Bigfoot risks extinction, says Canadian MP

Basic Maslow: An accurate perception of reality. Healthy persons see the
world as it is, rather than as distorted by their needs and
beliefs. Maslow writes, "The neurotic is not emotionally sick; he
is cognitively wrong." Unhealthy persons fit the world to fit the
shapes of their fear, needs, and values.

Benjamin Radford wrote "Bigfoot at 50: Evaluating a Half-Century of Bigfoot Evidence" for the March/April 2002 issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. He is co-author of Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking.  

He said,  

Bigfoot's been a busy beastie recently,
especially in Canada. In April a Manitoba ferry operator videotaped a
large, dark, indistinct creature moving along a riverbank. Whatever it
was -- Bigfoot, bear, bison, or otherwise -- it caused quite a stir and
made international news.

Then there's the Yukon story of Teslin resident Trent Smarch
who found a tuft of coarse, dark hair in a forest where he and other locals
heard a large, mysterious animal in the brush. Locals believes the
creature was a Sasquatch, the Canadian version of the huge, hairy,
humanoid mystery creature known as Bigfoot.

Three months later, in
nearby Yukon province, Teslin resident Trent Smarch found a tuft of
coarse, dark hair in a forest where he and other locals heard a large,
mysterious animal in the brush. They believe the creature was a
Sasquatch, the Canadian version of the huge, hairy, humanoid mystery
creature known as Bigfoot.
The find was reported across North America and around the world, and
many wondered if this hair find might finally prove Bigfoot's
long-disputed existence. The hair sample was sent to University of
Alberta wildlife geneticist David Coltman for analysis. Coltman was
asked to extract any available DNA from the hair, sequence the
mitochondrial genes, and compare them to a database of known regional
creatures.

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I hope to post a sasquatch story later this week. It's about 14 young hockey players from Trail BC and their experiences at Sasquatch Caves in Hope BC in the late 1960's, and after they got back home from winning the BC Pee WEE AAA Hockey Chamionship. It's about how myths & legend can grow larger than life, and spread, or meme (memex) from one community to another, until it's province wide, then North American wide, then worldwide...

RandyMac