killer bees

[tw9...@richmond.infi.net]

Do any of you remember growing up in the 1970's and hearing about the
killer bees from South America and they were coming to the U.S. I was
petrified of them. Also what happened to all the bigfoot sightings and
Loch Ness monster sightings of the 1970's?

AC in richmond

[Brian]

>AC in richmond

Yeah, how about those killer bees? They've actually reached parts of the
United States, but there have been no killings.

Remember the great "Killer Bees" sketches on Saturday Night Live?

I don't know about Sasquatch (Bigfoot),but a year or two ago I read an
article that the physician that took the purported picture of "Nessie"
admitted on his deathbed that it was a hoax.

As a kid, in the late '60's, I promised my speech therapist that I was
going to find the Loch Ness Monster. I was kind of sad to find that it
didn't exist after all.

Brian

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[Clancy]

>Yeah, how about those killer bees? They've actually reached parts of the
>United States, but there have been no killings.

Um, actually I believe there have been a few deaths. Elderly men dying
of heart attacks upon being swarmed.

[thomas conroy]

tw9...@richmond.infi.net wrote:
: Do any of you remember growing up in the 1970's and hearing about the

: killer bees from South America and they were coming to the U.S. I was
: petrified of them.

Weren't we all. There hasn't been much about them lately. Apperantly, they
arrived as far as Mexico, and not many made it across the border.

: Also what happened to all the bigfoot sightings

This occasionally shows up as fodder for tabloid TV shows, like A Current
Affair, but you're right, the 70s were a big Bigfoot decade.

Wasn't Bigfoot the subject of "The Legend of Boggy Creak"

: and Loch Ness monster sightings of the 1970's?

The Loch Ness monster legend has been around since at least the
1930s. Recently, the Weekly World News ran a photo (an obvious fake) of the
body of Nessie, after Loch Ness had supposedly been drained.

Also, a related topic is the Bermuda Triangle, which we don't hear much
discussion of nowadays. But in the 70s, you knew that you should never sail
over the Bermuda Triangle; if you did, you were dead meat.

[Dixon Hayes]

> >...what happened to all the bigfoot sightings and

> >Loch Ness monster sightings of the 1970's?

I could've sworn I saw a documentary once that claimed Bigfoot had been
spotted in all 50 states. How the hell did he make it to Hawaii? Swim?
Took a cruise? "Love Boat", perhaps?

When I was 14, I and a bunch of friends camped out in the woods in
Glencoe, Alabama. Every five minutes one of my friends would hear a
twig snap,and for some reason every would jump up and start looking
around for Bigfoot. I don't why they suspected Bigfoot would be in
Glencoe. Turns out it was a dog that followed one of us to the
campout. The ominous sounds we kept hearing was the dog raiding our
supply of doughnuts and Pop-Tarts.

--Dixon Hayes
14 when I encountered "Bigfoot"

[Tom Davison]

In article <tw9jd5-1606...@pa6dsp17.richmond.infi.net>,
tw9...@richmond.infi.net wrote:

? Do any of you remember growing up in the 1970's and hearing about the
? killer bees from South America and they were coming to the U.S. I was
? petrified of them. Also what happened to all the bigfoot sightings and
? Loch Ness monster sightings of the 1970's?
?
? AC in richmond

Living in Southern California, we hear about Killer Bees from time to time
on the news (they call Śem Africanized honeybees now - must be a PC thing).
They are supposedly across the border, and the news occasionally (on slow
news days) has a spot about what to do if youąre stung. I havenąt heard of
any deaths, though with all the other stuff that happens in LA, killer bees
donąt make it to the top of the list.
- Tom

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