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After having listened to hundreds of accounts on Sasquatch Chronicles and Sasquatch Odyssey podcasts, dozens of which include some very compelling reports that involve instances of supernatural or alien activity and behavior, I find it hard to believe that we are dealing with a purely natural undiscovered species of mammal. I'll readily admit that I am a completely novice and amateur Sasquatch enthusiast and only became interested in the subject because of recent sightings in my area and my own couple of encounters. But listening to the likes of Cliff Barrackman, Jeff Meldrum, and other noted researchers, they all seem to agree that we are still at the 5-yard goal line 50 years after the groundbreaking Patterson-Gimlin film. We don't know much more than what we did back then. However, the magic of the internet has made the collection and recording of sightings and encounters much more easy and common. And along with the vast increase of data on reports, there is also a large increase in the number of reports that include "woo-woo" aspects. Now, I know that Cliff Barrackman flat out rejects any notion that there is ANY "woo-woo" aspect to Bigfoot and that those instances are the result of human error in observation or some other rational explanation. I find that incredibly hypocritical that someone who absolutely believes in Bigfoot, routinely rejects eye-witness accounts that involve supernatural behavior while he himself asks the doubting public to believe his eye-witness accounts. I think what made me think that there is something to the supernatural aspect is an account on one of the podcasts in which the witness was driving along at night and talking to his girlfriend on the cellphone when a sasquatch ran into the road with a racoon in it's mouth. He didn't have time to react and hit the sasquatch at 60 mph. He felt the impact and his girlfriend heard the impact over the phone. The man said he saw a weird flash of light at the time of impact. He pulled over to inspect his vehicle and see what he had hit. No damage to his vehicle. No dead or injured sasquatch. But one side of his car was covered in blood. It was like the creature was teleported at the instant time of impact. Then the host said that he had heard multiple other reports of the same thing happening to other people. Either when shooting at one, or almost hitting one with a vehicle. Weird flash of light and the creature disappears. And that's just one strange phenomenon associated with multiple reports. Then there are the dozens of UFO sightings associated with sasquatch sightings, orbs, mind speak, infrasound, etc, etc. All of those very credible accounts have me believing that we are never going to capture a sasquatch. We might kill one, but the body will never be collected. I used to want to interact with one, as it was a mammal that was native to the woods, and it was fascinating. Now, I don't know what the hell they are, but they surely aren't merely an undiscovered primate or human-hybrid, or else we would have a body by now. So, per the title of the thread, how have the "woo-woo" accounts and sightings affected your opinion of what sasquatch is? Or have you decided to discount them like Barrackman and Meldrum?

I’m reluctant to say what Bigfoot are because I don’t know. So, at the same time, I am reluctant to say what they are not. The many sighting reports indicating that they can do things that we don’t understand beg to be explained because there’s no way that all such reports are false. Good topic, imo.

Firstly, I don't believe that homo sapien is a "purely natural" creature. Religiously, we are widely accepted as spiritual as well, and that includes such gifts as prophesy, clairvoyance, mystical visions, etc. These gifts are not universal among our species, but those who exhibit such gifts commonly state that we all possess them and could use them if we understood and practiced them. Personally, I don't believe that sasquatches or other more primitive species of homo regularly practice such gifts, either. Only a fraction of homo sapiens do, and our species as a whole, despite our supposed knowledge, often even denies such activities. However, I'm quite certain that sasquatches possess and regularly practice the ancient wilderness knowledge, skills, and activities that our species perfected thousands of years ago and have, overwhelmingly, abandoned in favor of technology and fantasy.We have so abandoned the old way that when sasquatches (and other animals) use them, we are so amazed that we consider them supernatural.

Meldrum used Dr. Grover Krantz' reconstruction of a Gigantopithcus skull that Krantz had created using its jaw fragment size as a basis for sizing the head and sagittal crest. Krantz then used his knowledge of Gorilla skulls to proportion the rest of it. That's what's on top of the 8' tall 3D-printed skeleton.

This is not the place for a DNA flame war, hiflier. This is about the question: "Catch and Release?" Please start a topic called: "We have Proof of Bigfoot that You will never See" so that we can gladly ignore it. Honestly, get a room for yourself.

I'm brand new here but might as well jump in 2 feet first! I grew up in Southern Indiana, so right off the bat this interests me. Where I grew up though there is nothing but corn fields, but what woods we had were thick and had plenty of wildlife and water. 2 things that could support a large ape like creature. The question here would be inter-connected ways of travel. They exist, but just few and far between. It could be legit just based on these precursors. As far as the mid-tarsal break is concerned, I can definitely see it on the right foot print. As far as the left, I can understand why you would say that norseman. I don't see much of one there either. Could be the shot, could be the mud, could be another print within or it could be bunk (fake). I don't know. Either way its fun to think about a large primate existing near where I grew up! Now be gentle with me there norseman! My wife is a Viking woman so I know the propensity for orneriness!

The info I got for the book was general and never was it said, nor directed at me privately, "Hey, Hiflier, I think you out to use MY information your book and I want credit." I have stuff in that book that talks about bats and the White Nose Virus that I learned from belonging to a cave explorer's Forum because I had questions about caves. I have info about electronics that I read about. THAT was other people's information too, like company websites. I have a friend whose report is in the book- the ONLY report in the book. Said I could. and has never asked for any credit. A friend of mine did the illustration- for no money, has never asked for a cent. I gave him credit in the book for the illustration. The book is loaded with things that I have learned from being on this Forum, too. And guess what NO ONE but you is screaming about helping me write the book. So, my friend. give up your whining over this. What's in the book is common knowledge. LOTS of folks have Marlin 45-70 Guide Guns. And most have said that if they were going to take down a Sasquatch that that's the gun they would have in the field. So the info isn't proprietary to YOU because that information was elsewhere, as I was writing, and before publishing. You're using this as one of many straws that you grab to make me look bad. I would appreciate it very much if you would stop using the book in your personal agenda. You're just making it up as you go here. You know very well, Norseman, and so does everyone else, that I am not anti-kill. My push for DNA, as I have stated MANY times, is so that one doesn't have to be killed. How come you never bring THAT part up? We have even wished each other luck getting to the gate first on more than one occasion. But Nope. You're not about to say that, are you. Because you're only intent now is publicly trashing me and you will say anything, and OMIT anything, that doesn't fit your path toward wrecking my character in any manner you can think of. And you've gotten nastier about it in just this past year. So lay off once and for all. You've made all this stuff up in your head and it isn't good on any level. Let it go.