Jon-Erik Beckjord dead at 69

[krelnik]

SF Chronicle: Paranormal believer Erik Beckjord dies at 69 (Friday, July 25, 2008)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/25/BA2A11TAA8.DTL


Erik Beckjord, a paranormal investigator who tried to share his theories at his UFO, Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster Museum in North Beach, has died at age 69.

Mr. Beckjord, who had prostate cancer, died June 22 near his home in Lafayette, where he was caretaker of the Crosses of Lafayette, a monument dedicated to the more than 4,000 American troops who have died in the war in Iraq.

[Starthinker]

We lost one the truly great minds in bigfootology. I'm sure he's just in another deminsion somewhere sipping tea and dodging freight trains with bigfoot himself.

[kitakaze]

Beckjord (I was in the habit of calling him Cedrip after RayG) was a character and there's no argument there. He's certainly injected a lot of the weirdness into bigfootery and his other exploits and inspired some emulators. The last time he was through here on a sock was one of his longest runs here I think. It was funny watching him interact with his mini-me, Neil Burgstahler before they got banned. Those who were familiar with him knew of his illness so I doubt his passing comes as much a shock. I personally would like to try and say something positive about the man so...

Kids, if you're going to be a troll, learn from a master and bend it like Beckjord.

Sayonara, Cedrip. :w2:

[Gilmar]

I actually met him about 20 years ago, when he lived in the hills inland from Malibu. I was trying out Mensa at the time, until I'd had enough demonstrations that "smart" isn't synonymous with "sane". He had guests at his house for some event or other, and there was hot and cold running woo. I think the house burned down in a big brushfire a few years later.

[HghrSymmetry]

Hadn't heard he was ill. I imagine Neil will miss the woo battles.

[manofthesea]

Beckjord (I was in the habit of calling him Cedrip after RayG) was a character and there's no argument there. He's certainly injected a lot of the weirdness into bigfootery and his other exploits and inspired some emulators. The last time he was through here on a sock was one of his longest runs here I think. It was funny watching him interact with his mini-me, Neil Burgstahler before they got banned. Those who were familiar with him knew of his illness so I doubt his passing comes as much a shock. I personally would like to try and say something positive about the man so...

Kids, if you're going to be a troll, learn from a master and bend it like Beckjord.

Sayonara, Cedrip. :w2:

Master shmaster. Have you seen Jane Goodall's new show, When Animals Talk? They had ESP parrots. Thankfully, she's disavowed bigfoot.

Anyway, Monstro seemed pretty run of the mill considering the subject. Maybe he'll come back as a bigfoot, the real type though.

[kitakaze]

Master shmaster. Have you seen Jane Goodall's new show, When Animals Talk? They had ESP parrots. Thankfully, she's disavowed bigfoot.

Anyway, Monstro seemed pretty run of the mill considering the subject. Maybe he'll come back as a bigfoot, the real type though.Cedrip was a master troll, Goodall had a show featuring allegedly psychic parrots.

And this is one of those times where I find myself looking at a weird MOTS non sequitur reference and almost being tempted to try and suss out the association he made. Almost.

Anyone interested in a firsthand account of just how far Beckjord's trolling would go can just ask our RayG for his horror story. Two words: Police involvement.

[manofthesea]

Police involvement.

What do you get when two footers have opposing footing views?

[manofthesea]

Cedrip was a master troll, Goodall had a show featuring allegedly psychic parrots.

Anyone interested in a firsthand account of just how far Beckjord's trolling would go can just ask our RayG for his horror story. Two words: Police involvement.

Don't forget she lived with those chimps for years. But the interesting link is that psychic parrots are in the same league as invisible bigfoot, mapinguari, jersey devil, or one of those other infeasible phenomenon, unlike real bigfoot.

Unless, you'd like to disagree and promote that psychic parrots are more plausible than bigfoot. If so, then explain.