Bigfoot in Red River

The town of Red River lies high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northeastern New Mexico’s Taos County—8,650 feet above sea level—and yet it is still thousands of feet below the pine- and fir-covered peaks that surround it.

Barely 100 miles northeast of Santa Fe, and just about 40 miles northeast of Taos, Red River has managed to remain a world all its own, a mountain world of sharp morning air and wind in trees. Laid out along both sides of a mile of the serpentine State Road 38, and home to about 500 permanent residents, this town at the junction of Bitter Creek and the Red River lures visitors from all over the American West—and might lure others, of a different, and larger, and much harrier, sort as well.

Middle-aged German men?

No.

Well: maybe. Probably.

But we were talking about Bigfoot.

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Bigfoot and Biscardi in New Mexico

A very nice article from Benjamin Radford at the Alibi.
Radford is one of the few people I have seen to write an article about Biscardi that includes his sorted history. Normally articles hype the Biscardi Bigfoot hunt and don't mention Biscardi's history. -

Of course, the marketing angle was not lost on Biscardi:

“Many of the people who will be on camera on this webcast may become instant celebrities. With so many hours of footage available, the footage will be available to be compiled into multiple film, television and book projects. There will also be opportunities for companies to buy advertising on the webcast and the expedition team members will also be able to test and feature all kinds of products that they may be using including everything from hygiene and food products, to clothing, gear and insect repellent, as well as soft drinks, bottled water and various scientific, communication and computer equipment. “This expedition and webcast will become a worldwide event,” says the press release, “and we hope to be able to prove to the skeptics of the world that some kind of creature called Bigfoot exists.”

It didn’t take Biscardi long to claim he had actually captured a Bigfoot, an assertion that had many in the Bigfoot community suitably skeptical. On Aug. 19, 2005, Biscardi appeared on "Coast to Coast with George Noory" (Art Bell’s old show, or as I call it, “The Art Bell Comedy Hour”). On the program, Biscardi claimed his group had captured a Bigfoot a week earlier, a male beast that weighed more than 400 pounds and stood 8 feet tall. He said he would be presenting photos of it several days later. The photos never came and Biscardi admitted it was a hoax (although he asserted he had been hoaxed, even though he was the one who made the Bigfoot capture claim).

So was Biscardi’s recent visit to New Mexico really about conducting a serious search for Sasquatch or simply setting the stage for his latest moneymaking and publicity scheme? You decide.

There is much more to the article than that and you can read it at the link below.
Bigfoot and Biscardi in New Mexico

The Crystal Skull

With the recent premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, residents of the San Luis Valley in north central New Mexico and southern Colorado may find themselves recalling the actual “crystal skull” that once made an appearance in their area.

The San Luis Valley stretches from Colorado south into New Mexico, and from the San Juan Mountains at the valley’s western edge, to the Sangre de Cristo range at its east. The valley is an approximately 150-mile-long by 45-mile-wide alpine basin, and over the years has become notorious for its residents’ abundant reports of Bigfoot, UFOs, green fireballs, and demonic figures. From 1975 through 1978, the area attracted international attention for its large number of unusual livestock deaths, and many eyes turned to it in 1995, when a bizarre, translucent skull turned up on a San Luis Valley ranch.

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