by Mark Banta

Kathy Moskowitz Strain

Nests and bedding areas are very rare. Generally, they are considered to be temporary living locations. Several types of Sasquatch sleeping or resting locations have been described. These include beds, nests (both roofed and unroofed), and dens. Nests are defined as constructed structures, usually consisting of sticks and/or branches with a soft lining (usually moss). Several examples are given from various places, including a nest from southern Oregon that was lined with fern fronds. The nest was described as “soft, springy, and well-engineered. A second nest found in British Columbia had branches woven in and around the outside of the nest. A partial-roof nest from Knight Inlet was described as a “bower”, consisting of bent, broken, and over-arching branches. A bedding site in the Blue Mountains, only fifty yards from a gravel road, consisted of broken branches laid out in a layer, eight feet long by four feet wide.

Research Note: Comments regarding the identity of a hand of unknown origin

by Alton Higgins, 14 July 2006.

As reported by Laura Michaels on 13 June 2006, Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi announced that he possessed what he believed was a Bigfoot hand. Photos and additional information pertaining to the hand were later released and widely discussed (see these two Cryptomundo articles and Bigfoot Forums).

by Pearl Jo Prihoda

Editor's Note: As recently discussed in my own article, What's In an Image?, Humans had a need to depict the world around them in their artwork. Bigfoot, or in this case ‘Wild Man,’ was important enough to European's during the 14-19th century, that images of hairy humans (male or female) made their way into texts, cloth, stained glass windows, alters, cathedral ceilings and doorways, and sculptures. The ‘Wild Man’ was significant enough to everyday life that it was necessary to represent even the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen as hairy women of the woods. Below is a small collection of images, information, and web locations of the some European ‘Wild Man’ art gathered by Ms. Prihoda. Please enjoy! Kathy Strain

Kathy Moskowitz Strain

Humans have occupied North America for at least 15,000 years, having migrated across the Bering Land Bridge from Asia during a period of low sea levels. Land animals also moved in both directions across the bridge. For example, we know based on fossil remains that many animal species, such as camelids, evolved in North America and crossed into Asia. Asian mammals also crossed to North America, but many of them, such as lions and cheetahs, later became extinct.

Universität Zürich, Anthropological Institute & Museum

by Roger Knights

On Oct. 31, 2003 the first—and apparently last—episode of a new series appeared on The Learning Channel: “Monsters Put to the Test.” Its aim was to debunk cryptid sightings by showing how witnesses to hoaxed situations tend to report seeing what they were “primed” to see, or what they picked up by “contagion” from witnesses around them. In the main example, residents of a small town were primed to believe that a lake monster lurked in the Suwanee River nearby after a quack “cryptozoologist” canvassed them about recent sightings there. (Something Stephen Foster forgot to mention in his song!)

by Roger Knights

On Oct. 23, 2005 Bigfootforums.com poster “croquemitaine” started a thread at www.bigfootforums.com/...13157&st=0 titled “Daegling’s Errments,” in which he accused skeptical anthropology professor David Daegling, author of “Bigfoot’s Screen Test” in the May/June 1999 issue of Skeptical Inquirer, of a flub: (mis)takenly using a measurement of the shoulder breadth instead of chest breadth. He pointed out that Daegling’s 19.5″ back measurement is close to the average male’s shoulder breadth. Actually, Daegling did use a measurement across the back—but it was an improper one. I.e., he committed a less egregious error. However, in addition to this “blunder,” Daegling also committed a “crime”—to give the old expression a new twist.