Tonight we speak to Mo who had a sighting while out hiking with his kids. The children were playing and Mo looked up to see a figure just outside of the treeline watching them. When the creature and Mo made eye contact the creature then backed up into the brush. Mo terrified for their safety quickly left the area with his kids. This day has haunted him since. Mo continues to look for the creature he saw that day. Since this event he has had another brief sighting and different events in the woods that have shaken him up. I will be posting the show this evening.

 

The Bigfoot Evidence reports:

The San Juans cover 12,000+ square miles of southwestern Colorado, about an eighth of the state. The mountains are relatively new, geologically speaking, and are among the highest and most rugged in North America. Hundreds of San Juan peaks rise above 13,000 feet and many surpass 14,000 feet. The terrain consist of rotten rock, knife-edge ridges and steep slopes covered with debris the size and shape of ball bearings — the perfect place for squatches to hide. There have been many reports coming from these mountains, including one alleged footage. The following is typical of what witnesses report:

June 2006

My boyfriend and I were on the last night of a week-long vacation/road trip. In the past few days, we were just driving through SW Colorado, driving through areas we had not seen before.

We had driven over Spring Creek Pass (going South). We drove West on a dirt road, into a high valley with a stream. We parked during sunset/moonrise, just off the road and near the stream (a pullout-type area). My boyfriend wanted to get some fishing in before it got too dark. So we quickly started to get a quick dinner together (soup) and get our gear ready for the night. We were not going to put up the tent, but instead took some gear out of the truck bed (truck has a topper) and we were going to sleep in it. We were moving pretty quick to get this stuff done so he could fish since he have learn fly fishing a long time ago, so I guess we weren’t paying much attention to other stuff. We did stop to take a few pictures of the rising moon.

He went over to the stream to fish, and I started to eat my soup in my camp chair. The bushes near the stream were very tall and thick, and I couldn’t see my boyfriend at all. There were more bushes on the other side of the truck (between the main road and truck). I was just eating my soup, when I heard loud crashing through these bushes (between the road and truck). It sounded like something very big with very long legs stepping through the brush, and it was coming right towards the truck. The brush came very close to the truck (less than 10 ft).

At first, I thought this might a moose. (We had seen moose in the Northern Colorado mtns earlier in the spring, and we had seen a sign posted near the road warning a moose had been seen in the area (“Hunters, be sure of your target…”). So, I first thought this could be a moose. It was definitely very big and had long legs (much bigger than an elk, and not a bear). (We have also seen bear in Colorado, so I’ve seen the size/movement of bear.)

The last thing I wanted was a big moose (or anything else) to step out of that brush (and on me)! I was very scared. I quickly made room in the front seat, which were now filled with gear, and started honking the horn. I wanted it to know I was there (because it sounded like it was going to pop out of there pretty quick). The crashing continued but seemed to move off a bit. Then it stopped. I couldn’t be sure if it had completely moved away or just stopped. My concern was also for my boyfriend. I didn’t want a moose to come across him in the bushes by the creek. My boyfriend heard the honking, and I could hear him coming back. The bushes were very thick and he was swearing, struggling. He returned, I explained the situation. Irritated and with fishing pole in hand, he walked up to and down the road a short ways and didn’t see anything.

If it were a moose we felt we would have seen it (he from the higher road or I would have seen it crossing the pullout to the stream). My boyfriend would have been able to see if a moose was in/near the bushes near the truck, from that higher position. At this point I heard very low growling, faint (very deep, very low). It seemed to come from the tree line across the road and part way up the hill. It was brief (seemed like 4 growls), and over by the time my boyfriend came back. I didn’t tell him at that point, because it didn’t make sense, and I didn’t want him getting irritated for my being spooked.

He went back to the creek. I sat in the truck and ate my soup, window half down to listen. I heard more noise from the same area as before, this time loud splooshing and splashing (there was a drainage with water that was coming down from the hill to meet the creek). The noise was very loud and distinctive, not at all like natural water sounds. It sounded like something big splooshing in the water.

My boyfriend came back, saying it was getting too dark to fish. He sat in the truck with me and ate. I started to tell him about the splooshing (which stopped when he came back) and the growling from earlier. He was disturbed and said we should leave.

We both knew it wasn’t a moose. We felt he would have seen it from the road. We also knew a moose would have not have just hung around making more noise once it knew we were there. I thought it was too big to be an elk/deer/bear. We felt something was still there and we couldn’t see it.

We quickly put all the stuff in the truck and drove off. I was surprised that he was so scared, very unusual for him. He finally told me that he had found big footprints by the stream, in the mud. He said they were huge, much bigger than his print, and much deeper (the thing would have to have a large foot and be extremely heavy). He had seen other tracks by the stream, from other animals and from a person earlier in the day (sneaker-type print). He said no man could have made those bigger tracks. He said the tracks also went into deeper brush. When he was working his way back to the truck, he would try to follow these tracks out, but would only end up in deeper brush (thats why he was swearing).

He said he was wondering at the time, “Where is this idiot going? Why is he going into the brush?”. He thought there were tracks from more than one, at least two, and from that day.

I asked him, why didn’t he say something the first time when he came back. He admitted it took some time to process. He also said that it felt like something was in there with him, in the brush.

He said it took him time to put everything together, the crashing, the growling, the thing not leaving, the giant footprints, the uneasiness. We both concluded it was likely a bigfoot. Giant footprints like that are hard to argue with.

The noises were made from a big animal , but he didn’t see anything from the road. My boyfriend said these things must have been intelligent. They seemed to be watching/waiting/hiding. They knew when he walked away and came back.

When we drove away from the pullout, I had a good look at the brush between the road and truck, and it amazed me how small an area it was. If something big was in there, and it didn’t leave, it would really have to hide in there.

I’ve always believed in bigfoots, but my boyfriend has always been skeptical (even despite the visual sightings by his step-dad, his friend, and his own odd experiences). But he thinks it was a bigfoot. I wish I had seen the tracks, but there was no way!

Also, I don’t think I’ve ever seen my boyfriend that scared. He just kept driving. When we finally pulled over somewhere. He wouldn’t get out of the truck.

 

Credit:http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2015/03/this-report-from-san-juan-mountains.html

I am ready to move on with the show and drop all of the nonsense around my encounter. There was a lot of light the night of our encounter. At the end of the day I cannot prove my encounter but I never lied about it either. I do not know anything about solar flares or the moon phases all I can tell people is it was a bright night and I swear there was a full moon.

I wanted to take a moment and thank Ken for researching this and sending it to me.

“There was a gigantic solar flare on Nov 16th 2012 in fact that entire week. There was global documentation of bright Auroral activity (e.g. northern lights) for the weeks around that time globally. Northern lights aren’t always a bright light show it can simply appear to be brighter out at times as if it was a full moon!  I study space weather for radiation damage to X-ray & digital sensors from these events seem to remember that date as a big flare day!  We wouldn’t allow products to ship or fly northern routes to Alaska and on to China and Japan during that period”

Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video

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The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Friday (Nov. 16) in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft.

The giant sun eruption, called a solar prominence, occurred at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), with another event flaring up four hours later. The prominences was so large, it expanded beyond the camera view of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which captured high-definition video of the solar eruption.

In the video, a colossal loop of glowing red plasma erupts from the lower left of the sun, arcing up and out of frame as it blasts away from the star.

“The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas made of electrically charged hydrogen and helium,” officials with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which oversees the SDO mission, explained in a description. “The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun’s internal dynamo. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma.”

Friday’s solar eruption does not appear to be aimed at Earth, so will likely have little effect on our planet. But that was not the case earlier this week when a powerful solar flare erupted on Monday (Nov. 12). That flare registered as an M6-class

 

 

http://www.space.com/18533-giant-sun-eruption-nasa-video.html

 

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The view out of Comb Gully where Christopher Sleight was climbing when he and others heard screaming

When a “bloodcurdling screaming” was heard on Ben Nevis on Thursday, I feared the very worst.

When I winter climb I like to listen. I listen hard.

There are so many useful cues that the ear can pick up on. Cues that tell you what’s going right and what’s going wrong.

There are sounds that comfort the winter climber, like the rising tone of a piton being seated into a welcoming crack.

There’s that thud an ice axe makes as it vibrates in really good, sticky ice. The clip as a karabiner snaps shut, holding the rope that will stop you if you fall.

Then there are the sounds that warn us. The whoomf of windslab on a slope that’s primed to avalanche. Or the skittering of crampons on bare rock in a desperate search for ice.

And then there are the sounds you definitely don’t want to hear. Sounds you wish you could forget.

Awful sound

In recent weeks, we’ve seen some of the best ice climbing conditions in years in the west of Scotland, especially on Ben Nevis.

Day after day of gentle freeze-thaw cycles have created vast swathes of thick, sticky ice of the best quality – choking gullies and dripping improbably over steep buttresses.

The corries of the Ben have been busy with climbers seeking out these incredible conditions, and a few days ago I joined them, setting out with a good friend to climb an ice route called Comb Gully – a gully high in the corrie that’s bounded by the Trident Buttress on one side and the steep walls of Tower Ridge on the other.

_81130918_climberThe ice was perfect and we were climbing well. I was on the the crux pitch – about 10m or so of very steep ground – and I had my back wedged against a rock wall as I placed an ice screw when I heard the first scream.

It started indistinctly, slightly muffled, but quickly came sharp into focus. It pierced through the mist – the most visceral, awful sound.

People talk about bloodcurdling screaming and for the first time I understood. That noise sent a stream of cold blood around my veins and chilled the back of my neck.

My first thought was simple but terrible: I was listening to someone who had just watched a loved one – not simply a climbing partner, but a loved one – fall to their death. There was so much pain and loss in that dreadful noise.

I froze for a moment, barely breathing, still perched on that vertical wall. I wasn’t in a secure position, hanging off a few millimetres of metal hooked into the ice. At that moment I just wanted to be gone – off the climb, off the mountain.

This screaming had brought home to me the possible consequences of getting something wrong, of making a mistake. That was honestly what I’d thought I’d heard – the consequences of someone getting it very wrong and losing their life.

But there was no way to make a quick retreat – the fastest way out of this gully was up. I finished the crux and secured myself to three solid ice screws and brought my partner up.

We discussed the screams, trying to work out where they had come from, speculating on what might have happened, and agreed we needed to finish our climb as quickly as we could.

We completed the final, easier pitch, and ended up on the Ben Nevis plateau in the mist, in complete silence.

Beautiful game

I’m not sure what I was expecting, but I thought there would be some sort of noise. Something dreadful had happened. Surely we should be hearing the beginnings of a rescue – confident voices coming out of the fog.

But there was nothing – just the sound of our subdued conversation and the clinking of our climbing gear being tidied into sacks.

A brief search close to where we finished our climb revealed nothing. We headed down to Fort William.

I later spoke to another climber I knew who had been on a route in the same corrie. He had abseiled off his route and gone to investigate, but found nothing.

Other climbers did the same. Nobody could find evidence of an accident and the police said no-one had been reported missing.

So we don’t know who was screaming. We don’t know what happened to them. We probably never will.

But I’ll never forget how a horrible scream coming out of the mist reminded me so vividly, so awfully, of the dangers of this beautiful game that we play.

 

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-31550374

I wanted to give everyone a heads up, we are revamping our site forums. We are making some changes and updates to the forums they will return. I think the members will like the new updates.

Tonight we will be giving a recap of our trip to East Texas and the Sam Houston National Forest. Bob Garrett was kind enough to take us out to a few of the areas. The whole time we had non-stop rain and flooding but we did have a couple of encounters and lots of audio and video, which I will be releasing throughout the week.

 


 

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Most sasquatches are observed walking, and the observer almost invariably comments on their smooth, long and fluent stride (“like cross country skiing” or “like riding a bicycle”) with wide arm swings. This effect is produced by their so-called compliant gait, meaning that they do not lock their knees during a step but keep them bent and thereby suppress the up-and-down oscillations of the upper body that is so characteristic of the human gait. Part of the sasquatch gait is a high foot rise in back during the swing phase and a longer bipedal contact with the ground. Step length averages 5’ (Fig. 14), an interval that is uncomfortable or impossible to duplicate or sustain for any distance by a would-be hoaxer. The gait has very little straddle, i.e., feet are put in line.

Running sasquatches constitute about 10% of all sightings. From observed walking cadence, step length and reports of animals running alongside moving vehicles, their top speed probably rivals that of a running horse (near 40 mph). The step length (measured from heel to heel) changes little whether the animal walks on the level or uphill. When standing still, the sasquatch will often remain totally immovable to escape detection, or at best slowly sway from side to side. They have been seen to assume the same sitting, squatting or lying positions that people do, frequently shown by worn areas on their hair coat. Quadrupedal gait is seen rarely in juveniles, although adults, on ascending dense slopes, frequently pull themselves up on adjacent trees with alternating arms.

In contrast to other higher primates, they seem to be powerful swimmers, as seen by their sporadic presence on otherwise uninhabitable small islands of the British Columbia coast and direct observations of animals in or under water, doing a frog-kick.

They sleep in mostly temporary shelters, padded with available vegetation. Caves and natural shelters seem to be used rarely. Padding consists of ferns, moss, bear grass, soft evergreen or rhododendron branches and leaves. Occasionally partial roofs are fashioned over their resting places from broken boughs. Once discovered, a nest is generally abandoned.

Their strength, especially upper body, is legendary. They seem to take “pleasure” in exercising this strength, for example, lifting basketball-sized rocks and throwing them in arcs to scare off intruders, lifting the edges of mobile homes, cars or trailers, lifting and throwing full 50 gal. drums (450 lbs.) or 240 lb rocks (weighed later), and spirally twisting the trunks of small trees, possibly as territorial or way markers (Fig. 15).

Vocalization and Communication

On the whole, the sasquatch proceeds in silence. Patterned, repetitive knocking sounds, produced with rocks or thick branches hit against other rocks or dead trees, are apparently used as long distance communication or deterrence.

Since they are a nocturnal species, they seem to rely on vocalizations more than diurnal primates. They are capable of a complex collection of sounds, starting with whistling (produced in the throat), through moans, howls, hoots, grunts, extremely deep growls, roars (“like a lion from the bottom of a 50-gallon drum”), and chilling screams, rising from a low roar over several seconds. More rarely, they produce melodic and imitative sounds or complex vocalizations that give the impression of a primitive language, even of a “woman talking” without the “words” ever being intelligible.

The disturbing nature of the loud screams seems to lie in their perceived near human quality, though too loud, enduring and powerful to be attributed to any possible “real” person. Giggling, laughing and crying sounds have been heard, sometimes in response to appropriate events.

There has been little opportunity to study facial expressions of the sasquatch, which are apt to be different from human ones and might be misinterpreted. But very close observers reported a comical look of surprise, when a sasquatch was suddenly encountered at close range, evident curiosity, as well as a look of “sheer terror” of a sasquatch caught between traffic on a dark, rainy highway.

Social Behavior and Curiosity

Despite the rare observations of sasquatch groups, they appear to have more social cohesion than is generally assumed, moving at times in a group that suggests an extended family. Under undisturbed circumstances, the young play with each other and around and on the adults, and sometimes small groups forage together. Young ones are allowed to explore and be potentially visible in a context where the adults stay out of view. Adults seem remarkably indulgent of the infants, tolerating on one occasion an infant’s temper tantrum without intervention. In a totally relaxed setting, the adults spend substantial time grooming each other. On a few occasions, two or more sasquatches were observed wrestling with each other with intermissions for rest. It appears that older siblings, or at least juvenile animals, sometimes care for younger ones. The need for large amounts of food for any one animal may lead to a fusion – fission type of social organization, in which individuals separate to forage and come together for social activities.

The more frequent sightings of single males over females may be due to these animals probing the terrain for new niches, food sources or mates. They most probably form the majority of cases in which curiosity lures an animal into plain sight. Such curiosity-evoking events range from a lighted window in a secluded house to barns with animals in them, unusual animals in outside corrals, cars or equipment being repaired in a remote location, loud noises like chainsaws or explosions, and especially the screaming of children at play. Repeatedly, sasquatches have watched in these contexts, occasionally for hours, and even attempted interaction in the play of children. Sometimes, a sasquatch seen in the open, will retreat into cover, but remain to watch his observers from (incomplete) hiding.

Two noteworthy facets of sasquatch behavior have been observed repeatedly. They seem to be rather “orderly”, stacking rocks in cairns during searching (Fig. 16) and not tearing human food caches or backpacks apart randomly in the manner of bears. Secondly, they have a tendency to leave “gifts” in the same location in which food was deposited for them. These can range from little piles of stones, a dog skull, handfuls of evergreen shoots, to small live animals, like a goat kid, several live kittens, a turtle, all taken from elsewhere, either as a “gift” or possibly as shared “food”.

Aggressiveness and Displays

Their responses to people vary from immediate withdrawal, the most common response, to lengthy inspection if no threat is perceived. They seem to react in a more relaxed fashion to women and children and avoid men, even in an accustomed setting, possibly as a function of human body language. All told, they are unaggressive to a fault, often leisurely retreating while being shot at. There is no documented case in the past 100 years of a sasquatch doing deliberate harm to a person.

Sasquatches seem to be indulgent of human children and small animals, like puppies, goat kids, and kittens. Several reports suggest that they may opportunistically retain small animals to use as live toys or pets as has been observed in bonobos. On the other hand, they reserve a special distaste for aggressive dogs, as do gorillas. They deal with these by slapping them (causing a 75 lb. dog to fly 40’) or flailing them against trees.

While scaring people out of their territory, they often run alongside them, though out of sight, and only desist when the terrain would expose them to view. This effort is sometimes preceded or accompanied by tree shaking, pushing over of trees or snags with appropriate noise, or simply by repeatedly breaking large sticks or branches for the sound effect. The apparent sounds of chest thumping have been heard, but the behavior has not been seen. All these aggressive displays are also found in the great apes.

It would be ideal for a human observer, in an unanticipated encounter, not to stare at the animal, but to sit on the ground, scratch him or herself, “groom” a companion, or “eat” anything within reach in order to convey as benign an impression as possible. In one instance, in which this behavior was followed, the sasquatch tarried long enough to be “talked” to.

Tool Use

This trait of the human species is largely absent in the sasquatch. As mentioned above, they use branches and rocks to hit trees or other rocks and they throw rocks and other objects out of hiding to scare people out of their territory (as do chimpanzees). Only one case has come to my attention of a boy being inadvertently hit by such a thrown rock (though not seriously injured). Rare reports indicate the possibility of the sasquatch using sticks to kill birds or mammals or to dig in the ground with them.

On one occasion they were observed to fashion “straws” out of the stalks of dead weeds and to drink through them out of a metal tub. They are undoubtedly observant of human appurtenances, such as guns or obvious cameras, and may then take extra care to avoid exposure.

Injury, Disease and Death

Aside from eventual death after getting shot at or getting injured on highways, sasquatches probably die from dental disorders, infections, parasitic infestations and the rigors of exposure to the elements. From their prey, they would become parasitized with every type of intestinal worm as well as flukes. The absence of corpses is expected in the montane environment they inhabit, and it can profitably be compared to a similar absence of bears that died of natural causes. There are some minimal suggestions that sasquatches do not leave their dead unattended, a further factor that would confound such searches for a body.

Ecology

The sasquatch is distributed across the North American continent, from high northern latitudes in Alaska and the Yukon to occasional sightings near river courses and forests in New Mexico and Texas. Their highest concentration appears to lie in Washington, Oregon and northern California, although the chances of potentially more sightings in the wilds of Canada are lessened by the lower human population density. Total numbers for the species in North America have been estimated by various approaches to be from a few thousand up to 10,000. By comparison, black bears number between 650,000 and 700,000 in North America.

Distribution of the sasquatch is presumably heavily influenced by the availability of water, prey, and of dense cover as afforded by northwestern rain forests, Sierra chaparral or the riparian margins of any bodies or courses of water. Since the latter provide secluded avenues throughout the continent, occasional sightings are explicable in relatively arid regions, though even there generally in the vicinity of stands of forest. Similarly, swamps and marshes seem to afford them the desired seclusion. Migration patterns, if they exist at all, have not been established other than possible vertical movement to escape severe winter conditions at higher altitude.

Sightings largely parallel the density of the human population, within reasonable limits. Daytime and nighttime sightings are almost equal in number despite the severely limited sight distance and coverage for observers at night, an indication of the much greater nocturnal activity of the sasquatch. Most sightings consist of chance encounters with single individuals, mostly males by default (identification made difficult by the hairiness of the species). It appears that the animals can be to a considerable degree habituated to the presence of a person. They are more likely to become “tamer” with a woman, over a long period, provided they are fed and not bothered, such as being illuminated at night. Under such long established circumstances, they allow themselves to be seen during their normal activities, even during daylight hours, but mostly at dawn. They are reported substantially less frequently during the late winter, but outright hibernation is not known to occur in primates, though torpor is a possibility. It is probable that in the winter the animals adopt a retiring life style with little activity in some protected niche, surviving on predation and some available vegetation.

Sasquatches of the size mentioned in this article would be expected to roam over a substantial territory to support themselves, possibly hundreds of square miles. Twisting off of small trees, nocturnal screaming and defecation in conspicuous spots have been suggested as possible territorial devices, all of these known from other great apes. In the predominantly forested terrain that they inhabit, footprints are seen with difficulty at best, and it would, at first sight, seem unlikely that they deliberately post or hide them.

Evolution

Evolutionary discussion at this stage would consist of rather futile conjecture when a single good DNA analysis of a piece of skin or well-preserved blood could narrow the choices dramatically. The species is deviant from Homo sapiens by anatomy (crest, feet, musculature, body posture and gait), behavior (nocturnality, lack of compelling tool use, lack of language, lack of cultural traits) and sociology, traits that all argue against a close relationship to modern man. Its potential competitiveness for the same natural resources and space as that used by man may well have been contributory to the evolution of their nocturnal and elusive life style. The paleontological affiliation or identity with Gigantopithecus, as championed by the late Grover Krantz, has many aspects to recommend it.

Source: BFRO.net

 

The sasquatch is a predominantly nocturnal animal and its night vision exceeds that of man substantially. It is probable that this increase in night vision is a function of a larger eye and pupillary size rather than a reflecting layer. The animals walk with ease in seeming total darkness, but forage during the day. An indication of their nighttime activity is the fact that they are seen as frequently during the night, if not more often, than during the day, despite the limited sight distance and detection by nocturnal observers.

Other Senses

In parallel with other large primates, sasquatch senses are acute but probably not more so than those of a human aborigine, e.g., American Indians before the deterioration of their senses by pollution and noise. They detect the approach of man by simply remaining still in forested environment, but there have been many occasions where a sasquatch failed to detect a resting person in full view, simply because the animal was preoccupied and the person did not move or make a sound.

The sasquatch seems hardened to pain and discomfort, living in, to our perception, disagreeable climates and walking through blackberry thickets, Devil’s Club, icy streams, and sharp rocks without deviation, though they seem to value on occasion the soft comfort of mole hills, moss or a freshly graded berm of a forest road, as their footprints testify.

Diet and Digestion

The sasquatch is an omnivore with a substantial carnivorous component to its diet. They have been observed directly to eat leaves, berries, fruits, roots, aquatic plants and other vegetable matter, catch fish, dig up clams or ground squirrels, and prey on poultry, deer, elk and bear. In addition, they eat other odd items, such as young evergreen shoots, crayfish, road kill, meat or fish from human storage sites, hunter-killed game animals (these sometimes snatched in front of the hunter), and occasional garbage. They take an occasional livestock animal, but not with sufficient frequency as to produce organized persecution.

They appear to kill large prey animals by a blow with the fist, rock or stick or by twisting their necks, sometimes to the point of decapitation. Liver and other internal organs are their first targets. The remaining meat is sometimes stored on the ground under a haphazard shelter of sticks or lifted into tree forks above ground. No compelling evidence exists that they store food in any substantial way beyond this; only rarely has a sasquatch been observed carrying a fish some distance from its origin, or a deer, presumably into hiding.

Caloric requirements per gram of living matter decrease as a function of total mass of the animal. Nonetheless, the nutritional needs of an average sasquatch can be calculated to amount to about 5,000 calories per day. This amount can only be fulfilled by rather constant searching for food and especially by intermittent predation. Sasquatches have been seen both with substantial girth as well as looking decidedly skinny.

Drinking has been observed by small animals dipping their faces into the water, while adults commonly drink out of a cupped hand, or resort to a cupped leaf or a dry, hollow stem of a weed.

Their feces are sausage-shaped, up to 4″ inches in diameter and up to three feet long, forming a folded heap. They are replete with numerous intestinal parasites, including hook worms, as well as small bones, hair of prey and ample vegetal matter. A sasquatch has been observed to wipe itself with its hand and lick its fingers briefly, a decidedly simian gesture.

Growth and Reproduction

Through several longitudinal studies and incidental observations of footprints of family groups, an approximate growth scale has been constructed (Fig. 13). Sasquatch infants are born small (“like a 4 lb. preemie”), but are very fleet-footed at just a few years of age. The infant stays with the mother until puberty at age 10 or so, measuring about 6’ in height by then. Offspring seem to be spaced about 5 years apart, as judged by the admittedly small sample of grouped footprints; thus, a smaller infant will have the company of an older sibling for some years. A young male and one barely maturing female, as evidenced by immature breasts, about 7’ and 6’ tall, respectively, were seen keeping solicitous company.

Mating has been observed primarily between May and June, mostly between established pairs, and there is a suggestion of the birthing time lying between February and May. The duration of pregnancy (probably near 9 months) is partly related to the average weight of the species. Birth has been (very rarely) reported to occur in the squatting position, with other individuals nearby. The spacing of offspring is presumably governed by lowered fertility in consequence of demand feeding as well as infant mortality. On two occasions, females were observed carrying a dead infant.

A sasquatch can hypothetically be expected to have a mean life expectancy of about 35 years, a number derived from a relationship that exists in mammals between body mass and length of life. Old animals have been seen to show all the signs of wear, i.e., “snaggle teeth”, “worn dreadlocks”, as well as thinned hair, deeply wrinkled skin and open sores. A dead animal, if unattended, can be expected to be consumed rapidly by various carnivores, the bones by rodents, the hair by moths and any remainder would fall prey to the acidic environment of the forests with no remnant left visible under seasonal leaf and needle fall.

Source: BFRO.net

 

The sasquatch is a large, hairy, bipedal non-human primate (Fig. 1) that is distributed over the North Fig. 1American continent to varying degrees of concentration. Its massiveness, deviation from human bearing and different gait leave no doubt in the mind of observers that they have seen a creature different from man or known animals.

Skin

Skin color ranges from the deepest black or charcoal to deep brown, “sunburned” reddish brown, and gray. Some areas, like the nose, appear at times in a shiny, oily black color. The palms are lighter in color, and the soles of the feet quite light, presumably as a result of thick sole pads composed, as in other primates, of fat and connective tissue. A few albinistic sasquatches have been seen, whose skin color was pink.

Hair

The sasquatch is covered with hair, not fur. Fur has guard hairs and an undercoat, while primate hair consists of one type of hair alone. The sasquatch, being a primate, does not molt its hair, but it is replaced one hair at a time, hence is not found in wooly batches.

Color of the hair ranges from black or dark (50%), through various shades of reddish-brown and gray to white. The body can have varicolored patches of hair. Older animals have increasingly grey hair, though color does not appear to change from childhood to adulthood. Hair is variously glossy clean and shiny, fluffy, or dirty, matted and unkempt (“angora goat dreadlocks”), probably a function of native curliness, age, or of recent immersion in water or lack thereof. Females have been reported to be cleaner than males.Fig. 2

Hair length ranges from 3″ to around 2’ (15″ longest measured in hand, longer observed in the wild). There is no taper or color banding other than graying with age. Long hair covers the head and, almost invariably, the ears; very short hair on the face; occasional reports of heavy hairiness in male faces (“mustache” and “beard”) vs. no facial hair in females; long hair across the top of the shoulders (once described as “bouncing like a cape” ); long hair on the forearms (“like a spaniel”); different orientations of hair on back; breasts in females hair covered (contrary to a mistaken claim in the literature); long hair on buttocks, sometimes overhanging them; groin with enough hair to obscure genitalia; and long hair on the calves (like “bellbottom pants” in a sasquatch observed standing in snow). The hair stood visibly on end in situations where the sasquatch appeared frightened.

Under the microscope (Fig. 2), the average diameter of hair is 65 µm (40-90 µm), these values derived from 15 separately collected samples in four States. The cortex has a uniform reddish tinge plus fine pigment granule distribution, whereas the medulla is absent. Intense efforts at DNA analysis of the hair have been uniformly negative, possibly a function of the lacking medulla. Most human hair (Fig. 3) has a medulla, if only fragmentary, but fine blond hair occasionally looks similar to sasquatch hair. Hence, there is no absolute distinction that can be made. Hair from other forest species, like rodents, carnivores, and ungulates can be differentiated without question.

Odor

About 10-15% of close encounters are connected with an intense, disagreeable stench, comparable to the odor of smegma. Gorillas under conditions of distress exude a gagging, overpowering aroma, the origin of which is the axillary organ, i.e., the armpit with its apocrine sweat glands. The same anatomy probably pertains to the sasquatch.

Many reports refer to uneasiness of man or animals (“being watched”) well ahead of any subsequent encounter. A pheromone effect has been suggested, meaning the release of a behavior pattern, “fight or flight”, by an airborne molecule. Although this substance might originate from the same anatomical location as the odor, the two are not equivalent and should not be confused.

Head and Neck

The head, though massive by direct comparison to that of man, has been described as “relatively” small for an animal of that size, indicative of a rather small brain. The head develops a sagittal crest in adult males as well as in females, probably bony, which sometimes produces the effect of a person wearing a hooded sweatshirt. Some animals, possibly younger, have a round head. Brain volume is probably close to or slightly above that of the gorilla.

There is a conspicuous brow ridge with a receding forehead, giving the eyes a deep-set look. The face (Fig. 4) is rather flat with prominent cheekbones, a square jaw, and the mouth region is only slightly protuberant. Deep brown eye color predominates, with a “red” component common (probably a bloodshot sclera). A white sasquatch was reported to have blue eyes. Night reflection from eyes varies most commonly between red and yellow and is probably dependent on pupillary size rather than true reflectivity.

The nose is near human in shape, though “pug” or flat, sometimes with forward directed nostrils. The mouth is often reported to be thin-lipped, with yellowish, square teeth with human appearance. When larger canines have been seen, they did not project substantially beyond the plane of the other teeth and would be subject to wear with time. Ears are almost invariably hidden under hair and have been reported to be either rounded or pointed.

Muscles from the back of the head flare out to the shoulders to obscure the neck. A result is that, as in weight lifters, the body is usually turned with the head when a rearward view is desired.

Overall, sasquatches seem to exhibit as much individual diversity in looks as do people, ranging from a typical ape appearance to one described as “an old Indian”. The cause may well be the result of the animal not being subject to predation, its young being nurtured and protected into near adulthood, and differences in appearance not being a selective handicap. The same considerations apply to the diversity of coat colors.

Trunk

The trunk is generally carried at a forward angle of about 15° (“hunched over”). This means that the species has not achieved a full upright stance, a difference from human beings, although at times the animals stand up straight. When ultimately a specimen comes to hand, the hip anatomy will be of telling importance to the evolution of an upright stance.

The shoulders are proportionately wider than those of man, measuring about 40% of the height in a sasquatch compared to 25-30% in man. Large sasquatches have been described as having four to five foot wide shoulders. They are barrel-chested, with a large respiratory tidal volume, often commented upon when their stertorous breathing has been heard. The Patterson sasquatch (filmed in the famous 1967 movie), a female slightly below the mean height of the population, has a chest circumference of about 60″ (a value calculated from available images). This circumference would be about 65″ for the average-sized animal and well above 75″ for the largest individuals that have been seen.

Females have breasts, small and conical near puberty (10-12 years, see data below), rather heavy and pendulous during reproductive years (see Fig. 1) and shrunken in old age. They are hair-covered except for the nipples and areolae.Fig. 5

The arms are massive and might exceed human length somewhat, frequently reported as hanging close to their knees, though accentuated by the slouching stance of the animals. They are particularly hairy along the forearms and end in very large and massive hands (once described as “the size of paddles”).

The hand deviates in slight but significant ways from the human model (as derived from hand and knuckle prints, Figs. 5). Fingers are generally shorter, especially the thumb, and the latter is carried “farther toward the wrist” as compared to the position in man. The hand largely lacks the thenar pad (the mounded muscle at the base of the thumb), a corollary of the lowest opposability found in the higher primates (Fig. 6). The hand is proportionately broader than that of man, palm width in adults measuring up to 8″. Both finger and toe nails are deeply colored (“nicotine stained”), presumably a combination of dirt and thick keratin, though fingernails are light colored in some. There Fig. 6are no claws.

Young males have a V-shaped trunk, tapering from a wide chest to a narrower waist, whereas the female trunk has an overall barrel shape. Female hips seem to be broader than those of the male. Either sex rarely has a protruding abdomen (other than during pregnancy in the female). Genitalia in the female are hidden by hair, as are generally those of the male. The massive sexual swelling, observed in some female apes, has not been seen in the sasquatch.

Legs and Feet

The legs are massive, especially the thighs, in one case reported to be the diameter of a “garbage can” (about 20″), but even in the (female) Patterson sasquatch about 15″ thick. The calves are also unusually muscular, the gastrocnemius (calf) muscle being particularly prominent in rear views of the Patterson sasquatch.Fig. 7

Feet are most amply recorded by way of innumerable measured footprints. They range in recorded length from barely walking infants at 4″-5″ (Fig. 7) to known female prints and very large presumptive male footprints (Fig. 8). The mean length of 702 prints (collected over nearly 50 years) is 15.6″ (Fig. 9) with a range of 4″ to 27″, and a mean width of about 0.45 times that of the length. This proportion remains about the same with increasing length of the feet. Feet grow in excess of gain in height of the animals to compensate for the exponential increase in weight with linear dimensions. The foot does not have an arch, but retains the primitive primate midsole flexure of apes, called a metatarsal hinge. During running, often only the anterior half of the foot (anterior to the metatarsal hinge) contacts the ground (Fig. 10). The toes are capable of substantial splaying in slippery terrain, especially abduction of the big toe. The sole is very thick and indents deeply over uneven terrain without harm to the animal (Fig. 11).

Body Size and Weight

The height average for the sampled population is 7’ 10″, derived from a combination of eye witness estimates and scaling from footprints. Babies shortly after birth are small (and “ugly”, as one eye witness commented) by human standards, but grow rapidly and evidently walk at an early age. Aside from infants being carried, small walking sasquatches, 3-4’ tall, have been seen. The animals reach maturity at a height of 6’-7’ and the largest, reliably estimated individuals exceed 10’. Males are taller than females, but seemingly by no more than about a foot at the median of the population.Fig. 9

Weight is difficult to estimate on sight and seems to vary from animal to animal as much as in people, but a tight, established relationship exists in primates between chest circumference and weight. Applying this formula, the average sasquatch can be estimated to weigh 650 lbs (Fig. 12), the Patterson sasquatch 540 lbs, and the maximum (for a 24″ or larger footprint) probably to exceed 1,000 lbs.

Source: BFRO.net

 

Author and naturalist Jim McMullen holds a plaster cast of what he claims0_JimMcMullen
is a footprint of a bigfoot that he took while in the Florida Everglades. Lisa Krantz/Staff

A Golden Gate man who has spent almost 23 years tracking the Florida panther is stepping forward with claims of a bigfoot in the Everglades and a book in the works on the hairy beast. James McMullen, 55, is a naturalist and the author of a book on the Florida panther. He said that, in his years of tracking the big cat, he’s had “unexplained encounters with physical evidence and unaccountable strange sightings of an unknown creature known as ‘bigfoot.'”

McMullen, who issued a news release on “the skunk ape phenomena” this week, joins Ochopee resident David Shealy, who has also publicly made similar claims of a bigfoot-like creature that roams the Everglades. Shealy’s stories of the foul-smelling beast, which he calls a skunk ape, has attracted local skeptics and mostly tongue-in-cheek attention ranging from the Weekly World News to Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” For McMullen, he said his only bigfoot encounter occurred in the daylight sometime in August 1997, when he came across a nearly 7-foot, 500-pound hairy creature while tracking the panther in the Everglades. McMullen said he’s seen numerous evidence of the bigfoot.

He declined to reveal the exact location of the sighting, but the 30-second encounter took place in a remote area located south of Lake Okeechobee and north of the Ten Thousand Islands. McMullen said the sighting was located miles from Shealy’s skunk ape sightings at Trail Lakes campground on U.S. 41 East in Ochopee. McMullen said that although he was unable to photograph the bigfoot, he began a research project to track the beast for more evidence, including collecting seven plaster casts of the hairy creature’s tracks. McMullen said he decided to go public with his story after finding the best bigfoot track last month. He made a plaster cast of the five-toed, 14-inch footprint. “In essence, I have now gone public with my bigfoot project to help save him from extinction mostly because of overdevelopment and destruction of habitats that exist in critical areas of Florida,” McMullen said. For several years, McMullen worked for the Big Cypress Nature Center and The Conservancy of Southwest Florida as a naturalist. McMullen’s book, “Cry of the Panther: Quest of a Species,” was a New York Times bestseller in the mid-1980s.

“In my opinion, we have an unknown species that needs to be defined,” said McMullen, who says he is not working for any special-interest group concerning Everglades restoration. McMullen noted that his current research involves trying to collect DNA evidence of the bigfoot, which he hopes will prove its existence. “It seems like people should know about this and how it relates to the environment,” he said.

Source: bigfootencounters.com

GRANITE FALLS — Maybe it was Bigfoot, maybe not. But “it wasn’t human.”

With magnifying glasses, notebooks and cameras in hand, like detectives after a case-breaking clue, Cliff Crook and Fred Bradshaw took to the woods Wednesday. They went in search of anything that might help them know if a Granite Falls high-tech worker actually saw Bigfoot.

Chris Wright, 29, who lives just east of the city limits, was taking a cigarette break on the porch of his mobile home just after midnight Monday. As something moved, the security lights on his house came on, and he heard a loud unhuman scream. When Wright looked, he saw a dark fur-covered creature, more than 6 feet tall standing on two legs.It had to have been Bigfoot.

That’s what led Wright to Crook and Bradshaw, two Bigfoot hunters who have been tracing tales of the tall type for years. Both say they have seen either Bigfoot or his footprints. On Wednesday, Wright showed the Sasquatch experts where he was standing when he encountered the creature. He told them how tall Bigfoot looked. Crook pulled a carpenter’s tape measure from his pocket and began sizing up the distance.

It was about 110 feet between Wright and where whatever he saw was standing. With that distance, Crook surmised that the creature had to have been more than 6 feet tall. Then the trio began its trip through the wooded edge of the property where Wright lives. They saw some broken tree limbs that could have happened when the creature ran after the lights came on. They stopped to investigate some hairs on a branch. “Too curly,” Bradshaw said. They concluded the hairs probably belonged to Wright’s Australian shepherd, Buddy. “Buddy’s a good watchdog,” Wright said. “But ever since the other night, he’s been shaken up. He doesn’t seem to want to go too far into the woods at all.” Wright said he’s also noticed that other wildlife, including deer and birds, have stayed away from the area. “Normally they’re all through that area, especially in the morning,” he said.

It’s not uncommon for other animals to be reluctant to enter a place where a sighting has occurred, Crook said. “They usually move out when there’s been a sighting,” he said. “There’s an eerie silence for a day or so, and then the animals come back and things return to normal.” The search took them deeper into the woods where they saw what they thought were partial footprints. “They aren’t good enough to make a casting,” Crook said. “But that happens a lot. When Sasquatch is running, he steps with the ball of his foot, and all you can see are where he digs his toes into the dirt.”

But by looking at the tracks, the experts said they could conclude that the creature had about a 36-inch stride, which would make him at least 6 feet tall. And Bradshaw concluded that the width of the ball of the foot in the tracks was too wide to belong to a bear. After trekking another 20 minutes into the woods north of Mount Pilchuck and along the southwest bank of the Stillaguamish River, the trio returned to Wright’s house to pronounce its verdict.”Whatever it was, it wasn’t human,” Crook said. “And there was definitely something big and huge down there, and it wasn’t a bear,” Bradshaw added. Wright looked partly scared and partly relieved at the findings.

“I know what I saw, and I know what I heard,” he said. “But I know people are going to think I’m crazy. “I even heard people talking about it in town last night,” Wright said, recalling conversations overheard at an eatery and a gas station. Since the word got out about his sighting, Wright’s phone has been ringing constantly. “Even the National Enquirer called,” he said.

Clean-cut with boyish looks, Wright grew up in Sedro-Woolley. A communications tower manager, Wright said he’s talked to a dozen reporters. “When they start questioning me, I just tell them that if I was going to make up a story, I’d have had a UFO land in my backyard and take me off to outer space,” he said. Right now, all he wants is for his life to return to normal. “But I guess that’s not going to happen for a while,” Wright said. “I can’t even make myself go outside for my midnight smoke anymore.”

The Herald of Everett, WA

Source: Bigfootencounters.com

 

Date: 11-05-00
Time: 3:50 pm
Duration Of The Sighting: 2 to 3 minutes
What the encounteree was feeling during the sighting: I was excited. I was scrambling to find a camera or something to get evidence.

Location Details
Location Name: Heron Bay Golf Course
Location Description: Along the bank of Everglades on golf course near the 7th hole spotted while teeing off at the 7th.
Location County: Broward
Location State: FL

Weather Conditions: 92 degrees, clear skies, sunny
Ground Condition: Green, Mushy along bank

Details regarding the creature’s appearance:
Height: 8ft
Hair Color: Brown/ Black
Weight: 400lbs +

What the creature was doing while being observed: Creature appeared to be swimming to the other side of bank got out of water and ran into Sawgrass.
The creature exhibited the following humanistic qualities: Walked on two legs, appeared to know how to swim.
The creature saw me and its reactions was: I believe it saw me before I saw it, it was in the process of getting away when I saw it.

Evidence Collected:
I was unable to collect any evidence

Tracks In The Area:
There were no tracks in the area.

The creature emitted an odor:
Pungent sour smell
I noticed something unusual associated with the encounter: It was half way in the water. Appeared to be swimming to the other side of bank and got out. It stood about 8ft foot tall.

Source:Floridaskunkape.com

 

Estimated date: Nov 2011

Estimated time: 5:00pm

Nearest city: Lawrenceburg, KY

Nearest Road(s): Bondsmill

Length of time the encounter lasted: 10- 20 seconds

The encounter:

While deer hunting I saw 2 creatures run (more like a fast jog) across an open field, looking behind them intermittently. One was larger and mostly black. The other smaller and more blonde colored (dark coyote colored). After they disappeared into the woods I pulled my scope up to try and locate them in the woods and could only make out “movement”. I waited about 10-15 minutes (getting dark now), went to the house for a better flashlight and my hand gun. I returned to the field and pond at the edge of the woods where they entered the woods but found nothing and was afraid to actually enter the woods.

Describe the creature with detail:

Extremely long arms and covered in hair from top of head to feet. Thick trunk (barrel chested) with no distinguishing facial features observable other than inset eyes. Taller one was in excess of 6 1/2 feet easily. The smaller one was only slightly smaller but lighter colored. They kind of glided as they ran…very smooth.

Any additional Info:

After thinking about it, I barely had any apples stay on the ground this year after dropping. I usually see tons of deer on this property and saw NONE this year.

Follow-Up: 2-19-12

November 2011 around 5:00pm, witness Sam was in his deer stand when he saw two bipedal hairy creatures run across a field. The smaller one (about 6′ tall) had “coyote color” hair and the larger one (about 8′ tall) had typical dark, black colored hair. The hair seemed matted, not long or flowing– maybe 5 inches long. They had extremely long arms. He said “I couldn’t believe how long the arms were”, they hung very low just past the knees. As they ran, they did not bounce like a jogger, they glided smoothly. His first thought it was a couple of guys gully suits, but when he saw the long arms he knew it wasn’t someone in a suit. The squatches were about 35 yards from his tree stand. They came out of the woods and ran across a field which was about 100 yards long. He estimates they crossed the field about 10 seconds. As they crossed the field they would turn to look behind them (3 times), twisting their upper bodies from the hip, never breaking their stride. It was as if they were running from something. The bodies were “barrel-chested, stocky, like a football player”, not much of a neck and the heads were shaped like they had “hoodies on” and “a little pointy at the top”. The eyes were “really inset”. The face on the larger one was darker than its hair color, however on the smaller one the face color matched the hair color. The bottoms of their feet appeared to be “like ours, but a tan/dirty color”. Upper torsos were very hairy, however the legs were more muscular and a little less hairy. No smell or sounds were noted. Witness said his property is basically a “deer sanctuary” but hasn’t seen one deer this year. He also has several apple trees, but has found no apples on the ground. Additional information: In 2006 his four year old daughter said she saw two big monkeys in the backyard; one seemed to be waving at her (or swinging its arm). To this day, she continues to ask, “Where are those two monkeys? Sam never gave this any thought until his encounter. He did return to the field the next day to look for tracks, however the ground was covered with thick vegetation not conducive to reveling tracks.

– Charlie Raymond, Lead Investigator

Source: kentuckybigfoot.com

 

Estimated date: 10/12/14

Estimated time: 6am

Nearest Road(s): Sand Ridge

Length of time the encounter lasted:1 minute

How many witnesses: 1

Please describe your encounter:

“I was in my cabin and decided to sit on the back deck looking into a wooded area that I put salt blocks out for deer near my pond. I heard there was a nice 10 point whitetail buck that was roaming around my place and thought I may get a glimpse of him. I sat down and was watching the woods when out of the corner of my eyes was a large object coming from the left of my property. I stayed still thinking it may be a bear since there have been a few sighted close by. I then seen it was upright and had the block and kept on going without any hesitation through the woods. These are dense woods and now that I think about it, I am wondering if the noises that I have heard thinking they were coyote haven’t been bigfoot screams at night. I have never seen any prints nor did it leave any today but I wish I had a camera at the time.”

Describe the creature with detail:

carter county 10-12-14“About 7 feet tall, very broad at the shoulders and upright in gate. Very large stride. Dark hair with a peak on the top of its head like a primate has. It followed the path of least resistance which is fairly flat.”

Sketch by Terry Thomas as directed by the witness

Follow-Up: 12-3-14

I called the witness and spoke with him for about 30 minutes. He seemed to be very credible. He is 46 years old and is an avid hunter and outdoorsman. He has been hunting since he was 10. On October 12, 2014 around 3:00pm on a cloudy day, he was setting on his deck looking back towards the woods where he has a salt block for deer. He then saw an object coming from the left of his property. When he first saw it, he thought it was a bear since some have been spotted nearby. He then saw it was standing upright and was walking along the edge of the woods following a deer trail. It took about 15 steps and then drifted off into the woods back into a holler. He doesn’t think that the creature saw him. He estimated it to be 40 to 50 yards away. He described the creature as being around 7 foot tall and the color was like a burnt orange color. He said it was a little lighter than dark brown but a little darker that tan. The hair was not short but had flow to it. He said the width of the shoulders was around 4 feet. The length of the arms was longer than most people, maybe 3 ½ to 4 feet long. The legs were really bulky. He could see lots of definition in calves, quads and hamstrings. It had an arch in the shoulders and the body did not bounce up and down as it walked. He did not get a look at the feet. He only saw the side of the face, could not see any features of the face or any hair on it. He noted that the face was kind of dark. The head was ape-like shaped and was thicker than a primate head. He did not notice any kind of smell. This is a getaway cabin for the witness, which is on 6 acres, that is surrounded by 2,000 acres of forest. He would like for us to come out and do an investigation. This is the witness’s second sighting. The other was in Portsmouth, OH. He has believed in Bigfoot since a very young age. He did a school report on Bigfoot in 6th grade.

– Travis Knuckles, KBRO Investigator

Source: kentuckybigfoot.com

 

 

YEAR: 2006-2007

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: November

PROVINCE: British Columbia

COUNTRY: Canada

NEAREST TOWN: Victoria

OBSERVED:

I am writing this to inform you (and to kind of hopefully eliminate some other posibilities) of some rather embarassing occurances on and around our property. When I say embarassing, it is because I actually do read quite a bit about sasquatch as I totally believe that he could live in the vast pacific northwest forests, but apparantly haven’t read enough to know when one is possibly skulking around my place.

The incidents started about two years ago. We had a bonfire and had some friends over. As I was walking with two other friends, we all saw a dark black figure with spiky hair run across the horse field. We have also been awakened by, or just heard (what I call) “the peanut gallery” I call them this because as I am fairly educated in the outdoors and various calls, I can only identify these sounds as some larger animal mocking these calls. So far we’ve heard an owl, a dog, a cat’s meow, a monkey, and a weird howl. I call them the peanut galllery because they seem to be doing this almost comedicaly. Also, I have noticed that my cats and dogs don’t like going into the woods behind the house during the fall and winter months. (even thoug we can’t get them inside all summer!) also, when I’m out in the woods in the winter, I just can’t shake the feeling like I’m being watched. (this has only been experienced with odours once. today in fact.) it’s like my productivity levels drop because I am constantly looking over my shoulders for something I can’t see but know is there.)

I should explain why I feel that this is legitimate. We live on a tract of land that is surrounded by woods. The plus side to living here is that we have a line of power lines that runs through our property and through most of the island. This is key for wildlife as there is no hunting or anything allowed on this land because it is owned by the CRD as access routes to maintain the lines. Talk about the path of least resistance.

I feel that if we do indeed have these beasts around our place in the winter, they are using this map of power lines as a route (also, these lines happen to smothered with blackberries at their bases).

Also, I live at a farm that takes in sick/injured or unwanted animals. We take care of up to about 30 domestic animals at our place and are always seeing new faces showing up. We have a lot of food around here and probably would never notice missing feed.

ALSO NOTICED: just weird howls, grunts, no roars (thank god)

OTHER WITNESSES: various witnesses, but mostly just the people who live at our residence.

OTHER STORIES: A few within a twelve km radius but seemingly different than my experiences.

ENVIRONMENT: very densely wooded areas with farms all around.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Blaine McMillan :

The witness and his family live in a semi rural setting on the outskirts of Victoria. They operate an animal recovery farm for domestic livestock. For some time they have been experiencing vocalizations and some very odd behaviour in their animals.

During the winter months D.S. places feed out for the animals which also attracts some of local wildlife including blacktail deer to his property. It is during this time frame that he has experienced the feeling that he is being watched or followed when he has gone walking through the woods adjacent to his property. His pets, who normally accompany him on these walks in the summer will not venture into the woods during the winter months.

D.S. described the figure that he saw as being just close to 6 feet in height and about 265 lbs. It was all black in colour and it moved quickly across a field at the edge of the light given off by a bonfire. The witness told me that it was inside his fence line and when it reached end of the fence it easily cleared the 5 foot fence. The observation was from a distance of about 60 feet and lasted close to 7 seconds.

At the farm, the additional feed for the livestock also sustains a population of deer near his property during the winter months.

source: BFRO.net

A Seven to Nine foot tall man ape has been sighted in North America for centuries. The mysterious ape-like creature; also known as Bigfoot, is said to inhabit remote regions of the Pacific Northwest.

While most Canadians consider the Sasquatch a mythical creature, for the Cowichan People they are very real. Before the European invasion, Native Americans knew of the creature and gave him the name Sasquatch, which means “hairy giant.”  The Cowichan People gave him the name Thumquas. One of the earliest recorded sightings of a Sasquatch by a white man occurred in 1811 near what is now Jasper, Alberta by a fur trader named David Thompson. Since then there have been hundreds of thousands of sightings of this mysterious creature in Western Canada, and in several states of the U.S.

There have been more than 700 footprints attributed to Bigfoot collected over the years, having an average length of 15.6 inches and an average width of 7.2 inches. Invariably, the sighting of a Sasquatch is accompanied by a very strong, very foul odour.

Daily Colonist, July 20, 1905. Vancouver Island, BC. He is still wild, the Cowichan Leader says: “The wild man of Vancouver Island has again been seen by a prospector while out in the mountains last week near Cowichan Lake.

cross2He reports seeing what he believes was the much-talked-of wild man. He saw something through the bush, and at first sight thought it was a bear and raised his rifle, moving a little closer, when to his surprise a man straightened up before him. He immediately lowered his gun and shouted to him, but the wild man at once sprang into the thicket and was soon lost to view. The prospector tried to follow his track, but on account of the dense undergrowth was forced to give up the chase.”

Not many people have heard the lonely, chilling cries and howls of Bigfoot. But those who have, and know the sounds of the wilderness, say it’s an unforgettable sound like no other.

On the night of July 08, 1975, a Native Man camping at the “Barn” located beside the Cowichan River at the furthest end of Mission Road; also known as the “Power Lines” to the local Natives, reported a strange and unsettling occurrence to the local RCMP detachment.

“I made camp yesterday down beside the Barn, in the evening I cooked a few trout that I had caught earlier in the day. After eating, I was getting a little tired so I decided to turn in. I climbed into my tent and lay down on my bedroll. I let my dogs run around because they always stay close to camp.

I started to dose off to the crickets chirping when suddenly I woke up it was as if I had one of those dreams where you are falling. I could tell there was something very wrong. It was dead quiet – no crickets, nothing, and then my dogs came running into my tent whining and shaking. I quickly jumped up; these dogs were very aggressive dogs, I’d never seen them scared like that. I grabbed my knife along with a flashlight and stepped outside the tent. I couldn’t see anything, but I had that sensation of being watched.

I grabbed some more firewood and threw it on the embers left from the dinner fire. Then I heard some very heavy footsteps right behind me in the trees. There was also a very strange odour, almost like a cross between a skunk and something dead.

Then the stillness of the night was broken by an eerie sound. The kind of scream no cougar or bear could ever squeeze from their throat. Piercing, echoing, guttural; a single, horrible high-pitched-yet-throaty, inhuman, unnatural sound that makes your skin crawl. This thing circled my campsite all night long. I didn’t sleep all night, I sat there and waited for daybreak, and in the morning I packed my gear and left”.

06/16/2003. Original headline: “Tracks in strawberry patch left by Sasquatch”

Francis Joe kneels beside a trail of huge footprints crossing the strawberry field beside his home at the end of Boys Road. Francis Joe, 78, was born on the Native reserve south of Duncan and has never seen tracks like these before. He believes they belong to a legendary ape-like creature the Cowichan people call Thumquas and others call a Sasquatch or Bigfoot.

That’s not the tracks of an ordinary human. You could tell if it had shoes on,” he says. Something tramped across Joe’s fields sometime Sunday night, leaving a straight line of 15-inch tracks running north to south, three feet apart in soft soil. His fields are bounded by bush to the north and the Cowichan River to the south, likely ruling out a trespasser. Joe paid no mind to dogs yapping outside Sunday because they often “bark all night.” Local fishermen recently told him they’ve heard growling noises in the brush along the river.

1tracksThe track also led to memories of when his three daughters saw what they think was a Sasquatch at the end of Wilseem Road about 30 years ago. “It was just getting dark and it was standing by a ditch just staring at us,” remembers daughter Jeanne Bob, who claims she saw a Sasquatch about 40 feet away. “It was really big, black and hairy, and had a very strong smell. I wasn’t kidding then and now I really believe it.”

John Kirk, president of the B.C. Scientific Crypto zoology organization, says the footprints in Joe’s berry patch are “a hoax or it’s the real thing.” The soil was too soft to reveal a double ball on the foot, an indicator some investigators believe sets real Sasquatch tracks from fakes. The double ball would be needed to carry the weight of an eight-foot creature, Kirk said. “Each foot print also has to be different because of walking mechanics. With fakes, every footprint is exactly the same.”

The footprints found in Francis Joe’s strawberry field are three inches deep, which Kirk says is very significant, because, “An imprint that much deeper than a human’s indicates a much greater weight”.

Is Sasquatch real? Like the cougar he’s rarely ever seen. Over the centuries the Cowichan tribe’s people who have witnessed it have become true believers of the existence of a species known to the Cowichans as Thumquas. One thing is undeniable; there is a substantial amount of evidence that supports the existence of such a creature.

 

Source: http://www.joejack.com/sasquatch.html

Witness Observed:

This witness sent in two reports, the reports have been combined.

First report:
Growl/howl heard today 16 Nov 2014 while hunting outside Winlock Washington at 2:42pm.
While hunting, I heard yelling mixed with a growl/scream within 200 yards of my hunting location. This is the same area three of us heard the same thing in November 2012.
This time, within minutes, I was upwind from the screams, then I recorded the sound of trees breaking and the sound of foot steps “Pounding” the ground. It got closer then I got the Heck out of there. What few deer I did see, RAN fast away as soon as the screams began.
I have a long history in investigations, and know EXACTLY what I heard, minute by minute. I will take a group of your investigators out to the exact location, and show you the location on a GPS map. PLEASE contact me!! This was too much.

Second report:
Sent a report on 16 Nov 2014 about a encounter while hunting outside Winlock Wa. Went back out to look for physical evidence of my first encounter. What happened next spooked me very bad, making me somewhat sick to my stomach. As I follow a wide trail into the thick tree growth, I heard noise to my right, some distance below me. I stopped, listened, and began to pull my digital recorder out while holding my digital video camera. I never got the chance to turn on either. Within seconds, to my right I watched the top of the pine trees (15-20 feet tall) shake violently. Followed by the loudest, harshest scream I NEVER want to hear EVER again.
Only other thing I saw were suspicious tree breaks, unknown if human made although, there in a untraveled area of the forest on the perimeter of the clear cut.

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Credit: http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=47107

 

Next week’s show will be BIG as we return from our trip from a location that is hot right now with activity. I plan on coming back with video and audio.

Tonight we speak to a witness who started noticing a group of Sasquatches passing through his property at a certain time of year, every year. The witness has noticed that the creatures seem to use the empty land behind his property as a travel corridor. He notices activity from the beginning of summer time until late October or November. The witness describes a lot of behavior we have heard in the past.

 


 

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