(Historic) Bill Dranginis
William Dranginis is a security technologist living in Virginia. In 1995 Dranginis and two other men, both FBI agents, had a daylight sighting of a creature he said “was about 7 feet tall, covered with hair and had broad, muscular shoulders, arms and legs” that fled in a "full-blown run." Driven by the events of that day, Dranginis devoted himself to the documentation effort and became one of Virginia's foremost bigfoot researchers, founding the Virginia Bigfoot Research Organization. Dranginis used his experience in designing surveillance systems to develop a state-of-the-art field deployable covert digital video recording system he calls "EyeGotcha" that he plans to make available to wildlife agencies and the general security industry, as well as sasquatch researchers, possibly sometime in 2009.
Update:
(Loren Coleman's Obituary for Bill)
On December 3, 2018, William “Bill” Dranginis, who had been fighting pancreatic cancer, passed away. He had moved to Florida, to be near family, in the last few months.
Bill Dranginis, age 59, was a surveillance and security expert, originally from Manassas, Virginia. In 1995, Bill had a sighting of a Bigfoot while metal detecting with friends in the forests near Culpeper, Virginia, and had since then dedicated his free time and efforts to capturing video and or audio evidence as proof of the creatures existence.
In 2001, Bill purchased a 24 foot mobile veterinary unit and converted it into the worlds only Bigfoot Research Lab. Bill spent over $50,000 to outfit the vehicle with state-of-the-art gear, most of it custom built. He mounted a Raytheon NightSight 200 thermal camera on a 25-foot-tall crank up mast that could detect an animal in the dark 800 yards away. The vehicle also had two night-vision scopes, a surface-to-aircraft radio, and TV monitors that can combine images from roof-mounted video cams into one 360-degree view, or receive feeds from remote cams in the woods. Bill sold the Bigfoot Research vehicle to purchase a more permanent Bigfoot research station in the hills of West Virginia. Bill is a highly respected researcher in the field and he created the “EyeGotcha” Digital Video surveillance system. This system is virtually sound proof and can be deployed in the forests for long periods of time. The camera captures full motion video and audio that can be uploaded to a computer for later analysis. Bill felt it would be the break-through the Bigfoot field had waited for as far as the ability to capture video and audio of Bigfoot. He also created a company to manufacture and sell the EyeGotcha camera systems. Bill was a FLIR Certified Level 1 Thermographer and has extensive knowledge with camouflage, concealment and deception techniques.
