Comments on: Bigfoot Braids?

By: Igor Bourtsev

Igor Bourtsev — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:28:44 +0000

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…

By: sschaper

sschaper — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:07:11 +0000

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)

By: eireman

eireman — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:10:00 +0000

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.

By: calmly.crashing

calmly.crashing — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:57:35 +0000

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..

By: John L. Johnsen

John L. Johnsen — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:45:16 +0000

I find it amusing that all of you, probably to a person, have not seen the DVD in which this is revealed.

Pixels? Naaaaa.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:17:33 +0000

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.

By: mrbf2006

mrbf2006 — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:08:43 +0000

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.

By: Artist

Artist — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:43:14 +0000

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?

By: size 13

size 13 — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:26:01 +0000

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.

By: Briar_rabitt

Briar_rabitt — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:13:15 +0000

Am I just Blind? Heronimus,Heronimus,Heronimus Glass eye. enough said