Bigfoot Braids?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 20th, 2008
I see that none of these guys have braids. I know their identities. Do you?* And which one thinks Bigfoot wears braids?
By specific definition, to “braid” is “to interweave three or more strands, strips, or lengths of,” for example, hair or grasses, “in a diagonally overlapping pattern.”
But do Sasquatch and Bigfoot engage in braiding each other’s and other animals’ hair?
This is not a photograph of a young woman whose hair was braided by a Bigfoot.
With the recent discussions of whether or not the Patterson-Gimlin-filmed Sasquatch, nicknamed “Patty,” has braids, perhaps it is time for a pause to ponder braids and Bigfoot. It might be worth an enjoyable minute or two here.
First there is the theory promoted by Robin Bellamy and Lisa A. Shiel that some horse hair braids are Bigfoot playing with the ponies. Perhaps, perhaps not, but Shiel’s book, Backyard Bigfoot deals with her thoughts, and is there for all to digest. Lisa knows I disagree with her mixing of UFOs and the hairy ones, so exploring that avenue any further is up to you. Been there, done that.
There are even photos floating around the internet supposedly showing horse mane braids said to be placed there by Sasquatch. I won’t share one of Shiel’s because she wishes to retain the copyright postings of hers, but here’s one that shows up uncredited all over the place. (Send me info if you know anything about who took it so I may properly credit it.)
Of course, among those other hominoids, Homo sapiens who mostly tend to have only hair long enough to braid on their heads, there are, indeed, some famous braiders.
Let’s take a look:
A big man in my book, but certainly not a Bigfoot.
Some braids hardly give us any insights into cryptozoology.
Some are even a perfect 10, we are told.
While others are definitely First Nations in origin, thank goodness.
However, bottomline, what kind of braid does M. K. Davis see within the Bigfoot film?
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*Answer to the identification quiz of the day, from left to right - Don Keating, Ohio Bigfoot group director and host of the Ohio Bigfoot conference; Jeff Meldrum, professor and Sasquatch book author; M. K. Davis, Bigfoot film analyst; and Eric Altman, Pennsylvania Bigfoot group director.
- Similar Phenomena:
Maybe he meant pigtail. He has used imprecise language in the past, with the ‘digger indian’ and ‘caucasoid’ and ‘human’ comments. I think we are talking a pigtail, in the center on top of the back of the head. And do the side images of the head show the same thing, or is it a trick of the light and really a sagital crest?
I don’t believe in the braids, topknot or the bangs on Patty. For one thing, I just don’t see them. However, I will gladly admit that there are others whose eyesight and expertise in seeing details in blurry images is far superior to mine.
But the braids at least have implications far beyond the (so far as we know) singularly human desire for self-adornment.
If the Sasquatch can braid hair, then there are many, many plants in the forests which can be used to braid into cordage. If the sas can braid, then they have access to ropes and twine. This assumed technology implies artificial shelters (even dogs and wolves will get in out of the rain when possible), because tying up branches into a crude tent would be only natural. It also implies ropes used for carrying along anything which the sas might find useful in their lives. Also, braiding is not that far from weaving.
Nothing exists in a vacuum; all technology is connected. If the sas braid hair, then they should be leaving non-human artifacts all over the place in the form of abandoned shelters, fish traps, discarded ropes or twines, cast off bracelets, maybe even David slings, etc. And there is no sign of any of these things. In fact, there is no indication that the sas have any sort of material culture at all.
So I don’t believe that the hair ornamentations recently reported on Patty are anything but artifacts created by the enhancement process. But I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong.
Of course in Olden Tymes the braiding or plaiting of horse mains and tails was blamed on various pixies, sprites, and other diminutive fairy type folks. No, I’m not making any claims about Sas being a fairy creature, just noticing the parallel. Of course, it’s also possible that sasquatch is one of various things that may have inspired those ancient tales.
Am I just Blind? Heronimus,Heronimus,Heronimus Glass eye. enough said
MK Davis,I would take this with a grain of salt.Squatches are animals. If they could weave , then we would see fishing nets and different housing structures by these ANIMALS.Human ,they are not and it would take a human to weave.
It is this researchers humble opinion that Mr. Davis just wants to prolong his 15 Minuites of fame or flame.Want to know about Squatches, then get out in the field and get to know those that do.
Squatches are large primates,they are cunning and very intelligent but human thay are not. Funny no one else sees a braid or bangs at that.What Mr. Davis sees are PIXELS.
GRAYBEAR: “If the sas braid hair, then they should be leaving non-human artifacts all over the place in the form of abandoned shelters, fish traps, discarded ropes or twines, cast off bracelets, maybe even…slings, etc. ”
Point well made - Sasquatch either: 1) has no use for those items, hence their absence, or…
2) “knows better” than to create “evidence of presence”, since it would require storing such items in discoverable hides, and transporting them from place to place during seasonal migrations.
Altho there are reports of grass-lined nests and other hideouts, some with chewed animal bones stored in nooks, I know of no reports of tools or ornamentation left behind, or a Sas sporting a backpack or travois.
Perhaps Lisa’s horses’ subtly-interwoven mane hair could be a private, personal “hello” to her from her local Sas, a quiet signal to her alone that he is nearby but hiding, or a “thank you” for the food she leaves there?
But questions nag me: 1) Why didn’t Lisa’s horses alarm during the encounters, as most livestock reportedly do, dashing around wild-eyed, tearing down fences etc any time a Sas is nearby?
2) Why is M.K. trying so hard to create anthropomorphic evidence from whole cloth (or hair, as the case may be)? What’s next from him - sandals?
Well, it is not just M.K.’s hypothesis that there is a braid there-the braid IS there. It just takes breaking away from the old ideas, the old concepts of what Bigfoot and Patty are to really see what is truly going on, as I have learned this past week. I would encourage everyone to look at M.K.’s work with an open mind and not be so quick to jump to conclusions or bash the man. As far as I am concerned, he is right on the money.
mrbf2006 wrote:
May 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
“Well, it is not just M.K.’s hypothesis that there is a braid there-the braid IS there.”
I’m sorry, but I can’t see it. It’s not visible in that book of highly enhanced photos (sorry, my brain is blocking this morning) that came out a year or so back.
Sanderson, in commenting on the Albert Ostman story, which included simple weaving, argued that weaving is not a big step beyond the tying of simple knots. Either is well within an ape’s dexterity, but I’m not sure if this behavior has ever been documented in a known species. Anyone know? Gerald Durrell had a captive chimp who figured out how to unweave a chain link fence, but that’s easier than creating the weave in the first place.
I find it amusing that all of you, probably to a person, have not seen the DVD in which this is revealed.
Pixels? Naaaaa.
I have horses myself and see this sort of braiding all of the time. I’m not sure if these horses have been pastured with others but if that’s the case, then the horses are simply braiding one another’s manes. It sounds silly at first but they do it as a part of their mutual grooming of one another. Horses will pair up with one another and groom each others’ backs by rubbing their lips firmly across the other’s fur/manes. They rub the manes in such a way that they appear braided or wrapped. It’s EXTREMELY frustrating, lol! You can really only unravel the “braids” if you have either a can of WD-40 or a pair of scissors! No fun to take care of just before a show!
I found the braids unusual when I first saw them several years ago, but once I saw this mutual grooming behavior and talked to other horse-owners, they all said the same thing. Haha, and any horse I know - should she see a Sas, would most certainly run, frightened and wild-eyed.
What a fanciful thought though - Giant unknown hominids bonding with our livestock at night, braiding favors into their manes..
Ultimately the argument is moot. The P-G film gets tossed around like a game of ‘hot-potato’ where no one ever wins. That footage can - and will - be analyzed until the cows come home and nothing will come of it. It will prove nothing. Perhaps it is simply time to move on from it and focus energies toward finding a specimen, nothing less will satisfy the scientific community.
What we -need- is some outfit like Monsterquest or the Jane Goodall foundation to sponser some genuine researchers to spend a couple of seasons in a hot spot for sightings, and go about this in a scientific way, rather than chasing sightings (though that isn’t a -bad- thing to do)
I have studied the problem of “wild men” for 43 years, and since 1971 have studied the Patterson film of bigfoot. And I cannot say anything about the braids on Patty’s head but surely can say thast bigfoots make the braids in horses’ manes.
At first time I saw such braides in Azerbaijan (South Caucasus) in 1970, after that I studied this phenomenon there for five seasons.
And not long ago - in 2004 - I received the info about such braids in manes from the U.S.A. with many photographs of them! After we with Bayanov recommended to the owner of that braided female horse to put colour bands/ribbons to the mane.
And bigfoots started to braid those ribbons into manes!!!
A kind of play of BFs with the owner of the horse…
I have no doubt that BFs can braid hair…