Category: Ramblings

Last week I posted that it was time to get out there in he bush and camp out and do some proper research. My reasoning was that the weather was good and there were no major forest fires. Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Normally I’m all about OpSec for my Recons (boy that sounds like ParaMil elite speak doesn’t it?). But this is public knowledge so I’m not spilling any beans I guess.

Last Wednesday after posting on the blog I packed up and headed to the far north end of Sasquatch Park to setup in the bush and monitor my new trail cam setups. And two things happened that kept me trapped up there for a lot longer than planned.

First was the heat wave, yesterday it finally peaked. British Columbia broke North American records yesterday in Lytton with 49.5 C / 121.1 F. That beat any records set by Las Vegas. As of this morning more than 70 people have died due to the heat wave.

Out in the bush it wasn’t that bad but it still sucked. So I wanted to head home as I figured Bigfoot was laying low in this heat as well. But heading home became a problem (see the top of this post):

Yup, trapped by a forest fire. The only road in or out was cutoff by a 4-hectare wildfire. Rumor is that it was started by a car fire. So I was stuck up there longer than I planned. I was prepared, I had food, I had water and was safe. And if push came to shove I could have left my vehicle and been boated out and if it was a true emergency then Search and Rescue could helicopter people out. So I hunkered down and waited it out. Just got home early this morning to a nice cold shower and a cold beer and now it’s time for a long nap in the AC.

Serves me right for spouting off last week about weather and fires 🙁

And the trip was a Bigfoot bust as I got nothing on my trail cams.

With the minor success of my trail camera last week I have decided to double down and get serious about my finding of Bigfoot. The weather is right, there aren’t any major forest fires and my “photographer spies” are sending me tons of GPS spots to check out that have shown activity or possible prints. So I’ve mapped out the hotspots on a map and now have a game plan.

One catch is that the tourists are out in full force but I’m hoping that the extra activity is going to drive him out to the backwoods and into more inaccessible areas.

My plan to camp out for at least a week at a time and use my trail cams to direct my efforts. Also I want to do a lot more nightwork. I can’t afford any night vision gear for spotting but I’ve got a nice red light headlamp. I really wish I could afford a night vision camera and some better gear but being out of work isn’t helping my situation. And buying new gear is a slippery slope. Next time it will be a thermal camera I want and I know I’ll never be able to afford one of those no matter one. Sticking to my redneck-tech I guess.

Just need a series of good photos, some video, and some forensic physical evidence and I’ll be happy.

Wish me luck!

Go read this website’s report: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1000 , no really, go read it now and come back.

How much of that is true? The SCP Foundation’s mandate is “Secure, Contain, Protect” and couldn’t be more fitting when it comes to Bigfoot.

Here’s a quote from the report:

“The highest known population concentrations of SCP-1000 are at present located in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and the Himalayan Mountain range in Asia. As of ██/██/████, these populations remain extant. SCP-1000’s presence and [DATA EXPUNGED] have also been documented within the past 5 years on every continent. All known significant populations of SCP-1000 located near human population centers have been eliminated.”

And another:

“You think Bigfoot is funny because we want you to think Bigfoot is funny. We’ve bankrolled Hollywood comedies and farcical documentaries, paid off men in gorilla suits, perpetrated hoaxes with bear prints and goat fur, bribed and brainwashed cartoonists to get especially silly depictions on children’s television. Even the term “Bigfoot” comes from us, planted in the media in 1958, a term people would find even harder to take seriously than “Sasquatch”.”

Too much of this rings true with me. I’m getting a feeling this is the truth hiding in plain sight as fiction. We now know this is true when it comes to UFOs, just watch the news this week on the US Government reports.

This was the kicker for me:

“Yes. SCP-1000 are just like us. That’s what makes them so dangerous. We wiped them from history and memory. We dissolved their civilization and we slaughtered most of their species. Just ask yourselves: If they got the chance, what more would they do to us?”

This past weekend I binged on some classic movies like Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Which sent me off on a rabbit hole of research on the ape makeup effects done in both movies. I learned some interesting things by reading this book:

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

And then I watched this documentary:

Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film [Blu-ray]

And what I learned was very interesting. The biggest laugh is that Kubrick is accused of not only faking the moon landing but also doing the effects for the Patterson-Gimlin film. But wait there’s more: The Kubrick effects team accuses the Planet of the Apes team of stealing their special effects techniques. The Planet guys seems to think they invented everything and Rick Baker is standing at the sidelines not saying anything.

And don’t forget that Disney was accused of doing Bigfoot special effects as well.

My vote is for the Kubrick team as their work looks the best by far.

But Rick Baker is still the King.

I saw this Sasquatch Alert from the Ministry of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource Operations of British Columbia posted to local area Facebook groups recently. I can’t confirm nor deny it’s legitimacy but it made me think to go googling for other Bigfoot alerts to see how many are out there.

I made sure to not include any obvious joke ones but can’t confirm these that I did include. News reports are plenty but actual alerts from government or municipal authorities seems to be few and far between.

The PG Film stance that Bigfoot is portrayed as is all the rage though isn’t it?

And I don’t know what the hell the barcode one is all about.

I think Bigfoot needs a new Public Relations person.

Well my hard work is starting to pay off. To be honest it’s the work of other’s that I am benefiting from. As I’ve mentioned on here before, I have a deal with local nature photographers who are out and about in the wild every single day around here. The deal is that they give me a heads up on any possible prints they find and I give them free tech support and websites. They send me their photo with GPS location and I hit the road right away. If I can I’ll meet them at the site. Yesterday I got there after she left and found a suspected print and a partial print. This was in Sasquatch Park (yes, it’s really called that). These are the best signs of Bigfoot I’ve found so far. I was able to take a plaster casting of the partial print and it turned out pretty nice if I say so myself. I’m thinking I might submit these to Jeff Meldrum for review.

PS – Ya, I think that’s dog hair too but it looked interesting. Not sure.

So I watched this documentary the other day called Shooting Bigfoot and it brought up a lot of questions for me. Mainly because in this “film” some people had claimed to have caught Bigfoot. They said they had a body in the freezer and were touring it around the countryside and charging admission. Of course, this was all bogus.

But…consider what could happen when they DO catch him. What will happen and how will everyone react when one is caught dead or alive? Now is the Bigfoot forest a protected area? No more logging? Do people start Bigfoot cults and worship him as the next savior? Is it on the TV all the time for a few years with debates of “It’s still fake” versus “No really, it’s true this time”. What if Bigfoot is caught alive? Does the United Nations or Amnesty International step in to give him protected status? Who owns him? The person who found him or does the government just snatch him up? I’m betting the latter on this one.

Other than the news media going apeshit (pun intended) and every “expert” on the planet suddenly being on television, what would happen?

But the thing that really gets my goat is considering the possibility that if Bigfoot is capture alive, what if he can communicate? What if he can talk?

Whoa. Happy 420 everyone.

Here’s our new BigfootFinder.ca website logo. I like the balance it represents with the ying yang and the human hand and sasquatch foot. Working hand and foot together I guess.

So I was going to announce our site’s new logo today and offer t-shirts, hats, stickers and patches. Not because I wanted to be like every other website, blogger and youtuber who just spams the hell out of the interverse with their t-shirts. But because I wanted to buy some for myself and friends and family. And as bribes for people who help with the site and my research.

So I went back to CafePress that I had success years ago with. And that was a complete waste of two hours of my time. It was a clusterfuck of 404 page not found errors, redirecting to cafepress sites in other countries, crashing, error after error and a vicious cycle of adding images and products that just wouldn’t show up. It was the single worst website experience I have had in over 15 years. It was absolute crap. I am amazed they are still in business at all.

But hey, how about the new logo? Nice huh? I think I’ll get some stickers made at a local print shop and mail them to friends.

Moving out here to Harrison Hot Springs British Columbia many years ago I didn’t fully comprehend just how much Sasquatch has permeated the community.

Bigfoot is a BIG part of the tourism and the community. Yes, we had John Green who really did help put it on the map. And yes, a few historical sightings. But nothing like the Patterson–Gimlin film. Is seems there is something more driving this besides tourism dollars. As they say “Where there’s smoke there’s fire” and I think I smell Bigfoot smoke.

Here’s a collection of photos from the Internet of Bigfoot signs and statues in and around this community. This guy is everywhere!