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| Abominable Snowman, Millionaire Tom Slick, too Father of Cryptozoology Ivan T. Sanderson |
These ii explorers are familiar to many crypto-enthusiast every bit Tom Slick, a San Antonio millionaire too Ivan T. Sanderson, known every bit the Father of Cryptozoology.
Before Bluff Creek too the Patterson/Gimlin film, the Himalayas was where it was at. If y'all wanted to teach your eyes on a bipedal undiscovered primate, y'all went to a mount hit inward Asia.
You tin teach a quick update close Tom Slick too the Abominable Snowman from the clip below. After the video is the Houston Post Correspondent article. The article below details the expedition to facial expression for a "Snowman" inward North America.
HOAX OR HUMANOID? Pacific Expedition Hunts States "Snowman" inward California 1960
By James O. Holley, © The Houston Post Correspondent
Sunday Jan 10, 1960 -- Willow Creek, California - -This century's most startling scientific regain or 1 of its cleverest hoaxes is nether intensive study hither inward a snowy mountain-locked wilderness seldom penetrated past times men fifty-fifty today. Some men of scientific discipline experience the testify they have got constitute volition atomic number 82 them to a towering, powerful creature that leaves a 16-inch footprint too hurls huge objects amongst the ease of a small-scale tossing a ball.
They telephone phone this mysterious beingness a humanoid - a creature amongst the physical characteristics of both human being too the anthropoid ape. Scoffers telephone phone it a hoax - the run of practical jokers amongst imagination, patience too money. But all of them - believers too cynics - verbalize of the creature every bit if it exists. And all of them telephone phone it Bigfoot. At to the lowest degree vii persons have got said they have got seen the creature, a pilus covered affair of enormous size too strength. Its tiptop has been estimated at 8 or more, its weight has been estimated from 500 to 800 pounds.
There is testify to back upwardly these estimates. The scientists have got been told past times downward to globe structure crews of heavy 55-gallon crude oil drums, total of diesel beingness carried away from campsites too flung into ravines. Nearby, were the awesome tracks of Bigfoot. H5N1 250-pound tire for an earthmover was partly carried too partly rolled for a quarter of a mile too and so tossed into a ditch. Again Bigfoot's tracks were there. There was the study of large galvanized steel culverts disappearing from its site too afterwards beingness constitute where no machine could mayhap have got taken it.
At this moment, a well-financed expedition is quietly probing the mountains of the Bigfoot country, the heavily-timbered terrain of northern Humboldt too southern Del Norte Counties close the Oregon-California borders.
Leader of the expedition is Tom Slick, the San Antonio millionaire who has financed iv expeditions into the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet inward search of the ABSM. The expedition has been hither since early on final fall. [Dating the Pacific Expedition to September 1959 roughly]
Slick would have got similar for it to have got remained a secret, without whatever details of its run leaking out. Slick has written contracts amongst everyone connected amongst the expedition, fifty-fifty including a helicopter airplane pilot who flies supplies to the campsites, binding them to secrecy.
Also involved inward the expedition is Ivan T. Sanderson of New York. Sanderson received degrees amongst honors inward geology, zoology too botany. He has headed sic expeditions to all parts of the public for such groups every bit the British museum, Cambridge too London Universities, the Linnaean Societies of London too the Chicago Natural History Museum. He is the writer of many books; one, "Animal Treasures" was a Book Of The Month pick inward 1937. Others include "Caribbean Treasure," "Animals Nobody Knows," "Living treasure," "Animal Tales," "How to Know American Mammals, " "The Monkey Kingdom," too "Living Mammals of the World." He has iv books at press.
There are many people who believe inward Bigfoot's existence too the listing is growing longer. Some of the most hardened skeptics of Bigfoot have got late reported finding testify of its existence. They are at nowadays convinced, they say, that Bigfoot is no hoax.
The involvement of Sanderson too Slick, who has poured millions of dollars into the Southwest Research Foundation at San Antonio, had prompted others to have got the California province of affairs seriously. The capture of photographing of Bigfoot is expected to live really valuable commercially every bit good every bit scientifically. The analysis of his tracts, the finding of a skeleton, the analysis of droppings, described past times Sanderson every bit beingness every bit large every bit those from a 1,200 pound horse, are all valuable inward the expedition's study.
This is non a little expedition. Slick had iv camps fix at 1 time. Snow, Ice too the holidays brought most of the men out of the mountains recently, but in that location is to a greater extent than or less exploratory run soundless going on. Slick said from San Antonio that much of the "heavy work" would in all likelihood have got house inward the summer. There is a proficient gamble other expeditions volition live inward the expanse past times then.
The Slick firm is known every bit the Pacific Northwest Expedition too is coordinated past times Robert Titmus, a Redding, California Taxidermist. The exploration is beingness financed past times Slick, F. Kirk Johnson, H5N1 Fort Worth oilman; C.V. Wood, president of Freedom Land arrangement inward New York too Wally Heins of International Latex Company of New York.
F. Kirk Johnson helped finance a snowman expedition into the Himalayas inward 1957, the 3rd inward which Slick has participated. He did non participate financially inward the latest Tibet-Nepal expanse exploration, soundless according to Slick. That expedition heading past times ii bothers from Republic of Ireland ended 3 weeks ago. [note: weren't those brothers Brian too Peter Byrne?] One of the men may bring together the California group, Slick said.
Tom Slick oft flies to California to banking concern check on the progress of the expedition operations. Johnson spent several days inward 1 of the iv camps. Sanderson reaches this decision inward a late published report: "There are many really proficient reasons for stating that the tracks could non live made past times a normal human being or past times a machine. Therefore, in that location are exclusively 3 alternatives. There must have got been made either past times an abnormal man, an animate beingness or a creature of somewhere betwixt the two."
An engineer who examined the mysterious footprints estimated from the size too the depth of the impressions that whatever left the prints weight at to the lowest degree 750 pounds. Sanderson says the possibility that an animate beingness made the tracks tin live dismissed. Animals only produce non have got a human foot. That leaves the choice of what he called a humanoid, a creature inward betwixt human being too animal. He points to the fact that remains of 8 to 12 feet human-like apes known every bit Gigantopithecus have got been unearthed inward Southern China. So have got other similar specimens. If in that location were giants inward those days, in that location could good live giants today, he said.
Slick says since the Eskimos too Indians came to North America across the Bering Straits at to a greater extent than or less dot inward history the creature inward Northern California could good have got done the same thing. It is known that human being inhabited the continent earlier the final glacial advance during the Ice Age. It is know too, that animals such every bit elk, mammoth, moose, brownish bears, beaver, marmot, mink too other animals traversed dorsum too forth betwixt Asia too North America during the final meg years. Some of them soundless survive. If to a greater extent than or less animals could survive, so mayhap could sub men or ape-men says Sanderson. He concludes too, that every bit the H2O ice advanced, the logical house to retreat was to high places non inhabited past times man. One such house is inward the Humboldt too Del Norte Counties inward California too inward Southern Oregon.
Bigfoot's campground during the final twelve years has been inward the Six Rivers National Forest. [Bear hunters constitute tracks inward 1948] The topographic maps of U. S. Forest Service present exclusively "approximate" lines to dissever Humboldt too Del Norte Counties. Roads inward general, produce non cross the area. It was along a novel route site that Bigfoot too his tracks were seen.
There are cliffs inward the expanse amongst sheer drops of l00 to 200 feet. Those cliffs are unseen past times human oculus from whatever road. Douglas fir trees shroud them. Trees, which sit down at the bottom of a cliff, climb straightaway upward, sometimes to to a greater extent than than 200 feet. There are trees at the come about of the cliffs. They become upwardly to a similar height. The number to the oculus is the icon of close vertical timberline. Much of the province looks similar forests that produce non spread out but instead accomplish greedily toward the sky.
The reports of Bigfoot are non express to Northern California. Such reports have got come upwardly out of Oregon too Washington. H5N1 publisher at Agassiz, British Columbia, inward Canada has stories too affidavits close the creature, known in that location every bit the Sasquatch, which appointment dorsum to the 1880's. He is John Green, publisher of the Agassiz-Harrison Advance. He had made v trips to California to investigate Bigfoot. He has viewed tracks himself. He is convinced Bigfoot too the Sasquatch are 1 inward the same.
The really nature of the province the creature inhabits, if the creature exists, would dictate groovy forcefulness since it manifestly walks upright. The terrain demands it. Its feet dig half-dozen inches into steep inclines every bit it walks upwardly or downward past times the agency the tracks indicate.
This reporter asked many people inward the Willow Creek-Hoopa Valley-Weitchpec expanse [south of Bluff Creek site] close Bigfoot's feats of strength. Almost invariably they said, yep they had heard of them. Someone told them. They did non personally know it to live true. Some had non heard of the tractor wheel. Most had heard of the crude oil drums beingness tossed over embankments.
Larry Blasch, a 37 years one-time Willow Creek Sporting Goods shop owner, said ii men came into his house close iv years agone too told of finding a sections of corrugated pipage used for culverts. "It was a long ways from where the route ended on a ridge." He said the visitors concluded that a human being could non have got carried it in that location because of its weight. The pipage usually comes inward xx to 24 human foot sections too ranges inward diameter from xx inches up. Machinery is used to motion it. And then, in that location are the persons who state they have got seen Bigfoot. It is stories similar this that the Slick expedition is checking out. Some of them are ringing disturbingly true.
They have got collected plaster casts of Bigfoot's prints too other physical evidence. It seems good nigh incredible that inward this decade of the 20th century that human being would invade this mount fastness inward serious search of an American snowman. But they are too this fourth dimension they are matching their dedication amongst cash.
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