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That show isn't interested in the research angle, just promoting the same tired BFRO techniques they always do to show some kind of interaction. Cliff is the nicest guy in the room but he really doesn't do any useful research. He just talks like a middle school science teacher. Not that there's anything wrong with that, except when your goal is to try and outsmart a cunning creature to prove its existence. His science is lame.

What? You mean that the whole US does not adore watching MM stumble around in the dark?

Apologies to Johnny Lee, but it seems I was looking for Squatch in all the wrong places. I was lookin' for Squatch in all the wrong places Lookin' for Squatch in too many faces Searchin' their eyes, lookin' for traces Of what I'm dreamin' of Hopin' to find a primate and a hominid I'll bless the day I discover, Another Squatch- lookin' for love.

I have listened to both of the "Sierra Sounds " cds many times. And we're talking probably 100 times each. What's fascinating to me is, at least in my opinion, those sounds would be impossible to fake. First and foremost, the vocalizations run the gamut of speech patterns and inflections. In the various recordings, the vocalizations contain phonemes, laughter, elements of exasperation, and the fact that there are at least 4 different sources of the vocalizations as well. You can clearly discern a very large, deep voice. A very feminine high pitched voice, and occasionally a very small voice. There is a part in the recordings where one of the hunters is mimicking one of the squatches. The squatch would whistle, or make some kind of vocalization, and the hunter would try to mimic it. At one point, clear as a bell, you can hear the squatch laughing at the hunter. The sounds were studied in the late 70's. The results were: there were at least 4 different subjects making the vocalizations. According to their findings, the deepest voice had a vocal tract of someone/something that was extraordinarily tall. I want to say they put the subject at around 8 ft. Also, they determined the whistles were made with the vocal chords, and not the pursing of lips (as humans do). The hunters believed the group consisted of "The Old Man", the deepest voice and probably the father. A female, the high pitched, feminine voice, and 2 younger ones. The first set of recordings were made in 1972. Those recordings were much more hostile sounding, and very rapid fire chimp like articulations. The second set of recording were made 2 years later in 1974, and the vocalizations were much slower, and had the sound of some sort of language. Also, the squatch in the first set of recordings was the "Old Man" in the second set of recordings. They believe the "Old Man" came back, with his family, and deliberately slowed down their vocalizations in an attempt to communicate in 1974. Look for interviews with R. Scott Nelson on this subject. In the late 2000's, his son was doing a book report on Bigfoot for school. They did a web search and came across snippets of the Sierra Sounds. Mr. Nelson is a retired Naval crypto linguist. He was trained to find coded messages in any kind of audio correspondence. Language played backwards, foreign languages played backwards, etc. He immediately identified the vocalizations as "Language as we define it". He obtained the original recordings from Ron Morehead, and had the necessary equipment to eliminate all the background noise, clean up the audio, etc. etc. Mr. Nelson said of the recordings, that again there were at least 4 different subjects, and in many instances they are talking over each other. They most definitely are speaking some kind of language as we define it. There were repeated phrases, and that they might even have names for one another. He's actually studied other recordings from various parts of the U.S., and found similarities in them. In one interview i heard, Mr. Nelson sent the recordings to a colleague in Japan that specialized in ancient Japanese dialects. His colleague contacted him and thought it was a very elaborate joke. When Mr. Nelson asked why, colleague responded with '" There are small bits of a Japanese dialect that no one has used in centuries in these recordings." Maybe the Samurai Chatter, as we call it, is just that. If you have not heard these, they are very much worth listening to. There's actually lots of other interesting things about the vocalizations, but this kind of touches on the high points.

I'm late to the party (or I forgot that I already responded?) and this may be a bit of a rambling overkill answer, but .. here goes .. When I'm hiking, I clip the external mike to a strap on the outside of my pack and put the recorder in a pack pocket where the controls won't be bumped. I record full time. Minus 2, every sound I've ever wanted to record happened **ONCE** so if you were trying to rely on turning on a recorder to pick up a repeat you'd be out of luck. My "on the go" recorder is an older Olympus DS-71. Much the same in camp ... I do not rely on hearing something, turning on a recorder, and waiting for it to happen again else I would never catch anything at all. Instead, I place 2 recorders out at night, one pretty near my tent to pick up any approaches (and, unfortunately, about 8 hours of me snoring :)) and another recorder out 100 yards or more. For this use, I have 3-4 small Sony ICD-PX820s, now discontinued, that I've added external mics to. I also usually leave one of the SONYs either under my truck hood with a mic dangling down or in the toolbox with a mic under the bed rail. It is surprising what goes on around trailheads when nobody is watching. One of my researcher friends, an old, old timer, told me to have that recorder ready to go as soon as the engine stops because most of the really cool things she's picked up near trailheads were within 2 minutes of arrival. I haven't had the whoops she reported on arrival but I've heard some absolutely incredible power knocks. I have a couple Tascam DR-05s but I don't like them for backpacking use. They are several times as heavy as my other recorders, they use different (AA vs AAA) batteries, and they are absolute battery hogs. They do make a nice recording if you're in a situation where the negatives don't outweigh the positives, so IMHO, best reserved for car camping trips where weight and bulk are not an issue. One thing I'd say is don't use the edge-triggered "VOX" or "VOR" modes on any recorder, these take more battery than just full time recording, you won't know what time the sound you caught, if you caught one, actually occurred, and they miss most of the interesting sounds either because they are distant and faint or the recorders just don't react quickly enough. My ritual is to start each recorder, record who I am, date, time, and location at the start of every recording. If I need to know when a sound actually occurred I can compute from that info. MIB

Can't wait to see what you got. I know it sucked not being able to submit it to the Contest. Next Year!

Took your advise, that older pic was from a rather rough period of time. Update was much needed. As for the stories those will have to wait until at least a couple days after launch.

She's a preschool teacher so habitually repeats thing in order to get the message through.

Also, Billy, who is featured fairly promonantly, is nuts. Ive been monitoring his social media since his report first made national news, yep thats right, national news. Hes lost his marbles. From faking stuff recently, to having UFOs cut the power to his RV and phone while hes live on tiktoc, and being persoanlly harrassed by all manors of ghosts, aliens, demons, Sasquatches, and UFOs this attention has all gone to his head.