Vanishing Bigfoot
and Anecdotal Accounts:
Implications and
Challenges for Researchers
By Sharon (Eby) Cornet
May 22, 2005 |
Originally written
for, and posted on The Royal Forum: http://www.theroyalforum.com/article.php?id=73
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Vanishing Bigfoot and Anecdotal Accounts:
Implications and Challenges for Researchers
By Sharon (Eby) Cornet © May 22,
2005
Table of Contents
There exists two severely
important questions – which we hope to address in detail here – that continue
to plague investigators, Cryptozoologists, and other researchers who are
attempting to explain and find the final evidence that will prove, once and
for all, the existence of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Skunk Apes, Yeti, Yowies,
Almas, Kaptars, Mapinguari, and their kind world over. For the Bigfoot
researcher who goes into the field (specifically here in the U.S.), and has
learned the habits and idiosyncrasies of Bigfoot, collected eye-witness
testimonies, hair, feces, and other field samples, made numerous footprint
casts, and even spotted Bigfoot themselves, there is little or no doubt left
of their obvious existence; but to the skeptic who ridicules the “evidence”
and does not do any serious field work or research which would support or
falsify that work scientifically, the same two questions are thrown into the
face of those who seriously want to expose an irrefutable answer concerning
the elusive Bigfoot: Where are the bodies or bones? And… Why
do they seem to vanish into thin air before they can be caught? It
is my intent to not only discuss some of the reasons why, but also to propose
a challenge, along with providing a test that researchers can do in the field
when Bigfoot makes his “disappearance.”
Even though there are historical,
folkloric, and oral traditional tales existent throughout the nations of the
earth, we are still faced with the fact that, to date, not a single one of
these giant hairy creatures has been caught alive to be observed,
studied, and documented by the experts, and no remains have been found
for examination in the laboratory. Truly, these curiosities nag those
of us who remain as questioning Bigfoot researchers, but more from the desire
within to know and understand, than because of anything the skeptics (and/or
"armchair scientists") would say. Hoaxers and outright liars
only compound the problems we face. In order to begin finding the
answers we must understand the questions, and the creatures that incite them
within our minds. We must look at the evidence with an open mind and
take ALL the evidence into account, and not just the parts that are
acceptable to our own belief systems. To understand where the bodies of
Bigfoot and his kind go during or after death, and how they seem to amazingly
evaporate from any hold we could possibly put on them while alive may be the
key to finding them.
There is evidence, according to
worldwide eyewitness testimonies that this creature, although with the
appearance of a half-human, half-ape-like face, might be completely different
than either humans or apes in not only environment, but also physiology,
diet, thinking abilities, and other talents. It is very possible that
the reason the best hunters have yet to tow in a Bigfoot body is because
Bigfoot are acutely more aware, and more keen, than we previously
thought. Perhaps we underestimate these gentle giants immensely.
For answers to these problems we will look not only to testimonies for clues,
but also to evidence in the field that might help explain some of the strange
camouflaging and apparent invisibility/transparency abilities that these
musky-smelling hominoids appear to be utilizing.
Please notice, as you read
further, that these accounts are varied but all have a few things in common….
Either bad smells associated/not associated with Bigfoot camouflage,
unexplainable disappearances, or and outright vanishing in front of the
witness(es) by different means. Please also note that the majority of
sightings are typically in forested or mountainous areas, near waterways of
some kind, and usually on or near fault line areas and/or volcanic/granitic
areas. We will go into why this is so, later on. Also realize
that even though I recognize that a good majority of “vanishing Bigfoot” just
simply run off into the trees, it is the more unusual accounts of them unexplainably
vanishing that I am addressing here. Because any good Bigfoot data
starts with those who see them, we begin with eyewitness testimonies.
But for the record, up front, I am not yet convinced of Bigfoot being a
UFO-occupant placed here on earth (some indications could show mimicry
however, but that is another subject for another paper).
Early
American Legends (BFRO – Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization)
Quote: "This story, I found out later, was based on the
Blackwood one... but I suspect Blackwood based his on the Northern
U.S./Canadian legends of the Wendigo. The story goes like this: there were
these two guys that went canoeing, and they came to a place where they had to
portage (carry their canoes overland). They walked through the woods until
night fell, and they set up camp. Well, one of the guys woke up in the middle
of the night to answer the call of nature, and he saw that the side of the
tent was bowed inward, as if someone was leaning on it. But, his buddy was
sleeping right next to him. He reached up to touch the tent wall, and it was
ice cold. He was so scared, he just lay there until morning, not sleeping.
When day came, the thing outside the tent was gone. So, the two guys packed
up their gear, and got their canoe, and headed off again. They walked all
day, and when the sun was setting, they came upon an old Indian man, holding
a human skull and shaking beads in it. He said to him: "You can't stay
here, this is Wendigo territory. Get through it as quickly as you can."
Of course, being Stupid White Guys ;) they laughed at him, and kept walking.
Well, the sun went down, and all of a sudden, somewhere behind them in the
woods, they heard this horrible scream. It could only have been the old
Indian. They looked at each other, kinda freaked out, and they started
walking a little quicker. And then, behind them, they heard this huge,
crashing noise like a runaway bulldozer coming through the woods. They looked
around, and there was nothing there, but the trees were splintering and
crashing down in the path of something horrible and invisible. Well, they
dropped their canoe and all their gear and they just ran like hell, and kept
running until they dropped from sheer exhaustion. And the thing behind them
came howling up -- and stopped and crashed around for a while in frustration,
but it couldn't get them because they had reached the far edge of its
territory". (1)
Data from “Chronological List of
Bigfoot Sightings (1818-1980)" - paraphrased
c. 1930 at Kwaltwa Kitasu Bay,
Swindle Is., BC by Tom Brown. Bigfoot seen in shallows at night; screamed
when shot at, but no body to be found next day.
1950’s by two men camping at Pine
Barrens, NJ. Two separate sightings of Bigfoot at night, one from only a few
yards; 'overpowering foul odor' noticed
Spring 1957 two hunters at Big
Cypress Swamp, FL. As they slept in hammocks, a Bigfoot stood and
watched them. They awoke and saw it was tall and dark with glowing eyes.
After about 2 minutes it walked away.
In 1964 at Point Isabel, Clermont
County, OH, Mr. & Mrs. Lew Lister were sitting in parked car. They
saw Bigfoot, which changed shape, and then vanished.
July 1965 Jack Taylor at Nr
Butedale, BC. Man fishing saw two Bigfoot creatures on shore and another
in the water swimming strongly.
Summer 1966 Nr Anclote River,
Elfers, FL. Bigfoot seen by Ralph “Bud” Chambers. It was standing in
trees and had a 'rancid, putrid odor'.
Summer 1966 in Nr Richland, WA,
Greg Pointer, Roger True, Tom Thompson, Carl & Jim Franklin, John
McKnight, Alvin Anderson, Selby Green, Roger Howard, Bob McDonald, Ron
Blackburn all witness an 8-ft, whitish-gray Bigfoot; was repeatedly shot
at with no effect.
Oct 1966 in Albuquerque, NM,
Clifford McGuire & family. Over a period of several weeks a 5-ft Bigfoot
that cried like a baby roamed round their property, and the radio would
stop when it was near.
Sept 1967 . Carol Davis from Nr Bellingham,
WA saw Bigfoot wading out of the sea.
1970 two fisherman in Lake nr
Priest Lake, ID saw Bigfoot swimming across a lake.
1972 a rancher from Nr North Fork
of Logy Creek, WA. A foul-smelling Bigfoot approached camp fire and
stood for several minutes before shuffling away; dogs paralyzed with fear.
May 29, 1973 Anthony Dorsey Nr
Sykesville, MD made first sighting of Bigfoot with luminous eyes. This
was after a UFO was seen to drop an object into a nearby reservoir.
Other people reported seeing an 8-ft black-haired Bigfoot.
August 24, 1973 a man from
Herminie, PA saw a 7-ft Bigfoot 30 ft away in his garden, it smelled like
'rotten eggs.' He went to get a gun but it had gone when he returned.
Early Oct, 1973 Nr Galveston, IN.
Jeff Martin or Jim Mays (one name is probably a pseudonym, as the initials
are the same) saw Bigfoot on 2 occasions, also lights or UFOs in the same
area.
Feb 6, 1974 in Uniontown, PA a
woman & son-in-law Bigfoot disappeared when shot at; others seen
close by, plus a UFO.
On June 19, 1980 Ray Quay in
Russells Point, OH. Part-time police officer saw 'big and hairy' creature
near barn, smelling like 'limburger cheese on a hot muffler'. (2)
Quote: “Submitted by witness on Wednesday, May 22, 2002.
DATE: late Nov. 1990-92
SEASON: Fall
STATE: Texas
COUNTY: Red River
NEAREST TOWN: Manchester, Texas
OBSERVED: I was deer hunting 10-12
years ago in late Nov. I was on a deer lease in Red River County. I was
sitting on a stool and observed deer scrapes on trees along a creek bed. I
was watching for these deer to approach. After I had been sitting there for
an hour or so I turned my head and noticed what looked like an 8 or 9-foot tall
stump that wasn't there earlier. It was approximately 120-130 yards away. I
raised my deer rifle and looked through the scope at it. Through my 6X scope,
I was able to see it as close up as if it were 30 feet away from me. It was
looking right at me. It was a large ape-like creature. I kept it in my sight
for 15-20 minutes. It never moved. I then heard a snap off to my left. I
turned my head to observe where this noise came from. I didn't see anything.
When I turned back to the creature, it was gone! It had been standing in
grass that was knee-high to me, about a foot and a half to 2 feet tall. I
feel that it couldn't have moved away in the short period of time my
attention was drawn away. I feel that it dropped down in the grass to avoid
detection. I feel that the snapping noise was made by another creature to
divert my attention from the other one. At this time, I got up and left
everything but my rifle and backed out of the area. I had this thing dead to
rights in my scope but couldn't shoot because I did not feel threatened.”
Source:
http://www.texasbigfoot.com/RedRiver1.html
Horizon
City Monster
A report of a possible Bigfoot
camouflage effect is based on the Horizon City Monster account by Ms.
Montanez who lives in the desert east of El Paso, TX. She first spotted
the Bigfoot hunched over a dead coyote by the edge of the highway out in the
desert. As she drove closer the creature stood up, walked up a mesquite
mound and jogged down the other side. She said his head was originally
taller than the mound, and yet he kept appearing to go down and down and down
(step-wise), into the ground! Although Montanez could not see the
Bigfoot actually entering the ground (due to the small mound being in the way),
she insisted that there had to have been a cave it entered. She
left and returned the following day to find the coyote gone, any footprints
swiped by the winds, and no apparent cave entrance! She then concluded
that the Bigfoot must've had a trap door hidden under the dirt which he
entered, although she could not find it. Realize that Ms. Montanez was
attempting to rationalize what she saw to explain an unexplainable
"disappearance" of Bigfoot. The biggest question is not
necessarily did he go into the ground but how did he make her THINK
he went into the ground if he did not? Or better yet, where did
he actually go? (3)
Quote: “After returning [p. 31] from a long hike, the group was
stunned when a nine-to-ten foot Sasquatch stepped out in front of them a
short distance away. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, the Bigfoot
completely disappeared in front of the witnesses! The witnesses
insisted that it literally dematerialized! Mrs. Jeffrey reported that
she was so awed at what she saw, that when they returned home, she did not
leave the house for two weeks. The woman was in such a total state of
shock that she did not return to the area for some time.” (4)
This account is from Larry Kelm
whom I personally spoke with during a BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers
Organization) field trip in Ruidoso, NM.
Quote: “In the fall of 1980 I ran a small business as a
construction contractor in Eugene, Oregon. During the slow times and
in-between jobs I would don my backpack and hiking boots and disappear into
the mountains for weeks at a time enjoying the peaceful solitude of long
hikes. At that time I was single and didn’t answer to anyone so I was free to
do what I wanted when I wanted. On the trip in question I decided to hike the
old Mollala Indian trail that followed the ridge tops from Saddle Blanket
Mountain to Oakridge, one of the Native American’s favorite summer camps and
trading centers. It was a beautiful August day, two days into the hike (I
expected to be gone about two weeks), when literally out of the blue the most
terrifying thing that ever happened to me in my life occurred. It would change
my perspective of reality forever.
“I was walking along the trail
enjoying the strong breeze and bright sunshine when, in the middle of a step,
everything around me started to turn gray and blurry. The only way I can
describe it was as if suddenly I was looking through someone else’s
prescription sunglasses. I finished the step and started another. Every inch
I moved forward the darkness increased and the gray blurring turned into a
jumble of shapes that made no sense. I then seemed to pass a barrier and
everything started to return back into focus when my foot reached the ground
on the second step everything around me had changed. Day had turned into
night and there was no wind. All the Douglas Fir and pine trees had been
replaced with thick jungle-like growth. The cool thin mountain air was
replaced with humid thick air. There were no stars in the sky, but there was
a diffused light that let me see everything clearly, however I couldn’t tell
what the light source was.
“As often happens when the human
body receives a massive dose of adrenaline the entire incident appeared like
it was in slow motion and even though I was only there for a second or two I
had time to observe my surroundings. The silence was broken by [a] continuous
high pitched keening sound, and I was nearly overwhelmed with a sense of fear
and danger. My momentum caused me to take one more step before stopping in my
tracks.
“It was at this point, I heard a
whispered "Gotcha" over my right shoulder. I couldn’t tell if I
heard it with my ears or inside my head. The word wasn’t directed at me but
something said the word quietly to itself. I was so terrified I actually felt
my heart stop for a moment. That whispered word is what saved me. I opened my
mouth and gasped in a huge gush of thick air and recoiled backward in the
same footsteps I had entered wherever I was. As I threw myself backward, I
looked over my right shoulder. A dark colored hairy right hand and arm was
reaching for my throat over my shoulder. The hand had pale ivory spade-shaped
fingernails. The nails looked clean and almost had a manicured look to them.
The thumb was placed lower (towards the wrist) on the hand than a human’s is.
Both hand and arm were thin and powerful looking and both were covered with
thick coarse black hair.
“I got a good look at it because
the thumbnail grazed my neck (it did not break the skin) as I moved
backwards. As I continued backwards, the hand clutched where my neck had been
a split second before and it seemed to fade off into the distance as I returned
through the Portal.
“I took two more steps backwards and everything reversed itself from what had just
happened. The world around me became lighter, the fir and pines
gradually came back into view and by the third step I was back on Saddle
Blanket Mountain.
“I continued to move backwards in
terror, and as I did, I observed that where I had just come from was a
shimmering oval patch of air about the size of a large door. The woods behind
it looked like it was under water. By the fifth backward step the shimmering
area seemed to just evaporate and everything was back to normal. By then my
lungs had nearly burst from the volume of air I had inhaled during the huge
gasp I had just taken. My body felt like it was on fire from the adrenaline
surge. I spun around and ran back down the trail as fast as my legs could
carry me, and didn’t stop until I reached my truck. I was nearly two days
getting to that place and about three hours getting back.
“On my way home I was absolutely
horrified at the thought of what would happen if I were to drive my truck
into something like that. It had been a trap pure and simple. Whatever it was
that tried to kill me somehow kept the Portal hidden from me on the way in,
and I didn’t actually see it until I was back out again. I had terrible
nightmares for years, and still haven’t come to grips with what happened. My
fingers are trembling and the hair is standing up on the nape of my neck as I
write this.” (5)
There is one important account I’d
like to share about a southern New Mexico man I interviewed on July 7, 2004,
which corroborates Larry Kelm’s experience about Bigfoot and portals.
When we went camping that weekend I noticed immediately that the area was
rich in granodiorite rock (a plutonic rock which is a granite-diorite mix – you
will see why this is important later on), and that it is located on the
rainshadow (desert) side of a mountain, adjacent to the Ruidoso, NM area
where a “hot spot” of Bigfoot activity is currently being investigated by
numerous Bigfoot researchers, (including the BFRO). I directly went to
the campground host where we were camping at and asked him point blank, “How
many Bigfoot sightings have you heard of around here?.” I asked, not
IF, but “how many” on purpose, because everything in me told me that there
was no way a Bigfoot sighting wouldn’t have occurred in that area, and
linguistics (wording) of the questions to a stranger can make or break the
answer that’s given on such a touchy subject. I figured I’d hear him
tell me of some incident that some campers had seen or heard of once, but
instead the campground host himself told me of his own sighting he had.
This is what he told me…
In summer of either 2000 or 2001
John Bohannon witnessed a creature he called Bigfoot on a small ridge next to
a hill located just west of the Three Rivers Campground, and lies north of
Alamogordo, NM (west of Ruidoso on the west side of the mountain).
During daylight hours John was traveling east on the dirt road in his truck
when he glanced over to his right and noticed a tall hairy ape-like creature
walking in the same direction as he was driving. It was taller than the
cholla cacti nearby (estimated by John to be at least 8' tall) and it looked
toward John as it kept walking. It's arms hung longer than it's knees,
and had short brown hair with a reddish tinge all over it's body. The
only long hair was underneath it's forearms, and the shortest hair was at
it's lower back/buttocks area. With knees slightly bent, but otherwise
standing upright, the long-striding creature kept walking eastwardly, still
staring at John, for approximately 100' until it seemed to vanish into thin
air. A juniper tree was near where the Bigfoot creature disappeared but
the creature did not appear to walk behind it. Because of this strange
aspect John thought it must've walked into an invisible wall of some kind,
but was unsure of just what happened (portal or some sort of
camouflage?). John's best description of the Bigfoot’s face was that of
a "Neanderthal" being neither quite ape, nor quite human, but like
a combination of both (6).
Selections from Jon-Erik
Beckjord,BA,MBA,The Bigfoot Investigation Project
Quote: “We moved to Bellingham, WA. on Nov 1975 and
settled in on the Lummi Indian Res. [Reservation] where dozens of sightings
were happening…… We traversed the entire res over and over, checking into the
most remote and never-visited rainforest in the center…… We made
another sighting near Ft. Lewis where the Bigfoot disappeared in front of us.
It really did. Range- ten feet….. We found at that site deep tracks (we
heard them being made) that run at 6 ft strides down to barbed wire fence ---
and no, zero, none, tracks in the sea of mud (200 ft) on the other side.
Where did it go? Wings? Helicopter? Blimp? We heard nothing…… On
the res, in snow, we found tracks that started from under a snowed-over bush,
that meandered 200 ft, crossed a road, and slowly morphed into human boots,
ending at a house. Nobody home. One very large humanoid hand print was in the
snow as well….. Back again near Tacoma, (Puyallup) we found 210
barefoot tracks starting from another snowed-over bush that also meandered in
an open field. They then 'ended" or quit, in snow, with NO trees, no
rocks and no dry land to jump to. Did it fly?????? Or what?……. We found
hunters who had shot at BFs directly, with NO EFFECT……. We played baby scream
tapes and a grey fox-being-thing came out and looked at us askance and
shortly after we experienced tremendous internal fear as the sun set, and we
zoomed out at 70 mph., sweating and scared. The message, a form of telepathy,
was GET OUT OF HERE!……. On a side trip north, by Lake Stevens, we went out
with witnesses and one woman alone answering the call of nature, said there
was something invisible next to her. We found 16 inch tracks in dirt and snow
all around the area…… On other trips, we were paralyzed when BF came
close to us. And released when they left…….. We had smells come to us
that changed into three types, one after another. Projected at us. We
interviewed two kidnapees. One experienced telepathy, from him to them, and
later, he found they answered his questions into his head, without he having
to speak in words.” (7)
Hydrogen Sulfide, Geology, and
Bigfoot
From this tiny handful (out of
hundreds and hundreds in the U.S. and Canada alone) of Bigfoot sightings we
have seen witnesses being subjected to numerous phenomena; however, we will
be covering a few aspects on the putrid smells next to see how it might (or
not) fit in with Bigfoot invisibility (just bear with me here). Within
the Bigfoot research community the reason for the horrible stench is
generally thought of as an outward sign of irritation, threat, or fear, very
similar to what a gorilla will do in stressful situations. The smell that
waifs off of a Bigfoot and far into the countryside is often described as
“extremely strong,” “very potent,” “permeating the nostrils” (sometimes into
the next day(s) long after the smell in the air is gone), with people
claiming “it smelled like a mix between skunk and wet dog,” “like rotting
flesh,” or “rotting garbage,” “extremely terrible body odor,” “urine and
feces,” or even “sulfur,” or “rotten eggs.” Many have posed the question as
to what it is (physiologically speaking) that causes such a strong odor to
emanate from the huge body of Bigfoot, even though the accompanying smell
only incorporates up to 30% to 50% of the typical sighting reports that come
in to researcher’s hands (8). This sulfur, or
rotten-egg-like odor, is often found in nature, otherwise known as hydrogen
sulfide (H2S) (9).
Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S,
is an acidic gas with some interesting properties, and some fascinating
implications… at least when it comes to Bigfoot. In large
concentrations, this gas is toxic to aerobic life. Before we get into
any hypothesis about hydrogen sulfide and any so-called disappearance of
Bigfoot we’d like to fill you in on a little bit of what H2S is
all about. When hydrogen sulfide comes into contact with the skin or lungs,
it is absorbed into the body (10). H2S can be found in the atmosphere, near hot springs, oil
deposits, combustion of fossil fuels, volcanic eruptions, and caves, along
with any forest which has organic (plant or animal) decomposing substances,
as well as being found near fault line areas (radio signals also build up at
fault lines) and earthquake zones (11). In green sulfur bacteria, the electron donor
is H2S or S (sulfur) (12).
Plants, animals, and microorganisms regularly transmute the
first 20 elements of the periodic table at the sub-atomic level using enzymes
and hormones, with hydrogen or oxygen as the primary catalyst (13). Well water that contains high sulfur content
has that well known rotten-egg smell as well (14).
H2S is found all over the earth, including in the human
body. People who lack an adequate amount of certain enzymes may excrete
more H2S from their sweat glands, bowels, and skin (15).
Within any given ecosystem we have a potential for H2S to
appear. H2S is extremely abundant in karst (limestone) caves
sometimes producing snottites (16).
As a recap, and to
accentuate my next point, please realize that H2S is not only
commonly found near areas of geothermal activity, volcanism, active plate
tectonics, and fault lines, but also exposed or subsurface granitic plutons
(areas with granite rock), mines (open pit quarries or shafts), water wells,
underground streams, underground caverns or caves (karst caves or igneous
rock caves, sandstone, and gypsum caves as well), forested and mountainous
locations, etc. but according to my research, and that of others, it has been
evident that BIGFOOT IS OFTEN FOUND IN THESE SAME AREAS (17)!
Why? One reason may be what they have in common; hence many have been
looking at the H2S connection. But is H2S
really the answer we seek? How might it fit in with Bigfoot
invisibility?
Some have proposed
that feces getting caught in the hair, or a sudden onset of diarrhea or gas
(although to our knowledge, no evidence of diarrhea left behind has been
found yet, nor have any cases come forward, to my knowledge, indicating
noises of excessive flatulence) because of startling Bigfoot into a colon
spasm – indicating a nervous disorder or a highly sensitive nervous system,
not unlike Irritable Bowel Syndrome in humans – might be the source of the H2S
smell (18).
It is likely to assume a natural musky or unkempt smell, as with many
animals, but it is more likely that the smell given off by Bigfoot is
purposefully induced. A diet high in hydrogen sulfide-producing foods,
or being highly adapted to living in areas which produces higher amounts of H2S,
causing higher bodily absorption, may be only part of the cause (and worth
studying in-depth), including any possible glandular issues (apes have such
glands) where H2S secretions are produced when stressed, but there
are some indications that the odor may be used for more than just a warning
to those who are within close proximity (19).
One idea that is circulating among
some researchers is that Bigfoot may actually be (using H2S?) causing
mental paralysis, or temporary “hypnosis” within the minds of the animals or
people nearby, in order to escape more readily into the cover of the night or
forest (20). Could H2S be the
reason, rather than a psychic ability? Of course, one would think, why
use a smell in order to run away when Bigfoot’s gigantic size and
strength alone could overpower even the largest, strongest man in 10
states? Perhaps, like pacifist gorillas, the tendency to bluff, rather
than attack, may be the answer. This tells us a lot about his nature,
although when considering that Bigfoot might be causing a temporary state of
“suspended animation” or some form of “hypnosis” or “altered consciousness”
via mental confusion in those who inhale the H2S (along with any
other non-odorous gaseous mixes that may coincide), it could prove to be a
great way to “camouflage” ones self. This would serve to make a quick
escape and avoid further detection, or any possible trap by predators or
hunters or anyone/anything else that might bring harm.
Of course, yet another hypothesis
exists that Bigfoot is psychic and can perform mind control over humans, much
like the legends about Native American (or other) Shamans who affect the mind
of the observer to trick them into believing they have seen them shape-shift
into an animal; however, until Bigfoot is able to demonstrate this under
controlled conditions then people will hardly consider it as proof, even
though hundreds of witnesses claim it is true (21).
As
for the induction of altered states in passersby via H2S, who under its influence may not realize the passage of
time, or that their mental awareness has slowed, it is interesting to note
that H2S-induced hibernation has been
achieved in a non-hibernating mammal (mice), transforming the mouse from a
warm-blooded creature to a cold-blooded state of near suspended animation
with no heartbeat, respiration or other signs of life. In effect, the mice
purposefully exposed to H2S were operating at about 10% their
normal rate. Better yet, after 6 hours of exposure the mice were normal once
returned to normal air (22). If Bigfoot were using H2S to induce sleep in his victims, or himself,
I think there would be evidences of such, but so far none has surfaced (no
sleeping bodies of people or Bigfoot during encounters).
A twist on the “hypnosis” idea
involves the positive ions that are given off as the H2S is
emitted (23). The rotten smell associated with so
many sightings is likely not that of the fear Bigfoot may be feeling
(although it can be overwhelming for those nearby), but rather that of a
chemical reaction, which would omit a sulfuric smell along with the discharge
of positive hydrogen ions. Most people are aware of their opposite, negative
ions, those “healthy” ions which are given off in nature and especially
during thunderstorms where one gets that “good feeling” and “higher energy”
or a “sense of well being”
(24). Positive ions given off by
Bigfoot, however, could give the feeling of “ill health,” or a “bad feeling,”
would seem to drain your (bodily-electrical) energy and even make you dizzy,
disoriented, or even sick
(25).
Here’s the clincher, and one that
many have overlooked. Understand that H2S is highly lethal – many times more deadly
than cyanide gas, if taken in under high concentrations (26). The question must be asked is why, if H2S
is so lethal, and can make a bystander so overpowered, does it not asphyxiate
the Bigfoot himself? Could the answer be that he is already so
highly adapted to H2S in environment,
possibly his diet, and the biological absorption and emission of the gas that
it just simply isn’t a noticeable problem for him, and likely an advantage
instead? Realize that H2S itself kills the olfactory
nerves. If Bigfoot takes in and gives off these high amounts of H2S
then it is likely his sense of smell is diminished, if not completely gone
(either in youth by exposure, or by generational adaptation, or both), so it
could very well prove to be a mutually beneficial quality since putting off
such a putrid stench greatly affects potentially dangerous animals or humans
who are nearby, without even realizing he, himself, reeks in the
process. Additionally, with a substantial drop in olfactory ability his
other senses might likely compensate for the loss by an increase in visual
and auditory (making him a keen hunter or observer), kinesthetic (feeling his
world, perhaps even a greater sensitivity to electromagnetic or other earth
energies), and may be even abilities in his psyche which are mutually
advantageous. Taste, however, is most often linked to the ability to
smell (at least in humans) so mere hunger, texture, and the sight of food may
play a higher role than taste, in this kind of case. Perhaps Bigfoot’s
unique physiological adaptations have made him a king in his own
domain.
Appearances can be deceiving
though, as some would say. There are those who would claim that the H2S
factor is not what it seems, and that Bigfoot actually puts off an energy
force field of some type that affects those who walk into it (or whom it
envelops) towards uncomfortable and even debilitating feelings.
Interestingly enough, the symptoms include a huge sense of fear or danger,
accompanied by dizziness, weakness, feeling ill, nausea, and the like (personal
account related verbally, one of many out there). It seems that
whether this is an actual energy field produced by Bigfoot, or a psychic type
of phenomenon, or even from the smell of H2S or positive ions, the
end effect is real and overwhelming to those who have experienced it.
Besides
all of these potential forms of camouflage, defense mechanisms, or apparent
transparency, there are ideas circulating among researchers that take on an
interest much closer to physics and quantum mechanics than does chemistry,
biology, or H2S-promoting habitats. One such idea put out
there, by a co-researcher, Pearl Jo Prihoda, is what she calls (a combo-name)
Photosynthetic - Piezoelectric Induced Transparency (PPIT), where Bigfoot
actually is able to become invisible to the naked eye (27). Not saying that PPIT is directly responsible for
the disappearing act of Bigfoot, but she concludes that it is very similar to
electromagnetically induced transparency, except with speculation that this
may be a natural occurring event, with the right external forces, therefore
being a possible explanation for a biological process for Bigfoot
transparency. Considering fault lines, volcanism, and other
electromagnetic phenomena being abundant in certain areas (28), not to mention that Bigfoot is known
to act very strange during thunderstorms and the electromagnetic activity
associated with it (verbal account by Bigfoot witness), this Bigfoot
transparency might well be a geologically related and coinciding event rather
than by “magic” or something supernatural. Realize, even though
PPIT-like transparency is based on the premise for an entity to “appear to
disappear” (illusion) rather than to “actually disappear”, either form can
still be scientifically deduced.
Other
interpretations and ideas include waves in physics, where they combine with
other waves (harmonics) to allow a process for passage through matter.
Light exists as a photon and as a wave. As a photon it interacts with
other matter, but as wave it passes through matter. Some atoms
(i.e. matter), such as iron and copper, can be easily magnetized. Other
atoms, such as carbon and oxygen, are more difficult to magnetize.
Light, on the other hand, can be magnetized as a wave, but not as a photon
particle.
Quote: "A team of 20 physicists
from four institutions has literally made something from nothing, creating
particles of matter from ordinary light for the first time." Source: University of Rochester News, September 17, 1997, http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=747
Of
course, with statements like these we realize that the laws of thermodynamics
prohibit “something” actually being made from “nothing,” however we do
realize that what they are saying is that the energy given off from photons
(light) is used to form mass in the laboratory setting (29). It’s merely a reversal of
what we are used to seeing in our visible world, but certainly not any less
possible from a scientific standpoint. It is this reversal of energy to
matter, and also going from matter to energy that is the point here in the
very plausible explanation of how Bigfoot might be “disappearing.” In
reality he may be just transmuting via PPIT-like occurrences, or something
similar; but this type of research is still fairly new and highly speculative
concerning any biological entity, so we will leave it there to sit in
your subconscious for now.
We have to admit that Bigfoot
ACTUALLY disappearing, rather than just GIVING THE ILLUSION of disappearing
seems like a leap in faith, or even “reaching” for answers, but we must keep
in mind that as science continues to advance, things that used to be considered “impossible,” or “magic,” or even as
“witchcraft” are now being explained and understood via molecular biology,
quantum physics, and a host of other scientific disciplines. And IF
Bigfoot is able to induce some form of invisibility via a biological process
(yet unknown to mankind) due to his unique physiology and environment, we
have to ask the question on whether it is a natural inborn ability (an
adaptation based on some very specific selective pressures), or some form of
ancient wisdom rediscovered (or passed on), or something else entirely?
Either way, we are reminded by hundreds upon hundreds of reliable eye-witness
testimonies that Bigfoot not only somehow continually escapes being caught,
but that they often do appear to just “disappear,” sometimes when people are
looking straight at them! Footprints, likewise, often stop in their
tracks, even within snow and soft dirt. If Bigfoot is not literally
“vanishing” (leaving) then could they be inducing transparency and then
jumping/leaping from that point on (tracks then would start again further
away), or brushing/covering their tracks (in some cases) to give the illusion
of disappearing? When tracks like this end in an empty field and the
trackway does not pick up again, anywhere, then I tend to lean towards
explanations linked to Bigfoot’s unique physiology, chemistry, and choice of
environmental localities (high in H2S, volcanic, etc.) that might
be imposing a unified cause/selective pressure for induced transparency, or
some other kind of unexpected, or as yet undiscovered explanation. No
one claims to know the answers yet, but we can claim to be broad-minded
enough to look for them!
Looking
Outside of What is Expected
With this information on
environmental factors under our belts, it brings us directly back to volcanic
and fault line areas, and more, such as hot springs, oil deposits, and caves,
swamps, sinkholes, along with any forest which has decomposing organic
substances. Not only are we reminding the reader that Bigfoot is typically
associated with these areas and organic materials/smells but there is yet
another hypothesis out there concerning Bigfoot that we feel could easily be
ignored, but also, to be fair to others in the fringe sciences, should
not. This is the possible paranormal (some prefer to call it
“extranormal”) aspect of Bigfoot (30).
Now before you run for the hills
because the word “paranormal” just rang in your head, the biggest question
regarding any possibility of a paranormal aspect of Bigfoot is, WHAT IS
PARANORMAL? The direct meaning is “outside of normal,” but then what is
“normal”? Normal is the average between extremes. Normal is what
is expected in society; so in this case paranormal could mean OUTSIDE OF WHAT
IS EXPECTED. Also realize that expectation by itself is a
phenomenon of the human psyche, and a rather interesting one at that because
it involves the training of our minds to accept repeated information;
hence, how we are TAUGHT to believe, or what we consider as comfortable, or
“right,” and with anything outside of that comfort-zone hitting us as
“wrong.” Expectation can help us to rationalize any possible future
outcome and test it to see if what occurs is what we expected to
happen. If so, we are elated, and our expectations confirmed, but if
not… well consequently, expectation can also backfire by the same means,
causing a young female lover to be greatly disappointed in her boyfriend who
falls short of her expectations, or people to fall away from religion (or
Bigfoot research) if the answers they seek do not get answered according to
their expectations. The list could go on and on. So what I say to
the reader here is, “Consider new possibilities.” I am also saying that
perhaps our expectations of Bigfoot haven’t been met because we have
been expecting something that is not meant to happen (i.e. a fresh and intact
Bigfoot carcass), or we have been asking the wrong questions, or are
listening in the wrong frequency, or just simply looking in the wrong
places. Let us look outside of what is expected! Let us
put aside what we have been trained to believe. Let us, just for
a moment, look outside of the normal, to the paranormal, and see what we may
find.
Bigfoot and his kind are already
(based on the explanation above) in the paranormal category (according to
some), but those in scientific fields, who hold an open mind, are realizing
more and more that many things “paranormal,” or “supernatural,” are quickly
being able to be explained scientifically, from things like black triangle
crafts (UFO’s) appearing to defy the Doppler law (in fact it is “reverse
Doppler”) and aircraft that travel at Mach 6 without creating the sonic boom
(atmospheric compression), and other previously unknown, and supposedly
“unbelievable” phenomena
(31). We must keep in
mind that a mere couple hundred years ago things like holograms,
mini-computers and worldwide electronic and/or wireless communications,
exploration of space, weather-monitoring satellites, infrared vision night
scopes, and other technological advances would have seemed like “magic”, so
it may be that phenomena which seem to defy science or elude us today (since
technology is really in its infancy) will all be rectified via science in our
near (or far) future. This goes for transparency of biological
entities, teleportation (like “beaming up” in the TV series Star Trek),
portals, time travel, and the like. UFO sightings and encounters are
long known (at least in certain circles) to be associated with these H2S,
volcanic/granitic and fault line areas, one example being the abundant UFO
activity down near the active Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico City, Mexico,
most often exposed via television and other media by Investigator Jaime
Maussan. (32)
Remember that in many
Bigfoot sightings (above) there are reports of these creatures simply
"disappearing” or “dematerializing,” as in the Horizon City Monster
account where the witness, Ms. Montanez stated that the Bigfoot walked
straight down into the ground. Did he actually go down into the ground
(no visible cave entrance or trap doors were found) or did he simply give the
appearance of such? Better yet, did he truly disappear, or was
it just illusion? Were magnetic fields involved in some way?
Chemical actions/reactions based on a unique physiology? A psychic
ability? A portal? Remember the account from Three Rivers, NM
where John Bohannon saw a Bigfoot walking on a short ridge parallel to his
truck who then “walked into an invisible wall” and all at once
disappeared. Also note that in both this account, and the Larry Kelm
reporting of walking into a Bigfoot portal and back out again that strong H2S
smells were not present (although moist jungle smells were). Although
this could falsify the claimed H2S effects of “hypnosis” or such,
it does not fully explain why these type of cases of alleged Bigfoot
transparency are still occurring.
I have read,
experienced, and learned a lot on Bigfoot possibilities both in the field and
by interviewing witnesses, etc., as to whether they are real, or all hoaxes
(this notion is just simply ignorance, in my opinion), or “something else”
entirely. One intriguing culturally-related view out there is that
Bigfoot is part of the earth spirit group, or fae (faerie realm), an
inter-dimensional being, or spirit-like being, who deals with the earth
energies of destruction and death, as well as regeneration (hence, the
symbology of them showing up in volcanic and plutonic or rift zones where
igneous/magmatic activity is prevalent, as well as fault line zones
(indicative of sudden change or alteration of the earth)) (33). Many Native American groups have long held this type of view,
as have those of Celtic/Druidic origins. The belief is that to get
involved with this type of creature is to cross into a territory where one
does not belong, and that it is best left alone. Another view is that
seeing one of these creatures will bring tragedy, loss, or sudden change in
ones life. If a creature is seen, then it is considered a gift, or an
omen, but again, not one to be messed with. Others have claimed to have
had personal conversations and long-term friendships with Bigfoot and their
kind, as well as other earth spirits such as faeries, sprites, brownies, and
the like. The inter-dimensional view is one that includes such things
as portals (doorways in/out of other unseen realms), psychic phenomena, and
even abductions into those realms, some of which one may go into and never
return. It is considered both literal (physical) as well as spiritual
(nonphysical), incorporating both realms into one reality, although
alternating. How many reports are there of people who go missing and
are never found?
Time travel of
entities is also another possibility if one is inclined to research in that
direction (34). Another option
could be windows or “time gaps” where a rip in the space-time continuum
(reminiscent of sci-fi movies) is allowing certain people to see something
from the past or future temporarily meshing with our present reality and then
returning. John Bohannon not only saw the Bigfoot on the ridge but the
Bigfoot also looked straight at him, indicating a two-way “vision” so to
speak. In effect, if footprints or physical evidence are left behind in
cases like these then there is obviously more than just some kind of “vision”
happening here, and instead a direct 3-D reality. If time portals exist
then how are they occurring? Is there someone (Bigfoot? Other?)
in charge of opening or closing them at will? Are they indeed TIME
portals, or yet another option… the involvement of the electromagnetic
spectrum? (35)
To learn more about the
electromagnetic/light spectrum aspects of Bigfoot transparency we can look to
other “things” which are known to disappear via the light spectrum.
Many of you may remember the 11 unidentified flying objects (invisible to the
naked eye) that were tracked on May 11, 2004 via Mexico’s military infrared
(IR) equipment, caught on camera, and played back to the millions of watchers
around the world via television (36). Note that it is
speculated that Bigfoot, mostly nocturnal in activity, can see in IR, since
deer and other animals in the wild have looked straight at hidden cameras
that use IR technology
(37). There are also
other examples of alleged
invisibility: UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – a.k.a. UFOs) or AOP
(Anomalistic Observational Phenomena, which can include Bigfoot) have been
documented by Dr. Bruce Cornet with photographs of UAP diving into the earth
or passing through trees in the Pine Bush, NY area (38). Cornet has also
photographed a C-5 military aircraft disappearing and reappearing in an
apparent unscheduled test while landing (39).
Quote
from Dr. Cornet:
“If the geomagnetic anomalies are
caused by magnetic iron deposits within granitic intrusions, then an
association between most AOP activity on the map and granitic intrusions is
implied. Why would there be such an association? There are
several possible reasons:
“1)
AOP lights are really Earth lights, and there is some unusual and as yet
unexplained phenomenon occurring between the atmosphere and iron-rich
deposits in the ground.
“2)
If the AOP represent intelligently controlled craft using an unknown or
poorly understood source of energy, the use of iron-bearing (mildly magnetic)
granitic intrusions for underground dwellings might be due to structurally-
and electromagnetically- desired qualities of that rock as wall material for
underground chambers. One could argue that surrounding fissile black
shales of the Ordovician Snake Hill Formation make notoriously poor wall
material due to their poor tensile strength in planes of
cleavage. Therefore, the preferred type of rock in the valley for
excavation would be the granitic masses.
“3)
Entrances to underground dwellings are intentionally located where
geomagnetic anomalies occur at the surface as a means of camouflage. If the
brightening of a plasma envelope around an AOP has something to do with
opening a portal to an underground chamber, there may be residual effects
that can be detected magnetically. The association of entrances with
natural geomagnetic patterns could be for both physical and psychological camouflage,
given the propensity of humans to accept "rational" or acceptable
explanations over an explanation which would challenge dogma and beliefs.” (40)
Yet another view… Like Bigfoot
“disappearing,” UFO’s also have been spotted on radar, then dropped down
under the ocean’s surface only to be tracked by sonar, then coming above
water again tracked by radar once again, suddenly transferring their
frequency to ultraviolet (UV) and/or infrared (IR) and hence, disappearing
(verbal accounts given in person). They’ve also been seen
“diving into the sides of mountains” (even mountains made of granite) on
numerous occasions and not crashing, as well as flying into clouds and not
coming out the other side despite the cloud shrinking and fading away with
there being no sign of a craft of any kind afterwards (verbal accounts
given in person). Where are they going? The answer on these
accounts may lie in the visible and invisible parts of the light
spectrum. Ultraviolet (UV) and Infrared (IR) are two of the areas of
the spectrum which UFO craft are well known to enter into (41). Because our
eyes cannot see in these areas of the light spectrum they would appear to
“disappear” when moving into that part of the spectrum, even though they are
still there! This is a type of camouflage, or
transparency/invisibility/vanishing ability, but is easily explainable
through science and having the proper equipment. Perhaps, in the field
of Bigfoot research, more cameras with these types of “sight” are
needed. If we have the right “eyes to see” then what disappeared will
be seen, provided the vanishing of Bigfoot is an illusion and not an actual
disintegration from our dimension.
The same UV/IR rules apply when it
comes to radio waves, which are also part of the light spectrum, including
extremely low frequency (ELF) and very low frequency (VLF). For anyone
who has heard of “natural radio” (sounds picked up in ELF/VLF called
“whistlers,” and other popping and clicking noises, etc. (42)) then you might also be familiar with the research into
Bigfoot likely giving off similarly low frequencies in ELF/VLF ranges to
affect those nearby, called infrasound (43). These are energies that you can physically FEEL in
your body and, if given off with certain intent, often sparks deep fear
within people. Elephants and other animals also use these low
frequencies to speak to each other across long distances and to each other
via pounding the ground with their feet (44). Consequently Bigfoot also has ground-pounding
behaviors, especially when giving warnings to someone they don’t want in the
area
(45). It may also serve as a function of warning – as
with elephants – to warn others of their kind about impending disaster, such
as a volcanic eruption, earthquake, tsunami, or some other “underworld”
(below-the-surface) activity. This aspect, being part of the light
spectrum causes us to question just how much of the spectrum (on the UV or IR
or in ELF/VLF) that Bigfoot may also be utilizing. Bigfoot’s often
red-glowing eyes (seemingly with or without a light source to
reflect against it, which concerning the “without” applies a completely
different set of rules) may be indicative of infrared night-vision and why he
most often roams at night compared to the daytime (46). A diet high in taurine may also contribute to
night vision, as well as other factors (47).
Perhaps, as with UFO’s, there’s a
lot more to Bigfoot in way of the light spectrum, and transparency, than ever
previously imagined. Why hasn’t this information been deeply researched
by most Bigfoot Investigators before now? Realize that most
Cryptozoologists and/or Bigfoot researchers typically refuse to admit any
connection with Bigfoot and UFO activity, let alone what they might have in
common, but then they don’t ask their Bigfoot eye-witnesses if any strange
lights or unidentifiable flying crafts, orbs, or the like, have been seen in
the area either! How can all of the evidences be absorbed into a report
if not all of the right questions are asked of the witness(es)?
Witnesses may not even make the connection in their minds until the questions
are asked of them, just as many Bigfoot researchers don’t make the
connection. But the fact is that numerous ex-Bigfoot hunters or
eyewitnesses have approached me, and others I know, in private to tell us of
strange lights, orbs, or other unidentifiable craft which hovered among the
trees, around lakes, etc., all occurring in direct Bigfoot country where many
“giant ape-men” sightings occur continually.
What
current Bigfoot Field Investigators can do to rectify this situation is to:
First – Ask the right questions to
witnesses, and not rule out any other strange or unexpected activity in
the area of Bigfoot sightings, unless, of course, a personal bias against the
paranormal precludes unbiased scientific research to discover the true nature
of something being thoroughly investigated. The scientific
method demands such questions to be asked, and ethically processed, for the
purpose of falsification. In essence, we would like to see MORE being
done in Bigfoot research to find out the plausibility of the questions and
the authenticity of any proclaimed answers regarding the famous two questions
which this article addresses (visual disappearances, and lack of bodies,
the latter of which we will be getting to shortly).
Second – A simple test at any fresh sighting location can be
implemented to determine if induced transparency (actual or illusionary) is
the explanation for Bigfoot disappearances… If Bigfoot is still there, but
not apparent, his footprints should be visible after he “disappears.”
If the footprints disappear also (leaving/following the spot where he visibly
disappeared), that is information that could falsify any PPIT-like
hypothesis. It would indicate that Bigfoot materially disappeared, and
is not just illusionary. If it turns out that Bigfoot is actually
disappearing/dematerializing then we must start looking to people in physics
(e.g. college professors who deal in the theoretical, or research physicists
who are working on this type of vanishing) such as Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor
of Theoretical Physics at The City College of New York who was interviewed on
the UFO television show by Peter Jennings recently. Although Dr. Kaku’s
comments were directly about UFO’s and their occupants, the advice he gives
is applicable to the situation of Bigfoot “walking into invisible walls” if
it does turn out that their footprints disappear where they are witnessed to
vanish. After all, who says there is a limit to where such “invisible
walls,” or portals/wormholes can come or go? If not just in outer
space, then why not on earth, which is also at a calculable point (address)
in space? Think about that.
Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics (The City
College of New York) said: “Some people slam the door on the question
of other civilizations visiting the Earth because distances are so vast. I
say, Not so fast! The fundamental mistake people make when thinking about
extraterrestrial intelligence is to assume that they’re just like us but a
few hundred years more advanced. I say, Open your mind. Open your
consciousness to the possibility that they are a million years more
advanced. Einstein said you cannot go faster than the speed of light.
However, he left a loophole open. You know in school we learned that a
straight line is the shortest distance between two points. But actually
that’s not true. You see, if you fold a sheet of paper and punch a hole
through it, you begin to realize that a wormhole is the shortest distance
between two points. Only those civilizations millions of years ahead of
ours, capable of harnessing the power of billions of star systems have the
ability to open gateways to space and time, to travel perhaps through
portholes, to go these enormous distances in a blink of the eye. You
simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings
are actually sightings from some object created by an advanced civilization,
a civilization far out in space, a civilization perhaps millions of years
ahead of us. You simply cannot count out the possibility. When you
look at this handful, handful of cases that cannot be easily dismissed, this
is worthy, this is worthy of scientific investigation. Maybe there is
nothing there. However, on the off chance there is something there, that
would literally change the course of human history. So I say, let this
investigation begin.” ABC News, Peter Jennings Special: UFOs - Seeing
is Believing (25 February 2005).
Understand that UFO’s (where the
UFO witnesses far outnumber Bigfoot sightings worldwide, although both
Bigfoot, and other strange and large animals/beings are seen in association
with UFO’s) and Bigfoot may or may not be related in any way except in the
use of naturally occurring energies within and surrounding a certain
environment. Magnetic and gravity anomalies within granitic plutons
may be a part of this, if not for the magnetic properties themselves (for
movement to other places via PPIT-like transparency), then perhaps for simple
migration purposes, etc.
(48). Some have proposed that Bigfoot creatures have
been spotted on spacecraft and therefore are some form of a Chewbacca-like
“spaceman”, but proof like that is hard in coming unless you are
simply a “believer” of such (beliefs do not make facts, but should be based
on the facts).
One last subject we’d like to
bring up briefly (which also touches on the question of “Where are the
bodies of Bigfoot?”), that we feel pertains to this subject is the
obvious intelligence of Bigfoot, at least in some manner, especially
regarding all of this talk about camouflage techniques so unique that many
witnesses consider it to be actual invisibility. If Bigfoot can keep
eluding mankind so effectively, and can possibly disappear or transmute via
induced transparency in some fashion then we’d also suspect that he KNOWS
what he is doing, and why.
Despite the grunts and howls that
most people hear them emitting there are many reports worldwide of Bigfoot
whistling, being an amazingly accurate animal and bird mimic, and even some
accounts where Bigfoot mumbled copycat reflections of something a nearby
human was saying out loud (Note that we have received this information
directly via other Bigfoot researchers and witnesses and not from any written
source). They may not be able to speak if their hyoid bone (in the
neck) is located too high, such as in chimps and gorillas, and/or if Broca’s
area of the brain is not developed – the part in humans dealing with speech
capabilities. Plus, if in fact if the Bigfoot have a far more developed sixth
sense (are psychic) then audible speech may not be a necessary/needed
function, lest we assume too much of their “obvious lack of intelligence” as
some would proclaim. A friend of my family had a daughter who was
crippled and could not talk or walk and they considered her retarded for
years before they realized she taught herself to read, was quite intelligent,
and when given a computer could type out whatever she wanted to say!
Similarly, we don’t understand the noises dolphins make and yet they are
considered some of the smartest animals on earth and do have their own way of
communicating, it’s just that we don’t understand or speak their “language” (49). So do Bigfoot and their kind have speech?
Most are unsure yet, but we can at least ask ourselves… Are they intelligent
in some fashion? I most definitely think so, especially if
“intelligence” is based on even simple things like how to elude humans and
not ever be caught!
The question on whether Bigfoot
can talk or not may not be indicative of overall intelligence. As an
example, please consider the well documented and investigated (by
Professor Boris Porshnev and his successors Dimitri Bayanov and Igor Bourtsev
plus Anthropologists M.A. Kolodievea & M. M. Gerasiomva) story of
Zana – of the Almas in Russia – being caught in the 1880’s and mated with by
human villagers (successfully creating offspring whose descendants continue
on today) showed no speciation to humans even though her appearance was very
ape-like, brutish, and robust, not to mention hairy over her entire body (50). She never did learn to speak and only grunted and made
noises. Nonetheless, Zana eventually lived amongst the villagers “as
one of them” until her death and burial. Zana, living in the wild
before being caught and caged, may run parallel to human children who are
raised in the wild and then later discovered, showing an inability to learn
speech no matter how much training and teaching they received (51).
There is some
speculation on whether Zana was a “living Neandertal” but now that anthropologists
know Neandertal was a distinct species from modern humans there is some doubt
being posed on that interpretation (52). Unlike the
typical “caveman” connotation that people believe, we do know that Neandertal
was quite smart though (cranial capacities exceeding our own) having made
tools (Mousterian) from bone, stone, antler, etc. and even producing and
controlling fire, probably having the ability of speech, not to mention
burial of their dead with accompanying flowers, very possibly indicating a
belief in the afterlife, or of self-aware spirituality in some form (53). This advent of
burial of their dead could have easily accompanied Zana and her type, or even
Bigfoot, becoming a very quick and reliable answer to the question of why
skeletons of Bigfoot never seem to be found, not to mention that even bodies
above ground decay much faster (and get scavenged and picked apart) in
acidic-soiled, forested environments, and where water, and hence moisture and
bacteria, are plentiful (54). This
interpretation of why we don’t find Bigfoot bodies/bones does not even
include possibilities such as dematerialization during or after death
(especially if they “come from somewhere else” and disintegrate back to their
own realm/dimension/time/place if they die), or if other Bigfoot retrieve the
bodies and take them back through portals, etc.
So how might Bigfoot
compare to humans in intelligence? Interestingly, chimps, like the
famous Washoe (knew 240+ signs), can also use sign language; however, the famous
Bonobo (similar to a chimp) named Kanzi was taught to point to symbols (250
in number) on keyboards and also had a “vocabulary.” Even so, by 1991
six-year old Kanzi knew 90 lexigrams, and understood 200 spoken words and 650
sentences. Almost in contrast we can observe Koko, the worldwide-known
gorilla, who has been taught to use American Sign Language (ASL), creates
sentences and abstract thoughts/words on her own via these hand gestures,
asked for and named her own cat “Smoky,” and currently uses over a 1,000 word
vocabulary in all, plus she understands over 2,000 spoken words. Koko
also scores between 85 and 95 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, on a human scale
a score of 100 is “normal” (55). Bigfoot has
not, to our knowledge (although there is historical evidence in paintings,
sculptures, literature, etc. that they were once at least partially
integrated into society in the middle ages before being “wiped out,” etc. (56)), been subject to
training or schooling to learn the human language(s). Bigfoot is
obviously much closer to gorillas than chimpanzees in their looks and
physiology, and likely even closer to humans than to gorillas based on their
often human-ape facial features so commonly reported, erect bipedalism,
opposable thumb, and more. Plus remember the common accounts that
Bigfoot has a natural and well developed sixth sense as well, one that possibly
exceeds most humans’, giving them quite an advantage over us (57).
Even though we have spoken mostly
of Bigfoot here in this article, it by no means excludes the Canadian
Sasquatch, the Russian/Asian Almas, or the Himalayan Yeti, nor the Australian
Yowie, the Amazon Mapinguari or any other species/subspecies of hominoids
found worldwide. As far as smarts go though, we look to the Australian
Yowie, simply for the case of nothing more than this being the one and ONLY
large erect biped which is a PLACENTAL MAMMAL of it’s kind (besides humans)
on the entire face of Australia (assuming that evolutionary convergence
(which is unlikely for non-placental mammals did not produce Yowies).
Due to mammalian isolation and diversion we find placental mammals on every
continent except Australia, and likewise typically only find marsupial
(pouched, i.e. kangaroos) and monotreme (egg-laying, i.e. platypus) mammals
on the Australian continent and not originating from anywhere else (58). The only placental mammals found in Australia are
rodents and the dingo (a form of dog) both brought in artificially (they did
not originate there), and bats which were thought to have flown in.
What does this have to do with Bigfoot – or in this case Yowie –
intelligence?
Of all the places around the world
where variations of Bigfoot or Sasquatch are seen, it is the presence of
Yowies in Australia that makes the message hit home far harder than anything
else. More physical evidence needs to be documented for Yowies in
Australia because it is well known by paleoanthropologists that only modern
humans have inhabited the Australian continent. So where did Yowie come
from? Are they genetic "throw-backs" from society that were
cast out and living as nomads, fearful that their culture/people should ever
encountered "regular people" again? Would this explain why they
avoid people, camouflage themselves so well, and use covert and tactical
maneuvers (i.e. nighttime travel, walking different routes so as not to
create a trail -- this is used by militia who never make themselves
"predictable," so they are not caught). If Yowies, and
Bigfoot, etc. are indeed some extreme variation, or devolved (a misnomer)
type of human then finding graves of these beings may or may not help
us. If the split-off of Yowies, in particular, occurred in the early
times of modern humans coming to Australia then has there been enough time
for these changes to occur, even with genetic throw-backs and extreme
variances occurring? Pretend for a moment that someone found some
fossils (imagination) of Yowie in Australia, or what we thought could be
related to Yowie. It is not known by examining the fossilized bones
alone if these beings were hairy or covered only in skin, as we are
today. It is said that no bones are ever found by anyone for Bigfoot or
their kind, but, if they bury their dead then perhaps, from the past, these
fossils ARE the evidence we are seeking, and just no recent bones have been
uncovered, or fossilized, …yet! Remember that fossilization takes place
only under certain circumstances of rapid burial, an anoxic condition
(lack of oxygen), and where the soil properties are such that decomposition
either does not take place or takes place very slowly. Due to hominoids
typically living in areas that DO NOT PROMOTE fossilization, but
decomposition instead, it makes it hard to find preserved bones! This
is not a cop-out, but a FACT.
If hominoids are flesh and blood
(F&B), and leave physical evidences such as footprints, hair, and rare
fossilized bones, or bury their bodies, then the paranormal or
inter-dimensional Bigfoot/Yowie seems to have a hard time fitting in, unless
WHILE THEY ARE HERE they are 3-D and just as physically vulnerable as we
are. People have shot at hominoids and they sometimes seem impervious
to gunshots, other times they bleed, and there are a few cases of them being
killed, but where are the bodies?. Perhaps, on the other side of a
portal (if this be the case) they are just as physical? These are the
kinds of answers we should be looking to answer. If no further or
conclusive evidence of Yowies (past or present) can ever be located, verified,
properly documented, and shared accordingly with other researchers and
professionals and laymen alike, then how can we ever draw the line between a
being that evolved there (unlikely), was brought in (by modern humans),
and/or cast away from society, or is simply there due to some kind of psychic
manifesting phenomena, otherworldly influences and/or inter-dimensional
travel?
The question rings in our ears….
How did such a large placental mammal arrive in Australia (note that
Bigfoot is also, amazingly, spotted on the island of Puerto Rico, most often
in the mountain/tropical rainforest of El Yunque, along with UFO and
chupacabra activity (61), also a site of
igneous rock, fault lines, and lies next to the deepest submarine trench in
the Atlantic ocean – which has the most negative gravity anomaly on earth (62))? Was he (Yowie)
a separate species that has such similar traits to other hominoids around the
world due to convergence (63)? Perhaps he was a more recent migratory species? Did he
arrive through portals, or transparency-related phenomena? Something
else? Perhaps, like humans, they have enough smarts to accomplish that
kind of feat, even if it was by island hopping (swimming or making a floating
“boat”?) after the continents divided. If it was by crossing a supposed land
bridge then why have no other mammals done it too? Perhaps Yowies,
unlike the rodents and dingoes, were not “brought in” but “came in” on their
own. Since they are found near water so often it is not hard to
conclude that they, unlike other species of the monkey or gorilla/ape family,
do not fear walking through, or swimming in, or crossing bodies of water in
some fashion (64). Remember that
in Florida the well-known (and especially stinky) Skunk Ape must cross bodies
of water, rivers, channels, sink holes in karst areas, and walk through
entire swamps since that is the environment in which they live (65). This knowledge
of Bigfoot not fearing, swimming, and crossing large bodies of water, is
alone a subject worth investigation; however, we’ll leave that for another
time and conclude this article with terrestrial Bigfoot in mind, his obvious
intelligence, and alleged transparency abilities.
Even though we see evidences of
Bigfoot, and their kind, very possibly having enough intelligence to
accomplish some intriguing feats, the question remains on how Bigfoot
disappears while still yet alive, and often in the presence of
witnesses? I think that his unique physiology, chemistry, environment,
and perhaps past knowledge (learned or discovered) all aid in his amazing
ability to transmute or induce transparency/invisibility, even if only in the
mind of the observer. So whether it’s connected with (or not) UFO’s
nearby, PPIT-like transparency, H2S, granite-laden and geomagnetic
areas, fault lines (which I consider to be like Bigfoot superhighways),
decomposition of organic substances, caves, sinkholes, anaerobic bacteria producing
sulfur, waterways, IR, UV, or ELF/VLF, etc. which help induce apparent
invisibility for retreat or mobility, we are still curiously considering, and
questioning, and attempting to find answers to the two major issues at hand.
Why hasn’t a single Bigfoot
skeleton or body yet been found?
Possible answers now include: burial and/or faster rates of decomposition
based on habitat, or portal movement, or disintegration, with potential
evidences from the past being the fossil record.
And…
How in the world do they disappear
like that!?! Possible answers now
include: induced transparency and/or the appearance of such, going through
time or locality-exchange portals, H2S “hypnosis” (only possible in some
cases), and IR/UV/ELF/VLF (electromagnetic spectrum) camouflage.
These hypotheses are part of
science, not “magic,” and perhaps may even explain some of the seemingly
paranormal accounts of Bigfoot sightings worldwide… at least in part.
Until a heavy load of field documentation is properly done around the globe,
and compared, then all is still speculation. In essence, my own view of
paranormal is just “outside of what is expected” so we now must look in
new places for answers to old questions, because obviously the places
we’ve been looking in up to now have all been – at least partially – wrong,
or most Bigfoot researchers would be a lot further along by now!
I hope that I have brought to
light some new information that can be used by others, preferably by serious
Bigfoot Investigators, Cryptozoologists, Zoologists, Anthropologists,
Biologists, Physicists, Chemists, and other Scientists, to help uncover this
mystery and promote a final answer to these pending questions concerning our
great Big-footed friends.
By
Sharon Eby Cornet © 2005
NOTE: I would like to add that
under no circumstances am I in favor of harming one of these great hairy
beings to aid our understanding of their behaviors. Considering the
implications of what and who they are as a species/subspecies (i.e. possible
burial of their dead and/or a belief in an afterlife, their obvious pacifism,
or their intelligence and fantastic ability to do things that defy us
continually) we just simply cannot advocate the bringing of Bigfoot onto the
lab table via a fatal flesh wound. Past records and accounts have shown
that aggressive behavior, or territorial trespassing against Bigfoot (as in
the famous Ape Canyon account at Mt. St. Helens) has led to dangerous
situations. I do not agree with provoking Bigfoot; I take a NO KILL
stance.
Sharon Cornet (was
"Eby") is a mother of three children,
with a genetic background of Anglo-Saxon-Celtic/Native American (1/5
Cherokee/Choctaw). She was, in the mid-2000's, the West Regional Leader
for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (TBRC) and also did independent
research on Bigfoot, UFO’s (also was a Saber “Dream Team” Member with Derrel
Sims), alleged alien abductions, the paranormal, esoteric, and human
spirituality. She is married to Dr. Bruce Cornet
(geologist/palynologist, paleobotanist, & biologist/chemist). Sharon's
website is www.sunstar-solutions.com
and she more recently (2010) graduated with her BA in social science and
socio-cultural/applied anthropology. She has studied our earth (geology) and
human origins (physical anthropology), and for several months in 2005 she
volunteered at SaveTheChimps.org (Alamogordo, NM, owned by Anthropologist
Jane Goodall) before they moved the chimps to an island in Florida. She
has owned her own solar energy business; implemented contract work in Office
Management and webmastering, and presently works as a Program Manager in the
Pacific Northwest area of Federal Way (south of Seattle) and continues
bigfoot/paranormal research when she is not writing on her book(s). Sharon
writes and speaks publicly on all topics ranging from her personal
experiences, abductions and UFO’s, Bigfoot, Earth Lights (Marfa Lights), and
more. Disclaimer: The evidences and hypotheses proposed in this
article are from the research of its author and do not reflect on the views
held by the TBRC, Saber Enterprises, or their members. I reserve all
rights to my personal research and its implications. If it is falsified, or
not able to be, then we are that much closer to the truth! (updated
1/1/11)
1. June 18, 2000, Andy Rennard,
Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation,
Pre-Columbian and Early American Legends of Bigfoot-like Beings: http://www.bfro.net/legends/penutian2.htm
2. The
Bigfoot Casebook, Janet & Colin Bord, 1982, New York: Granada Publishing,
Data from “Chronological List of Bigfoot Sightings (1818-1980)": http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/cb/1961.html
3. Eby,
Sharon; Unified Worlds; Desert Apes, West (Texas) Regional Bigfoot Sightings,
Horizon City Bigfoot Sighting, Aug, 2003: http://www.unifiedworlds.com/desertapes.htm#Horizon%20Montanez
Texas Bigfoot Research Center, El
Paso County TX Report, August 23, 2003: http://www.texasbigfoot.com/ElPaso1.html
4. The
Psychic Sasquatch and Their UFO Connection, by Kewaunee Lapseritis, M.S.;
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5. Unified
Worlds; Larry Kelm’s Bigfoot Sightings, December 30, 2004: http://www.unifiedworlds.com/BFlarrykelm.htm
6. Eby,
Sharon; Unified Worlds; Desert Apes, West (Texas) Regional Bigfoot Sightings,
Three Rivers Bigfoot Sighting, July 7, 2004: http://www.unifiedworlds.com/desertapes.htm#threerivers
7. Jon-Erik
Beckjord,BA,MBA,The Bigfoot Investigation Project, RESULTS OF OUR TESTING OF
BIGFOOT THEORY - BY USE OF FIELD WORK: http://www.beckjord.com/bigfoot/researchresults.html
8. The Royal
Forum; Sasquatch and Hydrogen Sulfide, Astonishing Possibilities, May 5,
2005: http://www.royalforum.com/article.php?id=62
9. Absolute
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11. Coles, Jack; Latest Quake
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12. Purlife;
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14.
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15.
Hydrogen Sulfide; June 2001, Fact Sheet, Environmental Health Programs;
Office of Environmental Health Assessments: www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/oehas/hydrogen%20sulfide.doc
Biological Team: Diana
E. Northup, Penelope J. Boston, Michael N. Spilde, Kathleen H. Lavoie, Carlos
A. Blanco Montero, Rebecca Kimball: http://www.i-pi.com/~diana/slime/vallaluz/
17.
Eby, Sharon; Unified Worlds; Bigfoot-Geology Connection, Are Bigfoot
Sightings Warnings of Geological Changes?: www.unifiedworlds.com/BFgeological.htm
The Australian Yowie Research Center; Aboriginal Traditions
Myths and Legend, March 16, 2003: http://www.theaustralianyowieresearchcenter.com/aboriginal_legends.html
Prihoda, Pearl Jo,
OSAReal, Rock Mappings: http://hometown.aol.com/osareal/page3.html
THE KAPRE OF THE
PHILIPPINES: http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/creatures/kapre.htm
18.
Australian Yowie Research; What is a Yowie?: http://www.yowiehunters.com/whatisayowie.php
19.
Do Gorillas Have Enemies?: http://www.berggorilla.de/english/faq/dvers/fragen/feinde.html
Africa Dream Safaris,
2003; Gorilla Tracking Guidelines: http://www.africadreamsafaris.com/african-safari/gorilla/gorilla_guidelines.html
University of
Michigan, Museum of Zoology; Animal Diversity Web; Gorilla
gorilla beringei
(mountain gorilla): http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Gorilla_gorilla_beringei.html
20.
BFRO; Report #1068 (Class A), Submitted by witness J. J. on Tuesday, January
02, 2001; Two fisherman have daytime sighting above Huntington Lake: http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=1068
21. Bigfoot Powers: http://cryptozoo.monstrous.com/bigfoot_powers.htm
The Psychic Sasquatch
and Their UFO Connection, by Kewaunee Lapseritis, M.S.; The Psychic
Sasquatch: http://www.unlimited-resources.com/bigfoot.html
22. Mice put into
"suspended animation" in U.S.; Medical Science News, Published:
Friday, 22-Apr-2005: http://www.news-medical.net/?id=9427
23.
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24.
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25.
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26. The Explosives
and Weapons Forum; Goiterjoe; July 3rd,
2001: http://www.roguesci.org/theforum/archive/index.php/t-1540
27. Bigfoot Transparency;
PPIT, Photosynthetic Piezoelectric Induced Transparency (via H2S
Hydrogen Sulfide), May 21, 2005: http://hometown.aol.com/osareal/page9.html
29. Laws of
Thermodynamics: http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae280.cfm
30.
Jon-Erik Beckjord, Bigfoot Investigations Project; “Extranormal”: http://www.beckjord.com/bigfoot/
31.
Bruce Cornet, Ph.D.; A Busy Night: http://bcornet.homestead.com/files/weirdsound.htm
Bruce Cornet, Ph.D.
Reversed Doppler, Raw WAV Files: http://bcornet.homestead.com/files/Reversedop/reversedoppler.htm
Bruce Cornet, Ph.D.;
FT over Richmond, Virginia; New Video Data Gives First Indication of a
Stealth Body Form: http://bcornet.homestead.com/files/LynchFT/FT-VA.htm
32.
Mexican Skies Full Of UFOs By Brit Elders: http://www.ufoarea.com/events_mexico.html
UFO’s Northwest; Mt.
St. Helens, Washington, Pilot Takes Several Photos, UFOS Over Mt. St. Helens,
February 22, 2005: http://www.ufosnw.com/sthelens022205.htm
33.
Creatures Fantastic; Spirits of the Forest: http://www.ctvtravel.ca/shows/?mode=1&id=286
34. The Montauk Project; Written by Sean Rubinstein & Jonathan
Kostecky: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/7971/article2.html
Knocking On The Door
Of Time, An Interview With Author Tim Swartz, By Sean Casteel: http://www.seancasteel.com/Knocking_On_The_Door_Of_Time.htm
35.
Electromagnetic Spectrum Chart: http://geography.uoregon.edu/shinker/geog101/lectures/lec01/lec01_figs/electromagnetic-spectrum-fig2-6.gif
36.
Rense; EXCLUSIVE, Mexican DoD Acknowledges UFOs In Mexico, Santiago Yturria: http://www.rense.com/general52/deff.htm
37.
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38. Dr. Cornet’s evidence of UAP diving into the earth or
passing through trees: http://www.geocities.com/bcornet2001/PLATE_3.htm http://www.geocities.com/bcornet2001/PLATE_4.htm
39. Dr. Cornet photos of C-5 military aircraft
disappearing and reappearing in an apparent unscheduled test while landing:
40. Dr. Cornet; The Phil and Lynn Martin Story, Dozens of AOP
Converge on Hill and Disappear into Ground, 1999: http://bcornet.homestead.com/files/martinstory.htm
41.
NASA UFOS - The Evidence, 1990s Space Shuttle Video Images of UFOs: http://groups.msn.com/nasaufos/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us
Invisible tiny UFO
caught on chemical-imaging camera, Staff Reporter, Feb. 13, 2005: http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1600.asp
WEIRDNETDAILY;
Infrared picks up invisible UFOs; Mexico releases video of 11 objects
surrounding military plane, Posted: May 12, 2004: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38456
42. Welcome to the Realm of Natural VLF Radio Phenomena; "The
(very beautiful) Music of the Magnetosphere and Space Weather", Stephen
P. McGreevy, N6NKS, Last modified 30 December 2001: http://www.auroralchorus.com/natradio.htm
43. BBC News, England; Thursday, 26 September, 2002, 08:25 GMT
09:25 UK, 'Silent' concert
causes mood swings: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2278330.stm
44. ELEPHANT COMMUNICATION, 2002 Katherine Millett and Thomson
Safaris, Inc.: http://www.thomsonsafaris.com/newsletter/nl35_elephant.htm
45. Texas Bigfoot Research Center; Dona Ana County NM Report,
2001: http://texasbigfoot.com/LasCruces1.html
From the Files of the
Gulf Coast BigFoot Research Organization (G.C.B.R.O.), 2003: http://www.gcbro.com/MIshiaw0001.html
46. BFRO Report 945: Creature with red glowing eyes seen: www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=945
GCBRO; Bigfoot
Sightings: www.gcbro.com/OHaug001.html
Bigfoot Research
Organization: www.bigfootresearch.org/Bigfoot_Indiana.htm
Eby, Sharon; Unified
Worlds, Eye Shine: http://unifiedworlds.com/eyeshine.htm
47. Taurine
Drops or Capsules: http://www.eyesight.nu/taurine_info.html (thanks
to Diane)
48. SOURCES OF
GRAVITY AND MAGNETIC ANOMALIES: http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqsafs/safs_915.htm
Preliminary Precambrian basement
map of Colorado; A geologic interpretation of an aeromagnetic anomaly map By
P.K. Sims, Viki Bankey, and C.A. Finn, Magnetic Patterns: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0364/colo_of_text.html
AEROMAGNETIC MAP OF THE COLORADO
FRONT RANGE; http://www.geoperegrino.com/colorado_front_range_aeromag.html
Eby, Sharon; Unified Worlds;
Desert Apes Migration Pattern: http://unifiedworlds.com/BFmigration.htm
49.
Encyclopedia About Dolphins by Atlantida Cancun; COMMUNICATION AND
ECHOLOCATION, Sound production: http://www.atlantidacancun.com/communications.asp
50. Almasti and
Kaptars of Russia and Mongolia: http://members.axion.net/~a1b00267/ultranet/almasti.htm
World's Top Experts Conclude
Sasquatch Exists, The Royal Forum Investigates: http://www.royalforum.com/article.php?id=46 (scroll
to ¾ of the way down)
51. Feral
Children: http://freaks.monstrous.com/feral_children.htm
52. Physical Anthropology Update; Philip L. Stein & Bruce M.
Rowe; Number 6 Fall 1997: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/anthropology/news/afall97.htm
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18, 1998, By HELEN PHILLIPS, Nature News Service; Nerve canal size suggests
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54. Bigfoot/Sasquatch Sightings in Texas: Correlations to Annual
Rainfall Totals, Waterways, Human; Population Densities and Black Bear
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59.
Meganthropus: http://www.wikisearch.net/en/wikipedia/m/me/meganthropus.html OUTDATED!
SEE ARTICLE BELOW...
60. Australian UFO/Unexplained Phenomena Researcher Rex Gilroy;
NEW ZEALAND MYSTERY MAN-APES: http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~tkbnetw/Rex_Gilroy_8.htm
61.
Bigfoot & UFO picture; Rense: http://www.rense.com/splashscreens/copyrighted_bigftL.jpg
M A C R O S C O P E;
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El Yunque: Nights On
Hell Mountain, By: Scott Corrales: http://www.ufoarea.com/puerto_hell_night.html
62.
The Puerto Rico Trench: Implications for Plate Tectonics and Earthquake and
Tsunami Hazards, Uri ten Brink, Chief Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03trench/trench/trench.html
NASA; Gravity by
GRACE: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/publications/litho/
Plate Tectonics: http://www.burdon.demon.co.uk/g12.htm
63.
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Janet & Colin Bord, 1982, New York: Granada Publishing, Data from
“Chronological List of Bigfoot Sightings (1818-1980)" (July 1965 Jack
Taylor at Nr Butedale, BC; and Sept 1967 . Carol Davis from Nr
Bellingham, WA; and 1970 two fisherman in Lake nr Priest Lake, ID): http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/cb/1961.html
The Bongo Gorilla
Group Website; The Group; The Island: http://www.gorillas.nl/group.html
65. May. 07, 2005; Man keeps Florida Skunk Ape legend alive, CARA
BUCKLEY, Associated Press: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11590336.htm
IT'S BIG, IT'S HAIRY, IT'S SKUNK
APE; Dateline: OCHOPEE, By Tom Bayles THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/ochopee2.htm
By
Sharon Eby © Oct 1, 2005
On
May 22nd of this year I wrote an article called Vanishing Bigfoot and
Anecdotal Accounts: Implications and Challenges for
Researchers
(1). One
part -- nearer the bottom of this long article -- concerning the giant fossil
hominid called "Meganthropus" has
bothered
me ever since, mostly in the reliability of the information I had researched
and discovered on the internet. I
decided the concern
worthy
enough for me to investigate it further.
In August I met with a paleoanthropologist, Dr. Ralph Holloway, at his
office (that was FULL
of
skulls) at Columbia University. He
said that he had never heard of Meganthropus ever being in Australia, as I
had originally stated
(based
on the research) in the article. Not
satisfied with that one valuable piece of information, I sought for a second
confirmation. On
September
29th, via email, I spoke with Dr. Arthur Durband of Texas Tech University,
and he stated this:
"Nothing
classified as Meganthropus has ever been found outside of Java. The only
hominids that have been found on Australia to date are
modern
Homo sapiens. The earliest Australian skeletons have been found at the
Willandra Lakes, and date to around 40,000 years ago
(there
are claims for ~60,000, but those aren't widely supported in the field).
Anyway, the only fossils that might possibly represent
something
different enough from Homo erectus to place in a new species
("Meganthropus" has effectively been dropped as a genus, and
those
who separate the large fossils into a different species typically call them
Homo paleojavanicus) are one jaw (Sangiran 6)
and
two badly crushed crania (Sangiran 27 and 31) and the former skull is still
unpublished." -- printed with permission
With
this second confirmation from a paleoanthropologist who has actually worked
with hominid fossils in Australia I am officially pulling
any
and all of my statements of Meganthropus from that article. This is something that should have been
done, before publication
of
the original article, but since it was being written for TheRoyalForum.com (2), and supported by my colleague's
(Prihoda (3)) own
separate
article (that came out about the same time) on the vanishing qualities of
Bigfoot, I felt pressed to get it done.
I assumed that
any
online references to Meganthropus via encyclopedias (since professional
information on Meganthropus is very hard to get a hold of)
would
suffice; however, much to my dismay the online encyclopedias were sketchily
worded, and far from reliable. The
original links to
these
are here:
Homo
erectus soloensis: http://www.wikisearch.net/en/wikipedia/h/ho/homo_erectus_soloensis.html
Please
note that another encyclopedia has the same information on Meganthropus:
There
are a LOT of articles online, including about "Biblical giants" and
other references to Bigfoot, cryptozoology, etc. that refer to
Meganthropus
being in Australia. KNOW THAT ALL
OF THESE HAVE BEEN FALSIFIED AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED PURE
AND
UTTER BUNK! All it takes is one
incorrect source, that many people reference, and then expand on from
there, and then more
people
referencing those articles, and on and on, for such "gossip" to
proliferate. It is my intention to
correct this, at least on my end,
and
move on in truth, rather than relying on someone else's fabrication. Ok, now for the correction and updating of
the original article...
NOTE: Parts in red were removed from the original article...
parts in blue were added.
Even though we have spoken mostly
of Bigfoot here in this article, it by no means excludes the Canadian
Sasquatch, the Russian/Asian Almas, or the Himalayan Yeti, nor the Australian
Yowie, the Amazon Mapinguari or any other species/subspecies of hominoids
found worldwide. As far as smarts go though, we look to the Australian
Yowie, simply for the case of nothing more than this being the one and ONLY
large erect biped which is a PLACENTAL MAMMAL of it’s kind (besides humans)
on the entire face of Australia (assuming that evolutionary convergence (which
is unlikely) for non-placental mammals did not produce Yowies). Due to
mammalian isolation and diversion we find placental mammals on every
continent except Australia, and likewise typically only find marsupial
(pouched, i.e. kangaroos) and monotreme (egg-laying, i.e. platypus) mammals
on the Australian continent and not originating from anywhere else (4). The only placental mammals found in Australia are
rodents and the dingo (a form of dog) both brought in artificially (they did
not originate there), and bats which were thought to have flown in.
What does this have to do with Bigfoot – or in this case Yowie –
intelligence?
REMOVED: Based on the meganthropus
fossils found in Australia we realize that giant hominids and/or hominoids
DID arrive on that continent sometime in the past! Homo erectus
meganthropus was approximately 9' tall, 750-1000 lbs, and lived about 1
million years ago in the mid-late Pleistocene. Source: http://www.wikisearch.net/en/wikipedia/m/me/meganthropus.html
Of all the places around the world
where variations of Bigfoot or Sasquatch are seen, it is the presence of
Yowies in Australia that makes the message hit home far harder than anything
else. More physical evidence needs to be documented for Yowies in
Australia because it is well known by paleoanthropologists that only modern
humans have inhabited the Australian continent. So where did Yowie come
from? Are they genetic "throw-backs" from society that were
cast out and living as nomads (5), fearful that their
culture/people should ever encountered "regular people"
again? Would this explain why they avoid people, camouflage themselves
so well, and use covert and tactical maneuvers (i.e. nighttime travel,
walking different routes so as not to create a trail -- this is used by militia
who never make themselves "predictable," so they are not
caught). If Yowies, and Bigfoot, etc. are indeed some extreme
variation, or devolved (a misnomer) type of human then finding graves of
these beings may or may not help us. If the split-off of Yowies, in
particular, occurred in the early times of modern humans coming to Australia
then has there been enough time for these changes to occur, even with genetic
throw-backs and extreme variances occurring? Pretend for a moment that
someone found some fossils (imagination) of Yowie in Australia, or what we
thought could be related to Yowie. It is not known by looking at the
fossilized bones alone if these beings were hairy or covered only in skin, as
we are today. It is said that no bones are ever found by anyone for
Bigfoot or their kind, but, if they bury their dead then perhaps, from the
past, these fossils ARE the evidence we are seeking, and just no recent bones
have been uncovered, or fossilized, …yet! Remember that fossilization
takes place only under certain circumstances of rapid burial, an anoxic
condition (lack of oxygen), and where the soil properties are such that
decomposition either does not take place or takes place very slowly.
Due to hominoids typically living in areas that DO NOT PROMOTE fossilization,
but decomposition instead, it makes it hard to find preserved bones!
This is not a cop-out, but a FACT.
REMOVED: That we even have
fragments of meganthropus fossils in Australia is an amazing and rare find.
If hominoids are flesh and blood
(F&B), and leave physical evidences such as footprints, hair, and rare
fossilized bones, or bury their bodies, then the paranormal or
inter-dimensional Bigfoot/Yowie seems to have a hard time fitting in, unless
WHILE THEY ARE HERE they are 3-D and just as physically vulnerable as we
are. People have shot at hominoids and they sometimes seem impervious
to gunshots, other times they bleed, and there are a few cases of them being
killed, but where are the bodies? Perhaps, on the other side of a
portal (if this be the case) they are just as physical? These are the
kinds of answers we should be looking to answer. If no further or
conclusive evidence of Yowies (past or present) can ever be located,
verified, properly documented, and shared accordingly with other researchers
and professionals and laymen alike, then how can we ever draw the line
between a being that evolved there (unlikely), was brought in (by modern
humans), and/or cast away from society, or is simply there due to some kind
of psychic manifesting phenomena, otherworldly influences and/or
inter-dimensional travel?
REMOVED: Are Yowies the
descendants of, or related to meganthropus as some have
presumed? Some think that Bigfoot is related to gigantopithecus (also
of great size, erect bipedal, and human-ape-like). Source: http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~tkbnetw/Rex_Gilroy_8.htm
The question rings in our ears….
How did such a large placental mammal arrive in Australia (note that
Bigfoot is also, amazingly, spotted on the island of Puerto Rico, most often
in the mountain/tropical rainforest of El Yunque, along with UFO and
chupacabra activity (6), also a site of igneous
rock, fault lines, and lies next to the deepest submarine trench in the
Atlantic ocean – which has the most negative gravity anomaly on earth (7))? Was he (Yowie)
a separate species that has such similar traits to other hominoids around the
world due to convergence (8)? Perhaps he was a
more recent migratory species? Did he arrive through portals, or
transparency-related phenomena? Something else? Perhaps, like
humans, they have enough smarts to accomplish that kind of feat, even if it
was by island hopping (swimming or making a floating “boat”?) after the
continents divided. If it was by crossing a supposed land bridge then why
have no other mammals done it too? Perhaps Yowies, unlike the rodents
and dingoes, were not “brought in” but “came in” on their own. Since
they are found near water so often it is not hard to conclude that they,
unlike other species of the monkey or gorilla/ape family, do not fear walking
through, or swimming in, or crossing bodies of water in some fashion (9). Remember that in Florida the well-known (and
especially stinky) Skunk Ape must cross bodies of water, rivers, channels,
sink holes in karst areas, and walk through entire swamps since that is the
environment in which they live (10). This knowledge of Bigfoot not fearing, swimming,
and crossing large bodies of water, is alone a subject worth investigation;
however, we’ll leave that for another time and conclude this article with
terrestrial Bigfoot in mind, his obvious intelligence, and alleged
transparency abilities.
By
Sharon Eby © 2005
NOTE: I would like to add that
under no circumstances am I in favor of harming one of these great hairy
beings to aid our understanding of their behaviors. Considering the
implications of what and who they are as a species/subspecies (i.e. possible
burial of their dead and/or a belief in an afterlife, their obvious pacifism,
or their intelligence and fantastic ability to do things that defy us
continually) we just simply cannot advocate the bringing of Bigfoot onto the
lab table via a fatal flesh wound. Past records and accounts have shown
that aggressive behavior, or territorial trespassing against Bigfoot (as in
the famous Ape Canyon account at Mt. St. Helens) has led to dangerous
situations. I do not agree with provoking Bigfoot; I take a NO KILL
stance.
References
and Notes
1. Eby,
Sharon; Vanishing Bigfoot and Anecdotal Accounts: Implications and Challenges
for Researchers: http://www.unifiedworlds.com/BFvanishing.htm
2. The Royal
Forum; Vanishing Bigfoot and Anecdotal Accounts: Implications and Challenges
for Researchers: http://theroyalforum.com/article.php?id=73
3. The Royal
Forum; A Hypothesis Could Revolutionize Biology: http://theroyalforum.com/article.php?id=79
4. Aussie-Info; Australian Fauna: http://www.aussie-info.com/identity/fauna/
6. Bigfoot
& UFO picture; Rense: http://www.rense.com/splashscreens/copyrighted_bigftL.jpg
M A C R O S C O P E; PARANORMAL
MANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICA, by Scott Corrales: http://www.strangemag.com/paranormalanim.html
El Yunque: Nights On Hell
Mountain, By: Scott Corrales: http://www.ufoarea.com/puerto_hell_night.html
7. The Puerto
Rico Trench: Implications for Plate Tectonics and Earthquake and Tsunami
Hazards, Uri ten Brink, Chief Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03trench/trench/trench.html
NASA; Gravity by GRACE: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/publications/litho/
Plate Tectonics: http://www.burdon.demon.co.uk/g12.htm
8. Wild and
Hairy Men; The Greatest of the Great Apes? By David McBean: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mhallett/Great
Ape.htm
9. The Bigfoot
Casebook, Janet & Colin Bord, 1982, New York: Granada Publishing, Data
from “Chronological List of Bigfoot Sightings (1818-1980)" (July 1965
Jack Taylor at Nr Butedale, BC; and Sept 1967 . Carol Davis from Nr
Bellingham, WA; and 1970 two fisherman in Lake nr Priest Lake, ID): http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/cb/1961.html
The Bongo Gorilla Group Website;
The Group; The Island: http://www.gorillas.nl/group.html
10. May. 07, 2005; Man keeps Florida Skunk Ape legend alive,
CARA BUCKLEY, Associated Press: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11590336.htm
IT'S BIG, IT'S HAIRY, IT'S SKUNK
APE; Dateline: OCHOPEE, By Tom Bayles THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/ochopee2.htm
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Vanishing Bigfoot and Anecdotal Accounts: Implications and Challenges for Researchers By Sharon (Eby) Cornet
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