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Published in the Warrensburg (MO) Daily Star-Journal on August 12, 1949. Meanwhile, a sophisticated New York writer blamed the heat wave for giving people "blisters on the brain" and causing them to see the Gooseville Monster in a story published in the Melville (NY) Newsday on August 12, 1949.

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Agreed. If it’s primarily an herbivore then winter becomes a very hard sell. Yes. The coast of the Pacific NW is typically devoid of snow. But most of the northern U.S. and Canada where many reports come from have a real winter. That’s a problem for a primate herbivore IMHO. So unless they all migrate into a tiny area along the ocean, they must eat meat. But we don't know what we don’t know, but they don’t discover black holes by looking for them. You cannot observe a black hole. But what you can do is observe the effects of a black hole on the stars and planets around it. If Bigfoot is primarily a predator? Then its effects on ungulate populations that we track MUST be in the data. I really liked the bone study that BTW was doing. Hope all is well with him.

Gimlin talked about how massive and muscular Party was which goes along with this point. It just makes since Bigfoot would kinda have to be. Seems like a requirement to exist in the first place in such an environment. Makes sense to me. I’ve seen some of these scientists on Bigfoot shows limit Bigfoot to plants. I think they do that as cover to try to put their thumb on the scale against considering Bigfoot might be possible. Well, possible in that available food supply shouldn’t be an issue against Bigfoot. If Bigfoot can’t eat meat they think it’s harder to make the case there would be enough food to support Bigfoot. One fish = hours of scrounging-plants-on-the-full-belly standard. nature is supposed to favor efficiency. the guessing is getting better now that Bigfoot has moved from the Peter Graves “Monsters and myths” type of presentation and more into the Jeff Meldrum level discussions on TV. It’s a bit like the “ why don’t we find a body when they die” topic. At least they address it by logic and compassion to know animals life cycle

People who argue that are arguing from "religion", not report data. The report data, taken as a whole, is very clear. Taking the next step, the body shape reports are indicative of something that is primarily a predator. BF seldom if ever is described as having a big sloppy gorilla style gut needed for digesting masses of vegetation, they're described as having ripped abs .. ripped abs are not an herbivore characteristic. I think that just as black bears are omnivores that are primarily herbivorous but will opportunistically scavenge or even prey, bigfoot is technically an omnivore but primarily a predator, one that will not pass up a berry crop if handy. I suspect this is consistent .. maybe necessary .. for the large distances reportedly traveled. If you spend 16 hours a day chowing on weeds that's not much time left for walking, but if you can meet your nutritional needs in 15-30 minutes catching and consuming meat, there are many more hours available for travel .. or whatever else is available. Moreover, that reduced time spent foraging also means reduced time distracted and at risk of being seen. So we don't KNOW .. but like linear approximations in math, we can get within almost any distance from exact that we want to. And .. from those approximations we can devise tests, devise questions for study. Like .. science .. at least in a sort of loose hinged way. I think loose-hinged is fine, we have to remember we're still in discovery mode, not study mode.

Godspeed. May it lead to a PGF 2.0 or better by you or someone.

Whatever use you or anyone can make of Bigfoot's diet is fine by me. The more we know the more likely we can use it to come across Bigfoot. Since people still argue if Bigfoot eats meat or not that tells us we don’t know what bigfoots diet consists of. Sure if someone saw Bigfoot eating an apple they could assume Bigfoot likes apples. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t eat fish. It really doesn’t mean he prefers apples. Based on the report I would gladly put apples by a trail camera. Hopefully Bigfoot would get to them before 100 other animals or insects did. As far as defining encounter, I’d define it in the most of us do. To put it in a general way an encounter is the Goal. That is, seeing Bigfoot, filming Bigfoot, capturing Bigfoot, and for some shooting Bigfoot.

And now for the rest of the story. This story is included in Bigfoot in New York and New England by Paul and Robert Bartholomew, however - they fail to mention some important particulars. This may be an innocent oversight, as I rarely find the exact newspaper clipping cited by someone else and many wild man stories are borrowed and truncated by other papers. This report from The Buffalo (NY) Daily Republic on June 1, 1868, provides details that make the wild man sound more like a man than beast.

A Night of Squatching with Bigfoot Expert Robert Swain The Arkansas Democrat-GazetteView the full article

A Night of Squatching with Bigfoot Expert Robert Swain Northwest Arkansas Democrat-GazetteView the full article

That’s why I am looking at it. 👍

You're probably going to start thinking I'm picking on you .. I'm not trying to. a) you have to ask "useless to whom?" b) who gets to define "encounter"? I absolutely look at food availability, location, season, type, effort to extract, etc. when I think about looking for bigfoot. It's far from the only factor but it does have to be consistent with the rest. Where there isn't food enough, then we're looking at travel rather than occupancy.

Explore the dark lore of Tennessee. Big Foot, Bell Witch among state's monsters, legends The TennesseanView the full article

Forum member HOLDMYBEER has been fortunate enough to meet Bob Gimlin in person and to interview him on a few occasions. He has again permitted me to post his interview notes from his 2009 interview in this section.

Published in The New York (NY) Times on July 13, 1868. The article claims that the wild man came from Mississippi and, sure enough, there is a story published in The Buffalo (NY) Daily Republic about the Mississippi wild man on June 1, 1868, a full month earlier.

Hello Big Tex and thank you for the reply. Wow, you have been on the Bigfoot Trail for a long time ever since your experience when you're very young. It seems like that's all it takes to get interested in Bigfoot is one good experience, and you're set for life researching and studying this creature. I live in a town of about 20,000 people called Coos Bay Oregon and south of here is a road called the Seven Devils road. This was a term used by the early pioneers who found this area to be inhabited by the Bigfoots. I was out there just the other day and was hiking along one of the trails that goes through this area that is covered by dense brush and pine trees that make the forest so thick you can only see in it about 20 feet. I was a little leery about going too far into this area because you never know if the bigfoots are friendly or just shy and hide from any human activity. Not too far from this area is the county dump and a rumor has been circulating that the Bigfoots go up this creek canyon along the trails that I was on, and they go into the dump and scavenge for food.

Not necessarily. For example, I'm a bear hunter, but I rarely shoot them. My wife doesn't want me to, and I've grown to appreciate just watching them with optics. I enjoy just knowing as much about them as I can, but especially experiencing them personally in the wild with the rest of God's Creation all around. As I type, I recall watching a sow bear walking up a huge, old landslide on the opposite side of the Chulitna River from me as I was glassing during a moose hunt. As I recall the experience, I can clearly remember the strong breeze blowing up the river valley, the daily view of Denali nearby, and the giant boar bear prints that we find near camp as we left at the end of hunt. That old boar walked around our camp the evening before we left and left great prints in the mud of the trail for a couple miles. I took pics of a really good rear print. It was a foot long. A few days later, recounting the experience at work, another guy who had hunted that valley (and had shot a very interesting grizzly, which had a smashed face) told he he had seen that bear with his binoculars the year before. He was likely a 9 footer. Yeah, "an encounter" can mean different things to different people......................

I believe that the limited like evidence can be safe food for inference, but not solid enough to establish behavior. In the two examples I used above (Sunnyslope and Bossburg), both were in mid-winter, both were in central or east Washington (on the east side of the Cascades, and thus not in the coast range), and both left a long trackway (miles). As Nathan correctly clarified about my post on sasquatches in the Coast Range moving towards beaches to utilize beach foods, this is not likely at all of sasquatches in mountain ranges east of the Coast Range, like the Rockies, Blues, Cascades (south of the Columbia River), Sierra Nevada, etc (although sightings and trackways found in California's Central Valley in winter even infers that they might migrate to the Coast Range from the Sierras, or vice versa, on occasion). Peter Byrne once found a trackway in snow. I forget where regionally. He followed them through difficult terrain for miles. I don't think he theorized a general direction or motivation for the travel. The most notable thing I remember about his account was, at one point, the tracks walked atop a large fallen log covered in snow, and then the track maker jumped several feet to another snow covered fallen log. He was impressed, writing that such a jump was not possible by a hoaxer. What I find disappointing about his account is that his report on it, from his personal experience, is recorded in one of his books, but otherwise is lost to a queryable database search so that it might be available to help alleviate one of your recognized disclaimers (small sample size).....................

Ghosts and Bigfoot in Haliburton Forest thehighlander.caView the full article

Kansas 1896, as published in the Fort Scott (KS) Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor on July 10, 1896. This appears to clearly be a human, but I wouldn't be surprised if a truncated form of this story shows up in a book or on a website and leaves out the part about "Bigfoot" wearing a straw hat and being tanned. (I have a good example of a book leaving out the smoking gun, but can't find it right now!)

As demonstrated by these photos from the St. Louis (MO) Globe-Democrat on August 11, 1949, the hunt was large and used all of the latest technology. NOTE: I cut of the rest of the headline because the next column contained only unrelated news.

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Unless the “Bigfoot Calorie intake “ issue is used to capture (in body or film) bigfoot the issue is useless. It only matters if it leads to an encounter. Otherwise it doesn’t matter.

I don’t mind if people know where I was raised. Elk were not prevalent in the area when I was a child. They are more so now. If you follow the Columbia River south you run into the Palouse. Which is all farms and wheat. Doesn’t seem like a likely route for something seeking to remain hidden. The Columbia River also represents a pretty major obstacle. Singer bay which is above the tiny peninsula that looks like the coast of Washington state is 2 miles wide. There are narrower places to cross but then the current is much stronger typically. All I can say was the tracks were not meandering or in search of something. They came off the bank, hit the logging road we were on and was trucking with long clean strides. Even though the snow was deep and we were struggling.

Norse, can you give a general area (again, I know) as to where you saw those tracks? Nothing that would dox yourself, but some major landmark in the area? Any idea of what would be drawing a Bigfoot (or other large animal) south - farmland, elk migrating in that direction, getting to lower elevation? Just curious. Also, love your driveway (and the fact that I'm not the one who has to clear it in the winter!). Norse and Huntster, Is it safe to infer behavior from a limited number of trackways, no matter how long? Someone upthread mentioned meta-populations of animals that are well spread out and have wide home ranges (for lack of a better word). So even a long trackway of over a mile could be just a day trip to the grocery store for Bigfoot. It's not necessarily an indication that Bigfoot populations are making like snowbirds and heading south. In the northeast US and Canada, there are 51 reports from December, January, and February where the report either stated direction of travel or was detailed enough to allow a reasonable approximation of direction of travel.* Only 14 of those were traveling in some southerly direction; 25 were heading in a northerly direction. However, that doesn't tell the whole story. I crunched numbers that I had in 2017 and there was a visible southward movement (between 160 and 200 miles) in the number of reported encounters. * Normal disclaimers apply - small sample size, room for witness error, room for error in analysis, &c., &c., &c.