Which Research Method Will Ultimately Find Bigfoot?

Editor’s Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor Vicki W.

This North American Great Ape blog post explores the various strategies utilized for sasquatch research. As we all know, there are a few different approaches, and many different opinions on which are apt to gain success in collecting hard evidence or discovering the elusive 'manimal' himself. A.Z. examines the most common tactics in his discussion provoking blog post. Is there really a best way, or are differing methods key to achieving the most significant discovery of the century?

There are a ton of different strategies: call blasting, wood knocking, baiting, habituation, trail cams, gifting, the list goes on. In an attempt to keep this post at a readable length, I'll stick to a discussion of which is best, a stealthy approach, or a loud, interactive approach?

The idea behind using a loud, interactive approach goes something like this: sasquatches, like most great apes, are curious creatures. By call blasting, wood knocking, and other attempts to communicate, we will draw them in and encourage interaction. The sasquatches will notice when humans are around, so trying to trick them with trail cams and the like is useless. (Some believe that sasquatches so excel in their natural environment that they are able to easily locate and avoid trail cams and other such photo / video traps.)

Supporters of the stealth side of the issue argue by saying that alerting the sasquatches of our presence will only scare them away. They've shown in the past that they aren't particularly fond of human interactions. This leads to the decision that the best way to conduct research is to remain quiet and hope to capture photos, video, or audio of bigfoots being their usual squatchy selves. Proponents of the stealth side of the issue support using trail cams. (Some more recent theories involve mounting trail cams on parked cars, or around campsites. The thought here is that the sasquatches will recognize cars and campsites as man-made structures thus a trail cam mounted on one of these will, to them, seem less out of place than a camera in the middle of the forest. However, this does seem a little contradicting to the argument that a human presence scares away the creatures.)

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