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I don't believe I'd shoot a sasquatch, but I might shoot that.

if you guys like bigfoot shows i just watched one of the best ive seen called "a bigfoot hunter film, trackways"

Wondering if any of you have heard any suspected Saquatch footsteps around you lately? I had a strange thing happen in early November while I was checking on the stray cat outside. It was probably between 11 PM and 12 when this happened: I was about to run down into the basement using the outside door to get the cat some fresh water, made it out the back door and got close to the basement steps when just in the darkness ouside of the flood light range I heard something make a commotion in the leaves. It sounded BIG, lots of rustling around then four footstomps, pause..., then stomp, stomp (two more after the four) then dead silence. Sounded big, heavy, bipedal. That happened at the top of the stairwell to the basement. I paused, a bit stunned, listened for a bit then quickly turned around and went back inside, it was very close to me. I did break my "Do Not Go Out After Dark" rule LOL, but it was for the kitty. Of course, I startled something just outside the edge of the light. I do live around cattle and deer, footsteps definitely were not of the four legged variety. I'm not a small female but I know I cannot make such heavy footstep sounds no matter how much I hop up and down on the ground. Have any of you hearding stomping footsteps lately?

Sadly, as much as I want to go look, I have the WORST sense of direction and could get lost on a one way street. While I have some camping experience, i know my limitations. I'd be endangering myself going solo. If I was with a group of people, I'd have no qualms. So...unless you count driving on roads through the Oregon forest and looking out windows...it's zero for me.

Oh cool! No tracks, no snow I suppose?

Nice, BRB!

Weekly. We have had a full schedule lately, hence my lack of posting. I believe that we actually got ‘bluff charged’ a couple of weeks ago. At least, it matched the accounts of others who have reported such things. Regardless, it was a dump of adrenaline.

Once a week.

DrPSH, we also have coyotes. I grew up with them very near the house, they switch from the north side to the south side of the road during the year. Moving closer to the river and fields, seasonal I think. Unsafe for dogs here because they could be shot if they got loose or hit by a car. We no longer have a sturdy fence. hifler, we recently had a snow. I was still trying to figure out the footfalls when I had my big snow boots on. I really experiment and it is a bit silly but I try. When I heard the heavy footsteps, we did not have snow. Lots of fallen leaves, dry. That is how I first heard the commotion, something really stirring around in the leaves. Was not small. We have lots of raccoons and possums. This was larger. Much larger. Was not a deer, distinctive bipedal footsteps. We've just had the typical things that people report happen in the yard. Arches, asterisks, interwoven branches, upright sticks, trees bent, etc. I pay close attention to what changes in yard. Usually when something changes, I had just been doing gardening/yardwork in that specific area. It's interesting to be sure.

That looks like a new version of creation theory to me.

Nervous is putting it lightly. Worst case scenario? BF researchers are on the radar, both for who they are and the area that they are in. Vehicles manufactured after, safe to say, 2000 all have tracking equipment built in. That puts a researcher with the vehicle. On the possible creature monitoring side of things, the lack of a heartbeat, or non-movement in an area where movement is typical, a check on the area/creature may be ordered- BECAUSE this creature is nothing to trifle with considering proof of existence would be a disaster on all fronts. So I agree with 7.62 about getting away fast as there may be a shorter than expected time window available to do the deed. My guess is no one will succeed in what is being discussed here. People dismiss the importance of this creature to TPTB but I do not, in any way, underestimate just how critically important this creature truly is. And to those Powers That Be, regardless of what one may think, this Forum is an open book- Personal Messaging and all. One would have to have been living under a rock to think otherwise. And that's why going the eDNA route has the best chance. There are no illegalities involved in taking samples and no one can stop anyone from doing so. And if a hundred people are taking samples the odds of a sample result slipping through become even better. Sure, someone could announce the results as not being a novel primate even if the results say otherwise. But that would probably be true with any remains as well with the difference being the legalities involved. There would be zero legal risk on the eDNA side, as opposed to getting caught with body parts.

Question for you all. Let us imagine that NorthWind and I, in our adventuring, come across a dead one. What parts would be most valuable in proving the species? And it has to be light, portable and concealable. Fingers? Hair? Tooth? Video, obviously. Scale measurements, too.

Missouri, rural area.

I'm unabashedly in the no-kill camp. I could be completely wrong but am of the opinion it will spell the beginning of the end. Their hopes of survival would hang in the balance and be entrusted to the government which never does anything well. Left alone, I implicitly trust sasquatches for the survival of their own species.

Pointless.