Bigfoot News April 20, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

His relationship to this “myth” was/ is

1) fun,

2) money

3) narcissism

- not necessarily in this order.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bigfoot News April 16, 2013

Photos of Hank (the Bigfoot Rick Dyer shot) released on Facebook. Hank is the Bigfoot that Rick Dyer killed in Texas last September. There is a private group on Facebook made up of many folks who have, among other interests, the belief that Dyer is hoaxing his story about the Bigfoot he killed.

Today, April 16, a photo of dead Hank was released by someone in the group to some of the group members. The person who released it has an NDA with Dyer. Everyone who saw the photo also now has an NDA. Either no one saved the photo, or they have all pledged not to release it until after April 30. All of the folks who saw the photo are now convinced that the Dyer story is true.

The person who first posted this story is named Don Boucher, and was one of Dyer’s fiercest critics. Stefan Beaudoin was similarly a ferocious critic of Dyer’s who has now converted. A number of people who formerly thought Dyer was hoaxing are now converting to believers en masse. They are issuing apologies to Dyer, and a number say they are going to see Shooting Bigfoot in Toronto on April 30.

The photo shows Hank dead on the ground with considerable damage to his mouth and jaw from a 30.06 bullet. A number of people are standing around Hank in a circle, including Dyer, Morgan Matthews, director of  Shooting Bigfoot, and members of the Shooting Bigfoot crew.

One problem with this photo is that the damage described in the photo does not line up with the more minimal damage described by Musky Allen when he went to see Dyer’s Bigfoot.

No copies of this photo have been released on the Web, but as you can see if you remember that Musky Allen got two copies of dead Hank photos in his email, copies of dead Hank are definitely starting to float around the Internet. It is perfectly possible that one may turn up before April 30.

Here is the text of Boucher’s message:

Don Boucher
There is a group of us “haters” who have been discussing this thing for quite some time now. Recently, one of our members asked for any proof whatsoever, and someone sent us a pic, one that we have heard mentioned, but didn’t believe existed.

The pic I saw showed the body of a what is undeniably a bigfoot, which definite facial trauma evident from what a 30-06 round to the back of the head would do. Standing around the body is Rick, Morgan Matthews and several of the “Shooting Bigfoot” crew.

I would like to apologize to FB/FB, and Rick Dyer, as well as Dyer’s supporters. I have been mean, vindictive and un fair, but in light of this humbling evidence, I’m going to have to say that I have crossed the fence.

Rick Dyer webpage up. Rick Dyer has a webpage up for Rick Dyer Films, a film company he has started. This is one of the worst webpages I have ever seen. There are horrible grammar and spelling errors all over the place, and design is horrific.

Why Morgan Matthews is not coming forward with information about the killing of a Bigfoot during the shooting of his movie, Shooting Bigfoot. A commenter notes astutely that Matthews is a professional filmmaker, and this would not be a smart thing for him to do:

He is, first and foremost, a professional filmmaker, a successful and experienced one, and he knows that he will not only deflate the impact of his film’s debut by coming forward prior to its release but also look like a nutjob and idiot as well; this should be very simple for most to understand without having to spend too much time thinking about it.

It’s funny how often so many attempt to deal with their own impatience, fear of disappointment and inability to achieve instant gratification by attempting to invalidate who or what they perceive as the source of their self-generated expectations and fear.

In a vacuum bereft of the answers they want and for which they cannot wait, they suddenly become Sherlock Holmes. They must rationalize their impatience rather than simply acknowledge it as such. This has to do with emotional IQ; there is a notably famous study from the 50s involving children and jellybeans, but I digress. It’s the same tendency that causes a guy to leave message after message on a girl’s voicemail when he’s worried he’s about to get dumped or that she’s cheating, and she hasn’t called him back in 15 minutes.

No damage to Hank’s face proves Hank was not shot with a 30.06. Supposedly, a 30.06 causes such extensive damage that if Hank was shot with such a weapon, his face would be badly messed up. Since Hank’s face is not damaged as per Musky Allen’s report when he went to see it, therefore the story is a lie. The rejoinder to this accusation is that Musky did say that there was jaw damage to the Bigfoot, but it was minimal.

Government research facility housing Hank was built specifically to house and study him. One interesting story coming out lately is that the US government agreed to build the storage facility housing Hank if Dyer would let the state store it there and study it while it was there. Dyer apparently convinced the government to build this small facility where Hank is being housed.

The government agreed to build it apparently on the grounds that they would have a chance to study it for several months before it was released. I know it seems odd that the state would build a facility just to house and study Hank on Rick’s request, but that it’s certainly possible, and that is what people are saying was done.

Rick Dyer, sociopath? As Dyer is about to become world famous, it is certainly topical for us to explore Dyer’s past, including his criminal record and repeated hoaxing. We also need to explore the considerably pathological personality of this fellow, which the world will find out about soon enough anyway. The personalities of famous people are always topical, especially if they are as pathological and antisocial as Dyer’s is.

A commenter on my site objects to my calling Dyer a sociopath and provides evidence that Dyer is either not a sociopath or that he is not very sociopathic.

I’m more than a bit confused as to why you continue to maintain that Dyer is an “extreme sociopathic personality”.

To my understanding, sociopaths have little to no concern for the welfare or happiness of others, which is inconsistent with Dyer’s activities in helping the homeless, which he does in his home of Las Vegas, not just with the homeless people who were in the camp in San Antonio. I suppose one could stretch things and claim that he is such a devious sociopath that he does this to mask his tendencies and give the appearance of a “good person”, but that could be, potentially, nothing more than specious conjecture.

He regularly admits to being wrong about previous misstatements and apologizes readily, something sociopaths generally are extremely loathe to do, yes? The few times detractors have the nerve to call into his show, he doesn’t seek to take control by constantly speaking over them, shouting them down or hanging up (not the traits of a control-freak, arguably). In multiple cases, I have witnessed him “become ok” with people whom he was feuding and who apologized and cleared the air with him (sociopaths aren’t usually very forgiving, to my knowledge).

He also frequently expresses admiration for people who “do the right thing”, in his eyes; again, giving praise freely and without clear opportunity for reward is not a very sociopathic tendency (unless, again, we label this as nothing more than cultivated behavior intended to give the appearance of nobility and that is the reward he seeks).

From watching the guy’s shows now for the last several months, as he sits in front of a webcam, unscripted, for hours at a time, I see someone who becomes indignant and snarky towards people who malign him, but that’s not an exclusively sociopathic trait, it’s extremely common behavior which all of us see regularly and most of us have engaged in from time-to-time, I’m certain.

As far as why he hates you, it’s for this reason: he can’t hang with being labeled a sociopath; and if he were to be reasonably diagnosed as one, I don’t think one needs a degree in psychology to conclude that he is far from an “extreme” type; by that definition, I’d have to say that about 50% of everyone I meet is an “extreme” sociopath.

This is a good comment, and in Dyer’s favor, we should present the other side to the argument that he is sociopathic.

In response, I would say that I never called him an “extreme sociopath.”

If he is sociopathic at all, he is a “controlled sociopath,” as I have discussed previously. Controlled sociopaths are “legal criminals” whereas uncontrolled sociopaths are “illegal criminals.” The ranks of law, medicine, politics, business, law enforcement and the military are filled with controlled sociopaths. Crooked lawyers, crooked doctors, crooked cops, crazy/psycho soldiers and officers, crooked businessmen, crooked politicians – you get the picture.

The controlled sociopath has simply controlled his sociopathic tendencies enough to keep himself for the most part out of jail or prison. The motivation is that the controlled sociopath does not want to go to prison, so he controls his behavior and channels it in a legal direction.

Rick is not an extreme sociopath. Mostly what he is is a narcissist. But he does have sociopathic tendencies. This is abundantly clear. There is a Psychopathy Checklist out there, the PCL-R, authored by Robert Hare. Obviously he is going to get an elevated score on that list.

Certain professions such as used car salesman are full of controlled sociopaths. Rick is a used car salesman.

Rick is a con artist. It has been theorized that most con artists are sociopaths.

Some sociopaths do engage in things like helping the homeless, being gurus dedicated to the common good, etc. Although I agree with the commenter that helping the homeless shows a good side to this complicated fellow’s personality.

The viciousness with which he goes after his enemies is totally over the top and makes no sense at all. For instance, he is currently libeling me. He is making up lies about me out of whole cloth. He knows full well that these are lies, but he just makes them up anyway.

One of them is that I served two years in a state prison. I have never incarcerated in any prison, much less a state prison, and I have not spent more than six hours in jail in my entire life. If I had actually served two years in prison, that should be pubic record, and anyone could go and look it up for themselves. But there is nothing there because it never happened.

Dyer has hoaxed many times. He is a serial hoaxer. Hoaxing is antisocial behavior.

He brags that he made $650,000 off of defrauding the American public. Taking pride in defrauding others is antisocial behavior.

At least $50,000 of that was simply stolen money. Rick just stole that money, period. The victim didn’t pretty charges because he was in on the hoax, but Rick did steal that money. Stealing money is antisocial behavior.

In 2010, Rick bragged that on his Bigfoot hunting expeditions, he had a friend run by in a Bigfoot suit to fleece the people he charged $500 a head to go on his expeditions. Rick laughed about what idiots they were as he ripped them off. Defrauding people on your expeditions is antisocial behavior.

Sociopaths think others are morons who deserve to be fleeced. They laugh about their victims and think they deserve to get taken for being stupid. This is Rick’s behavior towards his victims.

Rick recently stole $17,000 from a victim in Canada. The guy ordered two Corvettes from Rick, and Rick just stole the money and never delivered the Corvettes. Rick avoided a conviction by agreeing to deliver the Corvettes. That’s very antisocial behavior – stealing $17,000.

Rick beat up his pregnant wife, Lily Dyer. She called the cops and had him arrested. He avoided conviction by agreeing not to beat her up anymore. Beating up your pregnant wife is antisocial behavior.

However, the commenter makes an interesting case that Dyer is a complicated fellow, and in certain respects he does not display classic sociopathic behavior. Instead, in these regards, Rick is quite normal. And to be fair to Rick, I think my commenter above notes that Rick indeed appears to have a good side. I would certainly agree that Dyer is not a pure sociopath, but I believe he is a pretty antisocial fellow, and he would probably get an elevated PCL-R score.

I am not particularly upset by Dyer’s past if I saw some evidence that he was going to knock it off and turn it all around. But I don’t see that. Rick’s going to keep on being pathological and antisocial into the foreseeable future, even after he becomes world famous. No doubt we will be reading about his misdeeds in the paper.

Chuck Prahl provides evidence for Dyer’s sociopathy. In his interesting article here, Chuck asks (italics mine):

I must admit if Dyer does have a dead Bigfoot on ice, and his name is linked to Bigfoot forever more in every history book and documentary on the big fella, I personally will cry and laugh at the same time.

If you listen to the guy and watch his facial expressions on his adults only Internet/Youtube radio show, he doesn’t act like a man who has made the most important biological discovery in 500 years.

That tells me he is either lying about the whole thing or more likely the guy has no emotions about the subject at all. I have heard him try to be emotional about the circus he has made of his life since this alleged shooting went down last September, and he comes off like a Grade B actor without any heart or soul. He puts more emotion into discussing a car deal he just completed then a man who just made the most important discovery concerning our human ancestors in 500 years.

I have seen how just a fleeting few second encounter with bigfoot as changed men and woman’s entire life and how they become obsessed with getting just one more sighting just so they can say they were not hallucinating the first time. Then you have Rick Dyer who says he shot and killed one and gets more excited talking about the new wrap for his SUV then I ever heard him talk about seeing an 8 foot hairy monster lying on the ground where he just put a bullet through its brain.

On the other hand it might take a narcissist like Dyer to actually kill one of these creatures without having the emotional baggage that might haunt a normal human being having murdered a creature that resembles us in so many ways.

Prahl inadvertently proves an excellent point about Dyer. Dyer shows little or no emotions when discussing the scientific find of the century.

Others have seen Bigfoots for only a few seconds and were changed for life, and Rick put a bullet in one’s head while it was charging him and a filmmaker, then spent the next few months trucking the thing around, having it embalmed and autopsied, having the government build a place to store it, dealing with cops ready to arrest him for homicide on a moment’s notice, having his whole life turned completely upside down with all of the sordid details of his antisocial past revealed for the world to see, on and on, and Rick hardly even bats an eye.

He gets more excited about the newest detail he put on his SUV than he does about the incident that is going to land him in the history books for all time.

The answer to the riddle of this paradox is simple: Rick is a sociopath. Rick lacks any emotional baggage about murdering a fellow hominid because he doesn’t have any emotions to store in his limbic suitcase. You need have some emotions in the first place to get to where you are lugging around emotional baggage, and Rick doesn’t have any. Sociopaths don’t have emotional baggage. They never do.

Chuck says:

If you listen to the guy and watch his facial expressions on his adults only Internet/Youtube radio show, he doesn’t act like a man who has made the most important biological discovery in 500 years. That tells me he is either lying about the whole thing or more likely the guy has no emotions about the subject at all.

Exactly! Rick’s not lying, so the opposite is true. Rick simply lacks any complex emotions at all, as all sociopaths do. The Facebook Find Bigfoot guys described Rick as having “balls of steel” to come out of a tent hoisting a rifle and bead on a Bigfoot only yards away, then chase it as tries to run you down while you pump two bullets into it. Of course he has balls of steel. Rick is fearless. All sociopaths are fearless. It’s a hallmark of the disorder.

Chuck again:

I have heard him try to be emotional about the circus he has made of his life since this alleged shooting went down last September, and he comes off like a Grade B actor without any heart or soul. He puts more emotion into discussing a car deal he just completed then a man who just made the most important discovery concerning our human ancestors in 500 years.

Precisely! Since the sociopath lacks real emotions, he tries to mimic them. What emotions he does display are typically fake emotions, conjured up just for the use of other people. The sociopath figures out what emotions you want him to feel in that situation or what emotions he needs to feel in a situation and then he conjures up fake emotions to show everyone what he thinks they want and need from him. But they aren’t real feelings – they are fakes, acting jobs.

Dyer vows to continue murdering Bigfoots. Dyer recently commented that he is committed to live capturing a Bigfoot, but if he can’t do that, he will shoot and kill another one. This is a depressing comment. Many of us thought that Dyer had a human element in his heart when he appeared to break down and express remorse over the killing of Hank.

However, with this statement, it shows that Dyer has learned nothing. He knows that Bigfoots are human and killing them is murder. But he has no real remorse for killing Hank as he has vowed to kill another Bigfoot. This is classic sociopathic behavior as sociopaths in general do not experience remorse for their antisocial acts.

The Rick Dyer mental trap. People are locked into a trap.

The Dyer skeptics are a classic example of this.

Dyer Skeptic (A). I hate Rick for all sorts of excellent reasons based on observable truths, therefore Rick is lying. Dyer is a scumbag and a repeat hoaxer, therefore, he could not have possibly killed a Bigfoot. But that fails Logic 101. It’s perfectly possible for Dyer to be a scumbag and a repeat hoaxer and also to have killed a Bigfoot. Rather unlikely, but it’s quite possible. Ask any Logic professor.

The other side is locked into an identical trap.

Dyer Believer (B). Rick killed a Bigfoot, and we believe him, therefore we love Rick Dyer, he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, and we hate all of Rick’s evil enemies.

Almost no one seems to take the position that I do:

1. Rick Dyer is lower than whale crap, and that’s at the bottom of the ocean, and he’s also a serial hoaxer and a criminal. I hate him with every fiber of my being.

2. As unlikely as it sounds, despite (1) being true, he did indeed shoot and kill a Bigfoot! That means I believe him.

“I hate Dyer’s guts, but he killed a Bigfoot” seems to be so mentally contorting that almost no one is capable of twisting their brain into the cerebral pretzel that’s needed to think that way.

David Paulides tried to strong-arm habituation site owner into handing over all of his Bigfoot hair samples to Paulides. The man in question owns the Smith River habituation site and may be named Kirk Stewart. This site was written up in the papers. The owner reported that a possible Bigfoot had been coming onto his rural Del Norte County, California property for some time, eating his watermelons and stealing pheasants from his shed.

What was odd when the pheasants were taken is that the gate has a latch on it. The invader would go to the shed, unlock the latch, go inside and steal a pheasant or two, re-latch the shed on its way out, and take off with the pheasants! This convinced the owner that no ordinary animal was stealing his pheasants.

This man is very mad at Paulides, accusing Paulides of trying to strong-arm the man into handing over all of his Bigfoot samples. Paulides tried to cajole, threaten, browbeat, con and strong-arm the guy into handing over all of his Bigfoot hair samples to Paulides. The man did end up handing over most of the samples to Paulides, but he kept two samples for himself which Paulides kept on demanding he hand over to Paulides. The guy then told Paulides to “f– off”.

One of the two retained samples has been given to Dr. Brian Sykes of Oxford, who is running his own Bigfoot DNA study. The man has a sample in to Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA, but has zero confidence in Melba and Paulides (who is sort of Melba’s partner in the DNA study) to deliver the goods. Hence he is quite happy that Sykes has the hairs, and the man is hopeful that Sykes can find something usable out of them.

Paulides is now running around all over the place touting the man’s hair samples as his own.

Paulides is a real scumbag, and he’s one of the worst people in Bigfootery. He has a history as a con artist (he was forced to resign from the Palo Alto Police Department for engaging in a fraud using city government stationery). I don’t mind that Paulides has a bad history as long as he changes and knocks it off, but all indications are that Paulides is still as slimy as he was when he was a crooked cop, and he hasn’t changed one bit. He’s just changed professions, from crooked cop to crooked Bigfoot organization leader.

In addition, many have accused Paulides of continuing to con people with his Bigfoot books. The books contain many false statements, lies, incorrect inferences and false sources. The excellent Steven Streufert has done a great job of taking apart Paulides’ books on Steven’s website.

Paulides has authored a number of Missing 411 books that are, granted, interesting. I have copies of them and have looked them over. Paulides is apparently making the case that Bigfoots are running around North America abducting and killing children and adults from wilderness areas and national parks. While this may indeed be true, and Paulides may have uncovered cases of people being hauled off and killed by Bigfoots, unfortunately, his books do prove that, and some of Paulides inferences are just wrong.

For instance, two of the oddities that Paulides addresses are removal of clothing in cold or freezing weather and burrowing into the ground. However, both clothing removal even in very cold weather (paradoxical undressing) along with burrowing are well known responses to hypothermia (a collapse in body temperature due to exposure to cold weather). But clothing removal and burrowing in these cases are probably just related to hypothermia in the woods and no doubt have nothing to do with Bigfoot abductions. So part of Paulides’ theory is simply wrong.

In addition, Paulides has not been forthcoming about the theme of his books.

While his books are obviously meant to imply that Bigfoots are kidnapping and killing people in the woods, in multiple interviews he denies that this is what the books are about; instead he says the books are simply about missing persons in the woods. That there are missing persons in the woods is not particularly interesting, and one wonders why it was necessary to write three whole books about such a mundane topic. So Paulides is misleading us about the purpose of his books.

In addition, all of Paulides’ books were self-published by CreateSpace. CreateSpace is a good self-publishing outfit, but self-publishing itself is a dubious enterprise because the finished product looks so unprofessional. I have now received several self-published books via CreateSpace, and all of them look quite unprofessional, though some have been well-written. They have layout problems, and they all look like they badly needed an editor. The overall effect screams amateurish and unprofessional.

This is also the case with Paulides’ books. Paulides is not a particularly good writer, though he writes better than the average man on the street. There are all sorts of writing errors strewn through his books. The guy needs an editor something awful. The layout is very bad, and the organization of the books is chaotic and makes little sense.

Nevertheless, if Bigfoots are indeed kidnapping and killing folks in the woods, Paulides’ books are a good “pilot study” that will help to stimulate hopefully much better studies of this phenomenon.

Melba Ketchum violating her agreement with Wally Hersom and Derek Randles. The agreement states that the Bigfoot steak tissue from the Sierra Kills that she did not use is the property of Hersom and Randles. She apparently has quite a bit of tissue left after her testing, and she is simply refusing to hand it over to Derek and Wally as per her charming personal style.

Both men have made repeated requests to Melba to sent the rest of the tissue to them, but nothing has been forthcoming, and it’s been three weeks so far. Melba keeps saying that she is going to send the tissue, but nothing ever shows up.

If I know her well, nothing ever will show up. This looks very bad as apparently she is already on record saying that she did not want 3rd party testing of the Sierras tissue, or at least this is how Bart Cutino and Justin Smeja read things.

No Haplotype A in Bigfoot steak. The tissue from the Sierra Kills was sent out by Cutino and others to be tested to see if results matched up with Ketchum’s. The results came back “human” and “Black bear.” Skeptics of these results say that two different human haplotypes were found in the sample – Amerindian or “A” and European. Actually, only a European haplotype was found in the sample, and that haplotpye is assumed to be Justin’s. The haplotype is “Eastern European,” and Justin is Polish.

Evidence that Justin Smeja is telling the truth about the Sierra Kills. Bart Cutino eavesdropped on Justin and the driver talking about the Sierra Kills when they had no idea that he was listening to him. They spoke about it as an actual event that really occurred. If they really faked the whole thing, why would they talk about it as an actual event when they thought no one was listening?

Evidence backing body recovery story for the Sierra Kills. According to Justin, he and the driver went back 1 month later, on November 12, 2010, and found the Bigfoot steak under three feet of snow. Many have questioned this story for a variety of reasons. However, Cutino has seen photos from the body recovery mission of that day. The photos show Justin holding up the Bigfoot steak, and they are time-stamped with November 12, 2010 on them. So it appears that Justin’s body recovery story is true at least in part.

Bigfoot News April 12, 2013

Warning: Long! Runs to 43 pages on the web.

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.

Bigfoot News March 15, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closeup of the same creature as above.

Bigfoot News February 27, 2013

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.

Merchant paralyzed Adirondacks Bigfoot breakdown 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?

Bigfoot News February 23, 2013

World exclusive – Justin Smeja of Sierra Kills fame releases a video at midnight detailing how Dr. Melba Ketchum told him to contaminate his Bigfoot steak sample from the Kills! She did so for unknown reasons, most probably so that other researchers would not use it and scoop her on the Bigfoot DNA story. It was a sleazy thing to do, but I think judging from the circumstances, Melba may have been right to make this morally dubious request. I detailed my reasons for that in the last post. Anyway, this is a blockbuster!

The story and video is on the Sierra Site Project website here.

The Men In Black (MIB’s) may be after Rick Dyer’s Bigfoot! Texas authorities have notified Las Vegas police about possible criminal or Parks and Wildlife violations involved in the events surrounding whatever Dyer did near San Antonio, Texas in September 2012. What all of this means, I have no idea. The people promoting the idea have sources on the SWAT team in Las Vegas and they say that Dyer is hoaxing. If Dyer is hoaxing, why is LE going after him. I hope the MIB’s don’t confiscate the Bigfoot, if it exists!

Two shots hit Dyer’s Bigfoot. It now turns that Dyer fired on the Bigfoot two times, once hitting it in the back and the other time hitting it in the back of the head.

Michael Merchant is doing some great Bigfoot breakdowns lately! I don’t really like his podcasts too much, as he tears apart everything and everyone, but his breakdowns have a whole different attitude about them. Michael is very bright and very funny when he is good.

Michael Merchant breaks down Adirondacks Bigfoot.

This video has never made any sense to me. A friend of mine insisted it was a hoax, and the general view is that it is a hoax. However, this is one of the weirdest hoaxes I have ever seen, if it is a hoax. Look at the huge head! Combined with the small size. It could very well be a juvenile Bigfoot as they have gigantic heads.

Also the ears look exactly like Bigfoot ears, a nice touch that hoaxers almost never get right. It is bending its head back in a very bizarre way, but why would a hoaxer do that. And it goes down on all fours. Why? When do hoaxers ever go on all fours like that. It does look like a gorilla! Very much like a gorilla. All I have to say is that this is one of the weirdest Bigfoot videos I have ever seen!

Michael Merchant breaks down Nassau Bigfoot.

I really do think that this is a Bigfoot, and it is definitely going on all fours.

Michael Merchant breaks down San Juans Bigfoot.

This video is very strange and I cannot make any sense out of it. Whether it is a hoax or whether it is a real Bigfoot, I have no idea. The general view is it is a hoax, but that could be incorrect.

Dr. Melba Ketchum told Justin Smeja that the Bigfoot steak from the Sierra Kills would probably test as “bear” if he sent it out somewhere else! Turns out that Justin et al did send it out elsewhere, and it did test as “bear” from two separate labs. What kind of sense does that make? It makes no sense at all! I am as confused as anyone about this.

Ketchum is not hoaxing. One theory is that Ketchum has nothing but samples from known animals and that she has manipulated or misinterpreted those samples in some way as part of a gigantic scientific hoax. The problem is that that is scientific misconduct for sure if she did that. She would also be sued to Kingdom Come and she could be prosecuted by an enterprising DA for criminal fraud.

Ketchum is a rather shady person for sure (but many of the pillars of our society in business, entertainment and government are shady or worse), but she is not hoaxing. I do not believe that she is capable of scientific misconduct. She doesn’t have it in her, she doesn’t want to be sued and for sure she doesn’t want to go to jail or prison.

As far as ethical challenges, many of the greatest men and women in history had some rather remarkable ethical lapses, yet we still consider them great. Let God sort em out!

Another way we know she is not hoaxing is because I know that Adrian Erickson is not hoaxing. Erickson and his team definitely have samples from real Bigfoots. That’s for sure. If Erickson’s samples are real, then Melba’s samples are real. In addition, for sure Derek Randles and his team is not hoaxing, nor is Larry Jenkins, Mitch Waite, Alex Hearn, Stan Courtney, Larry Surface, Henner Fahrenbach, Rob Alley or JC Johnson. As far as the rest of the submitters, I doubt if most of them are hoaxers, but I don’t know them, so they might possibly be. We always have consider all hypotheses in science.

Critique of Ketchum’s DNA study. Via Tyler Huggins on Bigfoot Forums, who sent the study to a PhD friend of his:

Huggins: I have another, and seemingly final update from my PhD contact who would prefer not to post here:

PhD: “What my analysis says is that the bear sequences are real bear and not just primate sequences that are homologous to bear. That means that a bear was involved. This is consistent with your and Bart’s reports. It also points to the fact that it’s inclusion in the publication was inappropriate, because it adds more confusion than clarity.

I think this is gonna be it for me on this sample. It’s fairly tedious work. It’s pointing to an artifactual mosaic due to the combining of human and bear sequences along with poor quality control of the output. Here is something that you can post:
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Further analysis of the sequence associated with Sample 26 indicates that it is 2.7 million nucleotides in length., which is only about 0.1% of the human genome. It tracks from beginning to end with sequences associated with Chromosome 11. Chromosome 11 is 134 million nucleotides in length. So, this would correspond to roughly 0.2% of the content of Chromosome 11.

There are segments that identify with very high significance to Ursid (bear) sequences. One major limitation related to the analysis is that Genbank is fairly limited in Ursid sequences. Most of the Ursid sequences identify with Panda, but Panda is fairly well represented in Genbank compared to black bear and other bears. The Ursid sequences appear to be mainly from coding regions, rather than structural regions.

It is really impossible to compare the Chromosome 11 structural sequences (non-coding) to similar sequences for bears. So, it is possible that there are bear non-coding sequences, as well. This makes it very hard to decipher what might be going on in terms of the source of the sample vs. the contaminant.

So, are the bear sequences real bear or are they primate sequences that identify closely with bear. A distance tree analysis in BLAST using several sequences that identified as phosphatidylserine synthase-2 like coding regions indicates that the Sample 26 version aligns most closely with Ursid sequence (Panda). A primate cluster (human, gorilla, baboon, chimp, rhesus monkey) are highly homologous but more distantly related. Additional sequences from dog, mouse and galigo (Otolemur) were included as outliers and branch further away as might be expected.

So, the upshot here is that the 2.7 million nucleotide data set for Sample 26 is highly flawed, and, therefore, would be nearly impossible to use to determine whether a non-human primate contributed DNA to the sample.”

Ok, based on that, my reading is that Ketchum’s analysis of the Bigfoot DNA from the Sierra steak makes no sense at all. I do not know what that means. It either means that Bigfoot DNA itself makes no sense or that there was something wrong with her analysis.

Craziest Bigfooters of all vindicated by Ketchum DNA study. Via this fascinating webpage of Ketchum’s very unprofessional website (my browsers warned about possible phishing sites due to improper certificates) we see a list of all of the successful submitters to the study. Many are rather unremarkable, but some do stand out.

For instance, Igor Burtsev, widely derided as a kook and quite possibly a hoaxer (he seems to have hoaxed a Bigfoot tour for Dr. Jeff Meldrum in the Kuzbass) nevertheless has 6 successful samples in the study, including one from Russia! 3 of the samples come from Tennessee (Apparently from the Carter Farm!), one from Michigan (Via Robin Lynne’s habituation site no doubt!) and one is from Russia (Which means that Ketchum’s study proves that Yetis are real!)

The Carter Farm is the site of Janice Carter’s story detailed in Mary Green’s book 50 Years with Bigfoot that details Janice’s growing up and living with the Bigfoots on her family farm in Tennessee over the course of a lifetime. It is widely derided as utterly ridiculous, in particular the parts about Fox the Bigfoot, and Janice has been proven to be a hoaxer, at least in part. In one scene, Fox comes to Janice’s door to ask for some garlic, which she gives him!

Janice herself has 7 successful samples in to Ketchum’s study and Melba’s page states that one of the samples was form the late Fox (Fox died in 2010) himself! How she figured that out, I have no idea. Yet the Ketchum study appears to prove that the Bigfoots at the Carter Farm, including the incredible Fox himself, were real, and hence Janice’s story, at least in part, is a true story! Holy Sasquatch!

In addition, Robin Lynne is Melba’s new spokesman and is widely derided as an ultra-kook even in Bigfoot circles. She says there are 10 Bigfoots living in and around her family’s rural property in Michigan. She feeds them fish and blueberry muffins! Once this story got out to the mainstream media, they all had a huge laugh about it. I even thought her story was insane, but apparently Lynne has a successful sample into Ketchum’s study, apparently validating that there are indeed Bigfoots living around her place and that her story is at least in part true. Holy Boogieman!

Bigfoot News February 21, 2013

Dr. Brian Sykes and Dr. Anna Nekaris announce that they will examine Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA study! Excellent news. I do not know if these two are the scientists that Ketchum referred to in this statement:

I have independent analysis of our data going on. If the outcome of what we are doing supports our analysis, then we are vindicated. If not, then I will announce that also. It involves top level scientists that have volunteered after I released the paper. If their findings are the same, they will go public. So, please be patient. They also will assure upload to GenBank and they can make that happen.

However, Nekaris and Sykes are definitely going to be looking over her data.

Sykes backs out of Western Bigfoot Society meeting in Oregon. Sykes said his travel agent was unable to change Sykes’ plans for that week to he could go to the USA, so he will not be appearing at that meeting. A disappointment.

Video investigates Rick Dyer Bigfoot shooting.

In this video, a man investigates the Rick Dyer Bigfoot shooting. The area is indeed forested. I had no idea that Texas had such think, nearly tropical, forests! He finds a young homeless man who lives in the forest. The man says that Dyer was indeed in the area camping for one week in September along with a film crew. Also there were two large SUV’s present. Incredibly, the man also says that gunshots were heard in the area during that time.

Large piles of scat that look almost like cow pies are seen in the area, however, there are no cows, and it’s too large to be mountain lion scat. Also there are the remains of a couple of killed turkeys in the area.However, the man says he has never seen a Bigfoot in the area. Very interesting video!

Shout out to 2 women in Bigfoot Forums. Very quickly after the Rick Dyer story broke on Bigfoot Forums (and I am the one who broke that story) 2 women on the forum, JackiLB and VioletX, quickly decided that there was something to the story and that Dyer had indeed shot a Bigfoot. They have held to their conviction through 312 pages of threads, enduring quite a bit of bashing in the process.

I don’t know how they decided that the story was true. Possibly pure female intuition. This is one of the things I love about women – the near psychic nature of their intuitive senses. Men are so often caught up in the logic trap that they can’t think from the seat of their pants, from their guts or straight from their hearts.

One way to look at this thinking is to call it the Gestalt. The Gestalt is “I know it when I see it.” It’s where the total is greater than the sum of its parts.

In bird watching for instance, sometimes I see a bird and I just know that it is a such and such species, even if I catch it only for a glance. If you asked me how I arrived at that conclusion, I probably could hardly even tell you! I arrived at that conclusion through some sum total of everything that I had known and learned about the bird via books, observation, discussion and whatnot. But I couldn’t put my finger on what exactly it was that drove me to that conclusion. It was more of a “I know it when I see it” type thing. The bird simply gave off the “smell,” “vibe” or “feeling” of being a such and such species.

This is the way intuition operates. Detectives use their intuition all the time. So do investigative reporters and investigators of all types. Maybe we need more female detectives.

Anyway, shout out to Violet and Jacki. I am confident they will be proven right in the end. You go girls!

Dyer Bigfoot being stored at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). I feel that Rick Dyer is in possession of a Bigfoot that he shot and killed. Dyer has hinted that the Bigfoot is being stored at the UNLV somewhere. This has led to all sorts of speculation and accusations that if this is so, someone would have leaked this information by now. I am not sure that is true, and it may indeed be possible that the Bigfoot is at UNLV.

Dyer had an autopsy done on his Bigfoot. Although this was hinted around by the Musky Allen interview in which he said that he had seen incisions and shaved areas where presumably an autopsy had been done, I con now confirm through a source I have who is very close to Dyer that an autopsy on Dyer’s Bigfoot has in fact been done! Very exciting news.

Derek Randles and Dyer have been communicating for months. I was one of the first people to tell Derek about Dyer’s story, and I told him that I thought Dyer had in fact killed a Bigfoot. Surprisingly, Derek had a very open mind about it, and considered that the story might indeed be true. Derek also stated that there was no bad blood between him and Dyer as Derek tries to get along with everyone. But it is interesting that they have been communicating for some time now. It would be great if Derek could see the dead Bigfoot! Whatever anyone thinks of Derek, we know one thing for sure and that is that he is no hoaxer!

Adrian Erickson Bigfoot documentary has funding problems. A phone call by someone on Bigfoot Forums to Erickson revealed that Erickson has funding problems in terms of getting his documentary released, according to Erickson himself.

Ketchum unethical dealings in the apparent bypassing of peer review to get her paper published. There are accusations that Ketchum engaged in unethical behavior by creating a new journal out of nowhere, the Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Exploration in Zoology (this is apparently the journal that she claims to have “bought out”) then dissolving the journal to create her De Novo Journal. It’s not known at all whether Ketchum’s paper passed review at the Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Exploration in Zoology, but it could only have been in review for a week or so there.

She has been accused of scientific misconduct for doing this, however, I am not sure if this qualifies as scientific misconduct. At any rate, this is one case where I will support Ketchum’s unethical behavior to the fullest. She needed to get her paper out there, one way or the other, by hook or by crook, and she did it. If she had to bypass peer review in order to do that, so be it. It’s being reviewed by her peers right now in the media anyway. It’s obvious that mainstream science simply refused to look at her data in a fair way. There was no way on Earth they were going to publish an article on Bigfoot DNA, no matter what it said or who wrote it. If that’s the way they were going to be about it, then peer review needed to be bypassed.

Accusation that Melba Ketchum charged $500,000 for genetic work that should have only cost $100,000. I have no idea what to make of this charge or whether or not she ripped anyone off. The people ripped off in this case would have been Erickson and Wally Hersom. Right now it is just one more accusation lobbed at her.

Excellent Ketchum critique on Jon Downes’ Cryptozoology Online page. Downes showed the paper to two zoologists, and this was their response:

ZOOLOGIST #1

I think their methodology looks weak at best, Just their description of the variation in the morphology of the hairs is enough to make me think they have been analyzing hairs of several different species of animal mixed together. One of the photographs of the hairs looks distinctly human to me, whereas one of the others looks more like a bear. Apart from that the paper has a lot of statements they just expect us to take at face value, That’s simply poor science. I can’t see any scientific journal accepting this.

ZOOLOGIST #2

• The English is poorly written. In a normal paper, a high standard of English is assumed, and papers can be rejected based on this. A normal reviewer would jump on this (though obviously small typos and things are found in any paper, as you would expect)

• From the introduction, it is obvious that the writers are not writing from a null position. Because good science is hypothesis driven, you need a null hypothesis to act in opposition to the actual hypothesis (for instance, I hypothesize that compared to the average human, there is a significant difference between the sizes of X and Y. The null hypothesis would be that there is no significant difference). Study introductions should review the literature from an unbiased point of view, make hypotheses accordingly, then go into the study. This kinda doesn’t.

• “Some photographic evidence also exists such as Figure 4 is a reddish brown Sasquatch sleeping in the forest” (page 2, 4th para) is one heck of a statement to give, especially without a reference to a paper (or at least a book!) demonstrating that it is in fact a ‘squatch. To my knowledge, no peer-reviewed paper does so.

• “Video of the same Sasquatch is seen in Supplementary Movie 1 where her respirations are counted at only 6 per minute.” Again, unreferenced assertion of sex and existence of the being as a Sasquatch.

• They end the introduction by telling us what the study finds (in their eyes). This is a poor way to write a paper introduction as it indicates the lack of a null position (again).

• Methods: no references for much of it. If you “thoroughly cleaned [the samples] in a manner consistent with forensic testing procedures” you need to reference the paper you got this from!

• When they talk about “primers”, they don’t show or reference the sequences used! Bad practice.

• No actual academics are on the paper, they are all forensic scientists. A potential bias from influence via funders and the private sector perhaps?

• In the results section, they make inferences and speculations about the data (eg, “With the wide variety of haplotypes in the study and especially with the majority of the haplotypes being European or Middle Eastern in origin, migration into North America by these hominins may have occurred previous to the migration across the Bering land bridge.”). Again, a stupid thing to do, that is what the discussion is for.

• Random crappy readouts from various programs are strewn all over the place with no explanation. Again, shoddy.

• They give it a scientific name. With no haplotype. And the name is not in italics. A mistake which is guaranteed to irritate me.

I feel that these are good critiques. The paper was indeed poorly written up, shoddily presented, etc. It does look rather sloppy. However, I feel that her conclusions were sound anyway, and this is all that matters.

Excellent post by Scott Carpenter. I am getting very tired of everyone piling on Ketchum about this study. Look around the Bigfoot community, at the blogs, Facebook pages and forums, and it’s just pitiful the mud they are dragging this woman through. Absolutely sickening! The consensus is that her study and everything surrounding it is a total catastrophe. A lot of Bigfooters are crying in their beer.

I do not agree with much of this criticism. Though there were definitely some issues with the unprofessional way in which the study was written up and presented, I feel that her data is sound and that she has indeed proven that Bigfoots do exist.

Scott writes:

Now imagine you are Dr. Ketchum, you know what you have, indisputable scientific proof Bigfoot exist. A major journal (Nature) has delayed you repeatedly with frivolous request and leaked your results to others (Sykes). You know mainstream science is trying to make an end run on you via the Sykes study. Sykes has the political power and financial backing to publish quickly. The collective scientific community has done everything they can to keep you from publishing your findings.

Also remember that Wally Hersom and Adrian Erickson have funded the study to the tune of over $300,000! Your professional reputation is ruined, and you just spent 5 years of your life on this project. You have the DNA, you have the solid proof and GenBank will not allow you to upload your sequences leaving the door open for Sykes or another scientist to zoom in and get the credit!  Armed with this knowledge and these circumstances what do you do?

Would you tell Justin Smeja to contaminate his remaining samples so no one else like Sykes could use his political connections and power to beat you and claim discovery for what you already have? Would you have preemptive press releases before your study is published? Would you purchase a journal that has passed your paper only to back out at the last moment due to political pressure in order to preserve the peer reviews and editorial independence?

I have attacked Ketchum for supposedly telling Justin to contaminate the sample to make it unusable. I thought that was sleazy as Hell. But now that Scott has publisher her possible motivation for doing so, I think she may have been correct in fact to do just that! Although it was a dirty thing to do, and I do not like to act dirty myself, this may have been the right thing to do in the end. Why judge her?

Her preemptive press releases and the purchasing of the journal and possible bypassing of peer review also seem more sensible in this light. If this is what she needed to do, then do it. The preemptive press releases and end run around peer review were done in order to head off Sykes at the pass. The scientific community was bypassing Ketchum, but they may not have been willing to bypass Sykes, so in order to beat Sykes to the punch when she was first anyway, and given the frozen mindset preventing her from publishing, she did what she had to do.

Now personally, I would not have the guts to end-run peer review, etc. I do not think I could do that. Granted, it’s pretty dirty. But Ketchum was fighting against some forces acting pretty dirty against her too. Maybe you gotta do what you gotta do.

Scott also gets to the meat of Ketchum’s study here:

In other words the DNA is:
1. NOT Contaminated
2. All from 3 individuals (Bigfoot) not a mixture or contaminated
3. The results are repeatable
4. The SAME results were returned on 3 different samples from 3 different individuals, collected from 3 different locations, and at 3 different times.
5. The lab that ran the data is well respected, accredited, and independent
6. The results are rock solid and indisputable.

Right. And now let Scott explain why he says this:

First let me explain the “Q30″ scores that just zoomed over our collective heads. This is the key, this is why the critics are afraid, VERY afraid. Dr. Ketchum extracted and purified three samples (26, 31 and 140) with large amounts of high quality DNA. (Note that sample 26 came from the alleged killing of two Bigfoot by Justin Smeja aka “The Sierra Kills”).

She then sent these samples off to the University of Texas, Southwestern laboratory for sequencing. The UT laboratory used a widely accepted and proven process known as “the next generation Illumina platform”. The machine that process the the samples is known as a HiSeq 2000 next generation sequencer. Here is an excerpt from the DNA study that explains what a “Q30″ score is and what it means.

From the Ketchum paper: “The HiSeq 2000 next generation sequencer provides scores, Q30, for run quality​78​. Q30 can also be used to determine if there was any contamination (or mixture) found in the samples sequenced. According to Illumina, a pure, single source sample would have an Q30 score of 80 or greater with an average of 85. However, if there was contamination present in the sample sequenced, the divergent sequences would compete against one another prior to sequencing causing a contaminated sample to have a Q30 score of 40 to 50.

The Q30 scores for the three genomes sequenced had Q30 scores of 88.6, 88.4 and 88.7 respectively for samples 26, 31 and 140. The Q30 is the percent of the reads that have the statistical probability greater than 1:1000 of being correctly sequenced. Therefore, not only were the sequences from a single source, but the quality of the sequences were far above the average genome sequenced using the Illumina next generation sequencing platform.

The high quality of the genomes can be attributed to the stringent extraction procedures utilized whereby the DNA was repeatedly purified. This ultra-purified DNA also allowed for greater than 30X coverage of the three genomes. The summary and of the next generation sequencing generated by the HiSeq 2000 Illumina sequencer is furnished as Supplementary Data 7-10.”

The “Q30″ is a score that tells us how pure DNA is. The manufacture states that anything at or above a score of 80 is pure and NOT contaminated! Again let me repeat the scores were 88.6, 88.4, and 88.7 respectively.

As you can see, based on those Q30 scores, the DNA was not contaminated in any way, shape or form. So the whole contamination canard needs to be thrown out the window once and for all! The DNA was not contaminated! Repeat after me. Over and over now!

Reason for Ketchum not uploading the gene sequences to GenBank. Critics have bashed her mercilessly over this one, but apparently there was a good reason for this too. Apparently GenBank requires a signed release accompany any sequences containing human genes from the person whose genes they are. This is usually not a problem, but Ketchum’s Bigfoot samples contain human genes! So in other words, Melba would have had to get the Bigfoots who gave the samples to all sign release forms releasing their DNA to GenBank.

Apparently none of the Bigfoots whose genes she sampled was able to sign off on any of those papers! Most of them could not even be located, and those that could no doubt could not understand the request, don’t know what paper and a pens are or how to use them, and furthermore, are no doubt not literate enough to know how to sign their names, assuming they even have names in the first place!

However, the scientists reviewing her data told Melba that they will arrange having her DNA uploaded to GenBank.

Bigfoot News February 10, 2013

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

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

It’s lonely at the top, eh?

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

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

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

Oh well, sigh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bigfoot News February 6, 2013

Dr. Brian Sykes has apparently isolated Bigfoot DNA. I reported earlier that the Sykes Bigfoot DNA study out of Oxford University would confirm that there is a new hominid in North America.

That was from an online comment on Time.com by a former fashion model, apparently deep with the Ketchum Study, who goes by the handle “Icicle.” I say Icicle seemed to be deep with Ketchum because she knew way too much about Ketchum and the interior workings of her study for an outsider. However, there are also reports that she has a good source at Nature Magazine. Anyway, she knows way too much to be an outsider, so she must be in deep somewhere with someone.

Now Christopher Noel in his new book has stated that the Sykes study will prove that Bigfoots are real. I emailed Chris to ask him how he knew that, and all he would says is, “That’s just my prediction.” I found that statement odd.

Sykes responded to my italicized words above with a harsh statement saying that there had been no leaks and that I was dead wrong.

Well, the problem is that I have another source who is very close to the Ketchum Study. This person has been told by 3-4 separate people who are close to the Sykes Study that Sykes has indeed isolated Bigfoot DNA from some of his samples. The source stated that some of Sykes’ samples were just common animals, but some of his other samples had indeed come back as Bigfoots. So now we have it from 4-5 separate sources that Sykes has apparently isolated Bigfoot DNA, or 5-6 sources if Noel is onto something.

I suppose Sykes may try to rebut this evidence too, but the weight of evidence is starting to build that he is indeed going to prove that Bigfoots exist.

Ketchum study still not published. A lot of people, including me, are very depressed about this study not being published. Ketchum stated for sure it would be out the 3rd week of January, but that hour came and went, and nothing happened. Ketchum herself has completely clammed up and is saying nothing at all. I have some sources close to Ketchum, and they can’t get anything out of her.

I did learn this, though. I learned that the Ketchum paper has been at a single academic journal for the past 16 months! It has been sent back for 3-4 major rewrites and a number of lesser ones. It is still at this journal after over a year! It has been in review the whole time at this journal. This lines up well because I believe Matt Moneymaker stated that the paper was handed back from Nature around September 2011. That would be about 15 months ago, so the two accounts line up well. We can assume that the new journal is not Nature, but I do not know the name of it.

Does Ketchum even have a paper? Many skeptics are saying she is a fraud and that there has never been any paper. However, I have a source who has talked to a couple of people who have seen the paper, at least in its original version. So it definitely exists all right. I can assure you of that. And based on cryptic email communications and comments on my website by Henry Gee, editor of Nature, it appears that the paper may indeed have been at his journal in 2011.

Is Ketchum a fraud? A huge number of people are now saying that this woman is pulling off a massive hoax. This is based in part on Justin Smeja’s purported sample testing as Black Bear. This is the same sample that Ketchum said was from a Bigfoot. She also failed to get DNA from Justin, which was a major oversight on her part. It is unknown why she failed in this way. Now a lot of people are saying that she made up this whole thing as a hoax to make money. There are problems with this. If it is true:

1. She can be sued six ways from Sunday by everyone she took, or rather stole, money from.

2. She is also guilty of criminal fraud in addition to facing civil penalties. Any enterprising DA could take her to trial and send her to prison for fraud if she is hoaxing this thing.

3. Her career as a veterinarian, not to mention her career as a scientist, is through. She is now repositioning herself as a genetic scientist. If she is guilty of scientific fraud, she will never publish again, and her career as a scientist, which she highly values, will be done.

This woman has a pretty wild personality, that much is true. But she is very crafty, and she’s not suicidal in any way. I just can’t see her sociopathically throwing her whole life away like this. I don’t buy it. I don’t think she has it in her to hoax this study.

Ketchum controversy regarding business relationship with Alex Evans. If you go to Steven Streufert’s blog, he has a good rundown on the whole story.

Ketchum hired a woman, Alex Evans, to do artwork for her, and she gave  Evans a “great photo” of a Bigfoot to use as a guide. Ketchum had hired Evans based on a drawing, “Come On,” that Evans had drawn earlier. Evans produced a drawing based on the photo.

Later there was a conflict between the two women over two drawings from Evans that Ketchum had commissioned. Sally Ramey negotiated a true between them, but in the course of the discussions, Evans revealed that she was o a low and limited income. Ketchum apparently used this information to home in on her.

The drawing was supposed to go on a line of Bigfoot clothing that Ketchum is thinking of selling called Authentic Sasquatch Wildwear.

After Ketchum’s site got hacked, Evans said that Ketchum no longer had her permission to use any of Evans’ drawings on Ketchum’s site, on her clothing or for any reason whatsoever. One reason for making this demand was due to the hassles Ketchum had made with Evans over the payment for the drawings.

Ketchum said she was not using any of Evans’ drawings anyway. Ketchum then responded by saying that she was copyrighting Evans’ drawing, “Come On,” basing this on the notion that Evans had used Ketchum’s photo to draw “Come On”. But “Come On” was drawn over a year prior to Evans seeing Ketchum’s photo!

Ketchum then learned that Evans was fighting cancer, and the fact that Evans was vulnerable that way seemed to make Ketchum go in for the kill. Ketchum threatened to sue Evans until the cows came home unless Evans backed down. To this day, Ketchum has ripped off Evans for all the drawings Evans did for her by not paying Evans.

This is not news. This is simply the way that this ultra-competitive, Cluster B, Type A cutthroat woman operates. She’s a female Bill Gates. I would trust her about as far as I could throw her, and if you have seen any recent photos of her, that is not too far!

Anyway, that’s her personality! Take it or leave it, folks. She likes being a ferocious bitch just fine. She’s ok with it. This isn’t the first person she has treated this way, and it won’t be the last. This is standard operating procedure for this ruthless female land shark. Capitalist society loves quasi-sociopaths like this, and with an attitude like that, she could clearly go far in the free market game.

People like Ketchum have been doing this to others for a very long time. She thinks that money and power will buy her redemption or at least freedom from retribution.

There she is living it up in sin city, building a crystalline staircase to the stars, hoping she can reach up high up enough to escape the retaliatory winds from the storms she has kicked up. But on the 31st floor, a gold plated door won’t keep out the Lord’s burning rain. There will be a judgement. Thy kingdom come and all that.

You can run, but you can’t hide. The danse macabre will swing back around sooner or later, swooping you up.

Momento mori!

A screening comes across the sky. At the South by Southwest Film Festival in either Austin, Texas on March 8-17 or at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York mid-April, Minnow Films UK will present its movie, Of Monsters and Men. In addition, at some point, the film will also be shown on BBC TV in the UK and BBC World TV worldwide at some point.

This is the movie that contains a good 3 minute segment of a BBC film crew videotaping a Bigfoot eating ribs from a bait tree in San Antonio, Texas on the afternoon of September 5, 2012.

In the actual incident, Rick Dyer then ran out of his tent with a gun, but he froze up and could not shoot the Bigfoot. For some crazy reason, the Bigfoot came back that night at 2:30 AM the next morning, September 6, to get more of those fine-ass ribs. It was then that Dyer, in cold blood, put a bullet in the back of its head.

Those ribs, fruit of that forbidden bait tree, whose mortal taste brought death into its world, and all our resulting woe. A Bigfoot is dead. Captain, oh captain! And no one will admit it. Persephone, speak not thy name!

A fistfight then broke out between Dyer and the crew, but then things settled down. It is not known whether the actual shooting was captured on film that night, but the aftermath may well have been. Minnow freaked and called authorities. Authorities came and were shocked but released the Bigfoot to Dyer.

Dyer owns 50% of the Bigfoot, and his investors own the other 50%. Everything is wrapped up in lawyerese 9-page NDA’s. Dyer supposedly then transported the dead Bigfoot to Las Vegas, where it sits at a facility right now. It is in cold storage, and its internal organs have been embalmed. Early just this morning, February 6, noted Bigfoot skeptic Musky Allen came out to Las Vegas to meet Dyer in order to see the body. He viewed the body along with another person. Dyer claims that it went very well. Allen will now report back on his findings!

At any rate, the body will reportedly be unveiled at the festival above or at the very least the movie will be shown, revealing at least 3 minutes of HD  footage of a live Bigfoot and possibly more of a dead Bigfoot.

Who is Rick Dyer? The lines have been drawn about Rick Dyer. If you hate Rick Dyer, you have to say that the San Antonio shooting was a fraud and a hoax. If you like Rick Dyer, you have to say it’s real. You can’t hate Dyer and say it happened, and you can’t like Dyer and say it’s a hoax. So the cognitive distortions have been set up here.

Dyer himself was stunned that I blasted him for being a serial hoaxer, a narcissistic sociopath and an all around scumbag while at the same time saying that he shot the San Antonio Bigfoot. As you can see, I am breaking the rules of cognitive distortion.

Nevertheless, it is true. I hold that Rick Dyer is the scum of the Earth. He’s lower than Whale crap, and that’s at the bottom of the ocean. And yes I said yes yes yes Dyer also shot and killed a Bigfoot in San Antonio, Texas on September 6, 2012. Those two things are not contradictory at all.

As far as Rick being a dog, sure he is. He ain’t nothing but a hound dog. He’s probably been this way ever since early adulthood. I don’t know what his childhood and adolescence was like, but he’s been a prick ever since age 18-20 or so.

Hey, that’s Rick! Rick’s a prick! That’s the way he is. Take it or leave it. He could always change, you know…stop being a prick, and start being a decent person, but he won’t. He likes being a prick perfectly well. Cluster B types always do. He will go on like this for however long he can.

The pressures stemming from the shooting of the Bigfoot and the resulting worldwide fame may rock his already unstable personality with unknown results. Alas, poor Rick, we knew you well. Recent videos he has made imply that he’s already losing it or barely holding it together. It remains to be seen how Rick Dyer will cope with the worldwide fame he will soon achieve. All I can say is it couldn’t happen to a less deserving person. Every dog has its day I suppose. As far as the future goes, who knows? Guys like this often don’t last long. He’s making armies of enemies everywhere he goes. Why? Because he likes to; because it’s fun.

I figure within future decades, he’s up face down on the ground, a bullet in his back, and that will be that. It won’t be me that does it, but who knows, maybe someone else will. Karma’s a bitch, Rick, and Rick’s piling up way too much of the wrong kind. Blowback is nearly a law of physics.

Bigfoot = Heidelbergensis? I have a contact who has been investigating Bigfoot remains in the US. They claim to have seen Bigfoot bones in several places in museums, open archeological digs and private collections. Except for one skeleton, the bones lack a skull. They stated that the Bigfoot bones can be determined by sheer size as they are much larger than human bones. They also said that the Bigfoot bones differ in a couple of other ways, being thicker and having a different curve to them. In all cases, existing Bigfoot bones in digs and collections were all labeled “Indian.”

This person also observed the “Sells skeleton” from Texas. There was a habituator named Sells who shot a lot of Bigfoot video in Texas before he died. This person observed the Sells skeleton and photographed a portion of the skull from that skeleton, which is very tall at 8-9 feet. They overlaid it for me onto a photo of a Heidelbergensis skull, and it fit perfectly.

Researchers ought to get ahold of the Sells skeleton in order to study it as it may be a Bigfoot skeleton. I am not sure who owns it know, but Tom Biscardi may have something to do with that skeleton. Apparently Bigfoot bones exist in North America!

2013 and a new world dawns. Call me Lindsay. I’m here to tell you a tale.

The old Bigfoot World, a fantasy creature of illusion, hallucination and hoaxery, is dying. In its place, a new world will be born anew, a Bigfoot world made flesh.

Here comes everybody! The Bigfooters are gathering from around the land. Slowly they make their way to the forests, sleeping by wasted roads. They will converge around campfires in the tall trees. Away alone at last, friends, enemies and everyone in between gather around the leaping flames, arms around each other. For now, if only for a moment, all ties with the past will be severed. It’s the story of the century, and all the Bigfooters are right in the middle of it. So arm in arm they are.

The light’s almost all gone out. There’s just enough to see by. It’s neither day nor night. It’s dusk. In the distance, a white cloud spreads across the land, wide and fat as a Whale.

If the world is going to end anyway, there is not much left to do but smile.

The old day is closing down for the evening, with the promise of bright morning to come, washed free of the old and blinding with blinking new light. Will we all be there again in the morning, to greet each other at the aching dawn? One can only hope. In the new day, all the old texts will have to be rewritten. A daunting task, but we are ready. The world is all before us. See you in the morning!

A song lifts across the fires, and the Bigfooters sing in unison. They all know the words by heart, even those who have never heard it before. The words float into the air.

We’ll meet again.

Don’t know where, don’t know when.

But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.

Keep smiling through, just like you always do.

Till the blue skies drive those dark clouds far away.

So will you please say hello to the folks that I know.

Tell them I won’t be long.

They’ll be happy to know that as you saw me go I was singing this song.

We’ll meet again.

Don’t know where, don’t know when.

But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day.

We’ll meet again.

Don’t know where, don’t know when.

But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day.

Keep smiling through just like you always do.

Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away.

So you will please say hello to the folks that I know.

Tell them I won’t be long.

They’ll be happy to know that as you saw me go I was singing this song.

We’ll we’ll meet again.

Don’t know where, don’t know when.

But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.

Now everybody sing!

Bigfoot News New Years Edition 2012 Part 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sublimation is nothing new. Churchill could have been Hitler.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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