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The Wonthaggi "Monster"

http://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.com.au/...nster.html

EXCERPT: Of all those researching mystery animals in Australia, none is more energetic, or more generous, than my friend, Paul Cropper, the co-author of Out of the Shadows and The Yowie. In 1998 he sent me, out of the blue, a package of 106 - yes, 106! - photocopies of newspaper reports, covering 34 years, concerning the "Wonthaggi Beast". Anyone who has ever tried it will appreciate how tedious and time consuming such a task would be - especially with regional newspapers in a different state to his own. [...] These reports are all from the now defunct Wonthaggi Express....
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The return of the mysterious Crete crocodile

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...odile.html

EXCERPT: Whether or not it is the exact croc in question remains unknown, but it would be quite remarkable for another green-eyed creature to have appeared on the island. Crocodiles are not native to Europe....
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Why Bigfoot Is Getting Nervous

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/10/u...?hpt=hp_c2

EXCERPT: [...] Monster hunting used to be strictly old school. Some excited hunter snapped shots of mysterious footprints, or squeezed off a blurry photo of an animal moving in the tree line. Yet Bigfoot always seemed to be one step ahead. Nobody could seem to grab him.

Now Bigfoot should be getting nervous. Monster hunters are upping their game. They're using night-vision equipment, sophisticated listening devices, camera traps activated by motion sensors and even drones that fly over rugged forests inaccessible to human beings.

The high-tech evolution of monster hunting has been championed by television. Cable TV is full of monster documentaries and reality shows depicting grizzled men in camouflage stumbling through the woods with night-vision goggles while blurting out, "Did you hear that?"

[...] Science, though, won't ultimately explain why we continue to see monsters. But psychology can help, says L. Andrew Cooper, co-author of "Monsters" and a film studies professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

The reason people see monsters isn't just about what's out there in the woods; it's about what's inside people, Cooper says.

Monster sightings surface in certain locations and at certain times because they reflect local anxieties, he says. He cites stories about Chupacabra, or "goat sucker," a hairless doglike creature that purportedly roams the border between the United States and Mexico.

"The idea of a Chupacabra as a supernatural force crossing the border between Mexico and the U.S. seems to me a way to look at our anxieties about immigration."

The political brew in another country may have spawned one of the most famous monster sightings in history -- the Loch Ness monster. People had reported seeing an ancient, serpentlike creature in a Scottish lake long before a man snapped a blurry photo of it in 1934.
Ghost hunters haunted by new terror: competition

We've heard of ghosts that harass the living. Now people are starting to harass the ghosts. All across America, novice investigative teams are creeping through people's homes at night, trying to get rid of their paranormal pests.

The photo came at a time of resurgent Scottish nationalism, Cooper says. The Scottish National Party had emerged, and Scotland was rethinking its history and national identity.

"Voilà -- the emergence of an ancient, distinctly Scottish creature that became a symbol of Scotland through the world," Cooper says.

People who see monsters are not just driven by nationalism or politics, he says, but something even deeper -- religious faith.

"Monsters are a miracle," Cooper says. "They stand outside the natural order. Evidence of something that defies what science calls the natural order is also potentially evidence for miracles. If you have evidence for miracles, you have evidence for God."

Gendreau, the woman who says she encountered the Wolfman of Chestnut Mountain that autumn night in Illinois, isn't ready to call what she saw a miracle. At first, it seemed like a curse.

"It caught us off guard," she says. "It kind of ruined the evening."

She says the experience disturbed her for a long time. At one point, she couldn't even take her dog out at night for a walk because she lived near a wooded area. She still thinks about it at times when she's out with her dog.

"It was so hard for me to wrap my mind around it," says Gendreau, who has a doctorate in behavioral psychology.

"You go, 'There's a logical explanation,' but after dissecting it you say, 'Maybe I'm just crazy,' " she says, laughing.

Now Gendreau views her experience as something else -- a "gift."

"It allowed me to be open-minded," she says. "There's a lot of mystery in this world, and if you're open to it, you'll see it."

But then she quickly adds: "I'd rather not go through that process again. It was creepy."...

Missing In The Parks

http://www.binnallofamerica.com/boaa103014.html

EXCERPT: Binnall of America finishes out their 8th season with an incredible hour with David Paulides who talks about his research into the seemingly endless list of unsolved disappearances in and around National Parks over the last century and a half. The bizarre cases grow even stranger in his 4th book, Missing 411: The Devil's In The Details, a volume that presents new cases and branches off into some downright disturbing territory.

As always, these cases follow a certain set of criteria and patterns that are present in nearly all of them. The difficulty facing Paulides in obtaining information on these missing person cases is astounding as it seems the National Parks are increasingly uncooperative and in some cases making it impossible to gain access to information that should be freely available. And once again, one glaring fact becomes apparent that shifts the entire phenomenon into the Twilight Zone: National Parks in the US do not keep any sort of record of missing people within the parks.

Think about that for a moment, then move on to this lively discussion over at Above Top Secret about one of Paulides' most frightening and mystifying cases, that of Christopher Thompkins, a member of a survey crew who disappeared along a rural Georgia highway in 2002. Only one of his boots, a scrap of fabric and change from his pockets was found later, the boot and cloth found caught on the barbed wire. His second boot was found 900 yards away in a nearby swamp months later. His fellow crew members said he stepped away from the road for a few moments and simply walked out of existence.

As we mention each time Paulides' work makes headlines again, we consider this series of books an essential must-read for everyone, no matter if you're simply taking a walk through the woods, a hunter, a Bigfoot investigator, a casual day hiker in the mountains or a through hiker tackling the AT....
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