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.

Night Optics During Florida Bigfoot Search

After the sun has set it is important to get a reading on light sources. This is the most critical time out in field when natural and artificial light blend for a possible discovery. Technology, I believe, is what will assist in the final Bigfoot find. The insects are still very bad in Florida near the rivers and swamps, and any body of water.

Is Bigfoot Inside The Treeline?

These are situations were Bigfoot researchers always think they see something moving. That is when you are in a clearing and think you see something moving within the treeline. Is it the wind? is it an animal? Or, is it something that may have been following you all along. The other day in field, I got that thought when I saw something moving. We must take many hours of this type of video and analyze it carefully to make sure something has not been overlooked.

Bigfoot FLIR 30 Minutes After Dark

I was coming back from a swamp area where I had been all day. I had heard activity all day but did not see anything. After the sunset I used this camera to scan the tree line because I thought something was dogging me behind the trees. The FLIR says no. Heat can be seen from the sky and the surface of grass and trees but nothing in the tree line. I really need to get my own FLIR. I don't have the 40 grand that you would need to get the model they use on Finding Bigfoot. There are less expensive models but you get what you pay for. I still think there is something there.

Baby Bigfoot Video Shot Inside Of A Shelter in Arizona

Mitch Waite is a friend of mine; I have worked with Mitch Waite in the field; Mitch Waite is as straight as they come. He made a fantastic discovery a year ago in Arizona of a Bigfoot shelter. It is not everyday you find a baby Bigfoot in his nest.

Mitch and his crew find the nest

He was working with his crew and they came upon a large nest or structure. They stood around the nest to give it a sense of scale. They compared it to the nest that was found in Ohio on the Monsterquest episode of the Grassman. Mitch took his night optics camera and shot inside the nest. There was a dark, black object that seemed to be moving inside. It may have been a baby Bigfoot waiting for his mother to come back.

Deep inside the nest

Mitch came to Florida last June to work with me, Tom Biscardi and others in the Green Swamp. I used the very camera he uses in this video to see night images. Mitch is a family man and a devout Morman. He is as honest as the day is long. If he said he saw it moving in the nest, he did.   

Bigfoot Season Is On In Floirda

The first cold front of the season was about three weeks early as it moved into central Florida this weekend. I wasted no time in getting out to a swamp area that used to be a logging camp decades ago. This area is in the Hillsborough/Dead River complex with most of it impenetrable and unexplored. That is why I go there when the weather is cool because the mosquitoes are down and the area can be forged on foot. Nobody goes into the areas I do.

This day the bugs were still bad. No problem, I will be back soon when the conditions are better. The bugs were so bad that I was covered with insect repellent but it did no good.   

Skunk Ape Season Has Begun In Florida

The first cold front of the season has made its way to Florida three weeks early. That means Bigfoot sreason. Sunday will have a low of 57 at sunrise. That should put the bugs at bay. I have a grat swamp atea picked out and should be out there all day. We also will have an outing in three weeks in the Ocala National Forest were the sasquatch foot print was cast. We know they are there; we will find them; it just takes time. I hope to have new video every day untill March. Skunk Ape season is on.