Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) announced on Thursday that he is withdrawing his name from consideration for attorney general after being tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve in the position. Gaetz said that his decision came after meeting with senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. He said that it was “clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition.” Gaetz’s withdrawal comes as multiple senators expressed concern over his confirmation and the House Ethics Committee weighed releasing a report on alleged sexual misconduct. “I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback – and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition. There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1,” Gaetz wrote. “I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history. I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America.” I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback – and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance… — Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) November 21, 2024 MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ This is a developing story; refresh the page for updates. 

Now Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has dedicated much of his career — and life — to teaching. Having been bestowed the title of honor in recognition of his service, leadership, research, and teaching, Peterson’s distinguished career and sphere of influence has set him apart. His instructional practices did not end when he exited the classroom; rather, it seems they had only just begun. Peterson continues teaching on a variety of subjects outside the classroom, just as he does in his new series, “Success,” available on DailyWire+.  Today, Peterson remains steeped in his roots, leaning on his knowledge of psychology, religion, philosophy, and literature. At the same time, he will tackle any topic of conversation and answer any question posed to him; he is not one to shy away from a challenge. Addressing the topic of success, however, is no challenge to Peterson, but it is one he parses with careful consideration. His assertions are not without support, and he foregrounds his teaching on success with knowledge from his experience, practice, and research.  The beginning of the third episode opens with Peterson, still seated, reiterating a main point in the first. He refutes the notion that happiness and the absence of suffering are requirements for success. “Success is not a matter of mere happiness. Success is not a matter of mere absence of suffering” he says, using firm hand gestures that denote his seriousness. People often think they want an easy life, but he counters this idea, saying, “It’s very often the case, when people look back on their lives, they’re happiest about the things they did that were maximally challenging.” With the happiness and absence of suffering hypothesis cast aside, Peterson identifies optimized suffering as a worthy matter of success instead — specifically, “optimized challenge in the pursuit of maximal integration.” Here, Peterson harkens back to one of his foregrounding teaching topics: being reasonably embedded in a social hierarchy.  Peterson has long since established the need to be embedded in a hierarchy; without being so, a horrible life expands multidimensionally. In the absence of an intimate partner, a family, any friends, a career or job, all that is left is pain. But Peterson is a problem-solver, not simply a problem-poser. He identifies a problem and almost seems to accept the responsibility of owning it, of solving it. The diagnosis is between the individual and the hierarchy itself.  WATCH ‘SUCCESS’ ON DAILYWIRE+ Taking a lesson he has explicated thoroughly over time — that as deeply social creatures, we must be a harmonious player in a multidimensional symphony of social interaction — Peterson connects this teaching to the point at hand: optimized challenge in the pursuit of maximal integration. When you engage in competition to challenge yourself, you let go of skills that are counterproductive and develop new skills as a consequence of being challenged, he explains. “When you’re playing the game, you’re not just trying to win the game, you’re trying to become a better player while you play it.” Thus, striving to operate at all levels — with a partner, family, community, town, city, nation — in a way that makes you better at those levels is formative of success.  This means success is not an apex; it is, instead, a journey to pursue. “You think you’re going to hit a pinnacle, and that there’ll be something static about that pinnacle and that you’ll have accomplished something and you’ll be done. Well, the problem with that is, success is not a place you get to and stay.” Again, integration is required. Understanding the idea of process is necessary in order to conceptualize success, to truly understand it. As Peterson knowingly professes, “Wherever you are, you’re definitely not at your final destination.” Recalling people he has met who peaked in high school, Peterson states the truth in this example: many, many years remain to go downhill. Success as an end state is a thought which must be opposed.  To provide support for these already well-founded truths, Peterson draws on Fyodor Dostoevsky, the nineteenth-century Russian author — one that captured and held Peterson’s attention for decades. In “Notes from Underground,” Dostoevsky posits that if people were provided a worry-free life with nothing but the opportunity to enjoy, they would destroy it within a week just to have something unexpected happen. Though the idea that “if we only had enough, everything would be alright” is foolish, it is, in large part, due to our “history of privation.” Regardless, Peterson knows we are not created for the sole desire of satiation. We are, instead, built for adventure.  He continues, saying, “That adventure is part and parcel of being pushed to that development edge in the context of, let’s say, the competitive play we have to engage in.” This brings about the issue of a zero-sum attitude — an attitude of limitation, lack, and insufficiency — which must be done away with. Instead, a perspective that hones in on opportunity because “abundance is a consequence of proper social integration and social structure” is needed. Peterson speaks with an air of optimism, asserting that “the world’s an ever expanding set of possibilities.” He is also realistic, acknowledging that people face differing opportunities and limitations, which he lays claim to having witnessed with patients in his psychological practice. But even so, he has encountered people looking for opportunity. He shares a moving story of one patient in particular who “had enough largeness of soul to notice that there were people who were even worse off than her — and then wanted to do something about it.”  What of those who have been given much? “I think that with each of your talents, they come accompanied by a requisite responsibility,” Peterson says. “Very few gifts come without a price.” There is no shortage of causes for someone’s presumed limitations or constraints, as he makes evident in the list he poses: narrowness of vision and conceptualization, cynicism, bitterness, shallowness, lack of discipline, corrosive self-criticism, excuse-making and rationalization, outright deception, and sins of omission. People sometimes impose constraints on themselves for self-justifying reasons, not a direct indication of their environment.  When self-justification of constraints becomes the reason for limitations, comparison can easily ensue. Comparison has the potential to lead to envy, but “casual envy is not that wise,” Peterson warns. Here, he tells a story of triumph, of a man who faced constant trouble, “that kind of tragic trouble that never goes away,” but managed to create a successful life for himself. Peterson knows this upward striving feat can be accomplished by having a default proposition of knowing there are ways you can “get your act together” that would “open the world up to you.”  Peterson ends with hope, naming “the courage of hope” as part of success. He seems to know the viewer may tilt their head in confusion at the idea of hope being associated with success, but his reasoning makes sense. Seeing that life is cataclysmic yet still daring to hope is, indeed, courageous. “The development and cultivation of that existential courage, that’s also core to what constitutes success — and that’s the practice of virtue.” Whether intentionally or by happenstance, Peterson comes full circle and gives the viewer a chance to embark on a journey toward optimized challenge. He inquires, “How much of what isn’t working for you in your life is a consequence of your failure to seize the moment and blindness to the opportunities right in front of you?”  Consider the call to seize the moment, identify the opportunities in your path, engage in what is maximally challenging, and pursue your adventure to success.

'Thoroughly embarrassed themselves'

'Unfairly becoming a distraction'

'Facing deportation'

I received the following account from a Pennsylvania couple, Phantoms and Monsters readers, and Phantoms & Monsters Radio listeners."We have a story that we want to share with you. It happened back in August 1998. We were camping in some woods off Middle Run Road in Fairmount City, Pennsylvania (Clarion County). The area we were in was isolated. Back then it was a path off of a logging road.We set up camp and got our fire going. We felt spooked like we were being watched. But we played that off to being in the woods. Everything was fine that night, so we planned on staying Saturday night, too. We still felt spooked that night.When it started to turn daylight we heard a lot of cracking and snapping sounds. We were in the tent, so we just stayed put being really quiet. I was lying at the side of the tent - my head against the tent side. When "these things" came to the site they were talking back and forth. It sounded like little animals chattering back and forth. They got quiet and we thought they were gone. When I moved my pillow and pushed it harder against the tent something smacked the tent right above my head, and took off back into the woods. Of course, we were terrified, but we thought that it was a person trying to scare us.At this time my husband and I weren't married yet, and we just really wanted to spend time together. So we went back to the spot to camp the next weekend, but we brought friends. One of his friends brought a .22 with them. We pulled into the camping spot again. For this to make sense I need to describe the area we pulled into. One side was a 20-foot cliff down to the ground. On the other side was a thick line of pine trees. Behind the trees is a field, then more woods.We were unloading and my friend said they felt like we were being watched. I said I always feel like that, it's creepy in these woods (they didn't know about the previous events). Everyone was at the trunk getting ready to move everything down the hill, and a HUGE black shadow came out behind us and ran straight off the cliff. Everyone was so scared, we jumped back into the car and left for a while. We knew had to go back or go home. So we went back before it got too dark to set up the tent. After a while, everyone started to relax, and have fun.When it got dark someone thought they saw someone digging in the car. The guys went up, and that same huge shadow took off again. Most of us were too scared to go back up to the car. (I look back on that and wonder why! The tent was not a safe place!) We all went to sleep in the tent. That's when we heard that same 'chattering" between the 'things' again. The friend who brought the gun unzipped the tent a little bit and fired the gun. Nothing ran, but it got quiet.After a few minutes, they (the creatures) were "talking" again. He yelled we're going to fire at you if you don't leave us alone. Whatever it was left out a scary roar noise and the other thing chattered louder. We fired the gun and ran like hell to the car. We left and slept in the car. When we went back in the morning the food was left untouched. The tent area with the sleeping bags was ransacked. We left everything - the tent, sleeping bags, food - and never returned to collect it. There is some kind of creature in those woods." G & J**********DISTURBING 'MIMICS!' - NATURAL, CRYPTIDS, or SOMETHING ELSE? | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (WITNESS REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!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. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot 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 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 MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - 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-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. 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A York County, Pennsylvania resident reported a 4-foot-long, Lemur-like creature observed shaking a Dogwood tree in their neighbor's yard.I received the following account:"I was just relaxing in my house and watching some TV. We have double sliding doors with windows facing our backyard, and I can see outside from where I was lounging on the couch.That's when something began moving in the corner of my vision. When I glanced over, I noticed our 10-foot-high dogwood tree on the very end bordering our yard from the neighbors was shaking violently. I couldn't figure out what kind of animal, aside from a human, could shake an entire tree like that. I stood up and walked over to the window to peer out.There are also several extremely large pine trees bordering along the end of the backyard and I couldn't see anything through the thick foliage, even though the sun was shining brightly in the sky. The dogwood continued to shake, and then to my astonishment an enormous gray creature jumped from one of the dogwood's flimsy branches and into a huge pine nearby.I only glimpsed it for about three seconds at most, but I definitely got a good look at it, and it was like nothing I had ever seen before. The creature was rather large, perhaps around 4 feet in length. It was all gray except for its long skinny tail that had black and white stripes along it, like those lemurs from Madagascar. Its front end was somewhat slouched down, as if it had short front legs and large powerful back legs, like how a kangaroo would look.It was the weirdest creature I had ever seen. Unfortunately, I didn't get a look at its head as it quickly vanished into the pine. A few minutes later, I was outside rooting through the leaves and long grass at the end of the yard looking for footprints and maybe to catch a sighting of the creature, but I didn't find anything. Yet I know what I saw.I live in a suburb south of York, Pennsylvania (Arlington Park), and such creatures like that don't live in this area. If I absolutely had to call it a specific animal, I would say it was a lemur, but the tail wasn't bushy, but very slender and agile like a cat's. Wish I had taken a picture.I haven't seen it since that day, but there have been weird scratching noises below my bedroom window at night ever since I saw the creature and I wonder if the two are related or if it's another incident that coincidentally just happened in the same time period. My neighbor has not seen the creature." SNOTE: Since the location is close to me, I am interested in what the witness observed. For several years there were reports of cryptid canines and upright, hooved creatures seen in the same general area. South-Central Pennsylvania is well-known for a multitude of cryptid creature sightings and encounters. Lon**********DISTURBING 'MIMICS!' - NATURAL, CRYPTIDS, or SOMETHING ELSE? | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (WITNESS REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!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. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot 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 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 MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - 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-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Here's an interesting account of an unknown creature from the waters of Puget Sound in the U.S. Pacific Northwest near Tacoma, Washington.Flashes of Light and Terrible Sounds Emitted by One in the Bay. -- W.L. McDonald Struck Senseless in Attempting to Rescue a Shocked Comrade. -- Nearly 150 Feet Long and Covered With Coarse Hair -- A Fishing Party's Trip Cut Short.A party of Tacoma gentlemen have good reason to remember the morning of the 2d of July as long as life remains in their bodies — and to quote the exact words of one of the party, “There are denizens of the ocean that man never, in his most horrible and fantastic nightmare, even saw the likes of.”On Saturday morning a party, composed of the following well-known gentlemen, set sail on the sloop “Marion” from the boat house at the end of the wharf for a three days’ fishing and hunting excursion on the Sound. The party consisted of Auctioneer William Fitzhenry, H.L. Seal, W.L. McDonald, J.K. Bell, Henry Blackwood, and two eastern gentlemen who are visiting the coast, and it is from the lips of one of these gentlemen, who declines to allow his name to be used, as he says that shortly before he left the east he took the Keeley cure, and he fears that if his name was used in connection with this article his eastern friends might think he had “gone back” and got ‘em again.The party was well supplied with all the necessaries of life, as well as an abundance of its luxuries, though it must not be inferred from this fact that the luxuries played any part in creating the sights seen on that memorable morning. Of course, as a person having much respect for truth, I merely chronicle the story as told me and leave each reader of this remarkable yarn to judge for themselves the necessary amount of credence to give it.“We left Tacoma,” said the eastern man, “about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 1st, and as the wind was from the southeast we shaped our course for Point Defiance, intending to anchor off that point and try our luck with rod and line. We cast anchor about 6 o’clock, the wind having died out, and had fair success fishing. The wind coming up again pretty strong Mr. McDonald suggested getting under way for Black Fish Bay, Henderson Island, as he knew of a fine trout stream running into the bay, and also an excellent camping place near the fishing ground. So about 8 o’clock we weighed anchor and shaped our course for Black Fish Bay which place we reached about 9:30. We landed and made everything snug about the boat and made a nice camp on shore, and as it was by this time 11 o’clock we all turned in to get a little sleep as it was agreed upon that at the first streak of daylight we should all get up. About 100 yards from our camp was the camp of a surveying party, but as it was so late we decided that we would not disturb them but that we would call upon them the following morning, and would probably get some valuable pointers as to the best places to fish and hunt on the island. After a few jokes had been cracked the boys laid down and in short time everything about camp became as still as death. It was, I guess, about midnight before I fell asleep, but exactly how long I slept I cannot say, for when I woke it was with such startling suddenness that it never entered my mind to look at my watch, and when after a while I did look at my watch, as well as every watch belonging to the party, it was stopped.“I am afraid, sir, that you will fail to comprehend how suddenly that camp was awoke.“Since the creation of the world I doubt if sounds and sights more horrible were ever seen or heard by mortal man. I was in the midst of a pleasant dream, when in an instant a most horrible noise rang out in the clear morning air, and instantly the whole air was filled with a strong current of electricity that caused every nerve in the body to sting with pain, and a light as bright as that created by the concentration of many arc lights kept constantly flashing. At first I thought it was a thunder storm, but as no rain accompanied it, and as both light and sound came from off the bay, I turned my head in that direction, and if it is possible for fright to turn one’s hair white, then mine ought to be snow white, for right before my eyes was a most horrible looking monster. By this time every man in our camp, as well as the men from the camp of the surveyors, were gathered on the bank of the stream; and as soon as we could gather our wits together we began to question if what we were looking at was not the creation of the mind, but we were soon disburdened of this idea, for the monster slowly drew in toward the shore, and as it approached from its head poured out a stream of water that looked like blue fire. All the while the air seemed to be filled with electricity, and the sensation experienced was as if each man had on a suit of clothes formed of the fine points of needles. One of the men from the surveyor’s camp incautiously took a few steps in the direction of the water, and so he did so the monster darted towards the shore and threw a stream of water that reached the man, and he instantly fell to the ground and lay as though dead.“Mr. McDonald attempted to reach the man’s body to pull it back to a place of safety, but he was struck with some of the water that the monster was throwing, and fell senseless to the earth. By this time every man in both parties was panic-stricken, and we rushed to the woods for a place of safety, leaving the fallen men lying on the beach. “As we reached the woods the ‘demon of the deep’ sent out flashes of light that illuminated the surrounding country for miles, and his roar — which sounded like the roar of thunder — became terrific. When we reached the woods we looked around and saw the monster making off in the direction of the Sound, and in an instant it disappeared beneath, the waters of the bay, but for some time we were able to trace its course by a bright luminous light that was on the surface of the water. As the fish disappeared total darkness surrounded us, and it took us some time to find our way back to the beach where our comrades lay, and we were unable to tell the time, as the powerful electric force had stopped our watches. We eventually found McDonald and the other man, and were greatly relieved to find that they were alive, though unconscious. So we sat down to await the coming of daylight. It came I should judge, in about half an hour, and by this time by constant work on the two men, both were able to stand, and both agree that the moment the water the monster threw touched them, they became immediately unconscious.”On being asked to give some description of the fish, for it was, he said, “an electrical fish,” the eastern man said:“This monster fish, or whatever you may call it, was fully 150 feet long, and at its thickest part I should judge about thirty feet in circumference. Its shape was somewhat out of the ordinary in so far that the body was neither round nor flat but oval, and from what we could see the upper part of the body was covered with a very coarse hair. The head was shaped very much like the head of a walrus, though, of course, very much larger. Its eyes, of which it apparently had six, were as large around as a dinner plate, and were exceedingly dull, and it was about the only spot on the monster that at one time or another was not illuminated. At intervals of about every eight feet from its head to its tail a substance that had the appearance of a copper band encircled its body, and it was from these many bands that the powerful electric current appeared to come. The bands nearest the head seemed to have the strongest electric force, and it was from the first six bands that the most brilliant lights were emitted. Near the center of its head were two large horn-like substances, though they could not have been horns for it was through them that the electrically charged water was thrown.“Its tail from what I could see of it was shaped like a propeller, and seemed to revolve, and it may be possible that the strange monster pushes himself through the water by means of this propeller like tail."“At will this strange monstrosity seemed to be able to emit strong waves of electric current, giving off an electromotive force which causes any person coming within the radius of this force to receive an electro tonus. This fish probably receives its power from some submarine cavern of volcanic origin, which owing to its peculiar construction, and having an extra large deposit of copper, it charges the fish that inhabit that region with a strong electric force that is displayed by this peculiar specimen. The peculiar shaped copper like bands may be caused by the strong magnetic force of the fish, and the copper deposits of the ocean, as the strong current would form the copper into a solution, whilst the strong attraction of the fish would naturally form an electric battery, drawing towards it this solution, thus forming deposits on the fish, so that in reality the electric fish is completely encompassed in copper, and its rapid movement through the water is constantly generating frictional electricity, which I should judge would in a measure account for the fish being so constantly and powerfully charged with electricity, though far from its original source of supply. One of the strange characteristics of this fish, and one by which it undoubtedly obtains its food, is its high electric control of dense and foggy atmosphere surrounding it, which amalgamates with the electrifaction of the fish, making a potential which causes any living creature, such as birds or insects, flying through the air to fall dead into the water. Of course, that is merely a theory and I may be mistaken as to its origin or where it goes to, but one thing I do know, that I would not encounter the same monster again for the universe and you can ask the rest of the party and you will find that they all agree with me, that to be within so short a distance of such a terrible monster and yet live to tell the story is something that only happens once in 1000 years.I hardly need to tell you that we were not long in getting under way for Tacoma, and I can assure you that I have no further desire to fish any more in the waters of this bay. There are too many peculiar inhabitants in them. I am going to send a full account of our encounter to the Smithsonian institute, and I doubt not but what they will send out some scientific chaps to investigate.Now I must be going, as I have to leave on tonight’s train, but if you need any further particulars you can obtain them from any of the party. No, I do not know who composed the survey party; all I know about them is that they are from Olympia and that they were on the island running farm lines on some disputed land.” - Tacoma Daily Ledger - 03 July 1893Mirabilis: A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural HistoryField Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizensof the DeepMonsters and Mysteries: Bigfoot, Nessie, and Other Unknown Cryptids Around The World**********DISTURBING 'MIMICS!' - NATURAL, CRYPTIDS, or SOMETHING ELSE? | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (WITNESS REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I 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 MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - 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! 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Not two months have passed since a series of four dams were demolished on the Klamath River, and salmon are already spawning in creeks and tributaries far upriver. It’s the ultimate goal that a coalition of tribal, state, and federal government entities have campaigned for since the early 2000s. GNN reported on the dam demolition, […] The post Salmon Have Already Returned Far Upriver to Spawn in Historic Habitat After Nation’s Largest Dam Removal Project appeared first on Good News Network.

News Robert Pattinson Christopher Nolan’s Mysterious New Movie Adds Robert Pattinson to Its Star-Studded Cast Vampires? Helicopters? Mumblecore time travel? No one knows! By Molly Templeton | Published on November 21, 2024 Screenshot: Warner Bros. Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Warner Bros. Pictures If anyone knows what the next Christopher Nolan movie is about, they’re not telling. As The Hollywood Reporter says, “Various theoretical, even divergent, details have been posited regarding the project — a period vampire thriller, a helicopter action thriller — but insiders maintain that nothing has come close to nailing Nolan’s real idea.” Whatever this movie may or may not be, it has a cast full of star power—and the latest marquee name to join up is none other than Robert Pattinson, who reunites with Nolan after 2020’s baffling and divisive Tenet. [ed note: NEIL + THE PROTAGONIST 4-EVAAAAA] He joins Matt Damon (The Martian), Tom Holland (various Spider-Man films), Anne Hathaway (Colossal), Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther), and Zendaya (also various Spider-Man films). Pattinson is, of course, also expected to tuck himself back into Batman’s cowl for Matt Reeves’ second The Batman, which has not yet begun filming. THR notes that “there was hope that it could shoot sometime next year.” But if Nolan’s film is also aiming for an early 2025 shoot, that may complicate things, scheduling-wise. The actor’s next role is in Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 (pictured above), which keeps getting delayed and is now releasing on the distant date of April 18, 2025. The Nolan movie is set for July 17, 2026; presumably we will find out what it’s about before then. [end-mark] The post Christopher Nolan’s Mysterious New Movie Adds Robert Pattinson to Its Star-Studded Cast appeared first on Reactor.