Posted on 05/04/2006 1:28:13 PM PDT by llevrok
There’s a new “possible” Bigfoot photograph that has been submitted to Cryptomundo. We are making no claims about it, but thought our readers might be interested in looking at this one. And pondering what it might be.
It was taken by a scouting camera on April 30, 2006, in the Mt. Hood National Forest, near The Dalles, Oregon. The camera is a Cuddeback digital scouting camera, which was attached to a tree about three feet off the ground. It has a motion/heat detector.
Could it be someone going by in a poncho? I asked the people who placed the camera, Klindt Kendall and Dianna Martin, what they thought. As far as they can tell, this is “not someone in raingear,” they told me. Photograph is used with their permission here and copyrighted by them.
(Excerpt) Read more at cryptomundo.com ...
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Have these people never heard of a bear?
Looks like a bear standing on two feet to me.
Brunette, looking in the same direction as camera.
Oh, they'd never post a picture of one pooping in the woods (which is what bears do, I am told)
Oh My.....a big scarey blacktail doe!!! You can see the chest and shoulder. Check out the before and after photo's farther down the link.
LOL...Whoever was taking the picture should have told her to get her head out of the way.
"C'mere. Hold my beer while I squeeze off a round....."
It's ManBearPig -- alert Al Gore!
Disclaimer: This post in no way is intended to offend any religious denomination.
That's no Bigfoot - that's Madeline Albright before she got her back waxed.
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The Southernmost
Bigfoot
In The U.S.A.
The Myakka "Skunk Ape" Photographs
By Loren Coleman
Two remarkable new photographs of what may be a Florida Skunk Ape have been discovered through an interesting chain of events by Sarasota resident and animal welfare specialist David Barkasy. Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America overviews how these photographs were taken, how this find surfaced, the first reactions and analyses, and some tentative conclusions. For the time being, certain supportive notes will remain, here, available and online
Here is the December 22, 2000, letter signed "God Bless. I prefer to remain anonymous" mailed to the Sarasota Sheriff's Department.
Newspapers in Florida, the Art Bell show, and other radio programs during mid-February, decided to talk about the Myakka photographs. The hope is that the woman photographer will be identified.
In the meantime, meaningful analyses of the eyeshine, the pupil diameter, the dentition, the tongue, hair color, and exhibited behavior of this apparent primate is taking place.
These Coleman enlargements and details were created from the first generation color prints scanned by David Barkasy of the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department's originals. These prints show forehead lines, yellow canines, fingernails, hair, and other significant details. Copyright 2001 by David Barkasy and Loren Coleman    |
| At right: A young male Sumatran Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus abelii, American Museum of Natural History. |  |
Below: Concurrent with my thinking, Tony Scheuhamme, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, pointed out some features on a good photograph of an orangutan by Denise McQuillen. This is not to say the Myakka photographs are of an orangutan, but it certainly assists in identifying features that are found on a known anthropoid that appear to exist on this one too.
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Could this be a "Skunk Ape." an as yet-undiscovered large anthropoid, per the "Unknown Pongid" type discussed in The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide (NY: Avon, 1999)?
See more on Skunk Apes in Cryptozoology A to Z and Mysterious America: The Revised Edition
The Myakka Ape Photographs are only the most recent of a long history of Skunk Ape and related mystery anthropoid reports. I have files, and letters from people that lived along the east-central coast of Florida (mostly in the Holopaw-Brooksville area) who related to me their series of encounters with apelike animals, especially during the 1963-1968 period. We should not be surprised that the Everglades may not be the key to solving this mystery, but the Myakka area may.
More illustrative material Update 26 February 2001
Myakka Investigation Update 20 June 2001
| We are following leads to attempt to discover the photographer. (Photo credit: John Mackinnon's In Search of the Red Ape (NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974). |
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It's Chewbacca!
Looks like Harry and the Hendersons...
It would be the Common or Blurry Sasquatch.
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