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#1345 Tracey Brown (ed) - Wisht Maen: Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine, No 4, 1995. Wisht Maen, North Tawton.
#TraceyBrown #WishtMaen #EarthMysteries #Devon #Hillforts #BlackDogs #BookOfTheDay
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#1345 Tracey Brown (ed) - Wisht Maen: Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine, No 4, 1995. Wisht Maen, North Tawton.
#TraceyBrown #WishtMaen #EarthMysteries #Devon #Hillforts #BlackDogs #BookOfTheDay
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Ma vieille Nina a encore profité d'un bon bain dans le ruisseau de Chabassière.
#chien #chiens #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #mastodogs #fedidogs #olddogs #doggo #blackdogs
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Ma vieille Nina a encore profité d'un bon bain dans le ruisseau de Chabassière.
#chien #chiens #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #mastodogs #fedidogs #olddogs #doggo #blackdogs
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🐾 175+ Black Dog Names inspired by Mystery, Magic & Darkness
Looking for a #dogname for your BLACK colored pup?
Check our list of #dognames with meanings for #blackdogs.
What's your favorite? Jet? Luna?
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🐾 175+ Black Dog Names inspired by Mystery, Magic & Darkness
Looking for a #dogname for your BLACK colored pup?
Check our list of #dognames with meanings for #blackdogs.
What's your favorite? Jet? Luna?
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— Flying Floppy Ears — I don’t know how to caption this photo. Doing my best. #ClassicMono #Monochrome #photography #DogsOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #BlackDogs
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Ollie's first bath.
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Ollie's first bath.
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Day 2 home office puppy watch. Added a color tshirt he can crash on as a pile of black tshirts makes him hard to see.
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Day 2 home office puppy watch. Added a color tshirt he can crash on as a pile of black tshirts makes him hard to see.
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#744 M.C.S. Cruwys (ed) - Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Vol XXIX - Part III. James Townsend & Sons, Exeter, November 1962. #Devon #Cornwall #DCNQ #MargaretCruwys #Archives #History #Genealogy #BlackDogs #BookOfTheDay
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#744 M.C.S. Cruwys (ed) - Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Vol XXIX - Part III. James Townsend & Sons, Exeter, November 1962. #Devon #Cornwall #DCNQ #MargaretCruwys #Archives #History #Genealogy #BlackDogs #BookOfTheDay
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℠ Miss Poppy, my 5 year old black German Shepherd, laying on Autumn fall leaves, in Friston Forest.
Image Processed with #RNIAero — Kodak Aerochrome: Infared Film.
→ Free Photo to Download, by ℠ unsplash.com/@smithographic & smitho.graphics
♡ Licensed CC BY-NC-SA
#photo #photography #leaves #blackdogs #animals #iphone15pro #iphonephotography #germanshepherds #dog #dogsofmastodon #fristonforest #nature
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℠ Miss Poppy, my 5 year old black German Shepherd, laying on Autumn fall leaves, in Friston Forest.
Image Processed with #RNIAero — Kodak Aerochrome: Infared Film.
→ Free Photo to Download, by ℠ unsplash.com/@smithographic & smitho.graphics
♡ Licensed CC BY-NC-SA
#photo #photography #leaves #blackdogs #animals #iphone15pro #iphonephotography #germanshepherds #dog #dogsofmastodon #fristonforest #nature
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℠ 2 Black Dogs Running & Chasing in the Sea Surf.
Image Processed with #VSCO — HB2
→ Free Photo to Download, by ℠ unsplash.com/@smithographic & smitho.graphics
♡ Licensed CC BY-NC-SA
#photo #photography #sea #blackdogs #animals #germanshepherds #dog #dogsofx #dogsofTwitter
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℠ 2 Black Dogs Running & Chasing in the Sea Surf.
Image Processed with #VSCO — HB2
→ Free Photo to Download, by ℠ unsplash.com/@smithographic & smitho.graphics
♡ Licensed CC BY-NC-SA
#photo #photography #sea #blackdogs #animals #germanshepherds #dog #dogsofx #dogsofTwitter
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TFW your doggo comes in and flops down onto your feets
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TFW your doggo comes in and flops down onto your feets
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Stealing a bit of sunshine from the drapes closed from the heat. He needs the sunshine too! #DogsOfMastodon #PetsOfMastodon #Dogs #Pets #SunbeamFinder #BlackDogs
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With my watercolor painting about Rosie the back dog, before shipping it to it's destination.
Find in my Dog Paintings Collection
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/collections/pet+portraits+by+dora+hathazi+mendes
:artpaw:
#dog #dogs #dogpaintings #dogart #dogpainting #blackdog #blackdogs #art #watercolor #paintings #MastoArt #artist #dogsofmasto #mastodog #dogsofmastodon -
With my watercolor painting about Rosie the back dog, before shipping it to it's destination.
Find in my Dog Paintings Collection
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/collections/pet+portraits+by+dora+hathazi+mendes
:artpaw:
#dog #dogs #dogpaintings #dogart #dogpainting #blackdog #blackdogs #art #watercolor #paintings #MastoArt #artist #dogsofmasto #mastodog #dogsofmastodon -
Rosie The Perfect Companion. A new original handmade watercolor pet portrait, about a beautiful long haired black and white dog.
Thank you so much dear Scott for your custom order and for supporting my art! 🎨🐾Dora
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Find in my Dog Paintings Collection
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/collections/dog+paintings#dog #dogs #dogpaintings #dogart #dogpainting #blackdog #blackdogs #art #watercolor #paintings #petart
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Rosie The Perfect Companion. A new original handmade watercolor pet portrait, about a beautiful long haired black and white dog.
Thank you so much dear Scott for your custom order and for supporting my art! 🎨🐾Dora
:artpaw:
Find in my Dog Paintings Collection
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/collections/dog+paintings#dog #dogs #dogpaintings #dogart #dogpainting #blackdog #blackdogs #art #watercolor #paintings #petart
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With the original watercolor portrait of Henry before shipping it to the US. Thank you dear Amanda for your custom order! 🎨🐾Dora
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/collections/dog+paintings
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#Mastoart #petportraits #watercolour
#artist #dog #dogs #dogpaintings #dogart #dogpainting #blackdog #blackdogs #art #watercolor #paintings
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With the original watercolor portrait of Henry before shipping it to the US. Thank you dear Amanda for your custom order! 🎨🐾Dora
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/collections/dog+paintings
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#Mastoart #petportraits #watercolour
#artist #dog #dogs #dogpaintings #dogart #dogpainting #blackdog #blackdogs #art #watercolor #paintings
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New handmade watercolor pet portrait about a black dog called Henry.
Thank you so much dear Amanda for your custom order, to ask me to paint about Henry as a gift for your friends! 🎨🐾Dora
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/featured/henry-black-dog-painting-dora-hathazi-mendes.html
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#MastoArt #dogsofmasto #dogsofmastodon #watercolour
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New handmade watercolor pet portrait about a black dog called Henry.
Thank you so much dear Amanda for your custom order, to ask me to paint about Henry as a gift for your friends! 🎨🐾Dora
https://dora-hathazimendes.pixels.com/featured/henry-black-dog-painting-dora-hathazi-mendes.html
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#MastoArt #dogsofmasto #dogsofmastodon #watercolour
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#220 M.C.S. Cruwys (ed) - Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Vol XXV - Part VI. James Townsend & Sons, Exeter, April 1953. #Devon #Cornwall #DCNQ #MargaretCruwys #Archives #History #Crosses #BlackDogs #BookOfTheDay
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#220 M.C.S. Cruwys (ed) - Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Vol XXV - Part VI. James Townsend & Sons, Exeter, April 1953. #Devon #Cornwall #DCNQ #MargaretCruwys #Archives #History #Crosses #BlackDogs #BookOfTheDay
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My neighbor's dog on medium format black and white
(Yashica 124G, Kodak TMax 400, Rodinal, self scanned on Fuji Frontier)
#BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmPhotography #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #BlackDogs
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My neighbor's dog on medium format black and white
(Yashica 124G, Kodak TMax 400, Rodinal, self scanned on Fuji Frontier)
#BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmPhotography #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #BlackDogs
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Looking over his front kingdom through the window while relaxing with the wilds in the living room #LivingOnTheWildSide #dogsofmastodon #dogs #pets #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Looking over his front kingdom through the window while relaxing with the wilds in the living room #LivingOnTheWildSide #dogsofmastodon #dogs #pets #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Happy Valentine’s Day from Wolfe and me. He’s a snuggle monster today. And that’s ok. #dogsofmastodon #dogs #pets #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane #valentinesday
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Resting and planning 2nd attack to backyard squirrels. Keeping the home front squirrel safe. #KeepingHomeSquirrelSafe #TheyBetterSayThanksInTreats #DogsoOfMastodon #PetsOfMastodon #dogs #pets #blackdogs #labradane
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Tired boy after chasing the backyard squirrels #BackyardKing #MorningNap #dogsofmastodon #pets #petsofmastodon #dogs #labradane #blackdogs
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Tired boy after chasing the backyard squirrels #BackyardKing #MorningNap #dogsofmastodon #pets #petsofmastodon #dogs #labradane #blackdogs
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Waiting in line for my bacons, like a good boy #GoodBoyForSomeBacons #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane #pets
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Waiting in line for my bacons, like a good boy #GoodBoyForSomeBacons #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane #pets
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Waiting in line for my bacons, like a good boy #GoodBoyForSomeBacons #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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His circle toy is sucking all his dignity away 😂……. #NoDignityDogToys #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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His circle toy is sucking all his dignity away 😂……. #NoDignityDogToys #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Before-nap romp in the living room after terrorizing the squirrels in the yard, he’s calling it another good day. #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Before-nap romp in the living room after terrorizing the squirrels in the yard, he’s calling it another good day. #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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“I have all the rainy day blues…..” If he gets any more protesty relaxed, he’s going to turn into a puddle. #ProtestyPuddlePup #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Decided to give me the candy wrapper he stole from the table, instead of eating it and barfing it this time. It’s all about random kindness. #ADogsRandomKindness #Nobarf #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Chillin in the best sunny spot in the house. After his morning run/reign of the backyard, he expects treats, a few “good boy”s and a nice spot to tuck in. Of course, I aim to please. He supports me so much. #VictimOfTheSunbeam #MyShadow #dogsofmastodon #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Yesterday afternoon, coming in for a break and a drink, maybe a sandwich and a nap. #itsadogslife #spoileddog #dogsofmastodon #dogs #pets #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Our #podcast @supernatpod really went to the dogs this weekend. Listen to us talk about the #supernatural weirdness that is the #blackDogs phenomenon.
https://www.supernaturalselectionpod.com/podcast/phantom-black-dogs
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At 9:30 am Eastern Standard Time, he’s settling in for a nap, after just almost having caused Squirrel-mageddon in the back yard. Boop! #rufflife #Dogs #dogsofmastodon #pets #petsofmastodon #blackdogs #labradane
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Supernatural Creep: When explanations slide off to the fringesOriginally published as Supernatural Creep: The Slippery Slope to Unfalsifiability for my column Sounds Sciencey on csicop.org May 29, 2013.
I’m taking a step beyond sciencey with the following topic. What happens when science doesn’t cooperate with your subject area? Researchers of unexplained events may get frustrated and disenchanted with the scientific process when the eyewitness accounts they collect are too weird to explain via conventional means. They go unconventional.
Captain Jean-Baptiste Duhamel led the hunt for a beast that was attacking and devouring victims in the Gevaudan, France, in 1794. He had a problem. He could not catch and kill the man-eating monster. Being a proud man, he had to justify why he could not conquer this particular foe. Since the option that he was an inadequate huntsman was not acceptable, the creature must be supernatural in its abilities to escape his capture. The characteristics of the beast were exaggerated—it was huge, cunning, and not just an ordinary wolf. Captain Duhamel left defeated by what must truly be an extraordinary beast.
The cognitive dissonance experienced by the French captain is reflected today by those who can’t capture Bigfoot. When normal processes and causes fail to satisfactorily explain events or answers to questions, then the reasoning slips beyond nature, into super nature, beyond the testable claims of science.
I call this “supernatural creep.” Although, I swear I’m not the first one to name it as such. I searched to find where I have seen this referenced before. (If anyone knows, please email me so I can give the originator due credit.) Once I noticed this kind of reasoning, I saw it frequently. Wherever I come across this concept, it reveals a bit about human nature:
If you have to choose between the belief or a rational explanation, the rational explanation may be that which gets rejected.
The effect of supernatural creep can be seen with UFOs, anomalous natural phenomena (Fortean topics), and in bizarre stories categorized as “high strangeness” (which I’ll explain a bit further on in this piece). A perfect example is that of “black dogs” whose appearance is spectral or demonic and is associated with either protection from or nearness of bad spirits. Could it be just a big black dog? Witnesses perceive that it’s more than that. When the circumstances feel uncanny, we slip into thoughts of the supernatural. An enjoyable book that illustrates supernatural creep quite nicely is Three Men Seeking Monsters by Nick Redfern. Fun stuff.
With phantom black dogs, there is a connection to local legends and ghost stories. A modern example of the dispute about supernatural creep is evident in the Bigfoot/Sasquatch community.
Bigfoot proponents generally fall into two camps: those who search for a real animal that functions as nature intended (called ‘apers’) and those who entertain the option that the entity is not natural (paranormalists).
In their 2006 book, The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot, authors Tony Healy and Paul Cropper appear to have a parting of the ways when trying to explain all the Yowie accounts at face value—some of which, like our American Bigfoot are pretty bizarre. What is up with an animal that is sometimes described as having three toes, sometimes four or five? And, after all this time, why can’t we trap one or find a body? The creature has a stupendous ability to escape human grasp by eluding our cameras and leaving only tenuous, dubious traces of its corporeal existence. It can run outrageously fast and may be able to see infrared light. With the Yowie, we can’t think of a way to get a wild man on the island continent. It seems so implausible. But as Healy and Cropper note, it’s uncomfortable to explain the Yowie as a paranormal entity, perhaps as a psychic phenomenon, because it results in replacing one mystery with another.
Characteristics of hairy hominids or other unidentified cryptids may be just marginally odd—avoiding detection for decades among people, expert at hiding in plain sight, unusually developed senses of hearing or sight, fantastic strength or incredible speed. Or, they may get a bit spooky—glowing eyes, inability to be photographed, immunity to bullets, seen everywhere but found nowhere. They get to the point where it’s beyond natural—telepathy, shape-shifting, apporting or dis-apporting, signaling illness or death. In the case of some monster sightings, they are associated with UFO sightings, sychronicities, and time loss or distortion.
In order to hang on to the literal interpretation of eyewitness accounts, researchers may take tiny steps away from a purely natural explanation of their quarry. If the animal is shot at close range, why is it not injured or killed? Instead of questioning the story (or the marksmanship of the gunman), the assumption is that the thing must have some extra quality like bullet-proof skin, or perhaps it is impervious to bullets. If these stories are regarded as valid, and more like it come along, instead of doubting the witness, the researcher concludes there must be something paranormal going on to explain it.
The slip down the supernatural slope is really apparent when there are accounts of “high strangeness“—mind-boggling stories that have absurd elements. This term was originally used by Dr. J. Allen Hynek to describe extremely peculiar UFO cases that appeared to be associated with dream-like details, such as mysterious phone calls, electronic glitches, and Men in Black visits. If a report is one of “high strangeness,” it’s more than the typical “I saw a UFO” or “I saw a Bigfoot” story. It turns into a “I saw a Bigfoot go into a UFO” story—a whole other level of weirdness that now strains a natural explanation, if true.
And so it goes with Bigfooters. I recently read a blog post about a person who was rejected from the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BRFO) because he dared mention a telepathic experience related to a Bigfoot encounter. There are Bigfoot researchers who discard reports that involve any paranormal or supernatural element because it sounds less credible to admit such ideas if they wish their work to be taken seriously. (This is a bit weird for the BFRO, I thought, since Matt Moneymaker ascribes some incredibly bizarre, paranormal talents to Bigfoot like the ability to “stun” people and immobilize them. I can’t take his speculations seriously.)
In my previous writings, I noted that it appeared that the ghost investigation field seemed to be moving away from the sciencey focus and more into the supernatural, dealing with demons, angels, and religious qualities of hauntings. Science is failing them, as well. In order to retain that important core that ghosts, or whatever X-file, is real, the natural explanations are no longer suitable as explanations; it must be something beyond human understanding. The cryptozoological community is sliding down a similar path at the behest of authors like Redfern who think that the field should expand to include “zooform” phenomena—entities, not actual animals, that appear in animal form. This would constitute a shift from scientific inquiry to a completely experienced-based view. How convenient. You gain great flexibility when you discount natural laws.
You may be able to see the immediate problem with an experience-based view and accounts of high strangeness. Since many skeptical paranormal researchers are very aware of the problems with eyewitness accounts, we notice the mistake certain non-skeptical researchers make when reading popular accounts of local tales or Charles Fort’s collection of books. The writers take every detail of the witness at face value! We know, however, that people mess up observations. We know that our memories are flawed, and we know that stories change over time, often becoming very different from the original account. Stories are poor evidence. To build a conclusion on just these story elements means that you must reject the foundation of knowledge we already have about how the world works (which is pretty well tested) and accept that there are visitors from other dimensions harassing our rural population or that we are able to conjure up monsters just with our collective mind power. That’s absurd. I’ll need more than a few good stories to accept that.
Supernatural creep is the way researchers hold onto their cherished ideas that a mysterious phenomenon, as they perceive it, is really out there. Being too invested in the idea to let it go, they reinvent reality instead.
By the way, the Beast of the Gevaudan? It was wolves. They were only unusual in that they were really hungry and good at catching people and not getting caught themselves. They were eventually dispatched. But the legend remains of the monsters of the Gevaudan. It’s too good of a story to give up.
References
Bord, Janet and Colin. 1981. Alien Animals. Stackpole Books.
Healy, T. and P. Cropper. 2006. The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot. Anomalist Books.
Redfern, Nick. 2004. Three Men Seeking Monsters. Paraview Pocket Books.
Smith, Jay M. 2011. Monsters of the Gevaudan: The Making of a Beast. Harvard University Press.
#BeastOfGevaudan #Bigfoot #blackDogs #cryptids #highStrangeness #Paranormal #Sasquatch #supernatural #Yowie #zooform https://sharonahill.com/?p=5112
