Tree Manipulation/ Wood Structures: What Is The Evidence?

[Guest jtheat]

Southern... not an artist by a long shot... I can do a fair rendition.  The problem now lies with my scanner and computer... working on it...

[Guest]

These Cedar trees have been stripped about ten feet up in some cases. It appears that something climbed the tree and stripped the bark. Are you saying that this could have been done year after year causing the tree to continue to grow and gradually moving the stripped sections higher and higher?

Many animals eat the inner bark of many species of trees including porcupines which can climb the trees.

Dead trees and even just sick ones can also lose long strips or patches of bark. Lots of bugs in those trees as well.

[WSA]

No porcupines around this locale though, although is pays to rule out such obvious things. I'm not aware of any known wildlife species that would strip bark that high up....but I'm open to suggestions.

[Guest]

Thought I would share some more interesting possible "tree manipulations" as we call them (either people or bigfoot)

 

These are mostly Texas off the Trinty or Sabine River and one from area near Fouke AR

[WSA]

That's a really nice gallery of photos there. I'm especially intrigued by the one of the trees that are right next to each other, but are broken in opposite directions. That would would seem to rule out wind. I suppose even a straightline wind could whipsaw a tree back and forth, and I guess it could just as easily break on the rebound, but still, the lack of any apparent damage in the vicinity is pretty stark. 

[Guest]

Thx, some of the cedar breaks were identical and each was opposite one another perpendicular to an old oil road in the woods where I just got some very good reports from . One particular area had many suspicious breaks "markers?"  the double "W" break was one "Y" sapling and it seems something just stood there with one part in each hand and broke em down opposite IMO. The tore off cedar top was laying 180 degrees out from the tree as it must have been pulled own on so hard and then it tore off the tree which totally rules out something falling on it naturally or snow wind etc The pic in the dark taken of small tree sapling about 4 feet up and was heard my me and others as it happened.  We were researching near Fouke and one of the guys had been watching a strange thermal hit down at the ground level in woods to our side for quite some time which eventualy it moved and got much larger and upright..myself and other went down the road nex tto that patch of woods to "flank" or flush it out and sure enough it started moving and we could here the leaf litter anf then a solid "snap!" we rushed into the brush and found the fresh break with sap dripping out and what ever it was had slipped off to the back down hill towards the swamp unseen. I have difficulty imagining a green sapling getting snapped off by a deer or something brushing against it. My thought considering possible a smaller "sentinal" BF that was watching us and laying low on its belly behind a tree to hide at first the when we pressured it too its flanking possition it got up and made a break to get away either quadrapedally or bipedally after getting up and just grabbing that branch and breaking it as it exited hastily. Thats my take anyway. BTW all of that series of events I have on audio in one long cut becasue I decide to just hold my recorder firmly the whole time to grasp the full context of what we were doing, what folks were describing what they see in the thermal. The movment, the break etc.

Edited April 11, 2014 by GEARMAN

[JKH]

That's quite a collection of pics. The nighttime break along with the other evidence is pretty compelling. I take it the thermal was not recorded, but I bet the audio is interesting. Is it posted somewhere we could hear it?

[Guest]

Yeah I think the guys thermal was not capable but I could try to get in touch and ask. I have a long file that would be rather huge to load online but let me see what I can do.

[Guest]

  Here are a few that I found interesting

[Guest]

Here is an X I ran across yesterday while out in the river bottoms looking for hogs. It also had an interesting horizontal branch jammed in front of it.

[Guest WesT]

Nice pics GEARMAN. I've known about this X for a couple of years now, got a few good shots of it yesterday.

 

 

 

 

 

I've walked by this many a time. Probably natural,  but curious looking none the less.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WSA]

This BFRO reported, just posted, has a nice video of some alleged tree manipulation adjacent to a sighting location.

 

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=42978

[Guest lightheart]

Wow this is a great report. Thanks for posting.

[WSA]

This WA report posted just recently:

 

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=43757

 

It contains some nice photos of some suspected tree breaks in conjunction with a Class A sighting in the vicinity. The size of that cedar branch that is broken and twisted surely commands respect for WHATEVER did that. 

[JKH]

^That is a very interesting report. Impressive tree breaks.

 

Here are a couple I found on a recent hike. There were a couple more photos that didn't do justice to the scene. It's important to note that this area rarely gets significant snow or freezing. Will get back out there this weekend.