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Did you know that the National Park Service has a Special Forces Unit including a SWAT team?: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/special-forces-office.htm I found out when some very interesting folks I know ended up on the wrong side of a national park superintendent. The NPS SWAT team was flown up here, complete with full military hardware, to put the extreme hurt on this family.And that was just one such dust up: https://www.adn.com/projects/article/pilgrim-family-battles-national-park-service-mccarthy/2013/07/12/ https://www.adn.com/uncategorized/article/remote-alaska-park-service-wields-too-much-power/2011/04/14/ You don't think the resource management agencies have secrets? No dark ops? No coverups? Science has absolutely nothing to do with this subject to the administrators, except if it defines what they will have to deal with if it becomes public knowledge and the lawyers show up to tell them what they have to do..........

Care to go into detail? I have become fascinated with Bigfoot of late and would love to know if anyone has actually gone out searching for Bigfoot with success? I am in Mass which isnt the best BF sighting territory, but ive been hiking a lot lately hoping in the back of my mind something happens. I am excited to be apart of this community and reading all these posts have only help confirm what I already believe.

I've had 2 sightings, clear and unambiguous, about 35 years apart, plus 1 more I'd rate 98% or more likely. Found one line of tracks in '74. Couple lakes with probably trackways underwater. Many (ish) individual or pairs of tracks. 3-4 knocks that were knocks, not acorns or the like falling. Couple odd vocalizations, some I've recorded. Makes me wonder how much I've missed noticing along the way. I haven't gotten out as much the past 3 years, first because of foot problems, then because of recovering from surgery for those problems, and now a new GF with a sizeable piece of property that needs labor I just happen to know how to do. I'm heading out this weekend for my first "real" trip of the year. More will happen in conjunction with deer and elk seasons though. I'm not done by any means. MIB

I've been hiking, hunting, camping, prospecting, and just hangin' out in the mountains of B.C for more than 60 years, and had 3 experiences in that time. My teenage son had a sighting about 40 years ago on a camping trip, but I only got a fleeting glimpse of what he saw. I found a trackway in snow a year or so later, and then had a sighting the year after that. Nothing since, and I get out in the woods every chance I can, probably 30 days per year nowadays. I still go hunting and prospecting, and get out a few times each year with other local researchers specifically looking for Sasquatch, but our best efforts so far have been a rock throwing incident, and follow ups to a number of local reports, only one of which produced a castable track.

While within the national academic community Meldrum probably gets snickers of ridicule, I would venture to say that Meldrum is probably the most famous professor at Idaho State. Who else among them has had as much TV and media exposure. I think because of that the university has given him a lot of latitude to explore the BF phenomena. Certainly his BF interest has generated a lot of side income for his family. Some of the professional skepticism could well be based as much on jealousy as any other factor.

That is a damn fine question and one that scares me. If you want an interesting take on that question listen to JoeRogan's podcast with Tom Delonge.

Sounds like a great trip! Boy or girl?

Catmandoo... thanks for that. I didn’t know that was a thing with apes. I would just say to those who hypothesize how this could have been a tag on some other animal.....take the time to read this, in full. Many of the alternative explanations are discussed, in detail. No matter what your pet theory is about what the nature of BF might be, or how it will ultimately be confirmed or refuted, science needs to lead. This is field research in the best tradition...bold, clever, well documented and freely shared, and with a potential to move the needle just a little, or even a lot. If it can be done once, it is plausible it can be done again. Each time it is, if it is, it puts the confirmation bias explanation further off the table. We shall see, I guess. I for one give these folks huge props for dreaming this technique up, seeing it through and (especially) publishing it with this degree of thoroughness..