Monsters and Myths

Author Dennis Brooks looks to the writings of Plato to find Atlantis in Atlantis Was America: Tampa Was the Royal City.

Tampa, FL — Atlantis Was America: Tampa Was the Royal City, a new book by Dennis Brooks, presents a fascinating interpretation of Plato’s more than 2000-year-old dialogue on the lost civilization of Atlantis.

Author Dennis Brooks spent 30 years researching and analyzing Plato’s writings and throughout that time made several remarkable discoveries. What he found convinced him that the Americas were once the boundless continent Plato referred to as Atlantis, Florida was once the great plain of Atlantis, Tampa was once the royal city, and Harbour Island was once the small island of Atlantis.

In Atlantis Was America: Tampa Was the Royal City, the author explains in great detail the parallels between Plato’s description of Atlantis and modern day Florida, which may enlighten and educate even the most skeptical of readers.

Sure to inspire spirited debates amongst Atlantis historians and novices alike, Atlantis Was America provides a unique tutorial for readers by casting new light on a legendary mystery.

About the Author
Always fascinated with the legend of Atlantis, Dennis Brooks began his meticulous study of the subject after retiring from the U.S. Army. He currently resides in Honolulu.

A retired Cookeville builder has discovered a mysterious set of large footprints on his property.

Harold Jackson is an amateur archaeologist who enjoys collecting arrowheads and other Native American artifacts. But the most extraordinary find of his life came on his property near the Caney Fork River. For months he stepped on a rock near his house that caught his eye. Finally, he brought the unusual rock home and cleaned it up. After all of the mud was removed, a remarkable discovery was revealed. “I don’t know anything about archaeology or anything, but if you look at it, it’s a footprint. No animal footprint looks like that. Now, if it’s a Native American, an Indian, then he was a big Indian,” said Jackson. “(The print) is about 11 inches wide and about 15 inches long.” Jackson said the fossilized print clearly shows the heel and all five toes. “It’s got to be thousands of years old,” said Jackson.

About half-a-dozen scientists said they want to look at the print, including Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, a famous Bigfoot professor at Idaho State University. Meldrum collects Bigfoot prints from all over the world. Jackson said the print has made him a believer in Bigfoot.

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A woman on buck Flats Road reported a Sasquatch sighting on July 26 to Brian Vike, Director of Houston British Columbia Canada (HBCC) UFO Research.

She made the report 29 days after the sighting simply because she didn’t not know who she should tell. “It was my neighbour who said Brian was the person to talk to,” she said. Since her incident, one of the woman’s friends reported a sighting on Telkwa High Road in Moricetown and over the summer there have been sightings in Campbell River and in Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. Just Sunday morning, the woman heard something crashing outside near her house and her dogs were anxious to get outside. “I am becoming much more aware of being out here,” said the woman whose home is surrounded by trees and bluffs. “I mean it could have been a moose or something, but you never know.”The woman agreed to talk to Houston Today under a condition of anonymity. At 5:45 a.m. that morning of July 28, the woman heard her dogs barking at the door. When she went down to investigate she saw that someone or something was rattling the door handle. Knowing that her son was not due back from his graveyard shift for two more hours, she began to panic. She eventually opened the door and the dogs were out like a shot, sniffing out something on he east side of her property. When she looked out at the side of her house, she saw a creature that was walking on two legs. “It was huge and it had long hair, not fur” kind of like the kind you see on an ox and a reddish brown, the colour of the trees that are killed by the pine beetle,” said the woman.

“And it moved so fast, by the time I opened my door it had run from the porch to the other side of the house.”Once outside, the dogs pursued the creature it continued along a dried-up ravine and disappeared into a forested area. Her oldest dog didn’t return for three hours. “I was worried but what do you do, tell people your dog is chasing bigfoot?”she asked. “I drove up and down the road, looking for him and eventually he came back.”

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Sweden’s version of the Loch Ness monster, the Storsjoe, was captured on film last week. Or so it was claimed. The Web keeps good tabs on the world’s aquatic monsters

Canadian monsters

The Loch Ness monster, may be the best known, but Canada has its own monsters, including Champ, in Lake Champlain and Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan, B.C.

Don’t even think of trying to catch it

There’s a useful guide to the 400-year history of sightings of the Swedish monster. The local government has even placed it under a protection order.

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A stunning clue in the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been found in a remote desert on the other side of the world.

In the middle of the harsh and uninhabited Gobi Desert, on the border between northern China and southern Mongolia, explorers stumbled upon the wreckage of ships and airplanes known to have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.

The discovery has given rise to a new theory about the Triangle and the thousands of vessels that have vanished there.

“It now seems that the Bermuda Triangle and the Gobi Desert are the two ends of a wormhole that runs through the Earth,” says physicist Roland Desmond, of Cambridge University in England.

“A wormhole is a fissure in the fabric of the space-time continuum. Ships and airplanes are swept into the Bermuda end of the wormhole and are transported to the Gobi Desert at the speed of light.

“They give the appearance of vanishing at one end and rematerializing at the other.”

One mystery remains — and it’s a big one. No human remains have been found among the wrecked ships and airplanes.

“Physics has no explanation for the disappearance of these tragic victims,” Desmond says. “Perhaps they are trapped in one of the many dimensions of space and time that make up the wormhole.”

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