DayStalkers Bigfoot Sightings Atlas

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

The Atlas combines historical reports, user submissions, environmental modeling, geographic clustering, hotspot analysis, probability overlays, and movement-corridor visualization to help users identify patterns within reported activity.

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

The Atlas is not a simple pin map. It is a layered research tool designed to help users compare sightings, geography, habitat conditions, report density, and regional patterns.

Its purpose is to help researchers, investigators, writers, and enthusiasts better understand where reports have occurred, how those reports cluster, and which areas may deserve additional investigation.

Atlas results should be treated as investigative leads, not conclusions.

If you are new to the Atlas, begin with a simple workflow:

1. Load Historic Reports.
   This gives you the broadest view of long-term reported activity.
2. Enable Probability Heat.
   This helps identify areas where report density and geographic weighting suggest elevated activity.
3. Enable Habitat Heat.
   This shows areas with environmental conditions often associated with reported sightings.
4. Use Analyze Sightings.
   This generates clusters, hotspots, and movement-corridor visualizations based on available report data.
5. Compare the layers.
   The most interesting areas often appear where reports, probability heat, habitat heat, and hotspots overlap.

The Atlas tools are designed to be used in combination.

Historic Reports

Click Historic Reports to display archived and historical sighting reports. These reports help identify areas where activity has been reported over long periods of time.

User Sightings

Click User Sightings to display reports submitted by Atlas users. These may represent more recent activity and can help identify emerging areas of interest.

Local Reports

Click Local Reports to load region-specific reports that may be useful for localized analysis.

Probability Heat

Click Probability Heat to view modeled likelihood based on report density, clustering, and geographic weighting.

Habitat Heat

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

Analyze Sightings

Click Analyze Sightings after loading reports. This tool identifies clusters and hotspots and may generate movement corridors between nearby areas of reported activity.

Use My GPS

Click Use My GPS to center the map near your current location when your device allows location access.

Proximity Scan

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

Clear Map

Use Clear Map to remove active overlays and reset the map before starting a new analysis.

Each Atlas layer answers a different question.

Reports answer:

Where have sightings been reported?

Hotspots answer:

Where do reports appear repeatedly within close geographic proximity?

Probability Heat answers:

Where does the model suggest elevated activity based on report density and regional weighting?

Habitat Heat answers:

Where do environmental conditions appear favorable based on terrain, cover, water, remoteness, and related factors?

Corridors answer:

Which nearby active areas may have geographic relationships worth investigating?
The strongest research areas are often where several of these answers overlap.

Sightings are grouped geographically using clustering analysis.

If enough reports occur within a defined proximity, the area may be classified as a hotspot.

Nearby hotspots within realistic geographic distance thresholds may then be connected to visualize possible movement relationships.

Probability and habitat overlays incorporate reported sightings, terrain suitability, regional weighting, environmental conditions, and geographic relationships.

The Atlas relies entirely on reported data, geographic grouping, environmental modeling, and investigative analysis. Outputs are not intended to represent verified wildlife tracking or guaranteed activity predictions.

The Atlas incorporates historical newspaper reports, user-submitted sightings, geographic analysis, environmental modeling, and publicly available research data.

Historical reports are derived from newspaper archives, research collections, documented sighting databases, and other publicly available sources spanning multiple decades.

Modern reports may be submitted by Atlas users and independent researchers.

Data quality varies by source. Reports should be considered informational unless independently verified. Atlas analysis identifies patterns within reported data and should not be interpreted as confirmation of biological evidence.

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

The Atlas will not guarantee that an area has current activity.

The Atlas will not verify whether a specific report is true.

Instead, the Atlas helps identify:

• Areas with repeated historical reports
• Regions with concentrated sighting activity
• Possible relationships between nearby hotspots
• Environmental areas that appear favorable
• Locations where multiple indicators overlap

Some high-habitat areas may contain few reports. Some high-report areas may have weaker habitat scores. That contrast is part of what makes the Atlas useful.

For field use, begin by looking for overlap.

1. Start with Probability Heat.
   Identify broad areas with elevated modeled activity.
2. Compare Habitat Heat.
   Look for places where modeled probability and environmental suitability overlap.
3. Review Historic Reports.
   Check whether long-term reports support the area of interest.
4. Run Analyze Sightings.
   Use hotspots and corridors to narrow your search area.
5. Use GPS and Proximity Scan.
   In the field, use location tools to identify nearby reports and active areas.
6. Document carefully.
   Record dates, times, weather, terrain, sounds, tracks, photographs, and exact observations when possible.

• Start with one state or region rather than the entire country.
• Use Historic Reports first to understand long-term patterns.
• Use heatmaps to identify broad areas of interest.
• Use clusters and hotspots to narrow your focus.
• Do not assume a heatmap means confirmed activity.
• Do not assume an isolated report is less important than a cluster.
• Compare multiple layers before drawing conclusions.
• Use the Atlas as a research aid, not a final answer.

Atlas membership provides access to historical reports, user sightings, hotspot analysis, movement corridor mapping, habitat modeling, probability overlays, and future research tools as they become available.

Membership fees support ongoing research, system maintenance, historical data collection, software development, and expansion of Atlas features.

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

Reported sightings are not verified biological evidence.

Hotspots, probability overlays, habitat models, proximity tools, and movement corridors represent reported patterns and analytical visualization, not confirmed creature behavior or verified tracking.

The Atlas does not authorize access to private property, restricted areas, or unsafe locations. Users are responsible for obeying all applicable laws and obtaining permission before conducting field investigations.

Use caution when conducting field research. Terrain, weather, wildlife, road conditions, and remote locations may present hazards.