Goodall, Goddard & Patty: Female Power
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 2nd, 2008
Anna Marie Goddard and Jane Goodall, along with the best of a female Bigfoot nicknamed “Patty” on video, are strong combinations ~ for a variety of reasons ~ to consider when pondering the reality of Sasquatch.
Anna Marie Goddard
Jane Goodall
In a 2002 interview on National Public Radio, Jane Goodall first publicly expressed her views on Bigfoot, by remarking,
Yeti or Bigfoot or Sasquatch….Well now, you’ll be amazed when I tell you that I’m sure that they exist….I’ve talked to so many Native Americans who all describe the same sounds, two who have seen them. I’ve probably got about, oh, thirty books that have come from different parts of the world, from China from, from all over the place.Dr. Jane Goodall, while being interviewed by Ira Flatow, National Public Radio’s “Science Friday,” September 27, 2002.
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Below is the audio of famed chimpanzee field worker Jane Goodall speaking about her thoughts on Sasquatch mixed with a variety of the best of existing Bigfoot videos.
The second video is an enhanced version of (the former “Playmate video,” now) the “Redwoods video” (taken August 28, 1995). For more on the Redwoods video, see the discussion in the BBC Wildlife, September 1998 by Jeff Meldrum and Richard Greenwell.
For the historical record, Dr. Jeff Meldrum renamed what was at first called the “Playmate Bigfoot video” to the “Redwoods video” (so it would be taken more seriously). The crew was filming a pilot in which a Playboy Playmate named Anna Marie Goddard was involved. She does not appear in the “Redwoods video” but was in the RV when the footage was taken. Nevertheless, the undertones of her presence are significant in analyzing this entire scenario and how this video is viewed today.
The question must be asked, would the initial attention to this video even been there without Ms. Goddard’s involvement? Were not her rather outspoken candid statements (for example, on the “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno and on “Weakest Link”) that she had seen a Bigfoot critical to this video being viewed more widely? What about acknowledging her bravery in coming forward as an eyewitness? What about examining the themes of speculation underlying this video because of her part in the story?
While Goddard’s presence may be underplayed by other researchers, maybe the time is proper to take another look at why this was originally entitled the “Playmate video,” giving her due credit for her openness about her experience.
Dr. Jane Goodall appears with Dr. John Bindernagel, in support of his 1998 book, North American’s Great Ape: The Sasquatch.
This is a very interesting new article about Sasquatch research & female Sasquatch researchers. Very well done indeed.
I do have one frustration here, in the video clip that has Jane Goodal’s interview in it, the music is so loud that I can barely hear Jane speaking.
Yes, I know what you are saying about the music. But the work put into assembling so many of those Bigfoot videos was so good, on balance, I thought it was worth sharing this here.
Great bit Loren! Dr. Goodall brings so much in the way of public interest to the “quest”. Dr. Bindernagel, Dr. Meldrum, the late, great Dr.Krantz, to name a few, all should be given full credit for being so open about their personal thoughts on Sasquatch reality. These are the sort of scientific minds that make the search for Sasquatch a legitimate, and worthwhile, undertaking. I hope that one of these people, and yourself, will be rewarded with the successful discovery of this true North American Ape in the very near future!
IMO Goodall is more beautiful than Goddard.