Image recorded by trail camera in Sierra National Forest. (David Raygoza)

The Bigfoot creature may have been captured on a remote trail camera placed in the Sierra National Forest, based on photography evidence released by Sanger Paranormal Society.

Investigator Jeffrey Gonzalez said Tuesday night that multiple cameras were put in place in this remote area on Memorial Day weekend, and retreived on June 7, 2009.

Read complete article here. {via The Examiner}

Bigfoot

A report of a possible Bigfoot encounter in Pennsylvania was received by the Sasquatch Watch of Virginia and was then referred to Eric Altman, the Director of the (PBS) Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society to investigate. The incident occurred on July 10, 2009, outside of Uniontown, in Fayette County.

On July 15, 2009, a team from the PBS traveled to the location where the reported Bigfoot encounter occurred to interview the witness and to look over the area for any possible physical evidence. The team was comprised of Eric Altman and PBS members Dave Dragosin and his wife Cindy. Eric also invited me to go along to participate in the investigation.

Read complete article here. {via Paranormal News}

Bart Cutino, explains how he saw Bigfoot (credit: ORVILLE MYERS/The Herald)

I’m skeptical about Cutino’s belief on Bigfoot populations. Thousands of these things running around seems a bit much.

The wilderness is pitch-black at night and Monterey’s Bart Cutino says he and his colleagues like it that way as they try to solve one of the enduring mysteries of folklore.

Cutino, 35, is an unabashed, unapologetic member of The Bigfoot Research Organization, a diverse group of about 200 researchers and adventurers. They wander through the deep woods for days at a time in search of a legendary creature — indeed, they believe there are thousands of them — inhabiting the forests of North America and the world.

The vast majority, they’re convinced, are in the Pacific Northwest. Cutino says there have been at least 10 sightings over the years in Monterey County, the most intriguing by a University of Southern California psychology professor who says he saw one at dusk at the Fort Hunter Liggett military base while boar hunting in 2002.

Read complete article here. {via Monterey County Herald}

Strange Creature? (credit: Joe Fex)

I messed around with the alleged original photo and there does seem to be something there when you mess with the levels and exposure of the shot. Weird.

I recently received these photos from Joe Fex one of the top Bigfoot researchers in the world [http://apexresearch.ufothinktank.com/]. I sent them to Brad Steiger to have a look at. Since he is currently working on his new book on monsters, I thought he would especially be interested in seeing these arresting pictures. After reading Joe’s comments on them, you can read below how they were assessed by Brad Steiger’s photo-analysis expert.

 Joe Fex : Here are some more curiosities for you, three images from 2007 of a phantasm (Undetected by the witnesses present) that appeared in a photo at Lake Travis, Texas (The strangest lake I’ve ever seen! Check it out on google maps).
 
Not the first time I’ve seen this type of humanoid but it is somewhat rare. A college biology professor shot the photo w/digital camera to test the flash & later noticed two points of light. Thinking it was an animal, had the shot light-blasted revealing the 11-14ft giant standing approx. 26ft away and definitely observing the student.

Read complete article here. {via The Examiner}

Michael Rugg (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)

The event will be held at the Bigfoot Discovery Museum located on Highway 9 in Felton.

Museum curator Michael Rugg said not only is Bigfoot real, but he himself once saw the primate with his own eyes.

“As a boy, when I was 5 years old I saw Bigfoot,” he said. “My family had a saw mill in Laytonville Humboldt-Mendocino county line. We vacationed and fished on the Eel River. We were camping on a beach and my parents were fixing breakfast, and I wandered off one morning. I came to a sand bar in the river and saw a very large hairy man, completely covered in bushy dark hair, with nothing on but the remnants of a torn shirt hanging off one shoulder. I looked at the hairy man, and he looked at me, and then I heard my parents screaming, Mikey! Mikey where are you?’”

Read complete article here. {via Santa Cruz Sentinel}

I just came across the comment that Sir “Mister Wildlife” David Attenborough made on some British talk show the other night stating that, “I’m baffled by the Abominable Snowman – very convincing footprints have been found at 19,000ft.” This immediately brought back memories of the old In Search Of Episodes where I saw the famed Patterson Bigfoot film for the first time. Which got me thinking that we really haven’t gone down the crypto path here at Paranormal SPY. So I went in search of something new today and boy did I come up big. And no, it’s not some semi-frozen refrigerator Bigfoot, it’s the Fouke Monster.

The Fouke monster is a semi-like-Bigfoot-monster-thing with just a hair of wookie thrown in, that’s been seen around Fouke, Arkansas. The estimated height was seven feet, weighing in at a possible 300 pounds. It supposedly attacked a family back in the ’70s as well as ran off with some livestock. The most recent sighting was back in 1998.

But what I found really interesting were all the close encounters the locals had with the Fouke. This thing didn’t run off like most Bigfoot stories you hear about.

There were so many accounts that a local ad salesman, Charles B. Pierce, borrowed some cash and made a movie about them. The film The Legend of Boggy Creek, is shot documentary style and used actual locals to tell their stories. And the best part is that you can go and watch it over on YouTube. Now this is the ’70s, so if you can get by the hokey music, and damn it’s bad, I think you’ll dig it. Makes me kind of want to get my OshKosh’s on and get a dutch boy haircut.

Here is the link to the full movie

Not one to usually pull over for a yard sale, I spotted a sign on a stack of boxes and books reading, “cheap books,” and immediately swerved over for a closer look. After only a few seconds of digging I came across the hidden gem, Ghost Hunters: True Stories from the World’s Most Famous Demonologists (notice I give you the full title here, I couldn’t fit it in my blog title, sorry). I’d heard of this book being a fan of the Warrens but I think it’s been out of print for a while because I couldn’t ever find it, even Amazon. But for a quick five bucks now I owned my own hardcover copy. Yes, that’s right, hardcover folks!

I took it home that night and read it cover to cover in one sitting. It was an extremely fast read. The book’s format bounces back and forth from interviews to your standard narrative, which actually broke the book up nicely.

The book begins with a brief history on the Warrens in the introduction. At the time of publication in 1989, the Warrens had done over three thousand investigations. Ed’s interest in demonology began with witnessing objects fly around his house as well as apparitons as a child. Lorraine’s experiences bagan in childhood as well, seeing lights around peoples head,  which she later learned these lights to be auras.

Then you start getting into the good stuff. And let me tell you, there’s a ton of paranormal here. They dish on everything from automatic writing, a telepathic Bigfoot case, an exorcism involving the dreaded Quija board, demonic possession, demonic infestation, and psychic visions. Ghost Hunters also covers many of the famous cases the Warrens have investigated such as The Devil in Connecticut, The Smurl family, Dudleytown, the Lindley Street poltergeists and the really, really famous Amityville, which pushed them into the public eye.

The only flaw in this book to me anyway was not enough meat on the bones. They don’t really go into detail about the cases, more of just a quick overview. But enough scary stuff to keep me up most of the night. For instance talon marks all over your bathroom, necrophilia,  the smell of raw sewerage, or the one that really got to me was the rape by a succubus.

So if you can manage to find it, check it out. It’s para-classic. Just make sure you’ve got some company while reading or at least a crucifix.

[official website]