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^ I borrowed your idea except I used a plastic peanut jar. I will get some camo tape to finish it out tomorrow. I may still add something to keep rain off the microphone, although it has held up in the rain few times already, I used tape and a shoe string to make a loop at the top so no holes were needed. I'll probably use a bungy cord or another shoestring to hang it in a tree. The inner case is a beer coozy wrapped in duct tape, which will keep any water that might get in from damaging the recorder plus it covers the record indicator. Here is the birdhouse recorder that Andy P. showed me during an SRA outing in Minnesota. It's made with tent material which is waterproof but lets the sound through. I can testify that it held up in heavy rains.

Very clever Crowlogic. Very clever indeed how you plant the notion that what was said was some kind of rumor or something. Yep, shady tactic but you've done this sort of thing before. It ISN'T "it is said"- it is the WITNESS said. You'll downplay this in typical fashion but it's still a shady tactic no matter how you defend it. Now the WITNESS (see how I corrected that?) according to your post, said "nobody was on the other side of the river". Well, if that doesn't mean "nobody was on the other side of the river" then what DOES it mean?? Now lemme see if I can do that: "I saw someone on the beach today but it doesn't mean I saw someone on the beach today". Yeah, that about sums up your take on the matter.

The film maker made it pretty clear, of course, that the idea of someone riding a vehicle in that footage was ludicrous.

If the film subject looks like a normal human? why do so many insist on having the normal human ride a motor scooter across the tundra?

Or they are confused with a known animal.

Insightful question. It looks not that different from the last one I saw so far as general shape. I was a lot closer. 7-1/2 feet tall and gangly in sasquatch terms ... like an over-built NFL tight end in human terms. My guess ... mid teens male. What do we know about the behavior of mid teens human males? Risk takers ... like taking chances getting seen where they shouldn't be doing what they shouldn't do? That could describe that "guy" I bumped into. Does that remind anyone at all of what could be depicted in the video? There ARE variations ... gender, age, color, etc. Comparing ... lets see, my build at 15 to my sister's build at 38-40 ... what I saw, and what I think I see in this video, compared to Patty, tracks pretty nicely. I don't see anything in this video to take specific issue with. The arguments so far appear to be denialist rhetoric rather than based in substance. Doesn't make it real but sure doesn't make it a hoax. In the end, I doubt anyone will ever truly know. Any sort of hard stand ... is not based on the video's content, it's based on how the video can be used to support personal pre-existing dogma of one sort or the other. ... I M (not so) H O, of course. MIB

This presumes that you know what one looks like. Have you seen one?

With that being said, we are left to look at the physical evidence in the form of video, photos, and footprints or handprints. This is a whole lot easier to weed out, many prove to be hoaxed and can easily be distinguished from non-hoaxed instances. For example the PG film, while suspicious on the basis of who was involved, it has yet to be proven a hoax, regardless of arguments to the contrary, so an open minded individual has to account for the possibility of such a creature. Foot print finds that show anatomical morphing as the foot is interacting with the soil, as was the case when Meldrum went to visit Paul Freeman and was taken to a track way, could anyone have been more disposed to judge the possibility of hoaxing those tracks than Meldrum, and this is what he sites as a turning point in his belief in the creatures existence. I could throw out those two instances and produce another 20 similar points of evidence, ones very hard to debunk, and that corroborate the eyewitness reports. But the list is far greater and the body of evidence is growing by the day, so to disprove the creatures existence, one has to disprove a great amount of substantial evidence suggesting they indeed exist. While I understand the skepticism of individuals, I still deem it more logical to be open minded to their existence, rather they say they do not exist, simply because we have not proven they exist.

What is interesting about eyewitness reports, is that on the whole, their is little correlation as to the type of individuals making the reports, excepting perhaps they live or commute near forested areas, and otherwise vary in age, social environment, vocational backgrounds, and outdoor awareness. If you want to de-bunk eyewitness reports, you have two choices, firstly they misidentified the creature. Well that is certainly bound to be the case in some instances, but the level of description of many of the reports defies that possibility. Then you couple the commonality of those descriptions and the geographic commonalities, you have a whole lot more to discount. That leaves a whole lot of eyewitness reports without some other explanation sitting in your lap. The logical conclusion is to admit they are seeing something uncommon, because many are experienced in the outdoors and readily able to identify common creatures. You see it is not at all easy to just toss out the eyewitness reports. While you might be able to toss out some percentage, there still remains a convincing body of reports that cannot be simply discounted, to surmise that this is some type of sociological phenomena is ludicrous, if that were the case the geographical data would not be so correlated to the rainfall and forested areas of the country, it would be more dispersed, it is not a sociological phenomena but rather a geographical phenomena as plotting reports will show you rather quickly, but some will argue that people is such geographical areas are predisposed to such beliefs, that would work if all the people reporting these sightings were residing in such areas, but many reports come from individuals visiting such areas from other areas of the country with no predisposition, that is not adequate enough to discount the reports either.

I agree with much of Xion C's second paragraph. I would bet there are more pictures of BF in drawers and boxes being held back by people that do not want the publicity that have been released. Probably less video since that format has been around a much shorter time. The P/G film has been both a blessing and a curse in showing what could be with modern HD video and a curse in that it shows what can happen to the photographers of any new photography. Some people want no part of what Patterson and Gimlin went through after releasing the film. Can you really blame them? What we see now are mostly products of young people looking for fame or successful hoax on Youtube with blurry cell phone video, much of which is outright hoax. The stuff that could be authentic is such poor quality that most seeing it, throw up their hands with "I cannot see enough to tell". Even good quality stuff like the Canadian IMax footage is a difficult read because it shows so little. One pet peeve of mine is BF researchers running around poorly equipped or not equipped with good quality cameras. I have even heard arguments from Forum members that cell phone pictures should be good enough. They are not if the opportunity of your lifetime walks across the trail in front of you. And we have a large group that have shunned cameras altogether because of what I consider an unsupported myth: that BF will never show itself if you even have a camera. I wonder how many opportunities for good photographs and video have been lost because of that?. OK I understand that people have different goals out in the woods. But don't expect much belief even from proponents or any from skeptics if you have a 5 minute encounter with an unaware BF and don't at least get a photo. A BF that blunders into you or that is completely unaware that you are watching, is a prime opportunity for someone equipped with a suitable camera. Getting off my soapbox now.

Here is the finished unit. The bottom comes out into which the recorder and microphone will be inserted. Once inside, the cap will be closed and the microphone will dangle slightly below the tube. The entire tube will be taped to a tree using the same camo duct tape. Hopefully it blends into the scenery and is invisible to any passing person or creature. There is a slight red ring at the top of the bottom cap. This will be disappear when the tube is attached to a tree as one of the taping points will be along that ring. When I go out in the field, I will take a picture of it affixed to a tree and will send along so you can see how well it hides or doesn't hide. The next project is making a holding unit for a SONY PCM-M10 which I just got. I also ordered a pair of stereo EM-172 microphones which will be used in a takeoff of the insulated model that Gigantor provided.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azUazmLAoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpjiWs2dNDU It's my understand that all of it was quite real, every clip they showed and the project itself, and that there were significantly better and longer clips in that one project even at that time. Over time there have been many more clips accumulated by some people involved but those aren't necessarily a part of the "Erickson Project" at all, it is still very much so alive and there is talk of just pushing it all out to the public out of frustration. They are running into the hard fact that video is worthless, the better it is the better the supposed hoax is the conclusion people jump to. Add onto that the problems that alot of the Bigfoot just look like a overgrown chewbacca in the first place and that people suck at analyzing things in general and you realize the whole thing isn't really going to amount to much at all even if it does get dumped out. I have realized a odd point in the Bigfoot phenomena, there are tons of video of the Bigfoot floating around or being held in private, tons of evidence that just doesn't "go viral". God only knows how much of it is just floating around within the billions of videos on the net already. Skeptics ask why the Sasquatch are so rarely seen, why they aren't shot more often, why there aren't videos or pictures, and why there aren't hardly ever any other sorts of evidence popping up and the real answer is that it is all there actually, tons of it even. They get shot, evidence gets collected very regularly, they pop up on videos, and they get seen and heard all the time, people just aren't looking in the right places/recognizing what they see or even looking hard enough for the info.

You know Incorrigible I do not have a problem of being wrong with how the you posted this title of this thread. But there is a problem with the acceptance of telepathy that you your self has brought up on this thread that does have to do with these creatures. Telepathy is an issue with them and if you do not want to accept this well then I am ok with that . I cannot read your mind and there is no way I can prove this since us humans do not have these capabilities. But there must be a reason why people keep seeing these creatures and yet no creature laying on a slab. I personally cannot accept the theory that they do not exist since I have personally seen them with my own two eyes. So I cannot deny their existences and nor can those who have seen them as well. You have every right to accept that they do not exist and I am not denying you of that right. My acceptance comes from what I have witnessed and have experienced. It is up to you to make your own judgment not mine. My argument is that the article mocks those with PHD's who have placed hours of study on this creature and have come to grips with a living entity. These people with PHD's who have put countless field work of understanding of the truth. ( Now notice on how I have stayed away from the issue of telepathy except for now. It seems that the power to be do not want to hear about it. Maybe it is not a comfortable subject or a bit scary. But if people are actively hunting them could this be a reason why they have not been able to capture one or even killed one. ) I have no quarrels with you Incorrigible not what so ever. Peace out.

Hello all. The Remer Bigfoot Festival was a lot of fun. It was very small-town-carnival in flavor with families, food, a petting zoo, games, pony rides, and even a wedding (in which Bobo gave away the bride). There were also excellent witnesses in attendance, some of which had encounters and collected evidence quite recently. We filmed much of it for a future Finding Bigfoot episode. It'll be a good segment for that episode. (No, I don't know when it will be aired. I would guess in 2017, but this is just an uninformed guess.) There was no indication of bigfooter factions of any sort, but I wouldn't expect there to be. Most people who divide communities such as ours do it online, preferring to hide behind keyboards rather than coming out in person to ruin people's festivals and good times. There were nothing but smiles as far as you could see on the streets of Remer that day. If you'd like to see a bit more about what went on, you can check out this local news item below. Best, Cliff