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Oh of course. I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a reason for any person NOT to spend their time going to the woods making things like that. I guess that's why we see these things all over the country in the same basic archetypes and patterns, because everyone's bored of their iPhones and fidget spinners and everyone's into building tree structures. Kids these days.

My experience was similar. I had rationalized that if they were hostile, I would be dead too, and had moved into the big furry forest creature camp when I did things that provoked them and realized that I could only push them so far. My hunting behavior was met with being flanked by one I was not aware was behind me. This was a group that seemed friendly the first contacts but they seemed to tire of me trying to mess with them, and each contact became more unfriendly on their part. Even if first contacts seem friendly, one never knows if some hunter took some shots at the same group and any subsequent contact could be hostile. Too many reports of dogs being injured and killed to trust them around dogs trying to protect their humans. Just as creepy humans seem too interested in children, that same creepy interest by BF should be a matter of concern.

The whole "the Bigfoot were just concerned and trying to help" meme really bothers me. I think it more likely that they thought she might have been loading food in the jeep. If Bigfoot were universally hostile I'd be dead. But I don't think they are universally benign either. I've caught one in the act of trying to steal a puppy from our tent. And the location where that happened in Nevada County, California is in one of Paulides' clusters. I know that there have been accounts of life-saving acts by Bigfoot, but there are also accounts of probable predation by Bigfoot. They do, by many accounts, seem drawn to human children and I've experienced this. Their lurking behaviors may be benign, but they are also creepy, the acts of the ultimate boogeymen. Boogers? Many NA described them as predators, kidnappers, etc. I'm not inclined to leave the vulnerable untended in their presence.