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July 28, 2009 10:28 AM

As part of a post on a bachelor party visit to Bluff Creek, Cliff Barackman makes this key observation:

I’m calling them knocks, but I do not think these were the sounds of wood on wood .The pitch and timbre of the sounds remained constant the whole time. This would not be true if a sasquatch was beating on trees as it passed: each tree would sound at least a little different than the one before, and at least some of them would sound very different. This simply was not the case. I have often wondered how sasquatches can answer my own knocks so quickly. It takes some time to find an appropriate knocking stick, as well as a suitable tree to hit. So much time that sasquatches are clearly not going through this process.

I think they are clapping. That is not to say that they never hit sticks against trees. I think they do, but many times they are very likely clapping.

Other researchers have wondered about the wood knocking, but Cliff here has some good empirical evidence to back up his supposition. In the past I’ve not been very interested in recording wood knocks, but I can see what utility it had in this case.

But read Cliff’s whole post. Sounds like a great time was had by all out in classic bigfoot country.

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