Comments on: Breaking News on Wisconsin Cryptid

By: sschaper

sschaper — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:20:33 +0000

A muzzle, eh?

An ape with a prothagnous (sp?) muzzle?
Arctodus simus? - the long-legged ’short-faced bear” that once roamed the northern parts of this continent before becoming extinct, and from the skeleton, appears more capable of bipedal locomotion than the Asian black bear, which can walk on two legs for up to a quarter of a mile?

Certainly doesn’t sound like either a PNW sasquatch, a plains chi-yen tanka (sp?), a skunk ape or the napes of the NE.

By: mememe

mememe — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:40:54 +0000

Well there seem to be many trying hard to bend this to be a bigfoot report dispite the witness saying he never said it was bigfoot. But i wont say more as i’ll only get my comments removed.

By: flame821

flame821 — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:27:58 +0000

From what was reported in an earlier thread, the animal in question did NOT jump onto or into the bed of the truck. The gate had been left down and it simply reached its paw in and he took off. So the animal could have pulled it out on its own or the motion of the truck peeling out could have spilled the deer onto the road where the animal reclaimed it and drug if off into the brush.

I’ve heard the term Timberbear thrown around. I’ve tried to google the term but I’m not finding anything. Is there anyone with a picture of this animal or a description from a zoological source or is it simply a ‘made up’ animal. If there is such a bear and its head does resemble a wolf this MAY explain some of the sightings.

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:18:07 +0000

epuma-

In the BFRO database there is only one sighting from Carroll County from 1981. I don’t see anything about the events of 1973. Maybe if you alerted them they could write it up - it would be very helpful for the sake of their database and future research.

By: dharkheart

dharkheart — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:45:15 +0000

The responses I get from other people I talk to about this, who have similat crypto interests as myself is one of ridicule: “Yeah, a Scoobey-Do werewolf! Hahahaha!”

I find it amazing that some people are as myopic when dealing with cryptozoology as anything else. Why not a werewolf, or something cryptid that has been called that because it IS unknown to science.

Oh, well, opinions being similar to other things and all that…

By: DreamKeeper

DreamKeeper — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:06:33 +0000

Oh yeah! The wolfman, it’s what it sounds like to me. An old folk legend up here in Northern Michigan.

By: Beansly

Beansly — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:22:57 +0000

Awesome, I live in Wisconsin! Northern part, though. I’m surprised it was seen in the south, the north is much more forested, that’s where everyone goes hunting.

By: frostea

frostea — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:11:13 +0000

i just saw a video clip on cnn.com about this sighting.
they intervewed some hunters from the area and they were pretty skeptical and one of them said the guy was probally drinking at 1am when this happened….lol

By: chrisandclauida2

chrisandclauida2 — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:51:46 +0000

i loved the so called experts they put on tv last night.

here in AZ the did a story in this and tied it in to the Apache res bigfoot.

anyways they showed the so called experts stating no animal would approach the running truck with a man in it especially a bear or other large animal.

i laughed because bears will go anywhere for an easy meal. so will any other animal especially if they were coming after it when he took it from them.

look at the big cats in Africa. they may fear man, as do other animals, but once that man is in a vehicle he is no longer a man to fear or hunt but something that they dont see as a threat.

bottom line boys and girls man on two feet is either a meal or a danger. man in vehicle is neither. in a truck a man is a curiosity and not a man.

By: epuma

epuma — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:20 +0000

After viewing the ABC-TV national news spot Sunday night, the Holly Hill, Wisc description fits more of a Bigfoot or Sasquatch, than any bear, barring a grizzly.

In June, 1973 in southern Carroll Co, Maryland, state & local police had multiple similar reports from dozens of credible observers, one was an astrophysicist. Being “on-call” to Md State Police for “strange phenomena events” and with help of several law enforcement agencies, a national guard unit & volunteer firefighters, we conducted a 12 hour search supported by 500+ men covering 25-sq. miles of woods. Huge 14″ tracks were found & casted. We still have our set. Others went to Wash. State Univ. Prof. Grover Krantz & Rene Dahinden in British Columbia. Last reports of Carroll Co Bigfoot had it moving west towards the Allegheny Mountains. We to were ridiculed, but just ignored the ignorant skeptics.