Here’s a look at the source of the Miller Document, Bigfoot Ballyhoo.
The majority of this is from the “Sasquatch Detective.”
http://squatchdetective.weebly.com/hall-of-shame—bigfoot-ballyhoo–linda-newton-perry.html
Linda Newton-Perry was a writer of Children’s books, many of which were bigfoot related, and she wrote one adult bigfoot fiction novel before founding “Bigfoot Ballyhoo,” a website about bigfoot that includes videos of her reading detailed sasquatch encounters people allegedly sent to her anonymously. Her site has had “many” photos (not just two or three), but many that have been grabbed off of the Internet and falsely used to represent something else in a made up narrative.
Soon after founding Bigfoot Ballyhoo she posted a great deal of material from a bigfoot research group called the ESP Team. This went on for months.
But someone happened to find the photo of Bill Emery on a professional photographer’s website and learned it was taken at a Fort Worth Stockyards tourist attraction. Looking at the website they also turned up photos of Hank Parchell. Steve Kulls reached out to “Texla Cryptozoological Research” to help him investigate these alleged ESP Team researchers whose photos came from a tourist attraction where workers dressed in old western garb. Armed with photos they located Bill Emery and Hank Parchell whose real names were Vince Chasteen and Gene Tilly respectively, and neither were involved in bigfoot research.
Writings/videos involving this research teams findings and activities were elaborate, including claims of a number of trail cam photos. Here is one that was posted to Bigfoot Ballyhoo. Unfortunately for Linda Newton-Perry, with enough people eying these photos, someone will recognize it. This alleged trail cam photo turned out to be a screen capture from the 1976 movie, “The Legend of Sasquatch.”
Here’s the image from the movie:
If you go to the Sasquatch Detective site linked at the top you’ll see other faked photos related to the ESP team and where exactly they were grabbed off of the Internet and used in this protracted hoax.
Linda Newton-Perry’s out is she claims these things are sent to her and she’s not responsible or party to the hoax. But photos grabbed off of the Internet pop up in other hoaxes crossing her site. When someone refuted one of her stories saying there was no gate at Sru Lake she posted this photo to prove they were wrong.
However, the photo was really from an unrelated missing persons article where the person entered this gate and died due to exposure. Moreover, the original (below) was from 2007, long before the time of its fake reuse.
Sru Lake stories were a favorite of Linda Newton-Perry’s. Here’s where she posted a photo of a sasquatch print allegedly found at Sru Lake, Oregon (left), that in fact was a print found by researcher Tim Fasano in Florida (right).
Its uncanny how she posts so many different photos stolen from here and there and used in hoaxes at her site. Also uncanny is the large number of people who submit to her site but want to remain anonymous, even in the stolen photo above the caption reads, “YOU CAN USE THE PHOTO BUT NOT MY NAME,” like she knows the name of the person who wishes to remain anonymous.
In 2016 she posted this photo along with a story of these guys finding a bigfoot body in 1962. But Jerry Lustin in the photo is actually a man named Buzzy Franklin, another misrepresented photo grab for a fake story.
And then we have the MIller Document, the alleged memoir of the late Dr. H.A. Miller submitted anonymously, of course, by an alleged relative named Sophia. This is perhaps Bigfoot Ballyhoo’s crowning achievement in rousing the Bigfoot Community. The document purports to include some hard to trace, somewhat vague elements in his life/schooling, and his work for the U.S. Government examining sasquatch bodies. Again, we have a photo.
According to the Miller Document H.A. Miller graduated from Yale in 1930 just as the photo above shows. However, Steve Kulls at Sasquatch Detective, whose vocation is as a private investigator, claims the H.A. Miller in the Yale photo just got an M.A. in Forestry, no medical degrees, which is the necessary facet for his examination of sasquatch bodies as a government doctor. The Miller Document claims he graduated from Harvard in the early 1940’s. However, from the Sasquatch Detective and other sources not only did no H.A. Miller graduate from Harvard, but no one fitting that name even attended Harvard in the years before and after his alleged graduation from there.
The document is very elaborate in what it entails, which makes it look convincing and credible. But could a fiction writer research enough to piece something together like that based on a single photo? Or is this anonymous document with photo the real deal?
