I worked on an interpretive sketch based off elements of the still captures for the video. This is just one possible sketch of how this Bigfoot may actually look.
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Bigfoot Lurking on The Hillside
I have posted the video footage of the Bigfoot on the Hillside
Monday, February 24, 2014
REVISED - Bigfoot Research - Moving "Blob Squatch" on Hill Above Me - Preview
I thought the booger was crawling in the ground, but when zooming in and taking a closer look the subject is in the "Stump Pose" IHMO...
I am still working on the video but wanted to give you a preview of what I have captured. I was making my way down the mountain in the National Park when moment caught me eye high above me. Below is the location of the movement marked.
Because of the step angle and foliage I had to free hand the video camera and was not able to use the monopod to stablizie, below are a couple stills of the hairy blob that was moving.
As usual the camera began to alarm as my SD card was full, it took be approximately two minutes to switch and get zoomed back into the area, the blob was gone.
There is something "crawling" along the ground to the left of the tree now, and appears that something else my be peeking around a tree just above where the blob was, take a look.
And just above it is this one standing peek around a tree?
Before and after on both locations:
Video to follow ASAP. Wanted to give my blog readers a heads up.
I am still working on the video but wanted to give you a preview of what I have captured. I was making my way down the mountain in the National Park when moment caught me eye high above me. Below is the location of the movement marked.
Because of the step angle and foliage I had to free hand the video camera and was not able to use the monopod to stablizie, below are a couple stills of the hairy blob that was moving.
As usual the camera began to alarm as my SD card was full, it took be approximately two minutes to switch and get zoomed back into the area, the blob was gone.
And just above it is this one standing peek around a tree?
Before and after on both locations:
Video to follow ASAP. Wanted to give my blog readers a heads up.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Do Bigfoot Cover Their Tracks ?
I am rereading Mary Green’s excellent book “50 Years with
Bigfoot: Tennessee Chronicles of Co-Existence”. Many called Mary crazy and a
tried to ruin her reputation but the results of the Ketchum DNA Study and increased
reports of Bigfoot behavior that are documented in her book to have occurred 30
years ago has vindicated Mary Green and her co-Author Janice Carter Coy.
One of the behaviors documented in Mary’s book is covering
of the tracks. Janice reported that the Bigfoot would take branches from trees
and wipe out their tracks in the dirt. That they would also do this in the
grass not to leave bent over stalks that could give them away. Janice reported that
the Bigfoot would walk backwards sweeping away any tracks left as they went. (Pages
150-151)
The place where Janice lived and the events happen that are
recorded in the book is only 10 miles from my research area. Discussions with
Mary Green have led me to believe that I am dealing with relatives and/or decedents
of the Bigfoot that Mary has written about.
I have been documenting Bigfoot visitations to my home for
over three years. Last summer I noticed one had been lying under my back deck,
staining the clay dirt black with its dander.
Also that summer I had an incident where something knocked
on my basement window and woke me up during the night. The following morning I
found a large tuff of hair caught in the holly bushes around my window.
In
the back yard I found a limb lying beside the deck. The limb was from a tree
that does not grow in my yard. (Sassafras) Did the Bigfoot use the limb to
fluff the grass backup where they had trampled it?
Also Janice told of another interesting thing that she
witnesses the Bigfoot doing back in 1979/80. She said many times she observed
them walking somewhere then carefully walking backwards in their own tracks to
make it appear that they just disappeared into thin air. (Page151 - Note Fox is a male Bigfoot, Sheba is his female mate)
This sounds
extremely familiar! There are many modern reports of Bigfoot tracks ending in
the middle of a muddy or snow covered field, making it appear that the Bigfoot
just diapered into thin air. Is this what they are doing? Expertly and carefully walking
backwards in their own tracks to fool and baffle us?
I applaud Mary Green for her many decades of dedication to
Bigfoot research and I am glad to see her work and her being vindicated after
years of baseless/malicious ridicule.
Links to the Ketchum DNA Study
http://sasquatchgenomeproject.org/view-dna-study/
Documentation of the DNA samples collected and tested from the Carter Farm and other areas that Mary Green and Janice Carter provided.
http://sasquatchgenomeproject.org/data/documents/Tables-156.pdf
Thursday, February 20, 2014
The Dogmen Are Back ! (As uncomfortable as that makes us)
I began finding tracks of the Dogman again. After almost two years they have returned.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Another Human Hybrid? The Controversy Continues One Year Later - via Ancient Origins
This very interesting artcile came to my attention today. Still more evidence in support of the Ketchum DNA Study:
Last year, we reported on the results of genetic research
which revealed that the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans,
contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from another species that is
currently unknown to science. Several recent
studies have also revealed that modern humans are a product of hybridization,
with remnants of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes in our DNA. This research
leads us to realize that our understanding of the origins of modern humans is
much murkier than we ever thought possible. This also begs the question, if we
are hybrids already, could there be extant human hybrids currently on earth
besides us?
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study
claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as
Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next
Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage
by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it
altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would
happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have
proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet
upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge
multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried
out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about
the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or
hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the
Pacific Northwest region of North America.
It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many
ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories
about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic
description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to
be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including
Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in
Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country
and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting
one became a reason to ridicule the witness.
Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local
authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in
detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of
evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs,
video footage and hair samples. Some are
clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are
simply left as unexplained.
Last year, we reported on the results of genetic research
which revealed that the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the
Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from
another species that is currently unknown to science. Several recent
studies have also revealed that modern humans are a product of hybridization,
with remnants of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes in our DNA. This
research leads us to realize that our understanding of the origins of
modern humans is much murkier than we ever thought possible. This also
begs the question, if we are hybrids already, could there be extant
human hybrids currently on earth besides us?
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
Last year, we reported on the results of genetic research
which revealed that the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the
Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from
another species that is currently unknown to science. Several recent
studies have also revealed that modern humans are a product of hybridization,
with remnants of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes in our DNA. This
research leads us to realize that our understanding of the origins of
modern humans is much murkier than we ever thought possible. This also
begs the question, if we are hybrids already, could there be extant
human hybrids currently on earth besides us?
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
Last year, we reported on the results of genetic research
which revealed that the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the
Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from
another species that is currently unknown to science. Several recent
studies have also revealed that modern humans are a product of hybridization,
with remnants of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes in our DNA. This
research leads us to realize that our understanding of the origins of
modern humans is much murkier than we ever thought possible. This also
begs the question, if we are hybrids already, could there be extant
human hybrids currently on earth besides us?
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
Last year, we reported on the results of genetic research
which revealed that the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the
Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from
another species that is currently unknown to science. Several recent
studies have also revealed that modern humans are a product of hybridization,
with remnants of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes in our DNA. This
research leads us to realize that our understanding of the origins of
modern humans is much murkier than we ever thought possible. This also
begs the question, if we are hybrids already, could there be extant
human hybrids currently on earth besides us?
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
It was a year ago today that a bold and controversial study claiming to have sequenced three whole genomes from the species known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot was published, titled ‘Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes’. This study was met with outrage by some scientists, while much of the scientific community ignored it altogether. Some scientists supported it, but most were afraid of what would happen to their careers if they openly supported a study claiming to have proven the existence of the much stigmatized and controversial Sasquatch. Yet upon examination of the paper, it can be seen that it was a huge multidisciplinary effort involving a dozen labs and blind studies, and carried out by nine highly qualified scientists, aimed at quelling controversy about the discovery.
Sasquatch is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. In many ancient cultures, there are historical accounts, legends, artwork and stories about giants, hairy people, wild people, and other beings fitting the basic description of the Sasquatch. In North America, the Sasquatch are considered to be a tribe by many Native American people. They are known by dozens of names, including Big Foot in America, Almas in Russia, Yeren in China, Yeti in Tibet, Yowie in Australia, and Elder Brother among Native Americans. Virtually every country and culture has a name for them.
At some point, the Sasquatch faded into mythology and reporting one became a reason to ridicule the witness. Nevertheless, individual reports continue to be submitted to local authorities and research organizations describing this elusive creature in detail. These reports document sightings, encounters and tangible pieces of evidence such as footprints, vocalizations captured on audiotape, photographs, video footage and hair samples. Some are clearly hoaxes designed to make fun and ridicule the subject, while others are simply left as unexplained.
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/another-human-hybrid-controversy-continues-one-year-later-001340#.Uv3j6mLPjII.facebook
Thursday, February 13, 2014
The Ketchum DNA Study - One Year Later - by Christopher Noël
Christopher Noel has a great take on the Ketchum DNA study and this article is extremely thought provoking. (Used with permission)
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Melba Ketchum’s Sasquatch DNA study, “Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies.” While some researchers have embraced her findings, many more have dismissed them, based on an insufficient grasp of the data or a neglect of the data altogether. I would like to observe this occasion by exploring several aspects of the case.
1) Month after month, many have threatened to produce evidence of some sort of “data fraud,” but after a year, no such exposé has materialized, nor has a single shred of credible evidence. The entire Ketchum study, in addition to much supplemental material, can be seen and freely downloaded at SasquatchGenomeProject.org, and Dr. Ketchum has invited scientists worldwide to pore over it and offer responsible feedback. The most high-profile taker thus far has been Dr. Todd Disotell, who has built his brand over the years as a professional debunker of what he labels pseudoscience. “It’s just a joke,” he loudly proclaimed of the study, “junk science. She is a laughing stock.”
But let’s look behind the scenes. Disotell was given the opportunity to test one of the 111 samples used in the Ketchum study, a blood sample obtained by the Erickson Project at its Kentucky habituation site and provided to Disotell directly by Adrian Erickson himself. Disotell proceeded to sequence only the mitochondrial DNA (the vestige of the maternal line only), found it to be a 100% match with modern human, interpreted this result to mean that human “contamination” must be involved, and then summarily disposed of the sample without investigating the far richer territory of the nuclear DNA (which encodes the entire history of maternal and paternal genetic contributions over millennia).
Unfortunately,
a) his results only served to confirm Ketchum’s findings, the entire point of which is that Sasquatch is a surviving hybrid of an ancient pairing of human females and males of an unknown primate species; and
b) the Ketchum paper details at length the rigorous methods employed in the study to rule out contamination.
During an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Show,” Disotell admitted, “I can’t follow ¾ of that paper.” This is because, Ketchum explains, “Disotell specializes in evolution using mitochondrial DNA. He is not qualified to comment on the genomics or other disciplines in this study.”
2) It’s not hard to understand, of course, why so many in the mainstream media and the general public would accept at face value the words of a dynamic, self-assured debunker as he apparently “shoots down” a study whose implications are so profoundly challenging to conventional wisdom, so far outside our collective comfort zone. But why are so many serious Sasquatch researchers also willing to blindly accept this kind of groundless attack? Because it relieves them of having to question their deeply entrenched views on the subject. As Thomas Kuhn famously observed, “During revolutions in science the discovery of anomalies leads to a whole new paradigm that changes the rules of the game and the ‘map’ directing new research.”(The Structure of Scientific Revolutions); however, Kuhn also demonstrated the fierce tenacity with which science will cling to its outmoded paradigms even in the face of fresh, dis-confirming data.
In the case of Sasquatch research, the founding fathers (such as John Green and Grover Krantz) operated under the fixed assumption that what they were dealing with was a type of ape. This paradigm has continued in force to this day, currently embodied most prominently by Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who rejects wholesale any suggestion to the contrary, especially eyewitness testimony by habituators who have actually interacted with this species and come to know their nature and intelligence first hand—not merely analyzed their feet. (250 of pages of my book, Sasquatch Rising 2013, are devoted to habituation experiences.) Matthew Moneymaker, too, holds this view; appearing on the “CBS Early Show” in 2012, he was asked, “Bigfoot, man or animal?” and answered conclusively, “Oh, animal. They’re not anything related to humans.”
Consider, then, what a vast leap is required to escape the gravity of such certainty in order to sincerely entertain the proposition that not only is Sasquatch somehow “related to humans” but moreover that when they originally arose, they were no less than half human, and that today, though much farther removed from us genetically than in that first generation, they remain a fellow member of the genus Homo and therefore our zoological next of kin.
Now add to this resistance the fact that the insiders’ club of Establishment Science is made up of academics, who naturally look down their noses at one such as Dr. Ketchum, an independent researcher, not part of any recognized institution, a “mere” veterinarian (DVM) rather than a PhD— never mind her twenty years of experience in genetic testing and her scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals (her CV can be seen on the website). Her background in forensics, too, flies in the face of the officially sanctioned approach to evolutionary biology.
Some enjoy piling on further with ad hominem blows, a notoriously weak mode of debate, including insults to her personality and to her accounts of having now seen individual Sasquatch in person. Some also present as damning evidence her willingness to speculate upon supposedly supernatural elements of the subject. (Eclipses and lightning were once considered “supernatural” as well, until natural science expanded to incorporate them.)
Whatever one may think of any of these putative “red flags,” they all have one thing in common—their utter irrelevance to the bothersome issue of the genetic data themselves, in all their richness and consistency.
3) Speaking of which, you will not hear the detractors mentioning the two independent outside laboratories, SeqWright and Family Tree DNA, that the study employed to blindly test samples, and that corroborated Ketchum’s results 100%, even though they had not been told what organism these samples were taken from. Nor will you hear them breathe a word about the study’s nine highly credible co-authors, precisely because not one of them has come forward to repudiate the study’s methodology and results, or even to distance himself from it to the slightest degree, which would naturally be the safest professional move, given that their names and positions are now publicly associated with the study.
4) In closing, let us return to Dr. Disotell. In the same Joe Rogan interview, he dismissed Ketchum’s hybridization hypothesis with the sweeping assertion that human females could not possibly have reproduced with males of an unknown primate species some 15,000 years ago because “There is no evidence that another undiscovered primate was living at the time in order to mate with human females.”
My first response is to agree that yes, we are very likely to lack evidence for anything “undiscovered.” We have barely scratched the surface when it comes to learning just who was around back then, within the genus Homo. Traces of the various participants in the proto-human evolutionary sweepstakes are so sparse and patchy that each new study of ancient DNA seems, thanks to rapidly improving modes of analysis, to reveal a new player or players. As Lyall Watson has written, “The fossils that decorate our family tree are so scarce that there are still more scientists than specimens. The remarkable fact is that all of the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin.”
My second response to Disotell’s statement is to point out that since we are now beginning to pull back the curtain more successfully on this complex prehistoric drama, a surprising history of shared DNA is emerging.
Writing for Nature.com, Ewen Calloway reports that
Christopher Noël is the author of Sasquatch Rising 2013 and editor of the newly released anthology How Sasquatch Matters: Writers Respond to the New Natural Order. Christopher Noël holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Yale. Noël is a freelance editor (ChristopherNoel.info.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Melba Ketchum’s Sasquatch DNA study, “Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies.” While some researchers have embraced her findings, many more have dismissed them, based on an insufficient grasp of the data or a neglect of the data altogether. I would like to observe this occasion by exploring several aspects of the case.
1) Month after month, many have threatened to produce evidence of some sort of “data fraud,” but after a year, no such exposé has materialized, nor has a single shred of credible evidence. The entire Ketchum study, in addition to much supplemental material, can be seen and freely downloaded at SasquatchGenomeProject.org, and Dr. Ketchum has invited scientists worldwide to pore over it and offer responsible feedback. The most high-profile taker thus far has been Dr. Todd Disotell, who has built his brand over the years as a professional debunker of what he labels pseudoscience. “It’s just a joke,” he loudly proclaimed of the study, “junk science. She is a laughing stock.”
But let’s look behind the scenes. Disotell was given the opportunity to test one of the 111 samples used in the Ketchum study, a blood sample obtained by the Erickson Project at its Kentucky habituation site and provided to Disotell directly by Adrian Erickson himself. Disotell proceeded to sequence only the mitochondrial DNA (the vestige of the maternal line only), found it to be a 100% match with modern human, interpreted this result to mean that human “contamination” must be involved, and then summarily disposed of the sample without investigating the far richer territory of the nuclear DNA (which encodes the entire history of maternal and paternal genetic contributions over millennia).
Unfortunately,
a) his results only served to confirm Ketchum’s findings, the entire point of which is that Sasquatch is a surviving hybrid of an ancient pairing of human females and males of an unknown primate species; and
b) the Ketchum paper details at length the rigorous methods employed in the study to rule out contamination.
During an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Show,” Disotell admitted, “I can’t follow ¾ of that paper.” This is because, Ketchum explains, “Disotell specializes in evolution using mitochondrial DNA. He is not qualified to comment on the genomics or other disciplines in this study.”
2) It’s not hard to understand, of course, why so many in the mainstream media and the general public would accept at face value the words of a dynamic, self-assured debunker as he apparently “shoots down” a study whose implications are so profoundly challenging to conventional wisdom, so far outside our collective comfort zone. But why are so many serious Sasquatch researchers also willing to blindly accept this kind of groundless attack? Because it relieves them of having to question their deeply entrenched views on the subject. As Thomas Kuhn famously observed, “During revolutions in science the discovery of anomalies leads to a whole new paradigm that changes the rules of the game and the ‘map’ directing new research.”(The Structure of Scientific Revolutions); however, Kuhn also demonstrated the fierce tenacity with which science will cling to its outmoded paradigms even in the face of fresh, dis-confirming data.
In the case of Sasquatch research, the founding fathers (such as John Green and Grover Krantz) operated under the fixed assumption that what they were dealing with was a type of ape. This paradigm has continued in force to this day, currently embodied most prominently by Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who rejects wholesale any suggestion to the contrary, especially eyewitness testimony by habituators who have actually interacted with this species and come to know their nature and intelligence first hand—not merely analyzed their feet. (250 of pages of my book, Sasquatch Rising 2013, are devoted to habituation experiences.) Matthew Moneymaker, too, holds this view; appearing on the “CBS Early Show” in 2012, he was asked, “Bigfoot, man or animal?” and answered conclusively, “Oh, animal. They’re not anything related to humans.”
Consider, then, what a vast leap is required to escape the gravity of such certainty in order to sincerely entertain the proposition that not only is Sasquatch somehow “related to humans” but moreover that when they originally arose, they were no less than half human, and that today, though much farther removed from us genetically than in that first generation, they remain a fellow member of the genus Homo and therefore our zoological next of kin.
Now add to this resistance the fact that the insiders’ club of Establishment Science is made up of academics, who naturally look down their noses at one such as Dr. Ketchum, an independent researcher, not part of any recognized institution, a “mere” veterinarian (DVM) rather than a PhD— never mind her twenty years of experience in genetic testing and her scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals (her CV can be seen on the website). Her background in forensics, too, flies in the face of the officially sanctioned approach to evolutionary biology.
Some enjoy piling on further with ad hominem blows, a notoriously weak mode of debate, including insults to her personality and to her accounts of having now seen individual Sasquatch in person. Some also present as damning evidence her willingness to speculate upon supposedly supernatural elements of the subject. (Eclipses and lightning were once considered “supernatural” as well, until natural science expanded to incorporate them.)
Whatever one may think of any of these putative “red flags,” they all have one thing in common—their utter irrelevance to the bothersome issue of the genetic data themselves, in all their richness and consistency.
3) Speaking of which, you will not hear the detractors mentioning the two independent outside laboratories, SeqWright and Family Tree DNA, that the study employed to blindly test samples, and that corroborated Ketchum’s results 100%, even though they had not been told what organism these samples were taken from. Nor will you hear them breathe a word about the study’s nine highly credible co-authors, precisely because not one of them has come forward to repudiate the study’s methodology and results, or even to distance himself from it to the slightest degree, which would naturally be the safest professional move, given that their names and positions are now publicly associated with the study.
- Ray Shoulders, Ryan Smith—DNA Diagnostics, Nacogdoches, TX
Patrick W. Wojtkiewicz—North Louisiana Criminalistics Laboratory, Shreveport, LA
Aliece B. Watts—Integrated Forensic Laboratories, Inc., Euless, TX
David W. Spence—Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Dallas, TX
Andreas K. Holzenburg—Texas A&M University, Microscopy & Imaging Center, Department of Biology and Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, College Station, TX
Douglas G. Toler—Huguley Pathology Consultants, P.A., Ft. Worth, TX
Thomas M. Prychitko—Helix Biological Laboratory, Detroit, MI
Fan Zhang—UNT Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX
4) In closing, let us return to Dr. Disotell. In the same Joe Rogan interview, he dismissed Ketchum’s hybridization hypothesis with the sweeping assertion that human females could not possibly have reproduced with males of an unknown primate species some 15,000 years ago because “There is no evidence that another undiscovered primate was living at the time in order to mate with human females.”
My first response is to agree that yes, we are very likely to lack evidence for anything “undiscovered.” We have barely scratched the surface when it comes to learning just who was around back then, within the genus Homo. Traces of the various participants in the proto-human evolutionary sweepstakes are so sparse and patchy that each new study of ancient DNA seems, thanks to rapidly improving modes of analysis, to reveal a new player or players. As Lyall Watson has written, “The fossils that decorate our family tree are so scarce that there are still more scientists than specimens. The remarkable fact is that all of the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin.”
My second response to Disotell’s statement is to point out that since we are now beginning to pull back the curtain more successfully on this complex prehistoric drama, a surprising history of shared DNA is emerging.
Writing for Nature.com, Ewen Calloway reports that
Updated genome sequences from two extinct relatives of modern humans suggest that these “archaic” groups bred with humans and with each other more extensively than was previously known.Whether or not this “as-yet-unknown human ancestor” has anything to do with Sasquatch is unclear, but the relevance for our topic is plain. Ketchum herself articulated them well on her Facebook page:
The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a member of an archaic human group called the Denisovans, were presented on 18 November [2013] at a meeting on ancient DNA at the Royal Society in London. The results suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet-unknown human ancestor from Asia.
“What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a Lord of the Rings-type world—that there were many hominid populations,” says Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London.
The first published Neanderthal and Denisovan genome sequences revolutionized the study of ancient human history, not least because they showed that these groups bred with anatomically modern humans, contributing to the genetic diversity of many people alive today.
After reading the new Nature article about humans cross-breeding with other hominins, I just can’t understand why there is such an aversion to our study. Our findings are just like for humans with a percentage of Neanderthal DNA, only they show the novel Sasquatch DNA to be predominant in the genomes, with the human component being the lesser contributor. In other words, Sasquatch are Sasquatch, with a little human remaining in them from the original crossbreeding long ago. It is really simple to understand.Ketchum’s critics, especially Drs. Disotell and Meldrum, have smugly rejected the very notion that a new hybrid population could arise and thrive within “only” 15,000 years. Well, consider just a single instance of cross-breeding between, say, a Homo sapiens and a Denisovan: This would produce a half-and-half hybrid in nine months. Now, broaden the picture to include tens of thousands of such offspring during a lengthy regime of inter-species reproduction, a regular paleolithic Peyton Place, that yields a dizzying array of combinations among ancient Homo species, 99% of whom eventually died out. Aside from us, those that did not die out became Sasquatch and its surviving cousins worldwide. The original hybrid ancestor of the Sasquatch we find around us today was, so to speak, a proto-Sasquatch, a creature that was later purified and strengthened, over more than a thousand generations, by breeding within its own ranks, not anymore with puny Homo sapiens.
Christopher Noël is the author of Sasquatch Rising 2013 and editor of the newly released anthology How Sasquatch Matters: Writers Respond to the New Natural Order. Christopher Noël holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Yale. Noël is a freelance editor (ChristopherNoel.info.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Bigfoot Research - Stick Structures
This is the best stick structure I have found during my research. It was placed beside a stick structure that I had built as an experiment. I built a stick structure, urinated on it, placed a trail camera watching it to see if I would get any response. Come back a week later and beside my stick structure but out of the cameras field of view is a awesome stick structure that I think the Bigfoot built to kinda show me up.
Best Super Bowl Commercial - Tebow Bust Bigfoot...
IS there any wonder why this is my favorite Super Bowl commercial for 2014.
Tebow gets "picture of Bigfoot"
Tebow gets "picture of Bigfoot"
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