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The attachment is the most detailed specific bibliography concerning the 1924 incident in Ape Canyon, Washington. Daniel Perez 1924 Ape Canyon Bibliograpy.pdf 1924 Ape Canyon Bibliograpy.pdf

The Travel Channel wrote: Researchers uncover Bigfoot clues in new Travel Channel series. Team believes advanced algorithm is missing key to solving legend.

First, I wonder how long non-indigenous peoples referred to female native americans as "squaws." Second, I would be sooooooo embarrassed if my spouse went to the media in fear of me being mistaken for Bigfoot.

My son gave me a postcard and a uniform button from Slick Airways one year. The postcard is my bookmark inside Loren Coleman's "Tom Slick, True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology".

The mom of my favorite kid at my preschool gifted me this last year.

Audio right here wouldn't be worth the effort. Too much human noise. Even if there were something interesting, there would be too much background clutter to sort through to find it. Sort of a question of return on investment. I don't think the location is that good.

Thanks hiflier, I’m an old BFF 1.0 member that lost his way and now reconnecting to the Community. 😊 This is a great topic to discuss and it has used up much brain power of many a BF searcher. Most of us reading this forum have planned, or just daydreamed, on how we would react to a BF landing in our laps. Setting aside the ethics issue, we’ve all wondered what our moves would be if we found BF roadkill, a natural death, or shot one. Most of us have a gut feeling we need to get science involved early, but we seem to also want credit for the discovery and control of the specimen. Now I’m not talking about scat, hair or dermal patterns on a cast. I’m talking about a bulk specimen…a body, or at least a large part of one…a skeleton, or at least a skull. So, what do you do when you have a bulk specimen in front of you? Here are some choices I think you have: Walk away. You may or may not tell others about it, but you would have only your word as truth as many, many others have over the years. Walk away with samples and/or photographs and/or video, public post your photos/videos, but never disclose the exact location. Again, as many instances over the years have proven, this type evidence will always be questioned, regardless of the quality. Walk away with evidence and report the GPS coordinates to law enforcement. You might still have ownership of the discovery, but you will certainly lose control of the specimen. This assumes the bulk specimen is still there when law enforcement arrives. This also assumes law enforcement, at whatever level, doesn’t just make it all disappear, and hopefully not you too. Walk away with evidence, public post short clips of your photos/videos, and reach out to multiple local media with an offer to take them to the bulk specimen while always pushing to reach out to local/state university researchers to start validation...say it in your interviews. Local law enforcement will become involved early but with multiple local media outlets also involved, the likelihood of disappearance is greatly reduced. Be prepared for regional and national media to become involved and again, keep pushing for scientific validation. You will likely lose control of the bulk specimen, but you will have evidence to support your discovery. This route may also improve the chance for the specimen ending up in the right scientific hands. Take control and remove the bulk specimen. You will need the logistics to load, secure and preserve for a sustained period something as large as a whole, full-grown bull moose…up to 1,200 pounds and up to 9 feet. Do you have those resources available now? If not, we move into a whole separate topic…the process and ethics of a full dissection or at least, removing the head, an arm and a leg from the site. Not that the other choices don’t have possible legal liabilities, this route will certainly require you to have a good lawyer. There are certainly other options and variations to these choices. Every BF searcher who takes to the field should think about this topic and generally know what they would do. I lean towards involving the media early in the discovery. It seems to have a greater chance for fast and public dissemination of information, and for public pressure to be exerted for appropriate and complete testing of the bulk specimen. But, I will challenge my own position as we are still unsure of what agencies, labs, schools, professors, experts are uniformly recommended as BF resources. Who is to perform this “appropriate and complete testing?” We need to work on this. Because at some point, someone is going to show up on your favorite news channel standing beside a BF body and you’re going to wonder, “Now what?”

There. Fixed it for you

Feral kids have metal boomerangs, don't they?

Just found an expensive high end gadget that might be handy in the field for someone with big pockets. I was looking at industrial devices wondering if the big boys have tools that I had not heard of. Fluke Sonic Imager popped up on a search. The $20,000 camera takes a high res picture and overlays sound received on the picture. BF walking, wood knocking, or using infrasound would not only be detected but the location of the sound would be superimposed on the optic picture. The specs list the sound detection frequencies at 2 to 52Khtz. The device looks like an IPad and it says a series of microphones in the device fix the location of the sound relative to the optical picture. An air leak would be a red blob on a pipe. Perhaps it could even pick up the breathing of a nearby BF. It would be pretty handy knowing exactly where a noise is coming from. Fluke also produces high resolution IR cameras but they start at $20,000 and go up from there. Think of what could be thrown at BF research if the money was there.

{I replaced the video with one that has better audio}