From the Private Files of Jay "Bizzare Zoology" Cooney

Jay Cooney notes: "Jesus Jr's alleged juvenile bigfoot print compared to a Neanderthal footprint from a cave floor and the tracing of a Neanderthal footprint. Almost perfect match!"

These tracks seem well outside of the usual human range in breadth and they are noticed walking through cruel thorns and spines beyond what a human would consider going through. Jay also adds "please note that Jay made this comparison to point out an intriguing similarity, rather than to endorse any certain hypothesis."

Jay BizarreZoo Cooney

"Wow....although I don't put much stock in such photos I do have to say that compared to other 'blobsquatch' photos, Mark [Para]'s are fantastic! It really looks like there is something actually there rather than just a trick of light on foliage."

The face in the lower picture does look pretty convincing and it is another "Caveman" type. Jay also added he thought the figure in the top photo could only be a boulder.

SPECIAL UPDATE: Today is also Jay Cooney's birthday, please join me in wishing him the very best birthday today and many happy returns of the day!

More on Texas Bigfoot

http://voices.yahoo.com/baby-bigfoot-evidence-cast-prints-sasquatch-11342564.html?cat=58

This is one of my postings that kept disappearing when I was trying to post it. I have sent the request to author David Claer asking for permission to reprint these articles because our researches have tended to coincide and reinforce each other in other areas wheret overlap. I am going on ahead and reprinting here because I consider the evidence crucial in discussing the matter and because I am not only giving him all credit, I am also not gaining any financial profit by the reprinting and nor is anyone else. The H. heidelbergensis theory has incidentally been a strong contender since the 1990s in the literature at the time: but the feeling all along has been that it was a subspecies of Homo sapiens and the direct ancestor of the Neanderthals.

"Baby" Bigfoot Evidence- Cast Prints from a Sasquatch Toddler

Sasquatch Family Members Leave Hand- and Footprints in Texas Clay

David Claerr, Yahoo! Contributor Network

The vast ecosystem formed by the Red River watershed on the borders of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana affords a habitat comprised of many micro-climates with an incredible diversity and richness of plant and animal life. In many of the deep ravines where the creeks and waterways have cut through the the limestone cap rock, the vegetation has a nearly tropical aspect. Towering, ancient cypress trees form a canopy above the underbrush and thick hanging vines. These ravines are like a primordial oasis, seldom traversed by humans. Often in remote wildernesses, surrounded by thousands of acres of temperate woodlands and meadows. The ravines are a favored living quarters for the Sasquatch or "Bigfoot"
From one of these ravines, a very significant group of footprints of a "Baby Bigfoot" were cast in plaster, along with a hand- and footprints from a more mature Sasquatch, most likely the juvenile's older sibling or mother. The prints, pressed into the fine clay of the creek bed are rare specimens, since not only are they from a rarely documented young juvenile, but the casts also retain detailed anatomical features that are not generally preserved in other types of soil.
A record of this type of evidence is necessary for a more in-depth understanding of these beings, who are the closest living relatives of humans, as current, in-depth DNA results are expected to reveal. The popular misconception of the Sasquatch is one of a savage "monster"- a giant ape with limited intelligence, motivated by sheer instinct. The Sasquatch are far more complex, intelligent and social creatures, with a family structure and long-term relationships within their extended families and network of friends- which in very rare instances can include humans.
[The photographs and diagrams included with this article (at upper right) can be selected by clicking on the numbers, and then enlarged by clicking on the thumbnail image that is displayed. Note that the images are copyrighted and cannot be legally copied or reproduced in print or on the internet without express permission of the author. Press release photos for linking to the article are available upon request.]
The print casts are from a private collection, which I was given permission to examine and photograph. A few years prior to examining these casts, I had independently investigated the area where they were cast, and found abundant evidence of the Sasquatch in this region, as well as had confirmation by sightings. The owner of this collection and I had no previous knowledge of each other's activities and research.
The cast print of the "baby" is most likely from a juvenile that would be equivalent to a human "toddler" a young Sasquatch who has just begun to walk upright. This individual would be larger in stature than a human of similar relative maturity, standing about 3 and a half feet tall. The accompanying footprints are of an individual, most likely female, probably about 6 foot tall, small for an adult female and possibly indicating an older sibling.
The footprints have several distinguishing anatomical characteristics that differentiate them from human footprints. The most marked feature is the clearly delineated depression in the mid-foot on the outside edge opposite the arch. In a human foot, the bone structure in this area is rigid, and forms a continuous ridge from the ball of the foot to the heel. In the Sasquatch, the bone-joints and ligaments are flexible in the mid-tarsal region, which is evidenced in the resulting depression in the footprints. The mid-tarsal "break" as it is often referred to, enables the Sasquatch or Bigfoot to flex the foot and walk on the fore-foot.
The ability to walk and run on the forefoot is an adaptation that affords increased mechanical leverage to the stride of the Sasquatch. In other prints that I have examined, as well as these, there are distinctly visible elements in the configuration of bone structure, tendons and musculature of the foot that reveal the bio-mechanical mechanism operating in the Sasquatch foot. (For more, related information, refer to the links to articles listed in the Resources section below.)
The Sasquatch trait of displacing the weight to the forefoot results in other notable configurations in the bone structure of the foot. The foot of the Sasquatch is significantly broader across the ball of the foot in comparison to human proportions. Both of the cast footprints show not only the broad forefoot, but areas where the bone joints, the overlaying tissue pads and the calloused skin itself combine to form enlarged prominences in the prints.

On the outside edge of the foot, in the bones supporting the "little" toe, (the fifth metatarsal, just above the mid-tarsal flexion) there is an enlarged bone prominence, thickened tissue pad, and thickly calloused skin. (Sasquatch also have an enlarged os perenium - a small oviod bone that only about 20% of modern humans possess, at the posterior end of the fifth metatarsal. It functions as a stress- and pressure-bearing reinforcement to the tendon.)
On the opposite side of the forefoot, in the bones supporting the "big" toe, there is also an enlarged bone prominence, tissue pad and calloused area. (In this location, there are also two small ovoid bones, present in both humans and in the Sasquatch- the sesamoid bones-, which are connected only by tendons to the big toe. These bones are proportionately much larger in the foot of the Sasquatch- evidence of the increased weight distribution to the forefoot during ambulation.)
Another element in the developmental anatomy of the Sasquatch that can be deduced from these prints in comparison to those of adults, is that the tapering profile of the foot from ball to heel indicates a progression to increased bipedalism from juvenile to adult. In the toddler, the heel is smaller and narrower, indicating more of a reliance on quadrupedal locomotion- crawling or scampering on four limbs. In fact, in large adult males, the bones of the heels (calcaneus) become very robust. In examining both cast and actual footprints in the field, I have noted there there is a discernible difference between male and female Sasquatch footprints. As with humans, Sasquatch are dimorphic- that is, males and females are different in general size and shape. Both the hands and feet of a female Sasquatch are more slender, or narrower in proportion of width to length.
In the cast prints of the "Baby Bigfoot" there are also rarely documented fine anatomical details that mitigate against fraudulence. In the cast print picture above, there are clearly defined pressure ridges, mainly across the forefoot. These ridges are basically a rumpling of the outer layers of tissue and skin on the sole of the foot, formed as the foot flexes. In a series of actual footprints, the pressure ridges will change in size, shape and number, whereas in hoaxed prints, there are either no pressure ridges, or they remain identical from print to print. ( In fact in most prints, the soil consistency does not retain impressions of the pressure ridges.)
A very significant element in this series of prints are the finely detailed dermal ridge patterns. Dermal ridges, also referred to as "friction" ridges, are the pattern of whorls or spiraling ridges that form the familiar "fingerprint" signature on hands and correspondingly, on toes of both humans and Sasquatch. ( In this case the dermal ridges pictured are from the print series of the more mature Sasquatch.) In the cast prints that I examined that have distinct dermal ridge patterns, the patterns have a very close correlation to human dermal ridge patterns, as seen in the pictured comparisons.
One of the cast prints, pictured above is an even rarer specimen- it is the hand print from a sub-adult Sasquatch, possibly from the same individual that left the larger of the two footprints. The hand-print has many of the same characteristics as those seen in the cast hand-print of a much larger adult male. (Refer to the link in the resources section below for the article with that analysis.) The Sasquatch hand is typically broader in proportion to that of a human, and the individual bones are both flatter and straighter compared to a human's. The thumb is more widely offset. The main muscle groups in the hand are larger and more robust proportionately, as well. The palm of the hand is flatter, with typically thick, callused skin.
In concluding this article, I would like to take the opportunity to comment on the nature of the Sasquatch. Evidence such as these footprints, as well as field observation by many researchers, indicate they they are beings with an emotional and intellectual capacity very close to those of human beings. They have close-knit families that love, nurture and care for their young. They have the ability to speak and converse, not only with each other, but also with humans. They are long-lived and well traveled throughout wilderness areas and traditional territories that are now being encroached upon by humankind. In light of these revelations, I am an advocate of the no-kill policy in regards to the Sasquatch or Bigfoot. The slaughter of one of these beings, with this type of fore-knowledge, would be an unconscionable act. The Sasquatch are very likely in the lineage ancestral to modern humans, and the killing of one, while aware of their true nature, would be ethically equivalent to the killing of one of our own fellow humans. [I emphatically agree-DD]

Resources:
Cast Print Fine Detail analysis:
http://voices.yahoo.com/texas-bigfoot-cast-print-examination-4574275.html?cat=58
Bigfoot Evidence in Texas:
http://voices.yahoo.com/photos/compelling-evidence-bigfoot-texas-3171342.html?cat=4
Sasquatch Cast Hand-print analysis:
http://voices.yahoo.com/bigfoot-handprint-discovered-texas-6604970.html?cat=58
Sasquatch Cast Print analysis #1
http://voices.yahoo.com/i-analyzed-bigfoots-footprint-study-creatures-1377091.html?cat=70
Bigfoot Bones: Sasquatch Skeleton:
http://voices.yahoo.com/bigfoot-bones-sasquatch-skeleton-analyzed-compared-10977262.html?cat=58
Origins of Bigfoot in the fossil record:
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-origins-saquatch-bigfoot-10509269.html?cat=58
The Red River Watershed System:
http://www.lsus.edu/offices-and-services/community-outreach/red-river-watershed-management-institute/about-the-basin

Comments made when notice of this article was posted by J.C. Johnson:

David Lewis Carver We had baby prints where the little tike was clearly being held by mother and she let  Him/her down. Pretty cool

Bob Durdella

I found a nice 8 or 9 inch print 4 years ago at Salt Fork State Park in Ohio. Wasn't sure if it was human or not. I thought about casting it but didn't. I did take about 6 pictures of it. I had Dr. Esteban Sarmiento look at the pics and he ...thought it could be a juvy Squatch print. There are plenty of adult print cast in the 13 inch and up size. We need more examples of juvenile Squatch prints for study and comparison. I do have 4 castings of 9 inch prints I found. Sarmiento and Meldrum both looked at these and said they were human. I don't think they are because of all the other evidence and circumstances surrounding them.

 

Dale Drinnon That sounds like a good range of track sizes. And I think there are others that have said that some of the tracks start out as more human-like when small and young but less human-like as large and adult 

Bob Durdella

When Dr Meldrum looked at my 4 print cast and said they were human he did say that there was a possibility they were juvy Squatch prints and that maybe they change in time as the Squatch matures. He said we don't know right now. He said the... same thing about some castings made by Jaime Avalos on one of the Monster Quest episodes featuring Jaime. This is why there is a need for more juvy Squatch print castings and pics. I look at and study every picture and casting that are posted of alleged juvy Squatch prints

Dale Drinnon I'm throwing my blog together now. Mind if I quote you on that?

Bigfoot Handprint Discovered In Texas

Photographs and Comprehensive Analysis of the Bigfoot or Sasquatch Hand from Plaster Cast

[All original work, photographs and drawings are copyrighted by David Claerr: I shall add one of my own additionally at the end because it amplifies the others in a different way]

Dale D's addition: comparison of a Texas Bigfoot handprint to a Neanderthal hand skeleton, which appears to have much the same bony structure. I would imagine the Texas Bigfoot to be in the range of 7-7 1/2 feet tall by this comparison.

In the dense woodlands of northeast Texas, near the town of Paris, there have been many recent reports of sightings of large, hairy, creatures that match descriptions of Bigfoot or the Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest. Evidence of the creature's presence has been accumulating, including a few excellent plaster casts of its footprints. However, distinct hand-prints from any region are relatively rare, and the subject of this article is one of the best cast hand-prints on record to date. (Note that the images and diagrams can also be viewed in a convenient slide-show format by clicking on this link.)
The cast hand-print is from a collection made by the late Mike Sells, who lived in the Paris area. (Mike passed away in 2008). I was given permission to closely examine and photograph the casts when they were on display at the first annual Bigfoot Festival in Lamar, Point, Texas on Nov. 7th, 2009. The collection was on loan from Mike's wife, Sandy, and it included several cast footprints and hand-prints, ranging from big males to females and small juveniles. Mike was an ardent outdoorsman who discovered evidence of the creatures on numerous occasions while exploring the woodlands, and while searching for Native American artifacts.
The impression of the hand-print was made in sandy soil. The granular sand did not pick up fine detail, such as dermal ridges or finger-print whorls. However, the general contours of the hand, including the creases in the palm (also referred to as "life lines" in palmistry) are fairly distinct. Embedded in the cast is a peach pit.(The area around Paris is noted for its peach orchards, and there are many individual trees growing wild.) The pit is about 1 & 1/4 inches long, so it can be used as a scale.
The hand-print is about 12 & 1/2 inches long, which would indicate a creature about 9 to 10 feet tall, based on the ratios used for humans [In Bigfoot the hands and feet are remarked upon as being proportionately outsized-DD].Using the biometric calculations used for estimating human weight, the creature would weigh from 500-600 pounds if the body type was within the "normal" range, and would likely be considerably heavier, assuming a very heavy-boned and muscular being.
Despite the obvious similarity to a human hand, the cast print shows some notable differences in its configuration. First is the enormous size, which is nearly double the length of an average human hand, with a surface area about three times the size of a human's. The bone structure, which can be traced by the prominences or bulges at the joints, indicates bones which are more massive and blocky, with less curvature along the length than those of a human.
The palm is larger in proportion to the fingers than that of a human, and has elongated metacarpal bones connected to the little finger and "ring" finger, which make the palm considerably more square than a human hand. The little and ring fingers are also proportionately longer and thicker than a human's. The thumb is splayed at a larger angle and is also comparatively more robust than that of a human. The massive bone structure indicates a creature with tremendous grasping power.
The relative flatness of the palm, and the uniformity of the impression indicate thick, callused skin on the palm and fingers, due to frequent, habitual contact with rough surfaces and the lifting of heavy objects. There is a notably robust development evident in the main muscles of the hand, namely the pollicis group along the metacarpal of the thumb, and the digiti minimi group along the metacarpal of the little finger. These muscles are proportionally larger and wider by comparison to a human hand. The bio-mechanical configuration of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch hand would enable it to apply enormous pressure and torque on any object in its grasp.
The dimensions of the cast Bigfoot hand-print indicate an individual whose size almost exactly matches that indicated by another specimen that I examined, an excellent cast Bigfoot footprint from the Paris area. The footprint, impressed into soft clay, has fine detail of dermal ridges, stress creases, and skin-folds at the joints as well as other anatomical features. The analytical article, photographs and diagrams can be found at this link.
As a related note of interest, Mike Sells was featured in the movie "Bigfoot Lives" produced by Searching For Bigfoot Inc. "Bigfoot Lives" chronicles the research efforts of the SFBI team, headed by the renowned Tom Biscardi. The Searching for Bigfoot website link can be found listed in the Resources section below. [Unfortunately Tom Biscardi has subsequently become discredited-which does not reflect upon Mike Sells, David Claerr or anybody else in the business-DD]
Resources:
Slide Show of Cast Hand-print with Bone Structure Analysis : http://www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/58844/bigfoot_handprint_discovered_in_texas.html?cat=58
Slide Show of Cast Footprint with Analysis: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/712585/i_analyzed_bigfoots_footprint_a_study.html?cat=70
Slide Show with Fine Details in Closeup from Cast Footpprint: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2243755/texas_bigfoot_cast_print_examination_pg2.html?cat=58
Searching for Bigfoot Website: http://www.searchingforbigfoot.com/



http://voices.yahoo.com/i-analyzed-bigfoots-footprint-study-creatures-1377091.html?image=258265&cat=70

-In this case although I think it is a perfectly legitimate cast, I feel the footprint shows a great deal of skidding at the heel and a curling of the toes which appear shorter and bunched up as a consequence.  Note the oddly turned-out little toe [specified in some Asiatic Almas tracks].

Texas Bigfoot Cast Compared To Neanderthal Foot Skeleton. Next one Compares Baby Bigfoot Track to Adult. Footprint casts are from David Claerr and the adult track below has been mirrored but is to scale. Both comparisons are paste-ups done by Dale D.

The Wildmen of Texas

We have posted on this blog about the Texas Bigfoot as recently as A month ago at:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/eastern-bigfoot-ambush-tactics.html

However the matter is rather more involved than it might appear and very much a parallel to the situation of the "Skunk apes" in Florida. Another article focusing on the "Ape" aspect shall follow after this one. This is the part concerning the more human types of creatures and in some cases they are very human indeed.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Tracking Down San Antonio's Mystery Beast

http://www.texasbigfoot.com/reports/report/detail/160

In the wooded hills west of San Antonio, Texas, Bigfoot hunters are on the prowl, convinced specimens are lurking deep within Garner State Park. Investigators Troy Hudson and Chase Robinson of The Bigfoot Investigation Group out of Dallas have spoken to several witnesses who have had brushes with some unexplained beast at the state park just south of Leakey, TX. One man claims he saw one of these hirsute hominids dash across Highway 83 in December 2006.

LEAKEY, Texas - Last fall, after several people called police saying they saw something that looked like Bigfoot on the Northwest side of San Antonio, we were contacted by a group of men who call themselves Bigfoot investigators. They said they're convinced that Sasquatch is here and probably always has been. So, our Delaine Mathieu said -- prove it!


Last December, a homeless couple in San Antonio called 911 saying they saw something in the woods off Highway 151 and Culebra. "I would be a liar if I said I thought I knew what it was, but I don't know. I know it picked up that deer and walked," reported the caller. Police checked it out, but nothing was ever found.
Troy Hudson believes Bigfoot is here. He used to work for the Department of Homeland Security and now runs TBIG -- The Bigfoot Investigation group in Dallas. "I've been in the woods a lot as a child and I've seen things I can't explain to you," Hudson told us.
We set up camp with him and his colleague, Chase Robinson at Garner State Park in Uvalde County near Leakey -- where a man in a truck reportedly saw a Bigfoot on Highway 83 in 2006. "It was in December, early December around 10:30pm," Hudson said. "He was messing with something and he happens to look up and notices movement." He says the creature ran across the highway and disappeared.
"But that sounds crazy!" Delaine told Hudson. "That sounds almost ridiculous, right?" Hudson told her there are too many witnesses, too many reports across the country, too much documentation, too much data that suggests what are these people seeing?
Crazy is a word Troy and Chase say they hear a lot in their line of work, but there are several Bigfoot investigative groups in Texas like TBIG -- determined to find Bigfoot. "If people in Vermont are reporting a tree knock and a whoop as well as someone in California, Florida, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas -- it only leads you to believe that there's something out there."
And to the unbelievers out there who call these guys nuts? They say, just go on an expedition. "Try it. Before you condemn us, go out and try it," Chase told us. "See what they see and listen to the sounds of the night."

http://www.woai.com/content/troubleshooters/story/Searching-for-Sasquatch-here-in-South-Texas/aJhIXu33q0alyTOxki9rXQ.cspx

This past December, several people in San Antonio claimed to have reported a hairy, bipedal primate of some type that left behind tracks. Presumably, Hudson and Robinson's assertion is that the creature(s) emanated from within the 1420 acres of the Park

Tracks Talk Of Bigfoot Presence in SE TX

Possible Bigfoot tracks found in southeast Texas raise hopes for members of the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC). As part of the organization's Operation Forest Vigil effort, the tracks were discovered May 7, 2010 in a remote area of the piney woods that blanket the eastern portion of the state. The prints measured roughly 12 inches in length and seem to possess the requisite "mid-tarsal break" so often spoke of when discussing those creatures collectively referred to as "Bigfoot". To read more about this expedition's find, go to

http://texascryptidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/05/possible-sasquatch-tracks-located-in-se.html

 Monday, May 10, 2010

Possible Sasquatch Tracks Located in SE Texas

I just returned from a trip to the Piney Woods of SE Texas. The purpose of the trip was two-fold. First and foremost I was looking for potential camera locations for the TBRC's Operation Forest Vigil project. The secondary purpose, as always, was to look for any sign of our target species; the sasquatch. What a trip it turned out to be.

I, and one other TBRC member, arrived at our destination mid afternoon on Friday 5/7. We established base camp at reasonably remote spot in the forest and settled in for the afternoon. We relaxed a bit and had a bite to eat while we waited for the sun to set. The plan was to wait until 10:00 or 11:00pm and then drive the back roads of the area hoping to catch a sasquatch attempting a crossing. This is exactly what I was doing when I had my visual in May of 2005. We ran the roads, with video camera rolling, until about 3:00am. We did not have any luck as we only saw deer but did identify an area that we wanted to return to explore the next day. We returned to base camp at that time and called it a night.

We did have a large visitor of some kind at base camp that night. I managed to sleep through the visit but my partner heard something heavy approach us sometime prior to daybreak. He did say he was almost positive it was a hoofed animal. Whatever it was snorted and then quietly made its way back into the forest. My partner did sit up and try to catch a glimpse of the visitor but did not manage to do so. In all likelihood it was just a buck or maybe a hog (though they smell so bad their visits are usually easy to identify). Again, I slept through the whole thing and my friend didn't think enough of it to alert me. Things didn't get interesting until the next day.



We slept in a bit the next morning and didn't get geared up and into the woods until shortly before noon. A cool front had come through during the night and the day was perfect for hiking with temps in the upper 70s to the low 80s. We returned to the area we had identified the night before, parked my truck, and hiked into the woods. We were pleased to find several very nice looking spots for future camera deployments in short order. While looking for additional camera spots, we located a creek that winded through the area. This was a great looking creek bed. The bottom of the creek was easily 10-12 feet below the forest floor. We quickly realized we were looking at a wildlife super highway. Animals could walk up and down the creek bed and be totally invisible to anything or anyone above. We dropped down into the creek and quickly began locating wildlife sign. We spotted raccoon, opossum, deer, hog, and coyote tracks almost immediately, which confirmed our feeling that this was a travel corridor.



We followed the creek as it meandered through the woods and soon came to a small sandbar against the wall of the gulley where the creek took a sharp bend. In the packed sand we saw numerous impressions that resembled footprints. There were three different sizes. One very large set of impressions measured 14-15 inches in length. There were only two of these impressions but they were very wide and impressive. Also present were several impressions that measured 11-12 inches in length and several more impressions measuring only about 8 inches in length. The two smaller sets of impressions were not as wide as the big set but more numerous. We were sure we were looking at bipedal prints but the tracks were pretty degraded so we could not be absolutely sure as to what made them. We continued down the creek and continued to find impressions. It seemed every time the creek took a bend we would find impressions in the areas where the silt had been pushed up against the walls of the creek bed forming sand bars. We did not find any more of the largest individual's impressions but continued to see the tracks of the other two individuals. We continued another 200 yards or so when we located another group of tracks. The smaller impressions were everywhere. The little guy/gal seemed to be running around having a fine old time. There were only a couple of tracks of the larger individual. It was as if the adult had been patiently standing and watching the smaller individual frolic about. That is pure speculation, of course. What is not speculation is that one of the prints left by the larger individual is the clearest and most pristine track I have ever seen in the wild.



The print measured 11-12 inches long and clearly belonged to the same individual we had been tracking. The toes were crystal clear. The track showed little to no evidence of an arch. The track was only imprinted into the sand a half inch or so. However, the sand was packed extremely tight and our boots barely left any imprints at all. The big toe was huge and showed a slight divergence from the other four toes. We photographed the track from every possible angle and continued to track the pair until the creek split. The two of us split up with each of us following a separate branch for a hundred yards or so. I located one more track, belonging to the smaller of the two individuals, but that was it. We continued down the creek but found no other sign of the pair. They either exited the creek bed or backtracked and took the other branch. All together we were able to track these two individuals for more than a quarter of a mile. It was truly a remarkable track way.



There can be no doubt that we were following the tracks of bipedal individuals. There can also be no doubt that they were either humans or sasquatches. There are simply no other possibilities in my mind. If you study the photos of the best print provided here, I think you will agree that these are the only two possibilities.

I can't divulge too much information on the area where the tracks were located due to the fact that the investigation is active and ongoing. I can say that the portion of the creek bed where the tracks were found is very remote and is not close to any road or home. The forest floor and creek bed were both littered with debris such as rocks, sticks, sweet-gum balls, and pinecones that would make it an unlikely place for a human to go barefoot. When you add the possibility of poisonous snakes, the area is home to rattlers, cottonmouths, and copperheads, the likelihood of people traipsing around without shoes seems very unlikely. The possibility that a family was out on a hike and decided to enter the creek to soak their feet was considered. However, not a single sign of human presence was noted. There were no shoe or boot prints to be found. The individuals traveled in excess of a quarter mile without shoes of any kind. The facts that the tracks were found in an a very remote location, that the terrain is extremely inhospitable to barefoot walking, and that the area is home to several species of poisonous snakes make it unlikely, in my mind, that humans made the tracks.

Certainly, it is possible humans are responsible. People do strange things to be sure and turn up in unlikely places. While a stop on a sand bar in the creek and a quick soak of the feet seems possible, a barefoot stroll in excess of a quarter mile down this creek bed stretches credibility.

As I type this entry, three TBRC members who live in the general vicinity are at the sight casting the track. If all goes well, I will have photos of the casting up soon. I am hopeful that we can discern once and for all if the maker of the track was human or not.

More as it develops...

Rusk Co. Texas 2000, Auburn and darker  brown Bigfoot

http://www.texasbigfoot.com/reports/report/detail/160

Above, Texas Bigfoot Face (Mask) Mock-up. Below a chart showing Bigfoot sightings in Texas: actually more seem to be seen along the Rio Grande and are NOT being represented on this chart.

Bigfoot Image on TV from Texas BF Site

MarionCountyTX_BF Has a sort of cowlick up in back.

The Texas Wildman has several characteristics much the same as in the Eastern Bigfoot, but then again it is typically not nearly so large and is more often about the size of an average human being, although the taller ones are also reported. In the drier regions another variation turns up, which tends to be thinner than the rest of the usual reports.
Here is a report from Dave Hogan posted in my yahoo group Frontiers of Zoology from a few years
ago:

My encounter took place over 40 years ago in Irving Texas. I dont
remember my exact age but I had to be 10 to 13 years old which would
make it 1962 to 1965. All directions, sizes and times are approx but
close. A few things arent real clear in my memory, I think it was a
male but I am only 80% sure and I never saw him standing so I would
say he was probably three and one half to four and one half ft and
one hundered and one hundered and fifty lbs. now to the encounter.
My friend and I were out in the country plinking with our bb guns
when I saw something black jump into a creek that was to our left
(west) out of the corner of my eye. The creek was 300 to 400 ft away
so I told my friend that I was going to see what it was. I arrived
at the creek and was looking at the south end of a large drainage
pipe. It was to steep and deep for me to climb down at that point so
I had to walk south 15-20 ft to an area where I could climb down.
Between me and the pipe there was a bend in the creek so I had to
get past the bend before I could see the pipe. I stopped 2 to 3 ft
away from the south end of the pipe. At the north end of the pipe
(about 15-20 ft away) there was a creature covered with blackish
hair squating with its head down as if sad or scared. I just stood
there looking at it when it raised its head and looked up and out
its end (north) of the pipe as if to see if we had passed by. Then
he lowers his head again for a few seconds, then he looks to his
left (south) and he sees me. All of a sudden he shoots out of the
pipe and for a millisecond I could see the bottom of his feet and
dirt falling from the side of the creek. I have never seen anything
move so fast. I must have started yelling because my friend,that was
still waiting above the creek started asking what was wrong. It took
the bf about a half a second to climb up the bank and about a minute
for me. After I climbed the bank I was talking to my friend and he
said he felt like we were being watched and it scared us so bad that
we started running and didnt stop for a mile.


--This seems appropriate to our current discussion of the Orang
Pendek. It is a small hair covered creature (possibly an ape)
And as a mater of fact one of the Indiana encounters my brothers and
I investigated in the 1970's concerned a creature whose tracks were
reported in a local creek bed and which was supposedly holed up in a
drainage culvert that emptied out into the creek at that point. It
would help to know if this Texas creature had human feet or ape feet--
the witness mentioned that he saw the feet in particular.
(Upon further questioning the witness did specify it had human feet)

[It seems that this discussion had almost hit upon the conclusion the the Skunk Ape was similar to the Orang Pendek, but the idea remained in limbo until this blog recently confirmed the idea]
A lot of photos are available at a Texas Wildman site which appears to be orphaned from its originating site:

http://fob.l7space.com/twp/

Sketch of BF from the back

Unusually good 12 inch track from Harrison County, Texas

                                                                  Bent-trees formation

Unidentified Hair Samples

Samples of wild tubers dug up and each one with a human-shaped bite out of it

This set of footprints seems to have been made with the feet more on edge than usually. This may have been done to decrease the surface area of the tracks and thus make the tracks harder toi find.

Several sets of smaller, more normal human-sized tracks are common. These might be thought of as normal human adult or child's tracks but many are of the NEANDERTHAL type and are found in areas where walking barefoot through the thorns, briars and brambles would be pretty much unthinkable for modern men. I remember one witness winced as he described tracks of one such individual that evidently ran straight though a patch of spiny cactus. Whatever is making these tracks is way tougher than the rest of us..

In the following set of casts, a Bigfoot creature (or person rather) has dropped down onto his hands and knees under cover and so a clear cast of both hands was made. The proportion of the fingers and the thumbs is much the same as in the "Icemans" hands.

The following tracks are out of the smaller series and some are very clear. The one at top is a good match for Neanderthal tracks found in the clay of a cave floor in Italy.

Some more pretty clear photos in the mud. At one point the small Bigfoot has put its feet together in preparation to make a jump.

A purported photo on the left and a display model labelled "Texas Bigfoot" on the right. I don't know if the photo is actually real but it is a most convincing image and it very closely resembles some drawings of the Florida Skunk Ape.