I remember an episode of Unsolved Mysteries where a sweet old woman took in a bunch of unwanted dogs so they wouldn't be put down, then some asshole started terrorizing her for no reason. Lots of threats and property damage at first, but it got really messed up when he broke into the barn where she kept the dogs and shot some of them. That on its own would be messed up beyond belief, but it got worse when whoever was tormenting her burned down the barn with like 60 dogs inside killing all but one.
The murder of Kelly Anne Bates stands out to me when I think of truly horrific ways to die. Bates was drowned in 1997 by her boyfriend, James Patterson Smith. They started a relationship when Bates was just fourteen and Smith had a history of violence against his previous partners. It's tragic that Bates did leave Smith at one point but returned to living with him the year before her death. He tortured her over a period of several weeks beforehand, just some of the things he did to her include: gouging out her eyes up to three weeks before death partial scalping genital mutilation stab wounds inside her mouth & eye sockets During his questioning Smith claimed Bates "would put me through hell winding me up" which is just as disturbing to me. I can't imagine how much suffering Bates went through in her short seventeen year life.
Kittalia A. sent us the following questions about Patty, the Bigfoot in the Patterson-Gimlin film. They are all very good questions that we we wish we knew the answers to. We're no "Henry May" and it's times like this that we wish we had his number. Since we don't have Henry around whenever we need him, here are some easy questions for all you Patterson-Gimlin believers to try and answer:
Thanks to Matt Moneymaker for sharing this story with us from a guy named Thomas S. who was camping with some friends near the French Meadows Reservoir in August 2012. This remote, forested basin is located on the American River approximately 58 miles east of Auburn in the Sierra Nevada's. Before his encounter, the man thought Bigfoot "was just for entertainment purposes", but he changed his tune when he ended up with messy drawers that night. "That will teach to goof on our show," says Matt.
Uh Oh. Here we go again, folks. M.K. Davis originally brought up this theory called the "Bluff Creek massacre" theory back in 2008 at a conference. The controversial theory was immediately rejected by the Bigfoot community and Davis was shunned from ever speaking about it again. According to Davis, based on his expert film analysis and color enhancements of frame 352 of the PG film, he theorizes that the Patterson party had been to the Bluff Creek site at least once before returning to capture their famous Bigfoot video. His theory also suggests that the party probably murdered a family of Bigfoots and buried their bodies. Davis points to an enhanced anomaly resembling a bloody dog print and a pool of blood as proof of his theory.
I remember an episode of Unsolved Mysteries where a sweet old woman took in a bunch of unwanted dogs so they wouldn't be put down, then some asshole started terrorizing her for no reason.
ReplyDeleteLots of threats and property damage at first, but it got really messed up when he broke into the barn where she kept the dogs and shot some of them.
That on its own would be messed up beyond belief, but it got worse when whoever was tormenting her burned down the barn with like 60 dogs inside killing all but one.
The murder of Kelly Anne Bates stands out to me when I think of truly horrific ways to die. Bates was drowned in 1997 by her boyfriend, James Patterson Smith. They started a relationship when Bates was just fourteen and Smith had a history of violence against his previous partners. It's tragic that Bates did leave Smith at one point but returned to living with him the year before her death. He tortured her over a period of several weeks beforehand, just some of the things he did to her include:
Deletegouging out her eyes up to three weeks before death
partial scalping
genital mutilation
stab wounds inside her mouth & eye sockets
During his questioning Smith claimed Bates "would put me through hell winding me up" which is just as disturbing to me. I can't imagine how much suffering Bates went through in her short seventeen year life.
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DeleteI suppose the single remaining dog was the main suspect.
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