Bigfoot

[Tenka]

A creature not human but reportedly not far enough away for comfort. Known around the world by many indigenous cultures as Yeti, Sasquatch, Yowie, Barmanou from Afghanistan to North America and Mongolia to Australia.

Yet despite the reknown no specimen has ever been recovered or undisputed documentation made, how could such a compelling macroorganism escape for so long in so many places?

Why are there so many legends and so little proof? How long has the tale been carried and spread between cultures, in all probability longer than any classic religion.


What do you make of it?
Ancient campfire scare story? Handdown from primeval times with more than one human species? Anthropomorphism of a particle of the human psyche?

Could we have bigfoot myths for the same reasons we have gods and spirits..? Because the story became more interesting than what it was created to explain?

 

[Avatar]

Bigfoot is not a myth. I found a wounded Sasquatch chick 13 years ago. Shaved her down, taught her to speak and married her. We get along smashingly. Apparently bigfoot males are seriously compensating for -something- with their huge size.

 

[Pesto]

Does she have a sister?

 

[Avatar]

Does she have a sister?

No, but there's a brother if you're not picky.

 

[Loudmouth]

Yet despite the reknown no specimen has ever been recovered or undisputed documentation made, how could such a compelling macroorganism escape for so long in so many places?

Precisely. Even more, why has no one found a corpse. Human remains are found all of the time in remote areas all over the Pacific Northwest. No one has ever found a Sasquatch corpse.

Native Americans may have passed down stories about megafauna that were very real. The short faced bear and giant land sloth were both very large. It is not surprising that these real species, after their extinction, became entwined in mythology.

What do you make of it?

Fear combined with the power of suggestion. This is a very potent combination. People who witness traumatic or stressful events often have wildly differing testimony, even contradictory testimony. I am experienced in the back country and know what the woods sound and act like. I have watched many inexperienced hikers get freaked out by very mundane things, such as a mossy branch being blown by the wind. A very non-threatening animal is often assumed to be a monstrous, man eating bear (my favorite story involved a deer licking the salt off of our dirty pots in the middle of the night).

Bigfoot, IMHO, is just that. The stories around the campfire bias our interpretations of very mundane and very explainable phenomena.

 

[Steezie]

I wouldnt totally rule out the possibility of there being a Bigfoot-like creature roaming around in deep wooded areas. We've often discovered creatures that we believed to be non-existent or extinct.

 

[DrkSdBls]

Bigfoot, IMHO, is just that. The stories around the campfire bias our interpretations of very mundane and very explainable phenomena.

It's not so much that these stories are so originated out of Fear and Ignorance but rather the fact that all these stories are found in every corner of the world and are so eerily Similar. That's the Uncanny part.

Why is it that the Story of a Man-Ape Fascinates us so much that it becomes so engrained into the human subconscious that it can survive Thousands of years as Mankind spread out across the Earth. The only Stories that are even older are Dragons, Angels, and Demons but only Man-Apes are reasonably based on known historic Creatures.

 

[Avatar]

It's not so much that these stories are so originated out of Fear and Ignorance but rather the fact that all these stories are found in every corner of the world and are so eerily Similar. That's the Uncanny part.

Why is it that the Story of a Man-Ape Fascinates us so much that it becomes so engrained into the human subconscious that it can survive Thousands of years as Mankind spread out across the Earth. The only Stories that are even older are Dragons, Angels, and Demons but only Man-Apes are reasonably based on known historic Creatures.

Species memory of Neanderthals.

 

[RichardT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]He who makes a beast of himself, is free from the pain of being a man[/FONT]

Btw, it's "He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man". I have Avenged Sevenfold with me here.

 

[Steezie]

Im curious as to people's input on the presensce of alleged Bigfoot tracks. There have been hundreds of tracks seen and hundreds of casts exist of Bigfoot tracks.

One very interesting thing I read was of a man who worked in a police forensic unit for many years. He was given a cast of a Bigfoot print and he pointed out ridges and lines in the foot and toes (Your feet and toes have ridges the same as your hands and fingers) even to the point of being able to point out a small scar on the foot of whatever made the print. Such detail would be very difficult to replicate in a forgery.

 

[Avatar]

Im curious as to people's input on the presensce of alleged Bigfoot tracks. There have been hundreds of tracks seen and hundreds of casts exist of Bigfoot tracks.

One very interesting thing I read was of a man who worked in a police forensic unit for many years. He was given a cast of a Bigfoot print and he pointed out ridges and lines in the foot and toes (Your feet and toes have ridges the same as your hands and fingers) even to the point of being able to point out a small scar on the foot of whatever made the print. Such detail would be very difficult to replicate in a forgery.

Yeah, but for them to be real they'd have to be more advanced than us. An animal couldn't hide its existence so completely.

 

[Steezie]

Yeah, but for them to be real they'd have to be more advanced than us. An animal couldn't hide its existence so completely.

We have had animals hide from us before, sometimes for hundreds of years.

Allthough in fairness they were usually smaller or lived in very inhospitable places.

 

[AV1611VET]

Nephilim?

 

[Steezie]

Nephilim?

I'd be willing to entertain the possibility of thier existance if you could show me some non-biblical evidence

 

[AV1611VET]

I'd be willing to entertain the possibility of thier existance if you could show me some non-biblical evidence

I hear ya.

 

[WhiteMageGirl]

I heard bigfoot in closely related to God, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in fact their evidence is all similar.

 

[Tenka]

It's not so much that these stories are so originated out of Fear and Ignorance but rather the fact that all these stories are found in every corner of the world and are so eerily Similar. That's the Uncanny part.

Which tells me that either 1) the legend has an extremely ancient origin 2) there is a common psychological reason for creating such stories or 3) there exist on every continent, undiscovered humanoids.

One very interesting thing I read was of a man who worked in a police forensic unit for many years. He was given a cast of a Bigfoot print and he pointed out ridges and lines in the foot and toes (Your feet and toes have ridges the same as your hands and fingers) even to the point of being able to point out a small scar on the foot of whatever made the print. Such detail would be very difficult to replicate in a forgery.

More difficult than a humanoid species remaining unconfirmed in any credible wawy on multiple continents for this long?

Species memory of Neanderthals.

We Neanderthals very hairy? 'Covered in shaggy hair' is a fairly common theme in the legends.

Btw, it's "He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man". I have Avenged Sevenfold with me here.

Ugh, Avenged Sevenfold is not the source of my sig, I would sooner eat roll of aluminium foil.
Death before emo.

 

[Steezie]

More difficult than a humanoid species remaining unconfirmed in any credible wawy on multiple continents for this long?

Im inclined to agree with you, but the few tracks that DO resemble actual feet (Im talking about ones with ridge patterns, not fakes) are compelling.

 

[WilliamduBois]

Im inclined to agree with you, but the few tracks that DO resemble actual feet (Im talking about ones with ridge patterns, not fakes) are compelling.

I haven't found anything about those in a quick google search, so a link would be very welcome (I've been interested in Bigfoot and Cryptozoology ever since I started reading at 6, although I never was a "believer").

However, tracks can be deceiving

 

[RedAndy]

I wouldnt totally rule out the possibility of there being a Bigfoot-like creature roaming around in deep wooded areas. We've often discovered creatures that we believed to be non-existent or extinct.

Certainly true, but somewhere like the Pacific Northwest of the USA is too well-trodden to realistically be the home of a creature as prominent as the Sasquatch legends suggest. I agree that there could be an undiscovered species of ape roaming somewhere on the planet, that could possibly bear some resemblance to Sasquatch, but it would have to be in an extremely remote area, and almost certainly not the USA.