"Our Official 1000th Blog"

 

1.                 Our 1000th Blog & Going Strong

 

Here it is, we have reached our 1000th blog entry. When I took over the Blog, there was at approximately 500 articles published. Now we just hit our 1000th.

The very first Blog was:

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Breaking News!!!!! A bigfoot is Dead!
 

That was the headline. The first news that a Bigfoot had been shot and killed. Alot of things have happened this past year. Rick Dyer started his broadcast speaking of "Hank", the bigfoot he encountered in San Antonio, Texas. The "After the Shot" DVD is about to come out and be shipped to the 100 people who bought  this historic video of an authentic Bigfoot body that Rick Dyer shot and killed on September 6, 2012. We are still taking pre-orderes for the DVD and I hope you will orer your copy today, before they are sold out. And sold out they will be. Rick Dyer and several Team Tracker members will be taking the body on tour all across America to give each and everyone of you a chance to see an actual Bigfoot body in person. The myth is now a fact. Bigfoot will no longer be in the same category as The Loch Ness Monster, Moth Man and other unproved beings. Bigfoot is indeed real. That's what this Blog is all about. To inform you of the latest with Rick Dyer and Team Tracker, the Bigfoot news, to tell you the truth about the Bigfoot community and the people that are part of it. Some good, some bad. Thanks to all the people who contributed articles and also our guests who wrote several outstanding entries.Thank you for coming back again and again for the truth and solid facts about Bigfoot. Frank Cali Vice President Team Tracker

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From Lynk Paul Editor Team Tracker

Well it has been a tumultuous time for Rick Dyer and Team Tracker. This past year had no shortage of “ups and downs “as Rick would call it, that’s putting it mildly. I can still see the dust in the in the distance at our rear, from the trail we blazed.

We have had many trials and faced the grueling hate from a few who have now fallen by the wayside. Yet here we are, those of us who remain, standing tall through it all. Our cause is true and just, we will never waver, we will never fall and “AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU WILL SEE A BIGFOOT BODY” and all scientific supporting data.

We at Team Tracker are a group of individuals and professionals with disciplines in a wide array of backgrounds. We are an international Team of people with common interests and goals. Our main priority, to promote to the World, the facts and the supporting evidence that;

 Rick Dyer, on the night of September 06 2012, in San Antonio TX, did shoot and kill a Bigfoot and retained the specimen for scientific study and to present to the World, not only as a newly (officially)discovered species but the discovery of the millennia. This also exonerates him and countless others from across the globe that will finally have their long awaited redemption.

Because of the bold and brave efforts of Rick Dyer and Team Tracker, you the people of the world will know the absolute truth about the existence of Bigfoot. You will forever remember RICK DYER, THE MAN, THE LEGEND and his LEGACY.

 

“I can't complain, I'm in the best place and time in my life. A bit overwhelming at times, the caliber of people I meet but you know me...I can overcome any obstacle in my way. The best part is earning the respect and friendship of these great people and to be of service to my friends in any way I can.”

“Fear of the unknown has been prevalent far too long. I prefer to make known the unknown, to conquer and extinguish fear, to gain deeper understanding and respect for the marvelous and wondrous world in which we live”

“There are many things still yet to be discovered in our modern time both on the Earth and under its seas. Many, which have already been discovered before, now reside in folklore, myth and legend; Welcome to a new world of re-discovery and adventure” 

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By Jason Judd Team Tracker Member

What it means to be a part of Team Tracker to me.

Nearly a year ago, I saw the “tent video” for the first time, and I thought to myself—Wow! I watched and watched and watched, over and over and over again. I showed the video to my wife and then the color version came out. We were both amazed. This is the absolute best video evidence to date and so much better than the P/G film. Subsequently, all the YouTube video editors out in cyber-space placed their mark on it as the real deal. Everyone in the bigfoot community was ecstatic and drooling.

Then Rick let everyone know it was him.  Mostly everyone flip-flopped.

I was amazed that a guy’s name could turn this into a hoax. He’s hoaxed before, and simply put, he admitted to hoaxing (telling the truth)….to a group of people that will believe anything in order to be considered sane to the rest of the world.

Those people that lost nothing but time, in their mind assumed a position of hatred towards Rick that was mind blowing to me. People in the BFCom would then go out of their own way to spread the hate all over the internet—even if he never had directly hurt them.

Many saw this happen—including me.

I didn’t care……..

The video. The video. The video.

I know what I saw on the video. YouTube video editors know what they saw on the video. You know what you saw on the video. I didn’t know Rick personally or know him well in 2008. But I know Rick now.

I started following Rick on his blogtalk and enjoyed the show. It was very entertaining to listen to all of the people calling in and asking questions that didn’t exactly relate to “Hank.” The questions were more along the lines of questioning Rick and his story. I thought, WTH? Why don’t they ask about “Hank?” I finally called in and asked. Rick answered a few and didn’t answer a few; alas, I re-asked those questions again only differently so I would know where his answer led. I bored the hell out of Rick. The teeth, hands, foot pads, no mid-tarsal break, the brow ridge, slopping forehead, and triangle ribcage were all answers that I got from Rick…..not verbatim, but I got answers. This was my turning point on wanting to become part of this discovery!! I’ve been watching the BFCom from a distance for two decades and I was very apprehensive to all of the stories that “researchers” would claim that a Bigfoot was, and I felt it was all completely unbelievable even though I know that they are real.

How could Rick know? The only thing that he has been told, before Hank , was that bigfoot was a large bipedal Gorilla with a backwards bending feet and had gorilla nostrils with a sagittal crest sharing human feet and hands. <<<<ß---Is that really believable to you? It is not believable to me and it never has been. Yes, I have made a claim over the air that Bigfoot is a Meganthropus, and there is where I will remain bound with sure feet.

Proof: Nearly all footprints casted that are real are identical to the footprints from pre-history footprints that have been discovered which are different from the human gait and foot alignment all together. All of these footprints spread their weight evenly across their medium, but they all have a lateral arch as well. Don’t believe me? Get a membership with the “Science AAAS” website and read all of the anthropological published journals on the discoveries so far. For all of you science nuts like me, you will be impressed. For those that want to argue without information and base your education from Slicki-Wiki, you will have better luck in a mirror.

I am now part of a team that watches each other’s backs and enjoy our friendship, which is just getting stronger—NOT TO MENTION PART OF A TEAM THAT HAS A BIGFOOT BODY.

·         We stay strong together no matter what happens.

      ·         We support each other no matter what happens.

      ·         We argue together and still care the next day.

      ·         We get annoyed with each other and still care the next day.

      ·         We believe in each other.

      ·         We help one another without asking about trust.

Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that? Any “club” that has this kind of bond is fruitful. Add something to it and “BAM” it becomes remarkable and amazing.

I am a Tracker, and I am part of this discovery.  I am proud. You should be proud to be considered sane among your peers now for talking bigfoot. Enjoy and embrace it. 

(Editor note: Please check this blog several times a day. We always post severa; articles a day, 7 days a week. I fanyone would like to write an article, you are most welcome. Just email it to teamtracker1@aol.com. We'd love to hear from you. Again, thank you)

"Bigfoot Sighting Map"

 

(Editor note: This map reflects recorded sightings. When Rick Dyer's Bigfoot body is made public, alot of people will then come forward with the sightings and encounters they had been afraid to report for fear they would be laughed at or called nuts and kooks Your day is coming  SOON people.


If you’ve ever wondered where the true home of Bigfoot/Sasquatch might be, then this visualisation of sightings could help you track the mythical beast down.

Put together by Josh Stevens, a PhD candidate at Penn State, this visualisation shows over 90 years of sightings. If you look at the map and suspect that sightings mirror population density — a fair assumption — then Stevens is one step ahead of you.

Right away you can see that sightings are not evenly distributed. At first glance, it looks a lot like a map of population distribution. After all, you would expect sightings to be the most frequent in areas where there are a lot of people. But a bivariate view of the data shows a very different story. There are distinct regions where sightings are incredibly common, despite a very sparse population. On the other hand, in some of the most densely populated areas sasquatch sightings are exceedingly rare.

The second, bivariate map is the one on the left, where bright purple shows high sasquatch sightings/low population density, and light green points to high population density/low sassquatch sightings. So it’s not driven by population density — but it might be driven by the vegetation, terrain and, umm, enthusiasm for Bigfoot sightings in those areas instead.

"Bigfoot Sighting Report Lincoln, NE"

LINCOLN — Before July, Saunders County Sheriff Kevin Stukenholtz had never fielded a call about Bigfoot over a lifetime in law enforcement.

Now he has a big mystery on his hands.

Stukenholtz, along with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, investigated a reported sighting of an unidentified “hairy” creature in late July on a country road that parallels the Platte River. A hair sample found at the site was still being analyzed.

A 15-year-old reported seeing the creature, which he said stood about 7 feet tall on two legs as it ran in front of the vehicle the youth was driving about 5:30 a.m. The creature then disappeared into the trees along the river.

Stukenholtz, who became county sheriff six years ago after a long career with the Nebraska State Patrol, said he has no reason to believe the report was a hoax. His office is awaiting a report about hair gathered from the scene, between Morse Bluff and Linwood, about 60 miles west of Omaha.

The sheriff said that even though he thinks it’s highly unlikely that Sasquatch has shown up in Saunders County, his office has an obligation to check out credible reports.

“We aren't sure what it was, but we're looking into it,” Stukenholtz said.

The sighting comes as Sasquatch is enjoying a run in the media spotlight.

There’s a Sasquatch Music Festival in central Washington, a Sasquatch Brewing Co. in Portland that features Hairy Knuckles Stout, and a string of hilarious TV commercials for a beef jerky company based on the gag “Messin’ with Sasquatch.”

But Bigfoot sightings are no joking matter for some.

The report wouldn't be the first for Nebraska, according to the Montana-based Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, which lists reported Sasquatch sightings on its website.

The group lists 14 reported sightings in the state going back to 1957. The most recent sighting listed was in October 2006 at Chadron State Park in northwest Nebraska, where three hikers reported seeing an “unusually tall” two-legged animal covered from head to toe in black fur.

There were also “various sightings” listed from August 2005 “near the Missouri River” close to Omaha.

The website does not list who saw the creatures. The organization has four Nebraska-based investigators, but an official with the group said they have not probed the Platte River sighting because it was not reported to them.

Meanwhile, rumors are flying in the Linwood-Morse Bluff area that tracks were found and that people have heard unexplained screams.

No tracks were found, according to Conservation Officer Mark Luben of Game and Parks, who investigated the Bigfoot report.

The officer said he turned over the matter to the Sheriff’s Office once he determined the report did not involve a game or non game animal under the agency’s jurisdiction.

Luben said he has fielded two previous reports of Bigfoot sightings in his nearly 24 years with Game and Parks. One, he said, turned out to be a rabbit that had left big tracks in the snow. The tracks were misidentified by a Dwight-area resident who had recently moved to the area from Chicago.

Luben and Stukenholtz both said the teen who reported the creature sighting does not want to be identified or interviewed.

“When anyone ever says the term (Bigfoot), it’s immediately followed up by a joke,” Stukenholtz said. “They're certainly not looking for any public ridicule.”

 

New Skeptic Book On Bigfoot, Nessie & Mokele Mbembe"

Mokele Mbembe

 

(An interview we found with skeptic's and some "monsters" names you all know)

 

There's ample circumstantial evidence for all these creatures: eyewitness accounts, blurry photographs, mysterious footprints. For many cryptozoologists—the people who search for legendary animals—that evidence is enough to confirm a monster's existence.

But it will take more than shadowy sightings to convince Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero that Bigfoot or any of the other monsters are real. What Loxton and Prothero want is scientific evidence. In their new book, Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, they analyze the history of mythic beasts and the clues to their existence.

Loxton and Prothero come at Cryptozoology from different directions. Loxton, a staff writer for Skeptic magazine, was an ardent believer in monsters as a kid, having spotted a Bigfoot print in the woods and a pterodactyl winging over his backyard. (Now, he suspects the print was a prank and the pterodactyl was a great blue heron.) Prothero is a paleontologist, who is also trained in biology and geology. He has written over 250 scientific papers and 28 books, including five textbooks on geology.

here the autors speak about bringing skepticism and science to the study of cryptids.

 

First of all, what is a cryptid?

DP: A cryptid is any animal that has never been described by science, usually something very unusual along the lines of a Loch Ness monster or Bigfoot, something that stretches the limits of what is scientifically plausible.

DL: It's based on the word cryptozoology, which means hidden life or animals. It implies a creature that's been recorded through folklore, something that we have reason to suspect exists.

What can science tell us about cryptids?

DP: The first thing, of course, is that a cryptid can't be a single animal. If there's one of them, there's got to be many of them. You can talk about their population density, the size of range they should have based on their estimated body size. All of that tends to weigh against them being real because they should have had huge ranges, and they should have been spotted a long time ago if they really did exist. And then there's other aspects, like geology, something you never hear the cryptozoologists mention. All the lake monsters, not just Loch Ness but the ones here in North America, in Lake Champlain and Lake George, were all under a mile of ice 20,000 years ago. The cryptozoologists never asked the question, "Well, how did the monster get in the lake if the lake was completely under ice, the lakes are all landlocked, and there's no way for a marine creature to get there at all?" Those are all things that are not news to geologists, they're not news to biologists, but they're apparently news to cryptozoologists.

All the cryptids that you discuss in the book – Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, Mokele Mbembe – are very similar to things that exist or existed in the past: bears, primates, plesiosaurs, sauropods. Why the similarity?

DL: In some cases I think it's because they are the same. Bears are often associated with ogres or wildmen in folklore because they're pretty humanlike. Once that folklore is underway, you have the opportunity for people to make these misidentification errors where they see a bear and think it might be a bigfoot. (Read a National Geographic magazine story about Europe's wildmen.)

DP: These animals look like something familiar to us because the myths grow around whatever we've already just seen. Daniel pointed out in the book that the Mokele Mbembe myth emerged right about the time that large sauropod skeletons were first mounted in New York City and illustrated by people like Charles R. Knight. Then lo and behold, someone starts reporting one in the Congo, where it doesn't have any history prior to that.

So Mokele Mbembe definitely does not exist?

DP: We have an excellent fossil record of Africa. We have very great confidence that there have been no dinosaurs around in the last 65 million years because we have bones of large animals from Africa of all kinds but they're all mammals. Same goes for plesiosaurs. Worldwide, there are no bones of plesiosaurs in any marine deposit after about 70 million years ago. There are plenty of places where they should show up if they actually lived, but they don't. That to me is not just absence of evidence, that's very strong evidence that they don't exist.

That sentence -- the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence – occurs a lot in the book.

DL: It's a really good thing for people to keep in mind, but it's not always true. If the claim that you are advancing implies some kind of evidence, then failing to find that kind of evidence is evidence that thing does not exist. Take, for example, the idea that there might be plesiosaurs in Loch Ness. Well, plesiosaurs had bones. That implies that there should be bones littering the loch. Well, they've dredged the loch to see if there are any monster bones down there, any plesiosaur bones, and there aren't. That goes to the truth of the claim.

Do you ever encounter people who say, "No, I saw it!"

DL: Oh yeah. I have a lot of sympathy for that. If you have the experience of seeing something with your own eyes, it's natural that should trump my "talking head" skepticism and Don's arguments about why that's probably not so. But there's only so much I can do with your personal experience that I did not share. I accept that it's compelling to you, but it cannot be as compelling to me.

DP: By and large, all of the evidence for these really strange cryptids is from eyewitness testimony. People are fooled by their senses, especially sight, because we are notoriously bad witnesses. One of the sightings of the Yeti, or the abominable snowman, turns out to be a rock outcrop. The guy saw it move the first time and then he had to leave. He came back finally a year later--after his sighting had been all over the media--and it turns out that it was just a rock he was shooting pictures of.

What do you think the connection is between people believing in cryptids and the level of scientific literacy among the general public?

DP: Lately cryptozoology has been connected to creationism in a lot of ways. People who actively search for Loch Ness monsters or Mokele Mbembe do it entirely as creationist ministers. They think that if they found a dinosaur in the Congo it would overturn all of evolution. It wouldn't. It would just be a late-occurring dinosaur, but that's their mistaken notion of evolution.

Is there any one cryptid that you wish was real?

DL: All of them.

DP: I'm a paleontologist. I'd love to have Mokele Mbembe and a plesiosaur!

(This interview has been edited and condensed)

"Get a Photo With BIgfoot"

BIG doing on Carlisle, PA . Corin Teeter’s eight-foot-tall taxidermy simulation of Bigfoot will be part of the Teeter’s Taxidermy Studio display at the Carlisle Sports and Outdoor Nationals Friday through Sunday, Sept. 6-8. The “lifelike” Sasquatch will be available for photo-ops.

Carlisle Events, better known for sprawling car, truck and motorcycle collector events, will make its initial run on the world of the outdoor show with the first Carlisle Sports and Outdoor Nationals Friday through Sunday, Sept. 6-8, at the Carlisle Fairgrounds in Carlisle. And, the show promoter has pulled in some big guns to help the new show get past the summer curse of poor attendance that has plagued other attempts at shows at this time of year.

Among the outdoor celebrities scheduled to present programs and seminars will be Kenneth Lancaster and Dean Davis, of the Sportsman Channel's "Antler Insanity;" Scott Basehore, turkey guide and state champion turkey caller; Jeff Rhoads and Carl Esterly, of the Pursuit Channel's upcoming "World Went Dark Outdoors;" Bob Clouser, world-famous creator of new patterns for fly fishing; Jamie "Catfish Queen" Hughes, monster catfish guide with BreakLine Charters; lumbersport champions Mike Sullivan and Nathan Waterfield with their Lumberjack Show of Champions; and the Bwana Jim Wildlife Show with snakes, alligators, turtles, armadillos, wallabies and birds of prey.

Don't forget to tell the Big giy to smile and say "CHEESE!" 

"BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER-ALBERT OSTMAN'S– Pt 4"

By Lynk Paul Editor Team Tracker

 

 

Albert OStman

This story is one of the most well known of all encounters to everyone long entrenched in Bigfoot research. The purpose of this series is mainly, to enlighten people who are new to, and interested in the subject of Bigfoot, present and future research. 

PART 5  

Albert could now see what looked like a family, an old man, an old lady and two young ones, a boy and a girl. The young ones were afraid of him while the old lady didn’t seem too happy with what the old man brought home. The old man gestured his intentions to them and they left him alone. He took out his compass and prospecting glass and attempted to figure out where he was. He found that he was in a small valley or basin about eight to ten acres, which was surrounded by mountains. On the South East side, there was a V-shaped opening about eight feet at the bottom and about twenty feet at the top. Thinking, that must be the way they came in but how will he get out of there with the old man sitting near the opening.

 

He gathered his belongings and moved over to the West wall to find a cosy spot for a shelter. He emptied his back pack to see what was left for food, this is what he found, “canned meat and vegetables were intact and he had one can of coffee. Also three small cans of milk — two packages of Rye King hard tack and my butter sealer half full of butter. But his prunes and macaroni were missing. Also the full box of shells for his rifle. He had his sheath knife but his prospecting pick was missing and his can of matches. He only had his safety box full and that held only about a dozen matches”. Not too worried, he could start a fire with his prospecting glass if he needed to, once the sun was shining.

Needing some coffee right about now, he could not see any dry wood around. He was not able to venture out to search for firewood either because the two young ones were always watching him. So he decided to look for water, which he found in a little spring nearby. With no utensils, he emptied his coffee into a towel and used the can to fetch water. When he got back, he saw the boy looking at his stuff but touched nothing. Also on his way back, he noticed what looked like the place they slept. It measured ten feet deep by thirty feet wide cove well bedded with dry moss and cedar bark.

Nothing much happened on the first day; he had to eat his food cold. The boy was very curious and kept coming close. He tossed an empty snuff box over to him; he jumped back, and then grabbed it. Both he and his sister played with it for a while then he took it over to the old man and they chattered for a while. The next morning, he made up his mind to leave even if he had to shoot his way out. He knew if he did not leave soon, he would not have enough food to make it back to the Toba Inlet. He packed up his stuff, put his pack on his back, chambered a round into his rifle and made his way to the opening. The old man got up and gestured his hands as to push him back.

Albert pointed to the opening, indicating to the Sasquatch that he wanted to leave. He blocked him from leaving and he said what sounded like “Soka, soka”, so Albert backed up, not wanting to get too close. He thought, if he had to shoot his way out, his 30-30 rifle may not have any effect on this creature due to his size and he only had six rounds left. Besides, he did not want to kill the old man and needed to find an alternative to escaping his predicament. 

Albert remembered that a man saved himself from a mad bull by putting snuff in his eyes but how would he get close enough to the old man to do that? He thought he could get the kids to play with the snuff box and take it to the old man so he could taste it.

But in Albert’s mind, the question remained; what direction to go if he should get out? The old man must have traveled at least twenty five miles in the three hours he carried him. If he went west, we would be near salt water; it would be the same if he went south. So Albert thought it was only logical that he must have gone northeast. If he headed south over the two mountains, he would reach saltwater and civilization somewhere between Lund and Vancouver.

                                                                                   

 END PART 5-TO BE CONTINUED

'Willow Creek (Bigfoot) Movie Review

(Editors note: Will this movie be a hit or a box off dud that will end up on pay per view soon enough? See you at the movies.


The power of suggestion substitutes for onscreen scares as a couple wanders off the grid in Northern California in search of Sasquatch.

 

Bigfoot may or may not exist, but there’s definitely something freaky going down in the woods in "Willow Creek," Bob Goldthwait's “ effective yet wholly unnecessary contribution to the genre of horror movies allegedly recovered from the hard drives of dead cameramen. As in “The Blair Witch Project,” the power of suggestion substitutes for onscreen scares as a couple wanders off the grid in Northern California in search of Sasquatch, with predictable results. Still, the project does represent an amusing stretch for the comedian-turned-helmer. Considering the low cost, Goldthwait should have no trouble recouping this self-financed venture by hand-targeting receptive auds

As it happens, “Blair Witch” co-director Eduardo Sanchez is developing a Bigfoot chiller of his own, titled “Exists,” though “Willow Creek” has the good fortune to reach screens first. Even though Goldthwait doesn't even bother to show the creature in question, he could sap what little interest exists in the subject simply by being first on the scene, the way “Olympus Has Fallen” trumped the bigger-budget “White House Down” earlier this year.

Lead characters Jim (Bryce Johnson) and Kelly (Alexie Gilmore) belong to the tail end of a generation whose only real connection to Bigfoot has been the 1987 kid pic “Harry and the Hendersons.” An amateur Documentarian determined to capture firsthand proof of the creature’s existence, Jim drags his reluctant g.f. along for what he oddly considers a romantic getaway. While not exactly hipsters, the couple display enough ironic disrespect for the region’s folksy tourism trade — reflected in everything from crudely painted murals to oversized burgers — that they're practically begging to be humbled by the experience.




 

 

                                                        Bob Goldthwait (center)  

                                                            



By contrast, there’s something relatively endearing about the locals who agree to be interviewed on camera, and these anthropological bits offer a fraction more human interest than the relatively tired device of actors bumbling through the woods recording everything via handheld video diary. Although inherently frustrating, the found-footage approach does suit the subject, considering that the most compelling evidence of Bigfoot to date has been the equally shaky Patterson-Gimlin film.


When not wasting time on multiple takes of Jim’s surfer-dude narration, “Willow Creek” casually sets up some of the Bigfoot lore that will resurface later, including talk of a missing woman who might be the source of the forlorn crying they hear late at night. Jim clearly hasn't considered what they would do if Bigfoot actually appeared (Kelly’s too skeptical to be worried at first), and the pair sneak down to the site where the creature has reportedly been spotted in the past and set up camp.


Once darkness falls, Goldthwait treats audiences to a nerve-wracking 19-minute shot inside the tent, as the jumpy couple respond to a host of unnatural sounds coming from all around them. It’s not easy to manufacture the kind of tension “Willow Creek” achieves during this sequence, though it will undoubtedly play better in crowded theaters than alone at home, where the entire endeavor feels more like a cheap trick. In angling for suspense, this low-budget stunt relies a bit too heavily on our suspension of disbelief.
 

"Bigfoot & Teddy Roosevelt Pt 1"

(Here is another in a series of legendary tales of Bigfoot type creatures told by very well know men. In this article we explore the story that was told to Teddy Roosevelt by a trapper. This is part 1 of the story)

President Teddy Roosevelt

 

 

Presidential frontiersmen "Rough-rider" Teddy Roosevelt began writing his soon to be published book in 1890. Titled The Wilderness Hunter, the author writes of a grizzled, weather beaten trapper by the name of Bauman, whose figure of a man reminded me of actor Robert Redford's portrayal of the legendary woodsman-tracker Jeremiah Johnson. Bauman however was German born, lived all of his life out on the early frontier. Roosevelt must have had some degree of belief in Bauman's tale to include his thoughts in his book.
He [Roosevelt] was a hard man to fool with a wild tale." Bauman must have held to the story for it was said that he could hardly repress a shudder at certain points in the yarn. A yarn that was to become a legend at Roosevelt's unwitting recounting, weathering the retelling for more than 100 years and will go on ad infinitum.

One of Idaho's best known horror stories, it tells the story of two trappers who set out on a beaver hunt in the still remote alpine terrain of the beautiful Salmon River countryside. This portion of the Salmon River is located in the Bitterroot Mountains between the state of Idaho and Montana. To this day, stories of the Sasquatch come out of this part of this virgin wilderness. Roosevelt wrote that the previous year a trapper's body had been found torn to bits and partially eaten by an "unknown beast, which left enormous human foot tracks in its wake." [Bears do not leave human footprints; overlapping bear tracks upon one another can be differentiated.]

Oblivious to what should have been a warning to the senses, these two men journeyed deep into the wilderness' remote regions, moving campsites from one creek to another in search of satisfactory places in which to place their beaver traps. Here is that famous excerpt about Bauman from Roosevelt's book:

 

"Frontiersmen are not, as a rule, apt to be very superstitious. They lead lives too hard and practical, and have too little imagination in things spiritual and supernatural. I have heard but few ghost stories while living on the frontier, and those few were of a perfectly commonplace and conventional type. But I once listened to a goblin-story, which rather impressed me.
A grizzled, weather beaten old mountain hunter, named Bauman who, born and had passed all of his life on the Frontier, told it the story to me. He must have believed what he said, for he could hardly repress a shudder at certain points of the tale; but he was of German ancestry, and in childhood had doubtless been saturated with all kinds of ghost and goblin lore. So that many fearsome superstitions were latent in his mind; besides, he knew well the stories told by the Indian medicine men in their winter camps, of the snow-walkers, and the specters, [spirits, ghosts & apparitions] the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk. It may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend, and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and still more in remembrance, weird and elfin traits to what was merely some abnormally wicked and cunning wild beast; but whether this was so or not, no man can say.

 

When the event occurred, Bauman was still a young man, and was trapping with a partner among the mountains dividing the forks of the Salmon from the head of Wisdom River. Not having had much luck, he and his partner determined to go up into a particularly wild and lonely pass through which ran a small stream said to contain many beavers. The pass had an evil reputation because the year before a solitary hunter who had wandered into it was slain, seemingly by a wild beast, the half eaten remains being afterwards found by some mining prospectors who had passed his camp only the night before.

 

The memory of this event, however, weighted very lightly with the two trappers, who were as adventurous and hardy as others of their kind. They took their two lean mountain ponies to the foot of the pass where they left them in an open beaver meadow, the rocky timber-clad ground being from there onward impracticable for horses. They then struck out on foot through the vast, gloomy forest, and in about four hours reached a little open glade where they concluded to camp, as signs of game were plenty.

 There was still an hour or two of daylight left, and after building a brush lean-to and throwing down and opening their packs, they started upstream. The country was very dense and hard to travel through, as there was much down timber, although here and there the somber woodland was broken by small glades of mountain grass. At dusk they again reached camp. The glade in which it was pitched was not many yards wide, the tall, close-set pines and firs rising round it like a wall. On one side was a little stream, beyond which rose the steep mountains slope, covered with the unbroken growth of evergreen forest.

 They were surprised to find that during their absence something, apparently a bear, had visited camp, and had rummaged about among their things, scattering the contents of their packs, and in sheer wantonness destroying their lean-to. The footprints of the beast were quite plain, but at first they paid no particular heed to them, busying themselves with rebuilding the lean-to, laying out their beds and stores and lighting the fire.

 While Bauman was making ready supper, it being already dark, his companion began to examine the tracks more closely, and soon took a brand from the fire to follow them up, where the intruder had walked along a game trail after leaving the camp. When the brand flickered out, he returned and took another, repeating his inspection of the footprints very closely. Coming back to the fire, he stood by it a minute or two, peering out into the darkness, and suddenly remarked, "Bauman, that bear has been walking on two legs."

 Bauman laughed at this, but his partner insisted that he was right, and upon again examining the tracks with a torch, they certainly did seem to be made by but two paws or feet. However, it was too dark to make sure. After discussing whether the footprints could possibly be those of a human being, and coming to the conclusion that they could not be, the two men rolled up in their blankets, and went to sleep under the lean-to. At midnight Bauman was awakened by some noise, and sat up in his blankets. As he did so his nostrils were struck by a strong, wild-beast odor, and he caught the loom of a great body in the darkness at the mouth of the lean-to. Grasping his rifle, he fired at the vague, threatening shadow, but must have missed, for immediately afterwards he heard the smashing of the under wood as the thing, whatever it was, rushed off into the impenetrable blackness of the forest and the night.

 After this the two men slept but little, sitting up by the rekindled fire, but they heard nothing more. In the morning they started out to look at the few traps they had set the previous evening and put out new ones. By an unspoken agreement they kept together all day, and returned to camp towards evening. On nearing it they saw, hardly to their astonishment that the lean-to had again been torn down. The visitor of the preceding day had returned, and in wanton malice had tossed about their camp kit and bedding, and destroyed the shanty. The ground was marked up by its tracks, and on leaving the camp it had gone along the soft earth by the brook. The footprints were as plain as if on snow, and, after a careful scrutiny of the trail, it certainly did seem as if, whatever the thing was, it had walked off on but two legs.

(Part 2 soon, thanks for reading the blog)

"A Skeptic's View Of The PG Film Final Chapter"

 

 

Editors note: This is final in a series from a skeptics point of view in the PG film. These opinions do not necessarily express the opinions of Rick Dyer, Frank Cali or any Team Tracker member. Again, These are the opinions of a skeptic and his point of view of the PG film.)

Patterson showing foot size comparisons

Roger Patterson

 

In 1967, Roger Patterson was a young man, only 41 years old. He was strong and exuberant — an amateur boxer known for walking on his hands on the small town's main street — too lazy to take a regular job, too much in love with his wife Patricia, and too many stars in his eyes to stick within the confines of the even the flamboyant rodeo. He was inwardly happy but outwardly grumpy, frustrated with society's conventions that expected him to be less than he wanted to be.

But even at that young age, he was dying of cancer. Roger may have had a year left or five, and his thoughts were consumed with providing for his beloved wife while still being the rascal that he needed to be. When Roger put that film cartridge into his camera, it wasn't with the careful eye of a cinematographer. Nor was it with the deliberate mischief of a hoaxer. It was with the vivacity of a happy-go-lucky short cutter, a candle doomed to burn half as long, and desperate to burn twice as bright. His thoughts were on Patricia and with squeezing in one final success, a roll of the dice, a lottery ticket.

 

 



Patteron showing size difference comparison



 

If his Bigfoot movie failed, he would die as the obscure debtor as which he'd been cut out; but if he won, he'd be the flash in the pan that he needed to be to sustain his wife and justify his years of skylarking. Roger Patterson made the gamble he needed to make. The wheel of fortune spun, and as it does every once in a great while, it made Roger the winner. It turned Bigfoot into a real monster that walked across the clearing and into legend and permanence.

Just over four years later, Roger Patterson lay in bed and drew his final breaths. The film had been a great success, and brought in a constant stream of money unlike anything he'd ever known. Patricia securely owned enough of the film rights to sustain herself. When he finally closed his eyes, Roger went to that great Bigfoot pasture in the sky, without ever having compromising the eternal youth that was in his makeup to be. He never paid his bills. He never sold hours of his life. He never put in an honest day of someone else's work. He never sacrificed his lack of principles. He never gave up being untrustworthy and living his few years on his own terms. Yet, perhaps it was that insistence on being who he was that caused his film to outlive nearly everyone else of his day. Even as a hoax, the Patterson-Gimlin film is perhaps the most honest film ever made.

 

One final note. Back in 1966, Patterson made a sketch of his idea of what a Bigfoot should look like . Note in the sketch, Patterson has pendulous breasts drawn. Just one year later, Patterson would claim to have filmed a Bigfoot and by a miracle of fate, it also has the same pendulous breasts. 

I rest my case

 

 

 

 

 

References & Further Reading

Carroll, R. "Bigfoot." The Skeptic's Dictionary. Robert T. Carroll, 24 Feb. 1999. Web. 8 Aug. 2013. <http://www.skepdic.com/bigfoot.html>

Korff,K., Kocis, M. "Exposing Roger Patterson's 1967 Bigfoot Film Hoax." Skeptical Inquirer. 1 Jul. 2004, Volume 28, Number 4: 35-40.

Long, G. The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 2004.

McLeod, M. Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Patterson, R. Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? Yakima: Franklin Press, 1966.

Smith, B., Radford, B., Stollznow, K. "Monster Talk: Suitable for Framing." Monster Talk. The Skeptics Society, 17 Feb. 2010. Web. 7 Aug. 2013. <http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/10/02/17/>

 

 

"The Wild Man of the Woods"

 (The Wildman)

                                                            

(Editor note: This is a letter sent to a local newspaper in Delaware County, PA)

 

To the Times:

Before Bigfoot, a supposedly hairy, ape-like, bipedal creature was reported to be roaming our land. There were countless 19th and early 20th century stories about American feral wild men, allegedly hairy, man-like beings, in newspapers across the country.

 It was once believed that the environment could actually change the species of individuals during their lifetimes such that people living in the wilderness could revert to an animalistic state and grow a coat of fur over their bodies. Though hunted, none of them were ever verifiably caught.

 And some of these wild men stories came from right here in Delaware County. From a May 5, 1895, article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, we learn that the “residents of Birmingham,” today Chadds Ford, were excited over a “wild man of the woods” and that someone was detained as such but later released. That paper’s Sept. 4, 1919 edition gave an account of one of them entitled “Hairy wild man loose in Leiperville section, cries oo-oo! and mag!” Leiperville is a community in Ridley Township.

 Even as late as July 10, 1929, The Chester Times had a piece on the capture of “the ‘wild man’ of Clifton Heights” who allegedly had danced nude in public.

 Belief in American feral wild men died out because during the early decades of the 20th century Americans could no longer believe that people could be so bizarrely transformed by their environment, not because no such wild men were ever really captured.

Likewise, belief in Bigfoot will persist even if we remain without any actual live or dead specimens, not even a roadkill.

(Name withheld)

 

 

 

"Bigfoot: Boggy Creek Sequel Now Filming"

 

 

Film crews began shooting a new movie Monday about an attack by "Bigfoot" in a small town in East Texas.

Directors said they chose of Mineola, Texas  as the location for their movie because of its homey, small-town charm.

Even though "Bigfoot Wars" will not be Carol and Mikayla Anderson's first time to be extras, the two said this time will definitely be different.

"It's always been fun to be an extra in any movie, but this is exciting for the monster aspect of it," said Carol Anderson. "Anything gory would be fun."

Nearly 100 East Texans lined up to try out to be an extra in the movie on Sunday. It is something the mother-daughter pair said they do all the time.

"Just to maybe see our faces on the screen," Carol Anderson said. "Even seeing the actors is exciting."

"Who wouldn't want to be in the movie or on TV or something?" said Carol Anderson's daughter Mikayla.

Phil Nichols is a long-time Bigfoot fan and he is also the guy who actually builds the monster for the big screen.

"I always watched that stuff and I was always scared," Nichols said. "Sometimes we'd be peering out the window and see Bigfoot staring in at us and I just kind of want to share that fear with today's audiences."

He said the Boggy Creek sequel will especially please fans who do not mind being a little scared or grossed out.

"We're making a whole army," Nichols said. "There's going to be thousands of Bigfoots, all kinds of carnage, both human and Bigfoot, lots of gore, lots of creatures, just total fun. This movie should please all the people who wanted more out of Boggy Creek. We're giving y'all more."

Even after long hours in the Texas heat, the Andersons said the mother-daughter activity is something they will continue to do.

"We try, if there's a role for one or the other we go support each other," Carol Anderson said.

The film crew will be shooting in Mineola, including some scenes at the city's nature preserve in the later part of the week.

 

"A Skeptic's View Of The PG Film Part 2"

Two still shots of the PG film, 3rd is an artist touch up of the face

 

 

(Editors note: This is part 2 in a series from a skeptics point of view in the PG film.  These opinions do not necessarily express the opinions of Rick Dyer or any Team Tracker member. Again, These are the opinions of a skeptic and his point of view of the PG film.)


Patterson was quite a character, and had always been. He'd been a competitive rodeo cowboy, part-time rancher, and full-time slacker. Few who knew him had anything positive to say about him. His reputation was that he never paid his bills. He borrowed money, lied about it, and never paid it back. He was physically very strong — not an ounce of fat, and thick with muscles — and was fond of showing it off. He knew everything better than anyone, and nobody could tell him a thing. He never kept interest in one career very long. One day he'd build stagecoaches for miniature horses; the next day he'd repaint junk found at the dump and sell it. But his one saving grace was his wife Patricia. Patty had a brother in Yakima, WA, Al DeAtley, a successful asphalt contractor, who provided money whenever it was needed. It was this even keel that got Roger Patterson through.

The story goes that Patterson and Gimlin had developed a strong interest in Bigfoot, and in October 1967 they rented the movie camera and went off on horseback for a couple weeks to look for it. Next thing they knew, they'd become the luckiest Bigfoot hunters in history, when the creature obligingly stepped out of the woods and strode across the clearing for Patterson's camera, in the early afternoon of October 20th. Gimlin chased it on horseback, lost it, but found its footprints; then they rode about 5 kilometers back to camp for their plaster of paris. They rode back, poured plaster into the footprints, waited for it to dry, then went back to camp again. They loaded their horses into the trailer and drove 40 kilometers on rough fire roads back to Willow Creek, and posted the film off to Yakima to get it developed. It was about 4:00 in the afternoon.


The glaring impossibility of this timeline is what first raised suspicions among skeptics. In response, Patterson and Gimlin began providing all sorts of different versions of their story. Other suspicious cryptozoologists, such as Peter Byrne, found holes and contradictions in those stories. In the end, the version Patterson and Gimlin settled on was that they put the film onto a plane and flew it to Yakima, where Al DeAtley picked it up to have it developed. Byrne found that the only charter planes that could have flown that route that day were all grounded due to rain and bad weather. Since then, few serious researchers took Patterson and Gimlin's story seriously.

Roger Patterson

But the film had already grown larger than all of them. It was a sensation, and to this day, rakes in revenue in licensing fees. DeAtley backed Patterson and formed Bigfoot Enterprises on November 1, just 10 days after the shoot, and reported $200,000 in the first year. Make no mistake about it: for the late 1960's and a man who used dig through the dump, Bigfoot was big money. Throughout the 1970's, Patty Patterson, Al DeAtley, Bob Gimlin, and a wildlife film company fought numerous lawsuits with one another over the rights to the footage. The biggest winner was a Bigfoot fan named Rene Dahinden, who ended up with about half of the rights, and Patty with the other half.

It was in 2004 that author Greg Long dug into this mess to sort everything out. Over a period of six years, he actually went and met face to face with all of these characters who were still alive, and many other people — anyone he could find who knew Patterson or was involved in the film in any way. His entire adventure was published in his entertaining book The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story.



(More to come in Part 3)

 

"A Skeptic's Look At The PG Film Part 1"

Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin

 

 

(Here's a skeptic's point of view regarding the famous Patterson-Gimlin film. These opinions do not necessarily express the opinions of Rick Dyer or any Team Tracker member. Again, These are the opinions of a skeptic and his point of view of the PG film.)
 

You've seen it a hundred times: the iconic picture of Bigfoot striding heavily through the clearing, arms swinging, head and shoulders turned slightly toward the camera. This famous image is frame 352 of a 16mm silent color film shot in 1967 in northern California by rancher Roger Patterson, accompanied by his friend, Bob Gimlin. The impact that this film has had on Bigfoot mythology is inestimable; and correspondingly, so has its impact upon paranormal, cryptozoological, and pop culture mythologies in general. I might well not be doing this if the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film had not turned legend and fancy into concrete, tangible, see-it-with-your-own-eyes reality.


Whether or not Bigfoot exists is one question — the answer to which has not exactly whitened the knuckles of science — but the authenticity of the Patterson-Gimlin film is something else. If Bigfoot were known to be a real animal, an investigation into the authenticity of the film would make sense. If Bigfoot were known to not exist, then it would be logically moot to study the film at all; it must be a fake. But for today's purpose, we're going to brush aside the larger question (which should never be done in real science) and focus only on this detail. We'll assume that the existence of Bigfoot is an open question (a big assumption), and just for fun, let's see what we can determine on whether this famous film clip is a deliberate hoax, or whether it shows a real animal, or whether there might be some other explanation. Maybe it's a misidentification, or an elaborate film flaw, or an unknown third party hoaxing Patterson and Gimlin. There are many possibilities.


Roger Patterson died of cancer only a few years after the film was shot, and never offered any clue other than that the film was genuine. Bob Gimlin remained silent for 25 years, and ever since he began speaking about it in the 1990s he has firmly stated that he was unaware of any hoax, but allowed for the possibility that he may have been hoaxed himself. Nobody else is known to have participated, and so the only two people whom we can say for certain were present when the film was shot are both stonewalls. So we must look elsewhere.


The original film no longer exists (only copies), and there is no record of anyone ever having possessed the original print. We don't know why, but we're left without the original film's leader, which would have included the date when it was developed. Thus, we have only Patterson's word for when it was developed, so we can't verify that the film was shot and developed on the days he claims it was. The original also would have included any other shots that were taken, such as possible alternate takes. If these were ever seen, we'd know for a fact that it was faked. So that's one more line of evidence that is unavailable to us.


No one has ever produced documentation like receipts showing when and where the film was developed. We know when and where Patterson rented the camera, but that's not really in dispute. He had it in his possession for plenty of time before and after the alleged date of the filming. So that's yet another dead end. Patterson covered his tracks very effectively (no Bigfoot pun intended).

 

 

(Part two to be contined)

'Sasquatch: Edward’s Air Force Base Surveillance"

(Editors note: Here is an article that we though would be good to pass along to you that had an air forc base involved)


The Sun dropped quickly behind the desert rock-piles revealing a deep red glow to the western sky as Corey Rudolph and I made camp at the east end of Avenue J in Palmdale one spring night in 1977. We had been visiting the area as often as possible in response to several credible Bigfoot reports in this California desert. To the east was nothing but dark black sky with thousands of stars and periodic meteors whizzing by. Our objective was two-fold. One, to observe all we could during the night, and, two, to get away from the Los Angeles rat-race. We had been driving through the areas north of the mountains separating the Los Angeles area from the desert in search of clues, and people to interview who claimed to have encountered a desert Sasquatch.
 Through the next three years, Corey and I, and sometimes myself with my faithful Red-tailed Hawk, Nixon, we gathered as much information on desert Sasquatch activity as we could. In many cases, the witnesses told very similar tales of large hair-covered man-like apes observed crossing the highway, or looking in their windows at their homes usually after midnight. Through these witnesses we slowly became aware that the military, just north of Lancaster, California at Edward’s Air Force Base had been witness to these desert man-beasts for several years. We finally made contact with three different military security officers, all of which did not know of the others, who provided us with information relating to what the Air Force knew about these animals. Before I continue with this, I must inform the reader that these three men were willing to discuss this with us only because we promised to never reveal their names or ranks, and if we did, they would deny everything. Because I believe in keeping promises, I will comply with their request, but will refer to them only by rank since I do not believe that their status at the time would indicate or reveal their true identity, thereby keeping my promise. I will also add that I have spoken to five additional ex-military officers who were once stationed at Edward’s AFB and they all claim that what the first three revealed was accurate, and that not much has changed there since the 1970s.

 The first I interviewed was a Lieutenant in charge of security in the sector of Edward’s AFB near Rogers Dry Lake. He was primarily responsible for supervising the surveillance activity from sunset to sundown from 1972 to 1975 when he was then transferred to Germany, then retired. This gentleman explained to me that the base security was primarily involved with monitoring for unauthorized entry to the base by curiosity seekers. The base was highly involved with classified secret aircraft testing at the time, and there were many curious people trying to take photos, or just see these things. In addition, the base had a very high level of UFO activity, or, as he put it, Alien Spacecraft. In fact, he made it clear that these craft were not from Earth, and that the Air Force knew very little about them. When any unauthorized people or Alien craft entered his perimeter, he was to report to the higher command, and observe. All of his personnel had top security clearance, and were to discuss nothing of what they saw. He further described some of these craft to me, but I was not very interested at the time.

 While they were conducting surveillance one night, always using starlight scopes and motion detectors spread throughout the base, one of the guards reported an infiltration in his perimeter. When he asked for details, the guard described a very tall man, but not really a man. Perplexed by such a report, he decided to drive to the location and talk to the guard, perhaps thinking the man had lost his marbles. When he arrived, a wide-eyed guard met him and repeated his story. The lieutenant began to scan the desert for the intruder and soon spied him, or it. Through the starlight scope he could clearly see that this was not a man. It was a very tall, hair-covered, ape-like man walking through the desert. He said the animal appeared to be looking at the desert floor in search of something. The animal was about 500 yards distant, but the scope was very powerful and tripod mounted so it could be observed clearly. Both men continued to observe the animal as it wandered around almost aimlessly. He then reported to his superiors of the activity and was told to keep the animal in sight. This was no problem as the animal remained in the area. About five minutes later a helicopter was heard approaching the area, then it was seen coming in fast from the east. They continued to observe the animal which continued its activity. The helicopter came in over a rock-pile, then the animal "spooked." It looked at the helicopter, turned, and ran "like a deer" around a rock-pile and out of sight. The helicopter searched the area, but never found the animal. The two men could hardly believe what they had seen.

The next day the Lieutenant reported to the command post of the previous night's activity. The command told him that these animals had been seen on the base before, and the public knew them as Bigfoot or Sasquatch. The command explained that they were concerned that these animals may be related to the Alien Craft, and that all such reports must remain top secret. He was told to continue to observe and report, but not to intervene or disturb the animals until the command determined what they were.

The lieutenant had heard of Bigfoot before, but not in the desert. He had always thought that this was some sort of fable or hoax. But he knew what he saw, and now knew that they were real.


Through the following years he and his crew observed the Sasquatches on the base several times. By 1975 they had sophisticated equipment including video surveillance cameras mounted in "key" areas. He then explained to me that they had video taped these animals several times, but the tapes were classified and held under top security at all times. By the time he left Edward’s, they had learned very little about these creatures, but his feeling was that they were not UFO related, but biological living beings.

The second officer I interviewed was a Major before he too retired in 1978. He had served at Edward’s AFB from 1970 through 1978 and was in charge of one of the Command Posts on the north end of the base. He too explained that they were primarily interested in UFOs and Aliens. In fact, it was through his words that I first heard the term "EBE" which is apparently the military term for Aliens, or Extraterrestrial Biological Entities.

In any case, the Major confirmed what the Lieutenant had told me, but added that these creatures also found their way into the secret underground tunnels that run under Edward’s. Although the use and existence of these tunnels was classified, he told me about them knowing that their importance was a moot subject to me. He said that they had surveillance cameras in the tunnels and had, in fact, video taped the Sasquatches as they wandered through them. He said that they were not concerned with the Sasquatches on the base because they had learned that they were not related to EBE activity, and that they were certain that they were simply undiscovered animals. When I asked why they had not captured or killed one in order to prove the existence to the world, he returned that they could not reveal anything that happened on the base. He said that if they were to admit that these creatures often wandered around on the base, the public would loose confidence in their ability to keep the base secure. This, in turn, would give people the idea that they could do the same. Since there was so much secret work continuing on the base, it was not in their interest to discuss the Sasquatches with the public. They wanted to keep people out, not encourage them to visit in search of Sasquatches. They already had enough problems with UFO seekers, or those wanting to get a peek at a secret aircraft.


The third man was a security "grunt." That is what he termed himself. He claimed to have seen these Desert Sasquatches through starlight scopes on scores of occasions. This man was only about 19 years old, but extremely military in his self presence. He called me "Sir" until I asked him not to. He told me that he had seen a couple of Sasquatches that stood over ten feet high, had seen "obvious" females (one with a young one walking with her), and once saw a group of five Sasquatches walking together, all over six feet tall with the tallest about eight feet tall. They were fully hair-covered except the palms of their hands, the base of their feet, and their face. He said their face resembled an ape with very small eyes, a flat nose, and ape-like lips. The arms were long and slung down to the knees. He said their feet were like ours, without an arch, as they had tracked them through the desert several times. When I asked him about the surveillance videos, he told me that he knew of them but was not involved in that. He said only officers were allowed to videotape the creatures or UFOs. Cameras were not allowed on the base in the hands of the "grunts." He said that he felt very privileged to have seen these animals with such clarity because he knew there were several like myself that would do anything to see one. However, he suggested that these animals were not as rare as people assumed, but they are very shy and almost strictly nocturnal. They could be photographed, given the right opportunity, but those opportunities were rare because these creatures are very good at remaining concealed ... even in the desert. He told me that the reason they were on the base was that they "knew" they would not be harmed. He thought that somehow they could "feel" danger, or even pick up on human thoughts. Since the officers and grunts on Edward’s were ordered not to harm or intervene with the creatures, they could feel this vibe and felt protected. Some of these animals, of course, wander around outside of the base, but these animals are always watching their backs, he explained.

To conclude this report, I should advise that several sources have told me in recent years that the Desert Sasquatches are still being watched at Edward’s AFB. In fact, one officer recently told me that the base security actually appreciates the presence of the Sasquatch there since they give the officers some "needed entertainment." Then a question came to mind. Could the EBE’s be just as interested in the Sasquatches as they are of other base activities? The officer stopped for a moment, thinking, then said simply, "Perhaps."

"Art Bell Returning To Radio?"

                                                   
                                                                       (Art Bell)

by Frank Cali Vice President Team Tracker

 

Could it be? Is the one and only Art Bell returning to the air waves? Bell had a huge following each morning as his national radio program started at midnight. While alot of his stories and phone calls had to be taken with a grain of salt. Bell covered just about every subject from Bigfoot, where someone claimed they killed a Bigfoot and they dig a hole to hide the body in it.

He did ghost story's, interviews with  Aliens. You could never quite tell if Bell was in on these nutty calls and guests or had his leg pulled or was pulling our legs.

Bell would abruptly quit the show only to return. This happed a few times. You never knew what was going to happen next. I heard the show a few times and stopped tuning in when things got too nutty for me.

Remember Dr. Jonathan Reed story? Reed, who's real name is John Bradley Rutther, he's had over 12 different names and never went to collage . The "Doctor" says he had an encounter with an Alien who zapped his dog, killing it. First alarm of this being untrue is he claimed he was walking his dog when in fact "Reed" is highly allergic to dogs and never owned one in his life. Reed killed the Alien and took the body home. The phoots he presented look like a cheap "B" movie in a drive in theater. I'm not going to get into any more details, as the story is wacky enough.

                                                      ("Doctor" Reed's alleged Alien body)
                                                    

George Noory's Coast to Coast AM is much, much better. The guy does his research and seems to know what he's talking about. He's been following Rick Dyer closely and is being fare to him waiting for the Bigfoot body to be released.

It does look like something is happening.  Art Bell's website has a message up right now asking fans if they "Wanna Take A Ride?" Art Bell loves to toy with people and I guess that's fine if you are into that stuff.

You either love him or hate him, but I remain neutral. If you want to "Take a ride" maybe you should get some Dramamine for motion sickness first. ;)

 

A link to Bell's Facebook page can be found on the website below:

 

https://www.facebook.com/art.bell.716