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In British Columbia, Francis Joe found a trail of huge 15 inch footprints in his strawberry field on the reservation where he lives. He thinks they belong to the legendary creature the Cowichan people call Thumquas. He says, “That’s not the tracks of an ordinary human.”

He heard his dogs barking, but didn’t pay any attention to them because they often “bark all night.” Local fishermen told him they’ve heard growling noises in the brush along the river.

Thirty years ago, his three daughters saw a sasquatch in the same vicinity. “It was just getting dark and it was standing by a ditch just staring at us,” says Jeanne Bob. “It was really big, black and hairy, and had a very strong smell. I wasn’t kidding then and now I really believe it.”
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Dr. David Whitehouse writes in BBC News Online that AIDS arose from a combination of two chimpanzee viruses. Chimps could have had one form of SIV (the simian form of HIV), then eaten smaller monkeys, and caught another form of SIV from them. When humans ate the chimps, they contracted HIV from the combination of the two SIV viruses.
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In our new poll, we ask if you would participate in a group meditation effort intended to communicate with the visitors. Whitley wants to organize such group, which he’ll talk about with Lisette Larkins on next week’s Dreamland, and he wants to know how many of you are interested.

Keep reading for the results from last weeks poll. Last week we asked you if you believe there was a civilization lost in prehistory. Most of you (54%) think there was, and think it was more advanced than we are. We’ve had many learned guests on Dreamland who have said the same thing.
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Kite flyers in Pakistan face murder charges and the death penalty if the sharpened strings of their kites kill anyone else. Several people have had their throats cut by strings that are either metallic or coated with glass shards, and police are treating these deaths as murders.

Kite flyers take part in “dog fights,” where the objective is to cut their opponent’s kite string, but they sometimes cut their opponents instead. Some of the victims have been children. Police are raiding shops selling that sell banned strings and arresting the owners.
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