Saturday, July 28, 2012

Breaking News About The OSS

This is a very difficult letter forme to write you all, but It needs to be written, but the OSS 2012 has been called off.
The cancellation is due to lack of interest in ticket sales for pre-registration.. In other words the numbers do not add up at all for me to continue forward. We have over 400members on the OSS website, and only about 4%  those members have showninterest in attending. Just to give an example, the 2010 OSS had over 140 preregistered tickets that we’re requested by now. The OSS 2011 conference at CWBhad very powerful pre reg. numbers as well, even with its smaller more intimatesize.For some reason, this conference just has not caught on.
Refunds for Pre Registered OSS tickets will be made in full to those who bought them online and who paid inperson. I will send an email to each one of you personally by the 15thof August  and if for some reason you donot get that email, please email me with your receipt for ticket entry and agood address I can send you a refund. Refunds in total will be mailed out bythe 13th of October.
If you have a hotel reservation, Isuggest you cancel the reservation now.
Any further questions you have onthe who, how and why of it all, can be emailed.
 Thank You for yourunderstanding
See you in the trees
Toby A. Johnson
www.oregonsasquatchsymposium@yahoo.com



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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Schedule Change for the OSS

I apologies to anyone looking forward to hearing OSS Speaker Julie Scott. I know I sure was, but it looks like Julie cannot attend in October. I wish I could talk her into changing her mind, but it is safe to say she will not be there.
If you have not heard Julie speak about her families experience with Sasquatch, it is so worth listening to. Read her great book or find her interviews on the internet. I am one her greatest fans and wih her and Wayne well.
So, that will provide an hour space that could be left for a number of things. What I thought would be nice is a panel discussion on the nature of The London Tracks found in Cottage Grove this Feb.. It will be your chance to hear it from the people on the ground that came into contact with what might be the most well docuemnted track find in Bigfoot research. It will also be your chance to hear about the more puzzeling aspects of Bigfoot behavior and how it might effect human behavior. To read more about what I mean go to Thom Powells website at
http://www.thomsquatch.com/p/about-thom-powell.html
Ok, that is all for now

Friday, June 22, 2012

Three New Speakers Added to the OSS in October

Kirk Sigurdson                                    
Kirk Sigurdson was born and raised in wine country between Salem and Independence, Oregon.  Starting at four months old, and lasting until age sixteen, Kirk vacationed with his family in the high Cascades, near Mt. Jefferson, for several weeks per year, usually in late summer.  During these annual wilderness retreats, he became acquainted with a few benevolent Sasquatches. 
Upon graduating from Sprague High School in 1984, Kirk moved to the Midwest, where he attended Principia College, and then to New York University for graduate school, where he earned a Master's degree in English literature.  After writing four novels, Kirk returned to Portland, Oregon, in 1999.  It wasn’t long before he began work on a novel that drew upon his knowledge of the sasquatch phenomenon.   As research, he ventured dozens of times into sasquatch hot spots for overnighters, often with friends who shared some very unique experiences.  
Kirk Sigurdson is currently a Professor of Writing and English literature at Portland Community College.  His novel, Kultus, about the sasquatch phenomenon, will be available for purchase at OSS.


 Ron Morehead
                                  
Ron Morehead is a Veteran of the U.S. Air Force, private pilot, musician, developer of a local hospitality industry, and  researcher. He is best known for his audio evidence of indistinguishable vocalization, known as The Sierra Sounds. The Sierra Sounds Volume #1 "Bigfoot Recordings"/Voices in the Wilderness, which is a selection of audio clips captured by Morehead, that reveal very clear Bigfoot vocalizations captured  at a remote wilderness camp. The efforts to have these vocalization studied and authenticated started in 1978. The year long study by a Professor Kirlin states that these creatures have a vocal capability that exceeds the human vocal range. More recently, in 2008, another yearlong study was made by a crypto-linguistic team headed by R. Scott Nelson, and a complex language was discovered



   L.A. MARZULLI                           
L. A. Marzulli is the author of The Nephilim Trilogy. The Nephilim Trilogy made the CBA best sellers list and continues to thrill readers a decade after the first book in the series was published. Marzulli received an honorary doctorate from Pacific International University for his work on the Nephilim Trilogy.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

A New Face has been added for this year's Oregon Sasquatch Symposium...

L.A. MARZULLI                           
L. A. Marzulli is the author of The Nephilim Trilogy. The Nephilim Trilogy made the CBA best sellers list and continues to thrill readers a decade after the first book in the series was published. Marzulli received an honorary doctorate from Pacific International University for his work on the Nephilim Trilogy.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Year of The Sasquatch (Conferences)

Full Updated Information on the speakers for the 2012 OSS!!!!!!

2012 Speaker Roster

BOB GIMLIN

Bob Gimlin was with Roger Patterson when Patterson filmed the well known Patterson/Gimlin footage in Bluff Creek CA, in 1967. The film shows a large, hairy, female primate walking upright on two feet, and is unquestionably the best known footage of a Sasquatch ever obtained. It's interesting to note that although many dispute the film's authenticity, it has never been proven to be a fake in the years since it was filmed.

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BILL MUNNS

Bill Munns was first connected to the Bigfoot discussion by virtue of his well publicized full scale reconstructed figure of Gigantopithecus (with him standing beside it), originally published in the book "Other Origins", and subsequently digitized and freely copied into Bigfoot websites and Forums whenever the discussion turned to Gigantopithecus and its potential relationship to the Sasquatch. Bill has worked as a special effects/prosthetics makeup artist since 1969, starting at Universal Studios, under Mike Westmore. During his career, he has made numerous full body suits, fur costumes, masks, and animatronics for various movies, TV shows, and commercials. Based on that experience, in 2008, he began a series of postings online re: "Creature Suit Analysis", with both general information about making creature type suits or costumes for films, and specific references to the ongoing controversy of the Patterson-Gimlin Film, and the debate as to whether what is seen in the film is a real creature or a hoaxed event with a person in a fur suit.

Julie Scott

Julie is a wife, mother of 4 and a grandmother of 2 with another due in February.She volunteers her time as a contact person for local law enforcement, fish and game and forest service departments by providing education about Bigfoot sightings in her area.

In Visits form the Forest People, Julie Scott and the rest of the Scott family report on their experiences in Western Washington while sharing the forest surrounding their home with a group of Bigfoot, which Scott calls Forest People. Julie includes her thoughts about the origins of Bigfoot, explanations for some of the difficulties in collecting evidence of Bigfoot, thoughts about the current state of Bigfoot research, and suggestions for establishing more effective communication between Bigfoot and humans.

Julie's website www.bigfootbook.net links audio clips of Sasquatch's howling from their coastal property, as well as shared audio from other witnesses.

THOM POWELL

Thom authored a book about Sasquatch research entitled "The Locals"which was described by reviewer Lisa Kearns as, "a brilliant combination of science and storytelling". His was the first book to suggest many fairly radical ideas that have since been endorsed by many contemporary researchers, such as habituation, infrasound, paranormal elements, human levels of intelligence in the Sasquatch, awareness of cameras, and much more.

Thom's newest novel "Shady Neighbors" tells a fictional account of the Oregon Sasquatch phenomena told from the familiar point of view of a middle school science teacher that is thrust into a hairy mystery.

more speakers to come.......

New information on the Oregon Sasquatch Symposium!!!

4 guest on the speaker roster thus far.

Bob Gimlin with Bill Munns will be speaking together about new digital renderings that Bill will show as an exclusive to the 2012OSS. The two of them will go over the PG film step by step with new evidence to verify what many have already suspected.

We will also be inviting Julie Scott from Washington state. She is the author of "Visits from the Forest People". This eyewitness report details her families encounter at home with a group of Sasquatch in the state of Washington.

Thom Powell will also be on hand. If you have never heard Thom give a Sasquatch lecture, man oh man...don't miss out this year. Author of "The Locals" and "Shady Neighbors", Thom is known as one the premier researchers into the Sasquatch phenomena.

Also, photos are on hand of the venu we will be meeting in. Take a look and imagine yourself sitting amongst friends, old and new, at the 2012 OSS.

Tickets are now on sale.

$25.oo a ticket....all day fun and invite to the kick off party the night before!!!

Also, check out the new Facebook page Guy Edwards helped me out with. Guy has been a real help all 3 years, and if you ever want a wise sage in your computer corner, look up Guy Edwards on BIGFOOT LUNCH CLUB. THANk YOU GUY!!! WHAT A GUY!!!!

any questions, ya know where to find me.



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