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Grover Krantz
From squatchopedia.com - All things bigfoot and sasquatch
Grover S. Krantz was born in 1931 in Salt Lake City, UT. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1971 with a concentration in human evolution. He served as a professor at Washington State University from 1968 until his retirement in the 1990s. He died February 14, 2002, in his Port Angeles, Washington home.
Krantz claimed to be mostly a sasquatch skeptic, giving them about a 10% chance of existing until he investigated the 1969 'Cripple Foot' incident in Bossburg, WA. He was so convinced by these tracks that he soon became one of the staunchest and the first truly academic bigfoot proponent. He appeared in virtually every bigfoot documentary made after 1970.
Legacy
Krantz accumulated dozens of plaster casts which he determined were made from genuine sasquatch footprints. He claimed to have a unique method of detecting authentic casts and separating fakes based on a secret set of anatomical features. Yet he was fooled by a fake cast made in Indiana[1].
Krantz’s office was filled with casts, drawings, skulls and other material pertaining to primate anatomy. He was probably the first researcher to decipher possible dermal ridges in bigfoot casts and went on an extended personal quest to have this evidence authenticated by fingerprint experts and was convinced it would change the minds of the scientific community. But these efforts were mostly in vain, and interestingly the cast which most convinced Krantz has never been endorsed by renowned primate fingerprint expert Jimmy Chilcutt.
Upon his death, much of his collection went to Idaho State University professor Jeff Meldrum. Krantz himself donated his own skeleton to the Smithsonian Institute but only under the condition that they also accept that of his beloved irish wolfhound, Clyde [2].
Often at odds with René Dahinden (who had no patience for academics), Dr. Krantz argued that the sasquatch is the descendant of a species of prehistoric giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which he theorized traversed the Beringian land bridge 10,000 years ago. Krantz estimated the sasquatch population at roughly 2000 animals roaming the vast wilderness between northern California and British Columbia.
Krantz claimed that his academic interest in sasquatch research came at the expense of promotion and recognition at work. He was also a very outspoken proponent of the controverisal 'pro-kill' camp, insisting that a bigfoot should be shot and killed, if the opportunity presented itself, in order to scientifically confirm their existence and satisfy the scientific community.
Books
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1977, with anthropologist Roderick Sprague)
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch II (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1979, with Roderick Sprague)
The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids (Calgary: Western Publishing, 1984, with archaeologist Vladimir Markotic)
Big Footprints (Boulder: Johnson, 1992), revised as Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (Seattle: Hanthingy House, 1999)
Obituaries
Loren Coleman wrote in an obituary, “As the modern era's first academically-affiliated physical anthropologist to actively involve himself in Bigfoot/Sasquatch research, Dr. Krantz was one of the most quoted authorities on the status of the controversy." He began his research in 1963, and it took him from the analysis of the Patterson-Gimlin film of 1967, to an examination of the Skookum Cast of 2000. He wrote or edited several papers on the Sasquatch, of a formal scholarly nature... and four books.... Dr. Krantz, as an outspoken academic, was a focus of the highly accalimed 1999 documentary Sasquatch Odyssey (director Peter von Puttkamer), which also profiled the late Rene Dahinden, John Green, and Peter Byrne. While these men did not often get along, they formed the "Four Horseman of Sasquatchery," the foundation of thought on these unknown hominoids in the Pacific Northwest from the 1960s onward.”
Loren Coleman's complete obituary
John Green's BFRO Tribute to Grover Krantz
References
Krantz on Skookum Cast
The above information was retrieved from squatchopedia.com.
The following information is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
Gordon S. "Grover" Krantz (November 5, 1931 – February 14, 2002) was a professor of physical anthropology at Washington State University, and a renowned Bigfoot researcher. Krantz was also one of the few academics to advocate the killing of a Bigfoot for scientific study, if one could be located.
Biography
Krantz was born in Salt Lake City. He was raised in Rockford, Illinois until the age of 10, when his family relocated back to Utah. In 1955 Krantz earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah, and in 1958 he would earn a Master’s degree from the University of California. Finally, Krantz earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1971. He taught at Washington State University from 1968 until his retirement in 1998.
Krantz’s specialty as a researcher and teacher included all aspects of human evolution, but he was best known outside of academia as the first serious academic to devote his professional energies to the scientific study of bigfoot. His studies of bigfoot (which he called "sasquatch," after the native term) led him to theorize that this was an actual creature; specifically, a surviving population of gigantopithecines. He was a defender of the authenticity of the Patterson-Gimlin film and a variety of casts collected by Paul Freeman and Ivan Marx.
Krantz was also drawn into the Kennewick Man controversy, arguing both in academia and in court that direct lineage to extant human populations could not be demonstrated.
Krantz died in 2002 from pancreatic cancer in his Port Angeles, Washington home. At his request, there was no funeral. Instead, his body was shipped to the University of Tennessee's body farm, where scientists study human decay rates, adding valuable information for detectives and coroners investigating murders.
In 2003, his skeleton arrived at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History laid it in its final resting place in a green cabinet.
Selected bibliography
Among his works on sasquatch are:
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1977, with anthropologist Roderick Sprague)
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch II (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1979, also with Roderick Sprague)
The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids (Calgary: Western Publishing, 1984, with archaeologist Vladimir Markotic)
Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (Hanthingy House, 1999 ISBN 0-88839-447-0)
Several scholarly papers, published in Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
Non-sasquatch works:
Climatic Races and Descent Groups (1980 ISBN 0-8158-0390-7)
The Antiquity of Race (1981, 1994, 1998)
The Process of Human Evolution (1982, 1995, ISBN 0-87073-347-8)
Geographical Development of European Languages (1988, ISBN 0-8204-0800-X)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz"
From squatchopedia.com - All things bigfoot and sasquatch
Grover S. Krantz was born in 1931 in Salt Lake City, UT. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1971 with a concentration in human evolution. He served as a professor at Washington State University from 1968 until his retirement in the 1990s. He died February 14, 2002, in his Port Angeles, Washington home.
Krantz claimed to be mostly a sasquatch skeptic, giving them about a 10% chance of existing until he investigated the 1969 'Cripple Foot' incident in Bossburg, WA. He was so convinced by these tracks that he soon became one of the staunchest and the first truly academic bigfoot proponent. He appeared in virtually every bigfoot documentary made after 1970.
Legacy
Krantz accumulated dozens of plaster casts which he determined were made from genuine sasquatch footprints. He claimed to have a unique method of detecting authentic casts and separating fakes based on a secret set of anatomical features. Yet he was fooled by a fake cast made in Indiana[1].
Krantz’s office was filled with casts, drawings, skulls and other material pertaining to primate anatomy. He was probably the first researcher to decipher possible dermal ridges in bigfoot casts and went on an extended personal quest to have this evidence authenticated by fingerprint experts and was convinced it would change the minds of the scientific community. But these efforts were mostly in vain, and interestingly the cast which most convinced Krantz has never been endorsed by renowned primate fingerprint expert Jimmy Chilcutt.
Upon his death, much of his collection went to Idaho State University professor Jeff Meldrum. Krantz himself donated his own skeleton to the Smithsonian Institute but only under the condition that they also accept that of his beloved irish wolfhound, Clyde [2].
Often at odds with René Dahinden (who had no patience for academics), Dr. Krantz argued that the sasquatch is the descendant of a species of prehistoric giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which he theorized traversed the Beringian land bridge 10,000 years ago. Krantz estimated the sasquatch population at roughly 2000 animals roaming the vast wilderness between northern California and British Columbia.
Krantz claimed that his academic interest in sasquatch research came at the expense of promotion and recognition at work. He was also a very outspoken proponent of the controverisal 'pro-kill' camp, insisting that a bigfoot should be shot and killed, if the opportunity presented itself, in order to scientifically confirm their existence and satisfy the scientific community.
Books
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1977, with anthropologist Roderick Sprague)
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch II (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1979, with Roderick Sprague)
The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids (Calgary: Western Publishing, 1984, with archaeologist Vladimir Markotic)
Big Footprints (Boulder: Johnson, 1992), revised as Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (Seattle: Hanthingy House, 1999)
Obituaries
Loren Coleman wrote in an obituary, “As the modern era's first academically-affiliated physical anthropologist to actively involve himself in Bigfoot/Sasquatch research, Dr. Krantz was one of the most quoted authorities on the status of the controversy." He began his research in 1963, and it took him from the analysis of the Patterson-Gimlin film of 1967, to an examination of the Skookum Cast of 2000. He wrote or edited several papers on the Sasquatch, of a formal scholarly nature... and four books.... Dr. Krantz, as an outspoken academic, was a focus of the highly accalimed 1999 documentary Sasquatch Odyssey (director Peter von Puttkamer), which also profiled the late Rene Dahinden, John Green, and Peter Byrne. While these men did not often get along, they formed the "Four Horseman of Sasquatchery," the foundation of thought on these unknown hominoids in the Pacific Northwest from the 1960s onward.”
Loren Coleman's complete obituary
John Green's BFRO Tribute to Grover Krantz
References
Krantz on Skookum Cast
The above information was retrieved from squatchopedia.com.
The following information is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
Gordon S. "Grover" Krantz (November 5, 1931 – February 14, 2002) was a professor of physical anthropology at Washington State University, and a renowned Bigfoot researcher. Krantz was also one of the few academics to advocate the killing of a Bigfoot for scientific study, if one could be located.
Biography
Krantz was born in Salt Lake City. He was raised in Rockford, Illinois until the age of 10, when his family relocated back to Utah. In 1955 Krantz earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah, and in 1958 he would earn a Master’s degree from the University of California. Finally, Krantz earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1971. He taught at Washington State University from 1968 until his retirement in 1998.
Krantz’s specialty as a researcher and teacher included all aspects of human evolution, but he was best known outside of academia as the first serious academic to devote his professional energies to the scientific study of bigfoot. His studies of bigfoot (which he called "sasquatch," after the native term) led him to theorize that this was an actual creature; specifically, a surviving population of gigantopithecines. He was a defender of the authenticity of the Patterson-Gimlin film and a variety of casts collected by Paul Freeman and Ivan Marx.
Krantz was also drawn into the Kennewick Man controversy, arguing both in academia and in court that direct lineage to extant human populations could not be demonstrated.
Krantz died in 2002 from pancreatic cancer in his Port Angeles, Washington home. At his request, there was no funeral. Instead, his body was shipped to the University of Tennessee's body farm, where scientists study human decay rates, adding valuable information for detectives and coroners investigating murders.
In 2003, his skeleton arrived at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History laid it in its final resting place in a green cabinet.
Selected bibliography
Among his works on sasquatch are:
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1977, with anthropologist Roderick Sprague)
The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch II (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1979, also with Roderick Sprague)
The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids (Calgary: Western Publishing, 1984, with archaeologist Vladimir Markotic)
Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (Hanthingy House, 1999 ISBN 0-88839-447-0)
Several scholarly papers, published in Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
Non-sasquatch works:
Climatic Races and Descent Groups (1980 ISBN 0-8158-0390-7)
The Antiquity of Race (1981, 1994, 1998)
The Process of Human Evolution (1982, 1995, ISBN 0-87073-347-8)
Geographical Development of European Languages (1988, ISBN 0-8204-0800-X)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz"