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Trying to reply (w/o getting banned ) from this point above, forward. I agree with thanking you for the firefighting, particularly if it was the woodland type. Tough jobs require tough men and women and I'm sure the sacrifice can be significant even in the day-to-day stuff it takes to train, prepare, and do the mundane, let alone when the mundane suddenly becomes deadly. ... a search for a 5 year old boy that had a five minute head start and cannot find him? Yep. Happens more than you'd like to think. Somewhere in all the threads here is a story that led me to join a woodlands S&R group. It was a very young child (5 years old or less) kid who walked away from the family campground in some flat, open scrubland out west and disappeared. He wasn't left alone all that long either; never found. Also, the "five minutes" could very easily been 10-15 minutes or longer; dad probably didn't start a stopwatch on the boys. From the attached AAR - the father began calling and looking for Dennis (who was 7 years old, but developmentally delayed to some degree). That's now a discouraged search behavior. Children, particularly young children, hear an adult calling their name and interpret it as they've done something wrong and may get punished, so they hide harder. The thousands of persons searching didn't hit the ground right away. Over the weekend, when search efforts were not as large, local papers report that the area was "drenched by rain" and that temperatures were in the 50s and 60s, which could easily place a person at risk of near hypothermia. A small child could easily crawl under a log to escape the rain and become so muddy as to be near invisible. The papers also report that the area is "laced" with numerous streams. In the middle of the night, in a drenching downpour (2-3" in one night), a small child could easily slip or be swept into a creek and lodged in a deadfall, etc. Another article stated that Dennis got separated (another child) in thick growth and underbrush. Even adults have been known to become disoriented under these conditions (see the case of the woman who disappeared on the Appalachian Trail in Maine). The area had The FBI never called it a kidnapping. Nothing unusual about that. The person who heard a scream, saw the scruffy human, and a car parked so to be partially hidden came forward almost a month later. There was far too little information to consider that to be a credible claim or to support categorizing the the situation (for the FBI or an LEO) as a kidnapping. They would probably keep that option open in the background, though. And when do Green Berets do civilian SAR missions anyhow? The Green Berets were not called out to do a SAR mission. The first mention of military assistance to civilian authorities (a fairly routine matter for large posts) was over the weekend when helicopters from Fort Benning carried state Park Rangers in flights over the area. (NOTE: "rangers" are mentioned several time, but the appear to be state park rangers or rangers-in-training, not U.S. Army Rangers.) The adult woman who disappeared from the AT in Maine and whose remains were found a year later had SEAL trainees searching for her. Apparently, the AT runs near a Navy SERE training facility there and SEALS and others at the base went out in their spare time and kept an eye out when doing training. There are probably more examples than this, but they don't garner the same intensive news coverage. The first mention of Green Berets joining the search comes on the Tuesday after Dennis' disappearance and specifies that they were on maneuvers in nearby western North Carolina. Hilly terrain, humidity, and downpours at any time? Sounds like near perfect training for southeast Asia. Have to search nearly impenetrable terrain for a small target (Dennis Martin). Sounds like perfect training for southeast Asia. Do your best to find a lost kid and reunite him with his family? H**** yeah, there's nothing more red-blooded American than doing this. we're in. I would also note that in the late 1960s, things like this were likely less tied up in regulations and lawyers (darned lawyers). The Green Berets on maneuvers had weapons? I don't see any in this pic from the time, but I'd be shocked if they didn't. Usually, if you're in the field, you take your assigned weapon everywhere - including the head. But even if they had weapons, that doesn't mean that they had live ammo. Rant over. From here on out, I'll just link back to this post. 00-Dennis Martin Case Study_SG.pdf

The first article is from The Daily Herald of Everett, Washington, published on May 23, 1950. The second is from the Vallejo (CA) Times-Herald, published on May 25, 1950. The final story, from the Port Angeles (WA) Peninsula Daily News Thursday, published on June 01, 1950, was likely the last news article published before the search was called off.

Published in the Kingsport (TN) Times on January 18, 1952. On the one hand, an investigator found claw marks; on the other hand, a witness heard the animal making "baby-like" noises.

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Hello, I live in SE Michigan currently but travel to the Gulf Coast quite often so very interested in sightings and any BF related topics in Michigan, Alabama, and along the I-65 corridor which I travel alot. I did have a very brief sighting here in Michigan 2 years ago. I am a medical social worker in my day job currently.

Demonstrating the risks of blaming every geographic name on a real Bigfoot. Published on January 24, 1952 in the Indianapolis (IN) News.

I’m Sircalum I enjoy hunting and I volunteer at a fire department in my town. I haven’t seen Bigfoot yet.

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I kinda just want to go and meet the guy, I'll bet he's a hoot, but it ends Monday and too much junk between now and then go get done to take a day to drive to Syracuse...

What was the only lead? Harold Key reported a scream and a mangy human carrying something through the woods. 5 - 7 miles away from the point of disappearance. The FBI dismissed this report. My theory is that we are dealing with something akin to the Kari Swenson story, or a Claude Dallas type.

Thanks for the reply. I hate to not reply fully but there’s something I wanted to quickly check. - you say the green berets were there because of a threat but what threat specifically do you believe was there? Any sources for those threats would be great. any sources for the green berets being armed above and beyond the rangers? I’ve read (but can’t confirm without diving deep back in) that it was sidearms identical to nps rangers

Millville, NJ - German immigrant captured after living as a "wild man" for two years. Published in the York (PA) Dispatch on July 25, 1906.

Another incident where the "wild man" is clearly just a man. Hopefully making such cases available will let serious Bigfoot researchers smoke out fake internet stories trying to pass such things of as an actual Bigfoot. These events took place near Tennallytown, Maryland and the stories were published in the Washington (D.C.) Post on July 22 and July 26, 1894 respectfully.

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Firefighters were apart of the SARS mission. It’s relevant to me because I never had Green Berets ever show up to ANY emergency I was dispatched to in 17 years. It’s not my evaluation. Thats the FBI’s evaluation. He was not kidnapped. (My opinion was that he was kidnapped. But not by someone who operates conventionally) It is in the report that Green Berets kept adding to their numbers. Which seems odd if they were “just in the area”. And it’s amazing to me that they haven’t been “available” since that specific search. They are constantly training out of Ft. Bragg. How many missing people are there in the SE US? Yes, It’s odd. Why would you include armed soldiers in a SAR search? Because you need shooters. There is a threat. If Dennis was just lost? And as many people searched for him? They would have found him. Maybe they would not have found him alive, but they would have found his body.

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Thank you for your reply Firefighting is a noble career and I'm sure that you've made a lot of people's lives better and safer, but I don't see how that's relevant to this particular discussion. I should say, I'm from the UK and nothing in our fire service's experience would necessarily be relevant but I accept that your services are different so I may be wrong. You seem to accept that there wasn't a kidnapping ( I say "seem" because it looks like your paragraph may be a case of "even if you accept this is true, how do you explain this?" and I don't want to put words in your mouth or suggest you accept/concede something that you don't). That said, I disagree completely with your evaluation. You say 'you're telling me there is nothing strange about 1000s of people searching for a 5 year old boy that had a five minute head start and cannot find him?' but that's not what happened. He went missing at 4:30pm. His father and a few other people started searching for him within 3-5 minutes (the details are sketchy). They were searching in terrain that, outside the field and off the trail, which is the terrain he went missing, is reported as being dense forest ('so thick is the green growth of trees that a squirrel could go from Gatlinburg to Cherokee, N.C some 30 miles over the mountain, without ever having to touch ground' - The Tennessean 6.20.1969), ('[Dennis] became separated after plunging into the thick tangle of forest and underbrush, home of black bears, wild hogs, and snakes' - Kingsport Times 6.16.1969) He wasn't reported missing to the Rangers for 4 hours, at 8:28pm. Some few people (no reports I have found state a firm number) searched during the night, during which there was significant rainfall. The first actual, co-ordinated search started at 5am the next day. According to the NPS report, this consisted of somewhere between 50 and 80 people (it's not clear whether 'leaders' were included in the count of searchers or were additional). In any event, some 12+ hours after he went missing, fewer than 100 people were looking for him (assume the higher number of 80 and add in family, who let's assume weren't counted as 'searchers' by the NPS). This is a million miles away from 1000s looking for him within 5 minutes. Assume he could move a conservative 1mph, over 12 hours, that would give a potential search area of 452m2. Slightly smaller than Los Angeles City limits, but covered in dense forest, rivers, caves and crevices. It would be a minor miracle if they did find him! The number of searchers for 6.16.1969 was approx 300, 6.17.1969 was 365 etc. The only day over 1,000 was 6.21.1969, a full week after his disappearance. As for the Green Berets - from the NPS report '[Ranger Mike] Myers also contacted U.S. Forest Service District Ranger on the Nantahala, who in turn made contact with Col. Kinney, commanding the Special Forces troops in that area. Col. Kinney requested and obtained permission from the Third Army Headquarters at Ft Benning, Georgia, to transfer 40 Special Forces to the search area. - 6.15.1969 I can't see anything suggesting that the Green Berets 'kept adding to their force.' They seem to have added 22 men on 6.18.1969, although I admit the seem to have had 71 by 6.25.1969 33 left the search on 6.25.1969 with the remaining 38 leaving the next day. It is mentioned in the NPS report and news papers that they were 'in the area' and familiar with the type of terrain in the area due to having been deployed in Vietnam. I understand that Green Berets don't get involved in SAR on a regular basis, but if they're available, and if this, as was obviously the case, caught the public imagination, why not? Are you willing to suggest why you think the Green Berets were involved? Absent another, better, theory, I don't see why the logical reason put forth shouldn't be accepted.

I don't "know" anything. I am open minded and have formed my opinion based on the account of thousands of others personal accounts.

I have experienced the woo traits of bigfoot. Can you explain what you know?

As a firefighter of 17 years? I can read this report and see a lot of weird stuff in it. https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/upload/1969_GRSM_DennisMartin_dissapearance_REDACTED.pdf https://vault.fbi.gov/dennis-martin/Dennis Martin Part 01 (Final)/view The FBI never called it a kidnapping. There was no evidence for it. Meaning there was no evidence a adult human packed Dennis out of the park. So that means according to the FBI that Dennis was still lost in the park. So you’re telling me there is nothing strange about 1000s of people searching for a 5 year old boy that had a five minute head start and cannot find him? Also notice that the Green Berets kept adding to their force. This wasn’t just a group that happened to be in the area. And when do Green Berets do civilian SAR missions anyhow?

This looks like an AP or UPI story as I found this clipping in the Carroll County (MD) Times, published on April 14, 1982. The "Victim of Rooftop Murders" does not relate to this picture but I leave such snippets in because it demonstrates that newspapers were placing Wild Man/Bigfoot/Sasquatch stories with the other serious news stories. While searching the Forums for other stuff, I found one of Tirademan's original clippings. Surprisingly, Mullens not only claimed to have faked footprints, he claimed to have faked the Ape Canyon attack.

Published in the Carroll County (MD) Times on August 9, 1986, this article looks back to encounters around Sykesville, Maryland in 1973. Mark Opsanik, another early researcher on the east coast and whose name can be found in John Green's database, is mentioned.

Published in the Frederick (MD) News on December 11, 1901.