Sasquatch Tracks
Micah Hanks, Dakota Waddell and Jeff Smith
Categories: Science & Medicine
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In this episode of Sasquatch Tracks, the team is joined by Gary Opit, an Australian expert on the continent's indigenous fauna, and a longtime researcher of Australian cryptozoology.
Opit is an environmental consultant and scientific member of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for 48 years. He is also a radio broadcaster, teacher, and author of books that include Australian Cryptozoology. Opit has created courses and lectured to university, TAFE and high school students on ecology, botany, zoology, biogeography, anthropology, geography, microbiology, evolution, Australian prehistoric plants and animals, Aboriginal ecology, permaculture, and much more.
Gary has appeared in several North American produced cryptozoological documentaries on Yowies, Thylacines and Giant Goannas, including Monster Quest, Finding Bigfoot and Bogyman. He was also the first person to be interviewed on Yowies by Dean Harrison, and since February 1997 he has undertaken a citizen science wildlife study using a weekly live-to-air wildlife identification radio program, now in its 27th year. The broadcast is entitled ‘Wildlife Weekend’ and can be heard every Saturday morning at 6.50 am on Australian Broadcasting Corporation North Coast New South Wales Radio 94.5 FM and on their internet site. More about Gary and his work can be found in the links below.
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Previous episodes
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55 - Gary Opit: Bunyip, Yowie, and Australian Cryptozoology | ST 55 Sat, 04 May 2024
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54 - The Minerva Monsters: An Odd Tale of Hairy Bipeds and Big Cats | ST 054 Thu, 28 Mar 2024
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53 - John Hickenbottom: Sasquatch at Salt Fork State Park | ST 053 Tue, 13 Feb 2024
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52 - Sam Shearon: In Search of Yuletide Hominoids | ST 052 Sat, 23 Dec 2023
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51 - Return to Ape Canyon: Rediscovery of the Vanderwhite Mine | ST 051 Thu, 30 Nov 2023
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50 - Matt Pruitt: The Phenomenal Sasquatch, Part Two | ST 050 Thu, 28 Sep 2023
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49 - Matt Pruitt: The Phenomenal Sasquatch, Part One | ST 049 Thu, 28 Sep 2023
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48 - Scott Tompkins: The Bigfoot Mapping Project | ST 048 Mon, 11 Sep 2023
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47 - Darby Orcutt: Sasquatch Sample Analysis | ST 047 Wed, 02 Aug 2023
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46 - Military Encounters with Sasquatch | ST 046 Mon, 26 Jun 2023
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45 - Esteban Sarmiento: Monstrous Primatology | ST 045 Thu, 25 May 2023
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44 - Lailani Upham and Carrie Lynn Bear Chief: The Pikuni Bigfoot Storytelling Project | ST 044 Wed, 26 Apr 2023
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43 - Kathy Strain: An Anthropologist's Search for Sasquatch | ST 043 Mon, 27 Mar 2023
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42 - Buck Buckingham: Australian Yowies Caught on Film | ST 042 Sun, 12 Mar 2023
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41 - Gregory Forth: A Living Fossil Hominoid in Modern Indonesia? | ST 041 Wed, 15 Feb 2023
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40 - Nathaniel Bronis: Michigan Encounters and Sasquatch Studies | ST 040 Mon, 16 Jan 2023
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39 - Jeff Waldridge: Kentucky Sasquatch, Government Files, and Cryptid Con | ST 039 Sat, 12 Nov 2022
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38 - Mister Sam Shearon: Bigfoot, Wolflike Cryptids, and Monstrous Mysteries | ST 038 Sat, 29 Oct 2022
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37 - Aleksandar Petakov: Sasquatch in the Northeast | ST 037 Mon, 10 Oct 2022
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36 - Tate Hieronymus: A Search for Sabe | ST 036 Thu, 08 Sep 2022
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35 - Sasquatch Sightings: Eyewitness Encounters with Unknown Species | ST 035 Fri, 26 Aug 2022
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34 - Ken Gerhard: Sasquatch Studies and Cryptid Encounters | ST 034 Sun, 31 Jul 2022
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33 - Paul Bowman: Archaeology in the Search for Relict Hominoids | ST 033 Thu, 21 Jul 2022
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32 - David Weatherly: Wood Knocks and the Global Sasquatch Tradition | ST 032 Sun, 22 May 2022
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31 - Robert Leiterman: The Bluff Creek Project | ST 031 Thu, 28 Apr 2022
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30 - Charlie Raymond: Bigfoot in the Bluegrass State | ST 030 Tue, 12 Apr 2022
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29 - Cliff Barackman: Bigfoot Studies and Track Analysis | ST 029 Wed, 23 Feb 2022
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28 - Daniel Perez: Bigfoot Times, Bluff Creek, and Beyond | ST 028 Mon, 31 Jan 2022
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27 - John Mionczynski: The Biologist and Bigfoot | ST 027 Tue, 21 Dec 2021
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26 - Todd Neiss: Bigfoot and the American Primate Conservancy | ST 026 Wed, 17 Nov 2021
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25 - Gareth Patterson: The Otang: South Africa's Sasquatch? | ST 025 Wed, 03 Nov 2021
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24 - Mike Mayes and Rick Minter: Big Cats and Sasquatch Sightings | ST 24 Tue, 05 Oct 2021
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23 - Josh Moss: Sasquatch Data: Mapping the Mystery | ST 23 Sat, 04 Sep 2021
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22 - Thomas Steenburg: On the Shoulders of Giants | ST 22 Wed, 11 Aug 2021
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21 - Leon Thompson: Psychology, Systems, and Sasquatch | ST 21 Fri, 23 Jul 2021
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20 - Shane Corson: The Olympic Project and Bigfoot Field Research | ST 020 Sun, 04 Jul 2021
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19 - Living with Sasquatch: Jason Sakrisson and Charles Lamica | ST 019 Wed, 02 Jun 2021
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18 - Bruce Champagne: Desert Hominoids and Aquatic Cryptids | ST 18 Tue, 18 May 2021
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17 - David Ellis and Julie Rench: Sasquatch Sounds | ST 017 Tue, 27 Apr 2021
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16 - Amy Bue: Bigfoot and Project Zoobook | ST 016 Sat, 27 Mar 2021
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15 - Marc Myrsell: Incident at Ape Canyon | ST 015 Tue, 16 Mar 2021
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14 - Doug Hajicek: The Mind Behind Monster Quest | ST 014 Tue, 02 Mar 2021
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13 - Russ Jones: Tracking the West Virginia Stone Man | ST 013 Wed, 17 Feb 2021
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12 - Blood on the Tracks: Shooting Sasquatch | ST 012 Fri, 29 Jan 2021
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11 - Abominable Snowman: The Legend Returns | ST 011 Fri, 25 Dec 2020
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10 - Shelly Covington Montana: Citizen Scientist | ST 010 Mon, 23 Nov 2020
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9 - Matt Pruitt: Sasquatch Theory | ST 009 Wed, 21 Oct 2020
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8 - Stacy Brown Jr: The Skunk Ape Lives | ST 008 Wed, 30 Sep 2020
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7 - Lyle Blackburn: Search for the Southern Sasquatch | ST 007 Sat, 12 Sep 2020
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6 - Sasquatch and Government: Official Files and Bigfoot Encounters | ST 006 Thu, 20 Aug 2020