kitakaze
Resident DJ/NSA Supermole
Hibernates. You'd think an animal often described with long shaggy hair would leave more of it about.Does sasquatch grow a winter coat and shed it in the summer?
Hibernates. You'd think an animal often described with long shaggy hair would leave more of it about.Does sasquatch grow a winter coat and shed it in the summer?
Hilarious Matt Moneymaker - Fox News interview.
MM: "We have really good stuff and that's what we're shooting for."
FN: "And so when are planning to unveil this really good stuff?"
MM: "We don't HAVE REALLY GOOD STUFF, YET. I said that we have stuff, it's NOT REALLY GOOD."
Moneymaker finds it hard to drop out of bull$#!% mode.
After several years of examining casts of purported Bigfoot footprints, buttprints, handprints, and knuckleprints, it dawned on me that the whole reason any of these are considered legitimate is that somone gave them a "thumbs-up" as being real prints. John Green (a journalist), Grover Krantz (a physical anthropologist), Jeff Meldrum (another physical anthropologist), and Jimmy Chillcut (a fingerprint specialist) are the most-quoted, and most revered figures in Bigfoot lore, yet none of them is actually a specialist in animal tracks and sign.
Hmmmmmmm says I. There are any number of animal tracking certification programs in existence, and the Shikari Tracking League is among the best. To be certified, a tracker is evaluated by a panel of expert trackers on basic field tracking abilities, identification, etc. These specialists can judge weight, age, and even gender of the animal being tracked in some cases. But what does it take to be a Bigfoot "expert?"
My long-winded monologue is gearing up for this proposal: What say someone (I'm happy to be involved if anyone's interested in actually doing this) devise a simple set of exercises using casts, photos, and/or footprint sites of real human tracks, and fake ones (made using say, a manikin's feet, or other prosthetics)? The object will be to see if any of the self-proclaimed BF "experts" can, as they claim, differentiate between prints made by real feet, and prints made by forgeries. If, as they claim, these master trackers can actually pick out real from false prints, hoorah! If not...well...
Any of the BF-supporters here want to try it and see if this is worthwhile? If not, perhaps we can design the test and start to formally request that the "experts" show us how easy it is to tell real from fake prints. Any thoughts on this?
This is simply pointless. Why not just use fake bigfoot feet and see if they proclaim them real??? That should be easy enough, Ay?
Why not just use fake bigfoot feet and see if they proclaim them real???
I kept the binoculers as still as I could, and saw what looked like a very old man with a grey jacket and pointy grey hat, sitting still, and then he got up and walked to his left, and I knew right away it was a sasquatch, he was tall very tall 10 to 12 feet and could see his hair, and his *tallywhacker*, so knew this was a male,

On the Big Timber payroll, oh yeah.Letter: There’s no bigfoot in the U.P.
EDITOR:
I am a native of Wells and graduated from Escanaba Area High School in 1971. I went on to get a forestry degree from Michigan Technological University in 1976 and worked for the U. S. Forest Service, Mead Corp. and Champion International, plus I was the county forester for Alger county in 1987.
Regarding the story about finding bigfoot in the U.P., I have timber cruised everywhere in the U. P. and know it like the back of my hand. I did this for 10 years and not once did I ever see, hear or find any tracks of bigfoot.
Since I was in swamps many times that people have not visited in more than 100 years, if there was a bigfoot, that would be where they would be. I was in many muddy areas in swamps and in lowlands and not once did I see a track of bigfoot.
I also cruised timber around the Marquette area in rainy and sunny weather and found no sign of bigfoot tracks there either, or sightings. I also cruised timber in highland areas everywhere in the U.P and no sign of bigfoot there either.
I have only heard one person in 10 years tell me they saw something that walked upright across a road at night. Other than that, in my 10 years of being in the woods everywhere in the U.P. I saw no sign of bigfoot at all, not even in the Porcupine Mountains.
I feel Matthew Moneymakers’ search for bigfoot in the U.P. is a folly. The real people to ask about bigfoot are the lumberjacks and the foresters, as they are in the woods a lot and know the difference between a bear and bigfoot or any other animal.
If there were bigfoot in the U.P., I would have found a track or some sort of evidence during that time as I have walked many miles of muddy and dry logging roads of all sorts, new and old ones, or would have heard from other foresters of a bigfoot sighting or track.
Paul Bader, Green Bay
Bigfoot is seen only by Bigfoot believers.
No, no, no! They become believers after they have seen it.