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Here's a post just a few hours ago on Facebook, where a guy named "Mike" apparently wrote to the guy who identifies himself as a BF researcher at in the email reply to Mike, and where he's located. He claims HE is the one who pointed the show's producers to the ranch. "Mike Waggoner Here’s the email I got: Hi Mike. Thank you for your question and willingness to get to the source and not spread rumors. It is definitely not my ranch. I live in tiny RV designed to respond to Bigfoot reports! The ranch where they filmed is Antone Ranch, a Bed and Breakfast type rental ranch. You can look up on the internet: https://www.antoneranch.com/ The producers of the show contacted me months before they started shooting, asking about possible squatch hotspots, where they shoot, etc. I told them that the southern area of the Blue Mountains was their best bet because the snow levels would be lowest during their specified shooting window. With that information, the producers found the ranch, which worked well for them because it had a place for them to stay and the woods nearby. The whole show was shot on the ranch. A lot of the finds like the old truck, the mine, and the lake are all tourist attractions on the ranch. They interviewed me for the show but didn't air any of that footage, more than likely because I refused to "verify" a lot of their "finds". Every reality show has very little reality in it. I totally understand that they needed to hype a lot of stuff to make the show viable, but to be honest, they had nothing. The only really interesting thing they showed me during the interview was that thermal hit and I don't even know if that was real. They didn't interview me until 2 weeks after they finished shooting. Yes, they talked to Dr. Meldrum...2 weeks after they talked to me. I know this because I was with Dr. Meldrum during the weeks in between and we talked about it! So, with all that said, I can tell you this: the deep woods? A tourist ranch. The fancy computer algorithm? My information about snow levels and squatch reports in the area. Their findings? Established tourist attractions at the Antone Ranch that you can see on the ranch's website. I hope I addressed your concern adequately; personally, I was pretty disappointed in the producers and the entire show. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have more questions. Scot Violette Baker City, OR 97814 541-403-4616 www.squatchoregon.com

I find a fresh nest I'm setting up a trap .

If these events are true and happened as the guide said it sounds to me it tried to kill them.

Maybe getting eDNA is not out of reach for the independent researcher. Hiflier you are on to something. "Not only is the “Go Fish eDNA” (environmental DNA) tool fast, it costs just $15 per sample for one species, and $8 for additional species. In a few years time an early morning water sample from a beach could tell lifeguards by midmorning if tiger or white sharks were around, Ausubel said.Dec 3, 2018" https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNRkNLARSTxQjLv9g0pgizU_aBOw3g%3A1581204937284&source=hp&ei=yUU_XrHmDZet-gTg1bH4DQ&q= cost+edna+water+sampling&oq=cost+edna+water+s&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.33i22i29i30l5.6322.24171..28788...2.0..0.385.2287.2j14j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz..... 10..35i362i39j0i131j0j35i39j0i10j0i22i30j0i22i10i30j33i160j33i299.URbMIL_szXE Method: Skin cells are shed as a polar bear walks through the snow (Fig. 1). Scooping up bear tracks in the snow, allowing it to melt, and filtering out the cells (Figs. 2a and 2b) provides the genetic materials that can be used in genetic population estimates. This method is in its earliest stages, but once it has been refined, it will be completely NON-invasive. It will also be possible for local residents to collect the snow from tracks as part of a large scale regional approach to monitoring polar bear abundance, movements, and habitat use. A larger sample size improves the population estimate. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl

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Hiflier, that’s impressive. Anyone else understand and concur? Anyone want to TRY it? Search for financing?

14 x 8 with a fence around it for a run dont sound to bad for 55 chickens considering they housing can go vertical very easily. I believe the goat was a pygmy he said, pretty small. Listened to the whole thing, pretty good stories and he sounds sincere but the only criticism I have, and I always have to play devils advocate, he seems to hit on all the major BF stories, stealing or messing with kills, throwing things, messing with farm animals, messing with vehicles, stalking the house etc. So are these typical BF behaviors that we can start putting together a pattern or are they points people telling stories hit on to try and get credence and fit the typical story? I"m not claiming that is the case here but it always makes me wonder and I tend to lean on skepticism first so as not to try and fall for a con. Hopefully more comes of this and there are good updated.

Airdale, that office window is clearly a hoax....I'm pretty sure that's just an enlarged heater vent.....

Okay, just forget the whole thing and chalk it up as a huge waste of time. Sorry for ever bringing up such a ridiculously stupid idea. Tell you what. You and everyone stay with what you're doing since it's all been so successful. Your dialogue will serve to help others to see that what I've been saying is pretty worthless anyway. Thank you for setting me and everyone straight. Can't express how much I appreciate it. Okay, so science and logic doesn't mix, got it.

The one thing I see from everyone's response is that no one is saying " why the creature threw this large rock at them from below ". Now that that takes a lot of power to throw a large rocks that weighs between 70 - 90 lbs up a slope and to have it miss these hunters. But we should be asking our selves why it did this act. All the events started after this this hunt if we all go back and really study it. It all started when these two were hunting this herd of elk. It was on this particular area of where this herd of elk was spotted that this event took place. It was at a point when the hunter was going to take a shot at a bull when this rock landed. It was also at this point when this client seen some thing that scared him so badly that he no longer wanted to come back and hunt this ranch again. So why can we not break down the events to what have lead up to where it is at now. It seems like everything started with that one client and from there it just went further with more strange encounters. Like with the chickens that went missing as well as the goat. There is no mention of the chickens or the goat being killed on the spot. So that only leads to two things and that is them being carried off which means they grabbed 55 chickens in a single night plus the goat. Now I am not sure about that since chickens are not easy to catch even if they are penned upped. The only one that could have been carried out of there would the goat. So the Chickens must have been herded out which is the second choice. The chickens were free roaming so they were already use to the land and capable of being herded. So these chickens were herded out to a different area and dispatch and eaten in another area. So if this is what happen ( again I am speculating ) then they ( the creatures ) have been watching this ranch for some time. How is this for some answers . Since this ranch was being used as a guide service for hunting and clients were paying to hunt on this ranch . What would this rancher do with the left over scraps of all the kills . Is it possible that these creatures were feeding off these scraps. It almost seems like these creatures were upset that this rancher might have stop guiding . Almost seems like they needed him to keep hunting so that they could feed. There main concern was food and that is what they were going after. They were going hungry. So they were taking chances to get what they needed. This must mean game must be scarce and when they started hunting that herd of elk they were encroaching on their game. Why else would they or it have thrown that rock up hill . It was only doing what any creature or even humans would do if the game is no longer like it once was. It is going to protect it's food source until it finds another food source to survive. The same will go with water. They will do what ever it takes to survive. Just like what we will do .