Spike TV's upcoming show about bigfoot offers a prize of 10 million to the team that proves the creature is real. Well as things are coming together for the show and teams are being selected it become a reality that not all people/teams will make the cut. When people get rejected they sometimes react to it via youtube video.

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St. Joe's River

I received another sightings report, well actually it is two different sightings, these took place years ago but it is still important to get them recorded.

Here is the report sent to me by JT

JT's 1981 sighting -
"I was hunting in Idaho with father when I was 16, I was on a mountain side near St. Joe's river,
I had a mule deer in my sights and as I fired the deer fell, and I saw the creature by a thicket of trees.
It was large, hairy and had long arms. It made a loud yell, it was mad I think. Our outfitters said it was a  bear 8 foot standing as a man, bull crap I know what I saw. It was 300 yards away and I could of shot it but I froze up."

JT's Sighting in 1972
"When I was 7 in Maryland, we called them swamp apes, I was on the beach below the house and
it came out of marsh. It was smaller, 6 foot and had a baby in arms, it ran away fast and it yelled and broke a tree. As it ran off  I was crying and got my dad, he was hard on me and said it was a bear. People say I'm a nut, oh well I saw what I saw yes they are real. I think they travel under ground in sulfur mines, at times it smelled of sulfur.  That's it but my brother in law had 1 jump on his car not
far from here many reports 30 mins away. Once you see 1 you never forget it. "


We would like to thank JT for sharing his sightings with all of us, So Thanks JT.

Thanks
Tom



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Really? is that Factual?

A favorite new phrase has surfaced in the world of Bigfoot skeptics when they present their arguments against the case for the existence of the creature. "Factual reality" is supposed to end all debate and bring reason and logic to the conversation. But the trouble is, given the nature of science, factual reality itself can’t possibly exist.

What is reality after all? Physicists are attempting to answer this question as we speak, while, at the same time, only creating more questions as they learn. But with the knowledge that’s available, it’s becoming clearer that reality isn’t what we think it is. Well, actually it is...but it isn’t.

But the one thing that is clear is that reality cannot be determined by one person or one group of people. Reality is quite a personal thing, unique to each individual human, and created by that person’s personal perceptions. Are you confused yet?

Imagine that two different people from two different walks of life board a plane. The plane crashes and one of those people is killed while the other survives. For the family of the person who is killed, the event is a tragedy. While for the family of the survivor, it was a miracle. The two families, having had different experiences of the event will perceive the event two different ways. Two different perceptions, two completely different realities. Therefore, there is NO absolute reality that everyone should be able to recognize because they have not had the same experiences.

Law enforcement is now forced to decide if eye witness testimony is dependable. If there were three eye witnesses to a particular event, when asked to describe it, each will give a slightly different story. A positive person will try to see the bright side. A negative person will perceive it as negative. And a dramatic person will see it as a terrible tragedy or miraculous event, nothing short of a miracle. Three people, three completely different lives, three different sets of perceptions describing the same event, three different ways. So who’s right?

Our personal perceptions decide. If we’re basically a positive person, we’ll believe the positive witness. If we’re a bit on the negative side, we’ll buy into the gloom and doom sided witness. And you get the picture. So who IS right? Well, nobody....and everybody. Depending on their perceptions.

One person cannot possibly understand another’s point of view, albeit reality, unless they’ve lived exactly the same life, had exactly the same experiences, and done exactly the same things. But many will argue their point because their reality tells them one thing. But they’re arguing with someone that has different perceptions and can’t possibly see that same reality. The can only see their own. How could they understand anything else?

So the term "factual reality" is an oxymoron.

And, now, what is a fact?

According to the Oxford dictionary a fact is "a thing that is known or proved to be true."

There are a few things we can all accept as fact...for the most part. The sky is blue, the grass is green, etc. But after that there is a human problem with a fact. Who decides what is fact and what is not? Since a fact is also determined by personal perceptions of the interpreter.

Science is a well-respected medium of fact-finding, but it’s not flawless. It’s more of a collection of theories that are broadly accepted. Some things that were once considered facts, are now old wives’ tales. They’ve been debunked and replaced with the new "facts." Since new knowledge has replaced the old, was the old knowledge ever really a fact, by definition, in the first place? It was accepted as fact at the time, but science changes. What was considered scientific fact yesterday can very well change tomorrow. What some may have considered fact was nothing more than an idea that people aspired to. And when told something different backed by "evidence," they aspired to the new "fact." So how many things can we really determine to be fact? Almost nothing is cut and dry, folks. There’s all this gray area, and that’s where our hairy friends live.

So what about that "solid, factual evidence? That stuff that we can see and touch? Isn’t it a fact?

Sorry, but here’s where serious science comes into play: quantum physics. Matter, as we term it in science, is not solid. The chair you’re sitting in, the computer you’re working on, and everything else you see and determine to be real, they are not solid; not really. They are just masses of particles vibrating at a certain frequency. All those things you can see, taste, touch, and hold are not real in the sense you understand "real" to be.

So when we understand a little bit more about the real nature of reality, things start to seem a bit hazy and chaotic in the universe, like we have no control over anything, and that nothing is real at all. And it’s a bit scary and often hard for some to accept. Humans need order and structure, and they’ll try desperately to get it. So they’ll spin the whole idea of reality in their favor...just to make themselves feel better...or justify their opinions.

But here’s the interesting part. Humans are the ones that control reality. Each one of us individually creates our own reality as we go. We are the ones who bring order to chaos, and here’s how it’s known: Scientists placed photons, those little particles of light that everything is made of, inside a glass tube. As they observed the photons, they saw that they were chaotic, moving randomly and sporadically. But then they introduced human DNA into the tube. And when they did that, the photons suddenly became ordered. The chaos was ended. Something about introducing human DNA into the tube, caused the photons to start behaving differently. This suggests that human energy brings order to the universe.

Quantum physics has also found that matter behaves a certain way under normal circumstances. But it’s behavior changes dramatically WHEN it’s being observed by humans. Matter changes what it does when we’re watching it, as can be observed in Dr. Quantum’s double slit experiment at the bottom of this page.

But what does all this mean for the case for factual reality? It suggests that humans have a great deal more power over reality than we know. If matter, the stuff that makes up everything we see, changes when we humans are entered into the equation, what does that say? And if our personal reality is created by our very diverse personal perceptions, what does that say about reality? It says that we all see things a bit differently and that creates our own personal reality. And each and every once of us has a different reality that we’ve created for ourselves.

But what does this mean for the debate of the existence of bigfoot? It means that debate about the subject is completely pointless. Since reality is unique to each individual and there is no absolute reality, only individual perceptions, reality can’t possibly be debated. THERE IS NO SINGLE REALITY THAT EVERYONE CAN RECOGNIZE. We all have a different one. Period. End of story.

There is no right and wrong in the debate. Only different views, all which can be supported by some kind of evidence.

Bigfoot exists for some by way of personal perception (they’ve seen them for themselves) and is a myth for others...by way of personal perception... (they haven’t seen them and don’t recognize any evidence of them as being tangible). Those who’ve seen them don’t really need evidence to know they exist. And those that haven’t seen them need factual evidence based on factual reality that doesn’t really exist...or at least is determined by the perceptions of the interpreter.

So what are we left with? Nothing. Different perceptions, different ideas, different realities. 7 billion different, separate, unique realities worldwide.

Albert Einstein once said, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one." And that’s the point of it all. So we should all be more tolerant of others’ ideas about reality. Their ideas come from their own observances and experiences as your ideas come from yours. So IN REALITY nobody’s wrong. Chew on that for a while. *******DF






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This is a sightings report taken by TCC Team Member Jason Morse.
Jason is a Lifelong outdoor enthusiast, trained in wilderness survival tactics, 26 year martial artist, DJ, EMT and amateur writer.







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Bigfoot Crosses HWY. 441

I recently got another sightings report. They shared possibly two sightings. The first one was in 2000.

AB said -
"So everybody thinks I'm crazy but I know I saw a Bigfoot back in 2000 around 12am cross a main highway in 3 steps right in front my truck and a friend was with me and we both looked at each other with a puzzled look and he said don't fu**ing stop the location was highway 441 Holden, LA just about 50yards from tickfaw river."

More recent encounter with some odd sounds.
AB said -
"Now recently I have heard loud growls across the road from my house which is around Bear creek hunting club and even my wife and mom have heard it and just tonight I was putting some deer corn out by the river it was about 6:00pm and something slammed a tree hard enough to shake the limbs and I of course ran because I know what's out there, I've seen back in 2000."

I'm still following up on this report and hope to set up a meeting with one of our TCC researchers and AB.

Thanks
Tom




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Wood county,WV

I recently got and email from Dustin Ostrowski, some of you might remember him he had a sighting once before and we did a interview with him, well it appears he has had another sighting.

Dustin and his friend Levi Byers were out deer hunting and Dustin managed to shoot a deer. The sighting took place while they were looking for the deer Dustin had shot.
Dustin told me:
"I was looking for my deer I shot! I saw what looked like big foot!
We were trailing a doe that I had shot and looked up and at around 75 yards away and it was there"

One of the things I ask Dustin was if he found the deer, I was thinking maybe the bigfoot was trying to get a free meal.
Here is what Dustin told me
"Yes I found the deer. I wasn't gonna let him/her get me from getting my deer. lol"

Here is the report info:

Name of  witnesses: Dustin Ostrowski & Levi Byers.
Both boys are 15 years old.
Date of Sighting: I think it was 12/28/12
State & County:  Williamstown, WV. ( wood county)
Length of the sighting: 3 and a half minutes.
Describe the creature:  He/she was 8 foot muscle a lot of it.
Color of Creature: It had light grey fur.
Time of day: Around 4.30

We are continuing to gather info on this report.
Thanks goes to Dustin and Levi for reporting this sighting.


Thanks
Tom




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Per capita, there are few reported attacks by bigfoot/type creatures anywhere in the world. And of the few that are reported, even fewer are as tragic as the attack on a woman in Zhejiang, China. And it’s such a fantastic tale, we have to question if it’s really true or not. But here goes:

It is said to have happened on a May afternoon in 1957. A woman named Xu Fudi was attending to her daily chores when she heard the blood-curdling scream of her young daughter who was herding the family’s cattle (yaks). She ran down to check on her young daughter, and was horrified to see her in the tight grip of what looked to be a young, powerful yeti.

As the story goes, with what had to be a strong rush of adrenaline, the woman picked up a large stick and started beating the creature. She said it let go of the girl and took off into the paddy fields, but got stuck in the mud and couldn’t move. Xu Fudi claimed to have kept beating the creature as other women in the village joined in.

According to the story, the women managed to beat the creature to death. But they were still so terrified of it that they hacked its body into pieces. The next day, villagers claimed to hear haunting mournful-sounding cries coming from the hills.

I couldn’t find more details about the story; like how big the creature might have been. So this story may remain a mystery. But yetis are rumored to reach up to 11 feet in height. They have incredible strength, and live in some of the coldest, most inhospitable areas of the world. So it might be difficult for a group of women to kill a full-grown yeti with sticks. But who knows? I might be wrong. *******DF

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Sexy?

It seems the tales of unknown hominids around the world are getting stranger. According to The Telegraph, scientists are about to embark on a new search expedition for the Yeren, China’s version of Bigfoot or Yeti. And they may have finally decided this for two reasons. One of which is a little intriguing, or just plain wild, depending on your perceptions.

First, it’s been nearly 30 years since the last yeti expeditions by the Chinese Academy of Science. They were executed back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. These expeditions were fairly fruitless as far as really conclusive proof, but they did manage to secure foot prints, hair samples, and nesting sites.

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Experts have insisted that there are no bigfoot-type creatures living in the United Kingdom, but one man’s frightening ordeal in the Scottish Highlands challenges that theory.

No sources state when this happened, but it was first reported in a newspaper known only as The Daily Star back in 2004.

Tom Robertson, who was 68 at the time, and better-known as a ghost-hunter in his community, was hunting for a possible "ghost" known as the Grey Man of Ben MacDhui. Ben MacDhui in Gaelic means "mountain of the black pig," and it’s the second highest peak in the Highlands.

Robertson and a friend were camped on the 4,296 ft. summit, when he claimed a yeti-type creature, nearly 12 feet in height, attacked their tent while they were sleeping.

Robertson said, "At about 1 AM, after we climbed into our sleeping bags. We heard the footsteps of something coming to the tent, and heard mumbling noises outside."

Only a short while later, their tent collapsed onto them.

"I looked up through the air vent in the roof and saw a large arm crashing down," Robertson said.
"The figure of what seemed like a yeti was standing over the tent, then all hell broke loose and it was trying to get on at us. I remember something landed on my foot. My toes are black... kind of bruised."
Robertson also claimed to have found 24 inch footprints in gravel at the site, but there are no photos to corroborate.

"I don’t know what it is, but it wasn’t human," Robertson surmised. "I reckon it could be the Grey Man or something from outer space."

After the attack was over, the two men were drenched from the heavy rain that fell that night and poured into their collapsed tent. They claimed that at about 4 AM, they started down the mountain. But after nearly two miles of walking, Robertson became ill and weak from exhaustion. His friend, Derek Blake, was forced to leave Robertson at the spot wrapped in a sleeping bag. But Blake pressed on and was eventually able to signal for help. The two men were picked up by a mountain rescue team at around 11 AM that morning.

They were said to have been pretty shaken by the encounter. And it was surely a night they wouldn’t soon forget. "I have never been so scared in all the 60 years I have been interested in such things," Robertson said. *********DF


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William Evans

This is a post by TCC Team Member Dale Drinnon.
Dale has a degree in Anthropology with a background in Zoology and Paleontology.
Visit his Blog - Frontiers of Zoology


William Evans posted the photo he took from 2001 at the yahoo group Bigfoot Sightings anonymous. He allowed me to reprint the photo with the condition that I plainly indicated it was his photo and not to alter the image itself (in writing) I believe I have done appropriately in the presentation below, I did indicate to him that I would indicate points of interest in the third photo.


The first photo (below) is the full original photo. William points out there is a figure hidden at the left as well as the more obvious face at the open area at the right.


The second photo is the face in the open area blown up to a larger size.


And the third photo is the exact same as number two save only for the fact that I have pointed out facial anatomical features of the face as they seem readily apparent to me.


It is my opinion that we have a very good example of the more apelike type of North American "Bigfoot", the same as the photographed Myakka ape or otherwise the Florida Skunk Ape.
Every individual feature of the face is a very good match for a young (juvenile) orangutan: the resemblance is less strong for a chimpanzee or a gorilla, for example.
I would conclude that this is evidence that we have a free-ranging population of a kind of North American great ape or what Loren Coleman calls a NAPE, and that we have good confirmatory evidence that it is very much like an orangutan.
Whether or not it is the exact same species as our "Known" orangutans is yet to be determined, but I DO think that they should be the same as the East-Asiatic creature known variously as Yeti, Yeren, Hibagon, Mawas and Xing-Xing. The last two terms are generally understood to mean "Orangutan".

Thanks
Dale

[Special thanks to William Evans for use of the photo]


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