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Stan Courtney implies Sasquatch can imitate a weedeater like a lyre bird, if that is the case, and I believe based on my own sound recording research that they are expert emulators, then I believe what researchers report in this realm.

Ketchum study for sure. I don't know how he publicly responds to all questions on that but he's said enough that his stance is on record. The footage he was looking at was the bunk MK put together. He thinks or thought it was original lost footage. MK is pretty cunning because this is his passion. His big gimmick is turning it around to try and show people what IS a hoax. That is a classic flim flam man setup to show you what is not a hoax. Best course of action is to screen out everything he says. He is effective though in getting us to spin our wheels a bit to disprove his underhanded approach.

Give it time. They will become more affordable and the quality will increase across all budget levels. Thermal Drone

Oh absolutely! And if it had a thermal camera on it? Imagine how easily you could track stuff! It’s like having a Cessna in your pocket!

My experiences with bears has been pretty much the same. Most of the bears I have walked up on either ignored me or ran away as fast as they could go. The only one that walked toward me when it ran into my camp one night I scared off with a shot from my handgun. It's just interesting to me that we never know what's lurking around close to us in the woods. Without your drone you wouldn't have seen that bear unless he came toward you or you happened on him later.

Great. Drones probably sound like an angry nest of bees to a bear. I wish you could get the same thing with a bigfoot. Imagine the stir that would cause!

I just found it interesting that the bear was that close to you. It sure didn't seem disturbed until you flew the drone closer to it.

This old video. I fly down to my moms house about 1.5 miles away.

Same flight. Landed with about 10% battery life left. Once the bear goes into the tree line. I didn’t see him again.

Around the 10:30 mark I notice something. We are working a DNR grinding job on our own place. I was using the drone to survey some roads and boundaries. I noticed a black dot when I was looking at the progress of a road we made. I clicked the record button not realizing Wyatt had bumped it early. So second video of Bear is uploading now.

Lol. Too true. In for the video link. The camera on your drone is awesome

Drink can's thrown from car's, road signs, man hole covers, drain covers, accident debris, campers rubbish, farm machinery parts, there are loads of metallic things that they no doubt pick up. Then of course there's all the little planes that go down and are never found. Things taken home for the kids to play with, things they use to amuse the wife and no doubt things they use to communicate with. The question that id ask relating to the above is has anyone found the type of objects I've listed in the middle of nowhere or somewhere where it really shouldn't of been? Put your hands up if you've found a stop sign or a car wing mirror miles from the nearest road.

I had a similar situation happen to me in my research area. I had come out nearly to the trailhead after spending the day. I had not seen anyone all day. A guy on a mountain bike came off the mountain behind me and hailed me down. That surprised me because the trail is pretty difficult on foot and I had never seen anyone on a mountain bike traverse it. He asked me where he was and how far away the trailhead was that he had left his car at. It was 7.5 miles back over the mountain on the trail and was about 12 miles on roads. He did not want to ride over the mountain again. On the roads, his route would start out on a forest road, transition to three different county roads, and take several turns towards the parking lot. I asked him how he managed to get where he had no idea where he was. He was supposed to meet some friends to ride with and they did not show up. He struck out on his own without a map or any clue where the trail would take him. He must have thought it was a loop. . I tried to explain the road route back and got a look that told me he would never remember it. He then asked if I had anything to eat or drink. He had brought none. I gave him a power bar and what water I had left and he left me on the bike. I got back to my truck loaded up, and passed him grinding away down the forest road looking very tired. . I went past him and just knew he would get more lost than he was. I stopped and offered him a ride to where his car was parked since I had to go past there anyway. I have no idea if he had any clue how lost he was and learned anything from it. I hope so.

The amount of people who go out into the woods without the slightest preparation or knowledge of the basics of survival is shockingly high. If anything, Paulides' advice on going hiking (not going alone, carry a firearm, have a PLB) will hopefully resonate with some of the people who read his work. He has fleshed this advice out lately to include survival blankets, matches, energy bars, etc. We were in the Chattahoochee/Nantahala area (I think) one time, several miles in, when we started hearing something big moving through the deep brush. We started hearing what sounded like mumbling, so we obviously go on alert and stop. Out of the brush stumbles a couple, scratched all up and arguing with each other. The woman was wearing some sort of Lycra workout clothing and at least had tennis shoes. No pack or anything. The guy had some sort of man purse with him, but no visible water and was wearing some sort of flip flop type of footwear. We kind of all just looked at each other for a second, and then the guy kind of rudely asked where a particular trailhead parking lot was at. My girlfriend was more familiar with the general area than I was, so she told them that it was about 12.5 miles away. There were a few turns that they would have to make on the trails, but as she tried to explain the directions to the guy he rudely said something like "FINE! I GOT IT!" and started to walk away. I tried to ask if they needed help...food or water or something...but he turned around and goes "I SAID THAT I GOT IT GOD#@&$#!!!". Off they went down the trail arguing the whole way. The impression that I got was that the guy took his girlfriend out for a day hike that turned into more than he bargained for, they started arguing about it, and he wouldn't admit that he was in over his head. As the walked away I told my girlfriend to remind me to check the news to see if there was a story about missing hikers when we got home. We marked the location that we saw them on our GPS and went on our way. Near the parking area at the main trailhead there is a box to drop hiking information cards into detailing the time of your hike etc. We stopped by there the next day and filled out an index card detailing the interaction, description of the couple, location/time etc. Put our numbers on there in case anyone needed to talk with is if there was a couple reported missing. Never heard anything so I guess they eventually made it out. Maybe certain people need a little fear if not respect for the woods drilled into them.

Yeah, funny how that works. Seems to happen more often when it's my idea, too

Funny how it is that in a team of 2 the lady can always manage to outvote...

It is true that the Wilderness areas are more crowded than ever, but in a nation whose homo sapien population went from 76 million in 1900 to 282 million in 2000, and now 331 million (that's a 17% leap in just 20 years.........49 million souls, many millions more than the entire population of Canada), it should be expected that every nook and cranny of the nation will have some yahoo setting up a camp and recording it on YouTube to share with the unwashed in the cities. That's why people want to create more and more Wilderness designated areas. That's also why I theorize that the few sasquatches left in the West are being pushed north into greener, more mountainous, and less populated pastures. No Wilderness (that's capital "W") designations needed. They're seeking wilderness, not Wilderness. But even in areas of the continent where the wriggling masses of humanity rarely go (pretty much anywhere @ 300 miles north of the U.S./Canadian border), there are Wilderness areas (again, that's a capital "W") aplenty. And while you are allowed to go there, if you do, you win't see people there, especially since there's no hunting. Oh, yeah, every once in a while a Timothy Treadwell type will be found in some lonely bay or valley, but he won't be there long, and there will then be a looooooong span of time before another bush plane flies by. Correct. There are no sasquatch set-asides. And if I'm correct that sasquatches are of the genus homo, you'd better pray that they remain undiscovered, because if they get discovered, the set-asides will be called "reservations", and the only "people" in them will be the sasquatches and the BIA, or other such officials.

I dont understand the argument for Paulides NEEDING to have a theory as to what it is that is responsible. I cant follow the logic of him not being credible for not offering an explanation. Why is he not credible? I see him as not jumping to conclusions without evidence. If evidence does not lead to an straightforward conclusion it is wrong to offer one. I think that is respectable. Being an author who reports on strange disappearances does not require having a theory about what it is. Why should it?