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More Materials On Differentiating Bigfoot, Yeti, Skunk Ape, Wildman and
Sasquatch
Above is a facial
portrait and below is a footprint of the Eastern Bigfoot, which is often
compared to a "Caveman" in appearance. The term Eastern Bigfoot has been used
since the 1970s to discriminate the type, although there are problems with using
that term since it has also been applied to the more apelike Skunk Ape (see
below), with equal vigour and for about the same length of time.
The footprints and
build of this creature (Which I call the American Almas) are very much like
Neanderthal fossils and so is the shape of the skull, face and braincase. They
are burly creatures built like old-time professional wrestlers and with
short bandy legs. Their arms turn out to be not particularly overlong in
comparison to Caucasian Homo sapiens, but both hands and feet are large enough
to seem outsized. Both hands and feet are squared-off in appearance. The top of
the head is usually domed rather than peaked and one gets the impression of
a head distinct from the shoulders
The following photo
is from Ohio and if genuine it would be one of these Eastern Bigfoots.
It seems to be
running with unusual vigour and it has been suggested it would not be possible
for a man in a suit to perform this action at such a great speed. The
proportions look human enough.
Eastern Bigfoot
drawings from an article posted on the blog recently.
The profile is
similar to the famous "March of fossil humans" from the Time-Life book Early
Man.
The head-on view is
a close match for the "Mecheny" Almas seen in Siberia.
Two peculiarities are
associated with the American Almas males: the first is that the crown of the
head can have thinning hair, or be partly to wholly bald on top; the second is
that they can have beards and moustaches ranging from just noticeable to
full-beard-hanging-to-the-waist.
Whether or not these
photographs represent real creatures, they DO represent what the witnesses are
reporting. These reports do continue more rarely out to the West Coast,
and then there are areas both in Northwest Canada and then again in Mexico and
points South where they are counted as specific regular types reported in those
areas. In Northwest Canada they are the BushMen and in South America they are
the Didis and Maricoxis.
Blogger Jay
from the companion blog Bizzare Zoology sent in this illustration tpo my
Facebook wall. He said the "Wild Woman" illustrated on the house pole could be
meant for one of my American Almases and he pasted the skull alongside for
comparison. It looks like a good match to me.
Further to the
south there are what Sanderson called The Little Red Men of the Bottomlands (or
of the Mississippi delta) and wondered if the reports could be related to
runaway orangutans (in 1961): soon after that, "Skunk ape" reports started
coming in from Florida
There was
some variation overall in the kind of apes they were said to look
like, chimpanzees were alleged almost as commonly as orangutans. And yet the
striking similarity to orangutans insited on in all of the best reports and
shown in photographs is very hard to discount or to overlook.
Myakka Florida Skunk Ape on Left Compared to
Orangutan on Right
Fangs as
illustrated on an internet Skunk Ape site
"Monkey" Skull
Unearthed in Texas Early May 2009.
Large Apelike
creature on the loose as shown on Fox News and illustrated on the Cryptomundo
site.
Below, Illustration
of a "Sasquatch" actually based o Skunk Ape reports. The Skunk Apes can walk
weither bipedally or quadrupedally on the ground, and it does seem they do so
more frequently than normal apes usually do.
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| El Reno Oklahoma "Ape Hand"
print on Henhouse |
Apelike
Category Tracks
Upper Left
Himalayan "Yeti", Upper Right Orang Pendek from Sumatra
Lower Right Chinese
Yeren, Lower Left from Pennsylvania
There is a great
range in track shapes depending on how closely the big toe is clenched to the
foot
Footprint cast for the Skunk Ape: in this example,
the two smallest toes seem to have run together in casting. These tracks
characteristically show an opposed big toe: more recently they are often said to
resemble the Orang Pendek tracks from Sumatra and lately publicised. Below is a
comparison of the-is kind of "Bigfoot" with the typical (Smaller) Yeti from the
Himalayas. A close match in proportions and stance.This type of Yeti is
ordinarily said to be the size of a teenager or a young man for the males,
females much smaller.These Yetis typically live at lower altitudes in the
jungles (where they are known under different names) and only rarely go over the
mountains when they need to get from one valley to another, and that most likely
because of feeding patterns and population pressures.
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| Ivan Sandersons' comparisons for
the "REGULAR AND LARGE YETIS", the latter also being the same as the
Sasquatch |
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| Big Footprints, attributed to
Sasquatch. From California, Huffington Post |
Museum
reconstruction of Sasquatch
Above and below,
Witness' drawings. The typical West Coast Sasquatch
has a small pointed
head which does not have a distinct neck or separation from the shoulders
visible
Both arms and legs
are thickly muscled and the hands reach as far down as the knees.
The eyes are small,
round, dark, and placed close together, nose is flat and the ears are rarely
seen.
Artwork from Utah
Bigfoot site, above and below
Traditional
Representations of Sasquatch on border below
"Peter O, Hoot"
above and "Peter O, Staredown" below.
Life-sized
Sasquatch Mockup, credit is indicated.
The Patterson film
shows a creature that is entirely consistent with the usual descriptions and
footprints (Footprints as found and as shown in the film)
The shape of the
Sasquatch (Above) is unmistakeably different than your typical brown bear
standing up. The typical shape for the tracks is also unmistakeably
different.
~Dale~
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