Larry the Cable Guy looks for Bigfoot in Kentucky

Larry the Cable Guy "Gittin' 'Er Done" in with Kentucky Bigfoot
Watch Only in America on the History Channel Wednesdays at 9/8c

"We had somebody go out (as a practical joke) and howl, and they howled back and thought it was a Bigfoot. They were fun guys,” -- Larry the Cable Guy


Tonight Larry the Cable Guy will try his hand at Bigfooting (read our complete coverage of  Larry The Cable Guy). The episode is called Kentucky Road Trip. There was some controversy to a follow-up interview Larry did. At one point there seem to be some returned howls, especially to Larry's calls.  As you can see from the quote above Larry thought it was a member of his production crew. Kentucky Bigfoot was not convinced and asked the production crew themselves. See quote below from from Charlie Raymond of Kentucky Bigfoot.

As you will see when the episode airs, Larry was not only a little scared when he heard the howls, but he was in complete denial when we received two separate vocalizations. He argued with the film crew, blaming them for one of the howls. The film crew adamantly denied making the howls. 

In order to make sure Larry and his crew are not pulling a fast one over on us, I contacted Blake Smith, a production crew member...I asked him to ask the crew if they did in fact made the howl, or is Larry simply still in denial? Blake explained to me on 1-18-12 over the phone that he talked to the crew and they did NOT make the howls.

Below is the audio of Larry's callblasting, embedded here with permission from Charlie Raymond of Kentucky Bigfoot

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The unofficial and rough transcript is below (at the time of this post we were not able to confirm any of the voices except for Larry)

1st MAN: (does a Bigfoot call)

(Sound of Train in the distance)

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: Train Whistle.

2nd MAN: (laughing) It answered you back.  

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: Check that out, you got a return of a train whistle. The conductor heard ya.

1st MAN: Why don’t you try one, all you have to do is scream real loud.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: (quietly) woo woo

(laughter)

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: Just do what you done?

1st MAN: Yeah, or do your own! Do your own version. 

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: All right.

1st MAN: Get creative.

LADY ON RADIO: (CB BLEEPS) Indiscernible 

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: Did she hear it?

1st MAN: Did you hear a reply back on that?

 RADIO LADY: Wasn’t that you both

1st MAN: You heard the first one, right?

2nd MAN: We only did one.

RADIO LADY: Yeah but I thought you did another one unannounced

MULTIPLE MEN: No, no.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: That was me. I, I Went I said, I just went yelled some.

RADIO LADY: Did you do another one unannounced?

1St MAN: (to Larry) That wasn’t that loud though.

2nd MAN: (To LADY on Radio) No, no we didn’t.

1st MAN:  Did it sound like a train?

RADIO LADY: No it didn’t sound like a train. I think you did another one and you didn’t tell us.

2nd MAN: Nah we didn’t

1st MAN: We did not.

2nd MAN: That’s Strange.

1st MAN: Which direction did it come from?

RADIO LADY: It came from behind you all. I think it was you guys.

2nd MAN: Ask her if it was short. Was it short?

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: I didn’t hear it

1st MAN: (to the other men)Did we do one?

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: No, but she heard one. She said behind us.

1st MAN: That’s the other side of camp.

RADIO LADY: So you’re saying you heard something behind you? Or where?

1st MAN: We did not hear something

RADIO LADY: We did not hear something?

1st MAN: Larry? Push the side button.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: Right here?

2nd MAN:  The big button.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: No, we done one sound, and then we didn’t do no more sounds. We just done one sound. Now, the sound that you done heard, was that from in-between you and us? Or was that behind you? Or behind us? Or was that in front of us and behind you?

RADIO LADY: It was behind you guys. I thought you did another one and you didn’t announce it.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: No, as a matter of fact there is a family of sasquatches headed you way. Get in the car and lock the doors. They are pissed and Hungry. They want the bacon and the hotdogs. (according to Charlie Raymond, "We were cooking bacon to attract a squatch and roasting hotdogs for our bellies")

(laughter)

RADIO LADY: Just off them up some s’mores.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: Ohhh, that will stop anybody in their track, them s’mores. Alright we gonna do another yell. If you hear something after that yell, let us know. We’re just doing one set.

RADIO LADY: Larry, I think he’s starstruck.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: You want to do the yell or you want me to do it.

1st MAN: You do it man.

2nd MAN: Loud, do it really loud.

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: (Crazy Yell, spelling may not be accurate) Wahhhhwooo-lbl-lbl-lbl-gah-gah-gah-gah-goo-goo-boo-plbt-plbt-woo-plbth-PLBTH!

1st MAN: That was good

(return howl)

2nd MAN: What was that?

1st MAN: Dude! What the hell?

2nd MAN: Was that an echo?

1st MAN: No!

2nd MAN: Did you get that? Did you guys hear that? Did you all get it?

2nd MAN: (To Radio Lady) Did you just hear a howl after Larry’s nonsense?

RADIO LADY:  Seriously 

2nd MAN: (To radio Lady) No between us! Listen, Harry—Larry. Larry just did a crazy howl. Then we heard a deep howl right on the end of his.

2nd MAN: (To Larry) Did you get that?

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: Yeah I Heard that.

2nd MAN: That wasn’t like an echo from him was it?

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: That was like a bear or a wolf.

2nd MAN:  That was a deep…OK Listen, Let’s get serious for a second, we could have activity.

1st MAN: We got activity; we got the rocks thrown at us…

What do you think? Based on the last line, it sounds like there was some other activity too. As much as Larry seems to be a non-believer, he seems to be a Bigfoot Magnet.

Kentucky Bigfoot continues to gain the notoriety and attention they deserve, recently being chosen to be part of a BBC documentary. Read our Kentucky Bigfoot Coverage, visit KentuckyBigfoot.com and visit Kentucky Bigfoot's Facebook Page. And stay tuned as we will do a post on the BBC documentary.

Kemerovo's Association with the Yeti Continues: Meet the Coal Miners Mascot

Competition-winning illustration of Shorya coal miners mascot 

"The scientific community has no trust in such studies and has not even bothered to take a look at the materials collected."  -- Igor Burtsev 

"According to Burtsev, Shorya, which is a part of the Altai coalmining system is where the snowman reproduces..." -- Voice of Russia

You can read about the Kemerovo region's association with the yeti in our previous Kemerovo Posts. We also have a few post on Igor Burtsev.

While we have speculated that the association to Yeti is due to an effort to increase tourism in the Kemerovo region, Igor Burtsev's is convinced the area is rich in evidence and continues his 40-year research. Burtsev even believes he has a good indication where the Yeti reproduce.

The article below begins with the mascot story and then continues with a few gems from Igor Burtsev. 

The Shorya coal pit in the Kemerovo region, which the locals say has the largest number of "Yeti"-the strange species known as“Big Foot” now has its own mascot, in the shape of a blue-eyed smiling yeti with a miner’s helmet on his head and a miner’s pick on his shoulders. A sketch depicting the image of a  snowman won the open  competition titled "Yeti Talisman". The entry of a 19-year old student, Roman Zhilian was chosen as the best among the more than 600  entries in  the  online contest. 

The imaginary creature, which has evoked heated debates and hypotheses in the world has variously been known as “Bigfoot, Snowman, Forest-Dweller and many more”. It is more correct to talk about a snowman who lives alongside us, says Igor Burtsev, Director of the Moscow International Center for the study of the snowman. 

"They live in squalid conditions, live like animals, don’t use work instruments, don’t wear clothes or use fire, and don’t compete with people. But they have sufficient intellect and rely on the paranormal ability They live in a different orbit, not in the other world, but nocturnal. They avoid contact with people and live in inaccessible places."

The scientific study of the yeti is still unrecognized in the world, but people of different professions are studying them on a voluntary basis, said Igor Burtsev.

"I have been studying the so-called snowman for  over 40 years now and  I have gathered enough material about their existence within that period of time. Enthusiasts have been studying the snowman for more than 50 years, but the scientific community has no trust in such studies and has not even bothered   to take a look at the materials collected.  There had been great scientists who spent a great deal of energy and time studying the snowman phenomenon. They included the French zoologist, Evelmans, founder of the crypto zoology, which in1968 studied the corpse of a creature found in the U.S. together with another zoologist, Ivan Sanderson. They concluded that it was the corpse of a Neanderthal who died from a gunshot. But the corpse disappeared as soon as the information was published in the press. The frozen corpse of a  real snowman, 2.60 meters tall was displayed in France in 1997. It also disappeared mysteriously after the news appeared in the press."

The Yeti is a tourist brand of the Shorya mines since February 2009, when the local hunters saw in the taiga a human like creature covered in furs, for the first  time. According to Burtsev, Shorya, which is a part of the Altai coalmining system is where the  snowman reproduces.. Every two years, the  Day of  the snowman is marked, there is  a yeti museum and  souvenirs showing their pictures can be  bought everywhere. An International Scientific  and Applied Conference, devoted to ther problems of the snowman was held in Kuzbass last October. After exchanging information, experts from the U.S. Canada, China, Mongolia, Sweden, Spain and  other countries visited the Azassky cave  in the clay field, where fresh footprints of the bigfoot can be found.
Source: Voice of Russia.

Author Thom Powell's London Tracks Presentation at Sasquatch Brewery

Nearly 30 cast made by  authorThom Powell from the London Footprint Sequence
with help from Toby Johnson, Beth Heikkinen and BigfootLunchClub editor, Guy Edwards

"Max was't looking for bigfoot, or even bigfoot evidence.  He was looking for an old car to buy.  He never found the car, but he did find some of the best bigfoot evidence ever dicovered. Talk about serendipity." --Thom Powell, author of The Locals and Shady Neighbors

Sasquatch & Suds is a monthly event presented
by the Oregon Sasquatch Symposium

Tonight, at the Sasquatch Brewery: 6440 SW Capitol Hwy, author Thom Powell and Toby Johnson will discuss the five days following the discovery of the London Trackway (Read complete coverage of the London Trackway).

The London Trackway  is the name of the 120-plus tracks, possible Bigfoot tracks, were discovered south of Eugene, Oregon in mid February 2012. These tracks were first discovered by Toby Johnson and his friend known as Tracker. You can read the brief timeline and the original report here or the extended one written by Toby himself. 

On March 14th, Toby Johnson was interviewed during the last hour of Alex MidnightWalker's BlogTalkRadio show. (Listen to interview) During the last half of the interview Toby recalls the some truly puzzling events that transpired the following Sunday after the tracks were discovered.

Both author Thom Powell and Toby Johnson will cover the London Trackway and expand on the following paranormal Sunday. Bring your questions and an open mind!

BRING CASH TOO!
Tickets to the 2012 Oregon Sasquatch Symposium will be available, as well as copies of the London Trackway casts available for purchase (both $20).

Author Thom Powell will have signed copies of both of his books The Locals and Shady Neighbors. Shady Neighbor cover artist, Guy Edwards, will be available too.


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