BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: ollaimh
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 07:26 PM

i thought ckank-el and gnu were sasquatches

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 05:54 PM

Well, I just got off the phone with my Sasquatch buddy and he says he don't believe none a this here DNA stuff from the get go. I asked him to fill me in but he was on his way to get total body dreadlocks done for New Year's celebrations and then to midnight mass.

Minds me, I gotta get mine done too real quick like on accounta it's 20 to 7. It won't take long on accounta I am bald but procrastination is the thief of time, I always say.

I'll ask him to fill me in after mass. Me and Bigshot (he HATES it when I call him that) and Santa and Jesus and his right hand man Pope-eye (yeah, good guess) always hang out after mass on Christmas Eve. Last year, Janis Joplin dropped in and we sang yule songs for hours while we roasted our nuts on an open fire. I am gonna bring some DECENT wine THIS year. Last year, Jesus said he was gonna bring the wine but he messed up... had to turn water into wine and the tap water here in Moncton ain't fer shit so needer was the wine. I just hope the whores he brings are better than the skanks he arrived with last year... I mean, WHO is he hangin out with, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: bobad
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 12:14 PM

There is, not unexpectedly, some healthy scepticism regarding this news:

http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/11/melba-ketchum-announces-bigfoot-dna-results-without-the-data/

http://www.bigfootlunchclub.com/2012/11/first-bigfoot-dna-peer-review-results.html

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Beer
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 11:19 AM

http://youtu.be/u-NGls9dVe4

Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 10:48 AM

Email...



Bigfoot a reality - DNA identifies new hominin hybrid.




;-) ... Dr. Melba S. Ketchum on Coast To Coast (C2C) last night.

"Whether they believe the results or not, the science is good." - Dr. Melba S. Ketchum




Bigfoot DNA

Sun 2012-23

Joining George Knapp, Dr. Melba S. Ketchum discusses her DNA analysis of possible Bigfoot hair samples.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/last-7-days (The show may not be archived yet)

'Bigfoot' DNA Sequenced In Upcoming Genetics Study

Five-Year Genome Study At DNA Diagnostics Yields Evidence of Homo sapiens/Unknown Hominin Hybrid Species in North America

A team of scientists can verify that their 5-year long DNA study, currently under peer-review, confirms the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch," living in North America. Researchers' extensive DNA sequencing suggests that the legendary Sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown primate species.

The study was conducted by a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging and pathology, led by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, TX. In response to recent interest in the study, Dr. Ketchum can confirm that her team has sequenced 3 complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and determined the species is a human hybrid:

"Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples. The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species. Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens.

Hominins are members of the taxonomic grouping Hominini, which includes all members of the genus Homo. Genetic testing has already ruled out Homo neanderthalis and the Denisova hominin as contributors to Sasquatch mtDNA or nuDNA. "The male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this hybrid is unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other recently discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual," explains Ketchum.

"Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence. Further study is needed and is ongoing to better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA."

Ketchum is a veterinarian whose professional experience includes 27 years of research in genetics, including forensics. Early in her career she also practiced veterinary medicine, and she has previously been published as a participant in mapping the equine genome. She began testing the DNA of purported Sasquatch hair samples 5 years ago.

Ketchum calls on public officials and law enforcement to immediately recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous people:

"Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry. Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and Constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a 'license' to hunt, trap, or kill them."

Full details of the study will be presented in the near future when the study manuscript publishes.

###

Dr. Ketchum is available for interview or to answer further questions about the Sasquatch genome study and associated research on novel contemporary hominins at media(at)dnadiagnostics(dot)com

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10166775.htm

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 12 May 12 - 02:15 PM

I read it in the Bellevue weakly.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: meself
Date: 11 May 12 - 11:15 PM

Don't know where I read it, but someone was saying recently that Bigfoot actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare - in fact, 'Shakespeare' may be a variant of 'Sasquatch'. Something like that. Where did I read that?

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 11 May 12 - 09:09 PM

saw it Gnu repeat, good one though

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 11 May 12 - 08:00 PM

ADST tonight

Finding Bigfoot

Episode: Baby Bigfoot
NEWS02, E03The team heads to New York to investigate a video of baby bigfoot.

NEW
10:00 - 11:00 PMTDCC (36)

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 12 - 02:30 PM

I thought Bigfoot was already here on Mudcat. Spaw brags about his big dick so he must be Bigfoot eh?

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 12 - 10:03 AM

Given the appropriate apparatus I would just as soon be called a sow as a boar.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: mayomick
Date: 05 May 12 - 09:59 AM

Keep searching them thar woods Olddude, but Bigfoot may turn up here on mudcat someday. You never know what you will find on this site - a female grizzly bear is known as a sow, for instance .

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 May 12 - 10:43 AM

Like saying that William Shakespeare did not write those plays and stories but a different man with the same name, it is my opinion that all the sightings and other experiences may not be of Bigfoot but of some other creature that we don't know the name of, because it is most definitely out there.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 03 May 12 - 06:38 PM

Discovery Channel ADST 9PM

Bigfoot: The Definitive Guide

(First Aired: Feb. 02, 2011)
Using a new interactive map, a team examines global hotspots and searches for explanations of sasquatch, including new theories that people may have been looking for the wrong creature all along.

CC
9:00 - 11:00 PMTDCC (36)All Upcoming Times
Full Episode Details

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: olddude
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 09:18 AM

That is a wonderful story, I could only hope to find the critter that can toss a rock that far through the trees at me. Wow great story

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Stu
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 07:00 AM

Brilliant thread!

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 01:05 AM

Good story!

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: ollaimh
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 11:52 PM

when i was young and stupid--er perhaps stupider, i had a job drilling on the iskut river in north west british columbia, behind the aslaska pan handle. we were at the top of the canyon but we had to get out water from three miles away down the canyon. i was the gofer so every night i had to walk the water line to refuel the pump and do maintence. wierd forest up there. over masture giant pine. they were well spaced and averaged eight to ten feet across. biest pine i have ever seen. so i had to walk three miles with two gas cans and tools, murder going down and then i had to climb back--at least the gas was gone by then,

so one night i kept hearing noises.it got creepier and creepier. something was following my. i went faster and faster, untill it sounded like somethinf was running behind me. so i stopped and put down the gas cans and turned my flashlight behind. i saw what looked like a big up right animal with waht seemed to be a gorilla like face, this was for only ten to twenty seconds, then it disappeared. i was lucky not to crap my pants. never been so scareed. i panned the area with the light but couldn't see anything. so i went the rest of the way to the pump and stoped to get my breath. THEN I HAD TO WALK THE WHOLE WAY BACK! it was the longest walk of my life. but nothing happened on the way back.

what was it? who knows. in the middle of the night, in an over mayure forest with no star light at all and seeing something for twenty seconds at the most. it was probably a bear, but the face didn't look like a bear--but then the eyes can play tricks for such a short sighting. i didn't tell anyone, they would have teased me unmercifully.
so that's my ufo/sasquatch story

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 06:10 PM

For instance, a nice looking young woman walks by on the streets of Blind River or Sudbury. Shane observes her in a lascivious fashion, does a wolf whistle or some other obvious overture which the girl reacts to with considerable annoyance as she quickens her step. He then gives you the all-knowing glance, and says: "She has had the plonk, man."

(I used to actually know a few guys like Shane. Thankfully, I haven't been around any of them in years.)

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 06:02 PM

I think it's some sort of reference to masturbation. Male masturbation, that is. "the plonk" is a Blind River expression for the penis...but only if it's a really big one! ;-) Shane would probably claim to be an experienced plonk twister...

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 03:31 PM

"plonk twister"???? I am gonna keep askin until you come up with somethin eh.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:11 PM

"plonk twister"????

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 10:55 PM

Seeryously?

Well, flip me and call me a plonk twister!

Why didn't I think of that? I hafta tell Don abowt this and totally, like, amaize him with my vast knollege.

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 03:15 PM

Silly boy! Check this thread and you will see that all you have to do is go out there with a package of Oreos held in such a way that it can be easily identified.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 12:02 AM

It is okay, eh? We went back after awhiles with a flashlight and a flippin' baseball bat and a rake. Don had the baseball bat and I had the rake. I wanted the bat but my fliphead bruther would not give it to me so I hadda take a flippin' rake. You do not wanta fight a flippin' Bigfoot with nothin' but a rake! You can take that to the bank, eh? Trust me.

Anyways, we went back there and it was pretty flippin' scary cos there was all this noise comin' from the tool shed. It did not soumd human! Don tole me to get the tarpollen and get ready while he got set with the bat. We flang open the door!!! I was holdin' the flashlite when I seen these flippin' eyes glowin red in the light! I screamed! Don swang the bat and bopped the flippin' beast over the head and yelled "Throw the flippin' tarpollen over him, you bolthole!" He should not talk to me like that! He thinks that bein' the older flippin' bruther makes him like King Shit or somethin', but he is wrong! But there was no flippin' time to argew so I thrown the tarp over the hairy beast! Don was whalin' away with the bat and I was whalin' away with the rake. You shoulda hearn the flippin' thing yell! It was awful. I never hearn worse language comin' from anything...not human nor alyen nor animul nor nothin'. Not even in jail! It was awful.

But wait. Do Bigfoots say things like "WHAT THE FLIP!!! WHADDYA THINK YER FLIPPIN' DOIN'?"

My gess is...probally not. At least I dwout it. And I was not born yesterday, know what I'm sayin'? I can figger things like this out myself.

The upshot of all this is that it turnt out to be our buddy Dale from Sudberry. He was comin' over for a visit but he got confusded about direckshuns or somethin'. He ended up in the tool shed insteada at the front door, eh? I do not know why. He does not know why. Don does not know why.

I think he was tryin' to steal our..."goods". Stuff we have in the shed. He says he was lookin' for the can. The can is not in the shed. I got my sushpishions. STill, we hadda apolojize for hittin' him with the bat and stuff. And the rake. But mostly the bat. And that is Don's fault, not mine. I am indigent.

STill...I think it has been a good experiens. The reason I say that is this. We are now READY to deal with a Bigfoot if one ever comes. We KNOW the flippin' drill. Enny Bigfoot that flippin' DARES to invade our place is gonna find that out and be real sorry.

I can't flippin' WAIT for the next flippin' Bigfoot invazion! Bring it on, ya hairy flipheads! The McBrides are ready for ya.

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 05:45 PM

"hey gnu, is a baby called "littlefoot" or "lightfoot""

It's a gordon.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 05:43 PM

For Heaven's sake, sit down.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 05:30 PM

I think their is one in the flippin' tool shed out back!!! There are, like, weerd noises coming out and, like, stuff crashin' arownd in there!

What the FLIP should we do????

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 05:21 PM

well i ain't never seen and atom, but I know they exist ...

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 04:48 PM

That is cool Ebbie, thank you

hey gnu, is a baby called "littlefoot" or "lightfoot"

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 04:34 PM

The search for Sasquatch isn't all that much different from the search for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, except that in the case of the woodpecker it was at least known that it did exist some time ago, but was declared extinct quite a while back.

When a fellow came out of the swamp claiming to have seen one, there were lots of disbelievers, and hundreds(?) of people invaded the marsh forests looking for one.

The search went on ...

The frustration in not being able to find one is aptly illustrated by the expression on the face of This Guy who can't find one no matter how hard he looks.

John

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 03:59 PM

Here is an interesting article, involving Native American beliefs concerning Sasquatch. I had wondered about that- it seems obvious that there are many tales and legends handed down. I want to do some research.

http://web.ncf.ca/bz050/HomePage.bfna.html

"But, special being as he is, I have never heard anyone from a Northwestern tribe suggest that Bigfoot is anything other than a physical being, living in the same physical dimensions as humans and other animals. He eats, he sleeps, he poops, he cares for his family members. However, among many Indians elsewhere in North America... as widely separated as the Hopi, the Sioux, the Iroquois, and the Northern Athabascan -- Bigfoot is seen more as a sort of supernatural or spirit being, whose appearance to humans is always meant to convey some kind of message."

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 02:27 PM

A foot in yer mouth is called a "Dan". >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 02:17 PM

BTW, before anyone points out the obvious, I DID curl my toes and close my eyes. Dad didn't teach me all he taught me (an armed forces smalls arms expert trained during WW2) to have me blow my toes off.

That lad could shoot. I have some cool stories about noon hour target practice but those will be in my memoires.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 01:50 PM

Is a female bigfoot called a bitchfoot?

ok I will go to the cellar

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ole Juul
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 05:14 AM

There's lots of Bigfoot up here around the Coalmont area. We just ignore them.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 07:09 PM

I hear ya gnu, I pulled a gun out of a hunters hand after he fired at a running deer right across a busy highway ... I was a fish and game officer and it cost him a bunch ... crazy bastard

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 03:12 PM

In my last installment I mention city boy Rocky. Dan, yer gonna love this.

We were in Albert County, NB in the hills. I slogged thru small pines (ain't THAT a bitch?) and then a swamp and then climbed a nasty hill, routing white tail after white tail in heavy brush. I took a transverse cut on the hardwoods, and hit a road that led back to the main logging road of the section. When I hit the main road, there was Rocky standing atop a dozer pushback. Looked like a lighthouse in his hunter's orange.

I noticed his safety was off and asked him what he had seen. He said he had been watching a deer feeding over by that large pine. I asked him why he didn't shoot it. He asked, "Will this gun shoot that far?" 303 and the distance was about 150m! I was pissed. I asked him why his safety was off. He said, "It's on." I said, "Fire forward." he said, "No, it's on." I asked for his gun. I put the safety on and put the barrel on my boot and pulled the trigger. I took the safety off, handed the gun back and said, "Your turn."

That was when I started to try teach him but, like they say, you can take the boy out of the city but...

Scarey shit, eh? Thank goodness for the new gun laws.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 02:58 PM

So, first day of our three day moose season. Rocky has a licence and we go back to my trailer. Moose seasn is a pig's arse here. Last T-F-Saturday of September. WAY too early. It's just too warm but maybe that's what the DNR wants. There's only 6000 permits in the draw. Out moose population is WAY down on accounta the the sylviculture practices and chemical spraying.

Rocky went for a snooze about 3PM. I sat in a lawn chair in the shade with only pants, hat and sunglasses on. About 30m away on the east road, a young boar (I'll guess 200 pounds) came out on the road and plopped down in a puddle, have a drink of muddy water and trtying to cool off.

I loaded the Win 100 308 cal and walked toward him. When he saw me I gave a man call and he jumped up and scooted about 20m, stopped, turned and looked at me. Since I wasn't chasing him, he started walking back toward me. I gave another FO! but he kept coming. I levelled and fired four shots fast into a large pine about 2m in front of him. He scrammed.

Back to the comfy chair and my "soda pop". 20 minutes. SOB is comin down the north road toward me. I gave a man call. He did not stop. Another call. Same deal. So, I went after him. When we were about 20m apart he decided he didn't wanna learn if I was dangerous and he took off in the bush. Of course, I waited for him to stop, which he did about 20m inside the woods. I ran in and chased him several times but never got a shot. Yes, I woulda blown his ass away. I fully intended to do so. An uneducated bear is a dangerous bear. That's the only one I ever decided NEEDED to be dispatched but it worked out for both of us as he didn't come back... until a couple of years later. BTW, do NOT run through thick bush without a shirt.

When I woke Rocky up for the evening hunt he told me he had a strange dream in wich he could hear me yelling and shooting. I showed him the brass and the tracks. He said, "Good thing it wasn't you taking the nap." Rocky was not a country boy. Still ain't as far as I am concerned. He's more what we call a Hollywood Hunter... drives around in the truck and gets lost. Didn't know shit about weapons but the new (1980s?) laws will help that problem. But, I taught his young fellah well. He's a fine woodsman... one of the joys of my life teachin that lad about the bush.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 10:48 AM

The Dungarvon Whooper (pronounced "hooper") is a ghost story, immortalized in a song by Michael Whelan (poet), about a murder in the late 19th century along the Dungarvon River in central New Brunswick, Canada. (Wiki)

Children are told the ghost story to frighten them and thereby get them to stay close to home (as most such stories are meant to do). Bobcats, lynx and panthers heard at night are are said to be the Banshee of the murdered lumber camp cook.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 10:40 AM

Ebbie and Night
great stories. Did you ever hear them howl at night .. Wow the big cats can send chills down your back ... beautiful animals for sure. I only saw 1 in all of my treking ... just beautiful, he was running up the side of a mountain.

I got all excited when I saw my first big horn sheep through my binoculars once in my treking ... Now that was breath taking for sure. We sure don't have what you folks have in Alaska or Colorado

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 10:08 AM

Yes, Ebbie. The length of a big cat and the fluid motion are striking. The third one I saw had a tail that looked to be half the length of the body. When I got to where it crossed the road I was disappoited that the ditches were so dry that I couldn't find any tracks. I didn't track it into the woods on accounta I don't know squat about big cats.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 02:58 AM

Several years ago, in Oregon, I too saw my first mountain lion. It was just at dusk and the sun's last glow was disappearing so that everything in front of the car was backlit. We were in central Oregon not far from Bend and traffic was almost nonexistent. Ahead of us was a single camper.

I happened to be driving when a L O N G animal flowed (no other word for it) down the right bank and across the country highway. Thinking back I suspect it was kind of crouching rather than upright because it seemed very long for its height.

I was excited and thrilled and the memory still gives me pleasure. At the same time, if I lived in lion country I would worry about my children and pets.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: NightWing
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:57 AM

I live in Colorado and recently saw my first lion in the wild.

On the Christmas Bird Count this winter, about 10 miles north of Sterling, about 100 miles east of the mountains. My father and I were driving on a section road and I glanced off to the left and saw a "coyote". Somehow it didn't look quite right though. Got my binoculars on it and saw that the ears weren't pointed, dog ears. Then it turned its head to the side (so I saw it in profile) and it didn't have a long dog nose either.

Dad slammed on the brakes and we stepped out of the car and watched it. It was about 75-100m away across prairie fields. So our view was excellent. We watched it wander across the field for 20-30 minutes before it decided it didn't like those two people pointing things at it (telescope, to get a close-up view) and meandered off away from the section road and over a hill.

We both figured it was probably a young male, out making the "Grand Tour". Very exciting!

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:53 AM

The river behind my house next to the RR tracks was loaded with every critter you can imagine, otters, beaver, muskrats, every type of freshwater fish and huge I mean huge snapping turtles. When the female snappers want to lay their eggs they will wander all over the place to find some ground to dig that suits them. I would get monster snappers in my back yard. We would grab them by the tail and struggle to get them into a cardboard box and take them back to the river. Only to find several more the next day. One time my dog was barking and there was a snapper that looked like a bushel basket .. took two of us to lift that critter up ... amazing how big they got. About every few years the river would flood over the tracks and about 20 ft from my house. When the water receded , if left little pools of water full of huge brown and rainbow trout. My dad not being one to waste anything would get bucks full of them. We ate a lot of fish

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:37 AM

My uncle Dan had a big apple tree growing right outside his house. One night, crash ... A big black bear had climbed the tree to get some apples and the branch broke bear and all right though his picture window into his living room. He came down stairs to find a huge black bear trying to squeeze back through the broken window and run back up into the woods ... what a mess it made. He lived in the same town that the bigfoot or whatever was photographed that I posted earlier.

Dan was quite a woodsman, taught me everything. He was a WWII fighter pilot and highly decorated war hero. A little skinny man that was as strong as an ox. He had a heart attack in his 60's and about a year after that my aunt was yelling at me to talk to him when i visited. His heart doctor died so my uncle flushed all his meds. Told me
"If the son of a bitch can't keep himself alive, he ain't going to do me any good"

That was my uncle Dan

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:25 AM

Bears can be very tidy eaters. In Juneau, Alaska, when a friend discovered that a bear had entered her kitchen she thought at first that it hadn't disturbed her half-eaten candy bar that was on the kitchen counter. But it had- the candy wrapper was empty.

By the way, it is just as well that you didn't presume upon your acquaintance with the bear that co-opted your bread and peanut butter. Also in Juneau a man ended up in the hospital fairly badly mauled.

He and a young bear had had what he had felt was a spiritual connection: the bear had very politely waited its turn for bites of the man's sandwiches.

Until the food was gone.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:06 AM

In college I worked about every job in the world. One summer I worked for a logger and we were cutting trees that were killed by the gypsy moth and marked for removal by the state forest service. Rugged area of Pennsylvania, lots of rattlesnakes and lots of bears.

I always brough a jar of peanut butter with me. First I love the stuff and it is high in energy and you need it doing that non stop work for sure.

Well I took a break and walked back to the landing to have some peanut butter and bread. There sitting on a log was a big big black bear. He opened my lunch box, popped the lid off my peanut butter and was just licking away. He had peanut butter on his nose, ears, paws .. Needless to say he was welcome to it, I wasn't going to argue. I sat there watching him only maybe 20 yards away. He licked that thing clean then wiped his ears with his paws like a cat does, carry off the jar into the woods .. funnies thing I ever saw. Man it was all over his face ... great great encounter. Never paid me any mind, just enjoyed himself. Oh he also ate a whole loaf of bread too. He opened the bread like a human, wrapper wasn't even torn, dumped out the whole loaf on the ground and ate it all. Thank goodness he didn't want my big bottle of coke cola to wash it all down with.

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:54 PM

I love it Ebbie, thank you my dear friend

Subject: RE: BS: finding Bigfoot or Sasquatch
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:42 PM

Great stories- don't stop!

Dan, this: "Well we would hop the boxcars and ride home and then jump off. Not really dangerous they moved really slow. I guess I was a hobo before I knew what that meant. Maybe that is why I love the woods and railroads. We had nothing else " reminds me of a song I learnt for a friend's birthday (See, his bride discovered that he had never owned a Lionel and bade us all come to the party with a train song. I found one written by a Canadian, Phil Halliday, who calls it "That Train Song".

Well, he gave all he had to my maw and me
Just another boy child he would never see
Well, my maw and my paw went their separate ways
I was born on a midnight train.

Well I was raised in a railside shack
And I'd fall asleep to that clickey-clack
All day long I'd run alongside
Learned real young how to hop a ride

Well, I got a soul like a runaway train
I got a heart that feels no pain
When you're born with a track beneath your bed
You sleep one eye open pointin' straight ahead...

Isn't that a poignant song? I like it.