March 20, 2007
Well, the time is drawing near.
As I have posted previously here on Cryptomundo, Tom Biscardi’s Bigfoot Capture Reality TV Show Extravaganza is coming to Northeast Texas in less than two weeks.
See: Bigfoot Reality TV? and Update: Bigfoot Reality TV Show? for the previous entries.
The Bigfoot population of Lamar County may have to run for cover March 28-31.
That is when The Granite State Paranormal Society’s team of scientists bring their “special technologies” to the Paris area for a Bigfoot expedition designed to listen to the big creature, hunt him and trap him.
The hunt for Bigfoot is scheduled to take place in a swampy area “that looks prehistoric” somewhere in the vicinity of Pat Mayse Lake.
Even before it arrives, the Bigfoot team’s hunt has been seeped in controversy.
Bigfoot explorer C. Thomas Biscardi, founder of Searching For Bigfoot Inc. headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., will lead the expedition, that is open to the public and journalists on a “fee basis.”
Dozens of Bigfoot believers and organizations have questioned Biscardi’s past discoveries and methods in hunting the big creature.
Biscardi insists, however, that Bigfoot is alive and well and some are living or at least passing through Lamar County.
That conclusion is based on the many sightings through the years by residents and passers-by who have reported seeing large, red, hairy creatures cross the roads or rush into the nearby trees.
Some have even reported missing chickens, sheep, pigs and other farm animals after a night of scary sounds nearby.
Bigfoot has never been captured, however, and investigations made after the “sightings” have turned up little or no evidence the creature was ever there.
Now, Biscardi and the scientific team of Bigfoot hunters have added some new angles in the search.
Searching for Bigfoot Inc., in association with Big Cat Productions, plans to develop a new reality TV series, “Capturing Bigfoot,” based on the searches here and other expeditions throughout the nation.
The team is bringing with it new high-tech equipment Biscardi says will help locate, capture and contain Bigfoot.
The search, according to Biscardi, will be made along Bigfoot’s “known migratory routes.”
“The key to capturing a Bigfoot is knowing where to look and how to catch one,” Biscardi said. “After all our expeditions over the past two years, we think we know where the best places are to look for one, and now we have this new technology that will help us locate, capture and contain this elusive creature.”
Other Bigfoot organizations are not so sure this expedition is not just a move toward entertainment and big bucks.
Biscardi’s claims and “finds” throughout the years have been studied and questioned thoroughly.
In a guest blog for Cryptomundo, Kathy Strain of the Alliance of Independent Bigfoot Researchers has offered her professional opinion of a skeleton that Biscardi earlier said may be Bigfoot.
Strain believes Biscardi may have found a human skeleton.
The technical equipment Biscardi and the scientific team will use in the Paris search was developed by Dr. Ron Milione of Huntington, NY. It uses a special infrared camera system that uses an infrared ray that will project out to a long distance. The device is built into a special helmet system to be worn by searchers out in the field. It also will be mounted near possible trails and watering holes and other locations where “footprints” have been found.
Milione also developed an “extremely low frequency” receiver system designed to monitor very low frequency sound waves and look for possible Bigfoot communication patterns.
Many Bigfoot believers are shying away from the Biscardi searches, contending the Biscardi finds are questionable.
Whatever their contention, the scientific Bigfoot hunter team is expected in Paris March 28, to begin its newest expedition “in search of Bigfoot.”Bill Hankins
The Paris News
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Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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