WVBIG47
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Ok now you've gone and done it, do you hear the helicopters yet?
What type of terrain was it on? Mountain top meadow or river bank?
It was at the bottom of a driveway in the country. It hopped like a little Kangaroo
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Yesterday I saw what I thought at first to be a black or dark brown squirrel sitting up on it;s back legs. But then it hopped on its back legs into the weeds & I noticed it had a slimmer tail than a squirrel. I'm in West Virginia. Any ideas about what it was?
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kudos for posting a link that argues against your previous assertions +1
"To me, it is obvious tihs “creature” is simply a Chewbacca mask with the hair reworked to be a different color and texture. I welcome comments from anyone who thinks otherwise." Bill Munn
Did you check out Bill Munns's website on his analysis of the Patterson/Gimlin film?
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Here is what special effects costuming expert Bill Munns has to say about the video: http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/bill-munns-matilda/ Bill Munns has been analyzing the Patterson/Gimlin film for a few years now. Here is what he has to say about it: http://www.themunnsreport.com
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Bigfoots haven't really been hunted with weapons, is my point. I'll bet if it could be known, very few of the deer & bears whose remains have been found, died of natural causes. Especially the bears because they hibernate. I still think Bigfoots stay in thick coniferous forests in winter. I have to believe they exist. Not just because of the Patterson/Gimlin film. I had a sighting in 1997 while Turkey hunting in an area where no one knew my brother & I would be there. It wasn't our planned location. It walked out of the woods on two legs, looked around briefly, smoothly turned around and walked back into the woods. It was coal black & about 6' tall. I've checked & black bears can't smoothly turn 180 degrees while on two legs. I don't believe it was just a hoaxer's luck to find someone to witness him because I didn't report it & there has never been a sighting reported from there in all these years. A hoaxer would've kept doing it until he got some attention
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1)Then why are all the DNA samples fragmented? 2)The problem with the argument that "Deer & Bear remains are found, so why not Bigfoot remains?" is Deer & Bear are game animals. Both are hunted with bows. A lot of bow & arrow kills are never recovered. Even some gun kills aren't. Suppose Bigfoots do den up sometimes. Most people don't believe Bigfoot exists & would more than likely assume any hair or feces found, belongs to a bear. As I've stated before. There are both hair & fecal samples that can't be linked with any known animals, but without known Bigfoot hair & feces to compare them to, they aren't of much value
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Nonetheless this has all the hallmarks of making money being the end goal, if nothing else the guy who is promoting this was paid and I am betting paid well. I will not pass judgement until this has been allowed to play out but the DNA is almost certainly bogus, the films are not convincing but films or pictures will never prove the existence of bigfoot. You need a body, for something that has been hoaxed so many times nothing less will do...
It's being promoted through social media & cryptid websites/blogs. No expenses for that. I think if anything, the DNA is just wrong. Like my brother says. For every person at the top of the class, there is someone at the bottom of the class. But let me ask you this. With as quickly as animal remains disappear & as quickly as DNA degrades in the wild, how likely is it that their existence will ever be proven if they do exist?
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Even I know if the results of the DNA teststing aren't consistent, it's a problem
Money, follow the money...
What money? The dvd has never been released & they have a backer
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I don't know if it was pre-approved or not. I know some things Medicare only pays for every few years. For example, I'm a paraplegic who walks with a walker. Medicare will only pay for one every 3 years. It's only been about 2 years since he had lung cancer. He surely had a PET Scan then. Maybe it's just too soon for them to pay for another one. The first time I ever heard of a PET Scan was when my late brother-in-law had one. They said it showed no cancer. It was wrong. Is there maybe a more reliable test now?
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I give it a month at best before it self destructs...
1)Why would she put it out there if it's BS?
2)What's the motive for a hoax?
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That link is a bit dated. The paper is now free to the public. The video is clear enough that analysis should be able to make a definitive judgemeent of its authenticity, one way or the other
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I am very sorry but that is pretty conclusive evidence that they found nothing and decided to run with nonsense instead. This was a well funded supposedly scientific research expedition. They claim to have been within feet of the animal and couldn't get a well focused photo/video - I call shenanigans.
From personal experience and from what I have read on this site you can go better prepared and get better evidence than that even in heavy forest. The poster immediately above - Arete - has generously shared some of his/her photos from field trips to dense and dark jungles (in SAmerica?) - I will dig out the link; but in the meantime I can promise you that the quality of those images is many many times superior than the rubbish provided by the Sasquatch Genome Projecy
On a trip to prove the mainstream wrong - to right scientific misconceptions - to challenge the orthodoxy etc the Sasquatch Genome Project couldn't afford a decent camera and someone who knows that you press the big shiny button whilst holding the camera still?
That sort of low quality picture/vidro of a animal might be acceptable from an amateur who had no axe to grind and just chanced upon something - but from professionals actively seeking it and who have a personal stake in proving the existence it is not only unlikely but unbelievable.
I advise you to get a new screen. It looks crystal clear on mine. The face picture & the video of the sleeping one are both clear
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Likely enough to have it checked out by a professional.
He was scheduled for a PET Scan, but Medicare won't pay for it now. I thought maybe it was because the likelihood was high enough that a PET Scan would be considered unnecessary
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If a person has had lung cancer once & is having the symptoms again, how likely is it that the cancer has returned?
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I am very sorry but that is pretty conclusive evidence that they found nothing and decided to run with nonsense instead. This was a well funded supposedly scientific research expedition. They claim to have been within feet of the animal and couldn't get a well focused photo/video - I call shenanigans.
From personal experience and from what I have read on this site you can go better prepared and get better evidence than that even in heavy forest. The poster immediately above - Arete - has generously shared some of his/her photos from field trips to dense and dark jungles (in SAmerica?) - I will dig out the link; but in the meantime I can promise you that the quality of those images is many many times superior than the rubbish provided by the Sasquatch Genome Projecy
On a trip to prove the mainstream wrong - to right scientific misconceptions - to challenge the orthodoxy etc the Sasquatch Genome Project couldn't afford a decent camera and someone who knows that you press the big shiny button whilst holding the camera still?
That sort of low quality picture/vidro of a animal might be acceptable from an amateur who had no axe to grind and just chanced upon something - but from professionals actively seeking it and who have a personal stake in proving the existence it is not only unlikely but unbelievable.
You didn't see the very clear, very close up face shot?
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Dr. Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA study is now free
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Photographs are good enough for birds, but not Bigfoot? Interesting....
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But all of those are discoveries by actual scientists with funding for proper equipment & the skill to use it properly. We are mostly amateurs with poor equipment & little time to research. As I stated before, one researcher posted on Facebook to see if anyone could suggest a DNA lab for him to take hair samples to. Money isn't a problem. He can't get a lab to test possible Bigfoot hair samples
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What species is bigfoot? I understand what you mean, but those were species we knew existed at one time, well in actual fact the coelacanth doesn't count because it is not the same species found in fossils but in fact is just a member of the family of lobe finned fishes. But I understand the principle of what you are saying, we knew ivory billed woodpeckers existed, what is bigfoot exactly?
The link is to a 2012 video of a Thylacine. A very clear one. Bigfoot is a primate. Possibly ape. Possibly primative human
But dogs, as in wolves in the cold winter environs need to acquire sufficient amounts of meat to maintain their metabolisms. To do this they hunt in pacts to run down larger game or more often to separate the young and/or weak from the heard. To be this active in sub freezing temperatures requires substantial food energy.
From the physical descriptions of a Bigfoot the ape would be required because of it's size to consume a substantial amount. The availability of this large amount of food would seem unlikely in areas that routinely accumulate deep snow. This is why bears hibernate. If you claim they live at these elevations they would need to hibernate in dens.
This would require moving great distances down to lower elevations away from deep snow and freezing temps to areas of rain and still bitter cold temperatures. It rains a lot in the N.W. U.S., all winter long. This is not the ideal conditions for foraging for food. Deer and elk move down to where they can feed and can be routinely seen and photographed.
Changing habitats would increase the likelihood of being seen and filmed. There are many bow and rifle hunters in this area who now routinely carry cameras but never capture one shot of a Bigfoot even though wind and dampening rain can help abate noise and scent.
Again, these are and have been a very studied and explored geologic feature. They should have produced signs of these creatures. There should be at least some sign that in the last 10,000 years there was habitation in more than a few of the explored tubes. Dried feces should be a obvious sign.
Although this is about human examples you will not need to extrapolate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleofaeces
Paleofeces (UK: Palaeofaeces) are ancient human feces, often found as part of archaeological excavations or surveys. Intact feces of ancient people may be found in caves in arid climates and in certain other locations. They are studied to determine the diet and health of the people who produced them through the analysis of seeds, small bones, and parasite eggs found inside. The feces can contain information about the person excreting the material as well as information about the material itself. They can also be chemically analyzed for more in-depth information on the individual who excreted them. The success rate of usable DNA extraction is very high in paleofeces, making it more reliable than skeletal DNA retrieval.
A species must first have existed before it can be considered extinct. You have a long way to go for either.
The point is, science has believed Thylacines to be extinct since 1936 & longer than that in the wild. Much longer than there has been active research into the Bigfoot phenomenon
But dogs, as in wolves in the cold winter environs need to acquire sufficient amounts of meat to maintain their metabolisms. To do this they hunt in pacts to run down larger game or more often to separate the young and/or weak from the heard. To be this active in sub freezing temperatures requires substantial food energy.
From the physical descriptions of a Bigfoot the ape would be required because of it's size to consume a substantial amount. The availability of this large amount of food would seem unlikely in areas that routinely accumulate deep snow. This is why bears hibernate. If you claim they live at these elevations they would need to hibernate in dens.
This would require moving great distances down to lower elevations away from deep snow and freezing temps to areas of rain and still bitter cold temperatures. It rains a lot in the N.W. U.S., all winter long. This is not the ideal conditions for foraging for food. Deer and elk move down to where they can feed and can be routinely seen and photographed.
Changing habitats would increase the likelihood of being seen and filmed. There are many bow and rifle hunters in this area who now routinely carry cameras but never capture one shot of a Bigfoot even though wind and dampening rain can help abate noise and scent.
Again, these are and have been a very studied and explored geologic feature. They should have produced signs of these creatures. There should be at least some sign that in the last 10,000 years there was habitation in more than a few of the explored tubes. Dried feces should be a obvious sign.
Although this is about human examples you will not need to extrapolate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleofaeces
Paleofeces (UK: Palaeofaeces) are ancient human feces, often found as part of archaeological excavations or surveys. Intact feces of ancient people may be found in caves in arid climates and in certain other locations. They are studied to determine the diet and health of the people who produced them through the analysis of seeds, small bones, and parasite eggs found inside. The feces can contain information about the person excreting the material as well as information about the material itself. They can also be chemically analyzed for more in-depth information on the individual who excreted them. The success rate of usable DNA extraction is very high in paleofeces, making it more reliable than skeletal DNA retrieval.
A species must first have existed before it can be considered extinct. You have a long way to go for either.
Maybe if more actual scientists were investigating the phenomenon, more evidence would have been found. A few weeks ago, a Bigfoot researcher posted on Facebook to find a DNA lab to get hair samples tested. He has the money to pay, but can't find a lab that wants anything to do with possible Bigfoot hair samples. I believe this is further evidence of an anti-bigfoot bias by the mainstream scientific community
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I'm suggesting that
1)Possibly their hair acts like insulation, as with some dogs
2)Possibly they go elsewhere when it's really bitter cold, if need be. There are lots of Coniferous trees there. Don't underestimate the effectiveness of Coniferous trees as shelter from cold & wind
3)Lava tubes have been proposed as possible shelters for Bigfoot
This is sort of related. It goes to show sometimes science is wrong about a species being extinct. Not a Coelacanth or an Ivory-billed Woodpecker
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West Virginia Black Bear hunting seasons for 2013:http://www.wvdnr.gov/Hunting/Regs1314/Season_dates.pdf Again, fossil evidence of chimps was only discovered relatively recently. Right? Bigfoots are often reportedly seen at high altitudes in rugged, remote areas. Not much chance of getting hit by a car in those areas. What roads there are, are too bad to travel at highway speeds
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There is a reason why bears hibernate, and it not because they don't like the cold... food is very hard to find in the winter.
Pine seeds? Really? Even squirrels can't live off them in the winter...
Did you read where I said I believe they are seen a lot in the fall because they are gathering food? Pine seeds are very high in protein & fat. Black bears don't hibernate per se. Why should Bigfoot need to, to any greater degree? Bear season is in winter by the way. Kind of a dumb time to have it if they're all holed up in dens all winter long, wouldn't you say?
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Mystery animal I saw yesterday
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Thank you. I know for a fact that there are Muskrats in this area. We lived in the area when I was a kid & my dad trapped a couple that were eating our corn. I just wasn't aware they hopped