Jaci Dawn

That isn’t Bigfoot. It’s my brother. He’s protecting his brain from mind-reading Space Aliens. Maybe that’s why my husband thinks my family is so weird?

Naw, couldn’t be that.

I was surfing the news today when I found this interesting article: Bigfoot Trackers Say They Have A Body

There’s going to be a news conference on Friday Evening, August 15th.

Why am I telling you this and what does it have to do with my brother?

Well, the news has been kind of weird lately. A couple weeks ago, the infamous Montauk Monster surfaced. There was a poll on CNN asking what everyone thought and I marked that it was definitely a griffon (not to be confused with a grif-fawn, which is what Murphy is: a “Wirehaired Pointing Grif-FAWN”, which sounds very pretentious. He’s a grif-fawn to distinguish him from griffons, which are what the Montauk Monster is.) OK, it really is not a griffon. It’s a dead raccoon with the nose chewed off, but it was fun while it lasted and the body has mysteriously disappeared so science will never get to ask those questions. Like, why was all the hair gone?

And a couple days ago, a deputy in Dewitt County, Texas, filmed the legendary chupucabra: the “goat-sucker” of Mexican lore, which is a hairless dog-like animal with short front legs and long back legs. The creature in the film looks sort of like a coyote that got shaved. Or a coyote/dog cross. It certainly doesn’t look like some sort of goat-sucking demon of the night. Whatever it is, it is a better cryptid than the Montauk Monster.

With the breaking news that someone has the body of Bigfoot in a freezer somewhere, I just had to do some more research. I tried looking for videos on YouTube. Before you go looking, make sure you have an empty bladder.

My research took me to Bigfoot Encounters. They have an interactive map of the United States and much of Canada. Just click on a state (or province) and you’ll be directed to recorded sightings of bigfoot in your state. There have been several sightings in Oregon (the first recorded Oregon sighting was in 1897, in Harney County). I checked Idaho, Washington, Nevada and Oregon. The oldest sighting I found in a brief search was in Manitoba, Canada, in 1784.

I told my husband I was blogging about this and he said something that approximated, “Harumph.” Then he said, “I’ve been out inthewoodsnearlyallmylifeandneverhaveseen…” yada yada yada. Some people are born skeptics. Some people are just plain no fun. He made fun of the faeries, too. He thinks I am nuts.

But he’s the one who made sure the kids all knew the Legend of Falling Rock and the Lost Tribe of Rocks. You know, they post signs for them everywhere: Watch For Falling Rock, Watch for Rocks, Look Out for Fallen Rock, and Rocks on Road.Just because we haven’t seen them, doesn’t mean they aren’t still out there somewhere. I found a couple blogs that tell the Legend of Falling Rock, too.

Do cryptids exist? Do Space Aliens exist?  Does my brother need to wear aluminum foil on his head to keep them from reading his mind?

The answer to the last question is “No, he has no mind to speak of.” And that is the last word.