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Jerome Clark On Dinosaur Pterodactyl Sightings & Wildmen Goblin Connection
What do you think about the living dinosaurs and pterodactyl stories? Actual creatures who survived the extinction of dinosaurs or glimpses from the now moment into the past? Or something else?
JC: I am reasonably certain, though I’d be glad to be wrong about this, that dinosaurs went extinct more than 60 million years ago. Of course, if in the long-shot chance any survive, they are in extremely remote locations where human beings can’t bother them. Still, the evidence for survival in the physical sense is slight, which doesn’t mean some of the reports, whatever they’re about, aren’t interesting and puzzling. I am especially struck by the ropens — described as resembling pterosaurs — of Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands. Every once in a while, I come upon a series of observations that strike me as offering some kind of potential breakthrough — maybe a body and conclusive proof, in other words. It will be interesting to watch how the reopen story develops.
I am curious to your views on bigfoot in your hairy bipeds section you go into this. So what exactly do you think Bigfoot is? A lot of hype on it being wild beings or lost tribes of neanderthals to them being aliens. Your feelings on bigfoot?
I separate Sasquatch, which to all appears is a zoological animal in the normal sense of the phrase, from what I call Hairy Bipeds, which are descendants of the Wild Man tradition. They’re reported just about everywhere on the North American continent and around the planet. Whatever they are or are not, they are residents of the Goblin Universe, not of consensus reality. That doesn’t mean they’re simply imaginary, of course. The experiences people report of them are deeply strange and probably impossible to explain within current knowledge. But their relationship to Sasquatch, in my opinion, is more apparent than real.
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