Leaderboard

I bet you have them.....right out of the range of the trail cam.

Hello from Michigan. I've been here before but 'life happened' and i lost track for a few years, glad to be back here now. I've read several good books in last 3 or so years in my journey to return to the subject of cryptozoology, and other subjects dear to me. I am very much looking forward to intelligent and learned discussion here on the forum. Jeffrey

Huntster, I always carried in the woods, as I was always "prospecting" while out there, with a small pan and folding shovel in my gear. I never had any hassle with that approach, even when checked out by C.O.s a few times. I don't know if that would fly now, or not. A work around that one of my buddies uses is to carry his hunting license, as we also have year round season on several species, and straps on his 44 mag "Mares Leg", which is not much bigger than a handgun, but legal as a rifle.

Also be aware that the San Gabriels and other areas around the LA basin have healthy populations of mountain lions as well.

Until very recently, handgun ownership has been legal in Canada, but carry options have been very restrictive. Anyone who passed a criminal check could buy a handgun, but the only uses allowed were range shooting and a few outdoor occupations, such as timber cruiser or prospector. Public carry, open or concealed , is not allowed, except under locked container to and from a licensed range facility, or while in the field as a prospector or timber cruiser. I had a carry permit as a prospector for decades, but let it lapse about 10 years ago, which was a mistake I regret. As of this year, the federal Liberal government has banned all purchase, sales, or trading of handguns, by Order In Council, not by legitimate vote in Parliament.

@Huntster Thanks for sharing that excellent YouTube video of Jordan Peterson interviewing Richard Wrangham (anthropologist and primatologists). I have not read those 3 books (Demonic Males, Catching Fire, and The Goodness Paradox) from Wrangham, but his summaries were very clear and provided excellent insights into human aggression tendencies. While I had read about chimpanzee aggression towards other chimpanzees, I did not know the details and the actual research done. Amazing research and disturbing observations! No doubt some of those aggressive chimpanzee genes explain a lot in our human potential for evil aggression. His explanation of proactive and reactive aggression expressed by humans (and the displacement of proactive aggression over reactive aggression over time) was cogent and made sense. I think chimpanzees got it right; if you are going to go to war, you better have overwhelming force and ensure you got the odds to win. Hard power matters among humans and a strong military force is needed. I don't like bullies and fully understand the need for humans to develop proactive social groups to take care of bullies. Nonetheless, some of the socio political constructs (that developed and evolved to take care of bullies and maintain social order) can also lead to autocratic nations that bully their population. Thus, humans still have a long way to go and probably more wars to go thru before we reach steady state equilibrium. With regard to sasquatch, I agree with your observation that their aggression towards humans (as observed and reported by others) tends to be more human like than chimpanzee like and more reactive. I don't recall reading of any proactive (planned) aggression towards humans (unless you consider the Ape Canyon Cabin attack as one example, but I am not sure about the reliability of that case). With regard to observed sasquatch aggression towards other sasquatches, there are very few reports (and I can't recall any that I can quote). But the few that I recall reading about were between parent and juvenile (or between male and female) and not between big alpha males. Still very human like.

Indeed, Dr. Hart himself was invited to become a member here and there is a thread that was started to accommodate him and his work. He was the one who also came here and started that recent thread asking about thermal imagers. If you look him up here as "hvhart" you'll find everything he's discussed with us. He has articles on Dr. Meldrum's "Relect Hominid Inquiry" pages both here on this Forum as well as on the web. Dr. Hart also came out with his own book in the summer of 2020 (on Amazon) about Dr. Ketchum's study: "Sasquatch Genome Project: A Failed Study. I have two signed copies Chapter 16 of the book (also an eBook) is where that chart came from that I've posted across several recent threads. He's a very interesting guy who is continuing his work to this day.

Correct. But "contamination" is the back door escape from declaring the existence of something that the ideology refuses to accept.

All true. But one needs to remember that the services that offer ancestry tracing have a very limited library. They are only dealing with a maternal lineage by using mitochondrial DNA from a cheek swab in order to determine one's haplotype to match similar haplotypes originating from different regions of the globe. The point being they are simply not set up to go deeper into DNA analysis. Nor is that their intent. Even in Ketchum's study the female mitochondrial results were 100% Human female. It wasn't until Dr. Hart pointed out the extremely rare Human DNA mutations found in the study that things really got moving. As stated before, one of those mutations is extremely rare, three is virtually impossible, though common in other primates, and out of 20,000 Human genomes in the GenBank there were no instances in which two of those mutations showed up together in a Human genome- never mind all three. This is important stuff. And two other mutations weren't in any of the GenBank at all for ANY known primates including Human. Government may have Sasquatch genome sequences, but after Dr. Hart's work and what he's shown us, then we ALSO have seen Sasquatch DNA sequence mutations. I have looked at, and studied, his chart a hundred times and am convinced that it shows the truth about the existence of this creature. The hair on the back of by neck raises just at the thought of it.

It is a very interesting video. I've found something similar, what we call a nesting area. We find small areas all the time where deer or bear create a flattened down area in high grassy spots. It is obvious that is was something relatively small, but this one was huge. It was approximately 10'x10'. No clue what made it. We didn't find any hair or evidence of what possibly could have done it. A couple of years earlier, we did find moose tracks in the area, but even for a moose, that is huge. We found this in 2021, and is approximately 1/2 mile from where we found this print:

Thought I had a wolf…. Its a lost Husky.

🙄 It could certainly be a hoax. It’s certainly NOT a Bear…. But why would a Bigfoot be all seeing and all knowing and never allow itself to be filmed? Obviously if real whatever it is? Doesn’t know he is there. Humans have been sneaking up on things and stabbing it to death for millions of years. And that probably includes other apes.

Rattlers, too. My dumb husky got bitten some 4 miles from the truck. What a day.