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For me yes and no. There are certain aspects where I consider him a .. maybe THE .. world class expert. Others .. I don't think he's any more qualified to comment than anyone else who does field research. He earned his PhD in a specialized field and it does not imply general expertise in all things. When it comes to feet .. for instance when it comes to looking at tracks to see if they suggest a living foot vs a hoaxer's prosthetic whatchmacallit .. yeah, Meldrum is absolutely as qualified to comment as any person can be. That is in HIS "wheelhouse." So far as population dynamics .. not so much. What it means is we have to keep an eye on our experts to be sure they are only expertizing in their field of expertise and question them when they step beyond its boundaries. It doesn't mean they are necessarily wrong, it means we should not grant their opinion the same weight on a topic outside their field as we would one within their field. MIB

Maiden voyage! (Just on property in Newport) It rides nicer than the K5…

Actually, it is an unladen swallow. And the the answer is 20 to 24 miles an hour.

African or European?

We have not had any aggressive encounters, nor have we heard thru the grapevine of any in our area. Rather, they seem to be mostly avoidant - except when their curiosity seems to get the better of them. I would speculate that they run the gamut, like humans - some outgoing and curious but good, most in the middle who just want to live their lives and be left alone, and the few who are predatory, possibly opportunistic and bad to the bone. Again - speculation and possibly anthropomorphic thinking. Who could really say? It's all dependent upon people who share the same bell curve!

Very nice! Looks like a great rig for camping!!

I grew up in rural NC. Never had a visual of a sasquatch, but hear plenty of screams, whoops, and had a couple animals killed / mutilated under odd circumstances. Here to read and learn more.

Okay we got another one...could have swore I saw a similar pic from Virginia a while back, Regardless this looks fake to me. Even though Mobile area could definitely hide a few in it's swampy areas. https://1079ishot.com/bigfoot-in-alabama/

You've left me no choice but to ask What Is The Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Sparrow?

WA state, that particular event was outside Olympia. We weren't unnerved at all, wasn't our first run-in with weird stuff in the woods. We both sat there, whispering about it, as I'm texting my wife down the hill telling her about it. Once we knocked back, we heard nothing again from that direction. So, it either left the area or chilled out and waited until we finished. No idea the size of the perpetrator. Guessing it was 30 yards or so off through the brush. But total guess, trying to go off of how sound carries. Never saw any sort of movement at all. Too much brush between us and it. I've always wondered if they eat mushrooms. We spend a lot of time out in the woods every year picking and have never been ran out of a spot.

It’s interesting. Too bad the resolution sucks so bad.

Just because I've run across this before when reading Alaska DFG manage reports, I thought I'd mention it again: https://seafwa.org/sites/default/files/journal-articles/BOWMAN-614-621.pdf Sightings reports are a regular, valid, and scientifically accepted method of data accumulation. In the case above, biologists actively sought sighting data from a specific group of people. This is unfortunately not the case with sasquatch report databases. Blind surveys seeking sighting reports from such outdoorsmen as hunters, timber cruisers, loggers, rangers, rural LEOs, backpackers, etc might provide many more reports than what we have now.

I get the impression you're not a fan of Dr. Meldrum.

@Annie Nore and everyone else who are trying to interact with these people, I would caution immediately tracking down sounds that you think could be related. I think there were at least eight sound incidents that made me wait until daylight to investigate or back out of the area because something didn't feel right. There were three daylight sound events here that I was extremely curious about but after pausing and listening I backed away because I was uncomfortable, somewhat like being lured? I remember saying during one event in the yard, "You want me to go around that corner, don't you?" and I wouldn't do it, just backed away. I tell you, though, two of the sound events had me unbelievably curious and I wanted to climb over the fence and wander into dense overgrown brush and difficult to access woods to solve the mystery. It happened on two different days in an area that I know to have trees and nothing else. The sound was definitely out-of-place. Things like that make you pause in the first place, best to move away if you are unsure.

@Annie Nore I'm sorry, I forgot you were in northern WI! I photograph or record video of all things unusual. It's extremely interesting to me that things happen in areas where I've been recently doing yard work. To me, it seems like it's a test of my observation skills (like walnuts appearing in bushes and trees where I've recently worked.) The missing dog dish incident was probably connected to them and it seemed to be a joke of sorts? If they are around I'm sure they get a kick out of my behavior in the yard. I very much hope you have an encounter or some type of activity. It is something I want for people who have an interest in the topic. (Of course, I certainly wouldn't be out in the woods hitting trees or howling! I also don't think it needs to be a nighttime project. LOL!) My friend liked to drive to Holy Hill, the area of the notorious dogman encounter. I'm sure there are plenty of places to try to attract them. What I disliked most about WI was the short growing season. I always laughed at my uncle having to buy 3 ft. tomato plants at the beginning of gardening season, when I moved up there I understood why he did it!

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.

This one falls in the ish part of the 5ish years since it's about 10 years old but I think it is the second best recording only behind the Sierra Sounds. I'm sure most of you have heard it before but for those who haven't, it's incredible. This was recorded in northern Minnesota and is part of a 30 minute continuous group of howls. Here is a YouTube breakdown of the whole 30 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmWXp3jAKoI I will post other items I think are pretty good soon. [[Template core/global/editor/attachedAudio is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]

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

Thank you, I will take that as a compliment.

I like how the camera points straight ahead until they get to the creature…🙄

Good questions. In this one, I don't believe that people "report" black bear sightings to anybody who officially cares (area biologists), and like Northwind writes, many (if not most) people who see a sasquatch keep mum about it, though that might be changing due to the nature of today's bigfoot media themes vrs what was televised 40 years ago. Also, with reference to the claim that many people see a bear and mistake it for a sasquatch (which is clearly true): the opposite must also be true. People see a sasquatch and believe they've seen a bear. One obvious reason that would be true is because people have been conditioned to believe that sasquatches don't exist, so it must have been a bear. What else could it have been? I'd like to reference you to some reading that might answer this question for you to some extent. First is the Glickman report. In it he specifically discusses sasquach reports, and how media exposure to the phenomenon effects reports, as well as hiw report densities are sure to differ regionally with respect to the population densities of both people and sasquatches: http://www.photekimaging.com/Support/rptcol2.pdf Secondly, here is the page for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game listing their management reports for all big game species in the state, including both black bears and brown bears (but not polar bears, which are federally managed). These reports can reveal a huge wealth of kniwledge and understanding about how official biologists estimate population densities for bears in the different habitats, in addition to so much more. If you're interested in big game, this kind of reading is addictive: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=librarypublications.wildlifemanagement

In the movie Bigfoot's Reflection a BFF poster Bigfoothunter -Bill Miller (RIP)- makes the point of how rare it is to see normal animals in the wilderness around Lake Harrison area of Canada. He stated you can travel all day and not see a bear and so on when we know they are in the area. If Bigfoot exists, the number must be extremely small to near extinct. These numbers would be much smaller than common rare animals. I remember Grover Kranz said something like 2,500 was his guess at one time. 2 number examples come to mind: 1- One of the first wolverine sightings ever in Yellowstone National Park happen just weeks ago. It was the only one ever caught on video. The wolverine was spotted by 2 hikers. It looked at the camera crossing the road and then trotted off in a manner similar to the PGF encounter. Millions visit Yellowstone over the years and yet only one video of a wolverine sighting exists and that is just recently. 2- In Virgina a few years ago, a lost autistic child Robert Woods was lost for an entire week in the Virginia woods. It took 3,000-5,000 searchers with dogs and helicopters and special equipment 1 week to find the child in just a 3 miles search radius. The boy's condition was such he ran away from people and he does not speak. In this way, if we are looking for a real-world example of what a Bigfoot search really would entails this is the one. Running away from people and not talking made him much harder to find. Bigfoot is thought to be a quiet shy animal who also would get away from people searching for it. But, in the case of the lost boy they had 1,000's of people covering a small area with every advantage. It still took 1 week to find one person. No such search has been mounted for Bigfoot. Even if so, the area here was only a 3 mile radius. The search area for Bigfoot is just too big and the number of assumed Bigfoot are probably just too small. Unless massive drones and trail cameras are used to expand the number of eyes out there, I just doubt there will ever be a successful Bigfoot search attempt. Instead, there will only be occasional chance random encounters which might have a video thanks to cell phones. For a search to have a chance to work a person cannot just go out in the woods and start looking around. Need smoke to find the fire. First a person would have to search near high level of recent activity. If such a hot spot developed maybe hard work could pay off and one might see such a creature. Unless the camera was ready quickly, I expect such an animal would be gone in a flash.

Most everyone I have ever spoken directly with who has had a bigfoot sighting / encounter has never officially reported it. That would greatly change the data.

A few questions that quickly come to mind on the subject I would need to think about. Maybe some food for thoughts for others. Its on of my favorite Sasquatch topics as I feel it is a huge piece of the puzzle. 1. What is the likely hood or of a witness reporting Sasquatch vs. bear and how does this effect reports? 2. Does Sasquatch intelligence hinder report numbers? Is Sasquatch intelligent??? 3. Food Sources and availability? How does this play into sighting reports for both species? 4. Are Sasquatch Migratory and or Nomadic? How could this play into reports? 5. Do they compete for territory / food source? 6. Breeding - All things encompassed in this, is there a season, litter size (I'd assume 1 typical, twins rare???), infant / young fatality rate. etc.

Why does it have to be about dislike. I'm neither a fan or disparager. Simply pointing out the obvious, we have no baseline specimen, thus noone knows anything more than anyone else. It's all conjecture until that point. Yes, he's a primatologist, a mormon belief influenced primatologist (or so its been suggested elsewhere online). I would take his thoughts over Moneymaker's who is clearly in it for the money, but he like anyone else doing this has yet to earn the pedestal.

And he has nothing more to go on than the rest of us. He's essentially guessing to.