Peace

One day, hopefully Mr. Standing will answer this long-looming question.

If Mr. Standing were at all a serious researcher of any caliber, then the hiring of any actors for any purpose, would have been one of the most important exercises to have been up front about. Instead there is absolutely no mention ANYWHERE on his site, or in his early writings, of hiring actors for any purpose whatsoever. Therefore, going on the assumption that he is pursuing a legitimate research protocol, lack of any such admission would seem to support the premise that he did not hire such actors and we are wrongly assuming this just because a ‘Todd’ somewhere in Edmonton wrote an ad. According to Wikipedia, census counts for the larger Edmonton metropolitan area is over 1 million people. Clearly there are thousands of ‘Todd’s’ that could have placed such an ad and for a multitude of reasons.

On the other hand, if it turns out that he now were to admit to have hired actors two years ago, then he has just crumbled his own castle, because it confirms that he has intentionally secreted this fact from being disclosed for 2 years. If it turns out he were to admit to this now, then his credibility would be completely destroyed, and it would be entirely by his own words. We would all know that he intentionally kept this information concealed and therefore intentionally deceived the public for more then two years during what was a very organized media campaign.

Todd Standing, did you hire actors in 2005?

David Rodriguez
Springfield, Oregon

I myself am a little more skeptical about the Hamilton story but did see footage of the rock face no animal could climb, other than maybe a cougar. A bear could not have dragged a body up it let alone climb it… The one thing that got me the most is the fact that Todd would not go into any detail on the subject, supposedly at the request of the family and the publicity it may cause. There are, and I use the word “apparently” 4 supporting forest personal, RCMP, and others that got involved in the search for the body and dogs had tracked to a mountain side that there was no way any normal existing animal as we know it that could just basically walk up it. And the was blood marks going up it as if a body was being carried!

Hopefully more info comes about, but once again, was it an actor I saw in the documentary or was it really the brother of the deceased? I’m going to ask him, but I don’t expect a great deal of answers on this one.

Will keep everyone posted as I go along on this

Thanks again for the input.

Cheers,

CBFResearcher (sorry for the earlier typo) tells us that the “case” is “virtually unknown as far as the details are concerned”… might one of these reasons not be that Todd Standing’s fictions are not as well crafted as he would like to believe them to be?

Incredibly, hoaxers who paid more attention to detail didn’t manage to get as far as Todd Standing has… what a fantastic self-promoter he is! Were I jockeying for fame and celebrity, I’d want a manager such as he.

An added two cents.

Ultimately, this is about one thing and one thing only: Mr. Standing’s 15 minutes of fame. Fortunately, the C2C appearance suggests that he’s reached his zenith. Unfortunately, given how long it’s taken to hit zenith, we’re going to have to patiently endure until his nadir.

CBFRresearcher: “There is a case of Danny Hamilton that is virtually unknown as far as the details are concerned, but by the looks of the blood stains going up a rock face in his film and a freaked out brother of the supposed killed person, it is possible that if you annoy a primate the way he apparently did, you are likely to die… Animal instict overrides when trapped into a corner.”

I’m sorry but this is like claiming that gorillas are innately hostile to humans because they killed Lord and Lady Greystoke according to Edgar Rice Burroughs (whose work I’ve loved since my near-infancy).

Just my two cents.

As far as Sasquatch dispatching a human being goes, it is something that is truly difficult to accept. However there was a documentary I saw in ’74 about the Nahani River in southwest corner of the Northwest Territories and how the native legends of the area spoke of wild hairy men that dispatch any human beings that dare to travel the area.

Being fond of Sasquatch I could not imagine that these ‘hairy men’ were representative. But over the years I have come across other encounter stories from the NWT, Yukon and Northern B.C. where the large hairy apemen would throw stones at the humans they met. Although these examples are also found elsewhere, as in Ape Canyon, the fact that threatening encounters in the lands of northwest Canada neighbouring the Nahani is I think of interest.

The negative encounters gave rise to an interesting idea that Bigfoot may have up to several different subspecies, variants or groups all with bigfeet! The differences could represent genetic variations (there are the roundheads and pointed heads for example) and/or differences in culture between groups (such as hunters, fishers, gatherers etc. similar to chimps) all based on geographic location, isolation and environmental zones.

Agreeably if one intentionally tries to annoy or harm these hominids the actions could be final for the one provoking. I do not know what kind of historical encounters the hominids living in the headwaters of the great Mackenzie River, its tributaries and lands to the west, had with the human beings living or journeying there, both native and later non-natives but I am led to believe that at some point prior to recorded history the encounters were neither positive nor peaceful.

Maybe this sad footage of a deadly human encounter is the result of foolish harassment by humans or an encounter with a Nahani Wild Man

Hopefully I will be able to view the amazing footage one day. If they are as claimed then bless your efforts Todd’s to obtain protection for Sasquatch (and the like!?) in Canada. Especially at a time when there is likely more people out there hunting for the hominids than ever before not forgetting to mention the loss of habitat.

Peace to the Sasquatch everywhere!

P.S. When thinking of ‘Sasquatch’, and in making a reference to them, it is the hominid variation that Patterson captured on film that naturally comes to my mind.