If he thought that, why didn't he return to the site with more resources and actually look for the creature ?Roger (it appears) was looking for a windfall, he thought finding & photographing a BF “in those days” would mean fortune and fame. There is no money in a hoax, although I guess plenty has been made off the MDF & the asscast….
...which they left behind at the camp when they finally actually found something. D'OH!>>> I want to know what was in those wooden boxes.
I believe we all share that sentiment but in the absence of factual information, its logical to accept ( if you believe their "storyline" that they were on a mission to search for tracks) that those boxes contained digging tools, plaster,water,mixing containers and such.
...which they left behind at the campwhen they finally actually found something. when they finished planting the fake footprints so there would be something to find later. D'OH!
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I don’t know the reason, but here is something interesting that might be applicable. Recently (Oct 2008) M.K. Davis sat down in Al Hodgson’s living room and recorded an interview with him and his wife. According to that interview, Patterson cast juvenile tracks off the sandbar at Bluff Creek. We know nothing about the tracks of a little one cast that day in Bluff Crk. In another 2008 interview with Patricia Patterson in her home, the following photograph was giving to M.K. Davis…it shows the juvenile casts. http://www.bigfootencounters.com/images/JREFimage.htm (Pictures #5 & #6 on that page, scroll down) It shows her husband posing with the Laird Meadow track; another pair that I assume is the same as the Laverty track and unknown multiple Bluff Creek tracks, some of them different from Patty’s imprints. The juvenile tracks can be seen on the ground next to Patterson. In reviewing that photograph of Roger with his California tracks, what other explanation can you have than there existed other individuals on that sandbar in Oct of 1967?? Was Patty trying to lead Patterson’s party away from others? A juvenile? I simply do not know, I cannot account for all the tracks cast on the sandbar that day, the Laird Meadow Rd tracks notwithstanding… It was cast on a different date.
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Why do people automatically assume that just because someone says something that it is true? (especially someone who has a vested interest in stirring up interest)
Other than Hodgson saying the "juvenile cast" was made at Bluff Creek that day - what actual corroborating evidence do we have?
When/where was that photo taken of Patterson and the tracks?
Patterson said nothing about juvenile tracks. Gimlin said nothing. Patterson's wife said nothing.
Now, 40 years later, somebody says something and we must believe it?
As far as the photo - the small cast shown in the photo means nothing. Patterson could have made that at anytime - anywhere.
This whole thing with MKDufusDavis sounds like another attention grabbing scheme by a person who has demonstrated a vivid imagination or severe psychological problems.
Massacre at Bluff Creek - give me break!
But understandable if he had, since he did actually find it, and others were subsequently able to retrieve pieces of it ..After all, Robert ballard was an explorer and he didnt stop with the Titanic.
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This whole thing with MKDufusDavis sounds like another attention grabbing scheme by a person who has demonstrated a vivid imagination or severe psychological problems.
Massacre at Bluff Creek - give me break!
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You know Rockinkt, you criticize a man for his opinions and hide behind an avatar name. It’s easy to attack man ad hominem (& hide behind an avatar) than it is to look at his work and decide for yourself what the images show.
Anyman is entitled to his opinion, at least Davis is participating in research; I don’t know what qualifies you.
“Massacre at Bluff Creek”……so what?
Is that pronouncement any worse than the MDF nonsense, the asscast overkill and that ridiculous midtarsal break pronouncement. Come on….
I applaud you and find it interesting that you feel free to make such a pronouncement in a skeptical venue.Is that pronouncement any worse than the MDF nonsense, the asscast overkill and that ridiculous midtarsal break pronouncement. Come on….
Why do people automatically assume that just because someone says something that it is true? (especially someone who has a vested interest in stirring up interest)
Other than Hodgson saying the "juvenile cast" was made at Bluff Creek that day - what actual corroborating evidence do we have?
When/where was that photo taken of Patterson and the tracks?
Patterson said nothing about juvenile tracks. Gimlin said nothing. Patterson's wife said nothing.
Now, 40 years later, somebody says something and we must believe it?
As far as the photo - the small cast shown in the photo means nothing. Patterson could have made that at anytime - anywhere.
This whole thing with MKDufusDavis sounds like another attention grabbing scheme by a person who has demonstrated a vivid imagination or severe psychological problems.
Massacre at Bluff Creek - give me break!

Actually, my dog is named dufus. I'm thinking about trading names with him though, he's not nearly as foolish as I am. M.K.