Mangani
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NOTE: This file now contains approximately 6200 placemarks.
The attached placemark .kmz is the result of a long-term project I have been engaged in to geo-locate reports of encounters with bigfoot / sasquatch creatures. The reports come primarily from bigfoot resource organization web sites. This is my initial test effort to share this information via Google Earth. I welcome input by more experienced Google Earth users who might want to offer suggestions to improve the organization and display.
The reports were originally mapped with another software product and I am in the middle of the process of converting the data to .kml format, so this file will be growing as I migrate my remaining data.
Please Note: Users of this information should not assume that locations are accurate. Do not assume that a location is precise enough to apply to a particular property. The location coordinates are approximate and the margin of error will depend on the degree of precision included in the source report. Hyperlinks to the source reports are included. While some locations are quite precise, generally I believe that the margin of error is on the order of one mile. If the likely error is greater I have included an estimate. e.g., ~2mi, ~5mi, etc.
Users of this information should respect all property rights.
I welcome discussion of the maps and how I am presenting them here. Debate or discussion regarding the existence of and/or search for these creatures would be better held in other forums, such as: Bigfoot Forums.
[Edit 2006-03-05 - Icons' shape and color now differentiate report type and source.]
[Edit 2006-03-22 - Tweaked icon sizes, worked around icon bitmap addressing bug in Google Earth to correct icon display errors.]
[Edit 2006-03-26 - Further icon modification for better visual clarity. Reduced label font scale to minimize screen clutter. Added descriptive text and resource URL]
[Edit 2006-08-16 - Corrections may be reported via private mail here. Please include the state and nearest community or the URL of the associated report.]
[Edit 2006-11-18] - Strengthened language regarding approximate nature of locations and need to respect property rights.]
[Edit 2007-01-27 - Further reduced icon and label scales to ease map clutter.]
[Edit 2007-03-18 - Included valid TimeStamp tags to allow Timeline viewing with Google Earth 4. To view all placemarks it is necessary to move the Timeline sliders. Changed icons to Google Earth 4 types.] Note that GE version 4.3 hides the timeline slider by default, unless it is moused over.
[Edit 2007-08-04] - Added reports from the WCSRO. (Western Canada)]
[Edit 2007-12-09 - Added reports from OregonBigfoot.com]
[Edit 2008-01-15 - Added reports from Winnipeg River Sasquatch Association (Manitoba). Further reduced font scale to 0.6 to diminish map clutter.]
[Edit 2008-02-26 - Completed reports from BigfootEncounters.com, now includes CA, OR, and WA,]
[Edit 2008-02-27 - Added reports from Ontario Sasquatch Research]
[Edit 2008-05-14 - Revised links for older Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy reports. The TBRC totally redesigned their web site earlier this year which resulted in breaking the map links for all reports mapped from the original web site. Those URLs have now been revised to link to archived web pages stored by The Wayback Machine.
[Edit - Now Includes all of my data as of last edit date.]
Edited by Mangani (06/13/08 01:04 PM)
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Frank_McVey
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Hi, Mangani, welcome to GE.
This is a monumental piece of work - congratulations on an outstanding first post.
I'd only make one suggestion, from a user-friendliness point of view, and that would be to make another group of sub-folders under your main folder to contain your placemarks, so that users can gradually bring in groups of placemarks. It doesn't much matter whether you choose to make these subdivisions by State, or by Decade, or whatever.
As it stands, people with less-competent machines might find a problem with so many placemarks on screen at once, and this might make life a little easier for them, while people with high-performance graphics could choose to enable them all at once.
And perhaps you might a warning regarding the number of placemarks in your covering post.
Once again, thanks for an interesting and innovative post. Got be be worth a few stars of anyone's money!
Cheers
Frank
Edited by Frank_McVey (02/20/06 12:46 PM)
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Mangani
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Thanks Frank. I appreciate your feedback and understand the issue you raise. And since your post I have further increased the number of placemarks! 
However, I did break the data out into sub folders by source and by type of report. It sounds like you are suggesting that even that may not be sufficient.
Of course, I also currently have all of the subfolders selected. I suppose I could deselect them for start up, but I was concerned that a novice who loaded the file might be confused if nothing showed up on the screen. Maybe some sort of compromise would be best.
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Frank_McVey
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Hi again Mangani,
I probably didn't look closely enough at your overall structure first time round - it's really just what I was proposing. Let's leave it and see how it goes. 
Cheers
Frank.
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Mangani
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Since my initial post I have made some fairly significant changes to improve the "eye friendliness" of the display and have also increased the amount of data.
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DJSLY
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Thanks for the work. I didn't realize that bigfoot sightings are so spreadout over north america.
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Cyclonic
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Loc: Connecticut - USA
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This is really nice work. 
I didnt realize there were so many sightings.
Here is a google vid of a sighting not in the list from September 7, 1980.
Bigfoot Sighting - Oxford Mtn in SE Idaho
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RockNGadgetry
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Reged: 05/22/06
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Loc: Ocala, FL
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Man#Character_history
I use to hear tales about this beast in the Ocala, National Forest. I also had been a Lifeguard at Alexander Springs, FL for 2 years. My experience in the trails at Alexander Springs nearly lead me to believe. Through out the forest along the trails the woods are thick and heavily covered in an underbrush palm. You can learn about that kind of wooded environment here.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...6lr%3D%26sa%3DG
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GESWhoOne
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Reged: 07/09/06
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I can state without a doubt that the location you have for the 1975 Etna siting at a used car lot is way off location on Google Earth. The spot the marker comes up at is the now closed Blarney Stone Restaurant, which was very much a going concern in 1975. We moved to Etna in 1973, and had been visiting my Grandmother up the road in Shaler for 4.5 years prior to that, via bus that went by this site. I do not remember a used car lot on the main street of Etna anywhere near that end of town (former "West End" Grant Avenue section), nor anywhere on the main street the Bus ran on anywhere in Etna...
Do you have the actual street address that the siting occurred at?
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Mangani
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I can state without a doubt that the location you have for the 1975 Etna siting at a used car lot is way off location on Google Earth. ,,,
Do you have the actual street address that the siting occurred at?
Thank you for your interest in correcting the location of this report. The only location information I have for any of the reports can be found in the source web link. (There is almost never a street address,) I do the best I can to locate the site of the report from the info provided by the organization which posted it on the web but, as I have already stated here, if the information is not specific, there can be a significant margin of error, usually of one mile or more. So if you can better identify the probable location for this report from the information provided by the source web site I will be very happy to revise the location.
It would also be helpful if you could specify which state the sighting you are referring to is in, as there are at least 10 "Etnas" in the United States and I have no easy way to find the report you are referring to.
--Mangani
Edited by Mangani (08/20/07 09:52 AM)
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jenloo
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Reged: 10/21/06
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ooooh boy- that one on maple island road is of concern to me because i go by there every weekend! I only live a hop skip and jump from there- I am sure to keep my eyes peeled!!!
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missionman
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bigfoot search helpfull hint I am from Mission, British Columbia where I noticed one of your bigfoot posts purley by chance. I noticed you asked for ways to make the information more clear and accessible. Put the word bigfoot, or sasquatch as i know it, in your placemark titles. I dont believe numbers draw enough attention. Anyway just a thought. Good luck with your project.
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Mangani
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bigfoot search helpfull hint I am from Mission, British Columbia where I noticed one of your bigfoot posts purely by chance. I noticed you asked for ways to make the information more clear and accessible. Put the word bigfoot, or sasquatch as i know it, in your placemark titles. I dont believe numbers draw enough attention. Anyway just a thought. Good luck with your project.
Thanks for the feedback. I understand and agree with your point. When these placemarks are viewed within the community layer it is not at all clear what they refer to, so I have already considered adding more info to the placemark names to address this.
But here is the other side of the coin. While I appreciate that the moderators have included this project in the community layers I really did not create this file in order for it to be displayed in a layer with all sorts of other attractions. Rather the idea is to download the ,kmz file and use it on a stand alone basis. When using the data this way adding more information to the names becomes superfluous and only increases the screen clutter, which is bad enough already with over 4,000 placemarks. So unless someone can come up with another idea I like better, I plan to leave the names as they are now even though it leaves things unclear in the community layer.
Since your are from BC, I'll call your attention to the web site of the Western Canadian Sasquatch Research Organization . This is one of several groups whose data I have not yet found time to include in my project. Any volunteers?
Edited by Mangani (11/07/06 12:26 PM)
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Mangani
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Just a brief note to mention that the dataset is now enhanced to include TimeStamp tags to allow for use with the Google Earth 4 Timeline tool.
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The fool is happy that he knows no more.
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blaufman
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Very interesting idea - plotting the location of Bigfoot sightings. I would recommend adding GPS co-ordinates wherever possible. Using GPS co-ordinates makes the data very transferable between map applications - contour maps, road maps, etc.
blaufman
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Mangani
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Very interesting idea - plotting the location of Bigfoot sightings. I would recommend adding GPS co-ordinates wherever possible. Using GPS co-ordinates makes the data very transferable between map applications - contour maps, road maps, etc.
blaufman
All Google Earth data necessarily include geographic coordinates. (How else would Google Earth know where to locate the place marks?) You can translate Google Earth .kml files to other file formats for use with GPS units or other mapping sofware using utilities such as GPSBabel.
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sgate
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I lived on the Middle Fork on (mislabeled) Middle Fork Lane ( two roads up from the turnoff. We had bear, deer, wolves, mountain lions, but I never saw a Sasquatch and never heard of anyone else in the area having seen one, including my neighbor, who was a 27year resident.
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Mangani
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I lived on the Middle Fork on (mislabeled) Middle Fork Lane ( two roads up from the turnoff. We had bear, deer, wolves, mountain lions, but I never saw a Sasquatch and never heard of anyone else in the area having seen one, including my neighbor, who was a 27year resident.
You realize that it is impossible for me, or anyone else, to recognize which report you are referring to when you provide so little information?
If you want to discuss the validity of a specific report this is not the place to do so. I am simply mapping reports that were submitted to various groups interested in researching the bigfoot phenomenon. If you want to challenge a report you would be better served by following the report's link to the source organization and raising your concerns with that group.
On the other hand, if anyone has information that would improve the accuracy of a report's location, I welcome your feedback via private mail here.
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ursuch
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Hi, I was looking on google earth and found one of your posts for a big foot siting in Oroville, Ca right by the lake. When I clicked on the post however, the description of the siting was an event in Forest Ranch, which is at least 25 miles to the north. Thought you might want to know. The posting was listed as 1985-04Spr. And the description was listed as bfro report #1548.
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Mangani
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Hi, I was looking on google earth and found one of your posts for a big foot siting in Oroville, Ca right by the lake. When I clicked on the post however, the description of the siting was an event in Forest Ranch, which is at least 25 miles to the north. Thought you might want to know. The posting was listed as 1985-04Spr. And the description was listed as bfro report #1548.
Thanks. My error. The only Bidwell Canyon I could find was near Oroville, but obviously that is too far from Forest Ranch. If you know where the correct Bidwell Canyon is in relation to Forest Ranch, please advise. (From my maps it would likely be on Little Chico Creek.) I will correct this on the next revision of the data file. Thanks again for the helpful feedback, which is exactly what I am looking for!
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jbs68
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hi, i enjoy your work -it is very interesting. i was pleasantly surprised after downloading google earth and looking over my 'camping area' in Northern California to find a report that i had submitted to the BFRO (class B- we heard noises).
i would like to help provide you with more accurate coordinates, if you like, as it appears to be off by at least a mile.
thank you,
james
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Mangani
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hi, i enjoy your work -it is very interesting. i was pleasantly surprised after downloading google earth and looking over my 'camping area' in Northern California to find a report that i had submitted to the BFRO (class B- we heard noises).
i would like to help provide you with more accurate coordinates, if you like, as it appears to be off by at least a mile.
Thanks for the feedback. Sure. I am always very interested in improving the accuracy of the report locations. You can send me a private message here with the report link and the correct coordinates.
"Mangani"
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lucidx1
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Hello Mangani, I have viewed your google earth post in Jasper National park & I have a suggestion. The actual location of the post is 33km away from the actual location of the sighting as the crow flies. If you take the road it is about 75km from the sighting.
The actual location is at these coordinates 53 06.930'N, 117 44.779'W. You may wish to re-post the location. Keep up the good work.
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Mangani
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Hello Mangani, I have viewed your google earth post in Jasper National park & I have a suggestion. The actual location of the post is 33km away from the actual location of the sighting as the crow flies. If you take the road it is about 75km from the sighting.
The actual location is at these coordinates 53 06.930'N, 117 44.779'W. You may wish to re-post the location. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the feedback.
But you will have to tell me which sighting in Jasper NP you are referring to, as there are several, and I have no way of determining which one you would like me to correct. i.e., Please supply the link associated with the Google Earth Placemark, or the current incorrect coordinates.
Also, it would be helpful if you would explain how it is that you know the actual location of this report.
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lucidx1
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Mangani I am referring to the bigfoot sighting on Sulfur ridge. I have hiked this area many times and it is indeed as described in the BFRO sightings database. I know this because I have lived and hiked in this area for more than 40 years.
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Mangani
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lucidx1,
I have corrected my location data for this report http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=1423 to the coordinates you supplied. I will upload the corrected file with my next update.
Thanks for the information.
--Mangani
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The learn'd is happy Nature to explore;
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PAGolbalTraveler
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Reged: 10/21/07
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Loc: Wyoming County PA
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Mangani,
I'm a new user. I have been using computers for 25 yrs and Google Earth beats them all for wasting time - but it is fun.
I came across your "Big Foot" icon in Quebec, Canada. My intial reaction was even Google Earth harbors nut-cases - till I read the eye witness accounts on BF??. Nope, there is some ape like creature running around in our woods.
An coincidence made me a firm believer. Wife and I live in the Endless Mtns of PA. It use to be rural but is now over-run with immigrants from NJ but still many unpopulated areas.
My sister-in-law visited a few days ago and reported seeing a mountain lion on her property. There aren't any mountain lions (cougars) in the Endless Mts - according to the Game Commissioner.
I checked around and found numerous sightings of 80 to 100 lb cats by very credible neighbors. Either my neighbors are nut cases or the game commissioner is.
No one has found a cougar carcass. No one has shot cougar in NEPA. So either I have a sister-in-law and a bunch of neighbors affected by hullicinagenic mushrooms or the game commisioner is wrong.
Yep, big foot is a fact.
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sgate
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Reged: 01/27/06
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Sorry-
I was referring to your site near the Middle Fork of the Teanaway River, North of Cle Elum, Washington. Since that was where I saw your post, I inferred that you would know what area I spoke of.
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papadog65
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Reged: 11/27/07
Posts: 2
Loc: Lakewood, WA, USA
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I was curious about Managani's location of "1967-10AUT". I was a first-grader in Winlock, WA, living about a mile WSW of there, and used to play with the kids who lived at the farmhouse just South of his marker. Back in 1944 I don't think BigFoot had been invented yet, at least not in that area. Nor, in the years since then, have I heard of any sightings in my old neighborhood. Just wondering.
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Mangani
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I was curious about Managani's location of "1967-10AUT".
You should click on the link included with the placemark (in this case http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=1564 ) to learn more about any reported encounter.
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The learn'd is happy Nature to explore;
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papadog65
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Reged: 11/27/07
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Loc: Lakewood, WA, USA
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Thanks for pointing out that link, Mangani. Most interesting! I'm still a newbie here and finding my way around.
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Inkaddiction
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Reged: 12/01/07
Posts: 1
Loc: Skykomish, Wa 98288
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Mangani .......
Thank you for this huge undertaking, truly incredible task.....this is my second visit to GE, and I was just trying to find my house in Skykomish, Wa when I happened upon a marking......Odd as my husband and I were just talking about Bigfoot last night, the "close calls" we have had and the one sighting I had in 1976....my husband is a hunter, so he is out in the middle of no where often, you know men dont scare easily, in the 20 yrs we have been here he has come home 3 times scared sh*tless, the worst one was he was using an eleltronic predator call, a wounded rabbit, he never did get it all into words, but it was BIG, Close and hungry, and it was NOT a bear, he had rocks thrown at him, big rocks at the mouth of a cave to keep him from going inside, a tree dropped off a ledge into the road infront of him, too far out in the wild for |
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