Posted on 02/02/2022 10:43:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
They’re out there. Shadowy creatures of the night making mischief, or worse, under the cover of darkness. These magnified legends have wormed their way into the subconscious, propelling legions of seekers to swarm dense North American forests in search of Bigfoot.
Ken Carter of Martinez has never seen one. But he says he has had close encounters — red eyes eerily glowing in the woods that he swears could not have been an animal. He has heard grunting and stomping in his campsite and once found a big handprint where something smacked the camper shell in the wee hours, startling him awake.
These unexplained occurrences took place over the years at a secretive Sierra hunting ground in Stanislaus National Forest. That’s where Carter stood with fellow East Bay searcher Rich Mingus on a recent brisk fall afternoon. Among the camping accoutrements they brought along was “Stenny,” a Bigfoot doll named for fellow searcher Mark Stenberg, whose health no longer allows him to camp with the gang.
The men embody a cabalistic pursuit of the paranormal that, for a sliver of Americans, has morphed into a pastime as addictive as golf.
Carter, 64, has searched for the famed hominid since 2012, when he and a daughter spent their Sundays watching Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot,” one of the many shows the legendary beast has inspired.
“We can’t say there is something or there isn’t something,” said Carter, who published “Cancer & Bigfoot, My Story” in 2021. “Just different things happen that make you think there is something.”
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Pal there's more evidence for the tooth fairy!
That’s true.
George Noory is an excellent interviewer, does a great job, and is always well prepared for any guest, but he lacks a little bit of the kind of breathless “OMG folks can you believe this???” excitement Art Bell brought to any topic that really sucked you in.
last i heard it was in the marthas vineyards area...
OK, where’s the obligatory Moochelle Obama Bigfoot pic?
Anyone interested in this topic should tune into David Paulides’ documentaries “Missing 411”.
Yup. I miss Art Bell.
Yup. The Paulides Mssing 411 documentaries are quite good. You can order his books directly from his web site.
http://www.missing-411.com/about/
Bob434 wrote: “The funny thing is- they aren’t the only ‘bigfoot hunters’ out in the woods- so you have two groups of hunters on different ridges, shooting like drunken boobs back and forth to each other exclaiming it’s proof of big foot lol”
That possibility had occurred to me too.
I used to really enjoy Gold Rush. I wondered why they never had any spare parts to fix things that broke. Simply didn’t make sense that a multi-million dollar operation would risk a long term shutdown. But, somehow, they were always fixed it. Then it occurred to me. It was all a part of a script. Haven’t watched sense.
Alaskan tribes believe they are able to slip between realities at will. They are terrified of them, but accept them as part of the natural world.
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With the proliferation of cellphones, dash cams, trail cameras and surveillance drones one would expect that some convincing photographic evidence of a Bigfoot creature would show up. Other than the controversial Patterson film of some 50 years ago, the photographs and videos thus far have been indistinct shadows or indistinguishable figures moving at great distance.
Bolstered by what I would characterize as reliable witness reports of encounters with some unknown Bigfoot like creature, I was inclined to think that some elusive unknown creature might be lurking in very remote areas. However, the lack of any believable photos or videos despite vastly improved and ubiquitous imaging technology causes me to doubt Bigfoot exists.
yep- the gold rush show i figured was scripted too when i saw parker ‘roll the rock truck’ (or whatever it was at his grandpa’s mine) and the cameras were placed just right underneath the truck to catch all the rolling glory- then i started noticing whenever there were ‘accidents’ the cameras were always optimized to catch them perfectly- especially when Jack busted the diamond jig or whatever it was in Guyana- the camera angles were all just too perfect for those ‘accidents’ i thought-
I like watching Steve. He has quite a bit to say about the state of then world and the globalists who run it.
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