Why the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film Should Concern Scholars

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science and academia are starting to reinvestigate bigfoot due to sightings occurring in the same area along with foot prints and bent over branches and people sightings reports.....very interesting as to the points to reexamine and the fact that several well known film analyists have deemed it not a hoax....just read entire thing...its short for a understanding of a long problem....and the fact they found the little people on the island....and TAUNG MAN explaining being wrong after all these years...theres even a suit analysis for MRBB and others....enjoy

https://www.ancient-origins.net/une...-should-concern-scholars-human-origins-009178

recent foot print and sighting be several people
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/37744920/nc-instructor-offers-course-on-bigfoot

 

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science and academia are starting to reinvestigate bigfoot due to sightings occurring in the same area along with foot prints and bent over branches and people sightings reports.....very interesting as to the points to reexamine and the fact that several well known film analyists have deemed it not a hoax....just read entire thing...its short for a understanding of a long problem....and the fact they found the little people on the island....and TAUNG MAN explaining being wrong after all these years...theres even a suit analysis for MRBB and others....enjoy

https://www.ancient-origins.net/une...-should-concern-scholars-human-origins-009178

recent foot print and sighting be several people
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/37744920/nc-instructor-offers-course-on-bigfoot

well since you mentioned me, I guess you want a response,
and again, I think you read more into things because YOU BELIEVE
the man in the bigfoot suit, reminds me of the OJ case and the glove? LOL
what THAT suit is wrong, and they don't make others LOL, or
there are humans of all sizes and shapes, YES< just cause the one they used didn;t fit the profile movements in the film, doesn't mean another HUMAN cannot make them IMO
hollywood has made many many many movies over the yrs making many many things UNREAL look real?
there are many humans that walk VERY different from MOST too, and even some that can run on all 4's!

and got to love the thought about how could anyone in 1967 know what future items we will have to investigate a film
imagine that, NO one could predict the future??
what does that have to do with anything? NO one can predict the future in that manor
a GOOD trick is still a GOOD trick hundreds of yrs later, its why so many magic tricks are still doing the same act's!

and WOW in NC they are finding tree bent over and tracks> WOW
how could it NOT be a Big foot making them
even the write there says they CANNOT be all FAKES, so it must be true ? then again, it also means even he has doubts, no?
again, till there is a body or remains from CURRENT decades, its all just talk!
like it or not, there will always be folks that believe and those that don't
and till PROOF really exists, , both can be right or wrong,
the LOGIC IMO points to there ISN"T any
to you and all these so called reads and vids you post, I gather you all believe they do!
in a world where FAME is sought so hard and even BS stories get major play time on the world wide web and medie
the desire and reasons to FAKE things is at an ALL time HIGH IMO as well
keep posting this stuff if you like , however I doubt your changing many minds with it all...
but I have time to kill, so, no skin off my knuckles reading them LOL

 

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… https://www.ancient-origins.net/une...-should-concern-scholars-human-origins-009178 …

Quoted from the above link:

“There are only two reasonable explanations for why no conclusive proof of a hoax has been produced. One explanation would be to say the evidence is insufficient to make a rigorous conclusion. The other explanation is that the film cannot be proven to be a fake because it is not one.

.I guess they never heard that you can’t prove a negative. So much for the latter “explanation”!

 

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… or there are humans of all sizes and shapes …

Ya think? "Big" is big in the Copper Country!
("All photos herein courtesy of Pasty Cam")

Meet Erick "Big Erick" Julius Erickson.

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He was born in Froskog, Sweden. He and his wife lived in Skanee until after WWII, when they retired to Houghton.

Legend is that he and maybe a brother carried a cast iron stove all the way from Marquette to Skanee! Like all U.P. legends, this one is undoubtedly true!

Much more here, from Collectivity by Culture Squared: Cultural Heritage in Nordic Spaces:
(click →) "New Legends in Nordic America — The Case of Big Erick Erickson, by James P. Leary".
The article appears on pp. 111-129 of 204 pages, (a PDF is available).

Big Erick was Henry Ford's logging contractor from approx. the 1920's-1940's.

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Perhaps you've heard of "Big Erick's Bridge"?

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See also:

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And:


Big Erick's Bridge is located on the Huron River on Erick's Road just past the end of Skanee Road. There's a li'l campground on the west side with no office - just a dropbox for fifteen bucks and two outhouses. The road continues on, eventually reaching the Yellow Dog Plains, but there's a lot of other closer sights to check out (Huron Mountains, Letherby Falls, Mouth of Huron, etc).

Big Erick's Bridge can be found by taking Skanee Road out of L'Anse for twenty miles, bearing right on the dirt road after Skanee ends.

See Google Maps: (click →) Big Eric's [sic] Bridge State Forest Campground, Skanee, MI.

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Then there's Lauri "Big Louie" Moilanen …

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… a local legend in the Copper Country, having immigrated from Finland to the U.S. with his parents, at the age of 4.

"Big Louie" held several different jobs in his short lifetime, working as a bartender, a miner and as a sideshow attraction for the Ringling Brothers Circus, to exhibit his unusual height. Because of his size, he had trouble finding clothing and usually had to have them tailor made for him, along with special order, size 19 shoes.

He was only 27 years old, when he contracted tubercular meningitis of the brain and died shortly after and is buried in Lakeside cemetery, which is located west of Hancock. The new monument honors not only "Big Louie", but all Finnish immigrants who settled here in the Copper Country during the mining boom of that time.

There's a memorial in front of the Finnish American Heritage Center on Finlandia's campus in Hancock.
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The black granite block stands at 8 ft., 3 in., the height that Lauri "Big Louie" Moilanen, was said to have stood at.

… also, 'though not as "big" as "Big Louie, there's Anne "Big Annie" Klobuchar Clemenc:
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From the Michigan History Magazine, July-August 1999, see …
(click →) "Standing Tall with Big Annie", by Diana Palz Engle. (PDF)
A minor correction, that article says in part,

"On August 14, two Waddies and several of Cruse’s deputies killed two strikers in a shooting spree at a boardinghouse in Seeberville, south of Calumet."

Though true, it's perhaps a wee bit misleading, as Seeberville is actually at the northwest edge of Painesdale, about 20-25 miles south of Calumet, on "da udder side o' da bridge".
See this from Kevin Musser's Copper Range Railroad and Copper Country Historical Page,
(click →) "The Dally-Jane Murders in Painesdale during the Copper Strike of 1913-14".

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There's also a "Big Lydia" among the Copper Country lore; it's a bit hard to find more about her.