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You suspect wrong. Stick to Hunting rocks...
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Of course. Hunting things which are not real would be utterly silly.
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What a fool believes, no wise man has the power to reason away. What seems to be, is always better than nothing. 2 prints, same midtarsal crock..., I mean break? |
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true believer speaks
“The Sasquatch has chosen a path that’s more pristine and pure.”
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...."and it walks that path with a mid-tarsal break". Want to buy one of my $50 genuine Bigfoot cast copies, that were cast by someone else and I am profiting from?
— Jeffery Meldrum, [Oregon] Symposium participant |
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"Take the children, but LEAVE ME MY MONKEY!" --Dewey Cox, in "Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story." "The main skill of bigfoot investigators is finding ways to deny the obvious." --DFoot |
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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Drew is correct, John. I was merely commenting favorably upon the confidence you were showing with those straightforward comments.
I know it must seem odd to see a positive comment coming from me(given our past history on this forum), but I was being sincere. It seems that I'm not the only one who's noticed your gradual shift toward a much more objective and unbiased outlook. |
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Scratch that last reply. Seems I was wrong.
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Shift? When have I ever endorsed any of this limp so called evidence in regards to Bigfoot? MTB theory,crap. Skookum cast, elk lay. Memorial day footage, guy playing paintball. Anything by Paul freeman, hoax. Autumn"s book, just another tale. Next?
He said Hunting things that are not real is silly. I know they are real, so what I do is not silly to me. I could care less what he thinks about how I spend my time. |
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Well, I don't think bigfoot exists, but I really have no problem with people looking for them or signs of them. I'd probably enjoy a bigfoot expedition as long as I didn't have to pay for the priviledge.
Looking for them and not finding them may be what makes up someone's mind. I have no problem with the phrase "hunting for bigfoot". I'd go hunting for bigfoot with a believer. I don't think I'd call it silly. Pointless maybe, but a pointless trek through some nice wilderness sounds like a great idea to me. ![]() In fact, I'd love to come across a "bigfoot" track. ![]() Now, as for someone like Meldrum professionally supporting bigfoot? I think that would indeed be silly and should call into question his professionalism. |
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Repeat after me JC, there is no Bigfoot. Then spit.
Two thumbs up! What a straight shooting righteous post LTC8K6. There's no inflammatory verbiage, even towards Meldrum, yet your true disbelief shines through. I can only ever hope to be able to post such unoffending and acceptable responses. ![]() |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClOrtpu3ao
3:17 Meldrum explains that the Memorial day Footage has a female sasquatch holding a baby on it's back... |
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Maybe Meldrum actually is some operative from an über secret 'lizard people' organization whose mission is to try and discredit the entire nature of science so they can...steal all the argon and take over the world? Or does he just play one on TV?
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New article about Dr. Meldrum in his university's magazine, The Bengal. Unfortunately, they spell his first name incorrectly.
He's possibly been given over $100K in grants and donations to find and study Bigfoot. No results. Now he has left North America behind and is looking in China. Back here he will move on to using dogs to find Bigfoot. Apparently, using a large fleet of trail cameras has been fruitless. In search of Bigfoot
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He's in very deep...
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And he's going to soon be an embarrassment to his employer and to himself, if he isn't already.
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Is that supposed to be a representation of Patty he's standing in front of? If so, how come she's so freaking tall?
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why do you say that, GT? I mean, this has gone on for a long time. Does he have a pathological foot fetish? ha ha.
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Of course Chinese Bigfoot prints look identical to North American Bigfoot tracks.
Those Shipton prints are too hard for a hoaxer to duplicate. I'm sure the Chinese bigfoot footprint, looks as goofy and unnatural as the North American Bigfoot footprint. The beauty of the free market, You crazy Americans have a BIGFOOT professor? WTF? |
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"Meldrum also said the park ranger had no frame of reference as to what these footprints would look like making a hoax unlikely."
The Chinese, having never seen a human foot, would have no idea what a big human foot would look like. He really is out to lunch. |
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He appears to be easily stunned.
"I was stunned," Meldrum stated.... |
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Two hundred casts is a lot of Bigfoot footprints. Dr. Meldrum, how many or what percentage of them would you say are fakes? |
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Meldrum has no desire to confront the poss. of hoaxing. He simply has to degrade the park ranger to solve that problem.
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Originally Posted by http://www.isubengal.com/life/in-search-of-bigfoot-1.1667290
If Meldrum's speculation is correct, then humans must be dumber than bigfoots, since neither finding human corpses and tracking and killing humans can actually be considered unusual events. Bigfoots must have been hiding their corpses and avoiding being killed by humans with 100% success rate for millenia. So, here we have a species of über-intelligent über-stealthy boss-of-the-woods. It's an RPG-type of concept; its not science. The excuses for the absence of reliable evidence brings even the most "flesh-n'-bones" allegedly scientific-minded footers close to the "paranormal" or "extra-fringe" footers.
Originally Posted by http://www.isubengal.com/life/in-search-of-bigfoot-1.1667290
First, demonstrate it exists. Then figure out its ecologic niche. Ever heard of Hall's corolary? “Before we do research on something, we should make sure it exists" ETA: Yes, I am not sure on how "dumbed down" for the general public are his statements, neither on how his original statements were edited. Given the source, however (university media) I would not expect this to be a big issue. |
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Forget PGF. Most sightings are of Bigfoot peering in Trailer windows, invading picnic area at campgrounds, strolling across open mountain sides, crossing semi-rural driveways, or walking alongside someone hiking on a trail. It's not like you have to be 2.4 miles from a road to see a bigfoot. They are amongst us.
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A big issue? LOL! The Bengal spelled his name wrong and it still hasn't been corrected after 2 days in print. You've got Meldrum saying Bigfoots are out there and you've got a university magazine writer/editor who spells his first name "Jeffery". There must be something in the water at ISU. |
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