Monday, October 13, 2008

Bigfoot Central/Bigfoot Quest Tomorrow...

Dunno what is up on Bigfoot Central, but it begins at 8:00 EST/7:00 Central.
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Then, dunno what Bob and Mike have planned on Bigfoot Quest but it begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

Review: Sasquatch Watch Radio 10-13-08

This was a pretty terrific show with guests Craig Woolheater and Monica Rawlins, who discussed the upcoming Texas Bigfoot Conference this weekend, as well as discussing the TBRC's Operation: Forest Vigil camera trap mission, including where one area is hard to get into because of Hurricane Ike devastating the area. Several folks called in, including Bill Green, who talked about the Georgia Hoax (again), as well as about the TBRC Conference and also some other things. I called in and talked about the camera trap operation and how digital is much better than film, as well as wishing them luck on the Conference this weekend. froggyvet from the chat also called in and asked some great questions. Next week, Billy and DB welcome Barton Nunnely from Kentucky, a Bigfoot/Dogman researcher in the BlueGrass State, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

Unsolved Mysteries Yeti Page

Yeti
Does a creature called the Yeti prowl the Himalayas?


The Yeti?


Himalayan Mountains

CASE DETAILS


Actual footprint: 13” long 8” wide

The Himalayas are home to the world’s highest mountain and one of its most intriguing mysteries. For centuries, the Sherpa people, native to the Himalayas, have told frightening tales of a strange half-man, half-ape called the Yeti.

Yeti is also known as the abominable snowman. To the Sherpas, Yeti has always been very real and very much alive. Some Western explorers have found convincing evidence that the Sherpas may be right.

Several expeditions have uncovered mystifying stories of strange human-like creatures who live in the Himalayas. In 1951, Eric Shipton, a world-famous mountaineer, came across a curious set of tracks. This was the first clear evidence that the Yeti might, in fact, be real.

Author Loren Coleman comments on the photograph Shipton took of the tracks:

“The photograph … is a very big peace of evidence because it showed toes, individual toes. It showed a squat, square footprint, which a lot of the other expeditions had found, but not had good photographic equipment with them.”


Plaster mockup of footprint

The footprint was 13 inches long and 8 inches wide. It didn’t look like it was made by a man or an ape.

In 1957, a Texas oilman named Tom Slick and explorer Peter Byrne set off for the Arun Valley in northeastern Nepal in search of Yeti.

Peter Byrne tells how he came to believe the Yeti are real:

“Tom Slick’s interest in the beginning was to find out if the Yeti were really there, and that’s the reason he came on the first reconnaissance. I had been hearing about the Yeti for years, ever since I was a child. But I think that what eventually convinced me that they were there, was meeting with the Sherpas and talk with them face to face. The Sherpas viewed the Yeti as a real living creature. Not as a mythical creature. They called him “hairy man” that lived out there separate from them. On the first expeditions we took along with us 8 by 10 pictures of a chimpanzee, a gorilla, primitive man and so on. And they used to point to the primitive man and say, that’s the Yeti. In fact, they thought we had a picture of the Yeti when they saw that. The Sherpas described the Yeti to us always as being man-like in form, and about 5-foot-6, 5-foot-7, 5-foot-8, not very large and covered with hair, totally covered with hair, walking upright. The face was bare of hair, the palms of the hands, that sort of thing.”

Slick and Byrne decided to split up to cover a wider search area. As Peter Byrne tells it, each made his own startling discovery:

“We’d started out from our camp in the early morning and we simply chose a mountain and I came across a line of footprints.”

Byrne took pictures of the tracks.

In another part of the valley, Tom Slick and his Sherpa guides discovered a similar set of tracks. Peter Byrne thinks the tracks are important:

“The significance of the prints that Tom Slick found was is that they were in mud, and whereas snow will distort with heat and with wind and so on, mud will not. He only saw two or three because it’s very hard to track in that stuff, in fact he was lucky to find them.”

A plaster cast of the footprint was shipped to the United States to be analyzed. The print measured 10 inches long and 7 inches wide.

According to anthropologist Dr. George Agogino, it was similar to the footprint discovered by Eric Shipton six years earlier:

“It was a short, squat, almost square type of footprint. And I sent it to the various physical anthropology experts around the country and usually the terminology that came back was, ‘Unique, but we don’t know what it is.’”

In February of 1958, Peter Byrne embarked on another expedition. On this trip, he met a Buddhist monk who had an amazing story to tell:

“He liked Scotch, this old man. And one evening while we were sitting there having a drink and talking, he said to me, he whispered, he said, ‘You know that up in the temple, we have a hand. Would you like to see it?’ And I said yes. So we went back up to the temple. We went into the top part of the temple and he showed me this hand about the size of a human hand, cut off at the wrist. I considered it very significant and I took some pictures of it immediately, some flash pictures. I asked the lama, of course, could I have it and he said no, he said it must never leave the temple here. If it leaves the temple various calamities will befall the temple and the community and so on. I asked him if I could have a part of it and he said no.”

The photographs of the Yeti hand were unlike anything scientists had seen before. Was it human? Was it ape? Or was it an entirely new species? They needed the actual hand, or at least a piece of it, to find out.

The next year, Peter Byrne returned to the monastery with another bottle of Scotch for the monk and an outrageous plan:

“I cut the finger off and I replaced it with the human finger. It took quite a long time to wire the whole thing together and put it all back together and put it back in the box. And nobody ever knew anything about it. And everything, everybody actually was perfectly happy. They still had the hand, it still had its fingers.”

The finger was brought back to London and sent to Dr. George Agogino for examination:

“I sent it to 20 experts which I thought should look at the hand, and they were about equally divided whether it was human or whether it was some type of primate known or unknown.”

Dr. Agogino put a tissue sample from the bone fragment in an envelope in his desk. It remained there for more than thirty years.

When Unsolved Mysteries learned of the bone fragment in Dr. Agogino’s desk drawer, we asked the University of California to analyze it. The results were inconclusive, but seemed to indicate that the tissue probably came from a human hand.

Professor of Nuclear Medicine Dr. Jerry Lowenstein analyzed the fragment:

“The problem with something as vague as the Yeti is that almost any result you have can be fitted into the theory. So I’m sure that most believers will say, ‘Well this is great, this proves that the Yeti is some sort of sub-human species.’”

Peter Byrne says the results confirm his own suspicions:

“I think that’s what we’ve always thought, that it wasn’t an animal, that it wasn’t an upright walking ape, because apes don’t’ walk upright anywhere. That it was a hominid. A human form of some kind.”

Meanwhile, the sightings of Yeti continued.

Photographer Kurt Fritler shares his own unnerving encounter:

“I had made camp at 16,500 feet, when out of the darkness a very loud piercing call began that sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before. It moved around. It circled our campsite, it would get closer, it would get farther away. It would call intermittently and the call was always very loud and very piercing and very frightening.”

Reinhold Messner says he got a good look at the creature from about 30 feet away:

“It was my impression it’s bigger than me. It was quite hairy and strong with short legs. The body was quite dark, dark brown, black hair, long, long hairs. And has quite a lot of hairs on the head.”

Dr. George Agogino is still split over whether the Yeti exists:

“I have to leave it open that I do not know what the abominable snowman is. But I feel there is a very good chance, probably 50/50, that something resembling the thing they are looking for does exist.”

Perhaps the Himalayas are home to an elusive, half-human species. Or perhaps Yeti is just a myth. Either way, it’s important to remember that a new species is discovered almost every year.

Unsolved Mysteries Bigfoot Page

Bigfoot
Bigfoot sightings are rampant in the Pacific Northwest.


Artist’s rendering of Bigfoot


Alleged Bigfoot footprint

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Peter Byrne

Many believe Bigfoot is the missing link between ape and human. For Peter Byrne, head of the Oregon-based Bigfoot Research Project, finding Bigfoot is a matter of scientific discovery:

“We don’t want to capture it. We don’t want to shoot it. The ultimate find, as far as we’re concerned, would be to do something like what Jane Goodall did, in other words, to find one, see if we can communicate, have it lead us to others, and then bring in the right people. Totally responsible people. Bring in scientists, and show them what we’ve found and document the whole thing, of course.”

Until now, the evidence for Bigfoot has consisted of amateur photographs, plaster casts of large, humanoid footprints and home movies that supposedly show the creature in the wild. But if Bigfoot is real, the one type of evidence that must always be considered is eyewitness accounts.

Todd Neiss is a sergeant in the Army National Guard. In 1993, he was on demolition maneuvers with his unit when a distant movement caught his eye:

“I could distinctly see three large black figures. I would estimate the largest one to be between eight or nine feet. I could very plainly see they were upright on two legs and…during that entire time, all three of them were standing on two legs. Another sergeant walked up to me and said, ‘Neiss, did you see what I saw down at that second rock port?’ And, not to be a fool, I said, ‘Well, I don’t know, what’d you see?’ He followed with, ‘Well lack for a better word, what I saw were three, large, hair-covered, big feet.’”


Oregon wilderness

Peter Byrne believes the creatures are nocturnal:

“When they’re seen in the daytime, it’s the result of disturbance of some kind. In this case, there was a National Guard exercise with explosions, and immediately after the explosion, three of these things were seen.”

When Elmer Frombach, a part-time prospector from Seattle, Washington, took his family on an outing near the Canadian border, he came home with one of the most amazing Bigfoot sightings on record.

Elmer had just begun taking ore samples on a trail near a hillside, when he suddenly realized he was not alone:

“I saw a big black hairy mass. And at that time I kept thinking in my mind I’ve got to find a way to scare it, and I fired a shot above its head, and it turned just slightly, and then proceeded to walk down the trail as though I wasn’t even there. And as it walked away from me, it took perfect, human-like strides, down the trail, only like a giant man. This thing had crouched down at the end of the trail and it picked up a rock, the size of a basketball, and was using it to bang against the other rocks that again made a slight-sideways turn, just enough to see me out of the corner of it’s eye. I was scared and I wanted to get out of there. I kept running down the hillside and the thing was in hot pursuit the whole way.”

Elmer is confident the creature he saw was Bigfoot:

“What I saw there was a living creature and not some figment in my imagination. Modern science hasn’t absolutely proven…that this thing exists. But I tell you, quite frankly, I’ve seen one. I know it exists. And there is no doubt in my mind.”

However, eyewitness accounts like Elmer’s are not enough evidence to convince skeptics.

Daris Swindler, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, wants to see tangible proof of Bigfoot’s existence:

“I’m amazed that through all the years various people that have been hunting Sasquatch through the years, have not really found any, what we call bone or dental evidence of the creature. That to me would be very satisfying.”

Is the Pacific Northwest home to a colony of ape-like creatures? Eyewitness like Todd Neiss and Elmer Frombach are convinced Bigfoot is real. There only hope is that the scientific community will soon take notice.

External Link: BRFO, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sasquatch Watch Radio Tomorrow...

Billy and DB welcome to their show Craig Woolheater and Monica Rawlins to discuss next weekend's Texas Bigfoot Conference, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

Reviews: HBM's Crypto-Corner/The Sasquatch Experience 10-12-08

HBM's was great, with guest Jeff Meldrum, who discussed such things as the work he did with the late Richard Greenwell on the Redwoods video, his work on the Onion Mountain Cast and the Al Hodgson Cast, his paper on Anthropoidipes Ameriborealis based on the footprints of the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, his book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science and he was asked some really great great questions from the chat, including from folks like Reverend Strone, lonewolfnan and Allie Cheslick. and also a caller, Billy Willard, who also asked Jeff some really great questions. Next week, Bill and I welcome author of The Locals, in a radio exclusive, Thom Powell. It begins at 4:30 EST/3:30 Central.
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Over on The Sasquatch Experience, Melissa Hovey returned and went into a terrific discussion on her recent footprint experimentation she has been undertaking for about 3 years or so. She described some of the different substrates she has used, as well as unique ideas such as freezing and heating up soil to attempt to achieve results and to replicate different scenarios with dermal ridging and casting artifacts. The main impetus for Melissa's experimentations is the Onion Mountain Cast and Matt Crowley's attempts to show that the dermal ridging on that cast is simply nothing more than casting artifacts. I called in and discussed some of the information Jeff Meldrum and I discussed referring to the very cast Melissa was doing the experiments on. I also asked her about the different substrates she has used, along with what sort of results she has achieved during her experiments. It was a really great show. Dunno what the SE gang has planned for next week, but it begins at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

2 Shows Tomorrow Part 2...

On The Sasquatch Experience, Melissa Hovey makes her long-awaited return, and she will be discussing her most recent footprint experimentations, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.

2 Shows Tomorrow...

First, on HBM's Crypto-Corner Bill and I welcome Dr. Jeff Meldrum (Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science) beginning at 4:00 EST/3:00 Central.
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