The others just raise my eyebrows. But the eyebrow-raisers say absolutely nothing about the others, any more than the many suit and print fakes say anything about the accounts that almost certainly cannot be explained that way.

I think John may have been saying Jacko was probably a newspaper hoax for some time Kopite.

Ah right, thanks. I must have missed that. So many forums/websites and even public meetings about sasquatch that possibly Green did have that opinion for a while and said so openly but I just never came across it. Like I said, it has been his books (which I have loved by the way) where I have mostly got my info about John’s opinions from.

Cheers.

If there is a single sasquatch sighting that makes me want the creature to be out there, it is Roe’s. It’s very touching when you read the original.

Ostman’s? I’d strongly bet no.

Am I convinced of sasquatch? No.

Is it essential to keep an open mind? Yes.

Something that has always amused me about Ostman’s account was the young male BF’s skill at “frogging”.

Of course Ostman did not call the activity “frogging”, but practitioners of Transcendental Meditation do this thing they call “yogic flying” when your energy is channeled creating a lift of your body, kind of like a frog.

In short they say they can levitate themselves for short periods of time above the surface of the earth.

Albert O’s young BF would sit his butt down, grab his feet and “frog” for a distance of about 20 feet. He would do this as a form of entertainment (I guess). But why would Albert make something like this up?

It did not really have anything to do with TM at all, I just brought this up because that is what it reminded me of at the time. What a weird thing for a BF to be doing.

Of course the bit about the “family” sleeping on the woven blankets made if cedar bark and moss was a bit of unique thing to say also. Also, why would an experienced woodsman with a compass and several days to observe his surroundings not be able to go back to the hidden lair and stop people from calling him a liar.

Just venting!

I tend to agree with him on more or less everything he has just said. Personally I have little or no doubts about the PGF, Ruby Creek, Roe, Thomas and Bluff Creek 1958. I’m less sure about Ostman (open minded but I don’t totally accept it), Jacko (never really bought into that in the first place) and Ape Canyon (though like Green I do think it’s probable that something happened there).

Anyway thank you John. I hope you will contribute more here in future.