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I received the following email concerning activity at a residence. The witness had read an account and stated he and his wife wanted to detail some of the Bigfoot activity occurring around their home."Sir - After reading the Mingo County, West Virginia resident and other stories, we thought that you may want to read what we are putting up with at our home. We live in Marion County, Florida and are a retired couple. We are in a neighborhood very near Ocala National Forest.When we moved here in 2014, we were told of strange sightings in the area - in particular Bigfoot. We had moved from NYC, so I figured it was just a bunch of hogwash - just like the alligators in the NYC sewers.To make a long story short, here is a list of things going on here:- Howling late at night. Intense guttural screams to be exact. Many times they come from different directions at one time.- I know the Bigfoot are making the noise because we have encountered them. One broke my side garage door not long after we moved in. We weren't home at the time, but I have no doubt that's what did the damage. My wife saw a young one in her garden one evening. She turned the porch light on and it scampered into the brush. She described it as 4ft or so, with long dark hair all over its body.- They like to leave things around the yard and patio. Usually it's other people's garbage - cans and bottles for the most part. I don't want to encourage this activity by leaving something for them, but I'm sure that they mean no harm.- I have never seen another animal in our yard, which I believe is unusual because of where we live. We feel that the Bigfoot roam so near to our property that small animals avoid the area. This could be the wrong assumption, but the lack of raccoons, opossums, etc. is strange.I'm not going to try and take photographs, because I believe that they know better and that it would anger them. A fellow on our block tried to set out a motion sensitive camera. Well the damage they endured from a Bigfoot (a busted camera, broken lawn furniture and uprooted plants) changed those plans.I have seen people going into the forest at other locations - and it's obvious that they are searching for the Bigfoot, even though the wildlife is protected. My feeling is that they should leave these creatures alone, though I doubt they'll ever find one. They are very keen and aloof - almost magical in the way they go about their lives.I didn't want to give out our exact location. We don't want the Bigfoot people trampling about the neighborhood." VNOTE: It's an interesting account. They didn't leave a phone number, but they did return my email with a few more details I added to the original inquiry. I'm not sure whether they have learned to live with the Bigfoot or rather that they are gone. But I do think that they have gained a certain amount of respect for their neighbors in the forest. LonCryptid Creatures of Florida: Second EditionA Menagerie of Mysterious Beasts: Encounters with Cryptid CreaturesAmerican Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in AmericaFearsome Creatures of Florida**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!INSECTOIDS! - OPPRESSIVE ORGANISMS | LIVE CHAT - Join Us! | Q & A (CHILLING EXPERIENCER ACCOUNTS)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I want to sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine a bit of overconfidence particular media institutions and political campaigns are showing as we round off just 83 days to the general election. The polls are spun in positive lights for both campaigns as historical data is cast to the side, and the blustering from legacy media outlets begins to fracture on the honeymoon we were promised wasn’t a phase. Josh Hammer, editor-at-large at Newsweek and show host on The First, joins us to examine the stain of antisemitism on the liberal side of the aisle, consistently finding footing in Minnesota and beyond. Stephen Kent of the Consumer Choice Center takes a break from his busy campaign in Virginia to discuss a massive controversy surrounding a lawsuit against the Disney Corporation and what this spells long term for an organization which defined millions of childhoods. This installment of “Whatcha’ Watchin” may not be the most laid back, but it is one of the most important segments we’ve ever aired. Catch the live radio show and livestream weeknights at 7 p.m. EDT on The Daily Signal’s YouTube, X, or Facebook. The post WATCH: The Liberal Media Get Overconfident appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Oh woe is us! Hackers have found vulnerabilities in voting machines and, gee whiz, there is just no way to fix them before the November election. At least that is what the Politico cybersecurity reporter Maggie Miller would like you to believe. However, there is a certain word very conveniently missing from her story on Monday and that missing word is "paper," as in "paper ballots," which you will find nowhere in "The nation’s best hackers found vulnerabilities in voting machines — but no time to fix them." Some of the best hackers in the world gathered in Las Vegas over the weekend to try to break into voting machines that will be used in this year’s election — all with an eye to helping officials identify and fix vulnerabilities. The problem? Their findings will likely come too late to make any fixes before Nov. 5. Media Translation: If there are voting machine irregularities this November there was no time to fix it. Every August, hackers at the DEF CON conference find security gaps in voting equipment, and every year the long and complex process of fixing them means nothing is implemented until the next electoral cycle. As a result, many in the election security community are bemoaning the fact that no system has been developed to roll out fixes faster and worrying that the security gaps that get identified this year will provide fodder for those who may want to question the results. “As far as time goes, it is hard to make any real, major, systemic changes, but especially 90 days out from the election,” said Catherine Terranova, one of the organizers of the DEF CON “Voting Village” hacking event. She argued that’s particularly troubling during “an election year like this.” But Election Day security is under particular scrutiny in 2024. That’s both because of increasing worries that foreign adversaries will figure out how to breach machines, and because President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of widespread fraud in 2020 undermined confidence in the vote among his supporters. It's very very important to get the typical media slam in early at Trump in any discussion about election integrity. But somehow Politico didn't find any space to discuss Dominion Voting Machines and Smartmatic suing the pro-Trump news networks after the 2020 election, as in: wait, there were problems that went unfixed before that massive-turnout Covid election? It continued:  As a result, many in the election security community are bemoaning the fact that no system has been developed to roll out fixes faster and worrying that the security gaps that get identified this year will provide fodder for those who may want to question the results. “As far as time goes, it is hard to make any real, major, systemic changes, but especially 90 days out from the election,” said Catherine Terranova, one of the organizers of the DEF CON “Voting Village” hacking event. She argued that’s particularly troubling during “an election year like this.” Hmmm... A system immune to machine hacking or perhaps not a machine at all but a successful blast from the past such as paper ballots? Ironically although Maggie Miller seems to have forgotten that, she herself mentioned the paper ballot solution two years ago in her Politico story about the 2022 DEF CON conference: The findings have fueled calls to move back to using paper ballots or machines with paper records to verify votes. Paper ballots, once hailed even by liberals (and Politico) as a solution to voting machine irregularities, has been sent down the media Memory Hole.

Vice President Kamala Harris was just busted for attempting to manipulate Google search results for legacy media outlets through her misleading campaign ads over the last week.  The Biden-Harris administration has been repeatedly caught coordinating with Big Tech to censor Americans’ free speech under the guise of protecting viewers from so-called “misinformation.” But this apparent leftist virtue only carries so far it seems. Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign was caught attempting to manipulate Google search results by turning fake news headlines into sponsored campaign ads, first discovered and later reported by AllSides Tuesday. Seemingly responding to the left’s ever-present crusade against free speech that runs afoul of their narrative, The Free Press editor Bari Weiss responded to the exposé by asking, “Will this count as misinformation? Or nah?”  The Google Ads Transparency Center, which AllSides cited, shows that Harris paid to link fake headlines with popular news sites. “Some of the Google ads display pro-Harris slogans while linking to articles mostly from news sources AllSides rates as Lean Left, such as AP, PBS, and CNN and some Center-rated sources such as Reuters,” AllSides reported. Other outlets that the campaign used included NPR, The Independent, Time and The Guardian. One fake headline the Harris campaign misleadingly attributed to the “Lean Left” media outlet The Guardian read, “VP Harris = Repro Leader.” It was paired with the summary: “VP Harris is a champion for reproductive freedom and will stop Trump's abortion bans.” Another headline misleadingly attributed to Reuters flatly claimed, “Inflation Is Down” with a summary that read, “Under the Biden-Harris Administration ‘The U.S. is winning the inflation fight.’” Harris’s campaign ads didn’t simply rewrite article summaries and headlines to favorably frame her policies. It also created headlines to make Trump look bad.  AllSides tested its research by conducting real Google searches in one of the places where the Harris campaign targeted these fake news ads. AllSides found that a search on Google for “donald trump patriot” returned an article from the left-leaning UK outlet Independent, with Harris’s ad presenting the fake news headline: “Trump Defends Jan 6 Comments | VP Harris Protects Democracy.” Yet, according to AllSides, the corresponding Independent headline on the piece read, “Kamala Harris warns of ‘all-out attack’ on voting rights by Trump and Republicans.” The Harris campaign targeted these ads at users in crucial swing states including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to the Google Ads Transparency Center. The Google tool also showed that Harris’s campaign has spent $878,000 for text-based ads in Google Search (which includes but is not limited to ads with fake news headlines). AllSides CEO John Gable emphasized the impact of this search manipulation in a statement Wednesday. “"The Harris campaign is running Google ads that blur the line between campaign content and news reporting,” he said. “These ads are misleading, misrepresent the original news content, give the appearance of support for her candidacy, and create an impression of bias on the part of the outlets whose content is being promoted. These types of ads should be disallowed from Google.” Statement from AllSides CEO on Harris campaign's misleading Google ads@Google @KamalaHQ @KamalaHarris pic.twitter.com/Uk52Y0SCPB — AllSides (@AllSidesNow) August 14, 2024 Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment and provide an equal platform for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using MRC Free Speech America’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

A social media influencer confirmed to CBS News that influencers could be paid up to $10K and more a month by left-wing groups to create liberal propaganda. Awa Sanneh is a beauty tip influencer on TikTok, but she told CBS that she had been hired by a left-wing organization after she visited the White House and posted about it on her account. 'We just have to be working with them. And if we're not, we're missing a huge way that voters are getting information about the world.'Sanneh would not say how much she was paid but told CBS it was in the tens of thousands for creators with her following on social media. "A video just for a creator in my size, an average can go from $3,000 to $10,000 and upwards," she said.Robert Flaherty, who runs digital strategy for the Kamala Harris campaign, says they have reached out to thousands of influencers. "We give them talking points, resources, base language, you know, graphics that they could repurpose or lift," he explained. "We just have to be working with them. And if we're not, we're missing a huge way that voters are getting information about the world," Flaherty added. He went on to say that the campaign does not pay influencers directly, but CBS found numerous political groups that do pay them directly. Sanneh says that she discloses when she's being paid on political posts, but the Federal Election Commission voted in December that influencers don't need to disclose that information on political messaging. She has been invited to the Democratic National Convention and plans on attending. "They just told us that if we wanted to put on our own show that they would give us all the resources to do that," she added. The report noted that Turning Point USA has been recruiting influencers on the right for years. CBS posted its interview with Sanneh on YouTube. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A liquor store manager in Minnesota said he was shocked to see security video of his 8-year-old daughter wielding a baseball bat to help him fight off an armed robber. The incident unfolded around 9:30 p.m. Saturday as the store manager who calls himself Leo was preparing to close the Big Discount Liquors in Maplewood. A man dressed in an Amazon uniform walked in and placed a realistic-looking BB gun on the counter. 'I'm so proud of her,' her dad recalled. 'She's so strong.' "He put the gun on the table, he asked me to give him all the money and everything in the register. I told him yes — I'll give you everything," Leo said. He also told the suspect that his only concern was the safety of his daughter, who was beside Leo behind the counter, WCCO-TV said.But surveillance video shows the suspect walk behind the counter with his gun, and that's when Leo took action. "I'm a dad," he said. "I'm not going to let that happen." Indeed, Leo struck the man in the head and wrestled him to the floor.Then, his brave daughter stepped into the fight, coming out swinging with the baseball bat and hitting the suspect a few times before running away, the station said."I'm so proud of her," her dad recalled. "She's so strong."The suspect fled the scene, and Leo said he didn't know his daughter jumped into the fray until looking at the video later."That day I just wanted to cry. When I saw the video, I didn't expect she'd do that. I expect a little girl crying, screaming," he said. Police soon nabbed the suspect and identified him as 37-year-old Conchobhar Morrell of St. Paul. He was charged with first-degree attempted aggravated robbery. WCCO, citing charging documents, added that Morrell's criminal record includes a 2004 conviction for first-degree aggravated robbery. Amazon said Morrell was a delivery associate for a third-party delivery service and the company acted to "immediately" off-board him.Leo added that when he asked his daughter what made her so brave, she replied that she wanted to defend him and that she loves him so much. You can view a news video about the incident, which includes the surveillance clip, here. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On Monday, Elon Musk did the very thing the left-owned media feared the most — he gave Donald Trump the X platform, allowing him to speak freely for two hours about the issues the American people care about. And then he unabashedly endorsed him. It’s really not that revolutionary if you have any respect for free speech. But as we know, the left and its media allies are the enemies of free speech. Leftists prefer rigid censorship as that allows them to control the narrative. And their favorite narrative has long been: Trump is Hitler. Trump is anti-democracy. Trump will end America as we know it. Musk giving the former president and Republican candidate a platform to show the billion people who tuned in to watch the falsity of the mainstream narrative is therefore a strike against him in the left’s handbook. But it’s certainly not the first strike. Glenn Beck recalls a time not too long ago when Elon Musk was revered by the left. - YouTube www.youtube.com “He was the savior of the world from global warming because he put battery-operated cars on the road like nobody else has ever done. He was the brightest star in the sky,” he recalls. But Musk’s unapologetic support for the first amendment — specifically his purchasing of X (formerly Twitter) and making it a platform for free speech — and his general campaign against wokeness have banished the billionaire to the realm of the blacklisted. “Now he's a failure; he's horrible; he shouldn't be listened to,” says Glenn, adding that “they spoke yesterday about possibly arresting him.” The proposition is unlikely to intimidate Musk, however. During his interview with Trump, Musk said, “I’ve not been very political before. ... They try to paint me as like a far-right guy, which is absurd because I'm like making electric vehicles and, you know, solar batteries helping them with the environment.” Musk also pointed out that he “supported Obama.” “I stood in line for six hours to shake Obama's hand when he was running for president,” he said, adding that historically he’s considered himself “a moderate Democrat.” “But now I feel like we’re really at a critical juncture for the country,” he continued. “You [Trump] are the path to prosperity, and I think Kamala is the opposite. That’s my honest opinion.” “This is to people out there who are in the moderate camp ... I think you should support Donald Trump for president,” Musk said, adding, “We’re in deep trouble if it goes the other way.” Musk’s endorsement is a devastating blow to the left and its narrative — especially considering he used to be a Democrat who “did not like Donald Trump,” says Glenn. But “if you deviate from their narrative, you are dead to them.” “If we lose this election, I truly believe we’ve lost the country,” he says, echoing Musk’s warning about America being at a junction. To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the clip above. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Parents in the Dallas area are on edge after two apparent child abduction attempts were caught on video the same day this week.The apparent child abduction attempts both happened Monday within hours and miles of each other, but law enforcement said it doesn't see any evidence the alleged kidnapping attempts are related.'Either incident could have resulted in tragedy.'The first abduction attempt happened around 8:20 a.m. in the suburb of Richardson.A freshman girl was walking to the J.J. Pearce High School campus when she noticed a motorist following her.The frightened girl rang the doorbell of a home in the area.Shane Burke answered the door and let the teen into his house. Burke told KXAS-TV, "She initially hid behind our car to see if he was coming back and sure enough, here he came really slow, and again, she was really smart. She did all the right things. When I opened the door, she started explaining that someone has been following her. She was really shaky.”He added, "I don’t think he was saying anything [to the child]. She said, 'He keeps going by real slow back and forth on the street and staring at me, and I’m not comfortable.'""I don’t know what this guy’s motive was or what he was up to, but she said she didn’t know him; he wasn’t an ex-boyfriend, or a family member, or anything, so whatever," Burke said. "This is serious. This was a close call. Fortunately, she did all the right things."Burke’s wife drove the girl to school.Burke checked his home's surveillance camera and noticed video showed a car going back and forth on the street. Burke notified police and provided them with the chilling video.Richardson Police spokesman Mike Wieczorek said the suspect's vehicle is a black or dark blue 2014-2016 4-door Toyota Corolla S. Police described the suspect as being bald, between 20 and 30 years old, with dark skin and is possibly Latino.A male is seen on surveillance video jumping out of the passenger side of the vehicle and chasing after the boy who was running back to the house.The Richardson Independent School District wrote a letter telling parents to tell their children that "if anything out of the ordinary occurs on the way to or from school, run to a safe place and report it to a trusted adult, staff member, or parent immediately."A second apparent kidnapping attempt happened around 2:40 p.m. in nearby Far North Dallas.Genna Skolnik said her sons were playing near their home with their friends when "I hear the door fly open and I hear: 'Jay’s being kidnapped! Jay’s being kidnapped!" Skolnik said she initially thought it was a prank.But Skolnik recalled a disturbing detail: "The guys in the car were telling them: 'Hey, come talk to us, check out our car.' One of the boys was totally spooked and said, 'We need to run.'""They were calling to my son saying: ‘Hey, we have a football player in the car. Like, you should come talk to him,'" Skolnik recalled, adding that her son said, "I don’t talk to strangers!" With that, she said the driver put the car in reverse, and her son "started running."A male is seen on surveillance video jumping out of the passenger side of the vehicle and chasing after the boy who was running back to the house. The male abruptly stopped when he noticed the concerned mother on the porch recording him with her cellphone. "I just wanted to take the picture and chase him back, but I wanted to get the boys inside first," Skolnik explained, adding that she was able to capture a photo of the vehicle's license plate number.The Dallas Police Department said in a press release: "The preliminary investigation determined a group of children were outside when they were approached by a young Hispanic male in a white SUV, asking one of the children to look at something in the back of his vehicle."Dallas Police identified the vehicle as a Toyota Four-Runner. Investigators are also looking at a dark-colored Chevy pickup truck caught on video that also could have been involved in the apparent attempted kidnapping. Council Member Cara Mendelsohn of District 12 in northern Dallas was "shocked" over the apparent attempted child abductions. "I am thankful no child was hurt. Either incident could have resulted in tragedy,” Mendelsohn wrote on the X social media platform. According to data from the crime analytics dashboard for the city of Dallas, there have been 122 kidnappings or abductions this year — a 14% increase compared to the same period in 2023. There have been 57 crimes of human trafficking committed this year in Dallas. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!