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manimal sightings from lincolnshire to louisiana, plus how to raise a baby bigfoot
L Melacetti, 70, a retired farmer living in Avondale, Louisiana, has come forward to claim that she raised a Bigfoot between 1964 and 1972. She found the animal when he was a baby, abandoned in the swamps of Louisiana. “He was so little, so cute,” she said. “I had to do something about it. He was so defenceless, lying next to the mud and water, curled, crying like a baby. His parents were either dead or they had abandoned him.” The little hominid weighed about 20lb (9kg) and had a hairless face that “didn’t look like a human’s nor a monkey’s. He accepted me as a friend right away. I took him home only for three nights to nurse him back to health.” In the course of those three days, she fed the Bigfoot anything she had at hand, including lettuce, tomatoes, eggs and goat milk. He particularly liked tomatoes. After releasing him back into the wilderness, he kept coming back to her small house. “So, every time he came back, usually during the evening, when most people weren’t around, I’d give him more food.” She lived alone, which made it easy to keep a secret. “He was my
“Bigfoots are docile and better than most people”
friend. Even though he couldn’t speak well, sometimes he’d say words I taught him”; words like “tomato”, “food”, “love” and “hungry”.
Eventually, she says, the beast grew up, and one night she had a pleasant surprise. “He brought a friend with him! At first the other guy was shy, hiding behind the bushes, but little by little, he began to trust me too. So there we were, sitting on my porch, two Bigfoots and I, having dinner under the moon. When people in town began using them CB radios, the Bigfoots didn’t visit as much. Then I had to move out because of my age, but I know they are still there, a big group of Bigfoots. I taught them about hunters and other people that might hurt them and not to trust any humans.”
Melacetti didn’t want to give away the location of the alleged events, but insisted that “Bigfoots are real and happen to be excellent creatures, docile and better than most people. And by the way, they don’t smell bad like some idiots say.” When asked about evidence such as photographs she replied that she has some she keeps in a secret spot. She plans to publish her secret journal someday, she said. Cryptozoology News, 12 Jan 2014.
Adam Bird, 31, co-founder of the British Bigfoot Research organisation, might have captured a Bigfoot on film last year. Hearing that there had been a possible sighting in a small wooded nature reserve in Friskney, Lincolnshire, he and some colleagues went to investigate. They heard some strange noises and photographed suspiciously large footprints. “I took various photographs and when I checked back through them I spotted the creepy picture [abbove],” said Mr Bird. “It looks like a shadowy figure standing within the trees staring at us from afar. It shows something dark, a different colour against all that greenery.”
Mr Bird, who lives in Nottingham, has been
investigating UK Bigfoot reports for more than two years. His group have allegedly collected 200 reports of the creatures across Britain, including 50 in Scotland. His interest was piqued while on holiday in Florida at the age of 15 when he spotted a large orangutan-like creature with reddish-brown hair crouching in bushes. In one of his videos, taken in June 2014 at Yellowham Hill, in Puddletown Forest, Dorset, he recorded a clamour of eerie howls. One of his pictures, also taken at Yellowham Hill, shows what appears to be the ungainly footprint of a large humanlike creature. Debbie Crossley Hatswell, one of British Bigfoot Research’s team members, also claims she saw a manimal at close range when she was 15. She described it as having an apelike physique, a mouth the same as ours, a huge jaw and dark, tanned, weathered skin covered in dark brown hair. mirror.co.uk, 2 Dec 2014.
Meanwhile in Scotland, Charmaine Fraser, 41, has come forward to claim that she saw a Bigfoot in remote woodland near Arbroath, Angus, during a morning walk with her grandmother’s dog when she was a child. Charmaine, originally from Monikie but now living in Edinburgh, has a degree in psychology from St Andrews University. She said she saw the 7ft (2m) black creature – which was “like a gorilla standing upright” – near a disused sandstone quarry in Carmyllie in the early 1980s. “I was with the dog and we were coming down the path that leads to the track running past the bottom of the property and out to the farm road. Just before I got onto the track, the dog stopped suddenly and started to growl, whine and bare her teeth. I looked up to see a large black figure further along the track standing with its back to me. It was reaching up to a branch on a tree at the side of the track and was tall, of thick build with no neck and wide shoulders. I remember standing in shock for a second or two before screaming and turning to run back to the house. As I screamed, it slowly started to turn round, but I didn’t hang about to see its face. Needless to say, my reports of seeing a monster were not taken seriously and dismissed as probably being a neighbour.”
Charmaine said she saw a figure in the same area shortly afterwards with a “humanoid shape” and eyes that shone orange when picked out by headlights in the darkness. She also heard a “long, deep wail” in the same area. “My sister found a den made of branches in the woods, with five or six animal skulls arranged in a semicircle,” she said. “That was several years after my sighting. The strange stories I’ve heard make me think something could still be there.” The area round the quarry at Carmyllie used to be pinewoods, but almost all has since been cleared for housing. Charmaine, a mother of one, has recently found out about other possible Bigfoot sightings north-east of Carmyllie. She has joined the British Bigfoot Research team as they look to gather evidence. Sunday Post (Dundee), 18+22 Jan 2015.
Following the news coverage of Ms Fraser’s alleged encounter, a former civil servant from Fife said he had seen a similar beast just off the Tay Road Bridge. The man, who asked not to be named, said the encounter happened in August 2005 around 3.40am near the Five Roads Roundabout when he was driving home from work. He said: “I was proceeding home on the A92 when my headlights picked out what I thought was a man standing by the left-hand side of the road. As I approached, the figure stepped out in front of my car and I naturally brought it to a halt. This ‘person’ was a large hairy ape-like creature, which turned to look at the car as I approached. Its eyes gave out a shine which was very noticeable and it crossed the road in about three large strides.”
The man said he felt uneasy, but wound down the window. “I could hear crunching as something was clearly moving through the forest, but I had no torch with me to shine towards the sounds. There was an unpleasant odour in the air and suddenly I got a feeling I was being watched as everything went very quiet. I then continued home. Thinking back, this individual was well over seven feet [2m] tall and a dark brown colour. Its hair was of reasonable length. I have never seen this again anywhere in Scotland and only confided in my partner. I know unequivocally what I saw and it is still clear in my mind as if it had happened yesterday.”
Daniel Perez, founder of the Center for Bigfoot Studies in the US and long-time friend of FT, said he was open to reviewing apparent Bigfoot sightings, but thought it was unlikely the beast exists in Scotland. Dundee Courier and Advertiser, 30 Jan; Shropshire Star, 4 Feb 2015.
In the US, Bigfoot Project Investments, a small start-up company, is offering $3 million (£2 million) of shares. Its future profitability depends, to some extent, on the discovery of an actual manimal, dead or alive. Veteran Bigfoot hunter Carmine ‘Tom’ Biscardi said the venture could be a path for those seeking to establish the existence of other fabled cryptids such as Nessie. His company has budgeted $113,805 (£74,000) a year for expeditions although, until the manimal is discovered, most anticipated revenues will come from the production of documentaries and films about the search. Biscardi claims to have encountered manimals seven times, but in 2008 two men in Georgia sold him a furry carcase, 7ft 7in (2.3m) tall, encase in ice (shades of the Minnesota Iceman!), which they claimed to have found in the woods. It turned out to be a rubber gorilla costume stuffed with animal parts and outfitted with a set of teeth that might have been bovine. “They took my money,” said a duped Biscardi. Oh well, better luck next time! Times, 24 Jan 2015.