The New York tree Bigfoot was also shot in Florida by Tim Fasano

Robert Pridjem at Lembo Lake Campground in New York State may have recorded a small Bigfoot in a tree. There were many people there for camping and fun. One of the groups sitting around a campfire recorded some strange behavior in a tree. It may show a baby Bigfoot swinging around. It seems to also show an adult, as well as, the juvenile.

The Animal Planet show Finding Bigfoot will profile this video in the season premiere on Sunday night. This video is not the only one ever taken of a Bigfoot in a tree. Tim Fasano recorded one in the summer of 2009. He posted it on Youtube and many experts examined it and confirmed that there was something in the tree.

What Matt Moneymaker will point out Sunday night is how long the arms are on the creature. I want you to notice how long the arms are on the creature that I shot in a tree in Florida three years ago. Chuck007 and Joe Black did a great job in analyzing this video

Largest amount of Bigfoot prints ever found in North America

Tractor pull by Florida wildlife commission

An area in the Green Swamp that we have been working for three years has yielded fantastic results. The Florida Wildlife and Game Commission will often drag line with a tractor to till earth for the purpose of recording animal prints. This way they can get an estimate of local animal populations. This time, they may have gotten more they thought. They may have captured Bigfoot prints.

A research group Enigmatic Anomalies has formed a TV company. They followed my lead and went into a specific area and found the mother load. There were adult and child prints that stretched for about 1,500 feet. I have never heard of such a find.

This discover will be featured in an upcoming pilot for a cable TV series about paranormal activity.

This production company will be featuring me on the segment that deals with the Florida Skunk Ape. I am very excited about the things that are going down right no. We will do our first shoot Tuesday in the field just before sunrise and Thursday in a studio interview shoot. This will take place in a very spooky studio at night in an old Tampa Cigar Factory to the set the right mood. It is said these old buildings are haunted.

Enigmatic Anomalies TV show working with Tim Fasano on the Skunk Ape episode

I will be working in the field and doing studio work with a Tampa Florida based Paranormal research group that is filming a pilot for a cable TV series. Enigmatic Anomalies is the name and they have an office and studio in Tampa. Things are moving quickly and I am very excited about this project. Unlike "Finding Bigfoot" we actually find Bigfoot evidence.

I will be working with a new TV show Enigmatic Anomalies

Areas we go into

I will be filming an interview for a new TV show called Enigmatic Anomalies. They will deal with various topics of the Paranormal. I was contacted by them a few weeks ago and have spoken with them on the phone. They have a studio in Tampa about a few blocks from my house.

These guys are Bigfoot field researchers and have gone on many expeditions. Since they have been watching my videos on YouTube, they have narrowed their focus to the areas I go into. These areas are often infested with alligators and warnings are posted at the trail heads.

I hope to form an overnight camping using much of their high-tech gear. They have some good stuff. With the weather in Florida now getting cooler, it would be the perfect time to do this.

They have a Facebook page and a website both called Enigmatic Anomalies.

I am very excited about this because this may become a big deal. If not, I should get some great video to use on my site. They have agreed to let me use videos and photos and such.

Keven is my contact person and here is a photo of him o the trail of Bigfoot in the Green Swamp of central Florida. They have posted many photos of their outings for Skunk Ape on Their Facebook page. They also have found a large concentrated field of Bigfoot Footprints unlike anything I have ever seen. I am wanting to get out there as soon as Friday. Check out these prints.

They look like the prints I found two years ago near this area

A Massive treasure trove of Bigfoot prints found in the Green Swamp of Florida

Enigmatic Anomalies website

A research group I am associated with in the Tampa Bay area has found large Bigfoot prints in the Green Swamp of Florida. This may be one of the largest troves every found in North America. They found dozens of them following a turned up clip of dirt. This find is the most important find ever in the State of Florida, for it shows that the Sasquatch may indeed be here. On their website  Enigmatic Anomalies they credit Tim Fasano for leading them to this location. (Click their link to see photos that will blow your mind) They have validated the prints I have found. I thank you guys.

Photo courtesy of Enigmatic Anomalies 

Keven Thomas Kehl, George McGee and Rob Boggus have formed a production company that will soon be making documentaries about a variety of Paranormal topics. We will be filming the first episode next month about the Skunk Ape when they utilize their creepy, but high tech studio in Tampa (six blocks from my house). They may sell this episodes as a pilot to a Cable TV network. Everything is in the works now and they are very interested in my research and have been inspired by it. How cool is that?

The guys were camping in a SWIFMUD area (just as I do) when they came upon a tractor pull by the Florida Wildlife Commission. There was an extraordinary series of tracks unlike anything I have ever see. The most I have found (look on my banner) have been about two or three. This massive find includes dozens.

They had casting gear with them. You can see in the photo the cast setting.

Their website says "It was the impetus of Tim Fasano's work with Keven's thoughtful vectoring that found this place at this time." They were in a truck and Kevin was able to deduce a theoretical range of an elusive Cryptid.

Photo courtesy of Enigmatic Anomalies

They could determine that there were two individuals involved. They thought it could be a mother and a juvenile. They also found tracks up ahead that did not match the first ones found.

Lesson number one in Skunk Ape hunting:
Always have a tape-measure or yardstick.

They did use a twenty dollar bill and quarter to give scale and took many photos while casting them.

Lesson two:
Bring a pedometer to estimate distance. The tracks they found went on for 1,500 feet.

At the campsite they talked to a couple that had been there a while and they said only a Boy Scout troop had been out there. I doubt if any of the kids have feet this big.

I'd say there's a Bigfoot in these woods

Lesson three: Interview any potential witnesses early in your investigation so you don't jump to conclusions

The video below shows how cool their production ability is and why I am excited about working with these guys in the future.

Return to the Fasano Photo area

I revisited the area of the sighting in the SWIFMUD area where I caught a Skunk Ape on film. I thought the camera setting was on video, but it was on photo. Anyway, the image was clear and good. A critic told me what I had captured was a tree stump. He insisted that I go back out there and see if at stump was there.

I went back out there (stepping over the viper snakes) and there was no tree stump sticking out of the ground. There was nothing out there that could have caused an optical illusion. My conclusion was that I had photographed an upright bi-pedal animal.

Does the Freeman Bigfoot video show an infant?

The Freeman Bigfoot video is considered the second most important video in Bigfoot history. It shows a large, upright, hairy creature walking with deliberate, heavy steps. There are many that believe this may indeed be a Bigfoot. The resolution was about the best you will get from 1994 technology.

Paul Freeman was a watershed employee in the Pacific Northwest who had found a series of footprints that he casted. He sort of became famous and once appeared on Good Morning America showing off some of his cast. It was on this show that he admitted he had faked some of them.

Dr. Meldrun has the largest collection of Sasquatch footprints in the world. Some of his castings are from Paul Freeman. Dr. Meldrun believes you should not throw the baby out with the bathwater because some of them may indeed be the real deal.

The strangest thing of all of this is the film may show the Bigfoot picking up an infant at the end of it. Would this be a detail that a hoaxer would add in? I don't think so. Why bother when you don't even know if anyone will see the film anyway.

There is something about the Freeman film that I cannot dismiss out of hand.

Christmas Morning

Christmas candle and cards

This is my little Christmas setup on the mantle. For the first time in years, I have had a really nice Christmas. This time of the year can be stressful and depressing for many people who find themselves alone or loved ones have recently passed.

I seemed to have gotten over many of the things I have had to deal with and I'm moving on. The holidays give us a time for repose and reflection. It is important to stop and consider where your at in live and what has real meaning for you.

I did finally get to open the three large boxes that have taken up space in my living room for the last couple of weeks. The presents were sent by "Sandy Claus." That is Sandy Fasano who is married to my Twin brother (there are two of us!). Sandy is the kindest person I have ever known. My brother really tripped over the brass ring with her.

Anyway, Merry Christmas to all and have wonderful new year.

Nightfall on the watershed..is Skunkape out here?

 

You must be prepared to do this type of research. I was not on the first night. On the second day of my overnight expediton I was more prepared. The first night I heard tree breaks and movement. My vidoe camera ran out of juice and I had to just use a still camera. I did miss out on some activity.

The second night, I got down to the waters edge and left a continuous camera for about twenty minutes. I did not want the camera that far out in the jungle after it got total dark. I may not have been able to find it. So I returned, and studied the results. I heard, at least twice, a howl or bark. At the end you can hear one good, clean knock. 

The area was more active the night before, but at least I got something.

Merry Christmas to All

I would like to extend a Merry Christmas to everyone who sees this blog and those who don't. The seasons, for me, are a time to reflect on my blessings, and imagine what is possible with my life.

All of us have gone through hard knocks. We just need to know there is a cosmic order that will somehow be with us during it all. Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year.

From the "Somebody up there likes me" category: At the United Cab Christmas dinner today I won the door prize. They said it was a gift certificate. it turned out that it was a $250 Visa card. How about that. Maybe somebody up there likes me after all. You could not have known that from the last few years.

What happpened to tcsjrbigfoot?

tcsjrbigfoot seems to have taken his youtube videos down Does anyone know why? He says trolls, burnout and bad blood with some Ohio guys was too much. He had a lot of new gear and will soon be on FINDING BIGFOOT. This does not sound like a guy ready to throw in the towel. What gives?

A Bigfoot Jaw Bone found in 1935 may contain the answer

A Bigfoot Jaw Bone?

They say we have no Bigfoot body or DNA. But do we? On display in a museum in San Diego is a very large jaw bone that belongs to an Ice Age primate that was up to ten feet tall and 1,000 lbs, known as Gigantopithecus and he was big man.

The working theory is that this creature may have migrated to North America from Asia. They are still believed to be plentiful int he deep, remote regions of the Pacific and Canada North West. Numerous sightings over the centuries have confirmed that something is living out in the remote areas.

There are now more sightings east of the Mississippi then in the West, showing, perhaps, migratory patterns are continuing with a warming earth. Reports from the swamp areas near the Gulf of Mexico detail a beast that is smaller and with longer hair, believed to evolutionary adaptations to environment.

The jaw bone in the image above should be DNA tested (if there is any) with samples from the Erickson Project for comparison. If not this one, others. That would introduce a more scientific aspect to the project and get the attention of mainstream science.

If it matches, you could say there is a body. At least a jaw bone.

"Some diehard Sasquatchers speculate that Bigfoot may actually be Gigantopithecus, the largest primate to have ever walked the Earth. 

Discovered by renowned paleontologist Gustav von Koenigswald, Gigantopithecus was thought to have evolved during the Pleistocene Era, and lived throughout Southeast Asia 

Fossils led scientists to believe that the creature stood close to 10 feet tall and weighed a whopping 1,200 pounds. Thought to have gone extinct due to severe climate change, ape-man advocates say Giganopithecus may be alive and well, and hiding in remote regions of the world, like the Himalayas, Siberia, the swamps in the southeastern United States and the Pacific Northwest."
'via Blog this'

There is no evidence science will except unless it can be measured and tested. The spoor of footprints and howls in the night are just not going to get it. They do, however, allow Bigfoot researchers to know they are getting close, and to continue on the quest.

Florida Bigfoot Organization is formed

www.floridabigfoot.org

This new weblog is about the Florida Bigfoot Organization. This org will be devoted to real and scientific research of the Southern Skunk Ape along the Gulf Coast. My goal is to advance on a National level, with organized expeditions. The response for such a thing has been immense.

Anyone willing to offer their time is welcome in this organization. We will need people who have experience in science, hunting, animal identification, and hiking and camping skills. We will take this to the woods, and off of the messge boards. Are you ready?

The Southern Bigfoot is considered to be smaller then it's Pacific Northwest cousin. It has gone thru several evolutionary adaptations to cope with the swamp environment. It has longer hair to ward off bugs, and a smaller size so it produces less heat, to live in a hot environment. It is believed to migrate regionally in the south as the weather changes.

The late spring and summer will give us an opportunity to hook up with resources up north, to go on weekend expeditions with other groups. This is just a possibility, and we are certainly a long way off from this. The economy needs to get much better.

I have received many request from average people who have an interest in the outdoors and Bigfoot who want to help out. Many of these people are experienced in the woods, and have new ideas about how to approach research. There are no official members, only people that I have worked with in the field, and who may want to be included in future outings.

Modern research seems to have reached a dead end with the same old call blasting and wood knocking not yielding much evidence (it did not for me last week in the Green Swamp). A new paradigm might be developed by cooperation among people in which the money factor has been eliminated.

No money will change hands. I may even cater most of the events for I like to cook chicken and burgers over an open fire, and backwoods camping allows that to happen.

Just wanted to let you know what my ambition is for a new way to get this research on the road and off of the comment sections of blogs that accomplish nothing.

I have scheduled an expedition in Central Florida for Mid February. It will be over a three day period but you don't have to stay all three days. Primitive camping may not be for you and this is one good way to find out. Anything you could do to help, is more then welcome.

I hope this takes off and something becomes of it, like real evidence instead of folk tales.

Sunset on the Green Swamp of Florida

 In the area I worked last week day operations only set you up for what will happen after dark. The forest road I had found was going to be the focus of my night on the second day on Bigfoot expedition. let me tell you, when it dark out here, it gets dark man. I am sure you can sense from this video how creepy it would be.

I did multiple howls out here, but did not really get much back. I now thinking going out here and yelling like an idiot may not be the thing to do. Perhaps just listening with recording devices all night would be more productive. Anyway, it is very exciting and fun. I just need to bring a friend next time.

Florida Was Recently an Island (end of last Ice Age)

An island once existed that is now Florida. The island had a fifty mile radius between present day Tampa and Orlando. Only recently have scientist discovered this fact. It took phosphate mining to uncover this.

In the 1920's companies began mining for phosphate in Polk County. They began to find very large bones. Strange bones. In fact, they found teeth for every kind of shark known on Earth. Woolly Mammoth, saber tooth tiger, rhinoceros, giant ground sloths and all the post ice age creatures were found here in great concentration. The find was so large,  they now call it "bone valley."

Near the end of the last ice age, sea water poured back into central Florida and the higher ground (only 300 feet above sea level) formed an island for the next 10,000 years. The ice age creatures could not migrate north, so they stayed here until the water receded. Most of them died before that happened.

Last year I went to the "cryptozoological" museum in Mulberry Florida. The fossils they had on display will blow your mind.

POWERLINES AND BIGFOOT: A new theory in Bigfoot research

The video above was taken by me in November of 2010. It records sounds coming from a power line system that could be a possible form of Sasquatch communication. I was working with a member of a local Bigfoot research group. This area was a spot that they had been observing for years and they had heard activity in the area before. They made no claim as to what that might be, but it was interesting anyway.

The video records the genuine reactions from the two researchers...Fasano hearing this for the first time and formulating a theory on the spot..Cryptoseeker bursting with excitement and acting a little leery of the high tension wires up above. She then explains to Tim the working theory her group has developed.

(She would subsequently state that this video was a hoax. She would imply that Fasano staged and misrepresented it somehow. She now claims it was only hunters, miles in the distance, that we were hearing. Her reaction on the scene shows otherwise).

Jack Barnes of FB/FB ripped this from Youtube when it was up (I did not know that). Jack has done a good amount of research on the importance of Powerlines and how Bigfoot can use them to hide out, communicate, and travel undetected even in heavily populated areas such as New Jersey!

Many people first heard this theory when Matt Moneymaker on the show Finding Bigfoot explained it while in North Carolina. You can see other researchers have been onto this as well.

I once had this video up on YouTube but was told they would sue me if I did not take it down. It does not make her look bad...it makes her look genuine. Since I took it down she has had free reign to tell everyone on Facebook that I was hoaxing her that day. I have all seven videos taken at that powerline (32 mins of video) They are unedited and do not show any hoaxing.

The matter WAS over, but now that it has resurfaced on Facebook, I felt a need to comment. I truly hope the past does not keep hanging around. I am over this.

She does state on the last video that there are hunters down the line and they may be moving toward us. But she does not state that is the only reason for what we encountered.

I will stand my ground on this one. Jack of FB/FB published it, I am only using an embed code. If someone has a problem with that, go complain to Jack. I am sure, in a nice way, he will tell you to go piss up a rope.

Proof Of Territorial Behavior ..The Owl and the Bigfoot and lack of comments

Note the configuration of the branches (compare below)

On May 31, 2011 I photographed this owl from across the river at the same campsite I was at last week on my Bigfoot hunt. The same owl came flying in and landed almost exactly on the same tree branch that gives a "birds eye" view of the watershed area (This owl was first spotted by Tom Biscardi who was working with me at the time). What is cool is this how animals will hang in the same area. We could use this little bit of knowledge in our Bigfoot research.

Taken with a Nikon D50 DSLR

The owl in the bottom image was taken on December 8th, 2011. That was seven months after the top images were taken. I believe it was the same owl. Tom Biscardi took a photo of it and featured it on his website searchingforbigfoot.com under the Florida Bigfoot expedition. Now how cool is that!

I don't get any comments on this blog. Why? I get thousands of page views a week, and many repeat visits, but nobody leaves comments. That has got to stop. I don't mean to 'beg' for comments but the purpose of a blog is to get them. I will post more on this blog only when I get a comment. If the next one gets a comment, I move on. If no more comments, no more blog. Take it somewhere else and stop exposing me to this type of treatment. It is not right. I get more then enough traffic to have a good conversation going on. Perhaps I should just talk about what everyone else is doing, like the successful blogs do, and shut up about field research. Show some respect - leave a comment.

Men In Black?

A couple of Bigfoot guys (not field researchers) have recently talked about MIB's involved in Bigfoot. Their interest stems from a KGB experiment on ape men during the Cold War. I guess it was JANET flights that brought them to North America. There was also an ambush of sasquatches in 1967 by a paper mill owner eliminating the pest from his property (get off my property!!). This is plot line in bad B movie. Stop it folks with this M.K. Davies J.J. Johnsen flying saucer stuff. Get out in the woods and do research

Hunters vs Researchers in the Bigfoot world

Last May a group of Bigfoot hunters and researchers came together in the swamps of Florida. It yielded a class A sighting by Mitch Waite of Arizona. Waite has recently put up a YouTube video about the clear differences between hunters and researchers. I would put Mitch in the researcher class, as with me.

The people we worked with in Florida were hunters. They took aggressive action and were ready for anything that may come out of the woods. Their style was not mine.

I go unarmed. I have no weapon. I come in peace and only want to communicate with the primate. I do not want to harm it in any way. Bagging a type A specimum is not my goal.

Others want fame and money for this. That has never been my objective. That may be why I am so protective of the methods used and calling out the hoaxers in the field.

Any method will work. You just have to get out into the woods and figure out your own style.

Bigfoot Christmas Campfire under the Stars and good wishes for all

To all that read this blog and go to my YouTube channel I wish you a very merry Christmas and happy holidays and New Year. One of the best things about being a Bigfoot researcher is going deep into wooded areas and having a nice campfire under the stars. I was in the Green Swamp last week, and it could not have been more beautiful. The Christmas season is here and I hope all is well with you.

Tim Fasano
Tampa, Florida

Tim Stover Bigfoot Thinks Outside The Box

 tcsjrbigfoot has a video on his youtube channel that he is catching heat from people that don't know what the hell they are talking about. They are accusing him of hoaxing or conveniently having certain cameras on tripods or using a FLIR in the daylight. This shows how ignorant they are.

1) I am a FIELD RESEARCHER. I always have my camera on a tripod. You can fold the legs in and use it as a mono-pod for ground stability. If you see something, you can revert to a tripod for a motionless shot. I don't have all the fancy gear that Finding Bigfoot has, but I do have a Nikon D50 DSLR that hangs around my neck. If I need too, I will shoot that as well. We are not every tipped off about when something may happen; we just go with it with whatever camera happens to be in our hands at that exact moment.

2) DAYLIGHT: Patty was filmed in daylight. Nothing more to say.

3) FLIR in Daylight: The United States Navy developed FLIR to detect heat losses along conduits that transported super heated water. It was vital to avoid a nuclear meltdown that accurate measurements be taken. This was done with lights on. There is nothing about FLIR that says it must be used at night. Just go to FLIR.com and look at the video.

You people are ignorant and wrong for going after Tim Stove from your living rooms. Get out in the field. The problem today is that most people do not do research. They just want to observe like they are watching porn.

Meticulous Detail Of an adult specimen Bigfoot

Looks real to me!

What is believed to be the only Bigfoot sculpture to scale resides in a man's living room. A meticulously detailed specimum with hair and eyes is found in the Ozark town of Norfolk.

Clifford LaBrecque, 73, used fiberglass and fur when he had the sculpture commissioned in 1976 after having a Bigfoot sighting behind his wood pile. The stature cost more then $9,000.

LaBrecque says it is "accurate to the inch."

The model stands over eight feet tall and is an exact replica of what LaBrecque says he saw on the night of June 18, 1977. He states his Bigfoot fits many of the descriptions he has heard through the years.

The encounter happened around 10 at night in the backyard of his home outside of Des Moines, Iowa. He states there were nightly visitations for over a week, all behind the wood pile. Evidence of chewing and eating were found the next morning.

He finally decided to shoot the animal to get incontrovertable evidence for the existence of Bigfoot. He positioned his car and waited with a rifle. The animal never came back.

The Forbidden Zone along two rivers at deep camp

In the forbidden zone

The forbidden zone is the watershed area for both the Withlacoochee River and the Hillsborough River. I actually believe I found the demarcation point for both rivers. That is where this image above was taken. I was in the forbidden zone and it was one hour before sunset and I was alone. I was miles from nowhere and there were no cyber-bullies, posters, commenter's on blogs that use the work "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch" in their handles even though they have never been in the woods but want to rip me for taking risk.

Looking into the Forbidden Zone from the camp

Before sunset, I could hear tree breaks coming from this area when I was back at camp (about 200 feet away).  I was able to forge a trail along the river bank and find an area of cypress knees and a fallen tree that if you could, you would find your way directly into the forbidden zone. Do you think that stopped me. No. I put a camera and went back to camp and let it run. There are growls recorded and I will release them soon.

I am alone at this campsite in the Green Swamp

Keep in mind this is the very area a hiker in this Green Swamp tract vanished a few years ago and his body was never found. Subsequently, the area was closed to the public and it has remained that way since.

The Jim Holder Bigfoot Video Colorado

 In 2007 Jim Holder and his son captured on a cell phone camera a video of an upright, large hominid walking in front of a tree line in Estes Park, Colorado. This area was near the Rocky Mountain National Park. The use of a cell phone gives it somewhat of a poor quality.

Many Colorado newspapers picked up the story and promoted it as if it was a real Sasquatch encounter. As usual, the Holder's were accused of faking the video to gain fame. This is too bad because it does keep people from coming forward with real video tapes.

In the months that followed, they claimed they may have been hoaxed, but that the video was real. Analyst suggest the creatures penis is visible and it is circumcised. I don't know how you could gleam that amount of detail from this low-resolution tape.Other researchers believe the movements of the animal are consistent with known Bigfoot gate. It is unlikely Jim Holder could have hoaxed this video.

"I Do think There's a Skunk Ape in these woods"

Bigfoot campfire at midnight

I was on my third night of this Skunk Ape expedition and had been doing my Bo Bo impersonation of Bigfoot calls. The sand prairie I was on showed much evidence of high animal activity. I did not see any tracks that looked primate in nature but I heard a sustained howl the other night in this area (of course the camera was off).

There was a moon, however, and the sand seemed to be reflecting star light as well, to give some degree of visibility. Yes, star light. I was so far from civilization that the stars could be seen in a way I can not describe. It was beautiful. It was hard to imagine the danger I was really in. Not being armed, anything could have attacked me.

The moon after sunset from the camp

The video below records a response to my howl and other noises from the forest. I was not able to get the same howl I had heard the other night. That is the way this business goes. Luck is very important and in the great expanse of the wilderness, luck may not always be there.

There are hundreds of videos and photos that I am looking at trying to decide in what order to show all of this. I am very busy. Most people don't realize how much time is necessary to be a good Bigfoot Researcher.

I'm Back From The Skunk Ape Expedtion

I am back from three days and nights in the Green Swamp of central Florida. It has been fun, and an experience I will never forget. The opportunity to camp out 'deep field' miles from civilization. was something I have been dreaming about for months as Florida was in the grip of extreme heat. Now, the weather is better and I took advantage of that.

The camp area I had was on the bank of a river leaving its watershed. I was the only one out there, and when the sun went down, things started to happen. There was activity across the river in the 'skunk ape zone'. This is the area that is now closed to the public because of a death that took place years ago. The death was never explained. It is still a mystery.

The video below will give you an idea of the visuals and the sounds I encountered in this historical expedition in the Green Swamp. I am back and very tired with tons of videos to post up in the coming days.

December Bigfoot Expedition is launched

A view of the swamp from the forest road leading out to camp

I received a permit from SWIFMUD to go into a very primitive area that overlooks a closed, if not, forbidden zone of the Green Swamp. I was hoping to be alone and I was not disappointed. I was alone at the camp and that meant I could research my way without any interruption.

The 40,000 acre tract is now mostly swamp after plentiful summer rains. This is good. The swamp ape needs swamp to survive. I took many photos and videos on the first day to show people what the environment is like now in the Green Swamp.

I am at the midway point of all this and the weather has been crazy. We had record highs yesterday of over 83 degrees, tonight, it will be in the 40's. This is difficult to deal with, but expected in Florida this time of year.

A large campfire to draw skunk ape into camp

Last night I recorded clear tree breaks in the forbidden zone, and a howl that sounded more like Matt Moneymaker then anything. My video camera seems to have picked all of this up.

I can't tell you have scared I am. I have not been sleeping much at night. There is too much going on.

With the right type of equipment, the source of that howl could be located and found. It could take weeks or months for dedicated researchers to do this. You would have to have the time and the money. Things that right now are in short supply for me.

Dave Shealy links to Tim Fasano

Dave Shealy of the Skunk Ape Musium and Reseach Center in the Everglades Florida is linking to Tim Fasano on his Blogger site. How cool is that? Dave has been a Skunk Ape hunter for decades. He invented Skunk Ape research. His research center in the Everglades receives reports from the national park rangers when they receive calls about Skunk Ape sightings. There was one when a Skunk Ape crossed I-75 and caused a major traffic jam. Dave has many high rez photos of the creature that he has taken over the years, including a pretty good video taken at close range of the Skunk Ape. The video below was a feature on Unexplained Mysteries a few years back.

The Issue of Poisonous Snakes in Florida

On the look out for snakes

Poisonous snakes abound in Florida. All five of the major vipers live here. Plus, the invasive species that just don't belong here, and are very bad for the Eco-system. I have had a close encounter with many of them. Hence, my trepidation on going any further into this pine area. The pines were thick and compressed when I stood on them. Rodents are all over this area, so are snakes. You really have to watch your footing down here. Stay on dirt roads and trails. Only go off trail when you have good line of sight. Snake boots would be a good investment.

The video below shows an encounter with a Viper when a Bigfoot research group and I were getting out of our vehicles. Darkness (which I will be facing next week) makes this kind of work very dangerous.

Alone in the "Land of Giants"

The primitive campsite I will be at next week (I got my permission today from the state of Florida) faces a river that was closed by SWIFMUD after a hiker vanished, and was never found. Bigfoot researchers for years witnessed strange things in there, and thought a find was close. Florida had other ideas and the area has now been closed since 2006.

No problem. The campsite area happens to look right at it. There is a river, so I will sound blast at night, and do call sounds, and aim my video. This area is vast, with miles of game trails, wooded areas, large prairies and swamps.

This is something I have been dreaming about for some time. My new wallpaper shows the swamp prairie were Biscardii put the peanut butter on the side of the tree when we worked in here last May. You can see the real beauty of this area. No matter what, it should be fun.

I have a van now which I will be sleeping in. I would be too vulnerable in a tent. Skunk Apes could rip it apart and kill me. At least in a van, they would have to bust the windows out and I would have time to start the engine and take off. Gee...explain that to insurance - giant apes busted out the windows and caused massive body damage.

Surprise At The Trail Head

When I reached the trail head for the game trail that I believe is used by the Florida skunk ape, I saw something down the forest road. I immediately ducked into the trail and hid for a while waiting to see if it would walk by the opening....OR COME IN!! No such luck.

I went back out but it seemed to be gone. I did get a machine gun series of stills from my Nikon and when you zoom in, it seems to show something upright and black crossing the dirt road. This is the same spot where I video taped a large deer a year ago. Something is going on down there.

In the video below you can see some of my gear and what my thoughts were at the time.

The video below shows that it is still too hot in Florida and it will still be some time before I will be able to get back down to the river and check out what happend to that structure I found a year ago (there could be more of them).



Anatomy Of A Bigfoot Game Trail

Note the lack of overgrowth meaning very wide and tall animals are moving

In the years I have been doing Skunk Ape research, I have now found what I believe are two bonafide game trails used by the big hairy guy. One is in the Green Swamp and this one is in a SWIFMUD area. These are significant finds, for they show location and motivation. There must be a solid reason for the trails. In the trail pictured here- it is all about natural resources.

This trail leads down to a major river in Florida and it begins in an area of large Ferrel pig activity. A Bigfoot would have food and water at an inexhaustible supply. The permanent residents here may stay year long, hence the vegetation for cover, and the summer heat that keeps people out of here.

The forest ranger confirmed with me that this trail is not official, and not used by hikers. He speculates hogs made it. But, how do you explain the lack of overgrowth? Something much taller then me is forging this trail.

The opening into the Bigfoot trail

Down by the river is the famous shelter I found with the water bottle. I think it may have been used as a child's toy, or something. Everything about this area is falling into place in a logical place as far as Bigfoot research goes.

Night operations would be the way to do this in both locations. I would want some type of FLIR or have others with me. I know how to get into this area after dark. We would be entering at our own risk - which would be considerable.

Long before Tiger wears red in the Masters, I want to form a team to work these areas. I know we are close to finding habitat areas of non-migratory skunk apes.

Large Game Trail Could yield results.

On the way out to find the animal trial that was made by very large beast, I found this area in the open that looked like something very large has been moving through often and creating much damage. In tracking, you learn that Bigfoot or Skunk Ape will do things in a big way. This area had be trampled like a stampede had moved across.

An area with much activity 

I took a picture of fresh break on a tree limb. That has to be new by only a few days. The grass was pushed down and the earth kicked up. It could be pigs, but when I combine this with the nearby trail that is very wide that elephants could go down, I have to consider everything.

Fresh tree break

Keep in mind that this area has not been worked in months because of the heat and the bugs. Animals have had their way back here. Trial cams would be the best way to find out what is leaving this destruction back here. You would not have to leave them up long. I believe this is nightly activity.

The trail I was looking for was only a few hundred feet away. This area is very active with something and I will do what I can in the next few months to find out just what that is.

What is strange is I ran into a forest ranger when he cam by on his ATV and we had a talk. I asked him about the trail up ahead and he said they were not sure what caused that trail. He said hikers have not been out here in months but something was maintaining it.

I felt good about that knowledge and know I am on the right track.

Fall Colors and a Bigfoot game trail

Fire red colors in Florida

I did not think we got these type of colors in Florida during the fall season. I was out hiking today in a SWIFMUD area and got these shots of color, including some fire red. I thought you could only see red in New England. I was excited to see this display by nature.

I understand you must have the right combination of rain, light, and temperatures for months to yield these colors. Cool, I guess we did it just right this year. This means the leaves are going to soon fall off the trees and our visibility will return. Line of sight is important for field researchers. Animals can hide under the cover of foilage.

A sight I have not seen in four decades

I found evidence today of many game trails that are frequently used. The large trial I was looking for has been made by very large beast was still there. This is the trail that I know the Florida skunk ape is using to get down to the river. I would not be pigs because they don't drink out of a river with a tall berm.

The Bigfoot Season In Florida is now

Me at home on the patio

We had the first cold snap of the season last night and that is when I like to sit out on the patio and play my chess and work on my blogs after work. In fact, this is something you can do in January when the people up north are digging snow out of the driveway. We don't get snow down here.

Today was just a wonderful day and I had the energy to sit on the porch and get some stuff done. The holiday's are coming and I am looking forward to the food and fellowship. One of the local radio stations has already gone to a 24 hour Christmas music format. I don't know about you, but that is a bit early. Everything has a time and place. I wait until at least the day after turkey day to play the x-mas music.

This weekend will be PERFECT for Bigfoot research. I will be out in field for much of it and should have some new videos to put up on my YouTube channel. Gee, the guys up north are now getting cold and I am finally ablt to get going with this.

Camping for Bigfoot In Florida

Now that the temperatures in Florida are down, I can't wait to get back into Bigfoot research from now until April. I know much more now about migratory patterns of these creatures and expect to obtain good results in the upcoming months. Things are looking good for a dry winter in Florida and  that will be perfect for skunk ape expeditions.

I am very much aware of my responsibility to advance Bigfoot research when the rest of the country is snowed under. That is something that is important to me, and I take it seriously. I hope to not disappoint this skunk ape season.

Bigfoot and Playboy Babes

Loren Coleman has a chapter on his book on Bigfoot about "Bigfoot and Playboy". It seems there was a production crew from a Playboy shoot that was on its way back after dark from a shoot. The crew was riding in a charter bus.

The bus passed an upright object on the side of the road. Several people saw it from out their windows, A short video was taken of this possible Bigfoot. People have looked at it over the years and believe it looks much like "Patty." Others think it is just a man in a suit.

The "Playboy" video was shot in the high Sierra mountain range in Nevada. This is the type of area that some would call 'squatchy.' It could have been a hoax. But who would have been on the side of the road for thirty people to see when their buss went by? I am surprised this video does not get more play. Most people have still not heard of it.

I was once in the business of producing Playboy style images for Internet sites. The video below has some of my Bigfoot images and videos. It also has some images of the ladies I photographed (with bikinis on - Youtube won't allow the other stuff). This is a depart from me just walking thru the woods.

A Bigfoot Hunt Last Summer (Class A sighting)

Mitch (red shirt) and Tom (black shirt) just seconds after a class A sighting in Florida

The weather is turning cooler and the new Bigfoot season is upon us. But before we go full bore into the 'Bigfoot Season' in Florida, I wanted to post some videos from last summer (which is the slow time for us).

I did get to work in the field with 'the worlds greatest Bigfoot hunter' Tom Biscardi. He brought along some of his crew and we even had a class "A" sighting in the field. This video was taken just seconds after Mitch saw the Bigfoot from the back of Tom's SUV.

I was in the vehicle behind them and I could see all four of his team pile out and run into the bush. They were moving fast for a bunch of old guys. I caught up with them and documented it on video which you can see here. Mitch is a devout Mormon and there is no way he would lie about what he saw. The creature was moving into the exact area where we had put up the trail cams and bait. We were confident it had played into our hands.

The two videos below show what happened just seconds after the Bigfoot sighting in the Green Swamp of Florida. We were on the Polk county border.

The Bugs Are Still Bad In Florida

Florida creeks filling up

With the good amount of rain we have had this season (the forecast is a dry winter), the creeks  have been filling up. This area was dry eight months ago. The downside of this is the mosquettos are still very bad. We did have a cold front move through last weekend, but not cold enough to kill the bugs. There is a cold front again going to move into central Florida this weekend. Good, things may just be right.

This is Where the Florida Skunk Ape Lives

Follow this creek and you will find skunk ape

Deep in this area just south of the Ocala National Forest is the primary migratory pathway for the Florida Skunk Ape. This area I have been in for the last few days. I have some great video and a better understanding of just what is going on in the Sunshine State. They are beginning to make their move after the first cold front moved into Florida.

My research is hitting hard and I, and Scott Marlowe are the only ones that know about these patterns. Everyone else is without a clue. You must spend years doing field work before you can really hone in on location patterns. This must be developed by your work, and not by someone else's input. That would mean nothing to you.

There are so many things that have been going on that will shed light onto why I have taken certain paths. I will never give up Bigfoot research; I will give up the researchers. Just because the community is populated with interlopers from the Jerry Springer Show, does not mean I should stop what I am doing.

I have fantastic video and I have so much more ahead. I will post a video this week letting everyone know what is up and why it is now real. The Bigfoot has been located; you people are not worthy of contempt.

The Butterfly and the Bigfoot

A butterfly garden on a nature trail

I took advantage of the first cold front of the season that made its way into central Florida by going out on a nature trail that I have not been able to access for months because of the bugs and the heat index. I do nature photography and I saw a Monarch butterfly. These insects are not easy to photograph because they will not just stop and pose for you. I had my camera on a tight macro setting and waited for the butterfly to make its way onto a flower and took many stills to make sure I got the one I wanted. Most of the butterfly shooting fails to get a good image.

The prospect of Bigfoot was not far away. The conditions were still very bad with the bugs and the still high humidity. In a couple of weeks it should be just perfect for Bigfoot season in Florida.

 

The Bugs Are still bad in Florida

I tried to get into this swamp trail, but to know avail. The bugs are still bad at this time. The temps should be down around the mid 40's by sunrise which (I hope) will kill off the mosquitoes. If so, then the season is on.

the swamp water

It has been months without being able to load YouTube videos because of the heat. The flip side of this is that winter will set in up north and they will not be able to go out. It is now my turn..LOL I still think we should have waited until November because there is still a tropical storm forming in the Gulf Of Mexico. It will not be a factor for a week.

A Bigfoot Olive Branch

Alex and I have been communicating all day after we both extended an olive branch to each other. That is one of the problems with social media, things can flame up must faster then the old days. Instant communication is not always good. We have 'kissed and made up.' We both agreed that research is the most important thing any of us can do. Staying away from the crap pile does a body good.

I took down the post I had about him and he said he will take down some stuff he said about me. Cool. As far as I am concerned, the matter between us is closed. We are both from Italian descent, and we tend to be a little hot headed. No problem We are now still friends. That is the way it should be.

People who have had a fallen out should just reach out and say they are sorry. If you have a family member you have not spoken to in years, pick up the phone now, and tell them you are sorry. Even if you don't think you did anything wrong, just do it. The other person will probably be willing to bury the hatchet. Give it a chance.

The Monsters Are Among Us

The screenwriter Rod Serling once said, “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, and prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill; suspicion can destroy. Moreover, a frightened, thoughtless search for a scapegoat can have a fallout all its own.”

The pity of this behavior is that it is universal, and not confined to the Twilight Zone. It has run rampant in the paranormal world, especially in the Bigfoot community. Mindless theories, prejudices toward others based on physical appearance, suspicion and fear have strangled the life force out of a thriving pursuit.

Facilitated by social media, it has fueled polemics to a level previously unseen. Who is “finding Bigfoot’ has been replaced with distrust of others motives. What someone looks like, or said about someone else, is now more important then recorded audios and possible video captures. Those things will now be dismissed out of hand. Pointing out the employment of the person, or what he tips the scales at, dismisses the validity of evidence obtained.

Rod Serling referred to the human mind metaphorically as “Maple Street.”  In an episode called The Monsters on Maple Street he showed how the real monsters in our world are not Bigfoot or aliens, but the monsters that are in our minds.

An innocent victim of fear and ignorance on Maple Street

In this episode, a UFO landed on a hilltop, and beneath it was Maple Street. The aliens caused the power to go off and on, and then go out. Intermittently they would turn the power on to only one house and the people would look with suspicion on the resident of that home. In a matter of hours, fear reached a fever pitch and neighbors started killing the other residents of Maple Street.

The aliens had now found a new tool of conquest…they would let man destroy himself.

They concluded, correctly, that Earth must be full of these Maple Streets. They would simply go from town to town, play with the infrastructure a bit, and humans would destroy themselves without the need of an invasion or any other tool of conquest.

MY YOUTUBE BIGFOOT VIDEOS

I began doing Bigfoot videos in 2009. I was dedicated and worked hard at it. I began to study topical maps of Florida to find good, remote areas. A consideration of wildlife and water sources was crucial to where I would go. This new hobby was exciting and I enjoyed reading the comments on my videos. That, sadly, took an ominous turn shortly after I began.

Many comments were hurtful and insulting. I had to block them. I am not thin skinned; I simply had no interest in reading them - many of these commenters where trolls, but not all of them. Some were experienced researchers who I thought would welcome a newcomer. I was wrong.

The insulting comments were relentless. In almost all of them, I was called fat and a taxi driver. I have no problem with how I look, or what I have been doing for twenty years to earn a living. It seems many Bigfoot people did.

All of the major blogs refused to mention me in their post. They had to have known about my work. The omission was not by accident. It soon became obvious what they really wanted. They wanted community support.

Most of what is going on in the Bigfoot world was about going to conferences, doing radio shows, and blogging. I even started a Bigfoot Blog to join the club. I thought that was what you were supposed to do. Again, I was wrong.

OTHER RESEARCH GROUPS

I got an invitation to work with an independent Bigfoot research group out of Central Florida. I was excited. I am social by nature and wanted to go out with people who had been doing this much longer then me.

I met them on a Saturday morning and one of the first things they told me was they had been informed that I was a hoaxer. (Strange? I post EVERY SECOND OF VIDEO I TAKE IN THE FIELD - even the ‘out takes.’ The fact that I do not edit anything, and show all that I got, means there is no hoax. You see and hear what the camera recorded. You draw your own conclusion).

Two trolls on Facebook were trying to sabotage the outing. It worked. My contact person with the group basically ignored me the whole time and walked far ahead of me. We were perhaps together about five minutes the whole time. The poison of hate, fear and prejudice had begun.

Subsequently, I was able to work for one day in the field with Tom Biscardi and his team. They were in Florida to see me, and I was honored to work with anyone that would make that kind of effort to come see me.

Tom is a really good guy

What is ironic is that Tom is supposed to be a hoaxer. I am supposed to be a hoaxer. We were in the field with his truck full of goodies. Hell, we could have pulled the biggest hoax ever. The truth is we did not find squat. Tom left the Green Swamp area of Polk county because he did not think it offered much promise. I disagree; he left anyway.

The person that set up the meeting with Tom and I lives out west. In fact, he was going to be on the trip but canceled at the last minute. He now holds the fact that I worked with Tom - for about five hours - over my head. He thinks I am part of his team. I am Tom’s ass buddy or something. I have not seen Tom since he left last May.

WHAT THEY WERE SAYING ABOUT ME

I did a Google search of Bigfoot and myself and I was shocked. I had no clue about so much that was being said. So many people were badmouthing me using anonymous names that I could not keep tract with all of them. Then, there was Sharon Lee.

She went on the Steve Kull’s radio show and called me every name in the book. She called me fat, a douchbag, a fool, and on and on. Her language was so vile, Steve took the archive of that show off his website. It was so bad, that a blogger, researcher in Texas, Melissa Hovan, believed she owed me an apology because Lee lit into her in the same breath she mentioned me.

Sharon Lee contacted Tom Biscardi about getting him to ask me to remove a Facebook comment someone had left on my wall about her ‘sleeping her way to the top’ of the Bigfoot world. I took it down immediately. What that person said about her was insulting. Sharon contacted me after I did that, not to thank me, but to call me an asshole and Tom Bacardi’s ‘toadie.’ The urban dictionary defines toadie as an ass kisser. How nice.

The trolls have still been coming after me on Face book. I have blocked them, but I still see their comments thru mutual friends’ walls. There is no escape. Steve Kulls (who co-stars in all of Tom Biscardi’s movies) list me on his wall of shame…the same one he has Tom on. That is because I disagreed with him. Even though I have no contact ever with these people, they will not let up. I decided to try to even the score.

BIGFOOT BUSTERS BLOG

I created a blog from a design of a defunct blog called Bigfoot busters. I chose that name because of name recognition from the ultimate troll who had it before to insult only me, tcsjrbigfoot, and other YouTube posters. I learned that he sits on the board of directors of the American Sasquatch Association. And he wanted to lecture me about standards. His blog was mean, unfounded, full of lies, and was soon taken down by a lawsuit working with law enforcement.

In the short month, I have had the Bigfoot buster blog; I can support everything I have said. In fact, I thought I was fair and honest about everything. I even called myself fat! The guy out west I stuck it to him hard by showing an email from a production company that rejected his casting call. He was angry as hell.

A DEATH THREAT

He left a message on my phone and said he would come to Florida and hunt me down. He said he would find me and I could take that as a threat. He was nobody to mess with and he would take action. I considered that a DEATH THREAT.

Is this what all this Bigfoot stuff has come down too? We are now living on Maple Street dealing with the monsters in our minds. Jealousy, rage and fear are casting a pall over the whole community. I have completely lost my interest.

I have many other things I need to be doing with my life, busting my ass for hours every day to create YouTube videos is no longer what I need to do. I am removing all of my videos. I will put back up just a few of the ones I like.  From now on, the videos will be about my taxi driving experiences and the Florida lifestyle. I have been missing much and now know what I should be doing.

I do take death threats seriously. In Florida, we are the only State that has a “stand your ground’ rule dealing with self defense. If someone shows up on your doorstep or threatens you in any way, you can defend yourself with extreme force. Simple as that. You are under no obligation to retreat from any situation. I love that about Florida.

This man is a terrorist. He has been stalking and cyber tracking me for months. I will not tolerate any of his shit anymore. I will not deal with a terrorist except in one way...strength. This man asked for it; He is going to get it. He needs to go away and stop calling me on the phone with this chowder dribble. He needs to stop slandering me on Facebook. I am not slandering him. He was rejected by the production company because he just did not have the look. Sorry man, I am sure your wife and kids still love you.

THEY ARE NOT  WORTH IT 

This Bigfoot stuff is simply not worth it anymore. I had a great life before Bigfoot; I will have a great life after Bigfoot. I do want to thank my subs and real friends like tcsjrbigfoot. Thanks guys, this has been real but a little too real.

Ocala National Forest Expedition Is ON

Tim Fasano In Ocala National Forest

My team is on its way to Ocala into a deep section of the National forest. This is a broad area, and good luck in trying to find us. We will be there until Sunday. Ocala was the home of a confirmed 'Sasquatch' sighting, along with prints casted by forest rangers in 1948. The clear prints were 18' long and made at the time of several sighting reports.

We will be on the edge of a wilderness preserve. I am afraid to say more. Just keep coming back to this blog and you will be informed about everything.

Our day operations will be late week, with everything leading too the night explorations on Friday and Saturday. If we don't find Bigfoot, we will still have much fun. We have lots of food and the weather will be much cooler to sit around the campfire and tell scary stories. You can't beat that.

I am very committed in the next few months to exploring much of the state of Florida that I have not been able to get too. I am very excited about this.