>>10 minutes with Vincent Chow: Drive by close encounter with creature
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Saturday/National/20060304075713/Article/index_html

>> Bigfoot's 20,000-year-old walkabout
We had only bones and simple tools to show that man lived in the Ice Age — until the discovery of a remarkable set of fossilised footprints.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2143536,00.html

>>Most Notorious -- A legend or just elusive? Sasquatch keeps the world guessing
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/04/30/area_news/news05.txt

>>Desperately Seeking Sasquatch
The Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit at the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures continues Sunday.
http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid

>>Bigfoot Rendezvous KPVI TV
Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch researcher: "I'm not an advocate that there is such an animal, I'm saying that the evidence as such that is certainly justifies it as a legitimate question - 'Is there a biological species that is yet to be identified?'"
http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=33020

>> Every month, it seems there's some new drama in the Bigfoot community. The latest topic on everyone's mind and message board is the "Penn and Teller Hoax".

Several research organizations, including myself, received an email from a "Mark Nelson", claiming he's captured video of a Sasquatch.

November 17, 2005
Hi,

I think I saw something real exciting last weekend,
and I got some video of it, but I'm new to this whole
Bigfoot thing. Could you give me your expert opinion
on what I've got? Here's the link:

http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/marknelson/

Thanks,
Mark

Here was my reply:

November 29, 2005
Dear Mark,

I'm sorry for not replying sooner. My Mom has been ill. She almost died from
a bout of appendicitis and she's only now getting better. As a result, I've
gotten VERY far behind in replying to emails.

I took a look at the video... and I'm not sure what to say about it. It
seems a bit odd to me that the creature leaves the screen and then runs back
into it? Unfortunately, nothing short of the Patterson film will convince
skeptics. :)

Best,
Autumn

After viewing the video, as you can see, I didn't get terribly excited about it. I responded as I normally do: I was polite and cautious because I never want to outright offend a witness, but the video appeared to be a hoax.

Needless to say, I never received an email response from "Mark Nelson".

The video came to be known as "The Sonoma Video".

Apparently, it came to light that the video was a hoax perpetrated against researchers by comedians Penn and Teller in order to "expose" the gullibility of the research community on their Showtime program.

While myself and several other researchers didn't fall for it, unfortunately, one prominent organization apparently did.

You can read more about it here:
http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=13453

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=14858

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/51251

A joint collaborative effort by the University
of Texas San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures
(http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/public/index.htm) and the Texas Bigfoot
Research Center.

April 7-July 30

Do you believe? There are many documented sightings of Bigfoot right here in
Texas! You are invited to join us as we explore many theories on the existence
of Bigfoot. This exhibit will feature unidentifiable hair as well as foot and body
casts of a being that many believe can only be Bigfoot. Guest speakers will also
lend their expertise to both sides of the debate.

At the end of your visit, we'll ask you to vote: do you believe Bigfoot really exists?

April 8, 2006, (Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

* Daryl G. Colyer, field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, former
Airborne Cryptologic Russian Linguist for USAF Intelligence.
Daryl G. Colyer will examine the history of Bigfoot research in Texas. Colyer is
a field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. He has investigated
hundreds of reports and continues to lead field research efforts in Texas and other
states. It is Colyer's assessment, based on hundreds of interviews, that Sasquatches
are indeed real and do inhabit parts of Texas.

* Kathy Moskowitz-Strain, forest archaelogist and Heritage Program manager at
Stanislaus National Forest in Sonora, CA, and presenter of paper titled: Mayak datat:
An Archaelogical Viewpoint of the Hairy Man Pictograph.
She has worked extensively at Painted Rock on the Tule River Indian Reservation,
where the only known Bigfoot pictograph in California was discovered. Her primary
research involves the traditional Native American stories of "Hairy Man," as well as
the application of archaeological methods to the study of Bigfoot. Moskowitz has
been researching a project for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center for the last six
months, compiling the legends, folklore, and traditions of the Native American tribes
of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Her presentation will be based on
that research project.

* Peter Byrne, executive director of the International Wildlife Conservation Society
and author of The Search for Bigfoot : Monster, Myth or Man? (Acropolis Books,
1975, 1st ed.). Peter led the Tom Slick Expeditions to the Himalayas in search
of the Yeti. He ran the Bigfoot Research Project in the 1990's.

* Catherine Cooke, former president and CEO of The Mountain Istitute, former
executive director of The Mind Science Foundation, one of Tom Slick's foundations,
for a decade. She is Tom Slick's niece and author of Tom Slick Mystery Hunter
(Paraview Books, 2005).
Book signing by local writer Catherine Nixon Cooke. Cooke, the niece of Tom
Slick, will be signing copies of her recently released book, Tom Slick, Mystery
Hunter. Slick, a local visionary, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, funded expeditions
to the Himalayas in search of the Yeti and to the Pacific Northwest in search of
Bigfoot in the late 1950s and early 1960s before his untimely death in a plane
crash in 1962.

May 6, 2006 (Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

* Jeff Meldrum, associate professor of anatomy and adjunct associate professor
of anthropology at Idaho State University, researcher of Sasquatch in the north
Cascades and southern Colorado.

* Jimmy Chilcutt , forensic consultant, retired Conroe police officer with nearly
two decades of fingerprint and crime scene investigation experience, and developer
of unique latent fingerprint procedures requested by federal, state and county agencies.

* Rick Noll, long-time research of Bigfoot, principal member of the expedition group
that found and collected the Skookum Body Cast in 2000, involvement in about a
dozen documentaries on the subject, including Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
and Giganto: The Real King Kong.

June 3, 2006 (Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

* Loren Coleman, World-reknowned cryptozoologist and adjunct associate professor
of "The Documentary: Its Social, Political and Emotional Impact" at the University of
Southern Maine. Author of Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology (Linden
Publishing, 2002), Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (Paraview Pocket
Books, 2003) and The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates
(Anomalist Books, 2006),

* Benjamin Radford, managing editor of The Skeptical Inquirer and Spanish-language
Pensar, author of dozens of articles on urban legends, mass hysteria, mysterious
creatures and media criticism, and director of publications at the Center for
Inquiry-International in Buffalo, NY.

July 8, 2006 (Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

* Daryl Colyer, field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, former
Airborne Cryptologic Russian Linguist for USAF Intelligence.
Daryl G. Colyer will examine the history of Bigfoot research in Texas. Colyer
is a field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. He has investigated
hundreds of reports and continues to lead field research efforts in Texas and
other states. It is Colyer's assessment, based on hundreds of interviews, that
Sasquatches are indeed real and do inhabit parts of Texas.

* Alton Higgins, field biologist for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, wildlife
biologist and associates art advisor and assistant professor at Mid-America
Christian University, presenter of several papers on Bigfoot-related topics.

* John Kirk, RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), founder of the British
Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, editor and publisher of the organization's
quarterly journal, and founder of Cryptosafari (a field research organization involved
in the exploration and search of unknown animals of West Central Africa)

Craig Woolheater
Texas Bigfoot Research Center
www.texasbigfoot.com

Dear Autumn-

Hi Joseph here from Grover Beach, CA. I'm just beginning to get your montly newsletter and I'm thrilled and enjoying them. I think that your doing a great service to the Bigfoot community. I am a Bigfoot researcher here in CA. I just began starting my own Bigfoot Research Project here. I've been to many sightings locations in the state in parts of Oregon. I loved watching "Mysterious Encounters" and I wish they were still on. Autumn, you're one of my inspirations and I want to let you know that.

My own personal sighting of a Bigfoot took place in 2002 in the Lake Tahoe area of CA. Me alone in my aunt's cabin for three days kept hearing screams in the night - they would go on for 3 days. I even kept a tape recording of them. One night on the last night it was 2:25 a.m. and I was on the porch it was pretty cold but no snow. I wasn't armed - only with a flashlight and a camera. The front of my drive way I knew something was lurking around near the trashcans. So I put the light on the cans and I saw this big human-shaped hairy form running across the driveway. I didn't see its face cause it was covered in hair. I went to chase it but it had disappeared through the timber. Never been so scared in my life. Before that night I had some belief but now I do I have proof and I know they're out there. I love the Oregon Bigfoot website... it's great Autumn. Hope you e-mail me back soon.

Joseph Holmes, Director
Project Bigfoot Research Center

Hey Autumn,

Ijust finished watching parts 3 and 4 of littlefoot, LOL. You must be so proud. haha... When littlefoot ran towards the truck with the door open, I shouted at my monitor screen, "Look out! He's gonna carjack ya"!! LOL My favorite part was the ENDING!!! Haha j/k again, seriously though, good work, pretty funny!

-Brian-
(Pittsburgh)

My father and his friends were loggers around the Lewis River drainage (Washingotn) for nearly 30 years and had stories about bigfoot. One morning in 1993, he was going up the Lewis River in his log truck at about two or two-thirty in the morning when he saw two bigfoot walking along the road going with the flow of the river. As he saw the dark individuals from a distance he thought, what are those hunters doing out this early? As he got closer, he recognized that they were not hunters but bigfoot... holding hands. The location was either between Lewis River bridge to Middle Falls or from Middle Falls to Quartz Creek. ..... Generations of my family at the location have seen and heard it. The Lewis River Drainage is pristine but its also a very strange area.

- anonymous

Along time ago I had an encounter of my own, but I didn't know until I saw your show. Back when I was a kid, spring of 71, my little sister was playing hide and seek by the street light by our house.

They came running to the house saying there was a bear in the woods -being the older brother I was suppose to take care of the problem. It was just a bear... a little noise should scare it away. So me and a friend of mine decided to chase it away. We went up there with just that in mind. What ever it was, it was no bear. We heard some rustling in the brush, and threw a couple of rocks to scare it away - that's when the woods came alive.

Two alders started shaking like they were pulling up roots. That was enough for us! We went back to the house to hide with the girls. I forgot about this for a time. And then I saw your show about the elk hunters being scared out of the woods, It was like being hit with a stick, it all came back to me. The only difference was no noise, but these were big trees.

I went up there the following day to look for tracks... nothing. There might have been a odor but there were skunks around so I would not have noticed. I have hunted and fished my
whole life and have never seen anything like that.

The place where this happened isn't 10 miles into the sticks, it is 7 miles east of Everett at the south end of Lake Stevens. It was still country back then now there's people everywhere. - W.C.

My name is David R, and I just got out of the military in 2004 after a long 15 months in Baghdad,Iraq. I now work as a contractor in Iraq and have been in country for 21 months now. I recently bought a new house outside of Houston, Texas and have been interested in Bigfoot since I was a little boy.I plan on making some trips into the Sam Houston National
Forest in late July or August when I will be stateside again. Several of my co-workers who are from just north of Houston are very interested as well and they have traveled the back woods hiking all their lives in that region so it will be interesting to say the least.

Your website is outstanding and I give you praises for the attention to detail that fills every page. When we get ready to make the trip to Sam Houston National forest I will contact you
again and will probably have a lot of questions to ask you but for now just
take care and enjoy the summer.

Also the journal that Chanda has is beyond remarkable and she is blessed to be able to enjoy daily activity on the level she has and we all look foward to reading more on her adventures.

Again thank you and god bless.
David R.
Camp Anaconda, Iraq

I want to report sightings of Bigfoot in Marion county, South Carolina

From 1995 thru 2004, Bigfoot would stay around farmland, in the area of highway 41A just 4 miles from highway 501. This huge hairy animal seemed to be living on property near Louise Miles road.

These were unreported sightings, because the owners of the property didn't want a lot of publicity causing crowds of people on their private property. There were huge foot prints and large places made up of leaves and sticks that the thing seemed to be using as a lair.

The people who lived there had seen this thing from a distance glaring back at them from the woods, especally at night, with large red eyes about 8 to 10ft. from the ground looking over and thru trees; and a stink worse than the smell of a skunk. There was banging on the side of their home sometimes during the night. There were pear trees that stood about 12 to 14ft high, and they would get cleaned out of the pears even before the pears were ripe. In the spring it would raid their garden; and stomp the melons.

Bigfoot Haiku (a Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry - 3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables respectively):

Wood Knocking, Dark Night.
Red Eyes In Bush Ahead.
Flashlight Weak... Oh, Damn!

(Nothing like havin' one 20 ft. away and the light's goin' out on ya!)
Shane Matlock
Marshall, TX

Walking through the woods
Pungent odor fills the air
Silently watching

Jennifer Marley

Loud sreaming last night
Made us all very afraid
Scared us all sh#$less

Donna Metz-Dunn

Write your own Bigfoot Haiku and send it in! :)

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