Rocky Mountain Rampage Bigfoot Miniature

Gaming Nerds, again, turn to Bigfoot. 

The Bigfoot miniature above is for sale. It's pretty cool and we picked one up for ourselves. If you want one, go to Rocky Mountain Rampage .

There is a bigger story here. As you may be able to discern, it looks like Bigfoot is playing football and there seems to be different teams. You would be right on both counts.

Somehow in 1987 a bunch of gaming nerds started to play a game called Blood Bowl, a football parody roleplaying game with races you would normally expect from a fantasy-themed game; human warriors, goblins, dwarves, elves, orcs and trolls (and now Bigfoot).

Fantasy football with the emphasis on fantasy. 

So these nerds (nerds are cool) play this game with dice and cards and a single game can last for hours. It get's better, this is actually an international phenomenon including sanctioned tournaments and international player rankings. You can get ESPN-like podcast of these events from zlurpcast.com. Zlurpcast claims they are the ONLY Blood Bowl podcast covering the Tournament Scene in the United States, and we don't doubt them. All official games are officiated and sanctioned by NAF, the international association of players dedicated to Blood Bowl.

In May of 2012, one of these tournaments were full of Bigfoot miniatures. If you are curious how the Rocky Mountain Rampage Blood Bowl Tournament turned out your welcome to check out the final scores.

Win a Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes Movie Poster

Win This Poster!

The Lost Coast Tapes is one of four Bigfoot "found footage" films released this year. The other three titles are Exist, Bigfoot County, and the internationally award-winning film The Woodsman.

As we get closer to the screenings in four different cities this October, Dread Central is giving a way a one-sheet a/k/a movie poster.

In honor of the limited theatrical release of Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes, we're giving away one badass one-sheet! In fact it's one of our absolute favorite bits of artwork of the year! Read on for details.

XLrator Media will release BIGFOOT: THE LOST COAST TAPES in theaters on October 19, 2012, in Los Angeles; October 26, 2012, in San Diego; and November 2, 2012, in San Francisco and Seattle. The film is directed by Corey Grant and stars Drew Rausch, Rich McDonald (HBO’s Generation Kill), Ashley Wood, Noah Weisberg, and Frank Ashmore.

Send you email to contests@dreadcentral.com with the subject line "Lost Coast Tapes Poster" and include your FULL NAME name and MAILING address.

In case you need a refresher on the movie watch the trailers below.





(via Dread Central)

Jane Goodall Still Finds Bigfoot Fascinating

British primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall

To bigfooters, it is no secret that Dr. Jane Goodall has shared her certainty that Bigfoot exist. celebrity Joe Rogan credits Goodall for his interest in Bigfoot. Sometimes she has been more careful about her certainty, like a recent Huffington Post article:

"I'm not going to flat-out deny its existence," Goodall said during an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post before a benefit dinner in La Jolla, Calif. "I'm fascinated and would actually love them to exist. 

 In the past she has been more explicit in a 2002  interview with Ira Flatow:

"Well now, you'll be amazed when I tell you that I'm sure that they exist."

She has even written a great review for Dr. Jeff Meldrum's book, "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science:

"Jeff Meldrum's book 'Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science' brings a much needed level of scientific analysis to the Sasquatch - or Bigfoot - debate. Does Sasquatch exist? There are countless people - especially indigenous people - in different parts of America who claim to have seen such a creature. And in many parts of the world I meet those who, in a matter-of-fact way, tell me of their encounters with large, bipedal, tail-less hominids. I think I have read every article and every book about these creatures, and while most scientists are not satisfied with existing evidence, I have an open mind."
--Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE UN Messenger of Peace & Founder - the Jane Goodall Institute

Watch the HuffPo video interview below and right below that listen to the 2002 Ira Flatow interview; it is one of the first times when Goodall has gone on record publicly with her interest in Bigfoot.







The following is a transcript of the relevant portion of the program:

Dr. Goodall: As for the other, you're talking about a yeti or bigfoot or sasquatch.

Ira Flatow: Is that what he's talking about?

Dr. Goodall: Yes, it is and ...

Ira Flatow: Is that the message I'm missing here?

Dr. Goodall: I think that's the message you're missing and ...

Ira Flatow: (To the caller) Is that right?

Caller: Pretty much.

Ira Flatow: (Laughing) I'm out of the loop. Go ahead.

Dr. Goodall: Well now, you'll be amazed when I tell you that I'm sure that they exist.

Ira Flatow: You are?

Dr. Goodall: Yeah. I've talked to so many Native Americans who all describe the same sounds, two who have seen them. I've probably got about, oh, thirty books that have come from different parts of the world, from China from, from all over the place, and there was a little tiny snippet in the newspaper just last week which says that British scientists have found what they believed to be a yeti hair and that the scientists in the Natural History Museum in London couldn't identify it as any known animal.

Ira Flatow: Wow.

Dr. Goodall: That was just a wee bit in the newspaper and, obviously, we have to hear a little bit more about that.

Ira Flatow: Well, in this age of DNA, if you find a hair there might be some cells on it.

Dr. Goodall: Well, there will be and I'm sure that's what they've examined and they don't match up. That's what my little tiny snippet says. They don't match up with DNA cells from known animals, so -- apes.

Ira Flatow: Did you always have this belief that there., that they, that they existed?

Dr. Goodall: Well, I'm a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist. (Chuckles.)

Ira Flatow: (To the caller) Alright?

Caller: Thank you.

Ira Flatow: Thanks for calling. (To Goodall) Well, how do you go looking for them? I mean, people have been looking, right? It's not like, or has this just been, since we don't really believe they can exist, we really haven't really made a serious search.

Dr. Goodall: Well, there are people looking. There are very ardent groups in Russia, and they have published a whole lot of stuff about what they've seen. Of course, the big, the big criticism of all this is, "Where is the body?" You know, why isn't there a body? I can't answer that, and maybe they don't exist, but I want them to.