I turned quickly only to scare off what had momentarily been frozen in its tracks. As my eyes adjusted to the darkness this animal was hiding in, I followed its sihlouette down to the tip of its tail, which was a dead give away- a Red Fox! Honestly this little guy was not more than 8 feet way from me. What an awesome thing to have happened... the local wildlife can pass by a person without even notice.
The next day I was working here in the office, and the big picturesque window reflected its secret onto my computer screen, I turned in the big office chair to see the same red fox, not more than two feet away from the outer house wall, making its way diagnally across the path of the front door.
" Front door, go look! Front door quick" I called to our daughter, and she was able to spy on this fox for quite some time while he scrounged and sniffed the ground for any morsel of left over popcorn.
I have been leaving popcorn in small baggies at the bait site, in a deliberate line suspended from seperate trees to see if we can determine the line of travel of our sasquatch creature, and yes we have had positive results and today as I checked the baggies for any sign of activity or curiosity, I noticed the bottom of one baggie was missing.
The evidence from looking at it showed that the baggie had been cruedly cut, but not stretched as if someone wanted to rip the bag open, this was deliberate and after finding the bottom of the bag five feet from its original location, I noticed that there were no teeth marks, or markings in it other than what I put in it. ( I hung it from a limb by piercing the bag onto said limb)
I brought the baggie in the house, and my husband suggested that this perhaps was made with crued tool, but then we both remembered an event taken from "Backyard Bigfoot" describing and showing fingernail marks that were made by possibly sasquatch clawing its grip into the face of a horse.
So then I decided to do an experiment, I took a baggie, and with my long nails I tried to score the bag with my thumb and middle finger. I chose my middle finger because given that there was popcorn in the bag, this would have been a stronger and sturdier finger to use and given the size of the creatures hand, it would have been easier for the contents to dump into his hand with less spillage.
I scored the entire width of the baggie, and didn't make a cut mark through and through, I then concentrated on the edge of the baggie, just a few inches and scored deeply... then I gently pulled... the effect is what you see in the picture below. I deliberately did not pull the bag completely apart as to show which baggie was handled by me, and that of our possible culprit, Sasquatch.
Bag that had popcorn in it and found cut in half
Bag that I cut using my fingernails
