The Bellingham Herald Pop Pundit: The Political Implications of Sasquatch

Cliff Barackman preaching pearls of Bigfooting wisdom (photo credit: Neo Edwards)

Cliff Barackman, star of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot is interviewed yesteryear the Bellingham Herald. As always, Cliff is an eloquent ambassador for us bigfooters alongside his powerfulness to articulate the best of  bigfooting to the media. This is no surprise to us that read Cliff's Official Blog.

Read the interview below as well as don't forget to melody inward to Finding Bigfoot this evening every bit the squad talks to our favorite Bigfoot researcher advocate personality, Todd Standing.

When it comes to Sasquatch, ignore Mitt Romney. Even though the Republican presidential candidate called him a "hoax" inward Monday's GOP primary fence inward Myrtle Beach, S.C., Bigfoot is large trace concern - or at to the lowest degree the search for him is.

The Jan. 1 minute flavour premiere of Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" drew 1.6 1 thou one thousand viewers. This the second-best premiere for the network as well as a good for yous set out for a New Year's Day opening, as well as the ratings for the next 2 episodes receive got remained respectable.

Produced yesteryear Ping Pong Productions (the same fellowship behind Syfy's monster-hunting serial "Destination Truth"), the sun nighttime present follows the Bigfoot Field Researcher's Organization (BFRO) every bit it chases downwards leads, examines supposed bear witness as well as attempts to runway downwards the most famous cryptid.

"Finding Bigfoot" stars educator Cliff Barackman along alongside BFRO founder Matt Moneymaker, query biologist Ranae Holland, commercial fisherman James "Bobo" - as well as a possible cameo each calendar week yesteryear the mythical beast.

Barackman isn't an eccentric monster-hunter type. Originally from Long Beach, Calif., he has taught fourth, 5th as well as 6th graders. He's likewise a jazz guitarist as well as teaches lessons, but has ever maintained a passion for science. He says his involvement inward Bigfoot came to a greater extent than from popular civilization than from science, as well as that he grew upwardly loving monster movies. It wasn't until he saw documentary shows similar "In Search Of" inward the 1970s that he became excited well-nigh the possibility of a "real" monster inward the woods. He says it hooked him "pretty deep," as well as when he was inward college he would pass fourth dimension betwixt classes reading upwardly on the Sasquatch. The query led to Barackman thinking of Bigfoot every bit non only "fun as well as quirky as well as weird," but likewise every bit existent as well as believable.

Barackman late discussed the show, his ain experiences as well as how his travel mightiness likewise hateful the downfall of the creature he's pursuing.

QUESTION: What was your most compelling experience?

ANSWER: I've heard them real unopen to me on many occasions. I've had real large rocks thrown real unopen to me to acquire my attending - like, head-sized rocks. I've heard splashing inward the river real unopen to acquire my attention. I've had them 40, 50 feet from me, screaming inward the dark, waking me upwardly at iii inward the morning. I've constitute footprints before. I've constitute trees snapped. I've constitute pilus samples. I receive got numerous vocalizations on my website ... although I receive got soundless to physically lay my eyes on them. Unless that thing I saw inward North Carolina that Matt swears was a somebody (in Season One) was a Bigfoot.

And I'm sort of inclined to mean value it was Bigfoot instead of a person.

Q: What practise yous practise when you're out inward the woods as well as yous run into this thing? What happens next?

A: Bigfooting is non a province of affairs for the mind-state of most hunters alongside their super awesome guns, wearing camouflage as well as all that other stuff. Because that sort of person, that sort of mentality, is the sort of mentality that tries to gain control. And when yous are alongside Sasquatches, inward the woods, yous are non inward control. These things are super ninjas. That's the best analogy I have. They tin can literally last 50 feet from yous as well as yous won't fifty-fifty know. ...When they're roughly as well as they come upwardly inward close, they stand upwardly off inward the woods, 50 yards or hence as well as scout you. And if there's to a greater extent than than 1 around, perhaps they're going to knock into each other or clap or whatever they're doing to brand that popping dissonance that they do. You tin can ask heed them. So I mean value the best yous tin can practise is sit down tight, await interesting, perhaps verbalise to them, perhaps throw some nutrient out into the woods. And test to tape them alongside a digital/audio recorder. Or if yous receive got a thermal imager, test to select handgrip of a glimpse of 1 inward betwixt trees every bit it darts around.

Q: Is the destination to capture it?

A: No, of course of instruction not. How practise yous capture an 1,100-pound primate alongside hands that's every bit smart every bit yous are? You only don't practise that. I think, every bit far every bit Bigfooting goes, everyone has their ain personal destination ... my personal destination is to acquire well-nigh them every bit much every bit possible. Because when regain does happen, similar I said, it's going to last pretty bad for them. People are going to become out to the woods. Fools are going to become out as well as test to hunt them. My personal destination is to soften the blow of regain yesteryear learning every bit much well-nigh them every bit I tin can now, as well as and then hopefully usage this platform that I've been given yesteryear Animal Planet to develop the public.

Q: You say that regain is the worst thing that could plow over off to them. Do yous worry that yous as well as your present are contributing to that, as well as role of the problem?

A: Absolutely, but at the same time, if the chance is given to me as well as I pass upwardly it because it's going to last bad for them, it's going to last given to somebody else. I experience that my pump is inward the correct place.

I'm genuinely interested inward Sasquatches whereas other people - known hoaxes as well as charlatans that are out in that location - they are only doing it to farther themselves as well as earn coin as well as fame as well as all that other junk.

I'm a professional person educator. I await at this every bit an educational opportunity.

Q: What is the timeline to regain as well as when volition the genuinely enterprise proof emerge that Bigfoot exists?

A: I mean value there's going to last a rising tide of credence where to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than academics pace forrad as well as start studying this thing until eventually some cold-hearted somebody would become out as well as shoot 1 of these things - or a trucker volition only run 1 downwards on a state highway somewhere as well as we'd only receive got a body. ... It's genuinely only a affair of fourth dimension until that happens. I know that's a long answer but I don't mean value it's going to last 2 years from now. I mean value there's going to last a rising tide inward acceptance. Until somehow or another, a dead 1 is brought in.

Q: What are your thoughts on other cryptids similar the Bailiwick of Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra?

A: I mean value the Bailiwick of Jersey Devil is only some other local request Sasquatch means dorsum when. I know they're reported to receive got hooves as well as wings as well as all this other stuff, but that in all likelihood came out later. Most probable dorsum inward the early on Colonial days, in that location was a long oral history of the Bailiwick of Jersey Devil. Practically all the settlers, whether we're talking 1690 or 1890, they were all Christians, right? So, every bit they moved into unknown areas, they ran across scary things that howled at them - or most probable they didn't fifty-fifty catch them, yesteryear the way, because there's a lot of places alongside reportedly hauntings inward the woods, but those hauntings are express to rocks existence thrown as well as scary noises, screams as well as howls. Those are all Bigfoot things. ... As far every bit other species of cryptids, it was through bigfooting that I came to realize that giant river serpents are in all likelihood the existent deal. I did an episode of "Monster Quest" years agone where "Bobo" as well as I were the start white people basically to ever become bigfooting on the Yurok reservation inward Northern California on the Klamath River. Just yesteryear talking to a handful of Native Americans on that trip alone, I came across similar iii or 4 eyewitnesses to these giant river serpents that come upwardly up inward the river chasing salmon, or used to when in that location were lots of salmon inward the rivers.

Q: Stories of these creatures frequently revolve roughly people hiking inward the woods, but what well-nigh when campers are to a greater extent than vulnerable, similar when they usage the bath inward the woods?

A: You'd last surprised how many of those stories I've heard. Now yous painting someone who does become out to bring a leak or bring a dump roughly a campfire. They travel out the campfire surface area as well as become 50 yards out somewhere.

They're precisely inward the correct position, hence to speak - squatting - to catch a Sasquatch because Sasquatches come upwardly unopen to fires as well as scout campers. H5N1 lot - a lot existence similar 1 or 2 per centum of the fourth dimension you're out there. Now, these people are away from the burn as well as squatting, which inward primate trunk language, squatting is a real inoffensive pose. In fact, mount gorilla specialists, they say when yous acquire unopen to mount gorillas, squat downwards as well as don't brand oculus contact. This is precisely what these people are doing when they're out inward the woods taking a dump or when a adult woman is taking a leak. They practise catch Sasquatches a lot.

Aaron Sagers writes well-nigh all things pop-culture each week, but yous tin can follow him daily on Twitter nether AaronSagers as well as on his site, www.paranormalpopculture.com. He tin can last contacted at sagers.aaron@gmail.com.

2012, Aaron Sagers.

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