Scientists to look for China's Bigfoot

As with many great Sasquatch announcements, everything is in place for this endeavor-- as soon as they get some money.

There has been a string of news sources reacting to the initial Reuters Article about a group of 100 Chinese Scientist looking for assistance in manpower and money in search of the Yeren (The Chinese Bigfoot). Craig Woolheater of Cryptomundo and TBRC has announced it as, "the new dawn of hominid research in China". We have posted every unique article on the subject including news sources like the initial Reuters article, China's Xinua, USA This Week, And even CNN.

Chinese Researchers Prepare To Relaunch 'Bigfoot' Search

(USA This Week; 10/10/2010) Scientists in China's Hubei Province have announced that they would soon launch a new research to track down the elusive creature named Bigfoot. The Hubei Wild Man Research Association (HWMRA) has asked researchers from outside to join the group's search in the Shennongjia forest region, reported Xinhua.

Talking to Xinhua, Luo Baosheng, vice president of the HWMRA, said that the organization is comprised of more than 100 scientists and explorers, who are looking for the Bigfoot, an ape-like animal, for years. "Most importantly, we want the team members to be devoted, as there will be a lot of hard work in the process," Luo told Xinhua. Team members are also expected to be in good physical health and preferably 25 to 40 years of age, he added.

The Bigfoot is also known as "Yeren" or "Wild Man" in China and its search will cost at least USD 1.5 million, said Wang Shancai, a member of the the group and an archaeologist with the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. The group has approached various companies and institutions to seek funding for their research, Wang added.

"Unlike expeditions three decades ago, the better technological support will help us get closer to solving the mystery. We are now working together with the China Three Gorges University to develop long-time energy-supply devices to support cameras that will be installed in the ape man's possible habitat," noted Wang.

Chinese researchers have been searching for the Bigfoot since the 1970s and the search for Yeti, another name for the creature, is not restricted to China only. People in the United States have been looking for Yeti, also known as Sasquatch.

SOURCE : USA This Week

Chinese researchers to relaunch 'Bigfoot' search

(CNN 10/09/2010) -- Wanted: Patient person. Physically fit, with basic knowledge of biology. Able to take pictures.
Job: Find Bigfoot.
Scientists in China's Hubei Province have announced they are looking for additional members for its special team tasked with tracking down the creature.
The Hubei Wild Man Research Association (HWMRA) is recruiting researchers internationally to join the group's search in the Shennongjia forest region, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

Luo Baosheng, vice president of the HWMRA, told Xinhua that the organization is comprised of more than 100 scientists and explorers who have been chasing the ape-like animal for years. The last time a organized search took place was in the early 1980s, Xinhua reported Saturday.

"Most importantly, we want the team members to be devoted, as there will be a lot of hard work in the process," Luo told Xinhua. Team members are also expected to be in good physical health and preferably 25 to 40 years of age, he added.
The search for the phantom, known as the "Yeren" or "Wild Man" in China, will cost at least $1.5 million U.S. dollars, according to Wang Shancai, a member of the the group and an archaeologist with the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. The group is seeking funding from various companies and institutions, Wang said.

Chinese researchers have been searching since the 1970s. There have been more than 400 reported sightings of the half-man, half-ape in the Shennongjia area. In the past, explorers have found inconclusive evidence that researchers claimed to be proof of Bigfoot's existence, including hair, footprints, excrement and a sleeping nest, Xinhua reported.

Witnesses say the creature walks upright like a human but is much taller, and is covered in hair head-to-toe.

The search for Yeti is not restricted to China.

People in the United States have been looking for years. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) claims it's the oldest and largest organization with the goal of finding Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch. The organization relies heavily on eyewitness reports from residents.

According to BFRO's website, the animal began to be referred to as Bigfoot by journalists in the 1950s after a spat of sightings reported in northern California.

SOURCE: CNN

Chinese association to hunt for "Bigfoot" search team members

WUHAN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- A "Bigfoot" research association in central China's Hubei Province said Saturday it plans to launch a global recruitment drive seeking members of a high-profile search team for the ape-like creature in the Shennongjia Forest Region.

The association, made up of more than 100 scientists and explorers, is hoping the expedition could end the long-running debate on the existence of the legendary half-human, half-ape figure, nearly 30 years after the last organized expedition to seek the mysterious beast in the early 1980s, said Luo Baosheng, vice president of the Hubei Wild Man Research Association.

Altogether more than 400 people have claimed to have seen Bigfoot in the Shennongjia area, but no hard evidence has been found to prove its existence.

According to witnesses, the creature walks upright, is more than 2 meters tall as an adult and has a gray, red or black hairy body.

The team members should be between 25 and 40 years old. With good physical health, they should also have a basic knowledge of biology and know how to use a camera, said Luo.

Preference would be given to those who have outdoor experience.

"Most importantly, we want the team members to be devoted, as there will be a lot a hard work in the process," he said.

However, there is no specific timetable yet for the expedition as the association is still in talks with several companies and institutions about the funding of the expedition which will cost at least 10 million yuan (about 1.5 million U.S. dollars), said Wang Shancai, an archaeologist with the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, who is also a member of the association.

Located deep in the remote mountains in Hubei, Shennongjia Nature Reserve has long been rumored to be the home of the elusive creature known in China as the "Yeren," or "Wild Man."

China organized three high-profile scientific expeditions for Bigfoot through the 1970s and 1980s. Researchers found hair, a footprint, excrement and a sleeping nest that were said to be Bigfoot's, but none of which could conclusively prove its existence.

Source: news.xinhuanet.com

Scientists to look for China's Bigfoot

(Reuters) - A group of Chinese scientists and explorers is looking for international help to mount a new search for the country's answer to Bigfoot, known locally as the "Yeren," or "wild man."

Over the years, more than 400 people have claimed sightings of the half-man, half-ape Yeren in a remote, mountainous area of the central province of Hubei, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday.

Expeditions in the 1970s and 1980s yielded hair, a footprint, excrement and a sleeping nest suspected of belonging to the Yeren, but there has been no conclusive proof, the report added.

Witnesses describe a creature that walks upright, is more than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall and with grey, red or black hair all over its body, Xinhua said.

Now the Hubei Wild Man Research Association is looking for volunteers from around the world to join them on another expedition to look for the Yeren.

"We want the team members to be devoted, as there will be a lot a hard work in the process," Luo Baosheng, vice president of the group, told Xinhua.

But the team will have to come up with about 10 million yuan ($1.50 million) first, and is talking to companies and other bodies to secure the funding, so there is no timetable yet for when they may start, the report added.

China is no stranger to cryptozoology. Tales abound of mysterious, Loch Ness monster-like creatures living in lakes in remote parts of the country.

Tibetans have also long talked about the existence of the Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman," in the high mountains of their snowy homeland.

($1=6.671 Yuan)

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Ron Popeski)

Source: Reuters

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Bigfoot Interviews Myth Busters

Sasquatch Talk w/ The Mythbusters from Mythbusters

We believe this may be a promotional video for the new Myth Busters series. Its not the first time the crew from Myth Busters have used Bigfoot for their marketing campaigns. BFRO Describes the commercial below.

There were television commercials running, in heavy rotation, on Discovery Channel Networks (Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Travel Channel, etc.) which show an actor in a bigfoot costume.

"Bigfoot" has a French-Canadian accent.

The costumed actor bemoans the looming threat posed by the MythBusters.

The inference is that "Bigfoot" will be "busted" by the MythBusters ... so "Bigfoot" has a lot to worry about.

BFRO continued to report on the possible reason for the commercial wwas due to a 2005 email campaign.

The email campaign urged the MythBusters to bust the myth that the legend had been debunked. They did not urge the MythBusters to bust the legend. The producers allegedly responded and made it clear they weren't going to do anything on the subject, because there was no practical way to approach it.

The many emails may have demonstrated to the MythBuster producers that IF there was an episode wherein the MythBusters busted the "myth" of "Bigfoot", lots of people would tune in. So it now appears that even though the MythBusters are not going to look into the subject at all, they still want the ratings boost they would receive if they were going to look into it.

Which is just fine by us. We think, If the Myth Busters did entertain the idea of investigating anything in the realm of Bigfoot, it would probably end up being a disservice to Bigfooting.

4-Part Sasquatch Series: Search for the north American ape

In August, 2010, the Humboldt Beacon carried the article, “Validating Bigfoot” which described the work of researchers with the Falcon Project, a plan that intends to carry out research in Humboldt County. Jason Valenti, a member of the Falcon Project team expands the article with a four part series, which concluded yesterday (October 7th, 2010).

For your convenience we summarized each of individual reports filed in this four part series. And the end of this post we also include links to the individual articles. As you can see from the summaries Valenti strategically recaps our the shared knowledge while weaving in Lloyd Pye's Hominoid Theories. he concludes in the final article with details of the Falcon Project.

Summary of Part 1: Search for the north American ape

What is a hominoid?

Hominoids are what have, up to now, been collectively labeled as Pre-Humans, (post- Miocene Apes). These are the tailless short armed apes that we've all seen in the fossil record, from the Australopithecines to the Genus Homo.

Almost every Native American and First Nation Tribe has a name to describe these creatures. When did hominoids live?

Since we now know that Hominoid creatures did exist in the past, the relevant question today is, “Do they still exist in modern times?”

Many people are surprised when they learn that approximately 45 percent of the arable land in world has never been foot-surveyed.

Summary Part 2: The great hoax of the 1800s

In the latter part of the 1800s, everyone thought that the Great Panda was a joke, a hoax and a grand tale that hunters brought back to augment their tales of adventure. Proving the existence of the Panda is a perfect example of how a good sized animal can remain elusive for a long period of time in a given region.

The difficulty in finding those Pandas had nothing to do with what the Panda was doing to remain elusive, but everything to do with how we humans behave in the environments of our world. As much as people would like to believe that we can live in the deep forest and the jungles on this planet, there is an overwhelmingly large amount of evidence showing that we are not biologically equipped to do so, let alone pursue elusive animals on foot.

How humans do it vs. how hominoids do it

Humans take down sections of forests and jungles to set up their communities and farms for their basic survival needs. Hominoids gather, hunt, eat, sleep, reproduce and live happily and easily in the forests that the planet provides them. Humans take years to painstakingly build roads over mountains. Hominoids just climb straight up said mountains.
Humans don't live anything like Hominoids, but we've been trying to track them their way, in their environment, on foot, where none of our modern conveniences, farms or roads exist. Ecological niches, like where the panda lives, are perfect examples of why Hominoids may dwell in total self sufficiency, and completely out of the average range of humans.

Summary of Part 3: The hammer drops - a flexible foot?

In 2007, it was recognized by science that unusual footprints found in the remote areas of North America were likely made by some sort of animal currently unknown to science. For years, researchers and a handful of scientists having been working on establishing the identity of the maker of these footprints. The footprints were given the scientific name Anthropoidipes ameriborealis (North American ape foot). The heel of the Hominoid foot has an extension to it and a fore-shortening of the meta-tarsal foot bones, giving the ankle bones a positioning more forward than seen in human feet. The ankle bones are placed on a much larger ankle base bone that supports their bodies, which are significantly heavier than humans. This discovery demonstrated that the makers of the tracks had to have a living fleshy foot that possessed flexibility unlike human or fake wooden feet.

Despite irrefutable evidence using Ichnology, the existence of Hominoids continues to be ignored.

When photogrammetric analysis of modern versus fossilized Hominoid tracks are compared with each other, they look almost identical amongst all other fossilized tracks and track ways discovered around the world, like the ones in Laetoli, discovered by Dr. Mary Leakey. Incidentally, fossilized Neandertal foot tracks, from 30,000 years ago, look almost identical to the oldest Hominoid fossilized foot tracks that we have on record, not to mention also looking like the ones found in the last 50 years. Besides having the tough questions about how Hominoids can possibly exist, there is an even more disturbing list of questions, for consideration, when pondering what the implications will mean if they do exist.

If evolution is true and these are our ancestors, how and why did human bones become so much thinner and lighter than Hominoids in a mere 12,000 years? Why are our muscles five to ten times weaker, pound for pound, than any of the living primates? Why do human hair and nails keep growing? How did humans develop a neocortex four times that the size of our closest ancestor?

Summary of Part 4: An unlikely trio

In December of 2009, Hominoid eyewitness William Barnes, heard a radio show being broadcast on the internet. The person being interviewed that night was Hominoid and Human Origins Researcher, Jason Valenti. Coincidentally, Valenti and his research colleague, Michael Birkinshaw, already had many conversations about getting up in the air to do the research.

In 2007, Birkinshaw shared with Valenti, “If we could get up in the air with a blimp of some sort, then we could get close to the Hominoids. It quickly became obvious to Valenti and Barnes that they had to try this idea out. Barnes titled the effort “The Falcon Project” because the approach is in the air, above the Hominoids, just like a Falcon would be, above their prey, just before capturing them using the element of surprise.

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and then the team really knew they had a great idea.

Currently The Falcon Project is in the process of acquiring the necessary funding to launch the project. Negotiations are underway with select individuals and organizations to quickly mobilize if a hominoid carcass, or some other type of “hard” evidence was found. The Falcon Project is the most dynamic, technologically advanced and well-equipped project that has ever been created for the purposes of finding evidence that Hominoids still live among us in the forests and jungles of the world.

Validating Big Foot

4-Part series Search for the north American ape

1. Part 1: Search for the north American ape


2. Part 2: The great hoax of the 1800s


3. Part 3: The hammer drops - a flexible foot?


4. Part 4: An unlikely trio

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