Comments on: Silverton Bigfoot Museum

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:04:59 +0000

Well trooper, I have been on expeditions. With 50 plus people on them. First let me say you are wrong thinking that 50 people trapes through the bush looking for Squatch. We break up into many different groups with no more than usually 10 to a group. And we don’t actually look for squatch. We walk the trails at night and let them know we are there. (I’m sure they already know this.) We do calls and wood knocks, and we listen for response. After we spend a few hours doing this we return to the camps. There is the main base camp and usually 4or5 other camp sites. So it’s not like you have a huge amlount of people all together at the same time. Second, you can take all that miltary mumbo jumbo and toss it out the window. Because I don’t care how much Ranger & Special Force training you have. You will never sneak up on a Squatch. If you’re lucky you may get a glimps of one for a split second. If a squatch wants you to see it, it will show itself. You don’t find Squatch. Squatch finds you. The best way to see a Squatch is to keep going back to the same location they are in, let them know you are there. Leave them some food. I usually leave apples and squash. And leave the are. Keep repeating this process. then come back leave food and stay the night. My bet is you will get a visitor in your camp. Once they know it’s you and figure out your not there to harm them, they will come sneak around your camp. Just like what happened to me. I have night vision, listening devices, recorders and actually, none of it has helped me see anything. I think my best tool is the bionic ear. At least I can hear when one is around, it helps you know where to look. But like I said, if Squatch wants you to see him, you most likely will.

By: planettom

planettom — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:54:22 +0000

I love the Silverton area and riding the Durango – Silverton train. I’ll be sure to stop by the museum next time I am in the area.

By: trooper1

trooper1 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:34:08 +0000

I am a skeptic on the existence of “sasquatch”. However I am open to the idea of the possiblity this creature could exist?? Too many people have seen something in the Northwest. I have recently read many accounts of sightings. The possibilites are 1. Miss identification of an animal, 2. Some individual with a “gorilla” suit, 3. Or they are actually seeing an unknown species. I am a former state police investigator, formerly served with US Military Intelligence and Special Forces. What I have seen with these “expeditions” are ridiculous! You cannot have a large number of people with no military experience “stomping” through the forests and expect to see anything. If this creature exists he can smell you, hear you and see you before you can see it if it indeed exists. In a combat situaltion or a “recon” mission if you proceeded in this manner you would be dead or captured. If this creature exists he is very elusive using “stealth” and is more than like nocturnal from what I have read. He probably uses the trees for cover, either up in a tree and looks down at his pursuers and he is very familiar with the terrain. Without the use of camo, stealth, night vision and “scent” blocker in a very small number of individuals you will see nothing! If you are serious about discovering if this creature exists please utilize individuals with military experience (Rangers, Special Forces, Force Recon, Seals). They have the “professional” skills.

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:07:49 +0000

Greetings All!

Wow! get a load of prettyboy there in Silverton! That face looks more like something from a romance novel than the P/G film. When will the media stop reinforcing this view of Bigfoot? Young Bigfoot grow up seeing these unattainable pictures of young Sasquatch (the picture’s only a bit over 7 foot tall, ehy can’t older Bigfoot get these modeling jobs?) and their self-esteem goes right down the tubes!

Wake up people!! Its no wonder all the average looking Bigfoot hide from us, faced with this kind of air-brushed body image!

Seriously, what I’d love to see is a traveling exhibit put together by all these museums, that could go around the country to museums and zoos. Throw those of us outside the Pacific Northwest (and Maine!) a bone. And some hair samples, a few footprint casts…..

By: JMonkey

JMonkey — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:46:10 +0000

Cool, I am going to Durango this Winter for some fly fishing. I may have to make my way over to Silverton for a gander at this newly minted museum. Who knows maybe I will see the big hairy dude himself while I am on the river fishing.

By: megalania

megalania — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:24:38 +0000

I was there just a month ago. I puchased a bigfoot cast and “in search of the yowie” book there. I spent around in hour in the Silverton bigfoot museum. I thought everything there was amazing, esspecially the gigantopithicus skull and the lifesive bigfoots. I also got to talk to the owner of the museum for a while. I’m probably the only 12 year old to commet on this article.