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Forming patterns is useful to me--perhaps not to you. I don't know if you've ever been out in the field or you get out often. I'm constantly looking to establish patterns that are useful in narrowing down the major questions of....where, when, and why a particular area is producing results, or what area is most likely to produce results in the upcoming weeks or months. Maybe you choose to use reports as your method of selecting an area. I don't. They have a role initially when selecting a general region but a specific area is chosen by me based on its particular terrain features. A lot of gumshoeing ensues thereafter. In the end, the ultimate proof will almost certainly come from someone spending lots of time in the woods doing his or her homework and hardwork. A little inspiration meets lots of perspiration.

This is the second Ouachita Bigfoot Festival held in Mena, on the grounds of the Blue Zip Line and Farm, after years of requests. It's being held Sept. 24-26. Mena is in Polk County in SW Arkansas and is almost surrounded by the Ouachita National Forest. It's also about 50 miles east of Honobia, OK who will have their Bigfoot Festival a week after this one. Despite my searching, I cannot find who the speakers will be. The local paper has not had an article yet about this years' Bigfoot Festival that I can find; so far I have only found an article about last year's festival. I'll keep checking. Update: I checked the date of last year's article on the 2020 Ouachita Bigfoot Festival and it was dated after the event was held, and was very un-informative. Facebook had nothing I could find about this year's event, only last years'. Unless I actually attend the event, it appears it will be next year before I find out who the speakers will be for this year's event.

This is a good question. I am of mixed mind. Based on personal observation, there is something "funny" about bigfoot vision. Seeing into infared would account for those observations. The problem, though, is that trail camera triggers do not use projected infared. The only time a camera produces anything infared that could be seen is when the IR flash goes off and the picture is being taken. The only way that could alert a bigfoot to the presence of the camera is if bigfoot happened to see the camera flash when it takes a picture of something else. I do not think seeing infared accounts for them avoiding trail cameras, not by seeing anything the trail camera is producing anyway. I have another notion. In the way of an experiment, I set up two trail cameras facing each other, one inert, the other active, then triggered the active camera to take a picture which I observed. The inert trail camera was not camouflaged under the IR flash, it was a solid color rectangular box. If bigfoot is truly seeing cameras and avoiding them, then it might be because though the cameras are camouflaged to us humans, they are out of place solid color boxes to bigfoot eyes. If that is the case, then we need to completely hide the camera within some natural material so that the plastic is not visible. I don't have any cameras out right now, but when I do, I cover them with tree bark, burlap, leaves, or the like, and I attach them to trees with black wood screws and thin black wire rather than wide straight straps which are eyecatching. Hmmm .. one of my friends has one of those rock cams .. a trail camera built into an artificial rock. I'll ask him if he has a regular IR trail camera and if so if he could take a picture of his rock under IR with that camera to see if it is hidden or stands out in some way. MIB

Well said.

While this question wasn't addressed to me, it's important to me to address it. I would consider such a string of reports as very strong even if not accompanied by castable footprints, pics, hair samples, etc. The reports outline an excellent area, season, and tine to hang out in to possibly enjoy a sighting.

You want your profile pic used for your milk carton?

I was thinking "science" would be someone saying that Homo sapiens are not the only surviving member of the genus Homo. The fossil record for neanderthals is not great and there's no way to know for sure how their body mass would have changed over time if they survived as a small fringe species. The theories you and MIB discuss of increased mass do seem reasonable. I'm just not seeing where such theories fit into what "science" currently says about neanderthals. Theories are good since you never know when "science"might find something that fits. btw, I'm far from a scientist. I'm not even a theorist when it comes to this kind of stuff. The closest I get is reading ancient origins.

I thought he was looking for a local buddy to go with him? My chance? If I drove 2000 miles every time somebody had a hot lead? I would be broke. Surely somebody in Texas knows how to operate a rifle?

Greetings all, I have been reading books, online and watching documentaries on the subject for some time now. I joined this forum to go to the next level and find like minded people and find more information on researching and get boots on the ground.

very impressive fieldwork skinwalker. looks like you are able to pull those casts in great shape.

@ManThing Welcome to the forum! The drive on 101 through Crescent City and into Oregon is probably my all time favorite motorcycle run ever. I used to go once a year but have slipped off that schedule. Upper, upper northern california is serious townie culture! That culture being aging hippies, cannabis, bigfoot, and remote mini kingdoms of drug cartels and all kinds of communes and weird cults.

Throughout history we have always manifested mythical creatures. I would venture a guess that it’s to explain the bumps in the night we hear or put an explanation to an unknown event. Plus who does not like a nice scary story by the fire!

Bad day.