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Knobby, I see the logic is warning a person who is unarmed and alone. As you say, it would only take one time for a bad end to meet me. However, and this is just
me, I feel safer knowing that I pose no real threat to them. I am alone, older, female, careful, quiet, gift bearing and unarmed. What would be the point of harming me? Surely I don’t taste good. Carnivores don’t usually eat carnivores and I am one steak and burger loving Texas gal. I am also not competing with them for game. It would be nothing but a dangerous exposure to attack me. No gain for them and it might draw attention to the area when people come searching for me. I tend to think that it’s not that I have been lucky for 40 years but rather something about how I have been comporting myself that has kept me seemingly safe. I have always felt unafraid and blissful when outdoors. Maybe this calm in me helps them stay calm around me? Like how some people can calm bees or even elephants? Maybe they pick up our emotional state and reflect it back? I don’t freakin’ know. Maybe hunters have so many terrifying aggressive interactions because they are engaged in hunting when their paths cross with sasquatch? I would react negatively too if you invaded my living room, armed with an intent to kill, and THEN you tried to steal my family’s dinner right out from under my nose? Maybe they dislike the smell of testosterone? But I really know nothing and these are just the questions bouncing around in my head. I am interested in hearing what other people know and I do appreciate learning from the more experienced. Just don’t try talk me out of the gifting because it’s a waste of time. For better or for worse, I am completely fascinated. If this were a poker game, I would be pot committed and going all in.I couldn’t agree with you more. When I took child development in my studies to become a teacher we learned that the average child doesn’t read for pleasure until 4th or 5th grade. That means that kindergarten through 3rd is just mostly torturing them into reading and stigmatizing them against loving it.
Sounds like you have a wonderful marriage. Kudos to you for taking care with it.
Yes! a welder’s torch is a good description of the quality and intensity of the light. In my life I have seen very brief flashes of unexplained light and sometimes orbs for a few seconds but nothing like this time. It lasted so very long and happened in strong sunlight in the middle of the afternoon. I wish I understood what it means. This was like nothing I have ever seen before.
I appreciate your more experienced input; however I am afraid it is a bit late. I am almost sure they have left me a gift (which I took). Only one so far. I do have a FLIR monocle scope and I have flood lights around my buildings and cabin. At night I sit on the porches and watch for them but they don’t let me see them. I am always stating that I do not want them to come near my house when I talk to them at the gifting site so I think they are just honoring my request. I also have promised not to film or photograph them unless they come near my structures or my cabin and then all bets are off. I will keep this promise. I plan to supplement the flood lights with game cameras around the cabin. I don’t know if this was or is the best course of action but so far I am comfortable. I go there alone almost every weekend and stay usually 2 nights. Sometimes my husband goes with me but he is a busy city person. The sasquatch seem to do nothing if he is around. I do not usually feel fear when I am there, alone or otherwise, and it has been many years now, but I have only been gifting in the last year. When I first started sleeping overnight in the cabin (years and years ago) I would be gripped with fear for no reason. It was very strange and now I wonder if they weren’t doing that to me. But I muscled through it. Then they started slapping the building in the dead of night and I got tired of that too. One night I got fed up after the banging woke me up and ran outside screaming into the night to cut it out (at the time I thought it was a ghost) and I forbade it to mess with me or my cabin. It never happened again and I stopped being afraid when I was there at night. I respect your experience but am confused since mine suggests they are intelligent, elusive and not aggressive (at least towards me?). I don’t know. Maybe because they know me from childhood? Literally I have been out there tromping around since I was a teenager. Maybe that changes things up? I certainly am not dismissing your input and I thank you for your concern. I hope I am not making a gruesome mistake. I guess I will be finding out.
Steven B, I understand not to mess with wildlife. I hiked in Big Bend National Park for decades and was trained by an interpretive ranger uncle that was also a wildlife expert. Habituating the bears and cougars in The Chisos leads to nothing but danger for all concerned. But two things in my defense 1. I barely feed my bigfoot. Once a month I leave what constitutes (at most) a fistful of food. I never wanted to leave so much food it would supplant their hunting, more like just a respectful gesture. 1000 calories once a month isn’t going to disrupt their feeding and lead them to expect a buffet. Mostly I leave arrangements of objects which they sometimes move around or take. My land is teaming with things to hunt, pigs, turkeys, rabbits, deer. I ran a long hose to the edge of my back 40 to provide fresh water to all these critters. The summers are brutal here in Texas. So mostly I try to support the wildlife that the sasquatch probably need to hunt to survive. I don’t hunt on this land so I also don’t compete with them. (Recently I found a skunk I think they killed. It’s head was gone and the skin was peeled back off the carcass like a wrapper peeled back from an ice cream bar all in one piece and pulled down – like an inverted sock). I don’t leave a load of food out for them or anything else. But I understand your concern. I might be wrong to leave any amount at all. It feels respectful to pay some kind of tribute to them since I went and built a structure in their hunting grounds – but I may be communicating something that I don’t or can’t understand. It’s a gamble. I get it – but I think I am only gambling with me since there are no people living nearby and my place is very isolated. 2. I am not attracting them to my homestead – they were already there I believe. I am the intruder. I built my cabin almost by myself over 15 years (I am a retired carpenter) so I am never leaving it or selling it. It’s my baby. They must have watched me building it too. It is my retirement place and my sanctuary. My heirs understand what I am doing out there in regards to sasquatch though they don’t believe in them. In any case, I have warned them about possible activity. My husband doesn’t buy it either but that is just as well. It would upset him to believe in bigfoot.
I respect your position on this. I might be making a mistake. Thanks for your input. Yeah, hopefully no dogmen come around. They sound terrifying.I understand not privately emailing with female strangers (agreements with your partner are sacred) but maybe you are selling yourself short about who might like your book? You might have a broader audience than you know.
I have had a lifelong fascination with sasquatch and hiking/outdoors – an interest in bigfoot doesn’t seem gender based to me. Did you hire out for market research? I would be interested in knowing what they found and how you identified your target audience?
