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Not specifically Bigfoot related, but when analyzing the DNA of 405 West Africans, scientists found DNA they cannot account for. They've been able to identify DNA that came from Neanderthals and Denisovians, but not the source of this DNA. This leads them to believe there is another homo sapiens ancestor that is currently unknown. No, not implying humans interbred with Bigfoot, just using it to point that even in the tree close enough to breed with we haven't found all species. https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805237120/ghost-dna-in-west-africans-complicates-story-of-human-origins

I can't even begin to say just how creepy this sounds . If it was a man in my opinion it's even more disturbing . To have all this happen while sleeping in your car is very very unsettling to say the least. I hope you go armed .

To me the large massive upper body, low slung head, and resulting concentrated central core, point to a species especially adapted to cold. Just like the polar bear and Alaskan brown are adapted to cold. Could it be that sasquatch made the Bering crossing not during the last ice age but one prior to that? That would give it about 130,000 years of genetic isolation from all other human ancestral lines. We know from Australia and isolated islands that genetic isolation promotes species differentiation. Since fossils of sasquatch have yet to be found on NA, why should we assume they migrated with humans the last ice age, the one before that, or even the one prior to that? We are in a period of 100,000 year ice ages for the last two million years. Would be interesting to time line chart where bigfoot would fit with other human ancestors with 130,000 or even the next earlier ice age of genetic isolation on North America. When geographically isolated, even though mating might produce viable hybrid offspring, it cannot be done without a partner, So during periods of geographic isolation, BF morphology would be driven by adaptation to the environment and natural chance changes to DNA. Just as recent finds of human presence in old strata are pushing the date of human activity in North America, activity has not been found because no one thought to look in older strata. So no one has been looking back further than 130,000 years for humans or bigfoot.

Im guessing chicken. Seems a safe bet.

Right. I don't know what is going on, but if you start getting equipment failures in close proximity in time and space, keep your eyes open around you. I'm not saying anything specific, just a sense something is up that you might miss if your focus is too fixed on the equipment and not your surroundings. It could be something you really really really need to be alert to. .. and I don't suggest that it is specifically bigfoot related, might just be something we put ourselves close to by being out there looking for them. MIB

In the near future I have planned a fun test. I made large acrylic 'handles' to insert into apples in an attempt to get thumb, finger and perhaps palm prints. 'Grime scene' prints would be simply a fun exercise. Apples are very expensive in my area. I have tried to get 'old' apples from grocery stores but the apples are donated to food banks very quickly. Braeburn apples. In tests, I have gone with red colored more than green apples.

Is anyone else imagining an entertaining Bigfoot sequel to the Chucky films??

Yep. Happened to me, my gear, a couple times. Saw it happen to others' equipment a couple times when I was there. It appears to be interference from something in the immediate vicinity. Sometimes it is power failure, other times it is an overriding signal, sort of massive white noise. Weird. MIB

I knew you'd get around to these videos. I am very fond of the narrator, Kelsey Crowe. There is another video about this valley, but it may take me more than a few minutes to find it. Edit: found it...

@SWWASAS The electronic things going funky on you does happen . I can't say if it's Sasquatch related but it happened to me and there was nothing wrong with the equipment . I honestly have no explanation why my camcorder went black the very second we were were filming fresh tracks and stayed black until after we walked away. It was just very bizarre .

Bonobos could do with a bit of bigfoot's stealth. They are so easily located and killed by poachers because of their loud vocalizations to each other, and of course, they don't have the fighting spirit of their chimpanzee cousins. I wonder (and hope) if their apprehension towards cameras is because they associate the technology with us. It's asking a bit much for them to undo their entire social structure which has heavily relied on loud vocalizations for millions of years, but caution towards human technology is a wise defense mechanism that any ape can learn without from millions of years of evolution. Whether or not sasquatches know what exactly a camera does, they must have been under the habit of avoiding any manmade constructions on principle for as long as our first two species met. Avoiding cameras doesn't have to make them technological wizards, it's just the natural conclusion of one of their most integral behaviors.

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-scientists-left-camera-wild-apeswatch.html "The chimpanzees were overall uninterested in the camera traps—they barely seemed to notice their presence and were generally unbothered by them," Kalan says. "Yet the bonobos appeared to be much more troubled by camera traps; they were hesitant to approach and would actively keep their distance from them."

There have been posts about 'auto-target tracking' systems. The technology for the civilian security market will trickle down to us. They are working hard to eliminate the human security workers that monitor camera systems. Give your partner a break, stop eating those chili dogs when you are out in the field.

On a different subject than camera traps, one item that many folks have commented on the interview (and that I agree with) is asking where are the photos supporting the incidents claimed. Everybody has cell phone cameras nowadays and many of us carry them even when there is no cell phone reception because the GPS /mapping works well. He could have taken photographs of: - the rock thrown and the depth of the imprint - the cow elk wedged on the aspen tree - all the bear boards hammered onto the sides of the cabins - the footprints - the destroyed cameras Maybe he has photos and has not had the proper venue to share them yet. We don't really know and the interviewer did not ask. But some of those incidents were weird enough that they deserved a photo. Let's hope that he will share more of his stories, evidence, and photos in the upcoming interview.

Lamplight, sounds pretty good, though! Welcome!

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

We’re thriving, they are not........

It appears to me that these creatures regularly make monkeys out of us in many ways. Hey, the sapiens who think of themselves as the smartest of sapiens sit behind ivy covered walls and openly disbelieve the mere existence of these creatures while opining that they exist. Perhaps developing an eco car to satisfy an ideological movement isn't nearly as smart as not needing a car whatsoever? These creatures are smart enough to live like sapiens should have been living all along.