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If you guys are going to downvote P-G every time that he says that he doesn’t believe one of these accounts...well, your thumbs are going to get tired before you change his mind. Why downvote a respectful skeptic? Look at it like this, the day that P-G finds something presented here as possible evidence of Sasquatch, then we will know that we have something special on our hands.

Certainly not. Another camp fire story tale. A good one.

I'm confident that discovery was done a long time ago. I realize my threshold for discovery may be lower than others. Many people need to see it on the news or in a magazine to count it as discovered. For me that's not necessary, I can read between the lines. Not only did I witness it with my own eyes, but reading all the accounts I have, it's a no-brainer.

"A huge thank-you goes out to researcher Dustin Severs who graciously provided the interview. Thanks also to Melody and Jason banks for the intro narration. In 1971, B.C. radio station CBU aired some interviews of leading Sasquatch personalities of the time, including John Green, Ivan Marx, Roger Patterson, Don Abbott, and Albert Ostman. The first one that will be featured here is the Albert Ostman segment. Stay tuned for the others which will soon follow. Don’t forgot to subscribe and hit that notification button. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this extremely rare interview."

The Feral Human/Pedophile Forums just doesn’t have the same appeal though...

I know that. My point is that somebody can be expected to do so. That's just how everything is now. I don't know what the charges were or the outcome. Moreover, that statement, including the words "tags", indicates that he did have tags. The legal issue appears to be the proper use of them. Maybe Capt. Foy wisely waited until the independent (and privately funded) DNA analysis came back as bear, then charged Smeja in order to put the expected finality on the situation (whether Smeja was convicted of anything or not), and watched the whole thing die yet another mysterious sasquatch death amongst the public like all other similar stories. Who can say otherwise? This lawyeresque narrative building can work both ways, and I rather enjoy putting the Captain Foys of California in the final spotlight, since they so fully escaped ALL accountability in the PG film event. I'll assume that the point is that there is NEVER an end to denial.

Someday a BF is going to be either filmed or shot by a person who doesn't swear, use drugs, drink, fornicate or fail to call his Mother every Sunday. When that happens, the expected narrative will be it is too good to be true.

Old Indian legends of kidnappings are too ubiquitous to ignore. Ostman's account of Bigfoot appearance was also remarkably consistent with later reports. Considering that there was very little accurate knowledge of Bigfoot in those days and in the time Ostman was interviewed in 1957, I am inclined to view his account as genuine.

Does anybody here actually believe him?

This was discussed in detail many years ago - with a fair bit of misinformation circulated. At the risk of angering members for regurgitating the details here is my summary compiled some time ago: The Justin Smeja Shooting Incident - “Facts” as reported by the two eyewitnesses (they agreed in all salient respects when interviewed separately) – summarized from a variety of sources the most trustworthy to be, in my opinion, Ro Sahebi’s 2013 movie “Dead Bigfoot: A True Story” (resulting from Smeja’s desire to tell his story on camera) Occurred October 8, 2010. Smeja and an anonymous friend, both from Sacramento, were bear hunting in the Sierra Nevada near Gold Lake in Plumas County, California. Gold Lake is about 5.5 miles SW of Graeagle, about 10 miles N of Sierra City, about 45 miles NW of Lake Tahoe, about 50 miles W of Reno, Nevada, and about 90 miles NE of Sacramento. Smeja’s friend was driving his truck, with Smeja in the passenger seat, down a dirt road removed some distance from the nearest well-travelled road through a forested area. They were passing through a meadow expecting to see a bear, if they were to see any wildlife. Just ahead of them about 80 yards off the road to their right (the passenger side) they spotted a dark hair covered animal. They estimated it to be about 7 feet tall – it stood upright and stood and walked like a human. Smeja’s friend stopped his truck and picked up his binoculars. Smeja picked up his scoped rifle (a 25-.06), opened the passenger side door, placed his right foot on the ground, rested the rifle on the car door (window was down), and placed the crosshairs on the animal for 6-7 seconds. Smeja’s friend was telling Smeja in ever more forceful tone: “Bro, don’t shoot. Hey Bro, no! Hey, hey, hey, hey!” Smeja is thinking this animal is out of place; this animal should not be there (his words “this ain’t right”). The animal was standing at the edge of the clearing waving its arms over its head and taking a couple of slow steps toward the truck. Smeja had the crosshairs trained center mass (center high chest) and was squeezing the trigger as the animal started to turn to its left. The gun discharged and impact was positioned just below the right armpit (the driver witnessed the concussion of the shot through his binoculars). The animal stumbled a couple of steps, dropped to all 4’s, and began scrambling quickly over a hill. Smeja had racked another bullet, considered firing a shot up the animal’s A$$ (Smeja’s words), but didn’t, as the driver was yelling: “No way!” As the two humans departed the truck to chase the adult animal to verify the kill, they encountered two young animals at close range. The young animals were searching for their parent – sometimes separating, sometimes rejoining, and vocalizing to one another. Smeja decided to shoot one of the little ones with his chambered round – intending to take a dead little one with them back to civil1zation. Smeja shot it below its chin in the neck just above the chest. It rolled down the hill and landed on Smeja’s right boot. Smeja picked it up and looked right into its eyes as it died in his arms. Smeja said at that moment he realized he had murdered a little kid. He said it was human – not an ape – a little human kid. Smeja said he was not thinking rationally. He thought he had just committed murder. He buried it under some brush intending to return the next day to retrieve it but failed to do so – not returning until Spring 2011 and not finding the body (he found a piece of hair and hide in the general area – DNA testing later determined that to be bear).

The discussion seems to draw from the description (from the book "Other Origins" ) of how the giganto model was made, and the quotes are reasonably correct. The only error, which Dr. Ciochon made himself, was to say he sought me out, when it was I, looking for anthropologists to team with, found him and made the inquiry about a collaboration. But generally the material in the video is correct. The full scale model was indeed a hypothetical design, given we don't have any fossil material but jawbones and teeth. And it was assumed to be a quardaped, and only posed standing up to show off it's true body size, not to suggest it was bipedal. The one arm was raised to suggest it was standing to reach for some kind of fruit. For the record, I don't consider Giganto as a relative of sasquatch. Based on the PGF figure, I personally think she is a hominid, derived from some relic human form such as paranthapus boisei or early neanderthal. Bill