Everything I Got Wrong About Bigfoot (After 18 Months of Research)

My name is Robert and I used to be a

normal guy with a normal job. And then I

saw Bigfoot and basically my whole life

became anything but normal. I researched

every day as much as I could get my

hands on, read every scrap of material I

could find on the subject. I went on

Sasquatch expeditions and even delved

into things that most Sasquatch

enthusiasts aren't willing to. And after

all that time and effort thinking about

this nearly non-stop for almost a year

and a half, the main thing I learned is

that I've been wrong a lot more than

I've been right. And you'll see what I

mean because in this video I'm going to

share with you everything I've learned

about Bigfoot. And I suggest you brace

yourself because the further down this

rabbit hole you go with me, the weirder

it gets. [snorts]

So, like I said, this all came about for

me beginning in September 2024, almost a

year and a half ago at the time of the

filming of this video, when I saw what I

eventually concluded could only be a

Sasquatch. But it wasn't just a plain

sighting. It didn't start that way

anyway. It was a bizarre series of

events that I think were all brought

about by Sasquatch upon further

reflection after the fact. I was

vacationing with my wife and daughter on

Vancouver Island, British Columbia,

Canada. We had always wanted to see the

West Coast. Hadn't made it out there

yet. So, we booked this small cottage on

the southern tip of the island, a little

village called Shirley. There were a lot

of trees, a lot of big patches of forest

around and a lot of beaches as well.

Well, not the manicured white sand kind,

but the unckempt wild kind with trees

and driftwood coming right up to the

water and lots of rocks and caves and

rock formations. And my wife and

daughter and I were on this one

particular beach one day towards the end

of our trip. No one else was there and

there was this tall, wet, stony cliff.

It was wet from the spray of the ocean

and there was trees and foliage on top

of it kind of sloping up at a sharp

angle. My daughter and I, she was seven

at the time. We were climbing up this

large driftwood log when all of a sudden

this stone flew out of that clifftop

forest and hit the log about a foot from

my daughter's head. Like I said, it was

sloped up there. There was a lot of

tangled foliage. There was just no

access for a person unless they were,

you know, an elite mountain climber or

something. And I started to think about

how stones being thrown was an aspect of

the Sasquatch phenomenon that I'd heard

about before. And that kind of got the

wheels of curiosity turning in my head.

So later that day, uh it was actually

night by this point. I took a walk in

the woods. I have always been a

naturally curious person, always

attracted to the unknown. That's

probably what set me up to turn into a

quote unquote Bigfoot researcher. But

anyway, I took this walk in the woods.

The forest on Vancouver Island is full

of black bears and mountain lions and

who knows what else. And I did not have

a weapon. I ended up hearing two sounds

that quickly convinced me to leave the

forest. The first one was a kind of

grunt or growl sound, but deeper and

more resonant than any grunt I'd ever

heard from a person. Although it was

weirdly kind of personlike, but it also

didn't sound like a bear or a mountain

lion. I'm fairly familiar with the

sounds of those animals and I know they

can make all sorts of different sounds,

but I've heard most of those sounds at

one time or another. And this wasn't

that. And then like 30 seconds later,

maybe less, I heard the sound of a tree

twisting like wood fibers creaking and

breaking. There wasn't any wind. There

wasn't a breeze that could have caused a

branch to make that noise. So, these two

noises in quick succession scared the

living daylights out of me. So, I just

hightailed it out of there. Got back to

the cabin, told my wife what happened,

called my dad back in Ontario, told him

what happened. Then I decided to go back

the next day. In the light of day the

next day, my curiosity had rekindled.

The fear had ebbed somewhat. So I went

back and I found the spot where I

thought the two sounds had come from the

day before. I mean, I couldn't be sure

because it was quite dark, as I said,

and I only had my phone flashlight the

prior night when I'd heard the sounds.

But before I could go up and examine the

trees, I saw a huge black shape 70 yards

or so into the bush ahead of me. And it

had moved. I looked at it and it it

didn't look like it was alive in that it

didn't have any recognizable shape. It

didn't look like a bear. It didn't have

an obvious head, shoulders, arms, and

legs the way a person or a Bigfoot for

that matter would have, or at least I

expected they would have. It was just

big and hulking and black and formless

really. But the thing is, it had moved.

I was certain I'd seen it move. Got the

footage, but it seemed to be staying

stock still while I filmed it. But I saw

this thing and I had this feeling of

dread somehow, like I knew it was alive.

It had moved and somehow it it didn't

feel right to stay there. So, I got out

of there. I got out of there fast.

Anyway, all that started me down this

rabbit hole. I had this YouTube channel

prior to this experience, but it wasn't

about Bigfoot at all. Maybe you're even

someone who's been watching me long

enough to know that I started this to

kind of document our our rural life here

in the woods of Northern Ontario,

Canada. That was what the channel was

originally for. But since seeing what I

saw and concluding that I know it wasn't

a black bear, it was too big. It was too

tall. It was the wrong shape. And I know

it wasn't anything else known and

officially classified in those woods. So

I I had to conclude honestly kind of

reluctantly that what I had seen was a

Sasquatch or what people call Bigfoot or

hairy man, whatever you want to call it.

But I decided to start making videos

about the Sasquatch phenomenon because I

knew I'd be researching it. I knew I had

to have answers about what I had seen,

trying to fully understand the truth of

the situation, basically. So, I started

looking into all the usual Bigfoot

things, you know, the Patterson Gimlin

film, the footprints, the hair, the

eyewitness accounts. But I also tried to

balance that with a good hard look at

the skeptical side of the balance sheet.

you know, what are skeptics really

saying about Bigfoot? What are the

common objections to [snorts]

the purported evidence? I wanted to know

all of that. And pretty quickly, I

discovered that the evidence was, in my

opinion, a whole lot more compelling

than I thought. I knew what I'd seen,

but I also knew the 20 seconds or so of

footage I'd gotten wasn't going to

convince anyone on its own. So, I

started looking at the Patterson Gimlin

film. I dug into it in detail. I read

books about it. I watched it frame by

frame, forwards, backwards, zoomed in,

zoomed out, the original and the

restored versions, and I read what

people smarter than me had to say about

it. Scientists, anthropologists,

pimeatlogists,

locomotion experts, but I also read what

people who were well-educated but

skeptical of the film's authenticity had

to say. After a lot of sifting through

that research on the Patterson Gimlin

film, I came to the conclusion that it's

the genuine article that back in 1967,

Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin really

did see a female Sasquatch there in

Bluff Creek in Northern California

walking across this dry riverbed,

leaving very convincing footprints with

a whole lot of morphological detail that

would be difficult to impossible for a

person to fake. According to the late

Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who I spoke with at

length about this and other Bigfoot

related topics, it wouldn't just be

difficult to fake those footprints. It

would be completely and utterly

impossible. And not for lack of trying

on the part of hoaxers, either. I can

tell you the creature in the film got

the nickname Patty. And Patty had a

number of details about her as seen in

various versions of the film that that

were very difficult to dismiss as a man

in a suit, which is basically the only

reasonable argument against

authenticity. It's not like they had CGI

or AI generated videos back then. Okay,

guys, I want to pause here for a moment

to make sure that point is really clear.

The Patterson Gimlin film was shot in

the 1960s. No AI, no CGI. Meaning,

again, if the footage is a hoax, it has

to be a man in a suit, a man in an

incredibly intricate suit, who can also

take 4-foot strides. But we're going to

talk more about why the man in a suit

hypothesis falls apart in a moment.

First, I want to talk about the nature

of hoaxes, the tools of deception. You

see, they've drastically evolved since

then. In 1967, if you wanted to fool

someone, you had to physically fabricate

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matter. Now, if the creature filmed in

Bluff Creek in ' 67 wasn't a digital

fake, was it a physical one? Well, let's

get back into it. So, the things that

stood out the most for me about Patty

are, first of all, that you can see

visible muscle movement, the contraction

of her thigh muscles and her glutes, her

rippling back muscles. You can also see

certain details in her gate and her

feet, the way she propels herself

forward. It's not like the way a human

walks. There was a guy called Bob

Heronomous who tried to claim that it

was actually him in the suit. But when

you compare his walk and Patty's walk,

particularly the fact that the

footprints cast by Patterson and Gimlin

and other people later at the film site

in ' 67, they were like 4 feet apart.

And almost no one on the planet's going

to take steps 4 feet apart, including

this guy Bob Heronomous, who claimed

that Roger Patterson hired him to wear a

Bigfoot suit. But what I didn't realize

at first was that there is some amazing

restoration work of the frames of the

Patterson Gimlin film. All 1,000 or so

frames being done by a guy named Todd

Gatewood. He's a professional photo

archavist. And you may have seen some of

my videos about his work in the past.

But basically, this guy is painstakingly

restoring and cleaning up every single

frame of the Patterson Gimlin film. not

adding any detail that wasn't there, but

clarifying and and removing scratches

and dust and distortion and and

basically cleaning out the lens blur

with nonAI techniques to reveal some

absolutely stunning visuals of this

creature, this Sasquatch that Patterson

and Gimlin filmed in October of ' 67.

I've known Todd Gatewood for a long

time, and I questioned him hard on how

we could know that these incredible

details really were taken from this old

piece of footage. It seems impossible,

especially in this day and age of

digital videography where if you zoomed

in this far, you'd see nothing but

pixels, even if it was, you know, 4K

video. Trust me when I say it is

legitimate. I examined every possible

way that this could not be true and I

discovered that really there's no option

other than it is true.

So, of course, after my detailed

examination of the Patterson Gimlin

film, I looked at many other purported

Sasquatch video clips, and some of them

I found authentic, and some of them I

didn't. But it wasn't long before I

started to get dissatisfied with shaky,

blurry videos. I just figured there had

to be more substantial evidence,

something physical that we could put our

hands on. So, I started looking at

things like footprints and hair samples.

And after talking with people like the

late Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who I've

interviewed and had on this channel

before, I learned that there's actually

a whole lot of detail about many

Sasquatch footprints that have been cast

and preserved in plaster. Things like

midarsel breaks, pressure ridges,

[snorts] toe spplay, slippage,

differences from one print to the next

as the terrain differs. injuries that

are seen in a certain print that

actually change locations over time in

prints from the same individual found

years later as the scar tissue shifts as

layers of skin grow. All sorts of really

neat details, forensic level details in

my opinion that we can discern from

these footprints that indicate that they

were made by a real creature. Not a guy

strapping on Bigfoot feet, but a real

heavy muscular creature propelling

itself forward on humanlike feet that

are 18, 19, 20 in long or more. And that

hinge in the middle, that's the the

midarsel break as it's known. Something

that Dr. Jeff Meldrum talked about at

length as you probably know. And then

there are hair samples and I looked into

that as well. There have been hairs

discovered that under a microscope look

a whole lot like human hair and known

primate hair, the hair of creatures like

gorillas and chimpanzees and so forth,

but don't quite match either of those.

Again, they have many of the

morphological characteristics of primate

hair and yet are officially classified

as unknown when held up against all the

known hair samples that we have of every

known classified animal in North

America. So, putting all this together,

footprints and hair and other little

tidbits of physical evidence, it became

quite clear that there is a very strong

case to be made that these beings are

absolutely real. And for a long time, I

preached that same sermon in different

ways on the channel as I uncovered these

things in my research. My hypothesis was

simply that given the over 2 billion

acres of forest in North America alone,

these beings exist, but basically are

just really good at hiding. So again, at

this point, I knew they were real

because the scanty amounts of physical

evidence we do have are actually pretty

conclusive when you get right down to

the nitty-gritty and understand that

physical evidence in all its detail. But

the obvious question that skeptics

rightly continued to ask is where's the

body? So that's what I looked into next.

And I discovered that although there are

no officially documented Sasquatch

bodies on record, there are numerous

people who report seeing authorities

taking bodies away. Of course, it's only

anecdotal because the body's gone. But a

lot of people report that. And I found I

was having a harder and harder time

assuming that they were all liars. Most

of them didn't even seem to want the

attention. They were just reluctantly

sharing their story on some obscure

platform. The stories were consistent.

You know, the usual stereotypical thing.

There seemed to be something to it. Men

in black suits showing up and carding

off this body after someone shoots one

or hits one with their car or who knows

what. I was seeing it again and again.

But I eventually came across another

reference to a purported Sasquatch body

that was actually much more substantial

because of how well documented it was,

and that's the Minnesota Iceman. Now, if

you look up the Minnesota Iceman on

Wikipedia, you will see in the first

line of the article that it's considered

a hoax, a fake Sasquatch body made of

latex or some other material that was

displayed at carnivals during the 1960s.

The trouble with that explanation is

that two different scientists,

zoologologists, spent three full days

examining this body and wrote about

their examination in great detail, and

they said it was real. They said that

there was no way the detail in this body

could have been faked. The hairs and the

skin texture and the wounds and damage

and the broken arm that it had on one

side and the bullet hole in its head

which caused one of its eyes to pop out.

All of these things indicated realness

to these two highly qualified,

well-trained zoologologists. And that

was a pretty unsettling conclusion.

There was no doubt that we were looking

at some sort of man.

Not homo sapiens,

but some sort of strangely hairy man.

There was what seems to have been a real

Sasquatch body toured around the country

and showed at carnivals during the

1960s. So, after I researched this

enough to believe it was true based on

all the evidence, I made a video about

it. And that's when something really

shocking started to happen. In the

comments of that video, people started

to chime in who are old enough to

remember the Minnesota Iceman. And they

started to share with me seeing it when

it was toured through their hometown at

a local carnival or something. And they

would talk about the details. They would

talk about how it stank. It smelled of

decay. How they could see real blood

frozen in the ice block that surrounded

it. how they could see one of its feet

sticking out of the block of ice where

the ice had melted a little bit and the

toes were starting to rot and it was

really obviously a real carcass of this

large tall haircovered manlike but not

human creature of some sort. After the

footprints and hair, I started to look

at Sasquatch DNA. And of course, you

can't look into Sasquatch DNA without

bringing up the Melba Ketchum Sasquatch

Genome Project, which was a well-funded

study done, let's see, about 10 years

ago now. I'm trying to think. I'm

blanking on the exact date, but

basically this lady, a geneticist and

veterinarian [clears throat] from Texas,

I believe, did this yearslong study with

several other PhDs involved and a whole

team of non-scientific people helping

the scientists. And they brought

together and collected from the entire

continent over a 100 samples of

purported Sasquatch DNA, hair with

tissue still on it, blood, skin, even

purported scat, I believe, and

exhaustively tested these materials

under the harshest scientific scrutiny

and basically determined that not only

were they real and came from an unknown

species, but that that species was half

human. That's what the DNA read as. The

profiling came back as human from the

maternal side, but of unknown origin

from the paternal side. That just made

things more confusing on one level

because, of course, certain factions of

the Bigfoot enthusiast crowd, including

some scientists, felt that if this

creature exists, it's just an

undiscovered ape. It's basically just a

North American gorilla that walks on two

legs. But the Ketchum study, the

Sasquatch Genome Project, cast serious

doubt on that conclusion because again,

we were dealing with something that

seemed to be some sort of halfhuman

hybrid. So, what do you do with that? I

personally had no idea. But I did make a

video examining the Ketchum study in

which I came to the conclusion after

exhaustive research that the study was

legitimate. And I felt I had to set the

record straight because so many people,

the larger scientific community and

completely unqualified

peanut gallery type people, basically

trashed the study and dragged Dr.

Ketchum's name through the mud. Their

main complaints were that the samples

that were gathered and tested were

contaminated by humans and that's why

they read as partially human and that

Dr. Ketchum published the study in her

own scientific journal, not in someone

else's journal. So, all objectivity was

gone in the minds of the critics.

Trouble is, that wasn't quite the whole

story. And I won't go into the whole

story here. I've done that elsewhere,

and I'll probably do it again in the

future. But the short version is that

the samples were not contaminated. They

were rigorously treated and tested. And

as far as publication, Dr. Dr. Ketchum

and her team actually had a pre-existing

arrangement with a well-known scientific

journal who promised to publish the

findings of her study when it was done.

But when it was done and the findings

were shown to be so controversial that

not only do Sasquatches exist and have

DNA, but that that DNA points to a

partially human origin. Well, that

scientific journal stopped returning Dr.

Ketchum's calls and so did every other

scientific journal that she tried to

reach out to her and her entire team of

multiple PhDs. So the bottom line is

that she had to start her own scientific

journal to publish the study at all.

It's called Denovo Scientific Journal.

And again, people really trashed her in

her work because of that. But when you

look at all the details and you read the

book Truth Denied, the Sasquatch DNA

Study by Scott Carpenter, you start to

see that the trashing and the dismissal

was completely unjustified. So I was

extremely intrigued by this conclusion

that I eventually decided was a

legitimate conclusion based on the

science of the study that again

Sasquatches are partially human in

origin. that the maternal side of their

DNA can be traced to a human lineage

about 15,000 years ago from the Middle

East of all places. It seemed like a

tantalizing clue as to the origin of

these beings and yet it just kind of

confused the issue further on a number

of levels.

But on other levels, it actually jived

fairly well. For instance, a lot of

purported Sasquatch encounters involve

eyewitnesses saying that what they saw

looked remarkably human, big and wide

and muscular and hairy certainly, but in

terms of its face, the facial details,

the nose, the cheekbone structure, and

the expression, the emotion in the eyes,

a lot of times people said, "I thought I

was looking at a weird big hairy man."

So that kind of fit with this whole

human hybrid conclusion from the

Sasquatch genome project study. As weird

and unsettling as that seems, at this

point I really didn't know what to make

of the whole Sasquatch thing. I had gone

from being firmly convinced that they

were simply an undiscovered ape, as many

Sasquatch enthusiasts and researchers

still believe now, to believing they

were partially human.

I had also examined what I felt were all

of the most compelling purported

Sasquatch video clips and filtered out

the ones that I thought were fake and

collected the ones that I thought were

real. But there was one set of footage

that I had to take a second look at. Not

because it wasn't very intriguing, but

because it was so controversial. And

that's the footage collection of Todd

Standing. He's claimed again and again

that it's real, that his work is

legitimate, and also the faces he's

captured in his footage are so strange

and alien to people that I think their

knee-jerk reaction very often is that

these things are fake. So, I set out to

find out for sure. I looked very closely

at Todd's footage. I examined his

claims. I talked with him for like 3

hours cross-examining him hard about

every detail. Not just in the footage

itself, but what he was doing when he

got that footage and why the footage

seems to have been cut, why it isn't

full length, and what clues or

supporting evidence he could give for

the authenticity of the footage. I also

listed every single accusation I could

find online from those who tried to

debunk Todd and his work, and there were

some pretty substantial arguments there.

But after digging into this as hard as I

could, the conclusion I came to is that

Pod's videos are 100% authentic. Every

argument against authenticity of his

work doesn't hold water logically. And

I've looked at every one of them. I've

pressed them extremely hard, just as I

pressed Todd and his footage extremely

hard with a skeptical lens, and the

footage holds up. And there's no two

ways about it. You may not like that

conclusion or find that because his

footage just looks fake to you, you

assume it is fake, but that's not

scientific and that's not logical. And

my whole shtick on this channel since

day one has been to try to be as

scientific and logical as I possibly

can. I think it's extra important when

you're examining something so weird and

fringe and taboo as Bigfoot. So, I did

that video and I published it, but I

wasn't expecting what it would

ultimately lead to. Where it eventually

led was me going on a Sasquatch

expedition with Todd Standing and a

small team of researchers to the remote

forests and mountains of a certain part

of British Columbia. And some things

happened on that expedition. Nothing

that I can conclusively call proof, but

I was sleeping in a trailer and the

trailer was shaken multiple times. I

know it wasn't a person. I don't think

it was another animal. We also put

apples high up in trees and we took

certain precautions to make sure that

bears or other animals wouldn't disturb

them or at least if they did that we'd

know about it. And those apples were all

taken. They all disappeared without a

trace. And we found broken trees. Trees

that appeared to have been snapped off

and left hanging by a few threads. Not

the sort of break that natural forces

can produce. Always trees broken at a

certain angle. always pointing in a

certain direction. Sometimes trees woven

together in impossible ways that again

nature wouldn't have been able to do and

a person wouldn't have the strength to

do in many cases. Some of these trees

that were snapped off like matchwood

were like 3 or 4 in in diameter. And

again, not broken in the way that snow

load or heavy wind or rot would produce.

I've seen broken trees all my life. I

literally live in the woods here in

Northern Ontario. And there's a

difference between a tree that has been

broken by nature versus snapped in a

huge pair of hands. And although I was

very skeptical of quote unquote

Sasquatch tree breaks prior to the trip

with Todd in October, I revised my

opinion, especially after one of our

expedition members, a structural

engineer named Richard, explained the

difference to me between sheer brakes,

which are the natural brakes that happen

out in the wild by snow or wind, versus

tensile brakes, which are the sort that

require a restraining mechanism of some

sort when the snap of wood happens. So,

we saw a lot of those and a lot of these

again twisted tree structures, but the

culmination of everything for me on that

trip was when I caught a very brief

glimpse of a Sasquatch. [snorts]

I was the only one on the expedition who

saw it. And I I wish so much that I

hadn't been because, of course, no one's

going to believe me if they have a

skeptical bone in their body, and I

can't blame them. I had taken a little

walk away from the rest of the group

through some thick deadfall in the

middle of the woods on one particular

day, and I saw this upright light brown

shape towering above the branches and

trunks on the forest floor, streak

across my field of vision. Not loping

through the deadfall trunks like you'd

think it would be, but almost moving

like it was hovering, like it was locked

onto a rail. just a perfectly smooth,

just super fast. It was over in less

than a second or maybe two seconds at

the most. And I didn't manage to get it

on camera. It was so fast. But I heard

some noises as well, some tree breaks

shortly before it ran across my field of

view. And one of the other expedition

members heard those sounds as well, so

at least I had a little bit of

corroboration. All of these things

cemented for me that as divisive as this

opinion is, as divisive as this

conclusion is, Todd Standing was and is

a real, legitimate, truthful Sasquatch

researcher. His footage is real, and I

experienced Sasquatch well out on

expedition with him. But it turns out at

the time of that expedition, I wasn't

done tossing out my old conclusions

about Bigfoot and adopting new ones.

Because around that time, I decided that

I could no longer ignore the quote

unquote woo woo elements of the Bigfoot

phenomenon, the paranormal stuff, the

line of thinking that draws lines

between Bigfoot and orbs or UFOs, the

kind of thinking that allows for

potential cloaking, the ability to turn

invisible, in other words, even

telepathic abilities, things like mind

speak. When I first started looking into

this, I assumed all that was nonsense.

But I was wrong. As I examined the

testimonies of people whose encounters

with Bigfoot included some sort of

paranormal element and also looked at

some of the footage of orbs and floating

lights, which were often reported to

appear before, during, or after a

Bigfoot encounter, the consistency is

actually what sealed it for me. Because

if you're making something up or if

you're trying to will something into

being real, your particular madeup thing

is going to be different than everyone

else's. But the woo woo crowd when it

comes to Bigfoot, they were all saying

the same things more or less. That these

beings can appear or disappear at will.

That these beings can speak to you in

your head without ever making a sound.

That these beings are more than just

undiscovered apes. I just felt in my gut

that there was more to the phenomenon.

And that kind of reached ahead when I

was doing some research for one of my

videos, examining a certain piece of

footage that was actually filmed,

believe it or not, about 30 mi from

where I had my initial sighting. Not the

Todd Standing sighting, but the original

one on Vancouver Island that set me down

this rabbit hole. I was looking back at

my video from the night before I saw the

creature. The night when I went walking

in the woods and I heard the weird grunt

sound. I actually got that sound on

camera. I didn't get the tree twist on

camera. I had already stopped the

recording by then, unfortunately. But I

noticed something in my footage from

that night that I hadn't seen in person.

I think because I was looking down at my

shoes, worrying about tripping over a

root or something like that at the

instant this happened. But at the very

moment that that grunt or growl

occurred, there was this momentary brief

flash of kind of reddish light. This was

the middle of the woods. There was no

one around, no houses, no trail cams. I

looked into that. There was no

reasonable explanation for that sudden

momentary flash of light at the very

moment I heard the sound that I heard.

But there it was. You can see it for

yourself.

Let's see what I can find in here.

That's when I started to realize that it

was time to open my mind further to look

into the possibility that there may be

more to these beings than a simple

unclassified animal. I started to

realize that the paranormal elements to

these creatures that a lot of people

talk about may not be complete hogwash

after all, as I had assumed for so long.

Something else came to light around this

same period of time and research.

Something that further shook me up in my

conclusions that I really couldn't

dismiss when I examined it thoroughly.

And that was the conclusion that

Sasquatches have a language

by the human definition of a language, a

series of sounds with specific meanings

that they can convey complex ideas with.

I came to this conclusion after

examining some audio recordings captured

in the 1970s known as the Sierra sounds.

There were these two guys, Ron Morhead

and Al Bry, who had been getting reports

about potential Sasquatch activity in

the Sierra Nevada mountains. So they

hiked out there with a bunch of locals

and they eventually discovered signs of

Sasquatch activity and then they started

hearing these sounds at night around

their camp getting closer and closer in.

They tried to get it on video but

reportedly every time they got a video

camera going all activity would stop.

They tried to hide cameras under

barrels. They tried to set trigger

activated cameras with little traps on

strings and things and none of it

worked. They weren't able to outsmart

these beings, but everyone present was

absolutely certain that the beings were

there. What were they going to do? How

would they get evidence? Well, the best

they could do, as it turns out, was to

get a series of audio recordings. The

tape recorders they used didn't seem to

bother the creatures. These sounds,

known as the Sierra sounds, were

captured, and they're weird. They made

my skin crawl the first time I heard

them. And a lot of people have that same

reaction. Of course, a lot of people

also have the reaction of laughing and

saying, "Well, I could make sounds just

like that or my dog does those kind of

sounds all the time." But none of those

people have ever managed to produce any

substantial evidence of hopery. But

there is a lot of substantial evidence

[snorts] that the recordings are

authentic. And much of it centers around

a guy named Scott Nelson. He's a retired

crypto linguist who used to work for the

US Navy decoding languages in certain

transmissions. Basically, the guy is a

language expert. He heard these

recordings and studied them and realized

pretty quickly that they have all the

hallmarks of an intelligent language by

the human definition of a language. I

looked into all his work in detail. I

listened to the man speak and explain

his conclusions and play back certain

sections of the recordings and slow them

down and speed them up and I found his

points to be solid. After exhaustive

research, I came to the conclusion that

Scott Nelson is completely right that

the Sierra sounds not only were not

emitted by human vocal cords, nor did

they come from any other known animal,

but that they did indeed contain

linguistic elements. And the more you

listen to them, the more I think you'll

start to realize that this is a pretty

inescapable conclusion, to be honest.

>> [clears throat]

>> It also ties back nicely to the

controversial findings of the Ketchum

study. Half human, half something else.

It kind of makes sense that there would

be a level of intelligence there that

could formulate language, proper

communication as humans understand

communication. So where did all this

leave me exactly? Just to recap

everything I'd learned. I had personally

experienced I had seen them multiple

times. I had learned that they have

human genetics at least partially. I had

learned that they have the intelligence

to form a language. That they're

extremely elusive and that when they do

show up on video, it's almost never

clear, but there are a few exceptions to

that. And then I had come to the

reluctant conclusion that somehow these

beings have paranormal capabilities. I

didn't mention before that I had also

spoken with people who I very much

trust, people who I know have a solid

head on their shoulders and aren't given

to flightiness or fantasy of any sort

who have experienced mindspeak,

telepathy that they feel came from a

Sasquatch. Multiple times this has

happened to people I very much trust. So

I just realized I I couldn't write all

that off anymore. I couldn't throw it

out. But what did that tell me? What

conclusion could I draw from that in my

quest to uncover the full truth about

these beings? I had no idea. And

honestly, I still don't. The more deeply

I look into this, the less I realize I

know.

That's when I decided to stop looking

forward for a while and start looking

backward. But I didn't realize how

unprepared I was for what I'd find

looking for Sasquatch in the past.

Through a lot of research, my friend

Josh and I discovered that Sasquatches

were not only commonly mentioned in

antiquity, but they were often depicted

in ancient art, they were written about

in ancient journals, they were carved

into the wooden seats of ancient

cathedrals. And some well-known

Christian saints like St. Augustine even

openly speculated on whether or not

these beings, obviously intelligent as

they were, could be baptized. That's not

the sort of question you ask about a

mythological creature. It's something

you ask about a creature you know to be

real. But it wasn't just religious

antiquity where these beings were

mentioned in the past. Indigenous

traditions are also rich with stories

about Sasquatch or the hairy man or

depending on which tribe you talk to,

the Saskat.

There are many different terms, but

bottom line is there's a great deal of

consistency across different tribes in

different parts of the continent dating

back as long as we can really remember

and probably longer. And none of the

indigenous folks I've spoken to about

Sasquatch feel that these beings are

simply another animal. What they feel is

that they're another tribe of people who

potentially come from the stars

according to some tribes and who have

special abilities and also who you don't

want to mess with. Most recently, I

collaborated with three researchers who

have been documenting evidence on a

certain rural property in Pennsylvania,

where there not only seems to be ample

Sasquatch activity, but these beings

somehow are able to leave evidence

behind and make noises, but not appear

on any of the cameras, blanketing this

land, which given how many cameras these

researchers have set up, should be

physically impossible. And yet, it's

happening. At this point, I've certainly

seen enough evidence to fully believe

that these beings are capable of

cloaking or turning invisible, however

you want to categorize it. They're real.

They're physical. They're biological,

but they're also more than that. They

have partially human genetics. They're

capable of forming language. They seem

to be able to cloak and make noises

without appearing on the cameras.

They're recording those noises, even

when by all rights they should. They

seem to be able to communicate

telepathically with people. As difficult

a pill as that is to swallow, it's

happening. It's reported consistently.

They also have some sort of connection

with orbs, also known as floating

lights.

Some people speculate, and this is quite

a common theory, that Sasquatch are a

modern-day iteration of the biblical

Nephilim, where fallen angels

impregnated human women and created

offspring, hybrid offspring, partially

fallen angel, partially human, and that

because of these paranormal

capabilities, this is what Sasquatch is

because it displays similar

capabilities. That may be true. I can't

logically conclude against it, but I do

know that the Nephilim, as described in

the Bible, were considered men of

renown. They were fully human, but also

more than human. They didn't seem to

have an animalistic side to them, at

least not the way they're described in

the Bible. Of course, there's also talk

about fallen angels messing with the

genetics of animals in non-biblical

ancient texts like the Book of Enoch and

the Book of Jasher. And there may well

be something to that. Honestly, that's

probably the closest thing to checking

all the boxes that I've discovered to be

true at this point. But really, the

truth is, I don't know. But one thing I

do know is that every time I try to put

these beings in one specific, neatly

defined box, the box is ripped apart a

few months later as I continue delving

into this research. They don't seem to

be containable in just one box or

category. So, what do you do with that?

If your stated goal is to uncover and

understand the full truth of this

phenomenon. For me, the only thing I can

do at this point is maintain a fully

open mind, test things, weigh things,

even conclude against certain claims,

but never ever fully dismiss any of it.

Because if I do, chances are I'll be

proven wrong soon after. Well, there you

have it, guys. everything I've learned

and many things I haven't about Bigfoot

over the last nearly 18 months of

complete and utter obsession. If you

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