Lazlo Agency help requested at Whiskeytown, California.

[Tabloid Hound]

I’ve been in some heated conversation with several contacts over this last week and I have reason to believe that a “situation” that needs to be resolved ASAP! The problem is, the area that needs agency help is large and it’s largely unexplored. First off read the article below for the front story,

Giant waterfall discovered in California national park
WHISKEYTOWN, California -- Dick McDermott knows these parts as well as any man can.

The 92-year-old used to earn a meager living mining the creeks that meander through the deeply wooded hills. He has slogged through the brush and hiked overgrown logging roads, hunting deer and gathering wood for his homemade fiddles.

But McDermott says he's never laid eyes on the nearly 400-foot waterfall that park officials recently discovered in a remote corner of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, 43,000 acres of wilderness in northern California.

"Sure, I was surprised," he said from his home in the park, where he's lived for more than 70 years. "I've been all around that place, I never seen 'em."
Until recently, very few had seen the roaring water that tumbles three tiers before pouring neatly into Crystal Creek. That such a spectacle should evade even park officials for nearly 40 years is remarkable, said park superintendent Jim Milestone.

"It wasn't on a map, no one on the trail crew knew about it. People who been here 27 years had never seen it," said Milestone, who is leading an effort to clear a trail to the newly named Whiskeytown Falls. It's expected to be finished by next summer.

There's no doubt the falls have had visitors over the years. The Wintu Indians were probably the first, although archeologists have so far found no traces on the site. A small band of loggers that harvested Douglas firs in the early 1950s left behind a choker cable and part of a bulldozer. A knife blade stuck in a nearby tree indicates that others have also made the trek.
But for park officials, the falls were merely a rumor for many years, said Russ Weatherbee, the wildlife biologist credited with the find.

A couple years ago, Weatherbee was cleaning out a cabinet of old maps when he stumbled across one from the 1960s marked with a note reading "Whiskeytown falls" near Crystal Creek.

"I just decided to go looking for it. But I went in and hiked up and never found anything," Weatherbee said. The map had been more than a mile off.

In the spring of 2003, he was looking at global imaging system maps on his computer when he saw a stretch in the creek that dropped in altitude quickly with a sliver of white leading through it.

"I thought, 'that looks like white water to me,"' he said.

Since Weatherbee's discovery, a handful of rangers and park guests have made the nearly two-mile hike to the falls. The trek veers off a well-trodden trail and follows an eroding logging road through thick brush and manzanita, an evergreen shrub found in the West.

The falls are best viewed from a spot Milestone calls Artist's Point, where a sweaty hiker can sit and admire the rushing water from a rocky jut. Milestone said he wants to bring groups of painters there for inspiration.

He also hopes Whiskeytown Falls will draw other people past the park's popular lake -- a favorite for boaters and water-skiers -- and into the woods.
Not surprisingly, however, there are some who would prefer the falls remain a secret. Milestone has even received an anonymous letter criticizing him for inviting outsiders to overrun the park.

Dave Girard, an avid hiker who lives in Redding, said he's known about the falls for about 10 years and has visited at least twice. He said he doesn't oppose Milestone's efforts to open the falls to visitors because he believes no matter how much hikers like to covet their favorite places, "there's always someone who's been there before you."

From his home on Grizzly Gulch a few miles from the falls' new trailhead, McDermott also said he has no problem with officials trying to draw more people into the park.

There are plenty of natural wonders out there for everybody, he said. For example, he's seen a giant manzanita shrub with a three-foot diameter stump, and he said he might be the only person to know about it.
If park officials want to build a trail to it, however, they're on their own.
"They're going to have find it themselves," he said.

This all paints a picture of adventure and intrigue for the public eye, but this story is hiding info that certain officials have apprearently tried really hard to keep quiet. Something supernatural exists in this mostly ignored area, and apprearently it’s jealously territorial.

Eye witnesses and survivors cannot confirm what it is exactly or if they is more than one, but they describe it as a large bipedal beast with burning red eyes that has claimed the waterfall area as its own to defend (one eyewitness said it may live in a hidden cave behind it. It’s possibly a Lycanthrope, possible a hellhound, or something else entirely.

The rest of the details vary from those I’ve contacted, but its not out of the question to say that one of the reasons this waterfall has been largely ignored is that there those who visit the area accidentally or intentionally don’t return. The bits and pieces found in the area seem to correlate that (bulldozer piece, the knife in the tree, etc.)

This article concerns me in that it will be attracting more attention to that area and people will be going in like flies to the spider’s parlor. I am requesting that the agency send in a team in (or at least a team of supernatural specialists) to verify that the stories are correct and if necessary, exterminate the beast before its starts claiming more innocent victims than it may already have.

[Ellie]

Just my luck. Something happens within an area I can get to, and I'm stuck at home healing.

[mrloucifer]

Just my luck. Something happens within an area I can get to, and I'm stuck at home healing.

I bloody hear ya Mate. I'm just finally gettin off me arse from injuries. I'm ready to go tho, tired of warming the bleedin bench for so long.

[Debunker]

You know gang, rumors like this are generally started by those who want their best kept secrets to stay secret. Read the news article again, people are upset that their favorite spot no one knew about is now going to be a free for all.

Rumor mills are almost as bad as forums scribes that way.

[The Traveler King]

Hmm...

[Ron Caliburn]

I normally don't go out into the wild's a hunting critters . . . mostly because in those causes it's som fool person stiring up the nest rather than a true predator hunting us. I only make an exception when i think soemthing fromt he wilds is coming into the town and then retreating back to the lair, but I am really, really super careful then, because you never know really how many you'll find.

In the city at leas they are mostly lone predators or small packs. Better still, they have to hide in places we've made. I might not understand the way a cave works all that well, but I can find and fight my way through a dark basement or sewer better than any rat or alligator.

[Contact_21]

Thanks for the tip. I sent an observation team in and we've got a dimensional displacement, possibly time related. You know those black panthers that seem to show up around the world here and there every now and then? This is similar.

We're moving into phase two and observing the creature. I'll let you know when we find out more.



Contact_21
Lazlo Agent

[The Traveler King]

Dimensional disturbance. That's kind of what I thought. If I can get some specifics like UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) map coordinates I can see what the company can do on our end. It might not be much, given that we are tied up with other work.

As an aside, our company just acquired two-dozen Honda Civic Hybrids yesterday, with another dozen scheduled for arrival over the next two months. We were lucky that we placed our order when we did. No fancy dimension-hopping work with them. We just needed more fuel-efficient company vehicles. Thank God our really important vehicles don't even use gasoline.

[Private Dic McVay]

As an aside, our company just acquired two-dozen Honda Civic Hybrids yesterday, with another dozen scheduled for arrival over the next two months. We were lucky that we placed our order when we did. No fancy dimension-hopping work with them. We just needed more fuel-efficient company vehicles. Thank God our really important vehicles don't even use gasoline.

Must be nice, I'd love have something more potent than a beat up old Dodge Aries for a mode of transportation. Sigh...

[The Traveler King]

You work with what's available. I just got lucky and landed the right job at the right company.

[Last Moon]

Noted, thank you for sharing this.