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I have 2 young step grandkids. They love to engage in running down the battery on their iPads BUT if I tell them that we are going to go outside and look for Bigfoot they get all excited and run to put on their coats. Of course I just take them about the yard in the light (mindful of the coyotes I mentioned a day or so ago) and we have a blast while they learn things about nature that they don't realize they are learning. So far we have practiced tree identification (by leaf, by bark which is harder for me but I'm working on it, and by seed/nut where appropriate), tracking (we have practiced finding coyotes, deer and fox all of which leave abundant sign in our woods, and we are now working on listening to birds and identifying them...hard in the winter, ha). They love it, and have apparently explained all of this to their paternal grandmother and grandfather who are now suddenly fans of the big guy since it has gotten their grandkids off the couch and out into the fresh air. To be fair, none of this activity is really related to Bigfoot...but I like to thank her and him anyway for the support, because without them as a motivator those boys would run out of battery power and fight over the charger. :-)

Exploring new wilderness areas (hiking, camping, backpacking) and trying to do citizen science to collect evidence on the reality of these creatures is positive. However, it is all fun and games until darkness falls and you end up with an encounter that scares you to death or psychologically/spiritually transforms you in a negative way. What happens when the dog catches the car? Most people who tell me that they want to see a sasquatch, say that they prefer to see it from the safety of their car or from 300 yards away from a group setting. Rarely do people tell me that they want to see a sasquatch when they are camping solo in the middle of a wilderness area. What if you spend 30 years with this hobby and never see one or gather compelling evidence (that improves the current situation)? I think that situation would still be positive if your intent was to have fun in the wilderness and enjoy the outdoors. It would not be positive if you neglected your family, friends, work, etc. in the pursuit of an unbalanced obsession with the search for proof.

When yah shot him? Yah let all the air outta him!

Explorer: made me laugh when you mentioned people wanting to watch them at a distance, like watching buffalo or wolves from the supposed safety of a car in a sanctuary. It doesn't always happen that way! LOL! It's so true what you say about the fear and it does mess with your head. From what I've heard and seen online is that many people are not working their way through their experiences. It does result in PTSD for many people, even I don't go outside after dark. I'm actually very sad for the people who cannot shake the terror of their encounter. The BAD is very popular online, though. Hunster: I hope you get your sighting, you'll probably handle it very well! : ) Yeah, snakes are my first fear here. Luckily, I interact mostly with the really little snakes. Huntster I meant, sorry for the typo.

Hello all, I live in Ontario Canada, spent all my life in the outdoors seen some things I cannot explain. Hoping through this forum, I can learn more.

Hello! My name is Bernie and I'm from New York City. I've been fascinated by the Sasquatch topic since the early 70's when I saw The Legend of Boggy Creek in a movie theater. As a "city-dweller" all of my life, I've had less opportunity for an encounter than most, but I am still a believer and follow the topic respectfully and with great interest. Thank you for adding me to this forum. I look forward to reading other other's experiences and opinions and learning from them.

I've gone back and forth on this for years internally. One day i want to, in order to prove existence so i can stick the biggest finger imaginable up to so many, which of course is pure selfishness, and on other days i become unselfish and want them just left be, knowing full well that them being 'known' to mankind and what would still be a relatively small but influential portion of the planet IE the western world, won't help the species whatsoever and will probably even contribute to its complete demise. But, to answer the question of the topic, absolutely i could, it's the 'would' that i struggle with now.

I've never gone out looking for a sasquatch, and I likely never will. I would love to one day visit the PG film site and the Freeman film site, but even then I wouldn't consider that to be "looking for a sasquatch". I consider these creatures to be so rare even in their prime habitat that actually hunting one would be pointless.........a hunt with a success rate of 0.001%, and with no legal methods of harvesting your quarry. The only way I would consider actually looking for one would be at a location that has fresh activity reported by multiple witnesses, like the Bluff Creek region when Patterson and Gimlin went there in 1967. However, such reports are now well guarded secrets and no longer freshly reported.

I said monthly which would be about minimum. Lot depends on definitions. Lot depends on weather, smoke, etc. If I take a week off work, so I have 9 days in a block, and I spend it all looking for bigfoot, is that once? Or 9 times? Changes the answer above, right? In summer .. if my chores are caught up and the forest fire smoke isn't bad, I might go out twice a week. On the other hand, I might be 3-4 months between trips if I've got major chores stacked up or the smoke is to thick to be healthy .. the last 15 years or so we've only had one summer without bad forest fire smoke such that we couldn't see more than a couple blocks and there was visible smoke within 50 yards. If I go deer or elk hunting, or fishing, and keep an eye to the ground and/or run audio for vocalizations, does that count or not? ... etc.

A lot of people report very positive encounters. It seems that repeated, non-hostile encounters at close range would provide ample opportunities for the collection of evidence…as opposed to a briefer/scarier or more violent encounter. But, if there is evidence out there of such experiences…I’ve never seen it. As far as the negative aspects of people’s encounters… they are larger than us and possess physical strengths that we do not. People are also told their entire lives that these things don’t exist…so it shakes their reality when they see one. Also…if these things are simply animals, they probably view us as a food source, albeit a dangerous one. If they are something more, they obviously don’t care to much for us for one reason or another.

Unlike a lot of people…I actually enjoy the topic. So for me, the majority of it is positive. I like hearing about different theories and methods of investigation. I enjoy it when someone else involved with the subject has a personal success or finds an exciting piece of evidence. I believe that a lot of the phenomenon itself has darker qualities. I believe that there is a certain level of predation that occurs with these things. I had a sighting of something when I was younger. It caused me a great deal of fear and didn’t behave in a friendly manner. I haven’t had a sighting as an adult, although I have had some experiences. Seeing that as a kid and experienced the stuff I have as an adult…it’s certainly changed the way that I look at the world. Not always for the best, but all growth is painful.

Never. I'm in the woods all the time hunting, hiking, scouting, driving/sight seeing and camping. I spend a lot of time observing nature and learning what I can from it and about it, but never out there specifically looking for a sasquatch.

Lets take a break. BTW, I will shoot one on sight and pose for the trophy picture.

I don't WANT to be congratulated on what should be a normal, civil course of action. It isn't special in any sense of the word. To me it's a matter of course in research. How the heck did you draw that conclusion? You know I'm in the field too? Emailing institutions and people isn't MORE worthwhile. It is an equal part of my program. What am I going to do when I get home? Hope it doesn't rain a week from now? Or utilize my time with outreach to supplement my field work? It isn't one or the other and it isn't imbalanced. I just emailed the GCBRO earlier to inquire about whether or not the DNA "unknown primate" results from 2009 would be available for review. This isn't hard stuff to do and I consider running down these other avenues just as important as field work. If I encourage others to do this sort of thing but I don't do it myself? Then my own credibility is worthless. If I talk DNA but haven't spent one minute studying it or learning how to deploy myself to collect samples then, again, my credibility is in the toilet. And I won't stop until someone in an official capacity tells me the creatures truly don't exist, or truly do. Is it a dangerous road to be on? Maybe, and maybe not. Considering the importance of the outcome, who should care?

I'd say I'm always on the lookout for evidence when I venture into the wild, and most of my backpacking or camping trips tend to gravitate toward areas of interest. Areas with historical significance or sightings alway get pushed to the front of possible future outings, and I'd guess I normally make one or two such trips I to wilderness areas a year.

I count every time I go off the pavement as searching, since I have learned some of the signs of BF the past few years. Plus, I live in an area with a few sightings and I spent Super Bowl Sunday out at my dad's place in the country, which made the national news as a BF encounter site. Since I go see him once a week to get his mail and take care of stuff, I suppose I could change my answer to weekly. I always check the woods and treeline for sign.

This time of year...none. Starting in early Spring, two or three times a week.

Weekly.

I try to get out once a week to local areas, but don't always achieve that. More than once a month, though.