Month: January 2021

“Oklahoma lawmaker proposes ‘Bigfoot’ hunting season” is the headline for this article on AP News.

In short, this guy wants to issue state hunting licenses and tags to help boost tourism. “Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state,” Humphrey said in a statement.

OK, first up is that this is just fricken stupid. He is inviting a bunch of people with guns who are looking for the $25,000 to be offered as a bounty by him. Someone will get hurt, most certainly. This is just stupid, no other word for it.

UPDATE 3/10/2021: The bounty is now $2 million! https://cryptidlab.com/bigfoot-oklahoma-bill-2-million-dollars/

This blog has always stated “It’s about Bigfoot Finding not Hunting”. So I thought I’d dig into the Hunting versus Finding topic. And I think a simple way to make my point is to list various words that describe both sides of this Bigfoot coin. And yes they do make a Bigfoot coin! I had to google it, the one pictured above you can buy from Amazon here. OK, the list:

Finder	Hunter
Author Discoverer Investigator Scientist Analyst Inquisitor Examiner Researcher Hiker Cameras Believer	Youtuber Stalker Exterminator Assassin Butcher Slayer Executioner Killer Glamping Guns Zealot

Have I made my point?

I always had a thing about maps and the maps have a thing about me. We fight, we lie and we always get it wrong. I can’t remember location names due to a condition. I don’t have a good sense of direction, my wife says it’s that of a weasel on espresso. So when GPS handhelds arrived I tried that and it’s didn’t help. But when Google Maps on a phone started working properly then I was all in.

I saw a post on Reddit the other day from these guys: https://www.bigfootmap.com/ and I asked if they had John Green’s Bigfoot data. It was a no and I’m not surprised at all, there are like maybe 3 sightings marked for the Harrison Lake area!? Uggg..not good.

So I’m going to update my Green’s map with some of the more historical Bigfoot events like Ruby Creek and some of Thomas Steenburg’s records.

The one’s that stand out to me are: https://thomassteenburg.com/2020/04/09/never-to-late-to-report-a-sighting/ which is the Vye Road Power Station. The Stephen King movie Dreamcatcher was filmed in it. I used to live in that area and know that building and the area VERY well. If you head straight south of there it’s nothing but mountain and trees till you hit the USA. Which made it an active area for drug runners. VERY active.

And then there is Mystery Valley which is west of Harrison Lake: https://thomassteenburg.com/2016/05/10/mystery-valley/

So I’m going to visit/revisit these areas for historical nostalgia’s sake. But to be honest, I’m sticking to lakes, rivers and creeks because that is the best and easiest to find good tracks.

UPDATE: http://bigfootfinder.ca/2021/04/28/trail-camera-update/

So my plan for getting info on footprint hot spots is working. I’m getting my baiting materials together. Now it’s time to focus on making my own Trail Camera system that is specific for attracting and getting good photos of Bigfoot.

The design I’m working on hasn’t been completed yet but I figured I would share my research and details of what and how I’m making these cameras.

The idea is to create a network of wifi enabled Raspberry PI cameras that have motion sensors and audio capture as well as the ability to generate sounds.

Here’s a run down of how the cameras would operate:

• Multiple bait sites in an area with confirmed foot prints
• Four cameras facing the points of the compass away from each bait site
• All cameras use wifi to send images captured to a mobile hotspot that will upload them to my server. This allows me to monitor remotely and if a camera is damaged or stolen I will know pretty quick and still have the photos.
• The cameras will play at random times Bigfoot sounds to attract him (gotta work on what that sound will be)
• Motion sensors and audio sensor on the camera will trigger capturing bursts of photos and capture audio as well.
• If the area is generating good info I can ask the camera to start recording video as well.
• Sit back and wait and watch the data roll in.

So that’s the how it will work. What I’m making is a Raspberry PI camera system based on this article from Tom’s Hardware. The image above is an idea on how to camo the camera from Dave Mullins.

I’ve already got a Raspberry Pi kicking around to prototype with. It’s this one that already has wifi: Element14 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Motherboard

Thinking of this for the camera power: Pisugar2 Pro Portable 5000 mAh UPS Lithium Battery Power Module Platform for Every Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+/4B Model Accessories (Not Include Raspberry Pi)

For a mobile hotspot I’m looking at the Nommi: Mobile Hotspot but I will use a old cellphone for testing.

This is the higher end camera module I will use: Raspberry Pi Camera Module V2-8 Megapixel,1080p (RPI-CAM-V2)

A wack load of these motion sensors, at least 3 per camera pointing outwards: Stemedu HC-SR501 PIR Sensor Infrared IR Body Motion Module for Arduino Raspberry Pi(Pack of 5pcs)

And I’ll use this for my sound sensor, audio recording and to playback Bigfoot attractor sounds (I’ll figure what audio I’m using and post that later): RASPIAUDIO Audio DAC HAT Sound Card (Audio+Speaker+MIC) for Raspberry Pi Zero/A+ / B+ / Pi 3 : Pi 4 Model B/Better Quality Than USB

One thing I can’t figure out but would like to add is an EMF sensor just to see if that will record any sort of data for me when something is around.

Also if this works out well the other thing I will look at is upgrading to IR cameras but it’s not a priority as most of my research shows that he really doesn’t like stumbling around in the dark any more than we do.

I’ve got a large Amazon package coming and some work ahead of me 🙂

So I have some great leads on tracks coming in from my nature photogs. I can’t believe in this rainy weather in January they are still out there taking amazing photos. And even more surprising is how many of them didn’t realize they were already automatically geo-tagging their photos. I’ve got leads but nothing good enough to share yet. But I’ve got some areas of activity that I want to setup cameras and baits. Cameras we’ll talk next post but this time let’s talk bait.

Legend has it that he likes berries, fruits and some proteins like fish. Also that he has a pretty good nose, even though he smells so bad. My plan is to use some commercial baits that I’ve linked below. My research show a preference for salmon, vanilla and apple scents. These are the foods he digs into people backpacks and coolers the most for. And he seems to skip bacon, maybe it’s the smoke smell? I know he hates the smell of smoke.

But let’s talk apples a little bit. He won’t go near orchards for fear of people and machines (hates machines) but will devour wild apples whole. I remember visiting an old farmer in Alberta years ago who had a small collection of apple trees in his farm yard. Every late summer he would gather them up, crush them and put them with water into an old whiskey barrel and close up the lid. Then in the winter at the end of a hard cold day of farm work he would lift the lid, smash the ice layer and take a tin cup of “cider”. Freezing it would increase the alcohol level, clever man. Now I’m not planning to get Bigfoot drunk but I will be saving all the apple cores from my daily fruit health shake. I’ll leave them in containers with water to work a little and get some good scent off of them.

I’ll need the professional scent gear below because it would survive other wild life scavengers and looky loos.