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SYDNEY REPORTER CALLS 'FINDING BIGFOOT' TEAM 'CLOWNS'

The clowns from "Finding Bigfoot" are in Queensland, attaching a tracking device to a little grey kangaroo. Why? Because they think yowies eat roos. Bigfoot hunter Cliff Barackman explains that back in the US: 'Wherever we see a large concentration of protein we find sasquatches.' The glaring problem with this assertion is the fact that Cliff and his pals have never actually found a sasquatch. Nevertheless, here they claim that they have succeeded in finding yowies, those elusive hairy hominids of Australian legend. Encouraged by locals who tell stories of yowies doing everything from attacking parked cars to killing goats and hanging them in trees, they head out into the bush to try to attract the creatures. This involves banging sticks together, cooking kangaroo meat and attempting to play a didgeridoo. When they eventually hear some unidentified noises they immediately jump to the conclusion that yowies made them. - SMH

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A New Zealand kayaker has had an amazing escape after becoming trapped on a remote Western Australia island for more than two weeks by a huge crocodile which would not let him leave. The man, known only as Ryan, was last month exploring the northern WA coast near Kalumburu, which is between Derby and Kununurra. Having been left on the remote Governor Island, the Kiwi realised he didn't have enough supplies and attempted to paddle the four kilometres or so back to the mainland. But he immediately caught the eye of the six-metre saltwater crocodile who has lived in the area for years.

Every time he attempted to leave, the crocodile would make his presence felt, leaving the adventurer stranded for a fortnight. On Saturday, local Don McLeod spotted a light on the island, and when he checked it out, the hatless, shirtless and desperate visitor approached. "When I came round through Red Bluff opposite Governor Island I saw a flash in the scrub,' Mr McLeod said. "I went across and Ryan came out looking a bit distraught. He came down the beach, he had no hat on and no shirt on.

"He was relieved and shocked, and thankful someone had come along because he was running out of options pretty quickly. He is a very, very lucky man.' Ryan's passage to WA was an incredible story in itself, having travelled from Queensland to the Kimberley on a yacht whose owner was then jailed in the Northern Territory, leaving his passenger stranded for two months. After hitching a lift with a solo yachtsman from the Territory to WA, he was dropped on Governor Island with 160 litres of water, some flour and dry stores.

But after realising he was unprepared for the Kimberley wilderness, his first attempt to reach the mainland was thwarted by the massive crocodile. Mr McLeod said the story was incredible. "He said every time he got in his little kayak, which was only 2.5m long, this crocodile - who has lived there for many years and is a monster - has chased him,' Mr McLeod said. "He was desperate for water when I trotted up. We gave him a cold beer, which was probably the wrong thing, and then he went to sleep about three-quarters of the way home.' The New Zealander has been given a bed at a mission on the mainland as he recovers. - WAToday

RIHANNA RECEIVES ROUND-THE-CLOCK ALIEN UPDATES

Pop star Rihanna has employed an unidentified flying object (Ufo) watcher for 24-hour updates on extraterrestrial activity, according to a report.

The Umbrella hitmaker is reportedly convinced aliens will land on Earth and she is now paying a helper to keep an eye on possible incidents in the skies above the Mojave Desert in Nevada.

A source tells Britain's Daily Star, "Rihanna has always been convinced aliens will land on Earth in her lifetime. So she started using the man, who calls himself a sky scanner, to give her information from Nevada on anything that relates to sightings.

"He keeps in touch with her from the Little A'Le'Inn, a motel which hosts Ufo hunters. It's also near one of the world's most secret government bases, Area 51. This isn't a fad for Rihanna, she is a total believer and doesn't mind spending her money on it to get results."

The star was reportedly introduced to spaceship-spotting as child by her father Ronald Fenty in Barbados. - Contact Music

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DEAD BEACHED WHALES CAUSE 'SEA MONSTERS' RUMORS IN GHANA

The remains of at least three whales have mysteriously washed up on different beaches across Ghana.

Locals had gathered on the beaches at Kokrobite, Asanta and Kikam to get a closer look. Two of the animals were immediately identifiable as whales while the third sparked claims of a cryptozoological mystery with pictures generating headlines that a "mysterious creature" had been discovered.

The animals were believed to have been washed ashore on either Sunday or Monday night and could have been killed by a large supply vessel out in the deep ocean. It is the fifth time within the space of five years that whales have mysteriously washed up on the shoreline in the region.

The local people believe that these events, far from being a disaster, are actually a good omen. "It is a kind of blessing because it is going to lead to bumper harvest," chief fisherman Nii Asase Ayitey told the Daily Graphic. "We will perform the necessary customary rites demanded during such events."

A representative of the Environmental Protection Agency has stated that the organization is aware of the whale deaths and will be dispatching a team to conduct a full investigation. - Graphic

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Doctor Who Claimed To Have Handled Alien Debris From Roswell Crash Found Dead

DOCTOR WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE HANDLED ALIEN DEBRIS FROM ROSWELL CRASH DIES READING A BOOK ABOUT UFOS - AS WIFE INSISTS HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH

Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., who claimed he handled debris from the 1947 crash of an alien spacecraft near Roswell, New Mexico, has died at the age of 76 doing what he loved best - reading a book about UFOs.

Denice Marcel said her father was found dead at his home in Helena Saturday, less than two months after making his last trip to Roswell.

Over the past 35 years, Marcel Jr. appeared on TV shows, documentaries and radio shows; was interviewed for magazine articles and books, and traveled the world lecturing about his experiences in Roswell.

KEY WITNESS: DR JESSE MARCEL JR, WHO SAID HE HANDLED DEBRIS FROM THE 1947 CRASH OF A UFO NEAR ROSWELL AS A BOY, HAS DIED AT AGE 76

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WITNESS TO HISTORY: DR MARCEL'S FATHER, MAJOR JESSE MARCEL, WAS THE HEAD INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, OR A-2, AT ROSWELL ARMY AIR FIELD DURING THE FAMOUS ROSWELL EVENTS OF JULY 1947

'He was credible. He wasn't lying. He never embellished - only told what he saw,' his wife, Linda, said.

Marcel's father was an Air Force intelligence officer and reportedly the first military officer to investigate the wreckage in early July 1947.

Marcel Jr. said he was 10 when his father brought home some of the debris, woke him up in the middle of the night and said the boy needed to look at it because it was something he would never see again.

His father maintained the debris 'was not of this Earth,' Linda Marcel said. 'They looked through the pieces, tried to make sense of it.'

The item that Marcel Jr. said fascinated him the most was a small beam with some sort of purple-hued hieroglyphics on it, she said.

After an initial report that a flying saucer had been recovered on a ranch near Roswell, the military issued a statement saying the debris was from a weather balloon.

'They were told to keep it quiet and they did for years and years and years,' Linda Marcel said.

Interest in the case was revived, however, when physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman spoke with Jesse Marcel Sr. in the late 1970s.

Friedman wrote the foreword to Marcel Jr.'s 2007 book The Roswell Legacy, and described him as a courageous man who 'set a standard for honesty and decency and telling the truth.'

'His legacy is that he had the courage to speak out when he didn't have to about handling wreckage that his Dad brought home,' Friedman said Tuesday. 'He worked with artists to come up with what the symbols on the wreckage looked like. He didn't have to do that. He could have kept his mouth shut. A lot of people did.'

On his last trip to Roswell in early July, UFO researcher and Earth science professor Frank Kimbler arranged for Marcel to visit his childhood home and the debris site.

'I remember my dad did say that he loved the ride up to the site that day because he was able to discuss science with Frank,' Denice Marcel said in an email to The Associated Press. 'One thing about my Dad, he was always reading something on astronomy or some kind of scientific journal. He loved astronomy with a passion.'

On her Facebook page, Miss Marcel eulogized her father in a touching message announcing his passing

'I am so proud to be his daughter,' she wrote on Sunday. 'He had taught me so many things in life and one of the more important things I learned from my Dad was to never back down in the face of adversity.'

She concluded her online tribute with the words: 'although my Dad and Grandpa are no longer with us.... The Roswell Legacy will live on FOREVER!'

Marcel Jr. graduated from medical school at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1961 and joined the U.S. Navy in 1962.

He retired after nine years and later joined the Montana Army National Guard and became a flight surgeon in 1981. He was called back to active duty in October 2004 and served as a flight surgeon in Iraq for just over a year. He reached the rank of colonel.

Marcel Jr. worked as an ear, nose and throat doctor and retired from the Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Harrison, west of Helena, all of which lent credibility to his story.

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