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Posted on 07/28/2004 8:58:21 AM PDT by esryle
Are they the rantings of Bigfoot-crazed Oklahomans? Or does a mysterious beast really roam the mountains of southern Oklahoma?
A Sulphur man has been working for years to prove the existence of Bigfoot. And now, a piece of rare evidence has surfaced to substantiate his claims.
When the sun descends over the Chickasaw National Park, and the tourists retire to their campsites, work begins for this Sulfur researcher.
"A lot of big foot in here," said Charles Hallmark, who spends endless hours in the wilderness trying to confirm the existence of a mysterious beast.
"Some little Bigfoot prints right here where I'm standing," he said. "Right here, all around me."
From foot prints to photographs, this tracker and his friends have collected plenty of evidence over the years. Hallmark claims he's had several close encounters.
"No muzzle, no tail. Just boing, boing, boing," Hallmark said. "My first impression was to get out there and chase him through the woods to get a better view of him and then I thought, that's a juvenile. That means mamma is not far away and I'd hate to get in an arm wrestling match with a female monkey that weighs 600 pounds because I don't think I would win."
But Hallmark said his most compelling evidence is a series of unusually large fingerprints.
"My fingerprint, it might be half the size of that," he said. "This cup is just covered with finger prints."
Here's how he collects them. Hallmark puts cookies, candy bars, or hamburgers in a large cup. Then, he covers it with some microwave popcorn and hides it in a trash can with a large rock on top. That keeps the smaller animals out.
And then he waits.
"They'll handle that greasy popcorn bag, then handle the cup," he said. "It's as simple as 'A B C.'
"A fingerprint is something [that] can't be faked," he said.
On our expedition, yhe only creatures we encountered were loud dogs. "They start barking about sun down," he said. "It's Bigfoot they're smelling.
"Menacing spiders, there's all kinds of evidence out here," Hallmark said. "And hungry raccoons."
But Hallmark said he will one day gather "the proof", convincing everyone there is a Bigfoot living in our backyard.
"Science doesn't want to admit that the missing link is not missing," Hallmark said. "It's out there, running around beside us right now."
The only explanation, Hallmark said, is it's a Bigfoot.
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation officials say there have been several reported sightings over the years. But to date they have no evidence supporting the existence of a "mysterious beast."
And then he waits.
Coincidentally, that's also the new Kerry campaign strategy.
I guess it never occurred to him to install a motion-activated camera pointing at the food.
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Not so fast there!!! I have a couple of...er..."rural" relatives who live in that area! They used to make shine and tended to get crazy once in awhile. It could be that...
Naaaaahh, probably not.
"A Sulphur man has been working for years to prove the existence of Bigfoot."
In other news, a tin man waits for oil along a yellow brick road, and an iron man kills all the people he once saved.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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A friend's uncle has one of those cameras and has some great bear photos where they had set out some garbage bags full of old Krispy Kreme doughnuts in a 55 gallon barrel on his property.
Hey, they already have the cameras from the big three catchining "Big Foot" Moore in the President's Box at the Fleet Center. The trappers knew they were onto something when Teresa was screaming about the bill for all of the candy bars and popcorn the campaign was paying for....
-I guess it never occurred to him to install a motion-activated camera pointing at the food.-
Well duh, everyone knows that greasy fingerprints on 'large' cups are ten times more scientific than any 'motion activated camera'. I mean, where is the fun in seeing 'actual evidence' when you can have fingerprints? Everyone knows you can fake an actual 'bigfoot' sighting, but to fake greasy fingerprints on a big gulp cup... IMPOSSIBLE! haha
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Maybe he tried, but has had a few camera setups missing/stolen. What he needs is a baited trap.
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Mountains?!
In Oklahoma?!
of course bigfoot is real. Why I saw Michael Moore at the DNC the other day...
The ONLY reason I clicked on this link was to see if Lurch or any of the other loosers hanging out at the Fleet Center had been posted.
Read that article. I'll bet the hair was ancient fibreglass from a prehistoric Corvette.
What the f@#k does Bigfoot have to do with libertarianism? Your obsession with dopians is getting clinical.
Dont believe it!! i have never seen a bag full of "old krispy kremes"!!!! also never met a krispy kreme that i didnt like for that matter.
That's what struck me. How could I have missed them while driving through southern OK?
LOL! There is a new KK in my town that replaced the old one that had been there for probably 40+ years. The floor beside the the production roller line was covered in partially cooked doughnuts by the end of the shift.
They seem to have fixed that problem with the new KK.
ROFLMHO...that's the first thing I thought. It's amazing how incredibly dim some people are.
No, that would be BigFatPig, not BigFoot....
LOL
Now I had to go and register just to inform you of the Quachita Mountains in S.E. Oklahoma???? I have property up around the Poteau area, look us up sometime.
The Ouachita/Ozark mountain range goes from S.E. Okla to Arkansas. Lots of redheads out there.
Oh ...... you mean those low hills.
Actually the Ouchita range was a true Mt. range at one time. Back around the time the land mass now known as Australia was smashed up against the plate we presently float on here in Texas. Just as India has built up the Himalayas by smashing into the larger mass of Asia.
Long ago it switched directions and headed away. Leaving the Gulf of Mexico behind it. The Ouichitas eroded away to the hills they are today.
Compared to the Rockies., I guess, but formally they are called mountains. We can always make mountains out of molehills, but we can't change the bucktooth redheads. But believe me, it's very beautiful up there, compared to Dallas, TX that is.
All that smashing and no one got hurt? Were SUV's involved?
Poteau Mountain is high enough to be considered a mountain. Cavanal Hill is one foot short of being a mountain, as the rule dictates. It's the nations tallest hill and they are proud of that one. For us Texans, it's the only mountains we can reach within 2-3 hours, so well buy it. I'm sort of short so they really look tall to me.
In Oklahoma?!
Well, you won't find many ski resorts in the state.
But the Kiamichis in SE Oklahoma are as "mountainous" as any you'd find in, say, Arkansas, Missouri or Alabama.
But Sulphur is in SC Oklahoma. And even referring to the area as "hilly" would be generous. "Rolling", maybe...
With photo editing software like Photoshop around, few bigfoot researchers would believe in the authenticity of any photo of bigfoot, so a photo wouldn't necessarily be considered 'actual evidence'. This is why bigfoot researchers are trying to gather other types of evidence such as bigfoot hair samples, feces, fingerprints, footprints, skeletal remains, etc.
To be honest with you, Vag, I never gave much thought to Bigfoot, save for when "Harry and the Hendersons" came out in the 80's.
Aren't most of you midwest/western high school dropouts ,community college politics majors?
Ummm, I'm from Jersey, college educated, and an Army veteran who makes a hell of a lot more money than you. I'm also much better looking. Way to smear every FReeper who lives west of Pennsylvania though.
from 2004.
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