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There might be a kid out there somewhere who sees EB and has his lifelong interest in the subject kindled... just like In Search Of and MonsterQuest did for a lot of us when we were younger. Maybe that kid will be the one who grows up and finally solves the Bigfoot mystery once and for all. As long as it doesn't make the search for Sasquatch out to be a laughingstock, then the show has some value.

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner @BlackRockBigfoot! No show goes on location without thoroughly checking it out. You're talking about permits and permissions and contracts. That ALL has to pan out before a location is chosen (I worked in film & television for ten years, trust me). It might have been submitted as one of several locations, but you bet it had to please the lawyers first. Studios are not (generally) stupid; they know it's about CYA stuff, especially in prep.

There was never algorithm, not in the very true sense of the word anyway. RE the bolded part above and to answer, i suspect 'money/costs' would be what the most important algorithm spat back at them in to determining that location..;)

Patty is this guy....

That's what I was going to ask .. clearly Benchmade from the lock mechanism. My personal favorite folder used to be the Benchmade Bugout but that has been replaced for E-D-C ... by the Mini Bugout. Under 2 ounces of serious, business-like sharpness. That "Grizzly Ridge" is a very nice looking knife. Good of them to throw in a rifle when you bought it. MIB

This "came with" my rifle. Didn't really need another hunting knife (I'm fairly superstitious and I had great luck this year) but I'll throw it in my bag as a backup or put on my chest rig for hikes this spring.

Well, to be fair, some fat guys (and gals) ARE bigfoot hunters LOL! Talking about myself. Ouch. But I'm neither a liar nor paid to do what I do, so there's the difference! That said I've never seen the show, nor do I plan to. All those shows are ENTERTAINMENT. Don't look to them for much true research value. I do like to whoop and hollar if nothing is happening though at the end of a hike It might work (though it hasn't in two years).

I agree with you on this. A location scout for the production company came up with this area...not any advanced Bigfoot algorithm. The location was determined by cost and convenience. Again, I will probably watch at least some of this season, but this show is for entertainment only. The only show that I think tried to take at least a realistic approach to the subject was the Survivorman Bigfoot episodes. And, as much as enthusiasts might have enjoyed those shows, there's a reason why the network turned Stroud down when he approached them on another season of Bigfoot hunting. Not enough fake scares and faked evidence for the masses.

203 kilos? Doesn't seem quite right, either.

The stats that I seeing on him don't seem correct. 6'6", but only 203 lbs??? No way. He's got 150 lbs of body hair alone. That's a 300+ lb guy if I have ever seen one... especially if the 6'6" height is correct.

I want to post the directions on the first post of this thread because some newbies don't bother to read them. Welcome to the Bigfoot Forums. Please use this area to tell us about yourself and briefly how you became interested in Bigfoot! If you wish to post your BF encounters, experiences and stories, please do so in the appropriate threads- after you introduce yourself here. This is not the area for prolonged or continuous encounter reports because they will simply be deleted

I prefer a sling that has a nylon strap with a rubberized neoprene pad. It had plenty of grip and some give to it. It absorbs the small amount of shock from walking. I have a Butlercreek on my 7mm mag. that I have had for about 10 years and Winchester one on my Turkey gun.

I am kind of liking the way this thread is drifting... the BFF Channel!

I prefer a narrow sling that bites vs the 70’s broad padded slings. They are constantly sliding or being pulled off the shoulder.

I prefer nylon over leather. My favorite nylon sling is the Browning All Season Web Sling. It is both a shoulder and backpack sling.I learned, however, that since I always carry a daybag on my back, it precludes effective backpack carry of the rifle. Regardless, the All Seasons sling opens up and closes down in a second with an easy operated slide buckle. After the rubber Slogan sling, it is my favorite sling.

I like Montana Slings, quick adjust, nice leather, top notch IMO: https://www.montanagunslings.com/

Thanks for posting this. I keep meaning to add to our load out. While I am not worried about getting high centered, I do worry about a tree coming down and blocking us in on an old mountain gravel road. I need to pick up a battery powered chainsaw to keep in the back of the vehicle

We have people in the Pacific Northwest, the Appalachians and Smokeys, Texas, West Virginia... I don't know if we have anyone actively involved in field research who is located in the Oklahoma area or not. I seem to recall that we do, but I can't remember who off the top of my head. We have most of the Bigfoot hotspots covered by current members... We have field researchers as well as researchers of a more academic inclination. An already established system to identify reported activity by location as well as other criteria...

I thought about that briefly a few months ago. We are pretty scattered to the 4 corners of the continent, but to me that's the interesting part. You would get to see the similarities and differences from region to region... everything from types of evidence to investigation techniques. Video editing software takes a bit getting used to, but you can turn out a decent video with a little bit of practice. Consumer grade cameras are inexpensive and constantly improving in quality. Shoot, I don't even use GoPros anymore. Akaso action cameras give slightly better images while being much more affordable. GoPros might be a bit more durable, but when I break a camera I break it BIG. Like smashing it to pieces. So, a bit more durability isn't worth the extra cost to me.

Hello! Found this site through fellow conspiracy/cryptozoology/unexplained events site ATS, always been fascinated with Bigfoot and Sasquatch. Happy to found this site for some great reading and research! Have a happy holidays and take care!

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!

Hey All! I've been interested in yeti/sasquatch/bigfoot for many years. Have read every book I could get my hands on from the age of around 13 (in 1970) until now. I have a PhD in biology, have worked as a wildlife professional for many years, and have spent extensive periods of time in the wilderness. Have never seen a sasquatch myself but two colleagues I was working with 20 years ago in old growth forest on the Olympic Peninsula had the crap scared out of them by a classic threatening, territorial type encounter.