Some of my thoughts on the unacceptance of BF. We are americans with a heritage that goes back to people primarily of European decent. Way back then ie 1600's 1700's 18's and early nineteen the people had not really heard of "monkeys"...europe didn't have such a thing and there was not even TV to provide the information that we enjoy. When they settled here and hunted and so forth they expected to see foxes and bears and so on. Those that did have a BF experience KEPT THEIR MOUTH SHUT or they would be laughed at. This is the way it has been with my generation. Hunters that have seen them have some quit hunting, don't go back to that woods, etc and never never, never tell their hunting party what they saw because they would throw their beer down and laugh their hiney's off and that poor soul would be become the butt of jokes for his life. The internet however has allowed the gathering of info now anonymously at websites like the BFRO.net and it has blossomed to thousands of reports from people of all walks of life. The information is so volumous with reports of characteristics of the encounters that are so similar that I could write a book on the creature not ever having seen one. That book would include habits behaviors geographic distribution etc. If you read a thousand reports or at least 500 as I have you will realize that it is real. There are not enough liars out there to form such a base of info.

Trail cams have been and are used and have picked up pictures; http://bfro.net/avevid/jacobs/jacobs_photos.asp

One of my favorite videos is the New York baby footage: http://bfro.net/REF/bfmedia.asp scroll down to the link. It has a camper that was filming his campsite. He noticed way in the background -months later- that their were primates swinging in the trees.

Yes they are smart. They are "Stealth". They do not like to be seen and therefore are much more careful than bumbling bears. My favorite story I would link if I could find it again is one from the late 1800's. an Indian women was in an Appalacian gorge and heard shots fired up the gorge and men shouting. She hid herself because she was alone and did not want to have trouble with them. She heard crashing coming her way and saw a frantic Bigfoot run into a deadfall kind of pile of debris. It laid down and proceded to cover itself with leaves, sticks and whatever it could until she could no longer see it.