This is actually the
first time that I have come across the Erickson Project and I am
pleased because it means that serious money is now been spent to
collect DNA reports and samples. The level of infighting and
skullduggery is no surprise and I simply wish that folks would keep
quiet about it all. Once the glare of publicity is turned up, the BS
will crawl back into the ditch.
The point here is that
active collection of hair samples is taking place and it is getting
assayed. We are getting feedback.
Unfortunately, I think
that the meat sample will turn out to be a giant sloth and must be
treated differently. Sasquatches do not drop to all fours but giant
sloths do. Bears on the other hand only go erect when in full
confrontation and certainly do not attempt to travel that way.
So it appears that at the
same time we are collecting a slew of Bigfoot DNA we are also picking
up one excellent sample of plausibly Giant sloth DNA, all of which is
good.
SUNDAY,
16 SEPTEMBER 2012
DD
remarks:
The
Following is from Robert Lindsay. I personally have no information
directly from Melba Ketcham or her study and I would not divulge such
information if it came into my hands. But material already published
by Robert Lindsay is a different matter:
by Robert Lindsay | September 14, 2012 · 7:22 PM
by Robert Lindsay | September 14, 2012 · 7:22 PM
Bigfoot
News September 14, 2012
Olympic
Project successful submissions to Dr. Melba Ketchum DNA project
revealed. A source has informed
me that the Olympic Project submitted ~103 hair samples to Ketchum’s
project, and ~85 of them tested presumptive to Bigfoot by DNA.
Another ~18 Olympic Project hair samples were apparently from either
humans or known animals. Those 85 successful submissions represent
anywhere from 5-13 separate creatures.
Apparently all of the hair was gathered in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. This makes the Olympic Project the largest submitter to the project.
Updated list of successful samples to Ketchum Project. Here it is:
Rundown of samples in the Ketchum study. This will be updated every time it changes.
Bigfoot
samples submitted: Over 200
Presumptive
for Bigfoot: Almost 100
#
of Bigfoot individuals represented: 20-28
Details
of successful Bigfoot samples:
5
hair samples from
Golden Ears Provincial Park in British Columbia representing 3
separate creatures – a male, a female and a juvenile from a family
unit who were observed together prior to collecting the samples –
gathered in 2010 by Randy Brisson of the Erickson Project.
1 toenail from Larry Jenkins in the Grand Canyon area of Arizona.
1
blood sample from
JC Johnson in the Four Corners area of New Mexico (skunk in a
drainpipe sample).
1
blood and tissue sample of
a female Bigfoot representing either “Matilda” or her mother from
Crittenden, Kentucky, gathered by the Dennis Pfohl and Leila
Hadj-Chikh of the Erickson Project. Sample was obtained by gluing
glass shards on a feeding plate.
1
hair sample from
David Paulides’ NABS known as the Ulibarri sample from Hoopa
Valley, California.
1
hair sample from
Larry Surface in Southern Ohio. Surface shot the controversial
nighttime Bigfoot video that was pulled from the web a while back.
1
hair sample (possible
Dogman) from Joe Black in the Great Smoky Mountains, Eastern
Tennessee.
1
tissue (flesh including muscle and fat) sample in
the form of a slice of Bigfoot flesh from Mount Haskell, California
from the adult male Bigfoot shot dead on October 10, 2010 by Justin
Smeja in the Sierra Kills incident.
1
large sample of saliva from
the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, collected by the Olympic Project
obtained via a Bigfoot licking a trail camera.
1
hair sample from
SE Oklahoma collected by TEXLA Cryptozoological Research.
1
blood, tissue and hair sample from
a nailboard trap at Snelgrove Lake, Ontario, Canada (presumably
successful).
~85
hair samples from
the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, collected by the Olympic Project
representing 5-13 separate individuals.
That
is apparently all or nearly all of the nearly 100 successful Bigfoot
samples. The other 100 samples are all apparently from either humans
or known animals.
Best
Bigfoot samples: Smeja’s Bigfoot steak and JC Johnson’s skunk in
a drainpipe
Bigfoot
blood sample.
[This
bit following on the financial status of the Erickson project is
obviously off topic but also obviously pertinent. Since I live in
the province, I can state that unlike the USA, Western Canada has had
a rapid return to general liquidity and it is totally reasonable that
he got refinanced and is in fact busily selling lots. - arclein
]
Who
bailed out Adrian Erickson? Last
fall, Erickson was in deep doodoo financially. He was working 6 days
a week, 12 hours a day trying to keep his real estate business above
water. He was being sued by several parties, including the buyers of
his homes. He was under a lot of physical and psychological toll –
basically a stress case. His numerous investors were getting upset.
Erickson built a large real estate development in British Columbia called Ruby Ridge. He sold a number of lots but then became underwater with the US recession caused by radical neoliberal capitalism’s unregulated banking sector and massive bankster fraud. This neoliberalism-generated recession affected the whole world, including Canada. Erickson was having a hard time selling homes due to the downturn in the housing market.
He had promised buyers are variety of amenities for their lots including phone and cell coverage, water, sewage lines and roads. With no more money coming in, he was unable to provide these amenities. Through no fault of Erickson’s, his lot buyers were left holding the bag.
He also spent $3 million on his Bigfoot project, the Erickson Project, with no results to show for it yet.
Things looked grim. The prospect of bankruptcy for the business and foreclosure on Erickson’s very nice home loomed.
I’m not divulging too much personal information here as most of this has already been reported in the British Columbia press.
Here it is, 9 months later, and everything has changed. Early in the year, Erickson apparently took his Bigfoot documentary to Hollywood where it was worked on with post-production editing. In the interim, Erickson’s financial problems seem to have evaporated or at least gotten much better. The word we have is that financially, things are going quite well.
This does not make sense. The housing market in BC has not returned since last fall, so he’s not selling anymore homes than he was then. How did he get the money to send the doc to Hollywood to have it worked on? It makes no sense, because at the time it was down there, Erickson was flat broke. How did he get the huge amount of money needed to bail him out of the financial hole? He could not have made it selling lots. Someone must have bailed him out in some way.
Erickson is now happy and calm and is no longer working all the time. He is back guiding hunts and again, and he’s going to Africa soon to hunt. He seems relaxed about the subject of Bigfoot and acts like it is out of his hands and his life.
Whereas previously for a long time, he got angry anytime anyone brought up the subject. On numerous occasions, Erickson said he didn’t want to hear the word Bigfoot ever again. Furthermore, Erickson and Ketchum, who never got along, have now mysteriously become BFF’s.
Logically, none of this makes any sense. The only way this could have happened is that an unknown person or persons with a lot of money stepped in and got Erickson out of his hole by sending a lot of money his way, either via gift or investment.
I suspected that Wally Hersom gave Erickson the cash to get him out of the hole he was in and to send the documentary down to Hollywood.
However, when I asked around, a source close to Hersom emphatically told me that he strongly doubted that Hersom had either bailed Erickson out or even given him the money to take his doc to Hollywood to have it worked on.
There is suspicion that Ketchum is now the owner of Erickson’s footage, but it has been impossible to confirm. However, it does remain a hunch of mine for reasons I cannot divulge.
The events surrounding Erickson and his movie in the last 9 months remain shrouded in mystery.
Photos and video of Bigfoots exist that are better than the Patterson footage. Photos and video have been shot in the past 20 years that are said to be better than the Patterson footage. They are better than the Patterson footage in that it is clearer. At least a couple of them were shot in the Pacific Northwest.
A source who has seen the footage says that there is no way it could have been hoaxed. In both cases, the persons who own the footage refuse to release it because of the Hellish notoriety of publicity that cascades down on anyone who releases purported Bigfoot footage. The crucifixion of Melissa Hovey over her photo is a good recent example.
--By my classification, nearly all "Other" samples excluding the Olympic Hair and saliva sample, and the BC hair samples-possibly also other samples from California OTHER than the Smeja "Sierra Kills" samples-all belong to the Eastern as vs. the Western Bigfoot and should test out as more human overall. The buzz is also that the suspected "Dogman" does not match the rest. I know nothing about the test results of any of this other than what has previously been acknowledged publicly. I have heard and I am pretty sure the Sierra Kills DNA does not match the Olympic hair DNA. The word I have from prior tests is that the Western Sasquatch DNA falls into the same larger category as the modern apes and humans but does not match any of them specifically, and it does not match the "Yeti" or Orang Pendek" hair DNA which is more specifically like orangutan DNA [and so far has not been shown to be a different species from the orangutan]. The Eastern Bigfoot samples always fall into the same general range of almost-human as the Neanderthal DNA also falls into generally. This was my understanding on the matter from before any mention of the Erickson Project. I am still as interested as anyone else to see the results of the study, only in my case I had independently already heard of other Bigfoot DNA test results from beforehand.
-- Best Wishes, Dale D.
[
I also include a report made a year ago on the Erickson Project by
this same writer ]
Breathtaking
News from the Erickson Project
BY ROBERT
LINDSAY | JULY 4, 2011 · 2:17 AM
Surely
the most breathtaking news so far involves the sequencing of Bigfoot
DNA. We already
reported previously on
the sequencing Bigfoot
mitochondrial DNA, which is coming out 100% human. That
means that the Bigfoot female line goes back to human females.
However, we
can now report on the sequencing of the nuclear DNA
from the male side. The report is that it is absolutely
non-human!
It is very far away from humans. In the chart below, various hominins
are measured according to their distance away from humans in terms of
polymorphisms (P* distance).
Hominin
spp. P* Distance Date of split
Neandertal
9,200 508,000?
Denisova
18,400? 840,000
Bigfoot
68,300? 2.25 M?
Chimpanzee
182,000 6 M
As
you can see, Bigfoots are approximately 1/2 way between humans
and chimps. More precisely, they are 37.5% of the way from humans to
chimps. Also, Bigfoots are 7.4X further away from us than Neandertals
are, and they are 3.7X further away from us than Denisova was.
Neandertal split from us 508,000 YBP, and Denisova split 840,000 YBP.
I estimate that Bigfoot split from humans 2.25 million YBP, or
slightly before Homo Erectus.
We
only have DNA from three hominids: Homo sapiens, Neandertal and
Denisova. We have no DNA from Flores Man, Erectus or any of the rest.
One reason for this is that DNA degrades, and it is impossible to get
DNA from samples more than 50,000 years old. Flores Man samples were
too degraded to get any DNA yet.
Therefore,
evidence indicates that Bigfoots are a hybrid species. Some “thing,”
some “monster,” some “subhuman,” mated with human females
somewhere in Europe possibly ~20-50,000 YBP. Shades of King
Kong!
[
I find this rather difficult to accept except there has been a couple
of reports in the more distant past suggesting that women have been
taken captive in much the way of hunter gatherers generally by
Sasquatch males. So it is not something that has never been
contemplated or even observed. In fact it is a strong hint that a
Bigfoot, human coupling will be fertile, also suggested by the
cultural record. What this does mean however, is that a successful
coupling between an unknown primate and a human progenitor produced
the Bigfoot lineage around two and one half million years ago.]
What
this “thing” was is completely unknown. It must be a hominid. It
quite possibly was Homo erectus. Therefore, Bigfoots may be
Erectus-sapiens hybrids.
The
closest thing to an Erectus-sapiens hybrid is Heidelberg Man, or Homo
heidelbergensis. This was late Homo erectus trending into archaic
Homo sapiens. There is suggestive evidence that a heidelbergensis
skull was found in China dated 13,000 YBP.
If
Bigfoot is part-Erectus, this explains certain things. Erectus
still had a midtarsal break in Europe 300,000 YBP. Erectus had a
saggital crest.
It
is clear by now that the “Bigfoot is an ape” theory lies in the
dust. Bigfoot is a man, an ancient man, a blast from our ancient
past, a subhuman, a human ancestor. He’s one of us, but he’s not.
In
addition, we can report that the Erickson Project Bigfoot DNA study
has isolated DNA from 20 separate Bigfoot individuals from
around North America. They received hundreds of samples, but many
were not useful. Of the 20 separate individuals, Adrian Erickson’s
samples represented six individuals.
One
of the samples was called “unknown hand.” This was hand of a
“something,” but no one knows what. Inside the Project, people
were taking bets on what the hand was from. Dr. Melba Ketchum bet
that it was a bear. Others bet that it was not a bear.
Ketchum
never got any money from the bet. Whatever this strange object was,
it was not a bear paw. No one knows what it was. Maybe it was a
Bigfoot hand.
Don
Monroe found the hand in a dump somewhere in Montana or Idaho. A
skinned bear paw that has the claws removed and resembles a human
hand to a great deal. The hand was a bone with some relict skin
remaining on it. All of the hair was gone. It’s not known if
Ketchum’s lab even tested the hand for DNA.
One
of the samples was a bone from a stream in Oregon. It may have been a
femur. The bone looks like a human bone, but it is much too large. It
was submitted by David Paulides’ North American Bigfoot Search
(NABS).
We
also have some updates in the
story about the killing of the two Bigfoots near the Dixie Mountain
Game Refuge in California’s Sierra Nevada in November 2010.
There were two other men in the truck with the shooter at the time.
At least one of the men was absolutely hysterical that the shooter
shot the two Bigfoots. The other man was also not happy about the
situation.
We
can also report that the section of Bigfoot thigh sent to
the Erickson Project DNA test from the shooting was auburn
haired, and it also had a lot of grey in it. This slab was from the
mother Bigfoot that was shot dead. She was probably a middle aged
Bigfoot, ~45 years old in human terms or ~25 years old in Bigfoot
terms. Her two offspring, one of which was also shot dead, were ~10
years old in human terms or ~5 years old in Bigfoot terms.
To
this date, we do not know what the shooter did after he killed the
two Bigfoots.
I
know the name of the shooter, but for some reason, I am not releasing
it, though I probably should. It will come out later anyway. His name
can be found by industrious web sleuths who are intelligent about
Internet sleuthing. The shooter has changed his story many times, and
is very afraid of going to jail over killing of these two Bigfoots.
He
is wise to be afraid of this, because I know some wealthy and
connected people who told me that they are dedicated to seeing
that the shooter goes to prison over killing the Bigfoots. These
people think Bigfoots are humans, so killing one is homicide. So if I
were the shooter, I would not be straight up about this matter
either. Further, I would retain a good attorney. If the Olympic
Project has any sense, they will have also spoken to attorneys too,
because their mitts are all over these two killed Bigfoots.
The
shooter is a narcissist and a redneck, and I don’t like him. You
can tell he’s a narcissist. Look at his photos. Just look at that
smug, smarmy look in eyes. I don’t think he’s a good person.
There
are different kinds of hunters. Most hunters are good people, but a
minority are not. The bad guys have
the same mindset about hunting. They basically just like to kill
things because they like to kill.
You can tell who the bad ones are. You can see it in their eyes. They
will shoot just about anything as long as it is not illegal. This guy
has that look about him.
This
is what kind of a person and hunter the shooter is. He is well known
in the hunting and taxidermy community and is not well liked at
all. In that community, he is thought of as a “maniac hunter” and
an “unethical hunter.”
He
could change any time he wants, quit being bad and start being good.
His choice. I don’t think he will ever change though, because he is
very happy being the smug ex-Texan prick that he is. Most of his
friends are the same as he is, and so is the California woman who
became his wife two years ago, who is now expecting.
Most
narcissists never feel guilt about anything that they do. There are
some reports that the shooter feels bad about killing the two
Bigfoots. Perhaps he does. He may have some sort of a conscience. I
bet he’s more afraid of getting caught though.
The
Olympic Project has changed their story about this shooting several
times now. I actually do not blame them. If I were in as deep as they
are, I would get myself a nice, fancy story too.
For
several months after November, their line was that the OP never
went out to the shooting site.
Then
they said that the OP did go to the shooting site 2 weeks later,
and they found a chunk of Bigfoot flesh in the snow.
Now
the OP says that only the shooter went back 2 weeks later
and found the piece of flesh.
The
story about going back later and finding a hunk of flesh strikes me
as dubious, but maybe it happened. Who knows, right?
In
addition, the OP said for a long time after the shooting, “Let’s
make one thing clear! There were no two Bigfoots shot and killed!”
But
after I broke the story, they changed their line to saying that a man
that the OP knows well did shoot and kill the two Bigfoots.
They
say he shot the first one because he thought she was a bear and shot
the second one because it was threatening him.
Neither
report is true.
The
shooter knew she was not a bear. His line is he thought she was
threatening him. And the second one wasn’t threatening him either.
The
shooter was a passenger in the truck with three bear hunters near
the Dixie Mountain Game Refuge on the California/Nevada border
in November 2010. They came around a bend, and there was a grayish
white female Bigfoot in the road on all fours. The shooter grabbed
his gun and jumped out of his vehicle. As he jumped out, he saw the
Bigfoot get up on two legs and start running towards him waving her
arms. When the Bigfoot saw the gun, she turned and started to run
away. The shooter shot her in the side of the chest, and the bullet
penetrated her lungs.
She
crashed off into the brush and died. The three men went down into the
brush and saw her there. It was then that they realized that she was
not a bear at all. They walked back up onto the road.
When
they got to the road, they saw two small, strange creatures running
towards them, sometimes on two legs, sometimes on four legs. The
shooter raised his gun, fired and shot one of the creatures dead. The
other small creature apparently escaped. As the shooter cradled the
dying creature in his arms, they all three realized that it was a
young creature of the same type that had just gotten shot. The
juvenile Bigfoot had a huge head, and the shooter said it looked
exactly like the Jacobs creature
photo.
The
shooter did not shoot the young Bigfoot because it was threatening
him, which is his story. He just shot it for some unknown reason.
[
This creature sounds like a giant sloth and not a Sasquatch at all.
The Jacob creature is almost like a bear but has a large mussel
unlike a bear which is why up close witnesses know it is not a bear -
arclein]
At
this point they figured out that they had killed two Bigfoots. The
two men with the shooter were so hysterical and upset about the
shootings that they took the shooter’s gun away from him and
pointed it at him, threatening him. They told him that if he tried to
shoot another one of those animals, they would shoot him
instead. The story is that everyone was so upset by that point that
they left the area. The shooter said that they left the animals in
the road, and he was not going back to the area until next fall.
There
is a lot of fighting inside the Erickson Project. Adrian
Erickson and Melba Ketchum are not getting along well. At least one
reason is that Erickson paid Ketchum $70,000 for the sequencing of
six Bigfoot samples. To this date, he has not received results from
these samples, even though those samples do represent six
separate confirmed Bigfoot individuals. He did receive results from
one DNA test, the test he had done on himself. Most of the principals
had their own DNA tested to avoid contamination.
Erickson
had an agreement with Ketchum that if his Bigfoot samples tested out
as coming from real Bigfoots, they would then be used in the final
writeup. One or more of his samples were from real Bigfoots, but
Ketchum is apparently threatening to not include them in her paper
due to their falling out. So Erickson is threatening to sue her for
violating their agreement.
Erickson
has also threatened to sue a couple of other folks, including Dennis
Pfohl and Mike Rugg, but I am not sure of the reason. Erickson is
well liked, and he is also deeply respected. At the same time, the
respect seems tinged with fear. He has sunk $3 million into this
project, and he is not going to get it back.
One
great thing to come out of the release of the Erickson Project
results is that maybe Bigfoot witnesses will not be so
persecuted. Roger Patterson was not an honorable man, but he did
shoot a real video of a Bigfoot in California in 1967. He was so
hounded by skeptics that they may have driven him to an early grave.
Bob
Gimlin was so upset at the hounding that he more or less retreated
from the public eye for over 20 years after the shooting of the
video. He only came out in 1989. Gimlin is a tough man, but all of
the attacks have still hurt him. Entire books and countless articles
and Internet pieces have been written about how he hoaxed the famous
video.
From
Canada, word comes that Bigfoots are much more common around
Indian communities than around non-Indians. It seems that Bigfoots
are more comfortable around Indians than around non-Indians. One may
speculate about reasons.
Updating a
previous story,
a trapper in McBride, British Colombia has told people that
he was recently kidnapped by Bigfoots, who took him back to a
cave and tried to make him have sex with a female Bigfoot. It’s
an updated Albert Ostman story.
Another
trapper somewhere in British Colombia is living by himself way out in
the woods far away from anyone else. He is reportedly nearly
living with a group of Bigfoots. He sees them every single day. This
may possibly be the same man who says he was kidnapped by Bigfoots.
The stories should be followed up.
A
previous post reported
on some Canadians who dug up a muskeg and found a Bigfoot hand
skeleton in it. It was a Bigfoot burial ground. In northern
Canada, Bigfoots use muskegs as burial grounds. This particular
muskeg was in northern Saskatchewan.
The
Bigfoot shooting and DNA stories are powerful news, maybe the stories
of the year. Bigfoot is on the verge of being formally discovered by
science.
*******
In
1958, the Russian scientist Dr.
Boris Porchnev concluded
that relict hominids, cavemen from the Stone Age, continue to live
among us to this very day. His prophetic views have been vindicated.
The implications are nothing less than breathtaking. It’s nearly
the story of the century already, and we’ve only just come round
the bend. Hold onto your seats.
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