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Funny, I leave for Sarasota from Oregon tomorrow morning. If you can make it up there, I recommend Myakka River State Park. Happy hunting!

Looking for skunk apes in the gulf side this time..

Hunster you are speaking a ton of truth and in your hey day on this topic sir! Keep it up!

I understand, but mysterious disappearances don't rule out natural causes. Something that wouldn't (or didn't) unbutton his clothes.........like him in a hypothermic state of mind. As I approached the hypothermic point-of-no-return in 2012, I did exactly that; removed my clothes without unbuttoning either my shirt or pants, primarily because my fingers wouldn't work anymore in fine motor mode. Removing one's clothes is actually a hallmark sign of fatal hypothermia: https://www.livescience.com/41730-hypothermia-terminal-burrowing-paradoxical-undressing.html

I think Paulides has profited well on the ease with which God's Creation swallows people up. As an Alaskan, I know this very well. I was nearly swallowed up in 2012, and I could have easily never been found. There is literally no limit on the ways one can disappear forever. It happens here almost daily. Is a deadly sasquatch encounter or two part of the explanation? I believe it may very well have been over the past couple centuries, but it is a miniscule percentage of them. My experience and reading puts the top three causes as falls, drownings, and exposure. Agreed. That's what Alaska officials do with bears that attack people. A couple of years ago a bunch of officials were looking for a missing man in the Chugach mountains near Eagle River. One of them was attacked and mauled by a bear. They later found the man's remains. He had been killed by a bear. They put a couple helicopters in the air with shooters and killed about a dozen bears in the area. The problem with them doing this with sasquatches is keeping the original victim quiet, if they survived the attack. I really think that sasquatch attacks occur, but the vast majority are bluffs (like with gorillas), and they are extremely rare. The sasquatch would much prefer to withdraw than even put on a bluff charge.

I believe i have, and have read, all of the Missing 411 volumes. I would guess less than 10% are sasquatch-related assuming sasquatch is F&B, non-ET, not some kind of "spook", spirit, demon, interdimensional (I don't believe in "dimensions" in the way this explanation uses the term) being, etc. You can write off all of the cases from "Missing 411: The Sobering Truth" as sasquatch .. 0%. Others involving ship or plane disappearances ... same thing. Absolutely agree with Norseman about the Dennis Martin case. All evidence points to sasquatch. Other cases where kids were recovered unharmed and described hiding in boulder fields from black monkeys, etc that were hunting them, "wolf" or "bear" packing a child off under its arm rather than in its mouth, etc .. suggest sasquatch to me. But the bulk of the cases ... including "The Sobering Truth" ... do not look like natural causes nor do they seem to be possible results of anything F&B. Having had some of my electronic equipment go haywire all at once, devices not connected to each other, out in the woods a time or two, though I don't "like" the idea there might be some kind of high-tech component to some of the disappearances, I'm not willing to dismiss it because that is where the evidence points and my own experience at least appears to substantiate. ***be careful out there***, don't just watch out for the obvious slick logs, drop offs, stump holes, drowning / hypothermia risks, bears, cougar, or even F&B bigfoot, keep an eye open for things that don't fit, things that are out of place. 'til we know what is, we do not know what is not. It may sound paranoid, but you do not get 2 screw-ups if the first one kills you. MIB

Three main theories exist about what happened to Martin.[16] The first is that he became lost and perished from exposure or some other cause, likely during the first night. This is the most probable theory according to park officials.[1] The second is that he was attacked by a hungry bear (or, less likely, a feral pig) and carried off.[5] The third is that he was abducted and taken out of the park by something or someone. His father was a proponent of the third theory.[17] On the afternoon that Martin disappeared, tourist Harold Key and his family, heard an "enormous, sickening scream" and shortly thereafter witnessed a man covered in hair seemingly hiding and carrying something on his shoulder. Park Rangers and the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to link the sighting to Martin's disappearance, particularly given that Key's sighting was approximately five miles away from where Martin disappeared. The sighting occurred a little while after Dennis went missing. The family also said the person of the woods had something slumped over its shoulder, and the highly visible red color matching the shirt of Martin the day he went missing.[16][5]

No, science is still fighting over it. One side of the argument considers it settled, but not the other. The evidence against the currently prevailing paradigm is growing. I recommend reading "The Forgotten Exodus: the Into Africa Theory of Human Evolution" by Bruce Fenton and "Lone Survivors: How We Came to be the Only Humans on Earth" by Chris Stringer. IMHO they present each side of the discussion very very well. MIB

I made a day trip to a quiet valley on the S side of the Fraser River, between Chillwack and Hope, where I had seen lots of deer and bear sign on a visit earlier this summer. I found the steep creek valley almost as quiet this visit, only encountering 1 couple on a side by side ATV, but there were numerous logging slash piles burning, leaving a blue haze in the air, and sometimes bits of ash falling around me. Only 1 pile of bear scat was seen, and no tracks of anything else in evidence. I stopped and glassed several areas, with nothing of interest except for the smouldering brush piles. The logging companies do these burns after several weeks of fall rains, so there's no danger of the fires spreading, but it is annoying to see. Looking N towards the Fraser Valley East view. Fire haze from below, and a clear cut at top centre that I reached 3 yrs ago via a road that is now washed out. Looking S towards the US border, with an unburned slash pile at the bottom left, and several burning on the horizon.