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Thanks all for the recent comments, I appreciate them. Sorry I have not been posting much lately, but have had some family members with serious health problems and medical operations that have kept us concerned and busy. The great news for us; they are on the road to recovery. Here's a recent informal report I could not confirm, - but I will check it out. The evidence should still be there if it's legit. The incident reportedly occurred in south Arkansas near an oxbow lake in a remote, thinly populated, wooded, lowlands area that I know is inhabited by more than a few Bigfoot. (I have been down there a lot during the past three years.)This friend called me on his cell phone from a hunting camp this past Saturday. He said he was alone at the camp and had been doing some work with heavy equipment in the area for weeks. He came back to the cabin Friday evening, was pretty tired, fixed himself a meal and carried it outside to eat by a campfire he had rekindled. It was cold but he had on work clothes to keep him warm until the firewood he had put on the coals started to burn. He ate his meal while sitting in a comfortable camp lounge chair. After eating he said he leaned back in the chair and before he knew it, he was sound asleep and snoring. (He didn't say he was snoring, but after sleeping in a camp a few nights with him and others, I can assure you that if he was asleep, he was snoring, and out like a light.) Anyway, sometime in the early morning (no doubt at about 2 PM, the historical "witching hour" for BF messing with people) he woke up so hot that he was sweating. When he opened his eyes he could not believe that he was seeing the flames from the fire were several feet high and his clothes and the chair's frame were hot. When he jumped up to see why the fire was so big, he saw that a huge section of "rich pine" (the heart section of the trunk and roots of an old, dead pine after the rest of the tree has rotted off) had been placed on the fire while he was asleep. The flames from the fire were so high, he moved around to the other side of the fire to try move the pine off the fire. He then noticed that the huge rich pine section consisted of very long, thick section of the heart of very large tree and the large rich pine roots with fresh wet soil still clinging to the base and the root. He said he could barely move the upper end of the pine by pulling it sideways to get it off the fire. He said he could not budge the base/root end because of its weight and the weight of the wet soil attached. He stated he could see a furrow in the ground at the base/roots, and the furrow ran to a small embankment. With a flashlight he said that he could see where the tree had been overturned and pulled from the ground on the down-slope side of the embankment. He said it would have been impossible for ten men to have overturned and pulled the remains of the old pine tree out of the ground. He saw no tracks of anything, including machinery. According to him, whatever tracks were made while pulling the remains of the tree to the fire would have been obliterated by the root ball being drug over them. The ground around the camp and campfire area is hard packed by vehicles. Had it been possible, I would have driven the two hours to check this out. Coincidentally, I received a call from another friend who lives in town near me today. He knows the area in which this event reportedly occurred. He said he (a “hog doggerâ€) had ‘**** hunting friends who had their dogs chased out of the woods in that same area. Because he had hunted so much in the bottoms, when the hunters ask about what he thought would chase trained dogs out of the wood and put them back in their dog boxed cowed down and shaking, he always tells them, “I don’t have a clueâ€. He HAS more than a clue; he has seen more Boogers than I have, and has had his own dogs chased out of the river and creek bottoms in south AR. The odd part of this report is that in one of the reports I investigated in Talladega County Alabama, a friend of mine over there had a somewhat similar thing that happened to a rich pine stump on his place. I’ll see if I added to this thread.

My point is that I cannot substantiate each and every report or alleged find from the past, and I also don't offer it as proof so there is no burden on my part. I have in fact read them and unfortunately I do not always have the time for the sake of a forum for general discussion to vet the efficacy of a claim . If you can show me where I said that anything I have posted was proof or to be considered proof, I would humbly accommodate your concerns. I would also love to see where the listed infos were proven to be a hoax.. since you so evidently did your due diligence.Yes? That would help to eliminate those from the discussion.

Bait stations are nervous places......just like a kill. Something bigger may come along and take it from you. Bears are on high alert at a bait station. And when I feed my dog out of my hand? She grabs the food and runs and hides to eat it. This is why we have to chain the barrel to the tree and cut a paw sized hole in the barrel. Otherwise the first bear on scene would just attempt to pack it all off. I think it's instinctive in all predators.

Crab - I'm aware of your computer issues. Sorry about that, sometimes even we have technical issues. I put in a request for a tech to double check all your monitoring systems but with the game tonight I can't promise anything. On a related note, how about throwing on some pants!

Thanks Frosty. It definitely irks me as well. We're obviously interested in the subject but folks act like we are anti-social misfits because we won't suspend our critical thinking and just agree with them about something they won't even seriously investigate. An example is ThePhaige saying, "Sometimes ya need to look at the body of reports and decide for yourself do you think there might be some validity to it" when he obviously hasn't even taken the time to read the reports he puts forward as "proof". I sometimes feel like the only folks actually looking for answers are skeptics while the rest are just blogging to each other.

<<<Watch Slide Show So you can see as little as 12,000 years ago animals and humans crossed freely between Asia and North America, and this is why the Chinese Yeren is the same as the North American Sasquatch, as these creatures have shared one land mass for at least 10,000 years in the near past. It's simply our European origins that lead us to think of America as a separate continent, when in actuality is was not truly a separate land mass for most of time. We clearly see the connection between the northern Chinese peoples and the Inuit peoples as well as the commonality of species roaming Siberia and Alaska, or better yet the Himalaya's and Alaska, well that brings up the Yeti and the polar bear thing that seems to be a bit misconstrued, but I make my point these creatures all share a common ancestry within their species and did not pop up out of no where on some distant land mass. What this means is that Sasquatch could trace it's origins all the way back to Africa, where all the great apes seemed to have originated, and are a distant relative to these other modern apes somewhere in the ancient tree of life.

This is true. I would give it a lot of thought before I did something to trick them. They know your thoughts & feelings & they don't fall for tricks. You need to be sure it's worth losing whatever trust you have from them, for the remote possibility of seeing a track. If they trust you enough, you will eventually see more evidence that they willingly leave for you.

I've a feeling that the answer will be in the affirmative Suzie. Mythos why are the guys charging for shows now? I thought that the ad revenue and YT views would cover basic costs at present. I get pretty uncomfortable when cold hard cash comes into the world of BF. Turning a profit can quickly be the main driver. 20-30k regular listeners coughing up $7 bucks a show is not to be sneezed at. I'd be looking for at least 2 decapitations and maybe a few arms pulled out their sockets for that kind of fee.

As in so many other areas, family dynamics and your understanding of them are crucial. I first became interested in the subject in the early 60's after reading about Bigfoot in "Boy's Life" magazine. My interest continued through high school then went to the back burner when I enlisted in the Navy and later married and raised a family. When my interest was rekindled a few years ago my family took it in stride. Several of my younger but now adult nephews have told me they loved vacations to Montana when I was a teen because of the "cool" stuff I was into. I'm retired but have shared my interest with co-workers at the Montana Military Museum where I volunteer and they have expressed interest when I bring up the subject. WRT the I.Q. issue, some high I.Q. people have difficulty adapting to new ideas/situations. Some of that could be related to Asperger's Syndrome which often goes undiagnosed in adults, particularly in the U.S. where it has only been officially recognized since about 1994. Mine tests north of 150 but I've always been fascinated by the unknown and have only become more open minded as I mature (that has a much nicer ring to it than "age").

I had this very discussion with Thomas Steenburg (in Search of Giants) over coffee this afternoon. In his extensive research in Alberta, he has come across several sightings of very tall creatures in the Bighorn Dam region, spanning several decades, then ending abruptly in the mid '80s. His first thought on this is that some of the sightings were from a point of view lower than the animal, and that angle could make the figure appear taller. The fact that the reports of extreme height ended in the '80s, with no more anomalous reports since, could also indicate that one or more very tall individuals really did inhabit the area, then died out, or went to even more remote areas, avoiding further encounters. BTW, Thomas' 30+ years of research, mostly in print and audio formats, is in the process of being converted to digital files, and will soon be appearing online at his new website, Thomassteenburg.com , starting in the early part of the new year.