New Member Here and new researcher @ sfu

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Hello

I am a new member here and also recently just started researching sasquatch. I am based in Burnaby and I am with Simon Fraser University, and looking to interview people. I have talked with John Green and been in contact with Jeff Meldrum (hoping to interview him, however not sure if I will be able to make it idado LOL)

I guess I can give some info about the research that we are doing here. We are primarily looking at interviewing people's experiences and such about sasquatch, with a focus on First Nations content. This is not a major research project, but a interest in stories and perceptions in sasquatch. What interests me personally, is why sasquatch is not recognized in academia. What are some of the reasons and such. What would it take for it to be accepted in Academia and such as well. In January, my boss is holding a small function in Port Coquitlam and also we are looking at putting our research findings (Interviews, research, stories) into written form.

I hope it would be ok to talk to some of the members here and communicate some more about Sasquatch.

Thanks,

Brandon

[vilnoori]

Hi Stoyoma,
You'll find that most sasquatch researchers are amateur, that is, they are working in another field and just got interested in the sasquatch question. Many are outdoorsy people, either in work or play, and have an encounter or experience, or a close relative that has had one.

There are a few good books out there, our very own Thomas Steenberg has written a few and can probably list them here for you or if you pm him. His are mainly accounts and experiences collected over a number of years in BC and Alberta.

Google Earth is a great resource for researching this phenomenon, since some kind and enthusiastic people have posted i links to at least a couple of big archiving BF research web sites. Most of these are listed as a numbered date, so if you find one on Google Earth and click on it, it will link to an account.

That way you can see at a glance the published sightings that have occurred in an area. Of course, there are probably more that are unpublished and unreported, but the idea you get is that certain localities are hot spots for sightings. A good example is Silver (Kakwa) Lake, just east of Hope, BC.