Do you believe in Bigfoot?

I still think that the "documentary", " Harry and the Hendersons" may be more valid than anyone is willing to accept......(smle)
OK, No techinical stuff...just a simple, "Why Not?"
Live and love living life.......
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I dunno, it can't be debunked completely, anyway. Science is finding new creatures all the time, like this guy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4785482.stm (Actually nicknamed 'Yeti-Crab'.)
Sea monsters? How about a fish thought to be extinct:
http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/coela.htm
New primate discovered in africa:
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104165

I'm not prepared to rule out the 'giant north-american primate' hypothesis. It may not be likely, but it's certainly not impossible.


"What are you doing? That was a shaved Sasquatch and Steve Summers wearing a wig made out of shaved Sasquatch."
 
Quite a long time ago, I read a scholarly book on the possibility. The author (sorry, can't remember the name) said that the likelyhood of Yeti was very low, as there simply wasn't much to eat for a creature of this size in the Himalayas.
A bunch of Rhodedendron bushes is about it.....
Also the "tracks" reported by natives were shown to be fox tracks that melt into distinctly-bipedal looking numbers as the sun shines on them.

The guy held out that Sasquatch, living in the Pacific Northwest, would have a better chance. Lots of dense woods, more food, etc.
Still, the chances are what Dr. Asimov used to call "vanishingly small".

No evidence whatever, unreliable witnesses, and a body type that conforms in no way with any existing or fossil primate.

The burden of proof rests with the claimants in this case.
Or the big furry guy himself.....
 
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The Bigfoot myth started when a sports fishermen first attempted to describe the squirrels that got away.

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Travel Channel had a show last night about Cryptids , Bigfoot - Yeti - Sea Monsters...... the one that really freaks me out though is the Mothman.

How does one explain away Mothman ? ;)
 
rebeltf said:
Travel Channel had a show last night about Cryptids , Bigfoot - Yeti - Sea Monsters...... the one that really freaks me out though is the Mothman.

How does one explain away Mothman ? ;)
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Mothman is a bad Richard Gere movie, based on the Gerbil Diaries.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Mothman is a bad Richard Gere movie, based on the Gerbil Diaries.
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"Mothman Diaries" was very loosely based upon a non-fiction book by John Keel with the same title. Actual event with dozens of witnesses, including LEOs. This was a very complex case, and remains unexplained to this day.
 
ill believe in bigfoot when i see it.

seems to me it would take a rather sizeable population to perpetuate its existence. how does bigfoot find a girlfriend?
 
I hope he exists.... along with many other to be catalogue living organism. I really enjoy cryptozoology.
 
Given the actual density of human population and it's impact on the size of "undisturbed" wilderness, it is extremly unlikely that a big mammal like "Bigfoot" or "Yeti" actually exists.
 
Every so often, another "lost stone age tribe" pops up in Brazil or Indonesia. It's not that there aren't a lot of people in those countries, or that their forests are undisturbed. The tribe isn't a herd of dumb animals; it's people themselves who didn't want to be seen.

As for finding people in real wilderness, recall the occasional lost hiker or climber whose approximate location is known and who want to be found, and how relieved we are when they are found alive.

If the Sasquatsch is of greater than chimpanzee intelligence, it may not need a dense population to survive, and it would be very hard to find.
 
FlaMtnBkr said:
People bury their dead so why wouldn't bigfoot?
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We should be able to find their bones then. We've found Neanderthals, Cro Magnons and many other hominid bones.

pitdog said:
As an avid outdoors man I would hike the forests nearly every day back in the UK and in all my years I only ever saw a Badger once and even then I was not fast enough to get a pic !
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And yet, badgers are well known animals - trapped, photographed and seen by other people all the time. Bigfoot is also photographed and seen all the time, the only difference between a bigfoot and a badger is that one is real and the other is not. :D

stjames said:
I've seen him, twice, so he's real.

Bobby McFerrin raped my grandmother.
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Bah, this only proves that Bobby McFerrin is bigfoot.
 
TorzJohnson said:
We should be able to find their bones then. We've found Neanderthals, Cro Magnons and many other hominid bones.
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If they don't bury them, the bodies will be eaten and the bones gnawed away, too. How many bear carcasses has anyone seen?

If they were buried, they still don't equate to Neandertal or Cro-Magnon because we haven't found ancient bones in modern forests. Bones get preserved only under special circumstances.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
If they don't bury them, the bodies will be eaten and the bones gnawed away, too. How many bear carcasses has anyone seen?

If they were buried, they still don't equate to Neandertal or Cro-Magnon because we haven't found ancient bones in modern forests. Bones get preserved only under special circumstances.
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Esav brings up some good points. Any creature with reasonable intelligence can avoid not only being seen , but being found.
I am no Ranger Rick but my Mom's side of the family are avid hunters and have been for generations , I've never heard tale of anyone finding a bear carcass , why is that ? I think the mountains and forests here are so dense, with valleys and canyons and caves no person has probably ever set foot on , creeks and small lakes no human has ever wet a fly on. Places so far back and pristine that perhaps it's a good thing we do not go back there much.
Maybe it is all mas hysteria , maybe several dozen people imagined the Mothman , maybe hundreds of people over the centuries imagined Nessie and Ogo Pogo and all the other named and unnamed water creatures , maybe all those folks down in Mexico city imagined UFO's several times over.

How long ago did we even start to know anything about the world around us ? The world we like to think we have control over ( which in itself is laughable ) We found a Megamouth shark , we found that one ugly fish that was supposed to very long ago extinct. Okapi's were once though the stuff of legend. People still report seeing Thylacine , and why not ? Who knows if there arent just a few surviving in remote areas , maybe we should never find them.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
If they don't bury them, the bodies will be eaten and the bones gnawed away, too. How many bear carcasses has anyone seen?
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If you count all the prehistoric cave bear skeletons that are in museums, I've probably only seen about 5 or 6. I can only surmise that modern bigfoots have corpse cleanup crews, and prehistoric cave bears / sabertooth tigers did not.

Esav Benyamin said:
If they were buried, they still don't equate to Neandertal or Cro-Magnon because we haven't found ancient bones in modern forests. Bones get preserved only under special circumstances.
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As you know, climates and topography change over time. They find fish skeletons in the middle of deserts. If Bigfeets are real, they probably didn't always exist in the locations of modern forests.
 
TorzJohnson said:
We should be able to find their bones then. We've found Neanderthals, Cro Magnons and many other hominid bones.
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The Neanderthal was first discovered in 1829, and the Cro Magnon in 1868.

Do you expect to find everything at the same time?

The first skeletal pieces of the Gigantopithecus were discovered in 1935. even now, we have only partial skeletons.

rebeltf said:
I am no Ranger Rick but my Mom's side of the family are avid hunters and have been for generations , I've never heard tale of anyone finding a bear carcass , why is that ?
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Consider the size of the bear population of North America. 600,000+ black bear, 60,000+ grizzlies. Now what if the Sasquatch population is, say 5,000?
 
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