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RealNewby
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Based upon this thread and the experiences of those who attended, I've got one thing to say regarding next year. I'm there! I'm in Minnesota and have convinced a non-believing buddy in Chicago to come along too. \
Great thread.
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Smurf
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| Posted: September 3rd, 2008 11:07 AM |
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I'm there too! I just joined the forums and I'm not far away in the Detroit area. Can't wait until info is available!
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R. Von Quest
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| Posted: September 3rd, 2008 11:25 AM |
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Here's some more shots of the area. Bring your water-proof boots!
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BFRO - WI/MN/IA/IL/Can
The Q Files.com |
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kharmadawg
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| Posted: September 12th, 2008 08:29 PM |
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| you can seriously count me in. being from michigan, loving the UP and i have a fond taste for pasties(even the veggie ones). I would really love to go squatching in my home state |
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Bill Boqs
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| Posted: September 13th, 2008 06:52 PM |
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K-dawg: The quest for a truly edible pasty will go on long after BF has been captured, classified and thoroughly relegated to the textbooks. But, by all means, sign on for an expedition; the squatching in MI is great!
On the internet, no one knows you're a squatch. . . |
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jtssrx
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| Posted: September 16th, 2008 03:29 PM |
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I live in Michigan. I snowmobile in the UP. Where are some good places to look for Signs and to have a possible sighting? When are you having another expedition in Michigan? I would like to attend
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atjluce
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| Posted: January 2nd, 2009 11:28 PM |
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Why not the Northern Lower Michigan? According to the report map there seems to be a good distribution in that area.
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Bossburg
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| Posted: January 2nd, 2009 11:46 PM |
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atjluce: This thread is for the 2008 Past Expedition, not future expeditions.
Please visit the *READ THIS FIRST* section of the forum, read the posting guidelines and then post your introduction.
Thanks,
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Steve Moon
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| Posted: January 17th, 2009 06:52 PM |
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Late in the evening of September 6th, 2008, during a BFRO mini expedition in the Michigan UP, Gerry Wiater and I, Steve Moon, drove to a logging road, proceeded to the bottom of the valley of a small stream, and crossed the bridge which is over the stream. It was a very dark night, with little wind. We were in the area for two hours and fifteen minutes. The entire time we seemed to be in a dead zone with little or no wildlife sounds heard. Heavy foot falls, presumably of Sasquatch, were heard at regular intervals, but no knocking was heard. After walking up and down an intersecting logging road near the bridge we sat on a railing of the bridge.
We were sitting on the south end of the bridge, on the east side, facing upstream toward the upland. After about fifteen minutes movement was heard over toward the truck to our right. A possible whoop was heard shortly after that, which seemed to come from up the hill in the direction that we had first walked, and where fellow expedition members had earlier headed in their truck. I made a call on the radio to ask if they had whooped, but there was no response. I whooped twice followed by a long call. I repeated this pattern a second time a few minutes later. There was no response.
At 11:10, thirty minutes after sitting on the bridge, two small bright blue glowing eyes popped up at the edge of the bridge just opposite us and looked directly at us as though surprised. The eye glow was twelve feet directly in front of us at foot level. A minute or two later the eyes appeared again. The woods were so dark that we could not see our hand extended out in front of us. We did not have any lights on. Three minutes later they appeared again, and we began to make observations about the eye glow we were witnessing (I was recording audio.) “He’s still with us.” “Small eyes.” “Just peeking up.” Three minutes after that we saw the eye glow again, and made more observations. “Bright blue.” “A little juvenile.” “See it moving its little head up?”
At 11:20 Gerry spotted red glowing eyes at about seven or eight feet up from the road surface to our left. I saw the red eye glow for a moment or two but not as clearly as Gerry did, probably because I was sitting on his right. The red eye glow was observed for about twelve minutes. The next day Gerry paced off the distance to where he felt that the red eye glow had been, and estimated that it was about sixty to seventy feet away from us. No foot prints were found.
We continued to see the blue eye glow at the edge of the bridge. More observations were made. “Still there.” “Peeking through the foliage.” “Little tiny eyes aren’t they?” “One eye.” The eyes were 3 or 4 inches apart. They seemed to blink. At one time or another we would see only one, then the two of them. They stayed about the same height above the bridge floor, maybe 6 inches or so, most of the time. They did not move very much from right to left, although at one point I leaned forward and moved my head from side to side to see if I could get a better look and the eyes seemed to respond by moving forward and back as though mimicking my movement. We heard no sounds from where the blue eye glow was seen the entire time we were there. At about 11:30 fellow expedition members drove back down the hill and stopped on the bridge to chat with us. We asked them if they had whooped and they said no. After they drove off the blue glowing eyes reappeared.
Twenty minutes before Gerry spotted the red eye glow a loud screech was heard directly behind us. Twenty minutes after he spotted it a loud squealing was heard directly in front of us. Both of these were easily within a hundred feet of our position. These were just about the only wildlife sounds we heard the entire time we were there, and we speculate that the sounds may have been produced by Sasquatch. It is possible that a Sasquatch had walked in a circle around us, perhaps guarding the juvenile, because twenty minutes before we heard the first loud screech we had heard the sound of movement by the truck to our right.
We are not sure exactly when, but not long before we left the bridge we heard splashing in the creek as if something was moving downstream behind us. We were at the bridge for about an hour and a half. The amount of time that we were able to observe the blue eye glow in front of us was fifty minutes. We may have observed the blue eye glow again at about seventy minutes, but we are not sure about that. We decided that we would go back to the main camp and see what other expedition members had encountered, and tell them what we had seen and heard. We walked back to the truck and headed out. The encounter was over.
Gerry Wiaver is a psychologist who is a local BFRO contact and investigator. In his sixties, he has many years of hunting experience and is an avid outdoorsman. New to the BFRO, he has long had an interest in Sasquatch due to personal encounters. In my fifties, I (Steve Moon) am a research librarian, am trained in anthropology, and was a professional photographer and art educator for many years. I am an avid hunter and outdoorsman with 25 years of caving experience. I am new to the BFRO and to Sasquatch research but have had a long-standing interest in it.
(Edited by Steve Moon)
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NurseVal
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| Posted: January 17th, 2009 07:53 PM |
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Way to go, Steve! I didn't realize you two were interrupted by other expedition members during this encounter, and that the little blue eyes reappeared.
"Who is this that lights the wigwam?
With his great eyes lights the wigwam?"
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Oldfattylumpkin
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| Posted: January 18th, 2009 08:31 AM |
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Thanks for sharing this Steve. I've heard alittle about this on the other forum, but not in this detail. Kudos to you for staying so long on that bridge while in the pitch black.
I'm sorry I missed being up there the second time, But I hope to be there this year. See you soon.
Dave D
I Squatch, Therefor I am.
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Steve Moon
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| Posted: January 18th, 2009 09:56 PM |
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HI Dave and Val,
I look forward to seeing you both in the UP this year! As for staying on the bridge in the dark, all I can say is that I'm very comfortable in the dark. Maybe it's all the caving I've done. Dark doesn't bother me in the least.
When the small craft warnings come out, then you go sailing. |
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dunarabianmare
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| Posted: February 14th, 2009 04:05 PM |
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I ride endurance and I was on the Grand Island Ride last Memorial Day weekend. We ride out of the Bay-de-Noc camp just north of US-2 near Rapid River and we came across some Bigfoot Hunters around the 5 mile marker +/- Was that any of you? It was Sunday, probably about 8:30~am
I didn't even know *you* were squatchin' until someone at the vet check said "Did you see the Bigfoot hunters?" and the vets started arguing about whether or not they hibernate--that discussion is on some other topics. The ride manager joked about getting her husband dressed up in a suit to occasionally walk across the trail just to see if anyone would mention it. If you see a 5'10" sasquatch near Rapid River, I tthink I know who it belongs to. |
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itspaul
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| Posted: February 15th, 2009 09:20 PM |
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| Thanks for the report Steve Moon! It was well written and very interesting. I would like to ask this question: Im sure you have a good explanation but why were you not equipped with night vision or a thermal imager, or at the very minimum....a flashlight? What good is going out into the field for the purpose of research without being outfitted properly? I asked this not to give you a hard time but to only try to understand. |
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oregonsquatch
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| Posted: September 21st, 2009 03:38 PM |
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I'm fascinated by Richard's post regarding notes from the exped, but I am not able to see the images or animated loop he refers to. Have they been removed? Is there another way to view these?
Seeing is believing? |
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Bossburg
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| Posted: September 24th, 2009 01:57 PM |
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oregonsquatch: That is a possibility. This is from last year (2008). Unless he reposts them, they are not available anywhere else.
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Tretiak
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| Posted: October 12th, 2009 06:05 PM |
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Wish I could have been there also. I love those dark walks at night in the country. Was the eye reflection do to light from the moon? All sorts of little creatures lurking in the bush at night.
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