Bigfoot News May 2, 2013

Warning: Long, 33 pages.

More on the Hank photos. There are some new photos of Hank out from the movie Shooting Bigfoot. These are all the same photo, but it has been manipulated in various ways, rendered into drawn art by artists, overlaid with other photos and compared with other photos.

In the photo below, it is true that the Tent Video Bigfoot does not resemble well the Bigfoots on either side of it. However, I think the Hank still from the movie compares well with the drawing of Hank on the far right.

Click to enlarge. Three images, Hank from Shooting Bigfoot, the Tent Video Bigfoot (Hank?) and an artist’s rendition of Hank as described by Musky Allen.

Check out the chiseled drawing below based on the Hank photo from Shooting Bigfoot.

Click to enlarge. Very nice artist’s rendition resembling a sculpture of Hank from Shooting Bigfoot. This drawing looks very much like a Neandertal!

Look at how closely the photo of Hank from the movie lines up with the drawing based on Musky’s observation, with the movie still used for the lower part of the face the drawing for the upper part of the face. The comparison is excellent and the two fit together quite well.

Click to enlarge. Overlay of the Hank photo from Shooting Bigfoot with the drawing of Hank based on Musky’s description.

Below is the Hank movie still fleshed out into a whole face using software. Look how much that looks like a Neandertal!

Click to enlarge. The Hank still from the movie fleshed out with software into a complete face.

Via Facebook Find Bigfoot, a photo of a possible Bigfoot sticking its face into a game cam in Minnesota from 2007. The comments below the photo mostly say it is some sort of a wild animal. Only a couple said it was a man.

That is not a wild animal. It is either a man, a Homo sapiens sapiens, or it is a Bigfoot. For some reason, I think this might be a Bigfoot. Look how much it resembles a Neandertal, the Musky Allen sketch, the video still of Hank and even the other game cam shot of a Bigfoot licking the game cam from the Olympic Project. One comment said this photos resembles Homo Heidelbergensis. That is a possibility.

A photo of a possible Bigfoot from a game cam in Minnesota in 2007.

Double rows of teeth observable in Hank movie still? In the Hank still from Shooting Bigfoot, the jaw has an odd appearance, almost as if the Bigfoot is chewing tobacco. A commenter suggests that what we may be seeing here is the double rows of molars that Dyer says Hank has. It is certainly possible.

I Chew Tobacco, Levi Garrett, and the first thing I noticed about the Hank Photo was that He Looked Like He had a Side Chew on Both Sides……THEN IT HIT ME!! The Double Rows of Teeth That Dyer mentioned from the Canines to the back of the mouth……

Why the funny appearance of the Shooting Bigfoot Hank still? From the comments:

Here’s a thought:

Why is it so grainy? Answer: It’s night vision, so it’s grainy no matter the pixel count.

Why is it so blurry even at 4-6ft? Answer: Subject is moving in faster than auto-focus can handle.

The paradox: if it was “clear” footage in night vision, then the people that know the answer to the above questions would claim CGI because it’s supposed to be grainy.

Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.

Face it. Everything that has been stated so far is coming to fruition as truth. Everything leading up to now, except the length of footage, has been discovered as truth.

Reiterating again: if the Tent Video would have never been leaked, then know one would know of “Hank.” Everyone would be surprised in August by a news release with science and a body with Rick standing over it saying, “Everyone who doubted me can suck it” (which would end up being “bleeped” out because he would actually say that on national news).

People should be thanking Rick for delivery of product.
Moneyfaker takes your money and shows you whooping and hollering without delivery of product.

So, who’s the real hoaxer here? Moneyfaker takes money from millions of viewers through TV and delivers no product, or Rick who doesn’t demand money from anyone and still delivers product? He delivered product to you even surrounded by hate. Alas, you still try to poop on him. I just don’t get it. So engulfed with disbelief that it’s Rick that you are looking right past it…Delivery of Product…

A very nice technical explanation for why the Shooting Bigfoot still looks the way it does.

Do the Tent Video and Shooting Bigfoot stills portray two different Bigfoots? Commenters are suggesting that there the discrepancy between the appearance of the Tent Video Bigfoot and the Shooting Bigfoot Still Bigfoot may be resolved if we posit that they are two separate creatures altogether. This makes sense because according to JR Dobbs’ interviews with the homeless in the area, there is apparently another Bigfoot that is still in the area, even after the purported killing of Hank.

This also helps explain why Hank would be so stupid as to come back and grab more ribs that night after a man with a gun had nearly killed him that morning. We can resolve this by saying that Bigfoot A was scared off by Rick’s gun in the morning and Bigfoot B, who knew nothing about Rick’s threatening behavior with the gun vis a vis Bigfoot A, came around in the night not knowing any better and was killed for his ignorance. From the comments:

I also agree that although this picture looks like the same basic facial structure of the BF on the Tent Video, it seems to be a different creature. This lends credibility to Dyer’s story because not only would he have to have one mask; instead he would have to have two separate masks altogether. The homeless people have indicated that there is still a Bigfoot out there, and that could be the one on the Tent Video or another one altogether. I had never heard that someone from the BBC said it was all factual,so that’s a plus too.

Some good arguments why Shooting Bigfoot could not be a hoax. From the comments section:

I tend to maintain the idea that this is not a hoax. There are five main compelling arguments to support my opinion and the reasoning for my beliefs.

1. Morgan Matthews changed the title from Of Monsters and Men to Shooting Bigfoot while the film was still in production. One can only assume that this was not by coincidence.
2. Rick Dyer has continued to describe the same EXACT story for months now and has not diverged from the original story once.
3. The ending of the film does not line up with the order that Rick describes the events to have happened. This may be due to clever editing by Morgan to stick to his original theme of the documentary, which was essentially to mock those who look for Bigfoot.
4. Minnow Films may be using the Shooting Bigfoot documentary as a set-up for an additional film that will reveal any information or footage that may have been withheld. This is the best way to maximize the production dollar to profit ratio.
5. Morgan Matthew would not put his reputation of an unblemished 20-year career on the line by being involved in a hoax. Although it is possible that Rick hoaxed the Minnow Films crew, Morgan Matthews would not include it in film, as it is possible he could be accused of being involved in the hoax.

Three explanations for Morgan Matthews’ baffling behavior.
From the comments section:

Either Morgan Matthews is part of a Hoax, has filmed the best hoax of all time or he has signed the queen mother of all NDA’s.

This is an excellent point. It may all be down to the NDA’s that Matthews had to sign with Rick and his investors. What if those NDA’s say that Morgan may not under any circumstances say that there was a real Bigfoot in the film?

The Man Who Cried Bigfoot video. Via JR Dobbs, we have the 9th in a sequence of videos from the homeless people who live around the area where Dyer purportedly shot Hank. This 9th video is devastating to Rick’s case. The homeless man, Jeff, pretty much says that Rick hoaxed the whole thing.

Jeff said that he was paid to stand on a hill above the shooting scene at night and was given a radio to keep in contact with the crew below. His job was to keep people away from the site while shooting was going on. Jeff says there were many shots fired and what seemed to be repeated takes of the shooting scene. He also said that some live shots were fired, but many blanks were also fired, all by Rick.

Jeff now says that there may well be a Bigfoot in the area: “There is definitely something out here.” He also says that Rick Dyer slit his dog’s throat. Jeff took the dog to the vet’s, and the vet said that the dog’s throat had been cut by a knife or some sort of a blade.

Jeff says he took a photo with Dyer the morning after the shooting of Hank, and he never saw any Bigfoot body. He says he saw Morgan Matthews walk away from the site the morning after the shooting, and Morgan appeared to be hale and hearty, carting an 80 pound camera like it was nothing. Jeff says the whole crew, including Rick, left that morning and has never been seen again.

Jeff appears somewhat spacy and he may be a heavy or regular drug user. It is said that most of the homeless people in that area are meth users, and that many of them steal to survive or to get money to buy dope. They leave the area at night to go steal to get dope money and come back in the daytime with dope and get high.

Unfortunately, Jeff has completely changed his story compared to the initial story he gave to JR Dobbs, and hence, he is not very credible.

Rick Dyer’s response to JR Dobbs 9th video above. If you can stand to listen to Rick Dyer talk on video for a few minutes, then you will be able to listen to Dyer’s rejoinders to all of the charges made by the man in the video above.

Jeff says there were many shots, including blanks. In his initial video, Jeff said there were only two shots. Now there are many.

Blanks were fired. Jeff produces a 30.06 shell, but produces no blanks.

Jeff says he was given a radio and put on a hill while multiple rehearsals of the shooting scene were shot. Rick said that instead, efforts were made to keep Jeff away from the scene in the period after Hank was killed.

Dyer slit my dog’s throat. Dyer says that the dog was killed by pulling too hard on too tight of a leash. Instead of killing the dog, Dyer says he tended to its wounds. Dyer says he would never hurt any animal, but this is not true, as he has already killed one Bigfoot.

Shot taken with Jeff and Dyer the next morning. Not true, Dyer says the photo of Jeff and Dyer was taken the night before. Jeff is not usually around in the daytime.

Jeff says there may well be a Bigfoot in the area. In his first video, Jeff said there was no Bigfoot in the area.

Jeff says he is the only homeless person living in that area. Rick says that there are actually a number of homeless folks living in that area, and Rick gave some of them jobs so they could leave, move into shelter, and live more normal lives, leaving the homeless life behind.

Bottom line is Jeff does not appear to be very credible. He is a marginal homeless fellow who seems a bit shady and dangerous. Who knows what kind of life he lives? He may well be a heavy or regular drug user, possibly of methamphetamine. He has changed his story in quite a few ways, and Rick has contradicted most of his testimony. At the end of the day, JR Dobbs’ 9th video is not particularly credible.

Did Rick Dyer make a $200,000 surrogate human? Via Tim Fasano’s site, Tim runs through the possibilities surrounding Musky Allen’s testimony.

Tim says there are three possibilities:

1. Musky saw a Bigfoot.
2. Musky is lying.
3. Musky got fooled by an excellent Bigfoot replica.

Fasano dismisses (2) as not credible and I agree with him. I do not think that Fasano is lying. And I do agree that Musky saw either an excellent replica or a real Bigfoot. One wonders why Rick would have gone through the trouble to pay $200,000 for a fancy fake human with no guarantee of any returns on the investment.

It also seems dubious that the US government facility housing Hank would allow their place to be used to house a fake Bigfoot. And it seems dubious that the medical model company would have the expertise to construct a fake Bigfoot, even on order. They make fake Homo sapiens sapiens, not fake Bigfoots. Bigfoots are not H.s.s.; they are something else entirely.

From the comments section, an excellent rejoinder to the medical company body theory:

I read the post on the blog about Rick Dyer having a fake body made from some company that makes medical dummies and I have to ask “Why?”

There are only two reasons to pull a hoax

1. A practical joke
2. A con that nets you money

The first makes no sense. Neither does the second to anyone that can think a little. Think about it.

To provide a manufactured product, Rick Dyer has to pay $200,0000 have the Bigfoot-medical dummy that would fool a vet doing an autopsy for only about 10 minutes. He then has to gain access to a facility, either a real one or a very elaborate hoaxed site that has apparently dozens of people pretending to work there so that Musky Allen thinks it is a real place. He has to pay those people, and he has to pay rent on the location.

All this is possible, but tell me, How does he make money at this? Where is the pay off? It would take a lot of $29.99 monthly subscriptions to cover that cost, much less make a profit. If Rick Dyer is smart enough to design and set up a hoax like that, then he is smart enough to know this wouldn’t work. This is not taking people into the woods and having your redneck brother-in-law dress up in a ghillie suit and run past the groups yelling “I’m a Bigfoot, Look out I’m gonna eat you!”

I don’t know what is going on, but the “manufactured body” theory is just the stuff of idiot who have watched to many Matrix movies.

Theory on how Morgan Matthews may be cutting the footage into two separate films to maximize returns. From the comments:

Here is what happened (maybe):

Mr. Mathews produced a film about Bigfoot hunters in the vein of Trekkies – a group character study about a selection of the odd and obsessed. This was all the film was ever supposed to be. And then San Antonio happened – my guess is it was pretty deep into the production calendar – and the fun film he had about some kooks became something altogether different – and the footage, the first ever A#1, landmark, groundbreaking footage of a Bigfoot, now he has that. And that, friends, is found gold.

So, do you put rarest of rare footage into the tail-end of the semi-serious character study, with the modest budget and modest marketing plan? No, that would be a terrible idea. Why? Because you have another, much more serious, and cash-worthy film on your hands. And there is NO WAY, let me repeat, NO WAY you put the money footage in the first film.

Because, let’s be honest, Mr. Mathews is a professional, and that means he wants and deserves to be paid for his work. If anyone thinks that the pics and footage are going to be released without some form of payment, they are delusional. The second film (Bigfoot shot?), which is already in the works and has been, no doubt, pre-sold to a major distributor, will have what you desire – just make sure you have your credit card ready.

The opportunity to turn two films, one with better backing based on groundbreaking footage, and one that was already in the can and of a completely different tone, is absolutely the road to take if you want to maximize your production dollar to profit ratio. The payoff is still there, just delayed. Plus, two films.

That’s showbiz!

I’m not saying that’s what happened. As usual, there isn’t enough evidence to make any conclusive judgement. I’m saying it is the route to take if you had that footage (both sets) and were a filmmaker. The film ends with a cliffhanger, yes?

It is improbable, but possible: a theory based on film strategy.

Frankly, I hope it is not the case, and the beast remains unproven.

New information purportedly from Minnow Films sources lends support to hoax theory. I recently contacted a new source who tells me that they have film industry connections via family. A family member of theirs knows two people at Minnow who worked on the film and they asked the Minnow workers about the film. What the Minnow employees reported, if true, is devastating to Rick Dyer’s story and implies that he is hoaxing the killing of a Bigfoot. Here is the testimony:

I have some info for you. I spoke to my Uncle X last night for about 45 minutes regarding the Minnow Films and the rumors about the Sasquatch. He was able to speak with two different people that were heavily involved with the film over the past few years.

It’s interesting to note that they had an enormous amount of footage, as Morgan Matthews (director of Shooting Bigfoot) likes to leave his options open when “assembling” a documentary. X gave me some names but asked me to not use his name or theirs. However, it would not take very long for you to figure out who they are based on what I have told you (specific possibly identifying information deleted).

So, here is the info that we covered, and take it for what it’s worth. Considering X has never mentioned Bigfoot before, and this was the first time he’s even heard I was interested, I think it’s safe to assume that his info was unbiased.

X told me:

- There was an enormous amount of footage.

- Morgan did not see a dead Bigfoot nor was he party to anything regarding a Bigfoot body.

- There was a man at the camp site that Rick was familiar with and had met before on a prior expedition to San Antonio. This man was homeless and lived in the area. Morgan thought it strange that this man had been expecting their arrival and knew so much about what they were doing there. Over the course of the first couple of days, Rick spent a lot of time with this man privately and on several occasions, Rick and this man left the campsite together and were gone for long periods of time.

- Morgan DID NOT film any footage of what’s being called the Camper or Tent Video. Nobody on Morgan’s team saw any Bigfoot during day time hours.

- Rick was very familiar with the area they were in and mentioned that he had been there before.

- Morgan and his team did not enjoy Rick’s company, and Rick made them very nervous. One of the “logistics” people that acted as the go-between to help with travel and planning commented that Rick was “often manic and always appeared to be either very sad or jubilant.”

- Morgan was injured one night by what Rick claimed to be a Bigfoot. However, the “Bigfoot” was not very big, and the reason it was shown in black & white is because the color version made it look “hokey.”

-The Bigfoot was not shot or harmed by Rick. He did fire some shots in a different direction from the Bigfoot, and that’s what scared Morgan the most. Morgan thought Rick had gone insane and was killing random homeless people.

- The Bigfoot that knocked Morgan down was about 6 feet tall, maybe a tiny bit taller. Morgan was not expecting this to happen, and the only reason it did was because he was holding the camera. If it was a real Bigfoot, then he said, “There’s nothing to be scared of…LOL,” and that’s a direct quote.

That’s about all of the info I received, and although the source did not come out and say it was not a genuine Bigfoot, the description given was done with some humor and a few giggles. What was confirmed 100% was that there is no dead Bigfoot, no clear color footage and nobody came close to killing one either.

One more detail, Morgan HATED Dyer during the shooting and thought he was self- centered, insecure and a know-it-all. They did not get along at all, and Morgan also mentioned that Rick treated everybody in a rude and abrupt manner as if he had no social skills whatsoever. Even when the producers would contact Rick to get info on something, he acted as if he were doing them a favor and always felt the need to make ugly comments or offer unwanted critiques of Minnow, Morgan and the other parties that were in the film.

Anyhow, that’s all I have and X and his wife Aunt are going to some kind of industry reunion in a couple of weeks so he expects to hear more about this film, when he’s there.

Well, there you have it. If this information is true, it is devastating to us believers, and it is a shot in the arm for the deniers. The problem is that testimony conflicts with certain things, including my excellent source at Minnow who insisted to me that Rick’s story was true.

The part about Dyer’s a-holish personality and arrogant and clueless, narcissistic abuse of Matthews and the film crew certainly seems highly credible.

If this story is true, it means that Rick faked the several photos of the dead Bigfoot the next morning and the photo of the Bigfoot being loaded into the truck after it was shot. Either that or Musky is lying about the existence of the photos, and I doubt if he is. I also doubt that Rick is lying about the existence of these photos. Further, the creature in the movie does not appear to be man in a suit or a mask in any way, shape or form.

Rick Dyer’s personality. I hate to beat a dead horse here, but it is a topic of general interest. The one reviewer described Dallas and Wayne as “borderline retards” and Rick Dyer as an “a-hole.” That’s a pretty good summation. I rather like Dallas and Wayne, especially Wayne, but they don’t exactly come across like the sharpest tools in the shed. The description of Dyer as an “a-hole” is absolutely spot on, and sums him up better than most psychological diagnoses. This is simply how he comes across. When I watch his videos, he screams “a-hole” all the way through the video, from :01 all the way to the end.

A Canadian friend of mine said, “well, up here in Canada, we would call somebody like Dyer an idiot!” I asked him what he meant by that, and he said that in Canadian English, “idiot,” means something a bit different than it does here. He told me, “Well here in Canada, an ‘idiot’ means someone who causes so much trouble, so many problems and is such a pain in the a-, that you just need to stay away from them.” That’s an interesting description and seems to describe Dyer well. Here in California English, we would call someone like that something like a “total f-tard.”

Dyer also reminds me of some of the wild Christian fundamentalist preachers we used to have on early cable TV in Southern California about 30 years ago. One middle aged clown, Dr. Gene Scott, was a rather nice looking guy who often wore a cowboy hat. He changed outfits a lot and sometimes appeared drunk, stoned, medicated or tired. He rambled on narcissistically about everything under the sun.

He was a One-Man Show that never shut down. It was a One Man Ultimate Egotist Jerk-off Fest. We would watch the show, laugh at him and wonder why anyone would ever watch him. We often described him as “crazy,” and we wondered if maybe he had a mood disorder like manic-depression.

Another thing that I think when I watch Dyer is that this is a guy who is “totally unhinged.” He seems like someone who thinks with his mouth open and has no inhibitions whatsoever. Furthermore, he is always “on.” No matter what time of day it is or what day of the week it is, it’s always, “The Rick, Rick Show.”

Others have pointed out that unlike a pure sociopath, Rick does display a fairly wide range of emotions, and he does seem to have some decent and sensitive emotions. He has a positive side to his personality, and he has good traits that no pure sociopath would ever have.

He’s a complicated fellow!

Bigfoot News April 20, 2013

“Hank” to be released along with Shooting Bigfoot on April 30? Hank is the name of the Bigfoot that Rick Dyer shot and killed in Texas last year. Up until now, it has been in storage near Las Vegas. However, the release of Hank’s body is problematic. The typical question is, “Why doesn’t Rick release Hank’s body?” The answer to that question is that it is not Rick’s to release. Apparently that refers to the fact that Rick was an employee of Minnow Films when Hank was killed. Therefore, the release of Hank to the public has to be coordinated with Minnow.

Soon after the Rick Dyer was broken by me, I reported that Hank’s body would be released at the same time as the movie. Now with this very interesting and obscure notice on the Ammoland website (Why there?), we learn that in fact Hank is due to be released to the public on April 30 in Toronto, Canada, at the same time as the film Shooting Bigfoot is premiered.

The site states that Minnow Films will release the body. I have no idea who Ammoland is or how they came up with this scoop, but it is sure a great story. Is Ammoland on the level? I have no idea, but it is interesting that this story lines up perfectly with the release schedule that I postulated originally in first release of this story on Thanksgiving 2012.

I broke the Rick Dyer Bigfoot shooting story. For some reason, this fact keeps getting lost in all of the hoopla over the story. Sooner rather than later, Hank will be released and the world will be a whole new place. Rick will be world famous for the rest of his life or until he implodes, which he may do. The story will be all over the news, magazines, Internet, TV and radio. Unfortunately, I am quite certain that my name will be lost amidst all of the chaos along with the huge role I played journalism-wise in the breaking of the story. This will be right in theme with the rest of my life though, so I will probably be ok with it in the end.

Don Boucher et al Hank Facebook photo release story is fake. Don Boucher, Stefan Beaudoin and the rest of the morons who broke this news to us have informed us that this is all a gigantic hoax supposedly designed to make some idiotic point about gullibility. That is, anything that anyone says to any of us at any time by anyone could very well be a lie.

Well, duh, morons, but the world doesn’t work that way. The world only slightly functions at all when most folks we interact with on a personal level are being more or less truthful to us most of the time (white lies and lies of self-protection excepted). When you have a society where everyone is lying to everyone all the time, you end with India. You get Calcutta writ worldwide. You can see the results of what happens when trust vanishes. Total collapse of society.

Of course the government is lying to us most of the time, as are most of its agencies. Of course corporations are lying almost continuously, as is anyone employed by a corporation. If there’s money involved, someone is probably lying. Business interests will always lie when money is at stake. Politics, especially at a world level, is based on the most savage, vicious, idiotic and criminal lying.

But the lies of the snakes, sharks and monsters at the top of human society have little to do with the day to day affairs of most of us. White lies excepted, most of my friends are telling the truth to me most of the time. As are most of my acquaintances. In fact, once I figure out you are lying to me a lot, you tend to go on one of my “Do not call” lists. My social world only functions when most of those in it are being straight with me most of the time.

It is similar with journalism. We journalists have folks we call sources. If I can’t trust my own sources, I may as well hang it up and call it a day. In fact if all of our sources were lying to us most of the time, investigative reporting would grind to a halt. Most other fields are based on a certain amount of truthfulness. Plagiarism in authorship is pretty big deal. Scientific fraud can ruin a career. People are routinely jailed for perjury. Lying to an officer is a crime for which you can be arrested. If cops don’t tell the truth to each other, all law enforcement breaks down and collapses. Even criminals have a code of conduct that enables them to more or less trust each other at least enough to survive.

So the point of Don Boucher and the other scumbags was no point at all. That these folks are scumbags is nothing new. After all, Bigfootery attracts more dirtballs, lowlifes, trash and human garbage than most other endeavors.

Boucher hoaxed previously. This is not the first time that Mr. Boucher has attempted to hoax the field. Steve Kulls uncovered another instance here where Boucher discusses how and his special effects team created a model of the dead Hank all the way down the bullet wound for a Hollywood special effects studio. It’s nothing but a lie. So Boucher, Beaudoin and the rest of the garbage are hoaxing everyone in the field and why? Because they hate Rick Dyer so much that they are hoaxing us to destroy Rick. Why do they hate Rick so much? Because Rick is a hoaxer. They hate hoaxing so much that they are hoaxing themselves.

Rick Dyer: Is there a place in the world for a man like you? A commenter writes on my blog:

Robert: you might be right on many things about Rick Dyer’s character. But three points:

- Rick Dyer is not an intellectual, not an educated man of great ideas and high ideals. He did not grow up reading all sorts of books on bigfoot or cryptozoology. Bigfoot entered his life only in 2008, when he was already 30 or 31 years old.

His relationship to this “myth” was/ is

1) fun,

2) money

3) narcissism

- not necessarily in this order.

Therefore he lacks – in most cases – the emotions more educated people would expect after having made the greatest discovery in the history of biology.

- Despite point 1: he sometimes show deep emotions. Two examples: the radio shows in which he tells the story of the killing and in which he talks about Musky’s encounter with the body in Las Vegas.

- so many people think education and eloquence are basic needs for investigative skills. Just because Dyer cannot spell his own name does not mean that he is a bonehead in every aspect of life.

Quite the contrary:  his idea not to look for bigfoot in the remote forests of the Northwest, but in the bush forest of Texas and to make contact there with the homeless people and get their support  was a masterstroke. He knew that the chances were greater there, where bigfoot was potentially used to human contact. Do you think any researcher with academic background would do this, establish contact and try to find support from the homeless “white trash”?! Nobody has done that so far, nobody. That’s why Dyer really is a strategic genius…

And one final thing: if he would be totally normal, he would not have managed to (hopefully) bring compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot – I am absolutely sure about that. That’s why all the academics and interested laymen with ordinary jobs always fail. It needs a cool, hard-bitten and partially insane maverick like Rick Dyer. And therefore: Love or hate him, good that he is there…

This is a fascinating point. I have discussed at length on my site Rick’s personality and psychological makeup. The reasons for this are because he is so obviously pathological and he infuriates so many folks with his abrasive behavior, annoying at best and antisocial at worst. If Rick were some boring bookkeeper type, there would not be too much to talk about. I don’t wish to rehash Rick’s psychological makeup in this post as it would be redundant. Most folks know full well what sort of a fellow he is, after all, that’s why he has a world full of frothing enemies.

But the commenter’s point is fascinating. Does the world need narcissists? Worse, does the world need antisocials? Do narcissists and antisocials do anything positive in this world in addition to the monumental negativity they generate?

Perhaps they do! And perhaps they get certain things done that would not otherwise be done or would be done later. Pull the pathological narcissism out of the world of great musicians, actors, politicians, authors and artists and what do you have left. Probably not much. You have to be a bit nuts to be an artist in the first place. You have to subscribe to the ludicrous notion that you can act, play guitar, give speeches, write or draw better than anyone else. You have to believe that people would actually pay good money to hang your scribbles on the wall, to read your silly prose ramblings, to watch you cavort about the stage like a monkey or watch you ham it up in front of a camera.

Why would anyone believe such an idiotic thing. The only person who believes this is a narcissist. He really does think that his guitar playing, scribbling, brush strokes, over-dramatization or dishonest, bellicose speechifying BS is so great, so much better than everyone else’s, that people will not only pay good money as nothing more than tribute to this secular God but that he is better than most of the other performers doing their own version of jumping up and down screaming look at me self-indulgence and utter selfishness.

And where does this leave antisocials? The best surgeons are sociopaths. Who else can handle all that blood and barely bat an eye? The finest lawyers are antisocials. They will coldbloodedly massacre the opposition in the dirtiest way possible to win your case and get you the best deal. Law enforcement and the military is not the place for kind hearted folks. Brutal antisocials thrive in this vicious world. Many of our finest products were brought to us by corporations headed by persons who if they were not in a boardroom would likely be incarcerated.

During World War 2, it was found that sociopathic pilots in the Air Force were very good at shooting down other planes. They shot down many more planes than non-sociopaths. The reason was that they were ruthless and absolutely fearless. But the AF kept running into a problem. Sociopathic pilots kept getting shot down and dying in flaming crashes. The reason was the same: they were so fearless that they took too many chances, and this is why they kept getting shot down. Eventually, the AF starting making tests to try to keep the antisocials out of the force.

Which brings us to Rick Dyer. The commenter notes that if Rick was healthy, he would never have tracked down Hank and killed him the way he did. It took a real nut to pull that off. So maybe there is a place in the world for a man like Rick after all.

The commenter also notes that Rick is a strategic genius. I think this is correct. That is exactly what Rick is. He can barely spell his own name, but he has his very own type of street smarts, and in his own way, he’s a genius. An egghead never would have thought to go to San Antonio, hang out with the homeless, and shoot a Bigfoot slumming it up in the homeless camps.

Rick likes to call himself the greatest Bigfoot tracker of all. Despite the repulsive narcissism of that statement, there may be something to it. If Rick Dyer really is the first man to shoot and kill a Bigfoot and present it to science, he truly is the greatest Bigfoot tracker of all, dubious accomplishment though that may be.

Controversy about Dyer charging for Gold and Silver memberships on his site. For these outrageously overpriced memberships, you get a variety of benefits, none of which seem to be worth the $150 you need to cough up to join Rick’s club. Rick at first said that all of the proceeds would go to charity. If it’s all going to charity, why charge such a ripoff price?

Last nite on his show, Rick melted down as usual and exploded, saying it was no one’s business where the membership money was going. Where is the money going? Presumably right into Rick’s swollen pockets. Why would you expect anything else? The memberships are a ripoff, but they are to be expected. After all, this is Rick Dyer we are talking about here. He is not exactly a choirboy, eh?

Bigfoot Forums and the BFRO Forums in a battle to see which Bigfoot forum is more worthless and stupid. The problem with Bigfoot forums is that they are run by Bigfooters. Bigfooters in general are the scum of humanity, and those who lead their organizations are like the green stuff that floats to the top of the pond on a hot summer day. You get the picture.

The BFRO is run by Matt Moneymaker, who, for all he has done for the field, is one of the biggest fools, clowns and idiots in the game. Matt’s idiotic forum is run by some of the worst forum Nazis on the Web. Any subject about any of Mattie-boy’s eeeeeevil competition is completely shut down, and in general, the poster is instantly banned. I am very proud to say that I was banned from the BFRO is only 2 hours. It’s a badge I carry with honor, right over my beating heart!

The BFRO of course has banned all discussion of the Dyer shooting. They have also banned discussion of Dr. Melba Ketchum’s DNA study, Justin Smeja’s Bigfoot shootings in the Sierra Kills, and honestly anything that doesn’t have to do with Matt’s fat head itself! This juvenile mindset of course means that the children over at the BFRO are going to miss out on the greatest Bigfoot story of all time in 10 days, but they won’t bat an eyelash. They will step right out of their own muck smelling like a rose and not missing a beat somehow, just like hucksters always do.

The Bigfoot Forums is quite another story. The Forums is set up in such an odd way that one can hardly have any sensible discussion about just about anything Bigfoot related, unless I guess if you fork over $20 to the boneheads to join their groovy “secret” forum, where they take the dumb rules down so people can actually talk to each other like humans normally do, you know, to communicate stuff?

I am very proud to have been banned from this horrid viper’s nest, but the viciousness with which they hate me makes no sense. All threads mentioning my site and all links to my site are banned and immediately taken down, my IP was given out to any member who wanted it and I am regularly libeled on the site with no penalties being leveled at those doing the libeling. The sheer viciousness of the hatred of bizarre and over the top and makes my think the people running the site are nutcases.

Like complete fools, Bigfoot Forums has not only shut down the finest Rick Dyer thread on the web, but they have also banned any new Dyer threads, and not only that, if you mention Dyer, you will get an immediate ban. That means that these ultra-losers are of course going to get blindsided by the biggest story in Bigfoot history, which these boys and girls were so silly and petty as to decide that they would not discuss  without getting all butthurt. Bigfoot Forums will of course admit to doing nothing wrong and will stride forth from the ashes of their own self-immolation smiling and looking look a million bucks. What a bunch of douchebags.

Bottom line is we could really use a good Bigfoot discussion site. Bigfoot Warz is up now, with a strong focus on Rick Dyer, but there is not a lot of activity. Shawn’s Bigfoot Evidence has a discussion forum, but it could also use some more activity. Hardly anyone is banned from either site, and you can talk about most anything. You know…like…the American…way?

Bigfoot News March 15, 2013

Exciting news on Musky Allen’s visit to view Rick Dyer’s Bigfoot body. I am now 100% sure that Dyer has a dead Bigfoot that he shot and killed last September in San Antonio, Texas.

One reason is that I just learned some more about Allen’s visit to Las Vegas when he viewed the body. One thing I was uncertain about was whether or not Dyer was fooling Allen with a clever Hollywood movie prop. I was not sure whether Allen could tell the difference between a movie prop and a real dead body.

For the record, I know both Allen and the Facebook/Find Bigfoot guys, and neither of them is on any kind of a hoax. However, it remains possible that they are being hoaxed by Dyer, himself a notorious hoaxer.

Yet I just learned that when Allen went to see the body at Las Vegas, he was taken to an official US government facility. It was also a location with a very high degree of security. This was one of the main reasons why Allen had to sign so many documents before he viewed the body – because it is being held at that secure facility. There is absolutely no way that this government locale with all that security would be in on any kind of a hoax. It is not possible.

I have also learned that when Allen was viewing the body, there was another man present who was looking to buy Dyer’s body. This man had a physician there with him to figure out if it was a Hollywood prop or a real dead creature. Within two minutes, the physician determined that this was an actual dead creature of some sort.

An artist’s rendition of Rick Dyer shooting a Bigfoot in San Antonio, Texas at 2:30 AM on September 6, 2012.

Did the FB/FB guys view Dyer’s body? I have not been able to determine whether or not they were able to view the body, but it is possible that they did see it. They only issued a standard no comment disclaimer when I asked them.

Derek Randles may not see Dyer’s body. My understanding is that Dyer is not going to let anymore people see the body until the reveal, so I doubt if Randles is going to see the body.

Minnow Films will issue a statement on the movie Shooting Bigfoot next week. The statement will be issued by none other than Morgan Matthews himself. Minnow stated that it is not normal protocol for Matthews to issue a statement about one of his films, but this film contains something of particular interest, necessitating the statement by the director. We can only imagine what this statement will say.

Shooting Bigfoot will show soon on BBC Storyville. According to a tweet on BBC Storyville’s Twitter feed, the movie will show soon, but they do not have an official date yet.

New interview with me up. I was interviewed on the Mind Cemetery show on the Paranormal Network Internet radio station. The interview was also broadcast on a radio station in New Orleans, but I haven’t been able to find out its radio handle. It seems to be an obscure station. Mind Cemetery is a UFO network, but the interview was only about Bigfoot. The talk ranged for two hours. The host was an immensely personable fellow, and I enjoyed the discussion very much.

New version of the Tent Video is out with full audio. FB/FB has released a new version of Dyer’s Tent Video with the full audio. Some of the audio was edited out of the version released previously. The part that was edited out has the BBC crew whispering to Dyer, “Rick! Rick!” They are alerting him that a Bigfoot is outside his tent eating the ribs. Of course, Rick was already up and fumbling around for his rifle by that time. He then ran out with his rifle, but he froze up and could not shoot the Bigfoot. Nevertheless, a three minute segment of the Bigfoot eating the ribs was shot by the film crew. I knew about this missing audio segment for a long time, but I was not allowed to report on it.

Loren Coleman has left Cryptomundo. There has been some huge fallout between Coleman and Craig Woolheater, the result of which is that Coleman has left Cryptomundo to found a new website. What is funny is that I always thought that Cryptomundo was Coleman’s site. Actually, it is Woolheater’s site. Coleman is doing a good job on his new site, in fact, it is better than the old site!

Coleman is a very educated man. He has an MA in psychology and has worked as some sort of a counselor before. He has also penned some excellent tracts on social psychology. He seems to be particularly knowledgeable about the psychology of mass shooters, about which he has written lately. Coleman is no dummy!

Am I in on the Dyer hoax? Most people insist that Rick Dyer is hoaxing this latest body claim. I have been warned many times not to support him because people will say that I am in on the hoax. The problem with that is that Dyer and I have no relationship whatsoever. In fact, at the moment, we apparently hate each other. Well, at least I hate him and will until he stops libeling me. He doesn’t seem too fond of me, otherwise he would not attack me so much on his site. He is also savagely attacking some very good friends of mine, and I am not too happy about that.

Obviously, in many ways, Rick Dyer is simply not an honorable man. His drunken, obscenity- and threat-filled video tirades are embarrassing. He viciously goes after any and all perceived enemies in a manner that can only be called pathological. He has hoaxed the community repeatedly, and he made $50,000 off the 2008 hoax. He continued to hoax the community up until early this year. He apparently defrauded people who went on his Bigfoot hunts by having a friend run by in a Bigfoot costume. Rick laughed while discussing this, chortling about how he was fleecing the rubes. At his base essence, Rick Dyer is simply a long-term con artist.

He has been arrested a couple of times recently for some disturbing things. Charges were dropped in both cases – in one case when he returned stolen property and in another case when he agreed to not beat up his wife. Although charges were dropped, he appears to have been guilty of these offenses.

As you can see, this guy has a list of transgressions longer than the phone book. Even if he were friendly to me, it might take a bit of an effort to like such a willful and amoral flim flam man. On top of that, I am on his enemies’ list for some reason.

As you can see, even if Rick were hoaxing, I could not profit from it in any way because Rick and I have no relationship. I actually would not mind being on friendly terms with the fellow, but that is probably not going to happen due to my role as a truth-seeking investigative reporter. What is sad is that at this point, it is probably better for Rick and I to be at odds with each other as opposed to being on amicable terms. Because as soon as Rick and I get on friendly terms, people will say that I am “in on the hoax.” Now is that pitiful or what? When it’s better to be enemies than to be friends with someone for pragmatic reasons, it’s a sorry day.

Dyer does have a good side. It is said that he donated some of his recent proceeds to charity. What I think he really did was he bought off or paid off some of the homeless people where he shot the Bigfoot in San Antonio, possibly as hush money. Or maybe he just felt sorry for homeless people having been around them filming for a couple of weeks.

Anyway, narcissists often like to position themselves as major do-gooders out to benefit mankind. They set up charitable or self help groups or foundations, declare themselves dedicated to a life of helping others, make a lot of money and give it away to “inferior, loser” relatives as a way to be superior, make discoveries that save lives and help others. The life-saver, do-gooder, charity guy image feeds into their narcissism about what a great person they are. This is not really a bad aspect of narcissism; in fact, it is one of the good aspects. The take-home point is that they are helping others not out of altruism but in order to feel better about themselves, but maybe at the end of the day, that is a mere quibble .

Dyer may have a good relationship with his wife most of the time and may be good to his kids. Musky Allen met him and said he can be a charming fellow, a nice guy. But these types can often be charming and pleasant when they want to be.

I also feel that Dyer may be motivated by redemption in this latest case. He wants to be redeemed for the humiliation he received when he was  excoriated as a hoaxer and reviled by much of humanity. Why would such a nasty fellow want redemption for his sins? Bad people don’t care if they are bad. Bad people don’t feel bad; they don’t feel guilty. Rick feels bad and feels guilty on some level, hence the undoing.

How can a bad person want redemption? Answer: Rick Dyer isn’t all bad. Or as my mother would say, “Well,” and then a thoughtful pause. “People are complicated.”

Black and white is for children and lazy thinkers. It’s an exaggeration to say everything’s a grey area, but that’s more a sliding towards truth than childish Manichean splitting.

Dr. Melba Ketchum Bigfoot DNA study reached strange conclusions. Ketchum says that Bigfoots are closer to lemurs than to anything else. Sorry but that makes no sense at all. None, zero, zip. Back to the drawing board, Melba.

No contamination in Ketchum DNA findings. There is some little-known evidence that there is no contamination in her samples: Ketchum tested the Bigfoot nuDNA for several human genes, the names of which you can find in the manuscript. MC1R (human/Neanderthal red-hair color gene) showed up in the Bigfoot nuDNA as did the human antigen gene TAP1 (most of the time) and the jaw muscle gene MYH16 (which when present showed only a human profile rather than an ape one).

Not discussed in the manuscript are the tests Ketchum did for the TYR gene, which is associated with skin pigmentation, and the HAR1 gene, which is a “human accelerated region” associated with human neurological development. The human skin color gene TYR and human brain gene HAR1 were not found in Bigfoot nuDNA. Now that in and of itself is very interesting.

If the samples really were just bear or coyote or bobcat smeared with human contamination, all of the human genes should show up all over the place. The peer-reviewers for Ketchum’s manuscript only wanted positive, not negative, results included for gene tests, so the TYR and HAR1 data are not discussed in the manuscript. However, you can see the remnants of it in the Supplemental Data 12 appendix. The bottom line is the Bigfoot nuDNA is missing some important human genes that should be there if the nuDNA were in fact simply contaminated with human DNA.

Furthermore, if the samples were simply bears, coyotes or whatever with no human contamination present, the human genes listed above would not be there at all.

The conclusion is that the “contamination” meme bandied about is simply a red herring. Ketchum’s DNA results, whatever they were and whatever they mean, were simply not a result of contamination in any way, shape or form. Critics really need to get over the contamination BS.

Possible explanation for anomalous Ketchum and Smeja/Cutino results for the Bigfoot steak from the Sierra Kills. The results indicate that the submissions were from two different objects, not a single object. Cutino/Smeja’s results ended up with MtDNA haplotypes A and T2, and Ketchum’s MtDNA results indicate haplotype H1A for Sample 26 (the Sierra Kills Bigfoot steak). Apparently these were two completely different objects being tested. I have no explanation for the anomalous results or why there were two objects when there was said to be only two pieces of a single object.

Greenbriar Sporting Club Bigfoot trailcam photo. This photo was taken by a trailcam at the Greenbriar Sporting Club, which I believe is in West Virginia. They didn’t recover the photo until weeks later, and by that time, they had cut down the stump. As you can see, the Bigfoot is sitting on the stump, apparently grubbing it from bugs to eat. It is blending in perfectly with the stump. There was a lot of controversy about this photo, with a lot of folks simply saying that it is a tree stump. Others said it was hoaxed, but I doubt it.

The people at the club said that visitors had been reporting a lot of Bigfoot sightings in recent years. The area has become totally overrun with deer, and this is what the Bigfoots are apparently preying on. I believe this is a photo of a Bigfoot, not a stump and not a hoax.

A Bigfoot grubbing a stump in West Virginia. Note coned head, browridge and relatively hairless face.

Allegations of hoaxing at the Adrian Erickson Project site in Crittenden, Kentucky are wrong. The latest allegation is that the owners of the site were hoaxing Erickson, Dennis Pfohl and Dr. Leila Hadj-Chikh at the site, possibly by using one or more of their friends to run around in a Bigfoot suit while the researchers took photos and videos of the hoaxers. However, this cannot possibly be the case. If this were true, there must be some awfully big hillbillies out there in Kentucky. Why is that? Because according to Erickson, Pfohl and Hadj-Chikh who all observed him, the large male at the site was anywhere from 9-10 feet tall! Do you know any 9 1/2 foot hillbillies? Neither do I.

Bigfoots are people. Look at the various drawings below to see how the latest thinking that Bigfoots are people and not apes, more like us than we want to believe, is the new and improved way of viewing these creatures. First, a drawing of Rick Dyer’s Bigfoot based on dozens of conversations between the artist and Musky Allen.

Rendition of Rick Dyer’s Bigfoot based on Musky Allen’s recollections. Note the resemblance to a Neandertal. Note also the resemblance to the Minnesota Iceman.

It is said that the nose in the Tent Video and in Allen’s rendition are not the same. However, look at the graphic below.

Note similar downward curving nose in photo, rendition and recreation. Rendition is presumably of a Neandertal Man.

Let us look now at some drawings by Harvey Pratt, the artist who worked with David Paulides. These drawings were done by Pratt after talking with witnesses who had seen Bigfoots closeup. Look at how human they are.

Harvey Pratt’s very human-like renditions of Bigfoots based on interviews with humans who had very close up encounters. Note the very human-like appearance.

Below is a drawing by a man who had a closeup encounter a while back. Note the human-like appearance.

Witness rendition of a closeup of a Bigfoot the witness saw a while back. Note similarity to the rendition of the Dyer creature above.

Below is a closeup drawing of the same creature as above.

Closeup of the same creature as above.

Bigfoot News February 10, 2013

Robert Lindsay broke the Rick Dyer shooting story. If you go to the first page of the Rick Dyer thread on Bigfoot Forums, you will see that my blog is the first media source that formally broke this story, which is surely one of the major stories our new century. Facebook Find Bigfoot also acknowledged that I broke the story. It is true that there were rumors flying around before then, but I never heard of them. Anyway, apparently they were never formally published.

Crypto Crew has attempted to steal my thunder by denying that I broke the story since there were rumors going around before. Rumors do not constitute a story break. There are always rumors about any story before it breaks. This is unfortunate that Crypto Crew is doing this, as I thought that guy was a friend of mine.

It’s lonely at the top, eh?

So once again I reiterate that I broke this story. It is also important to note that I broke many or most of the other major Bigfoot stories of the past 1.5 years. I don’t get credit for that very often because so many people hate my guts for various reasons so they are loath to give credit where it’s due.

I point this out because the trickle of confirmations about the Dyer shooting story will soon turn into a flood in the coming weeks and months before the film shows, so I would like to set the record straight ahead of time before the story breaks.

I also broke the Melba Ketchum Bigfoot DNA study results story which recently hit the mass media an ADHD moment. Of course not one source credited me with breaking that story either.

Oh well, sigh.

New title for Morgan Matthews film, Of Monsters and Men. The new title for this film is Shooting Bigfoot. Here is a graphic of the poster for the film.

The new title makes a lot more sense since it will reportedly actually depict the shooting of a Bigfoot by Rick Dyer outside of San Antonio, Texas at 2:30 AM on September 6, 2012. It is not known whether the actual shooting was captured on film or not. What is known is that 3 minute footage of Dyer running out of his tent with a gun earlier in the afternoon of September 5while a Bigfoot was eating from ribs on a bait tree was shot and will be included. Quite probably the film will at least include footage of the aftermath of the shooting.

The poster for the film shows two men, one with a gun and one with a camera. The change in title and the poster are great evidence that the shooting actually did take place.

Email to Morgan Matthews. A friend of mine is good friends with Matthews. In fact Matthews stayed at his house for a while while shooting a film. My friend emailed Mathews to ask him about the new movie that the possibility that it may include footage of Dyer shooting a Bigfoot. My friend said that Morgan is a friend of his and that Morgan will always respond to any email that my friend sends him. However, this was the first time that Matthews did not respond to my friend’s email. My friend figured that something was up.

My friend also stated that there is no way the Matthews would ever be party to a hoax in any way, shape or form. He would not participate in a hoax nor would he film one. He would also never participate in Blair Witch Project type hoax marketing. Matthews is above all of that. Therefore, we can rule out Minnow being a party to a Dyer hoax. The possibility still exists that Dyer is running a hoax on his own and that my source at Minnow is simply lying. But I don’t believe that this is what is occurring.

Shooting Bigfoot and the South by Southwest Film Festival. I wrote in my last post that Shooting Bigfoot would appear at the above festival on March 9-17 in Austin, Texas. Commenters wrote back saying that the film was not listed on the schedule of events for the conference. However, I have just learned that the film has indeed been submitted to the festival. Whether it will be approved to appear there is anyone’s guess. So I was wrong to say that it would appear there, but I was correct that it had at lest been submitted. The film will definitely appear at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in April. That much is for sure.

Melba Ketchum skullduggery regarding work on the 9-11 victims. Melba Ketchum has long claimed that she did forensic work on the 9-11 victims as a forensic geneticist. However, the Melba haters have dug up data indicating that she is not listed as one of the geneticists who did forensic work on 9-11. Perhaps Melba really did work on the 9-11 victims and she is just not listed in the report. That’s possible I suppose. On the other hand, maybe she didn’t work on the project at all, and just lied and said she did. That would be right up her alley, and perhaps that is also what is going on.

Referring to Ketchum, the late Richard Stubstad laughed and said, “That woman lies like a rug on the floor! If her mouth is moving, she’s lying!” So as you can see, Ketchum has a six-shooter of a tongue, and she plays fast and loose with the truth, utilizing diplomatese, politician speak, PR talk, lawyerese, weasel words, half-truths, white lies or Hell, maybe she just lies like a rug!

She’s obviously a pretty morally collapsed individual. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Hell, just about everyone in Bigfootery is morally failed to psychologically damaged or usually both. Bigfootery either attracts the very worst human beings or it turns good people rotten. Bigfootery – Of Monsters and Men – A Portrait of Men and the Monsters They Become – a new movie!

She’s also perfectly morally positioned to make a bundle in capitalist society. The more morally collapsed you are, the richer you get under capitalism. So Melba is set right up to make a bundle and hit the bigtime in the free market. Go Melba go!

Tricky Ricky Dyer, scumbag, part 345,083. Yes, Rick Dyer is the scum of the Earth. This is not even debatable. And yes, the worst human being on Earth did indeed launch himself as one of the famous men of this century, or possibly of all time, by shooting and killing a Bigfoot recently. The history books are full of great and famous rogues, so this is nothing new.

There has been new news on the Rick is a scumbag front. We have news that Dyer has admitted to hoaxing people at $500 a shot on fake Bigfoot expeditions as late as 2010. We have an interview from 2010 with Dyer saying that there is no such thing as Bigfoot and that he was hoaxing all of the people he was taking out on his fake Bigfoot expeditions. He said he would nail them for $500 a pop and then have a friend of his run by in a suit to hoax them. He laughed at the suckers he was taking for being so stupid.

Skeptics are using this to prove that Dyer did not shoot a Bigfoot recently. However, both are true. Dyer did shoot a Bigfoot recently, and this criminal dog was hoaxing and defrauding scores or hundreds of innocent people as recently as 2010. Why Dyer is not in jail, prison or at least in the dock for this BS is unknown. It sounds like he might be guilty of criminal fraud based on his statements. Or at least he could possibly be sued by the victims he ripped off.

It appears that at some point between 2010 and 2012, Dyer changed his mind and decided that Bigfoots really did exist. So at whatever point that was, his expeditions stopped being criminal enterprises and began being real journeys.

However, Dyer was also hoaxing Bigfoot photos from Florida as recently as last spring 2012. Dyer is a con artist. Everyone knows that. But it looks like this master con artist also shot and killed a Bigfoot recently.

Dyer recently went after a woman who attacked him on Facebook. He uncovered her past and noted that she had a prostitution conviction in Australia. That was pretty low, but that’s what Ricky does. He viciously goes after anyone who calls this criminal on any of his depraved antics. Recently he has gone after Jeff Meldrum, for what reason I do not know. Perhaps Jeff said boo to Rick, I have no idea.

This may stem from a controversy surrounding Musky Allen, who recently viewed the dead Bigfoot shot by Dyer. Allen was quoted as saying that he had asked Meldrum to come, but Meldrum has requested a $5,500 speaking fee. Meldrum said Allen had never contacted him and that that is not his appearance fee anyway. Allen then clarified it to say that he contacted Meldrum in 2009 to make another appearance and Meldrum quoted him that fee at that time.

This all is being used to call Musky a liar and attempt to discredit him. I figure as far as Bigfooters go, Allen is fairly straight up and honest. Now that’s not exactly a compliment! That’s like being the most honest inmate in a prison! But anyway, I am not particularly worried about the dishonestly of this fellow. I think he is fairly straight up.

Meldrum is apparently not sociopathic like most Bigfooters, but as far as I can tell, he’s not above the occasional white lie, mostly in order to preserve the image of a now famous person from being tainted. In the moral pantheon of Bigfooters, Meldrum stands fairly tall. The most significant flaw is an ego the size of Idaho, but oh well. Let the man who is without sin and all of that.

It is worthwhile to note that I have observed continent sized egos via personal contacts with  quite a few famous academics and authors in anthropology and the sciences, especially the younger ones. Sort of goes with the territory, sadly enough. Meldrum actually has a very decent side to him, which is more than I can say for a lot of these douchebags.

At any rate, Dyer has now launched a full fledged attack on Meldrum, which is sad, sick and sorry. Meldrum should take the high road and not respond. Jeff has been known to get down and dirty in some of these fights and really it just makes him look bad. Would be better if he did not do it.

Dyer goes after any and all critics or attackers with a ferocity that is quite bizarre. True, this sort of nonsense is pretty typical for the swarm of idiots who populate this field, but Dyer really takes it to a new level. He seems to live to wage war on his ever-growing army of well-deserved enemies. He digs up dirt on them and generally tries to destroy them.

Narcissists do this, but generally not to this extreme degree. Sociopaths also ferociously anyone who stands up to them, and they often do so in a vicious and malign fashion that goes far beyond the retaliatory actions of the narcissist. In addition, we have Rick above delighting in his con artistry and laughing at the fools that he stole money from for being so stupid. This is also not typical for a narcissist. Narcissists are not typically con artists, though they sure skirt the boundaries all right! The full fledged con artist like Ricky, the master con man, is often really and truly a controlled sociopath.

It’s also not like the narcissist to laugh at the idiocy of his victims. Sociopaths think that other human beings are stupid (for not being sociopaths too) and therefore, they deserve to be ripped off or victimized in various ways by sociopaths. So we see here more evidence that Ricky has a sociopathic layer on top of the considerable narcissism. Narcissistic sociopath is looking better and better, and the sociopathic component is more controlled sociopath than uncontrolled sociopath.

Ricky obviously relishes the bad boy role. Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Hell is his motto, and he has often said that he is the only one in Bigfootery who doesn’t bow down or kiss up to anyone.

Tricky Ricky’s arrest record, military record and other nefarious goings-on. Yes, Ricky has been arrested at least five different times. That’s really nothing in and of itself, except that the charges were pretty significant. His wife charged him with assault and battery and claimed that he beat her up. The charges were later dropped due to some sort of agreement between the trouble. Ricky says she made up the whole thing and maybe that’s possible. On the other hand, sociopaths beat their lovers are sure as night follows day.

Ricky also ripped off a Canadian for $17,000. The man paid Rick $17,000 for two Corvettes, neither of which were delivered. Instead, Tricky Ricky took the money and ran laughing all the way to the bank. The charges were dropped when Rick agreed to deliver the two stolen Corvettes to his victim. There is also another arrest in the US about which I do not know. In addition, there are two arrests in Russia and Mexico for running police roadblocks. In both cases, Ricky came up to police roadblocks, was ordered to halt by the cops, and instead ran the roadblock. Charges were apparently dropped in both cases, but this shows poor judgement.

Sociopaths hate to follow the rules and they hate authority figures telling them what to do. This behavior shows poor judgement on Ricky’s part.

Steve Kulls has now discovered that Tricky Ricky did indeed get an honorable, not a general discharge from the US military. I wrote earlier that he got a general discharge and I would like to clarify that right now. I apologize for any misunderstanding to any scumbags who may have been offended.

Musky Allen goes to see Rick Dyer’s shot Bigfoot. The video below is a long, 1.5 hour interview with Allen about his trip to view the dead Bigfoot being kept at a secure facility near Las Vegas, Nevada. Musky sounds very convincing in this interview. Everyone is saying that Musky is lying and in on a hoax with Rick, but I do not think so. The latest charge is that the Facebook Find Bigfoot guys, who did the Musky interview, are now in on the hoax also. However, a friend of mine knows the FB/FB guys very well and he says that there is no way that they would ever be in on any kind of hoax.

Are the Rich Better Than the Rest of Us in Some Way? No

Objectivity writes:

“High IQ is not a prerequisite for anything, it just increases the odds. It’s like height. You don’t have to be a giant to make the NBA (short men have done it) but it sure helps. And if a rich person isn’t smart, they’re almost always superior in some other way (exceptional beauty, athleticism, energy, family background, special talents) 99.9% of the population can never be super rich no matter how hard they try because the typical American is already working half the day so doubling their efforts would at best, double their income, which is still leaves than making less than six figures.”

Look man, there is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing exceptional about rich people.

They generally have no special talent.

I will agree with you that the rich are often good looking, but so what? They didn’t get rich via their looks.

Athleticism may be more prevalent among the rich, as many are sports freaks. But I never met a rich person who was a super athlete. Some of them were good athletes in school, mostly because they hated academics so much.

The only thing that they have is sheer utter ruthlessness, high confidence and an absolutely crazy and out of control desire and need to get rich at any cost, come Hell or high water. Many are very aggressive verging on being sociopathic. The world of the rich is not a pretty place. Many to most rich people got rich by being monsters. They walk, ran or bulldozed over everyone below them and everyone in their way. They used, abused and exploited everyone around them. They violated agreements, back-stabbed, lied, cheated and stole. Want to know how to get rich? That’s how you do it.

Many of them are in some shady line of business that is near criminal. They sell products that don’t work, rip off other businesses but stealing from them, steal products, ideas and patents from other businesses, sell sleazy or shady products to consumers over the phone, engage in fraudulent investment schemes, get involved in slimy or shady businesses like online business, online dating sites, online porn, etc.

The business of getting rich is dirty. You not only get your hands dirty, your whole body gets covered in mud. That’s why the rich hate intellectuals. We make them think, and when they think, they start to feel guilty sometimes. We make them feel guilty. THIS is why they shut us down.

As a general rule, you don’t get rich by being a good, decent, right, correct, proper or even honorable person. You get rich by being a fucking scumbag. Many to most rich people are “legal criminals.” They’re basically just criminals, but it’s just that they are not breaking the law technically, though they love to skirt laws. There are “illegal criminals” and “legal criminals.” Now many of the rich are actually “illegal criminals,” in particular, they are involved in “Organized crime,” and they simply never get caught or law enforcement doesn’t really care about what they do. Only the feds go after organized crime, and they are usually short of cash.

Many rich people deal dope. I have seen this with my very eyes. One of my best friends from high school got very rich dealing cocaine. He was one of the biggest dealers in San Francisco, and he never got caught. He’s now back in Orange County, selling real estate. The guy is not smart. He might have a 110 IQ. He is a typical rich person.

Not only do the rich screw all their competitors, which is basically proper in capitalism, but typically they have screwed all of their partners too. The rich are always cutting each other out, ripping each other off, betraying each other, ripping up and violating agreements, etc. The word of a rich man is worth nothing. Nothing.

The rich are exceptional in certain ways. They are extremely aggressive. They are exceptionally ruthless. They are extraordinarily cold blooded. They have dramatically low levels of guilt. They have “Type A personalities.”

The rich don’t work harder than anyone else. In fact, they work much, much, much less hard. The rich are basically lazy. Being rich is all about not working.

This is what happens. Typically, you have to work pretty hard in order to get rich in the first place. But then what happens? What happens is that once the rich get rich, they stop working. They own the joint, so they show up once a week for an hour or so. The guy who owns the joint works maybe 1-2 hours/week.  Sure, they have to manage their businesses or investments or whatever, but guess what? They hire people to do that. A very serious problem with the rich is boredom. Many rich people are bored. They are bored because they have nothing to do. Hence the wild levels of degenerate and depraved behavior among the rich, the wild sex orgies, the very high levels of bisexuality, the kinky sex lives (bored with real sex), and heavy alcohol use (many of the rich are drunks) and in particular the high levels of drug abuse, especially drugs like cocaine, heroin and pills.

Bigfoot News New Years Edition 2012 Part 2

Update on Rick Dyer Bigfoot shooting. Of all the crazy stories floating around Bigfootery lately, this one is garnering the least attention, and that is too bad, because it makes the most sense, and it’s the question that I am most confident about. Instead of saying I don’t have the faintest idea, as I do repeatedly in today’s prior post, on the contrary, I am quite confident that Rick Dyer did indeed shoot and kill a Bigfoot near San Antonio, Texas on September 6, 2012.

The reason no one believes this story is solely due to the reprehensible behavior and mentality of Rick Dyer himself, no doubt the most hated man in Bigfootery and for very good reason. People hate him so much that they refuse to believe this story! Not only that, they hate him so much that many are refusing to run or even read any stories that even mention his name. Ouch! That’s some real hatred.

Fellow investigators and bloggers have been asking me a lot of questions lately to try to determine if this is a hoax or not. Most of them are certain that it’s a hoax. In general their reasons for believing this include their hatred for Dyer and his many hoaxes of the past. But this is not logical thinking.

1. Dyer hoaxed numerous times in the past, therefore he is hoaxing now.
2. I hate Dyer, so Dyer is hoaxing.
3. Dyer is my personal enemy, therefore he is hoaxing.

Very tempting for the brain to believe any of these things, but these are all logical fallacies that would be demolished quickly in Logic 101.

One of the questions tossed my way is how do I know that my source at Minnow is really a source at Minnow Films of the UK. Instead, perhaps it is someone in with Dyer who is part of the hoax.

The answer is that I am quite certain that this person is with Minnow, though they were given some incorrect information (apparently deliberately) about the Dyer shooting, probably to confuse them so they don’t know the whole story. My source was quite chagrined when they learned that they had been somewhat misled.

The incorrect information centered on the height and weight of the Bigfoot. The correct height and weight was given in a recent post by Crypto Crew, from an unknown source. This Crypto Crew post updates and expands the entire story beyond what I wrote, and Dyer himself has apparently confirmed that this account is 100% correct.

There are other things that lead me to think that this is not a hoax. First of all, the Camper Video is a video of a real, live Bigfoot! I am 100% certain of this, and Facebook Find Bigfoot confirmed that. So many people are insisting that that is a fake video only due to their hatred of Dyer. If anyone else shot that video, they would be praising it to the skies.

The way this story has come out looks very unhoax-like. It has trickled out in tiny bits and pieces here and there via mysterious unnamed sources ever since the day after the shooting. A number of Bigfooters heard these stories but didn’t know what to think of them. When asked, Dyer resisted these tiny leaks all along the way.

That’s not how a hoaxer works. If Dyer was hoaxing, he would have shouted to all of us right away that he had shot a Bigfoot. He would not have fought tooth and nail every leak along the way, and the story would not have slowly dribbled out like this. Sure, Dyer appears to be confirming it now, three months later and very reluctantly. It would not have played out like that if it were a hoax.

Let’s see: I will hoax a Bigfoot shooting in September, then as tiny leaks pour out for months, I will fight and deny them all the way until December, when I will orchestrate a huge leak via a major and well-regarded film company, and then I will hem and haw and finally fess up. Hoaxes don’t work that way, no sir.

Further, Dyer apparently told a close associate of the shooting early on but absolutely swore this person to secrecy, virtually making them scribble it in blood. If you are going to hoax, why swear associates to the secrecy of the hoax? Idiotic.

The only way this could possibly be a hoax is if Dyer is about 20 times smarter than the dumb redneck he is. Sure, maybe Dyer is hoaxing via some sort of 11th Dimension Chess, thereby making the greatest and most elaborate hoax of all time, to be studied by intelligence agencies across the seas for decades. Think so? Neither do I.

Rick Dyer, sociopath. In the last Bigfoot update, I discussed the narcissism that drives a lot of Dyer’s antics. It is only with a deep understanding of narcissism that a lot of this man’s behavior can be properly understood. Narcissists are as common as dandelions in Bigfootery, which attracts, feeds and probably grows its very own narcissists. But even there, Dyer stands out.

There is another aspect of his behavior, an antisocial aspect. Antisocial traits of various types are also very common in Bigfootery, and they are often hard to parse out from the narcissism. The two often run together, and narcissists can act antisocial at times.

Most of the antisocials in Bigfootery are the more controlled types. Sociopathy is either “controlled” or “uncontrolled.” The more controlled types fill the ranks of law, medicine, business, the military, law enforcement and of course government! It is simply not the case that all sociopaths are criminals. Most of them are never locked up for a single day of their lives. Why not? They are afraid of going to prison.

Fortunately for them, modern society provides many perfectly legal ways to do what sociopaths do best, being a criminal! Yes, these are the “legal criminals.” Who are these “legal criminals?” See above. Attorneys, physicians, businessmen, soldiers, cops and prison guards and of course how can we forget those who practice the art of Politricks?

The less controlled types are the “illegal criminals.” When they are highly uncontrolled, you get Ted Bundy. Highly controlled, you get JFK. Defenses come in handy here, especially sublimation.

Sublimation is nothing new. Churchill could have been Hitler.

Anyway, let us look at Dyer’s history. We know little about his early life.

In his 20′s, he joined the military. He served only 2 years before he took a “general discharge.” This is not a dishonorable discharge, but it’s not an honorable one either. It’s not exactly an optimal way to leave the service. My guess is his antisocial behavior got him thrown out of the military somehow, probably because he could not follow rules. It is very common for antisocials to get tossed from military service.

After that, he went into Corrections, an industry which, unfortunately for those of us out of uniform, is swarming with antisocials. Dyer only worked as a prison guard for 2 years before leaving for unknown reasons. Being a prison guard is a great job, and it makes no sense to leave a great job like that. My guess is he got in trouble again as a guard, probably once again for breaking rules (antisocials can’t seem to follow rules very well).

After that, he goes into used car sales, an occupation which is literally swarming with antisocials. In fact, one wonders how many used car salesmen are not antisocial!

Rick Dyer has a criminal past. By his own admission, he has been arrested all over the world. Well, that’s quite an achievement, guy! Dyer states this with some pride. Typically, he weasels his way out of convictions. Getting out of convictions and escaping from confinement is another thing that antisocials are good at. In fact, the best antisocials have this down an art. How they do it, I have no idea.

In the US, he was arrested a couple of years ago for ripping off car buyers on Ebay auctions. He stole $19,000 from a couple of men, one a Canadian. Dyer took thousands of dollars and promised the men Corvettes. The men received nothing at all, and Dyer simply stole their money, laughing all the way to the bank no doubt. Dyer plea bargained out of this one somehow by refunding the guys’ stolen money.

He had a big story about how it was an ex-wife who stole all the money and not him, and he was out of the country anyway. But antisocials always have an excuse for all their crimes. They’re never guilty of anything, and they rarely confess to any crime. Even when they do confess, they typically recant later on. They usually have a number of fall guys set up just in case they might need them, or if not, they just grab the nearest one off the street and designate them sucker.

Earlier this year, Dyer was arrested for beating up his pregnant wife. He’s got a big story about how she provoked him somehow, but that’s to be expected. The charge was bargained down to something minor, and he never got sentenced to jail. He’s now back with the woman, and she just gave birth to a child.

Dyer travels the world on a compulsive basis, apparently setting up residence in varying foreign countries for a short period of time, doing this, that or whatever (probably something shady, sleazy, quasi-legal or out and out illegal) and then taking off. Dyer also wanders around the US quite a bit. This sort of roaming and wandering is also typical of an antisocial. Many normal folks like to wander about too, but antisocials take it to an art.

Dyer is a less controlled sociopath, which is the reason for the repeated run-in’s with the law. However, I don’t think he is particularly dangerous, and I have advised folks who want to deal with him to not be afraid of him. If you as a fellow Bigfooter get involved with the guy, I don’t think he’s going to murder you, steal your money or rape your wife.

Given that Dyer is a sociopath, he is precisely the sort of guy who would and could very well shoot and kill a Bigfoot in cold blood as he is claimed to have done. You have to be pretty coldblooded to do that, and antisocials are legendary for their icy veins. A daredevil expedition like that is the perfect legal, quasi-legal or not exactly legal or illegal avenue for his antisocial tendencies.

Bigfoot News New Years Edition 2012 Part 1

Bigfootery is rocked by exciting, confusing and crazy stories, one after the other! More below.

First of all, the famous Bigfoot steak from the Sierra Kills of October 8, 2010, when 2 Bigfoots were reportedly killed near Mt. Haskell, California, has tested positive for Black Bear and human, the human being Justin Smeja, the shooter, himself. The conclusion apparently is that this is not a piece of Bigfoot as Dr. Melba Ketchum reported as part of her Bigfoot DNA study. Instead, it’s a piece of bear contaminated by the DNA of the man who found it.

There are all sorts of accusations flying, mostly centering on hoaxing. Many are accusing Ketchum of perpetrating a gigantic hoax on the community by taking a piece of bear and calling it a piece of Bigfoot.

Others are accusing Smeja of perpetrating a hoax. He never shot two Bigfoots, it is claimed. Instead, he shot two bears and claimed he shot two Bigfoots as part of a huge hoax.

I know Justin, and in addition, everything I have learned about him points in the direction of this being a true story. He’s simply not a hoaxer. Hoaxing is not in him. He’s really too good for this slime-pit called Bigfootery to be honest.

There are other theories being tossed about – that Justin sent in piece of bear instead of a piece of Bigfoot to keep from being prosecuted. He sent the actual piece of Bigfoot in to the study. That doesn’t seem to make much sense either.

One thing that is very confusing is that Ketchum never asked Justin for his own DNA in order to rule it out. If this is true, it is a damning statement against Ketchum.

There are also other accusations against Ketchum stemming from Smeja and Bart Cutino which I am not allowed to report on at this time, though I have known about this for months. Justin is supposed to release a statement about this in a day or two, but it may be delayed. Suffice to say that if true, it shows Ketchum in a shady light, in fact, in a more shady light than she is often portrayed – it makes her look absolutely terrible.

This story did not surprise me when I heard it as I have my own theory about why she made this sleazy and odd request, and it lines up with what we know about her ruthless and morally developmentally delayed personality.

Is Ketchum perpetrating a hoax? I asked the late Richard Stubstad this question. Stubstad was a statistician and an interesting fellow in that light. You could ask him just about any question that was not outrageously offensive, and he would just give you some kind of a statistical-type answer. These would be the sort of questions that would elicit moral outrage in most folks due to the implications of the question.

For instance, I asked him once if it was possible that Dennis Pfohl and Dr. Leila Hadj-Chikh were perpetrating a gigantic hoax on Adrian Erickson by claiming that they were interacting with Bigfoots regularly. His voice grew grave, and he said carefully, “I do not believe that this is possible. That’s not a possibility.” You see, a statistical answer. You could ask him all sorts of questions like that, and he would give you funny statistical answers like that.

Once I asked him if it was possible that Ketchum was perpetrating a gigantic hoax on all of us. Once again I got that dead serious tone, and he said, “I do not believe that that is possible. That’s not even a possibility.” Stubstad disliked her as much as anyone, and he would be the first to call her out as a hoaxer if that’s what he thought. But he didn’t think she was.

I do not believe that this woman is pulling off a gigantic hoax. Her career in science and possibly medicine could well be shot for good if she was caught doing such a thing. Further, it’s illegal to hoax for money. It’s called Fraud. Not only could she be sued civilly by everyone in sight for stealing their money, but it’s also a criminal offense. An enterprising DA could well send her to a female prison for a bit where she could study a lot of animalistic hominins up close and personal for a while.

Hence, we have a dilemma.

Ketchum says Justin has a piece of Bigfoot. Others say it’s a piece of bear.

Conclusion?

There is none. None of it makes the tiniest bit of sense to me, and all of the possible theories make no sense either. Humans don’t like to do this because it makes them feel lost like children, but many times in life you simply have to throw up your hands and admit that none of this or that makes any kind of sense at all, and you don’t have the foggiest idea what in the Hell is going on.

Which is where we will leave this depressing matter for now.

Daisy is in the box! A group associated with MABRC (Mid America Bigfoot Research Organization), a split off from the MABRC split-off Orig-6 called Team Quantra, is claiming that they have live captured a Bigfoot somewhere in the continental US. The Bigfoot was captured in some sort of a clam trap, sedated and then sent 12 miles away to a facility to be studied. A scientist was called in to study the creature, and that is the last that we have heard.

They will either be releasing it in 3 days (a very bad idea), or they will send it on somewhere to be studied, in which case they will release a statement in 30-90 days (30-90 day delay being another very bad idea). If they release it, all they will have presumably is video and photo evidence, which of course will be shredded to bits by skeptics. Hopefully they would have obtained some biological samples from the creature which could then be studied and DNA tested. But the creature would be loose, and we would once again run into the “no body” dilemma.

Various and sundry Bigfooter-critters have weighed in with their individually tailed ludicrous responses.

Tim Fasano, who is about as big of a kook as the guys at MABRC, etc. are, issued a statement saying that he called “Central Command,” and they told him that they had ordered the Bigfoot released “as per the Geneva Conventions.”

How does Fasano known anyone on the US military’s Central Command in the first place, and if he doesn’t know anyone, why would CentCom even speak to a lowly civilian? It  was a general himself who supposedly spoke to Fasano. Why would a general talk to this guy? No reason to. At the end of the day, the story is seems silly, and as with so much other nonsense lately, probably unverifiable.

Matt Moneymaker, another kook, also weighed in, claiming that this was all a hoax perpetrated by the same clown who hoaxed Autumn Williams in her Enoch Bigfoot hoax book. This is surely not true. The communications are coming directly from Ed Smith and Darkwing Lee themselves, and these guys, though clowns, would never allow themselves to be hoaxed by a lowly fellow like the Enoch hoaxer.

Either this really happened, or Ed Smith is knowingly perpetrating a hoax. Bottom line.

Ed Smith, Darkwing Lee and MABRC etc are some of the biggest kooks, idiots and fools in all of Bigfootery, and believe me, the competition is intense! They fight with everyone, including all other Bigfoot organizations. The fights get brutal; these rednecks play hardball. Threats have been reported both ways, possibly including death threats.

A pipe bomb reportedly went off at a MABRC conference a couple of years ago, but no one was hurt. There are accusations that MABRC themselves set it off. They steal other people’s research areas, often aggressively and even violently. They like guns and other weaponry. Their organization is filled with ex-military. So these are the kinds of folks we are dealing with here; you don’t mess around with them.

In addition, there has been one false alarm after another coming out of Smith/MABRC for a long time now. Most have fallen short of overt hoaxing, but you get the idea. The false alarms have been along the lines of “capture coming soon,” nonsense like that. For instance, Ed Smith claimed to have biological Bigfoot samples which were sent out for DNA testing. He then reported back the test results which would not make sense in any reasonable universe, though I am not a geneticist (it sounded like he made the results up himself). I am not sure if that counts for a hoax?

A recent false alarm was the Lee/Smith fiasco where they “refused to confirm or deny” whether or not they had a body. They played this out for a bit, milking all the publicity, until the coda, a 1 hour radio show that ended with them both stating that they had no body after all. They jerked off the whole Bigfoot community for weeks on end. Thanks a lot guys. I haven’t been masturbated quite so nicely in some time.

The problem with these guys is that while they are kooks, they are also dead serious. They have a very serious plan for capturing a Bigfoot, and they may well have working traps. They have an excellent plan for dealing with the Bigfoot afterwards. They have some brawn (ex-military), engineers, a whole lot of fancy and expensive equipment and some big money backers like attorneys, physicians and businessmen.

Obviously, you would have to be completely insane to try to live capture a Bigfoot. One of the side effects of kookery is that most kooks are quite crazy. Being crazy isn’t really all that great, but sometimes it comes in handy. If you want to live capture a Bigfoot, only the insane need apply. And a side effect of all the kookery and nuttiness of these guys is that they are precisely insane enough to try to and maybe even succeed at something as loony as live capturing a Bigfoot.

They may well know where these things hang, and they may have a working trap. They may be capable of tranking the thing if it gets unruly. They may even be able to move the box somewhere close by. They may be capable of having facilities to study the thing. But after that, all bets are off because I don’t see how a non-state group keeps such a creature in a facility tranked up enough to get studied. This part is where I feel their expertise would fall short.

A wild story was published on Bigfoot Evidence from someone who claimed to be in on the capture, and he said that the whole thing fell through when they got the Bigfoot in the facility. According to the story, the Bigfoot got out, tore up some of the guys studying it and then escaped. No one knows if the story is true, and hoaxers write in to BFE all the time with elaborate fictions like this, but this is just about how a story like this would logically end. In catastrophe, blood, broken bones, mangled bodies, property destruction and possibly even death of either the Bigfoot or some of those studying it.

We haven’t heard anything out of these guys for a day or so now, so who knows from here on out?

Is it all a hoax? As morally challenged as these guys are, MABRC/Smith have never yet actually and formally hoaxed the community. They have nearly hoaxed us many times, but almost only counts in Equine footwear and Little Boys. If they are hoaxing us, this would be a lowly first for them.

So, does the Team Quantra have a live captured Bigfoot?

Guess what? No one knows!

Identity Politics As Outgrowths of Narcissistic Pathology

Feminists don’t have the slightest understanding of women.

This is the same with all chauvinisms.

1. Afrocentrists don’t understand Black people
2. White nationalists don’t understand White people.
3. Super Jews and Zionists have little to no understanding of the Jews.
4. No nationalist understands his own people.

1. Feminists don’t even understand women.
2. MRA’s may possibly not even understand men well (remains to be proven).
3. Gay rights types have no understanding of homosexuality.

The problem with all of these forms of chauvinism, and that is exactly what they are, and why any decent Left should reject any and all Identity Politics crap, is that Identity Politics chauvinists can’t really look in the mirror.

The problem is one of egotism. Few people can see themselves. The chauvinisms of Identity Politics are simply outgrowths of one’s own egotism and narcissism. The egotist can see only the good of oneself and can never see the bad side.

Furthermore, the ego externalizes all blame and failure. We see this most clearly in the narcissist. Note that Identity Politics chauvinisms also externalize all blame and failures of the group towards designated enemies.

Mitt Romney, Sociopath?

On the matter of insurance providers denying women the right to contraceptive coverage, Mitt took about 10-15 different positions on the bill over the couple of weeks it was in the news. Many times, he changed his position more than once in a single day. He was literally all over the place and often didn’t even seem to understand what the bill in question was even all about.

He even took positions outside of either yes or no, implying that he supported part of the bill but not all of it, phrased several different times in several different ways. He stated that he used to be for it and now he was against it, and he used to be against it and now he was for it.

Mitt Romney is harder to pin down than a damned blob of mercury.

You know, there’s a name for people like him. They are called pathological liars. Mitt doesn’t care whether he’s lying or telling the truth, and he doesn’t care what the truth is anyway. The truth is whatever he says it is at the moment, which is an interesting philosophical position to say the least! Thank God our leading philosophers have not been sociopaths and narcissists like Mitt or our sick culture would be even more screwed than it already is!

I’ve known people like this before, facile and adept liars who will take one position one day and another the next depending on whoever it suits them best. They will take two different positions in the course of a day or even in over the length of a conversations. They will contradict themselves while you are talking to them, and then they won’t acknowledge it and will just bulldoze right over you.

Most such folks that I have met like this had strong sociopathic tendencies, or at the very least were malignant narcissists.

Which begs the question: Is Mitt Romney a sociopath?

Are Cluster B Personality Disorders on the Increase?

Excellent article by a woman’s site called Shrink4Men.

Now ordinarily I would be very suspicious of any woman offering therapy for men. I flat out refuse any therapy with a woman. I have seen about 3 female therapists, and in general, it was simply a disaster. They just don’t understand men. I talk about sexual stuff a lot in therapy, and female therapists just don’t get it. They usually think I’m a “typical male asshole” or something. Not a whole lot of empathy on their end. They can’t get out of their “Sisterhood” thing enough to do good therapy with me.

Anyway, it’s a good piece on the Cluster B’s. There is evidence that Personality Disorders (Axis 2) are increasing in modern society. They’ve been on the rise for about 80 years or so, with each succeeding generation having a higher rate of them than the preceding one. There are a lot of theories who this is so, and the author outlines them in the piece.

I also have noticed this (mostly crazy women) but I just blamed it on feminism.

Some of the reasons offered are:

1. our advanced industrial society that provides most of our needs,
2. our highly litigious, get mine and screw everyone else for as much as you can take them for lawyered up culture,
3. a pop Zeitgeist full of entitled, high conflict persons celebrating belligerent, unpleasant, assholey, bitchy, selfish, high conflict behaviors,
4. the culture of radical individualism fostered by radical Ayn Rand style, screw everyone, get mine, Libertarian neoliberal economics since 1980,
5. increasing divorce, drug abuse and family instability leading to children having an unstable first six years of life when the personality is formed (instability in ages 0-6 can create Axis 2 problems as the person fails to develop an effective and adaptive personality.)

At any rate, the Cluster B disorders are some of the most abrasive PD’s of them all. These are the “conflict-prone” or “extroverted” disorders characterized by continuous conflict with others in pursuit of blatantly selfish gains, refusal to accept responsibility, lack of insight and profound selfishness.

Cluster B people cause a great deal of damage to society in various ways on the job, in school, and on the streets. They run up high costs in the health care system and often run afoul of the law too. Cluster B disorders commit much more crime and especially violent crime than the rest of the PD’s and vastly more than normals.

They are abrasive, in an aggressive, unstable, mercurial, threatening and intense way. They provoke strong reactions in others and frequently elicit aggressive and even violent defensive reactions in those they constantly attack.

The Cluster B’s are:

Antisocial PD – sociopaths, psychopaths.

Borderline PD – a hurricane or tornado like behavior syndrome, mostly women, awash with suicidal behavior, acting out, self-harm, drug abuse, dangerous behaviors, promiscuity, occupational instability, extreme, regular and violent mood swings, very high anger levels, fluctuating self-esteem that descends to intense lows, over-idealization followed by or combined with total devaluation, emptiness, no insight, constant blaming, manipulation, scheming and threats and often what looks like “multiple personalities.”

Occasionally psychotic, but more often appears “near-psychotic or quasi-psychotic.” Often shows unconscious behavior that is even poorly remembered or not remembered not all, as if one was in a fugue.

Histrionic PD – I don’t know it well. Mostly women. Most of the men who have it are gay or bisexual. Bitchy, over-dramatic, always on stage, “actor” or “actress” like histrionics, putting on shows and displays and generally acting out.

Narcissistic PD – The center of universe, brags, manipulates others, has little to no concern or love for or even interest in anyone else, extremely inflated self esteem followed by incredible lows (“brittle” or “shallow” self-esteem), jerky, assholey or bitchy behavior, is often cruel or sadistic, insults or puts down others, displays haughty or arrogant attitude, blames others, has no insight, takes no responsibility, engages fantasies of extreme accomplishment and grandeur, shows profound jealousy of rivals.

Can lead to violence or criminality in pursuit of selfish ends or revenge against the hated rivals. Has no idea how they come off to others and is stunned or mystified when told how they do. Seems “blind and deaf.”

Master manipulators, often excellent social skills, extremely competitive, associated with high achievement but unstable relationships and even occupational history as they fight with most around them.

The term narcissism is often conflated with Narcissistic PD. I have a psychodynamically oriented therapist now who tells me that I am a narcissist.

What he means is that I am vain, self-centered and conceited and can tend to think I’m better than others, though I try very hard to control that part of it.

The problem is that that only skims the surface of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I’ve known some NPDs, and I am certain that I am noting like these folks.

I am not a high-confict person. I am a low-conflict to zero-conflict person. I go everywhere trying to be as nice as possible to most everyone all the time. If someone tells me they’re a Nazi, I am afraid to act offended because then maybe they won’t like me. So I just smile and try not to act offended. I pretend that they just told they like cherry pie or something.

What I am, in part, is the person described in the first paragraph below – a “vain individual who may overly enjoy his own reflection and is self-centered.” At worst, I am like Paris Hilton below – a “spoiled, silly, self-centered, attention seeking brat,” but even that’s pretty much of a reach for this introvert.

The following quote from the page above shows how the popular term “narcissism” has been ridiculously conflated with the extreme toxicity of the ultra-abrasive, high-conflict NPD type. He also points out that it’s just wrong to call Cluster 2 types mentally ill people who need our sympathy.

Screw that. They have a character problem. They’re people who are pretty much deliberately acting bad, and they need to knock it off. We need to aggressively confront their high-conflict bullshit, and deliver swift consequences on them every time they act up. They are like little kids who need to be “sent to their room” from time to time until they act better.

Here is the quote:

Like I think many, I always associated the term “narcissist” with vain individuals who may overly enjoy their own reflection and are self-centered, etc.

Obviously this just skims the surface in terms of NPDs.

While I can see where “narcissist” was a convenient label to attach to a particular flavor of PD for the purposes of, as Dr. T. previously mentioned, a sort of shorthand for the purposes of mental health professionals, I think the term is misleading in respect of PD’s and should be dropped by the psychoanalytic community.

The reality is that what we might see as narcissist personalities in the media, e.g., Paris Hilton, could just as easily, and likely accurately, be described as spoiled, silly, self-centered, attention seeking brats.

Obviously NPDs are something way beyond this.

When you get right down to it, PD’s seem to be, as evidenced from our almost identical experiences with them, more a personality type rather than individuals with anything I would from my layman’s perspective describe as a mental health issue or disease.

Their minds just work differently than most. If they worked differently in a beneficial way, they wouldn’t be identified as being “mentally ill,” however because they work differently in a negative way, the assumption is that this must not be from their own choice and that they would choose to be “good” if not for that infernal “mental disease” that prevents them from doing so.

Speaking of “infernal”, and calling a spade a spade, I have no doubt that PD’s were well represented in the group of those described as “possessed”, “witches”, “evil”, etc. a few hundred years back.

I have come to think that society and non-PD type people would be better served if PD’s, sociopaths, etc. were removed from the psychoanalytic realm and into the, for lack of a better word and as Dr. T. put it, the “character realm” and understood as being personality types who are best recognized and avoided or dealt with firmly when they use disruptive or dishonest, etc. tactics to achieve their ends rather than than being seen as individuals with a “mental disease” beyond their control who require understanding and forbearance.

Just my layman’s opinion.