Cryptids: Bigfoot, Nessie, Chupacabra

Hecklefish Moriarty, Why Files, 3/2/24; Ron Morehead (Sierra Sounds); Joe Rogan, linguist R. Scott Nelson; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cryptids: cryptozoological specimens science studies but has not yet substantiated as existing

Sasquatch Sierra Sounds (Ron Morehead, Al Berry)

(MelBlanc222) 2/3/16: In the early 1970s, Al Berry and Ron Morehead went into the woods of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern California and collected a series of Bigfoot vocalizations called the Sierra Sounds (ronmorehead.com).

Creatures & Cryptid Files, Vol 1: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and El Chupacabra

(The Why Files) Bigfoot, Nessie, and Chupacabra are cryptids that have captured our curiosity for ages.

Nat'l park rangers know they're real, keep quiet.

Tales of mysterious and elusive creatures (monsters) roaming the wilderness spark our imagination.

In this first installment of... quite a few, we explore three famous cryptids that have left big footprints on popular culture (ahem).

Dr. Melba Ketchum published scientific evidence

Bigfoot sightings go back centuries before the arrival of Europeans. We investigate theories on Gigantopithecus, hear (and see) compelling accounts from apparently credible witnesses and, of course, we discuss the famous Patterson-Gimlin Film of Sasquatch close up in the Pacific Northwest.

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Some may be Humanzee hybrids

The Loch Ness Monster is one of my personal favorites. There are photographs, film, and video. Could Old Nessie be the last surviving dinosaur?

The Chupacabra, or "Goatsucker" that drains goats of blood, started to be sighted in 1995. This vampiric predator terrorized Puerto Rico, massacring livestock. Theories on alien experiments and genetic mutations [another Montauk monster?] attempt to explain its sudden appearance. #Cryptids #Bigfoot #Chupacabra.

COMMENTARY: C'mon, you guys don't actually believe this flamin pile of BS!?

Humans are the only bipeds on this planet. How can anyone believe in hairy hominin apes?

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Sasquatches have language? (Sierra Sounds)

C'mon, Wisdom Quarterly, everybody knows "Bigfoot" is just a fairytale mothers tell their kids so they won't leave the tent at night or stray too far from the campground in the day. Nobody actually believes it, not any adult with a brain unless. Maybe a hick or a hayseed. Even The Why Files is just trying to scare up views. Hecklefish Moriarty is kidding! What evidence is there? And don't gimme none of that plaster footprints cr*p or blurry videos bullsl*p, or human testimonials or unidentifiable hair samples, or unexplained DNA in scat, or distant photos, or what old national park rangers admit in private, or new analyses of the Gimlin-Patterson footage. That's just a guy in a monkey suit!

Wildman/Bearman vocalizations mimic human

You're not human! You're an dirty monster! - Junior, you kiss your mother with that mouth?!

Who snaps tree trunks like twigs and bends and fashions these shelters without tools?

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Yakkhas (ogres) are so human, they mate with us

Do we believe? We do. Why? In Buddhism, these creatures would properly be classified as "ogres" (yakkhas, yakshis/yetis, rakshasas). They are very smart and, though potentially brutal cannibals, they have powers.

The most convincing evidence is not presented here but was provided by Lloyd Pye who pointed out that about 20,000 plaster casts of bipedal giants from around the world have something on them that we are never told: fingerprints.

Did Bubba 'n Jebediah sit there and carve them as a final touch on their wooden foot?

Indigenous people left signs of what they saw.

Moreover, Dr. Melba Ketchum provided all the scientific evidence anyone would ever need, including DNA and physical samples. Along with the work of Det. David Paulides (Missing 411) and BFRO, How much evidence is enough to believe? Of course, anyone will seem naive and idiotic to believe before seeing the evidence. But having examined it, one is foolish to say it's all only myth and a series of hoaxes. These creatures are real, all over the world, and the Indigenous people know and have known it all along. It's not just Sasquatch (Salish sesqet) but Almas and Yeti.

Buddhist textual evidence on top of objective science

Dhr. Seven (trans.), Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

(History Channel) Recreation not an actual close up sighting of a yakkha or matted fur ogre.

Real photo: When seen up close, it's clearly a monstrous kind of human with face and genitals.

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High strangeness Bigfoot

Rakkhasā (Sanskrit rakshasa) is a class of "demons," according to G. P. Malalasekera, living beings on earth that are chiefly nocturnal and harmful. They usually have their haunt in the water and devour humans when bathing there. Some of them live in the sea (e.g., Thag.v.931; SN. vs. 310; J.i.127; vi. 469; DhA.i.367; iii.74; Mhv.xii.45, etc.)

Yakkhas in many Buddhist accounts are hideous ogres reborn in their ugly form because of karma (deeds) committed in past lives as humans [12], "demons," "devils," animals, or other creatures. Some are benevolent.

One malevolent yakkha, named Silesaloma, appears in the Jataka Tales (Buddhist "Birth Stories") of the Pali language canon. In the story "Prince Five-Weapons and the Sticky-Haired Devil" [13] Silesaloma is described as being the height of a palm tree, with sharp teeth, two yellow tusks, and a coat of thick, matted fur.

The Quantum Bigfoot

The Bodhisatta at that time named Prince Panchayudha ("Five-Weapons") attempts to take down Silesaloma, but all his attacks, with weapons and his bare hands, are thwarted by Silesaloma's sticky fur.

Ultimately, Prince Panchayudha impresses Silesaloma with his bravery, and the ogre decides to let him go.

Prince Panchayudha explains that Silesaloma's monstrous state was brought about by unskillful deeds in past lives. He teaches Silesaloma the Five Precepts:

Author Ron Morehead

• to undertake the training to abstain from all killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, and intoxicants that occasion heedless behavior (which are not just Buddhist practices but existed from time immemorial as standards of humane behavior that lead to rebirth in the human world.

After this Silesaloma gives up violence and transforms into a benevolent and protective forest dweller [12].

• NOTE: What are these cryptid creatures, human or nonhuman, physical or supernatural, protective or demonic, well-born or beastly? Yes. According to famous Buddhist scholar G. P. Malalasekera in his Dictionary of Pali Proper Names: They are of many different kinds: nature spirits, ogres, dryads, ghosts, ghouls, spooks. In the early Buddhist records, yakkha ("giant creature"), like nāgā ("mighty being"), as an appellative, was anything but depreciative. Thus, not only is Sakka, king of the devas ("angels, gods"), so referred to (M.i.252; J.iv.4; DA.i.264), but even the Buddha is spoken of as a yakkha in poetic diction (M.i.386). Many devas, such as Kakudha, are so addressed (S.i.54). Yakkha (palikanon.com)
• AUDIO: Sierra Sounds 1
• AUDIO: Sierra Sounds 2

Joe Rogan and crypto-linguist R. Scott Nelson discuss impossibility of these

sounds coming from humans or animals. We cannot make or fake them.

New form of English discovered in USA

Phillip M. Carter (Scientific American, 6/14/23); Crystal Quintero (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Revolution in Cuba could've spared El Norte from this blended outcome.

Yo soy Mickey Mouse Club's Christina Aguilera (Krissy Eagle), white Latina, lover of makeup.

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Latinx power, ese.

A new English dialect is emerging in South Florida, linguists say:

“We got down from the car and went inside.”

“I made the line to pay for groceries.”

“He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.”

These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans. In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance.

According to recently published research (by the author of this article), these expressions – along with a host of others – form part of a new English dialect taking shape in South Florida.

This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly [too literally] from Spanish.

When French collided with English

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Whether English speakers live in Miami or elsewhere, chances are we don’t know where the words we know and use come from.

We’re probably aware that a limited number of words – usually foods, such as “sriracha” or “croissant” – are borrowed from other languages. But borrowed words are far more pervasive than we might think.

They’re all over our English vocabulary: “pajamas” from Hindi (India), “gazelle” from Arabic via French, and “tsunami” from Japanese.

Borrowed words usually come from the minds and mouths of bilingual speakers who end up moving between different cultures and places [called "code-switching"].

This can happen when certain events like war, colonialism, political exile, immigration, or climate change put speakers of different languages into contact with one another.

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When the contact takes place over an extended period of time – decades, generations or longer – the structures of the languages in question may begin to influence one another, and the speakers can begin to share each other’s vocabulary.

[Blacks (Moors) ruled England for 800 years then the French for 200 years]

"Get down from the car" or "get out of the car"? (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

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One bilingual confluence famously changed the trajectory of the English language. In 1066, the Norman French, led by William the Conqueror, invaded England in an event now known as the “Norman Conquest.”

Soon thereafter, a French-speaking ruling class replaced the English-speaking aristocracy, and for roughly 200 years, the elites of England, including the kings, did their business in French.

English never really caught on with the aristocracy, but since servants and the middle classes needed to communicate with aristocrats – and with people of different classes intermarrying – French words trickled down the class hierarchy and into the language.

During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language (medium.com), mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law, and religion.

Words that today seem basic, even fundamental, to English vocabulary were, just 800 years ago, borrowed from French: prince, government, administer, liberty, court, prayer, judge, justice, literature, music, and poetry to name just a few.

Spanish meets English in Miami

"Latinx" means Latino/Latina.

Fast forward to today, where a similar form of language contact involving Spanish and English has been going on in Miami since the end of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

In the years following the revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cubans left the island nation for South Florida, setting the stage for what would become one of the most important linguistic convergences in all of the Americas.

Today, the vast majority of the population is bilingual. In 2010, more than 65% of the population of Miami-Dade County identified as Hispanic or Latinx (Latina/Latino), and in the large municipalities of Doral and Hialeah, the figure is 80% and 95%, respectively.

Of course, identifying as Latinx is not synonymous with speaking Spanish, and language loss has occurred among second- and third-generation Cuban Americans. But the point is that there is a lot of Spanish, and a lot of English, being spoken in Miami.

Among this mix are bilinguals. Some are more proficient in Spanish, and others are more skilled English speakers. Together, they navigate the sociolinguistic landscape of South Florida in complex ways, knowing when and with whom to use which language – and when it’s okay to mix them. More: Scientific American

Proof of Rebirth: Xenoglossy

Wisdom Quarterly edit of Xenoglossy

Red hall Torii line at Fushimi Inari taisha sanctuary, Kyoto, Japan (Alex_Saurel/flickr.com)

  

Reclining Buddha (traveladventures.org)

Xenoglossy, also written xenoglossia, is the putative paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak and/or write a language he or she could not have acquired by natural means.

For example, there may be a person who suddenly speaks German fluently -- but is not a native speaker, has never studied German, never been to a German-speaking country, and never associated with German speakers or had any other source of exposure to the German language. S/he would be said to be exhibiting xenoglossy. 

The existence of this phenomenon, which may arise spontaneously or more likely during a hypnotic past life regression session, is not generally accepted by linguists and psychologists (Samarin 1976, Thomason 1984, 1987, 1996). It would be proof too robust for skeptics to overcome, so denial of its existence is an easier position to hold.

However, psychiatrist and paranormal researcher Ian Stevenson documented several cases considered authentic (Stevenson, 2001). The term derives from Greek (xenos), "foreigner" and (glōssa), "tongue" or "language."  More

• xenoglossy (Wiktionary)

Saving Dying Languages: "The Linguists" (PBS)

Weekend Edition Saturday (Feb. 21, 2009)

There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and if statistics hold, two weeks from now, there will be one less. That's the rate at which languages disappear. And each time a language disappears, a part of history — a subtle way of thinking — vanishes too.

• LISTEN: The Linguists on NPR (7:56)

A new documentary called "The Linguists," airing [Feb. 27, 2009 (Los Angeles, 9:00 PM)] on PBS, follows ethnographers David Harrison and Greg Anderson as they race to document endangered languages in some of the most remote corners of the world.

From the plains of Siberia to the mountains of Bolivia to the tribal lands of India... More>>