Strange Familiars: Episode 37: The Oldest Bigfoot Photo?
Alison and Timothy have a discussion about some antique photos which purport to show paranormal entities. First they discuss an article which is being shared on social media of a photo which is supposed to be the oldest bigfoot photo and the many reasons why they doubt this photo is what it is claimed to be. In the second part of the show they discuss the Cottingly fairy photographs, ghost photographs, spirit photography, and more.
Episode 37 notes and links:
The cover image is from a photograph in Timothy’s collection. This is not the image we discuss in this episode and is, in fact, a man holding a bear skin. It is an example of the type of old photograph which often gets shared as a “bigfoot photo”.
This is a link to the article on Ancient Origins website which shows the “bigfoot” photo we discuss in this episode: https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/bigfoot-cryptozoology-conspiracy-0010179
The Cottingly fairy photographs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
The photo of the soldier from Devil’s Den as discussed:
One of the ghost photos discussed:
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Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com
The song which closes the episode is Twelve Moons by Timothy. This song appears on Timothy’s new album Fallow: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/fallow
In this episode we hear two new Flannel Man accounts. Jeff, who previously appeared on episode 34 returns to tell of his encounter with a flannel-wearing entity in his girlfriend’s house. Maria also tells her tale of two Flannel Man encounters. In her first encounter she was touched on the shoulder by the entity! Timothy also relates a story of Flannel Man appearing to trapped miners in 1945.
Timothy and John head back to Michaux Forest where they meet Kelly and Mark (along with Ben and Cayden). Kelly and Mark experienced a fearful night of horrid screams and awful smells while camping back in 1985. They had not returned to the site since that night but met us in the forest to tell their story where it happened. Then Timothy goes to a local park to investigate a very recent report of strange activity.
Timothy speaks to Jeff regarding his lifetime of strange experiences from ESP to spirits, shadow people, a werewolf-like thing, a strange cryptid and more.
Timothy welcomes Duke from World Bigfoot Radio to the show for a conversation. Duke talks about the different types of bigfoot creatures reported by witnesses as well as trolls, mountain giants, devil monkeys, and other cryptid creatures of the wilds. We also discuss some of Duke‘s field research, tree structures, the possibility of bigfoot using guard crows, and more.
Seriah, Joshua Cutchin, and Timothy Renner discuss more listener accounts of strange light phenomena.
