'Fox-human creature' enthralls zoo visitors

The bizarre spectacle of a half-fox, half-human has been attracting crowds to Karachi zoo for years.

Known as Mumtaz, the 'creature' appears to possess the body of a fox and the head of a human that not only looks real but can actually talk to zoo visitors when they go in to see it.

Far from being a crytpozoological enigma however this bizarre cross-breed is nothing more than the body of a fox with a man's head sticking out from under a table to make it look as though its part of the animal.

33-year-old Murad Ali is the man behind the myth and has been playing the character of Mumtaz at the zoo for up to 12 hours a day. He inherited the role from his father who died 16 years ago.

"The people, who visit here, go away happy," he said. "And knowing that they feel happy makes me happy too. There is a bond of love between me and them. Life is very short; it should be spent spreading smiles." 

Source: Unexplained Mysteries

Proof of Bigfoot's existence? Hunt is on in New Mexico after thermal imaging reveals mysterious 7-foot tall figure in mountainous woods

A mysterious creature believed to be living in the woods of northern New Mexico has caught the attention of a team of biologists and researchers who believe they've discovered likely evidence of a genuine Bigfoot.

Recently members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization visited the Jemez Mountains after thermal video taken by high school students captured what they believe could publicly prove the existence of the evasive ape-like creature.

The students behind the video that shows an estimated 7-foot tall figure say they were doing a project in the woods in 2011 when they captured it walking along a ridge line.

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Bigfoot? Members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization visited northern New Mexico after seeing this thermal video which captured what they believe could be a real-life Bigfoot creature

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Zooming in: The thermal image is seen up close with the figure seen slightly hunched forward and estimated to be approximately 7-feet in height

BFRO approximated that the figure, seen slightly hunched forward with one foot moving before the other, was about 140 yards away when recorded.

The filmmakers describe the footage as taken in a remote area with no other campers or hiking trails around.

 'No bear, elk or deer sign found. Wide body, over 7' tall, classic Sasquatch shape,' the video describes.

In addition to the footage was the discovery of a large footprint found nearby in the snow.

The picture shows five toes at the end of a near rectangular print but it's accepted with greater hesitancy by BFRO as being real than the thermal video seen.

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Footprint: Additional evidence under review is this photo of a giant barefoot seen pressed in the snow 

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Comparison: Hoping to help deduce the figure's identity the Bigfoot researchers had a member of their team stand in the same place with that man seen right being 6¿2¿ tall

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Who's taller? The team compared the unidentified creature on the left to the human on the right with a red bar to emphasize their height differences

'It's not extremely compelling, there are some funny things about it, but at the same time the footage at least looks like it might possibly be real,' Cliff Barackman, BFRO Evidence Analyst says on his Animal Planet TV program, Finding Bigfoot.

At least one of the Bigfoot hunters, a field biologist, has admitted her skepticism over the footage's authenticity based on how it was collected.

'It's three high school kids out doing a field study for some class and they see something up on the hill and they happen to have a camera with them and they record it. That raises red flags for me,' said Ranae Holland who emphasized it being too good to be true.

Another member says that while high schoolers would be most likely to stage something like this, they're also least likely to get away with it, prompting his team's investigation.

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Field work: Members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization are seen working in the woods of the Jemez Mountains

Hoping to scientifically deduce the footage, the team positioned one of their members named Bobo in the same area the figure was recorded.

They then compared his height of 6’2” to the other one seen, finding him to be significantly smaller in scale while placing a red bar over both to emphasize size differences.

But this thermal imaging isn't the spark claims of a Bigfoot living in this part of New Mexico.

During BFRO's visit they met with citizens of the area in a town hall meeting, welcoming their own stories and encounters to be shared.

A woman in Jemez Springs opened up about her own encounter which brought nervous tears to her eyes as she recalled.

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Other sightings: During BFRO's visit they met with citizens of the area in a town hall meeting while welcoming their own stories and encounters

'I woke up in the middle of the night, went to get out of the bed. My window faces this way, and there was something in my window. It didn't have a neck at all,' she said.

BFRO credits itself as the only scientific research organization exploring the Bigfoot/Sasquatch mystery after its founding in 1995, according to their website.

That page lists a number of facts behind their belief, including sightings of 'large, hair-covered, man-like animals' throughout North America for more than 400 years.

Some of the earliest reports by Native Americans they say 'bear a striking resemblance to the hairy man-like creatures reported today.'

Source: Daily Mail

Cloud Orb Caught Up Close In Calgary, Canada June 20, 2014

Date of sighting: June 20, 2014

Location of sighting: Calgary, Canada

This is an intriguing UFO. It partly cloaks several times in the video. Do not assume that its changing shape. Big misconception. Its just the cloak activates when their is a blue background. Notice the photo below, the UFO is in a white cloud, however the top 20% of the UFO is missing and there is a partial blue background on that part. Cloud orbs cloak like this when seen up close. Cool sighting. 

Eyewitness states: 

I trimmed the footage to just show the orb, others that were rimed were fiddling with the camera before the shot.

Source: ufosightingsdaily

Did a Giant Squid Kill Shark Alpha?

What killed Shark Alpha? The in-the-box explanation is that a larger great white shark did it, but a more exotic explanation would be more interesting and may turn out to have the added benefit of being true. The three most common exotic explanations are that a megalodon did it, or a killer whale, or a giant or colossal squid.

My colleague Brent Swancer has already addressed the popular theory that a megalodon did it. I don’t think it’s plausible that a killer whale did it, since killer whales typically have an internal body temperature similar to that of humans and the culprit we’re looking for had a much lower internal body temperature of 78°F. That leaves giant and colossal squids. They’re certainly big and carnivorous enough, and—since they have only been recently discovered, after millennia of being a tall tale—they represent everything we don’t know about the ocean. The noted marine biologist, inventor, and conservationist Edith Widder helped capture the first footage of a giant squid eating dinner, and what she had to say about it has some interesting implications:

“Had this animal had its feeding tentacles intact and fully extended, it would have been as tall as a two-story house. How could something that big live in our ocean and yet remain unfilmed until now? We’ve only explored about 5 percent of our ocean; there are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we couldn’t yet imagine.”

But as large and as fascinating as these creatures are, there are three good reasons to believe a squid wasn’t responsible for Shark Alpha’s death.

The first is that squids are cold-blooded. There’s no reason to believe that any known species of squid would have a 78°F body temperature in 46°F water.

The second is depth. This predator hunted only a few hundred feet below the surface of the water, then dragged its prey 1,900 feet deep. Squid typically hunt much deeper; giant squid seldom surface less than 1,000 feet deep, and colossal squid are typically found a mile or more underwater.

The third is that this just isn’t how squids typically hunt. Citing squids’ slow metabolism, an international team of marine biologists explained in one 2010 article:

“We argue that the colossal squid is not a voracious predator capable of high-speed predator–prey interactions … It is, rather, an ambush or sit-and-float predator that uses the hooks on its arms and tentacles to ensnare prey that unwittingly approach.”

The prospect that a giant or colossal squid would surface to only a few hundred feet below the water, hook a nine-foot great white shark, yank it 1,900 feet deep, consume it, and then keep it in its belly at 78°F just doesn’t align with anything we know about squid behavior or physiology. If our killer is anything like a squid, it’s an undiscovered species with an unexplored evolutionary history.

Source: Mysterious Universe

Angels help man who was crushed by 10,000 lbs truck axle fall - Bruce Van Natta (CBN)

Bruce Van Natta had an injury that 10,000 lbs truck axle fell on him. He saw two angels was holding him at that moment. He had 5 major arteries severed and he was not expected to live more than a few hours. However, God healed him miraculously. 

The true story of The Greenbrier Ghost

The “Greenbrier Ghost” was Elva Zona Heaster-Shue, a local woman who was found dead on January 23, 1897. The coroner listed the cause of her death as “everlasting faint” and then as “childbirth.” Elva knew differently — and for four nights her ghost appeared at the foot of her mother’s bed, telling her that she had in fact been strangled in a fit of rage by her blacksmith husband.

Mom, finally convinced (or just tired), went to the local prosecutor with the story. The prosecutor had Elva dug up and, sure enough, she had a broken neck and crushed windpipe. Edward (Mr. Elva) was tried, convicted, and shipped to the West Virginia State Penitentiary, where murderers of women don’t expect to live long, and he didn’t.

The historical marker notes that this was the “Only known case in which testimony from a ghost helped convict a murderer.” We agree that history must have been made here. Elva is buried nearby, but the marker — probably made in the West Virginia State Penitentiary — is what you want to see.

Morgan Freeman: 'We May Already Be In The Midst Of A Growing Zombie Apocalypse'

Zombies are the stuff of nightmares, books, movies and television shows. Try as we may, it's almost impossible to kill them -- the zombies, that is.

The idea that humans can be transformed into mindless, cannibalistic monsters isn't so far-fetched, according to current research in which scientists have discovered pathogens that can turn even insects into the walking dead.

"We may already be in the midst of a growing zombie apocalypse. What is a zombie? A zombie is a creature that's controlled outside of its own mind and really not controlled by itself, as if under the power of some other force," Morgan Freeman, host of Science Channel's "Through the Wormhole" series, told The Huffington Post.

The latest episode of "Wormhole" examines how new strains of viruses attack humans every day and explores the odds against surviving a zombie virus outbreak.

Medical consequences aside, Freeman told HuffPost why he thinks we're so fascinated with the idea of the walking dead.

"I think, basically, it all stems from our desire for immortality -- the idea that there is some way to come back from the grave," he said.

Even the smallest of creatures -- ants, for example -- can transform into zombies, according to current research discussed on "Wormhole."

"There's a fungus that takes over the brain of an ant and forces it to do things it wouldn't ever want to do -- like climb to the top of a tree and clamp onto a leaf with its jaw, where it dies, and then the fungus grows out of its head and rains spores down onto its family," said "Wormhole" supervising producer Megan Parlen.

HuffPost asked Freeman if he thinks the international fixation on zombies might have anything to do with the nightmares we all share.

"There is no way to say no to that," Freeman said. "You may have nailed it right there. It just might be right out of someone's nightmare, but then once scientists get their teeth into something like that, they'll go out and find out if there's any truth in it somewhere.

"I go back to this whole thing of immortality, that the dead are not really dead, that they exist somewhere, maybe in our nightmares."

The "Wormhole" series asks whether we would know it if we're already experiencing a zombie apocalypse.

"Well, we'd have to define 'zombie' for ourselves first," Freeman noted. "I mean, what exactly is the definition of a zombie? Is it something that is undead and not in control? If that's true, then we're in the middle of an apocalypse right now. Because everybody is controlled by something else. Your smartphone is in control of you and computers are in control of all of us."

Freeman suggests that a zombie pandemic could emerge from something as simple as a virus.

"Yes, it's much more realistic to think that the possibility lies within a virus somewhere, and it could happen," he said. "I think one of the main consequences would be that we'd have these large detention camps for people who exhibited symptoms. And let's not forget the whole survival thing -- that one emotion or drive will make you do whatever you have to in order for you to keep moving, for you to stay alive."

Real also: BIZARRE ZOMBIE-LIKE ACTIVITY REPORTED ACROSS AMERICA

Source: HP