12/04/2025
The image below shows a likely BIGFOOT NEST in West Virginia, found recently by Dr. Russ Jones (WV-BFRO).
Yes, both deer and bears can make similar nests in grass, leaves, reeds, pine needles, etc. The distinguishing characteristic of a bigfoot nest is where the bedding material has been meticulously collected and carried to the nest spot. Deer and bears don't do that. They just lay down on whatever they find.
The bedding material of a bigfoot nest can be leaves of various types, or pine needles, or cedar duff, or soft grasses, or young palmetto leaves, or clusters of huckleberry branches etc., but it will be a big, uniform collection of that one type of plant material.
It will be obvious that the bedding did not naturally pile up the way it did, not from the wind, not without something with hands making many trips to bring over more of it. When you see these kinds of nests in context, it leaves no doubt that some effort with hands was involved to prepare it.
Bigfoot field researchers should look for nests with bedding that has clearly been collected from the surrounding environment and brought back to the spot, to create something like a foxhole with a layer at the bottom that provides insulation from the cold, damp ground.
I am sending this image before making the effort to dig up other photos of bigfoot nest sites that either I found or were found by others. I will add those to comments of this post as I find them.
These locations are particularly important for bigfoot research because nest sites (used only intermittently but nomadic, skittish sasquatches) are the best places to collect E-DNA samples and look for hairs which will likely have DNA.
In the case of this nest in West Virginia, Russ says it appears that it hasn't been used in a long while. He will return to look at it periodically, to see if there is any indication of recent usage. If so he will help arrange for the bedding to be collected and meticulously examined for hairs, among other things, at NC State under the supervision of Darby Orcutt. That's where any hairs or potential DNA samples should go nowadays.
You may be curious what is happening with the current DNA effort at NC State. It has slowed down because of budget and staffing cuts across the university. However, he will have some initial results to discuss within two months or so. That's all I know about that.
I know this: If you have more money than time for bigfoot research you could really help it along, and be on this inside, if you provided serious funding for that DNA effort at NC State. The money pays for the time of the most skilled graduate students to focus on the DNA study.
I would love to see a new scientific institute created at NC State just for the search for unknown organisms through DNA samples. Jeff Bezos recently donated 30 million dollars for scientific study of plant-based meat substitutes at NC State, so it's the place to do it. Lots of impressive scientific talent there, and Darby knows all the best DNA talent everywhere else.
With enough money you could have a permanent DNA discovery institute named after you, like "The Tom Slick Institute for Unknown Organisms" etc., that will surely make some discoveries of some new life forms, and will become as internationally famous at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.