This was a GREAT show, with guest Bill Brann from Hudson Falls, New York, a longtime Sasquatch investigator and author (Monsters of The Northwoods) who discussed his research as well as some reports, including some he just recently got within the past week. Bill Green and I called in and congratulated Bill on his Monsterquest appearance, as well as asking him about if he is planning to write another book, as well as recommending a rare book called Bigfoot on The East Coast by Rick Berry. Billy Willard also called in, as did Thomas and Bluetracker, and they asked Bill various questions. Next week, Don welcomes Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Chairman Eric Altman to give a sneak preview of the upcoming East Coast Bigfoot Conference, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at The Sasquatch Triangle, Now On NowLive.com
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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(3)New Mt. Hood Mystery Video
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 28th, 2008
What do you think?
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More Humorous Hoax Relief
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 28th, 2008
Another one has arrived to add to the collection. Image.
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Answer to Mt. Hood Mystery Video?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 28th, 2008
Is this the answer?
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Loch Ness Mystery Noise 'Unsolved'! Highland News
Scotland's famed Loch Ness, long reported to be the home of a mysterious gigantic creature, can now add a mysterious humming noise a local blue blood says "could be mistaken for a spacecraft landing." What's the source of the mystery noise giving Loch Ness area residents fits?
Amazon.com: Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science: Jeff Meldrum: Books
"Jeff Meldrum's book 'Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science' brings a much needed level of scientific analysis to the Sasquatch - or Bigfoot - debate. ...
www.amazon.com/Sasquatch-Legend-Science-Jeff-Meldr... • Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com
'Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science' : NPR
Nov 10, 2006 ... Talking with Jeff Meldrum, author of Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science on TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News. ...
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
"Jeff Meldrum is a scientist, an expert in human locomotor adaptations. In Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science he examines all evidence critically, ...
www.bfro.net/lms/lms.asp • Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum - Bigfoot ...
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ISU Headlines » ISU scientist’s book, “Sasquatch: Legend Meets ...
Meldrum's new book In endorsing the book, noted primatologist Jane Goodall said, “Jeff Meldrum’s book ‘Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science’ brings a much needed ...
The Trades - Book Review: Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
Oct 28, 2006 ... According to the liner notes, "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science offers ... reflexive debunking and credulous belief alike, Jeffrey Meldrum, ...
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
... often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written ... Author: Jeff Meldrum. Publisher: Forge ...
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum - Review - BookCrossing
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. by Jeff Meldrum category Nonfiction. status (set by AnonymousFinder): to be read. Global Summary for this book ...
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. Jeff Meldrum ... Meldrum's legend meets science' theme is most topical in the context of paradigm ...
www.scimednet.org/library/reviewsN93+/N94Meldrum_s... • Found on Yahoo! Search
YouTube - Sasquatch: Dr. Jeff Meldrum T.V. News Coverage
Dr. Jeff Meldrum is featured on a Salt Lake City local news television station discussing bigfoot prints.For more detailed info on Sasquatch footprints go ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClOrtpu3ao • Found on Google, Windows Live, Yahoo! Search
EVALUATION OF ALLEGED SASQUATCH FOOTPRINTS AND THEIR INFERRED ...
D. JEFFREY MELDRUM, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University ... commonly referred to as Bigfoot or Sasquatch, have emanated from the ...
www.isu.edu/~meldd/fxnlmorph.html • Found on Google, Windows Live, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com
Bigfoot expert weighs in: "I'm extremely skeptical": Scientific ...
ScientificAmerican.com contacted Jeffrey Meldrum, a prominent researcher on ... What do you think of this announcement of a bigfoot body being found in ...
www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=b... • Found on Google
Jeffrey Meldrum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
D. Jeffrey Meldrum (born 1958) is a tenured Associate Professor of ... in the print and a mid-tarsal break, traits he has come to believe belong to Bigfoot. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Meldrum • Found on Google, Windows Live, Yahoo! Search
'Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science' : NPR
Anthropologist, author and scientist Jeff Meldrum talks about the evidence for (and against) the existence of Bigfoot. Are there animals hiding in the woods that we know nothing ...
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6469... • Found on Windows Live, Yahoo! Search
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Patterson film, Jeff Meldrum « Bigfoot Sasquatch
Jan 6, 2008 ... Dr. Jeff Meldrum of the University of Idaho has been researching bigfoot for many years and has collected many footprints casts and other ...
bigfootsasquatch.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/bigfoot-... • Found on Google, Yahoo! Search
Bigfoot: Pocatello 2006 Bigfoot Rendezvous article...by Jeff Meldrum
by Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Ph.D. ...November 2006 updated Meldrum articles are located HERE. The upcoming Rocky Mountain Bigfoot Rendezvous should be a fun and ...
www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/rendezvous.htm • Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com
YouTube - Bigfoot Footprint Evidence: Dr. Jeff Meldrum Presentation
A short clip of a presentation by Dr. Meldrum on Bigfoot tracks.For a detailed, illustrated, analysis of Sasquatch footprint casts, including some shown in t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrn4nru6iY • Found on Windows Live, Yahoo! Search
Jeff Meldrums Footprint Evidence Research
Dr. Jeff Meldrums work in Bigfoot research, focused upon foot print evidence. ... Dr. Jeff Meldrum Associate Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology ...
Bigfoot: Professor Wants Answer to Bigfoot Question, 1996.....with ...
For Idaho State University anatomy professor Jeff Meldrum, ... Meldrum has appeared as a Bigfoot authority on several television documentaries including ...
Bigfoot: On the Sasquatch Trail news article
When he heard that, Idaho professor Jeff Meldrum was claiming to have plaster casts of Bigfoot's actual footprints. Jeff Meldrum/Idaho State University:
www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/trail.htm • Found on Windows Live
2006-11-05 Jeff Meldrum and Bigfoot
ISU professor Jeffrey Meldrum displays what he says is a casting of a footprint from a Bigfoot creature. ... Meldrum has collected more than 200 Bigfoot prints.
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum - Bigfoot ...
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum Bigfoot Books.
Jeff Meldrum Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
Bigfoot Sasquatch. Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Patterson film, Jeff Meldrum ... Find other items tagged with "jeff-meldrum": Technorati Del.icio.us IceRocket. Terms of ...
wordpress.com/tag/jeff-meldrum/ • Found on Yahoo! Search
Jeff Meldrum - squatchopedia.com - All things bigfoot and sasquatch
BFRO Media Article 196 Jeff Meldrum. From squatchopedia.com - All things bigfoot and sasquatch. Redirect page ... Jeffrey Meldrum. Retrieved from "http://wiki.bigfootforums.com/index. ...
wiki.bigfootforums.com/index.php?title=Jeff_Meldru... • Found on Yahoo! Search
Science and Sasquatch talk radio show | Dr. Jeff Meldrum, GUEST
Listen to Sasquatch Experiences online radio show about Science and Sasquatch Dr. Meldrum will discuss BIGFOOT and his book Sasquatch Legend meets Science. ...
www.blogtalkradio.com/show.aspx?showid=7618 • Found on Yahoo! Search
Daily-Jeff.com - Expert: 'Bigfoot' film not a hoax
Jeff Meldrum presented his findings from a recent trip to China researching the Yeren, one Asian creature similar to Sasquatch, Bigfoot and the Yeti.
www.daily-jeff.com/news/article/3816121 • Found on Windows Live, Yahoo! Search
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sasquatch Triangle Tomorrow...
Don welcomes longtime New York Investigator/author Bill Brann beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at The Sasquatch Triangle, Now On NowLive.com
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Summer 08 Top Stars: Montauk Monster, Prince Chunk, Yoda, Bigfoot ...
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
A couple of yokels from Georgia held a press conference to announce that they had a corpse of Bigfoot in a freezer, and the media ate it up. ...
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NO BURGERS FOR BIGFOOT
Film Threat - Los Angeles,CA,USA
That question is the basis of “No Burgers for Bigfoot,” a wonderfully sly deadpan comedy from Oklahoma filmmaker Jonathan Grant. ...
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The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
So when the furor erupted last week about the alleged Bigfoot body found in Georgia, I knew it was a hoax, and I decided it was time to pay my furry pal a ...
Do the Bigfoot bash in Northern California’s Willow Creek
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
That’s right, sasquatch. Yeti. The big-footed creature with the fallen arches that was allegedly first spotted there — and named Bigfoot for the tracks it ...
Announcement...
I am excited to announce the debut of Sasquatch Watch Radio. Our
first show will air on Thursday September 4 at 11:00 pm eastern.
Join Sasquatch Watch Radio hosts Billy Willard and DBD, aka The
Blogsquatcher, as we bring you the latest news and information from
the field of Bigfoot/Sasquatch research.
Please join hosts Billy Willard and DBD, aka The Blogsquatcher, as we
invite Mr. William Dranginis of the Virginia Bigfoot Research
Organization to the show. Help us make our first show a BIG SUCCESS!
The link to the show page is:
http://www.blogtalk radio.com/ sasquatchwatchra dio
The show call in number will be: (347) 237-5070
We hope you can all tune in and help our show be a big success!
Thank you!
Billy Willard
Sasquatch Watch of Virginia
first show will air on Thursday September 4 at 11:00 pm eastern.
Join Sasquatch Watch Radio hosts Billy Willard and DBD, aka The
Blogsquatcher, as we bring you the latest news and information from
the field of Bigfoot/Sasquatch research.
Please join hosts Billy Willard and DBD, aka The Blogsquatcher, as we
invite Mr. William Dranginis of the Virginia Bigfoot Research
Organization to the show. Help us make our first show a BIG SUCCESS!
The link to the show page is:
http://www.blogtalk radio.com/ sasquatchwatchra dio
The show call in number will be: (347) 237-5070
We hope you can all tune in and help our show be a big success!
Thank you!
Billy Willard
Sasquatch Watch of Virginia
Alaskan Mystery Carcass Photo Cryptomundo
Here's a photo taken July 22, 2008, of the mysterious smooth-skinned corpse of an animal that washed ashore in Alaska. Is this the body of the legendary "beast-walrus" spoken of by the Inuit tribesmen? Elsewhere at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman comments on a supposed manuscript written by a west coast Bigfoot personage in Beckjord's Bigfoot Sex Book and presents some humor arising from the recent Georgia Bigfoot scandal in Cartoons Celebrate Cryptomundo & Loren vs Hoax. With images.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Northern California Sightings
California Bigfoot Sightings List
Bigfoot Encounters The California Sightings List Page ... the Northwestern most part Northern California near the Oregon border around the Humboldt Forest, ...
The Bigfoot Blog
A Sasquatch Field Project in Northern California
wcbstv.com - Is Bigfoot Living In The California Forest? A Sasquatch Field Project in Northern California ..... no images were recorded, and no sightings occurred, of any primate entity known as Sasquatch. ...
home.clara.net/rfthomas/papers/siskiyou.html • Found on Google
The Bigfoot Blog
Review: Bigfoot Quest 8-26-08
This was a terrific show, with Mike Killen talking about his recent expedition in Delaware County, New York. He also discussed the recent Monsterquest episode he was part of (which if you blinked, you'd have missed him) where Steve Kulls and Chris Bartow got most of the air time, along with John Bindernagel and Bill Brann. I called in and discussed the MQ episode, along with some of the work Mike did. Bill Green called in and asked Mike and Bob if there were any new sightings or reports in their areas, and also brought up the dead horse of the Georgia Hoax (which Bob was ready to move on from, as are most of us). A witness from Arkansas called in and described some sounds he had heard right around 1991 near the White River, and he had gone to different sites and found that some of the sounds were almost identical to sounds he heard. Thomas also called in and gave his two cents. Dunno what the guys have planned for next week, but it begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at Bigfoot Quest
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Creatures that inhabit our guilty conscience The UK's Times Online has posted a commentary on cryptozoology.
[ Posted August 24, 2008, submitted by staff. Viewed 176 times. ]
[ Posted August 24, 2008, submitted by staff. Viewed 176 times. ]
Bigfoot Hoax Head on eBay Cryptomundo
A part of hoaxing history, in replica, has made its way to the internet's most popular auction site. With images. Meanwhile, as the rumbles of the Georgia Bigfoot hoax continue, Newsweek Nukes "Bigfoot Believers". Elsewhere, some rare animals are in the news, as reported in Clouded Leopard Found in Borneo and Sumatran Rhino Rescued in Sabah. And the excitement over Nick Redfern's new book There's Something in the Woods continues with the Paraexplorers pdf.file of Author Marie Jones Reviews There's Something in the Woods: A Translantic Hunt for Monsters and the Mysterious.
Got A New Book Yesterday...
The book is titled The Hoopa Project by former Police Investigator David Paulides, chronicling a three-year investigation on the Hoopa Reservation in Northern California. The book also comes with a nice bonus-a map of Northern California reports, including footprint finds. Once I am finished with the book, I will give a full review here. The book and map can be ordered from North America Bigfoot Search
Monday, August 25, 2008
Bigfoot Quest Tomorrow...
Dunno what Bob and Mike have planned, but it begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at Bigfoot Quest
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Review: Squatch Detective Radio 8-25-08
This was a rather interesting show, with Steve by himself going on a 25-minute rant against Tom Biscardi and defending himself and basically thanking his supporters but also attacking his detractors and really letting them have it when it comes to their attacks on him. He explained himself rather well, I thought. No show next week, and it is unknown if there will be a show on September 8th, but if there is, it begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at The Squatch Detective
Bigfoot worth studying
USA Today - USA
There is, however, the video evidence taken in 1967 by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, and footprints with dermal ridges, not to mention numerous accounts ...
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Bigfoot Always Loves You Cryptomundo
A short video apparently shot in Humboldt County, CA, demonstrates the costume used by the hoaxers in the Georgia Bigfoot scam. Compare it to the most famous of all such films shown in Back to the Future: October 20, 1967. Elsewhere on the cryptid creature scene, Paul Dale Roberts of Haunted and Paranormal Investigations International tells of an email he received from a man who thought he saw a brontosaurus while making a helicopter trip across the Congo, as Roberts recounts in Do Dinosaurs Still Exist?
New Blog
My new blog is about the personalities in the Sasquatch/Bigfoot field, and it is simply called Sasquatch Personalities
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Squatch Detective Radio Tomorrrow...
Steve will address all questions posed to him and will attempt to explain himself in full in a program he is calling Biscardi on Ice beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at Squatch Detective Radio
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Review: Sasquatch Experience 100th Episode 8-24-08
This was a terrific show, with myself, Sean, James and Melissa reminiscing about the past (Sean was 10 minutes late, but he got there) discussing mainly the Georgia hoax situation and also taking a look back at the history of the SE and also some other aspects of the show, and how we can sometimes get passionate about things. Several folks called in, including Bill Green, Steve Kulls and John Cartwright to discuss various things (Bill mainly to discuss the Georgia Hoax situation) and also what the future of the show is. I was honored to be part of the 100th Episode, and was very happy to be there. Next week, the SE returns (sans yours truly) starting at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at The Sasquatch Experience
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Review: HBM's Crypto-Corner 8-24-08
This was a terrific show, with myself interviewing Steve Summar and Becky Sawyer, and the majority of the time was devoted to the Georgia Hoax situation and Becky clearing her name, which I thought she did rather well. Steve also gave his two cents on it, as did Steve Kulls, who called in briefly and pretty much named Tom Biscardi as the main hoaxer in the whole deal. Thomas also called in and stayed on the line, as did John Cartwright, who asked Becky and Steve S. various questions. I am taking a month off from the show, but will return in October with hopefully some new guests and great topics, possibly at 2:00 EST/1:00 Central at HBM's Crypto-Corner
See y'all in October, and as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
See y'all in October, and as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
In a followup report to the recent Georgia Bigfoot hoax, this report, accompanied by video reports from an alleged sighting in Oklahoma and with Professor Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University, centers on investigator Richard Hucklebridge of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Association. Hucklebridge believes, among other things, that some Bigfoots have been targeted by riflemen and suffered wounds, giving the creatures "a bad attitude." Meanwhile, from Canada comes a report in which four people claim "they saw a black sasquatch," as told in 'We Believe We Saw Bigfoot'. Elsewhere, The Blogsquatcher continues his talk with the author of There's Something in the Woods in Interview with Nick Redfern, pt. 2.
Then, on The Sasquatch Experience...
Sean, Melissa, James and myself (for one night only) will be celebrating the 100th episode of the SE, for 90 minutes, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at The Sasquatch Experience
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
No Bigfoot Mystery This Evening, but 2 great shows today nonetheless...
First, on HBM's Crypto-Corner, Bill and I will have Steve Summar and a mystery guest or two to discuss Bigfoot ecology and food habits and anything else that comes to mind, beginning at 2:00 EST/1:00 Central at HBM's Crypto-Corner
Review: Erskine Overnight 8-24-08
This was a pretty great show, with guest Chris Murphy, who discussed his research as well as his exhibit, and also about abductions of Sasquatch doing this to humans, and also throwing objects at humans. The Paranormal aspect is also discussed and is in Murphy's new upcoming Know The Sasquatch/Bigfoot, and also the Ostman story. Chris also describes his number-1 footprint, which is the Heryford cast from Grays Harbor, Washington. Chris is also asked about the new book, which he may make as an e-book for now, then print it next Spring. There was also information shared about Hancock House's upcoming releases, such as Kathy Strain's book, Paul and Robert Bartholomew's book and also other books.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Erskine Overnight Late-Night Tonight...
Christopher L. Murphy will be the guest beginning at 1:00 A.M. EST/12:00 Central at Erskine Overnight
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Bigfoot Quest Review: 8-23-08
This was a GREAT show, with Mike live on location from Delaware County, New York, where sounds like lumberjacks with chainsaws have been heard, and also strange stick structures have been found. Mike and an associate, John Campbell, were out there investigating, although there have been no actual sightings in the area. I called in and asked about the stick structures, as well as other sign and other things. Bill Green also called in and asked about the area and things in it. There will be a show as scheduled Tuesday night, with a guest yet to be determined, starting at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central at Bigfoot Quest
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
Editorial: 50 Years of Bigfoot
(NO, that does not read 50 Years WITH Bigfoot; this is not about the Janice Carter book).
August 1958. Northern California, in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. A road building crew, contracted by the Wallace brothers (Ray, Roy and Wilbur) and owned by Thomas Sourwine, experiences unusual activity as they attempt to build roads through forest land. Strange and large footprints are found in and around road building sites, as well as camps, and occasionally sightings of large, hairy, manlike creatures are made as well. Catskinner (one who drives a bulldozer) Jerry Crew has seen tracks around his bulldozer for over a month and is very puzzled by these events, and decides to share this with the world, so his friend, taxidermist Bob Titmus encourages him to buy some Plaster of Paris and shows him how to cast with it, and Jerry casts one large 17 1/2-inch track, 7 1/2 inches across the ball of the foot and takes it to the local newspaper, the Humboldt Times, where editor Andrew Genzoli writes up an article about the strange footprint and also displays a photo of Crew holding the cast. The creature needed a name, however, and that name was provided by Rocky Bemis' Mom-Big Foot. The actual headline read "New Sasquatch Found-It's Called Big Foot," and it became a household word. Before this, the creature was known in the Pacific Northwest as Sasquatch, a phrase coined by former teacher J.W. Burns, and know variously as booger, wildman, gorilla, haints and a variety of other names nationwide. Before the name Big Foot came along, the most famous hominid was the Himalayan Mountains-dwelling Abominable Snowman, or Yeti. Of course, there were reports for thousands of years of giant hairy bipeds, including the Ape Canyon, Ostman and William Roe accounts which were all pre-1958, but finally in October of '58, there was a name, a marketable name, to go along with the creatures themselves. Sometime later (not sure when, possibly in the 1970's) the creature's nickname was shortened to Bigfoot, which is all one word and much more recognizable. Of course, the most famous sighting and recording of a Bigfoot is the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, but it is still today in dispute, over 40 years after it was taken. It is in dispute because of a certain Bob Heironimus who claims to have been in the suit. The original 1958 tracks are also in question because of the death of Ray Wallace in late-2002 in which his family "'fessed up" to Ray's hoaxing of tracks in the Bluff Creek area and the media ran with it and believed that Wallace's death destroyed Bigfoot once and for all. Well, maybe the one-two punch of the Wallace "confession" and the allegations from Bob Heironimus regarding the P/G Movie told the general public that Sasquatch is nothing but a myth, but it did NOT destroy the reports or the popularity of America's favorite hairy biped. Bigfoot is seen in many advertisements, such as the popular Jack Link's beef jerky franchise, as well as being used in various commercials such as Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream Parlor, Ask.com ads, a Canadian courier company and various other advertising campaigns. Bigfoot is seen practically all over TV and the Internet, sometimes in a humorous context, other times in serious scientific studies. Even if the creature itself does not exist (but I know differently, having seen one ten years ago today), it is still a great cultural phenomenon and a truly recognizable icon worldwide. Hail to Bigfoot-50 years and it still remains elusive.
August 1958. Northern California, in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. A road building crew, contracted by the Wallace brothers (Ray, Roy and Wilbur) and owned by Thomas Sourwine, experiences unusual activity as they attempt to build roads through forest land. Strange and large footprints are found in and around road building sites, as well as camps, and occasionally sightings of large, hairy, manlike creatures are made as well. Catskinner (one who drives a bulldozer) Jerry Crew has seen tracks around his bulldozer for over a month and is very puzzled by these events, and decides to share this with the world, so his friend, taxidermist Bob Titmus encourages him to buy some Plaster of Paris and shows him how to cast with it, and Jerry casts one large 17 1/2-inch track, 7 1/2 inches across the ball of the foot and takes it to the local newspaper, the Humboldt Times, where editor Andrew Genzoli writes up an article about the strange footprint and also displays a photo of Crew holding the cast. The creature needed a name, however, and that name was provided by Rocky Bemis' Mom-Big Foot. The actual headline read "New Sasquatch Found-It's Called Big Foot," and it became a household word. Before this, the creature was known in the Pacific Northwest as Sasquatch, a phrase coined by former teacher J.W. Burns, and know variously as booger, wildman, gorilla, haints and a variety of other names nationwide. Before the name Big Foot came along, the most famous hominid was the Himalayan Mountains-dwelling Abominable Snowman, or Yeti. Of course, there were reports for thousands of years of giant hairy bipeds, including the Ape Canyon, Ostman and William Roe accounts which were all pre-1958, but finally in October of '58, there was a name, a marketable name, to go along with the creatures themselves. Sometime later (not sure when, possibly in the 1970's) the creature's nickname was shortened to Bigfoot, which is all one word and much more recognizable. Of course, the most famous sighting and recording of a Bigfoot is the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, but it is still today in dispute, over 40 years after it was taken. It is in dispute because of a certain Bob Heironimus who claims to have been in the suit. The original 1958 tracks are also in question because of the death of Ray Wallace in late-2002 in which his family "'fessed up" to Ray's hoaxing of tracks in the Bluff Creek area and the media ran with it and believed that Wallace's death destroyed Bigfoot once and for all. Well, maybe the one-two punch of the Wallace "confession" and the allegations from Bob Heironimus regarding the P/G Movie told the general public that Sasquatch is nothing but a myth, but it did NOT destroy the reports or the popularity of America's favorite hairy biped. Bigfoot is seen in many advertisements, such as the popular Jack Link's beef jerky franchise, as well as being used in various commercials such as Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream Parlor, Ask.com ads, a Canadian courier company and various other advertising campaigns. Bigfoot is seen practically all over TV and the Internet, sometimes in a humorous context, other times in serious scientific studies. Even if the creature itself does not exist (but I know differently, having seen one ten years ago today), it is still a great cultural phenomenon and a truly recognizable icon worldwide. Hail to Bigfoot-50 years and it still remains elusive.
Editorial: Looks like Bigfoot's a bust
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
And the two good ol' boys who found the supposed Sasquatch cadaver made Larry the Cable Guy look like Stephen Jay Gould. And so, to almost no one's surprise ...
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Bigfoot searchers carry on
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - West Covina,CA,USA
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer Palmdale resident Richard Hucklebridge, was frustrated when news of a Sasquatch discovery earlier this month turned out to be ...
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NPR - USA
Cryptozoologists, people who study unknown animal species, are no strangers to a good Sasquatch hoodwinking. But Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and ...
100s Of SoCal Bigfoot Sightings Reported Annually
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
More than 100 reports of Sasquatch sightings are made every year in Southern California, and local members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Association say ...
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
More than 100 reports of Sasquatch sightings are made every year in Southern California, and local members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Association say ...
Rex Coming Back to Look for Yowies Macleay Argus
Rex Gilroy is one of Australia's most famous searchers for cryptid creatures. The "self-proclaimed 'Yowie Man'" is on the hunt again with a desolate area of Australia in mind as he looks for traces of the continent's version of Bigfoot and Yeti. Be sure to check out the comments section of this article. Meanwhile, the recent Bigfoot hoax hasn't eliminated the creature from the news in the US, as seen in Hunt for Bigfoot Near Trinity River and If Bigfoot Isn't in Georgia, Where Is He? Elsewhere in the world of hairy hominids and other cryptid creatures, Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo lists upcoming events you may wish to attend, with emphasis on the events where he will be lecturing, in Forthcoming CZ and Bigfoot Events. With colorful event posters.
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