Or are these the most extensive recordings of Sasquatch screams ever? In today’s blog, I’m taking you on an extensive journey to determine whether the sounds we’re calling “sasquatch” are those of an unknown primate – or simply misidentified coyote calls.
Christmas Eve 2009 Recordings – Pierce County, Washington
Oregon Bigfoot investigator Troy Chaffee sent me the following on 12/24/2009:
Autumn-
I have 28 minutes of audio recording I made this morning at my place.
“Squeaky”, apparently, is a Bigfoot which Michael D. Greene claims to have filmed using a thermal imaging camera. The BFRO released this low-res version of the footage on their YouTube channel a couple of days ago.
Here, Michael Greene describes how he obtained the footage:
On Greene’s website, BushLoper.net, you can view the high-resolution footage for $3. Per viewing. [Please note: Oregon Bigfoot is NOT affiliated with this website.]
by Richard Creecy
Sasquatch draws a metaphorical line in the sand and, like other “monster” sightings, beckons the masses to cross the line and assert their belief or stand in opposition to it. Upon reading the word “Bigfoot” most people automatically kick into one of two modes: rabid believer or dismissive. [more...]
Wash. bigfoot hunter says fossil proves creature’s existence
by Bryan Johnson
He found footprints on Mount Rainier in 1990. He found them near the Sauk River in Arlington. But he now has new proof: an imprint of a fossil from the Jurassic age he found on a river bed in Texas. [more...]
Could Big Foot be in Polk County?
by Palmer Wood
It is for those who claim they have seen the elusive ape-like creature roaming the woods and swamps of Florida including Polk County’s Green Swamp. Sightings of the animal have been reported around the world but rare, with quality photographs and videos even rarer.
Bigfoot and Sasquatch are names familiar to North Americans who have aggressively pursued evidence of the animal’s actual existence. As of this date only occasional sightings have been reported within any given year with no physical evidence ever found, other than hair samples whose DNA does not match that of any known animal.
Yesterday, I posed a question and asked all of you for feedback. I got it in spades, and I want to thank each and every one of you for your thought-provoking replies and the time it took to craft them.
The question was this:
Would you still want [information that would help explain the nature of Bigfoot], knowing that I will NOT provide you with anything that will constitute “proof”, because I’m afraid of what would happen if I did? Will you allow me to appease your curiosity while protecting the subject of your interest?
… the things that are going on right now.
A few months ago, something happened that changed my life, changed the way I look at this phenomenon. It has affected me deeply and I’m not sure I know which way to turn.
Because all of you have been with me since the inception of this blog, and some of you have been by my side as members and friends much longer than that, I feel the need to reach out to you now and ask for your input.
If I’m vague, I’ll apologize in advance. I can’t be more specific right now.
Time crunched today, so please forgive the brevity of this update.
Upright? Yes. Hunched? Yes. Hunkering. Yup. Human? Yup. Appears so.
I got this email from a reader today:
“After reading your blog on this, I purchased the Blu-Ray version of “Great North” to see the footage on my large screen HDTV.
I hate to say it, but on the Blu-Ray, you can clearly see that it’s a person, presumably a member of the crew, and he clearly has a backpack on.
Sincerely,
Robert”
OK… first of all, this blog is a place where I can share news and information. From time to time, I’ll also share an opinion or two. As most of you know, I’m not one to come to snap judgments about purported “bigfoot” images. I tend to take my time, weigh the images and any addition information that is available carefully, and if I do share an opinion about it, it’s based on what I’ve examined so far. My opinions, or any tentative conlcusion that I come to, are always subject to change based upon new information.
Oregon Bigfoot investigator Mike Hall just emailed me and said:
THERE ARE TWO IN THE FILM….watch the Hulu version….and look close when the 1st squatch drops down….Watch to the left just behind the 1st one…in the back ground …it seems that there is a black head of something that quickly pops up and back down…i have watched it over and over and there seems to be two in the film….let me know what you think
It took me watching it twice more to finally see it… but he might be right. I was so focused on the hunched over figure running in the foreground that I didn’t even see the black…something… that pops up just as Mike described. Just behind and to the left of the first figure.
Apparently, a Sasquatch may have been caught on IMAX film during the filming of the 2006 movie, “Great North”.
The entire film is available for viewing at Hulu.com at no charge. The figure in question appears at around the 9:20 mark, as a herd of caribou charge along the river bank.
Some hoaxes irritate me. Others simply amuse me. I can’t decide which I feel this time around.
I received this email this morning:
I’m sure you’ve seen this headline before and it always turns out to be bunk, but what I have here is the real deal!
I have actual High Definition footage of a creature that few, if any, have ever seen before.
I followed and filmed this creature for nearly five minutes.
Here is a sample of the footage I am offering:
(youtube link)
I also have a small sample of hair.
This time, while it’s not a puported Bigfoot photo (or, rather, a guy in a rainsuit), there are interesting parallels in this article that caused me to want to post it for you.
photo by Ryan Ritta
Apparently, this guy’s trail camera caught five shots of a mountain lion in Oklahoma. Okay… fair enough. If I don’t look surprised, it’s because I’m not. *grin* When we were down south filming Mysterious Encounters, people were almost as excited to talk about their mountain lion sightings as they were bigfoot sightings, because neither creature tends to be “officially” recognized down there. And, apparently, that’s pretty much still the case:
Apparently, this is the article that caused that confusing Connecticut Yeti letter to the editor I posted a couple of days ago? While the content of the article of interesting, the final line pretty much says it all about WHY people are so reluctant to come forward with their stories. Way to encourage your readers to share, Ms. Guarnieri.
You can comment on this article on the RegisterCitizen website here.
TWISTED HISTORY: The Winsted Wild Man
By CATHERINE GUARNIERI
It seems as though nearly every area of the world has their legend of some wild man-beast who likes to terrorize the locals.
This blurb from The Register Citizen, a newspaper “serving Litchfield, CT”, really had me scratching my head.
It was posted in amongst a bunch of other junk. I guess it’s along the lines of a letter to the editor.
Again… HUH?
Is Yeti back?
The reports and witness accounts of the presence of Yeti in Torrington are growing. It is most likely Sasquatch, or Bigfoot as it is more commonly known.
The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is allegedly an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet.
Bigfoot have mastered concealment in the forests.
(Excellent article at the UBC Alumni Affairs website)
Newspaper journalist, author, publisher, businessman, politician, competitive sailor, boat builder, husband, father, community service leader and sasquatch investigator. Meet John Green, wearer of many hats.
by Don Wells, BA’89
I have vivid memories of the sasquatch. I grew up in the shadow of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains and was enthralled by the reports of sightings of an enormous bipedal creature in the Kootenay Plains wilderness region near Banff National Park. I was part of a group of kids that regularly fished with our fathers in that area in the late 1960s, and I remember casting our lines in the twilight hours and listening to our fathers discuss the most recent “Bigfoot” sightings they had heard on the radio or read in newspapers. I was 12 years old, and the prospects of a hairy monster stalking the mountains where our families went camping thrilled and terrified me.
