It is interesting to note that Henry,as a maverick researcher and IVBC head was a paranormalist for many years.Below are some of his field experiences.
He was also a personal witness to a Sasquatch entering a UFO.
"I often read the posts here, with fond memories of the
search. I began the search once, camping in the woods,
packing binoculars and cameras and night vision gear.
Playing tapes, baiting, whatever,.. usually waiting
all night on mountain peaks quietly. Almost immediately
I hooked up with other researchers, hooked up with funds,then I indirectly helped build some very fancy night vision gear using seismic detectors and microwave relay video transmissions to a home base. This device was placed in a wilderness area for two years. I helped with a $250,000 scientific analysis of the Patterson film that produced a science report, I started a bigfoot discussion list, tried my absolute best to get people(especially scientists and policy makers), to take bigfoot researcfh seriously. I helped some people run a bigfoot incident report 800 number for 5 years,I helped many bigfooters make web sites including Ray Crowe, Peter Byrne, Rene Dahinden, Chris Murphy,Matt Moneymaker, and Ron Morehead. I helped a lot of bigfooters, all sizes and shapes of bigfooters.
I helped investigate 400 sightings in the northwest. I
compiled a huge database of sighting reports, I looked
for patterns, I made maps, I studied, and studied and
studied. I made movies, I became a bigfoot spokesman,
I presented my results at symposiums. Some of you
probably know who I am by now. I battled for credibility,I argued scientifically with anyone who'd listen.
I did the best possible research I could, I constantly
evaluated my methodology, I used logic, I used the
rules of good thinking, I went out in the woods, I
waited by a phone, I went with groups, I went alone.
There was a helicopter with a FLIR standing ready if
one of us ever found anything.
Nevertheless, I must use a pseudonym, I cannot come
forward with what I have to say. What I have to say
is too crazy, too unwelcome, not helpful, not somethin
that would help get bigfoot researchers taken seriously.
This is part of why I left the scene. I no longer
could participate in something where I had to present
a false face all the time. It was too much for me.
I had to consider people's systems of belief,
people's cherished notions, people's sensibilities; what people thought was plausible; what they thought
was not plausible. What was believable. I could play
the game, I could listen and understand what people
could accept, and what they could not accept. I
respected other people's points of view. I evaluated
what was known and unknown, I knew what was speculationand what wasn't. I'm not a total idiot.
But what I have to say, from my perspective, is the truth.
I learned along the way, the part of the puzzle I
figured out. It's not the whole picture. It strikes
me as funny. It strikes me as ironic. All the arguments out there about bigfoot's nature:
kill, no kill, ape-like/person-like,intelligent/just an animal, flesh and blood/supernatural,real/hoax, misidentified animal/uncataloged animal/perceptual failure/mass halucination/sociological phenomenon/cultural phenomenon/wishful thinking...
well, you know what "they" say; a man convinced
against his will remains of the same opinion.
All of the major raging arguments can be answered with one simple
answer;
BOTH seemingly opposed viewpoints are true.
ALL of the above theories have some truth to them,
after a fashion.
When you can understand how these disparate
viewpoints and raging arguments and hardened
positions and exclusive theories can all be true at the same time, you are on your
way to understanding what I have learned about the bigfeet... really.
I can't tell you how funny I find this.
No doubt I just lost your attention, you might be
saying "it's not possible, it's not plausible,
it's ridiculous, it's silly, it's not credible,
you're not credible, it's not scientific,
it's not helpful, what about Occam's Law of
limited imagination?" etc. etc. I always ask myself,
"Why bother to tell anyone anything about bigfoot?"
Everyone will have to find out for themselves and
see with their own eyes or they will not believe
me. Why? Because they are sane, rational, normal
human beings who have their critical faculties intact.
...nothing wrong with that. Some truths about the
bigfeet are a self-keeping secret. People are just
not ready to accept what I've learned on my
personal journey. Just remember, I'd like to think
I respect truth as much as anybody. I even respect
the fact that we each have our own truths, our
own beliefs, our own sense of meaning.
I have personally experienced the flesh and blood
animal aspect of bigfeet, up close and personal,
I have personally experienced the telepathic
aspect of bigfeet, on more than one occasion.
I have encountered the sense of humour of
intelligent bigfeet, I have communicated with
intelligent bigfeet. I have been made fun of by
the bigfeet. I have walked right up
to a bush with a laughing bigfoot in it, and
found nothing at all there. No tracks, no broken
branches, nothing. I have seen enough with my own eyes
to know that bigfoot is a flesh and blood animal,
AND something else beyond my understanding. Something
that acts like an animal, then acts like a scientist.
Something that can grunt and laugh, something that
can can then reach right into your mind and
communicate with you mind to mind. Something that
can shape-shift, something that looks like an ape,
then looks like almost anything else. Something
that eats raw food like a regular primate, then
walks away without leaving any tracks.
Something that can move in 3D reality in a very
unconventional fashion. When they pass nearby,
it can even affect time. It's funny to me that
the simplest explanation is not the correct
explanation in this particular case. The correct
explanation is rather complicated and even, hah,
(don't laugh too hard) multi-dimensional. Or so
I think today, after along and sometimes ardous
journey. If you have enough direct experience and
good fortune and have contact with these beings,
you will eventually come around to my way of thinking.
Time is on my side.
I have been given many gifts by the bigfeet, the
biggest one was understanding of course. One
particular physical gift I was given in such a
way that I knew who gave it to me.
This particular gift was left behind a locked door,
and done so without unlocking it in a conventional
fashion. I even partially figured out what the gift
meant and symbolized.
I am under no illusion that my personal experiences
will ever rise to the level of "scientific proof".
I am also under no illusion that somehow my
"credibility" will carry the day and make
everyone believe me.
This too I find ironic, I am not irrational, I am
not particularly stupid, yet my personal experiences
fly in the face of almost everything that we "know"
is scientifically possible. Experience and proof
are two very different things, it is easy to
confuse them sometimes. Sometimes you just gotta
be true to yourself, and hope for the best. You
know what I mean?
At times ilke this I console myself with the fact that
"truth" has a way of out-lasting falsehoods,...
eventually, false assumptions wither on the vine,
given enough time, and given enough experience and
good fortune.
Science needs data. When the data is scarce, people
can hold onto extremest views, they can argue their
side of the story, who can prove them wrong? More
data... that's what we need. The ever elusive
concrete proof just around the corner.To me, the
most interesting questions needing more hard data
are these:
1) There is a footprint problem. Sometimes there
are too few footprints, sometimes the footprints are
deeper than they should be,sometimes they are
shallower than they should be. This is related
to a weight problem. The seeming inconsistancies
always get explained away, almost always without
any hard data. People talk about soil compression
and the depth that their boot makes in the same soil,
but no one really has any hard data about what
weight over what surface area compresses to what
depth. Everone assumes that they have to leave
footprints all the time, yet footprints are
seldom found in the proper numbers at
incident locations.
2) There is a location problem. Everyone who studies
enough knows where the hot areas are, we know where
the hot areas were. We all have our pet theories of
where they go, when they go there, where they live,
etc. etc. Sightings near population centers and
within urban areas are always explained away by some
nearby patch of wilderness. Some areas have had
sightings for hundreds of years, yet they are never
there when we go there, or if they are, we don't see
them but they let us know they are around with some
timely wood cracks or screams or footprints or
whatever.
Just how long will you have to be in the woods in
your "hot area" before you find out why you
couldn't find them and get a picture? I can't
even venture a guess. Maybe you won't find out.<
Bigfooters are a very stubborn breed. I really
am trying to give you a gift of truth, a hard
earned small piece of the puzzle... but few,
if any at all, will recognize it as such. Who can
blame you? Judging by the conversation on this board,
you all obviously have your critical faculties
relatively intact. It's ironic to me that to
comprehend what is going on with the bigfeet, one has
to realize that almost everying that one knows is wrong.
That's what makes this puzzle so hard to solve.
all the best folks.
I'll be waiting for you.
Brother Locust
(aka Henry F.)
Posted on Aug 17, 2003, 10:02 PM from IP address 63.228.145.51