Fresh off Youtube! Here it is, Wild Bill and Bill Brock hit the woods on the hunt for ghosts.. Yep Ghosts.. We are heading back soon for a overnight.. Should be fun. We hope you enjoy it.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Check out Les Stroud as he is interviewed by Joe Rogan. They spoke about everything from Les Strouds show to BIGFOOT!!! This is no doubt one of my favorite videos from the Joe Rogan Podcast.
I don't know anything about Allah but, this guy says that they talk about Bigfoot in the Koran??? WTF? I gotta look this dude up!
It’s long been established in ghost hunting circles that kids tend to be more “aware” of the paranormal. They’re often central figures in poltergeist hauntings, make invisible friends that many believe to be spirits, and let’s face it, all the scariest ghost stories involve kids.
But what makes children so sensitive to the paranormal? The question
has been debated almost as long as people have been seriously looking
for ghosts, with theories ranging from undeveloped brain functions to
stronger psychic vibrations than adults, but one of the most popular
opinions, particularly among skeptics, is that children simply have wild
imaginations and enjoy lying.
So what does Jason Hawes, star of Ghost Hunters and arguably
(if unfortunately) one of the most popular figures in the paranormal
investigation profession believe? Surely, if there’s anyone who could
provide insight on the subject it would be him.
Well, lucky us, because Hawe’s feelings on the subject were covered this very weekend in an article in the South Jersey Times.
“Many times, when I am contacted by someone having a paranormal
situation, I am informed that their child or children are playing with
invisible friends and that they talk to things that are not there,”
Hawes wrote. “People want to understand why their children are doing
this. Are they psychic? Maybe sensitive? Yes and No, They are open.”
Ok, maybe a little wishy-washy there, but it’s a good start. I’m sure
that many parents have had moments when they wondered if their kid was
psychic, like how they can seem to pick the absolute worst times to need
a potty break, almost like they just know, you know?
Alright Hawes, hit us with the facts. Why do kids see ghosts?
“To a child, anything is possible, everything is real. Santa still
comes down the chimney every Christmas and the Easter Bunny still comes
and brings them baskets every Easter. To a child, anything and
everything is possible. They do see more then most for this fact.” Uh.. you’re not exactly helping our case here..
“They have not been conditioned by society yet as to what is real and
what is not. Over years they will be told, “Stop playing with your
pretend friend Bobby” and this helps close them off to what they
experience. We have done some investigations into this and the
conclusions are outstanding.”
Wait, what? That, uh.. well, that wasn’t exactly the seasoned opinion I was expecting.
According to Hawes, the reason kids see spirits that are invisible to
the rest of us is because they’re just as real to them as Santa and the
Easter Bunny. Either Jason Hawes just said that ghosts aren’t real, or
he just made a case for the existence of a giant, anthropomorphic rabbit
that delivers chocolate to children.
Coming soon to SyFy: Santa Hunters! Destination Tooth Fairy!
He has to be messing with us right? Maybe after almost ten seasons of finding exactly zero (real) ghosts has finally turned Hawes into a skeptic.
“[There are families who] seem to be more accepting of their children
playing with invisible friends and they do not try to change the
child’s ideas. It seems that more and more sensitives are being brought
into this world by these people. They are being allowed to grow without
being told what they saw as a child was not real so, in return being
able to see these things as they did when they were children.”
Ok, so maybe he isn’t a skeptic.
Our friend Hayley Stevens, an actual skeptic, thinks that Hawes is sort of right, but in the wrong way.
“People tend to have their beliefs influenced by the society they’re a part of,” Hayley told us on Facebook.
“So if a child is told Santa is real or the Easter Bunny is real
they’re likely to believe it because of positive reinforcement of those
beliefs with gifts left mysteriously overnight. If they experience weird
stuff and are exposed to the idea that ghosts are doing it, the same is
going to happen.”
On the flip side, what is seems like Hawe’s is trying to
argue is that kids haven’t been “brainwashed” into unbelieving, which is
actually a pretty popular notion among paranormal investigators. It’s
just that he’s just the absolute worst person to argue the existence of
ghosts to millions of people in any kind of reasonable way.
So naturally, he’s doing just that.
What do you think of Jason Hawes’ thoughts on ghosts, Santa, and the Easter Bunny? Share your thoughts with us on Facebook, on twitter @WhoForted, or in the comments below.
A creepy noise haunting the Canadian sky has locals whispering about
UFOs and the end of the world, but one scientist thinks he knows the
source of the awful screeches, and it’s just as weird.
At 7:30AM on Wednesday, residents of Terrace, British Columbia woke
to a terrifying sound piercing the air over their small city, a horrible
metallic noise that sent Kimberly Wookey scrambling for a way to
collect evidence of the disturbance.
“This is the second time I have heard these sounds here in Terrace BC Canada,” she wrote on her YouTube page.
“I shot out of bed like a bat out of hell realizing it was the same
sounds I had heard before and I ran looking for a camera to try to
capture them with.”
After it was over and I sat down at the computer to
upload the video. Checking my Facebook I noticed a lot of locals had
heard the same sounds again but this time it was far more widespread. I
have no idea what these sounds are but it is pretty strange and I am
glad that I was able to catch them this time and share what I heard.
Terrace-based local news channel CFTK-TV
became aware of the bizarre event after reports began to flood in from
area residents worried about the biblical apocalypse, alien spacecraft,
and government weather machines, so they reached out to the University
of Saskatchewan for answers. According to a professor of physics, the
scary sky sounds aren’t the result of an impending invasion, but rather
due to electromagnetic noise emitted from radiation belts and auroras.
Whew.
Of course, that explanation hasn’t been adequate for everyone (“that’s just what they
want us to think!”), although the most unexpected balking has come from
skeptics who believe the entire event was simply a hoax perpetrated by
Kimberly herself. After all, her last name bears a striking resemblance
to a fictional creature known for belting out a similar noise..
So what do you think? Are the eerie mechanical groans the result of
stray radiation? An extraterrestrial battle cry? Or just a Wookie
through a loudspeaker? Let us know what you think! Share your thoughts with us on Facebook, tweet us @WhoForted, or leave a comment below!
Stories of man's encounters with
large, hairy humanoids stretch back through history. Countless of them
exist. Whether or not one believes they're real, they do make us wonder
about ourselves, our place in nature and the mysterious world around us. We consider these to be 10 of the
greatest bigfoot tales ever told, including some of the earliest bigfoot
tales on record and the one that many point to as definitive proof that
the monster is real. Count them down, from 10 to 1.
Coming in at No. 10 in our countdown
is the story of Jacko, an ape man allegedly captured by a crew of
railway workers in British Columbia during the summer of 1884.
According to the men, they spotted a
man-beast lying alongside the tracks as they passed through a rocky
gorge. They stopped to investigate the creature and determined that it
had somehow fallen from a cliff and was injured, but still very much
alive. The men managed to capture the creature and force it onto the
train. They took it into town and held it for several days in the local
jail, feeding it berries as they tried to decide what to do with it.
They named their captive beast "Jacko."
According to some, the legend of
Jacko provides convincing evidence of the existence of Bigfoot. However,
a news report of the incident published in the Daily British Colonist
and uncovered by Bigfoot researchers in the 1950s suggests otherwise.
According to the report, about 200 people visited the jail hoping to get
a glimpse of the wild man once word of it spread throughout the region.
Alas, there was no man-beast to behold. The erstwhile captors reported
that Jacko had made a cunning escape from the jail just moments before
their arrival. The townspeople were not sold, and neither are most
modern-day Bigfoot enthusiasts.
Top 10 Hairiest Bigfoot Stories
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9. The Tale of Albert Ostman
No. 9 on our countdown is the
terrifying tale of Albert Ostman, an itinerant lumberjack who
encountered a family of ape men during a camping trip in the remote
forests of British Columbia in 1924. One night, so the story goes,
Ostman awoke to the realization that he was being carried off — still in
his sleeping bag — and that he was unable to wrangle himself free. His
captor had him over one shoulder and was moving rapidly over mountain
terrain with his hand over the sleeping bag opening.
After a couple of hours of this
harrowing journey, Ostman was released from his sleeping bag confines
and claims to have found himself surrounded by a family of Sasquatch.
There was an adult man, an adult woman and two children, a girl and a
boy. They did not attempt to hurt him, according to Ostman, but they
made it clear that he was not allowed to leave. Over the next few days,
the forest beasts chattered to each other with grunts and monosyllabic
utterances, keeping a close eye on their victim. Finally, Ostman says he
hatched a plan to incapacitate the adult male by enticing him to
consume an entire tin of snuff. As the giant creature writhed in pain,
Ostman was free to make his escape.
After finding his way to a logging
camp, where lumberjacks fed him and gave him shelter, Ostman returned
home from his torturous trip without telling anyone about his abduction.
That is, until 30 years later. He finally told his story after he heard
that several others had come forward with similar tales. The experience
haunted him for the remainder of his life, but he never knew why he was
taken by the Sasquatch or what became of them in their mountaintop
hideaway.
The Tale of Albert Ostman
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8. The Ape Men of Mount St. Helens
Nothing ruins a wilderness trip like
being attacked by a band of menacing ape men, but that's just what Fred
Beck and four of his fellow gold miners claim happened to them on a
prospecting job in Mount St. Helens in the summer of 1924. According to
Beck, the men had just settled down to sleep for the night when they
were awakened by an attack on their cabin. Someone — or something — was
pounding the roof with rocks and trying to tear down their humble yet
sturdy abode. Shocked, they grabbed their rifles and began shooting at
the intruders.
The fighting continued all night
long, so the story goes, but none of the men were seriously hurt. By
morning, an eerie quiet had entered the camp and as the men cautiously
exited the cabin, they saw an ape man in the distance. They shot at the
beast several times and it finally fell over the cliff into the canyon.
It was the only one of their attackers they would see.
The men packed their belongings in a
hurry — leaving most things behind — and made their way home, promising
each other not to speak of the incident to anyone. Alas, the story was
leaked and within a few weeks it was picked up by the local newspaper,
which dubbed the beasts the "Ape Men of Mount St. Helens."
The Ape Men of Mount St. Helens
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7. Big Feet at Bluff Creek
In the summer of 1958, Jerry Crew was
working as a tractor operator for a construction crew in the Bluff
Creek area of Northern California. His first indication that something
was odd in the woods surrounding the worksite came in early August when a
700-pound tire was thrown into a gully as workers stood in awe. But
that wasn't the end of it. Soon, Crew began finding giant man-like
footprints around his bulldozer when he arrived at work in the mornings.
At first he was skeptical, but as he learned of the many myths and
legends of an enormous man-ape creature that lived in those very parts,
he soon believed that he had stumbled upon something spectacular.
Crew brought the footprints to the
attention of his friend, local taxidermist Bob Titmus. Titmus helped
Crew create plaster casts of the prints, and together they took the
casts to a newspaper reporter in nearby Eureka. The reporter was the
first to call the beast "Bigfoot" and soon the images of the giant
footprints were all over the world's newspapers. Thus, the legend of
Bigfoot was born.
Big Feet at Bluff Creek
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6. Honey Island Swamp Monster
According to legend, Louisiana's swampland is home to its own particular population of Bigfoot known as the "Honey Island Swamp Monster,"
or the "Louisiana Wookie," presumably because of its resemblance to the
Star Wars character Chewbacca. Stories of those who encountered the
beasts come from nearly every parish in the state and have endured over
many generations.
The legend of the Swamp Monster rises
up from Louisiana's primordial soup of remote, virtually impenetrable
pristine swamp, a perfect environment for an evolutionarily challenged
man-beast to exist outside the reach of modern man. Reports of such
beasts come mostly from hunters and fishermen who claim to have
encountered the giant hairy creatures or their footprints. But perhaps
the most intriguing characteristic of the Swamp Monster — and one that
recalls the Bigfoot stories of the Pacific Northwest — is the horrible
smell that permeates the air long after the beast is gone. After all,
nothing says "Bigfoot" like the lingering stench of death.
Some say the Honey Island Swamp
Monsters are actually a feral group of humans, while others believe them
to be the product of a love affair between a chimpanzee and an
alligator. Whatever their beginnings, fear of the Swamp Monster keeps
both sportsmen and tourists on the edge of their seats as they pass
through Louisiana's murky morass.
Honey Island Swamp Monster
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5. The Mount Shasta Sighting
Virgil Larson's 1976 tale of his
encounter with a man-beast on the forested slopes of California's Mount
Shasta ranks among the most incredible of all Bigfoot stories. Larson
had lived much of his life among the trees, so when he heard footsteps
approaching him one day as he sat smoking at the base of a tall Douglas
fir, he remained at ease. He looked back casually to see a tall figure
moving toward him at first and then veering away. Thinking it was a
ranger coming to inquire about his forest activities, he shouted a
greeting. The figure glanced back, but continued walking away,
eventually dropping out of sight.
Curious, Larson stood up to see where
the "man" might have gone. Suddenly, according to Larson's story, the
figure emerged from behind a bush and gazed at him with an ominous
expression. Larson was stunned. This was no man, Larson recalls, but a
large beast, about 7 feet tall with dark hair covering its entire body.
Larson stood frozen for a moment. Then, as the beast turned and
disappeared into the forest, Larson ran in the opposite direction to
find his partner, Pat Conway. He told Conway about what he saw, and
together they went back to the site to investigate the area. There was
no sign of the creature, but a foul stench remained in the area where it
had been seen last.
Larson remembers very little about
the creature's appearance, but recalls distinctly the beast's bear-like
gait. He could not say whether the monkey-man he encountered that day
was actually a Bigfoot, but one thing is certain; the forests of
Northern California are home to some of the tallest Bigfoot tales.
The Mount Shasta Sighting
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4. Bigfoot in Big Sky Country
In the summer of 2001, the rumor mill
churned up a rather provocative tale of a Montana rancher who had shot
and killed a Bigfoot after the man-beast was caught menacing his
livestock. But wait, it gets better. The rumors also contain details
about federal agents — presumably the FBI — showing up within minutes of
the kill to whisk the wild man's remains away to an undisclosed
location before the local police had time to investigate. The story
created quite an intrigue among the local population and within the
Bigfoot research community.
Despite the detailed nature of the
claims and their persistence over several months, many people were
skeptical of the slain Sasquatch story, especially when the
rancher/would-be killer came forth to say that no such incident ever
occurred. Alas, the tale was too good to be allowed to die. The rumors
only spread wider with the rancher's denial, which was taken as evidence
of his role in the cover-up.
Bigfoot in Big Sky Country
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3. The Big Bigfoot Joke
When Bigfoot enthusiasts Rick Dyer
and Matt Whitton called a press conference in August 2008 to announce
that they had the body of a 500-pound dead Bigfoot in a large freezer,
the response was a whirlwind of international media fanfare. Word of the
find exploded on the news wires, especially once images of the frozen
beast were published along with a story claiming that several more
individuals were known to exist in a remote part of north Georgia. As
Dyer and Whitton explained, the exact location of the remaining
man-beasts would be kept confidential in order to protect their privacy.
However, the hype was short-lived.
Soon after the press conference, mammalian experts from around the
country responded by discounting the images as a hoax. Most believed
that Dyer and Whitton had merely stuffed a widely available Bigfoot
Halloween costume with an assortment of mammalian road kill. When
confronted, the men soon confessed that it was all a hoax — they had
indeed purchased the costume on the Internet. When asked why they did
such a thing, the two replied that it was all just a "big joke."
The Big Bigfoot Joke
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2. The Bauman Incident
The Bauman story comes from President
Theodore Roosevelt's 1892 book, The Wilderness Hunter, which describes
an encounter between an ape man and a young frontiersman named Bauman.
According to Roosevelt, Bauman and his partner were trapping along a
remote stretch of Montana's Wisdom River sometime in the mid-19th
century. After building a lean-to and making camp in what seemed like an
ideal spot for game, the two men began setting their traps. When they
returned, they found their packs had been rummaged through and their
shanty torn down. Undaunted, the men set about reconstructing their
wilderness abode.
According to Roosevelt's book, that
night Bauman was awakened by the sound of rustling and the foul stench
of a wild beast. He immediately rose up and fired a shot, and then heard
something tearing off through the woods. He and his partner were
unnerved by this and decided to abandon the camp at the first light of
dawn.
Come morning, the two split up so
that Bauman could gather the traps while his partner made camp
downriver. Sadly, both would not make it home alive. When Bauman arrived
at the new campsite, he found his partner sprawled on the ground with
his necked snapped and a set of bite marks on his throat. He knew at
once that the menacing forest beast was responsible, according to the
story. The horrific sight sent him running — rifle in hand — never to
return to the spot again. By the time he told his story to Roosevelt,
Bauman was a very old man.
The Bauman Incident
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1. The Patterson Film
Coming in at No. 1 on our countdown
is the Patterson film, by far the most famous and compelling evidence of
Bigfoot's existence. Shot in Northern California's Bluff Creek in
October 1967 by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin, the short film shows
what appears to be a female Bigfoot walking briskly across a sandbar in
the middle of the afternoon. The footage is shaky at first, since
Patterson was thrown from his horse when the creature first appeared and
had to scramble to his feet with his camera. Then, the footage steadies
as the eager filmmaker focuses on his subject just as the she-beast
turns to face the camera before disappearing into the woods.
These images have become the most iconic and conclusive Bigfoot images of our time. They are also the most controversial.
There is no doubt that the Patterson
film made a huge impression on the world, but is it real? The film has
been analyzed for authenticity numerous times over the past three
decades. Unfortunately, the findings have been far from consistent. Some
say that the animal's stride is inconsistent with that of a man —
arguing in favor of the Bigfoot hypothesis — while others say the
footage is merely a hoax, albeit a skillful one. The truth may never be
known, but one thing is certain; the Patterson film is the cornerstone
upon which all subsequent Bigfoot research has been built.
Uh.. you’re not exactly helping our case here..
Top 10 Hairiest Bigfoot Stories
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