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I agree. But the thing is, it was a dark night, and on a road that was not seeing much traffic. I was the only car I saw for the entire length of hiway 62 from Ridgeway until the turnoff to Telluride. I'm sure they heard my truck coming from a few miles off. And although they did not turn to look at me, it was obvious they were really agitated. So something weird was up (as if BF isn't weird enough) so I would not take my experience as a median example. To answer that, try being really really close to an animal of any type that is much much larger than yourself. Then add to that a hint of the boogyman and you might get a feel for it. The thing that is wrong is that people think they are dumb like other animals. What if they are smarter than humans? They have a big enough head- which suggests a bigger brain. I think the ones that get seen by whatever means are doing it with intention (as the ones I encountered) or are just plain screwing up. That's easy. They are about the only place you can go to where the reports, bogus or not, are categorized. Before transistors there were only vacuum tubes. That sort of thing.

The thing is, I came to a stop and sat there with this thing in front of me for a bit. It was probably only a few seconds, but it seems longer than that to me. I had a camera in a pack right beside me, but several thoughts went through my head at once: This thing is 6 feet high seated on its rear and smaller creatures can take my truck apart like a pop can. I have to take my eyes off of it to fish the camera out of the pack. Its going to flash so I'll need to roll down the window to take the shot, putting me on the same side of the glass as it is... all of which led to me to conclude that simply leaving with no camera shot and living with the enigma might be a better thing to do than to find out What Happens Next.

^You are a random anonymous person telling stories on the internet. How can you be offended?

I think it's crazy talk to think that something like Bigfoot is smarter than a human. But all Apes are smart. Crazy smart compared to other mammals. No. They will not solve fusion anytime soon. But consider the intelligence of a Chimp, and then consider the probable Intelligence of something much closer to humans...say Homo Erectus. I think it's safe to say it would scare us and rival us in certain situations. Also, I don't think we can just make blanket behavioral statements about an Ape species. It's not a static thing. In the above video the Chimp learns to float a peanut out of a tube to consume it. Why would a Bigfoot risk being seen on a blacktop road? What could it possibly be doing there? It could be a learned behavior with rewards. Such as simply taking in the warmth of the blacktop after the sun goes down. Snakes utilize this as we know. It could be licking road salts from the road. Many states apply road salt and sand during winter and the stuff hangs around all year. Sometimes the state will bring a sweeper along in spring to sweep it to the ditch. Animals get hit on the road way all the time and could be a source of protein as well. Lastly humans have built roads almost every where. Many of the forest roads in the Gifford Pinchot national forest are paved. Presuming Bigfoot is real? I think it's rather silly to think that a large omnivore would never cross a road for the risk of being "seen". It would be forced to follow food sources, mates, seasons, etc. So reports that see Bigfoots by or on roadways I don't think should be dismissed offhand because it's an elusive creature.

I think they are bears quite often, sometimes people, sometimes they are even ground squirrels or rabbits that make scary noises in the woods for people that go out wanting to be scared. What they aren't is overall-wearing, chain-smoking brakemen on your local freight train. They aren't living anywhere near downtown Chicago. They aren't living in Sassyfoot's side yard without leaving physical sign that could be tested. Fer shur, squatch are true blue sweethearts until they start beheading folks, kidnapping them Missing 411 style, attacking in waves at Ape Canyon, throwing rocks at NAWAC or going straight up Boggy Creek style. The only consistent thing in all the stories told is that they remain inconsistent stories. Statistically, what conclusions can we draw from that data? Forest people or wood apes? Sweethearts or monsters? Which group of observers are right? All, some, none? The truth is that none of the stories matter without evidence to back them up. That's why they didn't rely on stories in the Cascades. They used proven techniques that work on all known species to come up with answers rather than just ask for story submissions.

The above gif is old. We have added automatic color coding and links to the original reports when you click on a marker. To use it for field work, all you have to do is have a website with the documentation. The SSR would link to each report/field note/etc. All Premium members can access the SSR.

That's why statistics are important ... establish averages, establish standard deviation, THEN you can truly know what is an outlier and what merely is odd from a gut feel perspective. There's a lot of strange seeming things in bigfooting that are only strange to (sometimes deliberately) uninformed who are going by "gut" without doing real science .. which includes real math. It's that seemingly weird, but appropriately consistent, stuff that interests me. There may be new / undiscovered physical principals at work which someone gets to discover .. if they'll only risk the ridicule that comes from doing actual science and **looking** rather than scoffing. MIB

Truly tough people don't need to proclaim how tough they are.

Thanks, WSA. Oh, and to everyone else: The "ignore" function is your friend.

It is. And other things. I'll PM you.

OK- I had a sighting back in 1990. It was really close up- about 8 feet. It was not from the corner of my eye. I was confronted with a creature so large that seated on its rear it effectivly blocked my lane on the road I was driving. It had no obvious snout like an elk, bison, bear, etc. I had a good view of it in the brights of my headlights. At first I thought a truck had lost its load of reddish dirt until I got closer. It turned out to be not only alive, but enormous and not any creature that I had ever seen before (and I've seen most of them in the lower 48). Does this encounter fit into your thumbnail above? What do you personally think I saw? It was pretty strong for me, but you kinda had to be there...

Scientific proof may not be enough as legal proof would define this entity and lay out the metes and bounds of how the government and the public interact with them once official legal status is attained. Evidence comes in a variety of forms such as oral, written and the many types of forensic evidence. It is a collection of verifiable evidence that coalesces into proof. One of the apparent impediments to such is the competition among many of the various groups and their unwillingness to work together on a common goal. The ego factor and greed for fame and fortune not only facilitate devisive behavior but have even led to causes of action at the courthouse. BFRO reports are a resource to start developing a blueprint to begin patterning behavior and developing the common denominators that are sitting there in plain sight. We are using them to develop a basis for where to look (first) for skeletal remains. There can be more than one reason as to why humans are escorted out of certain areas. Above all, make sure the people you choose to associate with are like-minded as you will eventually find out the truth and it becomes a real source of frustration.

I don't recall his exact words, but he was seemingly drunk off his a$$ on a podcast ridiculing the whole notion of bigfoot with his scoffing podcast hosts. I've been looking for a link. It was posted here on BFF at one time, there's where I first saw it. I haven't been able to find it again. Perhaps someone else will have better luck, has linked it and will share, or something like that. He isn't called "Dis-n-tell" by accident. I would not trust Disotell based on the behavior and biases he displayed. I would not want his name, his behavior, attached to my "find." If I had DNA work to do, it would go elsewhere. MIB

Also exceeded by the foolishness of people who can look at historical changes in what science accepts (anybody remember alchemy, phlogiston, "the ether", yada yada yada?), yet proclaim science's infallibility today. Doh! MIB

The scientific community's lack of common sense is exceeded only by its arrogance.