02/15/2024
TRAIL CAMS, Part 2:
"The Mica Hulk"
© Mason Winfield 2024
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These trailcams people set up are getting some miraculous images. A lot of them attest to no more than the intrigue of the night. They are impressive to the amateurs like me, but no more than curious to the true pros at surveillance. Some of them, though, confound even the experts. It’s quite the mysterious world we are in.
There’s been a bit of a buzz in Bigfoot-oriented circles about an unusual trail camera image taken recently near Tucson, Arizona. It appears to be a large, pale, misty critter, so big and blocky that its features remind people of the Incredible Hulk. I see the resemblance, except for the paleness-part. And the baldness. It seems to have no hair, no clothing, and such little muscle definition that I’m thinking of the Pilsbury doughboy. The form seems to be peering into the lens of the camera from nearly straight on, which is a feat. The camera, they say, was mounted ten feet up.
They call the critter, “the Mica Hulk” for some reason I have not yet ascertained. Mica seems to be the name of a fictional town in the Disney movie "Stargirl" (2020). There may be a neighborhood in Tucson, too, with that name. “Mica” also stands for the Military Intelligence Corps Association, and I don’t know if that could be involved–like this is an experimental being, an autonomous bio-weapon.
In the string of comments we have people scaling down the height of the being to eight or nine feet because they take it to be looking way up. I don’t see it that way. To me this critter is looking almost right at the lens. It may even be crouching. It could even be levitating and hovering in the air at that height.
I see why they call it a hulk, though. Everything about it suggests mass and breadth. The shoulders are deep and powerful-looking. The head has a bald, bulbous cranium, and the face has Hulk-like, slitty features and apparently one tiny, Terminator-like glowing eye.
So what are the possibilities?
The most obvious is to say that this smoky image is a short-lived formation of natural factors like mist that merely resembles something it is not. That would make it a simulacra, something that looks like something else–uncannily. Works for me.
The figure is just about see-through, though. It hardly seems solid. It looks more like a ghost-photograph: what the ghost-hunters these days are calling “ectoplasm.”
Now, the word ectoplasm was coined in 1894 by the Victorian-era physiologist and psychical researcher Charles Richet (1850-1935) to refer to a substance or energy “exteriorized” (excreted) by physical mediums to create their physical displays. Today’s ghost-hunters tend to pick up a lot of this cottony sludge in their photographs, and to them it’s the sign of a supernatural being–an “entity”–they love that word–intending to form and getting stuck at that stage of manifestation on film or pixel. This Hulk-pic is like a photograph taken in a haunted site, merely of an outdoor apparition.
Of course we’ve got other possibilities. The thing looks absolutely alien. You wonder why they aren’t speculating about ET’s here. It almost looks like a computer-generated image, anyway, or even the psychic projection of the anxieties of living human beings.
My best guess is that this misty form is either that simulacra I mentioned earlier or one whose cause would be the same as those generated in haunted houses on the videos and cameras of today’s surveillance ghost-hunters. It’s a spook, not a Bigfoot–or an ET.
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"The Mica Hulk" A Strange Giant Creature Captured on Trail Camera near Tucson
