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		<title>Bigfoot at Lakenenland</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/bigfoot-at-lakenenland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lakenenland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scrap metal artwork]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Saturday&#8217;s BPI party at the Lakenenland sculpture park, we learned about a new and fascinating aspect of Bigfoot behavior. The park is owned and created by Tom Lakenen. His family told us about a series of strange footprints at the park&#8217;s entrance on highway M-28.
Bigfoot, they said, stepped in a can of paint and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=191&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Phenomenal Party!</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/one-phenomenal-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, June 21, Backyard Phenomena Investigations (BPI) hosted a get-together for members and friends. We met at Lakenenland near Marquette, Michigan, a fantastic sculpture park filled with huge and amazing works of art created by Tom Lakenen. Tom even showed up to cook us brats! What more can you ask for in a gathering?
This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=190&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bigfoot Rocks!</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/bigfoot-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we need a break from the constant onslaught by debunkers and even fellow researchers. We need a take a step back, have some fun, and remember why we should never take ourselves too seriously. In that vein, I present the following.
BPI member Jim Heit shared with me his photos of an unusual rock his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=134&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The rock shaped like a Bigfoot track, in its original home.</media:title>
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		<title>Ice Circles &amp; UFOs</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/ice-circles-ufos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sightings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unexplained Phenomena]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[     Back in November 2006, a man discovered a wheel of ice floating in the Hemlock River, near the town of Amasa in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The night before, the same man had seen, as HBCC Research puts it, &#8220;a vibrating beam of light/pulsating lights&#8221; in the skies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=130&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Bigfoot Encounter</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/wisconsin-bigfoot-encounter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot Sightings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[     Date: 1975 Location: Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin
 Twelve-year-old Jenny and her brother, mother, aunt, and four cousins had gone to the Nicolet National Forest to camp. Jenny slept in a pop-up camper with her mother and brother, and their dog, while Jenny&#8217;s aunt and cousins slept in a tent next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=123&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghostly Humming</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/ghostly-humming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghosts / Apparitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sightings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Date: January 18, 2008Location: Lake Linden, Michigan
At 7:20 AM, the witness entered her bedroom to change clothes. The room was dark, so she picked up a flashlight, switched it on, and sought her clothes. Then she heard something coming from the far corner of the room.
A man&#8217;s voice hummed the song &#8220;Fly Me to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=50&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickster: The Apple from the Blue Sky</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/trickster-the-apple-from-the-blue-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tricksters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unexplained Phenomena]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I discussed the trickster phenomenon, and several incidents that happened to me. One was the apple balanced in an aspen tree, far from any apple trees. The apple disappeared by the next morning. Another apple incident occurred the previous year.
I had set out from my house with the dogs for our morning walk. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=19&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghostly Fog</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/the-ghostly-fog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ghosts / Apparitions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When: September 2007Where: Jacobsville, MichiganWhat&#8230;
The morning was calm and sunny. At about 8:00, a woman stood at her living room window watching her husband head out to the garden to tend the remaining crops. He stopped about 50 feet away from the window, within the garden fence. As the woman watched, she noticed a strange [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=18&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickster: The Falling Thermometer</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/trickster-the-falling-thermometer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, the apple appeared in the aspen tree. Next, a snow boot transported itself into the living room. What else would the trickster do in my house?
The answer came on December 17, 2007, four days after the boot incident. The wood stove in my living room has a metal pipe which funnels smoke into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=15&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickster: The Blue Boot</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/trickster-the-blue-boot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two days, I&#8217;ve talked about the trickster phenomenon—when inexplicable events happen, events which seem random and somewhat silly. Yesterday I described the apple that appeared and disappeared from a branch stump on an aspen tree, nowhere near an apple tree. Today, I have another story from the trickster files.
Here in the north, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=14&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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