Cliff Barackman

Yeah, this afternoon, actually, I spoke. There was a Mountain Hood Sasquatch Festival. All of you guys were there. That's cool. I'm actually a regular speaker at quite a few festivals around the country. In two weeks, I have to go to Colorado. I'm in Ohio after that. I'm kind of a busy guy. What was your topic at this conference?

Yeah, this afternoon, actually, I spoke. There was a Mountain Hood Sasquatch Festival. All of you guys were there. That's cool. I'm actually a regular speaker at quite a few festivals around the country. In two weeks, I have to go to Colorado. I'm in Ohio after that. I'm kind of a busy guy. What was your topic at this conference?

Today I talked about the efforts that we've been putting in at the North American Bigfoot Center out in Boring because it's a museum, so there's a forward-facing educational component. But there's a lot of things we do behind the scenes.

Today I talked about the efforts that we've been putting in at the North American Bigfoot Center out in Boring because it's a museum, so there's a forward-facing educational component. But there's a lot of things we do behind the scenes.

We do our own field research, and we're also trying to find and curate historical collections from researchers who die and pass on before those research collections end up in the trash can.

We do our own field research, and we're also trying to find and curate historical collections from researchers who die and pass on before those research collections end up in the trash can.

how did you get into the bigfoot world were you a kid that was into this or was it later in life oh yeah i've always been weird right um and essentially and i've had eccentric interests all of my life but um when i was going to school i actually have a degree in jazz guitar of all things right so you never know where life is going to take you but the music department was on one side of campus and i was way in the other and i had a few hour break between classes so i would go in the library

how did you get into the bigfoot world were you a kid that was into this or was it later in life oh yeah i've always been weird right um and essentially and i've had eccentric interests all of my life but um when i was going to school i actually have a degree in jazz guitar of all things right so you never know where life is going to take you but the music department was on one side of campus and i was way in the other and i had a few hour break between classes so i would go in the library

and picked books off the shelves in subjects that I was interested in, science stuff, you know, because I'm a science nerd. And one day I was in the anthropology section, and I found a couple books that were compilations of scholarly articles written by anthropologists on Sasquatches.

and picked books off the shelves in subjects that I was interested in, science stuff, you know, because I'm a science nerd. And one day I was in the anthropology section, and I found a couple books that were compilations of scholarly articles written by anthropologists on Sasquatches.

A lot of this stuff was like cultural anthropology, how the indigenous people of North America, whether they're from Florida or British Columbia, were all describing the same things, the same shapes, the same behaviors. Many of these behaviors were ape behaviors. that weren't even recognized until the 1960s when Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey did their pioneering work.

A lot of this stuff was like cultural anthropology, how the indigenous people of North America, whether they're from Florida or British Columbia, were all describing the same things, the same shapes, the same behaviors. Many of these behaviors were ape behaviors. that weren't even recognized until the 1960s when Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey did their pioneering work.

And then, of course, the physical anthropologists were weighing in about how the Sasquatch footprints, even though they kind of look human-like in some ways, are actually very, very different. The leverage ratios in the feet are way different than in humans. The metatarsals have been shortened, the heels are longer, and that's all about the biomechanics of the foot.

And then, of course, the physical anthropologists were weighing in about how the Sasquatch footprints, even though they kind of look human-like in some ways, are actually very, very different. The leverage ratios in the feet are way different than in humans. The metatarsals have been shortened, the heels are longer, and that's all about the biomechanics of the foot.

And the more I read about the actual evidence that has been gathered and analyzed by scientists. I said, holy crap, they're not only eccentric and weird and cool and funny, they might be real. And that was back in 1994, and I started doing serious, what I thought was serious, Bigfoot research at the time, and I've been just drowning in the subject ever since.

And the more I read about the actual evidence that has been gathered and analyzed by scientists. I said, holy crap, they're not only eccentric and weird and cool and funny, they might be real. And that was back in 1994, and I started doing serious, what I thought was serious, Bigfoot research at the time, and I've been just drowning in the subject ever since.

Yeah, yeah. This is a handprint cast in the Blue Mountains outside of Walla Walla, Washington in 1986. This is from a large male, and we believe it's a male because in Sasquatches, like all primates, there's a sexual dimorphism, which means that the boys and girls are different sizes and shapes. In primates, the boys are bigger than girls.

Yeah, yeah. This is a handprint cast in the Blue Mountains outside of Walla Walla, Washington in 1986. This is from a large male, and we believe it's a male because in Sasquatches, like all primates, there's a sexual dimorphism, which means that the boys and girls are different sizes and shapes. In primates, the boys are bigger than girls.

And the footprints associated with this particular hand cast were 17 inches long. And when you graph all of the footprint lengths, it turns out there's clusters at a 16, 17-inch range and about a 13, 14-inch range, which strongly suggests, in my opinion, sexual dimorphism. So this is probably a big male's handprint. And of course, it's moved around a little bit. The butt of the palm is down here.

And the footprints associated with this particular hand cast were 17 inches long. And when you graph all of the footprint lengths, it turns out there's clusters at a 16, 17-inch range and about a 13, 14-inch range, which strongly suggests, in my opinion, sexual dimorphism. So this is probably a big male's handprint. And of course, it's moved around a little bit. The butt of the palm is down here.