Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer when it comes to reports of creatures like Bigfoot, one thing is for certain: mankind’s fascination with creatures that bridge the gap between humans and beasts has persisted for as long as we’ve been able to differentiate ourselves from what we label “the animal kingdom.” In the world today, stories constantly circulated in the paranormal community, as well as the various theories and arguments supporting existence of Bigfoot and other mystery primates, tend to detail this fascination in the modern sense.
Outside of specific references to Bigfoot and cryptozoology, the idea of the human-ape hybrid has been a reoccurring literary theme and reference in pop-culture throughout the last several decades, having appeared in everything from obscure stories by writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs, to popular films like Planet of the Apes. Although most fiction of this sort has little to do with any scientific probability that humans could be genetically similar enough to allow cross-breeding with other primates, it does illustrate an extension of man’s curiosity as to the great question of “what if”.
Richard Lydekker’s 1893 “Profile of a Chimpanzee.”
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While scanning the web looking for various links to videos of “monsters” in Latin America recently, I came across the following video of a purported “witch” filmed in mid flight over Monterrey, Mexico:
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Though I first came across the video several months ago, it was nice to stumble across it again (and to see something other than the typical UFOs and Chupacabras for which central America is best known). True, the shape of the flying object in the clip might be considered witch-like, though in my opinion the resolution of the video makes it too difficult to really say what it could actually be. My initial impression was that it could be some kind of kite or balloon tethered to a moving vehicle.
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Greetings everyone,
One of the readers brought to my attention that those of you subscribing to the Gralien Report via RSS Feed had been recieving an “Untitled” feed in your reading programs. This issue should now be under control, and when the feed appears in your reader in the future, it should appear with the title “The Gralien Report.”
Best,
-Micah
While driving around one day I ended up playing a “thought game” with myself where, in an effort to brainstorm ideas for short horror stories, I considered what things scared me most. The first things that come to mind for many of us involve sickness and disease, as evidenced by the growing number of films today which revolve around humankind being introduced to foreign strains of bacteria and infections, often leading to bizarre malformations and eventual death like in Danny Boyle’s film 28 Days Later, as well as the Resident Evil series based on the popular video game.
But as I began to consider what really scares me deep down, I was able to relate my fears to my long-time interest in cryptozoology, and touch on something that I find both truly strange and fascinating, yet nonetheless terrifying. My own greatest fear, at least along the lines of a “what if” basis, would have to be strange creatures living deep within the earth.
Jeff Long’s novel The Descent, upon which the film of the same name was loosely based
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