the normal limit of human hearing. Infrasound travels over long distances, passing through dense forests, buildings, and even mountains. The lower the frequency, the farther the sound can travel.
Elephants use infrasound to communicate over many miles. This function is necessary for their survival, as the sound waves allow them to locate one another for reproductive purposes and to avoid dangers. Elephants don’t just hear with their ears; they can “hear” or perceive vibrations with their foreheads and their feet. Earthquakes and tsunamis are generators of infrasound. Long before a storm hits their area, elephants will “hear” the infrasound waves. Sensing the oncoming danger, they run for higher ground.
Tigers also possess infrasound capabilities. Bioacousticians are scientists who study the pitch, volume, and duration of animal sounds to learn about their behavior. A study published in a 2000 article by ScienceDaily identified that tigers have an ability to not only intimidate their prey (which includes humans) with their roar but also paralyze them.
FUN FACT: To humans, giraffes appear to be silent animals, but scientists have discovered they communicate with their young using moans and grunts at a frequency humans cannot hear.
Beyond the paralyzing effects of a tiger, infrasound can have a range of negative effects on a person, including nausea, feelings of dread or panic, memory loss, emotional distress, hallucinations, blurred vision, and even loss of consciousness.
According to a 2003 article in the Sydney Morning Herald, British scientists conducted a controlled experiment at a London concert in which they played music containing infrasound produced by an extralow bass. They mixed in pieces without the added infrasound, then asked participants to describe their reactions to the different scores. A variety of abnormal feelings—anxiety, sorrow, and chills—were identified to coincide with the infrasound-infused music.
The US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health published studies in 2003 and 2005 on how low frequency noise affects functionality in humans. Findings showed that moderate levels of low frequency noise could adversely affect vision, concentration, and levels of irritability.
In several Bigfoot encounters, people reported hearing a deep, powerful growl along with experiencing a period of disorientation to the point of unconsciousness. Researchers studying infrasound question whether Bigfoot might possess an ability to mix frequencies and use infrasonic blasts to cause adverse effects in humans. If so, this might explain why hunters on the trail of Bigfoot have captured footprints but no body. For many, it also explains empty trail cameras. If the Bigfoot can detect man-made technologies, then he would possess the ability to avoid them.
Electricity—an Ominous Power
In his 1895 book, The Pacific Forest Reserve and Mt. Rainier, E. S. Ingraham, explorer, mountaineer, and author who was also the first superintendent of the Seattle school system, tells of an experience he had while descending into the steam caves of a crater near the summit of Mount Rainier in Washington State.
In the chapter “The Old Man of the Crater,” Ingraham states he and his companion descended into the crater and explored. He writes, “[I felt] a peculiar sensation of the body, such as a person feels when standing upon an insulated stool with his hand holding the pole of an electrical machine slightly charged.” After exploring for several hours, the two left the crater. A short while later, the author returned alone. He writes of an odd feeling: “I was soon within the influence of a mysterious glow … all tended to try my nerves and fill my mind with strange forebodings.” Then he caught sight
of a figure of strange and grotesque appearance.… The crown of his head was pointed, with bristled hair pointing in every direction. The nails of its fingers and toes were long and pointed and resembled polished steel more than hardened cuticle. The palms of its hand and the sole of its feet were hard and calloused. In fact, the whole body, while human in shape, seemed very different in character from that of the human species. Gradually an electric glow covered the entire body with light-centers at the ends of those pointed nails, the eyes, and the top of the head. It began to rub its feet rapidly upon the floor of the cave. This increased the glow of its body and caused the light-centers to shine with increased brilliancy. It seemed to receive some vital fluid from the earth that at once gave new vigor to its whole system.
It has been discussed that Bigfoot might gather seismic energy into their body and convert it into an electrical charge. If Bigfoot were able to produce an electromagnetic field, researchers speculate this might be what causes intense fear, the experience of missing time, trance states, a sense of being watched, and paralysis. A few individuals reported a sensation of electricity in the air similar to the fuzzy, static feeling one gets when placing one’s hand in front of a television screen. Accompanying symptoms are different for each person, varying from feeling nervous and unwelcome to nauseated and paralyzed.
Many reports of equipment failure and dead batteries often accompany alleged Bigfoot sightings. As do glowing eyes, which, for the purposes of this book, differ from reflective eyes. Reflective eyes require a source of light. Glowing eyes do not. While some speculate glowing eyes are because of bioluminescence, others think this can’t be true because bioluminescence is involuntary. Bigfoot would have a hard time hiding with bioluminescence. Perhaps tied to his ability to emit an electrical charge is the ability to control a glow in his eyes.
Orbs
A second anomaly a few Bigfooters have experienced are flashes of bright light, slightly off the ground but not in the sky. These typically range in size from a baseball to a beach ball. People have seen this light as a bluish-white or yellow orb that floats or moves as it passes through an area, much in the way a drone might be used. They say the lights tend to appear before, during, or after a Bigfoot sighting. Some report that the flashes increase as Bigfoot moves. At first, researchers thought these were lightning balls—glowing spheres that move freely through the air. After further study, they dismissed the idea. Even if the orbs were a trick of perception, they appeared to be intelligently controlled, as if Bigfoot wielded them with a purpose.
Invisibility
On occasion, people have reported hearing heavy bipedal footsteps near them in the forest but seeing nothing. To explain this phenomenon, some researchers speculate Bigfoot uses a highly sophisticated camouflage that allows him to blend into the environment. After studying an alleged tuft of Bigfoot hair found in the wild, researchers reported the existence of many kinds of hairs—different colors, textures, and levels of transparency. They concluded that if viewed from different angles, under specific lighting, Bigfoot might create the illusion of disappearing.
Some man-made materials, called metamaterials, can control electromagnetic waves. Metamaterial cloaking allows certain types of electromagnetic radiation, like light, to bend around an object, giving the appearance that the object isn’t there. In certain circles of study, it’s believed that if Bigfoot were his own energy source, then he could channel light around his body to ensure onlookers would not see him. Rather, they would see what stood behind him. If conditions are not optimal, then Bigfoot might be seen, which could explain the brief intermittent glimpses of firsthand encounters.
The area in and around Pennsylvania’s Chestnut Ridge is a hotbed for Bigfoot sightings.
BIGFOOT AND THE PARANORMAL
Portals and Interdimensional Travel
In the 1970s, a couple of Bigfoot researchers correlated Bigfoot sightings with UFOs. As interest in the topic grew, more and more scientists joined in the UFO/Bigfoot discussion. In most reports, eyewitnesses described the following but not always
