Comments on: Updated: Dr. Melba Ketchum a Bigfoot Witness?

By: Bob K.

Bob K. — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:20:42 +0000

“I don’t ever take cameras in case it scares them off.”

Hmmmm.
Glad Patterson and Gimlin didn’t feel that way.

By: DNS

DNS — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:53:32 +0000

I was thinking SLR with IR film. It works in the daytime, too, and a mechanical camera with no active systems could not scare a creature unless they can smell them or something. I just can’t picture a scientist going to a place where she has seen Bigfoot, expecting another sighting, and not taking some kind of camera. I’m sorry, it just does not compute.

By: diogenes

diogenes — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:59:21 +0000

DNS not bad thinking.. I have an old Nikon FTN 35mm…problem? would need to set up the remote passive IR motion detect or something..hard to stay wake all night for shutter trip…but even if that was resolved I have shot IR sensitive digital and under new moon you get only the eye shine…and it is cool, it grows in intensity and then reduces only to grow again…very interesting, but no detail of the Bigfoot. So yeah in terms of reducing the RF noise, etc…but other tech problems. I think Larry Surface, or someone similarly situated) has best shot b/c cover of equipment in area with existing human structures will reduce obvious out of place blinds… so the whole photo thing, when people think it should be easier, requires one go out and try…to really get how difficult to get a good shot. Turkeys? Try photoing wild turkey…it’s tough. So are bears and cougar…my bear and turkey shots about as good as my Bigfoot…it happens fast, in usually rough terrain, and with poor visibility because of tree cover, etc… also…video is essential..locomotion given photshop etc today no still will be accepted…even an HD close up I assume? So video I think is required. When we are all driving with dash cams…and those random highways crossing in headlights come out…?

By: WVBotanist

WVBotanist — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:58:37 +0000

“I don’t ever take cameras in case it scares them off.”
Precisely the same reason I never collect samples of rare plants, who can say when the collection of hard data, as a scientist, will make the happy little plants all sad and weepy and invisible to the naked eye?

The End, I agree.

By: Zilla

Zilla — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:21:23 +0000

Good God, Ash Ketchum would be better at catching a Bigfoot than this!

By: flame821

flame821 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:05:04 +0000

I’m not ready to write her off just yet. To her mind what she saw may not be a big deal because she has no proof of what she saw, just her subjective opinion and she KNOWS that. She also knows that even with a photograph (in the dark with only a full moon for light) would be met with either blobsquatch or photoshop. NOTHING short of solid DNA and/or a physical specimen will change this.

Considering the DNA work she is doing, it would be foolish of her to get into the position where she makes a big deal out of a lone visual sighting, it could be used as fodder for ‘she has an agenda’ or ‘she’s looney’ or anything in between.

As for that Lindsay guy, after looking around his website after the bigfoot steak fiasco I have to say, that guy creeps me out. (literally a deep in the gut, I-really-need-to-leave feeling) I would not take anything he reports at face value and please remember, MOST of the ‘issues’ that have popped up over the Ketchum/Erikson research and papers seems to have started with him. I do not know the man but it is suspect that he’s the one walking around with a zippo as the forest burns.

By: Thermite

Thermite — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:05:54 +0000

Has anyone done any research into her history or the company? Their website is very poor for such a flash and hi tech industry. Links don’t work, there’s only two people listed as “staff” and it seems she is a vet who shows horses. I would have expected so much more from someone who runs such a reputable firm. I’m also always suspicious about companies who’s only invention is “patent pending”.

If anyone knows better then no problem (I only had a quick scan) but doen’t look very official to me and alongside some of the other points raised something smell fishy… hope I’m wrong.

By: John Kirk

John Kirk — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:58:52 +0000

Yawnnnnnnn!!!

YNWA

By: Redrose999

Redrose999 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:19:35 +0000

Dang, the train wreck is piling higher and deeper. Not looking forward to the collision, it’s gonna be ugly.

By: G. de La Hoya

G. de La Hoya — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:15:02 +0000

Dr. Ketchum needs to catchum one for me to believe.