Sasquatch encounters?

I saw this one along the side of the road chatting with his friends
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D-R0CK said:
I don't personally believe in Bigfoot but last summer during bow-season for elk the sun went down and forced me to spend a night out there alone in WA, between the howls of the coyotes and hooting of the owls I can see how someone might be fooled into seeing something, especially considering it's bear country.
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I know the feeling. The first few times I spent the night out by myself in the actual wilderness (in bear and wolverine country no less), the noises were enough to make me sleep with my Becker halfway out of its sheath right next to my sleeping bag :o. The first time I encountered a large bear by myself in the backcountry, it was dark, I had just eaten, I was drying my bare feet over the dying embers my fire, my headlamp was dying, and out of the corner of my eye I saw two other eyes watching me from 3 o'clock about 40 feet away. They were big eyes. I can see how some people would think they saw a sasquatch.
 
Apparently Les Stroud claims to have encountered a bigfoot:
[video=youtube;rcpRGtfx18M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcpRGtfx18M[/video]

In an interview with Joe Rogan, he makes a good point about wilderness size and population density. It's also possible that a bigfoot would bury its dead. I personally don't believe in bigfoot, but as someone who has studied anthropology, the idea seriously intrigues me. I'll admit it: I kind of want bigfoot to be real.
 
raindog101 said:
No offense taken. I hear what you're saying, but she just wasn't that type of person. Quite boring, actually. And she was rather unnerved when recounting the tale. I think whatever she saw freaked her out, and she got no pleasure from the retelling. But, since she was hiking in the Emerald Triangle, I suppose certain of her senses might have been, shall we say, altered?
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THIS, lol. I've been backpacking and hunting up in that area, and the woods there are a unique experience. They are just so densely vegetated with enormous trees--it feels like Jurassic Park. It can be hard to tell where a noise is coming from, and even when you are sure, often there is just too much vegetation to see what made the noise. Combine that with her 'alteredness', and no wonder she saw bigfoot :rolleyes:. I'll admit too, I about soiled myself when I stumbled upon an emerald farm...I wouldn't go very far off-trail there without a gun, hunting season or not.
 
Sasquatch are the remnants of a race that fled to Earth from Mars when the planet's magnetic field failed and had it's atmosphere blown off by the solar winds. Or so I've read.;)
 
Les stroud said he has Survivorman Bigfoot in the works in this Equipped2Endure interview on YouTube. Skip to about 10:10 if you don't want to hear the other junk about his new Camillus knife line.
http://youtu.be/yKJ7w1TfNJQ

We will see if the show pans out.
 
panzertroop said:
Tom Brown is a nut job!
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Somebody needed to be the first to say it. :) A few years back a friend introduced me to a FBI forensics lab guy that was a big believer. For any reason you could give for why big foot didn't exist he had a rebuttal. One comment that stuck with me was that their colors/fur was horizontal and all they had to do to disappear from view was back up to a tree. He claimed they then faded into the bark with perfect camo. But then he had never spent his life in the heart of bigfoot county like I have. Funny thing about most believers.
 
CelticCross74 said:
While I have not seen Bigfoot myself I did much research a couple years ago after a couple of off duty Maryland State cops saw Bigfoot walk across a wooded construction site both officers were moonlighting as site security on. Both officers were so shocked by the encounter they both retired as officers the next day and immedietly seeked out psychiatric help. As it turns out the highest number of Bigfoot sightings are in Maryland NOT the Pacific Northwest.
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Lots of sasquatch sightings in an area just over the Mason Dixon line in PA, called Delta. Could it have to do with the area being known for its huge marijuana crop?

I've been downloading tons of podcasts lately. Knife Journal from Jim Nowka and Averageiowaguy, BHK outdoors radio before they parted ways, several other shows. I found a few bigfoot shows, including Bigfoot hotspot radio. These guys say they had an encounter. I will say that I won't put limitations on God, but don't really think that anything resembling bigfoot would be able to hide for so long below the Canadian/Alaskan arctic. Could they exist, probably not, but I'm not going to flat out say they don't exist. Sort of like aliens might be out there, but they haven't come here. Anyway, this show has guests, split down the middle, as to whether bigfoot is a nasty creature that is ten feet tall and eats people, to bigfoot is a shy guardian of the woods, that takes gifts of candy and dogfood (diabeetus amongst the sasquatch :D).

Many of these people sound like charlatans, some sound like they really believe they saw something. I started listening to Coast to Coast AM, and, when I couldn't get the show on podcast, I decided to switch to these other shows. Quite entertaining.

Of course, I never want to find out that they're real for myself.
 
jdk1 said:
Interesting. My oldest son and I love to watch bigfoot shows, including Finding Bigfoot. I'm very skeptical, but I get a kick out of the shows and keep threatening my wife saying I'll go into Squatching when I retire:D I think something else which adds to the desire to believe in these things is the idea that there is still mystery in the world. That the world is still bigger than us. I read an interesting book about bigfoot, which I found at the library, called Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend . Turned out to be more about debunking the famous squatchers and digging into why we want to believe in bigfoot. It's a pretty neat book. Take care.
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I totally agree. My wife is the type that likes the idea of mystery still being in the world so she likes to watch the squatchers even though she's skeptical too. I have to admit. I wouldn't mind pretending to be after bigfoot and have someone buy me a ticket to wherever I wanted to camp...I mean search. :D
 
Proof that they do and can blend in with their environment.

This is a true story. 555's first hand sighting of Big Foot. :eek:

One of my kids and I ventured into a Urban Wilderness Mart and what an adventure it turned out to be.
I thank the older folks of my youth for teaching me the survival skill, it's not polite to stare or point.

They we were rounding the aisle entering the frozen food canyon, a place that is prime habitat for Yeti with the cold climate and what seems like an endless ammount of food. As we walked through the land of frozen desserts, two what seemed like two females passed by us in the narrow canyon. :eek:

Out of the corner of my eye I could see the big hairy one in heavy makeup, was wearing a pink tutu. :eek:
Inside I began to panic, as I saw the shopping carts closing in the other end of the canyon and there was no way out, other than back tracking back the way of the Big Foot. :eek:
We no sooner find our way to where there was the safety of numbers at the check outs, and I here, Dad, That's a Man!, as they looked a couple of check out lanes over. :o :eek:

And there it was, as big as life, a large hairy male Big Foot, in heavy over the top makeup, wearing a pink tutu, in people of Walmart camo. :D

(True Story) :eek:

Oh how I've tried to forget that day. :D
 
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555, I must've seen dozens of sasquatch then when I worked the night shift at Walmart. You see some crazy stuff. The cross dressing body builders were a sight better behaved than the drunks that would come in singing their hearts out.
 
We can have a little leeway with this topic, but it is a legitimate discussion of wilderness interest.
Lets not go too far off into Whine & Cheese territory.
 
I did see a Cyote the other night that looked like a Wolf, or a hybrid. Some neighbors here (in Kentucky) swear that they have spotted black Panthers and other huge cats on occasion. A lot of people can recall tales of cryptozoologic creatures that are supposedly indigenous to the area (Mothman is in Appalachia, Wampus Cat/Taily Pole, Flatwoods Monster, Hopkinsville Goblin, Bearilla, Pope Lick Monster, Spottsville Monster), but most of these stem from single encounters with something, or multiple encounters in a short span of time in an isolated area.

One of the best stories ever is the Hopkinsville Goblins. If you have never heard of this incident that had dozens of witnesses reporting small man-like creatures terrorizing their homestead and trying to break in. There were 2 families present and they shot their own house all to hell. The families didn't want to give interviews, all the information came from a police report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly–93Hopkinsville_encounter
 
Back on topic, I have seen some hinky stuff in the woods in MD. After listening to so many podcasts about bigfoot and other monsters, I was out walking the youngest pup, a literal baby Huey. He was absolutely oblivious, but my 900 lumen flashlight picked up a set of green eyes glowing about 25 feet in front of me. For all the world I would have sworn it was a bigfoot right then and there. It didn't move like a deer when I told it to head on out of here, and didn't move, but it took off when a car came down the road. My imagination is usually in overdrive, and lights from the house on the other side of the valley, through the woods, resembled eyes about 7 ft off the ground. I truthfully think that a lot of people dream these encounters up. The hosts on the Bigfoot Hotspot radio told the strangest story I've heard yet, that a group of at least 5 cornered them while they were in their car, and were quite vicious. They fall into the remainder of the group that seem like carnival hucksters. Ron Morehead, a supposed sasquatch authority, who is a great storyteller at least, has supposed audio of several sasquatches conversing. They sound like the cave men from Quest for Fire, actually sounded like audio from the film. When you listen to these people on bigfoot radio shows, many stories sound the same, a little too rehearsed. It's all entertaining nonetheless.

Check out Monster Talk and Bigfoot Hotspot radio, quite entertaining. Gets my imagination going, for better or worse. Sasquatch Chronicles and Sasquatch Experience too. Bigfoot hotspot radio/Sasquatch chronicles seems to believe every story, although for the last few episodes they've been making fun of the guests. Monster Talk is more skeptical, but sometimes takes the fun out of it. When you get tired of the radio or cds/mp3s, check out these podcasts.
 
When I used to work overnights/3rd shift at Walmart, I had a golden retriever that liked to see his ladies in the neighborhood. I was on my way to work, and saw a dog running around in the moonlight far off in the field. Pretty big field, and I didn't have a light, but stopped the truck and hollered for what I thought was my pup. Being a big werewolf movie fan, I was not prepared for what happened next. Another dog showed up, the first one stood up on it's hind legs and started to whimper and whine. Well, I was not prepared for that, and promptly said crap on this, and went to work. My little brother wrote a report on coyotes, and found out that when in distress, coyotes will get up on their hind legs. These coyotes were dancing, but to me, tired and just looking to get through work, they were extras from the Dog Soldiers movie!
 
Like seeing aircraft depending how the light hits it. Looking like the classic cigar shape UFO, not able to see the wings at that moment, or seemly to vanish out of sight. I can see where either peoples minds can get carried away with what they're seeing or not understanding what they saw.

I think the same could be said for noises in the woods. Animal noises and their movement, tree noise, pieces falling, limbs rubbing together, all can sound strange in the dead of the night.
 
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