DayStalkers Bigfoot Atlas Instructions

The DayStalkers Bigfoot Atlas is a research and investigative mapping platform designed to organize and analyze reported Bigfoot activity across the United States.

The Atlas combines historical reports, user sightings, local reports, geographic clustering, hotspot analysis, probability modeling, habitat analysis, movement-corridor visualization, state and county profiles, rankings, and historical timeline tools.

The Atlas does not track verified creatures or confirmed movement. It visualizes patterns derived from reported information, geographic analysis, environmental modeling, and statistical processing.

A useful first session follows this workflow:

1. Choose a research area.
   Begin with a state, county, or region rather than attempting to interpret the entire national map at once.
2. Review the State or County Profile.
   Use profiles and rankings to understand the broader reporting context before opening individual map layers.
3. Load Historical Reports.
   This provides the broadest view of long-term reported activity.
4. Enable Probability Heat and Habitat Heat.
   Compare reported concentrations with modeled geographic and environmental conditions.
5. Run Analyze Sightings.
   This generates qualifying clusters, hotspot markers, movement corridors, and updated analytical metrics.
6. Compare the results.
   The most useful research areas often appear where multiple layers and historical patterns overlap.
7. Use Timeline Explorer.
   Study whether activity remains consistent, develops, shifts, or disappears across different periods.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the main entry point for the Atlas. It provides access to research tools, profiles, rankings, documentation, account controls, and major platform features.

State Profiles

State Profiles summarize reported activity within a state and may include total reports, national ranking, county distribution, historical context, and other analytical information.

County Profiles

County Profiles provide a more localized view of reported activity. They are useful for comparing neighboring counties, identifying concentrated reporting areas, and planning focused historical or field research.

State and County Rankings

Rankings help place regional totals in national or statewide context. Rankings should be interpreted as summaries of the current database rather than measurements of confirmed biological activity.

Timeline Explorer

Timeline Explorer displays reports across geography and time. Use it to compare historical periods, observe emerging regions, identify persistent reporting areas, and examine long-term change.

Historical Reports

Click Historical Reports to display archived reports contained within the Atlas research database. These reports help identify long-term geographic and historical patterns.

User Sightings

Click User Sightings to display reports submitted through Atlas participation tools. These reports may represent newer observations and developing areas of interest.

Local Reports

Click Local Reports to display region-specific material used to strengthen localized research and comparison.

Probability Heat

Click Probability Heat to display modeled concentration based on the available reporting data, geographic weighting, and analytical processing.

Habitat Heat

Click Habitat Heat to display modeled environmental suitability based on terrain, forest cover, water proximity, remoteness, and related habitat factors.

Analyze Sightings

Load the desired reports before clicking Analyze Sightings. The analysis groups qualifying reports, creates cluster-based hotspot markers, identifies possible geographic relationships between qualifying areas, and updates analytical metrics.

Hotspot markers represent calculated cluster centers. A marker may therefore appear over a developed or otherwise unexpected location even though the qualifying reports are distributed throughout the surrounding area.

Use My GPS

Click Use My GPS to center the map near your current location when your browser and device permit location access. The Atlas does not guarantee that location services will be available or precise on every device.

Proximity Scan

Use Proximity Scan to identify nearby reports or analytical areas relative to your current location or selected map position.

Clear Map

Use Clear Map to remove active report layers, overlays, hotspots, and analytical graphics before beginning a new comparison.

Each Atlas layer answers a different research question.

Reports answer:

Where have sightings been reported?

Clusters and hotspots answer:

Where do qualifying reports form geographic concentrations?

Probability Heat answers:

Where does the model identify elevated concentration within the available data?

Habitat Heat answers:

Where do environmental conditions appear comparatively favorable?

Movement Corridors answer:

Which qualifying clusters may have geographic relationships worth examining?

Timeline Explorer answers:

How has reported activity developed or changed through time?
The strongest research leads often emerge where several independent indicators overlap.

Analyze Sightings evaluates currently available mapped reports using established clustering thresholds.

When enough reports occur within the qualifying geographic area, the Atlas may create a cluster and display a hotspot marker at its calculated center.

Qualifying clusters may be connected when they fall within established geographic limits, allowing researchers to examine possible regional relationships through movement-corridor visualization.

Probability and Habitat Heat provide separate analytical perspectives and should not be treated as confirmations of the clusters, reports, or one another.

The Atlas relies upon reported information, geographic processing, environmental modeling, and analytical visualization. Its outputs do not represent verified wildlife tracking, confirmed biological evidence, or guaranteed activity predictions.

Timeline Explorer is most useful when approached with a specific question.

Choose a state, county, or region, then compare reports across broader periods rather than focusing only on one year.

• Look for regions that remain active across multiple decades.
• Watch for new concentrations developing in neighboring counties.
• Compare historical hotspots with modern reporting.
• Consider changes in population, accessibility, media attention, and reporting practices.
• Use static map layers afterward to investigate the locations highlighted by the Timeline.

The Atlas will not tell you where a confirmed Bigfoot is located.

The Atlas will not guarantee that a region has current activity.

The Atlas will not determine whether an individual report is true.

Instead, the Atlas helps researchers identify:

• Areas with repeated historical reports
• Regions with concentrated reporting
• Possible relationships between qualifying clusters
• Environmental areas that may deserve further study
• Locations where several analytical indicators overlap
• Changes in reported activity across time

Some strong habitat areas may contain relatively few reports. Some high-report areas may receive weaker habitat scores. These contrasts are part of the research value of the Atlas.

For field use, begin with research rather than assumptions.

1. Select a manageable region.
   Use State Profiles, County Profiles, and Rankings to establish context.
2. Review historical activity.
   Use Historical Reports and Timeline Explorer to determine whether the area has long-term reporting.
3. Compare analytical layers.
   Look for overlap among reports, clusters, Probability Heat, Habitat Heat, and movement corridors.
4. Review access and safety.
   Confirm land ownership, public access rules, weather, road conditions, terrain, and emergency considerations.
5. Use GPS and Proximity Scan carefully.
   Treat nearby reports and analytical areas as research leads rather than destinations or guarantees.
6. Document observations objectively.
   Record dates, times, locations, weather, terrain, sounds, tracks, photographs, measurements, and direct observations whenever possible.

• Start with one state, county, or region.
• Review profiles and rankings before interpreting map layers.
• Use Historical Reports to establish long-term context.
• Use heat maps to identify broad areas for comparison.
• Use Analyze Sightings to narrow the geographic focus.
• Use Timeline Explorer to determine whether patterns persist through time.
• Do not interpret report density as certainty.
• Do not rely on one dramatic report or one analytical layer.
• Use the Atlas to generate research questions, not predetermined conclusions.

Atlas membership supports access to historical reports, user sightings, regional profiles, rankings, Timeline Explorer, hotspot analysis, movement-corridor mapping, habitat modeling, probability overlays, documentation, and future research tools as they become available.

Membership fees support research, hosting, software maintenance, historical data collection, database improvement, documentation, and continued development of Project Cryptanthropus.

The instructions on this page explain how to operate the Atlas interface. The following documents provide deeper guidance and background.

This platform is intended for research, investigative, educational, historical, and informational use.

Reported sightings are claimed observations and do not constitute verified biological evidence.

Clusters, hotspots, heat maps, proximity results, and movement corridors represent analytical interpretations of reported data. They are not confirmed creature behavior, verified tracking, or guaranteed predictions.

Atlas data and statistics may change as new reports are added, duplicates are removed, locations are corrected, sources are verified, and analytical methods are refined.

Users are responsible for obeying applicable laws, respecting private property, following public land rules, and evaluating personal safety before conducting field research.