Tom Yamarone is announcing a “The Patterson-Gimlin Film 40th Anniversary Celebration” will be occurring at the VFW Hall, Willow Creek, California Saturday, October 20, 2007, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (lunch provided from 12:00 noon to 1:20 pm). The attendees are gathering in Willow Creek on Saturday, October 20th to celebrate the famous bigfoot film from Bluff Creek. 40 years ago, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin emerged from the wooded hillsides north of Willow Creek to announce they had captured bigfoot on film. That film had a profound effect on the world, the people researching this phenomenon and is considered [...]
Crawfordsville Bigfoot
The Crawfordsville Review tells a long and wonderful story of one Mr. Hardee, living in that vicinity, who, while out coon-hunting, “was confronted by an appearance” which, he assured the editor, baffles description. By the light of his shell-bark torch, it appeared like a gigantic ape, sitting in the path in front of him. What it was, he had no idea, and the party being yet some distance in the rear, he hesitated about approaching it. His dog, meanwhile, crouched down at his feet, and refused to stir. Thinking it better to advance than retreat, Mr. H. waved his torch [...]
Bigfoot, Chessie, Iraq, and Larry Craig?
It’s not often that Bigfoot, Chessie, and I get thrown in with President Bush, Iraq, and Larry Craig, thank goodness, but it happened this week to me in Virginia. ‘The New Dominion Show’ is on the air The fall 2007 (and 2008 and 2009 elections), President Bush’s secret jaunt to Iraq and Chessie and Bigfoot. That and more this week on “The New Dominion Show.” (Teaser: Chris gives his prognostication on what Mark Warner will do next week in the final segment.) Joining us this week: – Brian Moran, the Democratic Caucus chair in the House of Delegates and a [...]
Taku-He and Cows in South Dakota
On this date, September 7th, in 1974, a calf was found mutilated in Pierce County, Nebraska. The blood had been drained from the animal and the sexual organs removed. The day before, on September 6, 1974, near Jefferson, South Dakota, Jim Douglas saw a very tall, sandy Bigfoot dragging a red furry object through an alfalfa field. The Bigfoot stood and watched Douglas. Three years later, during mid-September 1977, near Little Eagle, South Dakota, Chris Howiatow and others said a “big ape” watched them from a hillside as they checked cattle. The Bigfoot then ran into the brush as the [...]
The Ultimate Bigfoot Drive-In Movie
One of the rarest first fiction films about the hairy creatures of the forests to locate today is Bigfoot (1970), directed by Robert E. Slatzer. It is a modest movie made for the drive-ins involving, in the jargon of the time, “babes and bikers.” Director Slatzer’s claim to fame, other than this movie, appears to have been that he was a former husband of Marilyn Monroe, and the director of Hellcats (1967), another biker movie. Starring in Bigfoot are John Carradine (“Jasper B. Hawks”), John Mitchum (“Elmer Briggs”), Joi Lansing (“Joi Landis”), and Christopher Mitchum (“Rick”). Of some interest to [...]
Symposium Cancelled
Word is reaching Cryptomundo that the October 20-21, 2007, National Bigfoot Symposium planned for Arcata, California, has been cancelled. The website that was sponsoring this event is announcing it has been cancelled, after various attempts to keep it alive have failed. We apologize for any confusion and any false associations anyone may have assumed from our attempts to pass along this breaking news. We are not linked to the symposium nor do we know anything about the actual decision-making that took place. We have no idea what’s happened with the symposium and are only posting here the essence of what [...]
Crikey! It’s Been A Year!
“I have no fear of losing my life. If I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.” – Steve Irwin Steve Irwin, the worldwide phenom, the popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed a year ago, on September 4, 2006, by a stingray, while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. Crikey, I miss his sense of humor on new nature shows! Irwin’s death hit a lot of people deeply. The man who had such a large heart for animals, [...]
The Bestiary
I am updating this item. Wisconsin Public Radio, who produced this program, nationally broadcast their “The Bestiary” program over the September 2nd weekend, and now have a very attractive webpage about it here. Public Radio International (PRI) broadcast the interviews they conducted earlier this summer with various people interested in fantastic beasts and cryptozoology in the program entitled “The Bestiary.” It is a creative, entertaining production done in the PRI tradition of mixing sounds, music, voices, and other audio treats to keep the listener interested as they explore the subject. I especially liked the choice of the bumper music: “Abominable [...]
African Americans, Snallygasters & Mokele-Mbembes
Mokele-mbembe being killed by Pygmies; drawn by Bill Rebsamen and used with permission. Who are today’s and tomorrow’s African American cryptozoologists? When I was at the 5th Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference, held October 14-16, 2005, I found it was a good event. I discovered the gathering was attended by a wider diversity of people than I have seen in my three decades of presenting at Fortean, cryptozoological, and Bigfoot gatherings. Of the 500 people there, I noticed more families, more women, more Hispanics, and more Native peoples than at any other public Bigfoot meeting, conference, and presentation I’ve personally experienced. [...]
Cuero’s Chupacabras Tee-Shirts
Photograph by Sonny Long, Victoria Advocate. A new creature report or series of sightings has turned into a “flap,” this time in Cuero, Texas. A flap is the term (with origins in the Air Force treatment of groups of ufo sightings) where there is a great deal of official and media attention, in this case related to a “monster,” such as happened in Texas during August, and now moving into September. What is part of the popular culture outcome from this out-of-control interest in such a beast? A new cryptid tee-shirt, of course. You’ve seen multiple examples of this recently. [...]
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