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Re: Inquiry on Grover Krantz
Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu)
17 Jul 1994 17:39:12 -0600
In article <30c9ud$af2@search01.news.aol.com>,
IraWalters <irawalters@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <30bvbj$s2b@triton.unm.edu>, mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:
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>Dr. Krantz bases his assertions on the existence of bigfoot on two major
>pieces of evidence: 1) dermal ridges present on some hand and foot tracks,
>and 2) the crippled foot of one creature which enabled Dr. Krantz to
>determine its internal anatomy.
Um, I didn't say that. I'm Bryant, whom asked what Dr. Krantz considered
"credible evidence" for the existence for bigfoot. I personally don't
believe in the critter's existence, to put it mildly. Spent a growing-up
in the Oregon and Washington Cascades, where many "sightings" occur, and
where (interestingly) the native americans had no myths or stories of
such creatures. Sasquatch was a bit of legend from the Salishan
speakers, closer to the northwest's coast. And none of their myths
agreed with one-another, intertribally, either. Some spoke of a
tree-like monstor, others of multi-headed bear-people... The book Coast
Salish Essays includes an essay entitled, "On the ethnographic track of
bigfoot."
>foot. The distal shift of the talus bone was consistent with that of a
>creature weighing around 800 lbs., which is the estimated weight of the
>sasquatch.
Gosh, I thought you were serious. 800 pound primates walking through
the few remaining forests of the pacific northwest, leaving no remains,
never running into hunters... 800 pounds?!
Bryant
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