Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2026-11-05
Joe Rogan & Gregory Forth: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2577
#2577 - Gregory Forth
Gregory Forth, DPhil, is an anthropologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and author of "Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominid."
Gregory Forth discussed Bigfoot by John Russell Napier.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bigfoot
Discussed“No, I mean there's a number of other primatologists and people who study primates in the field who uh have also subscribed to uh if not Bigfoot then uh uh the Yeti, a guy called Vern Reynolds uh who's at Oxford at one time I think and um um a guy called John Napier who who uh wrote a very”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Between Ape and Human
“But then subsequent to um that visit um I I I began to hear about uh similar creatures uh further to the east in a place called Leo. Um and those are the ones I write about in in uh in the book.”
Plugged Between Ape and Human
“And when did you talk to someone that had had an encounter? That was um first of all that was uh when I um visited the Leo the Leo region um which is the main topic of the the book as I said.”
Plugged Between Ape and Human
“Now, I should stress that I can't go into all the details or the circumstances of our communications, but uh all indications are that they'd never heard of my writings or never read my writings uh on, you know, Floresmen before. So, they just had an encounter and they had an encounter.”
Plugged Between Ape and Human
“Um, now that he did allow me to mention in uh in the book, in fact, in more than one one book. And he did he described the same type of creature, the same type of experience, a big monkey standing upright, no tail, about three feet or more tall.”
Plugged Between Ape and Human
“I mean one uh case I uh go into uh again in the in the recent book um is um a creature that uh uh we are told uh is very good at climbing trees.”
Passing Child of the Jungle
“It's so a woman named Sabine Cougler who wrote this book called Child of the Jungle. uh her parents were German missionaries and uh in a super remote uh area of western Papau. So it was in New Guinea and he did an interview with her and uh she said that she had seen these little people”
Plugged Between Ape and Human
“Well, this is something that I well it's the first thing one of the first things I discuss in in the book um is um the different cultural context circumstances of on the one hand people uh in in Flores ordinary you know villages um reporting what you know they they once saw”
Plugged Between Ape and Human
“Well, it's also the my problem with Bigfoot is that it's fun. It's fun to believe. Yeah. And so I start looking at my own judgment and going, "Stop." Yeah. Being silly. You're wasting time. Yeah. No, I um I I don't I don't find Bigfoot uh credible. And again, I've said so in in print in in an earlier”