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Post by Joanna on Aug 10, 2016 0:12:21 GMT -5
Is Bigfoot Harassing an Alabama Family?Officials in Clarke County, Ala., want to know the identity of a man behind the viral online story claiming a Bigfoot creature is harassing his family and hurting his outdoor pets in Gainestown. In its June 9 edition, the weekly Clarke County Democrat featured a story by reporter Jim Cox asking anyone with information about, or photos of, the creature to contact the newspaper office in Grove Hill. In the story, Cox quotes Clarke County Sheriff Ray Norris: “We’ve never had one reported ... Call us, I’d sure like to see one.” Norris has not responded to two messages left with his office from AL.com.
The request came after CryptozoologyNews published a story on May 30 in which an unnamed man said he planned to kill the creature if authorities don’t capture it. The story has been a popular share on social media since its posting. The story was a follow-up to a 2015 report on the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) website, in which the unnamed male witness was quoted as saying: “It’s starting to kill the family pets and chase people.”
According to CrytozoologyNews, the witness is a Texas native who has family in Gainestown, an unincorporated Clarke County community of about 800 residents. The man reported he is “tired of dealing” with the Bigfoot, which he describes as 8-feet-tall and covered with reddish-brown fur. The witness estimated the creature weighs about 800 pounds and said it smelled like “cheese gone bad.”
In the 2015 report on the BFRO site, the same witness (also unnamed on this site) described a sighting categorized by BFRO as “Class A,” which means it involved “clear sightings in circumstances where misinterpretation or misidentification of other animals can be ruled out with greater confidence.” The witness’s 2015 report asserted: “I am trying to get some of the guys together and try and kill it because no one will do anything to research and capture this thing. We know where it lives and how it travels, all we want is for someone to capture and remove it. I live in Texas but my family lives in Alabama, and they are living in fear of this thing so it has to go one way or another.”
That initial report was investigated by Mike Brumfield with BFRO, who wrote: “There is no doubt in my mind this was a real encounter. I know the area and if I were a Sasquatch, that’s where I would live.” Brumfield also reported that Sasquatches have been previously spotted in the area. He wrote that he explained to the man “that they all have their own personalities and more likely there isn’t just one in the area. I suggested that they may not take lightly to one of theirs getting shot. The folks living there who had close encounters realized how much they look like humans, and they really couldn’t kill any of them.”Source: Kelly Kazek, AL.com, June 21, 2016.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 13, 2016 17:54:17 GMT -5
I will believe it when I see it.
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Post by jason on Aug 15, 2016 15:27:45 GMT -5
I will believe it when I see it.
Why would you have to see Bigfoot harassing a family to believe it, but you don't question all the left-wing garbage on Snopes?
Busted! Snopes Fact-Checker Exposed as Liberal Hack
Wait until you read this woman’s biography and past quotes about conservatives!
Popular myth-busting website Snopes originally gained recognition for being the go-to site for disproving outlandish urban legends such as the presence of UFOs in Haiti or the existence of human-animal hybrids in the Amazon jungle.
Recently, however, the site has tried to pose as a political fact-checker. But Snopes’ “fact-checking” looks more like playing defense for prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton and it’s political “fact-checker” describes herself as a liberal and has called Republicans “regressive” and afraid of “female agency.”
Snopes’s main political fact-checker is a “writer” named Kim Lacapria. Before writing for Snopes, Lacapria wrote for Inquisitr, a blog that – oddly enough – is known for publishing fake quotes and even downright hoaxes as much as anything else. While at Inquisitr, the future “fact-checker” consistently displayed clear partisanship. She described herself as “openly left-leaning” and a liberal. She trashed the Tea Party as “teahadists.” She called Bill Clinton “one of our greatest” presidents. She claimed that conservatives only criticized Lena Dunham’s comparison of voting to sex because they “fear female agency.” She once wrote: “Like many GOP ideas about the poor, the panic about using food stamps for alcohol, pornography or guns seems to have been cut from whole cloth – or more likely, the ideas many have about the fantasy of poverty.” (A simple fact-check would show that food stamp fraud does occur and costs taxpayers tens of millions.) Lacapria even accused the Bush administration of being “at least guilty of criminal negligence” in the September 11 attacks. (The future “fact-checker” offered no evidence to support her accusation.) Her columns apparently failed to impress her readership, oftentimes failing to get more than 10-20 shares.
After blogging the Inquisitr, Lacapria joined Snopes, where she regularly plays defense for her fellow liberals. She wrote a “fact check” article about Jimmy Carter’s unilateral ban of Iranian nationals from entering the country that looks more like an opinion column arguing against Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. Similarly, Lacapria – in another “fact check” article – argued Hillary Clinton hadn’t included Benghazi at all in her infamous “we didn’t lose a single person in Libya” gaffe. Lacapria claimed Clinton meant only to refer to the 2011 invasion of Libya (but not the 2012 Benghazi attack) but offered little fact-based evidence to support her claim.
After the Orlando terror attack, Lacapria claimed that just because Omar Mateen was a registered Democrat with an active voter registration status didn’t mean he was actually a Democrat. Her “fact check” argued that he might “have chosen a random political affiliation when he initially registered.”
Lacapria even tried to contradict the former Facebook workers who admitted that Facebook regularly censors conservative news, dismissing the news as “rumors.” In that “fact check” article, Lacapria argued that “Facebook Trending’s blacklisting of ‘junk topics’ was not only not a scandalous development, but to be expected following the social network’s crackdown on fake news sites.” The opinion-heavy article was mockingly titled: “The Algorithm Is Gonna Get You.”
Lacapria again played defense for Clinton in a fact-check article when she claimed: “Outrage over an expensive Armani jacket worn by Hillary Clinton was peppered with inaccurate details.” One of the “inaccurate details” cited by Lacapria was that, “The cost of men’s suits worn by fellow politicians didn’t appear in the article for contrast.” She also argued the speech Clinton gave while wearing the $12,495 jacket, which discussed “raising wages and reducing inequality,” wasn’t actually about income inequality.
Source: 100% FED Up, June 18, 2016.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 15, 2016 20:01:14 GMT -5
I question everything. I have found Snopes to be fair. In fact, they have "busted" many rumors against Trump as well as Hillary.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 15, 2016 20:06:57 GMT -5
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Post by kitty on Aug 15, 2016 21:47:14 GMT -5
But you wouldn't expect Snopes to admit that the Daily Caller article was right, would you?
One of the things that convinced me that you can't trust Snopes was that after the death where it was said that the man dropped the barbell on his neck, Snopes said that it was an accident and that Hillary Clinton wasn't involved even before the police finished their investigation.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 16, 2016 11:08:17 GMT -5
But you wouldn't expect Snopes to admit that the Daily Caller article was right, would you?
One of the things that convinced me that you can't trust Snopes was that after the death where it was said that the man dropped the barbell on his neck, Snopes said that it was an accident and that Hillary Clinton wasn't involved even before the police finished their investigation.
As far as I'm concerned, this squabble with the Daily Caller is just a bunch of he said/she said nonsense. All I care about are facts, and Snopes has always provided unbiased facts and sources, about which I am free to research and make up my own mind. As for Ashes death, and the others that the Clintons were supposedly involved in, there are many rumors and flat out untruths about each. I have read what Snopes has to say and the facts they presented about these deaths, and it's more than enough for me to doubt the Clintons involvement.
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Post by jason on Aug 16, 2016 19:50:58 GMT -5
As far as I'm concerned, this squabble with the Daily Caller is just a bunch of he said/she said nonsense. All I care about are facts, and Snopes has always provided unbiased facts and sources, about which I am free to research and make up my own mind. As for Ashes death, and the others that the Clintons were supposedly involved in, there are many rumors and flat out untruths about each. I have read what Snopes has to say and the facts they presented about these deaths, and it's more than enough for me to doubt the Clintons involvement.
April, if you cared about facts, you wouldn't be reading Snopes. Did you read the article that I posted yesterday?
whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/5769/clinton-body-count-rises-weeks
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 16, 2016 20:06:02 GMT -5
Yes Jason I did. The rumors about these deaths have been going around for a while now, so I am well aware of them.
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Post by steve on Aug 16, 2016 23:13:15 GMT -5
Yes Jason I did. The rumors about these deaths have been going around for a while now, so I am well aware of them. Yeah, but why are there so many mysterious deaths connected to the Clintons, but not to the Bush family, or to Ronald Regan, or any of the other presidents? That's what I find strange.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 17, 2016 11:43:31 GMT -5
I'm not sure that they all are. Yes, I agree that on the surface, it looks suspicious, but there is, in my opinion, a severe lack of any real, unbiased info that proves they are connected.
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Post by natalie on Aug 18, 2016 10:23:35 GMT -5
In Florida, we have skunk apes, but I am not sure what the difference is between a Bigfoot, a Sasquatch or a Skunk Ape and if they are all the same, then why do they have all these different names? People get upset when you mention a Bigfoot here, they tell you it is a Skunk Ape and you should call it that. I was under the impression that skunk apes or whatever you want to call them, did not really want to interact with people and kept a distance. They supposedly hide when they see people and watch from afar, so I find it interesting to read that this one approached and chased people.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 18, 2016 12:27:39 GMT -5
In Florida, we have skunk apes, but I am not sure what the difference is between a Bigfoot, a Sasquatch or a Skunk Ape and if they are all the same, then why do they have all these different names? People get upset when you mention a Bigfoot here, they tell you it is a Skunk Ape and you should call it that. I was under the impression that skunk apes or whatever you want to call them, did not really want to interact with people and kept a distance. They supposedly hide when they see people and watch from afar, so I find it interesting to read that this one approached and chased people. From what I understand, these creatures are all similar, but some regions have a slightly different version. The skunk ape got its name because it supposedly stinks. However, I have heard that said of Sasquatch as well. It seems to me that people living in or around different types of environments report different types of ape-like creatures, and the creatures reflect their environments. Generally speaking, Yetti are mostly reported in alpine, snowy regions. Bigfoot is in forests and Skunk apes are found around swamps and the everglades. Personally, I am beginning to think it is something in the human brain that causes us to believe cryptid creatures exist. Cryptid creatures are reported all over the world from many different races of people, so this leads me to think it is a human brain phenomenon. I think maybe much like pareidolia, where we see faces and figures in random patterns, the human brain tries to make some sense out of environments that are vast and unknown to us.
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Post by jason on Aug 18, 2016 23:07:13 GMT -5
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Post by Sam on Dec 6, 2023 22:39:38 GMT -5
Did anything ever come of these reports? The investigator said he thought they had a real encounter.
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