That is a great report. I remember seeing something like that on an episode of MonsterQuest or similar show. I remember thinking, “That guy really knows what he’s doing.”. Notice how many things he does to mask his scent.

Were I him, I wouldn’t have bothered either.

Bindernagel’s The Discovery of the Sasquatch – a book I would actually bet 99% of the posters here have not read, and should – talks about how science can discover stuff; forget it; and re-discover it later. This phenomenon can be particularly prominent, I bet, when the thing being discussed isn’t recognized by science to exist. A Chinese yeti expedition in the mid-seventies reiterated the same idea. I’ve been advocating it here for a long time. The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy is doing it, as noted above.

And just tossing in to the general discussion something I may already have said in different words: as to the habituators who don’t offer proof, maybe that’s not what they’re after. I presume that’s their prerogative. Maybe, given the nastiness they’ve seen from science on this topic, they’d just rather not deal with it. They don’t have to prove it to us, any more than one of us has to mention a sighting to anyone else.

My first girlfriend was writing me a letter (she never mailed them; she always got them under my pillow somehow…) at 3 o’clock or so one morning when she noted just what you are talking about, the noises we never pay attention to most of the time and how noisy they in fact are. She wrote: “Silence is not very quiet!”

We talk about super-sensory perception in sasquatch when deer…well, if you are actually seeing deer in your neighborhood, you would probably be stunned to find out how many there actually are. When you never see one, that merely means there are only a lot of them.

On a related note, when I’m out in the woods I try to hold off using artificial light as long as I possibly can. Most people have no idea how good their night vision is.

(Depending on degree of deer habituation YMMV.)

Thank you sir.

I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s not new.

Animals are very highly attuned to things which do not belong in their environment. Sit in the woods in the dark with your eyes closed and the lights off. It won’t take long for you to start hearing every little snap, crackle and pop… every little hoot and holler… all around you… take a deep breath, then a couple of sharp snorts… then another deep breath… exhale slowly… take in the smells. Sit like this for a while, then open your eyes. In this state you will be hooked in to the environment.

If something different and foreign were to show up… your limited human senses, even blunted as they are by civilized living, would immediately tell you. Using any kind of optics or artificial viewing device will destroy this connection and what little natural night vision you have, same with hearing aids such as parabolic microphones… matter of fact, wearing too much equipment in general causes a loss of the naturally connected state of mind which is necessary for the primal state of being I’m describing.

Ploughboy, that’s it exactly. My uncle Harris, GRHS, loved to hunt… but couldn’t get around so good near the end… so my cousins back in GA built what looks like kids’ forts on stilts with stairs at the opposite ends of big fields from some planted foodstuffs… then let them sit there complete with chairs, blankets (washed in Dreft), furnishings, etc… until they were part of the landscape. The food occurred naturally in the environment and was close to the edge of the forest on the far end of the fields from the stands. Got so the deer wouldn’t pay them any mind at all and got used to coming right out to eat. He’d rotate using 3 or 4 of them… but if you were only shooting the animals with cameras then one would probably do you.

That’s how Bigfoot feels about your stupid game cams. He can see them instantly, he can hear them, and he can smell them. Not the way to make a fast friend.

Thom Powell speaks of “establishing an embassy” in their bailiwick. He’s not being literal, so don’t get all literal on me.

Obviously, Bigfoot is not keen on setting up an embassy in our towns and cities. This is highly delicate stuff, and it’s going to take a lot of time. I’m of the opinion it’s a mistake for them, but that’s just me. They can take care of their business without our help, protection, or interference.

On the other hand, it’s really us that need them. Not the other way around.