NorCal L.O.W.F.I

Archive for February 21st, 2009

Although Oregon and Washington certainly boast a great number of Bigfoot related sightings year in/year out, NorCal — to my mind — is the true home of the big lug, whether real or imagined.

Much of the modern day Bigfoot lore was ushered into public consciousness with the famous — or infamous, as the case may be – Roger Patterson Bigfoot film which seared the funky image of a freewheeling Sasquatch broad truckin’ through NorCal’s Six Rivers National Forest back in 1967. Below is a youtube vid of an enhanced version of this Patterson Bigfoot film produced by some folks who evidently think the thing was a hoax, and I tend to agree with this assessment. However, one never knows, for sure…

NorCal also hosts the pre-eminent Bigfoot museum in the Santa Cruz Mountains, nestled among the majestic redwoods in the town of Felton. It was here on August 9^th (which also happens to be the anniversary of the Manson family murders) of last year, that some of the more respected researchers in the field, such as Dr. Jeff Meldrum, were featured speakers during Bigfoot Discovery Day II, sponsored by the museum, truly one of the high points of Bigfoot research for 2008.

That being said, 2008 was some sort of banner Bigfoot year, although mainly in a negative sense, as one of the true fringe giants in the field, Erik Beckjord shed the mortal coil on June 22nd, just a few weeks before the infamous Bigfoot press conference that took place — you guess it! — once again in NorCal, and more precisely in the town of Palo Alto, on August 16th, an event I attended and afterwards chronicled in a series of articles featured in my Untamed Dimensions blog here, here, here, here and here.

 

Another infamous 2008 Bigfoot claim to fame was the unfortunate alliance  our hairy hero formed with one Rupert The Anti-Christ during Rupert’s short-lived Presidential campaign. Check out the following clip of Bigfoot announcing his run for Vice-President on The Luciferian Ticket.

http://gorightly.podomatic.com/entry/2008-01-27T23_17_36-08_00

For many years the aforementioned Erik Beckjord operated a Bigfoot, UFO and Loch Ness Monster Museum in San Francisco, which he opened, fittingly enough, on Halloween of 1996. The late Mr. Beckjord — who claimed he filmed the Loch Ness Monster in 1983 — help popularize the theory that Bigfoot is some sort of extradimensional-paranormal beastie as opposed to a flesh and bones dandy, a concept near and dear to my heart.

In this regard, Fortean researchers have long noted that Bigfoot, various monsters, apparitions, ghosts and UFO sightings often happen near lover’s lanes, or during women’s menstrual periods. Theoretically, menstrual cycles play a key role in the attraction of these phenomena. To this end, some ancient cultures suspected that women’s menstrual cycles opened a gateway into the void, through which occult forces can be invoked. Carlos Castaneda entertained this idea in his book The Second Ring of Power. It has been noted by certain researchers that, in addition to the uncanny ability of Bigfoot to locate women experiencing their menstrual periods, Bigfoot and other reported fortean beasts tend to make appearances when the moon is full. Of course, menstruation itself is believed to have a basic concurrence with moon cycles. According to occult researcher Kenneth Grant, the human menstrual flow is the vehicle of the lunar vibration. Grant seems convinced that this peculiar force gives rise to an entity known to the ancient Egyptians as the Ape of Thoth, an entity which loomed large in the magical practices of Aleister Crowley. Maybe Bigfoot and the Ape of Thoth are more closely related than has been previously suspected. Also, some of the stranger Bigfoot sightings have coincided with UFO sightings as if the two were related. Which lends credence to the theory that Bigfoot is more paranormal in nature, than he is an actual flesh and bones beastie. Interestingly enough, at the time of his death Erik Beckjord was working on a book called Sex and the Supernatural Sasquatch which explored the aforementioned themes. 1998’s The Psychic Sasquatch by Kewaunee Lapseritis also examines such arcane areas as telepathic communication with our furry friend.

My buddies Greg Bishop and Nick Redfern run the groovy UFOMystic blog which looks into such strange anomalies. I can’t remember which one of them said it, but when posed with the question, that: “If you were to capture Bigfoot, what would you find?” Nick or Greg answered that at the exact instant you were going to toss a net over the critter, it would probably disappear, which speaks to the elusive nature of this beast.

 

Whatever the case, this didn’t stop of bunch of hardcore Bigfoot Hunters from building an actual Bigfoot trap (pictured below) in 1974 in the wilds of the Siskiyou National Forest, just a few scant miles from the NorCal border, in Southern Oregon.

 

Read about it here.

 

And the Bigfoot beat goes on…