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| Illustrations for each of the top 9 Alaskan Native Hairy Man stories |
On the west coast of Alaska the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers empty into the Bering Sea creating one of the largest river Delta's in the world. Mostly covered in Tundra it is protected as part of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. Eighty-five percent of the 25,000 residents are Alaskan Natives both Yupik Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians.
In Alaska they have a cryptid "Hairy Man" that goes by many names. The Delta Discovery, a local publication owned by Native Alaskans has been chronically the Hairy Man stories since February 2013. We have selected our favorites and provided links to each story.
1. Plane buzzes Hairy Man people running over ice
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| Plane buzzes Hairy People |
In May of 2012, a plane took off from Bethel and headed upriver, following the Kuskokwim River. The river was breaking up and the snow had pretty much melted, but many big lakes were still frozen over.
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
Technical errors have prevented the release of any more than one blog
posting today. However you are welcome to look at that one:
Everything is running rather late today,
partly because I overslept and partly because I had a considerable amount more
work than usual to do for the Gonzo Weekly. Anyway, we are now up to date, and
the newsletter will go out later today. A little bird tells me that the long
awaited DVD of Steve Ignorant's final 'Last Supper' show is imminent. The whole
show is - I discovered the other day - available on YouTube, or at least the
whole show sans the last two or three songs, which makes somewhat of a nonsense
of the whole thing. I sincerely hope that the officially released artifact is
the whole show.
Oll is away, so for todayYesterday's News Today is done by Wally the Comedy Rhinoceros. He is a stand up comedian of some renown. Here is one of his rhino-related jokes.