Where Creatures Lurk

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Submitted by Nick Redfern on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:35

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By Nick Redfern    

It is one thing to receive reports of a strange creature – whether Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or the Chupacabra – seen in one particular locale. But it’s quite another thing entirely to get multiple reports of several different unidentified beasts from one clearly delineated area! And, yet, within the field of Cryptozoology, that’s precisely what we see on numerous occasions.

Take, for example, England’s Cannock Chase – a sprawling and dense mass of heath and woodland situated in the county of Staffordshire. For years, an absolute menagerie of unknown animals and out-of-place critters has been seen roaming the Chase. The list is as long as it is impressively weird, and includes Bigfoot-type entities, marauding werewolves, large and exotic cats of the puma variety, giant snakes, oversized birds and much more.

Then there’s Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk – near England’s east-coast. In December 1980, the forest was the site of what – today – is considered by many to be Britain’s most famous UFO encounter. Over the course of several nights in the latter part of the month, numerous military personnel reported seeing UFOs, strange lights, and even alien-type entities deep in the woods. A major cover-up was put into place to hide the startling truth of the affair, claim numerous UFO researchers.

But, that’s not all: Rendlesham is also the reputed home of a Sasquatch-style creature known as the Shug Monkey. Big cats have been reported prowling the woods for years. As have ghostly, glowing-eyed, black dogs. And centuries ago in the waters off the very nearby town of Orford, a hair-covered, crazed creature – half man and half animal - was said to have been captured and tamed.

And let’s take a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland. You thought Nessie was the strangest thing haunting those old dark waters? Nope! Big black cats – similar to those seen in the aforementioned Cannock Chase and Rendlesham Forest - consider the woods surrounding the loch to be their home too. Legend also tells of shape-shifting monsters known as Kelpies skulking around the area.

There are even reports of large animals seen in the waters of the loch that sound nothing like the image of Nessie that most people have – namely, that of a long-necked, humped animal with flippers.

Moving across the Atlantic Ocean, the huge Big Thicket woods in Texas are home to ape-men, wild men of the woods, and – yet again – big-cats. The Big Thicket is also home to something known as the Ghost-Light: a spooky, ethereal ball of bright floating light that - by night - surfs the old roads that run through and around the Big Thicket.

And the curious list goes on and on. All of this, of course, begs a very important question? Why do certain areas of our globe seem to act as full-blown “hot-spots” for weird beasts of wildly varying types? Some researchers suggest that the areas themselves are as significant as the creatures that lurk within them.

A number of theorists have suggested the idea – and, granted, an idea is all it can be perceived as right now – that certain parts of our planet act as portals or “doorways” to other realms of existence (extra-dimensions, in other words), through which all of these strange creatures come as the mood takes them.

Sounds controversial? Yes! Many might say such a scenario sounds just too controversial. And maybe they’re right.

On the other hand, if such portals do exist – and one day science proves their existence – this may well go some way towards explaining why certain parts of the Earth appear to be true magnets of the monstrous kind.

Source: Mania

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 Publicity ShotNICK REDFERN 

Born:
1964.

Education:
Pelsall Comprehensive School, Pelsall, West Midlands, England, 1976-1981.

WORK HISTORY:
1982-1984:
Employed as a staff-writer for Zero – a British Magazine on rock music and fashion.

1984-2001:
Worked as a freelance feature-writer/journalist for the following British Newspapaers: the London Daily Express; the People; the Western Daily Press; the Express & Star; and the Planet on Sunday (as a full time feature writer).

1996-2001:
Worked as a freelance journalist for the folling magazines in Britan: The Weekender (a monthly newsstand magazine on fashion news, the world of entertainment, music and lifestyles); Animals, Animals, Animals (a monthly, newsstand magazine for children on animals); Pet Reptile (a monthly newsstand magazine for reptile enthusiasts); Military Illustrated (a monthly, Anglo-American, newsstand publication on military history); Eye Spy (a monthly, Anglo-American newsstand magazine on the subject of espionage); The Unopened Files (a bi-monthly, newsstand magazine on espionage); The XFactor (a bi-weekly, newsstand magazine on unsolved mysteries); UFO Magazine (a monthly newsstand magazine on UFO’s); Alien Encounters (amonthly, newsstand magazine on UFO’s).

1997:
A Covert Agenda: The British Government’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed
Published by: Simon & Schuster, London
Book Author: Nick Redfern
This book was published in the UK, Canada, Russia, Poland, Austrailia, New Zealand and Portugal.

1998:
The FBI Files: The FBI’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed
Published by: Simon & Schuster, London
Book Author: Nick Redfern
This book was published in the UK, Canada, Russia, Poland, Austrailia, New Zealand and Portugal.

2000:
Cosmic Crashes: The incedible Story Of The UFO’s The Fell To Earth
Published by: Simon & Schuster, London
Book Author: Nick Redfern
This book was published in the UK, Canada, Austrailia, New Zealand and Portugal.

2001 – To Date:
Nick Redfern has run the U.S. Office of the British-based Center for Fortean Zoology, which is dedicated to investigating mysterious animals such as Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster.

2003:
Strange Secrets: Real Government Files on The Unknown
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

2004:
Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks In Persuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: NIck Redfern
Paraview, New York, published a first-time US Edition of Nick Redfern’s book

A Covert Agenda

2005:
June 2005
Body Snatchers In The Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

Nick continues to write in a regular freelance capacity for the London Daily Express newspaper, UFO Magazine; and Fate Magazine.

2006:
On the Trail of the Saucer Spies: UFO’s and Government Surveillance
Published by: Anomalist Books, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

2007:
Celebrity Secrets: Government Files on the Rich and Famous
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

In July 2007, Nick’s book Man-Monkey: In Search of the British Bigfoot was published by CFZ Press; and New Page Books published Nick’s Memoirs of a Monster Hunter in September.

2008:
In March, Alamah of Mexico published a Spanish-language edition of Nick’s Memoirs of a Monster Hunter.

Consultancy Research:
Nick Redfern has undertaken freelance research in a consultant capacity to the world of entertainment since 2001. He has worked as a consultant to various TV production companies, including (a) Mentorn TV of Britain; (b) Red Star Films of Canada; and (c) the United States’ Sci-Fi Channel.

Nick worked for 12 months as the co-editor of the newsstand magazine Phenomena. He has had widespread experience of editing articles for length, clarity, grammar and punctuation to the high levels required for, and expected by, newsstand publications. He has also ghostwritten and edited a number of published books for authors.

He has also worked full-time as a consultant to several authors, conducting research on their behalf.

TV/Lecture/Media Appearances:
Nick has appeared on more than 60 TV shows to promote his books and his research. In the late summer of 2004 he traveled to Puerto Rico for two weeks with a film team from the Sci-Fi Channel’s series, Proof Positive, to make a documentary about the Chupacabras. He appeared on the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann on February 9, 2005. He also traveled to Puerto Rico in September 2005 to make a show about the Chupacabras for Canada’s Space Channel. He has lectured at a variety of conferences, including the Laughlin UFO Congress (in 1998 and 2001); the Mutual UFO Network Conference in 2004; the Aztec UFO Conference in 2003; the Texas Bigfoot Research Conference in 2004; at numerous events for the British-based UFO Magazine between 1997 and 2000 (now closed); and at the UFO Crash Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas (in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006).

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