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Hello I’m very happy to have joined the fourms and learn more on Bigfoot. When I was a teen in 1970s, I was walking home from a party. When some thing quickly walked down a hill (which was a big hay field) at 2:30 am, it was large and moved very quickly, and it followed me from behind a tree line, it stopped when I stopped and walked when I walked. This went on for around 20 minutes. I just ran home the rest of the way (about 2 more miles) and never looked back. I wanted to stop at homes along the way and ask for help, but was afraid no one should answer a door @ 2:30 am. I will never forget how afraid I was. And how good it felt to finaly make it home. I believe this was an encounter and I dont want another one. This happened in the Bozrah CT area. In 1977.

LOL, I made the same mistake Bobby. No, NatFoot is not "our" Nathan.

I'm not sure I'd say this. Regarding your picture, hopefully without offense, I'd just say cartoonish. To my eye it captures the essence of Roger Patterson's little clay bigfoot statue. Here is forensic artist Harvey Pratt's rendition of Patty minus the hair ( swiped from Google images, attributed to the Bigfoot Field Journal there ) The only thing I find missing in Harvey's drawing is the wrinkles at the bridge of the nose. If you look at the cover art for Enoch or DWA's old avatar, you'll get what I mean. It's partly obscured by hair so it's reasonable for Harvey to have missed that detail. I wouldn't call that "ape". Not particularly attractive but a darn sight more human than chimp-like or gorilla-like. MIB

I have some insight into possible reasons. The area where I grew up was fairly heavily populated (relatively speaking :)) prior to the Great Depression and continuing on up to about WW II or a bit later. People homesteaded, set up mining claims, and so on. Eventually they left leaving structures on public land. USFS and BLM had a lot of trouble with squatters, hippie communes, etc popping up using those old structures, leaving litter, growing dope, and generally being a public nuisance. One winter we had a ... lets call it a series of anomalous lighting strikes ... and by the next spring, all of those abandoned structures mysteriously burned to the ground yet none which were still legally maintained were damaged. "Hmmm." I suspect it to be much the same for the structure that the hunters were using ... it simply was not legal to construct anything even semi-permanent on National Forest or Wilderness lands so once it came to USFS attention, they were required by agency policy to destroy it. Nothing nefarious was required. Didn't have anything to do with bigfoot, it was strictly removal of an illegal structure. The only structure I know of now which is not on a patented, maintained mining claim or on public land under a long term lease to a private individual is, though unmarked and unsigned, on the National Registry of Historic Places. The rest have been removed ... burned or otherwise destroyed ... by government workers. MIB

You'll want to hear from Nathan on this though. He had a very close, unambiguous sighting. His story is here somewhere, along with a well done drawing of what he encountered.

Found it, but now I have to translate it. Found it, but now I have to translate it.

I have heard him speak several times. Nelson has done a lot of analysis of the BF language but states clearly that he will never be able to translate it. To learn an unknown language you have to have face to face contact with the subject to get some context to associate with words. He has found no direct correlation with any other modern human language, although its multi-tonal nature seems to be similar to some Asian languages. The Navajo code speakers in WWII completely baffled the Japanese for the same reason. If he could hang out with BF for a few weeks he likely could make great progress translating it. He can tell the difference between a statement and a question and that is about all. BF speak very fast. He did make the trip to the Sierra Sounds location when it still existed and tried to speak their language. He was hilarious to the BF. Interestingly and this points to the Government, the location was a hunting camp that had been in existence and used for decades. Its location was never revealed other than it was someplace between Lake Tahoe on the North and Yosemite on the South in the Sierras. Once it was discussed in the Sierra Sounds book, someone, it had to have been some government agency, went in and destroyed the camp. Because of its remoteness, it would have taken an aircraft to find it. It was of no interest to the government until it became associated with BF, causing some agency to search for it and do a lot of work to destroy it. Why? .

It wasnt a Bear...

Neither confirming or denying in government speak is confirming. You would only go on record with a statement like that not to look like a fool when something is confirmed from another source. It also smacks of some lever of classification and supports my theory that some aspects of BF are classified. For what reason I do not know but evidence seems to point that way. As an example: I cannot confirm the presence of nuclear weapons at any of the bases I was stationed. If asked the official protocol is "I cannot confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons at this base." If I had any service related BF knowledge, I would suspect that I would have been instructed to say something similar. As a matter of fact that may be a way to independently confirm that BF have been an issue at military installations. If you requested information from a military installation like Joint Base Lewis McCord in Washington State which has several reports of interaction and sighting of BF and the answer is they can neither confirm or deny the presence of BF encounters on their installation, that would be the smoking gun about classification standing of BF. .

Thanks! Had a flashlight and headlamp that both failed me back in late November on a night hike in the Sierra's. Luckily I knew my way around and made it back to my vehicle safety, little spooky though with the Bigfoot's in the area.

So the foot is a fake, complete with false hair? Wigfoot! Been waiting forever to use that one.

It seems consistent with SOME Native American beliefs. I have no problem with that. However, it's not the whole answer. As much as folks .. maybe like you, or maybe not .. might wish, what I saw was real. Process this: delusions and illusions do not leave castable footprints nor produce recordable vocalizations. While there is no proof they are "bigfoot" since we lack proof of bigfoot, **something** made them and it is not any known animal. Something "unknown" **is** out there. That is fact. You, or others, may deny, but will be wrong if you do. MIB