After I posted this morning’s blog “Flashback: Thirty Year Ago – South Dakota Bigfoot,”” about a Bigfoot flap taking place in 1977, Scott Maruna at The Anomalist commented: “Come to think of it, there were a lot of flaps going on that year.” Indeed, there were. The anniversary of the Dover Demon sightings (April 21-22, 1977) is rapidly approaching. On April 21, 2007, I’ll be a guest on the “Dover Demon” 30th Anniversary Special (“Dover Demon” is a chapter in Mysterious America), from 10 pm to Midnight, on the Eastern Spooky Southeast broadcast, on WBSM-AM, 1420 AM, New Bedford, Massachusetts. [...]
Homophobus mysognistis xenophobus ignoramus
Why would someone use the above sign to throw homophobia my way? See below. Some rather stupid people haunt the world. Do not fool yourself into thinking that you can ignore what is happening all over the news these days, regarding the discussion of Don Imus’s outrageous remarks. Insensitive people even exist in Bigfoot studies. Perhaps they should be classified with the Latin name, Homophobus mysognistis xenophobus ignoramus for the homophobic, demeaning sexist, racist stupidity they give forth as if they know what they are talking about. The women of the Rutgers basketball team are the focus in this latest [...]
Laverty on Bigfoot Claims of Heironimous
Here’s additional information Roger Knights obtained from Lyle Laverty: Bob Heironimus’s Fake-Track Claim is Discredited by Filmsite Witness Lyle Laverty In June 2005 [Roger Knights] wrote: “It would have been irrational for Patterson to have made the footprints over a week in advance [as Bob Heironimus (BH) claimed], risking their discovery in the interim.” – Knights’ Amazon review of Long’s book I’ve now obtained a statement from a credible witness—who was accompanied by other witnesses—that no such tracks existed at the site the day before the filming. Here are the background and details: BH claimed Patterson & Gimlin faked the [...]
New Info: Bigfoot Attack, Bluff Creek, 1958
Can we learn new things about old cases? Possibly so. I get all kinds of emails and letters. People, for example, read Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, and write me with their personal stories, insights, and criticisms. I appreciate them all. Today, I received an intriguing typed letter from a man who lives deep in the woods of northern California, who had recently read Bigfoot!. He wanted to set me straight on some details of what really happened at Bluff Creek in 1958. After opening the missive by telling me a bit about himself, the letter writer [...]
1800s’ Hairy Wild Men – Fools’ Pranks or Reality?
Chad Arment noted on April 1st: “Loren Coleman has posted an account at Cryptomundo of an early April Fool’s Day Sasquatch story by John Green (before Green became interested in the phenomenon). That may have been one of the first news pranks that actually used the term Sasquatch, but there is a much earlier April 1st tale of a hairy wild man.” Arment goes on to tell about an older story from back East, during the 19th century. Yes, I had in mind, specifically, the earliest “Sasquatch” and “Bigfoot” (Pacific Northwest) April 1st journalistic joke, so I’m not surprised that [...]
Spring Skiing for Bigfoot in Maine: Cryptozoo News Updates
Today is April 5th. It seems like it should be spring outside, right? Believe it or not, some people think that because I live in Maine, I’m a resident of Canada. I get strange emails. Truth is, on this Thursday I feel like I’m in the Himalayas. This morning there is about a foot of snow that fell overnight in Portland, Maine. Today is the opening day for the cryptid-named Portland Sea Dogs baseball team, but, of course, that event has to be postponed. So, back to thoughts of cryptozoology…. Humans may be dealing with incredibly unbelievable Easter/Passover skiing in [...]
Brooding About Bigfooters
Sometimes I allow my thoughts to drift to trying to understand the “people” part of the Bigfoot quest. In my Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket – Simon and Schuster, 2003), I wrote Chapter 15, “The Bigfooters” to detail my thoughts on the matter of the why and the what of the searchers. I added historical and people-specific notes to this matter in my more casual analysis of the folks “looking” for Bigfoot in The Field Guide of Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates and Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology. In Bigfoot!, I decided [...]
BoA’s Baseball Special
Welcome Spring back into the Northern Hemisphere with the return of baseball. Radio and baseball go hand in hand. The memories are almost sacred. Now comes word of a special being broadcast tonight, and available online afterward. Any program that ventures forth into the realm of baseball and mysteries interests me. So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered that Binnall of America has put together a special on just such a topic, and I’m in it. From the BoA blog: Audio Baseball Special coming this Saturday [March 31, 2007] I’m happy to report that this Saturday, BoA: Audio [...]
Mysterious America Roadshow Begins
I will soon begin to make appearances on various television and radio programs to discuss my 2007 edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures, with its official release date of April 24th. Here are some forthcoming radio dates: April 21 – “Dover Demon” 30th Anniversary Special (“Dover Demon” is a chapter in Mysterious America.) 10 pm to Midnight. Eastern Spooky Southeast on WBSM-AM, 1420 AM, New Bedford, MA; http://www.SpookySouthcoast.com, iTune podcast. April 23 – Mysterious America, Monday overnight, 10 pm to 2 am Pacific, 1 am to 4 am Eastern, [...]
Hoaxing Revealed
The Real Bigfoot and Genuine Bigfoot Tracks, Part 7: Hoaxing Revealed by Mark A. Hall
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