[pct-l] Bigfoot

[yetifan at yahoo.com (Scott Herriott)]

Believe friends, believe.  


btw...I'm the guy who shot and is currently editing a
documentary on the PCT this year.  My last project was
about the Bigfoot phenomenon...a hopefully
humorous/insightful view of it.  If interested, it's
available in DVD and VHS format at www.squatching.com 
(Paypal links abound!)

Also, in the upcoming PCT doc., Monsieur Dodge has
some very interesting things to say about something
possibly very Squatchy that happened to him in 1977 on
the PCT.  My opinion?
Monte strikes me as a very down-to-earth and honest
chap and his story is quite compelling.  And don't
forget, Jane Goodall has gone on the record saying she
thinks these things exist.

Anyway..keep watching the treeline.  :)


--- Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
> Halloween is coming up and apparently Monte has been
> out in his costume 
> already, again.
> 
> >From National Geographic News;
> 
> "Given the scientific evidence that I have examined,
> I'm convinced there's a 
> creature out there that is yet to be identified,"
> said Jeff Meldrum, a 
> professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State
> University in Pocatello. 
> 
> Thousands of Sightings 
> 
> Sasquatch stories go back centuries. Tales of
> mythical giant apes lurk in the 
> oral traditions of most Native American tribes, as
> well as in Europe and 
> Asia. The Himalaya has its Abominable Snowman, or
> the Yeti. In Australia, Bigfoot 
> is known as the Yowie Man. 
> 
> Bigfoot advocates hypothesize that the primate is
> the offspring of an ape 
> from Asia that wandered to North America during the
> Ice Age. They believe there 
> are at least 2,000 ape men walking upright in North
> America's woods today. 
> 
> An adult male is said to be at least 8 feet (2.4
> meters) tall, weigh 800 
> pounds (360 kilograms), and have feet twice the size
> of a human's. The creatures 
> are described as shy and nocturnal, and their diets
> consist mostly of berries 
> and fruits. 
> 
> Matt Moneymaker had been searching for Bigfoot for
> years. In the woods of 
> eastern Ohio, he claims he finally came eye to eye
> with the elusive primate. 
> 
> "It was 2 o'clock in the morning and the moon was a
> quarter full," recalled 
> Moneymaker. "Suddenly, there he was, an
> eight-foot-tall creature, standing 15 
> feet away, growling at me. He wanted to let me know
> I was in the wrong place." 
> 
> Moneymaker, who lives in Dana Point in southern
> California, is a lawyer who 
> runs his own marketing agency. In his spare time, he
> leads the Bigfoot Field 
> Researchers Organization, a network of more than
> 3,000 people who claim to have 
> seen the Sasquatch. 
> 
> Unfortunately, no one has been able to snap a clear
> picture of the beast. 
> 
> Perhaps the most compelling photographic evidence of
> Bigfoot is a 
> controversial short film shot by Roger Patterson in
> 1967, which appears to document a 
> female Bigfoot striding along a riverbank in
> northern California. 
> 
> "It certainly wasn't human" 
> 
> Now, Bigfoot advocates are increasingly turning to
> forensic evidence to prove 
> the existence of the giant creature. 
> 
> Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police
> Department in Texas, who 
> specializes in finger- and footprints, has analyzed
> the more than 150 casts of 
> Bigfoot prints that Meldrum, the Idaho State
> professor, keeps in a laboratory. 
> 
> Chilcutt says one footprint found in 1987 in Walla
> Walla in Washington State 
> has convinced him that Bigfoot is real. 
> 
> "The ridge flow pattern and the texture was
> completely different from 
> anything I've ever seen," he said. "It certainly
> wasn't human, and of no known 
> primate that I've examined. The print ridges flowed
> lengthwise along the foot, 
> unlike human prints, which flow across. The texture
> of the ridges was about twice 
> the thickness of a human, which indicated that this
> animal has a real thick 
> skin." 
> 
> Meldrum, meanwhile, says a 400-pound (180-kilogram)
> block of plaster known as 
> the Skookum Cast provides further evidence of
> Bigfoot's existence. The cast 
> was made in September 2000 from an impression of a
> large animal that had 
> apparently lain down on its side to retrieve some
> fruit next to a mud hole in the 
> Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State.
> 
> 
> Meldrum says the cast contains recognizable
> impressions of a forearm, a 
> thigh, buttocks, an Achilles tendon and heel. "It's
> 40 to 50 percent bigger than a 
> normal human," he said. "The anatomy doesn't jive
> with any known animal." 
> 
> A few academics believe Meldrum could be right. 
> 
> Renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall last
> year surprised an 
> interviewer from National Public Radio when she said
> she was sure that large, 
> undiscovered primates, such as the Yeti or
> Sasquatch, exist. 
> 
> The Skeptics 
> 
> But the vast majority of scientists still believe
> Bigfoot is little more than 
> supermarket tabloid fodder. They wonder why no
> Bigfoot has ever been 
> captured, dead or alive. 
> 
> "The bottom line is, they don't have a body," said
> Michael Dennett, who 
> writes for Skeptical Inquirer magazine and who has
> followed the Bigfoot debate for 
> 20 years. 
> 
> Bigfoot buffs note that it's rare to find a carcass
> of a grizzly bear in the 
> wild. While that's true, grizzlies have not escaped
> photographic 
> documentation. 
> 
> Hair samples that have been recovered from alleged
> Bigfoot encounters have 
> turned out to come from elk, bears or cows. 
> 
> Many of the sightings and footprints, meanwhile,
> have proved to be hoaxes. 
> 
> After Bigfoot tracker Ray Wallace died in a
> California nursing home last 
> year, his children finally announced that their
> prank-loving dad had created the 
> modern myth of Bigfoot when he used a pair of carved
> wooden feet to create a 
> track of giant footprints in a northern California
> logging camp in 1958. 
> 
> Dennett says he's not surprised by the flood of
> Bigfoot sightings. 
> 
> "It's the same kind of eyewitness reports we see for
> the Loch Ness Sea 
> Monster, UFOs, ghosts, you name it," he said. "The
> monster thing is a universal 
> product of the human mind. We hear such stories from
> around the world." 
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