The Erickson Project Website Is Back From The Dead, Now Includes Scary Legal Disclaimer For Bloggers Like Robert Lindsay
After going offline late last year and the recent rumors brewing about Hollywood getting involved, Adrian Erickson's website, SasquatchTheQuest.com just came back online this morning. The homepage now comes with a really frightening legal disclaimer for websites or blogs claiming to have insider information about their project:
All other sites or blogs claiming to have Adrian's permission for posting Erickson Project content, or claiming to have insider information or sources speaking on the Erickson Project are NOT CREDIBLE. We DO NOT authorize the use of content, including text, video clips or still photos. All material represented to be from the Erickson Project is subject to litigation. This includes recent postings of Sasquatch The Quest as an upcoming movie released in theaters this summer, which are ABSOLUTELY FALSE and are subject to litigation.
Here's the full text:
Privately funded since 2005, The Erickson Project has researched sasquatch at various study sites throughout North America. The only goal of Adrian Erickson and his team is to finally have the sasquatch officially recognized as a species or sub-species. This has been a long and frustrating journey.
The completion and any release of a documentary as part of the Erickson Project, has been put on hold for a variety of reasons, most importantly pending the release of sasquatch DNA results by Dr. Melba Ketchum, who is testing DNA samples from different parts of North America, including multiple samples collected by The Erickson Project.
We, the members of the Erickson Project have been continually frustrated by the level of poaching our website content which is posted and misused on a multitude of other websites, or blogs, where 'experts' are interpreting our content by their conjecture, presenting our work as insider information on the Erickson Project, or just trying to bring traffic to their sensationalistic sites claiming to have interviewed Adrian.
THIS SITE IS THE ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE ERICKSON PROJECT.
TO BE CLEAR: NO OTHER PERSON, NOR OTHER WEBSITE, NOR OTHER PUBLICATION SPEAKS FOR US.
All other sites or blogs claiming to have Adrian's permission for posting Erickson Project content, or claiming to have insider information or sources speaking on the Erickson Project are NOT CREDIBLE. We DO NOT authorize the use of content, including text, video clips or still photos. All material represented to be from the Erickson Project is subject to litigation. This includes recent postings of Sasquatch The Quest as an upcoming movie released in theaters this summer, which are ABSOLUTELY FALSE and are subject to litigation.
What is the Erickson Project about? Watch this old preview clip about the documentary, Sasquatch The Quest:
[via www.sasquatchthequest.com]
Lets see what lindsays sources have to say about this.
ReplyDelete1.will you be sued for posting this?
ReplyDelete2.how does a broke man sue someone?
Not so scary, overstating the obvious, they are frustrated with their own leaks.
ReplyDeleteSubject to what litigation?
Coryright infringment maybe, for what damges?
How does one prevent others from
reporting about their often public activites, claimed sources or not? I thought our Bill of Rights allowed us that freedom?
This disclaimer reminds me of more Bigfootery.
It seems entirely unprofessional and written by someone other than an attorney.
It also says NO documentary until after release of Dr. Ketchum's paper.
And, LOL, does it also say DON"T TELL on any other webiste, only we can tell here?
Maybe just me, but it is a unique disclaimer, eh?
I imagine Lindsay is well aware of his legal rights regarding "journalism" as he cites to his education often.
Perhaps this is really written for the other 300 individual Bigfoot as well.
Boy, they better make a pot of money on that film to follow up on that unfriendly stance with thier fans and viral marketers.
Dilbert Flimsy better get legal Rep.
ReplyDeletedilbertflimsy.blogspot.com
Apparently, they have closed down only to open up as Area 51.
ReplyDeletematt Moneymaker filed suit against Mraig Woolheater back around 2005 or so over the posting of some footage referred to as the "Kentucky Project." Moneymaker didn't own the film at the time, he sold it to Erickson for $25,000. While it was circualting on the BFRO email distribution list prior to sale, apparently under the direction of MM, it got picked up by that blog and published b/c there was no accompanying NDA. Erickson intervened or something and Woolheater voluntarily pulled it down. Many saw it, and apparently it can still be found. It may be the "pancake video" that is referred to and the glass on the plate bait, or the same location if not same incident. The version on the net may not be the original quality. The history of the Ep project starts before Erickson enters, it is long and complicated with many central and incidental knowers. A great deal of deeper information than Lindsay reports is out there about that history and as yet un-rediscovered, prudently perhaps as we wait and see what the reputed "better" footage is. EP will have a battle to contain the many opinions about his work.
ReplyDeleteSo lindsay's wrong again
ReplyDeleteWhere did Lindsay say it would come out in theaters this summer?
ReplyDeletelol..you can't stop people from talking and speculating..
ReplyDeleteThe warning is obviously meant for one person. I doubt that they're concerned about what anyone else says or does.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr BS cardi
ReplyDeleteLindsay could screw up a wet dream
ReplyDeleteMeh.
ReplyDeleteShaun, UK
some member of my family live in the high hills of nc and the govement to this day still send their decetful agents up there to locate then bust up perfectly democratic and capitalistic stills. its a familys right to run a business is my feeling.
ReplyDeletewhen my cousins get ahold a one of them agents they throw them what they call a blanket party and that aint nothing you want to be invited to unless you like getting beat with a pillow sack full of doornobs.
i don't mean to be so conversational but what i'm getting at is them erikson boys seem about as trustworthy as them govement agents.
I saw bigfoot in New Hampshire in November 2006. In was living in the US at the time (I'm from the UK). I've never reported it to anyone, there was one other witness. So, I know Bigfoot are real.
ReplyDeleteIf I hadn't seen Bigfoot, and came across the likes of Erickson, BFRO, Standing, Ketchum etc I'd think the whole thing was a money making scam.
I understand some of them have financial stakes in this, and have used their own money. That's fine. But some of them, I think they're happier miling the cash of those looking for the legend, than they are from science.
Shaun, UK
lol
ReplyDelete@Shawn, I used to think that, and after this round I know that - it is a money train, maybe Dr. Ketchum can derail it!
ReplyDeleteLOLINDSAY
ReplyDeleteKetchum's on the same train folks
ReplyDeleteHow will they hold the original local contactees, that called the BFRO originally, quiet? Some of them are reported to be unhappy, some of them claim to have been destroyed by the friendly bigfoot investigators and their presense in their community, some are just nosy neighbors with an opinion. A sack of doornobs sounds like a gentle warning, subject to litigation.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see Lindsay's response to this...
ReplyDeleteOn a side issue - do you think he makes up responses to his blogs? I get the impression he's nuts enough to do this.
Yes I believe he does some of those responses and even responses to responses seem contrived. Nutjob for sure
DeleteBoise,
ReplyDeleteSounds like your cousins need to learn to hide their stills. If they are perfectly legal, then the Government won't destroy them. If I had an illegal still, and was interested in keeping it, I'd hide it.
If you wanna do illegal things, you've gotta keep it on the down low. Quit blaming the government.
Maybe why so much secrecy around the Sierra Kills DNA. No doubt shooting that Sasquatch was llegal. All of these Prize Hunters tell us to believe only them. I reckon that's what I'll do.
ReplyDeleteBeleive them all, one at a time. LOL. This is nuts.
I think this is funny as shit lindsY is wrong again. Let see what kind of rabbit gets pulled out of his butt this time.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to think of one thing Lindsay reported here that could get him successfully sued. If it is true, they can't win. If it is false it doesn't mean it is libel or even defamation. I am totally confused why this blogger would get so much attention, especially if he is just an idiot. No one pays attention to most Bigfoot bloggers. Why him? Maybe what he is writing has uncomfortable truths not yet packaged in silk, but put out like a sow's ear.
ReplyDeleteThe copyright infringment occurs all through the internet and any blogger is at risk for just about anything they post not original or with a release. Go litigate that.
Oh no, Lindsay again! He is a bad boy, isn`t he?! Here is what exactly Lindsay wrote on the EP documentation media release in his latest "BF news", January 30th:
ReplyDelete"Whether he (Erickson) is going the TV route to say National Geographic or via a film release, I have no idea"
Best, Joerg
Oh Joerg, too funny!
ReplyDelete"Sources"
ReplyDeletelol
this should let most of the bigfoot world know that robby lindsay is a socialist trust fund pig that shouldn't matter. this man's ego is just under blowbama's! and there is no place for this kind of bad reporting or better yet lack of any real journalism. take a slow boat to china robby. they might have respect for liars.
ReplyDeleteJoseg is not being totally accurate in his post read the whole paragraph in the RL Post on the 30th of January.
ReplyDeleteYou know,it's kind of funny that Robert is no where to be found!I guess he's checking his ''SOURCES'',aka his mom,on what his response should be.lol!!!! Big Dad.
ReplyDeleteOh RL your too stupid
ReplyDelete"Oh RL your too stupid"
ReplyDelete^ a+
to Anonymous at 9:41 you don't know what you are talking about. I know exactly who Boise is referring to.They were all hidden. As was my grandfathers which is now in the museum in Raleigh. Of course they're hidden!
ReplyDeleteIt's always nice to get a lot of publicity. I thought I had no credibility. Turns out I have so much credibility that multimillionaires and scientists are frantically trying to shut me down and shut me up.
ReplyDeleteI know where this all coming from and I think I know what this is all about, but I don't think I will be writing about it. All those messages are the doing of someone else and not Erickson, I am quite certain of that. Someone who hates me more than they hate snakes.
We know libel law very well, and we also know copyright law. I have any EP stuff, they can just send me a takedown order and I will remove it. We can paraphrase any of the material on their website that we want to and report on it.
The EP is really only three people and we have never communicated one single word to any of them. All our sources are outside the EP speculating on what is going on with them. The possible 4th person is Ketchum, and we have had almost no communication with her. We've never interviewed Adrian and we've never spoken on behalf of the EP. This is all just empty threats and bluster, that's all it is.
We will continue to report on the EP, but there is not much to report on them, as it's all pretty much locked down and hush hush. Any EP info at all that I get is generally off the record and can't be printed.
I never said the movie would be released in the summer. I said that Hollywood is working on it right now, and I think they are. When will the movie be released? "Soon." That's all we were told.
This is all about money, that's all it is. These people are on the verge of the story of the new millennium, hence all the secrecy, threats, lawsuit threats, etc.
Once again Robbie, who is "We"? I guess you have a whole team of reporters in your basement. LOL
DeleteThats not credibility your "think" you have, your only a curiosity at this point and soon nothing but another mental defect with a keyboard
ReplyDeleteWow, your ego is incredible. The only thing about you that is. Vain much Robert?
ReplyDeleteThis isn't about you. FYI an actual journalist, for an actual newspaper has picked this up and has a copy of what is alleged to be Ketchums paper currently under review.
I love the combination of bigfoot talk, and talk of bootleg stills. All the toothless hillbillies are coming out of the woodwork today.
ReplyDelete'stay off my property Yankee!!!!'
Pitiful damage control Robert. Why don't you just admit that you stepped in a pile and let it go? You never had any sources. All you do is come up with more B.S.! But to no avail,you are a legend in your own mind!!! Sucks when your little world comes crashing down on you. First the Meldrum debacle and now this.Sad,so sad!P.S.Take a break and enjoy your ''Wonderful'' life!!! Big Dad.
ReplyDelete@ anonymous @ 12:45
ReplyDeleteAny more info on the newspaper that you are speaking of, and or a date for the story?
There was no Meldrum debacle. Meldrum's lying in his rejoinder for the most part. The post in question on my site is accurate as it now stands. My post humiliated and embarrassed Meldrum, because I called him out and shone the light on his behavior at the Kills, first spending 2 hours saying how the steak was the real deal, then going back to his lab and saying it was a coyote.
ReplyDeleteMeldrum is just now figuring out that these things are not apes, but they are hominins. He's trying to figure out how to salvage 20 years worth of books and movies. He doesn't know what to do, I think he's going to ride the Ape line out for all it's worth as long as he can.
Meldrum is totally stressing out these days because he thinks people will think he's a loser and that his life's worth went up in flames.
So of course he's lashing out. That's all it is. That's all that's going on here folks. The truth hurts, as they say.
As far as the latest nonsense, it looks like someone is trying to shut me down, and it ain't Adrian. So we know who that is.
I'm obviously pretty damned important if all these big hotshots are ordering me to STFU or else. This is great stuff. I'm in the center of a storm.
If I was an inconsequential nobody, none of these hotshots would be screaming and yelling about me.
@ annonymous from UK @ 9:13am - "I saw bigfoot in New Hampshire in November 2006."
ReplyDeleteCan you tell me where you where? I lived just north of Franconia Notch for 16 yrs. with not a glimpse.
~T
I love it! Knew you'd step in this pile RL. John
ReplyDeleteRL your the one who is stressed out just lisen to yuurself Your just inches a way from a breakdown seek help!
ReplyDeleteI was just a tourist at the time. So dont know the exact location. I was staying in Nashua, and we had headed north for a trip out to up to see the Basin and the old man of the mountain near the Pemigewasset.
ReplyDeleteWe took a trek in the woods for a few hours when we stopped at the basin. The Bigfoot was stalking th river as if it was tracking fish. It took off as soon as it saw us. No doubt in our minds what we saw. I have been totally in awe ever since. I really hope no evidence is ever found and they get left alone to live naturally.
Shaun, UK
It's hard listening to all the. Voices in your head isn't it RL
ReplyDeleteImagine no-one blogged this story. At all.
ReplyDeleteOne day we wake up and there it is, all shiny and new.
A paper and a movie.
Everyone is smiling and congratulating themselves.
Press interviews take place and everyone is smartly dressed and looking smart.
Talking about how they worked together to bring this out, a real first, a real demonstration of cooperation and altruism. How their efforts stand heads above the rest.
The press has one week to research the story and do their homework before it all hits the stands, or fan.
And yesterdays news is fish wrap, so it all happens on the big day.
Of course they want nothing on the net in advance, it can make those initital Press Conference REAL.
In my C-3PO voice: "Here we go again."
ReplyDeleteLindsay do us all a favor and take up writing about something more your caliber. Like writing about The Kardashians. NO ONE RESPECTS YOU. EVERYONE DESPISES YOU. You are doing nothing but making a complete fool out of yourself. Is that what you wake up every morning wanting to do?
ReplyDeleteOh dear, it looks like we've given RL a reason to live.
ReplyDeleteThis'll be the last post from me. I'll check back 1 yr from today and see where he is then.
Matt M? Another respected name under the Bigfoot Bigtop.
ReplyDeleteThese are truly your days of swine and roses arent they RL it's hard being the father of nothing.and the keeper of less than nothing.
ReplyDeleteShawn, maybe you can give Rictor a guest Rant, bring him to the front of the class, he has a lot to say.
ReplyDeleteRobert Lindsay has become a leading name in the Bigfoot community. The number one reason involves Shawn's constant pandering on the website and the fact he regards Lindsey like royalty.
ReplyDeleteThe second reason is the hatred he invokes from certain very famous Bigfoot hunters.
Lindsey has become a character who is more entertaining than his counter parts.
I hope he keeps the news coming. Alot has happened in Kentucky and hopefully he will break the news regarding Bigfoot having a writing system.
To me it looks like the big names are joining forces to discredit Robert Lindsay.There have been too many stories this past week for it to be a coincidence.
ReplyDeleteThe old saying about people protesting the loudest sticks in my mind,and usually the simplest answer is likely the correct one.
I read both sides of the debate and take in the information,nothing more,nothing less.
IF RL is completely unreliable,why would so many big shots go out of their way to make noise?
Why not just let it die?
Whether people like Robert or not,it's important to look at these stories from both sides at different angles.
I'm not pro RL or pro Erickson et al,just looking at it from a non-emotional point of view.
Starting to crack down on photo pirates stealing digital pictures. Probably a good thing when stuff is so easy to take and post when somebody else
ReplyDeleteowns it.
It's fairly easy to mark your photos so they don't get swiped.
ReplyDeleteA simple translucent name across the subject would take care of that.
What good is the photo then?
@ Shaun, UK - 7:00pm
ReplyDeleteYou were in Franconia Notch! It's a great location/habitat. Heavily trampled by tourists certain times of the year, but deep and vast. The Appalachian Trail goes right through that area too.
I completely agree with you... they should be kept away from their wayward cousins.
~T
While everyone argues about Robert Lindsey and where he gets his information the real news is being ignored. The Erickson Project means very little in light of the fact Jim LeBus's team has captured a specimen and will make this public next week.
ReplyDeleteUnless the Erickson Project group puts something valid on the table soon, they are going to lose any credibility that they may have left.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about the money, after all...
ReplyDeleteMaybe the 'summer' comment refers to Shawn's mock-up poster. The poster says the movie is due out August 11th.
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone missed that the poster was not to be taken seriously. Shawn identified it as "mock-up".
quote[SasquaiNationFeb 1, 2012 04:23 PM
ReplyDeleteTo me it looks like the big names are joining forces to discredit Robert Lindsay.There have been too many stories this past week for it to be a coincidence.
The old saying about people protesting the loudest sticks in my mind,and usually the simplest answer is likely the correct one.
I read both sides of the debate and take in the information,nothing more,nothing less.
IF RL is completely unreliable,why would so many big shots go out of their way to make noise?
Why not just let it die?
Whether people like Robert or not,it's important to look at these stories from both sides at different angles.
I'm not pro RL or pro Erickson et al,just looking at it from a non-emotional point of view.]end quote
I agree SasquaiNation, As Shakespeare said " Me thinks he doth protest too much" only in this case "they doth protest too much"
In my HO, Jeff Meldrum is a stand up guy. Regardless of what his theories of sasquatch are,(ape, not ape?) he has always been open minded and examined the evidence in an expert, professional way. I will not change my opinion of Dr. Meldrum regardless of the outcome of DNA test.
ReplyDeleteAs far as this Roberty Lindsay guy, I have no opinion on him either way. (I know nothing about him rather than what he posts here.) It does seem that much of his reporting ends up being true, mostly true, or yet to be determined. (DNA results, Sierra kills, etc.) It seems that he will report a rumor and it later becomes fact, or it is never really proven inaccurate in its entirety. Just sayin.
Quick straw poll. Does anyone care if Sasquatch is classified as Ape or Hominid?
ReplyDeleteSurely all that matters to the Bigfoot comunity is verification the species exsists?
Shaun, UK
Shawn I care very much, because of the legal rights that might ensue. Do we harvest Sas for scitnific study? We do "lower" primates, and used to with even modern humans! We are not to be trusted are we?
ReplyDeleteIt matters to many, way beyond the actual true scientific called for classigficiation (if we followed that then Chimps would be in the Homo genus! - see Goodall 1998) and it Freaks me out they care so much!
I think the thing missing here and is key to the debate is how the methodology of study varies btween those who see Sasquatch as an ape vs those who see it more human.
From "baggin" one as you see some brag, to making a treaty with them as you have aslo seen speculated! Somewhere in there is Sasquatch.
oh p.s. what matters to me the most?
ReplyDeletethat finding bigfoot type activities, veven tha amateur habituators, are regulated somehow.
I also wish the communicty would self regulate throu a self created "Journal" as reviewed by "peers" (whoever that is in Bigfootness) as a way to gain credibility in a positive manner, rather than continue to harrass each other to diminsh work that might obscure their own?
LOl
Shawn have you had it yet?
I am signing out, I hope, till the experts check in...and that will trickle out.
If I conclude I really feel this way then it is my responsibility to also end my interest. That is tougher actually than it sounds...quite a rut Bigfootery!
oh the Reply buttons are back..nice..LOl where is the edit button? no don't then I get caught in an edit loop...Shawn I have realy enoyed your enthusiasm for the subject and amazing ability to dig up stuff I have't seen. And really, really enjoy the comments, all of them no other site do people quite say what they mean like here, anonomously!
ReplyDeleteI personally don't care what they're classified as. I don't even want verification they exsist.
ReplyDeleteI want them to be left alone. Being lucky enough to see one made me extremely grateful. I'm not religious, but I thanked the stars for letting me be privelidged enough to encounter bigfoot. I also became instantly protective over them.
We should leave them alone. There was a first nation woman on finding bigfoot S1 that said, 'if you see one, say a prayer and move on' - she was dead on the money.
We're sharing this planet, not it's masters.
Shaun, UK
I want them to be left alone.
ReplyDeleteDon't you think they need to be found first or even proven to exist first, for that to happen?.
Without any of the above, all this is just more BS.
@Robert
ReplyDeleteI don/t think you do know Copyright laws Robert; you continue to show photos of the "Toenail" and the Investigation there that I have requested you to take down or add my copyright too!
Only I (and the few I have granted permission too - Melba, Shawn, Etc.) have permission to show those photos.
I could claim Copyright at any time now:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
http://www.copyright.gov/
I choose not to (ATT), but the future may be different.
I would hope if you were actually an ethical person and journalist that wouldn't be needed and you would comply with this request. I'm sure you have confirmed with Richard that I am speaking the truth by now; as he has confirmed the same with Larry as has JavaBob.
This is coming from ME and ME only.
Not anyone else, I make all decisions on the Photos and the TOENAIL itself as it applies to the INTERNET or the Melba Ketchum Study as far as submitting (OR any other study; WINK!).
Sincerely,
Alex Hearn