Deep in the woods … Bigfoot?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on December 8th, 2005
Don Barone reports today on ESPN.com about his stint in April this year on the BFRO West Virginia expedition to look for Bigfoot.
Seems like there was a Class B daylight sighting, as well as a "handful" of Class B sound incidents, which included two "stalking incidents", one of which involved nighttime rock throwing into the river. I wonder if Mr. Barone was present during any of these encounters? Perhaps he will share with us here any additional details that took place…
In Don’s words…
There are 10 of us in the woods of West Virginia. Just regular folks — an attorney and his wife, a business-manager type and his editor girlfriend, a retired Army tank guy who has been in all the latest wars, a massage therapist and her girlfriend, and an environmental scientist. Your neighbors, except for maybe the ex-intel officer from the National Security Agency and the state trooper who works undercover rounding up drug dealers.
Just ordinary people … searching for Bigfoot. We’re an expedition of regular folks, ages 19 to "don’t ask," put together by Matt Moneymaker of The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
"It’s the mystery of it," says my friend Denver, the ex-NSA guy. "There’s really not much stuff that we are going to find new in this world, and if there is actually some big hairy biped walking around out there, I’d like to see it for myself."
And he brought along Gen 3 night vision goggles to look for it.
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
A comment from the author of the above mentioned article. I aksed Don if he would care to comment here regarding my posting of his article. His reply:
Craig:
Thank you for reading the story, and for posting it. I’d be interested to see what your readers think.
I was only out there a couple of very cold days, and didn’t see or hear anything out of the ordinary. Some of those there did, others did not.
But I didn’t do the story about Bigfoot, as I told Matt several times, I didn’t care if the creature showed up or not, I was there to chronicle those who do the searching.
The Bigfoot story comes right after a story I did framed around ghosts, spirits, orbs and shadow beings, and those who seek them.
It’s the seekers that interest me.
The Bigfoot story is a story about, respect. Respect for those who still question, who see things a bit different, and THEIR respect for what it is they seek.
Without those who get off the couch, who put down the remote, who question and are driven for answers, discovery will never be made.
So I don’t think I could add much to any discussion because I don’t pay much attention to the creatures, it’s the searchers I seek.
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I told Don that I wanted to post his reply to me here. He gave me permission to do so. What he said in the following 3 sentences, I found very compelling.
“The Bigfoot story is a story about, respect. Respect for those who still question, who see things a bit different, and THEIR respect for what it is they seek.”
“Without those who get off the couch, who put down the remote, who question and are driven for answers, discovery will never be made.”
It reminded me of a quote from a famous American that I have posted on the front page of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center’s website:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
hi craig thats a great article about the resent bfro expedition from espn. thanks bill
does anyone really believe what happens at these expeditions that the BFRO are having???
dont you find it strange that EVERY single expedition they have done they had a encounter of some sort ?????
I just attended the BFRO trip to the SE region of OK. There were 20 to 25 people trying very hard to gather evidence. There were five thermal imaging cameras including a ratheon pan and tilt flir unit. At least seven people with gen III night vision. Sony video cams mated to gen three. Five or six quality digital sound recorders and a lot of four wheel drive vehicles. Many of these folks slept in their vehicles twenty miles from any other people as far as I could tell on roads that I could only navigate with GPS and TOPO maps. I know these events were real. I myself heard god awful screams in the town of Honobia and all the town dogs went crazy the night before the expedition. I agree with comments that Daryl made at a TBRC meeting. If there was more time and more money for equipment and travel there would be many many more results.
There were at least three incidents that were very real the people involved were genuinly terrified. Two were rock throwing. One rock hit someone. There was a violent shaking of a truck at four in the morning. Footfalls were recorded in conjunction with this event. I wish I could spend ten times more effort in the field. I know my chances for results would be better than at this computer.
Gosh, ff Bigfoot was only a woodpecker. We would have him on tape.