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Happy Bigfoot Thanksgiving

Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 23rd, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving to All! Let us surround ourselves with our friends, families, foes, and forest-foraging and fjord-frolicking cryptids.

In the USA, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, in Canada on the second Monday in October, and in the UK, as another name for the Harvest Festival, held in churches across the country on a Sunday marking the end of the nearby rural harvest. Celebrations like it are held worldwide under various names, at different points in the year. All may have unannounced cryptid guests.

Thanksgiving has a way of bringing people together. One famous November Thanksgiving adventure involved Ivan T. Sanderson and a well-known "film" in 1967. The holiday’s events kicked off a famous but little mentioned showing of the Roger Patterson-Bob Gimlin Bigfoot footage of October 20, 1967.

Late in November, Sanderson was attempting to show the P-G footage to a panel of scientists, through contacts and the support of Argosy editor Milt Machlin and publisher Harry Steeger. Near Thanksgiving, after Steeger put Patterson and Gimlin on a plane back home (they were in New York City to show the footage privately and arrange the publication of some frames in a forthcoming issue of Argosy), Sanderson finalized his plans to screen the film in Washington D. C.

Machlin flew from New York City to D. C. to assist and audio record the remarks of the participants in the screening. Besides Machlin and Sanderson, present at that December 2, 1967 showing were N. 0. Wood, Jr., Director of Management Operations for the U.S. Department of Interior, representing the Secretary of that Department Stewart Udall on his written request, A. Joseph Wraight, Ph.D., Chief Geographer, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, then of the U.S. Department of Commerce (who also was a human ecologist), John R. Napier, D.Sc., Director Primate Biology Program, The Smithsonian Institution, Vladimir Markotic, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Archeology at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Allan Bryan, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Representing the National Geographic Society there was Tom Allen, whom Sanderson would later describe as a former editor and writer with the Sunday New York Daily News and former managing editor of Chilton Books. What we have heard about their remarks is that the individuals in the group were generally positive, but mixed. Napier (somewhat negative about the footage) and Markotic (positive) would go on to write books on Sasquatch. Sanderson would pen his famous extremely pro-P-G footage article in Argosy.

Whatever happened to the transcript of the audiotape recording of that meeting?

Many thanks to artist Ted Bastien of Bugsport, a mythical location in Maine (see these links for more of his work), for sharing this greeting with us on today’s American holiday.

Needless to say, click on the cartoon art to make it bigger.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 at 6:10 am and is filed under Bigfoot, Breaking News, Comics, CryptoZoo News, Cryptomundo Exclusive, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Media Appearances, Museums, Reviews, Sasquatch. You can follow responses via our RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is not allowed.

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11 Responses to “Happy Bigfoot Thanksgiving”

Riptor responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 am
Even though we don’t celebrate thanksgiving in Portugal, I wish everybody who does has fun on theirs.

Happy turkey-day everyone.
fuzzy responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 10:07 am
Nice to see Ted Bastien’s art gracing these scrolls, but who are all those characters?

Visit Bugsport to investigate!
Ceroill responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 10:09 am
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Or Happy Thursday for those not in the U.S.!
YarriWarrior responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 10:32 am
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I am about to lower the hammer-of-the-Gods upon the turkey and homemade noodles, best to all and enjoy the family fellowship! Yarri
dialthree responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 10:42 am
Happy Thanksgiving to the whole Cryptomundo family!
mystery_man responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 11:09 am
I’m not in the US now, but I’m from there originally and I do miss Thanksgiving dinners. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! And oh, I love the illustration on this page! Wish I could get a poster of this for my wall.
mrbf2006 responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Happy Turkey Day to all!!! This has been quite a year for Cryptozoology and for Cryptomundo, and I hope this continues to go on. I enjoy reading Cryptomundo every day, and a lot of the time, I learn something new. I am thankful for Cryptomundo, actually. Keep up the good work, Loren, Craig, John and Rick!
sausage1 responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 4:54 pm
I would like to wish all you bloggers in the New World a happy thanksgiving.

John, Bedford, England
bill green responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Hey everyone happy thanksgiving. I hope you all had a wonderful time. I wonder if anyone got any reports of sasquatch creatures or other cryptozoology animals today. People might report seeing these creatures near highways etc on this holiday rush hour.
ToddPartain responds: November 23rd, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Today at the table my four year old daughter asked me what I was thankful for. I told her I was thankful to be here . My oncologist said I’m in remission.

Happy Thanksgiving
Labyrinth_13 responds: November 24th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
I get an email every year from my friends in Australia asking me to explain AGAIN exactly what Thanksgiving is all about. (Yes, I got one this year, too!)

I always tell them it is like an Aussie BBQ, only without the lamb on the grill, and much more turkey than they ever have (but without nearly as much beer as they serve in Oz). I think they understand.

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.

Curt

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