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(Pt 1)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS January 23, 2013
Hoaxes aside, literally tens of thousands of people throughout history and around the world (including reputable individuals such as clergy, professionals, military, law enforcement personnel, and even anthropologists) have seen, found biological samples of such in hair and footprint evidence, and even filmed and recorded the creatures’ unidentifiable language vocalizations, but have up until now failed to capture a single physical specimen... that the public knows of.
Witness testimonies often include reports of fantastic sizes - from enormous dragons in the sea to giant bipeds ranging in height from eight to twelve feet, with footprints up to twenty-four inches.
And then there are the phenomena frequently connected with
the appearance of cryptids that are typical of occult activity - a
retching or sulfuric odor, mysterious rapping on walls and windows,
shadows and ghostly lights inside or outside homes, disembodied
voices, the levitation or disappearance of furniture and other
household items, etc.
Another barely known confrontation with a large, hairy biped was actually reported by President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid outdoorsman.
Noah Hutchings writes of this event:
There are even reports of apelike creatures shot and killed followed by similar creatures coming to retrieve the corpse.
One such story tells of a Bigfoot being put down and afterwards, similar large, hairy beings coming out of the woods to recover the body. The same creatures returned again later to attack the cabin of those miners who had killed the beast.
An account of this event states:
One of the more disturbing and better documented cases concerning large nonhuman primates occurred on October 25, 1973, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, when a young farmer named Stephen Pulaski and more than a dozen others observed a bright red ball of light accompanied by large humanoids.
The twenty-two-year-old farmer with two younger boys watched from a hilltop as a bright, “dome shaped” object, making a “sound like a lawn mower,” settled over a field.
He guessed it measured about one hundred fifty feet in diameter.
Suddenly, Pulaski caught sight of two large creatures, which at first he thought were bears - one about seven feet tall and the other taller than eight feet - walking by a fence line. He was able to approximate their size fairly accurately, because they were silhouetted against the railing boards.
They were covered with long, dark hair and had arms that hung down like a gorilla’s. The beings were making a sound like babies whimpering, and a terrible odor like burning rubber was wafting up the hill from them. The entities saw Pulaski and the two young men and started toward them.
As the younger boys ran toward the farmhouse, the twenty-two-year-old fired a warning shot over the creatures’ heads with his hunting rifle. When they continued forward, he shot three more times, this time directly at the larger of the two.
The big, hairy biped acted like it was hit, raised its right hand, and the dome-shaped object went silent, disappearing instantaneously, but being replaced by a glowing area on the ground. At that, the beings turned and headed into the woods.
A few minutes later, a state trooper arrived to investigate the shooting. He went with the farmer down onto the field to within two hundred yards of the incident area. The officer later reported that the ground was still glowing when they got there. Trees began breaking in the forest, and the men thought something large was moving towards them from the woods.
It abruptly
stopped, then, thirty minutes later, it started moving again. A
large, brown figure could be seen coming their direction, so they
jumped into the patrol car and sped to safety.
They noted that Pulaski’s dog seemed to be tracking something they couldn’t make out in the woods. As they were talking with the young farmer and his father, Pulaski inexplicably began behaving as if he were demon possessed - convulsing, growling, and flailing about. His own dog ran at him, and he attacked it. At the same moment, two of the investigators started feeling lightheaded and were having difficulty breathing.
Pulaski suddenly knocked his father down as he fainted onto the ground, face first into manure.
When he snapped out of it a few moments later, he started growling like an animal and warned,
A sulfuric aroma filled the air as Pulaski reported seeing a figure cloaked in all black garbs saying something to him about a man “who is coming to save the world.”
Pulaski was subsequently evaluated physically and
psychologically and found to be of sound mind and truthful. Numerous
witnesses at various phases of the incident also testified that the
event actually happened as reported.
This was not only captured by multiple eyewitnesses, but also was played out repeatedly in a prison cell before dumbfounded police officers, prison guards, medical staff, and dozens of reporters in the heart of Manila, capital city of the Philippines. In this case, physical evidence was even captured in the form of long, black hair from a beast that was never identified.
At the center of the episode was
one of America’s most well-known ordained ministers, Dr. Lester
Sumrall, who formed the LeSEA broadcast network.
The frightened girl claimed that two beings were appearing and biting her.
One of the devils was big and dark with long hair all over his head, chest, and arms. He had fangs like a dog and large, sharp eyes, and his feet were at least three times larger than normal. He was dressed in a black robe with what appeared to be a hood on the back.
His voice was deep, with a tunnel-like echo.
The second being was squatty, maybe thirty inches tall, and it was also dark, hairy, and deformed. As the witnesses watched, the girl’s facial expressions would suddenly change, and she would begin glancing about, as if she was seeing something the others could not. (What she was seeing was dubbed “The Thing” by the press.)
Then the girl would start screaming and struggling against an invisible force, before collapsing, half-conscious, into the arms of the prison staff member holding her. At that moment, there would be teeth marks wet with saliva marking her body.
Dr. Mariano B. Lara, then chief medical examiner of the Manila Police Department and a university professor of pathology and legal medicine, was convinced of the genuineness of the possession and exorcism and provided his own description, recounted in this excerpt from the official medical report filed at the prison:
After first hearing the report on the radio then reading the newspaper story the next day, Dr. Sumrall, who believed the girl was demon possessed, grew convicted that the Lord wanted him to procure permission from prison authorities to pray for the prostitute’s deliverance.
Through his church architect, who was a friend of the mayor of Manila, he received the okay to visit with the chief medical advisor of the police department, Dr. Mariano Lara.
While talking with the doctor inside the prison morgue, Lara acknowledged to Sumrall that something beyond his professional knowledge was happening and that he was actually afraid of “The Thing” after witnessing the bite marks appear before his own eyes.
With Lara’s approval, Sumrall was allowed to pray for the girl while observers watched. She was very resistant, cursing him in English (which she could not speak), screaming, and fighting every moment to get away. The first day of prayer failed to provide healing, and Sumrall believed he needed to fast and pray for another day.
That evening, the newspaper published his picture on the front page, three columns wide, with the headline, “The Thing Defies Pastor.” [v]
The next day would be different. Following a spiritual battle reminiscent of an Old Testament prophet challenging the followers of Baal, and with repentance of her sins and acceptance of Jesus as Savior, the girl was delivered, yet, that was not the end of the story.
Sumrall explains what happened next:
The notion of physical material like hair having been pulled from a wraithlike demon opens the fascinating proposal that ultraterrestrial beings (call them angels, demons, or aliens) can migrate back and forth between different realities and take forms that are both material and immaterial.
This sounds crazy to the natural mind, yet the concept is biblical.
The writer of Hebrews reminds us to,
Jesus told them to touch Him and see that,
Similarly, Abraham was visited by three angels in the plains of Mamre (Genesis 18:1–8).
They appeared as men and walked, talked, sat, and ate. But the truth was they were not human at all, but spirit-beings from heaven, illustrating one of the most dynamic facts of Scripture:
Incidentally, hair from the Manila “Thing” is not the only example
found.
The story claimed that DNA tests on suspected “Yeti hair” found in a Siberian cave during an international expedition in 2011 was of an unknown mammal closely related to man, but not a human. Nor did the hair belong to any known animal from the region such as a bear, wolf, or goat, the article said.
Analysis was conducted in Russia and the US, which,
Then, on November 24, 2012, another press release was issued involving a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging, and pathology led by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, Texas, and their five-year long DNA study (submitted for peer review), which claimed,
The DNA sequencing suggested that the legendary Sasquatch is actually,
Dr. Ketchum reported that her team sequenced three complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and determined the species is a human hybrid.
Ketchum, a veterinarian whose professional experience includes twenty-seven years of research in genetics, including forensics, continued:
That Ketchum and her team’s findings were reported before being peer
reviewed is suspect and may turn out to be erroneous. On the other
hand, if validated, it could be another baffling evidence fragment
connected to that mysterious creature we call “Bigfoot” and “Sasquatch.”
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