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Yes it does look good! I'll pass it along to my cast members and see if we might be able to get a group going

Incomplete .. yes. This has 3 pieces. There's the backlog of reports each group has that have not been investigated because of manpower limitations. There are reports which have been investigated and will never be published. (Several reasons for this.) There are reports which are investigated and a report is published but it is only part of the original, raw report. It is necessary to understand that different groups / sites have different standards regarding what to publish, how much investigation to do, etc. This varies between Bigfoot Balleyhoo where even the witness is unnecessary, Linda Newton-Perry invents them as she invents their reports, to BFRO who always investigates every report that is published. Most fall in between somewhere. Every site has an owner somewhere at some level. The "flavor" of the site generally reflects that person's beliefs. They select investigators they trust which generally means people who share their philosophy so it creates a filtering of sorts whether conscious and intended or not. Ultimately, behind the filtering, is often a desire to appear scientific and credible to Big Science. I believe you are among those who have expressed an opinion that certain things should not be examined because doing so undermines the community's credibility. There it is. That weird need to prove ourselves credible to our scoftics causes us to self-harm. By omitting the "para" content, which is fairly prevalent, from publication, it leads those not "in the know" (with access to the raw reports) to conclude the para is truly infrequent. That, in turn, leads many witnesses to omit that from their original report ... further feeding the vicious circle. My suggestion to other investigators is to conduct the interviews very carefully .. "the facts ma'am, just the fact." When that is done, before ending, ask the witness if there is anything they want to add or ask that didn't go in their written report. It's amazing what people are happy to talk about but not put in writing. GOOD investigators are not just interrogators, they are witness advocates. The witnesses come forward not to help us understand, but to seek help with a life / perception -altering event. We should leave them better than we found them. MIB

The most likely analogue of Sasquatch is that of human hunter gatherer tribes that move with the seasons and changes in food sources. That may imply territory since the food sources are cyclical and in the cases of animal protein, they have their seasonal migrations. In my opinion the big red arrow that points to BF being a hunter gatherer is the apparent lack of settlements. Human hunter gatherers rarely leave much trace of their movement through an area. If BF is hunter gatherer, then that has a large impact on the meaning of sighting data related to BF. One would think it would make interpretation of data much more difficult, but at the same time such data could support the hunter gatherer model. We see reports of BF being seen pulling root plants out some marsh, or catching fish in some stream. If these sighting reports recur, this possibly points to harvesting behavior and could be used to tie BF to a seasonal presence in certain areas, which certainly is helpful in determining when they might be present. As far as when BF are likely to die, I also think we should look at humans to answer that question. In the several families I know well enough to know such things, most human old people that die of natural causes, the death is usually in the fall or early winter. I would suppose that BF is even more likely to have issues with pneumonia which is a common killer of human elderly. So if I picked a season where I would expect BF to die, then I would look at fall and winter. I have also maintained that birth and presence of infants may be a weakness in BF ability to remain undetected. Even if they do not cry much, I expect that they cry some and could be heard by humans. And if BF birthing is not seasonal, and year round like humans, infant mortality would be higher in the winter due to the wet nasty weather. None if this is a rosy topic but perhaps there are patterns in the data.

Eric has a pretty good lineup, I talk to him a lot on FB and he did tell me he is close to adding someone that is pretty significant figure to give a presentation. I jokingly said Bobo and he said close. I'm thinking it could be Cliff Brackman. But that's a 100% hunch on my part.

Thanks for posting it, I'm gonna try to go.

I don't have a clue of the time or date of my up close experience. On that mountain, one day was like another, and the only thing that counted was where the sun was in the sky - which I got accustomed to many years ago - as my clock. I don't keep a daily log of my activities, never have, and it's not looking good for tomorrow, either. MIB is right. You have a Come-To-Jesus realization, the last thing the in world you care about is the time, time zone, or date. Most of my life - I've never had a structured life that operates on dates and times. Of course a doctor appointment - but that's why I got married - to remind me of crap like that. And then, there's just no accounting for some folks reactions to some events. Maybe they don't do what we in the safe confines of civilization, on a keyboard think should have been the proper reaction. I heard more young buck replacements brag about what they were going to do in combat, and when it happened, you couldn't find hide nor hair of them, and later, "I was helping the medic," or "I was getting more ammo." Some of them wet themselves, as was clearly evident immediately after the action. It's just a bit different when it happens to you. One reaction after another.

No, I can see that. My first sighting was some time in October and it was probably 1976. That's my best guess calculation from surrounding details, not something I remember specifically. The last one ... I had to look it up, I was off by a day. It was the first saturday in October, 2013. I thought it was the 6th but the calendar says that would have been the 5th. 9:30 - 9:45 am if I remember right. On one hand, it's amazing what we can get used to and not really pay much attention to side details, on the other hand, when something is pretty traumatic or intense, a sort of auditory exclusion / tunnel vision can occur where we don't really notice the details. I worry more when someone remembers too much side detail it would not be normal to remember. The number of pancakes they ate, exactly how many cars they passed on the road, how many sodas they drank the night before ... stuff that looks much like they're adding irrelevant detail to give the appearance of precision.