This article has been written by one of the Honobia area Bigfoot field investigators, this particular investigator has more than 10 years experience and has been conducting research through hundreds of eye witness accounts, tribal stories and folklore, conducting more than 200 interviews, and his own experiences to come to write the Sasquatch: "White Paper" Part One and Two.
This particular White Paper is not in any form a professional answer to any or all the questions about Bigfoot, or as some people have heard me refer to them as a "Type of People", but truly are they a type of "people", some scientific research projects can trace certain aspects of DNA from suspected Bigfoot evidence that they have a connection to our DNA. This White Paper is not going to hold any scientific evidence as so called "truth" to their identity. The purpose of this White Paper is to ask the questions that very few want to ask and attempt to point the reader to his/her own conclusion. This investigator learned early on in his career that everyone has their own definition to who and what the Bigfoot really are. But is any of them correct? Maybe, maybe not! The whole reason most people get into this field or hobby is to prove they exist and to identify who and what they are. Some people get into this because they saw something in the woods or on the side of the road. Curiosity is what humans have that gets them into trouble most of the time. Why does it drives us crazy to get others to believe what we know, why is it our passion to get others to believe that Bigfoot exist? Some really do not care, but why do some people get so angry that some do not believe and some do nothing more than laugh and ridicule our belief's?
Humans are the most complex creatures on earth, we sometimes can not control our anger, wants, and needs, but yet the main reason is our minds and hearts are our worst enemies. I am not going to babble you with psychology and introduce scientific mumble jumbo. Here are my questions:
Just How Many Bigfoots are in the Texas and Oklahoma Areas?
Answer: This investigator began is amateur Bigfoot field investigation career back in 2004/2005 timeframe. The very first investigative case began a 4 1/2 year long study with a family of them at a rural home just outside the Dallas/Ft.Worth Metroplex. The first thought reading the initial report from the witness was initially met with denial of their presence so close to a major city. However after visiting the family for several hours, utilizing law enforcement style interview techniques and examining the property in detail, the first night of surveillance this investigator was completely blown away with his first ever sighting of a estimated 7-8 ft tall very robust figure that ran between a small shed and tree line so fast that tears came to my eyes and the oldest brother in the family turned to me and said "see there is one there". Later this investigator observed this same dark figure on many other visits to the property and even once in daylight to confirm the investigators theories of a person in a dark suit, it was not, it was just what he was told whom it was, a large male Bigfoot.
The 4 1/2 years initiated a complex investigation that examined the families of property where Bigfoots are witnessed on a regular basis. In most cases there are more than one member of the family that observe a Bigfoot once maybe twice every two weeks, and in this case they are observed several times a week. This is what brought on the children aspect of the research, it was the children in 3 out of 5 reports that initiated the family's reports to the research website. Moving on........... over the years between 2005-2009 this investigator completed more than 20 field investigations in North, East, and South Central Texas. There were more than 30 phone interviews from other witness reports that covered the same areas. Many field investigations were spent during over night expeditions that yielded many of this investigator's own eye witness accounts to prove the Bigfoot's presence. Also note that 3 out of 4 investigative trips another investigator went along to help support the investigation.
End result was that over these 4 years it was learned that there are large number of Bigfoot populations that live throughout the State of Texas. Keeping in touch with the landowners and other witness reports that are incoming during this time, there were multiple witness accounts that occurred at the exact some times. For example, according to the investigative notes on 07-11-2006 this investigator talked with one family in Northeast Texas, gentleman in East Texas, one in North Central Texas (south of the DFW area), and law enforcement officer in far South Texas that all were eyewitness to a Bigfoot in some type of encounter on the same day. One witness in North East Texas reported having a encounter with more than one, possibly 3 Bigfoots at a distance of 100 yards in the late evening.
Several reports that this investigator completed:
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=23578
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=8038
Oklahoma proved to have no different Bigfoot activity, actually Oklahoma proved to have even more reported activity throughout the 2005-2009 time frame. This investigator was born and raised in SE Oklahoma and grew up with the knowledge of Bigfoot, being raised under the Native American foundation of traditional native lifestyles and beliefs it was more towards the understanding of the existence of Bigfoot through tribal environment. One report that this investigator spent many years working different angles, such as the "Lucky Star Casino video", having investigative leads and connecting with a first hand eyewitness to the video and learning the inner workings of the tribal mindset of the problem that the video proved to be for the casino as well as the tribe, this was the beginning of a very long journey to learn that there is more than 10 tribal properties scattered all over Oklahoma that have Bigfoot activity on or very near to tribal housing or business areas.
http://www.bigfootbuzz.net/oklahoma-casino-bigfoot-footage-reconstruction/
Several tribal communities were visited over the periods of 2007-2009 that yielded the same results as the Texas scenario that on a particular date multiple eyewitnesses report having encounters on the same dates and in some cases near the same exact time frame of the day or night. This proved again to be that it is not the Bigfoot that are moving around, or that people are seeing the same one in different locations, it is that fact that there are more than just a few, there are more Bigfoots than people realize. In one location there is a whole complete set of families of Bigfoot (possible 3-6 Bigfoots in one family), tribal law enforcement, and other tribal related personnel that give accounts were there are 6-9 Bigfoots being observed at the same time. Below are just a few of the this investigators reports and interesting media articles that involved this investigator.
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/04/wildmen-of-texas.html
http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_report.asp?id=24512
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=23733
Final findings on population, after lengthy study of geographical areas, witness reports, field investigations, and phone interviews it is this investigator's belief that there are more than several hundred Bigfoot's living and moving about in the State of Oklahoma. Not in any attempt to put a exact number on to the population. Same as for Texas, several hundred that are inhabiting the state.
If you examine several Bigfoot research websites you will find multiple states with a large amount of Bigfoot activity, taking into account that Bigfoot's cross county and state lines with out regard to our investigative cataloging of county and state data basses. There could be a high possibility that there is to be a safe estimate that there are thousands of Bigfoot living in North America.
What is a Long-Term Witness?
Answer: Some Bigfoot researchers/organizations utilize the term "habituation site" where a property or area where people reside and the Bigfoot are witnessed on a regular basis. This investigator is not comfortable with the word habituation, is it not that the Bigfoot do not reside on the property or is it that the family living at this particular location is just observing Bigfoot pass through the property to another location. Being a family observing Bigfoots for many years on the same property best describes being a "long-term witness".
This investigator has been very lucky working several investigative reports of situations that proved to be a "long-term witness" investigative dream for any Bigfoot researcher/investigator. The multitude of variety has been something no less than awesome. Tribal housing communities, tribal business land (casinos, etc) private farms, private hunting leases, private-protected government land, and areas near military installations.
Yes, that say's "military installations", this investigator at one time worked for the US Government in a law enforcement capacity. Meeting other eyewitnesses and obtaining reports through "word of mouth" methods or just being in the right place at the right time, offered this investigator the best opportunity to gain information and complete reports that suggested that our military is very aware of the Bigfoot. More than 6 different investigative reports (not published) this investigator completed over the periods of 2007-2012. Several tribal communities have had Bigfoot activity over the generations, some even have developed a un-written rule of certain areas of their tribal land be off limits to the rest of the tribal citizens due to "this is where the Bigfoot live". Interviews with some former tribal police officers discovered that sometimes tribal police are called to run the Bigfoots out of small tribal housing areas because they are causing mischief. No injuries or harm has come to any tribal citizen that is known, it's just the scary and unknown predictability of the Bigfoot that causes fear among the people that the tribal police are contacted.
This investigator has been lucky enough to be blessed with now staying on a property in SE Oklahoma that provides the opportunity to observe on-going Bigfoot activity for the past 3 years. Visiting the property for the past 7 years, it was only 5 years ago that it was discovered that Bigfoot presence was heavy and consistent in nature. The typical week of activity for this investigator is normally, newer stick structures found throughout the property, shadows of large human like figures seen near building structures at night, dogs consistently barking at tree limb breaks in the creek near the residence. Whoops and long howls are heard in the evening and late usually every other night (2:00 and 5:00 AM).
Final findings, through the period of 2005-2009, this investigator has discovered that throughout the US there are many long-term witnesses that have been experiencing Bigfoot activity for more than 100 years. This information offers the best in investigative evidence that the Bigfoots have been in North America for at least a hundred years or more. More to come on long-term witness research.
Why Do Children See Bigfoot Different?
Answer: Through a 8 year period, even long after this investigator has left the Bigfoot Research Organization, continued contact with witnesses and even new investigative reports have yielded a interesting situation where children are observing Bigfoots and sometimes with a different answer to what they are seeing. It was the first investigation that this investigator learned that it is the children within the family that first get to observe the Bigfoot and sometimes it takes the parents having their own eyewitness encounter that gives credit to the children on what they have observed in the past. Investigative notes have given unique reflection that where if there is a family that live on a rural farm or homestead and that the children are old enough to talk the children are usually the first to discover their presence. Here is the interesting discovery, 3 out of 5 children interviewed or observed by the investigator, the children are usually Autistic or have Down Syndrome. Estimated hundreds of hours, this investigator spent going over reports, phone interviews, site investigations and just personal observations have led to a unique situation that a lot of children that are having eye to eye contact with the Bigfoots that visit the property report that the children are not intimidated or frighten by what they are seeing. Actually several parents reported that their children would be looking out a window or back door and tell the parents "see there is the big hairy friend" the parents are much more reserved in the nature of allowing the children outside to play after dark because of their fear of the unknown.
One location that this investigator has visited on more than one occasion determined that it was the children that the Bigfoot normally came to be entertained by. If the children were not at home, no Bigfoots were observed or heard from. If the children were at home and were outside, 2 out of 4 times the Bigfoots were in the area. This behavior/activity was also observed throughout several states at other long-term witness properties. It is unknown at this time, why exactly only certain types of children (Autism and Down Syndrome) have repeated eyewitness accounts where the children see the Bigfoot as non-threatening and in one case, the one Bigfoot had even been witnessed to run off a large pack of coyotes that came to close to several children that were playing in the front yard of a very rural home.
The father of the children reported to hear the children screaming and their family dog barking aggressively, the father and oldest brother ran outside to observed a large dark man like figure chasing after coyotes through dense undergrowth and heavy wooded area near where the children were playing. The children (3 of them ages 10, 8, and 6 years old) described the coyotes (3-5) were heard coming through the woods, the family dog began to bark and growl and then a huge crash in the woods, the children explained "the Bigfoot chased those mean dogs off and ran after them".
Final findings, there is more investigation/research to be conducted with children of all ages and if possible with different spectrum of disorders to determine if what this investigator believes is that children sometimes see Bigfoot different than adults, is it that adults are tainted (contaminated) with stories, TV shows, and movies that Bigfoot is a evil creature that steals children, or worse? Is it that children see something about the Bigfoots that we adults can't? It is known within some medical scientific research discoveries that infants and some younger children can identify certain types of people not known to the child of being of immoral character. Meaning the child at the time has no verbal communication ability at the time of age can give visual indications that he/she doesn't like to be in the presence of someone that has questionable character. More to come...........
http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/autism-symptoms
http://www.webmd.com/children/tc/down-syndrome-topic-overview
This investigator no longer belongs to any Bigfoot research organization still provides investigations into sightings, suspicious Bigfoot related activity and his own property observations. Throughout the past 18 months more than 9 other long-term witness accounts have been passed onto and investigated that only serves as a suggestion that there is way more going on with the Bigfoot than people really realize. Stay tuned for further developments in these areas......Part Three will be posted soon....
