National Sighting Report Database

Courtesy of the MABRC

One little known feature that the MABRC has maintained for quite a few years is their National Sightings Database, in which they have taken sighting reports from all the sources that they can locate, and placed them in an easy to use format, with search capability.  Some of the main locations that reports were pulled from include but not limited to:

(BFRO) Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization
(GCBRO) Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization
(TBRC) Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy
(NAWAC) North American Woodape Conservancy
(OBF) Oregon Bigfoot 
(IBS) International Bigfoot Society
(BFE) Bigfoot Encounters

Books like the Bigfoot Casebook are also searched for sighting reports and placed on the forums in the database.  And the late John Green's sighting reports database is being added too.  The MABRC also has a presentation that explains the need for folks to turn in sighting reports, and they were generous enough to give us permission to post it here.

Original Texas Bigfoot Conference 2016

Check it out folks!!!

Boggy Creek Festival 2016 News

From Lyle Blackburn

To answer the questions about this year's "Boggy Creek Festival" -- as far as I know, there is no festival happening this year. The past organizer tried to move it to Texarkana (??), or that's what I've been told, which I don't think is happening either. If there's some other incarnation going on, I have been excluded. Regardless, I will be working with officials and townsfolk in Fouke to resume or create a new event, organized by me, for 2017. This will be designed to benefit the town, which was my goal in the first place by donating my time to the previous year's events. So bare with me as I work to continue the tradition in the future.

"Paranormal" sighting reports?

In 2015, MABRC Senior Field Researcher Jim "Biggjimm" Whitehead did an analysis of as many paranormal sites as he could locate online for possible misidentifications on reports turned into those sites.

What he discovered was that an amazing number of reports being turned in were more than likely due to Bigfoot activity.  So far, he has completed Oklahoma, and plans on doing all 50 states.  Here is the sighting report map he put together.

And as an added bonus, we also present his 2015 Oklahoma Bigfoot Symposium presentation where he discusses this analysis that he did.

What is Evidence?

Courtesy of the MABRC

This is a presentation that D.W. "Darkwing" Lee gave at the 2015 Arkansas Bigfoot Conference that was hosted by APES.  In it, he presented what is evidence and how it helps Bigfoot research progress.