Are you still looking for that one-of-a-kind item that will absolutely thrill and completely excite the people you’re getting gifts for this holiday season? Here are some great ideas to help fill Santa’s bag.
Glow-in-the-Dark Ghost Shirt
There is still time to order from our Believe It Tour store. You’ll find merchandise like the Glow-in-the-Dark Ghost T-Shirt, which is perfect for late night paranormal investigations. Extraordinary artifacts from mysterious places like sand gathered from what is thought to be the Lost City of Atlantis off the Island of Bimini. There are even some fun toys for all of you Zombie lovers.
Now when you want to get specific with your favorite cryptozoology subjects you can head over to our other store, Bigfoot Surplus. The original supplier of Bigfoot merchandise that has something for everyone from active field researchers to pop culture followers. The most popular item is the real Bigfoot track cast from the Patterson Gimlin film site of 1967. Followed by the favorite Bigfoot t-shirt designs for men, women, and children. There are even some special holiday items that are perfect stocking stuffers.
Patterson Film Site Track Cast
If you’re interested in supporting other active cryptozoloogists or Bigfoot researchers there’s even a holiday Bigfoot gift bag stuffed with many of the favorites from Bigfoot Surplus that are offered at a special price. A portion of the proceeds from this holiday gift will be going to our friends at the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
If you want to be reminded of Bigfoot all year round, our friend Sharon – The Bigfoot Field Reporter, put together a 2012 Bigfoot Researcher Calendar with each month featuring a different Bigfoot researcher. (It even features your’s truly along with fellow Believe It Tour explorer, Diana Smith, for the month of June).
The countdown has begun, so hurry and finish up your Christmas shopping with some very unique gifts that all the cryptozoology enthusiests, ghost hunters, or UFO trackers on your list will really appreciate and love.
The human race had come to an end. That much was certain. Centuries of culture, ingenuity, and bloodshed were all gone. Erased. A mere fabrication of universal imagination.
This was the final campaign for V’ry Captain M’Tal and his crew. A definitive conquering point to his celebrated career. What he didn’t count on was the last stand from a band of beings left on a sloppy little planet called Earth.
M’Tal hated humans. They should have been eradicated by the V’ry onslaught. He would make these humans pay for surviving the V’ry genocide.
There was just one troubling aspect…the survivors weren’t human.
BelieveItTour blogger Joseph Mazzenga’s exciting new novella is available through Amazon and Whispers Publishing:
What lies beyond Earth and inside of Pandora's box?
He’s the Albert Einstein of our time. Even more blasphemous, Albert’s superior in many ways. His deformed atrophied body, the shell of a normal man, houses perhaps the greatest mind in the short history of the Homo sapien.
There he is: Stephen Hawking, astrophysicist and genius. In all of his brilliance he’s making a profound statement. He’s saying that we should think twice before attempting to talk to other life forms in the heavens. In fact, his tone is extremely wary in this area.
To this day, we’re still enamored with what lies “out there.” It secretly drives our probing into space. Like children looking to please their parents, we try to do the right thing and be peaceable by sending out songs from the Beatles. We talk in mathematics, the language of the universe. Our clunky machines sail aimlessly to the outer rim with the hopes of our Whoville-type society telling someone, or some thing, that we are here. Yes, we are here.
As we explore, Hawking just sits – compact and scrunched by ALS. His statement about communicating with others in the vast universe is akin to “do not open Pandora’s box”. Anyone else would only garner a nod, a snicker, or a snort of contempt. However, Stephen Hawking is someone we actually stop and listen to. What is he afraid of? What can that supercomputer of a mind really be thinking?
Most humans have no idea that the Earth is a very noisy planet. Our televisions and radio waves, to say nothing of our cell phones and communication arrays, spill an untold amount of static into the galaxy. Even if we wanted to remain quiet and heed Hawking’s warning, we are far too late. Like noisy neighbors having a beer bash well into the wee hours, we have been chattering away for far too many decades.
SETI Institute literally scans the cosmos in search of a hiccup or a cough, anything that denotes sentient life. Our mining for gold has turned up very few specks of evidence, yet we continue to listen.
What is Stephen Hawking afraid of? Klingons, The Borg, Wraiths, or Minbari? My humble opinion tells me it may be something subtler. My judgment, my heart, tells me that Hawking simply feels the “children” are not ready for what we might find or what might find us. In our egocentric way, we fancy ourselves as the Universe’s perfect computers, the ultimate machines, guided by an organic computer whose limit we have yet to realize, but is that really the case? Are we really at the top of the intellectual food chain?
What if there is something more out there? What if there is something so superior, we would be reduced to mere shadows that stretched under the feet of cosmic gods? What if these gods were not benevolent?
What does a wild animal imagine when a rope is flung around its feet and a cloth is thrown over its head? I don’t think we ever really want to know, but we might be able to relate if our efforts at communicating go awry. Our benevolent and fuzzy images of Ewoks or Yoda would be gone and replaced by something quite different. The current hierarchy in our world and in the universe would be irreversibility changed. Our innocence and a whole lot more would leave us forever.
I have a feeling Stephen Hawking already knows what might be in store for us and I fear he may be correct.
Since tomorrow is Father’s Day and sometimes Dads can be the most difficult people to find the perfect gift for, Believe It Tour has a few suggestions to make it a little bit easier.
Search for Champ on Lake Champlain
Is your Dad an adventurous type that likes to get out in the woods to track Sasquatch or out on the lake to search for lake monsters? Then send him to Champ Camp this summer. You can even sign yourself up and spend the time bonding with Dad while learning about the creature that’s said to live in Lake Champlain or while taking a relaxing boat cruise around this beautiful location in Vermont.
Special thanks to our friends at Cryptomundo for their support during this event.
If you are just looking for a unique gift that doesn’t involve any travel please visit the Believe It Tour Store. There you’ll find all kinds of merchandise from hats and shirts with ghosts and aliens to original art of characters like Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster. You can even get him a plaster cast of a Bigfoot track from the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film site.
Plus if you order today we’ll help by offering you a custom pdf file that you can print out and use a Father’s Day card until your order arrives in the mail.
A few days ago Loren Coleman posted an update concerning the health of his younger brother, Jerry Dale Coleman. Jerry has been battling cancer for some time and, after an all too brief remission, it has come back. I can only imagine what Loren and the rest of the Coleman family are going through right now. I know this news hit me hard, but I know it also hit the many, many friends and fans Jerry has garnered through his intelligent, thoughtful, and kind interactions with us through personal correspondences and various cryptozoology and paranormal message boards.
Before I knew Jerry, I became great friends with Loren whom I truly appreciate. I met Jerry a few years after meeting and becoming friends with Loren. Jerry e-mailed me with some very kind comments about my books and we stayed in contact since then. I say “met”, but unfortunately I never had the privilege of meeting Jerry face to face. From personal experience I do know Jerry to be a gracious and selfless person with a great sense of humor.
Jerry is also a researcher of cryptozoological and paranormal phenomena, having spent years doing actual field research. His tireless efforts culminated in two books: Strange Highways and later More Strange Highways. These are great books filled with fascinating information. A couple of years ago Jerry kindly asked me if I would write a forward for a third book he was preparing for publication, Strangest Highways. I was very flattered and moved, as I consider Jerry a wonderful friend and I was eager to participate. Circumstances ultimately prevented Jerry from going forward with the book, which is unfortunate for those of us who are Jerry’s dedicated fans. I know it would have been an amazing work. Nevertheless, I am posting that forward here as I submitted it to Jerry.
By the way, if you would like to see what Jerry looks like, just grab a dictionary and look up the word FRIEND. You’ll find his picture there.
Jerry D. Coleman Knows…
A few years ago there was a tendency among artists who re-construct prehistoric fauna through sculpture and illustration to create reproductions of sauropod dinosaurs (Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, et al) with their nostrils on the tips of their snouts. Some may ask, why is that a big deal? Well, the reality is sauropods did not have nostrils on the tips of their snouts, but between their eyes. What was happening was those artists were interpreting their subjects based upon the previous works of other artists, rather than going to the original source of their subject matter.
The reason I point this out here is because something similar has been going on among cryptozoological and paranormal researchers. You can find dozens of books on cryptozoology and paranormal phenomena written by people who have chronicled literally centuries of text, sometimes reaching as far back as Biblical times. In fact, interest in these subjects has grown substantially over the past several years that older texts, long out of print, are becoming available again. Many of these books are highly beneficial, as well as an asset to any cryptozoological or paranormal library. However, many of them also suffer from that same tendency as the above-mentioned artists: the information gathered within their pages has been gleaned from the research of previous editions written by individuals who, far too often, got their information through second and even third-hand research. Before long, something as simple as an alleged Bigfoot sighting becomes a story of Bigfoot commanding an armada of alien spacecraft and leading his telepathic kinsmen to turn our homes into their own personal poop barns! This has become something of a problem, especially since the advent of the internet, which has helped fuel the accusations of debunkers (I do not lump skeptics in with debunkers, as the former display an open-mindedness and a willingness to examine available evidence, whereas the latter make no such consideration), that most of what has been written about is all the product of mistaken identity, overactive imaginations, or outright hoaxes and lies.
In October of 2003 Whitechapel Productions Press published a book titled Strange Highways, and was the culmination of more than forty years of researching bizarre phenomena and animal anomalies encountered by all manner of people across the American nation by Jerry D. Coleman. Jerry Coleman is that all-too-rare researcher and writer who has traveled this country on his own time and at his own expense to separate fact from fanciful fiction. While the end sometimes results in a commonplace explanation (although many more do not), one still comes away with a satisfied sense of closure without disappointment. In January of 2006, Jerry and Whitechapel published More Strange Highways, which continued this exciting, if unsettling journey, opening eyes and minds, and was equally well-received as Strange Highways.
And now we have Strangest Highways. This is not a mere “re-hash” of Strange Highways and More Strange Highways combined to make an attractive compendium, but rather a final summation of Jerry’s more than forty years in the field. It is his ultimate declaration, a final say on what he knows to be true based upon his own personal experiences looking for ghosts, phantom road trolls, strange canids, feline specters, out-size predatory birds, and, of course, that cryptozoological enigma who refuses to be ignored—Bigfoot.
I am a writer of fiction. I write a series of adventure novels about a character who is a cryptozoologist under the banner of “The Kodiak Books”. These books chronicle the journeys of George Kodiak, explorer and researcher, as he delves into the world of hominid anomalies, lake monsters and various prehistoric survivors. As such, serious research is as important to me for the mental picture I want to paint for my readers as is putting the sauropod’s nostrils between its eyes. I rely heavily upon the works and wisdom of people like Jerry Coleman because I can trust their research and experiences come from dedicated and heart-felt commitment to providing all the evidence.
Jerry D. Coleman is the real thing.
So get ready—we are going on a trek along America’s Strange Highways where all you are going to need is an open mind and a sense of wonder.
It was circa 1972 when I heard my father say that for the first time. As a kid, I would watch the very British television show, UFO, with my dad and when the moment struck he would utter those two words. This was the fuel for my fantasies. If my father could believe that we were not alone in the universe then what chance did a six year old have in denying that train of thought?
What came next seemed only natural. Being a comic book hound, super heroes that lived on Earth suddenly became humans reaching for the stars.
Everyday before school, I’d pass a large photograph of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. They sat in their bulky space suits and held their helmets as if they were just coming back from battle. The moon sat like a throne behind them, gray and silver. Majestic.
I would stay awake until the sun came up, dreaming that we were being watched by some benevolent race, maybe even being chuckled at like parents who watch over their children at the playground. Still the years rolled on. My love for sci-fi grew as my dreams for “out there” spread into my every day life.
Then it happened. It was a hot summer night (aren’t they all) and I was out in the backyard embracing the inky black that was night. The sky was indigo against the tree line and I was just like any other teen soaking in his summer vacation – savoring my freedom from the rigors of high school and all that entailed.
Unexpectedly, a blood-red streak flew through the sky. It wasn’t the 4th of July and this streak made no sound. It wasn’t linear in its arc. Rather, it streaked at a series of 50 to 70 degree angles. It also moved at a fantastic rate. At the risk of sounding Star Wars-ian, the streak and the three others that followed were not random, but very precise. Meteorites? Maybe, but these were heading up into the atmosphere, not downward. It all happened in less than 10 seconds. There was no fanfare. No portentous musical prelude. Just the event itself, barren and devoid of any magnified salutation.
I never reported the occurrence. I wasn’t even sure that what I saw wasn’t my version of a “weather balloon.” Still, decades have passed and I continue to look to the sky. It doesn’t have to be the oppressive heat of summer or the paralyzing cold of winter. I always count the stars until I’m bored. It gives the vastness of space before me even more scope.
We can’t comprehend what we can’t touch. Tangible is our personal universe. Quantum physics puts other beings and mirror images of what we are in other dimensions. These aren’t concepts for the faint of heart. Yoda would tell us, “stagnant you have become,” as we occupy our thoughts with little league, PTO meetings, and identity crisis when our best pair of jeans don’t fit anymore. I went outside again tonight on the first real spring-like evening of the year. The red streaks have never appeared again and chances are they probably never will.
Somewhere, out there, second star to the right and straight on till morning…I still believe.
Sharon reports from Cleveland on the Lake Erie shore
Over a week of continuous sightings of a strange light over Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio was brought to my attention just yesterday by my friend, Sharon. Upon looking into this further it’s obvious that word is not getting out of the local area.
Lucky for Believe It Tour that Sharon lives in Cleveland and was able to report on the “Cleveland UFO” for us. Unfortunately, the weather conditions over Lake Erie last night were far from favorable, which created an unfit setting for capturing any video of the strange light.
“It was 33 degrees and the sleet and hail was pelting down! My lips were frozen! We drove to the lake shore and the visibility was poor! The cloud cover was so thick we couldn’t see more than 1/4 mile. We drove along the shoreline hoping to find a break in the clouds, but to no avail. I will return again nightly until I can capture something,” Sharon reported.
If you are at all curious, like the people commenting on our YouTube video, Cleveland UFO Report, you’re wondering why there isn’t more media attention on this. Why, after more than a week of curious crowds gathering to watch this nightly occurrence on the Lake Erie shore, are there are no authorities documenting this mysterious light?
Has the Balloon Boy incident ruined all believability for any future phenomenon?
Whether there’s a plausible explanation, it’s a hoax, or it’s true evidence of aliens visiting from outer space, we’ll try to stay with this story to bring you more information as it happens. Be sure to check back here at BelieveItTour.com for updates.
Special thanks to Sharon for taking the time away from her Bigfoot field reporting to brave the elements for us out there in Cleveland.
To pay homage to this classic UFO and Alien sighting I have added a new drawing to our set of Believe It Tour Characters. Click the photo to order.
It was last October, while driving home from the Texas Bigfoot Conference, that we decided to make a stop in Flatwoods, which is located in Braxton County, West Virginia. That’s right we stopped to see the home of the legendary Green Monster or, perhaps better known as, the Flatwoods Monster.
It was way back in September of 1952 that the legend started and changed the face of this small town forever. On a late summer evening there was a reported sighting of an alien type creature that was 10 feet tall with a blood-red face, fiery eyes, and green lizard-like skin.
Was I expecting to come across such a sight myself? I didn’t think it was likely, but anything is possible. However, that made me question what it is that drives us to want to go out of our way to catch a glimpse of where something reportedly took place so many years ago. After I asked myself why I stopped in Flatwoods I didn’t have just one answer.
The explorer in me just enjoyed seeing something new, but the investigator in me wanted to grasp what the area was like to better understand the reports. However, the kid in me just wanted to be a little scared at the idea of the 10 foot tall creature that once stood there!
If you’re lucky enough to be in Vancouver for the Olympics be sure to catch the evening parade that leads everyone to the start of the arts festivities in the center of the city. These are held each night in the French Quarter at a place called Place de la Francophonie 2010.
The parade is full of monsters, space aliens, trolls, and other creatures that are part of the Big Nazo. The Big Nazo is a puppet troupe that’s larger than life and puts on a wonderful show. I’m starting to think I’m missing out on what could have been a perfect Believe It Tour stop. All the elements are there, from the Olympic mascots Quatchi, the Sasquatch, and Sumi, the animal spirit, to Alien Commander Glort and his ensemble of monsters. It definitely sounds like a fun time.
The group’s artistic director, Erminio Pinque, and several of the puppeteers are alumni, faculty, and students from my Alma Mater, Rhode Island School of Design. As such I’d like to say a special congratulations to the very creative puppet troupe, Big Nazo. Make sure you catch their amazing show if you happen to be in Vancouver as they’ll only be there until February 28th.
On July 22, 2009, Chinese scientists and students captured on film something mysterious flying in the skies over China during the recent solar eclipse. From the few photographs being released it’s fairly safe to say it wasn’t a bird, plane, or even Superman.
Scientists from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing are puzzled over what they saw and the resulting images that were obtained by the scientists and students observing the solar eclipse. Researchers will spend the next year analyzing the 40 minutes of footage and numerous photographs to try to determine what the object was. The observatory’s director, Ji Hai-sheng, has stated that scientists will not publically speculate on what the unidentified object might be until they have analyzed all data. The July event was just the latest in a series of unidentified sightings that have been reported in China.
The question remains as to what was seen in China? Was it an anomoly caused by the solar eclipse, a commercial airplane that had an unusal refection due to the solar event, or something truly unidentified that might indicate life exists elsewhere?
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