05.26.09
An Owl Story from the Hidden Experiences Blog
I like this blog because it’s purely personal; someone sharing their experiences. Here’s a beautiful and somehow magical and important experience involving owls.
05.24.09
From Washington L.O.W.F.I.: Colvin on UFOs, MIBs, and Mothman
Andrew Colvin writes about an interesting case on his Washington blog on the L.O.W.F.I. site. The case invovles a woman harrassed by something . . . government, MIBs, aliens . . .
Elusive Mothman
I recently posted about a co-worker who asked me about Mothman. He hadn’t heard of the film with Richard Gere and was jazzed about watching it. A couple of days later, he told me he had put the DVD on reserve at the library. Finally, the DVD became available, he took it home, and. . . the DVD, he told me, was completely messed up. It wouldn’t play at all; full of weird glitches and static and blurs. ! The Mothman was being elusive that day!
05.09.09
Demons, lambs, and batsquatch in Oregon
I’ve recently received several e-mails from someone in my area (Lane County, western Oregon) whose friend saw a “batsquatch” on his rural property about ten miles from where I live. However, my intuition tells me the story isn’t reliable. And, as I correspond more with the “FOA” (friend of a friend) the creepy vibe I get remains.
I’ve written about this a bit on my Bigfoot blog Frame 352, and I’ll write more for my next Trickster’s Realm column for Binnall of America, which will be up next week.
The story of this 19 year old man working in his garage at 1:00 a.m. on his rural property off Lorane Highway, who saw a strange creature, follows:
The “thing” was about 15 ft. from the witness at about 1:15 A.M. behind his house. He accidentally locked himself out of his house while working in his garage late last night. He went around to the back of his house to climb in through a window. He heard something and used the light from his cell phone, pointing it in the direction of the sound. The thing had a human form only quite large over seven feet with red reflecting eyes and very large wings. It jumped into the air flying off with the sound of massive air displacement with each wing stroke.
Overall, I just had a red flag go up, especially given the way this first e-mail started out, with the man’s intention of sacrificing a live lamb, tethered by “shark hooks” in order to trap this so-called “batsquatch”:
Can it be baited with a lamb? I’m thinking of putting shark hooks with 3/32″ braided steel leader in the lamb’s fur along the back. I want to tether the lamb near the edge of a field near the woods. I am concerned about coyotes getting the lamb first.
I immediately e-mailed the person and told him I do not support any such thing. He wrote back surprised, thinking I would be all over this. Why he would think that I don’t know, I’ve written many times on-line I support a “no kill” policy on Bigfoot, I’m against trophy and canned hunting, exotic pet ownership and exploitation, etc.
Then things turned even weirder; turns out the batsquatch is, in this man’s opinion, a “demon” and so, must be dealt with. Both men are Christians, and he tells me only a strong faith in Christ can handle such a creature. I then wrote to him and asked him if that were so, wouldn’t an exorcism of sorts work, given his faith? In other words, instead of using a live animal as bait, try prayer, focus, intent, light, and so on.
His justification for using a live lamb, aside from the religious angle, was that coyotes, bear, cougar, and other predators kill lamb. His other justification was that the encounter with this creature needs to be proved. Yes, I replied, but they are predators eating to survive, not playing games with a supposed demon. Using an innocent creature to capture another to vindicate one’s experience of the strange is simply immoral in my world view:
There are coyotes, black bears, one lynx, and a couple of cougars in the area so the lamb may end up eaten one way or the other.
I replied with the following. At this time, this is the last e-mail received and sent:
So, very sad to say, it seems you intend to go ahead with this and sacrifice a lamb to gratify an ego-driven need to “prove” to the world such a “demonic” creature exists. The fact that bear, cougar, coyote, etc. kill livestock does not make this okay. One is the natural predation of creatures upon another; yours is an ego driven choice made out of a religious conviction a need to eat for survival.
By the way, if you really believe any of this, the fact (in your view) this thing is a “demon” — well, does it even need food? Why not try a sort of exorcism, without the lamb? Prayer, light, intent, focus, etc. — that might go a long way.
Also, if it’s a demon, do you really think such a creature would hold still within the confines of being held prisoner in a lab somewhere, especially a government lab? For no doubt the authorities would get involved such a fantastic find.
Do you really trust the Big Science Infrastructure (talk about demons) and government that much — that they wouldn’t kill this thing, cut it up, and hide it away after they’ve done what they’ve wanted? And how much credit or vindication do you think such authorities would grant you in regards to the proof of this creature? You’re really back at square one.
I don’t expect this to have any influence on this person, I was basically venting my frustration. I figure if he contacted me first he takes the responsibility of response to his plans.
My initial response to this was that this 19 year old man was either highly distracted or agitated to begin with — working in a garage at 1:00 a.m, locking himself out of the house on rural property? etc. — or a “tweaker” (meth head.) I realize the irony of this coming from me, after all, the pathological skeptic uses this excuse all the time to explain away witness encounters. Combine that with the superstitious form of their religious belief, and the symbolic nature of the sacrificial lamb . . . just adds up to an unwholesome scenario I don’t want to be a part of.
Besides which, I don’t know of any Batsquatch sightings in Oregon, though I know there are reports out of Washington state and Mt. Shasta area.
04.28.09
Carny on the Sci-Fi Channel
Not Mothman, but a winged creature or “monster” — this one being The Jersey Devil. Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, the movie had a ripping good monster. That, and Phillips, only two reasons to see the movie. I was disappointed; seemed chopped up; edited weirdly, the preacher character’s ranting wasn’t connected to anything…. over all, pretty bad. And I like bad sci fi movies! I think it would have been better if they had made it a mini series, or at least a two parter.
I posted a short review on The OrangeOrb, and Loren Coleman reviewed it on his blogCryptomundo.
03.23.09
Batsquatch Sightings Near Mt. Shasta
Mt. Shasta has a long history of weird events; from Bigfoot sightings to strange beings in general, odd, multi-colored lights, and more. Batsquatch could be considered a companion to Mothman in some ways; Andrew Colvin discusses Batsquatch in his Mothman books. Here’s a recent article by Paul Dale Roberts on the Batsquatch at Mt. Shasta.
03.19.09
Charles Manson Synchronicity
I’m right in the middle of reading about Charles Manson in Andrew Colvin’s Mothman’s Photographer III. So much to say about that! But it’ll have to wait for a later time. But I click on Yahoo News just now, to find an item about a “newly released photo” of Manson, because the “newspapers requested it.” As Colvin and others who are steeped in esoterica, connections, synchronicities and symbolism, would probably say, something is afoot here with all that.
03.17.09
Winged Statue
After reading Andrew Covlin’s first Mothman book; Mothman’s Photographer II, I was inspired to actively seek out winged images as I went about the day. Here’s a photo I took while I was reading the book; it’s of a statue I drive by a couple of times a week, but, even though it’s right in front, near the sidewalk, I never noticed it before. Then one day, as I was driving by, while immersed in Colvin’s book, the statue just popped out at me, so I took a photo. (Sorry about the fuzzy image…)
03.07.09
Mothman Action Figure
I stole this image from Tina Sena’s blog Yufology. I like the Mothman, and yes, I would put it on my desk. I’d put all of them on my desk.
02.13.09
League Of Western Fortean Intermediasts
L.O.W.F.I. is a the brain-dream of esoteric writer and go-getter Skylaire Alfvgren. Skylaire’s blog of Fortean writers includes Lesley (Debris Field, Beyond the Dial,) Adam Gorightly (Untamed Dimensions), Andrew Colvin of Mothman Photographer’s II and III, and myself, among others. The blog has “mini blogs” — regional blogs from each writer, reporting on Fortean topics from their area. For example, I focus on Western Oregon. Visit the site and have fun!
