What author and paranormal investigator Philip Spencer thinks about the Sierra Kills and Dr. Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA study
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| Philip Spencer is the Author of "The Wildman Of Kentucky , The Mystery Of Panther Rock" |
The BigfootForums website have an interesting interview with author and paranormal investigator Philip Spencer. Although most of the interview questions were related to Spencer's Bigfoot research, there were two questions that caught our attention. Spencer made some good points about the Sierra Kills and the Bigfoot DNA Study.
Q: On the Forum, there's been alot of discussion about the Sierra Bigfoot shootings and also the Ketchum DNA study. Have you been following either of these and if so, what's your opinion?
Philip Spencer: I have followed both and will say this. I am not someone who likes to assume anything and until the facts are laid out for everyone to see and discuss and review it is in my opinion best to let the work of Dr. Ketchum be done and laid out for everyone to see.
As for the Sierra shootings so much has been said and speculated on that it is hard for me to know what is what? When I read the story it made me feel so bad and if this actually happened it is a sad event. Hopefully in time solid facts will arise and we all will know the complete factual story. (more info may be available and I have just not seen it)
When asked about which group he identified himself with: kill or no-kill, this was his answer:
Philip Spencer: I am a no kill advocate. I believe in capture, analyze, release. I do not like seeing animals held in cages or compounds for people to stare at. I understand that we as a species are extremely destructive and will kill off many species with little thought to the ramifications of what we are doing and some people try to save species by captive breeding.You can read more of this interview at http://networkedblogs.com/r8jXZ.
But once people see that Bigfoot is real there will be a bounty on this amazing creature, more so than now, and I suspect a body will be taken for display. As per example what is said to have occurred with the Texas group. Alton Higgins declares Bigfoot killable and a body needed for study and out come the guns and the woods are filled with Bigfoot hunters looking to kill one just as fast as they can find one. Other groups are doing the same thing and in my opinion it is just ego gone wild and nothing more than one person or one group wanting to wear the tag of the person/group who killed Bigfoot for the betterment of Bigfoot ( the paradoxical paradox?).
I have been involved in a small group who very quietly have been working for over one year to capture Bigfoot. Never ever have we even thought of killing Bigfoot as we see no need to kill what we think is a subject from a very small group of creatures that are dwindling by the day. We have everything laid out and in place to do what is needed to capture and analyze then release. Killing one of the few remaining samples might not be the best idea for protecting the species.
Philip Spencer is the Author of "The Wildman Of Kentucky , The Mystery Of Panther Rock" which can be found in book and DVD format and has worked with the TV show MonsterQuest on The History Channel. Philip has appeared on numerous radio shows worldwide. Philip is a investigative researcher in the world of strange animals and paranormal activity.
Watch the video below to see Philip Spencer in NBC afilliate WLEX-TV Of Lexington Kentucky special presentation of "The Bluegrass Bigfoot".
I like this guy. A voice of sanity. I've been wondering where the heart and soul and even the minds of the "hunters" have been. It's become a hungry thirst for notoriety and prizes like big-game hunters. We're talking about a creature that almost certainly is our relative. I never shot my cousin to prove he exists. Let's put down the guns, men. You'll impress the hell out of me if you can capture one, tag it, let it loose, a lot more so than shooting one like a pussy from 50 yards away, killing something they don't understand like a bunch of cavemen. It's making me wonder, who is more advanced? It's very likely BF. He's hardly dependent on cell phones, cars, and bank ATMs and he survives in spite of man's encroachment.
ReplyDeleteVery good post Autumnforest, I couldn't have said it better myself.
ReplyDeleteIm sorry but i am so tired of skeptics saying there is no evidence. You wana be a skeptic, fine, but do some homework first like the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteI like this guy and the way he thinks.A field capture,DNA collection,photos etc. and immediate release is the logical and most humane approach.
ReplyDeletePeople who want to kill one just need a dead body to look at.
I wish some unknown would happen across one under extraordinary circumstances-quality video and samples,then just release it.
As for the skeptic and the bones comment-it's such a weak argument.people say that with out realizing how many thousands of square miles of forests there are.
How many of those square miles have been specifically searched for Bigfoot bones?
If people are skeptical,that's fine,but please provide a better reason than no bones.
I doubt Bigfoots wander up to hiking trails,campgrounds and roadsides to die.
I believe the "Sierra kills" story is much more complex. Everything is too convenient. This was an expedition to kill Bigfoot. You have a group of people who just happen to go to an area where the Bigfoot would be cornered. The two later witnesses who came forward only did because they were likely not paid what they were promised to guide the hunter's to the area where the Bigfoot were.
ReplyDeleteThis type of situation is very common. If you are willing to pay a large fee native american guides who know where Sasquatch live and travel will lead hunters to them. Sasquatch have been expensive trophies for quite awhile and any hunter who can afford it can get a trophy. This is why I say this is more complex as a few people who could afford the going rate stood to gain a great deal.
Any "skeptic" who wants "bones" or more evidence in terms of remains can find such evidence if they know where to look.
ReplyDeleteAll the indian legends talk of Sasquatch living in caves. There are numerous caves and old mines throughout the Western US. The Cascade mountains are full of caves- but nobody really ever explores them- maybe if it is an obvious place to look but thats the only time.
When has anyone ever really explored the caves that everyone knows exists in the West?
I have a interesting question/comment. This would pertaining to everyone but a good question for skeptics "lack of skeletal remains". How many people over the course of American history (early settlers, adventures, native americans, etc.) have died or been killed in the wilderness of this country? Now think how many people have heard of or know of someone finding a human skeleton from way back when? Not from a cemetery or battle ground etc. but actually from just out in a random location? Sure it has to have happened a time or two but you never really get that much media coverages if any. There are probably hundreds even thousands that have met their demise in what use to be the middle of nowhere but are now towns,roads,yada yada yada. So we don't find their remains if they were even buried much less left to the elements, wild animals. Getting to my point if we haven't found to many human remains if any, then why would we find Bigfoots? Correct me if I'm wrong, just a thought I've been pondering for quite some time.
ReplyDeleteYou do realized that basically every bigfoot researcher is considered a nutjob and are ridiculed by anyone associated with mainstream, "real" science. You want this to stop? You should be for the killing of 1 bigfoot. You will be taken seriously then and only then.
ReplyDeleteJames-
ReplyDeleteYou are right and I will take it a step further- a Bigfoot like a human- would take shelter and attempt to hide if injured or stricken ill. Both would not stay out in the open or just lay in the open and die. Both would know, and any animal for that matter, that they are in a weakened state and could not defend against an attack, and seek shelter.
People die in hospital beds more often than on park benches- any Bigfoot dying of natural causes would likely be hunkered down in an area where they would be safe from attack. Bodies of water also play a major role that is ignored- sick mammals want and need water- Bigfoots do not have faucets- a weak and sick bigfoot- could be swept into a river while drinking or simply fall in after they die. An animal who "knows" it will die will seek shelter- an severely injured animal will seek water and if they are going to die will likely do so in an area where the body will end up under water.