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A Paranormal Bigfoot
Monsters and the Occult
By Nick Redfern
April 04, 2009
http://www.mania.com/paranormal-bigfoot_article_114170.html
<http://www.mania.com/paranormal-bigfoot_article_114170.html>
Laura was thirty-six, lived in Rochester, New York, and was employed
by
the Post Office when I interviewed her in 2007. She related to me the
details of a distinctly odd and unsettling series of occurrences that
took place back in mid-1985.
On one particularly warm summer's night, Laura said, three of her
friends had come over to visit. Her parents were out of town, and so
the
girls planned to have an evening hanging out, playing music, and
generally having a fun time.
At some point during the night, the discussion turned to horror-
movies,
ghosts, spooks and specters, and the four girls decided to experiment
with an old Ouija Board.
As Laura admitted to me, none of them were seriously frightened by
the
board or the possible implications of what might transpire -- in
fact,
they had no real idea at all how to even use the board, apart from
"what
we had seen in horror movies," added Laura.
But, like teenagers everywhere, they found the idea of "playing with
the
Ouija Board while my mom and dad were out" to be great fun and
immensely
exciting.
However, what initially started out as nothing more than a bit of
late-night joking around quickly changed into something far darker
and
much more disturbing.
Largely improvising, as a result of their lack of any real knowledge
of
how to use a Ouija Board, the four did their best: relying on
familiar
Hollywood imagery, they pulled a wine-glass from a kitchen-cupboard,
placed the index-fingers of their right hands atop it, and were soon
immersed in their planned bit of fun.
Questions about boys, when they would marry, and attempts to contact
dead relatives followed -- all to no avail, perhaps inevitably.
However,
said Laura, something decidedly odd did occur: on two occasions, the
electricity went off -- which scared the living daylights out of the
four friends. Not surprisingly, one might argue, taking into
consideration their actions with the Ouija Board.
Laura explained further: "When that happened with the electricity, we
all kind of looked at each other in a funny way and decided to stop."
And even though nothing else of an untoward nature occurred that
night,
it was all too late, the damage was done, and a doorway was
unwittingly,
and ominously, opened.
For reasons that, Laura admits, to this day she cannot really explain
nor understand, a feeling of fear and apprehension came over as the
next
day progressed, and afternoon became early evening -- and after her
friends had all returned to their respective homes.
Once again the electricity failed -- around 6.00 p.m. -- and the
dark,
foreboding feelings began to take an ever-stronger hold on Laura's
mind.
And so, after eating a hastily-made sandwich, she decided to retire
to
the comfort and (so she thought, at least) safety of her bedroom.
Later that night, however, Laura was woken from a deep sleep in the
early hours, and heard what sounded very much like a loud, yet
disturbing, animal-like "scream" emanating from the vicinity of a
small,
but densely-packed, area of woodland that was situated at the rear of
the family home.
Cautiously, but curiously too, Laura got out of bed, went to the
window,
and peered out into the darkness and the shadows. Nothing out of the
ordinary could be seen, and so she returned to her bed, and was soon
asleep again -- for a very short while, at least.
It was approximately 2.00 a.m. when Laura was jolted from her slumber
by
what she described to me as "the grossest smelling thing ever: like
an
old rotting cabbage."
Laura put out her hand to turn on the lamp that sat on a small
bedside
table, when she was horrified and panic-stricken by the sight of a
silhouetted, large, black, hairy figure that was partially eclipsed
by
the shadows in the darkened room.
Laura said the creature was "hunched over and had huge, long arms and
big, white eyes."
As I sat in my office and listened as Laura told her nightmarish
tale,
she added that at the very moment she tried to scream out loud she
experienced a sudden feeling of paralysis: "I was sitting up, but
couldn't speak or move at all," she recalled.
And worse was still to come: the hairy giant slowly moved in Laura's
direction, stooped down over her, and brought its face within eight
or
nine inches of hers.
The creature was, Laura explained to me, "just like Bigfoot: a big
hairy
thing that I couldn't tell if it was a monkey or a hairy man."
For barely several moments, the giant beast stared intently and
deeply
into her eyes, then slowly and carefully backed away, until the point
came where its dark mass was almost indistinguishable from the
shadows
that dominated the room.
The strange form ultimately disappeared, Laura recalled: "like it had
been sucked into the shadows." Notably, Laura added that although the
beast had certainly scared her out of her wits, she did not get the
feeling that it was in any way directly hostile.
Instead, it was her opinion that the creature had appeared to warn
her
"not to get mixed up with ghosts and Ouija boards again."
Unsurprisingly, since that day Laura has not.
And the beast has never put in a repeat-performance.
Whether Laura's weird experience was one based within literal reality
or
the result of a particularly bad nightmare, it still puzzles and
worries
her nearly a quarter of a century later.
Nick Redfern is a full-time monster-hunter and the author of four
books
on the subject: /Three Men Seeking Monsters/; /Memoirs of a Monster
Hunter/; /Man-Monkey/; and his latest book: /There's something in the
Woods/.
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Monsters and the Occult
By Nick Redfern
April 04, 2009
http://www.mania.com/paranormal-bigfoot_article_114170.html
<http://www.mania.com/paranormal-bigfoot_article_114170.html>
Laura was thirty-six, lived in Rochester, New York, and was employed
by
the Post Office when I interviewed her in 2007. She related to me the
details of a distinctly odd and unsettling series of occurrences that
took place back in mid-1985.
On one particularly warm summer's night, Laura said, three of her
friends had come over to visit. Her parents were out of town, and so
the
girls planned to have an evening hanging out, playing music, and
generally having a fun time.
At some point during the night, the discussion turned to horror-
movies,
ghosts, spooks and specters, and the four girls decided to experiment
with an old Ouija Board.
As Laura admitted to me, none of them were seriously frightened by
the
board or the possible implications of what might transpire -- in
fact,
they had no real idea at all how to even use the board, apart from
"what
we had seen in horror movies," added Laura.
But, like teenagers everywhere, they found the idea of "playing with
the
Ouija Board while my mom and dad were out" to be great fun and
immensely
exciting.
However, what initially started out as nothing more than a bit of
late-night joking around quickly changed into something far darker
and
much more disturbing.
Largely improvising, as a result of their lack of any real knowledge
of
how to use a Ouija Board, the four did their best: relying on
familiar
Hollywood imagery, they pulled a wine-glass from a kitchen-cupboard,
placed the index-fingers of their right hands atop it, and were soon
immersed in their planned bit of fun.
Questions about boys, when they would marry, and attempts to contact
dead relatives followed -- all to no avail, perhaps inevitably.
However,
said Laura, something decidedly odd did occur: on two occasions, the
electricity went off -- which scared the living daylights out of the
four friends. Not surprisingly, one might argue, taking into
consideration their actions with the Ouija Board.
Laura explained further: "When that happened with the electricity, we
all kind of looked at each other in a funny way and decided to stop."
And even though nothing else of an untoward nature occurred that
night,
it was all too late, the damage was done, and a doorway was
unwittingly,
and ominously, opened.
For reasons that, Laura admits, to this day she cannot really explain
nor understand, a feeling of fear and apprehension came over as the
next
day progressed, and afternoon became early evening -- and after her
friends had all returned to their respective homes.
Once again the electricity failed -- around 6.00 p.m. -- and the
dark,
foreboding feelings began to take an ever-stronger hold on Laura's
mind.
And so, after eating a hastily-made sandwich, she decided to retire
to
the comfort and (so she thought, at least) safety of her bedroom.
Later that night, however, Laura was woken from a deep sleep in the
early hours, and heard what sounded very much like a loud, yet
disturbing, animal-like "scream" emanating from the vicinity of a
small,
but densely-packed, area of woodland that was situated at the rear of
the family home.
Cautiously, but curiously too, Laura got out of bed, went to the
window,
and peered out into the darkness and the shadows. Nothing out of the
ordinary could be seen, and so she returned to her bed, and was soon
asleep again -- for a very short while, at least.
It was approximately 2.00 a.m. when Laura was jolted from her slumber
by
what she described to me as "the grossest smelling thing ever: like
an
old rotting cabbage."
Laura put out her hand to turn on the lamp that sat on a small
bedside
table, when she was horrified and panic-stricken by the sight of a
silhouetted, large, black, hairy figure that was partially eclipsed
by
the shadows in the darkened room.
Laura said the creature was "hunched over and had huge, long arms and
big, white eyes."
As I sat in my office and listened as Laura told her nightmarish
tale,
she added that at the very moment she tried to scream out loud she
experienced a sudden feeling of paralysis: "I was sitting up, but
couldn't speak or move at all," she recalled.
And worse was still to come: the hairy giant slowly moved in Laura's
direction, stooped down over her, and brought its face within eight
or
nine inches of hers.
The creature was, Laura explained to me, "just like Bigfoot: a big
hairy
thing that I couldn't tell if it was a monkey or a hairy man."
For barely several moments, the giant beast stared intently and
deeply
into her eyes, then slowly and carefully backed away, until the point
came where its dark mass was almost indistinguishable from the
shadows
that dominated the room.
The strange form ultimately disappeared, Laura recalled: "like it had
been sucked into the shadows." Notably, Laura added that although the
beast had certainly scared her out of her wits, she did not get the
feeling that it was in any way directly hostile.
Instead, it was her opinion that the creature had appeared to warn
her
"not to get mixed up with ghosts and Ouija boards again."
Unsurprisingly, since that day Laura has not.
And the beast has never put in a repeat-performance.
Whether Laura's weird experience was one based within literal reality
or
the result of a particularly bad nightmare, it still puzzles and
worries
her nearly a quarter of a century later.
Nick Redfern is a full-time monster-hunter and the author of four
books
on the subject: /Three Men Seeking Monsters/; /Memoirs of a Monster
Hunter/; /Man-Monkey/; and his latest book: /There's something in the
Woods/.
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Bill
Apr 13, 2009, 7:25:36 PM4/13/09
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This Nick Redfern posting combines the supernatural elements many
believe are part and parcel of "bigfoot"---or perhaps "man monkey"----
with the controversies surrounding the use of the ouija board. There
are the "scientific
rational materialists"who maintain that ouija boards are psychological
humbug; just a silly parlor game that "works' either by subconscious
inclination or outright deceitful intent. These are also the same
Shermer-Nickell types who say UFOs, manwolves, ghosts, sasquatch, ESP,
mothman, manbat, and the Loch Ness Monster are all humbug, too.
A second school of thought holds that Ouija boards---like pendulums
and other oracles---DO INDEED work to reveal hidden truths, and are
ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS little tools of divination.They tend to shrug
off---even blow off----any expressed concerns about inherent dangers
in the use of the boards (or other facilitators like pendulums) as the
jitters of "Nervous Nellies".
The third school of thought is that using such objects is like playing
Russian Roulette. That maybe NOTHING bad or disturbing will happen-----
or maybe some such WILL. This view holds that when you use divinatory
oracles you open
portals---gateways----that you may well wish you'd kept closed. That
you put yourself in a position of playing "The Lady or the Tiger" in a
situation you may well not be equipped to handle. It would seem in
this particular incident that this Laura
was getting a warning off---in a form that would shake her up----from
any more such participation. That means a benevolence was interceding
ON HER BEHALF to head off trouble----WHICH that benevolence saw coming
if Laura continued with the ouija involvement.
Could one always expect such intercession? Not bloody likely. Brad
Steiger tells a college story about another girl who got involved with
ouija doings from a room-mate (one with apparently no good intent)
and wound up being terrorized by this board----and something it
brought forth---and,allegedly, suffering demonic, supernatural rape by
this night thing. ("An hysterical personality" would claim the
"rationalist"----a "schizophrenic episode"----but WAS it?).
The "third view" faction says "Stay AWAY" from the things. Don't
involve yourself with them AT ALL. Or, IF YOU DO, take protective
precautions. Say prayers of protection beforehand, "Clear" the room
and board (or pendulum,or mirror) with sage, salt, or whatever else
effectively disburses things UNWANTED in the immediate environment.
This, they say, is like buckling up your selt belt before you drive,
wearing a life jacket to go water-skiing, or using pot holders to pick
up a hot frying pan or casserole dish. You can't BE "too" careful,
these folks advise.
Me? I'll stick with the third groups' notions. Better safe than sorry.
On Apr 13, 3:15 am, "Destinysmoon1...@aol.com"
believe are part and parcel of "bigfoot"---or perhaps "man monkey"----
with the controversies surrounding the use of the ouija board. There
are the "scientific
rational materialists"who maintain that ouija boards are psychological
humbug; just a silly parlor game that "works' either by subconscious
inclination or outright deceitful intent. These are also the same
Shermer-Nickell types who say UFOs, manwolves, ghosts, sasquatch, ESP,
mothman, manbat, and the Loch Ness Monster are all humbug, too.
A second school of thought holds that Ouija boards---like pendulums
and other oracles---DO INDEED work to reveal hidden truths, and are
ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS little tools of divination.They tend to shrug
off---even blow off----any expressed concerns about inherent dangers
in the use of the boards (or other facilitators like pendulums) as the
jitters of "Nervous Nellies".
The third school of thought is that using such objects is like playing
Russian Roulette. That maybe NOTHING bad or disturbing will happen-----
or maybe some such WILL. This view holds that when you use divinatory
oracles you open
portals---gateways----that you may well wish you'd kept closed. That
you put yourself in a position of playing "The Lady or the Tiger" in a
situation you may well not be equipped to handle. It would seem in
this particular incident that this Laura
was getting a warning off---in a form that would shake her up----from
any more such participation. That means a benevolence was interceding
ON HER BEHALF to head off trouble----WHICH that benevolence saw coming
if Laura continued with the ouija involvement.
Could one always expect such intercession? Not bloody likely. Brad
Steiger tells a college story about another girl who got involved with
ouija doings from a room-mate (one with apparently no good intent)
and wound up being terrorized by this board----and something it
brought forth---and,allegedly, suffering demonic, supernatural rape by
this night thing. ("An hysterical personality" would claim the
"rationalist"----a "schizophrenic episode"----but WAS it?).
The "third view" faction says "Stay AWAY" from the things. Don't
involve yourself with them AT ALL. Or, IF YOU DO, take protective
precautions. Say prayers of protection beforehand, "Clear" the room
and board (or pendulum,or mirror) with sage, salt, or whatever else
effectively disburses things UNWANTED in the immediate environment.
This, they say, is like buckling up your selt belt before you drive,
wearing a life jacket to go water-skiing, or using pot holders to pick
up a hot frying pan or casserole dish. You can't BE "too" careful,
these folks advise.
Me? I'll stick with the third groups' notions. Better safe than sorry.
On Apr 13, 3:15 am, "Destinysmoon1...@aol.com"
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