It doesn't seem too hard to find them for some folks. Here we have 2 or 3 of them who interacted with humans for a couple of hours. In the Eastern US yet, where sasquatch is scarce.
Herding sounds a bit ominous to me.....
LOL - almost sounds like a hunting practice.
Summary: On this expedition indicative sounds were heard each day within a five mile radius of the base camp.
What do sounds indicative of Bigfoot (Sasquatch here) sound like?
On Saturday night a group of thirteen (13) participants said they were approached and intimidated by 2-3 sasquatches on a trail along a tributary of the Greenbrier. The incident lasted 2 hours. During the encounter there was one brief Class A sighting by Patty Lee (NC-BFRO) when the headlamp of Olof Seaman (VA-BFRO) briefly illiminated a large sasquatch as he (Olof) moved along a trail back towards his group.
The inference here is that one of thirteen people saw a Sasquatch (and "briefly"). The others had no sightings but assumed that what they had been told by the Olof was true. There is also no mention of sightings beyond the first, possibly inferred, though, because of where rocks were thrown from. Also, were rocks definitely thrown or were they near a rocky area where rocks could be eroding away from a rockface and falling?
There just seems to be alot of magician-style misdirection here - a situation that Olaf and a helper or two could have easily engineered.
They were unanimously adamant that the sasquatches were trying to keep them "herded" together, by skillfully throwing large rocks in the paths of those who tried to separate and move away from the group. After two hours the activity ceased.
Are there previous reports of Bigfoot/Sasquatch using tools? If so, how? In my little knowledge of animal behavior (experts, feel free to correct me), animals don't do anything like this without a reason. Every expenditure of energy means that they have less left for the hunt or everyday survival. So why would they "herd" these people and then just up and let them go? Is there evidence of a nest nearby or anything like that?
The thing that heightens my skeptical spider-sense is when one of two situations occurs - many people agree on the same story with no specific description and when few or one person has a detailed account with no corroborating evidence.
I don't know the background of this report, but it says that these people were on an "expedition" and they heard "indicative" sounds of Bigfoot/Sasquatch. Though not stated, this infers that the expedition was looking for Bigfoot. There are several things from this point on that just make no sense if these people were specifically out there with this goal in mind.
- If you hear something and go out looking for it, you don't stay clumped in one big group of thirteen - you fan out prodigiously and see what there is to be seen. They shouldn't have been close enough together to have been herded in the first place.
- Where are the rocks that were thrown? Do Sasquatch have identifiable prints? Could epithelials have been gathered as is mentioned by a previous poster? Where they gathered?
- After the incident, was the area cordoned off to look for corroborating evidence? Were photos taken of the scene?
- Was their a more descriptive report detailing the location, time/date, weather, and other circumstances involved?
I think that if Bigfoot researchers want the support of the scientific (and skeptic) community, they need to conduct themselves in a scientific manner. This is what the above account sounds like to me: "We were taking a nice hike when all of a sudden one of our people said that they saw a Sasquatch! We freaked out and heard rocks hitting nearby for two hours. When it was over, we breathed a sigh of relief and went back to camp." How does that help support their claims in a scientific manner?
A sighting doesn't help their claims one iota from a scientific viewpoint - corroborative evidence is necessary.
