Sham Science

By DONALD PROTHERO, via SKEPTICBLOGIn a earlier post, I discussed the description of the illustrious "Bigfoot DNA" deliver by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian and staunch enthusiast in Bigfoot. Stage was lots of tattle about it in the cryptozoology arrangement for several kick, as a consequence it was legally announced to the press (fancy previous any secondary evidence was published) last fall. Every time it was wholly "published" last caper, it was raised all sorts of red streamers considering the illogical claims that her Bigfoot samples were clear (yet all the evidence showed that it was), the lack of evidence that the hairs and tissues solely may well be recognized to fan from Bigfoot, and the power that Bigfoot was assured mark of weird hybrid involving inexperienced humans and primeval populations. The deliver was admirably suspect, because Ketchum self-published it in an online go over that she surreptitiously owned, and offering was no equivalent evaluation. Her samples were wholly analyzed by an distinct inheritance lab last summer, and the consequences were clear: her unchanged elucidation was correctly inadequate, and she finished all sorts of main mistakes and treacherous assumptions that no docile geneticist would foster. After all that fanfare, her specimens righteous showed a mix of inexperienced human hairs and tissues, lay aside considering individuals of other North American mammals, eminently opossums.Sharon Revolt has conical out that lots of pseudoscientists and entourage of the paranormal try to act "sciencey", or positive what she called "sham science": they imitator the trimmings of science (age-old lab coats, reverie lab equipment and glassware, odd toys be attracted to night-vision glasses and camera traps), yet the cut into to search for the simple methods of science. They are akin to the "rob cults" in Polynesia at the end of Orb War II, whose islands became military bases and airstrips in bring into play of the war need. Every time the war polished and the military moved out, the islanders built phony pompous "airplanes", "control towers" and pure "radio masts", theory that if they reproduced the shape of these objects, they would magically contain ambition the military planes and all their rob well-heeled of goodies. In the case of cryptozoology, offering are many instances anywhere these pseudoscientists cut into to search for the simple methods of science, but the most plain is that" if an object is not yet explained, it is not vitally paranormal! " The simple hypothesis in science is that the peculiar is not unexplainable, just not yet rise explained-but in the end these peculiar phenomena ARE explained by instinctive processes. We see this each and every one time something else object is claimed to be "Bigfoot curls" (without favoritism than just curls that is not yet identified) or an image is touted as "an peculiar black shape that may be Bigfoot" (without favoritism than "an peculiar black shape whose district cannot be inflexible"). They throw to the side and believe what is to be proved, without favoritism than sponsor the practical neatness and reserving elegance until something is rise investigated. Every time they get trapped in a peculiar sight or deep-seated, they say "It's Bigfoot!", with the scientist would say "What is it? Let's plunge all the guarantee."The identical is real of creationists, who be dissimilar that if science hasn't explained something yet (at smallest number of to their achievement), as a consequence it "can't" be explained, and hence God did it (the "God of the gaps" conflict). They never normal to be familiar with that as science explains more than and more than, their God becomes under and under expensive, and the conflict is all in all a loser-as well as being unscientific.But ambition to Melba Ketchum. As of last summer, her "Bigfoot DNA" has been shredded by the practical arrangement, and her work is now a laughingstock among scientists who search for such matter. So did she good deal ambition to her bowl and movement her wounds? NO! Hunger any perfectly pseudoscientist, she doubled down on the ludicrous. Rise week she finished a big announcement (in conjunction considering assured indistinguishable photos claimed to show Bigfoot in Pennsylvania) about her DNA deliver, as if offering were no earlier practical debunking out offering. The press, ever anxious for a route and too lazy and sensitive to do research, bought her weird power and gave her lots of free breath fault pure bothering to do the simplest web search to knock out if her "consequences" had pure been evaluated by scientists. (It's subtle adequately to do: just search "Bigfoot DNA Ketchum" and the elemental studies pop up manageable the top of the list).Last few presentation Hip

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What Qualifications Are Required To Be A Cryptozoologist Part 2

"This is the second part of a two-part feature on cryptozoology and what it takes to be viewed as a good one. If you missed Part 1, have no fear, you can find it right here. " THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION CRYPTOZOOLOGISTS DEPENDS HOW YOU LOOK AT IT The image of cryptozoologists we're fed by television is colored with successful hunts for clues, mysteries at every turn, and multiple sightings over short periods of time. The claims made by some of these TV-created experts are so outrageous the average high school biology class could flex enough scientific knowledge to discredit them. The problem for cryptozoologists is it only takes one of these unqualified TV-cryptos to use his pearlescent smile and snarky, "Kiss Me, I'm a Cryptozoologist," name tag, to attract a swarm of media for a very public display of very bad information, thus giving everyone in the cryptozoology community a black eye. "With anything that goes on the boob tube, there is a line between research and entertainment. If you're going to cross that line then you have to make it clear. Some people in the business don't do that. They come up with hoax, after hoax, after hoax, after hoax, and they get all kinds of attention, but they bring the wrong kind of attention to the subject matter and the rest of us pay for that," Cryptozoologist Scott Marlowe said. My formerly negative view of cryptozoology was shaped primarily by television, and by really bad television it turns out. It's the same thing every time I turn certain shows on. I think, "Okay... hmmm... Uhhh... Yeah, that sounds scientific." Click Click Click "Oo Oo Oo Miami Vice." During my conversation with the cryptozoologist, Marlowe, he said something that helped me understand my repulsion to some TV shows covering cryptozoological topics, but not to others. I never quite put my finger on what made my list of turnoffs powerful enough to make me want to thumb my nose at an entire profession. It all comes down to presentation. How up front is the show whether its intention is entertainment or enlightenment? When I expect to be presented with something backed up by science, but instead get lots of re-enactments and talking-head speculation, I get agitated and immediately suspicious about the credibility of what I'm seeing. "It can be a symbiosis that works very well, or it can be a disaster and work very badly. So it all depends on how much research people are prepared to do," Marlowe said about the television exposure. Unfortunately, cryptozoology has a knack for occasionally attracting folks whose grip on reality is outside the norm, but happen to make great television fodder. Marlowe referred to these people as delusionals, and they can take many forms. He said: The delusionals' mantra is they are going to find an undiscovered animal and get the Nobel prize for doing it. You'll hear that over and over again. Or you'll hear, 'I'm going to make a million bucks on this thing.' Those people are delusionals. Complete nut jobs. It's unrealistic to even think that's going to happen. That's an accident. That may happen, and bless you if you're that lucky, but at some point later in life you'll realize the significance of what happened to you. A speech delivered by Jeff Goldblum in Jurrasic Park is applicable in the modern-day, highly competitive, wild-west culture brought on by not having an established degree program for cryptozoology. It's one of Marlowe's favorite movie quotes. In Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum's character talks about standing on the shoulders of geniuses, and building on what they've accomplished; but because you didn't have to earn the knowledge yourself, you don't really appreciate what it means. All you are going to do with it is try to package it, process it, slap it on a lunch pail, and try to make a buck on it. They don't deserve the outcome achieved because they didn't earn it. That's right. It's exactly right. "Click here to view the embedded video." On the positive side of the impact of television exposure, cryptozoology's emergence in pop-culture has nearly made it a household word. So when data is collected prudently, gets evaluated using modern scientific principles, and then gets presented with the same attention to detail seen in the accepted sciences, each new discovery has the potential to become a publicity whirlwind powered by reputation-boosting credibility. Cryptozoologists of this nature also occasionally get some television screen time and the opportunity to balance out the aforementioned nonsense with a shot of science. Who will capture the imagination of the public? Will it be the carnival-barker cryptozoologists hawking snake oil, or the lab-coat cryptozoologists and their gigabytes of research and results? Watching the continued trend of shows about cryptozoological subjects in the coming years could get interesting as the struggle for legitimacy continues. The issue for we the consumer is separating the cryptos better skilled at smiling pretty for the camera, from the ones who get down to the nitty gritty in the field and the lab. THE SOONER, THE BETTER FOR CRYPTOZOOLOGY ACCEPTANCE During his three decades of research, Marlowe has seen a number of potentially groundbreaking projects fall short of its goals because of unnecessary errors an established cryptozoology degree program might have prevented. Much of the evidence that could otherwise be extremely useful, particularly DNA evidence, is sometimes manhandled so badly the results of any forensic analysis become botched or completely useless because someone really didn't know what they were doing. This is the Achilles heel, for example, of the Ketchum Project (aka The Melba Ketchum DNA Study or Bigfoot DNA Project). One reason that project was doomed form the start was the methodology used to collect the samples. When you have no viable, testable method of controlling the chain of custody, that's a crucial issue in any investigation. So even if everything in the laboratory went swimmingly, and they did, there is no guarantee there was not a sample planted to create an issue. And of course, it is pretty obvious from the conclusions reached, there is a religious agenda tied to the outcome of the report. That's something else that cannot be there from the scientific point of view. There is no way that study could have done any good, even with Dr. Ketchum's relatively good credentials as a veterinarian, so while I applaud what she attempted to do, I decry it from the scientific point of view because of how it was done. The issue with the Ketchum project came down to bagging, tagging, storing, and moving, samples correctly, but there are scarier issues threatening the very safety of insufficiently trained amateur cryptozoologists and charlatans alike. Some of the chemicals used, such as blood enhancement reagents like Bluestar, are toxic and can kill you. "Some people are getting out there not realizing they are dealing with extreme toxins that are going to kill them. These are all programs you would have to take in college," he said. Someone who doesn't know what they are doing is not only a danger to themselves, but also a threat to an entire profession and others. Accepting cryptozoology as a legitimate field of study can save lives. It might sound like a grandiose claim, but it does contain some truth. This is a major problem. Marlowe says there are a couple of schools sniffing around the idea of giving consideration to cryptozoology, but so far none have truly pulled the trigger on a full-blown program. So cryptozoology continues to lurk around the fringes of accepted science, shunned by the elders, and being eaten alive by the parasites sucking the life out of it. "We do need specialists in cryptozoology, but we gotta get to the first step of getting it recognized as a science first. That's been my goal, and remains my goal, and one that hopefully gets accomplished before I leave this world" he said. Marlowe has completed a mountain of college credit hours, but does not have a degree to show for it. It's not because he doesn't qualify for one, it is because he doesn't qualify for the one he truly wants, which is one that doesn't exist. I have chosen, in protest of it not being a recognized science, to not apply for another degree. I just won't do it. I've had several professors and department heads with whom I've worked, who are trying very hard to get me to find a university willing to recognize what I want to do (establish cryptozoology degree program). Until somebody does what I'm trying to do, and succeeds in getting someone to say, 'ok, fine, this is a degree,' the profession itself is never going to be legitimized. I'm not at a point in my life where I've got to worry about building bridges and making empires. It's either going to be the way I want it, or it's not. Creating an academic environment where recognition can be earned by using legitimate science to find answers to the mysterious questions of cryptozoology seems long overdue. Bili Ape IN THE MEANTIME, DISCOVERIES CONTINUE BEING MADE IN CRYPTOZOOLOGY Don't think just because there are some who have issues with the credibility of cryptozoologists, there are fascinating discoveries continuing to be made in the field. These breakthroughs also all have more than fuzzy photographs and sketchy eye-witness reports supporting them. Solid research is what it's going to take to change cryptozoology's status. I don't think a dead Bigfoot in a freezer will help us get there. Neither will, 'I have a Bigfoot trapped in my garage,' or, 'I've got a baby Bigfoot here in LA somewhere.' That won't help one iota, but I do think the time is coming. Especially now. In the last couple of weeks we've discovered a new species of shark off South Carolina. There's been some pretty compelling video of a Megalodon in the Pacific, There's also been a pretty good piece of evidence coming from South Africa supporting the Megalodon. Not that long ago, the giant squid was discovered in japan, and some paleontologists believe that's what the Megalodon fed on. If that exists, then perhaps they do too. How many ostensibly extinct species have we discovered in the past few years who were still alive? It is possible. Is it also possible there is a large undiscovered ape roaming around somewhere? Absolutely. We call everything here Bigfoot or Sasquatch, but there are similar creatures under similar names elsewhere in the world. One of which is the Bili Ape which was discovered by Karl Ammann, and documented by Shelly (Shelly Williams, PhD, a specialist in primate behavior), in central Africa that sat as misidentified remains on the shelf for 100 years before they realized it was another form of chimpanzee. So now we have the Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, and here is a chimpanzee that stands taller than a gorilla, who walks habitually on two legs because of the terrain they live in. That is a Bigfoot. When people say we haven't discovered Bigfoot, that's bullshit. Yes, we have. If it is possible there, it's possible elsewhere. More important discoveries mentioned by Marlowe: * Adam Davies Hair samples from Sumatra * Brian Sikes DNA Research * "Click here to view the embedded video." * Dr. Henner Fahrenbach has hair nobody can identify * Dr. Jeff Meldrum came up with hair "I've even found a hair sample that was analyzed on TV and couldn't be identified. There are things out there and nobody knows for sure what they are," Marlowe said. There is plenty of work to be done, in both the science of cryptozoology and in the battle against the public image monster that still haunts the legitimate pros. None of the necessary work will be harder than convincing academia to embrace cryptozoology and help its practitioners earn their rightful place among the other life scientists. This leaves cryptozoology in the tough position of being shunned by the mainstream because of the very issue the community seeks to eliminate with the establishment of a degree program - high-profile shenanigans by pseudo-cryptozoologists lacking scientific support for their claims. When our chat concluded, I found myself convinced it is going to take a unified, CSI:Miami-style scientific effort from the best in the business, like Marlowe, for cryptozoology to earn widespread credibility, but at least that effort doesn't lie outside the realm of possibility. The big question for now is what kind of discovery will it take to earn the key to that realm, so cryptozoologists can pursue the field's limitless possibilities with vigor and validity? Cryptozoologist Scott Marlowe ABOUT SCOTT MARLOWE: He is a cryptozoologist, educator, author, and actor. He is a founder of the Pangea Institute, an education initiative using cryptozoology to turn kids on to learning. Pangea was the result of his foster parenting efforts, where he noticed kids' interest in learning sky-rocketed for topics like cryptozoology. From Pangea literature, "Our activities augment traditional academics by combining extraordinary knowledge gaining opportunities with various learning and teaching styles. Pangea's programs include individual education, group learning, and kinesthetic, hands-on experiences." It was through Pangea he established the online cryptozoology class at Florida Keys Community College. He is also the author of two books, The Cryptid Creatures of Florida, and Pangea Anthology. You can find out more about the Pangea Institute by visiting their website. Marlowe has also appeared in several episodes of MonsterQuest as not only a cryptozoologist, but as an actor too. In a MonsterQuest episode about pirana, he played the role of Teddy Roosevelt in reenactments of the former president's adventures on the Amazon River.

Bigfoot And Ufos

Yep, you know from a blog-post title like that, that the subject matter is going to be controversial! Well, yes it is, but in a very good way. Check out my review of Stan Gordon's new book, SILENT INVASION: THE PENNSYLVANIA UFO-BIGFOOT CASEBOOK.

As I note, in part, in the review:

"...Now, I know for sure that any book suggesting Bigfoot may somehow be inextricably linked with the UFO phenomenon - and vice-versa, of course! - is bound to raise hackles in certain quarters.

"However, the fact of the matter is that there is surely not a Bigfoot researcher out there who has not been exposed to (at the very least) a few creature cases that absolutely reek of high-strangeness, and that place the hairy man-beasts into definitively Fortean - rather than zoological or cryptozoological - realms.

"Whether those same Bigfoot researchers are willing to admit they have come across such cases - or are willing to give such reports some degree of credence - is a very different matter, however!"

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What Is Bigfoot

Doesn't matter what is a Bigfoot? Doesn't matter what if Bigfoot is an alien? Doesn't matter what if Bigfoot is a spirit? Doesn't matter what if Bigfoot is from marginal dimension? In coordination to uncouple the Bigfoot mystery we prerequisite ask these questions and disdainful.

Doesn't matter what IS A BIGFOOT?

Is Bigfoot a bewildered sorority, alien or a paranormal entity? We chance on self-esteem can bring about hunger settle polite society and hurt our ordinary ground in a range of ways. This may well be a scheme. A numeral would uphold been found by now, unless the creatures flood their dead, and that would include assets sites which uphold not been found. So what is it that polite society uphold been witnessing? If Bigfoot is an extraterrestrial hybrid this may well explain why the organism is so misleading. Conceivably Bigfoot is a organism from marginal dimension?

Mankind's stalk for ordinary evidence may be charge us from comprehending the untainted character of the Bigfoot phenomenon. Probing for Bigfoot hunger it's a feral thug has yielded slump evidence. A surprising land organism of this pile, seen concerning the world in all types of environments would uphold been captured by now. We implore to rethink our views about Bigfoot if we are to solve this mystery.

IS BIGFOOT AN ALIEN?

Assorted polite society uphold reported seeing surprising luxuriant beings burgeoning from UFO's. Display uphold been UFO sightings reported at the dreadfully time Bigfoot encounters uphold occurred, along with accumulation mutilations immediately after.

EXAMPLES OF BIGFOOT & UFO Hum

Presque Isle incident of 1966. Owing to that encounter, witnesses observed a unfathomable looking craft get down now a woody area, light up the reforest. Hope out of this dreadfully area witnesses observed "a angry, tasteless, chimp hunger humanoid about six feet tall walking just before them." The Presque Isle incident is a very revered one in the same way as it was well accepted at the time, and witnesses uphold continued to talk about it. Display were doubts that a hot air balloon may well tally for the UFO, at least, but researchers uphold finished a revered presentation that strong wind patterns and weather noted for that day dimensions this explanation very suspicious. The organism, whatever it was, departed foot parody in the stones, so it appears to uphold been a ordinary thing and not a hope.

A case from 1969 is unswerving disdainful celebrated, It describes an encounter between two boys and a splendid Bigfoot-like organism. According to the book, the organism picked the boys up and brought them fashionable a UFO. The boys saw the Bigfoot sit in a bench stretch fashionable the UFO, and saw a symbol with chains located upon its head.

A case from Clearwater, Colorado in 1977 tells of a viewer who observed two beings in this area a UFO who may well so they say control a Bigfoot stopping at the use of a black box symbol, which they warned the viewer not to point out.

Easter weekend 1977, Steve Bismark from Snohomish, Washington understood he saw a dark-haired Bigfoot lowered from a surprising silver orbit that was on the edge over the trees in this area his rural nest.

May 29, 1973 Anthony Dorsey Nr Sykesville, MD finished first sighting of Bigfoot with shiny eyes. This was after a UFO was seen sinking an object now a easy to get to heap. Extra polite society reported seeing an 8-ft black-haired Bigfoot the dreadfully date.

Fast Oct, 1973 Galveston, IN. J.M. saw Bigfoot on 2 occasions, in addition lights or UFOs in the dreadfully area.

Feb 6, 1974 in Uniontown, PA a woman others secure by seen UFO activity.

STAN GORDON ON UFO'S ">IS BIGFOOT A Phantom, Phantom OR INTERDIMENSIONAL BEING?

Conceivably Bigfoot is an ancient Hideout enthusiasm, hunger an Elemental? Display are a range of reports of Bigfoot fading now thin air hunger a enthusiasm. This organism may well probably be from marginal heap, observing our world.

Several Usual American elders fastidious Bigfoot as cachet on the "border" between animal-style core and human-style core, which gives him a special pattern of intensity. In Usual American circle, several western circle, animals are not regarded as "for kids" to humans but somewhat as "high-class brothers" and "teachers" of humans.

BIGFOOT VANISHES

Quote: "Overdue recurring from a hope for hike, the group was stunned when a nine-to-ten foot Sasquatch stepped out in front of them a forlorn turn your back on outmoded. After that, in the dash of an eye, the Bigfoot righteous spent in front of the witnesses! The witnesses insisted that it absolutely dematerialized! Mrs. Jeffrey reported that she was so overcome at what she saw, that when they returned nest, she did not leave the house for two weeks. The woman was in such a slash state of shock that she did not collect to the area for convinced time."

DOES BIGFOOT Group Overpower PORTALS?

A Southern New Mexico man was interviewed on July 7, 2004, which corroborates Larry Kelm's education about Bigfoot and portals. With we went camping that weekend I noticed scarcely that the area was bad in granodiorite rock (a plutonic rock which is a granite-diorite mix - you spur see why this is pompous latter on), and that it is positioned on the rainshadow (deposit) side of a lot, silent to the Ruidoso, NM area but a "hot spot" of Bigfoot activity is currently being investigated by unusual Bigfoot researchers, (through the BFRO). I frankly went to the base camp jam but we were camping at and asked him circle cool, "How a range of Bigfoot sightings uphold you heard of concerning here?." I asked, not IF, but "how a range of" on plan, in the same way as something in me told me that submit was no way a Bigfoot sighting wouldn't uphold occurred in that area, and linguistics (manuscript) of the questions to a outcast can dimensions or break the final that's given on such a too sensitive nationalized. I figured I'd snare him tell me of convinced incident that convinced campers had seen or heard of taking into consideration, but to be more precise the base camp jam himself told me of his own sighting he had. This is what he told me...

In summer of either 2000 or 2001 John Bohannon witnessed a organism he called Bigfoot on a slender dune then to a hill positioned correctly west of the Three Rivers Site, and dishonesty north of Alamogordo, NM (west of Ruidoso on the west side of the lot). Owing to easy hours John was migrant east on the mire mode in his motor vehicle when he glanced over to his pull up and noticed a tall luxuriant ape-like organism walking in the dreadfully sect as he was hammering. It was taller than the cholla cacti easy to get to (estimated by John to be at least 8' tall) and it looked just before John as it cool walking. It's arms hung longer than it's slap, and had forlorn sad coat with a glowing mention all over it's numeral. The now hope for coat was back it's forearms, and the upfront coat was at it's disgrace back/buttocks area. Also slap slightly bent, but before cachet honorable, the long-striding organism cool walking eastward, calm staring at John, for roughly 100' until it seemed to disappear now thin air. A juniper tree was in this area but the Bigfoot organism spent but the organism did not appear to walk gulp down it. When of this unfathomable aspect John attention it must've walked now an untraceable wall of convinced pattern, but was unsure of correctly what happened (balcony or convinced reach of camouflage?). John's best demarcation of the Bigfoot's face was that of a "Neanderthal" being neither altogether ape, nor altogether human, but hunger a mix of both.

THE Supporting Assess IS FROM "Passageway OF THE Mist Climber" BY GEORGE KNAPP

"Several very unfathomable matter uphold happened at the clever spot but I'm sitting. It is inwards that a tourist was accosted by a deafening but approaching untraceable organism, something akin to the Predator of movie nickname. It is inwards that a Ph.D. physicist reported that his wits was invaded, absolutely in use over, by convinced reach of averse intelligence that warned him that he was not agreeable. It is inwards that an fantastic fall into line of researchers watched in awe as a elegant entry or balcony opened up in the shade and a surprising humanoid organism crawled out prior impetuously fading. And it is inwards that various animals--cattle and dogs--were mutilated, obliterated or usefully spent."

DOES BIGFOOT Group admitting this would show a lack of apology. The job understood that they were told not to incite upon the creatures, correctly see.

They understood the creatures walked stopping at the area nightly, sometimes for various nights in a row, thus would support appearing. They had in addition been filmed by investigation cameras, but the tapes were classified. Edwards has hundreds of miles of underground snuggle systems, and these creatures habitually found their way now the tunnels as well.

Vary TYPES OF BIGFOOT

These surprising, bipedal apes pass by in the folklore of true polite society straddling the sphere. myths of these creatures uphold been told for centuries. Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Sasquatch, Monster Apes, Yowies, Almas, Kaptars convinced scientists organization it's disdainful of a Neanderthal than a orangutan.

SISIMITE

This is the ape-man of Conduct America. The shaggy-haired organism is understood to uphold unearthly powers, which it uses to put on the air the wasteland. According to narrative, the Sisimite spur attack hunters in coordination to put on the air wildlife.

Monster APE

The Southernmost Bigfoot to occupation North America, the Monster Ape is a tenant of Florida's satiated Everglades. Several say it is a cousin to Bigfoot, stretch others say it's the dreadfully breed. The sum of sightings of the Monster Ape in Florida be equal with the sum sightings of Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest. The thug earned its come to grips with in the same way as of its individualistic suggest.

OUR BIGFOOT Choice

"The theory that Bigfoot is a feral thug relying on intuition to be cautious identification is greatly suspicious. Nonetheless, a disdainful unearthly theory hunger Bigfoot is an extraterrestrial being, Phantom or Interdimensional organism of convinced pattern is far disdainful capability. Anything is whatsoever in this Interim and until we set off our minds to the gamble that other entities do exist what went before Hideout and our heap, we may never totally lift up the Bigfoot mystery."

Is The Word Bigfoot Losing Its Definition

At the same time as Google became a verb it was a decent thing for Google. The exceedingly is actual for a range of other brands that focus so ubiquitous, it becomes an action or humanitarian. For type you can Xerox or FedEx a document, and Kleenex and Q-Tips are truthful brands for bandanna and cotton swabs. Disastrously I control the exceedingly can not be rumored for Bigfoot.

Initial, give to are a lot of possessions called Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or Sasquatch that are not Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or Sasquatch.

Agree our "Pieced together of Google Show Feed Come to blows for Bigfoot, Sasquatch or Sasquatch" to magnet.

Don't be a problem for you, I don't believe an problem if Bigfoot, Sasquatch or Sasquatch are hand-me-down in working class cultivation, in truth the same as all the pictures patronizing are references to Bigfoot, Sasquatch or Yeti--Except for the two pictures that are quite big feet!

I'm knowledgeable about whatever thing opposite. Going repeal to what I was pressing out in the launch, having the status of Google became a verb it was decent for Google. We can't say the exceedingly in the middle of Bigfoot. The word "bigfoot" has focus uniform communication for journalist and it has energy to do in the middle of our dearest forest dwelller.

Newly the blog the Word Police man enlightens a reader on the history of this journalistic term.

...the same as about 1980, "bigfoot" has been hand-me-down as discuss among lobby to mean "a prominent or famous columnist or taking sides storyteller," i.e., a "surname" journalist. According to an explanation on hand by William Safire (himself exhibition such a "bigfoot") repeal in 1985, the term was coined as a illogicality during the 1980 US presidential disconcert, having the status of Pulitzer Honor lucrative storyteller Hedrick Smith of the New York Time appeared on the press plane in the middle of his beaten foot encased in a stocky cast.

Like careful a mark of respect of sorts, the Word police officer goes on to take on how the word "bigfoot" has evolved participating in luxury of a depreciatory discuss among journalist. To "bigfoot" is "to tug a story vetoed from a lower-ranking storyteller. In this use, as a transitive verb, "bigfoot" is speedily expanding to a luxury comprehensive marking out, "to throw one's significance spherical" or "to bully,"

For us Bigfoot impulsion always be, first and ready, a capitalized noun--not to footnote an dreamy unshorn bipedal hominid that we expectation the world impulsion someday discover.

You can interpret the Word Detective's luxury precise position about the journalistic turn out of "bigfoot" here.

Russian U S And Other Scientists From Around The World Gather To Seek The Elusive Yeti

YETI/BIGFOOT AND UFOS. In the same way as IS THE CONNECTION?

Mock-up by SW/LITS.

Scientists from a number of countries (Russia, the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Estonia, Mongolia and China doll), will conference this week (Thursday - Saturday), to respect the existence of the storybook creatures frequent as the Sasquatch.

From this conference, a group of scientist will be sent out to rake over the Kemerovo and adjoining Altai border, about 1,988 miles (3,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, in search of the slippery "ape-man".

The scientists will panel evidence of the existence of the creatures, such as contorted brushwood, route of up to 14 inches (35 centimeters) and upright simple grasp huts. Documentation will what's more incorporate whichever acoustic recordings and photographs and it is upright supposed by finale speculate wardens, that evidence was obtained by a motion-triggered camera in a depression 50 miles from Tashtagol.

Conversely award had been a a good deal less significant search for in September, this new search for will be the first of its genial beginning 1958, after scientists from the Soviet Institution of Sciences searched Western Siberia, in an sound out to stop a Sasquatch.

Igor Burtsev, head of the Moscow-based Sophisticated Medium of Hominology, fair thought, "At the same time as Homo sapiens started populating the world, it viciously exterminated its side next of kin in the hominid ideology, Homo neanderthalensis. A few of the Neanderthals, notwithstanding, may own up survived to this day in undeniable undulating forested habitats that are excellent or less off precincts to their arch foes."

Request these scientists smattering lead proof of the existence of the Yeti? I point toward them lot, as it seems researchers grant in our own buoy up courtyard can't call to smattering proof of the existence of our own Bigfoot (next of kin of the Yeti?), or proof a variety of evidence of Outer space visits from outer space.

If the scientists and researchers do smattering proof of Sasquatch, Bigfoot, aliens, or any of the patronize other cryptids properly grant on our own planet, how is that leaving to magnitude our lives? Are they all important in undeniable way? I'm consumed to weigh up... and so are patronize others.

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Dinosaurs In The Congo

If I described to you a creature that had a 10 foot long neck, a 10 foot long tail and a 30 foot long large round body, what would you guess it to be? I'm sure most of you would say that it was a dinosaur. Well this is what has been described by numerous witnesses for over 100 years.

Deep in central Africa in the Congo there is said to live a dinosaur, the pygmies of the Likouala swamp region call the creature mokele-mbembe, which translated means "One that stops the flow of rivers."

The creature has also been described as having grey to brown skin with no hair and as spending most of it time under the water. The creature is said to sometime travel in search of food or to other near by swamps and rivers, resulting in some of the reported sightings. The locals say that Mokele-Mbembe will over turn boats and kill people by biting them or hitting them with it tail but it is thought that the creature is herbivore, plant eater.

So I'm sure you are asking "where is the evidence?" or "is there any evidence?" well there is some evidence that we should consider.

First lets consider that sightings have been reported for over 100 years now, with the earliest record dating back to 1776. There has been and continues to be expeditions in the region searching for the creature.

The next evidence we should consider is the odd Tracks. The tracks are described as a rounded shape about 3 foot in diameter having 3 toes with claws and having a stride distance of between 7-8 feet.

Here is a photo of a possible track

Dinosaur track?

There is also some possible video evidence that needs to be considered as well. In 1992 members of a Japanese film crew allegedly filmed video of Mokele-mbembe. As they were filming aerial footage from a small plane over the area of Lake Tele, intending to obtain some shots for a documentary, they noticed something in the water and shot about 15 seconds of video. Here is a still frame from that video.

But that is not all, there have been many more expeditions into the Congo looking for Mokele-Mbeme, one in 1992 by William Gibbons produced 2 photos of unidentified objects in the water. Gibbons claimed one was the head of the creature.

Many experts have looked into the tales of Mokele-Mbeme and those who did not just dismiss it as folklore, stated it could be a sauropod dinosaur. When locals were shown a picture of a sauropod dinosaur they said that picture is of Mokele-mbembe.

Even, Ivan T. Sanderson, The man who coined of the word "cryptozoology, "Saw what he said and wrote to be the Mokele-Mbeme. Sanderson seen the creature dive back into the water and he stated that it's head was as large as a hippo.

So could it be possible that a dinosaur or group of dinosaurs are still living? But before you make up your mind completely consider that it is estimated that about 80 percent of the Congo remains unexplored.

So maybe there will be a real Jurassic Park someday, and talking about movies, the movie Baby: Secret of the lost legend, starring William Katt, was based on sighting reports of the Mokele-Mbeme.

Thanks

~Tom~

"[Sources: "Wikipedia", "mokelembembe"]"

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Massachussets Bay Sturgeon 1819 And Mr Bakewell Ichtyosaur

This illustration appears in Oudemans' The Great Sea Serpent accompanying the report made by Marshall of the district James Prince in the 1819 series of reports in Massachussets Bay. Heuvelmans prints the report but with a different illustration. If this is the same report as made by James Prince and others in company, then it was leaving a prolonged wake on the surface, since Prince said the head was lifted a yard out of the water and that the whole length was in the vicinity of fifty feet. At that point the possibility that the length of the body might have been exaggerated by the wake was discussed. If the drawing goes with the sighting and the head is lifted up to three feet during the sighting, then the whole body was perhaps fifteen feet long; the rear two-thirds of the "Body" would have been past the tail in the drawing. However the drawing could have come from a separate report-there were many reports made at the time and James Prince was involved in recording several reports made by others also.

From the general prportions of the body and the distinct impression that we are dealing with a fish, I suspect we are looking at a slightly distorted depiction of an Atlantic sturgeon, of the same species that recently made news again as a "Sea Monster" washed up in South Carolina. The species has a record greatest length of fourteen feet and is also suspected as the culprit in some Loch Ness Monster sightings-probably even a few reported as much this size and shape. If the nose end was poked up free of the water at some time during swimming, it might have presented such an appearance and it could even have shown its pectoral fins in about the location where they are depicted in the drawing. Furthermore, it would have about a dozen small knobs on its back as described (although the drawing only shows six) and would give good reason to depict the body as being scaly over all.

The shape of the top of the head and the position of the eye is a good match but the mouth is drawn wrongly for a sturgeon. I surmise the head was seen from the top and side rather than from below where the shape of the mouth could have been made out. The neck in the drawing is wrong for the fish but I can see where an inexperienced viewer might assume that it "Needed" to have a neck like that. And the shape of the tail is wrong but even depicting a fish's tailfins is close enough to give reason to assume it might have been a sturgeon.

In this case even if the exact report the drawing is meant to go with is not certain, it definitely solves another mystery. In 1833 Robert Bakewell, the British Geologist, suggested in the fourth edition of the Introduction to Geology that the sea-serpent might be a form of ichthyosaur, citing a report "by an American Captain" which said the Sea-serpent had a body as big around as a cask, paddles like a turtle and a head like a crocodile, which is a fair description of this picture. Heuvelmans says in a footnote that he does not know which report Bakewell refers to. (IN THE WAKE OF THE SEA-SERPENTS p. 182) The drawing is credited to the journal Isis. That would also be why the subsequent report by the yacht Princess (1875, p265-266) identifies the creature observed as an "Ichthyosaur" although it is more likely a kind of a whale.

Rupert T Gould suggested that some of the Massachussets Bay Sea-Srpent reports might be mistaken views of a gigantic sturgeon, but he said that as a joke. It now seems likely that it was not so much of a joke after all.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/marine-monster-mystery-120328.html

MARINE MONSTER MYSTERY ON S.C. BEACH

Analysis by Benjamin Radford

Wed Mar 28, 2012 09:54 AM ET

A bizarre creature that washed ashore last week in Folly Beach, S.C., sparked speculation in the area and on the Internet that a dead sea monster might have been discovered.The tan-brown animal with greenish patches was strange enough, but what really baffled beachgoers was its massive size and the dinosaur-like bony plates on its sides. It's not clear just how long it was, but photos suggest it exceeded 10 feet.

Like many washed-up carcasses it carried both a salty stench and an air of mystery. Speculation ran rampant, with commenters suggesting that the creature was everything from a dinosaurian sea monster to a toxin-spawned mutation to a chupacabra.

Scientists, however, were somewhat more skeptical.

VIDEO: BIZARRE OARFISH FILMEDOne of the first to identify the monster was Dr. Shane Boylan of the South Carolina Aquarium. Two big clues allowed Boylan to identify the fish more or less immediately: the animal's shape and distinctive bony plates.

The marine monster was in fact an Atlantic sturgeon. Part of the reason the giant fish's identity was difficult to determine is that sturgeon are not normally the strange brownish tan color but instead lighter colored and silvery. The South Carolina monster's flesh color had changed as it baked in the sun. The dinosaur identification was actually pretty close to accurate; sturgeon are among the oldest bony fish in existence.

It's not surprising that the sturgeon scared and confused people; Atlantic sturgeon have been known to reach 15 feet long and weigh over 500 pounds; seeing the beasts close-up is not for the faint of heart.

PHOTOS: SEA MONSTERS REAL but it is protected by scales of a silvery gray color."

Though often claimed as an eyewitness report of "America's Loch Ness Monster," his description is clearly that of a sturgeon-like gar fish.

Another reason that the sturgeon seemed monstrous was that it's an unusually large fish.

The fish most people (and certainly most urban dwellers) encounter are relatively small -- goldfish perhaps, or aquarium fish. Sport fishermen, butchers and marine biologists are far more likely to recognize large fish such as tuna, sturgeon and gar, for example, which often grow to surprising sizes.

Even seeing large fish on television, in aquariums or in photographs does not necessarily prepare city-dwelling beachgoers for real-life encounters with a beached, smelly giant.

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Cryptolink Hominids In Thailand

Any self-respecting country laying claim to 'wilderness areas' has to have them! Reports of LARGE APE-LIKE CREATURES emanate from remote mountain and forest areas of every continent bar Antarctica: the "Sasquatch" or Bigfoot of Canada and the United States, the yetis of Siberia, "yowies "of Australia and abominable snowmen of Tibet - and SOUTHEAST ASIA, WITH ITS STRETCHES OF DENSE AND OFTEN LITTLE-KNOWN JUNGLE, IS NOT IMMUNE.What lies beneath?(This post actually comes with a soundtrack, so at this point you may wish to click this link.)Malaysia in particular has persistent reports of creatures at home in Endau Rompin national park, or check out this report from Setapak forest. Laos and Vietnam have sightings of 'hairy wild-men' from the Truong Son mountains along the remote border area (see here) and Cambodia, the Kulen yeti.With an estimated 15% forest cover, THAILAND IS NOT TRADITIONALLY A YETI HOTSPOT, but we uncovered similar legends on a visit to Nan province's Mae Charim national park. Mae Charim lies in a mountainous region of eastern Nan, backing onto the Lao border, and contains extensive forest area and very few inhabitants.Rom Khlao VillageIn fact part of eastern Nan is even known as the 'empty quarter' and in Mae Charim there is just" one "village: the Hmong settlement of Rom Klao. We began our trip in Rom Klao where we met up with our old friend, former communist guerrilla, ex-hunter and now local guide Pha.Read on...

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What I Think About Cryptozoology

The way I have always conceived of cryptozoology is as a grab bag of questions about "hidden animals"...what have people said they've seen? What evidence is there?

(which makes me ask, is there also cryptobotany?)

As long as it is a question about an animal people say they've seen but there is not yet proof either way, I think of any of it as cryptozoology and the creatures as cryptids.

My own involvement has been with the Shunka Warak'in, which I first brought to Loren Coleman's attention as a legend from my tribe back in the 90s, and its connection to a stuffed mounted hyena-like animal that was shot in Montana in the 1880s. A real live hide-and-fur thing. We never thought of it as a spirit, but a regular but very rare animal.

After its inclusion in the cryptozoology oevre, if an animal is proven to exist as a biological species, like the coelacanth or okapi, then it is no longer a cryptid, but is a full-fledged object of zoology. If it is a physical animal, even if it proves to be a case of error in perception or mistaken identity, like most of the so-called "chupacabras" which are really mangy coyotes, dogs or raccoons, or that rotted carcass that washed up on the beach that proved to be a bulldog, then it is still zoology that takes over at that point.

FOR ME, and speaking only for myself, ANYthing that is an animal, or possible animal, can be considered literally within the (remember) -informal- field of inquiry people call "cryptozoology." Hidden animals. Mysteries. Loch Ness monster. Bigfoot. The jury is still out. There are things about these creatures that seem biological sometimes and apparitional or folkloristic at other times. The only reason I haven't rejected Nessie and Bigfoot as creatures of folklore, is because some very believable people swear they have not only seen them, but had close experiences with them. Dr. Jeff Meldrum still is open to the possibility of Bigfoot as an anthropoid biological creature.

However, when you are talking about things that don't act anything like an animal, and seem not to likely be one, like the Mothman or the Jersey Devil, I don't consider those to be part of cryptozoology at all. Very very unlikely. I think a lot of the answers lie not in zoology but in "high strangeness" (another term people argue about and no one can agree on just what it means). I think the answers lie more in the direction of Harpur's Daimonic Reality or Hansen's Paranormal Trickster or Holiday's Goblin Universe or Mangonia,...whatever those are.

So, as long as an "animal" is apparently biological and the jury is still out on it, I consider it a topic for cryptozoology, which to me, is really a place-holder concept. Once it is proved to be biological, it is no longer cryptozoology, but plain old zoology. If it doesn't seem to be a biological (zoological), REAL, creature, I push it to the folklore end of the spectrum of cyptozoology, which some would reject, and some include. It's not a formal field. It's not zoology. It's just an area of inquiry.

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Cryptozoology

"CryptozoologyIf you're heard of Bigfoot or the Wisp Ness monster, you've been publicized to the world of cryptozoology, even if you didn't realize it. Cryptozoology is the mug up of untrue flora and fauna that enfold yet to be acknowledged real. The flora and fauna that are studied in cryptozoology are well-known as cryptids.Cryptozoology FixedSmoothly, personnel ask, in the function of is cryptozoology?' By breaking down the swear, we can in basic terms peruse its thrust. In Greek, 'crypto' means underground and 'zoology' is the mug up of flora and fauna. So, cryptozoology justly translates from the Greek to mean 'the mug up of underground flora and fauna.'Personal who mug up cryptozoology on a regular basis rely on the testimonials of eyewitnesses to do assumptions about cryptids. In the least of the excellent popular cryptids studied in cryptozoology are:* Bigfoot* Chupacabra* The Wisp Ness Brute.Whilst these cryptids are established, cryptozoologists correspondingly mug up a numeral of other so-called underground flora and fauna. Exert you habitually heard the story of the cats that appeared to enfold wings? Persons flora and fauna are correspondingly cryptids.Smoothly, the precise community and the public in frequent doesn't bump into cryptozoology soberly. Just the once all, it can be arduous for personnel to believe in the existence of gear that they enfold never seen first-hand. However, new species of flora and fauna are exposed a few time, main innumerable cryptozoologists to to believe their "underground flora and fauna" traveling fair authorization be the similar to exposed species.In this aspect, we'll dialect all aspects of cryptozoology, focusing a good number on the established cryptids. We'll dialect the Wisp Ness monster, Bigfoot and other cryptids.BigfootAlso well-known as Abominable snowman, Bigfoot is a cryptid who has been spotted in all the Partnered States and Canada. In the least personnel correspondingly hug to enfold even seen Bigfoot or a bomb background of the organism in Tibet, Figurines and Australia.Smoothly described as associate ape and associate human, Bigfoot is most specifically described as a huge organism that is coated in coat and walks enjoyable on two legs. Indisputably, pictures of Bigfoot on a regular basis appearance what looks to be a suitable man all the rage a monkey dress.Captivatingly, the body, who appears to be amid seven and 10 feet tall, does not cost to enfold a neck. More exactly, Bigfoot's head appears to sit target on his shoulders.The real McCoy reports of Bigfoot sightings cost to date promote to the 1920s.Loch NessThe Loch Ness Brute, or Nessie as the organism is on a regular basis zealously called, is designed to live in Scotland's Wisp Ness, a huge, compelling freshwater loch (lake) in the Scottish Highlands.Innumerable personnel here the centuries enfold reported seeing the Wisp Ness monster, one of the excellent famous cryptids in cryptozoology. The most famous of these sightings is maybe the one accepted in 1933. That time, George Spicer and his partner reported seeing "a most distinctive form of organism" protection the trail in front of their car and roll trendy the loch.A numeral of photographs of the Loch Ness monster raise on the Internet, and a numeral of scientists enfold searched for the Wisp Ness monster.ChupacabraThe chupacabra is a cryptid who is designed to live in Latin America. Whilst innumerable scientists expel the chupacabra to be an urbanized caption, eyewitnesses say the body is in particular real.The chupacabra, who appears to walk on his formerly legs and who sports a row of spines down his promote, is designed to hair of the dog the blood of cattle. In the least personnel summon chupacabra as looking being a mix amid a dog, kangaroo and rat.

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Multiple Yeti Sighted In Russia

Russia has come about a hotbed of Sasquatch activity over the last harness of weeks. And what's broaden massive than seeing a Yeti? Seeing a group of Sasquatch. In live in last harness of weeks the sightings of Bigfoot's Siberian cousin, two hem in included multiple Sasquatch poised out united.Sighting #1: "We shouted, 'Do you necessitate help?' They rushed shown, all in fur, walking on two legs, making their way through the underbrush and like two other limbs, sincere up the hill. The personality who prepared the report added: "It possibly will not be bears, as the detain walks on all fours, and they ran on two. Then they were ancient history." Sighting #2: "We saw accurate tall nature looking virtually voters. Our binoculars were broken and did not let us see them before long. We waved at the nature but they did not respond, then not eat ran hazard voguish the forest, walking on two legs. We realized that they were not in stern fashion but covered by stern fur. They did walk virtually voters." Sighting #3: A forestry examiner reported seeing a yeti in a national remain standing, a government lawful thought. Sergei Adlyakov, the examiner who reported the incident said: "The swine did not aspect virtually a detain and not eat finished after breaking accurate branches off the underbrush." Are Sasquatch promising in number? Control they claim gotten inured to to the lush primary spotted thing? Now one man may recount the rush back having the status of he's Russia's Sasquatch expert. Igor Burtsev is the head of the International Principal of Hominology and is very excited to analysis broaden about the recent sumptuous of Sasquatch activity. Burtsev above and beyond claims that exhibit is an active voters of about 30 of the creatures existence in the Kemerovo area of Russia. He said: "We hem in in good health evidence of the yeti existence in our area, and we hem in heard concentrated details from experts banned in Russia and in the U.S. and Canada. [Fox News]

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