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I don't know Les Stroud.

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If you have any interest in wilderness survival, Les is well worth looking up. Unlike other similar shows, Les does not produce his with a team of support people and camera operators. He does it all by himself (even the theme music!), without a net to some extent. He's a survivalist so I'm sure he has a global cell phone just in case, but mostly it's just him foraging, building shelters and trying to make it for a week with what he can find.

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Near Reno, NV

Three boys encounter sasquatch in eroded terrain
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=5697


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Originally posted by THGRRI:
Yeah, I don't think so.

si shen

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Yeah, I don't think so.

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The first rule of skeptics in threads like these, we do not talk about our skepticism.

No really, there's a reason I basically started avoiding these threads like the plague. So many easily avoidable arguments that no side could ever convince the other. The time I wasted was incalculable.

Let them be happy and let them believe what they want, it works out a lot better in terms of inter-relation with minimal effect on the scientific ratio of society in general due to the inclinations of the personalities involved.

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"One of the saddest things I have found in my internet forum experience is how
powerfully the 'win at all cost' mentality has poisoned most discussions, and how
few people actually feel that true understanding is the most valuable prize to win.

So these 'win at all cost' people refuse the most fundamental method of trying to
resolve disputes, and once they do, the dialogues just end up as verbal shoving
matches with no real winner."……. OONJERAH

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While you can never prove they have never existed. Time and no prof of their existence to date, narrows the probability that anything like bigfoot ever existed. Especially in our century.

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Richard J. Dewhurst - Hour 1 - The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2014/01/RIR-140127.php

It says Dewhurst is an emmy award winning writer.
Fine. For what it's worth.

The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America, the book, by Richard J. Dewhurst.
It's pretty popular right now. A friend of mine has a copy and isn't
pleased with it. Says it is hard to follow & has numerous printing
errors. A rush job?

1848, Abe Lincoln's speech at Niagara Falls, excerpt: "The eyes of
that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America,
have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now."

Those giants were real, all right. Their existence isn't even controversial.
And I believe their remains are found world wide. They are perfectly
human as us; our USA variety are about 9 - 10' tall & white.

Bigfoot ... is different.

A Wiki page: Mound Builders, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders

ETA: The Book, btw, has an added attraction: A conspiracy theory on
the supression of information about the giants. ... And here, I always
figured they are little known, simply because so few of us have any
interest in history, let alone archaeology!

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Finally, irrefutable proof.

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Finally, irrefutable proof.

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Did somebody claim irrefutable proof, nitwit?
This at least provides a lead to investigate, a credible source to follow and examine. Such anecdotes seem rare on this subject.

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Dr. Bryan Sykes' book "The Yeti Enigma" has changed.

Published in April this year:
Dr. Bryan Sykes' book "The Nature of the Beast: The first genetic
evidence on the survival of apemen, yeti, bigfoot and other mysterious
creatures into modern times" is out.

It begins like this: "The following account is taken from my field
notes of Sunday 18 March 2013. The events I am about to describe
defy any rational explanation."

You can read the beginning chapters on Amazon. I read part of Ch 1
and was underwhelmed.

Much of the book, I'm told, is reprints of the old, legendary,
encounters with Bigfoot.

The last chapter(s) is about Zana. Does he show her as a true
relict hominid or as 100% homo sapiens? I don't know yet. I intend
to read the book when I can.

Patrick aka Leon, no last name, was said to be a Human/Bigfoot
Hybrid. He died about 1930 to the best of my recollection.
Rhettman Mullis (Bigfootology) was trying to get samples from
Patrick's daughters to be tested by Dr. Sykes. Did he succeed?
I don't know; he seems to have gone underground.

As with most things Bigfoot, it's hard to get a grip.

Yeti: Dr. Syke's Yeti samples came out as bear; not an apeman
at all. Yeti's tracks are famous, & look to me sort of round,
perhaps bear-like. People who have seen Yeti, mostly sherpas,
I gather, say it's not a bear. Or did I misunderstand?

Zana was what the Russians call an Almas or Almasty. I wonder
what her tracks looked like.

China's Yeren, Australia's Yowie, Indonesia's Orang Pendek : Maybe
there's a chance that they all exist, are not the same creature,
all relict homonids.



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Keep us informed. I am wondering if any DNA or skeletal remains are claimed to exist.

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Keep us informed. I am wondering if any DNA or skeletal remains are claimed to exist.

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The BF forum that I visit, several times I've seen it said that there are
no Bigfoot fossils OR known remains. Exception: look up Snellgrove Lake,
nail board. http://www.alamas.ru/eng/publicat/DNA_of_Bigfoot_e.htm

And yet, there are more than 2 dozen stories, over many decades, of
someone shooting a Bigfoot dead.

Currently, there are a few guys, experienced woodsmen, who indicate
that hunting Bigfoot is no problem for them, as they "know where the
boogers live."
Yet, no new pictures, no bodies, body parts or bones.
Such items would be in big demand by collectors. Perhaps there is a
black market going.

There is a well known group that knows where they are and fully intends
to bag one for science. They've been at it for years.
The Sasquatch throw rocks at their hunting lodge.
The hunters shoot at the Sasquatch. Hit one once. There was blood on
a rock. ... If tested for DNA, it came back human.

Many of the best, "for sure I got Bigfoot this time!" samples have come
back ... homo sapiens.
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Would shooting Bigfoot be homocide?

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Did slave owners consider shooting a slave to be homicide?

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Richard J. Dewhurst - Hour 1 - The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2014/01/RIR-140127.php

It says Dewhurst is an emmy award winning writer.
Fine. For what it's worth.

The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America, the book, by Richard J. Dewhurst.
It's pretty popular right now. A friend of mine has a copy and isn't
pleased with it. Says it is hard to follow & has numerous printing
errors. A rush job?

1848, Abe Lincoln's speech at Niagara Falls, excerpt: "The eyes of
that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America,
have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now."

Those giants were real, all right. Their existence isn't even controversial.
And I believe their remains are found world wide. They are perfectly
human as us; our USA variety are about 9 - 10' tall & white.

Bigfoot ... is different.

A Wiki page: Mound Builders, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders

ETA: The Book, btw, has an added attraction: A conspiracy theory on
the supression of information about the giants. ... And here, I always
figured they are little known, simply because so few of us have any
interest in history, let alone archaeology!

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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I am having some difficulty finding references for an anecdote which is being investigated by a zoologist. Don't recall if it was Richard Freeman or Karl Shuker, or another.
Known as "Wildman of" something like Siberia or Russia, a female non-adult was captured, and held captive by a ruler of the area. Visitors who completed some challenge were allowed to mate with the captive, and offspring were produced, who were integrated into the community.
I'll post some of what I found of the story, but have not found the book or other published info, so far.


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from wikipedia:
A wildwoman named Zana is said to have lived in the isolated mountain village of T'khina fifty miles from Sukhumi in Abkhazia in the Caucasus; some have speculated she may have been an Almas, but the evidence indicates that she was a human.

Captured in the mountains in 1850, she was at first violent towards her captors but soon became domesticated and assisted with simple household chores. Zana is said to have had sexual relations with a man of the village named Edgi Genaba, and gave birth to a number of children of apparently normal human appearance. Several of these children, however, died in infancy.[9]

The father, meanwhile, gave away four of the surviving children to local families. The two boys, Dzhanda and Khwit Genaba (born 1878 and 1884), and the two girls, Kodzhanar and Gamasa Genaba (born 1880 and 1882), were assimilated into normal society, married, and had families of their own. Zana herself died in 1890. The skull of Khwit (also spelled Kvit) is still extant, and was examined by Dr. Grover Krantz in the early 1990s. He pronounced it to be entirely modern, with no Neanderthal features at all. Another account by Russian anthropologist M.A.Kolodieva described the skull as significantly different from the normal males from Abkhazia: the skull "approaches closest the Neolithic Vovnigi II skulls of the fossil series".[9]
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http://www.bigfootencounters.com/creatures/zana2.htm

note the picture of offspring Kwhit:
http://wickramshingle.hubpages.com/hub/The-Almas


The anecdotes don't seem to be in dispute, the captive was apparently well-known about. And she was capable of reproducing with humans, and the DNA chain continues in the population today.

These are the first I've heard of credible anecdotes, with DNA evidence available. So thought I would share.

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Keep us informed. I am wondering if any DNA or skeletal remains are claimed to exist.

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The BF forum that I visit, several times I've seen it said that there are
no Bigfoot fossils OR known remains. Exception: look up Snellgrove Lake, nail board. http://www.alamas.ru/eng/publicat/DNA_of_Bigfoot_e.htm

And yet, there are more than 2 dozen stories, over many decades, of someone shooting a Bigfoot dead.

Currently, there are a few guys, experienced woodsmen, who indicate that hunting Bigfoot is no problem for them, as they "know where the
boogers live."
Yet, no new pictures, no bodies, body parts or bones.
Such items would be in big demand by collectors. Perhaps there is a black market going.

There is a well known group that knows where they are and fully intends to bag one for science. They've been at it for years.
The Sasquatch throw rocks at their hunting lodge.
The hunters shoot at the Sasquatch. Hit one once. There was blood on a rock. ... If tested for DNA, it came back human.

Many of the best, "for sure I got Bigfoot this time!" samples have come back ... homo sapiens.
.
.
Would shooting Bigfoot be homocide?

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Did slave owners consider shooting a slave to be homicide?

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You mean in pre-Civil War USA?

I don't know.

What did slave owners think?

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