Category Archives: Sasquatch

Manufactured evidence…

September 8, 2009

Is our treatment of witnesses in the research community creating an atmosphere ripe for hoaxing?

At Beachfoot, my good friend Tom Steenburg was giving a presentation that included a portion regarding a certain witness that he felt was a hoaxer. He began telling us how he felt this particular person was manufacturing evidence in order to remain in the witness limelight. He brought our attention to a photograph… one that he thought felt smelled a little fishy. He also claimed that this witness was seen throwing rocks during a research outing and blaming it on Sasquatch.

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Himalayan Bigfoot to undergo DNA testing… and other news

September 6, 2009

by Michael Cohen
http://www.allnewsweb.com/page8948949.php

Making big news in China this week is a story about Himalaya’s legendary Yeti or Bigfoot.

For centuries rumours of a half-man, half-ape that roams the upper Himalayas have circulated. The creature said to stand 3 metres tall has been allegedly seen by many locals as well as hikers visiting the area. In Chinese Yeti is often referred to as ‘Xueguai’.

A number of locals living near the Nepalese border claim not only to have seen the creature, but to have collected strands of its hair. Now, it has been reported that a team of scientists have collected these strands and have already confirmed that they do not belong to any local known animals.

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The most thorough field report I’ve ever seen… and a word about asshats.

September 6, 2009

Holy Cow! :D OB member Nancy just sent in her field report from her and Bill’s latest outing to the Shasta/Trinity area and boy, was it a doozy. Uploaded today are 16 pages worth of detailed field notes, 45 sound files and over 130 photographs of tracks and other evidence. This is, by far, the most detailed research report I’ve ever seen. Kudos, Nancy, to you for your dedication and incredible thoroughness! You are an amazing woman and a credit to our field!

Also posted in Bigfoot, bigfoot news, Bigfoot Photos, bigfoot reports, bigfoot research, general updates from Autumn, Musings – 13 Comments

News article: New book tells tall tale, but not necessarily a false one

August 13, 2009

Written by Chad Snyder, Pilot staff writer
The Curry Pilot
August 12, 2009 10:57 am

On Sept. 22, 2005, Brookings resident Travis Cover was driving on a remote section of US Highway 199 when he saw something that he said scared the tar out of him: a hulking 9-foot tall creature standing by the side of the road, shielding its eyes from the glare of headlights.

Cover knew exactly what is was. Based on another chance meeting with a mysterious creature when he was 12 years old, Cover was convinced it was the elusive, foul-smelling humanoid mammal called Bigfoot.

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Report Analysis #1: “Mother and child”

August 12, 2009

Most of us are pretty comfortable with the idea THAT bigfoot IS. That it exists. But WHAT is it?

That has been the main focus of my research for the last 20 years. I’ve come to some tentative conclusions about the nature of Sasquatch – but my conclusions are always tentative because the plain and simple truth is that we don’t know, and can’t possibly know, yet.  That said, sharing those conclusions with you without context and example would equate to asking you to simply “trust me”, based on 20 years of research, and I don’t feel that’s fair.

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Fascinating eyewitness interview – video

July 26, 2009
Ron and Becky Shaffer share their Bigfoot experiences on the Colville Indian Reservation as well as introduce the “old lady on the summit”.

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Bigfoot Trap in Southern Oregon – Video

July 26, 2009

This is a really nicely done video on the Southern Oregon Bigfoot trap.

Description posted by Youtuber Scott Walt:

Southern Oregon is home to what is most likely the only official Bigfoot trap in the world. The ten by ten structure was built back in the early 70s by special permit. A wildlife research team out of Eugene, Oregon was inspired to build the structure by sightings from far back as the late 18-hundreds to up to the time they constructed the trap.

It wasn’t an easy task. In 1974, Applegate dam that now impounds Applegate lake didnt even exist and the hike up to the construction site was a long and hard one from the valley below.

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Bigfoot Mural in Willow Creek

July 26, 2009

I like it! It’s nice to see Sasquatch depicted as a gentle creature for a change, instead of something with blood dripping from its fangs. :)

mural

Duane Flatmo’s Willow Creek mural depicts kinder, gentler Bigfoot
Thadeus Greenson/The Times-Standard
Posted: 07/26/2009 01:37:14 AM PDT

Apparently, local artist Duane Flatmo was running out of walls.

Having already painted oversized murals on the likes of the Eureka Co-op and the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, as well as a host of other local buildings, Flatmo recently expanded his reach, completing a massive piece overlooking State Route 299 from the wall of the new Shafer’s Ace Hardware in Willow Creek.

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Recording Bigfoot Sounds

July 25, 2009

SOME THOUGHTS ON CALL BLASTING, PROS AND CONS, TECHNIQUES, AND THE LATEST EQUIPMENT

For years now, researchers have been using a technique known as “call blasting” in order to attempt to elicit a vocal response from sasquatches. But is it recommended… or effective?

As far as I’m concerned, the jury’s still out on call blasting, and there many things to consider before you go tromping out into the woods with a ghetto blaster and your favorite tape of bigfoot screams. :)

THE EQUIPMENT

Since the whole idea behind call blasting is to get a response and, hopefully, record it. With that in mind, you’ll need some equipment.

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Local encounters – new research area

July 24, 2009

I’m living in Douglas County now, in a small cabin in the Umpqua river valley. We’re surrounded by mountains.

I grew up here and have spent countless hours roaming the woods on this side of the river. There are very few Bigfoot reports from over here, which is strange, because you can’t throw a stick without hitting viable habitat for a Sasquatch. I always just figured that, for one reason or another, the creatures simply didn’t find this area much to their liking.

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Dead bigfoot…er in a museum?

July 19, 2009

I don’t know how I missed this.

Kudos to Grover for remaining true to his scientific calling  all the way to the end… and beyond.

Reassembling Dr Krantz
(Article and audio story from the BBC)

Dr, Grover Krantz and his dog, Clyde, on display

Dr, Grover Krantz and his dog, Clyde, on display

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Real Bigfoot Pictures

July 19, 2009

If you go to Yahoo.com and search for “real bigfoot pictures”, you end up with links to Youtube. Sadly. Your first choice appears to be a link to a video that, if you can stand the thrash metal, will take you through photos including the Patterson Gimlin film, a few sad fakes and hoaxes and a photo of Michael Jackson. Last time I checked, his feet were relatively small (he was not a large man).

The next one on the list is a link to a video that includes the Dead Bigfoot in the Freezer hoax from those brainiacs down in Georgia. Great. Chalk one more up to credible evidence and satisfactory search results.

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National Geographic – Lousy Reporting

July 19, 2009

I stumbled across this article again this morning. You know those little lines people get in between their eyebrows when something irritates them? Yep. I’ve got ‘em.

What ever happened to National Geographic being a credible source of information? Let’s examine a 1993 article about our hairy friends that National Geographic felt fit to publish.

Forensic Expert Says Bigfoot Is Real
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News

October 23, 2003

It’s been the subject of campfire stories for decades. A camera-elusive, grooming-challenged, bipedal ape-man that roams the mountain regions of North America. Some call it Sasquatch. Others know it as Bigfoot.

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