Bigfoot - The Patterson-Gimlin Film

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Personally, I think they deliberately walk backwards to nowhere to throw us off.

I wish I still had the book my mother gave me as a Christmas present in the early 1970's, as I can't recall the title or the author's name. But it was about the Yeti, and I think the author was a woman. I don't recall much from the book, but I remember the claim was made that the Yeti might have its FEET SET ON BACKWARDS, evidently as to aid in climbing, and to FLUMMOX THOSE TRYING TO TRACK IT...

Not a good adaptation for running downhill though...

Who would win a race between a goofy-footed Yeti and a hoop snake?

 

[kitakaze]

Who would win a race between a goofy-footed Yeti and a hoop snake?

Cripplefoot! No, wait. Litte, freaky, white side-stepping Kansas 3ft midget ewok/yeti thing!

 

[LTC8K6]

Yeah, it's a common claim that the yeti has backwards feet.

In India I think there is a superstition about meeting a stranger. You should check his feet to see if they are backwards because that means he's a ghost or something.

 

[kitakaze]

Grrrr. ..

Scam crew Wn'W dress up geeks BFRO get desperate and try to jack some credibility using Survivorman Les Stroud.

Total losers. Grrrr. Vitriol. Flames. I give you my chili powder of scorn.

See pathetic footer flailing yourself:

http://www.bfro.net

 

[Geno]

Also I'd add here that replicating Bob H...errrrrr....Patty exactly would be the only thing that would close your fat yapper....and by exactly I mean...film stock,film speed...distance...angle....the exact walk...arms swinging at the exact same moments....head turn at the exact same moment...etc etc.

Deny that if you choose but in so doing you're only lying to yourself.

It would not convince the die hard Patty supporter but it will convince alot of bigfooters that it is time to declare it a hoax and move on to getting better evidence. Maybe I will have to repost the comparison pics but there are alot of similarities between BobH in the Morris suit and Patty.

 

[Mad Hom]

It would not convince the die hard Patty supporter but it will convince alot of bigfooters that it is time to declare it a hoax and move on to getting better evidence.%

 

[Correa Neto]

Yeah, it's a common claim that the yeti has backwards feet.

In India I think there is a superstition about meeting a stranger. You should check his feet to see if they are backwards because that means he's a ghost or something.

He, following cryptozzologists' reasonings, there must be a number of unknown species of hominids whose feet point backwards living in Asia and South America...
Check the caipora/curupira from Brazil. In Portuguese, but all you need is to look at the drawings.

http://ifolclore.vilabol.uol.com.br/lendas/gerais/g_curupira.htm
http://escoladarcyribeiro.blogspot.com/2007/09/o-curupira.html
http://www.vivabrazil.com/caipora.htm

Guess I'll start a new carreer as cryptozoologist...

 

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So THAT'S why we can't catch 'em!

Wait a minute, all we need to do to catch the buggers is BACKTRACK them! I'm quiting my job and going hunting!! If you don't hear from me for a few days, I'll be in Ape Canyon, living off MRE's and drinking out of Nalgene bottles...

 

[bruto]

Well, if squatches have backward feet, then the PGF is a hoax - end of discussion, I guess. Even Sweaty can't pareidolize a set of backwards feet into Patty's slippers!

 

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An interesting side note, Bigfoot advocate Bobbie Short has uploaded Daniel Perez' original "Skookum Hokum" story and resulting letters to the editor on her website.

What makes this interesting is that it's filed under "Hoaxes, Rumors, and Exposures"!

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/skookum_hokum.htm

For the attentive copy editors in the audience, please note that Short misspelled "ichnology" not Perez or me.

 

[bobbieshort]

An interesting side note, Bigfoot advocate Bobbie Short has uploaded Daniel Perez' original "Skookum Hokum" story and resulting letters to the editor on her website.

What makes this interesting is that it's filed under "Hoaxes, Rumors, and Exposures"!

For the attentive copy editors in the audience, please note that Short misspelled "ichnology" not Perez or me.
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.......actually TUBE it was originally uploaded under "newspaper & magazine articles." - it's still there...

At some point later, I placed a notation (in addition) under "Hoaxes, Rumors and Exposures" because that's where it belongs..... it should have been put there in the first place.....rather than jerk more stuff around Dreamweaver, I just added the link under "Exposures"....so it is uploaded on two pages.

As far as the misspelled ichnology, it's corrected now and you could have more easily just dropped me a note....I'm accessible and easy to get along with.....
Bobbie Short

 

[William Parcher]

Welcome to JREF, Bobbie. I like your site and it's used frequently here for references.

You put the Skookum Cast in HRE because it has been exposed to be a misidentification, yes?

 

[bobbieshort]

In my view, yes. -- 16 elk hairs found to 1 "presumptive sasquatch hair," which could have been a human hair - always left room to think the evidence leaned heavily on the elk side.....especially since there was no sasquatch tracks in and out of the elk wallow.

Bobbie

 

[William Parcher]

The theory of the SC is really bizarre. It's suggested that this Bigfoot consciously chose to not leave its footprints and instead lies down and reaches across for the bait (but leaves a body impression anyway). If this animal is so intelligent and strategically excludes its own sign... then why not just grab a big stick and putt the apples out of the mud leaving no real signs of your presence at all?

It's as if the architects of the theory already accounted for the underlying gullibility of many Bigfooters and predicted it would appeal to them.

 

[bobbieshort]

......I like the way you think!

 

[tube]

Welcome to JREF, Bobbie. I like your site and it's used frequently here for references.

I second that. It's probably the best reference of its kind on the Internet.

Last winter, Perez e-mailed me asking who I thought should be "Bigfooter of the year" for 2006. I answered Jeff Meldrum, as I suggested that his book would be the reference standard for Bigfootery for the next 20 or 30 years. As something of a lark, I also suggested Dr. Wroblewski, as I thought Perez might not read Bigfoot forums and thereby not be familiar with the Skookum elk cast analysis. I had no idea that Perez would go forward the way he did, but good for him.

Bobbie, I think you and Perez are to be commended for your courage in pointing out the obvious, and by doing so going against the grain of popular, "expert" opinion.

 

[LTC8K6]

Welcome Bobbie. Love your site and use it a lot.

WP, why not just walk up and get the apples and then remove your tracks?

I think it might have been a young sasquatch riding it's pet elk.

 

[William Parcher]

Or skip the apples entirely. It's not worth showing the humans that I live here for a few apples. If they find out I live here, they will shoot me like they have done with so many of my bretheren.

I want to hear the ideas on how a very tall bipedal primate finds apples on the ground in the dark.

 

[LTC8K6]

Frozen apples...

Thursday 21 Sep 2000
Conditions: Cloudy, intermittent showers & rain, night clearing, no wind, 28 degrees, frost on everything, first new seasonal snows appeared on Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams.

Friday 22 Sep 2000
Conditions: Weather clear, windy, night clear, windy, freezing (24F), frost heave on dirt tracking areas.

 

[bobbieshort]

Or skip the apples entirely. It's not worth showing the humans that I live here for a few apples. If they find out I live here, they will shoot me like they have done with so many of my bretheren.

I want to hear the ideas on how a very tall bipedal primate finds apples on the ground in the dark.

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That's a very interesting question.

...there is another case where a medical psychiatrist who lived at one time in Alpine, California claims a family a sasquatches routinely raided his fruit trees at night. They seemed unphased when the good doctor came home after dark, his headlights illuminating the tall figures picking from his trees. He called them "zoobies." He lived not far from where I live now and I've never found any evidence of them around here….the zoobie story is probably thirty years old by now….

There are many local stories here by avocado growers and homeowners who have seasonal peach, nectarine and apricot trees. I overheard one family member complain that the June ripe peach tree had been completely stripped of all it's fruit and she blamed Mexican migrant workers....however I asked her how tall the illegals were? She replied not more than 5'6"....her peach tree was stripped at a height of 12 to 14 feet...how would illegals pull that off? As well, how would they carry off a tree load of peaches, some of which were still green?

There is another account of an apple grower who saw a pair helping themselves during the night to his prize heirloom apples; he got rid of them temporarily by tossing firecrackers at them only to have them come back the following night.

.....so I guess those hairy characters know a good thing and they know when it's in season and where to find it...yes in the dark. Slick opportunists.....

That isn't to say I think one scouted out a lone apple planted by the side of the road in an elk wallow......<g>

Thank you all for the warm welcome…
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