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Bigfoot, also known
as Sasquatch, is an alleged apelike animal said
to inhabit remote forests in North America, with
many of the sightings occurring in the Pacific northwest
of the United States and British Columbia, Canada.
Bigfoot is sometimes described as a large, hairy
bipedal hominoid, and many believe that this animal,
or its close relatives, may be found around the
world under different regional names, such as the
Yeti of Tibet and Nepal.
Despite the dubious
photo and the commercial interests of the alleged
discoverers, the Bigfoot claim drew interest from
Australia to Europe and even The New York Times.
Biscardi said the DNA samples
may not have been taken correctly and may have been
contaminated, and that he would proceed with an
autopsy of the alleged Bigfoot remains, currently
in a freezer at an undisclosed location.
Currently, Tom
Biscardi and his Searching for Bigfoot Team, in
conjunction with Bigfoot Global LLC., are preparing
to capture another of these creatures alive.
Watch video footage of today's 'Bigfoot' Press Conference
in which Matt Whitton recounts how he and Rick Dyer
supposedly found the elusive ape-man in a remote
forest in northern Georgia. Tom Biscardi also makes
a brief appearance.
PHOTO BIGFOOT GLOBAL
"I
really want to believe that Bigfoot Body is real."
"Everyone knowns Already, I do believe in
Ghosts." "I think this will turn
out to be a fraud or a hoax."
...
Lisa Lee Harp Waugh, The Great American Necromancer
"The
biggest And Best Bigfoot stories of the Decade"
Whitton, a Clayton
County, Georgia police officer and Dyer, a former
corrections officer, will hold a press conference
Friday August 15th in conjunction with renowned
Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi. The pair will announce
preliminary results of DNA testing on the Bigfoot
body at the press conference. An initial picture
of the Bigfoot body can be seen here. This photograph
has not been authenticated by the Whitton team but
more photographs will be released Friday.
Bigfoot, also known
as Sasquatch, is an alleged apelike animal said
to inhabit remote forests in North America, with
many of the sightings occurring in the Pacific northwest
of the United States and British Columbia, Canada.
Bigfoot is sometimes described as a large, hairy
bipedal hominoid, and many believe that this animal,
or its close relatives, may be found around the
world under different regional names, such as the
Yeti of Tibet and Nepal.
Whitton, a Clayton
County, Georgia police officer and Dyer, a former
corrections officer, will hold a press conference
Friday August 15th in conjunction with renowned
Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi. The pair will announce
preliminary results of DNA testing on the Bigfoot
body at the press conference. An initial picture
of the Bigfoot body can be seen here. This photograph
has not been authenticated by the Whitton team but
more photographs will be released Friday.
The
Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot Encounter
As Patterson and Gimlin were allegedly the only
human witnesses to their brief encounter with a
Sasquatch, theirs are the only testimonies available
in studying the account. Their statements agree
in general, but Long notes a number of inconsistencies.
In an article in Argosy magazine, Ivan T. Sanderson
gave the time of the encounter as 3:30 p.m., which
differed from 1:30 p.m. time in other articles and
in interviews by Patterson and Gimlin. They offered
somewhat different sequences in describing how they
and the horses reacted upon seeing the creature.
Patterson in particular increased his estimates
of the creature’s size in subsequent retellings
of encounter (Long, 162 - 165). In a different context,
Long notes, these discrepancies would probably be
considered minor, but given the extraordinary claims
made by Patterson and Gimlin, any apparent disagreements
in perception or memory are worth noting. (On the
other hand, if it was a hoax, much effort was invested
in it and a great reward was in the offing; it wasn't
a spur-of-the-moment affair. Thus, it could be argued,
with so much at stake and so much time to prepare,
hoaxers would have "gotten their stories straight"
on such basic details.)
In the early afternoon
of October 20, Patterson and Gimlin were at Bluff
Creek. Both were on horseback when they "came
to an overturned tree with a large root system at
a turn in the creek, almost as high as a room"
(Gimlin, quoted in Perez, 9). When they rounded
it they spotted the figure behind it nearly simultaneously,
while it was “crouching beside the creek to
their left” (Krantz, 85). Gimlin later described
himself as in a mild state of shock after first
seeing the figure.
Patterson estimated
he was about 25 feet away from the creature at his
closest. Patterson said that his horse reared upon
seeing (or perhaps smelling) the figure, and he
spent about twenty seconds extricating himself from
the saddle and getting his camera from a saddlebag
before he could run toward the figure while operating
his camera. He yelled "Cover me" to Gimlin,
who thereupon crossed the creek on horseback, rode
forward awhile, and, rifle in hand, dismounted.
(Presumably because his horse might have panicked
if the creature charged, spoiling his shot.)
The figure had walked
away from them to a distance of about 120 feet before
Patterson began to run after it. The resulting film
(about 53 seconds long) is initially quite shaky
until Patterson gets about 80 feet from the figure.
At that point the figure glanced over its right
shoulder at the men and Patterson fell to his knees;
on Krantz's map this corresponds to frame 264 (Perez,
12). To researcher John Green, Patterson would later
characterize the creature’s expression as
one of “contempt and disgust ... you know
how it is when the umpire tells you ‘one more
word and you’re out of the game.’ That’s
the way it felt”.
Now the steady middle
portion of the film begins, containing the famous
frame 352,(see above at the very top for picture
of frame). Patterson said "it turned a total
of I think three times" (Wasson, 69), the first
time therefore being before the filming began. Shortly
after glancing over its shoulder, the creature walks
behind a grove of trees, reappears for awhile after
Patterson moved ten feet to a better vantage point,
then fades into the trees again and is lost to view
as the reel of film ran out. Gimlin remounted and
followed it on horseback, keeping his distance,
until it disappeared around a bend in the road three
hundred yards away. Patterson called him back at
that point, feeling vulnerable on foot without a
rifle, because he feared the creature's mate might
approach.
Next, Gimlin rounded
up Patterson's horses, which had run off before
the filming began, and “the men then tracked
it for three miles, but lost it in the heavy undergrowth”
(Coleman and Clark, 198). They returned to the initial
site, measured the creature’s stride, made
two plaster casts (of the best-quality right and
left prints), and covered the other prints to protect
them. The entire encounter had lasted less than
two minutes.
A few hours after
the encounter, Patterson telephoned Donald Abbott,
whom Krantz decribed as “the only scientist
of any stature to have demonstrated any serious
interest in the (Bigfoot) subject,” hoping
he would help them search for the creature (possibly
with tracking dogs). Abbott declined, and Krantz
argued this call to authorities the same day of
the encounter is evidence against a hoax, at least
on Patterson’s part.
Forestry worker Lyle
Loverty happened upon the site a day later and photographed
the tracks. Taxidermist and outdoorsman Robert Titmus
went to the site with his brother-in-law nine days
later. Titmus made casts of the creature’s
prints and, as best he could, plotted Patterson’s
and the creature’s movements on a map.
Patterson initially
estimated its height at six and one-half to seven
feet (Patterson & Murphy, 195), and later raised
his estimate to about seven and one-half feet. (Some
later analyses, anthropologist Grover Krantz’s
among them, have suggested Patterson’s later
estimate was about a foot too tall.) The film shows
a large, hairy bipedal apelike figure with short
black hair covering most of its body, including
the figure's prominent breasts. The figure's head
is somewhat pointed; some have argued this feature
is a sagittal crest, a type of ridge also found
on gorillas. The figure depicted in the Patterson-Gimlin
film generally matches the descriptions of Bigfoot
offered by others who claim to have seen the creatures.
Frame 352 from
the Patterson-Gimlin film
The Patterson-Gimlin
film is a short motion picture of an unidentified
subject filmed on October 20, 1967 by Roger Patterson
and Robert Gimlin who claimed the film was a genuine
recording of a Bigfoot. It has been hailed by some
as genuine evidence for such a creature but by others
to be a hoax.
The film has been
subjected to many attempts to both debunk and authenticate.
Some experts declared the film a hoax, showing a
man in an ape suit. But some, such as physical anthropologist
Grover Krantz, say the film depicts a genuine unknown
creature. Others, such as ecologist Robert Michael
Pyle, refuse to endorse the film as genuine, but
Pyle also admitted that it "has never been
convincingly debunked." (Pyle, 208)
Critics say that
a stabilized enhancement of the film[1], released
in late 2005, clearly shows the subject in the film
to have human-like rather than ape-like movement,
though it is worth noting that the creator of the
stabilized film argues just the contrary.[citation
needed] Many skeptics also turn to the testimony
of one Bob Heironimus (see below), who recently
claimed to have been the person inside the suit.
Supporters counter that ) neither Heironimus nor
anyone else has ever found the suit that Heironimus
claims to have worn and ) Heironimus is not the
only one to claim to have worn the suit. Supporters
of the film (and even some skeptics like the Skeptical
Inquirer's Michael Dennett) also state that Hieronimus'
story, described in Greg Long's 2004 book The Making
of Bigfoot, relies too heavily upon often-contradictory
anecdotal evidence to provide conclusive proof that
the film was faked.
Patterson died in
1972 of cancer. Gimlin is alive and has recently
begun making appearances at Bigfoot conferences.
Previously he kept out of the public eye and had
little contact with those who believe that Bigfoot
is a real entity. Both men dismissed allegations
that they had faked the film, and Patterson was
firm in his insistence that they had encountered
and filmed an animal unknown to science. Gimlin
too maintains he did not falsify the film, but in
a 1999 telephone interview with television producer
Chris Packham, he said that for some time, “I
was totally convinced no one could fool me. And
of course I’m an older man now ... and I think
there could have been the possibility [of a hoax].
But it would have to be really well planned by Roger
[Patterson].” (Long, 166)
Although most scientists
find current evidence of Bigfoot unpersuasive, a
number of prominent experts have offered sympathetic
opinions on the subject. In a 2002 interview on
National Public Radio, Jane Goodall first publicly
expressed her views on Bigfoot, by remarking, "Well,
I'm a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist.
. . . Of course, the big, the big criticism of all
this is, 'Where is the body?' You know, why isn't
there a body? I can't answer that, and maybe they
don't exist, but I want them to!
North
American Science Institute
The North American Science Institute was founded
in Hood River, Oregon in the late 1990s to study
the Sasquatch phenomenon. As of 2006 the group is
apparently defunct, but in 1998 the organization
undertook a $75,000 study, employing computer analysis,
of the Patterson-Gimlin film. Here are some of the
authenticating details it noted:
Arm length (measured
to the fingertips) as a percent of height: The percent
for the human mean is 44%; the creature's percent
is 49%, which is 5.5 standard deviations from the
human mean and is present in only .00019% of humans.
Finger and hand flexion is observed in the film,
which implies that [any arm-extending] prosthesis
must support flexion.
Leg length (measured to the sole) as a percent of
height: The percent for the human mean is 53%; the
creature's percent is 46%, which is present in only
.1% of humans.
Foot morphology: Figure 13 shows the foot undergoing
flexion, which demonstrates that the foot is not
a solid, inflexible prosthesis. Separate toes are
visible. "Key features of the foot ... resemble
the plaster cast taken by Titmus."
Face morphology: The jaw of the subject is below
the shoulder line, as in a gorilla.
Body morphology: Unlike inexpensive costumes, the
subject has non-uniform hair texture, non-uniform
coloration and non-uniform hair length.
Kinematics: "The knee theta of the film subject
shows a more gradual transfer of weight rather than
a [human-type] separate phase" combined with
the absence of the bobbing head typical of human
locomotion.
Moving muscle groups: Groups of muscle in motion
can be seen, in the arms, back and legs. "Also
seen is a structure similar to a knee cap, the shape
of which changes like a human knee."
It concluded, "If only a single dimension of
similarity was shown in the P-G film it could be
easily dismissed as a forgery [but it] is remarkable
in the simultaneous presence of all of the dimensions
listed above."
Sources
Dmitri Bayanov (1997). America's Bigfoot: Fact,
Not Fiction. Crypto-Logos. ISBN 5-900229-22-X.
Peter Byrne (1975). The Search for Bigfoot: Monster
Man or Myth?. Acropolis Books. ISBN 0-87491-159-1.
Loren Coleman (2003). Bigfoot! The True Story of
Apes in America. Paraview Pocket Books. ISBN 0-7434-6975-5.
Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999). Cryptozoology
A to Z. Fireside Books. ISBN 0-684-85602-6.
David J Daegling (2004). Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist
Examines America’s Enduring Legend. Altamira
Press. ISBN 0-7591-0539-1.
Don Hunter, with Rene Dahinden (1993). Sasquach/Bigfoot:
The Search for North America’s Incredible
Creature. Firefly Books. ISBN 1-895565-28-6.
Grover Krantz (1992). Big Footprints: A Scientific
Inquiry Into the Reality of Sasquatch. Johnson Books.
ISBN (not available).
Greg Long (2004). The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside
Story. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-59102-139-1.
John Napier (1973). Bigfoot: The Sasquatch and Yeti
in Myth and Reality. E.P. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-06658-6.
Roger Patterson & Chris Murphy (1966/2005).
The Bigfoot Film Controversy. Hancock House. ISBN
0-88839-581-7.
Daniel Perez (2003). Bigfoot at Bluff Creek. Bigfoot
Times (his newsletter). ISBN 99948-943-2-3.
Robert Michael Pyle (1995). Where Bigfoot Walks.
Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-44114-5.
Barbara Wasson (1979). Sasquatch Apparitions: A
Critique on the Pacific Northwest Hominoid. self-published.
ISBN 0-9614105-0-7.
Bigfoot is one of
the more famous examples of cryptozoology, a subject
that tends to be dismissed as pseudoscience by mainstream
researchers, because of unreliable eyewitness accounts
and a lack of solid physical evidence. Most theorists
consider the Bigfoot legend to be a combination
of unsubstantiated folklore and hoaxes.
According to most
eyewitness accounts, Bigfoot is a large, powerfully
built bipedal apelike creature between 7 and 9 feet
tall, and covered in dark brown or dark reddish
hair. The head seems to sit directly on the shoulders,
with no apparent neck. Witnesses have described
large eyes, a pronounced brow ridge, and a large,
low-set forehead; the top of the head has been described
as rounded and crested, similar to the sagittal
crest of the male gorilla. It has adapted a nickname
in the Deep South over the recent years -- "Tarkington"
-- sightings are rare but local general stores in
Tennessee and Georgia are able to inform any wayfarers
about the legendary creature.
Almas - Mongolia's
Bigfoot
Barmanou - Afghanistan and Pakistan
Dzonokwa - British Columbia Coast, Canada
Ebu Gogo - Flores Island, Indonesia
Fear liath - Scotland
Fouke Monster - Fouke, Arkansas. Honey
Island Swamp Monster
Hibagon - Japan's Bigfoot
Kapre - Philippines.
Momo the Monster - Missouri.
Nguoi Rung - Vietnam
Orang Pendak - Sumatra, Indonesia.
Orang Mawas - Malaysia
Sasquatch -USA AND CANADA
Skunk Ape - Florida
Windigo - Canadian Shield
Lake Minnewanka Wildman - Western Canada
Woodwose - Medieval Europe
Yeren - the Mainland China
Yeti - Tibet's Bigfoot
Yowie - Australia's Bigfoot
Bunyip - Australia
B.C.
man posts YouTube video of what could be sasquatch
sighting
VANCOUVER (CP) -
Was it a bear? Or was it a sasquatch, the legendary
primate long rumoured to inhabit Vancouver Island?
A B.C. man is reporting
he may have spotted the mythical ape-like creature
in the Enchanted Forest near Tofino, on the west
coast of Vancouver Island.
"My brother
and I had a strange encounter with a large, dark
humanoid in the forests of Tofino," the unidentified
man says in the introduction to a video posted recently
on www.youtube.com.
'Strange Humanoid
Encounter' has been viewed more than 15,000 times.
The pair - who say
they live five hours from Tofino - were on a walk
in the forest, using a camera to shoot wildlife.
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