Sasquatch of the Driftless Forests

In this investigation, I meet up with a fellow YouTuber. He has had two definitive Sasquatch sightings in a region known as the "Driftless Area." He has been so affected by his experiences that he was inspired to create his own channel. He is searching for answers and has me intrigued.
In this video, I will go over several of his encounters, and my thoughts on the matter. This was my second boots on the ground investigation and I cannot wait to return to the Drfitless Area in October!

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Incredible art-work by Fred Dunn!

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[garygrinkevich]

You produce some of the most underrated content on the site, thank you for sharing Bob.

[MiniTroutMan]

no stupid spooky music, no over exaggeration. just good stories love it.

[adampettus]

I would like to imagine the creature offered the mushroom on the tree as a kind of polite gesture.

[thedoruk]

This channel; is; truly; *the* Best cryptid; paranormal & unknown-theme based channel on YouTube.
The art; the narration; and the voice are perfect! 👍

[mjrchapin]

This product contains no filler, no padding, no repetition, no ego, no staleness, no borrowed content, and no bullst.

[gxtmfa]

The idea of Bigfoot here in the Midwest, especially around Illinois and Wisconsin is so unsettling to me. Guess it’s because I both can and can’t imagine something like that in areas I’ve been.

[thewisconsinfiles]

I'm from southeast Wisconsin, i grew up on this land. Been with my dad in every part of the state exploring forestry and wildlife. How easily it is for people to just vanish in these vast and dense woods without a trace, has me convinced something could easily evade our radar and be living out there . Keep an open mind folks. Who knows what is just beyond that treeline.

[STREETBEEFS_]

Man
The driftless area just became a destination on my bigfoot hunt bucket list!!
Ive always wanted to go to washington state, but now i wanna check this place out as well!

[blazefoley]

You honestly have THE best bigfoot channel on youtube. No bullshit, no filler, just facts.

[albatross]

Two Bob Gymlan videos in one day? Sweet🤘

[kkhagerty]

It’s great to have my inbox once again graced by your content, I can’t get enough of it, I’d say probably the best cryptozoology channel on YouTube

[robvicious]

Honestly man you’re probably one of the realist YouTubers out there I have mad respect for you and I love all your videos

[Dynotopa]

The “everyone’s eyes are on the ground” quote is incredibly important.

Like I had mentioned in my comment on your last video. When you’re not looking for something you don’t see it.

I’ve been in the outdoors often. I lived on a large property in north Florida. The vegetation was dense in that area. I learned that it was important to stay vigilant of your surroundings if you want to see birds, other animals, or even avoid walking into spider webs.

I also spent many mornings inspecting footprints made by bear, deer, hogs, birds, coyotes, otters, and even panthers. I rarely ever witnessed bears and otters. I never saw the panther.

My property butted up against another larger one. This property was used for large game hunting. I saw moose, kudu, water buffalo, and other exotic large game. Each time the animals came to the game trail that ran alongside the worn down fence seperating our property, they emerged seemingly out of the blue. They seemed almost mystical in their ability to so easily appear and disappear. I wouldn’t have known of their existence were it not for the trail they frequently used along the fence. An interesting thing to note was that some of the buffalo managed to escape and roam free.

These experiences have caused me to be super-vigilant of wildlife, as well as plants (I had to constantly dodge vines, saw palmettos, and poison ivy on the property). My friends and family say I have spidey-senses. Haha!

Now to my point. One moment, while hiking the AT, I noticed several snakes and plants that my hiking partners in front of me hadn’t noticed. I wondered why? Then I realized that I was the one in the back hiking behind my two partners. This was because I was the slowest.
When hiking, you have to pay close attention to the ground in order to not trip and fall. I’m rather nimble on my feet from playing soccer and climbing trees, so that is slightly lesser of an issue to me. My head was constantly on a swivel looking around which caused me to move more slowly. My partners were always looking down when on the move and hiked more quickly. They saw less of the environment. That’s why I noticed more things than them.

The simple fact of the matter is that most people in the outdoors aren’t very vigilant. They are usually there with one goal in mind. This means they have a pair of blinders on, like a horse.

As a result, most people miss most things.
I believe this applies to many other aspects of life as well.

[OkieDokieSmokie]

The video of the orangutan camoflauging itself was compelling.

[olebigfoot]

bob your videos are the best, i appreciate you and your objective take on bigfoot

[fzred]

Just three short years ago I was convinced there was no such thing as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti or a swamp booger. I have about four decades of experience in the woods and waters of the Pacific Northwest and have never seen one of the big bipeds nor any of their oversized bare footprints in the soil. What has happened however, is channels like this one, along with several others posting Bigfoot related content, peaked my curious nature which led to my purchase of at least a dozen books on this subject and viewing hundreds of videos about it.

The undeniable patterns and compilations of quantifiable evidence do exist to such an extent that I have been convinced there is a large, hair covered bipedal hominoid roaming the woods from coast to coast. Setting aside the fact the United States government via the US Army Corps of Engineers has documented acknowledgement of the big critter's presence, we don't need any other official government recognition to know the truth. I can't seem to understand why folks are so hung up on the need to hear some pompous politician or desk flying dimwit tell us that thousands of documented eyewitness encounters, dating back hundreds of years, including hundreds easily found in library stacks and newspaper microfiche, were seeing something real.

I've never seen one. I really don't want to. But having studied this subject and extensive amounts of freely available information there is no doubt they exist. In hindsight, I have had many instances where I should have known better than to walk on without looking a little harder at perfectly balanced stacks of rocks, skinny trees, tall ones, bent clear over to the ground and somehow connected with several others to form an arch over a trail. Or owls hooting back and forth between treelines during midday when they are almost exclusively nocturnal where I hike, hunt and fish. The unexpected smell of a barnyard and hog pen where neither exists. I now think each of us who have spent a lot of time in the woods have been around the hairy critters the entire time only we weren't looking for anything like that. In any case I will make damned sure to give things a better look in the future.

Bob Gymlan, the content you've been producing is some of the very best in the genre I have observed anywhere. I am surely speaking for many people when I say I can hardly wait to see what you post next!

[Fruitfactory]

Hi Bob, Im Robin. Not a believer in bigfoot but damn son, I believe in your content man! Good stuff!

[dragoonTT]

The way you structure your sentences is enjoyable and engaging. The way you use critical thinking then put that in a coherent sentence flows through your video.

[DShepherd]

I agree w/ you Bob. I’m a retired research biologist & avid hiker. I’ve listened to many many stories now, from your channel, & some others. There’s something to this. Some scientists forget, just bc we can’t observe or measure something, doesn’t meant it doesn’t exist. Typically it often means we don’t have the understanding or technology yet. Consider invisible bacteria. If one went back during the Middle Ages in the 13th & 14th centuries for example, during the time of the Bubonic Plague (Yersinia pestis for the curious), & tried to tell people the tiniest of living creatures, invisible to the human eye, were making the people ill & killing them, they’d have burned you for a heretic, or a witch.
I’ve a fascination with quantum mechanics, & quantum theory. I think some of our answers are tied into it.
I think it’s important to keep an open mind. Clearly somethings are hoaxes, or people are mistaken, but there are definitely phenomena happening which we don’t understand, at least not the general public.
I like your work. You think like a scientific detective & I really enjoy listening to you.

[GrislyAtoms]

Bob Gymlan: Master story teller. And at such a young age.

Everyone has a gift. Bob Gymlan's gift is his mastery of telling tales.