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My grandson and I went turkey hinting one morning. Out in a field about 100 yards away stood two hen turkeys in about mid shin high grass. I turned to tell my grandson to remember his back pack and when I turned around the hens were gone. My grandson said they were there and then disappeared. We would have seen them fly. We got about fifty yards away, as I was scouring the ground with my 10 power binos I saw a daisy moving back and forth. I walked closer to the daisy and through my 10 power binos, I see the daisy moving and behind the daisy was a turkey eye. I walked right up to them before I could actually see them and they flew up and away from just mere feet away. My grandson said they dropped so fast when I turned my head, it looked like the disappeared. If a turkey can pull it off, a sasquatch can knock it out of the park.

Yes, it is Bigfoot no 's'. I've seen many Bigfoot not I've seen many Bigfoots. Not to be confused with "I have Bigfoot's toe" not "I have Bigfoot toe". Technically speaking, Bigfoot should not be capitalized either because it isn't a recognized species or proper name/noun. On the other hand, Sasquatch is capitalized because it's a proper noun. On that issue, I actually checked with Merriam-Webster folks many years ago. It would be best if one were discovered so that the scientists could assign a proper name to it and clear up the confusion.

SW corner of BC, Canada, here, and Thomas Steenburg is the man to contact for sightings in this area, or myself. You can PM either of us right on this forum.

@Doodler I'm in WV and eastern KY so if they are anywhere nearby shoot them my way. Report can be filed at http://www.wildandweirdwv.com/contact-us and if its in the east coast we can get it in the hands of whoever is closest to get boots on the ground. Thanks for the tag @BlackRockBigfoot

May take a wander up that way. Right now I'm more of a passive observer than actively seeking strange activity. Have had enough experiences in the past to know that sometimes things you don't want can and will follow you home and I have two little ones to watch over. However that doesn't preclude going out scouting for hunting or checking out the trout fishing and taking notes of what I happen to see.

Allot of us have started just like you. Where we did not now nothing about these creatures. So we had to learn on our own. You have people here who can help you through the process. Field work is different but if you find some one with experience you may learn from them. But like everyone has said there are groups every where that can help you and are willing to teach you as well.

We have got people on here all over the US and Canada. Let us know where the sighting was and there is a decent chance that someone on here may want to check it out. If not, there is always the regional groups, and then the BFRO if that fails.

What is that quote? Arthur C. Clarke was it? Something about how any technology has the ability to be perceived as magic by the primitive mind? That. You can look at historical accounts of Europeans who were making first contact with a race of people in North America, people who had lived in the natural environment for their entire lives and had all the learned skills and instincts that come with that. I'm sure them seeing an Indian "manifest" a fish by snatching it from a stream with their bare hands evoked the same awe that some BF observers have related. Doesn't make it magic, or portal use, or shape-shifting, or whatever the theory du jour is. Just means that they are really, really dialed in to their environments and have crazy skills and perception that appears to be supernatural. The sound heard by Tom Messick's hunting partner has always intrigued me, as it has many others. It may be explained as a pressure wave generated by infra-sound, being perceived as something close to a door or trap closing. The mind, when confronted with unknown stimuli will also try to catalogue it under the heading of something known. Without confirmation that the original impression was wrong, it is always going to be described that way by the listener.

If they're in Oregon, point them our way!

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?

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