In the Shadows – Baiting Bigfoot and Wild Animals - Article 35
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Recently I was contacted about someone hanging food bait out near a wildlife management area, and could it be for a Bigfoot. Someone had taken red twine and thrown it over a tree limb and tied three open cans of sardines about 5 to 6 feet high up alongside the road. Now mind you, I don’t never mess with anyone’s bait, but this I had to check out since it was right beside the road.
People may think that by baiting Bigfoot or other wild animals that there is not harm done, but they couldn’t be more wrong. The Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center may put some bait out for our trail cameras when on expedition, but we always take the bait with us and dispose of it when we leave. Why?? So the animals do not get used to being fed by humans and the Bigfoot soon learn that if they are going to take the food, they have to do it before we leave, not just sit there and wait until we leave to come in and get it.
Another issue with the way this bait was hung out, if it was for a bear, you have metal cans that can cut the bear’s snout as it tries to get to the sardines, and now we have an injured bear who is going to be pissed and likely to attack humans.
The sharp edges of that can lid was peeled back enough that it would cut anything that tried to get into it.
The fact it was hung near a road, no trail cameras that could be spotted near it and the height, really did not make sense, since most bears around here would have to jump up to it so it was possible someone was baiting for Bigfoot, which still does not make sense that they would put it on a dirt road where road traffic would be enough to discourage a Bigfoot from getting near it at all.
In reality folks, do not leave food out there in the wild, you only endanger others when it comes to animals getting ‘trained’ that humans will leave food for them to eat. What if a bear becomes so used to humans leaving food for it that it starts coming up to someone’s house and endangering small children. The Game Warden will have no choice but to put the bear down, and it wasn’t the bear’s fault, it was humans that are at fault.
Always consider the consequences of your actions in Bigfoot research, what you do might endanger others later on down the road. I know I’ve wrote about the popcorn ball incident and other baiting incidents involved with the MABRC, but we do this in a controlled environment and never create scenarios where it may hurt an animal or humans.