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I think this is the report of which you remembered: https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=50124

Giant squid are huge, the size of a school bus. They're extinct or nearly so, right? Impossible to film. Never before seen in their natural habitat? Turns out, there are tens of millions of giant squid in the oceans, plenty enough to support the current Sperm Whale population. Only a few years ago (literally, like 2024) we thought them near extinction, and had never filmed a live one except under extremely unusual accidental conditions or the few washed up on beaches or caught stuck to the mouth of a whale mid-meal. Now we can film them any time we want. The secret? Changing the light used to film the deep. This is an analogous situation to sasquatch, just in case you were wondering why I'm talking about giant squid.

Just look at our closest extinct cousin. Shorter. Way more robust. Now imagine something still bipedal but even larger and more robust. Would love to know more about Denisovans. They are truly a species that is in the right place at the right time to cross the land bridge before Homo Sapiens. Or it’s not closely related to us at all. It’s coming out of left field. Anyhow I thought Darden could put some perspective into supposed Sasquatch strength.

In the PGF/McClarin comparison? Its not Pattys height that shocks me. Its her bulk. A gorilla is shorter than us but is twice our weight. Patty and Jim are similar heights albeit Patty has a hunched shuffle gait. So she is most assuredly taller than Jim. But Jim looks like a stick figure by comparison. His waist is just one of her thighs. There is only so much SFX can do with a suit. Anyhow legend says Darden picked up 1200 lbs and carried it one mile. Imagine what a large male Sasquatch could do.

He was considerably bigger than even Andre the Giant. It really does make you wonder what something 8+ft. could weigh and how strong they would be. I remember reading a BFRO report by an elk hunter a few years ago that I haven't been able to find again, but I can recall the main parts. We would just have to assume he was telling a true account. The elk hunter used an ATV and went along a path to get to his spot. At one point he had to cross a small creek. One morning he said he found a big log blocking his path right at the creek. He was able to get around the log and continue on. However, the next morning he found two more logs in place, in addition to the first one. He did some looking around and said the logs did not come from right around that small area. I think he said the trees around there were not the same type as the logs. Here is the interesting part. He said the logs were too big and heavy for one person to have dragged it there. And were far too heavy for two people to have picked it up and carried it there. To assume the story was true, it makes you wonder just what put those logs there, and how they got them there. He didn't mention anything about machinery, but I think it was a bit of a remote area, and apparently there was no sign of any machinery having been there. I don't think there were any signs of anything having been there except for his ATV. I'm not certain but I don't think it was private land.

I suggest that the plural of "bigfoot" is "bigfoot."

Hyperbole aside, 2012 is the date that the discovery bore fruit... The point stands, at some point, we'll figure out how to observe these animals in their native habitat, then they'll revert to just another curious creature in the woods like bear or wolves.

We'll never know the truth unless a Mothershop lands on the whitehouse lawn and an alien steps out wanting to talk to the President. UFOs are used as cover for black projects, doesn't mean all UFO cases are fabricated by the government, but a lot are.

The threats against whistleblowers and even the outbreak of missing and assumed deceased scientists is grist for the mill about how national security will continue to be used to cover up black box programs and funds, we can only hope the gold bars at Ft Knox haven't flown the coop already. Family of potential whistle blowers are now threatened and false charges used to wreck careers so the stories about BF researchers having home invasions and computers snatched in the past is totally believable. Mr. Gold's comments on the paranormal are as normal as remote viewing now.

I played high school football with a Samoan guy who weighed 285 lbs as a freshman and graduated at some 475 lbs. He was @ 6' tall. He was huge and could actually run quite fast. The California high school sports regulatory body banned him from wrestling in his senior year.

I have not seen this film, and will not, but I will speculate about it within the overall history of sasquatchery since 1955 (the Jerry Crew event). Firstly, it is most similar to the Greg Long book thus far. Long's book was an immediate hit with the skeptic community, and it became their bible. Since its publication, it rose quickly in prominence, but since has been roundly considered a hoax in and of itself among all who give it any measure of honest consideration. The skeptic community still tries to defend it amongst themselves, but appear to be True Believers by many, and the scientific community pretty much ignores them. Indeed, there is increasing interest in the phenomenon by the scientific community, especially the DNA field, and this probably frightens the skeptic community. Secondly, the commercial side of sasquatchery is exploding. Cartoonish and AI sasquatches are all over YouTube and commercial products. My grandson bought me Bigfoot shampoo and hair conditioner for my birthday last fall. It's nuts. My family buys me Bigfoot T-shirts all the time. If sasquatches exist or not in biology, they clearly exist in fantasy and imaginations BIG TIME, and it's growing. This alone is crushing the skeptic religion. They're done in the short term regardless of "discovery". That's the primary reason why I speculate that this film is desperation, and may even be the reason why they produced it. They know they're on the ropes.

Here's the complete December 1959 True Magazine article:

I don't understand your concern about someone "gutting" the PGF. It stood the test of time here on BFF under an electron-microscope type analysis and it is entirely irrelevant who Patterson and Gimlin were personally. Go ahead and try to destroy their reputation. It doesn't change the fact that a video is out there every aspect of which has been analyzed here at BFF over the many years. In my opinion, anyone who wishes to claim the PGF was a hoax has to specifically disprove Gigantofootecus' ASH ratio calculations and Patty's forearm ratio. Not knowing those two issues intimately, much less at all, tells me everything I need to know about someone's ability to intelligently discuss the PGF. Moreover, have they read Bill's Munn's works, which, in my opinion, are a veritable treatise on the PGF, or even know who he is? There are many people who have opinions about a lot of things they possess little or no knowledge. Let them come here and debate both critical, and tangential, issues of the PGF itself.

Thanks for the info. I haven't delved into it, but I have one question, if anyone knows an answer: Is Kitikaze (old BFF skeptic) involved with the latest attempt to disprove PGF?