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Queen to lie in state for four full days before state funeral
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Massive ‘Bipedal Cryptid Canine’ Tracked & Killed by Pennsylvania State Police
A northeast Pennsylvania man recalls a bizarre incident with a massive bipedal cryptid canine. It had killed several guard dogs and was supposedly tracked and killed by state police.
I recently received the following account:
“I was recently told by a friend that you investigate strange canine sightings in Pennsylvania. I live in the northeastern part of the state, in rural Monroe County in the Poconos. I have a bipedal wolf account. This occurred on September 3, 1975. I now own the property and still live there.
My father and I were traveling in our family station wagon on a dirt road on our property. When we first saw this creature it had come out of heavy woods and crossed the road while on all fours. We stopped the car and watched it. When it reached the north boundary of our field it stood up on its hind legs. It tried to hide between two mulberry trees. Its head touched a branch that was approximately 12 feet off the ground. My father would later measure its height.
It then ran south, dropping down on all fours. It was running at an unbelievable speed. It covered 100-plus yards and ran out of the southern boundary of our field into the road directly in front of us. From its nose to the tip of its tail it covered the county road from shoulder to shoulder approximately 18 feet! Its left shoulder was about one foot above the center of the hood of our car. When measured it was three feet off the ground putting its left shoulder at approximately four feet tall.
As it ran in front of us crossing the road it turned its head toward us and snarled showing all of its teeth including the canines that were at least six inches long. It had huge amber eyes and just looked plain evil.
The neighbor who owned the woods where the creature had come out of had about 12 guard dogs. He lived alone (we called him ‘Mr. Hermit’) and owned about 100 acres which included several long retired slate quarry holes that were all filled with clear blue water and huge fish. The woods were also full of deer. By the way, our newly built home was about 50 yards west of where it ran south across the road.
A few nights after this incident, at about 1am in the morning, all hell broke loose! We could hear the neighbor’s guard dogs fighting, madly yelping, and being slaughtered. Mr. Hermit opened up with a 12-gauge and kept firing. We would find out later that 9 of his 12 guard dogs were killed.
Our area was under Pennsylvania State Police jurisdiction (there was no local sheriff or police force). Several troopers showed up that night. Then at daybreak, a tactical team arrived in a helicopter, which landed in our field. My father worked the third shift at the time (at Ingersoll Rand) and was just getting home. My father immediately walked up to Mr. Hermit’s property. He crossed our field and then directly up his driveway. The State Police refused to let him go any further. My mother was so scared of the ordeal that we had heard the previous night, so she decided to keep us home from school.
Shortly after I saw my father disappear up Mr. Hermit’s driveway, small arms fire erupted. We’re all looking out our kitchen window in anticipation of the results. The State Police helicopter took off and hovered over Mr. Hermit’s property. It then dipped very low and then lifted something huge wrapped in a tarp with a cargo net around it.
My father soon returned and told us that the State Police told him that he was to forget about what we saw. The barracks commander stopped in on his way out to reinforce this. We pestered my father to tell us what it was they shot and killed. This was the only time I had ever seen fear in his eyes. All he said was that he saw them shoot and kill an extremely large wolf.
He never spoke of the incident again, nor would he acknowledge my inquiries about it. I eavesdropped on him and my mother talking about it after we kids were supposed to be asleep. He said there were nine dead guard dogs and that 12-gauge shotgun shells were everywhere.
By the next night, there was a loaded 12-gauge shotgun at every entrance door with double odd buckshot. My mom had a new handgun at the ready. My father got off the night shift very soon after this incident. There have been no other incidences with bipedal wolves in our area.” M
NOTE: I informed the witness that the Pocono area is still well-known for bipedal cryptid canine sightings. I have reported several over the past decade. Lon
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Queen Elizabeth II: Plans for her lying in state and funeral
Inside the beloved Queen’s state funeral plans – from route and date to location
THE state funeral for the Queen will take place at Westminster Abbey a week on Monday — as the nation falls silent to remember her extraordinary life of service.
Full details were expected to be revealed later today after King Charles meets with Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, to approve the carefully choreographed farewell.
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King George VI’s coffin was hauled by the Royal Navy after his sudden death in 1952 saw The Queen propelled to the throne[/caption]
But it is widely expected that the Queen’s coffin will be carried upon a gun carriage pulled through the streets of London by naval ratings using ropes rather than horses.
The same tribute was paid to her father, King George VI, whose coffin was hauled by the Royal Navy after his sudden death in 1952 saw her propelled to the throne.
Senior members of the Royal Family will fall in behind her coffin and walk silently, in the same way they did for the funerals of Diana and the Duke of Edinburgh.
The military will line the streets and also join the procession.
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Heads of state, prime ministers and presidents, European royals and key figures from public life will be invited to gather in Westminster Abbey to mark her glorious 70-year reign.
Up to 2,000 dignitaries are expected to attend, with tens of millions of viewers watching the service all over the world on television.
It is likely to be the biggest security operation the UK has ever seen — with thousands set to line the ceremonial route for days to pay their respects ahead of the funeral.
Former counter-terror chief Nick Aldworth said police and security services are expecting huge crowds of mourners.
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Mr Aldworth said: “It’s probably the biggest operation that we’re likely to mount in the UK.”
Gun cops and rooftop snipers will be in place while the cortege is moving amid fears of potential terror attacks targeting large crowds.
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The coffin of her beloved late husband, Prince Philip, will be moved from the Royal Vault to join her[/caption]
Police and security services will oversee the plans from a central operations room in Lambeth in South London.
A senior police officer, known as a gold commander, will head up the operation. The coffin will be transported to St George’s Chapel at Windsor after the funeral for a televised committal service.
Later that night, senior members of the Royal Family will gather for a private interment service before the Queen is laid to rest in the King George VI memorial chapel.
She will be placed alongside her mother and father and the ashes of her sister Princess Margaret, who died in 2002.
In another poignant tribute, the coffin of her beloved late husband, Prince Philip, will be moved from the Royal Vault to join her.
Her funeral has been the subject of quiet and respectful planning for decades and will be carried out with military precision to the exact minute.
A large team of royal courtiers and senior advisers have been called upon at Buckingham Palace and Clarence House in the wake of her death to set the plans in motion.
They are vastly experienced and have worked for or with the royal household for decades.
But none of them will have served during such a momentous occasion as the death of a British monarch — and the start of a new reign.
The Earl Marshal will take charge of the preparations for the funeral and later, King Charles III’s coronation. The current Earl Marshal is the 18th Duke of Norfolk, Edward Fitzalan-Howard, who inherited the position upon the death of his father in 2002.
‘Symbolic gesture’
The Queen’s private secretary, Sir Edward Young, who worked for the monarch for more than 18 years, will also play a key role in the coming days.
He will be guiding Charles on matters of state and constitutional issues, and working closely with the Government in the run-up to the funeral to ensure the monarchy continues to function smoothly.
King Charles’s principal private secretary, Sir Clive Alderton, will work closely with Sir Edward to prepare Charles for life as the monarch. The Lord Chamberlain, Baron Parker of Minsmere, will also play a hugely symbolic and little-known role during the funeral.
The former MI5 spy chief is the most senior official of the Royal Household.
On ceremonial occasions, the Lord Chamberlain carries a white staff and a gold key, the symbols of his office.
Tradition dictates that the Lord Chamberlain must now break his white staff over the Queen’s grave — a symbolic gesture marking the death of the sovereign he serves.
Angela Kelly, the Queen’s senior dresser and personal adviser, is likely to be in charge of selecting the monarch’s funeral gown or robes. She oversees the teams of seamstresses who may also be called upon to help prepare the Royal Family’s mourning clothes and funeral attire.
The last full state funeral in the UK was for war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1965.
Ceremonial royal funerals, similar to state funerals, are held for members of the Royal Family who hold high military rank, for the consort of the sovereign and the heir to the throne.
The Duke of Edinburgh was given a ceremonial royal funeral last April, as was the Queen Mother in 2002.
Diana, Princess of Wales, was also given a form of ceremonial royal funeral in 1997, despite no longer being an HRH.
Baroness Thatcher’s funeral in April 2013 was a ceremonial funeral with full military honours, with her coffin taken in procession to St Paul’s Cathedral on a gun carriage drawn by six black horses.
Former PM Benjamin Disraeli was reportedly offered a state funeral, but declined it in his will.
The Duke of Windsor, who abdicated as Edward VIII, was given a private royal funeral in 1972, although the Garter King of Arms proclaimed words during the service usually reserved for a state funeral and declared him “sometime the most high, most mighty and most excellent monarch Edward VIII”.
He was the only sovereign not to have a royal state funeral since 1727, when George I died and was buried abroad.
The last watch of the military vigil will begin at 6am on the morning of the Queen’s funeral, as the nation prepares to bid the fondest of farewells.
A Bank Holiday is expected to be announced by PM Liz Truss to allow the country to draw together in mourning. Cities up and down the land will televise the occasion on giant screens as the nation comes to a standstill.
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