Monday, June 11, 2012

BIGFOOT DISCOVERY MUSEUM Under Fire from County Tax Authorities, and You Can Help Save It!!!; plus the "EXTINCT?" Podcast Featuring Yours Truly

BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Early-Mid June 2012 Edition
HELP SAVE THE BIGFOOT DISCOVERY MUSEUM!

If a little over four grand isn't raised by June 29th of this year the world-famous and much beloved BIGFOOT DISCOVERY MUSEUM may be closed and sold off on auction. Michael Rugg, the museum proprietor is a very dedicated guy who has put not only his heart and soul into this project, but also his life savings, car and home. He has never charged a dime for admission to one of the best Bigfoot-related collections around, nor for the knowledge he freely dispenses. YOU CAN HELP by donating, buying something, or visiting the place. But do it now, before it is too late. If you ever thought of visiting there, donate something and think of it as an investment in the future.


One truly great feature on the web site, http://bigfootdiscoveryproject.com/, is the three years' worth of the Discovery Project Newsletter. It is much like Daniel Perez' BIGFOOT TIMES in form, and is well worth downloading in PDF and reading... again, for free. They are full of Bigfooting gems. On YouTube you may find over 200 really great and informative editorial and commentary videos that feature Mike Rugg talking about the latest Bigfooting issues of the day. Check it out at... http://www.youtube.com/user/BigfootMuseum

There is not too much to buy in there right now, but the Museum does have an ONLINE STORE. Click the link. One thing we can highly recommend for kids and adults is Michael Rugg's BIGFOOT DISCOVERY COLORING AND ACTIVITY BOOK, available in the store. It's not only fun, but also educational. They have a great selection in their BIGFOOT T-SHIRT SHOP via CafePress. This is one of the easiest ways to help, sure to be popular with your entire Squatching familia. The shop also features mugs, posters, calendars, stationery, a wall clock, a teddy bear, fridge magnets, mouse pads and a journal book. The prices are a little high, but you can consider it a charitous purchase.

One good way to help out is to become a member. You can sign up HERE for that.
One of the shirts available through the online T-Shirt Store, this one
featuring a very cool image Mike Rugg drew of Patty Bigfoot,
with Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin.
Here is an article on the matter which appeared recently in the Museum's local paper, The Santa Cruz Sentinel. Click the title to read the whole thing online.

Bigfoot Museum Founder, Behind on Taxes, Hopes Attendance Will Rise; County Sets June 29 Deadline
By JONDI GUMZ - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Posted: 06/09/2012 01:03:18 PM PDT

FELTON - Michael Rugg, owner of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum at 5497 Highway 9, was surprised to learn the county had set a deadline of June 29 for him to pay back taxes of $4,368 or see the property sold at auction.

He thought he had more time.

After seven years of operation and gaining local and international recognition, the museum sees 30 to 60 people a day in the summer.

Rugg says only now is he seeing revenue, and he had hoped a contact from a Hollywood producer could turn his Felton Bigfoot story into a reality television show. Meanwhile, a balloon payment on a loan he took out before the economy crashed will come due next year.

"Maybe people will rally and help us," Rugg said, noting the museum is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day but Tuesday.

View online at...
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20821307/bigfoot-museum-founder-behind-taxes-hopes-attendance-will
An Image of Mike at his Desk, from one of his online videos.
Here is a brief "Public Service Announcement" that I helped make (by being the guest on their show) on the EXTINCT Podcast with Ro Sahebi recently. Click the link below the image to view, or use the player box below if it will work in your browser.



Here is another thing, from the Museum's web site...

Seriously Seeking Sponsors

The Bigfoot Discovery Project is seeking help from a person or persons of means. We need additional funding to keep the Discovery Project operating at full speed.
Click here if interested but you need more convincing.

For more details...
call Michael Rugg at 831-335-4478

So, do what you can. Even just a visit to the spot and a few bucks in the pot will help. And you'll get more than you give if you get into a conversation with Mr. Rugg.

Here is a previous blog this site did on Michael Rugg:
http://bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/anatomy-of-bigfoot-hoax-biscardi-tells.html
And HERE is a MAP of the Santa Cruz, CA area, which will help you get there...
The Road to Felton,
CLICK TO ENLARGE SIGNIFICANTLY.
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THE "EXTINCT?" PODCAST

Yesterday Yours Truly was the guest on the TeamTazer-associated EXTINCT? Podcast. It was a great conversation, an hour and about forty minutes of which was captured on the air. About an hour of the best stuff was off-air before and after the show. Anyway, now I am blacklisted for sure. Ms. Hovey has said that anyone associating with TeamTazer would be put on the shun list. Oh no! I will never Squatch in Salt Fork Community Park again!
Listen to or watch the archived podcast here on BLIP, http://blip.tv/thebigfootreport/the-extinct-podcast-013-6196511, or get it via iTunes.

The Extinct? Podcast, Episode #13. About this episode
Steven Streufert joins us for a straight up Bigfoot conversation. Along with Damian Bravo, Shawn Evidence, Michael Merchant and Ro Sahebi.

And... a Good Time Was Had by All.
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Are you an investor or interested in Bigfoot patronage? Here is the text of the proposal and business plan that Mike Rugg had a while back for the BIGFOOT DISCOVERY MUSEUM. I'm sure much of this still applies. Also, news is that Mike, his research, and the Museum will be featured in an upcoming television series that may even be all their own. 
Read below, or VIEW THE PDF ONLINE.

Bigfoot Discovery Project (BDP)
CapriTaurus
Bigfoot Discovery Museum
5497 Highway 9
Felton, CA 95018
831-335-4478
www.bigfootdiscoveryproject.com
by Michael C. Rugg

Introduction
Michael Rugg and Paula Yarr started the project in 2003. The business plan called for the development of the BDP website and Bigfoot Discovery Museum, a roadside attraction designed to educate and entertain the public, and to generate revenue from sales of souvenir items, a bigfoot-oriented product line, and consigned local art and crafts. The goal was to create a fulltime research center and library— that would perpetuate itself through a cottage industry and memberships—dedicated to studying, and being instrumental in solving, the bigfoot problem. (Problem: People see “it”… science can’t adequately explain why.) 

So far the project has been most successful in terms of the research, because as soon as the museum opened its doors to the public, the local bigfoot encounter stories started rolling in. Although we had planned to do occasional fieldwork, it was not the emphasis, as the principles expected to be tied down working in the museum and developing products and curriculum. But the stories were so compelling that they could not be ignored. As a result of time spent documenting local stories and researching local history, the emphasis of the project shifted towards fieldwork; the product line fell behind schedule, and the revenue stream has fallen short of being self-sustaining. For these reasons, we are currently seeking funding from outside sources.

Our plans for the future include attracting more members and volunteers, implementing the educational product line and developing curriculum, while setting up a local network of field observers and investigators in an attempt to locate or create a primate habituation scenario. The museum creation and the first four years of research have been funded out of pocket. (I personally have spent nearly all my time since 2003 developing the project as a full-time research and education center.)

Over the past 5 years my conviction that this is a worth-while and important pursuit has been proven to me time and time again through conversations with others who have personally experienced bigfoot, as well as other unexplained phenomena. The importance of scientific exploration has been firmly 
established in my heart and mind after talking with dozens of young future cryptozoologists, and many intelligent adults who, like myself, are sick and tired of the scientific “establishment” explaining away things they can’t adequately explain, and the arrogant tendency to infer that all the eyewitnesses and experiencers are either fools or liars.

With adequate funding and more help, this project will pay its own way by generating profits from sales and services.

Market Indicators
For the sake of potential investors and/or benefactors here are some indicators of the current wave of bigfoot interest—unparalleled since the 1970’s—that has been building since the turn of the century:
• many overly ballyhooed media stories
• many new books both pro and con being published 
• many out of print bigfoot titles being reprinted
• many old low budget films being released on compendium DVDs
• many new television treatments and documentaries (Travel, History, Discovery Channels)
• art exhibits in San Francisco, New York and London etc. featuring sasquatch inspired artwork
• dozens of new web sites devoted to mystery primates
• research organizations starting up all across the world/ dozens of Bigfoot blogs
• the remake of the blockbuster movie King Kong
• many new low budget Bigfoot movies being made (and some with bigger budgets in the works)
• dozens of hoaxed videos appearing on the Internet (including one by Penn & Teller)
• numerous conventions being held across the country (CA, WA, TX, PA, OK, ID)
• several new Bigfoot Museums appear (CA, WA, TX, ME, CO)
• many TV commercials featuring sasquatch
• exhibits at major museums (Vancouver, BC; San Antonio, TX; Pocatello, ID; Berkeley,CA)
• Bigfoot Safaris (people pay to go out in the forest at night looking for bigfoot)
• Bigfoot pay-per-view web casts
• Bigfoot reality TV shows currently in the making
• Google searches very high for Bigfoot, sasquatch and yeti
• High profile mailorder manufacturers creating bigfoot products (Bronner’s; Design Toscana)
• Bigfoot Friday (8/15/08) the most publicized hoax in recent history (#1 international story)

The Bigfoot Discovery museum is in sight of the main entrance to Henry Cowell Redwood State Park which has over 400,000 visitors per year. Next to the park is Roaring Camp, both a narrow guage steam railroad an a full size deisel train to the beach/boardwalk in Santa Cruz. It also has 1000s of visitors a year. Not far away (9 miles as the crow flies) is the Mystery Spot, another international tourist attraction. 
Demographics are across the board… all ages and races of people come to the area from all over the world.

We’ve had much unsolicited media coverage representing thousands of dollars worth of free publicity
o TV treatments
o Croatian TV magazine show
o Eye on the Bay (CBS-SF)
o Life in the 831 (KION-Monterey)
o Despierta America (Latin American morning show)
o The Great Outdoors (Australian travel show)
o California Postcard (Sacramento TV Ch10)
o Bo Selecta (comedy program in UK)
o Community TV in Mt View
o Newspapers & magazines
o SF Chronicle
o San Jose Mercury
o LA Times
o Santa Cruz Sentinel
o Budget Travel
o Via magazine
o Valley Press/Scotts Valley Banner
o Radio and internet radio interviews
o KSCO (Santa Cruz), Xzone (Canada), Seattle, Tennessee, Florida,

BIGFOOT DISCOVERY PROJECT SUMMARY MISSION
1. Attract & edutain the public with the facts about mystery primates around the world
2. Generate revenue to cover expenses, pay staff, fund ongoing projects & programs
3. Establish Research Center for Discovery Science & Scientific Exploration
4. Teach children about reverence for wildlife and conservation of wilderness via cryptozoology
5. Seek proof of the existence of Bigfoot via local field research and forensics

ACTIONS NEEDED TO FULFILL MISSION
Upgrade website & add online store
Complete the museum improvements & exhibits
-Bookstore/research room
-Outdoor classroom/ Theatre /Children’s Art project
-Sculpture garden / Tanglewood Bazaar (outdoor booths)
Marketing (advertising & collateral)
Develop product line
Seek sponsors, staff, subscribers, volunteers and more visitors
Develop curriculum
Follow through with local field work, starting with Operation Y.E.T.I.

MOST IMMEDIATE PLANS
Arrange for additional Capital
-seek sponsors, donors, partners, investors
-start Ebay store
Remake & revitalize website
-make current & dynamic
-add online store
Set up the Bigfoot Discovery Weekend eco-tours
Get more members, visitors, volunteers
-membership campaign (direct mail/email)
-rack cards printed & distributed
-listings in local & greater Bay Area newspaper Calendars
Plan more events
Design & produce product line
-prep basic logo art for imprinting souvenirs
-finish first two posters (Monarch & Moment)
-design & produce new tshirts & bumper stickers
-SCruz Mtn Bigfoot Book with trail maps
-Museum Tour DVDJOBS/DUTIES
Creative director/curator/spokesman
Sales clerk/docent
Store manangement (inventory, POP)
Webmeister
Blogger, forum administrator
Librarian
Event planning
Advertising/PR/promotion
Networking
Janitorial & maintenance, grounds-keeper
Product design & production
Exhibit design & production
Research & investigatory fieldwork
Newsletter creation
Newsletter production & distribution
Curriculum development/classes & workshops

EQUIPMENT
Tour bus
Thermal imagers
Video recorders
Audio recorders
GPS devices
Night vision
Microscope
Sound analysis software
Specimen collection supplies
Materials & supplies for product manufacture

So, DO WHAT YOU CAN, even if it is only janitorial work.
I know I'm thinking about buying a Bigfoot Wall Clock for the Bigfoot Books store!

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!
(Channeled by Denali)

ME EXTRA ANGRY TODAY! ANNOYING TWEET-TWEET BIRD COME AND THROW WORMS AT ANGRY BIGFOOT! SOMETIME ME WANT THROW BIGFOOT POO POO AT LITTLE BIRD. THEN BIGFOOT HUNTER JUST HAVE LOOK FOR POO POO COVERED TWEET-TWEET BIRD INSTEAD OF ANGRY BIGFOOT. I TALKING TO YOU BOBO, CLIFF RENAE AND MATT! ME NO LIKEY FINDING BIGFOOT!
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Monday, June 4, 2012

BLOBSQUATCHING THE PGF: The Problem of Intentional Imaginative Pareidolia; The Beckjordian Background of Delusion, and MKD Emerging from Retirement (Again)

BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Early June, 2012 Edition
Where is the "Bob Gimlin in the Bushes," Blevins?
BLOBSQUATCHING AND THE PATTERSON-GIMLIN!!!

Pareidolia can be fun. Try it sometime. Just stare long enough at some abstract thing, pattern or setting, perhaps crossing your eyes a little, and you will begin to see forms and things that emerge. Faces will form from wood paneling. Clouds will transform into fleeting dragons. At times these can be truly surprising, even epiphanic; but that does not always mean that they are real.

Just like M.K. and his odd offspring, Mr. Lee Blevins, we are going to take an "in-depth look" at the Patterson-Gimlin film in this expedition into the inner reaches of the mind. SEE BELOW FOR EXAMPLES. Click on the images to view in a larger size, gaze at them long enough, and maybe, just maybe, you will find the deep secrets I have found there. If not, well, there are colored circles drawn around some of these hidden mysteries to guide you.

Bekjord the Grey, ET Prophet
The great Granddaddy of all of this Blobsquatchery is Jon-Erik Beckjord. He was noted for progressively odd theories about the Bigfoot creatures and the Patterson-Gimlin film as a particular example. He was featured in an article called IS BIGFOOT FROM OUTER SPACE. As he aged, so his theories proliferated into the paranormal. There is a possibility that he was some kind of great Visionary, but I think parsimony suggests that there was some kind of mental illness going on as the years went by. Pareidolia may be fun, but delusional mental illness is not, especially for those others subjected to it, like Tara and Loren. He was known to appear at Bigfoot conferences wearing an "ET" grey alien mask in his later years.
Image updated for 2012 PNW Conference on PP. Click to Enlarge,
Here is an example of some of the things that Beckjord saw in the PGF. It would seem that Beckjord was the creator, or at least the primal propagator, of the notorious "Red Circle." Below are some "baby Bigfoots," and other hidden Bigfooty presences he found in the bushes behind the film subject. He seems to have been an influence on MK Davis' work looking into the Patterson Film, as well. Before his website went down after his death, Beckjord displayed many an early MK image on there.
Early examples of the "Blobsquatch." Ignore the humanoid figure in the
right foreground---that is just an alien robotic android being. Click to Enlarge.
Did you know there was a "Blob-Gimlin"? It is only visible in one frame, but it does look a little like a younger Bob... or Elvis. This is the basis of the theories of one Leroy Blevins. However, how could he not see the "red-headed man" whose head is right next to "Bob's" and is actually much more clear than the "Bob"?
Above, "Blob" Gimlin, and Red-Haired Man in Blue Shirt.
Below, the real Bob Gimlin, in flesh and blood.

Even across space, we
See Things like this
"Face" on Mars, or the "Man
on the Moon."
Not all Pareidolia is due to some kind of mental condition or delusion. IN FACT, we ALL have it. It is a natural function of the mind seeking patterns and forms in sensory input. We are, in fact, hard-wired to "See Things," especially faces and human forms. This seems to be one of the earliest and most primal, primary tendencies of the mind, as the infant appears to recognize faces before other objects, and also to make faces to its mother to enhance bonding, and hence to increase chances of survival. Being human, we tend to see the human form projected upon the world. In many cases of blobsquatch identification, or even Bigfoot sightings in "the field," Pareidolia is what is really going on; and hence, the oddities of human perception should always be subjected to skeptical scrutiny before they are taken literally as real.

Sometimes "Blobsquatches" are not pareidolia or "matrixing," but simply mis-perception. Here is an image captured from a recent "Bigfoot video" that was said to "Confirm on All Points." I beg to differ, a little....
Confirms on... REDNECK! Bigfoot... NOT.
Here is an image found publicly posted on Facebook that is said to contain "many" Sasquattles, and even an alien or two...
I dunno, folks. I mean, I see only shrubbery.
In the cover of this upcoming book, BIGFOOT BLUES, there are said to be five Bigfoot hiding in the forest. When I looked I found TEN or more. What is going on here? Pariedolia? Or did the cover artist simply miss the Sasquatch hiding in his/her very own photograph? It is a great mystery!
Can YOU find the five Bigfoot in this book cover?
CLICK TO ENLARGE.
Another form of "blobbing" is the suppositious mis-identification of so-called "evidence." With "Squatch on the Brain Syndrome" just about anything can be a sign of "Bigfoot." Like this kind of thing widely circulated on Facebook Bigfoot groups and walls....
Bigfoot Did It! Yep, that's right. Every stick that falls is a sign....
Here is a CLASSIC: "Bigfoot" AFTER he has dematerialized, from Oklahoma. I was assured that there was a real, physical Bigfoot standing right there just a second before it entered "That Place Where They Go," in another dimension, or something. Rather than a blobsquatch, this is what we might call the "No-Squatch."
De-materializing Bigfoot
You may have heard that M.K. Davis retired. I hope he knows that despite some kidding here, we all wish him the best of health and happiness. Anyway, he's come back a little, drawn by the irresistible magnet of Bigfooting infamy. He's seeing White Bigfootses everywhere! In a recent blog, published just about an hour or two after I took him apart piece by piece live on the air on BlogTalk Radio, M.K. stated,

"It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to go in new directions. My health is declining. I have a few projects to finish I hope…before “I” am finished. I hope that this site and this blog meant something to you. To all the nearly 30,000 people who have visited, please know that you are important to me and your interest in my work is greatly appreciated. I have protected my sources, and I have done right by them and by you. I leave with a clean conscience. 
I’ll continue with the Bigfoot Central show as long as Don Monroe wants and artistfirst will have me. I thank you one and all."

HIS RETIREMENT DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG, DID IT? Just when you think you're out, they pull you back in! Eh, MK?
MKD, in current state, after years of "Blobbing"
So, just what is it that is causing this flirtation with retirement? We have inside information and a photo that reveals it.... the rare, but highly contagious condition, Blobbybluritis. The photo seen here shows M.K. in his current state, after countless hours, months, years, spent staring into his computer monitor at overblown-up images from the 1967 Bigfoot film. It is with this sad case that we urge caution and moderation when viewing the images that follow.
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BLOBSQUATCHING THE PATTERSON-GIMLIN FILM,
or, There Was More Than Bigfoot There That Day...

MK found many a thing in the PGF, so so may I. What follows is just the tip of the iceberg of things I've seen in the film, and managed to get screen captures of... it is said that blobsquatches are highly elusive, excellent at camouflage, and of course may simply walk through walls or into another dimension. Perhaps these don't quite live up to Beckjord's "Alien Android" theory, but we still hope you'll enjoy. YOU'LL HAVE TO CLICK THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM, and be sure to stare at each for as long as it takes for your eyes to cross, hypnosis to set in, and the hidden secrets to become animate and real to you. All of these images were found in the REAL PGF, not elsewhere, nor were they Photoshopped into the photos.
The "Gimlin" plus a Howling Clown Skull
Horned Man with Alien and Watching Person
Scary Man and Ape Faces
Monkey, Creepy Alien, and Watching Face
Mothman
Old Indian Face
Star Wars Stormtrooper
Cthulhu, plus "8"
Alien on Butt
Blurry Cartoon Lady of the Trees.
Humanoid Couples and Alien Entity
Ghost Alien Spirit Form Being
Howling Face on Back of Patty Bigfoot
The ONE TRUE CROSS of Bluff Creek
PATTY BIGFOOT DEMATERIALIZING!!!
Standing Rabbit Attacked By Ghost Wolf.
Man Rodeo-Jumping a Beetle or Crocodile
MONKEY MAN GHOST
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Another bizarre and totally ridiculous piece of "Bluff Creek Massacre" Pseudo-History has emerged.
READ (but don't believe) MORE HERE...

Patterson-Gimlin Film: A New Tall Tale

By R.V.

Who is this  "R.V." and who is...  ?
Info on the publisher or "author" of this story:
Stephen Wagner is a paranormal researcher and author.Experience: Stephen Wagner has been an investigator of many aspects of paranormal phenomena for over 30 years. He has written articles for numerous magazines, including FATE, and is the author of "Touched By a Miracle: True Stories of Ordinary People and Extraordinary Experiences". He is also a member of Central New York Ghost Hunters.From Stephen Wagner: This website is your gateway to the fascinating world of ghosts and hauntings, strange creatures, psychic phenomena, lost worlds, other dimensions, and the unexplained. Here you'll quickly learn that there is far more to our existence on this planet than is currently explained by science. I welcome your feedback and your true encounters with the unknown.

BELIEVABLE? I doubt it. A credible source for history? Not. Here are a few excerpts....

"Remember the movie where Bigfoot walks past the screen and looks at the camera?," he said. "For years, when it was shown on TV, it was edited. There's a big piece missing. When they show it on television, it's shown out of context. This guy we hooked up with has a different film. An entirely different thing."

The film starts off very shaky. After a few seconds the subjects come into focus. It starts off with a few of these creatures digging for something. Not just one. I remember him saying distinctly "three". They are also very far away from the camera. They start to walk down a trail or a path and then they stop by a pond or a puddle of water. They separate, but then soon regroup. It seemed like these creatures were just doing a surveillance of the area.

"Surreal" is the word he used because he was not sure what to make of this. The whole time the camera is on them and they don't know it. Then all of a sudden, a hail of gunfire comes from the tree line and blast these things cold. One of the creatures drops and another one bolts into the woods. The remaining one strangely just walks/staggers off. As one of the creatures walked off, someone kept taking pot shots at it from a distance. That's the creature you see in the popular film.

He also said that there was another film, which was shocking as well as disgusting. It shows a bunch of men dragging one of the lifeless bodies and placing it on a tarp or a pool cover and then cutting it up. Obviously, there was no sound on these videos. I told him that if this was lost footage or something, then it would probably be worth something to somebody.

John said that there was a person with money who wanted to have a look at the film and maybe do business at one point. He was a lawyer/businessman type. John also added that an eccentric named Eric Beckord, a researcher, was harassing him at one point. He threatened John by saying he would drag his ass into Supreme Court if he had to. He said that Mr. Beckjord came off with a sense of entitlement and claimed to be the rightful owner of all films related to Bob Patterson. Then he was never heard from again.


BOB Patterson??? A pond on Bluff Creek? I think we can write this one off, folks. The fabricator of this silly story obviously does not know that the full Roll One of the Patterson film material has been recovered by Bill Munns from a copy in John Green's collection. There was NO such footage on the roll, but just some scenery and horseback shots down in the creekbed. There are also no edits from the camera original. This is just... A TALL TALE. That is all this stuff is, just like all of that stuff MK "sees" in the P-G Film, from which tiny suggestions and blurry forms create a whole false edifice of suppositional, fantastical and delusional history.

We have it on the word of one of the very few who was there in the small room after the 2008 Ohio Bigfoot Conference where MK first announced his outlandish theory that MK DID SAY THAT DREADED WORD, "MASSACRE." MK denies ever having said this, so we don't know. I wasn't there. In any case, I believe the word of my witness. The name, "Bluff Creek Massacre Theory" STICKS. Sorry MK.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS! 
(Channeled by Denali)

Me so angry right now. This big boom-boom storm, or as hu-man call it, thunder storm came and blow tent into angry bigfoot cave. Now cave big mess! It take angry bigfoot two week to clean up. It also blow best friend bunny away. Next day, me seed best friend bunny in meat maker, or as hu-man call it, a factory. Me so angry, me think angry bigfoot head go boom-boom like big storm cloud did.

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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2007-2012, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if notification, credit, citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

COAST-TO-COAST AM Radio Appearance. BIGFOOT, with Steven Streufert and Lyle Blackburn, with Post-Show UPDATE


BIGFOOT'S BLOG
NEWS FLASH, April 24, 2012 
(plus see update, below)

Just a little reminder... yours truly will be on COAST-TO-COAST AM radio TONIGHT, 11:00-1:00 Pacific Time. The subject, of course, will be BIGFOOT.
Stay tuned in the last hour for Lyle Blackburn on the topic of the Beast of Boggy Creek.

"In the middle two hours, scholar of Bigfoot history, Steven Streufert, will share both the history of the creature, including the Patterson film, as well as current reports of sightings around the country. In the last hour, cryptozoology advisor to Rue Morgue magazine, Lyle Blackburn, will discuss reports of a strange beast known as the Fouke Monster that have circulated among the locals in southern Arkansas. First Hour: Plastic surgeon Dr. Tony Youn talks about bizarre and botched surgeries."

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/04/24
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

Be sure to tune in while the show is on the air, as you have to be a Coast Insider subscriber to access the archived stream or podcast afterwards. On some western stations the show repeats again after 2:00 a.m., if you miss the 11:00 live broadcast.  This is a broadcast radio show, so find an affiliate station in your area here: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations. Some of them stream live online. The I-Heart-Radio app will allow you to listen on your phone. I use 1190 AM out of Portland to listen, myself.

LINKS that may be mentioned in the show:

The Coalition for Reason, Science, Satire and Sanity in Bigfoot Research
(A Facebook discussion Group)

BIGFOOT BOOKS on YouTube.

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, you're on it now!

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, on Facebook.

BIGFOOT BOOKS, online book inventory.
(Please inquire by email for other titles, as these are only specialized items.)

bigfootbooks@gmail.com



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POST-SHOW UPDATE, April 25th, 2012


Well, that was fun, and nerve-wracking! George Noory is a true pro interviewer, and kept me moving along in novel ways that my own agenda may not have pursued had he just let me ramble. Some 5,000 hits have come in to this blog in the last couple of days, which is awesome! Thanks to all at COAST-TO-COAST AM, a show I've enjoyed most days since the very early 1990s.

You may read the show recap on the C2C web site here:  http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/04/24 

Or here...

Bigfoot & The Beast of Boggy Creek


Date:04-24-12
Host:George Noory
Guests:Steven Streufert, Lyle Blackburn, Dr. Tony Youn
In the middle two hours, scholar of Bigfoot history, Steven Streufert, shared history and analysis of the mysterious creature. He runs a used and antiquarian bookshop (specializing in "Sasquatchiana") in Willow Creek, California, considered the heart of the historic "Bigfoot Country,"-- the location is near where giant tracks were found in 1958, and "Bigfoot" subsequently became a household word. Willow Creek is also near where the famed Patterson-Gimlin film was shot in 1967, and Streufert has been involved in the Bluff Creek Film Site Project, which has traced the exact location of where Patterson filmed, in order to verify details about the creature, and its environment. He also participates in a Facebook group that seeks to promote the spirit of rational thinking and evidence-based Bigfoot research (in reaction to some of the more fantastical, insubstantial, or promotion-based claims made about the creature).
Streufert spoke about some of the ancient Native-American lore regarding Sasquatch, such as the beings speaking a language, as well as trading with, abducting, and even mating with humans, and producing offspring. One theory, he noted, is that Bigfoot are actually hybrids between humans and proto-humans. He also discussed the current Bigfoot DNA Project, spearheaded by Melba Ketchum, and a controversial case from last year when a hunter claimed he killed two Sasquatch in the central Sierra Nevada mountains, and now has "Bigfoot steaks" stashed in the freezer.
Last hour guest, cryptozoology advisor to Rue Morgue magazine, Lyle Blackburn, discussed reports of a strange beast known as the Fouke Monster that have circulated among the locals in southern Arkansas. In 1971, a family was reportedly attacked by a "big hairy monster," and within a year, there were around 50 more sightings, with descriptions of an adult creature with a narrow build. The creature became popularized as the 'Beast of Boggy Creek,' when the low budget film The Legend of Boggy Creek was released in 1972, and became a hit. The movie was indeed based on some facts, Blackburn said, who added that he considers the creature to possibly be a cross between the foul-smelling Skunk Ape and a Pacific Northwest-type Bigfoot. In 1991, a large skeleton (missing the skull) was found in the woods near Jefferson, Texas that some believe could be a Bigfoot, he added.

Strange Surgeries

First hour guest, plastic surgeon Dr. Tony Youn recounted bizarre and unusual medical procedures. For instance, one plastic surgeon claimed he used the fat extracted from liposuction operations as biodiesel to run his car. Youn also touched on "body transmogrification" in which people have strange modifications such as the lizard-like tongue bifurcation, as well as a new weight loss strategy in which a doctor stitches a mesh patch on the tongue in order to make the act of eating uncomfortable.


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Lyle Blackburn shares two images in tandem with his4/24/12 appearance. On the left is an illustration by Dan Brereton of a young hunter encountering the Fouke Monster in the 1960s. The other illustration, by Justin Osbourn, depicts the Beast of Boggy Creek, which the Fouke Monster was later called.
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QUESTIONS I SUBMITTED TO C2C...

Before the show the producers give the guests a chance to submit a range of topics and questions that they would like to cover. You can see from below that George Noory took his own direction in the interview. Here's what I sent them, in rough form....

"Here are a few topics I'd be happy to have George ask me about when I'm on the show. I like discussion, though, so I'm totally open to whatever he wants to bring up for the two hours.

1) Life in Willow Creek, CA, the "Bigfoot Capitol of the World," or "Gateway to Bigfoot Country." What is it like here, and why does this little town in the middle of nowhere get such recognition. It is the "Mecca" of Bigfooting. How did Steve end up living there, and was it because of Bigfoot??

2) How was "Bigfoot" born, and how did it become a household name. In 1958 tracks were found up in the Bluff Creek basin, while they were building a new logging access road into virgin timber. How far back in history does this phenomenon really go?

3) The Patterson-Gimlin film. What is its history and how is it connected to Willow Creek. What controversies surround it? Why is it so central and important to the study of Bigfoot? How did they manage to capture the creature on film when so many others have failed? Was it really a hoax?

4) The Bluff Creek Film Site Project. What is it, and why was the PGF site "lost" for all those years? How was it found again and documented? Why did we receive the "Bigfooter of the Year" award for that process? Why is Bluff Creek so important to Bigfooting?

5) What kind of store is BIGFOOT BOOKS, and how does Steve get any work done while being constantly distracted by those curious about Bigfoot?

6) Weird Willow Creek, in other words, Bigfoot is not the only strange thing here. We've had many UFO reports, legends of underground caves and tunnels and even cities (up in Mount Shasta), and strange cryptid creatures everywhere, it seems. The local people report seeing black panthers, river serpents, "Little People," mer-creatures in the rivers, giant six-foot salamanders, and yes, even a few believe in werewolves out there. Reports of grizzlies have become somewhat common, and a wild wolf was reported just north of here.

7) The "Bigfoot Scenic Byway"? What is it? Also, the Bigfoot Collection at the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum. Is tourism a big factor or motivation for the spread of the Bigfoot idea?

8) FINDING BIGFOOT on Animal Planet. What is its impact on the Bigfoot and mass popular culture, and what is it like seeing your friends on TV (Steve is friends with Matt, Bobo and Cliff from the show). What was it like to see ONESELF on TV? How will it influence the future of the quest for Bigfoot? Will it create problems with hoaxers, amateurs and newbies?

9) "THE BIGFOOT WARS"... why does the Bigfoot Community suffer from such combative egos, theories, and conflicting regional groups? Why is everything so controversial? Can they ever agree on anything? Is there a "gold rush" to be the first to "discover" and prove Bigfoot?

10) Will they ever be able to prove Bigfoot? What would it take? WHY has it not been proven with over five decades of active searching, not counting the previous Yeti expeditions in the Himalayas?

11) What IS Bigfoot? Is is an ape of some kind of human? WHY is this even controversial? Does it present problems for Religion or civil rights if it is "human"?

12) NATIVE AMERICAN background. What are the origins of "Sasquatch," and how does it relate to the American Bigfoot? What is it like living in an area with so many native tribal groups (just up here we have the Hupa from Hoopa, Yurok and Karuk)? What do they REALLY believe about Bigfoot?

13) Bigfoot mysteries? Telepathy, interdimensional travel, "zapping," infrasound, curses, taboos, underground civilizations/lairs, and UFO contact are all associated with Bigfoot. Is it real? Are we looking for a flesh and blood creature, or something mystic or mythic, either in/from another world or else generated by some archetypal need in the human mind? Some even claim to have a Bigfoot as a spiritual TEACHER or guru, and to receive mental messages from them.

14) What was the necessity for founding the Facebook discussion group, The Coalition for Reason, Science, Satire and Sanity in Bigfoot Research? Perhaps this link could be mentioned on the air:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/smartbigfoot/

15) THE BIGFOOT DNA PROJECT... Will it really be published in a scientific journal in two weeks?
Will it prove Bigfoot???? How did it get started, where did the samples come from, and what have been the controversies along the way. One strange aspect of this is a rumor that the head of the project believes in "ALIEN DNA," that something "out of this world" was found in the test results.

16) THE SIERRA KILLS. Last year one large controversy was the supposed killing of two Sasquatch by a hunter in the central Sierra Nevada mountains. What happened, did it really happen, and how is it connected to the DNA project? Supposed "Bigfoot Steaks" were obtained, and samples have been tested for DNA.

17) Is there only ONE Bigfoot, or a whole species? Are the MANY subspecies of this unknown primate? How do we account for regional variations like the southern Skunk Ape? Why do they seem to be present all across the globe, and in human historical legend?

18) How do we deal with the rise of hoaxing on YouTube and the phenomenon of the "blobsquatch," poor quality photos and films showing blurry and dubious supposed Bigfoot creatures? Shouldn't the rise of cell phones and digital cameras help prove Bigfoot? Why haven't they? What are the motivations of someone faking a Bigfoot video or sighting report?

19) Public Ignorance: WHY do so many assume that Bigfoot is a Hoax or just a joke? Without really studying the evidence or after hearing or reading a poorly researched news article many assume that Bigfoot is fake, or just a delusion. WHY? Why is this field of study and its phenomenon not taken seriously, and why do so many false things creep into the documentation and public understanding of it?

20) HOW do sane, normal people see something that cannot be proven but was utterly real to them? These include every day rural folks, police officers, forest rangers, Native Americans, etc. The sightings are often not at all extraordinary or "weird." These people are simply seeing an everyday kind of creature, but one that they know darn well is not a bear or a human. Not all Bigfoot sightings are mere shadows and phantasms. Some are clear as day, and in fact many have been face-to-face. I have met these people here locally. What is that like?

21) HABITUATION: Do people really have Bigfoot living in their backyards, and are they really interacting with these creatures/beings? Why has so little evidence emerged from them, if so?

22) How did your background in Literature, Critical Theory and Philosophy, and your profession as a seller of used books, somehow lead into the strange world of "Bigfoot Studies"? How did that background prepare you for what you are currently doing.

23) WHAT IS THE ADDRESS OF YOUR BLOG, or other web sites that you operate?
BLOG: http://bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com/
BF BOOKS on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/BigfootBooks

24) WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF BIGFOOTING? What can we expect?

I hope those are a good start. Let me know if I should send any further details. Browsing my blog a bit should help George get a handle on what I've been doing and what my perspective on this mystery is.

Best, Steve
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Steven Streufert, Bookseller
Bigfoot Books
P. O. Box 1167
40600 Highway 299
Willow Creek, CA 95573 USA
(530) 629-3076 store
EMAIL: bigfootbooks@gmail.com

BOOKS: http://bigfootbooks.webs.com/
BF BLOG: http://bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/bigfootbooks
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/steven.streufert
BLOG on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BIGFOOTBOOKSBLOG
BF BOOKS on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/BigfootBooks
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That's a lot to try to cram into the less than two hours on the air, after commercial and news breaks are taken out of the picture!

If you missed it... Don't forget, you can get access to the vast archive of past shows by subscribing as a Coast Insider. It's worth it if you can't catch the show on a nearly nightly basis as I do, nightowl that I am.
Someone DID post it on YouTube....
Try clicking the link below, and then clicking the forward button in the video player to advance to hours two and three, or four. 
http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2012/04/in-search-of-bigfoot-coast-to-coast-am.html 

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Me tell hu-man friend, "Break a Leg" for radio show, and guess what? He actually DO it. OK, me help a little....

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