profwag said:
Looking at that collection, I see SEVERAL different kinds of feet. Some with toes all the way up, some on the side of the foot, some more human looking, etc. Seeing that, wouldn't a normal person conclude that these would have to come from SEVERAL different species, hence, we're not looking for one type of bigfoot, but many which would make the possibility of it even existing physically impossible that science has never seen one.
I once saw a clip from a documentary on youtube (might've been called "YummyDVD") where Dr. John Bindernagel says that Bigfoot has an extremely flexible foot in order to explain the numerous differences in cast types.
Here are some of my old notes on Paul Freeman:
At some points in the video, Freeman's bigfoot has some similarities to the costume used in the Tenacious D movie. Here are some more costume comparisons and Freeman notes. I've also discussed how a costume could duplicate what's seen in the Freeman film
here.
This post details more costume notes, how much money Freeman made off of Bigfoot (prior to filming that video), and how he admitted to doing other hoaxes (one involving a costume) in the past.
Also, it's been claimed that
Paul Freeman did another film. Also at the BFF, post #61
here is pretty interesting and post #7
here notes that someone saw Freeman and his son in that area on the day the video was shot. Since Freeman claimed to be alone in the video, well...
These links note other Freeman hoaxes and confessions.
This old JREF post has some brief comments on Freeman and dermals.
As I recall, Jimmy Chillcutt determined that the so-called dermals in one of Freeman's tracks were merely human fingerprints, as noted in post #22
here. Similarly, desertyeti once commented on other ways to produce "dermals" (I think one involved mud suction) that were also mentioned on tube's website.
Page 92 of
Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend by David J. Daegling notes that Freeman didn't "discover" his Bigfoot hand cast until after obtaining a copy of Marx's hand cast from Dr. Krantz. Scrolling up and down can provide more information on Freeman (pages 90-93).
Speaking of Marx,
page 286 of
Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle has a man claiming to have seen Marx's wooden fake feet.
Page 283 also has some interesting comments on Roger Patterson and the PGF.
Now that I think about it, wasn't it discovered that Freeman offered Krantz some "evidence" (chewed deer hide and Native American cave etchings) that Krantz never looked at (presumably because he suspected and didn't want to confirm that they were hoaxes). Also, didn't one of the trackways he "discovered" have two prints in a row left by the same foot? I think it was either "left left right" or "right right left."
