What If All Those "Tree Knockings" Were Actually Produced By Hand Clapping? [Bigfoot Communication]
Cliff Barackman brought up an interesting theory on his blog about the possibility that Bigfoots might be using hand clapping to communicate. Barackman hypothesizes that what researchers hear as "tree knocking" may not actually be the sound of Bigfoots knocking wood against trees.
He has received several reports of Bigfoots clapping and according to one account, a Bigfoot was seen "slapping its open hand against its thigh to produce a loud popping sound".
Barackman cites an article from the BBC about gorillas and their use of clapping as a form of communication.
Female gorillas clap their hands to get the attention of male silverbacks and infants.
The discovery in the forests of central Africa is only the second time the behaviour has been recorded in wild western lowland gorillas.
It suggests that the great apes use hand-clapping to communicate over long distances and keep the family group together.
The discovery is published in the journal Primates.
"What struck me most was how it was conducted in such a controlled and deliberate manner while in a bipedal position; much like a human would hand clap," says Ammie Kalan of Oxford Brookes University, in Oxford, UK.
Read the rest here.
Barack explains the possibility hand clapping might not be used exclusively as a form of communication since there are several reports where people have seen a Bigfoot carrying a stick. He writes, "It is my opinion that what is commonly referred to as 'tree knocking' has a far too restrictive description."
[via www.northamericanbigfoot.com]
What if all the tree-knocking were actually produced by other bigfooters?
ReplyDeleteThis is nothing new. Thom Powell put this theory forward some time ago. http://www.thomsquatch.com/2011/02/tree-knocking-101.html
ReplyDeleteAHEM
ReplyDeleteWell, this is what scientific method is for, to test one's theories.
ReplyDeletePerhaps he can start by comparing the sound sonogram of a a few human hand claps and a few wood knocks under similar conditions using humans. How do they compare? Then compare with suspect wood knocks of Bigfoots.
It might provide concrete data rather than TV Bigfooter speculation, I expect more on that budget.
what if bigfoot didnt exist?
ReplyDeleteIf it didn't exist, then what are you doing wasting your time on here?
DeleteWho says its wasting time? I didn't realize interest in the subject required unquestioning belief and blind faith. I hope they find Sasquatch, but at this point it isnt looking good. If it doesn't exist, isn't it just as interesting as a cultural phenomenon? Sorry, I forgot you need everyone to believe exactly the same thing you do.
DeleteYOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE, YOU ALSO DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ASSHOLE! utp
DeleteLol amen ^^^^^
DeleteWow Leon, can't you express yourself without caps and foul language? If the subject of Bigfoot gets you this upset I can only imagine what a challenge the rest of life presents.
DeleteI FIND IT AMUSING THAT YOUR WASTING TIME IMAGINING OTHER PEOPLES LIVES, YOU MUST BE BORED, AWW.
DeleteBUT THEN AGAIN, WE KNOW YOU HAVE A PSYCH PROBLEM ANYWAY.
HAVE THE VOICES STARTED AGAIN?
Bigfoot and me are cool.
DeleteIt's Idiots I can't stand, UTP.
Must be tough looking in the mirror.
DeleteI think the point that Anonymous Apr 17, 2012 01:45 PM, was trying to make was that if you are a non-believer and you disagree with BF then what's the point reading through these blogs.
DeleteI can see that if a BF witness is posting then he/she's motivation to do so is to tell the world about something absolutely astonishing happened. If a believer is reading through or posting on this blog then they are romantics (like myself) that LOVE the idea of a historic discovery such as this (just like the Homo Floresiensis/Hobbits discover a few years ago).
If a skeptic is read/posting on here, then what is his motivation? I imagine (and I am sure people will correct me) that skeptics who post are just trying to convince everyone that their opinion is correct and that everyone else is wrong.
The point is that witnesses who are speaking out because they had an experience and want to tell the world. Non witness believers speak out/research because they have a romantic sense of BFs. Skeptics (especially loud ones) are speaking out, out of a sense of, what's the word I am looking for, egotism. They have nothing to gain by convincing people they are correct. On the other hand witnesses get recognition and believers get excited about the possibility.
Let the ranting (discussion begin).
"If a skeptic is read/posting on here, then what is his motivation?"
DeleteI cant speak for all skeptics but it is very possible that kids born a couple of decades ago had 6 million dollar man bigfoot toys and books and are bigger bigfoot fans than many believers and they are likely ex bigfoot believers. I agree the Indonesian hobbits were fascinating.
Some skeptics are trolls and some have an axe to grind against the dishonest and your head is in the sand if you dont think bigfootery is flooded with dishonesty. Really if you are looking for bigfoot and not making false claims skeptics shouldnt bother you. In fact you should welcome them.
Not first time it was discussed.
ReplyDeleteClapping, chest slapping, gorilla type behaviorism's.
.. doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss theories!
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Hello all:
ReplyDeleteI am happy to report that I just got off the phone with Jack Bindernagel. I brought up this theory and his response was to demand to know why I have been calling him everyday for the past six months. He further stated he "did not know what the F**k was making the sounds in the woods but I had better stop calling him before 6 am".
lol
DeleteWho is Jack Bindernagel?
DeleteAnon 2:05 must get off on re-reading it's own fictitous posts.
DeletePops up routinely under various guises with proclamations of special knowledge.
But, it's always the same Asswipe with
either an empty life or head, or both.
Hello all:
ReplyDeleteI just got off the phone with M.K. Davis. He said the best way to analyze any Bigfoot sound is to take a tape recorder and then tape the sounds from the original recording. Then you take another tape recorder and tape the sounds from the second recording while talking. You will then have a third recording with the voice of MK Davis that can be used to determine what the sounds are- if and only if you play it very slowly.
Liking this, well done as opposed to most trolling.
DeleteThat was funny. Good trolling.
DeleteA few years ago I had a friend take me to a very special squatching location. Long story short, I listened in my tent for about 5 hrs as they walked around camp, opened coolers, and even reached into a rip in my tent and smelled me through the tent fabric. What alerted me to their presence was a popping noise I heard about 50ft away between a couple other tents and then a response of popping that was about 1-2ft from my left foot just outside my 2 man tent (yes I got a recording of it). For a few years I assumed it was a noise made by mouth popping. Until one amazing day while at the zoo with some friends and their kids, I heard the exact same noise being made by the gorrillas by tapping thier chest. I was completely taken off guard by this. I've heard them make speach and other noises and have come to the conclusion that they can make many strange sounds at will. Just a personal story I thought relavent to this thread.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the location of the campsite?
ReplyDeleteSorry, can't tell you that. I waited four years to bring my own dad to the location (even got a track casted last summer after one slapped our tent), I promised my friend I would protect the location and haven't broken it. It is in the Rocky Mountains, sort of.
DeletePikes peak.
DeleteMatt Moneymaker discovered hand clapping.
ReplyDeleteYes! Because he is happy and he knows it! Laughs at the expense of Moneymaker will never get old.
DeleteI saw Matt and Bobo playing patty-cake in the bank lobby.
DeleteI wouldn't quit my day job for the $2500 an episode
DeleteWhat I heard was wood against wood. But I'm pretty sure they could use many different methods that produce a similar sound so it could be all of the above methods as well. Interestingly I was walking my dog in the neighborhood a couple of days ago and heard what sounded like a wood knock. Then when it happened again I was able to tell it was a frog letting out a very short medium pitched croak. I have heard a lot of frogs before but never one making a sound just like that.
ReplyDeleteSomebody has mentioned bucks will knock the base of trees as a warning. Has anyone else seen that?
ReplyDeleteI have heard some bizzare return wood knocks in the blue moutains,after seeing a blue jay make a real loud woodpecker like knock it makes me wonder if they are not mimicking human bigfoot hunter knocks,they are inteligent birds.I have never heard anyone else with this therory.
DeleteLets get Damian Bravos opinion
ReplyDeleteI am disappointed that "Jack" didn't know what the noise was, but the stuff I have heard in the woods has sounded like wood on wood. I once also heard a "Popping" noise like the noise descibed by Anon@2:30, and would love to hear that recording.
ReplyDeleteNo Shadow
The wood on wood was probably just a cock fight
ReplyDeleteNope it was wood on wood and was about 30 feet away from me. Undescribably loud and percussive.
DeleteThe thing is, in cali when your in those big redwoods, Single knocks mean nothing, widowmakers.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the loud fapping sound is a huge bipedal hominid beating his meat. Literally spanking his monkey.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably true that "Bigfoot Hunting" is a euphemism for anti-social nerds with no chance of a date to go out in the woods to whack it.
DeleteI heard a double hand clap in the woods. Didn't sound like anything but a hand clap. Can't say it was Bigfoot or anything else, but it happened.
ReplyDeleteI've read at least one report where the bigfoot was seen hitting a tree with a stick or log. Are we assuming such reports are lies?
ReplyDeleteThey've also been seen pounding the ground with rocks.Some of the wood knocks may be rocks hitting wood,
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