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This Channel regularly promotes false stories embellished to make them more frightening and proof of existence of cryptics. Several days ago I watched their video "The Vanishing of Thomas Burd The Alaskan Horror and Bigfoot Encounter" It, like this video provided details, photos and even a realistic video purported to have been found on the victims phone of some creature banging on a trailer and growling. I looked it up and found no missing Thomas Burd. But I did find his photo under a missing person report named THOMAS SEIBOLD. Who contrary to the video did not leave a journal detailing him being followed by some creature or a camera phone video. "Published: December 9, 2012 Weeks ago, winter locked the Brooks Range mountains of Alaska's far northwest in its long, cold embrace, and it's clear that out there somewhere near the Arctic edge of the North American continent lies the body of Thomas Seibold. A search by Alaska State Troopers, complicated by no clear idea of where exactly to look for the German-born adventurer, ended in November. Friends and coworkers of Seibold from the Teaching Drum Outdoor School in Three Lakes, Wisc., took up the hunt afterwards, but they have gone home after a last-ditch effort found no trace. ( Anchorage Daily News). The guy from the YT channel " The outdoor Gear Review" has related that he has found clips from his videos on other channels purporting to say him being attacked or disappearing because of Bigfoot. There's a lot of ******** out there

Salmon River country. Same area as were the Teddy Roosevelt Bauman story originated. Way south. The ITR is the only one of its kind in the world. Inland Temperate Rainforest. The western edge of the northern Rockies acts very similar to the Cascades in terms of trapping moisture on the west slope and creating a rain shadow on the east slope. But the Rockies are more complicated. What we call the Rockies is actually many mountain ranges all grouped together. The Rockies are much wider than the Cascades. Lots of little micro climates of wet and dry. With the forest changing from pine to fir and other species too depending on rainfall. Sandpoint Idaho is wet. And Columbia Falls Montana is wet but places in between like Ronan Montana are drier. If you ever wanna come over and explore North Idaho? Just say the word!👍

Even normal searches can be beyond bizarre. Two members of my old team participated in a search in New York for a missing hunter; that missing hunter was later featured in one of the 4-1-1- books and the first 4-1-1- tv show. That was a very small, well defined initial search area (as these things go), it was an experienced hunter, and there was only a short gap in time between the time/location last seen and the disappearance. Nothing was found in the searches over the next week. There's a small park in the lower Hudson Valley (Sam's Point area of Minnewaska State Park) where a young man went missing 40 years ago and no trace has been found. A search was conducted for a Canadian skier who went missing at the Whiteface Ski resort in NY; it was called off when he alerted everyone that he was alive and well ... in California. I was gifted a FLIR that attached to an old cellphone. It was serviceable for pictures taken up close, but I didn't find a way to test it in the woods. It was clunky and drained the battery quickly. The box canyon story is interesting; I have to wonder how long an accumulation of bones like that described would take to be built up, and how long it would last. This is what I get for skimming the thread - missed that you had already identified the other two missing people identified in the video.

I concur. I think most of the cases are slightly misrepresented. If accurately described, some are just plain weird. Very uncomfortably weird. Interesting. Roughly what part of the state? I got into part of the Bitterroots a decade or so ago. It was a lot wetter than I expected despite being August and had brush / cover every bit as thick as I'm used to in the Oregon coast range. That was very much a surprise to me. I want to go back.

Okay, forgive me for I am about to be a royal party pooper. Jacob Gray's last known position when he disappeared (based on the initial discovery of his bike and gear) was near the Sol Duc Hot Springs Road just off State Route 110 and near Lake Crescent. See http://www.mibsar.com/Cases/Gray/Gray.html. According to newspapers at the time that his remains were discovered (see, e.g., https://www.kitsapdailynews.com/news/update-remains-confirmed-as-hiker-missing-since-2017-in-olympic-national-park/ but you have to disable ad blockers), he was found in a remote area of the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness somewhere "near" Hoh Lake in the Olympic National Park. A very rough straight line distance is 13 miles, but it was probably a longer hike than that from his start point to where he was recovered. It is easy to see a scenario where he started off on what he thought would be an easy hike and became disoriented or injured. That same newspaper article describes that the remains were found by a field crew of Olympic National Park employees and volunteers (later identified in the article as marmot biologists). The article says nothing about finding other bones anywhere near the body, nothing about finding arrows stuck in the ground, and nothing about a phone being recovered. Contrary to what the video claims, Jacob left Port Townsend to bike cross-country from Washington to Vermont, where his brother lived, not "to head into the Olympic Mountains." See https://charleyproject.org/case/jacob-randall-gray. There is no indication that he had a compound bow and arrows with him. See http://www.mibsar.com/Cases/Gray/Gray.html, with the list of items to look out for at the end. See also the link to the next news article, below, which states that the trailer contained food, clothing, emergency blankets, bike repair items and a first-aid kit, sleeping bag, tent, tarp and pocket survival guides, according to the [National Park Service's S&R] report. When remains were found, the marmot biologists found abandoned equipment and clothing, not "a bone hidden in a dense patch of forest." In fact, the law enforcement agency in charge of the recovery reported that what was initially found does not make investigators believe foul play was involved. See the newspaper article above. A forensic anthropologist determined that he probably died of natural causes. See https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/hiker-probably-died-of-natural-causes/. Given the number of blatant misstatements of fact, whether done erroneously or intentionally, I just stopped checking every line of the transcript here. However, the missing Canadian hunter is likely Maxime Jacques, not "Jack" or Jacques Maxim. See https://www.facebook.com/people/Maxime-Jacques-of-Trois-Rivieres-Qc-Canada-Missing/100066868935840/. I will defer to our Canadian brothers and sisters in the search, but I believe he's missing in Quebec. I couldn't find a Diane Bruno (or Jacques Maxim) in Canada's (shockingly large) missing person database, but there is a Diane who went missing in St. Bruno. The point of all this (if I have any) is not to dissuade people from sharing spooky and enjoyable stories. But given the growth of Bigfoot as a profit center, necessary to support real researchers and just pure gravy for story tellers, coupled with AI, is providing way too many of these stories, which risk drowning out valid research... Kudos to Bigfooters in the area for pitching in on the S&R effort; competent searchers are always necessary. I'll be outside shaking my fist at the clouds if anyone is looking for me....

I have not watched the video posted above, but I did read the book about the disappearance of Jacob Gray and wrote a book review back in 2020 in BFF (see link below). I thought it was a good book, but there was nothing related to Sasquatch in this sad case.