Madison5716 Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 Yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bipedalist Posted January 19, 2023 BFF Patron Share Posted January 19, 2023 On 1/15/2023 at 2:11 AM, gigantor said: Calm down people, he paid his Premium Membership last month. He's probably living it up in an island somewhere... Now he tells us! At least we know @gigantor respects our confidentiality right until the subpoena is under his nose, lol! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiflier Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Right! See ya in court, sonny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SWWASAS Posted January 21, 2023 BFF Patron Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 Hi folks sorry for your concern. As the big male BF told me once in a dream, rumors of my extinction are very much exaggerated. Or maybe that was Mark Twain. I lost access (password) to the yahoo account that I use for the forum and due to that and a fussy password here have been unable to sign in. Just now figuring out how to get back in although logging in here was confusing and it took me several trys to get in. I did have a bad case of COVID in 2020 that took me out of field work. Have not fully recovered yet. In the mean time I have had a lot of time to think about field work in general. My encounter experience progressed from playful interaction at first and got more and more ounfriendly as time went on. I was dealing with a family group in a fairly small area who were apparently not nomadic in that they were there year round. Then clear cut logging started at the North end of their area and worked south wiping out most lanes of travel cover for them. I was present in the daytime three or more times a week. I had to have been a major problem for their food gathering and hunting. As you may remeber I cornered one against a ridgeline and advanced on it as fast as I could move through difficult down wood, trying to get it to break cover. That got me growled at and a tree broken off behind me. The final contact resulted in an infrasound attack from a very close distance. I cannot understand how I did not see the administrator of that attack because it was less than 10 feet away as evidenced by a large depression in the veggetation. It was painful, frightening, and kept me out of the woods for a couple of months. As I recovered from Covid I had a lot of time to think. The combination of my frequent presence and the clear cutting process had to put a lot of stress on that family group. I did not see or understand that I was a big part of their problem. They may have even thought I was part of the clear cut crew. I stopped seeing any footprints after a few months and stopped having any contact. Anyway I feel a lot of guilt for my part in disrupting their life and being part of the forces that made them move. The final concern I have about continuing with field work in some form is that along with the infrasound event, I had several instances where I heard something moving close by and should have seen it because of lack of cover, but did not see a thing. In one case something ran past behind me and hit my pack. I was in the middle of a logging road with no cover with ten yards or so. I cannot help but shake the feeling that they are capable of masking or going invisible somehow. Are we dealing with some predator type creature? tha Anyway that is were I am with regard to field work. I do not plan on staying out of the woods but my primary purpose for being there will be for some other reason. Maybe that is the best route to take anyway? 7 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmknight Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Good to see you back, buddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIB Posted January 21, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 21, 2023 Good to hear from you! I am indeed glad rumors of your demise are exaggerated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPSH Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 @SWWASAS so sorry to hear that your bout with covid has been so nasty, ugh! Very glad that you have been able to get back in to the forums. I really appreciate the philosophy you have settled upon and I am impressed by the thoughtful consideration you have been giving to your previous interactions. Don't be hard on yourself, life doesn't come with an instruction manual! Being in the woods is magical (most of the time)...and there is a long list of great reasons to enjoy being out there. Wishing you continuing better health and glad to have you back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiiawiwb Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 It's good to see you back SWWASAS. You've experienced a lot in the field and many of us wish we could have shared those moments, myself included. I hope you feel better. Just get back out there on your schedule and enjoy the outdoors. The sasquatching stuff will happen when it does. In the meantime, I'll send along my sasquatching honeyhole address...maybe you can send them there until you feel better and ready to interact again!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiflier Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, SWWASAS said: Hi folks sorry for your concern. No reason at all to be sorry, my friend. That's just the way we are around here I, too, wish you a good recovery and thank you for reiterating your field experiences. I also agree that our presence may have more of an impact than we researchers are aware of or willing to admit. A reclusive creature is also one who is keenly aware of differences in their environment so it stands to reason, which is what I have said on numerous occasions, that we ARE a disturbance to those that call the wild their home. Do it often enough in a given area and any earlier experiences will disappear. And it makes perfect logical sense, or should. It's one of the main reasons I have given up on bushwhacking and try to stay out of remote areas. Plenty of encounters and reports come in from places that we Humans are normally in, on roads we are normally driving, or at campsites we normally visit. Bottom line here is that I am firmly convinced that these creatures are more in the way of being social beings than we give them credit for. I have said on numerous occasions that if we are scarce then the Sasquatch will miss us and seek US out. There was a sighting here in Maine just last December where one was sighted out in the open not 100yds from a busy highway while crossing a marshy area from one stand of bordering woods to another. That stuff will happen if we back off and get out of their habitat for a while. Edited January 21, 2023 by hiflier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbone Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 8 hours ago, SWWASAS said: Hi folks sorry for your concern. (imagine the whole thing is quoted ) #1 - welcome back! That was a lot of information packaged into a single post. On the unfriendly interactions. On the Omaha Rez we preach over and over that it's about respect. When you go into their house, you need to respect the residents. That is about the reaction I'd expect to cornering one or being where they need you not to be. If it were me, I would go back and apologize. I know that will sound silly to some, but in my world it's the right thing to do. And I think it matters... On the hitting your backpack or being touched while obviously nobody is around you is unusual, and can challenge your world view. There are lots of instances like this on the Omaha Rez, and once I felt a touch on the back with nobody near me. One of my friends said something came out of a tree, hit the ground running and brushed him as it went by. He only heard it and felt it, but never saw it. He called it Counting Coup... On the "invisible" thing and "preditor" mode. I've heard this too many times to write it off. Just don't ask me to explain how it could possibly be true. I had an experience in Iowa last year that left me with the same feeling you have about it.... Can't shake it. Again... Welcome Back... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRockBigfoot Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Welcome back! I have been following this thread hoping that all was well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwakwe Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 (edited) Good to have you back in the neighborhood SWWASAS! Glad to hear all is well. I agree with Redbone, if you really feel you've put the Sas clan out in some way, apologize next time you are up there. There is a helluva lot more sentience out there than our ignorant ***** err, donkeys allow for. Edited January 22, 2023 by Kiwakwe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthWind Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Thank goodness, I'm glad to "see" you back, @SWWASAS! You were missed! Madison and I talked about you more than once on our outings, wondering if you were ok. Welcome home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bipedalist Posted January 22, 2023 BFF Patron Share Posted January 22, 2023 (edited) @SWWASASWow, glad you survived Covid and BF both (and BF Lunch Club, lol). Hope you gain more strength but fully understand your experiences. I have had the "counting coup" one and have mulled over the cloaking after several experiences, I have to say that I think there is something other wordly involved there for sure. I totally understand your recall and feelings but remember, BF finds you: you don't find them. Their purpose was the one that was selfish in a way: no guilt should be felt but I do believe in the power of respect and offerings. I had an experience where I dropped by error a running audiorecorder. For all intents it was lost. Then several weeks later after repeated ground searches retracing my path it showed up next to the base of a significant tree in my research that was on that route I took. It had what looked like an incisor mark on it as if someone was biting/testing a gold coin with a slight crack to the melamine case. It recorded wind noise, leaves blowing, footstep crunches, some electronic or EVP chatter, some what sounded like flying insect noises and the whole of the recording made the hair rise on the back of my neck making me think I was watched on that trip and shortly after it was dropped and as I move up, over and through a gap in the mtn it was retrieved but not placed where I could find it until weeks later. I couldn't shake that whatever was around had cloaked as I moved through that area. Nice of them to return my recorder to a locale I could find it. One of the stranger experiences I have had I must say. Good to have you safe and sound back in the fold Edited January 22, 2023 by bipedalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockape Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 (edited) We have a SWWASAS sighting! Welcome back bud! Edited January 22, 2023 by Rockape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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