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Also search for "Seth Breedlove" to pull up the Small Town Monsters films; they are always worth a watch.

I think it could go beyond that. Universities life blood is government funding. It would just take one phone call from a alphabet group to make anything they don’t like stop. Early on I never supported conspiracy theories much. But after watching swamp gas turn into tic tacs of a Super Hornet thermal? How long they were willing to discredit and drag decent people’s reputations through the mud simply because they witnessed something? Reading the 411 books and just that push back? Anything is possible. Right now I am of the opinion that they don’t want to say “Um so we have cannibalistic cave men running amok in our national forests and despite our best efforts they elude us so…….. enjoy your stay in Yosemite! Good luck!” Just like they didn’t want to say “Um we have space craft in our airspace that we cannot intercept and they turn our ICBM’s on and off at whim…. enjoy your flight to Disneyland! Fly safe…..maybe”. Same/same I could be 100% wrong of course.

I haven't commented on this site for a few years. In fact, one of the last times I remember commenting was in another thread that concerned mitochondrial DNA. Some of the "regulars" treated me like an idiot. Frankly, it was because they had no knowledge of some of the foundations of cell biology. I'm going to make a few points and they can either do their research or dismiss me as an idiot again. First of all, you have to look at mitochondria as a primitive bacteria that was incorporated into what are now eukaryotic cells. We're talking about an event that occurred billions of years ago. For those who are unfamiliar with this concept, it is called Endosymbiotic Theory. Why it's important to understand this concept is that one needs to view mitochondria as symbiotic "parasites" that multiply and pass on their genetics completely independently from our nuclear DNA. Secondly, the mitochondria (and thus the mtDNA) of a mother are passed on to the subsequent generation within the cytoplasm of the mother's egg. It is a continuous line of passage through the female. Thirdly, the mtDNA is very stable. While there is always a possible evolutionary upside for variation in nuclear DNA, there really isn't one for mitochondria. They have a small genome, and most mutations probably won't work out. In fact, most mutations will quickly result in an individual cell's death. Based on the nature of mtDNA inheritance and mtDNA's tendency to maintain its integrity over time, I do find it possible that Bigfoot mtDNA would be indicated as "human" when tested. We frankly have no idea how closely we are related to Bigfoot. And while I'm not going to go to any length to defend Melba Ketchum's studies, I will say that any Bigfoot breeding with a human female, even if it only happened one time, thousands of years ago, would produce a mtDNA "human" result in a sample from a descendant today.

If you have “discovery” then please post. Other than that, your rants about how everyone else should proceed in these inquiries are increasingly more and more annoying.

I like what Thinker Thunker is doing with video and photo analysis. I think it's an interesting take on the study of evidence and more importantly seems to be repeatable. He's been measuring the ratio of torso to arm to leg and showing a radical difference between modern human and various photos and videos of purported sasquatch. They fall into two sides, and is very compelling evidence. He just released a video about the very few facial shots of potential Bigfoot, for example the trail cam Bigfoot and the white monster photo, as well as a head that was on display measuring center of eye to center of bridge of nose, down to the bottom of the nose to the lip. Even in the bell curve of human body proportions, these fall well outside ours, and interestingly fall inside their own. IMO, this is the most interesting shift in study of the subject in a long while.

I am pretty tired of the same documentaries over and over again. The loose recipe: 1. some random person who had an experience or two and has some "knowledge" about the subject matter, usually wearing a sasquatch tshirt and saying they had no interest in the subject before their encounter 2. B roll forest footage with mysterious ambient music 3. map shots 4. no out in the field research, and if so, 1 night camping in a hotspot with some unexplainable noises happening most of the time with no evidence other than another guy in a bigfoot shirt telling a story So, of course I will be watching and I will love it. I am sick.

Going by the stories told by the First Nations peoples of these creatures snatching women and children and considering the Missing 411 cases I would say that it probably happens from time to time. These are large, highly attuned omnivores that are physically capable of snatching a person if the scenario and conditions were right. If food was scarce or if the said Squatch was either old, sick, or injured a predation could definitely happen. If you look at a decent chunk of the Missing 411 cases the victim is usually found miles and miles from the point of disappearance and usually they are found (if they were found at all) through miles of highly rugged and sometimes unnavigable terrain (mountain ranges, swamps, thick forests, across rivers, ect). Interestingly enough, a sizable amount of the disappearances happen just as or before a very nasty weather system moved through the area, delaying any search and rescue efforts by a couple of days, if not longer. If you ask any accomplished hunter or fisherman about bagging that monster buck or that trophy fish, they'll tell you that the conditions need to be on point in order to optimize the chances of your pursuit being successful (environment/habitat, tracks, sign, game trails, wind, weather patterns, air and water temperatures, tides, season/time of year, ect). And it seems that the optimized conditions and scenario for a Sasquatch predation would be on a lone, unarmed hiker along a desolate trail surrounded by miles and miles of harsh terrain and just before a nasty front or weather system goes through the area. Another thing that I think that gets overlooked is that the Squatch in question might not necessarily need to be old, sick, or injured to predate on a human. Just as we have "rogues" amongst humanity that buck societal norms or out right violate them (killers, criminals, gangsters, psychopaths, sociopaths, cults, cannibals, ect) I would imagine that Sasquatch might have those issues as well. The "rogues" may live in regions where the more "conventional" groups and clans aren't located or don't go to. Or they may live in proximity of (or be members of) clans that are more lenient to human predation or out right allow it or encourage it. Just as different orca pods focus on hunting specific prey items (be it salmon, herring, seals, sea lions, sharks, sting rays, dolphins or whales) I would imagine different Sasquatch clans would have different attitudes on the predation of humans. As far as concealing the remains go, I would imagine that they would take the extra step in burying the bones deep if they felt the need to. Though, there have been cases of the search and rescue dogs refusing to follow the scent trail of the victim due to being afraid of something... Yes, it's definitely a possibility.