Why do Bigfoot make loud howls and for God's sake why do they stink???

From the beginning, Bigfoot witnesses have been recounting the gawd awful smell associated with their sightings. "Skunky", "wet dog", are two of the more common descriptions of that stinky smell. I myself have smelled it only once and I best describe it as a skunk like, but not full blown skunk. I know vague but it's more of a potpourri of Skunk, and many other noxious smelling things. Many researchers who spend any time in the field and have had close contact with Bigfoot know the smell quite well.

The night I had my nostrils introduced to this smell was exciting but also quite unsettling. Myself, two other "researchers", and two non believers had worked our way to a ridge top in a section of woods that we previously had some great Squatch activity days before. It was roughly 1 am in the morning and I started with making three woods knocks and immediately had three returned from the opposite ridge. The other ridge was several hundred yards across the creek valley from us. This area is steep and treacherous during the day time and most likely impassable at night. So the odds of the return wood knocker being human is 100% impossible! I again knock three times and again got three in return. By this time the skeptics are begging me to escort them off the ridge and out of the woods. I urge them to wait and we sit quietly in the pitch black, our ears trained in the direction of the return wood knocks. After several minutes we hear rocks in the creek bottom clack like something walked over them. Not overly loud but loud enough that we could hear them plainly at 150 yards or so. A minute or so later a bird who was happily sleeping in his perch was startled awake by something passing beneath him and started chirping loudly. I can hear my skeptic friends whimpering in the darkness. A twig snap, a tree branch rustled and this guy is getting closer and closer. He was very methodical in his approach. I'm not sure of the distance but when he got into that magical range I inhaled that deep pungent skunk like odor and I got the fear of God put into me. I immediately ushered the crowd down the trail. It was a very controlled exit and we were not screaming like a bunch of girls or anything (no offense to any girls). But the flight instinct definitely won the battle that night.

Anyone who has ever hunted Elk knows how vocal they get during the rut or mating time in September and October when they are searching for a mate. They use their bugle to announce to the world that they are dominant and they should bread. They also use shallow mud pits called wallows to roll around in and get nice and smelly. They intentionally urinate on their legs and under belly to enhance the smell. This smell in addition to their loud bugles is an open advertisement to the local ladies that they are the king of the mountain. I believe Bigfoot like Elk use loud vocalizations and that smelly, skunky, musky smell to attract a mate. The fact is there isn't as large a population of Bigfoot as there are Elk, Deer ,or Bear for that matter. They need to be able to cover a lot of ground and be able to attract a mate as efficiently as possible and their stinky smell and loud calls help them do it.

The loud vocalization should not be confused with the normal every day contact calls that they make to communicate with each other regularly. Whistles, chirps, barks, etc are examples of contact calls. They are not trying to advertise their location to the whole mountain but maybe a family member on another hill or outside the general location. The breading calls are the long, constant howls, or moans. The Ohio Howls are a perfect example of what I believe are breeding location howls. http://youtu.be/TPCcLddBekY

How do they get "the smell"?? I think they have glands much like gorillas that secrete a smell when they are excited or aggressive which both could be the case during breeding season. They not only need to walk long distances to find love but they also need to find a female that doesn't share the same blood line.These long walks only enhances their chances of running into another young male from another family group looking for love also. So that same smell could be a warning to potential rivals to stay away or else. And let's face it I don't think Sasquatch take too many showers. They are very hairy, they get wet, they sweat, they urinate and defecate outdoors so they are gonna smell a little ripe from time to time. They might even urinate on themselves intentionally like the bull Elk do during the rut. So the smell might be a combination of several different odors that quite possibly could be specific to the species.

But for whatever the reason or how they get it, Bigfoot have been associated with smelliness since the first reports of their existence. I hope in the upcoming years we can learn more about their lives and more about their biological make up so we can insure a happy coexistence between us and them. Long live the Squatch!

Happy Squatchin.....