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Thank you so much for sharing. I found it very compelling to listen to. I hope you are taking care of yourself and doing quite well.

For years, I've carried either a PLB, satellite messenger, or both whenever I enter the woods. They've helped me feel more at ease in the event an unforeseen tragedy would befall me. Sound the alarm and in comes the cavalry. Maybe I'm a slow learner but it finally dawned on me there is a bad event that could incur in the field where failure to act before the time when SAR/EMS arrives could be life threatening. A deep cut. Most of us probably carry a knife and it is likely very sharp. One bad slip because it is cold or wet or your hand is a bit greasy and we could end up profusely bleeding. The same goes if a branch above, which you didn't see, comes flying down, like a spear, due to a stiff breeze leaving a large gash in your head, arm, or leg. Those who are on blood thinners are at an increased risk. I just recently got a QuickClot gauze pad that is 3"x3" and 12' long and is treated with kaolin to help stop the bleeding. It z-folds into something that is very compact and weighs less than an ounce. I also got an Israeli bandage which can also be used to stop bleeding. It weighs about 3oz. I'd give consideration to having something with you that could stop the bleeding as it is something than can happen to all of us in the field. Even if you can get to your vehicle quickly it still might be a long time before you could get emergency treatment. https://www.liveactionsafety.com/quikclot-combat-gauze-z-fold-expire-2023/ https://www.liveactionsafety.com/israeli-emergency-bandage-6/

In order for this (the alert signals) to be a valid hypothesis, then it has to be repeatable. Not just by his experience, but universally. So if others can present evidence that they're experiencing the same thing, then it has validity. If it's only happening in his experience, it is likely something else. Knowing what I know of the Chequamegon forest, it is very swampy in many places. In the summer months that means very high humidity and in turn, the trees do a lot of popping from expansion and contraction from temperature changes. I also wonder if there's a gate that he might be using going in/out of the location, or a culvert he's driving over. Unlikely to be wood chopping given the time of year and single "knocks". How far to the nearest residence? Could be a screen door slamming. Maybe Driftless has ruled all these things out and we just don't know? It's interesting as an observation, that's all. I don't think he's trying to convince anyone of anything; he's just putting it 'out there' for consideration. That's fine by me.

Ok...let me clarify again. I don't know Drifter from the next guy. I don't even think these are hoaxed sounds. The thought did cross my mind that of all evidence, this would be fairly easy to hoax. @BlackRockBigfoot made some valid points as to why audio hoaxing doesn't deliver a ton of bang for the buck for a hoaxer.

That story didn't wrap up the way I was anticipating it to as I kept reading!

@BC witness Cool drone photography! I love the perspective it gives. Surely makes you feel small in the vast stretches of wilderness! @Kiwakwe Looks good! I'd like to poke around in that. Looks seriously wild. @NatFoot Happy hunting!

Sure thing, I'll convert our reports into a Google earth project and share them here tomorrow.

I was on the Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). I was in the AIMD shop as an AMS3.

Yeah, I was there to facilitate the evacuation and rescue of military dependents following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. It basically wiped out our bases there, and I don't think we bothered to rebuild. This is me arriving shortly after the eruption and the Navy base is in the background...

Me, drunk in a bar in the Philippines, holding a beer and a glass of a favorite local drink called a Mojo. On my first deployment in `91. What's really puzzling is why I am apparently wearing a wedding ring. I didn't get married until I was two years out of the Navy in `94. What happens in Olongapo City, stays in Olongapo City.

True. He might very well be hoaxing although I personally don't believe that he is... Hoaxers are generally not the sort of people to be content with the little things. Hoaxers want attention, and while this might seem compelling to a relatively small group of people who are interested in actual research, you are not going to see a it making waves like other fantastical claims that have turned out to be false. A video of possible knocks and calls won't get 1 million views on youtube. And that's what hoaxers want.... attention. Those sort of people always seem to be compelled to constantly up the ante. A lot of this field is looking for those subtle clues that hint that SOMETHING is out there. Those huge, earth shattering events that capture people's imaginations are very few and far between. If they were commonplace, we would have had definitive proof a long time ago. If he ends up talking about the Bigfoot Star Council in a few months and selling spots for 4 grand apiece to go into his exclusive research area and commune with Sasquatch...maybe then we will know that he is hoaxing. That's just my take on it. That's the frustrating part about being involved in this field. Pretty much any evidence that we find or is presented to us (short of a living specimen or a body) has the possibility of being a hoax.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'd never seen that ... that I remember ... but it is essentially what I do. I look at 0 - 1500 Hz. Usually clearly defined things are not what we're looking for. Look for gray foggy looking areas on the spectrogram. Things that make a single clear line on the graph usually can only make such a clear line ... in other words, they are only capable of making sound in a few narrow frequency ranges. We're looking for something with vocal flexibility. Those show up as less distinct / more fuzzly frequency ranges, thus more of a dull blob on the graph. Insects usually produce 3 or more horizontal bands ... harmonics, I suppose. Airplanes do the same but usually those are rising pitches so there will be maybe 5 or more bands roughly in parallel but increasing in frequency. The heavy band at the bottom is generally wind noise. With different mics and recorders with appropriate sensitivity that's likely where infrasound would fall, but most of our readily available mics and recorders don't pick up "real" sounds under 80-100 Hz. If you're getting too much of that rumble from wind noise, screening the mic can help. One of my friends who does more audio than I do uses Sonic Visualizer .. I've downloaded / installed it but haven't played with it yet. MIB

Ive got 1 report in roane, in Amma. Looks like several WV sighting reports are missing off that map. Is this the BFRO map or some independent map? If its indendant theres a few i can help add to it that were sent in to our team over the last few years. Just let me know

Here is the new class B I mentioned in my last post: https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=66224 I took a drive out today to give it a look. As suspected the report had details off a bit, if the site I found was actually correct. The road mentioned in the report was gated about 1/4 to 1/2 mile in and signed "smile, you're on camera" typical of private woodlots here, but scouting around I found this: And from May '19, with the sale sign still up: Fits the witness' description fairly well. I was hoping he'd be out there plugging away at something or other but no luck. I wouldn't call it desolate, neighbors, main roads and traffic noise but if one got back in it might seem so. Still, it's decent habitat and is near a sizeable tract of NWR, which is where I went for a jaunt after. Bushwhacked a ways into hemlock/pine/birch forest to where it became a boggy/mossy thicket. Back out to follow up dead end old logging roads and powerline access ways til dark then stopped back by the aforementioned gated road for a few wood knocks, which I never do but it seemed suiting here--no response. Saw/heard 1 red squirrel--another dead quiet afternoon in the woods.

The most funny part is that for so many russian people Siberia as far away as an Alaska! But here we have so many regions with activity, including Moscow suburbs. So, no need to go far!

My buddy Robert has uploaded the 2 drone flights from last Sunday's trip up the Anderson and East Anderson Rivers. I admire his skill and endurance in piloting these flights, as the wind was blowing quite strongly, and the temperature was -2C. My face and hands were numb by the time he landed each time. In the first video, you'll notice the difference in speed, into the wind outbound, and with the wind returning.