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One of the main reasons why I joined the board here a week or two back (aside from the interesting stories and conversation that i've been privileged to read and take part in) was to get an insight from individuals going out into the field with regards to what has been tried, in terms of autonomous detection (i.e. cameras, microphones, etc..) to capture information on the presence of "bigfoot". By trade, I am electrical engineer/mixed-signal electronics designer, and in the past I've done work with low-power remote sensing apparatus (devices that go into the feild to detect various "things", and then in the presence of certain stimuli report back the associated data over cell network (typically)). In the past year or so, I've become convinced that there is something to this "phenomenon", but what has stumped me has been the lack of ability to gain any useful information via game cameras given their ubiquity in this field of research. There is much speculation as to why; however, I want to know what considerations need to be made to the development of instruments given what is already known for the detection of a sasquatch. If the sasquatch is real and indeed does exist, then it must be possible to pick up it's presence via signatures that can be found in the environment it exists within. So say it's camera shy? that's fine, what about unique ground-vibration patterns that are produced as a result of it's being the only bipedal animal in the woods that weighs far more than an average human being? just a single suggestion as it's common and has been done for people tracking for quite some time. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5775004 what I want to know is what ideas anyone may have based on their experience, or what short comings they believe existing "fauna" detection devices have that prevent them from gathering any information on a sasquatch. with the emergence of satellite based IOT communication devices that are pretty new to the market (https://swarm.space/), could a battery powered device (or devices) be placed in remote areas with low power consumption capable of cellular (or satellite) transmission that could detect associated "bigfoot phenomenon"? what would such devices be detecting and reporting back? Any and all suggestions or insight on this matter would be tremendously appreciated.

Yes, indeed. First, why build a nest deep in a temperate rainforest on private land when you can live in a tent in downtown Seattle and receive services? Free food? Etc? If it was a modern human, it was either a sasquatch hoaxer or a feral human.

Not at all. In fact, I've been prescribing that pill for you all to take for years now. All the evidence, especially DNA evidence, has been screaming that sasquatches are of the genus Homo.

Too your first point, yes it seems using novel primate can be considered a bit off but not when you consider the fact that BF has been more about money than discovery for years!!! These guys have bills to pay and prolonging the entertainment side of money is in their best interest. I personally have no ill will for that. Just a fact of life. As far as assuming it’s human, while it’s not what I would do......it’s far from the craziest thing I’ve heard humans do. We do. 10x crazier things on a daily basis compared to building nests in the woods.....by 10 fold.

Modern Humans, Twist? Because that's the question on the table here. Or, you could be more ambiguous, Like Meldrum and Disotell, and just say primates built the nests And therefore what was found in the samples, generally stated, was degraded primate DNA.

I din't know pheremone chips were ruled out. I wonder how they concluded that. I would be more inclined to be moved by the chimpanzee DNA if they found a 17" footprint at, or very close, to the site of the DNA sample. That would provide a corroborating piece of the puzzle. As it is now, the DNA matches a known species and could be a pet chimp. Unless they have a footprint from the site that demonstrates it had a human-looking footprint, rather than that of a chimp, I'll sit on the sidelines and see what else develops in Kentucky. Interesting for sure.

So what happened to the infrared drone photos? what happened to the DNA evidence? what about the footage of the shadow thing. Am I to understand that these prolific researchers are not following through on their evidence? If I was in the luxurious position of spending weeks on end in the forest, and I found and captured the being on infrared, I would be back in that same area until I had more proof. Much like pharmaceuticals, the $ is in the search, not the find. Its a well done show, and I will watch, but its as fake as any other reality tv show out there. Nothing about this show is real, sadly. If it was, their evidence would be out there. Its not. They are con artists.

I don't either. But if that's where the evidence eventually leads, I'm not going to refuse to accept it. I'm perfectly comfortable looking at whatever the data says. Not without questioning it .. data must be interpreted by fallible humans with ulterior motives. We, as a culture, seem to put more value on validating our own views than we do on finding the truth, whatever it is. Given how much we do not know, it is as unscientific to reject her views out of hand as it is to accept them out of hand. There simply is not enough clear evidence for either. And yet we seem to do it anyway and we belittle others who do the same thing, just supporting a different view, as somehow being anti-science. Bigfoot is a mirror. We're guilty of the things we accuse others of and we can't set our egos aside long enough to see it. There are no special points for "i told you so" when Ketchum is proven right or when she is proven wrong. All the "gotcha" in the world is just our own egos on display.