Georgia Straight Article

[sebastian]

Go pick up a copy now. Steve's article is on this week issue!

[lorelei]

Here's a link to the online article:

www.straight.com/article-173197/immortal-sasquatch-still-immune-cynics?rotator=1

[Deleted]

congrats to those included in the story.

[westerncanadian]

Overall it was quite objective and not the usual condescending rubbish we tend to see a lot of when the focus is sensationalism not informational.

One thing that bugged me was that the BC Skeptics inferred it was easy to fake tracks. If that is the case why haven't they done so and claimed the $100,000 reward offered by the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum. If it's that easy to do there's a huge amount of money to be collected for what they suggest is a simple exercise. If it was that simple, I would have collected that reward a long time ago, but the truth is that the conditions stipulated by the Museum are well nigh impossible to achieve.

[vilnoori]

Great article.

[bigfoothunter]

I have began to see what aggravated Dahinden so often when people don't keep the record straight. It gets frustrating to have been directly involved in something and find the story evolving into something it was not and all within months of its occurrence. Maybe in 50 years it will become mixed into the 1941 Chapman incident somehow and the hunter will have been on the Chapman farm looking to buy some salted salmon.






On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:27 AM, <[e-mail]> wrote:

Steve,
I read your article ... it appears that even using recorders doesn't help when keeping the facts straight. For instance, who told you the foot casting made at Ruby Creek was only 9" long?

Are you also not aware that the hunter at Ruby Creek contacted Westcoast Sasquatch and that it was I who met with the guy and first got his story. The hunter never called Steenburg to report the sighting. Steenburg heard it from me who drove him out to the site and showed it to Tom. This is when Tom and Christine entered the bog and found the tracks.

Also, the person who got stuck so deep in the bog was Christine ... not Steenburg ... and she certainly didn't get stuck up to her chest.

I will go through the article and pull out the errors and ask that the Sasquatch sites post the corrections. Its hard enough to get people to look at the evidence in a detailed fashion ... the last thing we need is to misrepresent it on top of everything else.

Bill Miller
Bigfoot Field Research.

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An editor I worked for once told me to my face, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story."

Unfortunately correcting a story is a useless endeavor as the initial story is out and who knows how many that read the original story would read/find a correction, if it were printed/corrected.

Perhaps it would be best to deal with reporters by not giving them too many facts as they seem to get confused by too much information they don't understand and thus cobble something together that satisfies them but not necessarily the story in question.