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The Gifting Crate was down....and other oddities from the Berm.

1/27/2017

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I arrived back to my Kentucky home mid-January to find a couple of odd things. It was obvious we'd had a lot of rain.  I slipped and skidded down to the berm, and I didn't get very far before I noticed the gifting crate was not in sight!

Whoa! It's been up for over four years, and never once has it been down. Upon examining the weed-eater line we'd used to put the crate up in the air, it definitely had been chewed through. 

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Notice the red piece of a peanut butter cap at the bottom left. No  empty jars in sight... I examined the lid. There were no teeth marks or scratches on it. It looks like it would take a lot of force to crack a lid like this....
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​So I put the crate back up... added a brand new jar of peanut butter, and three apples.








The next morning the crate was down again... the contents were spilled on the forest floor, the peanut butter remained but two apples were missing. Definitely Critters. I decided to strap the crate to the smallish tree on the berm and be done, since it was obvious the weed wacker line wasn't keeping the critters from the goodies!



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I added another new jar and two more apples to the crate.  

Fast forward to Jan 24th and I discover one of the jars has been half eaten, but is still in the crate... The lid was approximately 15 feet away is cracked. NO teeth marks OR scratches? 
​Below are two short videos, one of the lid and the other of the inside of the jar

The next day, the other jar of peanut butter was out of the crate... I took a walk below the berm and found it with the lid on. No bite marks or scratches on the lid, but I did find some scratches on the body of the jar. 

I was about to put it back in the crate, when something told me to have a look inside the jar. I unscrewed the lid and discovered this ...

I really don't know what to think. Would something unscrew this lid...stick it's tongue in the jar a few times and screw the lid back on??? And if so....why drop it 25 yards from the berm?  

This research is ALWAYS interesting, and I feel blessed that I get to do what I love.

A Billion 'Thank you's' to you for reading this Blog, and to those of you that subscribe to "Sketching Encounters". (A new witness recreation will be published for subscribers today from western Oklahoma!)

Also a HUGE shout out to those of you that purchase my Sasquatch artwork. I love you, and couldn't do this without your constant support.

​I will keep you updated on the Peanut Butter Heist!

Massive Hugs,
Sybilla



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The Peanut Butter Heist....

1/5/2017

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This was definitely the year of peanut butter
.... In 2016 I saw a definite shift towards the creamy, buttery foodstuff we all love. For years they had not shown any interest in peanut butter....A jar would sit for 6 months without being touched, and it would eventually have to be thrown away. Other things were happening around the house, so I knew they were around. And other foods would periodically disappear, but I couldn't figure out why they weren't interested. 


I don't know what created the shift, but once they discovered how good it is, or maybe how satisfying that peanut buttery goodness was... The jars started disappearing rapidly. One after one. Often times I would put a jar out and it would be gone by morning. Many days in a row, they would take the jar. There have been over 30 jars taken in the past four months. 


The first jar disappeared out of this basket on the berm on June 28th, 2016

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​I tried many different ways to make the peanut butter inaccessible to raccoons, possums and such. I wired the jars to the crate. I used duck tape. The jars were still taken, but sometimes it was obvious that it was critters.

In the photo to the left, I used 10lb test fishing line and raised the jar 7 to 8 feet off the ground. (In the photo to the right, the ground drops away very fast below the jar.)

I also taped some  Graham crakers in a ziplock bag to the jar.

If a raccoon were to crawl out on the limb and slide down the line, I believe the line would have broken. But that isn't what happened.

The peanut butter was taken two nights in a row, and the line was Not broken. It was not even stretched. It looked as if the lid had been unscrewed, and the fishing line unlooped from around the neck of the jar, without any trauma to the line.

So on the third day I decided to punch a hole in the jar and tie the fishing line, and screw the lid down as usual. I then raised the peanut butter up high off the gound, as I had done the previous two nights.

The next morning...the peanut butter was gone, and the line was stretched and broken just like I would suspect.

None of the jars were in sight of the feeding area. I did discover, as I was walking the area searching for jars or lids, was this beautiful new structure that occured at around the same time as the peanut butter began disappearing. 
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So for many months, I enjoyed trying to come up with ways to prove to myself that only something with two hands and opposable thumbs could take the peanut butter. I think I finally succeeded in convincing myself!

I've created a video showing my treatment of the jars, and of the feeding station area down on the berm.... Become a Subscriber to "Sketching Encounters" to see the rest!

Much love and light to you and yours in this new year!
​Sybilla
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    Sybilla Irwin is a Bigfoot Researcher and a Fine Artist reknowned for her work with witness re-creations. She has created hundreds of portraits of sasquatches, as mystifying as they are compelling. 

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