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...The problem is that nice drawings of Bigfoot with a pleasant expression are not ever going to represent hard scientific evidence for the hominid. At the very least we need photographs, film and scat/hair samples to make any progress.

Harvey Pratt appears to be the real deal, but the term forensic artist in this context is open to misinterpretation. Soft tissue post-mortem reconstructions might fall somewhere under the forensic label (albeit at the soft-science end of the spectrum), but this is just art done by someone with experience of forensic art, rather than actual forensic art.
 
I'm almost reluctant to post this given the recent YouTube shenanigans from C2C A.M., but their 'Best Of Paulides' (411) compilation is now back up.


Returning to Bigfoot:

Whether or not it pans out into a regular 'series' is not yet clear, but Paulides has turned to the topic of Bigfoot (a subject he has of course written on) in his latest video.


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Parts 2 and 3 of this series have now appeared on the YouTube channel, should readers be interested.
 
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There was one famous case of a girl who disappeared while her parents went on vacation in some tropical jungle area. It took days to find her, but... that was because the initial search efforts were too close to the location she had last been seen. If not for some of the locals helping expand the search area she might never have been found
Nora Quoirin in Malaysia?
 
Nora Quoirin in Malaysia?
was thinking again, and the strangest aspect of the Nora case is the source of information. Nora's parents are the ones who claimed she was PHYSICALLY unable to hike through the woods solo. But she'd been seen by various people during this vacation walking much more ably than her parents claimed she was able.

Why? It doesn't make sense for parents to simply not know if their daughter was physically disabled. It's one of those things where you don't want to make empty accusations, but.... If Nora's parents had been coaching her to fake a disability, then it makes sense. Her parents related the cover story, not the reality.
 
Probably trying to scam the goverment for disability and screwed up

Everybody that goes into the forests should activate the tracker on their phones, should be a law, or is that not viable?
 
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Probably trying to scam the goverment for disability and screwed up

Everybody that goes into the forests should activate the tracker on their phones, should be a law, or is that not viable?
It's PRUDENT, but making it law might not help. Shutting your phone off to conserve battery is totally a thing. Some places are outside tower range.
 
Especially when there's widespread fight-back over government surveillance already.
 
Probably trying to scam the goverment for disability and screwed up...

Nora Quoirin's parents didn't just wrap a bandage round her head and turn up at the benefits office with their hands out. She had holoprosencephaly, which could only have been diagnosed with a brain scan, she was under the eye of medical consultants, and went to a well regarded special needs school.

...Nora's parents are the ones who claimed she was PHYSICALLY unable to hike through the woods solo. But she'd been seen by various people during this vacation walking much more ably than her parents claimed she was able.

Why? It doesn't make sense for parents to simply not know if their daughter was physically disabled. It's one of those things where you don't want to make empty accusations, but.... If Nora's parents had been coaching her to fake a disability, then it makes sense. Her parents related the cover story, not the reality.

Nora Quoirin's disability certainly put restrictions on her physical capabilities - but it did not actually stop her walking. As I recall it, the issue to that those who knew her was as much about confidence as physical ability. This is not at all uncommon with people who have disabilities which affect their motor capabilities - which can appear far more effective when they have the extra reassurance offered by companionship and the familiar than when those factors are absent.

Nora was found around 1.5 miles from where she went missing (around a half hour walk in ideal conditions for an able bodied individual). The potential real tragedy in this case may be that she was hiding from her rescuers - which is a not uncommon factor in people who have mental health and/or cognitive issues.
 
Nora Quoirin's parents didn't just wrap a bandage round her head and turn up at the benefits office with their hands out. She had holoprosencephaly, which could only have been diagnosed with a brain scan, she was under the eye of medical consultants, and went to a well regarded special needs school.



Nora Quoirin's disability certainly put restrictions on her physical capabilities - but it did not actually stop her walking. As I recall it, the issue to that those who knew her was as much about confidence as physical ability. This is not at all uncommon with people who have disabilities which affect their motor capabilities - which can appear far more effective when they have the extra reassurance offered by companionship and the familiar than when those factors are absent.

Nora was found around 1.5 miles from where she went missing (around a half hour walk in ideal conditions for an able bodied individual). The potential real tragedy in this case may be that she was hiding from her rescuers - which is a not uncommon factor in people who have mental health and/or cognitive issues.
Or just hiding in general. We have the open question of "why is she in the woods at night?" did she decide she wanted to sneak off against her parent's wishes and explore the woods? That would explain why seemingly no one saw her until she was found dead.

And yes, it's obvious she did have real disabilities. the question is degree and nature of them.
 
Nora Quoirin's parents didn't just wrap a bandage round her head and turn up at the benefits office with their hands out. She had holoprosencephaly, which could only have been diagnosed with a brain scan, she was under the eye of medical consultants, and went to a well regarded special needs school.



Nora Quoirin's disability certainly put restrictions on her physical capabilities - but it did not actually stop her walking. As I recall it, the issue to that those who knew her was as much about confidence as physical ability. This is not at all uncommon with people who have disabilities which affect their motor capabilities - which can appear far more effective when they have the extra reassurance offered by companionship and the familiar than when those factors are absent.

Nora was found around 1.5 miles from where she went missing (around a half hour walk in ideal conditions for an able bodied individual). The potential real tragedy in this case may be that she was hiding from her rescuers - which is a not uncommon factor in people who have mental health and/or cognitive issues.
My apologies for reading it wrong.
 
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