to think they were some kind of ape. There was nothing but hair to remind of me ape when I saw Bigfoot. He was as human as could be. Dogman, however, has been reported as very angry, irritable, doesn't want to run into people but if he does, has been reported to psychically send warnings and threats, as well as being willing to tear a person up from limb to limb. I have heard many private reports about Dogman encounters, and none of them have been pleasant or positive. I have also heard that Bigfoot fears Dogman. In fact, reportedly it is the thing they fear most. Considering Dogman is reportedly up to a few feet smaller than Bigfoot and perhaps less muscular, it says a lot about Dogman's personality and ability to show threat and be aggressive.

Until I encounter one, I can't make any assumptions. I'm a theory gal, however, and when I hear reports of things like Dogman, lizard man, horse man, goat man, moth man and ape man, I cannot help but think that there is something else in nature we are not privy to or something as unnatural as genetic manipulation by an "outsider."

There is also the very real possibility (one that I used to laugh at and am now putting on the table) that the reason these cryptids can hide so damn well and the reason they are so unusual is that they are other parallel world and can play tag in and out of the worlds with a knowledge of cutting through the worlds we do not possess. "Yet".

I would have chalked it all up to fantasy and legend, but if I can find that Bigfoot is out there with lots of witness testimony and my own personal sighting, then all these stories of Dogman may have something to them.

"Dogman and "shadow people are two obsessions you can expect me to talk about a lot in the future. "

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Mountain Monsters Fakest Of The Fake Paranormal Shows

Mountain Monsters Fakest Of The Fake Paranormal Shows
Who wouldn't trust what these fellas had to say?

My 7-year old son, God bless him, has recently taken an extreme interest in the paranormal, just like his dad. He's got a bunch of age-appropriate books on the subject, with Bigfoot and ghosts being his favorite phenomena, but finding appropriate TV shows for him to watch is tough. He loves "Finding Bigfoot "and" MonsterQuest", but some of the other shows (namely "Monsters and Mysteries in America") are way too scary for him, mainly due to the realistic recreations. Recently he's gotten into "Mountain Monsters", and I've had the unfortunate task of watching these episodes with him. Why unfortunate?

Look, I know that paranormal shows are embellished at best and blatantly faked at worst. And I've been diligent on reminding my son of such facts. Creative editing or downright hoaxing, the shows are meant to provide entertainment, and are not an accurate portrayal of investigating such phenomena. And my son gets it. While watching most of the shows, I can see his young brain working, his little bit of critical thinking where he tries to figure out what something "could" be, rather than what the show is blatantly telling us something is. But he also has a healthy dose of suspension of disbelief. For most of the shows. But with "Mountain Monsters", even the 7-year old is not fooled. Not for a minute.

I'm not even sure where to start with this show. The easiest criticism would be to mock the bearded Hillbillies who "investigate" the aforementioned monsters. But hey, I'm open-minded, and freely accept that backwoods hill folk can be good investigators. Unfortunately, these are not them. And of course most of the team members all have funny nicknames. The leader is John "Trapper" Tice. The rookie is Jacob "Buck" Lowe. Joe "Huckleberry" Lott runs around with a gun (not that that really differentiates him, but he doesn't seem to have a "thing"). William "Wild Bill" Neff builds the traps and spews Larry The Cable Guy quotes ad nauseam (he must hold the record for saying "Git 'er done!" the most times in a 44-minute span), with fellow trapper Willy McQuillian (I guess it would have made too much sense for "him" to be nicknamed Trapper?). Oh and some guy named Jeff Headley pretends to take notes in a tiny norepad while interviewing fellow illiterate hillbillies. Likable fellows they all seem to be, but they are not good investigators. Frankly, the show just perpetuates terrible stereotypes of the Appalachian people. If only that were where the problems ended Wild Bill, no doubt in the middle of saying "Git 'er done!"

I know the trend these days is for something exciting to happen on each episode of any given paranormal show. Remember when most episodes of "Ghost Hunters" had Jason Hawes saying they had no real evidence and couldn't call a place haunted? Yeah, I can barely remember either. Most episodes of "Finding Bigfoot" find the team hearing some sort of weird knocking or howling. But even these shows don't claim, in almost every episode, to have been touched or attacked by a Bigfoot. Oh no. Yet the "Mountain Monsters" team claims to have captured some of these creatures, most notably the chupacabra. Which was then freed from its cage (which was all wooden planks, obscuring the view of the elaborate puppet elusive creature captured inside) by none other than Bigfoot himself. I kid you not, the team claims, on video, in a very serious fashion, that the captured chupacabra let out a howl, which Bigfoot realized was a distress call, which prompted him to run to the rescue of his pet chupacabra. It was theorized that Bigfoot uses the chupacabras as "scouting dogs." I am not making this up. In another episode, in which they were hunting a black beast/devil dog sort of creature, they also concluded that Bigfoot was assisting his pet devil dog.

The evidence that is collected on the showgood God. Mostly-obscured puppets, special effects that would make folks at the SyFy Channel giggle, and "eyewitness" videos that are quite obviously faked, and not even with a tried and true gorilla suit. Maybe fur coats? I never thought a blobsquatch could ever looks so fake. Some of the alleged trail cam photos are so poorly PhotoShopped that they are jarring.
Kind of like this, only worse

As for the actual investigations themselves, what can I say? I've seen these armed men (let me reiterate - armed men, like with hunting rifles and shotguns) get attacked by the supposed creatures they are hunting numerous times over numerous episodes, and yet I have not seen one shot fired yet. Hunters, an ex-Marine (so he says), and not one of them has ever taken a shot. Again, I know it's a fake show and all, but at least give me a somewhat plausible reason to suspend my disbelief. If you're using re-purposed Muppets and CGI from the early 90s, why not put some blanks in the guns?

Oh. And when they do find "evidence" of something, they get scared and leave. One episode (and again, I kid you not) shows the team stumbling upon what appears to be a Bigfoot burial ground. Just out in plain sight, on someone's property. Yes, complete with stone circles and 10-foot long graves. The team starts digging to find bones, I suppose, and then are scared off (so they run about 10 feet away from the burial ground, to go do their interviews) by some clearly faked howling. Then the show ends. They do not come back during the light of day, with, you know, actual scientists, or anyone useful for that matter. Again, points my 7-year old son found odd. In another episode, after "capturing" a chupacabra (and subsequently witnessing its rescue by Bigfoot), the team just shrugs their shoulders and moves on. No suspension of disbelief here. I just can't believe Destination America is airing this.

If you like shows where stereotypical Hillbillies pretend to chase mythical animals who keep other mythical animals as pets, then this is the perfect show for you. But overall, this program is an all-out assault on the intelligence and sensibilities of any normally functioning, breathing human being over the age of 4. But it does give my son and I a lot of chuckles, so I guess because of it's absurdity, it is a bit entertaining. Or perhaps my IQ is dropping faster than I thought

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