Stick pilings and nests

Stick pilings or nests as some suggest are a pretty interesting phenomena in the world of Bigfooting. Some are a simple pile of sticks and others are very intricately made and very detailed mega structures that would make Frank Lloyd Write proud. Some of these structures have an opening underneath to crawl in and hide and others are the traditional nest style where you lay on top. The one I found last week appeared to be the start of the crawl underneath type of nest. The photos below show how much time and effort goes into the making of these things.

A few weeks ago I told you about my buddy and fellow Bigfoot researcher from the great State of Texas, Mike Brookreson and how he and I were comparing field notes and getting some pretty similar data. He just sent me a video of a huge mega stick structure/nest that I want to share with you all. Of course in true Texas style its incredibly "bigger" than the one I found! Enjoy...

Tree formations....again!

I know I said I was done taking pictures of tree "formations" but I found a couple really cool ones the other night. One involved five different trees!! I seriously do not think that the wind could of created them but you guys look at them and tell me what you think.

Its so hard to get the detail to show up in pictures but the bent trees are all living trees and held in that position by another tree or branch.Sometimes the hold down tree is a dead tree that doesn't even belong in that spot. The top photo is a great illustration of that fact and was physically impossible of happening naturally. The second and third picture involves five different trees. In the picture it looks like that one limb is cut but it wasn't...it was a clean break! It's highly unlikely for five trees to be manipulated in that manner by natural occurrences.

I would love to hear from you guys! Are these "formations" a natural phenomena? Is this common in all woods? I haven't noticed it in other woods but it could be. As always lemme know your thoughts!

Bigfoot shelter??

Headed to the area Sunday afternoon to check the gifting site (the balancing rock with gum) and to check on a bait station. The bait station had a jar of peanut butter hanging about ten feet off the ground with a trail camera watching. I pulled the trail camera last week after a couple of months of absolutely nothing being caught.  My test was to see if they stayed away from the peanut butter because of the camera. If they hit the bait without the camera then it would it be safe to assume the camera IR is a deterrent for them??I'm not 100% sold on this theory yet and I want to conduct my own experiment. As of right now I think they have just been plain lucky not to get caught on camera. With their smallish population and the extremely large area of operations this would make more sense to me.

I stopped by the gifting site and was a little disappointed that nothing was changed from the previous week. The two pieces of gum were still tucked under the rock and the arrow remained unchanged. So I sat on a log and pondered my next move for a while. I enjoy just sitting and listening to the sounds of the woods. This also can be an effective technique for getting Squatch to come to you and check you out. Soon enough I started to get that feeling. It's hard to describe, but I will try to describe anyway. It's an uneasy feeling like someone is sneaking up on you. You can't get comfortable and your constantly looking behind you, and actually looking all around. I played this out for a while hoping that if my senses were correct I could catch a glimpse of whatever it was causing this effect. I see nothing and I get up and start making my way in the direction of the bait site. The feeling was still there but you can manage it a lot better when your on your feet and on the offensive.

One thing I must add is that when I'm in the woods off trail I keep my movements slow and deliberate. It's similar to a still hunting fashion. I take a couple steps, stop and scan the woods. This area is very thick with vegetation right now and it can make it very hard to see a Squatch but it can also help hide you from them. I know others will scoff at that premise but there are a bunch of sightings where people have stumbled upon a Squatch at close range. I'm not stumbling, I'm sneaking!

Back to the story though. I started my slow walk toward the bait station. It's probably a half mile or so from where the gifting site is. In my stealth mode walk I probably only went fifty yards in twenty minutes still on high alert to whatever was out there causing my uncomfortableness (<----<< yes I used my made up word again). When suddenly an extremely large crash like a tree crashing or large limb falling to the ground. It sounded like whatever it was, was buffered by the under growth on the forest floor. I almost messed my pants! I could only see twenty yards before an impenetrable wall of bright green plant growth and the crash came from on the other side of that.

I naturally stopped in my tracks for a while. I looked, listened, looked, and listened some more, and looked some more...lol Waiting for something else to happen but nothing came. So I slowly maneuvered to where the noise came from. At my slow pace it took me another twenty minutes to trek the fifty-sixty yards or so. For the life of me I couldn't find an limb, or tree that could of made that loud noise. What I did find was, aww look for yourselves.....

It is so hard to tell in pictures but there is some intricate craftsmanship going on here.The main horizontal frame is supported, purposely, by strong vertical supports. There are a bunch of saplings that are intentionally bent into the structure. Lastly, the sticks on top are interwoven with each other in a grid like manner. The whole structure has a "lean to"  feel to it. Like you would build in a survival situation.There was a void underneath that you could crawl under. It doesn't look to be completed by any means and the saplings look to be freshly bent into the frame. Could I possibly of  interrupted the builder and thus got a warning limb crash?? You tell me..

Oh one last point. I hope you can tell by the few pics and the blurriness of the one pic that I was a hair rattled by what was going on. My senses were on overload status! I even emailed my confidante' in Squatchin Mike Brookreson from the woods and asked if I was in mortal danger...lol

Odds and Ends

Just a quick post with some odds and ends pictures of some different stuff. All of the" leaners" are trees that aren't ones that just fell over and landed mysteriously the way they are. I could not find their original origin and they almost look foreign and out of place. Make of it what you will, I am just showing it for discussion sake. With that in mind they all seem to be in areas that we have had high activity in. The second picture down is at the entrance of the trail head from the power line that we had a close encounter at two years ago. As you can see on the third picture down, that tree is intertwined between four other trees. A natural occurrence?? I was reminded of the last picture from a post on FB. A lady was showing a bunch of low breaks on trees and she theorized they might be caused by juveniles breaking them with their strong feet and legs. Sounds like a plausible theory to me. I find quite a bit of low breaks on saplings and I always chalk them up to natural phenomena. But the last picture was in a secluded valley and was very protected from wind and possible lightning. I personally tried to break the other tree next to it and couldn't it because of the rigidness. Again, I don't have the answers. I'm just trying to make sense out of all this! Happy Squatchin.....

Stick structures

I'm posting some pictures of some stick formations from my foray into my area on Sunday March 23. I'm NOT saying they are made by Bigfoot but they are very suspicious in nature. I know that the wind and bad weather can cause trees to fall in some weird manners. I also know that people walking in the woods can and do mess with sticks and logs. With that said, I'm finding these in some very remote areas, far away from normal foot traffic. As unlikely it is for people to be in these areas I cannot rule out the possibility. So I'm throwing this out there for you all to decide for yourselves.