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Below are excerpts from emails that we have received from viewers/readers/fans
that have both positive as well as negative opinions/views/statements
over some of our investigations/suggestions/guidlines etc...
(We will add more as we receive them.)
From Nathan:
Something very odd and i believe paranormal happened to me a few weeks
ago. Me and my parents, little
brother, and my friend tyler were taking a vaction
in Gatlinburg, we stayed in a Cabin. My parents and little brother slept
on the
bottom floor, my friend and I stayed on the top. We arrived friday night, and my
friend and i never slept as
we were excited, and we drank alot of coffee and energy
drinks. Saturday night upon arriving home we were up till around
2am watching television.
We both decided we should sleep. We went to sleep for only about 15 mins before
strange things
happened. I had a horrible dream that things were watching us and
that if i screamed they would attack, and that screaming
would kill us all. I rember
seeing dark figures darting out near a nearby door but the door not opening. MY
parents
had rushed upstairs, as they had heard me and tyler both yelling. My parents
had to wake up both up in our sleep despite
our blood curling screams. When i woke
up the first thing i said was that something went out the door, tyler said he saw
it
too. My dad checked too no avail. Me and tyler calmed down assuming it was a
vivid dream. HE didnt rember his as i had.
I looked at the time and it had been
only twenty minutes. We neevr went back to sleep. WHat do you think this could be?
We
know this wasnt just night terrors.
Your story was intriguing to say the least. Gatlinburg is full of ghosts I've read,
and you may have had a run in with a couple of them. They didn't seem to do you any physical harm...maybe
they were curious, most of them are, even though it scares the dickens out of us. It was interesting
that you and Tyler experienced the same thing. This shows proof that you did indeed have visitors
if both of your stories correspond with one another. I found it also interesting that you both
had ingested a large amount of caffine before trying to go to sleep...I have had the experiences of hightened
brain activity after large consumptions of caffine drinks prior to sleep and being more reseptive to
paranormal activity while my brain is trying to shut down and 'defrag' ...it's like energy attracting
energy....be careful next time and save the caffinated drinks for daytime use.
Are you ok now? Nothing followed
you home, I hope. From Leigh:
Where can I get primate hormones?
Leigh,
I'm at a loss over finding these myself. But, if you are trying to get them
to use as a 'lure' to find a Bigfoot then you can use your own 'female aroma' by placing used monthly
feminine devices on a tree limb. I know it sounds disgusting but it's nothing different then deer
hunters using similar tactics by placing doe scent and doe pee on ironically shaped 'hunting tampons'
in trees to attract bucks.
Hope this helps,From T. Baker: Great page,thanks for all the info.
Dear TRAPS,
I wanted to tell you about something that happened last night at home...... my wife was
sleeping in our bed, my son was asleep in his bed,and I was laying down with our daughter in her bed. She was sleeping also.
I was the only one awake. We have a
small 3 bedroom home, ranch style in a rural location, built in 1989. The nearest house
is about 1/2 from us. Well,laying there, just listening to the soft sounds of my family sleeping in all the rooms, I hear
a CRASH! I mean a loud one.I could not really tell where in the house it came from, but definitely from somewhere inside.
I knew it did not come from my daughters room, I was in there. I thought that maybe my son had knocked a book off his shelf
or something fell in his closet or my wife knocked something off her night stand---but it seemed quite a bit more forceful
than something minor just falling. It was a jarring feeling/sound that reverberated, like something REALLY heavy had fallen.
Well, after investigating the WHOLE house, including
the closets, pantry and garage, I could find NOTHING out of place. I woke my wife up
and asked if she had heard it
and she said she did not and she quickly went back to sleep. I went to bed and did not
hear anything else the rest of
the night. I know, not real dramatic, but what I heard was real, but no evidence of anything
amiss. From time to time I still see things in the corner of my eye---different places in the house, but mostly in the hall
way. Nothing really discernable, usually a
fleeting shadow or an impression. A week or so ago, our 8 year old daughter came in our
room in the middle of the night
and wanted to sleep with us because she said she woke up and heard people 'whispering'.
That sort of creeped me out. She has come in at other times telling us of noises and being really scared of something. I don't
think she has ever seen anything, I feel she would have surely told us if she had. I know, the things I've mentioned could
be explained with natural occurrences, bad dreams or what ever, but your site has helped me have more of an open mind about
this sort of thing.
Signed, J
(We kept in contact with 'J' and advised him to preform a house blessing, below
is what he replied back after doing so...)
Dear TRAPS,
Just wanted to update you since you helped us so much. Since I performed the house blessing
as you recommended, our home has been very quiet. Do you know that not ONCE since then, my daughter has complained about having
bad dreams or hearing people whisper..... she is at ease and sleeping soundly again. We do not hear noises anymore at night
either. I already believed this, but you and your group are the REAL thing. I am totally convinced the problems we had, you
nailed on the head and gave me the right advice to PEACEFULLY change our situation. Again, thank you and keep up the great
work. I look forward to
other accounts and investigations from your group. Thanks again!
Signed, J
This email is from Wm. R. Hancock (from South Carolina)...
Subject: : Bart Nunnelly interview/and "J"
Visited your site (T.R.A.P.S.) today while casually playing on the net on my day off and
having seen a recommendation for "Jan's Tales" on Linda Godfrey's unknowncreaturespot yahoo group. Read some of these things
and they are "humdingers". I also noted some comments in the "Jan's Tales" LBL investigation update and
later in the Bart Nunnelly interview I saw similar comments; all of which tended to puzzle me. I have read and researched
on the subject of Sasquatch/Bigfoot for literally decades (I turn 59 on Halloween, tomorrow, and have been a yeti-phile since
age 13) and have devoured the works of Ivan Sanderson, Bernard Heuvelmans, Odette Tchernine,Rene Dahinden, John Green, Thom
Powell, Loren Coleman, Grover Krantz, B. Ann Slate, Craig Woolheater, Jeff Meldrum (getting ready to review his new book on
Sasquatch for Amazon.com), and others. In all that time I have always heard Sasquatch/Yeti/Skookum etc., described
in a generally specific way; as a bipedal (or mostly bipedal...sometimes knuckle-walking) ape or apelike or ape/human-like
creature (as in "bipedal PRIMATE hominid"). The size range is varied, as is the configuration of the footprint. Most "Squatch"
prints are of a largely humanlike five-toed variety and square up with what was seen in the area of the Patterson-Gimlin film
footage from Bluff Creek, CA, in 1967. There is a three-toed or four toed variant that has turned up spottily around
the country, but which is mostly centered on the swamp and bottomland areas of the Mississippi basin, running from Fouke,
Arkansas, down through Honey Island Swamp, just north of New Orleans. The tracks found in these areas...perhaps of something
bigfoot-LIKE (none of these tracks are particularly large at all, though the beasts are said to be tallish)---are of actually
a 4-toed variety , but mostly they show up as 3-toed tracks with the 3 toes spread out from the end of the foot rather like
the claws of a therapod dinosaur instead of a diagonal big-to-little-to-littler configuration. The fourth "toe" appears
smaller and offset to the side and seems more suggestive of a "dewclaw". It only shows up in wet earth or mud, not seeming
to press down hard enough to significantly imprint into solid ground.
This track is nothing remotely "Primate" and therefore the creatures that make them can only
be considered "problematically" akin to Bigfoot/Sasquatch.
The problematic nature of THESE creatures as "bigfeet", though, PALES in comparison
to Bart Nunnelly's pulling in of Michigan Dogmen/Wisconsin Werewolves/Bearmen/Bray Road Beasts,
etc. under the banner of "Bigfoot" . This goes way beyond apples and oranges. This hits into apples, oranges, watermelons,
tangerines, sweet potatoes and everything else in the garden or orchard! Not one of the expert individuals listed above will
credit a bigfoot/sasquatch with a canine-like snout. That one characteristic alone stops the train in its tracks.
Secondly, all cryptozoologically recognized Bigfoots/Sasquatches/Skookums, et al) locomote around on legs with humanoid-anthropoidal
joint configurations. They do NOT walk around, either bipedally or otherwise, on CANID style hind legs, with "obverse quadrupedal
jointing"....that means their limbs of travel are not "crooked as a dog's hind legs". Nor are they credited with having tails,
and NOR are they credited with large upright, dog or wolf-like ears ! As an old southern expression goes; "THAT
dog just won't HUNT"! The whole idea of trying to group these "whatzits" as part of the Bigfoot
"clan" just doesn't hold any water at all !! What is your species commonality here? That they have HAIR???? Well,
heck, every other mammal in the world has that !! Does that mean if my great uncle's mule rears up on his hind legs
that HE is a bigfoot?? And, crediting Jan's story of the original LBL killings as truth, how does a hominid primate leave
Canis Lupis DNA on mutilated human body parts???
C'mon, guys, let's rein it in here!
Truth to tell, the Dogmen/"Werewolf"/Bray Road entities track more as demonic theriomorph
(shape-shifter) manifestations than "Bigfoot" encounters...WAY more.
Most of these tales seem quite reminiscent of the old "Aufhocker" stories of German
folklore...the shifter-killer (whose name means "leaps upon") that can mimic even human forms to approach its victims unawares,
lulling them into a false sense of security before morphing into an enormous, aggressive, snarlingly vicious dog/wolf-thing
that walks upright on its hind legs and goes straight for the throat of its victims, ripping at the jugular before rending
its prey to pieces. In legend the aufhocker is not a werewolf, as it is no human that undergoes any bodily transformation.
It is a demon manifestation that simply appears and disappears...comes from hell and then returns there. The killing is for
the simple joy of killing, because since it is not biological itself, it requires no biological food to sustain it. What it
"feeds" on is fear...the horrific terror of its victims as it strikes.
No, these things don't fall under the heading of "Bigfoot" to my thinking. Not at all.
I just don't see it. Sorry.
One more comment and then I'm done. This regards "J" and the crashing noise he heard
and which frightened him. As a part-time ghosthunter, it is my experience that a large percentage of ghostly manifestations
are auditory alone; that in a huge number of instances there are sounds heard...chairs dragging, doors opening and shutting,
things breaking, and so forth...but these are not accompanied by any actual physical activity.
You just hear the sounds of such.
Case in point: in 2003 a bunch of us spook nuts got ourselves locked in overnight
at the (very) haunted Moon River Brewery Restaurant on Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia.
Among several "wowser" events we experienced that night was this one: The building has six
floors, a basement (the hottest "cold spot" in the place), the ground floor restaurant, and 4 upper floors that are just like
they were in the 1850s when the building was constructed. These upper floors have NO electricity whatsoever (its flashlights
and lanterns all the way) and to reach them you must climb some extremely rickety stairwells flanked by some extremely flimsy
old bannister railings (trying to use one of these to catch your balance would likely send you diving head-first down the
stairwell...not a good thing). We had to be very care messing around up there and had to sign a waiver of responsibility for
the owner just to get permission to do the overnight.
Anyhoo...we divvied up and a small group went to each floor to try EVP, thermographics,
etc. After being on our level for a while all of us in my group about jumped through the ceiling when this HUGE crash sounded.
It was a great crashing, splintering noise that sounded like somebody had turned over a humongous china cabinet and shattered
wood, glass, and china all over the place. My first thought (and I discovered I was FAR from alone in this) was that somebody
in one of the other groups had gone through the floor or something and might well be hurt. And all of us heard it as coming
from the floor above ours...not on OUR floor. So we took off "hauling butt" up the stairs to see what happened...only to find
the upstairs people rushing down to meet us, since they had heard the crash as coming from our floor!
Gets funnier: every group on every level did this because everybody heard the sound
of the big crash coming from either the floor above them or the floor below them, and everyone reacted accordingly. We
realized we'd been "snookered" when a methodical floor-by-floor check of the building revealed absolutely NO conceivable
source for the sound. It was just a spectacular example of one of those "noise things" that show up in paranormal investigations.
(Oh, and I later read of another locality in Savannah, one off one of the famous squares near where the "waiting for the bus"
sequences in the movie
Forrest Gump were filmed, where , intermittently, what sounds like an armoire
or china cabinet falling over is heard...but the real cabinet just keeps right on standing).
So, J, the noises are just that...noises... and with advice from the T.R.A.P.S.
folks
you can learn to deal with them.
That's it. I've run my "mouth" enough and I bid you adieu.
Very interesting and entertaining site. Keep up the good work, Kentuckians.
...Wm. R. Hancock (from South Carolina)
(And the following is Bart Nunnely's response....)
Mr Hancock is basically correct in his observation that 'Dogmen' only
superficially resemble the common notion of what a bigfoot 'should' look and
act like. However, he is overlooking the enigma of mustery bipeds as a
whole, of which bigfoot is merely one aspect. 99% of these unknown
anomalies share the trait of being hirsute therefore they have, historically
,been lumped together under the bigfoot category. It is my view, as stated
in the interview, that several types of mystery bipeds are responsible for
many modern bigfoot reports.
B.M.Nunnelly
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