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There’s been some Bigfoot news rolling down the pipes of late, so I thought I would put together something about the matter.
Cryptomundo reported the Umatilla howls on January 26th, and this was how I personally came into following the story. The Howls were originally reported by Oregon Live on the 20th. The howls started in November and range “from high-pitched screams to basso profundo roars” according to reporter Richard Cockie from Oregon Live. The sounds being attributed to bigfoot have also been corroborated according to stories by the discovery of a single track in the road (though as far as I can tell, no documentation of the track by way of photos or casting exists).
The recording has been made available online.
After giving the file a listen, I can’t help but feel like it is a screaming fox. Despite the statements by Sylvia Minthorn that “Foxes do sound creepy, but it’s not the same sound, not even close.” The screeching even started during fox breeding season.
Then we come to the ABC news coverage of the event…
Good Morning American should not have reported on it unless they could take it seriously. They didn’t even do their research, claiming shriek and roar recordings are a new thing, when they haven’t been new for some time. ABC shouldn’t have bothered.
So… Foxes in the mating season or Bigfoot? My money’s on Foxes.
Today I’ve read a story from Discovery News by Benjamin Radford from 1 Feb 2013 titled “Anti-Wi-Fi Activism ‘Fear Mongering’.
It turns out that there’s a movement of people who blame Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) give them health problems, which they’ve lumped together and named “Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity” (EHS). EHS can supposedly cause a myriad of symptoms. Symptoms are so varied, in fact, that their isn’t really a “normal” case.
And it also turns out that double blind studies by the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that “symptoms do not seem to be correlated with EMF exposure… these symptoms may be due to pre-existing psychiatric conditions as well as stress reactions as a result of worrying about believed EMF health effects, rather than EMF exposure.”
So basically, stop fear mongering and you might get better!
You can also see a compiled report by Bad Science Watch, if you’re interested.
Due to some time constraints right now, I’m doing quick Newsdump posts that will help keep things from getting buried in my box. Expect special posts on both Giant Squids and Bigfoot soon.
For a long time horses have been being knowingly tortured. Between “soring” (intentionally harming the animals so that they’ll lift their legs higher), attaching massive shoes to the feet (to exaggerate the gait without caring about the longterm damage to the animal) Big Lick horses live rough lives. Just so that they can make a mockery of the smooth way of going the breed is intended to have.
Just check out this video to see the useless way these animals are made to move! There’s nothing of what they were in that!
And now the USEF has banned soring outright, along with all “action devices” designed to annoy the animals into walking funny.
It will be interesting to see what SHOW (The organization trying to protect these depraved practices. Ironically, the acronym means “Sound Horses, Honest Judging, Objective Inspections, Winning Fairly”) does. They claim that the HPA (Horse Protection Act) permits the devices they use to get the unnatural gait, and seem to take issue with having to actually exhibit animals moving naturally.
I figured I would dump news today because it’s the early in the month, and everything that’s from last month needs to get off my List of things to put in the blog.
This roundup has no theme, other than I got the stories on January 31st and wrote about them for today.
Kitsu here once again, enjoying the fact that some interesting Dinosaur news is in the pipeline, and she has enough for a roundup specifically for it!
I love doing news Roundups. They’re so much fun! And this one has a Scary theme!
Here again, and it’s more Critters, because this week tons of Critter News rolled down the pipes. This one is longer than normal (5 stories instead of 3), but I didn’t want to skip talking about any of these, so I’m not going to. Roundups will now be 3-5 stories with comments (dumps will be 6+ stories without comments, or with very short comments).