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This appears to be a remote weather sensor for sensing barometric pressure and temperature. The threaded pipe to the side is for mounting a wind speed and directional piece, but would not be needed in the area that it is deployed in, due to the surrounding woods. It appears to be a standard set up, like the ones we used in college for doing research, but only has the one sensor piece mounted. Our's were round, this one is square, but serves the same function. As for keeping this area a secret, it would appear that is now a lost cause, and you may not get the results you once did due to increased traffic. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Looking at the northeast: 60 encounters while people were camping in some way, shape, or form (i.e., cabins, tents, lean-tos) yield only 20 actual sightings. How nice of Bigfoot to work in easily-rounded numbers. These 60 encounters while camping are out of 895 encounters overall. Unfortunately, the rest are people who heard or smelled things while camping and didn't care to go out in the middle of the night to discover what was shaking the ground around their tent.

Our research area has been productive throughout the year. We would go through "dry spells" of no activity though. I don't think the troop ever moved too far away however. Our research area is in North Georgia so no real reason to escape months of snow on the ground like up north or out west.

Could be a coincidence, all of my families experiences have been in the Dec to March months. I think we are on the outer fringes of their hunting ranges and they only venture here when things are lean.

Any first sighting is going to be life-changing in some way. Either it will affirm one's belief, confirm existence for the open-minded, or fundamentally contradict with a skeptic's world view (or at least cause a skeptic to question himself - I, myself, refused to accept that the individual I had encountered was not a man until my second encounter). After that (the "OMG there one is" moment), there is the intensity level of the encounter. Was it a sighting at a distance? Was the sighting close enough to allow interaction? did the bigfoot behave in a evasive, passive, benign, defensive, intimidating, threatening, or aggressive manner? Did the witness feel that they or someone with them was in jeopardy? Did the witness, for example, feel the need to protect a family member if the bigfoot made a move, possibly with the realization that it might be at the cost of their own life? Or worse, did the witness feel helpless to protect a child or spouse? Given the long history of legends and lore regarding bigfoot-like creatures around the world, one must also consider that over the millennia the competition between us and that class of hominids may be ingrained in us at the visceral level as well, as it is with most categories of animals that have preyed on or threatened our species throughout time. We may be hard-wired to respond at the gut instinct level to an encounter with them. I even think that this manifests as the motivation behind the behavior of the most adamant of skeptics. All of these things are potential factors influencing the psychological impact of a sighting or an encounter. One thing is for sure, a sighting or encounter is not likely to be a "so what" moment.