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Got out to check out a new area this weekend. It was an interesting outing. There is a guy wanted by the authorities on child abuse charges who they think is hiding out in the area. The whole area is crisscrossed by old state and forestry roads which are not longer maintained. Some still driveable. Some not.

The sightings seem to be most confined to Jellystone Park.

I'm back after some 'enforced' time away. Not sure what's wrong with animal mammary glands, especially covered up ones... I came into this forum as a genuine poster with a huge interest in this subject. Now I'm being labelled as a "troll"??? Also, I thought it was quite cheeky to suspend me and then have one of my threads ("Height exaggeration?") as a feature! Good to see a couple of my threads thriving though. This is a strange place and I'm not sure that I fit in...

Hello. I'm Taylor from Texas. I've always been interested in the paranormal and unknown since I was a kid. I did have a slight interest in bigfoot, but not enough as I was for UFOs and the like. However, this year, my interest in bigfoot really ignited and my curiosity has peaked after watching several videos of sightings and audios. The closest sighting near me happened about an hour away, and I'm half curious and half scared to ever come across a bigfoot. I'm very interested to see what other sightings or strange things have happened in my state in relation to bigfoot on this forum.

Nice bag!

I feel the same way. You have people who might do a Bigfoot call just for fun while they are already out hiking or camping. I could even see people faking prints in an area where they know that someone will see them. But, we have found prints in areas where it has been absolute rough to get to...way off the trail. Not saying that no other people have been there before us, but why would you spend time and energy faking a print where it is more than likely not going to be found? I think that an area that has a well publicized recent encounter might get that sort of thing, if it has some recent media exposure. If I had been researching in the Mammoth Cave area after that well publicized event where the guy was shooting at Bigfoot... I would have taken anything that I found with several grains of salt.

I am headed out to a potential hot spot tomorrow evening to camp out. Not sure if @Madison5716 will join me or not (I hope so), but this is a spot that two campers were run out of one night, and two weeks later a couple researcher friends visited there and their two boys had a sighting of a 7 to 7 1/2 foot tall creature. My trail camera has been up there for about a month, so I will check on that, too. I really need to get out to the woods. - been a rough week.

As hunters we judge a Bears size by its ears in relation to its head. A small bear will have big looking ears sitting on top of its head. Think mickey mouse. Plus the snout sticking out. A large bear will have smaller looking ears more on the sides of its head. Obviously a Sasquatch as a primate will not have ears sitting on top of its head. They probably will not be visible at all. Another quick check is shoulders. Primates shoulders are made to hang from trees. They are pronounced. A bears shoulders are narrow and do not stick out. Lastly, a Bears inseam is super short. They legs look odd when bipedal. Its obvious they did not develop to support full time bipedalism.

I honestly do not think there are that many hoaxers out there. Who has the time, and is dumb enough, to roam around at night - in remote areas, even ones accessible by vehicle, and snoop up on people, whoop or wood knock? I'd also venture to guess excursions out to where people don't go have other inherit dangers behind typical fauna, environment, etc. Those bigfeet are probably also much less used to human interaction and they are obviously not seeking it out if they are way back in the wilderness. I'd think you heighten your odds of having an aggressive encounter....but I guess you also have a better shot of catching one off guard and having a good sighting?

A couple of weeks ago, I camped out under the stars in a turn of the century hot spot. It was discovered by several miners who hiked into this remote canyon in pursuit of gold during the 1800s. The spot is up the Sixes River in southern Oregon where the south fork branches off. The night I camped out was quite calm with no bigfoot screams. This area would be worthwhile to explore by hiking about 10 miles into a roadless area where the miners dug tunnels. One miner was killed by a bigfoot that scared the rest of miners back to the town of Port Orford. Below is my sighting prior to 1980 near Crater Lake, Oregon, while sleeping under the stars. . This report is in the early history of Coos County. A group of hardy tough hikers could access this area while I maintain a base camp with good communications since being over 70, puts me out of rugged hikes.

You mentioned that one of the branches was twisted. How fresh was the damage? Was the sapwood/heartwood light in color indicating a fresh twist? Three years ago, two friends and I went out sasquatching. At night's end, we were back in camp and sitting around a fire. Within 100' we heard a loud tree-branch "noise" causing all of us to jump from our seats. None of us had a flashlight at the ready so it was a half minute before we could get light on the area. We walked over and found an apple-tree branch twisted, not broken, at the 7' level and the sapwood was light in color. I tried to twist the already-twisted branch and couldn't move it at all. We discussed the tree-branch noise and it was not a clean, quick snapping sound. It was definitely a twisting sound where you hear a constant crackling of something getting tighter and tighter. I think there's a lot to be learned from twisted branches. I've never developed an interest in tree formations but a tree toppling over or a branch being twisted is of significant interest to me.

There is nowhere within probably 200 miles of me that doesn't have SOME possibility of bigfoot, often low, but never zero. For me, there's a difference between camping where a thing might happen and picking a place to camp in hopes something will happen. I seek out places where things seemingly are most likely to happen. It can be a bit scary but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Hopefully in time, something ventured, connection made. There is a time to take off my researcher hat and become an experiencer, a participant. MIB

I have a half dozen places I go to but there are two I would consider my current hot spots. One of the is very creepy and both of my fellow sasquatching friends who've stayed there with me feel the same. I can't put my finger on it always but it feels like something is watching you. Always. I'm always on high alert when in this area. I know two people who have had a sighting/encounter in this area. Both were with another person when it happened. I wasn't with them but have known them long enough to believe what they say. One was so scared by the incident he stayed out of the woods for several years. I no longer see either of them because one movd to another region of the country while the other moved abroad. I'm planning to go there in the next week or two with a buddy and poke around several other ponds a mile or so beyond this one. We'll return and stay overnight at the creepy place. If you want to have a sighting or encounter, you have to put yourself in the place(s) you think give you the best opportunity for one.

There is quite an extensive classification system for BF sightings. First it goes through a committee, members are kept secret from the general public. This goes through a number of meetings and reviews, heavily scrutinized and voted on. So a "class A" area is pretty well regarded. Others include: Class B: almost A but not quite. Class C: meh, not so much Class D: not much expected to be found in the area. And it goes from there. Class Z is supposedly something to do with zombies but no one is really certain.

I am in the Roof Top Tent (RTT) category. No brand recommendations. My tent has 2 ways to enter and leave. One side has the ladder and the other side is the emergency bail out door. I have views on 4 sides, bug mesh and covers. The door flaps have small diameter weight rods across the lower edge. I recommend weighting the door flaps so that when the door flap is lifted and dropped in the middle of the night, it will wake you up. I have an 8'X8' canopy where I cook away from the tent / vehicle. It is possible to erect a canopy by yourself. Canopies usually come with a stake down kit with small cord. Optional weight bags are available for the legs. Never leave food out. I fold the vehicle mirrors back and remove the rear wiper arm. Don't need pesky bears tearing up vehicle equipment. Learning an animal inventory takes time. I take notes about the start and end times of bird activity. Small owls can make huge noises. Unusual 'bird like' noises when it is pitch black are noted. A small bounding rabbitt on dry leaves sounds like bipedal type walking. Be patient. Stay safe.

No, none of those. It was not a throat noise, it was more like 3-4 people, not cooperating, trying to play the same xylophone that had it's keys muted so there was nothing musical left, just a weird cacophony of clicks, pops, scratchy sounds, etc, some drawn out rising and falling in pitch, some short and percussive, all overlapping rather than in sequence. The nearest similar thing was from a sci fi movie 20 years or so ago and I can't think of the name or the cast so I can't find it to post a sound clip for illustration. It was ... truly chilling.