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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Aug 16 2008

More news stories on the alleged Georgia Bigfoot:

Looking for Bigfoot in Virginia
Billy Willard watched with professional interest friday as two Georgia men told reporters in California they had discovered the body of a Bigfoot in the woods of Northern Georgia. Willard is a co-founder and Director of Sasquatch Watch of Virginia, an organization that investigates Bigfoot sightings in the Old Dominion. "I think a lot of people were looking for a little bit more ( evidence ) and until we have that scientific analysis there is really not a whole lot we can do but wait," he said. Willard has never seen a Bigfoot himself, but his two sons claim to have done so in 2005, near Richmond. Willard says he began as a skeptic but changed his attitude as he began interviewing men and women who claim to have seen the creatures...

Strange phenomenon: sky goes black in the UK
ATS Member: I’m in u.k England in a place called Shinewater which is within Eastbourne. It is now about 9.20am and relativity bright, and the sky just went dark around this area, like night time dark, but no stars or clouds just pitch black...Quite a few people saw this so i'm not hallucinating...My neighbour believes it was a sudden eclipse but wouldn't that make everywhere else dark?..

Explorers to search Himalayas for yeti
Over the next two months, a team of Japanese explorers hopes to obtain indisputable video evidence confirming the existence of the legendary yeti, the mysterious apelike creature long believed to inhabit the Himalayas of Nepal and Tibet. A 7-member crew of experienced climbers, led by veteran yeti hunter and mountaineer Yoshiteru Takahashi, will depart Japan on August 16. At their destination in the Dhaulagiri mountains in central Nepal, they will establish base camp at an elevation of 4,300 meters (14,000 ft) and set up an array of automated infrared cameras along a ridge. For six weeks, the men and their state-of-the-art motion-sensitive cameras will monitor the area for signs of the yeti...

Mystery sighting is captured on film
Evidence of another mysterious sighting over the Valley has been presented to the Free Press. Over the last two weeks we have featured reports from readers who say they spotted a fleet of glowing orange orbs hovering over the borough on Saturday 26 July; so far no-one has been able to explain the sightings...

Sightings of 'wolf-like' creatures and rumors of underground cavemen in Staffordshire, UK
A tribe of subterranean creatures who surface on Cannock Chase to hunt for food could be behind a rash of 'werewolf' and Big Foot sightings near Stafford. And the mysterious beings could also be responsible for a string of pet disappearances, it has been claimed. West Midlands Ghost Club, our area's top paranormal investigation group, say they have been contacted by a number of shocked eye-witnesses who claim they have come to face to face with a 'hairy, wolf-type creature' at the beauty spot...

Werewolf boy appeals to doctors to find cure
An 11-year-old "werewolf" boy who desperately seeks a cure for his condition is baffling medical experts. Pruthviraj Patil is one of 50 in the world who suffers from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition known as Werewolf Syndrome. As a result his face and body is covered in thick, matted hair. But he is hoping doctors will one day find a cure for his ailment. Born in the Indian district of Sangli, near Bombey, he hardly ever leaves his village because of his fear of being traunted by strangers...

Mystery animal bites and scratches man
A Brookings-Harbor man received minor injuries Tuesday morning when an unidentified animal bit and scratched him on a remote mountain road just outside Brookings. He was treated at a medical clinic and released the same morning. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon State Police and United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services responded immediately. Although hound dogs and other methods were used, the animal has not been found...

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