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| XNavyGunner | Apr 29 2009, 06:46 PM Post #1 |
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An incredible wave of both UFO and Bigfoot reports hit mainly southwestern Pennsylvania in 1973 and 1974, leaving local authorities and Ufologist Stan Gordon unsure of how to deal with the situation. Paranormal Pennsylvania: part 3 If you have not yet read part 1 and part 2 to this series, you may want to start from the beginning. Ground Zero for Gordon, of Greensburg, PA, was August 7, 1973. Amid an alarming number of UFO reports coming into his UFO Call Center, this telephone call would change everything. From his upcoming book - Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO and Bigfoot Casebook - Gordon recalls, "I could never imagine what an impact that phone call would have on my life. I also had no idea that this call would start me on an investigative journey into a bizarre series of strange events that still defies explanation years later." The caller was not passing details about sighting a UFO. The story seemed far stranger. The event occurred in a rural area of Greensburg near what was then Greengate Mall. The witness was in his bathroom the evening of July 31, 1973, when he smelled a foul odor. With the bathroom window open as he was trying to locate the source of the odor, he looked up and saw two shiny glowing red eyes peering into the bathroom from outside. The window was eight feet off of the ground. Other family members also noticed the foul smell, and the next day the man was taken to a local hospital by ambulance for medical treatment after he had trouble breathing. Image: Bathroom window where Bigfoot creature peered in. Copyright © 2009, Stan Gordon Productions. More witnesses come forward During the interview, a story emerged that a local teenaged boy and some friends had been walking through a nearby wooded area back in May or June, and encountered a strange creature. The teenager was interviewed by Gordon that same day, telling him that it was nearly dark when he and the other boys heard a snorting sound. Thinking it was a deer, they began throwing rocks in the direction of the noise. But then an 8 to 9-foot-tall creature suddenly emerged from the trees. From the book: "The bipedal hairy humanoid was walking fast across the road and it continued through the field and was apparently heading up the hill behind the house. The boys described the creature as walking upright like a man, with pointy ears and long arms that did not swing as it walked. The beast was very tall and the boys estimated that it stood between 8 and 9 feet tall. The torso was relatively thin and the body was black and furry. The witnesses estimated that the creature weighed between 200-300 pounds." The boys ran off - afraid of what they had seen. Site investigation turns up footprint Gordon decided to take a look at the area where these boys had their encounter - and several of the children went with him to show him the way. In the area where the encounter took place - an area Gordon said where ground conditions "were not conductive for good tracks." But he discovered one good footprint - measuring 13 inches long and 8 inches wide - with only three toes. (See photo at top of page.) Photo: A reduced version of the larger image above - the actual plaster of paris mold taken from the scene. Copyright © 2009, Stan Gordon Productions. While at the scene, Gordon received a radio alert - Another of his investigator's was on the scene in New Sewickley Township, Beaver County, investigating a Bigfoot sighting that had just occurred that day at 1:40 p.m. A man was reporting that he had been frightened by a tall, hairy creature with glowing red eyes looking into his mobile home window. The coincidence of the two reports seemed very odd. Reports begin to pour in News of the creature sightings began to spread in the area, and now people were coming forward with similar accounts that had already occurred earlier in the year. A June case involved two 8-year-old boys in Monongahela, PA, Washington County, who witnessed what they described as a large creature, black, hairy, and "digging on some coal" - with red eyes and a bad smell. A man in the Mon Valley area, not far from the Monongahela case, called to report a dark, hair-covered creature about 10 feet tall near a creek. During a follow-up interview, the man said he talked to state police, who were skeptical, but who told him they were receiving other similar reports in the area. An August report involved a police officer. From the book: "August 14, 1973, near New Stanton, 4:30 a.m. Police officer observes glowing eyes "It was about 4:30 a.m. on August 14 when a police officer on patrol in a wooded area near New Stanton noticed what he thought at first were reflector lights on a trailer. When the officer stopped for a better look, he soon realized that these were not reflectors at all, but appeared to be two glowing eyes, each about the size of a 50-cent piece. The eyes were connected to a tall, dark shape which the officer estimated was about eight feet tall. I talked with the officer, who was quite reluctant to discuss his experience, but he was sure that he had seen something quite out of the ordinary." The cases were coming in so rapidly, Gordon had to expand his team - including having someone answering calls at his Radio Center 24 hours-a-day. From the book: "August 14, 1973, Greensburg, 1 p.m. Creature seen near fishing pond "A man was fishing about 1 p.m. just a short distance down the road at a lake near the Greengate Mall, outside of Greensburg. The fisherman reported seeing a hairy bipedal creature walking in the nearby woods. This is the same lake that the UFO was reported hovering over at low level on May 11." Also on August 14 - from the book: "August 14, 1973, Greensburg, 1:45 p.m. Another daylight creature observation near Radebaugh "A short time later that same day, two men were walking along the railroad tracks near Radebaugh Road, over the hill from the Greengate Mall. It was a nice afternoon, and it was about 1:45 p.m., when the men heard some noise in the dense brush. They assumed that a deer was approaching. What they saw was no deer, as they were suddenly startled when a tall hairy ape-like creature ran quickly out of the brush and continued across the tracks. "One of the witnesses, Philip Maline, age 22, was later interviewed by Vic Ketchman Jr., a reporter for the Irwin, PA Standard-Observer newspaper in the August 17, 1973 edition. The article headline was, “Eyewitnesses Sight Creature In District.” "Maline in his submitted report indicated that he and his friend heard the sound of something running in the weeds, and expected to see a deer, not an eight to eight and-a-half feet tall ape-like creature covered from head to toe with hair. The bi-pedal creature walked in a somewhat stooped manner, and swung its arms as it moved off. The creature was about 50 yards ahead of them, and they could see that it was sort of hunched back as it moved ahead. "Also at the time of the observation, they detected a rotten smell in the air. At one point the creature dropped down on all fours after it crossed the tracks. The men cautiously moved ahead still trying to observe the creature. "When I interviewed Maline, the witness indicated that the creature, which never looked at the two men, moved very quickly into the woods. Reports were frequently coming from mobile home parks - with common accounts of the Bigfoot creature banging on metal. From the book: "August 24, 1973, Superior, 11:30 p.m. Bigfoot pulls out electrical line from mobile home "While we were searching for evidence down in Herminie, a radio alert from the 911 dispatch center came across the VHF radio monitor in my car. I called in for my message to learn that another creature incident had just occurred near Superior, a location in Derry Township. The police were on the scene investigating, and they requested that we send an investigation team to that location, which was in the Superior Mobile Home Court. I obtained directions and contact information, then led the investigating team on our next adventure. "When we arrived at the mobile home community, we were told that the police had just left the scene. The incident that we were investigating had occurred at about 11:30 p.m. and began when Beverly Burns (not her real name) heard a sound like something scratching on the back end of her mobile home. She called her son, who also heard the odd noise. They walked into the back bedroom, and from there they could hear a sound coming from outside of the home, that sounded like a baby crying. They verified that their cat was inside the trailer in another room. "Suddenly, the electricity began to go on and off in the trailer. Mrs. Burns opened up the back door of the residence. It was dark. The woman’s eyes quickly focused on a huge dark form which stood only a few feet away. The woman was overwhelmed with fear, and only took a quick glimpse at her uninvited visitor. The creature, according to the witness, was gigantic. It stood way over six feet tall, appeared black in color, and was sort of husky. "The creature, upon seeing Mrs. Burns, twisted around, then ran off between some of the other mobile homes. Mrs. Burns screamed. At the same time there was a very odd strong smell in the air that several people noticed. One neighbor stated that it was like sulfur. Once the creature ran off, the smell dissipated. Mrs. Burns called the police. Her son grabbed his gun and went outside to look around. "Mrs. Burns had her dog tied outside behind the dwelling and close to where the creature was observed. The witness found her dog whimpering. The dog just whined, did not bark. Mrs. Burns said it was like someone was covering the dog’s mouth. When the police arrived they checked the property and searched for evidence. Some odd looking footprints were found. A police officer put a box over the tracks to protect them until our team arrived. The officer also noticed that the electrical line that ran from the outside meter box to the mobile home had been displaced. "When our team arrived at the Superior Mobile Home Court, we talked to Mrs. Burns, her son, and some neighbors. A next door neighbor, after hearing Mrs. Burn’s scream, looked outside and saw the creature running down through the court. The woman’s son wanted to know if these creatures were dangerous. He was told that we did not have any cases where a creature had hurt anyone. Her son wondered why none of our investigators were armed. "We first searched the area behind the residence. Initially, the scratching sound gave the impression that the creature was near the mobile home. There had been some large blocks stacked in that area. Those blocks had been knocked down, apparently by the creature. A team member was examining the electrical meter box. The lead seal on the box had been broken. The electric line from the box to the trailer had been pulled right out of the ground. We advised Mrs. Burns to contact West Penn Power to come out and examine the damage to the electrical meter. "There were some unusual footprints around the mobile home as well. There were some possible scratch marks on the house as well. Some other residents of the mobile home court mentioned that about a week before, they had heard strange crying sounds, and the sound of something heavy walking. More strange events were soon to be reported from this same mobile home community. Case similarities As the sighting reports increased, Gordon noticed similarities between them. Most people were reporting what at first they thought was a gorilla, a hairy creature usually reported between about 6 and 10 feet tall, walking upright, with glowing eyes, usually red, a foul smell often described as sulfur, the sound of what many described as a baby crying - and a large number of people reporting that just prior to and during their experience, the family pets or farm animals appeared to look frightened. Source
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| thepitcrew | Apr 30 2009, 05:08 AM Post #2 |
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"He slimed me."

2:47 AM Jul 11