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THE MURPHY FILE NEWSLETTER
Newsletter #16 October 1, 2006 Editor: Chris MurphyThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
©C.L.Murphy 2006
I think the entire sasquatch/bigfoot research issue can be summed up as, "waiting for the other shoe to drop." That it has not dropped with all that we know and have done is astounding, but not beyond reason. There are certainly more issues in the universe we (humans in general) can't explain than those that can be explained.
Did you Know, Nice to Know, or Need to Know
Dash mounted videos Click Here would probably be a sure-fire way of getting a sasquatch on film if one is seen at a roadside or crossing the road. However, the units are expensive and it is therefore doubtful that many people would install them. Another way of getting at least some result might be to mount an ordinary camera on a car dash. Certainly, you have to "push the button," but the time to get a picture would be reduced to simply this action - as opposed to getting out a camera and focusing it. If the camera rotated, then one might get two or three shots...just a thought.
Here's a sasquatch ad you have probably not seen, unless you are over 40 Click Here
Joedy Cook send me these photos of prints recently found in Adams County, Ohio Click Here. If you check on pages 40-46 of Bigfoot Encounters in Ohio (Hancock House, 2006), you will see that it was in this county (near Bentonville) that the intriguing "gorilla" handprint was found and cast. I continue to be miffed with this case, as does Jimmy Chilcutt. The cast, which clearly shows the dermal ridges (finger prints) of a gorilla (possibly dead or near death), had to come from an impression made with an actual gorilla's hand. That's a bit of a tough call, but there you have it.
The photos of this giant bear shot in Alaska in 2001 are truly amazing Click Here There are several shots on the site, but the last is a bit graphic as it shows the remains of a person who was killed by the creature (there is a warning, so don't look if you have a weak stomach). Anyway, from a sasquatch perspective, note the enormous size of the bear's foot, and the exceedingly large claws. A bear like that would definitely leave some large and deep footprints in semi-soft ground, however, you can see that the configuration of the toes is very different to those of sasquatch prints. Also, those big claws would dig in and therefore be very evident in the footprints. I do hope they had that bear stuffed for a museum display, really a magnificent creature, despite its "crimes."
I put this together using Peter Byrne's photo of the film site with Michael Hodgson at about the creature's location in frame 352 of the Patterson/Gimlin film Click Here. I did basically the same thing Jeff Glickman did to determine the relative height of creature, except I used the large log in the foreground of both images. In other words, I matched up the log images (made the log about the same size) which theoretically makes other objects relative I DON'T KNOW HOW VALID THIS IS, and it would certainly not be as exacting and precise as Glickman's work. As the log is round, I BELIEVE, you can do this. Objects that are not round can't be matched this way as the camera angle comes into play. You will note that in Byrne's photo, there is much more space between the log and Hodgson than there is in the film frame between the log and the creature. This is because Patterson took his movie at a lower elevation than Byrne - I would think over one foot. This fact and camera angle would make objects look somewhat different, although I can't fully rationalize the size of the debris chunk that blocks out the creature's left let leg (it's far too large).
Please don't quote me or hang me on this one. I am not a professional in these matters. I just wish to point out that if someone with qualification would work on material such as I show here, then we might be able to put a lid on the creature height issue. We need to have several references that don't depend on the foot size. We already have Glickman's work; the log would reinforce his finding. Then we have the wood fragment, and finally I believe it is possible to use a film frame itself - there are apparently certain "knowns" related to the entire image that can be used to calculate the size of objects seen.
Here is the Canada Post write-up on the sasquatch stamp issued in 1990 (Scott #1289) Click Here The facts presented are not quite right. The correct information is in Meet the Sasquatch. Nevertheless, it's a nice presentation and it's amusing that we have an official Canadian stamp depicting the creature. It would be nice if the U.S. followed suit.
Under New Stories below, you will see that I have posed the National Wildlife magazine article by George W. Harris, managing editor, that appeared in the October-November 1970 issue. This was a major article because Harris actually went on an expedition and saw large footprints first-hand. It is hard to believe that thirty-six years have past since the article appeared and the sasquatch has managed to thwart all of our efforts (be those what they may) to prove beyond doubt that it exists.
Some time ago, I talked to John Green about this issue, stating that I felt there was something "missing" in the equation. In other words, perhaps there is something we don't know that gives the creature the "edge" when it comes to being caught - and I'm not referring to some paranormal explanation. John did not think so, but I still wonder. Time after time, searches have been made after credible sightings without any success. Numerous lines of footprints have been followed with various signs found in this connection or separately (droppings, urine, broken branches, discarded food, moved logs/boulders, sleeping/resting places and even possible crude shelters).
Certainly, we can look to other animals that were not known to science until "recently," such as the mountain gorilla, panda, and platypus, but once these creatures were reported, they were found, and it did not take some 200 years...
Again Under New Stories, I have provided a bit of a photo adventure on the Blue Creek Mountain footprints found in August 1967. As with the first part of the Patterson/Gimlin film, what you see has not been seen before as still frames. This footage was also on the film DVD I sent to Marlon Davis who stabilized the frames for me. Many thanks, Marlon, and I apologize for taking you away from your other good work, but I find this material highly interesting as it allows one to reflect a little. With the images in motion, you really don't have much time to see anything. (Note that there are two stories, Blue Creek Mountain and Blue Creek Mountain - The Creek Bed.)
Hancock House Publishers will soon be carrying Bigfoot T-Shirts. Here is the image that will be used Click Here. The story of this image is on my blog Click Here. I just thought it was about time bigfoot had a little equal time with eagles. I will let you know when the shirts are available.
Here's a Canadian government map showing Canada's forests. Click Here Note all of the "unaccessed" regions. The accessed areas mean that someone has gone in there, mostly for logging, certainly not a lot of people in there on a full time basis. Now have a look at where all the people are Click Here. Is it possible for a breeding population of sasquatch to live in Canada without being detected? Seriously folks, once you go north beyond about 150 miles of the Canadian/U.S. border, the lights are out and there's nobody home. Where do most Canadians go for their vacations? South, of course, where we are cordially greeted by some 285 million Americans. No use going north unless you are a die-hard naturalist (or you want to find a sasquatch).
I was a guest the other night on "Erskine Overnight" Click Here. We talked a fair amount about "wild men." This is an interesting subject that I never realized was so wide-spread until reading the old newspaper articles that Scott McClean has dug up. Certainly a few cases are sasquatch-related, but most appear to be "something else." We then have a work by Richard K. Nelson (Make Prayers to the Raven) that discusses at length native belief in the "woodsman" (not a sasquatch) in Alaska. I have put together my thoughts on all of this in a new story Woodsmen and Wild Men. Please click the link under New Stories. It is interesting to note that in 1993, a newspaper group in Alaska (circulation 17,000) requested that their readers send in stories about what they refer to as the "hairy man," One editor, James MacPherson stated, "People here really do believe [in] it, and I respect that."
Book News
I am down to the final edit (Roger Knights) on my work The Bigfoot Film Journal: A Detailed Account and Analysis of the Patterson/Gimlin Film Circumstances and Aftermath. The information I provide gets down to the real "nitty-gritty" of the filming circumstances. John Green, Tom Steenburg, and Daniel Perez have all had a hand in it through the seven plus years it has been bouncing around in my various computers. However, as I say upfront in the book, I do not imply that they are in agreement with all that I have written. Hancock House plans to make the work an E-book.
New Stories
Story of a Man-wolf Click Here
Mark Twain and the "Wild Man" Click Here
National Wildlife magazine article, October-November 1970 Click Here
Blue Creek Mountain Click Here
Blue Creek Mountain - The Creek Bed Click Here
Woodsmen and Wild Men Click Here
Actual Links for "Click Here" Insertions Shown Above
Story of a Man-Wolf: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060903002857952
Mark Twain story: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060906111603356
Dash Video: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_1_original.jpg
Sasquatch Ad: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_5_original.jpg
Adams County Prints: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_6_original.jpg
Giant Bear: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-grizzlybear2.htm
Canadian Stamp: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_9_original.jpg
National Wildlife: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060911105933867
Blue Creek Mountain: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/2006091115514513
Creek Bed: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060912202540596
Image Story: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060113115550546
T-Shirts:http: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_12_original.JPG
Canada - Forests: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_10_original.gif
Canada - Population: http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/population/population2001/density2001
Woodsmen and Wild Men: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060918142722725
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THE MURPHY FILE NEWSLETTER
Newsletter #17 October 15, 2006 Editor: Chris Murphy
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Some general ramblings: As the old saying goes, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." As I plow through the absolutely astounding amount of information on sasquatch/bigfoot, I have to really wonder why more has not been done to resolve the issue. I also have to wonder if piling more stuff on the "heap," such as I and many others are doing, will ever change anything. Probably not, but there are no other alternatives. If the whole issue had to be boiled down into one question, it would have to be, "What is making the footprints?" Definitely not bears, and to write off 10% as fabrications would be an overkill.
The main difference between the sasquatch/bigfoot issue and a million other things we (science) cannot explain, is that this creature is right here in our own back yard, walking around on land, apparently doing physical things on a continuing basis and, if we are to believe the sightings, being continually seen by people. Seriously, we should have been able to "ace" this one before now.
To conclude that we are simple being outsmarted (basically as generally believed), is really a bit of a "push." Nothing else on this planet intelligence-wise can hold a candle to a 5-year-old child. It is this big gap, as it were, that throws a monkey-wrench (no pun intended) into the theory of evolution as it applies to human beings.
And yes... we can point to all sorts of odd creatures that remained "hidden" until fairly recent times. But fair is fair; they were not stacking up some 400 sightings/incidents a year in countries like the U.S., and Canada.
Oddly, I would feel much better if there we far fewer sighting than we presently have. The greater the number of sightings/incidents, then the more creatures there are, which greatly reduces the credibility of our arguments on why we do not have more/better evidence. I think scientists would be much more comfortable with about 20 sightings/incidents annually, and these only in remote forest areas. On this latter point, perhaps we need a standard. How about, "Only sightings/incidents that occur beyond 50 miles of a McDonald's have credibility."
Did you Know, Nice to Know, or Need to Know
Here's the latest on the "missing link" in case you missed it Click Here.
I went to see Body Worlds 3 at the Vancouver Science Center, an astounding display of "plastinated" human bodies Click Here. The inventor of the process is Dr. Gunther von Hagens Click Here. Every photograph you see of him, he is wearing his hat. In the exhibit, I noticed a large image of Rembrandt's painting The Anatomy Lesson . Click Here One will note that the main figure, Dr. Nicolas Tulp, is wearing his hat while performing a dissection. The reason Tulp is doing so is because such demonstrated independence from the social norms of the time - back in those days carving up the human body to have a look inside was kind of taboo. Anyway, von Hagens in his unusual and controversial work, very appropriately, associates himself with Dr. Tulp, As you might recall, I have a story about Dr. Tulp, and I used his image as seen in the painting Click Here. Alas, perhaps all of this is a good omen (perhaps von Hagen will follow in Tulp's footsteps and we will one day have a plastinized sasquatch).
Famous Last Words: Kokomo Tribune (Indiana), August 15, 1871: "A prevailing superstition amongst the Dutch is that of the “Hairy man,” the wild man of the mountains; a being without other clothing than hirsute abundance, who climbs lofty trees, afflicts children and stock, and defies pursuit and capture. Only last week this ancient adventurer was reported in the Reading papers as having been seen on the Welsh Mountain, and the sagacious editor added: “It is high time that this formidable monster was brought to terms and put under durance.” (From Scott McClean's collection).
Here's a 1929 newspaper article on the Francis de Loys finding (Credit to Scott McClean). Click Here We note that de Loys was a friend of Dr. Montandon. It is a little hard to think that de Loys would hoax the photograph and then let a professional friend think that it was real, especially back in the 1920s (nowadays without question). As the story goes, de Loys forgot about the photo and it was discovered some years later in his (de Loys') note book by Montandon. Here's the full story: Click Here
D. W. Lee of the Green County Bigfoot Research Center, Oklahoma writes: "In your newsletter #16 about dashboard mounted cameras, here was my group’s solution for the last few years. We took a Sony cam corder with night shot capability and mounted it on a tripod in the front floorboard, with a piece of black tape over the IR led on the front of it to avoid reflection of the IR on the windshield. We then leave it running as we drive down back roads and trails, the night shot capability extends the camera's view well past the extent of the headlights, so if something runs across the road further out past our headlights, the cam corder picks up the animal with its night shot capability. It has been a real asset to us, to be able to back up the tape and see what it was crossing the road. Included is a picture of the simple setup Click Here . Just thought you should know that others are already working on this type of project. ( www.greencountrybigfoot.info)
For the Footprint Record: The photo I show at the top left on page 48 of Meet the Sasquatch is from a 10-foot strip of the second film roll as stated, BUT IT IS MIRROR IMAGED. When the film lab made the photo from the 16mm film, they inadvertently reversed the image. I did not know they had done this until about a year ago when I saw that the same print is seen in the series of prints registered by Yvon Leclerc that is shown on page 66 of the book. The images that comprise the registration (60 of them) were found on the Net. I believe they were used in a TV production back in 1975 and somehow got posted in the early/mid 1990s. Bobbie Short provided them to me. I have put the two images side by side so you can see that they are exactly the same. Click Here
Roger Knights tells us that, from information provided by Lyle Laverty, the latter was probably NOT at the film site on October 21, 1967. He was there twice - once on October 19 or 20, and then most likely on October 23 (Monday). He did not work on the weekends (Oct. 21 and 22), so was definitely not there on Saturday, October 21 as we have believed for many years. It is now reasonably established that he took his famous photographs of the creature's footprints (page 48 of Meet the Sasquatch) on October 23. Laverty stated that he did not notice any footprints on his first visit to the site. If this was anytime on October 19, most certainly they were not there. If this was on October 20, then it had to be before about 1:30 in the afternoon, because that's when the creature was sighted and walked along the sandbar. As Perez further "develops," this negates the Long/Heironimus claim that the prints were fabricated earlier than October 20 - but I'm not going there with this.
I don't believe that the footprints Laverty photographed were near the same series (any one of them) as the prints Patterson filmed (page 66, Meet the Sasquatch). However, when I compare one of the Laverty photos to the last print in the Patterson series, it appears they were made by the same foot. Here is a totally unscientific comparison. I made the angle about the same, I made them about the same size, and had to sort of image them together, so please only look at the general configuration of each print. Click Here
It would appear to me that Laverty was probably looking at prints some distance away from those Patterson filmed. Otherwise it is likely he would have noticed that two of the prints had been cast (plaster sort of "gets around."). Perhaps he did??. Anyway, while none of this proves anything one way or the other, it does sort of marginally indicate that Patterson and Laverty took film/photos of prints made by the same feet - something not doubted to begin with, but then again, if the question arises...
This article on Jerry Crew written in 1977 surprised me a little. Have a read and then click back. Click Here Crew, of course, did not name bigfoot, however, he did in the sense that his action established the name for the creature in the United States. What surprised me was that he went on to perform some fairly extensive bigfoot research, finding five different footprints and a possible "nest." It is also interesting that he apparently corresponded with the Smithsonian. I would think he sent them photos and so forth, which I imagine they have stashed away with Grover's stuff. I bet they have enough stuff to have one heck of an exhibit.
New Stories
Steinbeck and Bigfoot Click Here
A Classic Old Sighting Click Here
Book News
I have now completed the Bigfoot Film Journal and it is presently undergoing final "tweaking" at Hancock House. As I have previously mentioned, this book will be available as an e-book. Roger Knights, Thomas Steenburg, and Daniel Perez were editors/consultants for the work, and over the years I have had input from John Green. and Peter Byrne. But seriously, some of the issues presented are a real tough call, and in the absence of known facts, judgment had to be used. Nevertheless, all of us have been studying the P/G film circumstances for many years, so I think we are close. (I didn't need 476 pages, by the way).
I anticipate that there will be some feedback or arguments on what is presented, and I will I provide such on my blog under Film Journal Feedback when the time comes.
Actual Links for "Click Here" Insertions Shown Above
Missing Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214722,00.html
Tulp: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20050927123857865
Von Hagens: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_13_original.jpg
Science World: http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/
Painting: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_14_original.jpg
Steinbeck: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060921152536843
Classic Old Sighting:http://forum.hancockhouse.com/article.php/20060922141406216
De Loys Article: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060202125934728_2_original.gif
De Loys Story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_De_Loys
Video Camera: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_15_original.JPG
Footprints - Strip/Net: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_16_original.jpg
Footprints - Patterson-Laverty: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_17_original.jpg
Crew Article: http://forum.hancockhouse.com/images/articles/20060909232540629_18_original.jpg
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Newsletter # 2 January 30, 2006 Editor: Chris Murphy
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Lots of great comments were received on my first newsletter. Unfortunately, it appears we did a few "no no's" so not all of you were able to access the links. We have since got this sorted out. Please not that if you wish to review all of the stories in The Murphy File, simply go to my page and scroll down. If you hit "read more" to access the further details it is simplest to hit the back arrow to go back to The Murphy File -- then pick up the next item or scroll further down. Here is the link for my page:
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Did You Know? (Or Nice to Know) & What's hit my desk
Wanja Twan, Rene Dahinden ex-wife, is still an active Bigfooter. She opened a little sasquatch museum in Hope, B.C., a couple of years ago (now closed). This photo is of she and I at the museum with a sasquatch carving by Robert Forde that she purchased for her museum. Click Here
Lloyd Pye has corrected me on the date he saw the Iceman. It was in 1976, not 1968 as I previously stated. He saw the exhibit in St. Louis.
The old Gigantopithecus has been shoved back to 300,000 years, sorry to say. It appears Jack Rink was a little hasty. Here is what I received from Dr. Jeff Meldrum: "Jack Rink released to the press a preliminary result of an age of 100,000 years ago (likely because they were hoping for that young of a date so they could carry on with plans to attempt to extract and sequence DNA from the fossil teeth). However, the final result was an absolute date of 300,000 years ago, confirming earlier relative dating estimates for those cave deposits based on faunal associations. [Of course it is unlikely that Gigantopithecus routinely inhabited caves, rather its bones were occasionally carried into caves by scavengers. So the dates are for the age of the deposits in the particular caves that happened to have the few Giganto bones that comprise the paltry sample at hand. They may not reflect the actual temporal and geographic range of the species, but merely reflect the bias in preservation and discovery of these rare fossils.] I hate to see this dating inaccuracy perpetuated, as much as I would have liked it to be so."
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Sally Ann Clarke who wrote The Lake Worth Monster of Greer Island (1969), is in good health and still likes to talk about the events at Fort Worth Texas back in those days. I visited Sally at her home last year. Here is a photo of she and I. Click Here
The old house at Ruby Creek, B.C., that I show in Meet the Sasquatch (page 35) eventually crumbled to the ground and a relative of Jeannie Chapman, Deborah Schneider (and her husband, David) built a new house on the property. Click Here
I took this photo back in 1996 when I went to the house and visited with Deborah, seen here with me. Click Here
The new house is on the opposite side of the two large trees seen.
While scrounging around in the storage floor of the Vancouver Museum last year, I found a great orangutan skull. Click Here
I am sure it has not seen the light of day since it was given to the museum. I often muse that one day someone will stumble on a sasquatch skull in storage at some obscure museum, probably tagged "Skull of some sort."
The year 2006 is a bit of a bigfoot anniversary for me. It was in 1996 that I did the enhancements on the head of the creature seen in the Patterson/Gimlin film. Ten years later I am still wondering what happened here. I did not have a scanner then and did the enhancements with a charcoal pencil and pastels. While there is a whole story unto itself here, some of the details I observed were far beyond those possible - so did I imagine them?? The following image shows what I came up with for just the right side of the face. The only thing I specifically changed was the mouth - it appears somewhat open in the actual frame; I gave it a closed position. Click Here
WhiteWolf Entertainment's Giganto the Real King Kong (as seen on The History Channel) is an exceptionally good production. This is a MUST for anyone interested in bigfoot/sasquatch. To order it Click Here or call 1 888 423 1212.
Crypto Events
The Bigfoot Rendezvous website is up Click Here
Crypto Forum Stories Just Released
Iceman Irony - Some interesting information I just learned. Click Here
Sasquatch Pass & More - The pass was named by the president of the Explorers Club upon finding large human-like footprints.
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Patty Artwork Particulars - Some behind the scene information. Click Here
Hardly Crypto But Perhaps Kryptonite! - A story about a strange rock. Click Here
Bigfoot Book News
There are two great kid's books that Hancock will soon be carrying. One is The Mysterious Yeti by June Buxton, and the other Bigfoot, by Michael Burgan. I will let you know when they are available. Hancock already carries The Bigfoot Discovery Book (coloring book) by Michael Rugg. If you have children interested in Sasquatch/Bigfoot, these three books make a great adventure for them.
Hancock House is in the process of carrying LOREN COLEMAN'S crypto books, plus other books in this category that I will announce as we move forward. I am working with them to make Hancock House a "one stop shop" for cryptozoology. If you have a particularly favorite crypto book (not a novel) that is still in print, please let me know the details on how Hancock House can order it.
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Newsletter #3 February 17, 2006 Editor: Chris Murphy
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Did you Know , Nice to Know, or Need to Know
Some scientists imply that chasing Sasquatch is like chasing rainbows. Well, I have done that too, and you can find the end of a rainbow, but you have got to chase quite a few. Click Here
Daniel Perez (BIGFOOT TIMES newsletter) did not see my notification that my part of the San Antonio, Texas, sasquatch exhibit was cancelled. What he shows in his newsletter is therefore incorrect. The museum, Institute of Texan Cultures, stated they did not have room for all of the material I have. They will still have an exhibit, primarily using just the Texas material. My material will be displayed in Pocatello, Idaho, in June. More on this subject in the next newsletter. Click Here
Erick Beckjord informed me of a recorded Bigfoot sighting in Hawaii. In 1973, Rob Carleson and a friend (college students) while hiking near Whitmore Village, Wahiawa Mountains, Kaua'i, stated they encountered an 8 ft tall male bigfoot, and as they ran away they saw a giant female Bigfoot. Tracks 24 inches long were later found. (Glen Grant, Obake Files Mutual Publishing, 1996 [ISBN 1-56647-100-1])) p. 149. I see Bobbie Short has the details on her site Click Here What can I say? I do think that if the creatures are on the Hawaiian Islands there would have been more sightings.
Fossilized footprints discovered by Mary Leaky are really quite remarkable. One set seen here (the larger), appears to be in a straight line like Sasquatch prints. The other set (smaller prints) alternate like human prints. The prints are said to be more than 3 million years old. Click Here Here are some images of alleged Sasquatch footprints, Click Here
Beside his Gigantopithecus skull construction, Dr. Grover Krantz also constructed the skull of a Meganthropus, Click Here Check the net for information on this fellow.
A sighting in Kuala Lumpur is creating quite a stir. Click Here
Gary Krejci created this wonderful illustration for the Sasquatch Chronicle Click Here .It depicts Slavomir Rawicz observing two yeti in the Himalayas in 1941. Rawicz, along with six other escapees from a Siberian labor camp, observed the creatures for two hours. The incident is reported in Rawicz's book, The Long Walk. Gary has done quite a few illustrations for me - they are all truly remarkable.
RobRoy Menzies created this great Chronicle illustration, and beyond a doubt captured the moment Click Here. It depicts a scene in, Lumby, British Columbia, in 1973. Three young boys out "plinking" with a .22 caliber rifle saw a Sasquatch and shot at it. The bullets were not strong enough to penetrate the creature. RobRoy is also helping me out - really great material.
Just for the Record - shown in this photo are two glass tumblers, one atop the other. Please have a look Click Here
Now, it is certainly elementary that the tumbler on top will not fit inside the lower tumble unless it were slightly larger in circumference (at least by the width of the rim). If one were to make an impression of the top of one of the tumblers in sand or soil, then that impression will naturally be larger than the glass. Even if one made a rubber/plastic mold, the impression would still be larger - unless you shrunk it somehow. If one serial reproduces plaster footprint casts in sand (say four times), the last cast will be significantly larger than the original. Although I have not done this, I think one could make a cast of his own foot and then serial reproduce it many times and thereby get a "giant" cast. One could do the same with a hand print cast.
Datus Perry (d. 1998) is seen here in a photo I took in 1996. Datus claimed he had about 20 Sasquatch sightings and was a paranormal advocate (another notch in the belt for that group). Click Here
It continues to amaze me just how much detail can be seen in the Patterson/Gimlin film. Here is a 35mm photo of a telephone pole at 102 feet with a large Bigfoot head picture mounted on it. Click Here. Here is an enlargement of the head. Down a little is a white spot. This is a Canadian $2 coin.(28mm in diameter). Click Here. You really cannot see very much detail (although more is available on the actual photos). I would have thought a 35mm camera would have been superior to a 16mm movie camera (especially since the creature is only 1.2mm high in the frames) - I guess not. While this does not really prove anything, had Patterson used a 35mm still camera, this would have been about the quality of the photos. Can anyone tell me why the movie film is better?
This thing intrigues me ... Click Here Dr. Grover Krantz and Alexey Petrovich are seen by the huge cannon in the Kremlin, Moscow, that is known as the Tsar-Cannon. It was cast in 1586 by the Russian master A.Checkov. It weighs 40 tons; its length is 5.34m and its caliber is 890mm. It was made for the defense of the Kremlin but was never fired. It is now a monument to the art of casting in the 16th century. We just might have something here for Sasquatch hunting - especially in Texas.
Dr. Jeff Meldrum sent around an article on some new findings that has Doug Hajicek thinking - and rightly so. Here's a quote from the article (I provide a link below to the actual article). "Robust australopithecines, an extinct side branch of human evolution, roamed Africa 1.4 million to 2.5 million years ago. Members of these species are well known for their large teeth and distinctive facial features. But something odd was afoot as well, the researchers said. ?The anatomy of the ankle suggests that robust australopithecines had knees that wobbled inward when walking,? Now, this is basically what Hajicek clearly demonstrates with regards to the creature in the Patterson/Gimlin film . Doug's television production, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, says it all. Hopefully, this will result in more scientific attention to the P/G film.
Actual Article: Early Human Ancestors Had a Wobble in Their Walk Click Here
Recent Additions to THE MURPHY FILE
Forensic Sasquatch Click Here
De Loys' Man-beast Click Here
Rock Wondering Click Here
Dahinden Diary (Summary of Rene Dahinden's life) Click Here
Lloyd Pye Heats Up the Iceman Issue Click Here
Crop Circle Conundrum Click Here
Coming to Grips with Gripes Click Here
Bigfoot Book News
Bigfoot Encounters in Ohio - I just went through the printer's proof on this, so it will be available very soon.
The Bigfoot Casebook (Updated/Revised) - Janet Bord has not received any copies as of January 31, 2006 - but expected shortly.