Maybe I should do a Blog?

That WOULD be cool!

Nah - nobody pays attention.

Sasquatchin’ is largely a do-it-yourself operation, sooo…

Go to the BFRO Archives for your State: list EVERY Class A sighting according to time, day, month and location, also making colored dots on a state map. Make time, day and month graphs.

Then do the same for the States surrounding yours. Soon, patterns will emerge, perhaps revealing favorite habitats or seasonal migration routes.

Go to the best of those areas on-line and in person. Search for recent activity. Check the Libraries’ Staffs, 001 books and their Bulletin Boards for notices of local Talks. Check the newspapers for articles, and their classifieds for ads - if there are none, run one.

You will develop a personal wealth of private information about your favorite cryptid, data which nobody else has in such graphic form.

I still have my topo map detailing the movements of a creature ranging around the wilds of Maryland in Winter ‘77-’78 which, combined with other info, enabled us to chart his path and to try to predict where he might show up next, what he ate, how big he was, what time of night he appeared etc, and that was only for ONE SEASON!

Do your due diligence, run the data, make the charts, talk the talk, and then… take a deeep breath, and walk the walk.

You can do it!

I actually tend to agree with ya, buddy.

We don’t actually know what’s on the guy’s mind, so it’s not bad to speculate. But I’m with you that that’s what it ultimately all comes down to eventually. Money does tend to make the world go round. And fame is like crack.

I gotta another theory:

Maybe the guy’s just crazy? A delusional, full-throttle wackaloon?
Maybe he thinks he’s “destined” to discover Sasquatch and assume his place in the pantheon of world pop culture celebrities?

One guess is as good as any. But I get what you are saying. Like I said before, I’m alternating between amusement and disgust at this. and disgust is winning.

That is a wise thought. It is always to rush over head when someone is coming up with something controversial. The whole idea is peculiar to me but it might be me who has to think outside the good old famous box.

Perhaps the conventional approach to field researching is ineffective. Or as you put it “tree banging, rock banging, speaker blasting, middle of the night with lights on tromping about routine”.

nearly every follow up on field trips I have read and every documentary I have seen has been carried out very much after your “check list”. So far the result is a very clear zero. New ideas must be considered and perhaps those could be a fresh re-start for field researchers. Who knows, the result might be positive! Also we might want to learn from other discoveries and how they were found. I am not sure but I think that the search for new insects in the Amazons is performed with a different approach (correct me someone if I am wrong) than the search for bigfoot.

Time to learn from the past 30-40 years and realise it has not brought up any conclusive evidence.

LOOK. For any and all of these off-the-wall propositions, there are only two motives: FAME and FORTUNE.

Let’s look at FAME: do you think the owner of a Taxidermy Shop in Maynard, Minnesota might enjoy a little FAME? What if he actually found, captured or killed a Sasquatch? No matter what public opinion said, he would have all the FAME he could handle, along with a huge potential FORTUNE!

And FORTUNE? Follow the MONEY. A “Big Game Hunting Guide for an Outfitter in Buffalo, Wyoming” would certainly appreciate the COSTS involved in mounting a prolonged expedition into the wildlands of North America in search of an unknown cryptid. Think about it: camping equipment, food, water, fuel, transportation (horses or ATVs), communication, audio, video & thermal recording gear, trap and containment apparatus, clothing & personal stuff, accessories, at least one assistant, etc…

Where would all that MONEY come from? I’m goin’ Squatchin’ in the local mountains for three days next month, and even that will COST me several hundred DOLLARS!

So a savvy Big Game Hunting Guide would need the FUNDS up front, to properly equip himself for the Quest. Give the guy a break with the questions about his motives - FAME and FORTUNE ane enough motives for anyone, and appropriate up-front FUNDING might just get the job done!

I wish you luck, Tim.

I’ve never been a fan of the tree banging, rock banging, speaker blasting, middle of the night with lights on tromping about routine.

I’d like a lot more analysis of sightings to come up with a composite that might indicate where and when to look. I know it would be conjecture and supposition but gotta start somewhere.

But hey, I bet that Loren or Dr. Meldrum, etc., would do a field expedition for $150,000?

On an unrealistic yet intriguing idea, what if he can guarantee this because he has a body already? Say the original Minnesota Iceman? I have no proof of this and it is completely unfounded (just so that’s clear) but wouldn’t that be something? After all a lot of people think it has disappeared into a private collection.