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This is a repost of my 43 year old sighting- experience. We weren't doing Jack Daniels, dope or shrooms ................................. just dead tired after cutting 4 cords of wood and stacking it in our truck. We did this by hand and and with no gas wood splitter. We were good ol native Oregonian mountain men working in the beautiful forest. I'm still trying to figure what caused me to snap awake, stare into the woods, and look into the face of some unknown animal looking back at us. I don't remember noise or anything but automatic wake up and look. Maybe infrasound? What do you think? It's a good thing there were two of us since I think some bigfoots pick off single warm blooded people in the woods on rare occasions. My friend and I went wood cutting in the Butte Falls area that is North of Medford, Oregon. This was around 1977. Bigfoot was not a consideration for me or my partner, Bill. We cut up fire wood all day until we dropped, and spread out our tarp and plopped our sleeping bags down for a night’s sleep. It was a warm summer night in the open forest with tall trees spread all over. We were on the forest floor that was flat ground with tall fir and hemlock trees with some brush here and there. Something woke me up. I looked across this clearing to this dimly lit, huge fallen log about forty feet away. This hair covered creature is behind the log staring at me. It has no big fuzzy ears like a bear. A Black Bear has a flat head and long snout, and this animal had a cone shaped head and no snout. This animal had broad shoulders much wider than a bear. Only the top one fourth of its body was showing since the log blocked the rest of the view. Having no fear still puzzles me to this day and writing about this event helps. Welcome to the new forum members.

I see absolutely nothing paranormal in what I experienced. Nada. Creatures in the woods spying on humans doing interesting things. What's so weird about that? And infrasound is a scientific phenomenon. For the record - it's none of the above. I've hung out with famous people who are names you'd recognize instantly due to working at major Hollywood studios for a decade, and I don't care or want that. I spend money on this hobby, I certainly don't earn it. More followers would be fun, but not necessary. I like the conversations and interactions with likeminded folks. My motivation is twofold - burning curiosity and I just like being outside in the woods!

I first must apologize for blowing up another thread, believe me, it has affected me. On that note, and with full transparency, I am a medium level research scientist within the USGS/DOI. Here is my thinking, I ask of any one who has any relevant knowledge of their experience within DOI, please come forward. I will start I work for the USGS. Lead NWI habitat mapper/USFW for all of the Gulf Coast, in todays terms that is like the last of the stage coach wheel repair men, I am a dying breed. We get our operational money from USCOE, USFW, NOAA , ect. Why, because they have their own regulatory obligations to consider... Consider this. USFW, here is Louisiana, they have their refugees to run, I have seen them, they weed eat, they dig, they drive tractors, grade roads, no capacity to do a study. NPS, They live to manage their parks, and are staffed by employees who are just passing through just to gain rank and manage their parks, I so respect them, I would love to be part of them USGS, The agency I am part of....We are non regulatory, we are free to study anything, that is the reason USFS, NPS pays us to do studies, habitat studies, change over time ect, bc we are not driven down by regulatory restraints . They shift monies to us to do the studies, they are basically our customer. USGS.....we have a sister center in Florida who studies manatees, bear, possible cougar, they are better set up than us. We here in LA are about wetland loss/gain, restoration studies In the state of Louisiana, the best candidate is the Louisiana Fish and Wildlife, they have experience with tagging, collaring black bears. Us, no way, we have the moxy to do this sort of work. The best our center would be capable of is tagging a turtle. But we are just one Center. But DOI is OUT....I suspect Dept of AG is more of an avenue. Anyway, I am here to answer any questions reqarding this subject, but must warn you, USGS, is not a candidate

Hiflier is more than welcome here to ask away, I am an open but limited book, I respect him fully.

Thanks for the offer Dugas Cajun, that's good info. Agencies and red tape scare the hell outta me but hiflier will be all over this!

Looks like it is riddled with mines and prospect tunnels then. Laughing out loud BF tossed a fecalstorm of electrical bad mojo at the mine drone! Looks like a cedar branch nest may be within the interconnected shaft tunnels The Post Production long distance video of a biped seems as if it is along a sunlit road. Inconclusive. hardly the best ever footage seen in this show.

Cinnabar, toxic mercury sulfide mine, sending in the drone not a bad idea. Blue marble moved -7 miles, crows can pick up peanuts in the shell guess they could pick up a blue marble too. Looked like BF would have to do the army crawl to use that mine but we shall see. So some of the heat signatures were probably metal roofs and subterranean rocks I'm thinking. Gotta give the show credit for using helmets and rollbars in their mobile stump jumpers. Grates me when shows propagate safety shortcuts including not using PFD's.

I added fake drama to my drink list. 10 minutes and I'm 30+ drinks in

My observation is this. Discovery of new species is the bread and butter of field scientist. So, two world renown Primatologist say that something ape like is far from it's home and their like no big deal. The one on teleconference would be flying in by helicopter to beat Mayor to those rights. He acted like so what. I call bull.

A white female German Shepherd and a male Siberian husky. About 170 pounds of dog. Neither of them really reacted in any way. The husky is a sweaty but the Shepherd is not very friendly with strangers or other animals. If I recall, the shepherd was off leash but right beside me. When it started I immediately put her on the lead and all 3 of us looked up the hill towards the scream. When it ended it was dead silent minus the rustling of a squirrel. The dogs didn't really seem to care. In a related note my wife and I heard some screaming back and forth Saturday while walking the dogs in a different location. It was probably 1/4 mile away and on the other side of a river so it was not clear. Honestly could not identify the sound but it was pretty cool in that it seemed like it was back and forth between two locations. It was one of those times where the brain registers something, you are not sure what so you focus the brain for a moment. Nothing happens and you move on and then it happens again and you are like ...really??, ...what is that so you hold your focus for longer. I caught the 3rd and 4th scream more clearly and asked my wife if she heard it and she caught the last one. Cool moment.

Hello, fellow enthusiasts. Bigfoot has intrigued me for years and no one I know of has the same interest. Never joined a forum for anything, either, so kind of a big jump here for me. Looking forward to getting some info to help me get more experience and opportunity. Thanks.

I wonder if there are any emu ranches in the area? My brother in law raised them and they are constantly escaping their fencing and running around the countryside. Their skinny bird legs would not have much of a heat signature and the body mass would be very round. It sure would not be something normal to see in the woods. I had no idea they were in my area until I found a footprint in the snow in my yard after a snow storm one winter. You cannot escape a feeling that you are looking at dinosaur tracks when you find one of their footprints. Looking at tonight's program guide the main show is 2 hours long. And following that is a summary show that lasts an hour. So three hours of the show tonight.

Yep! This is the picture of him alerting to whatever was down the shoreline. After that, I needed two hands on the leash.

I'm working on a book about Port Chatham, Alaska. Been in a couple Bigfoot documentaries and TV shows. Based on my experiences in the field, I know how frustrating it can be to get good evidence. I've found some great non-castable prints and gotten thermal footage of something that appeared large and bipedal....but with all that...I still can't say 100% that I know they are real. That said...I try not to be critical of others work. If the size comparison is accurate, then the footage is pretty impressive. However, I know that TV shows can be edited can literally change the context of a person's conversation to suit the producer's needs. So....who knows? Bigfoot TV is a lot like TV wrestling. There is a serious..art/science behind it...but mostly it's just for fun and entertainment.

It was not close enough and the moon light was no good enough to see any detail. My career started as a landscape architect with the forest service in Medford, Oregon, and sketching was an important part of the job. Later, I became disillusioned with the forest service and quit......................... how stupid...... At that time around 1975 we never talked about bigfoot. I wish they would come out and confirm bigfoots. My brother laughed at me again today because one of his friends told him of a report I put on facebook. It's about Laird Logging finding a crushed bigfoot under a wind blown down tree. He spoke with a Laird that said it never happened.

But it’s not a tree stump!