Spottings

Journal entries of the “experience”

11:21 PM – Nothing happened (This is reality, not The X-Files)

2:00 AM – My daughter comes into our room, she’s clearly upset and wants to sleep with us. What are the odds that she manages to come in an wake me at exactly 2:00AM?

3:00 AM – I awake, looking at the clock to the left side of my bed. Exactly 3:00AM. My daughter is crying for her mommy, who is not in bed. I assume she’s in feeding the baby. I tell my daughter she’s in the baby’s room and off she goes. Odd, usually my daughter chooses me when she’s upset or frightened. Still, this way I can go back to sleep.

3:14 AM – My daughter climbs back into bed, waking me again. She starts asking for her mommy again. I ask her if she didn’t find her mother, she says “no”. Is that “no, I didn’t find her” or “no, I did find her”? Well, ask a badly phrased question to a 3-year old and that’s what you get. Reluctantly, I get out of bed and take her with me to find mommy. My wife is in with the baby and sends us back to bed.

4:00 AM – Am I going to wake up every hour on the hour? This time, I’m awake. Normally, I wake at 4:45, so I could get up now, but I don’t want to, I want to go back to sleep. I lay there, staring at the clock definitely blinking away the seconds of 4:00AM, looking past the clock to my closet, which I note has been left open about 6 inches. The air conditioning is off, the room is silent. “POP” comes a sound like a plastic tupperware container having the lid popped on. The sound came from the closet. Has my daughter gotten into the closet? I turn and look. Both my wife and daughter are asleep on my other side. I continue to stare at the closet. There are plastic boxes in the closet. I know that. What could have caused one to pop? Is it going to happen again? Could there be a mouse – or worse, the dreaded roof rat – in there? Was I really just half asleep and imagined it? I watch silently… 4 minutes, 5 minutes, 6…

4:06 AM – The closet door starts to slowly open. Panic! I fling my pillows at the door and shut it, then I put a ladder in front of it. My wife’s awake now, and flips on the light, my daughter is still sound asleep despite all the lights and noises.

First, I reconnoiter the house. Everything is normal. All doors and windows secure, nothing obviously out of place. I get a flexible head flashlight and feed it under the closet door, looking under the crack. To my relief, nothing grabs the light and yanks it under. Also, nothing is visible.

Finally, I open the door. Nothing. We search the clothes, the plastic boxes, everything. Nothing.

My daughter sleeps soundly through it all.

This one’s got it all!

The Kensington Runestone was discovered 100 years ago in Minnesota. The Runes indicate that Vikings were in Minnesota in the year 1362, over 100 years before Columbus “discovered” America. For 100 years, the stone has been shrouded in controversy. Many believe that the farmer who found the stone carved it himself, making some errors in the runes.

Now, a new study says the stone was carved “at least 200 years ago”, before the farmer was born, and further research into the runes shows that the “mistakes” are actually little-used, 14th century characters.

But that’s not all! Then the story brings in the Knights Templar, and a secret code (I’m not making this up) that verifies that the stone is from 1362.

In this BBC report, a mysterious Russian lake reported to be… um… mysterious… disappeared overnight.

Some think it is a natual phenomena, others aren’t so sure…

I’m a little disappointed with the National UFO Reporting Center.

While, I suppose, they’re “job” is just to accept reports of UFOs, the fact that their database contains reports that are easily disproved doesn’t help the overall credibility of the database. What percentage of the reports are of a similar nature?

Let me demonstrate with my (honest to goodness) real UFO sighting in Phoenix, Arizona.

UFO Sighting Report

Date: September 17, 2004
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Time: 5:30AM – 11:15AM

Between 5:30 and 6:00AM, on my way to work. It was still dark outside. I arrived at the QuickTrip on Indian School and noticed someone looking up at the sky. I turned and looked and to the north-north west there was a fiercely luminescent object in the sky. This was absolutely not the morning star; it was easily 4 times larger than any planet or star in the sky. It was round, but it wasn’t a perfect sphere, it had an indefinable inconsistency in its luminosity. It hovered motionless.

It was so brilliant in the sky that everyone was stopping to look at it, no one seemed to know what it could be. I text messaged my wife and a friend telling them to go outside and see if they could photograph it. Unfortunately, the camera my wife used was worthless and just got a speck in the sky.

I headed into work, and people were literally standing along the side of the road looking up at the object.

The object was so stationary, and so brilliant in the sky, my impression was that, perhaps we were witnessing a super-nova, similar to the 1006 CE super-nova near Beta Lupi, spotted in China, Japan and elsewhere.

Even after the sun came up, the object was still there, now a sort of pale whitish-grey, similar to the moon when it is out in the daylight.

Around 6:45 I got word back from my friend that he’d gotten good pictures and the object was identified: A weather balloon. (Ha! Project Blue Book was right!). Earlier in the morning, while it was still dark, it was high enough up that it was being hit by direct sunlight, creating the intense glow in the dark sky.

It remained hovering over Phoenix for several hours and then began moving west and rising in altitude. We last spotted it around lunchtime.

Why am I disappointed in the National UFO Reporting Center (NURC)? Because they have two entries from Phoenix for that day, obviously the same object, only one of them has a brief not at the bottom saying “perhaps it was a helium balloon”) This sighting was obviously not investigated or followed-up with at all.

How many more of the sightings in their database were similarly disproved but not marked as such?

Anyway, here’s a picture of the UFO as it appeared that day:

Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization is simply the best Internet bigfoot research web page I’ve found.

At last, the TV show A Current Affair has posted the “amazing” new bigfoot footage they recently purchased in a major bidding war with other news/entertainment outlets.

I hope they didn’t pay too much for it.

And let me just take a moment to say to all people who hope to use camcorders to capture the unknown; Go get your camcorder, right now. Turn it on, get the manual is you have to and find out HOW TO TURN OFF THE STINKING DIGITAL ZOOM! Do it. Do it now, never look back. A computer can do a much superior digital zoom after the fact and the original footage will not be compromised by the lousy digital zoom on the camcorder.

Otherwise, your footage will look as worthless as the Nelson House footage.

See the story here.

Today, as I’m just starting this blog, I’m running a little clearing house of sasquatch stuff, this clip shows the 1995 “Redwoods” video.

While we’re at it, I love the The Bigfoot Fact or Fantasy page. Check it out.

Video link: Redwoods Video

No discussion of sasquatch hunting would be complete without looking into the history of some of the giants (no pun intended) of the field of bigfoot research. One such man was Rene Dehinden, a truly dedicated sasquatch hunter.

Here is a classic, 1976 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary on Mr. Dahinden.

I recently saw this reported Bigfoot sighting. I’m not immediately convinced that this is a genuine sighting.

Even though it was first “published” in 2004, the sighting apparently came from 1987, and the trail would be too cold, even the most desiccated of sasquatch poop would have decomposed by now.

More importantly, I think this article is probably more insidious. Take for example, the extremely odd grammar, the obviously intentional misspelling of words, and the curious mis-capitalization of the narrative. Clearly this is some form of coded message intended for person or persons unknown.

Further research is warranted.

This new blog will be keeping an eye on the things they don’t want you to know… stay tuned.