Sniffin' out a Bigfoot--or whatever

[Ray Ford]

Back in the recesses of the history of this forum, a poster who identified himself as some Native American's grandson, made a comment in a post about smelling a doe while in the woods.  There was a fellow up north who replyed to the post and made light of his statement that he could smell a deer and differientiate between a doe and a buck.  Now I happened to know that this particular person did have a bettter-than-average ability to detect scents, and I--as I am inclined to do--chimed in on the exchange.  Nothing significant came of the exchange of posts, and I had forgotten about it until I received a copy of the "American Hunter," my National Rifle Association magazine.  It was, I believe, the July issue.

In that magazine, there was an article written by a former U.S. Army sniper.  He made a number of advisements on hunting in the piece.  One was that hunters should use their noses in the process of finding game.  He stated that in the process of training for, and being, a sniper he trained himself to smell the enemy.  He also stated that it was quite possible to, getting away from the odor overload of our lives, to enhance our ability to detect game by scent.  I don't have the article in front of me as I write, but I believe this is the gist of what he said.  I would recommend that you acquire a copy ot that magazine and read the article.

Interestingly enough, after I read the article in "American Hunter," I noticed an article in "Field and Stream" in which a person described an experiment with scent blockers.  He teamed up with a law enforcement officer who handled a people-finding dog.  They arranged a number of large boxes in an area.  In one of the boxes, they placed an individual who had applied scent blocker to himself.  The dog immedicately went to the box where the person was hidden--without hesitation.  The scent blocker seemed to be no impediment to the dog's ability to find the hidden person.  Maybe that stuff, the scent blocker, fools a deer, but, since it didn't fool the dog, I doubt it.  I would recommend that you read this article also.

Since bigfeet are notoriuous for having a bad/storng odor....

[Bullet Maker]

Good point Ray..





 I can believe it. That is, that a person can smell his quarry. My sinus are really bad, always have been, but once in a while, during the deer season here in Okla, I can smell the strong pugnett Odor of the deer. Course, I`m standing in the middle of there bedding area at the time, but they do leave a strong Odor. Now if I was 20 yards away, I probably wouldn`t smell them. The odor is like a strong acid, muskee smell. Again, my sinuses are really bad, and other people, might smell the same smell, much further away, than I did.. Now, as far as bigfoot goes, I never smelled him or her, even though at a few times, I was only 6 ft from them, with a face to face encounter. Now, I have smelled some really strong odor, while deer hunting, that I couldn`t say it was bigfoot, I do know that it wasn`t the odor of a deer, but then again, like I was saying earlier, that I have never smelled a bigfoot. The odor could have been a bigfoot, in, that the area, I have had several bigfoot sightings in the past. The best way to describe the odor, is, it smelled more like a wet dog, sulphur, rotten garbage, humus smell.

     It was said that the Viet-Cong, could smell us American soldiers, during the Viet-nam war. It was also said that some of us soldiers could smell them, cause of the strong pugnet odor of fish and rice, that there diet consisit of...again, I dunno, I never smelled them. Again my sinuses, plus the whole country over there smelled like rotten fish and rice...

     Now after saying all of the above, I do believe that Bigfoot does have a smell. It`s only logical, that he does, as he is an animal like all of the other animals. Skunks, deer, coyotes, etc. all have an odor. So it`s only logical that Bigfoot does also. I believe that if he wanted to, he could emit a odor, either as a warning, ( like a skunk does), or, some other factor coming into play.

   The above post, is an interesting one, and I only give my personal experiences, but I also, do believe that people do smell the creatures known a Bigfoot.

 

[Jack Orr]

I was raised from a very early age to sniff the air when ever I was out and about.  You will find that if you observe any traditional Native Americans, that you will notice them routinely lifting thier heads and sniffing the air.  Most Natives may not even have a concious knowledge that they are doing that.
I have learned to smell humans also.  You can tell emotions by sniffing the air around a person.  People give off Pheremons that relay thier feelings.  That also includes fear.  I always used it to tell if a woman was approachable.  I could also tell when a woman was sexually excited.  I always had a great success rate when seeking an encounter with women.  LOL  Give it a try, all Humans can learn how to smell.  One of my Gifts of Smell was the gift to smell the Dead or dying.  I hate that ability, I can smell that someone is dying even when that person doesn't know it.

In Vietnam, when I was going on Patrol, I would not wash with any scented soaps, I also washed my clothing in clear water and I would eat the most bland foods that was available.  Yes I could smell out Viet Cong.  I found that they had a sweet odor due to eating Rice.  Now I do not want to offend anyone but I could smell a Caucasian man a long way off.  I can also smell Black people and also Hispanics.  To me Black people smell like burning Rubber and I smell fear on Hispanics.  Again, I don't mean to offend and truely I am not a Racist, I just have this sense of smell.