Now one of your pudding. I got a string going on here, something
just cause my dog. Something killed your dog? My dog. We're flying
through the or over the tree. I don't know how it did it,
Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming
over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like,
I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over
the fence. Sat, what are you putting? We got some wonder or
something crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? Or was
it was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now and
I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside, Jesus, Quice,
you better hello, hit the boddy out here? What quintin' out there?
I thought of a bit about Tech fort nine. I don't know.
Easy ann out there? Yeah, I'm bulking right head he there, and
thanks so much for joining me for the show. I wanted to share with
you some really interesting stories that I've read over the past couple of weeks.
The first thing that you're going to hear here is a compilation of al buyin
no Bigfoot stories. I actually had a guy on recently from North Carolina.
If you guys remember that a couple of weeks back who had seen a white
bigfoot sometime in the seventies when he was a child. I really find that
interesting because the question always comes up for me, are they albinos? Is
it just hair color? So I found this really cool compilation of stories and
it sort of addresses whether these things are albinos or if it's just hair color
in the stories. But we'll get into that in just a second. Secondly,
you're going to hear a story about the bride of Bigfoot, which is
a really interesting story that comes out of the seventies, where this lady claims
that she was kidnapped in Hell by a bigfoot for like three days. Really
interesting story. Could be a hoax, could be real. Not sure.
I'd love to hear what you guys think about it after you hear it.
Then we move into an interesting article that people have been posting around Facebook.
I've seen it several times. I think Matt Moneymaker actually posted it. It's
about gigantopitheca is Blackie and when they actually went extinct. Over the years,
I have certainly entertained the idea that maybe g Blackie was a good candidate for
what we know as Bigfoot or sasquatch. Today, I'll let you get into
the article and see what you think about them going extinct even earlier than scientists
initially thought, and how that might affect whether they could still be around in
the form of Bigfoot or sasquatch today. And then, last, but not
least, there's an article here about the actual discovery of Bigfoot. I thought
it was very interesting. I'd love to hear what you guys think about it.
After you hear it, you can always send me emails Brian at Paranormal
World Productions dot com. You can head over to the website and check it
out, and you can also leave us a voicemail there. The button is
right here in the show notes. We've made it easy for you. I'd
love to hear your thoughts on some of these articles and things that we're going
to cover today. But without further ado, let's get right into it.
The rockstar of cryptids is by far none other than the legendary Bigfoot or Sasquatch.
These hairy, massive man like beasts have been sited all over the United
States and indeed, in one form or other, all over the world.
And have remained a compelling mystery that continues to elude us. By far,
the most common description of these creatures is that of a hulking brute of a
thing, standing upwards of eight to ten feet tall and covered with shaggy brown
hair or fur, and this is perhaps the image most firmly etched into the
public consciousness of these beasts. Yet there are reports out there intermingled with these,
that seem to point to these monsters exhibiting a good amount of variety.
There have been reported black bigfoot, reddish bigfoot, and gray as well,
but perhaps the rarest of all are those accounts that describe bigfoot that are a
stark white in coloration. This latter is of special interest here, very rare
and very odd. And here we look at a selection of accounts of the
elusive white Bigfoot. Probably the most well known series of sightings concerning what appears
to have been in albino bigfoot began back in nineteen seventy in the wilds of
the state of Pennsylvania, mostly referred to as simply the Pennsylvanian white Bigfoot.
The creatures were first seen by a witness named Annette b who saw one in
the forest and described it as being about seven feet tall with matted, dirty
white hair all over it. She would say of the creature, its eyes
were dark and spaced far apart. Its white hair covered the lower half of
its face. There was pinkish skin around the eyes and forehead. It looked
like its hair was a little longer on its head and hanging over its forehead
like bangs. Whatever it was stayed dormant for a while until nineteen seventy three,
when two young girls spotted an eight foot tall beast with shaggy white fur
and glowing red eyes in Beaver County. This report is particularly odd and surreal,
as the creature was described as holding some sort of glowing or in its
massive hand. When the frightened girls told their father about it, he allegedly
went out looking for it, but could find no trace. Even More bizarrely,
a parry of white bigfoot like creatures would be seen later that same year
near Uniontown, this time in conjunction with the UFO hovering over the pasture they
were in. A local woman claimed to have shot at the creatures with a
shotgun, but said that it had had no effect. In two thousand and
eight, there were reports of the white bigfoot rummaging about the rural area of
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and there were numerous other reports of seeing the creature in
the same area at around this time. Around that same time, there were
also some reports of what appeared to be a smaller juvenile version of the creature
as well. The beast was in particular said to roam about an old abandoned
mine reclamation site in the vicinity, and these sightings would continue on until as
recently as twenty ten, when a local man took some much discussed footage of
the thing in his backyard. The footage in question has been widely criticized as
being a hoax, with research a Scott Carpenter saying of it, in my
opinion, this is a hoax. Some thought went into this to make it
look realistic and believable. The person put on white makeup, then put on
some sort of white jacket on the head. A white mesh material was used
that fit very tight. Using a flashlight with a video camera was the perfect
way to cover any flaws and only showing the subject from the waist up since
no mask was used. Facial expressions and reaction to the light would look very
natural jerking. The flashlight also made the subject appear like it moved very fast.
Regardless, the footage has managed to be much discussed. What was this
thing? Was it an albino bigfoot, a hoax, or something else?
What was the white Bigfoot of Pennsylvania. Other states have had their own accounts
of what seemed to be white Bigfoot as well. One account comes from the
state of West Virginia and was given by a woman known as Melissa, who
says at the time she had been driving down an isolated country road with her
husband one earing. The night was dark and quiet, just the shadows of
trees and flickering lanes lines floating past outside. But then out of the night
ahead there bloomed the form of something crouching on the road, brought out of
the dark by the approaching headlights. She says of her bizarre encounter. About
fifty yards ahead of us was something in the road. It was on all
fours and was snow white. It was bigger than a dog, way bigger.
As we got closer, it turned and looked our way. Its mouth
opened, and it stood up on two legs and began running across the road
and up through the woods. I never said a thing. All I could
do was sit there, stunned. A few minutes later, Joe asked if
I had seen what he had seen. Unable to answer him, I began
to cry. Another West Virginia report comes from an area called Baker's Ridge and
involves a college student who was watching a house for a family out on vacation.
The atmosphere would have been quite spooky already, as the house was situated
in the middle of nowhere in the woods, surrounded by trees in the day
and in penetrable blackness at night, and a sense of foreboding at all hours,
but it would get even scarier still. One evening, amongst the cacophony
of the forest night outside, she heard some loud banging sounds which sounded like
someone or something rummaging around on the back porch. Thinking it was some animal
like a raccoon, she went to show it off, but peering through the
window revealed two glowing red eyes peering right back, framed within a dark shape
around five feet in height. The mystery animal then ran at the house on
two legs and began banging on the windows and walls as it let forth a
furious howl. As it loomed past the thin pane of glass separating them,
the witness could see that it was covered in long, scraggly white hair and
had remarkably human like hands. After some time of lurking right outside the window,
the thing slinked off into the night, shortly after she could hear it
enthusiastically ransacking the garbage pails a bit further from the house before disappearing. When
she inspected the area under the perceived safety of daylight, she discovered that whatever
it was had left behind footprints and muddy humanlike handprints streaked all over the windows,
and garbage and other miscellaneous objects strewn about all over the place, with
the garbage cans themselves crushed and twisted with great force. In two thousand and
five, there was an interesting report. The witness is a woman in Lone,
del Missouri, who says that she had been visiting her parents along with
her four year old son at the time. On this day, she was
sitting out on the porch of the rural property along with her son and her
parents dog in mid afternoon in broad daylight. As she leisurely looked over the
quaint scenery she says she noticed what appeared to be a large man making his
way through the field nearby, which began to draw nearer to the trailer where
they had been staying. The dog was apparently not happy with this, as
it began to bark uncontrollably, and a woman was unsettled enough that she took
her son inside. She could see at this point that whatever it was was
not human, and she says of what happened next, I was absolutely astounded
by what I was seeing. If not for the fact that the dog seeing
it too, I would have wondered if my eyes and or brain was playing
tricks on me. I decided to be brave and opened the screen door just
enough to stick my head outside. The thing, a lack of a known
word to call what it was, was just walking on two legs, aimlessly,
not in a hurry. I could not find a reason as to why
it came into the yard and why I was just looking around leisurely. There
was a wooden fence that was there mostly for decoration, and it was only
about twenty feet long. The thing walked along next to it. My mother
had some decorations of some sort hanging on the fence. The thing seemed to
look at those as though it was curious. The dog barking did not startle
the creature. It just kept walking. That's when the thing looked at me.
I just stood there, half afraid of its reaction and its next move,
but more curious than anything. My heart was racing. I held my
son up to look at it. Also. After it looked at me and
yet showed no fear, I had more time to study it, and I
was racking my brain to identify what it was that I was seeing. Here
is the best description I can give. It was between four and six feet
tall, walking on two legs, covered from head to toe in very long
white hair. Its face was mostly covered in white hair as well, except
for its eyes and maybe its mouth. It did not have the snout like
a dog. Its shape and build was that of a human's. I even
compared it to a bear in my head, but there were not enough similarities.
This thing was not very animalistic in behavior. The way it walked and
looked at me were more typical of human behaviors. Yet the way it wandered
and seemed oblivious to the man made things around it, like cars, the
trailer, even the fence was more like the characteristics of an animal. I
did not get the feeling that it was aggressive or wanting to cause harm,
Yet because of the size and animalistic nature of it, I knew that it
was strong and could hurt me, my son, or the dog. It
began to walk around the side of the garage, out of my sight,
but closer towards the end of the trailer that had the bedroom my mind was
napping in. I ran down into the bedroom and began frantically looking out the
windows, searching to see where it had gone. I woke my mother up
in my tizzy and quickly told her what I had seen, and I wanted
her to look. She was still half asleep and slow to process what I
was saying. I did not see where it went from there. I could
not locate it through the windows, and I was much too afraid to go
outside and look. From the state of Alabama, we have a report from
the Alabama Bigfoot Society which allegedly occurred in twenty thirteen in the area of blot
County in central northern Alabama. The account was given by the son of a
woman who had just purchased a new home in the wooded portion of the area
and moved in with her family. One day, the family was out cleaning
and doing yard work when the woman's son came running up to say that there
was a giant creature in a ditch out back. The report goes on to
say at first he thought it was a large man with the white hood over
his head, and it severely frightened the young boy. They all went around
the house to see if it was someone who intended to do harm, but
the creature was well gone by now. Her son says the creature was in
a ditch, and that he and the thing called each other's attention at about
the same time. They made a contact for a few moments. He says,
they looked at each other eye to eye, but that it made no
sound, nor did it make any threatening move toward him. It simply walked
slowly off into the dense forest. As it walked away, he could then
tell it was covered entirely with long, solid white hair. The long hair
fell over its face, and he could make out no other features than its
eyes. He told them where the creature stood and how far up its head
was. According to the bushes and trees, they estimated it to be about
nine feet tall. This was the only time he has seen the albino sasquatch.
Another report from twenty thirteen comes from Mahanning County in the state of Ohio
and was reported on Crypto's Wology News. The witness claims that he was getting
his hunting gear out of his truck when he spotted a four foot tall ape
like creature with striking white hair, which he says ran away as he tried
to track it with the scope of his hunting rifle. He says, there
was this white, fuzzy thing standing on two legs. It was looking at
me. It fled. Couldn't wrap my head around what the hell I just
saw. My hands kept shaking and didn't feel right putting a rifle up at
something I didn't understand. I would get within forty yards or so. It
would back up, then flee, then popped out a third time. Got
weird feeling of cat and mouse. Animals don't act like this. He was
playing with me. I felt I was being lured into something. With creatures
still in sight, I turned and went home. Was this perhaps a juvenile
albino bigfoot? In twenty fourteen, there was a rather bizarre report from the
state of Kansas, which was reported in the Christian County Headliner News in March
of that year. A woman was driving along with her daughter on Highway sixty
one in mc pherson County when they saw something they could not explain. The
report reads, there was a farmer tilling a field on the right side of
the highway, possibly trying to create a barrier to stop a brush and timber
fire that was burning out of control by a period of dry weather. The
area was under an open burning ban at the time. Suddenly, a large
bipedal creature covered with white hair ran out into the road from the direction of
the fire, possibly to get out of its path. The daughter screamed and
the driver caught a glimpse of the bigfoot as she passed it so close its
body filled the window. She estimated that it was about eight feet tall and
the hair was spiked as if treated with gel. She is a cosmotologist.
One impressive feature was the large black eyes, which stood out in her mind
due to their size and contrast with the white hair on its face. It
was actually on all fours when first seen, then stood up and ran several
steps in an erect position and finally returned to its previous quadrupedal locomotion as it
crossed the ditch and disappeared into the darkness. The detail of the spiked hair
is particularly odd about this case, and one wonders what significance that has,
if any. We also have an unusual report from the state of Vermont,
where in twenty fourteen, there was a sighting made in the vicinity of the
town of Shaftesbury. Cryptozoology News reported that the twenty year old witness had been
out walking his dog when the creature in question came lumbering out of the woods
to cross the road right in front of him. The man explains, there
was an awful smell in the air. My dog kept barking. That's when
I thought that something wasn't right. The odour got more intense. I couldn't
believe it. I see what looks like a guy in a white costume or
something running across the road towards the woods, but he or it was in
no hurry. Finally, in the same year was another report from the area
of Lichfield, Maine, where a construction worker claims to have seen a white
bigfoot on Christmas Eve as he was taking his dog for a walk. The
day is described as being foggy, and suddenly his dog began to get agitated
for no apparent reason, which is right about when the beast would make its
appearance. The witness would say of the encounter thusly, it moved fast and
like a hue. It was fat, huge, and it had white long
hair everywhere. Look like a white bigfoot or something. No kidding, I
never thought i'd get to see something like this. I've always laughed at all
these bigfoot nuts. I had my reasons. Now I guess I'm the crazy
one here. Unless it was a very good hoax plate on me. That
could be. But I tell you again, it ain't easy for a man
to make those kind of moves that didn't look human to me. With such
reports, we get a rare glimpse into another variety or spin on the typical
bigfoot phenomena, and it seems to almost give more weight to these as living,
breathing creatures in that they display this variety. But what are they exactly?
Are they albino individuals, a subspecies, or what are they even real
in any sense at all? One researcher by the name of Sam Updegrove has
said of his thoughts on the matter, they do not appear to be albino
individuals, since to my knowledge, the red eye coloration that is so typical
of such creatures has never been reported. It has also been suggested that there
are older specimens who have gone through the same change in hair color that humans
do, but if so, they get around nimbly enough to make us older
folks green with envy. I guess we would then be reported as leprechorns.
It seems to me that the most likely explanation is that bigfoot like humans are
simply prone to variation in hair color, and the possibilities include a limited number
of white haired individuals, albinos, anomalously colored or otherwise. Reports of white
bigfoot have a certain allure to them. These are the rare of the rare,
possible strange instances of unique individuals among a race of creatures that are already
elusive enough, and the white bigfoot have an almost mythical quality to them.
It poses an interesting question as to just what variety of physical differences we could
expect to see with such creatures, and although bigfoot are far from confirmed to
exist, it adds a layer to the mystery of what these mystery beasts are
all about, the bizarre case of the bride of Bigfoot. Tales of Bigfoot
have, over the years encompassed a wide range of phenomena, ranging from the
somewhat plausible to the decidedly far out. We have sightings of what could be
actual living creatures, interspersed with wild stories of a more paranormal nature, and
everything in between. One area that has long been thought of as particularly fringe,
even within the field of cryptozoology, is that of those individuals who claim
to have been actually kidnapped and held captive by these beasts. And one really
weird story comes to us from the wilds of northern California. Back in nineteen
seventy six, twenty five year old Sherry Darville of Reading in Shasta County,
California, was an amateur filmmaker who had become very interested in the Bigfoot phenomenon.
At the time, she was dating a man named Ron Olson, whose
father was Frank Olson of the Ane film distributing company owned by Russell Niehart,
Bishop of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City in Utah. This already seems
a bit odd and making it even odder was that Niehardt's good friend Jerry Romney,
who was also a big shot at A and E, had become a
bit notory and cryptosology circles for claiming to have been the guy in the ape
suit in the famous Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film. And not only that, but
he had infamously claimed to have signed the payroll checks for Roger Patterson from July
to October first, nineteen sixty seven. So far, so weird, and
it is unknown just how much this has to do with what was to come
for Darvell, but she certainly already had her foot in the world of Bigfoot,
and not necessarily in a good way. In May of nineteen seventy six,
Darvill embarked on an excursion into the wilds of the Six Rivers National Forest
in Eureka, Humboldt County, California, along with a group of others,
including her boyfriend Olson and two other filmmakers, Ed Bush and Terry Gaston.
Their mission was to capture footage of the elusive sasquatch, which was well known
for being sighted in the region and which at the time had been cited several
times in the area. Indeed, they were headed towards the Bluff Creek area,
which is famously the location of the Patterson Gimlind bigfoot footage. It seemed
like as promising a place as any to go hunting for bigfoot, and by
all accounts, they would get more than they bargained for. At some point
during the expedition, Darvel allegedly got separated from the group and seemed to vanish
without a trace for three days. A massive search was carried out in the
area, but no sign of her could be found. On the third day
of the search, something very strange would happen when Darvel walked into a ski
lodge far from where she had disappeared, looking dazed, disheveled, and carrying
what was reported as a bushel of lilies and twigs. At first, she
seemed too disoriented to really talk about where she had been, but as she
gained lucidity and started to respond to questioning, Darvel began to weave a very
bizarre tale. She claimed that on the day she had gotten separated from her
group, it had been about dusk, and as she wandered about, she
had encountered none other than a hulking bigfoot there in the woods. The hairy
giant reportedly had just stood there staring at her for a few moments before grabbing
her and dragging her off through the forest to what she called its den once
at the day. For the next few days, she claimed that the Bigfoot
had kept her captive, bringing her gifts of berries, flowers, stones,
pebbles, and dead birds in what she had taken to be a gesture of
affection. She says that she was only able to escape one day when the
Sasquatch had fallen asleep, after which she snuck out and found her way to
that lodge. When the incredibly outlandis story made the rounds, she was soon
being called the bride of Bigfoot. But authorities not only did not take any
of this seriously at all, deeming it to be a prank, but it
also even led to a court case in which Humboldt County tried to sue Shasta
County to make them pay part of the eleven thousand, six hundred and thirteen
dollar cost of the search operation. One report in the February eighth, nineteen
seventy eight edition of the Record Searchlight newspaper would say of the fascical case,
Adel Nort County Superior Court judge, who obviously doesn't believe Bigfoot exists as ruled
that Humboldt County must pay the eleven thousand, six hundred and thirteen dollar cost
of a nineteen seventy six search for an alleged Bigfoot kidnap victim by the name
of Sherry Darvelle. Judge Frank Peterson commented in making the ruling that the search
for Bigfoot is at least an exercise in futility, and said he'd hiked the
hills and mountains of northern California for almost fifty years, and the biggest footprint
I ever saw was my brother Bob's. Humboldt County Council Raymond Schneider argued before
Peterson that state law required Shasta County to reimburse Humboldt County because the case involved
search and rescue for a Shasta County resident. Shasta County Council Robert Rieburg counted
that miss Darvale's disappearance was at best a real kidnapping, and even the Humboldt
County officers reports indicated they were skeptical about the abduction reports. Judge Peterson ruled
that a county is entitled to reimbursement by another county only for the search and
rescue operations for lost persons or persons in danger of their lives, and not
for investigations of crimes. The judge ruled that the term in danger of their
lives applies to natural causes such as floods, heavy snows, or other calamities
not caused by other human beings. Reeburg said he was pleased with the judge's
decision, but he said he sympathizes with the dilemmas faced by Humboldt County officials,
ranging from whether to begin the search for miss Darvell to try to determine
who should pay the costs of the search. Reerburg said that if Humboldt County
authorities had been willing to stipulate that Bigfoot is a Shasta County resident, negotiations
over the costs might have been possible. Making it all even more bizarre was
that Darvell's fellow filmmakers Bush and Gaston would later claim that they had actually captured
footage of the Bigfoot carrying her away up the mountain, although they refused to
release it. In the end, Darvell would sell her story to the Weekly
World News, that last bastion of quality journalism sarcasm heavily implied, of course,
for two hundred and fifty dollars, and it would all sort of eventually
fade away, the common view being that it was all a publicity stunt.
However, Darvell would continue to insist that she was telling the truth. The
whole thing is on. I certainly are hoax, yet it is so bizarre
and so adamantly defended by the one involved, its managed to achieve a certain
cult status within the history of bigfoot phenomena, and whether any of it is
true or not, it remains a singularly wild tale. Indeed, the extinction
of the giant ape a long standing mystery solved. Giants once roamed the cast
plains of southern China, three meter tall apes weighing in at two hundred fifty
kilograms. These very distant primate relatives, Gigantopithcus Blackie, went extinct before humans
arrived in the region, with few clues to why and so far, leaving
around two thousand fossilized teeth and four jawbones as the only signs of their existence.
New evidence from this region published in Nature uncovered by a team of Chinese,
Australian, and US researches, demonstrates beyond doubt that the largest primate to
walk the Earth when extinct between two hundred ninety five thousand and two hundred fifteen
thousand years ago, unable to adapt its food preferences and behaviors, and vulnerable
to the changing climates which sealed its fate. The story of G. Blackie
is an enigma in paleontology. How could such a mighty creature go extinct at
a time when other primates were adapting and surviving. The unresolved cause of its
disappearance has become the holy grail in this discipline, says paleontologist and co lead
author Professor Yinkijang from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleanthropology at the Chinese Academy
of Sciences. The IVPP has been excavating for G. Blackie evidence in this
region for over ten years, but without solid dating and a consistent environmental analysis,
the cause of its extinction had eluded us. Definitive evidence revealing the story
of the Giant apes extinction has come from a large scale project collecting evidence from
twenty two cave sites spread across a wide region of Guangxi Province in southern China.
The foundation of this study was the dating. It's a major feat to
present a defined cause for the extinction of a species, but establishing the exact
time when a species disappears from the fossil record gives us a target time frame
for an environmental reconstruction and behavior assessment, says co lead author Markwarie University geocrinologist
Associate Professor Kira Westerway. Without robust dating, you were simply looking for clues
in the wrong places. Six Australian universities contributed to the project. Marquarie University,
Southern Cross University, Wollongong University and the University of Queensland used multiple techniques
to date samples. Southern Cross also mapped G. Blackie teeth to extract information
on the apes behaviours. Aan U and Flinders University studied the pollen and fossil
bearing sediments in the cave, respectively, to reconstruct the environments in which G.
Blackie thrived and then disappeared. Six different dating techniques were applied to the
cave sediments and fossils, producing one hundred and fifty seven radiometric ages. These
were combined with eight sources of environmental and behavioral evidence and applied to eleven caves
containing evidence of G. Blackie, and also to eleven caves of a similar
age range where no G. Blackie evidence was found. Luminescence dating, which
measures a light sensitive signal found in the burial sediments that encase the G.
Blackie fossils, was the primary technique, supported by uranium series US and electron
spin resonans uses dating of the G. Blackie teeth themselves. By direct dating
the fossil remains, we confirmed their age alignes with the luminescence sequence in the
sediments where they were found, giving us a comprehensive and reliable chronology for the
extinction of G. Blackie, says Southern Cross University geochronologist Associate Professor Renaud Joann's
Boyer. Using detailed pollen analysis, fauna reconstructions, stable isotope analysis of the
teeth, and a detailed analysis of the cave sediments at a micro level,
the team established the environmental conditions leading up to when G. Blackie went extinct.
Then, using te trace element and dental microware textual analysis, of the
ape's teeth. The team modeled G. Blackie's behavior while it was flourishing compared
to during the species' demise. Teeth provide a staggering insight into the behavior of
the species, indicating stress, diversity of food sources, and repeated behaviors,
says Associate Professor Juann's Boyour. The findings show G. Blackie went extinct between
two hundred ninety five thousand and two hundred fifteen thousand years ago, much earlier
than previously assumed. Before this time, G. Blackie flourished in a rich
and diverse forest. By seven hundred thousand, six hundred thousand years ago,
the environment became more variable due to the increase in the strength of the seasons,
causing a change in the structure of the forest. Communities. Orangutans Genus
Pongo, a close relative of G. Blackie, adapted their size, behavior,
and habitat preferences as conditions changed. In comparison, G. Blackie relied
on a less nutritious backup food source when and its preferences were unavailable, decreasing
the diversity of its food. The ape became less mobile at a reduced geographic
range for foraging and faced chronic stress and dwindling numbers. G Blackie was the
ultimate specialist compared to the more agile adapters like orangutans, and this ultimately led
to its demise, says Professor Jang. Associate Professor Westway says, with the
thread of a sixth mass extinction event looming over us, there is an urgent
need to understand why species go extinct. Exploring the reasons for past unresolved extinctions
gives us a good starting point to understand primate resilience and the fate of other
large animals in the past and future. Bigfoot the implications of discovery. Someone
asked me just recently, what will happen if one day we find conclusive evidence
that Bigfoot really does exist? While the first and quite natural assumption that springs
to my mind is that those of us who spend so much of our time
looking for such monstrous things will finally get vindication that we weren't wasting our precious
time after all. But there are bigger issues at stake than that. Actually,
they are much bigger and far more serious than the average cryptozoologist getting congratulated
on a job well done. Many eye witnesses claim Bigfoot, when seen up
close and personal, appears to have definitively human characteristics, and particularly so in
its facial appearance. On this very same track, what if Bigfoot is not
an unknown ape but actually some sort of proto human, an early offshoot of
the human race that, against all the odds and countless millennia, has survived
extinction and avoided capture. If such is the case, does that mean they
should be given rights and recognize status as citizens of the United States. That
may sound laughable, crazy, and extreme to some of you reading this,
but given the theoretical possibilities cited above, can we actually rule out such a
remote possibility ever becoming a reality? And what if some over eager hunter decided
one to shoot one of these creatures. Having the head of a deer on
your living room wall is one thing, but it's quite another to have the
head of a primitive man mounted right next to it in such a situation.
I don't rule out the possibility that if someone did shoot and kill a Bigfoot,
and it was shown to be genetically linked to us in some capacity,
then murder charges might be looming just around the corner for our unfortunate hunter.
Then there's the matter of where the creatures live. If Bigfoot one day is
proved to exist and is given some degree of legal protection and status as a
result, what are the locations that it inhabits? Might they too become protected?
Could they even become out of bounds to just about each and every one
of us. Such a situation might mean no more picnics, no more strolls
in the woods, no more camping, and no more hunting, just in
case someone mistakenly shot and killed a bigfoot while out hunting for something else.
We could even go down a distinctly conspiratorial path and suggest that some of the
stories about certain elements of the U. S. Government knowing that Bigfoot is
real but hiding the facts from the public are absolutely and incredibly true. After
all, such secrecy and silence doesn't necessarily mean that the government has discovered some
dark and deep secret about Bigfoot. Rather, the closed mouth approach might very
well stem from a fear of the hypothetical situations are described above actually developing in
the real world. I sincerely hope that one day we will finally and unequivocally
know the truth behind the Bigfoot phenomenon, and we will have an answer with
regard to what these creatures are or are not. But I strongly suspect that
if that day does arrive, the controversy won't be over. In fact,
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