MABRC Memorial Day 2016 Expedition

Sawdustt at Bikini Bottom Research Area.

The Bigfoot Field Guide proudly presents the MABRC 2016 Memorial Day Expedition, as edited by Mark "Sawdustt" Newbill.  The BFG blog appreciates all of Mark's hard work putting this together for the Bigfoot Field Guide.

Thermal Footage from Oklahoma

Courtesy of the MABRC

During the last part of 2013 in Oklahoma, 2 different researchers, two weeks apart, in the same location, caught something on their thermals that sat for a long period of time watching their camps.

While the researchers are adamant that this could be a "possible" Bigfoot, it is very interesting footage from the same location, 2 weeks apart, by 2 different researchers.

The first three videos were taken by Driveroperator on November 15, 2013, by mounting his thermal on a pole above his vehicle during the night while he slept in his tent.  It shows a heat signature staying basically in the exact location for nearly 30 minutes watching from behind a creekbed behind his tent.










The next video was taken by Darkwing, who had mounted a thermal on a pole sticking up from his vehicle, and in the video, he does pan around the camera to see if he can spot any other heat signatures coming up towards him from other directions.  The heat signature maintains it's position in a creek bed about 50 feet away from the creek bed that Driveroperator's heat signature was seen in.  It continues to maintain it's position even when a large deer walks behind it at a distance of around 40 to 50 feet.  Only when the deer comes back through, does the heat signature lower itself, and proceeds to disappear, perhaps to go hunt the deer.



One of the lessons to note here, is that Bigfoot appear to tend to move the same way at night as they do during the day, using cover to move around to mask their approach.  Once they get a position where they feel they are safe, they will maintain it and watch from it.  After years of watching the woods with thermals, the two researchers involved have noted that all other animals in the woods continue to move around, except when they bed down.  This heat signature maintains it's position behind the creek bed the entire time, moving only enough to show that it is definitely not a rock or other inanimate object that had absorbed heat throughout the day and continued on into the night reflecting heat.

It's up to the reader though to decide for yourself what it is in the videos.

Planning and Executing a MABRC Expedition

D.W. "Darkwing" Lee has been asked by a lot of folks how he goes about planning expeditions for the MABRC, so that they can have an idea how to plan their own, for themselves or other groups.  This is the template that is used for planning each expedition the MABRC conducts.

The Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center has a long history of field expeditions throughout the country and has established protocols and procedures that must be observed for any MABRC-sponsored field expedition.

To begin with, the MABRC member who wants to hold the expedition must be aware that they will be the expedition leader unless they request specifically for someone else to assume that position. In this event, if they have not underwent the MABRC Leadership training course, they will need to complete this before leading the expedition.

Once the member decides they want to hold an expedition, they need to post in the MABRC Members area in the Expedition Planning section, This will be to see if there is enough general interest in other members who can attend the expedition.

Once this is established, the member must begin putting together the necessary Expedition Briefing Summary that will provide the following information for participants.

* Summary of the area

* Summary of the objective

* Sunrise/set data

* Moonrise/set data

* Moon phase data

* Weather outlook, must be updated starting 10 days prior to the expedition from weather.com and must be posted on the forum thread for the expedition planning.

* Site selection

* Background information for area, including any suspected Bigfoot activity.

* Topo maps/aerial photos of the target area.

* Primary objectives

* Secondary objectives

* Standby objectives

* Personnel requirements/skill sets needed along with role determinations for participants.

* Equipment requirements

* Expedition rules/land-owner rules.

Once this briefing is prepared, copies should be forwarded to the State Director (if the state has one) or the Regional Director (if there is one) or the Executive Director. This is to keep the Advisory Council in the loop.

The Advisory Council will then review the Expedition Briefing Summary and make recommendations if needed.

The thread will be maintained in the MABRC Members area for the planning and distribution of information for participants, and as the plans are finalized, contact information, meeting places and other detailed information will then be disseminated through to the members of the expedition through this thread. 

Weather updates should begin being posted a minimum of ten (10) days before the expedition start.

Costs such as camping fees, food fees, access fees, etc. should also be noted ahead of time so that attending members can be prepared to absorb any costs associated with the expedition.
During the expedition, two key positions must be assigned. The expedition leader and the assistant expedition leader. Both will be designated to speak to local authorities, local residents and the media should they present themselves onsite at the expedition location.

Once the expedition is in gear, the expedition leader needs to insure that members follow the expedition rules and procedures while in the field. The leader will also be responsible for the well being of his expedition team. The main creed for the MABRC during an expedition should always be “Never leave a man behind.”

Upon the completion of the MABRC Expedition, an Expedition Debriefing thread will be established in the MABRC Members area of the forum in which the participants can post their thoughts, experiences, evidence and other related information pertaining to the expedition. After this is completed, the information may be sanitized for location, and other relevant information and the report posted on the public side of the forum. This is to insure that the location is not given away to individuals who may attempt to disrupt further research in that area in the future.

All evidence collected by MABRC Researchers belong to them, however, it is requested that the MABRC Members as a whole have a chance to view the evidence too.

Oklahoma Juvenile Photo November 2011

Courtesy of the MABRC

In November 2011, the Western Oklahoma MABRC Team decided to have an expedition in the Southeastern corner of Oklahoma, with the blessing of the Eastern Oklahoma State Director, all was in place for the expedition to be held at Broken Bow Lake just north of Idabel.

On Saturday, November 12th, 4 of the researchers, Biggjimm, CompresserMike, Squatchfinder and Darkwing headed out for the Three Rivers Wildlife are to check out the first reported Bigfoot sighting in the state from the 1800s.

Biggjimm and CompressorMike are looking at the information center before we entered the area.

Squatchfinder and Darkwing following CompressorMike and Biggjimm into the area.

Truly a Bigfoot haven, this is how it looked most of the time in the area.

This is an access trail that seemed to be used by the local wildlife, there wasn't no sign of 4 wheelers used on it.

One of the dried up waterfowl areas as seen from the viewing platform.

Biggjimm and Squatchfinder looking for tracks.

The Marker

They reached the end of the driveable road into the area and got out to look around. CompressorMike set off down a trail to check it out while Biggjimm, Squatchfinder and Darkwing took a look at a large tree that had a huge number of wild grape vines over it, making it look huge. They also noticed that a large number of hogs had been churning up the area. As Darkwing left Biggjimm and Squatchfinder behind to look at the hog scrapings, he ran right into a marker, not more than 30 feet from the road area.

Upon examining it, and concluded there was not really any way for it to have occurred naturally. He took pictures to show what gave him that impression.

Darkwing then decided to walk down and check on CompressorMike since he had been gone for a while down the trail, and while he was gone, Biggjimm and Squatchfinder had found a track, not more than 10 feet or less from the marker. They began casting it. Darkwing walked for what seemed like nearly a mile to him, and stopped to look at the river. He found several areas where the local alligators had been sunning themselves and sliding into the water, but thankfully, it was cold enough that they were all in the dens. 

Alligator sunning area

Several slide areas for alligators

CompressorMike then walked by and him and Darkwing started heading back. When they got back to the vehicles, Biggjimm and Squatchfinder was waiting for them. They were letting the cast dry. The decision was made that they would return later that night to camp here and research, so they would leave the cast there to dry and pick it up when they returned. 

As they began to leave, Darkwing glanced up the trail and seen movement, so he asked Dave to look up the trail and he seen movement too. CompressorMike and Biggjimm were already turning around when Darkwing got their attention. Darkwing and Squatchfinder told them something was moving down the trail. Biggjimm and CompressorMike then got out and looked down the trail and seen it too. CompressorMike sat down with binoculars and watched it for well over 5 minutes before it finally moved. In this time frame, Darkwing took a series of 2 pictures of the area with his Iphone. Right after Darkwing did that, Biggjimm took a picture when a large figure stood up and peered over the vegetation. They stayed there for about 10-15 minutes watching, and finally decided that even though they wanted to go see it up close, if they came back later that night, if they wanted them to get close enough to use the thermal, they couldn't scare them off. So they headed back. 

Upon later discussing the incident, it was discovered that while CompresserMike was looking at a Bigfoot one side of the trail, Biggjimm was watching another one on the opposite side of the trail along with Darkwing.  Squatchfinder however noticed the juvenile Bigfoot that crossed from one adult to the other across the trail.  Upon looking at the photos taken by Darkwing, it was confirmed what Squatchfinder had seen, a young juvenile in 4X4 mode appeared to be crossing the trail.

Here is the pictures Darkwing took.

The first picture where the juvenile is going across the trail towards the bushes. It has magnified it so everyone can see. It was very noticeable on the iphone screen

This is the second picture which shows the juvenile almost in the underbrush, it is moving sideways in 4x4 mode, like a gorilla.

What you will see, is a very young juvenile going across the trail in 4X4 mode, trying to keep up with the bigger Bigfoot behind the bushes. The juvenile is so young that it apparently didn't know better than to cross in the open to keep up with Mommy or Daddy. The two pictures are taken a few seconds apart, and clearly shows the juvenile moving into the underbrush where Biggjimm and CompressorMike seen the adult's head pop up above the bushes just seconds later.

Here are the two pictures taken by Biggjimm for comparison with Darkwing's photos, notice the absence of the Juvenile crossing the trail, confirming something had been there previously from Darkwing's photos.

Based on the photos and the actual spotting of the juvenile by Squatchfinder, the MABRC speculated that this is a juvenile Bigfoot, not more than just a baby, going across the trail from one parent to the other.

The MABRC members were unable to go back in there that night due to a Federal Wildlife Ranger stopping them on the way out and telling them that the area was day use only, and that they would face heavy fines if found in there after dark.