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The Beast of 7 Chutes
Dogman? Bigfoot? What is it holding?
On June 1, 2005, a photo was taken of an unidentified species standing beside a waterfall in the Parc des Sept Chutes in Quebec, Canada. Amazingly, the creature appears to be holding something and is staring at the photographer, who doesn’t notice it. This creature does not match the typical descriptions of the legendary Bigfoot, which is usually described a being a massive creature that resembles a human, having a conical head and a human-looking flat face. As well, the Bigfoot is not usually described as being aggressive.
The creature in the photo has several unique physical attributes that differentiates it from typical Bigfoot sightings. The creature is erect, standing on two legs and appears to be between 5-6 feet tall. It has an elongated snout that appears dog-like as well as silver hair on its head reaching to it’s shoulders. The creature’s body is black and the left arm is visible bent at the elbow. Quite remarkably, the creature looks to be holding a white dog.
Based on the red area that looks like blood on the creatures head, it may have been feeding on the dog. The creature has a triangular shaped head and, unlike most Bigfoot who retreat when seen, this creature is holding his ground and staring aggressively and directly at the photographer.
In August 2008, David Claerr wrote an article comparing the Beast of Seven Chutes and Dogman of Michigan:
In the forests of Northern Wisconsin, Michigan and East Central Canada, between about 42 to 48 degrees of Latitude, there have been a resurgence of reports of a large, bipedal carnivore, within the past several years. There is a notable resemblance in the descriptions to a being in the lore of native tribes: the Windigo, a tall, ferocious creature with a wolf-like head on the body of a man or bear. It also fits the descriptions from European legends of the werewolf.
The cryptic creature is reported to have unique characteristics that differ from the appearance of a Sasquatch or Bigfoot. Generally smaller and less stocky than a Sasquatch, it is said to be closer to the height of an average man, and the arms and legs are similar in proportion to the human. The hands or fore-paws are said to have long curving, sharp claws. The feet, judged by footprints, are said to be elongated somewhat like the human, but the toes are shorter and configured more like a canine. But the most striking feature, according to the accounts, is the elongated muzzle with large protruding canines and pointed incisors.
Accounts of sightings of the creature are often in conjunction with a fresh kill, usually a deer. Its demeanor is hostile and aggressive, according to reports. The non-human expression is said to be malevolent, and the glaring eyes and snarling grimace are said to provoke a deep sense of dread. 
The accompanying illustrations by the author are based on purported eyewitness accounts and a detail from a photo taken in a park near, Quebec Canada. “Seven Chutes” refers to the cataracts or waterfalls in the park, which is known by the the French name “Parc de Sept Chutes”. In a small area of the larger, complete picture of a waterfall, a strange figure is facing the camera and looking up through the foliage on the embankment. Amazingly, it appears to be cradling a white poodle in its arms.
The hand-drawn digital illustrations by the author were derived by a visual study of an enlarged detail of the figure. Sophisticated filtering effects were employed to isolate color groups and enhance details of the structure and textural patterns. A compensation for motion-blur was added. The resulting rectified image, which revealed surprising detail, was used as a visual comparison for the illustrations.
The crown of the creature’s head has an irregular red coloration that has the appearance of a stain, perhaps blood. The rest of the hair or fur, which follows coherent patterns, is in shades of grey to white, darker at the base and lighter toward the tips. The head has a moderately long mane that appears to obscure the ears. The coat of hair on the arms, legs and body is somewhat uniform and comprised of stiff bristles about an inch and a half long, judging from proportions. The lower legs and feet in the image are obscured, so the illustrated configuration of them is conjectural. The “dog” it appears to hold is less distinct since it has more of a motion-blur, but still looks more like a dog than any other object or animal.
From studying the apparent bone structure, musculature, posture and hair-growth patterns it is a reasonable hypothesis that the creature, if real, would have characteristics most in common with the primate branch that includes macaques and baboons. Since the environment in the reports is the colder mid-northern regions, an analogous primate could be the Snow Monkeys (macaques) of Japan, which have a seasonal growth of hair that allows them to survive temperature extremes. Related primates, like baboons, also have enormous canine teeth and a head that can appear very dog- or wolf-like. The hind legs and feet of a baboon are also somewhat dog-like in appearance and function. These conjectures are worth considering if a bipedal, primarily carnivorous primate is postulated. Of course, most primates are omnivores or herbivores, but that does not preclude the possible existence of a carnivorous primate. An analogy to that premise would be the carnivorous marsupial “wolves” and “lions” formerly inhabiting Tasmania.
Reports of this type of cryptic biped in the Americas go back centuries before the arrival of Europeans. There have been sporadic reports since the days of New World settlements of this and perhaps related creatures by well known explorers and historical figures. Whether the phenomenon is real or imaginary, a greater understanding of this and other mysteries can be gained only through scientific investigation and comprehensive field research.
The person who took the photo lives in Quebec, about 15 minutes from where the photo was taken. He speaks French and works as a driver for a construction company and wishes to remain anonymous.
He was sightseeing alone at the Parc des Sept Chutes which is near Saint-Georges de Beauce, Quebec, it was about 90 degrees that day. He did not notice the subject or anything out of the ordinary while he was walking around the park taking pictures. The date was Wed. June 1st 2005 there were no other park visitors around. He took 76 photos (all at medium resolution) of various park features, he also recorded 4 videos. (The videos are available for anyone who wants to view them.) The camera was a Canon A70. He was looking through the photos at home that same day and was surprised to see the subject/creature standing in the woods looking up at him. The photo was number 32 in the set. He has since been back to this area 3 times and taken photos and videos on each occasion. He was back on Monday July 4th and was spooked when he heard something walking in the woods 20-30 feet away from him. He stated that he probably will not be going back there alone. In some of the later photos he took he had his girlfriend stand where the subject was and he stood where he initially was and took photos to get a sense of size and scale.
Here is a recreation photo taken a few weeks later of the EXACT area
Source Credit(s): Posted by Lon Strickler at Phantoms and Monsters naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-was-beast-of-seven-chutes.html Photo of recreation taken from haveyouseenthiscreature.com
For anyone interested The lat and long for the location where the photo was taken… Latitude: 47° 7’17.46”N Longitude: 70°49’47.28”W
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Bigfoot sighting along Neches River?
PORT NECHES, TEXAS February 19, 2013 — Chill bumps rise on David Arceneaux’s arms as he looked across Block Bayou at a line of trees about 100 yards away.
“I’m not crazy. I don’t do drugs and I’m not a drinker,” Arceneaux said before telling his tale of seeing not one but two Bigfoot-like creatures huddled together one December morning.
The Nederland native visits Oak Bluff Cemetery about once a month to clean the graves of a friend and a cousin, something he has done for years without incident. But on an overcast, windless day Arceneaux got the fright of his life.
“I heard a blood curdling scream and a lady nearby asked me if I was OK. I told her it wasn’t me,” Arceneaux said as he stood, uneasily, at roughly the same spot where he saw the creatures. “We walked over to the water and looked to the left then straight ahead.”
What he saw next amazed him. Two Bigfoot-like creatures who had been throwing rocks in the water looked across at him and the unknown female. One was standing next to a tree, arms around the trunk and the other was squatted down. As the second creature rose from the crouching position Arceneaux estimated the creature was about eight-foot tall. So he snapped a photo with his phone, he said.
“All of a sudden they started walking then running through the woods,” he said of the bipedal creatures. “When they began to run, the lady said ‘I’m leaving’ and left. I stayed a few more seconds and then thought there may be a way for them to cross here so I left, scared.”
Arceneaux said he could see the face of the creature “clear as day.” There was hair from the mouth down like a man and when the creature turned he could see hair hanging down its arm.
Disturbed by what he saw, Arceneaux went home and watched an episode of “Finding Bigfoot” but had to change the channel when they played an audio recording of Bigfoot — it was too real.
“This is my first time back here since December,” he said.
Arceneaux said he spoke to a game warden, describing the situation, and was told there had been other sightings along the Neches River. Calls placed to a local game warden was not returned by Tuesday afternoon.
There are a number of organizations throughout the state that researches and documents Bigfoot sightings. Groups such as Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy and Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization. These groups strive to find evidence to scientifically prove the existence of the creature.
Jerry Hestand of Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy said there have been reports of sightings in the Big Thicket area and he has had personal experiences at the Lance Rosier Unit in the Thicket.
Hestand said one of the creatures entered his camp and growled at one of the dogs. The dog, he said, growled back but by the time the men jumped up from their tents the creature was gone. Hestand said the group was part of an episode of a Travel Channel show called Weird Travels in which Bigfoot vocalizations were played.
“There is a sound on the Internet called the Ohio howl,” Hestand said. “That’s exactly what we heard clearly and distinctly.”
Arceneaux said he did not come forward with his story sooner because he worried about what others would think of him. He has shown this photographic evidence — which was taken at a far distance with a cell phone — to friends and family and only had one person scoff. He will continue to research Bigfoot, he said, but remains wary of returning to the spot where the encounter occurred.
Source: Mary Meaux of The Port Arthur News panews.com/local/x2056620313/Bigfoot-sighting-along-Neches-River
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On tonight’s episode of Search for Hidden Beasts with Ken Gerhard
Hey CC fans, tune in tonight @ 10pm EST/9pm CST for the latest episode of my friend Ken Gerhard’s ‘s cryptozoology podcast - Search for Hidden Beasts!
Tonight’s guest is Dave Coleman author of The Bigfoot Filmography: Fictional and Documentary Appearances in Film and Television, a fascinatingly detailed look at the cinematic history of Sasquatch, from the earliest trick films of Georges Melies to the most up-to-date CGI efforts. Dave’s book offers critical insights regarding the genre’s development, along with an exhaustively researched filmography that gathers every known film or television appearance of Sasquatch, Bigfoot and Yeti in both fictitious and documentary formats.
Tune in to hear some fascinating discussion about mysterious, hairy hominids in popular culture!
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Writing on the wall: Pictographs, tribal tales add to lore of Sasquatch
Not far from the Tule River in Central California is a rock shelter used by tribal villagers long before the Sierra foothills began filling up with white settlers and gold miners.
The shelter is known as Painted Rock by tourists and archeologists for its colorful array of centuries-old pictographs depicting the animal spectrum from the small (lizard, centipede, caterpillar and frog) and the high-flying (condor, eagle) to the bigger beasts (coyote, beaver, bear and man). And man, of course.
Almost all of the painted images are instantly recognizable as creatures that would have inhabited the Sierras 500 to 1,000 years ago, when the pictographs are believed to have been created.
Three of the animals, though, can only be described in today’s lexicon as an adult male, adult female and child Sasquatch.
The big male, according to Yokuts tribal lore, is Hairy Man, standing on two legs, its arms spread wide, with long hair and, writes Forest Service archeologist Kathy Moskowitz Strain, “large, haunting eyes.” Next to it, with the same hairy, two-legged aspect, are what appear to be the adult female, the “mother,” and her child.
None of the animals shown on Painted Rock are proportionally larger than one would expect; they’re all either life-sized or smaller, as if in the distance.
The painting of Hairy Man is 8 1/2 feet tall.
The “Hairy Man” Pictographs from California. The child is on the left, the female to it’s right, and the male dominates the right side of the panel.
By the time the first white man saw the Painted Rock pictographs in the 1870s, earlier European settlers of the American west were already well aware of Native Americans’ historical belief in the animal the Central California tribes called Hairy Man.
Many Native Americans, from the Cree people in Manitoba to the Cowichans in British Columbia to the tribes of central and northern California, have through the centuries taken a wide berth to avoid encountering a race or tribe of large, two-legged hairy beasts.
The account of a Methodist missionary found that the Salteaux Indians of Lake Winnipeg “living in dread” of what the missionary himself described as “these imaginary monsters.”
Anthropologists’ response to this has been mixed. Some believe the animals were a creation of tribal folklore meant to keep children in line and convince them not to stray too far from the villages.
But early white traders, settlers and miners often talked about the fervent belief held by the locals in what the whites invariably referred to as “mythical” creatures — which were described much the way Sasquatch is now described.
A 1790 publication related a Hudson’s Bay Company trader’s story about the North Saskatchewan River Indians’ belief in a giant, two-legged beast called the wendingo or windingo. The Indians, noted the trapper, “frequently persuade themselves that they see his track in the moss or snow.”
Two decades later a fur trader named David Thompson found a large footprint, described in historical journals as having been 14 inches long and eight inches wide, near what is now Jasper, Alberta. The print is often referred to as the first Sasquatch footprint found by a white man, though Thompson himself was said to have believed it to be the track of a large grizzly bear.
British Columbia periodicals in the late 1800s and early 1900s carried short news items referencing “the wild man of Vancouver Island” being seen by prospectors and others. And the region’s Kwakiutl Indians related tales of the “Woods Giant” which was routinely described the same way — much larger and hairier than humans, walking on two legs, with deep-set eyes under a thick, protruding forehead.
Which, again, is the same description applied to many Sasquatch sightings today.
While modern-day curiosity about Sasquatch was stoked by the 1967 film taken by Yakima County residents Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, an even more dramatic incident near Mount St. Helens predated that one by nearly a half-century.
In her book, “Myths and Mysteries of Washington,” prolific Northwest historical author Lynn E. Bragg wrote about Cascade and coastal tribal tales of a “band of renegades who looked like giant apes and lived like wild animals in secluded caves high in the Cascade Mountains.”
Tribal belief in the giant beasts — referred to by different tribes and dialects as Seeahtic (or Selahtic), St’iyahama, Stiyaha, Kwi-kwihai and Skoocoom — were related by missionaries as early as 1840. But it wasn’t until July 1924 that the non-tribal world sat up and took notice.
That year, a group of miners prospecting in the Mount St. Helens and Lewis River area reported that their pine-log cabin had withstood a night-long attack by a group of what they described to forest rangers and reporters as “mountain devils” and “hairy apes.”
The miners’ account was that the assault on the cabin came at night, several hours after one of the miners had fired several rifle shots at a seven-foot-tall, hairy animal. According to their story, which was related in numerous newspapers, several of the creatures attacked the cabin, pelting it with large rocks, shrieking loudly, battering at the front door and climbing onto the cabin, the latter prompting the miners to fire several shots through the roof.
The miners left the next day, so anxious to put distance between them and the creatures that one of them, Kelso resident Fred Beck, said they left behind some $200 worth of “supplies, powder and drilling equipment.”
Their revelations made the newspapers, and numerous reporters and curiosity-seekers returned to the site and found numerous large, bare footprints around the cabin — but no “apemen.”
The tale told by Beck and the others is considered evidence of Sasquatch by some while being dismissed by others as a hoax or a bad case of cabin fever.
According to the latter version, the “attackers” were a group of local youths pelting the cabin with pumice stones from the top of the canyon either intentionally or by accident, perhaps not knowing there was a miner’s cabin at the bottom.
Beck, though, later said he and the other miners were able to see the creatures through the gaps in the log walls. “Only three of the creatures (were seen) together at one time,” Beck recalled in a dictated statement to his son four decades later, though “it sounded like there were many more.”
Beck’s description of the shrieking, wall-banging experience bears an eerie resemblance to one that occurred Aug. 14, 2004, at remote Snelgrove Lake in the Canadian province of Ontario.
A group of people were staying at a lakeside cabin, including documentary filmmaker Doug Hajicek, who has produced more than 200 films for such entities as PBS, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Outdoor Life Network and ESPN.
For two hours in the early evening, Hajicek said, someone or something threw small rocks toward the group, though not in a threatening way.
“Fifty or sixty rocks, lobbed,” Hajicek said. “You could shine a flashlight in the woods but all you’d see is trees. I didn’t have the courage to stand up and walk into the woods.”
Later that night, Hajicek woke up hungry, went to the cabin kitchen and flicked on a light “that illuminated my head in the window. The back side of the cabin was attacked — screams, banging on the walls, things hitting the cabin and the entire cabin started shaking and rock, and (rocks) started hitting the ceiling and the walls.
“It was like being in a bad B movie.”
Neither Hajicek nor any of the others in the cabin dared go outside until long after the “attack” had abated. But Hajicek returned on the same date the following year with several other people including two research professors, one from Idaho State University and the other from the University of Minnesota. At 3 a.m., Hajicek said, “something huge hit the side of the cabin, so loud the cabin just resonated.”
Shocked and scared, none of the people in the cabin ventured outside.
So, just as the year before, nobody saw whatever it was that was out there.
Source Credit(s): © Scott Sandsberry for Yakima June 19, 2012 bigfootencounters.com/articles/tribal-tales.htm Top Photos: © Kathy Strain/Stanislaus National Forest
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Come join Cryptomundo and The Museum of the Weird for an afternoon and evening of fun and frivolity in Austin, Texas on January 26, 2013!
Public Itinerary:
3PM-6PM: Tour of Museum and Speaker presentations
(includes author book signings!)
Confirmed Authors/Speakers/Researchers:
Ken Gerhard: Author of Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters and co-author of Monsters of Texas
Nick Redfern: Author of Wildman! The Monstrous and Mysterious Saga of the British Bigfoot, Monster Diary: On the Road in Search of Strange and Sinister Creatures and co-author of Monsters of Texas
Lyle Blackburn: Author of The Beast of Boggy Creek
Dave Coleman: Author of The Bigfoot Filmography
Craig Woolheater of Cryptomundo and founder of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (now the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy)
Followed by:
6PM-8PM: Dinner @ Chupacabra Cantina, http://chupacabracantina.com/
8-10: Movie night at the Museum: Creature from Black Lake
$10 Admission (food and drinks are separate and will be the responsibility of the attendee)
Don’t miss your chance to hang out with these leading personalities in the cryptozoology community!
I will be in attendance, as well!
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Dr. Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA Study, Peer-Rejected (And my response)
Today across many Cryptid/Bigfoot focused websites and various social platforms, it was reported that Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA Paper has been rejected by a peer review journal, although I am not clear on whether it was rejected by editors or actual peers and haven’t actually seen any official rejection notice.
However, at 3AM PST this morning, Igor Burtsev, the Russian scientist who originally leaked the Bigfoot DNA results, posted this message informing the public that Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA paper had not been accepted:
Yes, the paper of Dr Ketchum is under reviewing. And it is worth to be published. Just the situation now remindes me the war between North and South in the beginning of USA history… There are a lot of her supporters as well as a lot of her opponents and even some enemies…
The problem is that some people absolutize the science. Unfortunately science now is too conservative. One third of the population of the USA believes in BFs existing, but academic science even does not want to recognize the problem of their existing or not, just rejecting to dicuss this question. In such a condition this subject is under discussion of the broad public. We can’t wait decades when scientists start to study this problem, forest people need to be protect now, not after half a sentury, when science wakes up.
Re the paper: the reviewed journals in the US refused to publish the paper. That is why Dr Ketchum has sent it to me to arrange publishing in any Russian reviewd journal. And I showed to our genetisits and understood that it was a serious work. I gave it up to the journal, now it’s under reviewing.
Anyway, I informed public about the results of the study. The public waited for this info for more than a year, a lot of rumors were spreading around. And the public has the right to know it nevertheless “science” says about it.
- Igor Burtsev
Guy Edwards posted the following at Bigfoot Lunch Club “We knew getting a Bigfoot DNA paper published would be a challenge. According to Katrina Kelner, a Science magazine editor, “At Science, we have to reject more than 90% of the papers submitted to us.”This is why Dr. Melba Ketchum’s execution and communication had to be flawless, it had to be held to a higher standard—there were too many expectations and too many personal efforts on the line. In our opinion, if Dr. Melba Ketchum had realized this project was bigger than herself, the outcome would have closer to the one we had hoped for.” Bigfoot Lunch Club is a contributor to Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman’s daily blog.
Loren Coleman announced there today that “the direction of the discussion has been changed by the Facebook/emailed leaks and the Ketchum press release. Therefore, I have agreed to talk with George Noory on Coast to Coast AM next Monday to dissect the media flap that has now been created and what it means for serious cryptozoology and Sasquatch studies.”
As previously mentioned on Cryptid Chronicles, I personally have withheld any enthusiasm regaurding this specific bigfoot buzz, but I would like to reaffirm that I personally believe in Bigfoot-type creatures and going further, I believe there is not only evidence to support the existence of a bigfoot, but that there are multiple subspecies that exist and I think their official discovery is close.
I may lose some followers over this post (i have already lost followers over this whole Ketchum coverage) but that’s fine, i’m not losing sleep over it - everyone is entitled to an opinion, including me, including you and including Dr. Ketchum and every scientist and researcher who really feels their work is being done seriously and with proper respect.
Anyway, so yeah, I have been asked by more than a few followers of this blog what my own assessment is regaurding the Ketchum DNA study and my reponse is this:
To many folks there is no evidence to support the existence of a bigfoot-like creature, or extraterrestrial visitors, or in that matter fairies, dragons and unicorns. BUT there is also no evidence to support the existence of “God”, either (in fact some may say there’s been more sightings of Bigfoot than there has of God!) Yet, there is no shortage of true believers in an “almighty being”, so… to those who want to roll their eyes loudly and insist that if bigfoot were real, we would know about it, I would just like to say that before those folks go pointing fingers about someone’s credibilty just because it may not be “normal” to them, it may not be what the mainstream science and general community has come to expect, or their ideas may be too “out there”, I would like to remind people that scientists get rejected all the time, and as for money/publicity, well that’s always going to be a major factor in the bigfoot phenomenon, but it’s also a major factor in the Catholic/(insert any other religion here) phenomenon as well, and that’s really very shameful, but that doesn’t mean that every catholic or reglious person is in it for that specific reason. That being said, i’m not endorsing or defending Dr. Ketchum, but I am also not going to sit around ridiculing her, either
The bottom line is that whether you believe Melba Ketchum or not, nothing has really changed. I think Bigfoot is still out there and it’s counterproductive and a waste of energy to continue to chastise her when that energy could be used for more aggressive efforts in helping to prove what a lot of us bigfoot believers know already - that Bigfoot exists, and more importantly, we need to protect it as an endangered species. It’s time to move forward and make that happen.
There is no better time than NOW to support the field of Cryptozoology!!
Go right now and find and support a Bigfoot/Cryptid researcher or research organisation that you feel is approaching Bigfoot and other cryptid studies seriously and show your support!
No matter if you are disappointed in the Ketchum research or not, that is the single most productive thing you can do right now.
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ON AIR NOW - Ken Gerhard on Squatchdetective Radio
UPDATE - If you missed the live show, please download the episode here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/squatchdetective/2012/12/07/squatchdetective-radio.mp3
Chris Bennett and Steve Kulls now have the Squatchdetective radio show in a 90 minute format! 
Go Listen in! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/squatchdetective/2012/12/07/squatchdetective-radio
Real Monster Hunter, Texas cryptozoologist and author Ken Gerhard is appearing right now on Squatchdetective Radio with hosts Steve Kulls and Chris Bennett. Listen in as they discuss current events and Ken’s research in the Bigfoot/Cryptozoology fields!
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Leading Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman to Discuss Ketchum Bigfoot DNA Media Flap on Coast to Coast AM
As reported on Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman will be on George Noory’s Coast to Coast AM on Monday night December 10, 2012, 10 pm Pacific/Tuesday morning December 11, 2012, 1 am Eastern.
The discussion will be about the media “going Ketchum,” over the leaked, pre-publication news from the alleged results from “Bigfoot DNA.” 
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, He is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries authoring such books as “The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates”, “BIGFOOT!: The True Story of Apes in America” and “Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature”
Coleman has carried out fieldwork throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, regarding sightings, trace evidence, and Native peoples’ traditions of Sasquatch/Windigo/Bigfoot. He has written on Yeti and Bigfoot expedition sponsor Tom Slick and has won awards for this documentary and literary work.
Interested in what Loren Coleman has to say? Catch the show at http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ Monday night December 10, 2012, 10 pm Pacific/Tuesday morning December 11, 2012, 1 am Eastern
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Dr. Jeff Meldrum posts assessment of Ketchum Bigfoot DNA Study
Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum is an Associate Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Meldrum is also Adjunct Professor of Occupational and Physical Therapy and Affiliate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Meldrum is an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates, and a
Sasquatch hunter.
Posted on Dr. Meldrum’s facebook page 11/28/2012 -
“Dr. Ketchum provides a much more reasonable interview for a Houston news program. She acknowledges the prematurity of the announcement (I believe she could have stopped short of discussing her unpublished results, however). She does conclude by saying the publication is anticipated in a matter of weeks not months (we’ve heard that before, but I hope this time it is indeed accurate).
My criticisms stem from the lack of available substantiation of her interpretation of the mtDNA results and the difficulty I have envisioning a scenario that accounts from what is proposed — a hybridization event 15000 years ago in Eastern Europe that resulted in a population dispersed across North America.
Many people don’t seem to understand the role of a null hypothesis (a working hypothesis). The aim is to attempt to falsify or refute it. The hypothesis that whatever is out there is likely a relict ape, or a relict early hominin (e.g. Paranthropus) appears the most reasonable in light of the substantive objective data (personal subjective experiences by some, notwithstanding). Melba even acknowledges this fact in her interview. If evidence, properly interpreted, overwhelmingly negates the null hypothesis, then we set it aside — simple as that. The notion of “camps” as if they were political parties, has no legitimate place in a scientific endeavor.
I am anxious to see the results — whatever they are!”
The video to which Dr. Meldrum refers:
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Does-Bigfoot-have-human-DNA/-/1735978/17568802/-/5pkab/-/index.html
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