Guest Bucket Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Just curious, are there any reports of Sasquatch being spotted in cities or towns? I wonder if any have ventured into populated areas in search of food.
Guest Yeti1974 Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Does Smithers, British Columbia count? http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=27281
Guest Tsalagi Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 I don't know if this counts, but a BFRO reporter told me about one spotted by a trucker just standing there next to I-40 in Flagstaff, AZ. This is not on their site, but was told to me when I made a report though my reports never made the site either. I also recall someone on here posting recently like this past winter of one walking down main street in some small town. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Guest Dudlow Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Then there are the BF dumpster diving stories and reports which obviously occur around areas urbanized to some degree or other. - Dudlow
Guest BFSleuth Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 There have been a flurry of report within 20 miles of downtown Chicago. A dumpster diving BF was spotted within 3 miles of SeaTac airport this last January. Most of these reports are next to or within "corridors" of travel (streams, ravines, wooded or swampy terrain, etc.). If you start looking at your "urban" environment in many cases your environment has parks, streams, and other areas that a resourceful biped can use for undetected travel if traveling primarily at night. It is interesting that Fred Beck (of Ape Canyon fame) wrote, "Will their habitat change from selected mountains to nearer our populous cities? I think they will. " He didn't explain why, but I find it interesting that there does seem to be progressively more "urbanized" sightings recently. Almost like they were stunned by our technology and depravation of the environment and going deeper into wilderness to hide, only to observe and learn over the decades what they can and can't do vis a vis our technology with a margin of safety.
BobbyO Posted July 25, 2011 SSR Team Posted July 25, 2011 I don't know if this counts, but a BFRO reporter told me about one spotted by a trucker just standing there next to I-40 in Flagstaff, AZ. This is not on their site, but was told to me when I made a report though my reports never made the site either. I also recall someone on here posting recently like this past winter of one walking down main street in some small town. Sorry I can't be of more help. Think that was the one Reported by a Doughnut Shop Employee who spotted it strolling through a Town in Colorado if i remember rightly.. I've read a lot with regards to Towns & Cities, whether they're actual BF's or not i don't know however.. This is one that blows my mind personally, i just can't get my head around one being in this location.. http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=28728 I went past it about 2 weeks back & realised that i was at the location of this Sighting ( on the Road anyway ) & just realised that 5 mins or so previous i had a view of the Chicago Skyline clearly seeing the Hancock Tower, i struggle with this one big time..
Guest Yeti1974 Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 (edited) This is one that blows my mind personally, i just can't get my head around one being in this location.. http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=28728 I went past it about 2 weeks back & realised that i was at the location of this Sighting ( on the Road anyway ) & just realised that 5 mins or so previous i had a view of the Chicago Skyline clearly seeing the Hancock Tower, i struggle with this one big time.. That is a trip. But look at that aerial map. Slabs of homes fit neatly right up against pretty thick "forest." Edited July 25, 2011 by Yeti1974
BobbyO Posted July 25, 2011 SSR Team Posted July 25, 2011 It blows my mind even more when you then see this from the same Month under 15 Miles away.. http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=28525
Guest BFSleuth Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Think that was the one Reported by a Doughnut Shop Employee who spotted it strolling through a Town in Colorado if i remember rightly.. I've read a lot with regards to Towns & Cities, whether they're actual BF's or not i don't know however.. This is one that blows my mind personally, i just can't get my head around one being in this location.. http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=28728 I went past it about 2 weeks back & realised that i was at the location of this Sighting ( on the Road anyway ) & just realised that 5 mins or so previous i had a view of the Chicago Skyline clearly seeing the Hancock Tower, i struggle with this one big time.. That is a trip. But look at that aerial map. Slabs of homes fit neatly right up against pretty thick "forest." This is a view West by Southwest looking at Brookfield Zoo. Note the clusters of BFRO sightings within 20 miles of this report and all the green corridors following rivers, parkways, etc. http://s1116.photobucket.com/albums/k572/Lepton11/?action=view¤t=ViewofBrookfieldZoo.jpg Travel around this area with Google earth and look at panorama pictures posted of all the parks. Lots of habitat and cover. Access through green belts to greater woodland and farmland, rivers and swamp land, etc.
Guest Tsalagi Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 It's amazing if you look at some more urban reports from a satellite map you see just how much wooded area there is around a lot of places and how you can have strips of woods in city that lead all the way to more mountainous areas. Yet people would say their town is very "developed". I wonder if they might also follow train tracks as many tracks lead quickly to undeveloped areas.
Guest Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 I am here to tell you they do live in towns, at least they live in my town. For reals. I live in a small city adjacent to a large city, all surrounded by mountains and canal-laced valley farmland. I think they come in on the canals, moving at night, hide in daytime, and I have no clue what they eat. I am new here so I will just leave it at that. If you can see bigfoot in pictures and you live in a town and near a river, lake, or canal, try taking pictures of your neighborhood and the water source area, and see what you get.
Guest nona Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Then there are the BF dumpster diving stories and reports which obviously occur around areas urbanized to some degree or other. - Dudlow How many dumpster diving stories do you think are out there? Does anyone think they are credible?
Incorrigible1 Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 I don't know if this counts, but a BFRO reporter told me about one spotted by a trucker just standing there next to I-40 in Flagstaff, AZ. This is not on their site, but was told to me when I made a report though my reports never made the site either. I also recall someone on here posting recently like this past winter of one walking down main street in some small town. Sorry I can't be of more help. I've got this great old Eagles tune running thru my mind: Well, I'm a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona and such a fine sight to see It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin' down to take a look at me Come on, baby, don't say maybe I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again so open up, I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
slabdog Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 Interesting topic because it reminds me of a story a family member shared with me a few years back. Not sure if it's BF connected. He lives in a large midwestern City and he works as a hospital that is roughly 2 miles - as the crow flies - from the rural outskirts of town. There are creeks and wooded patches in between but nothing that you would ever give any serious suspicions as being "squatchy". For that matter, the entire region is not know in any way for having BF activity, however the City is on a major river with dense vegetation along its banks. Anyway.. My family member shared with me that one morning (approx. 3 am) he was traveling to work and was nearly there when he noticed a dark figure standing off the roadway. If I remember his story correctly, he said that it was all black, hunched over and swaying slightly. It was not tall but rather shorter than a typical adult. As he passed it, he tried to look back at it to figure out what or who it was. Next he observed it, I believe through the rear view mirror, it was "bounding" (huge jumps) across the street and in front of another car's headlight until it was out of sight. He said that it was crazy because he didn't think a person could jump that high. I think I remember him saying that the car behind him had to take evasive action to avoid hitting it. He was left with the belief that it was a monkey or an ape. He's not a BF minded guy and that didn't even come to his mind nor out of his mouth, it was just something strange that he couldn't explain and wanted to talk about. Lost, sick or disoriented juvenile BF? Figment of his imagination? Who knows..
Guest Dudlow Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 How many dumpster diving stories do you think are out there? Does anyone think they are credible? I think many are credible. I've read at least a couple which include LEOs as witnesses. And of course there is the notorious NA owned gambling casino dumpster diving video/report from (was it?) New Mexico. Too bad the video never surfaced publically on that one as it was reported to be pretty good. BF are often in urbanized areas and their dumpster diving is being reported more often as the years go by. They were in our subdivision backyards and below in the park system when I lived in eastern Toronto. The GTA (Greater Toronto Area) with about 4 million people is hardly where one would expect them, but with their prints in the sand and mud of the creek and woodknocking during the night in the forest band along the river I have no doubt of their presence, at least back in the 1960s. But the key, as mentioned above, is the riparian system. They just follow and hide in the watershed rivers which tend to be forested, even through urban and even some metropolitan areas. - Dudlow
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