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Male Bigfoot walking up behind female Bigfoot with a rag.... "Does this smell like chloroform to you?" 9 months later...boom, baby squatch.

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.

Trust me when one is 7 foot and full of muscles . Finding a mate is no problem.

Hair and mammary glands fairly well define the order mammals.

Opinions please...

Hmmm... unless it's like eyespot mimicry in certain species to deceive predators. Boob mimicry.

I have heard Alaskan nights git mighty cold! I will take a pass.

Oh yeah? Where's Hunster?

Are we talking about the Sasquatch or are you showing off again?

Given the obvious circumstantial evidence they exist, it seems they would know much more about us than we do about them in order to avoid detection. I would guess they are aware and watching if we are in the woods.

Thank you for sharing. Your efforts and willingness to share is much appreciated.

Some claim to. Most of them don't believe in them. Scoftics /skeptics .

Back in the 60s and 70s, men's magazines were pretty popular. Some of it was pulp but most Bigfoot articles were mixed in with articles on traditional men's outdoor activities like hunting and fishing. Bigfoot was trending back then. The same way so called tv producers scan social media today for ideas and hotspots they can leverage for their own gain, advertisers and pulp magazine publishers of a different era sought out the top bigfooters of the day to fill their pages.

@BobbyO it exists in @Arvedis heart 😆

Love it! Great skills to have. I'll listen to the podcast next weekend when I'm working on my day off!

Good for you Skin, keep going brother..;) Edit : Do you have a link to this magazine Arvedis please ? I just tried to google 'bigfootery today' but with little success.

I am impressed you can name all of those items. If I walked throw there I would say it was full of berries, schrooms, and nuts. I could probably name most of the proteins but the creek chub is alluding me. Nice find.

Love the measurements on the cast - so many people only put down a lighter or a shoe. I'm going to make a pitch for the old-timey carpenter's ruler, which has six-inch sections in joints. Lets you show two measurements at once. Of course, if I ever found a footprint to photograph, it would probably take too long to set up my magic box with a hood and a big handle used to hold the flash powder, so what do I know.

The time lapse animation looks awesome on your front page! The editors of Bigfootery Today magazine have added you to the top influencers tracker. You have comfortably surpassed Rictor, who would actually be ranked much higher if he did not use his social media channels for mostly nonsense. But not quite enough enough to surpass Russell Acord. Right now, Wild and Weird West Virginny needs a lot more YT subscribers to be a serious player but stats are looking good at this early stage. I would like to say bonus points for not having a twitter feed but it's kinda needed to compete with the rest of the field.

Regardless of all that, there are quoted sections in the article that could possibly be verified? I'm working on doing just that. What I get very tired of seeing is simply opinion that, without being overt, reinforces a certain mindset concerning some invisible wall that stops one from going further. I don't accept a "we just need to wait and see" position and I don't know why anyone else wouldn't accept it either. A case in point: I think the issue is few, if any, might not know how to investigate the claim. Or if further investigation was possible, would anyone is even be willing to? In other words, why do folks just hang around waiting to be spoon fed, hoping eventually someone ELSE will get some kind of answer or closure FOR them?? Those who really want the truth go after it. And those that don't just talk about it.

So it's clear the show isn't what it's presenting itself as. This would be an issue normally as we all know that TV and Bigfoot aren't normally a match made in heaven. It's just for entertainment purposes right? Until of course... We begin to hear reports of the show uncovering possible 'Primate DNA'. The samples were purportedly taken from beneath a tree structure. Now if the show cannot be trusted with the basics such as location where can we stand on this potentially huge development? Would the producers BS us all just to try and land a third series? Given what has gone before it's hardly a stretch....

I went back to the area I drove through 2 weeks ago, to explore some of the side branches that I didn't have time to check out last time. The Chilliwack Bench FSR parallels the river for about 16km, and most of the side branches head up into tributary creeks feeding the river, leading to cut blocks of various ages. I like to glass over those that have enough new growth to be attractive to game animals, and that is what I did today, with no success in spotting anything bigger than a chipmunk. There was almost no traffic on the main FSR, only 4 other vehicles in 4 hours, and none at all on the branch trails. The weather was highly variable, with stiff breezes all day, and everything from rain and snow at higher elevations, to periods of sunshine. The snow didn't stick on the ground, so looking for tracks was a bit harder, but the trail surface was wet enough that anything really fresh would be quite obvious, but no luck at that, either. I only took one photo, to show the mature second growth forest that the main road passes through.

This whole field of study is one bundle of questions without answers. It's all, literally all, one huge shrug after another. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be a cryptid the field would be dominated by journal articles and national geographic specials on PBS all about the species.

For starters The "algorithm" isnt really a computer driven algorithm, its information that was mined from folks like myself and other field investigators who used to be friends with the folks on the show. IMO, there is a migration that can be tracked but its not like the migration of buffalo or other large species that can be hit with pinpoint accuracy. Much of it depends on then berries come on, clean water availability, other animals being driven to water like reptiles and amphibian breeding seasons, mushroom availability, and the rut seasons for deer, all, and moose. The rut is the most predictable of all of these, berry failure can influence the move and habitation of an area, mushroom flushes hit at various times through the entire year. So the migration, at least in the east is quite erratic and has seasonal variations to moving patterns. For example, we have one location that is hot only durring the rut, and another that yields some activity now-may then it dies off till August when the rains and mushroom flush start to kick off. That location has reported activity all the way into December.

Well, not a bad topic at all Believer57 Technology has definitely swung the pendulum in our favor and we've certainly been jerked around enough to ignore, ir at least disregard 95% of what comes at us. Researchers have done more than simply walk around the woods. They have educated themselves, not only in the value of technology, but also have outfitted them selves WITH technology to level the wilderness playing field. We KNOW what the best tools are and that alone has helped whittle down what we will accept as evidence we can hang our hats on. We've also learned from each other's research into equipment and electronics, not to mention firepower for defense and what constitutes sound evidence of existence. Norseman mention how virtually impossible it is for any ground bound creature to not leave tracks in snow. And as simple as that may sound, because it would seem so obvious, it's a great point that is heads above finding a questionable print in soil. Especially if the season is amenable to Humans bieng barefoot. This is the kind of detailed thinking that has made us, or should have made us, more wary of what good evidence is. There's no question that our tools and technologies deployed in the field help keep the focus on what constitutes solid evidence in as much as it can be determined.

I find the show, the production style and the actors to be really boring. I have also peeked in on some interviews and podcasts with this cast. I don't think it registers with the Bigfoot audience that seemed to enjoy finding bigfoot. Nothing going on here except an attempt to be "a" show but I doubt the viewers numbers are up.

Leaving in the morning for Arizona for 3-weeks. First 300 miles will be in prime Bigfoot country, but then after that, mostly wide open desert. So won't be much of a Bigfoot scouting trip. We will end up in Yuma, Arizona and I suspect any Bigfoot sightings down there were the result of peyote trips.

For you newbies, there is absolutely nothing to either of two massacre concoctions out there. MK Davis shot his credibility in the foot when also claiming to see braids on Patty after photoshoping them onto her head shot, a stick in Patty's left hand, a fresh bullet wound on Patty's right thigh that somehow was not bleeding (which was his prima facia evidence of a massacre), lips on Patty by photoshoping them on her head shot, blood in a murky pool of water that he tampered with the still shot by altering the red/blue/green color balance, when the original photo showed crystal clear water in that pool, a single dogs paw print that did not look like any one legged dog in existence, a Bigfoot bloody hand print on a log (by altering the color balance once again), a Bigfoot hide on the ground that was actually a clear pool of water that showed the white dogs reflection, and last but certainly not least, MK diagnosed internal hemorrhoids on Patty from 100 feet away in a 40 year old video, without a medical license and without any sort of viewing device to probe up Patty's rectum. You just can't make this crap up. So there was no Bigfoot massacre as hypothesized by MK Davis. The other one as promoted by Carpenter, has no details to it either so it is equally ridiculous. The logic for why all Bigfoot massacre stories are ridiculous, is because the purpose of the expedition was to get evidence that Bigfoot are real. Which would be better evidence, a Bigfoot body or a Bigfoot on video. So if there was a massacre, then there would have been bodies that Roger Patterson could bring home and make money off of. Which never happened otherwise we all would have heard about it by now. It would appear that MK Davis has some schizophrenic skills at concocting outlandish stories that have no basis in fact. Not that there is anything wrong with being schizophrenic. Canadian John Green threatened MK Davis with a lawsuit while he was alive, if MK ever repeated MK's massacre story. Once John Green died, MK was back at it telling the phony massacre story, trying to keep it alive. Which is where he is today.

Thank you for the thorough answer. Clearly I got some work to do before I can respond with follow-ups (up to p. 21). PS - I have always been a little in awe of DNA and how it works. However, as I really start to understand it I have to wonder how it came to being. It is almost too perfect.

This is a very good question. If a universal mammalian primers are used for the HV1 region, cytochrome b, or cytochrome c oxidase 1, you should get the corresponding sequence for these mtDNA regions. Every effort must be made to decontaminate the sample first, e.g. a hair should be ultrasonicated in water, not vortexed in alcohol/water as Ketchum et al. did. The sequence can then be compared in BLAST(R) to known sequences AND a phylotree of hits should be constructed (Chapter 7). Perhaps it matches no species close enough for a species ID, however, its position in the phylotree of hits will tell you what it is most closely related to., human, chimp, other primates, etc. I did this for Ketchum et al. Samples 26 and 140, and these were in exactly the right places for a black bear and a dog, respectively (Figs. 12, 13 and 14). Obviously a reference sequence from a sasquatch body part is the "gold standard" here against which all subsequent samples can be compared. In its absence, however, a phylotree can tell you a lot if you have a pure species sample and use the proper primers. Researchers who present evidence for a new species make phylotrees from DNA sequences of related species plus their "newbie." A good example is the Lesula monkey, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044271 . Here the researchers had the new species in hand, however, which is a distinct advantage. They also presented lots of other evidence for a new species. Compare this to the ridiculous phylotrees of Ketchum et al. in Figs 16 and 17, (Chapter 7). Also, extinct mammals (cave bear, short-faced bear, cave lion and others) plus Denosovans and Neanderthals (a complete genome) were sequenced from small bone fragments amid many contaminants, especially microbes. Keep reading. I'm here to help you through it if necessary.

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Evidently the How Does Bigfoot Find a Mate did not go over well so what about this topic? Usually, the larger the animal the greater its range. Does bigfoot just mill about in his range or does he seasonally migrate? This new bigfoot TV show and their alleged algorithm seems to be implying a migration and their methodology seems to be to try to put investigators on the spot of that migration. Is this valid? Why would a bigfoot migrate? Seasonal food, a mate, wanderlust, what? How far? Somebody mentioned hundreds of miles. What do you think of this and why?