Bigfoot "smudge" to be DNA tested

Posted on Saturday, 25 June, 2011 News tip by: Still Waters

From the website www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Could this smudge prove Bigfoot DOES exist? Explorers desperate to test DNA in marks left on abandoned car window

By Daniel Bates

Last updated at 11:12 PM on 24th June 2011

With two paw marks clearly visible on the car window, this smudge could provide the DNA evidence that finally proves the existence of Bigfoot.
Explorers have launched an appeal to carry out a full analysis on the mark left behind when an unidentified beast wiped its face against the glass of the car in California's Sierra National Forest.
They are desperate to hire a forensic analyst to take samples and prove once and for all that the mythical animal exists.

Calling card? Is this smudge on the window of a car left in California's Sierra National Forest the evidence that Bigfoot does exist?

Testing: Explorers claim the marks are made by a large creature rubbing alongside the car, before peering inside.

Without the money to do so they claim they mystery will remain unsolved - even though the evidence is right in front of them.
The print was left on the car belonging to paranormal explorer Jeffrey Gonzalez after he and some colleagues abandoned it during a snowstorm.
When they came back they found a smudge which apparently showed that an animal had placed its left and right paws on the window and peered inside.
Mr Gonzalez asked forensic photographer Mark Burrow to take a look and he said there could be DNA left behind.

'As I was looking at the windows, I told Jeff it looked like something came up to the truck, rubbed up against it, swiped along the side of it, and then just put its face up on the window and looked in - that's what it looks like,' he said.
Mr Gonzalez, the head of the Sanger Paranormal Society, is now appealing for the public to help pay for him to conduct a full DNA analysis.
'We need somebody to come forward to take this DNA and get it mapped,' he said.

'Since nobody knows what a Bigfoot is, there's no available DNA for it. But by testing this DNA, by process of elimination we can find out if it was a bear, gorilla, baboon or something else.
'If it's not any of those, and you've eliminated all the possibilities, and it's not human, then what's left?'
He added: 'I believe Bigfoot exists, but I don't believe it has mystical powers like many people say it does. I think it's just an unknown species that hasn't been discovered or hasn't fully evolved.'

The myth of Bigfoot has been a fixture of local legend in the Pacific Northwest of America for centuries.
It has achieved a level of notoriety on a par with the Loch Ness monster, despite no concrete evidence it actually exists.
Known as a 'Sasquatch', it stands on two legs but is covered with fur and makes crude animal noises instead of speech.
The number of Bigfoot sightings spiked after an article in the December 1959 issue of now-defunct monthly magazine True.

The most celebrated instance was the Patterson-Gimlin film shot by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in northern California in 1967, around the time that the original Planet of the Apes was released.
The film's director John Landis later accused its costume designer John Chambers, who created the monkey suits, of being the man in the 'sighting' footage.

Loch Ness Monster sighting reported

Posted on Wednesday, 29 June, 2011 News tip by: Still Waters

from the website www.unexplained-mysteries.com

The owners of a shop and cafe in the Highlands have reported seeing a strange creature in Loch Ness.

Observing it in the water from the store's decking the creature was described as having a long neck, too long to be a seal or other animal. "It went under the water and disappeared for probably 30 to 40 seconds and then came back up again," said Mrs Hargreaves.

It was while taking a break on the store’s front decking — looking out to the loch — when Mrs Hargreaves and kitchen worker Graham Baine spotted an unusual figure cutting a strange shape through the water. "We were standing looking out and saw something that looked bizarre," said Mrs Hargreaves.

More to come on this story.

Lizard Man Returns to Lee County

Lee County, SC (WLTX) - Over the years reports have surfaced about infamous and mysterious creatures.

There's Bigfoot, the giant ape-like animal that roams the wild forests on the West Coast. Across the pond, there's Nessie, the Loch Mess Monster that hides in the deep, dark waters of the Scottish Highlands. In Mexico and Texas, they have the Chupacabra, the blood-sucking goat that some say has killed animals. And in South Carolina we have the Lizard Man, the creature supposedly terrorizing Bishopville since 1988.

That year, a 17-year-old reported a run-in with a scaly lizard that stood on two legs. Now, there's speculation that the creature may be back.

On Ida Lane in rural Lee County, they're struggling to explain what took place Monday morning.

"I ran into the house and told my wife to call the police because something happened to the car," explained Leon Marshall.

"The tooth marks went completely through the fender," added his wife Ada.

Early that morning the Marshall's woke up to find their car mauled by something.

"That's metal! And it just bent it up. Like it was a piece of tissue paper," said Ada.

The question is by what?

"We have no idea. No idea. No idea what-so-ever.">

To former Lee County Sheriff Liston Truesdale, this sounds all too familiar.

"This part here is how it all started in 1988," explained Truesdale. "We got a call to come and look at something that had mauled a car. I went out there and looked at that damaged car, and I haven't seen anything like that before."

About that same time there were bizarre calls coming in.

"They had been seeing a large creature about 7 feet tall, with big red eyes, with three pointed fingers."

So he started asking residents, "have you seen anything like a big tall creature round there? And the guys said, 'what you mean that lizard man?' That's how it started and you got it from the horse's mouth."

Back then, there was a media frenzy.

"Everyone thought they were going to get a glimpse of the Lizard Man but he didn't appear."

The damage on the Marshall's car is almost identical to the damage on the two cars from back then.

Was it the Lizard man?

"I'm skeptical about that. I'm not gonna go that far. I'll believe it when I see it," said the Marshalls.

"Everything it laid off on the poor lizard man," jokes Truesdale. "But at this point, he must have grandchildren!"

Whether you believe in the Lizard Man or not, he certainly did generate a lot of buzz. In 1988 it's estimated that about 50,000 visitors came to Lee County in hopes of spotting the creature.