They could use these clubs for a wide array of purposes, from hunting to clearing brush, to scaring off threats to the wood knocking already mentioned. If the Sasquatch is as intelligent as we give it credit for, then they may be quite resourceful in the manner in which they use clubs of various sizes.

Chimps may be quite different from Sasquatch, but we can use them as sort of a yardstick by which to measure the potential intelligence and tool using capabilities of our more mysterious friends. Let us also remember that chimps use a wide range of tools besides clubs. They are even known to fashion spears of sorts, using sharp or broken off sticks in order to hunt small animals hiding within logs. Why should Sasquatch not be within the realm of exhibiting similar behavior?

Also, chimps are known to exhibit a sort of “cultural transfer” of technology within their groups, with some groups using tools that other groups do not. So you may have one groups using clubs, which they in turn teach their offspring to use, while another group of chimps may not use clubs at all. So this tool use is a learned behavior and these chimps are developing ways to use tools that they in turn are teaching to members of their own group. It is quite fascinating really.

This raises the interesting possibility that Sasquatch in different areas or even within different family groups (if indeed they have a social structure like that) may use tools in different ways or to different degrees. So perhaps Sasquatch in one area are using clubs where other Ssquatch may not. It would be interesting to see whether sightings of Sasquatch displaying tool use show any correlation to the areas in which they were sighted.

I would add in closing that it is becoming increasingly clear that tool use among animals is not such an isolated phenomenon. Not only large primates but also dolphins, some types of birds, even fish and octopuses, among others, are all documented to display tool using to varying degrees. The ability to use tools is increasingly less a unique human attribute. We would do well to keep this in mind when speculating on just how able Sasquatch might be able to use tools such as clubs.

If Sasquatch are using clubs or other tools, it would not surprise me in the least.

An excellent question. As low as they keep the lights in some clubs, ANYBODY could be at the next table!!!

“But why?” I demanded. “I thought Bigfoots…Bigfeet…ah…Sasaquatches…sasquatchi???
ANYWAY I thought YOUR people were non-violent!”
“We are, ” he said. “But haven’t you noticed that every once in awhile some idiot will come along–who could BENEFIT from a really good clump on the head?”

“Well…yes,” I said. “Now that you mention it…there was this TV Preacher who….”

“Say no more,” Ralph replied. “Now, what with laws and things YOU can’t clump him on the head. But WE can. Because we don’t exist, you see.”

“Well of COURSE you exist!” I shouted. “I wouldn’t be out here in the woods talking to MYSELF, now, would I?”
Ralph looked at me.
“Okay,” I said. “Maybe I would. But still you exist!”
“Not according to the authorities. And since they say we don’t exist how could they prosecute us?”

“This is extremely cool,” I said.
Ralph nodded and offered me a pine cone.
“No thanks,” I said, pulling out a Mars Bar. “I brought my own.”
“Those things’ll be the death of you,” Ralph said.
“‘O Death, where is thy sting!’”

(A recent report on the BFRO site appears to provide the first eyewitness account of a sasquatch actually doing this.)

If indeed that’s what these anomalous knocks are – and they are frequently reported under compelling circumstances involving other oft-noted characteristics of encounter – then I’m sure this isn’t the only use a sasquatch might find for a club.

Clubs are, as noted above, well within the tool-use capability of chimps. So there’s no reason to think they’re too sophisticated an idea for sasquatch.

If anyone finds an atlatl next to a huge footprint, now, all bets are off.