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Scientific American complains about Animal Planet's River Monsters and Finding Bigfoot. They say calling fish "monsters" diminishes their majesty and then call Bigfoot a mythical creature!

A shooting of a Bigfoot in Pennsylvania was reported to local police on Tuesday, May 14.

Portland, OR. HopsSquatch is a monthly Bigfoot and Beer speaker series. May 26th will feature Author Thom Powell and how spycraft fits into Bigfooting.

Some people in the Bigfoot community feel that Gigantopithecus is the most likely candidate as the precursor for Bigfoot. Jeff Meldrum and Grover Krantz are in this camp. But others such as Loren Coleman feel there is a more likely candidate, Paranthropus.

FYI, I joined the discussion forum of the Julian Jaynes Society so I could ask them about the Story of Sinuhe. So far only the moderator has replied. If you would like to follow the conversation (assuming it continues), click here:

http://www.julianjaynes.org/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=895

Anyone can read the posts, but you have to be a forum member to actively participate.

P.S. Because this post attracted an incredible amount of comment spam, I've closed the comments on this thread. 

P.P.S. The moderator has posted an additional reply. While I appreciate his taking the time to have a dialogue, I have to say I see a fair amount of special pleading in his position. The attitude seems to be that we already know Jaynes' theory is correct, so any contradictory evidence must be the result of mistranslation or a sign of an earlier and  more gradual transition from bicamerality to introspection. The flimsiest reeds are used to prop up the bicameral-mind idea, while very obvious departures from bicamerality are minimized or dismissed. Sinuhe's life story, which in no way fits Jaynes' depiction of a robotic, hypnotized, unconscious person incapable of dealing with novel situations, is somehow shoehorned into the theory because Sinuhe refers to his pharaoh as a god.

Color me unimpressed ... 

"Lots of our favourite crypto-creatures are here as well, the Jersey Devil, the Kraken, the horse-headed men of the Philippines, and the Mongolian Death Worm..."

According to Bill Munns, his goal is to produce something worthy of submitting to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a/k/a the Oscars.

"...with word that the mysterious creature known as Chupacabra has been sighted again, Wolfe is torn between his obsession with finding cryptids and his desperate need to rescue his daughter..."

Cryptomundo will give away a pair of tickets to the screening to one lucky Cryptomundian to attend the screening in our party. This is only for two general admission tickets. You have to get yourself to Dallas and find a place to crash while here. But you will get to go to dinner with the Cryptomundo crew before the screening, hang with us at the screening, and possibly get to meet Bobcat Goldtwait. How do you win you ask? Submit your reasons why we should pick you to attend in the comments section. Get creative, submit a video, whatever. We will pick the best response submitted by this Sunday night, May 19th, at midnight Central.

Comments on this blog are moderated, meaning that it can take some time for them to be read and approved for posting. This unfortunately slows down the pace of conversations. 

For those who want to participate in unmoderated, real-time discussions, there's an online forum loosely affiliated with this blog. You do have to request membership, but once you're approved, you can post whenever you like and even introduce new topics. 

Right now there's a lengthy discussion of Stanislav Grof underway, and another thread about reincarnation. 

The forum can be found here. 

Christopher Noël posted this additional reason to Facebook why he is still confident Rick Dyer is telling the truth.

I'm very glad to see this list of psi research articles compiled by parapsychologist Dean Radin. The articles are all downloadable, and cover a range of topics - exactly what's needed. By way of introduction Radin says: In the past, my response to...

www.paranormalia.com

Dean Radin's new list of psi articles includes one which he referenced on his blog some time ago, and which I mentioned here quite recently. It's one of those richly comical moments that bubble up in sceptic discourse from time to time, so I thought...

www.paranormalia.com

We've reached another level of trust over the last two visits as the resident sasquatch people have begun to give us speech and close vocalizations. Interactions progress closer.

The genome of a primitive fish that was once thought to have died when the dinosaurs did has now been sequenced by scientists — and when put into mice, some of the fish DNA caused mice to sprout limbs.

Release of DNA paper anticipated for late October or November.

A bigger cousin to the more well-known Sasquatch, the Genoskwa has hard, armor-like skin and is said to be much more brutal!

Anyone who thinks that I "back Rick Dyer" doesn't know me or the facts.