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Allow me to rant on this dude for a moment. I've been interested in bigfoot pretty much my whole life. I'm 28 so I'm a little younger than some of you, but I've still seen scammers and false prophets come and go constantly. Steve Isdahl was incredibly exciting to me because of this. Here's a guy who is a professional hunter who spends the majority of his time in the woods! He even thinks a bunch of "researchers" are B.S. just like I do! Sure he's a bit swarmy, but we can get over that. Fast forward a bit and I've completely lost faith in Isdahl. I don't want to say that he's as bad as guys like Todd Standing, Rick Dyer, and Tom Biscardi, but he's heading in that direction. His arrogance was always annoying, but now its intolerable since he's proving himself to be nothing but another blowhard who pretends he's an expert while providing nothing but eye roll worthy "evidence". The "mystery skull" is just pathetic and makes me worry for his sanity since he apparently dug up someone's dog. The attacking people for no reason and providing no evidence of their wrongdoings is just sad. His videos are also boring as hell. He is not well spoken at all. His false machismo and constantly speaking in riddles is ridiculously annoying. How long has it been now and he's still doing nothing but reading emails, rambling about the bigfoot illuminati, and rambling about extremely vague things that make no sense. It's time for him to put up or shut up. Stop with all of the vague B.S. Stop pretending he's so much better than everyone else when he provides laughable evidence. Stop making half his videos a low rent version of the sasquatch chronicles. He needs to sit down and make a 30 minute video clearly explaining his thoughts, opinions, and exactly what he "knows" at the least. Because at this point he's just coming off a borderline schizophrenic.

Well, I'm not a friend, but I am neutral on his standing, pun intended, because of the great work he did in ripping a new one for Todd Standing (did you ever review the extent of his work on that historically I might ask?); support against the MK Davis blood bath and others. I am not feeling a need to be defensive as there are certain elements of his SOP I would not choose to emulate but the reality of his Hall of Shame effort is there is real work behind it that others chose not to do or were too lazy to do comprehensively and if nobody does it then the same clownshow continues with added clowns ad infinitum. Rictor is an attention whore and BF no nothing, just piggybacked onto others bootstraps, Kulls is yards away from that end of the continuum, but those that know don't need arm-twisting for sure. I am a no kill researcher and don't broadcast any other image personally and I have no "skin" invested in this game and nothing to prove. People can research these personalities on their own, I sometimes feel a need to place some history to my posts since I have been here since BFF 1.0 which has been long enough to forget alot of names.

I've only had the opportunity to use my new knife in the kitchen lately, but it doesn't seen to be slippery. Sure is sharp and pretty though. I think I'm going bigfooting on Sunday finally, maybe I'll get to use it. I'll certainly carry it!

@spacemonkeymafia There other ways to burn brain cells then to listen to crap like what these people are talking about. You can just roll a big fatty and sit back and enjoy that and never worry about these jokers.

Cynical and not too keen on sarcasm.

I would have to put Kulls into that group of Bigfoot minor celebrities that does more harm than good to the public interest in the subject. To each his own, but his self appointed role as Bigfoot evidence hall monitor rubs me the wrong way. Hoaxes hurt the credibility of the field, but I think that he has latched on to the uncovering of frauds as his own way to Bigfoot fame. Also, guys who play dress up to investigate loose a lot of credibility right off of the bat. Is he looking for Bigfoot or going to initiate dynamic entry on its cave? He is free to dress as he wants, but others are free to kind of look at it as larping. I don't hate him, and if he is a friend of yours I mean no disrespect to you, but he and that Rictor guy are perfect examples of why I think that Isdahl got so popular so quick in the Bigfoot world. The little bit of reading that I did on their social media showed constant mentions of Isdahl's status as on outsider and newcomer as being a point of contention. Honestly, the Gimlin stuff aside, it smacked of jealousy. It was just mentioned to me to look at Rictor's Instagram page for his artistic interpretation of the Bluff Creek drama. Regardless of your feelings on him or the Bluff Creek Massacre, it is some funny stuff... even though it is pretty vulgar. However, he is getting 10 or 20 likes per post. Isdahl is getting thousands. In a day and age where almost everyone is on social media, stuff like that can be a pretty good indicator of how the Bigfoot world is trending. Expect Scott Carpenter to sell a lot of books this year.

I don’t get the sense that he is anything other than what he advertises himself to be: A working stiff who has been forced to accept a reality he did not want and is not entirely comfortable with. The lifestyle and occupation he has pursued before this tells me a lot about him, maybe more than his words do. I also take a lot away from the total lack of discussion from him regarding the obvious question: Why don’t you go hunt one? If you don’t know why that is not something he would be interested in, you probably need to listen more closely to what he says. I do believe him when he says he is completely overwhelmed by how quickly his channel has gained momentum. Like a lot of populist and transformative figures (and yes, I consider him to be one) he has stumbled on a huge demand for his point of view that defies what everyone might have predicted, and which he probably also doesn’t quite understand. He rails about the Deep State Sasquatchers, etc. Sounds a little familiar, me thinks. it will be interesting where he goes with this. Like a lot of usurpers, the initial messaging is the easy part as he exponentially increases his followers. After that? Who knows? Increasingly he will be pushed forward as The Spokesman on this topic. My guess? He would rather go hunting. . I expect that after too much longer he will have said all he cares to say and he will drop off. His legacy though is predicted to be something that might just push this topic a little more towards the light it needs and deserves.

Haven't met the man, only watched a few dozen of his videos and they don't give me any reason to doubt his word. Quite the contrary, he strikes me as a straight shooter, both literally and figuratively.

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.