Fox Launches Bigfoot Expedition

Well, the bigfoot video aired on Fox-TV's A Current Affair last evening, and this latest glimpse of the cryptid is already creating a tremendous buzz, as evidenced by this promise offered by host Tim Green:

Today, we'd like to announce our official search for Bigfoot. Our special team is already heading into the woods of Manitoba in search of sasquatch. We will be getting daily reports from the hunt starting tomorrow (today).

Click here to get the story and view the video:
http://www.acurrentaffair.com/bigfoot/index.html


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Bigfoot, like Sean Penn, seems to have a knack for getting P.R., although, clearly, neither desires to be photographed.
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Whenever I hear about some recent sighting, or as in this case, new video footage, I become a kid again. I get SO excited.

I should know better than to believe that definitive evidence of bigfoot's existence would ever be world premiered on a show like "A Current Affair." If the footage had been more compelling, it would have made it onto mainstream media like CNN or Fox News.

Instead, it gets wedged between a segment on some mass murderer's fiance and a segment on strippers.

Go figure - it's the beginning of the May sweeps ratings period.

Still, my fellow believers, do not be dismayed.

We know that bigfoot exists -- he's just savvy enough to avoid capture of any kind (literal or figurative).

As a matter of self-preservation, he doesn't stick around to be interviewed, and rightly so, can you just imagine what would happen if these pseudo-news-people actually did find and capture a creature? It would be a frenzy!

Can you just imagine how long bigfoot would be able to survive once the media had actual confirmation that these creatures do exist?

That would be the end of the creatures.

I, for one, wouldn't want anything to happen to the creatures.

Believe!!!

Coast to Coast Radio Talks Bigfoot

On May 3, Coast to Coast AM with Georgy Noory, a radio show that can be heard througout the U.S. and Canada, featured an interesting round-table discussion about Bigfoot on the eve of tonight's highly anticipated A Current Affair broadcast.

To view a Recap of the radio broadcast, check out the following link:

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/05/03.html#recap


Believe!

Manitoba Bigfoot on FOX?

FOX's A Current Affair to Broadcast Bigfoot Footage.

See for yourself: Bigfoot will be featured on Fox-TV's A Current Affair tomorrow, (Wednesday, 4 May, check local listings for details)

Click Link for the Full Story:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/03/184736.php

Bobby Clarke Bigfoot Video

By Annie

It seems some news services are scrambling for updates on the recent Bobby Clarke Bigfoot video, and a statement on the case made by James Hare, a zoology professor at the University of Manitoba is apparently the best they`ve found. *Mr.Clarke is refusing interviews for the time being.

"Despite mounting excitement over a reported sighting of Bigfoot in northern Manitoba, a zoologist is warning people not to believe the hype. 'I would say I'm very skeptical, because indeed most of these purported sightings prove to be hoaxes in the end,' James Hare, a professor at the University of Manitoba, said yesterday." He continues, 'There is absolutely no credible scientific evidence of the existence of Bigfoot or Sasquatch or whatever you want to call it.' - The Edmonton Sun

There is absolutely no credible scientific evidence of the existence of Bigfoot or Sasquatch or whatever you want to call it" ....This slightly biased sounding statement led me to question to what extent Hare has studied the subject. Before accepting this statement as fact, I decided to do a little investigating myself.

Believe it or not, there are reputable scientists out there who consider not only the existence of Bigfoot plausible, but who warrant what little evidence we do have, as credible enough to merit serious study.

Discovery Channel`s, Daily Planet offers a video clip in which Missy Flett, who has viewed the Clarke videotape, gives an audio description of what she saw, and her opinion on it`s authenticity. Also on the clip is an interview with Dr. Jeff Meldrum, an anatomist, primatologist, and paleontologist with the University of Idaho who has been analyzing plaster casts of purported Bigfoot tracks. Daily Planet, Latest Show, "I See Bigfoot"

In an 2003 article published on NationalGeographic.com, titled Forensic Expert Says Bigfoot Is Real, Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, a specialist in finger- and footprints, states that after analyzing a plaster cast of a foot print found in Walla Walla, Washington in 1987, he is convinced that Bigfoot is real, and why.

The NationalGeographic.com article also gives a solid overview of the history of Bigfoot phenomena, including a view from both sides of the debate....

Michael Dennet, from the Skeptical Inquirer states - "It's the same kind of eyewitness reports we see for the Loch Ness Sea Monster, UFOs, ghosts, you name it," he said. "The monster thing is a universal product of the human mind. We hear such stories from around the world." - NationalGeographic.com

Jane Goodall in an interview on National Public Radio - "Renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall last year surprised an interviewer from National Public Radio when she said she was sure that large, undiscovered primates, such as the Yeti or Sasquatch, exist." - National Geographic
*Goodall Interview Transcript. To listen to the interview - NPR Archive

If you`re interested in cryptozoology, or would like to learn more, cryptozoology.com is a great resource site. After scanning their message board, it seems that some members have contacts who have supplied a few further details on the Clarke case not yet reported. For instance, the video apparently was filmed with a digital video camera, and was equipped with a zoom lens. Other sources have reported that Clarke is no longer in possession of the videotape, which I would presume to mean he has found someone to enhance, and possible verify the videotape as authentic.

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