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Do You Believe? - The search for Bigfoot is on
94.1 KSLG radio personality John Matthews was not an unhappy camper, but he was slightly disgruntled after spending two days searching for the elusive Bigfoot.
Matthews was invited to team up with Bigfoot searcher and former Las Vegas show producer Tom Biscardi. The search is currently taking place in Happy Camp, Calif., a small town in the Klamath National Forest, and is being aired live online.
In an on-air segment of “Coast-to-Coast AM” in July, Biscardi claimed a Bigfoot “capture” was imminent, touting his live webcast of the Finding Bigfoot World-Wide Web Excursion. The excursion consists of a 16-member team of researchers from the Great American Bigfoot Research Organization and three cameras set up on the migratory path of the Bigfoot creatures, covered live and distributed internationally via a broadband Internet stream.
“It’s a hoax,” said Matthews, who declined to comment further. In the two days of the 90-day excursion Matthews attended, no sightings occurred, but the Bigfoot business was, according to Biscardi, thriving, with over 40,000 FindingBigFoot.com subscribers from all over the world. Viewers can watch the live webcast by paying $14.95 per week, or $59.95 for all 90 days, vicariously joining in the expedition from the comfort of their homes. According to a recent press release, these subscriptions will help Biscardi pay the $400,000 cost of the Bigfoot search, which includes capturing and identifying the creature, releasing it back into the wild, and lobbying for legislation to have it protected. Various methods including net grenade launchers and tranquilizers are being considered.
Bob Schmalzbach, owner of JavaBob’s Bigfoot Deli in Happy Camp had a special high-speed Internet access cable installed so customers can watch the webcast locally (for a price), but he hasn’t noticed an increase in viewers so far.
I believe there’s something going on up there and I try to stay pretty open-minded about it, but the only thing I really believe in is God,” Schmalzbach said. He said he doesn’t see any reason not to believe because many credible and intelligent people who have visited the area have had sightings of the creature. “If he [Biscardi] captures a live creature, he’s gonna make history.”
Biscardi’s Web site, FindingBigFoot.com, posts that the Finding Bigfoot World-Wide Web Excursion is an extension of his continuing Bigfoot research, attempting to combine “reality web- cast” with scientific findings. It says that he has been researching since 1967, when he first saw the grainy 8mm film footage taken by Roger Patterson of the Bluff Creek incident. Biscardi wondered, “How the hell can we send a man to the moon, but we can’t find this creature?” quoted from FindingBigFoot.com.
FindingBigFoot.com says that Biscardi joined up with nature photographers and trackers Ivan and Peggy Marx, who have filmed or photographed Bigfoot five times, three of which have been witnessed by Biscardi himself. He has been staging expeditions since 1971, when he launched his “Amazing Horizons Corporation” and was the self-described “founder and expedition leader of the principal company responsible for the existence and documentation on the legendary creature called ‘Bigfoot’,” according to FindingBigFoot.com.
Biscardi’s site includes photos stated as “scanned from original prints” and video footage of the elusive Bigfoot creature, including a close-up of “Bigfoot shaking off water” and an “enhanced photo of the Bigfoot aggressively running at photographer Ivan Marx.” He also offers free updates on the search expedition, including an online apology for information that originally revealed a captured, injured Bigfoot in Stagecoach, Nev., which has since proven to be false.
Lindsay Magnuson, HSU anthropology lecturer, said the Bigfoot creature could be the missing link, or an ancestral primate from which other species, including humans, may have evolved. She said it might be similar to the Bili Ape, a primate recently discovered in the Congo that is larger than a chimpanzee and closer in size to an adult human.
“An animal as large (as Bigfoot) would need huge amounts of space to maintain its population and would probably seek out as remote an area as possible for its territory,” said Magnuson, who added that she saw a large black ape that has never been described by Western science while she was doing research on ancestral primates in Ghana.
Happy Camp hosts an annual Bigfoot Jamboree, a local carnival and arts festival that takes place over the Labor Day Weekend. Judy Bushy, a member of the Happy Camp Chamber of Commerce, said she expects to see more visitors in the area this year, partly due to Biscardi’s expedition. She said that Biscardi has set up a portable Bigfoot museum that will stand while he stages his expeditions.
A huge sculpture of the Bigfoot creature made out of found objects has been erected at the entrance to Happy Camp on Highway 96, and a coronation of the Bigfoot Queen will take place over the weekend, said Bushy, who believes Biscardi has a chance at finding the Bigfoot creature. “I expect so [that Biscardi might have success] …I mean, this is Bigfoot country.”
Updated Thursday, September 08, 2005 Written by Elise Castle - Staff Writer 427 reads
94.1 KSLG radio personality John Matthews was not an unhappy camper, but he was slightly disgruntled after spending two days searching for the elusive Bigfoot.
Matthews was invited to team up with Bigfoot searcher and former Las Vegas show producer Tom Biscardi. The search is currently taking place in Happy Camp, Calif., a small town in the Klamath National Forest, and is being aired live online.
In an on-air segment of “Coast-to-Coast AM” in July, Biscardi claimed a Bigfoot “capture” was imminent, touting his live webcast of the Finding Bigfoot World-Wide Web Excursion. The excursion consists of a 16-member team of researchers from the Great American Bigfoot Research Organization and three cameras set up on the migratory path of the Bigfoot creatures, covered live and distributed internationally via a broadband Internet stream.
“It’s a hoax,” said Matthews, who declined to comment further. In the two days of the 90-day excursion Matthews attended, no sightings occurred, but the Bigfoot business was, according to Biscardi, thriving, with over 40,000 FindingBigFoot.com subscribers from all over the world. Viewers can watch the live webcast by paying $14.95 per week, or $59.95 for all 90 days, vicariously joining in the expedition from the comfort of their homes. According to a recent press release, these subscriptions will help Biscardi pay the $400,000 cost of the Bigfoot search, which includes capturing and identifying the creature, releasing it back into the wild, and lobbying for legislation to have it protected. Various methods including net grenade launchers and tranquilizers are being considered.
Bob Schmalzbach, owner of JavaBob’s Bigfoot Deli in Happy Camp had a special high-speed Internet access cable installed so customers can watch the webcast locally (for a price), but he hasn’t noticed an increase in viewers so far.
I believe there’s something going on up there and I try to stay pretty open-minded about it, but the only thing I really believe in is God,” Schmalzbach said. He said he doesn’t see any reason not to believe because many credible and intelligent people who have visited the area have had sightings of the creature. “If he [Biscardi] captures a live creature, he’s gonna make history.”
Biscardi’s Web site, FindingBigFoot.com, posts that the Finding Bigfoot World-Wide Web Excursion is an extension of his continuing Bigfoot research, attempting to combine “reality web- cast” with scientific findings. It says that he has been researching since 1967, when he first saw the grainy 8mm film footage taken by Roger Patterson of the Bluff Creek incident. Biscardi wondered, “How the hell can we send a man to the moon, but we can’t find this creature?” quoted from FindingBigFoot.com.
FindingBigFoot.com says that Biscardi joined up with nature photographers and trackers Ivan and Peggy Marx, who have filmed or photographed Bigfoot five times, three of which have been witnessed by Biscardi himself. He has been staging expeditions since 1971, when he launched his “Amazing Horizons Corporation” and was the self-described “founder and expedition leader of the principal company responsible for the existence and documentation on the legendary creature called ‘Bigfoot’,” according to FindingBigFoot.com.
Biscardi’s site includes photos stated as “scanned from original prints” and video footage of the elusive Bigfoot creature, including a close-up of “Bigfoot shaking off water” and an “enhanced photo of the Bigfoot aggressively running at photographer Ivan Marx.” He also offers free updates on the search expedition, including an online apology for information that originally revealed a captured, injured Bigfoot in Stagecoach, Nev., which has since proven to be false.
Lindsay Magnuson, HSU anthropology lecturer, said the Bigfoot creature could be the missing link, or an ancestral primate from which other species, including humans, may have evolved. She said it might be similar to the Bili Ape, a primate recently discovered in the Congo that is larger than a chimpanzee and closer in size to an adult human.
“An animal as large (as Bigfoot) would need huge amounts of space to maintain its population and would probably seek out as remote an area as possible for its territory,” said Magnuson, who added that she saw a large black ape that has never been described by Western science while she was doing research on ancestral primates in Ghana.
Happy Camp hosts an annual Bigfoot Jamboree, a local carnival and arts festival that takes place over the Labor Day Weekend. Judy Bushy, a member of the Happy Camp Chamber of Commerce, said she expects to see more visitors in the area this year, partly due to Biscardi’s expedition. She said that Biscardi has set up a portable Bigfoot museum that will stand while he stages his expeditions.
A huge sculpture of the Bigfoot creature made out of found objects has been erected at the entrance to Happy Camp on Highway 96, and a coronation of the Bigfoot Queen will take place over the weekend, said Bushy, who believes Biscardi has a chance at finding the Bigfoot creature. “I expect so [that Biscardi might have success] …I mean, this is Bigfoot country.”
Updated Thursday, September 08, 2005 Written by Elise Castle - Staff Writer 427 reads