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23rd March 2017, 10:49 AM | #321 |
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Meh, he hosts an edited, partially scripted reality show, which means a some of it is staged. He's got a safety team and a dustoff helicopter a satellite phone call away, and much of what he does can be pulled of by any reasonably experienced outdoors enthusiast with a calm mind.
Now, I couldn't out-survive him by any stretch of the imagination, but many others could; I never understood his appeal. |
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Say, maybe Life Below Zero will have a footie angle this year. That Sue Aikens, who thinks everything from wolverines to wolves are constantly trying to kill her*, could have a stalking bigfoot storyline.
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Some bigfoot crazy.
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...travel/&page=5
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24th March 2017, 11:40 AM | #325 |
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Bowels of the Smithsonian.
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Why do these chuckleheads imagine the Smithsonian is the be-all, end-all repository for the product of all scientific/archeological investigations?
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24th March 2017, 12:54 PM | #329 |
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From Hart's bio...
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24th March 2017, 12:59 PM | #331 |
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I'm unaware of that.
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I don't know, but I do know that Team Bigfootology advertises the fact that one of their researchers is :
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Yet their knowledge and skill in finding Bigfoot is unsurpassed.
"Each person on this team is a valuable member of the team and brings unique skills, knowledge, and understanding, and we are privileged to have their voice as part of this great endeavor of understanding the Bigfoot phenomenon." FTFY and no I'm not stalking you. |
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Motorcyclists come across naked tribesman in Indonesia.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/319500...tribe-picture/ Waiting for Bigfoot must therefore exist threads. |
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Mythical Mante tribe? I can't find anything on the web about that myth other than articles about this video. I'm confused.
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Yeah, nothing in google scholar either.
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28th March 2017, 10:43 AM | #339 |
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I suspect that his tribe isn't unknown or mythical and lives near that dirt road for motor vehicles. A fake story to add intrigue to the video. Because it's pretty boring if you title the YouTube video, "Local dude runs away from douchebag bikers".
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28th March 2017, 01:38 PM | #340 |
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Craig Woolheater at Cryptomundo is asking if the guy in the video is an Orang Pendek.
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So he takes "Human from lost tribe of Mante" and turns it into:
"Indonesian Bigfoot" Which, I might add, is said to possess the following: *blackish-brown, red-brown, golden-brown, yellow,or orange fur *short-legged with long, powerful arms *seen in trees *inverted feet, to hide direction of travel 0 for 4 on my scoresheet. |
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30th March 2017, 07:33 PM | #344 |
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It looks staged to me.
Is it implied that the biker on the ground at the start of the video was knocked off by the guy they then chase? My BiL and his sons ride bike and their GoPro videos are of really high quality - even as they slam into a tree or drop the bike in a dirty great mud hole. These guys are professional videographers (if I have the correct bunch, Fredography) and what do we get? Video that would shame the quality of a 15yr old Nokia. Hell, I have a 10yr old Veho Muvi that takes better video that these jokers. Typical cryptos - use the crappiest quality equipment you can find and film blobsquatch. |
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31st March 2017, 06:50 AM | #345 |
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I don't know what the filmers are claiming happened. It sure could be a staged hoax. There ought to be footage before and after the short scene.
Regardless, I don't think it's a remarkable thing for most viewers. We already know that that country has little forest tribe guys who carry things like sticks. If you want to make an impressive hoax then put him in a hairy costume. |
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As I've said before, Bigfoot's days are numbered in terms of it being a hot-topic in the world of pop culture and interest. At the height of Monster-Quest and (Never) Finding Bigfoot, Bigfoot was riding a wave of popularity (in terms of entertainment, anyway) and now it's slowly sinking back into its dusty corner, next to Mermaids and Mothman.
When you'd see those town meetings on episodes of FB, those people in attendance are likely the kind of people I'd imagine to get bored of the whole game after a year or so, and move onto ghosts, or UFOs. There's so much more room for continued entertainment and hijinx with ghosts and aliens. |
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There is no short supply of the credulous though. Like any fringe belief, bigfoot is a niche market and there will always be folks trying to sell, say, a candy or pig-tossing footie, as well as someone wiling to buy. Sometimes the buyer/seller is the same person. It's been my experience that footers, like most fringe believers, are fabulists with a built-in mechanism to believe. It's how they sell themselves the idea of a forest ninja that's seen or heard or smelled or felt, but never documented. Silly people will always find silliness.
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Definitely. I think there'll always be a subculture of people devoted to all things Bigfoot, and I guess we're in some way part of that subculture. Although it's definitely not what it once was. That being said, I don't participate on the BFF, so I rarely get to encounter Footers much anymore, which is a bloody shame, tbh!
I just wish we'd see more active participation from these groups of Weekend Warriors. There seems to be a total lack of effort with regards to hoaxing these days, and they all opt to go for the "camouflaged habituation detective" game instead, which requires less skill, less effort and is more akin to actual role-playing games than the kind of "Bigfootin'" that Roger Patterson was keen on. Hell, even Rick Dyer went balls-to-the-walls and did it the old way, despite it being silly. He at least tried, and that's what I commend him for. These Footers need to up their games, as it's getting stale and it's losing the interest of passionate monster-fans worldwide, myself included. |
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Well that did it for me. Bigfoot is real, obviously.
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Anyone know if DWA got caught up in another footie April Fools gag?
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A little humorous aside: A few years back I went on a tour of the infamous Fouke Monster sighting locations in Arkansas. Folks were supposed to hook up in Jefferson, Texas where a weekend crypto conference was coming to a close.
A buddy and I went and met up with Woolheater, Loren Coleman, a couple of NAWAC folks, the author of a new book, The Beast of Boggy Creek, and attendees of the conference. We all took our own vehicles to drive the 20 or so miles to Fouke and to the Monster Mart there. Well, we all made it there in staggered time, except one vehicle. We waited, and waited, and waited. Finally, the last vehicle showed up; the driver claimed he had gotten lost. The driver was Craig Woolheater and his passenger was Loren Coleman. Obviously, there was some symbolism or metaphor at play that day. |
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Maybe Bigfoot encounter debriefings should concentrate more on questions like "Did you ingest the 16 drugs in your system before or after the encounter?" and "Do you realize the bigger the Bigfoot the higher tier Bigfoot Chick™ you're eligible for?" and of course "Why does it show here you've been incarcerated at Patton State Hospital three different times for phoning in threats to zoo animals?"
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So, I guess the new Ghost Recon game has a Yeti/sasquatch easter egg imbedded in it.
They have Yeti-hunting gear and clues to the Yeti. On youtube, all of these gamers are trying to find the yeti, to no avail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DjePqqFb64 You can searh Yeti Ghost Recon on Youtube to find other videos. |
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Funny. Blackburn was there -- he's the author of The Beast of Boggy Creek. Jerry Halstead was there, as was Kathy Strain. I talked briefly with Lyle and Loren and they were kind enough to autograph my copy of Lyle's book. (Loren wrote the introduction).
A few things I learned: -- Lyle seemed sincere, but too gullible. When he arrived at the Monster Mart, an employee told him that someone wanting to remain anonymous had come into the store a couple of days earlier with a sighting story on a nearby road that had had previous monster encounter stories based there. When we all went to this road later, wooded forest on one side and heavy brush on the other, Lyle mentioned the sightings there, including the one he just heard about. What's worse, within the week he published this unvetted sighting story on his web page as the most current encounter. -- The Legend of Boggy Creek movie seems to be responsible for a lot of folks interest in Bigfoot. The climax of the film was the Ford Family Incident: two families in a rental house in Fouke were terrorized one night by a hairy intruder, as based on press clippings of the event. The location portrayed in the film seemed spookily remote. Our tour finished up at the location, although the house no longer stands. To my surprise, the house was located a football pass (by Brett Favre) distance from the main high-way. And not near any body of water that would draw in an alleged monster. -- As a bonus, we visited (the now late) Smokey Crabtree's home, where he had a trailer bookstore and an exhibit of the skeletal remains of some large animal discovered in the woods between Fouke and Shreveport. Smokey was pawning off the remains as possibly from the Fouke Monster itself and charging a modest fee to view the exhibit. The funny thing is, I once tangled with Strain (Hairy Man) at BFF over the issue of Crabtree's profit motive in promoting monster lore in Fouke and mentioned the skeleton exhibit (btw, the remains are that of a tiger, minus its head). Strain assured BFF that she had visited Crabtree previously, viewed the skeleton exhibit uncharged, and that Smokey was a straight up guy. That day in Fouke, I wondered what Kathy was thinking when Smokey mentioned the remains and the fee to see it. |
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