Joe Pass Answers Top Bigfoot Research Questions

A YouTube channel called The Squatchin' Cowboy recently posted a video that's basically a Bigfoot Q&A session, and it's worth a look if you want to hear how one long-time researcher thinks about the whole thing. Joe Pass, who runs the channel, sat down to answer 20 questions about Bigfoot research - the kind of questions anyone who's ever spent time in the woods looking for Sasquatch has probably asked themselves at some point. He covers everything from what got him interested in the first place to what he thinks about all those AI-generated Bigfoot videos floating around online these days. His origin story is pretty relatable. He didn't see the Patterson-Gimlin film when it dropped in 1967 - he caught up with it around 1973 or '74 when he was about 13 or 14. Then The Legend of Boggy Creek came out in 1975 or '76, and that really hooked him. For those unfamiliar, The Legend of Boggy Creek was a 1972 documentary-style film about the Fouke Monster in Arkansas, and it became a massive cult hit that helped fuel the whole cryptid craze of the 70s. Leonard Nimoy's "In Search of..." series also gets a mention as something that kept the interest alive over the years. When it comes to the strongest evidence he's personally encountered, Joe points to tracks - specifically a 16-inch track he found down on the Sabine River bottoms, tracks his wife found near Fairfield Lake in Texas, and a trackway of about 8-10 tracks in the Angelina National Forest. He's also got audio evidence from a night at Flat Rock Booger's place in Alabama, where he, his wife April, Pat Harrison, and Joe Park all heard a howl that changed everything. April apparently went from skeptic to full believer after that night. The Sabine River runs through Texas and Louisiana, and the Angelina National Forest sits in East Texas - both areas that have had Sasquatch sightings reported over the years. Fairfield Lake is also in East Texas. These are regions with dense piney woods and plenty of water, which is exactly the kind of habitat Bigfoot researchers often focus on. One of the more interesting questions he tackles is why there's never been a confirmed body or specimen. Joe's theory? Bigfoot bury their dead. He's actually found mounds out in the woods that were about 8 feet long and filmed them. The Smithsonian getting involved is also on his mind - the idea that maybe specimens have been collected and hidden away is a theory that's been floating around the community for decades. For geographic hotspots, Joe puts the Pacific Northwest at the top of his list - Northern California, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Vancouver Island. Makes sense given the vast wilderness areas up there. He thinks the Sasquatch in those regions might be bigger and hairier than the ones in Texas, which he figures are more brown and maybe 6-8 feet tall but not as muscular. The idea that regional variations in Sasquatch appearance could exist is something researchers have speculated about, with some suggesting different populations might have adapted to their environments over time. He also takes a shot at AI-generated Bigfoot content, calling out the videos of guys carrying baby Bigfoots or having Bigfoot "wives." His take is that anyone falling for that stuff is watching "AI crap" and that there's only a handful of credible researchers left. It's a sentiment a lot of folks in the community share - the flood of fake AI content is making it harder for serious researchers to get their work seen. The video cuts off around question 11, where Joe starts talking about a close encounter in Hugo, Oklahoma. Hugo is in southeastern Oklahoma, right near the Red River and close to the Ouachita Mountains - another area with a long history of Bigfoot sightings. Joe mentions he's got over 800 videos on his channel, so if you want to dig deeper into his track finds and his "Bigfoot trap" setup, there's plenty to binge through. The video itself is a pretty quick watch and gives a good sense of how someone who's been doing this for decades approaches the subject. Definitely worth checking out.