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Good Friday Reflection: From the Cross. . .

Professor Notices Abe Lincoln's Signature on a Picture Hanging in His Office

From sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2011) — When Western Illinois University's University Television (UTV) Associate Director Roger Kent looked a bit closer at a picture that had been hanging in his office for a few years, he noticed what looked like a signature belonging to the nation's 16th president. Curiosity got the better of him, so he contacted a Lincoln authority: the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

For more on this story click here: sciencedaily Professor Notices Abe Lincoln's Signature on a Picture Hanging in His Office

Note: Cool historical discovry! ;)

-Rob

Largest Fossil Spider Found in Volcanic Ash

From yahoo news and livescience.com 

The largest fossil spider uncovered to date once ensnared prey back in the age of dinosaurs, scientists find.


The spider, named Nephila jurassica, was discovered buried in ancient volcanic ash in Inner Mongolia, China. Tufts of hairlike fibers seen on its legs showed this 165-million-year-old arachnid to be the oldest known species of the largest web-weaving spiders alive today — the golden orb-weavers, or Nephila, which are big enough to catch birds and bats, and use silk that shines like gold in the sunlight.

For more on this story go here: yahoo news

Note: Scary! -Rob

Orang Pendek Declared New Primate Species

From Cryptomundo

The article published by the Society for Scientific Exploration is entitled “A New Primate Species in Sumatra.” And that just about says it all.

For more info go here:
 
Crypomundo >> Orang Pendek Declared New Primate Species
 
Note: Wow! A huge win for Cryptozoology and Cryptozoologists everywhere ;)

-Rob

Banned From Cryptozoology.com!

Banned From Cryptozoology.com!

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi

Motion For Permanent Ban Z.Z. Sat, Apr 9 2011, 11:58am
http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=12&pid=814338

Also Stu was stalking me on Cryptozoology.com and facebook. I
had to block him and some others.

Has Robeit Kiehn been banned from cz.com? Stu Sun, Apr 10 2011, 1:10pm
http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=12&pid=814632

(Note that Stu misspelled my name on purpose for some reason. He kept posting m name several times as did others for no reason. Creepy!)

Take a good look on this forum. Compare my posts
to ZZ's, Stu's, Rainbow Medicine Man's and other about me.

http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topic.php?tid=12

I was a member of Cryptozoology.com since 2009
and a visitor of the site long before that since it
started roughly a decade ago or more.

But that all changed when a militant atheist, whose
name is ZZ, decided she did not like my opinions
and viewpoints and petitioned to have me banned.

And guess what? It worked. ZZ got her wish.

I came on Cryptozoology.com's debate forum
simply to debate and express my opinions
and views on various issues such as religion,
Christianity, atheism, theism, evolution,
creationism, intelligent design, and
many other topics.

Most of the people on Cryptozoology.com
are atheists and would constantly use
underhanded tactics on the debate forum
including logical fallacies such as generalizations,
ad homs, and insults, lies, accusations, slander,
libel and even stalking.

I took the worst of it.

ZZ would say the most horrible things about me
calling me scum, bigot, intolerant and many other bad
and insulting names for no reason, sometimes for simply
disagreeing with her.

Stu and other such as Rainbow Medicine Man, NM, Gerry,
low,.Irish and others would do the same sometime going
as far as calling me and other Christians and theists like
Hootowl, redwood777, Mysterious Mellisa, PT22 and a few
others words like inhuman and monster.

Stu started acting and posting creepy things
such as my real first and last name name for
no reason which was uncalled for, taunting
me, and stalking me not only on Cryptozoology.com
but also my facebook page resulting me in having to
ban him.

I admit, I posted some stupid and offensive things
on the evolution vs creation forum which I am sorry for,
but not as insulting as what some of these militant atheists
posted such as ZZ, Stu, low, Irish and others. At times I
tried to give them a taste of their own medicine but it
just made them worse.

I took the brunt of it. I went on the site I admit to take
some of the heat off of Hooty and redwood.
Some of the other Christians like hroth and smacks
seem to be respected for some reason, mainly because
they are theistic evolutionists and not creationsts or ID advocates.

This is unfair that I was banned. I wrote an email to Cisco
asking him why and if their was any way I could appeal.

He has not responded yet and this was over a week ago.

Please be careful of going on this site's forums which
are full of trolls.

Please have a look on the forum. Compare ZZ's, Stu's and other militant atheist's comments and posts to mine. Many people and friends that I know agree that much of their behavior, like my banning, was rude, insulting, indecent and uncalled for.

The owner of the site Cisco went along wit hit and has still not responded
to my email that I sent him. The Moderator of the forum, Jim, does not
moderate excecpt once in a while maybe.

Among those who agree with me on this issue are Pastor Joe,
my intellectual half Asian and Jewish friend Roy and others.

"It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world." -Gary Starta

Never lose sight of your goals, never back down.

Strange Alien Stick-like creatures caught on security camera above Fresn...

Is this the first ever portrait of Jesus? The incredible story of 70 ancient books hidden in a cave for nearly 2,000 years

From dailymail.co.uk

The image is eerily familiar: a bearded young man with flowing curly hair. After lying for nearly 2,000 years hidden in a cave in the Holy Land, the fine detail is difficult to determine. But in a certain light it is not difficult to interpret the marks around the figure’s brow as a crown of thorns.

The extraordinary picture of one of the recently discovered hoard of up to 70 lead codices – booklets – found in a cave in the hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee is one reason Bible historians are clamouring to get their hands on the ancient artefacts.

If genuine, this could be the first-ever portrait of Jesus Christ, possibly even created in the lifetime of those who knew him.

Discovery: The impression on this booklet cover shows what could be the earliest image of Christ

The tiny booklet, a little smaller than a modern credit card, is sealed on all sides and has a three-dimensional representation of a human head on both the front and the back. One appears to have a beard and the other is without. Even the maker’s fingerprint can be seen in the lead impression. Beneath both figures is a line of as-yet undeciphered text in an ancient Hebrew script.

Astonishingly, one of the booklets appears to bear the words ‘Saviour of Israel’ – one of the few phrases so far translated.

The owner of the cache is Bedouin trucker Hassan Saida who lives in the Arab village of Umm al-Ghanim, Shibli. He has refused to sell the booklets but two samples were sent to England and Switzerland for testing.

A Mail on Sunday investigation has revealed that the artefacts were originally found in a cave in the village of Saham in Jordan, close to where Israel, Jordan and Syria’s Golan Heights converge – and within three miles of the Israeli spa and hot springs of Hamat Gader, a religious site for thousands of years.

According to sources in Saham, they were discovered five years ago after a flash flood scoured away the dusty mountain soil to reveal what looked like a large capstone. When this was levered aside, a cave was discovered with a large number of small niches set into the walls. Each of these niches contained a booklet. There were also other objects, including some metal plates and rolled lead scrolls.

The area is renowned as an age-old refuge for ancient Jews fleeing the bloody aftermath of a series of revolts against the Roman empire in the First and early Second Century AD.

The cave is less than 100 miles from Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, and around 60 miles from Masada, scene of the last stand and mass suicide of an extremist Zealot sect in the face of a Roman Army siege in 72AD – two years after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. It is also close to caves that have been used as sanctuaries by refugees from the Bar Kokhba revolt, the third and final Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire in 132AD.

The era is of critical importance to Biblical scholars because it encompasses the political, social and religious upheavals that led to the split between Judaism and Christianity.

It ended with the triumph of Christianity over its rivals as the dominant new religion first for dissident Jews and then for Gentiles.

In this context, it is important that while the Dead Sea Scrolls are rolled pieces of parchment or papyrus containing the earliest-known versions of books of the Hebrew Bible and other texts – the traditional Jewish format for written work – these lead discoveries are in book, or codex, form which has long been associated with the rise of Christianity.

The codices seen by The Mail on Sunday range in size from smaller than 3in x 2in to around 10in x 8in. They each contain an average of eight or nine pages and appear to be cast, rather than inscribed, with images on both sides and bound with lead-ring bindings. Many of them were severely corroded when they were first discovered, although it has been possible to open them with care.

The codex showing what may be the face of Christ is not thought to have been opened yet. Some codices show signs of having been buried – although this could simply be the detritus resulting from lying in a cave for hundreds of years.

Unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls, the lead codices appear to consist of stylised pictures, rather than text, with a relatively small amount of script that appears to be in a Phoenician language, although the exact dialect is yet to be identified. At the time these codices were created, the Holy Land was populated by different sects, including Essenes, Samaritans, Pharisees, Sadducees, Dositheans and Nazoreans.

There was no common script and considerable intermingling of language and writing systems between groups. Which means it could take years of detailed scholarship to accurately interpret the codices.

Many of the books are sealed on all sides with metal rings, suggesting they were not intended to be opened. This could be because they contained holy words which should never be read. For example, the early Jews fiercely protected the sacred name of God, which was only ever uttered by The High Priest in the Temple in Jerusalem at Yom Kippur.

The original pronunciation has been lost, but has been transcribed into Roman letters as YHWH – known as the Tetragrammaton – and is usually translated either as Yahweh or Jehovah. A sealed book containing sacred information was mentioned in the biblical Book of Revelations.

If genuine, it seems clear that these books were, in fact, created by an early Messianic Jewish sect, perhaps closely allied to the early Christian church and that these images represent Christ himself.
One plate has been interpreted as a schematic map of Christian Jerusalem showing the Roman crosses outside the city walls. At the top can be seen a ladder-type shape. This is thought to be a balustrade mentioned in a biblical description of the Temple in Jerusalem. Below that are three groups of brickwork, to represent the walls of the city.

A fruiting palm tree suggests the House of David and there are three or four shapes that appear to be horizontal lines intersected by short vertical lines from below. These are the T-shaped crosses believed to have been used in biblical times (the familiar crucifix shape is said to date from the 4th Century). The star shapes in a long line represent the House of Jesse – and then the pattern is repeated.

This interpretation of the books as proto-Christian artefacts is supported by Margaret Barker, former president of the Society for Old Testament Study and one of Britain’s leading experts on early Christianity. The fact that a figure is portrayed would appear to rule out these codices being connected to mainstream Judaism of the time, where portrayal of lifelike figures was strictly forbidden because it was considered idolatry. If genuine, it seems clear that these books were, in fact, created by an early Messianic Jewish sect, perhaps closely allied to the early Christian church and that these images represent Christ himself. However another theory, put forward by Robert Feather – an authority on The Dead Sea Scrolls and author of The Mystery Of The Copper Scroll Of Qumran – is that these books are connected to the Bar Kokhba Revolt of 132-136AD, the third major rebellion by the Jews of Judea Province and the last of the Jewish-Roman Wars.

The revolt established an independent state of Israel over parts of Judea for two years before the Roman army finally crushed it, with the result that all Jews, including the early Christians, were barred from Jerusalem.

Wonder: The cave in Jordan where the metal books were discovered

The followers of Simon Bar Kokhba, the commander of the revolt, acclaimed him as a Messiah, a heroic figure who could restore Israel. Although Jewish Christians hailed Jesus as the Messiah and did not support Bar Kokhba, they were barred from Jerusalem along with the rest of the Jews. The war and its aftermath helped differentiate Christianity as a religion distinct from Judaism.

The spiritual leader of the revolt was Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who laid the foundations for a mystical form of Judaism known today as Kabbalah, which is followed by Madonna, Britney Spears and others. Yochai hid in a cave for 13 years and wrote a secret commentary on the Bible, the Zohar, which evolved into the teaching of Kabbalah. Feather is convinced that some of the text on

Feather says that all known codices prior to around 400AD were made of parchment and that cast lead is unknown. They were clearly designed to exist for ever and never to be opened. The use of metal as a writing material at this time is well documented – however the text was always inscribed, not cast.

The books are currently in the possession of Hassan Saida, in Umm al-Ghanim, Shibli, which is at the foot of Mount Tabor, 18 miles west of the Sea of Galilee.

Saida owns and operates a haulage business consisting of at least nine large flatbed lorries. He is regarded in his village as a wealthy man. His grandfather settled there more than 50 years ago and his mother and four brothers still live there.

Saida, who is in his mid-30s and married with five or six children, claims he inherited the booklets from his grandfather.

However, The Mail on Sunday has learned of claims that they first came to light five years ago when his Bedouin business partner met a villager in Jordan who said he had some ancient artefacts to sell.

The business partner was apparently shown two very small metal books. He brought them back over the border to Israel and Saida became entranced by them, coming to believe they had magical properties and that it was his fate to collect as many as he could.

The arid, mountainous area where they were found is both militarily sensitive and agriculturally poor. The local people have for generations supplemented their income by hoarding and selling archeological artefacts found in caves. More of the booklets were clandestinely smuggled across the border by drivers working for Saida – the smaller ones were typically worn openly as charms hanging from chains around the drivers’ necks, the larger concealed behind car and lorry dashboards.

In order to finance the purchase of booklets from the Jordanians who had initially discovered them, Saida allegedly went into partnership with a number of other people – including his lawyer from Haifa, Israel.

Saida’s motives are complex. He constantly studies the booklets, but does not take particularly good care of them, opening some and coating them in olive oil in order to ‘preserve’ them.

Masterpiece: Later versions of Christ, including Leonardo Da Vinci's interpretation in his fresco The Last Supper, give Jesus similar characteristics

The artefacts have been seen by multi-millionaire collectors of antiquities in both Israel and Europe – and Saida has been offered tens of millions of pounds for just a few of them, but has declined to sell any.

When he first obtained the booklets, he had no idea what they were or even if they were genuine.

He contacted Sotheby’s in London in 2007 in an attempt to find an expert opinion, but the famous auction house declined to handle them because their provenance was not known.

Soon afterwards, the British author and journalist Nick Fielding was approached by a Palestinian woman who was concerned that the booklets would be sold on the black market. Fielding was asked to approach the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and other places.

Fielding travelled to Israel and obtained a letter from the Israeli Antiquities Authority saying it had no objection to their being taken abroad for analysis. It appears the IAA believed the booklets were forgeries on the basis that nothing like them had been discovered before.

None of the museums wanted to get involved, again because of concerns over provenance. Fielding was then asked to approach experts to find out what they were and if they were genuine. David Feather, who is a metallurgist as well as an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, recommended submitting the samples for metal analysis at Oxford University.

The work was carried out by Dr Peter Northover, head of the Materials Science-based Archaeology Group and a world expert on the analysis of ancient metal materials.

The samples were then sent to the Swiss National Materials Laboratory at Dubendorf, Switzerland. The results show they were consistent with ancient (Roman) period lead production and that the metal was smelted from ore that originated in the Mediterranean. Dr Northover also said that corrosion on the books was unlikely to be modern.

Meanwhile, the politics surrounding the provenance of the books is intensifying. Most professional scholars are cautious pending further research and point to the ongoing forgery trial in Israel over the ancient limestone ossuary purporting to have housed the bones of James, brother of Jesus.

The Israeli archeological establishment has sought to defuse problems of provenance by casting doubt on the authenticity of the codices, but Jordan says it will ‘exert all efforts at every level’ to get the relics repatriated.

The debate over whether these booklets are genuine and, if so, whether they represent the first known artefacts of the early Christian church or the first stirrings of mystical Kabbalah will undoubtedly rage for years to come.

The director of Jordan’s Department of Antiquities, Ziad al-Saad, has few doubts. He believes they may indeed have been made by followers of Jesus in the few decades immediately following his crucifixion.

‘They will really match, and perhaps be more significant than, the Dead Sea Scrolls,’ he says. ‘The initial information is very encouraging and it seems that we are looking at a very important and significant discovery – maybe the most important discovery in the history of archaeology.’

If he is right, then we really may be gazing at the face of Jesus Christ.

Note: This story is simply amazing and I hope it's true!

To me it is.

-Rob

Multiple UFO's Over Chicago - Video 1 - 2nd April 2011

Were These Really UFOs Near Chicago?

From: http://www.sodahead.com

Were These Really UFOs Over Chicago?

That was fast. Just months after NASA claimed to have found 50 planets in the universe that could sustain human life, all of a sudden it seems like we’re in the midst of an alien invasion.


From former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar to farmers in Iowa who might have had a few too many PBRs, UFO sightings are fairly routine by now, but a pair of recent ones in Chicago and Colorado once again have sky watchers wondering if we really are not alone.

Last week, a strange triangle of unblinking red lights showed up in the sky above Lafayette, Colo., and then on Saturday an even more bizarre series of unexplained celestial lights showed up over Chicago that had residents convinced they were seeing some E.T.-type action.

A woman who caught the unexplained phenomenon on her cellphone told ABC News that she was driving down the street around 8 p.m. when she noticed a line of several orange lights flying together in the sky and blinking in unison. They went from flying in a straight line to moving into odd patterns that didn't look like any airplanes we've seen. A local meteorologist said there were no unusual weather occurrences in the area that night and so far the government has had no response.

Do you think this was a UFO sighting in Chicago?

Note: I live near Chicago in Alsip, IL and have once seen a possible
UFO over Midlothian, IL.

What do you think?

-Rob

Snooki wins at Wrestlemania 27 [VIDEO]

Snooki WrestleMania 27: What's Next for the Jersey Shore Star?

From http://bleacherreport.com

Snooki says a WWE Wrestling career is not in her future.


As stated here previously, Jersey Shore's Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi laid the smack down during her WWE WrestleMania debut.

But alas, she has to get back to her day job, drop kicking fools Jersey Shore style. (I would love to read her resume.)

In a video from the good folks over at TMZ.com Ms. Polizzi said she likely will not be elbow dropping again.

You can hear her say on the piece: "I'm pretty busy with Jersey Shore, so I doubt it,".

The Hollywood Reporter states that:

A record 71,617 people showed up at the Georgia Dome to watch her on WWE's Wrestlemania XXVII Sunday night, according to announcer Justin Roberts.

This proves one of two things:

The world is ending or a lot of people love Snooki and Jersey Shore. But what if this fourth season of MTV's hit show is a bomb when they go to Italy? Will Snooki then think about taking an invite to tag team with the Undertaker vs the Rock and Kirstie Alley?

I say yes.

Gotta pay the bills some how, right?

Here is my list of things she will do next, in order:

A) Dancing with the Stars - obligatory. There is no chance of this not happening.

B) Throw out first pitch at a baseball game - Staying in front of eyes is key.

C) Ring girl at an MMA event - She'll have to do a couple more crunches, but still.

D) Date an athlete or former athlete. I'm thinking Jose (or Ozzie) Canseco, since he was a juicer, she loves juicers and he loves the camera as well.

I'm taking bets.

Note: I think Snooki looked hot and did a great job
with her moves. I think that she should stay in the
WWE (formerly the WWF) even if it's just to
make guest appearances on in a while.

Did you know that she is a former cheerleader btw?

Hot.

;)

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It's killing me to admit this, but....

This is a story from Karl over on Cryptozoology.com

From Cryptozoology.com - Hominids Forum

Topic: It's killing me to admit this, but....

From Karl posted Fri, Apr 1 2011, 7:16am 

"It's no secret that I do not believe Bigfoot exists, but I have to return to my blog just this once to admit that I've finally been stumped.


You would think that being a skeptic, I would associate with like-minded people, but the reality is that most of my acquaintances believe in things I dismiss as unproven or untrue. I was with one such acquaintance at his cousin's house assisting with some house work. The acquaintance and his cousin are both widowers in their late seventies and early eighties. While we were clearing out the pantry to reorganize it, I moved an old newspaper with pumpkin seeds scattered on it and one of the articles mentioned our local cryptid, the Bear Lake Monster. We started talking about it, and the cousins, Jack and Don, both expressed their doubts, but admitted that anything was possible. I gave my two cents worth with the full thrust of skepticism: how a breeding population of one hundred and fifty foot air breathing monsters in a relatively small, highly visited lake would be seen a great deal more often than has been reported, etc. Jack, the older cousin, gave me a patronizing smile, looking at me as though I were some foolish high school kid who thought he knew everything. He said I sure seemed to know an awful lot about what not to believe in. I responded that everything I had heard about the Bear Lake Monster gave me more reasons to disbelieve than otherwise. Then out of the blue Jack asked, "What about Sasquatch, you believe in that, don't you?" I explained that after a lengthy examination of the phenomena, I could not find a single substantial reason to believe there was any possible reality to the myth. Jack gave me that patronizing smile again, while Don just shook his head and chuckled. Don asked Jack, "You going to show him?" Jack simply said, "Maybe later", and we finished working on the pantry and straightening up the rest of the basement a bit.

When we were done, Jack asked me to follow him. We went into the largest room of the basement, which can be best described as a storage area. We maneuvered through some junk to a corner of the room where Jack pulled an old canvas tarp off some boxes. He pulled out a wooden crate, removed an old shoe box from the crate, and removed a piece of paper from the box. He handed it to me, and asked me what I thought about it. The piece of paper was an old California hunting license with a drawing of Bigfoot and a California seal watermark on it. The wording on the license stated that it was good for the capture or kill of a male and/or female adult hairy giant. I handed it back to Jack, and said that it was obviously phony; probably a souvenir sold in one of the Northern California Bigfoot shops. Jack assured me that it was very real. It was my turn to shake my head and chuckle. I told him that if that were true, the Bigfoot fanatics would have posted those licenses all over the internet to support their belief. Don pointed out that if it were some sort of souvenir, that it would surely have been posted on the internet as well. I bowed to his reasoning, and wondered why I hadn't seen it before. Jack explained that they were a very rare and special issue, and that only a select few were able to obtain them, and that the one he had belonged to his Great Uncle, Ignatius Beauregard Leave (call me old fashioned, but I love that name). Jack told me quite a bit about Ignatius, but it isn't pertinent save to say that he was in a position to obtain such a license. He said he wouldn't be surprised if his was the last surviving license to hunt hairy giants. I chuckled again, and told them they could stop trying to pull my leg, because it wasn't working. Jack's patronizing smile returned to his face, and he headed upstairs and asked me to follow him again.

We entered a room Jack uses as his office. He pulled a very old scrapbook out of the closet, set it on a table and searched through a few pages. When he found the page he was looking for, he pointed to a photograph and asked me what I thought about it. At first all I saw was a man sitting in front of a bunch of bear skins and a few skulls, and I said so. Don pointed at one of the skulls, and asked if I was sure that was a bear skull, then at one of the furs and asked if I was sure that was a bear fur. On closer inspection, I could see that the skull did not belong to a bear. I admitted that I could not explain the skull, which did not mean there wasn't an explanation, but that the skin, though it looked like a gorilla suit, could still easily belong to a bear. Jack looked at me as though he were losing patience, and said there was a letter he had lost years earlier that spoke about the man in the photo. Jack said the man's name was Clement, and that he was a hunter and trapper by trade. Clement explained to the letter writer, (Jack could not remember who it was), that he was out checking traps when he saw what he thought was a young black bear. He shot it, and was more than a little surprised to find a hairy man that was about his size. He skinned it and boiled the skull like he would a bear, and put them out for trade. Jack was unable to tell me who took the photograph, or how it came into his possession. I asked to see the negative, but Jack said he did not have it. He said he did, however, have the negative to an even better photograph. Jack turned a page of the scrapbook and showed me another photograph. There was no questioning this one; that was definitely supposed to be a Bigfoot.

There was just no way I was going to believe this photograph was real. I raised a suspicious eyebrow at Jack, and he just gave me another of his irritable patronizing smiles. He said that not only did he have the negative to prove the picture was authentic, he also had a journal that explained the photo. Jack turned to the back of the scrapbook, and pulled out what appeared to be about twenty large negatives tucked in an envelope. He found the one he wanted and held it up for me, but would not allow me to touch it. Sure enough, it showed just what the photograph showed, and for the life of me, I didn't know how to explain it away. Still, I could not, and would not believe the photo was authentic. Jack pulled an old journal out of the closet and said that it belonged to an uncle, his mother's oldest brother. I read the entry, and didn't know what to say. The journal was clearly very old, and the writing just as old. According to the journal, it was written in Orleans, California, and the entry is dated as 5 of August, 1909. Here is the journal entry about the photo in its entirety:

"Sam and Jesse figured to go hunting real early friday morning. Digs and Cob didn't have many chores and Mr Peters didn't need me to help with the printing so we asked if we could join along and they told us to bring our rifles. I do not own a rifle but my uncle Chase let me take his. We was only going into the woods just out of town and we did not plan to be gone a whole day so we did not take a pack horse. Just some jerky and water.


We had been walking real quiet for about an hour without seeing anything but some squirrels and birds and a couple a lizards. Cob was about to shoot a lizard when he failed to catch it but Sam stopped him. Sam said it was bad enough we could not find any game without Cob shooting and scaring off anything that we might still have a chance to hunt.


We had all been spread out pretty good but we all came together while Sam was having it out with Cob. We was just getting ready to spread out again when Jesse saw some movement about fifty yards south of us. Sam motioned that he and Jesse would follow it south and waved the rest of us east toward the creek. We all had not taken two steps before there was some rustling in the bushes and then something I had never seen before stepped out into a clearing.


It was one of them hairy giants I had heard tell about. It had to be six hands taller than a horse. It just stood there staring at us and we was not doing nothing but staring back. It was clear that Jesse could not believe his own eyes. He said something I cannot in all good conscience put to paper and then the giant turned away from us and started walking like it did not have nothing to fear. Without saying nothing Sam raised his gun and shot the giant in the back. The giant turned to look at us and snarled or growled or something like that. It turned away and started running. Sam shot at it again and started chasing the giant. We all took off after Sam stopping to shoot when we had a clear shot. I could not say how many times we shot the giant but it was a fair amount more than ten or twelve times. I can not say that all our shots struck the giant because it was gaining distance on us fast and becoming an ever smaller target but I know of a truth that we are all good with a rifle and yet after all that shooting the giant just kept on running.


Of a sudden Sam stopped running, and we all stopped with him. He pointed at a small puddle of blood and said he did not figure the giant would live much longer. We commenced walking keeping an eye out for the blood trail. We was walking for a good half hour when we found the giant. We all confessed our disbelief when we saw that it was still alive. We could see that the giant was real weak from loss of blood. It just sat there staring at us for a few minutes, then it turned and tried to stand. Its back was all matted with blood. Sam walked up to about twenty feet distance and shot the giant in the back of the head. The giant went down and tried to push itself up. Sam shot it again at the base of the skull and the giant went down and died.


It took about all we had left in us to drag the giant back to town. It was going on 3 o'clock when we finally and gratefully arrived. The Darcy twins saw us just as we was coming out of the woods and ran into town to announce us and what we was dragging in. James ran out from the printing office and helped us drag the giant over to Mr Grays stable. Some of Mr Grays men got some rope and tied it around the giants elbows and hoisted it up so that Mr Peters could photograph it. We all got next to the giant and let James join us since he helped drag it a bit. Digs found a deer skull in the stable to hold up the giants head.


I was real tired and went home to rest a bit. Later on I went to see if Mr Peters needed me at the printing office. The giant was not over by the stables any more but I do not know where they took it. I figure tomorrow I will ask Sam what he is fixing to do with the hairy giant."

In the next entry, the journal writer (I never learned his name) simply states that a man from San Francisco purchased the hairy giant and that his share was five dollars.

I was admittedly dumbfounded, but I still could not allow myself to believe what I was seeing. I asked Jack if he had ever shown any of this to anyone before. He said he had only shown it to a few friends and most of his family. I asked why he hadn't shown any of it to the professors at the local university. He said that if he did that, the photos and journal would most likely disappear, and he would never see them again. I tried to convince Jack to let me bring a professor to his house to look at the items, but Jack flat out refused. I kept on bugging him, but he became impatient with me, and I knew it was time to just let it go.

The next day, I returned to Jack's house to try and convince him again. I asked him to let me photograph the items, and swore that I would not tell anyone where they were. Jack wasn't smiling any more, and flat out said he was sorry he had ever shown them to me. I pleaded with him, and he finally agreed to let me photograph the license as well as the journal and negative together, if for no other reason than to just get me out of his hair. Jack scanned the photographs for me, and held me to my promise. He refused to scan the negative, he feared it might get damaged somehow. I asked Jack to hold the negative up to the light, (he still would not let me touch it), but he refused; he told me to photograph it on the journal, or not at all.

I just photographed the items yesterday, and I haven't been to the university yet; I'll be taking them in as soon as I reach Dr. Atkinson by phone. I'm more than a little unhappy that I don't have the negative. With just an image of it, this all can easily be laughed off, and I'm guessing that it will. I know I would laugh it off.

I saw no harm in posting the items on this site as long as I keep my promise. Just to see the feedback I'll probably get from the university.


I photographed the license on the crate where Jack keeps it.



The first photo Jack showed me.







The second photo Jack showed me. I've gone over the photo again and again, and cannot find artifacts or pixilation of any kind.

This is the journal. I have two other photos of it so I could get the entire entry. Sadly, you can't see the negative very well, but as I said, Jack refused to hold it up to the light. He's very protective of the negative.

Karl's website: http://www.enigmaticstatic.com/

Note: Of course this is an April Fools Day joke on Karl's part lol but anyway
Happy April Fools Day lol!!

;)

-Rob