Bobby Clarke Bigfoot Video - Don't Believe the Hype!? - Comments Page 8

Missy Flett, who has viewed the Clarke videotape, gives an audio description of what she saw...

 It seems some news services are scrambling for updates on the recent Bobby Clarke Bigfoot video, and a statement on the case made by James Hare, a zoology professor at the University of Manitoba is apparently the best they`ve found. *Mr.Clarke is refusing interviews for the time being.

 

"Despite mounting excitement over a reported sighting of Bigfoot in northern Manitoba, a zoologist is warning people not to believe the hype. 'I would say I'm very skeptical, because indeed most of these purported sightings prove to be hoaxes in the end,' James Hare, a professor at the University of Manitoba, said yesterday." He continues, 'There is absolutely no credible scientific evidence of the existence of Bigfoot or Sasquatch or whatever you want to call it.' - The Edmonton Sun

 

"There is absolutely no credible scientific evidence of the existence of Bigfoot or Sasquatch or whatever you want to call it" ....This slightly biased sounding statement led me to question to what extent Hare has studied the subject. Before accepting this statement as fact, I decided to do a little investigating myself. 

 

Believe it or not, there are  reputable scientists out there who consider not only the existence of Bigfoot plausible, but who warrant what little evidence we do have, as credible enough to merit serious study.

 

Discovery Channel`s, Daily Planet offers a video clip in which  Missy Flett, who has viewed the Clarke videotape, gives an audio description of what she saw, and her opinion on it`s authenticity. Also on the clip is an interview with Dr. Jeff Meldrum, an anatomist,  primatologist, and paleontologist with the University of Idaho who has been analyzing plaster casts of  purported Bigfoot tracks. Daily Planet, Latest Show, "I See Bigfoot"

 

In an 2003 article published on NationalGeographic.com, titled Forensic Expert Says Bigfoot Is Real, Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, a specialist in finger- and footprints, states that after analyzing a plaster cast of a foot print found in Walla Walla, Washington in 1987, he is convinced that Bigfoot is real, and why. 

 

The NationalGeographic.com article also gives a solid overview of the history of Bigfoot phenomena, including a view from both sides of the debate....

 

Michael Dennet, from the Skeptical Inquirer states - "It's the same kind of eyewitness reports we see for the Loch Ness Sea Monster, UFOs, ghosts, you name it," he said. "The monster thing is a universal product of the human mind. We hear such stories from around the world." - NationalGeographic.com

 

  Jane Goodall  in an interview on National Public Radio - "Renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall last year surprised an interviewer from National Public Radio when she said she was sure that large, undiscovered primates, such as the Yeti or Sasquatch, exist." - National Geographic

*Goodall Interview Transcript. To listen to the interview - NPR Archive

 

If you`re interested in cryptozoology, or would like to learn more,  cryptozoology.com is a great resource site. After scanning their message board, it seems that some members have contacts who have supplied a few further details on the Clarke case not yet reported. For instance, the video apparently was filmed with a digital video camera, and was equipped with a zoom lens. Other sources have reported that Clarke is no longer in possession of the videotape, which I would presume to mean he has found someone to enhance, and possible verify the videotape as authentic.

Crypotzoology.com was spotlighted on Discovery Channel`s  Web guide: Cryptozoology.

The photo above is from the 1967 Patterson video

 

Annie`s Ink

 

 

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