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Watching a Sasquatch for an hour
By Boogeyman | September 14, 2009
09-10-09
10:35 pm.
BFRO Expedition
Redwoods; Northern California
I was assigned to take four people attending their first expedition out for the night. Earlier in the day, Moose Magnet and I scouted the area looking for places that would carry vocalizations through the forest and allow us to scan through the thick underbrush and trees with a thermal imager.
My group and I arrived at the first scouted position at 9:50 pm. We were in a stand of Redwoods with thick undergrowth. The terrain dropped off from the trail towards the East. We viewed the area with a thermal imager for forty five minutes without seeing anything. I whooped twice and it carried through the forest as expected. Five minutes after I whooped, a large heat signature appeared eighty six yards below us in thick cover. As a group, we watched the figure for sixty five minutes, sharing the thermal imager between us.
I personally observed the following; A profile of a large round head with no noticeable ears, on top of a massive shoulder and arm. I could see down to what I guessed to be the elbow area. The figure was never still, it swayed most of the time and several times I could see the head rotating as it looked around and in our direction. Twice as it rotated its head I could clearly see the head was cone shaped. Several times the figure would move within a fifteen foot area, going from one opening in the brush to another. Once the figure became lower and it appeared like I was looking straight down on its head and shoulders. The heat signature from the head was brighter than the shoulders and the outline of the head was still distinguishable from the shoulders. I don’t know if it was laying down facing us or bent over at the waist and facing us up the hill.
Other members of the party observed the following; While it was in profile, it bent over at the waist and rotated it’s head in our direction, it seemed to be looking around a small trunk of one of the bushes. I whooped again and it became agitated, moved around in the opening it was using and filled up the opening with more of its body. I believe it either stood up more or turned to face us, both of which would have filled up the space. Members saw it swaying and its head rotating.
After sixty five minutes of observing the heat signature, members of the group became uncomfortable and wanted to return to the parking lot.
Two days later Moose Magnet, myself and one member of the group that observed the animal returned to the location during the day to measure the distance, make comparative observations through the thermal imager and look for physical evidence of a large animal in the area. Moose Magnet climbed down through the thick underbrush. Guided by myself and the second observer he found the location where the animal had been standing. He found the area to be groomed with a cleared forest floor, two observation mounds that had been compacted, hardened and cleared of debris, a track line in the pine needles and duff with a six foot four inch stride. He also noted that people standing on the trail could be clearly seen when standing in one of several openings in the bushes and that the area appeared to have been used more than once as an observation area.
Moose Magnet, who is six foot two inches tall, looked tiny in comparison. It was very difficult to follow his movement or find where he was standing with the thermal imager. With out the thermal imager he was impossible to detect unless he shook the tall bushes over his head.
After discussing what I saw with the other witness, and comparing it to Moose Magnet standing and walking in the same location, we concluded the following; The animal was far easier to see in the underbrush because of it’s height and size, the animal’s head was twice as big, the animal stood two and half to three feet taller, it’s over all size and mass was three times larger. Because of the undergrowth, if it had been a bear we wouldn’t be able to see it. We may have been able to see parts of an elk, but not a clear outline sticking above the bushes.
Conclusion; I observed a Sasquatch through a thermal imager for sixty five minutes after I whooped twice and it approached to investigate.
Boogeyman
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