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Thanks for the mention my friend. We’re doing our best out here and trying to train up a new wave of investigators that will be able to competently walk the forests and follow up reports. Btw, we got a heel impression cast that is a 1-1 match for the wine berry cast from a year ago in the same general area. Camera deployed, now we wait.

https://bigfootforums.com/forum/173-lane-county-bigfooters/ https://bigfootforums.com/forum/184-wv-high-strangeness-collective/ Just to mention a couple.

Hey everyone, USGS just published migration data for ungulates in the west! A lot of people hypothesize that Sasquatch follow migration routes for prey availability... but is that true? I've added a screengrab of a quick map I threw together. To really get the picture, we would need to subset out reports in certain seasons to match the data, but by and large, I do not think the data supports the hypothesis that Sasquatch follow ungulates. Only 1 area on the map shows a good overlay of reports and migration routes/corridors (Eastern CA). BTW- blue heat is more reports on this heatmap. I'll subset out by season later and get a real picture to match winter areas and seasonal migration times. But for now, here's a shotgun spread. Who knows, subsetting may bring out a better picture. Remember that correlation does not equal causation!

Many of us in BFF have suggested in the past that sasquatch habitat is very similar to black bear habitat because they are usually found in the same places (with diversity of food and plenty of water sources). BugMaster created a map where he overlaid the sasquatch sighting reports over the black bear habitat in USA (see link below for his original posts). I am reposting his map, FYI. https://bigfootforums.com/topic/80034-species-distribution-model-and-ssr/?do=findComment&comment=1114768 One way of estimating sasquatch populations is to anchor on black bear populations and then estimate a range (10th to 90th percentiles) for the density ratio between sasquatch and black bears. My initial guesses are: P10 = Sasquatch density = 1/1,000 black bear density P50 = Sasquatch density = 1/100 black bear density P90 = Sasquatch density = 1/10 black bear density When we apply those ratios to the estimates of black bear populations by state we end up with the table below. It shows a black bear population in the USA of ~460,000 (excluding Wyoming that is missing the data). From this, the 80% confidence estimate for sasquatch population range from 460 to 46,000 with a median of 4,600. It helps to do a reality check by focusing on single states like WA and CA that have lots of sighting reports. For CA, the p10, p50, and p90 estimates for sasquatch population would be 30, 300, and 3,000. That looks like a reasonable broad range given the continued presence reports along the whole Sierra Nevada and up north in the Klamath National Forests. The range is similar for WA, with the p10, p50, and p90 estimates at 28, 280, and 2,800. The sasquatch population estimates appear low for such large states. Nonetheless, CA has a large human population while the number of public sighting reports per year is very low. Although, we truly do not know how many actual visual sightings occur every year in any state. I do not know how big a breeding sustainable sasquatch population has to be, but the p10 estimates appear too low for long term survival.

Done!

Hello! I am doing research on the Kushtaka and Bigfoot in the Alaska area but I am interested in the subject all around. Thanks for having me.

Well I do agree that Bigfoot probably isn't Giganto, since I think it's likely Giganto was a bamboo specialist, and probably not intelligent enough. But Giganto was the right size, and in the right place, since they were in China, where there are still modern reports. I think it's important to keep Giganto in mind, more so that whole family of large Miocene-Pleistocene apes in Asia, because they were "close" to Northeast Asia, and large in size, where you can imagine how it could have entered North America. The problems of not being near NE Asia, adapted to a cold climate, or having defenses against terrestrial predators is also an issue for all the other candidates. Unless Bigfoot can make spears or fire, it would run into trouble from forest Pleistocene predators like Tigers, Short Faced Bears, Smilodon, and Jaguars. Perhaps the cryptic nature of Sasquatches, along with their seeming preference difficult terrain like mountains, arose from having to deal with large predators. We look at Sasquatch today as not having to fear anything, but that is with our vastly depleted megafauna. If they presumably came to North America in the late Pleistocene or earlier, there would be a lot of things that would be dangerous to them.

You leave Expedition Bigfoot alone! It never did anything to you! It's trying it's best to take the subject seriously and still appeal to the uninitiated! Okay, okay..... like I said in a different thread, this show represents the next stage of normalization of the topic. Finding Bigfoot was the fun, family oriented, non-threatening mainstream introduction to taking sasquatch seriously (despite "welcome to club sasquatch") which it did. Sure, there's been mountain monsters and killing bigfoot, but those were extremist in their own directions. expedition Bigfoot doesn't have the recreations, which served the purpose of showing how normal everyday people were having these encounters, not just whack jobs, but we've been there. It shows seemingly rational, even scientific, people out in the field on longer term studies of an area. By not having it staffed by long term researchers, it shows non-crazy people(by mainstream perspective) taking the material seriously and pursuing such inquiry, which pushes the topic closer to legitimate study. Crafted and produced? Sure, of course! Comes off more rational than Ancient Aliens? I think so... Shows the sasquatch phenomena in a plausible context that furthers mainstream acceptance of the possibility? Ya sher, yoo betcha!

It strikes me that Bigfoot is the term of choice for those who view them as an "it" rather than a "they" such as the mocking news media reporting how "Bigfoot is active in polk county...he 's been seen a number of times lately by the locals..." As if there's just one making appearances across the country " he sure gets around, doesn't he, Carol? " "he sure does, Paul!" Sasquatch seems to impart at least a bit more . ...respect..in a way....but until we know what they call themselves, which could very well vary from group to group, anything we choose to call them is erroneous..wouldn't it be a hoot if they call themselves the Human Beings, and then add on True just to distinguish themselves from us, the hairless dwarves. Myself, I like big furries and murder apes but those might come off as biased....lol

While staying within the F&B interpretation one must still take into account a higher intelligence "smarter than your average bear" and in doing so, realize that opens up territories that might be otherwise deemed as incapable of supporting such creatures, in a sense similar to early humans foraging in marginal habitats but still making it through. And then there's the potentials granted by living in closer proximity to us and our resource availibility, be it refuse or industrial farming. For all we know, the government has subsidized these farms in order to feed populations otherwise cut off from their traditional food sources(somewhere there's a group of well rounded corn fed sasquatches) and keep them from going public! Also, that map is neglecting much of the California coast, and the mountain ranges of southern California which have a pretty substantial record of reports.

Who's to say there's not a great diversity of different sasquatch cultures across their range, something like what was depicted in Quest for Fire amongst the developing humans, some being more primitive while others of a more sophisticated nature. Perhaps some have more advanced skill sets/abilities, with some populations more F&B brings than others. Or there could well be multiple species each with their own proclivities representing different "waves" crossing the Berring strait land bridge. We just don't know. But any creature capable of running down deer or elk, or at least dispatching them, shouldn't be dismissed as a potential predator of humans just out of hand. Chimps eat "lesser primates" as do many groups of humans, and out in the woods, it wouldn't be too hard to imagine how sasquatch would view us as a "lesser primate" especially if food is scarce.... "But it's obviously lost, it's not gonna get outta the woods alive, and it's already days past dinner time.....come on, just this one time...."

I’d put my vote in for the nest sites. While not confirmed to be anything BF related I think they are likely to be and to date our best piece of evidence since the PGF.

Hi everyone. I used to live in the Pacific Northwest, in a ‘Bigfoot Hotspot’ but have now relocated back to the U.K. I’ve been interested in Sasquatch for a long time now and I absolutely believe in their existence. I haven’t had an encounter myself, but I trust the veracity of those who are brave enough to tell their stories. I'm looking forward to learning more from other forum members.

Could be a hoax...

I for sure would include Florida. I have posted this before, but I had three experiences while I lived in Florida. We lived for a couple of years in Sarasota, maybe ten miles or so from Myakka River State Park, where the "Myakka Skunk Ape" photos were allegedly taken. Here's a copy: _____ Though I live in Oregon, all three of my "experiences" happened in Florida, less than ten miles from Myakka River State Park about fifteen years ago. I was living at a country club / older folks' community called Heritage Oaks while I was in Florida going to school for a couple of years. Whenever I could, I would get out into nature by hiking up at Myakka River State Park and surrounding areas. Beautiful place, but it can be dangerous. There’s a lot of wildlife and it seems everything out there is looking to hurt or kill you. Lots of gators, poisonous snakes, spiders, boars, panthers, and my wife and I even saw two jaguarundis once at Myakka River State Park. My experiences though, happened at the golf course, strangely enough. The first experience we had, I was with my wife and we were out sitting on our screened in porch on the second floor enjoying a cigar and a cold fermented malt beverage. It was very late at night, I would say maybe 2AM, and we had the lights out so I wouldn’t get busted for smoking a cigar. Just talking and relaxing. This second-floor porch overlooked maybe 20 feet of grass, then a retaining pond (lake), and the golf course itself. We could see none of it though, it was a very dark night. Well this night was very quiet. Suddenly, we heard bipedal footsteps sloshing through the water. Big. Deliberate. Not fast, but not slow. It was covering a lot of ground with those steps. Now it was too dark to see, but I knew at the time there are only two things in the water at night in Florida. Gators, and gator food. If you are not one, you are the other. But even though you could hear the sloshing of the steps, you could almost feel the ground thumping as whatever it was moved. It wouldn’t make sense that a person would be walking through the water at night after midnight with no flashlight (or even with one for that matter). But this was no gator. Whatever it was was walking on two legs. As it passed the “lanai”, we were both afraid to even look to see what it was. Not that we could have anyway. But we didn’t even want to get close to the screen. It passed right by us. I would say no more than 30 feet away, max. It never broke stride. We were both too afraid to even speak. And when we did, we whispered and didn’t pronounce our “s’s” because we didn’t want to be heard by whatever it was. We sat there a long while after this thing was gone, trying to figure out what it was. I joked “skunk ape” with her, but the truth was that I was pretty certain that’s what we heard. I have seen deer out there and tons of birds. But this was no deer. No wild pig. Not a bear. Not a panther. It was bigger than those for certain. I still don’t KNOW what it was But if I had to put money down on something, I would have to go with a skunk ape because nothing else fits. That was the first experience. The second and third ones are tied together. Let me set the stage a little. I had an old dog. He was awesome. Always quiet and mild mannered. Unless there was danger. Then he became 120 pounds of growling snarling canine badassery. Mix of black lab, German shepherd, chow, akita, and coyote. I had to walk him when I got home from school. Usually that was after midnight or so. Outside the gate of the community though, there was swamp land, and general native Florida wilderness. When I say “gate”, I mean there was a drop-down arm to block vehicles, but people could just walk around it. Boy, I miss the sounds of the gators and frogs at night! I would take Tucker out there to do his business next to the road. I always carried my pistol because it was scary out there with just a flashlight. This particular night, I was walking Tucker towards the gate to get out to the road to his happy pooping grounds, when he started walking slower. His head was lowered, and he was growling softly. Now we were still in the golf course community, mind you. But right next to a small pond that was completely blocked off with trees. You couldn’t even see this pond. Not even the landscapers went in there. I know, because I was curious and went in there one day. Very thick native Florida bush. Then swampy pond. Almost perfectly circular. Maybe fifty feet across is all. It’s own little nature preserve in miniature. It was right next to a man-made retaining pond that had gators and fish and frogs and snakes and the like in it. As we were passing this pond which you cannot see, Tucker’s hackles went up and he started growling loud, and baring his teeth. His eyes were fixed on the small trees next to us. These trees were maybe 20 to 25 feet tall. Almost like tall bushes, really. Just as I was really realizing that something was in there, that something growled from the cover of those trees. Loud as hell. I could feel it in my chest, even. I could feel my hair stand up. That had never happened to me before, and it was a really strange sensation. That growl was so low in pitch and loud! It was not a gator, as I have heard those sounds before many times. Then the trees began shaking VIOLENTLY. I thought whatever it was was either going to rip them down or come charging out, so I had my 1911 drawn. We backed away from those trees without turning around. I did not want to turn my back to them. My heart was pounding. I was scared crapless. We finally came home from a different route (we actually walked all the way around the community because I didn’t want to pass those bushes again. My wife asked where I had been and I explained everything. She thought it was funny. Well I was not amused. A few weeks went by, and my mother in law came to visit from Texas. We had an extra room, so it was no big deal. She always loved to go outside and see the nature there. She loved to walk the dog, too. I told her to stay away from the “growly bushes” as they had become to be known as. She teased me and I tried to explain I was NOT kidding and I was deadly serious. It piqued her curiousity. Well late one night maybe here or four weeks after the first “growly-bush” experience, we had been tipping a few drinks out on the lanai. It was late, and the dog needed to go out one last time. She volunteered, and asked me to go with her because she wanted to see the “growly-bushes”. I decided to show her where it happened. So foolishly, we headed down there. Tucker again started growling slow and low, with his head down as we approached the bushes. My mother in law started getting freaked out. Then as we got near them, the thing growled loud at us and shook the trees again, exactly as it had done before. My mother in law was terrified, and so was I. When we got back up to the safety of the condo, she swore that she would never doubt me again. Neither of us know for certain what growled at us. But whatever it was, had to be huge to shake the trees like that. I tried shaking them in the day time some time later, and could get them to move, but nothing like what we experienced. The good thing is that I had a witness this time. And she was able to relay what happened to my wife. Now my wife knows I was not joking about it. There are strange things out there. And now that I am in Oregon and my kids are grown, I want to find out. That’s why I go out to the woods when I can and search for these beings. I know they are out there. And I hope to be able to find enough proof to satisfy my own curiosity, which I think will never be satisfied. _____

So here is another option for getting footage out of the thermal units. The Trijicon IR-Patrol does not have internal video. It does have a 9 pin Fischer connector that has a video output. This is a decent feature but then you have to have a DVR tethered to it with a cable. The cable is expensive and could be fragile. A few years ago I decided to see if I could film through the viewfinder of a thermal unit using an inexpensive consumer grade video camera. I made a bracket out of plexiglass l. I cut it on my Laser engraver. This morning I wanted to see if I could do this with the Trijicon. Well to my amazement a couple of the holes allowed me to line it up perfectly. This may not be the most ideal solution but to me it’s better than a tethered DVR. I think I will make another plate that is specifically made for this pair and add a tripod base plate as well.

That would be sad

Endless fascination with the legendary creature that makes great campfire stories. The flawed but interesting accounts and evidence of something that most likely doesn't even exist in the here and now. Many things to many people be it flesh and blood ,spiritual or nothing at all. Thats not really that important. What is important is just one more reason to enjoy the great outdoors and all the beauty it entails. I am glad to have family members and friends who frequently look for the creature they will never find.

People? We have a bona fide primatologist in the woods taking DNA samples and looking for Bigfoot. She takes the subject SERIOUSLY! How cool is that? She has FOUND a new species of primate! Whoa! We moan and complain that science doesn’t take the subject seriously. Well? Can we put up with some creepy music and dramatic cut aways and producers? They are footing the bill, so? Yah I guess we will put up with it. Some times the BF community is willing to cut their noses off to spite their face. It’s bizarre.