Something Stinky from Salt Fork Comes! Another BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT Update, SASQUATCH SUMMIT, Rene and Kokanee, and MORE

Jan. 14th Preliminary Poster. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, Late-January Edition, 2011

Here's another grand amalgamation for y'all.

Be sure to SEE BELOW for the last in the first round of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT videos, numbers 31-36 are presented viewable here.

In case you don't know, another Tom Yamarone, et al., production is coming to a town probably not near you. If you dare cross the border into forbidden Canada, home of the sinister wild-Sasquatch-man described back in the 1920s by J.W. Burns, you might just be able to shake the hand of the Moses of Bigfooting, JOHN GREEN, at the SASQUATCH SUMMIT.
Rather than rattle on endlessly about it, let's just say that Cliff Barackman wrote on his North American Bigfoot Blog a good piece on the upcoming mega-convention at Harrison Hot Springs, Canada. Read it HERE. Don't forget to renew your passports.

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ANOTHER WRETCHED HOAX!

Bigfoot, on the Verge of Tears.

FIND BIGFOOT on FACEBOOK Declares a KNOWN HOAX the Number Six Bigfoot Video of All Time!

Watch it HERE. Or view the "updated" version the hoaxer claims he will never take down HERE. Then ask yourself, WHY did anyone believe this crap in the first place?
Shockingly, on the same day, or the day after we got wind of the full-on-viral "tree-pulling Bigfoot" video on YouTube being a full-on hoax, those clever guys at FindBigfoot (or just "Bigfoot") on Facebook declared it to be well-within the top ten best clips of a Sasquatch ever! This video was shot by a dude named Jeff, from Ohio; though why he calls himself "The Squatchmaster" is truly beyond our understanding. From the first time we saw it, personally, we just knew it was fake; and looking closer its fake-ishness became all too clear. Astonishing, even further, were the declarations made by Bigfoot-Facebook of utter conviction of the reality of the film clip, and also some very bizarre interpretations thereof. This went WELL BEYOND saying the thing "confirmed on cone-head" when the figure was actually wearing a hoodie; it went right on into confirming the nature of Bigfoot's culture. This is the last straw for Facebook-Bigfoot, whose complete hubris of assumption, presupposition and pareidolia have been truly fascinating up to this point. Now they have really jumped the squatch.

SquatchCoward's You Tube page with Hoaxed Video, Salt Fork Park, Ohio

 We quote from there page (linked above):

"#6 Best Bigfoot Video 6/54 "Sasquatch breaking down tree, voice, track trackway, possible ceremony" Ohio 1/9 to 1/16 2011 Posted by anonymous researcher "SquatchMaster"
This is a compilation of the best of two weekends of expeditions in Ohio. very shaky footage, but contains great data. SM sees two Sasquatch briefly. Flims three alarm knocks one crossing a gap, and one up in a tree. Then SM films the greatest display of strength by a Sasquatch that is clearly under stress. Another Sasquatch is up a tree. Confirms on long arms, coned head, slope to back(trapezoid connections). Voice is heard during the breaking down of tree. Likely instructions to the other Sasquatch, the filmer or possible ceremony in breaking down tree."


"Ceremony," we ask? OMG, as they say. Rather than babble on here we'll just offer the set of comments we left on the video's page on their Facebook site. Be sure to read ALL of the comments in there. You might just find their credibility damaged and your own native skepticism rising up against all of this YouTubing Blobsquatchery. Don't feed the hoaxers. End Blobsquatching Now!

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  Steven Streufert If the guy filming it admits he was hoaxed, what does this "confirm"? Bad judgment and Squatch-on-the-brain syndrome here at FindBigfoot.
  

  Thursday at 4:22pm ·

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  Steven Streufert Gullibility and presupposition will get us absolutely nowhere; and in fact, will make us look like pure idiots to the "outside world." The rest of the world is laughing at all of Bigfootery every time one of these stupid videos is released. In fact, I am sure it is for just such a reaction that hoaxers do what they do.
  

  Thursday at 8:53pm ·

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  Steven Streufert ‎"Ceremony"? Are you KIDDING??? Number Six all-time video? This set of assumptions destroys all credibility for FindBigfoot/FaceBook. I am sure the vast majority of "fans" of this site are only such for the humor value and the cool Bigfoot avatar it adds to one's news feed. HOAX! Proven hoax, guys; and obviously a hoax before it was proven and admitted. Listen to Tim Stover/TCSJR Bigfoot's show on www.blogtalkradio.com .
  

  Thursday at 9:01pm 

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  Steven Streufert Far from merely "providing a forum for sharing encounters," FB/FIND BF is claiming to be an AUTHORITY on these matters, an attitude demonstrating hubris. This claim calls into question all of their past work, however good some of it may have been. Over-eagerness in assumptions leads to projection, false conclusions, and outright hallucination. Pareidolia. Look it up. It is a known perceptual aberration.
  

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  Steven Streufert 
  

  New methodology:
  Assume it is a hoax first. Try to eliminate human factors. Know the limits of the video medium. Analyze the full context. Interview the witnesses and go to the site. Gather confirming ancillary evidence. Then look honestly at the figure in form and behavior. THEN ask, does it demonstrate qualities that could not be human or other animal? Then, finally, ask if it "confirms" on previous proposed BF film and sighting accounts. Then question those previous accounts. Accept what remains as possibility, not the final proven truth. Wait for further, better evidence. ELIMINATE the impossible (and the all too probable), and that which remains should be the truth.

  
  

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  Steven Streufert Don't feed the hoaxers. End blobsquatching now!
  

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  Steven Streufert Listen here streaming online or by downloadable podcast on BlogTalk Radio for the FULL, REAL story of the HOAX, with TCSJR BIGFOOT:
  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tcsjrbigfootradio/2011/01/28/tcsjrbigfoot-radio
  

  12 hours ago

Find out more, follow these links:
TCSJR BIGFOOT covers THE BETRAYAL and HOAX on BlogTalk Radio HERE.
View the hoaxer, "The SquatchMaster's," Stupid Confession HERE. Or watch it here:

View his full array of videos HERE, under "Uploads, See All," if you can bear it. It seems that he went from serious though frustrated researcher to hoaxer, and then to hoaxer-joker-covering-his-ass, all in one short year. Wow, and some people have spend decades doing this; but Mr. JeffMaster knows all, we suppose. It would seem his goal, in the end, was just to try to trouble and defame Tim Stover and Don Keating. One of the more un-fabulous careers in Bigfooting goes down into the dust of infamy! Good riddance. Hopefully some of the other stinky stuff coming out of Salt Fork State Park will clear up before this year's annual Ohio Bigfoot Conference? Here's hoping!

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Can YOU pinpoint the PGF site? Let us Know!!!

FINALLY, here are the last of our first year's BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT videos. We filmed a concluding segment of SUMMARY video of discussion between the main characters at Cinnabar Sam's Restaurant in Willow Creek a couple of weeks back, and these are even now being edited for YouTube by Robert Leiterman. Look for these coming soon, and of course MORE next summer.

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Here is PART THIRTY-ONE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we return to the closed dirt road above the PGF site(s) and try to get glimpses down onto the sandbars. Then we proceed in a treacherous and perhaps foolhardy hike down the near-vertical hillside to one of the more promising gravel bars near Dahinden's marked spot.

Here is PART THIRTY-TWO of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we head down the treacherous hill, trying to coordinate a three-site upper "aerial" view of the proposed sandbar locations within the "General Consensus Site." Making our way down a near-vertical jungle-like hillside and trying to view through the trees doesn't prove too easy to accomplish.

Here is PART THIRTY-THREE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we reach the bottom of the hill and get a full view of one of the best looking gravel bars. Robert recreates a humorous, plausible walk of the Creature in the part that is not fully overgrown with new trees. Big trees in back, the creek course looks just right... could THIS be the spot?

Here is PART THIRTY-FOUR of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we not only photograph a Blobsquatch, but we also find the best Big Trees yet, ancient stumps in just the right spots, and an old fallen Douglas fir that could have been one of the background trees in the PGF (downed, just like Rene Dahinden said it was in 1983).

Here is PART THIRTY-FIVE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Nearing the end of the first year's phase! Here we find some nice mushrooms (Bigfoot food!) and look at more stumps. The following discussion finds us agreeing that this location looks VERY GOOD. We may have found the Big Trees; but further study is required.

Here is PART THIRTY-SIX of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Ending of the first year's phase, here we get one last look from high up on the hillside over the Byrne and MK sites. STAY TUNED for our new SUMMATION SERIES, being taped this weekend here in Willow Creek. Have fun!



The BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT series, now at 36 videos, may be seen on YouTube under "Uploads, See All" at BFRO-VIDEOS.
BEWARE! More are coming soon!

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BONUS FEATURES:
Check out These Hilarious Kokanee Beer Ads with Rene Dahinden!

Click HERE if the player box above does not function on your browser or phone. Hang on until the end, as there are TWO variant videos in this YouTube presentation.

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Recent Visitor to Bigfoot Books, Tim Olson, now living in Arcata, Humboldt County:

Long-time Bigfooter, Tim Olson, during his Bigfoot Books Willow Creek visit.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Me wonder why hu-man need hoax. You ever see Bigfoot make hoax of hu-man? Why would me WANT to? Why me want be scrawny, stinky, sickly looking, shoe wearer naked ape? It boggle me brains. If me hoax, it only to wear hoodie, sneak in camp, and steal hu-man beer.
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Yet MORE Videos: THE BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, Nearing Conclusion of Year One. THOMSQUATCH, MYSTERY SKULL, BOOKS, MORE...!

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, Mid-January Edition, 2011

The first year's phase of THE BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT videos are nearly completed. Please find another run of them viewable below. This weekend we worked on a SUMMATION SERIES filmed here in Willow Creek, among the hunting trophy heads and hides and historical artifacts at Cinnabar Sam's restaurant. Hopefully these last few will tie things up with our PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS and NEW RESEARCH DIRECTIONS for next year, making it seem as if we did something more than wander aimlessly through the creek and over the woods. These new videos will appear soon, as soon as Robert Leiterman gets over the burn-out of editing over six hours' worth of videos for YouTube. Damn, we could have made a European Art Film! What follow are videos 22-30 in the series. Look to the upper left sidebar of this blog to find links to the previous ones.

The Bluff Creek Film Site Project Crew, Bigfoot nerds in action!

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Here is PART TWENTY-TWO of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Yet another day, here Robert, Ian and Yours Truly start the hike up from Bluff Creek Bridge to the P-G Film site. Herein we explore the old ford that preceded the current bridge, look for old road cuts, and think we have stumbled upon the real Patterson-Gimlin base camp site, marked with a rebar rod, perhaps by Rene Dahinden.

Here is PART TWENTY-THREE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Could THIS be the PGF site? Here we encounter the first plausible sandbar area downstream from the general consensus site. This one looks very, very plausible, and corresponds with dissenting views we've heard from Al Hodgson, Bobbie Short, and others. This one matches the old photos and diagrams, too.

Here is PART TWENTY-FOUR of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Heading upstream we see clear signs of the old creekside logging road, strange old stumps and Douglas fir optical illusions. Also, here we see our first red-leaved vine maple, the sure sign of true Autumn in Bluff Creek--just as seen in the PGF.

Here is PART TWENTY-FIVE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Heading upstream farther we go through the MK Davis-proposed site up to the Peter Byrne-proposed location. Nothing seems quite in the right place to be the real PGF Bigfoot film site, but we keep on looking.

Here is PART TWENTY-SIX of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Heading upstream farther we hit the "Gulch" where we have identified the "Christopher Murphy Site" as seen in his book, KNOW THE SASQUATCH/BIGFOOT. Some nice big trees are in the back, but they're sitting up on a steep hill. We see that the creek has eaten away a portion of the original sandbar.

Here is PART TWENTY-SEVEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Heading upstream farther we come to the gravel bar most closely matching Dahinden's "aerial" photo from 1971. Ian gets in some digs against "Google Earth Armchair Investigators," and we speculate as to what could have caused the creek to change direction over the years.

Here is PART TWENTY-EIGHT of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we speculate on what current features of the creekbed might be similar to what MK sees in his Bluff Creek Massacre Theory. One very good looking potential track way is analyzed, as well as root balls "as big as a room." Where the creek splits in two courses we find a feature identified by Murphy, Perez and John Green.

Here is PART TWENTY-NINE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we start to head back downstream, measuring with a laser pointer to the MK Davis site. See me drinking a beer while doing research in the field. Great! Just from hillside height we are basically able to rule out the MK site from our list of authentic locations.

Here is PART THIRTY of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we finish our hike downstream, with a lengthy stop-over at the MK Davis site. We locate what we think is MK's flagging tape on a tree branch, sitting over an old rotten downed log... clear markings. STAY TUNED for our final day's videos and a coming new set of summation sessions. Then, on to next summer!

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The BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT series, now at 36 videos, may be
seen on YouTube under "Uploads, See All" at BFRO-VIDEOS.

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RECENT NEWS...


The BIGFOOT FIELD REPORTER show with Sharonlee featured Yours Truly recently.
CLICK TO LISTEN to the streaming Archive or download the Podcast :
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sharonlee0827/2011/01/10/the-bigfoot-field-reporter
The BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, Robert Leiterman, Ian and Yours Truly, appeared recently on MNBRT RADIO with Abe Del Rio:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mnbrt/2011/01/04/mnbrt-radio-with-steven-streufert

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MYSTERY SKULL?

Customers brought this odd skull in for examination the other day. What do YOU think it is? They thought it might be some kind of monkey, an "Indian Devil," or even one of the "Little People" said to live around this region. One look at it had us thinking CHUPACABRAS; but we soon found out thanks to our trusty Facebook friends what the skull really came from. Check it out... it is still very strange looking.

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OK, we have indeed been a bit lazy about blogging lately. Sorry about that. We've been leaving comments on other people's blogs, putzing around on the JREF Forums, and generally drowning in a sea of email. We'd like to recommend the fairly new arrival of THOM POWELL'S blog, THOMSQUATCH. He is not afraid to cover some of the more strange and interesting aspects of the Bigfoot phenomenon (as evidenced by his fine book, 

THE LOCALS: A Contemporary Investigation of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch Phenomenon). The comments we left on his posts are a good clue to our own thinking these days, so check them out; but do go to Thom's blog to see what we were responding to, eh? These little snippets offer a touch of what we've been thinking about lately. We promise, we WILL be back with more ideas and incisive analysis. Just let us get free of this Bluff Creek stuff, OK?

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Steven Streufert said...

Unless, that is, someone brings in some bones or a body tomorrow. Then at least we may do anatomy. From that point our attempts at behavioral studies would at least be taken seriously, and there would be more proper funding for endeavors aiming to document how the crafty critters live. If existence were proven, but they were still exceedingly difficult to study in the field, then that *absence* could at least be taken as a proof of extreme intelligent adaptation.

Oh, and by the way, I'm not saying we should kill one (as if we could!).

Great start on the blog, Thom!

...and then this...

Steven Streufert said...

Just because "crazy" things happen, and you are there with an open mind to observe them, does not make one crazy. Right outside of our consensus version of reality the universe is "totally insane." Well, surely it obeys "laws," but much of what is going on is not yet fully understood. We are biologically predetermined to experience a certain range, a slice of perceptual reality, and really not much more once our culture gets in there and restricts it further. Much of what we now call "paranormal" will one day be understood by science; but human subjective experience runs way ahead of what now may be empirically proven. Likewise, much of what science now knows runs way outside of normal human physical experience. The problem is in sorting through "the unknown" to find "the real," the provisionally real, at least. Science may be a "candle in the dark"; but we should always remember that the scientific has a liminal edge where it bleeds into the as-yet-unproven and mysterious realms.

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Steven Streufert said...

If one pays attention, EVERYTHING is "paranormal." Also, what is paranormal or supernatural to one creature may not be so to another. If we humans were suddenly able to utilize the perceptual apparatus of, say, a bat, we would be utterly stunned by the influx of bizarre and incomprehensible stimuli. There are clearly levels of causation that we do not or cannot (yet) understand or perceive, but nonetheless exist; and these synchronicities are just the odd glimpses of this that we are able to, stumblingly, pick up.

****BOOKS****

EXCITING READING ON ITS WAY TO OUR BRAIN!

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This little conversation was started by famous Russian hominologist, Igor Burtsev, on Facebook. We commented there, too. We post it here as a reminder to all of us Bigfooters... be nice to each other, cooperate, don't be a turd, think like a Sasquatch!

Igor Burtsev

I see, so many BF researchers and just their friends are in the USA, and so many encounters happen.
Why don't all of you unite and set up the public movement/society "For Recognition of Bigfoots" and demand such a recognition?

January 10 at 1:00pm ·  · Comment

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    Steven Streufert Mostly we all just argue amongst ourselves.

    January 10 at 10:04pm ·  ·  2 people
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    Larry Wentz Steven is right. Everyone has different agendas, methods & belief systems so reaching consensuses is difficult among researchers. Arguments, ridicule, lies/exaggerations of others & belief persecution is very common from what I see. That is not always the case though. The great thing about cryptozoology is the people involved... the bad thing about cryptozoology is the people involved.

    January 11 at 9:36am ·  ·  1 person
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    Igor Burtsev No matter of differences. One idea should unate all the BF researchers and friends, just one idea: RECOGNITION of THEM!
    Not depending of any differences - in approach, methods, etc...
    Just to demand authorities to legalise them!

    January 11 at 4:35pm ·  ·  2 people
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    Buddy Ellis I agree, I think all of us researchers should band together as one .

    January 11 at 6:35pm ·  ·  1 person
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    Steven Streufert 

    Bigfooters are the nicest people in person, usually. We just tend to dissect each other, as we don't have the BF to study reliably enough, nor a body to document it for science. No matter how much of an encounter we might have with them, the general public (and a lot of Bigfooters) simply will not believe it. That gets frustrating; and then we all come up with theories, and that is what we argue about, or what causes all of us (seemingly) to talk about each other behind each others' backs. Sometimes the theories are so strange, or so unfounded, that one can't help but comment. And then it is taken personally. And then... the same old story.

    January 12 at 1:38pm · 
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    Steven Streufert We can't even seem to agree on what Bigfoot IS.

    January 12 at 1:42pm ·  ·  1 person

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!
Angry Bigfoot is still hibernating, though it looks to be a warm winter out here in Willow Creek, CA. However, at one point as he thrashed about in his sleep he was heard to grumble and  mutter and then exclaim,
"Dag Nabbit, hu-man! Pool of blood it not. Me plant bone on wrong film site. Me trick MK hu-man. Me hypnotize, whisper Sci-Fi story in him ear! Truth be, ME do Massacre on yer ass you not shut up. Let me sleep."
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This blog is copyrighted, 2011 Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert, aside from materials presented from others for "research purposes only," though you may borrow and quote if full citation is given, preferably with notice to us and a kindly link to this blog. Thanks!

NEWS FLASH! BIGFOOT FIELD REPORTER Radio Show Appearance This Sunday by BIGFOOT'S BLOG.

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, Special Notice, Early January 2011



Coming up Sunday! Yours Truly will appear on The BIGFOOT FIELD REPORTER show with Sharonlee. Tune in, call in, join the chat room on BlogTalk, or just use this link to download or stream the podcast archive. We're not sure even at this point what topics we'll cover, but we bet you it will be... interesting! 
CLICK TO LISTEN:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sharonlee0827/2011/01/10/the-bigfoot-field-reporter

Sharonlee reports on Bigfoot events and activities across the United States. She resides in Ohio. Find her BF Field Reporter page on FaceBook HERE. She has a Bigfoot Field Reporter Blog here: http://bigfootlives.blogspot.com/ where she blogged about the upcoming show under the January 6th entry.

NOTE: Check the link for the exact time. It may change, as the original time conflicted with SquatchDetective's slot. The last we heard it was going on at 4:00 Pacific Time, or 7:00 Eastern Time.

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If you missed it live do go check out the archived podcast of the MNBRT Radio show we did this Monday with Robert Leiterman and Ian of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This was a good show, we all thought, so we hope it makes your PGF-Nerd day!
CLICK TO LISTEN:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mnbrt/2011/01/04/mnbrt-radio-with-steven-streufert

The BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT series, now at 33 videos, may be
seen on YouTube under Uploads at BFRO-VIDEOS.

Sharon Lee took this photo when she visited our shop in 2009.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!
Angry Bigfoot is hibernating. However, at one point as he rolled over in his sleep he was heard to mutter, "Why we not can just get along, hu-man?"

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This blog is copyrighted, 2011 Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert, aside from materials presented from others for "research purposes only," though you may borrow and quote if full citation is given, preferably with notice to us and a kindly link to this blog. Thanks!