Ivan T. Sanderson: Without him, there wouldn't be a Roger Patterson


Editor’s Note: Jonathan Poulsen is a cryptozoologist with a mere four years experience. But what he lacks in time he has made up for in progress.

Forty years ago today Scottish-born zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson died of gastric cancer in New Jersey. Sanderson claimed to have had 3 PhD's, though no one has been able to verify this. Conflicting stories regarding his view on Patterson's 1967 film are evident, mainly due to his sensational piece on the movie written in Argosy (which for the most part is portrayed in a positive light), however, he later concluded it was a sham, as did his close friend and colleague Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, shortly after examining the Minnesota Iceman in 1968. It should be noted that Roger Patterson may not have even involved himself (in Sasquatch research) if it weren't for Sanderson's 1959 article in True magazine on what was then commonly referred to as "America's Abominable Snowman".

Here's Henry May's review of Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come To Life by Ivan Sanderson:

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    1. Hey hey one at a time keep the line moving

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    2. I can't believe his iron on Beevis and Butthead is not all stretched and cracked. He must cherish that shirt

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    3. Henry May baby !!
      Henry is the MAN !!

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    4. I would like to hear more from Henry May, people can poke fun all they want but Henry is SMART CAT!

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    5. Henry should make a movie.

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    6. Henry should make a movie?
      Someone should make a movie about Henry May!!

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    7. We can call it ....... I got nothin any ideas

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    8. The true heroes here are those chains on his porch swing.

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  2. Hey Shawn, please find and post a pic of the original drawing Patterson made before the Patty video of the female squatch with hairy breasts. I'm sure a lot of folks haven't seen it. If not just for comparison to Patty, for the Boobies.

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    1. No, he can't, there's way to many children surfing this blog.

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    2. Bigfoots love my pretty pony !

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    1. Henry May should be your go 2 guy, he is actually smart & is the key to unlocking this mystery

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    2. Henry May is the only person in the bigfoot research community whom I take seriously. Keep up the fantastic work Henry!

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  4. Cryptozoologist - on the surface sounds a lot more sane than 'bigfoot researcher' and probably will add another few minutes to the conversation before the other person realizes how silly you sound.

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  5. The last of the die-hard footers are like the Japanese soldiers in WW2, that wouldn't accept that the war was over and either went into hiding or kept fighting.

    Someone needs to talk to them and persuade them to put down the tree knocking stick and give up.

    The Bigfoot myth is dead, it's over.

    Thanks for killing the only boogey man I ever had.

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    1. I think that premise formed the basis for an episode of "Gilligan's Island" when some lost Japanese submarine commander (played by a white actor) somehow came ashore on the island. He assumed that the war was still ongoing and it led to many zany situations and madcap gags.

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    2. ^ then leave. Shows over Freak! Since you didn't believe in the first place it shouldnt be a let down.

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    3. 12:38 sounds like Sharon Hill/I Doubt It.

      What a great shock!

      These skeptards need to be sat down and taught that skepticism isn't atheism. Adhere to an atheistic approach and you won't progress in science. Science and the scientific method are agnostic occupations and endeavors.

      Being atheistic is not being skeptical.

      Being skeptical means a position which accepts a certain amount of evidence leading to a certain amount of verification and belief.

      Scientific atheism is antithetical to skepticism. The two states can't co-exist.

      If you are scientifically atheistic, you can never put the scientific method into practice, because you are forever in a position that such-and-such doesn't exist. Someone brings you evidence and you refuse to acknowledge or test it because you work from the premise that the evidence is from something which doesn't exist.

      That's backwards. You need to be skeptical, not atheistic, in order to practice the scientific method. If you are atheistic, you will never have any evidence to test with that method, because you are forever taking the position that the evidence doesn't exist, and the thing which the evidence is evidence of, doesn't exist.

      That will be a full-on failure of a scientist. That person will never progress or discover anything, ever.

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  6. Sanderson, Patterson, Marx, Freeman, Biscardi, Dyer, Smeja. The list goes on.

    Bleevers are like a bunch of abused women that just can't seem to distance themselves from their aggressors.

    It doesn't matter how much fake footage, broken promises or outright lies; the bleevers will inevitably fall back into bed with their hoaxers.

    I heard Bob Gimlin just bought masterbarber a dozen roses and promised to he could change.

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    1. UTTER GIGANTIC SKEPTARD IMMEDIATELY ABOVETuesday, February 19, 2013 at 4:32:00 PM PST

      ^^^ Another skeptard agitating for supertard status, angry that the Ketchum study was released as Ketchum promised, ruining this skeptard's skeptardical universe in which the paper would not be released and in which bigfoot must not exist (must not, at any cost).

      Tard on, skeptard. And good luck with your attempt at promotion to supertard.

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  7. I'm a cryptohorticulturalist. Gimme some money.

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    1. No, send your money to Henry May - this way we can get real results !!

      Send you money to Henry May !!

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  8. Henry has the ability & know how to put Bigfoot on the map.

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  9. If Henry can't do it no body can !!

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  10. No one could every hoax Henry May, no way !!

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    1. Please post more Henry May content on your blog!

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    2. Don't post the one were he is on to catch a predator!

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  11. KEN; I have a really great pic of a bear from behind. He's on two legs walking like a man. I know it's a bear, but he looks awesome from the angle in the pic. It's really freaky, it looks so much like a large hairy man. How much can I get for my BIGFOOT(bear) picture? It's really impossible to tell what it is, and it is clear too. How much Hoaxers? I won't tell, give me the money.

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    1. Let me use your photo in my upcoming book about my life with bigfeets.

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  12. Funny you say that no one could hoax Henry, but I believe it, no way, not everything you see or find in the woods is Sasquatch related and he knows this !!

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  13. Patterson: "I drove out in my Volkswagen to the end of a logging road and sat there in the semidarkness, and this giant man came out and lifted the front of my car.'"


    Sure buddy... Next thing you know you'll be finding bigfoot tracks everywhere you go. Then you'll claim to have filmed one.

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  14. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/1966patterson4gp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/femalebf/&h=374&w=500&sz=34&tbnid=h4GvtnfVzXyTnM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&prev=/search%3Fq%3Droger%2Bpatterson%2Bbigfoot%2Bdrawing%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=roger+patterson+bigfoot+drawing&usg=__q2_I6aP1977YsMDdZCSC4qaRSag=&docid=R99XaiU45afRKM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WPEjUYmxMIP88QTwxYGgDQ&ved=0CDMQ9QEwAA&dur=6892

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  15. Have you ever stuck your peepee in a wood chipper and right when it started to chip it into small pieces thought that maybe it wasn't such a great idea?

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    1. You should really stop tellin people's secrets on the Internet

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    2. I can't help it Harry.I think I need help with my problem or I won't have a peepee left.

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    3. Well before you stick it in anything think first is this gonna be a good idea if you can't determine put an orange in first

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    4. Thanks Harry.I appreciate your advice to the fullest.

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    5. Did you hear the story about the guy and the pickle slicer?

      This guy starts work at a pickle packing plant. As he works each day an obsession to stick his wang in the pickle slicer devolved. He told his wife about it and she told him that it would not be a good idea. But his obsession just would not go away.

      One day he comes home from work early. His wife notices he is really sad and asks why he is home early. He tells her he got fired. She asks why he got fired. He says he stuck his wang in the pickle slicer. "OhmyGod what happened" his wife screams. He says "they fired her too".

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    6. Lol see that proves my point you could stick an orange in there and everything is good

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  16. Are you a Henrynid or a Henrynoid?

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  17. Who owns rights to that Sanderson book now? Are the words IDENTICAL to his original? How much are they charging for that gem at BF conferences?

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  18. Without Sanderson? He's a handsome fellow. So he boinked Roger's mom?

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  19. I never heard that Sanderson rejected the PGF; that's a new one for me. I don't think Sanderson lived into the days of the stabilized version of the film, did he? If not, he missed much of the evidence in the film.

    Z!

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    1. Little known fact but one of his first failed start-ups was a Japanese fried chicken franchise called Colonel Sanderson's.

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    2. Krantz discussed Sanderson's change of opinion in his 1998 book 'Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence'.

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  20. Henry has great respect for'60s Japanese monster movies, hence the Gamera-vs-Mothra camera work. It looks like he's ready to crush a Kmart.

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