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I had multiple clues and interactions and was actively seeking the unknown that presented itself before me at close range. It was contrary to what I expected to see, but much too close for comfort. I had the satisfaction (rare I might add), of being truthful to myself in view of the highly irregular presentation. I shared my information with a core group of people and the SasquatchWatcch blogtalk show as well as Campfire Shadows. I was prepared to share it in one other venue but was cancelled. I thought I owed it to posterity to report what led up to the sighting and what occurred. The close sighting was not the end of it as I audio-recorded significant material for at least the next four years and much of it was very close to my living environment. Some of the recordings were confirmed regionally as being undetermined but identical in nature to material recorded a hundred miles away. I have the self-reliance to know what details i saw and to have accurately reported them. I also have the satisfaction of being an active participant in the mental health field I thought long and hard before going public and joining this forum, knowing the roast that awaited me. I did not receive the reception that Sal received on this reincarnated forum. No it was the heady days of BFF 1.0 when everybody got grilled that seemed to know anything directly about these things. My ten year anniversary comes up this July 8, 2017. Not sure how I am going to handle it. The environment where the sighting occurred is completely different now than then.

At first it was pure excitement for me since I have just seen what most people have never seen in their life time. But as time pass and the reality of what I have seen came into my existence. It freaked me out very much and yet I needed to know more about them. In order to know about them I needed to go in a place they did not exist, a forest where I thought that they did not roam. I needed to learn what really lurked in our forest in a safe way. So I started hunting in order to learn and picked up deer hunting as my hobby. Now knowing what I saw and what I had experienced and I am not talking about the telepathic stuff. Just the flesh and blood part of this animal that seems to understand us in some way. As I started hunting in a area that I thought was bigfoot free. I started seeing sign of their presences that thru me for a loop. Why would one person encounter them in one area and have encounters of them in a another area? This did not make sense and nor will it until I hear it from others in which I have. This just confirms that I have not lost my mind and am perfectly sane. What makes me even more sane is knowing that people around me have heard them as well while I am with them. So yes at first there was fear that set in with in me . But then there was also this calmness that I could never understand about them. I knew that they were out there around me and yet I stayed calm and even in the darkness. If they are so gosh darn evil then why am I still around. Is it my inner voice that has kept me alive from them. Is it this voice that told me to leave when I should that has kept me alive. Why would they try to connect with one? what is it that they bring to the table that they want to teach? I was yes that there is a psychological impact. But the impact comes from the witness not wanting to come forward with the encounter. It almost seems silly to speak about a mystical creature and it is this impact that makes it hard to speak about. I still feel silly speaking about what I saw and have experience. Come on I am 52 years old and I am talking about a creature that can read my mind. That's silly is it not ! Look at the people that mocks us for coming out with the truth. Is that not psychological enough for us in some way. Does anyone even know how that feels when one is being mocked for telling the truth? Think what that does to others who have also seen these creatures. when the ones who have seen them and have experience the same as I. Yes we do need to be on caution but reports or recounts do not lie.

I have not read this whole thread, but to just give my opinion. I would rather deal with endless hours of Sasquatch boredom, then give 5 minutes of my time to hoaxers, snake oil sales men, and the lunatics running the asylum that make up to much of today's Sasquatch field. Better to stick with actual research than waste time with those infected by "Ivan Marks Syndrome". Thomas Steenburg

You are sort of taking a journalist approach to this, in the sense you seem to be covering all possible aspects of an encounter. In reality, I'm not sure there are any John Greens out there anymore, what you have is researchers doing these interviews. They will want relevant info for their own uses, as opposed to reporting an event impartially. So location/time/date info is key, behavior information as well, less important will be the physical details. Critically important is any information relevant to determination of the encounter being real or not. Getting into the weeds, note that if one can provide the exact location (for both the BF and themselves) and rough time of day (and this should be possible), Google Earth makes many of the first 32 questions unneeded - those can be determined later. You ask about weight, consider instead just asking width. You can calculate the weight later without asking the witness to do cubic mathematics on the spot (note Salubrious's answer!). You ask about the shape of the nose, then lead the witness with human or ape. I would suggest just allowing whatever answer. You ask about a brow ridge, but that is a technical anthropological term. Even referring to "evidence" seems a BF community term. Ask specifically about prints or the potential of hair. I would suggest asking if you saw the hands/feet/toes, not if the BF had them. Perhaps replace the "history of sightings" question with "do you know of any similar events among your neighbors"? You can look up the BFRO/NAWAC/SSR/GREEN data yourself later. It may seem counter-intuitive but you actually want to ask as few questions as you can, so cutting those out that you can determine yourself is critical. I'm not an investigator, but have survey design and survey research experience.