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THE MURPHY FILE NEWSLETTER
Newsletter #15 September 15, 2006 Editor: Chris Murphy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
©C.L.Murphy 2006

Fall is just around the corner and October 20 marks the 39th anniversary of the Patterson/Gimlin film. They say life begins at 40, so lets hope next year will stir a little more "life" in this connection.

Did you Know, Nice to Know, or Need to Know

Loren Coleman is not happy with the Sanderson book Click Here. I did notice the things he mentioned, but I think we have to count our blessings first. The book is now available and is essentially "as is." I know you can't tell a book by its cover, but let's face it, covers are the first thing people look at, so the publisher wanted to make sure he had something that would attract attention. That's why we see that big silly monster. Old Ivan would not have been happy, granted, but its a bit tough now for him to say anything. And, yes, using that ridiculous photo of a rock that looks like a man (yeti) was stupid. We have known about this for years. However, this is the 21st Century, and if something is (or was) said or claimed and is "put out there," It can NEVER be killed.

I found the Seven Chutes photo intriguing Click Here and certainly commend Rob Gaudet on his website and the detailed information he provides. This is the second image I have seen that seems to indicate the creature shown is "baboon-like." In other words, it has a snout. Certainly such does not match the thousands of descriptions we have of sasquatch, so I am at a loss here. Nevertheless, I have no explanation either for footprints that show 3 or 4 toes, rather than 5. Is it possible there is "something else" out there beside the "run-of-the-mill" sasquatch?

I received the following highly encouraging message from Dave Mead, Idaho Museum of Natural History with regard to the sasquatch exhibit: "The exhibit has been extremely well received by all who have viewed it, from believers to skeptics. Our attendance has been the largest in recent history and they keep coming! It didn't hurt that the newspaper article went AP; it is now online and has been published in papers from New Zealand to Italy!"

I have run across a couple of cases in which mutilated cattle DO NOT appear to be to the liking of bears and other scavengers. I find this odd. Bears, I have been told, are particularly fond of rotten meat and will, in fact, let it rot for a while before they feast on it. Birds (vultures, crows etc.) are not fussy and will usually grab anything available as quickly as it become available. I'm not ready to buy "alien contamination" yet, but would consider "sasquatch contamination."

In looking at statistics on British Columbia (where I live) I noted that 70% of the forested areas here are 1 kilometer, or greater, from a road or other "disturbance" (anything created by man). Generally speaking, "no road, no people," save the odd native or hunter. I then ran across a very old sasquatch-related article, kindly provided by Scott McLean, that was perfect in all respects, except that a search party found where the thing "camped" sort of thing, and there were the remains of a fire. This got me thinking a little. If sasquatch do use fire, chances are such would be hardly noticed.
First off, the weather has to be clear enough to see smoke, and even then, what would be seen of a campfire-size fire from the air or from a road? And even if one did see a wisp of smoke coming from a large forested area, so what? If it got very large, then it would naturally be reported - but I am not even sure here when it comes to BC's far north and the Yukon.
Keep in mind that we have determined that forest fires are a natural and essential process, so if they are not seen to endanger people or property, then they are probably left to burn out (not much choice really in many cases). We might also note that there are peat bogs in North America that continually burn underground - smoke is seen, but no flames. Also, I believe lightning strikes cause numerous small fires, just how big they get depends on weather conditions. Both peat bogs and lightning strikes, incidentally, are a source for fire if one does not know how to make it. However, If a creature has hands, then it is at least halfway there to being able to create fire using friction as native people have done for untold generations
The main point on the "fire or no fire" issue is that if the creature does use (control) fire, then we have something that is definitely more intelligent that your regular non-human animal. This does not necessarily push the creature into the "human" category, but it does push it above animals per se. This reasoning leads me to the Porshnev/Bayanov theory that what we have is something in between the two (something that got left behind and is not quite there yet.)

This is amusing: "In 1888 a cattleman named Wyatt kept a journal on his fascination with Bigfoot [name used for convenience], and some new myths were added to the old. He began his journal when the Indians of the wild region in Northern California along the Humboldt Line told him how their ancestors fed raw meat to a gentle, hairy creature they called 'Crazy Bear,' who sat cross-legged among them while he ate. They told Wyatt that the had been a gift to them because he had been brought to them by a 'small moon' that came down from the stars, landed and tossed out three 'Crazy Bears' before short-haired men in 'silver suits' waved to them in friendly fashion and flew away like the eagle." (Valley News, Van Nuys, CA, May 19, 1977). This is the earliest reference I have ran across that links the creature with aliens.


Here's a bit of trivia. The name "Patagonia," given to a region in South America, means "Land of the Big Feet." According to some authorities, it was so named by early explorers who were amazed at the size of the footprints found there. I'm glad those guys did not land in British Columbia first. Anyway, footprints, footprints everywhere......(I wonder if Ray Wallace was around then??)



Here's the newest addition to Crypto Catastrophes: #28. UNFORTUNATELY, in or about 1959 the mummified corpse of what was believed to be a yeti baby was shipped from the State Museum of Nepal to Peiping, China for study, but disappeared somewhere on the journey. The mummy had been found in Tibet by a Nepalese trader who took it to the Nepal museum. The museum director told Dr. Boris Porshnev, a Russian scientist in Moscow, of this occurrence in April 1959. (Perhaps it will turn up with all the missing film of the moon landing in 1969 - someone's gotta be taking all this stuff.)



Marlon Davis did a great job for me in stabilizing images from the first 75 feet of the P/G film, and then those way at the end of the film where the creature is seen as it goes into the forest. I have taken some of these images and put them into a "New Story" called The Patterson/Gimlin Film Album. When you get down to the new story section, click on the link and have a look. Many thanks to Marlon for providing me with the images.



After reviewing what Dr. Henner Fahrenbach states regarding film resolution as it pertains to the Patterson/Gimlin film, I am providing an image that graphically illustrates what he says. It shows the amount of credible detail available in the film frames where the creature is at about 102 feet from the camera. If the image is printed at 96mm (3.78 inches) high, then the white dot on the creature's shoulder will be 3.6mm (.142 inches) in diameter. The white dot then represents the SMALLEST detail one can see that has any credibility. Now, you cannot use a magnifying glass. You must view the image with your naked eyes, and as Dr. Henner Fahrenbach says, "What you see is what you get." I suggest you use this example in conjunction with the images that I provide in Meet the Sasquatch ( Frames 350-364, page 54). They are the best images in print and are at the right height. Click Here




Book News

Hancock House is now carrying Dan Perez's book, Bigfoot Times - Bigfoot at Bluff Creek. Click Here

New Stories

The Patterson/Gimlin Film Album Click Here

Actual Links for "Click Here" Insertions Shown Above

Coleman Site: http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/xitsabsmx/
Seven Chutes: http://www.haveyouseenthiscreature.com/
Perez Book: http://www.hancockhouse.com/products/bigfoo.htm
P/G Film Album: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060831163051110
Film Res. (White Dot): http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060831163051110_15_original.jpg