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Was in the woods today, but was sighting in my new hunting rifle. Ruger Predator in .308 with a Nikon 3x9 P-Tactical scope. Met my brother at the informal range, which was the site of a clay mining operation back around WWII. Rifle did OK, with 7/8" group at 100 yards using handloads, but nothing special. Hoping to get it down to 1/2" with some more load development. No sign of Bigfoot, but the prolific amount of wet clay made tracking every animal in the area easy. But, frequent heavy rains erased most tracks every couple of days.

There are numerous reports whereas a witness claims that he/she has been touched by a BF. I don’t have the statistics on the % of reports with that claim, but my guess is between 1 and 10 per thousand reports (0.1% to 1%). Of the reports that I have read and heard from radio interviews and eyewitnesses, most of them occur while the witness is lying on his sleeping bag inside the tent. The BF hand either goes inside the tent or touches the witness by pressing the tent down. I have read other cases whereas witness is touched when the BF reaches through a car, RV, or house window. Nonetheless, the cases that really intrigue me are those that occur in day light and the witness is touched and lifted by a BF. These are rarer. This year I have heard a least 2 reports of a sasquatch lifting a person: one in Sasquatch Chronicles and one in How-to-Hunt. A recent report was on a man who was hiking on the east side of Bottle Lake (in Nova Scotia) to go fishing, when a BF approached him from his back, lifted him by grabbing his backpack, and dropped him on the ground. He turned around a saw a BF right in front of him and he ran all the way back to the truck (about 1-2 miles away). After this incident, he never went back to the forest and moved to the city. The interview was with his fishing buddy who was on the west side of the lake and also had BF encounters that day, but not as traumatizing. The radio interview link is shown below (for SC members only). https://sasquatchchronicles.com/sc-ep752-terror-in-nova-scotia-members/ The interview summary for non-members is below. https://sasquatchchronicles.com/upcoming-show-terror-in-nova-scotia/ The other report (read by Steve Isdahl in his How to Hunt YouTube channel) was of a kid who was hiking with school class in the Des Plaines Dolomite Prairies Land and Water Reserve (Illinois) in the 70’s. He stayed behind his group because he was attracted by a turtle on the trail. Then he was startled by a BF approaching him from the woods. It moaned/cried loudly, approached him, grabbed him his two armpits and lifted him to its same eye level. The kid passed out and woke up with his pants soiled and got into trouble with school for being late to the bus. This kid also suffered PTSD over his lifetime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Qnan05ixY I always find the touching reports to be very intriguing and insightful into the nature of BF. On the two cases where the witnesses were lifted, the BF creature obviously did not intend to harm or kill them but could easily have killed them. It shows that these creatures are not really wild animals but more human and inquisitive. Others have suggested that the BF behavior of touching unaware humans is similar to the native American idea of counting coup. The counting coup idea makes sense for those cases where the people are inside their tents, cars or houses and the BF simply touches them and then leaves. These incidents leave the witness in total shock and the BF counting coup. The lifting of a witness, however, seems like a totally different goal. In the case of the fisherman from Nova Scotia, it was a clear warning to leave the area. In the case of the kid from Chicago, it was even more bizarre and psychological (given the desire to see the kid eye to eye level). Who knows, maybe it was a female sasquatch who was interested in this human kid? What else can we learn from these and other cases? Definition/Explanation of Counting Coup from Wikipedia: Counting coup refers to the winning of prestige in battle by the Plains Indians of North America. Warriors won prestige by acts of courage in the face of the enemy. Any blow struck against the enemy counted as a coup. Counting coup could be with a hand, any part of the body, or with an object. The most prestigious act was to touch or strike an enemy warrior, leave him alive, then escaping unharmed. Touching the first enemy to die in battle or touching the enemy's defensive works also counted as coup. Counting coup could also involve stealing an enemy's weapons or horses tied up to his lodge in camp. Risk of injury or death was required to count coup. After a battle or exploit, the people of a tribe would gather together to recount their acts of bravery and "count coup." Coups were recorded in some tribes by putting notches (cut marks) in a coup stick. A coup stick was often a willow rod with a feather on the end. But coup could be counted with any object.

I ran it through edge detection, there is no bigfoot there. canada-edge-720p.mp4

I am fascinated by how this vast continent (two continents, actually) came to be populated. It's a field that's wide open, with new discoveries occasionally showing earlier and earlier habitation. It's a contentious field, and it seems the "Clovis First" axiom has generally been found to be inaccurate. Current evidence suggests the first Americans were here perhaps 20,000 years ago (BP). It must have been an amazing time. It's a valid thread topic, as we can speculate whether bigfoot was present for far longer, or if they, too, immigrated into the Americas in the more recent past, say 50K years. Here's a presentation that I enjoyed and found enlightening. It describes several different technologies evident from their stone and bone tool fabrication. Hopefully you'll not be bored to tears with this.

He has published a new book and it is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Sasquatch-Central-Strangeness-Minnesota-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B092PD7M6Q/ref=sr_1_2?crid=80VGVENXG4W0&dchild=1&keywords=sasquatch+book+by+mike+quast&qid=1620744280&sprefix=sasquatch+books+mik%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-2 I've read it and enjoyed it. I have first hand knowledge of the events described and feel it's a good representation of what is going on.

The bipedal locomotion is very similar to an experience I had. If anyone knows anymore about this I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Went to my aunts 80th birthday party. Drove through a elk herd on Kalispel flats New snow at 49 degrees north.

Question: What you describe as ground cherries ...are you referring to the small, low growing yellow-orange fruit I see in the video? That looks like a plant we see over in the fields in the Shenandoah Valley...not sure what you call it...not the Chinese lantern-type fruit thingy. Trying to research the other one.

On Sunday I was at the creek where I had my sighting decades ago. The first and last photos are at the creek, el. about 1500', and the middle one is near the summit, near 4000'. The trees are all fully leafed and ground plants are green already.

Heading out to set up for our weekend investigation workshop here in WV the mountians are full of leaves and the forest floor has come to life. Gonna be a good weekend.