RESPONSE TO BOB SHEAFFER'S
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                                                                       Jon-Erik Beckjord, BA, MBA

      In 1999 I went with fellow Mensa member Bob Sheaffer  on a Bigfoot camping trip.  He is also a skeptic and
a member of  CSICOP, a die-hard skeptic's group, mostly debunkers and not researchers. ( " A skeptic is one who \
sees the handwiting on the wall, and declares it to be a forgery." -author unknown).

      I was late, and I do not care. Lots to do in packing. We got not lost, but misled, since the Forest Service
had re-routed some logging access roads and changed the numbers on them. In the dark, it was best to
camp out where we were, and find out way in the next am, which we did.

      Sheaffer spent his time sleeping, reading, and lying in a air mattress in the cool pond in the hot sun.
At night we discussed women we had both been dating in the recent past. We took one hike. Bigfoot did
not come out and pose while Bob was there. This, I expected, but I regret we did not get any howls, as has
happened before (not by coyotes).

      After Sheaffer left, a family of five that I knew came and camped 1/4 mile away. There was a woman, a mother
present with her husband and kids. They heard howls and one of the kids says he saw a brown slender bigfoot
climbing a cliff on the other side of the creek.  We could not verify this and he had no camera. Often, Bigfoot
does come nearer to kids, since they are harmless. Adults are perceived as being more dangerous.

    I'll be adding a photo that I got after Sheaffer left, below, shortly.
 

    I have yet to look at his photos, which might have Bigfoot in them after all. I plan to ask to see them.

    Bob was the only skeptic ever, out of just two, to actually go camping after Bigfoot, and I am proud he went.
The other is Dr.Molly Squire Hanson, who went on an overnight backpacking trip with me in AZ, 1986? She found
bigfoot tracks all by herself, and became a Bigfoot believer. Brava!

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