love that story.. ! I've been interested in crypto(zoology) for a long time and there are so many global stories of bigfoot, skunkape, yeti, etc that i find it difficult to believe there's no definitive proof. they're proper spooky and makes me wonder if they're 100% real animal or some pyschic projection from the past.. or for some reason the authorities (everyhwere) have managed to keep them under wraps for lots of curious reasons.

These stories go back 100's of years and there are excellent stories from Canada, China and all over South America too. There's plenty of other weird cryptocreatures out there and some of the stories from deep in the African Jungles are really weird. I particularly like the plesiosaur stories and even a sighting of a horned (prehistoric whale) Pteradons and other life forms from the past..

now here's the weird bit.. I actually saw what looked exactly like a Pteradon about 12 years ago in Australia near the lighthouse at Clarkes Beach. I don't know what else it could be. It emerged from the clifftop forest and went in a straight line out to sea and disappeared over the horizon. I was quite amazed and when I started reading similar stories from all over the world I was a bit like WTF ?

and even more weird than that. a very good friend of mine lived in Tanzania when he was boy and he had a pet monkey which wasn't allowed in the house. It went missing one day so he went looking for it and when he got to the bottom of the garden, what reared up on the other side of the fence is something he'll never forget. Basically a long necked dinosaur looking creature.

The world is a strange place and I'm sure we don't know everything about it..

I did read a story once about an official project to catch a Bigfoot and it was very well organised and well resources with some of the world's best trackers and scientists going in search of the truth. After a few false starts and mishaps, so the story goes, they eventually caught one and took it back to a top secret government facility, where it promptly began to disappear spontaneously, apparently with the ability to walk through (very thick) walls and it all turned out to be a bit too weird and for that reason, perhaps we don't and will never know the truth about our odd cousins. Perhaps they are more like ghibli film characters. forest sprites.. albeit very big hairy ones.

I like the (feature film) TrollHunter for it's excellent CGI trolls but also on the theme of keeping crypto-creatures secret. filmed in a documentary style a group of young filmmmakers embark on an adventures with the Norweigan Trollhunter as he tracks down these mythical creatures in secret with government support as if they were a problem animal. Drawing on regional mythology it's a really thought provoking film.

One last thing.. and i really didn't mean to hijack your post here.. but I'm sure you'll find this all fascinating, I did an analyis of the famous Patterson film of a supposedly female bigfoot in a forest clearing.

Although it was said he admitted on his deathbed it was all a hoax (conveniently he can't un-say that now) I had a very close look and from my knowledge of anatomy, that's no costume. The muscles in the thigh work exactly as they should. It's not a human leg, more humanoid. they flex in a way not even the most exquisite costume could and I think if we've ever seen a bigfoot caught on film, that is it

post more crypto-creatures I'm following !