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I cannot see gravity but I know it exists..... Every few months or so there are announcements....new species, new planet or stars, new diseases, new cures for those diseases and others. I put no limits on me or anyone else who feels like the possibilities are endless. I did not see who growled at me and my niece in Tennessee but I know it was not more than three feet away from us. And that was the very closest I've been to something bigger and badder than me and immediately got my respect. There have been very fantastic reports from time to time and even words being spoken. Those words and sounds came from a set of lungs so powerful that my rib cage vibrated. That Is not imagination, that people, is an experience. I and hubby were wide awake in the middle of the afternoon and the sound traveled from a creek and tree area up to and over us. We FELT it. Now, nobody here or anywhere is going to tell us that what we experienced was an hallucination. The funny thing is, we accepted it and went on, we know there are things that are completely unexplainable. I have a problem with those that think there ARE limits. Humans are naturally curious so what's the problem??? I can't be wounded nor can I be silenced at this point. If Mike had one or two videos or recordings, maybe...........but he and others like him, Scott Carpenter, Timbergiant, and a few others are trying to make contact. We want to know more..... And those that stand in my and their way need to move over and get the he!! out of our way. And being a millionaire never enters our mind....we just want to know.

What people hoax, think or accept has absolutely no bearing or weight on what eye witnesses have seen or experienced for themselves. What does become very old is having your integrity questioned time and again for only telling the complete truth of what happened to you out there. Yes, the jokers and deceitful charlatans have given the skeptical public plenty of fodder to discredit and reject new information on this subject, but numbers do not lie and never change! If you forensically consider the multitude of documented incidents spanning hundreds years in hundreds of places and the recorded history by the Native People through cave paintings and totem figures, something is lurking about out there that is not easily seen, understood or given to any easy explanation. Something that will probably not change in my remaining lifetime, but is real none the less. I don't consider it a waste of time sharing the truth of things that have happened to me out there with interested folks. What has drastically changed is trying to debate or prove anything to those who have made up their minds this is all a bunch of worthless junk. That will not change either...

My cart is mostly hitched to what I see and hear happen in the field, but I also watch history repeat itself with those who claim to get closer and more frequent interactions with BF. They all start out much like you would, documenting, sharing recording their observations. Then things take turn. Things happen that don't sit well with others, and no explanation other than "hoaxing" is good enough. Eventually, most of the people who have an active location wind up with precious few sightings, tracks that never end with a bigfoot standing in the last one of a trackway, objects tossed to stimulate you, and some bizzare sounds that include the speechlike utterances. SO is no different than Bipto in terms of evidence brought to the table if you think about it. I would hope that bigfoot is not supernatural in anyway, but if they were, hunting them would be foolish, and that's the rabbit hole that could completely consume you. I have a life to live outside of this phenomenon, so I tread carefully forward.

We aren't debating, though, whether or not bigfoot are or can be violent. I'm certain they can be. We're debating the veracity of a particular claim of Bob Garrett's that was communicated through his YouTube channel and the SasChron podcast about finding a particular campsite destroyed by, and campers killed by, a rampaging bigfoot.

Divergent, couldn't you just have Dr. Meldrum ask Todd Standing for confirmation? An eyewitness account is enough right? Seems like I've read that like 8013 times somewhere. When you get enough people making money off their websites, podcasts, and membership fees working at one time you get congruent accounts which proves the existence of sassy - all 14 types. Science is so simple if folks would just follow the path...or be open-minded enough to hear what the telepathic boogers are telling them.

I tread lightly, too. Nobody wants to become labeled as a nut, or even worse. Hoaxing isn't always what I conclude, but it's entirely possible in many circumstances. I prefer to think that many of the "habituators" actually start out with a degree of tangible circumstances, like sounds, prints, etc., but end up having to spice things up. Why? Because the fanciful sounds better than the mundane. So you get accounts of tic-tac-toe playing creatures, or beasts that use their roar to shatter lake ice. Heck, these possibly extraterrestrial creatures have even been reported to mind speak with a human, telling them to look out at a pine cone on top of a car. Really? Why would any intellectually gifted alien use mind speak to alert someone to a symbol meant to convey a message when it could us its superior mind speak abilities to do just that? Yet more reminders to tread lightly. SO is no different than Bipto in terms of evidence brought to the table if you think about it. I concede this point to you, my friend. That's the problem - Evidence has been presented, but proof appears to be non-existent. Nobody's going to be a millionaire presenting bear DNA for testing, claiming "Angel DNA" is present from testing of samples, or from taking a video shot of an inconclusive blob (the PGF excluded). Unsubstantiated claims aren't even evidence, IMO.

Umm, sorry, but that ain't happening.

That is a one government cover up that has not really been brought out in the open. In many of the larger older American cities, the infrastructure was built over 100 years ago when labor was cheap and prevailing wage was unheard of. With cast iron pipes reaching their useful life, roads a mess with potholes, the infrastructure is crumbling. Those that have done a cost analysis, have determined that the largest cities are not sustainable. There simply is not enough money made in the entire city to fix the infrastructure no matter what the tax rate. Already the large cities drain the whole state with rural areas ignored to funnel money into the cities for roads. Throw in pet projects like light rail and other extremely expensive toys that carry few people, and you have a formula for repair and maintenance neglect for roads and infrastructure. I think rather than drones or aircraft, which are short duration by nature, a better option would be to find high ridges or land locations where high powered low light telescopes or expensive higher resolution FLIR telephoto equipment can be deployed and survey an adjacent ridge or valley that is BF habitat. That eliminates vibration and motion issues that are always present in aircraft. If we can photograph a distant galaxy from earth, we should be able to photograph a BF miles away, totally unaware it is being watched. Long term study over months at a time could start to pin down behavior. Crews could come in and relieve each other every few days bringing in supplies for their shift. Most likely at some point the BF would become aware of the observation station and start coming around out of curiosity just making it easier. This weekend, two or three day at a time thing, is just not conducive for productive study.

If you hear a human speaking, you know it's human.The repeating evidence of phonetic ability pulls my cart in the direction of BF being a hominin if they are truly flesh and blood 24/7. The argument that you have to see it to know, doesn't really wash if one also claims to know when they hear known animals.

First, it's not scoffing. It's applying rational thought regarding an individual making some mighty grand claims without any means for others to test them. To me, a trickster looks like Sasquatch Ontario. Unfortunately, a trickster has to have the gullible in order to succeed. It appears that he's had just that to enable him to carry on this mighty tall tale. While you may buy Mike's claims, as well as the accompanying explanations by those that find him to be believable, others do not. Sorry.

"more to it than that" ... ? To say the least. There was nowhere for a hoaxer to stand near enough the tracks I found to fake them. How did this feral person grow 24-1/2 inch long, 8-1/2 inch wide feet? How did he learn to take 6-1/2 foot steps with no slide and no mud "splat" from leaping footstep to footstep? How did he manage continuing up a greater than 45 degree slope with those same 6-1/2 foot steps without breaking stride? How did a feral person grow to stand crotch deep in water than comes to my chin or above? Using Patty's proportions, leg length to total height, and the water depth for scale, we're talking about 10.5 to possibly over 12 feet. Just use 10.5 though for caution. How did a feral person get that big? I really want to hear the answer to this because I think the suggestion bigfoot is merely a feral human is ludicrous. MIB

The fact that some of the cast want a spin off at the end of this last season indicates to me that they are unhappy with the format. Perhaps the spinoff will revamp the format and provide something different. At this point the purpose of the show seems to be paid tourism travel for cast and crew.

Guy/Girls What if Sasquatch Ontario is really Sasquatch????????????

Personally, I'm shocked that SO was able to pull the following he did for so long. The latest twist in this saga is just par for the course as far as I'm concerned. The "evidence," photos of fish eyes, the calling of his name on audio (which sounded like a teenage boy burping, IMO), and the claims of the Mighty Squatch shattering lake ice with its mighty roar all led me to believe that this guy was out there a bit... well, a lot, actually. Again, my humble opinion. The problem with hitching your wagon to a horse like this is that you have to put faith in their claims without ever seeing any substantiation whatsoever. Evidence should have been simple enough to obtain, especially if the guy was on a first name basis with the beast. A GoPro cam present at the next round of tic-tac toe would have sufficed, along with the hair samples that would inevitably fall from the creature. After all, the things were abundantly available, allegedly. It was a nice fantasy for the guy while it lasted, but, like with the other claims made regarding the creature, the storyline fails when evidence is required. Let's face it - If a girlfriend can shatter the fantastical claims made by this guy there was never anything really there to begin with. Scientific discovery of Bigfoot should have been a piece of cake if his claims were accurate.

Excellent Post and Point. It really is ridiculous to see some of the responses that people make when someone points out obvious problems with evidence. If you point out something that should be obvious, like the hand print, and give your reasons as to why you feel it is not a BF hand print, you immediately get accused of being closed minded, a meany head, and disbeliever, a skoftic, trolling, etc....I have even seen people banned from groups when someone posted something asking for feedback. They ask for opinions, yet when a single opinion is posted that is not suggesting that the evidence is the product of a BF - BAM! That person is attacked for using critical thinking skills when offering their opinion. Why ask for opinions if you only want praise and compliments. Makes no sense to me.

Sorry, I disagree again. There was no possibility that Hank was real. Yet Media was all over it. They knew he was a hoaxer, but they covered it anyway. I believe they did it to make all of bigfooting look bad. Standing... another example. Just look at the Muppetheads and tell me they thought there was a chance it was real. They KNEW it wasn't. But it was all over the media. The stuff Media has picked up lately has had ZERO chance of being real.... and they knew it. You give them more credit than they deserve. I find it interesting that you believe the Media thinks those stories had a chance of being real, when very few in the BF community gave it a chance. I think... or I know they didn't think those strories were real. But, they covered them. I knew there would be a follow up story saying... it was fake. Another BF story... HOAX. Why don't they cover interesting stories by people with nothing to gain and everything to lose, that has no other possible explanation.... can't be proven a hoax, and upon careful review, can't be rules a hoax? I think I know why. Do you?

I was under the impression the money was a done deal... not sure if I should blame myself for not looking into it more carefully or the project marketing team for misleading, if they did. Nathan will be ok, he's a winner and will succeed anyway.

Typical attitude towards the subject. Make fun of it, make fun of those studying it, deny it without proof that is doesn't exist (i know, I know). This article means nothing IMO. Well, I take that back. It means the author obviously hasn't done much homework on the subject.

What he has is a technical aviation systems integration project with no background doing that. People like that could have been pulled in and probably would have volunteered their time. Why rely on type A personalities to with no background to pull things together?. A project like this funded with donated funds should have a board of directors. If it did, the board of directors should look at this project and demand that technical expertise be brought in to protect the assets. You don't learn to fly an airship on the go and adapt accordingly. That sort of thing will splatter it all over the landscape. He claims he is going to teach other pilots. Has he ever selected and trained a pilot? My questions like this go on and on and the only thing I can think of is that egos are getting in the way of a sound development program. You may sense some sour grapes on my part and that is for good reason. What do I know about this stuff?. I was the Air Force program director for two different development programs and flew functional test flights on two different military aircraft. I also built, fight tested and currently fly my own 2 place experimental aircraft.

The only thing innovative and different about this project is the airship. So until that is operational I don't expect anything from the project we have not seen already elsewhere. To saturate an area with ground searchers is being done all over the country with marginal results. That very well may drive an BF in the area away. Backing money does not make ground ops any more likely to succeed for Barnes than it does for anyone else. Personally I have thrown a lot of my own money into my research which has included aerial searching and quite frankly I think I am no more likely to have any kind of breakthrough encounter than some teenage guy hiking through the forest with his girlfriend and a cell phone. Many of the criticisms of the website are indicative of the entire project. Lack pertinent expertise, lack of aviation experience, lack of organization, etc is quite evident on the website and I suspect permeates the entire project. Oh sure they have Meldrum and other notables, but from talking to Meldrum personally about the project, it was evident to me, that he and the other notables in the project knew nothing about aviation and cameras. Those two things are the two main aspects of the project. If a technical project developer goes into a project with no knowledge of the technology and totally relies on vendors knowledge to define the technical objectives, you get what is best for the vendor and not best for the project. You should hear my NASA JPL engineer son talking about dealing with vendors for their projects. Vendors will lie, cheat on testing, and do anything they can to get paid for a project even when they know their product does not meet the project requirements. In this case I suspect the vendors are defining the specifications which is like the tail wagging the dog. But like the guy and girlfriend with the cell phone, Falcon might get lucky. Although most cell phone cameras probably have better resolution than the Falcon cameras.