By: Hettie Basil Lighttower
Last week we explored scary sea monsters in honor of Halloween. This week, let’s discuss the real-live monsters on land! We are still in time to do it before Halloween. Now, these land monsters are what we should be most concerned about.
How many of you have heard about YouTube channels online that are made up of footage taken from trail cams? AKA trail cameras. People have cameras up everywhere nowadays. State parks, national parks, walking trails, private property, county parks, city parks and general wooded areas. It is difficult not to be out and about, even on a nature hike, and NOT be on camera.
Many things have been captured on camera in these remote areas. Several people put them up on private property so they can see what game might be available during hunting season. Some folks just want to know what animal certain footprints belong to and who is getting into their garbage at night or eating all the bird seed from the feeders. Among all the reasons to keep an eye out at night and in remote places, a new reason has sprung up for placing cameras and capturing motion on video. That reason is to try to capture bigfoot or a wolfman or any other fable which a few crazy people have claimed to have seen.
Yes, there are people that have claimed to have had personal encounters with D: All the above. Well…. First thing we regular folk want to know is “Do you have proof? Where is the picture? Where is the proof?” Seeing is believing. I hate to be the barer of bad news, however; there is A LOT of proof out there now in internet land on a website called YouTube. MANY people have uploaded their videos which their hidden trail cams have captured some very scary creatures. I seriously can’t list all the unusual hideous sitings all in one little column. I will describe a couple.
One camera channel is called Maximum Fear. You can look it up. This camera seems to be a hotspot for unusual sightings. It also claims that this year, 2024 has had the most activity on the hidden cameras. You can check out the camera Maximum Fear on YouTube and see how it has escalated and 2024 being the worst. Or the best, depending on your point of view of the subject.
Just for a sampling a clear and vivid shot of bigfoot is on this trail cam. The camera is located along the Oregon River. Another cryptid beast caught on video is a gargoyle type thing with intense large muscles, short weird wings and pointed devil-like spikes on its head. Ok are these real? I don’t know. What I do know is there are many cameras out there capturing many things. How can ALL of them be wrong? Why do so many people disappear in national parks?
Another account has recorded a levitating girl in the woods, mysterious wolfman like creatures, unexplained trees being torn down, and on and on with creepy unusual ridiculousness. If you are one that thrives on fear and like being scared for fun. Please have at it. Sit and watch trail cam footage on YouTube and you decide: fake or real? Is it safe to go on a harmless nature walk? Is it safer as long as the sun is still out? Should we avoid being alone on a hike in a national forest? These are all serious questions. And why is there more activity on these cameras this year? Is it because we have more cameras up? Is it because cameras are more advanced and get better pictures with more details so we actual know for sure it was what we thought it was?
I have so many questions. But with all the strange phenomena in the oceans, seas and lakes, how could we not expect to have a few strange phenomena on the land? Good luck out there and please always be on the buddy system. Your life may depend on it. Happy Halloween.
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