Thursday, June 28, 2007
Editorial: Making Peace with the Patterson/Gimlin Movie
Usually on this blog, I prefer to talk about all kinds of aspects of the Sasquatch or Bigfoot mystery, whether it is footprints or hair samples or fecal matter or even the personalities in this hunt, or even different behavioral aspects of these unknown hairy bipeds. These are things I like to discuss or editorialize about, and I don't mind sharing info with people. However, one thing that I am somewhat reticent to discuss is the old chestnut of the Patterson/Gimlin Movie because it happened forty years ago and there's not too much more that can be gleaned from it. I just think there is so much more to talk about a lot of the time than some 40-year-old film which seems to be the subject that everyone gets around to discussing, whether it is on a forum or chatroom or Internet Radio program. I really don't know why it bothered me so much to hear it discussed so often, when there were other things to talk about. However, I have come to make peace with the constant discussion of it recently because I realize this is the 40th anniversary this year and it is unavoidable to discuss it. I have to acknowledge to myself that as much of an old chestnut as it is, it is, like it or not, the best piece of evidence we have until something comes along that's better. I just need not to get so uptight when I hear the name pop up on an Internet Radio Show because it is basically unavoidable to talk about it. I know there are other researchers out there who would choose to focus on the here and now, and that is what we should do, but at the same time we need acknowledge that this subject is going to come up whether we like it or not, so we must grin and bear it and not get so uptight. So, would it be fair to say that I have made peace with the P/G Movie? Yes, I think it would be.
Review: The Sasquatch Triangle 6-28-07
This was a great show, with filmmaker/producer Pat Holdbrook discussing his productions and One Step Beyond Reality.com He discussed the Patterson/Gimlin Movie and the work on it done by M.K. Davis, as well as his thoughts on the Bigfoot mystery in general. Pat also answered questions from various listeners as well, including myself. It was a fun show and I enjoyed it. The next program will begin at a special start time of 10:00 EST/9:00 Central next Thursday night, with Skeptical Inquirer contributor Michael Dennett. The show can be found at the link to the right, so please remember to tune in and support great research.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Sasquatch Triangle Tonight...
Don will have as his guest Pat Holdbrook, filmmaker/producer of Bigfoot: An Encounter with Reality and founder of One Step Beyond Reality. The show begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central and can be found at the link to the right. I hope everyone tunes in and supports great research.
Review: Destination Truth 6-27-07
This was a short-30-minute segment on the Malaysian Mawas (or Johor Hominid), Malaysia's version of Bigfoot. Josh Gates, the host, interviews different witnesses and locals about their experiences and sightings. Then, he and his team hit the jungle to search for their own evidence of the Johor Hominid's existence. They find a large track with five toes (quite misshapen from America's version), and also capture some sort of growl on audiotape which cannot be identified. The footprint is cast and a copy of it is made because the original cast cannot be taken out of the country. That cast is taken to Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who finds it interesting, but ultimately inconclusive. The recording is taken to a zoologist who listens to it intently but cannot readily identify it. I would give this segment about 3 out of five stars. I would certainly rank it above the "Sci-Fi Investigates" program which looked at Bigfoot last Fall.
Schedule for the Sasquatch Triangle for the next four weeks
June 28th ----- PAT HOLDBROOK
July 5th ------- MICHAEL DENNETT ... THIS SHOW WILL START @ 10 P.M. EASTERN TIME, 7 P.M. PACIFIC.
July 12th ----- ERIC ALTMAN
July 19th ----- OPEN MIC! WE TAKE YOUR CALLS, E-MAILS OR QUESTIONS. NO GUESTS SCHEDULED, BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHO WILL SHOW UP!
July 26th ---- JOHN HORRIGAN
July 5th ------- MICHAEL DENNETT ... THIS SHOW WILL START @ 10 P.M. EASTERN TIME, 7 P.M. PACIFIC.
July 12th ----- ERIC ALTMAN
July 19th ----- OPEN MIC! WE TAKE YOUR CALLS, E-MAILS OR QUESTIONS. NO GUESTS SCHEDULED, BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHO WILL SHOW UP!
July 26th ---- JOHN HORRIGAN
Destination Truth Tonight...
The Sci-Fi Series Destination Truth will examine the Malaysian Mawas (or Johor Hominid) tonight at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central. Check your local listings for time and channel. Might be interesting.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Decision...
I have decided, based on the extremely steep price for a ticket, to skip the upcoming Patterson/Gimlin Movie 40th-Anniversary Symposium. A ticket is $225.00, and I just do not think I can pay that much for it. I may just decide to save up for Don Keating's 20th-Annual Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Conference instead and use the frequent-flyer miles for that. It will certainly be a sacrifice because it is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, if only to meet Bob Gimlin or John Green, but I will survive. I am not asking anyone to boycott it, nor am I discouraging anyone not to attend, but for me, it is too much, so Jason, thanks but no thanks. I do wish you luck with the Symposium though.
Let's Talk Bigfoot Tonight...
Melissa and Teresa will have as their guest Brian Brown (Bipto on the Bigfoot Forums), founder of the Bigfoot Information Project and the BFF. The show starts at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central and can be found at http://www.letstalkbigfoot.com Please tune in and support great research.
Review: Squatch Detective Radio 6-25-07
This was a pretty good show, with Steve and Billy just kind of playing off each other and discussing the latest Bigfoot news. Billy read a recent editorial he wrote over the air, and he and Steve answered questions from myself and Bill Green. It was a pretty enjoyable show, one worth listening to. The next show will perhaps have a guest, next Monday, 9:00 EST/8:00 Central, at the link which can be found in the list to the right. I hope everyone will tune in and support great research.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Strange sounds heard in the night
Late last night, I was outside checking on my kittens who sleep in one of our sheds, when I distinctly heard what sounded like a flat piece of wood being beaten against another piece of wood. It did it several times then quit. My mother told me just a few minutes ago that she heard it late-yesterday afternoon, so it makes me wonder. I am not saying it was a Sasquatch, because neither of us saw it, but it is strange.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Apologies...
Due to technical issues, our show did not go off as planned tonight. However, we will work on the technical issues we have experienced, and we will reschedule Mr. Crowe for another time. Our guest next Sunday is Todd Neiss, 9:00 EST/8:00 Central (hopefully with no technical glitches). The link is to the right, so please tune in and support great research.
New book for sale!!!!!!
Ohio Researcher Don Keating is now selling copies of Elementum Bestia by Craig Heinselman for $25.00 a copy, autographed by the author. If you'd like, Don will autograph it for you too because he wrote an article in the book as well. Contact Don at eobic@yahoo.com for more details.
Craig Heinselman's new book is available now
ELEMENTUM BESTIA - MAY 2007 RELEASE Go to
Sasquatch Experience Tonight...
Our guest will be International Bigfoot Society President/founder Ray Crowe. The show begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central and can be found at the link to the right. As always, please tune in and support great research.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Editorial: Independent Documentarians: Doing a great service to Bigfooting
We have all seen these specials on TV countless times, the ones which take a more skeptical look (sometimes TOO skeptical), with sneering skeptics and loaded narration which implies that anyone who studies hairy bipeds worldwide is a candidate for the looney bin and cannot be taken seriously. However, some independent documentarians have stepped up to the plate and bucked the system, with fair and balanced productions which give Bigfooters the time they need to explain their side of things. Some examples of terrific independent documentarians are Jay Michael Long from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who has produced 3 excellent DVD's on cryptids (Swamp Apes, Bigfoot FAQ and The Honey Island Swamp Monster) and is at work on a fourth on Bigfoot in Oklahoma; Scott Herriott, who has principally produced documentaries on the Pacific Crest Trail and also on strange places in the U.S., but also produced two Bigfoot docs (Squatching and Journey Toward Squatchdom, with the latter being more a hilarious "mockumentary"); Autumn Williams, former host of Mysterious Encounters, produced an excellent DVD called Oregon Bigfoot: Search For A Living Legend Part 1 of 3; Peter von Puttkamer, producer of the terrific Sasquatch Odyssey: The Hunt For Bigfoot, as well as a Learning Channel series on monsters; John Johnsen, producer of Keeping The Watch, which featured profiles of six independent researchers; Todd Partain, producer of the terrific Eyes In The Dark: The Sasquatch Experience and Don Keating, chairman of the Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Investigation Center, who produced 5 documentaries (In The Shadow of The Sasquatch, Ohio's Abominable Snowman?, The Evidence Mounts, Sasquatch Lake: The White Bigfoot Video and The Mystery of...The Sasquatch Triangle) which are also great. These individuals are part of a new breed of filmmakers who give us Bigfooters a true chance to tell our stories without being edited or cut off by a sneering skeptic or loaded narration which makes us look like nutjobs. I would say the future of true independent cryptozoological filmmaking is safe and secure.
USBRA Radio tonight...
Indy and Robin will host myself and Bill Green in a bit of a roundtable-type discussion. The show starts at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central and can be found at This Page Hope that everyone will tune in and support great research.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Yeti Yard Sale
Slight Correction: The editorial I wrote earlier in the week about the possible film footage credited M.K. Davis as being part of the release of this work. I have been corrected by producer John Johnsen that M.K. was not part of the release of this information. The Southeast Sasquatch Association regrets the error.
Bill Green's review of the 19th Annual Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Conference
here my editoral- don keating s resent resent ohio bigfoot conferance on vhs was realy wonderful to watch & informative. it worth getting for any researchers dvd or vhs library, the guest speakers gave great presantations about sasquatch. wonderful job don A++++ please put that in your blog
DVD Review: The 19th Annual Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Conference 2007
This event, held on Saturday, May 19th, 2007, featured speakers Tony Healy of Canberra, Australia, who discussed the Yowie phenomenon in the Land Down Under. His talk was a bit abbreviated on this DVD presentation, but we do get a feel for what he is looking into. The next speaker is Lorena C. from Camden, Ohio, who discusses the two sightings she has had close to her folks' property. Finally, filmmaker/producer Pat Holdbrook speaks about the film he produced based on M.K. Davis' work on the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, Bigfoot: An Encounter With Reality. Holdbrook also discusses his ongoing projects with One Step Beyond Reality, pertaining to Bigfoot, as well as more paranormal subjects. Healy and Holdbrook also take audience questions. The DVD ends with a question-and-answer session, as well as one lady coming up to give her eyewitness account. All in all, this is a really wonderful 2-hour presentation of a terrific Conference which gives a great insight to the research being done by independent investigators. I give this DVD 4 out of 5 stars. Excelsior, Don Keating!!!!!!!!!
Great Editorial by Billy Willard (Used with Permission)
Over the past few years, I have seen, observed and sometimes even
participated in the badgering of other Bigfoot researchers and
investigators. I feel that we can easily be put into the mold of
doing this on a regular basis. It wasn't until speaking and
discussing this issue with Steve Kulls that I really began to realize
that we all do this at one time or another. Well, THAT IS OVER FOR
ME!
Do you know how much valuable research could be done and accomplished
if all the researchers out their spending their long, wasted hours
trying to figure out which researcher did this or that wrong, or this
researcher is hoaxing or not hoaxing...so on and so forth...how much
valuable research could be done on actually FOCUSING ON BIGFOOT
RESEARCH!!! I have seen some recent posts on other forums that
simply disgust me!
Guess what? We are ALL human. We are ALL going to make a mistake
now and then. We ALL hopefully LEARN from our mistakes. Why do we
have to LOWER ourselves by talking bad about other researchers or
groups? Why do we have to lower our standards and cooperate with
other so-called researchers who in my mind make big jackasses of
themselves daily with their belittling comments about others? And
guess what? Then you have others coming in and jumping on the band
wagon in support of the stupid belittling claims. HEY, I USED to be
molded that way myself, I am in no way completely innocent in this
type of behavior. Well, NO MORE! What a damn waste of time and what
do you accomplish? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!
We are always going to have hoaxers, we are always going to see the
mistakes of our peers (sometimes its hard to see our own mistakes,
isn't it?), but it doesn't mean we have to focus all our time and
energy on pointing these things out.
I believe that alot of the main stream Bigfoot researchers need to
grow up and do what we all do best. BIGFOOT RESEARCH! And that
comment includes MYSELF!
I want to thank my good friend Steve Kulls for helping me to open my
eyes and see, hey, life is too short and there is GOOD in ALL people
if you look for it. Thanks alot Steve!
Billy Willard
Sasquatch Watch of Virginia
participated in the badgering of other Bigfoot researchers and
investigators. I feel that we can easily be put into the mold of
doing this on a regular basis. It wasn't until speaking and
discussing this issue with Steve Kulls that I really began to realize
that we all do this at one time or another. Well, THAT IS OVER FOR
ME!
Do you know how much valuable research could be done and accomplished
if all the researchers out their spending their long, wasted hours
trying to figure out which researcher did this or that wrong, or this
researcher is hoaxing or not hoaxing...so on and so forth...how much
valuable research could be done on actually FOCUSING ON BIGFOOT
RESEARCH!!! I have seen some recent posts on other forums that
simply disgust me!
Guess what? We are ALL human. We are ALL going to make a mistake
now and then. We ALL hopefully LEARN from our mistakes. Why do we
have to LOWER ourselves by talking bad about other researchers or
groups? Why do we have to lower our standards and cooperate with
other so-called researchers who in my mind make big jackasses of
themselves daily with their belittling comments about others? And
guess what? Then you have others coming in and jumping on the band
wagon in support of the stupid belittling claims. HEY, I USED to be
molded that way myself, I am in no way completely innocent in this
type of behavior. Well, NO MORE! What a damn waste of time and what
do you accomplish? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!
We are always going to have hoaxers, we are always going to see the
mistakes of our peers (sometimes its hard to see our own mistakes,
isn't it?), but it doesn't mean we have to focus all our time and
energy on pointing these things out.
I believe that alot of the main stream Bigfoot researchers need to
grow up and do what we all do best. BIGFOOT RESEARCH! And that
comment includes MYSELF!
I want to thank my good friend Steve Kulls for helping me to open my
eyes and see, hey, life is too short and there is GOOD in ALL people
if you look for it. Thanks alot Steve!
Billy Willard
Sasquatch Watch of Virginia
Review: Let's Talk Bigfoot 6-20-07
Melissa and Teresa had Rick Noll as their guest, who discussed mainly the Skookum Cast, as well as footprints, field research and other things. Scotto of the BFF called in and asked about field research as well. It was a great show, full of terrific information. The next show will be on a special Tuesday night at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central with Bigfoot Forums.com founder Brian Brown (Bipto). That can be found at http://www.letstalkbigfoot.com As always, please tune in and support great research.
Review: The Sasquatch Triangle 6-21-07
This was a near-90-minute show, with Don and I shooting the breeze in the first half-hour because the scheduled guest, Daniel Perez, could not get away from work till the 9:30 EST hour. When he did show up, he discussed such controversial subjects as the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, the Memorial Day Footage and the Skookum Cast. He was asked a question via e-mail by Larry Lund, and also another e-mail question by Mike Feltner of Ohio. It was a great show, full of great information. Don's next guest will be filmmaker Pat Holdbrook next Thursday night at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the address to the right. As always, please tune in and support great research.
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