Most people hunt for Bigfoot in the wrong way. Highly funded hunts are also terrible at this. They blow their budget on video editing (I’m looking at you Discovery Channel!). They’ll record thousands of hours of people staring into a night vision camera constantly whispering “Did you hear that?” or have people going into bear-filled caves without any means of defense and recording hours of blackness. There’s a much better way to find Bigfoot.
I call it the Bigfoot Array. It works as the following: People buy inexpensive trap cameras and set them up deep in the woods, recording their exact coordinates. Once every two months they’ll hike out to them (during the day when the weather is good), retrieve the pictures and uploads them to a website. The pictures will be publicly available for viewing and any registered member of the site will be able to add identification tags to each picture. Coordinates for each trap camera will not be published to prevent any people wandering out there at night in costumes. Instead it’ll just say which county or state, like ‘taken in Washington at this time’ or ‘Taken in Shoshone County at this time’.
The identification tags will be of what animal was captured in the image. In the event that it’s not clear what is in the picture, it’ll be tagged of what it might be – some of which could even be ‘possibly-bigfoot’. More likely it’ll be ‘possible-bear-with-mange’ or ‘possible-bipedal-wolves-on-Segways’. I don’t know what to do should there actually be clear pictures of Bigfoot, but a case should be worked out on how to handle that. The maintainer of the camera trap will obviously get credit for getting the picture.
I’m tired of shows on Discovery Channel or Animal Planet (and elsewhere) where they have interviews with clearly unstable people, spending hours in the woods at night with the camera plastered to someone’s face constantly getting scared at every sound, using the word “squatching”, having a creepy voiceover narrator, using hearsay as fact and finally ending the show essentially saying “yeah we got nothin’ ”. It’s time for some actual effort here!
Orthallelous 
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