Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Patty's Hand Follow-Up
This is a really quick, short post. I found the image I had unfortunately lost making the Patty post five days ago, it's one that displays her left hand and the potential knuckles on her right quite well. Rather than confuse people and just redo the previous post, I decided it'll be a bit more comprehensive to just upload this here.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Patty Waves To Us, 52 Years Later
My previous post had a focus on a possible profile for the hand of the sasquatch, based on finds from mainly the western coast and pacific northwest of the continental United States. It makes no attempts, of course, to argue for the validity of these finds, but it takes into consideration their similarities.
Based on those finds, as well as eyewitness reports, I believe it may be possible to build a potentially accurate model of the sasquatch hand. The image of this model I'm positing can be viewed below.
This being posited, I would like to, before we go on to comparisons, throw in a it of a disclaimer. It'd be unscientific of me to say this IS the model for a species that is, by all technicalities, not known for certain to exist. That being said, this is a seemingly fair conglomerate of reports and evidence, and should be treated as such, to whatever extent that may limit or reach to.
I'm sure many of the readers of this blog are familiar with the Patterson-Gimlin Film. For those who are not, the footage was shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967 in Bluff Creek, California. The footage is still in debate to this day, and is believed by many to give the clearest visual look at a sasquatch ever caught on film. Affectionately, whatever the subject is, it has been given the nickname "Patty".
Throughout the years, many enhancements and other edits have been applied to the film; some less successful than others. Enhancement is a tricky process, after all, and can lead to artifacts, (bits of visual images that don't actually appear in the footage, like black spots and gray splotches) being present.
However, more recent efforts have been able to reduce the amount of artifacts while highlighting features that are, in fact, consistent throughout the film. Pertaining to this project is Patty's hands-- her left one, to be exact.
The following set of frames shows Patty extending both her arms and swinging them away from her chest, as she turns to face her right and takes a step forward with her right leg, proceeding then to swing her arms back to her sides.
The question, then, in the context of her hand is: what can be said about it? Specifically the right hand, which we have a clearer look at than her left? The animated frames of this portion of the film can be seen below.
Though it is difficult to examine in individual frames, the full portion shows that there is an object attached to the end of the subject's left arm which consistently stays with that arm in the same location. This can therefore be ruled out as an artifact, and is likely the subject's hand. This is difficult to observe in individual frames due to the motion blur that object carries with it.
As Patty swings her left arm forward and back again, this "hand" can be seen to carry a few interesting features with it. For one thing, there is a dark streak near what would be the right side of the hand, indicating it is being swung forward at an angle which blocks out the sun from hitting that end of the hand. This might be due to appendages curving, as they seem to do on the right hand, as well, and casting a shadow over the fingers.
Due to the angle, it is difficult to tell the length of each finger. However, when compared with a human hand curling at such an angle, it seems that the fingers may all have a similar end-point, due to the uniform line that can be traced across the curvature of those fingers. This is, however, the most vague detail, and should be taken with a grain of salt or two. It's exceedingly difficult to discern.
However, perhaps the clearest feature is a well-defined thumb on the left hand, which can be seen as a thin, dark shape that extend up what would be the left side of the palm. The thumb seems rather large, extending around two-thirds up the way of the fingers, whereas the average human thumb only goes up approximately one-third of the way, at most. This may suggest a wider range of motion for the subject's thumb than the average human. The thumb is also darker than the rest of the fingers, as well as the fingers that curl on the left hand of the subject.
Over all, Patty's left hand is an intriguing subject to examine. Unfortunately, a great deal cannot be gathered. That being said, the details that can be seen seem to reveal a model that isn't exceedingly far off from a conglomerate of reports and hand prints.
Aside from taking this, again, with a grain of salt, do with that what you will.
Based on those finds, as well as eyewitness reports, I believe it may be possible to build a potentially accurate model of the sasquatch hand. The image of this model I'm positing can be viewed below.
This being posited, I would like to, before we go on to comparisons, throw in a it of a disclaimer. It'd be unscientific of me to say this IS the model for a species that is, by all technicalities, not known for certain to exist. That being said, this is a seemingly fair conglomerate of reports and evidence, and should be treated as such, to whatever extent that may limit or reach to.
I'm sure many of the readers of this blog are familiar with the Patterson-Gimlin Film. For those who are not, the footage was shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967 in Bluff Creek, California. The footage is still in debate to this day, and is believed by many to give the clearest visual look at a sasquatch ever caught on film. Affectionately, whatever the subject is, it has been given the nickname "Patty".
Throughout the years, many enhancements and other edits have been applied to the film; some less successful than others. Enhancement is a tricky process, after all, and can lead to artifacts, (bits of visual images that don't actually appear in the footage, like black spots and gray splotches) being present.
However, more recent efforts have been able to reduce the amount of artifacts while highlighting features that are, in fact, consistent throughout the film. Pertaining to this project is Patty's hands-- her left one, to be exact.
The following set of frames shows Patty extending both her arms and swinging them away from her chest, as she turns to face her right and takes a step forward with her right leg, proceeding then to swing her arms back to her sides.
The question, then, in the context of her hand is: what can be said about it? Specifically the right hand, which we have a clearer look at than her left? The animated frames of this portion of the film can be seen below.
Though it is difficult to examine in individual frames, the full portion shows that there is an object attached to the end of the subject's left arm which consistently stays with that arm in the same location. This can therefore be ruled out as an artifact, and is likely the subject's hand. This is difficult to observe in individual frames due to the motion blur that object carries with it.
As Patty swings her left arm forward and back again, this "hand" can be seen to carry a few interesting features with it. For one thing, there is a dark streak near what would be the right side of the hand, indicating it is being swung forward at an angle which blocks out the sun from hitting that end of the hand. This might be due to appendages curving, as they seem to do on the right hand, as well, and casting a shadow over the fingers.
Due to the angle, it is difficult to tell the length of each finger. However, when compared with a human hand curling at such an angle, it seems that the fingers may all have a similar end-point, due to the uniform line that can be traced across the curvature of those fingers. This is, however, the most vague detail, and should be taken with a grain of salt or two. It's exceedingly difficult to discern.
However, perhaps the clearest feature is a well-defined thumb on the left hand, which can be seen as a thin, dark shape that extend up what would be the left side of the palm. The thumb seems rather large, extending around two-thirds up the way of the fingers, whereas the average human thumb only goes up approximately one-third of the way, at most. This may suggest a wider range of motion for the subject's thumb than the average human. The thumb is also darker than the rest of the fingers, as well as the fingers that curl on the left hand of the subject.
Over all, Patty's left hand is an intriguing subject to examine. Unfortunately, a great deal cannot be gathered. That being said, the details that can be seen seem to reveal a model that isn't exceedingly far off from a conglomerate of reports and hand prints.
Aside from taking this, again, with a grain of salt, do with that what you will.
Friday, July 5, 2019
An Overview of Sasquatch Hand Anatomy
Although this project's focus is the nature of sasquatch dermal ridges, (or dermal ridge-like patterns), and how this alleged species might have such a profile, I feel it important to also discuss the anatomy of an animal with such attributes.
In short, part of understanding the print, is understanding the finger, is understanding the hand.
There have been several "sasquatch hand-prints" cast over the years. Of course, many of you will be familiar with the Freeman cast, which Paul Freeman claimed to have found in the 1980's in the Blue Mountains of Washington. I've actually done a video on the subject, which will explain my thoughts on it. In general, it seems that, if a non-human animal is responsible for the impression, it seems as though the thumb of this animal may have a wider range of motion than the average human thumb. That being said, it is also possible that not all the digit impressions were made at once, only creating the visage of such a hand. It should also be noted that, when comparing it to the average human thumb's range of motion, human females, (which tend to be the more flexible of the species), were indeed taken into account.
https://youtu.be/7LhY3Zy6p3o
What I failed to discuss in the video is the other alleged handprints found across North America. Examples of such prints can be found mainly on Cliff Barackman's website and www.sasquatchcanada.com.
As far as can be observed, there are traits all these hand-prints seem to share; they are large, more robust in proportion than human hands, and, again, seem to possess a thumb with a wider range of motion.
These are not definitive findings, obviously. However, the fact that they share such a specific similarity is interesting, and may be considered enough to warrant further investigation into the individual cases.
~Karac St. Laurent
In short, part of understanding the print, is understanding the finger, is understanding the hand.
There have been several "sasquatch hand-prints" cast over the years. Of course, many of you will be familiar with the Freeman cast, which Paul Freeman claimed to have found in the 1980's in the Blue Mountains of Washington. I've actually done a video on the subject, which will explain my thoughts on it. In general, it seems that, if a non-human animal is responsible for the impression, it seems as though the thumb of this animal may have a wider range of motion than the average human thumb. That being said, it is also possible that not all the digit impressions were made at once, only creating the visage of such a hand. It should also be noted that, when comparing it to the average human thumb's range of motion, human females, (which tend to be the more flexible of the species), were indeed taken into account.
https://youtu.be/7LhY3Zy6p3o
What I failed to discuss in the video is the other alleged handprints found across North America. Examples of such prints can be found mainly on Cliff Barackman's website and www.sasquatchcanada.com.
As far as can be observed, there are traits all these hand-prints seem to share; they are large, more robust in proportion than human hands, and, again, seem to possess a thumb with a wider range of motion.
These are not definitive findings, obviously. However, the fact that they share such a specific similarity is interesting, and may be considered enough to warrant further investigation into the individual cases.
~Karac St. Laurent
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Addressing Daniel Dover's Findings
It's come to my attention that other investigators, particularly Daniel Dover, have written about their own findings and conclusions on alleged sasquatch fingerprints.
Daniel Dover's the guy I'll be going over here, since his analyses seem to have been the most in-depth. His article on the subject, which I'll link below this post, is very interesting. That being the case, there was a particular, and rather crucial point, that I'd like to try and contend:
"... the typical sasquatch fingerprint exhibits straight diagonal lines (no swirling). No human nor any known primate produces a fingerprint pattern like this. Of all the known animals which produce fingerprint patterns none produce one even close to this pattern."
I'd like to start by saying I don't necessarily disagree with Dover entirely, here. However, I would say that the examples Dover seems to be working off of are a fairly small sample of the entire sample size one could examine, (keeping in mind that, of course, none of these are as-of-yet-confirmed prints of a North American great ape).
The examples Dover provides are actually part of the collection I posted my findings on a few weeks ago on May 31st. I disagree with him that swirling is not present; rather, it seems it is present in a good deal of prints that are examine-able. These prints can be viewed in a link on my previous post.
There are prints that stretch from the Carolinas to Nordegg, Canada. Again, not only is looping/swirling in a good deal of them, signs of other print patterns are seemingly observable. The exception to this, in the May 31st collection, seemed to me to be prints that were let in such a way that certain parts of the fingerprint had not been imprinted onto the surface. Reasons for this might include moisture or bodily fluids on the subject.
Ironically, the Dover examples are in that particular group. Make of this what you will! I'd love to hear feedback, especially from Dover, on this subject. Cheers!
https://sasquatchchronicles.com/sasquatch-fingerprints/
Daniel Dover's the guy I'll be going over here, since his analyses seem to have been the most in-depth. His article on the subject, which I'll link below this post, is very interesting. That being the case, there was a particular, and rather crucial point, that I'd like to try and contend:
"... the typical sasquatch fingerprint exhibits straight diagonal lines (no swirling). No human nor any known primate produces a fingerprint pattern like this. Of all the known animals which produce fingerprint patterns none produce one even close to this pattern."
I'd like to start by saying I don't necessarily disagree with Dover entirely, here. However, I would say that the examples Dover seems to be working off of are a fairly small sample of the entire sample size one could examine, (keeping in mind that, of course, none of these are as-of-yet-confirmed prints of a North American great ape).
The examples Dover provides are actually part of the collection I posted my findings on a few weeks ago on May 31st. I disagree with him that swirling is not present; rather, it seems it is present in a good deal of prints that are examine-able. These prints can be viewed in a link on my previous post.
There are prints that stretch from the Carolinas to Nordegg, Canada. Again, not only is looping/swirling in a good deal of them, signs of other print patterns are seemingly observable. The exception to this, in the May 31st collection, seemed to me to be prints that were let in such a way that certain parts of the fingerprint had not been imprinted onto the surface. Reasons for this might include moisture or bodily fluids on the subject.
Ironically, the Dover examples are in that particular group. Make of this what you will! I'd love to hear feedback, especially from Dover, on this subject. Cheers!
https://sasquatchchronicles.com/sasquatch-fingerprints/
Friday, May 31, 2019
Amateur Analysis - May 31st Collection
Detailed here is my own analysis of a set of prints which, over the course of several decades, have all been attributed to sasquatch, or at least, some unidentified primate species in North America. This collection involves 17 consecutive prints from 7 different cases. Two of these cases, unfortunately, were not readily examine-able -- this is due to a lack of detail in their respective photographs.
These cases hail from Nordegg, Oklahoma, North Carolina, New York, Oregon, and one undisclosed location. Further reading on these prints can be found in the linked document.
The image below is a spreadsheet and chart representing the data I believe can be examined, here. The spreadsheet's numbers and columns represent the names of the fingerprint patterns that we know to exist, and the amount of times signs of those patterns show up in the entire alleged fingerprint collection in the document.
Please keep in mind that I am still looking around for a firm who will take any of these cases and examine them properly; this is an amateur analysis on my own part. I am not a professional by any means, and my examinations could easily be wrong.
Hopefully, including the data and photographs will help to prevent error.
Case Document
~Karac St. Laurent
These cases hail from Nordegg, Oklahoma, North Carolina, New York, Oregon, and one undisclosed location. Further reading on these prints can be found in the linked document.
The image below is a spreadsheet and chart representing the data I believe can be examined, here. The spreadsheet's numbers and columns represent the names of the fingerprint patterns that we know to exist, and the amount of times signs of those patterns show up in the entire alleged fingerprint collection in the document.
Please keep in mind that I am still looking around for a firm who will take any of these cases and examine them properly; this is an amateur analysis on my own part. I am not a professional by any means, and my examinations could easily be wrong.
Hopefully, including the data and photographs will help to prevent error.
Case Document
~Karac St. Laurent
Thursday, May 30, 2019
The Sasquatch Print Project
Hello,
My name is Karac St. Laurent. I am, as of writing this post, 19 years old, and an aspiring young cryptozoologist.
I have been actively studying the sasquatch phenomenon for about a decade. It is my opinion that what people are seeing and collecting possible evidence of is a species of North American great ape that we have yet to properly document.
In an effort to further the documentation of this species, I have created the Sasquatch Print Project. The project will collect and analyze alleged fingerprints and toeprints attributed to the sasquatch. This will, hopefully, result in the building of a sort of dermal ridge profile for the species; which patterns come up the most often, how large do the fingers tend to be, what conditions are they best preserved in, etc.
If anyone reading this has some sort of alleged documentation of a sasquatch's dermal ridges, through a photograph or otherwise, please contact me at crash.course.cryptozoology@gmail.com.
~Karac St. Laurent
My name is Karac St. Laurent. I am, as of writing this post, 19 years old, and an aspiring young cryptozoologist.
I have been actively studying the sasquatch phenomenon for about a decade. It is my opinion that what people are seeing and collecting possible evidence of is a species of North American great ape that we have yet to properly document.
In an effort to further the documentation of this species, I have created the Sasquatch Print Project. The project will collect and analyze alleged fingerprints and toeprints attributed to the sasquatch. This will, hopefully, result in the building of a sort of dermal ridge profile for the species; which patterns come up the most often, how large do the fingers tend to be, what conditions are they best preserved in, etc.
If anyone reading this has some sort of alleged documentation of a sasquatch's dermal ridges, through a photograph or otherwise, please contact me at crash.course.cryptozoology@gmail.com.
~Karac St. Laurent
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