April 28th Is Atlas Obscura Day
Friday, April 27th, 2012
On Saturday, the 28th of this month, a worldwide celebration of odd museums and places occurs. Be there. It is everywhere.
#Museums #AtlasObscura #InternationalCryptozoologyMuseum #DoverDemon
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Pacific Northwest Conference on Primal People (Sasquatch)
Thursday, April 26th, 2012MAY 4, 2012 Event:
Pacific Northwest Conference on Primal People (Sasquatch)
Pacific Northwest Conference
May 4th 5th and 6th, 2012
At Shiloh Inn,
50 Comstock St
(509) 946-4661
Richland, Washington
Fees:
Conference Only: per person
Saturday Banquet Only: per person
Entire Weekend: per person
Seniors Entire Conference: per person
If you need a roommate or would like to share a ride or need a ride, please email organizer Tom Cantrall at
Schedule of Events:
Friday, May 4th
10:00 to 4:00 Sasquatch Field Trip to Blue Mountains Paul Graves
6:00 to 10:00 Meet and Greet with Musical Presentation Lenny Green
Saturday, May 5th
8:30 to 9:00 Welcome and Invocation Thom Cantrall, Alex Evans, Arla Williams
9:00 to 9:55 Speaker – The Nature of Sasquatch Arla Williams
9:55 to 10:15 Break
10:15 to 11:10 Speaker – In Search of Sasquatch Kelly Milner Halls
11:15 to 12:00 Speaker – What I Have Learned Ben Vasion
12:00 to 1:00 Lunch
1:00 to 1:55 Speaker – Gathering Samples David Paulides
2:00 to 3:00 Speaker – Sasquatch DNA Dr. Melba Ketchum
3:00 to 3:20 Break
3:25 to 4:25 Speaker – Coconut Telegraph Thom Powell
4:30 to 5:25 Speaker – Washington Trails Paul Graves
Saturday Evening
6:30 to 7:00 Welcome, Colors & Invocation
7:00 to 7:45 Banquet Speaker Bob Gimlin
7:45 to 8:30 Dinner and Music Lenny Green
8:30 to 9:30 Keynote Speaker It’s A MYSTERY
9:30 to 12:00 Karaoke and Conviviality No Host
Sunday, May 6th
9:00 to 10:00 Speaker – Sierra Sounds Ron Morehead
10:00 to 11:00 Speaker – Sasquatch Language R. Scott Nelson
11:05 to 12:00 Speaker – Sasquatch Project Dr. Jeff Meldrum
12:00 to 1:00 Lunch
1:00 to 2:00 Speaker – The Olympic Project Derek Randles
2:00 to 3:00 Speaker – Proving the Patterson Film Thom Cantrall
3:00 to 3:15 Closing and Benediction
Lodging
Shiloh Inn, Richland, WA
The Flagship, Shiloh Inn
(509) 946-4661
is offering us discounted rooms and the facilities are first rate with a free breakfast available, free Wifi, Pool, Hot Tub, and Gym onsite. The hotel offers free airport shuttle service to and from the Pasco airport with room reservations, is pet friendly and is set on the very banks of the beautiful Columbia River. All this at very competitive prices make this an option to be considered.
When calling for reservations, tell the hotel you are there for the “PNW International Primal People” Conference. That will get you our discount.
Description
Location.
Located in Richland, Shilo Inn Suites Hotel – Richland is on the Columbia river.
Hotel Features.
Shilo Inn Suites Hotel – Richland features a restaurant and a bar/lounge. Room service is available during limited hours. The hotel serves a complimentary breakfast. Recreational amenities include a spa tub, a sauna, a fitness facility, and a steam room. This hotel offers small meeting rooms, audio-visual equipment, and business services. Wireless Internet access is available in public areas. This Richland property has event space consisting of banquet facilities, conference/meeting rooms, and a ballroom. The property has a roundtrip airport shuttle, which is complimentary. Guest parking is complimentary. Additional property amenities include laundry facilities. This is a smoke-free property.
Guestrooms.
151 air-conditioned guestrooms at Shilo Inn Suites Hotel – Richland feature coffee/tea makers and windows that open. Rooms are all accessible via exterior corridors. Accommodations include refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Wireless Internet access is available. In addition to desks, guestrooms offer free local calls (restrictions may apply). Televisions have video-game consoles and pay movies. Rooms also include irons/ironing boards and clock radios. Housekeeping is offered daily and guests may request wake-up calls. Guestrooms are all non-smoking.
Sasquatch Days 2012
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012We are pleased to announce the following:
The Sasquatch Returns to Harrison Hot Springs-Sasquatch Days Are Back!
HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – April 17, 2012) – After nearly 70 years, Sasquatch Days are coming back to Harrison Hot Springs. June 9th and 10th this historic event will bring the local First Nations Band Sts’ailes back to the Village of Harrison Hot Springs for two days of games, fun and excitement. This intercultural celebration will include canoe races, traditional salmon barbeque, medicine walks, cultural boat tours, arts & craft activities, games, entertainment and most importantly talks on the Sasquatch from Sts’ailes experts and local Harrison Hot Springs Sasquatch investigators.
Harrison Hot Springs Mayor, Leo Facio said, “The Village of Harrison Hot Springs is glad to see the Sasquatch Days on the shores of our beautiful community. We would like to welcome all visitors to Harrison Hot Springs to celebrate the cultural diversity of our region. Diversity is the commonality that unites as all, let’s celebrate it together.”
Harrison Hot Springs has always been a center of Sasquatch activity and little wonder as the very word Sasquatch derives from the Sts’ailes word “Sa:sq’ets” meaning ‘wild man’. The Sasquatch is sacred to the Sts’ailes and as the symbol of their people it is only fitting that this celebration stick with the name given to this very popular event that last took place in 1938.
This two-day event will begin at 9:30 am Saturday June 9th with a short procession to Harrison Lake Plaza where a welcoming ceremony will be held at 10:00. Each day will feature Cultural Boat tours, artisan activity tables, medicine walks and opportunities for intercultural sharing. Saturday morning the main event starts as war canoes gather for a friendly competition that will continue with final races on Sunday. Of course, no canoe race is complete without a traditional salmon barbeque that will take place Saturday afternoon.
The joint hosts for this event, Sts’ailes First Nations and the Village of Harrison Hot Springs, invite visitors to this unique event that brings two communities together in an opportunity to learn about the traditions of the Sts’ailes people and share cultural experiences.
Rene Dahinden Commemorated
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012April 18th, 2012 is the 11th anniversary of the passing of sasquatch pioneer Rene Dahinden a lifetime member of the BCSCC and Recipient of the BCSCC Honour Roll Award.
Many of us on this forum lost a dear and trusted friend that day. Rene was strongly opinionated, but he never let his opinions get in the way of the facts.
He was passionate about sasquatch and was interested only in the truth concerning this hominid.
He was a generous giver of advice and time and sitting around with him while he smoked his pipe and drank a Keystone beer, one felt one was in the presence of an august sage.
He still had so much to offer when he succumbed to cancer and I just hope we all do him honour by being the best and most honest sasquatch investigators here in his home province.
Rene Dahinden 1930-2001. Gone but never Forgotten.
Wail, Chuck, Snort: Rock Hyraxes Sing Complex Songs
Friday, April 20th, 2012
Small mammals called hyraxes “sing” long and complex songs to announce their territory. New research shows these songs are never repeated and have regional dialects, because neighbors tend to steal each other’s special vocal twists.
“We aren’t claiming they have a language,” study researcher Arik Kershenbaum, of the University of Haifa, in Israel, told LiveScience. “But they are showing some of the characteristics that are essential for true language.”
The rock hyrax is a small, sturdy mammal that lives in Africa and the Middle East and, strangely enough, is a relative of the elephant. It eats plants and possibly bugs and lives in small groups, usually dominated by one male. This male has a tendency to stand up and shout — singing songs that are complex and can go on for “a number of minutes,” Kershenbaum said.
The songs also seem to be a form of self-advertisement, kind of like birdsong.
BIG CAT NEWS: Again mostly Gloucestershire and Scotland
Friday, April 20th, 2012
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived in some way by us, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.
It takes a long time to do and is a fairly tedious task so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD
Big cat shocker on Berrow beach for Sheri
This is The West Country
“They must have picked up the scent because about 30ft away stood a big cat. It was jet black and it looked like a leopard in shape and size and stood out from the sand. It froze and stared at us. “We waited for our eyes to adjust at first to make sure …
A Somerset sighting – the first for a while – by a girl named after a Spanish fortified wine. And now more from Gloucestershire:
Fur left behind by ‘panther-like animal’ to be analysed
This is Gloucestershire
Mount View Drive resident Keith Baker has collected a sample of hair left by a large panther-like animal he thinks may be an elusive big cat. He has passed the fur, collected from barbed wire in the field, to big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge in a bid to …
And another outing for the story about Scottish police reports:
Police receive 140 big-cat sightings – Environment – Scotsman.com
ALMOST 140 sightings of big cats have been reported to police forces in Scotland over the past five years, the latest figures have revealed.
And back to Gloucestershire.
This is Gloucestershire
FOOTAGE of a beast seen roaming the fields of Winchcombe could be a hybrid species of giant cat. Big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge went to see for himself what was prowling through land around Mount View Drive in Winchcombe. And residents Keith Baker and …
Cat hitches a lift beneath car’s bonnet
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
ROVING geriatric cat Muddy survived a 30-mile brush with death after becoming trapped in the engine of a car.
Unsuspecting Liz Ridgway heard mystery meows after returning home from a day on the road, and after she scoured the garage for a stray, her son Sam climbed under her Honda Civic and caught a glimpse of the adventurous furball.
He was unable to reach it, so firefighters had to come to the rescue by tearing apart bits of the vehicle. And when the shaken feline emerged, it turned out to be Muddy, the 16-year-old pet of Liz’s neighbours.
The grey tabby is thought to have climbed up the car’s wheels into the warm engine compartment on Wednesday morning and clocked up the miles as Liz drove from Elburton to Derriford and on to Yelverton.
Muddy’s journey then took him from the Dartmoor town and into Plymouth city centre before he made his presence known just yards from his home.
Sam, a 20-year-old student, said his mum and brother Joe, 21, heard a meow as they reached the driveway of their home in The Hollows. “They were checking the garage for ages,” he said. “I came out of the house and looked underneath the engine, and in this little gap I could see a bit of fur. That was when we realised a cat was stuck in there. I could just about see his face, but there was no way we could get to him.”
Liz rang the local RSPCA, who were unable to help, so in desperation, she phoned the fire service. Plymstock firefighters came to the house around 6.45pm, jacked up the car, removed an inspection panel and, after 45 minutes, freed the confused but otherwise unharmed traveller.
Liz, 44, whose family only moved in a fortnight ago, called the number on Muddy’s collar, unaware of where the pet had boarded. But his relieved owner, Neil Paterson, turned out to live just doors away.
Neil said the whole family were amazed to hear of Muddy’s tale.
He said: “He’s a lovely old cat, but he likes to spend quite a bit of time out of the house during the day. For all we know he could have been hitching lifts across Plymouth for years. We’re very grateful for all Liz and the firefighters did to rescue Muddy.”
A firefighter who worked on the rescue said: “It wasn’t your normal job. Fortunately the cat managed to tuck itself up in a space in the engine compartment where it was safe.”
Cornwall – Scilly wildlife watching cruises
Saturday, April 14th, 2012April, May, June, August, September and October sailings.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust and The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust will again be hosting guided wildlife watching trips on board Scillonian this spring, in partnership with the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company. A vast array of marine species were spotted during last year’s successful day trips, and it is hoped that this year will prove just as spectacular. The sailings to the Isles of Scilly are running on one Saturday per month (except July) starting on 21st April.
Naturalist Paul Semmens, who has worked with Cornwall Wildlife Trust for more than 20 years, will be your marine guide on these special trips, looking out for wildlife on the crossing. Springtime visitors may see puffins as well as the more common Manx shearwaters and storm petrels. Harbour porpoises, common and bottle-nose dolphins, sun fish and sea birds are regularly spotted from the ship and occasionally minke whales. If the seas are warm and calm you may even spot basking sharks.
Paul says, “Scillonian III is a wonderful vessel to view wildlife from. Whether it is close encounters with a good variety of seabirds or the chance to see some of our marine megafauna. This year will be my fourth year as a surveyor for Cornwall Wildlife Trust and so far I have recorded more than 3000 dolphin sightings!”
Sasquatch Exhibit in Yale, BC.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Chris Murphy has advised us that a Sasquatch Exhibit will run May 12th to September 30th, 2012 at the historic Creighton House Museum in Yale, BC.
The exhibit will open with the debut of Sasquatch in British Columbia: A Chronology of Incidents and Important Events, by Christopher L. Murphy in association with Thomas Steenburg (Hancock House Publishers, Surrey, BC). Both authors will be in attendance and will provide short talks along with David Hancock of Hancock House Publishers. A full complement of Hancock House titles on sasquatch/bigfoot will be available.
The event will get underway at 12:00 NOON MAY 12, 2012.
Glimpse the hidden world of the sasquatch, North America’s most enduring and amazing mystery. We look forward to seeing you! Creighton House Museum, 31187 Douglas Street, Yale, BC, Canada, V0K 2S0 Telephone: 604 863 2324
Email: info@historicyale.ca Website: www.historicyale.ca
Items on display include:
Plaster casts of footprints and hand and knuckle prints.
Skull replicas and the noted Patterson-Gimlin film site model.
Astounding artwork by noted artists.
Highly detailed charts and scientific posters and much, much more
Stay tuned for updates on http://facebook.com/canyoncountry
Corn snake discovered on Dorset footpath
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
A metre-long snake has been found on a footpath in Dorset.
The adult reptile, which is a pinkish white colour with orange spots, is thought to be an albino corn snake, Dorset Police said.
The non-venomous reptile was found by a member of the public off Glenwood Road in Ferndown on Sunday.
Anyone with information about the snake, which is currently being looked after by a member of the public, is asked to contact police.
The corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus guttatus), or red rat snake, is a North American species that subdues its prey by constriction.
They can grow up to about 6ft (1.8m) in length.
