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Yup. And I also worked on Lord of the Rings.

Well, getting the research year to a bit of a slow start here in WV until last weekend. We were supposed to head out to this site the weekend the report came in but we had a state wide ice storm that had us crippled for 6 days. We finally got on sote on Feb 27th and have been processing data since. This new research location is perfect IMO. 85 years worth of history, sightings of white BF and most recently, Feb 13th some Ohio howl like sounds were recorded. The biggest plus is the massive variety of food literally EVERYWHERE you turn. A family could easily rough it out there and survive fairly easily as thif family has for nearly a century. The witness was getting hounded but luckly recognized me, and trusted we would treat her encounter and the stories she had respectfully. We spent a day surveying the area cataloguing the food supply, fresh/clean water sources etc. Our witness also has some activity 2 days before we arrived where her husband claimed something had thrown gravel at him while he was taking the trash out. Nothing but a large well worn game trail to be found near the trash though, as expected. What wasn't expected though was the track way we found just before we left the site for the day. 5 deep impressions in the ground, most were in the recently sown grass and hay, but 2 were half in a creek and one just on the edge of a mountian stream, where it left toe impressions that had collected water from the previous rain that had come through. We cast the track and documented the others. The gaite ranged between 4.5ft and 5ft heres the one track that we were able to collect. A tuft of grass eliminated the ball of the foot, and some mud from the stream had been left in the footprint as well whoch is visible in the image of the print prior to casting. We documented the entire day using Video, 2 Audio recorders, and multiple cameras for stills. The full video will be up soon and I'll share it here Other footprints were found on the property but were in deep leaf litter and nondescript but worth noting.

SW13, you mention in one of your posts above that you got lucky. I say (like some famous person long ago) that the harder you work the luckier you get. Nice job, great pics, and way to go to get out there, staying on the trail. Nice work.

The LonelySinglesSquatchChat app.

SW Oregon .. they don't seem to truly hibernate. They'll nap for 2-3 weeks, then get up and roam about. If they find food, they stay up, if they don't find food, the go back for another nap. They are generally a bit sluggish if they are up like they're not fully functional. It is always possible to run into a bear here .. year around .. although it is much less frequent in winter.

Sure. There is no hard and fast rule, why a Bear may wake up mid winter and leave the den. But it’s uncommon. Certainly not enough frequency to give another species a challenge.

There was no association between Neanderthals and Dogs..... There was association between Dogs and Humans. 🤔 We know now that association is at least 40,000 years old. Which coincides with the extinction of Neanderthals in the fossil record. What part are you not grasping?

A sliding whistle would do this.

That was an area of over pour, i noticed the channel that was there and used it to aid in cast retrieval. Due to the grass and poor casting conditions, I wanted to make sure I had every advantage I could while trying to remove it. I'll highlight the edge

Nice cast. I like that you can go out in the woods at this point in winter and be in touch with the forest floor.

Here is the list of foragables just in a small corner of the property. Wine Berries, black berries, raspberries, mulberries, huckleberries, ground cherries, at least 15 species of edible mushroom, oak nuts, hickory nuts, hazel nuts, black walnuts, chestnuts, beach nuts, yellow root, ginseng, rosehips, mountian lorals, water lilly root. Steadily available protein sources: deer, squirrel, skunk, raccoon, opossum, salamanders, frogs, turtles, crayfish, creek chubs.

That's a pretty risky maneuver so I did some checking...back to the 70s. I couldn't find evidence of you holding a camera in such a manner BUT, I did find evidence that you were David Hasselhoff's stunt double. So that must have been pretty cool.

But Bears like Gorillas have elongated intestinal tracts. And Bears don’t come close to hitting a 50% annual diet of meat. Many Humans do not hit that mark either. Leaving out cultural meat eaters like say the Inuit. Most meat is consumed by richer nations. While many third world countries get very little in their diet. No disrespect, but roving families of 800 lbs hunters eating half their diet in meat? I don’t think that’s going to go unnoticed in the woods. And as Magnaesir has pointed out? You would be having lots of conflicts with ranchers. Because something with that much appetite for flesh isn’t going to pass up a juicy cow or sheep. It wouldn’t be like dealing with something like a Bear at all. It would be more like dealing with a Cougar or Wolf. And most importantly? Primates do not hibernate. So this thing is out actively hunting in winter. So we should be cutting Bigfoot tracks as often as Cougar tracks. But we don’t see that. They are rare by comparison. I don’t pretend to have all of the answers, but something is off.

Spent the day hiking out in Wyoming county, WV following up on a auditory report. Wet day but beautiful area.

I've watched 8 minutes of it so far, and it took less than 2 minutes for the algorithm lie to emerge. "We only have 17 days" right.... Here is a starting location, shown at about 8 minutes in. Cumberland KY. That ridge is the border of Letcher and Harlan Counties in Kingdom Come State Park. 36.997550, -82.984460 There are 12 SSR entries for Harlan and Letcher Counties combined. That's 12 more than the county they were at in Oregon.

I agree, but it is deceitful though. That algorithm line is deceitful and it's used time and time again.

I live in Alaska, and was here during an era and living in places that were "jumping off points" for prospectors and oil development pioneers, and working for the railroad at that. I can assure you, I was pretty remote, and it was darned lonely and rough out there then, and this was 90 years after the Jacko affair. There are lots of ghost towns in Alaska that could make the same claim. They now don't exist, and even at the time, they were remote. Indeed, Anchorage Alaska is the largest city in North America north of Edmonton, Alberta, and I can assure you that just a couple of miles out of town, you can lay down and die, and nobody would ever find you. We have Boone and Crockett qualifying brown bears running around right in town. At the time, the railway was still under construction. The construction clearly started at the coast, and had just reached Yale at the time of the Jacko affair, so beforehand, it was the end of the riverboat run. It was right at the edge of the wilderness, at the latter stages of development due to a gold rush, and right at the edge of prime sasquatch habitat.

I have no reason not to believe the story. Indeed, one of the realities I always considered about this story was that the news reports mentioned the possibility that the creature may have been a "gorilla", and that gorillas had only been "discovered" less than 25 years before, and that Yale, BC, was about as remote a location as one might find in 1882. Nobody there had ever seen a gorilla before.

What do they have in common? https://www.americanscientist.org/article/do-the-eyes-have-it So if this is true? This would be a uniquely Homo Sapiens trait. That not even other species of Homo would have shared with us wide scale. Does Sasquatch exhibit white around the pupils? I’ve never read that they do.