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We went out today to scout an area that we found described in an old rock climbing blog that has been dormant since 2013. The gentleman who made the blog named one of the areas that he mapped "Sasquatch Boulders" and included a few first and second hand accounts of Bigfoot sightings in that immediate area that spawned that name. While the area itself is interesting and may be worth investigating further, the really neat part of today was a side trip that we made to a local collection of petroglyphs found in this region. While Native American rock art was just as widespread here as in the American southwest, it doesn't last as long here due to the weather. So, when intact pieces are found it's very exciting. This is a piece that they have labeled as the representation of some sort of birdman entity. The gentleman who discovered and catalogued it thought that the scratches deliberately marked across the figure's body signified feathers. Like many other tribes, the Cherokee and Catawba have legends of Thunderbird, Eagle, and Raven. Raven is a shape shifter, which might have been the inspiration for this petroglyph. However, there isn't a birdman that I know of in local Indian folklore. I am going through my copy of James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee to see if anything jumps out at me. When I look at this, I don't see feathers, I see long strands of hair. Tsul Kalu is the name that the Cherokee gave to the hairy giants that they claimed lived in these mountains. I think that this is more likely to be a representation of one of these 'slanted eyed giants' than a birdman.

Sorry it took so long, had a lot more going on than planned when I started making the google earth project. Heres a link https://earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&ius=googleearth&link=https%3a%2f%2fearth.google.com%2fweb%2fsearch%2fIvanpah%2bSolar%2bElectric%2bGenerating%2bSystem,%2bNipton,%2bCA%2f%4038.25992267,-81.67011845,289.15564418a,5728.20795375d,35y,0.00002061h,0t,0r%2fdata%3dCigiJgokCba2dckO8UFAEVeLeWOk4EFAGUqNzasyy1zAITOmNvdO0VzA

Well, since we're all putting up pictures of when we were young 'uns. Penn State ROTC 80-84 timeframe. My wife has asked me where I've buried this body as my six pack is now behind a keg or two.....

Very cool find! I've found a few petroglyph sites up here but no semblance of the hairy man. Saw a good bit in the SW that are representative of a bi-pedal and often clawed creature. I can't imagine that's the best the artist could have come up with for wings if that was indeed what was intended. I'd lean toward hair too but I don't know squatch about it.

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...

@Airdale That's the one jet that scared me the most on the flight deck. When i first went into the Navy and it was my first time on the flight deck I stayed well clear of the whale. I remember seeing that movie they showed you while in the Navy. That guy getting sucked in the intake and he was not even that close to it's intake of the front of the jet. We be moving jets around the flight deck like it was nothing and you would have to have your head on a swivel. It was crazy. Seeing your photo it looks like you were a plane captain or a brown shirt. Well any how happy late veterans day Brother.

Me and my A-7E aboard U.S.S. Enterprise somewhere in the Tonkin Gulf, late '71 early '72, age 20.

Three days after my fifty third birthday in 2004 I was carded at Wally World; the checker relented when I tipped the brim of my fedora to expose the expanse of bare scalp it protected. She was a youngster so I hadn't expected her to grok the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club patch on my flight jacket.

Moneymaker makes stuff up on twitter daily. Not to be taken seriously Here in the northeast, we have coyotes, coydogs and coywolves, they pack together in the late winter and they are shades of the same thing based on genetic drift, they are in the woods and suburbs and getting used to people.

However harsh, I tend to agree. It's a business, not a research organization. But... the problem with the BFRO, which does have honest and talented members is... it begins and ends with Monkeymaker at the reigns, and as long as he is, it's a business and lines his pockets until proven otherwise.