Ghost Grizzlies

[James Harvey]

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If you’re interested in animals that are no longer here, or animals that might be here, check out Dave’s book of that name, it’s a ripper. When I read it I thought “This is all the excitement and wonder of a search for bigfoot, but with the notable advantage of being steeped in facts and reality”. For me that was really exciting.

I’ve encountered another couple of tales of ghosts recently that I thought were really special. One was a documentary about a cave, in Transylvania of all places, that is a treasure trove of extinct cave bear remains. But the ‘ghost’ is in a place in the cave with very heavy, clay like soil, that due to environmental conditions has not degraded for quite some time. In that clay are the claw marks of cave bears, as distinct as if they had walked through yesterday. Wow.

The second ghost was a story I read by an Aussie biologist who talked of an old man he knew when he was growing up who had scars on his leg and bum from an attack of a pack of the now extinct thylacine. What a ghost to carry around with you! That just leaps up grabs my imagination by the balls.

Do any of you guys know of any other (true) tales of ghosts in the wilderness?

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#59077

I don’t 🙁

But ghost grizzlies is indeed a great book! So are your own 2 stories.

[sinawalli]

#61869

ausjim wrote: If you’re interested in animals that are no longer here, or animals that might be here, check out Dave’s book of that name, it’s a ripper. When I read it I thought “This is all the excitement and wonder of a search for bigfoot, but with the notable advantage of being steeped in facts and reality”. For me that was really exciting.

I’ve encountered another couple of tales of ghosts recently that I thought were really special. One was a documentary about a cave, in Transylvania of all places, that is a treasure trove of extinct cave bear remains. But the ‘ghost’ is in a place in the cave with very heavy, clay like soil, that due to environmental conditions has not degraded for quite some time. In that clay are the claw marks of cave bears, as distinct as if they had walked through yesterday. Wow.

The second ghost was a story I read by an Aussie biologist who talked of an old man he knew when he was growing up who had scars on his leg and bum from an attack of a pack of the now extinct thylacine. What a ghost to carry around with you! That just leaps up grabs my imagination by the balls.

Do any of you guys know of any other (true) tales of ghosts in the wilderness?

Was out at a lake in the foothills really close to a Indian burial grounds, we went for a walk one night down to the lake. It was dark, we heard a noise out in the lake that sounded like “it floats, it floats”! I called out “what floats”?, what came back was terrifying! It said “ivory soap”!…

[James Harvey]

#63684

🙄 The kind of ghost story I was hoping not to see 😀 Anyway, I can think of worse things that might be floating around a lake that people frequent and it ain’t ivory 😉

[grumpy]

#13090

Didn’t know aussies had soap…..

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