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Night-vision technology magnifies every speck of light to enable you to see in the dark You can enhance what you are seeing with the use of an IR illuminator particularly on nights that are cloudy or there is no moon. We've suspected that a sasquatch can avoid trail cams by somehow detecting IR. If true, that's why night vision would be a poor choice for use for what we do. Thermal detects heat emitted from everything around you to develop a picture. It is a vastly-superior technology for what we do particularly at the price point most of us are willing to spend.

SWWASAS, I tend to agree that Sasquatch is on a down trend in my area anyway. Other than one "encounter" in the mid 70s on some timber company land about 20 miles from my parents homestead, which is just outside of Dallas Oregon, the late 70s through the mid 90s regular summer and fall in our "back yard", which other than two or three houses reached almost to the coast without any other houses or settlements until the town of Siletz, "encounters" were regular with one clear sighting by my brother. Throughout most of the 90s two of our hunting areas that were within 20 miles of each other near Valsetz Oregon, "encounters" happened regularly with one sighting by my hunting partner. Now all those places a dead as far as Sasquatch goes.

THAT would be a Bigfoot reality show that I would seriously consider watching. Especially if she was the ONLY one in the field and brought all of her scientific knowledge into it.....and she was packing not just for effect. I could see her interviewing people for the first part of the program and then taking what see learned out into the field in different REAL locations that had KNOWN sightings. I would want the interviews to be conducted with researchers from this very Forum, especially the knowers. Then the rest of the program could be just her in the field with them. What a series THAT would be! gigantor, you need to get on this!

Where's my satchel charge........

We would have had a whole bunch of fun over here with you on the show......

They probably signed her up for a summer gig for some extra money. College for 6 kids is expensive. She could shelve her objectivity for 21 days. I can still remember her giving Ronny the evil eye when he was babbling about BF liking cemeteries. She was wigged out. Obvious that most of the cast is not familiar with the West. There are ghost towns and cemeteries all over the place. As long as she does not flat state that they encountered bigfoot she is probably fine. She just stated that the subject deserves further investigation, which it does. Meldrum has 5 kids if I remember right. That is part of the reason he does the lecture circuit and TV specials now and then. Hell I was sort of ticked off they did not find me when RPG got sick. Roger even knows me. I am a lot closer to Central Oregon than other members of the cast. Of course had they done that I probably would be so full of myself I could not stand myself.

Madison5716, I forgot to mention that in addition to Stan Courtney's site there is a great YouTube channel by Lady In Waiting, her channel is bigfootresearch. She has a lot of videos of her recordings. Unfortunately, I just read that she passed away in December. She was gutsy and had some really bizarre recordings. If any of you like to hear audio, it's a great channel. I'm very sad that she passed away.

You know how I tell when a news release is a waste of time? Probably the same way you do too. Any reference to Bigfoot in the singular, as in "We have spotted [THE one and only mythical] Bigfoot", is a hard pass. Like spotting a Sasquatch is like spotting the Loch Ness Monster...not one of a species, but the ONLY one, so how could it be anything but a joke, right? The omnipresent Bigfoot is only less peripatetic than Elvis after he died. I suppose if they keep it on this level, and it stays a joke, and nobody will have to think too hard. If I were a citizen of WA I'd be plenty pissed that my government can do no better than treat this as a laughing matter, especially if I had had an encounter with one. All the wahoos who comment and post memes of Harry and the Hendersons are little better, but at least they aren't funded by the taxpayer to hand out such drivel.

Agreed......to an extent. My reasoning on why they haven't: 1) Here in Alaska, where there are plenty of wolverines (as that species density is compared worldwide), the only wolverine cam pic taken by government that I personally know of in North America was one at a live wolf trap on Ft. Richardson, and that pic was never released to the public for their enjoyment. 2) See #1 above. The fact that no image of a sasquatch from a WDOT cam has been released doesn't necessarily mean that one or more don't exist.......somewhere. 3) As rare as wolverines are (and there are no comprehensive density estimates for North America), my own guesstimate is that there are probably 5-10 wolverines per sasquatch on this continent......and maybe more. 4) In 45 years of living in rural Alaska and working and playing extensively in the outdoors there (including bear baiting with the use of a game cam since @ 2001), I have only seen 1 confirmed wolverine in the wild, another that might have been a wolverine (also possibly a fox), personally know just a few people who have caught wolverines in traps or shot them, and only caught a wolverine on my game cam at my bear bait once.

Sorry to be 'that guy' but the news story you linked was from Oct 2, 2013, when they showed the breathing rug and the wookie mask.

Sorry, but selling out is selling out and Finding Bigfoot was a monotonous, repetitive POS that never found anything. If anything it exposed otherwise local researcher's areas to universal knowledge essentially compromising them. And MM is a tool, always has been.

I'm already there

Greetings, everyone! DC-area resident here but originally from the Bluegrass State. Looking forward to joining the discussion. Never had any Bigfoot experiences myself but maintain an open mind on the topic given the vast amount of wilderness areas that have little to no human activity. Particularly interested in the possibilities with respect to eDNA.

I just followed VAfooter's link to make sure it is the story I thought it was. Yep. Write that one off. If I remember right, someone on a hunting site did some hard work backtracknig that story to its roots and found that it was a creative writing piece for some high schooler's English class. It is relatively well-written, too-well. Too polished. It isn't precisely a hoax because there was no intent to fool, only to entertain .. and get a grade. For what it's worth, that location is about 35 miles from where I'm sitting as I type this. I've been there **a lot**. I found a 17" or so half track / half impression in sand within 2 miles of that location. It had been a good track left in wet sand on a sand bar, then the clouds broke, sun came out, sand dried, and the part of the track which was not still in the shade collapsed. All that was left that was clear was 2 toes. MIB

Wow. Impressive sketch... Come to the dark side...

Yep, and they plucked hairs off the drone apparently after it emerged and two of those hairs had no medulla they said in post production results interview. The larger nest in one of the abandoned homestead buildings looked to be from a large varmint or bird such as a weasel or vulture, still trying to figure that elevated one out that had tons of moss, hay/dead grasses and greenery in it.

My wife and I have had "something" throw rocks at us, found possible footprints, heard strange sounds we couldn't identify, and while camping woke up on two seperate occasions to mysterious hand prints on our car (one was enormous). And my wife was once touched by "something" through the car window in the early morning hours. Still, we've never actually seen one, so none of our experiences are actually conclusive. Hopefully some day!

Had my own sighting! Rainforest cafe!

Hello to all on the forum. I lived and worked out in Oregon back in the 70's. Checking out things about bigfoot was quite a hobby! I have a signed hard copy of Peter Byrnes book which he gave me when he was at The Dalles. I also made two trips to Bluff Creek twice back then. Have just discovered this forum and hope to contribute. Still catching up on all the older threads on the forum. Also haven't seen how to post photos yet.

I wish them luck finding one of those. Talk about a mythical beast........

We can’t find and study bigfoot because we’re trying to find and study Bigfoot. The approach has to change. If you get teams dedicated to shoot and kill a Bigfoot rather than seek to have a sighting then you become a lot more tactical. Think how much stealth and planning goes into hunting big game. Meanwhile we expect to waltz into the woods and just find a Sasquatch. They’re playing chess while we’re playing checkers.

My wife wouldn’t let me bring my guns down...:(

I have read the paper and its not worth the paper its printed on, its just a sciency sounding story, but it is well written and they have always done a great job of documenting the failures to prove anything they claim is happening. There's no doubt in my mind a bird either flew into the trap or it was on the ground and a bird picked it up. If they do implement this in the future, just put a game cam on the trap and they will save themselves a ton of time or make a great stride in moving the ball forward.

A fine piece of fiction.

We are not finding bigfoot most likely since the forest service knows all about the creature, and they have told their wildlife biologist, by penalty of law to say nothing about it. The forest service divides its designated land area into large areas that are about the size of small states. Each of these federal designations has one or two wildlife biologist. Oregon has several of these areas that are divided into ranger districts. Bigfoot sightings are usually reported to rangers. They are probably told to keep quiet. ShadowBorn the information that you have is interesting, so please PM me.