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Maybe, yeah. We have Darby Orcutt on the forum. It’s completely plausible that his current DNA study will reveal something about them. But, whether it’s someone on this forum or not, I’m confident science will eventually answer the question of what Bigfoot is.

You make some good points here. What I wish people understood is that these beings are literally everywhere there is a sufficient sized forested area to conceal them and to hunt, in my opinion. For people that want to kill one to get a body for science, I think they will have a better chance of knocking out God. There is a reason, the natives called them the great spirits of the forest. Do you believe that somebody on this forum will finally figure out what the Sasquatch is all about? After thousands of years, JOHN DOE, came along and solved the mystery, yeah, OK. Humanity is not there yet, at least I'm not. I only express what I see and experience. I have not experienced mind speak, or marbles dropping out of the air, or orbs or a UFO connection or anything like that, but I won't rule it out. We have to be open to all experiences as they occur, or we will miss much. All the large forests above 100acres perhaps, will have them, in my opinion. Their nature and the details are yet to be discovered. Maybe, it can only be discovered on a personal level, but I keep trying.

Very few sightings get reported in my opinion, because most people are either traumatized, or don't want to be ridiculed. It is much easier to just forget it ever happened. And the BFRO obviously would not ridicule the person, but by following a path of reporting and honestly admitting what they say to others, their friends and immediately family could ridicule them. That's the driver for not reporting.

That's not a misconception, If there's a footprint in a 10,000 acre forest, and I don't see it, that does mean that the footprint does not exist.

Is that a clan or just a family? To me a clan is multiple families.

No. I second to MIB's position - the occasional park ranger, Border Patrol officer, or Soldier on maneuvers has seen one and knows that Bigfoot exists, but even if reported, that information doesn't go very far up the bureaucratic food chain.

Yeah, I knew Banff had been mentioned on here so I searched the Forums. Seems like bear like to eat hikers there.

^^^ NorCal, I would think that after the popularity of Finding Bigfoot and other, less scientifically leaning shows (yes, I'm throwing that line out to the dire wolves), that the reporting percentage is higher - 15 to 20%. I don't doubt that its less than 50%. And its also clear that various organizations curate what's shown on their websites - whether to protect a study area, or because the report isn't credible even to them, or because the report doesn't fit their preferred narrative (killer Sasquatch that get from point to point in flying saucers, for example). The Forums are actually pretty good in that regard in that anyone can post (almost anything) that they claim to be a Bigfoot encounter. Definitely not saying that dredging through reports is the be-all, end-all, but I do believe its one leg for the stool of Bigfoot research.

Yes, Trogluddite, the other side of the Rockies from me, about a 10 hour drive east from my home. It's a great area, you'll love it.

I appreciate what he tries to do. His science is bunk, but it's entertaining for me. It stokes the flames of curiosity for many.

what percentage of sightings get reported? of those that get reported, what percentage get posted on any website? I'd say probably 1-5% get reported, max. of those reports, probably half or less make it to a website.

This is pretty much exactly what I took your agreement to mean.

Interesting analysis. Like others, however, I question the overall alignment of the skeleton. Has his work been studied by any primatologists to verify its accuracy?

More reports = more data to potentially understand where they live, their patterns of movement, etc. if you have an area with a high number of sightings, but none of them are ever reported, researchers aren’t going to know this is a hot spot to collect evidence of existence. Ultimately, we want proof of existence so we can ensure their protection as a species. Don’t let fear of some pseudo intellectual who couldn’t pass a high school biology course laughing at you keep you from helping the forest people. It’s obvious you care, or you wouldn’t be here.

From your own posts. In your Teepee structures post, you say in the first post that they are "created for another purpose ... [p]erhaps as a simple way of showing how many of their kind [the forest people] are in a particular location. You later stated that "the forest people" do not place these structures in there more secret living space, but use them at the boundaries of their living space. From roughly 0:45 to 1:00 minute of that video (discussing the 2013 teepee), you clearly stated your belief that the forest people were individually stacking sticks to provide a headcount of Bigfoot in a given area. In your Hilltop structure thread, you stated that the hilltop structure, "[l]ike the Teepee structure is a sign of where they [the forest people] live...." You labelled your next thread as a fact, stating that "you captured the voices of the forest people knocking over a tree" without qualification.

I appreciate your detail in the numbers! I know how time consuming it is. I’m in the beginning concept development for a book and it is a lot of research and number crunching. Thanks for the work you do!

Surprisingly, the numbers are probably better than that. I have a database of over 1200 encounters in the northeast US and eastern Canada that comes from encounters reported to newspapers and research groups (BFRO, Gulf Coast Bigfoot, reports here) and numerous other sources. I wring as many details out of each report as I can and grade them. I am a harsh grader as most of my 37-year career involved detecting fraud in one way or the other. Right now I have 679 of these reports graded out. - Only 75 (11%) are clearly fraud, fabrication, or miss-identifications (whether admitted, outed by internet sleuths, or otherwise) - The vast majority of reports (400/almost 60%) are simply insufficient to establish that an encounter occurred based on factors that are well established for determining whether an individual is credible and has met their burden of persuasion (i.e., you don't believe that the person is lying about the claimed events, but even accepting their testimony as true, it doesn't establish what they are claiming). - A quarter of these reports (171/25%) are sufficiently detailed (and in some cases corroborated by contemporaneous and credible evidence) that a reasonable person could conclude that an encounter with Bigfoot occurred. However, the reasonable person standard is low - a different reasonable person could conclude that an encounter with Bigfoot did not occur. - Darn. That adds up to 95%, pretty much what you said. I am only comfortable in stating that in 33 (5%) of the 679 reported encounters I've looked at is it more likely than not that a Bigfoot was encountered. Note that "more likely than not" is only 50.0001%, not beyond a reasonable doubt. Didn't see that coming. Next time I'll run the numbers first. Although, most cases that I put in the "reasonable to believe" category would be "more likely than not" for a lot of people. Actually, in at least three reported and documented encounters in the northeast US and eastern Canada, groups of 3-4 Bigfoot were seen by witnesses and the description is always "1 really big, 1 large but not as big, and 1 or more juveniles or essentially toddlers." I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar reports from western Canada and the Pacific northwest.

Thank you! In hindsight, there were at least two other trips where we should have had an emergency locator. Although, if we had one on the first trip, I would have wimped out and pushed the button rather than set my broken arm and hike out two miles for my wife to drive me to the hospital.

Beautiful pics! Looking forward to our first trip to Banff (other side from you?) this fall.

Okay, a better statement is that there are limited documented or reported sightings. If a sighting occurs in the woods and it isn't reported to a research group, then it doesn't add to the base of knowledge about Bigfoot. Why would a research group, such as the BFRO, the Forums, or whatever group exists in Massachusetts ridicule witnesses? Numerous people have given detailed accounts of their sightings here on the Forums; I don't recall any of them being ridiculed. In fact, the Forums management has banished members who ridicule other members and/or their reported accounts. I'm sure that the Forums' membership would welcome a description of these encounters (usually in the sightings Forum, Massachusetts reports would go in the northeast sightings subforum). If the report was detailed enough, they would likely be added to the SSR (the Forums' database) so that other researchers, who may be more reserved about posting, can use them in their research. I post about things I research online because despite quite a bit of hiking in the Daks, Catskills, Canada, out west, and several grid searches in remote woods in New York, I haven't had an encounter, seen a track, heard a knock, or found any wood structure/manipulation that's attributable to anything other than nature or humans. Since I don't have the good fortune of knowing they exist through a first hand encounter (the only real way to know until someone puts a body (or two?) on a slab for dissection), the only thing that will persuade me one way or the other is research. I haven't questioned your claims, merely added context to assist others to make their own decisions about them. Look forward to hearing more reports from your research. As noted above, it seems to be a potential example of the halibut effect (which I note for newcomers is described on the BFRO website, in Cliff Barackman's podcasts, and probably somewhere here in the forums).

After another week of nasty wet weather, the weekend turned sunny and warm, so my son and I headed out to the mountains in search of sasquatch sign, as well as having bear and cougar tags for the spring season, just in case. We chose to check out the Hunter Creek watershed, SW of Hope, BC, which climbs very steeply from the floor of the Fraser Valley into a system of old logging roads that extend over 30km or so into the various branches of Hunter Creek. The scenery was great, but we couldn't reach the ends of any of the roads due to heavy wet snow drifts at the higher elevations wherever the track was shaded. There were lots of birds, but the only mammals spotted were a pair of marmots sunning on a rockpile at about 1500' elevation.

I use the Zoleo device, which works much like the others, paired to your cellphone for texting. I got mine a few years ago when it was on sale at Cabela's with a free subscription to Gaia Premium Maps. I've had to use it once when I was foolish enough to get stuck in deep crusted snow on a mountain top in Feb. a couple of years ago. As the sun set, the temp dropped to -10C plus wind chill, and I could only work outside of the truck for 10 minutes at a time before having to jump back in and run the heater to warm up again. It took a couple of hours for help to arrive, but it beat risking a potentially deadly 16 km hike out in the dark. It really doesn't matter which one you get, just get it!!

Listen, the 1977 event is not the only sighting. That was a description of a Bigfoot, and I know a person who in the last ten years, had two separate sightings in the same woods, but you won't find the reports online because she never reported them. I think most people don't report their sightings. What is to be gained by reporting a sighting? Potential ridicule is not worth the risk for most people. If they are spooked by it, they just won't go back. I myself had a sighting in the same area, and again I did not report it. Why would I report it, I already know they are there. Should I start sending in reports to the BFRO so that people researching from their computers will have something to click on?

I posted video and photos of stick structures that I found. I never said that is was the forest people.

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