GHOST HUNTERS

A new book from one of my favorite monster researchers just hit the shelves! Linda Godfrey, known lovingly by the community of researchers as the Dogman expert, has just released a book I've been waiting for about all the cryptid oddities in the woods including phantoms and portals! MONSTERS AMONG US: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena (A TarcherPerigee paperback, on sale October 11, 2016) by Linda Godfrey , one of America’s foremost authorities on modern-day monsters. This chilling collection of astonishing first-hand accounts includes reports of: · A woman’s transformation into a wolf-like creature – in front of a church congregation of 200 · A nearly transparent, 8-foot creature – seen by nearly fifty people in one community · A four-hundred-pound creature emerging from a portal – in front of a pair of scientific investigators Analyzing each occurrence through an objective lens, Godfrey explores all possib...

Repeated themes in history through legends and popular drama, writings and movies, has to make one wonder about a kernel of truth. Cynocephaly (dog-shaped heads) have been reported for thousands of years, whole tribes of these people. Yet, today, we seem surprised to hear they ever existed. One man, Kirk Stokes , is perhaps one of the most prolific witnesses and archivists of these beings. And his forays into the Kentucky wilderness and his ability to accurately and clearly account for his encounters, makes what he has to say all the more riveting. Before I take you readers into the depth and breadth of Kirk's encounters, let's do a little back history on cynacephaly (dog-shaped heads).  "Perhaps the most famous Cynocephalus is Christianity's Saint Christopher, who was described in several texts as having the body of a man but the head of a dog. Not only that, but originally the future saint was said to have been a wild and fierce warrior who was captured in battle in ...

Ever since Dogman was first reported, lots of variations have been described. The problem becomes one of chicken or the egg dilemma. Because people reported seeing a bipedal creature with what appeared to be a snout and a hair-covered body, werewolf/dog became the comparison.  We did much the same when Sasquatch showed up in popular talk in the 1950s and because he was upright and hair covered, he was compared to a gorilla. Soon, people commonly accepted Sasquatch as a gorilla and Dogman as a dog variation. Therefore, much research has been on the assumption of a canine and its habits and tendencies, much like people thinking Sasquatch would think and act as an ape.  There are often witness embellishments including more dog-like features, like pointed ears and a tail and it's difficult to determine if this is people equating what they were seeing with a dog-man and assuming features other than the obvious snout and hair.  We don't get far in cryptid research when we class...