R. Scott Nelson, Crypto-Linguist, was supposed to give a presentation at Beachfoot about his findings regarding the Sierra Sounds. Unfortunately, he couldn’t make it and I was sorely disappointed.
While some have disregarded them as a hoax, I have long been a proponent of the Sierra Sounds. Not only do they appear to me to be an audio representation of what witnesses have been describing for years (mumbling, grumbling, guttural growling, and a cross between Native American and Asian language), but it makes sense to me that we would have fewer examples of these types of close-range vocalizations. Fewer folks along a shorter path of sound potentially holding recorders = fewer recordings.
What’s fascinating to me is that someone, once again, has finally taken notice of the Sierra Sounds and is investigating them.
I recently contacted Ron Morehead and he had this to say:
After a year-long study Scott and his team discovered a complex form of language within our recordings. Scott has yet to decipher exactly what these creatures were saying, only a few words, but the work he’s done is invaluable to bigfoot research. After Scott’s presentation in Yakima Dr. Bindernagel said, “This raises the bar for bigfoot research.”
So who is Scott Nelson?
R. Scott Nelson
Curriculum Vitae
Retired from the U.S. Navy as a Crypto-Linguist with over 30 years experience in Foreign Language and Linguistics, including the collection, transcription, analysis and reporting of voice communications.
He is a two time graduate of the U.S. Navy Cryptologic Voice Transcription School (Russian and Spanish) and has logged thousands of hours of voice transcription in his target languages as well as in Persian. He is currently teaching Russian, Spanish, Persian, Philosophy and Comparative Religions at Wentworth College in Missouri.
“We have verified that these creatures use language, by the human definition of it. The months of hard work that we have put into the study of the Berry/Morehead tapes is finally coming to fruition. The analysis is finished, although I am still working on parts of the final write-up such as frequency count tables, morpheme lists, etc.”
“I believe that the study of these tapes will never (and should never) end. With the recognition and acceptance that these creatures do indeed speak and understand a complex language, a greater effort will be made to collect voice recordings and our analysis of the language will improve. Now that we have a precedent and techniques established for this study, this process will certainly become easier.”
Scott Nelson, Crypto-Linguist
