GHOST HUNTERS

Life-long explorer, adventurer and researcher, Don Monroe, has a million stories to tell, only he's been on the road nonstop, busy hiking the back country in dozens of countries, climbing the highest peaks and crawling in the deepest caves to understand this natural world we live in. He has hunted, tracked, trapped, cast footprints, talked to Native people, continued several-decade long ongoing research projects, devoured tons of research books, and ultimately sought answers about every aspect of nature and all the mysteries within. During those travels, he came across many unusual things. What I am presenting now is one of them -  Don Monroe and a researcher friend named Massey, were up at about 7000 feet on Anaconda Range in Montana. They were tracking a bear when Don noted something sticking out of the ground, just a bit of something, but didn't look like a regular rock.  In this remote area at that elevation, the idea of running across something man-made was unlikely. He s...

Continuing this series of world traveler, researcher and adventurer, Don Monroe, I'd like to explore the case of the cave bones.  "I have 13,000-year-old bones."  I chuckled. "You're not THAT old, Pirate Man."   Don had gotten used to me referring to him as Adventure Man and Pirate Man , as his world traveling, voracious appetite for book learning, and real-world survival skills made him the epitome of a renaissance man. For such an entity, one must have a "handle," like "Indiana Jones."  "Ha! No, carbon dated. I found them in a cave. Let me tell you about this one. Are you seated? This is gonna take a while." He asserted. And so Don's experiences unfolded in the most riveting and unexplained story.... He had found a cave that was interesting and inside it had a pool of blue ice about a foot deep next to a huge stone slab. Inside the ice, there were lots of bones, just tons of them, as if trapped there when the cave was und...

Upon occasion, I work with researchers whose time in the field and worldwide range impress the hell out of me. I have been lucky enough to work with Don Monroe on projects and he has shared his 80 years of world exploration and finds. His diligence in long-term studies has been astonishing and he shared with me recently casts he has rendered over the decades from frequently researched locations. Don describes the majority of the handprints from mud and in caves as having a wide variety of looks, some of them mutations of a sort. He has found prints that he found the identical one miles away and that has given him a range of their habitat. After several decades of researching a 50-mile radius in America's Northwestern States, he has come to learn a few things about these hands.  It is interesting to note the hand creases show the same dexterous use of hands that we possess. I had wondered if they might have a single palmar crease as is found in some genetic variations among us such ...

A 24-inch cast from Don Monroe and his co-researchers, one of a trackway in Idaho It took presentation of an extraordinary 24-inch cast for me to decide to tackle the foot to height ratio of Bigfoot. I begin with the body proportions of Bigfoot. We cannot certify their origins in our family tree, but my own personal guess is Denisovans. They were adapted for high altitude and climbing hillsides more than an even run on a flat track like we were built for the plains.  The Bigfoot have legs are one third of their height, putting their bodies very long, chests barrel-shaped and arms longer - ideal for climbing hillsides, grabbing rocks and such. If we are going to compare to an archaic man, Neanderthal is ideal (we do not have body proportions of Denisovans other than they evolved in the same region as Neanderthal and were quite large. In this way, we could say Neanderthal was the chimp of the archaic man world and Denisovans more like the Mountain Gorilla).  So, the closest rela...

In early October 2008, MK Davis, Don Monroe and Ken Iddins took a trip to Bluff Creek. MK and Don had been there previously a few months prior in August, but there were so many fires, they waited until the place was settled down, and they came back. The three of them were wanting to walk around the site and the area and see if there might still be evidence of Bigfoot inhabiting those woods. Earlier, they were doing research at the original Bluff Creek site where the Patterson-Gimlin film was captured in 1967. In fact, the site where this video and photos (below) were take was about  2/10ths of a mile upstream from the Patterson-Gimlin site.  On a previous trip, Don and MK had found a stream not on a map that was either a spring from a cave or runoff from lake or something, having fresh water. The spring was odd because it didn't come into the creek, it went into a hole in the ground. They were exploring the area.  They followed the stream and found some culverts that were...