Tracking the NAH or North American Hominid.

Years ago I was traumatized to learn (the hard way) that some mythical apex predator stalked the woods and mountains of North America. I have been on two combat deployments where my life was at stake many times and the fear paled in comparison to running into this unknown creature. I have helped overseas in disaster zones that have been some of the worst in recent history and to top it off, i'm a survival expert and have lived an entire winter in the mountains off the land. Lets just say for years after the incidents I would not go into the woods at night unless I was armed and would build a small fort instead of a shelter when living in the wilderness. Finally last year I had enough of living in fear, I had dealt and learned to identify and accept my fears and demons from the Marine Corps, now it was time to do the same for these hominids. I realized my intense fear stemmed from the fact I knew nothing about this creature. Bear and Mountain Lion are dangerous, but my fear is minimal because I understand their behaviors, how they operate and what to do when I run into one. However, what do you do when you run into a creature that should not exist and could easily rip you apart, out flank you and have heightened senses far superior to your own. I set out to face my fears and find out more, it was a scary process because what this entailed was placing myself in a vulnerable position and leaving myself exposed. The two times I had an encounter those were the two main factors that I could recognize. I set up in a canyon in my Jeep that was a natural choke point for animals that would naturally come through. Took me 3 months coming every other night before anything took place, what happened was a barrage of pebble throws which lasted a month and a half until they moved out of the area. I came to reason, the only effective means to learn about them and get close was to let them get close to me because trying to track and out compete them in their own environment is nearly a fruitless endeavor, win once and they adapt so quickly you will never see them again.

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Anyway, here are some tidbits of evidence I have found along the way and is a continuous process. Later when time allows I will post actual pictures, videos and more details and partition them by solid evidence, supporting evidence and lastly circumstantial evidence. However for now it is a quick summary who's only support for its authenticity is for those that have found them as well. Like a said before I will get back to this with sample evidence in pictures and videos to support these claims.

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Here is some evidence that has aided me here along the Front Range - dead give aways of the North American Hominid are animal parts and ripped pelts hanging in brush and trees about 5 to 6 FT high. This is normally nearby a trail of sorts going through brush. The trail will be partial, meaning in some areas you can see it and then it will disappear and then reappear. I, for a long time assumed it was a deer trail until I realized there were no deer feces ever on it and it was full of overhanging willows creating choke points no deer would dare travel through. Then of course there is the stick breaks along these trails which will aid in further support what made them. A lot of them are small enough an adult human could make them, so I also discounted them in the past, but they have yielded many results with solid evidence while following them. Like a deer leg snapped in two places without any teeth or claw marks and a deer hide taken off like a sock the way we would do to a rabbit or squirrel. I have taken footage of the deer hide and leg breaks to professional hunters and wildlife biologist and they have been stumped. Eventually these stick breaks will lead into deep brush and will follow a route with the best cover and concealment. I was lucky to find fresh ones (which started in late spring just before the leaves came in, so they where easy to spot and saw that nearby the new breaks there were much older ones suggesting a lot of these routes are used yearly, however are hard to see once they have dried. Around an area which these hominids operate out of you will find piles of bone, here where I am its mainly mule deer, they wont eat where they sleep, or take a crap for that matter (only the infants). These piles of bones will be located around the main cluster they use in their what I assume is a hunting rotation. What will separate the bones from other animals will be lack of teeth marks and on fresher kills, instead of the tendons being broken as a predator ripped through them to continue eating the flesh, they will be intact with all the meat missing around them and lack of teeth marks on the bones themselves. They come for a month or two and then leave for the same amount of time before coming back (Here along the Front Range). Once you follow the stick breaks you may start to run into bushes where multiple sticks have been broken, this is a boundary marker of the beginning of their domicile (so I hypothesize). I am confident it is a boundary limit for the young inside. However, I speculate its also a boundary marker to warn everyone else like myself to stay out! When the deer are in the area of these dense brush clusters with stick breaks, then you are safe to wander inside, when the deer are no where to be seen then it is active and they are there during the day and only the females and young during the night as the adults go hunting. If you go in there at night when it is active or get to close, the female who will position herself on an overwatch position will let out a terrifying scream/shriek which will notify the Alpha and other adults which I refer to as the "hunting party" to come running back to the domicile to defend. You don't want to be there when they get there, even if they don't out right attack you, their intimidation behavior works and can be traumatizing. I think, from observation, the juveniles (6.5 to 7ft tall and lean) patrol the borders of the domicile to add security. They are also however the most likely to interact with you and if they feel comfortable enough will start throwing pebbles at you. Its scary at first but this is a very positive interaction. Just don't go in with a flashlight into the woods thinking its a person, I did this by mistake the first time and it illicited a negative response that took me years before I was willing to go back into the woods at night again. Inside the domicile you will see stick breaks everywhere, mind you it will be in highly dense vegetation and sucks to wander through, but what better place to hide out than where humans prefer not to venture. The breaks will lead to impressions normally nearby trees, large ones will normally be about 5 to 6 FT from the base of a large tree while small ones will butt right up against the large tree. It is my assumption that the infants hang out in these small nests and if need be climb the tree. There will be many of these shallow nest built into the ground, some very small, some medium size and others very large. They are very similar to what gorillas will create during the day on the ground to rest, except I think these are used in similar fashion, but at night, here on the Front Range, after they have built these resting nest they will load it up with dried pine needles for padding. Larger nests for what I think are for sleeping will be used over and over again and they are built out of small and large sticks and woven to make a nest like structure and is much, much larger than the resting nests. I have yet to find more of the larger nests to support this hypothesis, but when I do find more I will be more confident in its maker and function. The trails they create will normally to some degree parallel human trails, except they go through rougher terrain and normally straight up steep slopes or at 45 degree angles. Sticks breaks and nests will be found in flatter macro terrain following these trails. They are wider than deer trails, and look similar to an unused human social trail. Closer to human presence their trails are sporadic but weave a great network through dense and deep brush. I suspect they use differing trails often to leave less of a trace. It also seems they have no problem going on all 4s which creates the sporadic looking trail effect of bush trails constantly changing from 4ft tall to 7ft tall or so. When one of these trails crosses a human path, stick breaks are likely and brush will be pulled down on ether side of their trail to make going into the brush more difficult.

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Anyway, if anyone has had similar experiences or observations let me know, building a solid understanding of pattern and behavior is the first step in tracking and getting close to these hominids. Another point that has aided me is in areas is in the forests and mountains where it is reported to have been haunted for centuries with weird noises, things in the night and objects moving with no source is a good giveaway of NAH activity. Areas where dogs disappear often and South East facing slopes (slope that get the most sun all year around) have also helped narrow the search.

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Again when time allows ill get the video and pictures up to help further verify evidence. However for now, those that have come across such key points I made here I would appreciate your observations of when you saw these points of interest, where, slope facing, time of year, and anything else that may be relevant.

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Thank you for your time and reading this and any feedback to continue this study. One more important note, this is along the Front Range in Colorado and there is no way of telling if behaviors and evidence left on the environment will be different or how different depending on environment and climate. Once we accept one species of hominid we cannot dismiss the possibility of different hominid species also existing concurrently.

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-M.E.