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Hi. I just joined the forum. I have been out several times by myself looking for bigfoot. There is a state park in NC where bigfoot is said to walk around your tent, push on the tent, then scrape in the gravel right next to your tent, especially at one particular campsite. I went to the park on a week night at 25 degrees in mid-January, and I was truly the only person camping there that night. At 4 am, I woke up to something walking around my tent on the gravel pad. Then, right at my head, something pushed in the wall of my tent, and kept it pushed in, holding it there. I was stuffed inside 3 sleeping bags like a sausage, and I had a briar proof coat formed like an igloo over my head so my face wouldn't freeze. Let me tell you, I was WIDE AWAKE in a split second. I decided to first pull off the coat from around my head, so I could hear better. Then I was going to grab my Stun baton. It is a 15 inch stun baton with electric arcs that go up and down the shaft, and it looks and sounds terrifying. I haven't met a mean dog yet that doesn't cower and slink away at just the sight and sound of it. As I pulled my arm out of the sleeping bags, and reached up and grabbed the coat out of the way, the thing outside pushed down on the tent right at my head even harder. Immediately after that, it scraped loudly in the gravel with its feet. My eyes were WIDE open and I was very alert and my heart was pumping. Then I calmed down, because it left my tent, and 3 feet away I heard a light pounce into the dry winter leaves, and then another pounce beyond that, and then silence. I realized then what had happened. A fox came snooping around the tent for any leftovers a camper might drop outside. Then, it wasn't sure if someone was in the tent or not, so it reared up on its hind legs and pressed against the tent with its front paws, probably sniffing as well I presume. It's front paws and weight pushed the tent wall in right at my head. When I moved my coat out of the way, that freaked the fox out. So it pushed off the tent wall with its front paws (thereby pushing on my head even more), and while pushing away, twisted around to leap away (thereby scraping hind feet in the gravel). Then it leapt twice into the woods and slinked silently away. So I think my "bigfoot" visit was a fox. Since then, there have been more people claiming to see something, and even a thermal photo at night in the woods. They are also claiming to have found several prints lately. Most people who go out just stick to walking around the established trails with expensive cameras, thermals, and parabolic listening dishes. I do not have any equipment except for a hunting style red headlamp and powerful red beam floodlight. I'm not local to the area. It is almost a 3 hour drive for me to get there. I am planning to go again Thursday Sept 15. Hopefully I will be the only camper there again since it is a week night. There is a creek that winds its way through the park, in many places along side the trails, which are high up on the banks. I have about 3 gallons of wild green apples. I plan on Thursday during the day, to start at one end of the park and kayak through the park. I plan to investigate the sandbars and banks that are hard to reach on foot. Along the way, I will cut apples and throw the apples out on the sandbars and along the banks that are difficult to reach on foot (especially inaccessible to 99% of the hikers who only travel the established trails). Then Thursday night, I plan to launch the kayak again. There are copperheads and moccasins, so I will definitely wear my snake boots and have my hooked snake stick. I plan to drift downstream with my red headlamp on, then about every 50 yards, anchor on a bush or rock, and turn off the light and sit there in the dark for about 10 minutes. Then turn on my red headlamp, and look around for eyeshine. If I see something, then I will flip on my powerful red floodlight. Then I will drift 50 yards further down and just repeat this process in the dark. That is how I used to catch water snakes. I would go out and stand in the water, check for anything around me, then turn off the lights and stand there motionless, then turn the light back on and look around after several minutes. Things come back out into the open if you just don't move and don't make noise. On Friday, before heading home, I plan to put the kayak in again and retrace my steps in the daylight, and look for fresh prints and see what happened to the apples. Does this sound like a good plan? From what I have read, "they always travel the creeks". And they seem to be curious and people see them usually while doing other things. So I am hoping if something is really there, it will be curious about something happening (me) in the creek, and come near the banks to take a look. Any refinements or suggestions? Should I place the apples on rocks in the creek, or along the sandbanks of the creek? Most people put apples way high in trees, from what I have read. But since I am in the creek, I am thinking they should be low, like on rocks in the creek or on the sandbars. Maybe stack some apples in a small pyramid or something. At this point, I have no equipment, and I'm not really into the calling and tree knocking and so forth. Most of my outdoor experience has been snake catching, and looking for predators, and so I've always tried to make as little noise as possible and just observe my surroundings and be still, move to another place, observe and be still, etc. For now I will try that, but maybe later I might experiment with knocking or something. Thank you for any input you wish to give!

Is anyone going to the Dr John Bindernagel memorial Sasquatch conference in Courtnay B.C. On Oct 29th? I have a room reservation already, just waiting to buy tickets to see if my friend and research partner can make it. Tickets are $40 each. My friend is good friends with Kerry Clausen Kilmury, she’s doing the ticket sales, and has done extensive mapping of Bigfoot sightings across western Canada. It looks like a fun time. I thought it would be cool to meet some members if anyone else is attending.

This is in one of the Finding Bigfoot episodes from Washington and Oregon that I came across recently. They were in two teams with one in each state. I said Oregon originally but the whistle actually happened in Washington. You can hear a whistle late in the video, at 8:37. Plus you can also hear it at about 7:34. The whole sequence starts about 7:07. Matt's companion does two knocks at about 7:15, with no response, and Renae says she'll do three knocks. They hear the whistle after her first knock, which she does at 7:32. Start watching at about 8:30. Renae does a wood knock at 8:35-8:36, and you'll hear the whistle right after that, at 8:37-38. It's pretty clear. Or you can start watching at about 7:07 and hear the whistle at the end of that sequence at 7:34. Not surprisingly, Matt M. thinks it's a sasquatch whistle, although we don't know what made it. Any thoughts as to what could have made the whistle?

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norseman, great pictures. I especially like the one of the wild turkey and the deer.

It is National Geographic time at your place, Norse! Thanks for sharing, I appreciate getting to see these trail game photos. Better than the ones from my house, we have many photos of the same darn fox trotting around with various things in its mouth. We have fisher cats here in south eastern PA (we had to look up what a fisher cat was when we saw it late one evening, it was a new creature for us) and we keep hoping to catch the fisher cat on film. Instead we have LOTS of fox photos. Fox, fox, fox.