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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2005 0:38:34 GMT -5
Actually I touched upon that kind of thing in another forum. Someone was talking about Washington having a bigger population of Sasquatch then BC..or elsewhere, because of its larger database of sightings on the BFRO. I was quick to point out that not every report ends up in the hands of the BFRO. So that is a poor standard to use for any speculation about numbers..trends..etc! for example. Very few of John Green's sightings reports appear on the BFRO. And as you alluded to..very few of Steenburgs, either! Yet they are coming in every week. Anecdotal evidence might be a poor evidence..but it is the only kind that we have plenty of. In light of this one should be careful about the conclusion which they might draw from such. imho Another issue is a) BC is much less populated than Washington (isn't it?), and there are larger spaces of rural/wilderness areas. So, although there may not be more Sasquatch in Washington (and who really knows?), there are more people, in a more densely populated area to see a Sasquatch. What you have stated in your post is absolutely correct. And, I think an issue with Sasquatch theory in general, there are a lot of assumptions and conclusions, but no hard evidence to base it on. Just conjecture. Jon
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2005 0:42:10 GMT -5
Im sure you all know of the Patterson film and how he admitted it was fake. But A friend and i have come to believe he was just doing a cover up. For some reason or another he may just be wanting to hide the existance of Sasquatch. The exact reason we dont know, but we have come to highly consider this. What do you guys think? Apparently Patterson claimed on his death bed (Lymphoma, that has to suck...) that as far as he knew the film was real. Jon
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2005 0:46:50 GMT -5
I am posting quite a bit tonight, sorry.
Some of you have touched on an important issue. People who see "things" and for employment, or respectability issues, will not come forward.
It makes me think, how many forest service, fish and game, national park employees have "seen something"? yet have never come forward due to ridicule, losing a possible promotion, and so on.
I know some have made sport of Dr. Meldrum at ISU, but if you think about it, there is a university professor literally taking up an issue that hundreds of other's in his related fields refuse to touch. And then the Discovery Channel has some ass from Stetson University who has a wonderful tan, get on a show and contradict Dr. Meldrum, John Bindernagel, etc. The closest thing the tan guy has gotten to wildlife is trying to pretend he isn't 60 anymore at a Spring Break party.
Jon
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Post by sebastian on Jul 22, 2005 20:17:18 GMT -5
Actaully Grover Krantz outlined the academic related problems in his last book. I also think that those "Lunatic Fringe researchers" have given the field a bad name. My frist year anthropology lecturer is totally into sasquatch and use the subject as a teaching tool of critical thinking. cheers, seb
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2005 8:46:54 GMT -5
well, there goes the neighborhood, we got yet another tourist trap group, that will charge ya 5000 dollars and you are guaranteed to see a squatch, omg, are they gonna set up hoaxes, just so a paying tourist will see one, sheesh..........some folks are turning bigfoot research into a 3 ring circus, ridiculus.......
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Post by Sean V. on Jul 30, 2005 2:00:00 GMT -5
I don't think Patterson ever admitted it was a fake! Just rumors that he did! I have to agree with you on this one. I don't think that Patterson or Gimlin ever said the video was faked.
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Post by Sean V. on Jul 30, 2005 2:03:09 GMT -5
gc and bushman, is there a database somewhere that has the details of the bigfoot sightings in your area? i'd love to read about them gawuldeepoo I have one Fraser River Canyon report on my British Columbia database, but it's an old one. 1864 to be exact.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2005 9:29:08 GMT -5
Sightings are mostly underreported. I saw mine when patroling as a Recon Marine and didnt tell anyone for eleven years. I feel i can't be the only one and I have don research and found a couple reports in the area I saw it so it must be seen by more than me and the two or three reported there? I didn't report mine because I am a Recon Marine and for a long time felt reporting it could affect my carreer.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2006 22:04:08 GMT -5
If Patterson admitted it was a fake there wouldn't be so many people coming out of the woodwork claiming it was a fake and claiming to be the man in the suit, and writing books about it.
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Post by bigstinkfoot46 on Dec 23, 2016 3:16:10 GMT -5
If Patterson admitted it was a fake there wouldn't be so many people coming out of the woodwork claiming it was a fake and claiming to be the man in the suit, and writing books about it. No! Gimlin's neighbor Hieronymous wanted a piece of the action and lied and made up fake stories about a gorilla suit. Hieronymous was caught lying about everything, he got frauds to make a bullnuts documentary on TV and BS books just to try to get some money out of it. Too many people believed Mr. Hieronymous and his fake, lying stories about everything. Patterson/Gimlin film and events are real and were never found to be a hoaxes. Hieronymous should be thrown in jail for fraud.
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Post by bigstinkfoot46 on Dec 23, 2016 3:21:36 GMT -5
Im sure you all know of the Patterson film and how he admitted it was fake. But A friend and i have come to believe he was just doing a cover up. For some reason or another he may just be wanting to hide the existance of Sasquatch. The exact reason we dont know, but we have come to highly consider this. What do you guys think? Apparently Patterson claimed on his death bed (Lymphoma, that has to suck...) that as far as he knew the film was real. Jon Patterson and Gimlin never admitted it was a hoax.
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