Just another Utube hoax?

The "Real Deal", or just another hoax?

This one looks very real to me...

Feral Boy seen by more than Two Dozen People in the Company of a Sasquatch

This story from Vancouver dates from 2000, eleven years after a small plane crashed in the wilderness there and all passengers were killed, but "Madeleine's baby Marcel was missing and the remains of the 1 year old infant were never found."

The blond haired wild boy appears to be about 12 years old.

Read the story here...

Hairs found in Indian jungle are of 'no known species' say scientists

Bigfoot: New evidence

Hairs found in Indian jungle are of 'no known species' say scientists

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 27 July 2008

It is right up there with the Loch Ness monster: the subject of claimed sightings, passionately promoted by believers, dismissed by the scientific community. But now experts say they have found the best evidence to date that the yeti might – just conceivably – be real.

Tests at Oxford Brookes University on hairs which local people believe came from a yeti in an Indian jungle have failed to link them with any known species and are said to bear "a startling resemblance" to those brought back from the Himalayas by Sir Edmund Hillary half a century ago.

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RUSSIA 2008: Search for the Wildman

In June of 2008 a British team went on a three week expedition into the mountains near Karbadino Balkaria in southern Russia, in search of the fabled almasty or wildman.

Read entries from their blog. As of this posting, the last entry was July 12th, 2008. They did not see or hear any almasty, but collected lots of evidence in the form of bones and hair and dung, which is now being analyzed.

The problem with these expeditions, in my opinion, is that they are never in one location for more than one week.

The Expedition Blog

July 5, 2008, Gunder Woods

What do you think?

The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land

From The Times

July 25, 2008

He ventured forth to bring light to the world

The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers

Gerald Baker

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

For the rest...

New York Times - Gerald Baker on Obama

Larry King Live!

Larry King has been doing a series of shows on UFOs recently. He is interested in this subject, and he gets good ratings when he does these interviews. The Larry King Live show has a huge viewing audience, so...

I have emailed Larry's people about doing a show on Sasquatch Researchers. I mentioned Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Dr. John Bindernagle, and a couple of field researchers as possible guests, and emphasized the idea that this is of interest to the US public and would get him good ratings.

If you are interested in contacting Larry King about this, please go to CNN.com, Larry King Live, and click on the contact link towards the bottom left of the page, "send your questions and comments..."

Deleted Scene from Bruce Almighty

Recent Bigfoot Sighting at Flat island Preserve, Lake County, Florida

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=19958

On 7/15/2007, I conducted extensive telephone interviews separately, with both witnesses. The first was a young adult male. He stated that their interest was first drawn by a sound of wood knocking against wood, in an area where such a sound was unusual; that being in an uninhabited preserve. He stated that when they went to investigate the sound, they saw an animal that may have been upright, and was of approximately 300 to 400 lbs. He stated that the animal was moving straight away from him, at a distance that he estimated at less than 100 yards. He stated that the figure appeared to be furry, but he was not sure of that fact.

The second witness was much more expressive and offered considerably more detail. Her recollection was that they were sitting in the wilderness area, and heard the sound of cracking bushes and branches, and the sound of loud walking. She had the distinct sensation of being stared at, and asked the other witness to stop staring at her, whereupon he responded that he was not. Early in the incident, she stated that she first heard a heavy breathing sound, then heard moaning sounds and asked the first witness if he had heard them, and he responded in the negative. She stated that they had indeed heard the wood knocking sound, and went to investigate. As they did so, she expressed that their distance was less than 50 yards when they saw the creature. She described it as 7' - 8' tall, she did not recall hair, but did recall that she marveled that it "looked really buff" (very muscular and well built). Neither witness noticed any unusual smells or other sensation. Upon their sighting of the creature, the first witness exclaimed that they were seeing a Bigfoot.

They left the area and returned to next day to find "huge footprints" that were long and wide, and shaped like very large human prints with visible toes. They did not photograph them.

Based on this startling experience, they searched the internet and found the BFRO website, and decided to file a report. It should be noted that in the process of filing the report, the female witness urged the male witness to include more details in the report, which he did not. These details are reported here.

Upon being asked, "What do you think you saw?” the second witness stated, "We saw a Bigfoot, and it really scared me!" or something to that effect.

While the initial report is sparse in content, I found in the interviews that the witnesses were serious and credible, considering the detail of those personal interviews. It is the opinion of this investigator that the experiences reported herein did occur, and that these two individuals likely saw a specimen of the creature of our interest.

Yes, Virginia, Bigfoot is in Virginia too!

William Dranginis of Manassas Virginia saw a Bigfoot 13 years ago (1995) while walking in the woods with two friends who just happened to be FBI agents. He has been obsessed with proving the creature's existence ever since.

Thanks to Loren Coleman for featuring this story on Cryptomundo.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dranginis-profile/

Florida researcher Pat Rance

Florida researcher Pat Rance with a cast he made in Green Swamp in April of 2006.

Chasing the myth of Bigfoot

By GARY CORSAIR, DAILY SUN

The grainy, shaky footage captured the world’s attention and sparked debate that still rages. But in Florida, Patterson’s film caused barely a ripple of interest among old-timers.

Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, Skunk Ape, Wookie, Abominable Snowman, Swamp Ape, Shaawanoki, Shadow People — whatever you want to call it — was old news.

Very old news.

“I trace reports of hairy men back to the age of the Seminoles and the Miccosukee Indians meeting the Spaniards. The Indians had a long history throughout North America, but first in what is now Florida. We can probably say safely the 1600s,” says Bobbie Short, an independent Bigfoot researcher since 1985 and owner/editor of Bigfootencounters.com.

“Old-timers living on the edge of the Green Swamp tell stories of Mudwamps that came through the sugarcane fields,” says Dan Jackson, venomous snake expert from Lithia who claims to have encountered the Skunk Ape three times during 20 years of searching for the mysterious creature. “An old woman I talked to remembers her daddy telling her, ‘Don’t ever go into the sugarcane fields at night because the Mudwamps will cry like a baby to get you to go in there and they’ll take you.’”

Mudwamps?

“When I asked her, ‘What is a Mudwamp?’ she said, ‘A big old hairy thing that stunk something terrible,’” Jackson said. “She called it a Mudwamp; we call it Bigfoot or Skunk Ape. According to her, these things were known by man to exist.”

We’ll call it Bigfoot.

According to The Bigfoot Casebook (Granada Publishing 1982) and researchers Ramona Clark Hibner and Short, there were at least 60 Bigfoot sightings in Florida 1947 to 1977.

That’s a conservative estimate.

“A lot of people who saw the creature never reported it. And you can’t blame them. People take enough crap for saying they saw a Bigfoot,” said Diane Stocking, who heads Stocking Hominid Research Inc. from her home outside Mims, Fla. “For every report we hear, there might be 15 that don’t get reported.”

Evidently, Dean Averrick wasn’t afraid of ridicule. He told people he saw one wading in water near Miami in 1954. Neither was a group of hunters who reported seeing one in the Big Cypress Swamp in 1957.

Interestingly, the aforementioned Florida sightings occurred before Bigfoot drew national attention in a December 1959 True magazine article describing discovery of large, mysterious footprints in Bluff Creek, Calif., where Patterson would make his famous film nearly eight years later.

Bigfoot was here

While searchers traipsed through the woods of the Pacific Northwest trying to find the creature with huge feet, sightings continued in Florida.

And — hold on to your hats — much of the evidence that Bigfoot exists came from the north- central part of the state.

The same Green Swamp believed to be inhabited by Mudwamps around the turn of the century — a 110,000-acre labyrinth of wetlands, flatwoods and cypress domes stretching across Lake, Sumter and Polk counties — continues to intrigue Bigfoot searchers.

“We were finding dozens of footprints,” says Pat Rance, an independent primate researcher from Longwood who says he briefly saw a Bigfoot in the Green Swamp.

Stocking, who has been researching Bigfoot (she and Short prefer the term Sasquatch) for 36 years, says one of the most credible reports happened in October 1977 in the Ocala National Forest when S.L. Whatley, a 67-year-old Baptist minister allegedly stood eye-to-eye for 30 seconds with a “great, hairy creature.”

Whatley told a Marion County newspaper that he was cutting wood when he saw the creature, “… standing upright, in the middle of some palmetto bushes, and that sapsucker was at least 7 1/2, maybe 8 feet tall.” According to Whatley, the creature had “dark, lighter-than-black hair on its head and chest, not much on its arms, and none on its face. It had kind of a flat face, a flat nose. Its eyes were sunk in its sockets.”

Verifying Whatley’s story is impossible, but many people in that neck of the woods believe.

“Most of the people who have been around here a long time do. They sure do,” says Gary Roberts, who works at Fort McCoy Hardware. “Bay Swamp. That’s where he’s at. My buddy, who been hunting out there for 16 years, he swears it’s out there.”

In summer 1980, Jim Bliss, who was then living in Umatilla, claims to have found giant footprints in the Ocala National Forest about five miles northwest of Alexander Springs.

“When I saw the footprints, I was just flabbergasted. These prints were six feet apart. This thing was huge,” says Bliss, who now lives in Ocklawaha.

Bliss learned of the footprints from a Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputy he was friendly with.

“A guy operating a road grader saw something in the road. He thought it was a man, but as he got closer he could see it was a large bipedal creature. He stopped the grader, ran to his car and got out of there,” Bliss says.

According to a newspaper report, sheriff’s deputies made casts of 17-inch-by-6-1/2-inch footprints found near a bulldozer. In the story, Sgt. Dee Kirby speculates that if the prints were real they were made by a creature “10- to 12-feet tall” and weighing “close to 1,000 pounds.”

Bliss also made plaster casts of prints deputies overlooked beyond a shallow creek. Those prints started Bliss on a two-year search for Bigfoot in the wooded, swampy area. He was unsuccessful, but remains convinced Bigfoot exists.

“I believe it wholeheartedly. There’s something there,” Bliss said. “I know where he lives, but I can’t convince anyone to go there with me. He lives in Billy’s Bay, back behind Alexander Springs. There’s no doubt in my mind there is one. There’s been tons of people that’s seen them.”

He’ll get no argument from the Bigfoot Research Organization. The BFRO Web site lists a handful of sightings in Lake and Marion counties, including:

December 1985 — A motorist sees a “huge blackish-brown creature” run across a road between Tavares and Lake Jem. June 1990 — Man in woods west of Tarrytown sees something with reddish-brown hair, long arms, oval head and “kinda blurry” squatting in a tree line 300 to 400 feet away. July 1997 — A family camping near Half Moon Lake in the Ocala National Forest sees a “bigfoot” drinking water from a stream. January 2000 — A birding enthusiast using binoculars viewed something with “grayish-black skin around its face” peeking from behind a tree for “several long minutes.” September 2004 — A woman living near the edge of the Ocala National Forest near Ocklawaha sees a “huge, man-like creature … as tall as our orange tree” run into the woods. Stocking, a former BFRO curator, says most reports don’t hold up under scrutiny. “In 35 years, I’ve probably interviewed 150 people who claim to have seen a Bigfoot, a Florida Skunk Ape, a creature they couldn’t explain. Of that number, I’d say five were credible. Definitely less than 10,” Stocking said. Short is quick to dismiss BFRO reports of recent Bigfoot activity in Florida. “Not much has happened in Florida since the 1970s; nothing credible, anyway, but there have been a lot of misidentifications and so forth,” Short says. “Most of us in ‘serious’ research believe nothing credible has happened in Florida in 30 years. It is my opinion they have moved north into the swamps of Georgia, where there are yearly reports.” Perhaps the Bigfoot did head north, but you’ll never convince Jackson, who spent years of trial and error tracking a creature he happened upon while hunting wild boars. Jackson says he found the elusive Skunk Ape in 2002 — and survived a face-to-face encounter so terrifying that he will never again seek the creature. Tomorrow: The encounter. Gary Corsair is a senior writer with the Daily Sun. He can be reached at 753-1119 or gary.corsair@thevillagesmedia.com.

http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/articles/2007/12/27/news/news01.txt

B&W images

Here are some of my B&W images. Let me know what you think.

Mt. Hood Revisited.

A request was made to go back and take some reference photos, to establish if anything different could be seen when compared to the origianal photograph. Obviously the same stump that was in the original photo is STILL THERE!

We shall name this one 'Stumpsquatch".

Live Feed from Kentucky

This is the live video feed that has been broadcasting from somewhere in the mountains of Kentucky. This area has had Sasquatch activity for over 50 years. So far we have heard screams, howls, growls and grunts, seen eyeshine in the middle of the night, and seen a running figure in the distance.

Soon the feed will change and the picture will improve; upgrades are in progress.

http://www.kentuckyincident.com/livefeed/video.aspx

Here is the video blog of the father of the guy who runs the Kentucky feed. He has been living with these creatures his whole life.

http://grizzlyhuffman.blogspot.com/

Are these guys for real? What do you think?

Two hikers see an upright ape running off into the brush in Apalachicola National Forest

-They described it as being 'about 7 foot tall, with bulky shoulders and huge body'. It had black, hanging, or 'fuzzy' hair and their overall impression of the creature was that it was 'strong'. They stated that it had 'big' hands but they could not see the feet and lower legs because of the thick brush, and they both commented on how surprised they were that it could get through such thick undergrowth so easily.

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=23570

Mt. Hood, Friday, June 27, 2008, at 2:05 p.m. Pacific time.

'This picture was taken while we were driving down the road with our camea from home. I wanted to see what I could capture that was moving into the woods that couldn’t be seen. I took this from the car as we drove the road. I was so excited when we put this on the computer and this figure of a Bigfoot was walking back into the woods. This is the area we’ve been working for two years now.'

Dianna Martin


(This is the original photo - look in the exact center)

Go to work with Sniper

Central Florida Wilderness

Here are some pictures from the areas where I hunt here in Florida.

The Florida Skunkape

By Kathleen Laufenberg, DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER August 14, 2005

It's big. It's hairy. It stinks. It lurks in the woods - and it's been spotted near Tate's Hell.

It's Florida's own monster: the Skunk Ape, known in other parts of the world as Bigfoot, Yeti, the Abominable Snowman and Sasquatch.

True believers say the Skunk Ape is real (stop rolling your eyes!). Files at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirm that many people say they've seen one.

A few freethinkers hope to spot the legendary creature themselves this fall. That's when Scott Marlowe - a manly man, unafraid to hike into the swamps during the wee hours, when alligators bellow and owls cry - leads an expedition in search of the Skunk Ape, somewhere in the wilds of Florida.

"We will definitely be roughing it," the 51-year-old from Winter Haven said. "We will be in the wild, and we will be camping..., but we'll also have an RV headquarters to work out of."

Marlowe says he has had two close encounters with Skunk Apes, said to be 7 feet tall and outrageously stinky.

"I was actually beaned by one," he said of his latest encounter, in June.

It happened while he and two Discovery Channel filmmakers were tracking a family of Skunk Apes. (A film about the Skunk Ape later aired as "Animal X" on Discovery.) Marlowe says one of the creatures threw a stick and whopped him on the head, drawing blood.

Such are the perils of monster hunting - or, to use a gentler term, cryptozoology: the study of, and search for, creatures such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Marlowe - who has held various jobs, including schoolteacher and computer technician, and is working on a bachelor's degree in computer science - teaches a cryptozoology class at the Florida Keys Community College. Anyone with an Internet connection can take the class, which includes a deep-woods expedition.

But before you join a crew of Skunk Ape hunters, know that you risk encountering ticks, snakes and worse - the antics of snorting friends ("You're doing what?") who hoist imaginary glasses to their lips, implying that your judgment is sadly clouded.

If you're like Marlowe, you shrug, smile and forge onward. If you're more of a ham, you could borrow a line from the Bard: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Or you could wisely choose to tell no one of your plans.

The ape files

Before "The X-Files," there were the Skunk Ape files: two fat folders at the state's Wildlife Commission offices in Tallahassee. Not surprisingly, the files (which go back to the 1960s) are full of strange accounts and requests.

One man wrote to say he'd lived with a family of Skunk Apes for six months. Others asked whether they needed special permits to bag one. (The official answer: No, because they don't EXIST! And surely if they did, some wildlife officer would've slapped a radio collar around one's neck by now.)

Perhaps the saddest story in the file, though, is the saga of the Green Swamp creature. A wild man was spotted in the swamps of Sumter County in 1990 and 1991. He was finally tracked down and caught by Sheriff Don Page. The swamp man's name was Hu Tu Mei. He was a 39-year-old Taiwanese mariner.

He had wandered off unnoticed from Tampa General Hospital's psychiatric ward eight months before his capture in the swamps. According to news reports, he'd apparently survived by eating small wild animals raw and occasionally stealing food and other items from barns and mobile homes.

After they treated him to plates of food at the jail, the deputies told the man he'd soon be able to go home to Taiwan. Later that evening, he killed himself by wrapping a belt around his neck.

Such a sad ending to the tale of the Green Swamp creature. But it's the only tale in the files that has an ending. The story of the Skunk Ape goes on and on.

Why?

"That's one of those things that's always going to be around. I think people need those myths and legends," said Robert Daniels, a recently retired Florida wildlife officer of 27 years.

He's seen some strange things in the Panhandle woods, the 52-year-old said, but never a Skunk Ape (also called a Swamp Ape).

So, what is the strangest thing he's seen in the woods?

That would be a ghost. Daniels said he saw it many years ago, at the Lake Jackson Indian Mounds.

But that's another story.

What the ... ?

Bill Arnold, on the other hand, has never seen a ghost. But he says he has gotten a good, unexpected look at a Skunk Ape.

The longtime owner of Arnold Bicycle Sales & Service Shop in Columbus, Ga., has property in Wakulla County and plans to retire here. So he's often in the area and enjoys going to the beach on St. George Island.

He saw the Skunk Ape, he said, on his way to St. George. (And no, he said, he had not been drinking or doing anything else to impair his faculties.)

He was on County Road 67, a long, lonely stretch of road that winds near Tate's Hell and cuts through acres of undeveloped land. It was one day about this time last summer, he said, around 6:30 p.m., when he spotted something large and dark crossing the road on two legs.

"When I first saw it, I thought it must be a bear," the 52-year-old said. "As I got closer and closer, ... I thought it might be a hunter. A big, hairy hunter."

But then he realized it couldn't be a human, either. It was too big - "probably 8 feet tall" - and it had furry hair "pretty much from top to bottom." He couldn't tell if it was male or female. It had no neck. When it turned to look at his approaching truck, its upper torso turned rather than just its head.

It was a big, hairy ape, he said. And then it was gone, disappearing into the woods on the other side.

And although he's willing to have his name in the newspaper, he said, "I don't tell a lot of people."

He learned quickly it was best not to.

"I got a kind of guarded reaction. 'Oh yeah, sure, uh-huh.'"

He'd heard the story of the Florida Skunk Ape before his sighting, he said, but never thought much of it. But now, "I believe it more because I feel like I really did see it."

Whenever he takes that same road, he's always on the lookout. He keeps a camera ready, just in case.

(Which may not help, even if he snaps one. Photos of Skunk Apes abound, from blurry snapshots in grocery tabloids to clear photos of what looks suspiciously like Chewbacca, the Wookiee in the "Star Wars" movies. Wait - maybe what Arnold saw was a Wookiee!)

Making a monkey

If you stop in at J.R.'s Aucilla River Store on U.S. Highway 98, across from the Aucilla River Wildlife Management Area, you'll see something that owner Lester Walker Jr. - known to all in this remote area as J.R. - calls a swamp monkey.

You'll find the mysterious stuffed creature along with other stuffed wild animals, such as wild boar, bobcats, turkeys and quail.

Walker, 54, will spin a yarn to inquiring newcomers that the swamp monkey is a creature he shot after it fell from tall trees into his boat. ("I always keep a 9millimeter with me," he said matter-of-factly, "'cause down here 911 is a long distance.")

But before his patrons leave, he tells them the truth: It's just something he rigged up using "a deer tail turned upside down."

Still, his pseudo swamp monkey has sparked plenty of tales about the legendary Skunk Ape. Walker's not a believer: "I've never seen anything like that. Just bears. There's a lot of bears around here." But he just smiles and nods. If he's in the mood, he might share his tale of the strangest creature (other than the humans) he's ever encountered in the Aucilla River woods.

It happened, he said, back in about 1970.

"I thought I saw two hogs, and I got out of my truck. I had a 45 with me, and I thought I was ("Gunsmoke" TV Marshal) Matt Dillon with it. I snuck out there to the edge of the bushes."

But what he found wasn't a wild boar.

"It was a big black cat. This thing was about 60, 70 pounds. I knew not to be messing with something like that."

So, quietly, he climbed back in his truck and left.

Today, he's still not sure what he saw. And though it may not be a yowzer of a tale, as many Skunk Ape stories are, it's his. And he has a simple but wise philosophy when it comes to swapping tales of Things I Saw in the Swamps: "I don't mess with your stories, and you don't mess with mine."

That's sage advice to all who seek the Florida Skunk Ape.

Emily and Reesy

The Broom Man

DOH!

Sniper's Excellent Adventures

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