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SHANNON D,
Not hard to believe.
There are so much bits of evidence, here and there, of primate(with a functioning brain) behavior…including the treetrunks and branches stacked up against one another, not to mention the 8′-9′ broken branches in succession(sp?) I’ve seen here and there. The whoops and calls that I had heard back in the 60s…in the middle of the woods, along with the stones landing on my grandparents’ Moosehead Lake camp that I never thought about that much wayyy back then…;-) ..when their camp was the farthest to the NE any camp was built on the lake. It was all dirt woods road back then…. I have a very dark back yard with spring-fed brook and single, remaining row of pine trees beyond my driveway & garage. Early in morning I’ve seen dark shapes, on all fours, moving here and there. Actually caught a glimpse of an adult(~8’+) in the light one hot summer evening. It saw me as I turned my head to look and just froze. Rather thin coat of hair, kind of brownish tint to its bodily skin. Once, on a moonlit night, I saw reflection of image of shoulders and conical head filling one of my bedroom windows….wanna tell you I did NOTHING but remained in bed!;-);-) as the windows are ~7-8 feet away from my bed. Girlfriend and I had had an enjoyable late night of sex and hadn’t covered up afterward.. Anyways, there are a few bogs on the outlying areas…in the woods, as everything is around north-central Maine towns. More development has been opening the woods up a bit here & there ~5-9mi away and the 100% wetlands that were ~100yds away are being built on to some degree in the last 10yrs… If you’re within miles of their habitation…you can get some strange surprises from Spring thru Summer and sometimes even in Winter. (I thought it was a neighbor out walking his dog at ~1am one cold winter night….but as I was walking up my deck’s steps I could see that it was a coyote and it wasn’t a human….Feb 2011). It just turned around and shuffled back between the neighbors’ houses….;-). Life up here can be interesting between 1-4am…
Rambling….
SteveDave,
I SERIOUSLY hope it means that the 20-30-something producer(whatever his name is) learns to STOP adding “Dram” sound effects in his next endeavor….or else his next endeavor will only involve dressing up in gillie suits at birthday parties!
To watch them conduct their night search, when up here in Maine, in the most populated areas of the state, at the time of year that hardly ANYTHING has come north….was such an insult.
The overused tree knocking and constant calling…they should use in their new professions in the circus!
…However I really do like the cast…seem like a likeable group, but the whole scripted aura just makes someone, like myself, who has had a mix of classroom study and real-life nature offer more than a few close encounters prior to the Patterson film….in over decades of accompanying my paper company scaler/granddad all over Piscataquis and Somerset counties in the summer…by 4wd & on foot….want to regurgitate(sp?)..;-)John, my $.01 would be that in order to have the odds stacked in your favor…..you have to spend some time in whatever specific area, for the inhabitants to become used to your existence on a daily basis. Sure you could “move in” to random areas and spend some time, but juveniles and adults are far more aware and wary of our presence …time of year, time of day/night…in the area. They need to “get used to” you being a non-threatening being before they approach. They’ll go a long way to stay out of lighted areas(at night), especially if close to somewhat populated neighborhoods…or on the edges of neighborhood and woods. It’s much easier to find their general areas by listening for their communications between the late night hours and early morning hours more than watching for visual signs. If you can hear them they can detect you. Their favorite food is deer, young bear and on occasion…young moose, so if you can go to states or areas of states where wildlife flourish….a family with be somewhere in the area….might not be that close…as they can travel large distances, but some members of bigfoot will be around somewhere. FWIW, I’m in north-central Maine.
Steve….
Bryan P’s:
Not sure why so many “researchers” know so much about a subject that almost all of the scientific community has scoffed at?
______________Bryan…my guess is that when those that have achieved an esteemed level of careerdom via study through text & academia, not observation…..any real-world proof of something other than their explanation would, in their minds, poses a threat to their status of having all the answers to this planet’s mysteries…..ie original Planet of the Apes’s cave blowup scene = “In a few minutes there won’t be any doll…There can’t be…”
These creatures…Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti certainly have the lifestyle of a fringe species, in the minority, that has evolved a little differently than we homo sapiens did….with weaknesses and strengths of their own…
Apologies everyone…I didn’t revise that last REPLY in time….meaningless ramble.
I’d really like to see more scientists step out of their laboratories and take a few hikes/trips into woodlands for a couple months a year and observe nature, instead of living their entire lives in the lab…through theory.
Amy H….think you forgot one more defining acts of mankind, that is of Destruction. That which man discovers, man usually ends up destroying.
Knobs & Gumshoguy,
I think I just might institute a deer stocking program, with careful biological oversight on disease threat, to our(Maine’s) woodlands in order to give the native deer population more of a chance. Maybe more deer would occupy a greater % of the bigfoot diet instead of possible focus on the additional prey..being bear and moose…. just a thought.bryan f,
Did Dr. Jeff Meldrum mention any address anyone can send footprint casts to…that they make? He has quite a collection. Was just wondering if he accepts people’s casts or is he too busy with his own work?
Both he and John Bendernagle seem to be the most level headed of those close to the anthropological aspect of bigfoot’s existence, professionally.…and they possess more memory from their past/previous experience(s) with their environment, prey and us..than other mentally-challenged animals..ie in dealing with loss-of-habitat/development…etc.
It’s another hominid strain that seems to have paralleled us, with their own language(s?) and local idiosyncracies(sp?), along with some deep abilities of awareness of our presence and our contraptions’ vision and audio…y/n? They seem to be in the minority as far as populations go = a good thing…as they apparently will eat anything. That has me confused as I enjoy wildlife without another hominid hunting the rest of the animal world down at will. I see too much of it here in Maine and having grown up with a love for animals and wilderness…bigfoot appetite is a complicated issue for me.
It’s a complicated one for society…and the military’s local nightly chopper tours with FLIR are taken right along the route of numerous local bogs where bigfoot hang in my local area.
