Pike Place Mystery
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 28th, 2008
Bones Found near Pike Place Not Human by Jim Valley, 710 KIRO Reporter
The King County medical examiner’s office says bones found near the Pike Place Market in
Seattle are not human.
An investigator said Wednesday an anthropologist made the determination, but didn’t say
what kind of bones they were.
They were found with seashells Monday by workers in the crawl space of the Virginia Inn.
A half dozen members of the Duwamish Tribe, who had suspected the bones were human,
held a ceremony at the market, playing drums and singing an “honor song” to ancestors.
Tribal chair Cecile Hansen says the bones could have been an Native American because of
the location.
[February 27, 2008]
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Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
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Yeah, I hope they do a follow up on this. I’m curious. It’s going to end up being a cow or something but you never know… Unfortunately I learned when writing my book that so many tantalizing media reports never receive a follow up. It’s aggravating. Fingers crossed.
Agreed, eireman. I’m curious to find out what kind of bones they are.
Sasquatch Bones?
And so the experts would tell us that there are no fossil or subfossil remains that would indicate the presence of higher primates (other than us) in North America, ever.
True.
That is, that have been found.
That is, that have been found and properly catalogued.
Anyone want to make a bet we don’t hear anything more about this one…?
Man, I’d start ransacking every single museum collection in the country, and taking out ads wherever I could. Smithsonian; Nature; Scientific American; the New York Times… (“Anybody have a really unusual doorstop…?”)
If it were me. And the $$$$ were there, that is.
I just have the sneaking suspicion the experts might not be right on this one. Call it a hunch.
Found it in a crawl space? I lived in Seattle for a couple years, I don’t see how a sasquatch would make its way to the inn just to crawl in the crawl space. Besides, this area is downtown Seattle. Even though I’ve seen some scary people, they were all people. The cascades are beyond the opposite side of Seattle. All other areas that are wooded… impossible for any non-human to just walk in and get into the crawl space.
Ok, not human, says them. But HOW OLD?
LOL! i keep picturing the befuddled innkeeper telling the poor, exhausted Sasquatch:
INNKEEPER: i’m sorry, s-sir, but there’s no room left. even the manger’s full! maybe under the inn..?
😉 maybe this will help start a religion for Bigfoot?
Just because they determined the bones are not human doesn’t automatically make them human like. I did not read anything about them even resembling human bones. They were simply some bones found in sand and some shells. The source of the bones could be anything from an elk to a dog. Last time I checked neither one of those critters have human bones either.
Finally. The remains of the mysterious Grunge Ape.
Maybe Sasquatch bones that were hidden in a crawl space?? I’d like to see some pics of these bones.
You know you’ve had a skinful when you can’t hold onto the floor. But underneath it?????
Do they sell Wadsworth 4X on draught in Seattle?
The Elusive Giant Crawl Space Seal
hmmmm i would definitely like to see a picture of these bones.
loren, it’s 3-4-08, 1:29 pm in pomona , ca.have you any update on these bones? by the way, hello, loren,my name is eddie and i have been enjoying this site for two years now! i just logged in today.
And it just quietly dies.
Don’t count me one of the surprised ones here. (See my first post.)
I frequently wonder about all these hair and fecal samples that seem to be going in for review, and then never get heard from again. Is this process really that hard to follow through on?
(I guess for people with other, real jobs, well, yes it is.)