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Footprints seen around Mt. Everest stoke Yeti mystery
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| Nov. 30, 2007
| Gopal Sharma
Posted on 12/02/2007 3:13:18 AM PST by jsh3180
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To: jsh3180
the closest I think to a real yeti or big foot would be Gigantopithecus
'Bill Munns stands next to his model of a Gigantopithecus male, a quadrupedal, fist-walking creature that also could have stood erect, as bears do.'
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:04:44 AM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Any theory can appear to explain facts if the theory has enough variables.)
To: jsh3180
"relatively fresh left some 24 hours before we found them".
Have they ever considered tracking dogs?
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:13:09 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
To: jsh3180
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:14:41 AM PST
by
KoRn
To: jsh3180
To: ari-freedom
'Bill Munns stands next to his model of a Gigantopithecus male,
I had to look twice at that picture, at first glance I thought it was Bill Walton at the center post position,,,,,,
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:18:28 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
To: jsh3180
Maybe the footprint was planted by (Sir Edmund) Hillary to show mountaineering leadership.
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:35:01 AM PST
by
Zman
To: jsh3180
I thought the large footprints in the snow were the result of sunlight melting the edges of normal human footprints, making them appear wider and obtuse.
Thus the Yeti is simply a natural phenomenon that is perfectly explainable. Although, that doesn't mean that nothing exists. There are stories, both past and present, of natives saying something exists and being pooh-poohed (is that a word LOL) by 'experts,' and then it turns out to be the case.
A few examples from Africa:
The Boomslang: natives used to say that it was deadly venomous, but Western herpetologists (snake scientists) 'pooh-poohed' (there it is again) them because the snake was back-fanged, and EVERYONE knows that back-fanged snakes do not have potent venom. Well, they soon changed their minds when the most reknown herpetologists of the time (believe his name was Karl Schmidt) got bitten by one, and died a rather horrible death (if i remember correctly, he was bleeding from his eyes and his urine had turned black when he passed over).
Okapi: A rare antelope that looks like a mix of giraffe, zebra, and a mix-mash of other beasts. When the 'experts' so some hides they thought it was the work of a good African taxidermist, until live Okapi started turning up.
Mountain Gorilla: same story ....was kown as the African Yeti for a while.
The one that is still 'out there' is the Mkelele-Mbembe ...think of it as an African lochness monster. Let me just say I would go swimming in Loch Ness before i went swimming in lake Tele
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:37:59 AM PST
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: P8riot
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:43:48 AM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: jsh3180
Here is a Google Earth shot of the monster.
To: Ditter
They're two different animals. A yeti is like a rock ape. The identifying footprint has the little toe bent outwards, iirc.
The sasquatch's foot is like that of a human, but "bigger"....
(I used to listen to Art Bell before he and the show JTS.)
To: P8riot
Looks like the Twilight Zone monster from the episode where the guy is afraid of flying and the creature is on the wing ripping it up.
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:53:01 AM PST
by
sonic109
To: Calvin Locke
So,you are saying there is a large hairy animal living in eastern Oklahoma but it is different from the large hairy animal living on Mt Everest?
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posted on
12/02/2007 9:54:41 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
I’ve never been to Oklahoma, but I was just pointing out the differences between the Asian and NA cryptozoological creatures
To: pcottraux
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posted on
12/02/2007 12:46:29 PM PST
by
Politicalmom
(Huckabee is the GOP's Jimmy Carter. Are you ready for the plundering of your pocketbook?)
To: jsh3180
Why were they able to find only 3 footprints?
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posted on
12/02/2007 12:48:08 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
To: Calvin Locke
I was just making a joke because I don’t think sasquach lives in Oklahoma or anywhere for that matter, even though they show the people hunting for him in OK on the Travel or Discovery channel regularly.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:42:16 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Politicalmom; Angelas; presidio9; Idisarthur; Hegemony Cricket; A knight without armor; ...
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:53:26 PM PST
by
pcottraux
(Fred Thompson pronounces it P. Coe-Troe...in 2008.)
To: Joe Boucher
“Some clown walking around up there with a footprint form”
I made a pair of contoured big feet and nailed them to an old pair of tennis shoes when I was in the scouts. Used to tromp around and leave prints around the tenderfoot’s campfire pit at night.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:55:46 PM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: P8riot
Definitely a print of the Snow Miser AKA "niveus misere".
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posted on
12/02/2007 6:01:13 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
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To: fleagle
The digital analysis of the Patterson film is extremely convincing, yet very under reported.
Unless you go looking for it, you will only hear the giggle factor of the standard media outlets. I have studied that film and followed the analysis for years and it is rather interesting to see what technology has shown in that old film 40 years later.
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posted on
12/02/2007 7:13:48 PM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
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