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Hello to anyone who is interested in my research! I guess I caused quite a stir in the contest forum. My apologies for creating a logjam. It was recommended that this might be a more appropriate section for that kind of discussion. If this isn't the place, please let me know. I am a complete novice to how forums work. Who Am I? I am a professional archaeologist who has surveyed hundreds of thousands of acres of national forests, national park lands, national wildlife refuges, state forests, and other federal, state, local and private lands from New York to California and from Wisconsin to Louisiana. I spent most of my adult life navigating heavy forested lands with only a topo map and a compass searching for cultural resources in order to identify them, record them, map them, test them, and in some cases excavate them. In order to do my job, I had to distinguish natural settings from cultural disturbances. Changes in vegetation often provided indicators of historic or prehistoric past activities. I have recorded thousands of archaeological sites in wooded environments. Nowadays, the people who do that kind of work are guided by GPS. I had to keep track of my distances walked by the measure of my strides. Later on, after joining the US Forest Service and moving up the food chain, I managed heritage resources on a forest wide scale of millions of acres of national forest, worked on forest management plans, Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Assessments, as well as managing heritage resources in wilderness areas and wild and scenic management plans. I have a great amount of experience working with biologists, silviculturists, foresters, geologists, fishery biologists, and scientists of different disciplines on best management practices for a variety of habitats to protect, preserve and/or interpret special use areas. I've always had an interest in large hairy hominids, beginning with the Yeti and later Bigfoot. I can still recall my fascination in reading my friend's father's copy of Argosy magazine the article about the Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot. I remember thinking "That would be fun and exciting!" At about the same time, I was greatly influenced by Jane Goodall's work with Chimpanzees that was shown on National Geographic specials on TV. Influenced enough that I majored in anthropology in college. I cared little about Physical Anthropology. I really enjoyed taking Cultural Anthropology classes. However, after taking my first archaeology class, I was hooked! My senior year, that's all I took. When I went to field school, visitors often mistook me for the Field Director's Assistant in how much I knew and was willing to share with visitors. That catapulted to graduate school and then on to a long career as a professional archaeologist. Bigfoot was out of sight and out of my mind back then. It was only after I retired that my interest in Bigfoot was renewed. First, by the TV show "Finding Bigfoot," which was laughable, entertaining and sometimes informative. During this time, I was spending a lot of time at my family's camp. When I was kid, my grandmother lived in the house. After she passed, my father and mother used it as our camp or summer home. Since I was able to walk, I'd go off to play in the deep woods that surrounded our camp. Beyond the cut lawn of our yard was millions of acres of private and government forests. I played on logs, building forts and just hanging out in what I called my "pocket of peace" where I could be alone in my thoughts. Little did I know, I was never alone. Since I had no fear of forests and, like Thoreau, I couldn't get enough of being alone in the forest, I liked to hike into the woods by myself going as deep as I could where I would get lost and then I'd work to find my way back. To further challenge myself, I'd go hiking at night without a flashlight and into the woods in the dark. Moonlit nights were easy. No moon and cloud cover was something else. That was my thrill seeking adventures after I retired. After watching Finding Bigfoot, as a joke, I started incorporating their tree knocks, howls, and other methods into my midnight hikes with little success. After all, I had no idea that Bigfoot existed away from the mountains of the west. Then I saw an episode that was filmed about ten miles away as the crow flies from my camp. Hmmm, I thought. I kept knocking and howling. Still without much success. Then I found my first footprint. It was 18+ inches long and was embedded four inches into the ground. I'm a big guy and I couldn't make a dent into the ground deeper than an inch. I call this my "first step" into turning a hobby into an obsession. I graduated from Finding Bigfoot to watching Bigfoot researchers on YouTube. It was about this time that Barb and Gabby started gifting Bigfoots near her place out west. So, I started doing it too. From watching the old "Dr. Squatch" urban hikes and later "Utah Sasquatch," I started realizing that similar stick and tree structures were all around me and were what I played in and around as a kid. They were especially prevalent in my "Pocket of Peace." When that realization hit me, I went to bed that night in my camp lying awake for many hours staring at the ceiling thinking to myself "Hell, you're an archaeologist! A **** ANTHROPOLOGIST! An anthropologist who became an anthropologist from watching National Geographic specials on Jane Goodall and her work with Chimpanzees. Why not me with these Bigfoots who have lived alongside my camp all of my life? They must know me better than I know myself, after watching me in their wallows thinking that I was all alone by myself. That I was never snatched by them, though they had many chances to do so, said to me that they were no threat to them possibly because I was never a threat to them. That they had the chance to crush me like a grape and never did made me emboldened to conduct a habituation study ala Jane Goodall on them. How to do it was another question? They're not like Chimpanzees or most other forest animals. So, I continued gifting them for several years trying to figure out a way to study them. By 2015 I latched on to Christopher Noel's (Impossible Visits) research watching all of his videos and reading all of his books (as well watching others and reading every Bigfoot book I could get my hands on). I especially liked the idea of his "listening project." So much so that I bought a digital audio recorder to put out in the woods in the location where I had been gifting them. To document this momentous occasion, I brought along my Panasonic Lumix camera which could take digital photos and videos. Although I had for several years, I never took any videos of anything and never took it out with me in the woods on my hikes. Apparently, taking my camera along and videotaping my hike didn't go over well with those in the forest who I was gifting because I got zapped with infrasound. Here's a link to my adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8zMMEZ4o0 I also got zapped the next day when I went back to regift and retrieve my audio recorder. Here's a link to that video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTrXOJbr1M8 Since I had no fear of them, I took it all in stride. Their infrasound discombobulated me and, in doing so, made me fall face first into a tree trunk but I didn't want to show them that it was their zapping to give them the satisfaction that, in fact, it was their zapping that made my legs turn to jelly and my head spinning before I hit the tree with my noggin. When I brought the recorder back to the camp with me, I played back some of the recordings. I could hear some anomalous sounds beyond the hissing sound of recording. Growing up, I used to lie in bed with a transistor radio turning the dial to far off stations and through the hissing sounds pick up stations from as far away as Mexico and Montreal. So, the hissing sound didn't bother me. It did, however, bother my wife who complained that all she could hear was "white noise." I knew then that I had to remove the "white noise" to be able to listen to the anomalous sounds of suspected Sasquatches. I also knew that I would have to remove it from all of the 24 hours of recordings in order to establish a baseline of presence and absence of suspect Sasquatch sounds. This, to identify patterns of sounds and differences of sounds. All these thoughts ran through my head at the time and I had no idea how to do it or even how to download the audio files. This took me a year to do. I first learned how to download the files and then found an article written by Sasquatch Bioacoustics on how to use the free audio processing software called "Audacity." After much experimentation, I figured out a process that would allow me to carefully peel away several layers of the "white noise" without any distortion to reveal the anomalous suspected sounds of Sasquatch. My next step was analyzing the 24 hours of audio recordings of June 1 - June 2, 2015 which I called "A Day in the Life of a Group of Bigfoots" divided into two days, Day One (June 1 from about 8 pm to midnight) and Day Two (midnight to approximately 8 pm June 2). Here's a link to the 48 episodes in a playlist https://youtu.be/ju8jvzl9H2Y?list=PLzkVpssCSuoc8oHJcw-LFjAAYR7kpgy-j If you don't have 24 hours to listen to all at once, you can listen to each episode individually at your leisure. I then started posting them on my new YouTube channel called "Bigfoot Anthropologist." https://youtu.be/ju8jvzl9H2Y?list=PLzkVpssCSuoc8oHJcw-LFjAAYR7kpgy-j You might say that I am specializing in the research of Bigfoot behavior through audio surveillance and field visits (sometimes with a camera) to collect information on Bigfoot activities to understand their language, rituals, spiritualism, intelligence, social systems, culture, demography, and settlement-subsistence patterns. I have tested and replicated these results in rigorous experiments. Consequently, I am extremely confident in my research methods and results. My interpretations of the data are all my own, but the data that I collect is presented for anyone to reach their own conclusions, as is part of the process of the scientific method. I call these tests "Cross Cultural Comparisons and Collaborations" and have a playlist of 50 of them at https://youtu.be/MhrBqoGCF0E?list=PLzkVpssCSuocNDhg8SCNgaoJZuPf6KVVt Again, one could watch any one of them individually by clicking on whatever episode that you are interested in on my channel. Some are video classics and others are collaborations using other Bigfoot researchers materials (with their permission). I am not a traditional Bigfoot researcher. Nor do I approach the subject matter in the same manner as traditionalists. My posit is that I assume or affirm the postulate that Bigfoot is real and that, once interaction is established, we can learn about them through observation. Albeit, they are naturally averse to being observed. The fact that I may not always observe them by "seeing" them, knowing that I am in their midst by examining audio data either from a digital audio recorder or audio from a video or both should speak volumes to those researchers who seek to know more about these elusive reclusive hominids. Anyone who is on this journey of discovery who also posits their existence is welcome along. Those who continue to question everything about their existence will have a great amount of difficulty just taking the first step. If you want Bigfoot to be recognized by Science, you have to first start with one. I am a Scientist who recognizes that they exist. I may not be the first, but I am one. I interact act with them and they with me. I have captured them on film and audio. I have broken the "Bigfoot Sound Barrier" by figuring out how to carefully peel away the "white noise" from the ambient background sounds of the forest to reveal suspected Sasquatch sounds. I have carefully examined hundreds and hundreds of hours of Bigfoot audio recordings in context. Contextual information is key to understanding human and hominid behaviors. By studying the patterns of Bigfoot sounds in similar contexts, I've identified different types of Sasquatch sounds from "happy Bigfoot sounds" to infrasounds used to zap people and many other sounds attributable to other patterned hominid behaviors in a variety of different contexts. Watching my videos on YouTube is free and subscribing to my channel is free also. As a member of this forum, I'd especially welcome you to leave a comment on any video so I can know who you are on both platforms. Please be respectful, as you are on this platform. Besides my YouTube channel, I am also in the process of writing a book on all of this. It will be an ebook. When it comes out, I'd like all of you to have a free copy of it. My hope is that it and my research will help you out in your own journey of discovery of this fascinating phenomenon we call Bigfoot. In my mind, we're all in this together, even if we are following different paths and have divergent ideas. We are one with Bigfoot. I simply ask to be accepted in your community for who I am and what I am doing. I'm anxious to share what I know with you and look forward to establishing a dialog with like minded individuals. I would like you to think of me as your friendly neighborhood Bigfoot Anthropologist. Peace, love and Bigfoot!

Marty, While I can sympathize with your frustration concerning lack of clear video, like Norseman said it's apples and oranges to compare ghost hunting techniques with those of most Bigfoot researchers. For a few reasons... You are dealing with video and audio which are orders of magnitude more complex than investigating a potentially haunted house. How long is your average ghost hunt? 6 hours or so? Usually indoors, I would assume. Ceilings, walls, mostly level floors. Maybe even power, if you are lucky. Vehicles parked just right outside. When we go out, we are in rough terrain and miles into the woods and mountains. At the mercy of the weather and limited to what we can carry on our backs. Any video, thermal, audio, casting materials, etc. has to fight for space with food, first aid, water, firearms, and the other usual hiking/camping supplies. Just keeping the equipment charged is a struggle. Cameras eat batteries like nobody's business, especially in night vision mode. Same thing for SD cards when you are recording in 4K. No matter how you arrange it, it is difficult to keep video going constantly for several hours a night...night after night...just with what you can carry in your pack. We are not among the lucky ones who can just set up stationary right off the road and start recording. It just doesn't seem to happen that way in this area. We have gotten the vast majority of our activity while we are on the move at night. If we stop and try to set up a quick base to record, it seems that things will quiet down. You can run audio constantly, and that has been one of the goals that we met this past month. We now have several small audio recorders that we can run constantly. However, trying to film around you continually is difficult...moving through the woods at night, usually not on an actual path...you spend a lot of time just making sure that you are not going to break your neck. We have been experimenting with ways to be ready in case we have a close encounter with a Sasquatch at night so that we might be able to get some sort of video evidence. I even picked up an action cam that has been converted to night vision from a ghost hunting shop. I wear it on my chest rig and try to keep it running as much as possible. The range is limited, even with an external IR source. Battery usage is still an issue. We are experimenting with external power sources, but keeping a USB plug into a chest mounted camera while pushing through the brush at night is easier said than done. Then, factor in that (at least in my experience) smaller groups seem to have better luck encountering activity than larger groups. That leaves two people to juggle video, audio, thermal, etc. The whole time trying to maintain some sort of situational awareness and not become overly focused on the equipment itself. We try to stay aware of what's around us at all times, because I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about these creatures like many on the forum do. The tendency for activity to occur at exactly the wrong moment for us is maddening and frustrating. That frustration has nearly caused me to walk away from all of this on more than one occasion. When you guys see all of my gear go up for sale on the marketplace here you will know that it has finally gotten to be too much and that I have just taken up bird watching. The clearest 'Sasquatch" howl (I put that in parenthesis because I didn't see what made it, but it closely matches other audio that has been posted here) that we ever heard happened a few seconds after we turned out camera off to change batteries, regroup, and get something to eat. We got a Zoom H4N Pro after that to keep running in a central location in order to capture any future howls. That still doesn't do anything about the howl that we heard. We are just left with anecdotal accounts and video of the aftermath...no real evidence at all. Clear video can be obtained, and I hope that we are able to get something compelling ourselves if not something quite a bit more tangible. But, at the end of the day we are trying to capture video of an unknown biped with unknown abilities and unknown levels of intelligence...in its home habitat where it is able to apparently move much easier than we can. It's aware of us and, at least according to some accounts, aware of at least the basics of how photography works. It's a tall order. Now, compare all of this to a group of people who can just roll up in vehicles, unload their boxes and boxes of gear, walk a few yards into a structure, and set up for a few hours to try and catch an EVP or hear a door slam. My partner is a lot more into the paranormal side of things than I am, and she enjoys doing ghost hunting type stuff in the abandoned ruins of old settlements that dot the mountains through this region. Even doing that sort of research is easier than what we do concerning Bigfoot...if nothing else for the stationary aspect of it. Even though you are still hiking your equipment in, you are able to set up in one spot for most of the time. Looking for Bigfoot is like looking for an intelligent, stealthy, physically superior needle in a giant, wet, rocky, remote haystack.

An example would be Neanderthal hybrids. European and Asian populations have like 1-6% Neanderthal DNA. The interesting part is that all of that surviving Neanderthal DNA is from females. Or X chromosomes. No male DNA (Y) survived. So it’s theorized that our two species were far enough apart that only daughters of a Sapien and Neanderthal coupling could reproduce. Male hybrids were sterile! This is getting close to something like a mule. A Horse and a Donkey coupling produce sterile offspring except in extremely rare cases. Sometimes a Molly can foal. Maybe many female Sapien/Neanderthal hybrids were sterile as well. Except a few? https://www.paducahsun.com/news/kentucky/mule-gives-rare-birth-to-miracle-baby/article_814117db-99e6-58a4-8d11-16b971565d5a.html

Hi, The Falcon Project was mentioned in something I saw...perhaps MonsterQuest or the "Legend Meets Science" book or video. Either way, it was dated yet I still see the Web site page is up so someone is paying for it. Does anyone have an update on this project or did it just go the wayside? Cheers!

Must be good swimmers to get here from Africa...

Welcome to the forum!

Welcome to the Forum, I hope you find your time here rewarding and entertaining. Have any other scientists shown interest of your recent research and pursuits?

Hey everyone, I’m from the down under. ive been interested in crypto’s for quite awhile now, I’ve only just stumbled upon this forum, seems like a great place to scratch that itch of mine

There are fertile offspring between the royal python (python regius)an African species, and the Australian Woma (aspidites ramsayi) Another example is a hybrid of carpet pythons (Morelia spilotes variagata) and the royal python, and another between the carpet python and the green tree python (chondropython viridis). Also crosses between the boa constrictor (boa constrictor constrictor or boa imperator) and both the more common anaconda species, the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) and the yellow anaconda (eunectes notaeus) then there's all sorts of crosses made with North American colubrid snakes (pine/gohpers/king/rat/corn) I heard of a 7 species 3 genus cross.... There are quite a few between members of the same genus, in pythons and colubrid snakes, as well as a few within the monitor lizards (varanus) Of course, most of these occurred within captive situations, but it the delineation of species were so absolute, even that should not be possible...yet it has indeed occurred...

There are tons and tons of Bigfoot related photos and videos. Some are even quite old. Im not sure why you think this area is devoid of content. You say your a ghost hunter. Im not. But Ive watched it on TV. What Ive observed is that you go to a house or other building during the day. Wire it for sound and all sorts of electrical gadgets and wait for dark. This has little crossover with hiking in forested regions of the country hoping to get a snap shot of an elusive beast. And again video doesnt back up anything. The PGF proves this 50 years ago.

Welcome to the Forum, Treebeard431. If you're from the Florida Panhandle, I'm guessing you're probably familiar with the Stacy Brown Thermal footage that was taken near Quincy, Florida. We look forward to reading about your encounter.

This statement I have also found to be true and I still don't understand it. Most of the field researchers use their own money on their own time and often get shamed when they ask for donations. There is also a need for many different skill sets in the field which either requires a unique individual or a team all focusing on the same goal. Without grants, these field researchers or teams still need to earn a living. I have found merit in anything that mentions the name Bigfoot or Sasquatch. As social media brings stories together, even from a hundred years ago, a consensus forms that says something like, "What in the world have we got here?" In other words, raising the noise level may not be a bad thing. I agree but was afraid to post it. Thank you.

Howdy. First post. Located in Rochester, NY, 50 year old computer guy, by trade, hunter, drummer, 4 kids, like to camp. Sagittarius. That said, you don't think of Rochester as a Bigfoot hotbed and maybe it's not, but there are local legends and recent sightings. Surprised it's not on the forum, but Klipnocky state forest south of Rochester has a legend of the hairy women. Started as a Native American story, was anglicised in the early 1900s to refer to a group of kids who fled into the woods after their house burned down and lived wild, but is clearly a bastardized bigfoot story. Especially because sightings continue. In fact, while I haven't seen with my own eyes, right near that state forest I have heard branches break, whoops and yells, something that sounded like language, and seen large swings in deer population that don't seem to correlate to poaching or coyotes. After ten years of hunting and saying these things to hunting buddies, finally the patriarch of the group (who had teased me for a decade with "you are the scariest thing in these woods" and "there's nothing there, plus you're armed..." Was spring turkey hunting in Rattlesnake hill state forest and had something hairy stand up behind him after he had been sitting for hours calling turkey. It stood, turned and walked away much faster than a man could have, and with less noise but not entirely silently. He figured it had been there silently sitting about 20 yards behind him for hours before it decided to bail. It wasnt a turkey hunter, it had no weapon. And he described it as "loped away through the brush". So there you go. I continue to keep my eyes abd ears open while in tbe woods and look forward to learning. As for my opinion? In all of the fossil record of human kind, at least up to the last ice age, our branch has had relatives along side, so why not now? I assume there's camps in bigfoot enthusiast circles I would be in the "human but not sapiens sapiens" camp. Maybe two steps off modern human. Mentally something on the order of animal but not human intelligence, language but like a chimp, more programming less training if you get my drift. And not in the supernatural, glowing eyes, disappears, other dimension camps, assuming that's a thing. There you go. Good to meet everyone and look forward to discussion in tbe future. Regards, Doodler