Extraterrestrial Sasquatch: Glowing-Eyed Bigfoot Creatures Emerged From a UFO

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome Weirdos on Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness.
Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre,
unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode Bigfoot, Sasquatch

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YETI skunk ape egoes by many names depending on what
part of the country, well what part of the world
he's spotted in. For a creature that is said by
skeptics not to exist, how can so many sightings of
a similar creature occur worldwide in so many different cultures,

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by people with so many different beliefs, And why have
we not been able to capture one or find solid proof.
What do UFOs have to do with Bigfoot? If anything?
So many questions, so few answers. We look at the
enigmatic Bigfoot in this episode. Now bolt your doors, lock

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your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me
into the Weird Darkness. Most of us are familiar with
the legends and stories of Bigfoot or Sasquatch. We've all

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heard tales of a mysterious hairy beast who stalks the
mountains and woodlands of the planet. Most countries and cultures
have accounts and legends of such a creature. Reports of
sightings generally speak of a creature anywhere from seven to
ten feet tall, weighing around three hundred pounds. Their hairy
appearance makes them comparable to a gorilla, although their stance

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is much more upright. An extremely unpleasant aroma also accompanies
their presence. Sightings suggest they have flat stomachs, and some
reports even state very distinct breasts on some of the creatures. Again,
these are all traits more in line with human beings
as opposed to a gorilla. The name bigfoot comes from

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a picture that ran in a California newspaper in nineteen
fifty eight. Local resident Gerald Crewe had taken a cast
of a huge footprint that he claimed belonged to a Sasquatch.
He'd made the discovery while walking in Bluff Creek in
the northern part of the state. However, sightings come from
all over the world, and these mysterious creatures are known

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under various names, which we will examine later. Although claims
of these creatures go back for thousands of years, there
appear to be an increase in sightings. Even many mainstream
scientists state that, as unlikely as it is, it would
not be impossible that an unknown species of hominid could
go undetected four thousands of years. As our societies grow ever,

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encroaching into areas that might house such species, so do
the reported sightings. There are sightings of bigfoot like creatures
all over the planet. One area that is particularly a
wash with such reports is the state of Washington in
the upper northwest of America. What's more, these stories go
back hundreds of years. In eighteen forty seven, while visiting

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Mount Saint Helen's, artist Paul Kine received warnings that he
should stay clear of the area by local tribes. According
to them, it was inhabited by a race of being
from a different species who were also cannibals. They referred
to these creatures as scucums and indicated their presence was
a supernatural experience as much as anything else. In nineteen

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twenty four, while staying in Abe Canyon, Fred Beck and
his team were subjected to rocks being thrown at their cabin.
After Mais managing to sit out the incident, they'd find
huge footprints in the mud around the grounds of the
following morning. Most thought it was likely a prank from
a rival mining team, but Beck wasn't so sure. He
investigated the stories in accounts of the area over the

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following years, eventually writing of his theories. Multiple stories told
of large, hairy creatures appearing out of nowhere, even throwing
rocks from high above. He ultimately believed that the creatures
that attacked the cabin that evening were from another dimension.
It was this particular sighting and reports thereafter that would

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lead to the most famous piece of Bigfoot footage. The
most famous piece of footage is, of course, the Patterson
Gimlin film. In nineteen sixty seven, two filmmakers embarked on
retracing the steps of Beck's team as they investigated the
legend of Bigfoot. It is certainly up for debate as
to the authenticity of the footage filmed by Roger Patterson

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and Robert Gimlin. However, just as important is the fact
that it has not been debunked in any conclusive way.
What they captured is arguably the most famous piece of
footage of a bigfoot creature in history. While in northern California,
the two filmmakers filmed the Bigfoot creature walking away from them,

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even turning to observe the two men before calmly walking
into the woodland and out of sight. The main drive
behind the expedition was Patterson, who had been following bigfoot
sightings for several years. He was particularly interested in the
Beck incident of nineteen twenty four, when he and Gimblin
captured their now infamous footage. It was they would always

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maintain pure luck. Capturing the creature on film was not
a top priority for either of them. They were there
to film a documentary retracing the exact route taken by
the Beck team almost forty years previously. However, shortly after
one p m. On the twentieth of October nineteen sixty seven,
that is exactly, if we accept their claim to be genuine,

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what they did. As they made their way along the
bank of Bluff Creek, they spotted a log jam up ahead.
They also spotted a large, hairy creature on the opposite
side of the creek, approximately twenty five feet away. After
calming his horse, Gimlin readied his rifle while Patterson moved
forward with his camera. As Patterson filmed with Gimlin covering him,

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the creature was walking away from him. Then it turned
and looked towards him for several seconds before turning back
away from him and out of shot. If you've not
seen the Patterson Gimlin film, or if you've not seen
the stabilized version, which is a lot easier on the eyes,
I do have a link to both in the show notes.
Patterson would later recall the moment the creature turned to

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look at him. There was a look of contempt and disgust.
You know how it is when the umpire tells you
one more word and you're out of the game. That's
the way it felt. Initially, Gimli would jump back on
his horse and attempt to follow the creature. However, he
would lose sight of it around a bend in the trees. Furthermore,
Patterson was calling for him to return, later saying he

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suddenly felt extremely vulnerable and alone with his filming partner gone.
Before they left the area, the two men would take
plaster casts of a left and a right footprint. Both
Patterson and Gimlin stuck to their version of events, and,
despite some minor details differing, seemed largely credible. After Patterson

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died in nineteen seventy two, Gimblin was much less eager
to speak at the incident, he repeatedly denied that either
himself or Patterson were part of a hoax. In fact,
it is these slight discrepancies in minor details that some
researchers suggest lends the pair even more credibility. For example,
if such an elaborate sighting was set up purely for

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monetary gain or notoriety, then surely the pair would have
ensured that such details matched each other. Even so, there
have been several detractors and claims of evidence the footage
was a hoax, none of which incidentally, has proven water tight.
Perhaps the most recent came in the early two thousands,
when a gentleman by the name of Bob Hieronymus came

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forward to state that he was the man in the
ape suit of the Patterson Gimlet footage. However, many would
quickly point out that the creature in the film clearly
had breasts, indicating it was likely a female creature, which
an ape suit wouldn't typically have that feature built in.

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Bigfoot might be the most famous incarnation of our hairy
bipedal friend, but he apparently gets around, and if the
reports are to be believed, he isn't bothered by ice
and snow. In the slightest will look at the Siberian
version of Bigfoot, known as the Yettie, or more creative
and fun the Abominable Snowman. When weird darkness returns in

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the mountainous regions of the Himalayas and into the treacherous
terrain of Siberia and the icy worlds of the far North,
come sidings of the Yeti, sometimes referred to as the
Abominable Snowman, although there are multiple local names. While this
equally perplexing creature is essentially a Bigfoot like beast, there

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are some differences, not least the color of their hair,
with the Yetti donning a white fur as opposed to
the red brown of the Western Bigfoot. The origins of
the Abominable Snowman name is said to have come from
Charles Howard Burry and his leading of the nineteen twenty
ty one British Mount Everest Reconnaissance expedition. During this trip,

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he would note how he discovered strange footprints in the snow.
He expressed his belief that they were like those of
a loping wolf. However, his Sherpa guides would offer another explanation.
They would inform him the tracks were those of the Metakongmi,
or the wild man of the snow. Researchers suggest that

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Metto means man bear and Kangmi means snowman. However, when
journalist Henry Newman interviewed Howard Burry, he's thought to have
mistranslated the word metto Instead of man bear, he translated
it as filthy, which he then changed to abominable. From
this the moniker, the abominable snowman was born. There were, however,

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accounts of such a creature that pre date the twentieth century.
Before the beliefs of Buddhism spread throughout the peoples of
the Himalayan region, many of the locals were said to
worship a deity like creature who lived in the mountainous region.
One particular group, those of the Bond religion, even believed
that the mere God, which translates as wild man, had

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special properties within its blood, which they sought to use
within their rituals and ceremonies. A record of an early
strange footprint in the snow from eighteen ninety nine is
of particular interest. In the same way the Bigfoot creature
of the West. Sightings would continue in the Himalayan and
Siberian regions throughout the twentieth century, and with the technological

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revolution of the two thousands, these sightings would seemingly increase.
Researchers in the West, however, began to take note of
the stream sightings from east following photographs taken by English
mountaineer Eric Shipton during his nineteen fifty one expedition to
Mount Everest. At around twenty thousand feet above sea level,
Shipton noticed large human like footprints in the snow and

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immediately took photographs using his ice pick to show the
size of them. Is one of the most famous regarding
this strange beast, with some even going as far as
to state it is the best proof on record of
the authenticity of this mysterious creature. If you'd like to
see a photo of this footprint, you can find a
link to it in the show notes, which you can

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find weird Darkness dot com. More interesting discoveries occurred three
years later on the nineteen fifty four Daily Mail Snowman Expedition,
led by John Angelo Jackson. The expedition would stretch from
Everest to Kanschinjunga as well as photographing multiple strange looking
footprints in the snow. He also discovered several ancient symbolic

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depictions of the strange beast. This would suggest that the
sightings of the Yetti had been happening for centuries. As
the twenty first century has progressed, sightings and indeed, seriously
planned missions to locate evidence of their existence has continued.
Perhaps some of the most intriguing accounts from this region
of the world are from expeditions of a Maria and

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entrepreneur Tom Slick. He would collect samples of feces of
the Yetti in nineteen fifty nine. Analysis of the sample
would apparently discover a parasite that was and still is
unknown to science. What is particularly interesting about this discovery
is it would later, through declassified documents, show just what
a serious interest the US government had in these Bigfoot

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and Yeti creatures. The document from April nineteen fifty nine,
it states American resources in the last two years have
concentrated on efforts to capture the abominable snowman. It's most
likely a safe bet that if such intelligence services had
an interest in such a creature so far from home,
they would most definitely have an interest in the one

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that was on its own doorstep. And when we look
at the connections between bigfoot sidings and UFO activity, which
we will shortly, then we have to wonder just what
that interest stems from and why. Much like in the
United States, the environment where many of these sightings take
place is generally in the largely uninhabited areas of the region.

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This would make sense and perhaps endorses the idea that
these bigfoot creatures are indigenous to this planet, and furthermore,
for the most part of our collective history, have remained
hidden in these otherwise undisturbed landscapes. However, with the constant
encroachment of the modern world, these attempts at concealment are
becoming increasingly difficult. Perhaps again interestingly is the plethora of

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sightings in the many cave systems of the world. Might
it be possible, given the previous statement, that these tunnels
and caves have become a network that allows these mysterious
creatures to retain a semblance of their anonymity, much like
the upper Northwest regions of the United States or the
mountainous terrain of the Himalayas. Many other regions of the

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world have similar clusters of sightings, and each has their
own name and character riistics, although in reality these creatures
will be of the same or similar Bigfoot family. In
the swamplands of the Florida Everglades are numerous sightings of
the skunk ape, although there have been sightings as far
as Kentucky. While there is no doubting these similarities to

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the Bigfoot creatures most of us would likely conjure up
in our minds, the skunk ape is decidedly faster than
the Bigfoot and doesn't move in an upright stance like
Bigfoot sightings witnesses most often report in overpowering aroma. Several
people have managed to capture photographs and even video footage
of the legendary creature, suggesting that whatever it might prove

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to be, something is roaming around this area of the
southeast of the United States. There are various other theories
to explain what this mysterious creature or creatures might be.
Aside from the Bigfoot claims, several researchers suggest they could
be wild chimpanzees, either simply undetected by scientists, which unlikely,

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or the result of escaped chimpanzees from zoos or even
laboratories decades previously. Another Bigfoot like creature is the Dewey
Lake Monster, or the Michigan Bigfoot or the Sister Lakes Sasquatch.
Several sightings of this creature in the early nineteen sixties
near Dewey Lake would for a time have Bigfoot researchers

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descending on the region. Authorities would certainly treat the sightings seriously. However,
they would note how some good, honest, legitimate people made
reports of seeing the beast. However, despite intense searches, not
only could they not locate the Dewey Lakes Monster, they
could not offer a reasonable explanation for what else the

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townsfolk and Dauwajiak seeing. A similar legendary creature resides in
the Australian outback known as the Yowi. This strange entity
goes back hundreds of years to the oral traditions of
the Aboriginal tribes. These creatures, according to local legends, are
anywhere from six to twelve feet tall and have an

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ape like appearance similar to the bigfoot legends. The Yowi
walks upright as a human would do, and its feet
are decidedly bigger than a standard human's foot, their behavior
much like the bigfoot, and yetty accounts range from these
hairy creatures of the outback being shy and retiring and
going out of its way to not be seen, to

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cases of outright aggression. Although reports were relatively common in
the nineteenth century and early nineteen hundreds, they are rather
more sporadic today. However, they have continued throughout the twentieth century,
and several recent cases of savaged pets and bizarre sightings
suggest such a creature still patrols the bushland of Australia.

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Around the base and descending landscape of Mount Hibba in
Hiroshima and Japan are regular sightings of the hibbigon. Most
descriptions of this creature are very similar to the North
American bigfoot, Said to be around five feet tall, It
walks upright as a humanoid wood and has black hair
and large white hands and feet. What is interesting is

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that sightings of this strange creature seem to have started
out of nowhere in the early nineteen seventies. One of
the first sightings, although no hostile actions occurred, took place
in nineteen seventy two. The witness would describe the creature
as covered with brown hair and having deep, glaring eyes.

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Because of this sudden appearance, some researchers have suggested the
Hibbigon could be a member of the monkey family, even
a person still suffering the after effects of the nuclear
bomb on Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War.
A similar creature resides in the remote woodlands and mountainous
regions of Hubei in China, translated as the wild Man

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of Shinangia. Sightings of the creature have seemingly exploded in
the second half of the twentieth century. According to the
records of the Shinwan News Agency, over four hundred official
sightings are on record. Because the region where many of
the sidings take place is largely uninhabited and certainly rarely
visited before the arrival of modern airplanes and helicopters, it

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is very likely that these mysterious creatures have called the
area home for centuries. Back in the United States, perhaps
one of the most bizarre and intriguing of such creatures
is reported to lurk within the abandoned Billy Whack dairy
plant in California. Indeed, the Billy Whack Monster is perhaps

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more akin to a yetti if reports of it are
more than just urban legend. As well as its dirty
white hair and razor sharp claws, the beast dons ram
like horns on its head, and with some even describing
it as a half man, half sheep like creature. Sightings continue,
albeit randomly, today, but we're seemingly at their peak in

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the fifties and sixties. Perhaps what is particularly interesting are
the claims that the Billy Whack Monster is the consequence
of a secret government experiment towards the end of the
Second World War. The secret genetics program was attempting to
make so, says the legend, a super soldier, combining human
DNA with an unknown beast. Given that local legends insist

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that sightings of the Billy Whack Monster go back to
the early nineteen hundreds at least, might it be possible,
if the legends are true, that the unknown beast was
some kind of Bigfoot creature. Also interesting, Much like other
Bigfoot hotspot areas, the entire planet experiences these mysterious sightings

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of strange lights, UFOs, and apparitions appearing out of nowhere
and vanishing into thin air. Indeed, these are just a
few of the similar bigfoot like creatures from around the world. However,
what should we make of some of the other mind
bending connections to these strange creatures. We'll look into that

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when we'd darkness returns. Bizarre as it might seem, Areas

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where bigfoot sidings are high are usually also UFO hotspots.
Not only that these areas are often prone to other
strange phenomena. This has led some to question whether there
is a direct connection to the creatures and such strange
events we know. For example, there are numerous UFO encounters

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with direct references to bigfoot like creatures. Just what might
that connection be. Are these creatures actually extraterrestrial in nature,
or might they simply use the same method of entry
from their world into ours. A lot of the alleged
hotspot areas of bigfoot sightings are also in regions where

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tectonic plates meet. Some theories suggest that the energy released
when this happens is so great it opens a portal
to another dimension. Remember Beck's claim that the creatures known
as Sasquatch were from another dimension. An area known as
the Bennington Triangle on the northeast of the United States
also has legends of beastlike creatures. Some legends of the

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local tribes of the area also speak of a portal
being present here. Might this be another example of interdimensional
creatures in Scotland On Ben mcdowey, the highest peak of
the Cairngorms mountain range, famous for mysterious sightings and strange phenomena,
also has reports of tall, hairy creatures lurking within the valleys,

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referred to as the big Gray Man. There are many
reports where people feel someone is watching them, soombieving claimed
to have heard large footsteps in the snow behind them
as they descend the mountain. The idea of portals or
getaways sharing a connection to bigfoot encounters is an interesting one,
and one that would make a certain amount of sense,

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as bizarre as it might sound, when we consider some
of the claims of these beastlike creatures simply vanishing into
thin air. For example, respected UFO researcher Linda Molton Howe
would recall an account of a rancher who found himself
staring straight into the face of a bigfoot creature. He
instinctively raised his weapon to fire at it only several

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feet away, and in a flash, it simply disappeared. Indeed,
for all of these solid sightings and video footage, no
one has ever captured one of these creatures, whatever the
immoral argument might be in doing so. In fact, it
would appear that nobody has even come close to this.

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And when we bear in mind that many witnesses stress
how the creature was there one minute and gone the next,
we should perhaps look at the idea that these apparently
wild beasts are in fact visitors from another dimension or
even another time. Admittedly, it isn't an idea that readily
springs to mind when discussing Bigfoot sightings. However, increasing numbers

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of researchers are recognizing such a connection, regardless of how
outlandish it might seem. Indeed, the idea that these creatures
are little more than strong beasts, at least according to
those who have had close contact experiences with them, would
seem to be quite far removed from the truth. Many
such witnesses, even though they cannot explain why state of

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an immediate sensation of overpowering intelligence from these towering beings.
So the question we should ask, then, are these potential
portals the result of purposeful engineering, perhaps the use of
advanced technology or an understanding of how to to manipulate
energy and the elements themselves in order to step from

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one realm to another, or might they be the unintended
result of natural phenomena such as tectonic plate activity for
the sake of argument that results in a brief sharing
of plateaus between our world and theirs. There is increasing research,
even in the mainstream, into the possible existence of black

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holes on Earth, portals and wormholes, as well as the
existence of energy in empty space. Any one of these
largely unknown phenomena could result in opening gateways to another dimension.
As we've covered in the show before, many scientists now
seriously contemplate the multiverse theory. The idea that multiple universes, worlds,

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or dimensions all existing at once, with everything the past,
the present, and the future all taking place at the
same time all the time. Is no longer just to
the mad ravings of the lunar fringe. These concepts, albeit
only in theory, are in the minds of serious thinking
researchers and scientists. As we have seen, sightings of these

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strange creatures, whether Bigfoot, Yetti, or whichever local moniker is used,
tend to concentrate on certain areas, and one of the
most intriguing of these, certainly in the United States, is
one that is often overlooked when looking at bigfoot cases.
Perhaps that is because it took place during one of
the most active UFO waves of the twentieth century. There

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was briefly an increase in sightings of UFOs and bigfoot
in the state of Pennsylvania throughout the two thousands. What
is perhaps of interest is that the same region had
a similar wave in the nineteen seventies, at the height
of the initial wave of cattle mutilations, no less, and
while they quieted somewhat, they have continued since. Some of

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the more recent sightings in the region are as chilling
as they are interesting. For example, Red from the town
of Lichens would report in October twenty twelve how his
motor home was attacked by a bigfoot creature while he
was inside. No Less, the creature also smashed windows in
his car. He would state of the incident, it wasn't

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a person. I didn't see any clothes or coat or
anything like that, and I don't think it was a bear.
It didn't move like a bear. Such reports are regular
and consistent in the state. In fact, Some researchers have
uncovered reports of bigfoot sightings going back to the mid
eighteen hundreds. One particular report from December eighteen fifty eight reads,

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A thing like a man, but harry as a bear,
has been seen by the people of Pennsylvania. It was
very wild and strong. It was once seen in a
pen sucking the cows, and would discovered. It started as
if about to fight, and then turned and fled, bounding
like a deer. It walks upright and is supposed to
be a wild man. Perhaps what is most interesting about

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these words is the connection between this strange beast and
attacks on cattle. Are these cattle mutilations or something similar
before people as such? Perhaps One of the most intriguing
of these UFO bigfoot crossover sightings occurred during the UFO
Wave of nineteen seventy three, a surge of sightings particularly

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memorable for the sheer number of witnesses that would report
seeing humanoid occupants. Although this wave of sightings stretched the
entire year, the bulk of the activity was from around
late September onwards. Many of the sightings were concentrated on
certain states, one of which was Pennsylvania. However, Unlike some
of the other sightings, those in the Keystone State also

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seem to include bigfoot like creatures. On this particular evening
in Fayette County on the twenty fifth of October, at
a little after nine pm, multiple witnesses would report seeing
a large, red spherical object hovering at low altitude before
coming down to land in a field nearby. When witnesses
approached the field, they saw a white dome shaped object

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making a whirring sound and illuminating the ground around where
it sat. Even more bizarre, however, were the two tall
creatures between seven and nine feet tall walking from the craft.
Each had shaggy hair, and each had particularly oversized arms
right to below the knee. Strangest of all, though, were

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the glowing green eyes. At this point, some of the
witnesses fired their weapons on the creatures. Rather than fall
injured or even dead, they simply turned around and in
a flash, the domed craft was gone and the creatures
were almost out of sight into the woods. When local
UFO investigators arrived at the area later that evening, they

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noticed how the animals that would normally graze and roam
in the pasture wouldn't go anywhere near it. They would
remain there for most of the night and into the
early hours of the following morning. They would notice how
several of the animals would ate no attention to their
presence and instead stared intently into the woods where the
two strange creatures vanished. Investigators also witnessed several strange flashes

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of light coming from a farmhouse near to their location.
Then something truly bizarre took place, something that once again
lends an aspect of the supernatural to the bigfoot question.
While speaking one of the main witnesses, he would suddenly
go into a trance and begin to growl like a dog.

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He then pushed several of the investigators to the ground
and ran into the field, animalistic sounds coming from him
as he did so. Then he let out an inhuman
scream before collapsing to the ground, now seemingly free from
the control of whatever force had taken over him. At
the same time, and again in line with other bigfoot sightings,

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was an intense odour akin to rotting eggs. He would
quickly come back to his senses. He would state that
during the episode, only seconds long, his mind was filled
with chilling visions, visions that he could only describe as
like the end of the world. That is a particularly
interesting notion, especially when we consider some of the Native

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American legends, ones that state these bigfoot like creatures have
more in sympathy with the spirit world than anything else.
While we might imagine bigfoot encounters to be of relatively
recent origin, sightings would appear to stretch right the way
back to antiquity. While we will look at some of
the myths and legends of the ancient texts shortly, perhaps

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the first record of a contemporary sighting in that it
wasn't a retelling of an ancient myth, comes from the
Norse explorer Leif Ericsson. Although many researchers placed the date
at nine eighty six AD. In reality, if Leif Ericsson
was the recorder of the account, it is likely to
have happened in the early one thousands. During their expedition

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to the New World North America. The explorers, who were
not Vikings, who were raiders and militia, came across manlike beasts. Furthermore,
these beasts were horrible, ugly, harry, swarthy, and with great
black eyes. What's more, these hairy men towered over his
own men and had a rank odor and a deafening shriek.

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There were several such sightings during their journey. It is
perhaps interesting to note, given the Norse's own hairy appearance
of large beards and long hair, that they should use
the term to describe these mystery people. We should perhaps
take from that than that harry in this sense refers
to all over body hair. It would perhaps be of

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interest if one had the time to comb through such
ancient accounts, writings, and journals. It is likely we would
find other discreete claims and accounts. In fact, some of
the accounts from the furthest reaches of recorded history might
not only suggest a persistent bigfoot presence here on Earth,
but also a connection to life that arrived here from

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another planet entirely. According to some ancient astronaut researchers, there
is a real possibility that bigfoot creatures are an indigenous
species of Earth. Some believe that human beings are the
result of their bigfoot DNA mixed with alien DNA, in
particular that of the Onunaki. This would, in theory, make

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these bigfoot creatures the supplanted indigenous species through hybridization of
theirs and alien genes humans versus. In the ancient Sanskrit texts,
as translated by Zechariah Sitchin, appears to refer to this
when it tells of Enke selecting the planet's most developed
primate with which to combine Onnaki DNA with. Of these

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early attempts, one particular verse states, shaggy with hair all
over was the newborn. His fore parts like of the
earth creatures, were his hind parts to those of the
Onunaki more akin they were. Perhaps more telling was the
following verse, which refers to a period of time. After
allowing the creation to grow as it did, Enke, realizing

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that this species was not suitable for their needs, concluded
he must start again taller. The Earth child grew in
the image of the Onanaki. He was not His hands
for tools were not suited. His speech only grunting sounds.
Was If you subscribe to the ancient astronaut theory, then
if this was a first attempt at geoengineering the human race,

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might they Bigfoot have gone on to develop by themselves
in isolated areas As we mentioned earlier, Even mainstream science
suggests this is certainly possible, if unlikely, and there are
examples of human tribes that only came to the modern
world's attention recently. In fact, if we stay with the

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translations of these Sanskrit tablets, we will discover a most
intriguing account that would appear to undoubtedly describe a creature
we in the modern world recognize as Bigfoot. If we
look at the Epic of Gilgamesh, essentially the oldest text
in the world outside of the Old Testament of the Bible,
dating from twenty seven hundred BC, it tells us the

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story of Ketu, a close friend and wild man who
resided outside of society. If we look at one part
of the text, it describes Keytu in the following way
like an animal, and Ketu's body had hitherto been covered
with hair, which is now shaved off. He is anointed
with oil and clothed like a man. These descriptions, particularly

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when we consider the above accounts of creating humans and
the creations before the ultimate success, certainly sounds similar to
modern day descriptions of a bigfoot creature. On a side note,
if we accept the account to be accurate, is it
possible that in key Dou would have descendants, one who
maybe chose not to live in civilized society or wear

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clothes ones who went back to the environment in the
woodlands and mountain regions away from society. While many mainstream
historians dismiss these writings as fictional literature, those on the
outskirts question this assertion. For example, Gilgamesh himself was very real,
with numerous recordings of his achievements and buildings. Furthermore, at

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a time when writing was a long, arduous and if
mistakes occurred, expensive task, would ancient people really have taken
the vast amount of time required just for a story.
We have to push back against these dismissive assertions, not
in the insistence that they are, without a doubt historical fact,
but against the absolute insistence that they are not. What

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would you say if I were to tell you that
big scary Bigfoot has a softer side. Apparently, in twenty nineteen,
a lost boy was found and cared for by a Sasquatch.
If the story is to be believed, I'll give you
the details when Weird Darkness returns. We now return back

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to our contemporary era. When in January twenty nineteen, a
story in the news intrigued many researchers into the bigfoot phenomenon.
When three year old Casey Hathaway from North Carolina was
discovered safe and well after two nights in the freezing
cold forests of the region, he claimed that a bear
helped him survive and get back home. While there is

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no known account of bears helping lost children or indeed adults,
the fact that they would be in hibernation at the
time of the incident would pretty much discount such a
notion entirely. Many experts suggest the boy had created the
story as a coping mechanism, or that he had just
had a fantasy. Many in the bigfoot community could see

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the obvious staring straight at them. To them, there was
no doubt that the bear was in fact a bigfoot.
Many would take to social media with examples of such
incidents in the past. One commentator would state, there are
no reports available of bears coming out of hibernation to
tend to lost children. However, also on record are many

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reports of bigfoot helping lost children. So did Casey Hathaway
spend two days with a bear or did he spend
two days with a bigfoot? Some may doubt such a thing, However,
in the light of what we know about bears in
winter and Bigfoot's documented interaction with other children. I'm going
with Bigfoot. Another common completely as a matter of fact,

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would offer that his wife claimed he probably got lost
and was found by a Sasquatch. It is an interesting notion.
Not only would it suggest intelligence, it would also suggest
empathy and compassion. The fact is there are multiple sightings
and reports of Bigfoot creatures each year, and twenty twenty

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was no different. On the afternoon of January twelfth, for example,
two Ohio men would encounter and report a Bigfoot creature
as they walked through Salt Fork State Park. One of
the men, known only as Eric, would report how the
creature they witnessed walked upright, but was very much like
an ape like creature. The other witness would claim that

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while seeing the bigfoot creature was scary, it was more
terrifying when he could no longer see it. What's more,
there are three apparent hotspots within this particular park alone
where Bigfoot sightings are relatively Rampantigan's Knob might be one
of the better known, as a television show examining the
Bigfoot legends was filmed in the region. The remaining two

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hotspot locations of Salt Fork State Park are Parker Road,
sometimes called Buckeye Trail, and Bigfoot Ridge. While these areas
at the state park certainly appear to have more sightings,
many local legends and accounts claim that the creatures call
the woodlands home and have done so for hundreds of years,

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going back at least to the seventeen hundreds. However, the
State Park of Ohio is far from the only place
where bigfoot sidings are taking place today two decades into
the twenty first century. It isn't just in Ohio where
bigfoot sidings are increasing. One researcher in Idaho, Becky Cook,
has spent two decades collecting and publishing bigfoot accounts around

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the state, a figure that is an excess of sixty
and spread over several books. One account tells of a
witness known as Nesbitt, who, along with several others, was
walking along a quiet road in the woodland when a
bigfoot came crashing out of the trees before it jumped
down off the ledge to stand white in front of them.
The witness would state it was their belief that they

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had scared him as much as he scared us. The
witness would continue that the creature was around eight to
nine feet tall, with hair all over his body, and
with yellow eyes. Perhaps interestingly, she would recall how the
nose of the creature was like a dog or a
bear's nose, much like in Ufo circles. Cook would soon

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discover that more people witnessed these strange creatures than we
might think. However, fear of ridicule or being labeled crazy
often prevents them from reporting them. The more Cooks spoke
to these reluctant witnesses with the promise and delivery of
the account only in their words, many were suddenly eager
to come forward with their accounts, even if some wished

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for their names to be changed. We might wonder if
others stays around the United States have a similar rate
of sightings, and whether many of them go unreported. We
should perhaps also wonder, as we will move on to next,
whether there might be more to the bigfoot creature than
a wild beast who lives in the woods. In fact,

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it might be that these strange beasts are not from
our world at all. One of the most intriguing aspects
of Cook's research in bigfoot sightings is an apparent connection
with people who have had near death experiences. According to
Cook's data, around seventy percent of witnesses have had at
least one near death experience. It is her increasing belief

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that this could be a major factor in people being
able to see the creatures. To begin with, we should
recall that many researchers, as well as many of the
native tribes of North America, claim there is very much
a supernatural element to the bigfoot creature. Indeed, there certainly
appears to be much more complexity to the Bigfoot creature
than most of us at first suspect. She also mentions

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that many witnesses speak of these strange creatures actually arriving
on Earth through strange portals as opposed to living in
the wilderness. This would, she claims, explain why many people
only see these strange entities for a very short period
of time. Teaking this further, what might that tell us
of the reason UFOs are often witnessed in abundance in

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the same location as bigfoot hotspots. Might there be a
more supernatural aspect to the mystery of UFOs, and might they,
like the Bigfoot creatures, arrive here on Earth through the
same or similar portals, and if so, what is causing
these portals to open? It isn't just in the North

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American continent where bigfoot creatures are witnessed. Around the same
time as the report in Salt Fork State Park, a
researcher from the UK claimed to have captured a picture
of a big foot like creature in the woods around
Lincolnshireson who captured the picture is the co founder of
the British Bigfoot Research organization, Adam Byrd. I'll place a
link to this photo in the show notes as well,

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which again you can find at weird Darkness dot com.
He claimed that after hearing reports of sightings in the area,
he ventured out there for himself. He was shocked to
capture the image of a shadowy ape like creature seemingly
peering through the branches of the trees. It already managed
to spot and photograph strange footprints on the ground in
the area, as well as hearing strange rustling noises around him.

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It was not until going through the images several hours later, however,
that he spotted the strange, shadowy image. Bird would continue
that he and several members of the organization remained in
the area for several hours and felt watched and followed
the whole time, and while he remained cautious that the
image might prove to be something else entirely, he also

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offered that the picture could be genuine evidence that the
British Bigfoot exists. Bird wo continue in his report to
local media that the Bigfoot creatures are seen all over
the UK, stressing his point by claiming reports spread from
Scotland right down to southern England. What's more, rather than
being hoaxes or mystique in sightings of other creatures, it

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is Bird's opinion that the Bigfoot creatures are very much
something unknown. Thanks for listening. If you like the show,
please share it with someone you know who loves the
paranormal or strange stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries

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like you do. And if you've experienced Bigfoot sighting, tell
us about it. All stories in Weird Darkness are purported
to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find
source links or links to the authors in the show notes.
Information in this episode is from UFO Insight, written in
researched by Marcus Louth. Weird Darkness is a production of

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Marler House Productions. And now that we're coming out of
the dark, I'll leave you with a little light Romans eight,
verse eleven. And if the spirit of Him who raised
Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who
raised Christ from the dead will also give life to
your mortal bodies through his spirit who lives in you.

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And a final thought, be kind, be fair, be honest,
be true, and all of these things will come back
to you. What goes around comes around. I'm Darren Marler.
Thanks for joining me in the weird darkness.

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