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This video is mostly about Matt Moneymaker and the BFRO, and how they are vetting reports. I also posted it on the thread for this specific report. Very long story short, the tracks were made by a moose. He goes back and forth with Moneymaker a little bit before visiting the site and meeting the witnesses. If you want to see an interesting take on BFRO practices from another BF organization, then take the time to watch the video. As one who reads almost all new reports, I have seen a trend in the last year. Recent reports are coming in and being published with little or no investigation at all. Most of these are done by MM himself. This alone does not make them inaccurate, but it's BFRO's claim that they vet all reports. That is simply not true. I know many BFRO investigators, and if they published a report, then they did at least some investigation. I treat BFRO reports as important information to glean through, thus my commitment to the SSR entries. I do not accept every report as fact, except for the one I submitted, and a few from witnesses that I know personally. That said, even my own report is anecdotal, and I have no expectations that I will be believed. I'm ok with that, and will always try to be careful about what I claim. Don't throw out all the reports just because a few are shown to be inaccurate.

Welcome to the Bigfootforum Chelsisqueen, openminded, and SusieQ. Hope that you enjoy the forum and that you find what you are looking for. Shadowborn

Hello Everyone! My name is Chelsea. I’m a believer in Bigfoot. I’ve been fascinated since I was a child. I grew up on over 100 acres in TN. I lived in an old house with a wood burning stove surrounded by woods, creeks, and crops. I never seen a Bigfoot but I do believe. I’ve had some experiences that could have been Bigfoot, I believe.

Saw this last night, the guy does a good job with this, and one thing it exemplifies is the major flaw with the BFRO is Matt Moneymaker. He is no closer to solving anything than anyone else, and this back and forth between this guy and MM shows this. MM makes declarations as fact and has never even been to the place. It more than calls much if not all of their information into question. At one point in the back and forth, MM claims he's "improving the data", massaging it maybe, to support the MM narrative? That's long been my suspicion, the BFRO is too big for it's own good when all things come through one such flawed individual.

A friend was visiting earlier this month and showed me his drone, a Mavic 2. It has collision avoidance, can fly home and lands itself. There is a camera view screen on the controller. It was impressive the way it zipped around in the air, very quick and agile.

There is so much to address in this post... Let's focus on this: you are saying that Neanderthal women only ovulated once a year, because other species in the same geographic area only went into heat once a year? All of these reasons that you posted would help ensure that more homo sapien children survived and grew into adulthood.

If he can make a good living from his intellect and business acumen rather than through his brawn, more power to him!

And any database that is kept current is a huge manpower drain. If I'm lucky, I can add a complete and accurate report to my northeast US database in a half-hour or so. Throw in the problems Norse & VAFooter noted with inaccurate reports, and it can take 3 hours to 3 days, sleuthing through old maps, old internet entries, etc. to try to find a more accurate location, more accurate date, etc. While it may be far from perfect, the BFRO database is a good free database. Premium members can access the SSR here. Hiflier has made John Green's (RIP) old database available as well.

Nothing is hidden. It's just how the BFRO chooses to run their operations. It's a loosely governed private citizen thing with no authority, knowledge or anything relevant to anything. It started as any other crackpot idea but Matt moneymaker got lucky when a millionaire with nothing else to do with his time got involved. Otherwise, it would likely not even be in public view and Matt would not be able to afford dying his hair blonde pretending he is an LA celebrity.

He is on the edge of some of the greatest wild places still left on Earth. I had a step grandpa that lived with my grandma in Gold Bar, Wa. He was from Bella Coola, BC. And I’ve hunted SE Alaska. And been on the Cassiar Hwy. I don’t think most people comprehend it’s vastness.

You are right Norseman, you don't understand any of my posts and I just don't know why. The molecular clock dated dog separation from wolves. This is better than any fossil evidence since we do not know if fossil dog genes live today. There is no technical edge sapiens had over Neanderthal. Everything you can do in Aurignacian you and do in Mousterian. The difference is reproductive biology in my opinion. To put a fine point on it, this means sapiens women came into heat more times a year (12) than Neanderthal women who would have come into heat once a year following the pattern of northern mammals. I have cited examples of northern vs. southern species in that argument. Dogs come into heat twice a year, wolves once. That 50% edge led to dog populations exploding as compared to wolves. There is no "edge" sapiens had as depicted on TV. There is no "spark of humanity" that sapiens had that Neanderthals did not have. Dogs were domesticated in Asia 15,000 years ago and have no relationship with Neanderthal fitness or lack thereof because of the temporal gap between them. I

Modern humans appeared during the Gottwig Interstadial, a brief warm period 45,000 years ago. So when things returned to cold, why didn't they die out? Simple, sapiens adapts primarily with technology, not genes. It is not that sapiens had better technology, it is that sapiens used technology to adapt. So sapiens used the needle and had better fitting skin garments allowing them to survive even though they were less well adapted to that environment. Neanderthal culture was very, very conservative and traditional. A Neanderthal spent his life trying to imitate the idle hand ax or point whereas sapiens spent their lives trying to invent new tools to make their lives easier. In the same way, during Upper Paleolithic times, humans, both sapiens and Neanderthals, were preserving food better and making survival a bit easier. With these relaxed conditions, this new environment, sapiens' reproductive ability actually meant that sometimes humans could breed and raise children any time of the year. But if you are only fertile once a year, this means nothing. So sapiens took advantage of better technology while Neanderthals could not. As for your statement about difficulties in child birth, Neanderthal women had a much wider pelvis than sapiens women so there would have been less difficulty. The actual distance between the pubic bones was greater. Additionally, Neanderthals carried a gene making conception easier and this gene was passed on to European women and exists today. So, if I am correct, not only were sapiens women able to conceive more often but when they absorbed this conception gene from Neanderthals, they became better more efficient at it.