New Jersey Bigfoot
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 17th, 2006
How do local Bigfoot groups begin? How do they establish themselves? How do they “get out there” to have the public know they are local investigators? Craig’s group in Texas is a high-evolved and well-oiled machine. But they all start the same way. Most begin as a grassroots effort, and today, since I recently spotlighted the New Jersey Bigfoot on The X-Files, here’s a follow-up on the continuing but new local group in that state:
Upcoming Bigfoot Lecture by Drew Vics
Thursday, July 20, 2006, at 7:00 PM: “Exploring the Possibility of Bigfoot in New Jersey.”
The New Jersey Bigfoot Reporting Center will be at the Old Bridge library to discuss Bigfoot sightings in the Garden State. They will take a unique look at one of New Jersey’s least known inhabitants.
The lecture will run for an hour.
Location is:
Old Bridge Township Public Library
1 Old Bridge Plz # 1
Old Bridge, NJ 08857
The NJBFRC was created to collect sighting reports in New Jersey, not necessarily to investigate every report, but to contact witnesses in some cases to get more details. If sightings are close enough to Drew Vics’ location, he does travel and investigates the area and the case.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
What I don’t get is how any creature could cross I-95.
Fantastic! I’ll have to see if I can get a ride.
Close enough for me to check it out. Does anyone know anything about Drew Vics?
Im from the tri-state area(Pa., NJ, and Del.) and spent some 12 years in southern Jersey along Wharton and Bass River state forests. There are some 500,000 acres of Pine Barrens in those parks alone. I know of quite a few sightings I’ve looked into in this area. Wish I could attend your meeting and best of luck with your organization.
Good luck to all BFRO researchers….I hope the Governor doesn’t outlaw sasquatch…do you think sasquatch can take the Jersey devil…LOL
Agreed Loren….Craig and the founding members of TBRC have done a fine job…evolving into the premiere sasquatch searchers in the South…all funded from within….
seeing is believing….
ole bub and the dawgs…
Hope to see some of you there, if you’re in the Jersey area and can come on out, stop by. I’ll bring along my 8 foot Fouke Monster cutout with me.
Basically I was asked to speak about Bigfoot sightings in new jersey so I’ll present the most popular, as well as the newest reports I’ve received at the NJBFRC, one as recent as July 2006. I’ll also give a very brief overview of the BF phenomenon in general, as well as touch on the apparent species varieties by location, and the various names.
Should be fun.
rayrich, please to get in touch with me over at the NJBFRC so we can compare notes.
Every new and good org that comes along just puts us one step closer to proving the Big Fellow is out there. Good luck to your group.
What I don’t get is how any creature could cross I-95.
Bigfoot run like wind!!
Most of the umpteen bazillion deer make it across…why not Sassy?
My wife teaches in NJ and participates in an annual 7th grade camping trip to Stokes State Forest in the northwestern part of the state. In early June of this year she was sleeping in her bunk in a cabin full of 7th grade girls, when one of them had a severe asthma attack in the middle of the night.
My wife ran across the campground (this was at about 2:30 AM) while the other teacher in the cabin stayed behind with the student. As she crossed the compound she heard a series of loud, unearthly screeches and yowles like nothing she’d ever heard before. The other teachers and students heard it as well, and when the EMTs and police arrived, the other teacher in my wife’s cabin asked what kind of animal had made that awful sound. The police officer said that he had heard it too, and that there had been numerous reports of “bigfoot” in the area recently. No “normal” animal in that part of the country made that noise. Freaked out my wife pretty good when she heard that.
Later, I found a website that had supposed bigfoot screeches and howls and when I played them she said that that’s what it sounded like.
Sorry for the long post, but I thought I’d relay that story.
How about underneath bridges and through large culverts as crossing points? It seems Bigfoot like to stay near water sources for many obvious reasons. May be a great place to set up trail cameras. Bigfoot from miles around may funnel through such points.
The lecture went well. We had a turn out of about 44 people at the height of it. It went quick, so I really didn’t have the chance to cover everything I had planned on. But I think everyone enjoyed it.
Webguy, I’d like to thank you for your report above. Stokes is an area I always wondered about with regard to Bigfoot, that whole area of northern NJ could serve as a passageway between NY and PA, let alone a more permanent home to some of these creatures.
Thanks to all. And regarding the I-95 question… You know I-95 only crosses the lower central area of the state, in the northern section it’s runs north/south nearer the coast. To roam around North Jersey Bigfoot don’t even have to get near I-95, they’d only have to cross it if they want to venture down to southern NJ, the shore areas or parts of New York, like Long Island or Staten Island, both areas where there have been sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures. Granted, they’d have to swim – but swimming BF have been reported too.
People are seeing something. That’s what intrigues me.