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Oh man, I can see it now. "In breaking news, a world famous Sasquatch researcher has found a carcass and removed its genitals. Presumably, it's in the name of science. Our correspondent, Rictor von DooDoo is on the scene now with the researcher who calls himself skinwalker. What do you have for us Rictor?" "Thanks Pete, I'm here with a blood soaked skinwalker who has just carved up a Sasquatch and is holding what appears to be a Bigfoot sclong. Is that correct Mr. Skinwalker?" "I'm really tired. I had no idea - well, I guess I should have realized how thick their skin would be. You'll have to excuse me. This is a first for me." "It's a first for all of us. It should be interesting when the DNA results come back." "It's pretty much a foregone conclusion it will come back as an unknown species." "So why did you carve up the dead Bigfoot?" "It's what I do man. I'm the skinwalker." "Back to you in the studio."

Environment forces adaptation. In areas like the PNW, Appalachia, the Kettle, theres a ton of scrub brush, dense laurel patches, greenbriar, etc. Right of ways and cut lines become wildlife highways almost immediately. Cut lines and right of ways open up some prime understory growing areas with mulitple food sources like berries, sweet grass, and flowers. Those sources are not only prime for sasquatch but also prime for protein sources that will be eating them. So this creates an area that serves 2 purposes, easy transit, food supply. Valley crossings are a different story, could be multiple reasons for that. Assuming that these creatures are as opportunistic as we are they likely will take advantage of anything that makes thier rugged life styles a little easier. Theoretically you could set up long range optics and sit and observe these more open areas but odds of capturing a glimpse of of something while remaining static are slim. If there was a way to set a camera with a long range lense and just let it set out in the wilderness and not be stolen it could be a plausable way to capture an image. But those lenses are not cheap, nor the camera they are attached too.

One person in remote Sasquatch territory is too many,. Think about it, what if it was you who wanted the safety of a remote area for you and your family and a stranger showed up? What would be your first reaction? And not just a stranger but a completely different kind of stranger? Day or night? When the Olympic Project found the first nesting site it was apparently active as a couple of nests still had fresh greenery attached. What happened? And then the recent discovery last year with nests half constructed. What happened? Shane Corson said he heard what sounded like something bipedal walk away as he approached. He suspected that he had interrupted the nest building activity. I really doubt anything went back after that intrusion. We need to learn and understand this, especially since the lesson is so recent. If after this someone is bothered a hair, just think how bothered the Sasquatch is, or any other animal for that matter. I don't mean to be harsh or critical here, but there comes a point where our own sensitivity to Nature needs to be rebooted.

I think that you can take Jeff Meldrum, bro.

@Skinwalker13 Well a little late but Congratulations ! to your success to what ever success you have made it too with these creatures. In one way it is great that you are open in you success. Did they seek you out or you seek them out? Either way it does not matter. It is a big world . In one way i am glad that you have found the success that you maybe have been looking for. But I am not sure. All I can say is that I am glad for you. So congratulations and look forward to seeing the show.

Well he is more than welcome to try..... if he isn’t satisfied with a complete foot after 30 years of wandering around in the woods with a plaster of paris sack.

@Arvedis first time in a long time ive laughed to the point of tears lol. Funny enough I actually just found out the reason behind why a native field trainer gave me and my buddies that nickname. We would communicate via coyote and owl calls when we were dling night drills and were w/o coms. One night he cut the drill short calling us a bunch of MF'n skin walkers, never could pin down why exaclty until about 2 weeks ago doing some research. Apparently the Navajo Skin Walkers would do the same and use coyotes and owls to do their bidding. But on a side note, I do always carry a hand made fillet knife with me in my back pack, cause ya never know.... Choppy choppy lol

Expedition Bigfoot (the museum) is south of me. I toyed with the idea of partnering with them to get samples to as many researchers as possible if I lucked into a specimen. However, the field is so filled with backstabbing, I would have to worry about sabotage from fellow enthusiasts in addition to the government actively working to suppress it.

In on this thread. That's usually my go-to plan for almost everything.

Ive got a game plan thats similar to yours. Ive got a few staties who are good friends or family who would call me if any body turned up on a roadside. If anything like that ever happened the genitals would be my go too for a quick grab, then start parting out the rest of it as quick as I could, and with butcher's training I can make quick work of a carcass. You would have to spread this thing out 1000 ways to Sunday to make sure every ounce didnt disappear.

Replying to SW13 Well Ok. We are a huge step further than can a bullet kill one. Now we are to the confiscation conspiracy. Which I don’t have a hard time believing government shenanigans. I see them all the time with Wolves, Cougars and Griz. I would not put my eggs in one basket. I sure wouldn’t be standing at a trail head with a dead Squatch calling fish and game with the good news..... The body would be at a safe undisclosed place. And I would just start spamming out flesh samples to every lab I could. I would send out videos of sample collection to professors. If the black helos came calling? Go ahead and search the house and barn. Not gonna be there. 800 lbs of frozen carcass would make for enough samples that they couldn’t keep a lid on it. And if I disappear the samples would continue. For me? It really is that important. It’s a species that needs to be recognized as a species. And not a pixie or gnome.

Lets take this discussion somewhere else. This is the field trip photos thread.

I posted this a little while ago in a different thread, but I am of the same opinion as you here. "It's obvious that the news is controlled in cases like this. The flow of information is stifled and, given modern short attention spans, stories are allowed to fade away. I have mentioned it on here before, but a perfect example of this is the Texas monkey attacks from late 2019. It made national headlines for a few days after a mysterious primate was attacking children, pets,and later even adults. Pretty crazy story, huh? Then, the story just drops off and is never mentioned again. No word of an escaped chimpanzee being captured or a monkey being shot. The story just stopped. Even if the national news had moved on to the next sensational story, you would think that something like that would be of a local or even regional interest. But, you never heard about it again. No resolution. Even if the thing just disappeared, you would have expected to hear something about it. But... nothing. I have often thought that if the day comes when someone shoots a Sasquatch and has the body... what are the odds that the government just rolls in, takes the body, produces a dead chimpanzee that they claim escaped from a zoo and was shot, and the story just disappears a day later. The vast majority of the population will never question it and will call crazy anyone who does." I still think that a specimen can be taken, but the person who takes it is going to have to be smart and prepared..both before and after the shoot.

You're a very astute guy Hiflier, and I value your opinion, talent, and efforts, but I'm not sure we agree on this issue. Certainly, one would think that less intrusion is better than more intrusion. I'm just not convinced, at this point, that efforts of the few who do venture farther and deeper have, or has had, a negative impact on them. I fully acknowledge I could wrong about this and will keep an open mind as I travel alone in the backcountry. I'm a no-kill, do-no-harm advocate of sasquatch and would back off in a nanosecond if I was convinced it was truly detrimental to them.

Hello everyone , I'm from Houston Texas and would like your views on the subject of the Rogue Bigfoot . Do you think they voluntarily leave their clan or are forced out by other members . I would also like to ask your thoughts on the possible use of fire by Bigfoot ! Thanks !

It's obvious that the news is controlled in cases like this. The flow of information is stifled and, given modern short attention spans, stories are allowed to fade away. I have mentioned it on here before, but a perfect example of this is the Texas monkey attacks from late 2019. It made national headlines for a few days after a mysterious primate was attacking children, pets,and later even adults. Pretty crazy story, huh? Then, the story just drops off and is never mentioned again. No word of an escaped chimpanzee being captured or a monkey being shot. The story just stopped. Even if the national news had moved on to the next sensational story, you would think that something like that would be of a local or even regional interest. But, you never heard about it again. No resolution. Even if the thing just disappeared, you would have expected to hear something about it. But... nothing. I have often thought that if the day comes when someone shoots a Sasquatch and has the body... what are the odds that the government just rolls in, takes the body, produces a dead chimpanzee that they claim escaped from a zoo and was shot, and the story just disappears a day later. The vast majority of the population will never question it and will call crazy anyone who does.

You are the YouTube Master

Found the story.

Unless he is independently wealthy, he has bills to pay just like each one of us. If his pursuit of a "money-making" path allows him the financial freedom to continue examining missing cases of hikers, hunters, and others, I'm all for it.

On rare occasions, bull sharks have been found a fair distance north of the Gulf, in the Mississippi River. Let's say you desperately wanted to hook a bull shark using fishing tackle. Would you cast your line 100 miles upstream from the mouth of the Mississippi? Or would you cast your line where the river converges with the Gulf of Mexico?

All citizens must receive mandatory pillow implants in both hands.

"But some of these notions about what Bigfoot can and cannot do is getting a tad ridiculous." A TAD ridiculous? It's gone beyond that... People are are experts on every single aspect of these creatures. Every single aspect. People will just throw out statements about Bigfoot as fact all of the time. These things would have to be extremely physically gifted to stay hidden and move the way that many reports depict them. However, if they were invincible then they would move around at will with no attempt at stealth. Why hide from something that you don't fear? Not to mention that they would have predated their main competition for resources off the continent long before the first Europeans arrived. The settlers would have found mounds of Indian bones and fat Sasquatch everywhere. I can't remember who it was, but there was a Bigfoot researcher who put forth that Sasquatch became more reclusive and less openly violent when Europeans arrived with their firearms. Like Natfoot said, the only way that this would appear to be true would be a supernatural explanation. I respect Cliff's work, but I do not agree with this idea.

Well my opinion is that the powers that be do not want to change history. They want history to stay the way it stands. These creatures can change our history if the truth is known. So science will keep us amused with these expeditions so that the truth does not get found out. So what's hidden stays hidden. This is what they want and why they are not interested. Other wise we would not be doing all the leg work. The creature would already have been found by science and we would not be having these conversations.

I definitely think there is a scientific bias concerning ape men anywhere on the planet. I think as scientists get older and secure tenure? They then feel at ease in speaking their mind. Which is a tragedy. Take Homo Floresiensis aka the Hobbit. Science has tried to beat back the significance of the find. They claimed for a long time that it was just some deformed Homo Sapien. And they have attacked the very very recent dating of the fossils. Why? Because of rigorous scientific method? I think it goes beyond that. In many ways it’s like a cult. And if you question the cult narrative your treated like a heretic to be burned at the stake. Lives, careers and marriages are ruined. As of recent the scientific narrative is that Homo Sapiens left Africa around 80,000 to 100,000 years ago. They wiped out every other species of the genus Homo by 45,000 years ago. And entered the Americas roughly 12,000 to 14,000 years ago. I even remember when they denounced anyone that suggested that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals interbred. The science of DNA has transformed the old bone hunters thoughts. Surely the fossil record represents .0001% of what was actually here and when. We still know very little.... and learn more everyday. I don’t think governments have some vast conspiracy. Each country probably has its own reasons why the subject is taboo. Or less so. Palm plantation interests would probably rejoice at the thought of a bipedal terrestrial ape man that doesn’t need old growth jungle to survive. While in Russia, Australia or Canada the situation could be very different.

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A bit off topic, maybe. From twitter, @canammissing (ie David Paulides) On Sunday, my son, Ben lost his battle with mental illness. He was the director of Missing 411, a 4 yr starter on Miami Oh hockey team. I’m a broken person, I miss him beyond words. Please pray for Ben’s soul, he’s on the journey to heaven. A parent's worst nightmare.

I don't think that people understand how little money is involved in something like this... It's Missing 411. It's not like he owns Apple or something. He gets the revenue from his books, what little merchandise he has for sale, and whatever income is generated by his two films. I don't do Bigfoot conventions, but I have gone to 2 events to see him speak...one large and one small. I got the impression that the larger event put him up for his stay,but when the costs involved with the trip are factored in with the cost of making the products that he sold during his show...the guy is doing better than breaking even, but not by a ton. Whether you like him or not, the guy does a bunch of on the ground research in national parks or remote areas. The fact that he is self funding allows him to do more research and release more books than if he was working a 9-5 selling shoes or something. Considering his popularity and the demand for his work...I don't understand why he would not take advantage of the situation to allow himself to focus entirely on his research. I am a big fan of capitalism. The market has a need that he is able to fill, which allows him more time and resources to investigate. This sort of thing is expensive. I am not operating on the same level as Dave, and I have spent thousands of dollars out of my own pocket just over the last year on looking into this stuff. I would tabulate it up, but I don't even want to know the number. My experience with conventions is limited, but I will say that he was the first one to set up and almost the last to leave during the vendor portion. Most of his time during that vendor portion was spent speaking with people who had their own experiences. The guy definitely lives and breathes this stuff. He is as knowledgeable in person as he comes across during his interviews. He does come across as a bit sensitive concerning his work, but honestly...I would too given his situation. You stumble across a missing persons phenomenon stretching across the world and several decades...you spend countless hours pouring through documents, interviewing eyewitnesses, physically going into remote areas...and then some schlub like Steph Young proceeds to cherry pick your work to release her own books on the subject. I would be a bit sensitive too.