D.W. Patino, a former
forest ranger who is now a police officer, says he and his fiancé
saw Bigfoot last year while camping on the Oregon coast. He's reluctant
to speak of his Bigfoot encounter for fear of losing his job. "I
don't want to be thought of as crazy," he said. "I was terrified,
the creature walked along the beach without looking at me," Patino
said. "It was something none of my training prepared me for."
The next day, he photographed 6-inch-deep, 16-inch-long footprints in
the sand. He sent the photos to author/big game hunter Peter Byrne.
"I was so relieved to talk to someone who took my story so seriously
and had such deep respect for the animal," he says. "If I
were Bigfoot and had to have someone find me, I'd want the person to
be Peter Byrne." ...D.W. Patino, Oregon
On the Australian
Yowie:
"I am of the same
opinion as Graham Joyner (1984): if there is a genuinely cryptozoological
basis for any of the wild man Yowie stories, a wombat is quite certainly
what it is." ...Dr. Colin P. Groves, ANU.
On the North
American Bigfoot:
Maria Goodavage, in
USA TODAY quotes Dr. Daris Swindler 24 May 1996 thusly:
For many scientists, even seeing is not believing. Daris Swindler, professor
emeritus of anthropology at the University of Washington, says, "That
Patterson film is just a man in a costume." "The
Bigfoot search faces widespread scientific skepticism. "I
don't believe the thing exists," said Dr. Daris Swindler,
advisor to the BFRO.
On the North
American Sasquatch - Bigfoot:
. . ."Believe
me, bigfoot is in reality, - a grizzly." . . .author Reinhold
Messner
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In 1996 Zoologist/Biologist Dr. John Crane, Ph.D., at Washington State
declared:
"There is no such thing as Bigfoot. No
data other than material that's clearly been fabricated has ever been
presented." In college, Crane and his buddies faked Bigfoot footprints.
The locals believed they were real. "It was fun," he says.
On Sasquatches
and Bigfoot:
"I don't even
call myself a believer." "It's not a belief." "I'm
absolutely convinced the sasquatch exists," author/anthropologist
Dr. Grover Krantz at Washington State is quoted as saying. "The
Bossburg tracks made me a believer, hoaxers would have to be smarter than
me to have faked the bone-structure of the crippled tracks."
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Dr. Robert M.
Pyle says most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history. "We have this need for some larger-than-life creature," says
Pyle, author of "Where Bigfoot Walks." Pyle is skeptical that
Bigfoot exists but hasn't ruled it out. "This could be
a case where biology and mythology correspond."
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"Sum teen out dare ist leaving those gawdamn tracks…." ...The late
René Dahinden
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"The only
kind of conclusion that a man should indulge in is the oral conclusion.
You see, it's so easy to deny it later. Now to indulge in a written conclusion
is something else. In fact it can be fatal, especially if you are wrong." ...Brendan Behan, Davy Byrne's Pub, Dublin, Ireland.
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"Sightings and
encounters of Sasquatch-like creatures are first and foremost acts of
perception and all perception contains subjective elements. Similarly,
all physical measurements and evidence contain elements of uncertainty
due to the interaction between the observer, his method and the data.
Sightings of alleged sasquatches are not controlled experiences, what
portion of the report is objective, and how much is subjective requires
careful consideration of data from a variety of controlled situations,
training and perceptions."
"Hominid researchers
are scandalously biased investigators and eyewitness accounts are notoriously
unreliable. ...Bobbie Short
On Sasquatch
Sounds:
"My
basic message with regards to "sounds" is that they are not
much use. Should someone emerge with a good clear strip
of sound film in which a sasquatch opens its mouth wide and screeches,
or steps close to the microphone and chatters a bit, then we will be getting
somewhere, but we are a very long way short of that at present." ...John Green, 1978; Sasquatch, The Apes Among Us, p.386
"Except
for spoken words, auditory orientation in humans generally is depended
on much less than is visual orientation. Our vocabulary for
describing natural sound is far less than it is for what we see. Scientific
analysis of 'sounds' is newer and less developed than that for 'sight.' Unless some of these problems can be overcome, the evidence for sasquatch
vocalizations will continue to be one of the least productive lines of
research."
...Dr. Grover S. Krantz, 1992; Big Footprints, p.134
"The
loud cries that they (Sasquatches) apparently make on some occasions may
convey emotional and locational information, but most mammals and all
primates have call systems just as complex as this." ...The late Dr. Grover Krantz in his book: Big Footprints,
pp. 172-173
On the Patterson-Gimlin
Film:
"With
all the diversity of the locomotion illustrated by the creature in the
footage, its gait as seen is absolutely non-typical of man."
...Dr. Dmitri D. Donskoy, chief of the chair of biomechanics at the
USSR Central Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow.
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"I have
written all of the Sasquatch stories in good faith. There are several
people living here who declare they have met the Sasquatch face to face.
Some years ago the old Chehalis Indians took me into their confidence
and revealed to me the mystery of the Sasquatch, a thing they have never
confided in to anyone else before. Therefore if any attempt
is made to hold up the Sasquatch as a myth our Indians may resent it.
Our Sasquatch is a real personality and we
wish these harmless creatures of the Chehalis wilderness to be treated
accordingly."
...J.W. Burns, teacher Chehalis Reservation 1924
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On the Orang pendek
and the yeti:
Dr. Bryan Sykes,
Professor of Human Genetics at the Oxford Institute of Molecular Medicine,
one of the world's leading experts on DNA analysis, who examined the
hair
from Bhutan, said: "We found some DNA in it, but we don't
know what it is. It's not a human, not a bear nor anything else
we have so far been able to identify. It's a mystery and I never thought
this would end in a mystery. We have never encountered DNA that we couldn't
recognise before."
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"...So
the question naturally arises: which of this field guide’s unknown
hairy hominoids are most likely to be discovered in the next century?
We believe that the most likely candidate is the orang pendek." ...Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, 1999
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