Guardians of the portal

[Magical Realist]

Seems the Bigfoot/interdimensional portal trope is gaining some traction. You have to wonder what would be the basis for people claiming such a seemingly loony thing. Does this suggest they are going more strictly by the evidence? I mean who in their right mind would just make up such an outrageous and unbelievable narrative? I wouldn't.

:John [Carlson] and Adam [Davies] accidentally triggered and opened up a portal. Out of the portal came about 3 foot tall, two of them, guardians of the portal." --Dr. Matthew Johnson; TeamSquatchinUSA.com

I define Dr. Matthew Johnson's Bigfoot chapters in three phases. The Encounter, Cloaking Revealed, and The Portal.

PHASE 1: The Encounter | July 2000
Dr. Matthew Johnson's Bigfoot history begins at Oregon Caves National Park in Southern Oregon on July 1st 2000. You can read his a detailed BFRO report of his encounter. Here's the very short version. After exiting a cave, Dr. Johnson was with his family when he was alerted by a foul smell and loud vocalizations. After walking away from his family to take care of "business" he scanned downhill towards them and saw a Bigfoot. If you have ever heard Dr. Johnson recall this story in person, he gets very emotional at this point. This is the point where he expresses his concern for his family's safety.

The encounter was huge bigfoot news for the mainstream media and went viral, probably because of the embedded irony that Dr. Matthew Johnson was a psychologist telling a story that sounds nuts to the general public. He went on to do several national media interviews and kept to this non-paranormal version.

PHASE 2: 2011 Cloaking Revealed | June 2011
Fast-forward to 11 years later when Dr. Johnson had a conversation with only four people present. The conversation would be a milestone in the retelling of the Oregon Cave encounter.

Dr. Johnson was a guest speaker at Toby Johnson's (no relation) Sasquatch Symposium. Paranormal researcher Thom Powell was also in attendance as another guest speaker. A conversation between the two of them would reveal a huge detail missing from Dr. Johnson's retelling of his Oregon Cave encounter. The missing detail? The Bigfoot in Matthew Johnson's encounter had the ability to cloak.

PHASE 3: The Portal | June 2014
After years of keeping his Southern Oregon Habituation Area (SOHA) to himself, Dr. Matthew Johnson began to invite hand-picked researchers to his bigfoot habituation site. In June of 2014, Adam Davies and John Carlson were among the exclusive researchers allowed to camp at SOHA and what they encountered still defies explanation, although Dr. Matthew Johnson tried at his conference. At the conference Dr. Johnson talked about visible portals to other dimensions and half-sized bigfoots with glowing eyes.

The audio clip below is Bigfoot news and goes at a quick pace and is worth listening too."

Audio clip can be accessed here:

http://www.bigfootlunchclub.com/2015/08/...truth.html

[C C]

In the series Primeval, there was of course the basic premise of anomalies ("earthquakes in time") which enabled portals for "often-dangerous creatures from the distant past or future" to enter and be transported to other eras to "threaten the lives of UK citizens". I have no idea whether that was inspired by Bigfoot hypotheses, adapted from some novel or short-story, or was entirely an in-house concoction of the show's creators.

I assume that long before Jack Vance's "The Dragon Masters" or his "Planet of Adventure" tetralogy back in the '60s, sci-fi literature featured space aliens kidnapping ancient humans and their prior relatives of the hominin line. Potentially breeding them in assorted purposeful ways, when some of the original standards didn't otherwise escape and populate across the extrasolar planetary landscapes. There were also the time-travel stories about future zoologists rescuing living samples of soon-to-be extinct primate species in the past. Cross that with either a random or deliberate Primeval mechanism of transportation, and crypto-beast enthusiasts doubtless enjoy many a merry drunken evening of speculation at their campsite gatherings concerning mutated varieties of long-ago uprooted "Cain clans".

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[...] The European wildman has a long history in mythology, with roots stretching into Egypt and the Middle East. One common notion was that of the hairy anchorite, a strange variety of Bigfoot-like saint. Ancient Christian traditions held that hermit saints were often to be found in the most remote and barren deserts, where they achieved communion with God through asceticism and by withstanding the attacks of desert demons by the power of their faith. These anchorites were thought to have originally been normal-looking humans, but after living naked in the desert and relying on God's will to survive for a specified number of years, God would grant these anchorites special powers and would also change their bodies to a form more suited to survival. Namely, God would cover their nakedness and provide protection from the harsh sunlight of the day and the severe desert chill of the night by causing a coat of hair to grow all over the body. This hair was described as being as thick as that of any animal. In fact, some legends have the anchorites being mistaken for animals until they speak. http://www.newanimal.org/wildmene.htm


[...] That Grendel was a seven-foot hairy wildman appears to be a later author’s interpretation. Heaney’s translation of Beowulf doesn’t contain anything sufficiently descriptive of Grendel to be of much use. Heaney, in an introduction, provides his view after reading the sole surviving original text: that Grendel makes us think of “some hard-boned, immensely strong android frame, half Caliban and half-hoplite.” (Caliban being the deformed ~ also not well described, but usually depicted as a bestial subhuman or wildman ~ yet eloquent slave in The Tempest, while a hoplite was a Greek heavy infantryman.)

Grendel is “a fiend out of hell, a grim demon” from “the banished monsters, Cain’s creatures.” He attacks Beowulf with his claws ready, which doesn’t sound primate-like, and the later description of the arm and hand Beowulf tears off doesn’t sound mammalian at all. On the other hand, Grendel is sufficiently human to have a soul, which is condemned to Hell.

The description of his size is not consistent: he is bested by one human hero in unarmed combat, but a few pages earlier, it says he bore off THIRTY men at a time, which would make him gigantic. Nowhere is he compared directly in size to a man or anything else that would allow us to ascribe an approximate height to him. All we know for sure is that he could fit through the doors of the mead hall.

From a cryptozoological perspective, I don’t think there is anything solid we can make of this. Grendel is a little-described fiend who, given the reference to the old idea of Cain’s clan as outcasts from humanity, might plausibly be assumed to be hairy, even if the poem makes no further reference to it. His mother seems to be something else again: she’s been seen with him stalking on the moors, but she moves better in water than on land. http://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/grendel-bille/