Announcement: Bigfoot Ballyhoo has been under attack, in the past, by a couple of people who wished Ballyhoo and its editors to look as if they were hoaxing information.

One of the biggest examples would be the claim that we made up the ESP Team, Bill Emery, Cole Saxton and the late Hank Parchell. A well-known bigfoot researcher found photos that looked like Emery, Saxton and Parchell. He claimed the three to be the real men and not any part of the ESP Team. (In fact, he claimed there was no ESP Team).

And then while the Emery Team was processing trail cam photos a couple were sent to Ballyhoo. These photos turned out to be well-known bigfoot photos, one from a movie and one of Patty. The technician’s son that was processing the trail cam photos replaced the real photos with fakes. In good faith Emery sent the dallied-with photos to Ballyhoo. When it was found out what happened it was explained.

Another photo of a footprint with a believable history was given Ballyhoo to post. Turned out to be Tim Fasano’s photo from Florida. Again, we’ve given explanations for each occurrence. We were hoaxed.

We in time recognized each hoax and explained what happened



Thursday, July 29, 2010

"...whatever shook my trailer ..."

Ldillon46 has left a new comment on your post "Sru Lake":


This is in response to the third anonymous comment. I have been there place and it was not just a scream. My camp trailer was shaken violently in the middle of the night last hunting season and that was followed by the weirdest scream/howl sound I have ever heard. The first thing that crossed my mind was to get hold of my 12 gauge shotgun. The last thing on my mind was to sue the USFS. In fact, that never entered my mind until I read this Childress article.

Whatever is out there had the perfect opportunity to cause me harm that night. It did not, it just scared the hell out of me. In my case there were no other campers within a mile in any direction. I got the hint from whatever shook my trailer and I will never camp in that spot again. I will however camp and hunt in that same general area. Don't blame the USFS. They don't have any more control over these things than you or I.
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Bigfoot Sighting July 28, 2010


Barklow Mountain, Siskiyou National Forest Road #3353. Time: 2:30 pm on July 28th 2010 a large dark brown Bigfoot was seen walking in a clearing by *****. The sighting occurred when a van stopped in a turnout to remove some shale rock from the road. It was walking in a westerly direction in a clear-cut from several years ago. It then walked behind a large Port Orford Cedar stopped and gazed at the group in the van. It then disappeared into the timber.No further info at this time.

"...prove this hair ...other than bigfoot,..."


Regarding following statement: "Not one Bigfoot person has ever gathered any thing other than contaminated hair samples."

[This statement] prompted me to reply. Many false statements are made concerning collected evidence, and is indeed damaging to our cause. But just as damaging are blanket statements such as that.

Many dna tests have been classified as contaminated because of their close similarity to Human. But when proper cleaning methods are used by testers, there is no contamination. Dna has been extracted from extinct animal hair which has been handled many times by Humans.

The physical characteristics of hair, however, can not be contaminated, and can not be explained away by skeptics. I would like to send one such example. This is one of many hairs that I have found which do not match any known animal sample that I have. The interesting point of this one is that a body hair and a fur strand were caught on the same hair trap together, and Modern Humans do not have fur.

If anyone can prove this hair is anything other than bigfoot, I would welcome that information. The top two images are the unknown hair and fur or underhair, and the others are available animals which are large enough to reach the hair trap.

The biggest problem that individual collectors have is the high cost of dna testing. I believe if the cost became low, then the hundreds of hair samples now in the hands of researchers would reveal some good results. It is very difficult to even find a lab to do the test.
L. Surface

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 Linda Grayson, Biologist has left a new comment on your post ""...prove this hair ...other than bigfoot,..."":


If its presumed Sasquatch hair it ain't proof of nothing. You have to have a known control sample to identify hair follicles. The lab that did this analysis was not on their feet at all. As I understand it no discernible DNA or material was gotten from this sample.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post ""...prove this hair ...other than bigfoot,..."":


If you want to bad enough you can make anything unknown. This unknown sample was found to be a hair from a orangutan collected at a zoo. I was one of many that the sender tried to hoodwink the lab. Further testing proved the hair sample was collected In a controlled zoo not in the wild of BC.