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.