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Interesting that the shoulder and face are assumed to have modern human hair patterns. I don't believe we know exactly what the hair coverage pattern of Neanderthals was, nor early homo sapiens. Let alone Denisovian or this fella (if he actually is something other than Denisovian). Please someone correct me if I am incorrect in that.

Has anyone ever encountered a place with lots of bones of multiple animals and or species? I have had friends tell me about encountering this in the past. I’ve encountered this as well deep in the Frank Church wilderness. I assumed it was fellow hunters collecting Wolf kills to draw attention to the problem. Maybe it was something else. And of course my femur bone find. But it wasn’t apart of a large pile of bones. Dunno. But this is something they find in cave digs associated with early hominid activity.

Should also add I've seen a Roadie or two that weren't far off that depiction at concerts back in the 70's!

Exciting news out of China...a man doing labor for the Japanese Occupational forces discovered a skull of a new hominid and kept it secret for 80 years. The skull has more more than a passing similarity to You Know Who. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/25/massive-human-head-in-chinese-well-forces-scientists-to-rethink-evolution

Went to the convention today. Was not able to make it yesterday as I spent it with family. This was my first Bigfoot conference, so I have nothing to compare it to. Also, I attended the second day of a two day event so I missed out on much of the headliner activity. I have not had a direct interaction with Bigfoot and my status is I am open to the idea of Bigfoot existing, have seen and experienced things in the woods while hiking and hunting that are typically attributed to Bigfoot, have started to journal and record these experiences, but I'm not a complete believer. I went in hoping to learn more about Bigfoot hunting, activities on the East Coast, and just in general useful things. First impressions: The event is held at the New Hope Community Center. New Hope is a tiny rural town that is about ten to fifteen minutes from larger population areas. Small, mostly farming area. The community center was built probably between WWI and WWII and it shows. The building is fairly rundown, no running hot water, they were using a 50" tv as a viewing screen for the movies, etc, and a karaoke machine as a loudspeaker. Folding chair seating for approx 130ppl. Vendors were a mix of Bigfoot related and crafty stuff like concealed carry purses and tie dyed hair. There were about 30ppl there to listen to the speakers when I started and about 50ppl when I left. The event was not sold out. Tickets were available at the door for $15. Sunday they had also heavily discounted their t-shirts. The She Squatchers still had a table there day two and were talking to people. A lot of their belief seems to come from the idea that everything has a frequency to it and that they are attuned to the BF frequency. As noted above they also believe that BF is attuned more to female interactions and no firearms in the woods. The Squatch Watchers were supposed to start at 11am. I believe it was about 11:25 when they finally got started with their "presentation". I use quotes because, as they said, they had no script, no video clips, nada prepared in advance. It seemed their hope was to get the audience talking about their own experiences, which fell fairly flat. So, they finally talked about some of their stuff which was meh and sprinkled with lots of "you can see this on our YouTube". They seemed to be highly against any sort of debunking and convinced that no creature in North Carolina with sharp claws can open a pickle jar (spoiler alert, black bears are more than capable of doing so). They devolved into talking about their latest gadget, a spirit box, with the belief that it allows them to communicate with Bigfoot and that one of them is also attuned to the BF frequency that the She Squatchers are into. And there was something about a UFO. I got up to stretch my legs (had sat through an hour of their presentation) and had the hope that they would stick to the schedule and let Zach make his presentation. Came back about 10min later and the Watchers were still at it with their presentation now sounding more like a church revival meeting talking about how if you go BF hunting without having a relationship with God that you are running the serious risk of getting fucked up. Yeah..at that point I gave up on the conference and heeded the call of a brewery I knew down the road with a pretty decent blonde ale. I think Saturday would have been more interesting....I also think it would have been murder to park. TLDR: 2nd day of this conference was boring and heavily into the paranormal woo side of Bigfoot. It wasn't well structured, ran late, and otherwise didn't feel well run. If you were a skeptic to start this conference would do nothing to sway you to believe in BF nor would it add any sort of validity to the efforts of researchers.

As soon as I saw this depiction of a Denisovan it reminded me of the drawings by a man who had an encounter in 2013 on Route 109, the highway between Aberdeen, WA and Ocean Shores, WA, . He slowed down because a deer ran across the road in front of him and he knew another might be right behind it. Instead, a Sasquatch came out of the forest, crossed the road in three strides, then paused on the berm and looked at the driver. It is BFRO report number 42448. When he got to his home in Ocean Shores he made the following drawings. The sun was behind the subject and allowed him to see the actual shape of the head through the hair.

I got out today with a couple of the guys, Thomas and AlohaCop, to scout for a group camp we had planned for the end of the month. A couple of things have come up in the last few days, so that trip probably won't happen, but it was great to get out for the day. I had heard about a large log lean to that someone built at the end of a trail in the area we're interested in, and we managed to locate it today, occupied by a family camped for the weekend. Now we just have to get there before others when we want to use it. In the afternoon, T and J had to leave, so I headed for another watershed further east to explore some side branches that I'd never been to, and found a couple of other prime wild camp spots. Gaia maps showed what looked like a connecting trail to the Harrison West FSR, but I only found dead end trails, but some great scenery, and bear scat every hundred yards or so, though the only game spotted was a momma grouse and her tiny chick. It was cool to see the fuzzy little guy take off halfway across the road, gaining all of about 4" altitude, with its wings beating like a hummingbird's.

Strange one from Canada: https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/david-horesay-frederick-hardisty

Just found out about this event. Sat June 26th is the opening of the West VA Bigfoot Museum. The event is free at 400 4th St Sutton, WV. Speakers could be local bigfooters. Looks like fun. Can't go wrong with a strumalong and a BF calling contest. We need strumalongs on the west coast and less Russell Acord.

Hey, maybe we can use this information to solve for Bigfoot. Nah, stupid idea.