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I do not come here for the ridicule but for the research of what other have learned. I also come came here to seek answers just like you twist about the feathers. It is not the first time that this has happen to me and it will not be the last. But now this has happen to my son who is now involve who did not believe what had happen to myself. There is no way to explain this except with " WoW " . He placed a turkey feather and asked for a hawk feather and it was replaced with a hawk feather. How can this be hoaxed if no one knew his thoughts except myself and my son. We did not speak of this out loud and the idea was at a spur of a moment. We left the area and came back in a week and found a Hawk feather under the rock at this gifting station. He sees them as a entity of higher level then us and almost to a point of worship. I as his Dad cannot and have told him that you cannot see them like that. They have led me down that road and I am sure they have led others the same. They are animals that live wild that seem to know us. The way I explain it to my son is like chess, they always seem to be three or four steps ahead of us in every move we make. It is only when you loose fear of them that they back away and yes I have sat in my stand waiting for a chance. If you do not believe me then test it your self. I just cannot go on denying what they do is not true. One can have denial for so long but sooner or later you have to come out with the truth. For myself my encounter has never been a " WoW " but very profound. It has hurt my relationships with people and I tell my son to stay silent on what he has learned since he is only 13 years old. SWW If I could get them to bring me gold I be a rich man right now. But I have never tried it so it might be worth it if they understand it. But you are right they do have incredible knowledge of the mountains and woods. I am sure that I could survive on what they kill and leave behind as long as it was fresh. Maybe one day I will ask to trade for a big nugget, now would that not be nice. So if you see me post a picture of a big gold nugget then you know I did it and you can go for it too. So we can stop trying to kill one and get rich of them right! SWW would that not be nice.

During my encounter I realized that there are probably other things that are out there that we are told don't exist. So I guess I started to question things. Even though they were enormous (the larger of the two being at least 10 feet tall; it was 6 feet tall while seated on its rear) the knowledge that they really do exist and are probably out in the woods somewhere has never influenced my desire to go into the woods. I suspect I have had several class B encounters since that time. The latest was when I was riding my mountain bike over the Elkford Pass in Alberta (which is right on the border with British Columbia). The pass is rather lengthy, stretching several miles, a number of which required that I hike my bike. During that time I noticed that there was a rock clacking going on in the woods to my left. Since there was a power line right of way, the woods were a little ways off (about 100 feet) and the rock clacking was very distinct. I noticed that as I proceeded south, a couple of miles later the rock clacking was still with me and had been going on for the last 15 minutes as it paralleled my course. So I picked up a couple of rocks and clacked them together- after that I didn't hear from them again.

So far the anticipation has been worse than the actual event. Build-up, concern, etc ahead of time have all been way out of proportion. In the moment, surprise, wonder, and curiosity ... and humor ... have proven to be the real substance when I've seen one. That's true most of the time when there were pretty strong indications they were around though not seen as well, however, a couple of those times have also been pretty terrifying. We bring a lot to the table with us, state of mind at the moment, basic comfort in whatever the environment is, awareness / knowledge of their existence, and if we think about them at all, what we believe. Those all predispose us to one sort of emotional response or another. Sometimes we tell ourselves stories about how we'll react that prove untrue and sometimes being confronted with that untruth is more disturbing than the event itself. MIB

I think that is normal for some people. They evidently didn't realize they were in the food chain the minute they parked the car. And it just takes one scary encounter to end it all for them, even Bears, Cougars, forest fire or a Mule wreck. I try to live by the mantra that it's ok to be afraid. It's not ok to let it run your life.

As part of the agreements between myself and witnesses who have asked that I personally investigate their enigmatic animal encounters, the locations of the events are not publicly disclosed for all the reasons you have listed plus others. Those four BF research groups that have requested that I investigate reports they receive bind me by a confidentially agreement from releasing information about the name of the witnesses, their addresses and the locations of the encounters if they occurred on private property, primarily for the same reasons you so clearly described. In response to Gig's "easy to track them" question; yes, it would be easy if the witnesses actually wanted to do that quickly after the theft of the fruits/berries. Not so surprisingly, danged few of them that were aware of what had swiped the food stuff cared to follow fresh tracks and encounter a family group of big hairy primates and interrupt the their hard earned meal. In most cases the investigators don't reach the scene for weeks or more after the event, and the trail of tracks and dropped produce may be hard to find and follow. Most folks that have these experiences could care less about "providing evidence" of BF's existence to skeptics who like to pile and heap their meaningless opinions that BF is a myth all over the internet. Those "all knowing folks" with little or no experience with real. day-and night 'boots on the ground" fieldwork are simply like pesky gnats; not much you can do but listen and watch them buzz. Thanks for your spot on post NCBFr.