Monster files : a look inside government secrets and classified documents on bizarre creatures and extraordinary animals

188 Pages·2013·2.49 MB·English

by  Redfern

MONSTER FILES
MONSTER FILES
A LOOK INSIDE GOVERNMENT SECRETS AND CLASSIFIED
DOCUMENTS ON BIZARRE CREATURES AND
EXTRAORDINARY ANIMALS
NICK REDFERN
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DEDICATION
For Tim Binnall who, in 2012, asked me, “Nick, why don’t you write a book
about Cryptozoology and the government?” Well, Tim, thanks to your brilliant
suggestion, now I have!
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1
The President’s Bigfoot
Chapter 2
Serpents of the High Seas
Chapter 3
An Army of Manimals
Chapter 4
A Wartime Wolfman
Chapter 5
Weird and Wacky Winged Wonders of War
Chapter 6
How the Pentagon Made a Monster
Chapter 7
Welcome to the Jungle
Chapter 8
Animal ESP and the U.S. Army
Chapter 9
A Yeti-Hunting 007
Chapter 10
Secret Agents and a Supersized Snake
Chapter 11
Autopsying a Monster
Chapter 12
The Strange Saga of Acoustic Kitty
Chapter 13
The Minnesota Iceman, the FBI, and the Vietnam War
Chapter 14
From Lake Monsters to Secret Experiments
Chapter 15
Sasquatch, UFOs, and the U.S. Air Force
Chapter 16
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Chapter 17
Are We Ready for Bigfoot?
Chapter 18
A Mountain of Secrets
Chapter 19
The Nessie Files
Chapter 20
A Nightmare From the Skies
Chapter 21
Specters and Phantimals
Chapter 22
The ABCs of a Royal Conspiracy
Chapter 23
The Biggest Blooper of Them All
Chapter 24
In Search of the Government’s Mermaids
Chapter 25
The Cat Is Out of the Bag
Chapter 26
Werewolves and the Military
Chapter 27
Something Dwells Down Under
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
For decades, rumors, tales, and legends have surfaced to the effect that
government agencies all around the world, since at least the 1800s, have been
secretly collecting and carefully studying data on bizarre beasts, extraordinary
animals, and strange creatures. Lake monsters; psychic dogs and cats; sea
serpents; flying nightmares; and huge, hair-covered man-beasts—all have
attracted official, classified interest. Now, for the first time, the complete,
fearsome facts can finally be revealed. These facts beg some amazing and
possibly paradigm-changing questions. For example: Does the Pentagon’s top
brass secretly have one or more dead Bigfoots on ice, deep in a secure
underground bunker somewhere? If so, has a study of these unique specimens
revealed the creatures to be apes of a type that zoology has yet to officially
categorize? Or are they something far weirder? Might they possibly, and
incredibly, be entities linked to the many and varied mysteries that accompany
the UFO phenomenon? What bizarre truths are the militaries of the United States
and the United Kingdom hiding from us regarding long-necked lake monsters?
Are they really surviving example of prehistoric creatures that (as we are
assured) became extinct millions of years ago? Or could they, in some
convoluted fashion, be the curious creations of government itself?
Might there be a link between the clandestine and controversial operations of
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and those dark and diabolical denizens of
the Himalayas known as the Abominable Snowmen? Does the CIA have secret
knowledge in its possession that this immense and legendary creature—also
referred to as the Yeti—really does exist? Or does officialdom’s interest in the
hairy beast revolve around matters that have far less to do with the world of
monster hunting and far more to do with top-secret espionage that dates back to
the height of the Cold War?
Why does an old and faded British government file exist on sightings of
leviathans of the seas? Is Britain’s Royal Navy sitting on amazing classified
evidence suggesting that such sea-creatures really are among us and are not just
the stuff of seafaring legend?
What, if anything, do the Russians know about both extrasensory perception
and life after death in animals? Has the Kremlin really discovered that animals
have souls and that bodily death is not the end of life as we know it? Did the
United States Army use psychic dogs in covert military missions against the
former Soviet Union, at the height of the Cold War?
former Soviet Union, at the height of the Cold War?
Are presumed-extinct animals—creatures that range from gigantic marauding
lizards to one of the strangest marsupials that ever existed—still roaming around
the forests of Australia?
And finally, what is the top-secret connection between the late Diana,
Princess of Wales, and large, savage cats prowling around the foggy and
mysterious wilds of southwest England? How could there even be such a
connection in the first place between the highest echelons of Britain’s royal
family and exotic felines that the government of the United Kingdom assures
both its citizens and the media are nothing more than the results of mistaken
identity and folklore combined into one controversial brew?
These are just a few of the many thought-provoking questions posed—and
duly answered—in this book. In the pages that follow, you will learn the
startling truths concerning how, why, when, and where agencies of government
have taken an astonishing and abiding interest in those legendary creatures that
mainstream science and zoology assure us do not, and simply cannot, exist. You
will also learn how terrible freaks of nature were created by crazed Dr.
Frankenstein–like scientists and psychological warfare experts, all operating
behind a near-impenetrable cloak of official sanction and secrecy.
Monsters are not just the stuff of myth, fantasy, legend, and folklore. In their
own very odd and unique ways, some of them are all too terrifyingly real. And
the governments of our world secretly know this. But they don’t want you to
know. Too bad for them: The impenetrable veil of secrecy covering this top-
secret menagerie or Pandora’s Box of infernal beasts is finally about to be torn in
two. What terrors lurk behind this veil, what is about to come crawling, soaring,
pouncing, and rampaging out of that same menagerie, may shock you to your
very core. Read on—if you dare!
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Author’s Note: Rather than compiling the chapters of this book by subject, I
have elected to take a chronological approach. I did this because so much of this
government interest in strange creatures was prompted by historic, world events
such as WWII and the Cold War. With that in mind, I felt it most illustrative and
helpful to outline the ways in which such clandestine research has developed,
changed, and adapted, just as the world in which we live has done.