This is a video of a food fight at a Wall-mart in Jacksonville, Florida. I found it on a site that was talking about Black riots. The site has a White racist perspective in that it claims that all of these riots are Black people rioting and deliberately targeting White people in the riots. Sadly, there have been some cases of this which we really ought to discuss on this site. Especially at fairs in the Midwest, young Blacks have gone on rampages, calling them things like “Beat Whitey night.” In some of these riots, only White people were targeted.
Although the site lists many recent Black riots and flashmobs, most of these have not targeted White people at all. Some were just general Black riots at fairs and whatnot. The rioting often began with rival Black gangs targeting each other. In other cases, young Blacks flash-mobbed shopping malls for the purpose of stealing stuff.
Although these riots targeting Whites are an incendiary issue, we really do need to look into them. The ‘Beat Whitey” riots do seem to be increasing in recent years, as is “Polar bear hunting” and “The knockout game.”
The White nationalist and White racist perspective on this is that US Blacks are declaring war on White people. This seems overdrawn to say the least.
Another one of their lines is that this behavior has increased since Obama took office. “Obama has empowered the Blacks,and now they feel strong, so they are declaring war on us,” is the line. The problem with this ugly line is that Blacks in the US can apparently never be empowered because they will just use it to attack White people. We must always keep them down so they don’t feel empowered enough to attack us. Raise their self-esteem, and they will just go after Whitey. That is a very depressing analysis, and I certainly hope it is not true.
As I noted, this Wal-mart riot was said to be one of the “Beat Whitey” riots. In fact, it is called “Food fight at Wal-mart.” If you look at the video, all it shows is a crowd of ghetto Blacks acting all wild and crazy in a Wall-mart.
The odd and disturbing thing about this is that these Blacks act like this is their idea of a great time. As a White person, if I were at this scene, this crowd would spell “dangerous place” and “someone is going to get hurt” to me, and I would try to get the Hell out of there as fast as possible. But many of these Blacks are laughing, smiling and hooting it up like they are having the time of their lives. It is as if they find chaotic, dangerous scenes exhilarating or something. I have noticed this many times before – that ghetto Blacks actually seem to get off on wild, insane, chaotic, dangerous, urban jungle like scenes that would send most White people running for the exits.
Christopher Noel’s 7th reason why he believes Rick Dyer.
7) Admittedly, this one follows quite a roundabout path of logic. See if it makes as much sense to you as it does to me.
Leading up to the world premiere of “Shooting Bigfoot,” Dyer robustly sold the idea that the powerful proof contained in the film would remove all doubt as to the legitimacy of his claims. On dozens of occasions, he promised his audience that we could expect “two to three minutes of crystal clear HD footage. Hell, you’ll be able to see the boogers in his nose!” On the strength of this assertion, many of us drove long distances in order to witness the historic sight; the guys from FB/FB, for example, traveled thirty-seven hours round trip in an RV.
As we now know all too well, the film contains less than two SECONDS of the Sasquatch in question. Whether he was given bad advance information by Morgan Matthews or was deliberately baiting his listeners, Dyer led us all out on a limb…and let us drop. Then, when we rightfully complained, he compounded the insult by jeering, “I’m sorry the Bigfoot didn’t come out and do a song and dance for you”–as though we ourselves had somehow allowed our hopes to inflate out of all proportion in the absence of Dyer’s very own hot air.
Now, those who find this man’s story to be utterly lacking any credibility in the first place will naturally point to this spectacularly failed promise and cynical, mean-spirited follow-up remarks as yet further evidence of the moral and epistemological bankruptcy of the case at hand. While sharing their disgust, however, I approach this affair from a different angle.
Dyer’s broken word and his new request, now, that we simply go ahead and resume the waiting game for another fifteen long weeks–until a promised August 15th body unveiling at a Las Vegas casino–has evidently cratered morale among his followers. Childish infighting has resulted in ousters and defections among his formerly tight Team Tracker circle and an ever-decreasing Internet radio audience. Dyer’s much-publicized mid-May Ohio expedition, featuring Dallas and Wayne, has been canceled due to lack of interest.
But where most see a sinking ship I look for a smoking gun. It is at just such a moment of plummeting confidence and organizational implosion that any scam conspiracy would be expected to fall apart, and quickly, once-loyal insiders “turning state’s witness” in order to salvage a last vestige of personal credibility. Where are they?
Detractors sense sweet vindication here, crowing as though it has already arrived. I frankly don’t see it.
Yep, where are all the Dyer insiders who are going public with the inside dirt about the “latest Dyer hoax.” Nowhere in sight. And they ought to be showing up just about now, except they are nowhere to be seen.
Dyer’s inside team is abandoning him. We touched in my last post, but it has been expanding since then. More and more insiders are bailing out. Some of the ones who are leaving say they are afraid of Rick. And more and more of Dyer’s followers are attacking his style and personality. People are saying that is nuts, crazy, a jerk, has a terrible personality, etc. Formerly, Rick’s followers all acted like Rick was the greatest thing on Earth.
However, most of those leaving are not accusing Rick of hoaxing. They are just bailing out on what looks like a ship of fools that is sinking fast. Rick continues to host his radio shows, but as Noel notes, few are listening anymore. And Rick seems to be getting nuttier and nuttier, waging incessant war on the “haters.” This war seems to be consuming almost all of his time now.
So-called scandal around Team Tracker from Racer X. The latest so-called scandal via Racer X revolves around Pinkfoot, Rick’s VP, and her doubts about whether or not Rick is hoaxing this whole thing, in particular, whether or not he hoaxed the Tent Video. It turns out that her worries are not validated when examined, and just because Pinkfoot is worried that Rick is hoaxing doesn’t mean that Rick hoaxed the Tent Video. But it does show the plummeting morale inside Team Tracker if even his own VP seems to be bailing out on him. Racer X presents this as evidence that Rick hoaxed the Tent Video, but it’s really nothing of the sort. Racer X has been grasping at straws for some time now.
Rick Dyer hoax out of Florida in Spring 2011.
Well, there you have it, a totally pitiful hoax by Rick Dyer of a Bigfoot.
Is that pitiful or what? Rick released that photo of a Bigfoot, and he shot that pic on one of his Bigfoot hunts in Florida. Later he said that he had not shot the photo and he did not know who did, and at any rate, he had nothing to do with that photo. This is Rick’s typical response when he is caught in one of his endless lies.
Dyer skeptics “prove” that Dyer is hoaxing the Hank footage. Racer X recently released these files that supposedly prove that Rick hoaxed the Tent Video and that the Bigfoot in the Shooting Bigfoot movie is a man in a mask.
The first one, comparing the Tent Video to a man in a suit, is an obvious fail.
This photo shows the Bigfoot from the Tent Video and compares it a photo of a known man in a costume and claims it is the same suit. The two are not identical and this photo does not prove that the Tent Video shows a man in a suit.
The photo below is not acceptable because the photo on the left is simply a recreation done using software and is not a photo of the actual Hank. In fact, the artist may have used that mask to help his recreation.
This one compares a Bigfoot mask with a markup drawing made using part of Hank’s face from Shooting Bigfoot that was drawn out using software.
The next photo shows Hank from the Shooting Bigfoot and compares it with a Bigfoot mask, claiming there are some resemblances. In fact, I see no resemblance at all.
This photo compares Hank in Shooting Bigfoot with a mask and claims there is somewhat of a match.
Monsters and Mysteries in America Justin Smeja Sierra Kills episode. Not sure if you ever saw this very interesting episode either on TV at the time or on the Internet afterwards, but I uploaded the episode onto my video blog in case any of you want to watch it. Derek Randles is also on the show. If you are interested in the Sierra Kills, you ought to watch this show.
Dr. Melba Ketchum working on an important TV documentary. Ketchum is now represented by an attorney in New York City. His name is Mike Sword, and his specialty is TV and entertainment. I don’t know for sure that she is working on a documentary, but this is what someone who has been following her closely believes.
Dr. Brian Sykes Bigfoot DNA study to be published in September. The Sykes folks recently released a statement saying that they were going to be completely transparent with the community the whole way through this study. The expect to be able to release the study in September.
Sykes may be a Bigfoot skeptic. A man who was in contact with Sykes for a long period last year said that his impression at the time was that Sykes did not believe in Bigfoot and Sykes saw his role or goal as being to debunk the Bigfoot myth. This person believes that this is still Sykes’ philosophical view as he spoke to him when he returned from his latest visit to the US and implied that his earlier skeptical view had not changed. This goes against statements from those involved in Sykes in the US that said he had some sort of an experience at a Bigfoot habituation site in Washington state and that now he is a believer in Bigfoot.
Sorry I do not have any more, but I do not think there has been a whole lot going on in Bigfootery lately…
A truly insane article by a typical Black conservative nut. This kook points out the logical fact that is known to anyone: What do the Top 10 US cities with the highest crime rates have in common? Guess what? They are chock full of Black people! Duh.
One would draw certain logical conclusions from these obvious facts, but a Black conservative is too much of partisan monkey liar to ever do that. As bad as Black liberals can be (and they can be pretty bad), Black conservatives are by far the worst that the Black race has to offer.
According the Williams, the logical conclusion that we draw here is twofold:
1. These cities are full of Black folks.
2. They are all run by Democrats, for the most part liberal Democrats.
Conclusion: Liberal Democratic administrations cause unbelievable amounts of crime!
I kid you not. Black conservatives really are that stupid. As if Black people would act any better under a hard rightwing administration, not that they would ever elect one.
We have an actual experiment to see if this is true: the South. All Southern states are run by radical rightwing Republicans. Before that, they were run by radical rightwing Democrats. All of those states have been run by Black-hating racist White people for ever and ever. And how do Black people act down South? Perfectly horrible. They act as bad as Black people do anywhere. Why would Black folks suddenly act better if a rightwing Republican racist White massa was in charge, cracking the whip on those niggas? You think is going to stop making them act up? Come on.
The truth is that those cities are full of crime for the precise reason that they are full of Black people. Once you get a city full of Black people, you tend to get a city with lots and lots of crime. Those Black people created all that crime, and they will create about as much crime whether they are under a liberal Democratic administration as when they are under a Republican white racist massa administration.
Williams is truly crazy: a Libertarian Black. Black Libertarians are even more insane than Black conservatives. About 3% of Blacks are Black conservatives. We know this because ~3% of Black voted for Mitt Romney in the last election. However, if you looked at the US news media, you would think that 50% or more of Blacks are conservatives. Black conservatives may be as rare as four leaf clovers, but the “liberal” media loves them, and loves to over-represent them as demonstrative of the politics of US Blacks. If you are a US Black conservative, you are almost guaranteed of getting your own radio or TV show or your own newspaper column.
Does anyone on Earth think that Libertarianism will do anything for US Blacks?
Libertarianism is what exists in the 3rd world. In the 3rd World, the state is almost nonexistent, spends almost no money on the people on social programs, and what money it does have goes solely for police and military to enforce class rule over the lower classes and the workers. If the lower classes and workers get too out of hand, you just call out the cops and army and slaughter them.
Other than that, the government exists solely as an arm of the richest sectors of society and serves to protect their interests. The rich and business classes get to do everything and anything they want to. The state is starved for funds because the businesses and the wealthy pay no taxes, and the elites don’t believe in government spending anyway due to “the threat of a good example.” If the state spends money on pro-people programs, that is socialism, and we oppose socialism. Also the people might come to like this socialism and might want to have a more socialist country. This would interfere with the moneyed interests of the nation’s elites, so we can’t have that.
Libertarianism is what Blacks have in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and a few other places. Probably Haiti is the best example because it is the most Libertarian society ever attempted in a Black country. You can see how well that is working out!
Over in Africa, we can look at Kenya, Nigeria or Zaire as examples of nearly Libertarian Black countries in which elites steal 100% of the money in society leaving the masses with nothing but starvation and disease. As you can see, that is working out just fine!
Most other Black nations are socialist to some degree or another, so it hard to find a Black example of a radical rightwing country, but the above examples are pretty good.
Libertarianism won’t do anything good for Black people. All it will do is turn Black neighborhoods and cities like Detroit and Oakland into Haiti or Nigeria. If you think that is an improvement on the present state of affairs, you are wrong.
Morgan Matthews has no Bigfoot body. Morgan Matthews of Minnow Films has issued a statement saying that he personally and Minnow as a company is not in possession of any Bigfoot body. Thanks to Rick Dyer’s blog for breaking this info to us. The report was from a personal phone call to Matthews himself.
Photos of the Dyer Bigfoot (Hank) surface. At least three photos of Hank, dead, have surfaced. They were emailed to Musky Allen, who unfortunately forwarded them on Dyer, who got pretty upset as he received them on his radio show.
The first two photos show what looks like a crime scene with terrain similar to the shooting scene in San Antonio, Texas. There are a dozen or so men standing around, and Dyer is one of them. Hank is lying dead on the ground and the men are circled around him.
The third photo shows a group of men attempting to load Hank, who is on some sort of a platform, into the back of some sort of a truck. This photo was apparently taken as they were getting ready to transport Hank to Las Vegas. Another version says that the photo is of Hank in the back of the truck as it was being transported to the facility.
Rick took the photos after they were sent to him and acted pretty mad that they were released. Allen has apparently not released them to anyone else. It appears that DJ Bashers may have been the one who released the photos in a pique of anger. Bashers had just been demoted as Vice President of Rick’s company, and his anger over this may have caused him to leak the photos. DJ had indeed seen Hank as he was being loaded onto the truck in San Antonio.
Both Bashers and Musky have signed NDA’s with Dyer. Even if Bashers did release the photos, he might not admit it as it no doubt violates his NDA. NDA’s can be pretty intimidating documents. Bashers may be related to Rick, possibly a cousin.
Where do the pics come from? Apparently a number of pics of Hank were taken, and someone got their hands on a few of them when they were not supposed to.
There was a note attached to the pics telling Musky that he could use the pics to end some of the arguments over whether or not Dyer was hoaxing. Apparently the person forwarding the pics was concerned because Musky had taken some heat over his position on the Dyer matter, and the sender wanted Musky to use the pics to ameliorate his position in the debate. I do know that the pics came from the US, not the UK, and that they did not come to Musky’s Facebook account. Instead they went to his email. However, Musky’s email account is not well known, so this person has some inside information.
At present, we only know of three people who have seen the photos: Musky, the person who sent them to Musky, and Rick Dyer, who received them from Musky.
Unfortunately, the Dyer detractors are so intransigent that even the release of those three pics would hardly budge one single person over to Rick’s side. It is sad the way this thing has gotten politicized.
Shooting Bigfoot press kit says Matthews suffered “scars” during the shooting of the movie. The press kit for the movie does not have a lot of information, but it does say that Matthews suffered “physical and mental scars” in the shooting of the movie. That is very interesting. The physical scars may refer to Hank attacking Matthews after the initial shot, knocking Matthews down, or may refer to the fist fight that ensued afterwards.
The phrase may also refer to scars that Matthews got in a wild fistfight that occurred between Dyer and Matthews and possibly the rest of the crew after Hank was killed. The fight happened because Dyer had created a gigantic mess by killing an actual Bigfoot in the shooting of the movie. The crew may also have sympathized with the dead Hank. They may also have been mad at Dyer for endangering Matthews life by shooting Hank in the back, causing it to charge Matthews and Rick.
Blurb from Finding Bigfoot discusses scars incurred by Matthews in filming the movie.
Top Bigfoot Forums administrator now supports Dyer. A top BFF administrator now says that he has inside information about the Dyer shooting that “prevents him from declaring it not true.” This person had apparently been a strong supporter of the hoax theory for a long time.
Dallas Gilbert says, “Rick Dyer saved Morgan Matthews life.” Someone named “Dallas” called in to one of Dyer’s radio shows and made that statement. This refers to how Dyer shot Hank in the head as he was charging Matthews. The dying Hank then attacked Matthews, knocking him down on its way to trying to get to Rick.
Matthews was apparently injured when Hank attacked him. According to Dallas, if Rick would not have shot Hank, since he was coming at Matthews, he would have killed Matthews or at least hurt him badly as he was attacking Morgan at the time. Dallas can only refer to Dallas Gilbert, who is one of the people featured in Shooting Bigfoot. How did Gilbert learn this? Gilbert must have talked to Matthews, who confirmed the story about Matthews nearly being killed on the set of Shooting Bigfoot.
So Gilbert has apparently signed on to the shooting story. I suppose he is in on the hoax too, eh?
What will Shooting Bigfoot show? The movie will apparently show everything up to the shooting of Hank. After Hank is shot, the scene will then switch to Matthews on a plane flying back to the UK. He is filming himself, and the bruises on his face can be seen. Then the movie ends. You will walk out the theater wondering what you just saw.
Everything following the shooting, including the fight between Matthews and Dyer, the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the transportation of Hank’s body to Las Vegas and its autopsy, was also filmed and will be shown in a documentary filmed by Dyer and his investors. This documentary will be released by Rick and his team soon after Finding Bigfoot is released on April 30.
Mess surrounding immediate scene of Hank’s shooting cleared up. Rick first shot Hank in the back, and then Hank turned around and charged Rick. Hank knocked Matthews down on his way to Rick. Rick then circled around in back of Hank and shot him in the back of the head. Morgan was shooting film the whole time.
Presumably, not only was Morgan endangered by Hank attacking him, but Rick’s shot from the back also placed Morgan in the line of fire. So both shots at Hank definitely endangered Morgan too, but arguably Rick had to shoot when Hank started attacking Morgan.
Matthews’ reaction to the whole mess, the kill, being knocked to the ground, or both, was to physically assault Dyer in outrage. A fistfight between the two men then broke out which was soon broken up by the crew. Apparently no criminal charges were filed by either side due to the fight.
Chart makes the case that Dyer is not hoaxing. There are two sides to the Dyer mess. One says he is hoaxing, and the other says that he really did shoot a Bigfoot. The chart below lays out the arguments that Dyer is hoaxing and attempts to offer rejoinders to all of them, making the case that the story is true. The chart also mentions me and my friend Chris Noel as two of the most prominent Bigfoot writers who also happen to support Dyer, arguing that as evidence in favor of Dyer’s story.
Click to enlarge. Large file. Chart makes the case that the Dyer shooting is a true story. Chart was taken from the Bigfoot Warz website. The chart was done by David Durrett.
Politicization of the Rick Dyer mess. As noted above, the Dyer mess has been hopelessly politicized. Most people think it’s a hoax, and most of those hate Dyer. A smaller number think it is real, and most of them like Dyer. Now I take a medium position. I despise Rick Dyer, but I do think he has a body.
Not that I want to be friendly with the guy anyway, but the politicization of the hoax has somewhat prevented me from being friendlier to Dyer. After all, Steve Kulls still has email contact with Dyer, and Kulls is his worst enemy. Dyer won’t even have email contact with me. Not that I want it, but it might be nice to have some sort of contact, like the way opposing generals in a war have a phone line to each other.
The problem is that as soon as it comes out that I am “in with” Dyer, my name is mud, and I am “in on the hoax.” Then the smearing, digging up dirt on me and other skullduggery begins. So tragically, this means that the best situation is that Dyer and I remain at utter loggerheads.
Rumor in Sierra Kills story verified. I suggested a long time ago that in between the Sierra Kills and the body recovery mission a month later that Justin and a major Bigfoot researcher (I do not know who yet) went back to the scene of the Sierra Kills. Justin and everyone around him, including Derek Randles, have always denied that this is true. However, I have recently confirmed that Justin and this man did indeed make an attempt to go back there, but the story is that they were stopped by the huge amount of snow in the area and were not able to make it to scene. Therefore, the standard Sierra Kills story is not correct and may have to be amended.
More answers to Sierra Kills questions (rejoinders from the group around Justin answering all theories about the Kills). People around the scene continue to insist that the standard story is more or less correct. Let us look at some of the problems with the story:
Adrian Erickson stated to a source that he got a phone call from Melba Ketchum soon after the Sierra Kills. During that phone call, Ketchum stated that she had received two samples from the Kills with two different colors, one reportedly from the baby Bigfoot and one from the adult Bigfoot. The baby sample and all mention of it subsequently vanished off the face of the Earth. That was the last anyone has ever heard about it. Melba herself now says that she only received one sample, and that was from the adult.
Everyone around the story says this is not true.
One source said, “Well, Melba is a liar. She’s not to be trusted. She may have been lying about that.”
Erickson has not commented on the story, but he denies a lot of obvious truths that I report also. Actually he sends his person hit man, Randy Brisson, out to deny the truths that I report. I guess we can expect more of that shortly.
Justin and the driver have 16 pounds of Bigfoot. Justin told a friend of his that he and the driver had 16 pounds of Bigfoot stashed in freezers in a 25 mile radius around Sacramento. People around Justin all insist that he only has two pounds or so. In a phone call with me, Justin denied that he had ever told anyone he had 16 pounds.
Size of Bigfoot steak. According to Richard Stubstad, Ketchum described the steak as 4″ X 3″ X 2.5″, and Justin said that it was 1/8 of the sample. Stubstad calculated the weight of that size to 2 pounds. This lines up with 16 pounds. The size of the steak has now shrunken to 1″ X 1″ X 1″ as per Randles and Smeja, and they now say that the steak weighed 1/4 pound. Everyone around Justin continues to insist that only 1/4 pound was sent in and only 2 pounds were taken.
Recovery story makes no sense. A 600 pound Bigfoot simply does not get reduced down to two pounds of flesh in only one month in the woods, even after being scavenged. At the very least, all of the bones would have been present in addition to the flesh. It makes no sense that only a scrap of flesh was left along with no bones. Everyone around Justin continues to hold to the original version of the story, offering various unlikely scenarios for why the body had been reduced to such an implausible condition in such a short period of time.
Body of baby being stored near Palo Alto, California in a white locker owned by Wally Hersom. This is just a rumor, and the person won’t tell me how they know this. This person is a biggie in the Bigfoot scene but is widely regarded as “out there” and someone who pushes some pretty wild theories. Others say he is either hoaxing or simply imagining things. In other words, many think this person is a “flake.” This person has not yet produced any concrete evidence from their habituation site. At the moment, there is no evidence that the baby is being stored in a locker in Palo Alto.
Derek Randles and possibly members of his landscaping crew recovered the large body soon after the Kills. Supposedly, Randles and his crew and a few other researchers went down there soon after the Kills and recovered the body of the adult. The persons saying this are simply conjecturing because they say the body recovery story is not true they think Randles and Justin’s behavior is suspicious.
They tell me, “It must be true. It has to be true.”
However at the moment, there is absolutely no good hard evidence that Randles and a team went down soon afterwards and recovered the large body.
Bobo’s statements that they have the bodies. Bobo has made a couple of suspicious statements that indicate that he feels that bodies were recovered from the Sierra Kills. In a public meeting for a Finding Bigfoot show, someone talked to Bobo about the Sierra Kills story.
“They didn’t recover the bodies then? Why not?” the person asked Bobo.
“No! No! No! You don’t understand!” Bobo whispered in a frantic tone, his eyes wide. “They’ve got the bodies!”
“You mean they recovered the bodies?” the man asked.
“Yes!” Bobo hissed with an alarmed look on his face.
Bobo insists that he never made this statement and has cursed me out for reporting this.
He and people around him say that the person misheard Bobo, and Bobo actually said something like, “They don’t have the bodies!”
However, the person who spoke to Bobo continues to insist on his version of the story.
In another case, on the Joe Rogan Show, Rogan asked Bobo if bodies were recovered from the Sierra Kills site. Bobo stared at the mike for a second and paused as if starting to say something and then stopping.
Bobo then said in a hushed tone, “Can I speak to you after the show?”
Rogan said, “Sure.” Then Bobo launched into the standard body recovery story.
Persons around Justin say that this statement by Bobo means absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Statements that the Sierra Kills was from the leg of the adult Bigfoot. On the surface, this appears very suspicious. Melba Ketchum told Richard Stubstad that the piece was from the thigh of the large male Bigfoot. Bobo also stated on the Conan O’Brien Show that the piece was from the leg of the male. There is no way anyone could know if it was from the thigh or leg of the Bigfoot unless someone carved it off the thigh or the leg and told people that’s where they got the meat.
Persons around Justin say that Melba simply theorized with no evidence that the piece came from the leg, and then the story got legs, and everyone started repeating it.
Body or bodies are in possession of Wally Hersom. Once again, this is just conjecture. People say that if the bodies exist, they are with Wally Hersom.
“They have to be with Wally. They can’t be with anyone else,” they tell me.
However, there is absolutely no good hard evidence that Wally Hersom has any Sierra Kills bodies or even that any bodies were retained at all.
If bodies exist, they would be released by now. People around Justin all say that if bodies existed, they would have been released by now. However, I have evidence that these people have excellent evidence to hide any bodies that may or may not exist. The reason for hiding them would be to protect the identities of those who took, who see their careers as researchers ruined if it comes out that they were involved in hiding bodies.
Some theorize that the bodies were going to be released with a fake story to deny the Sierra Kills story because it seems so ugly. Instead, the Bigfoots would have been recovered in a more friendly manner.
Also people state that Justin and those around him are not worried at all about Justin going to jail if bodies are released. However, I have information that some of the people around Justin are incredibly worried about just that. In fact, Derek Randles was extremely worried about that for sometime after the Kills.
After it came out that Bigfoots were part human on MtDNA, Randles told a source, “Those things are coming back human MtDNA. That means that Justin is guilty of murder if they prove he shot those things!” He reiterated that point numerous points. Randles now states that he never worried at any time that Justin might go to jail.
Whether Justin is himself, I do not know. He says he is not. If bodies are being hidden, it is for two reasons: to keep Justin out of jail and to protect identities of those who may have hidden bodies. However, as I noted above, there is not yet any good evidence that any bodies were retained from the Kills.
Justin would not have left the baby there at the scene. People who know Justin say that he never would have left the body of the baby at the scene because he is a taxidermist, and taxidermists always recover their special kills.
“There is no way on Earth a taxidermist would have left that body lying there,” I was told. “One thing you need to learn about taxidermists. Taxidermists are hoarders. They don’t leave great kills at the scene. Never.”
However, Justin says he did just that because he and the driver were so freaked out by the whole mess. They put the baby under a bush and drove away frantically, worried about California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) officials coming to get them.
Justin was worried because they had been drinking and shooting and were supposedly poaching. The argument is that Justin and the driver were drinking and hunting (illegal) and were poaching. For this reason, they were afraid of the DFG and this explains some of their behavior. Bobo said both of them were “pretty loaded on beer” after drinking beer much of the afternoon. However, Justin says he only had 1-2 beers. The poaching story keeps coming up for some reason and won’t go away. However, Justin insists that he was not poaching.
There is no evidence that Justin had more than a couple of beers or that he was poaching that day. However, he did shoot the Bigfoot from the truck, which is illegal.
True story of the Sierra Kills, like the JFK shooting, may never be resolved. Whether the standard version of the story is true or whether the other theories which folks around Justin deny are true will probably never be proven. The standard story will no doubt become received truth, and this is how history will be written. The other theories will simply be described as wild conspiracy theories with no evidence to back them, which is true (at least the no evidence part).
The bodies, if they exist, will probably never show up at this point. Too much damage has been done and the risk to various folks’ public images has been too great. If the bodies exist, they will probably be burned in a pile somewhere or dumped into the ocean. However, as noted, there is no evidence yet that the standard story is not true or that bodies were recovered or even retained.
Like the JFK shooting, there will be a “standard historical view” of the Sierra Kills case, and all other theories will be relegated to the conspiracy pile, and the debate between the two sides will probably go on for a long time unresolved.
We will probably never solve the question of whether the standard view is true, and there will probably always be folks who insist that bodies were recovered and kept after the incident. At this point, there is not a whole lot more to write about this story as it seems the Standard View is set in stone for now, and hard evidence, if it exists, will probably never be forthcoming. We may as well bury it and move on.
Why is Justin’s Sierra Kills Bigfoot steak testing as “bear?” Indeed the Kills steak has tested as “bear” in a few different lab results. Dr. Melba Ketchum’s detractors all say that this shows she is hoaxing or at the very least is incompetent. The hoax theory means that she knows it is a piece of bear, but she is pretending it is a piece of Bigfoot in order to hoax her scientific study.
However, there is a way to reconcile the two stories. We can simply say that there is a possibility that the body of the large one was scavenged by bears before the recovery, and this is why it is testing as bear. This is what a source told me, and I think it is a good theory for the two completely different results.
Strange Alberta Sasquatch photo may be the real deal. The very odd photo below was supposedly taken by a trapper in Alberta. It is said to show the back of a Bigfoot sitting down on the ground. It is not known why only one photo exists, and we do not have much of a back story on the photo. No one quite knows what is in the photo, whether it is one Bigfoot or two, or whether it is a bear instead. However, a friend of mine who works at a museum said it was a real Bigfoot, due to the hair.
I said, “But it looks so weird!”
He replied, “Well, Sasquatches are pretty weird animals!”
However, many insist that this is a photo of a bear. Make up your own mind.
Very weird photo of a possible Bigfoot in Alberta, Canada, shot from the back. It is apparently sitting on the ground.
Strange photos of Bigfoots shot by humans. All of these photos are said to originate long ago, mostly from the 1800′s. Two have been proven to be a fakes, but no one knows what the other one is.
The photo below showing the man standing next to the upside down dead Bigfoot has been proven to be a Photoshopped fake. This one originally surfaced on the Cryptomundo site.
Click to enlarge. Photoshopped fake of an old photo showing a hunter with a dead Bigfoot.
The very strange photo below surfaced somehow a little while ago and made it onto Loren Coleman’s fine Cryptomundo site. The writing on the back of the photo says the creature was killed by trappers in a certain location in coastal British Colombia. The date is given as a date in 1892. This photo is very odd and does not appear to be a fake. On the other hand, some say this is a common animal like a bobcat or a mountain lion. It surely does not look like one to me. One of the most fascinating cryptozoology photos out there!
This very odd photo below, now been shown to be a fake, just recently surfaced. It is certainly an excellent fake.
A very well done fake photo of a Bigfoot supposedly shot in the 19th Century.
Microbiologist backs Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA paper. A microbiologist, Dr. Tyler Kohnjohn, has backed Ketchum’s DNA paper, saying that while she did not prove that Bigfoots exist, she did prove that there is “something strange in the woods of North America.”
Kohnjohn notes Ketchum’s data on hair morphology (excellent evidence in my view) and the fact that she found unique strands of NuDNA across multiple samples in favor of his view. He also explains why the paper was rejected and why she had to self-publish. Her first target, a forensics journal, rejected her paper because it was “too genetic and biological.” The biologist believes that the data points to one of two origins for Bigfoot: it is either a hybrid or a mutant.
Three cheers to Melba for this great letter from a PhD showing support for her paper!
Ketchum threatening to sue Bart Cutino, Wally Hersom and Sally Ramey. Why she is threatening to sue all these folks, I have no idea. I would not take on Wally though. He is big money. This is the dark side of Melba – her psychopathology, moral blindness or ruthlessness, however you will have it. I have been reporting on the Machiavellian nature of this piece of work for a long time now and was shredded to pieces for what I said about the poor delicate woman. Now her latest moral failures have come to light, and just about everyone thinks she is shady and sleazy if not an out and out crook. So I am vindicated once again.
In Ketchum’s favor, I would say that she has the same personality traits as such human sharks as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Steven Ballmer and Andy Grove. This clowns are now icons in US ubercapitalist culture which worships those who pile up grotesque mounds of wealth that they have no Earthly use for.
The dark side is that I know exactly what all of these quasi-sociopaths were and are like in their corporate personas, and to put it nicely, they were and are all monsters. How did they behave? Very much like Ms. Ketchum. So you can see the fair lady has some fine or at least finely tailored company.
Anyway, it’s almost a requirement to be a sociopath to rise to the heights of US turbo-capitalist society, so doubt Melba has the right idea. But look at all the bodies in churning in the frothy wake of this female great white Leviathan.
Russian Yeti video backed by Dr. Igor Burtsev. A new Russian Yeti video has been released and Burtsev says it shows a female Bigfoot and her baby. Here is the video.
I have my doubts about this video. First of all, it was filmed by boys of about junior high age or so. Boys age 12-14 are evil all over the world at all times and in all cultures. I should know, as I was a little devil myself. All videos by boys around this age so far have been shown to be hoaxes. I am pretty much ruling this video out automatically due to the 8th grade morons who shot it. Furthermore, I think there is something wrong with the footprints, and it looks like they may have been faked.
On the other hand, the footprints do go in the straight line pattern of a Yeti. Are these punks smart enough to figure out the straight line pattern of the Yeti and make these huge footprints? That seems dubious, but kids this age of both sexes, in addition to being Satanic, are also starting to get very smart. Remember the top level Piaget milestone of abstract thinking appears in year 12 (leaving aside those who remain concretists their whole lives).
I suppose I am in the fence on this one.
Ketchum now extracting DNA from ancient skeletons. Melba is now working on DNA from some very weird ancient Indian skeletons from the Americas. They are working on teeth and bones with a new technique that one of the co-authors of her paper mastered. Richard Stubstad stole a couple of bones from the Lovelock Indian samples in Nevada and gave them to her, but Ketchum declined to test them, saying she thought they were Indians.
Russian Yeti scares skiers video. A fine breakdown of the video from the great Michael Merchant. This is an older video, and I understand that Erickson has included it in his documentary. I have always thought this was a real Yeti. It was shot near Kemerovo in the Altai, and that is where a large number of Yeti sightings come from.
Basswood Bigfoot video. This idiotic hoaxed video has been around for a long time now. The whole scene from the setup to the dialogue to the kids in the back just screams hoax. Too bad there were no hunters around to shoot the guy in the monkey suit. I am really getting sick and tired of these hoaxing scumbags. It’s not funny, jerks!
Scott Carpenter HD Dogman video. New video from my friend Scott Carpenter showing HD video of what he says is a Dogman. Looks more like a blobsquatch to me. Scott says a number of folks thought his video was amazing. I am not so sure. I do think that Scott is in onto something as his samples have been proven to be positive for Dogmen by Ketchum and were apparently influential in her reported view that Dogmen are different from Bigfoots.
Russian Yeti stealing food from a snowy porch video. This video was shot in the very far north of Russia in the Murmansk region. This is a very odd video, and I think it might be a real Yeti. The thing’s mouth moves! Mouths don’t move on masks. The Yeti creeps up on the people and peeks over a porch at them, freaks them out, and then runs away. Superb breakdown by the excellent Michael Merchant.
Myakka State Park Bigfoot video. An excellent video recently shot at Myakka State Park in Florida. A man was driving along at dusk when he noticed several cars pulled off to the side of the road.
He pulled over too and saw a bipedal figure off in the distance along with several deer behaving very strangely. The deer would be lying down and would jump up, run a bit and then like down in the grass again. They did this over and over. There was a large bipedal figure in the background that appeared to be stalking them. Apparently this was a Bigfoot that was stalking the deer for suppertime. The terrified deer were acting this way to fool the Bigfoot.
The filmer and his son walked towards the field, and the Bigfoot and the deer both remained in view for a while. When the shooter got closer, the excellent video was shot. The Bigfoot’s size has been calculated at 8 feet tall.
The large number of curious witnesses pulled over, some with binoculars and some with video cameras, testifies to the truth behind the sighting. Later, the man reported the sighting to park rangers who told him that there was no such thing as Bigfoot. The man went back later, received several tickets on his car and was told by rangers that the park was closed. The park was not closed, and it was later determined that the tickets were all fake. The shooter said that these strange behaviors indicated some sort of a coverup by park officials.
Here is the official paper, seldom linked and even more seldom read, showing that, according to a Washington Post scientific recount, Gore would have won the election if all of the votes were counted. The paper is quite confusing, so read it yourself and see what you can get out of it. The most important data is in red on page 8. The paper also conclusively lies to rest forever the debates about hanging chads, etc.
The thing that struck me about 2000 was that most of the Republicans (all White males) I knew seemed to know that Bush stole the election, but did not care. One more reason to cheer the gradual decline in White votes in the US, despite the considerable downside this involves. Whites, especially White men, are simply a force for reaction at least since 1980, and that is all there is to it.
The whole rightwing nightmare since 1980, continuing into the moment, may be laid at the feet of American White people. Looking for someone to blame? Blame White people, especially White men. The decline of Whites in America holds a considerable downside, but on the upside, we will finally defeat one of the worst forces of reaction in modern America – White people.
White men are now probably about 31% of the vote, declining from 39% in 1996. The decline is now going at @1% a year. There is a plus and minus to this, but on the upside, we can (tentatively) finally look forward to pushing a genuinely progressive agenda (at least in some ways) in America.
The article linked here also shows that White male union members are still voting Democratic, as they rightly should, though the article dishonestly questions whether this is in their best interest.
I am looking for something else. A progressive candidate that opposes illegal immigration and open borders, fights Black and Hispanic racism as much as the White variety, turns a dim eye on multiculturalism and legal immigration, is tough on crime, and puts the American worker first and the capitalist parasites a distant second. Surely we are not stuck with the reactionaries of the Whites versus the PC hispandering clowns of the Left?
Or how about, at the very least, European style social democracy, pro-worker and anti-corporate? Is it too much to ask?
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’sTwitter 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.
Very nice article on Cuba by Saul Landau. Any system where university graduates make more money driving a taxi or making pizza doesn’t seem to work very well. Is this what socialism looks like? If so, count me out for at least that variety of socialism. People want stuff, money and stuff. And what’s wrong with that, anyway? What’s wrong with people having money and stuff? I am certainly not opposed to it in principle, and socialists should not be opposed to a certain amount of materialism as a human desire and need.
PROGRESO WEEKLY
When Will the Siege End?
By Saul Landau
Published on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 14:08
HAVANA – I walk some of the same streets I did in 1960 and 1961, a time when most Cubans awaited an attack from the United States, a time when people in their twenties and early thirties ran the government, and several hundred thousand of the propertied and professional classes fled to south Florida in fear of these young bearded radicals.
By mid 1960, the flow of U.S. tourists had slowed to a tiny trickle. The big hotels housed foreign supporters of the revolution and soon after honeymoon couples from the island itself.
Planes regularly flew from south Florida bases to drop bombs on island targets and Cubans joined the militia, wearing their well-laundered blue uniforms. Committee for the Defense of the Revolution met on almost every city block to try to keep their own turf secure from counterrevolutionary threats.
President Eisenhower played a kind of tit for tat diplomacy with Fidel Castro, responding with punishment for every move Cuba made that lessened U.S. power and influence on the island. Cuba bought cheap Soviet oil; Ike ordered the US-owned refineries in Cuba not to refine Soviet oil. Fidel nationalized Esso, Texaco and Shell; Ike place an embargo on Cuba.
Before all that, in March 1960, Ike had already ordered the CIA to plan the overthrow of the Cuban government. The Agency began to recruit Cuban exiles in Florida for an expedition that later bore the name of The Bay of Pigs fiasco, a 1,500 man force that invaded Cuba’s south coast along three beaches in the Bay of Pigs. The fighting endured for 72 hours before the Cuban military claimed total victory over the CIA-backed exile invaders.
Now, the Socialist government of Cuba has converted the swampy area into a resort, with a hotel and restaurants for curious tourists and Cuban vacationers. A museum offers remnants and keys to understanding that historic encounter that left President Kennedy with much diplomatic egg on his young face.
Save for a few short periods, U.S. hostility has remained unrelenting toward its small defiant neighbor. But Cuba built a formidable health-care system, a prodigious educational machine that begins in infancy and continues through the PhD, for those qualified.
But Cubans feel starved for things, commodities they see actors wearing and using in movies shown on Cuban TV. Well-educated and trained Cubans don’t see good jobs in their future when they graduate, as the island’s economy doesn’t generate a sufficient number of positions for the qualified people its schools produce.
The lure of Miami, where hundreds of thousands of Cubans now live, remains strong. An engineer drives a cab or makes pizzas, a woman with a University of Havana PhD in literature now lives in San Francisco and works as a translator. “I have more personal freedom here. Nobody mixes in my personal life as they did in Cuba, but I don’t want to get old and die in the United States. There’s no warmth here.”
On the same streets, I walk and chat with people and find enthusiasm for Raul Castro’s reforms, allowing private business and freedom to travel. But Cubans want more things, more opportunities, not an easy task for a government running an island economy.
Cuba has lots of qualified and highly trained workers, but no foreign investment to build the kinds of facilities that might employ them. So, as I walk along the ocean drive, El Malecon, I note hundreds of people idle during the middle of a workday. Some have ear phones plugged in, listening to music.
Others have cell phones and snap shots of their girl or boy friends. Tourists, mostly Canadian and west European populate the streets and downtown cafes and bars. Some U.S. exchange students also appear, eager and energetic. So far, they’ve learned a lot about Cuba from “dating” and “hanging out” with their Cuban counterparts.
I get nostalgic for old times and youth. But when I see the old U.S. Embassy, not the US Interest Section, I recall the nasty old days of violent counter revolution coming from Florida, the heroic deeds of Cuban guerrillas who had fought for the revolution and the good times of the old days.
Maybe, before I make another trip to the island, Secretary of State John Kerry will open discussions with Raul Castro for the purpose of restoring diplomatic and even commercial relations. What a change that will bring… I can imagine the Havana streets full of U.S. tourists and students
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Saul Landau is filming with Jon Alpert a documentary on Cuba’s campaign against homophobia. His Fidel and Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up are available on DVD through cinemalibrestudio.com.
Munns’ Erickson Project (EP) photos are from Munns himself. I have now learned that Bill Munns photos from the EP’s Crittenden, Kentucky site were from Munns himself, not from someone else.
According to Richard Stubstad, Munns was given only one video from the Kentucky site. That was the video that the EP suspected might have been faked by the owners. Munns stated that this video was probably a fake using a “modified Wookie mask.” This video was sent around to other experts, and they also thought it might be fake. The EP decided not to use that video in their project. However, there were 4-5 other videos from Crittenden that the EP thought were genuine. Stubstad did not think that Munns had seen any of those videos.
Therefore, it appears that Munns’ photos may well be from the video that was rejected from the project and not from the ones that were accepted.
Click to enlarge. The clips are on the left and the Wookie costume is on the right. Compare and contrast.
The usual gang of morons is ranting and raving about this new evidence, saying that Munns’ photo is evidence that there never were any Bigfoots at Crittenden. However, evidence seems to indicate that there were indeed Bigfoots at that site.
Dennis Pfohl and Dr. Leila Hadj-Chikh lived at the site for a while as part of a study. They reportedly saw the Bigfoots there on numerous occasions and also videotaped them multiple times. I understand that they also had many opportunities to kill or tranquilize the Bigfoots at this location. Both were discussed. Killing was ruled out, as the EP wanted to be a no-kill organization. Tranquilizing was also ruled out as too impractical for a variety of reasons. In addition, John Bindernagel saw either a Bigfoot or a man in a Bigfoot costume in the woods at Crittenden.
A food plate was seeded with glass shards and left out for the Bigfoots. Matilda came to eat the food, and she cut her fingers on the food plate. Dr. Melba Ketchum analyzed the blood from this food plate and decided that it was from a Bigfoot. The study has been called into question, but that was Melba’s determination. In addition, the EP footage of Matilda is described thus:
Nose similar to ours (but with larger nostrils)
Slightly chapped, rosy lips
Pink mouth, blackish tongue
Pointed teeth, like fangs
Deep set eyes that dart around and don’t blink
Her head is round, shaped more like ours than a gorilla’s, but her brow is much more prominent
She has lots of fine, flowing hair on her head (dark reddish brown) and soft short hair on her face
When she walks away, she moves just like the female in the Patterson Film
If the footage was hoaxed, it would have been done by the Crittenden couple, a low rent, unsophisticated couple in their late 20′s. They faked a black tongue on the Bigfoot?! No way. They faked wild, feral eyes that dart and never blink? No. They faked Patty’s walk down to the T? Nope. They faked a pink mouth? How did they do that? They faked a prominent browridge? The Wookie mask has no browridge.
The owners were running around in Bigfoot costumes the whole time hoaxing the EP and even Bindernagel? No. Forget it.
Derek Randles thread shut down at Bigfoot Forums. The thread on Derek Randles going to see Rick Dyer’s Bigfoot has been shut down at Bigfoot Forums because of the endless abuse the lunatic Bigfooters have poured at Derek. Derek got so fed up with the nonsense that he said that if and when he goes to see Dyer’s Bigfoot, he isn’t going to talk about it on the forums. Instead he will discuss it on his Facebook page.
Ketchum interview with Linda Moulton Howe. Linda Moulton Howe, a paranormal researcher, has interviewed Ketchum, and audio has been uploaded to Youtube. Here it is below. About 1/2 of the segment is Moulton Howe going on about her admittedly kooky theories, and the other half is her interviewing Ketchum. The Ketchum interview is very much worth it, and she answers many questions about her study. Ketchum comes across very well in this video. I really liked her performance. She is calm, sensible, sane and reasonable. She answers most of the questions that her critics have put to her. Good job Melba!
One point she made that I really liked was when she said that she had the Bigfoot hairs sent out to a university. The university confirmed that Bigfoot hairs have a variety of qualities that are completely different from human hairs. This expands on Fahrenbach’s work with Bigfoot hairs.
Her paper also noted that she sent the Bigfoot steak from the Sierra Kills to a research department at a university. The researchers stated that the steak looked very much human, but had a number of qualities that differentiated it from human tissue. It then went on to list those qualities.
Rick Dyer interview with Facebook Find Bigfoot. Now Rick Dyer is just about my least favorite person on Earth, number 1, because he’s a scumbag, and number 2, because has been libeling me online for some time now. I really hope I never see the guy in public because if I do, it’s not going to be a pretty picture! And yes you can interpret that any way you want to! I have made posts elaborating Dyer’s personality in the past, which is pathological to say the least. Among other issues, there is pathological narcissism along with antisocial or sociopathic tendencies.
Nevertheless, I must say that I very much like the Rick Dyer I see in the video below. He appears completely healthy, sane, reasonable and sensible. He responds magnanimously, thoughtfully and philosophically to his critics. There is no pathology, narcissistic, sociopathic or otherwise, present in the video. As you can see, Dyer can be quite a likeable fellow, and he can even be decent, sane and pleasant when he wants to be. He only acts bad when he feels like it.
Dyer is about to become a very famous person with the reveal of this Bigfoot body, which will occur very soon. He will not just be famous; he will be world famous. It would behoove him to get a therapist, life coach or some sort of agent to help him mold his personality so he can maneuver his way smoothly through the seas of fame without falling apart.
I do not believe the more pathological Rick we have seen in so many of these unraveling videos of his lately will be able to handle to fame very well. He will probably just fall apart even worse than he is already. But the Dyer in the video is a new and improved creature, likeable, decent, kind and engaging, and that new man might weather the stormy seas well. And if this becomes his new personality, maybe he will even stop being a scumbag! Will wonders never cease?
The video also answers many questions that folks have about Dyer, his expeditions and the shooting in Texas. The interview was handled expertly by Jeff Anderson. After the interview, there is a segment with conversation between Anderson and Jake Barnes in Vegas. This segment was also done very well. Shout out to Anderson and Barnes for a job well done.
Barnes and Anderson traveled to Las Vegas to interview Dyer earlier this month. Whether or not they also viewed the body is controversial. Some say they did indeed view the body.
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Erickson Project footage reportedly released. Some stills of Matilda the teenage Bigfoot have reportedly been leaked to the web via Bill Munns. Someone who had an NDA with Erickson leaked some of the stills to Munns, who promptly declared them to based on a modified Wookie mask.
Click to enlarge. The clips are on the left and the Wookie costume is on the right. Compare and contrast.
The skeptic and scofftic community is going nuts over this. However, there are some problems.
First of all, Erickson bought looked at 4-5 videos that the owners of the house had. The first one was thought to be faked. The Erickson people thought it was a fake. They sent this video around to a bunch of experts and the consensus was that this was some sort of a fake. Munns was one of those experts. Munns said it was a modified Wookie mask. Erickson decided not to buy that video. However, he did buy the other four videos which were all thought to be genuine.
So the question is whether Munns is referring to stills from the video that even Erickson thought was fake or whether he is referring to the famous Matilda footage which is said to be better than the Patterson footage. No one knows, and no one knows if Munns reviewed the footage that actually made it into the Erickson Project movie.
So Munns’ trashing of those photos does not in any way invalidate Erickson’s project, footage or documentary.
John Bindernagel saw a Bigfoot at the Erickson Project’s Crittenden, Kentucky site. Adrian Erickson flew Bindernagel out to the Kentucky site when Dennis Pfohl and Dr. Leila Hadj-Chikh were there so that Bindernagel could get a chance to see a Bigfoot for the first time as he had never seen one before. Richard Stubstad told me that Bindernagel did indeed see a Bigfoot at the site, and the sighting changed his mind about whether Bigfoots were apes or hominids. Prior to the Kentucky sighting, Bindernagel said that Bigfoots were apes. However, after he saw the Bigfoot at Crittenden, Stubstad said he changed his mind and now thought they were more of a hominid.
However, we never knew exactly what Bindernagel saw. But just the other day a commenter on Cryptomundo said he talked to Bindernagel recently at a Bigfoot conference, and John said he what he saw in Kentucky was either a Bigfoot or someone running around in a Bigfoot costume.
I asked Stubstad if it were possible that the owners of the site might have been running around in Bigfoot costumes to hoax the Erickson Project. Then I asked him if it was possible that Pfohl and Hadj-Chikh were hoaxing Erickson by running around in Bigfoot costumes. His response to both of these was the same: “That’s not possible.”
The Crittenden property was private land, and it was well fenced. It was not a common occurrence to have trespassers on the land, if they came at all. So we can assume no trespassers on the land hoaxing everyone by running around in Bigfoot costumes. We can also be certain that neither the owners nor Pfohl and Hadj-Chikh were running around in Bigfoot costumes hoaxing people. We also know that Adrian himself was not hoaxing.
The only possible conclusion then is that Bindernagel saw a Bigfoot at Crittenden.
Facebook/Find Bigfoot is in Las Vegas. No one knows what they are doing there, where they are said to be meeting with Rick Dyer. In fact, I just received word that they did in fact view Dyer’s Bigfoot body, and also they did not sign an NDA with Dyer. Nevertheless, they do not appear to be talking as of yet about what they have seen.
New video out investigating the Dyer Bigfoot shooting in San Antonio. The shooting on September 6, 2012 is still the subject of much investigation. A man has been running around there investigating the shooting mostly by interviewing homeless people who live in the area. This is the second video in the series.
In this video, the young homeless man says that someone or something killed his dog right around the time that Dyer’s crew were in the area. The young man blames Dyer for slashing his dog’s throat (the injury was not fatal). The young man says that if Dyer attacked his dog, the man is going to kill Dyer. So he’s threatening Dyer. No one knows if Dyer attacked that dog or not. It seems like a pretty crazy thing to do, even for Dyer. On the other hand, Bigfoots can easily slit the throat of a dog. Why was the young man’s dog’s throat slit around the time when Dyer shot the Bigfoot? No one knows; it’s one more mystery.
In addition, the man says that he has never seen any Bigfoots in the area, and he doesn’t think that they live there. Mountain lions? Yes. Bigfoots? No.
It is very interesting that the man reiterates once again that he heard gunshots in the area when Dyer was there with the film crew. This time he elaborates that he heard more than one gunshot (Dyer says he fired two shots) and that the shots occurred at night (Dyer says the Bigfoot was shot at 2:30 AM). This is excellent confirmation of Dyer’s story.
However, in this video, a Mexican-American family living in the area are interviewed, and the father says say that there are Bigfoots (Meaning more than one!) still in the area. The father also said that Dyer and the film crew were in the area in early September, and that the father met them. In addition, the father also said his neighbor told him one night at a party that the neighbor had seen a Bigfoot in the area dumpster diving and looking for something to eat. After it spotted the neighbor, the Bigfoot took off in the direction of a water tower that is in the area. A member of the man’s family said that they had seen huge footprints in the area.
Accusation that the San Antonio Film Commission did not grant any licenses to shoot film during early September. Sleuths on Bigfoot Forums called the film commission and learned this odd fact. Skeptics are using this to say that there never was any film crew in the area with Dyer during this period.
Nevertheless, as you can see in the video above, the young man says that Dyer was indeed out here with a film crew during that period. The man says he met the crew and talked to them, and that they had British accents! So it appears that whether or not Minnow had a permit or not, they were indeed at that site during that period shooting film with Dyer.
Dyer footage reportedly cut from Minnow Films Shooting Bigfoot movie. A poster on Bigfoot Forums, “Ihlyda,” who insists that the Dyer story is a hoax says he has a source at Minnow who says that the Dyer footage has been cut from the film. However, he appears to be lying, and I do not think that he has a source at Minnow. My source at Minnow just told me that his story is not true and Dyer’s footage is still in the film.
Derek Randles has not yet seen the Dyer body. Everyone is waiting for Randles to go look at that body, but apparently Derek has not gone to see the body yet. It’s not known what Randles will be able to tell us after he sees it as he may be under NDA.
Another huge Bigfooter will see Dyer’s body. Another huge Bigfooter will come to see the body around the same time that Randles does. Whether they accompany Randles or not, I do not know. No one knows who this person is, though there is much speculation.
Dyer’s truck vandalized for the 3rd time in a month. Rick Dyer’s truck had its rear window smashed recently. This was the 3rd vandalism in a month. The person who did it supposedly did it because they say Dyer is a hoaxer. The vandalism was accompanied by some sort of message calling Dyer a hoaxer. Apparently this is someone who thinks Dyer is hoaxing again based on the body story. It is unfortunate that Rick is suffering this way and I do not support these attacks on Dyer in any way whatsoever. My heart goes out to him. I feel sorry for the damage he is suffering unjustly and I hope the vandal is caught.
There is a silver lining to all of this mess. I think it is great that people are attacking the property of hoaxers, even though in this case, they are mistaken. Wouldn’t it be a great world when every Bigfoot hoaxer had to suffer endless threats to life, limb and property along with at the very least property damage. Actually I would not mind seeing some of them get beat up too. The Bigfoot community needs to put sheer terror into the hearts of these hoaxers. People wanting to hoax need to think twice. I want people to think, “Oh no, I better not do this Bigfoot hoax. If I do, I will get endless threats and possible attacks on me or my property.” Maybe that will stop a few of them.
Scientists review Ketchum Bigfoot DNA study. Here, from the execrable Sharon Hill’s Doubtful News scofftic site, is a report on geneticists who have reviewed the data. Apparently Bigfoot nuclear DNA is extremely bizarre, so weird that these scientists insist it could not even be from a real creature. Therefore, they say that there must have been some contamination. However, upon reading the study, I concluded that there was no contamination whatsoever. Therefore, my conclusion is simply that Bigfoot DNA is extremely strange. Why not? Bigfoots themselves are weird as all get out, so why wouldn’t their DNA be very odd also?
The sequence did not match a hominin sequence but part of it did match very well with human chromosome 11. 60% didn’t match with anything on Earth (So called “Angel DNA“? Sorry, I went there…) and the rest of it matched with various animals such as panda, dog and bear, etc. These bits that matched may be a sign of a mixed sample.
So, as Winter notes, he’s not sure if the researchers are inept or deliberate in their interpretation but some of the DNA is perfectly matched to humans and the rest is “crap”. Some of the sequences, he said, were far too short to be the result of hybridization, making Ketchum’s claim of hybridization from 15,000 years ago not plausible. Others have also questioned the hybridization idea.
Contamination remains the obvious question. It’s not that the samples were contaminated necessarily by the collector but that the sample itself was a mix. So, no matter how careful they were in the lab to prevent investigator contamination (as Ketchum insists), the damage was already done if it was junk to begin with.
Conclusion? Bad.
As I noted above, there is no contamination. I went over that in my last report, and you can go check Scott Carpenter’s site for more on that. Ok, Bigfoot DNA is crazy. So what? That means they don’t exist? No. It means they exist, but they have nutty DNA.
Ketchum hoaxing? On JREF and other forums, many folks, including many Bigfooters, are saying that Ketchum is hoaxing this whole thing. Many of these saying this are scofftics to skeptics, and they say she is hoaxing it because there is no such thing as Bigfoots. So the samples were all of known animals or humans, and Ketchum messed with the DNA to make it look funny so she could call it Bigfoot DNA.
Thing is, if she did that, she is guilty of scientific fraud. She could never publish in the US again. Her career would be over. She could be sued civilly for fraud and prosecuted criminally for fraud by any enterprising DA. I agree with Richard Stubstad that, while Ketchum is a pretty shady person, I do think that hoaxing and scientific fraud is simply beyond here. I would even go so far as to say that she doesn’t have it in her to do that.
Ketchum’s telling Justin Smeja to damage his sample with bleach. That was Justin’s explosive claim on the video of his that I linked to in my last report. The JREF idiots are running with this and claiming that Ketchum damaged all of her samples with bleach and that is how she got the weird Bigfoot DNA results she came up with. In other words, a hoax and scientific fraud. I do not understand genetics very well, but i believe that destroying the sample with bleach would simply render it sufficiently damaged so that no usable DNA could be recovered from it.
Justin’s other claims. In the video, Justin also makes other claims. He said that Ketchum said she had a way of making the DNA of something seem like something it is not. This is suggestive of scientific fraud on her part if she did indeed say that.
However, I doubt if she said that. She did say that if other labs tested it, they would probably get a common animal. In Justin’s case, she said other labs would come up with “bear.” That is exactly what two other labs did come up with. This is a very odd statement on her part, and I do not understand it. Why did she know that other labs would come up with “bear?” Makes no sense. And how was it that she would come up with something different from bear? I admit that I am mystified here, but I still believe that she is not hoaxing. I simply do not believe she has it in her to do that.
Justin also said that Ketchum made the claim about the Bigfoot mind-rape that happened to her on her property where Bigfoots reportedly hang out. I have gone over this claim before on my blog. I think something very odd happened to her that night, that Bigfoots have ESP, and that they can mess with your mind in some interesting ways.
Justin said that Ketchum claimed to have 5 Bigfoots on he property. Justin thought this was nuts, but I think it is possible that she may indeed have a family of Bigfoots running around her property.
In addition, Justin said that Ketchum said she would hold Justin’s Bigfoot sample, and the Bigfoots would mind-speak to her somehow when she held it. That is, she would have some sort of a spiritual experience. Ketchum is a very spiritual experience. I do not know if the Bigfoots mindspeak to her when she holds the Sierra steak, but anything is possible. Actually, habituators regularly report very similar odd experiences. I conclude that Bigfoots have “something else” that may be a spiritual or ESP side to them.
Justin concluded from all of this that the woman is simply a nut. I am not sure if that is true. She is shady, but is she nuts? Crazy like a fox maybe. Otherwise, I doubt it. She is sort of Cluster B-ish, but so is just about everyone in Bigfootery!
Four superb breakdowns by Michael Merchant. Four new fantastic breakdowns by Merchant follow below. He is becoming my favorite guy for doing breakdowns.
Michael Merchant breaks down the Top 5 Bigfoot photos of the year.
Very nice.
#5 photo is a very odd photo of something taken from the rear. It’s from Ontario, Canada, taken by a trapper. It is a very weird photo, and no one knows quite what it is. A friend of mine insists that it is a Bigfoot. I told him, “But it looks so weird!” He replied, “Well, Sasquatches are pretty weird creatures, so photos of them look pretty strange.” Makes sense to me.
#4 photo is the Temamgami Ontario Canada Bigfoot photos. These photos are very strange, but I think that both of them are real Bigfoot photos. They have been extensively investigated by researchers, including the fine Ontario Wildlife Field Research group.
#3 is the fantastic Adam Davies Sleeping Bag Sasquatch video from Washington State. I also regard this as a real Bigfoot. Davies is a superb researcher.
#2 is a very weird trail cam photo of something bipedal running on all fours. It looks like some kind of an elongated ape. I do not have the faintest idea what that thing is.
#1 is the excellent Melissa Hovey Bigfoot photo. One of the finest Bigfoot photos ever taken. Melissa did a great job handling the roll-out on this photo. For sure that is a real Bigfoot.
Another incredible breakdown by Michael Merchant!
Merchant breakdown of Utah Bigfoot.
This one fooled me for sure. Apparently a few months after they released this video, these maggots told us that it was all a hoax. Hmm. Punks. Bitches. I always wondered about that Bigfoot shelter they find at the end of the video. It looked too good for a Bigfoot to have built it. It looked like it was build by humans. Turns out it was!
Merchant breaks down tree falling in the forest video.
Here a tree falls in the forest. A guy films it, and he says that a Bigfoot pushed it over. He also claims that there are 3 Bigfoots in this video. They look more like shadows to me. I am not sure there are any Bigfoots in this video and trees fall in the forest all the time. The man has a dog with him, and the dog does not act too alarmed. It’s dubious whether there are any proven Bigfoots in this video.
Fine breakdown by Merchant of this extraordinarily bizarre video out of New York. No one yet knows what is in this video. A commenter said it a common costume, but I went to the site and looked at the costume and this did not look like it. How many hoaxers go down on all fours. How many make juvenile Bigfoots have gigantic heads? How many get the Bigfoot’s ears exactly right?
Dr. Melba Ketchum Bigfoot DNA paper is good. I have now read a bootleg copy of the 63 page paper I obtained a few days ago. At the same time, I obtained a number of supplementary charts, graphs and whatnot that go may or may not go along with the official version of the paper that you get for $30.
The paper is good. I like it a lot. I thought she did an excellent job on it. It is also very well written. The conclusions are as we discussed earlier on this blog. The MtDNA is human, and the NuDNA is some sort of a archaic hominid in the genus Homo.
Particularly interesting were the extreme measures taken to guard against contamination of the DNA with human DNA by handlers and other animal DNA. There was no DNA from any other known animals present in any of the samples. None of the samples had any human DNA contamination that would explain the results. The samples were very, very pure DNA, purer than one usually gets from humans.
From Bigfoot Forums:
“The team, led by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum, DVM, of DNA Diagnostics in Nacogdoches, TX, sequenced the three whole nuclear genomes using the next-generation Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform at University of Texas, Southwestern from a tissue sample, a saliva sample, and a blood sample.
The three genomes all attained Q30 quality scores above 88 on the Illumina platform, significantly higher than the platform average of 85, indicating highly-purified, single-source DNA with no contamination for each sample. The three Sasquatch genomes align well with one another and show substantial homology to primate sequences.” (from the PR release).
NOTE: The Three Q30 Scores of the three Genomes,with over 90 GB of Raw sequence for each sample (Comprising greater than 30x coverage) were 88.6, 88.4 and 88.7 respectively. The Q30 is the percent of reads that have the statistical probability greater than 1:1000 of being correctly sequenced (According to Illumina, a pure single source sample would have a Q30 score of 80 or greater with an average of 85).
Therefore, not only were the 3 sequences submitted from a single source, but the quality of the sequences were FAR ABOVE the average 85 Score on genomes sequenced using the Illumina Next Generation Sequencing Platform AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Southwestern in Dallas, Texas”.
A Further comment was: “The high quality of the Genomes can be attributed to the STRINGENT EXTRACTION PROCEDURES UTILIZED WHEREBY THE DNA WAS REPEATEDLY PURIFIED”.
The MtDNA results, while human, were odd, with some SNP’s (mutations) and other variations not present in any known human samples. The NuDNA samples were very odd, with a combination of human and archaic Homo DNA of a very novel type. Many NuDNA genes had SNP’s far in excess of the known human standard. Further, the NuDNA codes far away from any known humans on this Earth. In distance from humans, it is further away than Neandertal and even from Denisovans. This implies a split in the NuDNA line of possibly up to 1 million years ago.
The NuDNA results look nothing at all like what one would get from human contamination. The paper goes to great lengths to rule that out and explain the reasoning behind it. Nor are the NuDNA results what one would expect based on contamination with known animals. The paper also explains that very well.
Nor were the samples degraded. Degraded DNA has a particular appearance to it that this DNA lacked. Ketchum utilized a degraded human DNA control to test her sequences against it.
One geneticist said that the results look like what you might get if the sequences failed to amplify well. Ketchum explains in the paper that she had a great deal of difficulty getting the sequences to amplify with many failures to amplify, partial amplifications and whatnot. This is because the primers she was using were designed for humans. She had to utilize next generation, very modern and cutting edge sequencing methods to get this very interesting DNA to amplify at all. Whether the results can be explained by “failure to amplify well” is not something I am capable of commenting on.
Another geneticist said that the odd results including the bizarre mixture of single and double strand DNA (apparently not seen in any other known species) can be explained by artifacts of the testing process. I am not competent to comment on that. Apparently this very odd looking DNA (when observed under electron microscope) is what people were talking about when they said that the DNA was from aliens or angels or was “not of this Earth.” Wally Hersom and David Paulides have been very big on this explanation. Surely, this bizarre DNA is very odd, but Bigfoots are very odd creatures. It’s certainly possible that they might have a novel DNA structure.
Other attacks on the paper are much sillier. Most center around the notion that Bigfoots are apes and therefore they could not breed with humans. But Ketchum’s paper states emphatically that Bigfoots are not apes. They are hominids, probably Homo Heidelbergensis (that is my opinion and not Ketchum’s – nowhere in the paper does she name the archaic Homo that they think is in the NuDNA line). Obviously another hominid could have bred with humans.
Another compliant is that Melba has not uploaded her sequences to GenBank yet. But apparently she is waiting to do just that.
I do not feel that this paper is a failure at all. What is occurring is what I predicted would occur. The scientific community refuses to accept the existence of this very real species, and they refuse to accept this DNA evidence for that reason. I have been predicating for a long time now that science would not accept the DNA evidence no matter how good it was.
Is it possible that Melba botched the paper and screwed up her proof of Bigfoot? We all know that she had real Bigfoot samples she was dealing with in the study, so all that remained was for her to successfully isolate the DNA and then prove that it was from Bigfoots and not something else. I feel that she did this, but I am not a geneticist. But perhaps she did botch it. I don’t have the expertise to make that determination.
Much has been made of the fact that Melba published in her own journal. However, she did say that it passed peer review in a journal called the Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Exploration in Zoology. However, Melba stated that the journal’s attorneys said that if they published the paper, it would destroy the journal’s reputation, so they said they would not publish it. Melba responded by purchasing the journal and renaming it DeNovo Journal.
Melba describes in detail her tribulations at the altar of modern science. Many journals refused to even so much as look at her paper. Others leaked the names of her peer reviewers and did all sorts of unethical things. This is what Melba has been putting up with for 16 months now at the hands of the “scientific community.” They simply flat out refuse to believe that her findings are true, so they won’t even read or pass via review her paper no matter how valid her findings are.
Given these circumstances and the fact that she did finally pass review at an obscure journals, Melba was right and proper to purchase the journal named above when even it refused to publish her findings despite passing them via review. She did the right thing. The findings are correct, Bigfoots exist, and Melba has proven it in my opinion. This information had to get out to the public, and she persevered and did the right thing.
I think the community should all get behind Melba right now, whatever her moral failings. She has been up there on the cross suffering for all of us, for our entire community, for 16 months now, while the legions of science poked her with their lances and jeered at her. She did it for us. She suffered for all of us. All of the pain we all suffer from skeptics – she took all of our pain and bundled it up for us into one giant mass and took it up there with her on the cross of Bigfootery, where she been slowly dying, being tortured to death, for over a year now. Our pain is her pain. Our torture is her torture. She took our pain and made it hers so we wouldn’t have to suffer it too.
This whole episode has been very hard on Melba. You can see it in her face and hear it in her voice. She says if she had to do it over again, she wouldn’t do it. But she did it. She took it on the chin for us all, falling on the grenade so we might live. And how many of us have her back? Basically none of us.
Adrian Erickson Project video released. An Erickson project video of Matilda the sleeping Bigfoot has been released. It is about 18 seconds long and shows what looks like a bundle of fur on the ground in the forest. It takes one giant breath during the footage. The camera then switches to Dennis Pfohl explaining that analysis of the footage showed the Matilda was breathing at 6 breaths per minute.
Matilda is an adolescent female Bigfoot that was part of the Erickson Project. She, her mother and her father were residing in the woods near a property on Mann Road in Crittenden, Kentucky. She was filmed as part of the study, and in addition, blood and tissue from her fingers was obtained and tested as part of the DNA paper. This was obtained by super-gluing glass shards to a paper plate and then putting food on it. Matilda went for the food and cut the tips of her fingers on the glass. Amazing she still came back around for more pancakes after that.
Later in the study, Matilda become pregnant and then had a little baby Bigfoot. It’s not known who the Mack Daddy was who knocked her up, but it was probably not her father as it is hypothesized that Bigfoots have an incest taboo. Probably the presence of a curvaceous, hormonal, nubile, boy-crazed teenage Bigfoot hottie in the woods attracted some Bigfoot gangsta G who homed in on the hairy teen sexpot and knocked her up.
The 18 second video is only part of a longer 6 minute video. At the end of the video, Matilda wakes up.
There is indeed another video of Matilda walking towards the camera. Matilda has small, “perky,” uplifted breasts that are typical for adolescent female Bigfoots. As you can tell from the Patterson footage, as Bigfoot chicks age, they get a serious case of the sags. Fans of 1970′s porn will be happy to see Matilda, as unlike most young women these days, she refuses to shave even in the slightest.
In the video, the wary and wily feral teen then spots the camerawoman. Upon spotting the human, the defiant teen Bigfoot snarls and growls at the camera, then turns and walks away. When she growls, the hairy hottie reveals black gums and two long fanged incisors. I knew teenage girls were snotty little brats, but this is taking things to a new low. That beats Mean Girls by far!
Disposition of Erickson Project footage. I broke the news a while back that Erickson had sold out of Bigfootery and that Melba now has access to his footage. As the release of Erickson’s video in tandem with the study indicates, Melba indeed has access to Erickson’s material. In addition, I believe that National Geographic TV also has access to Erickson’s material. I know for a fact that Nat Geo has some of Erickson’s material at this very moment, acquired via Melba.
Ketchum tried to get Justin Smeja to tamper with his Bigfoot sample! Amazing story that is just breaking right now. Smeja is the man who shot and killed two Bigfoots in the Sierra Nevadas of California in 2010. A source has informed me that Melba asked Smeja to tamper with his sample after she realized that she was not going to get any more of it. She had been bothering him for all of his sample for some time.
No one knows why she wanted all of the sample, but the folks around Smeja thought she wanted it so that no one would be able to replicate her results. When Justin refused to hand over the remains of what he had, in January 2012, Melba told him over the phone to tamper with the sample. Several people were in the room – including at least Justin, Justin’s wife and the driver who was with Justin the day he shot the Bigfoots – when she said that, and they all heard her make that statement via a speakerphone.
It’s not known why she wanted Justin to mess with his sample or how she wanted him to tamper with it. One theory was that by tampering with it, it would make the sample, possibly not from a Bigfoot, appear to come from a Bigfoot. But that does not seem to be possible. How do you tamper with a piece of bear meat to make it look like it came from a Bigfoot?
What is more likely is that she spitefully wanted him to tamper with his sample to make it damaged and unusable by any other researchers. Apparently she wanted to be the only researcher to have access to that sample. She was afraid that if he sent it off to someone else, they could publish and usurp her with the Bigfoot DNA data, stealing her thunder.
Melba is all about pure raw ambition, 100%. She has the morals of Bill Gates when it comes to doing or saying anything or using anyone in any way to achieve her single-minded ruthless goals. This type of sleazy behavior – trying to get Justin to basically destroy his sample so no one could one-up her – is exactly in line with what we have come to expect from this viciously competitive and morally stunted woman.
Justin did not take her up on her offer to tamper with his sample. It was this offer that seriously soured Justin and Bart Cutino on Melba. As Bart put it (not in these exact words), they both thought she was a sleazeball and a morally suspect person. Asking Justin to damage his sample was so sleazy and shady that they began to wonder whether this amoral behavior had shaded over into her study. In short, they both began to wonder whether she was morally reputable enough to conduct the DNA study. This was the main reason why they took Justin’s steak to an outside source, where it bizarrely tested for Justin’s DNA and Black bear, results that I cannot explain.
In Ketchum’s defense though, see the comments from Caz in the comments section of this post. Caz suggests that perhaps Ketchum was merely making a request to alter the sample so it could store more properly.
In regard to Ketchum and Smeja discussing modifying the sample, I know nothing, but you should leave open the possibility that the comments were well-intentioned. If a layperson held a sample that I deemed valuable, then I would be very concerned about its storage. Regular freezers (-20 C) are completely inadequate for biological storage. You need to store it in industrial-grade -80 C freezers.
Also, contamination can be problem not just for sequencing, but also because it degrades the sample, even when frozen at -20C. I would ask that the outer edges of the sample be cut away and the core stored properly. I don’t have any insider knowledge about the project. I am just saying the world has not yet heard the other side of the story.
Smeja’s Bigfoot steak in Ketchum’s DNA paper. Having read the paper, a fair amount of the paper is devoted to Justin’s piece of Bigfoot from the Sierra Kills. Not only were the hairs on the steak not aligned with any known animals, they did not look like human hairs either. A piece of the steak was sent off to a forensics lab in Texas where the team noted that superficially the skin, hair follicles and dermal layer appeared human, however all of these things differed from human beings in a number of ways.
In addition, the steak was one of three samples in which the full NuDNA gene was sequenced. The result for the steak was approximately 2.7 billion base pairs. In short, the description of the steak in the paper does not in any way support the findings of Justin Smeja (human)/Black bear that was found by the Canadian lab. The reason for the differential findings is not known.
List of labs Ketchum blind outsourced her material to. From the paper:
Analysis for Hire Laboratories Used in the Blind Study:
The following laboratories provided sequencing and analysis of samples in the study on a work for hire basis and were not initially told the origin of the samples being tested until after the samples were tested:
Family Tree DNA Genomics Research Center, 1445 North Loop West, Suite 820, Houston, TX
77008
SeqWright, Inc., 2575 W. Bellfort St. Suite 2001, Houston, TX 77054
UT Southwestern Medical Center, 6000 Harry Hines Blvd. NA7.116, Dallas, TX 75235-9093
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Texas A&M University, Microscopy & Imaging Center, Department of Biology and Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, College Station, TX 77843-2257
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, 2355 North Stemmons Fwy., Dallas, TX 75207
Why not make the Ketchum paper available? I have been asked to make the entire Ketchum paper available for free. However, it is Dr. Ketchum’s copyrighted work, work for which she is now asking $30 a pop for people to purchase. As an author myself, I do not particularly like people stealing my work. Out of respect for Dr. Ketchum and because I am an honorable man, I will not put the entire paper online. That is another reason I have not been direct quoting much from the paper. I don’t want to seem to be violating her copyright.
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