Anatomy of a Bigfoot Hoax

Well, I may be one of the last people to have watched this DVD, but I am glad I did.  I spoke with Tom Biscardi a few days ago on the phone and he was real.  We talked about Bigfoot, the weather, Italian food, it was an easy and honest conversation.  He then mailed out to me his 3 DVD's, Anatomy of a Bigfoot Hoax, Bigfoot Lives and Bigfoot Lives 2.

I decided that if I were going to publicly associate with this man, then I am going to begin by watching Anatomy of a Bigfoot Hoax.  Afterall, I was one of the thousands of people who were reeled in by the Georgia Hoax and I wanted to know how could this have gotten so far?  My theory was that the government allows some stories that are obvious hoaxes to gain lots of media attention to show the public that anything about Bigfoot has to be fake.  That all Bigfoot enthusiasts are whack jobs!

AFTER, watching AoaBH, I was thinking to myself, Wow, that is totally believable.  But I had one nagging question...was the film recreated or were all of the events being recorded in actual time?  I spoke to Tom again and asked him that question and he said, "Doll, I never re-create anything!  What you see is what you get".

I highly recommend watching this DVD and then forming an opinion.  Every story has 2 sides.


I then watched Bigfoot Lives and as all of the monster chasing documentaries go, this one was right up there with the best!  The DVD ends with Mike Sells of Texas reporting his encounter with the creature amongst the cedars of the deep Texas forest.
Unfortunately, Bigfoot Lives 2 did not live up to the original.  It had fewer stories and lacked the punch of the first one.  However, the cinematography and production is done with professionalism.

So go out and beg, steal, borrow or purchase your copies today and tell me what you think!

Steven Streufert of Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek, California wrote on his blog about Anatomy of a Bigfoot Hoax.  Click here to access this thread.

Creature Captured on Amateur Filmaker's Camera

This video clip comes from a lad on Youtube who calls himself Joshfilmaker.  It depicts a large, dark creature either swaying back and forth or picking up things off of the ground.  What do you think?

The Challenge

Last week I mentioned how disgusted I was with Matt Moneymaker's attitude and portrayal of a leader in the Bigfoot Research field.  I was trying to be funny when I said that "Tom Biscardi looks like an angel lately compared to Matt".  Somehow, that back-handed "compliment" got back to Tom Biscardi and made him chuckle.

Next thing I know, we are chatting on the phone and he is mentioning me on his radio show.  I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing, but time will tell.

Later in the show he issued a challenge to Animal Planet and Matt Moneymaker and the BFRO to go out to a known hotbed of Bigfoot activity and see whose "team" comes back with the best results.

In my opinion, I think that would be a HIGHLY entertaining show.  A gem of Squatchertainment!

Here is the link to Tom's show containing his rantings, ravings and the ultimate throw down challenge to Matt and the BFRO.

Things That Go Bump In The Night

First I would like to thank all of my friends, family and support network that allow me to pursue my hobby/career of Squatchertainment.  You know who you are and your anonymity is respected.

For the sake of anonymity and integrity of the story, I am going to assign an initial to the characters of the story.  In no way is the initial pertinent to their identity.

Earlier this week I (E) was contacted by a good friend who I respect as a Bigfoot Researcher.  He is dedicated, thorough,  persistent and takes squatching seriously.  He also belongs to a paranormal research group and that is fine, but, you have to keep the two activities separated; as we learned this weekend. He is D.

The tale begins with the witness, A who told his friend, B, about Bigfoot activity on his property.  He was missing one pet, a dog, and had another pet of undisclosed origin, (hey even pets get anonymity!) on a tether outside of his home.  Let me interrupt myself right here and tell you that after a couple hours of driving and arriving at the intended destination, I am seeing a VERY familiar pattern with the habitat and environment of these recent Bigfoot sightings in my region.  Not naming counties, yes even counties deserve anonymity,  the 4 counties I have researched in the past year all have, heavy woods, coal and or strip mines, a vast open area leading to a river, and populations of well under 1000.  Okay, back to the story.

So A, tells B that his remaining pet was throwing a hissy fit and acting a fool one evening about an hour after sunset.  He got up from his bed, grabbed his deer spotting light and shined it out into the yard.  Behind a clump of 8-10 foot tall bushes he spotted what he described as two very large white hair-covered legs.  His attention was then drawn about 20 yards to the right to his garage where he describes a large black haired Bigfoot stood, his head about 3 feet taller than the top of the gate.  As soon as the light hit the dark one, it took off running up the hillside "faster than anything  he had ever seen in his life".  He then heard the white one take off running in the other direction.  He was convinced in his mind, that he had just seen a couple of Bigfoots.  So after A, tells B, B says, hey, I know a guy who does paranormal investigations, I'm going to tell him  your story!

B contacts C, an amateur paranormal investigator who owns an impressive amount of IR cameras, ala Ghost Hunters style.  C is very excited about the story, but has never researched or investigated a Bigfoot sighting in his life.  He then relays the information to D.

C, D and some other uninitialized characters go out to the property to set up game cameras and bait stations.  They observe that the woods come alive after sunset and witness several grunts, howls, whistles and screams.  The search is afoot!

I received the email from D on Monday when I return to work although he had sent it to me Thursday evening, serves me right for playing hooky on Friday or I would have gone with them last weekend!

He followed up the email with a very impressively, thorough report of the area, findings, witness statement etc.
He invites me to come out to investigate with them. Of course I am stoked!  I love this stuff!

On the evening that I wrecked one of our cars, I began getting excited and frantic texts from D.  A's neighbor spotted a Bigfoot in his yard and called the police", "There is a manhunt going on", "High powered rifles...shoot to kill"  SHIT!  Why is this happening 2 days before I get there????

In my mind I am thinking, if there were Bigfoots in the area, they surely won't be sticking around for the gun show!  Damn!  WEll, I'll still go anyway because, I love this shit!  so anywho,  I meet D at the rendezvous spot and I make my approach to the LOCATION!  Ahh this is nice!  Peaceful, D tells me that only C and his wife will be joining us and we should be able to sit out and listen all night.  Awesome!

I am introduced to A and listen to him and D discuss what was going on all week.  I asked, so which one of your neighbors called the police to report a Bigfoot in their yard?  He says, "Huh?  I don't know about that".  Ugh, the unraveling of the story begins. So I say, "You know, State Police, high speed chase, high-powered weapons, shoot to kill???"  And he says, "Oh I don't know about all that!  I just heard some commotion on my police scanner, and the officer said "it's 30 yards in front of me, now it's 55 yards in front of me, it jumped over the bridge".  We don't know what "It" is.  There have been several mountain lion sightings recently.

D and I exchange a glance like, "Oh boy".  Like the game of Telephone, somewhere there was a breakdown in communication.

No worries! We still have the witness, game cams and an awesome night of squatching ahead of us!

C and his wife arrive.  C, D and E (me) head out for a good 3 mile hike.  The wife stayed back at the house with A and a radio.  Command Central.  I have no idea why we had to let C be in charge as he had never investigated a Bigfoot sighting, but, out of respect, we had to since he was the friend of B who gave him the lead.  Ahhhh.  Our fearful leader takes us right into the briar patch.  Oouch.  No worries!  I've been through worse!  We then ascend a hillside and he abruptly stops and says, "Look"  what? I see briars, trees, rocks.  "Look at those two rocks.  They seem out of place"  Ummm, excuse me, we are on the hillside in an area fraught with coal mines, strip mines...now if the rock showed up in the middle of your peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then I'd say, yeah, that doesn't seem natural.  Well he asked me to snap a pic of the rocks.  Here ya go.

Suspicious Rock!

Suspicious Rock's Evil Cohort!

Gorgeous view

Stix

Cave of branches

We travel on and we do find some tree bends and stick structures.  They take me to the area where they found a footprint the previous weekend but it had been obliterated by the rain.  But we did find another one!  Toes and all!  yay!

We do the necessary measurements, take the pics etc and move on.  The sun is beginning to set and we decide to head back, grab a bite to eat and relax before the evening activities.

The witness takes myself and D on a little tour of the neighborhood so we have the lay of the land.  Unbeknownst to myself or D, he pulls into a driveway of a person who had an ongoing Bigfoot invasion in the 70's.  These people have been interviewed and poked and prodded for over 30 years and were not surprised by his request to speak with us.  They were gracious and believable people.  Of course I didn't have my recorder, A had ambushed us! The gentleman witness told us that on one occasion he had the Bigfoot in his cross hairs.  The creature's glowing blood-red eye was the target, and he wanted to shoot.  He wanted to kill that thing once and for all.  And the Bigfoot stared him down as if to say, go ahead, do it.  But the man could not pull the trigger.  He believes to this day that the creature had willed him NOT to shoot.  Just as people who have a camera in their hand cannot take the picture of the Bigfoot.

I then asked the man my signature question, the question that haunts me, "Do you think the Bigfoot was more Human or Animal?"  He looked at me, without blinking and said, "Animal".  I want to tell you that these witnesses live in an impressive house and come off as well to do upper middle class people.  Funny yet serious.  Meeting them was the highlight of the trip!

We arrived back at the house and C begins setting up his equipment.  Remember, he is a paranormal investigator.  He took 150 feet of electrical cable and installed 4 IR cameras around the perimeter of the yard, every square inch was viewable on his fancy laptop computer.  No way in hell is a Bigfoot showing up within a mile of this joint.  (Rolling my eyes).  I go over to the house and sit with A and his friend and more and more people are arriving.  What a circus!  It is now about 10 pm and with a 3/4 moon we have some pretty good light...not only that but each of the 8 "paranormal investigators" were talking and laughing and shining their flashlights into the woods, the barn, into each other.  Talk about FRUSTRATION!  Never again.

D and I had on our parabolic mics TRYING to listen, anyway.  It's very easy to tell when people are afraid to be in the woods.  This gang was terrified!  LOL

D, me and another decided to take a quiet night hike and it was peaceful to get away from the circus.  We returned and at about midnight I decided to crawl into my sleeping bag in the back of my Squatchmobile and crash until the hoopla died down.

Finally around 3:30 am the others decided to call it a night and left.  The woods were weirdly silent.  No owls, no crickets, no spring peepers, not even any mosquitoes!  I fell back into a deep slumber.

I awoke to a warm sunshine, put on my boots and stumbled my scary looking ass out of the car.  The witness called me over and provided hot coffee and a rest room break.

C and his wife were getting ready to leave while A, D and myself were chatting.  They left and the 3 of us heard to weirdest call coming from the woods.  I said it sounded like a dog/frog mix.  It then traveled a distance around us and it was closer, and still kept calling out...it was like a hoarse beagle/frog/bird sound.  D grabbed his parabolic and we went towards the barn...we then heard another call coming from a half mile away the OTHER direction.  We aren't sure what it was, but 2 of them were communicating.

D and I then headed towards the coal mines and hiked a bit.  Found a great foot print with mid-tarsal break!  Nothing else though, no mountain lion tracks, etc.

We returned and said our goodbyes then went our separate ways.  The summer is early and I am sure once things die down, we will return to that area.  I have no reason to not believe that there is something in them thar woods!

Until the next adventure my friends!

PS.  Well it appears that I have offended the said "Paranormal Investigator" who obviously does not understand that the phrase "amateur" implies that he is not a "professional" paranormal investigator.  Unless you are paid  for your service, you are an amateur.  If you golf on Sundays, that does not make you a professional, however, if you get Titleist to pay for your equipment, and entry fees into tournaments, then you are a professional.

I will not be invited back by them, darn. And I thought this investigation was going to be the one that transformed me from amateur reporter to PROFESSIONAL BIGFOOT FIELD REPORTER! 

Have a great day!

The New and Snazzy Cliff Barackman

With his new found fame, Cliff Barackman has created a new website simply, www.cliffbarackman.com

Cliff has always been very dedicated and sincere in his search for Bigfoot and has always shared his investigative findings with us, his adoring public.

On his new website, Cliff will provide background information and answer questions regarding his new show on Animal Planet titled, Finding Bigfoot.
We got a sneak preview of the show this past week and the original show is set to air June 5th, check your tv listings for the time.




Keep up the good work Cliff!  And most of all, stay true to yourself!

Matt Moneymaker Confronts Critics

Posted by Loren Coleman on Cryptomundo-
Matt Moneymaker has addressed issues and content raised in recent postings here tied to his new program, “Finding Bigfoot.”
Here they are, unedited.
First, Moneymaker responses to the story that the Georgia police dashcam video is due to a teen hoaxer in a gorilla suit (“Georgia Dash Cam Footage a Hoax?“):

The comments by Jarrard were not true, as we discovered while we were there. He wouldn’t take questions from us when we tried to nail down his story.
No one from the sheriff’s department went out to speak with any of the neighbors after the incident … We spoke with the neighbors though when we were shooting the episode. There was never any college students living in the area, and there was no photo of college kids with a gorilla costume. Jarrard story sounded unlikely from the beginning, and apparently it didn’t happen.
None of the other sheriffs had heard about this story that Jarrard told to a reporter. It seems he came up with the story to quel any fear that local people might have about a monster in the woods, and to prevent hunters from going to look for one.

and

There was no other show that aired the dashcam footage. Finding Bigfoot was the first program to air the footage. Lotsa false nonsense coming up on this site today, but anonymous people claiming things they kinda sorta recall but can’t quite put their finger on it.

Next, Moneymaker replies to the “wood knock” and “call blasting” claims of who did it first:

That’s pretty weak … a book published in 1993 about a famous indian story teller. It doesn’t count. I had already been talking about that behavior for a year or more on the Internet (and debating with all the people who were saying I was crazy to suggest that) while that book was being assembled. I had been saying that bigfoots use knocks to locate eachother prior to 92, but all you have is the claim by a famous “story teller” in a 1993 book … that he knew they did that long ago. It doesn’t count.
Bill Dranginis is notorious for not telling the truth, and he was kicked out of the BFRO almost 15 years ago for exactly that reason. If he says he recalls an article describing someone else doing call-blasting before I did it … then he needs to produce that article. I kinda doubt it exists. Dranginis would not hesitate to make up something like that. Also, there were no recordings of sasquatches available in the 1980’s that could be used for that purpose. I got the first fairly clean recording that could that be used for sound blasting, and I got it in 1993.
Let’s see Titmus’ writings saying he did wood knocks back and forth with a sasquatch in BC … not just someone’s “recollection” of him talking about that.

Update on the Georgia Dashcam Video

As I stated a few months ago, the dashcam video was proved to be a teenager's prank!

Bigfoot ‘sighting' lures TV network

By Sharon Hall

Published:

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:46 AM EST

Although it's not writ in stone, Animal Planet is making plans to visit Lumpkin and Union counties. They are stalking the legend of Bigfoot.

The Discovery Channel, which produces Animal Planet, called local resident Mary Scott, requesting an interview with her. Scott, as well as a Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office deputy with whom she was riding during a Citizens Law Enforcement Academy ride-along, reportedly saw a Bigfoot about a year-and-a-half ago and captured it on the dashboard cam.

Scott said they were out in the Frogtown area when the sighting occurred.

“We were going about 55 mph on a curvy road. It was really late-after midnight, I think. We hadn't passed any other cars, and this thing came out of nowhere,” Scott says. “The officer hit the brakes and we both jumped out. We looked on both sides of the road but didn't see anything, and we looked at each other kind-of like, ‘You saw that, didn't you? I saw that.'”

Realizing the event had been recorded by the patrol car's dash cam, Scott and the officer returned to the Sheriff's Office where they viewed the happening on a larger screen.

“We were both just shocked,” Scott says. “It was really tall, and it really looked like the pictures you've seen of Bigfoot.”

The film found it's way onto the Internet, and that's how the Discovery Channel tracked Scott down, she says.

“I told them it all happened in seconds. It just came and went,” she says.

The TV representative told Scott they are planning to visit the area in February and plan to camp out in the area where she and the deputy made the sighting.

They may change their minds, however, when they learn that Sheriff Stacy Jarrard claims to have proven the sighting to be a hoax. Jarrard said he went out the next day to question homeowners in the area. At the first house he stopped at, he says, there were two young men, students at North Georgia College & State University, who were “acting really nervous. You could see their hearts were beating really fast,” he says.

The two did not admit to the prank right away, but later in the week they copped to one of them donning a gorilla suit and running across the road in front of vehicles on the night in question. Jarrard says he even has a photograph of the two boys with the gorilla suit.
If Animal Planet does decide to not to visit Lumpkin, they will probably still most likely visit the North Georgia area.

“They sent us a letter requesting to film at Track Rock in Union County,” said John Campbell with the National Forest Ranger Station in Blairesville. “The area is an archeological site, and is purported to have the footprint on Bigfoot.”

Bigfoot in Spokane

KYLY.com~A Spokane woman out for a day hike along the Spokane river claims to have proof of the mysterious and elusive Bigfoot.
Samantha, who did not give her last name, and her friends were hiking at Downriver Park over the weekend when they captured Bigfoot by using their iPhone camera.Samantha posted a YouTube video of the creature a few days later.

In her post, Samantha said she didn't notice Bigfoot until she looked at her video when she got home.So, far more than 1,500 people have viewed the video online."Someone asked me in the comments section if I believed in Bigfoot before the video," wrote Samantha in an e-mail to KXLY."I have never given it much thought, but now I'm not so sure. Seem real enough to me," she said.

Towards the end of the video they show the object in slow-motion and  enhanced.  To me it looks like it is a big 'ol hoax,  The leg and rear area seem baggy like a costume.  Oh well...back to the drawing board!

A New Report of an Old Encounter

As told by Sean J.~
Saturday night I was at a longtime friends house as he was telling some other guests about a scary incident that happened to him when he was in high school.
I knew the story as I had heard it several times before and had always gotten a good laugh out of it...but this time he added a few details that he had never mentioned before.
It was sometime in the early '80's and he was with his girlfriend and another couple at a "makeout spot", the Old Stone Bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. To give each the other couple privacy, he and his date decided to go for a walk down a closed road. The road went down a hill and into a valley. It was a moonlit night and visibility was not bad. As he and his date got about 1/2 mile from the car, they both saw "a large man suddenly sit up inside the treeline on the right", ahead of them. They both froze. "And the guy was big. His head was probably 4ft off the ground as he was sitting there. And then he got up, with a real creepy weird movement. He was tall." (*The following parts are what he never told me before*)"He had like real long arms, like down to his knees", as he told this part of the story he was motioning with his hands on his arms, to show the length. "And he started to walk towards us and stepped onto the road. And it stunk....really bad like something died. I grabbed my girls arm and said "Run!"...but apparently I didnt grab her arm. I got to the car and started pounding on the windows and screaming for them to let me in. I yelled that if they didnt open the doors I was gonna break the fucking window! Theres a guy out here in the woods!...and then I realized the girl wasnt there! Shit! I ran back down the road and she was STILL STANDING IN THE SAME PLACE! Frozen with fear!I dont know where the guy was and didnt even think to look. I just grabbed the girl and basically dragged her back up the road to the car and they opened the doors and I told them to get the hell outta here."
This guy knows nothing about bigfoot, doesnt care about bigfoot and had never mentioned the arm length or the smell before when he was telling the story, and would have no reason to lie. The only people there last night was myself and another couple.
I almost fell over when told these additional details.
By the way, he lives in Bedford.

Caught On Cam: Bigfoot In Colorado?

 

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KRDO.com-GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS, Colo. -- Is Bigfoot real? It’s a question that many have asked since the first sightings back in the 1800s when explorers began talking about an ape-like creature that walked like a man. Many scientists have brushed off reports that the creatures exists, and so far no real proof has been presented.

 

Daniel Masias hopes to be the one to prove Bigfoot’s exists. His fascination began in 1982 when he claimed to have seen two of the creatures near his Green Mountain Falls home one morning.

“In the winter, when there was snow, we noticed there were footprints. The prints didn't have shoes on them; they were just bare feet," he recalled. Masias described the creatures as hairy and less than 6 feet tall, but the footprints they left behind were not human-like. Masias said one creature has a foot span of about 12 inches, the other about 7 inches.”So, not really big, about average human size," he said.When asked why no one has seen these creatures or taken pictures with current technology, Masias said he thinks the creatures are coming through a wormhole, an intergalactic travel portal from one galaxy to another.Masias isn’t the only one to have claimed to have seen Bigfoot. Ken French, a ranger for the Pikes Peak District, remembers seeing a strange creature near Centennial Point, near the summit of the peak. “I saw a dark uniformed color individual walking on the snow, and I stopped my tour bus and ask for binoculars,” recalled French.He thinks the creature was about 1,000 yards away. "It was big and dark and it had a big gate, so it looked unusual to me.” French remembered that it walked like a person, but he felt it was odd at the time.

 

"It's not unusual to see people on a snow slope, usually on a ridge line walking, but you do see people up there occasionally, but it's usually a couple of people,” said French.After the numerous sightings on Pikes Peak, ranger put up a Bigfoot crossing sign to warn visitors of what they could be in store for when they drive up to the 14,110 foot summit.Masias is convinced he will get a picture of the creature, he thinks is Bigfoot. His motion-sensor camera already has snapped pictures that no one can explain, including one he said is an alien.

Dan believes this image captured on his motion sensitive camera is that of an alien type creature.

Another Jewel in the BFRO Crown

The ever popular and lovely Paul Graves stars in this "commercial" for Chevy Cruze! 

Enjoy!

Recent Yowie Sighting

WHAT’S more than two metres (six foot) tall, solidly built and covered in shaggy hair?
If your answer was “that guy down at the local,” you’re probably right but it’s also a common description of a mythical Australian creature known as a yowie, a specimen of which has been reportedly spotted near Centenary Dr, north of Grafton.
A Hunter Valley man named Dean, who did not wish to be identified further, thinks he may have caught a glimpse of one of the creatures, a kind of an Australian version of Bigfoot, as he was driving along the section of road in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Dean, whose work sees him driving more than 5000km a week around NSW, was travelling south along the Pacific Hwy, north of Grafton just before 2.30am when he took the Centenary Dr bypass. Shortly after turning into the road he saw something that shook him to the core.
“I reached the top of the hill and I was coming around the sweeping corner to the right when I noticed something a lot larger than a kangaroo in the middle of the road – my headlights weren’t on it yet but it was a bright night and I saw what looked like a large person stooped over, with a big overcoat on,” Dean said.
“At the time I thought ‘you silly old thing, what are you doing in the middle of the road at this time of the morning’, but next thing I knew my headlights started to light it up and it took one giant step off the road, it went from standing up like a person to going down on all fours and then it disappeared into the scrub in about three bounds.”
Dean, who is used to night-driving and fatigue management, slowed down and was looking into the scrub for the creature and said he saw it silhouetted against the sky.
“It had an almost sort of a square, shaggy block head sitting straight on its shoulders – I’m a pretty big guy but it made me absolutely awe-struck how huge its body was – it had its arm up against a tree and it had about a foot of hair hanging from under its biceps.”
He estimated the creature to be at least two metres tall and covered in what looked like jet-black hair.
Dean said he had no idea what to think until he described the incident to colleagues later who said it was similar to yowie-sighting stories they’d heard in their travels.
Since then Dean said he had been researching … to rationally explain what he saw but has yet to find a satisfactory answer.
“Anybody who knows me knows I’m the ultimate realist but this was an awe-inspiring moment, it’s definitely made me a believer,” Dean said.
During his search for answers however, Dean came across the website of Australian yowie researcher, Paul Cropper who was very interested in his story.
Mr Cropper, who has also co-written a book on yowies, said Dean’s story wasn’t unusual.
“In our book we recorded around 350 reports going back to the late 1700s, early 1800s, but I imagine there’s a lot more than that which don’t ever reach the media – people have these experiences and then just keep it to themselves,” Mr Cropper said.
Theories abound as to what yowies could be, including an unknown species of ape or even an undiscovered close relative to homo sapiens, he said.
“One thing you can say with absolute certainty is that Aborigines and Europeans have been recording these things for a long time – the Aboriginal stories go back to the Dreamtime and the European stories go back to basically the first settlement … there’s just this consistent thread of stories up until Tuesday morning,” he said.
Anyone in the Clarence Valley who has had a similar experience can contact Mr Cropper, in confidence, via email on yowie99@gmail.comThe Daily Examiner

Listen to Paul Cropper here

Believe It Tour Summer-Old Haunts 2011

 There is no other project quite like the Believe It Tour.  Michael Esordi and Diana Smith travel the country to investigate and share with you all types of fascinations including vampires, zombies, the Bermuda Triangle, Mothman, Bigfoot, Chupacapra, haunted houses and even Santa Claus!

The Believe It Tour also sponsors Champ Camp which is an educational and fun filled experience for the whole family.

The Believe It Tour uses most of their own funds  but they need some help! An on-line auction, beginning May 1, 2011, is being held to raise funding for their on-going travel and education projects. The auction will be filled with fantastic items ranging from signed books and original art to services and other merchandise.

Please help out my friends AND make sure you stop by the website and view all of Mike's amazing designs.  

2nd Annual Oregon Sasquatch Symposium

The 2nd Annual Oregon Sasquatch Symposium will be held June 17-19th in the scenic McKenzie National Forest at Camp White Branch.

Accommodations include quaint, rustic cabins located smack dab in the middle of Sasquatch territory. 

I have always said that the Ohio Conference was ideal because of it's location within Salt Fork State park, however, from the pictures I have seen of Camp White Branch, this would be a squatcher's paradise!

There is a main hall and an outdoor amphitheater for the presentations.  Hiking trails and gorgeous scenery is right outside of your cabin door!

I want to go!!!!!! :)

Toby Johnson and his crew put on a magnificent conference last year and I was highly impressed as it was his first!  At the first Oregon Symposium, Scott Nelson revealed his Sasquatch Phoentic Alphabet and Autumn Williams introduced us to Enoch.  What an amazing trip that was.
Tickets and t-shirts are now on sale and Toby has put together several reasonably priced packages.
Please do not miss this opportunity to connect with nature and fellow squatchers!

Yetis in Alaska

-Story taken from the Alaska Dispatch-
Driving up the Alcan Highway through Canada, there is a whole stretch of Canadian towns along the road touting their bigfoot-rich properties, a tourist draw for those who believe in the unsubsantiated animal. Alaska is well-known for its hulking wildlife -- bears, moose, caribou and sea lions are among the biggest draws -- but when it comes to the elusive bigfoot, there seems to be a dearth of sightings for a state so enveloped in the woods that play home to the legendary beast in other parts of the world. Maybe the Bigfoot's northern cousin, the yeti, is a more appropriate fit for Alaska, where half the state hangs above the Arctic Circle.
But recently, YouTube user putua76 posted a shaky video that purports to capture the unconfirmed creature on tape near Ketchikan, Alaska.


The person who filmed the images claims:

"I was on a logging road in Ketchikan hiking with my friend when I saw it! Boy did my heart start racing!! It was about 40 yards from the road! Not sure if it knew I was there or not, because the noise of flowing water from the stream. It seemed to travel fast! It made my hair stand up!! At one point you can see a whitish yellowish thing in it's hand! I believe it was skunk cabbage. Not sure, but it is in bloom.

You see it jump and after that point it just seems to disappear. There was a lot of brush and trees between it and I, I could not tell where it had gone. It was a scary sort of exciting feeling at the same time!! We went to search for tracks but the river bed where we thought it was walking was full of perfect skiping rocks, we found no prints! If there is a BigFoot, Sasquatch, or Kushtaka I swear I saw him!!"

According to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, this would be the first reported sighting of a bigfoot in Ketchikan, although there have been 21 previous sightings in Alaska, eight of which have occurred in Fairbanks or "Southeast Fairbanks."
As with all bigfoot video the creature is hard to see, hidden behind trees and partially or totally obscured, giving just enough evidence for the skeptics to dispute and just enough for the believers to support. So is there a bigfoot in Alaska? We'll leave that up to you.

Thermal Footage from the BFRO

Kirk B. (a BFRO investigator from Washington State) brought down his FLIR H-series handheld imager for the 2011 BFRO New Mexico expedition, at a remote hotspot in the mountains outside Los Alamos.
During the trip he recorded footage of what some BFRO members believe is a sasquatch watching the camp at night.


I've had to look at this a few times and to me, it is inconclusive, but I was not there and as most of you know, having the personal experience is half of the proof an individual needs to convince themselves of what they have experienced!

The 2011 New Mexico Expedition folks have agreed to answers question about the trip and the effort via the BFRO's public discussion forum, called the Blue Forum.  Feel free to ask questions there.

The BFRO continues to excel in the field of Bigfoot Research!

And, don't forget to tune into Animal Planet on June 5th at 9 pm for Finding Bigfoot.  James "Bobo" Fay, Cliff Barackman and Matt Moneymaker of the BFRO should be very entertaining to watch.  I know they had a great time filming the series and are excited to share their experiences with us!

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California Connections

Hi gang! I received an email from a gentleman in Northern California requesting a research partner.. 

He asks: I was wondering if you could tell me if there are any bigfoot enthusiasts in my area. I am looking for a club or even an individual I can get together with here in Northern California (Lakeport, Lake County ar...ea) to share my interests and maybe go hiking/camping with.

If you are in the area and would like to help a fellow enthusiast out, please let me know and I will give him your contact info! thanks!

More Shenanigans in Fayette county Pennsylvania

There is something in them thar woods and I'm sure the PBS will get to the bottom of it soon!

From WTAE.com in Pittsburgh...

NORTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. --

A Fayette County man needed nearly 300 stitches to close a gash in his arm after he was attacked by an unknown animal Tuesday night.Wanda Knopsnider told WTAE Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram that noises were heard behind her camper in North Union Township, so her daughter's boyfriend, Adam Cravener, went to investigate.Cravener, 25, said he grabbed a baseball bat and went outside. When he found the animal, he said it bit him."It came out from right behind the camper," Cravener told Ingram. "It just happened so quick," he said.Cravener said it was too dark for him to get a good look at the animal. It was initially thought to be a bear attack but Cravener told Ingram he thought it would be difficult for a bear to fit in the space behind the camper."He didn't say what it was. He just said, 'It got me! It got me!'" Knopsnider said.Cravener need 294 stitches to close a 6-inch gash in his left forearm, Ingram reported.He spent the night at an area hospital but has since been released.Scott Tomlinson, the Game Commission's southwestern region supervisor, said their investigation shows nothing to substantiate that there was a bear in the area. They searched the area and talked to witnesses, none of whom saw a bear.

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