Sunday, November 18, 2007
Sasquatch Experience Tonight...
Review: Coast to Coast A.M. 11-18-07
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Coast to Coast A.M. Tonight...
George Noory (or most likely his weekend guest-host) will have Dr. Jeff Meldrum on the show, beginning at 1:00 A.M. EST, and that can be found at
Cryptomundo/Anomalous Headlines
Barta: Ethnoknown Viper Discovered
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 17th, 2007
A new snake has been found in India. The barta, as the local Nyishi indigenous people call the six-foot-something reptile, is the most-feared creature among the natives in Arunachal Pradesh.
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Official Reportedly Explains Away “Orangutan”
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 17th, 2007
Charles Fort called what is happening in the media in Florida the “Wipe,” for it was a frequent technique for disposing of the uncomfortable reality of the data that would not go away. Was a Fish and Wildlife official misquoted? Did he really say the “red ape” was nothing but a….
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Devil’s Lake and Black Mystery Cats Sighted
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 17th, 2007
This last week saw continued cryptid felid sightings around Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, and in the Lambton area of Ontario.
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Cryptozoology A to Z Fire Sale">Cryptozoology A to Z Fire Sale
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 16th, 2007
Heads up, for those interested. How can online sellers afford to stash 1/3 off the price? Anyway, if you’ve been looking for this, get it cheap now.
Investigate Further: Cryptozoology A to Z Fire Sale” by Loren Coleman">Cryptozoology A to Z Fire Sale »
First Guyana Report
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 16th, 2007
The traveling CFZ members have collected an old hairy hominid abduction story and news of a green scorpion.
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Update Vote Count: “Best Cryptozoologist”
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 16th, 2007
It’s official. Records are being broken. Paul Kimball says the “2007 Zorgy Awards” voting for the four people for “best cryptozoologist” has gone beyond what occurred last year.
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Posting I made on Bigfoot Forums
I find this statement to be a bit on the disturbing side. And it does not JUST apply to Biscardi, it applies to all researchers-what business is it of anyone's if someone goes on expedition with controversial individuals such as Biscardi to begin with? And what exactly is "credibility" in this field? Most of the world who knows very little about Bigfoot other than what they see on TV thinks we're all missing a few marbles because we chase big hairy monsters out in the woods. We would not exactly be considered "credible" to most of the world, so who is to say within this community who is more credible than the other? John Green used to publish hoax Sasquatch stories in his newspaper back before he really looked into it, yet he is considered the Godfather of Sasquatchery; Jeff Meldrum bought into the Snow Walker and Playmate Videos when he first got into this line of inquiry until he realized that they were hoaxes; Green still considers Peter Byrne a fraud simply because Byrne was picked to lead Tom Slick's Pacific Northwest Expedition in the late-'50's-early-'60's, yet Byrne is highly regarded by a good majority of you. And I have news for you all-ALL of us have had a slip of the tongue, or believed a certain piece of evidence was credible till we checked into it more closely and found we were wrong, or have had romantic notions on certain things until we became more objective. What makes Biscardi any different? Many researchers have gone on expedition with him, including some members of these very forums, and they have had nice things to say about him and the team he works with. Would you shun those individuals that are on this board who have gone on expedition with him and say their credibility has been damned to Hell if I were to name those individuals concerned? I notice no one has shunned Billy Willard or Steve Kulls, who BOTH post on these very forums and HAVE gone on expedition with Biscardi and have not found ANY HOAXING OR WRONGDOING!!! So are these individuals all of a sudden NOT credible just because they dared to go on expedition with a man many of you consider to be the Devil Incarnate and came back with positive feedback? You can't have it both ways, folks. If you are going to shun Biscardi and perhaps now Steve and Billy for supporting or being nice to Biscardi, then maybe all of you should be shunned for supporting Green or Meldrum or Byrne simply because of the opinions of a few and because they have slipped up and shown a human side too. I am going to take Biscardi up on his offer (actually, it was Steve Kulls' offer) to go on an expedition in Enterprise, Alabama, in February to check things out for myself. If there is wrongdoing, I will not hesitate to report it; if there is a positive report, I will give that as well. As I said on the other thread, I will hide nothing or turn nothing. I will call it as I see it, good or bad. If that bothers some of you, well, I apologize. I believe in checking things out for myself before I make a verdict. Besides, I am in this to research Bigfoot, NOT personalities.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Review: Beyond The Edge Radio 11-16-07
Anomalous Stories
http://www.bradfordera.com/articles/2007/11/16/hottopic/doc473dff135acc1610218940.txt
Google News Alert for: bigfoot
Mystery creature in Baker County not monkey or Bigfoot - likely ...
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
A Bigfoot research commission also called Holmes to ask about the creature. Holmes told the Times-Union Friday afternoon that it's interesting how these ...
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Venable: We enjoy getting the bird
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
When I was writing last Tuesday's column about alleged Bigfoot sightings in Tennessee, I didn't realize there was an oh-fish-yul Web site right here in our ...
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Canadian Tire big box blasted as "ecological bigfoot"
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
David Cadman lambasted the project as an "ecological bigfoot". Brent Toderian, the city's planning director, has recommended approval of Canadian Tire's ...
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A tribute to the teat
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
Officials say it could be an orangutan, but they haven't ruled out Bigfoot. Or it could be that the hunter's target is smarter than the average bear and ...
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The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Garmin and NAVTEQ ...
Schaeffers Research - Cincinnati,OH,USA
Others are seriously investigating whether it was a 'baby Bigfoot'"... If you live in Baker County, please be aware of this - there could a large squirrel ...
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Strange Wilderness Poster
CanMag - Brea,CA,USA
To boost its ratings, the flock pictured below goes on a hunt for Bigfoot. Strange Wilderness opens to theaters on February 1st, 2008.
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Cryptomundo Stories
Doctoral Pupil & Darren Discover Dino
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 16th, 2007
What’s in your basement? This is an amazing find. Hopefully, a company will make a replica of Xenoposeidon proneneukos for Darren Naish to add to his personal sauropod collection someday. Photos.
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Kangaroo Kryptid Too?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 16th, 2007
If the reportedly casual appearance of a reddish orangutan seen in trees in Baker County wasn’t enough excitement in Florida, now there are reports of another kind of crypid.
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Replica Cryptia: Okapis
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 16th, 2007
This prehistoric relative of the giraffe is one of the first “darlings of cryptozoology.” Many photos.
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No Mystery In These Photos
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 15th, 2007
I’ve been getting inquiries about the identification of two objects in some recent photographs. Here are the answers.
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“Bigfooters” Know-It-Alls During Ape Investigations
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 15th, 2007
The unfolding story of the sightings and examination of “orangutan sightings” in Florida has taken a new twist. Apparently at least one self-proclaimed “Bigfoot investigator” from an unidentified “Bigfoot research group” is messing with the local authorities in Florida.
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Sasquatch Anatomy
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 15th, 2007
A new article about Professor Jeff Meldrum’s investigations can be found in the December 2007 issue of Scientific American Magazine.
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Full Schedule of Bigfoot shows starting in January
Monday night-Squatch Detective Radio, hosted by Steve Kulls and Billy Willard, 9:00 EST/8:00 Central, on Blog Talk Radio (The link is to the right)
Tuesday night-Bigfoot Central, hosted by M.K. Davis and Don Monroe, 8:00 EST/7:00 Central (The Link is to the right)
Wednesday night-Let's Talk Bigfoot, hosted by Melissa Hovey and Teresa Hall, 10:00 EST/9:00 Central (The link is to the right)
Wednesday night-Bigfoot Live, hosted by Tom Biscardi, 10:00 EST/9:00 Central (Link is www.gstreaming.com
)Thursday night-The Sasquatch Triangle, hosted by Don Keating, 9:00 EST/8:00 Central (The link is to the right)
Thursday night-The AARF Show, hosted by Robert W.Morgan, 10:00 EST/9:00 Central (The Link is to the right)
Friday night-Bigfoot Chat with Indy and Robin, hosted by Steve "Indy" Pickett and his wife Robin, 10:00 EST/9:00 Central
(The link is to the right)
Editorial: Bigfoot Radio comes full-circle
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Article by Daniel Perez
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, DECEMBER 2007
FINALLY, SOME RESPECT FROM A WELL KNOWN PUBLICATION. A THANK YOU TO DR. JEFF MELDRUM FOR PASSING ALONG THIS INFORMATION. READ ON...
Insights: Bigfoot Anatomy; December 2007; Scientific American Magazine; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
One overcast Sunday morning in 1996, Jeffrey Meldrum and his brother drove to Walla Walla, Wash., to see if they could find Paul Freeman, a man renowned in Bigfoot circles as a source of footprint casts. Meldrum--who has followed Bigfoot lore since he was a boy--had heard that Freeman was a hoaxer, "so I was very dubious," he recalls. The brothers arrived unannounced, Meldrum says, and chatted with Freeman about his collection. Freeman said he had found tracks just that morning, but they were not good, not worth casting. The brothers wanted to see them regardless. "I thought we could use this to study the anatomy of a hoax," Meldrum says. Instead Meldrum's visit to a ridge in the Blue Mountains set him firmly on a quest he has been on since.
Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, is an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in monkeys, apes and hominids. He has studied the evolution of bipedalism and edited From Biped to Strider (Springer, 2004), a well-respected textbook. He brought his anatomical expertise to the site outside Walla Walla. The 14-inch-long prints Freeman showed him were interesting, Meldrum says, because some turned out at a 45-degree angle, suggesting that whatever made them had looked back over its shoulder. Some showed skin whorls, some were flat with distinct anatomical detail, others were of running feet-imprints of the front part of the foot only, of toes gripping the mud. Meldrum made casts and decided it would be hard to hoax the running footprints, "unless you had some device, some cable-loaded flexible toes."
Article by Daniel Perez
Help Sought
Bigfoot Times subscriber, Mr. Gary Mangiacopra, 7 Arlmont Street, Milford, Connecticut 06461 (203) 874-2275 needs your help. Noted Gary in a postal letter (he does not have e-mail) to me, dated October 16, 2007: "I am working on a biography on Ivan T. Sanderson, and I am trying to obtain from private researchers an copies of correspondence hat they may have received from him, regardless of whatever subject it may have been. And, importantly, anyone who had actually met Sanderson when he was alive, as I am trying to get anyone who had met him to write down their experiences with him, even if it was just once in their lives." Mr. Mangiacopra is also looking for anyone who attended any of the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology conferences, as Gary would like to get any audio or audio visual tapes and pictures from those conferences. His contact information is noted above. If you can help, get in touch with him. His latest is Does Champ Exist? Published just recently by Coachwhip Publications in Landisville, Pennsylvania or go to www.coachwhipbooks.com
Residents have reported seeing a ''big orange ball of fur,'' said Karen Parker, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Wildlife officers can't confirm the furball is actually a large primate, though a Baker County animal control officer claimed she saw an orange-colored ape ''much larger than a spider monkey'' sitting in a tree. Some residents speculate it may only be a squirrel. Others think it may be a ``baby Bigfoot.''
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Science Magazine (subscription) - USA
However, it is only in the most arboreal great ape, the orangutan, that hip extension in bipedalism overlaps that seen in humans, at 180° to 215°. ...
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Science Magazine (subscription) - USA
But no known ape--fossil or extant--possesses the postcranial features associated with human-like bipedalism, and to anticipate that any number of years of ...
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Baby Bobobo Makes 2
NBC Sandiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- Zookeepers at the San Diego Zoo's nursery now have a second infant of the world's most critically endangered great ape species to care for. ...
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