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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 12th February 2022, 10:10 AM
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Posted By DennyT
BH’s story is very credible. Greg Long did a...

BH’s story is very credible. Greg Long did a great job of interviewing the surviving “players”. The book has a few flaws as does any work of its kind. Aside from Long’s expressed contempt for...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 30th January 2022, 12:09 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Meldrum looking more like Bill Munns every year. ...

Meldrum looking more like Bill Munns every year.
https://tdn.com/jeff-meldrum-squatch-fest/image_5e306da3-3d46-5240-b507-ff3a652821ad.html
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 9th February 2021, 09:59 AM
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Posted By DennyT
They’re baaaack! “DON'T STOP BELIEVING! THE...

They’re baaaack!
“DON'T STOP BELIEVING! THE "FINDING BIGFOOT" TEAM RETURNS IN "FINDING BIGFOOT: THE SEARCH CONTINUES" STREAMING ON DISCOVERY+ MONDAY, FEB. 8

-Back Together for the First Time in...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 7th April 2020, 12:24 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Link...

Link (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/famous-misquotations.amp.html)
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 6th April 2020, 04:05 PM
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Posted By DennyT
In Jan 2020 in Longview WA Gimlin made this claim...

In Jan 2020 in Longview WA Gimlin made this claim (https://www.chinookobserver.com/life/at-squatch-fest-moviemaker-reminds-fans-to-keep-their-eyes/article_709452ce-4445-11ea-9bb8-9f7bb7a1ef3f.html)....
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 23rd July 2019, 09:07 AM
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Posted By DennyT
The skeleton is supposedly part Paranthropus,...

The skeleton is supposedly part Paranthropus, part Neanderthal scaled up to Patty’s size. What happened to Gigantopithecus?
I wonder if he will start selling 1:8 scale plastic model kits by Revell?...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 20th July 2019, 05:20 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Stop me if you’ve heard this one......

Stop me if you’ve heard this one... (https://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2017/10/19/video-california-farmer-films-bigfoot-family-stealing-pigs-cover-darkness/)
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 19th July 2019, 08:32 AM
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Posted By DennyT
The bleevers swallow the story that Patterson...

The bleevers swallow the story that Patterson came down to Bluff Creek to film tracks. Green, by comparison, filmed tracks by getting in his van and driving down immediately. He didn’t need horses...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 18th July 2019, 12:33 PM
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Posted By DennyT
The Patterson DeAtley visit to Wallace was...

The Patterson DeAtley visit to Wallace was probably in May of 1967 after Patterson ran out of money to pay Fred Smith the cameraman for the spring footage. I think that pro footage convinced DeAtley...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 18th July 2019, 12:10 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Patterson had at some point asked Hodgson to call...

Patterson had at some point asked Hodgson to call him when tracks were found. Perhaps during RPs trip to LA in July. But apparently no call was made when the Onion Mountain tracks were found. Al may...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 18th July 2019, 10:27 AM
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Posted By DennyT
It appears Doreen M. Hooker died aound 2002 and...

It appears Doreen M. Hooker died aound 2002 and her photos of the August 1967 Onion Mountain tracks surfaced a few years later. These images clearly implicate Ray Wallace as the track maker. John...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 17th July 2019, 05:23 PM
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Posted By DennyT
These are the folks responsible for the famous...

These are the folks responsible for the famous Hooker photographs taken on Onion Mountain in August 1967.
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 17th July 2019, 02:53 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Bigfoot Film Journal p 13: Murphy says they...

Bigfoot Film Journal p 13:
Murphy says they were observed “in the area twice by two members of a road building crew Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hooker of Oroville”. He gives a footnote number but there...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 17th July 2019, 02:04 PM
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Posted By DennyT
I was told by a prominent Bigfoot historian that...

I was told by a prominent Bigfoot historian that he recalled a man and wife named Hooker on horseback reportedly seeing them. Twice. He didn’t have a source.
The only other thing I can recall is...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 15th July 2019, 06:59 PM
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Posted By DennyT
I have looked at the Corriganville history as...

I have looked at the Corriganville history as well and found nothing regarding Patterson. Gimlin was just Patterson’s fourth unpaid chauffeur. Chosen for his pliability and ownership of a...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 14th July 2019, 08:14 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Thanks WP. Heres another: The people who...

Thanks WP.
Heres another:
The people who claimed to see P and G at Bluff Creek? The Hookers? Were they for real?
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 13th July 2019, 03:03 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Thanks WP. I agree. Btw I am also looking...

Thanks WP. I agree.

Btw I am also looking for the identities of any person who has publicly claimed to be the guy in the suit. Other than Bob H . No Jerry Romney plz or Mrs Ray Wallace. Do not...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 11th July 2019, 03:30 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Can anyone source Patterson Gimlin saying they...

Can anyone source Patterson Gimlin saying they camped at Louse Camp?
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 17th May 2019, 02:33 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Murphy writes a news letter online called Bits &...

Murphy writes a news letter online called Bits & Pieces in which he touts his PGF site model and “hominology” whatever Russian Thing that is.
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 28th April 2019, 10:02 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Is this the show where he says he can just tell...

Is this the show where he says he can just tell somehow that a track is real?
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 21st April 2019, 02:58 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Did Meldrum go on an LDS mission? I ask...

Did Meldrum go on an LDS mission?

I ask because of his carefully staged demeanor with which he tries to persuade you to believe something far fetched if not actually unbelievable. I assume young...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 11th February 2019, 12:00 PM
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Posted By DennyT
55 minutes of my life? Just pleeze tell us he...

55 minutes of my life?
Just pleeze tell us he hasn’t pinned his hopes on footlockers and phone calls Rodger the debt-dodger and the Gimlindian...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 13th December 2018, 02:40 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Patterson involved himself in several track finds...

Patterson involved himself in several track finds before 1967 (Walla Walla, Erion Ranch, Laird Meadows). They were all variants of his final Bluff Creek 1967 version. I have not looked closely at...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 9th December 2018, 09:36 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Cults are characterized by some degree of...

Cults are characterized by some degree of ideological social or physical separation or isolation of the membership, into some kind of community. The relative isolation is caused by the bizarre and...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 7th December 2018, 09:41 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Excellent point. There is an initiation event...

Excellent point.
There is an initiation event in most cults which requires some sort of public humiliating statement of belief in some improbable creed. Taking this step serves to separate the...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 7th December 2018, 12:51 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Bobo is beloved by the footers. I have never met...

Bobo is beloved by the footers. I have never met him but he is supposedly a very nice guy. He was once upon a time a smart guy but had some sort of serious head trauma that rendered him...well...not...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 6th December 2018, 04:58 PM
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Posted By DennyT
We already have a pretty good idea of the film...

We already have a pretty good idea of the film speed (18 frames per second) In general terms, lens, landmarks, direction, location, and distance and other derivative stuff can now also be determined....
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 4th December 2018, 06:58 PM
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Posted By DennyT
[QUOTE=William Parcher;12520496]Here is a layout...

[QUOTE=William Parcher;12520496]Here is a layout diagram made by mangler (he used to post on JREF). He has shown the jumble pile that we see in the first few frames. He calls it debris. I think that...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 1st December 2018, 03:09 PM
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Posted By DennyT
WP While I understand your use of “must” to...

WP
While I understand your use of “must” to indicate your belief, to state that this “jumble” “must be” what they talked about seems to be an overreach as the driftwood in the film does not fit the...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 30th November 2018, 11:28 AM
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Posted By DennyT
As far as I know that published diagram was...

As far as I know that published diagram was redrawn by Krantz and the “root system” was added by him.
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 30th November 2018, 09:31 AM
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Posted By DennyT
This issue troubles the more thoughtful believers...

This issue troubles the more thoughtful believers as well. There seem to have been two woody entities and one imaginary one. What we see in the first frame of the Patty footage (“the “logjam”) seems...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 28th November 2018, 02:18 AM
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Posted By DennyT
I think we have touched on this recently. Once...

I think we have touched on this recently.
Once the site is identified, the existing stumps and trees can be used to create an accurate site map and to settle those “non-suit” * issues that have...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 25th November 2018, 12:52 PM
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Posted By DennyT
My take is that Dahindens efforts at the site...

My take is that Dahindens efforts at the site were long delayed and imho are largely useless, especially since they have been twisted by others notably in the books by Murphy. He visited the site...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 24th November 2018, 03:28 PM
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Posted By DennyT
I am afraid you misremember; I never disputed the...

I am afraid you misremember; I never disputed the “re-discovery” of the site in 2011 by SS, Robert Leiterman et al. Bill Munns visited the site in 2012 and confirmed the findings. Later that year it...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 23rd November 2018, 01:31 PM
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Posted By DennyT
The footers were at the PGF film site last month...

The footers were at the PGF film site last month doing some “re-enactment” filming using a K-100 camera and Kodachrome film. Not at all sure what they hope to accomplish. As far as I know, the film...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 19th November 2018, 03:33 PM
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Posted By DennyT
I should have noted in the first place that we...

I should have noted in the first place that we don’t really know that Bigfoot eats anything...reports of Bigfoot eating something are vanishingly rare.

In sum, as far as we know Bigfoot...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 19th November 2018, 02:47 PM
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Posted By DennyT
The Bigfoot diet is whatever is in the...

The Bigfoot diet is whatever is in the surroundings. Of course we don’t know they actually eat it it. A trout stream means Bigfoot eats trout. A pine forest means Bigfoot eats pine. In Arizona...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 19th November 2018, 02:17 PM
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Posted By DennyT
Bigfoot is like cancer, according to one...

Bigfoot is like cancer, according to one convention-goer...but not the way you might think:
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 14th November 2018, 12:02 PM
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Posted By DennyT
It appears that William A. Barnes (a guy who...

It appears that William A. Barnes (a guy who apparently never had a real job and was seemingly a step or two from the poor farm) was supposedly the funding agency to whom Meldrum was applying for the...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 7th November 2018, 07:30 PM
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Posted By DennyT
That was in 2013. In yet another execrable book...

That was in 2013. In yet another execrable book by a bleever, we learn that by 2011, pilot Michael Greene and others in the Bigfoot community ( not to mention the ridicule from skeptics at this site)...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 7th November 2018, 08:05 AM
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Posted By DennyT
In talking with believers, I am impressed by the...

In talking with believers, I am impressed by the flimsy nature of what they consider to be Bigfoot encounters. “Eye-shine” is quite popular, as are “bipedal” sounds and various grunts. Somehow I...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 29th October 2018, 10:55 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Do tell...

Do tell...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 28th October 2018, 02:03 PM
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Posted By DennyT
What is Bill up to these days?

What is Bill up to these days?
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 20th October 2018, 08:57 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Falcon fallout

Word on the street ‘net is that there is some residual bitterness: Meldrum “was a major part of that Falcon project which destroyed at least one life (guy left living in his car after having driven...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 17th October 2018, 09:14 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Reliable sources say that ole Bob doesn’t abide...

Reliable sources say that ole Bob doesn’t abide by the “you can look but you can’t touch” guideline given to old men by their wives. Look for a surprised expression on the faces of women he poses...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 17th October 2018, 08:51 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Extremely reliable sources indicate that Matt...

Extremely reliable sources indicate that Matt Moneyscammer has worn out his welcome in the world of TV productions. He’s pitching but nobody is catching. Even though he doesn’t have a show to...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 8th October 2018, 07:43 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Yes, as I watch all the athletes on TV pointing...

Yes, as I watch all the athletes on TV pointing to the sky, belief in the paranormal is pretty widespread amongst us H. sapiens. The institution you mention has taken advantage of that and seems to...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 7th October 2018, 03:08 PM
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Posted By DennyT
River Glad you got that; perhaps I...

River
Glad you got that; perhaps I misunderstood when after I asked if you had recorded consent, you responded:



...rather than simply saying you did.
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 7th October 2018, 01:36 PM
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Posted By DennyT
River you have done some great work in the...

River you have done some great work in the trackway and IANAL, but I fear with that recording you may have pushed things a bit too far.
I think kk has looked into this legal issue; any comments?
...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 6th October 2018, 10:07 AM
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Posted By DennyT
Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Brady...

Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Brady (https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-gwyneth-paltrow-and-tom-brady-sold-america-pseudoscience-********?ref=home?ref=home) sellin’ it:
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