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I got back yesterday from a quick sasquatching adventure. Went in at 6am Friday, poked around by day looking for tracks, then did night ops and left Saturday morning. For the second time in three weeks, I came across a Timber rattler...up close and personal. For decades, I've hiked and backpacked in an area known to have them but never once saw them nor knew anyone that did. Why, suddenly, the recent encounters? This incident was about 2 1/2 miles from the one three weeks ago. I went with a fellow sasquatching buddy and we decided to approach this general area from a different location. To get there, we had to ascend over 1,100' with full packs so I cut weight wherever I could. I wrestled with my decision, but the snake gaiters got left in the car. It allowed me to save a whopping 22 ounces! We set up camp then hiked to an area a mile away and poked around looking for fresh tracks. We saw one that was really deep but only about the length of a quart-sized Gatorade bottle. Our footprints barely sunk 1/4" whereas this was 2" deep. I couldn't pull away litter without unearthing soil. Maybe it was nothing. As we returned, the Timber Rattler was on the trail and nearly impossible to see until I was almost on it. I was closest with my buddy behind. It rattled and I stopped, then I kept my eyes fixed on its head, as it was clearly upset. I was near the business end. I "guessed" it was ~5' while my friend said longer. In either case it was big, camouflaged, and in no mood for visitors. It crawled into the brush and I tried to get a picture before it disappeared but wasn't too successful. I was only interested in knowing where its head was. Taking my eye off it to view settings was not going to happen. Clearly, this rattler, and the other one a few weeks ago, just wanted to be left alone and chose to exit when it could. That doesn't change the fact that I couldn't initially see either and got way too close for comfort with both. If I was motoring along on the trail, as I would if I wanted to get back to camp, I might have stepped on it. Three weeks ago, I said I would always wear the SP gaiters when in this area. This time, I rationalized that saving a small amount of weight was more important as lightning rarely strikes twice. Shame on me as I was in further this time and, if bitten, the hike back to the car would have taken close to three hours with no cell service anywhere around. That said, all-in-all it was a fun time filled with adventure and a loon happily provided melodic entertainment all night. The view of the area around this secluded pond was gorgeous.

There is a conflicting question. Sasquatch seem to be nocturnal...so why would we eliminate our best chance of getting a picture? Although I still have two trailcams out in the field ready to take night-time shots, I'm beginning to think the "no-IR-daytime-only" approach has merit. It would allow even further camouflaging of trailcams. I could cover the IR emitters with bark and make the trailcams nearly impossible to see...even if you knew where they were. There was a guy on YT who taught how to camouflage a trailcam. He was the Yoda of trailcam camo and I learned from his videos. He was interested only in day-time videos and would dare anyone to find his trailcams. I never could find them until pointed out.

Hi all, I have been interested in cryptozoology for a long time, going back to time spent abroad in Japan researching regional folklore and cryptids there. Since then I have worked as an analyst for GIS data and open source satellite information related to the defense sector and have been interested in how those skills could be applied to cryptozoological studies. No personal experiences but lots of research. Happy to be here.

Those are werewolves, with perfect hair.

^^^^ I think London.

Spent some time down on the Arizona/Mexico border near Yuma earlier this year. Doesn't seem very "Squatchy" to me...

https://tenor.com/view/animal-vs-human-animal-attack-bear-gif-14527012

Possibly the biggest argument in paloarchaeloogy. Keep in mind that the out of Africa theory is only backed by academics because that's all they want to determine based on the fossil record. But that has been made more difficult over the years with a lot of splintering of homo origins across multiple archaic strains. Academics is still not close to agreeing on resetting their out of Africa theory. My opinion on the reason why is because the diffusion theorists have been bashed into submission by the out of Africa people. Years and years of blackballing anyone who dared cross the out of Africa theory ensured anyone who did so would never get a job or get a paper published. Little by little it becomes apparent that the out of Africa theorists have been wrong all along. We're just missing definitive fossil evidence that proves it to the satisfaction of the academics who cling to that theory to save face.

http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2018/07/border-patrol-agent-has-bigfoot.html#more U.S. Border Patrol Agent's Bigfoot Story Few places are more wild and eerie than the vast barren lands of the U.S./Mexico border. The California section of the border is a hotspot for the U.S. Border Patrol to find undocumented immigrants before they make their way into the county. Many of these folks find their way through the treacherous Otay Mountains, which lie just north of the border near San Diego CA. A spooky sighting from border patrol agent Rocky Elmore indicates that it is not only immigrants who frequent these mountains. Bigfoot may actually call this region home. This harsh terrain has been the backdrop of many tales over the years, including crashed phantom pilots, faceless ghosts, and according to Agent Elmore, Sasquatch. After two decades of service along the border, Elmore thought he’d seen it all, which he details in his book ‘Out on Foot’. That changed the night that he came within close proximity to what he later came to find out was likely Bigfoot. According to Elmore, he was hot on the trail of some immigrants along the Otay River. A thick, creeping fog settled in when he heard a heavy splash in the water. Although the fog prevented him from seeing who or what crashed into the water, he could sense something that was both large and frightening. A chill zapped down his spine as intense fear filled his body. He wasn’t alone in his terror; coyotes near the water ran past Elmore, retreating from whatever had suddenly made itself known in the black waters beyond the fog. A colleague operating a thermal scope later confided in Elmore that he had seen a big, bipedal creature with an intense heat signature that appeared to be stalking two agents who were on foot. They never saw the creature, but they were given the order to abandon the area immediately once the scope operator observed the unknown creature, who he termed a large “predator,” noting that the creature had come within just a few steps of the pair of unsuspecting government workers. This tale is among the most eerie Bigfoot sightings on record. What could have possibly created that enormous heat profile? This account just goes to show that wherever there are vast expanses of nearly uninhabited wilderness, there seem to always be wandering Sasquatch in the fog nearby.