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A little different adventure on Sunday, in sasquatch country along Harrison Lake east side, but not a research trip. On Sunday morning I drove a young couple from Chilliwack out to Clear Creek FSR to assist in the recovery of her Ford F150, which had been stuck in a washout since Valentines Day. The actual recovery was done by Vedder Towing, I was shuttling the couple who owned the truck, and part of the tow crew, as well as a backup anchor if the tow truck got stuck in the snow. Overall a 10 hour operation. Actually, there was a Sasuatch involved; zoom in on the tailgate and you'll see a decal of the St'ailis First Nation Sask'ets, the origin of the word Sasquatch.

Annie Nore: On this end after reading what you wrote, I understand completely. Alone at night. Similarity in the land, residential/wooded areas (I also have the farm land connection.) I would be thinking the same as you. I didn't have cable or internet while in WI, I didn't know Bigfoot was a thing. If I had known, I would have been communicating with people earlier. I would have paid far more attention to what was going on in my yard in WI. Also, I didn't have the internet until a couple of years after returned to MO, many things happened before I read/heard/learned about classic behaviors and signs when I got online. I wasn't happy about it, it became very serious very fast for me. Not really an amusing subject for me. The subject evokes many different feelings for me, sometimes conflicting. I don't know how I would react if I had been shadowed/flanked as I walked my usual route, I would be frightened if I heard whistles in the dark. I brought up the topic of out-of-place sounds, I'm sure I haven't written about all of them. It's weird enough as it is, tried to get enough nerve to inquire. I can also say that the CLARITY of recollection of these events is something that is not typical for me. I've tried to figure out why there is such clarity for these memories in comparison to other memories and I can't figure it out, it bothers me a bit. This is why I truly want the people on this forum to have a sighting or experience classic behaviors, see the tree manipulation/signs and I also wish for everyone to experience the weird stuff. It would put an end to much of the skepticism. You don't know until it happens to you. A lot involved with this.

There was an apparent "hot spot" on the mountain behind where I lived. I fussed around with a number of ideas. I wanted something obviously arranged and obvious to identify if it'd been handled and mis-arranged. This was the only place I ever tried gifting. Along with the "gift" I wrote my name in broken sticks and took a picture of it. I hadn't begun using trail cams in those days. Nothing happened for a number of days, then the sticks got stirred a little and the gift (apples from a nearby abandoned orchard, not store apples) got somewhat mauled. From the tooth marks i'd say mostly rodents. Bummer.

I am of the age that "Lite Brite" was a toy when I was really young...this is basically a light box with a black peg board on the front of it. You could attach a piece of black paper with a pre-printed picture on it to the black peg board and then "punch out" the pictures by putting colored plastic pieces (the size and shape of little christmas tree lights) into the commensurate spaces. You would then plug it in and you would end up with a glowing lighted up replica of the picture you attached to the peg board. By the time the toy was handed down to me there weren't very many of the little plastic pieces left and all of the black pre-printed pictures were used up, but I still had a blast playing with it. I recently saw somewhere a battery powered "Lite Brite" with extra large colored plastic pieces. Not sure how one would make it happen but that would be a really fun thing to leave in the woods for the sasquatch people to play with, whether lighted or not. Probably they would cart off the pieces....but even that would be interesting!

I am very new to this forum, so I haven't mentioned anything of my "experiences" yet. They were all the same and not anywhere near as fascinating as yours and others in this group. I grew up in the country between a city and a town. It was not in the deep woods and there were other properties and people not far away. We lived on a five-acre property that had a railroad track running along the back line. As a teenager, I often used this railroad track for a shortcut when walking to and from a friend's house. This track ran through a thick brush area and then a wooded area before I reached our back line. From our back line I had a clear view of our house through a field. I have a fear of bears due to an up-close experience when I was about six years old, so I often hummed, sang, or whistled when walking the railroad track at night. On my way home I would sometimes hear steps in the brush. I would stop and they would stop. They would begin shortly after I started walking again. Thinking it was a bear, I would increase my volume and keep walking until I got to our property line. I always thought if they heard me coming or if I was louder they would leave me alone. I never thought of the possibility of a Bigfoot until I was much older and thought back on those nights after reading about similar experiences. Hunters have told me that a bear will often choose the easiest route and does not make much noise unless running. The brush area was fairly tall and thick and, if this is true, a bear would probably use the track. I have seen and heard deer and it did not sound like deer. Will a deer stop when I stop and start when I start? Do bear? A few times I thought I heard a whistle. I would stop and not hear it again so thought I probably imagined it. I would hear a single note and not another. The first time I heard a whistle I thought it might have been a person. I even yelled at my friend's older brother thinking it might be him. With the brush being so thick and the track being elevated some feet, I couldn't imagine anyone going down and walking through there to prank someone and then never show themselves. Someone would have to walk a way through brush either side of the track to do so, too, or on the track and be seen. I would hear a few steps or two or a stick break now and then as if being stepped on. Funny thing was it did not make a lot of brush movement that I could hear like an animal rambling through the brush might make. This would happen off and on over a four-year period until I moved away. This took place in the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. If this happened only once or twice then I wouldn't think much of it. The stopping when I stopped and waiting for me to walk a bit before starting again is what I find strange. This would happen off and on over about a four-year period until I moved away. I thought nothing about a possible Bigfoot so never looked for signs. That was the extent of my "not sure" experiences.

Its a "made for TV" kinda deal. thats about as deep as i can go. take it with a grain of salt....or maybe a bourbon.

Before having my initial bigfoot experience in 2012 led me to want to get into the woods, I grew up doing a lot of car camping with my family and loved it, but my plantar fasciitis said no at that time to much "boots on the ground" exploring. After finding prints again in 2018, I decided to get my butt in gear and GET OUT THERE, and I did. Teaming up with NorthWind has been a blessing and I've done woodsy things I never could have imagined since then. Actually FINDING sasquatch and their stuff has opened my mind to a lot of things. I'm insanely curious about them, but I love being outdoors just as much. Except for my broken wrist, it's all been positive for me.

Annie Nore: So you had an event, too? Have you written about it? It's true, it really stretches your brain, especially if you've had some type of Sasquatch related event. They do inspire wonder but there can also be some fear. I have a really strong respect for them. I was a kid in the 70s and if I recall correctly Bigfoot was popular in the early/mid 70s then became standard tabloid fodder. The 70's also had a lot of UFO stuff. As a kid, I never thought it was impossible, never scoffed at people for relating their stories. Now we know UFOs are real and I'm sure Sasquatch exist.

My thoughts? It's crap. Finding Bigfoot, for all its faults, was at least entertaining. EB is boring, the "investigators" do not interest me, and they go the inflated drama route all the time.

Here we go

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.

Feller sure has some nice teeth!

@wiiawiwb This is not a counter-point to your argument about rarity of tree falls during hiking and backpacking. I also rarely experience tree falls while hiking or backpacking, but I have heard them while camping in highly diseased areas in the Sierra Nevada of California and more recently in WA. In August of 2019, I was camping in WA Cascades (5 nights) and heard a big tree fall on 3 nights! I don't know the WA Cascades that well, but that area probably has diseased trees too. The trees fell either late at night (~10-11 PM) or early in the morning (~4-5 AM) and I did not go looking for the fallen trees in the morning since the area was a high density forest. I record 8 hours every night (from 9 PM to 5 AM), so I captured these sounds and made sound clips of the recordings because they were so loud and bigger than anything I heard in California. Attached below are the recordings I made using the Tascam DR-05. I have 2 of these recorders and I am happy with them. I take them car camping and backpacking. The 2 AA energizer batteries will last three 8 hour nights of continuous recording (24 hours total). Tree Fall 153 CLIP August 6 1056 PM Normalized - Copy.mp3 Tree Fall 163 CLIP Aug 7 1020 PM Normalized - Copy.mp3 Tree Fall 193 CLIP Aug 10 456 AM Normalized - Copy.mp3