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As far as the original post goes the bioluminesance comes from luciferin, you could ingest as much of this as you want but unless its augmenting and overwriting DNA it won't cause any other creatures eyes to self ignite. Now, if it were pigment related that would show it self similar to flamingos and their color being directly related to the high amounts of keratinoids. Say the food sources were jet black, that may cause darkining of skin, hair, and other pigment influencable parts of the anatomy. As for the self illuminating eyes, we typically add these to a completly different classification of sighting. Nearly all acounts of self illuminated, or bio-luminating eyes have "other" things going on in the area. I have a much broader data set to look at with our reports becuase were a multi disciplinary research team. We cross refrence everything that comes in with various other types of report in the area to look for patterns. Basically thats my long way around saying, this crap is weird but it cant be dismissed and could be something we all have parts of the story too but have trouble connecting them all together becuase theres no REAL consolidated effort.

Lol. Moneymaker probably isn't anyone who I would want to spend a lot of personal time with... but this jealousy of and bitterness towards anyone who has gained a certain amount of fame or attention in the field is kind of cringey. Actually, it's not kind of...it is. Get a popular podcast? There's a segment of people on here who will hate you. Go on television is a cryptozoology related capacity? There's a segment of people on here who will hate you. It seems like a lot of you guys spend a lot of hours looking into Bigfoot related media that you absolutely hate...just so you can talk about how much you hate it. This is the Bigfoot equivalent of a hipster talking about bands that you have never heard of... Sounds like a pretty miserable existence, but whatever floats your boat I guess... There's obviously always going to be a few people who rub you the wrong way...I have a couple myself...but, you know what they say about 'when you run into a-holes all day..' Whether or not Moneymaker is in the field nowadays as much as he used to be...for him to admit the self illuminating eyes phenomenon is pretty telling given his stance on the paranormal side things. James Fay has said something similar. Same thing with the NAWACS guys. I would say check out the Seth Breedlove documentary where they film the glowing eyes, but you guys probably hate him too so I won't suggest it. I don't have an answer for it, but I have seen something similar. Might be completely natural. Might be the fires of Hell for all I know. Some of the accounts might very well be reflected light. Others, including one of my own, seemed to occur in complete darkness. I kind of wonder sometimes on why such a small percentage of our new members only last a couple of posts. Even the ones who don't come on here filled with righteous indignation that they are the saviours of the Bigfoot community and start try to be an authority in the subject...I mean the relatively normal ones...they kind of drop off quickly. I wonder if it has anything to do with the tendency of a couple of members to just immediately drop the hate on anyone or anything that is mentioned. I know that I have started to spend less and less time on here because of it. It gets old. Ok. You hate everything and everyone involved with the subject. We get it. Take up a hobby that you enjoy and spare me the vitriol.

Greetings, I'm Samantha from New York. I've been fascinated with Bigfoot since seeing something on tv as a child, probably In Search Of. But I didn't get really into it until I saw a stabilized PGF. I am fascinated by the PGF and Dr Meldrum's studies of the mid tarsal break. I'll probably just lurk for the most part but I enjoy reading the discussions even if I don't participate.

Well human eyes need light to be able to see in the dark. So do most cameras. Perhaps their eyes have evolved into a type of dual organ...a light source as well as a camera of sorts. And, if my acquaintance's account is true, the color of light emitted can be changed. But I am completely speculating. An interesting idea though. Boy, I sure wish I could get back out into the woods with @Madison5716. Moving after nearly 30 years and selling and fixing up both the old and the new home by myself are kicking my old butt. And, I just learned this coming week will be mandatory 10 hour days. I need a squatchcation.

back on topic. I bought the ticket. I'm going both days. I am prepared to be disappointed but will be happy to be hanging out with BF peeps again. The package includes the Friday movie, that I'm watching now on Amazon Prime. What was I thinking? lol The last "published" report from Nebraska is mine, so I should be a celebrity, right?

OK, bear with me. Crazy theory, short version. Doodler's Grand Unified Bigfoot Theory. Stop me if this has been covered here before, it sounds oddly familiar. Bigfoot is a people inhabiting the Western Hemisphere (and all other areas, but dominating here in NA) for hundreds of thousands of years whose society was completely destroyed by the Younger Dryas impact event, then were nearly entirely wiped out by disease carried by the first modern humans to cross the Pacific thousands of years later. They're the megafauna version of modern human, then what the first Spaniards to hit South America did to the South Americans, thus the South Americans did to the bigfoot who predated them. You all probably know this, the Younger Dryas is a period in our geologic past prior to the last ice age and there is credible, and more accepted every year, evidence of a global catastrophe, more specifically a comet or meteor impact, possibly in Greenland but also with secondary impacts all over the Northern hemisphere causing an extinction level event. There are regular discoveries of evidence appearing as far as Antarctica in the layer around 12,800 years ago, where exotic material levels spike like carbon materials that don't exist in other layers, like micro diamonds, and char as well as radical differences in other materials like platinum. This evidence is well documented, published in journals such as Nature and peer reviewed papers world wide. This is becoming more and more mainstream, and I believe as evidence mounts, it'll be commonly accepted fact that this was the trigger that killed off most megafauna and possibly triggered the ice age, but also wiped out nearly all human civilization on the planet at the time. The rapid rise in sea level is thought to give rise to the nearly global biblical flood myth. On top of this, there is more and more evidence every year of habitation in North America being discovered in older and older layers, long before the last ice age, for example, sites dated 25k years ago, and sites dated as early as 130k years ago. These locations are habitation sites like earthworks featuring geometric shapes, cave habitats and more. Even limits in otherwise thought of as inhospitable areas are being broken, the Amazon for example, long presumed to have been populated a mere thousand years ago is being explored with LIDAR and mounds are being discovered all over the place, mounds that predate modern concepts of initial habitation dates there. Further, there's an almost conspiratorial denial of this in many science communities, and a false limit placed on human habitation, the "Clovis Limit", where archeologists AND Native American activists deny human habitation prior to the last ice age. For example, if you attempt to test DNA for pre-clovis samples, expect huge barriers to be thrown up from lawsuits to intimidation and funding loss. I remember one such fight, of remains found where they weren't even allowed to be dated, let alone DNA tested. But so much pre-Clovis habitation evidence exists and has been published that archeologists who deny it with the "Clovis Limit" are starting to look like kooks. The script has flipped, so to speak. I believe this also will be considered fact before too long, like the meteor impact. Finally, connecting the dots, I propose that bigfoot are a people who co-evolved, breaking off a long while back, spread out well in advance of modern man to occupy the Americas and build a society, were wiped out in the direct impact event of the Younger Dryas, and subsequent climate change caused by the catastrophe, and while modern man in other parts of the world bounced back and accelerated, they did not. Modern governments actually know this, all of it, and refuse to acknowledge it because of the other evidence of earlier societies, and earlier advanced non-human societies, would disrupt modern man's primacy mentality. Additionally, the fact that bigfoot was wide spread throughout the world prior to this even has lead to a natural world wide genetic memory of the big hairy creature in the woods as well as a real tribal memory passed down for tens of thousands of years of the same. And that's my grand unified bigfoot theory. How crazy is it? At the very least, it's a great plot for a thriller where in the end, the great explorer is brought into the circle of trust and introduced to the secret world hidden by governments everywhere to live with the bigfoots or something. Could this be proven genetically? Is there a great mitochondrial dna pinch point 12,800 years ago or so? I don't even know, never checked. Also, if we can get mitochondrial DNA from bigfoot, can't we tell how far back we split off (if they even did?).

Camped last Saturday night in one of the quietest places I can remember. One Pileated woodpecker and a couple of others and that was it. Found a large track way but we're pretty sure it was melted out Moose tracks. Distance between toe-to-toe was about 48"-51+" so ruled out Black Bear. Still a bit early for them anyway: The tracks themselves weren't all that well defined: On the way into the second campsite on Sunday we had to cross a causeway connecting two bogs. We scoped out the site and then walked around to do some exploring. Nothing, and so we drove out with me following and I stopped on the causeway with my windows down to listen. From pretty far away out my passenger window I heard four knocks- like someone chopping wood (not gun shots)- followed by a pause, a single knock followed by a pause, and then three more knocks and quiet for then on. I had no cell service so had to catch up to my buddy and we both came back to listen further but there was nothing and so drove out. My researcher friend wasn't staying the second night so left later and I went back in and re-crossed the causeway and camped for the night. Monday morning I packed up and again stopped on the causeway to listen, but this time I had a cheap video recorder going when I stepped out of the truck. Wouldn't you know, I was able to capture a single knock that was closer than the one the previous. Only one. It felt good that I at least this time I got this one knock on record. This was my first time EVER for getting any kind of evidence whether it be tracks, knocks, tree falls, or stick structures. None of that has ever happened before. Now it was warming up when that knock sound happened so it could have been a section of tree thawing out or ice expanding on the bog but since the day before saw a series of similar, more rapid occurrences it leaves the question open as to the source of the single one the following day. Both incidents happened at about the same time of day with the second event much closer than the first. Here is a short audio with the truck noise cleaned up followed by a image of the sonogram: Possible BF Knock.mp3

My understanding is that glacial lakes and the vast flooding of areas due to the collapse of those lakes was a "half-baked, nonsense" idea in the early 1900s when first proposed. The scientist who proposed the theory (after some area out west reminded him of the ripples in sentiment at the bottom of a modern lake) did not see his theory accepted as scientific "fact" until he himself was in his 90s. When asked how he felt about being proven right, he said something along the lines of, "Who can I gloat to about this? All those who doubted me are dead."

Sites: Cerutti, I find the hammer stones at 30 pounds to be interesting because the skeptics report that 30 pounds is too heavy for humans. A guy named Steve Holen's reports on two sites in Kansas and Nebraska that are about 14,000 to 33,000 years old. Pennsylvania’s Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Chile’s Monte Verde are two good examples too, much older than Clovis. I think the doubt that infects academic scholars is a disease. They're addicted to harming others who discover something that challenges the status quo. As for who the people were, no clue, but I think the out-of-africa timelines are clearly broken if there are people using tools hundreds of thousands of years ago on every continent. Couple that to the fact that neanderthal DNA lives on? As for who built the mounds, a 12,800 years ago is a truly long time. That's enough time to change the size of animals, select for larger or smaller examples. It's enough time to lighten skin, darken skin, change hair. No matter who these ancient people were, today's academic scholars will fight tooth and nail to deny they ever existed, bigfoot or not.

Moneymaker makes endorsements of reports without having been onsite as well, and makes stuff up on twitter daily. He may not be the best example to back that theory.

You assume too much and frankly come off likely one of his BFRO guys or a groupie, the crap he spews on twitter daily is an embarrassment to anyone actually serious about the subject. Being on TV isn't credibility and if he's been looking for bigfoot for 25 years he still needs to look alittle harder because after all that time he doesn't have the goods. Jealousy mass, the mirror for some might reveal an embarrased fanboi. He's basically shown himself to be feeling hurt over his idol being called out as bser he's been for 25 years.