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I made a height stick to use for reproducing height during witness interviews. We've used it twice on the Omaha Reservation this winter. It is simply an extending pole for paint rollers, about $15 at Menards. I marked it out from 6 1/2 feet to 11 1/2 feet but it goes to just short of 12 feet at full extension. I marked it to the bottom of the ball, in case I want to replaced the ball with one of a different size. I actually have two pole, one with a 4 inch yellow/blue foam ball and one with the orange tennis ball. I made this to go back and do a better job for my own report from May of 2018. Sadly, I have not been able to get in there to get it done, and now flood waters may have messed up my chances. The third photo is an actual investigation on the Omaha Reservation in February when Robin Roberts was in town. Witness said she saw something standing in that spot with it's head near those snow covered branches. We measured 11 feet tall. We were there to look at tracks, but they were overblown by snow.

I almost hate to say it because we do have people who claim to see BF in nearly every photograph they take. But in the 60s and 70s many slides were taken but the BF was not common knowledge. The population of BF had to be higher and it therefore more likely that people unknowingly took BF photos. Throw in the factor that unless you were a photography hobbyist or paid a photography studio money to blow up images, not many people had pictures blown up beyond the cheapest blow up ratio of the mass photo processing. A 4 X 5 was bigger and more expensive than standard processing. No one has really looked at all the nature slides out there. Now we can take our digital images and at home on the computer blow them up a great deal. A 35 MM slide digitized with a good quality digitizer produces a far better quality image than anything other than a very expensive DSLR at high image resolutions. If someone has hundreds of nature slides, maybe a good project would be get a good digitizer and start looking for the peeping BF in the tree line or on the ridge. Some might even be real and not pareidolia. Now and then someone discovers what looks like a BF in a modern picture. PS don't bother to do this if all you have to view the digital results is an IPad or your IPhone. You need something with a larger screen to see details.

They sure would! It was the early 90s, so, no cell phones and I didn't start carrying a camera until the late 90s. I never remotely associated the woven vine maple "nest", twisted trees or wood knocks with Sasquatch. They all were just mysterious things in the woods. It was fairly recent that I found out that these things have been associated with them.

One afternoon while bow hunting in the Oregon coast mountains, My brother and I came across a structure that was vine maple twisted and weaved into a wigwam type structure. No human evidence was found. A couple of hundred yards away, we were walking down an old cat road that had over grown until there was just an elk trail. It was lined with young fur and alder trees that were about 12 to 15 feet tall. All the tops were twisted and left hanging down at about 8 to 12 feet high. They went on for a long ways. No other trees were damaged. Just the ones lining the trail on the old road. The whole time we were following the trail we heard constant wood knocks. Two or three at a time.