Saturday, February 09, 2013
We will be having a roundtable on just basic Bigfooting 101, with guests Paul Graves and Derek Randles, and might have a couple of other special guests (TBA) 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. And as always, we encourage you to please tune in and support great research.
A "National Geographic" Cryptid Malcolm's Musings
Since the big hairy hominid has been hogging headlines, most would forget cryptozoology is a deeper field. Malcolm begins with miniature plesiosaurids high atop South American tepuis. Could these be a case of insular dwarfism, or hypoxia? We're tickled that National Geographic sneaked the reference between its covers. From misty plateus to the depths of ungulates, Greg Newkirk is disgusted at a Human-Like Creature Discovered In Bowels Of Slaughtered Sheep. Seeing is believing and Who Forted has a shot of this 'abomination'. Continuing his coverage of controversial chimpanzees, such as The Bili Bondo Apes - Unmasking The Congo's Giant Chimpanzees, Karl Shuker covers the rediscovery and evolution of an unusual primate subspecies.
Bigfoot Handprint, Trail Of Footprints, Who Forted?
Browsing the YouTubes, Greg Newkirk stumbled upon a collection of intriguing evidence courtesy of Sasquatch Ontario. Knocks, howls, hand and footprints are yours to discover, and ponder, if confirming Bigfoot is just around the corner. There's hope of this on the horizon as Jeffrey Pritchett finagled an interview with Jeff Meldrum And William Barnes On The Aerial Drone Hunt For Sasquatch.
The following message is from Bruce Harrington, Director of Creature Weekend.
It's hard to believe we are only months away from another exciting Creature Weekend Conference! Last year, our conference was an incredible success. Thanks to our All-Star lineup of speakers, dedicated volunteers and perhaps the finest audience that any conference could hope for, we hosted a spectacular program in front of a full house at Salt Fork State Park -- Not bad for our first year! With our guided tours of Salt Fork's Bigfoot Hotspots, and free workshops on choosing wildlife surveillance equipment, collecting and analyzing evidence, and casting tracks, we raised the bar on conferences at Salt Fork and had a lot of fun doing it! It was an educational and fun event that the attendees are still talking about almost a year later. As they say, the rest is history... and if you want to be part of history in the making at Salt Fork, please join us for Creature Weekend 2013!
This year we are pleased to announce our lineup of speakers for Creature Weekend 2013:
Pat Spain - You know him as the intrepid host of the National Geographic Channel's Cryptozoology Reality Show, "Beast Hunter". On this show, we followed Pat as he traveled the world, investigating sighting reports and looking for mysterious monsters. Now, he has arrived at Salt Fork to share his experiences and adventures, both in front of and behind the camera. What really did happen during his expedition to search for the elusive wild man of Sumatra??? This is a rare opportunity that you will not want to miss!
David Paulides - The author of "Tribal Bigfoot", "The Hoopa Project", and the popular series, "Missing 411 - Eastern United States:Unexplained Disappearances of North Americans that have never been solved", "Missing 411 - Western United States and Canada:Unexplained Disappearances of North Americans that have never been solved" and the upcoming "Missing 411 - North America and beyond", Dave Paulides has spent the last several years researching missing persons reports at state and national parks all over the US and Canada. During the course of his investigation, he discovered some peculiar patterns that seem to indicate that these disappearances may not be so random and may involve foul play. Who or what could be responsible?? If you have been fortunate enough to hear his interviews on the "Coast to Coast" radio show, you know that his missing persons stories are bone chilling. Dave was also instrumental in bringing the Bigfoot DNA project to fruition. The project, led by Dr. Melba Ketchum, involved analyzing hundreds of Bigfoot DNA samples. Upon mapping out the Bigfoot DNA, Dr. Ketchum made some startling discoveries which Dave will be sharing with us at the conference. Join us for Dave's first appearance at Salt Fork!
R. Scott Nelson - Scott Nelson was a trained Crypto-linguist for the United States Navy. His job in the Navy was decoding encrypted transmissions. With his background in languages, he realized that the bigfoot vocalizations that have been recorded by various researchers contain a structure which is consistent with some sort of language. In other words, these bigfoot vocalizations may be part of a larger communication system that these creatures use to interact with members of their own species. Listen to what Scott has to say about his research and you will be surprised at what you will learn.
Ron Morehead - On the Friday night of the conference, we will be hosting a private dinner with the speakers. A limited number of tickets will be available to the public for this event and our special guest presenter will be Ron Morehead. Ron will be discussing his life's work, researching Bigfoot in the Sierra Nevadas, as well as his recent adventures in South America. Please note, Ron's presentation is for Friday night only; he will not be speaking at the conference on Saturday.
And last but not least, Billy Willard and Doug Waller are back by popular demand! Their presentations entertained audiences last year and earned them some "Microphone time" at this year's conference. Billy Willard, Director of Sasquatch Watch of Virginia, will be discussing recent sightings and encounters in his home state of Virginia. Doug Waller, Director of the Southeastern Ohio Society for Bigfoot Investigations and local Cambridge Bigfoot Researcher, will be talking about the most recent Bigfoot Activity at Salt Fork.
Over the next week, we will be releasing information on the Creature Weekend website (including Schedule of Activities, Ticket Prices, vendor table pricing and registration information. Check back at (http://www.creatureweekend.com) for up-to-date conference information.
Also, we now have a Creature Weekend facebook page! If you haven't already done so, please go to the Creature Weekend facebook page and "Like" the page. We will be giving away prizes for certain "Like" milestones!
Congratulations to Melissa Adair who already won a Creature Weekend Poster for being the 200th person to "Like" our facebook page!
One last thing... you are receiving this advance email notification because you pre-registered and attended the Creature Weekend conference last year. At the time you receive this email, the information contained herein has not been posted anywhere else on the Internet, including our facebook page and website. Although the speaker lineup will be posted on our facebook page and website shortly, we wanted YOU to be the first to know. This is our way of saying thanks to all you folks who attended the conference last year and made it such a special event.
We hope to see you all back at Salt Fork for Creature Weekend 2013!
Director, Creature Weekend
Friday, February 08, 2013
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Although it appears to have been overlooked by all media for several years the material presented below will inevitably become one of the greatest news stories of the century.
Sometimes it pays to be not a scientist.
Dr. Aaron Filler, in his 2007 book “The Upright Ape,” presented ample evidence that all higher primates have been bipedal, walking upright on two feet, for over 20 million years.
You don’t have to be a spine surgeon, which Dr. Filler is as well as being a PhD anthropologist, to see that a fossilized lower back vertebrae from an African site dated at 21 million years is almost identical to the corresponding vertebrae of a modern human.
Although there are fossil bones, and fossil footprints, showing that primitive higher primates throughout the ages have walked upright, and there are no fossils that suggest that any were quadrupeds, scientists who have been taught, and teach, that human ancestors invented bipedalism after they came down from the trees and split off from the chimpanzees do not seem able to get the message
In a special edition of Scientific American dated Winter 2013 and titled “What Makes
Us Human” none of the 16 authors showed any awareness of Dr. Filler’s book, and several had things to say based on the old mistaken consensus.
But are not chimpanzees quadrupeds? They are plainly trying to be, but they can not really do it because they have the spines of upright animals. With their backs at an angle of about 45 degrees they get around very well using the knuckles of their hands for front feet but they can not ever be normal quadrupeds because their spines do not have the proper attachments to keep them from buckling under load in a horizontal position.
And what Dr. Filler does not say, even though he has presented the facts that establish it, is that there is now no shred of evidence that recent human forbears ever lived in trees.
To quote something that Dr. Filler does say, most eloquently: “In questioning and rejecting scientific orthodoxy, no mass of credentials will convince a spurned scientist that he or she should give way and accept that they have spent a career believing, teaching, and publishing in error.”
Two thirds of Dr. Filler’s book presents an historical overview and then outlines a new look at the origin of species which will undoubtedly be controversial, but the material regarding the origin of human bipedalism contained in the last two chapters is simple to understand and rock-solidly based on physical evidence.
And an interesting sidelight to the proof that all higher primates have been bipeds:
Until perhaps as recently as 100,000 years ago there lived in China , as established by three fossil lower jaws and a thousand fossil teeth, a giant ape twice the size of a gorilla. Since as a higher primate it must have been upright it matches perfectly the huge, very heavy, manlike footprints which human ingenuity is unable to duplicate, and the immense hair-covered bipeds that thousands of people claim to have seen in Canada and the United States .
It follows that the many people who investigate Bigfoot/Sasquatch reports need to realize that their quarry isn’t likely to be some unknown creature sure to be a close human relative because it walks upright, but a proven animal that lived near the land bridge to North America and that already has a scientific name, Gigantopithecus blacki.
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
|Highlights from the recent outing to the Cohutta Wildreness|
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The Inquisitr-by Patrick Frye-Feb 4, 2013
Bigfoot DNA is in the news again. Over the last three years, the Russian Bigfoot, or Yeti, was claimed to be a “towering, long-haired beast ...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Behind the Scenes of Finding Bigfoot: “Bacon for Bigfoot” with Cliff Barackman
The Search For The Yeti
The Search For The Yeti
Russian Scientists Say They Discover Jaws And Skeleton Of Siberian 'Loch Ness Monster' Deep Down Remote Lake's Waters The Voice of Russia
We would love to jump on the bandwagon here and get excited about the possibility of finally finding real tangible evidence of lake monsters like Nessie, but this story has all the hallmarks of a hoax or simple rumor, with its dearth of details and absolutely no photographic evidence. Even this report from 1893 of a possible Australian Yowie killed on the road to Cooma in 1893 has more details and frankly, a bit more credibility than the Siberian Loch Ness monster skeleton story. Speaking of Yowie and Russia, comes this amusing report of mistaken identity involving hair sample test results:It's Yogi Not Yeti.
Pennsylvania Besieged with UFO and Strange Creature Reports During 2012 UFO Anomalies Zone
Stan Gordon gives us a rundown of high-strangeness that seemed to spread throughout the state of Pennsylvania, and with reports of flying, howling creatures to UFOs to glowing eyed "Bigfoot" he isn't exaggerating. Elsewhere, Inexplicata asks, Is a 2013 UFO Flap Underway in Argentina? It would seem so as UFO reports have skyrocketed since the start of the new year. Residents of Santiago Alarmed by UFO that appeared in a photograph taken immediately after two tornadoes ravaged the area. Being so soon after high winds, it seems far more likely the UFO is actually a piece of debris floating through the air. A UFO over Cosquin was also captured on camera but it seems that perhaps Argentina is undergoing a flap of mistaken identity rather than of UFOs...