Editorial: Last word on the M.K. Davis Controversy (Re: The Massacre)

For the last nearly 6 weeks, one controversial theory has divided the Bigfoot Community into different factions, with the majority of the Community seeming to react with vitriol and venom to one particular individual in the Bigfoot Community, the man who is considered by some to be the authority on the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, and that is M.K. Davis. The theory? Well, M.K. proposed a speculative theory regarding a possible shooting and, well, for lack of a better word, a massacre of several Bigfoot individuals. This took flight especially after a certain filmmaker decided to release it to Cryptomundo, and the snowball rolled from there. This prompted a whole series of misunderstandings, including the fantastic claim that M.K. had said Gimlin shot Patty, which those who heard M.K. speak at the Ohio Bigfoot Conference know that he said nothing of the sort, and never so much as implied it. But because of one filmmaker, all of a sudden, M.K. was accused of saying that Gimlin shot Patty, and this caused M.K. to be a pariah to most of the Bigfoot Community, merely for expressing a theory, which M.K. told me personally was only one of a dozen possibilities. He never expressed the Massacre Theory as absolute fact, and some took it as that he did express it as fact, mainly because some parties in the Bigfoot Community were against M.K. and his theories from the very beginning and reacted as such. This whole controversy has caused so much venom and vitriol and nastiness that M.K. is getting out of Bigfooting. He is tired of all the BS and drama, which this author does not personally blame him for. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with someone over their theories or doing a peer review, but if you are going to devote the majority of a radio show to it for weeks and weeks on end merely to bash an individual, or use your blog as a platform to continue to bash an individual for a theory, that is going a bit too far. This will be the last word from yours truly on this whole controversy, because quite frankly, I am ready to move on from it all, and I hope everyone else is too.