Ptsd And Bf Sitings

[JDL]

You know, Hammer, you can deal with this cognitively, and you've probably done so with this sort of thing in the past without realizing it.  Perhaps you've nearly missed having an accident while driving.  You may have been scared and a little hesitant to get back behind the wheel.  But you probably thought through your experience, analyzed it, and determined what you would do the next time you encountered the same situation.  You took a situation in which you probably felt helpless and associated it with a plan that makes you feel prepared.  With a plan in mind, you are now back behind the wheel confidently.

 

If the squatch with whom you are dealing intended harm, they've had opportunity and passed it up, so you are probably safe at a distance.  Try looking at the next chance sighting as an opportunity to study one.  Be cautious, but make it your situation with your plan on how you can handle it, by standing or retreating, or some other response. 

 

Feeling prepared is the counter to feeling helpless.

[Guest ChrisBFRPKY]

I just listen to my tunes, try to pretend it's not there, enjoy my summer nights outside, and don't go looking for it.  That's when it usually shows up. 

 

But you know what, after 14 months, now I feel kind of a kinship to them in terms of the fact that both of our little families are here and we are connected and part of the same place.  So for all my freak outs, I'm actually very cool about what may or may not be here.  If there are SSQ here, at least they are our SSQ and we're all family living here just busy being free.  It's a great place to live.  We share the same space and it's all good. 

 

Just don't scare me!  That's all I ask.  And the word here is PEACE! 

So far, so good.  I have no complaints on this first day of August.

Maybe I'm just enjoying the SSQ vacation.  It will be interesting to see if we get action here again in August.  So far it's the same as last year.  No activity.  Fine with me. 

 

I have to admit, I always enjoy when I think that they are not around and then I hear a knock.  Again, it has been quiet here since May.  Husband smoked a pork shoulder all day.  The Krewe is arriving tomorrow.  Lots of love and merriment and food going on.  In my experience, that's what it take to pull them in. 

 

I will NOT talk about BF unless someone asks me about it.  The girl that saw it here watching us last year will be here.  She told me she would never camp here again, but this time, she has her boyfriend with her.  I so want to recreate the event.  We'll go look at the Milky Way at the same time Saturday night.  I'll try to be subtle about it, but if it works, we'll get the story out of her again when we are all standing at the same place a little less than a year later.  That will be cool.  I remember that day like it happened yesterday.  I have thought about it for months.  But I don't want to freak out her experience because she's not a BF person, and said she had a 7 minute experience watching it watching us without moving.  She left for the campsite and we didn't find out for several days what she experienced.  She tried to tell me and us to look.  I took a cursory glance but it was foggy and we were all yacking and looking at the stars.  I wasn't thinking about BF being here at all after the summer of no activity and thinking that the researchers were right that it was a passing thing.  WHY DIDN'T  WE LISTEN TO HER!  We all could have seen it.  Then I'm left with the thought afterward that it's in my backyard now. 

 

So will it be in my backyard again with the Canoe Trip Fool 2.0?  We'll see.

If I don't get some sleep, I'll miss it all.

Thank you again, for your patience and indulgence.

You all have my heart and everything I know about this subject from my personal standpoint.

I hope somehow it is helpful to others, or maybe helpful for the research. 

I have to give back what I have been given in this quest for BF knowledge.

Hammer, if your yearly canoe trip/camp out gathering is this time every year, it is in sync with the blackberries being ripe. Like now. You may try scouting the area during the day for blackberry briars, especially areas where the briars and berries are thick. These areas would be a good place to keep an eye and ear open for your hairy visitors. Chris B.

[georgerm]

Hammer how was your canoe trip?

 

You got me thinking about bigfoot in your area so I looked at Ohio on google earth to check out bigfoot's habitat and started a thread on it. See the new thread that focuses on Ohio and how bigfoot has been pushed around and diminished. Looks like bigfoot has fewer and fewer places to hide.

[Hammer102492]

YIKES!

I just looked up Bigfoot Ridge at Salt Fork State Park,

 

​I will positively avoid ever going there.

 

I might think that you won't go back, but since I reared 2 son's, I suspect you will be there this weekend:)

 

Salt Fork - Bigfoot Ridge is nothing to mess with.  It's not a joke. 

Sure it's good for tourism, but I double dog dare anyone to pitch a tent in spring or the fall on Bigfoot Ridge, near the path leading to the old farm site, whatever it's called.  It's across from the group camping.  A friend of mine saw a track way there, people have been chased out of there, and we sat right in the middle of them, scared out of my wits. 

[Hammer102492]

 

Thank you most sincerely for your military service to our country. My older friends got involved in Viet Nam, and now my son is in the army because of 9/11. I wish that we lived in a world where countries could live in peace, but some humans just will not let us do that. It is their way "or else".

 

America thankfully does well with "or elses" because of men like you.

 

Thank you.

 

Wasn't my military experience, it was my friend's.  Can't take credit for that, no way.  God bless all our troops and their families!

[Hammer102492]

You know, Hammer, you can deal with this cognitively, and you've probably done so with this sort of thing in the past without realizing it.  Perhaps you've nearly missed having an accident while driving.  You may have been scared and a little hesitant to get back behind the wheel.  But you probably thought through your experience, analyzed it, and determined what you would do the next time you encountered the same situation.  You took a situation in which you probably felt helpless and associated it with a plan that makes you feel prepared.  With a plan in mind, you are now back behind the wheel confidently.

 

If the squatch with whom you are dealing intended harm, they've had opportunity and passed it up, so you are probably safe at a distance.  Try looking at the next chance sighting as an opportunity to study one.  Be cautious, but make it your situation with your plan on how you can handle it, by standing or retreating, or some other response. 

 

Feeling prepared is the counter to feeling helpless.

 

Oh yeah, you got that right JDL!  When I get thrown off my game, I have to figure out what the situation is, and then come up with a plan.  Got to have the plan and before that, it's all consternation.  But now I have a plan, and I'm in a better place. 

 

I'm not afraid anymore, (unless something really jars me, until I can get a grip on it).  I actually enjoy the knocks and other unexplainable sounds.  As of late August, just like last year, the sounds have picked up CONSIDERABLY!  I actually missed not hearing anything over the summer.  I guess it's like jonsing for a drug.  Where is it?  Maybe its the adrenaline hearing it, trying to confirm what it is.  That quest is where I am now.

I am tired of telling people what I hear and asking them to believe me on faith.  I need to get it on tape.  I have a new recorder coming on Friday and we're staying out all night to test it out.  Just about every time I have been out here in the past week and a half, I have heard things.  That recorder can't get here soon enough.

 

My plan is to record the sounds, if possible.  Then you all can hear what I hear and tell me what you think it is.

 

Feeling good about it all. 

 

I'm WAY better off than I was 16 months ago.

 

PTS is gone.  I am used to it now. 

 

I just laugh and say thank you, when I hear something. 

 

It doesn't seem aggressive, or coming too close to me personally.   It did for awhile last fall though. 

 

I heard a very loud sound event tonight that I have never heard before.  It was like something large was moved and came into contact with metal or something.  We have a gas well out back that I am going to check out tomorrow.  That was a new one on me.  I have started using scales.  It was approaching a 9 factor for sound interest.

 

No matter, I have a plan because the recorder comes Friday!  If all the sound dies down when it's rolling, after what I have heard this week, I will become highly suspicious.

 

 

I'm WAY better than I was 16 months ago. 

Hammer how was your canoe trip?

 

You got me thinking about bigfoot in your area so I looked at Ohio on google earth to check out bigfoot's habitat and started a thread on it. See the new thread that focuses on Ohio and how bigfoot has been pushed around and diminished. Looks like bigfoot has fewer and fewer places to hide.

 

Oo, that sounds interesting!  Can you post the thread link please?

 

Well, if they've been moved south from Medina, and north from Columbus, then they are all sitting in my back yard feasting on deer and drinking from the Mohican River.  Or maybe, they just love eating all the corn and soy and all the animals that exist here in abundance.  I'm in the middle of a valley, 360 hills surrounding me with hundreds of acres, houses skattered around.  Forests and farmland.  Very fertile land.  Cover, peacefulness, rural, what else do they need?  Except for a middle aged hippie chick listening to tunes and appreciating the very nature from which they survive.  They do what they do and we do what we do, and sometimes maybe say hi one way or another.  As Joni Mitchell sings, we are all just busy being free.  It's all good. 

Hammer, if your yearly canoe trip/camp out gathering is this time every year, it is in sync with the blackberries being ripe. Like now. You may try scouting the area during the day for blackberry briars, especially areas where the briars and berries are thick. These areas would be a good place to keep an eye and ear open for your hairy visitors. Chris B.

 

Hey Chris B, thanks for the good thoughts.  Everything is in season here.  We have berries, apples, deer, tomatoes, corn, soy, whatever grows at a specific time of year, it is grown here.  It is a lush area.  Lots of wildlife including bald eagles, fox, cougar seen on the other side of the county, haven't seen or heard of bear, lots of coyotes, deer, wild turkey, rabbit, raccoon, chipmunk, possom, pheasant, owls, song birds, mice, squirrel, muskrat, devil horned caterpillar, ducks, geese, heron, Bigfoot. 

...snakes, big wolf spiders, honey bees, not as many hummingbirds this year, feral cats, farm animals, farm feed, fish, fresh water clams

...skunks

[Guest lightheart]

Hey Hammer,

Sounds like Bigfoot paradise.....lots of everything they love and need to survive.

Glad you are feeling more comfortable with their presence. When I hike I just try to be in a good place. If I have indicators of their presence I just acknowledge them verbally in a normal upbeat tone, maybe belt out a song to identify myself, and move on through.

I think it is better to kind of hold your space and show no fear. Since I am just hiking and not looking for bedding or making calls, I do not represent a threat. I know they sometimes parallel me at about 150 -200 yards, but I think that when you pass through their space they just want to know where you are going and what you are up to. They seem to be just as curious about us as we are about them....

[Guest]

Do you think it is more likely that Bigfoot causes a Disorder, or more likely that a disorder causes the Bigfoot sighting? 

 

I mean really, someone sees an apeman are they really getting PTSD from such an encounter?  There are war vets who have been through horrible situations that have PTSD, Why would someone who saw an unusual animal be claiming that they have PTSD?  

Drew, I just finished a radio show about my Dogman sighting, and I very honestly talked about dealing with my fears of ever going into the woods again. Thinking that something exists is far different than KNOWING that these creatures exist, and that they can be aggressive. The Dogman I saw followed our car out into the road and watched us drive away. If we had broken down near him, I doubt that hubby and I would be alive today.

[Guest]

Salt Fork - Bigfoot Ridge is nothing to mess with.  It's not a joke. 

Sure it's good for tourism, but I double dog dare anyone to pitch a tent in spring or the fall on Bigfoot Ridge, near the path leading to the old farm site, whatever it's called.  It's across from the group camping.  A friend of mine saw a track way there, people have been chased out of there, and we sat right in the middle of them, scared out of my wits. 

Hammer, Anyone who sees these creatures for the first time will have some sort of a reaction, either/or/and shock, confusion, fear, and the "fight or flight" syndrome will occur with a first time unexpected encounter, and some of those responses and feelings could occur until the human learns to accept that these creatures really do exist, and thankfully so since the human had survived the previous encounters..

[clubbedfoot]

Salt Fork is pretty close to my parent's house....pretty weird...there was a BF report about a mile from their house in 1915 reported in a local paper...

[Guest]

Hammer what happened when you sat in the middle of them?

[ShadowBorn]

Hammer, Anyone who sees these creatures for the first time will have some sort of a reaction, either/or/and shock, confusion, fear, and the "fight or flight" syndrome will occur with a first time unexpected encounter, and some of those responses and feelings could occur until the human learns to accept that these creatures really do exist, and thankfully so since the human had survived the previous encounters..

My first time that I saw them was not this fight or flight reaction,but more of a curiosity of what i was seeing. The guy that I was with was frozen in fear and yes I was a bit shaken but was able to hold my ground.The thing about our sighting is that there were two creatures involve and one that i did not see that the partner I was with did see. The one that he was seeing was well hidden in the bushes where the one that i saw was in the open. After studying this configuration of how these creatures were set up it made perfect sense tactical wise. Since I was the one who was carrying the pistol and was the one who walked around the fence, It made sense that the hidden creature stayed hidden while I payed attention to the one in the open. If I was to shoot the one in the open i would have been attacked by the one that was hidden.

Now I had no idea of the hidden one until we talked about our encounter in the morning.My partner had no idea of the one I saw until i told him in the morning,so there was two different encounters in one night. Two different creatures that came into our camp from two different directions.Both creature's with no attention of harming neither one of us.Creatures that I believe had only curiosity of us and wanted to learn about our intentions.

[Guest]

My first time that I saw them was not this fight or flight reaction,but more of a curiosity of what i was seeing. The guy that I was with was frozen in fear and yes I was a bit shaken but was able to hold my ground.The thing about our sighting is that there were two creatures involve and one that i did not see that the partner I was with did see. The one that he was seeing was well hidden in the bushes where the one that i saw was in the open. After studying this configuration of how these creatures were set up it made perfect sense tactical wise. Since I was the one who was carrying the pistol and was the one who walked around the fence, It made sense that the hidden creature stayed hidden while I payed attention to the one in the open. If I was to shoot the one in the open i would have been attacked by the one that was hidden.

Now I had no idea of the hidden one until we talked about our encounter in the morning.My partner had no idea of the one I saw until i told him in the morning,so there was two different encounters in one night. Two different creatures that came into our camp from two different directions.Both creature's with no attention of harming neither one of us.Creatures that I believe had only curiosity of us and wanted to learn about our intentions.

Did you see a regular BF? Were they a male and a female? Thanks...

[LeafTalker]

I just laugh and say thank you, when I hear something. 

 

Love this! I do the same thing. 

[Guest]

SweetSuziq - was your recent radio interview done live or recorded? I'm asking because of an impending broadcast tomorrow night on a site (which I follow) that focuses on dogmen encounters. I've read some of your posts here,... discussing your encounter and how it affected you ....and was wondering if, by coincidence, that you were the upcoming interview-ee (is that a word?)  Thanks!  HWM