I found this Alcoa Presents plot a little interesting...they mention a strong smell.

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OK, now I'm not saying this is a Sasquatch related story, but it got me to wondering...how many odd "human attacked" stories are out there without any solutions? Again, I know, most likely a "human only" incident but...

Getting your skull crushed in your own barn? An easy blow with an axe or something yes, but you'd think the investigators could find something if that were the case.

Any way you look at it, you've got to cringe at their "reasoning" on this one...encouraged crime

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Imaginations get excited! ?

move along, there's nothing to see here...

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Any of you guys in Oregon have access to the sculptor who did the work on page 14 of this thread? He pops right up in Google and has a museum.

Great thread!

Man, I just keep finding more and more and more...I'm never gonna get the compilation done!

I've got another 40 or so to go through now...I'll try to get to some this weekend.

I found a lot of stuff on Tom Slick, but just general info about his searches. He even wrote a book on Peace!

Here's a VERY detailed description from some California hunters in 1891 that I found today!

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Fascinating as usual. Keep them coming, I am reading them all!

Here's a couple of the more interesting recent finds....wolfman kills a hyena in India!

I don't think dogs stand a chance against Sasquatch!

I guess this first one could be a gorilla, but I doubt it...he freely mentions monkeys, but explains in detail how this looked like a man...including the head. If it were a gorilla, I'd think he'd compare it to a monkey's appearance.

How does the hoax camp explain these "pre-hype" accounts?

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OK, I just realized in that last post he actually mentions that this wild man would "be a greater curiosity than a gorilla." So it seems pretty certain that he is NOT talking about a gorilla.

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Here's a good one from Florida - 1900.

Riding a stick like a child would!...sounds like it was a child!

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Fascinating story!

Another one from that midwest hotspot Ohio...

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While searching for some "Minnesota Ice Man" information I came across this...Hansen evidently toured with it billed as the "Siberskoye Creature" early on.

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Sumatra 1924 report of "missing link."

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1937...Another "gone crazy" wild person...err, um...

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Early-ish report of the Yeti...1953.

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OK, yet another body claim...

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First I've ever heard of this guy...Norman G. Dhyrenfurth?

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I found this in a book entitled "L.A. Exposed" by Paul Young. A 1939 California account.

...and I'm STILL wading through more....

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Tirademan,
I am reading these articles with great interest. Thanks for taking the time to bring them forward.

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Good Afternoon Tirademan,

I have been reading all of your newspaper clippings and thought I would try doing some OCR on them to extract the text so it can be searchable. I have had a modicum of success in doing that, about 70% of the conversion picks up the article. (Here is an example of what I have been able to generate, I also cleaned up the 30% or so of bad characters manually when done.)

Here is the garbled output...then the next section contains the 'cleaned up' version.

Garbled Version (After OCR)
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TWIN CITY NEWS,

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THE HAMMON]) TIMES"

Monday, August 16~ 1937.

SOUNDS LIKE A BEAR YARN

BOONVILLE, Ind., Aug. 16. (INS) & - They're looking for a.
ha.iry ap~ near here todB.y after a monster has terrorized this cOInmunity.

Persons livIng' near C~'pres5 beach, n. fc\v miles sQuth o.f nel'e, hp..ve told tales of encountering a giant beast \vhich BpeciaHzes in blood..curdling screams in the nl!d...
dle of the night and leaves footptints larger than a hunlan's.
Ralph Duff, a fishetman, first repor.ted the animal about a J'enr ago after his poHce dog \\raS torn to shreds in an encounter with the 1)ea st.

This \'reek-end J\rrr~. Duff said she heard a. terrifying howl late in the night and st\\V a t.o,\\'er n10nstcr larger- than a bea.r. '\rtlen she screamed, the beast ran a \~ray. Duff believes that the anima] is a. huge ape, \\lhich livcs in one of the caves along the river, and has set a. n urn ber of bear tra PSI
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Cleaned Up Version
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TWIN CITY NEWS

<newspaper>THE HAMMOND TIMES</newspaper>

<date>Monday, August 16, 1937</date>

<title>SOUNDS LIKE A BEAR YARN</title>
<city>BOONVILLE</city>
<state>Ind</state>

<body>
BOONVILLE, Ind., Aug. 16. (INS). - They're Jooking for a hairy ape near here today after a monster has terrorized this community.

Persons living near Cypress beach a few miles south of here, have told tales of encountering a giant beast which specializes in blood-curdling screams in the middle of the night and leaves footprints larger than a human's.

Ralph Duff. a fisherman, first reported the animal about a year ago after his police dog was torn to shreds in an encounter with the beast.

This week-end Mrs. Duff said she heard a terrifying howl late in the night and saw a tower monster larger than a bear. When she screamed the beast ran away.

Duff believes that the animal is a huge ape, Which lives in one of the caves along the river, and has set a numher of bear traps.
</body>
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I am emailing you for a couple of reasons...

First I wanted to get your permission before making my own online image gallery of the images that you posted public. I am keen on not taking credit for work that I did not do, I will reference your original postings as the source at all times.

Second I would like to attempt to get an effort going in the bf forums to help convert these images to text files, like the article above.
What I will do is run the OCR application on the images and get most of the article completed in text. I can then post the results to the web and allow anyone who wants too, to access the garbled article and clean it up by looking at the original image.

Let me know what you think.
Regards, SCJ

SCJ...I have no problem at all with you posting/scanning the articles. I think it would be cool to be able to search through them as well....AND there may be an easier way!

The newspaper website I subscribed to has full newspaper pages posted as PDFs...and they're already searchable! That's how I found them, by doing a full-text search.

So, I didn't even realize it at first, but the text can be extracted DIRECTLY from the PDF files...DUH! I can open the PDF files and then select and copy the text...so somehow they included their OCR into the PDF file! It's a little like OCR though...not perfect. It's a little odd with columns, photos, captions, etc.

Right now though, I'm STILL finding/compiling the hardcopy "book." (I like the "look" of the original stories as well, so creating the .gif images hasn't been a total waste!)

And the PDFs are kind of in chaos on my computer...I've downloaded many, many PDFs that I won't include in the book and are just clutter. I would need to sort and organize all the relavant PDF files and send them to you on a CD.

Hopefully, I can tackle this once I'm done with the hard copy book?

Let me know what you think. I'm sure it's probably much easier than the OCR route...

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Dang double post...

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:doh: Well I'll be, that is good news, glad to know that I dont have work with the OCR stuff was pretty tedious work. I will be in touch....

OK, there is probably a "law" against this...but I just posted these 2 to the Tom Slick thread, and thought they should probably be in this one!

1958 Russian Expedition...

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1959 Japanese expedition....

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Here's the "Loyalhanna" stone foot imprint story I mentioned in the Bigfoot Kills? thread...

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OK, got through some more...I wonder what the consequence was?

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1948...Giant 3-Toed footprints in the sand in Florida!

And the typical explanation of the day...

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1936...Reports of huge footprints in the Indian jungle...but they are not to be believed it seems...

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1939...Patagonia = "Land of the Big Feet?

...they were amazed at the size of the footprints...

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1952...the National Geographic does not vouch for it. Damn.

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1958...Yetis are Saints? Methinks Father Franz is mistaken...

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Made it through some more...1960...Gigantopithicus mentioned

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1960...Dr. Tschernezky?

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1960...Footprints "real," then maybe a small animal's? hmmm...

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1888...Newark, Ohio ancient giant footprint in front of store?



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OK, I would have thought I would have come across this before, but when I did a cross-check for a Ray Kerr story Loren Coleman had posted, I found this other 1958 story with some choice Wallace quotes. (although I'd guess these quotes are "in the know" already)

Seems I need to do some more searching!

I posted this in text form to Loren's Yahoo Bigfoot eGroup (SnoChoJoe I'm starting to wade through/organize the raw PDFs...if you check the eGroup you'll see how the OCR text "copys" in columns)

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OK, some more...

Anyone seen this "Scarlet Claw" movie from 1944?

Pretty early for a "Canadian" creature...

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Seems this day was full of monster movies...I've heard of this one.

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And a couple more from that big Michigan flap from the early 60's...I wonder if Ray or Bob were around?

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She knows what she saw.

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OK, this one from 1910 is beat up, hard to read, and it's FICTION.

Basically, this chapter details how these travelers thought they were possibly being followed by a "wildman" because of strange tracks...they even theorize that it's a "giant ape." Sort of an interesting discussion regarding what might have caused the tracks...even if it's fiction!

I'm posting it because I think it shows some of the "common knowledge" that was available regarding "wildmen," in that, this writer is using the Wildman motif in his fiction from 1903.

I also had to laugh when I read one of the men exclaim "He was positive bears could walk upright for miles and panthers cross lakes on logs..."

Almost sounds like some current debates!

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OK, sorry this one is so big...but you have to be able to read it!

For people interested in Mexico stories...THE GULCH OF THE DEAD!

Green eyes at night, half-human cries, scared mules, human skulls and more!

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Half-human cries in the swamp at night, hunters catch a glimpse in the deep brush, with some mutilated dogs thrown in...sounds like the usual to me!

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Found this while searching on "Yahoo" as some people were asking about old tales...didn't expect to find this though!



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You know I have to rate this on my top 3 threads from all the BFF.
Keep on posting Tirademan!!!

I was visiting my folks who are snow-birding it in Arizona and came across this is the local newspaper last week. Anyone live near this? I wonder what the phone number was/and or what calls they received? Another hmmmm...

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OK, some more stuff I found on the yeti...

ALSO, the damn Newspaper Archives website has changed their database code somehow, and I'm no longer able to to download files off of their website behind our work firewall here as of last week!

If I wasn't so cynical, I'd begin to suspect a conspiracy...

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Sir Edmund not a believer...but hopes to capture one anyway...

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Looks like most of these 1960 stories came from this one...

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