Robert Lindsay: Sierra Kills Bigfoot Shooter Visited By California Department of Fish and Game

Here are some updates from last week's radio interview about the Sierra Kills Bigfoot shooting that took place near Gold Lake, CA in October 2011. (Click here to listen to a portion of that interview.)

On Robert Lindsay's blog today, he talked about the ongoing saga of the Bigfoot DNA project, and revealed some interesting details about Justin Smeja's recent run-in with the California Department of Fish and Game.

On Dr. Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA project, Lindsay states "Mass confusion over Ketchum Project’s status at Nature Magazine":

We reported earlier that Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot paper was at Nature Magazine at some point. Our source for that was ultimately David Paulides, who is about as close to Ketchum as you can get. The rumor was later confirmed by Matt Moneymaker, who said that he had spoken to a peer reviewer at Nature, who said the paper had been handed back for a couple of reasons, including not having a testable hypothesis and no zoologist on board.

However, we recently checked in with our sources, and it turns out that the whole nature rumor may have been in error. The source said that numerous people had written to Henry Gee, editor at Nature. He replied to all, stating that the paper he had never had the paper under consideration. Apparently this means that Ketchum’s paper was never at Nature in the first place. The source said they did not know why Paulides was wrong about this.

Is it possible that it could have been submitted to Nature, but never made it to Gee’s desk and instead was intercepted by the team of ~15 editors who winnow out submissions slated for peer review. After all, Nature gets ~10,000 submissions a year, and only ~1,000 get published, if I am not mistaken. I believe only 8% are accepted. Many do not even make it to peer review, but are intercepted by the 15 man team in the front office and tossed back for whatever reason.

If the paper was intercepted in this way, is it possible that it never made to Gee’s desk in the first place. Nature gets ~30 submissions a day. Does Gee look at all of them?

Anyway, more sources are pretty insistent that the paper was never at Nature in the first place.

So…Henry Gee is lying? This doesn’t seem right.

Matt Moneymaker is lying? It seems a bit odd for him to make up a story out of whole cloth like this, but he’s an nasty piece of work with an extremely low reputation in the field on the moral and personal level. Bottom line is he’s widely hated for ample reason. But would he make up a lie like this? Doesn’t seem like Matt.

At the end of the day, we are left with a mystery about whether or not the paper was ever at Nature Magazine. On the face of it, it appears that the paper was never there, but that means that Moneymaker made up a huge lie, which seems a bit out of character even for him.

On the Sierra Kills story, Robert wrote about Justin Smeja's recent run-in with the California Department of Fish and Game:

Justin Smeja visited by California Department of Fish and Game recently. In his radio interview, Smeja made a shocking assertion. He said that he had been visited by two uniformed officers of the CA DFG around November 15. They knocked on his door, and he was not happy to see them. They asked to come in, but he said he’d rather talk to them outside. He went outside and locked the door behind him.

They said, incredibly, “We are here to investigate the killing of 2 Sasquatches in Northern California in October of last year.” Some conversation ensued, and they said they wanted to search his house.

Smeja said, “Well, you can’t do that.”

The officers replied, “Ok, fine. We will go and get a search warrant then. It only takes half an hour to get one.”

But they never came back. Smeja had a small piece of Bigfoot in his house, and he quickly moved it somewhere else. Later he called the office and said he wanted to make a deal with them. He would come down to the office with an attorney and give them one small piece of Bigfoot in return for no prosecution on any charges. The office replied that they were putting the matter on the back burner for the moment and would be back in touch with him.

We were not able to confirm any of this story with DFG sources, but they did not deny it either. My DFG source said he had heard of the story, and they were looking into it to see whether or not it even happened. The source expressed some doubt that the story was true. The officer did admit that he had done some minor investigation into the Sierra Kills on his part. However, he felt that the Kills story was ridiculous, and he thought that Bigfoots did not even exist.

If it is true that uniformed officers showed up to investigate the killing of a Bigfoot, this would be a major event. Of course, we have had many reports in the past of authorities investigating Bigfoot killings, but seldom has the witness given us his name. And this is the first case to my knowledge where a US government law enforcement agency has admitted to investigating the shooting of a Bigfoot.

We were ridiculed for running this story, but it looks like it is true.

MBRT radio’s interview with Justin Smeja. The investigation, research and questioning of Smeja was handled superbly by JC Johnson and Abe Del Rio. It would have been nice if they credited us for breaking the story. After all, if it wasn’t for us, that interview never would have happened.

Sierra Kills adult Bigfoot was a male. We have now heard from two separate sources that the adult Bigfoot killed in the Sierra Kills was a male. The two sources are high ranking members of the BFRO. Note that the although the BFRO officially says that the Sierra Kills story is nonsense as per Dictator Moneymaker’s directive, some individual members believe in the story.

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