Our good friend Sasquatch Ontario has produced another unbelievable video of bigfoot evidence and a conversation with his bigfoot friend.
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Showing posts with label sasquatch. Show all posts
Saturday, February 08, 2014
CRYPTOLINK: Listen To Sasquatch Ontario Talk To Bigfoot
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
CRYPTOLINK: Maine team hunts Bigfoot for $10 million prize in new TV series
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Two Maine residents will search for the elusive Sasquatch in “10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty,” premiering at 10 p.m. Jan. 10 on Spike TV.
Photo courtesy of Spike TV
The cast of “10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty,” premiering 10 p.m. Jan. 10 on Spike TV. Kat McKechnie of Bowdoinham is wearing a light green shirt and standing third from the right, and her partner in the competition, Michael Merchant if Hampden, is sitting beside her in a grey shirt, fourth from right.
The cast of “10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty,” premiering 10 p.m. Jan. 10 on Spike TV. Kat McKechnie of Bowdoinham is wearing a light green shirt and standing third from the right, and her partner in the competition, Michael Merchant if Hampden, is sitting beside her in a grey shirt, fourth from right.
In the new reality show, Michael Merchant, 50, of Hampden and Kat McKechnie, 39, of Bowdoinham will team up to compete against eight other teams for a $10 million prize.
The hunt will take place in the most remote corners of the Pacific northwest, where Sasquatch sightings are most prevalent. The goal of the nine competing teams: capture Bigfoot or provide DNA and visual evidence of the creature’s existence.
The teams are comprised of lifelong hunters of all kinds (Bigfoot, big game, ghosts, etc.). They will put their knowledge and skills to the test as they battle the elements and outwit the competition.
Merchant, who studied biology at the University of Maine in Orono, has also appeared on Discovery Channel’s “Out of the Wild: Venezuela,” in which he hiked 70 miles through rugged Venezuela jungle; as well as Animal Planet’s “Infested” as a herpetology expert.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
CRYPTOLINK: Naked Man Claiming to Be a Descendent of Sasquatch Attacks Hunter
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A naked man claiming that he came from a long family line of Sasquatches attacked a hunter in rural Washington County, Oregon on Thursday.
Jeff McDonald is not an avid hunter, according to his daughter, and after what he experienced on Thursday it’s unlikely that he will be out in the forest any time soon. The 58-year old McDonald was in the woods behind his house when the naked 20-year old son of his neighbor attacked him with a rock while making Sasquatch references.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
CFZ CANADA: Gold, Copper, and Sasquatch
Monday, September 23, 2013
CRYPTOLINK: Article on correlations between bigfoot and orangutan vocalisations
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| Arno the Sumatran orangutan looking in the direction he will be travelling in while vocalizing. (AP Photo/Perry van Duijnhoven) |
Sasquatch vocalizations have been recorded from all over North America, but very little is known about what the creatures are actually communicating, or why they are doing so. Perhaps now some light might be shed on this interesting question by studying another ape, the orangutan.
Researchers have now correlated the calls of male Sumatran orangutans with their directions of travel. They observed females repositioning themselves to be closer to the male's line of travel, and also non-dominant males moving out of the way of the dominant males heading their way.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
CRYPTOLINK: Bigfoot Photo from Georgia is Incredible and Intimidating (If It’s Real)
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A new, blurry Sasquatch photo is circulating the internet this week, which normally wouldn’t be anything to get terribly excited about, except this one is actually pretty impressive.. if it’s real. Information on the photo is terribly slim, but the story is that it’s a scanned copy of a photo snapped on a 35mm camera a few years ago, and sent out to Bigfoot researchers where it has since spread like wildfire.
Right away, you can see that the qualify of the photograph is easily comparable to the infamous Patterson-Gimlin film, long considered the best ever evidence of North American Man-Apes. The hulking creature looks as if it’s in mid-stride, all of the body features are easily made out, and one of the most striking qualities of the image is ability to see the monster’s muscle definition. Squatch does squats, apparently.
Friday, August 10, 2012
LINK: Woman Encounters Sasquatch Near Yakima Washington
Alright gang, time to play detective.
The following video testimony comes from a family that had went camping deep in the Washington mountains and encountered a large bipedal creature. The woman in the video explains her encounter with the strange creature believed to be Bigfoot. From her testimony, she describes the creature 10-11 feet tall with a multicolor coat.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
CFZ CANADA: Sasquatch from the Bottom Up Part 5: Bear Arms?
We’ve sort of climbed Sasquatch like a tree, which brings usnicely to his “upper limbs”.
Today we look at Sasquatch Arms—the real ones, not the Urban Dictionary definition of a woman who doesn’t shave!
Like all Bigfoot researchers, I habitually go back to the PGfilm for photographic evidence. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve viewed this film, especially famous frame 352. Each time I watch it I have a different opinion. One of the things I’m set on though is the upper appendages (arms) shown in that footage.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
CFZ CANADA: Sasquatch –from the bottom up part 1; Big Feet
I’m still pretty green at this crypto stuff—I’ve only been part-time studying for about 6 years. My “real job” is researching hauntings phenomena, and cryptozoology is sort of aside. I’ve decided to share my learning journey here on this blog, beginning with Sasquatch.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
CFZ CANADA: The RCMP and Sasquatch
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the Canadian national public safety service for all of Canada. It provides national, federal, provincial and municipal policing, including services to 184 aboriginal communities and three international airports.Their duties are varied and sometimes rather odd.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
BIGFOOT FORUMS BLOG: An Interview With Mike Rugg
Michael Rugg is co-founder of the Bigfoot Discovery Project (BDP) and Curator of The Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton CA. The BDP accepts the subject of the Patterson/Gimlin Film as the type specimen for the Pacific Coast Bigfoot or Sasquatch and seeks to create a dialogue about the implications of the impending "discovery of bigfoot" by conventional Western science.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Sunday, December 26, 2010
DALE DRINNON: Sasquatch Data And Bergmann's Rule
To quote the definition as it is stated in the Wikipedia, 'In zoology, Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographic rule that correlates latitude with body mass in animals. Broadly it asserts that within a species the body mass increases with latitude and colder climate, or that within closely related species that differ only in relation to size that one would expect the larger species to be found at the higher latitude.'( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann )
George W. Gill gave an important paper in regards to Bergmann's rule as applied to reported descriptions and footprints of Sasquatch in the far west of North America in 1980. [1] Gill's estimates were staged for different states at different latitudes and included separate tabulations for reported heights in Sasquatch reports and also heights figured from the tracks.
Gill's estimates were that the reported track lengths in California ranged from 12 1/2 to 18 inches long, with a mean of 15 inches and corresponding to the separate stature estimations of 6 to 9 feet tall with an average of 7'4." In Oregon the range of footprint lengths was from 13 1/2 to 20 inches with a mean of 16 9/10 corresponding to stature estimations of 6 1/2 to 9 1/2 feet with a mean of 8 feet tall. In Washington the footprints had a length of 13 1/2 to 22 inches with a mean of 17 1/10 inches and stature estimates of 7 to 10 feet tall with a mean of 8'4". In British Columbia and Western Canada the tracks were from 15 to 24 inches long with a mean of 18 1/2 inches long and stature estimates of 7 to 14 feet tall, the highest estimate being in doubt and the mean being 8'8."
The smallest of the Western Canadian Sasquatches are at the size of the average Californian ones, and the largest Californian Sasquatches are at the size of the average Western Canadian ones.
I have made a chart illustrating Gill's figures and I append it here. I had also done a rough statistical survey and arrived at results equivalent to Gill's, and with the results that I concluded were an illustration of Bergmann's Rule. Furthermore, Grover Krantz [2] spoke of the typical Sasquatch in the Washington area as typically having a male 7 feet 8 inches tall and weighing up to 800 pounds, with a female typically 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 500 pounds. He put a maximum size at 10 feet tall and 1000 pounds. After consulting Bob Titmus the latter said, on the basis of his experiences in Southern Alaska, he would modify those figures upward by as much as 15% for height and as much as an additional 50% in weight. Krantz added "And he may be right".
I have made a chart illustrating Gill's figures and I append it here. I had also done a rough statistical survey and arrived at results equivalent to Gill's, and with the results that I concluded were an illustration of Bergmann's Rule. Furthermore, Grover Krantz [2] spoke of the typical Sasquatch in the Washington area as typically having a male 7 feet 8 inches tall and weighing up to 800 pounds, with a female typically 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 500 pounds. He put a maximum size at 10 feet tall and 1000 pounds. After consulting Bob Titmus the latter said, on the basis of his experiences in Southern Alaska, he would modify those figures upward by as much as 15% for height and as much as an additional 50% in weight. Krantz added "And he may be right".
The two sets of figures also fit exactly in the same size ranges as predicted by Gill's estimates, with Titmus' Southern Alaskan estimates fitting right in at the top. The additional estimates give male heights of 9 feet and a maximum weight of 1200 pounds, and a female height of 7 feet 6 inches with a maximum of 750 pounds. Krantz's top limit of 10 feet tall plus an additional 15% comes to 11' 6 inches. The largest estimates given for Gigantopithecus are in the range of 12 feet tall and a weight of 1313 pounds for a really big male, listed independantly in the literature, which is a close match and what I would propose as the absolute maximum possible size.
Another rule frequently stated in conjunction with Bergmann's rule is Gloger's rule, which states that animals of the same species that inhabit warmer and more humid climates tend to be darker in colour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloger) and Gill also noted in his paper that the number of lighter-coloured Sasquatches in the reports is 13% in California and Oregon but 26% of the reports in Washington and Western Canada. That is twice as much, a noticeable increase in blonde Sasquatches as the latitudes increased.
Another rule frequently stated in conjunction with Bergmann's rule is Gloger's rule, which states that animals of the same species that inhabit warmer and more humid climates tend to be darker in colour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloger) and Gill also noted in his paper that the number of lighter-coloured Sasquatches in the reports is 13% in California and Oregon but 26% of the reports in Washington and Western Canada. That is twice as much, a noticeable increase in blonde Sasquatches as the latitudes increased.
The adherance of the reported Sasquatches to known biological rules argues for the existence of real creatures being reported rather than creatures merely made up or hallucinated. And the size estimates seem to be paralleled in Eastern Asia as well, especially in China and Manchuria; and the close correspondance of the size estimates to published estimates for Gigantopithecus is probably also no accident.
[1] "Population Clines in North American Sasquatch as Evidenced by Track Lengths and Estimated Statures" in Manlike Monsters on Trial: Early Records and Modern Evidence, Edited by Marjorie M. Halpin and Michael M. Ames, U of BC Press, 1980.
[2] Grover Krantz, Big Footprints (1992 edition) p.146
[1] "Population Clines in North American Sasquatch as Evidenced by Track Lengths and Estimated Statures" in Manlike Monsters on Trial: Early Records and Modern Evidence, Edited by Marjorie M. Halpin and Michael M. Ames, U of BC Press, 1980.
[2] Grover Krantz, Big Footprints (1992 edition) p.146
Saturday, December 11, 2010
DALE DRINNON: Khmer Bigfoot [Reposting]
I had submitted the following selections from a Khmer message board to the blog before, but for some inexplicable reason parts of it had become altered in transit. This is a Khmer (Cambodian) message board and the subject for the time being is the local Cambodian traditions of wildmen, thought to be most similar to the American Sasquatch. The main contributor and first speaker is Khmerghost. The link at the start takes you to the originating web page.
Khmer Bigfoot
Khmerghost
Angkor Thom
Angkor Thom
KHMER UNITY
July 22nd, 2006 6:55pm
When I was younger my father used to tell me folklores of giant apes stealing little girls and trying to breed with tme. And little boys who stayed out late at night would get attack by giant apes. Whatever I thought, until I read and article that they found bones in 1935 in the east asia that might be proof of a bigfoot. But are they still alive? The name for the bigfoot is Gigantopithecus blacki  At the time of the discovery, during the 1930s, von Koenigswald was working primarily in Java, unearthing fossils of human ancestors and their relatives. China's unique fossil shops had already played a major role in tracking down Homo erectus, which lived in Asia between about one million and 300,000 years ago. Homo erectus remains were first unearthed in Java in the 1890s, but pursuit of the source of dragon bones subsequently led to a system of fossil-filled crevices and caverns near the town of Zhoukoudian (Choukoutien), thirty miles from Beijing. There, in 1929, a team of Chinese and Western scientists discovered the first of a series of Homo erectus skulls that became world famous as "Peking man." The original fossils of Peking man disappeared during the confusion of World War II - fortunately, after they were described and cast by anatomist Franz Weidenreich. The war also caught up with von Koenigswald, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Java. His precious collection of Gigantopithecus teeth - at that point, the only known specimens of the fossil ape - spent the war years in a milk bottle buried in a friend's backyard on the island.  Photographed at the American Museum in the 1940's, German paleoanthropologists Ralph von Koenigswald, left, and Franz Weidenreich, right, pose with the skulls of apes, Homo erectus, and modern humans. The first scientist to discover teeth of Gigantopithecus, von Koenigswald correctly observed that they belonged to an ape, while Weidenreich argued for their humanlike characteristics.     Gigantopithecus compared to human jaw bone  At a Chinese pharmacy in Bangkok, the author (center) and archeologist John Olsen (right) search among the medicinal "dragon teeth" for interesting fossils.   A reconstruction of Gigantopithecus by Russell Ciochon and Bill Munns. Munns is shown here with “Giganto.†Russell Ciochon, U of Iowa      standing about ten feet Gigantopithecus is said to might have lived with humans.  khmer performing as the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, but it could be a dance of a white Gigantopithecus?  Sightings have been seen to this day from Malaysia, vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. Some say it was humans (mon-khmers?) building huts and crops that pushed Gigantopithecus to migrate to other regions. Conflicts and fear may have caused them to slowly die out. But even still more sightings have been seen. In Malaysia a team is looking for proof when a logger saw one sitting in his hut. In the Ratanakiri region a herbologist have said to seen one in the jungle. In the vietnam war, viet soldiers have said to be seen one in the junlges running away. Could all these sightings and stories be true, could Gigantopithecus the Cambodian bigfoot be still alive? |
Asked my parents about them earlier.
My parents and a group of about 10 other people saw an entire community of them, about 15, 5 or 6 adults and the rest adolescents, and a couple babies hanging onto there mothers.
My parents were hiding out on Phnom Sompov during the Vietnamese Invasion, when they saw a line of these kingkongs just down the mountian heading west about 300 meters away, before they dissapered into the forest. Everyone was on top of the mountian when they saw these apes on flat ground below.
Other parties, saw the same thing at different times in different locations around Phnom Sompov. so there couold be many waves of them passing by.
[Message last modified 07-22-2006 06:45pm by Point_Dexter]
My parents and a group of about 10 other people saw an entire community of them, about 15, 5 or 6 adults and the rest adolescents, and a couple babies hanging onto there mothers.
My parents were hiding out on Phnom Sompov during the Vietnamese Invasion, when they saw a line of these kingkongs just down the mountian heading west about 300 meters away, before they dissapered into the forest. Everyone was on top of the mountian when they saw these apes on flat ground below.
Other parties, saw the same thing at different times in different locations around Phnom Sompov. so there couold be many waves of them passing by.
[Message last modified 07-22-2006 06:45pm by Point_Dexter]
July 23rd, 2006 6:49am
antiquated
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Asked my Mom for some clarification. She said her Father was stationed out in the Ratanak Kiri area for military service, and her entired family went there with him. It was in that region, before noon. She said she was taking lunch to her Father on the way to school.
She also mentioned that the "monkeys" were so big, she thought they were people from the indigenous tribes. She said that they could have shredded her up and eaten her. She described them as walking on two legs upright. I showed her a picture of what KhmerGhost posted and she said that they look similar to that picture.
[Message last modified 07-23-2006 04:44pm by antiquated]
She also mentioned that the "monkeys" were so big, she thought they were people from the indigenous tribes. She said that they could have shredded her up and eaten her. She described them as walking on two legs upright. I showed her a picture of what KhmerGhost posted and she said that they look similar to that picture.
[Message last modified 07-23-2006 04:44pm by antiquated]
July 23rd, 2006 4:23pm
Arun
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*heart attack* Those pictures are creepy! >.<>
Khmerghost
Angkor Thom
KHMER UNITY
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 664
quote:
Originally posted by Point_Dexter
Asked my parents about them earlier.
My parents and a group of about 10 other people saw an entire community of them, about 15, 5 or 6 adults and the rest adolescents, and a couple babies hanging onto there mothers.
My parents were hiding out on Phnom Sompov during the Vietnamese Invasion, when they saw a line of these kingkongs just down the mountian heading west about 300 meters away, before they dissapered into the forest. Everyone was on top of the mountian when they saw these apes on flat ground below.
Other parties, saw the same thing at different times in different locations around Phnom Sompov. so there couold be many waves of them passing by.
[Message last modified 07-22-2006 06:45pm by Point_Dexter]
Thanks for the story. I've been collecting stories for my reviews. So far your story isn't new from khmers viets and laos, seems alot of people have seen them as soon as they were forced to run to the jungles for cover.
Ratanak Kiri and Malaysia is the hot spot. I've mapped some stories out and it seems to be in the edge of Ratanak Kiri. Very interesting story thanks, I'm going to log it in.
Khmerghost
Angkor Thom
KHMER UNITY
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 666
quote:
By the way, has there been any Giganto. fossils ever found in Cambodia?
They've found some fossils in Siem Riep market and Bangkok. The first fossil was found in China, but they mapped it out and concluded that they were living around the Tonle Sap region fishing and eating. Fossils are really hard to find and since Cambodia just opened to international market it's become the hot spot for research. So many new species that never were seen are popping up left and right.
'Bigfoot' excitement builds in Malaysia
[Also posted by Khmerghost]
Excitement is mounting in Malaysia over claims of "Bigfoots" are lurking in its southern jungles, with wildlife experts on the hunt for the mythical beast and a telephone hotline set up to report sightings.
Bigfoot fever erupted last month when some fish farm workers claimed to have spotted three of the beasts - two adults and a youngster, on the edge of a forest reserve in southern Johor state.
Their improbable tale was lent some authority soon after when an Orang Asli - an indigenous ethnic group known for their expertise in the jungle, also said he had stumbled across one of the legendary ape-men.
"He saw the creature which was hairy and brownish in colour, it was about 12 feet [four metres] tall," Johor National Parks director Hashim Yusoff said.
"It was not aggressive, but the Orang Asli was startled by the creature and ran away.
"My personal feeling is that there is a possibility it could be what we call in Malaysia the 'mawas' ... more of a primate.
"But we don't deny the sightings," he said, insisting that the Orang Asli "do not lie".
"We've got to prove it and we've got to do it scientifically."
Quest
Wildlife authorities have embarked on a quest to verify the claims, and are considering mounting camera traps to capture images of anything roaming the jungles.
After a month of fruitless searching and interviews with people living near the forests, a telephone hotline has now been set up for members of the public who claim to have seen the beast to relate their stories, Mr Hashim said.
"Our main aim is to identify the information source, whether it is credible or not," he told AFP.
The Malaysian press has given prominent coverage to reports of sightings, including some which date back decades, and printed photographs of supposed footprints - vague impressions in the mud and leaves on the jungle floor.
Johor is home to large tracts of jungle, including its famed Endau-Rompin National Park, and unconfirmed sightings of large creatures surface periodically there.
Proof elusive
Former zoologist Amlir Ayat said this week that he had come close to finding proof of the existence of Bigfoot five years ago after villagers claimed to have shot a huge hairy creature in the jungles of neighbouring Pahang state.
"The creature fell to the ground with a great thud and the villagers took to their heels. Later, when they returned to check if it was dead, they found the body still lying there," he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.
Dr Amlir said he was only told of the shooting a year later. He and the villagers mounted a search for the remains of the creature but found none.
"By then, loggers had moved into the site and cleared the ground," he said.
"The evidence was gone."
Vincent Chow, an adviser to Johor's Malaysian Nature Society who has been lobbying the government to look into the claims, dismissed the sceptics who insist the "sightings" have been manufactured to lure tourists to Johor.
"There's a lot of excitement, a lot of people are coming in with their own stories," he said.
Sightings of mythical ape-like creatures have been reported in wilderness areas all over the world.
They are known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch in the United States and Canada, and yetis in the Himalayas.
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Bigfoot fever erupted last month when some fish farm workers claimed to have spotted three of the beasts - two adults and a youngster, on the edge of a forest reserve in southern Johor state.
Their improbable tale was lent some authority soon after when an Orang Asli - an indigenous ethnic group known for their expertise in the jungle, also said he had stumbled across one of the legendary ape-men.
"He saw the creature which was hairy and brownish in colour, it was about 12 feet [four metres] tall," Johor National Parks director Hashim Yusoff said.
"It was not aggressive, but the Orang Asli was startled by the creature and ran away.
"My personal feeling is that there is a possibility it could be what we call in Malaysia the 'mawas' ... more of a primate.
"But we don't deny the sightings," he said, insisting that the Orang Asli "do not lie".
"We've got to prove it and we've got to do it scientifically."
Quest
Wildlife authorities have embarked on a quest to verify the claims, and are considering mounting camera traps to capture images of anything roaming the jungles.
After a month of fruitless searching and interviews with people living near the forests, a telephone hotline has now been set up for members of the public who claim to have seen the beast to relate their stories, Mr Hashim said.
"Our main aim is to identify the information source, whether it is credible or not," he told AFP.
The Malaysian press has given prominent coverage to reports of sightings, including some which date back decades, and printed photographs of supposed footprints - vague impressions in the mud and leaves on the jungle floor.
Johor is home to large tracts of jungle, including its famed Endau-Rompin National Park, and unconfirmed sightings of large creatures surface periodically there.
Proof elusive
Former zoologist Amlir Ayat said this week that he had come close to finding proof of the existence of Bigfoot five years ago after villagers claimed to have shot a huge hairy creature in the jungles of neighbouring Pahang state.
"The creature fell to the ground with a great thud and the villagers took to their heels. Later, when they returned to check if it was dead, they found the body still lying there," he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.
Dr Amlir said he was only told of the shooting a year later. He and the villagers mounted a search for the remains of the creature but found none.
"By then, loggers had moved into the site and cleared the ground," he said.
"The evidence was gone."
Vincent Chow, an adviser to Johor's Malaysian Nature Society who has been lobbying the government to look into the claims, dismissed the sceptics who insist the "sightings" have been manufactured to lure tourists to Johor.
"There's a lot of excitement, a lot of people are coming in with their own stories," he said.
Sightings of mythical ape-like creatures have been reported in wilderness areas all over the world.
They are known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch in the United States and Canada, and yetis in the Himalayas.
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From Ivan T. Sanderson, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, 1961, Chapter 16 "Our Revered Ancestors"
The two remaining types of ABSMs, the Neo-Giants and the Meh-Tehs, present us with problems altogether different from any that we have so far encountered. Here, we come to the real core of the matter. These are the Dzu-Teh, Tok, Gin-Sung,
[paragraph continues] Sasquatch, Oh-Mah, Sisemite, Didi, Mapinguary type on the one hand, and the Meh-Teh, Golub-yavan on the other. We may well call these the "Inevitable No-men."
What could the Neo-Giants be and why should they have the apparently extraordinary distribution that they are alleged to have? At first both questions sound unanswerable but both are really amenable to very simple suggestions. Some years ago (1937) one Dr. von Koenigswald was searching through bottles of old fossil bones and teeth in a Chinese apothecary's store in Hong Kong when he came across a human molar tooth that was at least ten times in volume that of any ever grown by a man. And thus started the affair of what has been named Gigantopithecus, an enormous something, that once inhabited south China and left its bones in limestone caves. The controversy about this creature has been extensive and intense. Dr. Koenigswald's associate, Prof. Weidenreich, named the tooth Gigantopithecus, which means the giant "monkey" or by license "ape," rather than Gigantothropus or the Giant Man, because he was a very conservative and ultra-cautious soul. However, even before further remains of the brute had been found, other leading scholars stated that it was misnamed and was definitely a Hominid. [I had the privilege of examining the tooth all one afternoon in the American Museum of Natural History, and comparing it with the molars of all manner of men, current and fossil, and with apes, and for what my opinion is worth, it is certainly most strongly hominid.]
The tooth remained a ghastly enigma until 1956 when a Chinese farmer by the name of Chin Hsiu-Huai dug guano out of a cave in a mountain named Luntsai in Szechwan and spread it on his field. In this was found a part of a jaw with teeth of the same kind. Dr. Pei Wen-Chung, doyen of Chinese anthropologists, set up a prolonged search and found some fifty more teeth and, allegedly, a number of limb bones of the creature. He said that these indicated that it was a 12-foot tall, bipedal, carnivorous [sic] ape, than which there could hardly be a longer list of non sequiturs. Its teeth are utterly human, not just humanoid or hominid; if it walked erect, it was not an
ape—not at that size and weight; and if it was carnivorous [which its teeth do not at all indicate] it was, again, not an ape as that seems to be just about the only distinguishing thing about the diet of that group—they are all profoundly herbivorous, though gibbons will take insects.
The other question debated about this brute has been whether [if it is not an ape but a Hominid], it belongs with the Pithecanthropines of North China and Java—to wit: Sinanthropus, Pithecanthropus, and the giant Meganthropus. This is not really very important to us but the manifest fact that it was a Hominid and not a Pongid is so, and leads to certain potent observations. If it was really that size, or even over six feet tall, it must have been a terrestrial creature, and if it was an ape it would have walked on all fours like the gorilla. Nothing that size can travel by treetops. If it was not an ape, it started out with the hominid type of foot, which is what is called plantigrade, and neither it nor its ancestors ever needed to develop a specialized great toe, which was opposed and worked like a thumb. Thus, this creature, primitive as it may have been, probably had a very human type of foot on which to support its immense bulk. Whatever it was, it lived in what is now southern China.
Now let us look at Map X. This area is a part of Orientalia, and is today subtropical. The mountains that surround it are those of the Indo-Chinese Massif and of the Szechwan Block. These areas are the lands of the Dzu-Tehs, Toks, Kung-Lus, and Gin-Sungs—the huge, furred "bear-men" or "men-bears" of ancient Chinese, Mongolian, and Tibetan legend and of current ABSM lighters. But then comes another thing. What else lives in and previously lived in this area? This is the land of the Metasequoia, of the raccoons called pandas, of certain curious little insectivorous mammals, of several odd amphibians, and of numerous invertebrates including a lot of most rare and odd parasitic forms. And where else, if anywhere, are any of these or their only relatives found today? In the northwestern part of North America!
There is still a continuous causeway of mountains from Szechwan all the way [to the west of China proper] to and
through Manchuria to eastern Siberia. Because of increasing altitude toward the south (see Chapter 18), this is clothed in the same type of montane forest all the way. The same kinds of forest start again on the other side of the paltry Bering Strait, in Alaska, and continue on down in an almost unbroken chain to Tierra del Fuego at the very bottom end of South America. Moreover, sometime during the recent ice-advances and retreats, all manner of Siberian animals crossed over to the New World—like the Brown Bears, the Moose, the Elk, and others; and finally, the Amerinds, and then the Eskimos, did so too. Why on earth, should or could not a large sub-hominid also have done so, and simply by following the richly stocked montane forests all the way? That low temperatures could have prevented or even dissuaded them from doing so is just not valid, for, if the Dzu-Tehs are their living representatives, they can travel in snow without any trouble, and crossing the Bering Straits [even without a land-bridge due to alterations in sea level or elevation of the land], is no problem, for you can always walk across the ice in winter. It looks, therefore, very much as if Bernard Heuvelmans might have been right when he suggested that the largest type of ABSM in northern Orientalia could be a descendant of the Gigantopithecus, and the bolder his suggestion seems now, when it is realized that at that time (1952) the consensus was that that creature was an ape.
Sunday, August 08, 2010
MICHAEL NEWTON: Patty-Whacked, Part 2: Unusual Suspects
In the first installment of Patty-Whacked I examined claims that Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers created a Bigfoot costume for the Patterson film of October 1967—and a corollary allegation that Chambers protégé-associate Tom Burman starred as “the man in the ape suit.” No evidence supported either claim. Both Chambers and Burman denied any part in the filming. I also reported a specious claim that the film, while a hoax, was believed to be genuine by cameraman and chief promoter Roger Patterson—a proposition that defies all logic.
Despite fatal flaws in the Chambers-Burman legend of 1996-97, it survives and still enjoys a certain currency today. Meanwhile, assorted other “experts” have suggested alternative theories and named different suspects as “Patty”—the apparent female Sasquatch depicted in Patterson’s footage. In this installment we review the various solutions offered between 1998 and 2003, together with the media’s handling of each in turn.
BBC’s version of “Patty,” as aired in September 1998. First up in the wake of the Chambers debacle was the British Broadcasting Corporation, tackling Sasquatch and other cryptids in six-part series called The X Creatures, airing on BBC 1 between 26 August and 30 September 1998. Patty’s half-hour segment, broadcast on 16 September, was titled 'Shooting Bigfoot.' 1 It included a bumbling “recreation” of the Patterson film, employing an actor clad in an ape suit covered with long reddish hair, which bore no resemblance to Patty beyond the fact that both figures possessed one head and four limbs.
More important than BBC’s shoddy special effects, however, was the network’s handling of Bob Gimlin. The show’s producers retrieved an interview Gimlin had granted in the early 1970s, then pared the lengthy transcript down to a single question. Asked whether the filming conceivably might have been hoaxed without his knowledge, Gimlin hesitated, then allowed that it was “possible” in theory. In 1998 the BBC’s narrator closed 'Shooting Bigfoot' with a flat—and false—assertion that Gimlin “now believes the film may be a hoax.”
2 In fact, Gimlin said nothing of the kind. Months after The X Creatures episode aired, in January 1999, Gimlin told another interviewer, “I was there. I saw it. The film is genuine. Anybody who says different is just trying to make a buck.”3
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Next in line with an Sasquatch 'exposé' was Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Broadcasting Company, which aired a special programme titled World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed on 28 December 1998. Chosen as spokesman for the programme’s Bigfoot segment—and prepared to brand the Patterson film an “elaborate hoax”—was Kal K. Korff, a figure nearly as controversial as Sasquatch itself.4
Korff’s profile on the Skeptical Inquirer website describes him as president and CEO of 'TotalResearch, a company dedicated to studying universal mysteries and concerns,' adding that he 'is a former senior systems analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the ‘Star Wars’ program and is a recognized expert and pioneer in computer-based multimedia systems who helped develop Apple Computer’s revolutionary HyperCard software—the ancestor to the Internet software Browser.'5
Korff’s own website, labelled CriticalThinkers.org, describes him in greater detail as 'an internationally known, critically acclaimed Analyst, Author, Broadcaster, Columnist, Computer Systems Architect, Editor, Graphic Artist, Humanitarian Worker, Intelligence Analyst, Investigative Journalist, IT Specialist, Lecturer, Media Personality, Photo Editor, Senior Systems Analyst, Apple, Windows and Linux Software Developer, Teacher, WEB Architect, [and] Content Management System Designer. The President and CEO of CriticalThinkers.org, Kal is also a Counterterrorism Analyst, Advisor and Specialist, a Kidon Unit Commander [N.B.: The Israeli Mossad’s covert assassination branch; kidon is “bayonet” in Hebrew] who fights against anti-Semitism and Islamofascist extremism. Kal holds the rank of Colonel in an Israeli-founded civilian entity. The author of nearly 50 non-fiction books, [and] over 10,000 articles, since 1975 Kal has lectured to more than 300,000 people worldwide.' 6
An impressive résumé, indeed—and one that is frequently challenged on various points by Korff’s critics. While most of the claims are unverifiable, I note in passing that Korff’s current Skeptical Inquirer profile lists him as the author of two books, not 'nearly 50,' and my searches online—at Book Finder, various branches of Amazon.com, etc.—raised the total to three. His own website, accessed on 13 July 2010, revealed the same three titles and no more.7 The same site’s list of Korff-authored articles named two out of the rumoured 10,000-plus.8 He may indeed have published more; we simply cannot say.
Korff’s online critics—ranging from reserved to rabid—accuse him of much more than mere puffery. In December 2006, one Paul Kimball wrote that 'On his website, Korff claims, among many, many other things, to have been ‘a key, expert witness in the O.J. Simpson murder trial CIVIL lawsuit.’'9 [Emphasis in the original.] That claim does not appear on Korff’s website today, but as Kimball demonstrates, it is—or would have been—demonstrably false.
Another critic—this one carefully anonymous—allegedly researched Korff’s claim of employment at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, verifying that Korff indeed worked there, while quoting several purported (unnamed) colleagues who deny Korff’s link to “Star Wars” and relegate him to “remedial system support,” heaping on gratuitous insults.10 How Mr. X obtained that information, if he did, remains a mystery.
Such wrangling is only pertinent in light of Korff’s own mission statement for CriticalThinkers.org. There, he writes:
As you can see from the content published here, which is updated dynamically as world events unfold, this Web site is dedicated to exposing the TRUTH about many diverse and sometimes controversial subjects, it presents some very hard facts.
Such wrangling is only pertinent in light of Korff’s own mission statement for CriticalThinkers.org. There, he writes:
As you can see from the content published here, which is updated dynamically as world events unfold, this Web site is dedicated to exposing the TRUTH about many diverse and sometimes controversial subjects, it presents some very hard facts.
The greatest thing about facts, is that they ARE REALITY—anyone can independently verify them, should they wish to do so.
The PROBLEM is, MOST people just don’t bother to verify the information they either claim or “think” they know, for no valid nor logical reason.
Since they don’t do so, when REAL truth finally hits them, or they are forced to finally face facts, too often people resist it.
People often get “upset” over what is REALLY REALITY, and in an act of denial some play the immoral game of “attack the messenger” while ignoring the message or the facts which are being communicated.
Remember, just because one may not “like” certain facts, this does NOT give us the right to reject them.
Facts, should NEVER be ignored—regardless of who states them, or what one “thinks” or feels about the person or source stating, sharing or proving them.
Remember, just because one may not “like” certain facts, this does NOT give us the right to reject them.
Facts, should NEVER be ignored—regardless of who states them, or what one “thinks” or feels about the person or source stating, sharing or proving them.
When listening to FACTS and considering them, logic should reign supreme, not emotions nor personal biases and desires.
Facts are INVIOLATE, they are (rightfully and thankfully) INDEPENDENT of anyone's “opinions.”11 [All emphasis in the original.]
We must keep those lofty principles in mind as we examine Korff’s treatment of the Patterson film from 1998 onward. On World's Greatest Hoaxes, Korff told his audience, “There’s no doubt in my mind that the Patterson film is a hoax. It is a human being in a fur suit.” To name the culprit, Fox enlisted one Clyde Reinke, described as a rancher, businessman, and sometime “personal and administrative manager” of American National Enterprises—a film production/distribution company based in Salt Lake City, Utah.12
We must keep those lofty principles in mind as we examine Korff’s treatment of the Patterson film from 1998 onward. On World's Greatest Hoaxes, Korff told his audience, “There’s no doubt in my mind that the Patterson film is a hoax. It is a human being in a fur suit.” To name the culprit, Fox enlisted one Clyde Reinke, described as a rancher, businessman, and sometime “personal and administrative manager” of American National Enterprises—a film production/distribution company based in Salt Lake City, Utah.12
In its day, ANE produced low-budget films that were long on stock footage and short on plot, including such forgettable features as Mysteries from Beyond Earth (1975) and Are We Alone in the Universe? (1978), both touting the probability of alien contact with humans. It also distributed the horror film Piranha in 1972.13 One ANE participant—who described the firm as his “family’s film business”—was Ronald Olson, a self-styled Sasquatch hunter who derived his inspiration from Roger Patterson. As Olson told a reporter in 1973, “I don’t think I was even near the point of believing in it until I saw Patterson’s footage. Not until I had seen the film and had worked with him for a while did I start coming to the point of thinking in my own mind that there was really something out there.” Four years later, Olson wrote and produced his own crypto- mockumentary—Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot—depicting the fictional adventures of seven intrepid monster hunters.14
But I digress.
But I digress.
Poster for Ron Olson’s Bigfoot mockumentary—curiously, neither produced nor directed by ANE.
On Fox, in December 1998, ANE manager Clyde Reinke identified Patterson’s “man in the ape suit” as one Jerry Romney, an insurance agent formerly affiliated with the film company. Furthermore, Reinke claimed, Patterson himself had been a full-time salaried ANE employee, who faked the film at ANE’s request and thereby made “millions” of dollars for the company. Fox interviewed Romney, who flatly contradicted Reinke and denied any role in the Patterson film. Stuck with that embarrassing development, Fox aired footage of Romney walking (in 1998), while narrator Lance Henrickson—himself the star of two Bigfoot horror films, Sasquatch and Sasquatch Mountain—remarked on the “similarity” between Romney’s stride and Patty’s, from 1967.15
Canadian researcher John Green set the story straight in 1999, declaring that Patterson had no affiliation with ANE until 1971, a few months before his death, when the firm bought limited rights to his footage for inclusion in future productions. “There is certainly a hoax involved here,” said Green, “but not the one claimed by Fox. They are the ones who were hoaxed.”16
Canadian researcher John Green set the story straight in 1999, declaring that Patterson had no affiliation with ANE until 1971, a few months before his death, when the firm bought limited rights to his footage for inclusion in future productions. “There is certainly a hoax involved here,” said Green, “but not the one claimed by Fox. They are the ones who were hoaxed.”16
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Round three in the Patterson-bashing marathon was frankly bizarre. In mid-January 1999, working from computer enhancements of Patterson’s footage prepared by Canadian researcher Christopher Murphy, Washington resident Cliff Crook proclaimed that he had found a metal buckle of some kind dangling from Patty’s fur—proof positive that the film must be a hoax. “When the guy in the suit turned to look at the camera, it probably snapped loose and dangled from the fur,” Crook said. “It’s a hoax. Why would Bigfoot be wearing a belt buckle?”17
Why, indeed?
Crook’s claim rated an article in the conservative news magazine U.S. News & World Report, whose editors were moved to chortle: “A shy and reclusive man-beast darts from a remote clearing in the Northern California woods and slips into the forest. But wait—what’s that glittering at the creature’s waist? A belt buckle? A bottle opener? Is it really Bigfoot, the legendary giant of the north woods, or just a guy in a monkey suit?”18 Skeptical Inquirer also found the tale newsworthy, repeating it as late as spring 2002.19
Before evaluating his claim and its impact, it behooves us to take a closer look at Cliff Crook. Crook’s Bigfoot Central website, online since 1980, proclaims him 'America’s first Bigfoot Case Investigator, starting with a May 1956 encounter that became the birth of the Bigfoot Case.' Crook labels his website 'North America’s Official Bigfoot Case Database Headquarters,' while adding the proviso that 'We no longer extend Bigfoot report investigation services outside of Western Washington or beyond the perimeters of Klallam County.' Finally, Crook adds that he inspired the character of Bigfoot researcher Wallace Wrightwood, portrayed by Don Ameche in the 1987 film Harry and the Hendersons. Beyond that, Crook says, he 'was also technical advisor and sets supplier' for said movie.20
Concerning that film, Crook’s claims are debatable. Critics suggest that Dr Wrightwood was in fact a composite character, incorporating qualities borrowed from famed Bigfooters Peter Byrne, John Green, and Grover Krantz. As for Crook’s role on the movie set, suffice it to say that his name appears nowhere in the exhaustive credits listed on the Internet Movie Database.21
Crook’s problems do not end with film credits, however. Through the years, he has suffered storms of criticism—or 'vicious lies,' in his terms—from other members of the Sasquatch research community. Bigfoot Central declares that '99% of the malicious slanders posted against Cliff Crook and other long dedicated Bigfoot case investigators, is [sic] the work of one individual,” whom he identifies as rival Matt Moneymaker, founder of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.22 And in fact, while some of the strongest criticism directed at Crook—for allegedly faking Bigfoot tracks, photos, etc.—does come from the BFRO, challenges to Crook’s 'discoveries' have also been voiced by Loren Coleman, Dr Jeff Meldrum and others. 23
The strangest part of the 'belt buckle' yarn is Christopher Murphy’s involvement. According to online reporter Joseph Rose, “Murphy began questioning the film’s validity after discovering an aberration in the footage while helping his son with a class project in 1995. Using a computer, he zoomed in tighter and tighter on the frames, finding what appears to be a glimmering ornate latch in the shape of a bottle opener.” Murphy then allegedly told Rose that “there’s something out of place” in the film, adding, “I have now sent my material to an expert in the [photo-enhancing] field.”24 Cliff Crook spoke for Murphy when he told U.S. News & World Report, “We think when the guy in the suit turned to look at the camera, it snapped loose and dangled from the fur.”25
Whatever his qualms in January 1999, Murphy must have overcome them by July 2004, when he published Meet the Sasquatch, a collection of Bigfoot photographs analysed in detail, sans any reference to dangling buckles. In April 2005 Murphy went on to publish The Bigfoot Film Controversy. The bulk of that volume—71 percent of its text—is a verbatim reprint of Roger Patterson’s self-published book from 1966, Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? The remainder is a zealous defense of the Patterson film, with critiques of its detractors—except for Cliff Crook, who passes entirely unmentioned. 26
The bottom line: most viewers of the film see nothing that resembles a buckle, bottle opener, or any other metallic object, regardless of enhancement or magnification. Crook continues to stand by his claim.
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Before the ripples caused by Crook’s 'revelation' had time to subside, fresh conspiracy allegations surfaced at Zillah, in Washington’s Yakima County. There, in January 1999, lawyer Barry Woodward announced that an unnamed client had dressed in Sasquatch-drag for Patterson’s film. According to the Yakima Herald-Republic, 'Woodward described the man only as a fifty-eight-year-old lifelong resident of the Yakima Valley who approached him a few months ago after a network news program called questioning authenticity of the 1967 film. The man wanted help negotiating a deal for rights to his story...as well as to explore any legal issues he might face as a result of his involvement in the hoax.' 27
Attorney Woodward also delivered a statement from a Yakima policeman, who subjected the anonymous actor to a polygraph examination and pronounced him truthful. Five days later, Woodward told the Herald Republic, “We’re just sort of waiting for the dust to settle. We anticipate that we will be telling the full story to somebody rather quickly.” In fact, another six years ekapsed before the self-styled Patty-player spoke again and was identified at last. His story belongs to this article’s final segment, but its fleeting debut is significant for the Herald-Republic’s first mention of one Greg Long, a Washington writer and “paranormal researcher” engaged in writing a book on the Patterson film. Years in advance of final publication, Long branded Patterson a hoaxer. “It’s all circumstantial evidence,” he said. “But the circumstantial evidence is very convincing.”28
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While Long laboured over his exposé, long years in the making, yet another story surfaced to 'prove' the Patterson footage a fraud. Notorious Sasquatch hoaxer Raymond Wallace died in Centralia, Washington, on 26 November 2002, and his family rushed to cash in on his passing, declaring him the inventor of Bigfoot and telling any reporter who’d listen that “Bigfoot just died.”29 The family sold film rights to his story for an undisclosed amount, to actor Judge Reinhold and his wife, but the movie was never produced.30 Meanwhile, the story spun out of control and took on a life of its own.
In the initial version, son Michael Wallace told the SeattleTimes that “his father called the Patterson film ‘a fake’ and said he had nothing to do with it. But he said his mother admitted she had been photographed in a Bigfoot suit.” In the same article, Mark Chorvinsky—first to report the dubious claim that John Chambers made a Sasquatch suit for Patterson—declared that Michael Wallas “said his mother admitted she had been photographed in a Bigfoot suit.”31
Two days later, the Vancouver Sun put a rather different twist on those claims, stating: “The most famous evidence for Bigfoot’s existence, the so-called Patterson film...was another of Wallace’s fakes, the family said—he told Patterson where to go to spot the creature and knew who had been inside the suit.” Nephew David Wallace was quoted as telling the Sun, “He did it for the joke and then was afraid to tell anyone because they’d be so mad at him.”32
Wallace’s garbled story crossed the Atlantic on 7 December 2002, as The Scotsman told its readers: 'Mr. Wallace later persuaded his wife to dress up in a monkey suit for ‘Bigfoot’ photographs, and he told Roger Patterson, a rodeo rider, to set up his camera to film the famous footage, shot in 1967, which supposedly showed the creature walking up the hillside.'33 On the same day, London’s Evening Telegram reported that the Patterson film 'was another of Mr. Wallace’s fakes.' 34
By 2004 anthropologist David Daegling felt obliged to tell his readers that Ray Wallace “had a degree of involvement” in Patterson’s film, which made the whole project suspect. 35 Four years later, Internet blogger Peter Ruble declared: “In a 1982 interview with a researcher, Wallace allegedly claimed that he acted as director of the Bigfoot film in Bluff Creak, CA. According to [Mark] Chorvinsky, Wallace knew the identity of the man in the suit but insisted on taking it to his grave and would only say he was a Yakima American Indian.”36 The transcript of that interview remains as elusive as Sasquatch.
In fact, the only documented link between Roger Patterson and Ray Wallace was provided by Patterson himself, a full year before he caught Patty on film. His self-published book on Bigfoot mentions Wallace several times, in connection with the Sasquatch tracks found—or hoaxed—at Bluff Creek, California, in 1958. Sometime prior to the book’s publication in 1966, Patterson visited Wallace at home in Toledo, Washington, where Wallace had settled in 1961. They discussed the Bluff Creek incident, and Patterson moved on. There is no reference to a second meeting, as claimed by Wikipedia’s anonymous chronicler of the Patterson film. Any other claims of contact or collaboration between the two men is pure speculation. 37
And in fact, for those who buy the hoax claim covered in the last installment of this article, the Wallace plot itself must be a fraud. The two accounts cannot be reconciled.
As of 2003, thirty-six years after Patty’s film debut, five separate conspiracy theories had clashed and cancelled out one another, all without providing a shred of evidence that the footage was faked—by Patterson, or anyone else. A sixth “final solution” to the mystery was waiting in the wings, and as we’ll see, it managed to present more contradictions than the other five combined.
1 “The X Creatures,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X_Creatures.
2 “Shooting Bigfoot, The X Creatures, BBC 1, 16 September 1998.
3 Loren Coleman, Bigfoot! (New York: Paraview, 2003), p. 106.
4 Ibid., p. 101.
5 “Kal K. Korff,” Skeptical Inquirer, http://www.csicop.org/author/kalkkorff.
6 “WHO and WHAT is Kal Korff?” http://www.kalkorff.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=88.
7 “Kal Korff’s Books-Videos,” http://www.kalkorff.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=82.
8 “Kal Korff’s Articles,” http://www.kalkorff.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=70&Itemid=81.
9 Paul Kimball, “Kal Korff and Glass Houses” The Other Side of Truth, http://redstarfilms.blogspot.com/2006/12/kal-korff-and-glass-houses.html.
10 “Kal Did Work At LLNL,” Kult of Kal Korff, http://kultofkal.blogspot.com/2009/03/kal-did-work-at-llnl.html.
11 “About Us,” CriticalThinkers.org, http://www.kalkorff.com.
12 “The Patterson Film: A Discussion by Daniel Perez,”Bigfoot Encounters, http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/forteantimes05.htm.
13 “American National Enterprises,” Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com/company/co0080674.
14 Doug Bates, “The man who chases Bigfoot,” The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), October 21, 1973; “Ronald D. Olson,” IMDB, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2309390.
15 Coleman, pp. 102-3; “The Patterson Film: A Discussion by Daniel Perez.”
16 Coleman, p. 104.
17 Joseph Rose, “Sasquatch: Man in a Monkey Suit?” Wired News (19 January 1999), http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/01/17398.
18 Lynn Rosellini, “Not so big after all,” U.S. News & World Report 126 (25 January 1999): 61.
19 Ben Radford, “Bigfoot at 50,” Skeptical Inquirer 26 (March/April 2002), http://www.csicop.org/si/show/bigfoot_at_50_evaluating_a_half-century_of_bigfoot_evidence.
20 Bigfoot Central, http://www.angelfire.com/biz/bigfootcentral and http://www.angelfire.com/biz/bigfootcentral/cliff.html.
21 “Harry and the Hendersons," IMDB, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093148/trivia and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093148/fullcredits#cast.
22 Bigfoot Central, http://www.angelfire.com/biz/bigfootcentral and http://www.angelfire.com/biz/bigfootcentral/moneymakers.html.
23 Matt Moneymaker, “Hoaxer Cliff Crook promoting Phony Photo, again,” BFRO (30 January 2010), http://www.bfro.net/REF/hoax.asp; Loren Coleman, “First Bigfoot Investigator Was Crook?” Cryptomundo (27 January 2010), http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/crook2010; Mike Archbold, “‘America’s first Bigfoot investigator’ finds new footprints,” The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), 27 January 2010.
24 Rose.
25 Rosellini.
26 Christopher Murphy, Meet the Sasquatch, Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 2004; Roger Patterson and Christopher Murphy, The Bigfoot Film Controversy. Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 2005.
27 David Wasson, “Bigfoot unzipped--man claims it was him in a suit.” Herald-Republic (Yakima, WA) 30 January 1999.
28 David Wasson, “Bigfoot believers say film no hoax,” Herald-Republic, 4 February 1999.
29 Bob Young, “Lovable trickster created a monster with Bigfoot hoax,” Seattle Times, 5 December 2002.
30 “Wallace Scam Ensnares Hollywood Producers,” BFRO, http://www.bfro.net/news/Wallace.asp#producers.
31 Young.
32 “Footprints big but 42-year Bigfoot hoax even larger,” Vancouver Sun, 7 December 2002.
33 Quoted by Loren Coleman, “How Wallace Was Blamed For the Patterson Bigfoot Film,” Cryptomundo, http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/elna-as-bf.
34 Oliver Poole, “That’s not Bigfoot, that’s my wife,” Evening Telegram, 7 December 2002.
35 David Daegling, Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America’s Enduring Legend (Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2004), p. 117.
36 Peter Ruble, “The Bigfoot Hoax—Was Ray Wallace of Tacoma the Official Mastermind?” (5 September 2008), http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/984258/the_bigfoot_hoax_was_ray_wallace_of.html.
37 Patterson, Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?, p. 73; “Patterson-Gimlin film,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
REGAN LEE SENT THIS: Oregon Sasquatch Symposium
Oregon Sasquatch Symposium
Saturday, June 19 at 9:00 amSunday, June 20 at 5:00 pmEugene, Oregon -- Lane Community College Campus
Autumn Williams will be the keynote speaker. See here for Autumn's excellent blog post about the symposium, her thoughts on witnesses and BF and her new book... (in fact, her whole site is the best in the field, I think, for it contains data, research, as well as an open minded approach to various Bigfoot theories...)Toby Johnson is the one behind all this, and it seems like he's doing a fantastic job!
Visit the Symposium site for more info.See you there!
Saturday, June 19 at 9:00 amSunday, June 20 at 5:00 pmEugene, Oregon -- Lane Community College Campus
Autumn Williams will be the keynote speaker. See here for Autumn's excellent blog post about the symposium, her thoughts on witnesses and BF and her new book... (in fact, her whole site is the best in the field, I think, for it contains data, research, as well as an open minded approach to various Bigfoot theories...)Toby Johnson is the one behind all this, and it seems like he's doing a fantastic job!
Visit the Symposium site for more info.See you there!
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