By Tim Binnall
Police and the paranormal, the famed Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot lore, and the legendary Snippy horse mutilation case were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. Meanwhile, here at the C2C website, we told you about a pair of possible Bigfoot encounters, a pulsating UFO filmed over a Polish village, and a Korean 'psychic survival' TV show that sparked controversy with a rather macabre challenge for its soothsaying contestants. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
Paranormal incidents involving law enforcement and first responders were in the spotlight on Tuesday night's program as retired police officers Marianne Robb and Dave Rich shared such eerie accounts of unexplained phenomena. They lamented that, because of their position in the community, many law enforcement witnesses are discouraged from discussing their experiences with high strangeness, which can include UFO sightings and encounters with inexplicable interlopers like ghosts and even Bigfoot. While sharing several remarkable accounts of police and the paranormal, Robb and Rich indicated that, in just the last two years, their collection of cases has ballooned to 90 incidents from Arizona to Australia.
In what one hopes is a sign that spring is right around the corner, this past week featured a pair of possible Bigfoot encounters that made the news. First, in South Dakota, a mountain lion hunter may have stumbled upon something far more fearsome when he attempted to lure one of the felines with a call resembling a distressed fawn and, in response, heard inexplicable tree knocks and what seemed to be an eerie guttural vocalization that sent him running. Later in the week, a family of three in Oklahoma reported seeing a large hair-covered bipedal figure that they were certain was a Sasquatch walking along a power line easement.
The legendary Snippy horse mutilation case took center stage on Sunday night's program as author Katie Paige discussed the mysterious 1967 Colorado incident. Though not the first of its kind, she mused that it may be the most famous anomalous animal mutilation event, garnering international attention and setting the standard for investigators who would later look into the phenomenon. Paige detailed how the curious condition of Snippy's remains, which included chillingly precise cuts and bleached bones, led to all manner of theories for what befell the unfortunate animal, including cult activity, peculiar predator attacks, and, of course, aliens, with the case, like so many other cattle mutilation mysteries, still unsolved to this day.
This past week saw a trio of tantalizing videos showing possible paranormal activity pop up in the news. First, in Poland, a bewildered witness captured footage of a pulsating UFO that seemingly released a smaller glowing object that flew away on its own. Meanwhile, a thermal camera at an old courthouse in Ohio detected what appeared to be a ghostly figure lingering in an empty room. Some believed the anomaly could have been a woman once sentenced to death in the building, while skeptical observers argued the 'ghost' was merely a reflection. Lastly, a couple on a birthday getaway at a hotel in England filmed a peculiar black creature that may have been an elusive British big cat.
Perhaps the most powerful piece of footage in the paranormal pantheon, the Patterson-Gimlin film, was revisited on Monday night's program as Sasquatch researcher M.K. Davis made the case for why the hotly debated scene from 1967 is a genuine glimpse of Bigfoot. He posited that specific frames show distinct muscle movement that makes the proverbial fur suit hypothesis unfathomable. He also noted the curved palm of the creature seen in the famed film, which he argued is also indicative of a bipedal primate. During his appearance, Davis also discussed similarly intriguing possible Sasquatch videos and other compelling evidence for Bigfoot's existence.
By far the strangest story of the week came from Korea, where a new 'psychic survival' reality show came under fire for a rather macabre challenge. The program, titled 'Battle of Fates,' features a whopping 49 self-proclaimed mystics of various soothsaying specialties pitted against each other to determine who is truly the most gifted of them all. What no doubt sounded fantastic on paper soon led to controversy in the second episode when the players were given the name, picture, and birthday of a man and challenged to 'sense' how he had died. Alas, the subject of the misguided 'puzzle' was a firefighter who passed away in a tragic inferno over 20 years ago, drawing condemnation from his family and prompting a subsequent apology from the show's producers.
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