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I don’t think you’re gonna have a “Gorillas in the mist” style experience with Sasquatch. In my opinion they will choose the time and place of most encounters. And only three reasons for an encounter. 1) They kidnap you as a potential mate. Albert Ostman? Indian Folklore? 2) They kidnap you as a potential adopted offspring. Dennis Martin? Indian Folklore? 3) They kidnap or attack you as a potential food source, or revenge or territorial. Russell Annabel, Bart Schleyer, Indian Folklore, Ape Canyon? And you’re not likely to survive any of the three encounters. We are not dealing with a tropical hominid, we are dealing with something that spends a great deal of time in cold, wet and winter conditions. It must then hunt to sustain itself. It must have a very high caloric diet. With many stories of Sasquatch hunting ungulates and eating fish and shellfish. In the right setting at the worst time of year? I could see an isolated human being taken for food easily. That’s just not something that Gorillas do.

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Published in the Eureka (CA) Times Standard on December 20, 1972. Fortunately, this situation did not lead to the death of the researchers.

Chris writes "My wife and I were on a car trip back in February. I had 12 hours of driving to do and wanted a new podcast to fill the time with. I was looking for something paranormal or supernatural and came across Sasquatch chronicles. I downloaded a few and off we went. After the first few episodes I started hearing specific details that would remind me of my grandfathers farm. After a few more episodes my wife looks at me and says, “Don’t some of these sound like your ghost stories?” I had been thinking the same thing too. So after 6 months of listening to the archives I’ve finally gotten around to email you about my Grandfathers farm. My grandfather had 80 acres in western North Carolina. We lived in Asheville Nc, about 20 miles north of my grandfather. He was a hermit, divorced from my grandmother. And lived in their old house filled with stuff in case the world entered into another depression. We would visit him about every other month. My mom would sit and talk with him, while my brothers and me would explore thru the junk filled barns, sheds, and out buildings. He had also built a 5 acre pond on his property for his grandsons to be able to fish in. It was stocked with bass and blue gill. He was a hard old man, that told you something only once, and expected it to be done. But he would also joke around with you. He use to tell us to look out for them boogers out there. When I was in 8th grade when my grandfather died and left his farm to my mother. Over the next two years we would go out to the property almost every weekend and holiday. We were cleaning it up. We didn’t know it at the time, but our parents were planning on moving us into the house. We started camping out on the property sometimes when we would stay out there for a few days. It was during these visits, I started hearing neighbors talking about strange things on the property. About being chased away when they tried to fish at the pond. Always feeling like someone was watching them. In the summer of 1998 my parents moved myself and my 4 younger brothers into my grandfathers house. In the 2 years of working on the house to move into it, I had experienced enough to know that the house was haunted, and that my grandfathers ghost lived in the lake. I didn’t tell anyone other than my brothers and my parents. My brothers and I all believed there was something going on. Our parents kept telling it that it was our imagination. So we kept it to ourselves. It just became normal. Listen to the Podcast

Yeah, I could be quite satisfied with close up, intimate video and documented narrative from a researcher like Goodall or Fossey who lived with a family of sasquatches, but yeah, humanity can't stop there. Better to just leave them alone, just like my Daddy said so long ago.............

^^ I”d love a ‘Gorillas in the Myst’ for Bigfoot but we all know humanity wouldn’t stop there. It would the ideal scenario. We could ‘see’ bigfoot and know bigfoot but Bigfoot could be left alone.

Okay, maybe there isn't a direct causation - but you can never be too careful. Published in the Redding (CA) Record Searchlight on March 30, 1982, this story involves the Bigfoot "researchers" who claimed that a member of their group was kidnapped by Bigfoot in 1976.

It appears that any media exposure to the public offers both potential rewards (fresh reports) and detriments (hoaxing). I'm afraid sasquatch publicity has created a monster of its own that will never be captured or killed. Toward a Resolution of the Bigfoot Phenomenon J. Glickman, Diplomate, American College of Forensic Examiners PHOTEK, 209 Oak Avenue, Suite 202, Hood River, Oregon 97031, USA: The more people, the more problems. The best path toward discovery is to work quietly without fanfare. Fortunately, that lesson appears to have been learned by several groups of Sasquatch researchers. We have enough foundational data. The only way that the public can help is to provide fresh reports which can be investigated quickly. BFRO provides that ability, though I cannot say if that ability is utilized to its optimum or not. All that posted ^, I would disagree that discovery would be my "cause". I would say that a person habituated to a sasquatch family would be the cause, ala Goodall/Fossey. All quiet. No fanfare. And that might be occurring as I type..............

Published in the Plumas Argus (Quincy, CA) on March 03, 1859. Sounds reminiscent of some recent stories of children helped by "bears."

Very cool!

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I'm not so sure. If even the best result leaves open other plausible explanations how solid can it be.

The “cause” is anything of substance moving the needle in a positive way toward eventually proving the existence of Bigfoot.

Homo Erectus was around 2 million years ago. When they left Africa is debated. But it roughly started in that time period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus#Growth_and_development

The climate was much warmer at Greenland 2 million years ago. Lots of biodiversity, not a giant snowball. Our ancestors were not at that latitude that we know about at this time. I think that Australopithecine was at a lower latitude and way south east. The preservation of the eDNA is related to combining with certain minerals. Danish researchers worked for over a decade to design a procedure. Maybe we should call that group 'Great Danes'.

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Yes, "not as simple", but much more revealing and irrefutable than any other evidence presented to date. And the best is yet to come.

Published in The Plumas Argus (Quincy, CA) on March 03, 1859.

First, define the cause. Is it: 1) Profit? 2) Catch a sasquatch? 3) Help sasquatches? 4) Further Science? 5) Fame? 6) Etc, etc, etc?

When it comes to efforts around a cause I always say this: Is what they are doing helpful or harmful to the cause. Let's talk Bigfoot. Obviously, a show like Survivorman or whatever live and die by ratings. They are not doing it for free. TV has Shark Week. They never seem to have Garden Slug Week or Worm Week as the ratings would be pretty bad. Like any business so long as Survivorman or Running Wild with Bear is not fraudulent or harming people more power to them. I see Surviroman or whatever as a useful vehicle to help promote the discussion of bigfoot. The bigfoot issue gets to ride on coat tails of all the fans of these shows. It is only a problem if the person doing the promoting engages in fraud or other things which harm the public. Apart from that, it is useful to the Bigfoot subject. It would be no different than them promoting a brand of hiking shoe. When it comes to Survivorman his shows make the viewer feel what it is like to really be out there in the middle of nowhere. Once this is achieved a viewer is more likely to consider there could be all kinds of things out there yet to be discovered. If Les wants to promote Bigfoot, Bigfoot gains credibility. Where I see a problem: To me the subject of Bigfoot is in a trail in the court of Public Opinion. To make your case you want to have the best people out there doing it. In this way you want Meldrum, Munns, and so on. Sorry to say it but shows like Finding Bigfoot come across as Goofy. In this way the Goofy factor far outweighs the benefit of having some Bigfoot dialog. The Bigfoot issue won't get total acceptance until there is body. But any acceptance it will ever get will only be by representatives and experts the public can be comfortable with. I'll take Survivorman. I'll take any of these people who want to loan us their credibility to show the discussion of Bigfoot can be an adult, reasonable, scientific discussion. The final danger comes when Les or whomever studies the subject of bigfoot but those they are involved with might be a fraud or a hoaxer. Is what they are doing helpful or harmful to the cause.? The answer seems to be its helpful until it becomes harmful.

Dr. Meldrum's obituary: https://www.wilksfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/don-meldrum

Thanks, CAT I'll give it a good deep dive when I get the chance. It's just frustrating because the concept of DNA is not as simple as other Bigfoot concepts.

Admittedly, identification of this as a South Dakota encounter is tenuous. The story mentions Brant Lake and Sunflower Prairie as known locations. New York has a Brant Lake, but its in the Adirondacks, without any prairies. There is also a Brant Lake in southeast South Dakota, and while the terrain nearby is now farmed, it probably was largely prairie in the 1850s. The story was published in the Jackson (CA) Amador Ledger on June 14, 1856.

Tonight’s guest, Gene Brock, is a Sasquatch investigator who has a college degree in Anthropology and Archaeology. Gene chose to major in Anthropology and minor in Archaeology because of an experience he had, when he was a kid, involving two Sasquatch. You see, Gene was deer hunting, at the time, with his dad when the encounter happened. Some people would have been frightened out of the woods, for good, after experiencing what happened to Gene that day, but Gene still goes into the woods. A lot of the time, when he’s in the woods, he’s seeking out encounters with Sasquatch. Gene has a lot of interesting things to share. We hope you’ll tune into tonight’s show, so you can listen to him do that. If you’d like to share your Sasquatch experience with Gene, please visit the Kentucky Center for Bigfoot Research Facebook Page, which can be found at… https://www.facebook.com/p/Kentucky-Center-for-Bigfoot-Research-100057628712779/ If you don’t have a Facebook account, you can also reach Gene at (859) 358-7438. He’d love to hear from you. If you’ve had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on the show, please go to BigfootEyewitness.com and let me know. I’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Bigfoot Eyewitness t-shirt or sweatshirt, please visit the Bigfoot Eyewitness Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.com I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App... My Bigfoot Sighting https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-bigfoot-sighting Dogman Tales https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134 Dogman Encounters https://www.spreaker.com/show/dogman-encounters-radio_2 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks, as always, for listening! Listen to the Podcast

Published in the Nevada City (CA) Nevada Journal on August 31, 1855.