BIGFOOT PRESS CONFERENCE JUNE 23, 2011, 4:00 P.M. PDT, FRESNO, CA
The Sanger Paranormal Society will present potentially the most convincing evidence of Bigfoot since the Patterson film of 1967.
(TRAVPR.COM) UNITED STATES - June 20th, 2011 - JUNE 19, 2011 - FRESNO, CA - On June 23, 2011, the Sanger Paranormal Society will present potentially the most convincing evidence of Bigfoot since the Patterson film of 1967. The media event, scheduled for 4:00 p.m. PDT at the Piccadilly Inn in Fresno, CA, will feature a full upper body impression, including half of its face, on the passenger side window of a pickup truck. The driver's side window features a Bigfoot's nostrils, nose, and lips.
Jeffrey Gonzalez, Founder of the Sanger Paranormal Society, expressed confidence in the evidence, while clarifying the Society's affiliation. "No, it's not a Bigfoot in a freezer, and we are not affiliated with those guys in any way," he said. "This evidence was captured during an expedition in the High Sierras of California during the Memorial Day weekend of 2011."
Sanger indicated that there were a total of five people in attendance who made the discovery. Three of those people are:
1. An award-winning high school principal with a Masters Degree. This former science teacher and former investigator for www.BFRO.com has been investigating Bigfoot for 15 years.
2. A Licensed Vocational Nurse who spent 14 years in the military, and who was featured on an episode of Monster Quest titled, "The Sierra Sasquatch."
3. Someone employed at AT&T for 11 years who has an Associates Degree in Electronics and is the Founder of the www.SangerParanormalSociety.com.
Sanger indicated that a Forensic Specialist with 14 years of experience was called out to take photos and swab for DNA from the windows.
This location where the evidence was captured is known for heavy Bigfoot activity, and has been regularly visited by the investigators mentioned above.
Members of the media wishing to attend the press conference should RSVP to SangerParanormal@aol.com. The Sanger Paranormal Society will contact you to confirm your attendance.
For more visit: http://www.SangerParanormalSociety.com
When: June 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm (Pacific)
Where: Piccadilly Inn, Banquet Hall
5115 E. McKinley Ave.
Fresno, CA 93727
559-251-6000
Directly across from Fresno Yosemite International Airport
For more information, please contact:
Jeffrey Gonzalez
Founder Sanger Paranormal Society
559-287-UFOS(8367)
www.SangerParanormalSociety.com
Location: Fresno, CA
Email: sangerparanormal@aol.com
Web Address: http://www.SangerParanormalSociety.com
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David Shealy’s been trekking through the Everglades for 35 years looking for the skunk ape.
This week, he’ll have company.
A film crew from California-based Authentic Entertainment, the production company behind reality TV shows Ace of Cakes (Food Network) and Flipping Out (Bravo) is in Ochopee to begin filming a pilot reality show intended for Discovery Channel in the fall.
Shealy, curator of the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters, has appeared on other shows about the legendary skunk ape, a yeti-like creature adapted to the wilds of South Florida, including "Unsolved Mysteries" and "The Daily Show."
He calls the Discovery Channel pilot the biggest project he’s worked on.
An Authentic Entertainment associate in Burbank confirmed that a film crew is in Florida on the project but the producers in the field declined to comment on the making of the show.
Shealy said they’ll employ a helicopter to get aerial shots and tour the 10,000 Islands by boat. Advanced technology, which he declined to describe, will be used as well, he said.
“The producers really want to put together a successful show,” he said.
Shealy knows not everyone buys the tale of the skunk ape, a 7-foot tall biped covered in hair and emitting a foul odor. The website for his Trail Lakes Campground on U.S. 41 in the Big Cypress Preserve, hosts an ongoing poll asking visitors if they believe in the creature’s existence. More than 25 percent of the 2,500 respondents either believe it to be a hoax or are skeptical.
But a majority either believe in the idea or find it plausible.
He says new information is surfacing all the time. “I’m hot on the trail,” he said, adding the fresh evidence points to the presence of a skunk ape around Sunniland. “New doors are opening. I look forward to bringing this to a close real soon.”
He hopes the Discovery cameras are on hand when he does. “We’re going to break new ground here.”
Saturday just after noon, to mark the occasion of the television production and as a way to thank his camp ground and Skunk Ape Research Headquarters patrons, he is hosting a fan appreciation day at the campground. There will be live music, food, soft drinks, Shealy said. He said he’s promoting a family event so alcohol won’t be sold, but he has a couple of cases of Swamp Ale, a specialty beer made in Florida that he may give out as prizes.
Local radio host Joe Whitehead is to serve as the master of ceremonies.
In the 1990s, Shealy gained notoriety when he tried to sell the county on the idea of using tourist tax revenue to fund an expedition leading the media in search of the skunk ape. The theory was that if the media could show the skunk ape to be real, tourists would flock here hoping to get a glimpse.
The idea actually won initial approval from the Tourist Development Council before being shot down by an unamused board of county commissioners.
In the intervening years, the explosion of reality TV means that an enthusiastic pitchman -- “I consider myself the top researcher in the country, possibly the world, on the skunk ape,” Shealy says -- can on his own get the media to come to the swamp in search of an elusive and possibly illusory creature.
Even if the cameras don’t capture a skunk ape, they’re sure to capture the beauty of the Everglades, all without taxpayers having to spend a dime.
If it ends up on a major cable network, that’s a win for Collier County either way.
SRC: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/jun/13/brent-batten-shealy-skunk-ape-discovery/
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Bigfoot Lunch Club is a great blog run by a salt-of-the-earth BF enthusiast...
...The host is wonderfully charming and the site is organized and engaging. Bless his heart, he's onto something. That's probably why I never miss a post.
Richard had absolutely no knowledge of or interest in sasquatch until the summer of 2009, when he attended a Stubstad family reunion in Kansas and his cousin Gordy called him “narrow minded” for not bothering to look into the matter. Since this insulted him to no end, he agreed to do so. Much to his surprise, the documented evidence in favor of the existence of a hominid called sasquatch (or bigfoot) was convincing enough to further perk his interest. Suddenly it dawned on Richard that the science of DNA forensic analysis had matured and had already been utilized for all sorts of scientific “proof”, including the genetic mapping of the evolutionary tree of life from a scientific point of view and the placement in this tree of life of a well-known, extinct hominid—Neanderthal man. Ergo—by obtaining DNA samples from several purported sasquai (the plural version of sasquatch—hereby officially coined) and “connecting the dots” as it were, it could be determined once and for all whether or not such a hominid actually exists—without needing a “type” specimen (a body)...
Within a few months, Richard made contact with Adrian Erikson, Robert Schmalzbach (“Java Bob”), Shannon Sylvia and Dr. Melba Ketchum, among others, and initiated the mitochondrial sequencing of several purported sasquatch samples through Dr. Ketchum’s DNA diagnostics laboratory in Texas. Much to his surprise, once again, the first two samples—submitted by two totally independent and disparate researchers and from research sites in two widely separated states or provinces—turned out to be intimately related to one-another, DNA-wise, making the statistical probability of two independent hoaxes or misidentifications somewhere in the 2-3 % range. Accordingly, Richard’s statistical conclusion from only having analyzed the mitochondrial (prehistoric maternal origins) sequencing of these first two samples alone is that there is a 97-98 % certainty that the sasquai indeed exist—right outside of our own back door, so to speak!
I know most of the “players” involved in the DNA work; in fact, I have helped in some of the analyses from a statistical point of view. I have no prejudice as to whether the sasquai exist or not, but from the DNA I have seen and analyzed, I’ll give it a 97% chance that sasquatch in fact does exist (therefore no caps on the words sasquatch or the plural form sasquai).
As far as the exact race or species – I primarily have seen only some of the mtDNA sequences; that part is 100% Homo sapiens sapiens (assuming the samples I have seen are not hoaxes). Still, sasquatch could possibly be a hybrid species that is reproductively viable.
I doubt that Dr. Ketchum’s is the only DNA lab working on “Bigfoot DNA.” I believe (but don’t know for sure) that at least one, and possibly two or three others labs, are also working on Bigfoot DNA.
I favor the new hominid designation: “Homo sapiens sesqueqiencis”, in part in deference to the a Plains American Indian tribe’s spelling of sasquatch and in part in deference to the newly-discovered ability of Neanderthal Man to mate with Cro Magnon et al., thus officially Neanderthal is now called: “Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis” (with a capital “N” because Neanderthal Man is reportedly extinct).
Based on the mtDNA of several purported sasquatch samples, statistically the “sapiens” part of the above-suggested Latin name is 97% certain.
Unless the whole thing is one huge and well-coordinated hoax.
I doubt it; some of the sasquatch players who have provided confirming samples would never cooperate with one another – never in a million years.
For you skeptics, put that in your pipes and smoke it.
