SciXFriday - Room 88, time and time again - mysteries, maps, odds and assorted randoms

“…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.” - Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book, Goodreads

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OddsnEnds - 

• Monitoring Infrasound to predict Volcanoes. Forbes
• Crop Circle season and another beauty appears. Crop Circle Connector
• You too could be an astronaut. Details about the App making that offer. Engadget
• Air Pollution linked to Diabetes. There's more. Worth tracking this story. CNN
• No mistaking the joy in this reunion. Noted by her dayglow smile. Daily Mail
• Talking crow entertains the tourists. Bonus. Accent. UPI
• Champion combines Free Bird audio + epic Yo-Yo skills. Outstanding. Huff Po
• Digg struck gold with a cool 'Collaborative Map of the Paranormal': Liminal Seattle map is the region's new go-to tool for tracking "fairies, ghosts, bigfoot, time travelers, extraterrestrials, ultraterrestrials, crow conferences, sentient lawn computers, lanyard'd ogres, broccoli wizards, etc." FYI - my random selection happened to be a staring squirrel. Quirky mappers at work. 
• Home for Spiritualists and Mediums: Cassadaga, Florida. Ripley's

Mystery in Room 88.



Video Description from YouTube: Made in a garden shed for £250.
'Room 88' is an original short film by Mike Booth.

The script was shortlisted for the Jameson First Shot Competition in 2015 and the finished film went on to screen at the London Short Film Festival 2016.

Mr. Debogorski is in book Mike is currently writing called Elderland and available to read for free here.


Wendy's Coffeehouse Schedule

7/8 - Holiday replay from 7/1 - Avrel Seale, Monster Hike. 100 mile adventure on the trail of Sasquatch.
7/15 - Board Camp Crystal Mine, Orville and Cheryl Murphy. My visit to the site and updates on the ongoing paranormal activity.
7/22 - Gary Hart, The Sasquatch Whisperer. One of the researchers who explored Board Camp Crystal Mine.
7/29 - Keith Linder, The Bothell Hell House: Poltergeist of Washington State.

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Alone, Avrel Seale set out to explore the mystery in a trek through one of America's hottest bigfoot-sighting areas. Monster Hike

"You can't throw a rock in southern Utah without hitting somebody who's been abducted." - Filmmaker Trent Harris, sponsored a UFO film festival in Bicknell, Utah, Skinwalker Ranch

Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview: Avrel Seale - Monster Hike

OddsnEnds -

• July 2 is World UFO Day. Blast from past and check-in with the present:
  - 1931 sighting from an Aviation Pioneer. Video YouTube, BEAMS story
  - 2018 sighting and engagement in Stillwell, Oklahoma. Reported to MUFON.
  
• Spectral Invisibility Cloak is impressive - Futurism
• Invisibility cloak improvisation. Twitter
• Fact or fiction, the truth is out there. Forrest Fenn's $2M treasure still calls the hopeful. Unfortunately, that call isn't loud enough to disclose the location. According to Big Think, Fenn says at least one person has been within 100 feet of the treasure, out of the several thousands who have searched.
• The Guardian shadowed treasure hunter, Sacha Johnston.
• Best rumor of 2018: Picard. Next Gen reboot. Den of Geek, io9/Gizmodo

Monster Hike - Alone, Avrel Seale sets out on a quest to cover a one hundred mile trek through one of America's hottest bigfoot-sighting areas - Sam Houston National Forest in East Texas - in the hope of encountering Bigfoot.



What if some 'monsters' can choose to remain undiscovered? For instance, Sasquatch.

"Why, after thousands of encounters with humans, do they still go unacknowledged by science, government, and mainstream society? And what does all of this tell us about the dangers and the rewards of believing in something mysterious?" .… Monster Hike

My question: how can a non-existent fiction leave footprints?

Monster Hike on Amazon

Avrel Seale takes us along on his quest to encounter Bigfoot.
I am curious and have seen signs of Sasquatch myself that shift the issue from myth to reality. Referring here to Board Camp Crystal Mine. Link is to a previous blog post and interview.

After doing a thorough job of Sasquatch backstory research, meal prep and camp supply stashing, (Impressive!) Avrel hit the trail.

Two nights into the trip and I was settled in and comfy, reading his story from the safety of my laptop. Just that initial report made me more than happy that Avrel was doing the leg work on this journey and I could understand if he had seriously considered punting the whole thing at that point.

The thought of camping now inspires more attention to the possibility of a hasty exit or SOS call for help. That ominous vibe didn't exist with 127 Hours.

FYI if you do plan to stake out a remote locale. Peace of mind: Find me Spot

Back to ominous. Check out the cover. He doesn't come up empty handed. 18 inch footprint beside a size 10 and a half shoe. Texas. Right.

Read the book? Here's a bonus from the blog. Avrel goes back out for another look. In that camp scene again, he notices a few more anomalies. What's with the abandoned tents? No mention of black panthers. Apparently, Texas has those too. Texas Cryptid Hunter

Consider some 'monsters' have no desire to be found and might even have the ability to erase or block knowledge of their presence and their source. Study their cameo appearances at places like
Skinwalker Ranch

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