Bigfoot, Are you a believer?
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I've had a fascination with Bigfoot since I found books on the topic back in grade school.
I like the topic but the shows like Finding Bigfoot are stupid and ridiculous. I honestly don't think they take it seriously enough. Acting like the animal is found all across the U.S. If they are real they most likely are secluded to the Pacific Northwest, Canada, etc. That's the only area I can see them being able to stay out of site due to the thick forests and lack of human population.
Expedition Bigfoot is a little better and a little more serious but they spent half of season 2 in SE Kentucky around Pine Mountain. Then they bolted and went to Washington state.
I'm 99% sure sasquatch do not exist but there is just enough evidence that can't be explained to leave the door open for me.
I'm almost embarrassed that I know so much about it.
I like the topic but the shows like Finding Bigfoot are stupid and ridiculous. I honestly don't think they take it seriously enough. Acting like the animal is found all across the U.S. If they are real they most likely are secluded to the Pacific Northwest, Canada, etc. That's the only area I can see them being able to stay out of site due to the thick forests and lack of human population.
Expedition Bigfoot is a little better and a little more serious but they spent half of season 2 in SE Kentucky around Pine Mountain. Then they bolted and went to Washington state.
I'm 99% sure sasquatch do not exist but there is just enough evidence that can't be explained to leave the door open for me.
I'm almost embarrassed that I know so much about it.
Hell yeah he's real.
Great episode but I truly wish this thread can remain somewhat serious.
I understand it's a 1 in a billion shot but I can dream!
Feral people.
I believe there is a mental illness that causes people to run wild in nature completely living like an animal until they die. Their hair grows wild. They never bathe. They live exactly like an animal.
There is also a huge population of actual feral people, mostly outlaws on the run, they prey off campers and hikers especially around National Parks. Need to be careful out there.
I once believed Bigfoot were surviving Neanderthals but I have since moved on from that suspicion. I think some of the older accounts from native tribes were Neanderthals possibly.
I believe there is a mental illness that causes people to run wild in nature completely living like an animal until they die. Their hair grows wild. They never bathe. They live exactly like an animal.
There is also a huge population of actual feral people, mostly outlaws on the run, they prey off campers and hikers especially around National Parks. Need to be careful out there.
I once believed Bigfoot were surviving Neanderthals but I have since moved on from that suspicion. I think some of the older accounts from native tribes were Neanderthals possibly.
Bigfoot, leprechauns, unicorns, lock ness monster, yeti, mermaids, werewolves, gods, griffins, little green men from outer space, zombies, drug pushers, vampires. All In the same category of made-up BS.
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Ted Cassidy or Andre the Giant. Both played Big Foot in some episodes of The 6 Million Dollar Man.Hell yeah he's real.
I think "sightings" are either mistaken identity of another animal or people looking for attention. The only reservation I have that it could exist is the fact that they have found fossils of gigantopithecus. Cryptozoologist think it went extinct approximately 300,000 years ago but it could be possible they are not extinct. There are several other animals that was thought to be extinct only to be discovered to be alive and well.
Nah. They’d have to be the smartest creatures ever to live on earth to avoid being caught all these years.
Then I suppose all of the other animals that were thought to be extinct but have been found must be pretty smart too.
All of those animals were not giant furry human-like bipedal creatures who have people actively searching for them.
The best evidence I've seen is hair samples that were left at BF sightings being analyzed by experts for their genetic pattern and the results were "primate unknown". Could Gigantopithecus have survived?
Bigfoot did exist.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/160106-science-evolution-apes-giant
Are there still some? If so, they're in very remote areas. I guarantee you they're not in KY.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/160106-science-evolution-apes-giant
Are there still some? If so, they're in very remote areas. I guarantee you they're not in KY.
I saw a fascinating documentary about a family vacationing in the Cascades and accidentally hit a big foot with their station wagon
How often have you seen a dead bear or a dead mountain lion? Bigfoots are there. They're nocturnal meaning they drink water off leaves. Encountering one is certain death and they eat humans. During large forest fires out west you can hear them gnashing their teeth with rage over the carelessness of man. Sometimes they take a human bride when their population runs low. They say once they go Bigfoot they never go back.
I'm a skeptic that enjoys the theories.
As mentioned, if they do exists then they are highly intelligent.
As mentioned, if they do exists then they are highly intelligent.
I believe if any of them were a giant, furry, human-like bipedal creature then the case would be solved.
I hereby officially declare this thread as squatchy.
Yup, also been fascinated with Bogfoot since I was a kid. Read alot of books on the subject, attended a little presentation on Ky Bigfoot by a guy named Charlie Raymond. Supposedly Anderson Co is a "hot spot", more potential sightings than any other county in KY, not even close. Very interesting subject IMO.
I'm a skeptic and I don't enjoy pseudoscience when so many people take it seriously. If all the effort humans have spent chasing Bigfoot, ghosts, Atlantis, etc. had been spent on cancer research, space exploration, alternate energy development, etc., the quality of life on this world would be much, much better right now.
"Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find. Skepticism does not sell well. A bright and curious person who relies entirely on popular culture to be informed about something like Atlantis [or Bigfoot] is hundreds or thousands of times more likely to come upon a fable treated uncritically than a sober and balanced assessment.
"Maybe Mr. 'Buckley' should know to be more skeptical about what's dished out to him by popular culture. But apart from that, it's hard to see how it's his fault. He simply accepted what the most widely-available and accessible sources of information claimed was true. For his naivete, he was systematically misled and bamboozled.
"Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But a kind of Gresham's Law prevails in popular culture by which bad science drives out good."
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.
While I agree with your sentiment, I’d like to add that I hope those two groups always stay separate. I never want to hear of a former ghost hunter that now heads a cancer research project.
I'm a skeptic and I don't enjoy pseudoscience when so many people take it seriously. If all the effort humans have spent chasing Bigfoot, ghosts, Atlantis, etc. had been spent on cancer research, space exploration, alternate energy development, etc., the quality of life on this world would be much, much better right now.
"Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find. Skepticism does not sell well. A bright and curious person who relies entirely on popular culture to be informed about something like Atlantis [or Bigfoot] is hundreds or thousands of times more likely to come upon a fable treated uncritically than a sober and balanced assessment.
"Maybe Mr. 'Buckley' should know to be more skeptical about what's dished out to him by popular culture. But apart from that, it's hard to see how it's his fault. He simply accepted what the most widely-available and accessible sources of information claimed was true. For his naivete, he was systematically misled and bamboozled.
"Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But a kind of Gresham's Law prevails in popular culture by which bad science drives out good."
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.
What you posted is entirely wrong. Society is much better off with these fellas running around looking for something that doesn't exist than it is with these same people doing research on anything.
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I'm not sure how much money has been spent on BF research, I know most has been done by volunteers, but I'm pretty sure it would not make a dent in cancer research.
What an amazingly bad take. I bet you're a hoot at parties.
J Dee: "Why are you guys watching the NBA playoffs? All that electricity could build 4 hospitals in Africa. Is that whole milk?"
no. He knocked the families fridge over looking for food and then ran away when it realized the family wanted to return him to the wild
Remember when a couple guys claimed to have a dead Bigfoot in their freezer, but it ended up being a nasty rubber costume with some animals guts or something?
Maybe Bigfoot got webbed feet and is in the ocean now.
Maybe Bigfoot got webbed feet and is in the ocean now.
I am semi ashamed to admit that I at one time thought there was maybe a chance that the Loch Ness monster is real, but then I mentioned it to a guy from Scotland and he laughed his *** off at me, said no one in Scotland thinks it is anything more than a fairy tale.
Never once thought Bigfoot or Yet was anything more than a fairy tale, like wizards and dragons.
Never once thought Bigfoot or Yet was anything more than a fairy tale, like wizards and dragons.