Bigfoot

[Loudmouth]

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.

Native Americans seem to have brought the story with them from Asia. It was only reinforced by the megafaunal species that I mentioned before. The land sloth, for example, stood 10 feet tall and was in N. America when humans were present.

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.

We see a lot of ourselves in apes. I think this is why these stories are so fascinating. Carl Linnaeus said that he saw a kindred spirit in the eyes of chimps, so much so that he wanted to put chimps in the same genus as humans. It's not that much of a stretch to imagine that there exists an ape who is even more human like roaming around.

 

[Steezie]

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

I think if such things were occuring, it would be blatantly obvious that it was a double track of annother animal.

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.

I agree, but stranger things have happened before so I dont totally rule it out as impossible

 

[wmlbrn]

My brother was once mistaken for big foot. IT was hilarious. We never let him forget.

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[plindboe]

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.

Don't be so quick to trust the experts. Even experts when equipped with a bias have an uncanny ability to delude themselves. There have been instances of these expert witnesses claiming ridges and other evidences that "could only have been made by a real creature", where it was later discovered those tracks were faked, and often rather poor and amateurish fakes.

The american Bigfoot legend seems to have begun due to the hoax of Ray L. Wallace. As soon as his tracks had gained popularity, tracks started appearing in other areas as well, and even increasing in complexity with time, not unlike the crop circle phenonema.

Peter

 

[automan]

The stories doing the rounds about Bigfoot are a little like the Alien from outer space brigade,
the only people who benefit from keeping the stories going are the people who write about them and
the people on the lecture circuit who go around the country telling people they exist and giving
'evidence' and showing 'proof'.

It gives people something to talk about and it does no harm so what the hell,
now if we were talking about religion, that's a totally different thing altogether, religions can be
downright dangerous, look at the number of murderers who when they were caught said they were
told to do it by their God, religion can block out reason and understanding and make a person say
and do things they would not do if they were thinking straight.

 

[USincognito]

Bigfoot Evolution.

 

[Tenka]

My brother was once mistaken for big foot. IT was hilarious. We never let him forget.

Great, but what the hell does Manitoba have to do with bigfoot?

Bigfoot Evolution.

Wow, I was certainly a valuable contributer on that thread. I don't even get my joke.

The stories doing the rounds about Bigfoot are a little like the Alien from outer space brigade,
the only people who benefit from keeping the stories going are the people who write about them and
the people on the lecture circuit who go around the country telling people they exist and giving
'evidence' and showing 'proof'.

That may be true but I also think they help conserve the mythology, I'd love to know the truth but maybe that truth is boring.

 

[WilliamduBois]

I think if such things were occuring, it would be blatantly obvious that it was a double track of annother animal.

How would it be obvious? Have you seen the pictures of double tracks on there? I - and I assume a lot of people - wouldn't be able to recognise it.

It definitely sounds like a very reasonable explanation for at least a number of "Bigfoot tracks".


But do you have a link for those tracks you mentioned? I'm curious about them

 

[Pesto]

How would it be obvious? Have you seen the pictures of double tracks on there? I - and I assume a lot of people - wouldn't be able to recognise it.

It definitely sounds like a very reasonable explanation for at least a number of "Bigfoot tracks".


But do you have a link for those tracks you mentioned? I'm curious about them

That's why we would call in an expert on such matters.