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thetion picture you're about

was filmed by many teams of cameramen

and more than a hundred

theobe

scientists representing the world's

foremosthtook part in

the examination of} evidence the

facts willted are true

this may be the most startling film

you'll ever see

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what is it come

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the Pacific\c\c&HE5E5E5&} 1975 here in this

forest investigators have discovered

set very strange footprints

human-like footprints8 inches

andinchesc&HCCCCCC&} the footprints of a

giantsteriousroaming

this wildernesst has

confounded scientists baffled

investigators and captured the

imagination of millions

all heard of the reported sightings

this creature

a creature most of us know as Bigfoot

we've read about it in our newspapers

and heard about it on a

televisionof you like me might

have been skepticals

wondering how it could be

sizabletion of 8-foot 500-pound

monsters to live among us on the edge of

our industrialized&HE5E5E5&} I was

skeptical well I was\c}

what I heard so I decided to find out

forself whether Bigfoot was fact or

fiction\c\c&HE5E5E5&} this by going out to talk

tohe eyewitnesses questioning

scientists by examining the footprints

by looking at and

the availablet I found

I will now show you a body of evidence

difficult to ignore

first there's thec}

phenomenon isc\c&HE5E5E5&} the ditch year

people of all kinds from many places

report seeing thec}

describing it asc\c&HE5E5E5&} with hair

being half-man half-ape

overwhelming stench

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in the last decade alone&} been

over reported sightings of Bigfoot

inmerica it's called by different

names innt parts of the country

like Momo or the folk monster or the

skunk ape orr the

monster

whatever they call

it are all describing the same thing

I felt something&HE5E5E5&} me or a

feelingng watched

around and that's whenCCCCC&} I

was terrifiedtc}

shock

the totally unexpected

equation I could make on

it was asaw this hairy

looking animal crossing the road on his

hind legs and I can't tell you for

whether what it was but

was Bigfoot

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in spite eyewitness testimony

there are scientists who say the

creatures like Bigfoot do not exist

such monsters dwell\c}

not in ourc}

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they point outalways

quick to in monsters

beliefs aref the unknown

nurtured by the unexplained

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but even these scientists agree that

some monsters have had a basis in fact

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for centuries Western man had heard

rumors about a legendary man monster

that roamed the jungles of darkest

Africasn't until the late 19th

centurycience caught up with this

legendary monster calling it the gorilla

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new legendary creatures are continually

beingd like the Komodo dragon and

the okapicoveredE5&} in this

century

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the giant panda was notC&} by

Western scientists until 1937

stillly seenral habitat

themboo jungles in the mountains of

China new speciesg

discovered and classified each year

through mammals reptiles fish birds and

thousands of

peoplec\c&HE5E5E5&} are being discovered like

these IndiansCCCC&} tossa died a stone-age

tribe livingnd of

in the Philippinesc}

people lived onvilization

unknown and undiscovered by modern man

until 1972

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closer to homeof

the dawn man ofrnia this

sole surviving member

extinct tribe of American Indians the

yahi lived in the forests nearby

Sacramentoodern man's knowing

it money emerged out of

isolation in 1912oof

that creaturesoot could

live amongt our knowledge and

if Bigfoot is\c&HCCCCCC&} of man or ape

that has survived a past age then the

turtle is proof5E5&} it could exist the

survivor fromhe

like certain lizards

have remained unchanged for almost 200

million years the crocodile

reptile survived the ages more

proof that creatures from the past

alive today

there are even survivors of past

that were once extinct

like the coelacanthpecies of fish

scientists believed extinct for

millionbut found alive

waters off South Africa

the creatures thatC&} in Loch Ness a

mysterioushe Highlands of

Scotland these a

family of that some scientists

believe are survivors from the age of

the dinosaurs

the Loch Ness&HCCCCCC&} has been reported

seen by thousands of\c}

by the villagers who live around the

lake yet for years the scientific

establishmenthe}

ofhe monsters existence denied it even

thoughistory goes

565 when a saintly\c}

aboutencounter with creature

the United even in the face of

contemporaryke that of the

Reverend\c\c&HCCCCCC&} brucey standing on the

jetty bythouseeft

there and lookingCCC&} to the bay we

saw a suddenturmoil in the

watersithout being able to see

anything what was causing

suddenlyced this huge black head

moving or eight feet out of

water slowlyrds

somegonal direction then after

fifteen seconds it went down we

saw any humpsery exciting

while it lasted

a creature like the one father

saw was photographed in 1934 by a

vacationing London surgeon Robert K

Wilson but scientists rejected that

photograph as evidence

one takenby LachlanE5&} a

photograph which shows

humps thaton the creatures

back

this picture taken 1955 by Peter

McNabsimilarly rejected even though

itlearly shows the creature nearby

familiar landmark\c&HE5E5E5&} least 16

photographs of the Loch Ness

all them were rejected as evidence by

the scientific community

it wasn'tis man Tim

took his motion picture film of the

monster thatists began

takeice

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it was in 1960 Dinsdale an aeronautical

engineer tookth his 16

millimeter springg one

hundred and thirty-five

telephoto lens he\c&HCCCCCC&} film for

analysis to the joint air reconnaissance

Intelligence Center at the British

defense ministry they enlarged

as shown here subjecting it to intense

scrutinyonclusions that the film

is of a livingt's moving

10 miles per hour&} that it's 6 feet

wideeet high

Dinsdale's film of the creature

encouraged a new breed of monster

hunters starting in 1962

phenomenaation Bureau

along needed expertise into the search

they kept cameras pointed at all times

on strategic\c&HCCCCCC&} the lake their

major achievementby

Richard in June 1967

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Britishrce scrutiny of this film

led to the conclusion that like the

earliernsdale footage this was a

pictureiving object of some size

in 1969e first time

hunters took their cameras underwater

submarines

well the EPD and murky darkness

of thes closed off all

possible visibility the submarines were

considered uselessn

betterts have been

sonard waves which collect echoes

off whatever bounce the

echoes are converted into electrical

signals on graphic recorders

three timesCCCCC&} 1969-70 and seventy two

research teamsexploring

the depthsess have had

with large moving objects objects

some claim are the Loch

director ofCCCCCC&} of these expeditions was

aboston patent lawyer and physicist dr.

robert RhinesCCCC&} for times has returned

tooch Ness to try to get subsurface

photographs of the monster

dr.ans each time5&} dropped

waterproof cameras into the lock it's

righthe heads for slope

this is about 60r it's

going down

we'd haves lower this there

havesink into the silk and so forth

the camerasdeveloped by dr.

Harold Edgerton of MIT

developedCousteau's underwater

equipmentras are connected to

powerful strobe lights

recordersated by computers

at least two occasions

than 30 feet like the Loch Ness

have passed through

computers then activated a strobe

and cameras taking

seconds in this way the Ryan's team has

collected evidence to prove the

Loch Ness existence

from a hundred feetE5E5&} surface

they have photographs

whilehe same time recording sonar

tracingss which indicate the

passing large marine animals on

the sonar tracingsrted

mysterious humps of the creature

registered

the photographs are5&} up dramatic

pictures of ac\c&HE5E5E5&} eight feet long

and 4 feet widec&HCCCCCC&} the Loch Ness

monster

reptiliac&HE5E5E5&} that we know that

it's theret it was

interviewedry living

eyewitness of the monster has an idea

then you get this tremendous body

forward limbs I think a

than the real ones

humps of which I thinkare two

basically at the pelvic and

girdlehisn between seems

to be able a change shape

peoplee seen the back changing

shape they'veched it and

they'reght up the back end you

have I a tremendous swimming tail

like adiles tail which

propel therough the water

this mock-upewitnesses

descriptions and the various

suggests that the Loch Ness

a family of Plesiosaurus

believed extinct for millions of years

as we learnedlacanth

extinct is not as final as it sounds

some scientists nowis

home to 30 ort creatures

creatures the local people refer

Nessie this monster

unless one considers the

thatell British speed champion John

Cobb

attemptingnew record on water

Cobb took his boat} Crusader onto

Loch Ness in 1955

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job was killed his boat striking

mysterious turbulence

that this&HCCCCCC&} caused by the wake of one

of theonsters which was trying to

avoid Cobbs\c}

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once rejecteds and skeptics

the Lochnsters are now believed

toive in this lake 24 miles long one

mile wide&HCCCCCC&} still rejected by

scientists and skeptics

monsters that dwell in5E5&} of

North America

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there's still wilderness in

America where unknown creatures could

live hundreds of thousands of square

miles unexplored by

aerial surveyss is

extensive enough to conceal a large

population of hairy

this wilderness is shrinking

civilizationg its boundaries

as it does our contact with the Bigfoot

creatures becomes more frequent

year there are more footprints

discovered more sightings reported on

the edge of in the

Dellsootgators have now

openedformation Center not unlike

what was done at Loch Ness

abreastsing reports of

such sightings you think

think you actually\c}

heard somethingok like a

man was it was itokay

how big think it was Bigfoot like

the Loch Ness monster} it is a

creature thatreject until

they see it one skeptic

mrs.y Jeffersonlone

in small

northern Washington3

she was distracted by the incessant

barking of her dog emerging out of

wildernessc\c&HE5E5E5&} because of the recent

forest fires didn't North

creature mrs. Jefferson

before

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laternvestigation team discovered

giant footprints5E5&} mrs. Jefferson

said she saw the monster

supporting evidencec}

that Bigfoot had walked in her backyard

he was eight or ten feet tall and he

weighed seven or eight hundred

now he walked upright like a man

it's hair well it was brownish

stoodnc\c&HE5E5E5&} that was all tousled his

face was just&HE5E5E5&} and he smelled

the search fore United

States is in its5E5E5&} the search for

a relative of\c\c&HCCCCCC&} has already

beenerway-youf

a century

inhe Caucasusuntain

rangesssias have found

proof of a Bigfootey

call Omni Stone in

Himalayas the highest mountains in the

worldern explorers and

investigators the riddle of

anothere man ate the hairy giant

known as thesnowman

or the Yeti

part of the mountain people's lives

centuries&HCCCCCC&} Snowman only became known

tohet inc&HCCCCCC&} late 19th century

when British Mountaineers began to

attempt toount Everest

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but it was until 1951veteran

climberhipton discovered a new

pass at 19,000 feete

was collectednding where no

mans ever been before

photographs tracks once

in the\c\c&HCCCCCC&} Shipton remembers well ahead

ofis strange feeling inside I've often

seen these tracks beforeerto I

had always been a bit

about the wholeseeing

these tracks are absolutely fish and

Kara

well the seem to be no doubt parted at

all and it was really

meery eerie feeling that

was in theof something quite

unknown

althoughtrange footprints

puzzled the scientific community

reinforced thery told by a

veteran Explorerzi of

Athens GreeceE5&} photographer and a

trained observer had claimed he saw the

abominablen an expedition to

Everest in 1925

almost never seen by Westerners the

Snowman was glimpsed byi and a

clearing onlyay

- mozzie described it as a dark and

hairy man-like creature

four roots for the stick

to prove the snowman's existence has

beenlected in 1958 one expedition

discovered this caveC&} to be the

lair

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and in 1961 another expedition

across what was

of Yeti another discovered what was

believed that the yetis mummified hand

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and what was said to beCC&} a

Yeti skull

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somehropologists believe that the

abominable snowmanve

species

others thinkt anthropoid

undiscovereds evolved in the

directionan man

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they believe that&HCCCCCC&} creatures

migratedia to America

of years ago once the Bering

Straits land bridge which

Russiaaska

in support ofthere is

evidenceoots continuous presence

in Indian historyc&HCCCCCC&} various

forms and totem poles and

called by different nameswick

salatc\c&HCCCCCC&} oh ma boo coifs and sasquatch

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part ofrth American

mythology beginning Bigfoot was

firstuntered by European in 1811

British explorer and mountain man David

Thompsonn his journal and while

crossing thecame across

footprints made by a giant footprints

whoset size he wrote could not have

beene by bears and in July of 1884

of British Columbia newspaper carried

the account of theCCC&} of a creature

the creature they called

description fits that of a young Bigfoot

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anotheraccount of Bigfoot in

America comes from President Theodore

Roosevelt inrote about his

days out west

the true story concerns

the Salmon River it was in 1852

trappers encountered the creature

violenced one of thewas

killedvelt wrote that he believed

theory

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in 1924 in British Columbia

vacationing prospector Albert Ostman

reported that he\c&HE5E5E5&} and held

prisonermily of four Bigfoot

creaturess incredible tale

included observations that one

felt could only have comerect

encounterarge primate species

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osmond sign an affidavit before

deathsting of the truthfulness of

his story

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that same year State Fred

Beck and fourreported they

shot at two different Bigfoot creatures

later and his attacked

by any group of Bigfoot

tried toabin by rolling

large boulders on

these and otherup the

long history ofCCCC&} experience with

Bigfoot forests of America we

need somethingE5E5&} the accounts of

eyewitnesses todayies

wean check on}

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such\c\c&HCCCCCC&} the story of Mary Lou Bullman of

a small townMichigan the

timeober 6th 1974 the 17 year old

high schoolr

father

Donuman the former high school

football coachpectable

businessmanheard of the

creature that he and his daughter were

about toer had no idea that the

dark road ahead beyond where his

daughteraiting for him held

promise of terror thatE5&} bolt

up out of the shadows

how is your babysitting

didn't know it'd be

and the whole weekend at any homework

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the next day police found giant

footprints in the dirt side

the road near\c\c&HCCCCCC&} the accident

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stories for my witnesses like Don Bowman

and his daughtermpelling

evidence for Bigfoot's existence they

are fact Exhibit A

investigatione hundreds of

theme this one from former Sheriff

Oliver PotterE5&} can say I'm gonna barn

inhe wood the Cascade Mountains

the animals thatas

somethingt that I had never

seen before large creature about seven

and a half to eight foot tall

great black in color&HE5E5E5&} away

from me I of

walkingan of law on its iron

there were four of us in the car when we

when I was the first one it

pulled up on and pull back

through optimum viewing all I'd seen

peoplethe same location

about thet before humans up

there it probably\c&HE5E5E5&} size

it was a dark dark brown

just swaying back and fortha

rock it move morean and

itas aboutHE5E5E5&} seven feet tall and

probably a blackish brown color

couldn't see his\c&HE5E5E5&} it was

runningrom me across the

I actually her and I both saw

disappear in the brush I said

was born heret don't walk

on his hind legs that long

another eyewitnessas

Shirley Adams the teacher and the school

busiver in a small town on the coast

of northern Washington

a longtimeof the area the

young schoolteacher}

storiesthe giant hairy

monster\c&HCCCCCC&} she had never seen never

thought she would

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wellely Adam saw did

her she experienced in her own words

unusual pleasure at seeing a creature at

peace with nature

she observed5E5E5&} hairy giant for several

moments and considered it not in

of fear butf wonder

eyewitness testimony however he said

little such effect on

community

eyewitnessre not

people cany see things

minds\c\c&HCCCCCC&} play tricks on them

the. Tippettple have seen

Bigfoot now is it possible that

allllucinating look see this skull

now that's hard evidence

testdeal with bring me a bone or a

skull or carcass and then maybe I'll

believefootf

law-abiding respectable people have

testifiedy've seen Bigfoot

they've signed affidavits to that effect

they've even subjected themselves to

examinationosis and

scientific community

disregards such testimony

unreliable

so what isn't it possible that science

doesn't know how&} use oral evidence

I mean how to evaluate it let's say the

way the law does} was an oral testimony

the basis of ourCCCCCC&} system I don't

knowence needs something concrete

why for instance hasn't a hunter ever

been able to find the remains of a dead

Bigfoot in the forest} there have

been so many people through the area

wheregsedly has been

seen yet nothingn

to find out the answer I talked

anthropologistBradley well

ineality\c&HCCCCCC&} few bones are ever found

anywhereforest when an

diess immediately eaten by another

animalis the disposal service of

nature at worke woods in

Oregon andn all the time and

I'veerthe remains of bears or

even mountain lions\c}

areundance up there dr. Bradley

it's beend by some

maybe the Bigfootheir

deadt's remotely possible if Bigfoot

iss some of us think

species ofre man-like than

beasts but it is possiblet's a

proposition completely rejected by my

colleagues but then my colleagues

completely reject the possibility

Bigfoot

Bigfoot most scientists say cannot exist

butn malarkey of Deer Lodge Montana

disagreescare what other people

think I saw a Bigfoot ten years ago I

wasth 11 other Boy Scouts at the time

and we're camping 18 miles south of

Buttehe Deer Lodge National Forest

we had walked in to the forest about

miles thatver yell we got

another mile\c&HCCCCCC&} you get in knew I

kneways left my boots are killing me

the only one wentd they

foundcar smashed after setting up

camp his friends ate dinner and

then sat aroundc&HCCCCCC&} telling his

jokesl bedtime the boys were all in

their bedd fastc}

o'clock

but whateverCCCC&} was in the forest Dan's

friend was the first to sense it refers

toerec}

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and two other boys saw the giant monster

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he took us a coupleto

sleep

and when we got up the next morning we

went up on where we saw the

Bigfoot oute got

discovered a number of footprints

biggest footprints I've ever seen and

they lookg like this

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Exhibit Bprints some 20 inches

longnchesc&HE5E5E5&} footprints found

impressed deeph

an inch and a half deeper than a normal

man's

footprints thatant walks

here movingCCCCC&} two feet as a man

foot printsd be permitted to

establish the existenceCCCC&} if

after all fingerprints can be used to

hang one

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these footprintse of

their number do not convince the

scientific that Bigfoot exists

these scientistsature

plays tricks withially

in the snow

foot prints they say change shape grow

larger as they continuously melt and

refreeze

I asked Peter Byrne formerly a big-game

hunter and the Himalayas about this

theory of distorted footprints

offshoot\c\c&HCCCCCC&} a small footprints do

melt our thisprint of a

deer sayhes across may become

five or six or even seven inches across

when it meltsnot melt with

any uniformityE5&} that if you had a line

of thesents the melted

footprints of a small animal

out completelyiformity

different shapes

blobs andthink it's ridiculous

to suggest that a small animal and the

melting snow could really make

track

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some believe thatints

are made by bears

placed their hind feet into the tracks

of their front feet

I don'tthis is possible

footprints seen are very

definite they're the

foot of a large bipedal hominid a

human-like creaturec&HCCCCCC&} when

you get an overlapon

of toes and heels and so on these are

clear-cutts and in my mind

there's no mistake they could not be a

quadrupedrted by Nature

made by aaired like bears

scientists footprints made by

hoaxers like of Chehalis

Washington

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seven times beginning

has tracked the wilderness with bogus

Bigfoot tracksot the

of scientists butCCCCC&} a monster

hunttells us why well we were

sitting thereHCCCCCC&} coffee at this

Hardin cafe and two gentlemen came in

and they was askinge

said well we didn't believe in it

onentleman says well you

I was probably wouldn't and I turned to

my friend which his} is Harvey and I

says Harvey

we're Hickse gonna do

it

Tanisha's yeah what are we gonna do

about it

Isis we're gonna show them who the Hicks

are and then I went} and made boots

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hoaxers of fool the experts occasionally

but anthropologist Grover Krantz of

Washington State University

figures could not have made all

giant footprintsc&HCCCCCC&} number of

footprints that I've seen

and this can bee other

hand there are5E5E5&} that show some

characteristicsould not

haven faked this is one such

footprint this cast I've drawn in the

approximate reconstructions of the bones

this ispled individual

couplelges have extended out

between adjacentter edge

ofhe foot if this had

foot these bulges would have been

farther back but forward

makingeel longer in the front of

the foot shorter what is

requiredoot that's going

carry a perhaps anw I

don'tk any fakirght

oftd figured this out and adjusted

his footprint accordingly

footprint is just simply an expanded

enlarged footprint or an enlarged copy

of a human foot

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we're this convincing background

thought it best to talk to a trained

observersonally discovered such

giantksc\c&HCCCCCC&} newspaperman head

McClarty ofWashington I

turned my headthe

direction pointing down down

below as for asCC&} as the eye could see

were two sets of tracks coming parallel

up this terrifically steep

they crossed theup the

roadt a little bit farther

crossed the in&HE5E5E5&} us

big big tracksm tracks and

obviously the kinds of tracks

people have talked about

described Bigfoot and what was

especially convincing was the terrific

distance between footprints I have got

pretty long legs I'm nearly

could not in trying to stretch my feet

could not duplicate what we were seeing

there I had to jump\c}

anotherduplicate the distance

between tracksplace I do

notink that any human being

have been physically capable of marching

up that Ridge snow in the

second placeuman

was required to

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for years thef Bigfoot's

existence accounts of

eyewitnesses and the plaster casts of

footprints nowst

decadeproof in the way of physical

evidenceun the be accumulated

here inwoods in a remote region

of the High Sierra some of that

has beened the fall of

1972 three men5E5E5&} Barry Rick

Murphy and Tim Sawyer}

human-like footprints

they'd heard about the creature called

Bigfootey never thought they'd

encounter it

the men were relaxing after a hard

in the woods I'll tell you the next

we're cominging a

youtold you guys I came up

the guynto the cookie oh that's

this is an ID home with

Barryy listen

sounds like myw shook

around listen I never had anything

thatore

neither get that on the table

before unfortunately on this trip to the

Sierraserry had his tape recorder

along to record the sounds of various

birds and animals

calmly reached for this and not

rifle

I took thees recorded by Alan

Barry\c\c&HCCCCCC&} dr. Robert Sheldon not knowing

what strange creature made these sounds

dr.eldon's subjected them to a

rigorous computer analysis how do you go

about analyzinge first

thing we do is to digitize

sound into the computer

digitizing consists of converting each

secondund intos that

are stored in the files on

we cant any portion of this we'd

like and do a frequency

portion we've chosen that a sound from

the tape because it seems to have an

unusualg structure you mean that

you've picked just a certain part of

this tapeion of

a sectiontape for}

like scientists might take a piece that

he wants to analyze and look

microscope

this particularre looking

at has a frequency structure that's

lowernormal male human voice

for example we could do a sample of

voicethen we could compare the

analysis of youranalysis

that we have from the tape you could

speak into the microphone here and

cancord that into the computer

say

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the comparisonE5E5E5&} two printouts

showedthes vowel sound

peaked early mine

my soundut at a secondary lower

peaksked dr. Sheldon what he could

learne comparisons human male

has a vocal&HCCCCCC&} on the average of

aboutentimetersysis

tells us that based on the

frequencies of this sound

the vocal tract of about 25 centimeters

long you see so that could give you some

idea ofze of whatever creature

made the noise5E5&} we could say that

that vocal tracthese

sounds would have been at\c}

percent largerCCCCCC&} human male then

that means thatC&} I'm over 6 feet tall

the creaturehis sound must

be over 9 feetrobably true