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Lake County Bigfoot: Don't throw in the towel yet. I hunted, fished, hiked, prospected, tracked, trapped and goofed off in the mountains, river bottoms, bayous and jungles for forty years before I heard one of these booger do a p---ed off vocalizations that was so loud, long and hair-raising that I and the other five men standing around the campfire ALL knew it was no typical animal. This was a continuous sound that started as bellowing holler, then an aggressive yelling sound and terminated in a high pitched scream and lasted about twenty seconds or more. At the time, I didn't know what made that sound, but I quit hunting with a gun and spent five years looking before I saw my first one. The next forty years, in 12 states, I learned a little more, heard a bunch of them, got glimpses of several and clearly saw two more. Don't every believe that these animals don't forage around the edges of big cities, small towns or rural communities. Every acre of ground that us "new comers" to this continent have logged, farmed or developed once belonged to them and the NA's. They have been forced to abide the presence of us. They probably don't believe in skeptics either.

I'm 81. When I a kid, our contact with the outside world was a wooden boxed, wall hung telephone that you cranked a series of times to get in touch with someone on your same party line. To contact anyone else, you had to get the operator by cranking one long crank. We did have radios though. They actually were the good old days. A hell of a lot better in some ways, but not others.

Well as many of you know I claim to be a believer in Bigfoot, I claim to have heard them, and I claim to have experienced activity, well all that being said what if I was 100% honest. Fact of the matter is I would have to say I seriously have my doubts as to the creatures existence anywhere much less in my surroundings here. That is an honest statement from an honest believer in this creature. I wish I could say I have had that definitive moment, I have had moments that fostered the belief no doubt, but like many of you I am just a believer, not a knower. I have not seen it with my own eyes, nor have I touched it to know what I was seeing was actually real. Ok, well then why just not give up the whole shooting match and lay the idea to rest. Well if it were that easy I sure would have liked to do it sooner, yet I have nothing at stake in this, only more to loose by holding onto the belief, more time, energy, my reputation, my sanity perhaps. If you are honest you might share this feeling and thought process. The power of belief is stronger than we humans can imagine, it can make a strong man cower and a weak man tower. I submit that such a belief, experiences or not, can cloud the mind, or make it see things that it wants to see. So is that all this is? No, if it were just that I would be free simply by relying on the rational mind and the facts. The rational mind is what is not letting this go, because you can see here I have reason to desire to let it go, it is the fact that what I heard in 2013 cannot be explained, what my wife heard also, what recordings seemed to confirm was activity, it all is compelling my rational mind to find another explanation, so far I cannot. That is the issue. To the skeptics I say enjoy your world free of such experiences that would force you into this quandary, but be clear that many of us are here not by our own choice, but by circumstances that most of us wish never happened. The compulsion that accompanies those experiences is what leads people here looking for answers. Of course many of us have not compulsion other than we think this is entertainment. I wish I were here simply for entertainment, simply to blow off some steam or to enjoy a good joke. I am here simply out of a compulsion to find answers to something I thought could not exist, and honestly in many ways wish it did not.

I have never seen that GIF before. I find it interesting that the first shot of the creature, before sniffing the bait, shows the pointed head / sagittal crest attributed to Sasquatch. I may have to rethink this sighting. I had always passed it off as a mangy bear before.

There have been many reports from Southeastern states in which the witnesses have seen BF carrying clubs. I have seen homeowner's dogs that were killed by blunt force leaving rounded grooves where their skulls were crushed. I've seen deer that were killed that way. When they forage around home sites where free ranging dogs are present, they are more likely to be carrying a club. There is a report from North Arkansas that I wrote up and which is posted on the late Bobbie Short's web site in which a BF entered the yard of a home carrying a club. The people had some dogs that were "booger barking" like mad. Resident upstairs looked out the window and saw the BF with a club headed to the folk's chicken house. He ran down to the front door and couldn't open the screen door for a few seconds because the dogs were huddled against it. Full moon, and the BF had walked between the man and a large butane in the yard. During another investigation along an oxbow lake in south Arkansas the witness and I were eating lunch on the tailgate of my truck when I decided to do a wood knock with a good sized hickory limb I brought back from south Alabama after Hurricane Ivan. (I was proud of that stick.) Anyway, got it from behind the back seat, walked to a Mocker Nut Hickory tree in front of the truck an hit it hard one time. My good stick broke and I hollered "D--- It"! I walked back and was complaining about the broken stick when we heard the loudest wood knock I've ever heard. It sounded like a log had been struck against one of the hollow Tupelo Gum tree a hundred yards or so behind us in the deep woods beside the lake. I wheeled to get my camera out of the front seat, and walked quickly back to the tailgate. I was messing with the camera and was talking to the witness about the loudness of the sound.. I glanced at him and saw he was just pointing toward the sound and his eyes were wide open and he couldn't talk he was so scared. I asked if he was OK, and he finally whispered, "I saw that thing"! He said it was behind a huge pine tree he pointed out which was about 30 or 40 yards from us. (We were parked in a small clearing where locals sometimes camped or parked to fish in the lake.) I started running toward the tree with the camera ready but all I saw was the thick brush and small pines moving as the BF hauled butt. The ground around the tree had been recently rooted up by feral hogs. There were BF tracks exactly where the witness had seen it. The tracks were huge. The witness and his extended family had heard and/or seen a large BF in the area for years. The witness's Grandmother said the thing had keep her awake many nights when it "bellowed for hours just like an elephant."

Right, like claiming that well known sources of knocking noises in the woods don't apply, only the narrow application of bigfoot applies. Because only bigfoot makes THIS particular noise. Despite any objective confirmation. Just like any noise in the woods can be bigfoot, because bigfoot can make any noise in the woods. To the point that some people plead that bigfoot is a master mimic.

Am I the only one here that finds it acutely interesting that a behavior trait of a creature that has not been proven to exist now has branching theories as to alternative method? A method, that at least for me, seems to want to account for why even more common forest noises can be attributed to bigfoot? I'm not trying to be deliberately combative. I honestly find things like this to be fascinating. An alleged bigfoot wood knock sounds too flat? No problem. Bigfoot now use their hands to create flat sounding wood knocks. Of course, why wouldn't they? Urban legends and myths morph to resist the intrusion of reality. Awesome, I love stuff like this. I think, in science, this is called special pleading. I do believe that there is some sort of relationship between skeptical commentary and bigfoot morphing traits. For example, a proponent says bigfoot did X, and then a skeptic explains X as a common phenomenon and then goes on to explain that phenomenon. Shortly thereafter, bigfoot lore has been adjusted to account for X. In an absurd way, skeptics are helping to sharpen and hone the bigfoot myth. Fascinating. (that was supposed to be my Spock voice)

This is how it happens, when you least expect it :

Here's a picture of my cat, do you believe it exists?

^^^ Am aware of two people that did precisely that, looked at them through a rifle scope and could not, would not pull the trigger, after getting a clear look at their facial characteristics.