Not all frauds are as simple as a freezer with a monkey suit in it. Some of them are very sophisticated because they involve science. Hence, the essence of a confidence game is to gain trust. The video below was about the Ketchum Project or Erickson Project. People are taken in because they believe the people involved are real.
The video below I did 18 months ago. I think it is more true today then it was then. Of course, I was called every name in the book. I was the fake; I was the hoaxer; I was what was wrong with Bigfoot. Oh yeah?What could that Fasano guy know, right?
I and my team are supplying real evidence and we continue our work EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. We are WHAT IS RIGHT ABOUT BIGFOOT not the Ketchum scam or everyone that only sits behind their damn computer or does a stupid pod cast or radio show. When you are watching Finding Bigfoot my team and I are in the woods looking for the damn thing and we may have done just that.
When Kevin is not looking for ghost or Bigfoot, he is a professional musician in a Christan rock band. Here is a video I hope you enjoy of him in action. They are very good and will be in the big time one day. He is a good man and a hard worker. I am glad to call him my friend.
This was recorded on the Enigmatic Anomalies TV show in an interview segment. I had an hour long sit down to explain my views on many Bigfoot topics. I know some of them are controversial, but I can back them up with logic. Face it, Bigfoot is not a tool maker, a fire maker, or an artist. These three things set us apart from all animals.
They say we have no Bigfoot body or DNA. But do we? On display in a museum in San Diego is a very large jaw bone that belongs to an Ice Age primate that was up to ten feet tall and 1,000 lbs, known as Gigantopithecus and he was big man.
The working theory is that this creature may have migrated to North America from Asia. They are still believed to be plentiful int he deep, remote regions of the Pacific and Canada North West. Numerous sightings over the centuries have confirmed that something is living out in the remote areas.
There are now more sightings east of the Mississippi then in the West, showing, perhaps, migratory patterns are continuing with a warming earth. Reports from the swamp areas near the Gulf of Mexico detail a beast that is smaller and with longer hair, believed to evolutionary adaptations to environment.
The jaw bone in the image above should be DNA tested (if there is any) with samples from the Erickson Project for comparison. If not this one, others. That would introduce a more scientific aspect to the project and get the attention of mainstream science.
If it matches, you could say there is a body. At least a jaw bone.
"Some diehard Sasquatchers speculate that Bigfoot may actually be Gigantopithecus, the largest primate to have ever walked the Earth.
Discovered by renowned paleontologist Gustav von Koenigswald, Gigantopithecus was thought to have evolved during the Pleistocene Era, and lived throughout Southeast Asia
Fossils led scientists to believe that the creature stood close to 10 feet tall and weighed a whopping 1,200 pounds. Thought to have gone extinct due to severe climate change, ape-man advocates say Giganopithecus may be alive and well, and hiding in remote regions of the world, like the Himalayas, Siberia, the swamps in the southeastern United States and the Pacific Northwest." 'via Blog this'
There is no evidence science will except unless it can be measured and tested. The spoor of footprints and howls in the night are just not going to get it. They do, however, allow Bigfoot researchers to know they are getting close, and to continue on the quest.
This video was shot in March Of 2010 in a central Florida swamp around midnight. The howl you will hear has never been identified. I believe it may have been the Florida skunk ape because of the area I was in, and the other things that were going on, such as strange animal movement, and activity before I recorded this sound after a low flying airplane went over. You will hear the clinging of metal which makes me think they are carrying metal chains around their necks. I have no idea why. You will also see the camp I was at and my thought for that day. Forget about the Erickson Project. The Fasano Project is doing just fine.
"AFTER A 5 YEAR QUEST TO EXPLORE THE BIGFOOT PHENOMENON, FLORIDA BIGFOOT RESEARCHES HAVE DETERMINED ADEQUATE EVIDENCE IS LACKING TO JUSTIFY CONTINUED RESEARCH WITH THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE EXISTENCE OF A LARGE BIPEDAL HOMININ OR APE-LIKE CREATURE IN FLORIDA. Eye-witness testimony has been found to be unreliable and inadequate for independent verification. Further, human hoaxing by the use of fur suits has been documented as well as hoaxing of large humanlike prints identical to those presumed to be made by bigfoot/sasquatch/skunk ape as found in the literature."
"Widespread hoaxing,mis-identification of known fauna, mis-interpretation of purported bigfoot sign by mostly unskilled and/or amateur field investigators are causative factors for widespread belief in the existence of bigfoot. One example — recent multiple sightings of a large hairy, non-human bipedal creature in the panhandle area were investigated within a few days of the events with no physical evidence observed or collected. All of the reports were either on or adjacent to improved roads (making easy access by a potential hoaxer). Several reports of hair samples near sightings were reported second hand but samples never surfaced even after multiple attempts were made to the supposed possessors. Many examples may be posted on this site documenting the extent of hoaxing and mis-identification by unskilled field investigators. Further, no compelling evidence has yet been documented correlating supposed bigfoot behavior such as certain vocalizations, rock or stick throwing, or wood knocking. All are based entirely on speculative premise with no scientific documentation. In fact, all can be explained by more probable natural, known causes."
Bigfoot research is hard and frustrating work. Many people get out into the field and never come up with any evidence. Five years may not be enough,. There is no time frame for finding Bigfoot. For a man like Adrian Erickson to just show up and claim that he has all this evidence smells like a hoax. What he is claiming is not possible. Why good people are now having doubts, how does this guy who will not give us his evidence not be called out by the people who know better.
I don't share the conclusion of the Bigfoot Researchers who have stopped the Florida Project. I know that I have found things that will keep me going. I have found real footprints and recorded howls in the field. I have had two trace sightings in areas where I was the only one present. I know that it is just a matter of time and moving forward that may yield successful results. However, after five years I may feel the same way they do.
I ask the Bigfoot world to start using criticism. This man is a fake. Please, someone call him out on this. The same for Matt Moneymaker, find Bigfoot or admit he is not real.
I had a conference call today with Tom Biscardi and Java Bob about certain revelations that came out in Robert Lindsay's blog. Linday published some very interesting tid bits about the machinations going on between the Erickson Project, Melba Ketchum and Tom Biscardi. I did not contact Tom, he called me.
Tom calls me every week to keep me caught up on events and to see how I'm doing. He is a friend; I am not an associate. I am a YouTube poster and I work alone. I will go out in field when invited by others but I prefer to work alone. They say as you get older you know what works best for you and have no need to seek out superficial friendships. I welcome input, but after requiring decades to find out how my feet make contact with the ground, I like to keep it that way.
I conversation I asked Tom if he had ever heard of Robert Lindsay. He said he had not. That, of course meant he had no idea what Lindsay was bloging about him at his site. I told him, and he laughed. He called Java Bob on the phone and we had a three way (not the kind Linday is thinking of). Tom asked Java if he knew a Robert Linday and he said, "He's a blogger." Java Bob also added that he never goes to the sight because he does not want to give him any hits.
These are some of the things Lindsay claims:
Ketchum has an unfulfilled NDA With Biscardi:
"It is interesting that the Ketchum Project people attempted to trash us as being associated with Tom Biscardi. Biscardi, whatever you think of him, has been an essential element of the Ketchum Project. Many times we needed folks to run samples from wherever to Ketchum’s lab in Texas. All of these illustrious Biscardi-hating investigators could not be bothered to do so. Only Tom Biscardi would step up to the plate, and so he was used.
Ketchum has an agreement with Biscardi to do the work on his own samples and to send him the results. She has never fulfilled her end of the bargain, hence she can be sued by Biscardi. However, Biscardi probably lacks money for a lawsuit."
Most of this is true and Lidsay does a good job of pointing out how Tom has been sending work to the Ketchum people and not to Erickson. The problem here is that Erickson has been sending his samples to the her as well. She has assumed ownership of them and gotten a Hollywood agent during this process. We all know the kind of 'check mate' she is contemplating. Lindsay is also right that Tom, and his people have been running samples to the her lab in Texas. She never has fulfilled her end of the bargain, and can be sued by Biscardi. You are wrong about Biscardi lacking money.
Biscardi was the producer of two of the most successful shows in Las Vegas last year and has even been the promoter of an Ozzie Osbourne tour. Guys that can do that, don't lack money. Look it up. Google is your best friend. Vegas headline shows and rock concerts make millions for the promoter. Biscardi does not need money.
Tom Biscardi - Hoaxer or not?
"After quite a bit of investigation, including an interview with Java Bob Schmaltzbach, I have concluded that Tom Biscardi is not a hoaxer. Java Bob went through a long history with me about the Georgia Boys’ fake Bigfoot body saga. It appears that both Biscardi and Java Bob were hoaxed by the Georgia Boys. Biscardi had no idea it was a fake. He was on the phone having Java Bob run tests on the thing when Bob discovered that it had a rubber foot.
It was then that that Java and Biscardi realized that they had been had. Recall that Biscardi forked over ~$50,000 for the fake dead Bigfoot. Why would he lose all that money if he was in on a hoax? The truth is that Biscardi is not a hoaxer. Instead, he is a gullible, not particularly bright, narcissistic, showboating sort of guy who works as a Las Vegas showman. He believes anyone, so he gets hoaxed himself all the time. Biscardi also believes very much in Bigfoot, and he has 4 excellent daytime sightings and many more nighttime sightings. He has made some positive contributions to the Bigfoot field. In short, the popular image of Tom Biscardi as a hoaxer seems to be mistaken.
Biscardi does not have a good personality. He is a crass, vulgar, condescending, arrogant, egotistical and highly narcissistic man. Most people who associate with him for a while leave him because he is so hurtful. He hurts his own friends and even his own family with his callous remarks. Like many such types, he hasn’t the slightest clue about his culpability in these interpersonal scenarios. He has contempt for nearly everyone else in the Bigfoot world, who he typically refers to as bottom feeders.
Biscardi is not a Rhodes scholar, but he’s not stupid either. At best he has about average intelligence or so. He has an engaging, extroverted but brash personality."
You are right that Tom gets hoaxed and that he is not a hoaxer. However Robert Lidsay, you have never meet the man and are in no position to know his personality. You are a professional and know that personality can only be judged by first hand encounters, not hearsay. You wrote that he hurts his own family. how could you possible know anything about his six children and how good of a father he is. Tom is a great father and his children love him. When he was with me on a Bigfoot outing, his kids were always calling him on the phone. That seems like a good sign to me.
Lets see Mr. Lindsay, he, like your buddy Adrian Erickson, Biscardi is smart enough to become a multi-millionaire on his own. I don't know how you measure intelligence? Its not always which California University you have an advanced degree from.
Tom Biscardi Is A Womanizer:
This is weak and way out of bounds. You say he is "one of the wildest, most out of control and notorious womanizers in the Bigfoot world." He is single and may date a women. Is that not allowed? His personal life is his business. We don't ask you about yours.
He financially ruined Java Bob Schmaltzbach.
Why are Tom and Bob on the phone talking like old buddies? Java Bob laughed at what you wrote, and so did Tom. None of what you wrote is true. In fact, Tom has helped Java Bob get a book deal with a large advance. Java Bob is currently writing his book and it should be a best seller - so much for ruining a mans life.
Mr. Linday, you talk about things you can't possibly have any knowledge of. I am sure that is what they taught you in journalism school. Here's something you won't be able to ignore.
You stupid Erickson Project will flame out like an old drag. The science is pseudo-science and will never be excepted. Your videos are fake. Tom Biscardi has already worked that property you have in Kentucky and has a link to their outing on his webstie. You got nothing Robert..nothiing but a fake video that Moneymaker sold you for twenty grand.
