DWA and mystery_man, I hate to disappoint you, but what you’re actually seeing is the reflection in an iridescent fog of some drunk boxing hobo in a monkey suit walking his pet mangy otter.

Well, I’d certainly have to agree that if you put it that way, and randomly chose a scientist, then they probably aren’t very well versed in cryptozoology or don’t take it particularly seriously. My point was mainly that there ARE those of us in scientific fields like myself who treat this subject with respect and consideration, and I think there are more like this than some people may think. But yeah, it hasn’t caught on in the mainstream yet, and a lot of these scientists follow cryptozoology from the sidelines, unfortunately. Hopefully this will change.

For now, independent researchers like Bill Miller are the ones really doing the heavy lifting in cryptozoological field work and I support their operations wholeheartedly. A lot of organizations and researchers like this are adopting more and more legitimate scientific practices and this gives hope. The more results they end up producing, the more mainstream science is going to stand up and take notice, and the more all of those scientists who are closet cryptozoologists are going to be able to participate.

I’ve got a lot of respect for guys like Mr. Miller and Mr. Steenburg willing to pursue this on their own.

Good post.

Any signs of photoshopping??? “Smile.”

Remember, I said “chances are.” As in, a scientist selected at random is probably going to be. Or else: either well-funded expeditions would be looking, or scientists better get together and find out they all agree on this so we can look!

There are a LOT of shadows back there. I think the one you’re talking about is a juvenile; I’m talking about the one that appears to be holding a weapon, possibly a crude bow. Or maybe it’s some kind of hair thingie, like you might use to fix up a ponytail or something. But I’m just speculating.

By the way, the sasquatch in that top picture is neither the one on the right OR the left. If you blow up the picture 200X, you’ll see an obscure shadow back there in the trees. That’s it.

I didn’t know they held their arms like that. Looks like he’s in irons.

And I wouldn’t say Steenburg is “looking on.” He’s looking AWAY. (I might too.)

Hey. I wanna know how you can be a FULL-TIME SASQUATCH HUNTER. (Bet there’s a catch.) Maybe you can only do this in Canada.

“Now Tom lives in British Columbia, where he feels he has a better chance of catching up with a Sasquatch and finding good evidence.”

Hmmm. I’d move to Texas and join the TBRC.

All that having been said:

1. Sounds like a classic encounter to me.

2. Sounds like a pretty standard squatch description to me. The same details, recurring over and over, each related in terms the witness understands, but very easy to compare and add up.

3. The guy is a standard witness too. Doesn’t want to talk, but does, because he doesn’t believe it exists, but well, he saw one.

4. And it’s pretty hard to swallow that every one of these adds up to a false positive. It would be easier to accept that all wolverine reports are just well-fed fishers.

If I were a scientist, I’d just want to look, and see how lies and hallucinations could be behaving like scientific data. (Or how apparently mentally healthy people could be having hallucinations like this.) But then, if I were a scientist, chances are I’d be pretty much ignorant on this topic. And it certainly is, as Steenburg says, human nature to laugh at things you are ignorant about.