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The Bigfoot Times for February will feature a review and critique of National Geographic's Paranormal American: Bigfoot plus the latest reports. Newsletter to be released on February 11th.

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Perez To Be On Radio Show Friday

Editor of the Bigfoot Times and author of the Bigfoot cult classic, Bigfoot At Bluff Creek, will be a radio guest of KSGV Radio on Friday evening, February 5th, 2010. Shown above are the people behind The Heretic Show, left to right: Adam Castrejon, George Alva and Gerry Valenzuela. Should be interesting and the discussion, as per my request, will be only hardball questions. Powder puff questions, like, do you think there is a Bigfoot, are for weak sisters! Tune in or be square. Find out what thoughts the editor might have on the likes of MK Davis, Dave Paulides and Tom Biscardi.

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MIKE ARCHBOLD for THE Tacoma, Washington, NEWS TRIBUNE , January 27, 2010.

One night 54 years ago, Cliff Crook says, he stared into the face of a Northwest boogeyman. He called it a “woods giant.” Today, it’s better known as Bigfoot.

“I had a real terrifying encounter,” said Crook, now 69. “It’s not something that goes away.”

He remembers the towering size, the ape-like face, the gurgling sound in the dark. He remembers the dog that charged into the bushes and then was tossed out and crashed onto the ground.

He remembers running away with three younger camping buddies. They arrived home a mile away, their bare feet bleeding. His friends’ parents weren’t too happy with him.

“They didn’t want them around me anymore,” Crook recalled last week.

The encounter fueled a lifelong obsession by Crook with the hairy ape-like creature. He calls himself “America’s first Bigfoot investigator.” Others call him a hoaxer and an attention grabber.

Crook appeared on the front page of The News Tribune in 1990 when some mushroom hunters found possible Bigfoot footprints near the Nisqually River. Crook found the prints credible.

He called The News Tribune recently to announce more Bigfoot footprint news, what he called the biggest find in 30 years.

STATUE MOVES DOWNTOWN

The basement den in Crook’s Bothell-area home used to be Bigfoot Central, where over the years he regaled visitors from around the world with stories of his encounter and the investigations into sightings, footprints and efforts to find the ape-like creature.

Maps, drawings, newspaper clippings, footprint casts and Bigfoot memorabilia decorated the walls. An 8-foot-tall carved wooden Bigfoot sat on the front lawn to welcome visitors.

The basement is now home to the Doo-Wop Den, a 1950s style café filled with 1950s kitsch and collectibles. The Bigfoot statue graces a market in downtown Bothell.

Crook’s son, Cary, in Polson, Mont., carries on the family research and keeps the Bigfoot Central Web site –bigfootcentral1.com – updated.

Nevertheless, the elder Crook still wears a big metal pinky ring showing the head of sasquatch. (His wife, Carol, gave it to him.) And he’s enthusiastic about new research he says shows Bigfoot’s ancestors once roamed the Texas countryside side by side with dinosaurs.

“There’s never been fossil evidence of Bigfoot,” Crook said.

And now there is, he said, pointing at the casts of two large footprints he’s placed on the den’s black-and-white checked linoleum floor.

One cast, Crook said, is of a footprint he made in 1999 from the rock bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. The fossil print, he said, is one of more than a dozen in a row in the river rock, a hot spot for dinosaur footprints from 140 million years ago.

Some creationists say the prints are the tracks of giant humans. Many paleontologists say they belong to dinosaurs and other reptiles, not man or any kind of primate.

The other cast is what Crook calls a credible Bigfoot footprint found in 1991 in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest near Darrington.

“They’re mirror images,” he said of the two.

Both footprints show four of seven tell-tale signatures he said he has developed over the years to enable him to tell which prints are real and which are fake. He declined to reveal the signatures, saying he did not want people to use them to fake footprints.

Crook calls the tracks Bigfoot’s Fossil Trail and another piece of evidence that the Bigfoot today is no mere legend.

‘BLOWING SMOKE,’ SAYS PROF

Good luck with that idea, says Jeff Meldrum, associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at the University of Idaho in Moscow.

Meldrum, a sasquatch investigator, is generally skeptical of Crook’s footprint claims. Told of the fossil footprint, he was not impressed.

“Since he is talking about Paluxy (River), I am quite certain he is blowing smoke,” Meldrum said in an e-mail. “That area has a long history of footprint discovery, misinterpretation and outright fabrication. …

“The notion that a species of giant bipedal primate existed alongside dinosaurs is baseless, totally without evidence, let alone a reasonable theoretical framework given our understanding of the fossil record.

“If sasquatch exists, it was likely a relic of the trend among many mammal species toward gigantism during the Pleistocene: mammoths, short-faced bear, dire wolf, panda, etc.”

Meldrum focuses his research, writing and lectures on Bigfoot footprints and how they relate to locomotion. Though he has never had an encounter, he says the amount of evidence of Bigfoot, including footprints, convinces him it’s worth investigating.

The News Tribune sent Meldrum a photograph of the Texas fossil cast Crook made next to the cast from near Mount Baker and asked him to comment.

“Nothing from there previously has resembled the (fossil) cast on the right,” he said in reply.

He also challenged the cast itself.

“One can’t simply pour plaster into a fossilized footprint, an imprint in stone, let it harden and then pull it out. The plaster or cement would adhere to the rock without a separator, so there wouldn’t be any flecks of rock in the plaster as evident in the photo.”

Crook dismisses Meldrum’s comments.

“I know this discovery would rattle the bed frames of sleeping science a bit,” he said. “I have rattled a few beds before, but real science is about uncovering the truth. When tracks match, they match.”

Crook defended his cast-making. Using a nonsticking cooking oil allowed him to make the fossil cast, he said. He also produced photographs of himself at the river standing next to the tracks.

He said the purported Bigfoot fossil tracks are different from the so-called “giant man” tracks others say they have found.

“The real facts are that dinos, big cats, other huge creatures and giant men left their tracks across the same strata, which means one thing,” Crook said. “Human giants and giant creatures lived contemporaneously in days of old. Just as it was written in the Bible, so it was.”

TIME TO GO PUBLIC

Crook has been holding onto his fossil footprint find for a decade but said he thought it was time to “get it off his chest” and get it out in the open. He knows the fossil trail will generate controversy, but he’s counting on his supporters.

“The people who know me and know who I am know I don’t lie,” he said. “Peaceful pursuit is my motto.”

He imagines his life would have been much different if he hadn’t encountered Bigfoot, but the big guy has been good to him.

He estimates he’s made more than $100,000 selling Bigfoot memorabilia and talking about the creature at RV shows and elsewhere. He also served as a technical adviser on the 1987 movie “Harry and the Henderson,” which is about a family who encounters Bigfoot on the way home from a camping trip.

Crook said fishing is his main avocation now.

Asked if would like to meet Bigfoot again in the woods someday, Crook chuckled. “I’d rather see a big ’ol fish,” he said, but added: “I wouldn’t exactly mind, but how can you prove you saw it?”

(Editor of the Bigfoot Times, Daniel Perez, comments: Cliff Crook's credibility after those "Bigfoot" photos showed up [you know the ones] in the mid 1990s was called into question and to my knowledge he never attended another Bigfoot meet after that. I am not even sure he served as a "technical adviser" for the movie Harry And The Hendersons [someone should check the credits] but there is no question he sold them footprint castings for that movie. As for 'America's first Bigfoot', since Rene Dahinden and John Green were under the Canadian flag, somehow that rings hollow as well. He may have been one of the first but Archie Buckley was before him and his father also had and interest in Bigfoot prior to Crook coming on the scene. Perhaps Mr. Crook is overstating matters to make himself look better after his credibility eroded sharply in the mid 1990s).

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New Web Sites

Hello Daniel,

just wanted to forward you a link to our new Olympic Project web site.

www.olympicproject.com

Check it out if you're interested.

Best,

Derek Randles.

(Editor's note: this work in Washington state is ongoing and certainly an excellent location to position cameras. Stockinghominid has some interesting reports from Florida).

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Hi Everyone,

I just wnted to let you know that we have a new web address for Stocking Hominid Research. It's www.stockinghominid.com . It's still under construction, so bear with me. If anyone has anything they would like me to add to the website, please let me know. Thanks.

Donna Cohrs

Scribble Notes On National Geographic Channel Bigfoot Show

I was mostly impressed by what I saw. The most impressive and clear minded speaker on the show was the self professed "new kid on the block," Bill Munns from California.

Some technical notes about the P-G film w/re to what was presented on the show about this "iconic" film.

They should have said a few words about the work of Rene Dahinden, Peter Byrne and John Green w/ re to the film and why we know certain things about the film.

They should have given a bit more background on the late Roger Patterson. I think they just referred to him and Bob Gimlin as "ranchers." That doesn't give a whole lot of clues for an audience.

They should have wasted less time and words on the obvious over a 40 year span about the debate about the P-G film: man in a costume or Real McCoy. Yes, we get it! Move on.

Doug Divine on the P-G filmsite: kind of a waste of time. If he does not know that over forty plus years the filmsite would change dramatically, he is completely lost. I know roughly where he was and he was just winging it for the cameras, like so many people have done in the past. He should have just been honest and told his audience he could not recognize a single landmark that is still intact from 1967. Oh well, I guess he got his check and went home. I think he said on camera, "I think we got it." I wonder, got what, the P-G filmsite or a check? That is not intended as a snide remark, but rather something that is right to the heart of the matter.

They made a very good point in pointing out to the viewer film degradation over showing the P-G film from copies to copies to copies to copies. Eventually, you end up with a very poor copy being shown on television.

I think they alluded to the fact or made direct mention of using the original film. This is a false statement. Patricia Patterson's film is NOT ORIGINAL. It is the best copy and I think that was made November 5, 1968. If you look at Patterson's copy of the film it is stated on the reel.

I have some inside information as to what Pat Patterson was compensated for use of this film and she is allowing use for FAR LESS than what is worth. If she would have told them NO, it would be impossible to do this documentary. The whole show revolved around this famous piece of evidence.

Dr. Jeff Meldrum. He's put on weight. I guess that is what the re-married life will do to you. And he looks older than his years. He kind of juggled the issue of what Bigfoot is: ape or man, then making specific reference to hominid or the "current terminology" of homin (I think that is the correct spelling) essentially meaning the human group. Formerly an ape go getter, I think over the years the Bigfoot community peer pressure may have gotten the better of him. He was always in the ape camp. But you look at the physical features of Bigfoot, never mind the behavior, the buttocks, the upright walking, the foot like a man, the facial appearance and it is very manlike.

The business of bones is somewhat of a cope out. I hardly ever go in the woods but the few times I have gone it IS NOT uncommon to find bones. I was just out in the Anza Borrego area of California and went and picked up quite a few bones (probably coyote or something) after someone spotted them in the open. Might the utterance of burying their dead been too over the top for the show, too humanlike, to have it as a sound bite on the NGC?

John Mionczynski, (I hope I have spelled it correctly), I think what I heard was he does not think their are thousands of Sasquatches but perhaps only 100s. Since when did he become a Bigfoot authority? That is like me talking about the physics of landing on the moon. He should have kept his mouth shut on the topic. Bottom line is nobody knows. Anyone who says anything w/ re to the population estimates they are, you guessed it, just guesstimates.

The high definition stabilization of a portion of the P-G film by Bill Munns was just brilliant. You really get to have "good seeing" when your eyeballs and brain don't have to jump up and down to keep an eye on the subject.

The business of using suspected hoaxer Cliff Crook's (what I call the Blue Lagoon Bigfoot photo or photos) was just plain stupid. It is like doing a documentary on the Pope and bookending it with Charles Manson at the start and finish. Dumb, dumb, dumb, NGC!! If I am not mistaken, they showed the Blue Lagoon Bigfoot at the start and finish of the documentary and never a word about it. Just plain stupid. And of course, this so called forestry officer X who shot the Blue Lagoon Bigfoot picture has never come forward. My suspicion it was Cliff Crook all along and the business about the forestry officer was just another dubious Cliff Crook story.

I think they should have put special emphasis on the fact that a lot of today's technology when it comes to creature suit creation was simply not available in 1967 when Roger Patterson got his film.

When they discussed the tracks that Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin cast, that was another false statement. That footprint with the pronounced mid tarsal break was cast by the late Bob Titmus.

When the people in Los Angeles where in the recreation process with a 7 foot actor, I think they goofed again. They should have put this guy right up against people of normal height so to the viewers in the comfort of the living rooms could see that he was in fact 7 feet tall. And when this actor started to re-create the walk as seen in the P-G film, someone said it was "almost too good."

Okay. If that is the case, then why, after 40+ years has anyone duplicated the P-G film? That is the most telling thing about that movie. Had they tried to use ONLY 1967 technology to recreate the P-G film, surely they would have fallen short in their quest.

I was very impressed by what Bill Munns uttered: he was of the opinion the P-G film does not show a costumed man but something "biologically real." With his Hollywood background in costume making, those two words spoke volumes.

A much more refined review of the NGC Bigfoot program will appear in the February Bigfoot Times newsletter.

All For Now,

Daniel Perez

editor

Annual Bigfoot Conference

"VIDEO TO HIGHLIGHT BIGFOOT CONFERENCE"

The Tri-State Bigfoot Study Group will host the 22nd Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO the weekend of May 14th to 16th, 2010. The following activities will take place and there is a list of tentative speakers and their brief bio (if available) to this point on January 24th.

The weekend will kick off with a meet and greet on the evening of Friday the 14th. Those speakers or special guests that have made it in to that point will be there. The meet and greet will begin at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m. a buffet dinner will be available in the lodge. (Location of the buffet to be announced). I added this to the Friday meet and greet as I though it would be a great way for everyone to hang out longer without having to worry about going somewhere to grab an evening meal. The cost of the buffet will be about the same as it was during the conference in 2009, which if I recall was $14.95.

Saturday there are no activities scheduled until the conference. It will kick off at 4 p.m. There will be a dinner break around 6:30 or 7 with a dinner buffet. The conference is scheduled to last until around 10 p.m. There will be a required $5 donation at the doors. In return for the $5 you will receive a ticket. At intermission there will be a drawing for a door prize. The person with the winning ticket will receive at least $100. There are also plenty of seats still available if you wish to reserve VIP seats. Once you see the scheduled speakers / presenters you may want those VIP seats.

TODD NEISS from Sandy, Oregon. Todd first spoke at my conference in 2002. He will be back and promises not to disappoint. His bio is available by going to http://www.eobic.net and clicking the link for the conference.

ROB MC CONNELL from Ontario Canada. Rob hosts the X-Zone paranormal radio show nightly on the internet and on am / fm radio as well as TV. (Bio yet to come).

TOM YAMARONE from Pleasanton, California. Tom is a singer / song writer and has had a serious intrest in Bigfoot for years. He has also attended or helped organize many events in California.

BOB GIMLIN from Yakima, Washington. Need I say more? Bob is the only living eyewitness to the events of Friday October 20th 1967 at Bluff Creek, California when Roger Patterson took film of what appears to be a Bigfoot. I am not 100% sure if he will be speaking but he will be in attendance for you to meet and maybe ask a question or get a photo taken with him.

Another surprise guest or two may be in attendance. Keep an eye on the web site and your in box for updates.

On Sunday the 16th I will once again host a "Guided Tour" of the park to various incident locations. This will kick off at 12 noon.

Attached to this e-mail is a form to reserve VIP seats. If you intend to reserve seats you may want to do it quickly as 10 seats are already spoken for. Seat assignment will be done in the order of receipt of reservations and payment for such. Just e-mailing me and telling me you are going to reserve seats will not save your seat(s).

If you have any questions / comments, feel free to write me. If you need to know prices for the lodge rooms / cabins, go to the conference web site and click the link near the bottom for that information. I hope to see you this year at the 22nd Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO.

Don Keating

http://www.eobic.net

Phone: 740 680-4542

National Geographic Channel

No joke, The National Geographic Channel is getting serious about Bigfoot and you can see their special on the topic on January 24th. Check for times in your areas. Here we see a seven foot tall man seeing if he can recreate motions seen in the P-G film from 1967.

Bigfoot Times, January 2010

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman from Portland, Maine will be interviewed on various matters concerning Bigfoot and general cryptozoology. Read it in the Bigfoot Times newsletter for January 2010 as he talks candidly about well known figures, including Rene Dahinden and Dr. Grover Krantz. Relive the story of how as a young boy he became - like many of us - endlessly fascinated with Bigfoot and company by a science fiction thriller, Half Human. A teaser from that interview: "...news conference, the costume was immediately identified. It was game over, in my mind. That didn't stop Biscardi from..."

His website is www.cryptomundo.com and it is updated all the time.

Here we see Mr. Coleman with Tom Slick's rifle in 1999, Newcomerstown, Ohio at Don Keating's Annual Bigfoot Conference. Photo courtesy and copyright Daniel Perez, 2009. Click on Loren's image for a larger view!

The cost for a membership to the newsletter is a modest $15/year (U.S. residents only) and it is sent to members via postal mail every month. We must be doing something right, as we have been around for over a decade and continue to attract a wider audience.

Researcher Needs Help

Gary S. Mangiacopra sent this letter along, so if any readers might be able to help him out I am sure he would be delighted to hear from you. His address is noted at the bottom of the letter. Click on the image to see a larger version.

- Daniel Perez

Sasquatch Exhibit To Open January 23rd

SNEAK PEEK OF WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE MUSEUM FOR OPENING DAY. HAVE A LOOK!





WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY MUSEUM EVALUATES SASQUATCH EVIDENCE

Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch Opens January 23

TACOMA – Explore the Sasquatch mystery in Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch, on view January 23 through June 27 at the Washington State History Museum.

Who or What is Sasquatch? Why are sightings in Washington among the highest in the nation?

This exploration of the Sasquatch story focuses on the Pacific Northwest environment which has created a rich setting for the traditional beliefs that have grown up around this being. The relationship of Northwesterners to the land, particularly its deep forests and imposing mountains, has led explorers and travelers further into the depths of our region.

How have scientists attempted to explain and investigate the Sasquatch phenomenon? Physical evidence collected in the field by anthropologist Dr. Grover Krantz will be on display. Discovery Channel expert and Bigfoot author, Dr. Jeffery Meldrum of Idaho State University has contributed to the exhibit recently gathered field evidence including special foot and hand casts.

Supposed hoaxes and popular cultural interpretations of Bigfoot are featured in the exhibit including memorabilia from the Sasquatch Music Festival, Bigfoot Ale, Sasquatch Press, and the Seattle SuperSonics Squatch Collection.

Worldwide and across time, tales of larger-than-life creatures have been told. Tribal artifacts and artwork will convey Native cultural beliefs. On loan from the Maryhill Museum of Art is a prehistoric, ape-like Stone Head found in the Columbia Basin. Created especially for the exhibit is a full size mural of the legendary Dzoonokwa or “Basket Women” of the forests. Carved masks by Native artists are featured in the gallery. From werewolves to wild men, stories of beings both animal and man have been told across time. Some of these legends are explored in the exhibit. Also featured is artwork by cryptid illustrator Rick Spears.

Join the History Museum to discover the unique Northwest connection to Sasquatch. To support this special exhibition, we are hosting a number of programs that connect to the Sasquatch story.

Programs for 2010

THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE!
January 21, 2010
6:30 pm
BEHIND THE HAIRY CURTAIN: SASQUATCH SNEAK PEEK
Are you a Squatch Watcher? Do you yearn to know the truth behind the tales of Sasquatch? Then join us for this special “Behind the Scenes” walk-through with the curators of Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch. You’ll be amazed by prehistoric stone heads, native masks, footprint casts, and the world map of Sasquatch-like beings. Are you a believer?

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"Exhibit explores sasquatch history"

JEFFREY P. MAYOR; Staff writer for the Olympia, Washington, Olympian, | Published January 24, 2010

"Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch" does not attempt to prove or disprove the existence of sasquatch, but instead looks at how and why the story is so ingrained in the cultural fabric of the Northwest.

If you go:

What: Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch

When: Jan. 23-June 27

Where: Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma

Museum hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. On the third Thursday of each month, the museum is open until 8 p.m. with free admission from 2-8 p.m.

Admission: Adult (18 and over), $8; Senior (60 and older) $7; student (6-17 years old) and military, $6; family (two adults and up to four children), $25; child (5 and under) and Historical Society members, free.

Information: 253-272-3500, www.washingtonhistory.org

The story of sasquatch certainly goes far beyond the 1987 movie “Harry and the Hendersons” or recent beef jerky TV commercials. It has been told for centuries among Northwest Indian tribes.

That mix of ancient mythology and modern commercialism is the focal point of a sasquatch exhibit that opened Saturday at the Washington State History Museum.

“One of the themes of the exhibit is to look at sasquatch from a perspective that people don’t think about how far-reaching the story is,” said Gwen Perkins, the co-curator on the exhibit. “If you look back into history, this type of story has been reflected in legends and stories all over the world. But this story also has such strong connections to the Northwest.”

Sasquatch is a word derived from the Salish word “sesqec,” meaning “wild man,” Perkins said. In other parts of the world, the name is Bigfoot, Yeti or Wild Man. Definitions of the names vary from “ape man” to “bad luck spirit” and from “big elder brother” to “evil cannibal spirit.”

The exhibit is built around about 40 significant items, including casts of alleged footprints, ancient stone carving and Indian masks.

One of the key artifacts is a prehistoric stone head borrowed from the Maryhill Museum of Art. The carving was found in the Columbia Basin in the 1890s and is believed to date from 1,500 B.C. to 500 A.D., Perkins said.

“When you see them, they resemble gorillas. There have been at least four of these stone heads,” Perkins said.

There was a lot of debate when they were found, Perkins added, questioning how people at that time would have seen a gorilla-like creature.

“Anthropologists have one belief about it, sasquatch people have their belief about it,” said Susan Rohrer, manager at the State Capital Museum. The head was part of the exhibit when it appeared in Olympia in 2007-08.

“What is the origin of them, why are these stone heads there? It really is a cornerstone of the exhibit,” Rohrer added.

Another part of the exhibit looks at the story of sasquatch in Northwest Indians culture.

“There are easily hundreds of sasquatch legends, particularly here in the Northwest,” Perkins said.

One told frequently by the Nisqually Tribe of Indians is the story of the giant hairy beast Tsiatko, believed to mean nocturnal demon.

“They thought it was huge, with 18-inch feet shaped like a bear’s. One thing that keeps coming up, here and on the east side, sasquatch supposedly has an owl voice,” she said.

The exhibit also includes five Indian masks, four of which are believed to have been made in the 1920s.

Also on display are a number of footprints casts, including items from the collection of Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, a Discovery Channel Bigfoot expert and professor at Idaho State University. There also are casts from the late Dr. Grover Krantz, a noted Bigfoot researcher and anthropologist from Washington State University.

“He was one of the first scientists to come out and say sasquatch exists,” Perkins said of Krantz. “That had a pretty major impact on how people looked at the possibility of this being real.”

Perkins admits not everyone who sees the exhibit will be convinced sasquatch is real. She recalled a letter to the editor written to The Olympian when the exhibit appeared at the State Capital Museum. The letter’s author asked why the museum would not do an exhibit on the tooth fairy if it did one on Bigfoot.

That was the lone dissent, however, said Rohrer, the Olympia museum manager.

“We had huge attendance. We had people fly in from out of state for this exhibit. I had people from Southern California call to see where was the nearest airport to Olympia so they could fly in,” Rohrer said.

Then there was the day Meldrum and Bob Gimlin spoke at the museum. Gimlin is famous for being part of the group that filmed what they claim was a Bigfoot in Northern California in 1967.

“We held two programs that day, but we still must have turned away 200 people,” Rohrer said.

“I never had an exhibit when I had to stand between a speaker and the public so the speaker could go get dinner,” she added. “Meldrum was on the floor of the museum for 12 hours that day, people just wanted to speak to him, show him evidence.”

Gimlin is scheduled to speak at the Tacoma museum in June.

“It’s an exhibit that has a really focused interest group,” Rohrer said. “There are scientists, naturalists, pop culturists, ethnographers, the hobbyists, people who enjoy the unknown. It’s kind of one of the last unknowns, kind of like UFOs.”

“We understand this is a topic that is very strongly under debate. We’re trying to portray a very balanced view,” Perkins said. “In a sense, whether the creature actually exists isn’t as important as the impact it has had on the people who live out here.

“If you come here looking for an exhibit poking fun at people or mocking the story, this is not your exhibit. This is too important to many people, like the tribal communities, the people out there researching sasquatch. We want to present those sides of the story as well as the side about people who are making money off of this.”

Jeffrey P. Mayor: 253-597-8640

Jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com

National Geographic Channel

National Geographic Channel will air on January 24th a show on Bigfoot. Check your television guide for specifics.

More Baloney!

Now we are asked to shell out our hard earned money for this garbage: Anatomy Of Bigfoot Hoax. Don't buy it; it is nothing but garbage. Plenty of false material statements, as well

When I heard they were having a press conference I phoned Tom Biscardi on August 14, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. for a statement and he certainly kept to his scripted lines as I found out later by watching his pathetic press conference in full swing. Many of Mr. Biscardi’s lines were recycled. Word for word. Here is what he told me. “It’s real. I’ve touched it. I’ve prodded it. Stay away from the Bigfoot Forums and other bulls...t.”

Carmine Thomas Biscardi, in my opinion, was not the victim of a hoax but an active participant.

Bigfoot 911 Call in San Antonio

San Antonio couple calls 911 after 'Bigfoot' sighting

San Antonio police have released a 911 dispatch call reporting a "Bigfoot" sighting.

The audio recording between a dispatcher and the homeless couple lasts more than eight minutes. In it, the primary caller appears sober and deliberate as she describes the beast Nov. 30.

“And I know you guys are going to think I'm crazy, but I'm dead serious," she says on the recording. "This big thing was 75 feet away from me, smelled awful, devoured a whole deer carcass, and then took off and screamed, screeched, and took off across the street.”

Letter to the Editor

In response to the December Bigfoot Times, in which Bill Munns has been named as our Bigfooter of the Year:

Daniel,

I've received the December issue today. I read it immediately upon getting it from the post office, and could not bring myself to leave the Subway sandwich shop until finishing. You made me 15 minutes late getting back to the shop.

And it was worth it! Another FINE issue.

I wholly agree with your choice of Munns for BFer of the Year.

Combine the Munns data with the revelations in the Peter Byrne piece you published and one can see that the plausibility of the PGF has really entered into a whole new realm.

If the Kodachrome film was either not used in the Kodak camera, or if it could be processed outside of a Kodak facility, then the criticisms of those such as MK Davis and Greg Long fall easily by the wayside. The PGF timeline again, upon closer inspection and the use of parsimonious logic and the acquisition of REAL data, tightens up and gains credibility. Yes, Virginia, it COULD have been done--and it was.

With the Munns revelations the criticism that the Patty creature is a normally-sized human, or a man in a suit, falls finally to its grave. The film really could not have been hoaxed.

Information such as this really brings us to a point where the entire analytical history applied to the PGF now needs full re-evaluation. The pieces of the puzzle finally start to fit. We must be glad that Bigfoot Times is on the ball in reporting it, and that you, as ever, are "a stickler for accuracy."

I'm sure Dave Paulides is pissed you didn't pick him!

Thanks for the good work!

Best,

Steve Streufert
Bigfoot Books

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Mr. Don Keating, the well known Ohio investigator, will be on national television on December 15th. Here is his e-mail: "I have received word that the Bigfoot segment that I was involved in filming back in October will air Tuesday morning December 15th. It will air sometime between 8 and 9 a.m. The show airs on NBC TV." --Don Keating

The Bigfoot Times for December, which will announce our Bigfooter of the Year, will be released on December 18th.


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Bigfoot Author, Sallie Ann Clarke, Dies

Sallie Ann Clarke in the Spring of 1976 with John Green in Texas. Photo probably shot by Dennis Gates, courtesy and copyright of John Green. Black and white photo of Sallie courtesy of the Clarke family.


BY YAMIL BERARD, from the Fort Worth, Star Telegram, November 6, 2009.
yberard@star-telegram.com

BENBROOK — Sallie Ann Clarke created a niche for herself: She became an authority on the Lake Worth Monster, Tarrant County’s answer to Bigfoot that popped out of nowhere in 1969.

She wrote a book about it, decorated her house with art of the creature and screened her daughter’s would-be boyfriends by seeing how they reacted to the stories, her daughter Dee Wood said.

Ms. Clarke, 80, of Benbrook, died Tuesday after a long illness. Her memorial today is private.

The hobby started in the momentous summer of 1969 when couples parked at Lake Worth reported being terrorized by a hairy, scaly 7-foot man-goat beast. News reports said the monster leapt from trees and landed on cars, hurled tires from a bluff and cried at passers-by.

Ms. Clarke, an aspiring writer and private investigator, was fascinated and set out to interview those who saw the monster. She wrote a rather tongue-in-cheek book that was published in September 1969.

She later regretted the way she wrote the book, her husband, Richard Lederer, told a Star-Telegram reporter in July, because after she published it, she saw the monster herself three times.

"If I’d seen it before I wrote the book, the book would have been quite a lot different," she told the Star-Telegram in 1989. "It wouldn’t have been semi-fiction. It would have been like a history."

Wood, of Austin, said her mother screened her dates by talking to them about the monster.

When Wood was about 16, she said, a young man she really liked came to their house.

"When I introduced him to Mother, of course he noticed the Lake Worth Monster stuff around, so they got to talking about it and that was the last of me for that evening," she said.

The three of them went to the lake to look for the monster, Wood said. "He sat in the front seat with Mother, talking, and I sat in the back seat, all alone, the whole evening."

Wood said her mother was "very strong-willed."

"But she also played a lot and was a very sweet, loving and caring person," she said.

Most people came to believe that high school pranksters created the monster, or monsters. But Lederer told reporters that Ms. Clarke disagreed.

"She offered a $5,000 reward for any person who could pass a polygraph that they were the monster," Lederer said. "She never got a call."

Ms. Clarke worked as a private-duty nurse. After retiring, she and Lederer traveled the country in a motor home, he said.

Other survivors include a son, George Lee Robertson; a daughter, Sue Trier; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

This report includes material from the Star-Telegram archives.