The press conference is supposed to be held today. I’m really hoping this is for real…I love a good shake up! It seems tough to imagine that 2 people(especially law officers) would make this kind of claim only to have it be a hoax.
First a chupacabra, http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=chupacabra-strikes-texas-town-2008-08-13
now a bigfoot.
Look out Nessie!
Nessie was made into haggis, years ago.
I’m having trouble seeing the description “former prison guard” as indicative of any degree of probity, or of the opposite.
Whether active or retired they still carry a certain set of social expectations. I’m not here to argue about it. I’m just saying they have more to lose by lying than average Joe cryptophile.
I still think that no matter how concrete the evidence there will still be hoardes of naysayers and nonbelievers(even though new species are discovered everyday) simply because the issue of bigfoot has been so controversial for so long. It’ll be the same when we finally make(public) contact with extraterrestrials and when we find Nessie too. People simply won’t believe it no matter how true.
I’m not easily duped…but I know: The Truth is Out There
still miss Lenny, do ya?
What if it’s really him, but he only takes a size 7 shoe?
I’m so stealing that. I hope you’ll forgive me.
Well the only expert they are allowing to see the body, Tom Biscardi, has already been involved in one Bigfoot hoax.
resists urge to say "Puhleeeeeeeeze.
well, not successfully
A jail guard? We’re talking Lyndie England & her boyfriend Charles Graner here. He was a PA jailguard in civilian life, as well as at Abu Ghraib. If that sends any message, the message is “Bully. Close-set eyes. Not especially smart, with gusts up to ‘retarded’. Failed cop-school.”
Whitton and Dyer > plan to unveil what they say is DNA and photo evidence > of the discovery in Palo Alto, California, in conjunction with a group called Searching for Bigfoot Inc.
A photograph on that group’s Web site shows what appears to be the body of a large, hairy creature with an ape-like face, stuffed into a large freezer.
So why–if they’ve got a big carcass in a deep-freeze–would they only release photo and DNA evidence? Is there a problem with letting estimable witnesses actually have a look at the stiff? Something smells more like fish than ape…
That doesn’t sound very liberal-minded of you.
4-5 years ago I met Scotsman in San Sebastian de La Gomera (Canary Islands) who claimed to know personally the man who invented the Loch Ness monster myth…
When I sailed through the Caledonian canal a few years ago on my old boat, the Naomi J., I stopped at the Loch Ness monster museum. I noted that of all the so called “observations” of the Loch Ness monster, none were ever made by a seaman in spite of the thousands of ocean going vessels (including my own) that have passed through the Loch. In other words, nobody who is used to being at sea and observing the surface of the sea in all its different moods has ever claimed to have seen the monster.
Owen
Actually, I see it pretty clearly in your avatar.
Hi
That photo was taken at Chachachucare island west of Trinindad, so poor old Nessie must have been on a bit of a cruise of her own.
The photo is here with a satellite image of the area:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/618559
There is rather an ugly monster in the photo, an oilrig. (That’s the one to the left in the background).
Owen
For the record, it’s my opinion that the prison system that the US has been creating for the past thirty or so years is an absolute, inhumane disgrace, and while I suppose there might be a few good individuals caught up in it valiantly striving to make a difference all the while, I doubt that these are anything but rare. Everyone else is as irredeemably tainted as is the system itself.
For me, the most savage irony of the entire Abu Ghraib scandal was the fact that more than a few commentators claimed that conditions there couldn’t be inhumane because they weren’t much different from the way ordinary prisoners are treated in the US. What was even sadder was the fact that they’re probably correct.
That’s more carefully worded. Thank you.
I have a couple of questions:
- Why did they freeze the thing?
- Why didn’t they either hide the thing or take it to the Washington Post?
Freezing could destroy DNA evidence. Why risk that? Were they afraid of rotting? Why didn’t they take it to a mortician or coroner to preserve the thing? Why didn’t they cut off a couple of significant parts, like a hand and a foot, and deliver them to scientists? They could have kept the rest of the thing in a secret place until those parts were analyzed. Why didn’t they go public with it? There are plenty of Joe Cryptologists who would have gladly provided 24 hour security at the local ice house. Why do you think they chose this plan of action?
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They’re now sequencing DNA from Mammoths that have been embedded in permafrost for the last 20,000 years.
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But in general, the answer is “because they’re full it”. No one with actual hard evidence of sasquatch–evidence like a body, or even of mere tissue–would be playing peek-a-boo with it as these clowns are. Their 15 minutes are over.