Bigfoot, does it exist ?

[Norwegian moose]

After whatching many interesting TV shows about bigfoot, such as "Finding Bigfoot" on Discovery channel, I have gotten a big interest in the subject. I think bigfoot may exist, so many sightings have been reported that you can not reject the though completely. But on the other hand is it strange that a so large animal have not been discovered officaly yet. If the Bigfoot exists it is very rare and shy, because yes many sightings have been seen, but not so many that it is classified as being common. Also interesting with similar stories of other suposedly large human primates such as the Yeti, Orang Pendek, Yaoi and so on. If you have any opinions on the subject vote and discus below.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

such as the Yeti, Orang Pendek, Yaoi and so on.

Though personally I suspect that error was intentional on your part....

 

[snowleopard]

Having read reports of folks spending decades using sophisticated equipment and not finding barely a shred of evidence I have to say that the chance of bigfoot actually being real is so tiny that the notion of the existence of such a creature borders on ridiculous.

 

[Norwegian moose]

Though personally I suspect that error was intentional on your part....

Yowi is a big foot like creature that suposedly roams the woods of the australian Gold Coast. But yes you are correct it is spelled Yowi, not Yaoi.

 

[wallaby]

I personally don't think that Bigfoot or any of the like exists. As stated, people have used various equipment to try to find one, but to no avail. For there even to be such creatures roaming around, thee has to be a breeding population. And with such a large creature, it would be very, very, unlikely that a specimen would go unnoticed.

 

[Chlidonias]

Having read reports of folks spending decades using sophisticated equipment and not finding barely a shred of evidence I have to say that the chance of bigfoot actually being real is so tiny that the notion of the existence of such a creature borders on ridiculous.

pshaw, "sophisticated equipment"! All you need is bacon!!

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I seriously doubt a bigfoot creature exists today- at least not in the area we're looking. If one was to exist then they'd be found in the dense jungles of the Congo and the like, not in the temperate forests of North America. I will not cross out the possibility that it could have existed at one point and went Extinct which I believe is probably what happened.

~Thylo

 

[Pootle]

pshaw, "sophisticated equipment"! All you need is bacon!!

Also, gas stove, frying pan and a snickers if your bigfoot is a sweet tooth vairety.


Should that fail (it won't) then give me ample supply of LSD and Absinth and point me in the general direction of the woods....

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Guys, all you need is beef jerky! Don't you watch television

~Thylo

 

[Chlidonias]

Should that fail (it won't) then give me ample supply of LSD and Absinth and point me in the general direction of the woods....

not a good idea. You might fall into a stupor inside an abandoned caravan in the woods, and you should know those are well-known hide-outs of Bigfoots, possibly ones looking for some action if you know what I mean.

 

[Pootle]

not a good idea. You might fall into a stupor inside an abandoned caravan in the woods, and you should know those are well-known hide-outs of Bigfoots, possibly ones looking for some action if you know what I mean.

I'd be curious,...... maybe even a little flattered........... if the offer presented itself......

 

[Jackwow]

Of course it doesn't exist!

The same however cannot be said about Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, which of course definitely exists.

 

[Chlidonias]

apparently there is (or used to be) a coffee shop at Loch Ness called "Ness Cafe"

 

[Pootle]

After watching nearly all bigfoot programs on TV I am convinced that they do more to put me off the existence of the creature than to prove it.

Finding Bigfoot is pure comedy and I know several of you will agree here.

If someone would give me a grant to carry out a search I could come up with a many ways better than banging trees with sticks, frying bacon in woods wearing caps about bigfoot.
Food traps with snares for capturing hair and blood samples are the way to go with a mass array of camera and video traps. It is feasible to cover acres/hectares of ground with food, camera and hair traps, the cost of this would not amount to anything massive and if patience is allowed over time I reckon we could get a definitive answer. Wire meshes with snags on them to capture hair, flooring around food traps with nails (bit barbaric yes, but effective) to capture blood samples and around all these areas up high and on the ground camera and video traps. Cover as big an area as is affordable and do this in at least 20 locations of sightings (from as a reliable witnesses you could meet) and given 12 months if there is anything their I imagine it would be caught and samples available for analysis.......

 

[Chlidonias]

.....if patience is allowed over time I reckon we could get a definitive answer.

no you wouldn't. All you would get is a non-result. Not the same as a definite answer as to whether Bigfoot exist or not. Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence, as cryptozoologists are fond of pointing out (quite correctly too).

The best you could say about your results was that you had not found any proof -- at all, in the slightest -- that Bigfoot exist in the areas you have surveyed. But that doesn't mean they aren't actually there. You could get hundreds or thousands of hits for deer, bear, raccoon, whatever other mammals are known (or even not known!) to be in the areas, but the absence of Bigfoot hits could just mean they are far too smart for you.

 

[Pootle]

No, I would have set up the experiment so strategic that no even a moth could get in or get out with being caught never mind a possible humanoid figure.
Also my in depth interviews with eye witness’s would govern where I would place my ‘Trap Sights’ numbered 1 to 20. I understand your stance on no evidence means nothing, however this scenario is MY experiment and in my experiment I end it with my own conclusions and if I cannot get a picture or a video, some hair or some blood or any proof of a bigfoot, then I am totally in my rights to conclude they don’t exist.
Upon this you could then look at my work and either pick faults with it as to why I didn’t catch evidence, suggest improved research techniques, agree with me they don’t, or just throw a packet of bacon in my general direction.

 

[Chlidonias]

does your experiment take into consideration that Bigfoot may be incorporeal; inhabiting a slightly different dimension so they can be seen but not physically touched; negative creatures (for example, they may be seen but not be able to be photographed); ghosts; mist creatures; able to fly (or at least levitate to avoid traps, a skill I would imagine could be combined with their great sucky powers to hoover bacon up into their mouths from your traps without setting them off); Bobo; projected images of your own psyche?

 

[Pootle]

I do not take into account anything that may be from a different dimension in any of my 20 experiments as I am not qualified in the complex mathematics associated with this type of work.
However, I categorically do not believe that bigfoot is a floating bacon hovering up type of creature that switches between dimensions at ease. Why would it leave whopping great foot prints from time to time?....yes you may say the foot prints are a mistake or even I suspect you may say they are to divert us from the real truth.
I acknowledge from your ‘Dimension Switching Hypothesis’ it is plausible to say that the individual bigfoot from the Patterson & Gimlin film was in some way unable to return to his/her dimension, or at the sight of the filming had forgotten to ‘make the jump’ to the next dimension, maybe Sasquatch technology back in the 1960’s was not as advanced as it is now.

(Don’t Bobo me at this stage)

 

[Chlidonias]

I do not take into account anything that may be from a different dimension in any of my 20 experiments as I am not qualified in the complex mathematics associated with this type of work.
However, I categorically do not believe that bigfoot is a floating bacon hovering up type of creature that switches between dimensions at ease. Why would it leave whopping great foot prints from time to time?....yes you may say the foot prints are a mistake or even I suspect you may say they are to divert us from the real truth.
I acknowledge from your ‘Dimension Switching Hypothesis’ it is plausible to say that the individual bigfoot from the Patterson & Gimlin film was in some way unable to return to his/her dimension, or at the sight of the filming had forgotten to ‘make the jump’ to the next dimension, maybe Sasquatch technology back in the 1960’s was not as advanced as it is now.

Bigfoot bigfootprints are quite easily explained. But I won't.

The Patterson and Gimlin footage is not a Bigfoot. It was acknowledged on some random guy's deathbed that that was the case. One interesting facet of the case that has rarely been touched upon is that during the production of Marky Mark's Planet of the Apes remake, Michael Clarke Duncan (playing gorilla Colonel Attar) could not be found for several hours. They had to get Kevin Bacon to stand in for him. He was uncredited but if you look carefully you can see that in some scenes the gorilla costume is not as well-filled as it should be, and also the acting sucks. There is a hypothesis out there that Michael Clarke Duncan, either accidentally or voluntarily, travelled back in time and that in fact he was the creature in the Patterson and Gimlin footage. A rather good piece of evidence in support is that when the footprint casts are examined you can see the word "NIKE" on the sole. The casts are not often mentioned in cryptozoological works because the prints weren't initially found at the time of the sighting, but instead five years later in Michigan.

(Don’t Bobo me at this stage)

Bobo is a sasquatch! I mean have you seen him next to the other members of the team? He's like seven foot tall! He's not banging on the trees trying to attract Bigfoots, he's sending them "go away" signals. It's no wonder they never find any!

 

[Pootle]

Be it Bacon the food or Kevin Bacon the actor, you cannot get away from the attraction Bigfoot’s have for Bacon both in real life and on film.....sorry, I digress.

Also I don’t believe in any of that gimmick death bed nonsense about admitting it was a hoax, he knew it was real and wanted to through a last curve ball before he popped his clogs by saying it a hoax.
I have never seen nor read anything about Bigfoot’s wearing Nike footwear, although being honest I did once see a cast with a ‘tick like swish’ on it which I suppose could resemble the branding, but this is not evidence enough for me they are sponsored in any way.

You insist on bringing Bobo into this discussion, so therefore it is my understanding that you are correct, his parentage is of a Sasquatch mother and either a Sasquatch or Human father, no one ‘in the know’ is sure, not even Bobo himself. What is assumed is that a lack of bodily hair is frowned upon in Sasquatch communities so his mother thought it best for Bobo’s future to leave him in a box in the woods when he was a mere baby, it is reported he was found naked with only the remains of what experts suspect where the crusts of a bacon sandwich.