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Bigfoot Observer's Field Manual: A Practical and Easy-To-Follow, Step-By-Step Guide to Your Very Own Face-To-Face Encounter with a Legend
Robert W. Morgan is one of the first persons to seriously investigate and research the mystery known as Sasquatch, or Bigfoot. Robert has spent many years conducting active Bigfoot field research, and he has amassed a considerable amount of knowledge and wisdom.
This book is for serious people wanting a face-to-face encounter with a legend. Robert gives the reader a step-by-step guide to follow.
This book is for serious people wanting a face-to-face encounter with a legend. Robert gives the reader a step-by-step guide to follow.
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136 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2008
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January 25, 2022
This fun little book isn't for everyone, but I loved it! It gave me some great new ideas for my novel about Bigfoot, and I loved this new (to me) nature-centric take on sasquatch research. I only wish it had been longer to include more instruction and stories. Can't wait to put this quirky little book on my shelf.
April 9, 2013
Wow. This book will help you meet a Bigfoot but its for hardcore Squatchers, as it suggests extended camping trips into the woods, while I was hoping for something more like a short day-hike and a secret knock.
July 1, 2023
This book starts in an unconventional way, with a quote from a prominently pictured Native American elder who acknowledges the author as his adopted son and calls him by an American Indian name after having expressed skepticism about conventional wisdom, religion, and mainstream science on the matter of the creature we call Bigfoot and he calls the yampirico.
A table of several different American Indian names, in several different indigenous languages is included to show that the languages and cultures of many different Native American tribes admitted of the concept of the Bigfoot, and some gave it a similar-sounding name. I admire his deference to the fact that the Native Americans had an extensive folklore concerning Bigfoot, and he implies that there had to be something behind the folklore for so many tribes to have had the concept and the name for the creature. He has coined a new name for them himself; he calls them Forest Giants throughout the book. The world of the whites dismissed the idea of Bigfoot at worst and treated it superficially at best as they dismissed a lot of other Native American knowledge not considering what the Native Americans said of the characteristics and behavior of Bigfoot as worthy of inclusion in the corpus of scientific knowledge.
While there are a few examples of accounts of Bigfoot sightings included in the book, it is in larger part a guide for the curious who hope to see one. Apparently, the creature is skittish, easily scared, curious about humans' possessions but not a thief, and highly intelligent. Curiosity is something both types of hominids hold in common and the key to getting a chance to see one is to establish oneself deep in the woods in a quiet campsite with objects of interest in plain sight, and to be seen to be engaged in some interesting endeavor, such as collecting specimens and peering at them through a microscope. He never said whether he has successfully attracted any Bigfeet to his camp, but describes in detail what they would be likely to do if they get there.
Knowing when one or more in proximity is a help to the goal of seeing one. Morgan notes that it is helpful to become familiar with the bird calls of the species of birds in the area you are exploring, because he has a theory that "Forest Giants" may imitate the calls of other birds and animals to communicate between themselves over distances, and that Native Americans did it for centuries. (p. 66.) Indeed one of the people involved in one of the Bigfoot encounters to which there was at least one other witness was none other than Roger Tory Peterson, who confirmed that something at the very least highly unusual was going on, when he heard the distinctive call of the snowy owl...in the Florida Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. (pp. 72-73.)
One of the few public figures who was not immediately dismissive of the idea that the tribe of Bigfoot could be living in the forests of the New World was the late Lorraine Warren, lecturer on the paranormal. She characterized Bigfoot as a "tulpa", a being who primarily exists in another dimension, but who is nevertheless seen in this one. Morgan's manual treats of Bigfoot as a much more corporeal creature who leaves behind not just the epynonymous foot prints, but odor, feces, and hair; the last two to be approached with professional specimens collection techniques which he describes. (pp. 78-79.)
Does Bigfoot exist? Though some people and much of mainstream science says no, scientists themselves are divided on the issue. And the Forest Giants are hidden deep among the trees, enjoying their privacy and having a good laugh at the rest of us, for like the Devil, their greatest trick is in convincing people that they don't exist.
A table of several different American Indian names, in several different indigenous languages is included to show that the languages and cultures of many different Native American tribes admitted of the concept of the Bigfoot, and some gave it a similar-sounding name. I admire his deference to the fact that the Native Americans had an extensive folklore concerning Bigfoot, and he implies that there had to be something behind the folklore for so many tribes to have had the concept and the name for the creature. He has coined a new name for them himself; he calls them Forest Giants throughout the book. The world of the whites dismissed the idea of Bigfoot at worst and treated it superficially at best as they dismissed a lot of other Native American knowledge not considering what the Native Americans said of the characteristics and behavior of Bigfoot as worthy of inclusion in the corpus of scientific knowledge.
While there are a few examples of accounts of Bigfoot sightings included in the book, it is in larger part a guide for the curious who hope to see one. Apparently, the creature is skittish, easily scared, curious about humans' possessions but not a thief, and highly intelligent. Curiosity is something both types of hominids hold in common and the key to getting a chance to see one is to establish oneself deep in the woods in a quiet campsite with objects of interest in plain sight, and to be seen to be engaged in some interesting endeavor, such as collecting specimens and peering at them through a microscope. He never said whether he has successfully attracted any Bigfeet to his camp, but describes in detail what they would be likely to do if they get there.
Knowing when one or more in proximity is a help to the goal of seeing one. Morgan notes that it is helpful to become familiar with the bird calls of the species of birds in the area you are exploring, because he has a theory that "Forest Giants" may imitate the calls of other birds and animals to communicate between themselves over distances, and that Native Americans did it for centuries. (p. 66.) Indeed one of the people involved in one of the Bigfoot encounters to which there was at least one other witness was none other than Roger Tory Peterson, who confirmed that something at the very least highly unusual was going on, when he heard the distinctive call of the snowy owl...in the Florida Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. (pp. 72-73.)
One of the few public figures who was not immediately dismissive of the idea that the tribe of Bigfoot could be living in the forests of the New World was the late Lorraine Warren, lecturer on the paranormal. She characterized Bigfoot as a "tulpa", a being who primarily exists in another dimension, but who is nevertheless seen in this one. Morgan's manual treats of Bigfoot as a much more corporeal creature who leaves behind not just the epynonymous foot prints, but odor, feces, and hair; the last two to be approached with professional specimens collection techniques which he describes. (pp. 78-79.)
Does Bigfoot exist? Though some people and much of mainstream science says no, scientists themselves are divided on the issue. And the Forest Giants are hidden deep among the trees, enjoying their privacy and having a good laugh at the rest of us, for like the Devil, their greatest trick is in convincing people that they don't exist.
November 29, 2023
Only partially a manual. It's a pretty short read, but the actual field guide is maybe a third of the book, if that. Of that third, most of it is pretty standard outdoorsman survival and campsite preparation. Basic stuff learned in Boy Scouts. A small part of it is actually instruction on how to attract and interact with what he believes Bigfoots to be.
The other 2/3 of the book is anecdotal stories meant to emphasize how he's used some of the various techniques in the past to his success. Some of these were entertaining, but a lot of them had a snarky type of humor to them that didn't quite land with me.
While I agree with his view that Bigfoots are more than big, dumb apes, I tend to see them more as a forest spirit than a forest creature. So, a lot of his approaches to attracting them may still work, but his comments towards the more gregarious bigfoot finders kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
The other 2/3 of the book is anecdotal stories meant to emphasize how he's used some of the various techniques in the past to his success. Some of these were entertaining, but a lot of them had a snarky type of humor to them that didn't quite land with me.
While I agree with his view that Bigfoots are more than big, dumb apes, I tend to see them more as a forest spirit than a forest creature. So, a lot of his approaches to attracting them may still work, but his comments towards the more gregarious bigfoot finders kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
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