Comments on: Bigfoot Captured on CBS Broadcast?

By: ddh1969

ddh1969 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:44:51 +0000

alligator…

just consider this a ’slow news day’ in bigfoot land…;>)

Maybe it was just filler but, like it or not, if it actually DID air with Cronkite it’s a neat little tidbit if nothing else.

By: duende

duende — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:26:09 +0000

I’ve actually heard of this. I remember a caller on the Art Bell show asking Robert W Morgan about it specifically (Kronkite, 60’s, escorted in chains, then no followup story). Morgan wasn’t familiar with the story, and I remember it because you have to admit that it is peculiar. Is from a show a looong time ago, maybe somebody could dig up the audio from an archive?

By: Alligator

Alligator — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:54:52 +0000

If the story appeared on CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite at all, it was filler for a slow news day and meant to add a little humor to the broadcast. I grew up listening to Cronkite, He was deadly serious about his broadcast journalism, although once in awhile he added a little levity by reporting an “off beat” news items. Trying to demonstrate the existence of Sasquatch by going back 40 years to an unprovable Cronkite broadcast is pointless at best and highly suspicious at worst.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:22:05 +0000

I don’t know the original poster, but I do know that sincere, smart people have fallible memories just like the rest of us, especially when decades are involved.

That said: How could anyone take this claim seriously? It would not have appeared only on CBS. It would have appeared on every network and in every major news publication that watched the CBS news. It’s beyond reason to expect such a newsworthy item would have appeared only on this one source, even in the pre-Internet age.
We can dismiss this report from our thoughts.

By: captainterror

captainterror — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:23:44 +0000

A quick check of the Vanderbuilt TV news archive shows this but it only goes back to 1968

1 03/21/1973 Slave Labor / Florida Evening News CBS 05:44:50 pm 02:50
2 12/01/1977 South Dakota / Bigfoot Evening News NBC 05:54:30 pm 02:30

By: dbard

dbard — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:42:57 +0000

TimmyRyan:

You said “After the flurry of reports you never heard anything again!”

Then: “once the test results were found that Oliver was a mutant looking chimp or whatever and not a undiscovered species, no one cared since it wasn’t the magic moment all of us Bigfoot fans were waiting for. So no one reported it or it was a little tiny paragraph in the newspaper somewhere once the truth was known! Hence the abrupt media coverage stopping.”

Oliver never really left the spotlight from the 70’s to the present.

Also, the DNA test results were done on two different occasions (1996 and sometime around 2004 I believe). Results from both tests were shown on the Discovery channel, if I am not mistaken.

The CBS/Walter Cronkite report discussed on Blogsquatch happened in the 60’s.
Oliver didn’t really get any national publicity until the 70’s.
The blog reports that in the video, the figure is much taller than the men escorting him.

This event could not have been Oliver.

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:32:32 +0000

The report said he was being taken to a secure (but secret) laboratory for testing and examination:

This is why I hope a live BigFoot is never ever brought into society. Why does man have the need to poke and prod every new species discovered? Why can’t we just live and let live? I guess it’s just in our nature to dissect every new thing that comes along. What a shame.

By: DavidFullam

DavidFullam — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:25:12 +0000

I believe I read, many years ago, that the CBS Evening News did a story on the Skunk Ape, and that Uncle Walter’s reaction to the story was less than flattering.

By: jamesrav

jamesrav — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:25:28 +0000

I don’t want to be redundant, but criticizing this site for putting up less than scholarly ‘articles’ on cryptids seems unwarranted. This is both an informational and entertainment site, it’s not the Academy of Applied Sciences. If they were to only post new sightings there’d be gaps of days or weeks of no postings and the site would quickly fade into oblivion. These filler posts are harmless – did anyone *really* think a Bigfoot capture made the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite? But it was interesting to determine what might be the origin – our old friend Oliver the walking chimp. Sure, we all want M.K. Davis to release a P/G bombshell, but we should be grateful to have anything to read & enjoy on a daily basis. I appreciate the research they do to come up with a new topic every day.

By: Richard888

Richard888 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:30:31 +0000

If 4 men could not control a gorilla having about the same height as the men then I don’t think they could “escort” a taller, more massive Bigfoot against his will. I enjoy seeing artlicles like this or reasonable Youtube vids on Cryptomundo.

Response to:
He stood about a foot taller that the 4 men who “escorted” him (against his will, by the expression on his face).