This is just like any other report.

Just one story.

No one who wasn’t there, actually, can say anything about it.

I am laying a very major bet that if these events took place exactly as described, and you rather than Godfrey were the one experiencing them, you wouldn’t be going home talking about a branch casually falling off a tree.

Once again, everybody jumps on one story and makes perfect judgments of the sort only possible from people who weren’t there, instead of stepping back and asking the only questions that should concern a scientist:

Why so many stories?

And why are they all so consistent?

That’s all that counts here.

Nothing to analyze, people. Throw it on the pile.

That’s one huge pile. If you have routine curiosity, never mind the kind of curiosity a scientist should have, you’re wondering why that pile is so big.

NEXT!

My comment above was a comment. This is Nick’s posting, and I registered my opinion.

This is Craig’s site, and thus hardly in charge of “doing” anything in general with this site.

I like the example of the ghost hunter shows…. the one on syfy… ghost hunters… these guys go and try to DISPROVE whatever evidence they catch…. then… when left with no explanation… or way to debunk… THEN they have proof.

This is what needs to happen with the bigfoot community.

Go out… collect evidence… but try to DISPROVE it… try to DEBUNK it… instead… they’re going in looking for something…. so, anything they hear/see they immediately assume its bigfoot.

its a flaw in the way they’re going about this. IMO.

We have lost our way, folks, if it has come to this.

One thing that did pop into my mind about about tree knocking behavior is that a bear might be able to produce some knocking sounds by pushing against a smaller tree. It seems to me that that might be possible. If both trees were alive that would likely create a bang and not a knock. If the larger tree were recently dead the smaller live tree could be used for multiple responses.

Has anyone considered this possibility? I mean does anyone know of research on this?

Nick a few months back I was looking out on our garden when all of sudden I see this young comely female arm sinuously gesturing to me from behind our garden shed as if to say ‘Come and see me some time big boy!”

Did I go?

No.

Did I mention the arm was covered in black fur?

Does this mean there’s a Sexsquatch roaming the back gardens of Liverpool?

Maybe…

My own suspicion though’s it was an elemental of some kind something along the lines of a dakini many of which’re said to have shapeshifting capabilities which they deploy to protect/test or tempt ‘holy men’ whenever they’re in danger of going up or down a level.

I’m perfectly convinced for a variety of reasons if fate ever sends me into Bigfoot or Alma country every hot Sasquatch chick for miles will come hurtling in my direction.

Sounds like Linda Godfrey (‘Godfrey’ -’holy men’?) might have a similar problem with ‘herukas’ – the male equivalent of dakinis.

When you see the effect she’s having it makes me wonder why this gender/sexual angle hasn’t been played for all its worth in the Bigfoot game before?

Is it fear of sexism or fear of female success?

Remember it’s a temple priestess/houri/whore who lures Enkidu into the trap which seals his fate.

Way too much evidence involved here to toss this one off as a branch that simply fell off the tree.

(Branches where the wood looked the way this wood apparently did on examination don’t fall off trees. You’ll always see some sort of interior rot.)