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He will be missed. We were friends. He was a cool head and calm thought in a field which to my mind seems more insane every day. We had disagreements over the decades concerning evidence but we booth never let that get in the way of cooperation and fellowship toward the final goal concerning the Sasquatch question. He was a good researcher. he was a first rate Wildlife Biologist. John I will miss you. I am also sorry for those times my snoring forced you to leave the tent. the camper, And John Greens quest room.

In Bigfoot Tony's video analysis, he correctly identifies the subjects stride, steps, and movement as human like. In his slow motion, the subjects feet cannot be eliminated as being simply boots covered with a suit, since the bottoms are black, have a significant depth over the front of the foot, and there is no obvious mid tarsal flexibility or tow flexibility. Patty's foot soles in the P-G film were white and had considerable flexibility in the toes that were viewable. Kathy Strain's sighting claimed a super human speed as several Bigfoot climbed a steep hill. There is nothing super human about the speed of the subject as Bigfoot Tony points out. Furthermore, the subject slows to a complete walk, after climbing the several steps up the slope, because he appears to weigh the recovery from his exhaustion as more important than the preservation of his life from two potential gun toting humans at can't miss range of about 15 yards. There are two people at the camera as one unwinded person talks over the top of Todd's huffing and puffing. Why was that person unwinded, when Todd was quite winded? It would appear that the director in Todd saw it appropriate to prepare himself for the cameraman role by doing some pushups, prior to filming the short sequence. All considered, a human cannot be ruled out as the subject on the ledge.

He may have had valid experiences with BF but the problem is capturing actual evidence to prove anything. In the absence of valid evidence people become obsessed and then desperate. In Todd's case he is very desperate and more than a little obsessed. The pattern is to get into hoaxing to try and recreate a facsimile of what a person believed they witnessed. It's an imperfect area of study. Though in a documentary wrap-up I would expect more than a loon dressed in camouflage acting out a sequence of what they claim to have done and witnessed. Either you can demonstrate how you obtained evidence or you can't.

Ohhh, none. In truth I was being a bit glib about presenting a speculation: perhaps they progress along a different axis of cultural or intellectual advancement, one that can't be measured by technological achievements. Although I'd also say, though it isn't direct evidence per se, that consistent evasion of 50+ years of our efforts to prove their existence demonstrates a certain superior intellect. But consider it this way: some humans have achieved some remarkable things through meditation, controlling heart rate or body temperature for example. Perhaps there are powers of mind far beyond our comprehension, and sasquatch, not being so consumed with material problem solving by necessity, progressed along that path perpendicular to our own. There are reasons to think that could be the case. The Native Americans seem to think along these lines, and habituators frequently talk about them this way too. There are also those who claim experiences with sasquatch that transcend what we think of as "normal," and we insist that those posts get their own home down below the general section. I think MIB's point is astute and that's kind of been my creeping realization with myself over the past year or two: who am I to scoff at others' alleged experiences, when I seven or eight years ago would've scoffed at my own experiences since then? One final line of reasoning on intelligence vs culture: the Sierra Sounds and their spoken language. This is evidence-based, and it certainly indicates we're dealing with something way beyond extant great apes. If they have a spoken language, is it reasonable to expect that they produce no cultural artifacts because they're incapable? If they're too primitive of mind to produce technology, why do they seem to understand the uses of our own, such as guns and cameras? If they do understand our technology to some extent through observation, why don't they try to emulate it? Why don't they steal a grill lighter and build a little fire to cook over? My assertion is that they don't need to, they realize it would draw unwanted attention, and they choose not to.

So far, bigfoot is scoffed at because people, on the whole, don't seem t want to acknowledge existence. So far, among those who will consider existence, certain reported behaviors are scoffed at because people don't want to seriously consider the intelligence those behaviors might imply. And now, among those who will consider the intelligence, apparent cultural artifacts are dismissed or "re-spun" into something else because people don't want to consider what those artifacts imply. Hmmm ... nobody else sees a pattern here? Nobody sees that others are scoffing at what they accept but that they, themselves, become those others scoffing at someone else yet? Nobody has a mirror that functions, nobody dares to look and apply the same standards to themselves that they apply to others? Disappointing. Very disappointing. MIB