Monster Files: A Look Inside Government Secrets and Classified Documents on Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals - Softcover

Redfern, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601632630 ISBN 13: 9781601632630

Verlag: Career Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Does the Pentagon have the body of Bigfoot on ice?
What is the U.S. military hiding from us about lake monsters?
What is the link between the CIA and the abominable snowman?
Why is there a British government file on sea serpents?
What do the Russians know about animal ESP?

For decades there have been persistent rumors, tales, and legends that government agencies all around the world have been secretly collecting and studying data on bizarre beasts, amazing animals, and strange creatures.

Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, sea serpents, psychic pets, the chupacabras, and the abominable snowman have all attracted official, classified interest.

Now, for the first time, the full, fearsome facts are finally revealed in Nick Redfern's Monster Files.

You'll discover all the amazing cryptozoological truths, conspiracies, and cover-ups behind the secret studies by the Pentagon, the Kremlin, and the British military, among many others.

Despite what your parents might have told you when you were a child, monsters, creepy creatures, and terrifying beasts really do exist. And our governments know all about them.

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Nick Redfern is the author of more than thirty books on UFOs, Bigfoot, and cryptozoology, including Monster Files, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, and The Real Men in Black. He has appeared on more than seventy television shows, including the SyFy Channel's Proof Positive, the History Channel's Ancient Aliens, and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

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Monster Files

A Look Inside Government Secrets and Classified Documents on Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals

By Nick Redfern, Kirsten Dalley

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 2013 Nick Redfern
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-60163-263-0

Contents

Introduction, 
Chapter 1 The President's Bigfoot, 
Chapter 2 Serpents of the High Seas, 
Chapter 3 An Army of Manimals, 
Chapter 4 A Wartime Wolfman, 
Chapter 5 Weird and Wacky Winged Wonders of War, 
Chapter 6 How the Pentagon Made a Monster, 
Chapter 7 Welcome to the Jungle, 
Chapter 8 Animal ESP and the U.S. Army, 
Chapter 9 A Yeti-Hunting 007, 
Chapter 10 Secret Agents and a Supersized Snake, 
Chapter 11 Autopsying a Monster, 
Chapter 12 The Strange Saga of Acoustic Kitty, 
Chapter 13 The Minnesota Iceman, the FBI, and the Vietnam War, 
Chapter 14 From Lake Monsters to Secret Experiments, 
Chapter 15 Sasquatch, UFOs, and the U.S. Air Force, 
Chapter 16 Back in the U.S.S.R., 
Chapter 17 Are We Ready for Bigfoot?, 
Chapter 18 A Mountain of Secrets, 
Chapter 19 The Nessie Files, 
Chapter 20 A Nightmare From the Skies, 
Chapter 21 Specters and Phantimals, 
Chapter 22 The ABCs of a Royal Conspiracy, 
Chapter 23 The Biggest Blooper of Them All, 
Chapter 24 In Search of the Government's Mermaids, 
Chapter 25 The Cat Is Out of the Bag, 
Chapter 26 Werewolves and the Military, 
Chapter 27 Something Dwells Down Under, 
Conclusion, 
Bibliography, 
Index, 
Acknowledgments, 
About the Author, 

CHAPTER 1

THE PRESIDENT'S BIGFOOT

Given that we have to start somewhere on our search for the truth about monsters and officialdom, we might as well show a fair degree of ambition and aim just about as high as we can. And it doesn't get much higher than the office of the President of the United States of America. Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt served as the Commander in Chief from 1901 to 1909 and is, to date, the youngest person to have ever held the position of presidential office: He was only 42 when he came to power. But, it's not the man's politics or youth that we're focusing on here. Rather, it's something monstrous, something malignant, something — or some thing — in the woods. Indeed, an inquiry into the controversial affair in question strongly suggests that the president became the recipient of nothing less than an early and quite graphic account of a violent encounter with a marauding, bloodthirsty Bigfoot.

As Roosevelt noted, frontiersmen are hardly the sort of people to be influenced by tales of paranormal or unexplained events. They are, after all, much too busy focusing on the practicalities and the day-to-day activities that go along with working, living, and hopefully surviving in the wild. But, there are occasional exceptions to that rule. And it was one of these exceptions that was actually made known to a U.S. president. The strange and sinister tale in question came to Roosevelt from a hunter by the name of Bauman. He had spent his entire life living and hunting in the American wilderness, and he was said to possess a profound knowledge of all sorts of tales of spectral entities and beasts of a most evil nature that haunted the forests, and that taunted and terrorized those people who dared intrude upon their dark domain.

Not surprisingly, given the impressive amount of time he spent in the forests of the United States, as well as his deep knowledge of supernatural lore, when Bauman spoke, the president listened. And he listened very carefully and closely, too. There was a good reason why Roosevelt's interest was so piqued. He, too, was an avid outdoorsman and a keen hunter. For example, in March of 1909, after his presidency was over, Roosevelt headed off to the expansive wilds of Africa, where he took part in a mammoth-sized hunt that saw at least 11,000 wild animals, including rhinos and elephants, slaughtered or captured by Roosevelt and his colleagues. So perhaps we can understand why Bauman's tale of terror so gripped the mind and imagination of this adventurous American president.

Deep in the woods, a nightmare begins

Back in the mid-1800s, Bauman and a friend spent time camping deep in the heart of the Bitterroot Range, a huge range in the Rocky Mountains that runs for more than 3,000 miles from British Columbia to New Mexico. It was on this particular range that something terrible, savage, and murderous lurked and roamed. At the time the incident took place, Roosevelt explained, Bauman was still very much a young man, and was hunting with a friend in a wild, mountainous area of the range. Not having had much success catching anything of significance, however, the duo elected to head to a much more desolate and seldom-traveled pass, through which ran a small stream, the home to a sizeable colony of beavers. Interestingly, the pass in question had developed an unnerving reputation as a place of malignancy and negativity. The reason for this was simple: Barely a year before the event that Bauman was about to describe, a woodsman was ripped to shreds and partially devoured by an unknown predator. The man's remains had been found by a shocked group of prospectors seeking their fortune, but who instead only encountered violent death and stark tragedy.

Bauman and his friend, however — both experienced men of the forests — were not at all daunted or dissuaded by this unsettling affair; in fact, far from it. The pair had packed all of the provisions they would need for significant time spent in the woods. Once they reached the pass, they headed still further up into the mountains with a pair of pack ponies as their only traveling companions. When the ground made going so difficult for the animals, Bauman and his buddy were forced to leave them in a stretch of meadow. The pair was now completely alone. For around four hours they trekked ever onward and upward through the dense, dark forest, finally reaching a small glade where they chose to make camp for the night — primarily due to the fact that there was evidence of plenty of game in the area. The next couple of hours were taken up with building a shelter and heading upstream to catch a few tasty salmon for a much-needed, hearty supper. It was when they returned to the camp that things took a decidedly alarming turn.

The camp was in a state of chaotic disarray. Some form of crazed, wild animal had evidently found the camp and virtually destroyed it. Their lean-to was mangled to pieces, backpacks had been torn open and their contents rifled, food was gone, and large paw-prints could be seen all around the area. The aggravated pair assumed they were bear prints — not an uncommon sight in that part of the world — so they had no choice but to quickly rebuild and settle down for the evening. As the night progressed, and as they scanned the area intently and with understandable trepidation, it became clear that the bear theory was not quite as sound as it had seemed earlier.

After carefully examining the numerous tracks, Bauman's comrade noted with astonishment that the beast — whatever it was — had clearly been walking on two legs. Totally baffled, the two studied the prints for a while longer, but were only able to conclude that they showed distinct paws or feet — but they were from no bear. The reason they knew is that although the tracks did seem to display evidence of claws — which certainly could have implied that a bear was the...

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• Verlag: Career Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1601632630
• ISBN 13: 9781601632630
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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