Beyond The Edge Radio, Friday Nights at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Beyond The Edge Radio Tonight...
Eric and Sean welcome as their guest Wildlife Expert and Bigfoot enthusiast Larry Battson of Indiana, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at
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On the Bigfoot trail ... again
Paris News - Paris,TX,USA
By Bill Hankins Tom Biscardi and his Bigfoot Hunters are back in Lamar County to search once more for the elusive creature, this time with more technology ...
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Review: Sasquatch Triangle 3-27-08
This was a great show, with Don and Sean basically doing an open-mic show about sounds and how they can be subjective and different sound clips were played, including my infamous "Mississippi Ramen Noodle Scream" (LOL) and analyzed, and there was quite a bit of discussion about sound clips and their implications. Bill Green called in and reported his possible sightings on the Kentucky Incident Game Cam. I called in and chided Don and Sean about the Ramen Noodle Scream and also chimed in about sounds and even chimed in my impersonation of the Patterson Scream/Yell. Creature Seeker called in during the last few minutes and discussed some of his sound encounters as well. Dunno what Don has planned for next week, but it should be a good one, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at
The Sasquatch Experience, Sunday Nights at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central/Sasquatch Triangle, Thursday Nights at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central
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Pelicanism 1897
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 27th, 2008
A “pelicanist” is one who proposes hard-to-believe solutions to unusual phenomena. There is reason to understand this also occurs within cryptozoology. Images.
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Kansas Cougar: First in 100+ Years!
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 27th, 2008
This incident raises many questions about the probable treatment of any individual who decides to “prove” the existence of an “unbelievable” cryptid. Photo.
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New Prehistoric Crocodilian
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 27th, 2008
A new form of ancient crocodile has been discovered in Brazil. Images.
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Milestone: 3000
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 26th, 2008
That number plus 40,000 equals Cryptomundo!
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European Humans: 1.2 Million Years Ago
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 26th, 2008
Nature is announcing that the earliest finds of a human in Europe have been pushed back by a half-million years. Images.
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Printed Proof of the Big Cat?
Oldest European Remains Found Herald Tribune
Have scientists found the oldest European human remains in a cave in northern Spain? The remains are believed to be those of a species of human referred to as Homo antecessor, believed to be an ancestor of both modern humans and Neanderthals. Is the 1.1-million-years-old dating of these remains accurate? Does this affect the "out of Africa" theory of human expansion? With photo.
Sasquatch Triangle Tonight...
Don will welcome as his guest for the second time in a week on a radio program one half of the team responsible for the Bigfoot Recordings (AKA the Sierra Sounds) Mr. Ron Morehead beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at
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The Sasquatch Experience, Sunday Nights at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central/Sasquatch Triangle, Thursday Nights at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central
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Review: Bigfoot Live 3-26-08
This was a pretty great show, with Tom Biscardi and his crew on the road from Paris, Texas, folks such as Steve Kulls, Dave and Penny Houston, JC Johnson, Dave Ortiz, Roger Peterson and several others telling of their impressions of the expedition, as well as some possible activity they might have had on the trip. I called in and told that it was my birthday, and they all wished me a happy birthday (thanks, folks). I really enjoyed this show, and Tom also revealed that A & E is filming the entire team, and also made the cover of a wildlife magazine (the name escapes me at the moment). Dunno what is on the agenda for next week, but I am sure Tom and the crew will be on the road, beginning at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central at
You can download past episodes there as well. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Bigfoot Live With Tom Biscardi, Wednesday Nights at 10:00 EST/9:00 Central
You can download past episodes there as well. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Bigfoot Seen in Charles River...?
BostonNOW, MA -1 hour ago
... was because boston was such an intellectual hub of bright minds and motivated, impassioned people. now i find out we gots dirty water and bigfoot, too! ...
Sports Notes (March 27)Wicked Local Sherborn
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BostonNOW, MA -
... was because boston was such an intellectual hub of bright minds and motivated, impassioned people. now i find out we gots dirty water and bigfoot, too! ...
Sports Notes (March 27)
Author says evidence proves Bigfoot exists
By: Drue Tolman
Issue date: 3/26/08 Section: Campus News
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"Its very difficult in 45 minutes to give you a comprehensive package of the evidence that has motivated me to persist in this investigation. That is what this is, an investigation. It's not me trying to convince you that Bigfoot exists," said Meldrum, who works in the Department of Biological Science at Idaho State University.
Schmidt, an associate professor for the department of environment and society, said, "How do we assess the evidence for Sasquatch, or the Bear Lake Monster, or even the Loch Ness monster? Science gives us the tools for looking at the validity of the evidence."
Meldrum said folklore, prehistoric evidence and aspects of history convey the intrigue of the possibility of an unknown animal such as Bigfoot.
"Belief has no role as a scientific question. The question boils down to is there evidence for a biological species known as Sasquatch," he said.
Ever since there have been travelers, there have been tales of fanciful, even somewhat unbelievable animals, Meldrum said. He related the idea of describing a giraffe to someone who didn't know about giraffe and how unbelievable that would seem. Similarly, Bigfoot may seem far-fetched when all people hear are stories, he said.
Meldrum said the earliest recorded story about Bigfoot is the "Epic of Gilgamsh." He said that story and "Beowulf" both have accounts of a hairy wild man, which he said could be early accounts of Bigfoot.
He showed pictures of masks, tribal statues and paintings from different centuries and cultures, and he pointed out the possible correlations to primates and Bigfoot and the differences between both. He said depictions of a creature with very big, human-like hands and feet were showing up in various styles of pictographs.
"No history is without myth. No myth is without history," Meldrum said.
Sometimes stories were told to serve as a warning to children to not stay out late because of the dangers in the woods, he said.
"Are these just boogie man stories? Are these just things the natives tell their kids to keep them in line?" Meldrum asked. "Are these just stories or do they have some thread of truth?"
Meldrum showed possible Bigfoot footprint casts and showed the differences in what are believed to be real and fabricated prints. The evidence in the footprints is what he said he finds most compelling.
He discussed the realities of the video recording of Bigfoot walking into the woods and said even though people have come out and said they were in a Bigfoot suit, the reality is the body proportions just don't match up for it to be a human in a costume.
Meldrum told the students at lunch after the lecture that he became interested in Bigfoot as a young boy. He said it was when the video of Bigfoot walking in the woods emerged that he became curious about Bigfoot. That curiosity developed more in later years as his study of science and primates slowly turned into a study of Bigfoot, Meldrum said. He continues his research on Bigfoot and the evidences to support his theory, he said.
For more information and to see pictures of possible Bigfoot footprints, access Meldrum's web site at www.isu.edu/~meldd/fxnlmorph.html.
-n.drue.t@aggiemail.usu.edu
Sometimes stories were told to serve as a warning to children to not stay out late because of the dangers in the woods, he said.
"Are these just boogie man stories? Are these just things the natives tell their kids to keep them in line?" Meldrum asked. "Are these just stories or do they have some thread of truth?"
Meldrum showed possible Bigfoot footprint casts and showed the differences in what are believed to be real and fabricated prints. The evidence in the footprints is what he said he finds most compelling.
He discussed the realities of the video recording of Bigfoot walking into the woods and said even though people have come out and said they were in a Bigfoot suit, the reality is the body proportions just don't match up for it to be a human in a costume.
Meldrum told the students at lunch after the lecture that he became interested in Bigfoot as a young boy. He said it was when the video of Bigfoot walking in the woods emerged that he became curious about Bigfoot. That curiosity developed more in later years as his study of science and primates slowly turned into a study of Bigfoot, Meldrum said. He continues his research on Bigfoot and the evidences to support his theory, he said.
For more information and to see pictures of possible Bigfoot footprints, access Meldrum's web site at www.isu.edu/~meldd/fxnlmorph.html.
-n.drue.t@aggiemail.usu.edu
Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and Decline of Bees Global Research
Is a preponderance of Genetically Moderated Organisms (GMO) and "Terminator" seeds at the heart of the mysterious disappearance of North America's bees? This essay says that's the case and argues the GMO products produce sterile pollen which results in bee starvation. Where's the proof for this assertion? With related video here.
Photographs Back Yowie Hunch: Claim Canberra
The Yowie is Australia's version of North America's Bigfoot and the Yeti of the Himalayas. Paul Compton is one of Australia's many Yowie believers and says he has photographic evidence the Yowie exists. With photo. Meanwhile, Nick Redfern at There's Something in the Woods presents The CFZ in Guyana: A Review, while Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo presents the commentary Molester Blames Bigfoot.
Brookside Ghosts Are Too Real Life Liverpool Echo
Actors and actresses filming a new movie in Liverpool, England, say spooky things have been occurring on the set. Is the cast of "Salvage," a "gorefest" film, really experiencing paranormal activity, or are their claims part of a publicity campaign? Also, Professor to Explore the Paranormal Universe; Spirits: Paranormal; Ghosts in My NASCAR Room and Ghostbusting at The Queen Anne Hotel: Pt. 1.
Molester Blames Bigfoot
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 26th, 2008
I may be open-minded about Sasquatch, but I’m without mercy, no matter what the excuses, about molestation.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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Review: Bigfoot Quest 3-25-08
This was a terrific show, with Ron Morehead, the proprietor of the Bigfoot Recordings Volumes 1 and 2 (AKA The Sierra Sounds), and several sound clips were played from each volume and discussed. Ron discussed about how each sound could relate to possible language of some sort, but Janice Carter, who called in, insists it is English. Bill Green and myself also called in, as well as Don Keating, and asked various questions (I also got birthday greetings from Ron for the second year in a row, thanks, Ron!!!). Ron also discussed the circumstances surrounding how the sounds came about and the various sounds. Dunno what Bob and Mike have in store for next week, but it should be a great one, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at
Bigfoot Quest, Tuesday Nights at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central
You can also download past shows there, as well as subscribe via iTunes. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.Review: Bigfoot Central 3-25-08
This was a great show, with guest Joe Beelart, who discussed the rock stacking done by a group of three creatures in October 1967 witnessed by Glen Thomas near Estacada, Oregon, and there was much discussion about rock stacks and how they relate to Sasquatch, as well as some of M.K.'s photos and recollections of finding rock stacks in the Bluff Creek area. Don Monroe also shared some stories about rock stacks and how it relates to Sasquatch research. Dunno what is on the agenda for next week, but it should be a good one, starting at 8:00 EST/7:00 Central at
Bigfoot Central can be found here
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Bigfoot Central can be found here
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
New links
Sasquatch Awareness Center:
http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20080308173858430
Bill Green's new website:
Bill Green, Bigfoot Resercher. - Home
Joe Beelart's Research Notes:
Bigfoot - Sasquatch Field Notes
When Animals Attack - the 18th Century Style and Beast of Hunan Turns Out to be a Paper Tiger.
In her Trickster's Realm column at Binnall of America Regan Lee tells how a comment in Andrew Colvin's book Mothman's Photographer II caused her to consider the possible connection between Bigfoot and other cryptid creatures and military covert operations/psychological operations. Key quote: "But go deeper and you'll find something even stranger: some sort of bizarre connection between shadowy military, paramilitary, mind control and psy-op factions and strange creatures, such as Mothman, Bigfoot and others." Do you see any connection between cryptid creatures and the factions Lee mentions?
Nessie and Me The Guardian
In his own words, Steve Feltham tells how he gave up his home, his job and his girlfriend to search for the Loch Ness Monster. That all happened 17 years ago, and Feltham hasn't spotted Nessie yet. Some may wonder what compels a young man to take such a plunge, but we're left wondering how bad Feltham's girlfriend felt when she found out he thought the Loch Ness Monster was more attractive than she. Hallmark probably doesn't even make a card for that.
An Old Chestnut
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 25th, 2008
Ohio has a secret, which has been revealed a bit. A secret tree, that is. The state has kept their secret for seven years. They retain part of the hidden knowledge about the above pictured tree, because they aren’t telling anyone where it is located.
This Ohio treasure’s existence was closely guarded until […]
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Night of the Demon Remembered">Night of the Demon Remembered
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 25th, 2008
A character actor of some note, Brian Wilde, 80, passed away on March 20, 2008. His appearance in a long forgotten film is to be recalled.
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Bigfoot Central/Bigfoot Quest Tonight...
Dunno what is in store over at Bigfoot Central, but it should prove to be most interesting, beginning at 8:00 EST/7:00 Central at
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Over on Bigfoot Quest, Bob and Mike welcome one half of the team responsible for the Bigfoot Recordings (AKA The Sierra Sounds) Mr. Ron Morehead beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at
Bigfoot Central can be found here
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Over on Bigfoot Quest, Bob and Mike welcome one half of the team responsible for the Bigfoot Recordings (AKA The Sierra Sounds) Mr. Ron Morehead beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at
Bigfoot Quest, Tuesday Nights at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.Review: Squatch Detective Radio 3-24-08
This was a great show, with author Lee Murphy, who discussed his novels as well as his interest in all things Cryptozoological. Several folks called in, including myself, Bill Green, Eric Altman and a fellow named Dan, who asked Lee various questions (I asked him a good bit about Megalodon and his research into that now possibly extinct fish, as well as things about Sasquatch). Lee discussed different cryptids he is interested in, as well as an upcoming novel completely unrelated to Cryptozoology which he is not at liberty to discuss publicly. Billy had Becky Sawyer sitting in for Steve, and she did a great job. Dunno what is on the line for next week, but it should be an interesting program, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at Squatchdetective Radio...................Monday 7pm
You can also find past shows there to download, as well as subscribe via iTunes. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
You can also find past shows there to download, as well as subscribe via iTunes. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Haunted House Checked in Lower Burrell Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Lisa Hockenberry has felt the presence of someone haunting her home for the past two years but never acted on her suspicions until she felt the touch of two invisible hands. The Greater Pittsburgh Paranormal Society is on the case. Also, Ghosts Busted in Clyde, A Room to Chill the Blood and Online Introduction to Parpsychology.
Zorgy Awards Announced
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 24th, 2008
The envelope please….
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Texas Trails: A Millionaire’s Quest
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 24th, 2008
“First, there was the name. Tom Slick. It sounds daring and adventurous, like Clutch Cargo, Johnny Quest or Indiana Jones. That trio of heroes are each fictional but Tom Slick lived in the real world, even if he spent a lot of time and money looking for creatures that many people believed to be unreal.”
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Full-Length Article on Peter Byrne Part 3 by Greg Long
Byrne's Bigfoot Part 3:
The Quarry
by Greg Long — April 1, 1996
Vancouver — After a brief period of freedom, the Chehalis Indian reservation near Harrison Lake is again being harassed by Sasquatch, the strange hairy giants of the mountains who have been particularly active this year.
Mrs. James Caufield was washing clothing in a rivulet when she heard a buzzing sound. At first she thought it was a humming bird hovering over a flower.
"But it was no bird," reported Mrs. Caufield. "It was the most terrible thing I ever saw in my life — a huge man covered with hair from head to foot. He was only a few feet away from me, and staring at me.
"I knew right away he was a Sasquatch and turned my head, for the Indians say that if Sasquatch catches your eye you are surely in their power. I backed away, hiding my eyes, and fell into a tub of soap suds. When I had recovered my balance the giant had disappeared."
Mrs. Caufield says that the Sasquatch was more than six feet tall and of unusually large proportions." - Toronto Daily Star, May 28, 1934
We've entered the final hour of our interview with Peter Byrne, director of the Bigfoot Research Project. The phone has stopped ringing. It's still a gray day outside with remnants of hard-packed snow on the ground.
Somewhere in the woods that start immediately across the highway, beyond the confines of Byrne's headquarters, Bigfoot could be walking right now.
What exactly, I asked, is this thing you're seeking?
"The creature stands between six feet and seven feet tall," Byrne said, "and has hair that's either black or dark brown.
"The creature has hair all over except the palms of its hands and the soles of its feet, and face. The hair is thick and flowing, perhaps on the back of the head here, and covers its whole body.
"It's hard to estimate, but Bigfoot might be 300 pounds; witnesses say 500 to 800 pounds, but I don't know. But 500 pounds is not impossible because an adult gorilla is — if he stands up and he's under six feet — weighs 500 pounds. Bigfoot are obviously heavy.
"The creature looks like a large, bipedal primate walking upright — massively built, with arms the same length as human arms, not like a gorilla's arms. The creature has huge shoulders and a very short neck, as if it has no neck."
Byrne touched his forehead. " It has a ridged head — a ridge of some kind. A creature this large probably eats herbivorous matter, probably foliage, reeds, bark, grass." Byrne touched his jaw. "If it was herbivorous [Byrne has concluded that Bigfoot is omnivorous, eating both vegetation and meat], it would need big muscles here, in the jaw, just as most animals who are herbivores have big muscles. Big muscles need an anchor line for the tendons to hold them. You see this in gorillas and to some extent in orangutans." And, therefore, Byrne said, this would account for the ridge on its forehead. "A ridge to hold the tendons for the muscles of the big jaw."
Byrne warmed up to the subject; speaking as if he has observed the creature everyday.
"People describe the face as strangely human. We're getting these reports again and again. It's a strangely human face, a slightly ridged face. A straight nose; large eyes; big jaw; big mouth; eyebrows; eye ridges that protrude a little bit more than they do in the human face. 'That thing looked human to me,' people say."
Usually the creature is observed as a single individual, although there are a few cases of Bigfoot in groups of two, three, or four. Bigfoot is seen at night or early in the morning. If the creature is seen during the day, Byrne believes that this is the result of it being disturbed by humans.
I was bothered by the fact that Bigfoot was usually seen alone; if it had human characteristics, surely it would be more familial. Byrne had obviously given this some thought.
"When we see one, that doesn't mean there isn't another one a hundred yards away moving through the brush. Look at the forest here — you can see 100 feet and that's it. Many animals are single. For example, the gibbon, the Asian ape. If you see two gibbons together, they're either mating or it's a female with a young one. It's a solitary animal. Orangutans and gorillas are solitary animals. Tigers are solitary. In November and December they mate, and they start calling. They'll call across two to three miles, you'll hear them. The males call, the females come in, and they mate."
Byrne cautioned me. "Bigfoot may mate, reproduce, and perhaps go their ways. But we speculate, there are a lot of areas of speculation with Bigfoot. When we say they're nocturnal, we speculate they're nocturnal."
If tigers call across miles, then could Bigfoot? I wondered.
"It was a kind of screaming roar. A powerful sound, a tremendous sound."
"We hear two sounds repeatedly. One is whistling, very powerful, high-pitched whistling. The other is the scream, which I think I've heard. In all my contact with this thing, all I've got is the scream, and that's all. I was camping, and it was two o'clock in the morning. And there were two screams. It was an incredible sound! It was a kind of screaming roar. I can't even attempt — It lasted about five seconds, and there was a second one lasting about five seconds. A powerful sound, a tremendous sound. And I know the animals in the Pacific Northwest fairly well here. The big animals are bear, elk, deer and mountain lion — those four animals. None of them makes a sound like this."
Bigfoot also has an odor, an unmistakable odor.
"It's possibly glandular."
Byrne described how gorillas and elephants emit an odor when they are agitated, threatened by man. "Have you smelled the smell of fear? Have you ever smelled someone who has been really nervous or frightened? There's a definite smell there, from under the arms." Byrne talked about hunting Himalayan goats. "You've heard the expression 'smells like a goat'? If the wind is right, you can smell them from 300 yards away, a tremendous smell. Powerful; goats really stink.
"Diane Fossey [famed gorilla investigator] encountered a wave of odor [when gorillas were agitated and charged]," Byrne said. So, Bigfoot's odor might be a physiological response to human threats.
This seemed reasonable to me. But why would a creature that was reportedly so elusive, so resistant to photographs or capture, even allow its self to be seen, especially on roads — I heard of such sightings.
"Inability to judge the speed of a modern vehicle. I've just been driving in Nepal, and you have to watch Nepalians on the road because they're not used to vehicles yet. You're driving 20 miles an hour, and a hill man will walk straight up to the front of the car, and he stops and he looks at you. He'll walk straight into you. He has no idea of speed. Bigfoot gets caught in the road, caught in the headlights."
"A creature more man-like than ape-like possessing unusual intelligence but prone to occasional detection by humans"
Byrne painted a fairly detailed picture. A massive, inoffensive, shy, and non-aggressive bipedal creature with superb visual proficiency and highly developed hearing. A creature more man-like than ape-like possessing unusual intelligence but prone to occasional detection by humans, however fleeting the observations. With at least a hundred credible accounts in the Bigfoot Research Project's computer, why did the skeptics still doubt?
"The complete die-hard knows nothing about the subject, has read nothing, has done no studies, and is not going to."
"With an absolute die-hard skeptic, you aren't going to get anywhere," smiled Byrne. "The complete die-hard knows nothing about the subject, has read nothing, has done no studies, and is not going to. They [Bigfoot] don't exist, that's all there is to it.
"The skeptics we see have four areas of argument that they continuously come up with.
"The first is how come with all the people living and searching, all the scientific institutions, the expeditions, and so on, no one has found one until now? Our answer is that there haven't been any expeditions. There hasn't been any professional searching. No one has done anything. The great institutions, like the Smithsonian, the National Geographic, haven't even touched it.
"The second question is, 'How come there are no carcasses, no bones?' When things die here in the Northwest, it's just like East Africa, it's just like Asia — they disappear almost immediately. They're eaten quite naturally by other animals, by bears and so on..."
"Three weeks ago when I was in Nepal I was looking at the carcass of an elephant. It was probably a 10,000-pound elephant. It had been dead for a week, and there were only the bones left. Ten thousand pounds of elephant, and the hyenas were working on the bones, coming at night and chomping them up. This is the way everything disappears.
"We lost a young man by the name of Cory Fay 20 miles from here in October 1993. He just disappeared. In October 1994, they found his rifle propped against a tree. They did a search, and all that was found were some tiny splinters of bone and a piece of his shoe. Everything else was eaten. The great garbage man out there in the forest is the bear. He can home in on a decaying carcass from half a mile away.
"The third argument is, 'It's a man in a fur suit.' The man in the fur suit jumps out on roads, goes boo to people, runs through the forest. That's a little bit unacceptable to me because of the historical record. We've got reports going back to the 1700s.
"And the fourth argument is that people are hallucinating; people are just hallucinating. So we say, 'Right. All the people up and down the Cascades here are hallucinating when they see one. But what's wrong with the people over in eastern Oregon? Why aren't they hallucinating? [There are few reports of Bigfoot from eastern Oregon.] What's wrong with the people up and around the Olympic Peninsula? A marvelous area for Bigfoot. There's something very strange about the people out there on the Olympic Peninsula — they aren't hallucinating, they should be.'
"And the fifth argument — and it's not a very good one, is: 'It's some kind of vast conspiracy of lies amongst people; there's some kind of secret society, or something.' That doesn't hold up because 99.9% of the people we've interviewed don't know anyone else who has seen one. Certainly none of the people we've interviewed know each other."
Despite these arguments to counter the skeptics, Byrne admits that there is no material evidence. "There is none. There are no bones, there are no feces. There's no hair. Nothing. I think if there was, we would know about it."
However, Byrne puts stock in other forms of evidence: old newspaper accounts going back to the 18th century and journals and letters written by missionaries and miners; Indian stories of Sasquatch; footprints (14 to 15 inches on average); the sightings; and the 1967 Roger Patterson film. This short piece of 16-mm film (990 frames), shot in northern California in October 1967, shows in daylight a tall, extraordinarily muscled, hairy man-like creature striding across an open field. Byrne has driven 5,000 miles over the years investigating the case and believes the film is of a real Bigfoot. "We think it's real, and it's universally dismissed by science, with the exception of one or two scientists. When I went to the Smithsonian years ago with a copy of it, they said if they [Bigfoot] are there, we would have known by now, we would have had one by now. I said, 'Well, did anybody go and look?' 'No, we don't go look because nothing like that exists.'"
Byrne remains undaunted. I collected my recorder up, and before leaving, Byrne showed us photographs of prints. In 18 months, funding for the Bigfoot Research Project will run out; funding may or may not be renewed. Is he frustrated by the lack of definitive evidence?
"There is an area of frustration, which is, when are we going to make a finding?"
"No, I'm not frustrated. There is an area of frustration, which is, when are we going to make a finding? Will it be another 10 years? With my age, I don't have another 10 years. In the 1960s the whole of my life stretched before me. But it's the excitement of the challenge that pushes aside the frustration."
And Peter Byrne started talking about a new set of dart guns that the Project recently bought to help secure the blood and tissue sample of a Bigfoot. "It has a dart that has a little barrel; it penetrates into the animal about a quarter of an inch. It seizes blood and tissue inside the tiny barrel, and then falls out. We only need a tiny amount of the DNA. We had tranquilizing equipment for years, but were afraid of using it because you can kill a wild creature very easily. So we bought this. It's actually safe, and now they are using it for elephants."
Somewhere out there, in the wilds of the Cascades, in the shadows cast by daylight, something huge, human-like, and stealthy rests. As the shadows lengthen, and the sun drops behind the peaks, it rises and begins moving under cover of the night.
To report a Bigfoot sighting, write or call:
The Bigfoot Research Project
Box 126
Mount Hood, Oregon
800/244-3668 or 503/352-7000
Full-Length Article on Peter Byrne Part 2 by Greg Long
Byrne's Bigfoot Part 2:
High-Tech Pursuit
by Greg Long — March 18, 1996
There is lately arrived in France from America, a wild man, who was caught in the woods, 200 miles back from the Lake of The Woods, by a party of Indians; they had seen him several times, but he was so swift of foot that they could by no means get up with him. He is near seven feet high, covered with hair, but has little appearance of understanding and is remarkably sullen and untractable. When he was taken, half a bear was found lying by him, which he had just killed. - January 4, 1785, London Times
It is this type of historical datum that keeps Peter Byrne, director of the Bigfoot Research Project, in pursuit of one of the world's most popular mysteries. Bigfoot. Is there an as-yet unfound, large, hair-covered hominid roaming the Pacific Northwest?
Not only would Byrne like to know, but so would the supporters of the Academy of Applied Science, which is funding the search. The Academy is partly funded by such notables as Francis Davis, the inventor of power steering, who left the Academy $10 million; or Harold Edgerton, the creator of strobe lighting who held 50 patents on same.
"Lately, the phone at the Bigfoot Research Project has been ringing 3,000 times a month."
Byrne freshened our coffee cups as we sat in the dining room of the combination house/offices of the Bigfoot Research Project near Mount Hood, Oregon. It's clear that Byrne has plenty of resources to pursue the quarry. The best way (Byrne concluded after years of fruitless trekking through the woods) is to use high-tech methods. The front line component is data gathering. With the phone number 1-800-BIGFOOT in place, Byrne has a pipeline to the public. Lately, the phone at the Bigfoot Research Project has been ringing 3,000 times a month. Many of these calls have been crank calls, mostly from children who just before 8:00 a.m. before going to school, or at midday break, decide to bark, yap, howl, and scream into the phone. "It's got me! It's got me! It's eating my dog! It's got my grandmother" These calls are instantly rejected.
Ads running continuously in small weekly newspapers up and down the Cascade Mountains, northern California, and British Columbia — all the way up the coast to the southern border of Alaska — generate the phone activity. "The pattern that is producing evidence is the mountain chain," Byrne said, and so the ads are concentrated along the chain.
The reports that make it through are screened. "We discount people who've had 10 sightings. We thank them nicely. People just don't see Bigfoot 10 times. If it's running, we get suspicious. No one has ever seen one run; or appearing in the window — these things don't come and appear in windows anymore than would a mountain lion come up and put its paws up. Someone has seen something on a ridge 400 yards away. 'What color was its eyes?' 'Blue.' Well, you can't see the color of eyes 400 yards away. If it's 13 feet tall — that's it. We don't want to talk to them."
Some witnesses simply misidentify objects or animals. "People driving at night," Byrne mused. "They're thinking about Bigfoot. They've just seen Unsolved Mysteries, and a stump flashes by. And they say, 'Oh, my God, what was that?' By the time they get home, it was Bigfoot. Or people see a shadow in the forest and begin thinking, 'What did I see? My goodness! That was seven feet tall!'"
Or people misidentify bears, or — Byrne chuckled — cows. There was the couple who misidentified a cow in broad daylight. Byrne rushed to the scene across the Columbia River. "There were its brown, huge eyes staring at them," he smiled.
"Witnesses are asked about 100 questions."
Seventy-five per cent of all raw reports are rejected; of those, 25% are misidentifications. If the report passes the screening, and it's a good report, Byrne or one of his four associates, will interview the witness in person. The interviewer takes along three questionnaires: sighting; footprint find; and sounds, smells, and object throwing. Witnesses are put through about 100 questions.
"We sit with the witness across the table. We go through the questions. What, where, when, what were you doing there? How much reading have you done? Have you ever seen one before? What are the plants in the area? The temperature? When we're finished, we thank them. We do our own assessment based on what we see and they've told us. If it's credible, it goes into the computer. We have about 105 sightings [as of February 1996]. It's very little considering three and a half years of searching. But the sightings that are in there, we're satisfied they're credible. We're satisfied people did see something."
Human resources are another component in the search. The Project has associates who are ready to spring into action and travel to the scene of a sighting if its a few hours old. If the sighting is far from the Project, Byrne can turn to a 62-person volunteer team on call day or night. The volunteers are outdoors people — men and women — who are fascinated with the subject. "We may call them at 2:00 in the morning, and if you have 62 volunteers, and you call them, 30 will be working, 10 are going to be sick, so we might get 15. "
In addition, Byrne has two helicopters on standby to work with the team. One is a personnel helicopter, the other carries an infrared detection system on board. Byrne also has a team of six professional trackers, who are ex-policemen and ex-border patrolmen. "One of them," said Byrne, "is probably the best man in America right now."
A board of advisers composed of 10 professionals rounds out the team. The advisers include two anthropologists, a surgeon, an expert in forensic imaging, a senior policeman. Byrne is prepared to hop on a plane and travel if necessary. But the computer remains his best tool for uncovering Bigfoot.
Unfortunately, the most recent legitimate sighting the Project has in its computer is 31 days old. "It's a real problem," said Byrne. "After 31 days, footprints are gone, signs are gone." In addition, of the 105 sightings in the computer, only 14 have been collected since the inception of the project in 1992. All the other cases are 10 to 50 years old.
"Sightings are extremely rare," Byrne said matter of factly. "I'm three and a half years into this project, and none of my staff has seen a single thing, a single footprint. And I haven't seen a single footprint for five years myself. I saw something five years ago."
So Byrne relies on the "geotime" patterns that analysis of the computerized data reveals. Patterns of time and place that might show where Bigfoot potentially will be at a certain time of the year. The sighting belt that runs down the Cascades is the focus.
"But we don't see Bigfoot yet in relation to seasons," Byrne cautions. "We've had sightings in northern Washington, the coldest state in the winter at 20 below; and sightings in California, the hottest day of the summer. It would be great if they went south in the winter and north in the summer. We don't see that. But the movement is up and down, north and south, and that's because of the shape of the mountains, the shape of the Cascades."
Byrne went on: "Bigfoot don't come out in the open. Like many creatures, they need cover, so they use this covered passage [the Cascades], north and south. They're in this area because it provides them with food, water, cover, and space."
Byrne remains optimistic, despite the three-and-a-half- year passage of time as director of the Bigfoot Research Project. No photographs, no blood and tissue samples. Not yet; the computer hasn't produced the definitive geotime pattern. "But we think by the middle of the year," Byrne's eyes brighten, "they may, and we have some electronic surveillance gear which we're going to put out at that time."
Somewhere in the dense forests, out in the trackless wilds, Bigfoot moves.
To report a Bigfoot sighting, write or call:
The Bigfoot Research Project
Box 126
Mount Hood, Oregon
800/244-3668 or 503/352-7000
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