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Well ratty-tat, wish I could have that experience......and as an older guy, I'm getting out of that darn tent a few times a night now........your humble narrator below:)

I had a very closeup encounter in 1990 on the Dallas Divide in Colorado in good lighting. No mistaking what I saw. I was headed to Telluride at the time, when I got there I asked a friend of mine that lived there if there were any Bigfood sightings in the area. He gave me a funny look and I really got the feeling that I shouldn't talk about it and didn't for a good 15 years. People tend to think you're nuts.

With a “Bigfoot” braided mane!

That parallel travel escort event is very commonly reported. It seems that they want you to hear them and are escorting you out of the woods. I have been followed a couple of times and never heard anything until right before something was thrown at me and hit my pack. It was the sound of something running to get close enough accurately throw the rock. So they may change their tactics on if they want a human to hear or not. You might be onto something in that killing and leaving something to rot that is on their menu might be some sort of crime in their world. The danger for us is that some human might blunder into doing one of their capitol crimes and end up missing. That is part of my reason for not making howls or vocalizations. I have no idea what anything means that might anger them.

Friend said they had been at his cabin from spring into fall for the last 5 years.

I vividly recall the 1967 television reporting of the Patterson/Gimlin sighting. I was 13, with my parents at my aunt and uncle's. The adults paid the report no mind, but it fascinated me. I remember photos in a magazine (Life, Look, I don't know) a few years previous, of footprints taken in the Himalayas, said to have been left by the abominable snowman. I'd checked out books written by Ivan T Sanderson from the library. I was ripe for lifelong interest at 13 when Patty burst onto the scene.

In John Green's database there are variables that cover different characteristics. I know you are requesting any particulars from folks here who are knowers but thought I'd help you get the ball rolling The variables in the database include Human-like nose/ape-like nose, small nose/large flat nose. Human-like face/ape-like face and other distinguishing features such as eye shape, teeth, hair on the face, ears that show and facial skin color. These are but a few of the descriptive terms in the database that witnesses have reported. There's much, much more. I know because from 2013-2016 I worked on the database revising it. The revision involved breaking out many of the original variables into separate fields in order to do more specific searches when sorting for certain data groups. I also worked on getting it into chronological order which was my main goal.. And yes, it took three years on and off (mostly on) to do the work. I had emailed the late John Green in 2014 (I think) and told him what I was doing and he wrote back that he was delighted that someone had finally taken an interest in it after 12 years laying idle. In the summer of 2015 I wrote to him again and asked if he would sign an original copy of his 1978 Hancock House "Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us" which he graciously agreed to do. He was 86 at the time. I sent him the copy along with $20 to pay for its return mailing and he sent the book back signed with a $10 bill in change. A year and a half later, in May of 2016, he passed away. He was quite a guy.