Veteran BFRO Investigator Carter Buchard Shares Sasquatch Research Insights

So there's this interview floating around on YouTube that every serious researcher needs to carve out time for. The Melted Broadcast sat down with Carter Buschardt, and honestly, the conversation goes places most Bigfoot discussions never dare to touch. Carter isn't some casual weekend woods walker. He's a 15-year veteran investigator with the BFRO, originally from Texas and now based in Missouri. The guy has authored nearly 100 published reports, interviewed over 500 witnesses, and has actually visited their properties. He's also a trained muon investigator, which already tells you his approach goes way beyond the typical flashlight-and-camcorder setup. His specialties include long-term habituation sites, stick structures, infrasound, and Sasquatch behavior. The man has written six books, including his latest, "Baptized by Abduction," which documents his own childhood alien abduction experience in Dallas, Texas back in 1959. The origin story alone is worth the listen. Carter was 13 years old when he watched Leonard Nimoy's "In Search of" and saw the Patterson film for the first time. He just knew it was real. Fast forward a few decades, and he and his wife took a trip to Washington State, right around the time marijuana became legal there. While exploring the woods, he stepped behind a tree to take a leak and stumbled on a military ammo box chained to the tree. Turns out it was a geocache, and inside was a business card for a Sasquatch investigator. Carter took it as a sign. He called the guy when he got back to Kansas City, and eventually became the leader of BFRO expeditions in Missouri, running operations out of the Mark Twain National Forest. But here's where things get really interesting. Carter started noticing a pattern when interviewing witnesses. People who had lived alongside Sasquatch for years, even generations, were holding back. They would mention grandpa seeing strange things, orbs appearing in the yard with a Sasquatch materializing as the orb grew, figures walking through trees and emerging on the other side, but then they'd clam up. They didn't want to be ridiculed. So Carter started pressing harder, promising confidentiality, and what came out was extraordinary. He also shared a story about his very first expedition. He sent a group of 10 people out in a circle through the woods while maintaining radio contact. They got lost, comms were terrible, and then something happened that he describes as a "quantum paranormal event right out of science fiction." From that moment on, he knew these beings were far more than simple animals. There's also a chilling bit about hog farmers in his area losing baby pigs left and right. The farmers initially blamed other predators, but when reports of dogman and strange sounds started flooding in from the same region, the picture changed. Bones were being stacked neatly, almost like a trophy room. Carter raises the question of whether it was dogman or Sasquatch responsible, and honestly, neither answer is comforting. The full interview runs long, but it's the kind of deep-dive conversation that reminds you why this subject matters. Carter bridges the gap between traditional field research and the stranger edges of the phenomenon, the paranormal activity, the interdimensional theories, the abduction connections. If you haven't checked it out yet, do yourself a favor and give it a watch.