Jeff Meldrum Explains Lack of Bigfoot Bones

Dr. Jeff Meldrum is going to be a guest speaker at the Oregon Sasquatch Symposium and he is interviewed in a new documentary called The Town Bigfoot Built.

In the video below, first posted at Cryptomundo.com, Dr. Jeff Meldrum talks to National Geographic about the lack of Bigfoot Bones.

When Cavemen Wear Make-up Bigfoot Seem Smarter

At BLC we believe beyond field research, the best way to learn about Bigfoot is paleo-anthropology and primatology. The new evidence regarding Neanderthals has us rethinking our theoretical models of Bigfoot.

There are two things Bigfoot and Neanderthals had in common. They were both speculated to be "the missing link." We now know neither are likely. What is likely, humans were not the only intelligent bipedal hominids on the block. Heck, we are even finding out primates are smarter than we thought.

Today we have been alerted to the evidence that Neanderthals may have worn makeup.

Archaeologists digging in sites in modern day Spain where Neanderthal remains were previously discovered found 50,000-year-old seashells smeared with brightly colored pigments. The researchers believe some of the shells were used as makeup compacts and that others acted as colorful jewelery.

If true, this suggests Neanderthals had a symbolically based culture thousands of years before humans had even found their way to Europe. Some archaeologists argue this new find contradicts the widely accepted view that Neanderthal men (and women) were unsophisticated half-wits when compared to their human counterparts.

At the risk of eluding Neanderthals are vain, more interestingly, this also points to a type of intelligence of symbolic logic Neanderthals must have had.

What is symbolic logic? Its "the intelligence of abstractions that capture the formal features of logical inference." In other words, we use symbolic logic when we see the three letters D-O-G and know its an english word representing (or symbolizing) the concept of a canine, and not a literal canine. Or another example are emoticons, :) means "happy" or "smiles" even though its not spelled out. This is symbolic logic.

Many cognitive scientists and researchers believe it is symbolic logic that gives us our ability to have language.

The Bigfoot community has always believed Bigfoot to be an intelligent creature. If primates are smarter and Neanderthals are smarter, than this can only confirm that Bigfoot is smarter too.

You can read about the implications of Neanderthal Make-up here

Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien Talk Bigfoot

In our post Stephen Colbert Asked to Join Search for Bigfoot we announced the tourism society of Harrison Hot Springs' request for Stephen Colbert to help search for Bigfoot.

Upon further research, we have realized he is no stranger to the topic.

In a transcript of Stephen Colbert interviewed by Conan O'Brien on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," Colbert talks about several Bigfoot pieces he did as a correspondent for "Daily Show." The interview was taped June 27, 2003

CO'B: ...Let's talk about "The Daily Show". On "The Daily Show" you are well-known for going out and getting these amazing interviews with strange characters from across America, and you've interviewed people that actually believe Bigfoot exists, are convinced that Bigfoot exists.

SC: Yeah, I've interviewed a lot of, uh, some of the biggest Bigfoot experts in the United States. Um, I've interviewed the people who believe that Bigfoot is endangered. I've interviewed the people who believe that Bigfoot, um, uh, that the Bigfeet, as they call them, are overpopulating and that they're destroying their environment...

CO'B: How does that become a...

SC: There's not a lot of consensus in the Bigfoot expert community.

CO'B: There's a lot of squabbling, yeah. But how could someone think that there's too many Bigfoots running around when noone actually has proof that they exist? How can someone make that argument?

SC: Um, I think a fair amount of Bigoot experts are, um, early-morning drinkers.

CO'B: Okay.

SC: I met somebody in Florida who believed that Bigfoot was in Florida, as opposed to the Pacific Northwest, and that Bigfoot was stealing his pot of lentil soup... that he would make... and this man greeted me at 10:00am stone drunk, shoeless, shirtless, wearing two albino Burmese pythons.

CO'B: And these are the people you're going to for credible scientific information on Bigfoot.

SC: Aaaaah, yeah, those are my experts.

CO'B: Very nice. I like the Stone Phillips way that you said that too. You just, uh, yeah...

SC: [imitating Stone Phillips, once again] They... are my experts.

CO'B: Very nice. You could hurt yourself with that.

SC: I think that's how he got the big neck.

Below is one of the clips from the "Daily Show" with Stephen Colbert talking about Bigfoot Preservation.

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You can read the full transcript of the Conan O'Brian interview here.

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