Echo in the night…

By Moose Magnet | November 16, 2008

A quick trip was put together to make a run into the foot hills. We wanted to hear the megaphone in the out doors. Six of us went up, Spartan117, GITD, Lucky Charms, Skoo, Boogeyman and myself. We played some of the sounds that I put together. The area we went was more for convenience than anything. Nothing came of it but we did have fun. It echoed really well and I am happy with the purchase. Now I just need to get my hands on some better sounds. At the very end we played the siren to see if we could get any coyotes to howl. Nothing. Our next trip will be to an area that we know has had activity in the last year with some history as well.

Moose Magnet…

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Potential Hot Spot…

By Moose Magnet | November 11, 2008

Well I received news today that one of our group has been talking with someone they know. It turns out they share something in common. They both believe in Sasquatch. This person said that they know of an area where they had a Class A sighting about 5 years ago with other events that have happened. They said they are willing to show us where this was at. Don’t want to say much more until I get their consent on sharing more information. Hope it turns out to be cool. I don’t consider myself an investigator by any means but I would like to take a look and go from there.

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Bummed…

By Moose Magnet | November 8, 2008

I am bummed tonight. I was hoping to just drive up into the near by foothills and try out my new toy. I spliced some sounds today so I have a few to choose from. However it didn’t work out. The day got away from me and I never got it together. So I went into the basement and played with it down there. I have Lion roar that is pretty freaky but the fun one was the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. Got to have fun too you know. I am definantly getting out this week though.

Later,

MM…

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Megaphone…

By Moose Magnet | November 4, 2008

Well I finally got around to ordering the Megaphone. It is a 45 watt megaphone with a 2,000 yard range. It can be hooked up to my iPod so that makes it nice. I also just received an e-mail telling me it shipped. Now I need to get my hands on some better sounds.

Later,

MM…

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1967 Family Reunion

By Moose Magnet | November 3, 2008

Well this one took a long time to get to from pencil to final product. This is a continuation in wanting Sasquatch shirts and other fun stuff. I figured I would create them so I could have something I wanted. I came up with the original idea and then we had a brainstorming session and things got tweeked, like adding the Jakelope (my wife) and different sayings. I asked my daughter to do the pencil and then I finished it up in the computer. I didn’t have to make many adjustments, thank goodness. We all made a good team. We even called my Sister in-law up to get some ideas and she came up with some sayings that we are going to add to this for a varity. Anyway here it is.

Later,

Moose Magnet…

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Squatching Hope Rekindled!!!

By Moose Magnet | November 1, 2008

Well my winter Squatching has been rekindled! All I can say is YEAH!!! I did a small project for a magazine (nothing related to Squatching) and the reward came early. Now I can order a megaphone and begin Call Blasting. I am done pitching a tent until next spring so my options for Squatching were limited. This will allow more flexibility for us during the winter. Less effort for us and we will be able to have greater range. The megaphone has a range of 2,000 yards. I would probably guess the range will be more for call blasting because we are not trying to have someone understand what we are saying. Let’s hope anyway. I will feel a little bad for those individuals in the hills that don’t know we are around. I did say a little bad. At least during the winter months the odds of anyone being around are slimmer. We will just have to make sure we are not in avalanche country. Now all I need to do is order it and try to wait patiently.

On a side note I wore my BFRO shirt again today. I have a few different bigfoot shirts and try to wear one at least once a week. Thought I would try Halloween. I got some fun comments and you can always tell when someone reads the word “Bigfoot” on there. Some times it does strike up good conversation and just so happens that occurred today. I was in Cafe Rio and had a chance to talk about Bigfoot. Can’t beat that. Thanks for the chat. Until next time.

Later,

Moose Magnet…

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Bigfoot and The Blair Witch Project…

By Moose Magnet | October 26, 2008

While enjoying another hobby of mine we started talking about various topics. Some of my buddies started quoting movies. Well The Blair Witch Project got quoted and then they mentioned that I should watch that movie before I go out looking for Sasqautch. We all got a good laugh out of it. I don’t know of a movie or anything that I could watch that would make my heart race faster when I am out Squatching. Your out walking around in the dark, hearing strange noises and trying to entice contact. Go figure. Who does that? I think about it once in a while and start laughing. I think the only thing I would get out of the Blair Witch Project is an up set stomach. That type of filming just makes me puke.

Later,

Moose Magnet…

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Missing Sasquatch…

By Moose Magnet | October 22, 2008

It hasn’t been that long since I was out in the dark, in the wood, looking for Sasquatch. Wading through the winter waiting for spring will be like when I was a kid waiting for Christmas to come and it was only July. I am now looking for other ways to be involved with Bigfoot other than Physically looking for him/her. I am going to pick up some more books and bone up on information from those who have been doing this longer than I have. There are some art projects that a couple of us are going to work on because we want some shirts for ourselves. One thing that might make the winter a little easier is if and when I get my hands on a call blasting set up. Then I have some freedom and some range on what I can do. The sooner the better I hope. Until then…

Later,

Moose Magnet…

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Bigfoot in the cold and snow…

By Moose Magnet | October 19, 2008

Well it has been as week since our last trip. It has been busy and I am now just getting to the report and post.

Report:

October 10-11, 2008

Elevation: 8,200

Temperature @ 6:34pm was 43 degrees

Skoo, Boogeyman and myself left on Friday. This was planned to be just an over night camp unless Friday night really went well. Our plans were to hike around and area that was fairly brutal in nature. There has been sightings here in the past. We got there with enough day light to check around. There was several location that could potentially yield some tracks if a Bigfoot happened to wander in those areas. We know how that goes usually.

We arrived at 5:15pm and set up camp then decided to venture out to see if we could find anything. It was wierd. We had made a trip here earlier in the year and there was so much water from the heavy snowfall we had last year. There was water everywhere and the stream was full. This same stream was bone dry and the water levels were down so we could check for prints. We didn’t get lucky and no Sasquatch prints were found. At 6:35pm we heard about three sets of unknown vocalizations. I couldn’t make out what the first of these three vocalizations sounded like but it was very definant that at the end of them I could make out the sounds of coyotes. The vocalizations lasted for several seconds. So who knows what it was. Unfortunantly we did not have our recorders on.

After looking around we went back to camp to cook dinner at around 7:03pm. Boogeyman had a steak and Skoo and myself had some southwest marinated chicken with some salads. Very tasty and it hit the spot. Boogeyman brought his traditional crab ball with Ritz Crackers which he gladly shared.

The wind was picking up and blowing from North to South. It wouldn’t have been so bad but the temp was dropping. After dinner we went out around 7:21pm. We did some howls, knocks and whoops.

Back at camp we stoked the fire up and just had some casual conversation. The wind was creaking the trees from time to time and added to the atmosphere. Skoo did not like the noises because they were kind of creapy. There was a streatch when we heard what sounded like whistles. It lasted for less than a half an hour but they were very loud. I only go a few on my recorder because of the stupid wind. This was the only sound that we heard while we were awake.

Just before bed time it snowed a bit but nothing to worry about. The storm wasn’t suppose to hit until late Saturday night. When we went to bed the temp had dropped to 34 degrees. That meant it would drop below freezing during the night.

I slept very well and it was warm in the tent. We had a heater that took the bite out of the air but our beds were set up well so we were actually hot. Boogeyman slept in his Bear Burrito (Hammock). He was warm as well except for his feet. He says he is getting old because that usually does not happen.

When we woke up it didn’t take long and the snow started coming down. Crap!! It was looking like the hiking was not going to happen. By the looks of everything and by experience we thought the storm had hit early. It wasn’t looking good and we had the feeling to pack up and leave. We packed up wet and booked it. We drove up out of the canyon we were in and headed for the main road. As we hit the road the snow was now coming down. Before we got of the mountain it was a blizzard with visibility down to about 200-300 yards. It was bad until about 20 minutes from home. The storm hit early and it was going to be a big one. We had about six inches at our house and the mountains got anywhere from a foot to two feet of snow.

All in all we had fun and it was a good time. It reminded me of hunting. It wasn’t worth going out during the snow storm looking for Bigfoot. If I was familiar with the area I might have gone out for a bit. The area we were planning on going was to unpredictable so it was better we left. In my younger days I would have probably done some thing stupid and stayed. I think that was the last overnighter for the year pertaining to Squatching.

Until next time…

Moose Magnet

This is was running high on our first visit. Now dry. Gave us a good chance to find prints.

In the spring this was a water fall.

Boogeyman’s Bear Burrito as it started to snow in the morning. He was almost sagging to the ground. He said it was warm during the night. To inclosed for me.

Snow starting to come down. Before we went to bed we covered the bed of the truck with a tarp to keep it dry. Doing this makes it easier to pack in the morning when you know weather conditions could be bad. Just prevents things from getting worse.

Snow hitting the upper elevations as started to pack it up. Looks very familiar to other snow storms I have been caught in or willing camped in. One hunting season we got caugth in a blizzard, read books most of the day until the blizzard let up. Had two feet of snow and ice up the tent walls. Made for good hunting when it was all settled down. Not this time. It was time to leave.

During a pause in the snow, Skoo got creative. Pretty funny.

Thought I would take a picture of the mountain from where I live the day after the storm. Kind of strange. This weekend was in the 70’s and most of that snow is gone. The snow on the roads didn’t stick because they were still to warm. Very nice view.

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2008 Bigfoot Trips go out with a bang (Report)…

By Moose Magnet | October 5, 2008

Date: September 26th-28th, 2008

I have finally got around to listening to almost all of the recordings. This is the report of what happened that weekend. When time permits I will cut up the recordings and post some of the good ones. We didn’t get all of the vocalizations on the recorder but did get a couple. The bummer is they are distant. The whistles are closer and easier to hear.

Report:

This trip came about because we didn’t want the season to end. After our last trip I was looking at the calendar at our next trip, which was planned in October. I noticed that there was a gap. Why not another trip? It would be a little colder but why not? It was now time to make some phone calls to see if this weekend was free. As luck would have it everyone was able to get the weekend off so it was game on.

The group consisted of Glow in the Dark, Skoo, EJ, Spartan117, Lucky Charms, Boogeyman and Moose Magnet. Boogeyman arrived before the rest of the group and did some exploring. He came across a beautiful meadow just northwest of our location and said we should take a look when we get some time.

Upon arriving we promptly started setting up camp and unloading all of the gear. Boogeyman was only staying for the first night so he was going to sleep in his vehicle. The rest of us had to get all of our gear together, beds made during the light. After camp was set up it was time for dinner. We broke out our Subway sandwiches and some store bought Macaroni salad. We decided to make it a little easier on ourselves with the menu. Once our delicious meal was over we made plans for the evening. We decided we would wait a bit after dark before going out. To pass the time we sat around the fire discussing newly acquired jackets, the Twilight book series and the movie that will be coming out soon. GITD was hoping that the movie wouldn’t be cheesy based off of some scenes she had seen. We also got tons of laughs from corny pick up lines. Chatting around a campfire is what camping is all about.

Friday Night September 26, 2008 in the Uintah Mountains
Temperature: was in the lower 40’s to upper 30’s
Elevation: Above 9,000 feet
Location: 40 Knock Canyon Camp B
20:52 – We gathered our gear and the group headed out to our knocking tree. It is in a small clearing not far from camp. Moose Magnet was using his home made bionic ear and the night vision was being passed around the entire time. Skoo started things off with two series of wood knocks just after arriving at the tree.
20:57 – Boogeyman mentioned hearing some twig snapping. With in seconds of him mentioning this I heard a distance unknown vocalization with my cheesy bionic ear.
21:08 – Loud noise of unknown origin but it did not sound man made.
21:13:51 – Skoo graced us with another wood knocking series.
21:14:14 – Another unknown noise, maybe a whistle.
21:14:27 – Boogeyman said that he just heard a single knock and that this was the third single knock he has heard coming from the same direction. We did not get it on the recorder because it was not pointed in that direction. Skoo also mentioned that he heard them as well. I didn’t hear anything. I was listening to what the bionic ear was picking up. If it did not pick it up I did not hear it. Boogeyman mentioned that just hearing one knock is not conclusive enough and really could be anything. I agree with that. It is nice however when more than one person hears the same thing. So at this time we are not fully counting these but just taking note that they happened.
21:15 – We decided to give some response knocking to see if we could get a reaction. Boogeyman did three wood knocks. We listened for a few more minutes and decided it was time to head back to camp.

I have a gap in the recordings because I screwed up with the microphone and it got turned off. We sat around the camp and talked it up waiting for the next trip out to our tree. We tried to get a group to go road walking but it did not happen. Maybe when we get a couple more people that we can break out into groups and do some good road walking. We will need some people to stay back in camp to stay with those who are not fond of walking the roads in the dark on uneven ground (weak ankles and all ☺ ).

22:30 – Left camp and went out to the wood knocking tree. Upon arriving Boogeyman did five wood knocks.
22:35 – Skoo did two whoops. We wanted the whoops close to the wood knocking. Last time we did that we had something come running towards us.
22:38 – Unknown noise was heard. Skoo also mentioned that he was looking through the night vision with the IR emitter on and saw something reflecting from a hole in a bush. When he panned back to the same bush he said it was gone. No other witnesses to this so who knows. Before going on this trip a few of us got together to look through the night vision at the next door neighbors dog. I wanted as many people as possible to see what it looked like when you have the IR Emitter on and see an animal staring at you. It was actually kind of freaky because the dog looked like a demon dog with the eyes just glowing so bright. It was also cool because you could see the dog blink which I made sure to point out to everyone. When you would look at a person it was not nearly so bright.
22:39 – Boogeyman did a howl. He is much improved from the last time he made an attempt. I will also have to admit that his is better than mine and last much longer. He is now the designated howler in the group.
22:40 – Moments after the howl Boogeyman, EJ and Skoo both heard two solid wood knocks coming from the same direction as the other three.
22:41 – Skoo did two quick wood knock in reply. I saw this technique work on BFRO Washington OP trip while I was at Rick’s camp. One of the nights I was up there A**** was out brushing his teeth and was hearing noises coming from the tree line. He called me out there and we did some knocks in response. There were other times that quick responses to noises heard created more activity. So why not try the same thing here?
22:49 – Boogeyman howled
22:51 – We headed back to camp

We passed the time around the camp fire with casual conversations. It was kind of funny going back and listening to these conversations trying to pick up any unusual noises. We talked about squirting milk out of tear ducts, Lucky Charms wants a snake or tarantula. Why pets sleep in strange places like shoes or empty boxes. Boogeyman’s family had a small white poodle. When he was younger he had a water bed that the dog use to sleep on. One time the dog was on the bed but he did not see it. He jumped on the bed and promptly launched the dog into the air and on the floor.

23:44 – We left camp and went to the wood knocking tree. Once we arrived we did 4 knocks and Skoo followed up shortly with 3 whoops. I had the night vision this time and was looking at a post marking a road with some reflectors on it. They were all vertical but there was another shining spot down and to the right. Kind of odd I thought. I stared at it for a bit but did not see it blink or move. I continued panning and when I went back to it I could find the lower shining dot. I don’t know what it was but I think it was a reflector. I had changed positions and that is why I think I could not find it again.
23:56 – Boogeyman howled.
23:59 – 3 wood knocks by Moose Magnet with a brief pause follow by on quick knock.

We went back to camp and hung out around the fire for a while and went to bed just after midnight. I listened to the recordings from that night and only heard some twig snapping from time to time. Nothing definitive. I did have one fun moment during the night. EJ threw up all over the side of my tent, in his sleeping bag, all over the air mattress, all over the quilt that was covering the air mattress and all over himself. That was fun cleaning up. I almost threw up myself. Everyone in our tent was woke up so I could move bedding around. I gave my bedding up to remake their beds so they wouldn’t freeze. I have endured cold weather before so it was no big deal. I threw a coat over me and laid on my cot after it was all done. Took about an hour to clean up and get back to bed.

Saturday September 27, 2008
Boogeyman left between 7:30 and 8:00 am. He had to get back. Boogeyman left his remaining donuts. Our plan was to have some blueberry muffins from Costco and some chocolate milk. I also found a kettle at my house so I had some hot water on the stove for hot chocolate. Breakfast was good. Everyone woke up at random times. I was up before 7:30am but was very tired. I felt an early morning nap coming on. I went back to be and tried to get some sleep.

We had lunch and played some card games. We played a card game called ‘Bang!’. It is a western theme game. You have a Sheriff, Deputy, Outlaws and a Desperado. You use cards to make moves. It is surprisingly tons of fun. We relocated the camera traps north of the camp. This was a good idea because we had some campers arrive later just about a 150 yards south of us later in the day. They had three dogs that they let run all over. They came into our camp a couple of times. The dogs would have triggered my traps if I would have left them in the previous spot.

We started early on Saturday night after a dinner of hot dogs, bratwursts and macaroni salad. Just about a half an hour after dark we went out to the tree. The temperatures were about the same as before.
19:39 – Left camp to go start the activities for the night. We wanted to do a lot to get things started and to let whatever is out there know we were here.
19:40 – Skoo did 3 wood knocks
19:42 – Moose Magnet did 4 wood knocks with a quick pause and then did one more.
19:46 – Skoo and Moose Magnet combined to do 6 knocks in quick succession in alternating swings. We were trying to imitate the action of knocks that gave this area the knick name of ’40 knock Canyon’.
19:48 – MM did a howl
19:51 – Skoo did 2 whoops
19:58 – Skoo did 2 whoops
20:04 – How by MM
20:06 – 2 knocks by Skoo
We did heard a distance unknown vocalization that sounded like a whoop with was promptly followed by some coyotes.
20:09 – We went back to camp.
20:14 – While sitting in camp Moose Magnet heard what he believed was a distance brief howl.

While out looking with my camcorder and night vision my camcorder decided to give up the ghost. Lovely! One more thing I need to get before next year.

21:33 – Left camp to do some knocking and vocalizations. Once arriving at the tree we did two wood knocks. A couple of minutes after that we followed it up with two whoops by Skoo.
21:42 – MM did a howl.
21:45 – Skoo did a whoop after we heard what we believe was to be a whistle.
21:52 – We headed back to camp.

We were done going out to the tree for the night. Two members of our group had already retired to bed. There was just Skoo, GITD, Lucky Charms and myself still awake. I decided to do some wood knocks from camp with the two ax handles we had.
23:20 – 4 wood knocks by Moose Magnet while sitting in a camp chair around the fire. One single knock followed within a few seconds.
23:23:04 – Unknown vocalization was heard by everyone.
23:23:49 – More vocalizations, possibly coyotes. This was heard by everyone.
23:23:56 – 4 wood knocks by MM from chair around fire.
23:24:04 – Unknown vocalization was heard by everyone followed by coyotes. All of the vocalizations were coming from far away from us to the north.
23:27 – 2 knocks by MM sitting in his chair.
23:33 – We started to wrap it up and call it a night.
02:26:14 – As I was listening to the recordings for Sunday morning in the AM. I heard some noises that I believe could be whistles, 5 whistle in all lasting from 2:26:14 to 2:27:49. One thing to note was that I did not hear the dogs to the south of us at all during the night until after these noises. At 2:35:48 I heard the dog yip. Interesting. Well we also had another night of throwing up. Found out that around 11:30pm the EJ threw up. At 02:39 Spartan117 threw up. They both made it in the trash bag. It was to bad they threw up but I was glad they hit the bag this time. At 03:21am I heard the dog bark again. Other than that there was nothing else on the recording that was out of the ordinary.

Sunday September 28, 2008
Around 7:30am I was out walking around and heard a vocalization that I did not recognize followed by coyotes. After a breakfast of bagels, milk and hot chocolate we broke camp and were driving home around 11:00am.

It was another great trip. We were talking the first night about the activity we get and that at first it was slow. I am hoping that we don’t let ourselves forget that this is very odd to have this much going on. If ever we go up and nothing happens we need not be disappointed nor discouraged. As for the noises we heard. Some of them I could clearly make out that they were coyotes which I noted above. Others did not sound anything like that. I wish the recordings were better or the animal that made the noises were closer. I am not knew to the woods but I also understand I have not heard everything. I will let others make up their own mind as to what we heard and what we are experiencing. I am already looking forward to getting back up there and doing some more Squatching. Until next time…

Autumn Colors.

This is the boys tent. A cot, queen air mattress and a twin air mattress. This was the place for all of the throw up events.

You have to love the fall colors in the Uintah Mountains. Glow in the Dark took some great pictures.

Taking the boys tent down.

I am not really that fond of camera’s. I do like my shirt that I got from the Washington BFRO Trip however.

More colors…

Bear spray for the four legged animals… you never know. I have read to many books about the outdoors plus I have been in the back country of Yellowstone and know better. Can’t be to careful.