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Newsletter #4 February 28, 2006 Editor: Chris MurphyThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
?C.L.Murphy 2006
Did you Know , Nice to Know, or Need to Know
IF YOU HAPPEN to get involved in duplicating footprints casts, then this information is nice to know.
Newsletter #4 February 28, 2006 Editor: Chris Murphy
?C.L.Murphy 2006
Did you Know , Nice to Know, or Need to Know
IF YOU HAPPEN to get involved in duplicating footprints casts, then this information is nice to know.
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Something surprises me, and I don't have an answer. Greg Long quotes camera shop owner, Harvey Anderson, as saying that the Yakima Daily Republic ran an article in 1961 or there about, concerning unusual footprints found in the Ahtanum Valley, Yakima County (page 392 of Long's book). I would have thought Patterson would have included this find in his book, but I can't find anything. Nor is there anything in the Fuhrmann files, and John Green says there is nothing on his files. If you have this article or can help, please get back to me.
Matt Crowley brought this one to my attention - a real neat alien story Click Here
Here is a shot of the trail that leads up to the petroglyphs in Bella Coola. The carvings are sort of "all over the place." Look closely and you will seen one quite clearly about center on the rock bluff. Click Here I would imagine that the ones on the ground would have been easier to do than those on cliff faces. Nevertheless, any of them would have taken many hours to carve, and we can only wonder as to their real purpose. I sometimes think that the purpose just might be the same as that for modern day graffiti, Click Here In other words, a simple expression of one's existence, coupled with nothing else to do.
In 1995 I took this photo of the view at the location of the 1941 Ruby Creek, B.C. sighting. Click Here It is shown on page 35 of Meet the Sasquatch. I originally included in the caption that the photo could have been taken at almost any time in history to make the point that not a lot changes in this part of the world once you get beyond city limits. This somehow got lost in the shuffle. Anyway, if you were to go to the same spot today and take a photo, it would be the same. Few people venture off the beaten track up that way, and I guarantee animals in those woods know human habits. Have you ever noticed that often birds feeding on carrion on a road side don't bother to move when you drive by? They know that cars stay on the blacktop - same sort of thing.
Roger Knights tells me that someone is claiming Igor Bourtsev's statue of the creature in the Patterson/Gimlin film does not show the curious lump on the creature's leg. The person states that the lump was a "costume fold," so Bourtsev purposely omitted it. I have this statue in my possession and have taken many photos of it. Here is the statue and here is the lump. Click Here What is happening here is the problem I discuss in Forensic Sasquatch No. 2. It all depends on the angle at which an object is viewed or photographed. It might be noted that it was Igor Bourtsev who discovered this lump and provided a very valid reason for it in the Markotic book, Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids.
Brandon Tennant, who is organizing the Bigfoot Rendezvous in Pocatello, Idaho (June 16/17), is preparing a regular mail out (snail mail) on the event. If you would like to be on the mailing list, please email Brandon with you address. Brandon is at
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Dave Hancock and I will be implementing a Sasquatch/bigfoot photo library. This will be a proper library facility appended to the Hancock House site. Until we get it up and running, I am providing a temporary library facility on my page - The Murphy File. A link is provided in the next section below.
Seen here is a photo taken at the Bellingham Sasquatch/Bigfoot conference last year. I am seen talking to young people. It is important to keep in mind that every day millions of young people become of an age whereupon some of them get interested in the phenomenon. Furthermore, many adults take up an interest, knowing little of nothing of the subject. It is an ongoing process that makes history just as important as current events. I am mentioning this as a result of a question on the benefits of publicizing historical information. It may be "old hat" to the seasoned researcher, but it is all new to most people - really there is no such thing as "old stuff," it all depends on who you are. Clich Here
Recent Additions to THE MURPHY FILE
Sasquatch-Bigfoot (Interim) Photo Library Click Here
Forensic Sasquatch No. 3 Click Here
Rock Raving Click Here
Forensic Sasquatch No. 2 Click Here
Pardon Me, Albert Click Here
Something surprises me, and I don't have an answer. Greg Long quotes camera shop owner, Harvey Anderson, as saying that the Yakima Daily Republic ran an article in 1961 or there about, concerning unusual footprints found in the Ahtanum Valley, Yakima County (page 392 of Long's book). I would have thought Patterson would have included this find in his book, but I can't find anything. Nor is there anything in the Fuhrmann files, and John Green says there is nothing on his files. If you have this article or can help, please get back to me.
Matt Crowley brought this one to my attention - a real neat alien story Click Here
Here is a shot of the trail that leads up to the petroglyphs in Bella Coola. The carvings are sort of "all over the place." Look closely and you will seen one quite clearly about center on the rock bluff. Click Here I would imagine that the ones on the ground would have been easier to do than those on cliff faces. Nevertheless, any of them would have taken many hours to carve, and we can only wonder as to their real purpose. I sometimes think that the purpose just might be the same as that for modern day graffiti, Click Here In other words, a simple expression of one's existence, coupled with nothing else to do.
In 1995 I took this photo of the view at the location of the 1941 Ruby Creek, B.C. sighting. Click Here It is shown on page 35 of Meet the Sasquatch. I originally included in the caption that the photo could have been taken at almost any time in history to make the point that not a lot changes in this part of the world once you get beyond city limits. This somehow got lost in the shuffle. Anyway, if you were to go to the same spot today and take a photo, it would be the same. Few people venture off the beaten track up that way, and I guarantee animals in those woods know human habits. Have you ever noticed that often birds feeding on carrion on a road side don't bother to move when you drive by? They know that cars stay on the blacktop - same sort of thing.
Roger Knights tells me that someone is claiming Igor Bourtsev's statue of the creature in the Patterson/Gimlin film does not show the curious lump on the creature's leg. The person states that the lump was a "costume fold," so Bourtsev purposely omitted it. I have this statue in my possession and have taken many photos of it. Here is the statue and here is the lump. Click Here What is happening here is the problem I discuss in Forensic Sasquatch No. 2. It all depends on the angle at which an object is viewed or photographed. It might be noted that it was Igor Bourtsev who discovered this lump and provided a very valid reason for it in the Markotic book, Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids.
Brandon Tennant, who is organizing the Bigfoot Rendezvous in Pocatello, Idaho (June 16/17), is preparing a regular mail out (snail mail) on the event. If you would like to be on the mailing list, please email Brandon with you address. Brandon is at
Dave Hancock and I will be implementing a Sasquatch/bigfoot photo library. This will be a proper library facility appended to the Hancock House site. Until we get it up and running, I am providing a temporary library facility on my page - The Murphy File. A link is provided in the next section below.
Seen here is a photo taken at the Bellingham Sasquatch/Bigfoot conference last year. I am seen talking to young people. It is important to keep in mind that every day millions of young people become of an age whereupon some of them get interested in the phenomenon. Furthermore, many adults take up an interest, knowing little of nothing of the subject. It is an ongoing process that makes history just as important as current events. I am mentioning this as a result of a question on the benefits of publicizing historical information. It may be "old hat" to the seasoned researcher, but it is all new to most people - really there is no such thing as "old stuff," it all depends on who you are. Clich Here
Recent Additions to THE MURPHY FILE
Sasquatch-Bigfoot (Interim) Photo Library Click Here
Forensic Sasquatch No. 3 Click Here
Rock Raving Click Here
Forensic Sasquatch No. 2 Click Here
Pardon Me, Albert Click Here