Bigfoot Allegedly Spotted In Canada's Yukon Territory (real story)

[sabra]

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http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4727138/detail.html

Bigfoot Allegedly Spotted In Canada's Yukon Territory
Several people in Canada's Yukon Territory say they've spotted a Sasquatch, and some claim to have evidence.

In one case, a chunk of alleged Bigfoot hair has been sent to Vancouver for DNA testing.

Also, an extra large set of footprints was found in the woods.

"My Uncle Doug, he's been in the bush, he says it's not a bear track or anything he's ever seen," said resident Trent Smarch.

Some claim to have even seen one of the animals.

"When I looked up, it was just standing there, like watching me," said resident Roger Smarch.



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[donco6]

1. "Dick? Dick is that you?"

Doing anything to detract from Rove! Ha!

Seriously, tho, wouldn't it be wild if this was real?

[opihimoimoi]

2. Its those ETs again....watching us for signs of IGNORANCE

[Totally Committed]

3. He's trying to get away

before the White House can name him as Rove's source....

:rofl:

TC

[skids]

4. Sasquatch is not BigFoot.

I don't know the difference, but my housemate is into cryptozoology, and those who are make a big distinction between Sasquatch, BigFoot, and Yeti.

[Ediacara]

10. That's not what I've heard

All the crypto stuff I've read say that Sasquatch is the Salishian word for what Americans call Bigfoot. Yetis.... are Asian.

[ohio_liberal]

5. Interesting

I know a man who is a perfectly sane, reasonable human being and still swears he saw something while hunting in the woods in eastern Ohio that was really big and hairy, and walking on two legs. Who knows? :shrug:

[theHandpuppet]

13. I think that was James Traficant

... still trolling for votes.

[ohio_liberal]

14. Could be, yo

I thought that chunk of hair looked familiar. :(

[kittenpants]

15. lol...

probably out hunting for a new hairpiece.

[DesEtoiles]

6. Isn't Karen Hughes on vacation near there?

[jobycom]

7. Well, okay, I've got to admit

If they find an actual bigfoot with actual proof, I can see that replacing Rove on the front page for a day or two.

But Rove should be the second story!

[ThomWV]

8. Its Just like that fuggin woodpecker

The one down in Louisiana or wherever in hell it was. Just because you ain't seen one don't mean they ain't around.

[DanCa]

9. I hear he has kin in the white house

Hmmm I hope the minute men red necks dont get em.

[jsamuel]

11. .

:rofl:

[ret5hd]

12. This is HUGH!

[Orrex]

18. Downs? Grant? Jackman? Hef? (nt)

[karlrschneider]

19. LOL! Yeah, HUGH. There's one running around just south of here too

down in Latimer country, OK. And I'm sure the white lightning they make down there in the Kiamichi mtns has nothing to do with the sightings.
:evilgrin:

[giant_robot]

16. ***BREAKING***

DNA analysis has matched the hair to comedian Jay London.



Story at 11.

[Orrex]

17. Hmm...

"When I looked up, it was just standing there, like watching me," said resident Roger Smarch.

Lousy Smarch weather.

[Minstrel Boy]

20. "Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld"

A good book for serious people who are interested in such subjects, which don't often receive serious treatment.

Here's a review:

Books about monsters, apparitions, UFOs, demons and "the otherworld" tend to be fiction. But those that aren't, those that purport to document or comment on such phenomena in what passes for "real life" vary across such a wide range of quality, credulity and comprehensibility that it's tempting to dismiss them all as pure badly-written hokum. Of course, as in any genre, no matter how microscopic, there are classics. Charles Fort's 'Book of the Damned' is surely in the forefront. But once you get past the looming shadow of Charles Fort, matters become far murkier. Patrick Harpur's 'Daimonic Reality' is a work that would surely make the top ten lists of many Fortean scholars. Subtitled 'A Field Guide to the Otherworld', 'Daimonic Reality' synthesizes the reports of many different phenomena into a single Unified Field Theory of the Strange. It's an audacious attempt that largely succeeds. Harpur has a low key writing style that makes this work easy to read. His comprehensive knowledge of a wide variety of inexplicable events is impressive and entertaining. Most importantly, he has drawn together these disparate elements with a rather interesting philosophical take that looks to Jung, Fort, Blake, Yeats and beyond. There are enough elements in this stew to make it a really tasty treat for the hungry mind.

'Daimonic Reality' is divided into three sections through which Harpur journeys ever deeper into the mind behind the perceptions. But he's careful not to shortchange the perceptions and events themselves. 'Part One: Apparitions' covers apparitions of all kinds, from UFOs to lights in the sky, from aliens and fairies to sightings of Black Dogs and Big Cats. Harpur's economical coverage of these subjects makes it easy for any level of Fortean reader to enjoy the individuality of each experience. But this treatment also enables the reader to step back and see the bigger picture, to move towards the idea of the 'otherworld'. The individual reports are carefully chosen and beautifully written.

Harpur takes a more substantial step towards the otherworld in 'Part Two: Vision'. Starting with a discussion of "seeing things", he moves on to visions of 'Ladies', which are dominated by (but not exclusively) visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He discusses the evidence that these encounters leave behind, from fairy shoes to crop circles. He talked about the part that Imagination plays in the otherworld, and finally reaches the mythic land itself.

In 'Part Three: Otherworld Journeys', Harpur gives both practical and philosophical advice for otherworld journeys. He discusses the variety of journeys that one can have, from missing time to alien encounters, from a trip to fairyland to an out-of-body experience. When Harpur sticks to the practical, he has practically no peer in writing compelling prose about otherworldly experiences. His philosophical thoughts aren't quite as page-turning, but they're pithy, fascinating and pertinent. Harpur is not content to merely provoke thought. He wants to invoke internal debate in the reader, and does so with some formal philosophical discussion that is difficult to pull off with the authority that Harpur achieves. He's a remarkably intelligent writer, and his work requires a reader of nearly equal intelligence.