Mythical creatures - or are they?

[red750]

I spend an hour every night - 10:30 till 11:30, watching a series of programs on Foxtel's Animal Planet channel. Yes - I need to get a life.

 

The first series was called Finding Bigfoot. Four adventurers travelled the world US, Australia, UK, Viet Nam, Nepal, Canada, Brazil, etc., following reports of a large, 7 - 8 foot humanoid creature covered in hair, being sighted in rugged bushland. Here is a link to the most famous footage of a Bigfoot or Sasquach:

 

 

Despite spending inumerable nights in the forests, speaking to hundreds of people who claimed to have had encounters, and collectig lots of "evidence", they have not filmed an encountere with Bigfoot.

 

Another researcher travelled to the basecamp of Mt. Everest and on into Nepal and Bhutan, but didn't get to film a Yeti.

 

The current series has a group of researchers with an incredible array of technology from remotely controlled airships to sound recording devices, infrared and thermal cameras and binoculars and a multitude of sound and movement activated trail cameras which they strap to trees and leave unattended. One of these cameras was realigned from itsoriginal position, and they say a bear or other animal would not have been able to  do that.

 

As of last night's program they have recorded two heat signatures that cannot be identified, but which, when approached, suddenly vanished. They could not be tracked moving away, just disappeared like a light being switched off. Interestng to see what tonights episode reveals.

[rgmwa]

It will reveal enough to make you watch the next episode but not enough to make you any the wiser.

[onetrack]

You couldn't possibly actually find a Bigfoot or a Yeti, that'd take all the suspense and mystery and money-making out of it! I can always recall the sizeable number of people who faked "mysterious" sightings and weird footprints.

 

https://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/two-feet-from-clearwaters-past-fathers-funny-legacy-leaves-a-deep/2159682/

[Bruce Tuncks]

I reckon those things are like UFO's. Those UFO's have fared poorly since most people now have a camera on their phones.

Mind you, UFO's just replaced religious sightings sometime in the 1950's.

[red750]

Found another series of Bigfoot hunters on Foxtel and Youtube. The show is called Mountain Monsters. Instead of scientists and researchers with what appears like limitless budgets for technology, this group are a bunch of redneck hillbilly good old boys, stomping around the forests in the dark with loaded shotguns. The storylines are like an Abbott and Costello movie. eg., Bigfoot has discovered fire, Bigfoot has drawn maps on cave walls, Bigfoot can hypnotize you, etc.

 

 

Off to see the shrink.    😝

 

 

 

[rgmwa]

‘Bigfoot makes Moonshine’ should be another episode worth watching.

[Jerry_Atrick]

On 26/09/2022 at 5:08 AM, red750 said:

The storylines are like an Abbott and Costello 

Darned Libs - can't leave anything alone :-)

[nomadpete]

3 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Darned Libs - can't leave anything alone 🙂

And that is proof of how the media plays to the libs.....

Back then, the media didn't make any fuss about the federal 'Abbot & Costello' show !

But nevertheless, a lot of my colleagues thought it hilarious.

[kgwilson]

Crikey soon someone will find an image of jesus on a piece of toast. Aw hang on already done.

[nomadpete]

MYTHICAL CREATURES

You all seem to pay out upon yeti/bigfoot searchers. But at least they are searching for something that, although it might not exist, they believe enough to go looking.

 

However, I notice that there are no bunches of believers out there, eagerly searching for proof that honest politicians exist !

[red750]

Remarkably intelligent creatures. In this series, the researchers have had one trail com re-aligned, off the pathway or track, without the animal being captured on the SD card, another which was strapped to a log beside a waterhole picked up and thrown in the waterhole, log and all, and in last night's episode, the trail cam was torn from a tree, smashed in peices on the ground, and the SD card was missing. It's posible a bear could have done it.

 

  

 

                 Trail cam in position                                                        Trail cam open.

[facthunter]

Tune in for the next thrilling episode. Nev

[Marty_d]

19 hours ago, rgmwa said:

‘Bigfoot makes Moonshine’ should be another episode worth watching.

"Bigfoot drinks Moonshine" will be good too.

[willedoo]

You don't need fancy cameras to find Bigfoot. Just go to any pub in the Lockyer Valley, it will be full of them. Big webbed feet.

[facthunter]

The most common mythical creature is the perfect husband. You know, the one your wife should have married. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ha Ha Ha... That was worth a laugh, a like, and an informing... Winning comment!

[facthunter]

Thank you, Kind Sir..  Nev

[red750]

OK. Here's one for you. Could the chupacabra (left) be a distant relative of the thylacine?

 

    

[old man emu]

23 hours ago, nomadpete said:

I notice that there are no bunches of believers out there, eagerly searching for proof that honest politicians exist !

There's fools who go chasing the non-existent, and wise men who know that some things just don't exist.

[old man emu]

 

I reckon these blokes are more likely to be hunting the Ozark Howler, a legendary creature said to dwell in the Ozarks. According to tradition, the creature is bear-like in shape with a grey coloured, shaggy coat.

[Marty_d]

6 hours ago, red750 said:

OK. Here's one for you. Could the chupacabra (left) be a distant relative of the thylacine?

 

    

Go back far enough, and we're related to the thylacine.

[Old Koreelah]

There have been numerous reports of “wild hairy men” down thru the ages and in several continents, some well documented. Some of those descriptions are consistent with Neandertals. 

Scientists tell us that our early human cousins were widespread, but incredibly small in number.

 

I’d life to think a few have survived into recent times. 

[red750]

There are some interesting anecdotes of encounters, including from law enforcement, and from Native Americans. It is claimed one of the reasons they can apparently "vanish into thin air" is that they camouflage themselves like the Ghillie suit used by the military and some hunters. See picture below. Step behind a tree, crouch down and they are gone.

 

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

I would have thought with all the thermal imaging  and infrared stuff, they would have been found by now.

 

Mythical, Mystical, or Magical...

[red750]

I know it all sounds fairytale pie-in-the-sky type stuff a bit like aliens amongst us, but having watched a few hours of these expeditions/investigations, with a couple of different research teams (excluding the mountain men), and listening to interviews with Native Americans, it would appear that these creatures are from another dimension and have the ability to move back and forth between dimensions. What is intriguing is that there are reports of very similar creatures on just about every continent including Australia (the Yowie). How is this possible for wild creatures to spread so widely, and not yet been recorded (supposedly)? Ex-military personnel say the US government knows about these creatures, and their cloaking abilities. Surprisingly, one or two researchers out in the forest conducting night investigations, using infra-red lights to avoid detection, and out of nowhere, black military helicopters start circling overhead. You have to wonder.

 

Anyway, makes a change from reality shows (The Block, MKR, Farmer Wants a Wife, et al), and Gen Z crap that usually takes up time on the TV.