Sunday, August 18, 2013

Smoky Mountain Research Update

Finally made it out to my research area this week. I've been wanting to see if anything had tampered with the gifting basket, teepee structure and rock arrangement. 
I was excited to find several things had occurred since my last visit. The first thing I noticed as I approached the area further convinces me that the Bigfoot are crossing through  here. Freshly trampled plant life and broken twigs show that something has been crossing the creek here.









The rock arrangement had definitely been tampered with. Every single one of the rocks has been moved in some way or another. There seems to be a pattern forming related to "threes". Several times I've found my arrangements "redone" where only three items are left or grouped together. Even at my home I've had this happen with the rocks I leave out close to my back door. 

This is how I left the rocks two weeks ago...




This is how I found the rocks this week. Notice the "three" pattern on the boulder and the other two rocks laying on the ground at the top of the picture...





Earlier this summer I found my seashell arrangement where one of the shells was knocked off the large rock and three left on top. 

One shell knocked off and three left on the large rock...





Are the Bigfoot telling me there are three of them visiting the gifting area or something else?

Also, something very interesting happened to the seashell arrangement this time. It's been a couple months since they knocked the fourth shell off the rock and I last rearranged them. Since that time the moss on the large rock has grown some around the shells and has started to "swallow" them up. This week  I noticed someone has picked one up the one furthest to the right and set it back down in the exact same place except the shell is turned in a different position! The shells have to be "pulled" out of the surrounding moss as it has grown to it and holds them in place. Someone was trying to be sneaky and examine one without me realizing it. 

Last trip...

 



This trip... Notice the shell furthest to the right.





The white gift basket I had hung from a limb was completely gone. I had left the basket with several items in it hanging from the limb by a rope about 7 feet off the ground.


How I left the basket two weeks ago...








This week...







There was one wrapper from a honey bun and the glow bracelet laying directly underneath where the basket had been, but no basket...anywhere. The wrapper didn't appear torn, but looked opened like a normal person had opened it by pulling it apart. Something with hands would have had to do this. How would an animal get the basket down that was tightly fastened to the rope? And if by chance somehow they were able to get it down, why would any animal take the basket with them? Doesn't it seem logical that once the basket was somehow brought to the ground the items would spill out? Wouldn't the animals just eat or take the spilt items and pay no attention to a white metal wire basket? Quite a few coincidences I'd say. 
I think I may keep my eye open for an empty basket to show back up for a refill. Lets hope so!
This has happened before at my home involving disappearing bird feeders that showed back up 4 months later. I'll write a out that experience later!

The stick structure overall didn't look disturbed although a couple of the limbs looked a little out of place.




Two weeks ago...






This week...




Strange things are happening in this location and it seems there is some type of communication going on here. I'll keep you posted...

Saturday, August 10, 2013

More Possible Activity At Home...

I know I've been posting a lot about the activity around our home and not much on the national park location, but things have really been active at the house lately. I plan on getting out to the park area tomorrow (Sunday Aug 11th) and hope to report on the findings asap.

Last night I tried another experiment. Before it got dark yesterday evening I borrowed the advice from a fellow researcher and made a "box" out of large river stones that I had laying around the house and left an unopened package of pop tarts inside. My goal was to make a "critter proof" enclosure to keep small animals such as raccoons and possums out.
I placed an "X" beside it to mark it as a gift. The fellow researcher suggested doing so due to reading that an X is a Native American symbol for "gift". He also said he has had good results in his area by using the X symbol. It is very interesting that two days in a row I have used the X symbol and have had results both days including finding a fresh footprint yesterday. I'm also not saying we don't have raccoons that can move 20lb rocks, but I had some interesting findings this morning....


Structure as I left it yesterday evening.
 

 
 
 
Rock pulled back to show Pop Tarts inside.

 
 
 
How I found it this morning, Pop Tarts gone.

 
 
Did a Bigfoot take the gift or did a Raccoon beat him to it? Either way very interesting and I thought it was worth posting.
 
 

Bigfoot Activity At Home-Footprint Found!

Had a couple of interesting things happen over the past 24 hours here at home. I put a few items out yesterday evening as usual and it seems we had a visitor overnight. My rock formation has not been touched for close to a week until last night. 

The rocks the way they've been for about a week...


The rocks this morning...


Then this afternoon when I got home I did my usual inspection of the yard and around the house. In the back corner of our yard under one of our trees is a 13" long and 6" wide footprint! It is aimed away from the house toward the woods. It appears it was made not too long before I got home from the way the clover is matted down. With the rain we've had today it would have sprung back up by now if it was made last night. 


Length is 13 inches...same length as the one I found only a few feet away from this spot last Christmas. 

Width is 6" at the ball of the foot.
My own ofoot measures 4" across and I wear a size 13 medium. 


The clover is freshly matted down.
The heel...

The toes...