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Haven't heard of that variety, or at least by that name Huntster. When I spent five months at NAS Cubi Point in Subic Bay on detached duty from the air wing on Enterprise we frequently encountered Monitor Lizards. They could get up to five feet or so and sometimes blocked traffic when sunning themselves on the pavement. Our transient barracks were a bunch of Quonset huts with the road on one side and jungle on the other, next door to the JEST (Jungle Escape Survival Training) Camp. Just looked at Google Earth imagery from April of this year and it's all still there though the jungle has encroached a bit more and the JEST Camp has a little pine tree symbol that usually denotes a park. The plus side was the newest EM club on base was diagonally across the road about a hundred yards away. We had one guy with us for a couple of weeks that was a suit short of a full deck and a terrible bigot who managed to alienate a sizable portion of the African Americans on the Big "E"; they took him off the ship for his own safety and he was on his way Stateside for out processing, likely with a general discharge. He returned to the hut one night white as a sheet after taking a drunken "shortcut" through the jungle from the club across the street. We finally got out of him that an evidently large Monitor reared up on hind legs and hissed at him (probably stepped on its tail) and he was sure it was going to eat him. We all kind of pitied the guy and it was hard to imagine how he even made it into boot camp let alone graduated. The thought of him armed with anything more than a cap gun would have been sufficient to make your blood run cold.

I would like to hear what others have to say on this subject. I am sure there is no wrong answer. I particularly would like to know about what you have to say about the tree knocks I have been experiencing when I am leaving the woods, on three occasions when I have left the tree line I have heard knocks. I experienced on several occasions before the knocks started, the sound of very large rocks or something splashing into the pond I was walking next to which was about about 150 feet from me, it was dark so I could not see what caused it but sounded like something that weighed about 1-10 pounds, that hit the water. First time was when I was leaving the woods which I always do after dark, the same area right when I came out of the tree line, leaving the woods, I heard two very loud smacking sounds of what sounded like 2 rocks, being hit together right in the location that I was doing my standing meditation in. I tried to duplicate the sound the next day but there are no large rocks in the area, and the small rocks I could find and smacking them together as hard as I could only made a sound about 1/8 of the volume of the hits I heard. Second time I went for a long hike in these woods and, and then heard a single knock of wood about 150 feet from me right when I was at the side of my car which was parked about 10 feet from the tree line. Third time, I was again leaving the woods at the tree line, and it was about 25 feet from me a double tree knock sound, this one sounded like it might have been about 15 or so feet high, not sure, I immediately stopped and took my two knives out and clacked them together two times but did not get any reply. Of course it was dark again and I can see ok in the open areas without a flashlight at night but this was in the wooded area, and it was just black, so I could not see anything. I was told the reason I can see in the woods at night in this area, is because it is in an urban area and there are lights from houses in the area shining into the sky and reflecting back down on the ground. I have only heard a tree knock once in the woods while I was in them, and it sounded like two kids talking to each other walking down the trail on the other side of the creek from me and then sounded like they were running down the trail as they were talking very loudly, and then a single tree knock but sounded like it was done with a baseball bat, and sounded like it was a much louder sound than what I could have made, and sounded like they were headed towards the road. It was still about 30 minutes before sunset. At the time I thought it was two kids about the age of about 10 years old, but the more I thought about it, I started to have doubts, because of the location, for kids this area is kind of scary, because of the way the the trail is not all so easy to go down, you have to walk through a patch of grass and reeds about 6 feet tall, and remnants of tents set up from homeless people that have abandoned them. All of this has happened in the same woods. Thanks in advance for your kind answers.

100 yards from me between two houses with shrubs between the houses. I knew where they were within +/-10 yards along the hedge after the 3rd or 4th knock. Not +/- 10 yards from me. That would be a very different set of issues.

No and as I have stated before, I will avoid that as long as there is a possibility that I will write a book someday. I do not want to get into a copyright battle over a picture that someone can claim is theirs because it has already been published. . It is not that good anyway but certainly the events leading up to the picture point to it being more than a blobsquatch. The picture shows most of the head and one arm which I believe was extended towards its prone mother nearby. I believe that was a cinnamon brown object in the picture that was not present when the thud / knock location was examined and surface disturbance was located. It is however one of the very few that show a juvenile at all. Due to its size it was likely being carried by its mother. Certainly it would not have been capable of keeping up with mom when she came crashing through the underbrush towards me. I know it was difficult for me to get to the thud and knock location to take the picture. If any of you run into me at a conference I usually carry an 8 by 10 of the juvenile that I can show you.

Truly I do not know what the knocks mean so I do not knock. There is no point in inadvertently knocking a declaration of war nor an offer of sexual favors "banned in 27 states and the District of Columbia" to the boss of the woods. I don't think all of those knocks are rocks or sticks, I think some may be hand clap, mouth pops, and tooth clacks. Given the lack of suitable materials in some locations, and the apparent instant availability of whatever is used, I suspect the BFs making the mouth sounds are very much closer than we realize thus accounting for otherwise unaccountable volume. Some people believe the number of knocks matches the number of humans. I've heard knocks 4-5 occasions ... it tracks. However, my then-partner in research said she heard a knock. I didn't hear it. There were 3 of us. So ... dunno. In at least one instance, I think the wood knock was intended for me, I'm not sure there were any other BFs around. MIB

^^^^ Be careful what you look for, IT just might find YOU. MIB

Sorry! Its on the Show Me Bigfoot Facebook page which you can find a few links to on my https://showmebigfoot.com/ website. You can find the Vietnam Rock Ape post at https://www.facebook.com/ShowMeBigfoot as well as a new post showing two different media spins on the recent Mammoth Cave Bigfoot sighting/shooting incident.