How to tell there's a Sasquatch nearby

This varies greatly from report to report, but it is my job to inform you.

1. Witnesses sometimes tell of a terrible stench in the air when they see Bigfoot/Sasquatch.

2. Some reports come with a lack of birdsong before, during, and shortly after an encounter.

3. Some feel like they are being watched by something.

I'm sure I have left out some of these signs. Contact me with yours.

New sounds from Southern Maine????

Two nights ago I was outside of my rural home in Southern Maine. There was a cat fight and my brother my mom and I went out to see if it was an animal killing a cat. I heard a faint cry identical to the recordings on the BFRO's website. I don't know whether it was a dirtbike, ATV, chainsaw, or Bigfoot, but it was a little weird.

My Position on Bigfoot

Well, I do believe in Bigfoot.

I don't agree with the population estimates. There can't be more than 2,000, in my opinion. The population in most likely decreasing. If you factor in the (reported) sighting numbers for this year, there aren't that many. The same goes for last year. 2006, however, was a prime year for Sasquatch sightings.

Of course, there have been many hoaxes and fakes, which should take down the numbers significantly.

I think that these creatures are flesh and blood beings. They aren't alien life forms. They aren't paranormal beings. They are just animals, like me and you.

Why then are there native American legends telling that they have powers like they could be three feet away and you can't see them. I say that they are extremely clever and exceptionally stealthy. Surely you know what I mean.

Follow-up on "Why haven't I seen one?"

What does this all mean? You have a large bipedal creature that has instincts such as hunting and avoiding humans, intelligence, and can learn new things such as new ways to avoid humans as we encroach on their territory, forage from garbage cans and dumpsters, and do not freeze when they are caught in a car's headlights. This would mean that these creatures are increasingly intelligent. That is, getting smarter on a regularly basis.



Avoiding humans could save their lives............

Skunk Ape & Frame 352

Both of these are possible Bigfoot photos. Both of them are possible hoaxes. The skunk ape (left) is a possible

Bigfoot-like animal. On a Monsterquest episode, a biologist examined the photo. She said it was likely to be a hoax because the hair "wouldn't be so manicured." So the skunk ape photos ware most likely an escaped orangutan or a person in a gorilla suit. Frame 352 of the Patterson-Gimlin film focuses on a possible Sasquatch. The film was shot near Bluff Creek around the time of a logging operation. The subject is thought to be female.

The film was possibly thought to be real for the years after the film; after that, feelings towards the film were generally unbelieving. Monsterquest recently proved that the subject was NOT human. They used a professional athlete to try to replicate Frame 352. He failed.

Why Haven't I Seen One?

That depends. If you live near cities or even towards the center of town, the chances are that you won't see one near your house. Your best bet is to live in a rural area or visit a wilderness area frequently. Also, as previously stated many times, these creatures are extremely intelligent. If you have taken a high school or junior high science class you will know that there are three types of behaviors : Learned, innate, and intelligent.

Innate: ALL animals (including humans) are born with these behavior.

Examples: Dogs panting, blinking, dogs snapping or biting when startled, scratching at bug bites.

This also includes reflexes and instincts.

Learned: This behavior includes things like walking and cracking shells. (Squirrels and chipmuncks)

Intelligent: Special abilities, reasoning, analyzing, problem-solving, and understanding.

What does this mean? If you lump all these together, you end up with a very smart animal.

Is there more than one? If so, why aren't there more sightings?

Well, there obviously has to be more than one.

-How could it survive?

-If you calculate the times of some sightings using the different time zones, some will be pretty close.

Some experts say there are from 2,000-6,000 Sasquatch-like creatures in North America. This number could have decreased some because the infringement of humans on the wilderness areas. Also, because of this, sightings should be on a rise.

Why aren't there more sightings? These creatures are highly intelligent. They have figured out ways to avoid humans. They know to avoid lights at night, especially mobile ones.

Some experts say Bigfoot does not exist because there is not observeable evidence.

Almas

The Almas, Mongolian for wild man, is a presumed hominid said to inhabit the Caucasaus and Pamir Mountains and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia. Most mainstream scientists consider the Almas to be a purely legendary creature.

Almas is a singular word in Mongolian. The Russian plural is almasty; the correct Mongolian (or any Turkic) plural is almaslar. As is typical of the unknown hominids throughout Central Asia, Russia, and the Caucasus, Almas are generally considered to be more akin to "wild people" in appearance and habits than to apes (in contrast to the Yeti of the Himalayas).
Almas are typically described as human-like bipedal animals, between five and six and a half feet tall, their bodies covered with reddish-brown hair, with anthropomorphic facial features including a pronounced browridge, flat nose, and a weak chin. (Newton, Michael (2005). "Almas/Almasti". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland & Company, Inc.. 19. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7.)

Evidence
There is speculation that Almas may be something other than legendary creatures, mainly via eyewitness accounts, footprint finds, and long-standing native traditions, which have been anthropologically collected. Source: The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe (NY: HarperCollins, 1999, ISBN 1-933665-12-2).

Folk tales
Almas appear in the legend of local people, who tell stories of sightings and human-Almas interactions dating back several hundred years.
Drawings of Almas also appear in a Tibetan medicinal book. British anthropologist Myra Shackley noted that "The book contains thousands of illustrations of various classes of animals (reptiles, mammals and amphibia), but not one single mythological animal such as are known from similar medieval European books. All the creatures are living and observable today." (1983, p. 98)

Famous sightings
Sightings recorded in writing go back as far back as the 15th century.
In 1430, Hans Schiltberger recorded his personal observation of these creatures in the journal of his trip to Mongolia as a prisoner of the Mongol Khan. (Bigfoot and Other Ape-Human Creatures)Schiltberger also recorded one of the first European sightings of Przewalski horses. (Manuscript in the Munich Municipal Library, Sign. 1603, Bl. 210).
Nikolai Przhevalsky observed the animals in Mongolia in 1871 (Shackley, 94). He noted that Almas are part of the Mongolian and Tibetan apothecary's materia medica, along with thousands of other animals and plants that still live today. (The Almas - cryptozoo)British anthropologist Myra Shackley in Still Living? describes Ivan Ivlov's 1963 observation of a whole family of Almas. Ivlov, a pediatrician, decided to interview some of the Mongolian children who were his patients, and discovered that many of them had also seen Almas. It seems that neither the Mongol children nor the young Almas were afraid of each other. Ivlov's driver also claimed to have seen them (Shackley, 91).

Captives
A wildwoman named Zana is said to have lived in the isolated mountain village of T'khina fifty miles from Sukhumi in Abkhazia in the Caucasus; some have speculated she may have been an Almas, but hard evidence is lacking.
Captured in the mountains in 1850, she was at first violent towards her captors but soon became domesticated and, indeed, was able to assist with simple household chores. Zana is said to have had sexual relations with a man of the village named Edgi Genaba, and gave birth to a number of children of apparently normal human appearance. Several of these children, however, died in infancy. Some commentators have attributed these early deaths to Zana's genetic incompatibility (as an Almas) with humans.
The father, meanwhile, gave away four of the surviving children to local families. The two boys, Dzhanda and Khwit Sabekia (born 1878 and 1884), and the two girls, Kodzhanar and Gamasa Sabekia (born 1880 and 1882), were assimilated into normal society, married, and had families of their own. Zana herself died in 1890. The skull of Khwit (also spelled Kvit) is still extant, and was examined by Dr. Grover Krantz in the early 1990s. He pronounced it to be entirely modern, with no Neandertal features at all. Khwit's tooth was examined in 2008 as part of the Monster Quest tv show. Genetics tests were unable to definitely show Khwit's parentage, but tests will continue.
Another case is said to date from around 1941, shortly after the German invasion of the USSR. A "wild man" was captured somewhere in the Caucasus by a detachment of the Red Army under Lt. Col. Vargen Karapetyan. He appeared human, but was covered in fine, dark hair. Interrogation revealed his apparent inability (or unwillingness) to speak, and the unfortunate creature is said to have been shot as a German spy. There are various versions of this legend in the cryptozoological literature, and, as with other Almas reports, hard proof is absent.

Explanations
Myra Shackley and Bernard Heuvelmans have speculated that the Almas are a relict population of Neanderthals, while Loren Coleman suggests surviving specimens of Homo erectus. (Newton, Michael (2005). "Almas/Almasti". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland & Company, Inc.. 19. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7.) Others insist they are related to the Yeti of the Himalayas, being closer to apes than to humans. Another explanation is that human-like cryptids are humans with congenital disorders and/or mental retardation and ejected from society.
Another explanation is that they are purely mythological creatures, since no hard evidence (skeletons, specimens, etc.) has been found to date.

Is There Evidence?

Yes and no. There is no conclusive evidence that bigfoot/sasquatch exists; nor is there any evidence to prove that it doesn't exist. For now, we just have to wait and see what the outcome is.

The Patterson footage has never been debunked as a hoax. No one has ever demonstrated how it was done. Neither the original "costume," nor a matching costume, has ever been presented by honest skeptics, nor by various imposters who claim to have worn the costume. Large amounts of money have been spent trying to make a matching costume. The best Hollywood costume design talents have been brought to the task, but have never succeeded. The British Broadcasting Corporation spent the most money so far. They failed miserably. Every attempt and failure to make a similar costume strengthens the case for authenticity of the Patterson footage. Comparing a man in a costume side by side with the Patterson creature in motion helps highlight the striking anatomical peculiarities. If you hear debunking claims in the future, be ready to ask the obvious questions:
-Where is the costume?-
If the original costume is gone, why can't they make an identical costume and do it again? Why is that so hard?
-Why does the news media always trumpet every half-baked "man in the costume" story that comes along without asking for the obvious proof, which should be so simple to provide?
(BFRO, "Wasn't this all shown to be a fake?" http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=751)

Dutch Henry Monster, Fulton County, Illinois, 1968

The "Dutch Henry Monster" seen in Fulton County, Illinois 1968 is an expression used because of an unknown hair-covered creature seen by several people while they were walking across Dutch Henry Road and has not been seen until this day.About 9:30 p.m. three high-school friends were driving in a pickup were following there friends who were in a car quite some ways ahead. Suddenly they came to a stop. Their friend's car was sideways in the road. One boy was lying in the road like he had been knocked out. The three boys got out of the truck and were walking towards to the boy when someone or something attacked them and knocked them to the ground and would knock them back down when they tried to get back up. They said it did not fight with fists but literally hit them "backhanded." At one time they managed to get it down but it knocked them aside with ease. At this time the boy in the road ran to the truck and locked the doors. He said he got a fairly good look at it. He described it as not overly tall but it had a very stocky build and seemed to be very hairy. Evidently something scared it off (or it became disinterested) because it was all of a sudden gone. The boys were not harmed and the incident was reported to the police.
Copyright Fulton County, Illinois Democrat, Wednesday October 23, 1968

Orang Mawas

Orang Mawas or Mawas (also known as the Orang Dalam) is a proposed hominid cryptid reported to inhabit the jungle Johor in Malaysia It is described as being about 10 ft (2.4-3 m) tall, bipedal and covered in black fur, and has been reported feeding on fish and raiding orchards. There have been many sightings of the creature, which the local Orang Alsi people call hantu jarang gigi, which translates as 'Snaggle-toothed Ghost'. Recorded claims of Mawas sightings date back to 1871. Some speculate the creature may be a surviving Gigantopthicus, while others dismiss the sightings as misidentifies sun bears.
There have been many reported sightings since the 1950s, and in 1995 in Johor large tracks with four toes were reported. In November 2005 a much publicised sighting occurred when three workers clearing ground for a pond saw a Mawa family of two adults and a child walking near the Kincin River. Later large humanoid footprints were found, including one 18 in (46 cm) long. A photograph of a fresh footprint in tar, attributed to the Mawas, was printed in Malaysian newspapers in January 2006. A government team has been searching for more evidence of the Mawas. In late January 2006, the authorities in Johor announced an official expedition to prove the creature's existence, making it the first country to have an official hunt for a mystery hominid. A news story on Cryptomundo.com said that a Orang Mawas was captured in Johor on the expedition of Johor, as reported on April 19, 2006 in the Berita Harian, but an official report released by Bernama denied it.
In Sumatra, mawas (sometimes maias) is common name for orangutan.

Yowie

In a modern context, Yowie is the generic (and somewhat affectionate) term for the unidentified hominid reputed to lurk in the Australian wilderness. It is an Australian cryptid similar to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American Bigfoot.
Rather confusingly, Yowie (or "Yowie-Whowie") is also the name of a completely different Mythological character in native Australian Aboriginal folklore. This version of the Yowie is said to be a bizarre, hybrid beast resembling a cross between a human and an ape with big red eyes on the side of his head, big canine teeth and large fangs. It emerges from the ground at night to eat whatever it can find, including humans. This creature's characteristics and legend are sometimes interchangeable with those of the bunyip.
The origin of the term "Yowie" in the context of unidentified hominids is unclear. Some presume that it simply arose through confusion with the aforementioned Aboriginal legend. On the other hand, Jonathan Swift's yahoosfrom Gulliver's Travels are sometimes cited as a source. The word "Yowie" was also apparently a slang term for the Orang-utan in Victorian England.
The earliest published reference to the word in its current usage is in Donlad Friend's Hillendiana a collection of writing about the goldfields near Hill End in New South Wales. Friend refers to the "Yowie" as a species of "bunyip", an Aboriginal term used to describe monsters said to dwell in many Australian rivers and lakes. Researcher Rex Gilroy popularised the word in newspaper articles during the 1970s and 1980s.

Sightings and reports
Reports of Yowie-type creatures are common in the legends and stories of Australian Aboriginal tribes, particularly those of the eastern states of Australia (Healy & Cropper, p.6). The mid to late 19th Century saw a wealth of sightings, most describing a large, gorilla-like creature (albeit usually bipedal), which lived in remote mountainous or forested regions. Reports have continued to the present day with the trail of evidence following the pattern familiar to most unidentified hominids around the world – i.e. eyewitness accounts, mysterious footprints of hotly-disputed origin, and a frustrating lack of conclusive proof.

Candidates
Australian Rex Gilroy, a self-proclaimed cryptozoologist, has attempted to popularise the scientific term Gigantopithecus australis for the yowie. He claims to have collected over 3000 reports of them and proposed that they comprise a relict population of extinct ape or "Homo" species. There is, however, no evidence that Gigantopithicus ever existed in Australia.
Several Murri and Koori tribes of eastern Australia have dreamtime legends about an ancient battle between their ancestors and a race of hairy apemen. The stories share some common elements. The aboriginals won the battle quite decisively. This is attributed to their weapons including the spear and war boomerang. The apemen fought bare handed. The surviving creatures ran off to the mountains from which they occasionally invaded the forests to steal human babies.

Yeren

The Yeren, variously referred to as the Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman or Wildman of China, is said to be an as yet undiscovered hominid residing in the mountainous and forested regions of China's remote Hubei province.

Description
Witnesses typically report the creatures to be covered in reddish-brown hair. Some white specimens have also been sighted. Their height is estimated to range from five to seven feet, although some colossal examples allegedly in excess of ten feet tall have been reported. These reports must be treated with some caution, since the basic laws of boimechanics might argue against the existence of human-like bipedal creatures of such dimensions. On the other hand, humans suffering from the pituitary disease Gigantism have been known to grow to heights nearing nine feet tall. Kodiak Bears from Kodiak Island, Alaska, have also been known to grow to heights/lengths of nine to ten feet, and are more than capable of bipedal locomotion for limited times. Considering these examples, as well as the ancient hominid Gigantopithicus, it does not seem unreasonable to believe in a creature in excess of ten feet tall being able, at least for short times, to walk on its hind legs. A similar monkey walking on hind legs, perfectly bipedal, with a tail, color shining reddish brown, was spotted in India at Janapav. The height of the monkey was 5 feet 9 inches. It was spotted from a 40 foot distance. He resembled the monkey god Hanuman and fits the description of bipedal monkeys in ancient mythology known as waanar.

Official interest
Regional officials have recorded nearly four hundred sightings since the 1920s. Since the 1980s, government on a local and national level has likewise taken a keen interest in the creatures, distributing posters that request sighting reports and physical evidence, and supporting scientists who choose to study the yeren.

Theories
Some researchers have drawn a link between the Yeren and the extinct giant ape Gigantopithicus, which did indeed formerly inhabit the same region. Many of the local caves are rich in the fossilised bones of the animal, although whether Gigantopithecus was capable of any meaningful bipedal motion is a matter of debate.
The yeren has also been hypothesized as a new species of orangutan, one that is ground-dwelling, bipedal and native to mainland Asia instead of Borneo or Sumatra.
It is also thought that the yeren might just be a legend. The Yeren apparently dwells in a region already rich with superstition and strange phenomena, including an inordinate occurrence of albinism in the local fauna, adding to its mystique. It has been connected with ancient Chinese legends of magical forest ogres and man-like bears.

Momo the Monster

Momo is the name of a local legend, similar to the Bigfoot which is reported to live in Missouri. The name Momo is short for 'Missouri Monster' and it is reported to have a large, pumpkin-shaped head, with a furry body, and hair covering the eyes. First reported in July 1971, near Louisiana, Missouri by Joan Mills and Mary Ryan, Momo has been spotted up and down the Mississippi River. It is supposedly a large, 7 ft (~2.1 m) tall, hairy, black, manlike creature that eats dogs and emits a terrible odor, leading some to suggest it was a rogue black bear. Following sightings in 1972 beginning at at 3:30 p.m. July 11, first reported by Terry, Wally, and Doris Harrison, and lasting for about 2 weeks, tracks were found and submitted to Lawrence Curtis, director of the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. He deemed the tracks to be a hoax. Prior to the Momo sightings, reports of similar creatures went back as far as the 1940s. A similar creature was reported in Michigan in 1964, as well as in Monroe, Michigan on August 13, 1965.

Why aren't there more reports?

Well, the answer comes from my opinion. People see something, think its a person or a bear etc., are afraid of ridicule and loss of social status, or simply do not believe in Sasquatch/Bigfoot.


If you can think of any other reasons, email me at thelonewolf.jepson7@gmail.com

Skunk Ape

The Skunk Ape or Florida Skunk Ape or Stink Ape is a hominid cryptidsaid to inhabit the Southeastern United States, from places such as Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from the Florida Everglades are particularly common. It is named for its appearance and for the unpleasant odor that is said to accompany it. According to the United States National Park Service, the skunk ape exists only as a local myth. Reports of the Skunk ape were particularly common in the 1960s and 1970s. Particular cases of sightings of skunk apes include "Knobby" and the "Fouke Monster".

Description
The Skunk Ape is said to be a large hairy, bipedal mammal that calls the Florida Everglades home. They also have supposedly been spotted in East Tennessee, mainly near Corryington. In fact, there were a large amount of sightings in that area around 2003, and many cats disappeared (believed to have been killed/eaten by the skunkapes). They have (allegedly) been spotted as far north as Tallahassee and as far south as Lostman's River. Large adult males are said to weigh in excess of 450 lbs and stand 6 to 7 feet tall with reddish or dark brown hair similar in appearance to an orangutan or gorilla. Some believe that this biped is part of the same species as the famed Bigfoot. A handful of sightings have also happened in the Western US, including Simi Valley, CA. In recent months, several sightings have been reported near the Withlacoochee River in Brooks County, GA, between Quitman and Valdosta. The smell of a Skunk Ape has been reported to be similar to rotten eggs or Hydrogen Sulfide.

Myakka photographs
In 2000, two photographs of an ape, said to be the Skunk Ape, were taken anonymously and mailed to the Sarasota Sheriff's Department in Florida. They were accompanied by a letter from a woman claiming to have photographed the creature in the palmettos at the edge of her backyard. The photographer claimed that for three nights the ape had entered her yard to take apples from a bushel basket on her porch. She was convinced it was an escaped orangutan. The police were called to the house continuous times but when they arrived the 'Ape' was gone. The pictures have become known to Bigfoot enthusiasts as the "Myakka skunk ape photos".
Loren Colema is the primary researcher on the Myakka photographs, having tracked down the two photographs to an "Eckerd photo lab at the intersection of Fruitville and Tuttle Roads" in Sarasota County, Florida.
A later investigation led by the TV series Monster Quest shows that the photographs were most likely not of a real animal.

Bigfoot Trap

What is believed to be the world's only Bigfoot trap is located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jakson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California border. It was designed to capture a bigfoot(or sasquatch), a hominid that is said to live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
The trap was built in 1974 by the North American Wildlife Research Team (NAWRT), a defunct organization based in Eugene, Oregon, that was inspired by Perry Lovell, a miner who lived near the Applegate River, who claimed to have found 18-inch-long human-like tracks in his garden. NAWRT operated the trap, keeping it baited with carcasses for six years, but caught only bears.
Some Bigfoot researchers feel that this is not a good design for a bigfoot trap because they believe bigfoot creatures are too intelligent to enter such a structure, even if it was baited with tempting foodstuffs. Since then the trap had been abandoned and was deteriorating. In 2006 the United States Forest Service, under the Passport in Time program, began to repair the trap. The trap has become a tourist attraction over the past 30 years and hundreds of people visit it annually.

BFRO

The Bigfoot Field Reasearchers Organization was founded in 1995 by Matthew Moneymaker and is dedicated to studying the Bigfoot phenomenon. The main goal of the BFRO is to "resolve the mystery surrounding the bigfoot phenomenon, that is, to derive conclusive documentation of the species' existence." The BFRO website includes a database of reports of sightings and other evidence (including reports of audio recordings and footprints), a form for making reports, an FAQ section, and a collection of related media articles. Sighting reports are followed up by experienced members, typically with a telephone interview, or, where possible, with inspection of the site accompanied by the witness. This information is appended to the reports. Some older reports do not have such review information attached.
Reports are available for the US and Canada, and are organised by state. A map for each state highlights counties with high numbers of reports. Similarly, a listing of states (US and Canada are separate) gives the number of reports for each state. Another page on the website shows recently added reports.
The BFRO also leads expeditions to areas of Bigfoot activity, for which people can pay to join.

Patterson/Gimlin Film

The Patterson/Gimlin film is a short motion picture of an unidentified subject filmed on October 20, 1967 by Roger Patterson and Bob (Robert) Gimlin. As Patterson and Gimlin were allegedly the only human witnesses to their brief encounter with a Sasquatch, theirs are the only testimonies available in studying the account. Their statements agree in general, but Long notes a number of inconsistencies. In an article in Argosy magazine, Ivan T. Sanderson gave the time of the encounter as 3:30 p.m., which differed from 1:30 p.m. time in other articles and in interviews by Patterson and Gimlin. They offered somewhat different sequences in describing how they and the horses reacted upon seeing the creature. Patterson in particular increased his estimates of the creature's size in subsequent retellings of encounter In a different context, Long notes, these discrepancies would probably be considered minor, but given the extraordinary claims made by Patterson and Gimlin, any apparent disagreements in perception or memory are worth noting.
In the early afternoon of October 20, Patterson and Gimlin were at Bluff Creek. Both were on horseback when they "came to an overturned tree with a large root system at a turn in the creek, almost as high as a room" . When they rounded it they spotted the figure behind it nearly simultaneously, while it was "crouching beside the creek to their left". Gimlin later described himself as in a mild state of shock after first seeing the figure.
Patterson estimated he was about 25 feet away from the creature at his closest. Patterson said that his horse reared upon seeing (or perhaps smelling) the figure, and he spent about twenty seconds extricating himself from the saddle and getting his camera from a saddlebag before he could run toward the figure while operating his camera. He yelled "Cover me" to Gimlin, who thereupon crossed the creek on horseback, rode forward awhile, and, rifle in hand, dismounted (presumably because his horse might have panicked if the creature charged, spoiling his shot).
The figure had walked away from them to a distance of about 120 feet before Patterson began to run after it. The resulting film (about 53 seconds long) is initially quite shaky until Patterson gets about 80 feet from the figure. At that point the figure glanced over its right shoulder at the men and Patterson fell to his knees; on Krantz's map this corresponds to frame 264. To researcher John Green, Patterson would later characterize the creature's expression as one of "contempt and disgust...you know how it is when the umpire tells you 'one more word and you're out of the game.' That's the way it felt."
At this point the steady middle portion of the film begins, containing the famous frame 352. Patterson said "it turned a total of I think three times", the first time therefore being before the filming began. Shortly after glancing over its shoulder, the creature walks behind a grove of trees, reappears for awhile after Patterson moved ten feet to a better vantage point, then fades into the trees again and is lost to view as the reel of film ran out. Gimlin remounted and followed it on horseback, keeping his distance, until it disappeared around a bend in the road three hundred yards away. Patterson called him back at that point, feeling vulnerable on foot without a rifle, because he feared the creature's mate might approach.
Next, Gimlin rounded up Patterson's horses, which had run off before the filming began, and "the men then tracked it for three miles, but lost it in the heavy undergrowth". They returned to the initial site, measured the creature's stride, made two plaster casts (of the best-quality right and left prints), and covered the other prints to protect them. The entire encounter had lasted less than two minutes.
A few hours after the encounter, Patterson telephoned Donlad Abbott, whom Krantz described as "the only scientist of any stature to have demonstrated any serious interest in the (Bigfoot) subject," hoping he would help them search for the creature. Abbott declined, and Krantz argued this call to authorities the same day of the encounter is evidence against a hoax, at least on Patterson's part.
Forestry worker Lyle Loverty happened upon the site a day later and photographed the tracks. Taxidermist and outdoorsman Robert Titmus went to the site with his brother-in-law nine days later. Titmus made casts of the creature's prints and, as best he could, plotted Patterson's and the creature's movements on a map.
Patterson initially estimated its height at six and one-half to seven feet, and later raised his estimate to about seven and one-half feet. (Some later analysts, anthropologist Grover Krantz among them, have suggested Patterson's later estimate was about a foot too tall.) The film shows a large, hairy bipedal apelike figure with short black hair covering most of its body, including the figure's prominent breasts. The figure's head is somewhat pointed; some have argued this feature is a sagittal crest, a type of ridge also found on gorillas. The figure depicted in the Patterson-Gimlin film generally matches the descriptions of Bigfoot offered by others who claim to have seen the creatures. Roger Patterson died of cancer in 1972.

Good News

In a recent episode of MonsterQuest, experts proved, using a professional athelete and computer technology, that the creature seen in the Patterson/Gimlin Bigfoot video was beyond human ability. They tried to get the athelete to replicate a pose from one frame of the recording. He couldn't. This is certainly a more uplifting tone for Sasquatch believers.

General Description

Most reports give the creature anywhere from two to over nine feet. Some reports say it had red eyes, others with yellow or orange. As for hair, it has ,either long or short, brown, black, gray, white, or light brown fur or hair. Some say it has a terrible smell to it such as scat, rotting meat or vegetation, onions, or rotting garbage. Generally said to be heavy(over 500 lbs.) with long arms and legs. It is able to run very fast and can walk across a normal road in two steps. It is either protective over something, hostile, or docile and skiddish.

Do Religions have anything to do with It?

Mormons believe that it is Cain or the descendants of Cain. For God put a curse on him to wander the earth until the end of his days. Beyond this, I cannot say anything more. It is up to you to help me.

Daniel Jepson

Is it Even Possible?

Yes, it is. There is over (My estimate) 50,000 sq. miles of wilderness in New England and Quebec and New Brunswick, and even more. Yes, there have been hoaxes from time to time.
Below are some questions that people have that keep them from believing.

1. Why hasn't anybody killed one?

Answer: Not many people carry guns with them. People have claimed to have shot at one. The creature them disappeared in the woods or other biome. Some people could be afraid to shoot at something unknown. Hunters know that if they shoot at something while hunting without waiting to see what it is, and it's a human, and he/she is killed, they wil be charged with murder. Or maybe they think it could be and endangered species and don't want to shoot.

2. Why haven't we found a body or body part?

Answer: We have. The hand of unknown origin was set to be DNA tested, but it had previously been pickled, destroying the DNA. Also, Monster Quest performed a stunt to see how long it took for a deer body to decompose. It took five or six days without predators around. If there were prdators in the area, it probably would have taken only two or more days to fully decompose. Also, in the case of coyotes, bones would have been eaten.

3. Why haven't there been more photos?

Answer: It's obvious. Most people do not carry cameras with them. After a sighting, they may; for most people, this is a once in a lifetime event. This problem should be solved when more people get cell phones with cameras.

I'm sure there are more reasons, like, "it's too stupid to believe."

Anyway, back to the main question. Many footprints have been found that have been deemed real. While there is no evidence to prove it is not real, there is no evidence to prove it a hoax. For now, its a win-win situation.