Reluctant Witness Reports 1966 Sighting of Pulsating, Multicolored UFO in South Carolina – Singular Fortean
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A western North Carolina resident contacted me concerning an encounter that they has with an unknown canine creature. After researching the encounter, the witness believes that it was a Dogman.
I recently received the following account:
“I have read several of your reports from western North Carolina and thought that I would contact you.
I had my encounter last summer while on break at work during a slow part of the night. I live and work in Mitchell County in western North Carolina. This is a county that you have written about since you have family here and you are aware of the varied wildlife. I would take the short drive to a park near my workplace that has a lot of wildlife. I like to watch the occasional raccoon or fox breaking the wood line. The park backs up to a rather large creek. The area is devoid of artificial light as the darkness of the woods does not spook me or make me jumpy. I was raised in the mountains and I enjoy the solitude.
On this night, there were no normal night sounds, such as crickets or frogs. I also found it strange that all the wildlife seemed to be gone from the area. This bothered me a bit. I decided to leave some dog food at the edge of the wood line hoping to entice a particular family of raccoons out so I could at least see that they were okay. I didn’t see a gray fox that would hang around the area. This fox would come within a few feet from me, meander around, and then retreat back into the woods.
After walking near the woods with the food I heard a deep growl come from inside the edge of the wood line. I had never heard an animal growl with such intensity and so deeply. I could literally feel the vibration of the growl hitting my face and inside of my chest. I knew that it wasn’t a bear, whose sounds I was familiar with. I dumped the food on the ground with one hard drop hoping that whatever was in the wood line would take off. I backed away with my head down until I reached my truck. My instinct told me to drive away, so I did.
I decided to go back about an hour later. I was now curious as to what this creature was. I parked in the same place and this time walked to the back of my truck to grab a smoke. While standing there I observed a dark mass come across the road and disappear into an overgrown open field with wild blackberry bushes and grass. I do have a sharp eye and I was able to discern some detail. I can only describe this creature as some kind of hybrid canine. It was on all fours but it did not appear natural. It moved very quickly with fluent motions. The gait was weird as well like the front legs were pulling its body forward. It almost had a human-like movement to it, as if it could stand on two legs if needed. The long back was hunched. The snout was long but it fit its body. What struck me most were its ears, which were large and folded back. The legs also had muscle mass to them. My background working with dogs told me that this was something very unusual. I just know that it was there one minute and gone the next.
When daylight came I drove back to the location. I looked for tracks but listened to my gut and did not enter. For several months I didn’t tell anyone about it. I started searching the internet for what I had seen. I wondered if it was some type of hybrid that had escaped. I found several online sites but none seemed to come close to what I had seen. Then I came across the picture of a Dogman. If you take what I saw and stand it upright instead of being on all fours that’s what I saw without a doubt. It wasn’t overly massive, possibly a juvenile.
I later spoke with a few of my co-workers. Of course, they told me it was a bear or a large domestic dog. But a few of them did acknowledge that the wildlife in the area had been disappearing for a while. I don’t speak about it much because of ridicule. But I do know what I saw, heard, and how my instincts reacted to it.” CC
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The push to recycle electric vehicle batteries just gained some momentum. Redwood Materials has unveiled plans to build an EV battery recycling plant on the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina. The roughly 600-acre facility (previewed in a render above) will break “end-of-life” batteries down to their raw metals and rebuild them as the anodes and cathodes that are crucial to EVs. The parts should support up to 1 million EVs per year. That could not only reduce waste, but reduce the costs and risks associated with importing those components from overseas.
The plant will reportedly amount to a $3.5 billion investment that includes 1,500 jobs. Like Redwood’s Nevada campus, the Charleston hub will rely solely on clean energy and all-electric operations. The company claims its approach lowers CO2 emissions for producing the battery components by about 80 percent compared to the output from the usual Asian supply chain.
Construction should start for the South Carolina plant in the first quarter of 2023. The first recycling process should be ready by the end of that year, Redwood says. The company plans to scale afterward.
The locale choice is strategic. Redwood says South Carolina is part of a growing “Battery Belt” where EV cell manufacturing will ramp up to “hundreds” of gigawatt-hours of production capacity by 2030. Its seaside port helps, too. The state further hosts factories for car manufacturers that include BMW and Redwood partner Volvo, so a brand could quickly repurpose spent batteries for vehicles rolling off the line.
More importantly, Redwood appears to have broader support from the auto industry. On top of Volvo, it has partners like Ford, Toyota and battery makers that include Panasonic and Envision AESC. Large-scale battery recycling facilities are still relatively rare in the US — Li-Cycle’s new Alabama plant can process batteries for about 20,000 EVs per year. This expansion could make recycling far more commonplace, and make a better case for electric cars as the environmentally conscious options.
“The person, or persons, who did this knew exactly what they were doing,” Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said during a Sunday news conference. “We don’t have a clue why Moore County.” Fields said multiple rounds were fired at the two substations. “It was targeted, it wasn’t random,” he said. The sheriff would not say whether the criminal activity was domestic terrorism but noted “no group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept they’re the ones who [did] it.” In addition to the FBI, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has joined the investigation, officials said. More than 33,000 customers were still in the dark across the county Sunday evening, the Duke Energy outage map showed. For some, the outage may stretch into Thursday, officials said, upending life for tens of thousands. All schools in the county will be closed Monday and authorities have opened a shelter running on a generator. Traffic lights are also out, and while a few stores with generators were able to open their doors, several businesses and churches in Moore County were closed Sunday, CNN affiliate WRAL reported.
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AS the temperature drops in some parts of the world, many folks are craving warm, sunny beach days.
Luckily, there are some beaches in North and South Carolina where people can embrace the warmth on the beach – completely nude.
Nude bathing is practiced in some remote areas of Outer Banks, North Carolina – a long chain of barrier islands off the northern coast of the state.
Specifically, the beach at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge offers solace to those seeking to show skin outdoors.
Some beach-goers will visit Pea Island in Rodanthe, N.C., with the intention of sun-bathing in the nude – however, the specific rules on nudity in this location are unclear.
In South Carolina residents may need to make a trip to OBX if they’re seeking a nude beach.
However, some Reddit users have claimed that there’s a foolproof solution to being nude by the water. Since the state is home to many lakes, some residents with boats recommend taking their vessel out on a secluded lake and enjoying the privacy.
One user wrote: “…Of course, I don’t broadcast what I’m doing, but as soon as I’m away from the marina, the clothes come off!”
Though it may be refreshing to go nude at a beach, it is important to note there are some common rules to keep in mind when doing so:
Local laws vary tremendously by location, and visitors stopping off at a nude beach for the first time should familiarize themselves with local laws.
The Carolinas are not the only states in the country that have nude beaches. Some other states that permit clothing-optional beach locations include:
Hurricane Ian made landfall in South Carolina at 2:05 p.m. ET Friday near the city of Georgetown on Winyah Bay — marking the official start of the storm’s second major assault on the U.S. mainland. Some damage was immediately visible, with at least two piers collapsing into the sea. The magnitude of the encroaching ocean has already made history, with all-time record-breaking flooding as far away as coastal North Carolina.
In terms of structures threatened by storm surge, Pawley’s Island, a relatively dense coastal community, largely bore the brunt of Ian’s attack during the first few hours.
The White House declared an emergency in South Carolina yesterday, as had South Carolina’s governor, although no evacuations were ordered.
As the storm’s toll began to be felt locally, it was possible to witness the power of Hurricane Ian online. Several users posted photos and video of the storm surge and flooding, sharing documentation of the ongoing damage from this days-long disaster for the benefit of the public — whether they were watching for safety’s sake or out of sheer curiosity. And remember: At this phase in a news story, social media documents like these are always in need of confirmation.
The police in Pawley’s Island were evidently some of the only residents out in the storm, documenting the weather’s impact. Their tweets appeared to show shockingly high storm surge.
That same Twitter account also documented the apparent collapse of the community’s pier.
A South Carolina resident named Jerry Lieberman took video of what used to be a beach, after it was completely swallowed by the flood, if the video is to be believed.
Lieberman also spotted what looked like a fire elsewhere on Pawley’s Island.
North Carolina meteorologist Kaitlin Wright posted footage of what appeared to be a roof being damaged by Ian’s powerful winds, as documented by a videographer named Kelsey Lyons.
At Murrells Inlet, just south of Myrtle Beach, pictures by photographer Norma Coote appeared to document a dangerous flood several feet high.
Climate change is impacting hurricanes. Some of these impacts are clear, particularly more serious rainfall and historic flooding, along with higher storm surges. Other impacts, like how the relentless warming oceans are affecting how strong these storms grow, are an intensive and ongoing area of research.
Hurricane Ian appears headed for South Carolina as of Thursday, after already dealing untold damage as it cut a path across Florida Wednesday evening through Thursday morning. During its landfall in Florida, it was a Category 4 hurricane. It weakened while on land, but on Thursday afternoon it was upgraded from a topical storm to a Category 1 hurricane once again.
In the lead up to its onslaught on Florida, webcams were a valuable resource, allowing the public to witness the terrible effects from afar. Intrepid internet users even used webcam recordings to create a time-lapse view of the frighteningly quick and devastating storm surge that Ian brought about.
Today, thousands of eyes will turn to webcams around South Carolina, as well as in northern Georgia.
This webcam is located at the Sea Pines Resort in Hilton Head, South Carolina. As the storm strengthens and draws near, viewers can watch the weather as it starts to impact Quarterdeck, a lighthouse-themed seafood restaurant, which normally serves resort attendees.
An anonymous YouTube user in North Charleston, South Carolina set up a webcam to show the view of a forested area, including a roadway, and view of what must normally be a peaceful birdhouse.
NOTE: This webcam was no longer live as of 6:00p.m. ET. We’ll update if it goes live again.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology operates a webcam that follows the developments of a family of Ospreys in Savannah Georgia, which is near the coast and close to the border with South Carolina, putting the camera, and the birds, in the potential path of Ian, particularly if it strengthens into a hurricane once again.
Climate change is impacting hurricanes. Some of these impacts are clear, particularly more serious rainfall and historic flooding, along with higher storm surges. Other impacts, like how the relentless warming oceans are affecting how strong these storms grow, are an intensive and ongoing area of research.