Todd Standing Calls Out Les Stroud on Bigfoot Encounter (Video)

So…Todd showed them Bigfoot eh ? I think Mr.Meldrum might have made that sort of thing very public and they would have documented that pretty well.Thats the issue with Todd.Lots of bold claims but nothing solid to back it up with besides questionable photos and big tales to be told.Les Stroud recounted his encounter long before hooking up with Todd.Also while Les may be convinced they exist,he has to play the skeptic on film or be viewed a nut job and wouldn’t get his funding.As for Big foot being recognized by the US gov..It already is but not completely official.Many official document publications exist regarding it as a species which lives in certain areas but hasn’t been caught yet.Personally I appreciate the approach that Les and Jeff Meldrum take and do not like the attitude Todd has .While he may be convinced,he has this screw them attitude and that he seems to know it all but doesn’t want to share his info with science which of course doesn’t make him many academic friends in the process.Sadly until a body is found or one is shot and dissected for all of the world to see these creatures will remain the stuff of legends or stories for the skeptics to pick on and ridicule those who have been witnesses.Ive had my own encounters and know for sure they are real but choose not to divulge because of the reaction many have towards the topic.Ive had a few close encounters.Once in New Mexico and the others in Washington state where Ive lived most my life.Ive witnessed tree knocking,rocks being thrown towards me while I was fishing near Mt Rainier and loud primate like calls close to where I live in northern WA,near Bellingham.I also found what looked like human footprints,men’s size 9 close to my home next to a river that runs through my property but it was late fall early winter and the river was below 40 degrees and the temps outside not much warmer.No human in their right mind would have been bare foot in those temps .The tracks came across the river and on to the property.They came up within view of our buildings and then doubled back on themselves back to the river.It was also coincidentally salmon migration time .I did make plaster casts and also photographed the tracks.My first reaction was there was a manhunt underway because they were walking in the river for a reason.I also heard most that morning a chopper flying low as if searching for something or someone.I called the county police to see if they were doing a search but the officer said none was underway.I told him why I had called and what I had found so close to my home.He said jokingly.”Maybe a young Bigfoot paid you a visit” .I asked if they would send someone out to see what I was referring to but they didn’t have anyone available he said.Since no crime other than land trespass had been committed they saw no need to send anyone out.”Maybe a fisherman lost his boots and got lost” he said.I said “yeah and maybe they’re looking for him by helicopter ?” He didn’t find my sarcasm amusing and politely ended the call with no offer to help.So either the feds were doing a manhunt and didn’t tell the locals ,or some guy got lost and for unknown reasons doubled back on his tracks but never asked to use our phone or maybe just maybe the odd primate calls followed up by those prints were a young Squatch roaming through our neck of the woods and someone else was trying to find it and catch it.2 years later I found more smaller tracks downstream and they went off into some really thick underbrush.Any normal person would have had their feet cut up badly because of the type of plants like Salmon berry which has lots of thorns and blackberry plus lots of sharp branches and thick underbrush plus rough terrain.I plan on installing game cameras to hopefully capture on film what Ive been hearing and the tracks Ive been seeing.Who knows ,it may be a day ,a week,or perhaps years before I get that footage I’m seeking.Most researchers especially for documentaries go out for a day or maybe a week,and might find some evidence but usually don’t but then give up and leave the hunt.Most people besides those who work in the woods or live in them don’t have a clue how vast and rich our wildernesses are but yet somehow conclude Bigfoot couldn’t possibly survive out there.Then you have those who somehow conclude since no body has been found they must not exist.In all my years spent in the woods Ive only found one dead deer and only because it was hit by a car and limped a few yards away from the road and then died from its wounds.A week later it was gone.Ive seen some Bobcats ,Deer , Racoons and only a couple times a Cougar.Like most these creatures mentioned Bigfoot travels and hunts at night mainly and rarely is spotted during the day.If researchers want to find one they will have to immerse themselves into its element,stay as quiet as possible which most humans cant seem to do, and spend more then a week trying to hunt this thing.If Todd Standing really has all this evidence and knows so much about this creature ,he needs to put up or shut up and provide something tangible for the world to see if he wants to be respected anymore.I can only hope that once we get a body and catalog this species,we do whats right and leave it alone.The whole reason sightings are on the rise is they are running out of living space .We are spreading like a virus,crowding out other species as we go and some encounters have lead to violent reactions which used to be rare.Sorry to be so long winded but this is a topic I’m passionate about .