Bigfoot Researchers Seek Webcam Field Project Sponsorship

[Original headline: Hot pursuit Bigfoot lives -- online. ]

Who knows what our vast forests are bearing silent witness to at this very moment? Bigfoot could be out there swinging from the treetops, and we would never know it. Until now. If Thom Powell and the other curators of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization have their way, Bigfoot's days of stealth are numbered.

Mr. Powell is head of the BFRO's Wireless Wilderness Project, which seeks to install wireless Webcams and microphones in areas where Bigfoot sightings have been reported. The BFRO's team of researchers is trying to attract sponsors to finance an arsenal of strategically placed Webcams that would allow the public to tune in to remote locations, 24 hours a day, by PC. Mr. Powell and his associates are not asking people to believe. "We're just asking [them] to contribute to the pursuit of better evidence," he says.

Mr. Powell says images captured by motion-triggered digital video cameras would lend the project the credibility it sorely needs. "The impact that such evidence would have on cryptozoölogy would help sway certain scientific parties," says Mr. Powell. "[Bigfoot researchers] are tired of being the point men on the 'does it exist?' debate." They just long to solve what the BFRO says is one of the most important scientific questions of our time. Maybe the Webcams will help these mocked researchers get some respect.

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Red Herring Magazine | By Samantha Martin-Evans - December 18 issue 2000

On the web:

Link to wireless wilderness project

BFRO Geographic Database of Bigfoot/Sasquatch sightings and related reports