EYE SHINE

This is one of my favorite things that one can experience while out at night ‘squatchin’! Its EYE SHINE ! Now for the longest time I never saw this phenomena until up in mendo at my favorite placeI call “Squatch Rock”.

IT happened one night as I went out 2 am to take a leak… I had been playing hide and seek with squatch earlier that day and was hearing them a lot in the evening and had gone to sleep woke up and went out and was standing there looking out over an area about 3 achers: gardens, open grass, live stock,  sweat lodge,  spring, all this is in the clearing surrounded by woods

this is up on the ridge over-looking Ukiah and you can see the twinkling lights of that city way off in the distance…as my eyes came into focus my thoughts were

” I don’t remember lights over there isn’t that usually really dark woods?” ..Still with the clouds sort of muting the moon…I looked really hard and by the time I had finished I realized they were in sets of two! Spread sort of randomly about the area and then they came into focus…! It was six different squatch all mulling around sort of posing this way and that like ‘strike a pose!’ As the reality set in I became incredibly shy! Like I had just pee’d in front of  you and you friends and also realizing this was who I had been running this way and that tree crash here rock knock there me running fast as I could around in circles chasing  after the sounds and trying to see them…they had amber eyes sort of flashlight color with a tinge of yellowy orange…I responded like I was Puck in a ‘Mid Summers Night Dream’ with an old english accent & everything like I was on stage…that’s how it felt! I monologue for I dunno… 1 minute of “who knows what I recited”  and then took a deep bow and turned and exited back into the tent…sort of shaken mostly exhilerated…Eyes were not reflecting light they were Emanating light from within!

Now that was the first time i saw this and since I see it a lot and have come to understand that this is a way of communication. they can emanate the full spectrum of colors and each color has a different meaning and mood. The amber light is caution like “ok  all other squatch..there’s a human but it’s not a threat and beware” the Red eyes is definitely threatened & threatening. When they’re just relaxed it’s usually green-blue or aqua blue or turquoise sort of colors. When they communicate the eyes flash like moris codes flickering from both eyes independently as each one holds its own info in the communication. So two or more “talking”  looks like both eyes flickering at different speeds, and light intensities and hues, all the while flicking back and forth from one squatch to the other walking along, or just hanging out  ‘speaking’ silently with this ‘eye shine’ . They emanate silver and golden but mostly it’s in the aqua/pale blue/turquoise green to each other. I know the Indian legends speak of them always coming at night “with a lantern’ and if you are out in their areas early in the am you eventually see what I talking about, it took me up until 4 years ago but since then, LOTS of eye shine.

They also use it to camouflage themselves. If  WE see lights in the dark forest, we’re most likely to dissmiss it as a star in the distance or something ‘human’ and not give it a second thought… they count on this from us.. along with not knowing which animal makes what sound and when they use the combo to thwart unwanted curiosity from humans by imitating everything in the environment ! Like mechanical sounds, lights that go with bikes or head lamps, I even have seen them imitate what was supposed to be boats on the water!! So the next time you hear a ‘mountain quail’ in the valleys or coast of Califonia>>> Or California quail in Oklahoma, or a sound or sounds that you know  “no bird round here makes”, or  the sound seems to be ” just too big for a woodpecker” or you see lights doing funny things, like appearing then you look , again same spot later,  no lights there…guess what : you’ve been psyched by a squatch!

I have many stories from my own archives of experiences regarding eye shine so I’ll be posting more on these subjects of ‘communications & camouflage’ used by squatch so..stay tune to treepeekers happy squatchin…

 

now here’s where the science comes in…From Bob T my BF Bud from the FBFB movie adventure> I asked him to back me up here with HIS findings and his article about this same subject! Thanks to Bob and this is the first ‘installment’ enjoy the SCIENCE …Oh Yee Of Little Faith…LOL

 

“Man has trichromat or daytime eyes and common animals like dogs, cats and deer have dichromatic or night time eyes. The dichromatic eye has a part called a Tapetum Lucidum, and it’s the membrane that lines the back of the lens in the eyes. This reflective structure acts like a mirror and reflects light back through the retina, giving the retina two chances to catch the light. Most animals that are active at night have Tapetums to improve their night vision.

In order to see this kind of eye shine you need a bright external light source like a flashlight or the headlights on a car. I am sure most people have seen the glowing eyes of various animals on the shoulder of a road. The Tapetum glows and shines back at source of the light because of the duel sampling of the available light.

Everything about the dichromatic eyes seems to fit what’s being reported. Approximately 20% of Bigfoot reports include eye shine and Bigfoot seems to be more active at night. To the laymen or closed minded researcher the tapetum theory is enough to explain eye shine…But!  Sasquatch is believed to be a primate. The vast majority of primates (with the exception of a monkey and a few marsupials)  have achieved trichomacy and subsequently don’t have a tapetum lucidum…So what is shining?

We can do a simple experiment: A man and his dog go in to the forest at night. You take a flashlight and shine it at the man and dog. The only eye shine you get is from the dog. The man’s eyes don’t shine back. Man is a primate and his eyes don’t have a tapetum.

OK…If Sasquatch is a primate and has achieved trichromacy – Their eyes shouldn’t shine or glow at all. However… many reports include this eye shine and there are even daytime reports that include red eye shine.

The behavior being reported is inconsistent with both types of eyes however attributes from both types of eyes seem to be present.

Conclusion: There is a third kind of eye.

I will post an article I wrote about eye shine research titled:

Eye Shine – Documented in Man.

My article is based on a paper I found written in a scientific journal and my personal experiences. Human Eye Shine was documented around 1930!!”