Whether you like or despise the Mountain Monsters TV show, it is always interesting to look for the facts behind the story told on screen.

In one episode, the AIMS crew set out for Washington County in Pennsylvania. According to the team, this bigfoot was said to possess extreme speed and strength. This Shawnee Indian legend was said to have first come to light in the 1700s.

Thinking about how people express themselves concerning Sasquatch got the song "I'm a Believer" running through my mind. Neil Diamond wrote it and the Monkees made it a hit. 

It's a topic on all the forums and in all the groups; a popular subject for memes. Respect Nature. So let's have a talk about that as the unofficial "Official Research Season" seems to be starting.

First off, it's not a bad thing to have enthusiasm when you go out searching. But along with that eagerness is the accountability you should also take with you. I always liked the advice given in Jurassic Park II on how to be on the island and observe the dinosaurs but leave no trace.

In this day and age, everyone is trying to find novel ways of finding bigfoot.

They sing, they dance, they hoot, they howl, they play music, they blast calls, they play musical instruments, they even cook bacon.

They run through the woods and fields on ATVs and dirt bikes, they bang on trees with their special "bigfoot wood knockers", they rove through fields and forests on public and private lands with and without permission, all hoping to get the next "Patty film" or to be the next Matt Moneymaker. (Insert any other name you prefer)

Missouri has had many bigfoot sightings throughout history, starting with "wildman" stories up through the year 2018. One of the reported sightings comes from Clinton County. And that is what we shall explore today.

On January 29, 2018, a semi-truck driver saw a "tall brown mass" on two legs cross a roadside grassy area in only three giant steps and disappear into the woods. The afternoon sighting lasted only a few seconds. He reported his experience to the state highway patrol.  He described the creature moving with almost a "marching" movement but with a bilateral bend at its knees. The height was estimated at around 10 ft. The witness also reported this to BFRO (report #58980).

Ronald Smith finished work and drove home like any other work day. He got home at around 12:20 a.m. and as usual, went out to feed his horse. And that's when the "usual" ended.

When he got out to the pasture, the horse wouldn't come to the fence. So he resigned himself to going into the pasture to feed him. That was when he heard something in the dark, walking on two legs through the snow. Knowing that only his horse should be out there, he concluded there were some kids up to mischief.

I don't like to go off bigfoot topics very often on here. But with my recent post on the Pine Barrens and sightings of bigfoot there, some questions and confusion on the Jersey Devil have occurred. So, today we relate some history of the Jersey Devil and stories of encounters with it and other more recent experiences that could be either it or bigfoot-related.

Dogman is a popular discussion point lately, and I have commented several times, that although I remain on the fence on this topic, I am very aware of legends and stories that discuss the existence of "man-wolf" creatures.

And so comes one of those tales. This particular one concerns the story of the Adlet. Or sometimes referred to as Erqiglet. These legends are most often told among the Inuit of Greenland and the Labrador and Hudson Bay coasts.