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I was a believer in what I consider a dangerous myth. The myth being if you just go out and hang around long enough, BF will trust you and eventually reveal itself. The myth continues that eventually you could be hand shaking buddies. One conference speaker claims just that. My experience was completely opposite of that. I think I disrupted their daily life so much that I may have put myself in danger of being simply eliminated as a problem. I might have messed up deer hunts, kept them from water, or any manner of things I was oblivious to doing that bothered them. Things got more unfriendly with each interaction and the last event was being hit with infra-sound. I guess fortunately for me, clear cutting eliminated cover in that area about that time, and they moved off. We should always consider the fact that when we introduce ourself into their world, it might not be good for them. To think otherwise is the height of human arrogance.

^^^^ ... agrees with interpretation of personal experience. PTSD, too. And yet it seems like, at least for me, the cure for this particular PTSD is to dive right back in and do it again. "Well, I lived through it, I better go try it again." MIB

(PTSD) No, I cannot deal with that. But to dive right into it again and again that I can deal with and that is the insanity about dealing with these creatures. It is like taking a big long line of coke and staying high on it and never coming down from it. You are always on your toes cause you never know what will ever come next since there is no clues that they give. So as a hunter this gives you excitement and really gets your heart rate up there since there is some thing that can out smart you. You feel life in your soul and a purpose to live. Whether they found you or you found them it was fate and this cannot be changed. Your life is no longer the same that it once was. He has explained this very well where he just does not care what one thinks what he believes excepts for those who have experienced these creatures. I have always felt the same way as well except that I am not this great well known guide hunter. Never claimed to be and have always tried to explain my experience the best way I could. There is so much more to this creature behavior that needs to be learned and understood. People need to speak out about what they have observed and have experienced so that we can understand this creature.It is all about how they behave around us as humans.

Forested Acres by State. No probs here.. http://www.stancourtney.com/Forests.html

When I flew for the military most of my flying was in the central plains or Western US. I got very familiar with the forestation or lack of it in the West. It was not until I started flying for the airlines and got to see the forests of the East. New York state is covered by far denser and more widespread forest than Washington State. Go further East in Washington State than Mt Adams and you run out of forest until you get to near the Idaho boarder. Unless they have been all shot because of much more time settled by Europeans, I see no reason that places like New York cannot be BF habitat.

You have to be correct if they exist and are a viable breeding population in abundance. If rare and existing only in dark forests then locating bones and bodies then finding them is unlikely.

All sasquatches that have lived in the past have died. There is little doubt that remains have been found in all manner of conditions by people. We even have a few reports of people having killed sasquatches within the past century and beheld their freshly killed carcasses. There are also numerous reports of giant skeletons found continent wide. What we don't have is some magical authority waving his official hand and declaring all of this "scientific".

I have to admit the Ohio reports are an enigma to me. I have no doubt these things can follow riparian areas, watersheds, drainages and washes for long periods of time back and forth. I see them having no problems with travel corridors and if the latest NAWAC reports of their ability to swiftly negotiate extreme topography is true they can be on you quickly and far away from you even quicker. Sounds like NAWAC got flanked and circled based on their sensor reports. I believe also they are thriving and in no danger of going extinct.

It is interesting how many of these hunters (who commented on the HowtoHunt youtube video), say that after their encounter they either stopped hunting, stopped going hunting solo, or never went into the forest alone at night again. Some suggested that it was like PTSD. Many said that eventually they regained the courage to go back hunting. I wish we had the real full stats from hunters who have encountered BF. I met a very seasoned hunter from CA, during a BFRO trip, who had a daytime experience while hunting deer. He got so spooked that he stopped hunting for years. Eventually he found the courage to start hunting again and also started investigating the BF phenomena. I wonder if the hunters’ fear comes from realizing that they are not the top predator in the forest with their guns? None of the cases that I have read indicate that any hunter got hurt intentionally. There was one case whereas a guy ran into a BF and the BF pushed him back to get him off, and that blow took all the air from his lungs. But I don’t think the intention was to hurt or kill, but to get the guy off him. Moreover, there is no evidence that BF has killed any hunter. These creatures can be fearsome and can scare the hell out of you with their loud screams and aggressive throwing of rocks and shacking of trees. But if they really wanted to kill any of these hunters, they could have done it easily. So on one hand, you got these hunters (who know the wilderness and forest areas much better than the average public and know the real wildlife dangers) who are scared of BF, and on the other hand you got the new age crowd (mostly non-hunters, who claim to be telepathically communicating with their BF teachers while camping in a group setting in the wilderness) who do not fear BF. Who has a better sense of reality? I say the hunters, but they might be biased in terms of their bi-polar view of the world (consisting only of the hunted and the hunter). There might be 3rd way whereas these creatures are not interested in hurting humans (unless they feel threatened). I am not eliminating the possibility of a rogue BF abducing or killing a human, but I don’t think that is a common behavior. Otherwise, there would be a lot more missing hunters and near misses (with injured hunters). Unless you think BF is so powerful and skillful that he will never miss a kill. On the other hand, there is the Dark Forest Theory of the Universe (see link below), that appears to be a bi-polar view of alien life and is based on a winner takes all belief. I don’t this applies to BF encounters, because many encounters have been peaceful. Nonetheless, I am sharing the link FYI. https://medium.com/futuresin/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-universe-a52012529e0f “In The Dark Forest, the assumptions of life are this: living organisms want to stay alive — they have a survival drive — and there is no way to know the true intentions of other lifeforms. Because there can be no certainties of a peaceful encounter, the safest course of action is to eradicate the other species before they have a chance to attack you instead.”