Himalayan Bigfoot to undergo DNA testing

Here is an interesting report from the All news Web. Its dated 29th August and written by Michael Cohen.

“Making big news in China this week is a story about Himalaya’s legendary Yeti or Bigfoot.

For centuries rumours of a half-man, half-ape that roams the upper Himalayas have circulated. The creature said to stand 3 metres tall has been allegedly seen by many locals as well as hikers visiting the area. In Chinese Yeti is often referred to as ‘Xueguai’.

A number of locals living near the Nepalese border claim not only to have seen the creature, but to have collected strands of its hair. Now, it has been reported that a team of scientists have collected these strands and have already confirmed that they do not belong to any local known animals.

The scientists plan to do further testing on the hair strands.

One theory regarding the Yeti is that the sightings of the supposed cryptid are in fact that of a rare bear that lives in the area but is unknown to scientists. The scientists hope to settle this mystery with the DNA tests”

The original story can be found here.   Unfortunately its in Mandarin. If any Chinese readers can translate the story i would be most grateful :)

A Yeti in Poland – is a peeping tom.

Previously, i had mentioned the sighting of a Bigfoot type creature in the mountains of Poland. Well, our bipedal friend has been at it again, making himself visible to another individual with a camcorder.

The individual in question was a boyfriend of 19 year old Justyna Folger.  Justyna, swanned around in her bikini while her boyfriend filmed. She says

“I wandered into the river for a dip when I realised that something was on the opposite shore,” she said.

“At first I thought it was a bear but it appeared to be stooping and then it raised itself on to two legs and ran off. I couldn’t believe it.”

There has been a flurry of ‘Yeti’ reports in the area, and the footage will only add to the mystery.

Real or fake? you decide.

Massacre at Bluff Creek – updated.

Take a wonder over to Linda Martins blog . She has shown that the bloody hands  shown on one of the ‘participants’ in the cover up may well have been colour manipulated to create the appeareance of blood.

Linda says “I tried to replicate the process with a screen capture from the original film in the video. I lightened, saturated, and adjusted the ‘before’ image of the scene and couldn’t find any red on the man’s hands. I also noted that the red hand version in the YouTube video also featured blurred faces on two of the men in the picture – another clear indication that major photoshopping took place. The man looks tanned, not bloody. I hope nobody falls for this theory, which looks inaccurate to me – and that’s saying it nicely.”

A yeti in Poland!

When one thinks of the places that the yeti may inhabit, we think of the inhospitable areas of south east asia, western china and as far as bigfoot is concerned the Pacific NorthWest.

But there has been newspaper accounts of a Yeti sighting in Poland.

Piotr Kowalski, 27, filmed the “monstrous, hairy creature” while walking in Poland’s Tatra Mountains.

The figure ran into his view as he videoed a mountain goat in an area rich in rumours of a Yeti for centuries.

Mr Kowalski, on holiday from Warsaw, said: “I saw this huge ape-like form hiding behind the rocks. When I saw it, it was like being struck by a thunderbolt.

“I never really believed the local stories of a wild mountain ape-man. But now I do.”

Real or Fake? You decide :)

Massacre at Bluff Creek!!

Almost to the day of the great bigfoot Hoax fiasco of August 2008, comes another story which sadly is very real. Bigfoot  researcher MK Davis  had gained much respect with his stabilisation of the Patterson/Gimlin film. This can be found here.

However, he has been continuing his research upon the film and  the word was that he had found something truly remarkable, something that had been overlooked by every other person who had studied the 40 year old footage. This ‘revelation’ would  indeed shock many people and shake  the bigfoot community to its core.

What is this much heralded revelation I here you say?

Well, apparently, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were involved in a massive cover up in which groups of men gunned down a “tribe” of Bigfoot late in October 1967. The famed October 20, 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage, according to Davis, is merely the deceptive end result of the killing fields.

His supporters also add that John Green, a true legend in the field of bigfoot research, was at the scene  to clean up the body parts of the dead bigfoot. They back up their hypothesis with ‘photographic’ evidence.

This is highly slanderous to the likes of Bob Gimlin and John Green.

For an indepth examination please make your way to cryptomundo.com

The Incredible Hulk

The big green man with the anger issues has once again been thrust upon us. The previous effort directed by Ang Lee was criticised for not having enough action and instead concentrating on some psychological Freudian father/son subtext involving the two main stars.

What fans wanted was the Hulk smashing the crap out of everything and everyone.

Thus, ‘Transporter’ Director Louis Letterier was bought in for the next instalment to give the fans what they wanted.

The result is a two hour rollercoaster ride of a film that barely stops to catch its breath.

Playing Banner is the ever dependable Edward Norton with Liv Tyler as the Love Interest.

All the pretext about how Banner managed to become the Hulk is explained during the opening credits. So when the film starts proper its Banner is now in South America working in a bottling factory while the US military who claim ownership of his ‘altered’ Body is trying hard to track him down.

Tim Roth plays Emil Bronsky, a British Born Russian special forces operative who is given a tiny amount of Gamma radiation to enable him to take on the green fugitive.

However, the power it gives him, is not enough and he takes an overdose ,which transforms him in to a huge monstrous creature. Mayhem is caused as the creature runs riot. Can anyone stop him.

Well actually yes, we all know who and the climactic fight scene between the two is exhilarating. When you first see the Hulk he looks decidedly CGI, but as the film progresses, he is as ‘live’ and realistic as his co stars.

Is it worth watching? Put it this way, my wife wanted to watch it again straight after. You cant get a higher recommendation than that.

We have a bigfoot body – again!

Remember those two individuals who last year, conspired with Tom Biscardi and claimed that they had in their possesion an actual body of a dead Bigfoot. The bigfoot community literally went ape in the hope that this could indeed be the real deal.  The level of interest which was generated around the world  assured that the main protagonists had more than their 15 minutes of fame.

Their press conferance to let the world know of their ‘discovery’ was broadcast live on CNN.  Not surprisingly considering Biscardis involvement,  the whole sordid saga began to unravel itself shortly afterwards  when the ‘body’ was exposed as a monkey costume. Biscardi played the poor victim – again and the saga was soon forgotten and everyone carried on with their lives as before.

The two individuals however, have tried to cash in on their notoriety, with little success. Their website barely gets 300 visitors a month. It seems that everyone else has moved on.

As we approach the first anniversary of the hoax, they are now claiming on their website that they have a body of a dead bigfoot and indeed have a posted a couple of photographs on their website. These are however  just as unconvincing as the first time around.

The whole scheme has clearly been hatched as some kind of publicity stunt but  unfortunately for then the story has not gained any exposure on the various bigfoot sites/forums.This is clearly the  last thing  they wanted.

It is time for them to jump off the bigfoot hoax bandwagaon and rejoin the real world.

If you fancy a laugh head on to www.bigfoottracker.com

Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

michael-jackson

Like him or loathe him, its always sad when one of the great  icons of the 20th century passes so suddenly in to the history books.

I remember as a teenanger being totally blown away by his Thriller Album and the subsequent John Landis directed video. He truly was the real king of the world.  However, his accentric lifestyle and allegations of child abuse clung to him like a bad rash.

But to devotees he was an exceptional, kind, caring, individual who had changed the face of modern pop forever and in the process enriched their lives.

MJ RIP

Bigfoot News stories spanning 170 years

It is a generally thought that the Bigfoot mystery is a recent addition to our mythgology, and that it began with the first showing of the famous Patterson film of a female Bigfoot quickly walking away from the camera. Skeptics are quick to say that the publicity bought about by the film single handedly created the Bigfoot mystery.

This is clearly not the case as i have now amassed a multitude of newspaper reports dating back to 1839. What is interesting however, are the descriptions given of the various sightings a hundred plus years ago. This was before the notion of a Bigfoot had entered the public conciousness.

The term ‘Wildman’ is commonly used in these early reports and as one witness comments , ‘His body was as hairy as that of a bear’.

There is another 19th century newspaper account of an individual convinced that he had seen a Gorilla while out hunting. Someone writes back commenting that he too had seen the ‘critter’ but he ‘walks like a man’.

The various newspaper reports can be seen here