Bigfoot intelligence in a report from Alabama

An anonymous poster in the gamecam post below points us toward this report on AlabamaBigfoot.com, which is surely interesting in many ways, not the least because it shows how intelligent bigfoot might be. Go read the report and you'll see that the creature displayed some remarkable thinking skills if it's simply an overgrown ape. (Though we keep learning that regular sized apes have some remarkable thinking skills..)

A couple of items in the long encounter report grabbed my attention. The first deals with the creature appearing seemingly out of nowhere after the witness had explored around his location:

He said, ?I looked around and there stood that sucker; where he came from I don?t know. I had looked in every dang tree around the place. It spooked the heck out of me when he seemed to appear from nowhere. It was like he had been let down from the sky on a rope. I never heard him make a sound in those dry leaves.?

I too have had the very strange experience of hearing a large, heavy creature go completely silent in an area where it would be impossible for us to do the same.

The second item of interest occurs when the witness finally gets the creature to approach while he has a pistol, but later realizes he might not have really gained its trust as much as he thought:

He continued to carry the pistol to the site, but placed it on the ground away from the rope. If the creature was there, it approached without hesitation. One day he decided to see if the creature now trusted him enough to approach if he kept the pistol in his belt. When he arrived the creature was waiting in the edge of the woods. With the bag of food in his hand, he began walking toward the creature. When he was in front of the creature, he unbuttoned his coat, exposing the firearm. It paid no apparent attention to the pistol, and took the food bag from his hand. He carried on his normal one-way conversation with the creature for a little while, and then walked back to his truck. He was pleased about the trust the creature appeared to be showing. When he opened the door of truck and withdrew the firearm to place it on the console, he said he was badly spooked when he saw the loaded clip for the pistol had been left on the console. He said he had goose bumps when the thought occurred to him that the creature might have approached him and the exposed firearm so quickly not out of trust, but because it knew there was no clip in the gun.

This reminds me of the interview with Fuzzy, where he reported that he had found in a certain location that the crows seemed to know by their behavior whether he carried a weapon, and what the approximate range of that weapon might be. He wondered how they might have gotten that information, if there wasn't some signal he was sending by his body language, or some other way. This encounter obviously would raise the same kind of questions if true.

Another event relates directly to the question of bigfoot and cameras:

Sometime after the smaller creature first began openly approaching him, another incident occurred which bothered him the most. He had decided he would try to photograph the creature with the digital camera in his cell phone when the creature became less skittish of him. One afternoon he arrived at the baiting area while there was still good light. As the creature walked slowly toward him it stopped in front of a large tree. The witness casually reached into his front pant?s pocket, retrieved the cell phone, and in a slow, sweeping motion brought the camera up past his face and back to his side where he shoved the camera back into his pocket. He said that he did not look in the viewer when he did so, but that he snapped a picture when the phone was about head high. The action startled the creature, but it stayed in place after he pocketed the phone. He does not remember exactly what occurred until he left, because he was so excited and sure that he had made a photograph of the creature. Later, while walking back to his truck, he pulled up the photograph he had taken. He was at first furious at himself because the photograph showed only a section of the woods. He had used the cell phone?s camera many times, and could not understand how he had botched the shot. Sometime later, it dawned on him that although the creature?s image was not in the photograph, there was an image of the tree that he thought the creature had been standing in front of in the center of the picture. He went back to the site a day or two later and compared the photograph to the area in which he thought the creature had been standing. He said the tree in the picture was the one he thought the creature had been standing in front of. He concluded that he was either mistaken about where the creature had been standing, or by some method or means the creature evaded being photographed.

We'll never know if the picture was taken in the right spot or not. It would seem to me pretty difficult to get the phone-camera to fire at just the right moment. I've never had good luck with the cameras in my phone.

After this event, the witness stopped trying to photograph the creature because he became concerned that someone else would see the pictures and this would cause them to want to harm the creatures, which he now felt very protective of. This attitude is in itself an interesting one, and I've seen it before in witnesses of these habituation situations. What causes this sense of kinship, granting that the stories are true?

Of course, we have no way of knowing if these events really happened. Many researchers reject these multiple-encounter reports out of hand. I've been scanning this one for those hallmarks of fiction that you often find when someone is spinning a yarn, but haven't found any yet. I'll keep looking. But if this report is true, there is a lot of interesting information here. It's worth a read, even if you don't think it's true, to put the details away in your mind in case something comes along in the future that corroborates them.

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