Facebook/FindBigfoot Declares 2013 "Year of the Bigfoot"

Facebook Find Bigfoot Declares 2013 "Year of The Bigfoot"

“We want to celebrate 2013 as ‘The Year of Bigfoot’ to remind people that each video submitted helps our community to learn more about these amazing creatures.” --Facebook/FindBigfoot

In a presser released today (November 16, 2012) Facebook/FindBigfoot has announced higher quality and quantity of videos submitted to them during the last half of 2012. This has caused them to declare 2013 to be bigger and better. read the entire press release below.

Bigfoot Researchers Declare 2013 "The Year of the Bigfoot"Bigfoot researchers have noticed an increase in the quantity and quality of Bigfoot videos submitted to Facebook.com/FindBigfoot (FBFB). It's only a matter of time before this species is discovered. FBFB declares 2013 "The Year of the Bigfoot."

We want to celebrate 2013 as ‘The Year of Bigfoot’ to remind people that each video submitted helps our community to learn more about these amazing creatures.

Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) November 16, 2012

Chinese New Year will celebrate 2013 as the “Year of the Snake” while Facebook/FindBigfoot (FBFB), the social network with 30,000+ Bigfoot enthusiasts, declares 2013 “The Year of Bigfoot.”

The number of Bigfoot sightings in the second half of 2012 has created quite a buzz among FBFB Fans, including a new Bigfoot video that entered the FBFB’s "Top 50 Bigfoot Videos" list at #2 behind the famous Patterson/Gimlin footage.

“The Camper” video was recorded in September 2012 using a mobile phone and shows a Bigfoot near a tree eating food from the campsite. “What’s so amazing about this new video is how close the Bigfoot is to the camper’s tent,” said Jack Barnes, Chief Video Analyst for FBFB. “A Bigfoot usually maintains maximum distance from humans, but this one couldn’t have been more than 25 feet away.”

The team at FBFB is encouraged by the number of new videos submitted to their social network. They’re confident that somebody will eventually capture indisputable proof of a Bigfoot on video. “With all the mobile phones and video out there, we’ve seen a spike in the quantity and quality of Bigfoot submissions,” Barnes said. “We want to celebrate 2013 as ‘The Year of Bigfoot’ to remind people that each video submitted helps our community to learn more about these amazing creatures.” Soon FBFB will announce its nominees for "Bigfoot Researcher of the Year".

The FBFB community is a free social network for Bigfoot researchers and enthusiasts. The “Top 50 Bigfoot Videos” list is available for free viewing. Bigfoot enthusiast can also download FBFB’s book, "You Are Sasquatch" from Amazon.com.

SRC: PR Web

Mt. Hood Bigfoot Event Friday 16th and Saturday 17th

Friday, November 16th, 7:30 PM  Wy'east Event Series at The Resort at the Mountain presents Molly Gloss and Robert Michael Pyle WILD NIGHTS: A Wilderness Big Enough for BIGFOOT    Robert Michael Pyle, noted scientist and nature writer, spent a year in the Dark Divide of Washington State to research the possible existence of Sasquatch and recorded his journey in "Where Bigfoot Walks: The Dark Divide."      Molly Gloss, honored Oregon novelist, wrote passionately about the rugged and remote NW wilderness and speculated about the world of Bigfoot in remote Northwest forests in her imaginative novel "Wild Life."    Whether as a flesh-and-blood creature or as a shadow of our own fears and desires, Bigfoot walks in the Pacific Northwest. What is this alter ego, this legend, this animal? From both a biologist's and a writer's standpoints, Bob will bring Bigfoot alive for you. After setting the scene with visuals from the dramatic and mysterious land of the Dark Divide, he will share striking passages from his book and subsequent experiences that have kept Bigfoot alive and well in his own sensibility; and argue for a passionately open mind about that which we do not fully know.    What is the American "idea" of wilderness? How does our individual experience of wilderness shape our land ethic? Is Bigfoot, whether real or not, our ultimate metaphor for wilderness? Molly's talk, centered around her experiences while writing the novel Wild Life, looks not only at the meaning of wilderness and the human response to it, but the ways in which Western literature, having the wilderness experience at its center, explains and defines and acts upon American culture.    Tickets: $15.00 (under 12, $7.50) available for purchase exclusively at Wy'east Book Shoppe & Art Gallery (503-622-1623 or wyeast@wyeastonline.com)     Please note that the event will take place at The Resort at the Mountain in the Mallards Building (east side of Welches Road) in the 'Trees' Meeting room. We expect to sell out so get your tickets early!

Robert Michael Pyle      In the early 1990s, Pyle, a scientist with a Ph.D.  from Yale University, was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, which became the basis of his critically-acclaimed book, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide.     His trek through the wilderness of the Dark Divide uncovered a giant fossil footprint, brought him to Indians who told him of an outcast tribe whose members had not evolved fully into humans; and led him attend the Sasquatch Daze, where he met scientists, hunters, and crackpots who devote their lives to Bigfoot.     While he never saw Bigfoot, Pyle was told by the Army Corps of Engineers that the creature's existence was "not unlikely." Molly Gloss     The multi-award-winning author Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian, who was originally discovered by the great Ursula K. Le Guin. Her works have been selected for such honors as the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction (as a finalist), the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the H. L. Davis Oregon Book Award.     Her novel, Wild Life, set in 1905 in the mountains and woods of Washington State, features an outrageous early-twentieth century, cigar-smoking feminist who becomes lost in the woods while fleeing from a terrifying storm. Starving and desperate, she encounters a group of huge, hairy humanoids - gentle, shy, intelligent creatures who gradually accept her presence. She comes to share their terror of humans and the reason for that terror. Eventually, Charlotte returns home, her outlook profoundly altered.    Please note that this event will take place at The Resort at the Mountain in the Mallards Building (east side of Welches Road) in the 'Trees' Meeting room.    We expect to sell out so get your tickets early!

Saturday, November 17th, 10:00 - 3:00 Bigfoot Gathering Wy'east Event Series at The Resort at the Mountain        Come and meet with Bigfoot searchers and Field Researchers to learn more and to network and share information.    Talks and power point presentations from a number of field experts will take place during the day as follows.     At 11AM Thom Powell   (of ThomSquatch) who lives on the Clackamas River will speak about local reports and "Paradigm Shifts: What's new in Bigfoot Research"    At 1PM Chris Minniear of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization who will talk about the amazing February 2012 "London" track find south of Eugene and plans for an up-coming Expedition in the Coast Range.     At 2PM Todd Neiss   of Sandy who will speak about his 1993 encounter (three creatures were seen by Todd and several other individuals in the Oregon Coast Range) and current Bigfoot theories, an overview of expeditions and investigations. Todd is the founder of American Primate.    Guy Edward of Portland's Bigfoot Lunch Club will also be in attendance.    Informational displays (including track casts, books, etc.) and opportunities for interaction with experts, questions and networking will be provided for all attendees throughout the 10 AM - 3 PM  event at The Resort at the Mountain's main building in the Trees meeting room.     Admission is FREE for those who have tickets for the   Friday "Wild Nights" event but is $5.00 for all others. Tickets: $5.00 (under 12 with adult, FREE)  available for purchase exclusively at  Wy'east Book Shoppe & Art Gallery. Call 503-622-1623, visit in person (67195 E Highway 26) or email towyeast@wyeastonline.com

Cliff Barackman on Bigfoot Proof: It won't take long, a few years tops

Cliff Barackman during a recent visit to Springfield High School

"It won't take long, a few years tops, these things are real, and soon everyone is going to know about it." --Cliff Barckman, Finding Bigfoot co-host

Cliff Barackman, co-host of the TV show Finding Bigfoot,  seems to up the ante regarding the timeline for Bigfoot proof. At the risk of reading too much into the video, Barackman seems to talk with a confidence of an insider, as if he has knowledge privy only to a few. Click the following link to read our previous coverage of Cliff Barackman.

Watch the video below and read the companion article that follows.

'Bigfoots are real. The evidence shows it'By Chris Wright KVAL News with KVAL.com staff Published: Nov 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM PST Last Updated: Nov 15, 2012 at 6:58 AM PST

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - Bigfoot is no stranger to the Pacific Northwest: about a third of reported sasquatch sightings happen in Oregon and Washington.

The legend - or search - has gained new popularity from "Finding Bigfoot" on Animal Planet.

"It won't take long, a few years tops," Portland native and bigfoot hunter Cliff Barackman told a Springfield High School club. "These things are real, and soon everyone is going to know about it."

Barackman admits to a lifelong obsession with sasquatch, an obession he now gets to indulge by traveling the country with three other bigfoot experts in search of 'squatch.

He is used to dealing with skeptics, but during a recent visit to Springfield High School, barackman was preaching to the choir at the Sasquatch Brotherhood, a school club.

"It's like religion," said Austin Helfrich of the Sasquatch Brotherhood. "You try to spread religion. Sasquatch, you try to spread it around, and have other people start to believe in it. And it just spreads like wildfire."

"Finding Bigfoot" has helped fan the flames: 1.3o million people tuned in for the premiere of its third season.

"Certainly more people are becoming believers because of the show," Barackman said. "I don't encourage belief. I encourage weighing the evidence and coming to your own conclusion."

The Sasquatch Brotherhood's members have come to the conclusion that bigfoot is out there, and like many fellow enthusiasts, they feel there's a good chance he calls the Pacific Northwest home.
   
"Lots of forested areas, very wet, mostly lots of animals," Helfrich said. "I think it would be an easy location for sasquatches to live in."

Helfrich and his friends admit they get some odd looks from other students.

But the general public's skepticism doesn't seem to bother them - or Barackman. They are all convinced that sasquatch's days in the shadows are numbered.

"I don't have a PhD. I don't care what other people think of me," Barackman said. "Bigfoots are real. The evidence shows it."

SRC: KVAL News

EXTERNAL LINKS
Cliff Barackman's blog
Official Cliff Barackman Website