I have been interested in Bigfoot since I was a young child. The thought of a bipedal undiscovered ape living in north America is something that I would love to see happen. The debate has been going on for centuries. The native Americans told stories of great creatures living in the woods, and sightings continue through today. It is hard to take serious, because of idiots like those fools in Georgia who played a little joke on the entire world it is impossible to take any reports or evidence as solid.

The Patterson film has been examined for 40 years. Some people say there is no way it is a human in a costume. Others say that it is a person in a costume. Not ALL of these people are idiots on either side of the fence. Some are top people in their fields, and really know what they are talking about. This is on BOTH sides of the debate.

So who is right? IF these creatures do exist, why is it taking so long to prove or disprove it? With modern tech. being employed, and even though there are still places in the United States were no human being has ever set foot, it seems that it would be only a matter of time before the existence of these creatures is either proven, or dis-proven. I am open to the fact that these creatures might not exist. I am open to the fact that maybe the Patterson film is just a guy in a costume. But in my opinion, it is the real deal.

I would like to hear everyone's thoughts on this

Just copy and paste the URL to see the video.
http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/2009/01/05.html

Uwharrie, NC (PRWEB) -- ”This is the most important footage of a Sasquatch since Paterson/ Gimlin film taken over 40 years ago,” said Matthew Moneymaker, head of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization ( BFRO)as he introduced guest speaker Michael Greene to a crowd of 250 Bigfoot researchers in Yakima, Washington, at an invitation only tribute to Bob Gimlin.

In 1967 The Paterson/ Gimlin film of a Sasquatch striding across a creek in northern California made headlines around the world.

Since then there has been only dubious additional footage, usually crudely made fakes.

Until now.

In April 28th,2009, some three minutes of video of a Sasquatch were taken through a thermal imager (FLIR) by Michael Greene, in the Uwharrie National Forest, NC.

This footage, known as “The Squeaky Thermal” was first shown at Bob Gimlin’s birthday party 2 weeks later. It was viewed with wild applause and a heartfelt “Thank you, thank you so much” from Bob Gimlin, who was finally receiving some well deserved vindication of his efforts so long ago.

Michael Greene is the retired Chief of a State Fraud Investigations Bureau. has a Master’s Degree in Psychology, and is a Court Qualified Questioned Documents Expert ,and former Investigator for the Public Defender’s Office .His hobby for the last 20 years has been searching for proof of this elusive beast. This quest has taken him from glacier fields in the Yukon, to a giant meteor crater in northern Quebec, the Everglades of Florida and the rain forests of the Pacific Northwest.

In 2008 he briefly saw a Sasquatch in the Uwharrie National Forest , and spent the next year repeatedly camping at the spot, trying to encourage its return and gain some semblance of its trust.

“Over and over I left out bananas, apples, peanut butter, Zagnut bars, and little squeaking bathtub toys that my grandchildren like to play with. Hence the name 'Squeaky', one of the toys the Bigfoot took. Sometimes things would be taken , most times not. At the time I could only record for about 2 hours, the battery life of the thermal , so a lot of the night went unrecorded. This is definitely a patient man’s game.

"A thermal imager sees only images made by heat. FLIR, or Forward Looking Infra Red, is most familiar to viewers of police reality shows like COPS, where a fugitive is seen from a helicopter as a white image, running through backyards. You cannot fool a thermal imager as it is recording only the heat signature of what it sees. Thus, a man in a costume would look splotchy and irregular, as his costume would suppress the body heat to varying degrees, unlike a naked man, or Bigfoot, which would appear primarily as a solid color."

Greene continues, "Around 11:30 on the night of April 28th, 2009 I was setting up the thermal recording stuff, to try hiding it in the back of my Toyota Highlander when I heard movement in the woods down in the area I expected it to show up. On an impulse I took the thermal imager and put it on a tripod, with the DVR ( Digital Video Recorder) on the ground next to it. Then I got in the car and drove away, leaving my campsite very obviously deserted . I drove to the one entrance to the area ( which had no one else in it) and parked for two hours ( the approximate life of the thermal’s battery ). When I returned the battery was indeed dead, but the bait was gone.

"On reviewing the tape I saw that about half an hour after I drove away, the creature very cautiously approaches, crawling up the hill behind the stump, then reaches up with its right arm and grabs the Zagnut bar. Then it crawls backwards , moving almost out of sight and moves off to the right of the screen. A few seconds later, perhaps emboldened by its success, it reappears on the right side of the screen and moves, standing upright, to behind a tree, where it slowly sways back and forth, giving the viewer a good idea of its enormous bulk. This swaying behavior has been repeatedly reported by other witnesses. The height I estimate at around 7 ½ feet, but it is hard to exactly pin down as the ground slopes down , away from the viewer so one cannot exactly tell where it’s feet hit the ground.

"My website, www.bushloper.net, gives a thorough explanation of the area, and how it was filmed and a reenactment of the Sasquatch’s movements by me, wearing only shorts, taken from the same spot, with the same equipment. You can see the difference, and I’m 6’5” tall and 190 pounds .By comparison, this thing is huge. The website also contains the complete Squeaky Thermal video (Copyrighted).

"After Bob Gimlin’s birthday party I posted some of the footage on the BFRO website, where it has been viewed over 80,000 times, with overwhelmingly positive feedback.

"Most people are completely unaware of the enormous body of reports and evidence for this fascinating but very elusive creature’s existence. I suggest that they explore the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) website at bfro.net and spend a few hours reading.

"My efforts continue to this day, now with the ability to record all night long with two thermal imagers, in hopes of getting clearer and longer footage to finally put the question of their existence to bed once and for all.”

Michael Greene recently moved to Salisbury, North Carolina. Formerly from New Jersey, he is a Private Pilot, Former EMT, and 18 year veteran of the National Ski Patrol., He served as a Sergeant/ Tank Commander with the 4th Recon Squadron,6th Armored Cavalry.

A full biography and details of his long search may be seen on his website www.bushloper.net.

An interview with Greene discussing how he obtained the thermal footage may be seen on YouTube at BFRO VIDEOS,Mike Greene (sic) Interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zglb9OyWnJI&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Y2VnqyPqk&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5UOQQ8nRYk&feature=player_embedded

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/new-bigfoot-thermal-video-impresses-researchers,1328051.shtml

Not sure how many watch this show, but as a season finale they showed their jersey devil hunt, While they did get some great video of a deer, They DID NOT catch the Jersey Devil, in my opinion.
Here's the video, let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-mOZiI-iQ
Sorry but you'll have to copy and paste the URL

There's some really great shows on there, they seem to be actually trying to use modern methods to prove or debunk Cyrptos on this show. It's not one of those, it has to be true shows and I like that.

If any one is interested, Loren Coleman's International Cryptozoology Museum is in financial trouble.

Here is the website explaining tthe situation.
http://www.cryptozoologymuseum.com/

Here is a special edition collectors set put out by the "G.I. Joe Collectors Club" this year. It is really pretty neat.

Bigfoot set

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/bigfoot.ap/index.html

Any more updates on the Skinwalkers???? I am from the Navajo tribe and live here in MI. Listened to the archives from Brandon in NM. Will there be anymore updates on this??? Thanks!!

Tom Biscardi claimed to have a preserved hand of a sasquatch.

The hand was indentified by multiple scientists and amateur naturalists as the hand of a black bear.

Tom Biscardi claimed to have captured a subadult bigfoot and communicated with it on video.

He was subsequently banned from appearing on Coast to Coast AM after making this claim on the air and following it up with no evidence whatsoever.

Tom Biscardi released a number of bigfoot photos online, including two which he claimed where from a video of a bigfoot bathing in a pond.

The photos showed textbook signs of being faked and no one has seen any video.

Don't believe a word this man says. Make sure he receives no money and do not associate yourself with him in any way.

Taking the stance that Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Oh-Mah, whatever you wish to call the classic Neo-Giants of the Pacific Northwest, do exist, what fossil candidate fits best with the reportedly upright, hairy, 6 feet to 8.5 feet tall hominoids?

You’ve heard a lot lately about Gigantopithecus, especially with a new documentary on television and Peter Jackson’s King Kong, but what of the other major fossil choice, Paranthropus?

The general scientific agreement is that Gigantopithecus specimens were in the range of about 10 feet tall in fully grown adults. Some of the scholars most linked to Gigantopithecus even have interpretations that assume Gigantopithecus was not bipedal.

Other than mandibles and over a thousand teeth, no other bones of Gigantopithecus have been found. Despite this, the late Grover Krantz and others have constantly said that Gigantopithecus is the best fossil candidate for Sasquatch. But one major fossil candidate is often overlooked by the Krantz camp: Paranthropus.

The other favored fossil affinity for Bigfoot was proposed in 1971 by Gordon Strasenburgh, who wrote of his theory in scientific journals, self-published booklets, and through correspondence with other cryptozoologists. Strasenburgh thought Bigfoot would be found to be related to Paranthropus robustus and suggested that the name Paranthropus eldurrelli be used for the Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest.

Paranthropus is a fossil hominid genus initially assigned by Robert Broom to a robust form of australopithecine found at Kromdraai and Swartkrans in South Africa. One of the most famous Paranthropus species is boisei, discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. It is known for its massive jaw muscles and huge back teeth the size of quarters that inspired the nickname "Nutcracker Man."

The evidence gathered to date suggests the Neo-Giants could very well be Paranthropus. In Neo-Giants, as in primates that have large jaws and well-developed chewing muscles (e.g., gorillas and baboons), the skull’s parietal bones continues upward at the midline to form a sagittal crest. The early hominid fossil evidence shows that Paranthropus of both genders exhibited a sagittal crest–a feature that provides a very strong link to the male and female Neo-Giants seen today.

In Southeast Asia, during the 1940s, paleoanthropologists Franz Weidenreich and Ralph von Koenigswald found evidence, generally ignored by anthropologists, that Gigantopithecus (the very strong and enormous anthropoid ape), Meganthropus palaeojavanicus (the great man of ancient Java, known today as Paranthropus), and two different species or subspecies of Homo erectus (namely the so-called Java apeman and the Peking man), all lived at the same time.

Then in 1996, Carl C. Swisher III of the Berkeley Geochronology Center found new data indicating that Homo erectus had indeed lived in Java at the same time as Homo sapiens, the modern human. Using new techniques to date fossils found at Solo River, Java, Swisher’s team concluded that the supposedly very much older species known as Homo erectus had actually lived in Java as recently as 53,000 to 27,000 years ago. This was earth-shaking news to anthropologists who had assumed a much older date for Homo erectus.

Also in 1996, researchers lead by Russell Ciochon and Vu The Long discussed the apparent co-occurrence of Homo erectus and Gigantopithecus blacki in Tham Khuyen Cave, Vietnam. This giant ape was contemporaneous with archaic humans throughout its range from six million to 300,000 years ago. That is quite a long and successful span of coexistence, and Gigantopithecus must have been a formidable “neighbor”–a true giant on the landscape of the world with the little near-humans and humans like so many troublesome distant cousins breeding furiously and taking up living space.

So this is what we know. Apes, near-humans, and humans lived at the same time, probably just as they continue to today. And gorillas and various other great apes, and such fossil species as Paranthropus show sagittal crests in females as well as males. Krantz’s reconstruction of Gigantopithecus with a sagittal crest is only logical based on the massive mandibles that have been discovered, which show evidence of heavy chewing probably taking place. Also Krantz, no doubt, added them too because he considered the Sasquatch his living model. But, of course, we don’t really know if Gigantopithecus had sagittal crests. We do, however, clear know that Paranthropus did have the crests, as we have fossils with them on the top of the skulls.

Among various problems I have with Gigantopithecus, therefore, is the very large size of this ape, which would have put them at the extreme end of any Bigfoot heights recorded in sightings that most people studying these cryptids would consider valid. Paranthropus, at between 5.5 and 7.5 feet, with known sagittal crests, I sense, is a more plausible fossil candidate for the classic PNW Bigfoot, the Neo-Giants. The case is straightforward for me. It seems unfortunate that people have spent a lot of time studying the few bones of Gigantopithecus as the "celebrity big fossil ape," when more attention might be usefully devoted examining Paranthropus.

For those interested in the question of Paranthropus, I recommend an article:

Clarke, Ronald J. "The Genus Paranthropus: What’s in a Name?" in W. E. Meikle, F. C. Howell, and N. G. Jablonski (eds) Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution (San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1996) Memoir 21, pages 93-104.

Clarke talks about the use of the name Paranthropus and the generic separation it denotes as having "well-known and long-standing support." Indeed, he writes that "the name Paranthropus has been alive and well and supported by zoologically sound credentials. It is certainly welcome news that more human anatomists and physical anthropologists are coming to the belated realization that Paranthropus merits generic distinction, but it is to the zoologist John Robinson that credit must be given for not only recognizing this from the outset, but also for his many clear explanations of why this was so."

Paranthropus is a unique, intriguing-looking primate which fills the bill for what the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot has been and is. The African Paranthropus is clearly been associated to the Asian Meganthropus, which appears to be linked to the American Sasquatch.

Okay, what’s your vote now? Paranthropus, Gigantopithecus, another fossil candidate, or an unknown, as yet-to-be discovered primate?

This came from another source..I am a believer in the Gigantopithecus theory(I am a huge fan of Dr.Grover Krantz and his work on Bigfoot) but after some research I am starting to lean alittle towards the newer Paranthropus theory mainly based on the fossil record .With that said the one thing that keeps going around in my head is the fact that Gigantopithecus has been found closer to the U.S. and with the land bridge that exsisted lends credence to the theory that Gigantopithecus is the front runner for the Bigfoot that is seen in the Pacific NorthWest.
Then there is the unknown and totally new species that has to be thrown into the arguement as Bigfoot seems to have some traits that don't fit the percieved discription of either one.
OK lets hear from all you Crypto fans.

Well, the western NY area was a buzz in the cryptozoological world. One world where i'm happy to say I love being a part of. I had gotten a phone call at 2 in the morning a few weeks ago about people seeing a "large hairy bigfoot looking thing" roaming around Clarence NY. Which is less than an hour from here. I have to say I got a bit excited, and was ready to hop into the car that moment and go investigate. Which isn't the first time i have literally leaped into a car to drive for a cryptohunt on a moments notice. but, at this point I was unable to go due to house guests and such... Which probably was a good thing, since I waited till the next morning and called around searching for more answers. And answers are what I found, in the form of photos emailed to me showing what was causing all the excitement. (seen below). Hence the ass whoopin... lots of beers, a camera and a spare monkey suit... I really hate those that do things like this. Makes all of us feel stupid when we actually think that it might be true, even on the smallest of levels.

I will give even the most blatent fake a chance at one of my world famous critiques...

So, here ya go...

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Dear Sir,
Thank you for sending these photos, here is our opinion of the images you had sent and reportedly captured in your own back yard.Official breakdown and initial opinions:multiple pictures sent... showing a dark humanoid figure. Of these photos it shows the "creature" moving away from the John Deer Gator. 2 out of 3 have him "fleeing" the same way. I have to say, not many creatures flee from a photographer, just to turn around and go back to the same point and flee in the opposite direction. (unless said creature might have dropped it's iPod, or maybe some form of ID).head to body ration... very human. Arm length short for any of the great apes... about human length, especially in the forearm area where most great apes length of limbs is found.the line from the elbow to the hand is not smooth... bump around the wrist area. This is not a natural line, when all primates have straight lines there.... that is unless the great ape is wearing long sleeved shirt with gloves on causing an overlap. And seeing that there is no snow on the ground, I doubt that this "bigfoot" was feeling that cold.in conclusion, I would like to thank the person responsible for taking these photos and renting the monkey suit. Yes, a hardly thank you for wasting the time of R.I.P (Rochester Investigators into the Paranormal), and getting us excited that there might actually have been a cryptozoological mystery in NY state. This will no doubt help solidify the credibility of all those who take this work to be real, as well as help influence possible funding of the scientific community to further study these mysteries. I would like to point out that the previous sentence was filled with an over abundance of sarcasm. We will be sure to add these photos and your name to a future article on our site www.kornyPig.com. Just to make sure that you get pestered and harassed as much as those that had decided to investigate mysteries such as this with a serious tone.
Thank you,
Magnus
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I saw a werewolf once. Seriously. And after that experience I came to the conclusion that there are certain things, roaming around, that do not belong here. For instance, when I hear about bigfoot sightings, I notice many of them describe a buzzing in the air...some feeling that just doesn't fit. I felt the same way during my werewolf sighting. The street went quiet and I thought I had gone deaf. There was a tingling in the air, like static electricity, and when the creature was gone, it was like I had just awakened from a drunken stupor. It was scary...but it was confusing. Has anyone else experienced a cryptid sighting with some oddities like what I just described???

-WW

I think that the beast of bray road would make an excellent topic it's the beast that is believed to be a werewolf in wisconsin, walworth county here is a site you can go to take a lokk for yourself http://www.weird-wi.com/brayroad/

http://www.abominablethemovie.com/ looks like a cool movie for all us horror fans but not much in the way of Bigfoot truths.But I guess that wouldn't sell tickets would it?

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1648662
more video of Champ still not clear and not convincing,although it does raise questions.What do yall think?

When I first heard about these mysterious fast flying spirials on Coast To Coast while Art was still the shows main host. I was fasinated. Some of the footage taken of these on video was truly some strange stuff. The mere fact that that was pretty much the only way to capture them was on video and to slow the footage down in order to view them. Anyone have any theories as to what exactly they just might be? Pre-historic, alien or something else?

Ok, so it's probably not crypto, but it appears that one giant octopus has decided to go vigilante on submarines. I found this on /.

Link to story

Ok according to the camera man this is a Bigfoot seen while out hiking...to me it looks like a badly staged effort.Sorry thumbs down on it.
http://www.bfro.net/news/sonoma.asp

this is from the Coast to coast am site
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1281.html
I am not sure exactly what it is..but I'm pretty sure it's isn't what they think.

Woo hoo! They found a really small fish.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060125/ap_on_sc/indonesia_tiny_fish

And it's a creepy one too. Ick!

This is great!! The topics should be fantastic here!!