Massive NC Bigfoot Search Gains Momentum
Posted by: Guy Edwards on February 10th, 2011
Charlotte, NC Fox Affiliate has a video segment with Leonard Braley, showing the same photos we shared with you at Bigfoot Lunch Club yesterday. Below is an excerpt article that accompanies the video.
“Every state, except Hawaii, has had some type of Sasquatch/Bigfoot sighting,” said John Pate who is an investigator with the B.F.R.O. and is certain between 3 and 6 thousand big foot creatures exist in North America. “They are very very intelligent they have great eyesight they have great hearing and they know how to survive,” said Pate. He says they often communicate by knocking on wood.”Charlotte, NC Fox News
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I would be interested in knowing precisely what this “massive” search entails.
A three-day made-for-TV blitz is not a search. A week, most of it spent in base camps, doesn’t qualify.
Patterson and Gimlin are still the only legitimate expedition in history; and I consider them lucky in the extreme to get what they got. But with the time they spent in backcountry and the ground they covered, I would have expected them to find something in the way of evidence, even if they didn’t actually see one. (Shoot. In seven DAYS in that country, my girlfriend and I saw tracks. And we weren’t even looking hard.)
It occurs to me that perhaps the main reason Patterson and Gimlin got as close to Patty as they did, before she realized what was going on and left the area, was that they were riding horses. Patty might have been familiar with the sound and pace of large hoofed animals like elk, which are all over that area, and so wasn’t alarmed until she caught a leather saddle squeak or man-mumble or scent.
Horseback might work where there are wild horses, cattle, moose or bison, too.
Prediction: They’ll find nothing.
fuzzy: I’ve heard it said that it’s a much better bet to see wildlife on horseback than it is on foot. There are a number of likely reasons, I’d think, of which yours is one.
Not being a horseback rider, I wonder whether the hoof/horseshoe noise, which as you point out might not alarm another animal too much, and the greater distance between riders, cut down on the conversation too. Most hikers I pass on trails are lumped together and talking; when I’m with a lump of hikers (which is rare but happens), ditto. I’d think that human chatter is a big-time spooker that might be muted by horses.
I’m a little surprised, given the apparent dedication of a number of Bigfooters, that NO ONE has attempted in all the years since to duplicate Patterson and Gimlin’s approach.
(And make sure one knows for sure that that pesky camera is set to the right speed.)