Marlowe Missive on Massacre Revisited
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 28th, 2010
Of late, with the “Wife Swap” business coming up, Scott Marlowe’s name has surfaced regarding his overlap with the “Bigfoot Massacre” theory getting rather wild in 2008. Rob Robinson’s statement can be found here.
As you may recall, Florida’s Scott Marlowe sent a letter to the District Attorney in Humboldt County, California, “pursuant to an investigation of M. K. Davis’ ‘revelations’ about the Patterson-Gimlin ‘Bigfoot’ film.”
We all heard “hypertrichosis” thrown into this story put forth by Marlowe for the first time, when M. K. Davis was relating the story to a group of tribal hairy hominids being killed before “Patty” was filmed in 1967.
Marlowe gave permission for this to be first published here in 2008. It is reprinted again to settle a debate that has begun in the comment section of another thread, regarding links, history, and more.
Needless to say, the opinions, speculations, and conclusions expressed in this letter are only those of Scott Marlowe’s.
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June 14, 2008
Dear Mr. Gallegos,
It has become necessary to correspond with you as a number of questions have arisen over newly developed material from the film which Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin took in the Bluff Creek area of Humboldt County back on October 20, 1967.
A number of photographic experts have re-examined clarified images from the film, along with several animal experts, and concluded that the “animal” pictured in the film was actually a person afflicted with congenital generalized Hypertrichosis. Hypertrichosis is a medical term referring to a condition that exhibits as excessive body hair, the so-called werewolf syndrome, such as afflicts the now famous Mexican Wolf Boy.
In addition to this determination, there is increasing photographic evidence that the person, or possibly persons, so afflicted were shot and killed by others in the Patterson/Gimlin party who remain unnamed by Mr. Gimlin who survives Robert Patterson.
While circumstantial, there are additional inconsistencies in the account of the events that suggest there is something more to the story than has been revealed by those involved.
Having been associated with the analysis work of two of the photographic experts examining the film, Mr. Marlon Davis and Mr. John Johnsen, I am compelled to contact you to avoid any hint of complicity in failing to inform the authorities of these potentially criminal acts.
I would suggest that it would be prudent for your office to initiate an investigation into this matter in order to ascertain the actual facts surrounding this event and determine if criminal prosecution proceedings should be initiated.
Please feel free to contact me for additional details, due diligence sources and information regarding the researchers who have discovered the material in question.
Regards,
Scott Marlowe
Pangea Institute
514 Winter Terrace
Winter Haven, FL 33881
Of course, as this turned out, Marlowe had targeted the incorrect county, for starters.
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Brother! I remember that whole mess when it started. It was a comedy of errors, one after another, based on a false premise, that a massacre of BF took place.
I think the whole problem began with the so called “photographic experts”. Really, were they really experts? After doing a color separation and saying the water was tinged red with blood, sounds more like an amature conclusion based on lack of true digital analysis skills.
When I first read about this so called “BF Massacre Theory”, I read the details carefully. When reading about how these people reached the conclusion that a BF Massacre took place, I had to stop after each sentence and actually laughed. After each sentence I said to myself, “Really? You are kidding me, right? You can’t be serious!” But they were!
There were digital artifacts added to the photographs by the process of analysis. And sometimes, pixel counts are reduced in the process of photographic analysis. But one thing is for sure, you can not discount the possibility of artifacts being added or removed during that photographic analysis and base your whole conclusion on faulty data. This is exactly what took place! They went out on a limb and ran with their hypothesis based on errant photographic analysis.
Once tainted photographs are used for the premise of your theory, the theory is already flawed. Showing photos to any other expert showing red tinged water and exclaiming the “photo expert” has proof that there was blood in the water and biasing the next expert’s opinion in his chosen field is not good science. Heck, it is not even good common sense!
I remember pointing this out to Johnsen and Davis in several posts here at Cryptomundo and called him out on it. But the straw that broke the camel’s back for me is when they tried to discredit Bob Gimlin in the process and accused him of foul play. Another questioning moment for me. Really? You are calling Bob Gimlin a liar? That was it for me!
And the fact that Marlowe even targeted the incorrect county, puts an exclamation point of this comedy of errors. The whole theory was ridiculous based on the true facts, which most objective people refer to as data and evidence.
I am not sure which was more ridiculous, the BF Massacre Theory or the Georgia BF Hoax. They both did nothing to help with real cryptozoological research. They both took us ten steps back in progress. And the people associated with both of these stains in cryptozoology should be ashamed of themselves.
As our good friend Bugs Bunny would say “WHAT A Maroon.”
The only “massacre” that has taken place is a massacre of good sense. Totally ridiculous!
The only way for this to even be considered would be to flat say that beyond all doubt Bigfoot, in the supposed footage or any other claim of bigfoot is real. So far that has yet to be proven.
I will retract my remark in the other thread here about being ‘behind’ that whole fiasco. I didn’t mean to start a debate but perhaps it is out there even without my big yap, haha.
Please understand, though, that when I ask something, like many people who only lurk here, it is simply because I want to know. True, I could have revisited the previous posts and reviewed the events, but all in all, as ‘Photo’ said “Really? You are kidding me, right?” It WAS a FIASCO from the get go.
Now I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer I know, being just a janitor and all and not the professionals that most of you are. But there are many people like me with an interest, maybe some experiences and perhaps something to offer, who are, quite honestly turned away by the, oh how can I put it “bitchiness” of some of you.
No I’m not talking about Loren and Craig or even most of the regular posters who have some very admirable credentials, experience, etc. Those who know what I’m saying know who I’m talking about. Before you ever get together you need to get over yourselves, or else keep on whining about how mainstream won’t take you seriously.
A united front will take that hill.
Thanks, lol I’ll get back to just observing and being in awe, haha
Speaks volumes about the ’state of the art’ of bigfoot research in Florida.
Scott has proven to simply be a ‘media hound’, holding ’skunk ape’ hunts complete with one in a costume, his so called ‘Pangea Institute’ which exists inside a computer at his home, and his constant pandering to radio shows and local celebrities.
Once the attention died down, you saw how soon he slipped from the limelight and stories like this only tend to amplify his own self image.
The sooner crypto becomes about the zoology, the quicker we can dispense with #!#!#! like this.
At the moment, there are too many people who think that reading tea leaves from 40-year-old film is how this works. Everything that can be legitimately gleaned from P/G has been. And no; nothing that has anything to do with this fiasco was legitimately gleaned.
The film says: you might want to look into the possibility that there’s an animal out there conforming to this description. Copious evidence – including legitimate analysis of the film by scientists in directly relevant fields (if you haven’t read Meldrum’s book, please do), and tracks found along the film subject’s path that conform with tracks found in many other places under similarly compelling circumstances – lend credence to what the film says.
That is IT.
The purpose P/G serves now is to continue to intrigue, until a critical mass of legitimate scientists and public are intrigued enough that we can find out, using legitimate scientific protocols to do so.
That is IT.
Reading tea leaves is not zoology. Because tea-leaf readers do not produce evidence.
Let me get this straight, the creature in the PG film was actually a person with a rare medical disorder called Hypertrichosis. I am familiar with this disorder from Discovery channel and others. It is indeed a rare disorder. Now, Patterson, Gimlin and some other fellows went out into the mountains and came across a group of people with a rare disorder and wearing no clothes. The fellows in the party gathered together and decided these poor afflicted people all need to be shot in the name all things good. So the boys opened fire, murdering several of the poor afflicted naked people hanging out in wilderness. Once they had rid the area of all but one of the trouble causing, naked, hairy mountain trespassers they decided to start filming. They filmed poor Patty running away as a warning to all hairy, medically challenged with a rare disorder, naked wilderness loiterers. Bluff creek will not tolerate this uncivilized behavior and this film shall be put forth as a warning to all people of this nature.
That’s the way I read it….