Sasquatch/Bigfoot

FBI file on Sasquatch HERE

I hope you will take time to give me some feedback on this post.

This is something I have been thinking about for a while. I have no resolute opinion on it,though I lean toward believing for reasons of my own which include taking long hikes with my father through New Jersey's forests from a very young age. We would hike for miles and see and hear things that intrigued me. Tall trees as thick as 6 inches broken by brute force and shaped into 'X's' and other odd shapes were something we pondered. Then there were the very loud, very forceful tree 'knocks'.

NJ Pine Barrens

I am surrounded by forest  and water and I have often heard what I took to be "hammering" noises far back in the woods. These loud sounds were those of a very hard hit  echoing off a large tree. Then you hear a responding knock from another direction. I always wondered who in the world  was hammering way back in the woods  and at the same time realized, no one could be there doing that really.
I love anything to do with our environment and the great outdoors so interest in this is probably a natural outcome of that.

The last time I heard it I was with my dog a Flat coat Retriever, who has since passed on. We heard the back and forth knocks  not far from my house. It was not all that far away. It raised the hair on the dogs neck and she did not want to continue on. Neither did I. I had a seriously creepy feeling and we made quick time getting out of there.

I am familiar with gun shots so I know the difference between a rifle shot and this sound. They are not the same.

It was not until I happened upon a video recording of sounds said to be made by "Bigfoot" that I recognized the same knocking noise I have heard for many years. That was when I began to look into the story and possibility of Bigfoot being something real.

Living by the forest you hear a lot of strange things and you can chalk up a lot to imagination.

The first time I heard the screams of a few foxes I thought that someone was being killed, literally. Fox screams are awfully scary, especially late in the night!

I hear great owls, fox, bob cats, coyotes, (Yes, NJ has bobcats and coyote packs. Jackson NJ has a lot of coyotes and they are dangerous by the way) all of the normal things but then one morning, early a neighbor and I both beat it back inside our houses, both of which border on a huge tract of government forest land when we heard a growl. A big growl. I had previously written of recent sightings of Mountain lions, also called puma and cougar in the Garden States. You can see that HERE.

Now it could have been a bear, though they are more common just a bit south of here, but, you never know.

The woods are dense with pine, swamp maple, cedar ,holly,  thorn bushes with thorns as long as 3 inches. Blueberries grow wild and bogs are filled with cranberries. Trails can be pure white sand and hard to navigate.

New Jersey has millions of acres of forest and government land that is uninhabited and much of it unexplored.

One of the most famous films of a Bigfoot/Sasquatch was of a thing nicknamed "Patty" because it was recorded by a man named Roger Patterson and his friend Jim Gimlin near the Klamath River in California back in October of 1967. Recently the film was viewed by a famous fellow who says that it proves to him that this is a real creature. A giant ape native to so many places around the world. It has been sighted and recorded in 49 states. The Indians have tales of them going way back and pioneer and colonial sightings are shared.

Several things about these creatures in the films are interesting. First, the bent leg compliant gait is impossible for humans at the rate of speed the subject if moving.       Second the long arms that fall to the knee line are too long for humans. This can be seen in the original film itself.       The rise/ fall stepping and inline step  is not human like either.     You can  literally see  the muscle ripple beneath the fur and you can see the foot and toes rise up on footfall. In the small animation at top you can see the muscle and fat shake with the footfall from the back down into the thigh.

Why has no one found a  body? Well, when was the last time you saw a rotting carcass of a bear or even a deer? Even living and walking the forests as I have for years, I have only seen a few small number of animals dead. The vultures are just too quick and other animals drag off the bones to chew very quickly afterwards. Also most animals go into dense underbrush to die it seems.

Pine Barrens Creek and forest

For every credible film there are tons of stupid hoaxes which hinder real research. But there are a large number of sightings in Jackson, NJ, Manchester, and down by the Bass River State Park as well as north in Sussex county, Stokes State Forest and etc.

I thought it might interest others to see this fascinating video and to hear the sounds that I find so intriguing. The sounds are authenticated as being non human and not of any known animal. They were recorded in various sites by Ron Morehead and Al Berry of California.

You can hear more sounds and interviews HERE

What do you think? 

I guess until or if they ever really get a true closeup, it will always be a mystery. Then again, today, even a closeup would bring out the skeptics I guess. I don't know what would prove if it exists or does not except a live capture or a group of professionals finding one.

As for me, I just don't can't say one way or the other, but I find it fascinating.





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