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Happy Bigfoot Day.... Oct 20th

You know what's interesting...

For a group of guys who mostly have belief and faith in a higher power and will fervently debate it, many are quick to shut down a belief in an animal who has been part of folklore across the earth for most of human existence.

Just like those who try to disprove any religious faith, one cannot definitively disprove the existence of something without analyzing and disproving every single anecdote and experience and piece of evidence.

This isn't me saying that Sasquatch is 100% real and one is hanging out just outside my view in the trees right now. But this is absolutely me saying that I will never claim that Sasquatch is fake. Just as I would never claim that any God(s) are fake. I don't know, I'll never know, I just know that there are many things I can't explain.
 
buzzbombxj said:
I like how nobody has gotten a good picture of one, or a good video of one, and no scientific observation of one has ever been done, cause we can't seem to find the damn thing.

...but we know for sure that if we hear knocking sounds in the woods its samsquanches. Because that's how they communicate, ya know.
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giant squid was folklore until 2004
2006 before a body was produced :stirthepot:
 
I am in the camp of WEIRD shit happening in the woods

I have experienced something circling out camp at night , then a random tree 'just falls'
like 12" at the base goes down. No wind, just THAT tree

another time
watched a friend of mine get knocked on his ass from something thrown from the brush
like pro baseball laser beam square to the forehead, nothing but palms and the bottom of his shoes recoil:laughing:

funny now, but I am sure I peed a little when it happened :grinpimp:
 
Yotota said:
You know what's interesting...

For a group of guys who mostly have belief and faith in a higher power and will fervently debate it, many are quick to shut down a belief in an animal who has been part of folklore across the earth for most of human existence.

Just like those who try to disprove any religious faith, one cannot definitively disprove the existence of something without analyzing and disproving every single anecdote and experience and piece of evidence.

This isn't me saying that Sasquatch is 100% real and one is hanging out just outside my view in the trees right now. But this is absolutely me saying that I will never claim that Sasquatch is fake. Just as I would never claim that any God(s) are fake. I don't know, I'll never know, I just know that there are many things I can't explain.
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Hope that wasn't directed at me :confused: All I did was give anecdotal evidence of a very similar phenomenon to "wood knocking" that occurs in our back yard; and that it's a noise that would echo well in areas w/ proper acoustics.

I can say for a fact that a 'squatch didn't do it in our yard



. . . well, . . . unless he / she / it / they / them / their was wearing a cloak of invisibility and timing his / her / its / their / their / their movements to the wind-driven movements of the other trees nearby.

:idea: Holy crap :eek: - maybe we do have a bigfoot :flipoff2:
 
Tech Tim said:
Thanks for sharing your experience.

BTW- The How to Hunt guy's BF video is a hoax. After seeing that, I can't trust anything he says.



Yep, it seems like there are three types of outdoor people up here in the PNW:

1) Those who've had some kind of encounter, whether it be a sighting, or rocks thrown, growls, foot stomps, foot prints etc.
2) Those who know someone who has.
3) Those that don't pay much attention to what's going on around them or maybe better said, puts off things they've seen or heard as just weird and doesn't give it any thought.

To clarify #3 - I keep meeting people who claim to have spent a ton of time in the woods, hunting, fishing hiking etc. and they've never seen or heard anything weird...... except this one time......such and such happened.

This past summer, I was at my local bike shop picking up some parts and chatting with the owner. We've known each other for a few years and when the subject comes up he always laughs and starts to say how much time he has spent in the woods, hiking, biking, hunting etc. and has never had anything weird happen..... except this one night, he and a bunch of buddies were out having a bonfire, drinking, yelling, laughing etc. when something up on the ridge started growling, breaking branches, and what sounded like a couple trees getting pushed down, so they put the fire out and left. I just smiled at him and told him congrats, that was an encounter. One chased them off.

Another friend who had at the time, over 900 hikes in the Northern Cascades, most of them solo. He even had a pic of a Grizzly years before the WA Fish & Wildlife says any had returned to the Cascades. This guy knew all the animals, all the sounds they make and would flat out state he has never ran across anything that would make him think BF existed. So I ask him if he has ever heard wood knocks. Had to explain to him what they were and his eyes just got big. He says he would be out in the middle of a wilderness area, mid-week, knowing that the chance of another person being within a few miles of him was extremely slim and out of nowhere, it sounds like someone is trying to chop down a tree and then another "tree cutter" would be chopping down a tree over away from the first. I just smiled and told him that those were BFs communicating back and forth, sounding the alarm that my buddy was coming through their area.

It goes on and on, have heard those types of stories a dozen or more times.

I've posted some of my experiences both on this and the old board. Even posted a footprint of one that walked right by our camp in the middle of the day this past summer.
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Absolutely, spend enough time in the woods and there will be something you can't explain. Most things could probably be explained by a local wildlife biologist but even then, there are occasional instances that stump the experts.

ExWrench said:
Hope that wasn't directed at me :confused: All I did was give anecdotal evidence of a very similar phenomenon to "wood knocking" that occurs in our back yard; and that it's a noise that would echo well in areas w/ proper acoustics.

I can say for a fact that a 'squatch didn't do it in our yard



. . . well, . . . unless he / she / it / they / them / their was wearing a cloak of invisibility and timing his / her / its / their / their / their movements to the wind-driven movements of the other trees nearby.

:idea: Holy crap :eek: - maybe we do have a bigfoot :flipoff2:
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Not directed at anyone! And not meant as an insult or jab. It's me thinking out loud and sharing something I noticed about the group in general.

I do agree that most weird things have a mundane explanation. But again... Some don't.
 
Happy Birthday Bigfoot!

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Filthy McChevy said:
That borders Bailey and I guess somewhere near Bailey is where he has had some stuff happen. I haven't talked to him, just got it 2nd hand.
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from south park it’s the last right before going up Kenosha, just past Jefferson. Drive like 20 miles up that road and camp alone and report back. Heard some wild shit hunting a couple years ago. Looked into it later and it’s the epicenter in the state.
 
Fullsize80cherokee said:
from south park it’s the last right before going up Kenosha, just past Jefferson. Drive like 20 miles up that road and camp alone and report back. Heard some wild shit hunting a couple years ago. Looked into it later and it’s the epicenter in the state.
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I drove to the end of that road once looking for firewood stacks some forest service employee told me were there. When I found the wood what was left of the stacks was garbage. I drove as far as you could though and then came back.
 
Tin Roof said:
Was there a thread at the other place about that? Somewhere I read a bunch of stories of people seeing those.
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They were interesting stories, but they are no more real than Goosebump stories.

Big foot on the other hand is real! Too bad it's just M29PV4U hiking naked in the woods. :eek:
 
MuntCuffin said:
Anyone ever see weird shit like staircases in the middle of the woods?
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I've been places that have "felt off" before. What's interesting to me is that I enjoy spending a lot of time waaaaay out in places that not a lot of people go either in the mountains or desert. Despite being farther away from anyone or anything in the desert plenty of times, I've never had the creeps out there, but in the forest is a different matter. Logical explanation is probably because I have better lines of sight in the desert. Right? Right?
 
I got a few texts from my Sister-in-law this past weekend. My brother, SIL and Uncle were out moose hunting a couple hours northeast of Anchorage, they were in a meadow and each time uncle would knock a couple antlers together to call in the moose, they'd hear a big wood knock from up the hill in the woods.

They've heard me tell them about wood knocks and other stuff before, but this was the first time they had ever heard it themselves. Same with my uncle, he'd lived up there since the 70s and has travelled and hunted all over and had never heard it before (that he remembers).
 
Tech Tim said:
I got a few texts from my Sister-in-law this past weekend. My brother, SIL and Uncle were out moose hunting a couple hours northeast of Anchorage, they were in a meadow and each time uncle would knock a couple antlers together to call in the moose, they'd hear a big wood knock from up the hill in the woods.

They've heard me tell them about wood knocks and other stuff before, but this was the first time they had ever heard it themselves. Same with my uncle, he'd lived up there since the 70s and has travelled and hunted all over and had never heard it before (that he remembers).
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Alaska's average temperature has increased about 3* since the 20s. They're migrating north now that it's warmer. :flipoff2:
 
Sandy Johnson said:
Thanks for the reminder! I'll have to tell my neighbor who swears up and down he's encountered bigfoot and has an extremely elaborate story to go with it
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Unless he lives in the tri county bowl, up north he has company / competition :lmao:...
 
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