For over 60 years John Green of Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. has been collecting sighting reports, researching and publishing. Now John has made his entire database available online. It can be seen at:
http://www.sasquatchdatabase.com/
Thank you Mr. Green for your years of dedication and persistence in the field of sasquatch research.
It was a great experience to be on Coast to Coast AM with George Norry last night (Wednesday - October 7, 2009). In case you missed listening you can take out a subscription to listen to either live feeds or through archives.
I will be one of three guests on Wednesday October 7th, 2009  on
Coast to Coast AM with George Norry.Â
  
Pieces of evidence sometimes are found at the most unexpected times. Such was the case a year ago when my wife found small footprints in Idaho.
Our youngest son Eli was married on the 3rd of October 2009. It was an outside ceremony at the gazebo in Washington Park in Springfield, Illinois. As my wife and I were slowly walking up the sidewalk towards the gazebo she said “Look, footprints.” Again, as a year ago my response in disbelief was “Sure, who are you kidding?â€
My wife said “Look!” And sure enough there in the sidewalk which had been poured many a year ago were a set of little inch long raccoon tracks.
As I have stated before I have little interest in stick structures or arches. But when I came upon this one I had to stop and take a second look. This is near my home here in Central Illinois. Several years ago I found a single footprint a couple of hundred feet from this location.
On Thursday, the 13th of August 1009, I drove to Colorado to attend a group outing.
My friends had obtained some interesting recordings in mid July 2009 (see
Colorado Howl – Pt. 1) and had encouraged me to check out the area. I then spent the
night of the 4th of August, 2009 (see Colorado Howl – Pt. 2) on location and was
fortunate enough to also record some vocalizations.
My plan was to spend four nights on location with five other researcher friends. Present
on this outing were:
Photo Courtesy of Mark Taylor
front row – Mark Taylor and Todd Perteet
back row – David Petti, Carla Letendre, David Letendre and myself.
I arrived at sundown. Todd had the campfire roaring when I pulled in and we spent
the rest of evening in camp.
Night of 13th Aug – 14th Aug
There was a light rain. I left out my Marantz PMD 670 recorder (modified by Oade
Brothers Audio) and Todd was also recording with his Olympus DS50.
Nothing of note was recorded the first evening.
Part of the meadow.
Friday, the 14th – was spent around camp looking for good locations to leave out my
three recorders. Although it is impossible to know exactly where an animal is going
to position itself to vocalize the lay of the land can be a guide. Hopefully by using three
recorders I could determine at least an approximate area of where to drop off my
recorders and improve my chances of getting that elusive great recording. The rest of
researchers arrived during the late afternoon.
Basecamp.
At 10:30 in the morning we heard what sounded like howls coming from
approximately 300 yards due west of camp. The first series was about five howls and
the second set were about three howls. It is possible they could have been coyote but
they were to far away to determine. No recorders were running at the time and I doubt
very much that the recordings would have been of any value because of the distance
involved.
I placed out the following recorders.
The Sound Devices 722 recorder was placed in a small clump of trees on the east side of
the meadow. I wanted it to be at least far enough away from the campsite to not pick
up so much of the campfire noise and conversation. This was appoximately fifty yards
from camp.
Small clump of trees where the Sound Devices 722 recorder was located.
The Marantz 670 recorder was placed on top of a rocky knoll approximately 250 yards
southwest of camp. It was hoped that from this vantage point that sound could be
recorded from all directions. The Samson H-2 was kept at camp. The other researchers
also had their recorders placed either in or near the camp. In total seven recorders were
used.
Night of 14th Aug – 15th Aug
12:30 a.m.- We heard what sounded like a large tree falling about 100 yards due west
of camp. It was perfectly calm at the time. There was absolutely no wind. Almost
perfect recording conditions. It was quite unnerving to listen to what appeared to be a
very large tree falling in the night.
Click here to listen to sound clip:  Tree Falling  3
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02:12 a.m – The Colorado Howler started calling from an area about 200 yards due west of camp. A total of nine calls were heard. most of which exhibit a very unusual “hitch”, “catch” or anomaly which has not been demonstrated in any known coyote sound clips.
Click here to listen to sound clip: Â Colorado Howl 3
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03:18 a.m. – The coyotes start up their serenade. Nothing suspicisious is noted among
the many vocalizations.
http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/2009.08.15_03_722.mp3
http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/2009.08.15_03_670.mp3
http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/2009.08.15_03_H-2.mp3
http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/2009.08.15_03_DS50.mp3
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03:26 a.m – The coyotes again start up, but this time at the 36 sec mark you can now
hear the Colorado Howler adding in his calls.
Click here to listen to sound clip: Â Colorado Howl 4
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08:15 a.m – I was reluctant to pick my recorders up too early in the morning because
sounds have been collected at this site long after sunrise. I thought that after 8 in the
morning would be fine, as I was concerned to get all my batteries recharged for the next
nights recording session.
As I was picking my way through the woods and walking only 10 feet from my recorder
again the Colorado Howler started up again 200 yards due west of camp. It really
surprised me at first. I thought “how is my recorder playing back sounds”? Then I
realized where the sounds were coming from. I quickly tried to position myself to get
either a visual on the Colorado Howler or the coyotes.
Everything was lined up in a straight line. My recorder was due west of me about ten
feet, the coyotes were about 100 yards due west of me in the woods on the western
side of the meadow and then the Colorado Howler was about another 100 yards west
of the coyotes.
So what we have on this recording is the Colorado Howler starting up and the coyotes
joining up from a different position.
Click here to listen to sound clip: Â Colorado Howl 5
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Saturday, the 15th was spent in scouting out the local area.
I was unhappy with the recording from the top of a rocky knoll using the Marantz so I
moved it to about 200 yards due west of camp in a wooded draw. This is where the
Colorado Howler appeared to be calling from. Since we had others recording in camp I
moved my Samson H-2 to a position 166 yards due west of camp close to the same
wooded draw that the Marantz was located.
Although the Marantz 670 and Samson H-2 were only 150 feet apart I had a feeling that
the Colorado Howler was approaching the area from a pathway closer to the Samson H2.
It should be noted that both the Colorado Howler and the coyotes have been heard
from several postions. It is really a guess where the best location is for the recorders.
Night of 15th Aug – 16th Aug – nothing unusual was heard or recorded.
Sunday, the 16th
The evening was again spent around the campfire. Around 10:30 p.m. I got a very
intense feeling that I was being watched. Being a guy and not “into sharing my feelings”
I reluctantly shared with the others. No one else felt or noticed anything. The “felling”
passed in about 20 minutes. The last 5 years I have only had an “unusual feeling”
three times and two of those times was associated with someone else having a Class A
sighting.
Night of 16th Aug – 17th Aug
11:32 p.m – While everyone was sitting around the fire (ok, I was actually nodding-off)
the Colorado Howler started howling 200 yards due west of camp. My guess was close
to being accurate of where to place my two recorders.
The Colorado Howler was very persistant and in over five minutes howled somewhere
around fifty two times. The coyotes were never heard that night.
Click here to listen to sound clip: Â Colorado Howl 6
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Todd Perteet used his Olympus DAS50 recorder to record the howls while we were
sitting around the campfire and our short reaction and discussion to the sounds.
http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/2009.08.17_01_DS50.mp3
Monday, the 17th we all broke camp and slowly headed out of the area.
One of the small lakes in the area.
A big thank you to the Colorado researchers to allow me to tag along, enjoy the
gorgeous Colorado mountains and to share the experiences of recording and listening
to some great vocalizations.
Note – When listening to these sounds the four recorders were in different locations so
you can not compare quality between each recorder.
All photos taken by me unless otherwise noted.
All recordings are coded within the url as to which recorder was used.
670 were recorded with the Marantz (modified) 670 recorder.
722 were recorded with the Sound Devices 722 recorder
H2 were recorded with the Samson H2 recorder
DS50 were recorded by Todd Perteet using the Olympus DS50.
These recordings were obtained by me in the primary research area of David Petti in the mountains of beautiful Colorado.
Monday the 3rd of August 2009 I camped in the mountains of Colorado. This is a very remote research site. Texas BFRO Investigator Sybilla Irwin and two companions (including David Petti) had camped here in mid-July. Sybilla had recorded some unusual vocals and encouraged me to check out the area. Her recordings and report can be found at Colorado Howl – Pt. 1. Also in the report be sure to read about the sound analysis done on these recordings by DB Donlon, The Blogsquatcher.
I arrived at about 5 p.m. and surveyed where I would place my two recorders. I was very fortunate to get these recordings because my one batteries only lasted 8 1/2 hrs and these recording were made at 7 hrs and 7 1/2 hrs into the night at 3 and 3:30 a.m.
I placed the Samson H-2 on a small rocky knoll behind the campsite and I placed the microphone for the Marantz 670 on my outside car mirror.
When the first vocal started off it woke me up . I listened for about 10 seconds and fell back to sleep. I could have placed the recorder further out but then if something was at my car I wouldn’t have been able to record it.
Click here to listen to sound clip:Â Â Colorado Howl 1
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First vocalization was at 3 a.m. I woke up and listened for a few moments. It appeared to be about a 1/4 of a mile away.
Click here to listen to sound clip: Â Colorado Howl 2
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The second recording a half hour later appears to be further away, was a 3:30 a.m. This sound was far enough in the distance that I did not wake up.
The third recording was of a coyote that was only about 150 feet from my car.
Click here to listen to sound clip: Â Coyote Vocalization was at 5 a.m. and only the H-2 had battery life left.
from DB Donlon:
I’ve listened to your clearest recording at the same location. That creature does seem to be more canine in it’s tone and certainly in it’s bark-like vocalizations, but it shows the same oddness with the non-harmonic frequency peaks.
I also tested the coyote that you recorded. One thing I note is that with the coyote, there is no non-harmonic frequency peak. I also note that as the calls go on, the coyote’s frequencies stay stable in relation to each other, while there is movement in the frequency peaks with the suspect call. I’m not an expert, but this would lead me to believe that the suspect call is not a coyote.
Here are some pictures — note that picture #5 (the 2nd here) is at a resolution of 22kHz so that you can see the regular arrangement of the coyote call easier, while picture #6 is rendered at 5kHz to match the pictures I sent to you earlier. Pic #4 is at 5kHz too. For picture #7 I went back and rendered at 22kHz to match the first pic of the coyote call. They do look similar until you start moving the cursor, then you see that the coyote call stays pretty stable, while the suspect call goes all over the place, with frequency peaks disappearing and appearing here and there. It’s odd.
Another quick follow up — note that in the coyote call, the fundamental is the highest peak. This is what I’ve been led to expect by my reading. But in our suspect calls, the dominant note moves around and is never the fundamental. I think this has to be a key characteristic so it’s worth remembering and studying some more.
Anyway, the pics:
Picture 4
Picture 5
Picture 6
Picture 7
The follwing recordings and report submitted by Texas BFRO Investigator Sybilla Irwin
Colorado Recordings by Texas BFRO Investigator Sybilla Irwin: July, 2009
Dave Petti, BFRO Colorado, invited me and another Colorado BFRO investigator to visit his primary research area this summer. We arrived in the research area at 2:30 PM and spent the afternoon setting up our camp, gathering firewood and exploring the area east of our camp. We were acting like regular campers, we did not do anything unusual to provoke or arouse interest.
I began recording at 8:00 PM. We lit our campfire forty five minutes later, just before dark, and were enjoying the beautiful silence of this remote location when abruptly the first vocalization began.
First Vocalization occurred at 9:50 PM Tuesday. An unknown animal vocalized 8 times from an approximate distance of 1/3 a mile west of base camp. All remained quiet for the minutes immediately after these vocals.
Second vocalization occurred ten minutes later at 10:00 PM from a location of approximately 150 to 200 yards south of our camp, across a meadow. A lone coyote began the vocals and was answered by the unknown animal, which had apparently moved within ¼ mile of our camp location. The coyote and the unknown continued to vocalize back and forth to each other as the coyote crossed the meadow moving west.  The participants seemingly met, and then everything went silent.
Dave Petti arrived in the research area Thursday at 6:30PM and experienced these morning vocalizations.
Third Vocalization occurred at 8:45 AM Friday. Unknown animal begins vocals then is answered by coyotes. It is the same vocal pattern experienced at night. Unfortunately a jet airplane interrupts this recording.
Fourth Vocalization occurred at 5:55 AM Saturday. Unknown animal begins vocals, there is a pause, a second unknown vocalization then the coyotes join in. Identical vocal patterns experienced on all recordings.
from Stan Courtney
I was recently on the 2009 Colorado BFRO Expedition with Sybilla Irwin. She was excited about some sounds she had recently recorded and wanted my opinion. When I listened to them I was immediately struck by the fact that they reminded me of the Illinois Howl in the fact that the harmonics seemed strange. When I returned home I sent the sound clips to DB Donlon, The Blogsquatcher and asked him to do a sound analysis.
I just checked the file with no coyotes in it. It does exhibit the feature that I find interesting in suspected sasquatch calls. Note that I don’t know that this isn’t something coyotes do, but it is odd that we don’t get recordings of coyotes clearly doing this when we know that they are coyotes. I’ll attach some pictures and if you look at the third window, with the frequency spikes, you’ll see that at the beginnings of the calls there’s an extra frequency in the call that is not related to the fundamental.
I know that coyotes and wolves can make a sound very like this, but in those cases, the extra frequencies are produced at a fraction of the fundamental (1/2 the value of the fundamental, I’m pretty sure.) So this is something different from that and so far I’ve not run across anyone who talks about this non-harmonic frequency spike in canine calls.
So to the pics:
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Squatchers are want to try different methods to attract squatches. On Saturday evening, the 11th of July 2009, a friend of mine, boogman (his username on the bigfoot forums) and his girlfriend Nikki accompanied me on a short hike through my “Main Research Box” here in Central Illinois.
Boogman is accomplished at throat singing as well as the Jew’s harp. Nikki also used her beautiful voice as an attempt to entice a squatch to make a visit.
Click here to listen to a recording of: Throat Singing and the Jew’s Harp.
Nothing unusual was seen. We did hear branch breaking, lots of movement and footfalls but perhaps it was just deer or raccoons.
The beast from Bluff Creek…………………The beast from The Book Of Revelations 13:1-10
