[krenerr]

Last year I came across some videos on Youtube talking about bent trees and tree-breaks and how they might be associated with the Sasquatch. Interesting, I thought, but I paid little attention to it. Until a few months ago....

I was in the Sooke hills (lower Vancouver island, British Columbia - Canada) climbing a mountain when I literally stumbled upon a large tree bend over in an arch. It was a totally deliberate manipulation of the tree. The top had been braced by two logs to form a triangle. The top had grown into the sod and come up again a few feet away. In the centre of the buried part, a young pine sapling was growing. All around the are almost in a complete circle were fallen, broken trees.

Some logs had been woven through several tree boughs. I wondered if it could be a First Nations practice? I found some information on bent trees as markers by the first nations peoples. Apparently they would tie a sapling down to make it grow in the horizontal direction that they wanted it to go, then afterwards release it and let it grow normally. This would form a "z" shape and was done on large growth trees (like birch etc). Typically this practice was done in the eastern prairies to mark path and waypoints. What I found is quite different. It looked like the site had been created many, many years ago.

When I first saw the site, I tried to dismiss it as a weather related phenomena. After examining the site further, I cannot believe that the whole was NOT fabricated by intelligent design. The site is almost symmetrical in it's layout and everything about it smacks of a opposable thumb. There dead trees place in a wide circle around the arch as well as a log or two weaved in and out of multiple trees. My understanding from watching other vids, is that the sites serve as waypoints, or directional/territorial markers.

1. I believe the structure is intelligent design. If for no other reason but the perfect span, lack of rot or breakage and the two other trees placed on top in formation to hold it down. It all looks too manufactured to be natural.

2. I also do not think that it is natural due to the lack of inclement weather in this area. Snow it a novelty here and the trees are still solid and rot free.

3. I feel they could be sasquatch related due to others attestations on websites and youtube. I have seen no evidence for sasquatch activity per se. I feel that the evidence for it being intelligent/natural made seems to point it towards the sasquatch option in my opinion only.

I was up at the site two weeks ago and was noticing that the arch runs exactly W-E along with many other fallen branches. Interestingly, many also point exactly N-S. The directions many of these trees lay seem to lead to two separate trails some ways away (one running North, one running East. I know this seems to maybe tip things towards "man". I just don't see the site as something man-made....not entirely scientific I guess, but I am leaving the possibilities open for now! Take a look at the pics I posted and you should be able to get an idea of what I am talking about.

Strange Tree Formations

You can see some other examples of tree arches on youtube if you search for "bigfoot trees". Has anyone encountered any similar tree formations?

Peace.

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[GypsyWolf]

I have heard of bigfoot/Sasquatch making markers on a trail much a bear does. I can honestly understand this practice as a form of navigation and/or territorial marking. However I am not sure I see quite what you're seeing here. I am seeing a lot of bent trees and logs that could possibly have been blown askew in a storm? You said inclement weather was rare in said location but that does not mean non existent. I have seen several of these myself in the NC hills that were result of logging -- it was simply left behind. Of course this may not be the case here and does not explain the bent over tree. That was a bit odd.. I have been studying bigfoot way too much lately, bored I guess. I am determined to prove or disprove him-- I think there is a bigfoot but as to wheter or not this is his doing, I am highly skeptical. Did you see anything int he area to make you think there was a bigfoot around? Foot prints? Sounds? hair stuck to a tree?

[psyche101]

I would go for older campsites, settlements before Biff. A good scratch around could offer some interesting artifacts.

What would a Biff do with a bent tree? Are you suggesting he would use it as markers?

[psyche101]

GOT IT!!

[supervike]

OMG....Bigfoot has entered the dark ages!

[Ell]

krenerr, on 16 September 2009 - 06:05 AM, said:

Has anyone encountered any similar tree formations?

Seems to me to have been human activity. Perhaps children playing.

[Agent. Mulder]

Ell, on 16 September 2009 - 03:56 PM, said:

Seems to me to have been human activity. Perhaps children playing.

if the kids like to climb up mountains alone and play in the woods i guess.

[Drago]

Okay, I'm not here to rattle any specific poster's cage, but I do feel I should point this out:

Don't automatically assume Bigfoot did something just because you're out in the woods. A lot of so-called Bigfoot encounters that get reported are just silly - someone heard a 'weird animal sound' in the woods and thought it HAD to be Bigfoot, or they heard a 'weird wood-banging sound' and thought it HAD to be Bigfoot.
If you actually see Bigfoot doing these things to the trees, then you can assume Bigfoot is responsible. Until then, go with the simplest answer. In this case there are a lot of much simpler possibilities than "An unknown North American giant ape is practicing horticulture."

Tree arches have nothing to do with Bigfoot. They are very common in the aftermath of logging, and they can also happen naturally - during periods of high rain, the soil becomes soft, and a heavy enough tree that didn't grow straight can actually become unbalanced and pull free of the dirt enough to lean over considerably, at which point its own weight causes it to bend into an arch.

Remember, if you're there, other people have been there too, and they're a much more likely source for something that looks deliberate than an eight foot tall ape that has yet to be validated scientifically.

(And as an aside, I laugh my *** off at these people who think 'call blasting' for Bigfoot is a good idea just because somebody heard a coyote making one of the many incredibly odd noises they're capable of making, and said 'Ooh, Bigfoot!' Blasting ape calls into a forest hoping some Bigfoot randomly decides to react to the sounds of a totally alien form of ape is, well... Short-bus logic.)

[JonathanVonErich]

I hope one day we'll have the answer on Bigfoot...it's so important to know if he exist or not...i hope i will know before i die....

[bigtroutak]

Drago, on 16 September 2009 - 08:38 AM, said:

(And as an aside, I laugh my *** off at these people who think 'call blasting' for Bigfoot is a good idea just because somebody heard a coyote making one of the many incredibly odd noises they're capable of making, and said 'Ooh, Bigfoot!' Blasting ape calls into a forest hoping some Bigfoot randomly decides to react to the sounds of a totally alien form of ape is, well... Short-bus logic.)

LMAO that drives me NUTS!!! These people go out searching for an elusive creature then they do stupid crap like blasting noises and scents throughout the woods then wonder why nothing shows up! I would just once LOVE to see a serious hunter go on a serious expedition to try and find one of these things, instead of these morons we get on TV.

[Tarmac_Chris]

bigtroutak, on 16 September 2009 - 11:22 PM, said:

LMAO that drives me NUTS!!! These people go out searching for an elusive creature then they do stupid crap like blasting noises and scents throughout the woods then wonder why nothing shows up! I would just once LOVE to see a serious hunter go on a serious expedition to try and find one of these things, instead of these morons we get on TV.

FINALLY! Someone that doesn't think this is a solid plan! It frustrates me no end, when you see a very high tech, well trained, well mobilised team go into the woods. Then spend the night at basecamp blasting chimp calls so the entire forest can hear?!

If I were a Bigfoot and heard a call coming from a speaker, I would almost certainly head in the opposite direction wondering why they always make it so easy to hear them come.

Also, how do we know we're not projecting a WARNING call over the distance? It might just end up sending them scarpering anyway.

[psyche101]

bigtroutak, on 17 September 2009 - 08:22 AM, said:

LMAO that drives me NUTS!!! These people go out searching for an elusive creature then they do stupid crap like blasting noises and scents throughout the woods then wonder why nothing shows up! I would just once LOVE to see a serious hunter go on a serious expedition to try and find one of these things, instead of these morons we get on TV.

Thought you might find this interesting.

Bigfoot trap

What is believed to be the world's only Bigfoot trap is located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California state border. It was designed to capture a Bigfoot (or Sasquatch), the legendary hominid that is said to live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
The trap was built in 1974 by the North American Wildlife Research Team (NAWRT), a defunct organization based in Eugene, Oregon, that was inspired by Perry Lovell, a miner who lived near the Applegate River, who claimed to have found 18-inch-long human-like tracks in his garden. NAWRT operated the trap, keeping it baited with carcasses for six years, but caught only bears.
Since then the trap had been abandoned and was deteriorating. In 2006 the United States Forest Service, under the Passport in Time program, began to repair the trap. The trap has become a tourist attraction over the past 30 years and hundreds of people visit it annually.



LINK.

[Slave2Fate]

psyche101, on 16 September 2009 - 04:37 PM, said:

Thought you might find this interesting.

Bigfoot trap

What is believed to be the world's only Bigfoot trap is located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California state border. It was designed to capture a Bigfoot (or Sasquatch), the legendary hominid that is said to live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
The trap was built in 1974 by the North American Wildlife Research Team (NAWRT), a defunct organization based in Eugene, Oregon, that was inspired by Perry Lovell, a miner who lived near the Applegate River, who claimed to have found 18-inch-long human-like tracks in his garden. NAWRT operated the trap, keeping it baited with carcasses for six years, but caught only bears.
Since then the trap had been abandoned and was deteriorating. In 2006 the United States Forest Service, under the Passport in Time program, began to repair the trap. The trap has become a tourist attraction over the past 30 years and hundreds of people visit it annually.
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LINK.

That's great! I'm going to have to go check that out, it's not far from where I live. Odd, I've never heard of it hehe.

[seax]

Slave2Fate, on 17 September 2009 - 01:02 AM, said:

That's great! I'm going to have to go check that out, it's not far from where I live. Odd, I've never heard of it hehe.

Ahhh...some poor fool will think it's an outhouse and get trapped...maybe for weeks.

seax

[Slave2Fate]

seax, on 16 September 2009 - 05:52 PM, said:

Ahhh...some poor fool will think it's an outhouse and get trapped...maybe for weeks.

seax

When I saw the pic that's the first thing that popped into my head....outhouse.