Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Dwayne A. Day revisits Richard Hoagland's October 29, 2007, National Press Club press conference because "The Weekly World News folded." What's Day's take on Hoagland, Hoagland's following, Hoagland's new book and Hoagland's claims NASA is covering up discoveries on the Moon and Mars? Also, Hoagland = Lose.

Dangerous To Your Health: Dressing Like Bigfoot

Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 18th, 2007

bigfoot stupidity

The time has come to calmly reflect on a recent incident of stupidity in hominology.

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  • Monkeys and college students as good at mental math


  • Moneymaker’s Moneyman

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 18th, 2007

    hersom

    Wally Hersom is having a heck of a good time with all of this. Photo.

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    Paranormal Talk With Annette Presents Monster Gallery Tonight...

    Annette will focus on the Lake Champlain Monster with unknown guests, but it should be a good one. It starts at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Monday, December 17, 2007

    Footprints seen around Mt.Everest

    Bigfoot Quest Tonight...

    Bob, Chris and Mike welcome from Sasquatch Watch of Virginia Mr. Billy Willard at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Review: Squatch Detective Radio 12-17-07

    This was a pretty good show, with Sally and Ammi from North Carolina calling in and giving some reports of things happening in that area, including some photos which seem interesting but questionable and a bit blobsquatchy. Several people called in, including someone named Eric Squatcher and also Eric Altman and myself to ask these folks questions. There were also a couple of prank callers who threatened to take the show down but didn't spoil the fun too much. It was great. Next week will be a best-of show, then on New Years' Eve, a possibly live New Years' Eve party, and both shows start at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
    Fearless Giant Rat Discovered.
    If humans and chimpanzees diverged 7 million years ago, what do you do with Sahelanthropus bones from 8 million years ago? With illustrations and video link.

    Ten Notable 2007 Cryptozoology Deaths

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 17th, 2007

    The list includes Bigfoot researchers, Mystery Cat investigators, cryptofiction authors, discoverers, cryptid seekers, and a skeptical commentator. As the year ends, it is time to say a final goodbye to those we lost in 2007. Photos.

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    The Money Behind Moneymaker

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 17th, 2007

    I want to be perfectly clear about how I feel about the new revelations that have come out in today’s news regarding millionaire Wally Hersom’s support of the BFRO. Commentary and the news.

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    Foja Mountains’ “Lost World” Mammals

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 17th, 2007

    new giant rat

    Here are the first images of new animals from a remote location in western New Guinea, and the reminders about the first news of this area from earlier in the year. Photos.

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    SSA Announces 2007 Winners

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 17th, 2007

    The Southeast Sasquatch Association has announced is year-end awards. We are humbled by the results.

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    Sunday, December 16, 2007

    Squatch Detective Radio Tonight...

    Steve and Billy will speak to two eyewitnesses from North Carolina, Sally and Ammi, about recent encounters in the Tarheel State, starting at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Review: Sasquatch Experience 12-16-07

    This was a wonderful and informal show, with guest co-host Eric Altman, along with Sean and myself, giving a general review of Bigfooting in the year 2007, such as the Jacobs Photos, the P/G Movie 4oth Anniversary, the recent Yeti track find, the DNA examined on Monsterquest, the sudden popularity of that show and other various topics. We also discussed Eric's recent jaunt with Tom Biscardi in the wilds of Pennsylvania, as well as some of the problems with the BFRO. It was a great show, and we enjoyed it. Our next program will be a special Sasquatch Experience Flashback next Sunday, going back to October 7th and our interview with the legendary John Green. That starts at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central and can be found at the link to the right. The chat will be open during that show for those who want to come in and discuss Bigfoot. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Southeast Sasquatch Association Year-End Awards Winners!!!

    1. Cryptozoologist of the Year-(Tie)

    A.) Loren Coleman
    B.) Jeff Meldrum


    2. Bigfooter of the Year


    E.) Steve Kulls

    3. Cryptozoology Book of the Year

    A.) Mysterious America (2007 Edition) by Loren Coleman

    4. Bigfoot Book of the Year


    D.) The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot-Tony Healy and Paul
    Cropper


    5. Bigfoot DVD Documentary of the Year


    C.) Eyes In The Dark: The Sasquatch Experience-Produced by Todd Partain


    6. Bigfoot/Cryptozoolo gy Television Show or Series of the Year

    A.) Monsterquest- Produced by Doug Hajicek (History Channel)


    7. Bigfoot/Cryptozoolo gy/Paranormal Internet Radio Show of the Year


    J.) Squatch Detective Radio (Blog Talk Radio)


    8. Bigfoot/Cryptozoolo gy/Paranormal Internet Radio Show Host of the Year


    C.) Steve Kulls (Squatch Detective Radio)


    9. Bigfooter of the Year Honorary Award:

    Robert Emory Gimlin

    10. Cryptid of the Year

    A.) Bigfoot or Sasquatch


    11. Cryptozoology/ Bigfoot Site of the Year

    A.) Cryptomundo. com
    Hunters of Sasquatch undaunted by failure

    Mcclatchy-tribune - December 16, 2007

    DEVIL PEAK, EL DORADO NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. - Wally Hersom is an intuitive man, with an instinct for when opportunity might knock.

    It's not knocking now.

    The soft-spoken, white-maned Hersom is standing in the dark on a remote mountaintop in Northern California listening to the eerily quiet rustling of leaves.

    "It's too quiet," he says. "It doesn't feel right."

    Below him in the pitch-black hollows of this remote forest area, groups of men and a few women sit crouched, pointing $9,000 thermal imaging cameras at the darkness.

    Every so often, one of them emits a blood-curdling shriek.

    They are searching for a monster.

    Hersom, 72, is the reason why. Over the past year, the part-time resident of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., (Hersom's primary home is in Henderson, Nev.) has pumped tens of thousands of dollars into the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, an Orange County-based group of Sasquatch-hunters.

    Hersom pays the salary of Matt Moneymaker, the BFRO's director. He has outfitted the group with 10 thermal imaging cameras, as well as video recorders and night-vision devices. Total cost: more than $100,000.

    In the process, Hersom hopes to change the popular conception of Bigfoot believers from wooly-eyed weirdos to heroic hominoid hunters.

    Hersom, like the more than 2 dozen people who have joined him on this expedition to the El Dorado National Forest, believes that Bigfoot is a yet-undiscovered species of immensely strong, craftily intelligent and highly elusive great ape.

    "I think the timing's right," Hersom says. "In the next 12 months, this thing is going to break wide open."

    Hersom is the former owner of HC Power, an Irvine, Calif.-based company that manufactured power conversion equipment for cell phone towers and industrial facilities. The company flourished, Moneymaker says, in large part because Hersom foresaw the importance of gadgets like cell phones and computers and created technologies to serve them.

    "He's an engineering genius, and ... he's got this almost spooky sense of when it's the right time to do something," Moneymaker says.

    That sense convinced Hersom to sell his company in 2000, before the dot-com bust. He reaped $110 million and decided to indulge a lifelong fascination: Bigfoot.

    "My broker - when I told him what I was doing he couldn't stop laughing," Hersom says. "He thought I was crazy. But I think we have a unique opportunity because nobody believes us. Once [it's] proven that Bigfoot is out there, ... I think this is going to be the biggest discovery of the century."

    Hersom stumbled on Moneymaker's BFRO Web site, one of many such sites that track and list Bigfoot sightings around the country. He went on an expedition in Wisconsin.

    Nothing happened.

    Hersom tried again on a second expedition. This time he says he heard howls in the night and had rocks thrown at him - typical Bigfoot behavior, according to Moneymaker.

    "I heard three distinct steps near my tent," Hersom recalls. "I thought 'Oh, my God, here it is.'"

    The experience sold him. He joined the BFRO and went on four more expeditions. He collected photographs and plaster casts of 15-inch-long Bigfoot tracks, which he displays in his stately San Juan Capistrano hilltop-home. He bought cameras and other equipment in hopes of generating photographic proof for the naysayers - and lucrative film footage for himself.

    Moneymaker and Hersom speculate that Bigfoot has a nocturnal animal's acute night vision. The key to "discovering" Bigfoot, if such a creature exists, is to mimic that ability.

    "The only way we're going to [prove] it is if we can film in the dark," Moneymaker says. Hersom has enabled the BFRO "to bring some technology to bear that has been out of reach of Bigfoot researchers."

    On the mountain, Hersom stands silently while Moneymaker and his group of volunteers put the equipment to use. Through the camera's glowing scope, the darkness transforms into a silvery landscape. But there is no Bigfoot to be seen.

    Moneymaker tips his head and emits a piercing scream. Over the radio, the scattered group of BFRO members is instructed to do the same and to knock baseball bats against trees. The screams and knocks are meant to mimic the alleged noises of a "real" Bigfoot. The hope, Moneymaker says, is to trick the creatures into coming within filming range.

    Does Hersom ever feel ... er ... a bit ridiculous?

    "I'm just going to play it by ear," Hersom says. "I'm going to go as long as it feels right for me."

    Hersom says he has only heard Bigfoot, but many within the group report more intimate encounters. They describe a giant apelike creature that walks on two feet and appears to have its own language (called "Samurai" for its sing-song resemblance to un-dubbed ninja warrior movies).

    Bigfoot also is, some say, capable of projecting a paralyzing telepathic feeling of fear that stuns humans and animals alike. Moneymaker uses the term "infrasound" and calls the experience being "zapped."

    Why then, would anyone pursue an encounter?

    Moneymaker describes the discovery of Bigfoot as a "historical prize." But for many members of this (mostly male) group of enthusiasts, the quest is the lure.

    "Part of me really like the mystery of it - the not knowing, the seeking," says Robert Leiterman, who works as a park ranger in Humboldt County, Calif.

    Leiterman is one of a half-dozen past and current Orange County residents who have joined Hersom and Moneymaker on this expedition to Northern California.

    Among the group: two employees from an architectural design company, an advertising executive and the director of security for a hotel.

    "I just have to know the truth," says Kathy Lammens, 43.

    Lammens is on the expedition with friend and office-mate, Brooke Sharon, 54. Like many members of the BFRO, they are captivated by their obsession and capable of laughing at it.

    "I am one of these people who have an open mind," Sharon says. "I love the idea of Bigfoot, of UFOs, of Nessie. Why not? Who's to say it's not true?"

    Does it bother BFRO members that nothing will come of this night spent in the cold mountains of California - or the next two nights to follow?

    "I'm a little bit discouraged that we didn't hear anything," Hersom says. "They're not everywhere all the time."

    Good timing is Hersom's stock in trade. But even he acknowledges that "there's some luck involved."

    "Some people say: Bigfoot will find us, we can't find Bigfoot," Hersom says.

    Hunters of Sasquatch undaunted by failure
    Baltimore Sun - United States
    has pumped tens of thousands of dollars into the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, an Orange County-based group of Sasquatch-hunters. ...
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    Beast of Bolivia Track

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 16th, 2007

    bolivia track

    What is it? Felid? Canid? Identify the mystery imprint. Photos.

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    Cryptozoo Holiday Gift Ideas?

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 16th, 2007

    Crookston Bigfoot Bust

    What are your cryptozoo holiday gift ideas?

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    Intriguing Johor Casts

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 16th, 2007

    johor casts

    New details are being revealed about footprints found in Malaysia earlier in 2007. Photos of the casts/sighting location.

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    Saturday, December 15, 2007

    Sasquatch Experience Tonight...

    This will be our final live show of 2007, with special guest co-host Eric Altman, to discuss not only a recent expedition he went on with Tom Biscardi, but also the Year-In-Review in Bigfooting for 2007. The show begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Books chronicle life, survival in the woods
    Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
    Sasquatch sightings in 40 states. "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World," by Jennifer Armstrong. Crown, 1998. The true story of the 1914 Shackleton ...
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    Salmonberry Man -- Chapter 7 -- A tearful reunion
    Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
    Dylan realizes that this must be a Big Foot, or Sasquatch. As the creature puts him down, the boy looks into its face and says, "Thank you, Salmonberry Man. ...
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    Review: Beyond The Edge Radio 12-14-07

    This was certainly a more unusual and different show, with 4th Floor Pictures Producer/Director/Writer Ryan Cavalline, who discussed some of his past projects such as Dead Body Man, Day of the Ax, Rotting Souls and other colorfully-titled projects he has been involved with. Ryan believes in Boobs and Gore for his projects. He also discussed his upcoming new film Dead Body Man Chronicles, which he is hoping will have its world premiere in the Spring of '08. The second hour had some rather interesting characters call in, mainly from Ryan's movies. Colorful characters such as Suzie, Earl The Meat Man, Willie the Serial Killer and Denny called in and made the second hour quite lively. I called in and asked Ryan about his influences, as well as his opinion of the spate of PG-13-rated Horror Movies. I actually won a DVD of Dead Body Man as well, and Craig Hines and Bill Green won DVDs as well. It was a very unusual but very fun show. The next program is kind of a Year In Review for the SQuatchMEDIA Productions family, with Sean and Eric, James Baker and Bill Bean, and you never know who else might be dropping by, next Friday at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the link to the right. And as always, we do encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Water Horse, Nessie, and Sex

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 15th, 2007

    wilson 2

    This is a respond to Darren Naish’s ultra-debunking blog and makes the case for a middle-of-the-road skeptical approach to cryptozoology. Photos.

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    Beast of Bolivia

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 14th, 2007

    A mystery killer is said to be terrorizing the area around Bolivia, North Carolina.

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    Paddington & Yeti

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 14th, 2007

    A way to teach kids about Yeti.

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    Categorising Gef Cabinet of Wonders
    "If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. But in the liminal world of high strangeness, the classification of things is rarely so simple." AboutGef, the talking mongoose. And more: Gef (the talking mongoose).


    Friday, December 14, 2007

    Mystery Beast Kills Animals in S.C..
    Richard Freeman on the Beasts of Guyana

    Beyond The Edge Radio Tonight...

    Sean and Eric will host Horror Film Director/Producer Ryan Cavalline starting at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. Should be a good one, so please tune in to the link to the right.

    40th Anniversary of Silver Bridge Collapse

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 14th, 2007

    It happened 40 years ago. The Silver Bridge collapse of December 15, 1967, has been compared to the I-35W Bridge collapse of August 1, 2007. Video.

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    Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2007

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 14th, 2007

    mapinguary

    Our annual review of the specific big stories from the world of unknown hairy hominoids is shared at Cryptomundo, with accompanying photos and links.

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    Thursday, December 13, 2007

    Give me a monster with more whammy
    Moultrie Observer - Moultrie,GA,USA
    Bigfoot is boring. It doesn't reap any havoc, has learned to speak English, borrows garlic to keep off the ticks and before long will become an uninsured ...
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    Strange Wilderness red band
    JoBlo.com - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
    ... Jonah Hill and foxy Ashley Scott and follows a band of freewheeling nature show producers who attempt to boost sagging ratings by searching for Bigfoot. ...
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    Bigfoot Prank Almost Results in Tragedy
    WTVY - Dothan,AL,USA
    Authorities say they exploited fears of area residents concerning reports of Bigfoot being spotted near the Coffee/Geneva County Line. ...
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    ";X" Zone Supplies Content
    iDNES.cz - Czech Republic
    The next hour might switch to the subject of ghosts, Bigfoot, or even the Loch Ness Monster. Rob mcconnell has been doing his "X" Zone Radio Show for 12 ...
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    The Thing on the Stairs From the Shadows
    A house in South Euclid, Ohio, is haunted by shadow people. And a follow-up on Rob McConnell: “X” Zone Comes to Prague - Part 2.



    Wednesday, December 12, 2007

    Mammoth Space-Blast: Sanderson Vindicated

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 13th, 2007

    mammoth herd

    Laughed at for his theory in 1960, has a quiet little discovery gone far in confirming a Fortean’s catastrophic theory of why the mammoths were quick frozen? Many images.

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    Review: Let's Talk Bigfoot! 12-12-07

    This was a wonderful program, with Mr. Thomas Steenburg as the guest and Teresa back in the co-host chair. He discussed his research and reports in Canada and also the Pacific Northwest, as well as the recent Monsterquest episode on Sasquatch Attack and the DNA results which were examined of that. Discussion was also made of the question of aggression in the Sasquatch, and Steenburg told of aggression in other animals as compared to Sasquatch. Steenburg also tells of his possible sighting in 2003 after dark, as well as an attack by a grizzly on himself. It was a wonderful show, and Melissa and Teresa continue to have one of the best programs out there. Their next guest will be author Lee Murphy, next Wednesday at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Sasquatch Triangle Encore Presentation Tonight...

    We will be re-running our November 8th show with Bobbie Short and Diane Stocking at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the link to the right. The chat will also be open during the show. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

    Review: Monsterquest 12-12-07

    This show examined melanistic big cats similar to mountain lions, only black in color. An Emil McCain is interviewed about his impressions on it, and a fellow named David Johnson shows his photos of a large black cat. Scott Lope, a director for a Big Cat preserve in Florida, examines the photos and believes it to be a domestic. Heidi Bailey, a biologist from Texas, agrees with Lope's findings. Several eyewitnesses are interviewed, from Oklahoma, Texas and Minnesota. A farmer in Choctaw, Oklahoma is interviewed regarding losing several livestock items on his farm due to a large black cat. A wildlife expert from the Sooner State is of the opinion that the cats are not black.
    A fellow named Eric Atkison walks his fence line every night with a large spotlight and rifle with hollow-point bullets. He had a 250-pound Llama killed by an alleged large black cat. Eric finds a large cat track while out on his nightly walk. It is believed that the black cats might be black leopards. A professor at Johns Hopkins University believes large black cats are in people's heads. A farmer close to Atkison, Dale Smith, is also losing livestock to a large black "mountain lion". Smith and Atkison band together to try to hunt down the cat. A videotape taken in West Virginia of an alleged black cat is examined and determined to be inconclusive but interesting. There is some DNA found and sent to the mohawked Todd Disotell, who examines the evidence and finds-well, watch the encore for yourself to see. It was a fairly good episode. The next Monsterquest will deal with Giant Fish, next Wednesday at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central on the History Channel. Check local listings for time and channel.
    More Strange Animal Sightings.

    A profile of Canadian broadcaster, Rob McConnell, who hosts the "X" Zone Radio Show. Apparently he has plans for the Czech Republic, which will be revealed in part 2.


    Croft’s New Glyptodont

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 12th, 2007

    small gylptodont

    Cryptozoologists consider giant armadillos worthy of study, due to hints of their survival in South America. Now comes word of the discovery of a new fossil form. Their cryptid history reviewed. Images.

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    Thylacine or Mangy Fox?

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 12th, 2007

    thylacine

    What could be the source of the striped mystery animals being seen in Victoria, Australia? Photos.

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    MonsterQuest: Mystery Cats

    Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 12th, 2007

    The program took on mangy dogs last week, so tonight it is about the phantom felines.

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    Postings from Daniel Perez

    Announcement...

    All voting in the Southeast Sasquatch Association Year-End Awards is now closed due to lack of interest. Results will be announced this Sunday on the Sasquatch Experience, and I will post the winners on the same day.

    Let's Talk Bigfoot/Monsterquest Tonight...

    For those who want to hear Melissa and Teresa tonight, they will have Canadian author/Investigator Thomas Steenburg as their guest. The show begins at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

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    Lions in the Suburbs December 12 at 10PM Attacks by mountain lions make headlines across the U.S. But some people say they are seeing something else...large black cats. From Texas to Minnesota to West Virginia, MonsterQuest will follow the eyewitness accounts and physical evidence of these demon cats. Pictures and law enforcement encounters prove a big black cat is out there but what is it? While they resemble a mountain lion, there is no such thing as a black mountain lion. Bones from a carcass, eyewitnesses claim was a huge black cat, will be put to the DNA test.

    Check your local listings for time and channel.

    Review: Bigfoot Quest 12-11-07

    This was a pretty good show, with new permanent co-hosts Mike Killen and Chris Julian, who helped interview Doug Bilby (AKA Bullet Maker of the Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center) who discussed activity on his property in Oklahoma, as well as photos taken with game cams of possible 'Squatches. Randy (don't remember his last name) called in and talked about the MABRC and the things he has witnessed on Doug's property, as well as the research he and Doug and others in the MABRC have done. I called in to ask where the photos of possible 'Squatches could be found online. It was a good show. The next show will be the final one of 2007, with guest Billy Willard, next Tuesday at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at the link to the right. As always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.