Where Did the Name Bigfoot Come From?

He made a plaster cast of one of the prints and brought it to the local newspaper office.

The creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” received its name from a series of reported large footprints found in the forests of northern California in the 1950s. These footprints were said to be much larger than those of a human and became a topic of interest among locals and researchers.

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Zone of Silence

An area where radio signals and any type of communications cannot be received.

Once upon a time in 1970, a military training rocket went off course and accidentally invaded Mexican airspace. Somehow landing hundreds of miles off-course, the rocket buried itself in the desert region of Durango, Mexico.

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Ghost Hunters: The TAPS Team

Ghost Hunters is a paranormal and reality television series.

Ghost hunters are individuals or teams who investigate and research paranormal phenomena, specifically focusing on ghosts and hauntings. “The Ghost Hunters” is a paranormal and reality television series.

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Chicago O’Hare UFO Sighting

Disc-shaped object hovering above gate C17 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport

The O’Hare UFO sighting occurred on November 7, 2006, when witnesses reported a disc-shaped object hovering above gate C17 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. At approximately 16:15 CST, federal authorities at Chicago O’Hare International Airport received a report that a group of twelve airport employees were witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Gate C-17.

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Winchester Mystery House

It is sometimes claimed to be one of the “most haunted places in the world”

This Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its architectural curiosities. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, located at 525 South Winchester Boulevard San Jose, CA 95128. It is also known for its paranormal anomalies.

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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

A massive neo-gothic architectural landmark and a dark tourism destination

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride psychiatric hospital[1] that was operated from 1864 until 1994 by the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia, in the city of Weston. This site is claimed to be a venue for the demonic haunting and is now a site for themed horror shows.

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Colossal Claude

It has a round tan body with a snake, horse, or camel-like head and a long serpentine tail.

On or just after the Ides of March 1934, the skipper of the lightship tender Rose returned from dropping off a relief crew on the Columbia River Lightship with a remarkable story. It seems the entire crew of the lightship, plus the crew of the Rose, saw a huge, snaky thing swimming around the ship – a genuine sea serpent.

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Butte, Montana – The Cabbage Patch

Butte’s forgotten ghetto

Butte is a consolidated city county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century and was Montana’s first major industrial city. In its heyday, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West.

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Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting

Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects

The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour

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